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Ep. 35 - Missing Black Children: Why the System and Media Look Away · 4DAFAM

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Welcome to episode 35 of For The Fan Podcast.
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I don't think I can piss you off with this one. We got several choices. Okay.
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We had Ricky Henderson. We could have gone with Kevin Durant.
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We're almost down the south side. This is the Big Hurt episode.
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Frank Thomas. I can't argue with it. I was going to pick Reggie Lewis.
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That's who I was thinking was Reggie Lewis, but I cannot argue with the Big
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Hurt. That's a good pick, actually.
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Yeah. So anyway, bro, what are we going to get into today? So today we want
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to talk about something that the media doesn't talk much about,
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and that is missing black children.
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Missing black children. All right, man, let's go. Let's get into it.
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When I first started researching this, I was coming at it from a statistical angle.
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And there are statistics that are important, but I don't want to quite focus
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on stats as it relates to missing black children.
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Because and this is why I don't want to focus on the stats, y'all,
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because the stats will say that most of the cases are resolved,
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like 90 percent of the cases are resolved rather quickly.
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But that remaining 10%, we can't look at that as just a stat and go,
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well, 90% is pretty damn good.
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No, that 10%, however many families are encompassed with that 10%,
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those are still families that are missing a loved one,
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families that will never see a loved one again, most likely.
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So I don't want to get bogged down with stats.
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So I changed up my research and I'm trying to see where exactly do I want to start with this.
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Go ahead. Now, I do have some statistics. OK. However, I don't think my focus,
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mine are separate opposite of what you were just talking about.
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Mm hmm. Because I know exactly what you mean. Well, I mean, 90% of them are
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solved. Well, yeah, most runaway cases are resolved within 24 hours because
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the kid comes back home. That don't mean that the family wasn't out of their
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mind for the 24 hours. Correct.
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So I do have some that just show the disproportionate.
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Level of media coverage and police officers, you know, getting involved with the cases. Okay, cool.
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Well, I will start off with one stat, though,
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and that's the significance of the fact that young Black youth,
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and this isn't just about girls,
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this is boys and girls, young Black youth make up about 14% of the U.S.
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Population, which is the same as Black people, Right. So, excuse me, that makes sense.
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But here's the stat that's important in that.
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A third of all missing children reports nationwide are black children from being
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14 percent to 30 to 35 percent of all missing children cases.
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And that's significant. Yep.
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Really significant. Children under the age 18, 35 to 37 percent of all reported
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cases nationally. Yeah. Yeah.
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The the the other thing, which is I think is something that you want to touch
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on is the runaway label, which is why a lot of the and I know we're going to
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circle around to this. I'm trying to get ahead of myself.
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But but the runaway label basically means that when they classified the young
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missing kids as runaways, there are no Amber alerts.
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There's no national alert or even local alert for the most part that says,
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hey, general public be on the lookout for this kid,
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because they just consider him a runaway, which leads into the biased media
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coverage that we're going to get into as we continue in this discussion.
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And the thing is, too, is that there are certain things.
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There's criterias for Amber Alerts. The child has to be in a vehicle.
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If the child was not reported in the vehicle as well, there's not going to be an Amber Alert.
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Because the reason they do the Amber Alert is, okay, let's put these up on the
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highway. We've seen it plenty of times driving around or on your phones.
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So that's one requirement. I know that there are a couple of politicians on
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both sides of the aisle that are trying to change some of those things because
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it's like, OK, so just because they're not in the car, I don't mean that they're not in danger.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And then there's the ebony alerts,
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which California instituted, I want to say a year ago, two years ago,
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they instituted the ebony alerts, which basically means it's a special alert
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for missing black children.
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Now, it's just in California, I think, at this point, but I think some other
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states have proposed similar legislation.
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But at least California does recognize the bias in the coverage.
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And there's other things that I want to get into, but I don't want to take up all the airtime.
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So the word that has been used forever is missing white woman syndrome.
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Yep. Here's the crazy part.
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White children represent about 54 percent of all cases nationwide.
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But they have 88% of the media coverage. As we discussed a second ago,
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black children, 35% and only 7% of the media coverage.
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And we were talking on the phone the other day. I was trying to remember the
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young lady's name that was missing.
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It's at the same time as Gabby Petito. Her name was Raja McQueen.
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Okay. And she was also missing the time that Gabby Petito and her case in Cleveland
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was like, well, in Ohio was getting coverage everywhere.
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And then when Gabby Petito happened.
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All the coverage stopped, even in Cleveland. Interesting. It almost came to a halt.
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Yeah. Now, keep in mind, we've seen documentaries already about Gabby Petito.
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Yeah. Which, horrible situation. That shit was horrible.
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But we can't continue to sacrifice where that child is more important. Yeah.
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And let's just state for the record, we are not saying that this is a problem
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that's unique to young black children.
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Any missing child is a tragedy. Absolutely. So, so, so we're not,
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we're not saying that one outweighs the other.
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We're just basically saying that the missing black children do not get the same
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attention as other children, which by the way, the title of this episode is
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missing black children. Correct. It's not all children. Correct.
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Correct. But you know, we got, we got state that for the right yeah no you're
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you're you're right bro the the the missing white woman syndrome is one of the
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reason why one of the reasons why
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they have the biased media coverage or the under-representation in the media
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and and also the adultification,
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of black children which which basically means that the general public and i
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know you guys have heard this stuff before, how they always...
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Make it seem like young man instead of child.
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I talked about this a couple of episodes ago when I was talking about the blacks are Viltrumites.
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The perception that black people are stronger, bigger, tougher.
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All of those idiotic stereotypes. Well, they applied that same logic to the missing children.
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So it's kind of them going, they'll be OK.
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Because they're black For no other reason They'll be okay because they're black
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So that's another reason why There is a bias in the media coverage And as far as,
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giving it proper assignments from law enforcement to try and recover or find the missing children.
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And I know one of the things here locally that has long been,
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you know, the IMPD has been criticized. Now I'm just briefly going to talk about adults.
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They consistently label adults that go missing here in Indy,
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oh, well, high risk lifestyle strictly because they're black.
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Oh, well, they're missing. They must've been out in the streets doing dirt.
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It's never that they were trafficked. It's never that they met with foul play.
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It's always, like you said, with the children, they automatically make them adults.
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With adults, they say, well, they must have been out in the streets doing something
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dirty in order for them to go missing.
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Yeah. I want to switch gears real quick and talk about something that I've seen on the news.
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And this correlates to what we're talking about, but it's just something,
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not local, but in South Carolina.
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Did you hear about this? This was like June 4th, South Carolina,
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young girl running down the highway with her hands handcuffed behind her back.
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It just happened to get captured on the highway cam running down the highway
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with her handcuffs behind her back. I want to say she was 16.
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Her abductor, she somehow got out of the backseat and jumped out the car and
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running down the highway. and a semi-truck just happened to be coming down the
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road and was able to offer some assistance.
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Her abductor, white male, posing as law enforcement, had a fake badge the whole nine yards.
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This is another reason why we have a general distrust of law enforcement.
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This isn't the first time that someone has posed as law enforcement and did something despicable.
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We had guys who were pretending to be ICE agents last year, raping women and children.
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This is why this is why you just can't say follow the rules or follow their
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instructions or whatever the stupid shit. They comply. That's it. Comply with the order.
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No, no. We have a reason to be distrustful.
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All right. Now let's get back on topic.
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Go ahead, bro. Which I think a lot of people don't understand if you didn't
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grow up. Like, for example, you and I didn't grow up in the slums. No, we did not.
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We come from good families. Yes. We didn't really want for much growing up.
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We had what we what we needed.
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But when we stepped outside of them doors, it was a whole different world. Absolutely.
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It didn't matter. The police treated. I've been stopped plenty of times with
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the police. I've been questioned, you know, walking down the street.
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Absolutely. Who are you? Where you from? Where you going?
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Absolutely. Going home, minding my damn business. Absolutely.
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They escalate things. It's not all of them because we knew a lot of the cops
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in our that patrolled our community. Yeah, without a doubt.
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But yeah no that whole just trust us nah I'm good yeah let's talk about the
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human trafficking portion of this,
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and and how there is a direct link between these missing children and human trafficking and it's.
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It's really sad because human traffickers recognize this very bias that we're talking about today.
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And they target the young black children. Why?
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What is it that they recognize? They recognize that one, there won't be any Amber Alerts.
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They recognize that the law enforcement coverage won't be the same for white children.
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So it's easier for them to traffic a young black child and get away because
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they recognize the bias in the system,
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it's it's the same system that serial killers used to get away with killing
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prostitutes in the 70s because no one's gonna look for i was just a prostitute,
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it's how the dude in alaska that they made the move um they call his nickname
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was the butcher baker that was taking those women out in the middle of nowhere and killing them,
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taking them up in this plane flying them somewhere killing them and they all
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just disappeared end up killing like nine women but same thing these were all
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people that moved to alaska trying to make more money back in the 70s and 80s never got reported,
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yeah yeah it is it's not it's not a coincidence let's just put it like that
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it's not a coincidence now there is one thing that i also want to.
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I want to clear up and I chuckle because,
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I was in my conspiracy bag. There is no evidence to support the claim that,
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black children are being kidnapped and their organs are being harvested on the black market.
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There is no evidence to support that. And to be honest, I wanted to talk about
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that because I thought that there would be some type of direct.
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And this isn't to say it doesn't happen because anything is possible.
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But when I started doing more research on this,
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it would be really, really difficult when you start getting into the medical
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particulars as to why this would be a really, really high risk endeavor for any criminal.
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One, because blood types, you know, you just can't take an organ out of me and
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put it in you if our blood types, if our tissue doesn't match.
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So whoever paying the money basically wastes their money. This isn't cheap.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There there is medical procedures that have to take place.
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You just can't take a kidney and give it to any old rich Yahoo because there
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is no guarantee that the kidney would even work or their body would accept it.
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Also, there's expiration dates on organs, right? You only have like a couple
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of hours in most cases for an organ to stay viable.
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So that's why after doing my research, like I said, it's not impossible,
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but the data does not support that Black children are being kidnapped and their,
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organs are being harvested and sold on the Black market.
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And not to mention, I understand that there's a Black market,
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but you have to take anti-rejection medication for the rest of your life when
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you get into organs well the the the more likely scenario is not just random,
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kids people whatever.
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It's people who are actually volunteering to sell their organs that that's the that's the real
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black market organ harvesting is not kids being kidnapped is people who are
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down in their luck selling kidneys and selling.
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Right, right. That that's the real angle. They're not the missing black children.
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And again, I got to say again.
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I'm not saying that it's impossible. Anything is possible, but it's just very unlikely.
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Go ahead, my brother. No, I was just going to talk about the human trafficking,
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especially here where we are. We got 65, we got 70 that stretches all the way
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across the country, I-74.
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And here locally, the attorney general's office accounts for 2,000 traffic cases
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over the last decade, which is just comical.
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But all of that just comes from that National Human Trafficking Hotline.
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That's where the 2000 comes from. It doesn't come from actual casework.
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Because I bet if they did the casework, you'd probably be looking at 5,000, 6,000 people.
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Now, some of those people might be perfectly fine in other states.
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We've seen recently the lady that went missing for 35 years,
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they found her in North Carolina.
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And when they talked to her about it, she said, yeah, I just didn't want to
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be a family woman anymore. She just walked the hell away.
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Interesting. I was going for 35 years, listed as a missing woman,
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and she was perfectly fine, working, everything.
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So it happens. But that's the problem in a lot of law enforcement is they take
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it as, oh, they just walked away.
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Yeah. So it's one of the biggest issues, in my opinion, in law enforcement across
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this country, not just in certain places.
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It just does not get taken seriously enough.
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And then if you go and watch like some of these documentaries or listen to these
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podcasts about missing people, it's always that one detective that says,
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nah, something ain't right.
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And then you hear about the chief is telling him, nah, that case is dead.
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This case, you know, that person ran away.
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And then five years later, that cop has discovered that person was trafficked or killed.
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So, I think unfortunately it's going to continue to be an issue until they figure
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out the law and change it. Because...
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And it'll continue to be an issue because we continue to have a race issue in this country.
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And I'm sorry, y'all, but I just I just got to make a point.
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You know, as long as racism,
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exists and persists within this nation, we are going to have these same issues,
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not just as it relates to missing children,
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as it relates to unsolved murders within the black community.
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As it relates to being targeted, like you were just speaking about,
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all of those things are racial issues. All right.
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And I'm not saying that every cop is racist. I'm not saying every police department
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is racist, but do some research. All right.
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The data supports the data will confirm that the justice system is particularly.
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Hard on black people and it hasn't changed.
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And it's been that way. Correct. been that way. Correct.
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Even before we had voting rights, which won't, you know, threaten to be taken away.
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Long before that, this system was working the same way it is today.
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Correct. It has not changed. Correct. Correct.
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So how in the hell can you cater to every walk of life in your country if you're,
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still on the books, you're treating one group of people like they're not even human.
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Well, three-fifths of the human. Yeah, and everything that we've detailed thus
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far in this discussion illuminates that racial despairing with the amber alerts,
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you know, with the runaway labels.
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That's all systemic racism. Mm-hmm.
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That's all I got, bro. You got some more on this issue? I just got one more
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thing. Okay. And I know I wouldn't plan on doing this many statistics. One more.
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The Justice Department, 40% of all confirmed sex trafficking victims in the U.S. are black.
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Oh, wow. 40% of all sex trafficking victims, children, adults, male, female, 40%.
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And we're only 13 to 14% of the general population. That's crazy.
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Oh, yeah.
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Man. Yeah, that is a very sobering statistic right there, bro. God help us all.
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All right, y'all, we're going to we're going to leave that discussion right
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there. We're going to slide right into our current events.
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I got a few current events that I want to get into this week,
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so I'm just going to try and go down the line. Some I'm going to give more time
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than others, but I do want to just touch on a few things.
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So a couple of days ago, Mike Huckabee, he is the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders father or America East, whatever you want to call it.
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So check out what he said.
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And I'm reading this verbatim because I don't want to misquote this man.
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I don't want to be accused of putting words in his mouth.
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Without Israel, without the Jewish, no, I'm sorry, without the Jewish foundation,
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there would not be America.
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America was founded in 1776, right?
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Isn't that the whole reason why we see 250 splattered all over the place is because 1776...
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Israel became a state in 1948, 46, 47, somewhere around that.
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47, I'm pretty sure. I think President Trump, President Biden,
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President Clinton, President George W.
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Bush are all older than the state of Israel.
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How in the hell can you fix your lips to say without Israel,
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there would be no America?
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Absolutely bonkers, a bonkers statement, a bonkers claim to make.
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But to me, this shed some light on how a lot of politicians think,
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not just Republicans, Republicans and Democrats alike.
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This sheds light on how some of them think.
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I think a lot of these politicians are more loyal to the state of Israel than
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they are to the United States, which would make them traitors, in my opinion.
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Crazy. Just just a wild thing for this dude to even utter. So here's what someone
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who didn't agree with you would say as a rebuttal.
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Well, what he really meant was that if Israel wasn't put in place in 1947,
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the terrorists from the Middle East would have already annihilated us.
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I guarantee you, give it a week or so. Somebody is going to come out and say
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that exact same stupid shit. Watch.
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Here's here's my my issue with with anyone who ever tries to tell me what someone meant to say.
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No they said what they said right don't don't tell me that no that's not what
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they meant to say that's what you meant to say or you wanted or
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right right they said what they said i hate that as an argument or a talking
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point in a debate that well what they meant to say was no no no no know,
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what they meant to say is what they said,
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so so yeah don't even don't even come at me with that foolishness the other,
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current event i want to get into two things and they're they're going to go
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together first i want to talk about,
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president trump yeah this is about to be a dump on trump segment by the way,
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president trump called obama a stupid son of a bitch a couple of days ago So why do I say,
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Trump called Obama a stupid son of a bitch?
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Because he does not talk to the Iranian officials.
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So his claim is I ran.
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Iranian officials said that the JCPOA was dumb and they called Obama a stupid son of a bitch.
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No, they didn't because they were complying with it every year,
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every year. So why would they negotiate that and then call him a stupid son of a bitch behind it?
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If they didn't respect it, then they just wouldn't have complied.
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A lot like this 90 or 60 day deal that you're proposing that they've already have broken.
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Obama's not the stupid son of a bitch. You're the stupid son of a bitch.
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You're jealous. You're petty. You're hateful.
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And that's how you govern, which is why we're in this debacle that we're in right now.
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The JCPOA was working. They were complying.
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You ripped up a deal because of your pure hatred and jealousy for the black man.
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That's the only reason you did it. But what you're learning and what America
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has learned, it's easy to tear something down.
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It's a whole lot harder to build it up.
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And that's the lesson that we're learning right now.
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Gas prices are through the roof as a direct result of Trump tearing up the JCPOA.
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The Strait of Hormuz used to be free.
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Now, vessels and boats are going to have to pay a toll to get through the Strait
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of Hormuz. Yeah, because it is closed again.
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It's closed again, which is why I was saying that they've already broken that deal. Mm hmm.
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Closed again. You talking mass about you run Israel and BB's going to listen to you.
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He's steady bombing Lebanon and told his people, no matter what the outside
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influence, Israel will always protect itself, which told you right there.
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He ain't trying to hit nothing you talking about. None, none,
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none. He's literally like, dude, shut up.
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They've made such a fool out of Trump and America through this whole ordeal, right?
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They always want to highlight the fact that,
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The JCPOA gave Iran $1.7 billion.
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No, no. What we did was we gave them their money back that we had seized since the 1970s. 1978.
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And we added on a little bit of interest.
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You want to talk about what that is? Because somebody going,
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no, we ain't had that money since 1978.
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For those that don't know, we were selling weapons.
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And then there was an overthrow of a government. We overthrew their government.
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Yeah, we helped. Yeah, absolutely.
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But no, no, no. There was a revolution after we placed the Shah in power.
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Correct. Then there was a revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini, and we had their money.
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Obviously, we weren't going to ship weapons during a revolution.
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We have held on to that $1.7 billion since 1978.
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They sued us in international court and won. Right.
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And we sent their money back as part of the JCPOA, the deal Obama broker.
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We gave them their money back.
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But on pallets, which is what a lot of Republicans were like,
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man, he loaded up pallets. Yeah. Yes. They money.
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Yeah. But this new deal.
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These fools can get up to three hundred billion dollars. With the B, y'all, $300 billion.
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What do they call it, like a reconstruction fund?
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Give me a break. So you're not getting the enriched uranium.
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The Strait of Hormuz is still closed.
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You blew up half of a country. Now we got to pay to rebuild it.
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What was this all for? And then after the G7, even more people hate you. Yeah.
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The only thing I can say is the corruption part because of the weapons deals.
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Somebody's profiting off of this.
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It's not the United States. But
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you better believe that these weapon manufacturers are about to clean up.
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And these construction companies sort of like how Halliburton did when they went and rebuilt Iraq.
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Some of these construction companies about to go over there and clean up also.
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Dick Cheney pocketed so much money, man. Without a doubt.
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Without a doubt. So those are my current events. Anything you want to add, brother? Nah.
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You sure? Yeah. All right, cool. All right, y'all. We're going to slide right
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into our rant about a random topic.
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My brother rubbing his hand, so I know he got a good one.
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Have at it. All right, so I'm going to break this down into sections.
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Okay i want to talk about the lincoln memorial reflective pool.
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So it would have been very easy for me to get on here and use the same talking
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points i've seen on ms now cnn,
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fox you know clips of this and that and whatever sure but i wanted to actually
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look up so I knew what the hell I was talking about.
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So the no-bid contract.
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This was a no-bid contract for this company. Yeah, right, right.
30:29
For one of his homies. A homeboy hookup, basically. Right. So it's a company
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called Atlantic Industrial Coatings, and they're from Virginia.
30:37
You know what their qualifications are?
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They previously worked on his swimming pool at a golf course in Sterling, Virginia.
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That's their qualifications to do the reflecting pool. Now,
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I'm only giving part of the blame to them.
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And once I get through these, you'll understand why. So the project was pitched
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as the whole American flag blew for the 250th birthday.
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Trump claimed it would cost $1.8 million. The final cost was $14.7 million.
31:09
There was a markup. So the National Park Service documents that were leaked,
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said that they charged an inflated 20% margin.
31:18
And the federal standard is between six and 12 percent. They charge 20,
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which cost people like you and I an extra eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
31:31
So the the the one hundred year lie where the paint would be good for one hundred
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years, which why anybody would ever say that out loud is hilarious.
31:39
So on June 5th, which was my mother's birthday, Trump posted on True Social
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that it was complete, it was cheap, and it used industrial material that could last 100 years.
31:52
Days later, because they did not properly fix the filtration system,
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the June sun turned the water into a pea soup green.
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A swamp. Right. Now, keep in mind, that wasn't the only reason this happened. Uh-huh.
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The very next day, they're pouring peroxide to kill the algae.
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Here's the problem with that. Industrial epoxy pool paint takes five to seven
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days in completely dry weather in order for the paint to cure properly.
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Peroxide acts as a paint peeler for that type of paint when it has not been cured properly.
32:39
So here's why I'm only giving them part of the blame You know as well as I do
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Hey, this shit needs to be done by June 5th And that's what I mean And you better
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get it done The president wants it done
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Nobody had the balls to say Hey man,
32:54
this is gonna take you We need to wait at least seven days Block that whole
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pool off with caution tape Or whatever Please stay out of the pool.
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So As of this morning, I saw another the video of the pool,
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drone the middle is coming off in like 20 foot chunks nice from the bottom
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nice which by the way they've arrested a bunch of people who've jumped in and
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collected paint like taking a souvenir yeah they've been why would you jump
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in that water they've been arresting people.
33:31
I'm surprised their skin just didn't immediately peel and fall off. Right.
33:35
So there's a rumor that they sprayed it with, like, truck bed liner to try to
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disparage the company. That's not the case.
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Epoxy paint takes about a week to cure properly.
33:51
So this room, I don't know who started it. And I'm not defending this company
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in any way, shape, or form. But it was the the the rumor was started,
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in my opinion, to disparage the people.
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But you got a no bid contract to do the reflective pool.
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I don't give a damn if Trump is your brother. You run your own company.
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Do you want your name attached to this bullshit?
34:16
They didn't look at it like that. One, they looked at the guaranteed money and
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they looked at the opportunity to say, I did this at the White House.
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They looked at the advertising and they looked at the guaranteed payday bro
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that's that's all that they probably looked at but here's my thing too and and
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you hear me say all the time i don't expect there's there's just certain people
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i don't expect anything from,
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i guess we should have expected this these are the same people that called an
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emergency meeting what eight years ago at the four seasons and ended up outside of a small business in
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virginia somewhere yeah because they were too stupid to realize that they meant
34:55
the Four Seasons Hotel and Washington D.C. Yeah.
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So I don't expect anything less from idiots like this.
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The whole thing is idiotic from the offset, onset, whatever it is.
35:09
It's called the Reflecting Pool for a reason. It was gray for a reason. It's a memorial.
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It's not supposed to be swimming pool blue, you idiot. It's not supposed to
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be American flag blue, you idiot.
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It was gray for a reason.
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But this is why you don't put a senile old buffoon in charge of stuff.
35:37
Any other president knows that
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this pool is this color for a reason it's a memorial it's for reflection
35:47
hence the name reflective pool it was reflecting the memorial of lincoln and
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it was reflecting the washington monument idiot for those who don't know go
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back and look up pictures,
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of Trump's hotels from the 80s.
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It's all gaudy, gold, crappy bullshit.
36:08
Trashy. But he's always been tacky like this.
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Look, he's always worn suits. I've never seen Trump in anything but a suit and tie. Always.
36:16
It's not like he's wearing bullshit, ugly, cheap suits.
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That's the only thing that hasn't been tacky about him. Yeah.
36:25
It's his suits. Everything he's done his entire career has been tacky gold bathrooms
36:32
gold toilet seats like man get the hell out of here yeah that that's all you got for that brother,
36:40
yeah yeah it is it is it's shocking when you when you actually get into the
36:44
nuts and bolts sometimes you just at least i do.
36:50
I just don't understand. What's the appeal when you when you see how many blunders,
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how many self-inflicted wounds this guy like causes himself?
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What's smart about this guy?
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Nothing he does particularly makes any sense.
37:08
How can you call him smart when everything he touches turns to shit?
37:12
The only thing he's good at, sort of good at, is corruption.
37:17
And the reason why I say sort of is because everyone knows about the corruption.
37:21
So so you're not really good at it.
37:24
It's just that the elected officials won't do anything about it.
37:29
If he was not elected president and I say this with full like I'm going to stand on this. He'd be in jail.
37:36
He'd have been in jail a long time ago had he never been elected president.
37:40
That's what the whole second term is about, though. Yeah. Yeah. Him not going to jail.
37:46
When it's all said and done. If he doesn't get impeached and removed from office,
37:52
he's going to try and pardon his whole cabinet because he knows that they're
37:59
all criminals at this point.
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He's going to try and pardon them all. But you know what the next president
38:03
should do? I don't give a damn about that.
38:05
Y'all going to jail. Y'all not getting away. Y'all going to jail.
38:10
Anyway, for my work, I'm going to do something a little different.
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I'm going to play cosplay as a Hollywood casting director.
38:24
All right. So bear with me, y'all. So Idris came out earlier this week or maybe
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it was late last week and basically said that he doesn't want to be James Bond.
38:37
Oh, I think I saw that. And and his reasoning is he doesn't think the world
38:44
would accept a black James Bond.
38:48
Now, personally, I think he's too old to be Bond at this point.
38:51
And what, you're going to get one movie, two movies out of him at the most?
38:55
I think he missed his opportunity. Maybe damn some Idris. Well, it's funny you say that.
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I was thinking Regé-Jean Page should be the next James Bond.
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Dungeons and Dragons. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, pretty boy. Yeah, yeah.
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I think he should be the next James Bond. And for all of the people who say,
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James Bond is supposed to be white.
39:21
You have to do some real mental gymnastics to make yourself believe that five
39:27
different James Bonds are supposed to be the same character.
39:33
That's the first thing, right? No one thinks that every James Bond is the same character.
39:39
You can't explain that, that the same guy who was whooping ass in the 1960s
39:44
as Sean Connery is supposed to be the same guy whooping ass as Daniel Craig in the 2020s.
39:51
There is no logic to justify that.
39:54
So there is one simple throwaway solution to this James Bond can't be black.
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All you have to do is go. James Bond is a moniker.
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James Bond is a code name. James Bond is a persona.
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And therefore, anyone can be James Bond slash 007.
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Problem solved. Now you don't have to worry about he was written as a white character, etc, etc.
40:28
One simple line fixes all of that. Yeah. And I think it should be a reggae John
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Page, but I didn't I didn't consider Damson Idris.
40:36
And that would also be a good choice. Yeah.
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I just looked him up because I know the name and I know his face,
40:43
but let me look him up. Yeah. He'd be a perfect jackpot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
40:46
Yeah. And you can get four or five movies out of him because they're younger.
40:50
Yeah. Which is why I'm saying Idris can't do it because I think he's too old
40:54
at this point. But even the last Bond when we brought in Daniel Crick.
40:58
No, no, no. What's her name?
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Oh, the sister who's 007. Right. She was also 007. Yeah, correct.
41:07
Correct. But I remember people flipping out about that. Oh, they totally flipped
41:11
out. Oh, could she be a 007? Right.
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Right. 007 is a status. And they even explained that in the movie that the 00 is a status.
41:19
It's a rank, if you will. But if there's anyone that has thought that the same
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character from Sean Connery to now has been the same person,
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you're an idiot. That's just weird as hell that you haven't figured out.
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Yeah, you're an idiot. Yeah, that's just his moniker. Yeah. Yeah,
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I'm James Bond. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So that's the first casting decision that I want to make. The second casting
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decision I want to make is Mahershala Ali.
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His Blade movie has basically been scrapped by Marvel.
41:56
I think it's been, what, five years since they announced that she was going
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to take over? It might be longer.
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Well, just like Idris, I think Mahershala is now too old. So even if they started
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to do a new Blade movie, I think Mahershala is too old for the part now.
42:15
I mean, both of these guys are in their 60s, right?
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We're going to get one movie of Mahershala being Blade. Yeah,
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when you mentioned Mahershala a couple weeks ago and said that he was 60, I was like, nah.
42:24
Yeah. You're like, yeah. Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong. Both of those brothers
42:27
look good for their age, but the physical body can only do so much.
42:32
And how many movies are you going to get out of these guys before you have to recast them?
42:37
So my suggestion for Blade is Alain Noel.
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If you don't know who Alain Noel is, he is the star of the Nemesis series that
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just finished on Netflix.
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He was on what's it's a show it's a right show that was on hbo all those years,
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oh oh jesus i know oh man i know i know i know.
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I can't think of the name of it either and shame on me what the hell no that's
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gonna bother me but but yeah he was he was he was he was a star on on on isa ray's show
43:16
and he was insecure insecure thank you insecure yes yes and i i was thinking
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immature in my head i'm just like i know it's not immature all right yeah insecure
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yeah he's a star of uh insecure
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he's the star of the nemesis series they just finished on netflix and he was
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also in one of those purge movies,
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yeah oh damn he sure was yeah yeah.
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The guy looks like a young wesley snipes,
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He has the stature as far as physically. He's young.
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He got a big, bright smile. So all you really have to do is put fangs on his
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teeth and boom. You don't even have to do a whole lot of makeup.
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That's your new blade right there. Elan Noel.
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I'm done being a casting director. I'm just saying I think those are some simple solutions.
44:06
But I would really, more than the blade, I would really like to see Regé-Jean Page,
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As the next James Bond. As a huge Bond fan. Yeah, I could see that. I would like to see him.
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If you're going to do it. It doesn't have to be Idris.
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He's not the only black guy that can be James Bond. Yeah, I would like to see
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Regé Jean Page as the next James Bond.
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Make it happen, Hollywood. Make it happen. There you go.
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He's good looking. He's suave. He's British. You know what I'm saying?
44:42
Because I know that's a...
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He's British. Yeah, that's a requirement.
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Which is crazy because people were like, why can't Denzel be?
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Because Denzel's not British.
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That's why he can't be James Bond. Or they were even saying like John David.
45:00
I'm like, they're not British. Oh, yeah.
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I don't care so much about the black and the white, but I would even be upset.
45:09
Like, wait a minute, man. James Bond's supposed to be British. Like, come on, man.
45:12
Don't do that. When it comes to the Bond movies, I just want to see a good movie.
45:17
And I'll admit, those last two, well, I mean, Dave Craig, he was done with that
45:22
role. He didn't even want to do the last two movies.
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I just thought those last two movies kind of got away from what Bond was.
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And that's all I care about.
45:32
Honestly, he was a more rugged, more action-packed James Bond than any of the
45:39
previous James Bonds. You know, he wasn't the suave debonair.
45:44
And I mean, I didn't hate Daniel Craig as James Bond, but he definitely brought
45:49
a different flair to the role. Who was the smoothest James Bond?
45:54
I got to go with the original Sean Connery. But if you're asking me, like, who do I?
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Because Sean, by default, I'm saying Sean Connery. When you say who's the best,
46:06
who's the smoothest, who's Sean Connery? Because he's the originator.
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But if you want me to rank them after that.
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Pierce Brosnan. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. Now, we grew up with Bond as Roger Moore.
46:18
Right. That's all we knew. Right. So, with Pierce Brosnan, no,
46:21
no, it was was it Timothy Dalton? Timothy Dalton got two movies.
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He got two. He got two. He got the Living Daylights and, gosh,
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Living Daylights and is it like a time, no, is it a time to kill?
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Yes. Is it? Yes. Okay. I know he got the Living Daylights. Yeah. But I know he got two.
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Timothy darwin got too much but when pierce brosnan came along everything was
46:47
smooth i was like why this brother smooth as hell perfect yeah perfect bro because
46:53
and and a lot of people love roger moore,
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but a lot of his movies were like campy yeah they were i'm like man i mean yeah
47:01
he's buying he's smooth like but this is almost comical yep and then pierce
47:06
brosnan came back can add it that smooth.
47:09
I can get any woman type yeah yeah yeah pierce brosselin is definitely number
47:14
two on the bond list in my opinion and then the bond girls like the fact that
47:17
you're getting like top-notch right actresses right it's like oh wow they got halle berry right.
47:25
But i think that's the reason why they don't want a black james bond i think
47:30
that's the real reason because they know they top-notch white actresses going
47:35
to be in them James Bond movies.
47:36
Oh, yeah, for sure. They don't want to see that. Nah. That's the real reason
47:40
why they don't want a black Bond. But that's a whole other story.
47:44
All right, y'all, we're going to leave that right there, and we're going to
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go right into our five on the black hand side movie review.
47:51
And for this review, we chose Uptown Saturday Night, starring Sidney Poitier,
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Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte.
48:06
Flip Wilson and just an all star cast. Too many for me to name.
48:13
But as we get into it, you'll go, oh, they were in that, too.
48:17
Basically, every popular black star from that era was in this movie.
48:22
All right, bro. Take it away. So I'm on. I got two things. So the whole premise
48:27
of the movie, Steve Jackson, which was played by Sidney Poitier.
48:31
He's a hardworking, straight-laced steel worker. And him and his impulsive taxi
48:36
driver buddy, Wardell Franklin, which is played by Bill Cosby,
48:40
sneak out for a wild night at Madame Zenobias.
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Zenobias! A high-class, illegal underground gambler. Yes, sir!
48:48
During their night out, mass bandits robbed the club. Now, for a lot of people,
48:52
if this sounds familiar, this was kind of like the premise of the Kevin Hart fight night.
48:58
Some of it was. Okay, okay, okay. Like, you know, the out for the night type
49:03
thing. I get you now. Yeah, I get you.
49:04
They stole, stripped everybody of their cash and jewelry.
49:08
But the trouble starts the next day when Steve realized his stolen wallet contained
49:11
a winning lottery ticket worth 50 grand. Mm-hmm.
49:14
Desperate, the duo takes to the streets to track down the thieves themselves.
49:19
So, I want to talk real quick before we get into it about the cultural impact. Okay.
49:25
So, this was released during the height of blaxploitation. Mm-hmm.
49:29
Sidney Poitier intentionally directed this movie, which I completely forgot
49:34
about, that he was the director. I didn't recognize that either.
49:38
So he wanted to do a counter narrative. He was frustrated by Hollywood's reliance
49:42
on negative stereotypes and gritty, violent crime tropes.
49:46
Instead, he crafted a classy, elegant and genuinely joyful buddy comedy that
49:51
celebrated community, friendship and black excellence.
49:55
I also forgot that this is just one of three movies. Yeah. I forgot about Let's
50:00
Do It Again and A Piece of the Action. Let's Do It Again.
50:04
Pretty good. Not as good as Uptown Saturday Night. A Piece of the Action.
50:09
And for those who've never seen this movie, and I understand he's kind of a,
50:13
toxic person at this stage of his life. He was excellent.
50:17
And Bill Cosby. Excellent.
50:20
Excellent in this role. Excellent. Great. But he was great in all of these movies
50:25
back then. Right, right, right. So...
50:29
For the hip-hop heads out here, this is where Notorious B.I.G.,
50:34
Biggie Smalls, got his name from.
50:37
Uptown Saturday Night. Because the head robber, played by Calvin Lockhart, name was Biggie Smalls.
50:46
What? Or Silky Slim. Thank you. Or Silky Slim, which is where Snoop got the,
50:51
alter ego, Silky Slim, with the tip of grill.
50:55
Yes. So, yeah, that's where they got those names from. Biggie Smalls, and Silky Slim.
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Harry Belafonte, you probably won't recognize him because they put the cotton
51:06
in his jaws to make his face look fat and distorted.
51:09
But Harry Belafonte was Geechee Dan.
51:13
Flip Wilson was the reverend at the church.
51:16
He had that great line, loose lips, sink ships.
51:21
I know y'all done heard some rappers say that. Yeah, straight off of this movie,
51:25
Flip Wilson, when he was doing his sermon.
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Let's go back to Madam Zenobius.
51:31
I loved when they were at the crap table, bro. And Bill Cosby talking junk to that dude next to him.
51:38
Oh, yeah. You know, he's like, every time my hand moves, your hand will move. Come on, you my guy.
51:47
I love how he was having fun with him, man. I also love the next day when Portier
51:54
is sleeping in the incliner. Mm-hmm.
51:57
And his wife is like, are you dreaming about me?
52:00
And his face changed. And she smacked, pah-yah, smacked the shit out of me.
52:07
So one of my favorites was Richard Pryor. Great. Just the fact that they hired this fool.
52:13
And the whole time, he wasn't doing nothing but plotting, me getting the money
52:16
and get the fuck up out of Dodge. And then they were like, why you hustle me? And he's like, why not?
52:25
And like you mentioned, Harry Belafonte, like that was a Marlon Brando impersonation.
52:31
That makes so much sense. Now the voice and everything, man, good catch, brother.
52:39
Good catch. Okay. That makes so much sense now. Yeah, it was a Marlon Brando The Godfather.
52:47
Okay, okay. The skinny mustache. Now I see it.
52:53
Now I see it. Okay, that makes so much sense, man. I don't know, bro. It's just...
53:02
Like you were saying, good, joyous, family fun. And this is a family movie.
53:11
Despite all of the, you know, being at a nightclub and getting robbed and them
53:17
having to strip and all of that. This is a family movie.
53:22
I don't think there's much profanity in this movie.
53:26
There is some violence, but not like people getting shot and killed.
53:32
They had the bad guys playing softball at the church picnic. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
53:41
The bad guys out there, man, that food looks so good at the church picnic, man.
53:45
That chicken and stuff, I'm like, oh, wow. Yeah, and you know all that was real. You know it was real.
53:50
Hey, but I also love the day after they got robbed and they were in church.
53:56
One, they kept falling asleep. But then when the collection plate came around,
54:01
and Bill Cosby was faking like he reached down in his pocket and he was making
54:06
his hands shake like he was throwing something in there around.
54:10
And his wife like, put somebody in the tray. And he like, ah. Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
54:17
Now, we have to do, we may have to do Let's Do It Again.
54:21
Oh, we could definitely do Let's Do It Again, for sure. Because,
54:24
you know, every time you said the name Biggie Smalls, all I kept thinking about
54:27
is that scene at the boxing ring when Biggie Smalls then walked in and John
54:33
Amos was sitting in the stand. Kansas City Mack. Kansas City Mack. Yeah.
54:37
But he said, you got to bring ass to get ass. Yeah. yeah,
54:41
yeah also a really good one man yeah let's just let's just run down some of
54:46
these names for for for for people as far as like the uh celebrities uh roscoe
54:52
lee brown played the uh what congressman,
54:56
leggy pelly pelly my goodness leggy peggy which is paula's wife paula paula
55:01
kelly the congressman's wife she was a uh trained uh broadway dancer,
55:08
um you got uh like you said richard pryor was in this you got uh.
55:16
Rosalind cash which was uh uh sydney portier's wife she was the one who slapped
55:22
him across his face she's you slapped me woman she was uh she's in the Cosby show a lot.
55:29
She was on the Cosby show a whole lot. Yeah, yeah. And she was like,
55:33
I didn't slap you. You were dreaming.
55:39
I want to say that Madame Zenobia was somebody popular, but I can't find her on my list here.
55:46
Lee Chamberlain. Okay, my bad. I do have her on my list. Yeah,
55:49
Lee Chamberlain was Madame Zenobia who was flirting with Sidney Poitier.
55:56
You had a man from the Five Heartbeats, the dancer. He was...
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Little Seymour. Little Seymour Pettigrew. He was the choreographer.
56:06
He was sorry. Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Him and his brother.
56:10
And I can't think of their names for some crazy reason. Him and his brother
56:13
were the tap dancers. Yeah. The what's the name brothers?
56:17
Because they're the ones that that popularized that when they used to jump off
56:20
those steps. Yes. Yes. Man. Yes.
56:22
Yes. Yes. He was he was he was he was he was little Seymour.
56:25
Because it was a Fred Astaire that called them like the best dancers he had.
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The Nicholas brothers. Yeah. My goodness. What is wrong with my mind today?
56:33
Yeah. Fred Astaire, he was like, man, I ain't never seen nobody dance like that.
56:36
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
56:40
Real quick, man. Can we talk about how Bill Cosby looked like old boy from The Whispers?
56:45
That's right. Dude, that beard and that mustache combination was wild.
56:50
His mustache was thick. It was thick. Dude, that shit was like three inches
56:55
thick. Yeah, it was thick.
56:57
The brother from the Whispers that got the beard all the way up to his jawlines.
57:03
I got to see a picture because I can only picture Scotty and Walter with them
57:06
thick caterpillars on their lips. Man, that's all like a picture right now. Scotty and Walter.
57:13
I like when Bill Copson was out walking at night trying to do some investigative work.
57:20
And he got picked up for being that serial killer or that kidnapper or whatever
57:24
it was. Oh, that was absolutely hilarious, man.
57:29
I don't know why. Okay.
57:33
Hey, tell me that beard. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. It definitely fits the bill.
57:39
Yeah. It's just this. This is just an all around good, fun movie. And it still holds up.
57:47
Yeah. Hell, this movie came out, what, two years before we were born?
57:50
Yeah. Yeah. A year? Because it was 74, right?
57:53
What was it 74? I think it was 74. Because, yeah.
57:56
Yeah, 74. Yeah. And then Piece of the Action was 77.
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Yeah. Yeah, just a really good movie. And like I was telling you on the phone,
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I think Burris is trying to remake this. Yeah.
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And I don't want to hate, but I'm kind of hoping he doesn't.
58:19
Sometimes some of these movies just don't need to be remade.
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But if he did, I'm going to put my casting hat back on for a minute.
58:30
Shaq would have to be Big Percy and Cat Williams would have to be Little Seymour.
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Those are my only two suggestions. Other than that, go for it.
58:40
So I do remember when Will Smith and Denzel Washington. They were talking about
58:45
it, yeah. I think you mentioned that a while back. Yeah. Because that just pulled
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up. Yeah, I think that was like the early 2000s where they were floating the idea of remaking this.
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And then I know Kevin Hart and Kenya Barris, the one that created Black-ish.
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Correct. Yeah, they've been trying since 2018. Correct.
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Correct. And like I said, I really hope that they never make it,
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to be honest, because I just don't want them to ruin it.
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Because, yeah, Kevin Hart will be Sidney Poitier's character.
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No. You know he would be. You know he would.
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Can't see it. On Heartbeat Productions, you know it would. Totally can't see
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it. Maybe Bill Cosby's character.
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Or maybe even, no, no, no, Richard Pryor.
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Yes, a small role, yes. Yeah, his character would be great for Kevin Hart. Yes, yes.
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He'll never take himself down to that level, don't he? No, no,
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but yeah, no, he totally shouldn't be a main cast.
59:42
No, absolutely not. I love how he was hitting them fools in the head with that
59:46
hammer, bro, when they were on top of the car, when they were trying to escape from the picnic.
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And he's smacking them fools in the head with that hammer. They had guns,
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which they, like I said, no one gets shot.
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He's hitting them fools in the head with that hammer. Bam, lights out.
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And they threw the suitcase in the water. And he's like, man, I'm getting my ticket.
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And Bill Cox was like, hey, fool, you can't swim.
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And you know what's crazy, too, at that time, seeing Sidney Poitier in a movie
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like this. Yeah. You know, yeah.
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Because people were like, you know, Sidney Poitier is real. Yeah. Stern. Yeah.
1:00:23
Straight to it kind of actor. Yeah. And he stars in this with with basically
1:00:27
a bunch of comedians. Correct. Flip Wilson, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor. Correct. Man. Correct.
1:00:32
And held his own. And then a civil rights activist. Right. Harry Belafonte. Correct.
1:00:37
Correct. So, yeah. Yeah. That's what I say. This is a who's who of famous black
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celebrities at that time. So, yeah.
1:00:45
One thing real quick. So the movie had a $3 million budget.
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It says it made $6.7 million, but there's another number out there that says
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ticket sales were well over $11 million.
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So there's a discrepancy somewhere. I think...
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If they did.
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A re-release right now, this movie, a re-release of the 1974 version,
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this movie would clean up at the box office. Yeah, just digitize it.
1:01:16
Yep. Yeah, absolutely. Yep. This movie would clean up. You don't have to change
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a thing. Just re-release it.
1:01:21
Like I said, maybe upgrade the, make it high def.
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And this movie would clean up at the box office right now. Or just put it on Netflix.
1:01:30
There you go. It'd be on your top 10 list. There you go. And then to stay on
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there for the rest of the summer. Because our generation would be immediately
1:01:37
like, oh, uptown Saturday night. Without a doubt.
1:01:42
Without a doubt. All right, y'all, let's go ahead and rate this thing.
1:01:48
I think by the way we're glowing about this movie, it's a classic.
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It's a classic. Five high fives on the blackhand side. All day,
1:01:58
every day. Yeah, yeah. It is a classic.
1:02:01
I said please do not remake this and mess it up,
1:02:05
if you do remake this give it the tender loving care,
1:02:10
that it deserves don't go and try and change up the plot like they messed up Sparkle,
1:02:17
with Jordan Sparks and them please do not mess up this movie and put a bad taste
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in our mouths leave this as is this in my opinion would be like.
1:02:30
Them trying to remake the godfather with a whole new cast and stuff and you'd
1:02:34
be like what what what are you doing yeah,
1:02:38
some movies you just need to leave alone because most of the time nowadays these
1:02:43
movies end up being like you said earlier campy,
1:02:47
or just it's like hey i understand y'all trying to go away from it's just the
1:02:51
way the movies are shot the cameras they use the angles they use now Everything
1:02:56
is done like it's going straight to Netflix.
1:02:59
It's not done like a typical movie anymore. Yeah. And I just don't think they
1:03:03
would be able to capture the same essence.
1:03:07
As back then, like you said, this was hot off the blaxploitation era.
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It was an alternative, an answer to we're not all pimps, drug dealers, holes, thieves, etc.
1:03:23
So, yeah, there is the cultural slash slash social significance of this movie.
1:03:32
So, yeah, leave it alone, in my opinion. Leave it alone.
1:03:35
Do not remake it. If anything, whoever got the rights to it,
1:03:39
just re-release it right now and you will get your money.
1:03:43
That's my opinion. All right, y'all, that's our five on the black hand side movie review.
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And now we're going to go into our closing monologue. My brother,
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the floor is yours. Appreciate it.
1:03:53
All right. So I'm going to talk about a few things we talked about earlier.
1:03:58
So Trump just signed a new preliminary deal with Iran.
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Trump spent the last 10 years telling us that Obama's Iran deal was the worst deal in history.
1:04:07
So what did he do? He went to France and stayed at the Palace of Versailles.
1:04:14
Which historically is where nations go to sign their surrenders.
1:04:18
For those that are listening, if you don't know that, go and Google it and see that's where we go.
1:04:22
That's where people go to sign their surrender. The famous is the Treaty of
1:04:26
Versailles signed by Germany.
1:04:29
And he signed a deal that critics are literally calling American capitulation. Correct.
1:04:34
So the optics sent out by Emmanuel Macron posted a video and Trump is sitting
1:04:40
there aggressively scribbling with that stupid ass Sharpie.
1:04:44
There are even reports. You'll love this. That he accidentally signed the Persian language copy.
1:04:52
I mean, I guess when you're signing away $300 billion in frozen assets.
1:04:57
And the only thing you're getting in return is a pinky promise,
1:05:00
you don't really need to read the five print.
1:05:03
So we shouldn't be too hard on it, though. The president, that is.
1:05:07
He's under a lot of physical stress.
1:05:09
The White House just released his medical report.
1:05:13
And apparently his routine checkup required, and this is a real number,
1:05:17
22 medical specialists. That's not a doctor's appointment.
1:05:21
That is a medical convention. It's not a doctor's appointment. You know what that is?
1:05:25
Right now in the background, there is a Cubs game going on.
1:05:29
He had enough doctors for an entire roster plus a designated hitter.
1:05:35
So the report says he's in excellent health. But it also noticed he had severe
1:05:40
bruising on his hands from frequent handshaking.
1:05:45
And taking four times the recommended dose of aspirin, which will do it,
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I guess. Thinning the hell out of your damn blood. Correct.
1:05:52
Which makes sense. If it was just signed, if I just signed a 14-point surrender
1:05:57
document in a French palace using a Sharpie, I'd have a massive headache too.
1:06:03
But hey, at least he got a 30 for 30 on his cognitive test again.
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So sleep tight, America.
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The country might be broke. The geopolitics are a disaster.
1:06:13
But the guy with the Sharpie can still successfully identify a picture of a camel.
1:06:18
One thing, just one question.
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Is it customary to take multiple cognitive tests?
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You take the test one time to prove that you're cognitive and they leave you alone.
1:06:34
If you have to repeatedly take a cognitive test, it's because you're failing.
1:06:42
Either that or you have a mental disorder that is directly related with the
1:06:48
word that starts with an N and ends with a C. You are narcissistic.
1:06:55
So therefore, you feel the need to do it over and over again to show people
1:07:02
how smart you are. Right.
1:07:07
Yep. All right, y'all. That concludes episode 35 of For The Fam Podcast.
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