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Episode 9 - Are Blacks a monolith · 4DAFAM

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boy kg welcome to episode nine for the fam podcast,
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nine episodes in brother how you
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feeling today good good voice a
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little raspy but i get through it yeah yeah
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yeah that's what's up man other than
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that you all right yeah man i can't complain you
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know weather kind of gloomy here today but just
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relaxing all right work treating you all right oh yeah you know them late nights
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starting to slow down that coming home at 2 33 o'clock in the morning is for
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the birds lord have mercy i don't know how you do it brother i ain't even gonna
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front then having to get right back up they're like i mean good thing is with this job,
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If I don't want to leave the house until 10 in the morning, I don't have to.
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Now, if I still had to come home three in the morning, getting up at six or
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four, 4.30, five o'clock like I used to. Nah.
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Nah, I feel you. All right, man. So what you want to get into today,
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bro? So we're going to talk about what it means to be black. All right.
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Just exploring all different options on Facebook.
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You know, the different types of people of color around the world.
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And I mean, honestly, how we basically discriminate against ourselves a lot
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in this country. In what way?
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You know, about being a certain way. You know, if you're not,
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if you don't behave this way, you're not black.
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You're not black enough. Not black enough. You know, me, myself being a high
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yellow brother, you know, I've heard it plenty of times over the years where
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or you can just tell when people don't rock with you.
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I don't know if that's because, you know, you light skin or or whatnot.
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But and I've had people in my own family.
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You know, it's it's it's funny you say that because when we were children,
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I was the one who got picked on for being a dark skin brother.
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Light skin was the thing everybody wanted to be light skin when we were kids
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nobody wanted to be dark skin and it's funny how those tables have turned now and it's like dark is in.
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Trends man trends either way it doesn't matter not one bit in the big scope
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of things right i mean because when you walk into a room the first thing they
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gonna see is that you black before you open your mouth,
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before you do anything, the first thing they're going to say is, who's the black guy?
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And you know what's crazy with that?
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Is there so many people that hear you say that,
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And would disagree with you. But the reality is the reality.
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What's the disagreement, though? Well, now I'm talking about my wife.
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There's a lot of white folks that would disagree. No, no, no.
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We don't do that. Because they're dishonest, though. Right.
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Or just blind.
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So I'm glad you said that. Because I think when people say that they are colorblind,
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it's like the biggest cop-out.
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It's like, no, you're not.
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I'm colorblind. I don't see race. Yes, you do. We all do.
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And to me, it's just you, you trying to, and you're supposed to.
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You're supposed to, right.
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You're, you're, you're, you're already trying to placate your racism by saying
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that you're colorblind.
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It's just like, no, stop it. You do see race.
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You see that I'm black, knock it off. And I want you to see it.
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Right. I want you to see the difference in cultures. I want you to celebrate
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those different cultures.
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You know, when you decide to take your family to a Mexican restaurant,
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you can't sit there and tell, well, I don't see race.
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Right. You're sitting in a Mexican restaurant, Mexican food. Right.
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Or Tex-Mex, depending on where you are. For sure.
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You either eat authentic or you eat Tex-Mex. I was about to say most of it is
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probably Tex-Mex. But yeah, it's just like.
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It's OK. It's OK that you see that I'm black. Like you said,
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I want you to see that I'm black.
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I think if you start going down this path of colorblind, then you can't recognize
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the struggles that other races have because you're air quotes colorblind.
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So you can't relate to any any struggle that I have you think is in my head
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or I'm making it up because you're colorblind and you can't relate to it.
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And I'm not trying to be funny when I say this. Being colorblind is how you
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get people like Tim Scott.
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It's how you get people like what's their names?
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Byron Donalds. Well, not the the the the the twin. The Hodge twins.
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Oh, my God. It's how you get cats like that where they feel so accepted into something.
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I don't even want to talk about them, dude. That, man, that'll be a whole other
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episode within itself if I started to go down the path about those dudes.
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But it's like we as black people, we sort of expect ourselves to be monoliths.
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We get angry when other people stereotype us, but then we get picked on for
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not fitting into the stereotype.
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It's so crazy to me. Keep it real. You ain't real. Like you were saying,
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you ain't black enough. But wait a minute, but what does that mean?
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I don't I don't know what it means. You know what I'm saying?
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I got one for you. When we celebrate.
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The reasons why the area we come from are famous or known outside of where we grew up.
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Think of the 90s. There's a city that's right next to us that was very famous for something.
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And we we we murder cap. You proud of that? Right.
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Right. No, I feel you. I feel you, bro.
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You know, and we've had this discussion before, but think about it like this.
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And maybe this doesn't justify the black kids, but you know,
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when you're a teenager, that's the only time in your life when it's acceptable to be dumb.
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It makes no sense to me you're a nerd you'd like to study you get good grades,
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So I'm supposed to be dumb? Then you're missing the whole point. We're here to learn.
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It's made to feel like if you're smart, then you can't be something else.
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Like you can only be, like you said right before we started,
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we put ourselves in categories.
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Well, if you're smart, that means you can't be cool. And keep in mind, there were movies.
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Remember, I want to say Nick Cannon and Christina Milian. Oh,
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the Can't Buy Me Love remake. Okay.
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But think about that. Yeah. So he couldn't be cool because he was smart or he
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didn't have, you know, this or that.
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I understand it's just movies. I get it. But that's real life. Sure.
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I mean, even even the Urkel had to take the potion to turn into Stefan to be cool.
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And it's just like, no, bro, just be yourself.
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Like, just be yourself, bro. It's so. And don't get me wrong.
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The Urkel character had its own issues.
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Not one of my favorite characters when we look back through history.
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But at the same time, it's just like, bro, it's OK to be you.
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Do you you know what i'm saying who's to
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say that a blur a black nerd is less
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black than a black rapper no you're
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all black who's to say someone like neil
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degrasse tyson who's the smartest or one of the smartest people on this planet
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is less black than you know somebody else who and it's just like why why why
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can't it just be both because the same thing when he walks into a room, well, maybe not now,
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but before he became famous Neil deGrasse Tyson,
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when he walks in a room, the first thing they see is, who's the black guy?
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He's black just like us. And it's like, we should not pick on,
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ridicule, ostracize people because they're different.
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You got to be the first. You know what I'm saying? We always say we need more
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black this. We need more black that. We need more black astronauts.
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We need more black dancers. We need more black. Pick something.
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Well, in order to be that, somebody got to step outside the box and do it and
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do it because everybody can't be the hood version of that.
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It's just not going to work. We need more black politicians.
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Well, someone has to become that guy.
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So even though behind the scenes and, you know, we we can also do a whole different
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episode about this. Richard Williams.
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Richard Williams took his daughters. A visionary to write a visionary.
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But quietly, he was away from from the public eye.
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He was doing some things behind the scenes that that was just wild.
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But the fact that we only focused on them being from Compton.
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Right. You and I know why the news was so entrenched with them being from Compton.
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Of course. Oh, my God. These poor.
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Yeah. Stupid people. Yeah.
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Did something that no one else could not realizing how smart they were. Right.
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How smart Richard Williams was. And dedicated. And dedicated to making sure
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that those two children achieved success.
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And then, of course, as they got older, it was lifted, put on their shoulders to be successful.
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Right. So it's I mean, I kind of lost my train of thought of where I was going with that.
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But no, I mean, but it's it's it's it's it's good because look at what they've helped spawn.
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I'm not saying they directly influenced Naomi, but now you got Naomi.
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Now you got Coco. What was the other girl who who who lost?
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I can't call her name. The sister from from the city from the one that had the
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baby and she had made her come back. She had her son.
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Yeah. I can't call her name. I'm sorry, sis, if you're listening.
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But yeah, they spawned the next generation. Right. So we need that first.
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And I'm pretty sure they got picked on. Y'all play tennis.
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Woo-dee-woop-dee-woo. Y'all ain't gonna make it. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
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You know what's wild? Who's laughing now? You know what's wild?
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You know who was a great tennis player?
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And if with just a little bit of investment into his life, his life would have
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been completely different.
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Rick Roth. Freeway with Ricky Ross.
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The rapper? No. No, the real Rick Roth. Oh, okay.
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No, the real Rick Roth. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, he was an above average tennis player. Interesting.
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But he didn't really have the grades. And he also obviously famously didn't
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have anybody in his corner pushing it.
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But no, they say he was an outstanding tennis player.
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Well, it's one of those sports like golf.
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You got to have money or you got to have a benefactor to do it.
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Yeah, because you could sit in your front yard and swing the club for hours.
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You ain't got no golf balls. You don't have a club to go to.
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Right. You got to get on the courses. You know what I'm saying?
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And then you need entry fees and all of that kind of stuff. It takes money.
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There is a reason why there's not a lot of us there. One, we don't want to play
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it because it's not cool, but it also takes money.
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You know what I'm saying? Think about outside of America, because I know there
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is a ton of black foreigners that play soccer.
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But who's the great black soccer player?
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You know what I'm saying? And if we try, you'll be like, bro, you play soccer?
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Until you get that $250 million contract, and then it'll be like, oh, bro, play soccer.
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Well, I know who it is. I can't believe I can't think of his name right now.
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The young brother that played for France, he just left.
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You're not talking about Freddie Adua, are you? No, no, no, no.
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No, shoot, man. Freddie Adua, shoot, that'd be almost 40 now. Is he?
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I don't keep away. What is his name? He's literally one of the best soccer players
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in the world, like top three or four in the world.
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But he played for France. I think he just left and went to another club.
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But yeah, that brother, I forget his name. But even that, the fact that we don't
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know his name, we don't know who he is, says everything that we're talking about, right?
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If he was the best basketball player, we damn sure know who he was.
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If he was the best football player, we'd know who he was.
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Even track and field or baseball, we'd know who he was.
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But it's just, it's so, like, take for instance, Misty Copeland.
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I'm sure a lot of people don't know who Misty Copeland is. Man,
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I heard that name in a long time.
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Kylian Mbappe. Okay. But back to Misty. Mm-hmm.
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One of the first, right? National ballerinas to lead a dance troupe.
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Why don't we know that? Why don't we celebrate Misty?
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You know, and why would we look at her and go, yeah, but she ain't.
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You know what I'm saying?
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But she ain't. How do you know?
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Yeah. I'm sure in those spaces where she's probably the only black or one of
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a few, she experienced just as much racism as anybody else, if not more.
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And it's just like, why, why, why don't we wrap our arms around those type of people?
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And why don't we encourage our kids to step outside the box and be the first,
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break down a barrier, so to speak i think
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one of the things that i notice a lot of just me
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personally is that some people stay in the spotlight
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for a really long time and of course excuse me
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you have some black artists white artists hispanic artists
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that stay in the spotlight for a while but it seems like some of those people like
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you just mentioned with her that just kind of slowly
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fade away they're still doing their thing but we just stop
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paying attention exactly and that even
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though then you look up what they're doing you go oh man they're
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doing great right but nobody's paying attention you
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find out that they've been on broadway that they've done right they've they've
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won a tony award sure or something sure and and and we're not even paying attention
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right all of the time right breaking down all kind of barriers and and not getting
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the love from her community not getting love from us.
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You know, it's just like, I don't know, man. It's like, can we please stop.
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Ourselves in boxes, quit putting limitations on ourselves with this whole,
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there's only one way to be black.
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You're not black enough type deal. I'm black regardless, regardless of what
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I like or don't like, I'm still black. And it's okay.
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I also think one of the big issues is the difference in generations.
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Like certain generations focus on certain things. And when the new generation
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comes up. Because we do it.
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Lord knows we do it. We see things that our kids do and we're like, yo.
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We would have never done that. We would have never done this.
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And then it makes you think about our parents.
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But of course, our parents were coming off of the civil rights era.
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So obviously, they were going to have critiques about us.
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But what has changed? I mean, our generation focused on a lot of self-expression.
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This generation focuses on a lot of self-expression but
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i think well one of the issues that i have in our community i think
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everybody focus on self-expression but
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it was like they all went to the same school hey hey let's all look alike there's
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no individuality well everybody looks the same yeah yeah yeah think about think
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about hip-hop and what is devolved because i don't want to say it evolved.
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No, it is devolved the last one. What is devolved into all the rappers damn near sound the same.
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And it's crazy how when we were teenagers in the 90s, we had conscious rappers.
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You got ran out of the business if you sounded like somebody else.
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There is that. You definitely couldn't. You had to have your own unique style, your own unique sound.
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But how the gangster rap basically ran the conscious rappers out of the industry.
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And it's just like, why wasn't there room for both? Now, we know why there wasn't room for both.
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That's a different story a different topic but it's
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like why did the record companies push
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this on our community and this is the
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way you have to be while the conscious rappers who
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was saying something positive who was talking about
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black power and uplifting black
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people why they got phased out of the rap gang
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you know what i'm saying and then it got
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to the point where if you tried to be a
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conscious rapper when you didn't get sales and
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then you were considered corny you were lame and it's
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just like well no why because I
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don't want to kill 20 n-words in my
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song lame because I'm saying go
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study because I want to talk about Mansa Musa
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I'm lame come on man knock it
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off knock it off it's like it it
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it should be space for all of that
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you know what I'm saying if you if if you want
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to be that dude that need 20 people
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to get that's cool if that's what you like
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that's cool i'm not telling you not to listen to it i'm not telling you not
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to be that but at the same time if i don't want to hear that does that make
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me any less real does that make me any less black because i don't want to hear
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about 20 dudes getting killed in my song think about this too hip-hop is the
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one of the only genres where you're just hip-hop.
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Everything is devolved together. There's no adult.
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There's no soft rock. There's no hard rock. There's no heavy metal.
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It's just, oh, we're just going to put y'all all into one group.
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Whereas when I, because my ears still work pretty well.
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When you got people like Nas, still better than 90% of the young rappers out there.
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Method Man dropping random freestyles that sound better than anything you've
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heard in the last 15 to 20 years.
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But yet, people like The Game, back when, on his second album,
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was talking about rappers still being 36 rapping.
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Right. Here he is at 43, 44, still touring the world, still rapping.
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What's wrong with people like maybe the Wu-Tang Clan in five years when they're
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in their late 50s? I mean, Dre still do it. Right.
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That they can't go out and tour the world. Right.
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The Rolling Stones still tour. So, and I know I've mentioned this to you once
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before, one of the things that the difference between our generation of music
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and the younger generation, Eric Sermon was on with Willie D.
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Some months back, he was performing in Houston. And he said,
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I have music that I made 30 plus years ago that I can get on stage tonight,
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rap, and everybody in the crowd is rapping.
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I can do that same show 15 years from now and get the same reaction.
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And he mentioned a couple of younger up and coming rappers, specifically one from St.
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Louis, who he was like, she's going to have adult kids one day.
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And at 45, she's not going to get up on stage talking about the stuff that she was talking about.
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It's not it's not going to.
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Span decades right now i was
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listening to you guys to shill and i said it
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like they say it like three days ago that came
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out when we were 13 yeah it was banging i already know 13 yeah and it still
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yeah gets heavy rotation yeah without a doubt without a doubt we we we over
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on this segment but i just i
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just really really quickly i just want to say this also something about us,
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And I could be wrong on this, but it seems like we're the only group of people
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who encourages others not to vote.
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I don't know for a fact, but I don't think white people tell other white people not to vote.
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I don't think Hispanics tell other Hispanics not to vote.
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But black people quick to tell you, man, ain't voting, man.
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Forget that. Why you vote, bro? Famous black folk.
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It doesn't make sense to me. How are we supposed to advance?
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How are we supposed to fight?
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We're literally relinquishing our power by not participating in voting.
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You want to know why policies don't cater to us?
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Because you don't vote. And they know you're not going to, so they're not going
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to make their policies adapt to you. Us not voting is very apparent with all
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the nonsense we're going through right now.
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It just baffles me that we will be like, man, don't vote.
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Why are you going to vote, man? I don't vote. I ain't wasting my time with that.
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Man, she locked up all them black people. Oh, my God. As if they didn't commit crimes.
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As if any of that nonsense that they were spewing was actually true.
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Right. Because it wasn't.
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But even if it was, it's her job. I can't believe the prosecutor locked up somebody.
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Right. What? It's her job.
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Instead of you being mad at the person that committed the crime,
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you mad at the prosecutor for doing what she is paid to do.
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But again, we're also some of the same people that have watched somebody mow
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down 20 people and then get T-shirts to say, free my dog on it the next day.
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That's a whole different conversation. Yeah. Like I was saying,
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y'all, we went over a little bit on this segment, but it's all good.
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We're going to keep it rolling.
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So now we're going to roll into some current events. You want to take us there, brother? I do.
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But let me, because it's interesting. So I came across...
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A story on Instagram. A guy was talking about it. You ever heard the name Marion Stokes?
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No. So Marion Stokes is a former journalist and a librarian.
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And in 1977, and this is only, I'm only bringing this up in current events because
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when I get to the end, it's still going on today.
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So in 1977, up until her death in 2012, I believe December 2012.
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She recorded different channels of
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tv 24 7 365 days
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a year because she knew
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she felt back then that the technology would take over and people who were smarter
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than than that generation will twist the narrative of historical events so there's
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there are pictures you can look them up online there are pictures of like a
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dresser of stacks and stacks of VCRs.
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Oh, wow. Where she was recording different channels.
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She ended up rotating her entire life around those eight hour periods because,
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you know, those VHS in Vegas only did eight hours.
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So she from 77 to 2012.
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Now, when she got older and got sick, she hired an assistant to help,
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but she never missed changing those tapes.
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So there would be maybe a 20 second delay in certain videos because she had
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to take it out and put a new one in.
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So when it was all said and done, her apartment was full of them.
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She rented several storage units and she passed away in 2012.
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And I forget what they say the last thing was that she recorded.
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Oh, it was coverage of the Sandy Hook shooting.
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It was the very last thing on her very last tape.
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71,000 tapes.
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When she passed, her son ended up donating everything to the Internet Archive,
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which is one of the only companies still trying to keep everything free and public to everyone.
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So they're digitizing everything.
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Six shipping containers and $16,000 to ship them across the country to their
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headquarters in San Francisco. Okay.
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It's still going on today. they're still
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digitizing her tapes from 2000 she passed
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to 2012 right they're still digitizing everything
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in 2025 yeah but the
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reason it was so interesting to me is because of the people that talked to her
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said that the reason she was doing it is because she knew she felt the shift
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after after the 60s she said she just kind of felt funny and she started recording
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everything because she felt that somebody was going to come along and try to
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alter the narrative of history.
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And I'll be damned. Here we are. Man, that's divine intervention.
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That's foresight right there, bro. And not only different news programs,
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like she recorded Cosby Show and all of that stuff, but TV commercials. Mm-hmm.
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I bet you some of those are probably wild. So they say also that a lot of people
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in Hollywood, black, white directors, producers,
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are going to the Internet Archive to like work with them to look at some of
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their her footage with the help with their documentaries and their movies.
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Hollywood has even got involved. Yeah.
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To help out. I hope they paying her son his royalties for that. I don't know.
27:39
Honestly, though, Internet Archives, you know, I saw a lot.
27:43
There were a lot of people. No, not as far as them, but if Hollywood producers,
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documentaries, filmmakers, whatever, is using her information,
27:52
then her family should be compensated.
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That's all I'm saying. Well, I saw people getting mad because he donated.
28:01
I'm like, what he going to do with me? Yeah, just going to sit with him.
28:05
If he digitized it, he'd be 100 years old by the time he got done.
28:08
So right yeah that's the only reason i brought up as
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a current event because as of today they are still converting
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that's interesting man 71 000 it
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was like 71 800 and some change no that's that's that's interesting i i like
28:24
that actually i mean of course i'm weird anyway but i like i like stuff like
28:29
that man i mean that's a lot of information a lot of knowledge and a lot of
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money spent on vhs Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. And and to preserve those things, you know what I'm saying? In their original form.
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Yeah, I get it. I get the mission. I get it. One hundred percent.
28:49
That's all you got for your current event? That's what I got. All right.
28:52
Well, I want to spend the next couple of minutes discussing the young Nazis
28:56
and their tweet, group chat, whatever you want to call it. They got exposed. But they're kids, man.
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That's first. First and foremost, these are not kids.
29:10
All of them are over 18. Some of them as old as 40.
29:17
You may be immature, but you are not a kid at that point.
29:23
But this is what I want to talk about.
29:26
Right. One that that J.D. Vance made a complete clown of himself trying to call
29:32
them kids and comparing comparing them to his children.
29:36
It's like, dude, that is so misleading because none of them are children.
29:41
But I want to I want to touch on this thing. Right.
29:44
How can you say I love Hitler?
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How can you talk about putting people in the gas chamber?
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How can Elon Musk throw up a hail Hitler at the inauguration?
29:56
How come a Republican just got caught with a altered with an altered American
30:03
flag to include the swastika in the middle of the flag, which was not an optical
30:09
illusion. It was what it was.
30:11
That is what it was. How can you do all of these things and then say, don't call us Nazis?
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What in God's green earth are you talking about? You're a effing Nazi.
30:25
If you love Hitler, you're a Nazi.
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If you infuse the American flag with a swastika, you're a Nazi.
30:34
If you make excuses for the guy who did the Heil Hitler at the inauguration, you're a Nazi.
30:43
Knock it off with all of this. Stop calling us Nazis. Stop calling us fascists. You're that.
30:50
You're that. You're all of that. Stop trying to gaslight us.
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It's who you are. Embrace it, fool.
30:58
But those same people will then turn around and show undying support.
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Don't even say it. I know where you're going. Don't say it. So which is it?
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Don't say it. You know, we can't say it.
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Do you hate them? Like, I'm confused. You can't like you can't have it both ways. Right.
31:19
And if I am that group of people, I'm going, yo, what y'all doing over there?
31:24
Well, of course, I mean, I'd ask them the same thing. Right. Right.
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But I mean, in this situation, I'm like, yo, so what's up with your party over
31:33
there? Because they fund.
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Mm hmm. They fund. And with those funds.
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This group chat would have got all of those dudes locked up in Germany.
31:44
And I'm not just saying that they would have been prosecuted.
31:48
Well, it is a crime in Germany to do any of that.
31:52
Here's the other thing, bro.
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It's been three weeks since the whole Jimmy Kimmel debacle.
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Y'all wanted this dude fired.
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Saying something that was true. Y'all wanted him fired, kicked off the air.
32:11
Y'all want Stephen Colbert fired,
32:14
kicked off the air because y'all don't agree with the things he say.
32:17
But yet, J.D. Clown, these guys' lives shouldn't be ruined because they did something stupid.
32:24
No, their lives should be ruined because you want to ruin everyone else's lives
32:30
with things that you don't agree with.
32:33
You trying to prosecute Comey and I'm no Comey fan or John Bolton or John Bolton.
32:40
You want to prosecute those guys because they disagree with you.
32:44
You want to ruin their lives. You want to put these dudes in jail because they disagree with you.
32:51
You trying to prosecute Tish James because she did her job.
32:56
She didn't falsify any documents. You were found liable You were found guilty.
33:04
And now you're like, how dare you find me guilty? How dare you hold me accountable?
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But these dudes don't ruin their lives.
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This is just some some guys just, you know, saying some bad things,
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but their lives shouldn't be run. Their lives should 100 percent be run.
33:22
These guys should have no business holding public office. No.
33:27
If you have racist views like this, what do you think your policies would be?
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Project 2025. Oh, I said the quiet part out loud. Oh, my goodness.
33:39
Because eventually some of those people will try to run for,
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you know, congressmen and whatnot. Of course. Everybody in your district is not a Republican.
33:47
Of course. So you can't be the congressman of some people like or the president
33:54
of some people. Well, this idiot seemed to think so.
33:58
Oh, did you know that there's a dinner tonight in Florida?
34:02
Four. Well, what are we at? Day 17 or 18 of the shutdown? Something like that. So let's just say 17.
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So on day 17 of the shutdown, there is a $1 million per plate fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago tonight.
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Oh, my goodness.
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See, this is tonight. Probably going to start here in about 10 minutes.
34:25
This is where I feel like, okay, I get it.
34:29
You want people to keep their health care. I get that. And that's noble.
34:33
But man, every day you should just be on TV talking about the corruption.
34:39
Every time they mention Epstein, talk about the corruption.
34:43
Every time they mention anything, talk about the corruption because it's all just pure corruption.
34:51
It's someone getting paid in the end. It's all just a monument's clause.
34:58
What's that? This guy has nuked that.
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Just talk about the corruption. Tie everything to the corruption, whatever it is.
35:06
Tie it to the corruption because it's going to all lead back to some money changing
35:10
hands. The Supreme Court is about to run out of money.
35:13
Funny you mentioned the shutdown, bro. Because, you know, who's still getting
35:16
paid? Congress, the Senate.
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High-level staffers. Yep. Peak Headself. Pam Bondi.
35:26
Stephen Miller. They're all still getting paid. But the people that are working
35:29
for some of those people.
35:31
They don't get paid. They had to turn in their badges, their phones.
35:34
Because there was a young lady who's a Republican.
35:36
She did a video at the National Mall.
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And she said she was just leaving the offices and turning in everything.
35:45
And now she didn't know what she was going to do.
35:47
Congress has been out of session for, what, two weeks now, bro?
35:50
Dude, I think it's been longer than that. But y'all still getting paid?
35:54
Man, we should run for Congress, shit. Man. Best job ever.
35:59
You don't have to show up and you still get paid? Nah, the best thing is we
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don't have experience other than just watching TV and doing a lot of reading.
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Hey.
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See, your boy just got out of jail today. Yeah, I saw. Santos.
36:14
Saw that last night. Got his sentence commuted.
36:18
But y'all the law and order party,
36:20
right? But y'all go out of y'all way to pardon or commute criminals.
36:27
But you're the law and order party.
36:30
All of this ice in Chicago and Portland and D.C., all this about crime.
36:38
But y'all going out of y'all way to let criminals back on the street make it
36:45
make sense whatever happened to the days of because republicans were notorious
36:49
for this republicans would,
36:51
despise and we've got movies in hollywood that show what happens when federal
36:56
agents come into towns they get run out they've always talked about you know
37:02
government overreach fbi shouldn't be sent there this person shouldn't be sent
37:07
there but it's so funny to me that now they welcome it,
37:11
because because they're in power as much as i
37:14
hate to say these words with
37:17
with he is and i'm not just
37:20
saying it to be funny like he is their lord and savior no that's true that that
37:26
no but i don't know what it is with this clown because let's be real this dude
37:31
has been despised in every category of his life until he switched from Democrat
37:36
to Republican and ran for president.
37:39
Was considered a clown by the socialites in New York City and everywhere else
37:43
in this country. I'm going to go a little further.
37:47
It wasn't until he ran. It was until he won.
37:52
Even while he was running, they didn't like him.
37:55
Remember, Lindsey Graham was on TV calling him poison.
38:00
He said the choice between Ted Cruz and Trump, one was poison and the other was arsenic.
38:06
They didn't even like him until he won.
38:09
Well, pre-beard J.D. Vance used to sit up there and talk all types of trash.
38:13
Say he was America's Hitler.
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But don't call y'all Nazis. Your own vice president called you a Nazi.
38:20
And your own vice president used to, because I don't care what y'all say.
38:24
He ain't my vice president. He used to love Obama.
38:27
Yeah. He was an Obama guy. That guy, I don't even know if there's a word low enough for him.
38:37
Because, I mean, he clearly believes in nothing.
38:42
What does he stand for? No one knows. Today is this. Tomorrow is something else.
38:46
If it benefits his career, you can't you can't be around guys like that.
38:51
My question is, what is he doing?
38:52
Because remember, when the last vice president was it was in office,
38:56
we were trying to figure out what she was doing every day. Right. So what is he doing?
39:00
Is he is he like defending young Nazis? Yeah, that's his that's his job to defend
39:05
young Nazis and just go on the airwaves and gaslight America and spew nonsense.
39:10
That's his job he's the mouthpiece for
39:14
the party because he's a good speaker because
39:17
he's eloquent please man we see through you
39:20
bro sorry y'all we we uh these are
39:23
the type of tangents we have we on the phone too we just yeah and we have definitely
39:27
gone over again on another segment but we're gonna keep it pushing we're gonna
39:32
we're gonna leave it there for now and we're gonna we're gonna keep pushing
39:34
so where are we at i think i think we're on our work segment bro everyone's
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favorite are rant about a random topic.
39:42
So go ahead, bro. How about it?
39:44
So my random topic is this and it, and I thought about it driving over.
39:48
I think about it a lot, especially when I'm driving at night.
39:51
One, why don't we use glow in the dark paint on our streets?
39:58
Well, it is supposed to illuminate when the. I mean, legit neon green.
40:04
So even when your lights don't hit it, you can still see it. That's interesting.
40:08
So it is it's currently being used in the Netherlands, Malaysia and Australia.
40:16
I believe the Netherlands has a pilot project where they've got a stretch of highway.
40:22
Let me see if it'll say it absorbs daylight and glows for up to 8 to 10 hours at night.
40:28
So it absorbs the daylight and illuminates at night.
40:33
Every car in this damn country is starting to move their headlights higher and higher, which is why.
40:40
So they're not pointing at the ground anymore. Right.
40:43
Okay. Which is why when people are coming toward you now at night.
40:46
It's in your face. It looks like that they have their high heels on.
40:50
But then as they pass you, you go They didn't have the high beams on. Why is this so bright?
40:55
This would help in so many ways because as much driving as I do at night,
41:01
especially out on the north side of Indy, where some of those two lane roads is not that bright.
41:06
Having that because if a car is coming at you on two lane roads up there, you can't see any.
41:11
You just hold the wheel and hope that you stay straight.
41:15
Yeah. So like one of my my my that's one of my biggest issues is I don't understand
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why we won't use this like pilot programs.
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Like pick a stretch of highway in New York or L.A., Chicago, Miami. Try it out.
41:32
I'm sure it'll cut down on some of the need, especially when you're on 65 North headed back home.
41:38
There's certain parts outside of Lafayette where it's just pitch black. Sure.
41:42
And with that paint on the roads, I just think that it would help out a lot.
41:47
Well, I'm going to piggyback on that since we're talking about highways and highway safety.
41:53
You know what I've always wondered? is why in the hell don't they have six-foot
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fences to keep the wildlife off the highway?
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I know that would be expensive. I know some of that isn't their land.
42:07
But it's just like, why do you just let them roam free?
42:13
Eventually, it's going to be an accident. I've never understood why.
42:17
And I know that deer can jump a six-foot fence.
42:22
Nine times out of 10, they're not going to, you know, it's like,
42:26
why on air, especially like you said, the dark country roads or whatnot.
42:30
There should definitely be some type of barrier between the forest and the highway
42:37
to keep the wildlife contained.
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If we're talking about safety, you know what I'm saying?
42:44
And I mean, it is is not just tearing up your car, but it could save a life or two.
42:52
That that that's always been like like
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this seems like a really simple solution why
42:58
won't they do it but that's just me
43:01
i mean who who knows i said maybe maybe it got something to do with eminent
43:05
domain and all of that kind of stuff so i'm not a let me there are several states
43:12
some states have that have the uh the wildlife crossings where they build the
43:16
bridges and over the top of the bridges is vegetation,
43:20
so grass and whatnot.
43:23
So there, see, I wish I would have had the states,
43:29
but yeah, there are several states where there are actual bridges for wildlife
43:33
to walk across and they're going to be more attracted to where the grass is
43:37
to just walk across the bridge.
43:39
I mean, granted, she's still going to have deer trampling across the highway,
43:43
but it actually, they actually do exist. Interesting.
43:48
Have to look that up yeah that's that's that's that's that's interesting
43:51
yeah it's just yeah it's just it's just one of those
43:54
things where yeah they look like this okay okay
43:57
whenever okay okay yeah yeah yeah whenever i'm
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you know taking a road trip or whatever i always just think why
44:04
why why please don't jump out please and and
44:07
and man oh there was
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man i came really close one time bro
44:12
i did i did too i was coming from south bend and
44:16
on 31 one ran out out
44:20
of nowhere i seen him move down
44:23
the road a couple hundred feet another one ran i'm just like geez oh p what
44:27
are we doing here when i lived in bloomington and i think i told you that night
44:31
i was coming back home real real late and i got off on the highway where you
44:36
can when you're on headed towards Bloomington, but you can get off on that bridge.
44:41
And man, that fool just jumped right across the highway, about 10 feet in front of me.
44:46
Crazy. And then, of course, he used to come out the house going to work at like
44:49
5 in the morning and they would just be roaming around where our townhome was.
44:53
Because on both sides of that townhome was a bunch of trees.
44:58
Yeah. And it was nothing to open the door and they'd just be walking in the street.
45:01
Bro, I see him back here all the time. Mm-hmm.
45:05
I mean, like, I've actually looked out this patio window and seen one like basically at my fence,
45:13
and the fence probably the only thing from keeping him being in my yard and
45:16
I know he can jump it when he wants to but probably ain't gonna if he don't
45:21
see anything he wants over here he ain't he not gonna jump yes yes exactly.
45:26
Yeah, it's crazy, bro. It's what your boys say on Get Out.
45:32
They're a nuisance. Oh, yeah, yeah.
45:37
I feel the exact same way. They're a nuisance.
45:40
And I'm not a hunter, guys. I'm not a hunter, and I don't believe in killing animals for sport.
45:46
But something has to be done to keep these jokers off of the highways.
45:52
To me, it's just a safety issue.
45:54
That's my work. For this week, guys.
45:58
So now we're going to move on to five on the black hand side.
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What movie would you like to talk about today, bro?
46:06
We'll do it. Talk about I'm going to get you sucker. Let's do it.
46:09
I'm going to get you sucker. I'm going to get you sucker. Came out what?
46:14
88. 88. 88.
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Starring Kenan Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Jim Brown, Isaac Hayes, Bill Fargus.
46:25
Antonio Fargus. That's the one I couldn't think of. Antonio Fargus,
46:28
Steve James, God rest his soul. Janet Dubois. Janet Dubois.
46:33
What's so girl from a different world? Why can't I call her? Don Lewis. Don Lewis.
46:38
Deem Hardison, Damon Wayans. Wow, Chris Rock had a cameo in it.
46:44
Just David Allen Greer. Robin Harris.
46:47
Robin Harris sparked so many careers.
46:51
And uncredited Hammond, Indiana's own.
46:55
Go for it. Bobby Martis. Go for it, bro. My peep. Go for it.
47:00
Don't even in there. That's what's up, man.
47:02
That's what's up. Yeah, so I'm going to get you suckers about a guy coming home
47:07
from the military and realizing how much his neighborhood has changed and he
47:15
wants to basically clean up the streets.
47:20
Now, in the movie, they're going after gold chains.
47:25
Gold chains is the epidemic that they want to stop.
47:31
But being grownups, we all know that the gold chains were an allegory for the crack epidemic.
47:40
So the guy, yes, basically his brother gets killed and he's trying to get revenge
47:48
and find out who killed his brother. But how did he die?
47:52
He OG'd. He OG'd a gold chain overdose.
47:58
Man, hey, I'm sitting over while you're talking I'm sitting over here trying
48:01
not to laugh Because just the whole Like,
48:07
start the movie with this. And you're like, what happened? Yeah.
48:11
And the crazy thing is, is every time they show this picture,
48:15
damn, how'd he go to the bathroom with all that shit on? Exactly.
48:19
Everybody. And it was the exact same thing I thought the first time I seen the movie.
48:24
Yeah. Yeah. So, oh, man.
48:28
I mean, like I always say, I don't I don't want to give away the jokes,
48:31
but there are so many just in-your-face jokes.
48:37
Gosh, when his mama is fighting the thugs.
48:41
And she got a mustache and a half, bro. Yes, yes, yes. The stunt double is a
48:47
man, and you can clearly see it.
48:50
It's like Michael Jordan's mother in Come Fly With Me. Yes, yes,
48:54
yes. Just that on-the-nose comedy.
48:59
Oh, man, bro. Big Red is in this movie.
49:06
The usual crew that Kenan Ivey Wands and Robert Townsend always had.
49:10
Yeah, Big Red is in the movie.
49:12
Clarence Williams III has a cameo in the movie with Dan Brady from the Brady Bunch.
49:19
Which might just be the funniest part of the whole movie.
49:22
Oh, man. Yeah, there's...
49:26
Guys, just go watch it, okay?
49:29
Jess, I think the humor still tracks. Absolutely. Absolutely.
49:35
Sit down. You got an hour and a half and just watch.
49:40
I'm going to get you suck. No. Yeah. I said Chris Rock had a cameo.
49:44
Yeah. I thought I did. Did I not?
49:46
I'm not sure. I thought I did.
49:49
Also hilarious. Also hilarious. And listen, guys, it's a spoof.
49:56
Think scary movie, right? marlin and
49:59
shine making a spoof of the scary the
50:02
the the horror movies well i'm gonna get
50:05
you sucker is basically a spoof of all of the
50:08
70s black exploitation movies so you know if if you've seen shaft or superfly
50:17
or truck turner or any of the excuse me all of the jim brown movies you would
50:24
totally made the connection that that's what they're going for.
50:27
Jim Kelly movies, you know, they're all basically supposed to be one of those type of characters.
50:36
So it's a huge spoof, but it's hilarious.
50:40
They just hit the nail on the head as far as spoofing all of those guys and
50:45
making fun of those old movies that, you know, are not that good,
50:52
but we consider them to be cult classics.
50:56
Just sitting there laughing, thinking about Fly Guy walking on the fish tanks, man.
51:00
Yeah, man. That fool had fish. My favorite, though, is when he's walking down
51:03
the street in the background.
51:05
His own theme music is back there laughing at him. But no, when the one day
51:10
he's like, girl, look, he got fish tanks in his shoes. He must be a superstar.
51:13
Yeah, he thought he was cool, too.
51:20
Yeah, that fool had... Oh, and a hell of a soundtrack, too. Oh,
51:24
great. Hell of a soundtrack, man. Yeah. her.
51:27
All the old school cuts and BDP as well. Yeah, Jack of Spades, the theme song. Yeah.
51:34
Yeah, basically put the Wayne Brothers on the map for the most part.
51:41
You know, even though Kenan had helped write like Raw and I think Damon had
51:47
made an appearance and where Damon was in Colors.
51:51
Oh, man. Yeah, yeah. Great performance in Colors. Yeah, Damon was in Colors,
51:55
and I think Damon was in Beverly Hills Cop, right?
51:58
Yeah, he was the gay dude. Yeah, the banana guy. But the bananas.
52:03
Yeah. Go ahead, take those. Don't tell nobody.
52:05
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they weren't brand new to Hollywood,
52:10
but this was probably breakout performances for all of them,
52:15
including David Allen Greer.
52:18
And and and probably i don't know
52:21
if chris rock went straight from that to saturday night live or whatnot
52:24
but they that whole crew because you
52:27
know that i mean those same dudes were everything back
52:30
yeah yeah that they looked out for each other 12
52:33
to 24 month period i mean hollywood shuffle 87
52:36
i'm gonna get you some 88 both of those and
52:39
and growing up classic and then
52:42
what and living color came not long after that a couple
52:45
years later yeah yeah yeah so they they definitely looked
52:48
out for each other which is exactly what you're supposed to do
52:51
if one of us get on all of
52:54
us getting on and not just coming along for
52:57
the ride you're gonna have to do something you know
53:00
what i'm saying you don't have to earn your key but i'm gonna
53:02
open some doors for you you know you come in here with me and then
53:05
it's up to you after that i'm gonna get you in
53:08
the door how you do it after that is up
53:11
to you whether you succeed or fail that's up to you but I'm gonna get you in
53:15
the door and sometimes that's all we want from each other is just get me in
53:21
the door just get me a meeting you know what I'm saying and I'll do the rest
53:24
and tying it back to what we talked about at the beginning of this podcast how
53:28
we seem to forget sometimes.
53:31
Marlon and Sean, well, all of them, show nothing but love to Kenan Ivory Wayans. For sure.
53:37
Like, especially Sean, because he's, I mean, he's, well, I'm sorry,
53:40
Marlon, because Marlon's been out there a lot more the last few years.
53:43
He constantly credits Kenan with being the person who helped him start.
53:48
But people like Kenan Ivory Wayans and Robert Townsend are overlooked so much. They really are.
53:55
They really, really are. I agree with that, bro, because they did a lot to put
54:00
a lot of actors on, including Jim Carrey, who Jim Carrey credits Keenan Ivory
54:07
Wands. Speak on it. Speak on it, bro.
54:09
They love him. He loves, you know, it's to this day.
54:13
He credits Keenan Ivory Wands with helping launch his career the way it is.
54:18
Without a living color, we probably wouldn't even know who Jim Carrey was.
54:22
And don't get me wrong he was in movies because him
54:25
and Damien were also in Earth Girls Are Easy but it was those type of roles
54:30
where he would have never been noticed or the once bitten movie where he was
54:34
a vampire well he said that Kenan told him be him just be you what do you want
54:39
me to do just go be you that's why you got hired go be you yeah.
54:44
So that's our movie that we
54:47
want to review today I'm going to get you sucker it is a
54:50
cult classic go out and view it what we
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get is brother two high fives on the black hand side yes sir two high fives
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on the black hand side for i'ma get you sucker all right today we're going to
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do something a little bit different we're we're going to both include a closing
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monologue we usually don't do this but,
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i got a closing monologue that i want to get into and kg has one that he wants
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to get into so So not that we're competing, it's just there's a lot of things
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going on and there's just a lot that needs to be said.
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So I'm going to speak about voting.
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And I want to talk about the difference between voting in local slash municipal
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elections versus national or presidential elections.
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Voter turnout in the U.S.
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Is consistently and significantly higher in national elections,
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especially presidential elections compared to local or municipal elections.
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National elections on average have a 65 percent turnout rate for for eligible voters,
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while local elections on average have a 40 percent turnout rate for eligible voters.
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That's a big difference.
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Personally, I think voter turnout should be in the upper 90 percentile for eligible
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voters. And I also think every U.S.
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Citizen should be allowed to cast a vote, full stop, period.
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In turn, we should not be required to work on election days,
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which other countries have already implemented.
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Now, why do I bring all of this up? Why do I bring this to our attention?
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That's a good question. The answer is simple.
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Local elections impact our daily lives much more than national elections due
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to state rights. You want to fight gerrymandering?
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Vote in local elections.
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You want to fight voter suppression?
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Vote in local elections. You want to have a say in school curriculum?
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Vote in local elections. Vote for your school board.
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Case in point, if you are going to sit out an election, which I don't condone,
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it should be national elections.
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We can't affect the game if we choose not to play.
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Brother, the floor is yours. So I'm going to actually, excuse me,
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piggyback off of that a little bit.
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So we deal with a lot of redistricting and different things that are going on
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across the country right now.
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But a lot of times I sit back and think that many of us don't even really know
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what's written in the everyday laws that affect our lives.
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We hear about the bills being passed, The policy's changing or district lines being drawn.
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But most people don't know what any of it really means. And that's exactly how
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this little game that they play is set up.
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The less we understand, the easier it is for politicians to slide things through,
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twist the wording, redraw the maps like they're doing now and make decisions that don't serve us.
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They only serve power. And it's become way more evident now.
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And then we wake up wondering, how did our vote somehow not count?
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How did our neighborhood end up in a new district?
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Or how come your voice keeps getting drowned out? It's wild because history
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has already shown us how fast things can flip when power is on the line.
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Before the 1964 Civil Rights Act, most of the Confederate states,
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if not all of them, were blue.
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But when that act was signed into law, guaranteeing rights for black Americans
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and other minorities, a lot of those same states turned red.
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It wasn't about some big moral change. It was political strategy.
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The party shifted, the language changed, but the goal stayed the same.
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Keep control, even if it means dividing people by race, class and district lines.
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Right now, with all of this redistricting happening across the country,
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we're seeing that same playbook, maps being redrawn mid-election,
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neighborhoods split up, communities of color diluted.
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So it's time to stretch a little, read up, ask questions, find out what's going
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on locally for your ballots on Election Day locally.
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Learn what your local reps are really doing, not just what they're saying in a soundbite.
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Because if we keep letting them write the rules and while we're not paying attention,
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we can't be surprised when the game keeps getting rigged.
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So next time you hear a politician talking about protecting democracy,
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democracy, ask yourself whose democracy they are truly protecting.
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Great points. Well, I think we went a little over than what we were supposed
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to this week, but it's all good.
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So we're going to leave it there for now, you guys.
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Thanks for tuning in to episode nine for the FAM podcast.
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sign off i'm six mil keeping it real It's your boy KG.
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And we'll holler at y'all next time. Peace.