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Ep. 8 - We need a hero · 4DAFAM

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  What up, what up, what up? What's going on?
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  Same old saying. Six mil, keeping it trill. It's your boy KG.
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  What's good, brother? How you feeling?
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  Good, man. It's not as hot as it's been. Weather's starting to get to my favorite part of the season.
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  That's probably just because it was my birthday season, so, you know.
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  No, I like fall as well. We get a little bit of everything during the fall.
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  You know, the day start off, it's pretty cool out.
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  Mm hmm. Then as the day progresses in the afternoon, it gets kind of warm and pleasant.
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  And then that night is cool again. So, you know, you can sleep comfortably and
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  all of that at night. No one just opened the windows.
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  Man, I thought I had to turn the heat on and I had to check myself.
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  I'm not turning this heat on in the first part.
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  Ain't no way. I was like, look at all the long sleeve shirt or grab a different
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  comforter. Right, right, right.
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  No, it's all good. But I feel, you know. I feel you like, no,
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  it's too early to turn on the heat.
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  No, I agree with you. So what's on your mind, bro? What you want to talk about today?
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  So today we want to visit heroes. All right. And what I mean by that is heroes
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  for the black and brown community. Okay.
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  And how we're lacking modern day heroes. And we'll go into detail on what we mean by the word hero.
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  All right, cool. You want to just jump right into it?
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  Yeah, why not? All right, man, let's go ahead and jump into it,
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  man. Let's talk about these heroes, bro.
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  So, no, go ahead, go ahead. No, no, go ahead.
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  So, I just want to say, like,
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  When I say hero, I'm thinking in terms of, and it doesn't have to be one singular hero.
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  And I don't mean like a Marvel hero, even though it would be great if we could
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  have T'Challa come touch a couple people up and then give them an intellectual beat down as well.
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  But no, I'm meaning like in terms of an MLK, a Malcolm X, Mega Evers, Stokely Carmichael,
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  you know, someone who's going to be a voice, even Jesse Jackson,
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  I guess you can throw in there during the 80s, early 90s.
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  You know, someone who's going to be that voice for the black community that
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  everyone kind of respects.
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  And I know that those guys had their adversaries as well.
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  But for the most part, generally speaking, those guys were considered heroes.
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  And I'm of the mind that heroes aren't born.
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  Heroes are created by the times.
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  And in these current times, we most certainly need a hero.
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  So I think one of the biggest differences, like you just said,
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  of the times, you know, you had the differences between the three.
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  Omega Evers was more grassroots, did a lot of fighting of the system itself.
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  He wasn't loud. He wasn't boisterous. He did it quietly. He was effective, but he did it quietly.
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  And obviously it cost him his life. Sure. You know, Martin being a pastor.
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  Organizing mass movements, getting people involved. And then,
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  you know, you take it with Malcolm X, militant, unapologetic.
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  He was more of the pride and self-determination, similar to Stokely Carmichael,
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  you know, who obviously coined the term black power.
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  And he was vilified for that as well. But it's no one has really stepped.
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  And I know that that some people may take offense to that. Some of the people
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  that have stepped up and tried to help. Sure.
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  But back in those times, they didn't care what the consequences were.
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  That's courage. I don't care if I get arrested. Martin Luther King was arrested
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  three thousand times. Right.
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  He didn't care about going to jail, sitting in jail. It was about the mission.
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  Right. The Montgomery bus boycott. What doesn't get talked about enough is we
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  look at that and we go, well, they were successful in a campaign,
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  but what gets left out is they almost bankrupted Montgomery, Alabama.
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  They needed us on those buses. Right.
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  They almost bankrupted the town. Right.
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  Right. Money talks.
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  Money talks. And that goes into, and I know it's not as successful as probably
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  they would have hoped it was, but like the Target ban. Mm-hmm.
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  You know, people sort of were on board, but then there was a large portion of
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  the community that was not on board.
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  So they are still struggling. They are. But what gets left out a lot is I think that us boycottin'.
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  Definitely hurt them a lot. But what a lot of people don't understand is they
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  were already on the decline.
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  Their CEO had already taken a pay cut.
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  And then, of course, it took another one. So us jumping in and doing the boycott hurt them even more.
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  But we won't get credit for that. It'll just be...
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  Now, obviously, we're taking credit for it as a community, but as a whole,
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  they were on a decline in general well
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  uh it it wasn't just and this isn't
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  going to be about the target boycott right um
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  it's just relative to what we're saying at this time it was it was because they
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  were basically canceling the contracts with all of their black vendors oh yeah
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  and that is what like spurred the boycott is just like hold on like right what
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  y'all yeah yeah yeah yeah seriously Like, what are you guys doing?
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  So, so, so, so, yeah, it's, it's just, we,
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  we put it like this to sort of piggyback on what you were saying,
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  that it could be someone out there and maybe it's not a someone,
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  maybe it's someone's, you know,
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  maybe it's, it's not going to be one particular voice.
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  Maybe it's going to be a combination of voices that step up to the plate and stay on point.
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  And like you were saying, don't be afraid of the consequences.
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  If you fight, you can't be afraid to get hit.
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  So the same consequences that existed back then exist now. So I'm confused as
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  a whole. why all of a sudden these consequences, oh, we can't do that. Money. We can't do that.
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  Money. I know you and I have had a conversation at some point in the past where,
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  like with the church, you were raised in the church. I was raised in the church.
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  I remember across the street from the church once a year, that small carnival
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  would come to town by a church.
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  I know the church had influence in that.
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  I remember being down in the basement at the church, in that big old kitchen,
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  cooking meals, people coming to eat. Oh, yeah. Fish and spaghetti.
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  Yeah, the fish and spaghetti. No doubt.
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  I'm not saying that doesn't still happen, because there are churches that I
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  drive by every day where I'll see fish fry this Thursday or whatnot.
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  It just doesn't seem like it's broadcasted and...
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  The community is not as involved. And of course, that's just me saying it feels that way.
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  I mean, it's probably packed at some of these places. No, no.
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  My issue is we can't seem to stay on point as a collector.
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  That's my issue is for whatever reason.
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  And money may be the main motivation for some people not staying on point.
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  And listen, you got bills to pay. You got bills to pay. I understand all of that.
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  But at some point, what's worth fighting for? What are you willing to sacrifice?
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  And I mean, make no mistake about it. We are in a fight.
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  Great again was never for us.
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  It was never intended to benefit minorities or black people.
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  The first time we heard that term, you and I were in elementary school.
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  Ronald Reagan. When that term was first coined.
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  There wasn't as much pushback at that time because you and I both know Nancy Reagan was everywhere.
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  We were kids. Just say no. She was on commercials with Punky Brewster,
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  Arnold, different strokes.
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  You want to tell your Nancy Reagan story? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
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  Hey, all you got to do is Google it and see what people say.
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  Oh man my bad bro my bad it's a wild story tell you what if it's true it's it's wild,
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  man my bad sorry i know i know i probably got you way off uh topic now but like
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  with jesse jackson jesse jackson did a lot when we were growing up his name
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  was everywhere and of course where we grew up i mean jesse jackson's headquarters
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  was right there right 15 20 miles away from us.
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  But it just seems like, now obviously I know he's been sick,
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  but it just seems like it just fell off a cliff real fast.
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  After he stopped running for president, he wasn't as front and center as much as he was previously.
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  And I don't know if funding was cut. I don't know if people stopped organizing.
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  But I think what happened over time is people stopped,
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  knocking on doors, and they started fighting from inside, and I'm using air
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  quotes, fighting from inside at the table.
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  Like they grabbed a chair and pulled up to somebody else's table.
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  We stopped trying to create our own table, our own chairs.
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  We grabbed their chairs, set at their tables, and we left the grassroots organizing
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  that helped us so much get to the point of the civil rights.
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  So it's it's just saying
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  and again it's just us talking you know
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  i'm sure there's somebody out there fighting hard right now it
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  just doesn't feel the same well again a hero is created by the times i think
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  the decline in jesse's presence had a lot to do with we kind of just didn't need him at that time.
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  I mean, even though we had the drug epidemic in the early 90s,
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  we had the crack epidemic, excuse me, y'all, but things were kind of good.
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  People were seeing progress. People were actually experiencing some upward mobility. Absolutely.
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  So there wasn't quite the need for Jesse or Reverend Al to be out there,
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  you know, screaming from the rooftops, even though things weren't still on equal footing.
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  It's like, kind of doing okay, bro. I know our parents growing up, we were good. Facts.
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  So, you know, not saying that it's right, not saying that it's wrong,
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  but the sense of urgency wasn't there.
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  And it sort of continued.
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  The way up until now in my opinion
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  so they say history repeats itself
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  it's a circular what do
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  they call it time loop whatever now it's time now now we've we've we've reached
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  that moment again in time where it's time for us to start screaming from the
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  rooftops again because if we don't who knows what this fool is going to do.
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  You know what I'm saying? And I ain't going back.
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  Nope. I'm just saying.
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  I ain't that wrong. Come try it. I ain't going back.
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  So whatever ideas you got in your head, it ain't going to work.
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  Now, I'll offer you a quick solution.
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  Give us our reparations, especially since you just gave Argentina $20 billion.
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  Quit telling us you don't have the money, give us our reparations,
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  and give us our own plot of land somewhere, and we'll be gone.
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  We'll be out of your hair.
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  Just a simple solution. And don't say you can't do it because history has already
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  shown us that you've already done it several times over.
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  And still paying them. Here's what doesn't make sense with that.
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  I'm glad you brought that up with Argentina, I saw a farmer talking about that.
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  He was on the news and he was sitting in his tractor. Soybean production, right? Yeah. Okay.
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  And he wasn't angry. He wasn't bitter.
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  He was just speaking the truth. And he was laying out how we gave this money.
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  And then China agreed to buy soybeans from Argentina.
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  Now, I know as much as I don't like the guy, but our governor negotiated a deal
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  with China, what, I guess about three, four weeks ago.
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  So over the next five years, they're going to be buying a certain amount from
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  Indiana soybean farmers, which is great.
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  But this dude is sitting here talking about, you put us in a bad situation in
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  2017. Then you bailed us out.
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  Get back in office, do the exact same thing again. Yep.
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  And now they're going to have to bail him out again. Yep.
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  Make it make sense. Because there's no plan.
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  It's like you say, you can't run a government with executive orders.
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  Yeah. You have to have a plan. Yeah, yeah.
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  And if you dig deep into the Argentina thing, it's probably some corruption
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  somewhere down the road.
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  So, you know, it's probably some type of kickback, some type of under the table
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  deal that somehow was going to benefit him and his family or someone in the
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  administration in the long run.
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  So let's just keep our eye out for that. I mean, because. Yeah,
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  maybe we'll build him a military base.
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  Well, we'll get to that. We will definitely get to that. So,
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  so yeah, like, like, like we were saying is this isn't a slight at anyone.
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  If you feel like you're being that voice for the black community,
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  please continue to be that voice for the black community or for minorities in general.
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  I mean, I guess I have to include the Hispanic, the Latino community in this.
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  I mean, because they're in a fight for their survival as well.
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  They need another Cesar Chavez. Yeah, for sure. For sure.
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  Yeah, just, you know, stay on point, y'all. I mean, maybe we'll have one,
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  but until we get that one, I think we all need to do our part.
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  We all need to stand up and speak out as a collective and stay on point, y'all. All right.
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  Stay on point. Don't let the petty squabs get in between the larger mission.
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  There will always be distractions and we're never going to see eye to eye on everything.
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  But the main objective, the main goal, we got to stay on point.
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  We have to stay on point if we want to push back. All right.
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  Keep that in mind. I'm going to say something.
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  Teachers nowadays don't, well, of course, we've been talking about teachers
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  not getting enough support since we were younger, but it seems like nowadays
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  it's even worse for teachers. They're being forced to do things they don't want to do.
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  Certain laws have been put in place to stop them, to force them to do this or
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  to do that. But one of the things that, and I'm saying this as someone who has
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  not attended church in a long time, continue to support the local churches.
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  If your local church doesn't have some sort of organization, some sort of.
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  Give backs that they do to community. Go talk to the pastor,
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  work with them, figure something out, collectively raise money together,
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  put functions together for the homeless, put something together like a drive.
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  And of course I know they do the, the coat thing.
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  Uh, people like Aunt Paris locally still do stuff like this, things like that.
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  But those are things that we need to continue to do support the local,
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  you know, churches and community centers and even community organizers,
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  People who are trying to organize, $5 will help them. Right, right.
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  Any little bit helps if they're trying to organize.
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  Any little bit. Any little bit.
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  And maybe if you don't have a monetary donation, just donate a little bit of time.
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  And if you don't have time, then maybe just an attaboy.
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  Sometimes just an attaboy goes a long way. Just let people know we see you.
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  Remember Smokey's mother said, make it enough.
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  Make time. Yeah, I hear you.
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  You got two hours on a Saturday morning or a Sunday afternoon, you know.
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  So, yeah, that's that's pretty much it.
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  All right. Cool, cool, cool. I think we've covered heroism.
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  So let's move into some current events.
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  There has been so much going on in
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  the world since we've last recorded that i
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  feel like we can just do one episode on current events and it would take up
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  an hour probably an hour plus so i'm just going to try and and and touch on
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  man there like i said there's there's so many So I won't go in depth on any of these.
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  I just want to briefly touch on several things.
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  I want to touch on the raids that's happening in Chicago and how ridiculous they are.
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  I mean, we would have laughed if someone told us five years ago that there would
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  be troops on the streets in our main cities in Chicago. I see that they just arrived in Memphis.
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  And it's nuts to me that these fools had a Black Hawk helicopter in the city on the south side.
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  It brings a whole new meaning to the term Chirac.
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  It's crazy. They shot a creature in the head with a rubber bullet. No, it was pepper spray.
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  OK, OK, spray just out there praying. And it's on video. It's on.
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  Yeah, it's on. It's on video.
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  The two officers that got pepper sprayed. Oh, yeah, that was wild.
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  It's like, yeah, what are we doing?
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  What are we doing? And just the way that my mind works, I have to think that
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  at the end of all of this, because this isn't about crime, y'all,
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  this isn't about immigration.
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  So part of me and the cynic that I am has to think that this has something to
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  do with gentrification. nation.
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  When they get all of the people out of the South Side that they don't want,
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  someone's going to move in and develop that land and make it unaffordable.
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  I have to think that that's like the end goal here.
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  Because you can't tell me it's about crime when crime is down.
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  You can't tell me it's about immigration.
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  You're not going after European immigrants. you're
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  not going after Asian immigrants so what
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  is this really about so I just I don't I'm just I'm just not going to accept
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  anything less than the racial component and on the back end I think a financial
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  component with all of this going on also a way to.
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  Keep this fool in power to get that mythological third term that keeps being
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  brought up, which doesn't seem like a myth anymore, is to create all of this
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  chaos and declare a state of emergency,
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  thus canceling elections.
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  Thus the third term.
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  So keep all of that in mind when you
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  see this stuff on the news and there's
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  other things that i really do want to talk about you know i want
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  to talk about the argentina deal i
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  want to talk about which we
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  just said this cutter military
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  base that's supposed to be going in idaho quid pro
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  quo you get a 400 million
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  dollar plane the plane is free yada
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  yada yada yada fast forward plane
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  wasn't free the plane was the payment for
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  the military base it all makes sense now you know what's wild when i saw that
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  i thought to myself this isn't new it's it's it's not new for a foreign military
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  a foreign uh country's military to come here to train.
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  Sure. So I was thinking to myself, okay, well, maybe they're talking about they're coming over here.
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  They're going to stay for a couple of months, fly some F-16s.
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  And then he kept talking.
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  And when he said, we're going to be housing some of their military planes. Say what?
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  They're going to have the capability to take off from here. From here.
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  That's nuts. What if these fools decide to bomb us?
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  Bought and paid for but but here's the crazy part no longer can we say nobody's that crazy,
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  because all we see around us is crazy correct because but you know what's even
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  crazier what was it seven eight years ago where he was talking about how they
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  were like the worst terrorist one of the biggest funders of terrorism or something
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  to that effect yeah what changed Oh, wait.
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  They gave you a plane. He is truly the H.C.I.C.
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  Head clown in charge.
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  I mean, literally, the guy would do anything for money.
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  And I think it's apparent he doesn't give a damn about America.
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  He's not a patriot He is about him and his children and his legacy Everything
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  he does is self-serving If you don't see that now I don't know what it will
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  take to make you recognize it So I'm going to take away a couple of those things you said Him,
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  I don't think he care about it. You don't think he care about his kids?
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  He'll throw his kids under the bus so fast. If it involved more money and staying
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  out of jail or anything like that.
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  No, I'm not saying the man don't love his kids, his grandkids.
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  I'm not saying they don't love him.
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  If you told him tomorrow, we'll put $20 billion in your bank account if you
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  send your wife back to where she came from, she gone.
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  It's crazy. He getting a chart. Matter of fact, he ain't going to charter no
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  jet. He's going to put it on commercial and send it back. It's crazy.
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  The last thing I want to touch on in my current event, did you see the Hakeem Jeffries encounter?
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  Mm-hmm. So him and I want to say it was Mike Lawler, congressman from Utah anyway,
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  tried to confront Hakeem in the halls of Congress.
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  And he kept over talking to him. And Hakeem told him, shut your mouth.
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  And I'm like did they listen to
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  the last podcast did they finally grow
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  a pair like this is the energy that
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  we need quit letting these guys punk
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  you all the time quit trying to be the nice guys if they bring smoke you give
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  them smoke right back yeah check it out though when we finish yeah yeah a king
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  that that New York Bronx came out of him for a minute here's like this the energy we need, bro.
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  But I've never understood any of that. I've never understood.
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  I understand, you know, being professional in the decorum. Sure.
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  I'm not saying put a ring in it. Well, they're gonna do that anyway on the White
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  House lawn. Right, right, right.
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  You know what, man? I just sidetracked. Two things.
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  They're hosting a UFC event this year at the White House. On the lawn,
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  bro. On the lawn. On the lawn.
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  The Oval Office is outfitted with gold.
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  Mm-hmm. You know, I'm gaudy. I was about to say it. Yep.
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  No, remember how back in the 80s and 90s when somebody used to put the chrome
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  around the wheels and on the bottom. The chrome skirts. Yeah.
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  The chrome skirts. And they do it too much and they make the car look tacky.
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  But back then we was like, yo.
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  But now we see it and we just laugh. Mm-hmm. That's what it is. It's a joke. Yeah.
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  Yeah. We are a joke. First of all, it's not your house, bro.
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  This is the people's house.
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  I don't even understand why he doesn't have to go through Congress.
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  OK, you want to take a couple of pictures down, but to do construction,
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  that should be something that is agreed upon by Congress and the Senate,
• 26:52
  because that's not your house. You don't own that house.
• 26:56
  You should not be able to make those type of changes again.
• 27:01
  Why are you making these changes if you're planning on leaving in a few years anyway?
• 27:05
  Unless, well, that's the biggest thing for me.
• 27:08
  It's a, you know, presidents have made changes, you know, throughout history.
• 27:13
  And that's fine for the betterment of it. But we're building ballrooms.
• 27:19
  We're ripping up rose gardens and putting slabs of concrete down. We got gold everywhere.
• 27:27
  I mean, gold, and I'm sorry, I understand that gold is expensive and gold is a great investment.
• 27:34
  A lot of more, too much gold is tacky. Very much so. It's always been tacky. Very much so.
• 27:40
  Very much. And if you can hear it in my voice, people listening,
• 27:44
  no, I just don't like the dude.
• 27:46
  I didn't like the dude before he became president the first time.
• 27:49
  I've disliked this dude since I was a teenager. So for those saying that,
• 27:53
  oh, it's just a bunch of left-wingers talking, no, I've disliked this dude since I was 10 years old.
• 28:01
  Pass that. Pass that.
• 28:04
  Even if you have a personal disdain for the guy, if you don't have a personal
• 28:10
  disdain for the guy, everything he's doing is beneath the office that he holds.
• 28:17
  It's beneath. Yeah, it is.
• 28:19
  At this point, it's not personal.
• 28:22
  You do not deserve to be president of the United States.
• 28:26
  You don't deserve to be the commander in chief. You have diminished the head
• 28:32
  office in every single way, every single way.
• 28:37
  This isn't personal. He just doesn't deserve that honor and he doesn't deserve respect.
• 28:45
  Respect is earned, not given.
• 28:49
  He disrespects everyone. So in return, you get nothing but disrespect back.
• 28:55
  This fool said we're going to cut funding permanently and it's only going to
• 28:59
  be in Democrat programs.
• 29:01
  You're the president of the United
• 29:03
  States. You're not the president of Republicans of the United States.
• 29:08
  Now I was about to cuss. Go ahead with your current event.
• 29:15
  So I came across this this morning. There is a rehab facility here in Indy.
• 29:20
  There's a lady who runs it and she gets funding by, there's a grant from the state.
• 29:27
  And I guess it's run out of money. And she does like daily yoga with the inmates.
• 29:33
  I'm sorry. Oh, Jesus. I called them inmates. She does daily yoga and programs
• 29:39
  to help them get back into society.
• 29:42
  I mean, there's sex offenders, you name it. They're running out of money.
• 29:47
  Actually, let me take that back. She's out of money. So she was like funding
• 29:52
  this out of her own pocket?
• 29:53
  No, no. It was a state funded grant.
• 29:56
  And I guess that grant, due to recent budget cuts, it's run out of money.
• 30:01
  Okay. So right now she's probably running off whatever reserves that she had, you know, left over.
• 30:08
  And some of these guys are just going to be put right back into the streets
• 30:11
  without any supervision whatsoever.
• 30:13
  So the state has like cut it. What it was called? It was a Department of Corrections RSAT grant.
• 30:20
  And it says it helps pay for sober living and reentry housing.
• 30:25
  But there's a shortage across Marion County. And sorry, y'all,
• 30:29
  like I said, I just ran across this this morning. It was interesting.
• 30:32
  And apparently it's not just her. There's 14 other organizers across Marion
• 30:37
  County who have run out of money.
• 30:39
  So this is for people who struggle with addiction and whatnot?
• 30:42
  People who've gotten out of prison.
• 30:44
  Okay. So something like a halfway house. Okay. For the most part.
• 30:47
  Okay. And she said that all of the organizations just learned that the program was ending yesterday.
• 30:58
  They found out yesterday that they're not getting their next round of money.
• 31:04
  So when is it over? When is it?
• 31:08
  The grant program is completely out of money right now. Oh, so the termination date has come and gone.
• 31:16
  So they found out yesterday, hey, there's no more money. You're not getting
• 31:21
  your next round of funding.
• 31:24
  Wow. Oh, so immediately these people are going to be.
• 31:29
  So, you know what that means? If they're sex offenders and they're living there,
• 31:33
  now they have to find housing.
• 31:36
  And trust me, this isn't an old woe is me for sex offenders.
• 31:39
  I'm just, this was featured in the article.
• 31:43
  So they're going to have to find somewhere to go. They're going to have to find jobs.
• 31:47
  They can't live by schools, you know, in certain other areas.
• 31:50
  So what does that mean? That means that not just sex offenders,
• 31:54
  but the other people who are trying to get re-acclimated into society now have nothing.
• 31:59
  So where does that put them? Either homeless or right back in jail.
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  It's a business. Yep. It's crazy.
• 32:08
  It's crazy, man. And it always funnels back to money in the end.
• 32:17
  Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. You know what?
• 32:22
  Got you got anything else on that no no that was it okay cool you
• 32:26
  know when when when we spoke earlier this week i told
• 32:29
  you that because everything was so heavy that
• 32:31
  i didn't want to do a rart this week i changed my mind because things are so
• 32:38
  heavy i think we need to just lighten things up because it's just like it's
• 32:44
  enough to make you cry so with that being said I am going to do a RART this week.
• 32:51
  Yes, it's that time for everyone's favorite topic, the RART,
• 32:56
  where we rant about a random topic.
• 33:00
  And as we go into the spooky season,
• 33:05
  if you still celebrate Halloween, if you take your kids trick-or-treating,
• 33:11
  I encourage everyone to be extremely careful and to be safe.
• 33:17
  My personal opinion, I think trick-or-treating should be outlawed.
• 33:22
  But that's just me. But that's not my rart. I mean my rart.
• 33:26
  I want to rart about horror movies. Are you a horror movie fan?
• 33:31
  Not in the last 15-20 years. They just... Not as good as they used to be.
• 33:38
  No, I agree. I was going to say something, but I don't want to because I think
• 33:41
  you're going to say what I was about to say.
• 33:43
  I don't want to steal your thunder. Well, well, well, maybe and maybe not.
• 33:47
  So when we were kids, we had Michael Myers, Halloween.
• 33:51
  We had Freddy Krueger, Never on Elm Street. We had Jason, Friday the 13th. Pinhead. Pinhead.
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  Nightmare. Hell, Hell, Hellraiser movies. Yep.
• 34:04
  Here's what as an adult, as a kid, this would have never, ever entered my mind.
• 34:10
  Mind as an adult jason voorhees
• 34:14
  basically a zombie right he
• 34:19
  was basically i mean he he died at the end of every movie and came back right
• 34:24
  he's basically a mutant did jason voorhees have soaking water bro so my point
• 34:30
  being how in the hell does jason voorhees sneak up on anyone i I mean, because I,
• 34:37
  again, as a kid, I've never thought about this. You're just like, oh, this is scary.
• 34:41
  As an adult, I'm going, man, wouldn't you be able to smell this dude like before
• 34:45
  he even. Two blocks away. Right.
• 34:47
  Especially in the woods where the air is clean and fresh. You're like.
• 34:52
  Something died. Yeah, something stank. What is that?
• 34:58
  I mean, dude could never sneak up on me. You'd be like.
• 35:03
  Did you fart? Like, what's that smell, bro? He should never be able to sneak
• 35:07
  up on anyone. And then the whole walking, because he never ran.
• 35:11
  Like, dude, ain't no way you're going to catch me just walking through these
• 35:14
  woods. I don't care how good you know.
• 35:16
  There was a somebody did a skit I saw years ago, and it was talking about what Jason does off camera.
• 35:24
  And it was somebody running and tripping and falling. And then they put the
• 35:28
  camera on Jason and then the camera would swing around. And then another camera
• 35:32
  would show Jason and he'd be on like a motorcycle or in a car,
• 35:36
  like driving really fast. Yeah. Yeah.
• 35:39
  Yeah. Yeah. It just. Yeah. When you when you when you look back at it,
• 35:44
  you just go, man, we love these movies.
• 35:47
  We were scared of these movies like these movies make absolutely no sense.
• 35:54
  The last halloween spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't seen it they finally
• 36:02
  did what they should have done from the get-go they took michael myers and they
• 36:08
  threw him in a wood chipper,
• 36:10
  gone you're not coming back this time buddy like why didn't you guys do that
• 36:16
  30 years ago So I didn't watch it, but that sounds stupid to me. And here's why.
• 36:22
  They could have cut his head off 30 years ago, too. Yes.
• 36:26
  Right. But it I don't know, man. I don't want to speak on something.
• 36:31
  I watch the movie and talk trash about it. I ain't seen it. But you've seen
• 36:36
  enough of them. I mean, they're all the same.
• 36:38
  I've seen enough of them. But it's when I saw it was another one coming. I was like, oh, cool.
• 36:43
  Yeah, I won't be watching that shit. He finally kills Jamie Lee Curtis,
• 36:48
  whatever his obsession, fascination was with her.
• 36:52
  He finally kills her. Well, she was his sister. Yeah.
• 36:56
  He finally kills Jamie Lee Curtis.
• 36:59
  But the town folk gather him up. They like set him up somehow.
• 37:05
  I said they take him to a wood chipper and they completely destroy his body.
• 37:10
  To the end of
• 37:13
  excuse me the end of michael myers and i'm
• 37:16
  just like yeah until 2028 when
• 37:19
  you see another michael myers it'll be it'll come
• 37:22
  out that he had a child when he well well they they kind of already set that
• 37:28
  in motion it's not a child it's a kinfolk though but at least they got rid of
• 37:34
  him which they could have done a long time ago so so that's my right bro as
• 37:39
  we go into the Halloween season, you know,
• 37:42
  just go back and you got some spare time, watch some of these old classic horror
• 37:46
  movies and realize just how bad they are.
• 37:50
  So what I was going to say is the reason why I don't care for today's scary movie is,
• 37:58
  Every single movie is just about demons. Everyone.
• 38:03
  I watched that movie. What is it called? The Lady in the Yard.
• 38:08
  Okay, yeah. I haven't watched it yet, but I know exactly what you're talking about. Turned it off.
• 38:12
  13 and a half minutes into the movie. It was that bad? I'm just like,
• 38:15
  I already know what this is. That was the black family, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay.
• 38:20
  Of course, that movie should have only been 13 and a half minutes because the
• 38:22
  first time you look out and see somebody, who is this in the yard?
• 38:25
  Right. I'm calling the police.
• 38:30
  And if the police pull up If the police pull up and she does something to them
• 38:35
  Oh I'm a ghost Right I'm getting little I'm out Okay Alright,
• 38:43
  So not watching Lady in the yard That would not be reviewed on 5 in the Black But,
• 38:50
  I will still go back and watch Even though as an adult It still like makes my
• 38:56
  skin crawl the first time I saw Pinhead,
• 39:02
  and the scene in Nightmare on Elm Street when Freddie was walking down the alley.
• 39:07
  Oh, with the arms? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 39:10
  Because you know, behind our houses growing up, our alleys looked like that.
• 39:14
  So I'm like, oh, I ain't taking the trash out ever again.
• 39:17
  You know which one got to me, bro, was Candyman, the first Candyman. Oh, yeah.
• 39:23
  Especially being that they were in Caprini Green. This is way too close to home. That's 17 miles.
• 39:30
  Man, I can look. We can get to Cabrini Green in 22 minutes. Right,
• 39:34
  right, right. That's too close. Right.
• 39:37
  Yeah, rest in power, Tony Todd. Yeah.
• 39:41
  Yeah, that one got me. So anyway, that's my work, bro.
• 39:45
  You got something you want to add for your work? I don't. Not today.
• 39:49
  I don't have one, unfortunately.
• 39:51
  All right, all right. Cool, cool. Not a problem at all.
• 39:54
  Let's get into our five on the black hand side movie review you go ahead and
• 40:02
  start alright so today we're going to review the.
• 40:09
  I don't know. We're going to review House Party, the original House Party,
• 40:13
  not the remake that came out a few years ago by LeBron and those guys.
• 40:19
  We're not we're not even going to count that one. Actually, it was just that bad.
• 40:24
  No, we're going to review the original House Party starring Kid and Play,
• 40:30
  Tisha Campbell, the late, great Robin Harris,
• 40:35
  the late, great John Witherspoon, a full
• 40:38
  force what was the dark haired girl name
• 40:41
  aj yeah uh not dark hair
• 40:44
  dark skin i'm sorry tyrese's mama from baby boy yeah yeah yeah aj something
• 40:49
  i'm sorry y'all i always forget her name martin lauren's breakout role and a
• 40:55
  host of cameos so the movie is about two kids two teenagers, I shouldn't say kids,
• 41:03
  two teenagers who decide to throw a house party because one of their parents
• 41:09
  is gone out of town for the weekend.
• 41:12
  And kid gets into a fight at school, gets beat up by three grown ass men.
• 41:21
  So he's in trouble. So he has to sneak out to get to the party.
• 41:28
  Hilarity ensues with him sneaking out, with him on his way to the party, and then when him,
• 41:36
  when, when him, my goodness, when he gets to the party, when he gets to the
• 41:41
  party and just all of the fun and chaos that happens at a house party. Classic.
• 41:50
  So many moments in this movie, so many catchphrases in this movie.
• 41:57
  Like I just said, it's a classic. That remake they made a few years ago totally
• 42:03
  does not do justice to the original House Party.
• 42:07
  But a few things about House Party that touched me personally.
• 42:13
  Witherspoon that's so my pops screaming out of that window telling all the kids
• 42:19
  to be quiet that's my pops to a t their bedroom was right there at the front of the house,
• 42:26
  and i've seen my pop scream out that window at
• 42:30
  kids telling them to be quiet and i'm just like oh my god they know my daddy
• 42:34
  i'm like wow they based this character off my daddy but the funniest thing about
• 42:40
  House Party to me is trying to make us believe that full force were in high school.
• 42:48
  That was the funniest thing in the whole movie because all three of them were like 45 and up.
• 42:54
  The second funniest part is the gear. Now I understand it was 1990.
• 43:01
  We wore some crazy stuff in the 80s and 90s. We did.
• 43:06
  But my man had the shirt with the whole neck cut out. Yeah. All his chest is out. Yeah.
• 43:14
  Like, bro, you in high school. They let you walk around with your whole chest out.
• 43:19
  With some slacks on and some Jordans. Oh, yeah.
• 43:26
  His brother got on some slacks and a workout tank top. And the other brother
• 43:32
  never took his hat off. Yeah.
• 43:34
  Yeah. Walk around the school with a hat on. Yeah. How fast somebody snatched
• 43:38
  the hat off your head. Yeah. Especially when we were kids. Yeah.
• 43:41
  Teachers wasn't having it. Yeah.
• 43:43
  Yeah. Yeah. I'm just like, man, these dudes are all 45.
• 43:47
  And don't get me wrong, kid and play were probably in their 30s in house party or close to 30.
• 43:54
  Nah, they were still pretty young. But to try and make us believe that full
• 43:59
  force were still in high school, it's just like, oh my God, are you serious?
• 44:05
  Is like, who did the casting for this movie?
• 44:10
  The great thing about that movie is that it helped. And you're right.
• 44:15
  Wow, Kid was 26. Mm-hmm. And Play was 28. See, I thought they were like 22, 23 at the time.
• 44:24
  Yo, that is wild. Yeah. Yeah, bro.
• 44:28
  Yeah. What was great about that movie, and I'm sure we'll talk about this at
• 44:34
  some point in the future, is how many great spinoffs of other things. Yeah.
• 44:40
  That they did. Yeah. We grew up with Kid and Play Cartoons. Yep.
• 44:44
  Class Act. Yep. Which was great. Yep.
• 44:48
  Add Bernie Mac into it. Yep. Eventually. Yep. Renaldo. It launched a lot of
• 44:53
  careers, actually. Absolutely.
• 44:55
  Chris Tucker. Yep. Appearance was in House Party 3.
• 44:59
  Bernie Mac. You had the little immature group. Mm-hmm.
• 45:04
  TLC were just starting to blow up. so TLC got you know a little bit of a shine
• 45:11
  what's my man that played Ezell,
• 45:15
  oh also AJ yeah AJ is his last name Johnson or is that her name her name her
• 45:21
  name she's AJ Johnson okay,
• 45:23
  what is his name anyway yeah but you know he's he he's the one who Robin Harris
• 45:30
  talks about his curl oh yeah in house party three uh-huh he's the criminal that caters the party.
• 45:38
  But he played in two different characters.
• 45:42
  Dude, the interactions,
• 45:46
  with them paying for the food and not having the money with Bernie Mac.
• 45:51
  Dante used to quote that movie all the time.
• 45:56
  Especially when that fool had that meat cleaver running across his head. Yeah, man.
• 46:03
  Classic, classic film, man. We had so many catchphrases like, I smell.
• 46:11
  Now, let's take it back and bring a full circle for you.
• 46:16
  Had a brother who was literally the DJ the DJ of all house parties in Hammond, Indiana. Yeah.
• 46:25
  Everywhere. Yeah. Now we lived in East Hammond, but it didn't matter if it was
• 46:30
  over by the Renaissance, Columbia Center.
• 46:33
  Yeah. Everybody was calling your brother. Yeah. So seeing that in the movie, we lived it. Yeah.
• 46:41
  Trying to make that equipment fit. man
• 46:44
  in the trunk with that big old that speaker
• 46:48
  yep yep man i lived all of that man carrying in
• 46:51
  the records all of that which was like my free invitation to the
• 46:54
  party and just like i'm with him i ain't paying even though
• 46:57
  you're charged with two three dollars to get in just like
• 46:59
  i ain't paying yeah i'm carrying in the records and
• 47:02
  then you just hang out yeah i remember i remember
• 47:06
  my was my 16th birthday i think
• 47:09
  it may have been the 16th and he did man them damn crates was so
• 47:11
  heavy oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
• 47:14
  it was it was it was it was a job it was
• 47:18
  a job good old days the
• 47:21
  good old days so uh what do we want to rate oh the the as high as we can rate
• 47:27
  it yeah definitely two high fives on the black hand side for house party the
• 47:34
  original i gotta repeat that go watch the original You know,
• 47:40
  I don't want to sit here and quote all the jokes and give it away if you haven't
• 47:43
  seen it, but go watch the original.
• 47:45
  It is a laugher from beginning to end and it aged well.
• 47:51
  All of the jokes are still relevant today. Got a question. I have no proof of
• 47:56
  this, but it's a good question to ask.
• 48:00
  House Party was 1990. OK. When did Fresh Prince of Bel-Air come out?
• 48:04
  Ninety four, ninety five, something like that.
• 48:08
  Similaries. Funny you say that. Just, I mean, just, just funny you say that.
• 48:14
  Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was supposed to be a kid in play show.
• 48:19
  Kid was supposed to be the wheel character. Yeah, because he said it on Breakfast
• 48:23
  Club, wasn't it? Something like that.
• 48:24
  And play was supposed to be the jazz character.
• 48:28
  They got mad because NBC canceled their cartoon.
• 48:34
  So they were like, y'all canceling our cartoon, then we don't want to do your show.
• 48:39
  That show turned out to be Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Talk about a mistake.
• 48:48
  Man because at that time now
• 48:51
  obviously true hip-hop heads know who kid and play is you
• 48:54
  know herbie lovebug and all those but kid and play would have been i mean because
• 48:59
  they were it yeah they were the it group and you know come out of as far as
• 49:05
  hip-hop at that time to make that crossover into mainstream acting you know
• 49:11
  they were one of the first yeah and then of course Plus, you got Full Force,
• 49:14
  who was producing music for everybody. Everybody, yeah.
• 49:17
  From Madonna to Lisa Lisa. A whole lot of writing credits. Yeah.
• 49:21
  A lot of people don't know about. Sure. Yeah.
• 49:24
  So it's, yeah, you're right. Talking about a mistake. Yep. Yep.
• 49:28
  Yep. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air could have been Kid and Play.
• 49:32
  Looking back at it, I don't know if it would have been the same show,
• 49:35
  but, hey, only, well, I shouldn't say time to tell, but I guess too late. Too late for us to tell.
• 49:44
  I mean, hey, it looks like them and them brothers doing good.
• 49:47
  I'm sure they all right. They all right. Yeah.
• 49:50
  All right. So I guess it's time now for the closing monologue.
• 49:55
  My brother, the floor is yours. I appreciate it.
• 49:59
  So today I want to talk about something that's going on.
• 50:03
  We briefly touched on today's episode, but the title of this monologue is The
• 50:08
  Weaponization We've Always Known.
• 50:12
  So watch the news lately. You see an ice rounding up brown people again,
• 50:18
  pulling people from their homes, their jobs.
• 50:21
  Families are being split up. And what really stands out is how it's being done.
• 50:27
  It's not quiet. It's loud and it's on camera. It's almost like a show, a reality show.
• 50:35
  But the people are paying the
• 50:36
  price. This administration seems to treat enforcement like entertainment.
• 50:41
  Fear has turned into a headline. Pain has turned into performance.
• 50:45
  The thing is, it's not new. It's just being broadcast differently.
• 50:50
  For black and brown communities, this kind of government outreach,
• 50:53
  you know, organizations such as the FBI, the DEA, Border Patrol in the South and ICE.
• 50:59
  It's something we've known for generations.
• 51:02
  We've seen leaders targeted, families torn apart, neighborhoods destroyed,
• 51:07
  all under three words, law and order.
• 51:10
  Now that the same machinery is starting to reach beyond those communities,
• 51:14
  people are suddenly shocked.
• 51:16
  But for us, this is a story we've already been we've already known by heart.
• 51:20
  And maybe that's the part that stings the most. Watching people act surprised.
• 51:26
  Because the truth is, this didn't start yesterday. It's been happening quietly
• 51:30
  and consistently for decades.
• 51:33
  So if folks are finally waking up to it now, good.
• 51:36
  But let's start that conversation with honesty. The weaponization of government
• 51:41
  didn't begin with this administration.
• 51:43
  It's just finally being filmed in high definition.
• 51:47
  All right, y'all, we're going to leave it there.
• 51:51
  We want to thank y'all for tuning in to another episode of For The Fan Podcast.
• 51:57
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• 52:03
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• 52:09
  We're slipping on that. But we're going to actively start posting the blue sky.
• 52:14
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• 52:18
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• 52:21
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• 52:26
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• 52:28
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  Let us know what you think. Yeah. Let us know where we can get better. Absolutely.
• 53:08
  All right. Cool. Well, I'm Six Mill keeping it true. It's your boy KG.
• 53:13
  And we'll holler at y'all next time. Peace.