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Ep. 36 - Liquor stores & food deserts · 4DAFAM

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Welcome to episode 36 of for the fam podcast,
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i'm at a loss so it's funny you say that we got celtic shack we got marcus smart you know what,
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Let's go with Rasheed Wallace. Rasheed Wallace. I'll take Rah-Rah because I'm
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like, who in the hell can he pick at 36? Paul Silas.
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Okay. That's a good one. That's a good one. Or Kevon Looney.
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He more briefly. Let's stick with Rasheed Wallace.
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Tom Thomas. Let's stick with Rasheed Wallace.
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Yes. Hey, bro, this list I'm looking at is. Terrible. It's crazy some of the
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people that have worn 36.
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Other than the brothers on here, the only one I know is Dave Cowens.
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Yeah, all week I'm just like 36, 36, 36 like nobody wears 36.
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I couldn't even think of nobody in football. Right.
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Hell, well, definitely not hockey, but football or nothing. Yeah,
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it's really just one of those numbers. So, yeah, you're right.
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Rasheed Wallace it is, bro.
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That is the pick. Anyway, what are we going to get into today?
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So today we want to talk about liquor stores in the black community.
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Uh-huh. Why there's so many of them. And we'll touch on several different,
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you know, from liquor stores, banks, grocery stores, etc.
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But the main topic is liquor stores.
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All right. So...
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Here's what I want you guys to do, because we we we won't have much quantitative,
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data to support these claims that we're going to make.
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Not because it's inaccurate, but because only a few people have actually done the studies on this.
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So we'll we'll have some stats and we'll try and remember to name the sources.
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But most of this is just things that we know from lived experience. Mm hmm.
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So if you don't believe me and you just happen to live in a black neighborhood
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or black community or you live close to a black neighborhood or black community.
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Just pay attention next time you're driving through to how many liquor stores you actually see.
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You'll be shocked and you'll recognize and realize that we are not making this up,
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when we say that there is a big disparity between the amount of liquor stores
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in black neighborhoods slash communities versus white neighborhoods. Can I give you a brief?
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Yeah. Statistic. Yeah. So there was a there's a study done on Oakland.
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One in every two hundred ninety eight residents in the black community.
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That's how many liquor stores. One for every two hundred ninety eight.
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Now, we know how big Oakland is.
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You think about that in the white area, Piedmont.
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One every three thousand. Yeah. Basically, it's like a one to three,
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one to four ratio between black neighborhoods and white neighborhoods when you
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look at it as far as liquor stores.
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And and listen, not going to sit here and pretend like I don't drink.
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My my my bro KG does not drink. I still think that's amazing.
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I occasionally do have a drink. I'm more of a social drinker.
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So I'm not going to just sit here and like poo-poo on, you know,
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liquor in itself or alcohol use in itself. I'm not going to do that.
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But we will on the business model. Well, yeah, I mean, because...
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The easy access, and listen, we're not going to claim that anyone is forcing
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someone else to take a drink.
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We're not making that claim at all, but the easy access definitely contributes
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to the deviancy or, excuse me, delinquency, if you will, of the black community.
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You know, and just like to get personal, where we grew up.
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There were liquor stores smack dab in the middle of the neighborhood.
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I mean, like within walking distance.
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We had friends who lived either next door to the liquor store,
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across the street from the liquor store, down the block from the liquor store.
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I mean, it was right there smack dab in the middle of the hood.
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So for those that are listening, imagine wherever you live right now.
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Imagine your street one block.
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Take four houses out in the middle of the block and leave that as an empty lot
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and imagine a liquor store with a parking lot yep sitting in the middle of your block yep,
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and then we had that we had that and if you went down the street about a mile
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or so you ran into another liquor store if you went the other direction about
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a mile you'd run into another liquor store.
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Or a corner store that sells beer.
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Correct. And I wish I was making this up, but really I'm not.
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And we knew a couple of, on Sundays for those that didn't want to drive out,
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to State Line, there was some people in the neighborhood selling cold beer, bootlegging.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and.
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The main point I think that we want you guys to take from this discussion is,
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If you live in a predominantly white neighborhood, you have to drive to the liquor store.
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There is no walking to the liquor store when you live in a white neighborhood.
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You literally have to get in your vehicle and drive as opposed to being in a
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black neighborhood where it's just easy access.
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And think about it like this. If you think that is not an issue.
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Let's say you got a hankering for some ice cream in the middle of the night.
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If you got some in the freezer, you're probably going to go eat that ice cream.
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As opposed to if you got to get in your vehicle and drive to get that ice cream.
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You're probably going to go.
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Yeah, I didn't need it anyway. Even if it's only a half mile away.
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Like now I'm cool. Exactly. And that's the issue is to eat.
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Excuse me. Let me get a sip of water. Go ahead, my brother. And the crazy thing
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is, is that studies done at Duke show that white Americans consume way more
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alcohol than black Americans. Correct.
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Correct. So for me, when I saw that, I immediately thought to myself,
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I thought back to when Double Deuces got real popular. Yeah.
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Think about how many of those, how many people that we knew personally would
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buy three or four of them a day.
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It's a constant into the in and out, in and out, in and out.
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It's designed to keep you coming back. Mm hmm. Without a doubt.
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Without a doubt. And I'm glad you touched on the fact that the alcohol consumption
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for black people isn't higher because that's also what someone would probably,
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look at this and say, well, because they drink more.
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Absolutely not true. And again, this this is not about alcohol consumption in that way.
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I mean, because everyone drinks white people, black people, Asians,
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Hispanics, everyone drinks. So so this is this.
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What in the world? This is not about alcohol consumption as it relates to a matter of race.
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This is about the easy access of the alcohol and how it can just lead to domestic violence.
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Things of that nature, you know, fights, guns, which the easy access to guns is also an issue.
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So that's that's what what we want to highlight here is I don't want to be a
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conspiracy theorist and say that this is by design,
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that this is purposely done to negatively impact the black community.
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But when you look at all of the factors and the circumstances,
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I mean, it's just hard to get away from it. So I'm going to add on to that.
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Historically, richer neighborhoods have used zoning laws to stop these things
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from happening. Now, the reason my brother just said it's not about race is trust and believe.
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If somebody gets paid the right amount of money or zoning laws change,
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they will start popping up everywhere.
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Now, they might not get utilized as much and go out of business a lot faster, but they will go up.
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Yeah. And so basically, the number to give a brief stat is like seven to eight
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more times likely to be put,
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in a black neighborhood as opposed to a white neighborhood because of the zoning
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laws, because of redlining, because of disinvestment.
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Basically, the land is cheap.
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So put a liver store here. And they're not concerned about property value because
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the reason they do the zoning laws in the rich communities is to observe this
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so-called, well, this is a Christian community, so we don't want a bunch of alcohol.
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It's the same reason zoning laws keep out strip clubs and adult stores and things of that nature.
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For sure. We don't want this in our community. Correct. Even though we probably
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consume more of this than anyone else.
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Correct. Correct. Correct. Right. It is is is almost like gentrification for businesses.
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Kind of. I mean, you know, come
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in, get the land cheap, except you don't build it up to push people out.
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You just build it up to exploit the community. And speaking of exploitation,
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it is always dumbfounded me that you cash a check at a liquor store.
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So i work my you know i'll just use what my father worked for almost 40 years light and gas company,
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this was before direct deposit i'm saying had i've deposited a check for him
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at the bank before i couldn't imagine with the type of money he was making at
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that time walking into an l and cash me.
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That's dumbfounding to me. The first thing I would say now, especially as an
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adult, what are you doing?
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You about to walk out with all that money in your hand? No. You know what you're
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going to do? You're going to spend about $100 of it.
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Get you a bottle. Get you a couple cases of beer. Get you a couple packs of
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cigarettes when he smoked a lot.
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It's designed to exploit. It is. Walk into a rich community, especially here.
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Carmel, Fisher's, and talking about, yeah, I need to cash should check there
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laugh your ass up out of there yeah yeah yeah and i mean this is maybe we can
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something we can get into,
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with jeremy when we if we ever talk to him about banking and like how they basically
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discriminated as far as giving people bank accounts savings accounts checking accounts,
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huh um something else i wanted to touch on with this which is absolutely crazy
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to me Now, when you talk about all of the information that we've presented thus far.
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Three to four times more liquor stores in black neighborhoods versus white neighborhoods.
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The crazy thing is black neighborhoods are now becoming food deserts.
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So we got liquor stores all over the place.
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But there's nowhere to actually go and feed yourself, your family, etc.
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This is nuts to me. I mean, you may have a convenience store that may sell some
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outdated stuff with like a crazy markup on it, you know, but it's all like sodium rich chips,
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ramen noodles, you know, nothing that's really good for you.
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So I just found I find that also shocking that black communities are filled
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with liquor stores and convenience stores that sell you junk.
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But yet there's no grocery stores in black communities.
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So I'm going to take a step away from the black community for one second.
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So my previous job, as you know, took me all over the place.
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I was at that job a little bit over five years as a driver, as a manager,
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as a regional manager, whatever.
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I watched the local grocery stores and some of those small rural communities
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out in white neighborhoods combine. I mean, decline year after year after year.
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The second a Dollar General went into place. Interesting.
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Every single time. Did you know that there are places like Tulsa,
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Kansas City and Fort Worth are trying to ban dollar stores?
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Because people are like grocery shopping at dollar stores? Because it brings
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down it draws people away from the grocery store.
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I watched the shelves just go bearer and bearer at some of those rural grocery
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stores. Two or three of them closed completely.
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Our orders that we used to take in would go from 50 cases down to 30.
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Well, they go from two deliveries a week down to one every other week.
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They have enough items in a Dollar General where you can actually grocery shop?
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Oh, yeah. Really? Oh, yeah. But it goes to what you just said.
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It's sodium enriched items. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm like, can you get like
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some ground beef or like some chicken breast at Dollar General? Oh, bro. Really?
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Shit, 16, 20 feet. There's one on the east side. Well, no, that will close.
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But there was one on the east side that closed down before I left the previous company.
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So, man, they had 24 feet of freezer space.
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Interesting. I've never. Shrimp. Everything. This Dollar General down here,
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I've never even paid attention, bro. Yep.
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Shrimp. Ground beef. Hot dogs. The whole shebang. Bread. Everything.
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But you know what you can't find?
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Fresh fruit. Mm-mm.
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I can't go in there and buy. Fresh veggies, fresh fruit. Yeah.
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So, yeah, that's one of the big issues. That's interesting.
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And people don't even pay attention to it. They see a new shiny thing pop up
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in their community and they start shopping there. Next time I'm in there,
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I'm going to check and see what's in those freezers. You can fill up a whole
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cart in there. And the only thing that you would have to go somewhere else to get is your meat.
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You know, fish, chicken, ground beef. But you can buy cereal,
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canned goods, seasonings, everything your house would need.
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Except for like, well, no, I take that back. They do have the ground beef and
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everything. It's in the frozen section.
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Man, you got me wanting to go down there right now and take a look.
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That is so interesting, bro. But it's the new shiny thing.
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Which is contributing to the food deserts. Yep. Wow. Whereas for me,
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I enjoy going into those old-ass grocery stores and shopping.
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Every time I saw them or whenever I would deliver to them, I have to visit them.
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I'd always end up spending money in there.
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Because a lot of those places had the small, like in the back,
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like you can buy lunch, mac and cheese, green beans, whatever.
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You know, Dollar General ain't offering that.
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That is crazy. Yeah, I'm definitely going to try and remember next time I'm in there.
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Yeah, that's nuts, bro. Yep, they moved to those areas to specifically target.
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Those small businesses. Well, it's funny you say that about Dollar General because
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some liquor stores are also becoming de facto grocery stores as well.
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Yeah, they are selling, I said, all of the chips and bread and all the other
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kind of stuff that not healthy for you, but something that at least fill your belly temporarily.
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So, yeah, that's another thing is that, yeah, it's one stop.
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You go get a drink and get you some bread and, yeah.
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Yeah, it's crazy. The state that we live in, I mean, we're children of the 80s.
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So none of this was around when we were kids.
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And now it's just like, it's so prevalent. It's just, it's nuts.
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Even though we didn't, like I said, there were a lot of liquor stores in the
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neighborhood where we grew up.
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Because I don't want to call it the hood because it really wasn't the hood when
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we were kids in the neighborhood that we grew up in.
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Bro, we got pictures of me when
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I was like three or four. We had a white picket fence in the backyard.
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Bro, look, my block was majority white until I was probably 17, 18 years old.
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It was probably more white people on my block than black people. Yeah.
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But we had a grocery store. I mean, it wasn't directly in the hood,
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but everyone knew where Burgers was.
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Then later became Sterks. You know, that was my father's first job.
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Straight up. 1967. Straight up. He was a bagger at burgers before he got drafted.
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That's crazy. And then, of course, I started working there.
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Yeah. But yeah, yeah, yeah. So so we had that. You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah. We would have to drive to Highland to go to Altra or something like that or Audi.
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Worked that, too. Yeah. But but, you know, there was a means burger where it
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was walking distance. Was it a long walk? Yes.
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But it was walking distance. But that was back in the time when everybody was always outside.
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So walking those 13 blocks, you were going to run into cousins, friends, or a ride.
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You was going to run into somebody. Or you was going to run into somebody that would get your ride.
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Get your ass to the car. Yeah. The only thing I would think is like,
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you know, trying to walk all that way with a bag full of groceries would be kind of.
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But then there was also the bus that ran up and down Calumet,
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no, Columbia all day, every day. Which y'all did.
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Yeah, so it's just foreign and.
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I just I wonder if there is a link between like all of these new cancers that
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have been popping up all over the over the last, what, 10, 15 years,
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you know, another cancer for this and cancer for that. And now this cause is cancer.
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And I wonder if it's related to all of these. I'm getting way off topic here.
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But if it's related to all of these sodium filled products in these dollar generals
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and, you know, these liquor stores that's selling just crap to the communities. I wonder.
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You and I had the sodium conversation, what, last week? Yeah.
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And like I told you, whenever I do- When we finished recording last week, actually. Yeah, yeah.
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Because whenever I do, which is very rare, have ramen at home,
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I don't even use the package anymore. I use a little bit of unsalted butter,
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a little bit of pepper. That's it.
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Because, man, at this age, man, my ankles will swell up like crazy. Oh, man.
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The high blood pressure, all of that. So anything else you want to add to this
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discussion about black liquor stores or liquor stores in the black community?
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No, I think we're good on that. All right, cool.
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We're going to transition right into our current events.
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You got a current event you want to get into, my brother? I got two.
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All right, cool. But I'll make them quick.
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So I want to add more to the comedy of last week in the reflection pool, reflective pool.
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So I did a little more research because I felt like I thought I knew about one
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thing that I mentioned. And I'm like, OK, I said that wrong. I didn't know that.
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So there were cracks in the granite.
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That helped the water leak out, et cetera, et cetera.
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When you seal the pool, as you said, there's a reason it was the color it was. Right.
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When you seal the pool and basically heat it up with the sun and fresh water,
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not the same water, fresh water, that is what causes the algae.
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Now, that's not the funny part. so you're telling me,
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somebody leaned over in the pool for 350 feet like leaned over because that's
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exactly what you'd have to do or you had to be on the scooter on a skateboard
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i would i was thinking a wetsuit and you're underwater right,
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and it's between one and three feet deep.
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And they took a box cutter for 350 feet and damaged puncture proof material
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correct it makes no sense but what's funny about that,
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a week prior he was bragging about how indestructible the material was he was
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saying you couldn't cut it,
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so now someone took a box cutter and cut it bro which is it for 300 and then,
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what piss and i'm really glad people here in indianapolis chimed in on it and
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i'm gonna check and see if they took it down wthr posted that video that they've
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been posting that zoom in or that guy like reaching in the water and they're
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saying he was the guy that cut it,
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man them comments ripped wthr partners like quit posting this fake ass shit,
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oh it was an ai generated video no no it's but that's not the reason that the pool is peeling,
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but they're chiming right into it like, oh,
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they're putting this out that this is the guy that did it.
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So they're sharing the video. Man, people ate them up in the damn comments.
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Well, what was it? Six people who got arrested? I think so.
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All of them are going to walk. Yeah.
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You can't tell me that there is video footage of these people actually vandalizing the pool.
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Or, judging by what fascists have done for hundreds and hundreds of years,
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those six people probably got $500 in their hand.
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After being handcuffed and taken somewhere, it probably was sent on home.
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Interesting. Kind of like the guy from Butler. I mean, we will talk about that
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another day. Interesting.
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So, yeah, it's funny. you say fascist because now they have,
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national guard i believe it is patrolling the area with an automated message
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playing fascist something that's supposed to be free to the general public you
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can't now isn't free you can't loiter,
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it's nuts absolutely fascist bro that you got armed troops patrolling the reflecting pool.
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But don't call them a fascist. Don't call this regime fascist,
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but they're doing everything that a fascist would do.
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But we're going to arrest you for speaking up. Man, kiss my ass.
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Go ahead, bro. So the second one.
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What the hell make this dude think somebody want a passport with his damn face
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on it standing above? Now, you see the original design was just his face.
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That stupid ass face.
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Now it's him standing over the resolute desk. Here's the funny part.
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In that passport book, it says, welcome, be good or something.
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People use their passport to leave here. Right. You're saying welcome.
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Welcome home? i guess when you leave you do have to show it to get back in but right,
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i don't know i don't i don't know bro all i can say is i'm glad mine don't expire
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for a while but here's the thing i'm gonna throw it out there for everybody
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that's saying to themselves well i'll wait to get a passport until he's gone,
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you have to seek these out you can get a regular passport,
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dude i went on that site immediately and started filling out looking to seek,
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you'd have to seek out that america first.
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250 nonsense ass. I couldn't imagine if that shit became universal and I got
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to walk around for 10 years with that shit in my...
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Again, fascist. What other president would even think to do something like that?
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Which is funny because Obama said recently, I didn't have time to think about
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that stuff because I was actually doing the job.
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Give it a year. You're going to start seeing people with this picture up in their homes.
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Oh, Lord. Hanging above the TV, which I'm sure some of them are already doing.
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Hell, some of them, you know, I ain't going to say that. This is a family show.
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People got blow up dials comforters man listen real quick i remember doing his
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first administration i was brushing my teeth turn the electric toothbrush off i was using uh.
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Floss the tv was on in the background and i heard get your trumpy bear like,
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what then i just came out the bathroom, turn the corner and look.
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Did you know during his first administration, there was a bear, a teddy bear.
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He wore a Make America Great Again hat. He had like a suit jacket on and it
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was called the Trumpy Bear.
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Never heard of it. $30. Interesting.
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Dude, they had dudes on motorcycles with it strapped to the back,
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the average everyday housewife or, you know, the kids hugging it.
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Trumpy Bear. Wow.
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Went right by me. Never even seen it, bro. Had no idea. Had I never seen that
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commercial, I would have never heard about it.
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But again, also part of the grift. Oh.
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Part of the grift. The guy is nothing but a grifter. Lifelong. Yes, sir.
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Were you finished with that, bro? Yep. All right, cool. For my current event,
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I'm going to talk about the primary results in New York and Maryland that happened earlier this week.
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And I'm going to bounce around, but it's all going to make sense.
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The first thing I want to talk about is the low voter turnout.
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Listen to me. The only way guys like Trump win is because we don't participate.
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We have to participate, y'all.
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The only reason why they're trying to make it harder to vote is because they
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realize if everyone votes, they lose.
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Their policies are crazy unpopular. All right.
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Yes, it seems like there's a lot of MAGA. Really, there isn't.
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They're a small majority. They're just loud.
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And they get all of the attention because the squeaky wheel gets to grease. That's it.
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It's a small portion, a small faction of these guys.
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But when we don't vote, we make it easy for these guys to,
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retain power or slide in and remove someone from office who probably wouldn't be as bad as these guys.
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So to talk about the mom, Donnie three, that one in New York,
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I'm seeing a lot of who cares what the Republicans think.
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I'm seeing a lot of Democrats like this is horrible for the Democrat Party.
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What is a Democratic socialist? This is bad for the brand. Shut the hell up. Shut up.
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This is what people want. Quit trying to be Republican light,
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because that's what a lot of you Democrats sound like. You're Republican light.
29:23
People want radical change. They want somebody who's going to say we're putting
29:31
all of them in jail if we get the opportunity because they deserve to be there.
29:37
I don't want to hear anything about weaponizing government when this guy has
29:41
done nothing but weaponize government in his second term.
29:45
I don't want to hear it. I don't be afraid to say the thing.
29:50
OK, say you're going after these guys. Say it.
29:55
Say it. Stand up on it. Say that you want Supreme Court justice reform or Supreme Court reform.
30:04
Say it because we need it. This Supreme Court is corrupt. Say the thing.
30:10
Say you're going to hold people accountable. Say you want to tax the billionaire class. Say it.
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Say it all. Quit running from your shadows. Quit. Listen, listen, listen, listen.
30:24
You're never going to convince those hardcore Republicans to vote Democrat.
30:30
You're not. Forget about them.
30:33
Quit trying to cater to them. Stop worrying about being too radical.
30:38
You can't be more radical than Trump. He says the most idiotic shit and everyone
30:43
tries to make sense of it for knowing that is bullshit.
30:47
And then they try and make sense of it. Stop being afraid to say the thing. Say it.
30:54
Everything that you think is radical is actually what the people want.
30:59
And if not, the three Mondani candidates would not have been elected this week.
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Say the damn thing. Stop being scared. All right.
31:11
This is why people stay home and you don't energize your base.
31:16
Because too many of you are tiptoeing around the real issues,
31:21
talk about it this is what people want stand up on it stand 10 toes down stop
31:27
being little girls stop trying to be a what's the word i'm looking for stop stop stop trying to uh,
31:35
use that same decorum argument that's out the window Trump.
31:40
Done punted all of that stuff to the moon.
31:43
Forget about the quorum. Say the thing, y'all. All right. I know I got kind
31:47
of emotional there, but I'm just.
31:50
Sick of it. I'm going to add one thing to it. And this is based on the true
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social post he made overnight. Well, somebody made because he didn't write that shit.
31:58
Socialism is not communism. At all.
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So for those that were raised to believe it was, like you and I, it is not.
32:10
There are two different things. And here we are again in 2026.
32:15
People are saying they're electing communists.
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What happened in the 40s and 50s? Same thing. When George Wallace running his
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mouth. They started labeling people communists. They were arresting politicians.
32:27
People lost their livelihoods being labeled a communist.
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That part, the labels. And here he is again.
32:36
There's another label that gets stamped a lot around the world this time that
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can ruin somebody's life. And I put that in the same category.
32:45
Labeling somebody anti-something when they're not. It's the same fucking thing.
32:50
The labels. We can't be afraid of the labels. And too many Democrats are afraid of the labels.
32:55
Listen, I'm going to do a little.
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I did a video about this on my YouTube page. Communism isn't bad.
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I think it's the title of it.
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It is. I break down the difference between communism, socialism and Marxism.
33:17
Go and check out that video and you will get a better understanding.
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But here's something also.
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We already have a partial socialistic economy. Always have.
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Always have. Always, bro. Social security, free public schools.
33:37
That's all socialism. OK, we already have it. Medicare, Medicaid.
33:44
Those are all socialist programs.
33:48
We're already living it.
33:51
So, again, Democrats, don't be afraid of the labels. Stand up on it.
33:56
Stand up on it. This is what people want. We're going to tax the billionaires.
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We're going to put the money to good use.
34:03
And if you listen to people say they pay the most taxes. OK,
34:07
yeah, monetarily they do.
34:10
But it's because they have more. But when you get down to the percentages,
34:15
that's different. The middle class pays more as far as a percentage than the super wealthy.
34:23
And that's why you hear Democrats talking about raising taxes.
34:28
No Democrat has ever said they want to raise taxes on the middle class.
34:33
Whenever you hear these guys talk about increasing taxes, it's always for the billionaire class.
34:39
And trust me, the whole this is going to trickle down to you. No, it's not.
34:43
No. If it does, then you know exactly where that billionaire stands.
34:49
No, it's not something else I want to talk about real quick.
34:52
But gosh, I'm all over the place today.
34:54
This went under the radar maybe a month ago, two months ago,
34:59
when the Supreme Court ruled that Trump's tariffs were illegal. Mm hmm.
35:05
Got the refund from that? I don't know if they've ever said it publicly,
35:11
but you know the corporations got the refund yeah, yeah, yeah,
35:14
yeah, yeah, the consumers did not get the refunds from Trump's illegal tariffs.
35:20
The corporations got refunded their money from the tariffs after they already
35:26
collected it from us after they've already collected it from us because the
35:29
majority of them did nothing but pass that tax on to the consumer.
35:34
So again And we pay and the billionaires got richer.
35:40
I'm just saying they need to pay more in taxes.
35:44
That's all I got on that, bro. My bad. No, it's all good.
35:51
That's it? Yeah. Oh, OK. I thought maybe you wanted to add something to that.
35:56
All right. All right. Cool. All right, y'all. Now that I'm done venting and
36:00
hyperventilating, I probably should move into or rant or rant about a random
36:07
topic, my favorite subject. My brother, you got to rant. Mm-hmm.
36:11
All right. Well, I'm going to let you go. I need to calm down because I'm probably
36:14
going to get emotional again when I do my rant.
36:17
So I had two things I wanted to rant about.
36:22
Made no sense. The other one did. But something came up a couple hours ago and
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I was like, that's what I'm going to talk about.
36:30
So I want to talk about parenting.
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You've been doing this right at 30 years. Me about about 28 and a half years.
36:42
I'm a divorced man. You are not.
36:46
I have never, and when I say never, I have never put anyone or anything above my children ever.
36:59
And there is not a person in my circle.
37:02
There's not a person who knows me that can say, oh yeah, there were times when
37:07
this happened and that happened. Never happened.
37:11
If my children were with my ex-wife and I had a date, I'm about to get into
37:16
something for the evening,
37:18
and something changed guess what i'm not getting in anything that's over with
37:23
correct it's done i don't want to hear that bullshit i need to live my life,
37:29
i need to do this we shouldn't have had children.
37:32
And don't give me that it's your turn it's my turn nonsense i'm going to use
37:38
an example kids were with the ex-wife all week matter of fact Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
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half of Sunday. Summertime.
37:49
This is a pass? Pass. Okay. Kids get dropped off. I think I was in the backyard cutting the grass.
37:56
She came around, turned off the lawnmower. Hey, I completely forgot.
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I'm going to come back and get.
38:05
Take her to a birthday party tomorrow. I forgot about it.
38:09
Did I say, you done had the kids for four days. It's my time.
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What time do you want her to be ready? Correct.
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What time do you want her to be ready? Yeah. Because I'm trying not to cuss.
38:22
So I'm going to be a punk and say you can't have that extra three or four hours
38:28
with her to take her to her friend's birthday party,
38:32
because I want to have her with me When, let's be real, she's probably going to be in her room,
38:39
or across the street playing with a friend.
38:42
I'm not even going to be spending that time with her. Most of the time it's
38:45
about just punishing the other. It's about punishing the other person.
38:47
Correct. And I'm going to say one last thing.
38:51
No money being given from either side is an invitation to keep that parent from
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seeing that child. Tell that to the courts.
39:01
No, no, no. I'm saying when the court does not designate. Because look,
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man, listen, when we went in that court, we had our divorce. We wrote our own decree.
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We got it notarized together.
39:13
And we told my exact words, your honor, no disrespect to your court.
39:18
But no state law is going to tell either one of us when we can and can't see
39:22
our children. Those were my exact words to the judge.
39:25
And the judge smiled and said, I can appreciate and respect that.
39:29
Just understand that if this this paper, if either of you start to violate this
39:34
paper, we're going to have to step in to make sure that those children are OK. Yeah.
39:40
Also respect, respected.
39:43
But the whole thing was brought up. Stop. The my turn parents pissed me off. I hear you.
39:49
Do your damn job. You both had the children. Do your damn job. I hear you.
39:53
I hear you. the unrelated but kind of related.
39:58
I've never understood the whole I'm going to take you to jail for not paying child support thing.
40:03
I never that never made sense to me because if I'm in jail, then I'm really
40:08
not paying child support.
40:10
One, I think you're kind of a punk ass.
40:14
If you have to get arrested to make you pay child support, I think you're kind
40:18
of a punk ass because like you said, it's just something that you should do.
40:21
But second, I don't get how arresting someone is going to help them make child support payments.
40:30
Those things seem contrary to me. And at the end of the day,
40:34
a lot of this stuff happens with the parents. And look, it doesn't just happen
40:37
to men. It happens to women as well, depending on where you are and depending on the situation.
40:41
Half of the time, those children are like two and three years old.
40:44
They don't know what type of money is being exchanged. All they give a damn
40:47
about is mommy me a daddy. I just want to be with mom and dad. Right. Right.
40:52
No, I get it. I get it. You finished with that, bro?
40:56
Yeah. Yeah. So for my right...
41:00
I want to talk about Cohen Wiley. I'm going to try and contain myself.
41:08
For those who don't know. Oh, Lord, have mercy. This was two weeks ago,
41:13
if I'm not mistaken, or getting close to two weeks.
41:17
A woman allegedly, I want to emphasize, allegedly.
41:24
Was stealing some pampers for her one year old son in Mississippi,
41:31
Sanitobia, Mississippi, to be to be exact.
41:35
Why do I say allegedly? Because Walmart did not accuse her of stealing.
41:43
Someone else did.
41:46
Walmart didn't detain her. Walmart security didn't take her in the back room and call the police.
41:53
Someone else called the police on this woman and accused her of stealing diapers.
42:03
As messed up as that sounds in itself, when the police arrived on the scene, multiple police,
42:13
they started shooting at the vehicle containing the woman and her one-year-old son.
42:22
They shot and killed a one-year-old child.
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Let that sink in. A one-year-old child, a baby, was killed.
42:40
Whether the mom was stealing the Pampers or not is pretty irrelevant at this point.
42:47
A one-year-old baby was killed, struck down by gunfire by a fucking police.
42:56
Make that make sense in any universe. I don't care what side of the aisle you stand on. A kid.
43:05
I'm sorry, y'all. No one. No one.
43:11
No one operates with immunity or impunity. It makes no sense.
43:19
He should be taken to jail immediately. At the scene. Give me your gun.
43:24
Put on these fucking handcuffs. You're going to jail.
43:28
No gun was found in the car. They try and claim that the woman was driving towards them.
43:34
Yet you have no injuries. You didn't get struck. You can get out the fucking way.
43:40
They killed a baby, y'all. There is no justification for that. None.
43:47
None. I don't care who you are. I don't care what side of the aisle you're on.
43:51
I don't care if you're black, white, orange, green, Republican,
43:54
Democrat. There's no justification for killing a fucking baby.
44:00
We need to change. We need to change, y'all.
44:04
If this doesn't touch your heart, then you are just a heartless son of a bitch.
44:10
Heaven help us all. That's my work.
44:14
All right y'all we're going to move into our five on the black hand side movie
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review and the movie we chose this week is sort of a sequel,
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to the movie we did last week Uptown Saturday Night this movie came out the
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following year called Let's Do It Again and again this is a Bill Cosby,
44:36
Sidney Poitier movie there are some recognizable faces from Uptown Saturday Night.
44:42
Zenobia is actually who's Lee Chamberlain.
44:46
That's her real name. She's actually Sidney Poitier's wife in this movie.
44:52
Calvin Lockhart, who was Silky Slim in Uptown Saturday Night,
44:56
is actually Biggie Smalls in this movie.
45:00
Were there any other carryovers, bro?
45:03
Not that I can think of. Okay, cool. This is 1975. Yeah.
45:11
We got James Amos in this movie. John Amos. John Amos. I'm sorry.
45:17
I'm thinking of good times.
45:20
Which is what most people will recognize him from as being James Evans on good
45:23
times. We got Jimmy Walker in this movie.
45:28
For those who are fans of the chronic, the $20 sack pyramid skit.
45:33
Remember Snoop's name was Bootney Lee Farnsworth. That's correct.
45:37
Absolutely. Also, wasn't one of Puff, that assistant guy that was working for
45:43
Puff, wasn't his name like Farnsworth Bickley? Farnsworth Bickley.
45:47
Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
45:51
Gosh, now my mind just went blank. You got the great mate Ozzie Davis in this movie. Yep.
45:58
George Foreman. George Foreman, a great cameo. That scene was just great.
46:04
Bill Cosby like, oh yeah, I'm about to fight. Let me just tell you something.
46:07
I love you. And a hugged him.
46:10
And a quick cameo. Hold on. By the incomparable Jane Kennedy. Yes, sir.
46:21
And they knew it we knew it and everyone watching knew it it's funny because
46:26
i haven't i haven't seen this movie in yeah forever yeah so re-watching it today,
46:32
when i saw her i was like oh i forgot she was in there yes yes yeah yes yeah
46:38
just just beauty personified,
46:41
that growing up she was,
46:44
her and Pam Greer,
46:48
were it.
46:49
Well, she broke the glass ceiling, basically becoming like the first black sports
46:54
recorder. Yeah, sports, yeah. Sideline reporter, I guess is what I'm trying
46:57
to say on CBS, right? Yep, yep, yes, sir.
47:00
Yeah, freaking Jane Kennedy. Oh, my brother, go ahead, take it away.
47:03
So, well, shoot, we kind of did.
47:08
It's all good. So, here's the premise. Clyde Williams with the Sidney Poitier.
47:13
Now, keep in mind, too, although this is a sequel, Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby
47:18
play two different characters, two, like, just completely different.
47:23
Sidney Poitier played a milkman. Bill Cosby was a forklift operator.
47:28
They belong to a fraternal lodge called the Brothers and Sisters of Chaka,
47:32
which is the way they pronounced it. Right. Which is basically...
47:37
Shriners. Okay. They belong to a...
47:40
They desperately need $50,000 to save the community building and retirement home for foreclosure.
47:46
To raise the money, Billy convinces Clyde to travel to New Orleans and use Clyde's
47:49
secret gift of hypnotism.
47:53
They find a scrawny, hyperactive underdog boxer named Bootney Farnsworth,
47:57
which we forgot to mention, J.J. Walker.
48:00
Is J.J. Walker. Yes, sir. They hypnotize him into thinking he's unstoppable
48:04
and an aggressive champion.
48:06
They place a massive bet on him, win the money, head home.
48:09
The chaos starts when two rival underground mafia bosses realize they've been
48:14
conned and forced Clyde and Billy to do it again.
48:17
Hence the name of the movie. Correct. So this movie had a budget of $11.8 million.
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And it made $25 million plus at the box office. Doubled his money.
48:30
That's a success. In 1975. Yeah, yeah. That is 100% a success.
48:35
One of the funny things that I've completely forgot, the extended version of
48:40
the Staples Singers track, Let's Do It Again, has a lot of sexual noises in it. Really? Oh, yeah.
48:47
I didn't know that. Go back and watch the beginning and the end of that movie again.
48:51
Well, the Staples Singers actually did the entire soundtrack.
48:54
Yeah, they did the entire soundtrack. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for this movie.
48:58
Yeah, and it actually starts out, you'd recognize, because so many rappers have
49:02
used that sample, that you'd recognize.
49:09
But yeah, so, oh man, I enjoyed watching this movie so much.
49:17
And like, these used to be like late night Saturday movies on ABC.
49:23
So you would only see them like every once in a while.
49:26
So to just hats off to technology that we can watch this now whenever we want to.
49:34
Yeah, man, I just I just really enjoyed this movie again.
49:38
A few sexual references, but not really cute or crude humor.
49:45
Not a lot of foul language.
49:48
There was some, but not a lot. Yeah, not yet. Not much at all. Yeah.
49:51
Not a lot of violence, even though there were innuendos, a lot of threats,
49:57
but no real violence. Funny ass threats. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
50:02
Just one of those good, wholesome movies that you can watch as a family and enjoy.
50:12
Question. Have you ever been hypnotized? No. Do you think you would be susceptible to hypnotism?
50:21
No. Me neither. No. Even though I enjoy the whole premise of the movie and everything,
50:27
I'm like, I don't think that would work. And I don't think it would work on me.
50:32
I think I think I'm too strong willed. And they say you have to be like highly
50:36
suggestive in order for it to work. And I think the natural skeptic in me would
50:42
always be like, get out of here.
50:45
Let's talk about these ridiculous ass disguises. OK.
50:49
So for one. Sidney's wasn't that bad. Man, Sidney looked like a pimp from Detroit,
50:55
in the 70s. But he was supposed to be a gangster. Yeah, yeah. But he had the cape.
50:59
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember when they sat down at the fight and they'd hit that
51:03
lady's head? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
51:06
Bill Cosby had on basically a capri outfit. He looked like a fancy baseball player.
51:13
He had on capris. And when he walked up to the table, here's the funny part.
51:17
He reached in his pocket and pulled out a snub nose. Looked like a snub nose 38. 38, yeah. Chrome 38.
51:24
Pulled it out of his pocket. Yeah. Put it in his waistband. It fell.
51:29
Uh-huh. Now, keep in mind, he talking tough.
51:32
To gangsters. To gangsters. Yeah. And the whole time, now he unzipping his shorts. Right.
51:39
Pulling the gun through the zipper. Right.
51:42
The whole time, he has on shades like- Some breakdancing looking glasses.
51:48
From what? Reading Rainbow.
51:50
Oh, LeVar Burton. Like LeVar Burton in Star Trek. In Star Trek.
51:54
Yeah. Same type, except smaller. Yeah.
51:57
He's got a beard, a mustache that's thick as hell. Correct. And his hat is just
52:01
sitting on his head. Correct. And I mentioned that his outfit was candy apple red. Correct.
52:06
Was it like red, red and yellow ensemble? Yeah. Something like that? Yeah.
52:13
Don't be about the silk black socks pulled up to his calves.
52:21
But you know what's funny is although I haven't seen this movie in forever,
52:25
I've seen clips of that scene just in my algorithm.
52:30
So as soon as it switched and I saw John Amos sitting there eating,
52:34
getting off the phone, I said, oh, Bill Cosby about to turn the corner.
52:38
About to turn the corner with that stupid-ass red suit on and trying and trying
52:43
to pimp hard oh man just comedic genius from bill cosby actually to be able
52:51
to play that role and like you were saying before we started recording,
52:54
i wonder how many takes did they have to do for those guys to not just laugh
52:59
hysterically at all of his antics it it it really is just good clean wholesome
53:05
fun and you can appreciate,
53:08
the comedic genius of a bill cosby Yeah.
53:11
In something like forget all the stuff that he's done later on in his life.
53:15
But just in these films, you can appreciate the comedic genius of Bill Cosby,
53:22
just in his movements, his antics, you know, just some of the phrases that he's using.
53:29
I laughed hysterically when they were trying to hypnotize or was it dehypnotize or hypnotize Boothman?
53:37
Well, somebody was running and couldn't catch. Yeah, and they had to bring him to the hotel room.
53:41
Yeah, yeah, that was him. They were trying to de-hypnotize. And then they were,
53:44
we just wrote the chapel song.
53:47
Oh. Oh, my gosh, that was hilarious, man. Dude, Bill Cosby singing voice.
53:52
Terrible. It's terrible.
53:56
But you see...
53:59
You start to see in that movie the things that he carried into the Cosby show.
54:03
I would like to talk to you. That type of stuff. Right, right.
54:07
The pitch of his voice going up and down. Absolutely. Yeah. And just,
54:12
you know, laying behind that couch.
54:15
One of the things I didn't understand. Why did the man and the woman decide
54:19
to reach behind the couch? What y'all looking for?
54:22
Why didn't the woman immediately panic when she felt his face in beer?
54:28
She was just like, oh, whatever. Somebody behind the couch. Right, right, right.
54:33
That was so weird to me. I'm like, OK, so so she's just going to keep going.
54:37
I'm used to having people laying behind my couch. Right, right. Weird.
54:42
I did love his interaction with George Foreman, man. That was that was so funny,
54:47
man. He took off all this stuff like we can go do it right now. Chump.
54:53
Improvise, by the way. The whole thing. Improvise. Wow.
54:59
And George Foreman kept his face. But you had to think to yourself,
55:03
this is improvised. When Bill Cosby walked up on him and was like,
55:06
well, hold on. Before we start, I just want to tell you one thing.
55:07
Now, keep in mind, y'all, both of them are shirtless at this point.
55:11
They brought the box. Right.
55:12
And Bill Cosby hugs him, kisses him on the cheek, and tells him he loves him. Yeah, I love you, man.
55:18
Because they were teasing him about him crashing. Oh, yeah, looking at Jane
55:22
Kennedy. For looking at Jane Kennedy, yeah. Yeah.
55:25
And what the hell was she wearing to work? I don't know but.
55:31
And for those who wonder it the name Biggie Smalls this is where it comes from
55:36
yeah I kept saying it came from,
55:39
uptown Saturday night last week but yeah it comes from this movie yeah yeah
55:43
but this is where the notorious B.I.G,
55:47
and several other lesser known rappers have taken that moniker of Biggie Smalls
55:52
right right right absolutely correct,
55:56
Trying to think, what were some other great scenes in there?
55:59
I love when they were chasing them. Oh, hold up. I skipped right over this little nugget.
56:05
You mentioned Farnsworth Bentley. He did take his name directly from that. Yeah.
56:10
I wasn't aware that that was the inspiration from it. Yeah, yeah,
56:14
yeah. Yeah, yeah. Puffy's homeboy. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
56:17
Without a doubt. Yeah, I didn't realize that. Yeah, okay.
56:20
I love when they were chasing them. And my man Scatter from Superfly. Moses. No, Julius.
56:29
What's his real name? I'm sorry. I just saw his name. Julius Harris.
56:33
Yep. Who was scattered on Superfly. Bubble Top.
56:36
Yeah. I love when they were chasing him through those people's house and he
56:41
tried to reach back and observe that fool.
56:45
The funny part about that scene was Bill Cosby and them run through the house.
56:50
They don't say anything. They don't say nothing. Them fools come in and everybody
56:53
pointed at the window. Yeah, they went out the window. Yeah,
56:55
he reached back and try to grab that food off that plate. She smacked the shit. Get back, Jack.
57:04
Was a great scene. I love that. I love humanizing the gangsters to the point
57:09
where he's like, man, I'm about to give you something to eat.
57:13
Yeah, let me grab this cornbread real quick. Yeah, I love that part.
57:18
I also love when he's talking smack to him when the police is standing there.
57:23
Oh, with the donations? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's telling them,
57:27
yeah, if y'all don't cooperate and just smile, I'm gonna start singing like the Temptations.
57:31
And then he talking mess to him and he's like, sausage nose.
57:36
John Amos with them two gold teeth. But hey, to their credit.
57:42
They gave the money back.
57:43
They gave the money back. They only kept what? The $10,000 that they for the,
57:49
women's for the police fund. The police fund, correct.
57:54
Correct. And then $5,000 each they were taken back to Atlanta.
57:57
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So to their credit, yeah, they did some devious stuff.
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Yeah, they gambled, which we We neglected to mention. Yeah. They did gamble.
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Hustled. The Lodge. Yeah. Hustled the Lodge's money.
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And won enough money to build a new center for the Lodge. Correct.
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They didn't pocket any of it. Any money.
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Well, Sidney Poitier did get a new Cadillac.
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One of them got a new Cadillac. That was a new car. Yeah. Yeah.
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No, Bill Cosby because he sold it. Okay.
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There you go. Because he sold it for two grand. That's right.
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So they could take 18,000. That's right.
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And add the two and make it 20. Yeah. Yep, yep. Reminded me of my daddy Cadillac
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back when we were kids. His was just yellow.
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It was just as long, just as big. I'm like, wow, same skirts.
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My daddy used to take off and make us wash with the SOS pad.
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Yes, sir. Wasn't no bleach white back then. No. You had to scrub them white
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walls with that S pad, and you put them skirts back on there.
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Oh, I used to hate that so much. This is going to sound completely off topic,
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but it's not because you just mentioned skirts and tires.
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So I went and got new tires on the truck yesterday. They faced the white lettering out there.
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I drive in a sports truck. Yeah. And I didn't even pick because it was raining yesterday.
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So I just jumped in a truck. Yeah. This morning when I got up,
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grabbed some water, looked out the window, was like, damn, they faced a white
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lettering out. At least it ain't like a luxury vehicle.
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I hate when they do it to a luxury vehicle or I hate to see a sports car with
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the white walls. Oh, yeah.
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What are you doing? yeah if it's a sports car yeah the white lettering is it
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looks good when you roll it down yeah yeah yeah.
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Anything else you want to talk about this movie bro other other than the fact
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that people should just go give it a watch i got one more thing for a little
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known 90s rap fact camp low,
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their first two albums were named uptown saturday night and let's do it again straight up,
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that's pretty uh interesting i did i did i didn't catch that neither did i and
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i've listened to both of those albums a bunch of times oh wow okay okay never
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even paid attention cool cool so you want to you want to go ahead and rate this thing man yeah
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it's a classic it is i'm sorry,
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it is a classic like i was saying earlier just good clean wholesome family fun,
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it's it you You can watch this movie repeatedly and the jokes just remain funny.
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It's just a really enjoyable movie to watch.
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Like I said, I was watching this and I was saying to myself,
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I really am enjoying this movie, even though I've seen it probably 20 times. You know.
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You mentioned with the language. Personally, other than when they were sitting
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at the restaurant and it's no beer.
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Mm-hmm. I was like, what are y'all doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Keep your voice down. Bill Cosby and his wife were saying some crazy stuff.
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Denise Nichols, which we didn't mention earlier. Sorry. Shout out to Denise Nichols.
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Other than that, John Amos used the word that, you know, twice.
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College. Yeah, he was talking about his college homies. Yeah.
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But he only used the word twice in like a 20 second span. And that's it.
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I don't remember any other cursing. No, no, no, no.
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And you know what's crazy is he would probably get canceled today.
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For saying that. For saying that.
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Even though the context of it. Isn't. And the reason he was saying. Yes, yes, yes. It isn't.
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Whatever. I try and stay away from that because I don't want to be the type
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of person to tell people what they should or shouldn't be upset about but with that being said,
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times are different yeah i'll just i'll just leave it at that all right yeah
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so uptown saturday night classic let's do it again classic yes sir piece of
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the action i don't want to review.
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It's boring, bro. So what's funny with that is I've seen it.
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But I can't tell you, I don't remember anything about it. Exactly.
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Yeah, I don't remember anything about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Two out of three ain't bad.
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That's a pretty good percent. But yeah, I don't want to review piece of the
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action. I don't want to rewatch it.
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I say, as I recollect, I think it was just pretty boring. Mm hmm.
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So no, no to piece of the action. But yes, Uptown Saturday night.
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Let's do it again. Classics. Go give them a watch.
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You will enjoy them. As I was saying last week, just re-release these today.
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Digitize them. Make them HD.
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Re-release them today. And I
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think these movies will make over a hundred million dollars. Both of them.
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If they really don't change a thing except upgrading the picture quality but
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just throw them yeah throw them on netflix yeah make them available for people
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to just go watch yeah yeah yeah people are going to one people are age and older,
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oh man for the nostalgia,
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but then for a younger audience to go oh wow this is really cool and to let
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them see that they didn't start this gangster shit.
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I can imagine my pops, who only seems to watch sports and news nowadays,
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would be like, oh yeah, I watched it. I ain't seen this movie.
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My pops wasn't known for...
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The more I think about it, all he did was watch sports when we were coming up.
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Now that I'm sitting there thinking about it, I'm like, I've never heard my
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pops be like, let me go on and watch this movie real quick. Which is completely
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opposite from my pops because he never watched sports. Ever.
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Ever bro, look.
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My pops was just anti-television period if we were watching cartoons he'd be
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like that's silly turn it off,
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if we were watching sports he when when when when the bulls were in their dynasty
1:04:15
he wouldn't know because who who didn't watch the bulls oh man we was all on
1:04:18
it but yeah he would watch the bulls when they were in uh their dynasty always
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talked about how cool phil jackson was to be a white man
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all that kind of stuff but other than that my my pops was not a sports guy he
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was Now, the television guy, the news,
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the news, or he's watching something like Reverend Clay Evans.
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And I know you know who I'm talking about. Absolutely. I know.
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Man.
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That's what he would sit there and watch is something like Reverend Clay Evans,
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bro. Listen, we could have a whole series on me going to my grandmother's house
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and having to sit there on that couch with the plastic on it,
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watch a Saturday night scene.
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Bro, all of that.
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And my grandmother, she was up. She wasn't going to sleep.
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She watched it. So I'm like, man, as soon as she go in the room,
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I could watch Saturday Night Live.
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No, sir. No, sir. Which is when you mentioned the awakenings the other week.
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I'm just like, all of that. That was Saturday night. You sit there and watch Clay Evans.
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You sit there and watch Saturday Night Sing. And then you would watch The Awakenings.
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And then on Sunday, you got your butt up and watched whatever was on that was related to what was it?
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Was it Bobby Jones? Yes, sir. Gospel hour. Yes, sir. The Bobby Jones gospel hour. Yes, sir.
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It was definitely. I don't want to say beat into us, but it was there.
1:05:41
It was there. Yeah, it was there.
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Anyway, y'all, that's our review for five on the black hand side. Let's do it again.
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Again, classic status. go check it out you will enjoy it with that being said
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we're going to transition right into our closing monologue my brother the floor
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is yours appreciate it so.
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People, when they hear a siren, what do you think of? Emergency. Emergency.
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Maybe a tornado rolling through down the street. But if you look back into the
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history of where we live, that sound meant something else entirely.
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I've lived in Beach Grove now about seven years.
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It's quiet. It's home. But like a lot of towns across Indiana,
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it carries a shadow that standard history books like to skip over.
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Just a few generations ago, right around 8.50 p.m., just a few minutes before
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9, the town siren would start.
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It would echo across porches, roads, and the city itself.
1:06:42
To the people who lived there, it just meant it was time to lock the doors and settle in.
1:06:47
But to a worker who didn't look like everyone else, that sound was a countdown.
1:06:51
When that whistle blew, the message was clear. Your labor was welcomed by day,
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but your presence after dark was a crime.
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People think that this kind of history just vanishes when you change the law, but patterns stick.
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At the turn of the century, which was 2000, Beach Grove was still 96% white.
1:07:12
Even today, in the latest census data, it's 84%. Black people make up about 7% of the population.
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The signs at the border are gone. The old unwritten rules aren't talked about
1:07:25
as much. But when you look at the numbers, you realize that the passage just doesn't disappear.
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It does leave a footprint.
1:07:32
If you listen closely to the quiet of a small town right before nine o'clock,
1:07:37
you can still hear the weight of that silence.
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Make it plain. My man is talking about sundown towns.
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Yeah. It's just a harsh reality that we have to face. Where I live currently,
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even though I am a light-skinned black man, I would have not been welcome just 40 or 50 years ago.
1:08:01
Sharky, not 80 years ago. I'm 50. Right.
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In the 70s and 80s, I probably would have been pulled over walking down the streets in Beach Road.
1:08:11
You go down Main Street. Yes, y'all, it's called Main Street. In Beach Road.
1:08:15
And you look around left and right and you think to yourself,
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wow, this place is stuck in the 60s.
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That's interesting, bro.
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I had no idea that they were an actual sundown. Yeah.
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And here's the crazy part. At my previous job, which I mentioned,
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all but two towns in Indiana I've been in hundreds of times.
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Eaten there, no people there currently that I met and have stayed in touch with
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from the previous job, business owners. Yeah.
1:08:47
Wow. Two of those are notorious sundown to Elwood and Martinsville, which is funny.
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We were talking about Martinsville having a June team celebration last week,
1:08:59
which shocked the hell out of me. Great turnout to this video of great turnout.
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I was like black folks, white folks. Great turnout. I told my wife,
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I said, what the hell am I looking at right now? I said, this must be a typo.
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Martinsville is not having a Juneteenth celebration. Yeah, they sure did.
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Hey, hats off to them for showing progression.
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