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Ep. 23 - Can we talk: Unscripted Convo · 4DAFAM

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boy kg welcome to episode 23 of for the fam podcast sir michael jordan episode
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that's what's up how you feeling today bro you good yeah man you know doing
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all right man just like i told you when I walked in.
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Blood pressure up, but you know, it's all good, man.
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All right. All right. Cool. What, what you want to get into today?
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What we are, what are we going to get into today? You know what?
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Today we're going to do something different.
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We're just going to talk about a myriad of topics and, you know,
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I guess just kind of basically expose the audience to
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what our phone conversations be like all right
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yeah yeah yeah i'm i'm i'm cool with that and
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uh so we've been we've been
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the last few episodes we've been hitting some pretty heavy
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topics the news has been pretty heavy the last few weeks so we we just want
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to take this episode to sort of decompress i'm sure you guys are probably feeling
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the weight of all of the heavy news i know for a fact we are so so So,
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yeah, guys, we're just going to pretty much go unscripted today.
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We'll probably hit some heavy topics, but we won't dive deep into them.
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We're just going to see where the conversation takes us.
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But, yeah, we're going to try and keep it light today and just let you guys
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hang out with us for a little while.
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So, with that being said, bro, you want me to begin? You want to begin?
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Yeah, you can go ahead and begin. I know you want to talk about something we
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talk about all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So...
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With this new UFO alien discussion being relevant again,
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and I think it all started when Brian Tyler Cohen did the interview with Obama's
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Super Bowl weekend, and he asked him something about UFOs.
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And Obama basically said no, but then he tried to walk it back later,
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which I don't know why he tried to walk it back. But I wanted to get into that.
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And, you know, with Hillary being questioned the other day, they were asking her about UFOs.
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So I wanted to take a little bit of time to let everyone know what I feel personally
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about aliens and UFOs and the space program, et cetera, et cetera.
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So I'm just going to just go right for the juggler.
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Excuse me. Right off the top. Do I believe aliens exist?
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I have my my thinking has evolved on this topic. So let me be specific when
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I say Do I think aliens exist in our solar system?
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No Definitively, no Do I think aliens exist within our galaxy?
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Perhaps There's a chance The galaxy is huge But as far as our solar system No
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Aliens do not exist Have aliens ever visited Earth?
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No They have not And if anyone says they have Show me the evidence Obama just
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told you there is no Show me the dope you've been smoking Or that,
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I mean he just basically said Area 51 thing is non-existent.
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You can say it's a cover up conspiracy, whatever. The man has no reason to lie.
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Not only that, how many presidents you think they all are retaining that same lie?
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It's hard enough to get two people to stay on cold for that long.
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So, yeah, that's that's that's just my take on aliens. How you feel about it, bro?
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So I've always said that the same same thing in our in our solar system,
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though, because we would have found some sort of alien life form by now.
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Correct. Which there's none on any planet in our solar system.
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And by alien life form, I mean any living organism. Correct.
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We would be arrogant as hell to think that in all the millions and millions
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of galaxies that there's nothing out there. I think we would be arrogant as hell.
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But there are so many reasons as to why these like living on Mars and all that
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dumb shit. And let me let me rephrase that. Dumb shit.
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It is dumb. The fact that anyone listens to any human being that says that we can live.
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It literally is some of the dumbest shit I have ever heard. No air,
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no water, nothing that we need to survive.
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And not only that, bro.
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So here are some things to consider. I'm going to get kind of technical here.
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When we talk about leaving our galaxy, well, not even leaving our galaxy,
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let's stick within our galaxy, but outside of our solar system.
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You're talking thousands of light years.
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If you don't understand what a light year is, please look it up. But to make it plain.
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If something is 5,000 light years away, that basically means it will take them
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5,000 years to get to planet Earth.
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No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
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So if an alien left 5,000 years ago to get here, none of us would be around to see it.
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We'll be long gone. And whatever they were coming to explore after 5000 years
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would be something totally different than their original plan.
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The whole thing is just extremely ludicrous, like you were saying.
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But to get back to this Mars thing, I need everyone to understand.
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The rocket ship and the fuel tanks.
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Those humongous cylinders on the side of the rocket ship when it blasts off, that's all fuel.
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You guys need to understand how much fuel it would actually take to get to Mars.
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When we get there, again, I just said there is no air.
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There is no water. There is no materials, which means we're going to have to
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transport materials to Mars to build a structure, take oxygen with us.
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No, no, people. No, it's just is is really just unfathomable.
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Better not use that word. It's unthinkable at this point. So I'm glad you mentioned
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bringing stuff with us. Let's just assume we got enough fuel to go there and
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back 12 times. Here's what happens.
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The air on Mars is 100 times thinner than the air on Earth. Parachutes don't work.
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They don't work. Which means that not only is the vessel...
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Going at speeds that are just unfathomable. Thank you. I cannot get that.
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I just I just almost stumbled over.
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And and the heat. Like literally we would hit it and incinerate.
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Well, the temperature period would would fluctuate so much. Yeah.
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Yeah. You're either going to be extremely hot or you're going to be extremely cold.
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So whatever structure you're going to build probably needs an infinite power
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source to regulate the temperature, to regulate the oxygen levels.
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It is really just crazy to even think so.
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So, no, I know you're a president because he's not mine.
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Your president just said a couple of weeks ago that, yeah, we're talking about
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going to live on Mars. Bye. No, no. Bye.
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Well, you can go try. That'd be great for everyone. But you're not going to
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live on Mars because you're going to die. Three months into the.
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You're going to die. Yeah.
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I mean, that's not funny, but it's funny to think that. Well,
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the thing is, is once you start that trip, if something happens halfway through
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it, which around trip, like I may or may not have mentioned,
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it's like 21 months around trip.
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If something goes wrong three months into the trip, you can't just turn around.
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Right. It's a wrap. Right.
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Remember in Avengers when Nebula set Tony Stark in the front and was like,
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yeah, he goes. He got out of there. Yeah.
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Yeah. If Ms. Marvel hadn't showed up... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he's toast.
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It's... Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yes, people.
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You can call me closed-minded all you want to.
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I like to think of myself as being logical when it comes to this and...
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Here's where my logical brain can't turn off.
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If you're thinking, yeah, you're narrow minded, we need to explore.
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Think about how much money we actually waste on the space program and we get
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little return on investment.
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My pushback on anyone saying that we need to explore.
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Three letters. Why?
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I mean, it's in all. No, no, no, no, no. No, you're right. Now,
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you're telling me to explore the ocean, things of that nature? Yeah, because what?
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We're like barely in double digits of the amount of the earth that we have explored.
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I'm sorry, the ocean that we have explored. I'm cool with that.
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Oh, man, we dove here. We did that. Now, civilians going down clearly is a bad
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idea. Right. But for some reason, we keep doing this dumb shit.
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Yeah, those guys were just, I don't understand what they were thinking.
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I really don't. Or when you hear people say, yeah, I volunteer to go to space. Why?
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Well, for what? Do you know how much money it costs those people going up on
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those private trips to space? It's like a million dollars for like a 10 minute trip.
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So when you factor in at one, these people are getting paid and that's the real
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hustle is they're getting paid.
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But think about the space budget, the NASA budget.
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How much money these fools are wasting for their little 10-minute trip up in the space.
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If you took all... They're coming back acting like they did something.
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Yeah. If you took all of that money.
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And put it into cancer research, if you took all of that money and put it into ending homelessness,
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if you took that money and put it into Alzheimer's research,
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if you took that money and put it into ending world hunger,
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there is absolutely nothing you can say that will justify spending this money going into space.
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It's literally a waste of resources, in my opinion.
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So here's where I push back on the closed-minded thing, because I think of it as like this.
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And we did an episode on education being sort of a gatekeeper.
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There are a lot of people who dropped out of law school because they couldn't
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afford it. A lot of people dropped out of medical school because they couldn't afford it.
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There may be a great mind somewhere working at Walmart or Target that just didn't
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get the opportunity to go to school.
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So my excuse me, forward thinking is if we took all of that money and invested
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it into education, perhaps we could cure some of these diseases.
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You know, perhaps we can cure measles since we got to deal with that shit again.
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I mean, I'm I'm I'm just saying, you know.
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We can talk for hours about just the levels of, and look, for those who are wondering,
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no, we are not pro-government to the fact, or we're pro-medicine,
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we're pro-science. For sure, for sure.
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We're not idiots, though. We don't just jump on everything that comes out like
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a dog and we don't do that. But this this whole thing with measles making a return, polio nuts.
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What? Yeah. Things that that that were gone in the 60s.
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Hells. Are back because we have a non health official in the Department of Health.
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Guy has no medical degrees as far as I know because you work out and you sell supplements online,
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which is something they should be looking into as far as his anti-vax stance and all of this.
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Is this just a way for you to sell your supplements or do you actually believe
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that medicine is basically bad for people?
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Something they should investigate, in my opinion, but also a reason why we don't
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put unqualified idiots like this in charge of important social programs.
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So it goes back to what we talked about the other day.
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If you and I think I told you, if you started a business and you were you were
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like, hey, I need you to be a CEO. Mm hmm.
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I would have the wherewithal to look at you and say, hey, man,
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I'm not qualified. Mm hmm.
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I appreciate you, but I'm not qualified for that. Mm-hmm.
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This dude done went out and it seems like he purposely set out to find people
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who have been cast out as he has.
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And when I say that, I mean that.
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No, he did. That dude was not like Trump has been cast out by that community in New York City.
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None of them liked him. Hollywood didn't like him. Nobody liked him.
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So what he did is like he went out and found loyal people who really didn't
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know that much and put them in positions.
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And look, I know this is just an ongoing joke, but in all seriousness,
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bro, why are you wearing jeans all the time?
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Why are you getting in a cold tub? Yeah, who works out in jeans,
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bro? With no shoes on. That shit is so uncomfortable.
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I don't know, bro. it
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is it like we are literally when's the
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last time you watched idiocracy oh it's been some
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years but but you're right we are living in that time i
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watched it two days ago again and that scene when they're in the oval office
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and he was just like who the hell told you i was the smartest person in the
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world he was like what a test you took yeah and then eventually they they're
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talking and they're talking and then they got to the secretary of education
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yeah and that fool was holding that globe in front of his face,
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and he looked, and he was cross-eyed. Yeah.
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And he said he's the president's stepbrother. Yeah.
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But he's doing a good job. Yeah.
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It seems like that's what we have. Yeah. As someone who grew up as a diehard
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wrestling fan, if you would have told me 20 years ago, hey, that lady right there.
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Linda McMahon. Is going to be the secretary of education.
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Now, keep in mind, I feel like I know that family because I watched wrestling since I was a kid.
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So I know she has no educational background. Correct.
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So when her name came up, I immediately said to myself, why would they pick her?
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My, my, my...
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I've always wondered, why would you accept the position? No, thank you.
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For, no, hold on. For a department that they're actively trying to get rid of.
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I never even understood that. We want you to be head of the Department of Education,
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but we're also actively trying to get rid of the Department of Education.
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So, yeah, you good with that? Yeah.
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I mean, that basically means your job is going to be obsolete,
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but you're still good with that? Okay, cool.
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All right, cool. The whole thing is just nuts.
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Well, everything about this is just nuts.
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Like, if you'd have told me, me and you and I, like, the day we graduated high
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school, we're going to transport y'all to 2026, February 28th, 2026.
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We're going to let you watch the news for 15 minutes.
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And then we came back to 1993. They would have locked us up.
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They would have been like, who going to be president? That dude that was just
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on Home Alone a couple years ago? Right.
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That idiot that was on Home Alone. That dude. Right. The one that hustles steaks
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and wine and... Trump knives and all kinds of silly... Yeah.
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Because all of that stuff was around. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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That's going to be the president? Yeah. I don't know about you,
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bro, but I would probably look at myself and go, well, at least you in good shape, man.
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Yeah but hold up hold up with that same thing for myself being only what 155
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times when we graduated yeah i would have saw myself in 2026 and be like oh
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you need to start working,
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you need to start working out right now oh man oh man good stuff bro so let's
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let's um let's put a pin in that and transition to,
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this. I don't, I don't, I don't, what do you, what do you call them?
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What do you, what do you classify these guys as, man?
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I don't, I don't, cause I know there's a term or so. I mean,
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I want to say incel, but I don't think incel encapsulates everyone that we want to discuss.
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Assholes? Well, shit, let's go with assholes.
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These assholes who hate women. i
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i don't understand these guys and it's
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not just a racial thing it's black it's
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white and everything in between i don't
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understand this community that actively hates
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women make me understand it bro so for
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those who are wondering we're talking about the you know
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the andrew tates of the world the uh
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kevin sammers you know rest in peace nick fuentes all
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these type dudes these types of people make no
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mistakes about it it is hatred toward women if you expect or want and yes i'm
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gonna say this shit with my whole chest if you expect or want your wife to wait
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on you hand and foot you are an asshole if you expect.
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Now, there has to be, and I'm using air quotes, king of the castle.
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There has to be something.
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But at the same token, a marriage, a relationship, building a home together,
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moving into a home together.
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It's a joint effort. It's a partnership. Correct.
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If you're too cool to cook your wife dinner, you don't deserve that woman. Mm-hmm.
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You just don't. I feel you. I feel you, bro. I don't I don't understand.
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Like, one, I don't I don't understand how these guys intend on attracting a wife.
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What woman wants to be with you when all you do is to grade her and blame her
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for all of your hardships?
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I don't understand what woman is going to be down for that.
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But at the same time, I'm just like, do you hate your mom?
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If you have sisters, do you hate your sisters?
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If you have nieces, do you hate your nieces, your female cousins?
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If you even have a wife, because some of these dudes, I think,
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may even have wives or partners already. Do you actively hate them?
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Everything isn't a woman's fault. That's wrong with your life.
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At some point, you got to grab the mirror and go, what am I doing wrong?
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What bad decisions that I made that had me or got me in this position?
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And if you think that just because your wife is a stay-at-home wife or a stay-at-home
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mom, that she's responsible for everything,
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like, yeah, I mean, she's not going, obviously, if you come home and the house
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is a wreck every single day. Sure, sure.
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But even then, that's a conversation to be had as a couple.
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Correct. Right. It's not there for you to say, hey, you blankety,
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blankety, blank, get your ass up and do this and do that.
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It's not your place. You want a slave. You don't want you don't want a companion.
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You want a slave. You want a slave.
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If your wife is a stay at home wife, understand something.
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That shit is stressful, too. If y'all got small kids and stuff and she's changing
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diapers and trying to keep up with the kids.
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Yeah, absolutely. That shit is stressful, too.
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You cannot expect. When I was married.
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Bro, if I just I could hear her voice in my head right now.
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If I was off work and she came home from working all day, I ain't got an idea of what we eat. Right.
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I don't have an idea. Now, periodically, we will talk through the day on her lunch break.
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Call what you're up to, what you're doing, yada, yada, yada.
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Or I might call her what you're up to.
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But if we haven't discussed what's for dinner or if we're going out to dinner.
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Yeah, I would expect like you can't just sit at home all day and do nothing.
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Whether you're the man or the woman. You can't expect your woman to cook every single meal.
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You can't hurt me when you have children. You can't. And I've mentioned it before.
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I've changed as many diapers.
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I've heated up as many bottles. You know why? Because I wanted to and because
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not doing it in my relationship wasn't going to be tolerated.
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Like you said, it's a partnership, though.
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And me understanding that it wasn't going to be tolerated doesn't mean that
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I'm less of a man. It just means that I understand that she has value.
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And what she thinks about how I'm doing, what I'm doing in the relationship is important to me.
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So when I think of love, general, general, I mean, because love means different
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things to different people in a general sense.
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It sort of goes back to the golden rule Do unto others If you have them do unto you.
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Why would you want to put your wife under that much pressure,
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that much stress and not help her out?
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I it just doesn't make sense to me. Right. And vice versa. You know what I'm saying?
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Why would you want to see your husband under that much stress,
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pressure, whatever, and not help him out?
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It is. I mean, it's not even hard to me.
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You you you you don't you do what needs to be done. I think that's the simplest way that I can put it.
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It's not about traditional gender roles.
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It's about doing what needs to be done.
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Sometimes I just need a break. Sometimes she just needs a break.
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Step in, help out. I got it today, baby. Don't worry about it.
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You've been at work all day. It's cool. Even if you can't cook,
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then go get a pizza and have it and have it sitting on the stove when she walks in the door.
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Baby, I can't cook, but I wouldn't gossip. I wouldn't got some chicken for us.
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Do something. Hey, I'll wash the dishes.
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You know, I took out the trash. I mean, just again, not a traditional gender role.
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You got to wash the dishes. You got to do this. You got all that stuff is lame.
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All of that stuff means that you're not going to be married very long,
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in my opinion. That's the perfect word. It is. It's lame.
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I know when I was growing up, now obviously I'm no, I understood that these
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things existed but my parents divorced when I was young.
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I was really young. Seven, I believe.
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But my pops, when he got remarried later on,
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Man, he trash, dishes, mopping the floor. For sure.
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Now, they both did because they were both very active around the home.
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For sure. My mother as well, obviously.
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But my stepmother and pops, if he was cooking, she was doing something like
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she was straightening up. Right.
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And vice versa. If she was cooking, or hell, you know, back in them days,
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they'd do 30 things at one time. Right, right.
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But my father never said to me, you see that? That's the man's job.
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Mm-hmm. I just watched the partnership.
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I was never taught gender roles.
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And I mean, like, I'm not going to have my wife out here trying to shovel three
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feet of snow. No, hell no.
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I'm going to do that because I'm stronger, because I'm more physically capable.
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I'm not going to have my wife out here trying to help me change the brakes on
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the car. She don't know how.
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But at the same time, if she wanted to learn, I'd be willing to teach it. Come on out here.
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Yeah, I'd be willing to teach it. Hell yeah, I can use the help. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. So, you know what I'm saying?
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Again, just get rid of the whole idea of traditional gender roles.
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It's a partnership. Help out where you can do what's needed.
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I do a lot of things I don't want to do, but they need to be done.
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So I do them. I understand.
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And in order for us to keep harmony in our relationship, that's what I got to do.
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Not about being a simp, not about your woman run you, your woman got you trained.
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All that. Nah, it's about a partnership.
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I don't want that woman to be stressed the same way that I don't want to be stressed.
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It's just that simple. I try and treat her the same way that I expect her to treat me.
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Point blank, period. End of the story. I don't even think there's nothing hard
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about that. Let's talk about these trad wives, bro.
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This is a this is another phenomenon that I I don't I don't understand in this sense.
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OK, let me put it like this. If that's something that you and your husband are
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cool with, then by all means, do your thing. Yeah.
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It's not my place to tell y'all what to do in your house behind closed doors.
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But but I guess I don't understand the women that's like actively trying to
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promote it because it's like you you you do know that women back then didn't have voting rights.
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Couldn't have bank accounts had to get their husband's permission
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to get yeah open bank accounts in the
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70s yeah so it's like this is this is
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this is what you want is is you want to
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have zero rights you want to you you want to forfeit your rights to own property
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and and and land and all of that stuff is is that what you want to go back to
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well here's something that goes
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back to what you just said a second about putting people under stress.
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And I'm just going to say this again. I'm going to stick my chest out and say this shit.
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If you come into my life and expect me to do everything, you can leave as fast as your ass out there.
28:54
If you think that staying at home and doing the stuff at home and then waiting
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on me to pay every bill just because you know how to cook and clean,
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because I couldn't clean for my damn sake.
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My mama taught me that at a very young age. What if you can afford it, though?
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To do what? If you can afford to pay everything. That's not a partnership.
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That's servitude. That's just me having a slave in my house. Okay. Okay.
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Like, to me, it had, and look, I'm saying this as a divorced,
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and I understand, man, man, fool, you couldn't keep your wife.
29:30
I understand I'm saying this as someone
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who's been through a couple of relationships and I'm a divorced man.
29:38
None of those women can say that I ever put my hands on them,
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treated them bad, and told them that they had gender roles in a relationship.
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None of not a single woman that has
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ever come into my life can say that i've never cooked
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never cleaned never washed hell their clothes
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it makes no sense to me yeah but even if i could afford it you're gonna get
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up and do something because anything less than that i just got a prostitute
30:08
in my house i mean hey i i don't i don't get it i know that sound harsh no but No, no.
30:16
Like, I'm going to be honest with you, too. Like, when I see these old dudes
30:19
with these, the sugar baby, sugar daddy thing. Yeah. You must be out of your damn mind.
30:26
Man, you ain't doing that. You ain't doing nothing but spending money.
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If you think that I'm about to put you up in an apartment.
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Mm-hmm. Give you an allowance. For what?
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Mm-hmm. To have sex with me? Right. Right.
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And him. The cat that she really want.
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Right because when you're a sugar daddy you ain't the only one yeah yeah yeah
30:48
yeah but yeah but no going we got it got off topic but going back to what you
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said about just the promotion of,
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and then using religion as the reason why it's it's strange to me it is strange
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like you it's perverse yeah you and i both grew up in the church our mothers
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would my mother is still Deep into the church,
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I could never see And my mother's in a relationship She's been in a relationship
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for 30 plus years I could never see my mother Bowing down.
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The man she's in a relationship and just saying, okay, well,
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I'll just do these traditional things.
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He would be out on the street so fast even if he had that mentality,
31:31
which he does not, obviously. I just, I don't get it.
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Well, one, because they've never actually read the Bible for themselves in most cases.
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And they don't recognize probably the verses where it say, husband, don't stress your wife.
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Wife, don't stress your husband. And I'm sure they probably never read those episodes.
31:52
I mean, episodes, my goodness. They never read those verses.
31:56
And all of that entails. Maybe the DOJ redacted them. Perhaps, perhaps.
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But it's also like the style of dress.
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You know what I'm saying? Like they want to wear those old flowing dresses and
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have their hair pent up and got on makeup all day, every day.
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And it's just like, no, I want my wife to be comfortable when we walk in the
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room. To please me? Yeah.
32:23
I want you to be comfortable walking around the house. How does it make you
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feel like a man by forcing your wife?
32:29
Now, and a lot of these young ladies do it.
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And for those listening, we're not speaking for these young ladies.
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We're just going off of how we feel about the situation. A lot of them do it,
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like you said, for the lifestyle, for the money. Right.
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Because one, because they are kind of lazy and they don't want to work. Yeah.
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So, yeah, let me go get a cat with some money that's going to take care of me.
32:49
And yeah, I'll do all of these things. I'll sacrifice these things.
32:54
But what you don't, which goes back to what I was saying about the rights,
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what you don't understand.
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When you get older because a lot of these dudes like you were just talking about the sugar daddies,
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when you get older he gonna trade you in for a newer model and
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you're gonna be out on the street with nothing or
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be careful i don't seen enough true crime stories or yeah
33:16
yeah dead yeah that young girl trying
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to take all your money yeah but but you want to
33:22
you want to relinquish all of your rights then you're
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not you're not going to be able to sue in divorce court you're
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not going to be able to you know have a bank account
33:32
so like you were saying so you got nothing these fools want to make it so you
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can't even vote just let that sink in i i don't understand the whole tradition
33:43
of why this is what you want to go back to when you are basically like you said
33:47
a consummate mother whore as they as they say on the best man,
33:53
we have some of these guys that have come out that said women aren't smart enough to vote.
33:57
Like a woman should not be allowed to make any decisions outside of the home. What? What?
34:07
What? Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy.
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That right there alone is wild to me.
34:14
And if you're, and if you're, if you are someone who's living that lifestyle,
34:18
just hearing your partner, the
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person you love and is supposed to love you say those things they even have
34:28
some pastors up there saying this type of stuff and then their wives getting
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in the car with them and going home what awkward that ride would be if i was
34:36
a pastor and i was still married to my ex-wife man she'd probably grab the wheel
34:40
and run us both into a tree,
34:43
awkward for us but for them i guess they bought into it they don't they don't
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see anything wrong with it. They're like, yeah, absolutely.
34:52
This is my job. This is my role. But again, it's misunderstood.
34:59
That's not your role. Like you were saying, it's a partnership.
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Whenever you get through, in the end, a marriage or a relationship is a partnership, equal parts.
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Your opinion should matter to me Absolutely And as a man I value your opinion
35:23
I want to hear your opinion Because I don't know everything,
35:29
If we got a house together, what I decide to do for the house,
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with the house, et cetera, it affects you also.
35:37
So you should have some input.
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I want your input because maybe I got a blind spot and maybe I need you to say, hey, hold on.
35:47
You're tripping. Yeah. Yeah. You about to F up.
35:52
Fall back. Fall back. So I don't know, man.
35:56
I don't know. Somebody, somebody, you know, leave us a comment. Help us to understand.
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Are we way off base on this trad wife thing?
36:04
I don't know. Let's get local for a minute, bro.
36:08
Here in Indiana, the attorney general and the governor has introduced some legislation
36:16
that is basically trying to force schools. They're there, there, there, there.
36:22
In this legislation, they have a mandate that says schools must cooperate with
36:29
ICE. If they call, if they come to visit, schools have to cooperate. Thank you.
36:38
Are drug dealers, rapists, murderers hanging out in schools?
36:46
Apparently so. Elementary schools, too. I mean, like if the original objective
36:52
is to go after the quote unquote worst of the worst. You have my blessing. Go ahead.
37:00
Why do you need legislation that says schools must cooperate with ICE?
37:04
What are you really trying to do? what what
37:08
what are you trying to accomplish by telling
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schools that they have to cooperate with i
37:14
sounds to me like you're targeting kids well as a parent i mean i understand
37:19
that some schools have you know police presence sure i get that especially here
37:23
in central indiana i expect that but i don't want them some federal government
37:28
agency being allowed to walk the halls of my kids school.
37:31
I'm pulling my kids out of school so they're fast. Yes.
37:35
And as any parent whether you're a Republican or Democrat you shouldn't want that. No sir. No.
37:42
Talk about a kid feeling unsafe. Talk about a kid being scared to go to school.
37:49
I mean like they always talk about this ridiculous mess about kids going to
37:55
school as girls and coming home as boys which is like the absolute most absurd thing Ever.
38:01
I mean, like, biologically, scientifically impossible.
38:06
But think about you seeing your kid to school. That kid may not come home.
38:13
And you like, where's my kid? The government took all hell.
38:17
And see, and the difference is, too, a lot of these families,
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they're operating in just absolute, you know, just grief when their children are being.
38:28
You're going to come across the wrong set of parents when their child's not coming home,
38:35
Some of these ICE agents have been doxed. Nothing's happened.
38:39
And again, I don't want anything to happen to them or their family.
38:44
Somebody's going to get doxed and something bad's going to happen.
38:47
You know it. I know it. We've seen it a million times in this country.
38:51
One thing leads to another, leads to another, leads to another.
38:54
It's like a chain reaction. Sure.
38:57
Dude, I saw a episode of First 48 years ago.
39:01
And this dude was in a gas station. He was trying to leave.
39:05
And on the camera from the inside, he looked out and he saw somebody. He came back in.
39:13
30, 40 seconds later, he was dead.
39:15
At the end of the episode, you know who shot and killed him?
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The brother of somebody that that dude had killed 11 years ago.
39:25
Recognizing. That dude was six years old. Wow.
39:29
So from six to 17, he waited for that dude to get out of jail after serving
39:36
a manslaughter conviction. I think he got like 10 years.
39:39
So the six, he was six when his brother was killed, shot and killed that dude
39:43
at the gas station. That's crazy.
39:46
That's wild, bro. One thing leads to another. Yeah. To another.
39:51
Yeah. Yeah. I feel you. I feel you. Yeah. I'm just.
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Yeah. I just don't understand.
39:58
I just want to say vote, people.
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Down-ballot voting matters. I want to mention something locally, too.
40:06
So the governor hasn't mentioned it himself publicly, but our idiot lieutenant
40:11
governor talked about it. What an idiot.
40:14
I guess Governor Braun wants Beckwith to do a.
40:19
Meeting of sorts with community leaders, church leaders, and so on and so forth.
40:25
He's going to do an executive order to have churches, community leaders,
40:30
organizers, yada, yada, yada, get together and pick up the slack where the government's not.
40:36
Yeah, the look on your face, I had to read it twice.
40:40
So he's going to go around to churches and tell the churches,
40:44
hey can you help out ain't that what they
40:47
already do well at least some of them do but he's
40:50
about to put an executive order in place it help
40:53
out with what though isn't that way too vague help
40:56
out with people who can't afford this or can't
40:59
afford oh really yeah man you're
41:04
right some churches already do that but don't don't
41:08
no don't come ask me that you have way more resources than
41:11
i do why would you want to put that burden on me but
41:14
the fact that that's already what the churches are supposed to
41:17
be yes yes and now you now you acting like you
41:20
give a damn but you
41:23
actively trying to cut people's health care that's my point right there yeah
41:27
so i'm gonna cut it because the state ain't about to do it the church about
41:31
to do it and look normally i'm like well yeah hell yeah make the church do it
41:36
since they want to get into politics so much have the church help out a little bit more.
41:40
But you and I both know this ain't to help no damn body. No,
41:43
it's not. It's for optics.
41:47
100%. 100%. That's wild, bro. You want to get into some Iran stuff real quick?
41:55
Alright, so as I mentioned before we started, neither one of us will lose any
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sleep if the Ayatollah or the president are taken out, arrested,
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whatever the case may be.
42:09
Now is the question
42:12
i have let's be real they don't
42:15
have any missiles that can reach us well well
42:18
well wait though i mean because just a few months ago they were telling us that
42:23
their entire nuclear stockpile was obliterated obliterated destroyed yeah doesn't
42:29
exist rubble nothing left those
42:32
are all the words he said too so just in a few months they are able to,
42:37
rebuild the whole facility.
42:40
Restock all of their nuclear.
42:44
And fire off missiles. So you remember my bodyguard. That's all this is.
42:52
Speak on that. So for those who don't know, my bodyguard is a movie.
42:59
The bodyguard ended up being, I forget the dude's name. This is the 70s. We talking Matt Dillon.
43:05
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Matt Dillon was the bully.
43:09
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm going to go get somebody to help me.
43:14
We are the bodyguard. We've swooped in at the behest of someone else.
43:22
You know who it is. I know who it is. But at the risk of being.
43:28
Called something that I know I'm not, I won't say who it is.
43:33
The one that was here a couple weeks ago. figure it
43:36
out what the fuck are we doing again
43:40
i'm not gonna lose any sleep if the ayatollah and the president are gone i don't
43:45
care good for bye hopefully the people of iran can go back to what it was in
43:53
the 70s when they were able women and men were able to go mingle at the beach and.
44:01
This shit here is nothing but a power grab. A few things.
44:06
They're much bigger than Iraq.
44:10
Three times aside. Iran is much bigger than Iraq. This is not going to be a easy peasy cakewalk.
44:18
This is not the smoke that we want.
44:22
Not that they can beat us. But if this escalates to the level that we fear,
44:29
this is going to be a long war.
44:32
With that being said, you keep claiming that you've ended eight wars, which is a lie.
44:39
But all I see are you starting wars.
44:43
You go and invade Venezuela.
44:47
Now you're bombing Iran. you
44:51
keep talking about invading Greenland which
44:54
you want to take by force because they
44:57
don't want to give it to you oh on what
45:00
planet do you live on bro where you think you deserve a Nobel Peace Prize you
45:05
obviously don't know what peace means like you are the antithesis of fucking
45:11
peace and then to put together a board of peace what he's doing especially with
45:16
a bunch of criminals With a bunch of criminals.
45:18
Two have active international warrants. Correct. Let me say that again.
45:23
Two people on the Board of Peace have active international criminal court war
45:29
crime warrants on their heads, which is Netanyahu and Putin. We have a UN.
45:36
We don't need you to create a pseudo board of peace.
45:41
We have a UN that's supposed to do that already. But what's crazy,
45:44
too, if you're a member of the UN, because they held an emergency meeting I
45:48
was watching on BBC News.
45:50
If you're a member of the UN, how you feel today?
45:54
What am I here for?
45:58
Strange times we're living in bro but what's crazy is
46:00
that at this point and i and i'm
46:03
i'm happy i'm not saying i want this to happen because
46:06
lord knows i don't one of these days somebody's going to stand up in a un meeting
46:11
was like well here's what's going to happen we're going to put boots on the
46:14
ground and fight america now that's a suicide mission but someone in the un
46:21
will say eventually enough is enough. Correct.
46:26
Correct. Honestly, bro, we as Americans need to stand up and say enough is enough.
46:35
We're at that point. I mean, like we know Republicans aren't going to do anything, but Lord have mercy.
46:42
We have got to vote in these midterms.
46:47
We have got to have some accountability i don't
46:50
even think this is a republican democrat thing anymore this
46:54
is just a right and wrong we're headed
46:57
for destruction and on top of this with
47:00
the board of peace and everything else what what people don't understand
47:03
is behind the scenes he's consolidating power yeah
47:07
and getting paid and getting paid getting paid
47:10
in the process yeah it's all it's all
47:12
a ruse it i mean like it ain't even hard to see like we were saying the other
47:17
podcast it's not even sophisticated it's all right here in the open yeah the
47:22
problem is these republicans just keep trying to turn a blind eye to it but
47:27
it's not even sophisticated oh lord have mercy well
47:32
you know what they're thinking is too well if there's no midterms i'll just
47:35
stay in power yeah for sure for sure for sure which which also may be a reason why so uh.
47:44
To react and so quick to bomb because if you can claim that we're in war,
47:50
you can use the Emergency War Act and basically cancel the election.
47:58
Boy, boy, boy. I mean, we hate to say that we predicted this,
48:02
but I mean, like we just said, it wasn't even sophisticated.
48:06
I think the plan was always simple.
48:08
It's just that no one was pushing back against it. And again,
48:11
you and I are the type of people that would hear people
48:14
say stuff like this and we'd be like nah that'll never happen
48:17
here right but yet here we are here we are you're right
48:20
you're right in america here we are all right
48:23
y'all as you probably noticed by now that we went past current events and our
48:29
right but we are going to keep our five on the black hand side segment and our
48:35
closing monologue so with that being said we're going to get into our five on
48:40
the black hand side what's the movie we picked this week, bro.
48:43
So today we picked Roll Bounce. Roll Bounce.
48:46
Came out in 2005.
48:51
So I'm going to give a brief synopsis of the movie.
48:54
So the setting is 78 Chicago. Yep, South Side. We were three.
49:00
And during those days, you know, roller disco craze, the story follows Xavier
49:05
Smith, played by Bow Wow, talented young skater whose world revolves around
49:11
his local South Side hangout Palisade Gardens.
49:15
The conflict in the movie, the beloved Palisade Gardens closes doors.
49:21
X and his crew of friends find that they've lost their second home,
49:26
left with nowhere to skate in their own neighborhood and forced to head across town.
49:30
To the flashy upscale Sweetwater roller rink on the north side.
49:35
Who the man up there? Sweetwater. Sweetness.
49:39
Sorry, Sweetness. Yeah.
49:41
Yeah, we ain't talking about Waltz. Yeah. So at Sweetwater, the underdogs,
49:47
they immediately clash with the reigning king of the rink, a flashy and arrogant
49:51
superstar named Sweetness, played by Wesley Jonathan.
49:55
Sweetness. To earn respect and prove they belong, X and his crew enter the annual
50:00
Sweetwater Skate Off, a high stakes competition with a cash prize that could change everything.
50:06
Here's a little known fact about Bow Wow and Wesley Jonathan.
50:14
Did pretty much everything all the
50:16
skating all the skating because apparently both of them were like avid
50:19
skaters interesting and a lot of people behind the scenes and the crew said
50:25
that like those scenes were real like of them skating yeah oh wow they were
50:30
competing like and they say off camera they argued like they were they were
50:34
literally fighting with each other trying to win Can you skate? Used to be able to.
50:40
Not very well. Not for me, bro. I will break my neck, bro.
50:46
It was not my thing. So not to jump off subject. Well, we didn't go to the skating
50:50
rink back in the day, which we'll get to. We didn't go to the skating rink back home.
50:53
We went and stood on the wall and talked to girls. Right.
50:57
When we went to Gatlinburg, I think it was our maybe third wedding anniversary.
51:02
And we were in Gatlinburg that first night. We went up into the mountains and went ice skating.
51:08
Interesting. And I lost my balance.
51:12
I'm pretty sure. I thought I told you this story. You did. But you can ice skate and roller skate.
51:17
No, I didn't say I could. Oh, okay. I tried. Okay. Okay. Okay.
51:22
Lost my balance. Now, she out there skating. She could skate.
51:27
She rolled past, rolled past, messing with me, and this dude was like,
51:32
hey, man, just take your hand off the wall.
51:33
Just do this and do this, and it'll help you get moving. And I was moving.
51:37
Lost my balance. Landed on my back.
51:39
The first two days of the trip, we didn't do nothing.
51:43
Back. Oh, man, I was messed up.
51:46
Knocked the wind out of me. Yeah. Everything. First time, first and only time
51:50
I've ever had the wind knocked out of me. Yeah. Scary as hell. Yeah.
51:53
But anyway, so the heart of the story, while the movie is packed with high energy
51:57
skating routines and 70s comedy, of course Mike Epps and Charlie Murphy is in
52:02
it. The real story is about family.
52:05
X is secretly struggling to connect with his grieving father,
52:08
Curtis, played by Sean McBride, who's hiding the fact that he lost his job.
52:13
The rink becomes the place where X doesn't just learn to compete,
52:16
he learns how to grow up, handle loss, and find his own rhythm. Yep.
52:22
No, I agree. I think this is more of a coming of age story for X and his buddies
52:30
and also the story about how to deal with grief.
52:34
So that's that's the backdrop.
52:37
You got a few touching scenes and, you know, his father was ignoring the grief of the mom passing.
52:45
And Xavier Bow Wow noticed that
52:49
his father was struggling but also at the same time was like
52:51
man you you got to stop ignoring me like she's
52:55
gone she's not coming back I miss her too but you got to be here for us like
52:59
we need you so snap out of it and you know be a father you know so so yeah it
53:06
was it was it was uh very very touching in those moments like I said the the
53:12
The skating is the main focus,
53:14
but the backdrop is a story about grief and about growing up and coming of age and all of that.
53:19
You mentioned Mike Epps, Charlie Murphy.
53:22
Rest in peace, Charlie Murphy. The Garbage Man. It was absolutely hilarious.
53:26
Just, yes. Yeah.
53:29
Abso-freaking-lutely hilarious. I really got a great, great cast.
53:33
I'm trying to think. The crew. Brandon T. Jackson.
53:37
Cleo Thomas. Yep. What's the? Journey Smollett. Journey Smollett.
53:42
What's the Hispanic kid?
53:43
Like Rick something, the Puerto Rican guy. I got his name in there.
53:48
Was in that real quick there was cameos by wayne brady cameos
53:51
by yeah making good was in that cameos by
53:54
nick cannon oh yeah yeah he sure was
53:57
yeah yeah yeah he had got a really great cast him and wesley jonathan the same
54:02
movie that's first time anybody ever seen them two together yeah yeah exactly
54:06
soundtrack great soundtrack great 70s soundtrack yeah she she mentioned the Bee Gees.
54:15
She was singing Emotions. Uh-huh.
54:17
I love this song. One of my favorites.
54:20
Yeah, just an all-around good movie, man. I really did enjoy this movie.
54:26
Than I thought I would, actually. I mean, because we were grown-ups when this
54:31
movie came out. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
54:33
The kids loved it, too. Yeah.
54:35
Well, I was watching it with the kids, and I'm just like, oh,
54:38
I actually like this movie, because I'm like, I don't want to watch it.
54:41
I want to watch a movie about roller skating and disco.
54:44
I don't skate. I'm not a roller skater.
54:46
I'm like, this does not appeal to me, but yeah, this movie actually did appeal to me. I liked it a lot.
54:51
So, I liken it to obviously you
54:55
know we grew up around quite a few skating rinks when we were coming up
54:59
two in particular streaming wheels which
55:02
is where our older siblings right would
55:05
have been going and then of course the roller dome yep gossiping
55:09
of course we just used to call it the skate rink the rink right yeah the
55:12
rink we used to get dropped off that man it was basically like a
55:15
neighborhood daycare yeah i mean back in them days you can
55:17
drop your kids off like literally at 10 in the morning yeah and
55:20
they would just skate yeah all day
55:24
long i wouldn't call what i was
55:26
doing skating it's more like falling because that's all
55:29
i did was fall it's definitely not my not
55:32
my bag bro i don't i don't know why i don't
55:35
know if i just never took enough time to
55:38
actually care but man i can't even stand
55:41
up in skates bro so one of the things that
55:43
i think this generation missed out a lot on and that movie helped
55:47
remind because because we used to talk about it a lot those lock-ins screaming
55:52
wheels used to have lock-ins then they would feed you breakfast and for those
55:57
who've never been to a lock-in because the y used to have yeah i went to a couple
56:00
of those screaming wheels will have the lock-ins screaming wheels was in gary.
56:05
And they would literally lock the doors at midnight yeah and you'd be there
56:08
and it was just all night skating park yeah pretty much.
56:13
Why and yeah it was the same thing we did basketball football wrestle yep yep
56:19
all night that trampoline room yep everything i never went in there i i wish
56:24
it was stinky and it was hot in the mind true true but yeah i was just mostly
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trying to play ball and then where the girls at.
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Which during them lockouts yeah it was a a lot of everybody yeah and of course
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for us I mean, it was in a different school district, even though it was only.
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Bro, we used to walk to the Y, bro.
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Walk there, home. That's a long-ass walk. It's not, though.
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It felt like it. So that first, well, if you went this way toward Columbia Center,
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because, you know, it depended on.
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So you're saying when you cut up Southeastern, it makes it a lot shorter.
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Yeah, because, well, especially now, because, you know, they got those bike
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paths and you can walk. Yeah. You got to cut through grass.
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But, yeah, if you went toward Columbia Center, you know, sometimes you had 10,
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15 people. Yeah, yeah, and then take all the way.
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Yeah, which is what it was. You wanted to just be with the crowd.
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So, most of the time, it was to walk through Columbia Center.
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Shoot, man, we used to ride our bikes to Columbia Center. And, man. Which is a long.
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That's far away from the crib. Dirt bikes. Not 10 speeds.
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Dirt bikes. Imagine our kids when they were small.
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You'd be like, no, you're not. You're not going there. Yeah.
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We're going to walk. No, you're not. get in the car.
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I'll drop you off like you ain't the times were so different back then.
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I still say man if I told my mother now some of the places I've been she would
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be like you did what? Facts.
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So something that, and I'm sure once I say it, you'll be like, oh, yeah, absolutely.
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If I asked you, was there a sequel to Roll Bounce, what would you say?
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No. It was. Really? Sure was. What was the sequel, bro? It was set in Atlanta.
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The movie with T.I. now? Six months later, with a whole different cast. It's the same movie.
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But it's not Malcolm Lee, though, right? no so so okay i get you it's not an
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official right i got you i feel it's basically you're right though yeah you're
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right no chris robinson that was his first right right right right right
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but it's it's funny because when i was like doing research on the movie again,
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and it's and there's somebody hold on hold on man now i'm thinking about this
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it's the same movie so the lauren london character is basically the megan good
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character yeah oh wow T.I.'s Bow Wow. Yeah.
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Jeez, O.P., you're right. It is the same movie. Big Boy is Wesley Jonathan,
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just in a different manner.
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Yeah, yeah. Nah, straight up. Which, by the way, his character was hilarious in that movie.
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Wesley Jonathan or Big Boy? Big Boy. Oh, man.
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He had some memorable scenes in that movie. Yeah, but I couldn't buy him as
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the gangster, though. But what was funny is he wasn't trying to be.
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He just was who he was. Thank you.
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What'd he say? I know who I didn't think it is.
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Oh, man. When T.I. jumped out, was hitting on the window. Yeah.
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And he said, boy, y'all, what'd he say? No, he was walking in the house.
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He said, boy, y'all light-skinned people, so think y'all hard. Yeah.
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That was, what's the name, first movie? Diana Ross, son. That was his first
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movie, right? Evan Ross. Yep. Yeah.
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Which he did a good job in it, too. But yeah, those movies were set.
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Let me see. Well, it came out different years, obviously, but it was only six months apart.
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I did not know that bro but you're right it is pretty much the same movie because
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yeah they were skating at the rink and all that kind of stuff yeah you're right
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bro I never even paid attention to that dealing with grief yeah facts,
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because their mother wasn't there you're right.
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Instead of a little sister it was a little brother that was old enough to get
1:00:15
into some trouble to get into some trouble but nah you're right bro I never
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even thought about that. Damn, that's crazy.
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Yeah, but that, Roll Bounce, even now, I think in the last year,
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I've walked into the house and that movie was on.
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It's a good rewatch. Yeah. It really is.
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And again, I mean, I probably gave it away, but yeah, I like this movie.
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I really do. So you want to rate this thing? Yeah.
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I'm going to give it four out of five. I'm going to give it four high fives
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on the black hand side. You know what? I think I'm going to match that.
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All right. Because I don't think it's a five. Mm-mm.
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But the nostalgia of it. Yeah, yeah. Because like we said, the skating culture
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was coming up. Right, right, right.
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And like I said, it did have some touching moments. It's not all just goofy and comedic.
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You know what I'm saying? And I, I, I enjoyed, I enjoyed this.
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This is probably my, my, if I was to rank Malcolm Lee movies, I,
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best man the first one is probably his best movie but
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road bounce would be his second movie and then
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you can throw in undercover brother and best man
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christmas and all that other garbage but uh those
1:01:38
that don't know that's spike lee's brother cousin i think that's his brother
1:01:42
is it okay but yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah this is probably my second favorite
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uh malcolm lee movie all right well we got one more segment to get to and we
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are going to go into our closing monologue Are you ready, brother?
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You know what? I am. But I want to say something before I get into the close of my life. Okay.
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Two things that are near and dear to our heart. Hammond, Indiana and the Chicago Bears. Okay.
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I just want to say something. Okay. I think I know where you're going with this,
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but go ahead. This is to the Chicago listeners.
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Nobody wants to be you. Oh, man.
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Let me say that again. We don't want to be you.
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We ain't never tried to be you. Do we enjoy Chicago?
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Absolutely. My favorite city on this planet is Chicago, Illinois. Always has been.
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But you think that just because the Chicago Bears are looking at coming to Hammond,
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Indiana, that we just want to be you?
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That has nothing to do with fandom. Right.
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We didn't want to be called the greater Chicago land area. Thank you.
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McCormick, who used to run the Chicago Sun-Times, gave us that moniker.
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We've never tried to be you politically.
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We have always been the Calumet region or the region for short.
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Hammond is closer to Chicago, downtown Chicago, than a lot of the suburbs.
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Way closer. Thank you. Way closer. So I don't even get the disdain because we've always been there.
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My mother rode the South Shore for two decades daily with my auntie.
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Simple as that. Daily. Simple as that.
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You leave. You can leave where we grew up. I lived on one street.
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You live on the next street.
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We can leave there and be in downtown Chicago in what, 10, 15 minutes? Yes.
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And we're not exaggerating. 10, 15 minutes. We'd be in downtown Chicago.
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Now, is it a little longer now? Yeah, because there's more cars on the road.
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Because getting on the Dan Ryan or that section by over there where my father lived.
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Which by even with that, I spent half of my life in the state of Illinois.
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Commuting back to Hammond to go to high school every day.
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And when anybody asked me where I was from, I'm from Hammond.
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In fact, Arlington Heights is further away from Chicago than Hammond is.
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Dude, Arlington Heights from downtown Chicago on a good day is 45 minutes.
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Mm-hmm. On a good day. Mm-hmm. And on game day, we're talking an hour, hour 15.
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Better believe it, if not more, because of traffic.
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Better believe it. I saw one of the complaints from somebody who came over from
1:04:42
Chicago to Hammond to just look at the area.
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The damn train down there by the roadway.
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Well, this is going to slow down. No, it's not because if you're coming from
1:04:54
the south side, you don't have to worry about that shit.
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If you're getting off the tollway, you ain't got to worry about that shit.
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But the smart thing would be to increase the trains.
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That would be the smart thing.
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No, I get you. Oh, freight trains. Right there by off of God's way.
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Well, hey, that's just a part of living and having trains. Period.
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Which I don't miss. I don't miss that shit at all. No, sir.
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But I feel like I had to say that. And again, we love Chicago.
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Yeah. We are called the greater Chicagoland area. Correct.
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By Chicago. Correct. Even when you see some commercials, they say Chicagoland
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Northwest Indiana. Yes.
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Or Webb Ford and Highland. Come and see us at your greater Chicagoland area
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web for the island indiana yeah yeah like we were discussing on the phone the
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other day east chicago is east of chicago which is in indiana thank you.
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Again not saying we don't love the city because we do right it is a must whenever
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i go home that i do go into chicago get some food go downtown whatever the case
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may be love the place But man,
1:06:16
so many people were coming out like we were New Jersey Like we were armpit of the Midwest Right,
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that's what I don't get That part When the second they build that stadium,
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all y'all will be in Hammond, Indiana Yeah, I feel you,
1:06:33
monologues, bro? Yeah, I'm coming. All right.
1:06:38
So, yeah, so I want to talk about the Board of Peace, or the Board of Kings, rather.
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So, they call it the Board of Peace, but look at who's holding the gavel.
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We're told this is the most prestigious board in history.
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When you look at the names, it looks less like a Peace Summit,
1:07:00
more like a lineup. You have Benjamin Netanyahu, I mentioned earlier,
1:07:06
an active ICC arrest warrant for war crimes.
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Sitting as a founding member, by the way, you have Tony Blair,
1:07:13
who orchestrated the Iraq disaster, giving advice on stability.
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Let me say that again. Tony Blair is giving advice on stability.
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And then there's the chairman himself telling us that since this board exists,
1:07:30
they can finally, and I quote, do whatever they want.
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Well, today, whatever they want looks like Operation Epic Fury,
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which is also a dumbass name.
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It's nothing but Tomahawk missiles over Tehran.
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I mentioned earlier, none of us are shedding tears for the Ayatollah.
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We know that regime has been a boot on the neck of Iranian people since you
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and I were four years old.
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If they were gone tomorrow, the world might be a better place.
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But don't tell me this war is about helping the Iranian people.
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This isn't help. It's a power grab. This is about a board of indicted leaders
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and billionaires using our military to settle old scores and stabilize,
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air quotes, a region by setting it on fire.
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We don't want this war. We would love for Iran to be free.
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We won't get it from a board that thinks peace is something you buy with a million dollar entry fee.
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I'm sorry, billion dollar entry fee and enforce with a predator drone.
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If this is the new piece, I'm terrified of what they call war.
1:08:38
All right. Well said.
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All right, y'all. This concludes episode 23 of For the Fan Podcast.
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We tried to keep it light, light, light-ish.
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Sorry about that. Sorry. It's all good.
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1:08:59
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