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Welcome to episode 26 of For The Fam Podcast. Yes, sir. The Rod Woodson episode.
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Indiana legend. Fort Wayne legend. Indeed. Yeah. What's good, bro?
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Not much, man. You know, trying not to stress over some of these headlines the last 24 hours.
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It's impossible not to. This current state that we're in. Yeah. And then, you know.
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This crazy weather we've been having. Yep. It's enough to make anyone want to leave Indiana.
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But, you know, it is what it is. Something we got to deal with.
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I mean, last Sunday, a week from today, basically, it was 75 degrees.
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It snowed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
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And, yes, you heard me. I said snow. And now it's back in the upper 70s.
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It's 75 right now. Yep, 75.
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Okay. Yeah, so Midwest, y'all, that is what we have to deal with in the spring. Yeah.
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Summertime it's just hot as hell yeah for sure so
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uh what you want to get into today bro so today we
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want to talk about black inventors okay
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we got a what about five or six to talk about something like that yeah yeah
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so we're not gonna go too in depth on every single invention we just want to
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give kind of like a brief synopsis of who they are and what they're known for
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or not or not known for Exactly.
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And and and we'll from from time to time, we may just do a black history centric
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episode because we don't believe in February as black history month.
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In our opinion, every month is black history month. Absolutely.
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All right, bro. So you want to you want to just dive right into it? Yes, sir.
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All right. Cool. Who's who's first up on the list? So we have Louis Latimer
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and the light bulb. Mm hmm.
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So everyone knows, excuse me, you know, Thomas Edison. Sure. Vented the light bulb.
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Yep. And I'm using air quotes for sure.
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So he did, but he did. So his invention, his original light bulb used a paper and bamboo filament.
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Mm hmm. Burned out really fast.
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Wasn't couldn't use it in everyday life, like in your house,
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She's trying to cook a meal, so on and so forth.
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So Louis Latimer was a draftsman and an engineer. He came up with a carbon filament,
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like a durable carbon filament.
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And it makes, made incandescent lighting practical and affordable for the public,
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where it wasn't just one of those things only certain people could use.
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On top of that...
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He also helped draft Patton for the telephone. That's right.
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So. Who gets credit for that, though? Alexander Graham Bell.
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So behind, and here's the thing, behind every great inventor or behind.
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I know where you're going with this. Every inventor. They didn't do it alone. Correct.
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But this is a time where if these were white men.
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Yep. If this was a white man, he would be listed as someone who contributed.
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Yep. So history has tried to completely erase. Some people are hearing Louis
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Latimer for the first time. Absolutely.
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So history, you know, has basically erased his name.
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As we journey through this list, it's going to become very clear,
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very apparent that there is a common theme with all of the inventors that we're going to.
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Discuss. And I think when we get to the end, we'll probably touch on what that common theme is.
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By the time we get there again, it'll be apparent.
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You want to just keep going or you want me to choose one off the list? Go ahead.
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All right. I'll do a couple of quick hitters so we can get into some ones that
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we really want to discuss.
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Benjamin Bradley was a slave born in the 1830s. Bradley worked at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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Excuse me. He developed the high-powered marine steam engine.
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It could propel a ship up to 16 knots.
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But because he was a slave, he didn't get credit for his invention.
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Which completely puts to bed the inferiority of black folk. Yeah.
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And I mean, I was going to try and hold this, but the systemic racism.
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How how how could one deny the systemic racism that basically thwarted these
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guys from receiving credit? Like you were just saying, had they been white,
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they'd be in the history books.
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So the only thing. And deservedly so. Right, right, right, right.
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And the only thing preventing these guys from not being in history books is
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the color of their skin. How old was he?
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Oh, that's a good question. I don't know. Sixteen.
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Yo, Scheisse. Built his first fully functional steam engine out of scrap metal. Brilliant.
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Pure brilliant. Oh, man.
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Another quick hitter, Benjamin Montgomery, in the 1850s,
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he developed the steamboat propeller, a unique steamboat propeller designed for shallow waters.
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So when you think like we were discussing before we started recording swamp
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people and all of those shallow water propellers,
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an invention that is widely used, not just here in the U.S., but across the world.
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And as someone who was addicted to that show for the first three seasons,
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they spent a lot of time in shallow water.
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Some in deep water, but a lot of those alligators, when they posted up and put
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that bait on those trees, a lot of that water is five feet deep, six feet deep.
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Now, here's something interesting.
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Because he wasn't a slave, of course, he didn't receive credit for his invention.
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But his slave owner actually tried to take the credit for it.
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But the judge was like, nah, bro, you didn't invent this. So basically,
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no one received the credit for it.
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And what's crazy is the United States Attorney General at that time can't rule. Mm hmm.
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Well, he a slave. He ain't no citizen. Mm hmm. He can't handle that.
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Mm hmm. Mm hmm. What? Right.
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Right. Something right here. Right. Right. Again, with the systemic racism,
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going to be a recurring theme, y'all, systemic racism.
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There's also another point I'm going to make, though, when we get closer to the end. Go ahead, bro.
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So we have Garrett Morgan. No, no, no, no. Let's do Alice Ball. Okay.
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And the first treatment for leprosy.
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Alice Ball is 23. Mm-hmm. Brilliant chemist.
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Mm-hmm. She figured out how to extract ingredients from chamomile oil.
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I know that was a tough one. To create the very first injectable treatment for the disease.
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Now, she died a year afterwards. Crazy.
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And Arthur Dean, who was the president of the college, decided,
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you know what? This is my adventure. Give me that. Yeah. Give me that.
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This is my adventure. Mm-hmm. And it took decades for them to find the paperwork
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to finally give her the credit that she deserved for that invention.
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So he reaped all of the credit, the benefits, everything for this 23-year-old woman invention.
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I'm going to go with Dr. Vivian Thomas because I think this... Most death.
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No, I'm just playing. No, no, but you are absolutely correct.
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And we'll get to that in a second. But yeah, Dr.
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Vivian Thomas basically created the shunt that helped babies.
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Well, there was there was blue baby syndrome to go back in the story with something
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that was plaguing babies where they were not getting enough oxygen to the heart.
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It was basically a clogged valve or whatever.
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And he invented the device that opened up that air passage and allowed the air to get through.
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All while he was being paid
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as a janitor janitor's wages
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now what my
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buddy was just referring to with most death some of you may be familiar with
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a movie called something the lord made it was a hbo movie starring yasem bay
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also known as most death don't forget prop joe and Alan Rickman.
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Look, Probe Joe was the reason he got his raise. Told you he was a janitor.
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So, again, this is an instance of someone not receiving credit.
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They actually called his procedure the Blaylock, which is the doctor that he worked for.
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He was his assistant, Dr. Alford Blaylock.
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They called it the Blaylock Talsic Shunt.
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And Helen Shunt was the cardiologist who proposed the idea.
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So it wasn't until I'm trying to get the exact year that he actually received the credit for it.
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I don't have the year, but it wasn't until recently that they actually started
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calling the procedure the Blaylock Thomas Talsick shunt.
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So just like Alice Ball, he created something that the medical field,
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the medical industry uses to this day, but did not receive credit for it until recently.
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So when I first heard of him, I mean, I knew of him, but not really.
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And as we watched Something the Lord Made, I remember originally thinking that
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his invention is what they used on one of the twins. Oh, really?
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But it's not. Oh, okay. It's two different ones. Okay. Because I remember when
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we watched the movie and I go, yo, was that the same procedure?
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But it's different because what was the issue with one of the twins was the aorta.
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So the aorta was basically like a always reference. It looked like a Star Wars ship. Oh, wow.
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So only part of it developed. Yeah. And then the other half was closed.
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So it had to go in and cut it so the aorta could open and close.
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So originally I thought it was the same one. I was like, oh,
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that's kind of cool. Yeah. But it's not. It's two different things.
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Yeah. Well, God bless whoever. Yeah. No.
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Whoever did it. So, yeah, like we were saying, just like Alice Ball,
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a great invention that the black man could not get credit for.
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He originally received an honorary doctorate from John Hopkins in 1976.
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So that's why he's Dr. Vivian Thomas.
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But he actually never went to medical school. And for those who haven't seen the movie...
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It's a great movie. Just in general. It really is.
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It has a pretty star-studded cast and it's just overall a good movie.
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And it is interesting because Dr. Blaylock at the time was like world renowned
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and supposed to be one of the best heart surgeons in the game.
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But he could not perform that surgery without Vivian Thomas.
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Basically guiding him and walking him through
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the procedure and to his credit he recognized that
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for sure immediately for sure oh this dude is brilliant for
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sure you need to come work with me for sure and i
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don't i know they do things for dramatic effect effects on
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movies but you know like that that uh
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dinner that they were having oh yeah for dr blaylock and
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dr vivian thomas had to what take
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a job as a server just to get in yeah
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wild wild something that
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he invented and he had to pretend to be a server just so he can get in yep nuts
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absolutely nuts go go ahead bro so garrett morgan and And we're focusing on gas masks.
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However, he is the reason you have to stop at every section.
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So he invented the three position traffic signal.
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But he invented originally the smoke hood. Yes.
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Before it was considered a gas mask. It was for firefighters to,
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you know, navigate smoke field buildings and all of that good stuff.
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But because of racism, fire departments in the South refused to buy their equipment.
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And he did it out of necessity. From a black man. And he did it out of necessity.
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Yeah. Like they would have died had he not invented it.
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So he had to hire a white actor. Uh-huh.
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And the actor...
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Became a salesman. Yes. Basically. Yeah.
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So now we ain't buying it from you, brother. Yeah. All right,
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cool. I'll just go hire this white dude. Yeah.
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You're still going to buy my product. So even out of necessity,
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they didn't want to mess with him.
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You just rather let the people die. Correct. Your own folks. Correct.
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Correct. It's nuts.
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He actually did though, sell the patent to GE and was able to get like $40,000.
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So back in 1923, that was a substantial amount of money.
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He doesn't get the credit. He saved a lot of lives on World War I.
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Well, just the traffic signal alone.
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Yeah. I mean, think how many lives it saves to this day. To this day.
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You know, it also made me think of The Banker, the movie The Banker, where he had to hire.
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Shout out to my cousin she was in that movie yes yes he had to hire the white guy.
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To basically be the face of the organization just so they could do business
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because people just didn't want to do business with the black man I thought
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that was a good one it was definitely a good one maybe one we should probably do in a future episode,
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alright let me see here let me see who I got We don't have many,
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Let's talk about, which this is one that you put me on to.
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Let's talk about Marie Van Britton Brown. Mm-hmm.
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Marie Van Britton Brown basically invented the ring cam.
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I mean, yeah, pretty much. Except she did it back in the 1960s. Yep.
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Very first CCTV. Yes, yes.
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So she basically drilled holes through her peephole and put cameras behind it
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so her and her children could actually see and record who was coming to the door.
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And again, out of necessity. And the cameras would move. And the cameras. They were motorized.
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And the cameras would move. So, so yeah, this black lady in the 1960s invented
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the ring cam for lack of a better term.
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Did she get credit for it? Nope.
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Even to this day as with the, with the industry, the way that it is.
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And, you know, a lot of the properties that I visit in my, you know, my portfolio.
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Oh, there's some of these properties where I could literally count a hundred
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ring cams without a doubt.
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Without a doubt. Here's why she didn't get the credit though.
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Because everyone thought that her invention was not affordable.
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So even though she had the patent, no company wanted to mass produce it.
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So it just basically sat there for 20 years, over 20 years.
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But the patent expired after 20 years.
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So after 20 years, it became public domain. So, yeah, Ring, Blink,
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and whoever else, they owe this family some money.
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Yeah, they owe this family money, in my opinion.
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And let's not forget about the panic button she invented as well.
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That would alert the authorities immediately. There you go.
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There you go. Yeah, that, again.
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Oh, and the two-way microphone. And the two-way microphone, which your Ring cam also has. Also does.
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Right, right. I mean, so so basically they just took all of her stuff.
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They just modernized and modernized. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. Made it smaller, modernized it. But it's basically her invention.
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The ring cam that you can speak through. And I know a lot of y'all have them
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on your doors. I got one on my door.
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It's because of Mrs. Van Patton Brown, Van Britton Brown. I'm sorry. Yeah.
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Unbelievable. The black excellence.
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Unbelievable. But at the same time, we didn't hear about this in school,
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not even during Black History Month.
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And that says a lot. It does. Because-
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If you're truly searching to educate, what difference does it make if she was
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black or white? Correct.
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You should have been teaching us that regardless. Regardless.
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That is correct. So what you're telling us is that it wasn't pertinent to teach
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us, but you're also saying it wasn't pertinent to teach our white classmates.
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Correct. Who's to say our white classmates wouldn't have been like,
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oh, I didn't know that. That's interesting.
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That part. That part right there. And that's that's the whole like sticking point with CRT.
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How do you know that these young white kids don't want to learn this?
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Because you basically told them, you know, that's just a black person.
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You don't need to. Exactly.
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They might want to. Oh, it's going to make black kids. I mean,
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it's going to make white kids feel bad, et cetera, et cetera.
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It's going to give them self-esteem issues.
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How do you know that? It's nothing but projection But we talk about slavery
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all day in school All day, regardless of how it made black kids feel You know what I'm saying?
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There's one more important one that I think we should get to,
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Granville T. Woods. That's it. And the multiplex telegraph.
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So his story is interesting. I love it.
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So he was an electrical engineer, 50 different patents that he held.
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But his story is a, I guess you would call it a masterclass in standing your ground. Mm hmm.
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So Thomas Edison actually tried to claim this invention as his own.
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Not once. Twice. Twice.
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And he lost twice. So credit to the court systems wherever they were. And at that time.
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So so think about this.
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Your argument had to be so lame that
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at that time the white court system was just like nah bro this don't make no
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sense yeah nah bro but you know what's even worse all right fine i lost you
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want a job yeah what that part yeah no how about no yeah yeah wild wild bro but yeah.
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So, was that it? You got more on Granville? No.
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No, that's it. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So, the common thing here is, one, the institutional racism,
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right? The systemic racism.
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When people try and make the argument that systemic racism doesn't exist or
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never did exist, These are examples of systemic racism.
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The only thing preventing all of these inventors from getting their proper credit,
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most of them after they died, by the way, was the color of their skin.
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But here's the other interesting and sobering fact.
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None of these inventors have received, none of their descendants have received
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any compensation for their inventions.
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Right. So when you think about generational wealth, think about how many lives
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this could have changed had these inventors just received their proper credit.
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Their grandkids, great grandkids, great, great grandkids, lives could have been completely different.
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And as we if we discussed in previous episodes, like historically wealthy white black families.
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Of any race they use home equity their children through college not all but some,
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these are folks where if they would have received the money the proper uh compensation
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correct would have been a nice home yeah which would have been building equity
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which would now and again we don't know if these families are doing bad we don't
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know they might be doing well correct but we do know that they did not get their just due. Correct.
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On the flip side, where someone of the other race did take credit,
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their descendants, kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, might have lived good lives off of a lie.
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Granddaddy probably got a street or great-granddaddy or whoever got a street
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named after him and got their name plastered on some building, etc., etc.
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I didn't think about that. For something that they never even accomplished.
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Well, and here's the problem.
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And, you know, call me unpatriotic or the hell you want.
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It's the story of this country. We'll get into it. There's so many people,
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great people, air quotes, that have, their names are on schools.
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And they were horrible people. Yes.
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Yes. And that's just history. Yes. I'm not saying go snatch down the name of
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every president that's on a school.
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I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, history is history.
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I mean, like there was a Thomas Edison elementary school where we grew up. Yeah, absolutely.
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Perhaps. Perhaps it should have been Grandville T.
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Woods elementary school.
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Just a thought. We need to call the mayor and be like, hey, man,
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you need to put in some changes, some of these schools up there.
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Correct. All right, man. All right, y'all, so we hope we...
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Gave you guys some good information just about these black inventors.
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And this is, I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
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This is a few out of many. I mean, we could probably do two or three episodes
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back to back to back just talking about the black inventors who didn't receive
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credit for their inventions.
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We just we just wanted to highlight like some
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uh popular inventions that are still
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relevant today that people still use so
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all right y'all with that being said we're going to
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jump right into our current event i'm expecting some good stuff out of you bro
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so just just just go with it man so i i legitimately had three or four different
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things one of the things i was going to talk about in current events,
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I moved to my rant. Mm-hmm.
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And it's based on a 15-minute documentary I watched.
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Okay. I'm going to make sure you need to check it out. Okay.
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So I want to talk about something that's not being talked about enough,
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and that is the Next Star and Tecna merger. Mm-hmm.
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So this merger closed a couple of days ago, what, March 19th?
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Mm-hmm. It's a $6.2 billion acquisition.
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And, I mean, for TV, it's a game changer.
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So Nextstar basically just became Amazon, the Amazon of local broadcasters. Mm hmm.
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Before before this, they were I mean, they were they were huge already,
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but they swaddled up Tegna, which means that they are now responsible for 80
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percent of all U.S. households.
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Now, last I checked, the federal law was 39 percent was the max.
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I mean, I'm just just checking, just just mentioning that the whole monopoly
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law is just gone by the wayside. Yeah.
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So they have their hands on 260 stations.
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They own affiliates for every major NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox.
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It's the biggest media consolidation ever for the most part.
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So the 39% of the national audience is what the FCC regulates. That's what it's been.
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I don't know since when, but that's pretty much what it's been.
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But basically, Donald Trump told the FCC chair, Brendan Carr,
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to go ahead and make this happen.
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And he literally said, OK, no commission vote.
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Same thing with the Warner Brothers, Netflix and all of that.
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No commission vote, which they're supposed to be. He just did it on his own.
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So what's the point of the commission?
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Why am I here? Well, did you see where he threatened all of these networks?
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What was it, a couple of days ago?
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Basically saying that if they don't start producing positive news coverage about
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the war, that they're going to lose their licenses?
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Come on, man. Now, here's where I would call this bluff on that.
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That's what I'm talking about right now.
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Okay, pull. Go ahead.
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You're going to pull 80% of U.S. Right. Like 80% of TV from your household.
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Right. You know how fast we'd be in the streets.
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Right. Picketing and fighting. Right.
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Yeah. It's all bluster. But no, you're right.
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They are creating monopolies and especially media monopolies.
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And add that with Sinclair.
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Oh, yeah. Don't even give me a start. You know what I'm saying?
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And now you got the Ellisons with everything that they're buying up.
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Bro this is going to be nothing but propaganda
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news we're we're i was
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about to say something else we're screwed we're
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doomed we're going to be north korea now all you are going to get is the rah-rah
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news the cheerleading news there is not going to be any real investigative journalism
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being done? Well, they laid off.
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CBS? They laid off some folks from WGN, which you and I are familiar with. Oh, yeah.
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They laid off some people from KTLA. Mm-hmm. One lady in particular,
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I saw her story. She posted a video on Instagram.
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40 years old. She got fired on her 40th birthday. Mm-hmm. Well,
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laid off. I've been there before. Mm-hmm. I'm still laid off from the job.
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Correct. I got laid off from 2007. So,
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Two kids, recently divorced, 40 years old.
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She'd been at that company 10 years. Journalists. She would travel around and
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do little shows and things like that.
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Now what? Just so you can gobble up a bunch of stations.
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And I don't know who got fired from WGM, but I'm sure it's people that you and
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I have seen on TV for years.
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Yeah, it's a really, really strange
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time that we're in. And this is why independent media is so important.
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Substack is going to become extremely important. Yep, yep, yep.
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But also, like I was saying last week, I believe it was, this is also why we
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need our own black media outlets.
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So we don't have to try and kowtow to fit into these spaces where we're clearly not wanted.
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The problem is, is every time somebody starts something, they sell it to somebody
30:25
they ain't got no business selling it to or they go to jail for dumb shit. Correct.
30:31
Correct. Amundo. And for the record, I said MTV last week when I was talking
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about Bob Johnson selling it to Viacom.
30:39
I meant to say BET, but whatever. I didn't guess.
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Were you were you finished with that, bro? Yes. All right, I'm going to talk
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about this $200 billion being requested by Pete Hexf for the military funding. Team UGI Joe.
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Whew, don't get me started on that. Here, here's, let me start by saying this.
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I am not anti-American.
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I also am not a hyper patriot.
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When I think about this $200 billion being requested, and yes,
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I'm saying billion with a B, two thoughts enter my mind.
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First, why do you need it?
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Produce receipts. You're asking for this much money.
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Produce some receipts showing that the military is actually depleted,
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like you guys always say.
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Show me where you've spent.
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The previous because we have like the
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largest military budget in the
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world and it's not even close now our budget
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is so bloated we spend more
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on the military than the next nine largest countries combined and and you can
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google that our military budget is so bloated it's so inflated So I need someone
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to tell me, where are you spending all of this money at?
32:21
Crab leg. On the crab legs, right?
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That's the first thing. The second thing that enters my mind is this.
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And I think this is more important.
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This $200 billion is not for troops.
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This $200 billion is for weapons.
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Let me say that again. This $200 billion is not for troops.
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It's for weapons.
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So remove the hyper-patriotism and ask some simple questions.
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Which weapons manufacturer is about to profit off of this 200 billion dollars?
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That that is the question that we should be asking.
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Who is about to profit off of this 200 billion?
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Because, again, this money isn't going to the troops.
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So this money isn't necessarily going to the military. This money is so the
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military can pay Weapon Manufacturer X to make more weapons.
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That's what this money is really about. And we should be up in arms.
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We should be demanding accountability.
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Who's going to really profit off of this 200 billion dollars?
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I think it was a couple of weeks ago, maybe even longer, when it came out that
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Eric and Donald Trump Jr.
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Are investors in that drone company and the government is buying drones from them.
34:01
Conflict of interest? A hookup's a hookup. You and I are not against hookups.
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Hey, if you got it and you can get it to me cheaper, I'm cool with that.
34:10
But all of this bluster and bullshit that we've heard from this family over
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the years about Hunter Biden doing this and this person doing that.
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And this is what y'all doing? It's all a grift. It's all just we're going to
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profit off of the government.
34:26
And the crazy thing is, and I've said this a million times before,
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and I know people are tired of hearing it. This isn't new.
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He's been a scammer and a crime man since before we were born.
34:37
A snake oil salesman. It's who he is. Correct. It's who his father was.
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Correct. Correct. We have documentation, lawsuits, hundreds of them.
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He doesn't care about America.
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He doesn't care about Americans.
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He only cares about putting money into his wallet.
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All he cares about.
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I've said this privately, not publicly, and I'll clean it up.
35:07
He could find out that somebody important in his family was kidnapped and they
35:12
could ask for a hundred million dollars and he'd be like, will you take five million instead?
35:19
Or he might even just take a nap, like just go to sleep. Yeah. Well, let me sleep on.
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Yeah. How important is this person to the family? That's just the type of person.
35:27
Yeah. He has always been. Yeah. Greed.
35:30
Greed. Greed. Greed. Yeah. So I just I just I just want you guys to think before you get up in arms,
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before you get mad at Democrats for not funding or or giving the green light for this funding.
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Think about who's actually going to profit from this 200 billion dollars.
35:51
All right. Because it's not the troops.
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No, it's 100 percent not the troops.
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And they already have like a like one point two trillion dollar budget,
35:59
if I'm not mistaken. It's crazy.
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Yeah. I remember when it was like seven hundred and eighty million.
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Yeah. And everybody was flipping out. Yeah.
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Include nuts. We're like, oh, this is ridiculous. Yeah. And now it's just insane.
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And this money is taxpayer money Our money Our money So think about that Before
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you get angry and say we should just automatically Give them the money because
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they're asking for it I want you guys to remember That this money is going to A weapons manufacturer.
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That's all I got For my current event bro Go ahead with your word So I want
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to talk about the so called King of the Mint Okay Okay.
36:42
So we just print money with faces on it now? Well, with his face,
36:46
yeah. That's what we're doing.
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U.S. Code 31, Section 5112, Black and White, states no living presidents on the money.
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That's it. That's it. That's it. There's nothing else to be said. You know why?
37:08
Because last time I checked, we're a Republican. We're a Democratic Republican.
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So this isn't a kingdom we don't need queen elizabeth on them you know right
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they got queen we don't need king trump right or his children right or his wife on the money so,
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a three-inch coin a three-inch coin to apparently commemorate there you go that that makes it okay,
37:38
So your face is the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of this country? Bruh.
37:45
Your face is what people like you woke up and was like you know what people
37:51
need to see for the commemoration of this country?
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With all the things that have happened. Not the founding fathers who are problematic but not them.
38:00
You. Yeah. Yeah.
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24 carry gold. Remember dude?
38:08
It's it's an ego stroke. It's tacky. Completely. It's illegal.
38:15
Completely. And it's a slap in the damn face to the democracy that we're supposed to be celebrating.
38:22
Also a slap in the face to every president that has come before him.
38:27
But I think his entire administration is a slap in the face to every president
38:31
that's ever come before him. Everyone on that commission was appointed by him.
38:35
Mm-hmm. Everyone. Mm-hmm.
38:39
It's nuts. It's nuts. He's nuts.
38:42
This is what happens, though, when you surround yourself with yes men and yes women. Yep.
38:48
No one says this is a bad idea. I don't think anyone is realizing or paying
38:54
attention that eventually this will be over.
38:56
And you have to be sitting in front of a judiciary committee answering questions.
39:01
Can't wait. There will be grand juries. Can't wait.
39:05
Can't wait for that day. Cannot wait for it.
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Cannot wait. How many people in this last administration went to jail? What, 19? Yeah.
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And it's going to be a lot more this time. And they're committing way more heinous crime.
39:21
And here's the thing. When I
39:23
say committing crimes, they're just saying to hell with the Constitution.
39:27
And then you got Thomas Clarence Thomas punk ass coming out,
39:32
talking about the the temperature of the people in this country now have undermined
39:37
what the what the Supreme Court stands for and it will damage it.
39:42
Our reputation has been damaged going forward. And he blamed the people. Yeah. For that. Yeah.
39:48
I don't I don't even know what to say about that guy. I really don't.
39:52
Especially when, you know, his history.
39:54
Yeah. When you think about who he was in his history.
39:58
He he he we didn't talk about clones on the conspiracy theory,
40:03
but man, if there's ever been a clone, it's him from where he used to be to now.
40:10
He totally seems like two different people, very different people.
40:16
But this is also why, in my opinion, when people say the Supreme Court is not political nonsense.
40:26
Always have been. Always have been, which is why they put so much emphasis on
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appointing, whether it's a Democrat or Republican president.
40:36
They put so much emphasis on appointing judges.
40:42
I don't know how to fix this, but I think one way, well, two ways.
40:50
First, there should be no lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court.
40:54
Nope. Second, it should automatically be the same amount of Republicans and
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the same amount of Democrats automatically.
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It should be the same amount.
41:10
And maybe at that point, you will just have a battle of ideas.
41:16
Forcing you to come to the table. Exactly. And figure this shit out.
41:20
Exactly. Instead of just voting down partisan lines, just my suggestion,
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just my thought. Were you finished with that, bro?
41:30
Yeah. So you're not going to order the commemorative coin with Trump on it?
41:36
Hell no. No. Okay. Okay. Cool. Cool. Cool. Yeah.
41:43
Ain't nobody going to order that shit. For my right, I'm going to talk about code switching.
41:56
And listen, I'm a grown up. I'm an adult. I'm not naive.
42:04
I understand that you have to have a level of professionalism.
42:11
You have to have a level of decorum, especially if you're in a position where
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you do a lot of public speaking.
42:20
I 100% get that. I understand.
42:24
At the same time, I I have an issue with code switching for various reasons.
42:33
Some may be arbitrary. Some are a little bit deeper.
42:37
My first reason is arbitrary. Right.
42:41
To me, code switching is like us trying to conform to the European beauty standards.
42:51
Why do I have to assimilate? Why do I have to conform to the way that you want me to speak?
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And your favorite commercial, which is now my favorite commercial,
43:04
actually made me think of this talking point.
43:07
Drives me crazy, but it's funny. It is funny.
43:10
It is funny. And it's the deeper point is this.
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I remember when they associated being able to speak well with your level of intelligence. Hmm.
43:26
So to me, there is a racial undertone in all of that, right?
43:33
I mean, because you're forcing us to speak like you or what's acceptable to you.
43:41
And if we can't speak the way that you want us to speak, if we can't enunciate,
43:47
if we can't pronounce certain things, then you immediately assess us as being less intelligent.
43:54
The late great colon powell before they talked about his military record or
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any other things that he accomplished they would always say he's so well spoken he he speaks so well,
44:09
what about the man's military record that's impeccable but that's what you want to point to.
44:16
Forget the fact that Obama was brilliant, the youngest law editor at Harvard
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for their journal or whatever it's called.
44:26
He's such a good speaker. He's a great orator. He speaks so well.
44:30
What about the man's brilliance? What about his intelligence?
44:35
So I'm saying all of that to say this. I'm done trying to code switch.
44:42
That does not mean that I'm going to talk to people with disrespect.
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It doesn't mean that, you know, I'll speak freely like me and you speak from time to time.
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I'm just saying I'm done trying to conform to the way you want me to speak. Like I'm done with it.
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I'm not doing it anymore. If I mispronounce a word, damn it,
45:08
I mispronounce the word. And that's just that.
45:11
It doesn't mean that I'm less intelligent.
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It just means I mispronounce the word. But I'm not going to tie myself and not
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trying to sound like you.
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I'm going to sound like me.
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I'm not taking any bass out of my voice. I'm going to sound like me because
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that's the voice that God has given me. I'm done.
45:35
I'm done trying to code switch. I'm through with it.
45:38
So I know I told you this, but it's been over a decade.
45:41
When I first started working at the company that I work for out here for a long
45:45
time, I will never forget that lady telling me.
45:48
She said, I know this is going to sound really rude, but I'm just curious.
45:53
What are you? And I go, what do you mean? And I knew what she meant.
45:58
Of course. I was like, what do you mean?
46:00
She was like, are you mixed? I said, no. I said, I'm black.
46:03
I said, you know, my mother's side of the family. That's where all the light-skinned
46:06
folks are. Somewhere down the line, there's some white folks.
46:11
Okay, so you're black. I said, yeah. God, you don't sound black. Mm-hmm.
46:17
Do you know how? And that was in my cold switching days. And that is infuriating.
46:23
And I remember thinking, you're about to get your ass wet.
46:32
Not by me, but there's plenty of people here I work with that heard you say this. Correct.
46:38
And are now offended, especially the lady that worked next to me for six years. Yeah.
46:43
She is also mortified and offended. Yeah.
46:47
By what you said. Now, me personally, I don't work in a corporate office anymore.
46:53
So I stopped cold switching a long damn time ago.
46:56
Unfortunately, I, you know, I do visit a lot of places with a lot of important
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people coming in and out of.
47:02
So sometimes I find myself speaking a certain way.
47:07
Right. But then I catch myself. Right. And I just, hey, this is how I talk. Correct.
47:13
It's funny, bro, because...
47:16
If you're from the South, which all our people are. No, no, no.
47:21
I mean, like if you're a white person from the South. Oh, yeah, yeah.
47:24
Your country twang was considered charming.
47:28
Yeah, it was. It was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Southern Belle.
47:33
Exactly. It was it was never you're less intelligent because you speak a certain
47:38
way and and they have just as much broken English as black folks.
47:43
But it was it was considered charming for
47:46
them to speak a certain way
47:49
southern like you said southern uh southern southern
47:52
charm southern bill you know all of
47:55
that kind of stuff but for us it was always you're uneducated you don't speak
48:01
properly you know you you talk that ghetto slang all of that kind of bs again
48:08
which has nothing to do with the intel level of with the level of intelligence.
48:13
I'm pretty certain all of these inventors that we just mentioned probably didn't
48:19
speak with proper verb tenses, grammar, et cetera, et cetera.
48:23
You know what I'm saying? But yet they were still brilliant.
48:26
Hey, some of these guys were slaves. They weren't even allowed to read and write.
48:31
And if they were found to be intelligent and can read and write,
48:35
they were killed. Or Or killed. Or killed.
48:38
Or killed. How dare you know how to be smart?
48:44
How stupid that shit sounded when I just said it. But it's so true.
48:49
Who taught you how to read?
48:51
My mama? It's so true, though.
48:54
No, you're supposed to be strong and work the field. That's it. A horse.
49:00
Yeah crazy crazy that's it
49:04
bro that's that's all i got because i don't want to get my blood pressure up
49:07
so with that
49:10
being said we're going to move right into our movie review and this movie is
49:17
very it it it it directly relates to the main topic of this podcast and that
49:24
movie is hidden Figures. Take it away, my brother.
49:29
All right, so Hidden Figures was released in 2016, directed by Theodore Melfi.
49:35
Screenplay was Alison Schroeder and the director as well.
49:40
The lead cast, Taraji P. Henson, as Katherine G.
49:44
Johnson, who was a mathematician, basically a human computer.
49:49
And she was actually the woman who calculated flight trajectories for Project
49:54
Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight.
49:59
Octavia Spencer is Dorothy Vaughn. she was
50:02
nasa's first black supervisor who taught herself
50:05
and her staff a programming language
50:08
to keep up with the new ibm computer and janelle
50:12
monet is mary jackson who was nasa's first
50:15
black female engineer who had to actually sue
50:18
the city of hampton to attend
50:21
classes at a segregated high school just to get
50:24
her credentials to be where she was supporting cast
50:29
jim parsons paul stafford
50:32
and he was a lead engineer who was
50:35
basically he was put there as the bad guy he was the friction right the go-between
50:40
right glenn powell as john glenn so you know he was basically the the astronaut
50:47
that was like no i want her working on if she doesn't calculate it yeah i'm not going Yeah.
50:54
Mahershala Ali is Catherine's love interest slash husband. Mm-hmm.
50:58
And last but not least. My guy. Your guy.
51:02
My guy. Mr. Kevin Cox. Who wasn't bad in this movie. No, no. He was okay there.
51:07
As Al Harrison. Mm-hmm. Director of the Space Task Group. Mm-hmm.
51:12
So just based on the description of the people in the movie,
51:16
you've pretty much got an idea of what the movie was about.
51:20
It was basically the 60s at NASA, at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia.
51:25
And it was during the height of the space race with Russia and the Jim Crow era.
51:32
And of course, it follows the three black women who are going through their
51:36
trials and tribulations, just trying to be respected in their field and move up. Yeah.
51:42
Within NASA. And the discriminatory practices that were trying to basically
51:50
hold them back and push them out of the limelight, so to speak,
51:56
and and and invalidate their ideas just because,
52:01
one, they were women and two, because of the color of their skin,
52:03
which I think is lost a lot.
52:08
If they were white women, they still would have been treated horribly. Correct.
52:13
So. At that period in time, you are absolutely correct. I get really tired of
52:17
that being glossed over in history. Mm-hmm.
52:20
They didn't like their own women. Correct. Correct.
52:26
You're right. Treated their wives like shit. Exactly. You're right that it get
52:31
glossed over, but you are absolutely correct.
52:33
They didn't want any women to be working.
52:38
They wanted women to be barefoot and pregnant as the saying goes.
52:43
Hell, they want that now. They want that now, which is why we talked about trad wives recently.
52:49
But yeah, they wanted when they come home from work, dinner and a pie on the stove.
52:57
And that was the role for a woman. House clean, dinner, a pie.
53:02
And then if I have some energy, maybe we go have sex afterwards.
53:07
The end. that that's all that's all i need oh and raise the kids and i don't
53:11
care if you got the energy or not yeah if i yeah that's right that's right you're
53:15
doing tonight that's right that's right so i want to talk about one of my favorite
53:21
scenes and also one of my least favorite scenes,
53:24
they are the same thing so when katherine got back late because she had to go to the restroom.
53:32
She gave that speech which was you know which was movie she did a good job with
53:39
that here's where my issue lies and I've mentioned this on a previous episode
53:43
and I wish I would have done the research to remember which one it was,
53:47
These women had struggles and there's always going to be someone that are,
53:51
I'm going to say, when I say above them, I mean in the position that has to
53:56
look out for their well-being to help them get to where they are,
53:59
especially during that time.
54:00
But Hollywood struck again with the white savior. For sure.
54:06
Let me get something to knock down this sign. Correct. Right.
54:11
Mr. Costner, if you would have done that in that time, you would have had flat
54:16
tires, busted windshields.
54:19
May have may have even lost his job. Right. I mean, you don't take down the
54:24
Cullets on the bathroom. Right.
54:26
That's what it is. Right. That woman can run across the parking lot.
54:30
Right. And that's just that. Right.
54:32
I don't care what kind of hell you write. Right.
54:36
So it was the the savior of course again gotta gotta have one it's always gotta
54:43
have one there gotta have one my my the the scene that stuck out to me was the coughing scene.
54:51
That these idiots didn't want to drink coffee, hot coffee, because she poured her a cup.
55:03
First of all, her cup didn't touch the coffee pot.
55:06
But second of all, whatever germs that you think she probably had,
55:12
the hot coffee would have probably killed them.
55:15
So you're that racist that
55:19
you don't even want to drink the same coffee
55:22
as the black woman like i
55:25
couldn't imagine and and i hear uh
55:28
dominic foxworth he mentioned before when
55:31
he was sitting when he was on the nfl pa board when he
55:34
was the president of the board and i remember he was on
55:37
bomani show years ago and he said you know man you get
55:40
in a room with these owners and you sit at the table and you
55:43
say to yourself oh they're not that bright they
55:47
just got a lot of money yep they're just rich i'm smarter than
55:50
everybody in this room yep yep because he's got a harvard degree i remember
55:56
he was talking about jerry jones he was like sitting in that room with jerry
56:00
jones you realize why the cowboys are what they are because of how charismatic
56:05
he is But he said, as far as intelligence,
56:09
it was all right.
56:11
It's funny you bring this up because I was listening to Joy Reid.
56:15
I frequently listen to Joy Reid. Well, she's unplugged now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
56:22
And she was talking about the legacy admissions when she was at Harvard. Yeah.
56:27
And she basically was like, I shouldn't say this, but I'm going to.
56:31
She was like, I've never been around so many mediocre people at Harvard.
56:38
Like there are so many mediocre average intelligence people.
56:43
White boys at Harvard. Basically there because their legacy admissions wouldn't
56:49
be there if it was up to merits.
56:52
So, you know, when we when when they mention this meritocracy crap.
56:59
Then there should be no more legacy admissions across the board.
57:06
Yeah, everyone should have to earn it. Yeah, everyone should have to earn it.
57:11
Doesn't matter who your dad was or your granddad or your great granddad.
57:16
Doesn't matter how much money they contribute.
57:19
You have to earn it. So and I know you've probably seen this.
57:26
DEI no longer stands for diversity, equity and inclusion.
57:32
DEI stands for didn't earn it.
57:35
And it applies to a whole lot of people, not just us.
57:42
So I want to go back because I completely skipped the reason I brought up the bathrooms. Mm hmm.
57:49
So, Catherine's, well, Taraji P.
57:53
Henson's character in real life was a firecracker. Mm-hmm. Gameplay. Mm-hmm.
57:59
The bathroom scene was fake. Yes. It was just added to the movie.
58:03
Yes. Which is why I brought her, I skipped the whole damn section I meant to talk about. Yes.
58:07
For dramatic effect. Yeah. So, in reality, it's notorious that she said,
58:12
to hell with that White Soley sign. I'm using that bathroom. Correct.
58:16
Yeah. Why didn't you put that in the movie? Right.
58:20
Because of the white savior complex. But it would be more telling to show her being defiant. Yeah.
58:28
Because the people that... Look, everybody went to see this movie.
58:32
It was a good movie. Black, white, whoever. It was a good movie.
58:35
And a lot of older folks knew the story of it. So, of course,
58:38
they wanted to see the movie.
58:40
Why not show the defiance? Correct.
58:44
Yeah. Yeah. And in my opinion, it would be a better scene to actually have a confrontation.
58:54
Why are you using his background? Like Jim Parsons walk up. Yeah.
58:57
What are you doing coming from that background? Yeah.
58:58
That would be a better scene than him knocking the sign down, in my opinion.
59:04
Just a thought. Just a thought. Yeah.
59:08
I can't give this five stars. Nah, nah. No, no, no. Let me tell you why. Well, you know why.
59:18
Because he's in it, I can't give this five stars.
59:21
Or five black, five backhands on the black side.
59:27
I can't. But I'll give it four.
59:30
I'll give this a solid four. So I was going to do 3.7, like three and three
59:36
quarters. I was going to pull the old Ed McMahon, three and three quarter star.
59:40
Yeah. Or three and three quarter high fives.
59:43
But yeah, say three and three quarters. Okay.
59:46
I'll stick with my four. So in any event, still a good movie.
59:51
Yeah, it was. Worth the watch.
59:56
Majority historically accurate. There are some scenes added for dramatic effect,
1:00:01
like KG was just talking about with the bathroom scene. And the fact that Kevin
1:00:06
Costner's character actually didn't exist.
1:00:09
He is a combination of several characters, but just a small nitpick. Right.
1:00:17
Still mostly accurate. Go check it out. Very good movie.
1:00:21
Again, something that we didn't learn about during Black History Month when we were in school.
1:00:27
And I'm sure these kids still aren't being taught about it. Why?
1:00:33
Why that's a good question yeah all
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right y'all that's our movie review hidden figures
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go check it out and now we're going
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to move into our closing monologue brother kg
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the floor is yours thank you thank you so
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it's funny how inspiration works so as i told you before we started just two
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hours ago i was debating two other topics for the show i had them ready to go
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So then I pulled up Instagram and I see an article and I had to stop and figure something else out.
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So today we're talking about Indianapolis is on Chase Infinity.
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So at the Oscars, beautiful Louis Vuitton dress, looks incredible.
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And what do we hear? Oh, her hair, her braids are undone.
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Live on TV, someone mentions her braids as being undone.
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Those are boohoo knotless braids. I think I'm saying that right.
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That is hours of work, patience, and real artistry.
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It was deliberate, and it was a high fashion choice.
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But it's the same old song It takes us all the way back to 2015 When Zendaya
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showed up on the red carpet.
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With locks. They said that she smelled like some kind of oil.
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For chuli oil. Chuli oil and weed.
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Yep. Is what she looked like she smelled.
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So you're trying to take black beauty and turn it into a punchline or a problem.
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People really don't get the skill that's involved. My own daughter is a hairstylist.
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And braiding just so happens to be her specialty.
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I see the work she puts in. It's not just hair. It's architecture. It's creative.
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It's intricate, and it's beautiful.
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For decades, Black women have been disrespected, told their natural state is
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either unprofessional or unfinished.
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But let's be clear, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it,
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whether it's lots, braids, or a blowout.
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Black women are free to express themselves however they want.
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Our hair isn't undone. It's a masterpiece, and it's time that the world catch up. Excellent.
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All right, y'all, that concludes this episode of For the Fam podcast, episode 26.
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And we'll holla at you guys next time Peace.