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Ep. 27 - Online Betting & the Consequences: Under the Lens · 4DAFAM

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  Let me hear you.
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  Me hear you. I'm Six Mill, keeping it true. It's your boy, KG.
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  Welcome to episode 27 of For The Fam Podcast.
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  Carlton Fisk episode.
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  I thought he was 72.
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  For the White Sox, he wore 27 at one point. Unless I'm high and I don't smoke. Okay, well, whatever.
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  Man, so what's good, bro? What's been on your mind? Oh, nothing much, man.
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  Just as we were talking about before we came on, I'm just getting over this
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  little bug I had, but everything's good. Cool, cool, cool.
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  All right, man. So what are we going to get into today? So today we want to
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  talk about betting. Mm-hmm.
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  Specifically, you know, FanDuel, DraftKings, the ability to have the gambling
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  right in the palm of your hands. Mm-hmm.
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  And in a sense, how it's detrimental or how it's beneficial or we're going to
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  get into all of that? I think everything. Everything?
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  Unfortunately, and in my opinion, personally, not many pros to it.
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  Just in my opinion. Have I done it? Absolutely. Do I have a DraftKings account? Absolutely.
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  But if you really step back, like if you're not addicted to gambling and you
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  really step back and look at it, there's not many pros to having all of this
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  stuff in the palm of your hands, unless you're a politician and you want the money.
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  All right. Well, I'm not going to be hypocritical either.
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  I do not have the online baiting accounts, but I have participated in office
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  polls or pools, I guess I should say, when it comes to March Madness.
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  I've filled out brackets and, you know, I've done fantasy football leagues.
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  I've done pick them leagues. So I'm not going to lie and say that I'm immune
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  to gambling, but you're right.
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  With it being so accessible now, I think it is a huge issue.
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  And I think the fact that it's targeting young men is one of the things that
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  I'm sure we'll cover as we get into this conversation.
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  All right. Well, go ahead, bro. So I'll just piggyback right off of what you just said.
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  So one of the stats that I recently that I saw and they just updated recently
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  among younger men age 18 to 34 from the polls.
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  Basically, you know, and I'm laughing because you just did. I did,
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  which is why it was fresh on my mind also about polls.
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  So 90% that they polled, and I don't have a number, I don't have the exact number,
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  but 90% of them believe they can actually make a living,
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  reliable money, make a living gambling on DraftKings and FanDuel.
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  90 percent while it's
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  not impossible no but you gotta you gotta
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  spend yeah not not only do you
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  have to spend but you have to to to
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  take the term spin and utilize it in a different way you
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  have to spend an enormous amount of time doing
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  research oh which is one of
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  the reasons why no exactly which is one of the reasons why i
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  stopped doing fantasy football because i find myself
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  spending so much time doing research on
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  player x and player y and monitoring injury
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  reports and all that i'm just like i am spending way too
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  much time doing this and i
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  still may not win correct so so
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  so yeah it it's not
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  impossible to make a living but it's
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  like winning the lottery as they say well how
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  many times have we seen you know they talk about how big
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  Floyd Mayweather laid down or Drake laid
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  down they don't tell you that Drake laid
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  down a one million dollar bet to win two and a half you you putting down twenty
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  dollars you gonna win fifty and if you win you know what that does that dopamine
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  kicks in shoot I won that maybe I can win two hundred next time alright so.
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  Well, we'll probably end up reading a lot of stats during this conversation.
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  Of course, we'll have our own opinions, but we actually try and be factual.
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  So we're going to rely on stats for a lot of this conversation, or at least I am.
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  So don't be annoyed by the fact that there's going to be some reading done during
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  this episode. You should be happy the fact that there are stats because stats
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  show you that there have been studies done. Correct.
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  Because we're just sitting up here jaw jacking and it's just an opinion based. Correct. Correct.
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  Correct. Correct. And no one likes to listen to anyone speak from the book of opinions.
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  All right. So anyway, let me get into some of this financial data.
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  Studies have found a direct correlation between the legalization of online sports
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  betting and a decline in household financial health.
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  Basically meaning some of these fools are gambling away their rent money,
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  light, gas, grocery, putting themselves in a financial bind,
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  like you said, thinking that they're going to win big.
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  And really, all you're doing is putting your family or your living situation in peril.
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  So I'm going to let you I'm going to let you continue. But I want to add something
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  to that. There has been a bankruptcy spike.
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  It shows 25 to 25 to 30 percent increase in bankruptcy filings within the first
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  three to four years of the apps going live. That's where I was going next.
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  So, yeah, that's cool. That's exactly where I was going next.
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  Let's see here. What about some of the psychological and health risks?
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  So let me, I just had that. So unlike a casino, you got chips in front of you. Mm-hmm.
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  That's visual. Mm-hmm. You got one damn chip left to play. Let me go ahead and
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  play this chip and get the hell up out of it. Yep.
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  When you're dealing with these apps, it's not visual.
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  You wake up in the middle of the night and place a bet. Your card is attached
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  to it. Your credit card is attached to it.
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  So there's no chips in front of you telling you, hey, you can't afford this. Right. Leave it alone.
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  Right. Something else I saw this morning, a lot of these apps,
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  they don't look like financial transactions because that's what they are,
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  financial transactions. They look like a game.
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  They look flashy and fancy because it's the dopamine.
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  It's kind of like, and I hate to compare it to like Candy Crush.
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  Remember when Candy Crush came out, like you had people, you had news stories
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  of people playing Candy Crush for two and three days straight.
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  Well, yeah, it is designed to be a dick.
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  Yeah, it's designed to be appealing.
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  So, yeah, there is that aesthetic that makes you always want to be involved.
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  And what we were saying about the accessibility.
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  It's at your fingertips at all times. So you could be having a conversation
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  with someone in the office. Hey, you know, such and such got hurt last night.
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  They out for the season. Then you pick up your phone and now you placing bets
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  on, you know, tonight's game based on that information may not even be real.
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  And you can hide your addiction to gambling when it's on your phone.
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  Yeah, for sure. Especially if you're a single person. For sure.
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  Now, your spouse will real quick.
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  Hey, yo, what happened to the money? If you're a single person,
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  it's so fast, so easy to go into debt, especially if you're not doing your research.
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  Correctamundo. Let's talk about some of these mental health disorders.
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  Problem gambling is linked to higher rates of depression, anxiety and low self-esteem.
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  In a 2025 survey, 76% of student gamblers reported experiencing stress and anxiety
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  related to their betting.
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  Research indicates that the brain's reward system, which is that dopamine that
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  you were just speaking of,
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  can be altered by frequent betting features like losses disguised as wins and
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  all of that kind of stuff to ease you.
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  Ease you into thinking, yeah, you just lost, but it's not that bad.
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  Well, another thing that's buried in the fine print to a lot of these things.
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  Bet here, get up to $250 back if you lose.
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  Well, that $250 goes as a credit. Yep.
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  I've been there. So it goes as a credit. And if you win.
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  They taking that $250 back before you get your payout? Yeah, you get to keep it.
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  But you have to bet a certain amount of times before you're even eligible to pull that $250 out.
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  Oh, so they getting it back either way. Correct.
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  So even if you're winning, you have to keep betting. Yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah. Just to get any of that money back. Interesting.
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  But it's buried in the fine print. Sure, sure, sure. The devil's always in the details, as they say.
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  Let's talk about suicide risk. The World Health Organization,
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  who, for lack of a better terms, that always made me laugh.
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  And other public health entities have noted that individuals with gambling disorders
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  are significantly more likely to experience suicidal ideas.
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  One study found that they are 15 more times likely to die from suicide than
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  the rest of the population.
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  There's also the one in five rule.
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  The National Council on Problem Gambling reports that one out of every five
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  people with a severe gambling addiction will attempt suicide.
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  Not actually, not that it's successful, but will attempt it.
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  One out of five. One out of five people with gambling addictions.
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  Yeah, that's crazy, bro. Let's talk about some of this prop betting stuff.
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  He got me so and we spoke about this in our conversation earlier this week is
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  it ruining the integrity of sports it can it can,
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  because you could easily where when you and I were growing up there's a couple
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  stories from the 90s of I think it was in Arizona State where they threw a game
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  and it was huge there's a 30 for 30 on it now as you and I were talking about Terry Rozier.
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  Over and under 13 points i got 12 twist
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  my ankle right i can miss a free throw right and
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  nobody would ever be the wiser right as long as there's
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  not a huge abundance of money on that
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  that prop and and the the
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  the what makes it easier to
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  hide quote unquote is the
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  fact that 13 points may or
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  may not even determine the outcome of the game right
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  be a 20 25 point blowout no exactly right
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  so so so at that point you can disguise that
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  you're actually in cahoots with the betting system by like you said missing
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  a free throw faking an injury just passing up open shots all of these things
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  just so you don't exceed that 13 points you know commit fouls so you get taken out,
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  There's there are so many ways that one can affect just their personal statistics
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  without affecting the outcome of the game, which is.
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  In my opinion, definitely has an effect on the integrity of sports.
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  You and I have seen many a stupid foul in the game. Mm-hmm. Like,
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  why did they commit that foul? Mm-hmm.
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  Correct. Now it doesn't just go by the wayside like it used to.
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  It makes one question everything, right?
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  When we were young or coming up.
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  Not to say it did or didn't happen, but most of the time you just went out there
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  and played hard you played to win.
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  But now if i know me and
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  my boys gonna come up if if i
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  only make five shots tonight i only scored 10
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  points me and my boys about to come up because i told them all bet on me to
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  not score over 10 points which is why i think that the the focus shifted to
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  terry rosier that time for sure it It was like $280,000 total was bet around the country.
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  And people were like, so we got a $280,000 bet on Terry Rose here to be under whatever the overrun.
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  That doesn't make any... When the previous was like $3,000, $5,000.
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  And now we got almost... Well, we got over a quarter of a million. Right. Right.
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  It is. Yeah. And I mean, we're focusing on basketball, but this applies to all sports.
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  It's easy to do in all sports, for lack of a better term.
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  I mean, I think baseball, as far as someone they're batting,
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  how easy it would be if the over is for you to go two for four.
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  How easy it would be to go one for four or O for four.
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  And we've seen some of the greatest players in the history of baseball have an 0-4-4 day.
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  I mean, we see it all the time. Guys just look at a pitch right down the plate
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  and you go, why didn't you swing at that? Yeah.
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  But you can't question it because it happens so often that you're just like,
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  well, he's just having an off day. He's having a bad day.
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  And then you get in the batter's box and see a 100-mile-an-hour fastball and
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  you go, oh, that's why there's so many foul balls.
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  That's why there's so many strikeouts. well that's a
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  whole different podcast yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah without a doubt
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  so so yeah in my opinion it is definitely ruining
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  or i should say could be ruining the
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  integrity of sports but let's let's let's
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  let's move and talk about calcium okay go ahead real quick
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  i want to double back to the did you know that 80 of
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  all people that call the gambling helpline are
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  calling with suicidal thoughts 80% wow 80% yeah it's legal bro yeah it's it's
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  it's legal which leads us right into the next entity we're going to talk about
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  which is calcium now if I'm not.
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  Mistaken, isn't Don Jr. associated with Kalshi?
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  Isn't he on their board of directors or something to that effect?
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  One of them is on there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  So if you're not familiar with Kalshi and they try and distinguish themselves
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  from DraftKings, FanDuel,
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  and the others, they try and distinguish themselves by marketing their organization
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  as predictive marketing.
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  Not sports betting, even though they also participate in sports betting.
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  And I think the majority of their bets are related to sports,
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  but you can also bet on anything on Calci. Here's what's crazy.
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  It's listed as a financial market, not a sports book, which is why it's legal
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  to vote on it in Texas and California.
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  It wouldn't be legal, but they introduced it as a financial market.
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  So now it's legal in certain states that don't allow sports back.
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  So it's the intricacies of it behind the scenes.
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  And I know this is people have been manipulating words to get ahead forever, but it just seems so.
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  Like I saw a YouTube video of a streamer watching a speech and it was over under
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  how many times Donald Trump will say a certain word. That part.
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  Dude lost his mind because he won like three thousand dollars.
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  That part right there. That's exactly what I was about to get into is the fact
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  that on Calci, you can vote on things such as how many times Donald Trump will
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  say a word during the speech or how long a state of a union address will be.
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  So on and so forth. With him, you can always bet the over.
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  How easy would it be for Don Jr., though, or whichever one of them that's on
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  the board? To say to his father, hey.
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  Exactly. And now you sort of have an insider trading type atmosphere, right?
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  So now the books are cooked, as they say in betting terms. I mean,
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  nowadays, though, I mean, he'll probably forget what kind of speech he's got.
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  That's also a factor. You can't you can't depend on them.
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  But again, I believe someone placed a bet on like Caroline Levitt's address
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  one day, like how long her address was going to be, her press briefing.
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  So how how how easy is it to go? Hey, Caroline.
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  Keep this under five minutes. Who the hell wants to bet on this shit?
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  I don't even want to watch it. Why the hell would I bet on it?
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  But if you know you're about to come up, though.
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  Yeah. No, I feel you. You're right. It's not worth watching because,
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  you know, however long it is, it's just full of lies and idiocacies.
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  But, yeah, if you know that you're about to come up, I mean,
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  unscrupulous people do unscrupulous things.
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  So, yeah, that's the problem with Kalshi. And if I'm not mistaken,
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  they they are being sued or they have like some type of a case coming up with the Supreme Court.
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  Betting on betting on man, I'm trying to think and I know I read this. I'm sorry, y'all.
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  I'm getting it right now. I think it's something related to basically the insider
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  trading part of it and what you were saying about California and Texas and whatnot. So, sorry, y'all.
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  Oh, yeah, there's a... Yeah, they're in trouble. They're in legal...
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  Oh, my God. They're in legal trouble. Yeah, there's actually quite a few.
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  A lawsuit from this month says a unique lawsuit was filed in California,
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  alleging Koushi was ghoulish for allowing people to trade on the death or survival
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  of world leaders, specifically regarding the supreme leader of Iran.
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  The lawsuit claims this crosses the line from market research and the disturbing public interest.
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  And also is the fact that they were marketing towards college students.
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  Right right is it is it something and i think that that may be
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  the case that i'm thinking of is they're in trouble for
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  marketing their their site towards college students
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  who are already in debt and whatever
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  whatever so they're they're preying on the young men i had something about that
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  for draft kings and fanduel okay and maybe maybe i'm maybe i'm mixing them up
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  but there was there's countless stories of college students betting just so
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  they can have food eat They got $5.
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  Well, I'm going to put it on this parlay and this game in a couple hours because
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  that $5 can turn into $100. That $5 can turn into $200.
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  So now they have food to eat. Yeah.
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  Another thing, too, going back to the FanDuel and DraftKings,
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  you now have betting where you can just use your face.
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  So your face ID, like you unlock your phone and the one-touch betting,
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  It eliminates the steps that people usually have before reality kicks in and
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  they go, wait a minute, I probably shouldn't be doing this.
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  But if I got face ID, use your face to bet and it's done.
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  Well, that's also one of the things that I think they're in trouble for is the
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  lack of consumer protection, so to speak.
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  Right. Because it's unregulated.
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  You can just bet and bet and bet and bet, and no one's going to tell you, cool out. Yeah.
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  You're doing too much right now. Take a step back. So I think that's one of
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  the other things that's being regulated at this point, or they're at least trying
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  to introduce legislation to regulate it.
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  Arizona specifically, they filed that Couchy is basically running an illegal
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  betting ring. Because since it's listed as a financial market instead of sports
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  betting, that it's illegal in the state of Arizona.
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  So the attorney general actually brought that as a criminal case against Koushi. Good.
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  Good. Get them. Get them all. Get them all.
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  And I've always thought that it was a bad idea to do the online betting thing.
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  And again, to each his own. I'm not here to ridicule anyone,
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  but just proceed with caution. So I'll use an example.
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  You remember that? I think it was the bubble when Bam Adebayo blocked Jason
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  Tatum's shot at the rim to win the series or win the game.
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  Bro, I won $190 on that block. Oh, wow. On that block.
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  Like, I lost my mind. $190. On one play. I lost all of it within 24 hours. Mm-hmm.
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  Now, I only bet, I think it was like $20, $30. I had some boost,
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  which is what got me, was the boost. Yeah.
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  And I won on that, lost all of it.
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  Interesting. I was like, oh, yeah, I know basketball. I could do this,
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  dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah. None of that stuff. Yeah. Lost it all. Yeah.
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  I was mad as hell. That was my life. I could have paid my life big.
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  Right, right, right. Right. And that and that part right there is the fact that
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  people are taking money that is allocated for bills, groceries,
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  et cetera, and betting it.
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  And it's funny to bring up the movie Focus when he was talking about the Asian
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  guy, when he when he wins, but he bets low.
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  He's not happy that he won he's looking
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  at it like if i had better extra my winnings
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  would have doubled and i think that's what
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  the uh gambling addiction becomes is you're
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  not happy that you won 500 you're looking
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  at it like man had i bet that extra 50
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  maybe i could have won a thousand these high rollers man
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  they'll win 600 grand and mad at themselves because they couldn't
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  want when i could have won 900 000 no yeah yeah
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  yeah no but i'm just i'm just saying in general oh yeah you
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  know you know when when one starts to develop that mindset of not not accepting
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  the win as a win but looking at the win as a loss because they didn't bet enough
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  yeah you know that i think that's where it becomes dangerous and once you develop that mindset.
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  Then it might be time to get some help. Well, next time I'm going to bet 200
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  grand. That part. Instead of 100 grand.
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  That part. Or I'm going to bet this whole thousand.
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  Knowing you got rent to pay, but I'm going to bet this thousand.
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  Because last time I only won 500. If I bet this thousand, then I can win 3,000.
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  Yeah. You know. So that's our discussion, our main topic discussion, y'all.
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  Betting, FanDuel, DraftKings, Couchy, et cetera. Proceed with caution.
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  We're not telling anyone not to.
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  We're just saying be cautious, be careful, you know, consider everything that
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  could go wrong instead of focusing on everything that could go right.
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  I think that's a healthy way of looking at it. You have to put the risk before the rewards.
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  You may think that that's a loser's way of looking at it, but it'll keep you
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  out of trouble. I'm just saying.
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  But that's the point. It's like with the lottery.
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  I drive by that sign on 465 East 20 times a week.
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  And every time I look up at it, I say, man, wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't it be nice?
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  When's the last time you bought a lottery ticket? 10 years?
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  Probably the same. I'm going to tell you what stopped me. quick quick quick
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  story y'all and then we're going to move on to our current events,
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  so it was one of those one billion jackpot joints me and like maybe five or
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  six other guys from the office all put in like five dollars this was before
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  they raised the ticket price to two dollars So it was a dollar, no, a dollar a ticket.
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  We all put in like $5 and we had 30, 40 tickets, something like that.
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  You know how much money we won, bro? Probably about $80. One dollar.
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  One dollar out of like 40 tickets. We won one dollar, bro.
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  After that, I was like, yeah, I'm done. This is rigged.
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  I'm like, I'm good. That was the last time I played the lottery, bro.
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  So, yeah, you're right. I ride past those signs. You know, you see the news headlines.
• 26:32
  Powerball is up to this amount. Don't you know, what's the other one?
• 26:35
  Mega millions. Mega millions, yeah. And you're just like, man, it'd be great.
• 26:40
  To even hit half would be great. But you know what's funny is then you walk
• 26:44
  into a gas station and you see the layout at the front counter.
• 26:47
  I often forget that they have a pick five or a daily three or something.
• 26:52
  And I look at that number like it's nothing. And it'll be like 90 grand. Right.
• 26:57
  And I'm acting like 90 grand won't change my life. No, facts.
• 27:00
  Facts. Like if you're going to play it like I'm trying to win $800 million when
• 27:05
  all I need is that $90,000. Facts. I ain't great.
• 27:09
  Facts. I mean, yeah, you can't quit your job, but it'll definitely change your life.
• 27:13
  You're definitely going to your job with a new attitude. Man.
• 27:17
  What up? I've been with Chappelle. I thought he got Oprah pregnant. Yeah. I quit.
• 27:24
  Yeah. Facts. All right, y'all. We're going to leave that conversation there
• 27:28
  for now. we're going to move right into our current events.
• 27:32
  You got a current event you want to discuss, brother? I do.
• 27:34
  So I want to go away from politics.
• 27:37
  I want to go back. I'm going to go home. Okay.
• 27:41
  Not Hammond, but Lake Station. So I'm not sure if you saw the story.
• 27:45
  So on March 22nd, a kid named Rodrigo Montez, 18 years old.
• 27:52
  He was a senior at River Forest in Lake Station.
• 27:55
  So he and one of his buddies Using their quotes Because I don't know the full
• 27:59
  story They left the party,
• 28:03
  Somebody found his buddy's truck upside down in Deep River.
• 28:09
  He survived and went home, bro. Went home. Didn't call it in? Went home.
• 28:18
  Somebody stumbled across the truck, found it. He claims he has no idea where Rico is. No clue.
• 28:27
  He's at Rico's parents' house 4 o'clock that morning, because I think this happened
• 28:31
  at like 12, 1 o'clock or maybe the night before or something like that.
• 28:36
  He don't know what happened to him. He don't know where he is.
• 28:40
  Just not saying anything. Well, they found his body yesterday in the river,
• 28:44
  not far from where the truck was.
• 28:46
  But the reason I bring this up, because I saw it a lot in my kids,
• 28:51
  and I know you and I have briefly talked about this over the years.
• 28:55
  Find you friends that are reliable and are
• 28:59
  your friends don't just
• 29:02
  jump in the truck the car or run
• 29:05
  into any and everybody's house thinking that they have your best interests at
• 29:09
  heart now the man who's sitting to my left i know that if at any given moment
• 29:16
  well one i know he's not gonna drive like a fool if i'm in the in the car with
• 29:20
  him but if any given moment i know that I need him,
• 29:24
  I know I can call on him and it's guaranteed.
• 29:27
  I'm going to be there. He's going to be there. It ain't no question.
• 29:30
  Where you at? I'm on my way.
• 29:31
  But this breaks my heart because this kid was 18 by all accounts was headed to greatness in life.
• 29:38
  And I guess they said, like, some of the people, when they mentioned who the
• 29:42
  kid was, like, nobody, well, they knew who he was, but he wasn't,
• 29:46
  like, as close as friends as it was being made out to be in the press.
• 29:52
  So there was no foul play or anything? It was just an accident?
• 29:56
  My guess is speeding, lost control, flipped the truck.
• 30:01
  Scared, panicked. Survived. Took off. Wow.
• 30:05
  Yeah, that's crazy. So people you and I grew up with. You know what I mean?
• 30:09
  Some of those folks live in Lake Station, Gary. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 30:12
  They have been posting articles and posting about it and whatnot.
• 30:15
  I didn't say nothing because I don't comment on stuff like that publicly.
• 30:18
  But in my mind, I immediately said when I saw the article, that kid's in that water somewhere.
• 30:24
  But they were looking for him. They were all over Lake Station searching for
• 30:28
  him. And in my mind, to myself, I'm thinking, he in that water.
• 30:33
  18. He in that water. Still a baby. And then, like I said, you see all the things
• 30:38
  he was involved in, grades, sports, good kid, level head on his shoulders,
• 30:44
  was going places in life.
• 30:45
  And now he's gone because somebody would eventually will probably come out that
• 30:49
  he was speeding and lost control of the truck.
• 30:52
  God rest his soul. Yeah, that's horrible.
• 30:56
  Yeah, absolutely horrible. One, this is why it's important to wear seatbelts. Man.
• 31:02
  Don't be too cool for the seatbelt. I can't drive without a seatbelt now.
• 31:07
  I'm so used to it. You know, don't be too cool for the seatbelt. They do save lives.
• 31:14
  Yes, when it first came out, we were all like, why?
• 31:19
  But it does save lives. It is important to wear seatbelts. I got three seatbelt
• 31:23
  tickets when I first moved here in a 40-day span. Mm-hmm.
• 31:28
  Since that day, I've been wearing seatbelts. Yeah, I hear you. I hear you.
• 31:33
  Were you finished with that, bro? Yeah, yeah. All right. So for my current event,
• 31:38
  I want to talk about something really current, actually taking place right now
• 31:43
  as we record this podcast.
• 31:45
  And this is the No Kings rallies that are happening across the United States,
• 31:53
  maybe even across the globe. I'm not 100% sure. Tokyo, for sure. Okay. All right.
• 31:59
  And while it's great, right?
• 32:03
  Participation is great. Turnout is great. Huge crowds. Is it enough?
• 32:10
  What does it accomplish? I'm not saying that to be negative,
• 32:15
  saying that because I'm thinking, are we missing an opportunity here?
• 32:23
  You know, tomorrow he'll still be president.
• 32:26
  Next week, he'll still be president.
• 32:29
  He's not getting impeached because of no king's rallies.
• 32:34
  So what are we accomplishing by letting everyone know that we're mad? OK, that's cool.
• 32:40
  But what else? Are you registering people to vote, especially considering with
• 32:46
  the SAVE Act coming down the pipe?
• 32:49
  This would be the perfect opportunity to register people to vote without the
• 32:55
  extra rigmarole of having a passport and all the other silly shit that they're
• 33:01
  trying to introduce to make it harder to register.
• 33:03
  This would be the perfect opportunity to be out here registering as many voters to vote as possible.
• 33:10
  And then you won't have to worry about it when the save act comes.
• 33:13
  You're like, hey, we just registered another million people.
• 33:17
  Right. Republican and Democrat. Exactly.
• 33:20
  Register. Exactly. So, yes, the rally is cool.
• 33:24
  Yes, we're in solidarity. That's all great. But what action are you doing besides the rally?
• 33:33
  Do something more. All right.
• 33:36
  I'm not trying to be negative. I don't want to see a for no kings rally in two
• 33:42
  months without you saying that you got a plan of action besides just getting
• 33:47
  together and marching in the streets and all this other stuff.
• 33:51
  Raise money because. Right.
• 33:53
  Right. Do something extra. Take initiative. Take another action.
• 33:58
  Register people to vote. Raise campaign funds for people who are running.
• 34:03
  You know, just do something besides getting together and marching and yelling and holding up signs.
• 34:13
  All i agree 100 and and
• 34:17
  and although i i definitely want
• 34:20
  to see people out and about as you do there has to be a goal added with that
• 34:28
  and correct they're very well maybe correct but if it is let's hear about it
• 34:33
  correct exactly we got social media exactly get it out there Exactly.
• 34:38
  Have everyone share it and go from there. Correct. Correct.
• 34:42
  Every city that's hosting a no kings rally should have registered to vote tables
• 34:49
  set up where people are getting registered.
• 34:52
  Even if you just need to.
• 34:54
  Hey, my address changed since the last time I voted. Let me just make sure.
• 34:59
  OK, yeah, yeah, you're still good.
• 35:01
  You know what I'm saying? Oh, my zip code changed.
• 35:04
  Where do I need? OK, yeah, you need to go to this precinct to vote.
• 35:07
  Just just something, some type of action that's actually going to have an effect
• 35:13
  on future elections, not just against Trump, but future elections,
• 35:18
  period, regardless of who the candidates are.
• 35:20
  Correct yeah so that that's that's my
• 35:23
  that's my current event and we're going to march
• 35:26
  right into our word our rant about
• 35:29
  a random topic ah i'm going to get in some trouble i'm oh my god i've been debating
• 35:38
  with myself all week should i talk about this and you know what screw it i'm
• 35:45
  just going to get in some trouble right now. I know it.
• 35:48
  I know I'm going to get pushed back, but I got to say what's on my heart.
• 35:54
  So there's a new series on Apple TV called Independent Women,
• 36:01
  starring Kerry Washington, Elizabeth Moss, Kate Mara, and a few others.
• 36:09
  This isn't a rant about that series.
• 36:15
  This is a rant about Kerry Washington.
• 36:19
  I love Kerry Washington. I think she's a great actress. I really do.
• 36:27
  But you know what I am sick of?
• 36:31
  Kerry Washington and the white love interest.
• 36:36
  Every series that she appears on, she has a white love interest.
• 36:44
  I'm kind of tired of it. Scandal. White love interest.
• 36:50
  The joint she had with Delroy Lindo. I'm sorry I forget the title,
• 36:54
  but, you know, he was her father that just got out of jail.
• 36:57
  Her ex-husband. White. Last King of Scotland. White.
• 37:03
  This new show, Independent Women, Joel Kinnaman, is the white love interest.
• 37:10
  And I'm just like, what's up with that? And you're married to an African man.
• 37:16
  I don't get it, bro. I don't. I didn't. I didn't watch the. What was the other
• 37:22
  one with Reese Witherspoon?
• 37:23
  And I know what you're talking about. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't.
• 37:26
  I didn't watch that. So I don't I don't know if she had a white love interest on that.
• 37:31
  But there's a trend here. right there's Tiana Taylor what's the movie that just
• 37:39
  won best picture one battle after another I was about to say this that in the third.
• 37:45
  I know that wasn't it but I was going to play oh man one battle after another,
• 37:53
  she don't have one white love interest she has two white love interests in this
• 38:02
  movie to go back to our burn Hollywood burn episode.
• 38:08
  Y'all should go check that out. It's a good episode. There's a trend here.
• 38:13
  This is one of my gripes with Hollywood. You have a young black, attractive woman.
• 38:20
  You can't wait to match her up with the white man so they can be the love interest,
• 38:27
  regardless of the white man.
• 38:29
  Age difference, whatever, et cetera.
• 38:32
  You're getting paired up with the white man. It'll help your career.
• 38:36
  They did it to Holly Berry.
• 38:38
  They did it to Angela Bassett. They do it to Kerry Washington.
• 38:43
  They're doing it to Tiana Taylor.
• 38:46
  When will it stop? There's subliminal messaging taking place here.
• 38:52
  Man, you just racist. No, no, no, no. No, there is subliminal messaging taking
• 39:00
  place here that dates all the way back to slavery.
• 39:05
  You often bring it up about how they sexualize a black woman and they always
• 39:11
  make it seem like it's the black woman who can't resist the white man.
• 39:17
  But rarely, and I mean rarely, do you see your young white starlets get paired
• 39:25
  up with black romantic leads.
• 39:29
  And when it does happen, it's always outrage.
• 39:34
  What are you doing to your career? What are you doing? You're going to lose your fan base.
• 39:39
  This is the issue that I have with this. This is my issue with Kerry Washington.
• 39:44
  Please stop. I'm just saying, please, please stop pairing her up with the white
• 39:51
  man on every freaking show that she's on.
• 39:55
  And nine times out of 10, she's the side piece, which makes it even worse,
• 40:00
  in my opinion. I didn't think about that.
• 40:03
  Scandal, she was the side piece on this new show. She's the side piece.
• 40:10
  It off. I'm just saying for real, knock it off. And she's not a new actress.
• 40:17
  She's been, she, she has pull. Correct.
• 40:21
  I agree. So, so yeah, she has the ability to reject some of these roles in my opinion.
• 40:27
  So yeah, I'm just, I'm just, I'm over it.
• 40:32
  I'm over it. That's my work, bro. Go ahead. Yes.
• 40:37
  So I want to talk about recent analysis from the Social Security Administration's chief actuary.
• 40:44
  So it indicates that the 2025 tax
• 40:48
  and spending law that OBB or that OBB bullshit has created a projected one hundred
• 40:57
  and sixty nine billion dollar gap in Social Security trust funds over the next 10 years. $169 billion.
• 41:05
  The law is popular for, at least in right-wing circles, for repealing the windfall
• 41:11
  elimination provision, but giving long overdue raises to millions of retired
• 41:18
  teachers and as first responders,
• 41:20
  it didn't include a way to pay for those extra costs.
• 41:23
  This mismatch combined with new tax deductions for tips and overtime that reduce
• 41:28
  payroll tax revenue has moved the projected insolvency date of the trust fund forward to late 2032.
• 41:38
  So what that means is unless Congress acts within the next six years to find
• 41:42
  the new revenue source, we could
• 41:44
  see an automatic across-the-board benefit cut of 23% for all retirees.
• 41:52
  Well, isn't that their plan, though? I mean, hasn't that been their dream for
• 41:58
  the last 30 years to get rid of Social Security? Correct.
• 42:02
  So the reason I chose this as a rant and most of the stuff I just read came
• 42:07
  from a specific article.
• 42:10
  Social security for you and I growing up, we were always told it's basically
• 42:13
  like a savings account. Where the fuck is that money?
• 42:17
  That's our money. Where is it? And this isn't a bash to Republicans.
• 42:23
  Hey, Clinton, where is it? George Bush, where is it? That's our money.
• 42:28
  Obama, where is it? Yeah.
• 42:30
  Now, Trump is making it worse. Correct. Clearly and statistically, he's making it worse.
• 42:35
  But the fact that we even argue about Social Security is the strangest political
• 42:42
  argument that we have in this country, in my opinion.
• 42:45
  That money is supposed to be sitting somewhere.
• 42:48
  But y'all been gambling.
• 42:51
  It's not just that we argue about Social Security.
• 42:55
  It's the fact that we argue about social programs in general.
• 43:01
  That's the crazy part. So that's snowfall in New York City. Mm-hmm.
• 43:06
  Remember the exact dollar amount, but it was a lot. That man called out the
• 43:11
  city. I think it was like $30 an hour, $20 an hour.
• 43:14
  The city sidewalks now, somebody in New York might be listening.
• 43:18
  I know it didn't clear every sidewalk in the city, but the Manhattan,
• 43:22
  the main streets and sidewalks were clear.
• 43:25
  He got pushback on it. That's a social, no, that's a job, paying for a job to be done.
• 43:33
  He recently did the same thing for potholes. Apparently they filled 8,000 potholes
• 43:39
  in one day in New York City.
• 43:42
  Well, you just mentioned socialist programs.
• 43:47
  We wouldn't need socialist programs if people were actually paid an adequate wage.
• 43:55
  And you took care of your elderly as you are supposed to. Because they took care of you Correct.
• 44:02
  When they were in their early years. Correct.
• 44:05
  You fight against an increase in minimum wage, saying that it will actually cost people jobs.
• 44:12
  No data to support that, by the way.
• 44:14
  But you you you you you you argue against raising minimum wage.
• 44:20
  You argue for tax on tips, which most waiters and waitresses don't make enough
• 44:27
  tips that they have to file taxes anyway on it, right?
• 44:31
  So your tax on tips isn't really for service people. It's really for people
• 44:38
  who get left gobs of money.
• 44:41
  That's what the no tax on tips is really about.
• 44:45
  People who inherit money so they won't have to pay taxes on it.
• 44:49
  It's not about the service industry.
• 44:51
  You don't make enough from from from tips.
• 44:56
  You know what I'm saying? So I want to talk about that, too.
• 44:59
  Minimum wage real quick.
• 45:01
  The MIT Living Wage Calculator, this was updated in February of this year.
• 45:07
  The federal minimum wage should be $21 an hour across the board,
• 45:12
  flat out, no ifs, ands, or buts about it, based on increase in wages.
• 45:17
  Based on inflation. Based on cost of living and inflation. Yeah, absolutely.
• 45:20
  So in places like California, New York, and Massachusetts, it should be $30 plus.
• 45:27
  Bro, is that what? $7.50? $7.25, ain't it? $7.25, bro.
• 45:33
  Some states have actually increased it to like $15. $15, which is still a joke.
• 45:37
  Yeah, but that's few and far between.
• 45:40
  So $7.25 an hour is $15,000 before taxes. Mm-hmm.
• 45:46
  $15,000. My first job, I don't know if you remember what you made is your first job.
• 45:51
  I made $4.15 an hour. I was about to say, bro, it was $4 and something.
• 45:55
  Yeah. I want you to remember how long we've been working.
• 45:58
  All our lives, but yeah. 34 years yeah for sure.
• 46:04
  Wage was, I think, where? It was $4.15. $4.15 or either $4.25.
• 46:10
  Yeah, one of those. One of those. It's gone up $3.
• 46:13
  Yeah. In 34 years. Yeah. Yeah.
• 46:17
  Yeah. If anybody, I don't care who you support, you can be MAGA,
• 46:20
  you can be whatever. If you don't look at that and say to yourself,
• 46:23
  well, that's just wrong.
• 46:25
  Then something's wrong with you in here and in here.
• 46:28
  Anybody who argues against it, I want them to go try and live off of $7.25 for
• 46:37
  three months, for $12, for $15.
• 46:42
  Go do it for three months. You can't do it. You cannot do it.
• 46:46
  As a single person, it's going to be tough. So if you add children to the mix,
• 46:52
  there's absolutely no way you can do it without help. There's no way you can
• 46:57
  do it without a social net program.
• 46:59
  You need it. We need it. And it'll make everybody better.
• 47:04
  We often talk about if everyone was making enough, I'm not saying that it would eliminate crime,
• 47:13
  but it would reduce crime a lot if everyone just had enough to survive. All right.
• 47:20
  Think about just the end of the blocks that you and I lived on.
• 47:24
  We lived right next to each other blocks wise.
• 47:27
  At the end of my block, there was a KFC.
• 47:30
  At the end of your block, there was a Dairy Queen. And then right across the
• 47:34
  street was the Burger King.
• 47:36
  Correct. All of them were closed within five years of us leaving high school.
• 47:40
  That's crazy. What's the way it's supposed to work? Because a lot of people
• 47:43
  we knew worked at that KFC making decent money.
• 47:46
  Same as the Burger King and the Dairy Queen. Thank you.
• 47:51
  Nothing there sterks is gone oh man
• 47:54
  sterks sterks is gone bro so my
• 47:58
  first job bro yeah yeah yeah and
• 48:01
  mine was across the street yeah my point is could one consider that a food desert
• 48:07
  at this point well well all d is right there across the street and then you
• 48:11
  got foods for less which is basically kroger but before kroger but still that's
• 48:15
  up by is it by walmart walmart yeah yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Old Walmart.
• 48:19
  Yeah. But, I mean, you can't walk anywhere. That's my point,
• 48:23
  is it's not in walking distance.
• 48:25
  Yeah, it might only be a mile and a half from where we grew up, if that.
• 48:29
  But if you're carrying a bag of groceries, that walk is a whole lot harder.
• 48:33
  Right. I mean, that's an employment district. Mm-hmm.
• 48:37
  That's and don't live on certain streets where we grew up. You really don't
• 48:41
  have nowhere to go. Correct.
• 48:43
  Like on the outskirts. Correct. Going north. Correct. There's nowhere. Correct.
• 48:48
  Correct. Yeah, it's a lot, bro. So I don't know.
• 48:54
  Are you finished with that? All right, man. I enjoyed that, actually.
• 48:59
  All right, y'all. We're going to move into our five on the black hand side movie
• 49:04
  review. and this week we chose Django Unchained.
• 49:12
  The D is silent. Take it away, my brother.
• 49:15
  All right, so Django was released on Christmas Day 2012.
• 49:21
  It had a production budget of $100 million.
• 49:25
  It actually ended up grossing $450 million worldwide, which was Tarantino's biggest success.
• 49:31
  Talking about slavery, go figure. we gonna
• 49:34
  we gonna we gonna get into him in a second so jamie fox lead character as django
• 49:39
  christoph waltz who's become one of my favorite actors actually won best supporting
• 49:44
  actor for his role as dr king schultz leonardo dicaprio as calvin candy samuel jackson as steven.
• 49:54
  Before mentioned kerry washington as broom hill devon shaft walton gogens is
• 49:59
  billy crash and Don Johnson as Bennett, because I'm not calling him what they
• 50:04
  called him in a way. Mm-mm.
• 50:07
  You want to ask? Okay, yeah. So we mentioned in our Burn Hollywood Burn video,
• 50:14
  sorry to keep referencing this, but it's just one of those things.
• 50:18
  Maybe it was Burn Hollywood Burn.
• 50:20
  Either way, we mentioned that Quentin Tarantino is problematic. Yeah.
• 50:26
  While we enjoy Quentin Tarantino movies,
• 50:30
  the issue with Quentin Tarantino is his pervasive use of the word nigger in
• 50:38
  his movies. ER people. Yeah.
• 50:42
  Unnecessarily. Most of the time. Unnecessarily.
• 50:47
  And I think the number puts it at the word appears between one hundred and two
• 50:53
  and one hundred and ten times in his movies.
• 50:58
  Now, they actually have it broken down in Hateful Eight.
• 51:04
  Sixty five times. Jackie Brown. Thirty eight times.
• 51:10
  And Pulp Fiction, when he was talking about this, this look like a dead nigger depot. Yeah.
• 51:17
  Unnecessary. Completely unnecessary.
• 51:21
  So these are the issues. While I enjoy his movies, it's like, bro, knock it off.
• 51:28
  Like, you don't you don't need to just always say nigger, nigger,
• 51:32
  nigger, nigger, nigger in your movies.
• 51:35
  Not cool. And you're not that cool. All right.
• 51:39
  You don't you don't have a black card where you think, you know,
• 51:43
  I'm cool and I can just say, no, bro, you don't. All right.
• 51:46
  If Eminem don't say it, then none of y'all should say it because he's about
• 51:51
  the only one who can get that card.
• 51:54
  And he's like, I refuse to do it.
• 51:56
  So I don't want to hear none of y'all say it.
• 51:59
  I don't care if you writing for black characters or not is is just unnecessary
• 52:06
  but anyway to get to get back to django and chain you want you want to talk
• 52:10
  about some plot points or you want you want to get get
• 52:12
  me to uh so let me do it or whatever so the setup of the movie it was filmed
• 52:17
  in 1858 where it starts so which is two years before the civil war it opens
• 52:23
  with django of course being marched across Texas in the chain gang,
• 52:27
  where Dr. King Schultz appears.
• 52:30
  For those who don't know, he's a German dentist turned bounty hunter.
• 52:37
  He frees Django because he needs him to identify his next bounty,
• 52:42
  which are the Brittle Brothers. Yes, sir.
• 52:45
  In exchange for his help, Schultz promises Django his complete freedom,
• 52:48
  a horse, and $75, which I didn't do the math, but in 1858, A significant amount of money.
• 52:54
  $75 is a significant amount of bread.
• 52:57
  So they take down the Brittle Brothers.
• 53:01
  Schultz realized that Django is basically a natural marksman.
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  Offers them a partnership. So they spend the winter hunting bounties,
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  collecting rewards, so on and so forth.
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  And then that's when Django reveals his ultimate goal is to get his wife groomed
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  back from Candyland. Correct.
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  Yeah, so this movie, while it has some historical context to it,
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  it's often silly at times.
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  So it's a blend of a traumatic slavery story, a traumatic love story,
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  but mixed in with some humorous moments.
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  I mean, I mean, like really humorous moments and also some touching moments as well.
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  And I think the soft spot that he had for Django was the fact that he was in
• 54:00
  search of his long lost wife and the fact that she knew how to speak German and just sort of.
• 54:06
  Soft spot i think i think he gave up his life yeah
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  yeah make sure that yeah yeah it's
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  gonna be all right yeah it hit a hit a soft spot
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  so so so yeah they form a bond they
• 54:19
  form an unlikely friendship and they go on an adventure and they never say like
• 54:24
  how many years it actually takes but they they just move across the country
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  hunting down white people you know and and uh,
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  It's funny because, you know, Django didn't want to shoot that one guy in front of his son.
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  And, you know, Dr. Schultz like, hey, quit pussyfooting around.
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  You told me you wanted to kill white people. So kill them.
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  But then Dr. Schultz got mad at him when he was being rude to the black slaves
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  when they were marching to Candyland.
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  And, you know, he had to tell him, hey, hold on. you're the
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  same dude who told me to
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  kill this man in front of his son but now
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  you get a queasy stomach when i'm
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  being mean to these slaves he like come on man if if if if we're gonna do this
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  then we need to do it all the way like we can't so it it was it was those type
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  of of moments where I can appreciate the writing of someone like Quentin Tarantino.
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  You know, the conflict between Calvin Candy and Django and they're sort of like
• 55:41
  battle of wits on the way to Candyland.
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  I can appreciate all of those moments.
• 55:47
  Just the pervasive use of nigger is just like, you don't have to do it so much, man.
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  Like, come on, man. Yeah, the writing in a lot of his movies,
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  like with this one, Stephen comes off as this, you know, shucking and jiving, blah, blah, blah.
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  And then you see him and Calvin Candy sitting there drinking wine.
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  Different guy. And he is the mastermind of this plantation.
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  Basically running the plantation.
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  Yeah, you just a face. Yeah. I used to serve your father. Yeah.
• 56:19
  Now you're here, I'm going to serve you. Yeah. But here's what I think. Yeah.
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  Should happen. Yeah. I mean, hell, other than them two sitting in that room
• 56:29
  drinking wine, one of my favorite reveals of Steven was when- The cane. The cane.
• 56:34
  When he dropped the cane, it just turned around like, you know, I count six bullets.
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  Didn't just drop the cane. Start walking normal. Walking normal and the speech pattern changed.
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  Yep. All of that. Everything. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Oh, you thought I was just some dumb. Cold switching. Cold switching. Exactly.
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  To survive as long as he did. Exactly. You thought I was just some old pick-a-nanny.
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  Like, no, I'm actually intelligent just like you.
• 57:03
  Which is why Django didn't show him no mercy because he like,
• 57:06
  oh, bro, you've been faking the funk the whole time.
• 57:10
  Treating these people like this. Yeah. Like, you definitely about to get it.
• 57:18
  We're trying not to spoil the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it,
• 57:24
  but you really should go check it out.
• 57:28
  Did Leo win? Mm-mm. But he got nominated. Yeah, he didn't win until he was fighting
• 57:33
  the Baron. Didn't have but a couple words.
• 57:35
  He should have like five Oscars at this point. Schultz won.
• 57:39
  He won Best Supporting Act. Best Supporting. Okay. And then did Jamie get nominated?
• 57:44
  I don't think so. Jamie didn't even get nominated.
• 57:46
  And Samuel Jackson didn't get nominated either. So only Leo and Schultz got nominated.
• 57:52
  I don't even know if Leo got nominated for this one. I can't remember.
• 57:55
  He's been nominated nominated so many damn times
• 57:58
  yeah yeah yeah for some reason i was
• 58:00
  thinking he got nominated for best lead i don't know i don't know it's not important
• 58:05
  but i but but but you're right christoph did win for uh jango and chain so so
• 58:12
  yeah like like we were saying there are some touching moments there are some
• 58:15
  comedic moments there are some action dude that kkk KC.
• 58:21
  Hilarious. Who cut these hoes in these masks? My wife did. Man.
• 58:28
  Hilarious, bro. Hilarious. Don't ask me and mine for nothing.
• 58:32
  I'm going home. Yeah, him and.
• 58:37
  Jonah Hill. Why do I keep forgetting Jonah Hill? I always want to call him Seth
• 58:41
  Rogen for something. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, I don't know.
• 58:46
  Not nowadays, though. Yeah, I feel you. So something that stuck out,
• 58:53
  but nobody really talks about his outfit, which one, the blue suit.
• 59:00
  Yeah. Okay. So I looked up the backstory of it.
• 59:06
  So it was originally a.
• 59:11
  Homage to a 1770 painting called the blue boy so in this movie though it was used to.
• 59:21
  Basically announce his arrival because he picked that outfit out because he
• 59:25
  didn't know what a free slave dress correct however dressing him in aristocratic
• 59:30
  european clothes that normally white men only announced that he was to be taken
• 59:35
  serious because just as quentin tarantino overuses words,
• 59:40
  he also overdoes it on a lot of other things. Correct.
• 59:43
  Dude, you got to think about it. When he first came around with that suit on,
• 59:48
  everybody's response was, what the fuck is this? Yeah.
• 59:51
  But it's an announcement in the movie that he is to be taken serious.
• 59:55
  He's loud. He's brash. So you can't just ignore me, especially when they rolled
• 59:59
  up on Don Johnson's plantation.
• 1:00:02
  You think the part in his fro, when he first rescued him,
• 1:00:07
  do you think that was a nod to uh frederick
• 1:00:10
  douglas could be yeah yeah i
• 1:00:13
  always looked at that i was just like i wonder if that was like a nod to
• 1:00:16
  frederick douglas but yeah even even with
• 1:00:19
  him riding the horse when they went into
• 1:00:22
  that one town and everyone was like what is going
• 1:00:25
  on here think about how samuel jackson reacted
• 1:00:28
  when they seen him on the horse yeah couldn't fathom yeah
• 1:00:32
  black man riding a horse yeah yeah and and
• 1:00:35
  there was there was something else to his saddle man i
• 1:00:39
  found something about that it was the d branded on the saddle basically to show
• 1:00:43
  that you know he was reclaiming his name okay all right yeah yeah that's cool
• 1:00:49
  you like to do little known facts you know at the end that was actually jamie fox's real horse.
• 1:00:59
  End when they blow up candy land oh yeah yeah yeah yeah that
• 1:01:02
  was actually jamie fox's real horse when he's
• 1:01:05
  doing the tricks and everything yeah he was like
• 1:01:08
  i couldn't get another horse and teach him so i
• 1:01:10
  had to get my own horse in here so yeah that was actually a horse from his personal
• 1:01:16
  stable at the end of the movie that was doing the tricks and stuff gonna be
• 1:01:20
  obedient yeah yeah yeah yeah it's his horse yeah yeah and you know he didn't
• 1:01:25
  have to you know they have to spend that time and trying to train them, whatever, whatever.
• 1:01:28
  So yeah, that's just a little known fact that Jamie Forrest is actually a horse guy.
• 1:01:33
  He rides horses in real life and trains them and actually has a stable.
• 1:01:38
  I also love the fact that he took Calvin Candy clothes at the end also. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:01:46
  My favorite, and my brother makes this one of my favorite, because the way he
• 1:01:50
  laughs about it, which I guess is my laugh too.
• 1:01:53
  Say goodbye to Miss Lord. Bam! I said, say goodbye to Miss Laura.
• 1:02:00
  Bye, Miss Laura. Man, the way she disappeared. She, right.
• 1:02:05
  It reminds me of, it's either End of the Dragon or Return.
• 1:02:09
  When he kicked old boy. Oh, and his head. And his head flew down to the screen. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:13
  I think that's End of the Dragon. Man, I was, man, my brother sent a video of
• 1:02:18
  him watching that one time, laughing. Yeah.
• 1:02:22
  And since then, I'm like, yeah, that's a funny ass scene. He's like,
• 1:02:26
  I said, say bye to Miss Laura.
• 1:02:29
  Bye, Miss Laura. Blew her ass away.
• 1:02:32
  You know, the other thing that stuck out to me was the buck fighting.
• 1:02:38
  Yeah. Fight to the Mandingo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is hard to watch, man.
• 1:02:46
  And it also illustrates how they really felt about black men.
• 1:02:51
  But you know what else is crazy, too? Historians actually debate whether or
• 1:02:54
  not that was a real thing. And I always say to myself, huh?
• 1:02:58
  All the shit that they did to us. You're debating that? Right.
• 1:03:03
  Right. That's your debate? Right. So what, wait, so they think that it wasn't
• 1:03:09
  real because it would devalue them?
• 1:03:11
  Just the accuracy that they say that there's no definite proof that it used
• 1:03:16
  to happen the way that it did in the movie. And I'm like, okay.
• 1:03:20
  What the hell do they want? Video evidence?
• 1:03:27
  Because you know, as a sport I guess they're debating whether or not it was
• 1:03:33
  an organized sport like cockfighting.
• 1:03:35
  Like they did it like that. And I'm like so you're debating whether or not these
• 1:03:42
  horrible people who had slaves put two of them together.
• 1:03:47
  The same people that was raping the wives of these men and having children. Right.
• 1:03:52
  Feeding babies to alligators. Alligator bait. You think that they wouldn't stoop that low?
• 1:03:58
  To make people fight to the death for their entertainment?
• 1:04:02
  Yeah, whatever. Whatever. I guess it's time to rate this thing.
• 1:04:08
  I'm going to give it three and a half high fives on the black hand side.
• 1:04:14
  I can't go any higher than that because again, the use of the word nigger I
• 1:04:24
  felt was unnecessary, but.
• 1:04:27
  Even though it was probably more realistic than we realized,
• 1:04:31
  I really just had a disdain for the Steven character.
• 1:04:36
  Oh, he's he's and he has said it. Yeah. That character is probably the most
• 1:04:40
  hated black man. Yeah. I really just had a disdain.
• 1:04:43
  So so that's why I can't give this a five, but I'll give it a three and a half.
• 1:04:48
  I still recommend this movie. Go watch it.
• 1:04:50
  I like it. You'll enjoy it. But yeah, that that that character itself brings this movie down.
• 1:04:57
  So I got a confession to make before I give my, I didn't watch this movie until like 2018.
• 1:05:04
  Really? I refused to watch it. Really? Yeah. I went to the movies to see it, bro.
• 1:05:08
  I just refused to watch it. Just like I've never seen 12 Years a Slave.
• 1:05:14
  Really? Nope. I've seen clips. I know the Brad Pitt story and all of that.
• 1:05:21
  I've seen a bunch of clips, but sit down and watch it.
• 1:05:24
  No, I know what happens, but I have never sat down and watched that movie all over. Interesting.
• 1:05:29
  I just, I can't do it anymore. Yeah, I feel you. I feel you. I feel you.
• 1:05:34
  I'm going to go with you. Well, you know what? Now, hold on.
• 1:05:37
  I want to go back to something we did a couple weeks ago I talked about.
• 1:05:41
  Christoph Waltz, one of my favorite actors now. White savior.
• 1:05:44
  He's the white savior of this movie. It couldn't just be. For sure.
• 1:05:49
  Now, Django got his. Correct. He came out of, you know, standing tall with his wife. Correct.
• 1:05:54
  And burn, you know, blowing Candyland up. Correct. I understand that.
• 1:05:57
  But he couldn't have done it.
• 1:05:58
  Without? Without Christoph Waltz. Correct. He couldn't have done it. Correct.
• 1:06:02
  He wasn't smart enough. Yeah.
• 1:06:06
  Yeah, no, I feel you. Definitely. But I'm- Definitely the white savior complex
• 1:06:09
  and he was the one who actually got the Oscar.
• 1:06:13
  All the great performances in that movie he was the one who got the
• 1:06:16
  oscar also there were some funny and great performances i
• 1:06:19
  think i'm gonna rock with you on that one three and a half definitely can't
• 1:06:23
  go four or or higher i feel that
• 1:06:25
  i feel that all right y'all that's our five on the blackhand side movie review
• 1:06:30
  and now we're going to roll right into our closing monologue my brother the
• 1:06:36
  floor is yours all right so i'm gonna do something different today i'm gonna
• 1:06:41
  do something sort of a reading rainbow.
• 1:06:44
  Oh, wow. I haven't heard that in a very long time. Type of book.
• 1:06:52
  This book is not a book.
• 1:06:54
  It's a conversation sponsored by our president.
• 1:07:01
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• 1:07:07
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  Sometimes there was no ink at all. It made me feel very guilty by nature to give them away.
• 1:07:37
  So, I decided to use my imagination. I called the man, the head of Sharpie.
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  He didn't even know who I was. But I said, I love your pen.
• 1:07:48
  But it needs to look nicer for when I sign the big trillion dollar contracts.
• 1:07:53
  And do you know what he said? He said, I'll paint it black.
• 1:07:59
  And I can even put the White House on it. In gold. Almost real gold.
• 1:08:05
  To give them to me for nothing. But I said, no, let me pay you $5.
• 1:08:11
  Now for $5, I have a pen that is hot as a pistol.
• 1:08:15
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  you can find magic in even the simplest marker, but you don't have to take my word for it.
• 1:08:26
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• 1:08:30
  as I said before, of President Donald Trump during a fucking cabinet meeting on March 26, 2026.
• 1:08:43
  What?
• 1:08:51
  The video is worse. Like I had never felt so much sympathy for PDAX and Marco
• 1:08:58
  Rubio in my life. They look like they wanted to say, dude, shut up.
• 1:09:04
  These were his words, verbatim, word for word.
• 1:09:09
  $5. I'm going to give you $5, but you make me an all-black Sharpie,
• 1:09:13
  which exists, by the way.
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  I think it's one in the damn truck. $5.
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  To chime in on this? Please.
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  Look, look, we still got a few minutes. Please chime in.
• 1:09:30
  Because usually your closing monologue is to close, so I'm going to be brief.
• 1:09:36
  Jake Tapper, you claim that them hiding Biden's cognitive decline is one of
• 1:09:43
  the biggest scandals in history.
• 1:09:47
  Brother, if you ain't writing this book, you're basically a hypocrite.
• 1:09:52
  If you don't see the cognitive decline in this guy, you just don't want to see
• 1:09:58
  it at this point. I'm going to leave it at that.
• 1:10:01
  All right, y'all. This concludes episode 27 of For the Fam Podcast.
• 1:10:08
  We hope we kept you guys entertained. We hope we informed you.
• 1:10:13
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• 1:10:34
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