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Ep. 5 - Turning 50: Health, Hustle & Hard Lessons · 4DAFAM

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Let's.
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What up, what up, what up?
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Same old same. Thanks for tuning in to, what is this, episode five?
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I think so, yeah. Episode five for the fam podcast. We getting it,
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y'all. We told y'all we getting it. We in it. Yes, sir.
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So how you been, man? You all right? Yeah, man. It's been a rough,
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rough few weeks for the family, but, you know, everybody's doing okay.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good to hear, man. I was thinking about that earlier
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today. Yep, yep. Yeah. So what you want to get into today, bro?
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Today we want to talk about turning 50, since the two of us will be 50 within
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you within two weeks and me within, what, six weeks, six or seven weeks.
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It's, it's, woo. And in, what, the 1990s? Mm-hmm.
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Would they tell us, like, the life expectancy was 25 or something like that for a young black male?
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No, it wasn't even that. I mean, back in those days, it was like 21, 22.
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We used to hear that all the time. But of course, now that we're older,
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you look back at it and you think, oh, man, that's a lot of... Sure, sure.
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Sure it was. Gander. Sure it was. Sure it was. Being peddled to us.
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But at the same time, we know a lot of brothers who didn't make it. Mm-hmm.
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You know, so I feel blessed. Mm-hmm. I feel blessed. I feel like,
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you know, I'm not a revisionist type person.
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So I'm not looking back and saying, I wish I could do this, that,
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this, that, this, that over.
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The one thing I do feel like is I wish I would, if I could go back and give
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myself one piece of advice, it would be financial advice.
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I mean, like, I just feel like I've wasted so much money over the years.
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So that's like the one thing that I would go back and do differently if I could
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is like just tell myself, you know, hey, you probably don't need to buy this
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at this time. Take that money and invest it.
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But you live and you learn. You know what I'm saying? Other than that,
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I mean, I'm I'm I'm cool, man.
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I mean, as far as my experiences go and all of that, it is what it is.
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I've had some good times. I have some rough times.
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Think about 96, 97. If we had like thousand dollars to blow.
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Probably did, but who's this new company coming along? What's Google?
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We be sitting in the studio right now with our feet up.
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Man, but Snuggie, the Snuggie, bro.
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I know it's silly. The Snuggie is the one that gets me. They got in,
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got that money and got out. Yep.
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Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Yep. That's the one for me, man.
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So I don't know, bro. How you how you how you feel about trying to fit? I don't know.
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I guess if you'd asked me 25 years ago about turning 50, that was back when
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we looked at everybody that was 30, 35 plus, we used to look at them like they were old.
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Remember at 18, somebody who was 30 was old to us? Hey, that's real talk right there. Man.
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But then the older you get, you know, when people say you're only as old as you feel. Correct.
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It happens. Now, I'll say the last two weeks for me being on my feet,
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I know you probably like, man, I'm on my feet every day.
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But me being on my feet and having the foot issues I was having for a while,
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I'm like, boy, I feel like I'm 60.
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Not 49, I feel like I'm 60. But, you know, I mean, man, I don't feel no certain
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way about it. Just happy to be here.
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Still young enough to play with grandkids.
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Still young enough to, you know, put one of the kids in a wrestling hole.
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Tried to do that last night, though. It didn't work out too well. I was in a fast state.
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The old man strength kick in, but the flexibility don't be there. No.
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That's why I was like, nope, that's it. That's it. I'm done.
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Once your arm gets bent the wrong way, you're like, nope, nope, let me go. Let me go.
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No, I feel you. And as far as physicality goes...
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Yeah, I mean, yeah, I walk every day. I think that I'm pretty healthy as far as that goes.
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You know, I exercise routinely, but but still joints are joints.
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You know what I'm saying? So my knees still ache. My back still aches occasionally for no reason.
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You know, I was talking to my homies at work and he was like,
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man, my knee just hurt. I said, how old are you, bro?
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He said, I'm 45. I said, yeah, you at that age.
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Is just one of those things it goes along with
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getting older is you're just gonna have those aches and pains and
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it's funny you know our parents would get up off the couch or
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get up out of a chair and now i'd
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be like i get it you you i know you've probably heard the story a million times
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my father told me he said you know one day you're gonna wake up say your knee
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gonna be hurt you're gonna stand up you're gonna you know move it around a little
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bit think to yourself where the hell is my knee hurting he said as the day goes
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on you're gonna forget about you yep,
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and then you're gonna go hell is my shoulder
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hurt yep and by the time you go to sleep your lower back is hurting yep and
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if you look back at your day and think about it you can't understand why any
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of them right were hurting at all right he was that's that's what he told me
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he told me that when i was like 20 is i went till you get to be about 40 45
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he's like it'll it'll it'll hit you Bro,
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when I get up in the morning, it takes me so long to get the first couple of steps, bro.
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I mean, I got my Fred Sanford walk going the first couple of steps until my
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legs, feet, knees actually warm up.
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Yeah, it's like, oh, my God, I'm so stiff.
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Yeah, I definitely feel the difference.
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But, excuse me, the physical ailments, our traits.
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For the mental intelligence that I've gained over the years.
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So it's a swap for me. You know what I'm saying?
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Take the good with the bad. You know what I'm saying? And like you were saying, just happy to be here.
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I feel blessed to be here because a lot of homies didn't make it.
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So it's all good, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I'm just, you know, just figured it was something that we haven't really rapped about,
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but just figured it was something that we need to
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start rapping about you know what i'm saying as black men
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turning 50 we need to start
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taking our health more seriously you've been
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on me about getting routine physicals and checkups and stuff and i'm trying
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to get better at that um you know so it's just it's just one of those those
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things that at 50 we have to start taking into consideration yes we understand
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about the tuskegee experiment in.
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And yes, we understand that doctors, some doctors used to treat us like we had
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a higher pain threshold.
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We get it. But at some point, find a good black doctor if you can't trust anybody else.
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But we have to start going to the doctor.
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We have to start taking our health more seriously.
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Well, it's kind of like, you know, for me, unfortunately, I hit a hit a wall
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in my early twenties with my health, with gastro issues and, you know,
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finding out that so many members of my family had the same issues I did,
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just didn't get it checked out and having a son dealing with colitis.
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So, you know, it's, it's just one of those things why I brought up to you about
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getting routine checkups because I've been through so many of them and had I
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not ignored them from age 18 to 21, some of the pain that I was having,
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those three years where I just ignored some of the stomach pains and issues I was having,
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I might've had a better, now I know I'm more fortunate than some other people
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who deal with what I deal with, but I may have been able to,
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Have a couple of years where I wasn't on medication, where I wasn't getting
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so many endoscopies. Right.
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That dreaded colonoscopy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which I got to schedule mine.
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New year. I made it up in my mind. I said, new year, I'm scheduling it.
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So I've already talked to my wife about it.
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And as much as I'm dreading it, got to do it.
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Like I said, we 50 now. It's something that we got to start taking more seriously.
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So so dedicating a small portion of my time to, you know, just getting routine
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checkups and going to see the doctor and, you know, listening,
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not not taking everything they say as gospel, but listening, you know, no.
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I'm not a guy who likes to take a lot of pills and medication and stuff.
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So always asking questions like, is there another way? Is there something else
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I can do? Is there a holistic approach?
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Because I don't. I get it.
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FDA approved. Well, it's supposed to be quotes, unquote, supposed to be FDA approved. But.
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No, I'm just I'm just not a not a medicine guy. I'm not I'm not a pill guy.
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I'm not a pharmaceutical guy.
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So anything that I can do holistically, I'll try and do first.
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If that's not effective, then OK, doc, write me a prescription.
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And the thing for a lot of us too, I mean, most of our families migrated north
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back in what, the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
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I know both sides of my family was the 40s.
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So yeah, I knew my grandfather, great-grandfather. But a lot of those generations
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after that, our families just didn't talk about them a lot.
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Yeah, we went down south. We saw your cousins here and your cousins there.
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But we don't know what type of health issues my great-great-great-grandfather had. True.
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So it's one of those things, since we don't know those, those are those things.
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We need to go get checked out for ourselves, make sure that there's nothing genetic going on.
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So, you know, it's I think we just get so caught up in doing everything else
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and just forgetting to take care of ourselves, take care of our children.
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You know, you're a grandfather now. I've been a grandfather for what?
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Shoot boy, eight years now.
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So, you know, it's we need to be there for them too.
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We're in our 70s. We want to still be able to get out there and walk with them
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and do the necessary things with our grandchildren.
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Gotta spoil them and then send them home.
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I look forward to that.
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I look forward to those days and going, you know what? Yeah,
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you've been eating ice cream all day. Okay, time to go home.
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Matter of fact, here's one for the road Yep, yep Take it home with you So what
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about a midlife crisis, man? You want to go get you a sports car?
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So, excuse me You want to talk about something I've never understood You know
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what, I'm not going to say his name,
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But you know who I'm talking about. We had a teacher back in the day.
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I know exactly who you're talking about. I know exactly where you're going with
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it. It could be one of two of them, actually.
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But it was one who had no business being in our neighborhood. None.
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And we were what? Sophomores? Juniors? And we start... Something like that.
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And we start looking up going, was that Mr. Such-and-such? It sure was.
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Man, that dude went through a midlife crisis.
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What he had at a... Was it a convertible?
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Convertible. no green hunter green
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drop top corvette show no yeah hunter
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green drop i think he had a black top on it yeah yeah
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yeah yeah weird weird bro because he was such a like you know what you know
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stick in the mud yeah so to speak yeah yeah and then he started coming through
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the hood right now with the high school girls in the car wilding out a should
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have been on to catch a predator.
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And I mean, we laugh about that, but he probably should have been on to catch
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a predator. Now, let me say this. Disclaimer.
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We have no rumors, no nothing that this man was out there sleeping with with young girls.
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We just we just reliving a moment in our in our history.
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But but now, man, I've never understood the midlife crisis thing. Mm hmm.
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Well, let me rephrase that. I understand the midlife crisis because I ain't gonna lie to you.
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I went through like when I gained a little bit of weight. You know,
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I remember like fighting in my mind like, yo, man, what you doing?
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You know, you lose a little little confidence in yourself and so on and so forth.
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But I've never wanted to run out and spend one hundred thousand dollars or to
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add a six hundred dollar car note to my bills every month. No desire to be young again.
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You don't want to go dye your beard.
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Hey. You know what I'm saying? Start wearing a do-rag and, you know. I ain't going to lie.
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Dog, trying to line up my beard, being as light as I am, and then with the hair
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turning from like a dark brown to like a gray. It's hard to see.
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Dog, it's bad enough I got freckles. So half the time I be thinking freckles
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on my face is a piece of hair.
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Look, I done halfway cut my face trying to cut a freckle off. Right, right.
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But no, man, I mean, I got so much going on on a day-to-day basis,
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working and trying to be a better grandfather.
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But I don't think about going out and just spending my money.
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On material things. on material things or trying to find somebody younger to grade around.
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It's like, nah, I'm cool on all that. No, I feel you. I feel you 100%, bro. And it's just like.
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When I when I think about one, I've already done it.
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I've had cars with rims and tires and I've had some beat in my cars.
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I've already done all of that. I did that in my 20s and I used to install all
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that stuff for a living. Yeah.
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So so in my 50s, if I'm still worried about that, then what progress have I made?
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Right so i i don't i don't think
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about that you know what i'm saying i'm not out here trying to
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go get the latest jordans i wore
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those in high school i'm good no disrespect
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to mike i'm not paying you twice the
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amount for what i paid back in the 90s for your it for
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your shoes bro i'm just i'm just not paid 120
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and that was through the roof right in the
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90s right and now them same shoes be selling on ebay and
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and stock x for like two and three grand man come on
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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm good i'm good give me some k-swiss i'm good give
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me some nike airbags i'm good i don't i don't i don't i don't need it because
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i'm not trying to be young i'm not trying to keep up with the young boys you
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know what i'm saying i accept where i'm at yeah you know what i'm saying And if anything,
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I'm trying to show y'all the growth.
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You can still be cool at our age. You know what I'm saying? Without trying to
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be young, I can still be cool.
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I may not be able to talk to you about the latest rap beef between who and who and who.
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But I can still listen to a song and tell you if the lyrics are whack or not.
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Right. My ears still work. Yeah. Yeah.
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I can still do that. And at the same time, I can turn you on to some good old
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school R&B. Absolutely.
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I can turn you on to some jazz if you want a different perspective.
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You know what I'm saying? It's all relative. You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, you ain't supposed to be on my level.
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You still growing. You still got to progress. And at the same time,
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I'm not supposed to be on your level because that means I'm stagnant.
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So one of the twins always brings up how some of the some of the friends he
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used to hang out with you know and i'm talking just two three four years ago
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would be dressing like like him,
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or he said like they would go out you know to like to a to a bar not necessarily
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to drink but to but to hang out he said you know somebody will walk in and and
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he recognized him and like,
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Who is that? And then one of the people he with, oh, that's my pops.
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And he said, man, he's like, dad, them dudes be dressed like they 17,
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18 years old, coming there with skinny jeans on, with holes in them,
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wearing Jordans with them.
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I forget the name, brand of the shirt, but wearing just, and look,
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I don't dress like I'm 90.
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Right. But I'm not about to be out here dressed like my youngest kids. Right.
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One. My kids would laugh. First off, they would laugh at me.
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That part. That part. But comfort is my number one thing.
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Yeah. I mean, yeah, I want to look good. I want to be stylish.
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But I got to be comfortable. Absolutely. If I'm not comfortable.
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It got to go. I don't care how good it look.
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Comfort is first. You know what I'm saying? But like you said,
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it ain't like we dress like we 90.
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It's just I'm not trying to dress like you. And I'm not supposed to.
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Listen, man. I remember we were talking at the house one day.
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And they were talking about hitting the lottery.
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And one of them was like, what would you do with your wardrobe?
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I said, man, I would buy a whole closet full of the old school Levi's 501s and
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a whole closet of black and white T-shirts.
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That's it. That's the uniform. Some dope man Nikes, some Air Force Ones,
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and some old school K-Swiss.
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And a bunch of suits. That's all I would wear. What'd you just say?
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Old school K-Swiss? The dope man Nike. Oh, yeah.
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Cats don't even know what they're like. No, they do. They're cheap and tacky to them now.
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The dope man Nike? Yes. Man, stop.
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Man, knock it off. But Nike's selling them bad boys for over $100 now.
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Remember they were like $45, $50 back in the day?
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Yeah, the dope man Nike's about $120. Man, knock it off. Yeah.
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Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Nike, stop it.
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Just stop. Seriously, just stop. I
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could see raising prices and I tell the
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kids all the time I don't yeah I
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flip out about stuff because you know I like to be frugal with
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money nowadays but I be trying to tell them like like for example I'm looking
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at some some cookies right now these cookies 20 years ago same package and same
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everything $2.99 nowadays these cookies like what $5.99 it's it's funny you say that,
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Because I was just bored last week and I just haven't.
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Actually, I was at the store and I seen something and it made me think of it.
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And I'm like, I'm going to research this when I get home.
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Since the 80s, inflation has gone up 280 percent, bro.
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280 percent. That's a real figure since the 80s. Just think about that. Let that sink in.
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Think about how the value of the dollar has decreased since the 80s.
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Something that used to be, what, a 25 cent bag of chips.
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That same bag of chips is now with like $1.25.
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So you and I briefly work for the same company, not at the same time,
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but for the same company. I still remember the meeting we had.
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When they brought all the drivers in and they were talking about packaging changes,
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because, you know, when we used to come in, we used to come in in the morning
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in the clock in area, there'd be like chips. Hey, test these out.
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I'll never forget sitting in that room and they said, all right,
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so next week we're making a change to the size of the bags and the bags got smaller.
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And then they told us it was a 20. Well, no, no. Like 25. It was a 25.
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25 cent increase. So compared to the bags when we were kids,
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compared to it now, I think there's like 1.6 less, like ounces.
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It's 1.6 less. The bags are smaller and the price has gone up over 75%.
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The other bag, the snack bags, now those are over $3 now.
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They were $1.79 five years ago. And you know what's crazy about that?
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60%, 65% of it is air. Air. Yeah.
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Yeah, that's the crazy part. 65% of that bag of chips is filled with air.
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But that's another topic for another day.
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Maybe that's something we'll get into on a future podcast.
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Is there anything else you want to touch on about turning 50?
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No, I just want to reiterate, taking your health serious, being here for your
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kids, being here for your grandkids.
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You know, at the moment, we're fortunate.
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You know, I have my mother and my father. Your mother's in her 80s now.
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Healthy. Everybody's healthy.
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Relatively in 80s. Relatively healthy. Doing well for, you know,
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still living their day-to-day lives, getting up and being able to still do something.
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So you want to take care of yourself now the way that our parents took care
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of themselves in their 40s and 50s so we can still be there and see our grandkids grow up.
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But that's that's pretty much. No, that's that's facts, man.
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And to be able to see a great grandkid, I think that's just cool as hell,
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you know, to live, to see that many generations.
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My grandfather lived to see how many great grandkids? Nine, maybe?
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Seven for sure. Seven for sure. It's a beautiful thing. Yeah.
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It's a beautiful thing, bro. So, yeah, that's goals. You want to talk about future goals?
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Those are future goals, to be able to live to see some great grandkids.
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You know what I'm saying? And that's when you were supposed to die,
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like on Harlem Nights, when he told Eddie Murphy, dying young ain't cool. Mm-mm.
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What's cool is dying old with some grandkids around you in a hospital bed or whatever.
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Like, that's what's cool is dying old, not dying young. Can I change the subject real quick? Yeah.
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So we're going on a little bit longer than we thought, but somebody said something
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the other day, and I said, I got to make sure I bring this up.
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Who was the villain of Harlem Nights?
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Oh, man. I'm going to say there were a couple But the cop, whatever the cop
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was, Danny Aiello character, to me, he was the biggest villain.
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You think so? Yeah, I do. You know the villain? Remember I told you about Karate Kid?
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Yeah. How we laughed about that? Yeah. Daniel's son was truly the bully?
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Yeah. Go back and watch Harlem Nights. Eddie Murphy was the...
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He did start all the shit. He was the villain. Had he just listened.
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You're right. Had he just listened.
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They'd have still been kicking it. Had he had he not gone. Now,
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keep in mind at the same token during that time, a bunch of black men prospering. Yeah.
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Somebody would have come along eventually to such as Phil Cantone would have
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come along to try to take it away.
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But if you look at the first hour of that movie, do Eddie Murphy did.
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So, I mean, from the get this kid out of here, his ass, just leave, man.
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Now, another man did because you shot him. You know what?
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That's that's a we may we may do that on a week. Five on the black hand side. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Let's save it for that. Let's save it for the end of the episode. We can talk about that.
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You know what I was just thinking about, bro? What's that? Did you introduce yourself?
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Uh-huh. I thought about it about 20 seconds in. I was like, well,
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shit, we already into it. Let's keep it moving.
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Next up, yo, we're going to talk about some current events. You got anything
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you want to discuss, brother?
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I did. As I was telling you, I was driving and something hit me.
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And not literally, but something came into my head and I thought,
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I got to talk about that, but I forgot.
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So I'm going to defer to you right now. All right. All right. Cool. Cool. Cool.
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And just feel feel free to jump in, you know, interrupt me, whatever,
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whatever. You know, I can get the rambling.
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But I want to I want to talk about why information matters.
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And I mean, all information, but this is going to relate to the jobs numbers.
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You know, there's been a lot of stories in the news about him firing the jobs
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report lady, the BLS lady, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for those who don't know.
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He fired that lady because she said the numbers were not as favorable as he would like them to be.
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And here is why that is such a dangerous thing.
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Information matters. If there is an instance, instance, instance, whatever,
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where there is a where there is a catastrophic event, be it weather,
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be it that we're under attack from a foreign nation, whatever the case may be,
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Lord forbid any of those things happen.
26:10
But we need to be able to trust the government's information.
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This is why you cannot fire people because you don't like their information.
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You're creating such a system of distrust that in case of a real emergency,
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you leave the people scrambling because we don't know what to do.
26:38
We don't know if your information is real or not.
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So with that being said.
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And sometimes you just have to use common sense. I mean, because clearly at
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this point, we can't trust his data.
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So I'm just going to rattle off a few things here and I'll let you decide if
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the job numbers are up or down.
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So for this year, 2025, these are all the companies that laid people off just this year.
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This is in alphabetical order. Amazon, Apple, Autodesk, Blue Origin, Bumble,
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Chegg, not familiar with that one, Cisco, CrowdStrike, EA Sports for the video
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games, Expedia, Google Alphabet,
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Grubhub, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hewlett Packard Inc., Intel,
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if you're paying attention to government just tried to take 10% of Intel,
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Match Group, Meta, Microsoft,
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NetApp, Oracle, ScaleAI, Turo, not familiar with that one, Workday.
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S. Day Louder, J.C.
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Penney, Kohl's, Walmart, Wayfair, oh I'm not done, Boeing, Chevron, CVS, JPMorgan Chase,
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Southwest Airlines, Tyson Foods, United States Postal Service.
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And if I'm not mistaken, if I'm not mistaken, Kroger announced that they were
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going to lay off like a thousand corporate jobs like last week or two weeks ago. Right.
28:32
So keep all of those companies in mind.
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Add to that the 200,000, whether that's a real number or not,
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the 200,000 government employees that have lost their jobs because of Doge.
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So when you consider all of that information, how in the hell do you think the job numbers are up?
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It doesn't make sense, bro. And and this doesn't include small businesses that
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go out of business So you're talking about another four or five people who probably
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lost their jobs if that small business goes under So yeah, bro,
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the data is the data jobs are not up Sorry, they're not now here's a caveat.
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There is a sector, there is an industry where jobs have increased,
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and that would be the health industry, health and social services.
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And there is a reason for that. But I'm talking about doctors,
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nurses, therapists, social workers, psychologists, et cetera.
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Those numbers have increased.
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But here is why those numbers have increased.
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Because that industry took a major hit during COVID.
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A lot of health care professionals decided to walk away because of COVID. The strain was too much.
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Whether you believe COVID was real or not, I'm not having that debate.
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The effects of COVID are real.
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So yeah, there was a huge gap,
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a huge void created from COVID in the healthcare industry So if you were to do research,
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you'd say, oh, maybe those numbers offset Really, they don't,
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but that's a whole other story I'm not trying to get into that I'm just trying
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to say based on the information that I have provided And this isn't even like
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an intensive search This was really quick,
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No way job numbers can be up So, what's the, because I don't have the exact amount.
30:45
So, what was the number that she released? Did you see that? I don't remember.
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I know that they downgraded it, and that's what pissed them off. Right, right.
30:56
She basically said the number, I think it was in like the $250,000 range or
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something like that, and they downgraded it some.
31:05
And that's what he was like, oh, no, these numbers, the data is faulty,
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blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, the thing is, too, is that we haven't been,
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what, the last few months, it's been under the expectation.
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I mean, I guess going piggybacking off of what you just said,
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I guess for me, I don't understand how you can take.
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And you know what, I'll use an example from my previous position.
31:30
You can't, because COVID hit that industry hard. Now, we grew.
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The plant in Indy grew 26% during COVID. But it hit.
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The corporate office really, really hard because it's a family owned business.
31:45
So they took all of their manufacturing out of that main building and started
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using the manufacturer in Michigan, which is an established company that they
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work with for a long time.
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They started having issues with turnover, with hiring, so on and so forth.
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Their profits went down.
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You just shut down your production.
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Of course, your profits went down. You outsourced.
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You chose to close down a mill that had been in your family for a hundred years.
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And now you're mad at us because you're not making the money.
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It's kind of like the same thing. It's like, do you not understand what happened
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when you shut down that entire production?
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First off, you moved a couple of people to different positions,
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but you got rid of like 30 people. You've lost the production.
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Yeah. So instead of doing it in-house, now you're spending an extra $20,000,
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$30,000 a month, whatever the dollar amount is, per month. Of course you're losing it.
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And similar to what you just said, I watched a couple of people above me get
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fired because the numbers were down. It's like, what the hell did you expect?
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COVID was an anomaly for that industry. We grew 26 percent.
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And then the next year we grew 13 percent. But now they're mad.
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So you want to grow another 26? You can't just be happy with the 13? Right. Right.
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Right. It's crazy. And, you know, I had there were several things that I was
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debating, speaking about as far as current events.
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Of course, we need to mention the Minnesota Minnesota school shooting. Absolute tragedy.
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I again, Democrats are missing the boat, in my opinion.
33:34
The mayor of Minneapolis, you know, when he was saying thoughts and prayers aren't enough.
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Then there were some others who were saying thoughts and prayers aren't enough.
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Thoughts and prayers aren't enough.
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They are letting Republicans hijack that to say there is an attack on people of faith.
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No one, no one is attacking people of faith by saying thoughts and prayers aren't enough.
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They are attacking the inability to do anything as it relates to gun control.
34:12
But here they are missing the boat and not pushing back hard.
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Anytime they hear someone say they're attacking people of faith,
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they need to be like hair on fire going off.
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No, we're not going to let you change the narrative.
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Something needs to happen. I don't know what.
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I'm a gun owner. you're a gun owner but something needs to happen i have my
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guns as a last line of self-defense but if they had a buyback program tomorrow and they made it illegal,
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yeah here i'm not a collector i'm not a gun enthusiast i'm not a hunter i i
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mean i i got a gun out of necessity if someone breaks into my home i need to
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defend my home my family my wife.
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Other than that I don't see no real use in it you know what I'm saying I'm not
35:06
a gun enthusiast I'm not a guy who gets his heart on look at this gun and look at all these features.
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Who cares I'm not that dude Lord knows I'm the same way shoot I still got the
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first gun that I ever bought this piece of trash but.
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It's the first one I ever bought. So I keep it kind of like,
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I don't want to say sentimental value.
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Yeah. But if I lost it tomorrow, I'd be like, damn, what happened?
35:30
I mean, obviously I reported, but I'd be thinking to myself,
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I mean, I'm not going to go kicking doors down trying to find it.
35:37
Sure. Because again, it's not, for me, mine are strictly for protection. Yep.
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Yep. I'm not going to go to my friend's house. We sit our guns out on the favor
35:47
and we talk about how cool it is. And then, look, I know that some people probably
35:51
listen to this or hear it and be like, oh, yeah, just some more libs on the podcast.
35:56
First and foremost, neither one of us are far left liberals in any way,
36:01
shape or form. But we definitely will tell you how we feel about what's going on.
36:04
Some things we agree with on one side. Well, let me rephrase that.
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Before eight years ago, there were a lot of things we agree with on both sides.
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Right. Whereas recently it's more one sided.
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But I didn't change. True. They changed. Exactly. Yeah.
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But yeah, we are gun owners who are strictly using it to protect ourselves. Well, it is staggering.
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And I don't think this gets mentioned enough.
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The leading cause of death for teenagers in the U.S., gun violence.
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The leading cause of death, gun violence.
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It's a problem. It's an issue.
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At this point, I almost want to say it's an epidemic. But your forefathers didn't
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want you to address it because, you know, you got the right to bear arms without any repercussions.
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Which at that point was strictly for in case the British came to invade,
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that you'd be able to go help fight.
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That's what the whole thing was about. It was not about. I got a collection of AR-15.
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You know how long it took to load a musket when the Second Amendment was put?
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Yeah it was almost 60 seconds yeah yeah yeah
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there's youtube videos of gun enthusiasts like showing
37:27
you how they used to load it with the pellets then
37:29
the powder then stuffing it down and almost 60
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seconds yeah what what were they
37:35
saying in glory a good man can get off like three shots three
37:39
duh yeah three shots
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good man get off three shots but you
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know what they're going to say 300 not days yeah they're
37:49
going to say mental mental health we get it yes obviously to do something like
37:55
this so you have you have you have mental health issues there's no doubt something
37:59
going on for sure yeah but in all school shootings and no she was trans so they're
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going to know throw that out there.
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Common denominator, Parkland, Southport. Is it Southport?
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The one that, oh boy, got sued over. Alex Jones got sued over.
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Oh, Sandy Hook. Sandy Hook, I'm sorry.
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Sandy Hook, Columbine, Parkland.
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What the one in Michigan where the kid parents are going to jail.
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All of these school shootings. Which, by the way, you could talk about school
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shootings for the next 45 minutes.
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Oh, easily, easily, easily. The common denominator.
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And all of this is the gun is not mental health, is not trans,
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is not immigrant, is not this, that the common denominator is gun.
38:52
If this person had mental health issues and was trans and went to that school
38:58
with a knife, you're outside.
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You can't do anything except tap on the window and wave your fists at people.
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You're outside. Now, I'm not saying that you can't do damage with a knife.
39:10
I'm not saying that at all.
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But the common denominator here is the gun. Without the gun,
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it would not happen the way that it happened.
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You can alter hundreds of lives in a matter of seconds matter of seconds so,
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like you said at the beginning i don't know what the i don't know what what
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type of legislation can be written i don't know that any legislation ever will
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be right for me since we're in
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the situation we're in it all boils down to responsible gun owners uh-huh.
39:46
Beginning to criticize irresponsible gun owners.
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And a lot of the issues that I think we run into right now is you have people
39:54
who are so, because look, man, most of these people at these gun conventions
39:58
and places like that, those are law-abiding citizens.
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But you know, there's also the loophole. Yeah, yeah.
40:04
But those people are there like as enthusiasts.
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They don't want to see that gun in the wrong person's hands.
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The problem is, is that person never speaks up because they hide behind,
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well, I'm a conservative.
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We're for the Second Amendment and that's that. No, no, no. You feel the same
40:22
way I feel about it. Don't forget. It's about that. Yeah, it's about that bread.
40:26
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you cannot leave out the part about that money.
40:29
But most of those God-fearing Christians who were right-wing Christians. Christians loosely.
40:38
Loosely. I'm sorry. I got to jump in and say that. Christians loosely. That's why I pause.
40:45
Who own these weapons do not want to see them in the hands of the wrong person. They don't.
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Which is why you always hear them talking about good guy with a gun.
40:54
Because they want to take out the other person who has a gun.
40:57
But the problem is, again, they never speak up about it.
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There's so many people walking around, in my opinion, I hate to say it,
41:04
a lot of people are going to say that's bullshit.
41:07
They just walk around day to day, can't wait to pull their gun. For sure.
41:10
They hope something jump off. You see them in Walmart. You see them in Target.
41:16
You see them like, bro, why do you need a gun to go grocery shopping?
41:20
What are you looking to do?
41:22
I saw a dude in the grocery store with some sweatpants on. The gun was so heavy. Yeah.
41:26
Pulling his pants down. All you saw is draws. The whole white sound like,
41:30
bro, that gun weighs like eight pounds.
41:32
What you got to do? An accident waiting to happen, to be honest.
41:35
But to go back to what you just said about the good guy with a gun,
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That's also something that irritates me To my core,
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Because if I'm in the grocery store, I see two fools shooting at each other.
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How the hell do I know who's the good guy? If I'm a cop, both of y'all done.
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Bye. I don't know who's the good guy in this scenario.
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That's one thing that irritates me also. Who makes you the good guy?
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Who designated you to be the good guy?
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And you know something that I think a lot of people forget?
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When you engage in that type of situation, say you're the cop.
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And I'm not defending cops or anything because I know the job is hard. I get it.
42:15
But imagine you're that cop, good person coming there and have to put two people down.
42:19
What type of psychological effect does that have on a good person on a day to day basis?
42:24
What type of psychological effect does that have on the little girl or little boy who saw it? Yeah.
42:29
But you just wanted this. This is America.
42:33
Not just the little boy, the employees. I mean, everyone who wins that.
42:37
Like, how do you feel walking past that spot at work every day where you just
42:42
saw two people get gunned down?
42:44
It all has an accumulative, that's the way you say that, effect on you.
42:49
You know what I'm saying? If I'm a shopper at that store, you don't want to
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go back. I'm probably done at that store. Yeah, yeah.
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Not because I think it's going to happen again, but just because of the trauma.
42:57
Facts, facts. So that's the current event. Anything else you want to add to
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that, bro? To the current event?
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No i can't think of anything you have anything for
43:08
a random topic i do
43:11
but before i get into it you want
43:15
to get some random stuff off your
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chest because i'm about to have some fun i'm just saying no go ahead i'm gonna
43:23
i'm gonna go after you all right i'm gonna close it out all right all right
43:26
that's what's up i am a music fan so let me ask you a question what makes a good song,
43:36
the lyrics or the beat the music there's no right or wrong answer by the way it's just
43:43
an opinion for me it depends on the genre of music i'm listening to okay so
43:47
if i'm listening to rap if you ain't talking about nothing i could care less
43:50
who made your beat facts if we're Talking about old school soul and R&B.
43:55
I mean, go back and listen to James Brown. Ain't say nothing on 90% of their
43:58
songs. But that music was off the hook.
44:00
But the music had your feet tapped. Yep. Yep. But in hip hop?
44:05
Honestly, bro, I can't even listen to some hip hop. If that beat fire, that beat fire.
44:10
I can't even get down with some hip hop that ain't saying nothing if that beat
44:14
is fire. See, I can't. I can't. I got to turn it off.
44:18
But I want to talk about some lyrics.
44:22
You're going to recognize this once I get into it.
44:26
I'm going to read these lyrics. And when I say read, I am not making these up.
44:32
These are the lyrics to a popular song. So here we go. It's 2 a.m.
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I'm just getting in about to check my message.
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Let me get through this. Let me get through this. No one is called.
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You know, I'm singing a song in my head as you said.
44:54
No one is called, but my homies and some bill collectors.
44:59
Cellular rings. Somebody wants to borrow money.
45:03
I two way her. She don't hit me back. Something is funny.
45:09
Remember, it's 2 a.m. Yes, sir. So I called her mother's house.
45:14
And asked her had she seen my baby. It's 2 a.m.
45:19
I drove my six around looking for that missing lady. It's 2 a.m.
45:26
Got back in, turned the TV on, and caught the news. It's 2 a.m.
45:32
Then I put my head on my head because I'm so confused.
45:36
First, you called that woman mama at 2 a.m.? Red flag.
45:43
Especially considering that you're probably the same age as her mom at that time in this life.
45:48
You took your car back out at 2 a.m.
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To drive around to look for it. Where are you? What you what you what you looking for?
45:56
Her car? Where do you think she was going to be at 2 a.m.? Just hanging out somewhere?
46:01
So you you you stalking basically now you driving past somebody's crib at 2
46:05
in the morning. But let me continue.
46:09
Then I turned the TV down. because I thought I heard a squeaky sound.
46:15
Something's going on upstairs because I know nobody else lives here.
46:22
So if you and your girl don't live together, that means she purposely brought
46:31
another cat back to your crib?
46:34
Stop it! We got to remember, you know, the brother who wrote the music has been
46:40
proven to be kind of a weirdo by this point.
46:44
You called her mama. You took your car out and drove around for however long,
46:52
came back in, turned on the news.
46:56
At no point did you think to go check upstairs that never
47:00
crossed your mind man this
47:03
is absolutely the silliest song ever
47:07
bro but you know i've been singing in my head ever since
47:10
you started saying the words that
47:13
is the genius of kales because the
47:16
music the melody everything is catchy
47:19
we're all singing it this song
47:22
is stupidest man this song so stupid bro
47:25
this is the dumbest song ever is it
47:28
or is the follow-up you're talking
47:31
about the end where he goes don't i know you from somewhere so you forgot about
47:36
him hold on hold on you almost beat him to death hold on you forgot about it
47:40
hold on i ain't asking you no questions i don't you ain't got no business in
47:46
my you in my crib. One, you in my crib.
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But two, you in my crib with my lady. That's right. This is the follow-up. I'm tripping.
47:54
This is the follow-up to the first one. Yeah.
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But you in my crib with my lady. I ain't asking you no questions, bro.
48:02
I know we were just talking about guns, but that dang thing about to come out. I'm sorry.
48:07
We've already said it's for protecting our Yeah, yeah. That dang thing coming out.
48:11
And the only difference between the first video and this is he didn't have a ball head.
48:16
All he had was braids he still had to go to same brother and the 25 dudes who
48:23
came walking in at the end which is also dumb because i'm i now i'm shooting all y'all.
48:31
Four y'all dudes why y'all in my crib now now now i'm just opening fire not
48:37
to mention i'm mr b what yeah yeah it's just a a silly song bro it's just one
48:44
day i was just like man do you know what's a stupid-ass song, this
48:48
is a stupid-ass song. I thought you were going to bring up some Biggie lyrics.
48:52
Because, you know, Biggie got some lyrics back in the day that you read them. You go, oh.
48:56
What? Yeah, he got some...
49:00
But so does Cam. Give me some. Well, I ain't going to say it.
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I ain't going to say it. Oh, it's some explicit stuff.
49:11
Man, some crazy stuff. Okay, okay. Well, I've always felt that way about Big
49:15
Pun and I don't want to be a player no more. Oh, yeah. It's just like, okay, you flowing.
49:19
I'm like, but some of this is like really stupid, bro.
49:22
Like when you actually listen to what he's saying, it's just like, this is dumb.
49:27
Like so dumb. But you know Cam and Mace do that to each other a lot.
49:32
Like Mace will read lyrics from Cam. And Cam, like as soon as he would say it,
49:36
Cam would just bust out laughing.
49:37
And Cam would be like, that's all right. You got some out there to suspect too.
49:41
I'm going to find them. But if you go back and listen to some of those,
49:44
like Horse and Cares, there's stuff on Horse and Cares. You're like,
49:47
it beats so fire when Horse and Cares are crazy.
49:49
But you're like, what? You did what?
49:54
Who does that? Or Biggie? you look so good yeah man nah biggie nah I ain't doing that yeah,
50:04
yeah in the 600 ain't there smoking cigar come over here I think I see your baby father.
50:12
What oh man that's my rant okay well we gonna we gonna transition,
50:27
We're going to close this thing out with some...
50:29
Well, before that, though, we got to do our five on the blackhand side.
50:34
Oh, what you got? Well, let's just talk about Harlem Night since we started
50:38
talking about it earlier. So...
50:42
Starting at Sugar's, running errands for him, which, by the way,
50:46
what was it, like two or three in the morning?
50:48
He shows up. Dude asking to leave. Hey, man, this dude, your kids are unlucky.
50:54
Now, granted, I understand that part. This is my club.
50:57
I'm not kicking nobody out. I understand that, too. But I also understand,
51:01
oh, boy, you got money on the table.
51:02
Yeah, get him out. Yeah, if he distracting you, he distracting you.
51:05
So I understand that part, too.
51:07
So he didn't leave. he was already a tough guy whatever age he was at that time
51:12
little Trey from Boys in the Hood,
51:16
which we gotta do one of these days on our five on the black side,
51:21
but then it shows when he's grown and in comes Tommy in comes Chawanna Man and
51:28
Jasmine Guy I'm forgetting the names y'all cause Tommy played Tommy in everything
51:32
he ever did so it's easy let me see Tommy Ford is his name Juana man didn't
51:39
have a name, I don't think.
51:41
Yeah, he, yeah. But Jasmine Guy was, gosh, what was her name?
51:45
Like Dominique. Dominique LaRue. Dominique LaRue, there you go.
51:48
Creole. Creole, yeah. Oh, you don't want to mess around with them Creoles. No, man.
51:53
They bring your drawers in the yard and you can't leave the house.
51:58
Just one of the dumbest things to say. But Sugar told him, leave her alone.
52:05
Yep. Not to be messed with.
52:07
What did he do? Took flowers, went, offended the big man, and they sent a hit
52:13
squad, then they respond, and then they set up, what's his name? Sunshine.
52:21
What's the dude's name? They ran the numbers.
52:25
Hey, baby, this is that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
52:30
What was his name? Phil Cantone was the cop. Phil Cantone was the cop.
52:35
Was it Tommy? No, it wasn't Tommy. Bobby? No.
52:40
Because he called his wife. Richie. Richie. Richie. Hey, Barbara.
52:45
This is Richie. Yeah, I ain't never coming home again. Have a nice life.
52:49
No, no. He said, take it easy. Like one of your homeboys. Hey,
52:53
man, take it easy. I'll holler at you tomorrow.
52:56
Yeah, yeah. Everything he did in that movie led to a response from Sugar.
53:04
And the crew. Everything. He forced them to go into hiding. It was all quick fought.
53:11
Because he was with, oh, let's not even forget about with Arsenio Hall and Tommy
53:17
now. Yeah. Yeah. Like everything.
53:19
Yeah. You didn't have to go see Tommy. Yeah.
53:22
You could have just left it alone. Well, actually, he did, though.
53:26
Sugar told him to go see Tommy. You right. You right. Yeah.
53:29
Yeah. That was their way of trying to figure out if they could get out of old
53:32
boy trying to strong arm him. Right.
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Then, not only do you mess with the girl, you go to the crib.
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And he says, oh, you have a nice place. Well, it doesn't belong to me.
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I'm out. Yeah. In that situation. Who got, yeah, because who got keys to this
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door while I'm in here handling my business? Who in here? Yeah. Right now?
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Yeah, all that. And then not only that. And you find the pistol under her pillow.
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I'm gone. For sure. While she in the bathroom. For sure. Up.
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For sure. But no, you wanted to stay around and kill her. Right.
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Get what you needed. Right. Dip on out. And then kill her and dip out.
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Instead, like, as soon as she went in to put lingerie on, I'm a ghost. Yeah. I'm out. Yeah.
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Nah. Yeah, no, I feel you. I feel you. Still a great movie.
54:19
An absolutely great movie. I never looked at it like that, but you're right.
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Eddie Murphy did start all of the drama.
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He quick-started all the drama because from get-go, Sugar was like, hey, we had a good run.
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Let's just move to another city. Nah, Sugar, we ain't running.
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We ain't running, Sugar. We ain't punks.
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We ain't no punk. And Sugar's like, nah, bro, it ain't about being a punk, though.
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It's about being smart. Like, we ain't soldiers. He kept telling him that.
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We ain't soldiers. We ain't gangsters. We hustlers. We get money.
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He wanted to be the tough guy. Yep. So you're right.
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You're right. He was the one who kept all the shit going. But if you look back
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at a lot of those movies that we grew up on.
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Hero of the movie always ends
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up being a bad guy dude you ever
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notice that netflix has a show about cobra kai
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they don't have a show about daniel son they got a
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show about cobra kai all right wait wait wait wait i think
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you need to tell everybody your daniel son theory
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bro daniel son should have left that girl alone he never
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would have got his ass whooped and he would have never had to
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go learn karate what did he do he kept antagonizing
55:36
everything dude just go away we're
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talking about the first karate kid y'all 1984 just go away she got a man leave
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her alone okay you know what i'm saying like what would you do because like
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back in the day so so what you and i have been around each other.
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We've known each other since what? Second grade? Third grade?
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I would say kindergarten, bro. Kindergarten? Yeah.
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You've been married for a long time. 25 years, bro. Y'all have been together forever.
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I have been around your wife as long as you have because your wife's sister
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and my sister grew up in France.
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Dog, if we are out kicking it,
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and you know as many new dudes used to move into where we from. For sure.
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And one of them trying to holler at your lady, we
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jump we're whooping the ass let's do that even though
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that's my fight right but if i'm there oh
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yeah get in where you fit in jumping off yeah get in
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yeah get in where you fit in yeah but the whole movie if you go back and watch
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karate kid daniel's son was praised as some hero he wasn't you just left cobra
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kai alone and left this man to be with his lady he would have never had to put
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hands on They were not the bullies. He was the bully. He was the bully.
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It started at the beach. Yes. That night at the beach. Did he kick the radio or something? Yeah.
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So they responded. Yeah. Why you kick my radio, homie?
57:09
And Ann whooped him and then was like, go home, dude. Leave us alone.
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Leave us alone. What did he do? He went and found Mr. Miyaz.
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Go home, man. Leave me alone. Like, it's just. Yeah.
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I whipped you already I ain't trying to keep whooping
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you dude leave me alone it's like I told you a little
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while ago roll the window down sitting at the drive through
57:33
that beat it just wouldn't leave it's like dude just leave I'm
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swatting at it she's swatting at it so but yes there are so many movies that
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we all grew up loving where if you go back and watch it the person who you praise
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as the hero was the person who actually initiated all of the BS Yes.
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That's all I'm saying. Now, I'm not saying. I like that theory,
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bro. I'm not saying Karate Kid is not a great movie. I'd watch it again right
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now, but I'd watch it with a different perspective.
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But like I said, Netflix came calling Cobra Kai. They didn't come calling Daniel's son.
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Yeah, he may have appeared on the show later, but. You didn't watch Cobra Kai, did you?
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No. They kind of touch on that, though.
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I'm sure they do. They kind of touch on that when he actually meets up with Daniel as a grown-up.
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He kind of tells him like dude like you were the asshole
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not me you know had you just left me alone i wouldn't have beat you and he
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was like he told me he said you he said you you you cheated
58:32
at the tournament he was like you shouldn't have won because you cheated but
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he was like yeah he was like you think that my life was was you know this daniel
58:40
he was like he was like you were he was like you were the one he was like i
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didn't really have no beef with you he was like you had beef with me. He sure did.
58:51
Yeah. That crane kick. That's another thing. So you get away with the crane
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kick. The crane kick was illegal.
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Yeah. Yeah. He totally told him that. He was like, yeah. He was like,
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you were the one. He was like, not me.
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He was like, so now my life is shit. I'm giving away the plot to Cobra Kai.
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Sorry, y'all. He was like, my life is shit. Your life is great.
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He was like, but really, you're the asshole in the story, not me.
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Which is why Cobra Kai started out being about johnny lawrence it eventually
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morphed into being about daniel la russo and his kids but,
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but yeah no no you're right i like that bro i i i actually love that take i
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i wish you would uh come up with more man because it's just an interesting perspective
59:36
you know i'm i will i'll have i'll have some more i'm silly and i like to i
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like to laugh at uh off the wall type stuff anyway.
59:44
I got a different sense of humor. So yeah, keep it coming, man.
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So with that, y'all, it's time for our closing monologue.
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And let me just let my brother take it away.
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Appreciate it. So I want to speak on something that's near and dear to me and
1:00:03
my family, affects my son and his lady and his daughter on a daily basis.
1:00:10
So I want to talk about vaccines and autism.
1:00:16
So as I said, I'm the grandfather of an autistic child.
1:00:21
Myth of vaccines and autism started back in 1998 by Andrew Wakefield.
1:00:26
He published a study claiming that there was a link between vaccines and autism.
1:00:33
That study was later exposed as being fraudulent. The data was faked.
1:00:37
He had financial motives, and he even lost his medical license.
1:00:42
But there are people out here today, such as old Gravel Voice,
1:00:46
that keep spreading the same lie.
1:00:48
There's been decades of solid, solid research that proved this to be false.
1:00:54
There were 16, so far I believe, there have been 16 population-based studies
1:01:00
and even a meta-analysis of over 1.2 million children and countless global reviews
1:01:08
consistently find no link between vaccines and autism.
1:01:11
The real reason we see more autism diagnoses today,
1:01:15
and I think you and I had this conversation in the past and we're
1:01:18
trying to be not trying to be heartless about the
1:01:20
situation where we grew up there was a class
1:01:23
of children that never left that class there were
1:01:27
plenty of times people would make jokes about those children and so on and so
1:01:30
forth didn't want to ride the bus to school right there was a very good chance
1:01:34
that a lot of those children we grew up with were autistic misdiagnosed basically
1:01:39
right or undiagnosed yeah we didn't have the understanding or the language to
1:01:44
recognize you back then.
1:01:46
So in the meantime, vaccines have saved millions of lives, pushed life expectancy higher.
1:01:51
I can provide proof of that if you'd like. It nearly wiped out deadly diseases.
1:01:56
Unfortunately, a couple have
1:01:57
come back over the last few years because of this. The truth is simple.
1:02:01
When it's all said and done, vaccine saves lives. They do not cause autism. Boom.
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Period. End of discussion. All right, man. At least for me.
1:02:13
That's great. So we're going to leave it there, y'all.
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