Speaker 1: A media. I learned a term this weekend called the
Speaker 1: bro economy, which I think it's perfect. It consists of
Speaker 1: sports betting, crypto, and day trading, and like damn, like
Speaker 1: that is such a perfect description of those three things
Speaker 1: because I still think of like like crypto bros, and
Speaker 1: then like the GameStop thing, like it's like dudes and
Speaker 1: every dude. I know that everybody I know that day
Speaker 1: trades is a dude. Now. I think it would be
Speaker 1: interesting to add something like fantasy leagues as far as
Speaker 1: like sports betting and stuff. But I will say this,
Speaker 1: of the top, I don't know ten most important women
Speaker 1: in my life. Obviously you know where the pinnacle is.
Speaker 1: I'd say two out of that list play fantasy sports
Speaker 1: and are in their own leagues and bet on games.
Speaker 1: One of my one of which is my mom. She
Speaker 1: is a Steelers fan for some reason. But uh oh man.
Speaker 1: She used to text me when tom Brady was playing.
Speaker 1: She would say, I put the whammy on tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Whoop on tom Brady. She just did not like tom Brady.
Speaker 1: She said, I put the whammy on him, That's why
Speaker 1: he lost. So this last Sunday, I mean, she was
Speaker 1: like she batted a thousand. She was she was perfect,
Speaker 1: got all her picks. I don't know if she got
Speaker 1: all her points spreads, but I know she got all
Speaker 1: her picks. Uh. Doctor Alma, my wife used to she
Speaker 1: used to bet on Uh. She used to have her
Speaker 1: brackets from March Madness, you know, and she won when
Speaker 1: she used to do it. She won every year that
Speaker 1: she did it. And of course the Queen of cool Zone.
Speaker 1: I don't know if she knows. I think I just
Speaker 1: dubbed her that Sophie the Queen of cool Zone. She
Speaker 1: she is our basketball nut and yeah, her fantasy team.
Speaker 1: I'd like, I dare anybody to go head up with
Speaker 1: Sophie and basketball stats, specifically Lakers. As you know, me,
Speaker 1: her and Ian have our Lakers group text Miles sometimes
Speaker 1: when Miles got like a tiny baby, so he can't
Speaker 1: really participate like like he might have wanted to when
Speaker 1: he was sans a toddler. But that being said, one
Speaker 1: of the most important, one of the most wonderful times
Speaker 1: of the year, one of two. I would argue, if
Speaker 1: you're in the specifically basketball with football, it would be
Speaker 1: you know the combine, you know, yeah, the combine when
Speaker 1: you're looking at the new recruits and you see her,
Speaker 1: you know how fast you could run your forty yards.
Speaker 1: But for basketball, it's there's Summer League, which is so fun.
Speaker 1: But Summer League is really set up because of really
Speaker 1: the greatest day in the NBA, and it's Draft Day.
Speaker 1: Draft season is just it's just so fun. Now. Granted,
Speaker 1: a lot of times you have like the free agencies,
Speaker 1: you have all these different trade agreements and this and this,
Speaker 1: But if there is any parallel to the drama and
Speaker 1: entertainment and narratives of it, all that would come from
Speaker 1: like a WWE. The closest comparison the Dell Novela of
Speaker 1: basketball is draft season. You're watching kids come up from college,
Speaker 1: come up from basketball. You're looking at your team, how
Speaker 1: well your team did last year, trying to figure out
Speaker 1: who gets what, who's gonna go where you want to
Speaker 1: know who's gonna come go in the lottery, in the
Speaker 1: first round of the draft. And it's just so exciting.
Speaker 1: But anybody who's been following the drafts for long enough
Speaker 1: knows that with all that excitement, all the group techs
Speaker 1: you're doing, all the stuff you send it to the
Speaker 1: these all the arguments at the at the dice game,
Speaker 1: all the arguments you know at the barbershop, you know,
Speaker 1: or at least you should know. Don't buy the jersey yet,
Speaker 1: because it's a whole lot of shuffling going around. It's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of willing and dealing and back end
Speaker 1: stuff that there's no way for you to know about
Speaker 1: unless you are completely tapped in. So right now you
Speaker 1: should know. This is the season for politics of the
Speaker 1: NBA draft. Hood politics, y'all.
Speaker 2: But fors but looking like this, but look, it's like this,
Speaker 2: bulikas like this.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's been quite a gang bang week. First of all,
Speaker 1: fam in front of everybody in all the surveillance camera,
Speaker 1: this fool Luigi Homie's name is Luigi, y'all. And I
Speaker 1: thought the way that this man is brazenly walking freely
Speaker 1: throughout New York, smiling, taking his mask off the surveillance
Speaker 1: cameras much mean this man feel very insulated, like Bruh's
Speaker 1: gotta be mobbed up. That's what I thought, because I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a mob heit Homie, Like who we talk
Speaker 1: about is the all up in the open murder of
Speaker 1: the CEO of United Healthcare. Now, it was completely caught
Speaker 1: on camera like this, the my man rented a line scooter,
Speaker 1: no less, put the blicky in the basket, rode up
Speaker 1: talking to an old lady before it was like, excuse
Speaker 1: me for a second, man, you know it was nice
Speaker 1: talking to you man. Okay, fi too, just look turn
Speaker 1: his TV off, bruh. Just ain't scared in all of
Speaker 1: New York who knew the street code, was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I ain't seen nothing. I wasn't there.
Speaker 1: I got there a little late. I mean something wrong
Speaker 1: Miami my glasses. Oh no, I ain't see nothing. Who
Speaker 1: you got a picture of him? Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: who that is. I ain't never seen that fool. I
Speaker 1: ain't from around here, Thank you very much, officer. Nobody
Speaker 1: saw anything, which is funny because everybody saw everything. New
Speaker 1: York knew the rules, and then the rest of America
Speaker 1: was treating his mug like it was when Clean Elizabeth died.
Speaker 1: Talking about Lizzie's in the box. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He was like, listen, resting, pissed, my nigga, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: have taken that job. That's what the most of America
Speaker 1: was saying. But we was conflicted right, because it was
Speaker 1: the same conflict with Queen Elizabeth died, where it was like, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's somebody's grandma, that's somebody's mother, and I'm sure she
Speaker 1: is loved by her family, and yes, death is a tragedy. However,
Speaker 1: niggas die every day. The way that the raping, pillaging
Speaker 1: of my ancestors is set up, the way the erasure
Speaker 1: of my culture is set up. They looking at this brother, like, listen,
Speaker 1: the way that my health care benefits are set up,
Speaker 1: Oh my bad. The way that my extreme cope is
Speaker 1: set up, the way that my pre existing condition is
Speaker 1: set up, means I cannot afford to be sad for
Speaker 1: you right now. That was a wild situation. Turns out
Speaker 1: Homie is radical, but like radical in the sense that like,
Speaker 1: these corporations must die, my nigga. The original early reporting says,
Speaker 1: Lejlmie just does not like how the healthcare system works.
Speaker 1: He had a person that was in hospice care and
Speaker 1: he ain't like how they treated him. So he was like,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to murder the CEO. Now, obviously, CEOs
Speaker 1: are like dandelion weeds. Your pull one just one just
Speaker 1: gonna pop right back. Up, so it's not you're actually
Speaker 1: doing something, but except for a murder and a man,
Speaker 1: but this be the sentiment in international news. My lord,
Speaker 1: they actually did it. The Syrian Civil War is actually over.
Speaker 1: I mean this goes back to the Arab Spring. But
Speaker 1: shar Alasad like who is I mean, the open the dictionary,
Speaker 1: look for the word dictator. That's what this man is.
Speaker 1: You understand that man ben at chare you understand a
Speaker 1: Sad family been in charge since President Nixon, my nigga
Speaker 1: and then finally and that during the Arab Spring, the
Speaker 1: hts Uh that's the name of the squad. They used
Speaker 1: to be like sort of live homies of al Qaeda.
Speaker 1: But then little homie that run. It was like, we
Speaker 1: need to straighten up and have like let's let's take
Speaker 1: ourselves serious. We need to partner with people because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's about the liberation of
Speaker 1: Assyria or not us Syria. That's so bible, the liberation
Speaker 1: of Syria. And over the last week they looked and
Speaker 1: they was like, okay, I see your big homies is busy.
Speaker 1: Now who is asides big homies Russia and Iran. Russia
Speaker 1: is clearly busy. Iran stretched too thin. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: oh we gotta help the houthies. Oh we gotta help
Speaker 1: a mash. We gotta help Hesbela and Hesbela got they
Speaker 1: ass beat you know what I'm saying. And hamas he
Speaker 1: I mean they not doing like Isra is mopping the
Speaker 1: flow with these people. So the hts who Again, these
Speaker 1: people ain't no heroes now. They definitely like just gonna
Speaker 1: be another oppressive. Their various very extreme. But they was
Speaker 1: like this our chance and this this nigga sah got
Speaker 1: out the hood. He was like, I'm out because, like
Speaker 1: you know, y'all can have this. I don't want to smoke.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh you don't want to smoke. Okay word,
Speaker 1: So he rolled out. He hiding away in Russia. He like,
Speaker 1: look I'm out and check this out. People all up
Speaker 1: in the palaces like ghost riding his whips, taking furniture home,
Speaker 1: they taking plates. Oh listen, I look man, I'm with
Speaker 1: the I'm with all that. I'm with all that. Uh Syrians. Man,
Speaker 1: go in there and get you some clothes like pillage,
Speaker 1: pillage that man's spot. You understand what I'm saying, Go
Speaker 1: make you a sandwich. I need you to ride up
Speaker 1: into a sad's crib and make a sandwich. I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm with all that, y'all. Now, who feeling froggy? Is iceis?
Speaker 1: I just like, Yo, this is our time, homie. Everybody distracted.
Speaker 1: Old Joe Biden was like, slow, you roll, licens you
Speaker 1: roll now, I'll shoot you out the sky, homie. That's
Speaker 1: not your turn. Gonna sit down somewhere. President Elect Trump
Speaker 1: said this serious situation. Sound like a serious problem. This
Speaker 1: is a seriously not in my situation. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I ain't let look, I got too many people to
Speaker 1: deport my nigga. Like, I ain't got nothing. I ain't
Speaker 1: got no time for y'all's foolishness. We got our own foolishness.
Speaker 1: Oh lord, all right, back to the show like this. Now,
Speaker 1: I know you've seen all these alerts, all these breaking
Speaker 1: news stories about who Trump's picks are, and then obviously
Speaker 1: the most prominent ones like the Matt Gates of the world,
Speaker 1: you know who backed out because I mean, how you
Speaker 1: can be too messy for Trump is beyond me. Like,
Speaker 1: that's a messy brother if he too messy for Trump. Anyway,
Speaker 1: those are the big names now, I would like to
Speaker 1: remind you that you know, Kobe Bryant, the lifelong Laker,
Speaker 1: wasn't drafted to the Lakers. He was actually thirteenth pick overall,
Speaker 1: and he was drafted to the Charlotte Hornets. So for
Speaker 1: like an hour he was actually a Hornets. Think about
Speaker 1: how different history would be. He was traded for Vlade Devoks,
Speaker 1: which eventually came back to the Lakers. But you'd have
Speaker 1: to know all that and really be into sports to
Speaker 1: know these things. Now, the question one would ask is, like,
Speaker 1: how do all these deals get set up? You may
Speaker 1: remember recently that bron figured out how to get his son,
Speaker 1: who is a g leaguer at best, onto the Lakers
Speaker 1: to make history. Now, obviously, I'm completely here for black
Speaker 1: people practicing nepotism. I'm here for it because, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Bus family owns the Lakers, and it was because
Speaker 1: Jerry wanted to make sure his kids got the team. Now,
Speaker 1: the difference between Jerry and most white people that practiced
Speaker 1: this type of nepotism is they really had to earn it. Now,
Speaker 1: they also had to earn his love. But either way,
Speaker 1: I'm all for that. But that being said, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff that don't make the news that makes
Speaker 1: this stuff happen. It's a lot of wheels and wheeling
Speaker 1: and dealing behind the scenes. Who gets how much money
Speaker 1: for what? And really the player has not really the
Speaker 1: ultimate say, which is kind of crazy. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, the agent, you know, the team, because if
Speaker 1: a team decides they're going to trade you on no
Speaker 1: matter how much you want to stay there, you can't
Speaker 1: stay there because you have to understand the NBA is
Speaker 1: its own institution. Of course, there are owners of teams
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but like it's they're their own institution,
Speaker 1: and the commissioner of the NBA is making sure that
Speaker 1: the entirety of the league stays interesting. You can block trades,
Speaker 1: which is what happened which I think broke the Lakers
Speaker 1: when Chris Paul trade got blocked in twenty twelve. The
Speaker 1: point is, don't buy your jerseys just yet. You gotta wait.
Speaker 1: It's too early. It's too early in draft season. And
Speaker 1: a lot of times you might settle with the drafts
Speaker 1: and then go to summer league and then you got
Speaker 1: somebody that's, like you know, on the bubble that probably
Speaker 1: ain't gonna make the team. This is the only time
Speaker 1: they gonna get this. You didn't go in the early rounds.
Speaker 1: You didn't. You didn't You wasn't in the first, second,
Speaker 1: or third round for us to even know who you
Speaker 1: were or even track your career. You might sometimes just
Speaker 1: be a kid playing that was doing door dash, that
Speaker 1: could just really hoop and had a chance to maybe
Speaker 1: try out for one of the bush leagues of the team,
Speaker 1: and then they bring you into the summer league to
Speaker 1: see if you could really run with the big boys.
Speaker 1: And as you notice, if you follow basketball in the
Speaker 1: summer league, your stars don't really play because they already
Speaker 1: on the team. You're trying to see, you see who's
Speaker 1: gonna continue on the team or who gonna make the team.
Speaker 1: And every once in a while a star is born
Speaker 1: because that door dash kid happened to be Austin Reeves. Aar. Now,
Speaker 1: if you and of basketball, that's one of the coldest
Speaker 1: white boys. See Ian got this theory. Ian, that's our
Speaker 1: executive producer over here at cools One, which I totally
Speaker 1: agree with. The Lakers have this gift of selecting really
Speaker 1: cold white boys like and when you add that to
Speaker 1: Sophie's theory, which is we win the only time we
Speaker 1: win our championships. Part of the pieces that you need
Speaker 1: is a cold white boy. And I mean you got
Speaker 1: to go back to Jerry West, I mean Kurt Rambis,
Speaker 1: like Power Gasol, Vlad Devoks. You need your white boy.
Speaker 1: And once you get your white boy, oh man, now
Speaker 1: we got I remember Caruso. I'm still mad we miss
Speaker 1: the Caruso. Now we got west Side, Connect Gang, Connect Gang,
Speaker 1: and we got ar fifteen. Now. I don't know when
Speaker 1: this became a sports pod, but the point I'm trying
Speaker 1: to make is Trump is picking his captains and this
Speaker 1: is just draft season. So don't get too excited. Now,
Speaker 1: let's get a little more deeper into it next. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go. We're back now to try to get
Speaker 1: into the brain of the who and why and how
Speaker 1: you get on this list is at this point something
Speaker 1: incredibly different than the rest of US history because Trump is,
Speaker 1: for what it's worth, a brand new animal in this
Speaker 1: particular office. It's not like he's the first person to
Speaker 1: be like him. He's just the first person to be
Speaker 1: like to become president in America. Now, why I say
Speaker 1: that is obviously very obvious points wildly, but also means
Speaker 1: that a lot of art what you haven't figured out
Speaker 1: by now, then I don't know what you're not watching.
Speaker 1: A lot of our normal tools of interpretation, prediction, and
Speaker 1: analysis have had to get retooled and thrown out the window.
Speaker 1: But that's because you have to just accept the obvious.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to just accept what things are like.
Speaker 1: For example, if you with a significant other and all
Speaker 1: the signs about this significant other is showing that this
Speaker 1: significant other is probably just not into you, then listen,
Speaker 1: they probably just not into you. It is what it is.
Speaker 1: And the quicker you just accept it for being what
Speaker 1: it is, the better you gonna be, because then you
Speaker 1: know how to move. Listen. The only complications about the
Speaker 1: war in Palestine is because use you just don't want
Speaker 1: to admit what you actually see, this is an ethnic cleansing.
Speaker 1: The only complication about the foundation of America is if
Speaker 1: you just don't want to accept what you saw, which
Speaker 1: is that was an ethnic cleansing. Like that's they were
Speaker 1: just you just trying to like and you could dance,
Speaker 1: you could put lipstick on a pig, you could, you could,
Speaker 1: you could cover that up as much as you want,
Speaker 1: but the reality is it's what is what it looks like,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you just have to accept that things are
Speaker 1: just what they look like. Now. They not always what
Speaker 1: they look like, but sometimes they absolutely are. Now. What
Speaker 1: you should probably already know too, is of what we know,
Speaker 1: there is so much we don't. It's like our understanding
Speaker 1: of the universe in general. The love you know, the
Speaker 1: the now it's a cliche. The more you learn, the
Speaker 1: less you know. So the more you learn about really
Speaker 1: how this thing works, the more you realize the amount
Speaker 1: of things that you don't know. And it's not so
Speaker 1: much that it's unknowable. It's just you ain't at the table,
Speaker 1: you ain't in the group text, you know. And if
Speaker 1: they do their jobs, then the stuff that gets to
Speaker 1: the media is kind of purposeful, like it's not leaking.
Speaker 1: It's like creating a narrative here. Now with basketball, there's
Speaker 1: two things going on, right and I'm gonna bring this
Speaker 1: parallel into politics of it all in a second, But it's,
Speaker 1: you know, fifty percent business as far as like you
Speaker 1: have a good team, you sell tickets, you sell tickets,
Speaker 1: you sell merch, you sell merch, you get sponsors, but
Speaker 1: you gotta win, Like none of it matters. If you're
Speaker 1: not winning, you messing with your pocket. You're not winning. Now,
Speaker 1: there's another wrinkle to that as far as like winning.
Speaker 1: But even if you if you have a star, like
Speaker 1: you get the biggest name, like say, for example, during
Speaker 1: the Ball Brothers during that time, they were the biggest names,
Speaker 1: but they wasn't winning. So even though you might have
Speaker 1: a star, if you're not winning, you're really not gonna
Speaker 1: make the bread that you need to make because they
Speaker 1: only gonna people can only gonna go watch a star
Speaker 1: lose once or twice. You gotta start winning. So there's
Speaker 1: the basketball of it all, the strategy that specifically for
Speaker 1: that particular team, But then there's also the entertainment value
Speaker 1: in the industry as a whole, the NBA as a whole,
Speaker 1: that says, I want to keep you engaged in this
Speaker 1: narrative even while we not playing, because think about it,
Speaker 1: we're talking about the NBA while the season's over. So
Speaker 1: if you're doing it while the season's over, you're still
Speaker 1: selling ads because they air the NBA Draft, So you're
Speaker 1: selling ads, you're getting all the social media press, you're
Speaker 1: taking a lot of air oxygen out of just the
Speaker 1: media circus in general. Rule you your players are now
Speaker 1: getting deals, like there's so much money to be made
Speaker 1: if I keep you involved in the narrative. And how
Speaker 1: I keep you involved in the narrative is the same
Speaker 1: way you get somebody to go from episode three to
Speaker 1: episode four is I give you a reason to keep
Speaker 1: paying attention. But I have to like slow leak that
Speaker 1: I can't tell you the whole story. And then sometimes
Speaker 1: because again at the end of the day, we're watching
Speaker 1: people do business. You got to keep your cards to yourself, right,
Speaker 1: I can't show you my cards, So I'm not going
Speaker 1: to tell the press cause I might be like, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like if you a player and
Speaker 1: you know you got you in a bidding war between
Speaker 1: you know, Milwaukee and you know the Knicks, you might
Speaker 1: secretly be like, man, I'm talking to like my homeboy
Speaker 1: who's on the Knicks. I'm talking to his agent. He's
Speaker 1: in the ear this person to like, you know, make
Speaker 1: make sure that my deal go through. So I'm really
Speaker 1: just leveraging Milwaukee to make sure that New York pays
Speaker 1: me more. So there it's a gainsmanship going on here
Speaker 1: that is happening at the same time that the for
Speaker 1: profit companies themselves are working out to make sure that
Speaker 1: every that they make money. Also following me, now, politics
Speaker 1: is no different. Now check this out. Just as you
Speaker 1: have players that can move around and coaches, and when
Speaker 1: coaches put together their staff, right, the staff, the coaching
Speaker 1: staff still needs to be approved by you know, the owners, right,
Speaker 1: But they put together their staff, they agreed on their contracts.
Speaker 1: They make those things work, just like the players you
Speaker 1: put your roster together. But then there are also people
Speaker 1: there that don't have to be approved. They're just hired,
Speaker 1: like your physical trainer, your medical your support staff that
Speaker 1: doesn't have to go through any that's just a job.
Speaker 1: And no matter who's the coach, this is their job.
Speaker 1: It's also the same in politics. Now, what I was
Speaker 1: going to do today was run through the entire list
Speaker 1: of people that Trump has announced to be in his cabinet.
Speaker 1: But that sounds like a twenty twenty five issue. I'm
Speaker 1: about ready to slap this laptop closed and be like
Speaker 1: this sounds like it's we're almost in the let's circle
Speaker 1: back after the holiday season. We are almost there. But
Speaker 1: also it's the point I'm making with this episode, don't
Speaker 1: buy the jerseys yet. None of these people are confirmed
Speaker 1: or are going to guarantee to be confirmed, which is normal.
Speaker 1: But what's even more wild is the turnover rate that
Speaker 1: Trump often has. Do you know how many chiefs of
Speaker 1: staff Trump went through the first time? Bruh went through
Speaker 1: four chiefs of staff, which is kind of wild. So
Speaker 1: they had a new boss every year. Like that's got
Speaker 1: a little difficult when you look at his turnover rate. Right, Listen,
Speaker 1: every president has a turnover rate, right and Brookings dot edu.
Speaker 1: So the Brookings Institute did a study of the last
Speaker 1: few presidents in their turnover rate, which again is normal
Speaker 1: in year one, year two, year three, and year four
Speaker 1: and then the total turnover. So Reagan had first year
Speaker 1: seventeen percent turnover meaning people who get hired and fired
Speaker 1: right second year forty percent. Now there is quite an
Speaker 1: understanding as to what was going on. Then that's you know, stagflation, Reaganomics, stuff,
Speaker 1: Iran Contra, all that stuff. Right then he had thirteen
Speaker 1: percent the third year, and then the fourth year was
Speaker 1: eight percent. He had a total of seventy eight percent
Speaker 1: turnover rate, right, which is pretty high. Bush Senior, Daddy
Speaker 1: Bush had sixty six overall is his highest was thirty
Speaker 1: two percent one year. Right, let's see who else had
Speaker 1: a high one. Clinton. You know, we'll get off the
Speaker 1: Republicans for a little bit. Clinton had a seventy four
Speaker 1: percent turnover rate, right, Obama had seventy one percent. Bush
Speaker 1: had sixty three. Trump had a ninety two percent turnover rate.
Speaker 1: This man almost fired literally one hundred percent. This man
Speaker 1: almost this man almost fired his whole staff. Now I'm
Speaker 1: a grant him the fact that he had never done
Speaker 1: this before. He had only been in a private sector,
Speaker 1: he never ran a government, so give him that. However, Wow,
Speaker 1: ninety two percent. Now he brags about that. He's like, look,
Speaker 1: if you ain't with it, you out, which says to me,
Speaker 1: for somebody that values loyalty, you show don't give it.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying, draw your own conclusions with that.
Speaker 1: But all that to say, as these lists are dropping, Bro,
Speaker 1: they don't stay how long with Steve Bannon around you?
Speaker 1: Like another thing you need to understand about Trump. That's
Speaker 1: what I mean by the rules have changed. That type
Speaker 1: of alpha, whatever version of alpha he has, can't be
Speaker 1: in the presence of another alpha like which to me
Speaker 1: is like not very alpha, But for him, that's why
Speaker 1: alphas don't last around him? Bannon gone, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like he let that man let Paul Manniford
Speaker 1: go to jail. You feel me? He let Roger Stone
Speaker 1: go to jail and then got him pardoned so he
Speaker 1: could remain a bous that man, don't he don't listen?
Speaker 1: He different, Which brings me to the question about how
Speaker 1: long Rfk and Elon Musk gonna last, because eventually the
Speaker 1: contest of pissing is gonna happen because I don't know
Speaker 1: if any of them men know how to follow, So
Speaker 1: we gonna see. Like I now, I should shut my mouth,
Speaker 1: because if I've learned anything is don't predict nothing. I'm
Speaker 1: just I can't imagine somebody like an Elon standing for
Speaker 1: being berated by somebody he knows he could buy three
Speaker 1: times over, no matter what you need from him. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong. I've been wrong a lot, just saying
Speaker 1: it don't seem like it to me. Don't know how
Speaker 1: long that little relationship gonna last. And as an aside,
Speaker 1: the Department of Government Efficiency, I'm gonna say this again,
Speaker 1: the Department of Government Efficiency has two chiefs. Do that
Speaker 1: sound efficient to you? I don't know that's the way anyway.
Speaker 1: There are two types of cabinet appointees. There are those
Speaker 1: that need to be confirmed and there are those that
Speaker 1: don't need to be confirmed. And who I'm saying confirmed
Speaker 1: is confirmed by the Senate. Right, so Trump will announce
Speaker 1: his picks for positions like the all the offices like
Speaker 1: you know, Medicare and Medicaid, the EPA, Commerce, you know,
Speaker 1: the FDA, Transport, the Secretary of State, the Eternal General,
Speaker 1: the Defense, the dn I, the CIA, the Department of Labor,
Speaker 1: like all these different departments that make a president work.
Speaker 1: The Ambassador to Finance, the head of the Navy, the
Speaker 1: Department you know, the Health Department, all these different people.
Speaker 1: And then there's the ones that don't need to be
Speaker 1: confirmed because you just named it. These my folks, this
Speaker 1: one I'm putting in charge, one of which is the
Speaker 1: vice president obviously the deputy chief of staff and the
Speaker 1: chief of staff you just choose that. That's Susan Wiles, which, again,
Speaker 1: like we said when we was in the Fire and
Speaker 1: Theory podcast, like I don't know why anybody would line
Speaker 1: up to work for this place knowing that isn't ninety
Speaker 1: two percent chance you're finna get fired, but you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you different. Right, the head of the FCC, the
Speaker 1: Department of National Security is Alex Wong, you know, the
Speaker 1: Public Laison, the Senior Advisor Ukraine and Russian Envoy Legislative Affairs,
Speaker 1: you know, and again, like we said before, the government
Speaker 1: efficiency and then of course the withdrawn Attorney General Matt Gaates.
Speaker 1: So those positions are the ones that do not re
Speaker 1: choir Senate approval, which is like you again, your staff
Speaker 1: that comes with the new coach, right, that's just this
Speaker 1: who they are. And then there's a whole tier of
Speaker 1: workers that just work for the government right now with
Speaker 1: that squad, normally, this is just who the president get. Now,
Speaker 1: what Trump said was the people that was in that
Speaker 1: level was part of why his government didn't work very well.
Speaker 1: While he was always frustrated because he was like, y'
Speaker 1: y'all really wasn't on board with what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do here, but I was just stuck with you. So
Speaker 1: what I want to do is make sure that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be able to fire y'all if y'all ain't. If
Speaker 1: y'all don't get with the program, you either get on
Speaker 1: or get down. If y'all not gonna get on, then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fire you. Now again, this is us throwing
Speaker 1: the map out the window because you usually not supposed
Speaker 1: to be able to do that. Them is just boring
Speaker 1: pencil pusher bureaucrats that he's say in his mind, they
Speaker 1: was out here sabotaging it. So he like, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to I don't want that in my office right now.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to have this in my house. So
Speaker 1: he gonna change the law to make sure he could
Speaker 1: fire him, bringing everybody that he says is quote unquote loyal. Now,
Speaker 1: remember when you're drafting the team, your hope is to win, right,
Speaker 1: so you have to look at your strengths and your weaknesses.
Speaker 1: Like in basketball, if it's like, yo, we got a
Speaker 1: Lebron James type big man point guard. We need a
Speaker 1: pure point guard right that, and we also need a
Speaker 1: big man because if you know basketball, it's impossible to
Speaker 1: win without a second piece, either a power forward or
Speaker 1: a center. You have to have it. There's no to
Speaker 1: get real nineties on you, there is no You have
Speaker 1: to have Scottie Piven, right, you have to have Shaq
Speaker 1: and Kobe. You have to have or Kobe and Shack.
Speaker 1: You have to have Kobe and power Gasol. You need
Speaker 1: the second piece, right, bron and ad you have to
Speaker 1: have this second piece. And if you really want to
Speaker 1: run a dynasty, you need a third and fourth piece.
Speaker 1: And they have to get along. If the point in
Speaker 1: the post don't get along, it's just not gonna work again.
Speaker 1: If you know basketball, point in the posts have to
Speaker 1: get along, and it's the same in the government, like
Speaker 1: the point in the posts have to get along. Now,
Speaker 1: how you pick these people based on this idea that
Speaker 1: you want to win you need the post to get along.
Speaker 1: Is sometimes you just need to be a good hang.
Speaker 1: I've told a lot of young artists who are really
Speaker 1: trying to get on tours, maybe trying to get in
Speaker 1: the studio sessions, get some songwriting credits, maybe be the
Speaker 1: bass player on a tour. Sometimes it's not so much
Speaker 1: you being a guitar virtuo, so it's you being a
Speaker 1: good hang. Like is the vibe gonna be weird on
Speaker 1: the bus? Like if you cool to kick it with,
Speaker 1: you have no idea how far it'll get. You just
Speaker 1: being cool to kick it with, because eventually all that
Speaker 1: ass kissing, you know, all that like it. It kind
Speaker 1: of gets old. You gotta be cool to be around
Speaker 1: in addition to you being excellent at your job. But
Speaker 1: from what I have found, you can be a B
Speaker 1: plus a minus at the job. If you are an
Speaker 1: A plus, hang because I got to be around you
Speaker 1: all the time. So the way that Trump calculates that is,
Speaker 1: do you have something resembling somewhat close to a skill
Speaker 1: that's in the general vicinity of what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: But you really good on camera and you'll do whatever
Speaker 1: the hell I tell you, Then you're in. And it
Speaker 1: seems as though this is like his calculation, right, who's
Speaker 1: just down? And one way to know, here's what I found.
Speaker 1: One way to know, at least with Trump. One way
Speaker 1: to know if you're down, if he thinks you're down
Speaker 1: or not, is if demand drags you and you don't
Speaker 1: say shit, is that you you back down when he
Speaker 1: bears his teeth. Here's my first example of that. Marco Rubio.
Speaker 1: Ain't no way in the world I'm working for a
Speaker 1: man that called me little Marco. But maybe that's why
Speaker 1: I'm not the Secretary of State. Maybe that's why I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here, you know, doing side hustles to try to
Speaker 1: make sure I could pay this California mortgage because I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna let no man call me little nothing like
Speaker 1: and then go work for him. But who knows if
Speaker 1: he's gonna pass through. Like I said, don't buy your
Speaker 1: jersey just yet. A few of the standouts that I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna lay out here that you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: like going through all of them just isn't really worth
Speaker 1: our time because we won't even know if they're gonna make
Speaker 1: the team. But another one of the standouts is your
Speaker 1: man's Cash Patel. He want him to be ahead of
Speaker 1: the FBI. Now they now remember the homie Komi who
Speaker 1: stood up against Trump, fired that nigga, and then he
Speaker 1: brought in a due Chris Ray, who would like kiss
Speaker 1: that man's ass the whole time. But now it's time
Speaker 1: for a new one and a new one now. Usually
Speaker 1: the FBI post is a ten year post, and it
Speaker 1: was designed for that so that you don't weaponize. The
Speaker 1: FBI had the DJ but like I said, throw out
Speaker 1: the map, but he bought in cash Plateail, and Cash
Speaker 1: Patel said. What he gonna do is day one, he
Speaker 1: gonna go over to the Hoover building, the FBI building
Speaker 1: and shut it down and turn it into a museum
Speaker 1: of the deep state. My nigga said, I'm ending the
Speaker 1: FBI and honestly, no notes. But what he gonna do
Speaker 1: after that, he said is I'm gonna send all them
Speaker 1: agents into the into America to arrest criminals. So what
Speaker 1: he mean by that is people that got something against Trump,
Speaker 1: because we already got police. What you're sending the agents
Speaker 1: into America? Like, what is you? He he prosecuting Trump's enemies.
Speaker 1: That's the plan, which shouldn't surprise you because he told
Speaker 1: you that was the plan. Trump told you that was
Speaker 1: the Plan's gonna turn that mug into a gusta fold
Speaker 1: just for his own political enemies. And the thing is
Speaker 1: he told you he was gonna do that. That's the
Speaker 1: part that I'm like, you voted for this, this is
Speaker 1: what you asked for. Y'all asked for this. Hey, you
Speaker 1: can't act like you ain't no, like, this is what
Speaker 1: he said he was gonna do. He's gotta prosecutor. Of course,
Speaker 1: to youboy keep saying, nah, he doesn't mean that. He
Speaker 1: continually says what he means. I don't understand what y'all
Speaker 1: don't understand. As we know, it's been announced that the
Speaker 1: sister that is part of the family that had kids
Speaker 1: pointing their crotches that they teach us the degeneration ex
Speaker 1: Lady Linda McMahon, is about to be the head of Education,
Speaker 1: of which he already said he was disbanding anyway. So
Speaker 1: there's that. Now, he's just the highest one these your
Speaker 1: first round drafts, right, and sometimes the first round draft picks,
Speaker 1: like I said, they don't end up being on the team.
Speaker 1: They get traded for other stuff, and then it'd be
Speaker 1: like the fourth and fifth round kid that end up
Speaker 1: being in the Star. So so you know, don't don't
Speaker 1: don't buy the jersey yet. The Department of Medicare and
Speaker 1: Medicaid administrator, my man doctor Oz, that had all of
Speaker 1: our mamas looking at our poop because apparently he was
Speaker 1: telling everybody that's how you know if you're healthy or not,
Speaker 1: as if your poop is good. Now, what sucks about
Speaker 1: doctor Oz is the fact that as an actual like surgeon,
Speaker 1: like a brain surgeon, like, he was actually an excellent doctor.
Speaker 1: Where there's a whole series on Behind the Baskets about him.
Speaker 1: It's just him giving one hundred and seventy five episodes
Speaker 1: of medical advice. Eventually you're gonna run out of shit
Speaker 1: to say and start talking nonsense. And you should know
Speaker 1: to diagnose somebody, To get somebody a medical advice from
Speaker 1: the television is completely unethical, nigga, Like, how do you
Speaker 1: know you talking to five million people? Anyway, the head
Speaker 1: of as we know, the head of Health and Human Services,
Speaker 1: the secretary would be RFK. They put basically a man
Speaker 1: with a parasite in charge of all the anti parasites.
Speaker 1: You talk about the man that drove home with a
Speaker 1: whale on his roof. Oh man, let me start laughing.
Speaker 1: You never know. Listen, here's the thing. I hope it works.
Speaker 1: Look sometimes I've watched the LA Lakers draft and I've
Speaker 1: been like, nigga, what the hell are y'all doing? But
Speaker 1: I tell you what, I hope it works. So look,
Speaker 1: I hope it works. Now, these are the ones that
Speaker 1: are announced, but they have to be confirmed by the Senate.
Speaker 1: Now what these are just a few of these people,
Speaker 1: Like I said, you don't know if they're gonna stay.
Speaker 1: Another one and Chris Wright, the Secretary of Energy, the
Speaker 1: man who wants to just drill baby, drill, frack baby
Speaker 1: frack right, which is so weird because he's standing right
Speaker 1: next to the the same job the electric car. Dude,
Speaker 1: I just what's happening right now? But anyway, I might
Speaker 1: be wrong, y'all. The funniest one is guess where the
Speaker 1: one black man is housing and urban development, just like
Speaker 1: be incarcon.
Speaker 3: Oh man, that's where he put the one black man
Speaker 3: over the house and get over. He put the black
Speaker 3: man two times in a row.
Speaker 1: Over y'all, y'all see why that's funny, right like you,
Speaker 1: oh man, I swear this man is a cartoon all
Speaker 1: right now real quick. The guys who do have their
Speaker 1: jobs until they don't, because again we know how Trump works.
Speaker 1: You got, at least as of today, you got Chief
Speaker 1: of Staff Susie Wilds. You got the deputy chief of staff,
Speaker 1: James Blair, the second deputy chief of staff. We got
Speaker 1: Taylor Bach. Another chief of staff is Stephen Miller, you know,
Speaker 1: the like raging Nazi. You got the borders are as
Speaker 1: Thomas Homan. You got National Secretary Advisor Michael Waltz. You
Speaker 1: got Stephen chung Over, the Community Director. You got Press
Speaker 1: Secretary Caroline Levitt, let me see who else would actually
Speaker 1: be somebody I would really care to know about, because
Speaker 1: some of the stuff is like you know, the Shane
Speaker 1: Batti eight of it all basketball joke, little purpose, eless
Speaker 1: public laison, Alex latching and of course, like we said,
Speaker 1: the Department of Government Efficiency. It's Elon Musk and the
Speaker 1: vake rhymes with cake Ramaswami. But don't buy your birth
Speaker 1: don't buy your jerseys yet. Okay, just let it play out.
Speaker 1: Okay if I calm down, when I calm down, But
Speaker 1: just like you know, don't buy your jerseys yet. We
Speaker 1: gotta let summer week gain politics.
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