Speaker 1: Calls media.
Speaker 2: That was so long that he.
Speaker 1: Demand set another record for length. He talked for two hours.
Speaker 1: And what did he say? He said a lot of things.
Speaker 1: You say a lot of things. You say a lot
Speaker 1: of things. But what is he tom about?
Speaker 2: And as our.
Speaker 1: Newly minted profit of our time, Kendrick Lamar has told
Speaker 1: us what they talking about?
Speaker 2: They talking about?
Speaker 1: Nothing?
Speaker 2: They talk about they talk about uhting what they talk me?
Speaker 2: They talk about nothing? They talking about nothing.
Speaker 1: Politics, y'all, Oh man, what do you the hell did
Speaker 1: you talking about? Listen, Welcome to the show. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you're here. As far as announcements, let's get these out
Speaker 1: the way. I'm gonna start rolling out a ton of music,
Speaker 1: so please if you can join the Patreon, which is
Speaker 1: the Red Couch Pod revealing a lot of music there.
Speaker 1: Start being way more active on that where I'm like
Speaker 1: doing just hang outs and stuff like that, you know,
Speaker 1: And I also do like counseling or not counseling, consulting sessions.
Speaker 1: They're like, you got some music you know or some
Speaker 1: pod ideas. I'm totally down to like talk to you,
Speaker 1: hear what you got, see what you got to see
Speaker 1: how I can help obviously, don't be weird, don't waste
Speaker 1: both of our times. But like, you know, talk to
Speaker 1: you boy, talk to me nice. Also, there's a whole
Speaker 1: other merch store there that you can grab like exclusive stuff.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: You know, so that's me plugging my stuff. That's me
Speaker 1: plugging my pluggables, as Robert has coined. But yeah, who
Speaker 1: got the who got the friend that just likes to
Speaker 1: hit himself talk?
Speaker 2: You know that? Like here, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I am very guilty. I am one who will admit
Speaker 1: that I like stages. I like microphones, I like I
Speaker 1: enjoy this. I enjoy being on stage. I enjoy a
Speaker 1: lot of people fear of public speaking. I enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's an art form. Especially when I
Speaker 1: know that I know what I'm talking about. I enjoyed,
Speaker 1: you know, when I when I'm in the mood for it,
Speaker 1: being at the party and being the the funniest dude
Speaker 1: in the room, I enjoy.
Speaker 2: I enjoy that.
Speaker 1: I enjoy the the the banter, I enjoy you know,
Speaker 1: even like the improv of it all, being able to
Speaker 1: yes and with somebody who's like really good at the
Speaker 1: slick talk like for me, I enjoy that.
Speaker 2: But I also can read a room.
Speaker 1: I also know it's probably time to shut up. I
Speaker 1: also feel like.
Speaker 2: I got a pretty decent capo meter.
Speaker 1: You feel me, And I feel like I could tell
Speaker 1: when somebody know I'm capping. You know, I just I
Speaker 1: you know where I'm going with this. We're talking about
Speaker 1: this impromptu State of the Union address. Now listen, this
Speaker 1: wasn't the State of the Union address, but there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things going on here. And what I want
Speaker 1: to do today is not so much go bar for
Speaker 1: bar with this, because I'm pretty sure there's plenty of
Speaker 1: shows I know they did on even more news on
Speaker 1: our friends, you know, Cody and Katie. You know they
Speaker 1: did the bar for bar situation. I feel like y'all
Speaker 1: could go get that somewhere else. I'm not sure that's
Speaker 1: what y'all come to me for.
Speaker 2: Maybe you do. Because we just finished going through shout out.
Speaker 1: Thank you for everybody who responded to the survey we
Speaker 1: put out. I appreciate y'all responding to that giving me
Speaker 1: some porters as to like, what parts of the show
Speaker 1: you like, what kind of.
Speaker 2: Shows you like, a lot of good feedback, a lot
Speaker 2: of great ideas.
Speaker 1: The main takeaway I got is like as long as
Speaker 1: I stay like as current as I possibly can.
Speaker 2: With the biggest compliment y'all gave.
Speaker 1: Me, which I appreciate so much, is that like I'm able,
Speaker 1: you say, what you like about the show is I'm
Speaker 1: able to take stuff that seems much more complicated and
Speaker 1: make it understandable. And that's called teaching, you know. So
Speaker 1: I super thankful for that. That's my strength. I feel
Speaker 1: like that's my wheelhouse. Y' also said, which really surprised me,
Speaker 1: that y'all not really interested in guests, like especially like
Speaker 1: the like what was rated the least for the Terror
Speaker 1: Form episodes.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, word, like y'all, y'all don't want
Speaker 2: to hear from people. Do it good? Okay? So it
Speaker 2: is what it is.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that you also ask for more stuff about
Speaker 1: like indigenous experiences, which I mean, touchee, that's actually a
Speaker 1: great idea.
Speaker 2: I could stand and talk about that a lot more.
Speaker 1: No, So thank you for that. Thank you for responding
Speaker 1: telling me the type of things that you need, so
Speaker 1: now I know what you're coming in me for. So
Speaker 1: one thing that I also wanted to take away that
Speaker 1: I took away from that is like the okay, so
Speaker 1: what do we do, like give me some action items?
Speaker 1: What am I supposed to do with this? Now that
Speaker 1: understand it? What am I supposed to do with this?
Speaker 1: And sometimes I mean you kind of be right like
Speaker 1: I actually don't know you know me or I'm finding
Speaker 1: this out or discovering really at the same pacing speed
Speaker 1: you you know, like not actually an expert. I'm a
Speaker 1: citizen like y'all are.
Speaker 2: I Just.
Speaker 1: I enjoy the teaching aspect of it, you know, and
Speaker 1: the translation, and hopefully we can find out what we
Speaker 1: need to do together. This is communal, you know. I
Speaker 1: feel like our answer is communal. I feel like our
Speaker 1: answer is mutual. And that like just the idea that
Speaker 1: one person being the fountain head of all the answers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what we're dealing with in the White House.
Speaker 1: Is like and A don't that it don't need to
Speaker 1: work like that.
Speaker 2: I ain't got the answers sway.
Speaker 1: I don't have all the answers, you know. I want
Speaker 1: to learn and grow with y'all. That being said, what
Speaker 1: I want to talk about for this just marathon. Now, granted,
Speaker 1: if you grew up in black church, you familiar with
Speaker 1: pastor just lavishing.
Speaker 2: That man is still talking.
Speaker 1: But at least in Black church, there's organ breaks, there's
Speaker 1: musical moments that happen in between it.
Speaker 2: You ain't just that man ain't just literally preaching for
Speaker 2: two hours.
Speaker 1: You know, there's an A and B selection, there's there's a
Speaker 1: praise break.
Speaker 2: We do be there forever, but now there's a there is.
Speaker 1: A a actual beautiful tradition as it. Seriously, there's actually
Speaker 1: a reason why historically Black churches function like that and
Speaker 1: why that became part of our sort of cultural experience
Speaker 1: to where like service be real long with a lot
Speaker 1: of music and stuff like that. Some of it is
Speaker 1: like humans intuitively knowing that you learned better through song
Speaker 1: and repetition, you know. And it's a way that you
Speaker 1: know how in academia or in religious studies you would
Speaker 1: call it a contemplative practice, you know, or or a
Speaker 1: meditation you know that, or you know in the East,
Speaker 1: these are mantras, but just us repeating these, you know, choruses,
Speaker 1: and repeating these refrains like be ye holy, for I
Speaker 1: am holy, you know, and and making things rhyme, like
Speaker 1: if I were to say God is good all the
Speaker 1: black people knew what to say, and all the time,
Speaker 1: all the black people knew what to say. These reset
Speaker 1: these recitings of our these are these are the ways
Speaker 1: that we.
Speaker 2: Kind of catechized ourselves. You know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 2: there's a there's a tradition of that.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying, we know what to me for the
Speaker 1: man to stay up there and be like, yo, he
Speaker 1: got them serious. My sister used to say, the spirit
Speaker 1: of long wind. He got the spirit a long wind. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, And now my time is short, you know. Now,
Speaker 1: I know y'all came up here to preach me. Now
Speaker 1: I'm about done, but I got.
Speaker 2: A song deep in my spirit.
Speaker 1: Just y'all, boy, I'm not now I'm closing now, I'm I'm, I'm, I'm,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a land in the plane now, Pastor I
Speaker 1: always talking about it. You know, you got another twenty
Speaker 1: thirty minutes. Then the man won't do an altar call.
Speaker 1: And then the Lord gave him a rain of word.
Speaker 1: Lord Jesus were all night. Don't let it be a
Speaker 1: watch night service. Okay, I am way off topic, but
Speaker 1: that Trump Trump ran us a watch night service. Oh,
Speaker 1: his unnecessary state of the union address. So what I
Speaker 1: want to talk about today is like, here's some main
Speaker 1: takeaways as to like why.
Speaker 2: He did this?
Speaker 1: And these are just me like reading the lick, Like
Speaker 1: I obviously I don't know what's going on in his head.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody do.
Speaker 1: But there are some ways that you and I can
Speaker 1: like process if we understand some more like main takeaways
Speaker 1: as to like.
Speaker 2: What should we do? Right? What do we do?
Speaker 1: What do I do with all this? Why did you
Speaker 1: even do? Why did you even call this meeting? And
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do this? Where should I
Speaker 1: be looking? And now that's me giving you game like
Speaker 1: where at least in my opinion, where should you be looking?
Speaker 1: But before we do that, let's just have a little
Speaker 1: fun and just throw a rock in the river.
Speaker 2: This is what I did.
Speaker 1: I threw a rock in the rigor and fact checked
Speaker 1: just things at random. Some of the stuff that I
Speaker 1: just felt like was the most egregious and some of
Speaker 1: the stuff that I was just like, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: pick this sentence at random. I don't know what this is.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna check now. Actually, before I do that,
Speaker 1: I would keep pushing this back part forward let's just
Speaker 1: talk about some of the just.
Speaker 2: Some of the antics.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, before I get to the Republican antics, can
Speaker 1: we please talk about the Democratic antics. Now, there is
Speaker 1: nothing more funny to me than a senator named al Green.
Speaker 2: That's probably because I'm black.
Speaker 1: Every time they kept saying Representative al Green, I just
Speaker 1: baroken the song so Love You.
Speaker 2: It was now him heckling trying to hold.
Speaker 1: The Donald accountable during these things, and then him getting
Speaker 1: put out.
Speaker 2: Cool. I guess right. Cool. Now while that was happening,
Speaker 2: you had these other.
Speaker 1: Listen, I need let me talk to the young leagues
Speaker 1: who if y'all have just decided was corny no matter
Speaker 1: what they do, no matter how talented or skills they are,
Speaker 1: y'all just see him as corny.
Speaker 2: We've we've we've talked about this, at.
Speaker 1: Least from my jen and I feel like some of
Speaker 1: us are kind of eating our words on that, but
Speaker 1: we just kind of decided that Nick Cannon was corny.
Speaker 1: Now it's mainly when he does like songs because he's
Speaker 1: a boss, like there's no way, like the guy gave
Speaker 1: us wild'n out like he's he's he is objectively one
Speaker 1: of the most successful black men in entertainment, in business.
Speaker 2: Objectively, we just decided he was corny.
Speaker 1: Like at some point, I know Corday, like for the
Speaker 1: for the gen right under me, they used to think
Speaker 1: that like Corday was just he was just corny like
Speaker 1: and I'm like, youngly Homy can rap. But y'all just
Speaker 1: decided he was corny. I who have y'all just decided no.
Speaker 2: Matter what they do, corny or she corny. I don't
Speaker 2: know what.
Speaker 1: I'm getting at is these democratic stupid little signs that
Speaker 1: say that's a lie, y'all.
Speaker 2: That's corny. Now.
Speaker 1: It's true what he's saying is a lie, but that's corny. Now,
Speaker 1: why everybody dragging the Democrats? Cause it's like, my nigga,
Speaker 1: what are y'all doing? If you wanted to show some
Speaker 1: sort of unity. Here's a suggestion. When Al Green still
Speaker 1: makes me giggle, got kicked out because he had the
Speaker 1: hot grits poured on him. He who has ears to
Speaker 1: hear when Al Green got kicked out, the rest of
Speaker 1: y'all should have left right because that would have been
Speaker 1: a show of solidarity, like we're doing something, but y'all
Speaker 1: can't figure out what you're gonna do with this dude now, granted,
Speaker 1: who knows what to do. This is our first fascist
Speaker 1: takeover that has worked because during the Smedley Butler years,
Speaker 1: which we've talked about before, and we did a whole
Speaker 1: Behind the Bastards series and me and Robert on the
Speaker 1: Smedley Butler era, who probably has is the one of
Speaker 1: the most dynamic characters in American history.
Speaker 2: But anyway, that's a whole other story. You should read
Speaker 2: his book War as a Racket. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: Europe can Europe, almost all the European countries can say, guys,
Speaker 1: we've done this before.
Speaker 2: Okay, we've been here.
Speaker 1: I made this joke before all of Europe and the
Speaker 1: rest of almost pretty much Europe, South America, the rest
Speaker 1: of the world is patent America on they shoulders like, oh.
Speaker 2: It's your first fascist takeover. Hey, you remember that? Do
Speaker 2: our first time? Yah?
Speaker 1: Were our first way, Like like, you'll be all right,
Speaker 1: but here's here's how you're like walking off a cliff
Speaker 1: and we all see you walking off a cliff. But
Speaker 1: for some reason of it, listen, you remember being a teenager,
Speaker 1: you know a teenager, you know how you looking at
Speaker 1: a teenager in the face, knowing full well that teenager
Speaker 1: ain't finna listen to you, knowing that they about to
Speaker 1: walk head first, run full speed into a brick wall.
Speaker 2: And you like, my dude, look, little bro, little bro,
Speaker 2: it's a cliff right there.
Speaker 1: And what I'm trying to tell you is and you know,
Speaker 1: you looking at them knowing that they just glazed over.
Speaker 1: They you know, they all on their phone, not really
Speaker 1: paying attention. They just like whatever, big bro, Like, all right,
Speaker 1: they unk you here? You know, you get unked up.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, you know, for the
Speaker 1: girls like as she's just being at the I right now,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like, okay, okay, walk off
Speaker 1: the cliff. Then it's is is how Europe looking at
Speaker 1: America right now? Like y'all don't I don't understand how
Speaker 1: y'all just this is what we're trying to tell you.
Speaker 1: Your leader putting out statements that say we are going
Speaker 1: to outlaw all illegal protests.
Speaker 2: My nigga, what the hell is an illegal protest? Don't like?
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 1: So the question is why where the Democrats where y'all at?
Speaker 2: What are y'all?
Speaker 1: Why are y'all not doing why have y'all not figured out?
Speaker 1: And the thing is, who knows what to do? Some
Speaker 1: arguments is you should rope adope him. You know what
Speaker 1: the ropodope is? Why who am I talking to? The
Speaker 1: rope adope is like the Muhammad Ali. It's like a
Speaker 1: boxing thing where you just kind of like you get
Speaker 1: against the rope and you let the person tire themselves out.
Speaker 1: So you block, you take the punches, you wait for
Speaker 1: the right time, and then you throw that blow right
Speaker 1: because eventually, the theory is that person is gonna get
Speaker 1: too comfortable. The person you fight is gonna get too comfortable,
Speaker 1: gonna get too cocky, and the guard gonna come down.
Speaker 1: But you gotta wait for it right, So you take
Speaker 1: the blows, let him tie themselves out right, and as
Speaker 1: soon as they tired out and get sloppy.
Speaker 2: Fole catch them. That's one thought.
Speaker 1: Now, the problem with that is what those blows are
Speaker 1: is that man Hari from Columbia University with a functioning
Speaker 1: green card that just got deported because he was a
Speaker 1: part of the anti war protests on the college campuses
Speaker 1: this past year where ICE agents showed up and they
Speaker 1: just said, hey, your student visa's done and he was like, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't have a student visa because I graduated and
Speaker 1: I got a green card. Let me go get it right,
Speaker 1: and they retained him. And then he was like, here
Speaker 1: go my green card, and they was like, your green
Speaker 1: card being canceled.
Speaker 2: It's been revoked. And he like his lawyer like, uh,
Speaker 2: can you show me a warrant? Hung up on the nigga.
Speaker 1: So these punches that we saying are just theories, are
Speaker 1: legal citizens being deported. These punches are your eggs being
Speaker 1: twenty dollars.
Speaker 2: You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So these are your me mayo, me ma and told
Speaker 1: suck Arkansas losing her medicaid? Is Paul Paul not getting
Speaker 1: his insulin?
Speaker 2: No mo.
Speaker 1: So these punches that we say are in theory is
Speaker 1: actual lives, you know.
Speaker 2: So, so it's.
Speaker 1: Easy to say in theory that all you just need
Speaker 1: to rope a dope, you know what I'm saying, while
Speaker 1: the rest of us is like help me. Another theory,
Speaker 1: another political theory is to just let it burn, is
Speaker 1: to like, just you know what, this is what you want,
Speaker 1: that's what y'all ask for, okay.
Speaker 2: Where essentially you treat the.
Speaker 1: US government and the Republican Party like you would treat
Speaker 1: Kanye like, y'all you know what, man, you got a chief,
Speaker 1: gone ahead, then gone on, bro, you got it, go ahead,
Speaker 1: do you booboo? And you just sit and let the
Speaker 1: country burn and be like that's what y'all asked for.
Speaker 1: We tried to We tried to tell you, no, this
Speaker 1: is your job too. You work for the coverment also,
Speaker 1: So what do you do? And the answer is, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I got to ideas, but we ain't never
Speaker 1: been here before. I think it would be a good
Speaker 1: way to go study opposition parties across the world in
Speaker 1: post World War two Earth.
Speaker 2: They may give you some clues anyway.
Speaker 1: For the democratic side, y'all got to figure out some
Speaker 1: sort of united front because letting your man's get kicked
Speaker 1: out like that and then y'all holding up these little
Speaker 1: corny signs, I get it. In theory, both of those
Speaker 1: things make perfect sense. And especially if you bouncing off
Speaker 1: the idea of what Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Bobert
Speaker 1: head assd did just yelling boo and that's a lie
Speaker 1: and say her name just being hella unprofessional. They weaponized
Speaker 1: in the fact that you're trying to follow respectability politics.
Speaker 1: Why they don't give care by none of that right
Speaker 1: that's getting weaponized on you. So you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: figure out, and by you, I mean us, how to
Speaker 1: deal with this thing.
Speaker 2: Now. So that's that's on the Democratic side, Like, my nigga,
Speaker 2: where are y'all? What is you? What was y'all doing? Hello? Hello,
Speaker 2: hello on the Democratic side?
Speaker 1: Now, a couple of highlights on the Republican side before
Speaker 1: I get into the fact check it part was, first
Speaker 1: of all, the idea of bringing a little black kid
Speaker 1: that's fighting cancer and honoring him being a member of
Speaker 1: the Secret Service while actively ending cancer research is specifically
Speaker 1: diabolical to me. I am like, this is why I
Speaker 1: say facts and logics don't matter no more, because I
Speaker 1: don't know why anybody didn't go, uh, maybe you shouldn't
Speaker 1: even if you own the Democratic even if you own
Speaker 1: a Republican side, be like, hey, maybe you shouldn't You
Speaker 1: kind of leaving yourself.
Speaker 2: Open for this one.
Speaker 1: Why you ain't Why would you put you're actively defunding
Speaker 1: the nih that does cancer research.
Speaker 2: My dude, why would you bring this kid?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Because again, it don't matter, and that wasn't the point
Speaker 2: of this display. Another thing I noticed.
Speaker 1: That I thought was specifically egregious was even his body language,
Speaker 1: Like Bruh was turned one way to the side because
Speaker 1: he was really only talking to his people. It was
Speaker 1: pretty obvious that he was only talking to his people,
Speaker 1: which normally in a situation like this, I don't even
Speaker 1: know why I'll use the word normal. You supposed to
Speaker 1: at least pretend like you're gonna try to unify us all.
Speaker 2: But no, I ain't. I ain't pretending, oh nothing. This
Speaker 2: is what I came here to do, and I'm finna
Speaker 2: do it. Was this man stands.
Speaker 1: Another thing that kind of leans towards the fact checking
Speaker 1: that I would really again love to hammer.
Speaker 2: I can't hammer this home enough.
Speaker 1: Is the man keeps saying that we spent three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty billion dollars in Ukraine.
Speaker 2: It is. You can go to the website.
Speaker 1: We spent one hundred and twenty six billion, which of
Speaker 1: course is still a lot of money, but it's not
Speaker 1: three point fifty. I don't know why you keep saying this.
Speaker 1: And did we spend more than Europe? No, Europe actually
Speaker 1: spent two hundred and fifty billion. But I tell you this,
Speaker 1: I think the bar of the night. This is me
Speaker 1: giving Trump his propers. The bar of the night was,
Speaker 1: turns out you didn't need a new policy, you needed
Speaker 1: a new president bars.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: Ah, that was a bar because if there's one thing
Speaker 1: we know Trump is good at, it's showmanshit.
Speaker 2: And then lastly is.
Speaker 1: Trump bragging on the fact that he's getting rid of
Speaker 1: the unelected bureaucracy, getting rid of all those bureaucrats.
Speaker 2: In the government. And then the camera.
Speaker 1: Flashes to Elon, who is, in fact an unelected bureaucrat.
Speaker 2: I that made my head hurt.
Speaker 1: How the man brags on all the things that Elon
Speaker 1: has done, which was removing this government bloat and getting
Speaker 1: rid of unelected beacrats, done by an unelected beacrat.
Speaker 2: Like just.
Speaker 1: Is this like are you have you ever asked my talk?
Speaker 1: You've been talking to somebody and you're thinking, are you
Speaker 1: fucking with me?
Speaker 2: You're fucking with me? Right? Like what that moment was
Speaker 2: one of those moments to me where I was like,
Speaker 2: are you There's no way you didn't make that connection anyway.
Speaker 2: So now let's let's talk about some facts.
Speaker 1: I think I'll start at the beginning of where he started,
Speaker 1: which was talking about the things that Doge has done. Now,
Speaker 1: I did a video on the Doge spending where one
Speaker 1: of the main things that he talked about all the
Speaker 1: money that he saved was part of it was literally
Speaker 1: a typo where one of those government accounts was set
Speaker 1: for eight billion when it was really eight million.
Speaker 2: So that was one thing.
Speaker 1: There were many of these government accounts that on the
Speaker 1: Doge count they said was canceled to save money, but
Speaker 1: a couple of them things were canceled under George Bush Junior, Like,
Speaker 1: so they've been canceled, like this has been canceled since
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. I don't understand why you're counting
Speaker 1: this as things that you've done. The lavish fish monitoring.
Speaker 1: Did y'all hear him talk about the lavish fish? First
Speaker 1: of all, what the hell is a lavish fish? What
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the script said was larval fish. Because
Speaker 1: sometimes now, in his defense, reading off the teleprompter, especially
Speaker 1: for a two hour speech, be a little difficult. But
Speaker 1: Bruh said the Social Security thing, which got a whole
Speaker 1: lot of yuck yucks that you know, oh, we got
Speaker 1: people getting checks, so you know, there's people with that
Speaker 1: are one hundred and fifty years old. There's people that
Speaker 1: are two hundred and fifty years old, there are people
Speaker 1: that are this they've all read explain this like it
Speaker 1: just it doesn't really take much to go find this
Speaker 1: answer that these people are not receiving checks. Since they're
Speaker 1: not receiving checks, and it just you'd have to hire
Speaker 1: a guy to go through and find them on the
Speaker 1: delete them. They're just like, well, we'll just leave it there, like,
Speaker 1: but they're not receiving any money. It's just it's just
Speaker 1: in the document, right in the accounting of the document.
Speaker 1: But none of them are receiving money, right they stopped
Speaker 1: receiving money they died. It was it's already been accounted for.
Speaker 1: So those aren't savings to say that, oh yeah, we
Speaker 1: found this and we stopped saying they weren't getting any money.
Speaker 1: So you didn't say there's nothing. There was nothing. There
Speaker 1: was nothing being there's nothing being saved. There's nothing being saved.
Speaker 1: Right on the on the social securities part, Now, my
Speaker 1: favorite one, which was the one I could not wait
Speaker 1: to throw a rock into, and it was to trans
Speaker 1: gendered mice.
Speaker 2: Now I am.
Speaker 1: Almost positive the people at even more news took the
Speaker 1: words out of my mouth. I am almost positive that
Speaker 1: that little nineteen year old that works at dose did
Speaker 1: an apple f which is just a search, like when
Speaker 1: you search a document for a certain word, you say
Speaker 1: apple f right, and.
Speaker 2: Then you find that.
Speaker 1: Like if you like, if you got to write a
Speaker 1: long essay, you gotta look for certain things. Maybe you
Speaker 1: spelled it wrong, you just look for that right, Or
Speaker 1: if you got to do research, you just look for
Speaker 1: a certain term.
Speaker 2: You had an apple f.
Speaker 1: It searched the document to find that term. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure they look for the word trans and when they
Speaker 1: found the word trans they just went delete.
Speaker 2: Right now, the.
Speaker 1: Transgendered mice research that he's talking about was transgenic mice,
Speaker 1: which is not transgendered.
Speaker 2: Now, what.
Speaker 1: Transgenic mice research is is it's research where you can
Speaker 1: take genes inside of the mice and model them around
Speaker 1: the human genome to see how medicines respond to these
Speaker 1: particular genes. This is how you research for ASTHMA, for HIV,
Speaker 1: for cancer, for AIDS without having to get human genomes.
Speaker 1: We can transgenic. We can change the genomes that are
Speaker 1: close enough to in particular mice to model around how
Speaker 1: a human gene will respond to the medicines that we're
Speaker 1: trying to develop. They are not transgender mice. They are transgenic.
Speaker 1: Now that's because you and I like reading. That's why
Speaker 1: we know these things, is because we read. And the
Speaker 1: last one I'll throw out here is I don't know
Speaker 1: Trump's and the tariffs and fentanyl. So the claim is,
Speaker 1: and I'm reading from my document here, Trump says, so
Speaker 1: much has been said over the last three months about
Speaker 1: Mexico and Canada, and we have very large deficits with
Speaker 1: both of them. But even more importantly, they've allowed fentanyl
Speaker 1: to come into our country at levels never seen before,
Speaker 1: killing hundreds of thousands of citizens, very young, beautiful people,
Speaker 1: destroying families. Nobody has seen anything like it. Now, here's
Speaker 1: the thing, tariffs against Canada and fentanyl drug overdoses have
Speaker 1: zero to do with each other. The US Canada border.
Speaker 1: How do I say this? Canada plays as almost no
Speaker 1: role in the fentanyl exchange. And again, can't stress this enough.
Speaker 1: And all's usually sold in parts in the ingredients you
Speaker 1: can literally order from China, and if it's coming through Mexico,
Speaker 1: it's coming through legal ports because Americans go down there
Speaker 1: and get it why because you're not going to search
Speaker 1: an Americans car if you are coming to claim asylum,
Speaker 1: why the hell would you have a backpack full of fenanol?
Speaker 1: You have to turn over your backpack. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: just like y'all got brains. Now, this is just me
Speaker 1: pointing out, like I'm gonna link in the show note
Speaker 1: not hundreds, just stupid a bunch of different places where
Speaker 1: Trump was fact checked. I want to end this with
Speaker 1: game as to like, why would he even do this.
Speaker 2: Next? All right?
Speaker 1: Why even do this? There's no State of the Union address,
Speaker 1: there's really no need. You're in the you've only been
Speaker 1: there for a month. You're you're you're already doing the
Speaker 1: thing that like the pundits have been calling flooding the zone.
Speaker 2: Why do you even need to do this now?
Speaker 1: I think that there's a coalition that none of us
Speaker 1: understand just yet, because we haven't been shown some sort
Speaker 1: of agreement that Trump, Elon, and JD.
Speaker 2: Vance have that.
Speaker 1: Has not been shared to us as to why day
Speaker 1: relationship is still kind of working.
Speaker 2: Because it shouldn't.
Speaker 1: The main thing I see is Elon gets to be
Speaker 1: the bad guy, so whatever negative feelings, even Trump's base
Speaker 1: has it's towards Elon, it's never towards Trump. So he
Speaker 1: set up a way that nobody will ever turn on him.
Speaker 1: And what fuck does Elon here? There's obviously some sort
Speaker 1: of something else going on here that has to do
Speaker 1: with the money that I just ain't aware of, because
Speaker 1: there's really no reason why this relationship should work.
Speaker 2: But it's working. But why even why even do this?
Speaker 1: And the only thing I could come up with, using
Speaker 1: my sort of political brain and sort of like kind
Speaker 1: of tough guy Antenna's is.
Speaker 2: I have learned that.
Speaker 1: Narcissists always reveal their cards. Narcissists are horrible at poker.
Speaker 1: They always reveal their hand, and you just gotta listen
Speaker 1: to them. They gonna tell you what their next play is,
Speaker 1: and they gonna tell you what they insecure about all
Speaker 1: the time, what they worried people will catch on to
Speaker 1: because they gonna keep talking about it. So what this
Speaker 1: address to Congress revealed to me is he feel like
Speaker 1: he not getting the love he thinks he should get.
Speaker 1: He feel like people are doubting whether he can deliver
Speaker 1: on his promises. He feel like we all gonna figure
Speaker 1: out the fact that these tariffs are raising our costs
Speaker 1: that this shit is not gonna work. That this is
Speaker 1: finna tank the economy, so you gotta get out in
Speaker 1: front of that. When he was just like bear with
Speaker 1: me a little bit, like I know, like let me
Speaker 1: play the game, like like let me cook. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like, yo, let me cook. He's trying
Speaker 1: to tell his base because he not even talking to us.
Speaker 1: He ain't talking to nobody but the people that voted
Speaker 1: for let me cook, which says to me, you worried
Speaker 1: about your game plan, ain't you. You don't like the
Speaker 1: way everybody talking about pulling all these receipts with the
Speaker 1: due stuff. Oh he watches the news. The okie dock
Speaker 1: is starting to not work a little bit. So let
Speaker 1: me make sure I remind y'all who the big who
Speaker 1: the top dog is. This, in my mind, was nothing
Speaker 1: different than Debo riding down the street in his bike
Speaker 1: and just deciding to check somebody pockets real quick. I
Speaker 1: just need to remind y'all who the top dog is.
Speaker 1: I'll make my moves because I make my moves, and
Speaker 1: I need y'all to never question me.
Speaker 2: This is just the last time that I checked. Moment.
Speaker 2: You ain't gonna do shit type moment.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm gonna do and you ain't gonna
Speaker 1: do shit, and I dare you, dare you to do shit.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about don't worry about me, player.
Speaker 1: I got this, and I need y'all to remember that
Speaker 1: I got this, and I dare you to say something
Speaker 1: to me. That's what this speech was about, because you
Speaker 1: don't have to all the stuff that he was trying
Speaker 1: to justify. He ain't got to justify, he already doing it.
Speaker 1: You don't have to explain any of this to nobody. Clearly,
Speaker 1: who is you talking to. Let's get our little yuck
Speaker 1: yucks on. When you laughing at African countries, which I
Speaker 1: almost wanted to punch this dude through the screen from
Speaker 1: that nobody's ever heard of that place, just making fun
Speaker 1: of like.
Speaker 2: But put that to the side.
Speaker 1: Let me just remind the hommies everything's all right, player,
Speaker 1: I got y'all.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it now.
Speaker 1: The last thing I promised y'all is where I think
Speaker 1: your eyes should be at, and where I think your
Speaker 1: eyes should be at are two places, the Department of
Speaker 1: Education and the government budget. The spending bill that Speaker
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson is probably going to have to push through
Speaker 1: without any Democratic votes, which means, since they have a supermajority,
Speaker 1: if you can get one hundred percent of Republicans online
Speaker 1: for this bill, then you don't even need Democratic votes.
Speaker 1: And if you don't need Democratic votes, we got a
Speaker 1: one party system. That's what you need be watching out for.
Speaker 1: So that's one thing that's very important. Now back to
Speaker 1: the Department of Education. Here's what's interesting to me. The
Speaker 1: Department of Educations, which he put the degeneration ex lady
Speaker 1: in front of, Linda McMahon in charge of, and her
Speaker 1: job is to end her job, right. I think a
Speaker 1: good way to think about that is like inside of
Speaker 1: this department is a whole lot of things they got
Speaker 1: to take care of. Now, just because the department's gone,
Speaker 1: don't mean that they still don't got to take care
Speaker 1: of those things. Now, let me dispel your miss The
Speaker 1: Department of Education has zero control over curriculum. They don't
Speaker 1: decide what we teach in classrooms. They don't pick a
Speaker 1: through g requirements, that's not what they do. They don't
Speaker 1: select teachers. They really a lot of of there's a
Speaker 1: lot more power at the state level than you may think,
Speaker 1: or at least that they sell us. As far as
Speaker 1: like the problems with the Department of Education. The Department
Speaker 1: of Education has to do with like research and aid.
Speaker 1: So like Title I stuff, Title nine stuff resources for
Speaker 1: like special ed. Remember all the some of y'all may
Speaker 1: grew up in No Child Left Behind era where we
Speaker 1: just got freaking standardized tests till we were bleeding in
Speaker 1: our eyes, which I get what they were trying to do,
Speaker 1: it just didn't work.
Speaker 2: The idea was that.
Speaker 1: America's level of excellence for us to keep saying that
Speaker 1: we were the best in the world at everything, Well,
Speaker 1: if our test scores don't show it, if we're not producing,
Speaker 1: we can't keep saying it, So believe it or not.
Speaker 1: Look at me looking back at George George W. Bush
Speaker 1: making a logical statement, which is like, well, we can't
Speaker 1: have the best education in the world if we don't
Speaker 1: know we have the best education in the world.
Speaker 2: So let's figure it out, right, So that was the idea.
Speaker 1: So what the Department of Education also did was to
Speaker 1: measure our success. Are we actually educating the students the
Speaker 1: way we say we educating the students, and how are
Speaker 1: we standing up against the rest.
Speaker 2: Of the world and.
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert, we getting mopped by the rest of the world.
Speaker 1: So they would test are like reading and math scores
Speaker 1: and I'm not even counting the pandemic where we clearly
Speaker 1: sucked at right.
Speaker 2: But that being said, the dismantling of that means a
Speaker 2: number of things. It means not so much that.
Speaker 1: You're going to get DEI and woke out of it,
Speaker 1: because stay with me, now, you need the Department of
Speaker 1: Education to actually research and investigate whether woke is being
Speaker 1: happening in our classes. So he trying to defund the
Speaker 1: very thing that he need to do the stuff that
Speaker 1: he want to do.
Speaker 2: So that's weird, but that would mean that.
Speaker 1: That program is going to go to another department if
Speaker 1: he wants to keep doing.
Speaker 2: But it also.
Speaker 1: Means your child that may need an IEP or a
Speaker 1: five oh four plan. Now these are all my educators
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about that need accommodations ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be no money for it.
Speaker 2: My first career career, my.
Speaker 1: First job out of college was I was in an
Speaker 1: instructional aid and it was for Title I kids. So
Speaker 1: kids out are RSP kids that need a little more
Speaker 1: help in the classroom, right, So the teacher would teach,
Speaker 1: and then there was a few kids that I've identified
Speaker 1: with like IEPs, which are called individual education plans, that
Speaker 1: it would be another adult in the room that would
Speaker 1: sit with these two or three kids that couldn't just
Speaker 1: like see what's happening on the board and do the work.
Speaker 1: They just need a little extra help that funding Department
Speaker 1: of Education for me to be able to do that.
Speaker 1: So it's another one of those situations where y'all better
Speaker 1: be careful what you ask for, because here's where you
Speaker 1: gonna feel it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Here's my advice to the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2: Explain that.
Speaker 1: Explain that to people instead of just rope a dope
Speaker 1: in and just saying he's a like, explain that. Explain
Speaker 1: what the Department of Education does. Explain that this is
Speaker 1: their role. So when you go so when your child
Speaker 1: comes home and he say I don't know how to
Speaker 1: read this, and then you start complaining to the teacher like, well,
Speaker 1: can our kid get some help? The teacher could be like, well,
Speaker 1: your president that you voted for cut the funding for
Speaker 1: our our our reading teacher. So you're gonna raise your
Speaker 1: property taxes, You're gonna pay more taxes, so we could
Speaker 1: get one because we can get it at the state level.
Speaker 1: But oh my bad, you've been protesting at all the
Speaker 1: superintendent meetings because you don't like all the DEI stuff.
Speaker 1: So nobody that got any sense that cares about books
Speaker 1: would want to work here anyway because they afraid of
Speaker 1: what you're gonna say. So now your child can't read,
Speaker 1: but here go, But who am I to say?
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Keep your eye on if you can, in as much
Speaker 1: as it might be actually official, see what you could
Speaker 1: do to like support your local teachers, Like see how
Speaker 1: you can possibly like it, you know, I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: if they weirdos, that's different, but like, see if there
Speaker 1: are ways you could, man, maybe you know, maybe you
Speaker 1: could maybe you could read after school, like you feel me,
Speaker 1: Like maybe you could do that, you know, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: you know, volunteer for field trips, like I'm obviously I'm
Speaker 1: talking to parents, like, don't be like single weirdo.
Speaker 2: Unless you got like a little cousin, a little sister.
Speaker 1: Like if this is your niece of school, like you
Speaker 1: feel me like, you know, I don't know, man, take
Speaker 1: a day off and just like try that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Another thing you could do, maybe, like you could keep
Speaker 1: your eyes on is this immigration stuff, because the thing
Speaker 1: is they rounding up legal immigrants also. And I can't
Speaker 1: stress this enough. I say, agents aren't cops. You don't
Speaker 1: have to tell them anything. If they don't have a warrant,
Speaker 1: they don't, You don't have to let them people in No, listen,
Speaker 1: it will hurt you in no way for you to
Speaker 1: step in front of them and be like, hey, homie,
Speaker 1: that's my neighbor. Nah, you can't go over there. Let
Speaker 1: me see the warrant, homeboy. You can be loud with
Speaker 1: them because they can't arrest you. They're not cops. What's
Speaker 1: an immigration agent gonna do to you jaywalking ticket? They
Speaker 1: can't give they're not cops, So you can you can
Speaker 1: stand in front of them. But as far as our
Speaker 1: international standing, which is something that you and I really
Speaker 1: don't have much to say over, we can continue to
Speaker 1: do our best to tell people across the world that,
Speaker 1: like this man don't speak for all of us.
Speaker 2: But our soft power is really being destroyed.
Speaker 1: And that's what the usaid that I am absolutely gonna
Speaker 1: put out next week because this is ridiculous. When soft
Speaker 1: power gets destroyed. Here's the idea. Whether your village gets
Speaker 1: bombed or has a medical clinic, both of those things
Speaker 1: have a flag on it. So when I look at
Speaker 1: that strapping on it, it's got a USA flag on it,
Speaker 1: or when I walk into the clinic and get my
Speaker 1: vaccine and it's got a USA clinic or it's got
Speaker 1: a USA flag on it, it will have the same
Speaker 1: effect as to what I'm going to think about this country.
Speaker 1: Did you send bombs or medicine? Who you think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be a little more inclined to help or support
Speaker 1: the people that bomb in my village or the people
Speaker 1: that help my village.
Speaker 2: Who you think I'm gonna listen to. I mean, you
Speaker 2: could just walk into a room and.
Speaker 1: Be like, look, that's time that I checked there was
Speaker 1: five chains on my neck. Or you could be like, hey,
Speaker 1: you hungry homie, here go play the food. Trump's made
Speaker 1: his choice and we saw it in this speech hood politics.
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