1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: It's that time. Time, time, luck and load. The Michael 2 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: Varry Show is on the air. To the phone lines, 3 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: we go, Oh, James, you are on the Michael Berry Show. 4 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,559 Speaker 1: Welcome sir, Well, thanks for having me. 5 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 2: Mike. Well, Mike, I'm a long time listener. 6 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: Man. 7 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 2: I just feel like you're going a little too far 8 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:40,239 Speaker 2: with this North Texas situation. 9 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 1: Okay, tell me why. 10 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 2: Well, I mean, when I first heard the situation, you know, 11 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 2: we're saying the blacks are stabbing and the boiler terrified, 12 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: and you know, new details are coming out that he 13 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 2: was bullied, you know, and I don't know the whole story, 14 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 2: but I feel like it's a Sometimes it's a farce 15 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 2: on blacks. It's all the time that you farce with. 16 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 2: I have buddies from East Textas, the Coons, the Winning area, 17 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 2: the just the same area that you're from, Nederland, all 18 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 2: the area. And you know, we we play around with 19 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 2: race jokes all the time. But some of this crime 20 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 2: and I think we're using the nineties, the Boys in 21 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 2: the Hood, the Minutes of Society. We're using that that 22 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 2: that imagery from the early nineties to project that all 23 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 2: black neighborhoods are crime ridden. And they're they're they're necessarily 24 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 2: they're not. Really the crime actually is when you mix 25 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,839 Speaker 2: blacks and Hispanics. That's where the crime comes in. The 26 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 2: predominantly black areas don't have a lot of crime. They 27 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 2: have education, they have elders, and they have children. And 28 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 2: it's not a lot of rival gangs. The rival gangs 29 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 2: when you mix racist also the use they don't have anything. 30 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 2: They're taking out all the commercial businesses, they don't have 31 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: any walmarts, targets that it's just the urban. It's the 32 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 2: urban urban Plannet and know a lot of Blacks don't 33 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 2: necessarily want to leave. Its the fact they don't have 34 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 2: the education, the schooling, or the resources. So I feel 35 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 2: it's just a lot of we you know, I mean, 36 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 2: you pretty much lost a listener. I partly land in 37 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: Republic Grand Ranch. You know, you know, your your suggestion 38 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: really helped out a lot. With that, I'm ready to 39 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 2: pull out. I mean, those Montgomery people they're not necessarily 40 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 2: like that. I don't feel I don't feel, you know, 41 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 2: threatened or anything, but you've kind of lost the listener today, Michael. 42 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 2: That's what I want to tell you. 43 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate you, you sharing that with me. Let 44 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: me start by telling you my approach to doing the show. 45 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: I arrive every day with the intention of entertaining, engaging, 46 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: interacting with people and ideas, and I believe in the truth. 47 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: I also know that I might like my corn bread 48 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: different than the other person. But I'm going to tell 49 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: you how I like it, and I must tell you 50 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 1: that if you choose not to listen, that's perfectly understandable. 51 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: We add and subtract listeners every day, and that's the 52 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: nature of what we do. If I concerned myself with 53 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: whether people liked what I have to say, if I 54 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: believe it is important to say it, then I couldn't 55 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 1: look myself in the mirror, and I think I would 56 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: lose the respect of a lot of other listeners, black 57 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: and white alike. Now you're free to not like what 58 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: I have to say, But you've made some statements, and 59 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: let me respond to those. First of all, you don't 60 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: know if the black kid who stabbed the white kid 61 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: was bullied or not. You don't know that you've heard 62 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: that because the quant LX of North Texas has said that, 63 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: the Al Sharpton of North Texas has said that, and 64 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: there are people who are complete Charlattan grifters, who put 65 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: on a tie from Soup Mart and get in front 66 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: of the camera and talk in that style and try 67 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: to tried to harken back to the civil rights movement 68 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: and make people think that blacks are being abused and 69 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: that's why this kid got stabbed to death is because 70 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: this black guy's being abused somehow. These are people who 71 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: will lie, cheat steel. They are knaves. I've watched Sheila 72 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: Jackson Lee do it. I watched Sylvester Turner do it. 73 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,159 Speaker 1: These are people who will make claims. I watched the 74 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: George Floyd case rollout, and the fact of the matter is, 75 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: oh j And I'm sure you know this, whether you 76 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 1: admit it or not. Most white people have been so 77 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 1: maumowed into this in this country, into submission that y'all 78 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: think that's progress. And if anyone doesn't know what mau 79 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: mawing means, it's a verb to come from the Mau 80 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: Mau revolution that Barack Obama's father was a part of 81 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: in Kenya that swept through eastern Africa, and it was 82 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: a a very angry, very violent revolution of black African 83 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: natives who were throwing off the yoke of British imperialism. 84 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: They were tired of the white man. They didn't want 85 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: Cecil Roads, they didn't want Kipling, they didn't want Churchill. 86 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: They did not want the English occupation. It wasn't just English. 87 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: There was the French. There were the Belgians in the Congo, 88 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: there were the French in Cameroon. But they wanted Africa 89 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: for Africa. Understandable. The Indians wanted the same thing, they 90 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: just took a different approach with that. I don't have 91 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: a problem. The means by which they took back power, 92 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: just as in Cuba, was one of great violence. The 93 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: whites who remained were basically subjugated in a reverse reversal 94 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: of power, and that term came to be used here 95 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: for the menace that was imposed upon whites in public 96 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: life by the threat of violence of groups like the 97 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: Black Panthers. All of those things are facts. You don't 98 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: have to like them, but you cannot keep thinking that. 99 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: You can feign indignance and white people will not state 100 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: the truth. Failure to be honest about things like this 101 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: has plunged us deeper into problems. Because I'll tell you this, 102 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: when I'm with a group of blacks, and they feel 103 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: very comfortable with me because we go back twenty years 104 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: or more and somebody will make a statement about something 105 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: that is an internacine, intercommunity, intra community issue, whether it's 106 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: ashy elbows or skin or some kind of black secret. 107 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: They'll say, oh, y'all, don't say that, Michael Logo, tell 108 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: the white people, we don't want the white people knowing. 109 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: And it's a joke and we all laugh, right, But 110 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: there's also talk that is held amongst blacks that knows 111 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: that OJ committed to murder right, they know, they know 112 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: that knows that George Floyd was a drughead, that he 113 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: wasn't held down to death, that knows that Jesse Jackson 114 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: is a complete charlatan who's out to rip everybody off 115 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: and doesn't believe a word he says. It's no, Well, 116 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something else. White people know things 117 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: too that they don't say across the tracks. And you 118 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: know what happened. You know who gets hurt? OJ, You 119 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: get hurt. My kids get hurt when somebody sees you 120 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: or my kids walk into a workplace and they go, 121 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: I ain't gonna say a word, but I ain't gonna 122 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: hire him. I ain't gonna say a word, but I'm 123 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: not gonna trust him because I've seen you can't trust 124 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: those people. The minute something goes wrong, they'll say that 125 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: the guy who stabbed the other kid, that he was 126 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: a victim. They'll hang together. That's what they do. They'll 127 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: lie cheap, they'll support George Floyd. We have to be honest, right. 128 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: The problem is not black in Hispanic The problem is 129 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: black home black. And the reason there aren't any commercial 130 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: businesses is because there's pilfering and stealing at those businesses 131 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: and they can't succeed there. We ought to make that 132 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: stop and then the businesses will come back. You know, 133 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: we got an email doing the break from our fellows. 134 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: I'm a Vietnam veteran. I'm not listening anymore. Your service 135 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: in Vietnam is appreciated it, but I'm not sure how 136 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: that's relevant to where we're going. Let me see why 137 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: he's not listening anymore. He's not listening because I said 138 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: that if you get COVID or die of COVID after 139 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:50,439 Speaker 1: having taken the VACS, then that is poetic justice. It's 140 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: not what I said. I said those who pushed the vacs. 141 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: That is Fauci and Biden. I do hope they get COVID. 142 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: I do hope it takes them down. You don't need 143 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: to tell me that's evil or devilish or not Christian. 144 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: I understand I have family members who died from taking 145 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: that shot. I feel pretty passionately about it. You're free 146 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 1: to have your opinion. You're free to forgive, forget, justify, judge, 147 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: But I'm not changing my position. My wife and kids 148 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: took that stupid thing. You think I want people to 149 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: die from that. But the bigger issue is not the 150 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: COVID shot. The bigger issue is this, As I wrote 151 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: to the guy, you misunderstood what I said. Here's what 152 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: I said, and here's what I intended. But if you 153 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: say you're not listening ever again because I said something 154 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: with which you disagree, I want to be as clear 155 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: as I possibly can. If I'm left with three people listening, 156 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: but there are three honest to goodness, truth seeking, honorable, honest, 157 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: open minded, thoughtful people, I consider that better. I don't 158 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: listen to other shows. But we've all heard it. We've 159 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: all heard the pandering, the jingoistic patriotism, the jingoistic manhood, 160 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: We've all heard it. If the only reason you listen 161 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: to our show is you agree one hundred percent with 162 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: what I say, why are you listening honestly for an 163 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 1: affirmation of what you already believe? That feels weird. The 164 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: old line, if we agree on everything one of us 165 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: isn't necessary to me. The interesting parts are where we disagree. 166 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: Why I disagree? Shot, I'm not gonna listen. Look, I 167 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: know this sounds arrogant, but why not be honest? You 168 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: not listening is not enough to make a difference. Our 169 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: show is not sold on ratings. Our ratings are great. 170 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: Our show is sold on the basis that people who 171 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: sponsor the show spend a lot of money on it 172 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: because they know that our listener it's a qualitative not 173 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: a quantitative back They don't want everybody groupon didn't end. 174 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: Groupon didn't fall apart because nobody came to the restaurant. 175 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: Groupon fell apart because everybody came to the restaurant. It 176 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: was just all the wrong kind of people. Houston Restaurant 177 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: Week is not a bust because people don't come out 178 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: to eat at a restaurant that would normally be one 179 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: hundred dollars per person for a twenty dollars that goes 180 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 1: to charity. Houston Restaurant Week is a bust because you 181 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: find out that those people coming out there that you're 182 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: not gonna make any money on, they're not samplers that 183 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: you want to come back. They're the deal seekers. They 184 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: eat half their meal and send it back. They show 185 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: up drunk, They stand up and stagger through the aisles, 186 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: They argue with your staff, they humiliate your staff. They 187 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: don't tip, they spill things, They piss all over the 188 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: floor in the bathroom. The only thing worse than groupon 189 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: not or the Houston Restaurant Week, or groupon not delivering 190 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: people to your rest is they delivered too many of 191 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: all the wrong kind. What makes our show special is 192 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: that companies partner with us because they get the kind 193 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: of people that you you would seek out that special person. 194 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 1: How often is it during a transaction that you enjoy 195 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: the experience. How often is it that you are providing 196 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: air conditioning services or plumbing or roofing or whatever else 197 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 1: and you feel the need when you're done to send 198 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: me an email because you just talked to the most 199 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: interesting guy ever. That's where our listener is. You passed 200 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 1: up nine houses to get there, and eight of those 201 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: nine you don't want to do that roof. You do 202 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:48,839 Speaker 1: not want to have to argue. You do not want 203 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: to worry he's going to sue you. You do not want 204 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: to warr he's going to threaten. You don't where you're 205 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: gonna call the cops. You don't know where he's going 206 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: to show up or not show up tomorrow. So if 207 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:01,560 Speaker 1: you're that person, you got me fed up. You don't 208 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: get me, And that's okay. I say this all the time. 209 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: Not every marriage works. Hey, we're not meant to be together. 210 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: I'm not offering what you're wanting in you're wanting what 211 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: I am not offering what I am offering you don't want, 212 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: which is to have your opinions challenged. I'm gonna say 213 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: things on the air that you might not agree with. 214 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say things that you might agree with but 215 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: don't realize it and can't give voice to it. I'm 216 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 1: gonna say things that are gonna upset your wife or 217 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: your mother, or your secretary or your boss. Know that 218 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: in advance. That shouldn't come as a surprise, even though 219 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: I haven't done it in a little while, because I've 220 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 1: gone softer of late. I'm gonna do that, and I'm 221 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: going to keep doing it, not to provoke, not because 222 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: I'm a shock jock, because I believe the truth is 223 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 1: more important than people's feelings. If you can't tell the truth, 224 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: you can't be honest. If you can't offend, you can't 225 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: be honest. That was the essence of Thomas Payne's statements. 226 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:11,599 Speaker 1: A series of them being completely honest is going to 227 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 1: upset people. And if you respond by saying, but I'm 228 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: going to not listen anymore, good, But I need you 229 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: to know I'm not listening. Okay, remote, can you redo 230 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: the role and not call out Bob tomorrow so we 231 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: don't have him as absent. We just we already know 232 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: he's moved school districts. You're not with us anymore. The 233 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: last statement I didn't get to was the commercial when 234 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: OJ said, you got to understand in the inner City, 235 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 1: we don't have business in our neighborhood. You know, when 236 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: I was on city council, I really dug into that, 237 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: and I talked to grocery stores. They all wanted star 238 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: but we want to Starbucks in our neighborhood. It was tried, 239 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: but when it happens, there's staff, there's violence, and so 240 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: the business says, we're getting out of here. Did you 241 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: jump in and say no, no, no, we want that 242 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: violence prositut you said no, it's a young black man 243 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: doing it. Businesses aren't going to stay there, And that's 244 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: what you're left with. How you respond to adversity, whether 245 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: you demand exceptionalism or make excuses for failure, is going 246 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: to determine what you end up with. It's while mommies 247 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: don't make good football coaches because Billy fumbling five times 248 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: in a row, Mommy says, well, he's doing his best. 249 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: Nick Saban gets in his head and before you know it, 250 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: he's got stick them. He's holding that ball so tight 251 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: it ain't come and loose. When you explain things away, 252 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: excuse things away, you end up perpetuating that and making 253 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: it worse. George Zimmerman was scoffed at as this over 254 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: the top neighborhood patrol guy in an association that had 255 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: an over the top neighborhood patrol. And that's why they 256 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: don't have gang banging in the neighborhood. Because they don't 257 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: have their own police force. They have to do it themselves. 258 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: And that was laughed at. But that's what that's what 259 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: middle class neighborhoods have taken to doing. It's a broken 260 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: pain theory. You don't allow individuals to be picked off 261 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: by the gang bangers. You aggressively patrol your own streets. 262 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: When I hear someone say as OJ did that, you 263 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: know we don't have businesses in our black community. That's true, 264 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: and that's tragic. Let's start. Let's start with where we 265 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: can all agree. It's a real bummer that many blacks 266 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: in America live in majority, if not exclusively, black neighborhoods 267 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: that have high crime and poor schools and businesses around. 268 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: Let's come a bummer. You know, you'd like to be 269 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: able to stop and get a cup of coffee. You'd 270 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: like to be able to stop and get something to eat, 271 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: a cafe. You like to be able to walk up 272 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: to something if there's but you don't have that, Well, 273 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: why don't you have it? Because of racism? No, racism. 274 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: Commerce is green. It only wants money. They're typically our businesses. 275 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 1: They'll be a check cashing shop, There'll be a fried 276 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: chicken joint. There may be a you buy we fry 277 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 1: shrimp place, and there may be because there's a brave bug, 278 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:43,199 Speaker 1: greedy Asian owned convenience store, and that's all there will be. 279 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,679 Speaker 1: We don't have nice things in our neighborhood. Okay, all right, 280 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 1: we'll have grocery stores. Look at how many grocery stores 281 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 1: have opened and closed in inner cities in the last 282 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: ten twenty years. There was a big movement. There was 283 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: free money for it. The government would loan them money 284 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 1: to do it. Businesses didn't want to come out and 285 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: say we're closed. They closed and goes see, y'a, I 286 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: don't want to serve black people. No, we don't want 287 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: our employees to get shot. And our employees won't show 288 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: up to work because they're getting jacked every day. The 289 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: theft was through the roof. Well, how does that happen? 290 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: How come nobody stops it? You can't tell me that 291 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: everybody coming in and doing this, nobody knows who they are. 292 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: How come that doesn't happen on the other side of town. 293 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: But it's happening. And when it's happening, people are going 294 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: to respond and the dollars are going to flee. That's 295 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 1: what's happening. Dunkin donut franchises in Chicago are now installing 296 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: bulletproof glass after a record six hundred and fifty three 297 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: restaurant burglaries in twenty twenty four. Listen to this. 298 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 3: Look how they taking money at dunkin Donuts shall Like, 299 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 3: come on, man, what is this? It's crazy straight bulletproof 300 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 3: glass through the whole thing. 301 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 2: Man. 302 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 3: I mean, you can't even breathe on these people. Look 303 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 3: how see what this is? This is a professional seal. 304 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 3: Like you can't even talk to these people. 305 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 1: Bar, I appreciate you mane. 306 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 3: Piitting up every day and singing something like this, Bro, 307 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 3: that do something to your mental output. They tell you 308 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 3: like this is how you feed animals in a zoo 309 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 3: gang Like that's pretty much what it's telling your mentality, Like. 310 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: I don't I just say I don't trust you. You 311 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: feel what I'm saying. 312 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 3: At what point do we be like we tied of 313 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 3: getting treated like animals, tried to getting treated like this, 314 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 3: like bro, like you telling me I can't even hand 315 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 3: you my money game like bro, Like. 316 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 1: The people who be owning these don't be for the community. 317 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: They don't be from the city. 318 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 3: You grow up, imagine you see this every day for 319 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 3: your whole life, and then you go to someplace else 320 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 3: and you see them handing the money, you gonna think 321 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 3: something wrong with you. 322 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: Gang like it's it's crazy mentality. So the guy who 323 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: owns that page is called Rickoff an impact. You know, 324 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: I gotta wonder, do you really believe? You genuinely Let's 325 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: be honest. Okay, let's cut the crap. You you really 326 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 1: think people go to all these links to spend all 327 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: this money on security measures in this neighborhood but not 328 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:14,879 Speaker 1: across town because they hate black people. You really believe that. 329 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: You really think this is their way of insulting black people. 330 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: Open a store yourself, Open a store yourself, Ask the 331 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 1: small business owner, the black small business owner, what he thinks. 332 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 1: Open a store yourself. Tell me how it goes. If right, 333 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: let's make this subjunctive. Let's make this conditional hypothetical. If 334 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: there are more stick ups at a store in the 335 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: black neighborhood committed by black patrons than there are across 336 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: town in the predominantly white neighborhood, would that make it 337 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: okay to put the bulletproof glass? If you were a 338 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,439 Speaker 1: black owner, would you say, well, I don't mind that 339 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: pistol in my face as long as a hand holding 340 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 1: it is black, because I shan't insult your skin color 341 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,959 Speaker 1: by putting a barrier between me and you, knowing that 342 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: you're tweaking and you might blast my head off because 343 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: we've had three Indian owned convenience stores killed in the 344 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: last two years. But I don't care because I don't 345 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: want to offend anybody. Really, I've heard all these arguments 346 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 1: the schools are failing because of the white people, and 347 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 1: then what happened. You bring in this black guy, Mike 348 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: Miles to be the superintendent, and all we heard was 349 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 1: how he's hurting the kids, hurting the kids, hurting the kids. 350 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: On Monday of this week, five former HISD employees pled 351 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: guilty to a pay for play scheme stealing money from 352 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 1: the school district, all of them black, and not a 353 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 1: word one. It's a broken culture. Our culture is a 354 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: broken culture that has said, when it's black, just don't 355 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: say anything and just do this over here because you 356 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: don't want to upset them, and hopefully we can all 357 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: just get along and you won't need any government employee. Hopefully, 358 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: hopefully it'll all just kind of keep itself together because 359 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: we don't want to confront it, because we don't want 360 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,919 Speaker 1: to upset people because there are certain people who have 361 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: learned that if you scream loud enough, you're going to 362 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: get it free. If you scream loud enough, you're going 363 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: to get hired. If you scream loud enough, you'll get 364 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,640 Speaker 1: your job back. If you scream loud enough, you'll get 365 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 1: released after committing a murder. If you scream loud enough, 366 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 1: you'll get elected. Well, you think everybody else in society 367 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: isn't see what's seeing what's happening, and they go, oh, 368 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: that's good. We like that we're falling, declining into a 369 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 1: third world country. We really like this, We really enjoy 370 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: and appreciate this. When we see the videos of you know, 371 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,479 Speaker 1: electronics store being raided and all this stuff, and I 372 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 1: think to myself, you know what, maybe we had slavery, 373 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: but we sure are making progress today. Nobody's thinking that 374 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:03,640 Speaker 1: because everybody is afraid. And by the way, the problem 375 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: is not just the violent thug. The problem is every 376 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: single person, white and black, who refuses to say anything 377 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: about it. Who knew all these people supported Trump, who 378 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: knew all these people hated the government waste so people 379 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: came out and said something about it. Michael Berry all back. 380 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 1: Huh okay, Well, if he calls back, I'll turn my 381 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: mic off and let him make his point. It is 382 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 1: not my intention to disagree with someone's position, and I 383 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 1: do do it passionately. I understand that it's nothing personal. 384 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: I've come to learn it can seem a bit overbearing, 385 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 1: but it is not my intention for some want to 386 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: state their position and then me go back and undercut it. 387 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: If he wants to call back, I will just simply 388 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: let him make his his points if he feels that 389 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: I have said something that is untrue. Seven one three 390 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 1: nine nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine 391 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: nine one thousand. It breaks my heart for this country, 392 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 1: It really does it. It is. It is a really 393 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:34,440 Speaker 1: awful thing. What has happened in this country, so many things. 394 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 1: How many young black kids are in an apartment with 395 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 1: no furniture that the government is paying for and mom 396 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 1: is turning tricks and there's no one there for them. 397 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 1: That's awful. It's horrible. The only thing worse that nobody 398 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,400 Speaker 1: will talk about it is it happening with white kids 399 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 1: and Hispanic kids. Yes, but not nearly to the extent. 400 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 1: How many young black men are shooting each other. But 401 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,959 Speaker 1: that's okay. I mean, as Jesse said, that's just Miller time. 402 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: How many young black kids are getting through school and 403 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: can't don't have the skill set to compete. But I'm 404 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 1: the bad guy for pointing it out instead of demanding 405 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:15,159 Speaker 1: higher standards. Why is it? It was a guy the 406 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 1: other day when the Cougar's lost, he said, I'm done 407 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,880 Speaker 1: with the Cougars. Never gonna root for them again. Fifty 408 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: three years I've rooted for them and they lose like this, 409 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: I'm done. I thought, well, that's weird. So two minutes ago, 410 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 1: if when he elevates, if there's nobody out to block 411 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: the shot, he elevates, shoots, strokes that shot and they 412 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: make it. You love the school and you'd give them 413 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: your kidney. You love that school, you love that team, 414 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,360 Speaker 1: you love everything about them. Whatever you guys need, I'm 415 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:49,959 Speaker 1: gonna go spend my heart earned money. I'm gonna get 416 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 1: a jersey, I'm gonna put a sticker on my vehicle. 417 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell everybody. I'm gonna post about it. I 418 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: love them, I love them, I love I love them. 419 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: They are me and I am them, and we're together. 420 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 1: And this is deep and abiding love, but because the 421 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: other player bested him on that one play and they 422 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: didn't score more points than the other team, you hate 423 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: them and you want nothing to do with them. Again, 424 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: on a profound level, think about this for more. It's 425 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 1: the silliness of sports fandom. We start there. But let 426 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 1: me let me do you the disfavor of assuming you're 427 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,360 Speaker 1: being serious. Let's take your words at face value. What 428 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 1: you've just told me is he wasn't good enough to 429 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: win that game. And when you root for somebody, you 430 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: want them to win because then you win. Right, That's 431 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 1: why we struck when our team won. You didn't throw it, 432 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: catch it, kick it, tackle, but you rooted for the 433 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 1: team that won. You picked correctly, You had an affinity 434 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 1: with the right jersey, whether you went to school there 435 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:52,159 Speaker 1: or just saw him on TV. Right. Likewise, when that 436 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 1: team loses, that's an insult to you. You bear shame. 437 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 1: There is embarrassment to you because you picked and your 438 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,719 Speaker 1: team lost, and now someone's going to taunt you and 439 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: you want nothing to do with it. So you're gonna 440 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,640 Speaker 1: go find a team that's definitely gonna win, and you're 441 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 1: gonna root for them because you want the feeling of winning, 442 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: because you don't get to win a lot in life, 443 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: but you could have won this time, and they let 444 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: you down. They stole that from you, and they did 445 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,439 Speaker 1: it on purpose. They didn't want to win. They wanted 446 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 1: to lose. Those kids have put thousands of hours in, 447 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: They've sacrificed everything to get here, and they chose to lose. 448 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,879 Speaker 1: They wanted to lose. They preferred to lose. Losing was 449 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: more fun, No, of course not. They wanted it more 450 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:39,160 Speaker 1: than you did. They wanted it so desperately. We would 451 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: have changed their lives. They would get a ring, they 452 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 1: would have bragging rights, they would be in the books, 453 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: they would do more interviews, they would make more money, 454 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 1: they would have celebrity. They would get more girls, which 455 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: is what really matters at twenty one, right, maybe rock stars, 456 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,880 Speaker 1: they wanted it more than you did. You've never worked 457 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 1: so hard. You've never worked a day in your life 458 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 1: the way they've worked months at a time to get 459 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 1: to that point. You've never suffered. Every one of them 460 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: ankles hurt, their fingers hurt, their neck hurts, their back hurts, 461 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 1: their eye sockets path blown out to have surgery after 462 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,679 Speaker 1: the season, their hamstring hurts, every time they come up 463 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: and down the court, their toes are gnarled, they're in extreme, 464 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 1: excruciating pain, and they put it aside because they want 465 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,719 Speaker 1: to win. And you're up there, eight beers in pissing 466 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: your pants, aggravated that the shot didn't go in. 467 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:31,119 Speaker 3: Again. 468 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 1: All right, but let's take that to a logical extreme. 469 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: You want them to win. What is winning scoring more 470 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: points than the other team so that when the last 471 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: buzzer rings, you have more points. You want them to 472 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 1: win so much that you're willing to tell them to 473 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: be better, to do something differently, to work harder, to 474 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 1: build a better team, to employ new tactics. But you 475 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: wouldn't dare say that what we ought to do. Yeah, 476 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: it's let's ope, let's set up a black owned business, 477 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: and let's set up a neighborhood patrol, and let's get 478 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: local law enforcement involved, because at some point, see, here's 479 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: the problem with crime in the hood. The person who 480 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: is caught for committing the crime is going to be black. 481 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: And here is the social breakdown that no one will 482 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: ever say. Nobody wants to say, punish a black man 483 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: who's committed a crime. They don't want to do it. 484 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: Blacks will hide from that fact. And that's why you'll 485 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: see the mama, her daughter's just been murdered by domestic disserbent. 486 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 1: Eight of them. He's out, he's cut the thing now 487 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 1: he's killed her, and she's like, my girl, my baby girl, 488 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: he killed my baby girl. Nobody black will say anything like, yeah, 489 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: he's a black, and uh, it's so force and let's 490 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 1: just keep on moving on a road. See, we can't 491 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: talk about George Floyd. Well what wait? What what about 492 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: when the guy that goes in and robs the or 493 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: robs the store or shoots the store up as black? 494 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to say anything about it. And then you 495 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 1: got some poor comp he's the one got arrest him, 496 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 1: and you arrest one hundred black dudes. One of them's 497 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: going George Floyd. One of them's gonna fight you till 498 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: the death. One of them's got a brother in law 499 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 1: who's an attorney. One of them's got kwant lex on 500 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: speed dive. It's gonna happen. And there you are and 501 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: you're not allowed to talk. You're suspended with pay, Your 502 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: wife and kids are scared. They dots you. Everybody knows 503 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: where you live and this is going on every day. 504 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 1: We just keep letting it go on. This is what 505 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: and this is good for black people. See, this is 506 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: good for black people because if you don't ever call 507 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: out the black criminal, then everything is good. But the 508 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: black criminal's victim is black. You can't put any business. 509 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to put businesses in black neighborhoods. Black kids 510 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: are only seeing people shot in their neighborhoods. We're only 511 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: electing Sylvester Turner and Rodney Elysis and Sheila Jackson Leeze. 512 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: And I'm the bad guy. Okay. I feel like al Pacino, 513 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 1: you know, and scarface being taken out of the restaurant. 514 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: But I set my piece. RJ called up to defend me. 515 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: I couldn't let that happen because they're like, oh, he 516 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 1: got that black dude on call bar and tell him 517 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: he's all right. I don't need a black dude to 518 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: tell me I'm all right. But I do love you, RJ. 519 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: Thank you. And it ain't racial with OJ, It's about truth. 520 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 1: You tell me you might not like it, that's racist, Okay, 521 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: what about it's racist? Well, just racist here we are, okay, 522 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: keep going. This dude sent me an email being disappointed 523 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 1: and Dunkin Donuts