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Speaker 3: I'm right, Jack, we got so much to talk about Tonight.
Speaker 3: Meghan Dye Stallion is featuring on a Kamala Harris track.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump makes some black friends. So let's get to
Speaker 3: an ongoing coverage of Indecision twenty twenty four. Let's kick
Speaker 3: things off with Donald Trump. He was doing really well
Speaker 3: with black voters when he was runn against Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: probably because black people don't with ghosts. But Kamala Harris
Speaker 3: is now stealing back some of Trump's black support. So
Speaker 3: today Trump sacked down with an interview with the National
Speaker 3: Association of Black Journalists and things got off to a
Speaker 3: rocky stock.
Speaker 4: A lot of people did not think it was appropriate
Speaker 4: for you to be here today. You have pushed false
Speaker 4: claims about some of your rivals, from Nicki Haley to
Speaker 4: former President Barack Obama, saying that they were not born
Speaker 4: in the United States, which is not true. You have
Speaker 4: told four congressmen women of color who were American citizens
Speaker 4: to go back to where they came from. You have
Speaker 4: used words like animal and rabbit to describe black district attorneys.
Speaker 4: You've had dinner with the white supremacists at.
Speaker 5: Your Marologua resort.
Speaker 4: So my question, sir, why should black voters trust you
Speaker 4: after you have used language like that.
Speaker 3: Tough question, but hey, at least this is a good
Speaker 3: chance for former President Trump to address the concerns of
Speaker 3: black voters by answering with civility and grace.
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been
Speaker 6: asked a question so in such a horrible manner. A
Speaker 6: first question, you don't even.
Speaker 3: Say, hello, how are you?
Speaker 6: Are you with ABC? Because I think they're a fake
Speaker 6: news network, a terrible network.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, not a great start talking to a room
Speaker 3: for a black journalists, but you can still recover.
Speaker 6: I think it's a very rude introduction. I don't know
Speaker 6: exactly why you would do something like that. You invited
Speaker 6: me under false pretense, and then you are half an
Speaker 6: hour la. Just so we understand, I have too much
Speaker 6: respect for you to be late.
Speaker 5: I think it's a very nasty question. Why I have
Speaker 5: answered the question?
Speaker 6: I have been the best president for the black population.
Speaker 5: Since Abraham Lincoln is answer better.
Speaker 4: Than President Johnson's, I'm the voting right back.
Speaker 6: For you to start off a question and answer period,
Speaker 6: especially when you're thirty five minutes because you couldn't get
Speaker 6: your equipment to work in such a hostile manner, I
Speaker 6: think it's a disgrace.
Speaker 3: Wow. Trump was like, listen of black people, you always
Speaker 3: late your microphone's are ghetto, and I'm Abraham Lincoln. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think he just won the black vote. For most
Speaker 3: politicians anyone else on earth, that would have been a
Speaker 3: low point of the interview, But because it's Donald Trump,
Speaker 3: it's somehow.
Speaker 4: God was Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris
Speaker 4: is only on the ticket because she is a black woman?
Speaker 5: Well, I can say no.
Speaker 6: I think it's maybe a little bit different. So I've
Speaker 6: known her a long time, indirectly, not directly very much,
Speaker 6: and she was always of Indian heritage, and she was
Speaker 6: only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black
Speaker 6: until a number of years ago when she happened to
Speaker 6: turn black, and now she wants to be known as black.
Speaker 6: So I don't know is she Indian or is she black?
Speaker 4: She is always black college.
Speaker 6: I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't because she
Speaker 6: was Indian all the way and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: she made a turn and she went she became a black.
Speaker 6: Just to be clear, sir, I think somebody should look
Speaker 6: into that too, when you ask a continue in.
Speaker 5: A very hostile, nasty town.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it was that he thinks she
Speaker 3: turned from Indian to black, or that he thinks someone
Speaker 3: should look into that, right? Who should look into that?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: Does he think the FBI is the Federal Black Investigators?
Speaker 3: I don't think she turned from Indian to black. Okay,
Speaker 3: She's Indian and black. Like, what does he think happens
Speaker 3: when the time is right Indians going to a cocoon
Speaker 3: and they play some drake and they come up black.
Speaker 3: It's very clear that Trump doesn't quite know how to
Speaker 3: handle Kamala Harris. Right now he's trying to find the
Speaker 3: angle of attack. And today he was hitting her race.
Speaker 3: Yesterday he was hitting her age.
Speaker 6: She is younger, but I mean she's sixty years old.
Speaker 6: A lot of people I didn't do it. She was
Speaker 6: sixty years oldly younger, but she's sixty.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: I guess Trump just discovered that black don't crack. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is gonna be a first time. He does birthism
Speaker 3: as a compliment, like show us your bus certifica because
Speaker 3: you don't look a day over fifty. Okay, so just
Speaker 3: drop the skincare routine.
Speaker 6: Girl.
Speaker 3: I bet Trump spend the rest of the day just
Speaker 3: googling how old other black people are, like Morgan Freeman
Speaker 3: two hundred years old question mark. To be fair, Trump
Speaker 3: does have some substantive criticisms of Kamala, but he can't
Speaker 3: seem to say them without making it gross and personal,
Speaker 3: like when he was asked about how she would do
Speaker 3: in negotiations with foreign leaders.
Speaker 7: How would they consider a Harris presidency that's just in jail.
Speaker 6: I think they'll walk all over. I think, so look
Speaker 6: at her. I think they'll walk all over. She'll be
Speaker 6: so easy for them. She'll be like a playtoy. They
Speaker 6: look at her and they say, we can't believe we
Speaker 6: got so lucky. They're going to walk all over. And
Speaker 6: I don't want to say as to why, but a
Speaker 6: lot of people understand it.
Speaker 3: He's like, I don't want to say why should be
Speaker 3: a bad president? You know that he and the who
Speaker 3: the fellas get it. I'm pretty sure Kamala can handle
Speaker 3: world leaders, Okay, I mean she did just overthrow the
Speaker 3: president of the United States. And also nobody was easier
Speaker 3: to manipulate than Donald Trump. Like foreign leaders just had
Speaker 3: to roll out the red coppet and Trump treated them
Speaker 3: like a best friend. I mean, Saudi Arabia bone sawed
Speaker 3: an American journalists and Trump was fine with it because
Speaker 3: they let him touch an orb. I mean, I'm pretty
Speaker 3: sure now this is getting to Kamala right now. She's
Speaker 3: on top of the world because she's enjoying life as
Speaker 3: the Democrat's new messiah.
Speaker 8: Atlanta turned up and turned out for Vice President Harris
Speaker 8: and a rap star came with a new slogan for
Speaker 8: campaign merch Megan the Stallion and others made this the
Speaker 8: largest crowd of Harris's young campaign. More than ten thousand
Speaker 8: people filled a downtown arena.
Speaker 2: Well, Donald, as the saying goes, if you've got something to.
Speaker 8: Say, thousands waited hours to see Harris speak. Does she
Speaker 8: make it easier for Democrats to win Georgia in November?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well so excited and we don't have to vote
Speaker 3: for Joe Biden anymore. You know, I do feel bad
Speaker 3: for Biden, Like everyone's going crazy for Kamala and he's
Speaker 3: at home with COVID going who is Kamala? And I've
Speaker 3: never seen so much joyful statistical tie. This is like
Speaker 3: when people cheer after the plane lands it's supposed to land. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's a bad minimum. For more on the enthusiasm or
Speaker 3: on the vice President Harris, we go live to one
Speaker 3: for rallies in Houston with Michael Costa.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Michael, Michael.
Speaker 3: What's the feeling down there?
Speaker 5: It's electric, Ronnie.
Speaker 7: I haven't seen Democrats this excited since they came out
Speaker 7: with that fifth COVID booster.
Speaker 3: Okay, wow, they do something pumped all But then the
Speaker 3: Democrats build on this momentum.
Speaker 7: They definitely can Ronnie, and there's only one way to
Speaker 7: do it. Kamala Harris has to drop out.
Speaker 3: Wait what we need? She has to drop out? Why
Speaker 3: everyone's enthusiastic about.
Speaker 7: Her, Well, the excitement's not about her. It's about the newness.
Speaker 7: You know when that new kid comes to your school
Speaker 7: and everyone's like, Oh, what's his deal?
Speaker 5: He's not actually cool, he's just new.
Speaker 7: He's just another loser who's dad happened to get a
Speaker 7: job near your school, So quit fawning about I'm Becky Solivan.
Speaker 5: Look, the point is this new news goes away, as
Speaker 5: will this.
Speaker 7: Enthusiasm for Kamala. It's not gonna be Meghan the Stallion
Speaker 7: at her next rally. It's gonna be Katy Perry and
Speaker 7: not teenage dream Katy Perry Evie. It's gonna be her
Speaker 7: new album and the one that the gays won't even
Speaker 7: listen to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, but if Kamala steps away, who will replace her?
Speaker 5: Who cares?
Speaker 7: The new nominee doesn't matter because the Democrats should replace
Speaker 7: them too. Every week in new candidate, new excitement, Republicans
Speaker 7: won't be able to keep up.
Speaker 5: Oh you think Gavin Newsom is unfit to be president?
Speaker 1: Who cares? Bitch?
Speaker 5: We're with Pete budhajeedge Now.
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean I do like Pete Budajet.
Speaker 7: Well, too bad he's out because now the candidate is Twisters.
Speaker 3: Wait the movie, you'll like the actual Tornado.
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter because now it's Gretchen Wimmer.
Speaker 3: Okay, when does this end?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: Who's actually gonna be in a nomine on election day?
Speaker 7: Well after Whitmer and Shapiro and Tom Hanks and that
Speaker 7: Pamel Horse guy. They're finally going to reach the last
Speaker 7: possible nominee, Joseph Robinette Biden.
Speaker 3: Wait minute, Biden again, That's why this holding started.
Speaker 7: Exactly, and as soon as he takes the oath of office,
Speaker 7: he resigns in favor of his VP, Kamala Harris in
Speaker 7: the excitement loop begins again.
Speaker 3: Ronnie, Wow, how very buddhists Michael cost everybody?
Speaker 5: When we come back back?
Speaker 3: Who must be just so? Don't go away? Welcome, not
Speaker 3: gonna tell me show my guests Tonight is a single,
Speaker 3: songwriter and produce of the Drammy nominator band Black Pumas,
Speaker 3: whose latest album is called Chronicles of a Diamond. Please welcome,
Speaker 3: Eric Alberta, thanks so much for being on the show.
Speaker 3: You're making me cooler just by joining me at the desk.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much. I feel so cool. I feel like
Speaker 3: your band right now is in such a great place culturally.
Speaker 3: You're liking that crime if you feel differently, but you're
Speaker 3: in that sweet spot of of you're still you're big
Speaker 3: enough to sell out radio city and people love your music,
Speaker 3: but you're still that kind of underground vibe where you're
Speaker 3: not you know, you don't have to play to like
Speaker 3: a mainstream uh, you know, sensibility or doing that you
Speaker 3: do't want to do. I mean, do you feel that way?
Speaker 9: Which is a great place to be because we feel
Speaker 9: in charge of our self expression, which is amazing as
Speaker 9: artists and human beings, and you know, selling out Radio
Speaker 9: City here in New York is still like really cool
Speaker 9: for us, So we don't take it for granted. It's
Speaker 9: been amazing and just being in here in this this
Speaker 9: smaller TV audience situation is super super dope.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, you can, and.
Speaker 3: I mean the authenticity is coming through in the second album.
Speaker 3: I feel like I can still feel it. I mean
Speaker 3: that that was one of my questions for you was like,
Speaker 3: do you feel that transition from you know, making your
Speaker 3: first album where you're just pure self expression and doing
Speaker 3: what you want to do to the second album where
Speaker 3: there's this expectation for it now kind of you know,
Speaker 3: did you feel that kind of pressure they changed your
Speaker 3: creative approach.
Speaker 9: To it most definitely so for the last album. With
Speaker 9: the last album, I was really lucky because of my
Speaker 9: other half, Adrian Casata. He came to the table with
Speaker 9: such a knowledge and such a sensitivity to towards the culture, towards.
Speaker 1: The style of music that I just do.
Speaker 9: You can say black people, yeah, black people, yeah. But
Speaker 9: but it was really easy for me to kind of
Speaker 9: to kind of adopt the character that that was being
Speaker 9: presented by way of the canvas that is soul music.
Speaker 9: And so as we accomplished that, and he likes some
Speaker 9: of my songs, and those songs kind of helped kind
Speaker 9: of catapult Black Pumas like colors. You know, it was,
Speaker 9: it was, It's been really amazing. But for this, the
Speaker 9: second album, there was way much more you know, pressure,
Speaker 9: But you know, I was I was raised in an
Speaker 9: artist household, and I was always taught to kind of
Speaker 9: genuinely be okay with expressing myself and thankful the people
Speaker 9: have kind of allowed it, you know.
Speaker 1: So it feels nice to be here.
Speaker 3: You haven't changed yet, not yet, not never, right, And
Speaker 3: I guess I know you're still with an indie music label.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, record, But do you feel like this second album,
Speaker 3: with the more anticipation and the undoubted success of the
Speaker 3: first one, do you feel like that you have more
Speaker 3: resources now? Like, how is it actually affecting how you
Speaker 3: make music for the second album.
Speaker 9: Well, when we did so well the first time around,
Speaker 9: I kind of immediately learned that our team, which is
Speaker 9: a great team, they were kind of relying on us
Speaker 9: too for direction, and so that was like that came
Speaker 9: as a really big surprised. While well, it doesn't sound
Speaker 9: super like a big deal, it came as a surprise
Speaker 9: because I don't I don't know that we were for
Speaker 9: sure as to what direction we wanted to go in.
Speaker 1: So we just continued to be genuine, to continue.
Speaker 9: To be honest, and it's led us in some uh
Speaker 9: you know, into some places that have been really new
Speaker 9: and very cool, and we're still we're still like observing.
Speaker 1: People's reaction to it. So that's been like really nice.
Speaker 3: Right, And you came up kind of playing smaller gigs,
Speaker 3: coming up and now a radio city and this, you know,
Speaker 3: everything is really happening for you. Like do you do
Speaker 3: you feel like you do you still go back to
Speaker 3: play small gigs. It's the energy of that.
Speaker 1: All most definitely.
Speaker 9: So I'm lucky because I was busking before everybody hated me.
Speaker 3: So what city way busking?
Speaker 9: I was busting in Santa Monica in Los Angeles, and
Speaker 9: so I went from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas, where
Speaker 9: there's a live show for anybody and everybody every single day.
Speaker 9: So to be interjected in such a culture where the
Speaker 9: artist is just embraced in this uncanny way, that really
Speaker 9: opened my eyes to being able to play and not
Speaker 9: having to pay to play, you know too, but being
Speaker 9: able to play and really just to integrate in the culture. So,
Speaker 9: you know, we played Sea Boys, which is a smaller
Speaker 9: venue shotgun club, and.
Speaker 3: You feed off that energy obviously smaller everyone's there, You're
Speaker 3: playing original music and.
Speaker 9: You're killing it, and yes, but there's there's that sense
Speaker 9: that you know, you you really have to work hard
Speaker 9: because we have friends who come.
Speaker 1: In there and you know, just in the back like
Speaker 1: doing that thing.
Speaker 3: But you know you're playing, You're you're like trying to
Speaker 3: prove yourself versus where your city where everyone's there to.
Speaker 9: Most definitely, and I want to say, like briefly that
Speaker 9: we were just very lucky just from the very get go,
Speaker 9: Like as soon as I met Adrian Casata, we had
Speaker 9: such a chemistry. Obviously, you know, I'm a creative and
Speaker 9: an artist first, and it helped to be with a
Speaker 9: partner who was just knowledgeable enough to kind of help
Speaker 9: me find a container for that musically and to then
Speaker 9: see the stage in like in such a real way.
Speaker 9: I used to be in theater. I grew up acting,
Speaker 9: and so you know, it's not that much different. There's
Speaker 9: you know, so uh so to be in that situation.
Speaker 9: Wation in Austin, Texas, it was like the perfect place
Speaker 9: to cultivate the live performative element, right.
Speaker 3: And I hood you recently went into a silent meditation retreat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, most definitely.
Speaker 9: I discovered the pastna through through a girlfriend of mine
Speaker 9: and change my world. I have done the retreat twice.
Speaker 9: It's free. They fed me for free, they put me
Speaker 9: up for free.
Speaker 3: What's the condition. You just have to shut for seven
Speaker 3: days exactly exactly, So I say it's a silent retreat.
Speaker 1: I used it silent retreat. So it's a silent retreat.
Speaker 9: You get there, it's maybe one hundred students, five instructors,
Speaker 9: and you learn the technique, which is really easy to learn,
Speaker 9: is to shut up.
Speaker 1: Yes, just to be quiet.
Speaker 3: You know, you can surprised the technique. The technique for
Speaker 3: that is a quiet skill. I guess these days what
Speaker 3: happens if you don't shut up. Did they like kick
Speaker 3: you out? Is that how they kick you out?
Speaker 9: You can get kicked out, Yeah, for sure, so you
Speaker 9: can get kicked out. But I think I think that
Speaker 9: the technique is to get you on a vehicle to
Speaker 9: the source of how and or where our subconscious mind
Speaker 9: is reacting to, you know, our thoughts and things that
Speaker 9: might have happened in the past. So to get to
Speaker 9: the bottom of it, it's really technique to do.
Speaker 3: So, Yeah, that sounds horrible somehow, I'll never do that,
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Speaker 10: So there we are from Chicago the National Association of
Speaker 10: Black Journalists Convention panel interviewing President Trump on stage. Sandra
Speaker 10: has some interesting questions and interesting dynamic there as well,
Speaker 10: not only with the questioners but the crowd.
Speaker 5: Yeah, really interesting.
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