December 8, 2022 • 41 mins
Today is a weekly roundup episode where we'll be talking about recent headlines that caught our eye! Stories include the new high-tech soccer balls being used by the world cup, twins that were falsely accused of cheating in med school winning a 1.5 million lawsuit, and that new movie trailer for Cocaine Bear! AND we're joined by the amazing guest, Lenise Lyons! Lenise is a hilarious improviser, actor, and stand up comedian. They perform all over Atlanta and you can follow her on Instagram @luhneez
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As always, we might even have a few guests pop
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and I'm thrilled that Georgiana sent rapping our warnock back
to the Senate. Whoa uh My amazing co host Bill
is a way today, but we are joined by the
phenomenal Lanice Lines Lanie is a hilarious every visor actor,
stand up comedian. They perform all over Atlanta and you
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can follow her on Instagram at Lenise, which is at
l U H and Easy. Welcome Leanise, hooray, thank you Mark.
Great to be here. Yeah, I'm so happy to have
you here on the podcast. It's great to spend time
with you. We're gonna kick things off with a segment
that we do with all of our guests, which is
a segment called giving them their Flowers. So this is
a moment where I give you a quick compliment and
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the only rule is you can't return the compliment. You
just gotta receive this compliment. You can't give them back.
Nothing like that. All right, So here we go, uh, Lenise.
I just love your sense of joy and play. A
couple of weeks ago, I had the great honor of
getting to perform with you in an improv show, and
I was so excited to perform with you because when
you're on stage, you're always just having so much fun.
I can tell that you really really enjoy it, and
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that is anytime I do improv, That's who I want
to perform with is people like that that are there
to have a good time, and thank you, thank you
for sparking joy. It's so hard just to say thank you.
I appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely absolutely. So we're gonna keep
moving on and we're gonna do our next segment, which
is called Ridiculous News Nibbles. And so these are some
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quick ridiculous stories that we're gonna tackle right quick. So
this first one is the headline from My Modern Met
by Jessica Stewart, and the headline is throw out your
bicycle pump. This year's World Cup balls get super charged. So, uh,
if you've been watching the World Cup, do you watch
the World Cup? When he's been watching? Is that? Is
that the FIFA? Is that the Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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okay yeah, soccer big to be fair to fair, I've
not been watching a bunch of the world. It's the
entire world competing in soccer. Yeah, that seems so overwhelmed. Four.
That's fair. That's very fair. That's very fair. Well, if
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you've been watching the games, uh, you may have noticed
the soccer balls that are being used are getting charged
on the sidelines. I was not aware of this, Uh,
i'd be and I didn't know that balls needed to
be charged. However, there's like a high tech upgrade that
they've gotten. Uh. So uh. The Alila soccer balls are
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being used by the World Cup. They're manufactured by Adidas
and they take their name from the Arabic word meaning
the journey. So the way it works now is these
soccer balls journeys can literally be followed, as each ball
is fitted with a sensor that allows for spatial tracking
in real time. This data, when combined with optical tracking tools,
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will make the Video Assistant Referee system or the v
A R uh and offside reviews even more accurate. Uh.
And importantly, it will also speed up the decision making process.
So I guess it's going to help the referees ref
the game better. Uh yeah. And also as an added bonus, uh,
the AI software also generates three D renderings of the
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data that are ready for broadcasts, and so that will
allow fans to have an inside look and why the
decisions were being made. Mm hmm. That is it seems
a really intense, like what I do know about soccer
and my friends that do watch it, they are not
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question it calls down to that they are far too
drunk to to to. It's so close uh is the
amount of time a soccer game takes and the length
of time between the goals. It's so much downtime to
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just uh. And so it feels like remarkable, very sophisticated
technology for a game that I don't know if that's
what the fans biggest priority is, but you know, I
can see how if you were like really into soccer
or the well, I don't even know, really, I don't
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know what degree, but like I can see how it
would be cool to have three D imaging of like
exactly where the soccer ball is going. I went to
my first soccer game in a long time. I think
it was the summer this this summer, and you know,
some of the rules were definitely confusing for me, like
off sides and things like that. And if there was
any way to make some of that stuff more clear,
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how it might make the game more enjoyable. You know,
that's probably cool to see, like maybe the flight of
a ball, like um, some pretty crazy things that people
can do with their feet when kicking and things I
wanted to it adds any like extra weight to the
ball that's like noticeable to a player. Though. That's a
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good question, right, you think like putting a tracker on
a ball that you have to charge on the sidelines,
you would think the same, the like the aero dynamics
of being killed. That's a great question. If I lost
the World Cup because they put this new ball on
the field, That's the first thing I'm gonna point to
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at that press conferences. First of all, the battery and
it was a battle. Listen, don't go. And then I
usually kick a fade. And then when that kids to
get time, slice would have made should have made it,
Thanks Adas, Thanks yeah. Yeah. Uh So this this next story,
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and he's pretty wild. Alright, So this is from Insider
by Jane Ridley, and the headline is identical. Twins were
accused of cheating in an exam and then they won
one point five million dollars in a lawsuit. Okay, so
basically this is what I got from the story. Right,
So you have these two twins. They're in med school
and they're taking a test and they're like five ft
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apart and they are nodding or something like that, and
the professor thinks that, oh, they're cheating. Right, So they
get accused of cheating, and at first they were found guilty, right,
but then they filed suit, and then people that were
able to advocate for them were like, hey, look, twins
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sometimes have similar mannerisms. It's not like they were telepathically
communicating with each other or anything like that. And apparently
in academics, uh, twins can be accused of cheating. In fact,
in the article, Nancy Segal, is psychologist who specializes in
behavioral genetics and the study of twins, testified in court
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and she said that cheating and plants against twins are
common in academia, which I did not know. That's wild. Yeah,
so because they're twins, like there's automatically there's an immediate
assumption that there's cheating. Well, I think they were spaced apart,
even though they couldn't see each other's monitors or anything.
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The I guess there was something about the way the
teacher saw them nodding at the same time, even though
it wasn't necessarily to eat, even though it wasn't necessarily
to each other, not sing. They saw that, and they're like, oh,
they must. I haven't taken a standardized test in a while,
but I certainly recall doing stuff like that, Like when
I think I thought I couldn't conjugate that verb to
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Spanish like I can't I did you know? So? Uh?
I could imagine like if you study together, you're together,
you're twins, you're in the same program. There are a
lot of things that are similar. But and this is
a medical program. I feel like that would be really
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hard to cheat. They were med students at the University
of South Carolina and in thee IS when they were
were accused of of cheating, So and the other students
universally should m hmm. That's that's deep. That's wild. Isn't
that wild to like originally like you didn't cheat, right,
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you didn't you didn't cheat, and you didn't cheat. And
then they're like, no, you cheated, and then all the
students like, man, you're a cheater. Yea, and yeah, like
people are picking up their trades from a lunch table
when you're coming right, yeah, people are taking your clothes
out to dry it and the door like cheating get you? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
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I wonder what that shunning looks like, like just like like, oh,
you both came to the football game where you sit
in sections you section g yeah wow, oh yeah, but
one point five million would make me feel a little
bitter about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a long time
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to live with that though. And I'm curious how the
rest of their medical career, you know, turned down after that. Yeah,
Like is it something like one twin is it's smarter
than the other. It's something like middle coogl stuff And
is they are they not calling like ship? Which part
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is the air loobe? And which part is the okay,
right right right right right right right right right right
right right right right right right right right, this is
the test at all. Okay, it's about it's about the heart.
OKAYO wrong, wrong part of the Okay, that's what that's what. Yeah. Yeah,
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so I don't know. I don't know. I wish them
the best. I'm sorry, but I am glad that they
got there one one point five million um. If that
happened to me, I don't know. I don't know if
i'd stay in that field. I don't either. And I think, uh,
maybe you would also just do some really affirming research
or like that is legally said that no weird, you know,
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twins don't do that, Like we don't telepathically talk to
each other. There's legal precedent now, and like maybe you
can just they're dismantling that stereotype um and helping out
future twins that just happen to one of the major
and the same thing. Yeah, you know, because yeah, because
if these accusations are common, you know, that's gotta be
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tough going through academics with right, you know, yeah, especially
in medicine. You know, uh, I know, right, it seems
like that's already stressful enough that and like I think
the track record of medicine, like how we get to discoveries,
We did some weird stuff to get there, and you know,
genetic twins or you know, especially if people of color
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and there are a lot to in medicine to get
a lot of the findings we have and a lot
of the assumptions um that are made about people of
a certain background or color or twins. Uh, that factors
into medicine. So hopefully they score one to be on
the right side of this at one point seven million dollars, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well,
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moving on. This is from Associated Press, New York and uh, lenise,
if you're looking for a new job, New York is
looking for a very special person. So yeah, so New
York eyes are somewhat bloodthirsty rats supremo to take on
the city's rodents, so Mayor Eric Adams administration posted a
job listing this week seeking someone to lead the city's
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long running battle against rats. The official job title is
Director of Rodent Mitigation, although it was promptly dubbed the
Rats Are. Salary ranges from K to one seventy K,
and the ideal candidate is highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty,
determined to look at all solutions from various angles, including
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improving operational efficiency, data collection, technology innovation, trash management, and
wholesale slaughter. And from the ad that they used to
advertise for the position, yeah, so this is in the
New York job posting site out there, the roles and responsibilities.
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I guess it's it's some ad that they put out
kind of where you found it, But yeah, this is
the This is somewhere in the ad that they say
somewhat bloodthirsty and doing what it takes to get them rats.
I mean that rare problem must be tremendous, I know,
and I know in the cities like Atlanta and um
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certainly cities in the South, we have whole departments dedicated
to animal control. Certainly dealing with pass even the mosquitoes.
So I'm wondering, do they have a department like that,
And it's just like, no, we need a single person
with like the will to do this work. Like he
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doesn't have any rules, he's gotta they put him in
like a basement and say like like they call when
they call the policeman back to the forest and wanted
on show like he like, who is that guy? He's like,
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I don't know, but he took out in one day.
He took out one thousand rats and no whe he
just he went in there with some cargo shorts and cheese.
Uh at least this sounds this may sound wild, but
(14:37):
right next to you is the Ridiculous News basement door
and it's sort of like the door has been kind
of like shaking. Maybe if you could just open it
up and just see if anything happened. Wow, look at
it's really damping here. Hello. Hello, it's me Ryan the
rat hunter. Yeah that's right, me run the round. I'm
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here to apply for the New York position of rats.
All my whole life, the whole life, I've done nothing
but hunt down and kill rats. Least, it was so
interesting that you mentioned about cargo pants and cheese, and
those are the only two things I own. Oh well,
and I'm so glad that you've decided to apply. And
you wore the cargo shorts to like I said, it's
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it's the only outfit that one could wear if you're
trying to be a rats are in my opinion, I
got all these pockets and they're all filled with cheese
and teeth. That's the teeth that I put on when
I eat the rat that I killed, because I only
eat what I killed, and I only kill rats. Oh my,
oh my, that is amazing. Um, So let's just go
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ahead and negotiate that salary absolutely, so you you're aware
that it's in US dollars right right right, And I
saw that the salary range was from a hundred and
twenty thousand to a hundred seventy thousand. And I want
to say right now, I will accept no payment. I
refuse any and all payment. This is the person to
know for me, all right. Many years ago, at my
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six birthday party, the cake was brought out and all
the kids were gathered around the cake singing me happy birthday,
and then out popped a rat from inside the cake.
But It wasn't one of those cakes where people pop out.
It just popped out of the front of the cake
and it and it slapped my daddy across the face.
And my whole family was ashamed and humiliated. And ever
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since then I decayed, identicated every waking moment to take
him down every rat that came across my site. Oh yeah,
I see you have some tattoos there. It looks like
the cheese is that? Is that right? I took out
I took out Chucky cheese, And only later I realized
that Chucky Cheese apparently is a mouse and not and
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I feel so sorry about that. So I have this
tattoo here to remember Charles Charles Cheese. So but I
don't need to see it out here. Do you need
any living accommodations or you just want to stay down
here in this basement. No, I'm gonna stay down here
in the basement and I'll start first thing tomorrow. Put
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her there. You are hither welcome to New York. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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News and we're back, y'all, and we're joined by our
amazing guests, Lenise Lions and Lenise has been so great
having you on the podcast, and I'm really excited to
talk about this next story with you. So, Uh, you
follow sports, you've probably seen the news that Dion Sanders
has taken the position at Colorado University, a Power five school,
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and he is leaving his position at Jackson State University.
And so this has spurred a lot of conversations online
about you know, whether or not he should have left,
whether it's good or bad, how he left, just all
kinds of things, honestly. And you know, I didn't realize
until we started recording, but you went to Jackson State,
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and so I would just love to get um the thoughts, reactions,
anything at all about, um, you know, Dion's new job. Yeah,
I went to Jackson State of my alma mater, did
my undergrad there, and uh, we were talking. You know,
athletic programs have ups and downs. Um, certainly when Dion came,
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it brought it brought up. It also brought a lot
of attention to not only Jackson State, but to HBC
used in general and Uh. If you know anything about
hbc USE, you know they're notoriously underfunded, and that to
me as to what de I was doing there was
so important. UM as far as him leaving, I don't
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think there's ever never would have been the right time
to leave that wouldn't have hurt someone's feelings, UM, I
think Uh. And I've seen a lot of people talking
about it on my Facebook feed because a lot of
my friends went to Jackson State or went to hbc
US and have feelings about it. And uh, outside of
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like this overall made people a little grumpy, I think
there's still the promise of what you know, an HBCU
should be and what are the original mission of hbc USE,
which is we didn't have anywhere else to go. This
is why um we are here. Uh you know, uh,
if there's still space to build that legacy to um
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to give the the it's all you know. The next
man up is something that you're taught in athletics is
everybody be prepared to play at any moment in any time. UM.
You you might not get another Dean. But there's also
we don't know if there's a dion already somewhere that
that doesn't have the like that Dean is, but hopefully
he's casting the big enough one that those folks can
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come out and and and start and and then take
up those spaces. Uh so uh, I think he did
what he was supposed to do. He donated parts of
his salary to help the athletic program. Um. He worked
with other football players, Michael straighthand notably to get the
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entire team suits so they would trying to travel. Partner
with Southwest Airlines certainly a lot of athletic sponsorships which
also came on the Hills and the n C Double
A violent players to generate income out for their likeness
um and was able to secure deals for some student athletes,
which is something that never been done. But you know,
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a man got dreamed, so he gets to do his
you know, in his own time and things. But I'm
happy for what he did for the program um and
for for HBC using that's something that energy needs to
just keep going. And I don't know how to do it,
but salute he might be reaching back down later wrong
and doing the same thing. So what about you? What
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do you see, big Prime? Yeah? So, uh, you know,
I found I found the story you know, very interesting
for sure, you know, and you know, I did not
go to an HBC, so I wanted to like acknowledge
that at the top, you know, like these like I
didn't I didn't go to one, and and also I
haven't I haven't worked it one either, you know. So
so I realized that there's like that separation there. But
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just from observing the story and hearing, you know, thoughts
from people like I really enjoyed and really appreciated getting
to hear your thoughts as well. I guess like one
question that I had was when when he came in?
And this is just sort of like just a question
not necessarily to you, but just like a question that
I had in reading this about the story. Is it's
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just like, you know, are are people kind of like, oh,
we expected him to stay longer just because of how
he set it up, and and I guess I can see.
But you also mentioned earlier like no matter when he
would have left, someone's feelings could have gotten hurt, you know,
So I guess so um, and I didn't pay it
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a ton of attention to it, uh As far as
like hanging on every word he said. I've seen reports
of people saying this that he kind of and the
off set he said, this is a marriage made in heaven,
like God sent me here to do this, and then
in three years that marriage is dissolved. So there's a
sentiment that he came in. He was the reason that
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that some of these kids de committed to certain schools.
It came because they wanted to play for him. Um,
he brought his sons there, and so I think there's
a sentiment like, well, from what you said at the
beginning is not you know this now is a different message. Um.
But there's also a video of like the team, Like,
I feel like the team was aware of it, and
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I don't think they were shocked. There's a video of
like him having a final meeting with his team and
they're saying thank you. Um, And you know, who knows
if that's you know, I'm sure there's some people that
were hurt, you know, some players that were but it
doesn't feel like it started with that team, you know.
And I'm you know, I think they were well aware
of what was going on, and because they went as
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they still played their hearts out, Like we had the
best season we've ever had since certainly since I was
a student there. Um. So it's tough. But like you know,
even with him just dealing that one action for three years,
you have a lot of retired players coming and say, well,
look I can go I can do the same thing
where at my schools or perhaps a different HBCU UM.
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And so that's what it was supposed to do, is
create that energy. He's he like he knows he's electricity
in a room. Like yeah, he'sn't like from him. As
a young man, I saw one like like Jerry Colonel
uh Dion, He's like you, I just come up with
all this stuff off the top of my head. I've
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been practicing all these sayings, all this I he practiced
what he was gonna say when he got into the
end zone or when he made an interception. What kind
of trade dock? He was like that man probably sixty
years old now still with that same you know, that
attitude and you can't beat that. Yeah. Yeah, uh there's
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great great points. And also I mean even though I
was asking earlier like oh, did it seem like he
would stay longer? I should also say I've also seen
like an interview of his where he was saying like
he gets asked straight up, like if someone came to
you with a job I offer for another bigger school,
He's like, I'd have to consider it. So in that way,
he was also straight up you know about like where
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he was gonna go. So it's also it's also I
think important to point that out as well. It's not
like he said he would never leave or anything like that. Um,
so that's that's also part of it. Oh and also
U I just looked up because I was curious he's
fifty five. It's still like he's acts like, you know
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as the energy of the thirty year old. Absolutely absolutely,
I agree, I agree. I was just curious how old
he was. I was like, yeah, you're from Atlanta, right,
so you you were there with the years of the
Braves and the falcons. It was like, what what is?
How did what? He's gonna go play both games? Yeah? What?
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You really go to the what? And then it's gonnaj
baby about and they was still basis hit home runs
after three interceptions, like what my blown athletic talent. He's like,
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I am Neon Dion who he was when we were
in school. Yeah, but that's still lucted them him and
to Jackson State uh that Like the football programs mean
a lot to hbc U s and the marching bands.
Sometimes the marching band is way more for you. Yeah. Yeah, everybody,
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everybody's at the concessions stands in the first and second quarters,
they're taking the field. That's when the game started at
the halftime with the with the bands. Yeah. I remember
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going to my first Battle of the Bands to you know,
to watch and you know, I don't remember much of
the football game. I do remember the Battle of the bandfield.
You're like, yeah, six drum majors, all vel six times. No,
it's flits and land the tuba. Yeah, everybody can dance
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and they're playing juvenile back and what you know, like
even the conductor like talks the most trash. They're like
the insatiable, tenacious, delicious, stopping in your nick. Yeah, that'd
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be a great like online class is the thing you
want to know how to talk down your opponent? Yes, yes, yes,
I just aw you tired of insults like, hey, man,
watch where you're throwing slippery foot. You need to come
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on down to you a major world oh one, so
you can talk. Oh my gosh, that would be an
excellent class. That'd be a fun class, that'd be fun.
But I guess, like you know, overall with the story,
I have really appreciated, you know, hearing people's thoughts, um,
you know, hearing why people are happy for d and
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you know, next things. But also it's been U interesting
to hear like the critiques you know as well in
terms of like how he left and things like that
and and and um, and I appreciate you know, this
conversation happening in the attention being paid to HBC u
s and like you you know mentioned earlier, I hope
that continues. I hope that attention stays on these schools.
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You know. Yeah, we don't want to end up on
ESPN THT keep us up there. I think I saw
something where it was Environ Allen has a deal with
ESPN two at least HBC foot Ball showing on on
some of their sending on some of their other networks,
like it's already paying forward and so yeah, we can
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have our feelings, but we can also find like you know,
raise the joy, like you know, what's supposed to happen
is happening, and there's our silver lining. Yeah prop time
prop time out. Yeah, yeah, yeah we will be right
back with more ridiculous news after this short break. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
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don't get it confused. You are now tuned in to
ridiculous news, aren't y'all? And we're back with our amazing
guest Len these lines. Lennise, thank you so much for
being really appreciate getting your thoughts on Dion Sanders and
Jackson State earlier. Uh, We're gonna hop into something a
little less serious, so uh, y'all listening. You may have
(29:58):
seen the new viral Cocaine a Bear movie trailer, but
what you may not know is that it's sort of
kind of based on a true story. And so we
pulled this article amazing researcher case he broke down this
article from CNN uh by Zoe Satile And so, first off,
lenn let's talk about this movie that's coming out called
(30:20):
Cocaine Beares. So I guess the setup is is that
a bunch of cocaine falls from the sky, lands on
the ground, cocaine a bear gets ahold of this cocaine
and goes on a rampage. That's that's that's the movie.
That that is a oh man, um, First of all,
(30:46):
you haven't seen the trailer. Please, um do yourself a
favor of it is safe for work, even though I
don't think you want to type Cocaine Bear into your browser.
I don't know if your I T department is looking like,
but uh, it's it's a lot of fun. A bear
high on cocaine in the woods, Uh, going to town
(31:09):
on on humans is I would it feels made up,
But to know that there is a real, grounded story
that got us here is even more phenomenal then probably
what this is we're going to see on screen. Yeah,
so the story that happened in real life very different
from the movie trailer, however, no less astonishing that it's
(31:30):
even just partly based in anything real life. So the
story is based off of a true story of a
bear who overdosed on cocaine in the nineteen eighties. All right,
so this Cocaine Bear movie is directed and co produced
by Elizabeth Banks, and you know the movie is about
like the bear going on a killing spree. However, in
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real life the story is not as sensational as all
that the bear was found dead in Chattahoshi National Forum
after Yeah, so what happened was there was a defel
bag of cocaine that was dropped from a small plane
into the mountains of Georgia by Andrew Thornton, who died
after parachuting from the plane. And that's according to reporting
(32:15):
at the time by the Associated Press. Thornton is a
person that had assorted life as a police officer and
drug dealer, and they've had their life documented in books
like The blue Grass Conspiracy. Right, So, the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation had officers searching for Thornton's cocaine because this
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was like two million dollars worth of cocaine. So they're
out there looking for this devil bag that had about
forty packages worth of this drug and they found it
ripped open over the hillside. And the AP reporting that
was done at the time wasn't sure how much cocaine
the bear concern, Yeah, but original Duffel bag would about
(33:02):
about eighty eight pounds worth of cocaine, and so the
bear got to it before the the officers were able
to They had the odd and they were dead there.
But that story is also wild, also wild. I think
I've wanted to see that. Now that you've told me
the back story, it sounds more possible that they were
(33:25):
onto him. He drops this two million dollars worth of cocaine.
In the eighties, Tobian Dog was the cocaine in the eighties,
it's probably like twenty million now. Then they were like
they found someone found it and they were like that.
Say let's kill a bear. Say to put some cocaine
on the bear. Say to cocaine what I'm kind of
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curious about. Like, honestly, my first reaction when reading the
story about like, alright, millions of dollars of cocaine gets
dropped on the hillside and Georgia bear guests to it
the O D. My first thought honestly was like, what
if the bear didn't O D. What if it got
like just not that there is a right amount, but
what if it got like the right amount of cocaine?
(34:13):
What would a bear on cocaine even be? Like, I mean,
I guess that's what the movie explores, but that's what
I was wondering too. I believe it would spend a
lot of time looking at its reflection in the river
like I'm so sexy, lookout sexy. Oh m m m
mmm mmmmmmmm, and like it would be like really good
(34:38):
and like fishing, just like snatch it Samon at the air.
It's it and it's just like late talking to a
shoe and like, I love you, I love you so much.
You just had of my job, and you know what,
(35:00):
you know what, We're gonna We're gonna relocate to Tennessee.
I promise, I promise. In the morning, in the morning,
in the morning. Listen. Listen, listen, listen, list making all
kinds of projects, like we'll get you a place in
your Nashville. That place Nashville is blowing up. We're gonna
get there. Once we get there, we got good salmon. Yeah,
(35:24):
never heard about this. Oh, you're gonna love it. Mommy's
been there, Mommy's dad. Mom you know your dad's from there,
and you know you want to see him more. But
you know how that goes. Huh oh Yeah. The Bears
is making wild promises. It's just like I just need
one more just to get me started. Oh man, that's why.
(35:52):
And I'm also just kind of like that that whole situation.
I mean, I'm surprised that it was just one bear
that got to it is opposed to just like in
my mind, like worst case scenario, I'm imagining this cocaine
falls down, a bear gets a hit, other bears get hit,
the wolves get the hit, and then it's like a
(36:13):
cocaine for what I'm saying, and everybody's no one can
control their their stomachs. Everybody's just like who and like
if it's in the Duffel bag, I imagine you know,
these things are wrapped like I don't know if there's
a smell, but like I feel like bears are like
(36:34):
did they just see the bag? And like like who
did they leave some oh slim jams in here? And
you know what what attracted the bear to like want
to sniff this out? Or like it's it's cocaine met powerful.
They're like even the bear like, oh, I'm getting in
(36:55):
this bag, I'm getting up in here. Lord we get Yeah,
you think like there was a maybe in dear just's
like that's bad news. Bear, you know, don't out a cousin.
(37:18):
You know, you don't know nothing about this life. Get
out of it. And then the bear is line, you
don't know, I'm gonna live my life, you know, Like
that's a whole Like that's a whole sick not not
a sitcom, that's a whole drama. That's a drama comedy.
That's a whole that's a whole drum. Yeah, I think. Yeah,
there's a a tax task force. It's like keeping animals
(37:43):
off drugs, Like they need to make this a p
s A. You know. Oh yeah listen, like you see
a defl bag. Need to lead that alone. You know
what I'm saying, the investigators do you? Uh you got
something smokey the Bears like look at Madhouse back off. Wow,
(38:14):
what it's amazing, Like the inspiration from movies, like somebody
was like throw money at that. I'm surprised it took
this long. If that happened in the eighties, I'm surprised
it took this long for us to get a Cocaine
Bear film. And they got some names in that movie.
In that trailer, there's some there's at least seven faces
I recognize, and uh, I'm amazed. So I'm I'm gonna
(38:38):
spend us dollars on it if that's what you're asking me. Yes,
So we're gonna move on to our final segment. It's
called the Spring of Inspiring Inspirations. That's where we're sharing
inspirational quote with you, Okay, and things on a positive note, Uh,
this one comes from Jordan Peel when the quote is
(39:01):
we can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with
one another that we wouldn't have been able to do
as an individual. But that was cool and uh ties
into working together as a group. Uh and uh I
thought if that was positive? And Lenise, thank you so
much for coming to join us for this episode today.
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(39:24):
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(39:45):
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not your ravage news show. We cover stuff you didn't
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As always, we might even have a few guests pop
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and I'm thrilled that Georgiana sent rapping our warnock back
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is a way today, but we are joined by the
phenomenal Lanice Lines Lanie is a hilarious every visor actor,
stand up comedian. They perform all over Atlanta and you
(01:03):
can follow her on Instagram at Lenise, which is at
l U H and Easy. Welcome Leanise, hooray, thank you Mark.
Great to be here. Yeah, I'm so happy to have
you here on the podcast. It's great to spend time
with you. We're gonna kick things off with a segment
that we do with all of our guests, which is
a segment called giving them their Flowers. So this is
a moment where I give you a quick compliment and
(01:25):
the only rule is you can't return the compliment. You
just gotta receive this compliment. You can't give them back.
Nothing like that. All right, So here we go, uh, Lenise.
I just love your sense of joy and play. A
couple of weeks ago, I had the great honor of
getting to perform with you in an improv show, and
I was so excited to perform with you because when
you're on stage, you're always just having so much fun.
I can tell that you really really enjoy it, and
(01:46):
that is anytime I do improv, That's who I want
to perform with is people like that that are there
to have a good time, and thank you, thank you
for sparking joy. It's so hard just to say thank you.
I appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely absolutely. So we're gonna keep
moving on and we're gonna do our next segment, which
is called Ridiculous News Nibbles. And so these are some
(02:08):
quick ridiculous stories that we're gonna tackle right quick. So
this first one is the headline from My Modern Met
by Jessica Stewart, and the headline is throw out your
bicycle pump. This year's World Cup balls get super charged. So, uh,
if you've been watching the World Cup, do you watch
the World Cup? When he's been watching? Is that? Is
that the FIFA? Is that the Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
(02:31):
okay yeah, soccer big to be fair to fair, I've
not been watching a bunch of the world. It's the
entire world competing in soccer. Yeah, that seems so overwhelmed. Four.
That's fair. That's very fair. That's very fair. Well, if
(02:55):
you've been watching the games, uh, you may have noticed
the soccer balls that are being used are getting charged
on the sidelines. I was not aware of this, Uh,
i'd be and I didn't know that balls needed to
be charged. However, there's like a high tech upgrade that
they've gotten. Uh. So uh. The Alila soccer balls are
(03:15):
being used by the World Cup. They're manufactured by Adidas
and they take their name from the Arabic word meaning
the journey. So the way it works now is these
soccer balls journeys can literally be followed, as each ball
is fitted with a sensor that allows for spatial tracking
in real time. This data, when combined with optical tracking tools,
(03:37):
will make the Video Assistant Referee system or the v
A R uh and offside reviews even more accurate. Uh.
And importantly, it will also speed up the decision making process.
So I guess it's going to help the referees ref
the game better. Uh yeah. And also as an added bonus, uh,
the AI software also generates three D renderings of the
(04:00):
data that are ready for broadcasts, and so that will
allow fans to have an inside look and why the
decisions were being made. Mm hmm. That is it seems
a really intense, like what I do know about soccer
and my friends that do watch it, they are not
(04:22):
question it calls down to that they are far too
drunk to to to. It's so close uh is the
amount of time a soccer game takes and the length
of time between the goals. It's so much downtime to
(04:44):
just uh. And so it feels like remarkable, very sophisticated
technology for a game that I don't know if that's
what the fans biggest priority is, but you know, I
can see how if you were like really into soccer
or the well, I don't even know, really, I don't
(05:05):
know what degree, but like I can see how it
would be cool to have three D imaging of like
exactly where the soccer ball is going. I went to
my first soccer game in a long time. I think
it was the summer this this summer, and you know,
some of the rules were definitely confusing for me, like
off sides and things like that. And if there was
any way to make some of that stuff more clear,
(05:27):
how it might make the game more enjoyable. You know,
that's probably cool to see, like maybe the flight of
a ball, like um, some pretty crazy things that people
can do with their feet when kicking and things I
wanted to it adds any like extra weight to the
ball that's like noticeable to a player. Though. That's a
(05:48):
good question, right, you think like putting a tracker on
a ball that you have to charge on the sidelines,
you would think the same, the like the aero dynamics
of being killed. That's a great question. If I lost
the World Cup because they put this new ball on
the field, That's the first thing I'm gonna point to
(06:08):
at that press conferences. First of all, the battery and
it was a battle. Listen, don't go. And then I
usually kick a fade. And then when that kids to
get time, slice would have made should have made it,
Thanks Adas, Thanks yeah. Yeah. Uh So this this next story,
(06:35):
and he's pretty wild. Alright, So this is from Insider
by Jane Ridley, and the headline is identical. Twins were
accused of cheating in an exam and then they won
one point five million dollars in a lawsuit. Okay, so
basically this is what I got from the story. Right,
So you have these two twins. They're in med school
and they're taking a test and they're like five ft
(06:58):
apart and they are nodding or something like that, and
the professor thinks that, oh, they're cheating. Right, So they
get accused of cheating, and at first they were found guilty, right,
but then they filed suit, and then people that were
able to advocate for them were like, hey, look, twins
(07:18):
sometimes have similar mannerisms. It's not like they were telepathically
communicating with each other or anything like that. And apparently
in academics, uh, twins can be accused of cheating. In fact,
in the article, Nancy Segal, is psychologist who specializes in
behavioral genetics and the study of twins, testified in court
(07:39):
and she said that cheating and plants against twins are
common in academia, which I did not know. That's wild. Yeah,
so because they're twins, like there's automatically there's an immediate
assumption that there's cheating. Well, I think they were spaced apart,
even though they couldn't see each other's monitors or anything.
(08:02):
The I guess there was something about the way the
teacher saw them nodding at the same time, even though
it wasn't necessarily to eat, even though it wasn't necessarily
to each other, not sing. They saw that, and they're like, oh,
they must. I haven't taken a standardized test in a while,
but I certainly recall doing stuff like that, Like when
I think I thought I couldn't conjugate that verb to
(08:24):
Spanish like I can't I did you know? So? Uh?
I could imagine like if you study together, you're together,
you're twins, you're in the same program. There are a
lot of things that are similar. But and this is
a medical program. I feel like that would be really
(08:44):
hard to cheat. They were med students at the University
of South Carolina and in thee IS when they were
were accused of of cheating, So and the other students
universally should m hmm. That's that's deep. That's wild. Isn't
that wild to like originally like you didn't cheat, right,
(09:07):
you didn't you didn't cheat, and you didn't cheat. And
then they're like, no, you cheated, and then all the
students like, man, you're a cheater. Yea, and yeah, like
people are picking up their trades from a lunch table
when you're coming right, yeah, people are taking your clothes
out to dry it and the door like cheating get you? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
(09:33):
I wonder what that shunning looks like, like just like like, oh,
you both came to the football game where you sit
in sections you section g yeah wow, oh yeah, but
one point five million would make me feel a little
bitter about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a long time
(09:55):
to live with that though. And I'm curious how the
rest of their medical career, you know, turned down after that. Yeah,
Like is it something like one twin is it's smarter
than the other. It's something like middle coogl stuff And
is they are they not calling like ship? Which part
(10:16):
is the air loobe? And which part is the okay,
right right right right right right right right right right
right right right right right right right right, this is
the test at all. Okay, it's about it's about the heart.
OKAYO wrong, wrong part of the Okay, that's what that's what. Yeah. Yeah,
(10:37):
so I don't know. I don't know. I wish them
the best. I'm sorry, but I am glad that they
got there one one point five million um. If that
happened to me, I don't know. I don't know if
i'd stay in that field. I don't either. And I think, uh,
maybe you would also just do some really affirming research
or like that is legally said that no weird, you know,
(10:58):
twins don't do that, Like we don't telepathically talk to
each other. There's legal precedent now, and like maybe you
can just they're dismantling that stereotype um and helping out
future twins that just happen to one of the major
and the same thing. Yeah, you know, because yeah, because
if these accusations are common, you know, that's gotta be
(11:20):
tough going through academics with right, you know, yeah, especially
in medicine. You know, uh, I know, right, it seems
like that's already stressful enough that and like I think
the track record of medicine, like how we get to discoveries,
We did some weird stuff to get there, and you know,
genetic twins or you know, especially if people of color
(11:43):
and there are a lot to in medicine to get
a lot of the findings we have and a lot
of the assumptions um that are made about people of
a certain background or color or twins. Uh, that factors
into medicine. So hopefully they score one to be on
the right side of this at one point seven million dollars, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well,
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moving on. This is from Associated Press, New York and uh, lenise,
if you're looking for a new job, New York is
looking for a very special person. So yeah, so New
York eyes are somewhat bloodthirsty rats supremo to take on
the city's rodents, so Mayor Eric Adams administration posted a
job listing this week seeking someone to lead the city's
(12:29):
long running battle against rats. The official job title is
Director of Rodent Mitigation, although it was promptly dubbed the
Rats Are. Salary ranges from K to one seventy K,
and the ideal candidate is highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty,
determined to look at all solutions from various angles, including
(12:51):
improving operational efficiency, data collection, technology innovation, trash management, and
wholesale slaughter. And from the ad that they used to
advertise for the position, yeah, so this is in the
New York job posting site out there, the roles and responsibilities.
(13:11):
I guess it's it's some ad that they put out
kind of where you found it, But yeah, this is
the This is somewhere in the ad that they say
somewhat bloodthirsty and doing what it takes to get them rats.
I mean that rare problem must be tremendous, I know,
and I know in the cities like Atlanta and um
(13:34):
certainly cities in the South, we have whole departments dedicated
to animal control. Certainly dealing with pass even the mosquitoes.
So I'm wondering, do they have a department like that,
And it's just like, no, we need a single person
with like the will to do this work. Like he
(13:55):
doesn't have any rules, he's gotta they put him in
like a basement and say like like they call when
they call the policeman back to the forest and wanted
on show like he like, who is that guy? He's like,
(14:17):
I don't know, but he took out in one day.
He took out one thousand rats and no whe he
just he went in there with some cargo shorts and cheese.
Uh at least this sounds this may sound wild, but
(14:37):
right next to you is the Ridiculous News basement door
and it's sort of like the door has been kind
of like shaking. Maybe if you could just open it
up and just see if anything happened. Wow, look at
it's really damping here. Hello. Hello, it's me Ryan the
rat hunter. Yeah that's right, me run the round. I'm
(14:58):
here to apply for the New York position of rats.
All my whole life, the whole life, I've done nothing
but hunt down and kill rats. Least, it was so
interesting that you mentioned about cargo pants and cheese, and
those are the only two things I own. Oh well,
and I'm so glad that you've decided to apply. And
you wore the cargo shorts to like I said, it's
(15:21):
it's the only outfit that one could wear if you're
trying to be a rats are in my opinion, I
got all these pockets and they're all filled with cheese
and teeth. That's the teeth that I put on when
I eat the rat that I killed, because I only
eat what I killed, and I only kill rats. Oh my,
oh my, that is amazing. Um, So let's just go
(15:41):
ahead and negotiate that salary absolutely, so you you're aware
that it's in US dollars right right right, And I
saw that the salary range was from a hundred and
twenty thousand to a hundred seventy thousand. And I want
to say right now, I will accept no payment. I
refuse any and all payment. This is the person to
know for me, all right. Many years ago, at my
(16:03):
six birthday party, the cake was brought out and all
the kids were gathered around the cake singing me happy birthday,
and then out popped a rat from inside the cake.
But It wasn't one of those cakes where people pop out.
It just popped out of the front of the cake
and it and it slapped my daddy across the face.
And my whole family was ashamed and humiliated. And ever
(16:26):
since then I decayed, identicated every waking moment to take
him down every rat that came across my site. Oh yeah,
I see you have some tattoos there. It looks like
the cheese is that? Is that right? I took out
I took out Chucky cheese, And only later I realized
that Chucky Cheese apparently is a mouse and not and
(16:49):
I feel so sorry about that. So I have this
tattoo here to remember Charles Charles Cheese. So but I
don't need to see it out here. Do you need
any living accommodations or you just want to stay down
here in this basement. No, I'm gonna stay down here
in the basement and I'll start first thing tomorrow. Put
(17:09):
her there. You are hither welcome to New York. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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News and we're back, y'all, and we're joined by our
amazing guests, Lenise Lions and Lenise has been so great
having you on the podcast, and I'm really excited to
talk about this next story with you. So, Uh, you
follow sports, you've probably seen the news that Dion Sanders
has taken the position at Colorado University, a Power five school,
(17:51):
and he is leaving his position at Jackson State University.
And so this has spurred a lot of conversations online
about you know, whether or not he should have left,
whether it's good or bad, how he left, just all
kinds of things, honestly. And you know, I didn't realize
until we started recording, but you went to Jackson State,
(18:13):
and so I would just love to get um the thoughts, reactions,
anything at all about, um, you know, Dion's new job. Yeah,
I went to Jackson State of my alma mater, did
my undergrad there, and uh, we were talking. You know,
athletic programs have ups and downs. Um, certainly when Dion came,
(18:35):
it brought it brought up. It also brought a lot
of attention to not only Jackson State, but to HBC
used in general and Uh. If you know anything about
hbc USE, you know they're notoriously underfunded, and that to
me as to what de I was doing there was
so important. UM as far as him leaving, I don't
(18:56):
think there's ever never would have been the right time
to leave that wouldn't have hurt someone's feelings, UM, I
think Uh. And I've seen a lot of people talking
about it on my Facebook feed because a lot of
my friends went to Jackson State or went to hbc
US and have feelings about it. And uh, outside of
(19:16):
like this overall made people a little grumpy, I think
there's still the promise of what you know, an HBCU
should be and what are the original mission of hbc USE,
which is we didn't have anywhere else to go. This
is why um we are here. Uh you know, uh,
if there's still space to build that legacy to um
(19:38):
to give the the it's all you know. The next
man up is something that you're taught in athletics is
everybody be prepared to play at any moment in any time. UM.
You you might not get another Dean. But there's also
we don't know if there's a dion already somewhere that
that doesn't have the like that Dean is, but hopefully
he's casting the big enough one that those folks can
(19:59):
come out and and and start and and then take
up those spaces. Uh so uh, I think he did
what he was supposed to do. He donated parts of
his salary to help the athletic program. Um. He worked
with other football players, Michael straighthand notably to get the
(20:20):
entire team suits so they would trying to travel. Partner
with Southwest Airlines certainly a lot of athletic sponsorships which
also came on the Hills and the n C Double
A violent players to generate income out for their likeness
um and was able to secure deals for some student athletes,
which is something that never been done. But you know,
(20:42):
a man got dreamed, so he gets to do his
you know, in his own time and things. But I'm
happy for what he did for the program um and
for for HBC using that's something that energy needs to
just keep going. And I don't know how to do it,
but salute he might be reaching back down later wrong
and doing the same thing. So what about you? What
(21:04):
do you see, big Prime? Yeah? So, uh, you know,
I found I found the story you know, very interesting
for sure, you know, and you know, I did not
go to an HBC, so I wanted to like acknowledge
that at the top, you know, like these like I
didn't I didn't go to one, and and also I
haven't I haven't worked it one either, you know. So
so I realized that there's like that separation there. But
(21:26):
just from observing the story and hearing, you know, thoughts
from people like I really enjoyed and really appreciated getting
to hear your thoughts as well. I guess like one
question that I had was when when he came in?
And this is just sort of like just a question
not necessarily to you, but just like a question that
I had in reading this about the story. Is it's
(21:47):
just like, you know, are are people kind of like, oh,
we expected him to stay longer just because of how
he set it up, and and I guess I can see.
But you also mentioned earlier like no matter when he
would have left, someone's feelings could have gotten hurt, you know,
So I guess so um, and I didn't pay it
(22:10):
a ton of attention to it, uh As far as
like hanging on every word he said. I've seen reports
of people saying this that he kind of and the
off set he said, this is a marriage made in heaven,
like God sent me here to do this, and then
in three years that marriage is dissolved. So there's a
sentiment that he came in. He was the reason that
(22:33):
that some of these kids de committed to certain schools.
It came because they wanted to play for him. Um,
he brought his sons there, and so I think there's
a sentiment like, well, from what you said at the
beginning is not you know this now is a different message. Um.
But there's also a video of like the team, Like,
I feel like the team was aware of it, and
(22:54):
I don't think they were shocked. There's a video of
like him having a final meeting with his team and
they're saying thank you. Um, And you know, who knows
if that's you know, I'm sure there's some people that
were hurt, you know, some players that were but it
doesn't feel like it started with that team, you know.
And I'm you know, I think they were well aware
of what was going on, and because they went as
(23:17):
they still played their hearts out, Like we had the
best season we've ever had since certainly since I was
a student there. Um. So it's tough. But like you know,
even with him just dealing that one action for three years,
you have a lot of retired players coming and say, well,
look I can go I can do the same thing
where at my schools or perhaps a different HBCU UM.
(23:41):
And so that's what it was supposed to do, is
create that energy. He's he like he knows he's electricity
in a room. Like yeah, he'sn't like from him. As
a young man, I saw one like like Jerry Colonel
uh Dion, He's like you, I just come up with
all this stuff off the top of my head. I've
(24:02):
been practicing all these sayings, all this I he practiced
what he was gonna say when he got into the
end zone or when he made an interception. What kind
of trade dock? He was like that man probably sixty
years old now still with that same you know, that
attitude and you can't beat that. Yeah. Yeah, uh there's
(24:24):
great great points. And also I mean even though I
was asking earlier like oh, did it seem like he
would stay longer? I should also say I've also seen
like an interview of his where he was saying like
he gets asked straight up, like if someone came to
you with a job I offer for another bigger school,
He's like, I'd have to consider it. So in that way,
he was also straight up you know about like where
(24:46):
he was gonna go. So it's also it's also I
think important to point that out as well. It's not
like he said he would never leave or anything like that. Um,
so that's that's also part of it. Oh and also
U I just looked up because I was curious he's
fifty five. It's still like he's acts like, you know
(25:08):
as the energy of the thirty year old. Absolutely absolutely,
I agree, I agree. I was just curious how old
he was. I was like, yeah, you're from Atlanta, right,
so you you were there with the years of the
Braves and the falcons. It was like, what what is?
How did what? He's gonna go play both games? Yeah? What?
(25:37):
You really go to the what? And then it's gonnaj
baby about and they was still basis hit home runs
after three interceptions, like what my blown athletic talent. He's like,
(25:57):
I am Neon Dion who he was when we were
in school. Yeah, but that's still lucted them him and
to Jackson State uh that Like the football programs mean
a lot to hbc U s and the marching bands.
Sometimes the marching band is way more for you. Yeah. Yeah, everybody,
(26:20):
everybody's at the concessions stands in the first and second quarters,
they're taking the field. That's when the game started at
the halftime with the with the bands. Yeah. I remember
(26:42):
going to my first Battle of the Bands to you know,
to watch and you know, I don't remember much of
the football game. I do remember the Battle of the bandfield.
You're like, yeah, six drum majors, all vel six times. No,
it's flits and land the tuba. Yeah, everybody can dance
(27:09):
and they're playing juvenile back and what you know, like
even the conductor like talks the most trash. They're like
the insatiable, tenacious, delicious, stopping in your nick. Yeah, that'd
(27:37):
be a great like online class is the thing you
want to know how to talk down your opponent? Yes, yes, yes,
I just aw you tired of insults like, hey, man,
watch where you're throwing slippery foot. You need to come
(28:00):
on down to you a major world oh one, so
you can talk. Oh my gosh, that would be an
excellent class. That'd be a fun class, that'd be fun.
But I guess, like you know, overall with the story,
I have really appreciated, you know, hearing people's thoughts, um,
you know, hearing why people are happy for d and
(28:22):
you know, next things. But also it's been U interesting
to hear like the critiques you know as well in
terms of like how he left and things like that
and and and um, and I appreciate you know, this
conversation happening in the attention being paid to HBC u
s and like you you know mentioned earlier, I hope
that continues. I hope that attention stays on these schools.
(28:45):
You know. Yeah, we don't want to end up on
ESPN THT keep us up there. I think I saw
something where it was Environ Allen has a deal with
ESPN two at least HBC foot Ball showing on on
some of their sending on some of their other networks,
like it's already paying forward and so yeah, we can
(29:08):
have our feelings, but we can also find like you know,
raise the joy, like you know, what's supposed to happen
is happening, and there's our silver lining. Yeah prop time
prop time out. Yeah, yeah, yeah we will be right
back with more ridiculous news after this short break. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
(29:35):
don't get it confused. You are now tuned in to
ridiculous news, aren't y'all? And we're back with our amazing
guest Len these lines. Lennise, thank you so much for
being really appreciate getting your thoughts on Dion Sanders and
Jackson State earlier. Uh, We're gonna hop into something a
little less serious, so uh, y'all listening. You may have
(29:58):
seen the new viral Cocaine a Bear movie trailer, but
what you may not know is that it's sort of
kind of based on a true story. And so we
pulled this article amazing researcher case he broke down this
article from CNN uh by Zoe Satile And so, first off,
lenn let's talk about this movie that's coming out called
(30:20):
Cocaine Beares. So I guess the setup is is that
a bunch of cocaine falls from the sky, lands on
the ground, cocaine a bear gets ahold of this cocaine
and goes on a rampage. That's that's that's the movie.
That that is a oh man, um, First of all,
(30:46):
you haven't seen the trailer. Please, um do yourself a
favor of it is safe for work, even though I
don't think you want to type Cocaine Bear into your browser.
I don't know if your I T department is looking like,
but uh, it's it's a lot of fun. A bear
high on cocaine in the woods, Uh, going to town
(31:09):
on on humans is I would it feels made up,
But to know that there is a real, grounded story
that got us here is even more phenomenal then probably
what this is we're going to see on screen. Yeah,
so the story that happened in real life very different
from the movie trailer, however, no less astonishing that it's
(31:30):
even just partly based in anything real life. So the
story is based off of a true story of a
bear who overdosed on cocaine in the nineteen eighties. All right,
so this Cocaine Bear movie is directed and co produced
by Elizabeth Banks, and you know the movie is about
like the bear going on a killing spree. However, in
(31:52):
real life the story is not as sensational as all
that the bear was found dead in Chattahoshi National Forum
after Yeah, so what happened was there was a defel
bag of cocaine that was dropped from a small plane
into the mountains of Georgia by Andrew Thornton, who died
after parachuting from the plane. And that's according to reporting
(32:15):
at the time by the Associated Press. Thornton is a
person that had assorted life as a police officer and
drug dealer, and they've had their life documented in books
like The blue Grass Conspiracy. Right, So, the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation had officers searching for Thornton's cocaine because this
(32:37):
was like two million dollars worth of cocaine. So they're
out there looking for this devil bag that had about
forty packages worth of this drug and they found it
ripped open over the hillside. And the AP reporting that
was done at the time wasn't sure how much cocaine
the bear concern, Yeah, but original Duffel bag would about
(33:02):
about eighty eight pounds worth of cocaine, and so the
bear got to it before the the officers were able
to They had the odd and they were dead there.
But that story is also wild, also wild. I think
I've wanted to see that. Now that you've told me
the back story, it sounds more possible that they were
(33:25):
onto him. He drops this two million dollars worth of cocaine.
In the eighties, Tobian Dog was the cocaine in the eighties,
it's probably like twenty million now. Then they were like
they found someone found it and they were like that.
Say let's kill a bear. Say to put some cocaine
on the bear. Say to cocaine what I'm kind of
(33:52):
curious about. Like, honestly, my first reaction when reading the
story about like, alright, millions of dollars of cocaine gets
dropped on the hillside and Georgia bear guests to it
the O D. My first thought honestly was like, what
if the bear didn't O D. What if it got
like just not that there is a right amount, but
what if it got like the right amount of cocaine?
(34:13):
What would a bear on cocaine even be? Like, I mean,
I guess that's what the movie explores, but that's what
I was wondering too. I believe it would spend a
lot of time looking at its reflection in the river
like I'm so sexy, lookout sexy. Oh m m m
mmm mmmmmmmm, and like it would be like really good
(34:38):
and like fishing, just like snatch it Samon at the air.
It's it and it's just like late talking to a
shoe and like, I love you, I love you so much.
You just had of my job, and you know what,
(35:00):
you know what, We're gonna We're gonna relocate to Tennessee.
I promise, I promise. In the morning, in the morning,
in the morning. Listen. Listen, listen, listen, list making all
kinds of projects, like we'll get you a place in
your Nashville. That place Nashville is blowing up. We're gonna
get there. Once we get there, we got good salmon. Yeah,
(35:24):
never heard about this. Oh, you're gonna love it. Mommy's
been there, Mommy's dad. Mom you know your dad's from there,
and you know you want to see him more. But
you know how that goes. Huh oh Yeah. The Bears
is making wild promises. It's just like I just need
one more just to get me started. Oh man, that's why.
(35:52):
And I'm also just kind of like that that whole situation.
I mean, I'm surprised that it was just one bear
that got to it is opposed to just like in
my mind, like worst case scenario, I'm imagining this cocaine
falls down, a bear gets a hit, other bears get hit,
the wolves get the hit, and then it's like a
(36:13):
cocaine for what I'm saying, and everybody's no one can
control their their stomachs. Everybody's just like who and like
if it's in the Duffel bag, I imagine you know,
these things are wrapped like I don't know if there's
a smell, but like I feel like bears are like
(36:34):
did they just see the bag? And like like who
did they leave some oh slim jams in here? And
you know what what attracted the bear to like want
to sniff this out? Or like it's it's cocaine met powerful.
They're like even the bear like, oh, I'm getting in
(36:55):
this bag, I'm getting up in here. Lord we get Yeah,
you think like there was a maybe in dear just's
like that's bad news. Bear, you know, don't out a cousin.
(37:18):
You know, you don't know nothing about this life. Get
out of it. And then the bear is line, you
don't know, I'm gonna live my life, you know, Like
that's a whole Like that's a whole sick not not
a sitcom, that's a whole drama. That's a drama comedy.
That's a whole that's a whole drum. Yeah, I think. Yeah,
there's a a tax task force. It's like keeping animals
(37:43):
off drugs, Like they need to make this a p
s A. You know. Oh yeah listen, like you see
a defl bag. Need to lead that alone. You know
what I'm saying, the investigators do you? Uh you got
something smokey the Bears like look at Madhouse back off. Wow,
(38:14):
what it's amazing, Like the inspiration from movies, like somebody
was like throw money at that. I'm surprised it took
this long. If that happened in the eighties, I'm surprised
it took this long for us to get a Cocaine
Bear film. And they got some names in that movie.
In that trailer, there's some there's at least seven faces
I recognize, and uh, I'm amazed. So I'm I'm gonna
(38:38):
spend us dollars on it if that's what you're asking me. Yes,
So we're gonna move on to our final segment. It's
called the Spring of Inspiring Inspirations. That's where we're sharing
inspirational quote with you, Okay, and things on a positive note, Uh,
this one comes from Jordan Peel when the quote is
(39:01):
we can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with
one another that we wouldn't have been able to do
as an individual. But that was cool and uh ties
into working together as a group. Uh and uh I
thought if that was positive? And Lenise, thank you so
much for coming to join us for this episode today.
And how can people support you? Uh follow you anything
(39:24):
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(40:07):
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