No Nobel Peace Prize for Trump, Day 10 Shutdown Pain, National Guard in Memphis

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That's done on the contrunt, y'all. He's in his feelings
because he takes another l so sad he was an
award of the twenty twenty five Nobel Peace Prize and

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his maggots are crying foul, upset, angry must be rough
getting beat out by Henry Hispanic woman. Y'all know I
got nice to say. In Los Angeles, New Football Team,
New sports Teams, the Olympic dreams are turning into nightmares
for a historic black community of Inglewood. The new Feller

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Will talk to the reporters with the Capitol b News
that wrote this story. Day ten, the government shutdown for
the first time. Federal workers are missing an entire paycheck.
House Speaker House Democratic Leader Haking Jeffries lays out how
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the line. Whut TV, the only black owned public station
licensed to with HBCU, facing serious challenges because Donald Trump
slashed buildings from public broadcasting. We'll talk to the general
manager of the station. Plus, Federal National Guard troops are

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not patrolling the streets of Memphis. We'll talk to accountcilwoman
about that issue.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Us.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
Some protesters showed up again at the book book event
for Vice President Kamala Harris here in Washington, d C.
Let's just say she buys sick and tired of being
sick and tired of these loud ass hecklers. It's time
to bring the funk On'm rolling unfilched on the Blackstuarter network.
Let's go.

Speaker 7 (04:21):
He's got whatever the best, He's sold it, whatever.

Speaker 6 (04:25):
It is, he's.

Speaker 12 (04:26):
Got fine and Wenna believes he's right on top.

Speaker 8 (04:30):
And it's rolling.

Speaker 13 (04:32):
Best believe he's going from Boston news to politics with entertainment.

Speaker 8 (04:39):
Just book keeps.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
He's going.

Speaker 14 (04:43):
It's rolling out.

Speaker 7 (04:48):
It's rolling, yea rolling, He's boky stress, she's real good question. No, he's.

Speaker 6 (05:14):
Fail. This morning, the Nobel folks announced the twenty twenty
five Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Donald Trump swore he
was gonna wake up to horns blaring, flowers being tossed around,
praising him as the dear leader, as the one who

(05:36):
is bringing world peace to everywhere on the planet. No,
it didn't happen. A Venezuelan opposition leader driven into hiding
since a disputed election last year, she the recipient of
the twenty twenty five Nobel Peace Prize. The Double Committee
recognized Maria Karina Micado for keeping quote the flame of

(05:57):
democracy burning amid a growing darkness. It's the committee secretary
notified her by phone before the announcement.

Speaker 15 (06:04):
Checked this out, No, Hello, yes, yes, I'm talking to
Maria Karina Machado.

Speaker 16 (06:24):
Yes, this is Maria Corina. Yes, Maria Karina. My name
is Kristian.

Speaker 15 (06:31):
By god picking I am the secretary of the Norwegian
Nobel Committee in Oslo, and I'm calling to inform you
that in a few minutes it shall be announced here
at the Nobel Institute that you will be awarded the

(06:52):
Nobel Peace Prize for penty.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh my god. Yeah, so.

Speaker 16 (07:04):
Some enormest congratulations to you, Maria.

Speaker 17 (07:09):
Oh my god, Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (07:15):
Well I.

Speaker 8 (07:17):
Have no words.

Speaker 17 (07:20):
I well, I thank you so much.

Speaker 16 (07:24):
But I hope you understand this is this is a movement,
this is.

Speaker 17 (07:30):
A achievement of a whole society. I am just you know,
one person. I certainly do not deserve this.

Speaker 11 (07:44):
Oh my god.

Speaker 15 (07:45):
I think both the movement and you deserve it. So
I'm sure this comes as a surprise, and I'm sorry
to have to wake you up in the middle of
the night to convey this. We don't very much time.
We actually are making the announcement just in a few minutes.
But I want to quote now just shortly from the

(08:09):
text that will be announced shortly, where it is said
that you are receiving the price for and here a
quote directly from the announcement for her tireless work promoting
democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her
struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship

(08:30):
to democracy.

Speaker 17 (08:34):
I'm honored, humble, I'm very very grateful we have of.

Speaker 16 (08:40):
The Benezulan people.

Speaker 17 (08:42):
We're not there yet, we're working very hard to achieve it,
but I'm sure that that we will prevail. And this
is certainly the biggest recognition toward people that certainly deserve it.
So thank you very much, Thank you very much.

Speaker 16 (09:01):
I'm very happy here.

Speaker 6 (09:03):
That's what it sounds like when you do the work
and you're not out there campaigning to receive it. Now,
yesterday in the Oval Office, Donald Trump was asked about it. Now,
y'all know, he's been for months, he's been campaigning. In fact,
he took credit for India and Pakistan coming to a

(09:23):
truce and even put pressure on the He got mad
at the Indian Prime minister because the Indian Prime Minister said,
you didn't negotiate this. We did, And he wanted the
Indian Prime Minister to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I mean, this narcissistic lame ass is just whining and complaining.

(09:44):
So this was him yesterday in the Oval Office, you know, decorated,
looking like a pathetic that all that trash and Oval
office looks ridiculous. But listen to it, fool y'all.

Speaker 18 (09:58):
Peace Prize for waynas and ud than you. Obama.

Speaker 19 (10:01):
President Obama called the Peace Prize he doing nothing exactly.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Obama got a price.

Speaker 18 (10:07):
He didn't even know what he got it.

Speaker 20 (10:08):
He got elected and they gave it to Obama for
doing absolutely nothing but destroying our country. No, he was
not a good president. The worst president was sleepy Joe Biden.
But Obama was not a good president.

Speaker 18 (10:22):
Do something price.

Speaker 20 (10:24):
How many months after he won the election, then they
gave him the Peace pressure.

Speaker 18 (10:28):
Right afore he was elected.

Speaker 7 (10:30):
My election was a much more important electors.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
Oh yeah, he really upset. Mind you, they voted weeks ago.
But see he thought with this announcement with the true
sin gods between Uh to Hamas's Israel, that was gonna
do it. They already voted. Here's the other thing. They
vote for the work you did last year. You weren't

(10:54):
in the Oval office last year at the news after
the they made the announcement, the Nobel Committee's chair was
asked about the twice impeach grimly convicted fellain in chief
and his odious campaign to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 21 (11:16):
Congratulations to mariacar Rida Machado and the Committee on the decision.
But during the past months, US President Donald Trump has
repeatedly he said he deserves the Nobel Peace President, he
liked to have it. He even said that it would
be an insult to the United States.

Speaker 16 (11:33):
If he doesn't get it.

Speaker 21 (11:34):
What does your as a chairman of the Nobel Peace
Prize Committee think of this? And how has this campaign
like activity by the President and his supporters domestically and
internationally affected the deliberations.

Speaker 16 (11:49):
And the thinking in the committee.

Speaker 22 (11:51):
In the long history of the Nobel Peace Prize, I
think this committee had seen any type of campaign media attention.
We receive thousands and thousands of letters every year of
people wanting to say what for them leads to peace.
This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits
of all laureates, and that room is filled with both

(12:14):
courage and integrity. So our we base only our decision
on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel.

Speaker 23 (12:24):
Hello m Bibiana Piano from the Norwegian News agency. As
you state in your explanation, more and more countries are
moving in a more autocratic direction, would you say that
the committee by this price is sending a warning to
the world.

Speaker 22 (12:47):
Living in a world where we have less and less
democracies and more and more authoritarian regime means that the
world is also getting more unsafe. And we believe that
democracy is a precondition for peace. And so yes, that
is the message.

Speaker 16 (13:05):
To the world.

Speaker 22 (13:06):
We need to support the democratic forces also on behalf
of peace.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Thank you for.

Speaker 16 (13:16):
The post.

Speaker 6 (13:16):
Boys. He sort of laid it out there, and you know,
you see where we're going, uh, being very much dealing
with a dictator who's in the oval office. But but
he desperately wants to get some credit. Let's just be clear.
Obama got the Bilbil Peace Prize in two thousand and nine.
He didn't earn it, so he got it because they
were hoping that he would bring Uh he would, he would,

(13:37):
he would bring peace, but that wasn't the case. We
did get the drone, the tax and things along those lines.
So he did he know he didn't actually deserve it,
but let me tell y'all something. These mag of people
are losing their mind. Look at this congressman. He goes
on CNBC where he says, damn it, we're gonna vote
and just give it to Donald anyway.

Speaker 24 (14:07):
Donald Trump has done that, and I flaued him for that.
That's why he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. And that's
why I'm introducing a resolution for a Sense of Congress
today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize,
and if need be, we'll call for a discharge petition
on that. I hope we can work with the Speaker though,
and get it on the floor for a vote.

Speaker 21 (14:27):
Do you think Democrats will ever acknowledge his role in
this peace process?

Speaker 18 (14:33):
I don't think so.

Speaker 24 (14:35):
Let's face it right now, what we're witnessing with Chuck
Schumer is just trying to be more anti Trump than
AOC because he's afraid he's going to get primary by her.
They have such a Trump derangement syndron over there that
I doubt anything that is going to help President Trump
or honor President Trump is going to be supported by
the Democrats.

Speaker 6 (14:56):
No, I would say the derangement is with you maggots
and how you we all do whatever you can to
kiss this man's ass. Here is Congress Steve Scalise sounding
even more stupid.

Speaker 25 (15:08):
And it's why you have people even on the left
saying that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 6 (15:13):
I mean, if Nobel.

Speaker 25 (15:14):
Wants to restore what used to be a once dignified prize,
they can restore their credibility by awarding President Trump the
Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 6 (15:23):
He's earned it.

Speaker 25 (15:23):
He's done more than any leader in the world in
years to bring peace throughout the world, especially in the
Middle East.

Speaker 6 (15:31):
Nobel Peace Prize is literally one of the most distinguished
awards in the world. I don't think for a second
anybody outside of Maga world is going, oh my god,
this has been tarnished because they didn't paint the metal orange. Now,
this is what happens when you choose not to run

(15:54):
for re election as a Republican. You start actually talking
with some common sense. This is Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon,
Republican who's not seeking a reelection on CNN. This whole thing.

Speaker 26 (16:09):
About the Nobel Peace Prize, I think is silly. Do
the right thing, try to create peace. Lobbying for an award.
To me, it looks unseemly and he would just be
better off delivering results and let the chips fall where
they would fall for the Nobel Peace Price.

Speaker 6 (16:25):
But we also got to be clear.

Speaker 26 (16:26):
The Nobel Priest price is for this last one, for
what happened in twenty twenty four. He wasn't even president yet,
and so I think we just should be honest. The
Nobel Committee, they were looking for behavior and actions and
achievements from twenty twenty four.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
It's kind of basic Time magazine. This is what they
put out. I think it's appropriate what they actually said.
Oh my god, Trump loses Nobel Peace Prize for a shameful, sham,
shameful campaign. Yeah, he was campaigning for y'all. Dude. This
is not the Oscars. They ain't the Golden Globes. This

(17:03):
is you deserve it.

Speaker 27 (17:05):
You deserve it. I deserve it. I've done a lot.
I deserve Give it to me. You give it to
the black guy. The black guy got it. What can't
you give it to me? That's literally what.

Speaker 6 (17:15):
This idiot sounded like. Y'all. My panel Matt Manning CIVI
writs attne out of the corpus Christian cannas Kelly Legal Analysts,
host of Not All Hood out of South Orange, New Jersey.
Michael m. Hotep hosts the African History networkshow I Detroit
and so Jimmy Kimmel had put together this mashup can
canas of all the times this food was just campaigning.

(17:36):
And I deserve it. I mean I don't want it.
I don't need it, but I deserve it and I
should get it, but I don't want it. I don't
need it. It's all ego. It's narcissists. And these Republicans
such lap dogs. I mean they, I mean seriously, they
kiss his ass more than Milania does.

Speaker 28 (17:58):
Little of everything that's going on in this country and
in this world that he would have the time to
actually lob be for this prize that doesn't really make
a difference and a lot of things that are going
on here on America soil.

Speaker 8 (18:11):
I think the other thing is that, as.

Speaker 28 (18:13):
We talked about, this is for last year's doings. If
you look at in Shadow and everything that she's done
and what she's done over the past decade and a
half at least from what I understand, and transforming Venezuela
and making sure that the transition into a more democratic
regime was possible. What she has done has been simply extraordinary,

(18:36):
being in hiding, giving speeches. While she's been in hiding,
all her allies have received death threats and have been
a part of huge attacks.

Speaker 8 (18:47):
This is someone who won by ninety percent of the vote,
and then they they questioned that vote.

Speaker 28 (18:52):
Then she went ahead and supported the next person that
went out and won and they recounted the vote. I mean,
these are things that you have to take yourself out
of in order to empower the people.

Speaker 8 (19:03):
And that's really not something that President Tunnald Trump is
known for. He's not known for empowering the people.

Speaker 28 (19:10):
He's known for taking power away from the people, and
especially these days, from the States, which is what he's
recently been.

Speaker 8 (19:17):
In court for.

Speaker 6 (19:19):
Talk about being a petty little individual, Matt and just.

Speaker 18 (19:27):
Deserve it.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
And he was again he hates Obama, he hates Biden.
And what's crazy to me, all of these maga folks
on social media, they were complaining about Obama's statement regarding
the Israel Hamas dial look at it. You can't you
can't give him credit, canding credit. I'm like, wait a minute,
y'all are defending an asshole who gives Obama credit for nothing,

(19:49):
Biden credit for nothing, but y'all want them to give
him credit, and yet they can go to hell.

Speaker 19 (19:57):
You know what I'm really confess by is the psychology
behind this, because it's interesting to use the metaphor of
a like a petulant child. That's what I keep thinking.
You know, Donald Trump is just a bully. He's a bully.
And instead of people saying this guy's.

Speaker 11 (20:13):
A bully, he's a jerk. You know, we don't want
to play into any of that.

Speaker 19 (20:16):
They are falling all over themselves to lick his boots
more and more.

Speaker 11 (20:21):
And you know, if you want.

Speaker 19 (20:23):
To say Trump's taking credit for something that's not substantiated
by data, which they do every day all the time.

Speaker 11 (20:29):
Okay, sure, but we're.

Speaker 19 (20:30):
Talking about the zenith of achievements in the world, the
Nobel Peace Prize. You think you can lobby for it
and just get it because you think you're him. I mean,
that's absurd to me that anybody who's rational, even on
the Republican side, would be advocating for this, because not
only is it the timing of the achievements, meaning things

(20:50):
that were done before he even retook office.

Speaker 11 (20:53):
This is not an award that you, you know.

Speaker 19 (20:57):
Should lobby, just like you're talking about with the entertainment
awards that people live before. This is something that is
given to an august body of people, even if you
think some of those people i e. Mister Obama should
never have wanted in the past. It's a crazy idea
to me that people are advocating for this. But I
think this is the kind of psychosis frankly, that we
see with the maggots these days, who just are going

(21:18):
to do whatever dear leader says. Whatever he says, they
get in lockstep behind. But I mean, this is the
Nobel Peace Prize. The idea that you would think you
get to just talk your way into it is really
an absurd notion and it's crazy that people are giving
any country to that because it's wild. I mean, why
would you ever think that you're going to just say
I should get it because I'm dope, and they're going
to give you the Nobel Peace Prize and then your

(21:41):
boot liquors are angry that you didn't get the Nobel
Peace Prize. This doesn't make any sense to me, and
I think Congressman Bacon's words that this were sillier the
perfect terminology, because this is really asinine.

Speaker 11 (21:51):
You should be embarrassed that you're supporting this idiocy.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
And when you say angry man, they are angry Michael.
They lose their minds. Stephen Chung has communications. He's posting
tweets all sorts stuff, And I'm sitting there going, yeall, okay, yeah,
yell okay. I mean they're absolutely losing it. I'm cracking
up laughing. But you saw how she reacted to winning.

(22:20):
She says, not about me, It's about the movement. When
doctor King won the Peace Prize, he gave you money
to the movement. He's accepted this number of Peace Prize
on behalf of the movement. That's what real leaders do.
But when you are arrogant, petulant, and narcissist foods like Trump,
well this is what you get.

Speaker 29 (22:39):
Absolutely and the maga, the maggots who are upset are
going to continue to be upset.

Speaker 18 (22:47):
As they lose their jobs, as they lose their farms,
as they lose their outhouses, as they go without paychecks,
as the price of vegetables.

Speaker 29 (22:56):
Keeps increasing, as they lose their healthcare because of the
cuts to Medicaid because of Donald Trump. So no, he
doesn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. First of all, with
DOGE Department of Government Efficiency is estimated that three hundred
thousand people worldwide have died because of us AID being

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shut down.

Speaker 18 (23:18):
Okay, So how could you, on the.

Speaker 29 (23:20):
One hand say you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, doctor
King one of the nineteen sixty four How could you,
on the one hand say you deserve that, but you're
not really promoting peace? Okay, you are exhibiting authoritarian behavior.
That's the antithesis. That's the opposite of what the Nobel

(23:41):
Peace Prize is for. So you can't claim you deserve
the Nobel Peace Prize but you inside of a January sixth.

Speaker 18 (23:47):
Insurrection, all right, So no, he does. You know, he
doesn't deserve that.

Speaker 29 (23:51):
So the maggots are going to continue to be upset
and because of what's happening to them because of Donald Trump,
they should be upset.

Speaker 6 (24:04):
I don't care if he's upset because I don't give
a shit about him, and I just think it's hilarious
to watch their meltdown because they just can't handle the
reality of what went on here, and it's just like,
what do we do, dear leader didn't win? Oh my god,
what do we do? And I'm telling you, I have

(24:27):
been laughing and I'm king Patty Candice all day. I've
been commenting and I'm sitting there going like, l L
suck it. You're lost. I've been saying everything, because that's
what they are. They're losers.

Speaker 11 (24:43):
I was looking.

Speaker 28 (24:44):
I was looking at some headlines and it said that
she spoke shadow, spoke to the president, spoke to Donald Trump,
and she said that she supported him, that he supported her,
and she dedicated the award to him for his decisive support.

Speaker 8 (25:00):
Now, whether or not's that true?

Speaker 6 (25:01):
No, No, what she did was she released a statement
where she's called upon Trump, the United States, Latin America,
and other countries to continue to fight. Yeah, but they're
making it sound like, oh my god, she was praising
him night and day.

Speaker 8 (25:21):
But now here's the thing. I'm glad to look to
it further. We know how the news cycle works. But
let's say she did do that. That would show her grace.
Do you understand what I'm saying?

Speaker 30 (25:32):
Right?

Speaker 28 (25:32):
That would show the person that she is the reason
why she got the award This is someone that if
she did do that, or whether it was made up
or contextually were out of context, it shows her grace
and it shows the type of person that she is
to get an award like this, because that's not something
that Donald Trump would do.

Speaker 6 (25:53):
No, because we know he ain't got no grace because
if it was him, it was I did it. I
did it. I want that that would be him and
his idiot followers. So yes, I think it's a glorious
day that the Nobel Peace Prize remains gold and not orange.

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Got to go to break. When we come back, folks,
we're going to talk about black folks in Inglewood, California,
not happy at all with all of this sports development,
saying they're getting squeezed out, being gentrified, and they said
city leaders sold them out. We'll discuss that next Unfiltered
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Speaker 31 (26:37):
The original note King's Protest was two hundred and fifty
years ago. Americans decided they didn't want to live under
the rule.

Speaker 10 (26:44):
Of King George the Third.

Speaker 31 (26:46):
They declared their independence and fought a bloody war for democracy.
We've had two and a half centuries of democracy since then,
often challenging, sometimes messy, always essential, and we fought in
two world wars to preserve it. Now we have a
would be king who wants to take it away, King Donald,
I fuck that. We're rising up again, this time non violently,

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raising our voices to.

Speaker 16 (27:10):
Declare no Kings.

Speaker 31 (27:12):
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be counted in the nationwide No King's protest on October eighteenth.

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Dot org to find volunteer or host a protests near you.
We're all in this together, indivisible with liberty and justice
for all.

Speaker 9 (27:33):
Next on the Black Table with me Craig Carr, a
reminder that there is always more to a story than
meets the From book bannings, growing censorship in our classrooms,
and the loss of basic human rights, the actual motivations
behind those actions and others paint an even more troubling
picture than most of us realize.

Speaker 32 (27:54):
What we need to do is bring this issue front
and center to the table, because the alternative is that
we'll just go down slow, which is no way to
go down.

Speaker 9 (28:06):
Master historian and educator doctor Gerald Home joins us again
and we take a deep dive into the truths behind
the headlines of the day and how we might be
able to turn the time. That's on the next Black
table here on the Black Star Network.

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Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, thanks for having me.

Speaker 33 (29:50):
Inglewood is a historically black enclave in southern California. It
was one of the first destinations for black migrants when
they came from the South during the Great Migration. Due
to a history of redlining and other racist and discriminatory
housing policies kind of forced people into this suburb of
Los Angeles County. But what we've seen over the last

(30:14):
decade or so is that kind of complete erasure and
then displacement of folks. Englewood is no longer a majority
black city since the entertainment district was proposed in twenty sixteen,
and we've seen Sofi Stadium built, the most expensive football
stadium in the world, built for the Rams and the Chargers,

(30:35):
and then the into a dome, the most expensive basketball
arena in the world built for the Clippers and the
La Olympics in twenty twenty eight, we've seen over eleven
thousand black folks force out of the city, while residents
of every other race have increased.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
Say forced out? What do you mean by the how
are they forced out?

Speaker 33 (30:55):
Yeah, I mean so it's a lot of those anchors
of displacement and gentrification that we see. So in the
immediate aftermath of these stadiums being proposed, rents doubled in
some places in the immediate neighborhood around the arena, and
since then in that community, the median income has risen
from about fifty thousand to seventy one thousand, which on

(31:17):
paper you'd be like that means people are getting more
economic opportunities, but really it has just reflected the reality
that the folks that call this place home are no
longer there anymore. And then at the same time we've
seen schools closed, as you know, black children and black
families have been pushed out, and a lot of the
new residents they are not actually calling for public schools

(31:38):
to be rebuilt or to be funded. Rather they're sending
their children to you know, charter in private schools outside
of the city. So a lot of those resources that
you would depend on to make a place whole are
just non existent.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
Now, all right, And so so people get understand what
we're talking about here. At the end of the day,
massive facilities I'm in billions being spent entertainment complex. All
of a sudden, White folks who long ignored Inglewood were like, oh,
we can roll up in there now, and that now
then all the amenities. So what then happens is when

(32:14):
they come in, they start buying, start building. All of
a sudden, property values go up because houses are now
valued more. This is classic gentrification that we've seen in
cities all across America. And for people who don't know
the leadership of Inglewood is black, I don't understand. Again,
people also know Inglewood because that's where the Forum was.

(32:37):
The Great Western form of the Lakers played for every
long time, so that was really the only sports. But
the people came to the game and they left. This
is different with what they're doing here with this stadium
entertainment district. They're basically trying to create because the Clippers
used to play in whether the Lakers play, I don't
know what the new I think it's still called crypto arena.
I don't know what else they call. So they wanted

(32:59):
their own marina. So now they're trying to create and
as it's a second entertainment district that's out there, and
so now all of a sudden, you're going to go
out there, and now you're going to see gleaming new
buildings and streets and restaurants and cafes and all these things.
And the people who live there cannot afford to live there.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
Yeah, I mean, that is exactly it.

Speaker 33 (33:21):
And at the same time that these arenas have been
built up, there's also been luxury town homes and apartments
built up directly around the facilities, which are not built
in mind for the people who have called Inglewood home
for so long. And I think you know, residents that
I talked with also, you know, felt some type of
way about the fact that, you know, Inglewood, especially the
eastern part of the city going towards South Central, was

(33:44):
really devastated during their La riots in nineteen ninety two,
and there are still empty storefronts and empty lots from
all the way back then, right thinking about over thirty
years ago. But now they're finally seeing investment in their city.

Speaker 6 (33:56):
But it's not for them to say leaders saying because
I remember when this was, when this first started, all man,
the mayor was excited, he was happy, Oh man, what
is going to mean? And they was making all these promises.
What are they saying now?

Speaker 33 (34:16):
Yeah, I mean the city officials, specifically Englewood mayor James
Buds he is kind of saying the exact same thing
that he has been saying for the last decade, you know,
pointing to you know, increased tax revenue, increased investment and
attention from out of state investors or even foreign investors.
When we think about the significance of the Olympics in

(34:36):
the mind of leadership, there has been a spotlight on
the city and with that spotlight has come quote unquote
economic investment. But we as we've seen time and time
again when we think about these big projects, that investment
does not trickle down into the communities that have called
this city home for so long. So that's really that's

(34:57):
really been it. It's just on paper, there is more
money blowing through England. It's about who's catching that money.

Speaker 6 (35:02):
Though, how a residents organizing and mobilizing there to change
what's going on.

Speaker 33 (35:08):
Yeah, I mean there's There's been a lot of coalitions
that have been born out of this moment. There's an
organization called No Olympics LA that has been It's a
coalition of different community groups made up of like tenant unions,
social justice organizers who are kind of connecting all of
the dots here right thinking about the environmental impact of
having the Olympics there, having these sporting events there, and

(35:30):
the increased air pollution from all of the traffic that
has flown through the city, or thinking about rising rent
and making sure that people can stay in their homes.
These organizations are at the really local neighborhood level, trying
to get folks involved and advocating for themselves, but also
making sure, you know, to put their best foot forward

(35:50):
when we think about electoral politics, and making all of
these different intersections to make sure that the black and
brown folks that have called this place home for so
long can stay there.

Speaker 6 (35:59):
Questions for my Pam Michael you first.

Speaker 29 (36:02):
All right, Adam, kind of along the lines of what
Roland was saying.

Speaker 18 (36:08):
You know, I live here in Detroit.

Speaker 29 (36:09):
We've seen stadiums built here, We've seen gentrification in Detroit.
I wanted more information possibly about how elected officials are
dealing are addressing the complaints from the African American community
number one, like rental assistance, different things like this, because

(36:32):
anytime stadiums come like this, right, you know, gentrification is
coming all right, So how are they trying to.

Speaker 18 (36:41):
Help African Americans who helped put them in office?

Speaker 4 (36:46):
Yeah, I mean that's a great question.

Speaker 33 (36:49):
And like I said, kind of the forefront, the elected
officials are still staying true to what they have been
saying over the last decade. But there has been policies
put forth. Most namely, there was a rent control and
rent regulation policy that was passed during COVID, But the
issue is that it happened after that major jump in prices, right, So,

(37:11):
immediately after so Far started construction in twenty nineteen, rents
jumped from around twelve hundred dollars for a two bedroom
in the immediate neighborhood to twenty two hundred dollars. But
the rent control legislation was then passed on that twenty
two hundred dollars baseline. So on paper, there has been
some kind of legislative effort, but it just does not

(37:32):
connect to the reality on the ground, unfortunately.

Speaker 11 (37:36):
Matt, Yeah, Adam. So my question is kind of two part.

Speaker 19 (37:41):
First, is there any part of this land that's been
used to be built to build the stadium that is
using imminent domain or any kind of nexus with the government.
And I asked because obviously that would give you certain
due process rights that a purely private enterprise wouldn't necessarily
give you. Number one and number two, have the LA
Clippers or any entity involved in building this stadium done

(38:04):
any kind of efforts where they've gone out and tried
to either you know, basically buy people off, give them money,
infuse money into the program. And I don't want to
make my question too long, but I asked that because
I live in Corpus Christy. They just built a new bridge,
and before they built this bridge through the Black neighborhood,
they went through and tried to buy people's houses to
try to appease people, right, And they say, we'll give
you money for your house, even.

Speaker 11 (38:26):
Though they didn't have a legal means to do it.

Speaker 19 (38:28):
So I'm wondering if there's been any kind of public partner,
private ship or partnership to that effect in this instance.

Speaker 33 (38:35):
Yes, So to answer your first question, the buildout of
these stadiums took place on land that was technically vacant.
So really they are adjacent to the LA Forum, which
still exists. But you know, since the Lakers left in
the early two thousands, it's really kind of been a
kind of a ghost town in that area. There was

(38:55):
some imminent domain that took place, but it wasn't of homes,
that was of businesses. And most important to note, Governor
Newsome actually for both the into A Dome and Sofi
Stadium allowed the owners of the of the arenas to
bypass environ the Environment's review period, which then meant they
were blocked from being sued for different things related to

(39:17):
the construction or environmental impact of these facilities. So kind
of with that blank check, it allowed this to kind
of get forced through very quickly. But in the aftermath, yeah,
we have seen both the LA Rams, LA Chargers and
the LA Clippers do.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
Investment into the city.

Speaker 33 (39:34):
A part of the Clippers move into Inglewood, they did
set aside a certain amount of money to be given
to the city of Inglewood, and the aftermath we've seen
things like they funded different events at local schools, you know, textbooks,
repairs and things like that. But the issue is at
the same time that some institutions have been propped up,

(39:56):
some schools have been propped up. We've seen over half
a dozen schools we closed in the last four years.

Speaker 28 (40:04):
Candice, so Adam, you mentioned Governor Newsom, and we know
that in twenty twenty one that he and his wife
also gave a million dollars to his political campaign, And
I'm wondering what.

Speaker 8 (40:15):
Has he been saying these days in.

Speaker 28 (40:17):
Terms of some accountability, What are people saying to him,
what do they want from him?

Speaker 8 (40:22):
And how has his response been.

Speaker 33 (40:25):
Yeah, I mean, as we as we wrote reported out
this article, we did reach out to Governor Newsom's media team.
We got a response back initially, and then they didn't
actually address any of the questions. I think at the
local level, really all of the focus for Better for
Wors has been with the city officials and then in addition,
the owners of these facilities, and I think Governor Newsom

(40:48):
and maybe the state level actions that allowed this project
to happen have kind of been ignored or are gone
under the radar because of that. And we know now,
I mean, there's a lot more things on his plate
where it does seem like it won't necessarily be addressed
at that level.

Speaker 6 (41:06):
Well all right then, well actual reporting there for folks
who don't know. Just share about Capital B.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
Yeah, Capital B.

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Speaker 6 (41:50):
Capitolbnews dot Org. All right then, Adam, we appreciate it, thanks.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
A lot, appreciate you. Thanks for having me.

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This week, on the Other Side of Change, we are
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If in this country right now you have people get
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think about is.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
How many people they can hurt, and they got the power.
That's the time for morning.

Speaker 18 (46:02):
For better or worse.

Speaker 35 (46:03):
What makes America special, it's that legal system that's supposed
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Speaker 30 (46:11):
So we are at a.

Speaker 18 (46:13):
Point of a moral emergency.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
We must raise a voice of outrage, we must raise
a voice of compassion, and we must raise a voice
of unity.

Speaker 30 (46:27):
We are not in a crisis of party versus party.
We are in a crisis of civilization, a human rights crisis,
and a crisis of democracy itself.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
And guess what.

Speaker 30 (46:38):
You've been chosen to make sure that those that would destroy,
those that would hate, don't have the final say, and
they don't ultimately win.

Speaker 6 (46:51):
Michael McMillan, President and CEO of the Urban League of
Metropolitan Saint Louis, and you were watching Roland Martin Unfiltered
Fuves day ten of the government shutdown. It's the first
day the federal workers will miss their whole paycheck since
the shutdown began October first. Office of Management and Budget
Director Russ Vaught announced that the Trump administration has been

(47:12):
laying off government employees, posting on social media the riffs
have begun referring to reductions in force or layoffs. The
Senate now adjournal until next week and no deal in sight.
Is increasingly likely that members of the military are going
to miss their next paycheck, scheduled October fifteenth. House Binardi
leader King Jeffries called out the vacation the Republicans for
not wanting to reopen the government.

Speaker 36 (47:35):
The government has been shut down for ten days. Are
men and women in uniform and hard working federal employees
are working without pay. Donald Trump can find the time
to play golf, but it can't be bothered negotiating a
bipartisan agreement to reopen the government and address the healthcare

(47:57):
crisis that they've created. And the House Republicans remain on
vacation for three weeks. The American people are sick and
tired of the chaos, crisis, and confusion that has been
visited upon the country by Donald Trump and Republican complete

(48:19):
control of Congress.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
As Democrats, our position remains very clear.

Speaker 36 (48:26):
We will sit down with anyone, anytime, any place here
at the Capitol or back at the White House, to
reopen the government, pay our federal employees an active spending
agreement that meets the needs of the American people, and
at the same time address the Republican healthcare crisis that

(48:46):
is devastating.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
The American people.

Speaker 36 (48:50):
Donald Trump's strategy during this government shutdown that he has
created has been to play golf and issue deep fake videos.
Mike Johnson's strategy is to keep House Republicans on vacation.
John Thune's strategy is to continue to do the same
partisan thing over and over and over again and expect

(49:14):
different results.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
That's legislative insanity.

Speaker 36 (49:17):
Our plea to our Republican colleagues is get serious about
reopening the government. Let's have a conversation so we can
find a bipartisan path forward to do the things that
are necessary in a spending agreement to actually improve the
quality of life of the American people and address the
healthcare crisis that they've created, including by extending the Affordable

(49:41):
Care Act tax credits.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
That's what we need to do, write.

Speaker 36 (49:44):
Down so that tens of millions of Americans don't experience
dramatically increased premiums, copays.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
And deductibles.

Speaker 36 (49:55):
That's going to bankrupt them or deprive them.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Of the healthcare that they need.

Speaker 36 (50:00):
Republicans have the House to Senate and the presidency. They
decided to shut the government down. Republicans in the House
have decided to remain on vacation. Republicans canceled votes last week,
they canceled votes this week, and now they've canceled votes
next week. They're not serious about reopening the government. Republicans
aren't even serious about paying our active duty trups.

Speaker 6 (50:23):
But they have voted for temporary government funding legislation.

Speaker 36 (50:25):
Republicans have voted for a Republicans have voted for a
partisan spending bill that continues to gut the health care
of the American people and threatens to raise the cost
of living on tens of millions of Americans. In an
environment where Republicans promise to lower the cost of living

(50:47):
on day one, costs haven't gone down.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
They've gone up. Inflation has gone up.

Speaker 36 (50:51):
The Trump tariffs are making life more expensive by thousands
of dollars a year for everyday Americans. They visited kaa
US and crisis and confusion on the American people. From
day one of the Trump presidency, and now they've decided
that they'd rather shut the government down than fix our

(51:11):
broken health care.

Speaker 6 (51:12):
So now check this out, y'all. Y'all got those bites ready,
So check this out. Speak of Mike Johnson with on
the c SPAN Show, and he got lit into it
by a Republican over healthcare and a military spouse. Let's
play the.

Speaker 37 (51:29):
First one on the Republican line. Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Samantha,
you're on with Speaker Johnson.

Speaker 38 (51:36):
Hi, mister Johnson. So my question or comments are related
to what you said yesterday about not being open to
pass any legislation to ensure that military gets paid. I'm
sure you can tell by my voice I'm very shaky.
Just want you to hear a little bit about my family.
I have two medically fragile children. I have a husband

(51:59):
who actively he serves this country. He suffers from PTSD
from his two tours in Afghanistan. If we see a
lapse in pay come the fifteenth, my children do not
get to get the medication that's needed for them to
live their life because we live paycheck to paycheck. I

(52:19):
heard you earlier say that you sided with President Trump
on anything that he says well, I just read an
article this morning that said he absolutely, wholeheardly believes that
there needs to be legislation put in so that we
do not miss a paycheck. You have the power to
do that, and as a Republican, I'm very disappointed in
my party, and I'm very disappointed in you because you

(52:40):
do have the power to call the house back. You
did that, or you refuse to do that just for
a show. I am begging you to pass this legislation.
My kids could die. We don't have the credit because
of the medical bills that I have to pay regularly.
You could stop this, and you could be the one
that could say military is getting paid. And I think

(53:03):
that it is awful and the audacity of someone who
makes six figures a year to do this to military
families is insane.

Speaker 37 (53:10):
Public online Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Samantha, you're on with Speaker Johnson.

Speaker 8 (53:16):
Him, mister Johnson, I'm turn.

Speaker 39 (53:17):
It back over. The leader takes some questions.

Speaker 40 (53:19):
But we've heard and many of you have reported already,
this Hate America rally that they have coming up for
October eighteenth, the Antifa crown the wrong clip.

Speaker 6 (53:27):
I'm gonna set that up a little bit later, so
there were a couple of clips there. Republicans were calling
the c Span complaining about what Johnsy could do. And
of course he's sitting looking like a bump on the log.
That's what he does, that's how he operates. Matt and
he kids wanted to say, whoa again? KNT called democrats.
He's afraid to seat the woman from Arizona because she's

(53:48):
going to be the tundred eighteenth both of Epstein recently,
he's keeping them out. This is all about Jeffrey Epstein.
They do not want those Jeffrey Epstein files released.

Speaker 19 (54:00):
Yeah, I mean that's true, And I don't know if
that's all that it's about. But I do know that
when I watch this kind of stuff, it just insenses
me more than I can even imagine, because or I
can explain because Congress continues to get paid during the shutdown.

Speaker 11 (54:13):
You know what I did last week?

Speaker 19 (54:15):
I called one of my best friends from college, one
of my brothers, who lives in DC, and I don't
know how he's gonna make his mortgage. He doesn't know
when he's going to be getting paid.

Speaker 11 (54:23):
Like, these are real people's lives.

Speaker 19 (54:25):
I have clients whose cases have been placed on perpetual
stays because the prosecutor doesn't know if she's going to
be able to check her email while the government is
shut down.

Speaker 11 (54:36):
So all this political posturing, all of this bs.

Speaker 19 (54:39):
Like, I mean, I get it, and I think the
Democrats are doing the right thing and not you know,
cal talent to the Republicans.

Speaker 11 (54:45):
But all of the political pageantry is garbage.

Speaker 19 (54:48):
Like at the end of the day, the people that
call in, that's what's angering me about this, that we
as citizens are allowing five hundred people in DC to
hold us hostage and they're pointing fingers at the other person.
But at the end of the day, Hey, families can't
get their medication and my buddy doesn't know how he's
going to pay his mortgage. Like that, we should, as
a society of people of all walks, should be infuriated

(55:09):
that these bozos can't figure out how to keep the
government open.

Speaker 11 (55:13):
But I guarantee you everybody who's got an.

Speaker 19 (55:15):
Extension for their taxes here in October is going to
be expected to pay those taxes in October, right, I mean,
what are we doing? Like, are we serious about this?

Speaker 18 (55:24):
Is?

Speaker 19 (55:24):
I mean ten days the government's not open, and all
we hear is political pageantry about how it's the other
side's fault, Like, at a baseline, do your jobs and
you shouldn't be able to get paid while other people
aren't getting paid in this meantime.

Speaker 11 (55:38):
Why should we be the pawns in this political process?

Speaker 6 (55:40):
So, oh no, Congre's gonna always get paid.

Speaker 11 (55:43):
Now exactly because it's constitutionally protected. But your average American.

Speaker 19 (55:47):
Isn't, you know, Like this lady's calling in about her
kids medication, talking about the military should get paid, and
I get it.

Speaker 11 (55:54):
You know, there are a lot of.

Speaker 19 (55:55):
Nuances about who will get paid and who own certain
departments and all of that. But by and large, we
as American citizens should be infuriated because we send these
bozos to DC to do a basic job like keep
the government open, which should only exist to provide services
and to make sure we have harmony in this country. Right,
we've got some kind of infrastructure where we're not purely anarchical,

(56:18):
but they can't even keep the government open. So, you know,
all of it is political posturing, and it just pisses
me off that we have to be the ones who
are caught in the lurch here because these idiots in
DC can't figure out how to get people paid.

Speaker 11 (56:31):
I mean, it's absurd, Well, it really is.

Speaker 6 (56:33):
And here's when people don't even realize Candas, this is
only a seven week continued resolution, just seven weeks. We're
going to be back on this in seven weeks.

Speaker 28 (56:42):
Yeah, yeah, we could be back at the start, at
the start of this. And you know, I think one
of the things that's interesting when we were talking about
how constitutionally they're going to get paid even if they
don't do their job, which they're not doing their job.
I mean, their job is to work for us and
to have a meeting of the minds and come up
with solutions.

Speaker 8 (56:59):
Also not constitutional is even not paying some of the
people that are that have been furloughed that are going
to be losing their jobs because according.

Speaker 28 (57:12):
To the law, HR is not working in all of
this process because there's not money to pay HR.

Speaker 8 (57:18):
And legally they are not allowed to not pay people.

Speaker 28 (57:21):
They are not allowed to take people off of furlough
because HR shut down. So how is this even happening?
This is you know, we talk about the constitution. Little
by little, we are breaking down the constitution to where
it almost doesn't matter it's hard to go to the
courts because the courts are filled in sack with people
that President Trump has put into place, and we don't
know how fearful people are of their positions and they

(57:42):
don't want to take chances. So all we're doing is
dealing with people who are getting paid and actually not
doing their job.

Speaker 8 (57:49):
And this is why we are at a standstill. And
like Matt said, we deserve more. It is it is
very disconcerting to think about that.

Speaker 28 (57:57):
We talk about votes, and we talk about redline and
everything from the Civil rights movement all the way up
to now, and our votes are just not working because
the people who we put into office they're not doing
their job.

Speaker 8 (58:09):
That's incredible. If we weren't doing our jobs, we would
be let go.

Speaker 28 (58:13):
But this is something where the Democrats have to rise
and battle and war the same way that the Republicans do.

Speaker 6 (58:20):
And really is magnet and the reality is Magga. Don't
give it, Dawn Michael. They don't care. They got no
problem these votes. Look, they want to fire hundreds of
thousand governed workers. They don't care.

Speaker 29 (58:34):
Well, they can say that now, but as their friends
and family lose their paychecks, as I mean keep keep
in mind, eighty five percent of government employees live outside
of the Washington, DC area. They're all across the country.
They work at your Social Security Administration location, they work

(58:56):
at the Biters affairs location for the US Postal Service,
so their federal employees are local. Okay, But I have
news for people back Dura. Last year twenty twenty four,
I warned people about a second Trump administration.

Speaker 18 (59:13):
And I told you a number of times.

Speaker 29 (59:15):
There were three government shutdowns in the first two years
of the first Trump administration, and Republicans control the White House,
the House of Representatives, and the US Senate. The last
government shut down, from December twenty eighteen to January.

Speaker 18 (59:31):
Twenty nineteen, lasted thirty five days.

Speaker 29 (59:34):
We're only we're less than a third through this one,
I mean compared to that one.

Speaker 18 (59:39):
It can get much worse. But this is what you're
dealing with.

Speaker 29 (59:42):
And in the on budgman, Russell Vault is the is
the architect of Project twenty twenty five that Donald Trump
said he knew nothing about. But Russell Valt was your
on buzzman in the first Trump administration.

Speaker 18 (59:56):
No, this is what they wanted, this is what they've
been planning.

Speaker 29 (01:00:00):
They're about these are gonna be They're gonna be a
lot of permanent reductions in federal government. Okay to two
point three million, now it's less than two point three million.
They're gonna be a lot of permanent reductions. So in
a lot of Maga is going to feel a lot
of pain. This is going to hurt film and some
of them are going to have to be hurt economically

(01:00:21):
for them to really wake up.

Speaker 6 (01:00:23):
Well, we'll see if they actually do wake up. All right, folks,
hell to break, we come back. Billions have been cut
from public broadcasting. That's affecting whut at Howard University will
talk to the general manager and the next about what
they're going to do to deal with this funding crisis.
You're watching rollingd mad Noni Filson right here on the
Blackstun Network.

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two and a half centuries of democracy since then, often challenging,
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(01:01:08):
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Speaker 41 (01:01:43):
They said the quiet part out loud. Black votes are
a threat, so they erased them. After the Supreme Court
gutted the Voting Rights Act in twenty thirteen, Republican legislatures
moved fast new voter ID laws, polling place shutdowns, purges
of black vote from the Roles. Trump's Justice Department didn't
stop it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
They joined in.

Speaker 41 (01:02:05):
In twenty eighteen, is DOJ backed Ohio's voter purge system,
a scheme that disproportionately erased black voters. Their goal erase
black votes and political power.

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Yeah, that happened.

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Speaker 6 (01:04:05):
Folks. How university has their own public television station? Whut?
Unfortunately they have been impacted by these federal budget cuts.
You know, Donald Trump and Republicans targeting public broadcasting, cutting
billions from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting as well as NPR. Well,
guess what that happens. It goes downstream impacting local stations.

(01:04:27):
We are seeing massive cuts take place in public broadcasting
all across the country New Jersey. We're talking about small towns.
A lot of these places depend a lot of these
these rural places in America depend upon public broadcasting radio
and television for their news and information. So you take

(01:04:47):
what's happening at Howard University here they have they're the
only HPCU with this, with this full license public broadcasting station.
These cuts impacts they're programming. So let's talk about it
right now with Sean Platter, general manager, wh R ninety
six point three and WHUT TV. So first of all, Sean,
take us for people who don't understand this unique situation.

(01:05:12):
It's you know, WHUR first of all, is a major
radio station here in Washington, DC. Typically in most cities. Look,
I'm from Houston and you've got KTSU, KUHT, they're not
dominant stations like Magic one, O two is. WHUR is
a lot different. So take us through how the radio

(01:05:32):
station and the television station are being impacted by these
federal cuts.

Speaker 42 (01:05:37):
Absolutely so on the radio side, our radio station is
unique in that it's a commercial radio station founded in
nineteen seventy one, it was given to Howard University from
the Washington Post. It was already a commercial signal, so
wr is a powerhouse signal here in DC. It is
the number one music station in DC out of thirty

(01:05:58):
station so it competes again. It does compete against the
larger companies like the Our Hearts, the Urban Ones, the Odyssey,
and it does very well.

Speaker 18 (01:06:08):
It's always been a successful station.

Speaker 42 (01:06:10):
It's the home of the Quiet Storm is where that
format was founded in nineteen seventy six.

Speaker 18 (01:06:15):
So a rich history in the commercial in the commercial space.

Speaker 42 (01:06:19):
Now on the other side of the coin, we have
a public television station WHUT founded in nineteen eighty and
it is unique in a major market like Washington, d C.
And to have these under the umbrella of Howard University.
They're so unique and special and they really were created
and really designed by President James Cheek back in the

(01:06:40):
seventies and eighties to give a faith and a voice
to our community and that's still what they're doing today.
And so his desire was to be able to have
a station where you could see people that look like
you on that station, and that's the mission we're continuing
to do. Today. But these cuts they do, they make
a big impact overall on how we're able to sustain
our staff, create unique programming field the education gaps that

(01:07:04):
exist in our community. And it's tough and we are
seeing that across the country and so we're not immune
from those cuts as well, and so we're doing all
that we can to make sure that we hold on
to this unique piece of black media that's so important
right now.

Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
And we talk about these cuts, I mean, what about
how many people about programming? How significant and how much
are you trying to raise to fill the gaps.

Speaker 42 (01:07:28):
So our appropriation from the corporation public Broadcast and he
was about one point four million dollars and that's about
thirty percent of our revenue coming into the station. So
it's a big number, but it's something that we feel
that we are able to achieve. And so we're asking
the community. We're asking those who have benefited from our

(01:07:49):
programming and from all that we've done over the years
to help support become a member whut dot org and
also for the corporations for the community organizations. A lot
of times we know people who are making decisions about
where dollars are going, and so We just want you
to know that WHUT is a place where we're telling
your stories on your station. And it's not just content,

(01:08:09):
it's also education. We're also training the next broadcasters. The
journalists that are in the School of Communications are working
right there with us in the building every day.

Speaker 6 (01:08:19):
When you say joint and become a member, what does
that mean? What does that actually entail?

Speaker 42 (01:08:25):
So if you go onto our website, you can support
it in many different ways. You can become a one
time donor, or you can become a sustaining member where
you donate maybe ten dollars every month, one hundred dollars
every month. And as a part of that membership, we
have different events, different screenings, different programs that you will
be a part of throughout the year, and you get
the member of benefits. You get to see a name

(01:08:46):
on the television screen as a supporter of WHUT. And
so we like to encourage folks to become members and
be a part of what we're doing and really be
a partner. As we do special events throughout the year.
You get to be a part and have your voice
heard as.

Speaker 6 (01:08:58):
Well from the panel. Candition, First, what are your plans
these days?

Speaker 28 (01:09:05):
I'm wondering what is the kind of the temperature in
the office with what's going on with the shutdowns and
what's going on with.

Speaker 8 (01:09:13):
You, how do you even plan for the next phase
and what is the plan?

Speaker 42 (01:09:19):
Yeah, you know, great, great question. And it's almost a
double whammy being in DC. You know, you have the
shut down and so many government workers who are who
make up our membership, and so you know, you do
have calls from people saying, hey, I need to make
tough decisions and I can't support this month, and so
you have you know, cuts on both sides and people
trying to figure out what to do. But I'll say
our staff is committed like never before. We understand the

(01:09:43):
mission of why we're so important, and so they have
rolled up their sleeves. It's like we're tuning out the
noise and we're really focused on making sure that we're
doing great content and really impact making an impact.

Speaker 18 (01:09:55):
Our goal is to make an impact.

Speaker 42 (01:09:56):
If WHUT goes away, you're gonna feel it because you're
going to see the holes of what we've been doing.
And so we're making sure that, you know, we're maximizing
the content that we're creating. We're just running two Emmys
a few months ago. It's the first time in almost
twenty plus years, so some dynamic content coming out of there,
and also the work that we're doing in the school system.
I mean, we hear from our partners, We hear from

(01:10:18):
those PBS kids young and old who are supporting, you know,
and want to make sure that that content continues so
that their kids can grow up and know those lessons
that come with the PBS Kids content that we deliver
every day.

Speaker 6 (01:10:33):
Matt.

Speaker 19 (01:10:35):
So maybe I missed you saying something to this effect,
But I'm a Howard man and I remember whu R
and all the friends of mine I had in school
to see who went through you know, through there. So
my question is, does the larger Howard campus or I
guess the Howard appropriation does it have any kind of
contingency plan for this, because I know the money that's

(01:10:55):
lost is from CPB, but obviously this is one of
Howard's jewels, have many, as you know, and I'd be
interested in seeing if there's any contingency plan to cover this.

Speaker 11 (01:11:05):
How is the administration addressing that?

Speaker 42 (01:11:08):
Yeah, the administration has been awesome and I want to
give a special shout out to VP Lydia Sermons and
our interim president, doctor Wayne Frederick. They have done an
outstanding job of supporting WHUT and a lot of the
funding that we get does come from the university and
also from membership support. And this is another piece of
funding that came from corporational public broadcasts. And again the

(01:11:31):
university's done in our standing job helping with our facilities
making sure that they're up to date. And so I
think it's just on us to not put a full
burden on the university to be able to fund these things.
I think these are dollars that we can go out
and find. And again, these are successful entities in a
major market. They should have the support of corporations and
other organizations. So we're just making sure that we get

(01:11:53):
out and let people know that we're here and we're
doing great work and we need your support.

Speaker 29 (01:11:59):
Michael Sean, can you talk about the w h U
T Passport and how it gives access to on demand
library and what what what are some of the type
of offerings that you have in the on demand library
that people may across the country be interested in.

Speaker 42 (01:12:21):
Sure, so, so passport is the PBS version of Netflix,
if you will it's on demand after you're able to
access on your digital platforms, on your TV, and so
you can get any of your PBS content. If you
like the national PBS content that's that's rolling out, you
can get that. You can get local shows from w

(01:12:42):
h U T Right now. We just produced PBS produced
a very special piece Brother Rolling on our opportunity, Brother
Thurgood Marshall, and it's an incredible piece that's on that's
on passport right now, as well as many of the
documentaries that we love to see done on many differ
diferent topics.

Speaker 18 (01:13:00):
And again the PBS Kids content is there.

Speaker 42 (01:13:02):
So anything that we produce, certainly we're in a place
where we're beyond just watched tonight at seven. You know,
content is people like to watch it whenever they want
to watch it. So anything that we're producing, you can
go on there and get access to, and you can
see the content that's on the screen right now is
a local show produced showing you Anacostia and DC and
different parts of the city. And again that national content

(01:13:23):
and every Henry Lewis Gates, UH finding Your Roots is
on there. All those shows that you low and love
and some that you need to discover. So if you
you know, you're flicking around trying to see what the
what to fine check out passport on your on your
TV or your smart device.

Speaker 6 (01:13:36):
All right, sounds great. Well again, we want people to
actually support And by the way, when you mentioned Alpha,
I heard the little.

Speaker 18 (01:13:44):
Grown Uh god, I saw, I saw a face.

Speaker 6 (01:13:47):
But you gotta, you gotta, you gotta come. First of all,
you got one person on the panel. Uh you know,
he was one of the fraternities, and I got two individuals,
but I got to I got two individuals in the
control room for members of the Little Fraternity as well.
So but but anytime, anytime excellence on the show, not
percent of the time, it's gonna be an offer. So

(01:14:08):
they can't handle that. So that's that's all.

Speaker 29 (01:14:10):
I was asking about documentaries on sigmas though, if you
have any.

Speaker 6 (01:14:13):
Documents, none, ain't none you.

Speaker 18 (01:14:19):
That we can do it.

Speaker 6 (01:14:20):
That's the only one y'all got is John Lewis and
John that's the only one.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
Y'all got.

Speaker 6 (01:14:25):
That Newton that shot, that's your only one. That's the
only one. Michael Michael, Michael Michael, y'all got so many,
y'all got so many Michael. Y'all got so Michael, y'all
got so many honoraries. Just stop, just stop, just stop,
just stop, just stop. So Sean, see, you see what happens.

(01:14:46):
Get all you gotta do is hit the honoraries. They
get real quiet.

Speaker 18 (01:14:49):
I'm not talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:14:52):
You. See see Apppens get the honorary right because he
had never made sho Yeah, never mentioned Bill Clinton one
of the honoraris. But anyway, let's go ahead, get him one.
None of that, Yeah, want none of that.

Speaker 18 (01:15:06):
They to them.

Speaker 6 (01:15:08):
Do you want me to show your recent inductive arnory remembers? Hey,
I advise you to be quiet, Michael Michael, Michael, Michael Michael.
I advised you to be quiet, Michael Michael. I ain't
gonna hurt your feelings, But if you keep talking, I'm
gonna hurt your feelings. Sean. Again, if folk want to
get where do they go?

Speaker 42 (01:15:29):
I go to w h u T dot org. Do's
w hut Howard University Television dot Org.

Speaker 6 (01:15:35):
All right, then, so folks again, w h u T
Black on media. I keep telling y'all, we have to
protect our black on media institutions. Uh, And so that's
why we emphasize it as I said last week, we
get the tribe on Capital B News on the night
talking about w h U T. Y'all keep hearing me
say this here again. We got to be able support
because what happens is we do not want to be

(01:15:57):
in a situation where they are no longer here, and
so please support w h U T. Thanks a lot.
Appreciate it, Thank you.

Speaker 18 (01:16:05):
Brother, appreciate it. Appreciate the opportunity.

Speaker 6 (01:16:07):
All right, when we come back, I'm gonna show you
all these new Sigma honoreeves Man. I ain't wasting my time.
That's a waste of air time. Don't nobody care. All right,
we're back at what's wrong?

Speaker 27 (01:16:20):
Matt?

Speaker 6 (01:16:21):
Why are you shaking your head? Matt?

Speaker 11 (01:16:23):
Because you were just so consistently petty. I don't understand it.

Speaker 6 (01:16:27):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 11 (01:16:27):
I don't understand how somebody's petty as you are.

Speaker 6 (01:16:30):
Oh I know, And trust me, I got something for
you later on in the show too.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
We'll be right down.

Speaker 11 (01:16:34):
Don't do it, don't do it.

Speaker 10 (01:16:36):
I'm gonna be all We'll be.

Speaker 6 (01:16:38):
Right back.

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These mothers are crazy as hell.

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They are willing to shut down the entire government, the
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Speaker 6 (01:18:16):
Yeahll need a little sigma still chirping in bos. But
you know that's one of the few under fifty five
I've ever met, so you know that's how it is. Anyway,
Speaking of folks who case stopped running their mouths. These
gods are protesters. Last night, Vice President Kamala Harris was
speaking at the Warner Theater and here they are. She
trying to sit here and be on stage and they

(01:18:37):
got to show they ass Okay, so here we go
watch this.

Speaker 1 (01:18:48):
Today.

Speaker 45 (01:18:50):
Care let me see, said.

Speaker 8 (01:19:09):
Some people saying, you know, are you that is that
going to turn people want?

Speaker 28 (01:19:18):
And we should never let somebody else's limited it what.

Speaker 13 (01:19:41):
We just see who we are, limit who we think
and know we are.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
Let that buck be limited back where.

Speaker 18 (01:19:49):
In your life because they'll.

Speaker 8 (01:19:50):
Figure it out soon enough. They'll figure it.

Speaker 7 (01:19:53):
Out who you are soon enough.

Speaker 28 (01:19:55):
And and you know, I sometimes think about.

Speaker 6 (01:19:58):
The presently, can I gotta feeling?

Speaker 7 (01:20:43):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:20:44):
If you play it again? Turn the audio down? That
was like the VP like I'm sick of this bullshit,
Like if you read her body language, come on, play
it again. We're talking about audio down, audio down, audio down,
audio down, cannons. Look at Canon, this is her body
language when she stands up in points cannon. It was like,

(01:21:05):
you know what, I'm sick of. Tide of y'all asses, okay,
y'all getting on my damn nerves.

Speaker 8 (01:21:11):
Yes, And you know what Roland. I like this version
of her.

Speaker 28 (01:21:15):
I like this I'm free now version of Kamala Harris,
because honestly, when she was running during those one hundred
and seven days, there was a part of her that
was constrained. We knew that there was another part of
her that wanted to break out.

Speaker 8 (01:21:29):
And in this book and.

Speaker 28 (01:21:30):
On this tour, she's able to do it. We have
seen that look from women, we have seen that stance
that scale after, and we know exactly what it means.

Speaker 6 (01:21:41):
She jumped out that seat, she jumped out that seat,
she stepped pouring her fingce. She's like, I'm sick of
y'all asses. This is some bullshit. Interrupted me again at
my damn book signing. Look at it. See She's like,
all right, listen, see all right, i'mna let y'all ask
to talk. Y'all getting on my nerves this bush. It's
I'm trying to be nice. I'm trying to incident. I'm

(01:22:01):
trying to be cool. No, y'all keep pressing me. See,
y'all gonna make all that Oakland, that Bay Area, y'all
gonna make that too short. Just come out in this
jam in the theater. I'm trying to because see she
turned to the personal She's like, look, no of this shit,
look at this. I ain't the damn president.

Speaker 18 (01:22:21):
Go talk to his ass.

Speaker 8 (01:22:23):
That's right, that's right, and listen.

Speaker 28 (01:22:25):
At the end of the day, you know, when she
gets like that, and when women get like that and
have that look, you know you are the one that's
gonna be embarrassed. On the other side, they were trying
to embarrass her that that wasn't gonna happen. That's not
gonna happen to her on this book tour or any further.
I knew when she said that going for Joe Biden
was a reckless decision, but she also blamed herself for
supporting that. I was like, that's the Kamala that we

(01:22:47):
need to see. That's the Kamala that we need to
see to help make some change. I loved it, every
bit of it.

Speaker 6 (01:22:53):
I mean, Matt. She jumped up Matt and responded, come on, Matt,
me see Matt appreciate it. She jumped up and responded,
she was looking like sar kings in in the locker
room at the loadsing last week to Florida.

Speaker 11 (01:23:13):
You know, let me tell you something.

Speaker 19 (01:23:15):
One of your staff members to be unnamed texted me
and said that to be an outpha, you gotta be petty.

Speaker 11 (01:23:21):
It's a conditioned president. So you know what I'm saying.
I want you to know, we know you, petty, your
people know you. I to bring starkesian I'm unbothered in
any event, in any event, in any event.

Speaker 6 (01:23:33):
No, I'm just making an analogy.

Speaker 11 (01:23:36):
Now, I don't miss me. Missed me with the BS analogy.
You was being petty, because that's what you are.

Speaker 6 (01:23:41):
But let me.

Speaker 19 (01:23:41):
Let me go ahead and make my points, or you
want to yell me down like normal you did.

Speaker 6 (01:23:46):
You did from me. You didn't hear from me last Saturday.
You like you like you're like I'm I'm at a dinner. Okay,
I was.

Speaker 19 (01:23:56):
I was at a dinner. I really was, and I
was mad when us saw your text through.

Speaker 11 (01:24:00):
That's not the point in any event. I like that
she stood up to these hecklers.

Speaker 19 (01:24:08):
But I do also think that there's a real conversation
that should be had about kind of how long or
enduring your uh.

Speaker 11 (01:24:17):
I don't want to say your.

Speaker 19 (01:24:19):
Duty is to the people that you serve, but when
you're the vice president of the United States, I mean
I think It's just expected that there are going to
be people who always take umbrage with what you did
while you were in office.

Speaker 11 (01:24:30):
Now she's not currently in office.

Speaker 19 (01:24:32):
And we can have arguments about the most appropriate time in.

Speaker 11 (01:24:35):
Place to do that. But this doesn't surprise me.

Speaker 19 (01:24:39):
And sometimes I think a shakeup of the respectability politics
like this is an event you can't come in and interrupt.
It is exactly what we need because too much of
the decorum is what we you know, defer to and
it allows people to not have to sometimes speak to
their constituents, and people speak to those whom they serve. However,

(01:24:59):
obviously the issue in this situation is that she's no
longer serving.

Speaker 11 (01:25:02):
So this is a book tour.

Speaker 19 (01:25:04):
I don't think she has to allow people to shout
her down to her book tour. And you know, I
think it's good that she told them to kick rocks.
I mean, I think there is a question about discourse,
you know, about how long that she can.

Speaker 6 (01:25:14):
Say, Hey, Michael, sir, I think she gonna get somebody
will go to hell pretty soon.

Speaker 18 (01:25:19):
She's gonna slap the shit out of somebody.

Speaker 29 (01:25:22):
That's what's going to happen. Okay, And these little protesters.

Speaker 18 (01:25:26):
I want to know who's financing them, who's funding them.
But what they don't.

Speaker 29 (01:25:29):
Seem to understand is the vice president doesn't set policy.
Jd Vance don't set policy, Mike Pince didn't set policy.
Dan Quile didn't set policy. So you get mad at
the vice president. But when you go if you go
back to March of twenty twenty four, when she was
in a semi Alabama when they were commemorating Bloody Sunday,

(01:25:52):
she talked about the deal that was on the table
for a ceasefire, and if you listen to her tone
during the campaign in regard to the Palestinians, it was
it was a much more sympathetic tone than coming from
Joe Biden. And she also wrote about that in her
book as well. But Yahoo wanted Trump back in office.

(01:26:13):
He knew Trump will allow him to do what she did.
And these same protesters don't want to talk about they.

Speaker 18 (01:26:21):
Don't fire that that Biden Trump negotiating.

Speaker 6 (01:26:24):
But they also but they also don't show up at
Jadvans events.

Speaker 18 (01:26:28):
Well, they don't show up that Donald Trump events.

Speaker 29 (01:26:30):
Donald Trump periodically has rallies and speaking things like that,
they don't they don't go those and act the food
and this rapid famine in Palestine right.

Speaker 6 (01:26:40):
Now in the guy and the guys, well, well now
the family, Well, well now that we have this, this
this ceasefire, hostage has been exchanged. Let's see what happens
after this and who they start shouting down. We'll see,
all right, y'all got to go to break we come back.
National Guard troops on the streets now in Memphis. We'll
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If in this country right now, do you have people
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Final say and they don't ultimately win.

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Speaker 6 (01:29:23):
Unfiltered folks in Memphis now have to contend with the
National Guard. Donald Trump has now placed those guards in
the streets of Memphis. They arrive today, and of course
you've had people making it clear they don't want them there.
That's also what's been going on. Mayor Paul Jung says

(01:29:46):
he didn't request the troops. They, of course were accepted
by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee. Young said he agreed to
cooperate with the Trump and the Governor Bill Lee went
forward with their plan. Officials emphasize the mission is to
target violent offenders, not intimidate residents. Police Chief C. J.
Davis says the Guard will not be running checkpoints or
police neighborhoods policy neighborhoods, but will focus in still on
directing traffic and maintain a presence in busy retail quarters.

(01:30:11):
We've been trying to get Mayor Paul Young on the
show for the last several days. It has not happened.
So we're gonna keep reaching out to him every single
day till he comes on this show. Other black mayors
come on the show, So Mayor Young, don't don't be
scared to come on. Roll Am unfiltered but joining us
Asificity Council member Elana Cooper Sutton, I'm glad to have you.
Here comes the woman's who please pass on to the mayor. Hey,

(01:30:34):
this is the only black news show in America that's
a daily show. He'd come talk to us. Uh, he is.
But I don't understand you're gonna have the National Guard
directing traffic like that? Really the police? She said, it's
gonna be directed traffic and in retail areas. Ooh, that's

(01:30:56):
that's that's really gonna deal with the issues in Memphis, right.

Speaker 7 (01:31:01):
Right right.

Speaker 13 (01:31:03):
And so what I'm understanding in when we last h
when our last when we last talk, they're going to
be in the downtown area more so in parks and
Bill Street. That's what their presence will mainly be. From
what we our last meeting and we were last told.

(01:31:23):
So they're in the downtown where tourism is and of
course Bill Street is you know, is our big tourists
uh to tourist place and parks. So that's my understanding,
and that's where they were when I left because I'm
in Jackson at the homecoming for JSU.

Speaker 6 (01:31:43):
So do y'all have some major crime problem on Bill
Street right now?

Speaker 13 (01:31:50):
Right now, we don't have that much crime going on
downtown because they put so much money into downtown and
making sure that the downtown area is safe. So no,
not as much as it was at first, So it
isn't at this time.

Speaker 6 (01:32:12):
Okay, So what the hell are they doing?

Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
Then?

Speaker 7 (01:32:19):
You tell me?

Speaker 6 (01:32:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 13 (01:32:21):
I mean, you know, we're just trying to figure it
out because we didn't ask for this. We didn't ask
for it, you know, the mayor didn't ask for it.
We didn't ask for this. But however, you got to
understand the dynamics that goes on in Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis
is a blue state and.

Speaker 6 (01:32:43):
No, no, Memphis is a blue city. Tennessee is a
red state.

Speaker 7 (01:32:50):
Yeah that that part, that part, yeah, And so.

Speaker 13 (01:32:54):
You know Memphis, you know, there's the Green and Grind
there in Memphis, and it's for jomma black sixty five percent.

Speaker 7 (01:33:03):
American. You know, black black people live in Memphis. That's
where we are. And we've had a crime.

Speaker 13 (01:33:10):
Issue, and if people will really be honest and be truthful,
yes we have.

Speaker 7 (01:33:15):
But however, the numbers were going.

Speaker 13 (01:33:18):
Down in our homicide, you know, in our domestic violence,
and so our numbers had really, really really have been
going down, and it was going down before all this
was initiated.

Speaker 6 (01:33:32):
Yeah. I again, I'm just sitting there going Okay. So
you're having them there to go into high retail areas,
into direct traffic. Okay, sure, that's a great use of resources.

Speaker 13 (01:33:51):
It is, isn't it. And they are not armed with
you know, big tanks like they were. You got to
remember the dot the dynamics is told different than Washington,
d C. And so they are downtown. From my understanding,
they're downtown in tourism, I.

Speaker 6 (01:34:09):
Have the tourists listen. I have said this numerous times
and I'll say it again. This is nothing about a
big ass TV show. This is a TV show. It's
all about the spectacle. It's all about the flash. That's
all this is it's not actually about dealing with the issue.
It is Donald Trump desperately. It's the TV show.

Speaker 13 (01:34:35):
Yeah, it's a pony and horse show. It's a total
of pony and horse show. And as I always said
from the beginning, when Cash Fortel said that Memphis, Tennessee
was the most dangerous, we should have cut them off
at the knees in but nobody said anything. And that
was a light bulb that should have been a light bulb,
that should have been a red flag that had gone

(01:34:57):
up and said is something brewing in the background, And
no one said anything, not one thing. Even when I
said something in August, I said, they're planning on bringing
the National National Guards. But the picture is bigger than
the National Guards. Okay, it's bigger than that.

Speaker 7 (01:35:14):
Yeah, but this we got thirty three federal agencies.

Speaker 13 (01:35:17):
We got thirty three federal agencies in Memphis.

Speaker 11 (01:35:21):
Really.

Speaker 6 (01:35:22):
Right, And and to your point, look, they're going to
come after you, and you're going to be prepared to
fight back. You saw what Brandon Johnson did in Chicago.
You saw how Pritzky responded. Granted a Democrat, but yeah,
I get it. But Mayor Brandon Young, Brandon Johnson was
extremely strong about how he felt about these troops coming

(01:35:45):
into Chicago.

Speaker 13 (01:35:47):
That's right, that's right, very very pushedback. He wasn't going
for he wasn't going for the bullying. He just wasn't
going for the rhetoric that you know, this administration brings.
And it's just we'll see. I'm just waiting for the numbers,
and we'll see. I'm waiting to see the numbers, what

(01:36:08):
the real outcome would be, what's the sustainability after all
this is over. Whenever they decide to leave, I hear it,
they're going to be there, maybe a little bit longer
than ninety days. So we'll see what happens in Memphis, Tennessee,
because now they really now the federal agencies. Now they
got the people kind of spooked. And really, it's really

(01:36:30):
sad to me as far as we had a lot
of problems with paper tags, manufacturing paper tags and people
not being registered and all that, and you know, we
have a permitless gun law, which is reckless. So this
whole thing to me was a gain strategy ship setup.
You're going to make a permitless law in the state
of Tennessee, we ask the governor, we actioned in the

(01:36:52):
carved Memphis out of this until we get things under control,
in which we were headed down the right path. We
were getting things under controlled. However, when you don't have
men with balls.

Speaker 7 (01:37:04):
He got General, Dollar, General and Family dollar.

Speaker 13 (01:37:08):
Balls, and you can't send up and tell him now
you're not coming, We're doing good. This is the result
that you get in your city.

Speaker 6 (01:37:16):
DN Dollar General, Family dollar balls. Okay, Okay, Matt, Matt, Matt.

Speaker 19 (01:37:31):
Okay, that's hilarious.

Speaker 6 (01:37:35):
That's funny, Matt to get the first question of the counselwoman.

Speaker 11 (01:37:41):
Come back to me, can this go ahead?

Speaker 8 (01:37:48):
I lost my training thought there, this is this is
part of the game.

Speaker 6 (01:37:51):
Right.

Speaker 28 (01:37:51):
We know that Trump comes out to be to be
a victor because listen, if you have the FBI on
the ground and they have arresting powers, you know, unlike
the National Guard, you're gonna have.

Speaker 8 (01:38:02):
Crime and that goes down. I mean, anybody with an accent.

Speaker 28 (01:38:05):
Or anybody's papers are in order one bit, they're not
gonna be on the streets. So you mentioned sustainability, I'm
wondering what has it been like actually going downtown If
you have been there, what's the atmosphere?

Speaker 8 (01:38:18):
Can you take us down there.

Speaker 13 (01:38:21):
Well, my office is downtown, is on Main Street, and
so I haven't been downtown since the National since the
MG's been here. They got here today and their boots
on the ground, I hear they're visible.

Speaker 7 (01:38:36):
However, you know, it's just it's a game. It's a game.

Speaker 13 (01:38:42):
And if you're just gonna sit back and play this game,
becau See it's two games that people talk about.

Speaker 7 (01:38:48):
This is just an absolute game.

Speaker 13 (01:38:50):
He said that he's coming to save Memphis and he
can't even save the self, never long save the self.

Speaker 7 (01:38:55):
So how he's gonna save Memphis and change the numbers?

Speaker 13 (01:38:59):
So, like I always say, and I will always say,
everybody talk about check and chess.

Speaker 7 (01:39:05):
No, this ain't a check and chest. This is a
Wigi board that you're playing on.

Speaker 13 (01:39:08):
And if you ain't spiritually connected and you can't see
where they're going with this.

Speaker 8 (01:39:13):
Yeah, you're gonna fall for the trips.

Speaker 13 (01:39:14):
You're gonna fall for the falsehood and the lies and
the rhetoric and all the other foolishness that's going on.
This ain't no check annoys, this chest. They playing straight
from Ouija board.

Speaker 28 (01:39:27):
Michael writing down everything you're saying.

Speaker 8 (01:39:31):
These a one for the Books of Luigi board. I
thank you, thank you for your answer.

Speaker 29 (01:39:35):
Yes, all right, thank you, Counselwoman Cooper Sutton, Yes, straight
from a Ouiji board.

Speaker 18 (01:39:41):
I never heard that one before.

Speaker 29 (01:39:45):
The Associated Press back on September twelfth, reported that Donald
Trump said that he decided to send troops into Memphis, Tennessee,
after Union Pacific CEO Jim Vina, who used to regularly
visit this city when he served on the board of FedEx,
urge Trump. Urge Donald Trump to address crime in the city.

Speaker 18 (01:40:08):
Can you talk about that? Do you know anything about that?

Speaker 7 (01:40:12):
No validation on that. I don't have any validation on that.

Speaker 13 (01:40:16):
I don't know if that's one of his you know,
he's a notorious liar.

Speaker 7 (01:40:20):
He will lie, So I don't know.

Speaker 13 (01:40:22):
You know, let's call the spade fade right now. Back
for black Americans, it's very critical for us and for
a democratic you know, we are at memphisis.

Speaker 7 (01:40:32):
Of blue safe, So it's very critical for us.

Speaker 13 (01:40:35):
And so we got to take everything that they're saying
and turn this around and use it and capitalize out
of it at the best way that we know how
to capitalize out of it. And you know, it is
what it is. It's a dog component show. That's just
what it is, right right.

Speaker 18 (01:40:50):
And that was my second point of my question.

Speaker 29 (01:40:54):
The community organizations, the community violence intervention organizations that have
been working to bring the crime statistics down things like this,
they have they been talking about continuing what they're doing,
ramp things up, has been talking the community about what
to do on the ground level with the troops there

(01:41:16):
and the thirteen federal agencies, things like that.

Speaker 13 (01:41:20):
Well, the organization that I have been in contact with,
they gave me a list of demands and what they
wanted to see and what they didn't want to see
so so far with the National Guards, and you know,
people really focus on the National Guard.

Speaker 7 (01:41:35):
The National Guard. That's not even our issue.

Speaker 8 (01:41:37):
There in Memphis.

Speaker 13 (01:41:38):
That's not even our problem there in Memphis, because they're
on the ground. They are not enforcing any cant of laws.
They're not total big weapons I think they do. They
are armed on the side with armed arm ammunition, and
you know that.

Speaker 7 (01:41:52):
But this thing is bigger than what people actually see.

Speaker 13 (01:41:56):
Even when Roland Mark when Roland came into Memphis that time,
I mean, you can feel the energy and what's happening
in Memphis is well until you deal with poverty.

Speaker 7 (01:42:06):
And the group ponds and the convictions.

Speaker 8 (01:42:09):
Until you deal with that.

Speaker 13 (01:42:10):
In address sent you got a billionaire that you allowed
to come to our city and purchase.

Speaker 7 (01:42:15):
Land for some water. Then you allowed him to sneak
in here. I mean a five oh one c three. Really,
the Chamber of Commerce.

Speaker 13 (01:42:27):
Think you got to understand the dynamics of Memphis unless.

Speaker 11 (01:42:30):
You live there.

Speaker 7 (01:42:30):
I'm the transplant from Memphis. And unless you understand.

Speaker 13 (01:42:35):
That poverty, you got poverty that has not been.

Speaker 7 (01:42:39):
Dealt with correctly.

Speaker 13 (01:42:40):
You got billionaires, you got AutoZone, you got fred fad X,
Now you got Elon Musk, you got Orgel, you got
these big, major billion dollar companies, billionaires. That's in Memphis.
And we look Memphis, look the way it looks. It
should ring the red flag on how the government has

(01:43:01):
been ran and how the politics has been handled. I've
only been in my seat for one year, ten months
and ten days. And let me tell you something. I'm
vought and unbossed. I'm a call of spade a spade.
Until Memphis take control and deal with the corruption from
the top, You're gonna always get what you.

Speaker 7 (01:43:19):
Get at the bottom.

Speaker 6 (01:43:23):
Well, it is a a Matt, are you now ready
to ask a question?

Speaker 19 (01:43:26):
Matt, I am, but I'm also ready to move to
Memphis and vote for this sister.

Speaker 11 (01:43:32):
I have a question for you, though, and that is
with the police.

Speaker 19 (01:43:36):
Department that has a black chief and has I believe
fifty plus percent officers. What is that interaction like between
the National Guard and the police and what are the
police doing essentially with now the National Guard having a
presence in the city. Is that affected their duties, Is
that affected how they're patrolling anything like that.

Speaker 13 (01:43:55):
Well, what I do know, I do know, and I've
had what I did see before I left the city,
is that the police and the National Guards have partnered together.
So they're walking together downtown. So they're partnering together. From
my understanding, once again, they're downtown. Once again, they're downtown,

(01:44:18):
in our highly visible tourist area, but not in the
streets of Memphis.

Speaker 7 (01:44:25):
They're not in the street.

Speaker 13 (01:44:26):
So right now they're in the downtown part of Memphis.

Speaker 6 (01:44:33):
Which means that they are not that they are not.
They are not in the most impacted areas. And so
you so you claim you're there for the most impacted areas,
but you actually are not. Again, it's all about a
television show. And I'm sure Ice Barbie CHRISTI NOM has
sent more cameras to record what they're doing so they

(01:44:55):
could turn out more government sponsored propaganda videos like they
did in Chicago.

Speaker 13 (01:45:02):
I'm sure it's just it's it's let me tell you all.
This happened so fast. We could have stopped this at
the door. But hey, we're here and so we'll see
what happens. We'll see the real numbers, you know, Like
I asked the chief at our city council meeting, I
want to know the numbers, what you're actually doing, the
work that you have been actually doing, the data, the

(01:45:25):
work that you have the Memphis Police Department, the people
that's gonna be here that's going to stay here. I
want to see actual numbers. I don't want numbers combined together.
I want to see what you out have actually been
doing since they've been here, and the numbers that they
have since they've been here.

Speaker 6 (01:45:44):
Well, to me, that is a legitimate request. Counsel woman,
well appreciate it. Glad you could join us and we'll
be following what happens in Memphis, and again look forward
to having me or Paul Young come on the show
talk about it.

Speaker 13 (01:45:58):
I will talk to the mayor and I will let
him know that you're requesting his presence, and I'm sure
you will get a response.

Speaker 6 (01:46:04):
All right, Well, appreciate it. Thanks a bunch, all right, folks,
Gonna go to a break, I mean right beat roland
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Speaker 6 (01:47:56):
All right, so you might have seen a couple times
during the show the at Robert de Niro cut for
this massive protest is going to take place October eighteenth,
called No Kings Watch It Digital.

Speaker 31 (01:48:10):
No King's Protest was two hundred and fifty years ago.
Americans decided they didn't want to live under the rule
of King George the Third. They declared their independence and
fought a bloody war for democracy. We've had two and
a half centuries of democracy since then, often challenging, sometimes messy,
always essential, and we've fought in two World Wars to

(01:48:30):
preserve it. Now we have a would be king who
wants to take it away. King Donald I fucked that
We're rising up again, this time non violently, raising our
voices to declare no Kings. I'm Robert de Niro asking
you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide
No King's protest on October eighteenth. Visit no Kings dot

(01:48:51):
org to find volunteer or host a protests near you.
We're all in this together, indivisible with liberty and justice.

Speaker 6 (01:48:59):
For alrighty, then, mister de Niro, so speak of Mike
Johnson if y'all want to see how stupid these people are.
This is literally what he said. For Na Podion.

Speaker 40 (01:49:15):
I'll turn it back over the leader take some questions.
But we've heard, and many of you have reported already,
this Hate America rally that they have coming up for
October eighteenth. The Antifa crowd and the pro Hamas crowd
and the Marxist they're all going to gather on the mall.
We got some House Democrats selling T shirts for this event.
It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes. But the

(01:49:38):
Democrats and the Senate have shown that they're afraid of
that crowd, that they don't want to bow, that they
want to bow to them, bow the need of them,
and they don't want to take incoming from them, and
so they're willing to hold the American people hostage so
that they don't have to face an angry mob.

Speaker 39 (01:49:52):
That's a big chunk of their base.

Speaker 40 (01:49:55):
Now, if that's a rumor, they need to come out
and clarify that it's not. But that is what we
are hearing is their actual motivation, and it is outrageous.
All this has got to come to an end.

Speaker 6 (01:50:07):
I'm sorry, does he sound a bit unhinged? Kenneth didn't.

Speaker 46 (01:50:16):
Wasn't there no Kings protests earlier this year and now
all of a sudden, it's the Antifa rally.

Speaker 8 (01:50:26):
Yeah, we saw this back in June. There's nothing new here.
The only thing.

Speaker 28 (01:50:31):
That's new is, as you mentioned, it's just a new
part of the show that they're putting on. It's a
new it's a new episode that we're looking at. And
in this episode, the people who are going to the
march they're part of Antifa. Uh, you know, they're calling
them terrorists.

Speaker 8 (01:50:48):
Uh. They're saying, oh my goodness, all the Democrats.

Speaker 28 (01:50:50):
Are selling T shirts for this event and they're going
to stop this.

Speaker 8 (01:50:55):
It's just a new script.

Speaker 28 (01:50:57):
It's just rewritten and really, it's all about the First Amendment,
which everybody has.

Speaker 8 (01:51:02):
It's they got they got the right to march, they
got the right, the right paperwork in order, they're gone
to march. It was huge in June. It's going to
be huge again.

Speaker 28 (01:51:13):
It's just rhetoric that they're trying to do to rally
the base, and the base likes to listen to this
the same way they like to tune into a television
show every week that speaks to them.

Speaker 8 (01:51:24):
This is just a part of the series.

Speaker 28 (01:51:26):
Everyone's just waiting for this series finale whenever and whatever.

Speaker 8 (01:51:29):
That's going to be.

Speaker 6 (01:51:30):
I mean, I'm just sitting there Micro and I'm like, oh,
it's now the hate America rally. Wow. I didn't realize
that gathering the freedom of assembly, freedom to protest, the
freedom of speech, which is the First Amendment, means you
hate America. I think that's called the Uphold the Constitution rally.

Speaker 18 (01:51:53):
Mike Johnson, I have to give it to them.

Speaker 29 (01:51:55):
He's one of the best straight faced bullshitters I've ever seen.

Speaker 18 (01:51:59):
And I and a lot of them, Okay, he.

Speaker 29 (01:52:02):
Can just stand there and just tell these bold faced lies,
not break character, not break a smile, anything like that
I think he's.

Speaker 18 (01:52:09):
A better liar than Donald Trump is. But there was
a no King's.

Speaker 29 (01:52:13):
Rally back on June fourteenth when Trump had his little coronation, right,
and you know this and understanding the history of this country,
the American Revolution was about the thirteen counties fighting against tyranny,
fighting against a dictator, King George the Third.

Speaker 18 (01:52:30):
So this is not a hate America or rally.

Speaker 29 (01:52:34):
This is in the tradition of what they say America
is supposed to be about there.

Speaker 18 (01:52:40):
And we don't have a king, so you know, you know, Maga.

Speaker 29 (01:52:44):
Mike Johnson can play these little games and try to
deflect from the fact that this is the Trump government
shut down, just like there were three Trump government shut
downs in the first two years of his first regime. Okay,
but you know, in addition to the protests that take
place on the eighteenth, that needs to be combined with targeted,

(01:53:05):
sustained economic withdrawal strategies. It's one thing to have a
mass protest and massive protests across the country one day,
but when you strategically target corporations to help finance these
Republicans and put them in power and help finance Trump,
like the private prison corporations like Geo Group and Course
Civic that are getting government contracts to house migrants. When

(01:53:28):
you strike back with economic withdrawalist, doctor King told us
to redistribute the pain.

Speaker 18 (01:53:34):
That's when you start seeing momentum.

Speaker 29 (01:53:36):
That's when you use political pressure points so we can
your opponent and defeat.

Speaker 6 (01:53:40):
I just sit here and just laugh, like, really, y'all, really,
y'all that I mean before I go to Matt, let's
just play lot Mikey again. Come on, let Mikey go ahead,
lie to us again.

Speaker 39 (01:53:53):
We're the leader. Take some questions.

Speaker 40 (01:53:55):
But we've heard, and many of you have reported already,
this Hate America rally that they have come out up
for October eighteenth. The ANTIFA crowd and the pro Hamas
crowd and the Marxist they're all going to gather on
the mall. We got some House Democrats selling T shirts
for this event. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes.
But the Democrats and the Senate have shown that they're

(01:54:17):
afraid of that crowd, that they don't want to bow,
that they want to bow to them, bow the need
of them, and they don't want to take incoming from them.
And so they're willing to hold the American people hostage
so that they don't have to face.

Speaker 39 (01:54:28):
An angry mob. That's a big chunk of their base.

Speaker 40 (01:54:32):
Now, if that's a rumor, they need to come out
and clarify that it's not. But that is what we
are hearing is their actual motivation, and it is outrageous.

Speaker 39 (01:54:39):
All this has got to come to an.

Speaker 6 (01:54:41):
End, Matt. If that's a rumor, they let us know.
Oh so, y'all want them to answer to a rumor, Well,
Senator Bernie Sanders decided to go and answer little Miikey.
Here's what he.

Speaker 34 (01:55:00):
Said, No Speaker Johnson. The No King's Rally on October
eighteenth is not a hate America rally. In fact, it's
quite the country. It's a love America rally. It's a
rally of millions of people all over this country who
believe in our constitution, who believe in American freedom and

(01:55:22):
are not going to let you and Donald Trump turn
this country into an authoritarian society. It's a group of
people who are disgusted that you and your friends want
to double healthcare premiums in this country and take healthcare
away from fifteen million Americans. The right to protest is

(01:55:42):
what America is about. You are not going to stop.

Speaker 6 (01:55:45):
Us, Matt.

Speaker 11 (01:55:51):
You know I like it.

Speaker 19 (01:55:53):
And I'll say Candice is always right, Michael is almost
always right. You are always petty wanted to mention those truths.
But here's the thing. Look boss that Mike, let me finish,
Let me finish?

Speaker 11 (01:56:06):
Can I please? Can I please?

Speaker 30 (01:56:08):
Brother?

Speaker 11 (01:56:08):
Can you shot me down in a minute? Can I finish?
Thank you? So here's the thing.

Speaker 19 (01:56:12):
I think Michael used some words that were so perfectly
I think, attuned to this moment. Regime, right, that's what
we're seeing. We're seeing a slide into authoritarianism. We're seeing
a running full speed into authoritarianism. And I think what
both him and Candice hit on masterfully is the cognitive
dissonance with Republicans, particularly when they decide that this thing

(01:56:34):
that I don't like is somehow antithetical to America. But
on the fourth of July you'll be right there tap
dance and talking about how the Founders left a tyrannical
English government.

Speaker 11 (01:56:45):
Right.

Speaker 19 (01:56:45):
So this is quintessential constitutional activity. The right to assemble,
the right to air your grievances, the right to speak freely.
This is what we for decades have said sets us apart,
as Ronald Reagan might have said, a city ought out
on a hill, right city on a hill, America and
its rights.

Speaker 11 (01:57:04):
This is quintessential Americanism.

Speaker 19 (01:57:07):
And for the Republicans to now say that it's got
to be hate America, this is the rhetoric that we're seeing.
And what's scary about this is the people who are
buying this drivel are the same people who for a
long time claim they're part of a party of values
and morals. You just cannot have it both ways, and
that's what we're saying. We're saying the Republicans trying to
use it as both a battering ram and as a

(01:57:28):
shield when they think it's advantageous, depending on how to
play it in that perspective. But this is the Constitution
one oh one, and this is exactly what they claim
they're in support of.

Speaker 11 (01:57:38):
And then they get on TV and BS this.

Speaker 19 (01:57:41):
But the irony of all of this is Mike Johnson
says this, and right below him it says government shut
down day ten and the people holding us hostage are them.
So I don't understand how you can say that with
I think Michael was exactly right in his assessment, Well.

Speaker 6 (01:57:56):
I just love how they how they just want to
sit here is you know, do what they do and
and just just lie and love. They just love the
Second Amendment. They skip right over that sucker came right
before them all right before we go. One last story

(01:58:17):
that I got that is a great video was go
go ahead and play it, iPad, please Henry.

Speaker 47 (01:58:26):
On the second Saturday of October, the Eyes of the
Nation games down upon the heart of Dallas, one hundred
and ninety five miles from Norman and one hundred and
ninety five miles from Austin. The Cotton Bowl is a fifty.

Speaker 6 (01:58:45):
Yard line that sep to age two of college.

Speaker 47 (01:58:48):
Football legendary programs, from the buses rolling through the fair
to that long walk down this tunnel, to three and
a half hours of strain and emotion, legends of four

(01:59:09):
the battle there and in this game throughout the extens
and sometimes you just gotta take a lead less.

Speaker 18 (01:59:24):
We can put you into.

Speaker 37 (01:59:29):
It.

Speaker 3 (01:59:29):
Don't pull me off.

Speaker 47 (01:59:42):
Tomorrow, we take our hat back. This is ou Texas.

Speaker 6 (02:00:06):
I just want to go ahead and play that for you. Matt.
I mean, you know, I know you keep talking about
how you went to Howard in is Howard Hu you
know all that, but you always flash and hook them horns.
So I'm gonna flash you something today that I ain't
gonna wait till money Monday, three and three. First off,
please don't three and three, three and three. By by

(02:00:31):
tomorrow evening, y'all gonna be three and three. So I
wanna let you know further. You already fell out the
top twenty five, like all the way out, like like
when y'all like eight, that y'all went from eight to
out damn after losing of Florida.

Speaker 19 (02:00:48):
So I know, I know it's October. I don't need
to hear any horror stories all of No, no, no.

Speaker 6 (02:00:53):
I'm just I'm just I'm just staying. I'm just stayed
in some facts, right, I mean, I mean, my are
y'all are like y'all gonna be three and three tomorrow.

Speaker 19 (02:01:04):
I think we talked about petulant children and bullies earlier on.
This shows the reason, my brother, that might be you
right now. But I'm gonna tell you my beloved parents
are at that game. They're gonna get that dub tomorrow.

Speaker 11 (02:01:17):
They got the Dallas safe.

Speaker 19 (02:01:18):
Y'all enjoyed your parents about decades Red River shoot up.

Speaker 18 (02:01:22):
Yeah, they real about.

Speaker 6 (02:01:23):
It, and let me just tomorrow, let me just go ahead,
let me, let me just go ahead and just go ahead.
For your parents. Listen, I want you all to Enjorgia
State Fair. I want you to get some corn dogs.
I want you to get it. I want you to
get some fried Oreo cookies because y'all gonna need some
comfort food. Y'all gonna need some comfort food after y'all

(02:01:45):
lose because Arch Manning he ain't it.

Speaker 8 (02:01:48):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 28 (02:01:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:01:51):
So this is the end of the show, right, Any thoughts,
any any thoughts Candace might or anything anything for Matt,
any prayers from that.

Speaker 11 (02:02:00):
I'm gonna says, hook them, hook them.

Speaker 6 (02:02:03):
I just know it.

Speaker 8 (02:02:03):
What's more classic his face as he was watching what
you played, or the comment that we.

Speaker 28 (02:02:09):
Had earlier about the Wisi board and and and the
dollar general.

Speaker 6 (02:02:13):
Man, Oh no, no, no, it was classic. Classic, It
was classic. Was his text last week?

Speaker 11 (02:02:21):
What did my texts say?

Speaker 6 (02:02:23):
Man, event, don't spoil my dinner with this ball.

Speaker 18 (02:02:31):
I was so mad.

Speaker 19 (02:02:32):
I was wearing an orange suit too. That's the worst part.
That's the worst part. And they took that.

Speaker 11 (02:02:36):
Hell, but you know, what stop.

Speaker 6 (02:02:40):
Your ass was wearing an orange suit.

Speaker 19 (02:02:44):
It was fly too, I got you, it was it
was Crispy. I ain't gonna lie to you. But that's
not the point.

Speaker 6 (02:02:51):
Oh, please send us a photo of this Chrispy orange suit.

Speaker 19 (02:02:58):
All I'm gonna say is we're getting the double tomorrow Rowland,
and you're gonna have to eat your words next week.

Speaker 11 (02:03:03):
And we definitely are gonna.

Speaker 6 (02:03:04):
If I roll it, if I roll that, if I
roll a video back, roll the video back from last Friday,
you were highly confident y'all were gonna beat the Gators.

Speaker 11 (02:03:16):
But you know what, but at I'm.

Speaker 6 (02:03:18):
Sorry, hold up at seven thirteen pm Central last Saturday.

Speaker 11 (02:03:29):
Don't do it, man, you.

Speaker 6 (02:03:30):
Gotta chalked text. You gotta chalked text.

Speaker 11 (02:03:35):
So yes, So the moment it comes up on my watch,
I s dread.

Speaker 8 (02:03:43):
No say and just expect us to get off that.

Speaker 11 (02:03:48):
Matt, Hey, it was chrispyter I ain't gonna lie to
tell you.

Speaker 29 (02:03:50):
Look, Hey, you're gonna have to show that one to us.

Speaker 11 (02:03:54):
I'm not gonna do that. I'm not Why would I
do that? Michael?

Speaker 19 (02:03:56):
Come on, now, you know you said this Chrispy trying
to roast me, in front of America.

Speaker 6 (02:04:01):
You, sir, you said, if you're so confident in your crispy.

Speaker 11 (02:04:06):
Or suit, it's the truth. It's the truth.

Speaker 6 (02:04:09):
If anybody, if anybody was at the event when Matt
last Saturday, y'all do me a favor, y'all said, y'all
singing a photo, Send me a email me a photo.
Go to info at roland smartin dot com and send
me Matt's crispy orange suit photo.

Speaker 11 (02:04:29):
Check it out room, check it out room. We get
this dumb. When we get this dumb, you're.

Speaker 19 (02:04:33):
Gonna have to grab them dollar General balls and call
me and admit that we got this dub.

Speaker 11 (02:04:38):
So be ready, Matt.

Speaker 6 (02:04:39):
You would if you were talking about outfit.

Speaker 8 (02:04:41):
And then get ups. I just I don't know if
you know to.

Speaker 11 (02:04:45):
Get up Hea this.

Speaker 18 (02:04:46):
Don't do this. Candies, don't do this.

Speaker 16 (02:04:47):
Candies.

Speaker 18 (02:04:48):
You know you my girl? Candies. This all.

Speaker 6 (02:04:53):
All I know. All I know, sys Matt.

Speaker 8 (02:04:56):
I don't know where you fall with an orange suit.

Speaker 6 (02:04:59):
All I I know since Matt town about what's what's crispy?
Go to my iPad. This is what's crispy. This is
the ap top seven. I don't even see y'all in it. Uh,
I see my text dayam aggres number five. I see
ou number six. Let me go ahead and scroll down. Now,
I don't see y'all in that second group. Uh, let me.

(02:05:23):
I don't see y'all in that third group. Yeah, I
don't see Damn Cincinnati got more votes than y'all did.
Are you doing?

Speaker 11 (02:05:38):
I don't know where this is going because we' getting
to double tomorrow. That's what matters. Forward always backwards never.

Speaker 6 (02:05:44):
Okay, that's what we're gonna see. We're gonna see this
and then we're gonna see sown's heart horn. Saw it off?
All right?

Speaker 18 (02:05:59):
Talk, go ahead?

Speaker 11 (02:06:00):
Signed off, Charlie bro No, no, I can hold up.

Speaker 6 (02:06:03):
I can sign off when your team is five and oh.
You can sign off when your team when your team
is three and two, and they're gonna be three and
three tomorrow.

Speaker 11 (02:06:19):
Gag them.

Speaker 6 (02:06:19):
Then then then you're gonna need to order some extra
crispy chicken, uh to make you feel good after y'all lose.
So it's gonna be a lot of comfort food available
at the State Fair of Texas at the Cotton Bowl
in Dallas tomorrow because it's gonna be a lot of
orange tiers and they will probably a lot of them
are maga, but it'll be burnt orange tears. I can't

(02:06:43):
wait not.

Speaker 11 (02:06:45):
Talk about Mega in Texas, A and m don't.

Speaker 6 (02:06:48):
I'm just simply saying it's gonna be a lot of
maga tears. Y'all.

Speaker 11 (02:06:51):
Both y'all orange, it's more in college station, you know, both.

Speaker 6 (02:06:55):
Y'all Orange is all good?

Speaker 48 (02:06:57):
Can this?

Speaker 6 (02:06:57):
Would appreciate you being on today's show, Michael, thank you.
You got a reprieve from your little organization. Uh. And so, Matt,
what time is the game tomorrow?

Speaker 11 (02:07:07):
Matt, that's like two o'clock. Great, I think two o'clock.

Speaker 6 (02:07:11):
Okay, two o'clock. So it's two o'clock Central, Eastern Central. Cool.
So you've been here from me about five fifteen Central tomorrow, Matt,
all right, cool.

Speaker 11 (02:07:23):
I don't want you to tell America after after we
get this done.

Speaker 6 (02:07:26):
Oh tell me, y'all, y'all, y'all know, Matt ain't going. Y'all,
y'all know they're gonna lose and then mag mag go
going to Witness Protection program. Oh, y'all, Cannes. Matt. I
appreciate thank you a lot too. Yeah, don't wear that
orange yet. Yeah, yeah, Matt. Here, here we go.

Speaker 30 (02:07:41):
Matt.

Speaker 6 (02:07:41):
If y'all lose tomorrow, you gotta wear that crispy ass
orange suit on the shoulder. My E two.

Speaker 19 (02:07:48):
Brute is all I gotta say to you, can Is Kelly, Yeah,
that's right, that's.

Speaker 11 (02:07:54):
Right, y'ally It y'all lose.

Speaker 6 (02:07:57):
You gotta wear that chrispy ass orange suit on the
show next Friday.

Speaker 11 (02:08:01):
I'll do it next week.

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