August 7, 2026 • 45 mins
In this bonus episode of Selective Ignorance, Mandii B, super producer A-King, and Jason “Jah” Lee turn a ranking of America’s worst states into a larger conversation about politics, quality of life, healthcare, marijuana laws, incarceration, travel, and divorce economics [ 00:00 ]. The crew reacts in real time to CNBC’s ranking of the 10 worst states to live in, first breaking down how factors including crime, healthcare access, worker protections, environmental quality, inclusiveness, and childcare influence the rankings [ 01:35 ]. Before seeing the results, they make their own predictions for the bottom 10 [ 02:57 ], debate the criteria and offer some early hot takes [ 04:47 ], and weigh possibilities including Alaska and Georgia [ 06:30 ] before working their way from West Virginia to Utah and questioning which states deserve a spot [ 08:23 ]. When the official list is finally revealed [ 11:36 ] the conversation turns to why so many of the lowest-ranked states fall within the Bible Belt and Middle America, and how conservative policies can intersect with everyday quality-of-life issues [ 13:33 ].
Texas becomes the center of the discussion as the hosts examine healthcare access, reproductive rights, abortion-related surveillance, and personal privacy [ 17:15 ], before unpacking the state’s restrictions affecting THC and Delta-8 products and the potentially severe consequences surrounding marijuana possession [ 18:55 ]. The crew reacts to the realities of weed sentencing [ 22:33 ] and connects drug enforcement to the larger conversation surrounding incarceration and the prison system [ 23:21 ], while examining whether lower-THC products provide any meaningful legal workaround [ 24:37 ]. That leads to an important warning for travelers passing through Dallas and Houston airports [ 25:17 ], particularly anyone traveling with friends who smoke or may unknowingly carry cannabis products across state lines [ 26:03 ]. The conversation gets lighter as they debate hotel smoking fines [ 27:49 ] and the unmistakable reality of trying to hide the smell of leftover weed [ 30:45 ].
The final stretch moves from Texas to Florida as the crew discusses Florida HB 1301 and changes to permanent alimony, examining how evolving divorce laws can reshape financial expectations after marriage [ 31:17 ]. Using Tyreek Hill’s divorce settlement as a jumping-off point, Mandii, A-King, and Jah debate marriage, wealth, settlements, spousal support, and the economics of ending a high-income relationship [ 34:39 ]. A signature Selective Ignorancedetour into egg prices, grocery bills, and the rising cost of everyday life follows [ 39:26 ], before the crew brings everything back to one practical takeaway: know the laws where you live—and where you travel—because state policies can dramatically change your rights, finances, and consequences from one border to the next [ 43:13 ].
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Mandy be Welcome to Selective Ignorance, a production
of the Black EPEC Podcast Network and Iart Radio. Y'all,
welcome to our bonus episode here of Selective Ignorance, where
we kind of get to the topics maybe we didn't
get to on Tuesday. This one specifically though, got dropped
into the chat and we may or may not be
(00:22):
talking about where the fuck you live.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
But also we've been talking mid terms. We've been talking the.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Importance of knowing what policies are being dropped. So over
the last couple of weeks, I've run across some new
laws that have been introduced across various states, as well
as something being introduced to federal legislation.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So I'm excited. I ain't gonna hold you.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
This is probably the first time y'all sent a link
and I ain't opening it up. But then you said
did you open it up? And I was like no,
and then you said you want the real time they
so yeah, welcome y'all.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Y'all know, I'm joined with my brother.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
There's in crime a King Jason johll Y. We in
the building and this is gonna be a fun one
because you know why, I kind of like to talk ship.
Not do I kind of like to talk ship. I
think that this will be a fun topic.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
This will also be a fun way that we can
get some more outrage on the internet as well.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So let's have some fun here. D.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I might need you to take some of our best moments,
get some notes so we can chop this ship on up.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
But let's start. Who's who dropped this.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Into the note? I did?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Okay, Yeah, I opened an app and it gave you prayer.
But nah, I open the app and I saw this
this a list, and I thought it was gonna be
well when you see when you see it, you'll see
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I thought it's gonna be something else.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
And then I saw the criteria what they use to
determine the ten worst states.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I didn't know it was a video.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Okay, quite interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So the way we do have a video, My bad,
you ain't put that it was a clip. I thought
it was a list. Uh D. We actually do have
a clip from c n C n b C.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Now, y'all, this clip is give us some context of
what people are about to hear.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Oh, you're gonna hear the this c NBC's list of
the ten worst states to live in based on quality
of life quality. I wish, I wish I could have
pleped this out before we uh uh play it, because
I would love to get everyone's.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
They think it's going to be on that list?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Wait, the worst states?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Okay, let's do that.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Let's do let's yeah, I can't give it because I
know I did not see this, So let's let me
based on quality.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Let's let's watch. How watch.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know the list?
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
John, do you know the list?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No? I don't know. I don't watch. Between you and I, city,
city is right, states totality.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Between you and I, let's come up with which states
we believe are America's worst states to live in for
twenty twenty six. I will start off by saying Florida
due to I would say political landscape, it's just too
fucking hot, okay, and I know that their education is
(03:19):
fairly poor. So I'm going to list Florida as much?
Are you keeping track of our list? Can you type
the states that me and John come up with so
that we can see how far off we are?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
We both people?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
All right?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
So you start with Florida. I'm going to start with uh.
I want to start with New Hampshire, okay, because it's
cold as hell and it probably ain't no niggas there,
and my quality of life is severely impacted behind being
cold and no black people.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, can't do okay, can you be sure for you?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I actually think they're rated fairly high with education, so
I wouldn't say but probably, but I'm going I'll let
you add that to the list. I ain't gonna hold you,
y'all probably gonna kill me. I'm going all Bible belt here. Uh,
Mississippi if we even see what the political landscape is
as well with racism. H and they are also a
(04:16):
red state. So I'm going with Mississippi for number three.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Okay, I will go with.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Worre states to live in based on quality of life.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I'm probably gonna go with Iowa, okay, because I feel
like there's probably nothing in like when I think of
Iowa or No, I'm sorry, wait, yeah, Iowa, Okay, No,
I'm sorry, not Iowa. Idaho, That's what I think I'll
go Idaho.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You said, don't nobody want to be by potatoes.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Let me just add something to this caveat to the
to the criteria.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's quality of life.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Right, but they use factors such as healthcare, crime, work
of protections, environmental quality, inclusiveness, and access to child care.
They didn't include home prices, whether or you know, whether
you actually enjoy well.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I'm not gonna lie, but I say that even if we.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Don't, I'm gonna go ahead and throw it in there
because everyone from the South actually hates it.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I have to add New York.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm going to add New York because quality of life
is hell. You don't really get washers and dryers. Sometimes
you live in a walk up. Getting groceries is difficult.
The cost of living is really expensive. Even if you
got a car, you gotta change different sides of the road. Like,
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I think it's the best city in the world. New
York City is, but quality of life, it is very hard.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
In New York. And now I'm gonna bring the cave.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I back about the state, the state all but because
then you go up north and it's.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Called I was going to say, outside of as parts
of New York, you think you're in the South. Yeah,
that's all outside of New York. I imagine it's very
different in New York State.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
New York. I don't even be here past seven pm?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Right, So yeah, I was gonna get that with too,
because I figured I feel like that's one of those things.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And that was number five. Five is New York.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Let's let's go to six. Mm hmm. Interesting.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
I'm gonna go, well, what the factors they use? They
said environment and what was the other one?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You said? Healthcare?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Inclusiveness and access to childcare?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Okay, So I'm gonna go with Alaska because I feel
like with some of those things, I feel like it's
so desolate. How good can childcare be when the probably
aren't enough people to even be have a lot of
childcare type facilities out there.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'm so mad I didn't save this video. There's a
video niggas in Alaska.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I seen. I've seen YouTube. No, I don't be going
out there looking for smoke.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I ain't even.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
If you just like there was a time where I
used to look up like chefs in jail, like they'd
be cooking underneath the stairs.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Is right?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
If y'all just want to look up some random shit
because you high you just don't have anything that you
are interested in watching. Look up hoods of Alaska, and
it's the black people in Alaska, and baby they got
it is so funny because then they are also showing
you what it's like to live in a place where
it's twenty four hours of lightness.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah, twenty four hours of darkness.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
When I tell you it's some of it, I was,
I was glued. Okay, so you said Alaska. I am
going to add to the list because I feel like
I just heard that Georgia is forty ninth in education.
(07:48):
Really yes, in terms of like quality of education here.
I also feel like with the with it being a
red state, very red, not.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Many, I'm gonna add Georgia. Okay, I'm going to add Georgia.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
To the list because it's also becoming expensive as well,
more expensive than it needs to be.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Same with Florida. So I'm gonna add Georgia, and I
think we have three more.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
You can do more.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, you go seven. I do know you're going eight.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
That was seven, Okay, eight. I'm gonna go West Virginia.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Okay, West Virginia because I feel like it is a
very white, very appellation and probably a lot of like
sundown town type areas in West past Or, West Virginia.
One time, doing a road trip from New York to
New Orleans never again. And we went to you know,
(08:47):
usually I'm I'm used to going down on ninety five
to Carolina's Iety five. This time you go further west.
You see that sign welcome to West Virginia. You like,
oh shit, then you start to pay attention.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Bro. Yeah, they still live in like they're in a
different time.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
They're a different encurrent, They're they're incursion in the timeline.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
They're in a different part of the TVA.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
And that's how like to me, West Virginia and Virginia
are very different things. And like I imagine that West Virginia
is in some type of like suspended time. And I've
seen a video that like Mandy was talking about about
Alaska about West Virginia.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yo.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Man, it's there's a lot of talent in these in
these areas, they just it's untapped, right, They're just kind
of like doing for themselves.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
That's the where I have no I would have no
interest in living.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, So we are at nine, and that's eight. I
am going to add.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Quality of life.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And so my last pick number nine, I am going
to say Michigan. And it's because we do know that
Detroit has a high crime rate. They're one of the
highest in the country. We also know that Flint has
been dealing with a water crisis.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Your years and no one seems to give a funk
about to.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Give a fuck.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And then outside of it being cold, we also know
that at one point, Michigan was a huge part of
the Industrial Revolution and a lot of those jobs no
longer exists, So I assume the unemployment rate might be
a little high in Michigan. So I'm gonna say Michigan, Okay,
I'm gonna go with rounded out Utah.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Okay, I think I'm gonna go with Utah.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
A lot of Mormons, a lot of weird Mormon idiosyncers.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And you can't even order shots or doubles.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
What Mormon Mormon code. But you can drink alcohol, but
they want to regulate how you drink it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It's just interesting you adding that, because for someone who
and I guess most of the country, even federally, we're
supposed to separate church and state, right, that is a state.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
That goes by. Yeah, they don't get a tun about
nothing else.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, such, I'm not mad at that, Okay, Yeah, And
I guess quality of.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Life would only be impacted if you're extradited from the
Mormon Church or aren't.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Morning correct, because it might be it might be all
right for them.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah, they prior rack with wise.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So we have a clip. I would love to see
an a king before we play.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Were we close?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Interesting because the criteria that they provide right, Yes, as
you guys were saying, your list, I wonder how to
pie chart quantifies as it relates to healthcare versus the
scale like yeah, certain things that's like higher and then.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And this is why less tricky.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
They are tricky. But this is an interesting list. I
see what c NBC got.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Let's see what c NBA C puts the ten worst
states for quality of life?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Before you hit it, did they or maybe say in
the video, did it say, how like was this just
this guy's opinion?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Was it like a vote of people who looks.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
According let's plaitic clip politic.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
States to live in?
Speaker 7 (12:03):
And I know a lot of you are not gonna
like who came in at number two. They based the
rankings on quality of life metrics, things like crime, access
to healthcare, protections for workers, the kind of things it
says would attract workers to a state.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
At number ten, Arkansas, which.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Actually moved up this year, but they got the market
for violent crime, dead last for food and security overaholl
number nine. A cheap minimum wage and poor worker protections
hurt the sooner state Alabama's eight poor marx four mental
health providers, and limited protections against discrimination.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Missouri number seven, one of.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
The most violent states in America according to FBI statistics,
top ten in firearm deaths too.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Utah is sixth beautiful.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
State, but bad mark from CNBC for healthcare and a
low minimum wage at five. Georgia ranked worker rights and
protections against discrimination. Louisiana was fourth over healthcare access and
violent crime rates.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Third.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Indiana ranked low when it comes to childcare, which makes
it more expensive for families to live there. At number
two my home state of Texas, and this is weird though,
because CNBC rates Texas's fourth best when it comes to
doing business. When it comes to quality of life, they
ranked the lone star state low for healthcare reasons, a
high uninsured rate, dead last in the country in primary
(13:20):
care physicians per capita, and CNBC state with the lowest
quality of life, Tennessee one of the highest violent crime
rates in the country's third highest drug death rate and
hostility towards the LGBTQ community.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Here's my problem with this joy. They pretty much set
all the red states boom.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So if you get into pretty much said every Middle
America like this is literally it's this and if you're
watching this on video, I'm doing just like this beach.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
It's from Texas.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Everything middle of America is what they're saying is the
worst quality of life, which.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Is why honestly underscores exactly what's happening social political comment.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
That we're in.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
What a second, it's Middle America and Bible Belt because
you had Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Yeah, all the southern states
historically Louisiana like and I was gonna say Louisiana too,
only and I meant to say it because of even
when I went, it was interesting talking to the locals,
even of New Orleans and knowing that even the way
that they responded that their seward system, everything that's still
(14:27):
set up with the city as.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
A whole is just like this infrastructure is what is happening.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah, I mean, if you look at the comments section,
it's just so the most racist states having the lowest
quality of life got it, got it, got it okay,
And you know, and that's not totally surprising because to
your point about the socio economic political stuff, like a
lot of times what the people in the Red States
will say is like, you know, we talk about coastal
(14:55):
elites and like all the liberals in the in the
coastal states in California and New York, in New Jersey
and all of this kind.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Of shit, and it's like.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
The people on those on the coasts are trying to
advance society and the people in the middle and the
Red are trying to regress us back to a certain
time that they think is the dope time to be alive.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
And so it doesn't surprise me that the people in
those states.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Have a poor quality of life, because that's what they're
essentially asking for.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
It's a poor quality focused it.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
But outside of a poor quality of life, it's crazy
because a lot of those towns are probably those small
towns where a lot of people don't get out of
And so for me, you know, we talked about a
Tuesday being.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
A world traveler with highlights.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You know, if you knew better, you do better, essentially,
And so for people don't want to do better, but
for people.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Who've never seen another quality of life, for people who
don't believe it to be true or possible, for people
to think that things on the internet ain't real or
it doesn't get any better because they've never been afore
the opportunity to leave. It reminds me of when I
go back to Orlando and even talking you know, to
my sister's partner about where people are at in that
(16:11):
went to middle school with me, in high school with me,
Like all the people from middle school, by the time
we got to high school, they were robbing. They were
robbing people and robbing gangs and ended up getting locked up.
And some of them are just now getting out. Some
of them got out in their late twenties. And it's
just like for me to talk to them about like
my sister and our partner, she was on my basketball team,
so like my sister's with somebody that I went to
(16:33):
middle school with, a lot of the people on Facebook,
when I see them, they're still with partners school and
high school and there some of them living on the
same block. And so when we look in Middle America,
a lot of the people who grow up in those
small towns, a lot of times they don't leave.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
A lot of times they don't know better.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
And it's why we're seeing things like the Nolan Wells case.
We're seeing like racism talk over and over and over again,
because unfortunately, it's the communities that they're raised in, and
so we are a lot of us are products of
our environment, especially if we don't strive to want to
see more, to want to do more, to want to
be more, and it's unfortunate. What's crazy is I wasn't
(17:11):
surprised about any of them state.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
No, none of surprised. Now.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
The one thing I was surprised that though, is that
the guy said that one of the reasons that Texas
was on the list for healthcare reasons is because they
have the lowest number of doctors and healthcare providers per capitalizing.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I thought that was interesting because I'm like a Texas is.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Not only a huge state, but they are doing so
much with oil and natural gas in Texas that you
would think that there would be healthcare providers all over
the place. Because that's a dangerous job where people are
getting killed, poison exploded, blows up, shit, people catch on
fire like crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Shit happens on those oil rigs and there's so much
of that going on in Texas.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I would just assume that those big companies Xon and
BP and whoever else has a footprint down there, would
be saying, Okay, we need to make sure that there's
healthcare for our employees who were doing dangerous jobs.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
And apparently that's just not the case.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh, I ain't gonna hold you.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And I know I leaned heavily into politics, and maybe
it was my own bias considering for many times to
relocate to Dallas, because I really love Dallas as a city,
but as a state. Isn't that the state that just
used eighty three thousand cameras to chase down a woman
who got an abortion? Yes, it was, And so for me,
(18:32):
Texas is one of those. And I've talked to my
sister about it because she wanted to relocate to Texas
as well, because of course you could get a really
large house for a fairly affordable rate.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
But at this point, like.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
What comes with that, the politics and what they believe
and what the the against the government speaking the midterms,
what they're allowing and what they're passing into their bills
in legislation is really really scary, and speaking of which
you dropped it into the group chat. But I think
it's worth talking about, especially as we've recently discussed from
a state conversation, there's been a lot of states over
(19:07):
the last several years that have legalized marijuana, which has
in turn released a lot of people from prison or
or started the conversations of these people now in these
states should be released. Right, Well, Texas they decided, y'all
that they are now putting a band on not only THHC,
(19:28):
which is marijuana, but also Delta eight, which is oftentimes
what we see in these smoke shops. Even in Georgia
where it's not legalized, it's in gas stations and.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Who's smoking at ship I don't want to a couple
years ago, niggas.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, what are you doing now?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
You dropped this into the chat? Joh, what does this
mean for Texas residents? How soon is it becoming.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Because it's it's current now, right they passed.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
It, Yeah, it passed.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
It goes into effect July by thirty first, went into effect.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Now.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
So the part that fucked me up is that, like
even in this red ass Georgia, a lot of the
cities in the metro area that have seceded from the
counties like Sandy Springs, Dunwoody. I think I think Alpha
Redda to seceeded from Fullllll County something like that. But
they have all these municipalities that wanted to annex themselves
(20:24):
from the counties and they passed their own laws. So
a lot of these places have they're not making it legal,
but it's the criminalized even here in Red Ass, Georgia.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
In Texas.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
So I said that to say, in Georgia, you'll get
in some places in Atlanta or in Georgia, you'll get
a ticket for marijuana. I won't go to jail. You't
have to pay any bond or any bail. In Texas,
that's how they break it down. Under one gram of marijuana.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Which is a blunt, essentially a skinny blunt might be
a roach for a roach clip, let's talk to the
audience here.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
One hundred and eighty days or two years in jail
with the fine up to ten thousand dollars for a blunt.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
For a roach, roach clip. A nigga. Let me tell
you something.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
In New York, there was a time where you see
niggas with smoke all the way to the end of
this ship.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah to the point no water. You can go get
locked up for that little eighty eight.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Six months to two years. I'm for a roach ten
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Fine, Hey, y'all better treat uh, y'all better treat THHD
in Texas like britty grunners should have treated that bait
pin for Russia.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
It's a machine gun. It's like fucking like you better okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So wait, that's just for a roach.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
We're going up.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
That's where we start. That's that's the floor we haven't got.
So oh, you're getting locked one hundred years just for
a bag of weed under four grams, third degree felony
up to ten years in prison and a fine.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Of ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Motherfucking lie.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Some niggas four grams in, they blunt in, they joint.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
If you get a cone or raw papers and you
stuff a cone or raw but you might put a
whole three five in your one cone, that could get
you a third degree felony in ten years.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
God damn.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Up to four hundred grams. Now, four hundred grams are
you going to no? No, No, four hundred grams, so twenty
eight grams the is one ounce.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
So you're talking about like.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Maybe yeah, yeah, yeah, we're talking about like okay, so
this is ten to fifteen ounces, twenty years in prison,
ten thousand dollars fine, more than how you gonna pay
it making license plates and sewing up shirts, gilding t
shirts or whatever the fuck else. More than four hundred
(22:45):
grams is up to a life sentence and a fine
fifty thousand for a weed weed for weed possessions.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
When I tell y'all, Houston, Texas has a problem because baby,
them parties be littered.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Up, don't snitch. And I've seen niggas.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
I see one of my favorite content creators that live
in Texas was like, Nigga's still gonna smoke.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
And I'm like, no, not with them. Sh I wouldn't
take no chances.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I wouldn't even take it.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I wouldn't take. But here's where it gets super. This
way is super you.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Let's also let's draw the barrier that Texas is a
racist ass state.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Very very much so, very much so.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
So this goes into effect on July thirty first, that
ship or is that an effects an effect?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
It's an effect right now. Man.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
The state of Texas is also the state that houses
the most incarcerated people in the entire country.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Oh, this is this is for this though.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
This is the private prison pipeline capital.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
There's private prisons all over the state.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yep, man, they're just breaking the money.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
And so imagine how much more money these prisons would
make with having this amount of people get locked up.
I thought you send the contrary if they allowed weed
to be legal there.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Well it was, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Yeah, they were those people with those billionaires saw with
a lot.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
But but those people would be losing money.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
The person that gets locked up is money out of
their greedy ass podcasts. So imagine what those people are
donating to the campaigns of judges who get elected and
give out these sins.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I'm curious then, like a brand like nowadays, there's so
many like brands now that have.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
THHC infused into drinks. I assume they're just not going
to be.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Able to ye. Here's the crazy part, though.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
They are still allowing the sale of some gummies and
some small products that have less than one grand. Getting
the out of here, we're gonna buy it? Who's gonna
buy that? Like of buying any of those, I'm not
gonna lie to.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
My one gummy. I need at least five grams a.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Little to fell it.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
It'll be ten grams and I bite that bitch in
hair right.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Hello, I wonder how does that affect travel? Because now
I'm pretty sure they're not gonna, Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Wouldn't even go through a Texas airport with it.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
They probably gonna set you up like, yeah ahead, come
on in with that.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, probably because you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Gonna tell y'all not to do.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Because I know some of y'all who come from different
cities and go in smaller airports. Will y'all go to
King Kun when y'all go to Cabo, A lot of
them layovers is in Dallas and Houston. Y'all might want
to go ahead and not even have that ship pack.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Last time I was got an ignorant question.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Last time I was in Houston, I smoked the blunt
in front of my hotel on the street like it
was just whatever. I feel like that's a thing. I
remember he was in New York at the hotel. He
smoking the outside the hotel.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I got a little ignorance tape.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah, I mean I kind of got a little annoyed
with a friend of mine this last week in St.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Martin. Yep, Okay, go to her stories.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And it's okay.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
She knows I was pissed at her because I looked
at her like bitch. So she's a weed at someone
who literally has smoked before every meal. So I go
to check out my state bar, my very expensive hotel.
No mm hmmm, two hundred and fifty euro o charge.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Oh yes, because it smelt up the room.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
She didn't even smoke in the room, but the smell
of it, mind you. We walked into it after dinner,
and even Crystal was.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Like, I smelled something, and so when.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
The cleaner went in, the cleaner smelled something too, right,
and I wanted to check out, and I said, oh, bit,
you better send me that money right now. Yeah, but
I said, moving forward, I don't even want to travel
with nobody with weed no more, because like that's the fine.
We stayed in three different places, and so I'm just
like that, racking up, say three hundred in each location,
could have been another thousand dollars just for you traveling
(27:10):
with this weed.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Because baby, my friends ain't smoking.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
No mid or redge.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Do you know what woud is?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It means it smells loud too and I was when
I tell you, I was so upset. Yeah, I mean
she gave you the money, but I was just like,
oh yeah. And I realized I never really traveled with smokers.
I traveled with drinkers.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I'm drinking.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I'm a drinker. We're not. But it's in chocolate for yeah,
don't you don't smell it.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But I realized now, if it's starting to crack down
like this, even the bapes, that's what Britney Grinder got
in trouble for that weed and the bapes. The THHC
is what you gotta be careful with going across this ship.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I draw the parallel here.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
That hotel has a standard and you smoke weed in
my establishment.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Well what you nobody?
Speaker 4 (27:59):
The Fine One University said we don't want you with
rag bond it or else. It's the same thing. It's
like I'm saying. What I'm saying is whether we.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Take to the rag roof your desires of what freedom
tell success is valid, but we also have to respect
the establishment or don't by not participating.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
In the establishment.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
So her friend and Mandy had the information ahead of
time that there was gonna be a thing or we're
gonna be loud and loud.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Hey, don't bring that ship in here. You're gonna put
the fucking bills.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
If you go to the Rich Carlton, if you go
to the Four Seasons, if you were time that we
stayed in Saint Bart start. We ended up going to magazines.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Mandy not easy either because she ain't going to Hillton.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Marion was gorgeous, like literally and by the way, Sat
Bart is known as Millionaire Island?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Is it all of the taxis, Oh, look it up,
look it up, mind you. All of the taxis that
were called for us were Mercedes ben Sprinters. That was
their taxi. We ended up going to Baga Tell.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
As we walk out, there's this black couple that literally
bag Now as we're leaving bag Tell, we literally we
literally get stopped by a couple because he just wanted
to buy us shots because he felt like he was
in get out being on the island. He said, oh
my god, I was just happy to see other black women.
Like it's a it's very white. It's literally an island
(29:36):
that can afford to shut down during hurricane season. So
from August to November they're shut down.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
They've made enough money that it doesn't that it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
And so.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Literally as they're telling us why this fine is attached,
they're like, because now we have to air out the
room for our next guest.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
We can't allow guests to come into a room.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
That they can hallo.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, back to the bonnets and do rags.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
That is not But no, you got the sticker that says, hey,
if they smell smoke.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah, caring, So you're not allowed to smoke it.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Something that's damage to the property, or accept the fine.
My do rag is damage nothing but your weak ass respectability.
But anyway, will go on and talk about no, but listen,
at this point, it's twenty twenty six, Like, if you're
still smoking in hotel rooms, you're kind of playing yourself
because like, yeah, if you go outside, yeah, maybe you're
taking a risk of getting arrested, but you can. There's
(30:31):
so many places you can find that a discreet you
can smoke your little shit, go about your business.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
But if you're gonna smoke in the room, no towel
under the door, no towel on the.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Steel, and it's gonna stop the smell of marijuana from
lingering in the sheets in the curtain.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Oh no, wait, even worse, she threw a roach away
in the trash that was.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Gonna be my that's really the problem. And you're not
gonna get away from that.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
They got every ding on that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Oh my god, damn yeah, yeah, you can't do that.
In twenty two you cannot do that. There's no getting
away with this shit. I want to know what friend
that is?
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Now now.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Story, Hey, let's do these two because these two are
going to impact those of you that want to do
the two things that bitch I don't want to do,
which have to deal with getting pregnant and getting married. Now,
let's start with another state law. We're gonna go from
(31:34):
Texas to Florida. So Florida just recently passed and eliminated
permanent alimony for good. So Florida officially ended permanent alimony
for good under reform bill HB thirteen oh one. So
instead of an open ended payments that last until death
(31:57):
or remarriage, the state now use this is durational alimony,
capped by how long the marriage lasted, so up to
fifty percent of the marriage length for three to ten
year marriages, sixty percent for ten to twenty year marriages.
And seventy five percent for marriages over twenty years. So
marriages under three years are now generally presumed ineligible for alimony,
(32:21):
and payers can also seek reductions ahead of retirement. Big picture,
how long a marriage lasts now directly shapes what's owed
after it ends. I like this, and it was lifetime
at one point, well prior to was until death or remarriage.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Yeah, I'm getting married at Florida, I mean, which.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Is crazy because I believe this is very similar to
what they do in California. Like you only get you
get a higher alimony if you're married over five years.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Over ten years, there's certain.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
It's graduated type.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, it's a graduated market for alimony out there as well.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I'm not mad at this. I think it's good.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
It's part of the reasons why I'm not interested in marriage,
because if it ends based on your state, you know,
it's tricky on how they can dissect, how they can
uh you know, if there is a prenup involved or not,
how they navigate that because prenups don't always protect you either.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Yeah, that was interesting alimony. So wait, so before this,
they had it where you could get alimony.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
For the rest of your life until someone dies.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
I wonder how often that was granted, you said, I
wonder how often that was granted like that? Is that
the standard of like all the alimony is like that?
Or is it saying that a judge has the ability
to say, Okay, you get alimony for ten years, but
you get alimony from ready.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I think that that's where my stance that went viral
last week should if you are the breadwinner, if you
are the person with us said, if you are the
person who makes the most money, marriage doesn't end.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Up benefiting you and the end because if it doesn't
work out.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Oftentimes the judge is going to side with the person
who makes the more money, or they side with the
person who makes the least money, which means the person
actually with money now is to provide care for the
person they're no longer with because there's a certain level
of you still have to maintain the lifestyle that was
provided or you now, especially if you were a woman
(34:28):
who gave up her career to be a wife or
a child wife like that we talked about on Tuesday.
Now the husband is responsible for making sure you're able
to still maintain life.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Well, It's interesting because a couple of weeks ago, I
saw this post because Greg Street DJ Greg Street shout out.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
At Greg Street. Even though this post was kind of optunes.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
He was talking about Tyreek Hill and Tyreek Hill got
divorced from his wife, and the story was that in
the divorce she got six million.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Dollars five dollars, got a whole lot of shit.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
But and people were outraged in the comments section, why well,
we know why, but no, why what?
Speaker 4 (35:16):
What? What? What did you see?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
The sentiment ask, because whatever you saw, I saw the
opposite of maybe because algorithm.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Oh maybe all the people women say she.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Deserved every bit of that because he had five babies
on her.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
All the people that I saw in there were discuss
mostly men, were all disgusted at the idea that this
woman would get six million dollars in the house and
five hundred And I'm looking at this case and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
He's he's worked over one hundred million dollars he.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Made he I had to go look it up because
I was like, just see, before I really think about
what she would have got so much more his NFL career,
over the course of ten years, he's made one hundred
and seventy four point two million million dollars and go.
And I'm assuming they got married in Florida because he's
played for Miami Lives, So I'm assuming he got married
in Florida.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
So I'm like, ain you ready dear their very short
sentsed marriage right, and prior to marriage, he had over
five kids by five different women on her right, mind you,
If I'm not mistaken, he now has ten or eleven
children because he has five with her, So you are
(36:17):
now making a woman a single woman of five kids.
Maybe she probably should have got motherfucking ten.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
So my thing about it is like six percent is less.
It's like four point two percent of his lifetime earning.
Niggas be bitching and complaining about oh half, she's gonna
take half of my shit, half of my shit, half
of my shit. That like, the number didn't say eighty
million dollars, seventy five million.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Dollars, got less than five percent.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
You got less than five percent of his NFL earnings
and like six million dollars not for nothing. I don't
know how taxes work with alimonia and all that kind
of stuff, but I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
So alimony and child support if I'm not mistaken, you know,
it was a long time since I did taxe, right,
But if I'm not mistaken, those are not on tax
because they're not considered income income.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Right.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Yeah, So she got six million dollars to which is like,
you can fuck up six million dollars real fast, Like
you can blow six million dollars and she doesn't guarantee
that she's gonna go out and be some rich Elsson.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
She got the house, she got the car, and not well,
she got one hundred thousand dollars to purchase a new car.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Right, you can buy two cars for one.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Hundreds one hundred thousand dollars cash can be good.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Nope, Like, she got the home, she got a lot
of a lot of.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Stuff, so she I think she will also get child support, right,
So that five million dollars was in addition she's for
child Why are you shaking your headaches?
Speaker 4 (37:37):
So like, what's the what's the problem?
Speaker 5 (37:39):
Like, so I look because now it's over with for
all marriages after July first, twenty twenty three, I say,
when did this shit even start?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
As a legal practice?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Permanent alimony in Florida starting eighteen twenty eight and was
established by Florida's territorial legislator more than a decade before
Florida even became an official US state in eighteen forty five.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Outdated.
Speaker 9 (38:01):
Shit, that's some colonial ship. Yeah, that's what that should
come from Europe. Yeah, from eighteen twenty eight to the
fucking twenty that's one hundred thousand years and not for
nothing that I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
You said a long time, long time.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
But I'm almost surprised that that was That sounds like
a very progressive policy for it being that long ago.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Like, I'm almost surprised that that's the case.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
But it reminds me of like I just saw a
tweet that was, like, y'all keep comparing modern day women
to your grandma's.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Your grandma's didn't have an option to leave, correct, like,
and so in this case, like women didn't have the
opportunities to go through with divorce and go and start
their own.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Career, and they were married. A lot of people back
in the day as well, were either auctioned off by
their families to keep wealth within the families.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Or they were married. They were married for quote unquote stability, love.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
And religious beliefs, right, and so in a lot of religions,
divorce wasn't an option.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Correct, You get married and you can't get and that's
what it is. And it's just you. This is your person,
you know.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
But they had that's the standard. Right, they've played within
the standard and there was no social media. Now none
of this ship everything is a fucking Ponzi. This whole ship,
relationships is fucked up. How we treat each other as
fucked up? I agree, niggas don't how to cook.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
How we got there? Well, you know why?
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Because groceries are expensive. Blame inflation because maybe I'm gonna
hit up that uber eats every time.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Do you know how to make scrambled eggs?
Speaker 9 (39:39):
Me?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
And guess what I don't. I don't season my eggs
like it's chicken either.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Yo. That see, that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
You better not put no goddamns on the mica putting
anything other.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Than maybe in salt. That's it. If you just want
to be a little you better not.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
I'm gonna salt, pepper, hot sauce. I'll give a little splash,
a little something something making I do one thing sometimes
all the time. This is just for this is just
the YouTube before I have just for you know, I
like the idea of having it's like the bas effect.
So you put like a little parsley just for the.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
It doesn't add or take away you feel like it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
I mean, I'm not gonna lie. I am a green
onion whore a fire when I tell you all, that's.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
My not only.
Speaker 8 (40:41):
Nigga, yesig yes, listen, maybe stallion.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
I didn't know that, you guys, that was the same thing.
That's you. I thought it was the sweet yellow onion
was green.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Instead of that's the same man as is salmon.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
I I was gonna get to that.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
We know it's not a shape.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Slowly correcting themselves.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Green onions, Baby, I chop up them things like yeah right,
I put it on and noodles because I make it
a little Asian.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I put it on my eggs. Scallions are delicious.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Yeah, no, it's fire. My girl makes uh. So we
got it. She got into this thing with making Korean
sweet potatoes. But then she yeah, yeah, you know, she
stuffed the ones are the white sweet ones, right, that's
the Japanese. That's no.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Yeah, potatoes are like they're still like brownish, but they're
sweeter than like regular sweet potatoes. But she cook up
some bogie beef stuff to joint in the sweet potato,
little green onion on top of okaying some little Japanese barbecues.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Oh man, oh, I just bought both flavors of that
Japanese barber.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
That ship is that they got.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
That ship figured you niggas who just got on to
sushi and y'all like the little spicy male, spicy male,
get that Japanese ja. I got andy.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
Yeah, that ship is h both from the sprout sprouts.
Y Sea Town came a long way from seatown. Key food.
Key Food came a long way from from the foods.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Y'all don't know about food line.
Speaker 5 (42:25):
They got food line up there, No, that's down, that
is down a long way now we got stopping shot Hello,
food line anyway, wiggly down here. I was gonna say,
I feel like food line is like maybe under piggy Wiggly.
It is like, I feel like wiggily might be the
I don't.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Even think piggy wiggle is a thing anymore. Food line. Wait,
food line is still.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
Out, maybe not in masks, but a couple of them
hanging on that remember path mark, Yeah, we didn't have that.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
They closing off it was on one twenty fifth Zombie Lands.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
One path mark left. It's on Albany Avenue in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
You would know Ooklyn.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
Yeah, only one left well pathmark.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Well, yeah, we've been saying it, and I think we'll
be reiterating it now for the next three months. Know
and look up these policies wherever you are living, Understand
and look up these laws and bills that are being
passed right up under your nose.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Because maybe you get pulled over with a roach. You
hear what's happening in the Texas.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
And put you away.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
Maybe did you give the officer your license? He's gonna
know the composition of that that thumb and that forefinger.
That's a road.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
They're gonna be like, let me spell your points. What's
that thing?
Speaker 4 (43:51):
Ten years?
Speaker 7 (43:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (43:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
I just think it's really important that we continue to
have these conversations. As you know, we'll always and continue
to have them here on Selective Ignorance Again. If you
want to watch this full video, join us on the
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Speaker 2 (44:10):
Backslash with MANDYB with two ey's. Thank y'all so very much.
This was a good bonus.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Hope y'all appreciate it. I hope y'all enjoyed it, and
hopefully you do not live in any of the ten
states where it is the worst to live and if
you do, have the courage to move. Thank you, guys
so very much for tuning in to a bonus episode it'
Selective Ignorance.
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This is Mandy be Welcome to Selective Ignorance, a production
of the Black EPEC Podcast Network and Iart Radio. Y'all,
welcome to our bonus episode here of Selective Ignorance, where
we kind of get to the topics maybe we didn't
get to on Tuesday. This one specifically though, got dropped
into the chat and we may or may not be
(00:22):
talking about where the fuck you live.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
But also we've been talking mid terms. We've been talking the.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Importance of knowing what policies are being dropped. So over
the last couple of weeks, I've run across some new
laws that have been introduced across various states, as well
as something being introduced to federal legislation.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So I'm excited. I ain't gonna hold you.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
This is probably the first time y'all sent a link
and I ain't opening it up. But then you said
did you open it up? And I was like no,
and then you said you want the real time they
so yeah, welcome y'all.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Y'all know, I'm joined with my brother.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
There's in crime a King Jason johll Y. We in
the building and this is gonna be a fun one
because you know why, I kind of like to talk ship.
Not do I kind of like to talk ship. I
think that this will be a fun topic.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
This will also be a fun way that we can
get some more outrage on the internet as well.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So let's have some fun here. D.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I might need you to take some of our best moments,
get some notes so we can chop this ship on up.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
But let's start. Who's who dropped this.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Into the note? I did?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Okay, Yeah, I opened an app and it gave you prayer.
But nah, I open the app and I saw this
this a list, and I thought it was gonna be
well when you see when you see it, you'll see
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I thought it's gonna be something else.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
And then I saw the criteria what they use to
determine the ten worst states.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I didn't know it was a video.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Okay, quite interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So the way we do have a video, My bad,
you ain't put that it was a clip. I thought
it was a list. Uh D. We actually do have
a clip from c n C n b C.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Now, y'all, this clip is give us some context of
what people are about to hear.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Oh, you're gonna hear the this c NBC's list of
the ten worst states to live in based on quality
of life quality. I wish, I wish I could have
pleped this out before we uh uh play it, because
I would love to get everyone's.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
They think it's going to be on that list?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Wait, the worst states?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Okay, let's do that.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Let's do let's yeah, I can't give it because I
know I did not see this, So let's let me
based on quality.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Let's let's watch. How watch.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know the list?
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
John, do you know the list?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No? I don't know. I don't watch. Between you and I, city,
city is right, states totality.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Between you and I, let's come up with which states
we believe are America's worst states to live in for
twenty twenty six. I will start off by saying Florida
due to I would say political landscape, it's just too
fucking hot, okay, and I know that their education is
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fairly poor. So I'm going to list Florida as much?
Are you keeping track of our list? Can you type
the states that me and John come up with so
that we can see how far off we are?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
We both people?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
All right?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
So you start with Florida. I'm going to start with uh.
I want to start with New Hampshire, okay, because it's
cold as hell and it probably ain't no niggas there,
and my quality of life is severely impacted behind being
cold and no black people.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, can't do okay, can you be sure for you?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I actually think they're rated fairly high with education, so
I wouldn't say but probably, but I'm going I'll let
you add that to the list. I ain't gonna hold you,
y'all probably gonna kill me. I'm going all Bible belt here. Uh,
Mississippi if we even see what the political landscape is
as well with racism. H and they are also a
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red state. So I'm going with Mississippi for number three.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Okay, I will go with.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Worre states to live in based on quality of life.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I'm probably gonna go with Iowa, okay, because I feel
like there's probably nothing in like when I think of
Iowa or No, I'm sorry, wait, yeah, Iowa, Okay, No,
I'm sorry, not Iowa. Idaho, That's what I think I'll
go Idaho.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You said, don't nobody want to be by potatoes.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Let me just add something to this caveat to the
to the criteria.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's quality of life.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Right, but they use factors such as healthcare, crime, work
of protections, environmental quality, inclusiveness, and access to child care.
They didn't include home prices, whether or you know, whether
you actually enjoy well.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I'm not gonna lie, but I say that even if we.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Don't, I'm gonna go ahead and throw it in there
because everyone from the South actually hates it.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I have to add New York.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm going to add New York because quality of life
is hell. You don't really get washers and dryers. Sometimes
you live in a walk up. Getting groceries is difficult.
The cost of living is really expensive. Even if you
got a car, you gotta change different sides of the road. Like,
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I think it's the best city in the world. New
York City is, but quality of life, it is very hard.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
In New York. And now I'm gonna bring the cave.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I back about the state, the state all but because
then you go up north and it's.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Called I was going to say, outside of as parts
of New York, you think you're in the South. Yeah,
that's all outside of New York. I imagine it's very
different in New York State.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
New York. I don't even be here past seven pm?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Right, So yeah, I was gonna get that with too,
because I figured I feel like that's one of those things.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And that was number five. Five is New York.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Let's let's go to six. Mm hmm. Interesting.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
I'm gonna go, well, what the factors they use? They
said environment and what was the other one?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You said? Healthcare?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Inclusiveness and access to childcare?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Okay, So I'm gonna go with Alaska because I feel
like with some of those things, I feel like it's
so desolate. How good can childcare be when the probably
aren't enough people to even be have a lot of
childcare type facilities out there.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'm so mad I didn't save this video. There's a
video niggas in Alaska.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I seen. I've seen YouTube. No, I don't be going
out there looking for smoke.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I ain't even.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
If you just like there was a time where I
used to look up like chefs in jail, like they'd
be cooking underneath the stairs.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Is right?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
If y'all just want to look up some random shit
because you high you just don't have anything that you
are interested in watching. Look up hoods of Alaska, and
it's the black people in Alaska, and baby they got
it is so funny because then they are also showing
you what it's like to live in a place where
it's twenty four hours of lightness.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah, twenty four hours of darkness.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
When I tell you it's some of it, I was,
I was glued. Okay, so you said Alaska. I am
going to add to the list because I feel like
I just heard that Georgia is forty ninth in education.
(07:48):
Really yes, in terms of like quality of education here.
I also feel like with the with it being a
red state, very red, not.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Many, I'm gonna add Georgia. Okay, I'm going to add Georgia.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
To the list because it's also becoming expensive as well,
more expensive than it needs to be.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Same with Florida. So I'm gonna add Georgia, and I
think we have three more.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
You can do more.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, you go seven. I do know you're going eight.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
That was seven, Okay, eight. I'm gonna go West Virginia.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Okay, West Virginia because I feel like it is a
very white, very appellation and probably a lot of like
sundown town type areas in West past Or, West Virginia.
One time, doing a road trip from New York to
New Orleans never again. And we went to you know,
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usually I'm I'm used to going down on ninety five
to Carolina's Iety five. This time you go further west.
You see that sign welcome to West Virginia. You like,
oh shit, then you start to pay attention.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Bro. Yeah, they still live in like they're in a
different time.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
They're a different encurrent, They're they're incursion in the timeline.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
They're in a different part of the TVA.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
And that's how like to me, West Virginia and Virginia
are very different things. And like I imagine that West Virginia
is in some type of like suspended time. And I've
seen a video that like Mandy was talking about about
Alaska about West Virginia.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yo.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Man, it's there's a lot of talent in these in
these areas, they just it's untapped, right, They're just kind
of like doing for themselves.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
That's the where I have no I would have no
interest in living.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, So we are at nine, and that's eight. I
am going to add.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Quality of life.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And so my last pick number nine, I am going
to say Michigan. And it's because we do know that
Detroit has a high crime rate. They're one of the
highest in the country. We also know that Flint has
been dealing with a water crisis.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Your years and no one seems to give a funk
about to.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Give a fuck.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And then outside of it being cold, we also know
that at one point, Michigan was a huge part of
the Industrial Revolution and a lot of those jobs no
longer exists, So I assume the unemployment rate might be
a little high in Michigan. So I'm gonna say Michigan, Okay,
I'm gonna go with rounded out Utah.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Okay, I think I'm gonna go with Utah.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
A lot of Mormons, a lot of weird Mormon idiosyncers.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And you can't even order shots or doubles.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
What Mormon Mormon code. But you can drink alcohol, but
they want to regulate how you drink it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It's just interesting you adding that, because for someone who
and I guess most of the country, even federally, we're
supposed to separate church and state, right, that is a state.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
That goes by. Yeah, they don't get a tun about
nothing else.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, such, I'm not mad at that, Okay, Yeah, And
I guess quality of.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Life would only be impacted if you're extradited from the
Mormon Church or aren't.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Morning correct, because it might be it might be all
right for them.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah, they prior rack with wise.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So we have a clip. I would love to see
an a king before we play.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Were we close?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Interesting because the criteria that they provide right, Yes, as
you guys were saying, your list, I wonder how to
pie chart quantifies as it relates to healthcare versus the
scale like yeah, certain things that's like higher and then.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And this is why less tricky.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
They are tricky. But this is an interesting list. I
see what c NBC got.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Let's see what c NBA C puts the ten worst
states for quality of life?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Before you hit it, did they or maybe say in
the video, did it say, how like was this just
this guy's opinion?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Was it like a vote of people who looks.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
According let's plaitic clip politic.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
States to live in?
Speaker 7 (12:03):
And I know a lot of you are not gonna
like who came in at number two. They based the
rankings on quality of life metrics, things like crime, access
to healthcare, protections for workers, the kind of things it
says would attract workers to a state.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
At number ten, Arkansas, which.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Actually moved up this year, but they got the market
for violent crime, dead last for food and security overaholl
number nine. A cheap minimum wage and poor worker protections
hurt the sooner state Alabama's eight poor marx four mental
health providers, and limited protections against discrimination.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Missouri number seven, one of.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
The most violent states in America according to FBI statistics,
top ten in firearm deaths too.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Utah is sixth beautiful.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
State, but bad mark from CNBC for healthcare and a
low minimum wage at five. Georgia ranked worker rights and
protections against discrimination. Louisiana was fourth over healthcare access and
violent crime rates.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Third.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Indiana ranked low when it comes to childcare, which makes
it more expensive for families to live there. At number
two my home state of Texas, and this is weird though,
because CNBC rates Texas's fourth best when it comes to
doing business. When it comes to quality of life, they
ranked the lone star state low for healthcare reasons, a
high uninsured rate, dead last in the country in primary
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care physicians per capita, and CNBC state with the lowest
quality of life, Tennessee one of the highest violent crime
rates in the country's third highest drug death rate and
hostility towards the LGBTQ community.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Here's my problem with this joy. They pretty much set
all the red states boom.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So if you get into pretty much said every Middle
America like this is literally it's this and if you're
watching this on video, I'm doing just like this beach.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
It's from Texas.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Everything middle of America is what they're saying is the
worst quality of life, which.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Is why honestly underscores exactly what's happening social political comment.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
That we're in.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
What a second, it's Middle America and Bible Belt because
you had Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Yeah, all the southern states
historically Louisiana like and I was gonna say Louisiana too,
only and I meant to say it because of even
when I went, it was interesting talking to the locals,
even of New Orleans and knowing that even the way
that they responded that their seward system, everything that's still
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set up with the city as.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
A whole is just like this infrastructure is what is happening.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah, I mean, if you look at the comments section,
it's just so the most racist states having the lowest
quality of life got it, got it, got it okay,
And you know, and that's not totally surprising because to
your point about the socio economic political stuff, like a
lot of times what the people in the Red States
will say is like, you know, we talk about coastal
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elites and like all the liberals in the in the
coastal states in California and New York, in New Jersey
and all of this kind.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Of shit, and it's like.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
The people on those on the coasts are trying to
advance society and the people in the middle and the
Red are trying to regress us back to a certain
time that they think is the dope time to be alive.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
And so it doesn't surprise me that the people in
those states.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Have a poor quality of life, because that's what they're
essentially asking for.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
It's a poor quality focused it.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
But outside of a poor quality of life, it's crazy
because a lot of those towns are probably those small
towns where a lot of people don't get out of
And so for me, you know, we talked about a
Tuesday being.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
A world traveler with highlights.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You know, if you knew better, you do better, essentially,
And so for people don't want to do better, but
for people.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Who've never seen another quality of life, for people who
don't believe it to be true or possible, for people
to think that things on the internet ain't real or
it doesn't get any better because they've never been afore
the opportunity to leave. It reminds me of when I
go back to Orlando and even talking you know, to
my sister's partner about where people are at in that
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went to middle school with me, in high school with me,
Like all the people from middle school, by the time
we got to high school, they were robbing. They were
robbing people and robbing gangs and ended up getting locked up.
And some of them are just now getting out. Some
of them got out in their late twenties. And it's
just like for me to talk to them about like
my sister and our partner, she was on my basketball team,
so like my sister's with somebody that I went to
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middle school with, a lot of the people on Facebook,
when I see them, they're still with partners school and
high school and there some of them living on the
same block. And so when we look in Middle America,
a lot of the people who grow up in those
small towns, a lot of times they don't leave.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
A lot of times they don't know better.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
And it's why we're seeing things like the Nolan Wells case.
We're seeing like racism talk over and over and over again,
because unfortunately, it's the communities that they're raised in, and
so we are a lot of us are products of
our environment, especially if we don't strive to want to
see more, to want to do more, to want to
be more, and it's unfortunate. What's crazy is I wasn't
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surprised about any of them state.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
No, none of surprised. Now.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
The one thing I was surprised that though, is that
the guy said that one of the reasons that Texas
was on the list for healthcare reasons is because they
have the lowest number of doctors and healthcare providers per capitalizing.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I thought that was interesting because I'm like a Texas is.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Not only a huge state, but they are doing so
much with oil and natural gas in Texas that you
would think that there would be healthcare providers all over
the place. Because that's a dangerous job where people are
getting killed, poison exploded, blows up, shit, people catch on
fire like crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Shit happens on those oil rigs and there's so much
of that going on in Texas.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I would just assume that those big companies Xon and
BP and whoever else has a footprint down there, would
be saying, Okay, we need to make sure that there's
healthcare for our employees who were doing dangerous jobs.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
And apparently that's just not the case.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh, I ain't gonna hold you.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And I know I leaned heavily into politics, and maybe
it was my own bias considering for many times to
relocate to Dallas, because I really love Dallas as a city,
but as a state. Isn't that the state that just
used eighty three thousand cameras to chase down a woman
who got an abortion? Yes, it was, And so for me,
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Texas is one of those. And I've talked to my
sister about it because she wanted to relocate to Texas
as well, because of course you could get a really
large house for a fairly affordable rate.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
But at this point, like.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
What comes with that, the politics and what they believe
and what the the against the government speaking the midterms,
what they're allowing and what they're passing into their bills
in legislation is really really scary, and speaking of which
you dropped it into the group chat. But I think
it's worth talking about, especially as we've recently discussed from
a state conversation, there's been a lot of states over
(19:07):
the last several years that have legalized marijuana, which has
in turn released a lot of people from prison or
or started the conversations of these people now in these
states should be released. Right, Well, Texas they decided, y'all
that they are now putting a band on not only THHC,
(19:28):
which is marijuana, but also Delta eight, which is oftentimes
what we see in these smoke shops. Even in Georgia
where it's not legalized, it's in gas stations and.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Who's smoking at ship I don't want to a couple
years ago, niggas.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, what are you doing now?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
You dropped this into the chat? Joh, what does this
mean for Texas residents? How soon is it becoming.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Because it's it's current now, right they passed.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
It, Yeah, it passed.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
It goes into effect July by thirty first, went into effect.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Now.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
So the part that fucked me up is that, like
even in this red ass Georgia, a lot of the
cities in the metro area that have seceded from the
counties like Sandy Springs, Dunwoody. I think I think Alpha
Redda to seceeded from Fullllll County something like that. But
they have all these municipalities that wanted to annex themselves
(20:24):
from the counties and they passed their own laws. So
a lot of these places have they're not making it legal,
but it's the criminalized even here in Red Ass, Georgia.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
In Texas.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
So I said that to say, in Georgia, you'll get
in some places in Atlanta or in Georgia, you'll get
a ticket for marijuana. I won't go to jail. You't
have to pay any bond or any bail. In Texas,
that's how they break it down. Under one gram of marijuana.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Which is a blunt, essentially a skinny blunt might be
a roach for a roach clip, let's talk to the
audience here.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
One hundred and eighty days or two years in jail
with the fine up to ten thousand dollars for a blunt.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
For a roach, roach clip. A nigga. Let me tell
you something.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
In New York, there was a time where you see
niggas with smoke all the way to the end of
this ship.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah to the point no water. You can go get
locked up for that little eighty eight.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Six months to two years. I'm for a roach ten
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Fine, Hey, y'all better treat uh, y'all better treat THHD
in Texas like britty grunners should have treated that bait
pin for Russia.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
It's a machine gun. It's like fucking like you better okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So wait, that's just for a roach.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
We're going up.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
That's where we start. That's that's the floor we haven't got.
So oh, you're getting locked one hundred years just for
a bag of weed under four grams, third degree felony
up to ten years in prison and a fine.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Of ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Motherfucking lie.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Some niggas four grams in, they blunt in, they joint.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
If you get a cone or raw papers and you
stuff a cone or raw but you might put a
whole three five in your one cone, that could get
you a third degree felony in ten years.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
God damn.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Up to four hundred grams. Now, four hundred grams are
you going to no? No, No, four hundred grams, so twenty
eight grams the is one ounce.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
So you're talking about like.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Maybe yeah, yeah, yeah, we're talking about like okay, so
this is ten to fifteen ounces, twenty years in prison,
ten thousand dollars fine, more than how you gonna pay
it making license plates and sewing up shirts, gilding t
shirts or whatever the fuck else. More than four hundred
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grams is up to a life sentence and a fine
fifty thousand for a weed weed for weed possessions.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
When I tell y'all, Houston, Texas has a problem because baby,
them parties be littered.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Up, don't snitch. And I've seen niggas.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
I see one of my favorite content creators that live
in Texas was like, Nigga's still gonna smoke.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
And I'm like, no, not with them. Sh I wouldn't
take no chances.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I wouldn't even take it.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I wouldn't take. But here's where it gets super. This
way is super you.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Let's also let's draw the barrier that Texas is a
racist ass state.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Very very much so, very much so.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
So this goes into effect on July thirty first, that
ship or is that an effects an effect?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
It's an effect right now. Man.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
The state of Texas is also the state that houses
the most incarcerated people in the entire country.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Oh, this is this is for this though.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
This is the private prison pipeline capital.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
There's private prisons all over the state.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yep, man, they're just breaking the money.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
And so imagine how much more money these prisons would
make with having this amount of people get locked up.
I thought you send the contrary if they allowed weed
to be legal there.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Well it was, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Yeah, they were those people with those billionaires saw with
a lot.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
But but those people would be losing money.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
The person that gets locked up is money out of
their greedy ass podcasts. So imagine what those people are
donating to the campaigns of judges who get elected and
give out these sins.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I'm curious then, like a brand like nowadays, there's so
many like brands now that have.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
THHC infused into drinks. I assume they're just not going
to be.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Able to ye. Here's the crazy part, though.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
They are still allowing the sale of some gummies and
some small products that have less than one grand. Getting
the out of here, we're gonna buy it? Who's gonna
buy that? Like of buying any of those, I'm not
gonna lie to.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
My one gummy. I need at least five grams a.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Little to fell it.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
It'll be ten grams and I bite that bitch in
hair right.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Hello, I wonder how does that affect travel? Because now
I'm pretty sure they're not gonna, Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Wouldn't even go through a Texas airport with it.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
They probably gonna set you up like, yeah ahead, come
on in with that.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, probably because you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Gonna tell y'all not to do.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Because I know some of y'all who come from different
cities and go in smaller airports. Will y'all go to
King Kun when y'all go to Cabo, A lot of
them layovers is in Dallas and Houston. Y'all might want
to go ahead and not even have that ship pack.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Last time I was got an ignorant question.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Last time I was in Houston, I smoked the blunt
in front of my hotel on the street like it
was just whatever. I feel like that's a thing. I
remember he was in New York at the hotel. He
smoking the outside the hotel.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I got a little ignorance tape.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah, I mean I kind of got a little annoyed
with a friend of mine this last week in St.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Martin. Yep, Okay, go to her stories.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And it's okay.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
She knows I was pissed at her because I looked
at her like bitch. So she's a weed at someone
who literally has smoked before every meal. So I go
to check out my state bar, my very expensive hotel.
No mm hmmm, two hundred and fifty euro o charge.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Oh yes, because it smelt up the room.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
She didn't even smoke in the room, but the smell
of it, mind you. We walked into it after dinner,
and even Crystal was.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Like, I smelled something, and so when.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
The cleaner went in, the cleaner smelled something too, right,
and I wanted to check out, and I said, oh, bit,
you better send me that money right now. Yeah, but
I said, moving forward, I don't even want to travel
with nobody with weed no more, because like that's the fine.
We stayed in three different places, and so I'm just
like that, racking up, say three hundred in each location,
could have been another thousand dollars just for you traveling
(27:10):
with this weed.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Because baby, my friends ain't smoking.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
No mid or redge.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Do you know what woud is?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It means it smells loud too and I was when
I tell you, I was so upset. Yeah, I mean
she gave you the money, but I was just like,
oh yeah. And I realized I never really traveled with smokers.
I traveled with drinkers.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I'm drinking.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I'm a drinker. We're not. But it's in chocolate for yeah,
don't you don't smell it.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But I realized now, if it's starting to crack down
like this, even the bapes, that's what Britney Grinder got
in trouble for that weed and the bapes. The THHC
is what you gotta be careful with going across this ship.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I draw the parallel here.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
That hotel has a standard and you smoke weed in
my establishment.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Well what you nobody?
Speaker 4 (27:59):
The Fine One University said we don't want you with
rag bond it or else. It's the same thing. It's
like I'm saying. What I'm saying is whether we.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Take to the rag roof your desires of what freedom
tell success is valid, but we also have to respect
the establishment or don't by not participating.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
In the establishment.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
So her friend and Mandy had the information ahead of
time that there was gonna be a thing or we're
gonna be loud and loud.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Hey, don't bring that ship in here. You're gonna put
the fucking bills.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
If you go to the Rich Carlton, if you go
to the Four Seasons, if you were time that we
stayed in Saint Bart start. We ended up going to magazines.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Mandy not easy either because she ain't going to Hillton.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Marion was gorgeous, like literally and by the way, Sat
Bart is known as Millionaire Island?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Is it all of the taxis, Oh, look it up,
look it up, mind you. All of the taxis that
were called for us were Mercedes ben Sprinters. That was
their taxi. We ended up going to Baga Tell.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
As we walk out, there's this black couple that literally
bag Now as we're leaving bag Tell, we literally we
literally get stopped by a couple because he just wanted
to buy us shots because he felt like he was
in get out being on the island. He said, oh
my god, I was just happy to see other black women.
Like it's a it's very white. It's literally an island
(29:36):
that can afford to shut down during hurricane season. So
from August to November they're shut down.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
They've made enough money that it doesn't that it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
And so.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Literally as they're telling us why this fine is attached,
they're like, because now we have to air out the
room for our next guest.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
We can't allow guests to come into a room.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
That they can hallo.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, back to the bonnets and do rags.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
That is not But no, you got the sticker that says, hey,
if they smell smoke.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah, caring, So you're not allowed to smoke it.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Something that's damage to the property, or accept the fine.
My do rag is damage nothing but your weak ass respectability.
But anyway, will go on and talk about no, but listen,
at this point, it's twenty twenty six, Like, if you're
still smoking in hotel rooms, you're kind of playing yourself
because like, yeah, if you go outside, yeah, maybe you're
taking a risk of getting arrested, but you can. There's
(30:31):
so many places you can find that a discreet you
can smoke your little shit, go about your business.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
But if you're gonna smoke in the room, no towel
under the door, no towel on the.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Steel, and it's gonna stop the smell of marijuana from
lingering in the sheets in the curtain.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Oh no, wait, even worse, she threw a roach away
in the trash that was.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Gonna be my that's really the problem. And you're not
gonna get away from that.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
They got every ding on that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Oh my god, damn yeah, yeah, you can't do that.
In twenty two you cannot do that. There's no getting
away with this shit. I want to know what friend
that is?
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Now now.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Story, Hey, let's do these two because these two are
going to impact those of you that want to do
the two things that bitch I don't want to do,
which have to deal with getting pregnant and getting married. Now,
let's start with another state law. We're gonna go from
(31:34):
Texas to Florida. So Florida just recently passed and eliminated
permanent alimony for good. So Florida officially ended permanent alimony
for good under reform bill HB thirteen oh one. So
instead of an open ended payments that last until death
(31:57):
or remarriage, the state now use this is durational alimony,
capped by how long the marriage lasted, so up to
fifty percent of the marriage length for three to ten
year marriages, sixty percent for ten to twenty year marriages.
And seventy five percent for marriages over twenty years. So
marriages under three years are now generally presumed ineligible for alimony,
(32:21):
and payers can also seek reductions ahead of retirement. Big picture,
how long a marriage lasts now directly shapes what's owed
after it ends. I like this, and it was lifetime
at one point, well prior to was until death or remarriage.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Yeah, I'm getting married at Florida, I mean, which.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Is crazy because I believe this is very similar to
what they do in California. Like you only get you
get a higher alimony if you're married over five years.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Over ten years, there's certain.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
It's graduated type.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, it's a graduated market for alimony out there as well.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I'm not mad at this. I think it's good.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
It's part of the reasons why I'm not interested in marriage,
because if it ends based on your state, you know,
it's tricky on how they can dissect, how they can
uh you know, if there is a prenup involved or not,
how they navigate that because prenups don't always protect you either.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Yeah, that was interesting alimony. So wait, so before this,
they had it where you could get alimony.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
For the rest of your life until someone dies.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
I wonder how often that was granted, you said, I
wonder how often that was granted like that? Is that
the standard of like all the alimony is like that?
Or is it saying that a judge has the ability
to say, Okay, you get alimony for ten years, but
you get alimony from ready.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I think that that's where my stance that went viral
last week should if you are the breadwinner, if you
are the person with us said, if you are the
person who makes the most money, marriage doesn't end.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Up benefiting you and the end because if it doesn't
work out.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Oftentimes the judge is going to side with the person
who makes the more money, or they side with the
person who makes the least money, which means the person
actually with money now is to provide care for the
person they're no longer with because there's a certain level
of you still have to maintain the lifestyle that was
provided or you now, especially if you were a woman
(34:28):
who gave up her career to be a wife or
a child wife like that we talked about on Tuesday.
Now the husband is responsible for making sure you're able
to still maintain life.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Well, It's interesting because a couple of weeks ago, I
saw this post because Greg Street DJ Greg Street shout out.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
At Greg Street. Even though this post was kind of optunes.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
He was talking about Tyreek Hill and Tyreek Hill got
divorced from his wife, and the story was that in
the divorce she got six million.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Dollars five dollars, got a whole lot of shit.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
But and people were outraged in the comments section, why well,
we know why, but no, why what?
Speaker 4 (35:16):
What? What? What did you see?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
The sentiment ask, because whatever you saw, I saw the
opposite of maybe because algorithm.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Oh maybe all the people women say she.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Deserved every bit of that because he had five babies
on her.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
All the people that I saw in there were discuss
mostly men, were all disgusted at the idea that this
woman would get six million dollars in the house and
five hundred And I'm looking at this case and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
He's he's worked over one hundred million dollars he.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Made he I had to go look it up because
I was like, just see, before I really think about
what she would have got so much more his NFL career,
over the course of ten years, he's made one hundred
and seventy four point two million million dollars and go.
And I'm assuming they got married in Florida because he's
played for Miami Lives, So I'm assuming he got married
in Florida.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
So I'm like, ain you ready dear their very short
sentsed marriage right, and prior to marriage, he had over
five kids by five different women on her right, mind you,
If I'm not mistaken, he now has ten or eleven
children because he has five with her, So you are
(36:17):
now making a woman a single woman of five kids.
Maybe she probably should have got motherfucking ten.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
So my thing about it is like six percent is less.
It's like four point two percent of his lifetime earning.
Niggas be bitching and complaining about oh half, she's gonna
take half of my shit, half of my shit, half
of my shit. That like, the number didn't say eighty
million dollars, seventy five million.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Dollars, got less than five percent.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
You got less than five percent of his NFL earnings
and like six million dollars not for nothing. I don't
know how taxes work with alimonia and all that kind
of stuff, but I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
So alimony and child support if I'm not mistaken, you know,
it was a long time since I did taxe, right,
But if I'm not mistaken, those are not on tax
because they're not considered income income.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Right.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Yeah, So she got six million dollars to which is like,
you can fuck up six million dollars real fast, Like
you can blow six million dollars and she doesn't guarantee
that she's gonna go out and be some rich Elsson.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
She got the house, she got the car, and not well,
she got one hundred thousand dollars to purchase a new car.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Right, you can buy two cars for one.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Hundreds one hundred thousand dollars cash can be good.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Nope, Like, she got the home, she got a lot
of a lot of.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Stuff, so she I think she will also get child support, right,
So that five million dollars was in addition she's for
child Why are you shaking your headaches?
Speaker 4 (37:37):
So like, what's the what's the problem?
Speaker 5 (37:39):
Like, so I look because now it's over with for
all marriages after July first, twenty twenty three, I say,
when did this shit even start?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
As a legal practice?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Permanent alimony in Florida starting eighteen twenty eight and was
established by Florida's territorial legislator more than a decade before
Florida even became an official US state in eighteen forty five.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Outdated.
Speaker 9 (38:01):
Shit, that's some colonial ship. Yeah, that's what that should
come from Europe. Yeah, from eighteen twenty eight to the
fucking twenty that's one hundred thousand years and not for
nothing that I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
You said a long time, long time.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
But I'm almost surprised that that was That sounds like
a very progressive policy for it being that long ago.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Like, I'm almost surprised that that's the case.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
But it reminds me of like I just saw a
tweet that was, like, y'all keep comparing modern day women
to your grandma's.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Your grandma's didn't have an option to leave, correct, like,
and so in this case, like women didn't have the
opportunities to go through with divorce and go and start
their own.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Career, and they were married. A lot of people back
in the day as well, were either auctioned off by
their families to keep wealth within the families.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Or they were married. They were married for quote unquote stability, love.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
And religious beliefs, right, and so in a lot of religions,
divorce wasn't an option.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Correct, You get married and you can't get and that's
what it is. And it's just you. This is your person,
you know.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
But they had that's the standard. Right, they've played within
the standard and there was no social media. Now none
of this ship everything is a fucking Ponzi. This whole ship,
relationships is fucked up. How we treat each other as
fucked up? I agree, niggas don't how to cook.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
How we got there? Well, you know why?
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Because groceries are expensive. Blame inflation because maybe I'm gonna
hit up that uber eats every time.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Do you know how to make scrambled eggs?
Speaker 9 (39:39):
Me?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
And guess what I don't. I don't season my eggs
like it's chicken either.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Yo. That see, that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
You better not put no goddamns on the mica putting
anything other.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Than maybe in salt. That's it. If you just want
to be a little you better not.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
I'm gonna salt, pepper, hot sauce. I'll give a little splash,
a little something something making I do one thing sometimes
all the time. This is just for this is just
the YouTube before I have just for you know, I
like the idea of having it's like the bas effect.
So you put like a little parsley just for the.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
It doesn't add or take away you feel like it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
I mean, I'm not gonna lie. I am a green
onion whore a fire when I tell you all, that's.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
My not only.
Speaker 8 (40:41):
Nigga, yesig yes, listen, maybe stallion.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
I didn't know that, you guys, that was the same thing.
That's you. I thought it was the sweet yellow onion
was green.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Instead of that's the same man as is salmon.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
I I was gonna get to that.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
We know it's not a shape.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Slowly correcting themselves.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Green onions, Baby, I chop up them things like yeah right,
I put it on and noodles because I make it
a little Asian.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I put it on my eggs. Scallions are delicious.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Yeah, no, it's fire. My girl makes uh. So we
got it. She got into this thing with making Korean
sweet potatoes. But then she yeah, yeah, you know, she
stuffed the ones are the white sweet ones, right, that's
the Japanese. That's no.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Yeah, potatoes are like they're still like brownish, but they're
sweeter than like regular sweet potatoes. But she cook up
some bogie beef stuff to joint in the sweet potato,
little green onion on top of okaying some little Japanese barbecues.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Oh man, oh, I just bought both flavors of that
Japanese barber.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
That ship is that they got.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
That ship figured you niggas who just got on to
sushi and y'all like the little spicy male, spicy male,
get that Japanese ja. I got andy.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
Yeah, that ship is h both from the sprout sprouts.
Y Sea Town came a long way from seatown. Key food.
Key Food came a long way from from the foods.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Y'all don't know about food line.
Speaker 5 (42:25):
They got food line up there, No, that's down, that
is down a long way now we got stopping shot Hello,
food line anyway, wiggly down here. I was gonna say,
I feel like food line is like maybe under piggy Wiggly.
It is like, I feel like wiggily might be the
I don't.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Even think piggy wiggle is a thing anymore. Food line. Wait,
food line is still.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
Out, maybe not in masks, but a couple of them
hanging on that remember path mark, Yeah, we didn't have that.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
They closing off it was on one twenty fifth Zombie Lands.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
One path mark left. It's on Albany Avenue in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
You would know Ooklyn.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
Yeah, only one left well pathmark.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Well, yeah, we've been saying it, and I think we'll
be reiterating it now for the next three months. Know
and look up these policies wherever you are living, Understand
and look up these laws and bills that are being
passed right up under your nose.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Because maybe you get pulled over with a roach. You
hear what's happening in the Texas.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
And put you away.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
Maybe did you give the officer your license? He's gonna
know the composition of that that thumb and that forefinger.
That's a road.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
They're gonna be like, let me spell your points. What's
that thing?
Speaker 4 (43:51):
Ten years?
Speaker 7 (43:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (43:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
I just think it's really important that we continue to
have these conversations. As you know, we'll always and continue
to have them here on Selective Ignorance Again. If you
want to watch this full video, join us on the
pet breon that's patreon dot com.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Backslash with MANDYB with two ey's. Thank y'all so very much.
This was a good bonus.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Hope y'all appreciate it. I hope y'all enjoyed it, and
hopefully you do not live in any of the ten
states where it is the worst to live and if
you do, have the courage to move. Thank you, guys
so very much for tuning in to a bonus episode it'
Selective Ignorance.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
See you next week.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
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