Fannis Willis Election Results + Trump Booed At Libertarian Convention + Ncaa’s House Settlement

Join Tezlyn Figaro, Jade Harriell and Michele Watley break down the news of the week, Fannis Willis wins her Democrat primary + Donald Trump booed at the Libertarian convention and what you need to know about the NCAA’s house settlement 

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(01:27):
gonna talk about Fanny Willis, those election results, also how
Trump was booed at the Libertarian Convention, and ten things
you know about the NC double a House settlement. I
think that's a really good story to talk about, So
let's get straight into it with my co host Jade
and Michelle. Fanny Lewis results. Now, guys, hey, we talked
about Fanny Willis. I just said Lewis, Fanny Willis. I

(01:47):
just made up and gave her last name Fanny Willis.
But yeah, she's been through a lot, so as you
guys don't know. For guys who don't know who, I
guess been living under a rock, which you shouldn't be
living on the rock, because if you follow my podcast,
you're pretty intelligence. But Fanny had an election, you know,
going on, despite her going against president former President Donald Trump,

(02:08):
despite all of the drama that went behind her ex lover,
mister Wade. She still had to run an election and
people were wondering would she be re elected in the primary,
and she won. She won her reelection in the Democrat primary.
Ran against a progressive, a man by the name of

(02:30):
Christian Smith, and she beat the breaks off of them. Guys.
She won by eighty seven percent. That's a very strong number.
For those who don't get it, let me just give
you the numbers to think this is important. I also
want people to know how many people actually go to
the polls. She won with seventy six thousand votes. Her
opponent got less than twelve percent of the vote with

(02:51):
eleven thousand votes. So that was a clear we like,
who are our district attorney is? So they getting out
vote pretty heavy in Fulton calend So shout out to you.
That's a high number, by the way, even though I
believe it looks like in twenty twenty for her general,
four hundred and thirty thousand people vote. So again, this

(03:14):
is the Democrat primary. I'm just going back and looking
at some old numbers, guys, because I just like, I'm
just a nerd in that way. Let's look at this
in twenty twenty when she ran for the primary. Those
who don't know. So again, you have a Democrat primary,
which means we decide what Democrat is going to be
person to go against the Republican. Republicans have a primary,
what Republican is going to be the person to go
against a Democrat in the general. So this is a

(03:36):
very interesting number. So in twenty twenty, we will say
that was a pretty high voter turnout year in Georgia
because it was during the pandemic. Remember they pushed all
of the the absentee ballots, the voting by mail. I
would one would argue that was a pretty high year
and voter turnout. Well, if we look at the numbers
in our Democrat primary, she got sixty four thousand in

(03:59):
the Democrat primary and this year the Democrat partmenty she
got seventy six thousand, So that says a lot. That
says a lot. So and said she turned out more voters,
turned out more voters, and during the time where people
can be against her because of all of the drama
with mister Wade, so as in.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
The fact that he was talking while she was you know,
a four red re election campaign. He was out there
doing interviews and stuff like that, and they were all
over the headline. So that is pretty remarkable.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Oh yeah's remarkable. That's why it's always important to dig
into the numbers, not to just say, oh, here's you one. No,
let's digg in the number. Let's se what we look like.
And the person she ran against at that time got
twenty five thousand votes, So that says that that person
doubled with this Christian did and so she's gotten out
more of us. So again, this is what we keep
talking about on get out the vote. People got to
understand get out the vote means how many people can

(04:52):
you get to come to the polls, not how many
people you get to stay home. That's why I keep
trying to tell you all these campaigns about staying home.
It actually helps people who are trying to get out
the vote because it helps me identify how many people
I need to get to the post. All I need
is fifty one percent, So y'all can stay home all
day long if fifty people show up at the poll,

(05:12):
If one hundred people show up to the post, as
long as I get fifty one, I'm still winning. So
you sitting at home, I'm just trying to let you
know you sitting hold on me. Now, bet you'd be
better off getting a third candidate or a second candidate
to split the vote. That's why I keep trying to
tell them, Jade, in the conscious community, can you let
them know how this works, because staying at home means nothing.
You know why. Let's look at how many people stayed
home in this election. Folks who saying I'm just gonna

(05:35):
stay home, they're laughing at yous.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
Are even laughing at you because you don't exist. You
don't have voting in your out there, you don't even
exist to campaigns, like literally don't exist.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Like literally eighty seven thousand people went to the polls
and made this decision. So the one hundred thousand that
stayed home, you it made no difference. The eighty seven
thousand got a chance to the side. So if you
don't want to go with the person that you are against,
get another candidate. That's how you do that. Put these
nuts on the candidate on the ballot. Seriously, saying at

(06:10):
home means nothing. Four hundred thousand people live in that district,
so a whole bunch of people stay at home. What
they gotta do with up being elected, though she still
got elected, correct, So stayed at home means nothing. It's
a matter of how many people do you get to
the polls.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
That's right, because if the four hundred thousand who were
eligible to vote got out and voted for her opponent,
she would not be in office right now. And so
getting out is where you make your decision is made
and known, and sitting at home just means.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
You just hurner a part of the decision making the process.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
That is that those forty eight thousand vod that's right,
those forty thousand, sixty thousand whoever voted, they made a
decision for you.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's it. And on the Republican side, only eighteen thousand
came out and voted, but he was unopposed for the
primary election. So we look at those numbers and say, like,
right now, there's like I gotta go against my Republican
I gotta, you know, I gotta because now she's gonna
go against his Courtney Kramer. Now people will say, oh, well,
it's no big deal. Only eighteen thousand came out, Well,

(07:04):
that's because he was on a post. It's gonna hit
different in the general. So in the general, when you
got Republicans who are coming out because we're in a
presidential year. So now we're talking about in the general
when they go down the ballot and decide it's not
just gonna be for Fulton County. Those Republicans are gonna
be out in November. You better believe it. So don't
get caught up with this. Eighteen thousand only eighteen thousand came. No,

(07:26):
that was for the primary. The number's gonna look different.
So that's why she's pushing to raise money. That's why
she's saying, I got to go against the machine. And
don't forget, she's also got to fight the Donald Trump
machine who just want to see her lose period because
of her going against Donald Trump. So that's going to
be a very interesting election to look at number wise
and see what's what I'm gonna be all up in
that mix. So I'm just curious. I just like I'm

(07:47):
just a nerve that way. I like to see how
stuff turned out and what it looks like and you know,
doing an analysis on all of that. So I thought
i'd give people, you know, an update on that to
see how that turns out. And again, guys, if she
loses it's gonna be a number of components. If she wins,
it's gonna be a number of things, not gonna be
just one thing. What she never should have win against Trump. No,
everybody ain't a fan of hers as well. Remember she

(08:09):
is a digital attorney, so plain people go to jail.
But then there's also people to say, I like that
she's tough on crime. I like that she you know,
sent folks to jail. I like that, Uh, you know,
the rappers and the drug dealers and all the crack down,
So all of that matters. These were all issues she
had to she has to dad to contend with before
Trump ever got in the mix. So if Trump and
the concert is getting the mix, what do we talk

(08:32):
about in the last episode. How that message gets amplified
is the key to what will determine her race. So
the jury still out on Mr Wade. Don't know why
he's on a campaign tour. I don't know if he's
looking for the sympathying.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
He wants to, you know, he wants to speak his
peace and let people know what his experience was and
that he's not a bad guy despite his issues with
child support, etcenta, et cetera. So I mean, I don't know.
I'm just waiting for his book to drop. I would
I can predict, like miss Cleo, that he may be
trying to monetize off this and maybe dropping a book
pretty soon.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
But well, I need him to know that a race
is still going on, a campaign, a race is going on,
and you've done enough, mister Waite, You've done enough. You
can wait until next year. But maybe they working together
with maybe what the hell do I know? Maybe she's saying,
I need you out there doing X y Z. I
don't know. I'm not a part of the strategy team.
You never know. We'll get a chance to see what
it all looks like. He's evidently not dogging her, for sure,
so maybe in the end, who's the same. We'll know,

(09:30):
We'll we'll get a chance to see what them poles
look like, though, because some poles gonna tell it all.
The post are gonna tell what worked and what did work.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
Well because he ain't dogging her. But it then becomes
another side attraction. We just see to let it go,
let it die, you know, if it's over, it's over.
Be quiet again. Let's go back to the days where
you know, we weren't kissing and telling yeah, I'm with
that period polls and no poles like we got it. Like,
so be quiet about the polls, be quiet about the bulls.

(10:00):
You ain't getting hopes.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Write about the polls like you know, the voting polls
and the other polls.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
About it. It's right, so right, So we'll see. He
did an interview with joy Reid. Be honest, I did
not watch it. I saw the clips, wasn't interested in
watching it really, but you know, hey, we'll see and
in November, we'll see. That's just gonna be interesting race.
I'm starting to spend a lot of a lot of
time in Fulton County, So I'm excited, guys because I'll

(10:32):
be looking at this from a local standpoint and just
really seeing how all this stuff plays out. So I
spent a lot of time in Atlanta, and uh, last
weekend when I was there, just signs everywhere Fulton County had,
you know, big elected. This was not the only election,
you know, the only thing they were talking about sheriff
and some other stuff was going on. So it's just

(10:52):
Fullton County is just a very engaged county in Atlanta,
and uh, it was just exciting to see what I
was just looking at, just riding around, looking at all
the signs, and who's this or that, And I'm always
paying attention to you know, go back and look at
it because I'm just a nerse so Fulton County a
lot on the table. Hope you guys if you did
not see it, it should be on demand. MSNBC did

(11:15):
a once again Battleground Georgia kind of docuseries last Sunday.
I recorded it and went back, came back and watching
it that I got home from Georgia. But certainly look
at that. It's one of the reasons why I will
be relocating to Atlanta. Georgia. It's the place to be,
it's the place to have voice. It is truly going

(11:36):
to be and is a battleground state. But I believe
a new generation of leadership, even opposing leadership. Some states
have just been locked up forever and will be like
South Carolina. But Georgia is primed for new leadership and
different voices. And you already have new leadership and different
voices down there now, but I think it's room for more.

(11:58):
So I'm excited about, you know, with the future hosts
for Georgia and hopefully will be a peach here soon.
So with us said, Trump was loudly booed at the
Libertarian convention.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
What you got on at, Jake, Yes, he was. This
is a sound of how Trump was greeted. Okay, So
over the weekend, the Libertarians had their national convention and
former President Donald Trump faced loud and consistent gooing throughout
his speech at the Libertarian Party Parties convention. It was
held at the Hilton here in DC. And this was

(12:33):
one of Trump's shortest speeches ever. Okay, it only lasted
for thirty four minutes. The Hecklan went on and on
and on, and listen, I gotta give it to Trump.
He stood there, he took those booths, and he kept
pushing the line. He kept urging the attendees at this
Libertarian convention to nominate him or at least vote for him,

(12:56):
and they blewed him consistently, and he went on and on.
Let's listen to some of it. Let's listen to how
he was duled. Even when his name was introduced.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
I would like to welcome to the stage a forty
fifth President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Unbelievable, even before Trump went and took the stage. One
of the speakers at the Libertarian convention had a lot
to say that basically, Trump is not a serious candidate.
He wouldn't be a serious like libertarian presidential candidate, but
they could use him for entertainment, and that he had
a lot to learn from them.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
We're going to listen to this really quickly as well.

Speaker 6 (13:37):
None of us are great fans of Donald Trump. I
mean that Donald is is it? Never mind, we have
a lot to teach Donald Trump. We don't know if

(13:59):
he has any capacity to learn, but we must give
the benefit of the doubt in all cases. And I
think that Donald Trump is, of nothing else, a great

(14:21):
source of humor.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Right, So they.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
Said that Trump was, if nothing else is a great
source of humor. This was really interesting because presidential candidate
Robert Kennedy Junior was also there. But I want to
read some of the quotes that Trump Donald You say
that did they welcome are okay?

Speaker 2 (14:40):
He was also booed.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
He was also he was not booting, heck bled nearly
as much as Donald Trump was. So that was something notable.
Now we do have some SoundBite trom Trump actually speaking.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Wrote an article yesterday in which he mentions just some
of the things that make me a libertarian without even
trying to be one. That's nice. De Roy wrote, Donald J.
Trump will address the Libertarian Party at this national convention
on Saturday. The Libertarian Party should nominate Trump for president

(15:16):
of the United States.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
WHOA, that's nice. That's nice. Only if you want to win.
Only if you want to win.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Maybe you don't want to win, Maybe you don't want
to win.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
One thing that I did notice is that every time
Trump spoke about himself, he was met with booth. So
that's why they kept bullying him, because I guess it
felt like he was self absorbed.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
He was booed when he said, you.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
Know, libertarians want to vote for him, and it's very
important because we have a lot to get rid of
the worst president in history. And so the libertarians also
boo when Biden's name was brought up. But it's almost
every other thing that Trump said, he was booted. So
let me know, let you all, let me know what
you think about this. I was quite surprised that they

(16:06):
bowed him as much, but then again, I don't know
much about the Libertarian Party. Trump added, quote, only do
that if you want to win. If you want to lose,
don't do that. Keep getting your three percent every four years.
So basically Trump was telling them if they don't vote
for him, they're going to continue to only have basically
three percent of a political impact, which is really interesting.

(16:28):
I was very, very very surprised that Trump was met
with as many booze as he will happen. I thought
that the Libertarian Party they invited him there to potentially
see if he could get enough Libertarian delegates or a vote
in order to win their support, But it seemed like
they didn't want him there at all, unless it was
just for entertainment purposes.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
As one of the speakers said.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Again Tess and Michelle, I don't know much about the
Libertarian Party and what their values are. I was under
the assumption that many Libertarian voters voted Trump.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Into office, so I wanted to take across on that. Yeah,
so libertarians that usually kind of considered and consider it independent.
But first I just want to go back on just
people getting invited to stuff, So get just because somebody
get invited to that doesn't mean that the crowd gonna
like you. People get invited all the time. Chris Christy
was invited plenty plenty times to plenty of things, and
they booed him, you know, the entire time. So being

(17:28):
invited means doesn't mean that the party welcomes you. It
means we want to hear all different positions, and so
you invite everybody across the board, and so a lot
of times, especially in order to be fair, they probably
invited Joe Biden. They probably invited you know, they invited
RFK the invite. So it was a matter of who
was going to accept the invitation. So that has nothing
to do with if the crowd's gonna like them or
the parties gonna like. It has to do with who

(17:49):
can we get to come show up and speak. Number two,
This was a great thing for the Libertarian Party from
a strategy standpoint, because guess what we're talking about the
Libertarian Party. Nobody's talking about the Libertarian Party. Had Trump
not showed up, had he not showed up and not
getting and not been booed, nobody would be talking about
the Libertarian Party the same way. You're like, hey, what's
up with this Libertarian Party? So a whole bunch of
people now asking what's up with this Libertarian party? So

(18:10):
it was a very smart move to invite Trump because
Trump once again has captured the media. And although the
media is sitting back laughing, oh Boa, he was boom, boom, boom,
You're still running forty eight hours of Trump. You're running
forty eight hours of Trump on the campaign trail and
not in the courthouse. And guess what they'll be talking
about Tuesday in the courthouse. Trump captures the media every

(18:33):
single day. He knows how to dominate it, good or bad.
So we're talking about Libertarian Party, We're talking about how
he's on the campaign trail even though he's in the
middle of going to court. The people against Trump will
say he in the middle of going to court, and
look at him on the campaign trail. The people that
are with him, man, he in the middle of going
to court and he's still on the campaign trail. Do

(18:55):
y'all see how I said that? I said that the
same thing, But do you see I was received to
different ways. Absolutely, while you're saying he's on the campaign
trail and he should be focused on court, they're saying, damn,
he a boss. He on the campaign trail and still
going to court. I guess what both of y'all talking
about me, right, And ain't nobody talking about what Joe

(19:16):
Biden did this weekend? That's right? And the libertarian and
the libertarian parties what we call earned media meaning free media.
Now talking about the Libertarian Party.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yeah, because after these, after these sound bites and these
viral cliffs of Trump bamboo, I definitely did a little
bit of research and digging to say, hey, what is
the Libertarian Party? What are their values? What are they
believe in? And I know that they are often skeptical
of or post to authority, state power, warfare, militarism, and nationalism,

(19:47):
but they may have different views on economics and political systems.
So it's a really really interesting You're right, y'all both right,
Like everyone's talking about libertarians, so I guess they're getting
their free media.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
And of course they because nobody there can't afford media,
so you get earned media, and this is how it works.
Brilliant strategy. I would invite Trump to wherever Trump is,
That's where the media gonna be. Ain't nobody talking to
ROBERTA of Kennedy even though he was there, nobody's talking
about I had to even ask, was robertave Kennedy there?
You know there, so he spoke at the convention on Friday.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
He faced backlash from delegates when nominated on the convention floor,
he received support from only nineteen delegates, and so he
lost in the first round of voting. They're expecting for
the Libertarians to announce, like which candidate they're gonna they're
gonna get behind. However, Trump was disqualified according to the
Libertarian party chair Angela McArdle, and she ruled him unqualified

(20:42):
because his status as a Republican nominee. Trump's campaign stated
that a Republican presidential candidate typically cannot be nominated by
two political parties in most states. Trump, of course, he
addressed the issue on truth social stating, quote, the reason
I didn't file paperwork for the Libertarian nomination, which I
would have absolutely gotten if I wanted it, as everyone

(21:04):
could tell you by the enthusiasm of the crowd last night,
was the fact that as the Republican nominee, I am
not allowed to have the nomination of another party. Regardless
I believe I will get a majority of the Libertarian votes.
So Trump still is doing what Trump does, talking big
smack say he didn't, you know, explain why he did

(21:24):
not register as a candidate with the parties, but he
was disqualified, so he's definitely not going to be able
to get Therefore.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
They don't have no Jews anyway, I mean love who
we kidding? Bottom line is this was just a great
media strategy. That's it, a great media strategy to show
that he's talking to people who are not willing to listen,
you know, willing to go out and talk to the
man who's not listening and trying to get their vote
and I'm willing to show up. And remember he just
left the Bronx. So they're they're literally talking about how

(21:53):
they were talking about this morning. They were saying Trump
was going to all the places that Donald Trump will
never go. Tim Scott is saying, and he's saying he's
going to play is that people otherwise will not go
and that's what makes him great. So they know what
they're doing. They just do. Meanwhile, where's Joe Biden.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
I don't know what Joe Biden is, but guess what
I know where the rubber chickens were over the weekend
Because a pack you're always talking about packs.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Test and Michelle checked this out.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
Secret Service agents confiscated rubber chickens distributed by a super
pac aligned with Kennedy's presidential campaign at this Libertarian Party
convention before Trump's speech. So yep, Tony Lyon's coachair of
the pro Kennedy American Values twenty twenty four super pac
confirmed the distribution of rubber chickens at the convention. The

(22:39):
Libertarian Party is anticipated to announce their nominee. So we
know where the rubber chickens were. Definitely don't know where
Biden was, But there's a lot going on there.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
Michelle, Well, we shouldn't be surprised about Trump's prouse when
it comes to the media.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Trump has been a master of media. It's been in
all of it for a number of years.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
Is the reason why we knew the Trump name and
there was such high recognition when he ran for president.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
You didn't watch him on the Apprentice. You watched him
as a kid growing up doing cameos for you know,
being this multi millionaire billionaire about the gold toilets.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
Trump has done uh, you know, he's made the media
work for him, so it would be no different in
this space. But that then begs or would and should
motivate any of his opponents to rethink their media strategy
and or think about how they better reach the people.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
On the ground.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
And I think that has been some of the contention
for supporters of President Biden. Where is he and how
is he showing up? And why has he not figured
that out yet?

Speaker 2 (23:40):
And that's why applies custom out a couple of weeks ago.
So that's right, Biden is just not good with the media.
The bottom line, They got to just focus on the
ground game, you know that. Just you just better get
knocking on them doors. That's about all you got. They
just bottom line, they just can't You just can't be
troubled the media. That's just it. Now, Like a lot
of people just can't you and go back and forth

(24:00):
with Charleston White like it's just you just can't like it.
We just need to just accept the fact. It's just
a couple of things we just learned this year. One,
leave Kate out the hell alone. That's not a beef
that you want. And Cat Williams, you don't want that either.
So everybody just got to know their lane, and let's
just be honest with it. The media is not Biden's lane,
that's it. So you better get the knocking on the

(24:21):
doors because that's all you got.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
Okay, So we know that. And I agree with you
on this point, Tad, And you've said it publicly several times.
You know this myth that all press is good press.
It's just simply not true.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Very true, is that?

Speaker 4 (24:38):
But what does it mean? For example, in this case
with the Libertarian Party, they're getting what you call yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
But that's good. Nothing's negative about them. When I say
all press is good press, we can just ask Diddy
about that. I don't know Diddy. Is all press good press?
I would probably say no. So when I hear people
say all press is good press, that's people who don't
know pry it's good pr. Actually it's not. Actually it's
not Sean Diddy Combs. This is not good press. So
when I when I put that out there, is you know,

(25:03):
I'm saying that that that idea that as long as
you're in the media, uh, that's all the matters. No,
we got some candidates and I'm working with some clients
that good pressure, just saying what that ain't all press
wasn't good press for these particular clients. So what I
mean with Libertarian though, it's not about all press. But
this particular press is good press for them if nothing else.

(25:25):
Jay is asking what is a libertarian? So they won
nothing else and nobody if none else, they got none
else out of it. You looked up what is a libertarian?
I encourage everybody to google and my libertarian as there's
a quiz out there. Take the quiz and find out
where you stand. I stand a lot like a libertarian.
It's really in the middle. It's like you a little

(25:46):
bit a little bit of conservative, a little bit of liberal,
a little bit of Republican, a little bit of Democrats.
Really like in the middle. The only reason why I
would say I'm not a libertarian is because I just
don't like the idea of uh party politics where you
kind of greeted this oath type of type of you know, environment,
we believe this, we believe that. I just don't like that,

(26:08):
you know, but I don't like that, And no things
I don't like hide behind the city. Well you know
how we do it in New York. You know, I'm
a Gemini where you know I'm gonna is, you know.
So I'm just not big and like aligning myself with
any tribal anything across the board, like no it's not.
It's not because k Dot Kenneth is a Gemini if anything,

(26:30):
that was an L A d P, A discipline, if anything,
where you take it, it's a Gemini.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
I beg to differ. I told you it is because
he's a Gemini. Happy birthday to Lenny Kravit. And now
this is out and Gemini has excuse.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Mam, Now it's a game bag. No, it's because k
Dot is affiliated with POWERU. And that's how gang bangers
get down. It's called a discipline where we take you
out in front of your friends and beat you. That's
why he said, beat your ass and hide the bible
if God is watching. And so he took his rap
peer out and beat his ass. A discipline that was

(27:08):
a that was then l a thing, mama. That's why
he said. You think open gonna let you talk about
pop nigga. So anyway, this podcast is not supposed to
be back. This ain't got shit to do with no Gemini,
You ain't no power Root. This got to do with
him being a gang banger straight up.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
Yeah, I'm not a gag baker with Gemini. Though rappers
are Gemini's.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
I never claimed to be k I I am just
saying harry up and push a line about don't take
one the harry up. But you wanted to hurry up
and push a line about Gemini got some do No,
it don't don't have shit to do with being no Gemini.
It got everything to do with him being affiliated, and
that's what it is. He got everything to do with
his West Coast environment, even though he's not raising the

(27:50):
West Coast just like I wasn't, but he's raised by
West Coast. Niggas got everything to do with Snoop and
all of them literally saying you have the banner you
are holding on for the West coast. He did that
shit was That's why I got a West Coast sound.
That's why I got a West Coast B. That's why
niggas everywhere is doing I don't even know how this
turning it is, but we're gonna go down this road.
But that's why everybody's c walking to it, B walking

(28:11):
to it. That was called literally called a discipline, a DP,
a DP. So when little Duval was like, oh, yeah,
you're on a Gemini, think he want to credit Gemini. No,
that was a DP, a discipline. So for those who
don't know in gang banging when you and very similar.
You know, we talked about this also with Divine nine,
like when you bring in when you discipline somebody in

(28:31):
front of your peers, So whatever that discipline is for
Divine nine, whatever that discipline is for that group, whatever
that discipline is. So in gang banging, a DP, that
was a DP that was I'm taking my pier and
I'm just a discipline your ass. And he did it
in a in a West Coast way, with a West
Coast sound, with a West Coast vibe, with a how

(28:52):
dare you put tupac and snoop using ai are you crazy?
Like all of that that was text book gang banging discipline,
even down to the lyrics, the family matters, They not
us all of that, like even all of that terminology,
you know what I'm saying, like all like, no, he's

(29:13):
an outsider, he's a colonizer. Even though you know, you
look at k Dot and his conscious stuff, there still
was a lot of gang banging la West Coast you know,
turnings elements that winning that which would make it was
why it made it so dope. But the Gemini community,
but that wasn't it. And just for a point, of Claire.

(29:34):
You know, I'm a Gemini, Cancel cuss, I'm both of those.
But that that beef is really like that beef is
seriously all Joe side. It's gonna go down to history
one of the best beefs like ever because there's so
many children. Yeah, there's so many different elements that he
touched on that Drake just simply just not prepared. You're
not deep enough. You're just not deep enough of that,
and and you fucked around and found out and it

(29:55):
had nothing to do with just the sound and lyrics
and all that. He just went all the way deep.
That's why he's said, No, this is a real nigga challenge.
Now you you you can let la, you can let
a land in them make you think you want us,
but you ain't one of us. They not like us,
and shout out everybody to keep saying they not like
us when you really are like them though. But that's
a whole other really interesting and the areas you know

(30:17):
where there's.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
Warfare and clash, and there was a lot of clashing
that was happening at this libertarian convention between Trump and libertarians.
So the Trump, you know, Trump supporters were trying to
chant Donald Trump, Donald Trump, and there they got drowned
out by booth. So I thought that was really interesting.
The final final thought that I wanted to get from
you all, ladies, Michelle wrapping that back up.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yes, right, so Michelle definitely likes and just that point.
I let Michelle ride on a lot of Gemini stuff.
But Michelle is one of the ones that well, you know,
I'm a geminist. She want to put it off on gymnal. No,
sometimes Michelle is just you, but I do it's just me,
but it may be the other me.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
And that's what happens when you're dealing with a Gemini
asked Biggie as to ask prints ask Kate.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
I we have those moments, That's all I'm saying. Yeah,
that's particular. What is Cat Williams sign. Oh I can't
look at I don't know. I have to look that up. Yeah.
All I know is Cat k them too, little short man.
This year is not to be fucked with. That's all
I know. That's that's the message at the end of

(31:21):
twenty twenty four. We don't take nothing else away from that.
But no, we're not gonna play.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Cat is a virgo, which is also ruled by the
same planet that Gemini is ruled by.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Connection girl, please just saying, just saying, we got the words. Yeah,
I'm sorry, I'm yeah, I'm not gonna let y'all have
that when I'm I'm gonna have to hate that's that
go to the game banging homies. Y'all know, I gotta
uh get a relation. Yes, I mu they you you know,
I've been waiting on the West. We've been waiting on
the West to come back for too long to let
y'all just sit up here and make this agitminal, make

(31:55):
it about about the planets. Tell me, I'm sorry, I
just have She's like, no, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
I know.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
I know Jay want to move us back to the
Libertarian But now you don't walk to West Coast like
I know, y'all not gonna take this. I saw a
little about Oh yeah, gym and everybody, that's right. You
know it's Gemini. No no, no, no, no, no, this
is the West coast, West Coast being well, y'all no
longer've been waiting to get put back on the map.
Like seriously, think about the last time ship the last
beat was pot and hit them up that the West

(32:22):
Coast really was able to like, no, kay, I just
really took this ship to another level. I'm sorry, y'all
just gotta let the West Coast have that. And a
part of West Coast is gang you know culture. Just see,
it's just that whole that full song, the whole vibe, Like, no,
it's a West Coast thing. It's not a Gemini thing.
I'm sorry, it's just not.

Speaker 5 (32:40):
Well, y'all been waiting for a long time and to
let y'all have that. But you knew hoh Us has
been waiting a long time to get paid for their name,
image and likeness.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
College athletes, y'all really trying to move out, and see
I'm trying to stay. I'm like, I'm gonna pay this.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
I love how Michelle was trying to trying to go
to these college athletes, but I really wanted to get our.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Thoughts on Jay, like, no, we're still on the limitary
and okay, let's go get her areas. You know that
was trolling. This is the final thing I want to say.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
I hope that my black Twitter family really understands that
this is a perfect example of the power of forming
a super pack. You can literally troll in real life
and have dollars. That's something that has always talked to
us about. That's just something that she always pushes this too.
So I wanted to make sure I illustrated that as
a perfect example.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
On to you. That's right now, On to you, Gemini.
Well it was porting that Jay put that out because
we do be talking to our conscious family all the time.
Get a pack like I believe it. I swear to
god I do. Y'all got the energy. It don't have
to be a lot like man, y'all troll like nobody's business.
Butatrolling in real life? Man, you ever include that? It's

(33:50):
over with. So but speaking of you, you can use
that transition again, Michelle, that you wanted to use. That
was a great transition. Now, yeah, I'm about you said
I was about to spend the next thirty minutes on
talk because now y'all go, no this West Coast baby
all day the rest of it out. Test you anything
else in there that you want to I think. But

(34:12):
when it comes back up, maybe it's a Gemini. I
mean to bring it back up. I guess. I don't know,
but that just means a lot like we've been waiting
a long time. She is not about to take this
Hell no, you're gonna let the West Coast keep that ship.
Then y'all lead. Shout out to Ko once again.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Shout out to the Geminis and hall the gang bangers
who have been waiting on this.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
But there are people who've been.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
Waiting for a long time, a whole group of college
athletes who have been waiting a long time to get
paid for the use of their name, image and likeness.
And a recent settlement with the d n C Double
A has brought that to farison for at least for now.
The nd C Double A and Power five Conference organized
which include the ACC, the Big Twelve, the Big Ten,

(35:03):
the PAC twelve, and the SEC, have agreed to settle
in anti trust case the case name House b NCAA.
The settlement is almost three billion dollars a settlement agreement,
which is historic. There's not been a settlement agreement or
a decision made like this in the past that will

(35:25):
not only pay former athletes for their nil name, image
and likeness, but will also pay student athletes going forward
through a percentage of Power five school revenues. This settlement
agreement still has yet to be approved by the US
District Judge Claudia Wright, and it's subject to appeals and

(35:46):
other legal maneuvers, but it's a historic settlement nonetheless, a
historic decision that's come forth. And what this means is,
you know, we've seen this.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Throughout the years.

Speaker 5 (35:58):
The athletes who play basketball on football at the collegiate
level and the Division I level are not paid for
the use of their images in video games for instance,
or advertisements or on jerseys. And while they're not being paid,
these students are expected to show up and participate in

(36:18):
all of the practices and all of the work that
it takes to be a student athlete, and that could
be anything from five am practices to practices in the
evening and having to be at games and not having
the time to work or make money on the side,
and so a lot of these students rely on scholarships.
It's important to note that of all of the revenues
that these schools make, for instance, in the Big Five,

(36:39):
the Power Five brought in three point five almost four
billion dollars in one year last year, the percentage of
the scholarships with those revenues, though, for students who are
the athletes and play sports is for in football, for instance,
it's only eight percent. It's eight point nine percent from

(37:00):
the men's basketball. That is the amount of money allocated
for scholarships for these athletes. Although these organizations are bringing
in billions of dollars a year. So this is gonna
be huge for college athletes going forward. Uh, and it's
important you know that we pay attention to this. What
do you all think about let me ask you a

(37:20):
question because I don't know. Also to the women as well, Yes,
it includes women's sports also, And so we just come
off this big high, you know, women's basketball, and those students,
those student athletes were not paid, you know, for the
jerseys in their names, and the advertisements that went out
around the games, the revenues from the cost of game tickets,

(37:41):
they don't get any portion of that. So with the settlement,
the revenues that schools make in the Power five, some
of that revenue will then be split into a revenue
sharing model that would then give that money.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Back to students. And I'm just gonna be curious what
the revenue sharing model is going to look like because
again we know that women sports do not garner the
same amount of attention as as men. We know that,
and we know the reasons why. I think actually, Harry Spears,
he did a commentary about it this weekend, and some
of that is partially true, Like some of it's not
just because of sexism, it's just the game may just

(38:16):
be more exciting, you know, watch the men because of
the skill set. I think he brought an important point.
I think sexism is a is a play in it,
but I don't think it's all sexism. It is entertainment
and what's the most entertaining that people want to put
butts in seats? But that is gonna be interesting to
see what that looks like for women, because obviously they're

(38:36):
they're not gonna bring the same amount of attention as
the men. And I'm wondering if they're gonna go with
a socialist style model where everybody just gets something no
matter what you know, female or male athlete, or if
they're gonna say no, no, women, you're only gonna get
the amount of people that show up, which is pretty
much nothing in college. So I'm just curious, you know,
what that's gonna look like because those because the reason
why I bring it up is because in the college,

(38:59):
so professionals differ. But in the college model, when we're
talking about young girls, the time dedicated to go, you know,
to be a college athlete is the same amount of time,
if not close to the same that the boys. And
so my point in what I'm saying is is they
don't have time to work outside jobs and outside hustles

(39:21):
and all of that. So this is where I would
be in support of a model that is a revenue
sharing to give the females more even if they don't
garner that much support, if that makes sense because of
they are kids and the you know, the time that
they're dedicated to this, they don't have time to make
the outside money. Totally take an argument. Then the you know,

(39:44):
the woman lead you know where you're choosing to go
into that career and you're paid less and you got
to go overseas, and that's a whole other conversation. Should
they be paid the same YadA, YadA YadA. But on
the college level, I am interested if that model is
saying that it has to do with people are watching
this game, the women are screwed, and I'm just wondering
they still have to put in just as much time

(40:06):
away from their studies and not a job to live,
and some of these people are there on scholarships. This
is how they you know, how they're paying their way
through school, so they don't get additional revenue share. So
that's gonna be that's my thoughts on that on looking
at like what that's actually going to look like. I
also think that it definitely will hurt HBCUs. But I
am pro people being paid. I think these kids need

(40:27):
to be paid for their time of These schools make
billions of dollars off these kids the slavery bottom line,
so they need to be paid. But I am interested
to see what that's going to look like. With HBCU recruiting,
it's already hard to get to get our athletes, our
best athlete athletes to come to HBCUs because they do
not get the TV time, which means they do not
get the opportunity to be seen to go into professional sports.

(40:48):
All of those different things. They don't have the support with,
you know.

Speaker 5 (40:52):
The the facilities, the locker rooms, the jerk you know,
they just don't get so much as it is, and
this is yet another reason why somebody will go to
a predominant white institution apposed to HBCU, but it's still
a good thing well, and they're having issues on the
Division one side of the schools that are not HBC
youths either. So a couple of years ago, the NDCAA

(41:16):
announced that it will allow for the first time college
students be college student athletes to be compensated for their nil,
their name, image, and likeness a couple of years ago.
But when that ruling came down, black college athletes sued,
deciding that their civil rights would being violated because essentially

(41:36):
what they found was that these colleges were colluding to
limit the earnings the players and sports in which black
athletes compete the most. And a study of the University
of Southern California at twenty eighteen found that blackmail athletes
and Division on sports make up fifty nine percent of
men's basketball players and fifty seven or excuse me, fifty

(41:59):
five percent of men's football players and women's basketball. Black
women made up of the black players. And according to
the Institute of Diversity and Ethics and Sports and so
you know, even on even at predominantly white colleges and
campuses and Division one schools where black students are playing,
they've been called out for essentially colluding to cap the

(42:23):
earnings just on the nil. So I'd be interested to
see how they not only settle that case, but how
do they structure revenue earnings and nail earnings to ensure
that they aren't imposing undue caps that disproportionately impact black players,
although black student athletes make up a majority of the

(42:45):
sports players individual one schools.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
Felts on that, Jay, I know that athletes, college athletes
sustain a lot of injuries, and they're put in their
lives and their bodies at risk, and they should definitely
be compensated for that because is an entire industry that's
profiting profiting off of it. So yes, I'm in total support.
I think it definitely needs to be equitable to your point, Tes,

(43:11):
And I'm not sure how what this would look like
at HBCUs because they don't get the same amount of
folks that they don't have the same type of money.
You know, they aren't necessarily the same leagues as the
bigger schools or the division ones.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
So let's see.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
I want to see these children being compensated, and I
also want them to have the proper financial literacy education
and the supports places to have them invest their money
and to make their money grow as they are literally
putting their bodies on the line in these sports. Many
of these are contact sports. Colleges also have you know,
gymnastics teams, they have track and field teams, they have

(43:49):
so many look cross and all of these different things
we have our athletes are participating in. But if they're
making money, you know, large amounts of money, who's going
to support them to have that money after they graduate
and beyond?

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Yeah, no financial literalis that is exactly perfect transition because
that's what I was gonna add as we close, that's
critically important. It should be mandatory in college. Watched the
documentary I watched it this weekend, you know thirty for
thirty the ESPN they do these you know documentary series
and one was called Broke, and I'm telling you it
is phenomenal to watch. And it just talks about you know,

(44:25):
athletes and how they go broke and with all of
those different elements on how it actually happens and the
lack of financial literacy and even when you talked about investments,
like you hear investments, but there's levels to investment, Like
a lot of people be coming in with bullshit and
they invest in the wrong type of investments. And we
see that Jabe and pushing a hard line behind the
scenes on some investment stuff that went bad in our community.

(44:47):
But people, oh yeah, invest in big tomatoes, like literally
like and so they talk about, you know, the bad
investments that they get approached with, they talk about the money.
It is just it's a documentary. It's an eye open documentary.
Whether you're in sports or not, you just a nerve
information watch it. I watched that documentary. Side note, I
also watched the Rick Flair documentary that was really good.

(45:09):
That was really yeah, girl, it was good watch Rick
Rick Flair. Something else. I love the way wrestlers talk
shit because they talk shit like I do. I just love.
But I was like, let me as I went through
the you know how you see all the different titles,
and I like, let me see what Ric Flair ol
And that was actually really interesting to watch that. If
you've got time and just and I think he was

(45:32):
very side note, this would make podcasts good. It might
turn to different conversations. But his transparency with his problems
and addictions and you know, losing his son to addiction
and the ten thousand women he had been with, and
how he really was just in love with the character.
He said flat out, I was a terrible husband, I
was a terrible dad, you know, but I was a
great wrestler. So just his level of transparency and how

(45:55):
he just it was just a very very interesting documentary.
I watched that. I watched Leon Sanders double play. That
was really good playing. You guys may be too young
a remember, because I did. I was even young at
the time, and I remember them talking about it in
middle school, but I didn't get I I didn't understand
what was going on. But him playing two sports in

(46:18):
the same day. Phenomenal documentary. Phenomenal documentary. So definitely watched that.
Dion Sanders double play.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
I just watched watching the anti social network Means to Mayhem,
and it's really about the start of the website four
Chan and how it kind of started out his website
where people can come on and like make memes, and
then they started taking it to the streets and then
they had the group Anonymous, right, and they were going
out and protesting things, and they went to occupy. So

(46:46):
it just really showed how like one website and an
online community grew to in person, but then it kind
of got out of control.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
So I thought that was really interesting. Okay, well that
we turned this into a little what are we watching segment?

Speaker 5 (46:56):
What are you watching? Michelle or have watched? Well, what
I've watched is uh dr from Detroit.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
I love that. Yeah, didn't we have by and in
Love with that show a bonus episode each week, like
ten minutes of what are we watching? Yes? Oh yeah,
we did talk about that because you said you liked, Oh,
you like the fact that it was showing all the
fine men like it used to be back in the ninety.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
They brought back nineties fine. A man on that show
is nineties fine. And I really appreciate being able to
look at, you know, a good you know series with
fine ass men. Excuse my language, straight shot and no
chaser that I get, uh, But yeah, I mean I
just appreciated the eye candy. I thought it was a
great story. I thought I read that the creator, Dr.

(47:44):
Kipatrick is related to Kwame Kipatrick, the former mayor of
Detroit who had all of the uh uh controversies and issues.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Yes, and so that adds another element, as you behind,
I watched that like, did you finish it all? I
did finish it.

Speaker 5 (48:02):
I thought it was really good, really well read and
funny time.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
It was different, like we see a lot of the
same storylines over and over, you know, so having a
little detective I didn't expect it to be what it was.
I just watched it because I just, you know, it
was like, hey, let me check it out. But yeah,
it's very well written and very interesting.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
And I don't know if we can or I have
a checked to see if it's airy, but we need
to be watching the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Shout out to Shakari Richardson for winning one hundred. Oh
y'all can give me the recaps. I won't be sitting
around watching it, but I do. I do like the recaps,
but yeah, shout out, just put out. I don't necessarily
watch the Olympics, but I will watch the cliffs or
I hope. I love when Kevin Hart and when they
do Peacock, when they do the commentary, like remember wheen

(48:48):
him a snoops.

Speaker 5 (48:50):
Think they enlisted Leslie Jones this year. I thought I
saw that I could be Kevin Hart. I don't know,
I don't know. I just saw that Leslie Jones had
been enlisted maybe tapped for that, or had been at
one or the other for that guest commentary.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
But I think that, like, I mean sure that to Leslie.
She's real supportive of me on Twitter. I know Leslie.
We did we did some life coaching work together. Oh really? Wow? Okay, cool? Yeah,
I like her, but I don't know. I just feel
like that formula with Kevin really worked. I liked him.
I thought that was I thought that was so Yeah.
So that's what I've been watching. I also watched Baby

(49:26):
Rain there, which is weird as hell.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
But yeah, I need to start that. No, I need
to start that. I said, that's weirdes hell.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
But I it's wondering, what like am I'm really watching this?
And you just continue to keep hold on. Way different Leslie.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
I know Leslie who actually like ran track and did
really well at the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Not the same Leslie Jones, by the way, Like, wow, damn,
you're really doing life coaches for real? Because Leslie is
pretty popular. Okay, I was just going with.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Her.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
I like her segment on that on the Breakfast Clubs
when she came on, he was talking about those men
she had.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Yeah, I love they got mad about that when I
loved her. You know, I'm a proponent in baye get
you some medication. I love They got real mad at her.
That's the part of the sick that I enjoyed, when
you're telling you trying to get you some medicine. But anyway,
I'm not say that was good. So yeah, I definitely
watched that that that documentary. I sent it to my friend.

(50:28):
He has a brother that's in playing college now, college
ball now, and I was like, you need to have
him watched this, like literally make him watch this because
it was just really really an eye opener, and they
really do need to get these kids some financial literacy.
Whether they listen to it or not, still give them
the information because our job is just give it information.
You don't have to listen to it, but I'm just
giving information. Just check you were told so. Because the

(50:50):
main point, and I'll say this as we close of
understanding that there it is an opportunity. It's not a
career career where you think, oh, I'm going to be
doing this for twenty twenty five years. No, it's an
opportunity that may last five to six years at best
for the average person, and so when you get in
and you're thinking you're gonna be making thirty million dollars
for the next twenty years, it just doesn't work that way.
And it really does break down all of the different

(51:12):
levels that eat set your money, from the women, to
the baby mama's, to the club and to the investments,
to the lack of knowing, to the family. Everybody wants
something from you. I mean, it was just really good, y'all.
So check it out. You'll learn something on your own,
like even for yourself, like, wow, okay, I really do
need to learn how to say no. I really do it.
And Michelle, you know, we've been a lot of conversation

(51:33):
about this lately about you can have a really good year,
and because that's how I feel about the media, you
can have a really really strong year. Everything be popping
everything you notice in real time to share, Like I'm like,
oh man, that's the same thing in political consult too.
You know, see things it's cyclical, seasonal, and you get
caught up thinking, oh, after this, I'll just pick up
another race. After this, I'll just pick up da da

(51:53):
da dad. And you know, like Michelle, we may get
paid once a year, may get multiple checks through after
it just depends. So manage your money is critical, critical, critical, critical.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
I'm an anti racism trainer. I started back in twenty
sixteen and the work was popping. I could work like
part part time and sustain my livelihood. And now with
all these new policies and it's anti DEI, anti critical race, everything,
it has not been recession proof.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
So yeah, yeah, it's a real thing. So watch the
documentary Sports or Not. It just reminds you that we're
not alone in this seasonal you know it's gonna be
good for a year or two, you know, mindset. It
really helped, you know, clarify some things, things that I

(52:42):
already knew. But it was just still really good to
watch because that's what I've been really saying, Like, even
if I get a great contract, I still know you
have to know in your mind it's gonna last a year,
it's gonna last three months, it's gonna last six months,
and it's nothing to do with personal it's just have
a business is set up. So if you if by
me watching and I was like, oh, I'm doing pretty good,
then I've been able to hold on to this for

(53:03):
that because watching them blow through to thirty million. I'm like, okay, yeah,
I'm I'm doing all right if I'm able to, you know,
I gotta definitely Michelle made me not feel as okay,
So okay, I'm cool. At least I under I get it.
So perspective, yeah, oh for sure, it's really really good.
It helped me a lot. So that's like, we're adults, right,

(53:27):
and we do consulting work.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
But imagine a college athlete having an opportunity to make
all this money. And you said it's an opportunity, it's
not a career, and so I'm only thinking about I'm
thinking about that college athlete that God forbid gets injured
or maybe they don't make it to the NBA or
to the big leagues and they've made all of this
money in college and they feel let down, Like how

(53:51):
do they recover from that? Even from an emotional or psychologist.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Some people never do. Some people never do because their
mindset was set up. This was all I had, this
was all going to do. And they even talked about
that in the documentary, like where some athletes were. Now
you see some athletes still going back and getting their
college degree, like saying, no, I'm still need a backup plan.
And this is where again this type of education is important,
like to tell kids now, like you need to still
get your degree, and that degree needs to being something

(54:15):
you can actually work in and you still need to
have other different hustles. And that's why the documentary is
really really good, not just even for college athletes, because
college athletes you think, Okay, I'm gonna go to the
NFL and you don't. But that fall when actually getting
into the NFL and losing it all, that's a big
damn fall. And that's where the drugs comes in, especially
people being addicted after those injuries and using that to cope.

(54:37):
Like they break all that down how people end up suicidal.
I mean it's deep. It's deep. After college you can
take I do know there's a mental thing with that,
like damn, I thought I was gonna go to the
NBA or the NFL, but there's still some in their mind.
Note it's not guaranteed, but when you finally go and
then you injure yourself a year after or you finally go.
They even talk about that how people don't set aside

(54:58):
money for those injuries that you're gonna have these injuries,
so like for the rest of your life. Everybody's not
Deon Sanders, where you're able to steal take care of
your injuries from having turf toe twenty years ago. Like
these are real things. Everybody don't get endorsements. It talks
about the very small percentage of endorsements, like everybody's not
a Lebron James, you know, so your insurance in the
NFL for instances and to continue once you're out, So

(55:20):
it's right how they sure that covers it you They
don't get anything and they give you something like twenty
thousand dollars severances and things like that. It's amazing, Like
I'm saying, that documentary is really like, Wow, this is crazy,
So definitely watch it and check it out. You'll learn
a lot. But thank you guys. We covered a whole
lot today. But this is what's fun about podcasts. You
just go for one thing to another and just naturally

(55:40):
just go on, so people are checking. Shout out to
everybody's listening at work. Shout out to everybody's listening in
that car, really really really appreciates you. Hope you join
us next week every Tuesday and Thursday on Straight Shot
No Chaser. Thank you again to Jada Michelle. So I'm
not just talking to a wall. I'm able to be
talking to Gemini. So you're.

Speaker 5 (56:01):
Yeah, shout out to all the gang bankers in the
West Coast and all the other places too.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Will make sure, Hey, we need that. We need punts
on the boards too, and the gonna say, oh, there's
you go promoting gang Bang. Ain't nobody promoting gang Bank.

Speaker 5 (56:15):
And I'm just telling you, nobody on this podcast is
the rooting game Bank.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
Yeah, so it is what it is. But thank y'all
so much. Guys. We'll be back next week. Make sure
you tap in with us. I do appreciate it. Guys,
coming up on my fourth year, want to keep it going.
I want to keep this podcast going. Make sure you
send a review or just send me an inbox like
you guys do on Instagram, but really an inbox. I'm
be honest with you. I appreciate the inboxes, but we
need the reviews. We need them, folks to see it.

(56:41):
Sending me a private message. I appreciate it, but it's
not about us. It's not about me personally, my ego.
It's about the powers that be knowing that this information
is important, knowing that it's value. Podcasting is not easy.
It's certainly not easy for information podcasts. Your most popular
podcasts are talking about the culture and the drama, and
so although we do tap on those things from time

(57:03):
to time, and it's not the core. And so the
number one listener will podcasts are white folks. It just is.
And so black effect is really trying to make a
mark to say black people listening to podcasts as well,
but seventy percent of podcast listeners to white people, and
so they have really dominated this market. I'm not talking
about YouTube. I'm talking about podcasts, like actual podcasts with
iHeart audio only you know in the lit you know

(57:27):
Apple Apple, how they list not not just iHeart, but
how if you go to Apple and you hit podcasts
and you see the number one and the number ten,
the number they're all white podcasts. So they do a
lot of information audio learning while we're focused on we
need to see all the time and turn the video on.
Y'all notice that even on Instagram to keep the video off.
Just listen. Be an audio learner. Sometimes you don't have

(57:49):
to see everything and be entertained and switching up graphics
and all the time to keep your attention, listen to
the information. So it's important, guys, that we keep keep
a position in this space. It really really is, because
this is the way of the future. It's not gonna
be videos, not gonna be cables, not gonna be in
these things. It's really gonna be the cheapest and the
easiest way to get information out, which is the podcast space.

(58:10):
I want to make sure that black people have voice
in that as well. So it's the only four mad
that I can just go on and on and on
and on and on and talk for hours without being charge,
you know, or without having to whey about clicks and
likes and all that type of stuff. All I'm asking
you to do is to subscribe. So thank you so much, guys,
thank you so much for joining us. Straight Shot No Chaser.
We'll see you next week. Peace. Thank you, Tesz, thank
you James. Thank you'll. If you like what you heard

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