Celebrating Simone Biles and "Mediocrity" at the Olympics? Attacks on Kamala Harris and Trump's NABJ Visit

Welcome back to "The Parker's Couch" with Cameron, Carlon, and Carl - the Parker brothers. In this episode, we dive into a series of heated discussions and current events.

We kick things off with a spirited debate about the ongoing Olympic Games, discussing the U.S. medal count, Simone Biles' legendary performance, and differing opinions on the men's gymnastics team's bronze medal finish.

Next, we shift gears to the political arena, focusing on the recent controversial remarks made by Donald Trump at the NABJ convention and the Blacks Against Harris zoom call. We dissect his comments about Vice President Kamala Harris and the implications of his proposed policies on the Black community.

Finally, we tackle the sensitive topic of policing and its impact on Black Americans, highlighted by the tragic case of Sonia Massey. We discuss the need for community-based solutions and greater accountability in law enforcement.

Join us for an episode filled with passionate opinions, insightful analysis, and a few laughs along the way.

Episode Transcript

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Music.

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It is the Parker's Couch with Cameron, Carlin, and Carl, the Parker brothers.
Some material is for a mature audience.
Sit back and enjoy. Y'all are just like the rest of America and y'all celebrate mediocrity.
Me, a bronze is just third place to me. I throw that in the trash.

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If it ain't gold, I don't want it. In the Olympics, you're going to throw a
bronze medal in the trash.
Music.
You can't stop me now.
Here we go, here we go, here we go. It is the Parker's Couch and I'm back with
my fabulous brothers. What's going on, bros?

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Howdy, home neighbors. What's up, brothers? The most handsome, the most ever known.
Right here, thank you. Thank you for that introduction.
I'm in the house. You know I'm here. Love me. We know you, Dad.
It's the month of August, so we'll give that to you. This is your month.
Oh, yeah. You can have it.

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What a glorious month it is. Hey, today's my son's birthday. Happy birthday.
Happy birthday. What century? How much? How old?
25 today. No way. I know that. That's not true. Yeah. 25. Wow.

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Brandon's 25. Is that still the rent-a-car age?
Yeah. Yep. Rent-a-car age. He's made it. He made it. He's officially made it.
He made it. Now he can rent his own car. He can do all he need on his own.
And that's what I'm talking about.
Now, last time we left our brothers, we said, you know, the Olympics was starting.

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It is here. The Olympic Games are going on. own.
And so we definitely want to kick off and talk about some Olympics and we're
going to hit some politics after that.
But to start off with the Olympics, you know, right now the U.S.
Is in the lead with total medals at 43 and counting.

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France, the host nation, is right behind with 36 and China is right there with 31.
But the U.S. is like four place in goals. We got like nine gold medals.
And I believe it's China that's still leading. Was it China leading?
I believe they have 13. Yes, China has the most.
China has the most. And then there's France and Australia right there.

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Now, Australia and swimming, no chance.
Beat them. China and Daven, there was no chance. It's about a deal. Not a chance.
Not in the speak practice, at least. Not even.
But going into the weekend, it's going to be in the next 48 hours.
I love they have the gold zone now, and they have our guy from Red Zone that's doing the gold zone.

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I forget his name. Oh, is he? I didn't know that. He's doing the gold zone.
And it's just like going to all the live events and the gold medals and stuff
that's going on. So I was watching some of that today.
But he said over the next 48 hours, it's about to be 51 medals awarded.
So this is about to change drastically in this medal count of what's going to happen.

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51 51 that's so
that's crazy and track is getting started it
is that time but yeah we want to kick off talk about some of the highlights
of the olympic games and stuff going on right now and i wanted to start with
none other than the great the goat who am i talking about the moan bow.

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Yes. Yes. Now the most decorated gymnast, male or female in American history.
That is the goat. And I love how she embraces her goatness, too.
And she pulled out she had back on the goat chain after all around victory.
I'm like, that's my Simone. That's my Simone Biles. How impressive y'all with

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Simone? Come on, like, were y'all watching?
Were you watching everything there, Carl? I know me and Carlin was watching here. I certainly did.
Yeah it was a glorious clap back for miss miss bowles you know everybody had counted her out,
after the last olympics when she didn't

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finish that olympics and that olympic game but she came back with vengeance
and she kept the receipts laid it out for everyone and shouts out to Makayla
for giving her that, that encouragement.
Thank you, Makayla.

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You know, she, she had a couple of comments about the actual team this year
and those girls went out and F around and find out is what happened.
And Ms.
Bowles, I am just ecstatic for her routines.

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Of course, she landed that Yurchenko, which is amazing.
She's got so many moves named after her and the difficulties and her vault and everything else.
She's just amazing, man. And and then, you know, what she also said is she loves her black job.

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And I'm going to end it with that. Yes.
That did not stop.
And I was I. Oh, I love that. I love that you went there. That that tweet right
there when she said, I love my black job.
When some people, you know, were furious. And I don't know if you watched her
documentary going in here. They're going to release some more episodes after

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the Olympics, but they have two episodes on Netflix.
And I completely forgot how cruel like the conservatives were to her during that time in Tokyo.
Like it was playing back all that stuff. It was just so nasty.
And you got old fat behind Jason Whitlock up there to just saying all kind of

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nasty stuff. and Laura Ingram and all these people.
I was like, I don't want to hear y'all say one word. That's right, Simone.
Tell them I love my black job. They're like, oh, this is not the time to be
defensive. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Whatever.
Yeah, we don't mention the Walrus' name on this podcast. The first and last time.

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Yowzers. Darling. Yeah. Yeah.
No, I can't stand that Jabba the Hutt,
In grade. Oh my goodness. I went to him too, brother, just to purposely see
if he tweeted anything about Simone or tried to say anything.

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He stayed all the way from it. He didn't even mention it.
This is how he ends up in your feed. You're like, how does he get in my feed?
I know. Because you told him.
You're the teller. I know. Now that I did that one search, I'm sure he's going
to pop up because I've been freaking him for a long time. Leave him alone.
Leave that one for himself.

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Yeah. And his white meat. Let me just say this about the goat. Yes.
Do you think her husband knows who she is now?
Oh. I bet he does.
Okay, okay. I'm going to stop being shady. I'm going to be lying anyway.
We already got to go back.
Why you do that, Carl? Let me, okay, I'm going to stop being shady.
You know that man who she was.

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Well, he said he didn't. He claimed he didn't.
That claim. Well, anyway, I just want to say that Simone is your favorite star's
favorite. That's all I have to say.
End of discussion. She's the best. Everybody's there to watch her.
Everybody's there to watch her. When your worst apparatus is uneven bars and

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you still get high marks, I think the lowest score is like, what,
a 14 or something on uneven bars.
Bars, then you know, well, besides, you know, that all around,
we're not going to talk about that blunder. Yeah.
Yeah. But in the team challenge, you know, they trusted her to do the uneven
bars, even though that's her least favorite and probably the one that she's,

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if she's going to struggle, it's going to be there.
And she still knocks that out of the park.
And even after that, that, that untimely mistake.
The rest of the routine was near perfect. The dismount, perfect.
She went to the balance beam, which is when the actual, you know,
competition really starts because that's where you get your most errors.

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And she took the lead back and then the full exercise, you know.
She's untouchable there.
And she's still the deal. I mean, it was just incredible to watch.
I'm glad that it was done in such a dramatic way.
You know, it wasn't like she just blew everybody out of the park.
She actually had some adversity City, just like she had in Tokyo.

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And she showed that her hard work and perseverance and her greatness will always shine through.
Just love her. One of the greatest ever.
She started out on that vault. Oh, that vault. Yeah, that vault's a monster.
That 15-7 on that, that just separated her.

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The vault, I think, kind of took everybody's heart when she did that.
But, you know, you know what she had to.
And what I respect with her is the how she gave so much props to Rebecca from Brazil.

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Yeah. She had life on her behind. Like she is on my heel.
Like she pretty much she makes her better and she doesn't like feeling uncomfortable like that.
And Rebecca did that vault that got that 15 one and she nailed that thing.
Yeah like i i've got to bring it yeah yeah i mean not bad for what three dei you know individuals.

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Okay but gold silver and bronze you know how people said they didn't earn it
no they definitely earned it thank you yeah we'll take the d definitely earned
it definitely now we're gonna
Oh, go ahead. Oh, Patty.
Oh, I love to rub stuff in the petty people's face. You know,
somebody got his lap in now.

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So he's fired up and ready. I told you I'm going to wait now.
He woke up with stuff on his mind.
With stuff on his mind to get off.
Yeah. Now, we, Simone, great. Our women, great.
Expected to win gold, doing their thing. They're taking care of business.

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The man, question mark, you know, with the expectations, was riding on his high butt.
They were, you know, high hopes of meddling, and they pulled out the bronze.
Now, I know Carlin and I were in here having a good time, but somebody might
have a difference of opinion on the stage, but we'll get there with the men.

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What do we think about the men and what they did on the gymnastic side?
Because I was proud of them.
Well, y'all are just like the rest of America, and y'all celebrate mediocrity.
Me, a bronze is just third place to me.
I throw that in the trash. if it ain't gold I don't want it in the Olympics

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you're going to throw a bronze medal in the trash if,
you're from China you see what the Chinese get they leading in gold they expect
excellence they don't even want them silver and bronze throw them in the trash,
well second field is going to change that so they can celebrate now but yes

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but what is it okay what is mediocrity be born in 20 years or what is it?
How long has it been since they won?
Oh, the men? Oh, it was like 30 years. Yeah, it was.
It's been a long time. It's been a while. It's been like 20-some years. So, okay.

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Robbo. What's your definition of mediocrity, brother? Because I think we don't
have the same definition. Because they're competing against the best people in the world.
What's mediocre about third place. It's not first place.
Karl Parker, you're part of the problem with the sports culture now.
If you don't win a championship, you're a loser.

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You could have a great season and you lose in the finals.
Oh, your season sucked because you didn't win the championship.
Karl Parker, my brother. Karl, I'm a Cowboys fan and we have been mediocre since the 90s.

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Have we won a championship since the 90s? No.
So am I going to be jumping up and down saying, oh yeah, we made it to the playoffs.
Good job, Cowboys. No, we don't celebrate mediocrity over here.
Maybe make it back to the Super Bowl.
Let me give you Webster's dictionary meaning of mediocrity.

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Come on, Webster. moderate quality, not very good, ordinary,
common, commonplace, average, middle of the road, third place, middle of the road.
What about third place is average? Let me.
In an Olympics. If you're in a race. You know how many people you got to beat to get bronze?

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If you're in a race and you come in third place, you're a loser.
Well, now listen, Carl, now listen.
It is what it is. If the U.S.
Gymnastics team were the Cowboys, or let's say Katie Ledecky,
okay, I get your point, because they have some form of success,

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have shown the ability to be champions, who have done it.
The United States gymnastics team is an up-and-coming team.
They're a young team. I don't think we've ever won a gold medal.
Maybe early, early Olympics, maybe the 50s or something, the United States men's
team has won a gold medal in the overall team competition.
But they don't have a standard of actually bringing home championships.

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So I will applaud them because I see it as a stepping stone to possibly a future gold in the future.
Like this team is really bright. It has a bright future.
Grant is really, really explosive. He's trying to make gymnastics part of the culture.

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He's doing great things. I'm going to support Fred. I'm going to believe in
Fred. I think Fred's going to bring us a gold medal one day.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. Top four years in Los Angeles,
brother. We're bringing home the gold.
So let's be real.
If the men's basketball team came home with bronze, Oh, that's a disappointment. That is a total...

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He ain't even got a finish. It's totally different. It's not that we are not
going to be obtuse here. We are not going to do this.
That is excellent. This is mediocrity. That is excellence. This is mediocrity.
Simone Bowers. She brought home gold. That's excellence.
We don't have any excellence on the mismatch. We don't celebrate this job.

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Let's not give these guys a pass just because, oh, yes, we brought home the bronze.
What do you think they did in the all-around? Do you know what place we came in all-around?
The two men representing us, Paul Judah and Fred?
No, what did they come in? 14th and 15th. That's a team they ended up winning third. Yeah.

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Third in the team and they're
the best of the team the mediocre that
they are there is mediocrity there
but they rose to an occasion that's proved my point they came but they came
they rose above mediocrity to metal in their situation that bronze metal was

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nothing that was nothing mediocre
about winning that bronze you proved my point they were 14th and 15th.
Why are we sending mediocre talent over there? Because it's the best we got.
That's the best we have.
Which means we are mediocre. I agree overall. I agree with that.

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They're performing. Why are we celebrating mediocre?
I could care less about them winning the bronze. It doesn't make any sense.
Did you see that comeback to get the Browns? When the pressure was on,
I saw the young brother out picking every lander, and he was doing his thing.

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You got to give it up to the nerdy boy.
Park Kent coming out doing that poma horse. Park Kent brought it home.
The nerd only had one event. And it was crucial.
We had to nail that one. That's his event.
Let's talk about this. He was so bad that they would only allow him on the one event.

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It means the others were better. He was so bad that he could only be on the promo horse.
But he did what needed to be done. Yes, he did what needed to be done.
If that's all you got to do, you better be done on this.
Well, it's a team event. So he did it when he had to do it. for the team.
Everybody else had to do everything.

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He was sitting there asleep about the whole time too. That was funny.
He was definitely sleeping throughout the whole event.
We're rid of me there. Would you consider a swimming team, what do you think?
Would you consider that mediocrity?
They by far meddled more than anyone total.

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Yeah, they meddled But it was a whole lot of silver and bronze out there.
It's a lot of silver and bronze.
However, it was 11 silver, 4 gold, and what's that? 5, I guess, 5 bronze.
Going on 4, 5 bronze.
Not enough gold. Not enough Michael Phelps out there for me.

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Now, I agree with the swimming. The swimming has been mediocre.
I definitely agree with that. I think you're being too harsh on this men's gymnastics team.
I agree. You're a little rough. You're a little harsh on them.
A little harsh. Why is our nation so soft and so forgiving for me?
You sound like a conservative now. Oh my goodness.

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Why are we so soft? No.
I'm just a winner. I like to win. Not been a Cowboys fan. That's a read and true.
Well, Carlin. Yeah. Let's not go there, please. Hello.
Let's not go there, please. Leave me alone. That's a sensitive subject. Yes.

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I already talked about being a Cowboys fan, and I don't celebrate mediocrity.
I'm telling you. I will give you that. You tolerated. You tolerated it for 40 years. Oh.
It hasn't been 40. It's been 30. Well, close enough.
It's going to the 40 maybe I'll do something in the next couple years as y'all

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get rid of that leave me alone leave me alone,
how many wait a minute now don't do it,
we're not bringing them up in this no they have nothing to do with this conversation
nothing to do with this conversation they were not and nobody even mentioned
them what You introduced the Cowboys into the conversation.

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What is good for the goose is good for the game.
Not over here. We're not mediocre. At least we get to the Super Bowl.
We may not have won. And you lose.
But, hey, I'm not speaking to Patrick Mahomes.
Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback I've ever seen, so I'm not proud about that.
Is everybody that lost to Michael Jordan mediocre? Joker and Michael Jordan's eyes, but not in mine.

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That's very true.
That's fair. Since we're talking about swimming, let's give some props to Katie Ledecky.
She did break the record there on the swimming side, and she got a 13th Olympic medal.
How many goals did she get?
What'd you say, brother? How many goals did she have? This Olympics or overall?

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This Olympics. I just don't see a goal in the 1800s.
We could go to the research department and see. I don't know about the 800. How did she do in the 800?
I don't think they... Did they swim the final in the 800 yet?
That may be tonight. Like she qualified or whatever.

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Well, she's a better long-distance swimmer at this point than she is in the
sprints. So, I don't fault her for not beating the youngsters.
But, brother, did you see what she did in that 1500?
Oh, yes. Yes.
That could be her only goal and I'd be fine with me the way that she demolished

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Now that's I appreciate that excellence but the rest of it can go away,
The team relates to go away in the sprints Well you got to factor in we are
swimming against Australia and he is like 95 Those Australians what are they doing to them? Yeah.

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Wow. They're becoming the Chinese. Like, you're not welcome back or the Jamaican sprinters.
If you don't win the gold, you're not accepted back.
But do you see the form of the Australian? Yeah.
When they get to that last part, too, that closing, like, it's just.
That closing is ridiculous. Yeah.

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The lats and traps are, if you look at their bills, they're insane.
Yeah. They're sculpted. Yeah.
Yeah. It's definitely like none other. And that's like, even like that French dude, what is it?
Marcin is incredible. Marcin.
Incredible. Yeah.

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Yeah. You can't fault these guys for losing to people like that.
Michael Phelps wouldn't have lost to him. You probably got a point. Well, that's true.
Michael Phelps is his idol. So, yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to say that's a lie at all. Yeah.

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Michael Phelps was a bad boy. He reminds me a lot of Michael Phelps.
Even his build, like his torso, he's so freaking long.
Yeah. So, yeah. That's a great example. Yeah. Now, let's go on to a little bit of basketball.
You know, the men, they play on Saturday, their third game. I believe they play Puerto Rico.

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Yeah, they play Puerto Rico. With Puerto Rico, they've been getting – They've
been so disappointed that Puerto Rico is smaller. They've been smacked.
I think they're going to leave the Olympics and say, you know what, we're done.
We're not even going to try. They gave up the ghost. Last game,
I think they only scored like 68 points. Yeah.
Yeah, they just – yeah.

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So you think what lineup is going to be featured to all on saturday i just really wonder because,
it's been quite quite controversial with the lineups going on with steve kerr i want to hire
you you all feeling about it tatum didn't play at all the first game i don't
think halliburton has played at all in any of the two he played the last game

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yeah okay he probably got in i probably I wasn't even watching then.
Yeah, he played the last game.
He scored like six points the last game. I was the best.
Did most of the work. He was boring throughout the last game.
Yeah, I didn't watch all the last game.
Yeah, how do y'all feel about the way he didn't play that last game at all?

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He don't need to play the rest of the tournament. I don't know if that matters.
He doesn't need to play the rest of the tournament in my viewpoint. At all.
He's been terrible he and Steph Curry I don't know what's wrong with him he
is shooting like I don't know what I've never seen this well,

(26:05):
don't shoot me guys but the last championship was the first time we've really
seen Curry like kind of step up when it really mattered but.
Speak freely because I'm not a huge Curry guy.

(26:28):
Usually, there are people that kind of carry Curry.
KD carried him for sure. When he was there,
Curry even broke down one game because of the way KD was just out there just
murdering it and he couldn't hit the broadside of the barn.

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So, I'm not shocked that Curry is not shooting me.
When the stakes are really at their highest, he's only shown me a couple times
that he can really be that guy.
And that was the most recent championship.

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If you look back at it, that was the first time he won the finals MVP,
wasn't it? Yeah, that was the first one.
And they've had how many championships?
Four. Two with KD and two without KD. Yeah.
Andre Iguodala was the Finals MVP the first.

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Exactly. And when KD that last time, you know, towards the Achilles and so did
Thompson, you know, he didn't bring it home then either.
Like he's come up short whenever his number has been called. That's for sure.
Nobody's out there. Anybody can not critique that.
I'm really not but i'm back to the bar now bro like he's getting wide open shots

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i expect him to make those yeah he's.
Hey it's just something and i've
always it's funny that we talk about this because i've kind of always been quiet
about steph curry i just like let it like kind of go and you know he does Because

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there are times when he's liable to go off and score 50 like nothing sometimes and be unstoppable.
But I don't know. Something about him just always annoyed me.
He's the country club champion.
He's the country club champion. The white.

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You know, he's for the layman fan. You know, the one that likes the spectacular. Oh, my God.
The Kate and the Clark fan. That's who he's for. Yeah.
That's exactly right. That's exactly it.
So, y'all just think about this. When we were playing ball, the shots that he takes –.

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Would be able to be. You're like, excuse me? Yes, absolutely.
For me, even though they say, oh man, he's the greatest shooter that ever lived, to me, he's not.
I'll take Mahmoud Abdul-Raouf over him.

(29:26):
I'll take Lambert, Mahmoud.
In the skinny minute. And people don't... John Paxson's a better shooter.
People sleep on him. I'll take Dale Ellis. Oh, Dale Ellis, yes.
Yeah, he was called. That quick release?
These guys shot with consistency. And they didn't take, like,

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you know, stupid shots, you know, 40, 50-foot shots.
And if Dale Ellis was open, you might as well go ahead and go back. It's money in the bank.
All right. Okay, so am I – I'm not crazy because sometimes I'm like,
do I – You know how sometimes you kind of romanticize the past or you think something.

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But I felt like people didn't miss as many open shots. They didn't.
They didn't. They didn't.
I mean, a lot of players were specialties. Like, that was their job. His dad.
His dad, that was his job. But I feel like in warm-ups, I feel like Curry hits everything.
All the trick shots, all the, like, all the. And that's the thing. They trick shots. Yeah.

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So I know. I remember when I played in the program in Hampton and it was this
cat Lamont Struthers that was playing.
And he he was like D2 national player of the year, all time leading scorer could

(30:56):
I mean, he could shoot from 40 with consistent.
And I'm not going to go into too much detail.
So, you know, he was in the pro-am, and he had lit us up that pro-am game.
We won, but he had scored like 50.
And, you know, I asked him, I said, man, why in the world you ain't making it in the league?

(31:19):
He said, because I can't shoot like those guys in the league.
I said, what do you mean you can't shoot like those guys in the league?
He said, man, these guys are machines.
They don't mix. He said, they do not miss. If they're open, they do not miss.

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And when we drill, when we go through workouts, they're like machines.
So what Steph is doing, when we see those things that they glamorize, it ain't nothing new.
And those guys were doing that a long time ago with consistency.
And it was more than just him that were capable of doing those things.

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Yeah. Yeah.
I'm just not a line. We're kind of aligned on our feelings occurring.
I just never expressed that out loud. Yeah.
I mean, I never did either. I didn't know how I would be received for saying that.
You may not have been received well for this, but that's how we feel. He's the golden boy.

(32:30):
Stuff is the golden boy. Everybody loves him.
He's not a better shooter than KD and KD, you know, Oh, absolutely not.
Yeah. KD, he doesn't miss KD's. He's, he's an M and that's somebody who's killing it right now too.
Oh, especially that first game, man, that was the best display of shooting in a half of basketball.

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I'm not thinking I've ever seen it. That was ridiculous.
They still ain't missed a three yet. This is a shot making ability is ridiculous.
The rare player whenever he shoots i
always expect it to go in we miss it and if

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he misses it's like it's a shot yeah i was like oh it's something wrong yeah
somebody needs to go check this ball okay yeah do y'all see anybody right now
you think that's going to challenge the U.S.,
that's going to give us the toughest...

(33:38):
Yeah, I still think there are a couple people out there that are...
I haven't seen everybody yet. I've seen some of Canada.
Canada's doing pretty well. I know Jamal Murray's been struggling a little bit,
but everybody else... I haven't...
And I still think Germany is... Yeah, and Germany. Germany is a formidable opponent.

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Which I think they kind of destroyed France. They were like killing France today.
Oh, yeah. But I didn't see the finals score.
I don't really foresee France really giving us too much of a problem.
But Germany, I can see that being an issue.

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Going to be interesting. It's going to be interesting going on with these boys.
I just thought real quick, have y'all seen any of the three-on-three? We saw.
We're not here to judge. How did this happen? How did these teams form? Were there tryouts?
Did they win a tournament to get over it?

(34:45):
I don't know. How do you go over in the three-on-three? They started winning,
though. Today, they started winning.
Yeah, they won today. They won two in a row today. And I think women had sucked
too. They lost their first three.

(35:08):
Was Ice Cube's people not available?
What's going on?
I think there's something about not being... Wait, Jimmy Fredette,
he never played in the league yeah i thought he
played in league i thought what's it called that was x badge

(35:29):
no that's volleyball sorry wrong sport oh yeah
face button yeah yeah yeah i thought it was something that you couldn't be like
a professional athlete or something but that might not be right i haven't looked
up the rules with it i'm just it got me really curious about What's the criteria of making this 303?

(35:50):
Because how are we losing 303 with everybody around the world?
I don't know. I don't know.
Is the flag football part of the Olympics too now? I believe so.
Maybe that's coming up later. Okay.
I know breakdancing, that was new. I feel like flag football might be a part.

(36:17):
Any other Olympic thoughts Before we move on from that Anything that stood out.
All right. Well, we're going to switch gears and go political, brothers.
You know how we like to do in this last part. And Carl Parker,
you did send us something in our chat.

(36:39):
And I just want to share with the public in case they have not heard this.
And let's get into the Blacks against Harris.
Now, for the most, as Carlin likes to say, unoriginal.
Unoriginal. Just like their one daddy. Why?

(37:00):
Y'all know Kamala has been killing it, like the cause. And we got to acknowledge
it started with Black women.
Then Black men got in right quick and said, we got to support our sisters.
And we kicked off all these calls. And then it's just been a series of calls
for Kamala going on from the white women to the gays, to the dads,

(37:25):
to the cat ladies, to every like every group imaginable. The dreadheads.
Yeah, everybody. As hell calls.
And now like the conservatives, I guess, or we don't even know.
They don't like to claim what they are, this particular one.
But the other side has just been furious so I guess they wanted to start their

(37:47):
own thing and it's your favorite person Carlin you shared Dom with me a long
time ago oh my god was he there he led it yeah because he's,
very much a biter,
he's so unoriginal he makes a living copying people taking the opposite side

(38:07):
of stuff he's disgusting as Donald Trump likes to say.
Tell me how you really feel carlin gee let's listen to what they had to say.
Propaganda onslaught, the things that we've seen over the past couple of weeks.
I mean, it's insane. It's a very well-oiled machine, right?

(38:28):
What we do have in our favor is that people do not trust any of this stuff anymore.
At this point in the game, people know that they're being propagandized.
So I think that a lot of people on the Zoom have the opportunity to reach out
to people directly that are either done with the propaganda and also,
by the way, are never going to follow any of, you know, these Trump people, right?

(38:52):
Or never really going to listen to anything that they're saying.
So I would have, I think, have some faith in our messaging and in the people that you can reach.
Then just imagine what kind of harm she is going to do to Black people with
the power that she will have and the control that she will have in her hand.

(39:16):
She would destroy us. when you look at
that video that's out there and that woman said oh i'm not
gonna do anything for black people did you see that
look on her face yeah he said that with
sincerity from the bottom of her heart so i don't know when people tell you
who they are believe them the lady already said that out of her mouth that she

(39:38):
don't have no intentions of doing nothing for the black community.
So we as Black people need to stop being loyal to people that are not going to be loyal to us.
You know, everything she touched is dangerous.
And people got to realize this, this is a election, this election is very crucial

(40:01):
to people to understand what she's all about.
She's not about nobody but herself in the party, and she's not in charge.
As we all are aware, Democrat policies just really haven't been too beneficial for Black Americans.
You know, prior to the 1960 Civil Rights Movement, which was shifted.
So our, you know, JFK Jr., sorry, JFK Jr.

(40:24):
Actually had a civil rights proposition that was a lot better than what LBJ had presented.
He actually altered it after the death of JFK Jr. But prior to the civil rights
implementation, we actually had a higher participation rate in the workforce.
I think we had higher birth rates.
We also had a higher marriage rate than I think of the white counterparts.

(40:47):
And it's crazy when you also look at the people that were destroying our cities.
When you think of Black Wall Street, it was a bombing that was ordered by the National Guard.
But the governor, James B.A. Robertson, was a Democrat that ordered a bombing up in Oklahoma.
So their policies really haven't benefited us all the way back from the past
to right now is just my opinion.
I think if we ever endorse anything that's liberal, it leads to our destruction.

(41:09):
Hip hop itself is pretty liberal. I wouldn't say hip-hop is really conservative.
It might have some conservative aspects to it.
But for the most part, it pushes out liberal agendas. And that doesn't really
serve us well as a man either.
Yeah, I can tell you, we've got to stand up and we've got to fight.
We've got to push it back.
And this is why you see me on social media. I drag their ass because I care
absolutely nothing about evil.

(41:31):
I care nothing about my professionalism. I have two college degrees.
I don't give a damn about those degrees.
And if you're going to get in the government, I'm going to get in the government
with your ass. So you have got to fight.
You can't be nice to demons. You can't be nice.
You have got to push back and destroy these people where they stand.
And this is what I do on a daily basis. I'm like, oh, you're too rough. I'm not rough enough.

(41:53):
Because if I was, then the evil wouldn't be out. don't like and i
care about this so vote for me and in 10 years they're the ones that's that's
that's that they got the the the pink hair and the blue hair and the the the
weird makeup and et cetera et cetera because this is what been that mean that
that's how they've been taught,

(42:13):
and the democrats literally basically brainwashed them into feeling like they
support that because Because they create it.
She is disingenuous. She doesn't know what she's doing.
She doesn't like us. I'm just going to say it. She doesn't like us.
She is Indian and Jamaican. She is constantly riding on the backs of Black people

(42:36):
who have helped to build this great nation.
And I want the nation saved.
I don't care about identity politics.
I don't vote race or gender. I vote policies. And hers, she doesn't have any.
But if she did, they'd be disastrous.
She's already told you what she would do. She she will support illegals and it will be black votes.

(43:00):
Go on. Get to the back of the bus again, because once she has what she wants, the door shuts.
No more black church visits. No more essence awards.
Oh, yeah. No more money for HBCUs. This is all a stunt.
It's all an act. And people need to wake up. This is about protecting this country.
Do not understand. We don't have another chance if she gets her grimy little

(43:26):
hands on the keys to this nation. It's a wrap.
A wrap. Y'all know that? She gets her hands on this grabby little nation. It's a wrap.
Now, I just want the people to know... Oh, my God.
I want the people to know this is their highlight reel. Okay.

(43:47):
They put this reel together to share with the masses of what went on.
Thoughts, brother? I'm just gonna open up the floor. I see the faces.
He says, Conlon, you can go first. I see you.
I don't even know where to start. First of all, I just do not understand how

(44:09):
people bring up Democrats from the 1920s as if that's representative of the
Democratic Party today. Who doesn't know history?
They just learned it yesterday.
They learned it yesterday. Had they not understood how the Democrats of yesteryear
are the Republicans of today?
That you're voting for, the policies that you're voting for.

(44:32):
I mean, they talk about DEI getting rid of, they got rid of affirmative action.
I mean, what else do you want them to show you to show that they do not care about you?
But they think that Kamala Harris hates you?
But Donald Trump and his minions don't? It's so ridiculous.

(44:53):
And the last lady talking about
HBCUs, I haven't heard anything so so dumb and ridiculous in my life.
She graduated from Howard University.
You don't think she's going to funnel money into her alma mater with the boule,
with the fraternities and sororities? Come on now.

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They don't even know the bills that she did in Congress.
She introduced that just Republicans, they didn't have the vote.
They had to vote for it. And Joe Biden has given more money as president to
the HBCUs than any other president.

(45:36):
So that was just a dumb stance. And what's the what's he say something about
he said, I'm not going to do anything for Black people. Where's the video?
I missed that one. I'm curious about, do y'all know that?
Because I don't know what she was talking about with that video.
Have y'all seen any of that?
Because I didn't I don't know where that's coming from. I haven't researched it myself.

(46:02):
I just didn't realize we had so many African-Americans that were that unintelligent.
What bothers me is that, you know,
Who were our enslavers?

(46:25):
Apparently, we didn't have any. Apparently, they don't know.
I don't know. Well, no, brother, I'm going to tell you what it is.
All of these people, they were born here.
Their ancestors were born here in America before.
And their ancestors were not shipped over on slave boats. And so they were never slaves.

(46:47):
These are the people who they are. They are the Adolfs people of America who
don't believe that they were ever slaved.
That last lady was clearly Adolfs. Yeah.
They don't like that stuff. That rhetoric, like, yeah.
We've dealt with a lot of Adolfs people over the last few years,
more so than I ever dealt with in my life.

(47:10):
Well, acronym or not, the very people that they're promoting are the ones that,
were iron slavers. So...
Why do you think we can go to them and have everything remedied by them?

(47:33):
They're not the saviors. And they were basically saying that that's going to be our savior.
That's not, that's not where, where it lies.
The, the black wealth gap is increasing more and more. and more.

(47:55):
Although our median wealth has increased, the racial gap has increased along with it.
So every hundred dollars that a white family earns, a black family earns 15. That's awesome.

(48:17):
It's 85%. That's crazy. 85% gap.
So that's and that hasn't changed no I mean it's been a long time and we're
talking about supporting a guy who definitely doesn't care about,

(48:40):
making a change in that gap so my thing is as African Americans we do have
to some kind of way solidify and unite and fight for a common cause of,

(49:02):
uh, decreasing that gap.
Yeah. Or them policies that will decrease that gap and supporting candidates
that will decrease that gap. Thank you.
We, I don't know. I don't know where our mindset is right now, But it it was energy.

(49:23):
I don't yes, and the on this On on these talking heads that that really they're
just getting paid to parrot you know other people's initiatives as.
Obviously a parroting what?
Conservative talking points are yeah that as Carlin said they're unoriginal,

(49:47):
They have no thoughts of their own Yeah.
This lady talking about HBCUs, you know, how much money has she given to an HBCU?
Okay. Thank you.
You know. Did you even go to one? I wonder if she even went to one.

(50:08):
Let's see. She graduated from one.
And, you know, that's part of the problem. Blacks don't give back to their own.
And then they expect, you know.
Mm-hmm. No, I feel that. a favor to give back to them.
So I don't know. We, you know, I've said this time and time again,

(50:31):
we're a mess of people, man.
Oh, go ahead. And I just think people expect too much from the presidency.
They don't understand these policies are copyrighted.
So let's say the president does pass something or, you know,
there's an executive order.

(50:51):
If you're local, the money is handed down to your local government and who you
have in local government determines how those funds are distributed.
So if you don't have the people in local government who are on the same page
as you, that's what's going to happen.
That money can funnel elsewhere. That's what happened in the Brett Favre situation.
Yeah, there was money there allocated for the people.

(51:14):
However, those in charge locally and statewide put the money elsewhere.
So Fairfax is their energy in the wrong place.
So it's the local, first state, then the president.
We see them here in Brunswick County, Brunswick County and New Hanover County all day. Yeah.

(51:38):
It's a fight between the haves and the have-nots. And see, the haves are the
ones that are in office and the have-nots are underrepresented.
That's so true. Absolutely. Thank you.
Another thing in that video, your boy Dom, it reminded me of the conversation
we had one episode of the thought of Black people pre-civil rights and post-civil rights.

(52:04):
He was talking about how everything was glowing before 1960.
It was beautiful. It was segregation.
The marriage rates and stuff. He wasn't allowed to talk.
He wasn't alive during that time he doesn't he didn't have any dogs biting on

(52:27):
him or anybody who was afraid,
what do you think was happening then like what do you think was going on like
I'm so confused yeah he wasn't spit on for going to going to a predominantly
white school or trying to integrate yeah or that's going Going into a restaurant

(52:49):
in the front door and trying to sit down.
And you know they love their white women. We couldn't have no white woman back
then. What you going to do? Who you going to date?
You be strung up, lynched.
Oh, gosh. That video, that did something to my soul when you sent that video to the chat.
I think I'm with you, Carl. I knew we had dumb people, but I was like,

(53:11):
damn, we got this level? Yeah.
That's not a good, that's, yeah. Well, everybody can't make it y'all. We know that.
Or thing, this woman, she had a nerve to say with her little hands and her power,
what is she gonna do? Let me ask you something.

(53:33):
What has 40 plus white males with power done for you? I'm waiting.
Makes it so much better than what
she's going to do if you're looking for change. It doesn't make sense.
It is crazy. Once you put in even the gender aspect of this,

(53:57):
the stuff that gets said about women, it's crazy.
That comes from women? Coming from women.
The women too. It's weird.
It's just really strange. I can see if you just attack policies or something
that don't agree with anything, but But, yeah, I don't know.
I guess people just be so soaked into this misogyny, into this everything,

(54:22):
into all this bigotry where they just do it.
Misogyny and white supremacy has done a number on our community. White supremacy has.
We love some white supremacy over here. I'm telling you, our community loves it.
I tell you, when those people back in the day introduced whiteness and started
separating races and introduced this, like they they just did a number that

(54:43):
has just stained us for generations.
I think, and I may be in a minority in this,
but I think one of the things Black people got to stop and think a little bit
before they react and make comments.

(55:04):
I know we've been kind of,
there have been some out there kind of blasting Kamala about her Indian heritage
and that she's Indian and Jamaican or her father was Jamaican and her mother was Indian.
And so there are some people out there talking about, well, now she's trying

(55:32):
to be black or she's trying to cater to blackness.
And some of her speeches or she had Magda Stallion and some other people out there or whatever.
So do Black people want her to discredit the fact that she is Indian?

(55:57):
They absolutely, that's what they sound like.
Pretty much. was or what what
is what is supposed to be the case
there and so yeah now now you
know we have a lot of
meetings out there about you know her you

(56:19):
know making some comments about rappers or having rappers in on the stage but
and i know she's playing to an audience and whatnot not but she's always kind
of held strong to her Indian roots and,
rightfully so she is Indian she's multicultural like she's but I don't understand

(56:45):
we understand people have multiple identities this is so weird,
like she's never denied anything so it doesn't make sense but as black folk
we got the and that that, hey,
she is what she is, and we can't expect her to be something other than what she is.

(57:06):
And she shouldn't have to feel like she has to be something other than what she is.
And to your brother and her having Quavo and Megan wasn't just by happenstance
like she's actually had policy discussions with them in the White House about entrepreneurship and,

(57:27):
wealth in the black community and like doing safety and different things so
she's had a pre-existent relationship with these two so that's the reason why
they were there because she had substantive,
conversations with them not just because they were stars, but that helps that they were rappers.

(57:47):
I'm not saying that wasn't part of it. That's another generation.
I mean, that's just smart politics. Smart politics.
Let's be clear.
That's a political move. Like Brother said, that's smart politics.
Now, Meg, The Stallion, and Quavo, I don't think I don't, well,

(58:13):
I'm going to speak in general terms.
That kind of stuff in the city of Atlanta, like he's doing stuff outside.
I wouldn't say they know, they know a whole lot about, you know,
policies and, and whatnot, but they could give, you know, some indication of
what's going on in the city, but they're stars.

(58:35):
Some of that stuff ain't hitting them. You know, it ain't, it,
the real life stuff ain't hitting them like they hitting me or they hitting you, you know?
So those conversations with people, the people in the general public,
they don't, that's not glamorous.

(58:56):
So, yeah, it's a good political move to talk to a Quavo or a Meg the Stallion
because they're entertainers and they're stars out in the community.
But the actual boots on the ground and the grassroots people.
Yeah. I don't think we have that voice. Yeah.

(59:17):
You know, at that point. And the Quavo thing.
And I think the part that and I get what you're saying, but like some elements
crossover, because, you know, like with this nephew take off,
die, getting killed from gun violence.
And that's why the gun violence kind of thing kind of tied into stuff with him.
And that part can relate to, you know, other people in other communities and stuff facing that.

(59:40):
So there's some angles where the crossover like makes
sense to me you know whatever these are people who
like you know people might look up to and stuff and he's opened several businesses
in the city of atlanta too with um the lgbtq community and different other um
communities that he's bridging together like he's doing stuff in the community

(01:00:01):
as well on top of that so it was But I get what you're saying too, brother.
It's like he's at a mansion talking about everyday problems,
people going to the store buying groceries.
I don't think there's any message bigger than the economic message right now.

(01:00:21):
Economic message is the bigger message, yeah.
Yeah, and neither of these candidates are hitting the mark on that. Yeah.
In my opinion, you know, and we can, they can have all these stars.
They can have, you know, this one and that one going up there and speaking.
But until, until we see some substantive change here and lower the middle class, America.

(01:00:53):
It's going to be, I think enough evil.
Yeah. That was in her speech. I'm waiting to hear what she's going to say at
the convention, because she did talk about exactly what you're talking about,
brother, in her last speech she had in Atlanta and also in Houston.
And that's part of her message. Now I'm waiting to see what her plan is going to be.

(01:01:14):
Hopefully we get something in the next week or two about what she plans to do.
But to your earlier point, I want to use that as a transition because so we
get in on this NABJ because you're saying like when black people need to think
before they're talking and talking about heritage and do they want to deny?

(01:01:35):
Because I'm going to show you what it leads to.
And it's exactly the way Trump talked at the NABJ convention.
So this is the firestorm of whatever, if y'all are following this week, whatever.
It was definitely very controversial within the community of Black journalists

(01:01:55):
and beyond. And I used to be a member of NABJ.
Actually, I got my first job at ESPN.
Definitely a good organization that's done a lot of good, solid work.
But there's been a lot of discussion lately over the last few years about how
things are quite not the same there. And...
And show this put in this week, but I want to play a little piece of people

(01:02:18):
did not hear how it started.
You just got to hear the first two answers to know how this whole conversation went.
And then we'll spend like the last 15 minutes of this podcast,
just kind of getting into this NABJ conversation and springing on.
All right. So let's just listen up to how this all started off.

(01:02:40):
Mr. President, we so appreciate you giving us an hour of your time.
I want to start by addressing the elephant in the room, sir.
A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today.
You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals, from Nikki Haley to
former President Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United

(01:03:01):
States, which is not true.
You have told four congresswomen of color who were American citizens to go back to where they came from.
You have used words like animal and rabbit to describe Black district attorneys.
You've attacked Black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions
that they ask are, quote, stupid and racist.
You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort.

(01:03:23):
So my question, sir, now that you are asking Black supporters to vote for you,
why should Black voters trust you after you have used language like that?
Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question in such a
horrible manner, a first question.
You don't even say, hello, how are you? Are you with ABC? Because I think they're

(01:03:47):
a fake news network, a terrible network.
And I think it's disgraceful that I came here in good spirit.
The Black population of this country. I've done so much for the Black population of this country,
including employment, including Opportunity Zones with Senator Tim Scott of

(01:04:09):
South Carolina, which is one of the greatest programs ever for Black workers
and Black entrepreneurs.
I've done so much. And, you know, and I say this, historically Black colleges
and universities were out of money.
There was stone cold broke. And I saved them and I gave them long term financing
and nobody else was doing it.

(01:04:31):
I think it's a very rude introduction.
I don't know exactly why you would do something like that. And let me go a step further.
I was invited here and I was told my opponent, whether it was Biden or Kamala,
I was told my opponent was going to be here.
It turned out my opponent isn't here.
You invited me under false pretense. And then you said you You can't do it with Zoom.

(01:04:55):
Well, you know, where's Zoom? She's going to do it with Zoom and she's not coming.
And then you are half an hour late. Just so we understand, I have too much respect for you to be late.
They couldn't get their equipment working or something was wrong.
I think it's a very nasty question. I have answered the question.
I have been the best president for the black population since Abraham Lincoln.

(01:05:19):
That's my answer. Better than President Johnson who signed the Voting Rights
Act. For you to start off a question and answer period, especially when you're
35 minutes late because you couldn't get your equipment to work in such a hostile
manner, I think it's a disgrace.
Let me just ask a follow up, sir, and then we'll move on to other questions here.
Some of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill,

(01:05:39):
have labeled Vice President Kamala Harris, who was the first black and Asian-American
woman to serve as vice president, be on a major party ticket as a DEI hire.
Is that acceptable language to you? And will you tell those Republicans and
those supporters to stop it?
How do you define DEI? Go ahead.
How do you define it? Diversity, equity, inclusion. Okay, yeah. Go ahead, Z.

(01:06:02):
Definition? That is literally the word. Give me a definition then.
Would you give me a definition?
Give me a definition. Sir, I'm asking you a question. No, no, you have to define it.
Define it for me if you will. I just defined it, sir. Do you believe that Vice
President Kamala Harris is only on the ticket because she is a Black woman?
Well, I can say no. I think it's maybe a little bit different.
So I've known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much.

(01:06:25):
And she was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage.
I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to
turn black. And now she wants to be known as black.
So I don't know, is she Indian or is she black? She is always identified as a black college.
I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't because she was Indian all the way.

(01:06:49):
And then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went, she became a black person.
Just to be clear, And I think somebody should look into that,
too, when you ask a continue in a very hostile, nasty town.
It's a direct question, sir. Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is a DEI hire?
I really don't know. I mean, I really don't know. Could be. Could be.
There are some and there are plenty. I know this lady right over there. Harris is a fan.

(01:07:14):
Then he goes to your girl Harris.
Big Bird. draft.
So that's how this form kicks off.
With, Rachel Scott was asking those questions from ABC News.
She's a senior congressional correspondent.
You had Harris Faulkner, who's a Fox News, who is in Trump's back pocket,

(01:07:37):
who he kept using as an out throughout the whole conversation.
And then you had Gota, first name is escaping me right now, she's also a political
correspondent who was up there.
Well, she did question him on immunity, which is a little conversation we'll get into.
But brother, it made me think of that because of this labeling thing,

(01:08:00):
you know, now this able of responses like that, because now conservatives are
like, oh, she just became black just yesterday.
You know, that's how I started. And I do want to correct some misinformation, he said.
The that has come out. The reason that it started late is because they pressed

(01:08:20):
him on fat checking. They said, we're going to live fat check you.
And his team pressed back on that. And there was a standoff and they was he
was refusing to come out.
So for him to then to go around and blame them and say, I'm late because of
y'all and your audio equipment, which he kept throwing out their little shots

(01:08:40):
about that, doing the whole thing to as well, speaks volumes.
And they say he was leaving messages on his little platform from his airplane
while they were there waiting for him.
Yes but he respects the black people been the best president since Abraham Lincoln,
Opportunity Zones did everything for black people aren't them Opportunity Zones

(01:09:03):
booming y'all that fake HBCU deal it was very fake they did not get all the
money he's talking about.
What a way to introduce and I say NABJ has just been a firestorm and a lot of
their credibility has been shot over this and a mistake from the very beginning

(01:09:24):
we had a conversation you know about this you know who Donald Trump is he's not going to change.
So why would you even have I understand
he's running for president so you have to have
him no you don't you don't no because he's
he's very disingenuous he is

(01:09:45):
lying all the time all the
time and he's insulting to black women which gets on
my nerves so bad i really want to fight given the history he's had with black
journalists black women journalists and who are nabj members and the way he
has disrespected them continuously like y'all invite this man into your house

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then now it it is a thing and they put out, you know,
how they invite presidential candidates and dah, dah, dah, dah.
They did. They do. They invited him in 2016 and he said, no, Hillary came.
The only reason, too, to put out there and they didn't correct it.
Then the whole situation with Kamala, they asked her.
She was going to she released funeral on a flight to Texas and had a campaign

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thing that that same night.
She asked to do it virtually. They said no.
Then she asked the team said, well, at the the convention, we would do a sit-down.
Can we do a sit-down fireside chat with you?
They said, no, you have to be here.
This whole thing is a mess. So now there's framing. Now conservatives are running

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away. Like, she didn't even show up.
She doesn't even want to be there. Trump is using that. They just gave him more
stuff to put out there to use against us. He's a liar.
He's a liar. And he goes into the tough places. Yes. Oh, so disgusting.
Yes. This whole thing was just so disgusting.

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What about that makes black? But what about even those first two,
just knowing that you don't even, the whole thing was just him tying everything
back to illegal immigration and how that's taking black jobs.
They asked him what a black job was. He was like, any job, any job.
Oh, we get it. I bring up the police thing in a second.
But what did, I don't know. Did you see any of this, Carl?

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Yes. What's the conversation you've been hearing around it? Brothers.
That's fine. That's it all.
Brothers, why do we entertain this tomfoolery?
When people show us who they are, when are we going to take them?

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Believe them the first time. Don't we have all the information on Trump?
Who needs to hear him for any truth about it? We know.
We got to stop in this like he's a regular president or this is a regular nomination.
It's not. I was so disappointed.

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For the life of me, I don't understand how he even became a president to begin with.
I mean, he saw what he did in New York, what he's done in Florida.
If you can't win your home state, doesn't that tell you something? Yeah.

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You're not allowed back. They don't even want you back. Let him run a nation.
He was... See, the problem is he got voted in because he was a television celebrity.
He was a personality on TV. Kind of like Ronald Reagan was.

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Ronald Reagan was in the... The same way.
And And, you know, even, even though the Republicans view him as being like
the greatest president ever or whatever.
I, and now they're riding on Trump as being similar, I guess. I don't know.

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But for the life of me, I just don't understand how we got, how we got trapped
into this deal about black jobs.
Thank you.
Can you tell me what a black job is? Any job.
The President of the United States, Vice President, Supreme Court Justice.

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I love that. Everybody said that. That was so funny.
No, a black job is...
I know where you're going, brother. I know where you're going.
A black job is those jobs that nobody else wanted back in the day.
Yep. Those custodial jobs. we know what jobs he talking about attention workers basically yeah so.

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What why are we not more than those jobs right and then brandon it just reminded
me they kind of like did y'all see that report that came out on wells fargo
fargo and the lawsuit yes Yes.
And also maybe federal as well.
They found out that in their, over the last, what's it like, 20 years?

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Yeah, like 20 plus years. 20 plus years, all these fake interviews they were
doing for their diversity hires and sending people through all these browser
interviews and when they already had people picked out you know,
jobs that didn't even exist. Yeah.
Wrecks up for jobs that didn't even exist. They do that on the corporation,

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man. That happens so much.
Just to say, Hey, this is a diverse candidate.
Oh yeah. We put a diverse camp, diverse person on the hiring committee,
you know, and these are, these will be handpicked people.
They don't respect or don't, don't really care to even, even promote anyway. Thank you.

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I mean, I see it on a daily basis and
it's just what I kind of what it touches on the point I was trying to make earlier
is we can't assume that any of these people will help us.

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It's a condition though brother like we're just so i
don't know like just so i i think people are just conditioned
to rely they don't want to say it out loud but they really rely on white people
to they feel more comfortable if there's a white lead and doing something i
feel like black folks and that's just the the condition we've been in i'd see it all the time with,

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our own people and our women definitely.
Our women are more apt to believe a white male or a white female than they will their black man.

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And they're more apt to side with them than their own black men.
And the, you know, a lot of that stemmed from age-old discriminatory practices
that happened during slavery.
But at some point we've got to relinquish that and we've got to,

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we've got to start supporting our own people and really supporting them.
And And I can tell you now that most black women will be more comfortable taking
a job from a white man than she would from a black man. No, you about to make some people mad.

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I think you about to make some people mad with that statement. You are.
They will work. I'm over here. Why? Wyatt, I'm going to let you go ahead and step all up in it.
I'm going to get this. Before they'll work for a black company,
a black male led company.

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And it's because they trust a white man and they won't say it out loud,
but their actions speak louder than words.
You know, my brother got some strong opinions, but he sees.
But I want to tie that in as we run up on time, make sure we do talk about the
policing aspect, because I think it does tie into that, too.

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And the comfortability that some feel even in that aspect might maybe Donald
Trump was pressed about because, you know, his big thing is about how he wants
to get full immunity to police.
And so there was a pressing thing on that. And they brought up the Sonia Massey case.
Which that heartbreaking, horrifying case. And the way he treated it,

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the way he disregarded it, he was just like, oh yeah, I don't know much about
it, but it's something about the water, right?
Yeah. Something looked like it wasn't, it wasn't maybe not done right or something there.
And it was pressing on like, is this the type of person you want to give immunity to?
And he could, You know, he was dodging, dodging, dodging, dodging and trying

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to throw in all other kind of ad libs all over because, you know,
we he definitely wants to get full immunity for,
you know, straight up murder going on with that cop is up, you know,
trial now for murder in that case.
We would talk a little bit before this. I know you had a point on policing,
too, as well, and some thoughts on how we should handle that or what you feel

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like in our communities. We're policing our own communities.
Black folks should be policing our own communities. That woman,
she was having a mental breakdown.
Her mother told the police to begin with, don't hurt her.
She's having a mental breakdown. down and you send Caucasian males in there.

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And they don't know how to,
how to communicate with a black woman when she said I rebuke you in the name
of Jesus they should have known if it was a black person he would have known oh boy.
How did she saw that spirit she saw the evil spirit on him yeah I don't think

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there was too much mental with that statement no i think no i think that was
a real statement because,
he immediately the demon aggressive you gotta recognize that yeah,
the demon came out
immediately after that remark so uh but really if if we don't start building

(01:20:54):
the infrastructure in our communities will be extinct in in 25 years not 25.
But it depends on brother. Carl, I know you had something. Did you want to say
something about the Sonia Massey? I know we was talking beforehand.

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Yeah, I'm just disgusted that people actually want to put this man in office.
Office our people to attack
us to basically have free immunity
to gun us down at any point any
time no questions asked you can't

(01:21:37):
sue you can't you know have them
you know go to jail and face consequences and our
own people are voting for that
just let's just think about it for
a moment that it really disgusts me i
mean forget all the other policies that you
know you want to talk about what's about systemic murder

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being allowed to happen to all disadvantaged people i mean i'm i i hate i saw
the video i i looked at it does something to you it really does something to you.
The funny thing was, I was looking
at a TikTok video of this mother I follow. She has an autistic son.

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I'm next to here, I think, in Bowie. Brother.
They're trying to introduce a bill where, unlike the driver's license,
if somebody has a mental situation, like they're autistic or something,
have something on the license so the police officer can acknowledge that.
Because you remember the case in denver i think it's colorado yeah that's what

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i was thinking about that yeah i mean i think that's great but it won't matter yeah they don't care.
Okay what you want to do with this they coming with killing on the mind they
come with killing and murder on the mind so it's just it's so important that

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this man does not win i mean if If he wins,
this country is just gonna be destroyed.
I mean, that's not hyperbole, it's just the truth.
They're trying to just change everything in this country from policing to the
way the government's run, to who's in charge.
He already said, this will be your last election.

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Christian voters. Yeah. Get out there and vote. Put me in here.
You don't have to anymore. You don't have to vote anymore.
You know, he's saying the stuff out loud for us. Yeah, it's not.
I'm just really perplexed right now. I'm just hoping that we can pull this through.
But that video really is so sickening and disturbing.

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And just like you said earlier, I'm in the, just the conversation we're having,
how that they were there the week prior, I believe you said.
Yeah. Mm-hmm. So they knew what was going on. And I feel bad for the son.
The son definitely is going to have some virus guilt because he feels bad because
he was there the last time.
But he got held up at work or something and he couldn't be there.

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It was like his first night not coming over.
He had been coming over like every night. Every night. So I'm just praying for,
you know, healing for the family.
Like this is a tragedy. This is one of the worst things I've ever seen.
And we've seen some horrible stuff with policing.
Yeah, it's a sad, sad situation, man.
It is it is brothers well we talked about a lot covered a lot and you know my

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brother has a my brother Carl there,
black women don't come for him don't come for him hey it's the truth.
You ain't backing down it is the truth the thing about it is,
men I'm gonna say this too too, men got to start being men, too,

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and recognizing their worth.
Well, they're going to agree with me. I guarantee 100% they're going to say hallelujah.
But we need to recognize our worth as men.
Now, you know, you got a lot of these sisters out here claiming to be Christians
and claiming to be biblically sound. Now, if you're biblically sound,

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you'll understand that God made man first. Okay.
It's a game for man. We walking on it, about to start turning it around.
Not the other way around.
Producer, producer, is that the music playing?

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If you're going to be a man, stand on it. Stand in your authority.
I stand in mine. You certainly do, brother.
Yes, you do. I ain't go back now and I ain't go back off of it they could come for me,

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I'll be laughing oh I'm gonna send it my way,
all right y'all enjoy the weekend let's root for the track this weekend let's
see Sha'Carri get out there and do it she dusted in the little.

(01:26:33):
Her first heat yeah. Yeah first heat love to see it.
And the 4x400 mix set a world record in the preliminary round.
They did yes mixed relay and we had the first American win in like forever well
not win but medal in that long distance one the one that's like a million laps

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okay That the Ethiopians and Ugandans normally kill us.
He got bronze. He could have got silver.
He's mediocre.
He is. Now, is he a United States-born citizen or is he a naturalized citizen?

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Is he somebody from Ethiopia? That's a good question.
More than likely that's what it is. We will have to look at it.
I think it matters. He's still American.
More than likely he is. He ain't full-blooded American.
Y'all ain't worth nothing. No, brother. Y'all ain't worth nothing.

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