August 1, 2024 • 31 mins
What does it feel like to rediscover your roots and share that journey with the world? Join us as Marc takes us on an unforgettable trip to Armenia, where he connects with his heritage, makes an appearance on Armenian TV, and visits the inspiring Emili Aregak Center.
Shifting gears, we tackle the seismic shift in the political landscape with Joe Biden stepping down from the presidential race. Can the Democratic Party survive without a well-prepared roster of younger candidates?
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Welcome to another episode of the Absolute DMV
Podcast.
It's your man, ace Boogie.
I am excited because we arebike, bike the Holy Trinity Well
, not the Holy, I mean, I don'twant to go that far, but the
Trinity is here.
We are bike with my man markhey, hey to raid and my man ego
(00:54):
on the board I'm on the board.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Gentlemen well, I can't even say gentlemen mark,
mark you have been halfwayaround the globe?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
yep, please tell us about it.
We're getting straight into it.
I don't even want to, we ain'tMark.
You have been halfway aroundthe globe?
Yep, please tell us about it.
We're getting straight into it.
We ain't even going to wastetime with me and Ego.
How have you been?
How was Armenia?
How was the press tour?
Tell us man.
(01:20):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
No, it was good man.
Armenia was amazing.
It was my first time, um,obviously my I'm part armenian
on my mom's side, so my mom andI, uh, we went and it was her
first time as well.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's that one drop rule.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You know like I said the motherland, you got exactly,
if you got one drop of armenianand you are armenian there you
go, there you go.
Yeah, no, but it was.
It was good.
You, the diaspora, you know, orcoming from the diaspora to see
the homeland for the first time, was awesome.
Connected with a lot of folksthere that I've already known,
met a lot of new folks, had achance to really talk about my
(01:55):
new song, honoring the High.
Got a chance to go on GoodMorning Armenia on Sean TV,
which is one of the big stationsout there.
There's another segment onVoice of America, the Armenian
channel, which will be comingout and, yeah, just got a chance
to connect with folks overthere.
And one of the main things Iwent for, in addition to just
(02:18):
seeing the land and talkingabout my new song and everything
, was also to meet with thistherapy center over there, the
Emily Ardegok Center, and speakto them about the type of
therapy that I do hereplay-based therapy, called floor
time and speak to them aboutthat and then also give a
performance for the kids.
We did like a jam session, soit was really cool kids were
(02:39):
getting into it.
Yeah, it was a good time, yeahyeah, no, so I yeah, I proposed
it.
Uh, some of it on my Instagramand stuff.
Okay, I got a lot of footage.
I just posted some pictures ofit and stuff and there's a reel,
but yeah, See, that's hot.
I got to get back on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't be on it.
I'm sorry your show, I don't beon social media at all.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I don't know what's happening.
I mean, if somebody didn't tellme about it, I don't know
what's happening.
But, yeah, continue.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
No, but yeah, it's always good.
I got a chance to connect withthem, see their center, see the
great work that they do andagain, that's important because
part of the proceeds from thisnew song are going to be donated
to them.
And then, you know, it's alsogreat because I'm there on
behalf of my work, speaking tothem about the type of therapy
that I do.
So hopefully we'll be able todo some trainings and
(03:32):
collaborations and bring youknow floor time therapy over to
Armenia.
And yeah, no, it was awesomeand I had my first viral TikTok,
which was happened when I wasover there.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I gotta get a TikTok.
What the fuck right I have toget?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
a tiktok.
All I gotta say is what thefuck it was a good time.
No, we landed and there's a aholiday called vardavar, which
is like a armenian waterfestival and it's like once a
year it's like the firstsaturday in july.
So it's kind of likethanksgiving.
It changes, you know it's notlike on a set day.
You know it's kind of likeThanksgiving.
It changes.
It's not like on a set day.
It's kind of like Thanksgivingis the third Thursday in.
(04:08):
November or whatever.
It changes year to year so Ididn't know that that was going
to be the actual date.
So when we flew in on July 5th,our first real day when we woke
up was the 6th, which was theday and we could see from the
rooftop or from our window ofthe hotel.
Basically everyone's throwingwater at each other the entire
day, so it's a vibe Peoplerunning around with super
soakers, people up on buildingsgot buckets of water, they're
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filling it up in their sink andthey're dropping bomb water
bombs on people.
There's fountains in theRepublic Squares, in the main
city, the downtown, central, theAir Van, the main capital, it's
got all these water fountains.
The air van, the main capital.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's got all these water fountains.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
People are running around and spraying each other
People are driving by in cars.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You know, drive-bys, yeah, big-ass water fight, yeah,
basically.
So I feel like, do you thinkthat there was like no ill will,
it was like all having fun?
There was nobody.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Like one person being .
No, I'm telling you there'ssome shit.
Oh, I mean like throwing pissat somebody I was about to say,
yeah, that's what I'm sayinglike you know if that shit
happened over here, you knowthere would have been on the
news some bullshit I don't wantto be terrible, but I feel like
that's something that only likeamericans would do exactly, I
just feel like that's somethingthat you know, man, like, like
(05:17):
other countries when they're outcelebrating and everything like
that somebody has to ruinsomebody
has to be the one to ruin theirhappiness.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, Like I mean not to change it but not to kind of
change the subject, but I'veseen just an example of it
Caribbean culture, yeah, likefestival culture, yeah, exactly
Like women go out, they'll wearthe skimpy not the skimpy, but
most like just even not to beterrible, but even you just
saying it like that just wearingtheir costumes.
(05:45):
No I mean, it does show a lot ofskin, yeah, but I don't want to
call it skimpy, because skimpyhas a negative connotation to it
.
But yeah, caribbean culture.
You know what I'm saying?
Revealing, revealing.
We'll say that, whatever I justI call it a costume.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
That's really all it is to me.
No, definitely the Brazilian.
Is it the Brazilian one?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
no, a Caribbean bro like.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Antigua, the West End you're thinking about that one
festival in Rio but even thatone too, you know what I'm
saying.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But even that one too , carnival, all those.
When we look at it, as you knowwhat I'm saying through
American eyes we see sex youknow what I'm saying While all
those other people in thatculture they're just having a
good time.
This is culture.
They're just having a good time.
Even when you see the womendance on the men, it's just a
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dance.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's a dance.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Even if it is.
I mean because we'll look at itand we'll see the type of dance
that it is and we'll be like,damn, I wouldn't want my girl
doing that.
But in their culture it'sliterally just a dance.
You know what I'm saying, so Ican kind of you know, I
understand what you're sayingthat somebody, you would think
that somebody would always ruinsomething like that.
(07:01):
But, I'm just of the beliefthat I think that's an American
thing, that Americans are goingto take something that's too far
, Too wonderful and just kind oftry to ruin it in that aspect.
Like you know what I'm saying,Like just somebody, just and
truthfully, it's not even and itmight not even be malicious.
They're just thinking it'sfunny.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm going to go piss at somebody.
It'll.
I'm gonna go piss at somebody.
It'd be viral, or somethinglike that.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, you know I'm gonna go piss at somebody
because well, they're just gonnaget washed off with water later
.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, so you know, I don't know, maybe that's just me
.
I guess it's kind of it's weirdbecause the same situations are
like the college situation whensomebody's like, oh, they wore
a black face to be funny.
And then you're like then laterlike I didn't know it was gonna
be that bad.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, it's kind of like you don't do the research
to figure out what it's aboutyou know what?
The what the caribbean holidayis about, what carnival is about
, what anything is about, andthen you just do it thinking
it's going to be funny, and thenit's like, well, yeah, because
you're trying to make it yourown, you're kind of almost
colonizing the holiday, you know, without understanding what it
is, you know but I definitelythink it's too far that armenia.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You guys have a big ass water yeah, it was a lot of
fun that's.
That's actually dope as hell.
I wish we could have somethinglike that out here.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It wouldn't be um I'm telling you right now black
people, I was about to say yeah,we're not allowed to have super
soakers mark.
Will bruno be doing that like?
Because I know next year.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, I'm gonna bring her next year.
She better be there.
You know she'd be there.
No, no, but hair.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You know how like your hair situation, like
they're like hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I think Bruno's a Brazilian.
I don't think she's worriedabout this.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well, yes and no it depends when she's got her
braids in.
She's a little, she's ready togo.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, well, she's, yeah, she's got to be prepped.
Have time to you knowStraighten and taken care of hey
.
I've known a lot of women.
Yo, I'm fucking with you, I'mfucking with you.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You should know.
You should know, bro.
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yes, bro but I'm not going to.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I don't See, I am of the belief now because I'm older
and I have more understanding.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You have girls.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yes, I also have girls, and my daughter has very,
very beautiful curly hair andI'm not straightening, I'm not
allowing.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Actually, let me just say, yeah, I'm allowing
Straighten her hair.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, my mother, not my mother, her mother.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And I have decided that we are not going to
straighten her hair.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
We're not going to put any heat, we're not going to
do anything.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
We're going to straighten her hair.
We're not going to put any heat, we're not going to do anything
, we're just going to let itgrow.
You know what I'm sayingmoisturize it and let it grow
naturally, you know?
That's so the differencebetween somebody not letting it
be natural or somebody actuallydoing the work to get it
straightened.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And in that, situation and that's what I'm
saying, like because mydaughter's hair would be I'm not
gonna lie to you, would say itthat her hair would be way
easier to deal with if it wasstraight.
But she got my curls andtruthfully, she doesn't even
have my curls yeah, childlike.
You know what I'm saying?
That African joint Straight, yo, straight Straight.
(09:57):
She got the most beautiful,tight, like her curls are tight,
yeah, but still like springy,yo.
You see, I'm sorry, I'm talkingabout my girl.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, look at you, I love my girl.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I love my girl, catch my feeling Look at me, look at
me, proud dad.
But yeah, proud dad, proud dad,proud dad.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But yeah so where are ?
We at.
Going back, you're going back.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, but no ill will Again.
So I took the video of.
It was my mom, mostly my mom inthe video, but just people in
not even the main Water FountainSquare but one of the squares
and it's like 20 seconds long.
Just having fun little clipsand I pieced it together real
quick, put the music for my newsong Honoring the High in there
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and posted it.
And I think because I posted itOn the day early in the day at
like 10 o'clock, while it washappening most people were kind
of taking footage throughout theday and then you know doing
whatnot.
It just caught on and it gotlike over 125,000 views and
people were like recognizing mymom around the city from the
video in the coming weeks.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I think that was actually lit.
Yeah, it was fun.
That's dope.
It's like the sun hanging withhis mom and having a great time
and the mom going viral,basically.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah basically, she was probably.
Yeah, she was the star of thevideo for sure that's dope, yeah
, that's dope.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Shout out to moms yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No, it was a good time.
And then, yeah, we went aroundafter that to the market and
everything, because we were like, all right, we did our part of
our experience, we did the waterthing, but people were going
hard all day.
So it was like we were walkingaround like looking at the
buildings being like there's anopen window, so they're gonna
drop the bucket.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
We just gotta wait until he drops the bucket on
those people then we move andthen we move.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, armenia turned into a third war country with a
12, basically people weredriving around on the streets
and they'd be looking aroundlike like I see like a Beamer
drive-by with, like all itswindows rolled down.
I'm gonna step back yeahbecause he's gonna, he's gonna
roll up and it was literallylike drive-by with super soakers
spray, spray, spray.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, no, that's good , I want to be dry now.
Can we stop?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I like that, you know you know, but next time I'm
being prepared, definitely goingto go over there.
People were selling supersoakers and whatnot.
I got to buy that stock up, getready for war.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You're going to have the outfit and all.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Exactly.
Yeah, I'm going to have like agrenade vest with water balloons
.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
You know what?
That's the perfect segue for me.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, there you go.
War, War, there we go.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
We have had a change in regimes.
Oh we have had a change inregimes.
Oh, or at least not a change ofregimes, change in leadership
of regimes.
Um yeah, joe biden has droppedout of the presidential race.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It's and okay, I can say something about it.
I'm glad because honestly, I amtoo I'm glad yeah, I'm glad
because of course, the theperson who's representing
democrats the party.
It was definitely looking badin our part like there was like
are you kidding me?
This guy is going to representyeah the party and also we were
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like what like at as a debate,even when we saw we talked about
the debate a little bit beforethe CNN, the actual fake debate
or whatever.
I was like what the hell'shappening.
That was rough and then, afterhe did the calling out his
little talk and he calleddifferent names.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, he called Zelensky Putin, which was like
real bad.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And he didn't think about it when he said it and he
looked like what.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Bro, I mean at this point, he's the oldest president
we've ever had.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Well, he was the oldest, four years ago, ever.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And the problem was, I think, that he initially said
when he won I'm a transitionpresident, which I think a lot
of people and I think meant itat that time at least was I'm
not going to run for anotherterm, I'm going to be the one
I've stopped Trump.
I'm a transition.
We're going to get a newcandidate down the road.
(14:04):
But you know, and then I guessthat change.
Maybe he got in his ego, maybehe thought he didn't accomplish
everything he wanted to.
Maybe people were telling himyou're the best chance to be
Trump again, whatever the reason.
But the facts was it's fouryears down the road.
He was the oldest.
Now he's four years older andthe Democratic Party didn't lay
the groundwork for any othercandidates who are younger.
(14:25):
They have people Kamala, pete,buttigiegaj who are already in
his administration, plus, not tomention there's like a lot of
others, but they didn't lay anygroundwork but these, I mean
those two people that you'venamed.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yes, we're probably the the next up, um, but at the
same time, we understood thatthey couldn't do the job they
tried they, they literally triedfour years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Isn't it like the popular vote, like they felt
that they weren't as popular,like the numbers didn't look
right?
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I mean they didn't win the Democratic race.
Dominique.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You know what I'm saying so.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
They tried and they didn't win.
Kamala got really close,Buttigieg was strong in the
beginning, but he fell off lateron, and I mean so.
So the idea behind it for me islike you said, they didn't lay
the groundwork, but those twopeople who had the best chance
couldn't unseat Biden at thetime, and now Biden's dropping
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out.
Now these two people who theDemocratic Party didn't seem to
have the trust in at the timeare now pushed in.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Kamala's the one, and who knows who the VP's pick is
going to be.
She might mess around and pickButtigieg.
Yeah, it could be.
I mean, it's got to be tough.
The other problem is, I think,that the Democratic Party has
already been isolatingthemselves and they've already
isolated themselves from the farleft, or really from where the
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left is, because America ingeneral has just moved farther
to the right.
The right has gotten more farright, the left has gotten more
center and what should be theleft is now considered the
extreme left by Americanstandards when, like Bernie
Sanders was going to be, a lotof people wanted him, a lot of
Gen Zs, millennials, youngerpeople, and when they picked
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Hillary and then they, you knowhe wasn't even really in the
contending for the next round.
That isolated a lot of youngerpeople.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I wish he was actually back in the race.
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
No, I mean.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
He's too old.
Now too, though that's thereality.
But I felt he's still sharperthan oh he's definitely sharper
than Biden as far as beingarticulate.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Like the thing about it is it is again I get it that
by default they had to pick thevice president right by default
because that's the closest three.
She hasn't done enough toactually have the votes, enough
to be like.
I trust this is a better choice.
Right, that's what I'm—I have aproblem.
I think she, to be honest, as avice president, president,
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hasn't done any work as a vicepresident.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Besides, besides, one thing is but that's also the
immigration thing or the wallwell, yeah, and that that's
already controversial as it is,and then on top of that, I think
that's probably the fault of Imean again, there's probably
more.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I'm an outsider looking in of the party yeah,
the party and the administration.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
They haven't given her stuff because the vice
president is like they're notgoing to be able to do the stuff
.
They can only it's like they dowhat they're assigned, you know
.
So they should have been layingthe groundwork, saying, all
right, we have the oldestpresident in the history of the
country running.
Now let's spend the next fouryears giving the vice president
some nice stuff to do from a PRstandpoint, in case we need her
(17:51):
down the road.
But and then other people?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
but the thing about it, I don't think she even
wanted it.
Like, do you understand?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
like yeah, I don't know again as a vice president.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You know your future, right?
You know, like I, if somethinghappens, I have to step up to be
the next best thing, right?
If she didn't even do that,like it's like she didn't come
out to do anything, that like,say, I'm with the president on
this, I'm on the president onthat, she just literally like,
tell me what I need to do andI'm just gonna sit back and
chill, and that's what happened.
That's puppet.
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She's playing the puppet.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
that's what I feel but it could also, it could also
be yeah, that's tough becausein my and sorry, but in my
opinion that's what Biden did.
Yeah, so as a vice president,your job is literally to support
the president, so you're notsupposed to be out there trying
to outshine him, or you knowwhat I'm saying yes and no.
(18:45):
Bringing too much attention toyourself.
That's what I mean.
But that's where, almost where,go back to.
This is once again showing myage, dick Cheney.
No, I'm not even going that far.
I mean, I'm going farther.
I'm going to go.
Clinton and Gore.
You see, when the problem Iwant to say one of the biggest
problems with Gore is hisaspirations to be president was
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too strong, like he was tryingto do stuff while Bill was in
office and even though Bill wasdoing his own thing.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Doing his own thing.
Yeah, he was doing his ownthing.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
He was being a celebrity.
Yeah, bro, you know what?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I'm saying my sax and my phone.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
But even then it made sense right.
It made sense as either vicepresident or president.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
It made sense because those yin and yang right, but
that's what I'm saying as a vicepresident.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Your job is to kind of sit back and shut up, and
Kamala's been doing her job, butthe reality of it too, I think,
could also be more complex,because just look at it from Joe
Biden when he was the presidentor vice president, what did he
do?
Well, also, what he did reallyfor the ticket.
Why they picked him was becausehe was a seasoned politician
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who is a white male, who couldbe the bridging factor for a lot
of these scared Republicansthinking, oh, I don't want a
black man to lead the country,blah, blah, blah.
All these semi-racist sort ofyou know, centrist kind of
independents gave a littlestability to that ticket,
whereas now I feel like they'redoing the inverse.
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You know, you've got him a whiteman in the presidency now and
it's almost like we don't wantthe other that you know doing
the opposite, which is messed up, because especially, but I
think it's also like I want tobe so what?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
no, I think that he knew I was gonna say I think the
I.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I wonder if it's one of those things where it's like
post trump.
We've seen how much racism isin this country black and white
and I think I almost wonder ifthey're like, if they're afraid
of that, and that's why theyhaven't given her a prominent
role, because they know thatthat's out there.
And I think that is, in and ofitself, a huge problem of the
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Democratic Party, as well, hugeproblem of the Democratic Party
as well.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
They were scared.
Do you think they were scaredbecause if they pushed for a
significant other, or prettymuch a black woman or whatever,
to be the president again?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Time out, time out, time out.
What vice president has doneanything?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
notable Dick Cheney.
He ran the country for eightyears.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Okay, dick Cheney.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
And that was how long ago.
I mean 2000 to 20 years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
What is it?
2000 yeah, so, yeah so 2000.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, 2001 to 2000.
I get, I get what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
So that's what I'm saying.
So that was so.
That was 20 years ago.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, vice president, don't do much in general, and
that's what.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
That's what I'm saying that's what I, but that's
my point, because?
But we're we're's my point,because we're sitting here
saying that she hasn't doneenough when we compare what
she's done to other vicepresidents and she's done
exactly what they've done.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
No, but Biden did do, when Obama, he did a little.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
What did he do?
He did a little Other thanbeing the greatest hype man as
vice president ever, but that'swhat I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Also, obama did put him in the way of his popularity
because he didn't just donothing, he was actually part of
it.
I think it's a mix of both.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I don't know exactly what he did, but I know what
you're saying, though is thebest hype man is that they put
him front and center in a lot ofthings yes speeches yes, you
know, state of the unionaddresses.
They prepped them well, noteven that.
They just wanted to show thereis, you know, a team, there's a
team.
But also, like you know,appealing to those like
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conservative voters, like hey,there's a white guy on the
ticket too.
Like, don't be afraid.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Like they put him, they pushed him, but they
prepared him for him to actuallyrun to be a president, right,
because he had some way to say Imean, no, he, he was preparing
his whole life.
He was a senator, this and thatbut again it wasn't just that
I'm saying like when you thoughtabout when he decided to go,
you thought he was a betterchoice than all the other,
(23:11):
younger or whatever, because hewas prepared, from Obama all
eight years, to pretty much bethe next thing when he left,
right.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Joe Biden was never supposed to be the president.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I don't think so either.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I don't know.
Joe Biden was never supposed tobe the president.
Who was supposed to be thepresident?
It was supposed to be Hillary.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yeah, that's who the Democratic Party won, and they
sacrificed Bernie and the youngvote to get Hillary, and then
Hillary lost.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And then after that, when Trump won, then everybody
was like, hey, who's the onlyperson that could beat him?
Because at that point everybodywas saying the only two people
that could have beat DonaldTrump in that first election if
it wasn't Joe Biden was going tobe Barack Obama, who was
ineligible to go Because he'salready done two terms.
Or they were going to say, putMichelle Obama in there.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
And she would get so much flack because she's, at the
end of the day, not apolitician and she wasn't going
to do it.
So at that point it had to besomebody close to Obama.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And Joe Biden was the faultiden was no, but that was
the fault.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
That's what I'm saying, though.
He wasn't picked.
It wasn't a long-term goal,like they're thinking during the
obama years.
We're gonna season him, we'regonna get him ready no, but you
understand.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
But like, even by default, that was the best thing
after the debacle.
The situation of the trumpsituation they didn't prepare.
Even if he knew.
You said like if Biden knewthat he only had one term, they
didn't prepare his super team tobe like that's what I'm saying
Like to say all right, we'regoing to do the same work
together.
Just in case I'm gone, you'regoing to take on.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, no, I fully blame them for that, because
they should have known.
When he won and said I'm atransitional president, that
should have been like, all right, we're gonna get the next
person next election cycle.
We should start prepping forthat.
But then they were just like no, we're just gonna stick with
biden for the next one.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
It was like they had nobody they put all their eggs
in the basket and then thebasket had a hole.
Thank you.
They literally thought like hewas actually.
They thought, probably thoughtTrump was not going to win close
to, even like as all the shit,yeah, the law.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Everything messed up when Hillary lost.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
When Trump won the first time and Hillary lost, the
whole plan was unfolded.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
And now and now they're trying to have a
contingency, but theircontingency isn't actually the
best plan.
The contingency worked to inorder to get, like you said, to
get Biden in office for fouryears, and they should have been
getting someone else ready, butthey haven't been, and the
saddest part about it isactually the Republicans are
(25:50):
doing the same thing.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, they don't have anybody ready to.
I don't think a nicky haley, Idon't think uh well, trump's
never gonna let go of power?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I don't think.
Yeah, I mean he has to if hewins again.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
He doesn't have four more years, he can't run again
so we'll see.
We'll see what he does withthis election election think
about it like this the worstpart about it is the best thing
that could happen is him winning.
That's the saddest part,because we get four more years
of Trump and then we're donewith it.
We're done with them.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But if we but yeah but if you.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
But if he doesn't win , he can run again.
Then he can run again.
Yeah, he can run it, and so wecan.
Just we're going to be sittingin this, like it's like.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well, the Republican Party is going to be beholden to
him as long as he's eligible tobe president, the problem is,
if he wins, what can he pushthrough?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, we're going to be in a purgatory waiting to see
if he's going to win or not.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I just worry about if he wins and then he becomes not
eligible, will he still havecontrol of the party, because
then you could get someone inwho's basically an extension of
him and then maybe, if they getpresident, maybe if there's an
opening and they put him on theSupreme Court or nominated for
that.
I'm just thinking how crazylike this dude is never going to
stop.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
It doesn't matter if he's not eligible, he'll still
control.
I think he can and he will stop.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
No, because he's a narcissist.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
He can he'll still control.
I think he can and he will stop.
No, because he's a narcissist.
He can't give up the attentionafter he wins again.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
He's done he says the current constitution.
This is a guy who tried to doan insurrection to overthrow but
what is he gonna do?
Maybe another January 6th.
Maybe he's gonna get someexecutive orders done while he's
in office.
If he wins, I get you.
The dude tried to throw overthe.
It's never marked.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah, exactly.
But the thing about it is he'sdone, he's done, he's already
changed the history of theactual Anything Like fun 34,
literally, he's a guilty, likehe's been.
Yeah, and he's still runningfor president.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, like we've never had a president.
We've never had a presidentever not go along with a
peaceful change of power.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, Ever until him Check this out.
Okay, I'm trying to tell youyou don't want to live in the
purgatory I hear you on that Of.
Is he going to win?
Is he going to what's going tohappen with the Republican Party
?
Like you don't want to livewith that.
So either he wins now and wejust be done with it because
(28:20):
he's already I mean, I don'tknow how much more damage can be
done.
He can get another SupremeCourt justice in there, but him
putting three in there alreadyis him putting three in there
and they were all under the ageof 50 lets me know that he's
gonna have what that's 30 moreyears of Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I get it.
I get where you're trying like.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
So let's go ahead and do this and just let it heal
like let's start, yeah, let's dothis, and then we can, and then
we'll figure out.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
That's also a very big gamble because it's like
what damage could he do?
Look what he did in four years,how many people died of COVID.
That could have gotten thevaccine.
But because he was saying youknow this and that he didn't
allow.
And also like it's also agamble from the positive side,
if he loses while the RepublicanParty is still beholden to him
and while he could still havethat hanging over everyone's
(29:11):
head to run again the next year.
It's also like he's taking agamble because it's like he
would be the oldest.
Yeah, he's in his 70s now.
Does he have another four years?
Does he have another four yearsafter that?
He's in his 80s.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
He's in his 80s, right, he's 70.
Well, no, he's 70, 78,.
Right, he's 85, 86.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
No, he's not, no, he's not.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
He's 78.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
No, he's literally like two years.
No, because Biden's80-something yeah, that's what
I'm saying.
And he's two years younger thanBiden.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I think he's 78 or 79 .
Let's not argue.
Hold on, come on.
He's definitely not 85.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
We're going too deep in this shit, because it I'm
just telling you right now,donald.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Trump 78.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Bam Right on the money.
That's what I said.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Nail on the cat.
Hey, you know what.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
We're gonna round it off, whatever we're gonna round
it off To 85, round up to 85, Imean, I wish.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I wish, but like, let's just say that we're, we'll
see what we see it's gonna be,is that?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
the any?
Who Did we get the anywho?
I already did it damn I missedit I missed it too.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
That's what I'm saying you must have snuck it in
right after 85 when we didn'thear it anywho but yeah, like I
think, like it's, it is gonna be, uh, a situation that we have
to pretty much talk, keeptalking about yeah,
unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Unfortunately, this is going to be the reality of
America.
Is everyone's going to befocused on?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
politics.
I don't know how y'all get meroped into politics every time.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
bro Dude, we live in DC though Everyone's talking
about all the time.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
No, but it's so crazy because I've never been.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I don't want to talk about politics at all.
Y'all get me roped into it.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It is a topic and it is something that is on the news
, and it does affect the wholenation.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
So the whole world.
I don't want to talk about it.
They make me talk about it.
Well, hey, we'll do better nexttime.
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Welcome to another episode of the Absolute DMV
Podcast.
It's your man, ace Boogie.
I am excited because we arebike, bike the Holy Trinity Well
, not the Holy, I mean, I don'twant to go that far, but the
Trinity is here.
We are bike with my man markhey, hey to raid and my man ego
(00:54):
on the board I'm on the board.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Gentlemen well, I can't even say gentlemen mark,
mark you have been halfwayaround the globe?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
yep, please tell us about it.
We're getting straight into it.
I don't even want to, we ain'tMark.
You have been halfway aroundthe globe?
Yep, please tell us about it.
We're getting straight into it.
We ain't even going to wastetime with me and Ego.
How have you been?
How was Armenia?
How was the press tour?
Tell us man.
(01:20):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
No, it was good man.
Armenia was amazing.
It was my first time, um,obviously my I'm part armenian
on my mom's side, so my mom andI, uh, we went and it was her
first time as well.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's that one drop rule.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You know like I said the motherland, you got exactly,
if you got one drop of armenianand you are armenian there you
go, there you go.
Yeah, no, but it was.
It was good.
You, the diaspora, you know, orcoming from the diaspora to see
the homeland for the first time, was awesome.
Connected with a lot of folksthere that I've already known,
met a lot of new folks, had achance to really talk about my
(01:55):
new song, honoring the High.
Got a chance to go on GoodMorning Armenia on Sean TV,
which is one of the big stationsout there.
There's another segment onVoice of America, the Armenian
channel, which will be comingout and, yeah, just got a chance
to connect with folks overthere.
And one of the main things Iwent for, in addition to just
(02:18):
seeing the land and talkingabout my new song and everything
, was also to meet with thistherapy center over there, the
Emily Ardegok Center, and speakto them about the type of
therapy that I do hereplay-based therapy, called floor
time and speak to them aboutthat and then also give a
performance for the kids.
We did like a jam session, soit was really cool kids were
(02:39):
getting into it.
Yeah, it was a good time, yeahyeah, no, so I yeah, I proposed
it.
Uh, some of it on my Instagramand stuff.
Okay, I got a lot of footage.
I just posted some pictures ofit and stuff and there's a reel,
but yeah, See, that's hot.
I got to get back on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't be on it.
I'm sorry your show, I don't beon social media at all.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I don't know what's happening.
I mean, if somebody didn't tellme about it, I don't know
what's happening.
But, yeah, continue.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
No, but yeah, it's always good.
I got a chance to connect withthem, see their center, see the
great work that they do andagain, that's important because
part of the proceeds from thisnew song are going to be donated
to them.
And then, you know, it's alsogreat because I'm there on
behalf of my work, speaking tothem about the type of therapy
that I do.
So hopefully we'll be able todo some trainings and
(03:32):
collaborations and bring youknow floor time therapy over to
Armenia.
And yeah, no, it was awesomeand I had my first viral TikTok,
which was happened when I wasover there.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I gotta get a TikTok.
What the fuck right I have toget?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
a tiktok.
All I gotta say is what thefuck it was a good time.
No, we landed and there's a aholiday called vardavar, which
is like a armenian waterfestival and it's like once a
year it's like the firstsaturday in july.
So it's kind of likethanksgiving.
It changes, you know it's notlike on a set day.
You know it's kind of likeThanksgiving.
It changes.
It's not like on a set day.
It's kind of like Thanksgivingis the third Thursday in.
(04:08):
November or whatever.
It changes year to year so Ididn't know that that was going
to be the actual date.
So when we flew in on July 5th,our first real day when we woke
up was the 6th, which was theday and we could see from the
rooftop or from our window ofthe hotel.
Basically everyone's throwingwater at each other the entire
day, so it's a vibe Peoplerunning around with super
soakers, people up on buildingsgot buckets of water, they're
(04:31):
filling it up in their sink andthey're dropping bomb water
bombs on people.
There's fountains in theRepublic Squares, in the main
city, the downtown, central, theAir Van, the main capital, it's
got all these water fountains.
The air van, the main capital.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's got all these water fountains.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
People are running around and spraying each other
People are driving by in cars.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You know, drive-bys, yeah, big-ass water fight, yeah,
basically.
So I feel like, do you thinkthat there was like no ill will,
it was like all having fun?
There was nobody.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Like one person being .
No, I'm telling you there'ssome shit.
Oh, I mean like throwing pissat somebody I was about to say,
yeah, that's what I'm sayinglike you know if that shit
happened over here, you knowthere would have been on the
news some bullshit I don't wantto be terrible, but I feel like
that's something that only likeamericans would do exactly, I
just feel like that's somethingthat you know, man, like, like
(05:17):
other countries when they're outcelebrating and everything like
that somebody has to ruinsomebody
has to be the one to ruin theirhappiness.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, Like I mean not to change it but not to kind of
change the subject, but I'veseen just an example of it
Caribbean culture, yeah, likefestival culture, yeah, exactly
Like women go out, they'll wearthe skimpy not the skimpy, but
most like just even not to beterrible, but even you just
saying it like that just wearingtheir costumes.
(05:45):
No I mean, it does show a lot ofskin, yeah, but I don't want to
call it skimpy, because skimpyhas a negative connotation to it
.
But yeah, caribbean culture.
You know what I'm saying?
Revealing, revealing.
We'll say that, whatever I justI call it a costume.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
That's really all it is to me.
No, definitely the Brazilian.
Is it the Brazilian one?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
no, a Caribbean bro like.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Antigua, the West End you're thinking about that one
festival in Rio but even thatone too, you know what I'm
saying.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But even that one too , carnival, all those.
When we look at it, as you knowwhat I'm saying through
American eyes we see sex youknow what I'm saying While all
those other people in thatculture they're just having a
good time.
This is culture.
They're just having a good time.
Even when you see the womendance on the men, it's just a
(06:40):
dance.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's a dance.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Even if it is.
I mean because we'll look at itand we'll see the type of dance
that it is and we'll be like,damn, I wouldn't want my girl
doing that.
But in their culture it'sliterally just a dance.
You know what I'm saying, so Ican kind of you know, I
understand what you're sayingthat somebody, you would think
that somebody would always ruinsomething like that.
(07:01):
But, I'm just of the beliefthat I think that's an American
thing, that Americans are goingto take something that's too far
, Too wonderful and just kind oftry to ruin it in that aspect.
Like you know what I'm saying,Like just somebody, just and
truthfully, it's not even and itmight not even be malicious.
They're just thinking it'sfunny.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm going to go piss at somebody.
It'll.
I'm gonna go piss at somebody.
It'd be viral, or somethinglike that.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, you know I'm gonna go piss at somebody
because well, they're just gonnaget washed off with water later
.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, so you know, I don't know, maybe that's just me
.
I guess it's kind of it's weirdbecause the same situations are
like the college situation whensomebody's like, oh, they wore
a black face to be funny.
And then you're like then laterlike I didn't know it was gonna
be that bad.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, it's kind of like you don't do the research
to figure out what it's aboutyou know what?
The what the caribbean holidayis about, what carnival is about
, what anything is about, andthen you just do it thinking
it's going to be funny, and thenit's like, well, yeah, because
you're trying to make it yourown, you're kind of almost
colonizing the holiday, you know, without understanding what it
is, you know but I definitelythink it's too far that armenia.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You guys have a big ass water yeah, it was a lot of
fun that's.
That's actually dope as hell.
I wish we could have somethinglike that out here.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It wouldn't be um I'm telling you right now black
people, I was about to say yeah,we're not allowed to have super
soakers mark.
Will bruno be doing that like?
Because I know next year.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, I'm gonna bring her next year.
She better be there.
You know she'd be there.
No, no, but hair.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You know how like your hair situation, like
they're like hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I think Bruno's a Brazilian.
I don't think she's worriedabout this.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well, yes and no it depends when she's got her
braids in.
She's a little, she's ready togo.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, well, she's, yeah, she's got to be prepped.
Have time to you knowStraighten and taken care of hey
.
I've known a lot of women.
Yo, I'm fucking with you, I'mfucking with you.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You should know.
You should know, bro.
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yes, bro but I'm not going to.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I don't See, I am of the belief now because I'm older
and I have more understanding.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You have girls.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yes, I also have girls, and my daughter has very,
very beautiful curly hair andI'm not straightening, I'm not
allowing.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Actually, let me just say, yeah, I'm allowing
Straighten her hair.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, my mother, not my mother, her mother.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And I have decided that we are not going to
straighten her hair.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
We're not going to put any heat, we're not going to
do anything.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
We're going to straighten her hair.
We're not going to put any heat, we're not going to do anything
, we're just going to let itgrow.
You know what I'm sayingmoisturize it and let it grow
naturally, you know?
That's so the differencebetween somebody not letting it
be natural or somebody actuallydoing the work to get it
straightened.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And in that, situation and that's what I'm
saying, like because mydaughter's hair would be I'm not
gonna lie to you, would say itthat her hair would be way
easier to deal with if it wasstraight.
But she got my curls andtruthfully, she doesn't even
have my curls yeah, childlike.
You know what I'm saying?
That African joint Straight, yo, straight Straight.
(09:57):
She got the most beautiful,tight, like her curls are tight,
yeah, but still like springy,yo.
You see, I'm sorry, I'm talkingabout my girl.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, look at you, I love my girl.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I love my girl, catch my feeling Look at me, look at
me, proud dad.
But yeah, proud dad, proud dad,proud dad.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But yeah so where are ?
We at.
Going back, you're going back.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, but no ill will Again.
So I took the video of.
It was my mom, mostly my mom inthe video, but just people in
not even the main Water FountainSquare but one of the squares
and it's like 20 seconds long.
Just having fun little clipsand I pieced it together real
quick, put the music for my newsong Honoring the High in there
(10:41):
and posted it.
And I think because I posted itOn the day early in the day at
like 10 o'clock, while it washappening most people were kind
of taking footage throughout theday and then you know doing
whatnot.
It just caught on and it gotlike over 125,000 views and
people were like recognizing mymom around the city from the
video in the coming weeks.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I think that was actually lit.
Yeah, it was fun.
That's dope.
It's like the sun hanging withhis mom and having a great time
and the mom going viral,basically.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah basically, she was probably.
Yeah, she was the star of thevideo for sure that's dope, yeah
, that's dope.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Shout out to moms yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No, it was a good time.
And then, yeah, we went aroundafter that to the market and
everything, because we were like, all right, we did our part of
our experience, we did the waterthing, but people were going
hard all day.
So it was like we were walkingaround like looking at the
buildings being like there's anopen window, so they're gonna
drop the bucket.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
We just gotta wait until he drops the bucket on
those people then we move andthen we move.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, armenia turned into a third war country with a
12, basically people weredriving around on the streets
and they'd be looking aroundlike like I see like a Beamer
drive-by with, like all itswindows rolled down.
I'm gonna step back yeahbecause he's gonna, he's gonna
roll up and it was literallylike drive-by with super soakers
spray, spray, spray.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, no, that's good , I want to be dry now.
Can we stop?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I like that, you know you know, but next time I'm
being prepared, definitely goingto go over there.
People were selling supersoakers and whatnot.
I got to buy that stock up, getready for war.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You're going to have the outfit and all.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Exactly.
Yeah, I'm going to have like agrenade vest with water balloons
.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
You know what?
That's the perfect segue for me.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, there you go.
War, War, there we go.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
We have had a change in regimes.
Oh we have had a change inregimes.
Oh, or at least not a change ofregimes, change in leadership
of regimes.
Um yeah, joe biden has droppedout of the presidential race.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It's and okay, I can say something about it.
I'm glad because honestly, I amtoo I'm glad yeah, I'm glad
because of course, the theperson who's representing
democrats the party.
It was definitely looking badin our part like there was like
are you kidding me?
This guy is going to representyeah the party and also we were
(13:05):
like what like at as a debate,even when we saw we talked about
the debate a little bit beforethe CNN, the actual fake debate
or whatever.
I was like what the hell'shappening.
That was rough and then, afterhe did the calling out his
little talk and he calleddifferent names.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, he called Zelensky Putin, which was like
real bad.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And he didn't think about it when he said it and he
looked like what.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Bro, I mean at this point, he's the oldest president
we've ever had.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Well, he was the oldest, four years ago, ever.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And the problem was, I think, that he initially said
when he won I'm a transitionpresident, which I think a lot
of people and I think meant itat that time at least was I'm
not going to run for anotherterm, I'm going to be the one
I've stopped Trump.
I'm a transition.
We're going to get a newcandidate down the road.
(14:04):
But you know, and then I guessthat change.
Maybe he got in his ego, maybehe thought he didn't accomplish
everything he wanted to.
Maybe people were telling himyou're the best chance to be
Trump again, whatever the reason.
But the facts was it's fouryears down the road.
He was the oldest.
Now he's four years older andthe Democratic Party didn't lay
the groundwork for any othercandidates who are younger.
(14:25):
They have people Kamala, pete,buttigiegaj who are already in
his administration, plus, not tomention there's like a lot of
others, but they didn't lay anygroundwork but these, I mean
those two people that you'venamed.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yes, we're probably the the next up, um, but at the
same time, we understood thatthey couldn't do the job they
tried they, they literally triedfour years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Isn't it like the popular vote, like they felt
that they weren't as popular,like the numbers didn't look
right?
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I mean they didn't win the Democratic race.
Dominique.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You know what I'm saying so.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
They tried and they didn't win.
Kamala got really close,Buttigieg was strong in the
beginning, but he fell off lateron, and I mean so.
So the idea behind it for me islike you said, they didn't lay
the groundwork, but those twopeople who had the best chance
couldn't unseat Biden at thetime, and now Biden's dropping
(15:30):
out.
Now these two people who theDemocratic Party didn't seem to
have the trust in at the timeare now pushed in.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Kamala's the one, and who knows who the VP's pick is
going to be.
She might mess around and pickButtigieg.
Yeah, it could be.
I mean, it's got to be tough.
The other problem is, I think,that the Democratic Party has
already been isolatingthemselves and they've already
isolated themselves from the farleft, or really from where the
(16:06):
left is, because America ingeneral has just moved farther
to the right.
The right has gotten more farright, the left has gotten more
center and what should be theleft is now considered the
extreme left by Americanstandards when, like Bernie
Sanders was going to be, a lotof people wanted him, a lot of
Gen Zs, millennials, youngerpeople, and when they picked
(16:26):
Hillary and then they, you knowhe wasn't even really in the
contending for the next round.
That isolated a lot of youngerpeople.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I wish he was actually back in the race.
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
No, I mean.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
He's too old.
Now too, though that's thereality.
But I felt he's still sharperthan oh he's definitely sharper
than Biden as far as beingarticulate.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Like the thing about it is it is again I get it that
by default they had to pick thevice president right by default
because that's the closest three.
She hasn't done enough toactually have the votes, enough
to be like.
I trust this is a better choice.
Right, that's what I'm—I have aproblem.
I think she, to be honest, as avice president, president,
(17:08):
hasn't done any work as a vicepresident.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Besides, besides, one thing is but that's also the
immigration thing or the wallwell, yeah, and that that's
already controversial as it is,and then on top of that, I think
that's probably the fault of Imean again, there's probably
more.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I'm an outsider looking in of the party yeah,
the party and the administration.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
They haven't given her stuff because the vice
president is like they're notgoing to be able to do the stuff
.
They can only it's like they dowhat they're assigned, you know
.
So they should have been layingthe groundwork, saying, all
right, we have the oldestpresident in the history of the
country running.
Now let's spend the next fouryears giving the vice president
some nice stuff to do from a PRstandpoint, in case we need her
(17:51):
down the road.
But and then other people?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
but the thing about it, I don't think she even
wanted it.
Like, do you understand?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
like yeah, I don't know again as a vice president.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You know your future, right?
You know, like I, if somethinghappens, I have to step up to be
the next best thing, right?
If she didn't even do that,like it's like she didn't come
out to do anything, that like,say, I'm with the president on
this, I'm on the president onthat, she just literally like,
tell me what I need to do andI'm just gonna sit back and
chill, and that's what happened.
That's puppet.
(18:19):
She's playing the puppet.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
that's what I feel but it could also, it could also
be yeah, that's tough becausein my and sorry, but in my
opinion that's what Biden did.
Yeah, so as a vice president,your job is literally to support
the president, so you're notsupposed to be out there trying
to outshine him, or you knowwhat I'm saying yes and no.
(18:45):
Bringing too much attention toyourself.
That's what I mean.
But that's where, almost where,go back to.
This is once again showing myage, dick Cheney.
No, I'm not even going that far.
I mean, I'm going farther.
I'm going to go.
Clinton and Gore.
You see, when the problem Iwant to say one of the biggest
problems with Gore is hisaspirations to be president was
(19:07):
too strong, like he was tryingto do stuff while Bill was in
office and even though Bill wasdoing his own thing.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Doing his own thing.
Yeah, he was doing his ownthing.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
He was being a celebrity.
Yeah, bro, you know what?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I'm saying my sax and my phone.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
But even then it made sense right.
It made sense as either vicepresident or president.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
It made sense because those yin and yang right, but
that's what I'm saying as a vicepresident.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Your job is to kind of sit back and shut up, and
Kamala's been doing her job, butthe reality of it too, I think,
could also be more complex,because just look at it from Joe
Biden when he was the presidentor vice president, what did he
do?
Well, also, what he did reallyfor the ticket.
Why they picked him was becausehe was a seasoned politician
(20:03):
who is a white male, who couldbe the bridging factor for a lot
of these scared Republicansthinking, oh, I don't want a
black man to lead the country,blah, blah, blah.
All these semi-racist sort ofyou know, centrist kind of
independents gave a littlestability to that ticket,
whereas now I feel like they'redoing the inverse.
(20:23):
You know, you've got him a whiteman in the presidency now and
it's almost like we don't wantthe other that you know doing
the opposite, which is messed up, because especially, but I
think it's also like I want tobe so what?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
no, I think that he knew I was gonna say I think the
I.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I wonder if it's one of those things where it's like
post trump.
We've seen how much racism isin this country black and white
and I think I almost wonder ifthey're like, if they're afraid
of that, and that's why theyhaven't given her a prominent
role, because they know thatthat's out there.
And I think that is, in and ofitself, a huge problem of the
(21:06):
Democratic Party, as well, hugeproblem of the Democratic Party
as well.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
They were scared.
Do you think they were scaredbecause if they pushed for a
significant other, or prettymuch a black woman or whatever,
to be the president again?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Time out, time out, time out.
What vice president has doneanything?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
notable Dick Cheney.
He ran the country for eightyears.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Okay, dick Cheney.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
And that was how long ago.
I mean 2000 to 20 years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
What is it?
2000 yeah, so, yeah so 2000.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, 2001 to 2000.
I get, I get what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
So that's what I'm saying.
So that was so.
That was 20 years ago.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, vice president, don't do much in general, and
that's what.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
That's what I'm saying that's what I, but that's
my point, because?
But we're we're's my point,because we're sitting here
saying that she hasn't doneenough when we compare what
she's done to other vicepresidents and she's done
exactly what they've done.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
No, but Biden did do, when Obama, he did a little.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
What did he do?
He did a little Other thanbeing the greatest hype man as
vice president ever, but that'swhat I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Also, obama did put him in the way of his popularity
because he didn't just donothing, he was actually part of
it.
I think it's a mix of both.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I don't know exactly what he did, but I know what
you're saying, though is thebest hype man is that they put
him front and center in a lot ofthings yes speeches yes, you
know, state of the unionaddresses.
They prepped them well, noteven that.
They just wanted to show thereis, you know, a team, there's a
team.
But also, like you know,appealing to those like
(22:44):
conservative voters, like hey,there's a white guy on the
ticket too.
Like, don't be afraid.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Like they put him, they pushed him, but they
prepared him for him to actuallyrun to be a president, right,
because he had some way to say Imean, no, he, he was preparing
his whole life.
He was a senator, this and thatbut again it wasn't just that
I'm saying like when you thoughtabout when he decided to go,
you thought he was a betterchoice than all the other,
(23:11):
younger or whatever, because hewas prepared, from Obama all
eight years, to pretty much bethe next thing when he left,
right.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Joe Biden was never supposed to be the president.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I don't think so either.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I don't know.
Joe Biden was never supposed tobe the president.
Who was supposed to be thepresident?
It was supposed to be Hillary.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yeah, that's who the Democratic Party won, and they
sacrificed Bernie and the youngvote to get Hillary, and then
Hillary lost.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And then after that, when Trump won, then everybody
was like, hey, who's the onlyperson that could beat him?
Because at that point everybodywas saying the only two people
that could have beat DonaldTrump in that first election if
it wasn't Joe Biden was going tobe Barack Obama, who was
ineligible to go Because he'salready done two terms.
Or they were going to say, putMichelle Obama in there.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
And she would get so much flack because she's, at the
end of the day, not apolitician and she wasn't going
to do it.
So at that point it had to besomebody close to Obama.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And Joe Biden was the faultiden was no, but that was
the fault.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
That's what I'm saying, though.
He wasn't picked.
It wasn't a long-term goal,like they're thinking during the
obama years.
We're gonna season him, we'regonna get him ready no, but you
understand.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
But like, even by default, that was the best thing
after the debacle.
The situation of the trumpsituation they didn't prepare.
Even if he knew.
You said like if Biden knewthat he only had one term, they
didn't prepare his super team tobe like that's what I'm saying
Like to say all right, we'regoing to do the same work
together.
Just in case I'm gone, you'regoing to take on.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, no, I fully blame them for that, because
they should have known.
When he won and said I'm atransitional president, that
should have been like, all right, we're gonna get the next
person next election cycle.
We should start prepping forthat.
But then they were just like no, we're just gonna stick with
biden for the next one.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
It was like they had nobody they put all their eggs
in the basket and then thebasket had a hole.
Thank you.
They literally thought like hewas actually.
They thought, probably thoughtTrump was not going to win close
to, even like as all the shit,yeah, the law.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Everything messed up when Hillary lost.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
When Trump won the first time and Hillary lost, the
whole plan was unfolded.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
And now and now they're trying to have a
contingency, but theircontingency isn't actually the
best plan.
The contingency worked to inorder to get, like you said, to
get Biden in office for fouryears, and they should have been
getting someone else ready, butthey haven't been, and the
saddest part about it isactually the Republicans are
(25:50):
doing the same thing.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, they don't have anybody ready to.
I don't think a nicky haley, Idon't think uh well, trump's
never gonna let go of power?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I don't think.
Yeah, I mean he has to if hewins again.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
He doesn't have four more years, he can't run again
so we'll see.
We'll see what he does withthis election election think
about it like this the worstpart about it is the best thing
that could happen is him winning.
That's the saddest part,because we get four more years
of Trump and then we're donewith it.
We're done with them.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But if we but yeah but if you.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
But if he doesn't win , he can run again.
Then he can run again.
Yeah, he can run it, and so wecan.
Just we're going to be sittingin this, like it's like.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well, the Republican Party is going to be beholden to
him as long as he's eligible tobe president, the problem is,
if he wins, what can he pushthrough?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, we're going to be in a purgatory waiting to see
if he's going to win or not.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I just worry about if he wins and then he becomes not
eligible, will he still havecontrol of the party, because
then you could get someone inwho's basically an extension of
him and then maybe, if they getpresident, maybe if there's an
opening and they put him on theSupreme Court or nominated for
that.
I'm just thinking how crazylike this dude is never going to
stop.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
It doesn't matter if he's not eligible, he'll still
control.
I think he can and he will stop.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
No, because he's a narcissist.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
He can he'll still control.
I think he can and he will stop.
No, because he's a narcissist.
He can't give up the attentionafter he wins again.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
He's done he says the current constitution.
This is a guy who tried to doan insurrection to overthrow but
what is he gonna do?
Maybe another January 6th.
Maybe he's gonna get someexecutive orders done while he's
in office.
If he wins, I get you.
The dude tried to throw overthe.
It's never marked.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah, exactly.
But the thing about it is he'sdone, he's done, he's already
changed the history of theactual Anything Like fun 34,
literally, he's a guilty, likehe's been.
Yeah, and he's still runningfor president.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, like we've never had a president.
We've never had a presidentever not go along with a
peaceful change of power.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, Ever until him Check this out.
Okay, I'm trying to tell youyou don't want to live in the
purgatory I hear you on that Of.
Is he going to win?
Is he going to what's going tohappen with the Republican Party
?
Like you don't want to livewith that.
So either he wins now and wejust be done with it because
(28:20):
he's already I mean, I don'tknow how much more damage can be
done.
He can get another SupremeCourt justice in there, but him
putting three in there alreadyis him putting three in there
and they were all under the ageof 50 lets me know that he's
gonna have what that's 30 moreyears of Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I get it.
I get where you're trying like.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
So let's go ahead and do this and just let it heal
like let's start, yeah, let's dothis, and then we can, and then
we'll figure out.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
That's also a very big gamble because it's like
what damage could he do?
Look what he did in four years,how many people died of COVID.
That could have gotten thevaccine.
But because he was saying youknow this and that he didn't
allow.
And also like it's also agamble from the positive side,
if he loses while the RepublicanParty is still beholden to him
and while he could still havethat hanging over everyone's
(29:11):
head to run again the next year.
It's also like he's taking agamble because it's like he
would be the oldest.
Yeah, he's in his 70s now.
Does he have another four years?
Does he have another four yearsafter that?
He's in his 80s.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
He's in his 80s, right, he's 70.
Well, no, he's 70, 78,.
Right, he's 85, 86.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
No, he's not, no, he's not.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
He's 78.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
No, he's literally like two years.
No, because Biden's80-something yeah, that's what
I'm saying.
And he's two years younger thanBiden.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I think he's 78 or 79 .
Let's not argue.
Hold on, come on.
He's definitely not 85.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
We're going too deep in this shit, because it I'm
just telling you right now,donald.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Trump 78.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Bam Right on the money.
That's what I said.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Nail on the cat.
Hey, you know what.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
We're gonna round it off, whatever we're gonna round
it off To 85, round up to 85, Imean, I wish.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I wish, but like, let's just say that we're, we'll
see what we see it's gonna be,is that?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
the any?
Who Did we get the anywho?
I already did it damn I missedit I missed it too.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
That's what I'm saying you must have snuck it in
right after 85 when we didn'thear it anywho but yeah, like I
think, like it's, it is gonna be, uh, a situation that we have
to pretty much talk, keeptalking about yeah,
unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Unfortunately, this is going to be the reality of
America.
Is everyone's going to befocused on?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
politics.
I don't know how y'all get meroped into politics every time.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
bro Dude, we live in DC though Everyone's talking
about all the time.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
No, but it's so crazy because I've never been.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I don't want to talk about politics at all.
Y'all get me roped into it.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It is a topic and it is something that is on the news
, and it does affect the wholenation.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
So the whole world.
I don't want to talk about it.
They make me talk about it.
Well, hey, we'll do better nexttime.
Absolute DMV we love y'all.
Oh, like comment, subscribe Allthat stuff.
Comment, hey man, like comment,subscribe All that good stuff
Comment.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Hey, man, we appreciate the few people who
have comments, but we need morecomments.
We need followers.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Holla at us.
We trying to engage with y'all.
Yeah, tell us what you wannahear.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Holla at your boys.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Bitch.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Peace.
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