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Have white men ever truly faced oppression in America, or is it just a historical misconception? Join us as we navigate this provocative question sparked by Representative Jasmine Crockett's fiery statements during a House hearing on the Dismantle DEI Act. We dive into the complexities of historical narratives and racial dynamics, examining the progress and persistent challenges within American society. The conversation doesn't shy away from controversy, offering critical analysis of Crockett's perspective while encouraging listeners to reflect on their own views of oppression and race.

Shifting from the political battleground to the archaeological stage, we unravel the intrigue surrounding the Megiddo Mosaic, a groundbreaking discovery that might reshape the understanding of early Christianity. Does this ancient inscription, declaring Jesus as God, really revolutionize Christian beliefs? Join us as we question the significance of this find and its alignment with traditional teachings. We then pivot to lighter fare with a touch of humor, exploring Donald Trump's latest venture into limited edition guitars, pondering the implications of his marketing moves, and speculating about his next product if he returns to the presidency. This episode promises a rollercoaster of emotions, from heated debates to bemused curiosity.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, all aboard this choo-choo train.
We're getting ready to go on.
I'm gonna take you from beingoutraged to fun in about 15
minutes.
You ready, let's go?
Woo-woo.
Okay, first up we're gonna talkabout Miss Crockett going off

(00:20):
the white man during a hearingon the dismantle DEI act.
Wow, I'm sure some of you haveseen this video already out
there of her railing and ranting.
Representative Jasmine Crockett,democrat from Texas, became
upset during a House hearing onWednesday which led her to rant

(00:43):
about how white men were neveroppressed in the United States.
During a House OversightCommittee hearing about the
Dismantle DEI Act, which seeksto weaken diversity, equity and
inclusion initiatives, goodCrockett responded to Republican

(01:04):
colleague championing the billas strong response to the
oppression of our rights,liberties and freedoms.
So I'm trying to get to thispart.
So you consistently said, overand over, the word oppression,
and every time that you said itit was almost as if I was
hearing nails on a chalkboard,because it seems like you don't

(01:25):
understand the definition ofoppression and I'd ask you to
just refer to google to help youout.
Oppression is the prolonged,cruel and unjust treatment or
control.
That is the definition ofoppression, she said.
And so, as I sit here as ablack woman who practiced civil
rights.
Sit here as a black woman whopracticed civil rights.

(01:47):
Tell.
Let me tell you the reason thatmy colleagues wanted to make
sure you understood the sameblack history that our side of
the aisle wants to delete out ofclassrooms is because you can
misuse words like oppression.
Um, let me read that again.
Let me tell you the reason thatmy colleagues wanted to make
sure you understood the sameblack history that your side of

(02:08):
the aisle.
We don't want to delete thatout of our history, not that I'm
aware of.
When I grew up, we learnedabout slavery and how bad it was
.
Hello, I don't know what thehell she's talking about.
Crockett argued white men in theUnited States haven't faced
oppression because they weren'tforced off their lands and sent
to a foreign country as slaves.

(02:29):
I'm trying to get to the partwhere she says oh, here we go.
There has been no oppressionfor the white men in this
country.
You tell me which white menwere dragged out of their homes.
You tell me which one of themgot dragged all the way across
the ocean and told that you aregoing to go to work, we are

(02:51):
going to steal your wives, weare going to rape your wives.
That didn't happen.
That is oppression, crockettsaid.
I would like to ask, missCrockett, and who drug those
people out of their homes andwho sold them?
Who sold their own people?
Have you?

(03:12):
Have you studied that, missCrockett?
I don't think so.
I'm so sick and tired of thiscrap.
We are in 2020, damn for 2025.
I'm not saying racism doesn'texist.
I'm sure it does.
It will always exist.
If you cause people areignorant, okay, but we have.

(03:32):
We have come a long way.
Ms Crockett, as you sit therein the house of representatives
as a Congresswoman yourself, Idon't see you being oppressed
anytime ever.
So get over it.
No, no, yes, we have a badhistory, but we're better.
We're a whole lot better.
So just shut up about this crap.

(03:55):
I am sick of it.
All right, we're moving on tothe next topic.
I just I can't believe the gallof these people sometimes.
Oh, do something positive, allright, podcast.
Okay, here we go.
Earliest jesus is godinscription found, deemed the

(04:15):
greatest discovery since theDead Sea Scrolls.
This is kind of big, I think,and Jeffy touched on it a little
bit yesterday during Pat Gray'sshow in his Fat Five or Fab
Five, I don't know.
I can't ever understand theirpronunciation.
All right, scientists are goinggaga over the earliest
inscription declaring Jesus.

(04:35):
Is God claiming that this1800-year-old engraving could
change, or our understanding ofchristianity?
I don't know how it's going tochange our understanding of
christianity because, from whatI understand, this is what we've
been taught all along anyway.
All right, the mosaic is thegreatest discovery since the
dead sea scrolls, declaredcarlos campo ceo of the museum

(04:56):
of bible in washington dc, wherethe theologically significant
relic has been housed since July.
The Jewish News Syndicatereported Dubbed the.
Now I'm going to screw thispronunciation up.
Just going to tell you rightnow Dubbed the Megiddo M-E-G-D-O

(05:16):
Mosaic.
Megiddo, m-e-g-g-i-d-o Megiddothat's how I'm going to
pronounce it.
Forgive me if I've messed it up.
Dubbed the Megiddo Mosaic.
The 581 foot artifact wasoriginally underneath a floor of
the Megiddo prison in Israel in2005, after which it was

(05:37):
excavated in pieces by theisrael antiquities authority
over the course of four years.
So we've known about this for afew years already.
It's not like all of a suddenwe oh, there it is.
It had reportedly adorned aprivate chapel in 230 ad that
was reportedly the earliestknown house of prayer, according

(06:00):
to Gil Lynn, the head ofMegiddo Regional Council.
Inscribed on the mosaic areGreek words the God-loving
Akeptos, a-k-e-p-t-o-u-s.
Akeptos has offered the tableto God Jesus Christ.
As a memorial, lynn describedthis as the first physical

(06:22):
proclamation of Jesus as God.
The Daily Mail reported that iswild.
The mosaic presentsgroundbreaking.
Is it really, though, wild?
Is it really wild?
We've known this all along.
If you're a Christian, you'vekind of been taught this all
along, all along.
So why is?
I don't know why this is such arevelation?
The mosaic presentsgroundbreaking, oh gosh.

(06:46):
The mosaic presentsgroundbreaking physical evidence
of the practices and beliefs ofearly christians, including the
first archaeological instanceof the phrase God, jesus Christ,
sounded the exhibition'scurator, alagre Sevriego.
So many words I'm going tomispronounce today.

(07:07):
This was significant as theartifact declared JC Jesus
Christ as God beforeChristianity became part of the
Roman Empire.
Megiddo, which was designed bya craftsman named Brutus, also
features some of the earliestdepictions of fish, one of the
trademark symbols of the Messiahin Christian theology.

(07:28):
In the Gospel of Luke, 9.16 inthe Bible, jesus notably
multiplied two fish and severalloaves of bread to feed 5,000
people.
Also included was a referenceto Gaius.
Remember him, gaius, the Romanofficer who commissioned the
tile during the Roman occupationof Judea.

(07:48):
This, along with the mosaic'sproximity to a Roman camp,
suggested that Romans coexistedwith Christians to some degree,
despite the notorious tales ofbloodshed and violence involving
the two factions.
This is arguably one of themost important archaeological
discoveries for understandingthe early Christian church, said

(08:11):
Bobby Duke, director ofscholars initiatives at the
Museum of the Bible.
Truly, the mosaic presents awealth of new data for church
historians.
Well, that's quite interesting.
I would like to hear more aboutthat and learn more about that,
but you know, we'll see if morewill be revealed, but I think

(08:32):
it's pretty self-explanatory,don't you?
Do you find that fascinating?
I do.
All right, we have two moretopics.
I'm going to get to themquickly.
Susan Smith was up for paroleand I knew she was not going to
get out.
She has not been behaving wellin prison, she has not been
doing good in prison.

(08:52):
She's been sleeping around witheverybody and she expected she
was going to get out.
And I guess she showed noremorse for her actions.
Of what?
When she killed her twochildren?
Her two children.
Do you remember I'm sure youremember susan smith boy?
I do.
I remember her.
I've talked about this on thepodcast before when this first
happened.
When she first made her firstappearance on tv begging for her

(09:14):
children to be returned, I knewsomething was not right with
her.
I knew she had done somethingbad.
I knew she was responsible.
I could just tell All right,here we go.
Killer mom Susan Smith has beendenied parole by a unanimous
vote after she sobbed and beggedto be let out of prison on

(09:37):
Wednesday.
Goodness gracious she's been inthere for a while.
You'd think she'd be used to it.
Smith apologized for drowningher two young sons 30 years ago
and said she wished she couldtake it back.
But, true to form, smith stillrefused to take full
responsibility for her actions,blaming others for the choices

(09:57):
she made.
The seven member south carolinaboard of paroles immediately
voted to deny smith's request.
However, she still not.
She will now be able to applyfor parole every two years,
meaning the family of hermurdered sons, alex and michael,
will have to show up to fighther request if they want to
ensure she stays behind bars.

(10:19):
Have to show up to fight herrequest if they want to ensure
she stays behind bars.
Smith faced a disciplinaryaction several times in prison,
including two separate sexualencounters with correction
officers, incidents of self-harm, possession of marijuana and
most recently for giving contactinformation for family and her
ex-husband for a two documentaryproducer.
She blamed the documentaryproducer, saying I trusted the

(10:41):
wrong person, but admitting thefact that she had asked the
producer for cash and othercompensation for her story.
Smith also claimed that herconvictions for misconduct
behind bars were not her fault.
Excuse me Attending the meetingremotely via Zoom.
Smith 53, told the board thatshe had lost touch with reality

(11:01):
when she killed alex and michaelby strapping them in their car
seats and letting them drown ina south carolina lake in 1994.
So 1994, I think, gosh 1994, um1994.
I wonder if I was pregnant withGracie.

(11:22):
Gracie was born in April of 95.
So I don't know when.
This I just golly.
This was before I was, before Ihad children, but I still knew
something was wrong with her.
Okay, you can go finish readingthat story, for like we need to
move on to the next one, alittle fun one here here, and
this will lead into my questionof the day.
Trump unveils limited editionamerican eagle acoustic and

(11:46):
electric guitars.
I don't know if you've heardrecently on the radio.
I don't know what you listen toon air, but you know we'll
listen to things on the radio oras we're driving or whatever,
and you hear these commercialsof trump selling this and
selling that.
The latest one was his watches.
He has, you know, limitededition watches that he's

(12:07):
selling and I, you know, I'mlike, oh, I just I wish he would
stop.
If he wants to sell them, fine,but let somebody else do it for
him, let somebody else talk itfor him, let somebody else talk.
It just bothers me that he getson there and he's hawking his
wares.
It just I don't know.
It bothers me because he'sgoing to be president again.
President elect Trump onWednesday announced the sale of

(12:30):
limited number 46 guitars on hissocial media site.
Coming soon the limited edition45 guitar only 1300 of each.
Acoustic and electric guitarsmade, some personally signed.
Trump wrote on true social.
So my question is why is hedoing this?
Okay, that's not the questionof the day, but do you think he

(12:53):
should?
This is not the question.
I'm going to get to it, Ipromise.
It bothers me that he does this.
I don't know why.
It's comical, it's not likeheavy on my heart or anything,
it's just comical and I just Idon't know, it's just I wish he
would stop.
It reminds me of used carsalesman-y stuff.
But what do you think his?

(13:15):
This is the question of the day.
What do you think his next thinghe should sell?
What do you think it should be?
I mean, we've had watches,we've had Bibles, we've had
shoes.
Now we have guitars.
We've hats all the time thehats I don't mind.
Uh, what do you think his next?
What do you think DonaldTrump's next item should be that
he should sell?

(13:35):
I just hopefully, when he getssworn out on January 20th, he
won't be selling the stuffanymore.
Do you think is that?
I don't know if that's a legalthing.
Is he allowed to do that aspresident?
I'm not sure.
All right, I gotta go.
Thanks for listening.
Y'all have a good one Bye.