Ep 145 Phase Whatever

In this episode: Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) discuss a wide range of nerdy, pop culture, and political topics. Topics include:

Sumo in Brooklyn

Plantation on Fire

Marvel's Ironheart

Tiffany Slanton

Brooklyn Bridge Boat Crash

and much more...

Episode Transcript

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Maurice and Odie want to take over like Zach and Cody Black
and Schnurdy is the best podcastgoing to boom like Wally coyote
going to meet match. They move like they Harry and
talking about mental health. No, it's not scary.
You notice she coming up with the astrology.
No God, that comic and that's the best policy.
Maurice the goat talking about animation because you know oh,
does she move away? We like the boat, watching some

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movies and she taking notes. Hello and welcome to another
episode of the Black and Snarky Podcast, the only podcast where

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two sexy black nerds get together to shoot the shit.
I am MO AKA Kid Licorice and I'mOdie, and together we are the
aforementioned nerds here on episode 145 of the Black and 30
Podcast. How are you doing today?
I'm doing pretty good. We had a fun day yesterday

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seeing the what is it called thesumo?
It was a sumo, but what is the group called?
The New York Sumo Club, I believe.
Yeah, I think. The half.
Sumo, half sumo. Which was fun.
We went to Industry City 'cause they were doing a the half Sumo
tournament, which was great. I've never seen sumo wrestling

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like in person. Me neither.
So that was my first time. A chance to see them like going
against each other was really fun.
And just seeing like the different weight classes and the
different styles of bodies that were present you.
I mean, like obviously there were, if you've seen sumo

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wrestling on TV or you've seen the concept of sumo wrestling
like it's the there's gentleman on the thicker side of things,
but the but there was different shapes of the thickness is what
I'm trying to say. And there's I always found a
video of two of the, let me share it, of two of the fighters

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who we were rooting for. One of their names was Kofi.
And the other one, I don't remember what his name was, but
you were calling him the name you were you all were saying he
looked like a wrestler. What was his name?
Dilo Dilo. So I'm going to put a little

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just small. So this was one of the things we
were one of the matches that we saw yesterday.

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ELO Brown really took him down. Yeah, it was, it was, it was
great. It was great.
It was extremely competitive. Like I think the guy that we
rooted for got the gold and the heavyweight and the light
heavyweight. Perry.
Something, something Perry. Kendall Perry.
Kendall Perry Yeah, yeah. And yeah, it was a lot of fun.

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I. What I loved about it was there
was so many black and brown wrestlers there.
Yeah, they were. And I mean, there were obviously
if you saw the clip, there were a lot of white, white guys
fighting. But I think it was great to see
like the diversity of the people, not just like in their

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body shapes. And they seem like they're from
all walks of life. So it was really interesting.
It must be like a cool way of just kind of letting go of steam
sometimes and just using your body and staying in shape, which
is cool. So yeah, like, that was a lot of
fun. I give my credit to you for

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finding the event and, you know,convincing me to go because Lord
knows on the Saturday, like if you if if you say, Hey, let's do
a thing. I have to clear the entire
Saturday to do that because withyou, like it's a it's an all day
affair essentially. No, I know no, that's the thing.

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I do know there might be some I always.
Know we're going to shenan and we're going to shenan again.
Anyway, how are you doing? I'm doing well.
I'm. I'm tired.
It was a long week. Had a lot of team meetings just
like fucking 3 but I survived and made it out the other end

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and now I I'm feeling pretty good.
That's good. Yeah, so how about we Mosey on
the oh, did you know that the New Jersey Transit workers are
on strike? Yeah, James actually just
messaged me that the strike was over.
Oh, the strike is over, Yeah. I had sent him a message because
I saw I think it was on Friday that people want to take me to

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transit were having to go and take like the the Amtrak places.
And so I asked him about it. And so he was just telling me
some inside baseball about that because he works for the MTA.
But he just messaged me to say it was over.
So hopefully everyone is able toget back on their trains because

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God knows the transit system, when it goes down, when there's
any sort of glitch in the system.
And it can become very frustrating, especially coming
from Jersey because of the transit system goes all the way
deep. You could be living in South
Jersey and work in like Newark or work in the city and that is
not an easy commute. No, it is not.

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At all. No, it's not.
I hope that they got the workersgot what they needed and what
they wanted because they they'renot going to go on strike for no
reason. Of course, nobody goes on strike
for for no reason. Yeah, hopefully they they came
to an agreement and got exactly what they want wanted.
What they wanted. And what they deserve.
Yeah, exactly. Yes, So.

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So. Speaking of well, Oh no, we're
gonna get jump into our pop culture.
Yes, we are. When you want.
A hot meal. We've got a big.
Deal. What are you gonna pick pop
topics? All right, Speaking of people
getting what they deserve, did you hear about this huge fire in

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Louisiana that has burnt down the Nottoway plantation?
No, I I did not hear about. That well, just for some back
story, it was built in 1859 and it was known as one of the most
brutal sugar plantations in the South.

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From what I know about American history and enslavement, folks
who were pretty not, let's say not necessarily they were up
north, but if you were above like Georgia and above,
generally hard work, backbreaking work and all that.
But people did not want to get sent down to Texas, Louisiana,

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Mississippi, etcetera, because the Deep South had the worst
kinds of things going on in the plantations.
And you can imagine like plantation life was already
terrible. You're getting beaten, you're
getting starved, you're getting mistreated, etcetera.
But places like the Nalloway Plantation were just seen as the

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worst of the worst. But this past week, I think on
Thursday, a fire started and twoemployees, they said they saw
smoking come out of a room on the 2nd floor.
The firefighters came, they weretrying to contain it.
They were able to contain it fora little bit, but then it just
became completely unruly. And I have a quick little news

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clip for us to watch about that.And I personally, I mean, let it
burn, you know? Burn baby, burn, burn baby, burn
when? You're in a.
Place like. Burn but I want all of the
plantations to burn, especially after like seeing.

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Watching It's weird that plantations still exist, are
still a. Thing and they're like just like
monuments. Obviously they're not like
active plantations. Sometimes.

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But. It might sound.
No. You turned the sound off.
I turned the sound, Yeah. Oh yeah, this is the plantation
stated that they had gone into the museum on the 2nd floor and

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there was smoke. They went in and exited the
museum, and at that time when they returned, the whole room
was in flames. Yeah, that plantation is
cooking. Burning right on up.
Yeah, I have to say I am curiouswhy more plantations don't just

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burst into flames. Quote UN Quote I I assume that
they haven't found the cause of the fire.
They haven't found the cause. It could have been anything.
That's old. Yeah, it could have been
electrical. Electrical wiring.
Someone could have had a smoke break and forgot to put
something up. It was on the second floor of
the museum, so yeah, it could have been anything.
It could have been anything I told you about how how my my
house caught on fire, right? Yes, it was electrical and I was

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in the house when it happened and the I saw smoke coming from
the back of my mom's bookcase and I called my mom and was
like, hey mom, there's smoke coming from the back of your
bookcase. And she said, call 911.
How old were you when that happened 9?
No, I was in middle school, so Iwas old enough to to No, I mean

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like what happened to all those?How old are you supposed to be
in a fire like you're? Supposed to see smoke and call
the police. Nothing taught me how to do
that. You had fire class Fire safety
in tool. I'm sure, I'm sure we had fire
to. The fireman and you had to go to
the thing they gave you a little.
But everything but everything issuper conceptual.

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It's until it happened, until ithappened.
You know what I mean? Like nobody knows what they're
going to do in a situation untilthat.
Situation. Well, black folk knew what they
were going to do when this happened because this was one of
the photos. Sure.
That I saw online and I was cackling.

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That's hilarious. And I saw the woman in the
that's in the red dress. I saw her pouring libations on
the side of the road for the ancestors.
And like, honestly, plantations,I don't think that they should
be necessarily all burned down to the ground.
I think they should be cordoned off the same rate concentration

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camps are. I've visited the how in no the
how. Oh, I thought it was decao.
That's. Not how I've ever heard it
pronounced, but. There's AC in there.
Yeah, but just because there's aYeah, I've visited there and it
is completely like everything's memorialized.

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It's been turned into a big museum.
You walk around and they have guides and things.
You see the doors where it's like the iron gates where people
would walk through and the gas chambers, etcetera.
And it is very, it's a very solemn place to be even like our
tour guide, I remember he had totell people like before we came

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in, he was like, please do not take selfies around here because
this is not a place where you are showing how much fun you're
having. Like it's a solemn place.
It's basically a big grave. So have that respect.
But the thing about American plantations, there's there's
only one plantation that I know of that has, even though it's

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still open, does not allow like weddings, doesn't allow these
celebratory things. Yeah, when I found out that
people were having weddings at these plantations was
ridiculous, right? Reynolds had a wedding and a
plantation. His wife got married on a
plantation and when it came out several years ago, he's
Canadian. They were, so they had

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plantations up in Canada too. No, no, I'm not.
I wasn't saying that to give a pass.
I'm I, I was just saying like, well, like he's Canadian, so.
What does? But what does Canadian have to
they know about slavery. They had enslaved folks, so they
know what a plantation is. There's no I don't know.
I don't know enough about, I don't know enough about history

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because I thought for the longest time that when the
slaves were escaping to go north, they were escaping to
Canada. Enslaved people, because they
weren't just slaves, they were enslaved people.
Enslaved individuals. Yes, they eventually would
escape to Canada because Canada,when France abolished slavery,

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so did obviously Canada because it was a French territory.
So they did eventually do that, but they were not free of slaves
or enslaved people. They were not free of them.
So, and it's from a certain point, they had them.
And even then, the black population in Canada was not
nearly, it wasn't like it was like a gold mine for them.
They set up communities and things like that as best they

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could. So they were still, you know,
racial tensions and segregation,et cetera.
So he knew. And even still, if you didn't
know, you should know because when you went to the place to
visit it and they said we're called the plantation, they
could not, they didn't tell you why.
Plantation is not a just a random term.

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Like it does have a specific meaning of what It's a place you
go from. It's a farming land or whatever.
Yeah. But there there's a definition
for plantation that is segregated, segregated,
separated from the historical context of it.
But unfortunately in America, weknow that when you think of

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plantation, you know what it means.
It's just like when you say Pampers, you know exactly.
You mean diapers. Yes.
So. So when you say plantation, you
mean the the places where enslaved folks were made to
work? I'm looking up the definition.
Britannica says a plantation is a usually large estate in a

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tropical or subtropical region that is cultivated by unskilled
or semi skilled labor under central direction.
Now I know even outside of America there are plantations
like there's tea plantations, rice plantations and any of
these places, even if they may not have necessarily had slaves
or enslaved people, they did have people who were being

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underpaid and overworked. The charger.
And I know that in like Kenya, you can go to tea plantations.
And I remember when I heard I wanted to go see like where like
the tea is a big deal in Kenya. And when I learned about the tea

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plantations that the Kenyans were basically used as slaves on
this land to make this tea for the British overseers.
So really, no matter where you are in the world, the world, the
word plantation is going to holdsome sort of negative
connotation for unpaid or underpaid labor.

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But the only plantation I know that in America that does not
allow for weddings is the Whitney Plantation.
And they have, I follow them on social media because I remember
when they, I don't know who it was not.
It hasn't been forever, but theylike years ago, they said that

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they were no longer doing weddings there because it's a
place, it's a needs to be. It's a solemn place of memoriam
for those who lived there and died there and worked there,
etcetera. So like I wouldn't want the
Whitney plantation to be burned down because they're they're
trying to serve a purpose. But even if this plantation,

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like it says it, it was in the museum, but when oh man, I
forgot. I found a video of one of like a
plant of one of plantation toursthey done at the not away
plantation from at some point within the most recent years.
And the way that they were talking about what happened and

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the enslaved people was very gross and a very much retelling
of history, which is not surprising.
Oh, it was like a revisionist sort of thing.
Yeah, it was like, you know. Oh, they would.
Well. I was going to ask you why.
Why was it gross? The woman was like Oh well when
someone was being sold they would try to buy all the family

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together so they wouldn't be separated like.
Which is not true. In what?
Motherfuckers were not trying. To.
Keep a family. You were by everybody.
It's not because you're trying to be so altruistic.
You know, I don't want to separate them.
You have more bodies for your work, especially a huge
plantation like that. It was one of the largest

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antebellum plantations. So they knew what they were
doing. And so I read on.
Let's see. I'm trying to find the quote
from the owner whose name is William Daniel Dyess.

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He's so the fire officials have said that the fire was
electrical and not suspicious. Oh, sorry.
William Daniel Dyess is an attorney in and preservationist.
I don't I guess what is a pres. I guess someone who preserves
things but he he was saying thathe wants to rebuild the home and

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said that in an article I read that he does isn't racist and
that he said I take this position.
We are non racist people. I'm a lawyer, my wife is a judge
and we believe in equal opportunity rights for everyone.
Total, total equality and fairness.

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My wife and I had nothing to do with slavery, but we recognize
the wrongness of it. We are trying to make this a
better place. We don't have any interest in
left wing radical stuff. We need to move forward on a
positive note here and we are not going to dwell on past
racial injustice. I'm curious how you could not

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dwell on past racial injustice. In a plantation.
On a plantation. I mean, that's the one thing
about being, I assume that this person is white.
Yes, yes. That's the one thing about white
whiteness. And white people, like they can
sort of pick and choose a history that they, like,

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ingratiate into themselves. Like they don't have to be
mindful of the past in the way that other people have to, you
know, like, especially us. Yeah.
So like to them? Fucking plantation.
It's just a house. It's just a building.
It's just. It's memories, it's history, and

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it is history. I don't.
Think for them it it's history in the sense that it existed for
a long time. For us, when we say it's
history, we we we mean that it has a negative connotation to a
very sore subject within our relatively not that so long ago

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my great grandfather. Great great grandfather was
enslaved, yeah. So that's not really that long
of a, it's not like. You know what's sorry, No, could
be my friend Haywood turn up seed from DC.
Shout out to Haywood. No, he was a comedian.

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He had a sketch for, you know those commercials for
ancestry.com back in the day when they were running those
commercials was like I, I went on ancestry.com and discovered
that my grandfather was a, was an oatmeal maker or some, some
bullshit like that. It was all white people.

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Like he came up with a sketch for where everybody was black
and was like, I went on ancestry.com and discovered my
great grandfather was a slave and.
And everybody was like, Yep, found out he was a slave.
Yeah, my great grandmother was aslave.
So there's that. What are you going to do?

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Yeah, found out they were slaves.
So I hope more I would like, I was like the people who own
plantations to go broke, unless they are doing what the Whitney
is doing, which is hiring black people to lead the museums and
the memorials and telling the real history.
The rest of them, they get all burned down.

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But I don't really in really in my mind, I don't want them to
actually all burned down becauseI do think that we need to have
that history there, unless they just burned down and we just
make the whole thing a memorial.And people walk around and see
like, look, let's look at the terrible conditions that they
were make forcing these people to live in.

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While you look back at that hugeburnt down mansion in the back
that it probably had 20 rooms for two people.
Because I know there was these Tik Tokers, these white Tik
tokers who got in trouble because they had purchased an
old plantation. It still had the corners for the
enslaved folks on them and they had put bathed them into little

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tiny houses for people to rent. Oh, tiny houses, yeah, and they.
Were trying to like. So they were renting out the
slave quarters? Exactly.
And they were rent. They were trying to say, no,
this is like, you know, we don'treally know what these were used
for. We were repurposing the existing
thing. OK, ridiculous.
White people are always ridiculous and they never want

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to take ownership for their wrong.
And it's not that. Yes, of course we are.
Slavery ended 1865. We are not saying that you
yourself are someone who's owning folks.
But more than likely, if you arein a place where slavery was the

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top of the economy and your family still has money and
generational wealth of any kind,you probably were benefiting
from that in some kind of way because our families did not
have the opportunity to pass down plantations over
generations and generations and generations.
I think why people are too far removed from the atrocities that

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were committed. I think we should just start
blaming them and saying that that they directly benefited
from slavery. There was.
Why not? There was an article, it was
talking about you. Own slaves.
You probably own slaves. Like you could do all the
ancestry.com looking up and everything like that to show
that he was a fucking cheese monger.

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Some bullshit like that. But no, if you if you have any
level of prominence in this country, you probably benefited
from slavery in your history, oryou at least benefited from the
racism that was going on. There is an article on
reuters.com that talks about 100people in politics whose

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families have ties to slavery. OK.
It says more than 100 US leaders, lawmakers, presidents,
governors and justices have slaveholding ancestors, but that
few are willing to talk about it.
Yeah, duh. Which makes sense.
So there's no reason why we shouldn't.

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Like. Of course they do.
It's not. It's just a part of the history.
That's. Sure.
That's just what it is, so. Yeah, it is what it is.
Fuck you Dale dies, Days. Whatever his name is.
Fuck you William Days. William dies.
I hope that you all go bankrupt over this and never have any

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money. Bless you guys.
OK, all right, so now moving on to some good news.
Ironheart has finally gotten it's poster revealed.
Not just as poster, it's. Trailer Yeah, Ryan Cooler is
directing this. You know it's going to be great.

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He's executive producing it, notdirecting it.
Oh, sorry. Executive producer.
And so it's starring Dominique Thorne, who we saw her play
Rhode Island, Rhode Island in Black Panther, Wakanda Forever.
And I'm really excited about this because I mean, it's Ryan

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Coogler is going to be very black and I'm sure it'll be very
beautiful. And it comes out June 24th and
it's on, it's coming out on Disney Plus.
I'm I'm curious as to why. Why aren't they getting in a
real movie? What do you mean?
Why is it it this is this is this is a holdover from their
remember, like for the last few years, Disney has been just

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flooding the market with contentwith marble content and all
these either mid to terrible shows like fucking secret wars.
Not secret wars. What was it called?
Wasn't. It called Secret Wars what was
strong. With Samuel Jackson I.
Think it was called Secret Wars the.

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Aliens. Secret Invasion or it's either
secret. Secret Wars.
Cause secret Wars I think is an Avengers movie that's coming
out. I think it was called Secret
Invasion. OK, I'm looking it up.
Keep, keep talking. Yeah.
Anyhow, this is a holdover from the what?
Essentially they've been being they're doing a quality

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invasion, Secret invasion, yeah.So they're doing a quality over
quantity thing now. So that's why certain projects
are being pushed back. If you've noticed, like Marvel
hasn't been like, having nine different movies and 10
different shows coming out in a year and giving you homework to

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do by watching all of it becauseit's all connected.
This is the last holdover from the previous regime.
And yeah, like I I am. How do you say I am optimistic
about Iron Heart just because itis a character that I loved in

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the comics and a character that was introduced in the Black
Panther Wakanda Forever movie? I think, and this is just my
opinion, I think this could be kind of like Loki season 2 in

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that it'll be a surprisingly good story that's that's being
told. So I'm going to hold off on any
judgment until I've watched it all.
Well, Ryan Coogler in interviewshas said RiRi is definitely in
conversation with a street levelshow like Daredevil.

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You've got characters trying both heroes and villains to make
what to make do with what they have.
Then you combine that with cosmic Marvel characters who'd
be at home in Doctor Strange or Wanda Vision.
That mix of St. level Marvel andmagical Marvel is a pretty crazy
combination. And he did say that the show is

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going to be set in hometown. It's following the events after
Wakanda Forever. And that, you know, she's come
home after spending time in thisbeautiful black magical place
and is more eager to pursue her dreams and that her quest
entangles her in a dangerous world of science and magic.

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And he also said that it was very quickly realized that she
was her own character in her ownlane.
There's a difference between RiRi and maybe a Captain America
or a Black Panther where a mantle is being passed.
This is a character who obviously was obviously
influenced by Tony Stark and inspired by him, but she is also
very different in doing her own thing.

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It's this young woman who has a chip on her shoulder and this
arm and exterior, but inside she's just full of love.
If that's not Chicago, I don't know what it is.
And Anthony Ramos is supposed tobe in it.
Oh yes. Yes, he is.
So I look forward to seeing that.
Look at these beautiful black people and tell me you don't
want to support this show. She looks gorgeous.

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Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.I I I wonder.
Who the villain is supposed to be?
I haven't watched the trailer fully, I've been watching little
snippets of it sure, but it looks from what the trailers I
saw it looks good. Apparently there have been a lot
of idiots online who are like saying it's going to be terrible

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and trying to like throw salt onit or whatever bullshit.
It's kind OK, So to to be fair, it's a little bit hard to like
I, I am giving it like some grace and being optimistic, but

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we've been burned a lot in recent years from Marvel and
just overall from Disney, you know what I mean?
Like it's not like they're putting out and doors left and
right. Like they flooded the like I
said, they flooded the market with a bunch of shows, varying

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qualities. Like you got like a bunch of she
hulks and a bunch of secret invasions and shit.
And it if I could find it, I would say the only good thing to
come from. The movies and the shows, what

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was that? Was that, umm, what is it
called? What are they called?
They're called like, is it is that tears?
Is it tears? What do they usually called?
What do they break them out downinto?
Phases, yeah. So this is we're we're currently
in what phase 6, I think. So this is technically supposed
to be a phase four or five project, like they been finished

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recording this thing. This thing has just been sitting
on the shelves for a long time, waiting said.
He's glad that it's finally coming out.
So everybody's just been waiting.
And one thing I'm surprised about when I just see the
promotion, they're not really leaning on like Ryan Coogler's
name. At least I haven't noticed that
like I didn't. Realize well, because it's not

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directing it like he's an. Executive.
Producer, yeah, but like, executive producers aren't like
the they're not writing the scripts and they're not shooting
the project. But I think that having.
I think they're doing more high level like like but.
Having a name like Ryan Coogler is synonymous with having a name

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like Spielberg or Jordan Peele or something like that, where,
you know, this person puts out great work.
And also because Sinners just came out, which was really
great. And obviously people are have
are still talking about it. They're cramming themselves into
theaters to still see it after all this time.
It's getting even more fanfare than Thunderbolts.

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Yeah. So I would think that to make
sure you are promoting this in the best way to use the names
that you can use name drop somebody like put it out there
like they do have them doing some some interviews.
Yeah, but I'm not seeing nearly as much as we could be.
Seeing Well, when does it come out?
June 24th. June 24th it it'll probably ramp

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up closer towards the date or they or, or or like I said,
because this is a holdover and they're trying to quickly go
into the next phase, they could just be trying to burn this off.
Like no big. Deal Like, yeah, drop it.
Do do like they did with with Snow White where they where they
didn't really promote it. They just put it out there and

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then once it was done, they didn't care about it, moved on.
But I think that it made that's like, that's something shitty to
do for a show or movie that has a black cast with a black, even
if it's executive producer on it, because people are already
not interested in giving black people the benefit of the doubt

(34:26):
and saying it's going to be good.
So like, if this were to crash just because it was Disney's not
putting the money behind and marketing, they're going to be
looking at like, oh, look, see, I told you that Black Girl show
was going to be good because like, there are some people I
saw online. No, they canceled moon girl.
Well, they did, which was stupidbecause it was such a cute show.
Yeah, but they were saying like,oh, they're race swapping.

(34:47):
It's a DI higher when in the comics when I've looked at the
comics. Yeah, re re.
She's never been a white girl. She is.
Really does exist in the comics.She's she's essentially that
they're the online discourse is essentially like they, they're

(35:08):
doing the same thing that they did with Miles Morales when he
was first introduced in the Ultimate comics.
They. Hate seeing a black person that
is that's black in the in the comics be black on the thing.
Like they want so badly for everyone to be this like oh,

(35:29):
we're being woke and hiring thisblack person when the black
person is just that was their job always.
It was not going to change. So, you know, we'll see.
I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to watch it and it's a
movie or a series. It's a series.
OK, I'm going to watch it. I hope it's really good and I'm
looking forward to it. No, I found this really

(35:54):
ridiculous and hilarious video, and it made me think of you
because you always say whenever,whenever, like there's this big
name in entertainment or whatever that gets caught in a
scandal and you're like, oh, they're trying to buy NBC.

(36:16):
Yeah, that's the running joke ofthis podcast.
It's like they were. They were trying to buy NBCI.
Saw this and felt like this was something that would make you
laugh and maybe it'll give you anew catch phrase.
Are you ready to watch it? Sure.
All right. So it looks like iHeartRadio was

(36:41):
doing an interview with Will Smith and this is what came of
it. Hold on.
Prince. Let me read because it wasn't.
And I talked to Prince 8 hours before he died.

(37:04):
I talked to Prince and he calledand he was pitching.
He was saying that me, him and Jay-Z should start an
entertainment company. And he said he had talked to Jay
and he wanted to do it. And we talked that night and in
the in the morning he was gone. I just, I don't know what that
says about me. Well, I don't think it.

(37:30):
Well, so. I don't.
First off, I don't. What does it say about you, Will
Smith? That's that's my question.
And also this is. What a weird thing.
What a weird story. This is a weird story.
Like oh, I talked to Prince the day before he died. 8 hours.
Not even a full day 8. Hours for for will.
OK, you got a Take your mind back before the slap.

(37:54):
Take your mind back before the entanglements with arguments
with August, entanglements with August entanglements,
entanglements, entanglements with August.
Take your mind back all the way to when Prince was still alive.
Will Smith was still probably one of the biggest box office
smash hit actors to, you know, ever exist.

(38:17):
So it's it's not unreasonable tothink that him talking to a
legend such as Prince it it's, it's not unreasonable to think
that that was a possibility because because they were
probably of the same ilk runningin the same circles.

(38:38):
You know what I mean? What's weird to me is that why
is the story being told now? Yes, that is exactly what I
thought when I. Watched that.
And why hasn't Jay-Z said anything about this or why
hasn't Will Smith said anything about this before today?

(38:58):
Yeah, like I, I know wealthy people have to like, comb
through their past for anecdotesto put on these interviews and
shit like that in order to be relatable.
But like, this is, this is something that is super duper
unique because of who's involved.
Yeah. Because it's Prince, Yeah.

(39:19):
And Jay-Z, but also Prince, you know what I mean?
Every time I will say. And what does it say about you,
Will Smith, that you're just sitting on these fucking yes
you? Maybe you did hang out with or
or talk to Prince before he died, but boy, oh boy, what does

(39:41):
it say? That used to be a big deal.
You used to kind of be a big deal.
That's what it says about you. That Prince would sit on a
fucking phone call with you. You said for 8:00.
Hours. No, no no.
It was 8 hours before he. Died 08 hours be OK because I'm
about to say that's incredible if anybody was on the phone with

(40:02):
Prince for 8 hours. I mean, not surprised.
I wouldn't be surprised. We've been on the phone for
hours, hours and hours before ifyou're talking and you're
watching. TV.
No, we've been on the phone for like maybe an hour.
We have been on the phone. For a long when you're doing
stuff around the house, you're chit chatting you.
It could happen, but I don't think.
I yeah, when we're younger and we have all the time in the

(40:23):
world, I just. Find it weird that this is
coming out now, but I also know that when I am on the interwebs
and I said something goes up in like black entertainment.
Sure, there's always somebody was like they were trying to buy
and it won't even be embassy allthey're trying to start this
thing together and it was going to make black people all this

(40:43):
money and see that's why they killed them.
And I know that somebody is on aTikTok right now watching that
video and creating a whole nother section of freaking
conspiracy theories. Yeah, about this whole thing.
Yeah, because I mean, the, the, the conspiracy theory already

(41:04):
exists that like the powers thatbe took Prince out of the
picture because of all the all the artist shenanigans that he
was up to. Like he was he was, you know,
into, you know, owning his masters and owning his own music
and not having fucking his musiccome out post humorously or not

(41:30):
being a fucking Tupac hologram, you know, So it's not out of the
realm of possibility for me at least to think that maybe there
might have been some, let's say,untoward.
Yeah shenanigans. No, it's.

(41:51):
Never like oh this couldn't happen, but I know that the
moment folks saw this video thatthey are picking up something
out of the little myths of the news and immediately are saying
Nope, this is what? It was, well at the very least,

(42:11):
like this level of he was tryingto buy NBC is at least more
tolerable than most of the jokesthat we usually make about
someone trying to buy NBC. Usually it's because they were
being a creep or a pest or a monster.
That's true. This one is just he was trying

(42:32):
to buy NBC. Will Smith's memoir because I
haven't heard of this this storybefore so I'm curious if that's
why he brought it up because I didn't watch the the whole I
Heart episode. I just saw that clip and I was
just so confused as to why it was coming out now.
Yeah, me too. All right, so we do you want to
talk about first the Brooklyn Bridge crashing Biden or the

(42:56):
woman who was found alive? Let's do Biden first, because
that'll be quick. OK, so unfortunately.
Oh, and by the way, that was Will Smith Prince.
Sorry, I just realized I didn't have the thing on.
OK, so apparently, according to CNN, the former President Joe

(43:19):
Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate
cancer. In a statement made by his
personal office today, it said last week President Joe Biden
was seen for a new finding of prostate of a prostate nodule
after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms.

(43:40):
On Friday, he was diagnosed withprostate cancer characterized
characterized by a Gleason scoreof nine grade 5 with metasis.
Metasis, Yeah, metasis to the bone.
While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease,

(44:00):
the cancer appears to be hormonesensitive, which allows for
effective treatment or for effective management.
Now, a doctor, Jamin Brembart, who's a urologist and a robotic
surgeon from with Orlando Healthand an assistant professor at
the University of Central Florida's College of Medicine,

(44:23):
but is not involved in Biden's treatment.
So that prostate cancer is very common.
As we get older, most men are going to have little cancer
cells in them. But according to another doctor,
Doctor Benjamin Davies, who's also a professor of urologic
oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and

(44:45):
again not involved in his case, said a Gleason score of nine
means the most aggressive form of prostate cancer.
This, I mean my one of my grandfathers passed away from
prostate cancer, so it is very scary.
Yes, it is. Especially the older you get,
even if it can be, if you can use a form of treatment on it,

(45:11):
it's not something that like youdon't want to be doing chemo at
30, at 50, at 80. Like it is very destructive to
your body. Sure it is.
But I mean, like, obviously he as the former president, he is
going to be given the top doctors in this country and
around the world. Top flight medical examiners of

(45:33):
the world, Craig. So we know he'll be taken care
of, yes, as best as possible. But it is, I mean, that's a
shitty news to to get out. Yeah, it's unfortunate, but I
mean, I look at it as one, it's a reminder for everybody, every

(45:58):
man of a certain age to get their prostate checked out.
You know what I mean? Like go to the doctor, get your
prostate checked out. I think I'm probably at the age
now where that might be a thing that I need to do too.
Yeah. But also like I, I think about

(46:21):
if Biden had just stayed in the race and if he had won and then
he got this kind of news, where we would be.
What do you mean? As in, like, where would we be
if all like our fucking president had cancer?

(46:46):
Well, they probably would be large things of mourning and
people lighting candles and, andthen there'd be a lot more folks
who were going to get screeningsand things like that when the
president gets sick. We haven't had a president of
this age, late, late like this elderly age in a very long time.

(47:09):
Right, right, right. So in general, when a president
or the first lady or anyone in the first family gets a
sickness, there's usually a big pushed behind it where they are
telling people to go get screened.
You're probably going to be freescreening booths around
different places and stuff like that.

(47:29):
So it would be something that was difficult for the country to
deal with. As in, like you think about the
politics of it, the stocks wouldprobably go down a little bit
because now other countries would be worried about how we're
doing. Most often when when leaders of
countries are sick, they will not say that because they don't
want there to be all this inner turmoil in the political

(47:51):
circles. Yeah, they would probably, like,
hide that information or bury that information so that the
American people wouldn't have anything to worry about, which
is what I'm really hoping is happening with our current
president. Because he's old.
He's old too. He is.
I, I, I not, I'm, I'm sounding like a certain type of person,

(48:16):
but like, if anything like that,that that dude's mental sphere
is deteriorating. He's never.
Had a mental sphere. All that coke and stuff he's
done in his life, yeah, it wouldn't matter how old he was.
He has done so many drugs and soand and various other things

(48:37):
that his brain has been degraded.
Yeah, so. So it really does not matter how
old he is. He could be 50 years old and we
would have to be like, does he have the medical capacity to
leave this country? Especially 'cause he's an idiot.
But surprisingly, he didn't say anything foolish.
He put a, a post up on the true social that he's on, saying like

(48:58):
he, they, he and Melania give out their warmest condolences or
their thoughts and prayers with them or whatever.
I'm sure his secretary or someone wrote that because I'm
very surprised that he would actually say something that
wasn't terrible, but this is. I mean we all say fuck cancer

(49:18):
regardless of who gets it. Yeah, it's always fuck cancer.
Is a terrible, terrible disease.Yes, it is.
You are fortunate enough if you have money and connections that
even with cancer you can hopefully elongate, like have
enough treatments to elongate your life and be able to have a
good quality of life. But his the his son Beau Biden,

(49:41):
the one that was Iraq war veteran, sure, he died of brain
cancer in 2015. And then that's when Biden
established the Cancer Moon Shotinitiative when he was vice
president to end cancer as we know it.
So he had said last, Biden had said last August, we're

(50:02):
mobilizing the whole country to country, the whole country
effort to cut American Cancer deaths in half by 2025 years and
boost support for patients and their families.
I'm confident in our capacity todo that.
I know we can, but it's just it's, but it's not just
personal. It's about what's possible.
And I do believe his son passingaway from the terrible disease

(50:26):
did spur him on to want to do great things and and try to
reduce the amount of people who are also suffering.
In the name of cancer. In the name of cancer.
But I do believe that like there's so much time and money
and resources that are not givento cancer patients and resources
for their families and things like that, that it, it shouldn't
take someone in your family. Are you getting sick by

(50:49):
something like that for you to do it?
But unfortunately, like when you're saying what would happen
if a president got cancer, like that's the type of thing that
would happen. We, we would get all these
initiatives that we should have had for X amount of time.
Like, just like, what's her name?
Oh, who was the president's wife?
Who started the Was it Reagan's wife?

(51:10):
Who started like the DARE was about drugs?
Oh, yeah. That was Nancy Reagan.
Nancy Reagan. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because she was friends with theWas it Clark who was the really
big celebrity? Was it Clark Gable who passed
away of AIDS? It was like a huge celebrity who

(51:33):
she was friends with who passed away from AIDS.
And that was what gave her, thatis what pushed her to stop
basically referring to AIDS patients or thinking of AIDS
patients like they were, you know, not human.
And Rock Hudson. Rock Hudson, thank you.
Yeah. So when he passed, then she

(51:55):
started, they were like startingto do these initiatives.
But before he passed, there was nothing that was really
happening. So this is a sad day for their
family. Hopefully, you know, he has all
the best doctors, and those doctors will also take what they
learned from him and bring that to the other patients.
Yeah, who need it? Yeah, So, you know, Elle and I,

(52:19):
I found the job that I was looking for during the marble
segment. You've got to do better,
Senator. That's what I was looking for.
Everybody's got to do better. Everybody's got to do better.
All right, now you want to do the woman who's missing.
Yes, all right. I'm just waiting for this video
to finish. That's Tiffany, right?
Tiffany, Yeah. Yeah, OK.

(52:40):
Gotcha. All right, so this woman in
Georgia, whose name is Tiffany Slanton, who's 28, was lost in
the in the woods for three weeks, but thankfully, she was
found alive. Here's the music announcement.

(53:01):
California wilderness for nearlythree weeks.
Tiffany Slayton, a solo hiker who was lost in a Blizzard last
month, was found sheltering inside a cabin near Lake Edison.
That's about 3 hours outside of Fresno now.
Slayton says if the cabin hadn'tbeen unlocked, she probably
would have died. I, I honestly do not think that

(53:22):
without without Vermilion Resort, I would not be here at
that moment because that was the13th heavy snowstorm I had been
in and it was going to be the last one.
If he hadn't have come that day,I they would have found my body
there when I talk about a miracle.
Glass, she's OK, the resort owner says Tiffany gave him a

(53:44):
hug the moment that he found heralive.
And I can understand why. So this has me thinking of two
minds. The first mind is it's great
that she was found. It's great that she survived A

(54:05):
harrowing story of survival. The other side of me is like,
This is why I don't do hiking orgo to the mountains or do any of
that shit. Like, just if anything can
occur, she said. This is her 13th snowstorm.
It was her 13th. It was her 13th snowstorm there

(54:26):
during that three weeks. She said that.
There were 13 snowstorms in in the span of a week.
In three weeks, she was going for three.
Weeks 3 weeks. She said she's during her three
weeks trying to get back, there was had been a recent avalanche,
so she was unable to get to the main road.
She couldn't reach 9911 because there was no cell service.

(54:48):
She had to fight off animals. She survived.
She was surviving on leaks with leaks, licked vegetables, foiled
snow, hiking peak peaks up to 11,000 feet high, and she
suffered through 13 heavy snowstorms.
That's insane. You know, they've been on a
solo, a three day solo camping trip that turned into,

(55:13):
unfortunately this three-week ordeal.
But I mean, I don't think this should now, this shouldn't stop
people from hiking or being, youknow, doing the great outdoors.
But I think this is something tobe mindful of, of like what
things do you need to make sure you're going to be safe?

(55:34):
Have a fucking SAT phone. Satellite phone Aria.
God damn it. Anyhow, continue.
We have a SAT phone. Having a SAT phone and trying to
make sure you have enough supplies.
Any kind of like count comp, some type of compass that can
work through all different typesof weather and things like that.

(55:55):
But good thing that she was ableto come across the resort and
get in there because otherwise she would have just been
outside. That's just, you know, it's a
lot. But she's back in Georgia now
and she's going to recover. She's recovering and that she

(56:16):
said she journaled the whole adventure and plans on going
through the process of doing like a documentation of that.
So maybe she'll get a book out of it or a movie or something
like that. Like you got to.
When life gives you lemons, you better fucking make lemon, make
something profitable out of thisand then never go out to do any
fucking solo mountaineering everagain.

(56:38):
Solo. I think that solo is a lot
insane. I you know Darby Allen right
now, the wrestler is currently trying to climb Mount Everest.
No. Did you know that?
Yeah. And I.
Would be. I wouldn't want to do.
That I would not want to do thateither.
Just be up there, just climbing over all of the corpses of those

(57:00):
mother fuckers who thought that they could do it.
Yeah, and so often they think they can.
And what happens? So you can't?
Nope. Yeah.
You couldn't do it. You should have just stayed home
climbing. Mount Everest.
And eat your food. Mountaineering.
Ridiculous. All right, so in other random,

(57:24):
sad, weird news today, there wasa boat crash at the Brooklyn
Bridge. Yeah, a boat crashed into the
Brooklyn Bridge. I was at work and I I saw this
on the news. And we even got a question about

(57:44):
like, oh, how will this affect things?
And we had to be like, this doesn't affect anything.
What? Oh yeah, no, that's disgusting.
That is disgusting. Terrible.
Anyhow, we're we're for those y'all who are just listening to

(58:05):
this looking. She's looking for photos of the
Brooklyn Bridge crash, and apparently there's also.
Penis almost out on Twitter talking about this is what the
Brooklyn Bridge CR boat crashed into his ugly ass.
Anyway, yeah. Who's Yeah, that's the whole

(58:30):
emphasis of that photo. Anyway.
It crashed into his junk. Can we be prepared and recognize
what's happening right now? Yeah, I'm, I'm waiting.
I'm ready. So this Mexican Navy ship, oh, I
hope I don't mispronounce this Kua atomic.

(58:51):
Kua atomic crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge after losing
power today two people were killed, 17 people were injured
at the time of the crash sailorswere on the ship's three masts,
which snapped and partially collapsed when they hit the
bridge. The Kwa Kwa Tomak is a training

(59:12):
vessel with 147 foot mast and was stopping in New York but
headed to Iceland so I found a video of the.
Kwa Tamak. Maybe it is Kwa tamak.
It's look sounds like it's a Mayan word.
So this is a video. Of course Mayor Adams is there

(59:33):
fudging it up as we did this world so much I fucking Why
can't we just allow? People to have a very clear.
Picture watch some out there be and you can't even freaking skip
it. Yeah, of course, you can't skip
it because they know that this is here we go.
Thank God that as of this time, the 277 passengers that were on

(01:00:04):
board of this Mexican vessel, they all were removed.
Yeah, 19 total injuries of four serious injuries at this time.
We have been in communication with Mexican authorities and
we're joined by the Ambassador of Mexico, who's here as well.

(01:00:28):
He immediately reached out and we were able to collaborate.
We want to thank him for responding.
I'm going to have our chief of operation give you an overview
of what we have thus far. And then we were here from the
ambassador, from Mexico. Chief.
So I'm really surprised Adams didn't have something that a

(01:00:51):
shirt that said si SE puede or something on it because he's
always pulling stunts like that.So one of the cadets that was
killed was America Yamilette Sanchez.
Let me get her picture up for you.

(01:01:17):
She was only 20 years old, so it's very sad.
A beautiful young woman. I'm sure she was very excited to
be, you know, on this is, it's like a, this is like a fun part
of work. You know, this is like when you
have people come in for the day,you're just hanging out.
You're not really having to do anything.
Like this is supposed to be fun,exciting, and then this happens,

(01:01:42):
so you know. But who's the blame in all of
this? Well.
The thing is, it's the power went out so so the.
Power went out on the boat and they just kept going forward.
Yeah, just like what happened with the with the the one in in
Baltimore. I do remember the one in
Baltimore. And then now this clip was what

(01:02:06):
made me annoyed. This is a clip of people who are
at the pier at the Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Because if you've been to the Brooklyn Bridge Park before, you
know that people go around, you're right under the Brooklyn
Bridge. It looks fun, it's nice, it's
beautiful and all that. But this pissed me off.

(01:02:26):
People are watching the the shipcrash into the bridge.
You're still standing there while the boat is careening
towards the pier. Like what are you doing?
Move those two idiots. There.

(01:02:47):
At the freaking pier like. You're.
Laughing and giggling as a boat is clearly in trouble and you're
not doing anything to like, moveyourself out.
Holy crap. And This is why the aliens won't

(01:03:12):
talk to us because they see how fucking stupid we are.
Like a bunch of dodo birds wait to jump off the Cliff.
To be fair, if they're, I mean, we wouldn't have gotten this
footage. We did get this footage.
You could get the footage standing further back on the
pier. They were literally people.

(01:03:33):
The person who was who was shooting this definitely wasn't
that far back. They definitely, they weren't
close up like the other ones in front of them was, but they
definitely weren't a safe distance.
They weren't. Because what to me, my fear is
that OK, clearly there's something wrong with this boat
because when I first heard aboutit, I didn't realize even know

(01:03:54):
what type of ship ship it was. I just read about it being a
yacht or whatever. So it's like, OK, are was it
just people with someone drunk or whatever the case may be?
But like, you are seeing a boat careening into the Brooklyn
Bridge and your Spidey senses are not going off that maybe

(01:04:14):
something is going on. Maybe I need to be a little bit
more careful. And like, you want to take a
video, move back to the video. We're going to see the same
thing. What's what's, what's going to
change from you being back by like the ice cream shop or
whatever? Like, right, you tell me.
It's a huge bow. You're going to be able to see
it. Right.
No friggin like self preservation.

(01:04:38):
Yeah, no survival. No survival skills.
Yeah. But of course, I mean, I'm a We
are sending all of our love to the families of those who lost
someone, another person, the twopeople that were identified of

(01:04:59):
ours, America Yamalette Sanchez and Adal Jair Marcos.
So I mean, they were cadets. So Marcos was was 22, America
was 20. So it's sad, Yeah.
The apparently the vessel servesas a school trip for cadets and

(01:05:24):
was departing for Reyjavique, Iceland, when it lost power
around 8:30 PM Saturday and justto the bridge snapping on three
Mass. So that's very sad.
And I hope that their families get whatever they need to help
them out during this time. And who like whoever needs to be

(01:05:45):
sued for them to get any kind ofcompensation.
I mean, there's nothing, nothingcan replace your child but like
that. Does Boeing make boats?
Shoot, I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that's who made
the boat. Because if if this was a
technical issue, the first thingI'm thinking of is it's probably

(01:06:07):
the boat manufacturer. Yeah, it probably is.
And y'all should need to sue. You need to sue the boat
manufacturer and make sure you're getting the money that
you deserve for your family. Yeah.
All right. You ready to.
That was a little of our pop culture stuff that we're we
have. I know that there's a lot of
other things going on in pop culture.

(01:06:28):
The Diddy trials happening rightnow.
We're not going to talk about that just yet because we want to
wait for us to get all the news from it.
So, you know, it's a lot for it's a very sad, traumatizing,
just disgusting situation. So reading that every week and

(01:06:51):
staying at like I'm, I'm trying to stay up to date, but it's
just very difficult to read through everything constantly.
So we're just going to wait until everything comes out.
And then we'll talk. About it.
But we are sending all of our love to Cassie and everyone
who's testified against him, also to his daughters because,

(01:07:12):
you know, they were walking out of the court during some of the
testimony. So, you know, it's just a very
terrible, unfortunate situation,which we'll have more on once
it's all finished. But now let's go into the things
that piss us off. I mean, it's happy in our mental

(01:07:33):
health check in. But before you do that, he
applause, 'cause I want to get some juice.
Let's get into our gripes. Bringing it what?
We grind it. We're not griping any whales.
We need to grind it and save space for us to share.

(01:07:56):
We grind it, we ain't griping any whales.
So what is on your mind that is upsetting you, annoying you,
pissing you off, making you mad?Some things, so the first one is

(01:08:18):
FAMU is slated to have a new president.
Let me just share this article. I was reading about her real
quick. So her name is Marva Johnson and
the Tallahassee Democrat says that she's been selected to be

(01:08:39):
the 13th president following a four vote by the Board of the
Trustees. She's sparked controversy
because she's perceived to have right wing political ties and a
lack of academic experience. The Board of Trustees approved a
salary range of four hundred, $450,000 to $750,000.

(01:09:03):
And she'll be, she'll have to beconfirmed by the Florida
governor, Florida Board of Governors.
So folks have not been happy about this.
So this article is talking aboutWill Packer, who was slamming
her choice, their choice becauseapparently she's backed by MAGA

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and I've seen what's his name? What is the name of the black
man who is on The Daily Show? Trevor Noah.
No. Roy Wood, Junior.
Junior, who? I believe he might.
Oh, hold on. Why is it saying my iPad, my
iphone's? Is that gonna change the audio?

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No. Right.
No, it's all. It's all here.
All right, so they had a town hall on May 7th for the florist
finalist and Margaret Johnson was there.
Apparently she's an ally of Governor Ron DeSantis.
So if you do not know, Ron DeSantis is a terrible, terrible
governor of Florida who has beentrying to do everything between

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banning books, bringing ice intothe conversation, not allowing
for any kind of DEI things in the country, and Will Packer
said in a live stream he had, I know, sorry to comment on the
town hall live stream that FAMU deserves better.

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He said right this minute a group of activists Republicans
are trying to put in the highestposition of power someone who is
solid, solidly and objectively unqualified for it.
He said that Marva Johnson is a career lobbyist with no
experience in higher education administration.
Literally the same amount of higher education experience as

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you or I 0 None said but we cannot allow.
But what we cannot allow is a hostile takeover by someone who
is aligned with a party that hasloudly and proudly espoused
ideologies that attack diversityand diverse institutions,
attacked equitable economics, and attacked inclusive

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principles. The exact pillars that
institutions like FAMU were built upon.
I think it's just it's unfortunate that this now we
have to think about HBC us are not just being targeted because
the government and the presidenthave been pushing back on any

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kind of DEI anything alleged DEIanything.
But now you have people being put in place in positions that
are going to hurt the hurt the schools.
Apparently this is this whole situation that you're getting to
be president because I don't remember if we talked about this
on the show, but last year I believe, fam, you got a got

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swindled because someone I'm looking for his name here did
did. Did did FAMU also get there like
Howard scammer kind of guy? It wasn't that but this man
named Gregory Jurami who's a 30 year old businessman from Texas.

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So he wanted to make sure the historical black schools
windfall would would help students who need the money most
by giving a 237 .75 million giftto the school.
Unfortunately, the then president Larry Robinson did not
do and his board or you know theadmin did not do their due

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diligence because it turns out that the what he was donating to
them wasn't real. So he has a small business and
he was saying all these the stock options, whatever it was
so, so high, but the money was was not in the bank.

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And even though he spoke a commencement, he had a huge
check for them. And then people started having
questions like what would make it possible for him to have all
this money at such a young age and with a company that doesn't
really have, you know, all, sorry, a huge backing.

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And also he apparently also has at least one donation to another
college that fell apart. So one of the Board of the Board
of the Trustees, Kristen Harper last year on May 10th said that
serious concerns have been raised regarding the validity of
the gift, the adequacy of the due diligence processes and

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whether the foundation, whether the foundation Board of
Trustees, sorry, and whether thefoundation board and Board of
trustees have been provided ample oversight opportunity.
So they no longer had the money and then everything kind of
spelled out of control and they were looking for it and then
they went and got, we're lookingfor a new president.

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So because of that situation, they started looking for this
new present. This person's now tapped for
that. And it's just really shitty
that, you know, HBCU and all thestudents who are going there for
the HBCU experience might get swindled by someone who seems to
be very buddy buddy with the farright and MAGA folks.

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And these institutions have beenaround for, I mean, most of most
HBC us had at least been around for at least 100 years.
Because how old is Howard now? 120 I think.
I'm the I'm not the best person to know at.
Least 100 years ago, I know we had our Centennial.
I think our Centennial was, was it last year, this past year or

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the one before because that's when everyone was trying to go
because we had our 10 year on 20/22 and I think it was either
23 or 24. It might have been our
Centennial, but either way, it'sjust shitty that people will try
to come in and take over things that they have no business
taking over. And the second thing that has

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been pissing me off, there is a mother in Georgia.
Her name is Adriana Smith. She is brain dead and in the
hospital on life support and she's also pregnant.

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I believe she was between 6:00 and 9:00 weeks pregnant when
unfortunately she went to the hospital and the hospital has
not allowed her family to have any say in what happens to her
body because of the heartbeat law.
I found a news clip talking about this to share.

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Mother lies brain dead in a hospital room, being kept alive
only because she's pregnant. So her case is now raising a lot
of new questions about George's controversial heartbeat law.
Adriana Smith's family says they've been forced to wait
without a voice while doctors try to keep her body functioning
long enough to deliver her baby.11 Alives Cody Alcorn is live

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outside of Emory Midtown, where Adriana was just moved hours
ago. Cody, what have you learned
about what's going on here? Well Jennifer, Ron, Adriana has
been on a ventilator for the past 90 days now.
As you mentioned, she was moved here just hours ago so doctors
can deliver her baby when it is time.

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Her family visits her everyday, including her young son who
believes his mom is just sleeping a crushing emotional
toe. As you can imagine, the family
says it's been made worse because they have no say on what
happens next. 30 year old Adriana Smith was about 9 weeks
pregnant when she started havingbad headaches in February,

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enough to know that something was wrong.
April Newberg says her daughter went to Northside Hospital for
help. They gave us some medication,
but. They didn't do any tests.
They didn't do any CT scan. If they did, they would have
caught it. The next morning, Adriana's
boyfriend noticed something was terribly wrong.
She was gasping her air and her sleep gargling.

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What am I gave was blood. She was taken to Emory Decatur
and then she was transferred here.
To Emory University Hospital, where Adriana worked as an RN.
Unfortunately, there was nothingdoctors could do.
They did ACT scan and she had blood clots all in her head so
they had asked me if they could do a procedure to relieve them

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and I said yes and then they called me back and they said
that they couldn't do. It doctors declared Adriana
brain dead, I feel. It was if somebody dropped the
ball at the hospital and her boyfriend asked please keep her.
If she was kept at the hospital,we wouldn't be here.
Because of Georgia's heartbeat bill, which bans abortions after
a fetal heartbeat is detected, her family says they weren't

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given any say in what happens next.
It's torture for me. I come here and I see my
daughter breathing but a ventilator, but she's not there
and I'm touching her and she hasa son.
What brain is see now 21 weeks pregnant, her baby's health

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uncertain? She's pregnant with my grandson,
but my grandson may be blind, may not be able to walk.
We'll chip out. We don't know if he'll live once
she has him. A situation she says no one
should be forced into. It should have been left up to
the family because I'm in my 50s, her dad is in his 50s.

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So we're going to have the responsibility with her partner
to raise her son. You know, and I'm not saying
that we would have chose to terminate her pregnancy.
What I'm saying is. We should have had a choice.
We should have. This is very reminiscent of

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Terri Schiavo. Yeah, Terri Schiavo, that I
remember that case that happenedwhen we were in maybe middle or
high school where she was brain dead in the.
Well, were you in high school ormiddle school?
Middle, middle or high school and the family was was arguing
between it was like her family and her husband were debating on

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whether they should keep her ownlife support, she was pregnant,
they wanted to have a baby, etcetera.
But I think that the very least in that situation, it was the
families who were at an impasse,not the families being having
something forced upon them. And I think that this reminded

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me of The Handmaid's Tale because I remember there was, I
forgot which season it was, but there was a black woman who was
in a coma for whatever reason. And they were just keeping her
alive too, so that she could just take the baby.
But it's not people think like, oh, because you're the baby's in

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there and she's breathing that that it means, okay, this baby
is going to turn out great. But do not know that I and it's.
It's and there's ways of figuring that out, right?
Like. Really, there's not really.
I mean like the the from what I've read, it says the key

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factor influencing infant survival is the gestational age
at the time of the mother's brain death.
Survival rates improve significantly with later
gestational ages, approximately 20 to 30 weeks at 2420 to 30% at
24 weeks, 80% at 28 weeks and nearly 98% at 3032 weeks.

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Because The thing is when you are pregnant, your brain is
sending signals to the baby backand forth.
There's so many things that go about that.
So like, yes, the hospital couldpotentially be able to regulate
those things and the mother, butthat's, we don't have the
technology to be 100% in these cases.
This is not something that happens at such a frequency that

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we've like nailed it down. So really it's your, it's
gambling. That's why the grandmother was
like, we don't know what this child is going to have to deal
with when they come out. They're already going to have to
deal with having to take care ofher son.
They're older. So it's like you have these
things that their their health, that they have the health issues

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that the parents have taking care of this child.
Then now the medical bills. Is the government going to pay
for these medical bills because they're forcing her to have this
child that come out in a varietyof ways?
And not to say just because yourchild is going to come out with
any sort of medical complications that they should

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not be born, but you should be given the ability to say whether
that's a risk you want to take. It shouldn't be anybody forcing
that upon you, especially when we know that there's so many
things that could go wrong and there's nobody who was going to
be with that family when this baby's born to help them

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financially, emotionally or any of that physically to help them
with this child you're. Just the child could come out
any number of ways and they're not going to be there for
support to assist them in any way shape or form.
It always weirds me out how likewe're so gung ho about like

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abortion and about preserving the sanctity of life but then
when that life is born we don't give a fuck.
That's it. Because they don't care.
They're not pro-choice or sorry,they're not pro-life.
They're just pro birth. Yeah, they're pro birth, that's
what it. Is they're pro birth the babies
out of there, then they act likethey don't have anything else to

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do with it. They don't want to give they
they're trying to cut every single federal funded program
that's going to make sure that kids can eat, that the the the
parents can have money to buy groceries, send them to school,
all these things like they don'tcare.
You just want to say, oh, we brought this child into the

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world, but are you giving any sort of brain power to what
happens once the child is out there?
No. Nope, Nope, not at all.
Not even a little. Bit and I hope that you know
this child is born healthy yeah.But I I also I just feel very

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sad for the family that this is something that's being forced
upon them. No one should have anything
forced on them. It's you decide you figure out
what's going to be the best thing for your family and go
from there because it's she was only 9 weeks.
So that's such a short period oftime.
Yeah, that's what. That baby needs.
That's so short like and how many weeks until?

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So usually it's like between 36 and 40 weeks, I believe.
So she's several months to be. Yeah, there are.
Months they are months apart from delivering this baby and
like. They're not even halfway there.
She was. It's not even like like some
other cases when they like from the article I read, if you have
been, if you're like 5 months and something happens that's

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only like a, you know, a few months that you have to be on in
the be in a coma or whatever. But like, brain death is not
even the same as being in a comabecause you are literally brain
dead. That means there's nothing going
on. Your brain is not able to
regulate anything. It's a very different thing

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versus someone being in a coma where they just can't come back,
come out of it, but things are still moving.
She is literally a mannequin that's being strapped up in a
hospital chair, a hospital bed with wires coming out of her.
And I'm very curious of the impact that we'll have on her

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baby because people don't realize everything that happens
to the mother while she's pregnant is happening to that
child. Yes.
Is this child going to come out very nervous and frantic or
whatever? Because they're constantly being
like in a space, It's loud and noisy.
There's no rest. She's not talking to the baby.
Like, what are they doing to make sure that this child's

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gestation is as happy and healthy as it can be even
without her mother or their mother being there?
We have no ways of knowing how that's going to come out.
And it's at this point, it's just the luck of the draw.
So I hope that people raise money for this family and help
them out as much as they can. And you know, rest in peace to

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Adriana. I'm sure that wherever she is,
she is not wanting her family orher children to be going through
this type of distress. But again, the powers that be
are just saying fuck women. Who cares and fuck the
caregivers. No, but like, no, there's no

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heart or empathy or sympathy being put into these situations.
So let's just sing off. What about you?
So as far as me is concerned, the things that are pissing me
off are as follows #1 I need people to understand that if you

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reach out to me on either a Friday or a Saturday that I will
not get back to you until Sunday.
Because Friday and, and I'm specifically talking to people
at work, I am off on Friday and Saturday.

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Those are my days off. That is it for me.
So do not expect me to to followup with you come Friday if you
message me or something like that, or Saturday immediately.
No, you're getting a message Sunday morning when I make it

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into the office at 8:00. That is the earliest that you
will get a message back from me.So stop doing it.
Next. I want, and this actually might
be my last one. I want people to stop with the

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the I know sneezing is an involuntary thing.
People can't help it, but like you got to be able to sneeze
into your arm a chew, a chew if you feel it coming, like there

(01:29:08):
should be, even if it's a 3 second build up, you should be
able to instinctively put your arm up so that you can sneeze
into your arm. If you're just sneezing Willy
nilly. And and you have like not even,
not even not even just if you'resneezing Willy nilly.

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But if you have a strong, distinct sneeze Willy nilly and
you're doing it Willy nilly, youneed to fucking check yourself,
because I'm not trying to get sick.
I don't give a fuck if it's hay fever or fucking pollen in the
air or allergies or whatever thefuck.

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Handkerchiefs. Yeah, yeah.
Monogram handkerchiefs. In fact, let's bring back
monogram handkerchiefs. Let's make that a thing.
More handkerchiefs, because my dad actually had a handkerchief
when we were growing up. He was, he also had $100 bill
inside of his wallet. And he would be like, I always

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have $100.00. So he was a classy fellow.
I don't know why I'm saying was he still is.
He's alive. But yeah, we we need more people
to be more considerate when it comes to sneezing.
Cover your sneezes. Cover your coughs, especially
wet sneeze. The biggest fear I have is

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someone's going to sneeze and it's going to get on me because
then I'm going to fight you and I don't want to fight, but I'm
going to have to. It's going to be like a feral
response. If you sneeze and something gets
on me, I'm that's it. Barfing while I'm punching you
in the face. Gross.
It's a gross experience. It's a gross experience all

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over. So that's everything from me,
all right. Yeah.
You ready to talk about things that make us happy?
Sure. And for that we are doing this.
Baby merchant cats are us. I give you our service and no

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devils give the baby merchant just a week or two.
I love your baby for you. All right, all right.
What's making you happy this week?
Going to the sumo event, hangingout with friends.
It was nice to see Keith and Keith's friends, I forget their

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names. Latifah and Carlton.
It's Carlton. What did you think it was?
No, I I thought it was Colton. Oh.
Maybe it's Colton, Carlton or Colton.
OK, well, either way, it was good hanging out with y'all, as
always. I, I, I enjoy, I enjoy when it's

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specific people, like when it's a specific small group of
people. When it's larger amounts of
people, then things get a littlebit unwieldy and I shut down.
Emotionally yes, and physically,but the sumo event was great.
Getting BBQ afterwards was really good.

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The BBQ at Morgan's is always really good.
Yeah, I still really want to trythat BBQ at Hometown.
I also really like the cute little outdoor set outdoor
section they had. For hometown.
Yeah, when we were sitting, whenI was sitting down waiting for
everybody. Oh yeah, that's right.
Well, they ran. They ran out of half the menu.

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It was almost closed, so it makes sense.
No it doesn't. It's.
A very absolutely does not make anything fresh my ass.
Like then have more chickens, then have more brisket like
folks have. To just go there on earlier time
for a date and we can go around,walk around in Industry City,

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eat some BBQ, get some drinks and enjoy.
Sure, because. It's a very cute spot.
I like it over there. Yeah, it's it's you want.
To live over there, but I like to visit.
Yeah, I did live over there before it got built up into
Industry City, so you know. And that that bar I went to was

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cute too. Yes, my, the bar that was near
where I used to live, that was like my, my go to bar.
That was the bar that I used to go to right after yoga.
Yeah. And I left my yoga mat there
multiple times. Yeah, I left my yoga mat there
several times after. Yoga.

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Why not it's? Defeating the whole purpose.
Oh well, I was still flexible. Well, you'd go back to yoga.
No, I don't. I'm.
I'm fine. I'm fine as is, even though my
back hurts. OK?
So that's what's making me happy.
What's making you happy? Well I saw this news out of

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Nebraska of Omaha, NE that Democrat John Ewing Junior has
won his mayor mayoral race and defeated a 12 year GOP incumbent
Mayor Jean Strothurt and he is the first black mayor in the
history of the OF. Omaha.

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Of the city, yes. Omaha was the 6th largest
Republican LED city in the state, so no.
OK so let me find it. I have I found a quick little
video where he's talking about his win.

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I don't know if it's his wife behind him, but she kind of
looks like Tiffany Pollard's mom.
Before I go forward my prepared remarks, I have to tell you all
a story because he's standing right here in front of me.
About 13 years ago, I was in thelegislative.
Chamber when? Omaha Leroy Adams told me I was

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going to be the first black mayor of Omaha.
I then came down the escalator and Pastor Cedric Perkins, who's
standing right here in front of us, said you're going to be the
first black mayor of Omaha. So within within about two

(01:35:52):
minutes, I heard that from thosetwo men and I said, OK, that
sounds good. But I, I didn't know if I truly
embraced it at that moment, but they said that to me with such
conviction that it stuck with me.
And so thank you for sharing that with me and thank you for

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being a great friend throughout this whole process.
Tonight we embark on a new chapter.
I am deeply honored and humbled to stand before you today as

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your mayor elect. Well, congratulations to you,
Mr. Mayor. John Ewing Junior.
Congratulations. I am.
We are sending you safety, we are sending you love and just

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hope that you have a great time as mayor and you're able to get
things done in a very RedState. So good shout out to you.
And then I saw this other thing that made me happy.

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So you know, obviously I love any time I see black people
doing things, especially when I see nerdy black people getting
having joy. So I saw this video on Facebook
and I thought it was just beautiful.

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So apparently the boy in this video really loves the Berserk
manga manga manga. Thank you.
And his mother got it for him for his birthday.
And she didn't just buy one, just by two.
She bought him the whole entire series.
Nice. So this was his response.

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Thank you. Oh, my goodness.
Thank you. You're welcome.
Oh, my goodness. You're gay.
Make me want to cry. Oh, Trey, thank you so much.
You're welcome. Oh, my goodness.
Oh my goodness. I was so confused.

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Oh, my gosh. You got them all.
Thank you. Thank you.
You're so welcome, baby. Oh, my goodness.
Oh my goodness. You're making me cry, Trey.
Thank you. You're welcome.
Happy birthday, baby. You're welcome.

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Happy birthday, Trey. Happy.
Birthday, and that is a great gift to give somebody who is a
I've I often want to start my manga collection, but I'm
secretly hoping to move into a different place so that I can.

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Well, no, it it's it's not a secret that I want to move into
a different place. But what's not, what is a
secret, is that I as much as I love anime, I have not started
my manga collection of works yetbecause I'm waiting to get into

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another apartment that has the space for it.
I don't. No offense, but I don't want to
mix up my books with you, with your books.
I want my own manga section to be like its own thing.
OK, segregation. Yeah, I'm going to segregate my
manga from your books because Lord knows I can't.

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I can't. I can't find any of my books in
your bookcase. It's there by theme and
alphabetical order, so there's. No theme and alphabetical.
Order. Is it fiction?
Is it nonfiction? Is it speculative fiction?
Is it historical fiction? It all is categorized amazingly.

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Dewey Decimal wasn't a really racist human.
I'm sure he would say good job. OK, well I'm congratulations to
that Mama for knowing her son and going all out for him his
birthday. I read that the books are $50 a
pop. Yes they are.
So that's a lot for someone to. Buy and that's a lot of books

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cuz they. Said there was 11, 11 seasons or
11. Volumes.
Volumes, yeah. So that makes a lot of sense.
The you know, the creator of Berserk died not too long ago,
right? Either last year or the year
before last. Yeah.
Kintaro Miura. But we've watched the show on

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Netflix, haven't we? Haven't we?
Ever I, I I've tried to, I've tried to play Berserk to you.
I think you said it was too dark.
What is this one about? This is about the one where the
boy is crazy in the hospital. Nope.
What is crazy in the hospital? Or he's in the hospital and then

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there's like. No, this is a medieval.
This is a medieval one. All right, I'm.
I'm. I'll.
Try and give it another go, OK, it might.
Maybe it was just dark because of the time we were watching it.
And like other things that are going on, 'cause, you know, by
darkness. Was it called my darkness

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thermometers? It's low.
All right, so the last thing. Oh, well, what was I going to
say? Oh, that's exactly how I would
respond to a birthday gift if someone gave me Beyoncé tickets.
So congratulations to you, Trey,and happy birthday.
So the last thing that made me happy this week is something

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very close and dear to my heart,something that I will pray for.
That happens fully. But if you do not know, the
Knicks are heading to the Eastern Conference finals for
the first time since 2000. OK, I was 11 maybe at this point

(01:42:55):
if it's if this I was 10 years old the last time that happened,
that's crazy. And I like this.
This NBA on NBA clutch points put this little image together
and it says that back then it was Ewing versus Reggie.
I wonder if the mayor from Omahais related to Patrick Ewing?

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I. It could be possible they could,
or maybe their families have thesame slave owner because Ewing
is not a popular name. It is not a normalized I've.
Never even heard of more than one person named Ewing.
I you're absolutely right. I have not heard of a cluster of
people known by the Ewing name. I'm just saying yeah, it's

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possible. Pretty sure that's a.
That's a quick Google search. Google it, juggle it.
Me right now. But now, he says, back then it
was Ewing versus Reggie. Now it's Brunson versus
Halliburton. I wonder if they're related to
the defense contractors. So the next one is the Knicks

(01:44:16):
versus the Pacers is the next game and I'm looking forward to
it. Maybe I'll go to, we'll go to a
bar and watch it. And no, Mayor Ewing is not
related to Patrick Ewing. All right, well, Patrick Ewing
is a retired NBA basketball player.
Mayor Ewing? Oh, wait.
Hold on. You're.
Also reading the AI overview which is not always accurate.

(01:44:36):
Oh God. As I tell my students every day.
Hold on, wait a minute. You gotta go to the ACT, don't
go to Wikipedia. OK, then I will.
Go to the links, go to a real link, go back to the AIO review,
click Show more where? Click on the little link thing.
It'll tell you where it finds that information.

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It's Wikipedia, not reliable, but click on it.
Then click on it and see. What was the name of the mayor?
May was it John Ewing, John Ewing Junior and Patrick Ewing.

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It. Might be, who knows?
Well, either way, I'm very excited about this match up.
I really hope that the Knicks don't piss me off, OK?
Because a lot of times they'll get they'll get into the Finals,

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they'll be doing really well, and then they shit the bet.
So now they've gotten all the way to the Eastern Conference
Finals. Do right by us, OK?
Please, Please keep your shit together.
Drink water, go to practice, stay away from the drugs and the

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hoes and just do what you have to do, OK?
Because the Knicks. Unless that's your ritual.
If you ritual cut 1. Because y'all keep losing.
If, but if their ritual has beengetting them this far, then.
It's not been getting them far now because they haven't been
taking home the gold. OK.

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So get your shit together, OK? Sure.
All right, that's it for me. Yep, that's everything and
that's that's everything. That's everything.
Thank you all for watching and listening to another episode of
the Blackest Nerdy Podcast. We'll be back next week with
more of the Blackest Nerdy Podcast.
And until then, take it easy. Keep it sleazy.

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Let me get a rid of this and putback on the thing that we
usually have the overlay. Until then, bye.
Thanks for listening to the show.
If you'd like to contact the podcast, you can reach us via

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e-mail at [e-mail].
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Licorice is legit. That's LICORISH is legit.

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And you can find me on Instagram.
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feather flock together. No, this is keeping it.

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We're keeping this in. Don't forget to take your meds
and your stuffs and drink water.Bye.
Bye. I actually want to keep that.

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Thanks for listening to the show.
If you'd like to contact the podcast, you can reach us via
e-mail at [e-mail].
You can also find us on Instagram and TikTok at Black
and Snerdy Podcast, as well as on Twitter at Black and Snerdy.
You can find me Maurice on all social media under the handle

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Licorice is legit. That's LICORISH is legit.
And you can find me on Instagramit's fax ODTHATSOD dot E and on
Twitter THATSOD under score E. And don't forget to like, rate

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and subscribe to us TuneIn next time to the Black Study podcast.
First, nerds of a feather flock together.
No, this is keeping it. We're keeping this in.
Don't forget to take your meds and your stuffs and drink water.
Bye. Bye.

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I actually want to keep that.