July 4, 2025 • 32 mins
Guess who's back and out of retirement? Your favorite moms. In our new project: TIHI Presents: The End Times, we're educating through entertainment and resisting through joy. This week we are talking about The Fourth of July and The Pledge of Alligence.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, it's Brittany and Windsor and you're listening to Thanks
I Hate It, a weekly social commentary podcast where two
friends shoot the shit about social issues.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Were already fucking it up, throw a shade at unsuspecting targets.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
And come out of a necessary retirement.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Clank clank, that's right.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Clink clink, clank, clink. I always forget the clink clank,
all the clinks. We need the clinks. My mother in
law was on the clink once for a hot five
minutes because I was going to hold it a ticket.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I believe it. I believe it. They had me there
all damn, I believe it.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I don't even want to imagine what you were doing.
But that's not what we're talking about. So we have
transitioned ourselves out of retirement. We've come back to grace
your ear holes, no other holes on your body, but
we will come your soul holes. Yeah, with a little
bit of you know, joy, because joy is a beautiful
(00:59):
format resistance. As Windsor said to me not even ten
minutes ago, and you know what, I wholeheartedly agree with her.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It is a form of phasis stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Let's get some education in our noggin. Yes, lots of
information and education. So we've come back with this project
Ti Hi Presents The End Times Podcast, where we talk
about some of the very complex things that are happening
in our world. We'll talk about some positive things and
some negative things. We'll talk about all the things that
(01:30):
make my grandmother believe that we are seeing the last
of days.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We're going to talk about all of it. We have
plans to talk about things like AI masculinity, not just
toxic masculinity, but positive masculinity too. We're going to talk
about all the things. And you know, Jesse, see where
this takes us again, because you know, we started this
podcast way back when as a form of escapism, and
(01:55):
I think now more than ever, it's necessary again. You know,
next episode we're going to kind of get into what
we've been up to in the interim, But for now,
we're going to try to keep these short and sweet.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Try no more two hour episodes.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
No more. We don't have time for that. You don't
have time for that. Let's keep it moving, and today
we are going to be It's the fourth of July.
A call a call America Independence Day, if you will,
which is really ironic the fact that this country was
in this The rebellion started as a protest, as a
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riot against the monarchy, which was the whole point of
the no Kings protest, Like we we didn't want any kings,
and here we are two hundred whatever many years later.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I think it's like two hundred and forty nine or
we're like very very close to that. Yeah, yeah, we
got two hundred and forty nine.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, we know math. We know math, do we do we?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
But yes, today it's the fourth of July. We are
putting on our first episode and we are talking a
little bit about some of the history of this country,
but at least on my end, and I feel comfortable
speaking Ish for windsor she don't need nobody to speak
for her, though, I feel like some of the more
nuanced points of the history of both the finding or
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not the finding, oh my gosh, the founding of our country,
this country that we do live in currently, most of
us that are on this podcast, and that our respective households,
and so the history of that, the history of the
Pledge of Allegiance, the history of some of the things
that we do almost ceremonially in this country ritually.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It's literally a ritual. Yes, and so you want to
kick it off with what?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yes, please don't mind us, you guys, we are a
little bit rusty, dusty, it's been a while. This is
our first recording in a hot little minute. But yes,
I will start it off with the history ish of
the fourth of July. And the reason I chose the
ish portion is because I feel like we very much
know the history of the fourth of July. You know,
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the rockets, red glare and the stripes in the air.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That's right, amen, hallelou.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And so I actually wanted to talk a little bit
about the specific moment that resulted in our quote founding
fathers determining that the fourth of July would be, you know,
a day of significance in our history. So the fourth
of July and July four, if you will, is the
day that commemorates the unanimous, the unanimous that means all
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thirteen of these colonies. You know, we don't want to
think too far, am I like too? You know what? Yes,
But it's to commemorate the unanimous passage passage of the
Declaration of Independence, which is the document that we love
to really chat about. We hear about it a lot
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as Americans, because it was the moment that these thirteen
colonies said, we are splitting ourselves up from England, Great
in Britain, whatever you want to call it, we are
splitting up from them.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
We're breaking up. It's just England. Then, pretty sure it
was just England, like the Great I don't know, not
my county.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
We never know, We're never gonna know. There's no where
to find out. There's no where to find out. Ever, No,
don't ask chat GPT because it does terrible things to
the environment.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Do you know how hard I do? Actually, it uses
five times as much water to do a chat GPT
prompt as it does a Google search.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
So use Google. She's not your friend, but maybe she is.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Maybe she is. So you know, you guys just learned something.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You're welcome, Yeah, welcome. And that was a little free
nugget you won't get anymore. So it's the day that
we declared ourselves free from England. We're just gonna go
with that and the English rule over the US colonies.
We said no more, I shall have no more of this.
If you've seen Hamilton, you know what this looks like.
So this occurred at the Second Continental Congress and It
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was on that day, the fourth of July, July feteen
seventy six, that this group of folks came together in
Philadelphia and said, you know what, we got it. We're
about to do this thing. We are cutting England off.
And so they signed the Declaration of Independence. They were
all very, very excited, and they began trying to basically
establish themselves outside of English rule. So obviously there were
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things that occurred. There's the American Revolution that came. There
were additional concerns and amendments that needed to be passed,
but the original document as it stood, was something that
you know, these group of people across the East Coast,
the superior coast of the United States, this group of
folks came together and they were able to say, okay,
we can agree on this. To get to that point,
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concessions had to be made. One of the concessions that
was made was that originally there was a passage condemning
the Transatlantic slave trade and the use of slavery and
the importation of African slaves by England which potmeat, kettle,
come on, guys. But this passage was actually removed to
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a peace Southern slave owners specifically and I find this
quite interesting, specifically slave owners in South Carolina and Georgia,
two states where, if you don't know this, most of
their famous people are the descendants of those African slaves
that they imported. So, you know what, you're welcome, old
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dead racist, because you're not better than us.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You know what, two bad old graves aren't like that
one dude in Edinburgh just you could part of Kios
Sorrento on top of his grave.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yes, So we did recently go to the United Kingdom together.
It was a late birthday present for Windsor's last early
graduation president. Because my girl is she's like a registered sociologist.
If that's a real thing at this point, you know what,
I don't care it is a thing now. And so
we went on this little tri country trip across the
pond to have a good time. And we went to
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this one space and this old dead, terrible person. Yeah,
this old gaze.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Move in him. They just put they they buried him
and put up a parking lot.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
They literally put a parking lot over him. And there
was a Kia Sorrento parked on top of this guy's grave.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
And they like, if you want to come back, and
spit on it, you know, dance on it a little bit.
You're more than welcome. Yes, I feel like that's been
for a lot of these these people back over here,
like they should just put them in the ground and
build up a parking lot.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You know what, there's still time. There's still time. The
parking lot laws and the United States are insane. So
I have no doubt that eventually there will be a
parking lot on top of Thomas Jefferson's grave.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And no doubt.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And I will park a Kia Sorrento. I will rent
a Kia Sorrento and go park it there. I absolutely will. So, yes,
they had to make concessions on basically wagging a finger
at slavery in to get this plot people. I will
not amend them statement. But there are also a bunch
of other things that have happened on the fourth of
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July that I found to be quite interesting. So I'm
going to go through a few of them here now.
Wender and I did not mention.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Wanting a hot dog? What by Jennifer Coolidge wanting a
hot dog? Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yes, what year did that movie come out? Sometime in
the early two thousands, Yes, that's actually my last one,
so don't you even worry about it. But these are
some of the other events that happened on specifically July fourth,
throughout history that I feel could be considered equally as important, because,
as we all know, when the Declaration of Independence was
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you know, and then we went and dealt with the Constitution.
You guys, I am not a US history person. I
just want you to know that we were not all
you know, considered in these documents, these documents that still
have such a hold in our country today. Now, I
will say I do think they're great documents. And if
they're reinterpreted as life continues to grow and change, that's
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one thing. But our need to hold on to them
like they are going out of style. Just I'm so
over old interpretations, like it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
We have to grow grow up, y'all.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So here's some other things that happened on July fourth
throughout history. In eighteen oh two, the US Military Academy.
In eighteen oh two, the US Military Academy opened in
West Point, New York. Congratulations, you guys, you now have
a whole academy. In eighteen oh two, twenty six do
We love to see that eighteenth you even tell this
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is our first episode back. We're gonna have to get
into our groove in eighteen twenty six back, Oh, it's
so good to be back. In twenty six, John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson both died on July fourth.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Doesn't it feel like a murder suicide? I wonder who
did who? So John Adams is that's us?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Because you know his son was John Quincy Adams, so
I don't know if that's his son.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Charles Adams, his lover was the last end of life
companion for the first General, not major general, but the
first general something of of whatever in the army. And
basically what had happened was is John was like, you
can't do this gay thing no more. We're not going
to do that. I'm going to be president and that's
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not a good look for me. So he said, you
either come back home or you're dead to me. So
he was like, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna go back home,
and then he ended up drinking himself into the grave.
But his ex lover actually went to go stay with
that first General. What have you baron or going on?
I'm gonna find it up. Baron, Lord Baron, I think
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to know that, ain't it? General, Lord Inspector General, the
Fartht Inspector General. First it was so messy, I'm a
boring job, was it? So? Baron Baron Frederick Augustin A.
Von Steuben. So it was Baron von Steuben and he
is referred to as the father of the Inspector General system.
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So actually Hamilton was involved in this whole thing because
they hired Lord Baron. And now mind you, he was
living flamboyantly openly as a homosexual back then period, and
so they brought him. He's from Persia or wherever the
fuck Prussia, Prussia, I wouldn't say so like Iran. No, he's
from Prussia, and so they bring him over. But since
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he wasn't American, they were like, we're not going to
pay you. So Hamilton was like, no, no, no, no, no,
we're not going to do that. Because you told him
you're gonna pay him, you need to run him his money.
So he ended up getting some of it, not all
of it, and he basically went to go retire, and
he basically took on the he had the love Charles's
ex lover went to him because they were like friends
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and like he's like, you know, this is what's happening.
And actually, both Charles and the Lover had went to
him asking him for his advice, and he was like, well,
you know, if you do decide to leave, you always
have a home with me. So when Charles stayed, the
lover went and he was actually with him until his
dying day. God, I love a good Yeah. No, but yeah.
So that's a little bit of a funny little this
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and that's about the US history. That's right.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And if we wanted to, we could make up rumors
about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and why they both
died on the July fourth.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Who's going to prove us wrong?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Who's going to prove us wrong? It's not like we
have access to any information about them ever. But yes,
that happened in eighteen twenty six. They both died on
the fourth of July. It's like their hearts couldn't take
it anymore. I don't really know. So in eighteen eighty four,
on July fourth, the French gave.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Us the Statue of Liberty.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And she was once coppery and beautiful, and now she
is corroded ish and very green. But that's cool, go off, queen.
Thanks France, even though we don't really thank you that much,
they do thank you for that and for French cut
fries because I'm gonna tell you they are solid.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
For two years play test and teaching.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Us how to French kiss. Also, yeah, it is what
it is. Nineteen ten, we've got Jack Johnson. He's an
African American male and that part didn't matter. I don't
know why I said that, but he defeated the boxer.
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I mean, it is history for real. On July fourth
in nineteen ten, he defeated a boxer known as the
Great White Hope and a boxing match. And this was
like a huge devastation to these people. They were like,
how could this happen? And it's just because he was
that guy. And then in nineteen forty six, the Republic
of the Philippines was established. That didn't happen in America,
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but because we have so many military bases all over
the world, it kind of feels like America sometimes.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And so, I mean, they were colonized by the same
people as to say, ties up, they just didn't succeed
at it, not until the English got here.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Right, they really took colonization to another level. They took
it to another level, and so and so down the coast,
which is I mean, listen, the East Coast of the
United States is superior coast. And I will not be
debating that fact with anyone. You can get out of
this house if you would like to fight about that.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Get out. But those are some of the historical moments.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I cannot find the year that legally Blonde came out,
but that was the year that Jennifer Coolidge made that
iconic I'm sorry, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Two, legally blond too, legally blonde too.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Whatever year that came out, that is when Jennifer Coolidge
came out with that iconic line. And you know what,
I do want a hot dog? And you do look
like the fourth of July. And that is how it
will be ending this section.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
All right, So you can't see it, but behind me,
I do have my American flag flying. But unlike the
flags that had Miss Nicki Minaj, we have the absolute
queen on this one, Miss Angela Bassett. All rise to
the national anthem. Okay, so I am Actually that's important
because I'm talking about the pledge of allegiance and how
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we have been Listen, they've been gaslighting us for over
one hundred years. But so I have a little bit
of history about it. So the first version was so,
the first version was actually written in eighteen eighty five
by Captain George Thatcher Bulk, who was a Union Army officer,
and it initially said we give our heads and hearts
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to God and our country and one I wrote one language,
please old.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
That wasn't right, one language under God, because you know,
if they could have, they would have.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You know, if they could have, they would have. We
give our heads and hearts to God and our country,
one country, one language, one flag. So that was the
first one back in eighteen eighty five. It was then
revised by Christian socialist Francis Bellamy, who thought it sounded
too childlike, and they were both read concurrently until nineteen
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twenty three. It was officially adopted by Congress in nineteen
forty two. An important no under God was not adopted
by Congress until nineteen forty two. I'm sorry, nineteen fifty four.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, that makes sense because that's like the height of
the boomer movement and we love America.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And so with George. He wanted it to be short
and sweet, to the point under fifteen seconds. He's like,
we don't nobody has time for all this shenanigans and whatever.
But they had a salute. We don't salute the flag
anymore for a very good reason. So it first started
out as the bulk salute, and I will not be
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doing it. Yeah, please. So the right hand was outstretched
towards the flag, like outstretching toward the flag, and the
fingers are then brought flat over the heart and then
down to one side. Yeah. The right hand was Bellamy
had his own version hand outstretched up towards the flag.
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Thank you, and then it would like the poem would
go up until it came down. And as we can
ascertain very quickly why that was discontinued because of the Nazis.
It looked exactly like the Nazi salute. And so that's
why we started, you know, kind of covering, just using
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our hand to cover our heart. And another important fact
about it is that it wasn't until I didn't do
a year, but it was in a Western State Board
of Education versus Barnet that the Supreme Court determined that
students cannot be compelled to recite it, nor can they
be punished for not doing it. And that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I stayed of Georgia Canon County High School two thousand
and four.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I think that is so incredibly important because, first of all,
they want this country to be a Christian country, right,
So bad me if I'm wrong. But I thought we're
supposed to pledge our allegiance to no one before God.
I wouldn't know. I'm sorry. I mean, I don't really
know either, but I'm pretty sure. No, you're not supposed
to put anyone before God, which means pledging allegiance to
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anything besides God is a problem guns, God and glory. Girl,
you've been missing out. You don't know what's going on.
I really don't. But it's actually so I kind of
cut ahead a little bit. So, bellamies, was I pledge
allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands,
one nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. So
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it was very very close, and as we all know now,
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
of America.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, we don't all know, because I also don't know
the pledge of allegiance to.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
The flag the United States of America for I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Fucking know it, hold on to the republic for which
it stands, One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Justice for all. Okay, So yeah, so we spent our
entire lives being gas lit into a country that says
it was a statement. We're pledging this allegiance to this flag,
a representative of this country with an ending line that
says liberty and justice for all, for all? Where is it?
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Where's it gone? That is literally the basis of what
we have been taught our entire lives as Americans. And
all of a sudden, they don't look and it's not
even like they don't look like one thing because they
don't care. They prefer white Christian cyst met And if
they could have a nation which is only white Christian
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cism tet men, they would all the women folk would
have to go. It's like the R and C in Milwaukee. Yeah,
like that grinder. Grinder would be on its on its knees. Period.
So it's just kind of like this thing. I've never
really felt comfortable with the pledge of allegiance, just in
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my neural dibate nor divirgin brain. It never sat right
because I didn't understand why my level of quote unquote
patriotism was tied directly to me reciting a pledge. Why
I had to stand or like whatever, like I don't
work for the US government, I am not in the
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armed forces.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Also five yeah, like I'm also a five year old,
I'm a child. And that was literally why I stopped
saying the pledge in high school.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Should be pledging allegiance to Barney at that point, Like
what the fuck? She's like, No, it's just it's just
one of those things where I never could wrap my
head around it. And it's used as this like tuning
for clap of a better term of your patriotism and
you're worth of loving your country and being an American
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by reciting lines that were literally not abiding.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
By absolutely not, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And that's that's the thing that just is really the
most confusing for me. I think with that, you know,
like I personally may have these radical political beliefs, so radical,
so radical? Are you ready for my radicalism? Who radicalized you?
I believe in liberty, justice and equality for all absolutely
versus pitchworks.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Here's the pitchworks, and it's not that difficultly.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
What kind of world are we that that is considered radical?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
My thing that I I'm glad that you chose this
topic and that we're kind of going through this because
I will say that. So Hurricane Katrina was like my
moment where I realized that I did not like the
way things were happening in the world now.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And that's fun in fact, because that's really when we
were nineteen twenty, Like around that was seventeen. I was
a pregnant teenager. I was pregnant too. I was nineteen
at the time.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Tours you were damn it.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
It was a pivotal time in brain development.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
No, it was. And so it happened, and we saw
things happening, and that was when I stopped doing the pledge.
And it was actually a big deal at my school.
They would be so upset. I would have to go
to the principal's office and explain why I wasn't saying
the pledge of allegiance like it mattered.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
We were watching people actively be treated like animals in
the astrodome. It was terrible. He who shall not be
named as an awful person, but I will not disagree
with the fact that George Bush did not care about
those black people like we will not disagree with it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
We live in a country now where I low key
wished if we had to have a Republican president, A
low key wish he was back. And he was awful,
He was the full person. He was awful. But I
genuinely believe here we are now though I genuinely believe
that he did what he thought was best for the country.
I genuinely do. I think he genuinely believed it. That
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doesn't mean that it's true. I think he genuinely believed
that what he was doing was best for the country.
Trump only does what he believes is best for himself.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
One percent, or anybody that he can get some money from.
It's very much a transaction.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
What happened when him and his little boyfriend had a fight,
I was so messy. He was like watching Jerry, like,
where's Jerry at? We need?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
The entire rotation are fighting. He and his entire rotation
of dudes are fighting right now. Because this is not
a good scenario. And it makes me wonder what kids
are thinking when they are reciting the Pledge of Allegiance
in school today. Right now you know, if they are,
I don't really know.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And me, my mom, Brian, the guy sitting next to me,
we didn't stand for the.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Pledge because what am I doing personally?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
One where I'm fat. Both seats were super tiny. I
would have to squeeze my fat ass out of there.
But also, I don't I stopped pledging years ago. I'm
not disrespectful about it, no, of course not. I just
sit there. It's not like I'm on my phone. I
still look towards the flag. I'm just not standing up. Also,
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my feet hurt. I'm old. Oh my. But you know,
it's interesting and I think maybe it's it's kind of
off topic, but I think it is kind of a
way to kind of bring in some entertainment into this
whole foray, if you will. I saw some internet discourse
about Miss Beyonce on her new tour and people when
they were they remember the first night of the tour,
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all the videos were coming out, and we had all
the discourse about everything, and they there was a bunch
of people online who are really upset, and I think
this is a little bit of a lack of a
media literacy. They were really upset that she sang the
National Danspangle Bank. Yeah, so they were upset, but they
were just completely ignoring the fact that it went into Freedom,
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which is a protest song. So it's kind of like
you kind of have to like pay attention a little bit.
And she didn't even sing the whole song. She left
it on a particular lyric and then immediately went into Freedom,
which that sounds like Beyonce. So it's kind of like, guys,
why don't we actually like use our noggins for like,
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I understand the want to immediately be like, oh, what's this.
We live in a society where TikTok has ruined us.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
We are ready to react.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
We have sixty seconds where our attention, if it is
not grabbed, we are done. Anything that does not happen
in that sixty seconds we don't care anymore. And I
have the same thing because like Melissa will send us
me like YouTube videos and I'm just like, oh, watch
a whole YouTube video. But yet I'll scroll Instagram reels
for three hours because it's that instant gratification. So we
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have this SoundBite, and we have this popular account that's
telling us this is what's happening, and instead of actually
watching the whole thing through or like looking through the
comments to maybe get a little bit.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
More information nuanced anything.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
We're just completely ignoring it and we're automatically going onto
the defensive. And I think that that is actually a
reason why we are where we are right here the
state of America today.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
No, I definitely agree with that, and I also kind
of feel like that is what I feel like happens
to you when you're in school and you maybe don't
say the pledge because well, Jalen did it. Staged a
little one man protest when he was in the fifth grade,
but it was just because he didn't feel like getting up.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Also at their own game. You got to beat them
at their own game. See what you got to do
is if they give you, don't give them the whole. Well,
West Virginia b oe Versus Burnett says, no, just be like,
I'm a Christian and I don't put any I don't
pledge Allegians before anyone before God. What are they going
to make that across? And I'm gonna be happy now.
They thought he was a Muslim child. They called and
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they were like, what is you know, is this a
religious thing? And I was just like what religious thing
doesn't stand for the pledge? It's probably a lazy thing,
like this is funny, it was, this is Jalen. You
don't know anything about this kid, Like who cares about this?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Of all things? It's not that big of a deal
to the school. And I will be chass, do not
call me about this dumb shit no foruah, especially since
they used to call me about everything else. But I
feel like that's kind of how it's presented. The immediate
defensiveness is, oh my gosh, why isn't this happening. This
person doesn't love America. This person isn't respectful, This person
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doesn't care about the things that have happened here. And
what they don't know is either we You know, we
are fat and tired a lot of the time. It's
also very hot in a lot of plays. So maybe
that doesn't feel like the most appropriate thing for us.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Especially we don't want to pledge allegiance to something that
we don't We don't want to pledge allegiance to a
country and its policies and what is actively doing as
it stands, Because if we in a better state where
you know what, we had our equality for all we
were doing liberty and justice. I would stand for.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
The pledge, but still for the pledge in like twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah, yeah, give me a reason to stand for it.
If you want me to stand for it, give me
a reason. All right. So that is a little history
and a lot of sidetracking about the fourth of July
and the Pledge of Allegiance and remember all rise for
(29:50):
the one miss Angela Bassett. I would vote for Angela
Bassett for president and a fucking heartbeat.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yes, but I actually would like to see that movie.
She needs to be the president n a movie because
and she want to Tom Cruise please, thank you, please, No,
we don't need that.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
That's not American. You know. You know Battie right here
is one is almost the highest paid female actor right now.
She's making those money movies good as as I should.
Ever since I was ten years old watching Vampire in Brooklyn.
Oh no, I was ten years old watching Uh why
the fuck did I just forget the name of the
(30:29):
Waiting to Exil Exhale? Like I haven't watched it five
trillion times? Had no business watching it?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
The Jackson family movie Malcolm X.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yes, we are going to give our praises where they
are due to miss Angela Bassett, and she actually is
a citation. She has a citation and not only my
caps my senior capstone, but in two other of my
research papers. Because if there's one thing we're gonna do
is we're gonna we're gonna talk about some popular culture
(30:59):
shit that we know.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
And we're going to cite some sources absolutely say that
house down.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So you know, all this shit gets uploaded to these
these databases and she's going to be able to like
search her name and you'd be like, why the fuck
am I in this academic citation? But yeah, So that
was that, And we're going to be back. Are we doing?
Are we going to upload them kind of like back
to back or the next week whatever you want to do. Cool,
So we're going to be back maybe tomorrow, definitely by
(31:27):
next week with our kind of like our fun reintroduction,
you know, just kind of where we shoot the shit,
talk about whatever. That's when we kind of partake a
little bit to relax and unwind. And it's great to
be back. It's only been two years, but we're back.
And we had an outro. Oh yeah, I know. So
(31:49):
remember that you're that bitch and you'll always be that bitch.
And something about drink your water. Remember to drink your
water because I damned I had about eight ounces of
water today, Oh my god. And take your meds. Take
your meds. People. Oh please go to be a wide ride.
Please put your put your alarm on your phone, and
take them, all of them. Take those mads. That's right,
(32:09):
every single one. Next time,
Hi, it's Brittany and Windsor and you're listening to Thanks
I Hate It, a weekly social commentary podcast where two
friends shoot the shit about social issues.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Were already fucking it up, throw a shade at unsuspecting targets.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
And come out of a necessary retirement.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Clank clank, that's right.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Clink clink, clank, clink. I always forget the clink clank,
all the clinks. We need the clinks. My mother in
law was on the clink once for a hot five
minutes because I was going to hold it a ticket.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I believe it. I believe it. They had me there
all damn, I believe it.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I don't even want to imagine what you were doing.
But that's not what we're talking about. So we have
transitioned ourselves out of retirement. We've come back to grace
your ear holes, no other holes on your body, but
we will come your soul holes. Yeah, with a little
bit of you know, joy, because joy is a beautiful
(00:59):
format resistance. As Windsor said to me not even ten
minutes ago, and you know what, I wholeheartedly agree with her.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It is a form of phasis stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Let's get some education in our noggin. Yes, lots of
information and education. So we've come back with this project
Ti Hi Presents The End Times Podcast, where we talk
about some of the very complex things that are happening
in our world. We'll talk about some positive things and
some negative things. We'll talk about all the things that
(01:30):
make my grandmother believe that we are seeing the last
of days.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We're going to talk about all of it. We have
plans to talk about things like AI masculinity, not just
toxic masculinity, but positive masculinity too. We're going to talk
about all the things. And you know, Jesse, see where
this takes us again, because you know, we started this
podcast way back when as a form of escapism, and
(01:55):
I think now more than ever, it's necessary again. You know,
next episode we're going to kind of get into what
we've been up to in the interim, But for now,
we're going to try to keep these short and sweet.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Try no more two hour episodes.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
No more. We don't have time for that. You don't
have time for that. Let's keep it moving, and today
we are going to be It's the fourth of July.
A call a call America Independence Day, if you will,
which is really ironic the fact that this country was
in this The rebellion started as a protest, as a
(02:32):
riot against the monarchy, which was the whole point of
the no Kings protest, Like we we didn't want any kings,
and here we are two hundred whatever many years later.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I think it's like two hundred and forty nine or
we're like very very close to that. Yeah, yeah, we
got two hundred and forty nine.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, we know math. We know math, do we do we?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
But yes, today it's the fourth of July. We are
putting on our first episode and we are talking a
little bit about some of the history of this country,
but at least on my end, and I feel comfortable
speaking Ish for windsor she don't need nobody to speak
for her, though, I feel like some of the more
nuanced points of the history of both the finding or
(03:18):
not the finding, oh my gosh, the founding of our country,
this country that we do live in currently, most of
us that are on this podcast, and that our respective households,
and so the history of that, the history of the
Pledge of Allegiance, the history of some of the things
that we do almost ceremonially in this country ritually.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It's literally a ritual. Yes, and so you want to
kick it off with what?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yes, please don't mind us, you guys, we are a
little bit rusty, dusty, it's been a while. This is
our first recording in a hot little minute. But yes,
I will start it off with the history ish of
the fourth of July. And the reason I chose the
ish portion is because I feel like we very much
know the history of the fourth of July. You know,
(04:06):
the rockets, red glare and the stripes in the air.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That's right, amen, hallelou.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And so I actually wanted to talk a little bit
about the specific moment that resulted in our quote founding
fathers determining that the fourth of July would be, you know,
a day of significance in our history. So the fourth
of July and July four, if you will, is the
day that commemorates the unanimous, the unanimous that means all
(04:36):
thirteen of these colonies. You know, we don't want to
think too far, am I like too? You know what? Yes,
But it's to commemorate the unanimous passage passage of the
Declaration of Independence, which is the document that we love
to really chat about. We hear about it a lot
(04:58):
as Americans, because it was the moment that these thirteen
colonies said, we are splitting ourselves up from England, Great
in Britain, whatever you want to call it, we are
splitting up from them.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
We're breaking up. It's just England. Then, pretty sure it
was just England, like the Great I don't know, not
my county.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
We never know, We're never gonna know. There's no where
to find out. There's no where to find out. Ever, No,
don't ask chat GPT because it does terrible things to
the environment.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Do you know how hard I do? Actually, it uses
five times as much water to do a chat GPT
prompt as it does a Google search.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
So use Google. She's not your friend, but maybe she is.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Maybe she is. So you know, you guys just learned something.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You're welcome, Yeah, welcome. And that was a little free
nugget you won't get anymore. So it's the day that
we declared ourselves free from England. We're just gonna go
with that and the English rule over the US colonies.
We said no more, I shall have no more of this.
If you've seen Hamilton, you know what this looks like.
So this occurred at the Second Continental Congress and It
(06:03):
was on that day, the fourth of July, July feteen
seventy six, that this group of folks came together in
Philadelphia and said, you know what, we got it. We're
about to do this thing. We are cutting England off.
And so they signed the Declaration of Independence. They were
all very, very excited, and they began trying to basically
establish themselves outside of English rule. So obviously there were
(06:26):
things that occurred. There's the American Revolution that came. There
were additional concerns and amendments that needed to be passed,
but the original document as it stood, was something that
you know, these group of people across the East Coast,
the superior coast of the United States, this group of
folks came together and they were able to say, okay,
we can agree on this. To get to that point,
(06:48):
concessions had to be made. One of the concessions that
was made was that originally there was a passage condemning
the Transatlantic slave trade and the use of slavery and
the importation of African slaves by England which potmeat, kettle,
come on, guys. But this passage was actually removed to
(07:10):
a peace Southern slave owners specifically and I find this
quite interesting, specifically slave owners in South Carolina and Georgia,
two states where, if you don't know this, most of
their famous people are the descendants of those African slaves
that they imported. So, you know what, you're welcome, old
(07:31):
dead racist, because you're not better than us.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You know what, two bad old graves aren't like that
one dude in Edinburgh just you could part of Kios
Sorrento on top of his grave.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yes, So we did recently go to the United Kingdom together.
It was a late birthday present for Windsor's last early
graduation president. Because my girl is she's like a registered sociologist.
If that's a real thing at this point, you know what,
I don't care it is a thing now. And so
we went on this little tri country trip across the
pond to have a good time. And we went to
(08:02):
this one space and this old dead, terrible person. Yeah,
this old gaze.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Move in him. They just put they they buried him
and put up a parking lot.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
They literally put a parking lot over him. And there
was a Kia Sorrento parked on top of this guy's grave.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
And they like, if you want to come back, and
spit on it, you know, dance on it a little bit.
You're more than welcome. Yes, I feel like that's been
for a lot of these these people back over here,
like they should just put them in the ground and
build up a parking lot.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You know what, there's still time. There's still time. The
parking lot laws and the United States are insane. So
I have no doubt that eventually there will be a
parking lot on top of Thomas Jefferson's grave.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And no doubt.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And I will park a Kia Sorrento. I will rent
a Kia Sorrento and go park it there. I absolutely will. So, yes,
they had to make concessions on basically wagging a finger
at slavery in to get this plot people. I will
not amend them statement. But there are also a bunch
of other things that have happened on the fourth of
(09:05):
July that I found to be quite interesting. So I'm
going to go through a few of them here now.
Wender and I did not mention.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Wanting a hot dog? What by Jennifer Coolidge wanting a
hot dog? Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yes, what year did that movie come out? Sometime in
the early two thousands, Yes, that's actually my last one,
so don't you even worry about it. But these are
some of the other events that happened on specifically July fourth,
throughout history that I feel could be considered equally as important, because,
as we all know, when the Declaration of Independence was
(09:40):
you know, and then we went and dealt with the Constitution.
You guys, I am not a US history person. I
just want you to know that we were not all
you know, considered in these documents, these documents that still
have such a hold in our country today. Now, I
will say I do think they're great documents. And if
they're reinterpreted as life continues to grow and change, that's
(10:04):
one thing. But our need to hold on to them
like they are going out of style. Just I'm so
over old interpretations, like it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
We have to grow grow up, y'all.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So here's some other things that happened on July fourth
throughout history. In eighteen oh two, the US Military Academy.
In eighteen oh two, the US Military Academy opened in
West Point, New York. Congratulations, you guys, you now have
a whole academy. In eighteen oh two, twenty six do
We love to see that eighteenth you even tell this
(10:40):
is our first episode back. We're gonna have to get
into our groove in eighteen twenty six back, Oh, it's
so good to be back. In twenty six, John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson both died on July fourth.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Doesn't it feel like a murder suicide? I wonder who
did who? So John Adams is that's us?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Because you know his son was John Quincy Adams, so
I don't know if that's his son.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Charles Adams, his lover was the last end of life
companion for the first General, not major general, but the
first general something of of whatever in the army. And
basically what had happened was is John was like, you
can't do this gay thing no more. We're not going
to do that. I'm going to be president and that's
(11:31):
not a good look for me. So he said, you
either come back home or you're dead to me. So
he was like, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna go back home,
and then he ended up drinking himself into the grave.
But his ex lover actually went to go stay with
that first General. What have you baron or going on?
I'm gonna find it up. Baron, Lord Baron, I think
(11:56):
to know that, ain't it? General, Lord Inspector General, the
Fartht Inspector General. First it was so messy, I'm a
boring job, was it? So? Baron Baron Frederick Augustin A.
Von Steuben. So it was Baron von Steuben and he
is referred to as the father of the Inspector General system.
(12:16):
So actually Hamilton was involved in this whole thing because
they hired Lord Baron. And now mind you, he was
living flamboyantly openly as a homosexual back then period, and
so they brought him. He's from Persia or wherever the
fuck Prussia, Prussia, I wouldn't say so like Iran. No, he's
from Prussia, and so they bring him over. But since
(12:40):
he wasn't American, they were like, we're not going to
pay you. So Hamilton was like, no, no, no, no, no,
we're not going to do that. Because you told him
you're gonna pay him, you need to run him his money.
So he ended up getting some of it, not all
of it, and he basically went to go retire, and
he basically took on the he had the love Charles's
ex lover went to him because they were like friends
(13:01):
and like he's like, you know, this is what's happening.
And actually, both Charles and the Lover had went to
him asking him for his advice, and he was like, well,
you know, if you do decide to leave, you always
have a home with me. So when Charles stayed, the
lover went and he was actually with him until his
dying day. God, I love a good Yeah. No, but yeah.
So that's a little bit of a funny little this
(13:22):
and that's about the US history. That's right.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And if we wanted to, we could make up rumors
about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and why they both
died on the July fourth.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Who's going to prove us wrong?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Who's going to prove us wrong? It's not like we
have access to any information about them ever. But yes,
that happened in eighteen twenty six. They both died on
the fourth of July. It's like their hearts couldn't take
it anymore. I don't really know. So in eighteen eighty four,
on July fourth, the French gave.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Us the Statue of Liberty.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And she was once coppery and beautiful, and now she
is corroded ish and very green. But that's cool, go off, queen.
Thanks France, even though we don't really thank you that much,
they do thank you for that and for French cut
fries because I'm gonna tell you they are solid.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
For two years play test and teaching.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Us how to French kiss. Also, yeah, it is what
it is. Nineteen ten, we've got Jack Johnson. He's an
African American male and that part didn't matter. I don't
know why I said that, but he defeated the boxer.
(14:35):
I mean, it is history for real. On July fourth
in nineteen ten, he defeated a boxer known as the
Great White Hope and a boxing match. And this was
like a huge devastation to these people. They were like,
how could this happen? And it's just because he was
that guy. And then in nineteen forty six, the Republic
of the Philippines was established. That didn't happen in America,
(14:57):
but because we have so many military bases all over
the world, it kind of feels like America sometimes.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And so, I mean, they were colonized by the same
people as to say, ties up, they just didn't succeed
at it, not until the English got here.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Right, they really took colonization to another level. They took
it to another level, and so and so down the coast,
which is I mean, listen, the East Coast of the
United States is superior coast. And I will not be
debating that fact with anyone. You can get out of
this house if you would like to fight about that.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Get out. But those are some of the historical moments.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I cannot find the year that legally Blonde came out,
but that was the year that Jennifer Coolidge made that
iconic I'm sorry, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Two, legally blond too, legally blonde too.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Whatever year that came out, that is when Jennifer Coolidge
came out with that iconic line. And you know what,
I do want a hot dog? And you do look
like the fourth of July. And that is how it
will be ending this section.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
All right, So you can't see it, but behind me,
I do have my American flag flying. But unlike the
flags that had Miss Nicki Minaj, we have the absolute
queen on this one, Miss Angela Bassett. All rise to
the national anthem. Okay, so I am Actually that's important
because I'm talking about the pledge of allegiance and how
(16:22):
we have been Listen, they've been gaslighting us for over
one hundred years. But so I have a little bit
of history about it. So the first version was so,
the first version was actually written in eighteen eighty five
by Captain George Thatcher Bulk, who was a Union Army officer,
and it initially said we give our heads and hearts
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to God and our country and one I wrote one language,
please old.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
That wasn't right, one language under God, because you know,
if they could have, they would have.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You know, if they could have, they would have. We
give our heads and hearts to God and our country,
one country, one language, one flag. So that was the
first one back in eighteen eighty five. It was then
revised by Christian socialist Francis Bellamy, who thought it sounded
too childlike, and they were both read concurrently until nineteen
(17:20):
twenty three. It was officially adopted by Congress in nineteen
forty two. An important no under God was not adopted
by Congress until nineteen forty two. I'm sorry, nineteen fifty four.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, that makes sense because that's like the height of
the boomer movement and we love America.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And so with George. He wanted it to be short
and sweet, to the point under fifteen seconds. He's like,
we don't nobody has time for all this shenanigans and whatever.
But they had a salute. We don't salute the flag
anymore for a very good reason. So it first started
out as the bulk salute, and I will not be
(17:59):
doing it. Yeah, please. So the right hand was outstretched
towards the flag, like outstretching toward the flag, and the
fingers are then brought flat over the heart and then
down to one side. Yeah. The right hand was Bellamy
had his own version hand outstretched up towards the flag.
(18:20):
Thank you, and then it would like the poem would
go up until it came down. And as we can
ascertain very quickly why that was discontinued because of the Nazis.
It looked exactly like the Nazi salute. And so that's
why we started, you know, kind of covering, just using
(18:41):
our hand to cover our heart. And another important fact
about it is that it wasn't until I didn't do
a year, but it was in a Western State Board
of Education versus Barnet that the Supreme Court determined that
students cannot be compelled to recite it, nor can they
be punished for not doing it. And that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I stayed of Georgia Canon County High School two thousand
and four.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I think that is so incredibly important because, first of all,
they want this country to be a Christian country, right,
So bad me if I'm wrong. But I thought we're
supposed to pledge our allegiance to no one before God.
I wouldn't know. I'm sorry. I mean, I don't really
know either, but I'm pretty sure. No, you're not supposed
to put anyone before God, which means pledging allegiance to
(19:31):
anything besides God is a problem guns, God and glory. Girl,
you've been missing out. You don't know what's going on.
I really don't. But it's actually so I kind of
cut ahead a little bit. So, bellamies, was I pledge
allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands,
one nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. So
(19:53):
it was very very close, and as we all know now,
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
of America.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, we don't all know, because I also don't know
the pledge of allegiance to.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
The flag the United States of America for I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Fucking know it, hold on to the republic for which
it stands, One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Justice for all. Okay, So yeah, so we spent our
entire lives being gas lit into a country that says
it was a statement. We're pledging this allegiance to this flag,
a representative of this country with an ending line that
says liberty and justice for all, for all? Where is it?
(20:37):
Where's it gone? That is literally the basis of what
we have been taught our entire lives as Americans. And
all of a sudden, they don't look and it's not
even like they don't look like one thing because they
don't care. They prefer white Christian cyst met And if
they could have a nation which is only white Christian
(20:59):
cism tet men, they would all the women folk would
have to go. It's like the R and C in Milwaukee. Yeah,
like that grinder. Grinder would be on its on its knees. Period.
So it's just kind of like this thing. I've never
really felt comfortable with the pledge of allegiance, just in
(21:21):
my neural dibate nor divirgin brain. It never sat right
because I didn't understand why my level of quote unquote
patriotism was tied directly to me reciting a pledge. Why
I had to stand or like whatever, like I don't
work for the US government, I am not in the
(21:44):
armed forces.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Also five yeah, like I'm also a five year old,
I'm a child. And that was literally why I stopped
saying the pledge in high school.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Should be pledging allegiance to Barney at that point, Like
what the fuck? She's like, No, it's just it's just
one of those things where I never could wrap my
head around it. And it's used as this like tuning
for clap of a better term of your patriotism and
you're worth of loving your country and being an American
(22:14):
by reciting lines that were literally not abiding.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
By absolutely not, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And that's that's the thing that just is really the
most confusing for me. I think with that, you know,
like I personally may have these radical political beliefs, so radical,
so radical? Are you ready for my radicalism? Who radicalized you?
I believe in liberty, justice and equality for all absolutely
versus pitchworks.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Here's the pitchworks, and it's not that difficultly.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
What kind of world are we that that is considered radical?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
My thing that I I'm glad that you chose this
topic and that we're kind of going through this because
I will say that. So Hurricane Katrina was like my
moment where I realized that I did not like the
way things were happening in the world now.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And that's fun in fact, because that's really when we
were nineteen twenty, Like around that was seventeen. I was
a pregnant teenager. I was pregnant too. I was nineteen
at the time.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Tours you were damn it.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
It was a pivotal time in brain development.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
No, it was. And so it happened, and we saw
things happening, and that was when I stopped doing the pledge.
And it was actually a big deal at my school.
They would be so upset. I would have to go
to the principal's office and explain why I wasn't saying
the pledge of allegiance like it mattered.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
We were watching people actively be treated like animals in
the astrodome. It was terrible. He who shall not be
named as an awful person, but I will not disagree
with the fact that George Bush did not care about
those black people like we will not disagree with it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
We live in a country now where I low key
wished if we had to have a Republican president, A
low key wish he was back. And he was awful,
He was the full person. He was awful. But I
genuinely believe here we are now though I genuinely believe
that he did what he thought was best for the country.
I genuinely do. I think he genuinely believed it. That
(24:19):
doesn't mean that it's true. I think he genuinely believed
that what he was doing was best for the country.
Trump only does what he believes is best for himself.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
One percent, or anybody that he can get some money from.
It's very much a transaction.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
What happened when him and his little boyfriend had a fight,
I was so messy. He was like watching Jerry, like,
where's Jerry at? We need?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
The entire rotation are fighting. He and his entire rotation
of dudes are fighting right now. Because this is not
a good scenario. And it makes me wonder what kids
are thinking when they are reciting the Pledge of Allegiance
in school today. Right now you know, if they are,
I don't really know.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And me, my mom, Brian, the guy sitting next to me,
we didn't stand for the.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Pledge because what am I doing personally?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
One where I'm fat. Both seats were super tiny. I
would have to squeeze my fat ass out of there.
But also, I don't I stopped pledging years ago. I'm
not disrespectful about it, no, of course not. I just
sit there. It's not like I'm on my phone. I
still look towards the flag. I'm just not standing up. Also,
(25:30):
my feet hurt. I'm old. Oh my. But you know,
it's interesting and I think maybe it's it's kind of
off topic, but I think it is kind of a
way to kind of bring in some entertainment into this
whole foray, if you will. I saw some internet discourse
about Miss Beyonce on her new tour and people when
they were they remember the first night of the tour,
(25:53):
all the videos were coming out, and we had all
the discourse about everything, and they there was a bunch
of people online who are really upset, and I think
this is a little bit of a lack of a
media literacy. They were really upset that she sang the
National Danspangle Bank. Yeah, so they were upset, but they
were just completely ignoring the fact that it went into Freedom,
(26:15):
which is a protest song. So it's kind of like
you kind of have to like pay attention a little bit.
And she didn't even sing the whole song. She left
it on a particular lyric and then immediately went into Freedom,
which that sounds like Beyonce. So it's kind of like, guys,
why don't we actually like use our noggins for like,
(26:37):
I understand the want to immediately be like, oh, what's this.
We live in a society where TikTok has ruined us.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
We are ready to react.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
We have sixty seconds where our attention, if it is
not grabbed, we are done. Anything that does not happen
in that sixty seconds we don't care anymore. And I
have the same thing because like Melissa will send us
me like YouTube videos and I'm just like, oh, watch
a whole YouTube video. But yet I'll scroll Instagram reels
for three hours because it's that instant gratification. So we
(27:09):
have this SoundBite, and we have this popular account that's
telling us this is what's happening, and instead of actually
watching the whole thing through or like looking through the
comments to maybe get a little bit.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
More information nuanced anything.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
We're just completely ignoring it and we're automatically going onto
the defensive. And I think that that is actually a
reason why we are where we are right here the
state of America today.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
No, I definitely agree with that, and I also kind
of feel like that is what I feel like happens
to you when you're in school and you maybe don't
say the pledge because well, Jalen did it. Staged a
little one man protest when he was in the fifth grade,
but it was just because he didn't feel like getting up.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Also at their own game. You got to beat them
at their own game. See what you got to do
is if they give you, don't give them the whole. Well,
West Virginia b oe Versus Burnett says, no, just be like,
I'm a Christian and I don't put any I don't
pledge Allegians before anyone before God. What are they going
to make that across? And I'm gonna be happy now.
They thought he was a Muslim child. They called and
(28:14):
they were like, what is you know, is this a
religious thing? And I was just like what religious thing
doesn't stand for the pledge? It's probably a lazy thing,
like this is funny, it was, this is Jalen. You
don't know anything about this kid, Like who cares about this?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Of all things? It's not that big of a deal
to the school. And I will be chass, do not
call me about this dumb shit no foruah, especially since
they used to call me about everything else. But I
feel like that's kind of how it's presented. The immediate
defensiveness is, oh my gosh, why isn't this happening. This
person doesn't love America. This person isn't respectful, This person
(28:50):
doesn't care about the things that have happened here. And
what they don't know is either we You know, we
are fat and tired a lot of the time. It's
also very hot in a lot of plays. So maybe
that doesn't feel like the most appropriate thing for us.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Especially we don't want to pledge allegiance to something that
we don't We don't want to pledge allegiance to a
country and its policies and what is actively doing as
it stands, Because if we in a better state where
you know what, we had our equality for all we
were doing liberty and justice. I would stand for.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
The pledge, but still for the pledge in like twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah, yeah, give me a reason to stand for it.
If you want me to stand for it, give me
a reason. All right. So that is a little history
and a lot of sidetracking about the fourth of July
and the Pledge of Allegiance and remember all rise for
(29:50):
the one miss Angela Bassett. I would vote for Angela
Bassett for president and a fucking heartbeat.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yes, but I actually would like to see that movie.
She needs to be the president n a movie because
and she want to Tom Cruise please, thank you, please, No,
we don't need that.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
That's not American. You know. You know Battie right here
is one is almost the highest paid female actor right now.
She's making those money movies good as as I should.
Ever since I was ten years old watching Vampire in Brooklyn.
Oh no, I was ten years old watching Uh why
the fuck did I just forget the name of the
(30:29):
Waiting to Exil Exhale? Like I haven't watched it five
trillion times? Had no business watching it?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
The Jackson family movie Malcolm X.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yes, we are going to give our praises where they
are due to miss Angela Bassett, and she actually is
a citation. She has a citation and not only my
caps my senior capstone, but in two other of my
research papers. Because if there's one thing we're gonna do
is we're gonna we're gonna talk about some popular culture
(30:59):
shit that we know.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
And we're going to cite some sources absolutely say that
house down.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So you know, all this shit gets uploaded to these
these databases and she's going to be able to like
search her name and you'd be like, why the fuck
am I in this academic citation? But yeah, So that
was that, And we're going to be back. Are we doing?
Are we going to upload them kind of like back
to back or the next week whatever you want to do. Cool,
So we're going to be back maybe tomorrow, definitely by
(31:27):
next week with our kind of like our fun reintroduction,
you know, just kind of where we shoot the shit,
talk about whatever. That's when we kind of partake a
little bit to relax and unwind. And it's great to
be back. It's only been two years, but we're back.
And we had an outro. Oh yeah, I know. So
(31:49):
remember that you're that bitch and you'll always be that bitch.
And something about drink your water. Remember to drink your
water because I damned I had about eight ounces of
water today, Oh my god. And take your meds. Take
your meds. People. Oh please go to be a wide ride.
Please put your put your alarm on your phone, and
take them, all of them. Take those mads. That's right,
(32:09):
every single one. Next time,
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