January 20, 2025 • 39 mins
Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the College Football National Championship Game, and Trump's Inauguration Day. Lot of stuff going on today so Shaheed is back with a solo pod to talk about Trump's Inauguration, his goal to make Canada the 51st State of the United States and the day one executive orders he will put in place.
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real quick, because a lot of stuff is going on
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right now. Today's Monday, so it's the Solo pod. We
got like three things going on today. It's doctor Martin
Luther King Junior Day, yay. It's also inauguration day for
Donald Trump he gets his second presidency, yay. And it's
also the National Championship Game Ohio State versus Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
A whole bunch of stuff going on today, you know,
it's a lot of stuff popping off, and I want
to start off with I want to start off with
Trump because there's a story inside of the story that
I really want to crush into real quick, and it's
Trump want in Canada to be the fifty first state.
Now that's something that is interesting to me from a
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lot of levels because, like, not to sound stupid, but
when I was younger, I used to think Canada and
Mexico were states because they was connected to it. So
it's like, oh, states, Canada, Mexico, they're with us, And
it's like, no, they're countries. So you're like, where the
other two states that's supposed to be fifty Alaska, which
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is way up there passed through Canada, and Hawaii, which
is in the ocean way out west. Those are the
other two, you know, as they say, not continental United States,
because that's what we are, but you know, the non
continental parts of the United States. So it's like, I
always Canada's cool, you know, to say the least, just
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to make a long story short, and having Canada be
a part of the United States, it has to be
a thing that benefits both ways, because there's things that
Canada does well that we don't and vice versa. Now
I want to give a shout out to let me
go on my Twitter real quick. I know I know
the name off the top of not off the top
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of my head, because if I know at the top
of my head, I would actually say it off the
top of my head. Alberta fifty one project. Now these now,
I think if there was American they probably wouldn't be
like me, you know what I'm saying. I think they
will probably be more of you, you know, your southern conservative,
you know Republican type individuals.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
But you know, we learned from each other.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So I people out of their stuff and they they
really want the province, which again is equivalent to a
state of Alberta, which has like Calgary and Edmonton in it,
so it has some things that people know, it's hockey
out there, you know, those are decent you know, cities
or whatever in the Province of Alberta.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
They want to be a part of the United States.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
The thing is is that there's a lot of good
things and a lot of bad things that can go
along with being a part of Canada and Canada being
a part of the United States and vice versa. So
I want to go through a couple of things real quick.
And one of the things that I want to start
off with is the universal health care. Now for us
in America, we don't have universal health care. You have
to pay for it or you get state insurance, which
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is shitty to say the least. A lot of stuff
isn't covered, and it's just real shitty. In Canada, they
have universal health care, and we all sit back and
we think, oh wow, universal health care. That's dope. Now
you have to do research about it.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You know. I watched a lot of.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Again i'm gonna say no Diddy now, just because it's
gonna sound crazy. I watched a lot of BBC and
if I already said no, didty, so y'all know what
I'm talking. I'm talking about the British broadcast Channel, the BBC,
and a lot of different organizations on YouTube or whatever,
just to get a vibe of, Okay, if we do
take on Canada, what are we getting from Canada and
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what can we get from them?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So I started with healthcare.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Now, the cool thing about them having you know, universal
health care is is that anything that you need done
will get done. There is no call pays, there's no
tax bill, I mean, no medical bill.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Nothing. If you need a brain transplant or a heart transplant,
you can get it.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Here's the catch, there's sometimes twelve week waiting periods between
doctor visits, between meeting your primary physician, then meeting the
specialtists and then having the procedure done. We're talking about
a twelve week time between all of that stuff, and
mainly because everybody's going to the doctor.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Everybody has an appointment. It's free.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So as long as you can make it until you
know on your appointments whatever you be eight. If not,
then you kind of hit in the mouth. So that's
the negative of the universal health care is you know,
if you need a heart procedure, but shuet you need
to get up in there, you might not be able
to get up in there because you know there's other
people who need free health care too. So obviously the
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opposite with us is that is paid for you know,
priormitic by your job and all of that stuff. So
if you got a job that has decent benefits, you
stray if you have to use state benefits, you're screwed.
But but and then obviously a lot of Americans are
ensured period, which is another huge problem. So with you know,
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we have a Social Security number SSN, they have an
si N which stands for Social Insurance number. That's the
number of the car that you take, which is basically
like having your social with you and you get all
of your benefits and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So that's pretty cool right there.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I forgot to start the pod the way that we
normally start the pod. That's kind of probably why I
probably shouldn't have skiped the show business or whatever. But
let's go ahead, start the pod the way that we
always like to start the pod, even though we already
started the pod already. But you know, you always have
to get have that good aesthetic of what's going on.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
There we go, that's.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
The stuff right there. There we go, that's the stuff
right there. That good gas, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So another thing that Canada has an issue with is
it is immigration.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
But it's different than our immigration.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Our immigration problem is there's too many people in here
that's unannounced, it ain't supposed to be here. That's all
in the refrigerator, drinking the last bit of kool aid
and all the other stuff, you know, which basically referring
to our friends at the southern border. The northern border
is not crazy like that, but they're mainly referring to
our friends at the southern border. Now in Canada, their
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immigration problem is they let everybody in once you go
through the grueling process, because the process is super gruel.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And I can tell you a story real quick.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Back in two thousand and seven, some stuff got done
and cats went to Canada.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
What I went to Cano?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Say, Cats, I went to Canada, and I'm there with
American money.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You know, I drove my car up there.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So it was easier when you could just drive through Canada,
show your birth certificate and you stayed and your drive
It is you good in Canada, you know, as long
as you got like a good reason to be there
or whatever. I was there for the Yankee well quote
unquote the Yankees, uh rap, I mean, I say, you raptors,
the Yankees blue Jays. So they was in town. So
pulled up like, hey, I'm about to go see the
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Yankees play. They played the Blue Jays and you know,
went through the border, and I was there for a
hot minute, and I'm like, man.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I gotta make a little bit of brand while I'm
up here.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So I was going to work at Wendy's in Canada, right,
and they say, well, we can't give you a job
because you're not a Canadian. If we if we give
you a job, we have to justify giving an American
a job over a Canadian. Okay, same shit that happens here.
So they say, you got to get like a Social
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insurance card or get something that's equivalent to their visa. Okay, bet,
so I'll go try to get that. They're like, we
can't give you one unless you have a job. I'm like, yeah,
but the job said that I can't get one unless
you give me that card. You give me that card,
I can go get that job. If you don't give
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me that card, I can't get that job. And they say, well,
we can't give you the card unless you have a job.
So then I go back to the Duwindy's or whatever,
and I'm like, hey, they can't give me the card
unless you give me the job. And then it was
like a back and forth thing. So it was like real,
real stupid, you know what I mean. So if you
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can get through all of that stuff to become a citizen.
Then that's the other immigration problem because their economy is
based on immigrants coming to Canada and participating. See, it's
not like America, where you come to the United States
you have to ingratiate yourself in American culture.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
There it's like do you.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And there's like certain sections of Canada where every or
even in certain profits, especially like in Toronto and Quebec.
You know, you got your Jamaicans, your Haitians, or your
Caribbean Island people here. You got your Asians over here,
whether they Chinese, Japanese, Korean, whatever, you know whatever. You
got different people everywhere, and everybody can do what their
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culture allows them to do. There's no Canadian culture that
says this is what. No, it's not like that. It's
a very it's really what the melting pot was supposed
to be for America, but it just didn't come out
like that, straight up and down. So their immigration problem
is is that they have a lot of people that
come in and they participate with you know, culture or
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whatever and that and it's a lot of people which
goes into the housing problem that Canada has. We have
a housing problem too, but this is the difference Our
housing problem is we have enough houses to house the homeless,
they just can't afford them. Okay, that's neither here nor there,
but that's the problem. There's houses like you can go
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to any neighborhood where you see a whole bunch of
you know, homeless people. There's bacon houses all throughout that
they could be in. But can they afford these houses?
Do they have jobs? Can they afford payments and all
of this stuff? And nine times out of ten they can't.
So guess what y'all gonna be outside until you could
participate in society, earn a living wage, and you can
get yourself a house. That's the housing crisis in America.
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In Canada, their housing crisis is we don't have enough
people to build the houses for all of the people
who are coming into the country. Now you see how
both have the same end result, which is people sleeping outside.
But you see how one is we don't have the
bodies to build it, versus they don't have the money
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to afford it, but we do.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
But the houses is there. It's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So I'm bringing all of that up to say, if
Canada does become the fifty first state, what things can
we take from them that can benefit us? And what
things can you know they give them that can benefit them?
One huge thing and I had it. And I don't
know the guy's name that runs the Alberta fifty one project,
but he's a cool dude, nonetheless, and seems like but anyway,
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he was very adamant about guns because in Canada, guns
are illegal, the police don't have guns, the citizens don't
have guns. If you do have a gun, that's kind
of like having the nuclear bomb anywhere else type ish.
And for me, I told him again, you know, I
don't know who he is, but I told him, I'm like, well,
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you are aware that in our country everyone has guns,
but we have a lot of mash school shootings, something
that I know that you guys don't have, and I
don't think that you guys want those problems. We have
police brutality by guns and a whole bunch of other stuff.
And he brung it up to me. He was like, well,
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what happens if somebody robs your house? Like I think
we were talking about criminals stuff like that, and he
was asking me like, am I advocating for the criminal
to have a gun or to rob like it was
they basically paint the pictures like the picture was he
has a house, somebody tries to rob him with a gun,
he should be able to defend himself.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And I'm like, that's actually true, you should.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But at the same time, I'm not worried about you
having a gun if I figure no one else has
a gun. So oh yeah, this is what we were saying.
So I was like, I'm not gonna rob a house
if I know the person doesn't have a gun. So
the whole robb like, like again, think about it. If
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guns are illegal in Canada, right, and I break into
your house in Canada, I'm expecting you not to have
a gun because it's illegal for you to have a gun. Now,
if I break into the crib, you have a gun
and you shoot me kill me with it. Ever, I'm
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not assure how their Canadian laws work. I probably should
holler at Alberta fifty seven project and find out, because
I believe he said that anybody with guns, they do punish.
So if I am a criminal in Canada and I'm
breaking and entering, I'm not thinking about someone having a gun,
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because why would you have a gun if it's gonna
be a knife fight, it's gonna be a knife fight.
If it's gonna be hands, it's gonna be hands. But
I'm not thinking someone's gonna have a gun, because again,
in Canada, no one's supposed to have guns. So if
only the criminals have guns and I run up in
a regular, you know, Drake type house looking situation, or
you know, a country house like in Alberta, I'm not
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thinking you're gonna have a gun. So my point in
saying all of that is is that banning guns could
be a good thing for real, for real, So that's
something we can possibly take from Canada. But this is America,
you know, ain't no giving up their guns. So basically
most of Canada they just want to be strapped cool.
I was talking to my brother about this too, and
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I was saying, well, look, if we could take something
from Canada, let's take the universal health care. Then he
was like, then you're gonna have our hospitals backed up,
and it's like and I just told them, like, nah,
not necessarily, because Canada already has hospitals that's running under
the free model. Now, if you have to go to Canada,
if Canada becomes the fifty first ay, like if you
got to go to the fifty first state to get
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work done or whatever cause it's free. He then' hey,
look there's a fifty first state, go get that shit.
But at the same time too, you can also train
some hospitals down here to run like they do in Canada,
and some of the Canada hospitals, we can train them
to run like they do in America.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
It's a give and take type situation.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
So to make a long story short, you know, Canada
being the fifty first state, I would not mind it
at all. That gives us more cities and places to
go to, and the Canadians get to come down here
here and have a little bit of good time. I mean,
it's all good. I mean, you got suckers like Drakeing
and shit like that that might be coming through the border.
But you know they gave us Melissa Ford and Deborah
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Cox and you know who can say no to that.
So yeah, I'm with that one hundred percent. This is
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Trump's inauguration, and again I brung up the Canada being
the fifty first state because he wants to get Canada
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on deck, he wants to buy Greenlin, he wants the
Panama Canal on deck. Again, there's a lot of funck
shit going on. And I didn't watch the inauguration. I'm
gonna go back and probably watch it a little bit
later on once I get done with the pot or whatever.
And I want I wanted to bring Morgan Harper. I'm
probably get her on the show sometime this week. But
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Trump being back in office is I'm not surprised, but
I'm more or less concerned. The main reason I'm concerned
is because Trump is petty like And again, there's nothing
wrong with being petty. I mean, it is what it is,
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but there's certain places where you just can't be petty,
and you can't be petty in the White House, like
I'm really beginning to think, like cause when he talked
about the out, you know, Canada being the fifty first state,
calling Justin Trudeau Tradeau Traudeau, governor Traudeau of the Great
State of Canada, like it was we're real weird energy
and then Trudeau like I'm about to step down as
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prime minister, Like I don't, like I'm trying. I'm still
trying to figure out what the fuck did that happen.
That's like because he been Prome Minister for like not
like non some years, like he prime ministers in Canada
get to have a decent run. They don't get to
do to like two, you know, four year terms. If
that's it type of shit. You'll be like, he gets
to participate for a while, but parliament's closed for some reason.
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I'm not familiar with their Canadian work or whatever, but
nothing moves until parliament's open. So basically Trudeau get to
just chill on some old It's like when a coach
in football or basketball, they don't give them another contract
and they just basically, I don't want to use the
word a dead man walking, but it's that type of
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thing where you know you're just working, you know, the
last bit of your contract or whatever, and you know
it is what it is type stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So good for Justin Trudeau though, but not really that it.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I don't even know why the fuck I said that,
But the whole thing I'm bringing back with Trump is
is that a lot of people voted for Trump, and
you know who I'm talking about. I'm talking about use
you know, let me not say that because we have
partners now. We don't want to offend anybody. But if
we were to offend somebody, you know, the southern people,
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you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
The ones who voted for Trump. Y'all know who i'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Y'all know them Red States, y'all know them ones with
the counties be like two hundred people.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You know what I mean that. Yeah, y'all know what
I'm talking about. Not my people, y'all know what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
They voted for Trump because the economy was bad, inflation
was hurting people, and they felt that Trump had a
plan to bring America out of this rut that we're
in financially with high food costs and things like that.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Trump told you he.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Ain't got no plan for that for real, Like he
won't even know if that could really be done.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Like he actually said that in words.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And if I had a clip, I would play the clip,
but I don't, so you can google it and YouTube
and find it out. Trump blatantly said food prices is
probably going to remain high. He has his tariffs that
he's going to be imposed on certain countries, which means
they can impose tariffs back on us, which would raise
prices for everybody else. He's trying to get rid of
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programs that could help people. You know, I think Medicare
is something he's trying to kill down. Food stamps he's
trying to kill down. Now, this is my thing, and
I was talking to my brother about this too. That's
the only thing with Republicans I agree with them on
is I don't think that the government should babysit people
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and give them all of this stuff, you know what
I'm saying, like food stamps, welfare and all of that.
But my retort to that is being that that's already
been in place for all of these years. How are
you going to supplement and replace that? Which one of
the only ways you can do that is is that
you have to ensure that those individuals that you're taking
off of food stampings welfare are able to work. And
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I'm not talking about just tell them to work at McDonald's, no,
have them actually work a job that is not just
a financial beneficial type job. It's a job that brings
them substance, because if you just saying no more food stamps,
no more welfare, go out and get a job. But
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then the only job that they can get is McDonald's
or some low wage paying job, then it's like, what
are we really doing.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
We're not really doing anything for real, for real.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
So I always say this all the time. You can
go to any neighborhood, in the hood, neighborhood, whatever, and
there's a mechanic that knows how to fix cars. The
neighborhood mechanic is always out there. You can always pull
up to his crib, or pull up to his little
parking space if he's an apartment complex.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
If that's what type of hood, you win.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
He got his parking spaces, he got his driveway, and
there's always a car prop up on a you know,
not on a dolly, but on the jack or the
hood is always up and somebody's inside it all the
time doing some work.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
The neighborhood mechanic.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Now you would probably say, well, why doesn't this mechanic
have a job in an actual you know shop, you.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Know, whether it's.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Pet boys or a Maserati dealership, or for a dealership whatever,
whatever type of situation. Why does he work for these
companies as a mechanic. Maybe he doesn't have the education,
you know. Maybe he just knows parts and knows how
to put stuff together, knows how things work, and that's
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how he gets down. Maybe he has a record and
you know he can't he learned how to work on
cars in prison as a trade or whatever, you know,
various type of situations. My point is is that there's
a lot of skilled people in the hood that's living
off of food stamps and you know, welfare and all
of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Put them to work.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Let them make a it make let them make a earning,
Let them make a living and out bringing the women too.
There's a lot of women in the hood that know
how to do hair and do nails and stuff like that.
You know, you got the candy lady out the hood.
You know, that's an that's entrepreneur in her own right
or whatever that you know, shit, she's hustling, you know
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what she You know how she gets to be the
candy lady because she's using the food stamps, you know
what I mean. She's using the food stamps to buy candy,
to buy chips, to buy all of this stuff, and
she's selling that shit entrepreneur type shit. So in that example,
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if you take away the food stamps and you take
away the welfare and that woman was working with what
she was getting, you gotta put her to work.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You gotta put her to work. You gotta put the automate, can't.
You gotta put them to work.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You gotta put You gotta put them to work so
they can, you know, survive and pay for themselves. Because
one thing about food stamps and all that shit is
if you make minimalm not minimum wage, but if you
have if you're in the middle class, you don't get
food stamps. Even if you could say, after I pay
all of my bills, I don't have enough for food. Well,
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you you make this amount of money, you don't qualify.
Think about how crazy that sounds. You have a house,
you have a car, you have insurance, you have electricity,
you have your water bill, you have your cable bill,
you have your cell phone bill or telephone bill. At
the time before going back to my era, you have
all of these bills. But after I pay all of
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these bills, I barely have enough for food. I need
food stamps and they're like, nah, you make too much
money for food stamps, even if you give them my
itemized bill of this is where my money goes. Like
what you're gonna say, get a cheaper house, No, especially
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if it's a house that you own already, like no,
or even if even in a rental situation, shit, you
might already have the cheapest house already. Give a take,
you never know, and you still can't get food sam.
So for me, it's just always be let the people work.
So again, just to make a long story short, that's
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the only thing I agree with Republicans.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
With everything else I do not.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I don't agree with them trying to get rid of
the Department of Education.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I don't agree with them trying to.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Basically make things more expensive by doing the tariffs and
things like that. I definitely don't agree with them about
how they want to get rid of diversity equity inclusion because.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It excludes them. Like that's the thing that they don't.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
They feel like, hey, diversity equity inclusion is excluding us
from opportunities, and it's like yeah, because without DEI, you
guys exclude us from opportunities. And again, people who don't
support DEI don't understand that when DEI an affirmative action
(27:21):
wasn't in place, all those individuals did was hire people
that looked like them or hire people from their sociological background.
If they looked different, they didn't hire them whatsoever. There
was like a lawsuit that I seen not too long
(27:42):
ago where a person had like a unique name, changed
his name on the resume, went through the procedure, I mean,
went through the interview process, got the job, and then
he ended up suing that company because he said, my
name is such and such. When I gave them this
resume with the same information, they didn't even call me
(28:02):
I changed my name. They gave me an interview on
a job. Ooh we that's dirty work right there. That's
super dirty work right there. And we're just talking about
off the strength of a name, not even the not
even saying I was black and on my resume apportunity
to be white and I pulled up being black whatever.
And know what I'm saying like that, it was just based
(28:23):
off of a name. So if you're not hiring people
based off a name, let alone, what you would do
off the color of skin or you know, different type
of ethnicities or different anything. No, telling what the fuck
y'all would do if DEI and affirmative Action wasn't in place.
So again, those are a lot of things that I
(28:44):
don't agree with with the Republicans and the Democrats. So yeah,
I just you know, I just feel like we survived
to George W. Bush presidencies terms back to back obviously,
and that was some bullshit times right there. Now in
(29:07):
comparison to the Trump presidency, oh, it's light work. But
at the time, like you know, I just had turned
eighteen that year that he officially put his hand on
the Bible and took office George W. Bush in two
thousand and one. So my adult life, you know, experiencing
(29:29):
presidencies and all of that stuff started on some bullshit
with George W.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Bush until Barack Obama came.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
So for the most of my adult life, it's been
bullshit presidents like Trump and you know, basically Trump and
Georgia W. Bush, because outside of that, it's been Obama
and Biden as far as you know, different you know,
presidencies or whatever. But I do remember what the Clinton
presidency was like, and I do remember what you know, George.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
H no, no, h, the pops.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I remember what that presidency was like too, you know
as a kid, you know, growing up in that time
or whatever. So I just hope that the people who
voted for Trump, because that's how the conversation started. I
hope that the people who voted for Trump who are
not rich are okay, because the black people who didn't
(30:23):
vote for Trump knew what it was and we kind
of may or may not have some contingency plans to,
you know, get through this. The individuals who, like I said,
you know the you know, the country folk, hillbillies, you
know that that Red county that only has like two
hundred people, Those individuals I feel for because you or
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they voted for a president based on how they looked.
Let's keep it a buck. You didn't want a black
woman in office. You didn't want a white woman in
office when Hillary ran, and you didn't want a black
woman or Asian woman. However, y'all want to classify Kamala Harris.
(31:08):
You didn't want her in office either, so you went
with what you know, white is white or white is right.
That's basically what you did. When Trump says that he
had because he because you had to remember, Trump finally
won the popular vote when he won the presidency. The
first time he didn't win the popular vote. That's when
(31:30):
the Electoral college bullshit came into play. So this is
the first election that he's won the popular vote, and
it shows that people, especially in their community, was not
going to vote for a black woman. And again, could
(31:51):
Kamala Harris have you know, done better with that?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah? I believe so.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
But at the same time, there's only so much you
can do. You know, you already notice she's a black
woman from Oakland that has Asian Indian parents or whatever
family heritage or blooding or whatever. So you was not
gonna vote for her. You just did what you always do,
which is white is right, and you voted for Trump.
(32:18):
And again it is what it is. Black people should
have been out more to support Kamala Harris, but that's
neither here nor there. My thing is those individuals who
voted for Trump, who thought that he had an economic
plan that would help you. They help them be able
(32:39):
to survive and help with inflation. I'm sorry, that's not
about to happen. A lot of his rich friends, his
rich homies is gonna get tax breaks and tax cuts,
and once he starts breaking down, you know, a lot
of the government agencies that generate money or that have
(33:01):
a budget, That money is probably gonna go to his
rich homies too.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Let's keep it a buck.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Now, if we knew for certain that if he got
rid of the Department of Education and all of the
money that's in their budget would be dispersed to the
American people, then you just got to ask yourself.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
How much are you valuing education?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Because the Department of Education is responsible for federal guidelines
and how we are educated in this country. No offense
to Mississippi, but I'm not trusting the state of Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Then tell me about education. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Like, no, I'm not allowing any state that I believe
Mississippi still has it, but they might have taken it
off that has the Confederate flag in their state flag. No,
I'm not doing that. No, Mississippi, I'm not trying to
see the gunline. Boss, I'm cool on that. And yes
(34:11):
I'm an uppity person from the East coast. Sorry you
Southern states. No, we're not having you educate people. We're
gonna have federal mandates that tell you what to educate
your people, because fuck around, you'll have some you know,
all i'd use the word hill billy, but you'll have
some country boy l country person out in Arkansas reading
(34:33):
about the Civil War and the textbook says the Civil
War the war we should have won, but what had
happened was no, No, we're not doing that. So again,
that's one of my reasons why we cannot get rid
of the Department of Education, because certain states educate their
people well and certain states do not, and we cannot
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have that big of a gap.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
If we're talking about we're a country.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
We can't have dead weight because Mississippi wants to teach
they children some crazy stuff or even not even joking Mississippi,
because I just like the how way I say Mississippi
Florida got rid of all of the African American books,
so they don't even learn about.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Slavery in Florida. Come on, now, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
So again the Department of Education. Nah, we need to
keep that in Again. Trump's inaugurations was today Trump's back
in office. You supporting him, you got what you wanted,
You get what you paid for, You get what you
deserve if you did not vote for him. All I
can say is is that in these next local elections,
these next primary elections, just get as much as much
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Democrats as possible to fill in these slots. So by
time the next you know, Democratic president runs or is ready,
we can have like more people in place. Because I'm
gonna tell you I've learned politics over the years, and
I'm gonna end it on this. I noticed that politics
change when people are pissed.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Right, So I give you this example. George W.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Bush had nine to eleven under his watch, and a
lot of people had to go to the you know,
Iraq War, Afghan War, the war on terrorism, weapons of
mass destruction, all of this other bullshit. Gas prices go
from between seventy nine to ninety nine cents to a.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Dollar fifty a gallon.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Now I say that, now y'all be like, what, Like, yeah,
that was a huge jump. Like the cheap the cheap
ass gas stations like your Quickie marks orhetto marks whatever
gas be like seventy nine cent and gallon. Then obviously
if you go to like you know, your vps and
Texicos and all of that Amicos and all of that
gas would be ninety nine center gallon bare minimum. Nine
(36:48):
to eleven hit gas prices went up. Gas prices jumped
to like one p fifty, almost like two dollars a
gallon type shit, and that was like crazy. So imagine
Bush going through that, w going through that for two years,
and then you get Obama. Everybody like, we're tired of
the Republicans. Fuck you Republicans, y'all suck y'all, da da
(37:09):
Barack Obama come through, clean that shit up. Not the
Democrats is on deck. Democrats on deck doing their thing.
Somebody had to hate something about Obama. I hate the Democrats.
We wanted we want something else. Here comes Trump.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
The thing is about Trump is Trump had a huge
national dal disaster with COVID, way bigger than nine to
eleven in my opinion, COVID hit. And he only gets
one term because that was all fucked up. No Trump,
you racist, fuck all this other shit. Now switching back
to Biden, Biden came from the Obama tree shit just
(37:48):
like Trump. He only got one term two They wasn't
feeling him, and they go right back to Donald Trump.
So it's a lot of swings and stuff. So in
four years, when people get pissed off at Donald Trump,
the Democrats is going to be back again. And that's
just how it goes. So I've learned that about politics.
That's just pretty much how that goes. I wish there
was a lot of stuff going on in the culture
(38:09):
right now. I mean, Cardi b Is, you know, still
trying to get a divorce from Offset Hand, trying to
sign the papers. A lot of new movies and stuff
coming out, But I mean not really, not really too
much of I mean it was more like today on
this Monday's episode, it's really about the inauguration. It's about
Donald Trump being back in office to fifty first state.
(38:29):
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real quick, because a lot of stuff is going on
(01:01):
right now. Today's Monday, so it's the Solo pod. We
got like three things going on today. It's doctor Martin
Luther King Junior Day, yay. It's also inauguration day for
Donald Trump he gets his second presidency, yay. And it's
also the National Championship Game Ohio State versus Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
A whole bunch of stuff going on today, you know,
it's a lot of stuff popping off, and I want
to start off with I want to start off with
Trump because there's a story inside of the story that
I really want to crush into real quick, and it's
Trump want in Canada to be the fifty first state.
Now that's something that is interesting to me from a
(01:49):
lot of levels because, like, not to sound stupid, but
when I was younger, I used to think Canada and
Mexico were states because they was connected to it. So
it's like, oh, states, Canada, Mexico, they're with us, And
it's like, no, they're countries. So you're like, where the
other two states that's supposed to be fifty Alaska, which
(02:09):
is way up there passed through Canada, and Hawaii, which
is in the ocean way out west. Those are the
other two, you know, as they say, not continental United States,
because that's what we are, but you know, the non
continental parts of the United States. So it's like, I
always Canada's cool, you know, to say the least, just
(02:31):
to make a long story short, and having Canada be
a part of the United States, it has to be
a thing that benefits both ways, because there's things that
Canada does well that we don't and vice versa. Now
I want to give a shout out to let me
go on my Twitter real quick. I know I know
the name off the top of not off the top
(02:52):
of my head, because if I know at the top
of my head, I would actually say it off the
top of my head. Alberta fifty one project. Now these now,
I think if there was American they probably wouldn't be
like me, you know what I'm saying. I think they
will probably be more of you, you know, your southern conservative,
you know Republican type individuals.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
But you know, we learned from each other.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So I people out of their stuff and they they
really want the province, which again is equivalent to a
state of Alberta, which has like Calgary and Edmonton in it,
so it has some things that people know, it's hockey
out there, you know, those are decent you know, cities
or whatever in the Province of Alberta.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
They want to be a part of the United States.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
The thing is is that there's a lot of good
things and a lot of bad things that can go
along with being a part of Canada and Canada being
a part of the United States and vice versa. So
I want to go through a couple of things real quick.
And one of the things that I want to start
off with is the universal health care. Now for us
in America, we don't have universal health care. You have
to pay for it or you get state insurance, which
(03:59):
is shitty to say the least. A lot of stuff
isn't covered, and it's just real shitty. In Canada, they
have universal health care, and we all sit back and
we think, oh wow, universal health care. That's dope. Now
you have to do research about it.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You know. I watched a lot of.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Again i'm gonna say no Diddy now, just because it's
gonna sound crazy. I watched a lot of BBC and
if I already said no, didty, so y'all know what
I'm talking. I'm talking about the British broadcast Channel, the BBC,
and a lot of different organizations on YouTube or whatever,
just to get a vibe of, Okay, if we do
take on Canada, what are we getting from Canada and
(04:39):
what can we get from them?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So I started with healthcare.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Now, the cool thing about them having you know, universal
health care is is that anything that you need done
will get done. There is no call pays, there's no
tax bill, I mean, no medical bill.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Nothing. If you need a brain transplant or a heart transplant,
you can get it.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Here's the catch, there's sometimes twelve week waiting periods between
doctor visits, between meeting your primary physician, then meeting the
specialtists and then having the procedure done. We're talking about
a twelve week time between all of that stuff, and
mainly because everybody's going to the doctor.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Everybody has an appointment. It's free.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So as long as you can make it until you
know on your appointments whatever you be eight. If not,
then you kind of hit in the mouth. So that's
the negative of the universal health care is you know,
if you need a heart procedure, but shuet you need
to get up in there, you might not be able
to get up in there because you know there's other
people who need free health care too. So obviously the
(05:46):
opposite with us is that is paid for you know,
priormitic by your job and all of that stuff. So
if you got a job that has decent benefits, you
stray if you have to use state benefits, you're screwed.
But but and then obviously a lot of Americans are
ensured period, which is another huge problem. So with you know,
(06:07):
we have a Social Security number SSN, they have an
si N which stands for Social Insurance number. That's the
number of the car that you take, which is basically
like having your social with you and you get all
of your benefits and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So that's pretty cool right there.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I forgot to start the pod the way that we
normally start the pod. That's kind of probably why I
probably shouldn't have skiped the show business or whatever. But
let's go ahead, start the pod the way that we
always like to start the pod, even though we already
started the pod already. But you know, you always have
to get have that good aesthetic of what's going on.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
There we go, that's.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
The stuff right there. There we go, that's the stuff
right there. That good gas, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So another thing that Canada has an issue with is
it is immigration.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
But it's different than our immigration.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Our immigration problem is there's too many people in here
that's unannounced, it ain't supposed to be here. That's all
in the refrigerator, drinking the last bit of kool aid
and all the other stuff, you know, which basically referring
to our friends at the southern border. The northern border
is not crazy like that, but they're mainly referring to
our friends at the southern border. Now in Canada, their
(07:31):
immigration problem is they let everybody in once you go
through the grueling process, because the process is super gruel.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And I can tell you a story real quick.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Back in two thousand and seven, some stuff got done
and cats went to Canada.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
What I went to Cano?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Say, Cats, I went to Canada, and I'm there with
American money.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You know, I drove my car up there.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So it was easier when you could just drive through Canada,
show your birth certificate and you stayed and your drive
It is you good in Canada, you know, as long
as you got like a good reason to be there
or whatever. I was there for the Yankee well quote
unquote the Yankees, uh rap, I mean, I say, you raptors,
the Yankees blue Jays. So they was in town. So
pulled up like, hey, I'm about to go see the
(08:15):
Yankees play. They played the Blue Jays and you know,
went through the border, and I was there for a
hot minute, and I'm like, man.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I gotta make a little bit of brand while I'm
up here.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So I was going to work at Wendy's in Canada, right,
and they say, well, we can't give you a job
because you're not a Canadian. If we if we give
you a job, we have to justify giving an American
a job over a Canadian. Okay, same shit that happens here.
So they say, you got to get like a Social
(08:45):
insurance card or get something that's equivalent to their visa. Okay, bet,
so I'll go try to get that. They're like, we
can't give you one unless you have a job. I'm like, yeah,
but the job said that I can't get one unless
you give me that card. You give me that card,
I can go get that job. If you don't give
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me that card, I can't get that job. And they say, well,
we can't give you the card unless you have a job.
So then I go back to the Duwindy's or whatever,
and I'm like, hey, they can't give me the card
unless you give me the job. And then it was
like a back and forth thing. So it was like real,
real stupid, you know what I mean. So if you
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can get through all of that stuff to become a citizen.
Then that's the other immigration problem because their economy is
based on immigrants coming to Canada and participating. See, it's
not like America, where you come to the United States
you have to ingratiate yourself in American culture.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
There it's like do you.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And there's like certain sections of Canada where every or
even in certain profits, especially like in Toronto and Quebec.
You know, you got your Jamaicans, your Haitians, or your
Caribbean Island people here. You got your Asians over here,
whether they Chinese, Japanese, Korean, whatever, you know whatever. You
got different people everywhere, and everybody can do what their
(10:11):
culture allows them to do. There's no Canadian culture that
says this is what. No, it's not like that. It's
a very it's really what the melting pot was supposed
to be for America, but it just didn't come out
like that, straight up and down. So their immigration problem
is is that they have a lot of people that
come in and they participate with you know, culture or
(10:33):
whatever and that and it's a lot of people which
goes into the housing problem that Canada has. We have
a housing problem too, but this is the difference Our
housing problem is we have enough houses to house the homeless,
they just can't afford them. Okay, that's neither here nor there,
but that's the problem. There's houses like you can go
(10:55):
to any neighborhood where you see a whole bunch of
you know, homeless people. There's bacon houses all throughout that
they could be in. But can they afford these houses?
Do they have jobs? Can they afford payments and all
of this stuff? And nine times out of ten they can't.
So guess what y'all gonna be outside until you could
participate in society, earn a living wage, and you can
get yourself a house. That's the housing crisis in America.
(11:20):
In Canada, their housing crisis is we don't have enough
people to build the houses for all of the people
who are coming into the country. Now you see how
both have the same end result, which is people sleeping outside.
But you see how one is we don't have the
bodies to build it, versus they don't have the money
(11:43):
to afford it, but we do.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
But the houses is there. It's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So I'm bringing all of that up to say, if
Canada does become the fifty first state, what things can
we take from them that can benefit us? And what
things can you know they give them that can benefit them?
One huge thing and I had it. And I don't
know the guy's name that runs the Alberta fifty one project,
but he's a cool dude, nonetheless, and seems like but anyway,
(12:12):
he was very adamant about guns because in Canada, guns
are illegal, the police don't have guns, the citizens don't
have guns. If you do have a gun, that's kind
of like having the nuclear bomb anywhere else type ish.
And for me, I told him again, you know, I
don't know who he is, but I told him, I'm like, well,
(12:34):
you are aware that in our country everyone has guns,
but we have a lot of mash school shootings, something
that I know that you guys don't have, and I
don't think that you guys want those problems. We have
police brutality by guns and a whole bunch of other stuff.
And he brung it up to me. He was like, well,
(12:56):
what happens if somebody robs your house? Like I think
we were talking about criminals stuff like that, and he
was asking me like, am I advocating for the criminal
to have a gun or to rob like it was
they basically paint the pictures like the picture was he
has a house, somebody tries to rob him with a gun,
he should be able to defend himself.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And I'm like, that's actually true, you should.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But at the same time, I'm not worried about you
having a gun if I figure no one else has
a gun. So oh yeah, this is what we were saying.
So I was like, I'm not gonna rob a house
if I know the person doesn't have a gun. So
the whole robb like, like again, think about it. If
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guns are illegal in Canada, right, and I break into
your house in Canada, I'm expecting you not to have
a gun because it's illegal for you to have a gun. Now,
if I break into the crib, you have a gun
and you shoot me kill me with it. Ever, I'm
(14:02):
not assure how their Canadian laws work. I probably should
holler at Alberta fifty seven project and find out, because
I believe he said that anybody with guns, they do punish.
So if I am a criminal in Canada and I'm
breaking and entering, I'm not thinking about someone having a gun,
(14:25):
because why would you have a gun if it's gonna
be a knife fight, it's gonna be a knife fight.
If it's gonna be hands, it's gonna be hands. But
I'm not thinking someone's gonna have a gun, because again,
in Canada, no one's supposed to have guns. So if
only the criminals have guns and I run up in
a regular, you know, Drake type house looking situation, or
you know, a country house like in Alberta, I'm not
(14:48):
thinking you're gonna have a gun. So my point in
saying all of that is is that banning guns could
be a good thing for real, for real, So that's
something we can possibly take from Canada. But this is America,
you know, ain't no giving up their guns. So basically
most of Canada they just want to be strapped cool.
I was talking to my brother about this too, and
(15:09):
I was saying, well, look, if we could take something
from Canada, let's take the universal health care. Then he
was like, then you're gonna have our hospitals backed up,
and it's like and I just told them, like, nah,
not necessarily, because Canada already has hospitals that's running under
the free model. Now, if you have to go to Canada,
if Canada becomes the fifty first ay, like if you
got to go to the fifty first state to get
(15:30):
work done or whatever cause it's free. He then' hey,
look there's a fifty first state, go get that shit.
But at the same time too, you can also train
some hospitals down here to run like they do in Canada,
and some of the Canada hospitals, we can train them
to run like they do in America.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
It's a give and take type situation.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
So to make a long story short, you know, Canada
being the fifty first state, I would not mind it
at all. That gives us more cities and places to
go to, and the Canadians get to come down here
here and have a little bit of good time. I mean,
it's all good. I mean, you got suckers like Drakeing
and shit like that that might be coming through the border.
But you know they gave us Melissa Ford and Deborah
(16:09):
Cox and you know who can say no to that.
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(16:50):
that nature. So excuse me, that wasn't be smoking no
gas to get the blunt dumbbin on and.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I had a belch real quick.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
But we are a part of the Our Heart Radio,
our Heart podcast Network family.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
So that's pretty dope right there.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
So a lot of SG podcasts is gonna be filtered
through that our Heart Radio app in this new world
that we're gonna be in a lot of things I'm
gonna have to fill you in on. I'm actually gonna
be on a conference call with a couple of directors
that you know, put this together in the company to
you know, look at our analytics and things like that
(17:24):
to see how they can help us grow as a podcast.
So I'll fill y'all in on that. So definitely, Yeah,
definitely check that out. So another thing about today is
Trump's inauguration, and again I brung up the Canada being
the fifty first state because he wants to get Canada
(17:45):
on deck, he wants to buy Greenlin, he wants the
Panama Canal on deck. Again, there's a lot of funck
shit going on. And I didn't watch the inauguration. I'm
gonna go back and probably watch it a little bit
later on once I get done with the pot or whatever.
And I want I wanted to bring Morgan Harper. I'm
probably get her on the show sometime this week. But
(18:08):
Trump being back in office is I'm not surprised, but
I'm more or less concerned. The main reason I'm concerned
is because Trump is petty like And again, there's nothing
wrong with being petty. I mean, it is what it is,
(18:30):
but there's certain places where you just can't be petty,
and you can't be petty in the White House, like
I'm really beginning to think, like cause when he talked
about the out, you know, Canada being the fifty first state,
calling Justin Trudeau Tradeau Traudeau, governor Traudeau of the Great
State of Canada, like it was we're real weird energy
and then Trudeau like I'm about to step down as
(18:52):
prime minister, Like I don't, like I'm trying. I'm still
trying to figure out what the fuck did that happen.
That's like because he been Prome Minister for like not
like non some years, like he prime ministers in Canada
get to have a decent run. They don't get to
do to like two, you know, four year terms. If
that's it type of shit. You'll be like, he gets
to participate for a while, but parliament's closed for some reason.
(19:17):
I'm not familiar with their Canadian work or whatever, but
nothing moves until parliament's open. So basically Trudeau get to
just chill on some old It's like when a coach
in football or basketball, they don't give them another contract
and they just basically, I don't want to use the
word a dead man walking, but it's that type of
(19:40):
thing where you know you're just working, you know, the
last bit of your contract or whatever, and you know
it is what it is type stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So good for Justin Trudeau though, but not really that it.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I don't even know why the fuck I said that,
But the whole thing I'm bringing back with Trump is
is that a lot of people voted for Trump, and
you know who I'm talking about. I'm talking about use
you know, let me not say that because we have
partners now. We don't want to offend anybody. But if
we were to offend somebody, you know, the southern people,
(20:15):
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
The ones who voted for Trump. Y'all know who i'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Y'all know them Red States, y'all know them ones with
the counties be like two hundred people.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You know what I mean that. Yeah, y'all know what
I'm talking about. Not my people, y'all know what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
They voted for Trump because the economy was bad, inflation
was hurting people, and they felt that Trump had a
plan to bring America out of this rut that we're
in financially with high food costs and things like that.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Trump told you he.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Ain't got no plan for that for real, Like he
won't even know if that could really be done.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Like he actually said that in words.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And if I had a clip, I would play the clip,
but I don't, so you can google it and YouTube
and find it out. Trump blatantly said food prices is
probably going to remain high. He has his tariffs that
he's going to be imposed on certain countries, which means
they can impose tariffs back on us, which would raise
prices for everybody else. He's trying to get rid of
(21:13):
programs that could help people. You know, I think Medicare
is something he's trying to kill down. Food stamps he's
trying to kill down. Now, this is my thing, and
I was talking to my brother about this too. That's
the only thing with Republicans I agree with them on
is I don't think that the government should babysit people
(21:37):
and give them all of this stuff, you know what
I'm saying, like food stamps, welfare and all of that.
But my retort to that is being that that's already
been in place for all of these years. How are
you going to supplement and replace that? Which one of
the only ways you can do that is is that
you have to ensure that those individuals that you're taking
off of food stampings welfare are able to work. And
(22:00):
I'm not talking about just tell them to work at McDonald's, no,
have them actually work a job that is not just
a financial beneficial type job. It's a job that brings
them substance, because if you just saying no more food stamps,
no more welfare, go out and get a job. But
(22:22):
then the only job that they can get is McDonald's
or some low wage paying job, then it's like, what
are we really doing.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
We're not really doing anything for real, for real.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
So I always say this all the time. You can
go to any neighborhood, in the hood, neighborhood, whatever, and
there's a mechanic that knows how to fix cars. The
neighborhood mechanic is always out there. You can always pull
up to his crib, or pull up to his little
parking space if he's an apartment complex.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
If that's what type of hood, you win.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
He got his parking spaces, he got his driveway, and
there's always a car prop up on a you know,
not on a dolly, but on the jack or the
hood is always up and somebody's inside it all the
time doing some work.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
The neighborhood mechanic.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Now you would probably say, well, why doesn't this mechanic
have a job in an actual you know shop, you.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Know, whether it's.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Pet boys or a Maserati dealership, or for a dealership whatever,
whatever type of situation. Why does he work for these
companies as a mechanic. Maybe he doesn't have the education,
you know. Maybe he just knows parts and knows how
to put stuff together, knows how things work, and that's
(23:40):
how he gets down. Maybe he has a record and
you know he can't he learned how to work on
cars in prison as a trade or whatever, you know,
various type of situations. My point is is that there's
a lot of skilled people in the hood that's living
off of food stamps and you know, welfare and all
of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Put them to work.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Let them make a it make let them make a earning,
Let them make a living and out bringing the women too.
There's a lot of women in the hood that know
how to do hair and do nails and stuff like that.
You know, you got the candy lady out the hood.
You know, that's an that's entrepreneur in her own right
or whatever that you know, shit, she's hustling, you know
(24:26):
what she You know how she gets to be the
candy lady because she's using the food stamps, you know
what I mean. She's using the food stamps to buy candy,
to buy chips, to buy all of this stuff, and
she's selling that shit entrepreneur type shit. So in that example,
(24:47):
if you take away the food stamps and you take
away the welfare and that woman was working with what
she was getting, you gotta put her to work.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You gotta put her to work. You gotta put the automate, can't.
You gotta put them to work.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You gotta put You gotta put them to work so
they can, you know, survive and pay for themselves. Because
one thing about food stamps and all that shit is
if you make minimalm not minimum wage, but if you
have if you're in the middle class, you don't get
food stamps. Even if you could say, after I pay
all of my bills, I don't have enough for food. Well,
(25:24):
you you make this amount of money, you don't qualify.
Think about how crazy that sounds. You have a house,
you have a car, you have insurance, you have electricity,
you have your water bill, you have your cable bill,
you have your cell phone bill or telephone bill. At
the time before going back to my era, you have
all of these bills. But after I pay all of
(25:47):
these bills, I barely have enough for food. I need
food stamps and they're like, nah, you make too much
money for food stamps, even if you give them my
itemized bill of this is where my money goes. Like
what you're gonna say, get a cheaper house, No, especially
(26:09):
if it's a house that you own already, like no,
or even if even in a rental situation, shit, you
might already have the cheapest house already. Give a take,
you never know, and you still can't get food sam.
So for me, it's just always be let the people work.
So again, just to make a long story short, that's
(26:30):
the only thing I agree with Republicans.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
With everything else I do not.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I don't agree with them trying to get rid of
the Department of Education.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I don't agree with them trying to.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Basically make things more expensive by doing the tariffs and
things like that. I definitely don't agree with them about
how they want to get rid of diversity equity inclusion because.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It excludes them. Like that's the thing that they don't.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
They feel like, hey, diversity equity inclusion is excluding us
from opportunities, and it's like yeah, because without DEI, you
guys exclude us from opportunities. And again, people who don't
support DEI don't understand that when DEI an affirmative action
(27:21):
wasn't in place, all those individuals did was hire people
that looked like them or hire people from their sociological background.
If they looked different, they didn't hire them whatsoever. There
was like a lawsuit that I seen not too long
(27:42):
ago where a person had like a unique name, changed
his name on the resume, went through the procedure, I mean,
went through the interview process, got the job, and then
he ended up suing that company because he said, my
name is such and such. When I gave them this
resume with the same information, they didn't even call me
(28:02):
I changed my name. They gave me an interview on
a job. Ooh we that's dirty work right there. That's
super dirty work right there. And we're just talking about
off the strength of a name, not even the not
even saying I was black and on my resume apportunity
to be white and I pulled up being black whatever.
And know what I'm saying like that, it was just based
(28:23):
off of a name. So if you're not hiring people
based off a name, let alone, what you would do
off the color of skin or you know, different type
of ethnicities or different anything. No, telling what the fuck
y'all would do if DEI and affirmative Action wasn't in place.
So again, those are a lot of things that I
(28:44):
don't agree with with the Republicans and the Democrats. So yeah,
I just you know, I just feel like we survived
to George W. Bush presidencies terms back to back obviously,
and that was some bullshit times right there. Now in
(29:07):
comparison to the Trump presidency, oh, it's light work. But
at the time, like you know, I just had turned
eighteen that year that he officially put his hand on
the Bible and took office George W. Bush in two
thousand and one. So my adult life, you know, experiencing
(29:29):
presidencies and all of that stuff started on some bullshit
with George W.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Bush until Barack Obama came.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
So for the most of my adult life, it's been
bullshit presidents like Trump and you know, basically Trump and
Georgia W. Bush, because outside of that, it's been Obama
and Biden as far as you know, different you know,
presidencies or whatever. But I do remember what the Clinton
presidency was like, and I do remember what you know, George.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
H no, no, h, the pops.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I remember what that presidency was like too, you know
as a kid, you know, growing up in that time
or whatever. So I just hope that the people who
voted for Trump, because that's how the conversation started. I
hope that the people who voted for Trump who are
not rich are okay, because the black people who didn't
(30:23):
vote for Trump knew what it was and we kind
of may or may not have some contingency plans to,
you know, get through this. The individuals who, like I said,
you know the you know, the country folk, hillbillies, you
know that that Red county that only has like two
hundred people, Those individuals I feel for because you or
(30:48):
they voted for a president based on how they looked.
Let's keep it a buck. You didn't want a black
woman in office. You didn't want a white woman in
office when Hillary ran, and you didn't want a black
woman or Asian woman. However, y'all want to classify Kamala Harris.
(31:08):
You didn't want her in office either, so you went
with what you know, white is white or white is right.
That's basically what you did. When Trump says that he
had because he because you had to remember, Trump finally
won the popular vote when he won the presidency. The
first time he didn't win the popular vote. That's when
(31:30):
the Electoral college bullshit came into play. So this is
the first election that he's won the popular vote, and
it shows that people, especially in their community, was not
going to vote for a black woman. And again, could
(31:51):
Kamala Harris have you know, done better with that?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah? I believe so.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
But at the same time, there's only so much you
can do. You know, you already notice she's a black
woman from Oakland that has Asian Indian parents or whatever
family heritage or blooding or whatever. So you was not
gonna vote for her. You just did what you always do,
which is white is right, and you voted for Trump.
(32:18):
And again it is what it is. Black people should
have been out more to support Kamala Harris, but that's
neither here nor there. My thing is those individuals who
voted for Trump, who thought that he had an economic
plan that would help you. They help them be able
(32:39):
to survive and help with inflation. I'm sorry, that's not
about to happen. A lot of his rich friends, his
rich homies is gonna get tax breaks and tax cuts,
and once he starts breaking down, you know, a lot
of the government agencies that generate money or that have
(33:01):
a budget, That money is probably gonna go to his
rich homies too.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Let's keep it a buck.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Now, if we knew for certain that if he got
rid of the Department of Education and all of the
money that's in their budget would be dispersed to the
American people, then you just got to ask yourself.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
How much are you valuing education?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Because the Department of Education is responsible for federal guidelines
and how we are educated in this country. No offense
to Mississippi, but I'm not trusting the state of Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Then tell me about education. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Like, no, I'm not allowing any state that I believe
Mississippi still has it, but they might have taken it
off that has the Confederate flag in their state flag. No,
I'm not doing that. No, Mississippi, I'm not trying to
see the gunline. Boss, I'm cool on that. And yes
(34:11):
I'm an uppity person from the East coast. Sorry you
Southern states. No, we're not having you educate people. We're
gonna have federal mandates that tell you what to educate
your people, because fuck around, you'll have some you know,
all i'd use the word hill billy, but you'll have
some country boy l country person out in Arkansas reading
(34:33):
about the Civil War and the textbook says the Civil
War the war we should have won, but what had
happened was no, No, we're not doing that. So again,
that's one of my reasons why we cannot get rid
of the Department of Education, because certain states educate their
people well and certain states do not, and we cannot
(34:57):
have that big of a gap.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
If we're talking about we're a country.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
We can't have dead weight because Mississippi wants to teach
they children some crazy stuff or even not even joking Mississippi,
because I just like the how way I say Mississippi
Florida got rid of all of the African American books,
so they don't even learn about.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Slavery in Florida. Come on, now, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
So again the Department of Education. Nah, we need to
keep that in Again. Trump's inaugurations was today Trump's back
in office. You supporting him, you got what you wanted,
You get what you paid for, You get what you
deserve if you did not vote for him. All I
can say is is that in these next local elections,
these next primary elections, just get as much as much
(35:45):
Democrats as possible to fill in these slots. So by
time the next you know, Democratic president runs or is ready,
we can have like more people in place. Because I'm
gonna tell you I've learned politics over the years, and
I'm gonna end it on this. I noticed that politics
change when people are pissed.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Right, So I give you this example. George W.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Bush had nine to eleven under his watch, and a
lot of people had to go to the you know,
Iraq War, Afghan War, the war on terrorism, weapons of
mass destruction, all of this other bullshit. Gas prices go
from between seventy nine to ninety nine cents to a.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Dollar fifty a gallon.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Now I say that, now y'all be like, what, Like, yeah,
that was a huge jump. Like the cheap the cheap
ass gas stations like your Quickie marks orhetto marks whatever
gas be like seventy nine cent and gallon. Then obviously
if you go to like you know, your vps and
Texicos and all of that Amicos and all of that
gas would be ninety nine center gallon bare minimum. Nine
(36:48):
to eleven hit gas prices went up. Gas prices jumped
to like one p fifty, almost like two dollars a
gallon type shit, and that was like crazy. So imagine
Bush going through that, w going through that for two years,
and then you get Obama. Everybody like, we're tired of
the Republicans. Fuck you Republicans, y'all suck y'all, da da
(37:09):
Barack Obama come through, clean that shit up. Not the
Democrats is on deck. Democrats on deck doing their thing.
Somebody had to hate something about Obama. I hate the Democrats.
We wanted we want something else. Here comes Trump.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
The thing is about Trump is Trump had a huge
national dal disaster with COVID, way bigger than nine to
eleven in my opinion, COVID hit. And he only gets
one term because that was all fucked up. No Trump,
you racist, fuck all this other shit. Now switching back
to Biden, Biden came from the Obama tree shit just
(37:48):
like Trump. He only got one term two They wasn't
feeling him, and they go right back to Donald Trump.
So it's a lot of swings and stuff. So in
four years, when people get pissed off at Donald Trump,
the Democrats is going to be back again. And that's
just how it goes. So I've learned that about politics.
That's just pretty much how that goes. I wish there
was a lot of stuff going on in the culture
(38:09):
right now. I mean, Cardi b Is, you know, still
trying to get a divorce from Offset Hand, trying to
sign the papers. A lot of new movies and stuff
coming out, But I mean not really, not really too
much of I mean it was more like today on
this Monday's episode, it's really about the inauguration. It's about
Donald Trump being back in office to fifty first state.
(38:29):
That's pretty much what it is we do. We could
talk about anything around these parts. So y'all know what
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(38:50):
to get the podcasts out there, the more listeners. So
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I holler at you when I holland you, but y'all
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