February 20, 2025 • 65 mins
Welcome to the 89th edition of the War Cry Podcast. On this episode, Yahola talks about Tik Tok Ban, Drake vs Kendrick, Super Bowl, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Canada vs USA in hockey, the state of the NBA, & more
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They're very, very dangerous if these fighting sense, you know,
I was like, oh, something's off.I'm just like, man, I'm waiting
to hear something. You know what's going on, guys?
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And welcome to another edition of the War Cry podcast.
I'm your host. You hold a tiger.
And it's, I feel like I've been out of the podcast game for like
9 years because so much has beengoing on in my, in my personal
life. Y'all ever let me, let me, let
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me, let me phrase this how I want to phrase it.
Why do plumbers cost so Dang much?
That's my that's my question like I asked somebody to come
out here and tell me that I havea leak from the from the meter
to the basically to the side of the house because we have some
water pooling more than some water.
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Absolutely disgusting. It's it's the Nat like I'm
already kind of weird about poop.
So if you like y'all ever think that I had some type of poop
thing going on? I don't it just, I don't know,
just the thought of it just makes me just like disgusted.
I guess you could say that's a easy word to say.
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And it just is so muddy. It's just bad.
But Danny said, yeah, it's goingto be 100 and something, you
know, light, light work. I'm just going to walk the
perimeter. Oh yeah, it's over here. 100 and
38135 bucks. Whatever it was, it's nasty
work. But hey, it's got to be done.
But I appreciate, appreciate that business.
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And if you guys have wondered, Ifeel like some of y'all, I've
gotten a few messages, which I appreciate.
It's very, it's very nice of you.
I'll say that. It's like very kind that you
would ask about me, but I'm off Facebook.
This whole TikTok thing. I started looking up and
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something I get this weird thingwhere like I start looking into
things that I don't, you know, that I want to know that I'm
curious about. And so Facebook, what they do is
they monetize your posts, your pictures, everything, which
obviously y'all going to some ofy'all going to be obviously,
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yes, obviously, and I'm not a I'm not a Zuckerberg guy.
You know, I've never been. I've been off Instagram for
almost a year. I mean, the algorithms suck.
And we had that Tiktok ban that I think as a society and as a a
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human race, I have never seen somany people like, it's almost
like a eulogy. It was like we was, you know,
like we had a real close relative, you know, pass away
peacefully into the night. And TikTok really did that to
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us. You know, I had to, I had to, I
had to play mine. I had to put my little post out
and it was sad. And then it like 9 or 830,
whatever time it was, I went to hit that refresh button trying
to get that last bit of 2020, 2019-2020, one content that I
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missed because I didn't get on TikTok till like 2022.
But I had to give me a little piece of that.
I had to enjoy a memory that wasn't mine.
And I hit that refresh button and it was gone.
It was gone. My wife had a visceral scream.
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It was almost quite embarrassing, I'm not going to
lie. And if you hear this, baby, I'm
sorry. But I got to tell.
I got to tell off on you like that, You know, for the first
time in about 3 years, I decidedto go outside after that and
touch grass. I can't believe it.
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I didn't realize grass was itchy.
It's just a, it's a sad state ofaffairs, I'll tell you what.
But once I went outside and I touched a little bit of grass,
walked around a little bit, didn't realize that fresh air
smelled so good, didn't realize the trees turn brown and then
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die in the winter time. In the winter time, it is a
little cloudy outside. I didn't know that either.
It's just a it's crazy, I hear. And then one day, I think a
couple days later, some white particles came down.
I think it some, some people sayit looks like snow or it's
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called snow. I didn't know, but it's crazy
what that band did to us. But it's crazy.
It's just really crazy. I don't know how else to say it.
And then just like Jesus Christ,I'm sorry.
I'd do it soon. But just like Jesus, TikTok came
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back three days later. It was almost like a metaphor,
some would say. And then all of a sudden we get
on and I got beef with Canada and the UK.
So if you're from Canada and youin in, in the UK, we was off
that app US Americans were off that app for like 2 hours.
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No, not even 2 hours. I was going to say two days, but
like 16 hours, 18 hours. And you all said it was quiet on
there. That's nasty work.
We was we were outside touching grass for the first time in
three years realizing what life is without TikTok and y'all on
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their posting some of the most garbage con content I have ever
seen. I saw somebody on there put a
piece of bread in the toaster. But not even like a old school
is like 1800s toaster. What are y'all doing?
There's electric over there. I know y'all got electric.
Those 18th century toaster that y'all got that I think we sent
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back over once we beat y'all in World War, not world.
How about I say World War 2? Dang, during the American
Revolution, I think we sent thatback with y'all.
Y'all gonna have that trash piece of equipment back with
y'all. We weren't even gone 18 hours
and y'all did us that crazy. Y'all was putting beans on toast
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with cheese with the cheese. No, yeah, I'll be ashamed of
yourselves and I didn't know. I'm not real well versed in in
British culture and connect and Canada.
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I'm not done with y'all. Just lose.
I got something for y'all but y'all literally said it was
quiet and then y'all post the garb.
Most garbage content of y'all getting in knife fights.
Like what is that? That's crazy work.
That's crazy work. Now Canada, during that TikTok
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ban, y'all thought y'all was some Trump came into office.
You know, y'all was getting our algos, y'all was getting all our
content and just recreating it. Trump comes back in, extends the
date, so we're good. We're back and Canada and you
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and obviously if you guys know, obviously if you haven't,
tariffs are like the thing rightnow.
Everybody likes to toss around atariff.
You get a tariff and you get a tariff, yo, you get a tariff.
Some dude with no shirt on across the street, you get a
tariff. I'm starting to tariff my own
kids. So give me that.
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I make them a little bit of food.
I get my 20%. That's called tax.
So we going we doing a bar for bar tariff with with Canada and
I keep seeing on TikTok once we came back and the algos came
back, which by the way I'm also tired of seeing if you block
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Facebook and all meta, your algowill go back to how it was.
That's crazy. Anyways, we going through a
tariff battle right now. We go you go it's like a little
rap battle going on. Fast forward to net like
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literally like two nights ago orlast night they sing in the
national anthem in a hockey gameand hockey is supposed to be
Canada sport. Y'all supposed to be like the
greatest of all time. You are supposed to be like like
Soviet Union, 1970s hockey. When America upsetted the Soviet
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Union that one year, I don't even know the year they start
singing that beautiful national anthem we have here in America
and y'all booed us out the building.
I'm coming kind of spicy today. I I got I got it all for all
y'all. I'm a little I'm a I'm a little
I saw that I said all right, I see how it is not even 5, not
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even a half a second into the fight, one of our US dudes said,
let's go takes the gloves off and starts going going to town
on this dude. They start getting into a back
and forth in hockey. You know, correct me if I'm
wrong. What, so y'all just fighting?
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Is that what's going on? Y'all just like, hey you know
what, stop the game. It's like when 2 dudes in pickup
are like crying over a foul. And he said no that's no, no,
no, that's not a foul. That's a foul.
Yes it is. Is that how y'all do that?
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I'm gonna have to start watchinghockey more.
This is what this goes down not even a second in.
He said throw the gloves off, let's go, let's get it.
So I said, all right, they goingto do that little throw the puck
down and referee runs away. Next dude says I bet I got you,
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takes the gloves off. They go at it again. 9 seconds
into this fight there's three fights or 9 seconds into this
hockey game there's three fights.
You know obviously in highlightsof Americans checking the mess
checking is that is that is thatthe right word?
If y'all know out there hockey people can't Canadian people
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that listen to podcast, we was checking the mess out.
Y'all like out like I couldn't even believe it.
You know, y'all going to Boo us out the building, we going to
fight with y'all three times in nine seconds and then we check
y'all all game, dice all up, slice and dice, scary movie
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style, and beat y'all 31. Beat y'all 31.
Let me go ahead and get a round of applause for that.
That's what I'm talking about. 3-1 and this is what I gotta do.
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This is a new sound effect. No, that's crazy.
ANYWAYS, but yeah, we got y'all 31.
So for all y'all talking mess when we was out, this is hey,
this is how petty Americans are.We will hold that grudge all the
way to a hockey game. How dare you tariff us?
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How dare we tariff y'all howeverit shakes out.
But we got our, we got our lick back.
So it's OK. But we are, we're two months in,
we're not even two months into this, this 2025 year.
And a lot of people are upset. You know, I, I see, I see both
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sides of the coin when it comes to a lot of things going on
right now. But one thing that is for sure
and one thing that is forever isDemocrats.
Y'all make me laugh. I get it, you guys don't want
Elon Musk and all these different doge and all and all
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these different departments and it has caused a lot of chaos for
federal federal workers and you know contractors, but y'all got
to stop singing these songs we're.
Fighting against George. We're Elon Musk in our worlds.
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We'll fight from dawn to dusk. Which side are you on?
Which side are you on? Open me.
Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
Trump's coming for our unions. He wants us out to fight, he
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wants us to to bow to him, but we want him in jail.
Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
They say in the the capital citythat open the school transferred
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you're either with the union or a scabby Musk Bloodhound.
Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
Tell me, which side are you on? On which side are you on?
Don't take that government buyout.
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Don't listen to Trump's lies. Us workers haven't got a chance
unless we organize. Oh, which side are you on?
Which side are you on? Tell me which side are you on?
Which side are you on? I'm really curious.
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I wonder how long that took themto write that they gave us 2
minutes of straight two minutes of straight ass.
What are they doing man? Like that's what they just don't
make no sense to me. Like we rather like for those of
you guys out of the know, I am aregistered Democrat.
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I've been a Democrat since I wasable to a vote and that's my,
that's my thing. But one thing that I get
frustrated when I see things like this is that as someone who
is rather a rather conservative ish, you know, in some aspects I
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don't understand why. Let's get up on the stage as a
waste people's time and let's sing this 2 minute piece of
garbage for what? Do the same thing.
MSNBCCBSNBCCNN, News Nation, Midas touch the recount.
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I mean, it doesn't do anything and I think it lacks why I feel
the way I do about the party that I'm registered in is it
doesn't, you know, RK Junior said something that really kind
of it, how I say this, it resonated with me is that I
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didn't, you know, he said that he didn't leave the the Democrat
Party. They left him and a few other
people have said that like they just left us behind us more
conservative ish. Like, I'm not really that
conservative, but I'm pretty, you know, I, I do value certain
things more than I do other things.
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But this is that's got to stop, man.
You know, I think another thing too, that I've, you know, been
kind of interested in. I think it's kind of wild of
what's going on. The USAID thing is intriguing to
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me. You know, we have Democrats
running around trying to get into buildings like, you know,
when they're really not in control.
Maybe I'm not really quite sure on the logistics of that end,
but it's it's definitely interesting.
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And one thing to that, I'm goingto say Elon Musk scares me as
someone who, you know, I follow him on Twitter or on X and he
says things that I'm like, OK, all right, you know, he's your
former Democrat and and things like that.
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But he says things were just spooked me.
Example of that is when he talksabout ancient Egypt.
He is for years talked about ancient, ancient Egypt and the
things that, you know, come and go.
And he mentioned something with Jordan Peterson and I saw a clip
floating around on X and I'll TikTok where he was talking
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about Memphis and it was like itwas really creepy.
You said something that caught me right away when we were
discussing various issues just before we started, you said you
were up till 4:00 in the morning.
Yeah, so actually a little a little more like 5 in the
morning. But we got to the the XAI data
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center or supercomputer center training from beginning
installation to startup trainingin 19 days, which is the fastest
that anyone has ever gotten a supercomputer to train.
And is that in that new buildingoff to the side?
That's in Memphis. Actually, it's in Memphis.
Yeah. Oh.
So. So that's where you were.
Yeah. I see.
Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt.
Right. Right.
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Right. Right.
Right. Right.
Yeah. Yeah.
You're bringing what? Perhaps that's where our new God
will come from. Yeah.
No kidding. No kidding.
Yeah. I wish that was funny.
Yeah. OK.
So I want to talk to you about aline that is that is funny.
Yeah. Yeah.
Right. There's a lot of things about
that guy that just Spooks me out.
And so when I see him parading around with the the president,
it just makes me. It does make me a little
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cautious about what's going on. And then, you know, now the
rumor as of today, this is what recording this Tuesday night
that $8000 checks are going to be passed around allegedly.
And to me, I just, there's something off about it.
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I don't know, you know, I know Ihave I have a a lot of people
who voted for Trump support Trump and all that President
Trump and all those things, but I like to stay objectively
aware. I guess you could say when it
comes to him specifically, one thing that I do like that's been
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going around and like I said, you can agree to disagree.
That is fine. I'd, I'm not a not going to
debate you on topics or if I getsomething wrong, I get it wrong.
Guess what? I go back to the drawing board
and correct it later, whatever. But you know, one thing that I
do like that he has done is thathe two people that I've really,
if you follow me on X, I'm very heavy and very supportive of, of
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Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Junior. Now there's going to be some
people. How could you?
How could you? But we have to look back to see
what what who they were before now.
And this is one thing too that Iwant everyone to just kind of
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think about for one second whileyou're listening to this podcast
before 2016. If you look at that cabinet and
look at all the people he's appointed, the people who, you
know, their track records, what were they?
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They were Democrats. And so Republicans are are
cheering these Democrats that are flipping to the red, to the
Republican side. It just looks weird to me.
It's like we're doing this flip Trump.
A lot of money to the Clintons, a lot of money to Obama.
You know, in 2012 when Obama made that joke about Trump.
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And if you guys hadn't seen thatvideo, go go research it.
You could tell Trump was like, oh, no, you ain't going to say
nothing about me, big boy. I'm I'm funding you.
You know, he had, he had been a donor for a lot of these big
time Democrats for a lot of years.
You know, Tulsi Gabbard was viceDNC chair Robert F Kennedy.
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Obviously, the that's a a stronghold on the Democrat side,
which is nasty work, by the way.His whole family is a kind of
turning on him. I just thought that was kind of
weird too. But nonetheless, it's just
something to look at, look at, you know, staying objectively
aware, I guess you could say. And I'm not here to to cheer or
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root for anybody. I just, I want things better for
everyone. And I think a lot of times, you
know, we get into this, this warwith each other when it comes to
the Blues and the Reds. And as someone who's not like,
you know, I I'm I don't feel like I'm either blue or red.
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I'm kind of like a Gray, I guess, But I guess that's
independent color, whatever. But I see these people just
going to battle like y'all, likethey wake up just be on X or
TikTok and being in comments just going to war with each
other. And that's a funny thing about
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if you look at how you know what's going on, it isn't a
battle. This, this has never been a
battle between someone who makes$30,000 a year or someone who
makes no money a year in surviving on Medicaid or food
stamps or you know, all the manyprograms that you know, the, I
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guess you say Planned Parenthood, that's one of them,
a program out there or that was out there.
I don't know if it's still out there.
I'm, I'm ignorant when it comes to some of those stuffs, but you
know, there's a lot of programs out there there that a lot of
people need. And you got to look at it from
a, a point of kind of a point ofreference of it's not you and
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me. It should, it should not be me
versus you or you versus that person or blue versus red.
You know, a lot of the people that make a lot of money in this
country are starting to shift and things are going in a
certain direction. That one the USAID and where our
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tax money's going. I mean, Doge has done some
pretty decent things I've seen and read and I'm not getting my
information from some random person on TikTok.
You got to go and find and read the articles but and not be
headline hunters, man. A lot of people read the
headlines say, Oh, I know exactly what's going on, But
that's a lot of what happens is we, we the salacious headline.
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And this person said that it's never sometimes not true.
They say the headline in the in the, in tiny words at the first
paragraph, but also he's in context.
He said this. And so like when they get track
checked, it's not wrong. They don't have to go back to
the editor and say, Oh, well, I made a a mess up.
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But it's not, it's a, it's a class war.
I think we're going through right now, You know, it's the
haves and versus the have nots. And you know, I feel for the
people that who you know, who have had their homes destroyed
by the hurricane out North Carolina and then the wildfires
out in California. And one thing too, that just
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drives me crazy about Hollywood and rich people celebrities.
They had the audacity during, I think it was the Grammys or was
it the Golden Globes or whatever.
They had Oscar, it was Oscars. They were all in that.
I feel like they're all like within the same time.
Award season, call the number and make a donation.
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Everyday working people making donations when there was about a
trillion dollars in the room. That doesn't make any sense to
me as someone who I enjoy pop culture.
I enjoy, you know, the comings and goings I've been tracking,
the not tracking God make it make me seem like I'm out here,
like, you know, really, really diving into the details here
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sometimes, but not all the time.But like the Justin Baldoni and
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds saying it's just it's nasty
work. Go check it out.
You know, we have these culture war things, these these haves
and versus the have nots and we pick our favorite fighter and
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for some people it's Drake, somepeople it's Kendrick.
For some people it's the Democrat party or whoever they
got running Harris or Trump. So just something to think
about, not trying to hit y'all with like some crazy.
Oh, he's saying something so crazy.
No, I just be have observationalawareness because things are
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never as they seem. That is kind of the thing that
goes throughout my entire podcast, and sometimes things
are not as they seem. I want to perform their favorite
song, but you know they love thesewers.
Yeah, that song maybe I think about know what I slow it down 2
minutes later that's. What?
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You're almost there. Don't mess this.
It's a cultural divide. I'm going to get it on the
floor. You really about to do it?
40 years in the mule. This is bigger than the music.
You really about to do it? Yeah.
They tried to rig the game, but you can't fake in Florence.
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Hey, I'm tripping. I'm slapping.
I'm right through the back. Like here.
Freak throat, man. They talk to him and love.
Just make sure you have your newsister from him the only one
that get your hand me downs party got the party playing with
his nose down. Fuck I've got a weird case why I
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see around certified lover boy certified.
I'm on them tough. I'm going to do my stuff.
Why you showing them like a ain't you tired trying to strike
a chord and it's probably a minor.
They not like us. No, they not like us.
No, they not like. US, they not like us they not
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like OK, that's all hit. But Speaking of the Drake and
Kendrick beef came to I think our final chapter.
I think it's over finally. Well, then maybe not the Super
Bowl, you know, the lead up. We had the Philadelphia Eagles
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and then we had the Kansas City Chiefs.
And I am not by any means a Swifty.
In one of these days, I'm going to find the courage in my in my
in my heart to talk about TaylorSwift in in detail, because
there's a lot of weird things, one of them being that she's a
Neppo baby. All right, Swifties stay over
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there. But anyways, there was a lot of
storylines leading up. We had Saquon Barkley running
back for the for the Eagles. Basically he was traded away
from the Giants to NFC rival, you know, to the to the Eagles.
Is he going to get a Super Bowl?You know, is he going to show
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him? We got Jalen Hurts, former
Oklahoma Sooner quarterback, no Roll Tide in this household.
You know, he came through Normanfor one season made a great
impact, you know, went on, you know, Lincoln Riley did help him
went on and now he's a Super Bowl winning quarterback.
Spoiler alert. If you haven't seen the game.
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Then we have on the other side, we have Patty Mahomes, who's to
this day, I still cannot stand because he went to Texas Tech
and that he that he almost ruined the Sooner season that
year that they got beat by Georgia in the Rose Bowl in the
playoffs. Then we got Travis Kelsey or
Travis Swift, as we might say, or Taylor Kelsey, however you
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want to say it. Whatever side you're on.
You know, there were a lot of storylines on their side.
Is Patrick Mahomes the goat? You know, is Travis going to win
a three peat? And then is Taylor going to
write a song with him proposing at midfield?
You know, we had it ready. We wanted one of those moments.
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I, I, I personally, you know, for my wife, I was like, you
know what? I was over under.
If the Chiefs win, what's going to happen?
Do you think she's going to propose or he's going to propose
and it didn't happen? The Eagles won.
You know, they they beat, they beat the mess out the Chiefs.
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But you know why they won? You know they won because of
this one reason. Let me hear you all say.
We don't promise perfection. I'm so happy that I never have,
especially after I couldn't spell eagles right.
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Do we really need to get rid of the Department of Education?
No, I'm just kidding. Anyways.
But that's what they won. Sometimes, Hey, sometimes you
fail on your way to success. And I'm glad that she realized
she misspelled the Eagles because later on they didn't
burn the city down like I thought they were going to.
That's the only reason why I watch the Super Bowl when
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Philadelphia's in the Super Bowlor in the world any, any type of
sports, they burn that city downto the ground.
But but thankfully, you know, the mayor, that was the mayor
who you guys just heard. She greets the poles down.
She made sure that nobody was able to climb the the
streetlights, the intersection lights, so they greased them
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down so everything was good. No one got killed up to my
knowledge as of right now, but the Eagles won.
But I also watch for that Super Bowl halftime performance.
If you haven't heard Kendrick put on a banger or Diddy, cuz
I'm gonna be honest with y'all, I go back to the the Taylor
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Swift comment that I just made earlier.
One thing that drives me absolutely insane is when people
don't realize when something is artificial right in front of
their face. And what's even crazier about
Kendrick is he is they would say, oh, he's been on a run.
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Everybody's listening to his song and during his Grammy, when
he won his Grammys, like I guessthe week before the Super Bowl,
Lucian Grange and Doctor Dre andall them big wigs up at all
those big music companies, you know, those record labels.
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Oh, Kendrick. Yeah, Dapping him up, hugging
him. And I'm it's not really me
trying to shoot bail for Drake, but it's like when you guys,
when people don't realize that this isn't there's got to be
some type of artificial push because that Super Bowl formats
was a 2 pack of ass. The shit stunk, man.
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It was terrible. And there's going to be people
saying, Whoa, you missed the message.
If I have to decipher, if I haveto decipher a Super Bowl
halftime performance, that ain'tfor me.
I'm in the wrong. I'm watching the wrong sport.
And you know, shout out to the NFL for for apologizing.
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You know, I said that out. Oh no, no, they didn't
apologize. They sent out a letter to Wayne.
Lil Wayne said, hey, we apologize because Lil Wayne
would have brought out everyone Birdman, the hot boys.
You know, we you never knew whatwe would have, what he would
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have, what he would have done. Nikki might have been on that.
Drake may have showed up and then, but they picked Kendrick
Lamar because he was on this quote UN quote run winning all
these Grammys. Oh, he's the most streamed guy
you know, and it's just a lot ofit just stinks.
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It just stinks of just fabrication.
Now, granted, that song is fire.Not like us as fire Luther fire.
What else? He didn't even do swimming
pools. If you are from the age, if
you're, if you're in, OK, let's let's play this game here.
From 35 years old to about 27, you were out in the middle of a
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field. If you're in a rural area, you
were out in the middle of full field at a bonfire.
And you listen to swimming poolsby Kendrick Lamar over and over.
And you said pull up, drank, sitdown, drank.
Oh, yeah. No, he didn't even play that.
Oh, and if you're if if you're also kind of greasy, like, you
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know, I ain't saying I'm greasy now, but I'm, I got a touch of
slime on me. I ain't gonna lie, but he's in
the being someone, some random person's trailer, trailer house
and you know, you just, you know, swimming pools, I guess.
But no, but like he didn't even do that one.
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He there were so many songs, money trees.
There's all these songs. I I can't think of the top of my
head, but like he could have done and he did a lot of his
latest album GNX, which just came out, you know, a couple
months ago, which granted, but aSuper Bowl halftime performance.
We want to hear the hits. We want to make the club go
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crazy when it's not even the club.
We're at a halftime performance on the field.
But y'all get what I'm saying? We want to go crazy.
We want to be like, Oh yeah, andhe teased not like us.
The entire thing you guys have heard as you guys heard earlier
and watched. But that's one thing about this
whole Drake and Kendrick thing is that let's let's keep it
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1000%. He's there because of Drake.
I'm not a Drake. I'm not a Drake defender.
I'm not I'm not shooting him $1,000,000 worth of bell.
I'm just saying another nasty thing.
He had Serena Williams out there, Crip walking and Serena
Williams sister was killed by Crips.
That's crazy. And nothing too is that's
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Drake's former love interest. That's even more crazier.
He had sis out there, a former Drake love interest.
And what's even crazier about Serena Williams, greatest tennis
player of all time. Don't get me wrong, women's
tennis player, the GOAT, undefeated.
But one thing that's crazy to me.
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So you got a husband and kids, you went up to him and say, hey,
I got this big thing coming up, you know, it's the Super Bowl.
And he's like, Oh my God, for real Super Bowl.
Like what's going on? Are you like our dancer?
Like what? You know what's going on?
He's like she's like, yeah, I'm dancing in it, but like I'm
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dancing to not like us. And her husband goes, yeah,
that's fine. Ain't no way you're dancing on
the grave of your ex lover. No, sorry.
We gonna have beef because ain'tno way that I'm going to allow
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you to go up there and crip walkon your sister and Drake's Gray.
That's crazy. That's insane to me.
But I missed the messages. I get it. 40 acres and A and a
mule. You guys heard that.
You know, that's been a thing for a long time.
Spike Lee just the other night had it on, but dude's a
millionaire and doesn't make no sense.
But hey, what it is what it is. I ain't gonna say nothing else.
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But it just goes back to that thing where I mentioned at the
Grammys and the Oscars and whatever award rich people award
show is that these people are saying these messages, but
they're capitalizing on those messages.
I don't know, just weird to me. Just just hits me off.
Just strikes me a bit weird. But overall, that was a terrible
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halftime performance. You know, the all time greats,
MJ, Prince, Beyoncé, the weekendshoot, Usher, you know, Usher
had them all. He had the whole Ludacris and
Lil Jon. We just missed out on Wayne man,
cuz then just a couple days ago,this past Saturday, I believe it
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was the 15th on Saturday, Lil Wayne performed at SNL 50.
You know, he, he, he did his thing, man.
He where he had the whole melody.
You know, he, he carried, he hadsome charisma, he had some
energy. And they were saying, oh, we saw
Lil Wayne. Performed a year ago and he was
looking terrible, but now I do look good.
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He sounded good. He he wrapped the entire thing
breath control. But yeah, they did, they did Lil
Wayne crazy man. They did him crazy.
But Speaking of SNL 50, if you guys hadn't caught that, that
was this past weekend, obviously.
But there just comes a point in time.
I'm not going to, I'm not going to try to bring race into this,
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but I'm going to bring race, race into this.
SNL has become like this white suburban millennial humor and
like, it just drives me nuts because it's, it's stuff that's
not funny. It's just not funny.
(40:54):
There was a, there was a sketch with Kim Kardashian, Scarlett
Johansson, and one of the chicksfrom the previous cast.
Can't remember the name on top of my head, but it just was bad.
It was just not funny. And they did the the Susie
little hands with Will Ferrell and I'm just like this was this
may have been funny, but this isthis is a little, you know, it's
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about 20 years out of date here.We need another joke.
And there's people, the fan fansof SNL who watch it religiously
every week. It's just like, I don't know how
y'all do it, man. I just don't know.
It's like brain rot, but it's like the Internet, but they're
acting the Internet out and it'ssometimes funny.
Maybe think Michael Shay's funny.
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Colin Joss. He he needs to go.
You know, you had Bill Murray upthere doing the news report that
they do every week and he he wasfunnier.
He that's the funniest of that segments been in a long time.
I I hung around long enough to watch the Adam Sandler tribute
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song because we I love when AdamSandler sings his goofy songs.
It was really, it was pretty funny, But I ain't gonna lie.
I got a little a little something in me like a little
tear came to my eye when I started, when he was, they
showed Chris Farley and they showed Norm MacDonald because
those two dudes are like my childhood growing up.
They've been in so many movies. Black Sheep was my favorite
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Chris Farley movie. Just the best man.
I hate that he's gone, but I stayed around long enough.
They had commercials with, what was it, Andy Samberg?
He's kind of fall off. It's like when, dude, it's like
when people get money, they justlike, hey, we ain't gonna really
write that much. I saw the redheaded Scared
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Straight segment with Eddie Murphy, Tracy Morgan.
That was funny. You know what, those 3.
But we got to get Kenan Thompsonout of here y'all.
I'm just so tired of him being and stuff that's just it's just
not funny. It's just not like he hasn't
been funny since like 93 and allthat.
(43:09):
You know? You know, I'm flaming him for
that. But like he has not been funny.
Like he was did something with Kevin Hart for the new year and
that was a 2 pack of ass Kevin Hart.
Get him out of here too. He stopped being funny like
2012. I think his last funny movie was
Get Hard with Will Ferrell. Like, man, it's just bad.
It's just like, it's like they get like people get money and
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they just like, yeah, you know, I'm just going to go up here and
just riff. It's just like, Nah, man.
And I'm hating on, I'm hating onSNL.
That's terrible. And it's a question I want you
to leave down in the comments ifyou are not into SNL.
Were you a fan of Key and Peele?Were you a fan of the Chappelle
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Show? Like what was like or the mind
of Mencia, if y'all remember that.
Rest in peace, Carlos Mencia. He's now name his name is Ned,
which is kind of wild, but still.
But yeah, Well, let me know whaty'all what y'all think about
that. The SNL 50 if you watched it or
you know, if you never watched SNL because I just you know, I
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see that the Sabrina Carpenter 1was like in Pedro Pascal.
It's like he didn't even get hiswords right.
He forgot the words. It was just bad, man.
It's just like, oh, another thing too is Speaking of the
earlier I was speaking about theJustin Baldoni and Blake Lively
and Ryan Reynolds case. Whatever.
I briefly, briefly mentioned it,but Ryan Reynolds showed up and
(44:38):
literally you saw Kevin Costner and Anya Taylor Joy be like, why
is this guy here? Why is he on TV?
And basically they were like, oh, hey, Ryan, how are you?
And he was oh, what, what, what did you hear?
And the look on Blake Lively's face was like, like the, like,
the look of someone had utter fear in their eyes, like they
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were so shook that they were notready.
Because if you guys haven't heard, they're kind of down bad
right now. There's some receipts that came
out. Shout out to my Game of Thrones
fans. Apparently Blake Lively has.
So when? When Khaleesi died, there was
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another Khaleesi after that and her name was Blake and her two
Dragons are Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift, which is kind of
weird. And then she said something
about doing something with no teeth.
I don't know, Y'all read it. It's kind of wild, but just a
lot. Just a whole mess, man.
Just a whole mess, you know, I don't know if y'all have seen It
(45:44):
Ends with us. My wife and I were thinking
about watching it. We kind of was like, we don't
know. I really don't want to see Blake
live in another movie. I think the best she's ever been
was in Age of Adeline, and that was OK.
Her accent in the town was horrific.
So she's just I just I'm, I'm, I'm over them.
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Ryan Reynolds. And I want to know how many
times, I guess I can look this up, but how many times has Ryan
Reynolds been in a movie where he had a monologue at the very
beginning? Yeah.
My name is John and this is me. I mean, I really should have
done this. And it's like cut to some action
scene where he's like falling orsomething.
I'm just tired. I'm I'm like, I'm over
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Hollywood. I'm over them.
But they just cannot go away. But that was kind of like, you
know, everything with with pop culture that I've seen.
I'm really right now into a lot of these reality shows.
(46:47):
If you guys have not seen traders on Peacock in NBC, you
got to watch it, my guy. My guy, Boston Rob is on and I'm
a huge Boston Rob and I'm not going to wear a Boston Rob
T-shirt, but I'm a big Boston Rob fan.
He's in that season also with a bunch of Big Brother in the
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challenge W from the challenge. That guy's a straight A hole,
but traders another one is Extract, which is on Fox.
Let's see you there's a few other ones, but we watched the
Bear Grylls challenge. OK, the Bear Grylls bear hunt
challenge. I ain't going front to y'all.
(47:31):
I didn't realize that like people in the UK had their own
celebrities like that are actually kind of big.
I'm like a like I'm aloof to them.
Like I don't even know what's going on over there.
But like Bear Grylls had like had a bunch of like European
celebrities and then basically the object of it of the game is
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to basically survive challenges and not get haunted by Bear
Grylls. It is a pretty interesting show
if you haven't checked out on Netflix.
Just dropped just finished falling skies on Max.
I didn't realize how good a actor no a while is.
He's also in the pit on Max. You haven't seen the pit?
(48:14):
So kind of a ER type show, really, really, really good.
But Falling Skies about alien invasion, Noah Wiles and his
family, Tom Mason, they try to survive and all this stuff.
It also has Will Patton in it too.
He's excellent. I always love Will Patton.
He was in Yellowstone. There's a lot of stuff going on
(48:37):
with with TV's and movies, TV and movie TV's.
They multiple TV's, multiple movies anyways, but there's just
a lot of things coming down the pipeline.
I cannot wait. Nosferatu, February 21st, cannot
wait. Willem Dafoe, Bill Skarsgard,
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Lily Rose Depp. That's on my must watch list.
I'm in the middle of night agingright now on Netflix.
My wife and I finished Day of the Jackal and I'm going to say
something about Day of the Jackal.
One thing that's absolutely insane to me about that show,
his dude just kills people. Like he just like, oh, you found
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out you may have a hint, an inkling of who I am dead.
Like there's some, there's some kills in there where you're
like, man, he ain't got to do that guy like that.
But it's also the the plot really drives and it's like
really fast pace and you actually get to see some like
technical stuff, which is kind of cool with guns, which I'm not
really a gun guy, but it's kind of interesting.
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But Day of the Jackals on Peacock, really good show.
Squid Games came out late 2024. I mentioned that on the best of
I thought that was pretty good coming out soon.
The show that I cannot wait to watch and I've been waiting now
is the final season of you Now, Joe Goldberg, my guy, I think
(50:08):
it's time for you to die becauseyou need to die because this is
five seasons too long. But I'm glad it's ending.
I'm glad that I've been waiting for that season, final season of
that and we got Squid Games final season coming in June.
There's a lot of stuff. There's a few movies that I'm
waiting to watch is Heretic. Let me know if you've seen that
movie, if it's any good. Hugh Grant, let's see here.
(50:33):
Elevation with Anthony Mackie. Let me know if that's any good.
So kind of a sci-fi creature movie.
Werewolves with Frank Grillo. It's like the purge but with
werewolves is on my must watch. And Wolfman, which has the girl
from Ozarks, a little blonde headed girl from Ozarks, the
daughter, I can't think of her name, but that's coming out
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where her husband gets attacked and he starts turning.
And so that's that's coming out soon.
So there's a few things that I'mlooking forward to watching, but
let me know what you guys think about movies that I mentioned or
movies coming up or shows that are coming up on your guys's to
to watch list. And so, the NBA All Star game.
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Was this past weekend as well it.
I'm so I. Haven't I'm a I'm a very big
Lakers fan. Been a Lakers fan since I was a
little guy late 90s, like, you know, like Kobe, Shaq, that was
my, that was my introduction endof Michael's career, MJ.
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And I'm just, I'm, I'm so tired of LeBron James.
I'm absolutely so tired of LeBron James.
Like I cannot say that enough. He's on the Lakers.
You know, when he when he went there, I renounced my my fandom
that day, so. The All Star game.
Is here the day of and he decides to go.
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Yeah, guys, I am playing. For someone who has never made
an. All Star appearance would have
Norman Powell would have been beable would have would have been
able to have his first All Star appearance, which would make him
an All Star, which would boost his career in the long in the
long run. You know when he gets outside of
basketball and LeBron was like, Nah, I'm trying to play not
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enough time to get the logisticsgoing and kept that man from
being able to get an All Star appearance.
That's one thing that about the NBA that we need to get LeBron
out of here like he has to go. I am a LeBron hater for life.
There's nothing that you can convince me he could go and stop
world hunger and I'd still have a little hate in my heart for
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that guy. Now the Lakers are a 2 pack of
ass now with Luca and LeBron. AD was terrible, but I'm glad
I'm glad he's gone. But I'm but we bring in Luca,
who has allegedly a eating problem and a drinking problem
on the low whatever. But I'm just.
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I'm just. Over.
I'm over. NBA basketball Kobe said
something to Kobe Bryant. My the legend.
Rest in. Peace.
But he said something. That I'll never forget.
And this is when I was coaching and and player developing that
he basically was like the European kids understand the
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assignment, they understand the game of basketball.
They don't play on accident. And that's a lot of the stuff
that's being taught now, especially at the AAU level and
high school level. It's a lot of drive and then
read. So it's like, all right, drive
left. I got someone in the corner, I
got someone across the way and Igot someone, I got two people on
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the baselines in the for the corner 3.
And then I can either pick and pop pick and roll whatever I
need to do or I can or the guy on the wing, that fifth player
on the wing can cut and hit it like a, you know, easy layup.
It's a lot of read and react basketball.
A lot of it doesn't require a lot of basketball IQ.
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You just drive and kick until a shots open.
But as you guys can tell what this this kind of basketball
style, when you get into the playoffs, you get teams who can
switch, they can guard all 5 positions.
So when you try to do the pick and roll or you try to, you
know, kick and drive, there's people there to close out.
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And that style of basketball isn't just it, it's not a
playoff style basketball. It's like college football when
you got the the hurry up, the nohuddle, but it's all air raid.
It's all throwing the ball around.
You know, you don't see Georgia and Alabama and all these teams,
Clemson throw the ball around like that.
The only team that you've seen do that was LSU in in 2019 I
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believe. And I'm going to say LeBron
might. Have ruined ruined it.
Low key. I think Steph Curry had a huge
hand in it. Steph Curry made everybody think
that they can shoot threes, and I think a lot of some of y'all
be shooting way too many threes out of out of the out of pickup
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games. Yeah, so oh, Steph and then
shoot it real quick and then turn around and just be straight
ass man be air. This is the worst shot I ever
seen, but it's taught these young kids who like grew up with
Steph. Oh, that's my that's my Kobe
Bryant. Steph is a great player, but no
one is Steph Curry. No one is Klay Thompson.
Those are two of the top five best shooters ever and it's just
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ruined the game of basketball. Everything is either a layup or
three and that's one thing that I think that kind of.
Lebron's game. Leads into that because there's
no big men. LeBron had a lot of trouble with
the The Mavericks when he was with the Heat because they had
Tyson Chandler, they had Dirk Devinski, they had 7 footers
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back there. You know, they may not block the
shot, but they will contest it. And that was one thing too that
I think the style of NBA now is just it's too fast-paced.
There's not enough, you know, there's great coaches.
Don't get me wrong. There are people that know more
basketball than me. I'm not saying I'm the end all
be all, but there's too many threes and there's not enough
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post up and there's not enough mid range because anyone, the
most trouble I've ever had guarding someone is someone who
could do all three phases because you don't know what
they're going to do. You got the post up, they may
hit you a little shimmy fade to the corner.
They may hit you with a three-step pull up.
They may hit you with a one steppull up and you're gone because
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you're thinking they're driving,you know, and so the game is
just evolved into this three andD type ball game.
And I see it down at the the theyounger league.
You know, there was a time when I was player developing, when I
was working at the at nonprofit in Bigsby.
And now I'm training my kids, you know, and I'm, I'm kind of
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watching, you know, we get done and I'm watching this this guy
who quote, UN quote has trained D1 athletes, teaching this kid
basically how like not changing his shot per SE, but teaching
him how he can get a shot off with the shot that he has.
And he shot from his stomach. So it was kind of a weird
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release. Like you're not shooting,
you're, you're shooting from below and not really with a 90°
angle, you know, like a like you're squaring up and just a
weird looking shot. And as a kid, I said, how much
you paying him? He's I'm paying him like 200
bucks a month, you know, and then any extra it's like a
certain amount of and I'm just, it just doesn't make any sense
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why we're why, why we're not teaching the fundamentals.
This kid couldn't even go left, but he was like all
right-handed. So I get it.
You're trying to work on their strengths, but like we got to
become a full person, but they're full basketball player.
But that's just the game that I'm seeing.
It's just hard to watch. The NBA ratings are at an all
time low right now. The All Star game was awful and
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it's just, I just wish basketball and I've, I've lost
my love for basketball. Had a buddy of mine reach out
and was like, yeah, man, come, come get in shape, come get in
shape and come play in this tournament and the couple of
these tournaments. And I'm just like I told him
flat out, you know, I just don'thave an enemy.
I, I don't love it. I just like the way the, the
younger kids are coming up playing pick up.
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It's just, I miss those days when we had old heads who they
were very annoying, but they held it down.
You know, they were in their maybe early 40s and it's just
pick up culture and basketball. It's just not, it's not the
same. It's like everybody in my age
was like, well, we're going to get a job.
You know, I ain't got time, got kids.
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You know, we just kind of gave up on pick up.
And now it's like these high school kids are running and it's
just, it's just bad. But no offense if that's you,
you just it is what it is. You don't know no better.
But but it's just, it's a sad state of affairs for for the
game of basketball nowadays. Manuel, I appreciate you guys.
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That have continued to support the podcast in the many
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the podcast, you listen to the podcast, the Patreon's there.
I'm going to be adding the Martin Luther King files and
I'll be basically talking about that on Patreon.
You know, I guess it'll drop anytime but but it's just
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I feel like I've I've I kind of want to build up a bunch of
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Maybe a few people and didn't dothis is creepy and you know,
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every two weeks. Just life, like I'm getting busy
again. And you know, once the holidays
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you start looking at things a little different.
And you know, I felt on previousepisodes feeling a little beggy
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So my year, my 2023 and 2024 were kind of really slow going.
And 2025 is felt really like I felt better for like a wait.
I don't really believe in numerology, but that I don't
know, there might be something to that.
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But I feel a little bit better. You know, I'm trying to try to
figure out kind of, you know, the, you know, the house
situation because man, we we man, I'll go back to I said
plumbers, man. They be on one sometimes, but
they be good. But sometimes they, you know,
just you don't want to pay the extra, I guess, but not the
extra, but just just expensive to own a home and all that
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So have you joined the Patreon? You're going to get a bunch of
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I got a few ideas of what thingsI want to do is you guys can
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Y'all like this on this episode?Anyways but.
You know, those sound effects were kind of funny because they
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No Facebook, no Instagram, you know, no Snapchat, nothing the,
the meta platforms, just I, I just felt something in my gut.
Me and my wife both are off Facebook and stuff.
So we, we made that choice and delete everything and, and just,
you know, I'm on X. I'm on X every day.
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I literally had a, a thread of tweets just bombing on SNL 50.
I'm, I'm going to put up a wrestling review when it comes
closer to WrestleMania. I'm going to do like a a
WrestleMania lead up episode. If you like it, you don't, you
know, if that's what you're intowrestling, then, you know,
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soon. And then like I said, Patreon,
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And it has a lot of interesting information about him.
I didn't know a lot of the stuffI didn't know his handlers.
And it leads into a lot of stuffthat it's kind of uncomfortable
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you guys on the next one.
They're very, very dangerous if these fighting sense, you know,
I was like, oh, something's off.I'm just like, man, I'm waiting
to hear something. You know what's going on, guys?
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And welcome to another edition of the War Cry podcast.
I'm your host. You hold a tiger.
And it's, I feel like I've been out of the podcast game for like
9 years because so much has beengoing on in my, in my personal
life. Y'all ever let me, let me, let
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me, let me phrase this how I want to phrase it.
Why do plumbers cost so Dang much?
That's my that's my question like I asked somebody to come
out here and tell me that I havea leak from the from the meter
to the basically to the side of the house because we have some
water pooling more than some water.
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Absolutely disgusting. It's it's the Nat like I'm
already kind of weird about poop.
So if you like y'all ever think that I had some type of poop
thing going on? I don't it just, I don't know,
just the thought of it just makes me just like disgusted.
I guess you could say that's a easy word to say.
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And it just is so muddy. It's just bad.
But Danny said, yeah, it's goingto be 100 and something, you
know, light, light work. I'm just going to walk the
perimeter. Oh yeah, it's over here. 100 and
38135 bucks. Whatever it was, it's nasty
work. But hey, it's got to be done.
But I appreciate, appreciate that business.
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And if you guys have wondered, Ifeel like some of y'all, I've
gotten a few messages, which I appreciate.
It's very, it's very nice of you.
I'll say that. It's like very kind that you
would ask about me, but I'm off Facebook.
This whole TikTok thing. I started looking up and
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something I get this weird thingwhere like I start looking into
things that I don't, you know, that I want to know that I'm
curious about. And so Facebook, what they do is
they monetize your posts, your pictures, everything, which
obviously y'all going to some ofy'all going to be obviously,
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yes, obviously, and I'm not a I'm not a Zuckerberg guy.
You know, I've never been. I've been off Instagram for
almost a year. I mean, the algorithms suck.
And we had that Tiktok ban that I think as a society and as a a
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human race, I have never seen somany people like, it's almost
like a eulogy. It was like we was, you know,
like we had a real close relative, you know, pass away
peacefully into the night. And TikTok really did that to
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us. You know, I had to, I had to, I
had to play mine. I had to put my little post out
and it was sad. And then it like 9 or 830,
whatever time it was, I went to hit that refresh button trying
to get that last bit of 2020, 2019-2020, one content that I
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missed because I didn't get on TikTok till like 2022.
But I had to give me a little piece of that.
I had to enjoy a memory that wasn't mine.
And I hit that refresh button and it was gone.
It was gone. My wife had a visceral scream.
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It was almost quite embarrassing, I'm not going to
lie. And if you hear this, baby, I'm
sorry. But I got to tell.
I got to tell off on you like that, You know, for the first
time in about 3 years, I decidedto go outside after that and
touch grass. I can't believe it.
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I didn't realize grass was itchy.
It's just a, it's a sad state ofaffairs, I'll tell you what.
But once I went outside and I touched a little bit of grass,
walked around a little bit, didn't realize that fresh air
smelled so good, didn't realize the trees turn brown and then
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die in the winter time. In the winter time, it is a
little cloudy outside. I didn't know that either.
It's just a it's crazy, I hear. And then one day, I think a
couple days later, some white particles came down.
I think it some, some people sayit looks like snow or it's
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called snow. I didn't know, but it's crazy
what that band did to us. But it's crazy.
It's just really crazy. I don't know how else to say it.
And then just like Jesus Christ,I'm sorry.
I'd do it soon. But just like Jesus, TikTok came
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back three days later. It was almost like a metaphor,
some would say. And then all of a sudden we get
on and I got beef with Canada and the UK.
So if you're from Canada and youin in, in the UK, we was off
that app US Americans were off that app for like 2 hours.
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No, not even 2 hours. I was going to say two days, but
like 16 hours, 18 hours. And you all said it was quiet on
there. That's nasty work.
We was we were outside touching grass for the first time in
three years realizing what life is without TikTok and y'all on
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their posting some of the most garbage con content I have ever
seen. I saw somebody on there put a
piece of bread in the toaster. But not even like a old school
is like 1800s toaster. What are y'all doing?
There's electric over there. I know y'all got electric.
Those 18th century toaster that y'all got that I think we sent
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back over once we beat y'all in World War, not world.
How about I say World War 2? Dang, during the American
Revolution, I think we sent thatback with y'all.
Y'all gonna have that trash piece of equipment back with
y'all. We weren't even gone 18 hours
and y'all did us that crazy. Y'all was putting beans on toast
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with cheese with the cheese. No, yeah, I'll be ashamed of
yourselves and I didn't know. I'm not real well versed in in
British culture and connect and Canada.
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I'm not done with y'all. Just lose.
I got something for y'all but y'all literally said it was
quiet and then y'all post the garb.
Most garbage content of y'all getting in knife fights.
Like what is that? That's crazy work.
That's crazy work. Now Canada, during that TikTok
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ban, y'all thought y'all was some Trump came into office.
You know, y'all was getting our algos, y'all was getting all our
content and just recreating it. Trump comes back in, extends the
date, so we're good. We're back and Canada and you
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and obviously if you guys know, obviously if you haven't,
tariffs are like the thing rightnow.
Everybody likes to toss around atariff.
You get a tariff and you get a tariff, yo, you get a tariff.
Some dude with no shirt on across the street, you get a
tariff. I'm starting to tariff my own
kids. So give me that.
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I make them a little bit of food.
I get my 20%. That's called tax.
So we going we doing a bar for bar tariff with with Canada and
I keep seeing on TikTok once we came back and the algos came
back, which by the way I'm also tired of seeing if you block
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Facebook and all meta, your algowill go back to how it was.
That's crazy. Anyways, we going through a
tariff battle right now. We go you go it's like a little
rap battle going on. Fast forward to net like
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literally like two nights ago orlast night they sing in the
national anthem in a hockey gameand hockey is supposed to be
Canada sport. Y'all supposed to be like the
greatest of all time. You are supposed to be like like
Soviet Union, 1970s hockey. When America upsetted the Soviet
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Union that one year, I don't even know the year they start
singing that beautiful national anthem we have here in America
and y'all booed us out the building.
I'm coming kind of spicy today. I I got I got it all for all
y'all. I'm a little I'm a I'm a little
I saw that I said all right, I see how it is not even 5, not
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even a half a second into the fight, one of our US dudes said,
let's go takes the gloves off and starts going going to town
on this dude. They start getting into a back
and forth in hockey. You know, correct me if I'm
wrong. What, so y'all just fighting?
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Is that what's going on? Y'all just like, hey you know
what, stop the game. It's like when 2 dudes in pickup
are like crying over a foul. And he said no that's no, no,
no, that's not a foul. That's a foul.
Yes it is. Is that how y'all do that?
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I'm gonna have to start watchinghockey more.
This is what this goes down not even a second in.
He said throw the gloves off, let's go, let's get it.
So I said, all right, they goingto do that little throw the puck
down and referee runs away. Next dude says I bet I got you,
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takes the gloves off. They go at it again. 9 seconds
into this fight there's three fights or 9 seconds into this
hockey game there's three fights.
You know obviously in highlightsof Americans checking the mess
checking is that is that is thatthe right word?
If y'all know out there hockey people can't Canadian people
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that listen to podcast, we was checking the mess out.
Y'all like out like I couldn't even believe it.
You know, y'all going to Boo us out the building, we going to
fight with y'all three times in nine seconds and then we check
y'all all game, dice all up, slice and dice, scary movie
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style, and beat y'all 31. Beat y'all 31.
Let me go ahead and get a round of applause for that.
That's what I'm talking about. 3-1 and this is what I gotta do.
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This is a new sound effect. No, that's crazy.
ANYWAYS, but yeah, we got y'all 31.
So for all y'all talking mess when we was out, this is hey,
this is how petty Americans are.We will hold that grudge all the
way to a hockey game. How dare you tariff us?
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How dare we tariff y'all howeverit shakes out.
But we got our, we got our lick back.
So it's OK. But we are, we're two months in,
we're not even two months into this, this 2025 year.
And a lot of people are upset. You know, I, I see, I see both
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sides of the coin when it comes to a lot of things going on
right now. But one thing that is for sure
and one thing that is forever isDemocrats.
Y'all make me laugh. I get it, you guys don't want
Elon Musk and all these different doge and all and all
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these different departments and it has caused a lot of chaos for
federal federal workers and you know contractors, but y'all got
to stop singing these songs we're.
Fighting against George. We're Elon Musk in our worlds.
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We'll fight from dawn to dusk. Which side are you on?
Which side are you on? Open me.
Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
Trump's coming for our unions. He wants us out to fight, he
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wants us to to bow to him, but we want him in jail.
Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
They say in the the capital citythat open the school transferred
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you're either with the union or a scabby Musk Bloodhound.
Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
Tell me, which side are you on? On which side are you on?
Don't take that government buyout.
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Don't listen to Trump's lies. Us workers haven't got a chance
unless we organize. Oh, which side are you on?
Which side are you on? Tell me which side are you on?
Which side are you on? I'm really curious.
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I wonder how long that took themto write that they gave us 2
minutes of straight two minutes of straight ass.
What are they doing man? Like that's what they just don't
make no sense to me. Like we rather like for those of
you guys out of the know, I am aregistered Democrat.
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I've been a Democrat since I wasable to a vote and that's my,
that's my thing. But one thing that I get
frustrated when I see things like this is that as someone who
is rather a rather conservative ish, you know, in some aspects I
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don't understand why. Let's get up on the stage as a
waste people's time and let's sing this 2 minute piece of
garbage for what? Do the same thing.
MSNBCCBSNBCCNN, News Nation, Midas touch the recount.
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I mean, it doesn't do anything and I think it lacks why I feel
the way I do about the party that I'm registered in is it
doesn't, you know, RK Junior said something that really kind
of it, how I say this, it resonated with me is that I
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didn't, you know, he said that he didn't leave the the Democrat
Party. They left him and a few other
people have said that like they just left us behind us more
conservative ish. Like, I'm not really that
conservative, but I'm pretty, you know, I, I do value certain
things more than I do other things.
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But this is that's got to stop, man.
You know, I think another thing too, that I've, you know, been
kind of interested in. I think it's kind of wild of
what's going on. The USAID thing is intriguing to
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me. You know, we have Democrats
running around trying to get into buildings like, you know,
when they're really not in control.
Maybe I'm not really quite sure on the logistics of that end,
but it's it's definitely interesting.
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And one thing to that, I'm goingto say Elon Musk scares me as
someone who, you know, I follow him on Twitter or on X and he
says things that I'm like, OK, all right, you know, he's your
former Democrat and and things like that.
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But he says things were just spooked me.
Example of that is when he talksabout ancient Egypt.
He is for years talked about ancient, ancient Egypt and the
things that, you know, come and go.
And he mentioned something with Jordan Peterson and I saw a clip
floating around on X and I'll TikTok where he was talking
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about Memphis and it was like itwas really creepy.
You said something that caught me right away when we were
discussing various issues just before we started, you said you
were up till 4:00 in the morning.
Yeah, so actually a little a little more like 5 in the
morning. But we got to the the XAI data
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center or supercomputer center training from beginning
installation to startup trainingin 19 days, which is the fastest
that anyone has ever gotten a supercomputer to train.
And is that in that new buildingoff to the side?
That's in Memphis. Actually, it's in Memphis.
Yeah. Oh.
So. So that's where you were.
Yeah. I see.
Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt.
Right. Right.
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Right. Right.
Right. Right.
Yeah. Yeah.
You're bringing what? Perhaps that's where our new God
will come from. Yeah.
No kidding. No kidding.
Yeah. I wish that was funny.
Yeah. OK.
So I want to talk to you about aline that is that is funny.
Yeah. Yeah.
Right. There's a lot of things about
that guy that just Spooks me out.
And so when I see him parading around with the the president,
it just makes me. It does make me a little
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cautious about what's going on. And then, you know, now the
rumor as of today, this is what recording this Tuesday night
that $8000 checks are going to be passed around allegedly.
And to me, I just, there's something off about it.
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I don't know, you know, I know Ihave I have a a lot of people
who voted for Trump support Trump and all that President
Trump and all those things, but I like to stay objectively
aware. I guess you could say when it
comes to him specifically, one thing that I do like that's been
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going around and like I said, you can agree to disagree.
That is fine. I'd, I'm not a not going to
debate you on topics or if I getsomething wrong, I get it wrong.
Guess what? I go back to the drawing board
and correct it later, whatever. But you know, one thing that I
do like that he has done is thathe two people that I've really,
if you follow me on X, I'm very heavy and very supportive of, of
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Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Junior. Now there's going to be some
people. How could you?
How could you? But we have to look back to see
what what who they were before now.
And this is one thing too that Iwant everyone to just kind of
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think about for one second whileyou're listening to this podcast
before 2016. If you look at that cabinet and
look at all the people he's appointed, the people who, you
know, their track records, what were they?
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They were Democrats. And so Republicans are are
cheering these Democrats that are flipping to the red, to the
Republican side. It just looks weird to me.
It's like we're doing this flip Trump.
A lot of money to the Clintons, a lot of money to Obama.
You know, in 2012 when Obama made that joke about Trump.
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And if you guys hadn't seen thatvideo, go go research it.
You could tell Trump was like, oh, no, you ain't going to say
nothing about me, big boy. I'm I'm funding you.
You know, he had, he had been a donor for a lot of these big
time Democrats for a lot of years.
You know, Tulsi Gabbard was viceDNC chair Robert F Kennedy.
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Obviously, the that's a a stronghold on the Democrat side,
which is nasty work, by the way.His whole family is a kind of
turning on him. I just thought that was kind of
weird too. But nonetheless, it's just
something to look at, look at, you know, staying objectively
aware, I guess you could say. And I'm not here to to cheer or
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root for anybody. I just, I want things better for
everyone. And I think a lot of times, you
know, we get into this, this warwith each other when it comes to
the Blues and the Reds. And as someone who's not like,
you know, I I'm I don't feel like I'm either blue or red.
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I'm kind of like a Gray, I guess, But I guess that's
independent color, whatever. But I see these people just
going to battle like y'all, likethey wake up just be on X or
TikTok and being in comments just going to war with each
other. And that's a funny thing about
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if you look at how you know what's going on, it isn't a
battle. This, this has never been a
battle between someone who makes$30,000 a year or someone who
makes no money a year in surviving on Medicaid or food
stamps or you know, all the manyprograms that you know, the, I
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guess you say Planned Parenthood, that's one of them,
a program out there or that was out there.
I don't know if it's still out there.
I'm, I'm ignorant when it comes to some of those stuffs, but you
know, there's a lot of programs out there there that a lot of
people need. And you got to look at it from
a, a point of kind of a point ofreference of it's not you and
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me. It should, it should not be me
versus you or you versus that person or blue versus red.
You know, a lot of the people that make a lot of money in this
country are starting to shift and things are going in a
certain direction. That one the USAID and where our
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tax money's going. I mean, Doge has done some
pretty decent things I've seen and read and I'm not getting my
information from some random person on TikTok.
You got to go and find and read the articles but and not be
headline hunters, man. A lot of people read the
headlines say, Oh, I know exactly what's going on, But
that's a lot of what happens is we, we the salacious headline.
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And this person said that it's never sometimes not true.
They say the headline in the in the, in tiny words at the first
paragraph, but also he's in context.
He said this. And so like when they get track
checked, it's not wrong. They don't have to go back to
the editor and say, Oh, well, I made a a mess up.
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But it's not, it's a, it's a class war.
I think we're going through right now, You know, it's the
haves and versus the have nots. And you know, I feel for the
people that who you know, who have had their homes destroyed
by the hurricane out North Carolina and then the wildfires
out in California. And one thing too, that just
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drives me crazy about Hollywood and rich people celebrities.
They had the audacity during, I think it was the Grammys or was
it the Golden Globes or whatever.
They had Oscar, it was Oscars. They were all in that.
I feel like they're all like within the same time.
Award season, call the number and make a donation.
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Everyday working people making donations when there was about a
trillion dollars in the room. That doesn't make any sense to
me as someone who I enjoy pop culture.
I enjoy, you know, the comings and goings I've been tracking,
the not tracking God make it make me seem like I'm out here,
like, you know, really, really diving into the details here
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sometimes, but not all the time.But like the Justin Baldoni and
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds saying it's just it's nasty
work. Go check it out.
You know, we have these culture war things, these these haves
and versus the have nots and we pick our favorite fighter and
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for some people it's Drake, somepeople it's Kendrick.
For some people it's the Democrat party or whoever they
got running Harris or Trump. So just something to think
about, not trying to hit y'all with like some crazy.
Oh, he's saying something so crazy.
No, I just be have observationalawareness because things are
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never as they seem. That is kind of the thing that
goes throughout my entire podcast, and sometimes things
are not as they seem. I want to perform their favorite
song, but you know they love thesewers.
Yeah, that song maybe I think about know what I slow it down 2
minutes later that's. What?
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You're almost there. Don't mess this.
It's a cultural divide. I'm going to get it on the
floor. You really about to do it?
40 years in the mule. This is bigger than the music.
You really about to do it? Yeah.
They tried to rig the game, but you can't fake in Florence.
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Hey, I'm tripping. I'm slapping.
I'm right through the back. Like here.
Freak throat, man. They talk to him and love.
Just make sure you have your newsister from him the only one
that get your hand me downs party got the party playing with
his nose down. Fuck I've got a weird case why I
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see around certified lover boy certified.
I'm on them tough. I'm going to do my stuff.
Why you showing them like a ain't you tired trying to strike
a chord and it's probably a minor.
They not like us. No, they not like us.
No, they not like. US, they not like us they not
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like OK, that's all hit. But Speaking of the Drake and
Kendrick beef came to I think our final chapter.
I think it's over finally. Well, then maybe not the Super
Bowl, you know, the lead up. We had the Philadelphia Eagles
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and then we had the Kansas City Chiefs.
And I am not by any means a Swifty.
In one of these days, I'm going to find the courage in my in my
in my heart to talk about TaylorSwift in in detail, because
there's a lot of weird things, one of them being that she's a
Neppo baby. All right, Swifties stay over
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there. But anyways, there was a lot of
storylines leading up. We had Saquon Barkley running
back for the for the Eagles. Basically he was traded away
from the Giants to NFC rival, you know, to the to the Eagles.
Is he going to get a Super Bowl?You know, is he going to show
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him? We got Jalen Hurts, former
Oklahoma Sooner quarterback, no Roll Tide in this household.
You know, he came through Normanfor one season made a great
impact, you know, went on, you know, Lincoln Riley did help him
went on and now he's a Super Bowl winning quarterback.
Spoiler alert. If you haven't seen the game.
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Then we have on the other side, we have Patty Mahomes, who's to
this day, I still cannot stand because he went to Texas Tech
and that he that he almost ruined the Sooner season that
year that they got beat by Georgia in the Rose Bowl in the
playoffs. Then we got Travis Kelsey or
Travis Swift, as we might say, or Taylor Kelsey, however you
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want to say it. Whatever side you're on.
You know, there were a lot of storylines on their side.
Is Patrick Mahomes the goat? You know, is Travis going to win
a three peat? And then is Taylor going to
write a song with him proposing at midfield?
You know, we had it ready. We wanted one of those moments.
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I, I, I personally, you know, for my wife, I was like, you
know what? I was over under.
If the Chiefs win, what's going to happen?
Do you think she's going to propose or he's going to propose
and it didn't happen? The Eagles won.
You know, they they beat, they beat the mess out the Chiefs.
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But you know why they won? You know they won because of
this one reason. Let me hear you all say.
We don't promise perfection. I'm so happy that I never have,
especially after I couldn't spell eagles right.
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Do we really need to get rid of the Department of Education?
No, I'm just kidding. Anyways.
But that's what they won. Sometimes, Hey, sometimes you
fail on your way to success. And I'm glad that she realized
she misspelled the Eagles because later on they didn't
burn the city down like I thought they were going to.
That's the only reason why I watch the Super Bowl when
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Philadelphia's in the Super Bowlor in the world any, any type of
sports, they burn that city downto the ground.
But but thankfully, you know, the mayor, that was the mayor
who you guys just heard. She greets the poles down.
She made sure that nobody was able to climb the the
streetlights, the intersection lights, so they greased them
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down so everything was good. No one got killed up to my
knowledge as of right now, but the Eagles won.
But I also watch for that Super Bowl halftime performance.
If you haven't heard Kendrick put on a banger or Diddy, cuz
I'm gonna be honest with y'all, I go back to the the Taylor
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Swift comment that I just made earlier.
One thing that drives me absolutely insane is when people
don't realize when something is artificial right in front of
their face. And what's even crazier about
Kendrick is he is they would say, oh, he's been on a run.
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Everybody's listening to his song and during his Grammy, when
he won his Grammys, like I guessthe week before the Super Bowl,
Lucian Grange and Doctor Dre andall them big wigs up at all
those big music companies, you know, those record labels.
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Oh, Kendrick. Yeah, Dapping him up, hugging
him. And I'm it's not really me
trying to shoot bail for Drake, but it's like when you guys,
when people don't realize that this isn't there's got to be
some type of artificial push because that Super Bowl formats
was a 2 pack of ass. The shit stunk, man.
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It was terrible. And there's going to be people
saying, Whoa, you missed the message.
If I have to decipher, if I haveto decipher a Super Bowl
halftime performance, that ain'tfor me.
I'm in the wrong. I'm watching the wrong sport.
And you know, shout out to the NFL for for apologizing.
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You know, I said that out. Oh no, no, they didn't
apologize. They sent out a letter to Wayne.
Lil Wayne said, hey, we apologize because Lil Wayne
would have brought out everyone Birdman, the hot boys.
You know, we you never knew whatwe would have, what he would
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have, what he would have done. Nikki might have been on that.
Drake may have showed up and then, but they picked Kendrick
Lamar because he was on this quote UN quote run winning all
these Grammys. Oh, he's the most streamed guy
you know, and it's just a lot ofit just stinks.
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It just stinks of just fabrication.
Now, granted, that song is fire.Not like us as fire Luther fire.
What else? He didn't even do swimming
pools. If you are from the age, if
you're, if you're in, OK, let's let's play this game here.
From 35 years old to about 27, you were out in the middle of a
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field. If you're in a rural area, you
were out in the middle of full field at a bonfire.
And you listen to swimming poolsby Kendrick Lamar over and over.
And you said pull up, drank, sitdown, drank.
Oh, yeah. No, he didn't even play that.
Oh, and if you're if if you're also kind of greasy, like, you
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know, I ain't saying I'm greasy now, but I'm, I got a touch of
slime on me. I ain't gonna lie, but he's in
the being someone, some random person's trailer, trailer house
and you know, you just, you know, swimming pools, I guess.
But no, but like he didn't even do that one.
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He there were so many songs, money trees.
There's all these songs. I I can't think of the top of my
head, but like he could have done and he did a lot of his
latest album GNX, which just came out, you know, a couple
months ago, which granted, but aSuper Bowl halftime performance.
We want to hear the hits. We want to make the club go
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crazy when it's not even the club.
We're at a halftime performance on the field.
But y'all get what I'm saying? We want to go crazy.
We want to be like, Oh yeah, andhe teased not like us.
The entire thing you guys have heard as you guys heard earlier
and watched. But that's one thing about this
whole Drake and Kendrick thing is that let's let's keep it
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1000%. He's there because of Drake.
I'm not a Drake. I'm not a Drake defender.
I'm not I'm not shooting him $1,000,000 worth of bell.
I'm just saying another nasty thing.
He had Serena Williams out there, Crip walking and Serena
Williams sister was killed by Crips.
That's crazy. And nothing too is that's
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Drake's former love interest. That's even more crazier.
He had sis out there, a former Drake love interest.
And what's even crazier about Serena Williams, greatest tennis
player of all time. Don't get me wrong, women's
tennis player, the GOAT, undefeated.
But one thing that's crazy to me.
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So you got a husband and kids, you went up to him and say, hey,
I got this big thing coming up, you know, it's the Super Bowl.
And he's like, Oh my God, for real Super Bowl.
Like what's going on? Are you like our dancer?
Like what? You know what's going on?
He's like she's like, yeah, I'm dancing in it, but like I'm
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dancing to not like us. And her husband goes, yeah,
that's fine. Ain't no way you're dancing on
the grave of your ex lover. No, sorry.
We gonna have beef because ain'tno way that I'm going to allow
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you to go up there and crip walkon your sister and Drake's Gray.
That's crazy. That's insane to me.
But I missed the messages. I get it. 40 acres and A and a
mule. You guys heard that.
You know, that's been a thing for a long time.
Spike Lee just the other night had it on, but dude's a
millionaire and doesn't make no sense.
But hey, what it is what it is. I ain't gonna say nothing else.
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But it just goes back to that thing where I mentioned at the
Grammys and the Oscars and whatever award rich people award
show is that these people are saying these messages, but
they're capitalizing on those messages.
I don't know, just weird to me. Just just hits me off.
Just strikes me a bit weird. But overall, that was a terrible
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halftime performance. You know, the all time greats,
MJ, Prince, Beyoncé, the weekendshoot, Usher, you know, Usher
had them all. He had the whole Ludacris and
Lil Jon. We just missed out on Wayne man,
cuz then just a couple days ago,this past Saturday, I believe it
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was the 15th on Saturday, Lil Wayne performed at SNL 50.
You know, he, he, he did his thing, man.
He where he had the whole melody.
You know, he, he carried, he hadsome charisma, he had some
energy. And they were saying, oh, we saw
Lil Wayne. Performed a year ago and he was
looking terrible, but now I do look good.
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He sounded good. He he wrapped the entire thing
breath control. But yeah, they did, they did Lil
Wayne crazy man. They did him crazy.
But Speaking of SNL 50, if you guys hadn't caught that, that
was this past weekend, obviously.
But there just comes a point in time.
I'm not going to, I'm not going to try to bring race into this,
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but I'm going to bring race, race into this.
SNL has become like this white suburban millennial humor and
like, it just drives me nuts because it's, it's stuff that's
not funny. It's just not funny.
(40:54):
There was a, there was a sketch with Kim Kardashian, Scarlett
Johansson, and one of the chicksfrom the previous cast.
Can't remember the name on top of my head, but it just was bad.
It was just not funny. And they did the the Susie
little hands with Will Ferrell and I'm just like this was this
may have been funny, but this isthis is a little, you know, it's
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about 20 years out of date here.We need another joke.
And there's people, the fan fansof SNL who watch it religiously
every week. It's just like, I don't know how
y'all do it, man. I just don't know.
It's like brain rot, but it's like the Internet, but they're
acting the Internet out and it'ssometimes funny.
Maybe think Michael Shay's funny.
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Colin Joss. He he needs to go.
You know, you had Bill Murray upthere doing the news report that
they do every week and he he wasfunnier.
He that's the funniest of that segments been in a long time.
I I hung around long enough to watch the Adam Sandler tribute
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song because we I love when AdamSandler sings his goofy songs.
It was really, it was pretty funny, But I ain't gonna lie.
I got a little a little something in me like a little
tear came to my eye when I started, when he was, they
showed Chris Farley and they showed Norm MacDonald because
those two dudes are like my childhood growing up.
They've been in so many movies. Black Sheep was my favorite
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Chris Farley movie. Just the best man.
I hate that he's gone, but I stayed around long enough.
They had commercials with, what was it, Andy Samberg?
He's kind of fall off. It's like when, dude, it's like
when people get money, they justlike, hey, we ain't gonna really
write that much. I saw the redheaded Scared
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Straight segment with Eddie Murphy, Tracy Morgan.
That was funny. You know what, those 3.
But we got to get Kenan Thompsonout of here y'all.
I'm just so tired of him being and stuff that's just it's just
not funny. It's just not like he hasn't
been funny since like 93 and allthat.
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You know? You know, I'm flaming him for
that. But like he has not been funny.
Like he was did something with Kevin Hart for the new year and
that was a 2 pack of ass Kevin Hart.
Get him out of here too. He stopped being funny like
2012. I think his last funny movie was
Get Hard with Will Ferrell. Like, man, it's just bad.
It's just like, it's like they get like people get money and
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they just like, yeah, you know, I'm just going to go up here and
just riff. It's just like, Nah, man.
And I'm hating on, I'm hating onSNL.
That's terrible. And it's a question I want you
to leave down in the comments ifyou are not into SNL.
Were you a fan of Key and Peele?Were you a fan of the Chappelle
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Show? Like what was like or the mind
of Mencia, if y'all remember that.
Rest in peace, Carlos Mencia. He's now name his name is Ned,
which is kind of wild, but still.
But yeah, Well, let me know whaty'all what y'all think about
that. The SNL 50 if you watched it or
you know, if you never watched SNL because I just you know, I
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see that the Sabrina Carpenter 1was like in Pedro Pascal.
It's like he didn't even get hiswords right.
He forgot the words. It was just bad, man.
It's just like, oh, another thing too is Speaking of the
earlier I was speaking about theJustin Baldoni and Blake Lively
and Ryan Reynolds case. Whatever.
I briefly, briefly mentioned it,but Ryan Reynolds showed up and
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literally you saw Kevin Costner and Anya Taylor Joy be like, why
is this guy here? Why is he on TV?
And basically they were like, oh, hey, Ryan, how are you?
And he was oh, what, what, what did you hear?
And the look on Blake Lively's face was like, like the, like,
the look of someone had utter fear in their eyes, like they
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were so shook that they were notready.
Because if you guys haven't heard, they're kind of down bad
right now. There's some receipts that came
out. Shout out to my Game of Thrones
fans. Apparently Blake Lively has.
So when? When Khaleesi died, there was
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another Khaleesi after that and her name was Blake and her two
Dragons are Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift, which is kind of
weird. And then she said something
about doing something with no teeth.
I don't know, Y'all read it. It's kind of wild, but just a
lot. Just a whole mess, man.
Just a whole mess, you know, I don't know if y'all have seen It
(45:44):
Ends with us. My wife and I were thinking
about watching it. We kind of was like, we don't
know. I really don't want to see Blake
live in another movie. I think the best she's ever been
was in Age of Adeline, and that was OK.
Her accent in the town was horrific.
So she's just I just I'm, I'm, I'm over them.
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Ryan Reynolds. And I want to know how many
times, I guess I can look this up, but how many times has Ryan
Reynolds been in a movie where he had a monologue at the very
beginning? Yeah.
My name is John and this is me. I mean, I really should have
done this. And it's like cut to some action
scene where he's like falling orsomething.
I'm just tired. I'm I'm like, I'm over
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Hollywood. I'm over them.
But they just cannot go away. But that was kind of like, you
know, everything with with pop culture that I've seen.
I'm really right now into a lot of these reality shows.
(46:47):
If you guys have not seen traders on Peacock in NBC, you
got to watch it, my guy. My guy, Boston Rob is on and I'm
a huge Boston Rob and I'm not going to wear a Boston Rob
T-shirt, but I'm a big Boston Rob fan.
He's in that season also with a bunch of Big Brother in the
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challenge W from the challenge. That guy's a straight A hole,
but traders another one is Extract, which is on Fox.
Let's see you there's a few other ones, but we watched the
Bear Grylls challenge. OK, the Bear Grylls bear hunt
challenge. I ain't going front to y'all.
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I didn't realize that like people in the UK had their own
celebrities like that are actually kind of big.
I'm like a like I'm aloof to them.
Like I don't even know what's going on over there.
But like Bear Grylls had like had a bunch of like European
celebrities and then basically the object of it of the game is
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to basically survive challenges and not get haunted by Bear
Grylls. It is a pretty interesting show
if you haven't checked out on Netflix.
Just dropped just finished falling skies on Max.
I didn't realize how good a actor no a while is.
He's also in the pit on Max. You haven't seen the pit?
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So kind of a ER type show, really, really, really good.
But Falling Skies about alien invasion, Noah Wiles and his
family, Tom Mason, they try to survive and all this stuff.
It also has Will Patton in it too.
He's excellent. I always love Will Patton.
He was in Yellowstone. There's a lot of stuff going on
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with with TV's and movies, TV and movie TV's.
They multiple TV's, multiple movies anyways, but there's just
a lot of things coming down the pipeline.
I cannot wait. Nosferatu, February 21st, cannot
wait. Willem Dafoe, Bill Skarsgard,
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Lily Rose Depp. That's on my must watch list.
I'm in the middle of night agingright now on Netflix.
My wife and I finished Day of the Jackal and I'm going to say
something about Day of the Jackal.
One thing that's absolutely insane to me about that show,
his dude just kills people. Like he just like, oh, you found
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out you may have a hint, an inkling of who I am dead.
Like there's some, there's some kills in there where you're
like, man, he ain't got to do that guy like that.
But it's also the the plot really drives and it's like
really fast pace and you actually get to see some like
technical stuff, which is kind of cool with guns, which I'm not
really a gun guy, but it's kind of interesting.
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But Day of the Jackals on Peacock, really good show.
Squid Games came out late 2024. I mentioned that on the best of
I thought that was pretty good coming out soon.
The show that I cannot wait to watch and I've been waiting now
is the final season of you Now, Joe Goldberg, my guy, I think
(50:08):
it's time for you to die becauseyou need to die because this is
five seasons too long. But I'm glad it's ending.
I'm glad that I've been waiting for that season, final season of
that and we got Squid Games final season coming in June.
There's a lot of stuff. There's a few movies that I'm
waiting to watch is Heretic. Let me know if you've seen that
movie, if it's any good. Hugh Grant, let's see here.
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Elevation with Anthony Mackie. Let me know if that's any good.
So kind of a sci-fi creature movie.
Werewolves with Frank Grillo. It's like the purge but with
werewolves is on my must watch. And Wolfman, which has the girl
from Ozarks, a little blonde headed girl from Ozarks, the
daughter, I can't think of her name, but that's coming out
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where her husband gets attacked and he starts turning.
And so that's that's coming out soon.
So there's a few things that I'mlooking forward to watching, but
let me know what you guys think about movies that I mentioned or
movies coming up or shows that are coming up on your guys's to
to watch list. And so, the NBA All Star game.
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Was this past weekend as well it.
I'm so I. Haven't I'm a I'm a very big
Lakers fan. Been a Lakers fan since I was a
little guy late 90s, like, you know, like Kobe, Shaq, that was
my, that was my introduction endof Michael's career, MJ.
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And I'm just, I'm, I'm so tired of LeBron James.
I'm absolutely so tired of LeBron James.
Like I cannot say that enough. He's on the Lakers.
You know, when he when he went there, I renounced my my fandom
that day, so. The All Star game.
Is here the day of and he decides to go.
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Yeah, guys, I am playing. For someone who has never made
an. All Star appearance would have
Norman Powell would have been beable would have would have been
able to have his first All Star appearance, which would make him
an All Star, which would boost his career in the long in the
long run. You know when he gets outside of
basketball and LeBron was like, Nah, I'm trying to play not
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enough time to get the logisticsgoing and kept that man from
being able to get an All Star appearance.
That's one thing that about the NBA that we need to get LeBron
out of here like he has to go. I am a LeBron hater for life.
There's nothing that you can convince me he could go and stop
world hunger and I'd still have a little hate in my heart for
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that guy. Now the Lakers are a 2 pack of
ass now with Luca and LeBron. AD was terrible, but I'm glad
I'm glad he's gone. But I'm but we bring in Luca,
who has allegedly a eating problem and a drinking problem
on the low whatever. But I'm just.
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I'm just. Over.
I'm over. NBA basketball Kobe said
something to Kobe Bryant. My the legend.
Rest in. Peace.
But he said something. That I'll never forget.
And this is when I was coaching and and player developing that
he basically was like the European kids understand the
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assignment, they understand the game of basketball.
They don't play on accident. And that's a lot of the stuff
that's being taught now, especially at the AAU level and
high school level. It's a lot of drive and then
read. So it's like, all right, drive
left. I got someone in the corner, I
got someone across the way and Igot someone, I got two people on
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the baselines in the for the corner 3.
And then I can either pick and pop pick and roll whatever I
need to do or I can or the guy on the wing, that fifth player
on the wing can cut and hit it like a, you know, easy layup.
It's a lot of read and react basketball.
A lot of it doesn't require a lot of basketball IQ.
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You just drive and kick until a shots open.
But as you guys can tell what this this kind of basketball
style, when you get into the playoffs, you get teams who can
switch, they can guard all 5 positions.
So when you try to do the pick and roll or you try to, you
know, kick and drive, there's people there to close out.
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And that style of basketball isn't just it, it's not a
playoff style basketball. It's like college football when
you got the the hurry up, the nohuddle, but it's all air raid.
It's all throwing the ball around.
You know, you don't see Georgia and Alabama and all these teams,
Clemson throw the ball around like that.
The only team that you've seen do that was LSU in in 2019 I
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believe. And I'm going to say LeBron
might. Have ruined ruined it.
Low key. I think Steph Curry had a huge
hand in it. Steph Curry made everybody think
that they can shoot threes, and I think a lot of some of y'all
be shooting way too many threes out of out of the out of pickup
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games. Yeah, so oh, Steph and then
shoot it real quick and then turn around and just be straight
ass man be air. This is the worst shot I ever
seen, but it's taught these young kids who like grew up with
Steph. Oh, that's my that's my Kobe
Bryant. Steph is a great player, but no
one is Steph Curry. No one is Klay Thompson.
Those are two of the top five best shooters ever and it's just
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ruined the game of basketball. Everything is either a layup or
three and that's one thing that I think that kind of.
Lebron's game. Leads into that because there's
no big men. LeBron had a lot of trouble with
the The Mavericks when he was with the Heat because they had
Tyson Chandler, they had Dirk Devinski, they had 7 footers
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back there. You know, they may not block the
shot, but they will contest it. And that was one thing too that
I think the style of NBA now is just it's too fast-paced.
There's not enough, you know, there's great coaches.
Don't get me wrong. There are people that know more
basketball than me. I'm not saying I'm the end all
be all, but there's too many threes and there's not enough
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post up and there's not enough mid range because anyone, the
most trouble I've ever had guarding someone is someone who
could do all three phases because you don't know what
they're going to do. You got the post up, they may
hit you a little shimmy fade to the corner.
They may hit you with a three-step pull up.
They may hit you with a one steppull up and you're gone because
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you're thinking they're driving,you know, and so the game is
just evolved into this three andD type ball game.
And I see it down at the the theyounger league.
You know, there was a time when I was player developing, when I
was working at the at nonprofit in Bigsby.
And now I'm training my kids, you know, and I'm, I'm kind of
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watching, you know, we get done and I'm watching this this guy
who quote, UN quote has trained D1 athletes, teaching this kid
basically how like not changing his shot per SE, but teaching
him how he can get a shot off with the shot that he has.
And he shot from his stomach. So it was kind of a weird
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release. Like you're not shooting,
you're, you're shooting from below and not really with a 90°
angle, you know, like a like you're squaring up and just a
weird looking shot. And as a kid, I said, how much
you paying him? He's I'm paying him like 200
bucks a month, you know, and then any extra it's like a
certain amount of and I'm just, it just doesn't make any sense
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why we're why, why we're not teaching the fundamentals.
This kid couldn't even go left, but he was like all
right-handed. So I get it.
You're trying to work on their strengths, but like we got to
become a full person, but they're full basketball player.
But that's just the game that I'm seeing.
It's just hard to watch. The NBA ratings are at an all
time low right now. The All Star game was awful and
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it's just, I just wish basketball and I've, I've lost
my love for basketball. Had a buddy of mine reach out
and was like, yeah, man, come, come get in shape, come get in
shape and come play in this tournament and the couple of
these tournaments. And I'm just like I told him
flat out, you know, I just don'thave an enemy.
I, I don't love it. I just like the way the, the
younger kids are coming up playing pick up.
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It's just, I miss those days when we had old heads who they
were very annoying, but they held it down.
You know, they were in their maybe early 40s and it's just
pick up culture and basketball. It's just not, it's not the
same. It's like everybody in my age
was like, well, we're going to get a job.
You know, I ain't got time, got kids.
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You know, we just kind of gave up on pick up.
And now it's like these high school kids are running and it's
just, it's just bad. But no offense if that's you,
you just it is what it is. You don't know no better.
But but it's just, it's a sad state of affairs for for the
game of basketball nowadays. Manuel, I appreciate you guys.
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That have continued to support the podcast in the many
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the podcast, you listen to the podcast, the Patreon's there.
I'm going to be adding the Martin Luther King files and
I'll be basically talking about that on Patreon.
You know, I guess it'll drop anytime but but it's just
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I feel like I've I've I kind of want to build up a bunch of
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inviting someone on to tell stories with me.
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Maybe a few people and didn't dothis is creepy and you know,
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So we all, you know, have some stuff and we're not kind of just
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every two weeks. Just life, like I'm getting busy
again. And you know, once the holidays
are over, you know, things startkicking up and my birthday is
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you start looking at things a little different.
And you know, I felt on previousepisodes feeling a little beggy
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out of my enemy. My enemy year was 2024.
So my year, my 2023 and 2024 were kind of really slow going.
And 2025 is felt really like I felt better for like a wait.
I don't really believe in numerology, but that I don't
know, there might be something to that.
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But I feel a little bit better. You know, I'm trying to try to
figure out kind of, you know, the, you know, the house
situation because man, we we man, I'll go back to I said
plumbers, man. They be on one sometimes, but
they be good. But sometimes they, you know,
just you don't want to pay the extra, I guess, but not the
extra, but just just expensive to own a home and all that
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So have you joined the Patreon? You're going to get a bunch of
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I got a few ideas of what thingsI want to do is you guys can
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Y'all like this on this episode?Anyways but.
You know, those sound effects were kind of funny because they
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I appreciate everyone reaching out.
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No Facebook, no Instagram, you know, no Snapchat, nothing the,
the meta platforms, just I, I just felt something in my gut.
Me and my wife both are off Facebook and stuff.
So we, we made that choice and delete everything and, and just,
you know, I'm on X. I'm on X every day.
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I literally had a, a thread of tweets just bombing on SNL 50.
I'm, I'm going to put up a wrestling review when it comes
closer to WrestleMania. I'm going to do like a a
WrestleMania lead up episode. If you like it, you don't, you
know, if that's what you're intowrestling, then, you know,
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listen to it. But I'm going to be doing that
soon. And then like I said, Patreon,
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And it has a lot of interesting information about him.
I didn't know a lot of the stuffI didn't know his handlers.
And it leads into a lot of stuffthat it's kind of uncomfortable
to talk about because those people will get after you and I
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And then you can just, you know,chat, you know, ask questions,
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whatever you want to do on there.
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But I appreciate the continued support and I'm going to catch
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