Your Survival Requires ACTION in the AFFIRMATIVE - Preview to Episode 245

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns after a hiatus to announce the next film, "The Blackening." The film sees "seven Black friends go away for the weekend and end up trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. Will their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies help them stay alive? Probably not." The random topic of the week is about the Supreme Court's ending of Affirmative Action for race based considerations in colleges.

Episode Transcript

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I have the last time change.Okay, let's wrap with James on it.
You know. Hello, Welcome toa brand new preview episode for Black
and Black Cinema. I'm your host, Jay, I'm here my co host

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Michael. Hey, Terrence, what'sup? And try? All right,
guys, we're back. This isa preview episode for episode two forty five,
The Blackening. Remember this is juston audio. We'll be on audio
for a few more weeks as wereturn from our hiatus, and we'll be

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back on video probably within maybe thenext two or three weeks. So the
episode two forty five is going tobe on the Blackening. I'll read the
log line for this. U sevenblack friends go away for the weekend and
end up trapped in a cabin witha killer who has a vendetta. Will
there street smarts and knowledge of horrormovies help them stay alive? Probably not.

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This is directed by Tim Story andstarring Grace Buyers, Jamaine Fowler,
Melvin greg X Mayo, Dwayne Perkins, Antoinette Robertson, and a whole Oh.
Jay Farrow is in this as well, and a whole host of other
people, so check that out.Been getting some interesting thoughts from people around

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who have seen the Blackenning. Socheck that out. Tr you don't look
happy in this Why you look it'sso mad right now? I'm sorry,
I'm really I that's really just mybresting face. Oh okay, I was
like, who in this cast doyou hate? Jay Farrell? So all

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right, so check out the Blackenny. We'll talk about that one in depth
next week. The random topic thisweek though, is we're a week late,
but it's kind of an important topic, which is the Supreme Court ending
affirmative action specifically for education purposes,in for colleges. But this obviously will

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trickle down into the larger conversation aboutsociety and affirmative action. I'll go first.
I guess I'm not surprised the secondthat the Streme Court was put in
the hands of Republicans, anything aspossible, any level of progresses possible to
be destroyed. But like, affirmativeaction has always been talked about in the

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dumbest of ways, like from alike a general public perspective. I think
white people, for some reason believethe affirmative action just means you pick any
old black person or person of colorand just put them in a white person's
position who is way more qualified,and not about whether that person, that
black person or person of color orwoman or white woman is actually qualified for

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the position, And that part ofa conversation is almost always ignored. So
it's a little irritating when I readand hear people talk about being like in
support of ending affirmative action, becauseit's always spoken in this way that feels
like they don't even understand the conceptin it of itself. I mean,

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there's whole aspects about like this beingended at Harvard specifically, which is a
school that has thirty percent legacy students, which is like kids and grandchildren of
former students, yet only six it'sa forty six percent at this point,
and it's like six percent of thestudents at Harvard are affirmative action students.

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But yeah, they for those arewhite, like say, yeah, so
of the forty six percent, seventypercent of white, of course, of
course, and so and only sixpercent of the Harvard population of students is
actually benefiting from affirmative action. Soit's interesting to go after the six percent
and not have a conversation about theforty six percent of students. But sure,

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but I'll let you guys go andwe'll kind of ping palm back and
forth. I mean, you know, I I I don't, I don't
understand. You know, it's kindof on brand for Clarence to pull that

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letter up from behind him when whenhe was a beneficiary of affirmative action.
He was a beneficiary of affirmative actionwhen he really needed affirmative action, like
you need it, but you reallyneeded it back then. Yeah. So
you know, I'm not surprised alot of people take advantage of a firmtive

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action and like you said, alot of people don't know what it is
as you as you noted, it'snot you know, we're gonna, we're
gonna they you know, they tookmy they took my job. Like no,
no, it's it's quite literally justmaking sure that the powers that be

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are actually looking. We shouldn't haveto I shouldn't have to give my kids
resume friendly names for them to beconsidered, right. But you know,
so yeah, man, And youknow, I know, like white people,

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some white people like to think thatwell, you know, Obama was
president, so where there's no moreracism anymore? No, man, that
stuff is, that stuff is inherent, that stuff is like implicit bias and
affirmative action is just the safety net, man, Like it's not. I
don't know why. I don't knowwhy people. I don't know why people

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think it's like certain people think it'smost I think certain people know obviously,
like what it's used for. Wegotta keep the we we gotta keep white
guys on top. But the ignorantpeople otherwise, that really get on my

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nerves because it's like, well,all things being equal, I mean,
I guess you just weren't good enough. Like no, yo, they weren't
good enough. I don't I don'tknow, man, I don't know.
The elections matter, the guys.Yeah, the court we're gonna have for

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the fulseeable future, and they're gonnajust fuck us over, just royally.
I can't bring myself to vote forHillary Claire. Yeah, he emails and
she killed people, blah blah.The woman, she's gonna have her fucking
period and start World War three.All this off, this dumb shit that
they were saying, Yeah, nowwe have no more like what a half
the states have fucking abortion as illegaland now we have now we lost fucking

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a front of action. Good job, guys, yeah, this, I
was listening to something. Actually not. There's a very good frontline on Clarence
and Jenny. I don't know eitherof you. Watch it. It's basically
his life story and how they gottogether. It's kind of gross, really,
that's on YouTube. That was apiece of shit. But like,

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and they're basically saying this is hiscourt now because he's super he's super Republican
and basically anything that they want toget through, like he's basically don't agree
with. And yeah, like yousaid, he benefited from from affirmative action

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when he was in. He wentto Harvard because of affirmative action. He
got in, and then he gotangry when he was like putting his resume
out to law firms because he justwanted to be a lawyer and make a
lot of money. Like, butthey weren't abiding by the rules of affirmative
action. You just got in school, niggas, you're still you're still black,
right, So he was he wasn'tgetting the jobs and that pissed him

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off, and he became like ablack panther and also other creative shit.
But then as soon as he gotinto like the Supreme Court and all hell
produce Yeah, it's fucked up because, like you said, people don't actually
know what it is. Like,my dumbass wasn't getting into Harvard with my
grades. It's like even I didn'tpick you out of it. Even with
affirmative action. It's not like,hey, Okay, this kid he's black,

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so he cool, You're gonna beable to go here. Like no,
I had to actually be good enoughto make it. But then they
had to actually look at Frandalstown HighSchool, which they probably would never have
done if a premative action wasn't athing to even look to even see me.
Joyanne read she actually had a wholesecment about her how she got it,
which was really dope. This isfucked up, man, And I

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don't know. I just I'm not. I can kind of blame people that
just didn't do what the fuck theywere supposed to do in twenty sixteen.
But again, man, you shouldhave voted. Wouldn't before be in this
issue. We would not be hereif Hillary Clinton was present. Right before
I go to Tiara, like Isaw just a quick point, I saw
a TikTok, and this guy madewhat I think is a statement that should

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ring in everyone's ear, not innot electing Hillary Clinton will go down is
one of these single worst decisions thiscountry has ever made. Fact just bar
none fact about progress. It willgo downs the single worst decision this country
ever did. You got four yearsof Trump possibly each possibility that he might

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be relected again because people, yep, exactly. So okay, Tiara,
sorry about that. I'm just I'msmiling because you said I saw I saw
a TikTok and I was like,oh, I'm not proud of myself.
All right. It was an Instagramit was it was real. It was
a thread. I don't know.I see I see the look forward,

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uh look for a post. I'mlike social media, I do. I
hate it as well. I hatemyself every time someone sends me a TikTok
post is like do you want todo you want to be friends with this
nigga first? And didn't watch thisship first? I'm like, no,
I just watched. What the fun? They sent me an amazing platform,

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go China or whatever. Please don'taband it here shout out to threads.
I don't know. I don't careabout it any Yah, I don't.
There's a mistake. So when whenMica said I shouldn't have to give my
kids resume friendly names. I immediatelythought about some of the like career coaching

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things I've been looking at lately,and people were like, you should put
your photo in your resume, andI was like, fuck, you know
my experience with that, don't recommendit. I was like, I have
an apostrophe in my name, likeyou know, Mike, I was want
to say, it's Terra Smith.You don't even put it depends. It

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would depend on where I'm a boningty. Like now, I use the apostate
because it helps me I actually standout and people want to know who I
am. But like, but it'sbefore You're like nope, before I'm like,
no, I don't. And eventoday I am not putting my face
or any kind of resume because Idon't want people to just see my face
and throw and throw my resume out. So I was gonna bring up the

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Joy and read clip too where shesaid that she was in a small town
full of black families in Colorado ofall places, and someone from Harvard had
to come find her, not justbecause she was black, because they needed
diversity and she was qualified. That'sthe part that people always miss when it

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comes to affirmative action. It's notjust picking up people of Colorge just for
funzies. It's people who are qualifiedwho otherwise would never get an opportunity because
white people will do not want usthere. Judge Katangi Brown Jackson said in
her descent that like, just becauseyou have this ruling to quote quote make
people race blind or race neutral,which is stupid because that's just not a

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thing. It doesn't mean that peopleare. And if anything, I think
I read something, it was noton PBS or the nation where, and
I may correct me if I'm wrongwhere They said that the ruling still technically
allows institutions to consider race if it'sgoing to benefit the university, But at

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the same time, they universities couldstill be punished if a student says,
my cultural background helped me overcome acircum a certain circumstance and this is why
I think I would be a benefitto the university. So it's like,
can they technically sure? But butthe ruling still says no, like you

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can't, you can't consider race inanything. I'm when I when the ruler
came down, I don't I wasn'tsurprised, but I was still pissed because,
like the three of y'all have alreadysaid, like, twenty sixteen was
the election of our lifetimes, andconsidering that this is yet something else that
we thought would be around forever,it's gone and it may not come back

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for the rest of our life times. It may not come back until Jay,
Mike and your kids are probably myage or older, which is it's
a very good possibility. That's yeah, that's it's so sobering to think about
because, like you just we didn'thave to be here. It's twenty twenty

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three. The twenty sixteen election wasseven years ago, and we are still
paying for the results of that election, even though Trump has not been an
officer for several years, and we'regoing to continue to pay for it for
the foreseeable future unless people continue tovote for Democrats, Democratic presidents and legislators
and legislators and literally every single election, and there's no room for error.

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The march for error is so slim. And even now I'm starting to see
folks kind of do the thing thatfolks do like around election season, which
is talk about why they wish theyhad a younger president running. And it's
and I'm seeing some folks just notlearn any lesson lessons from the last seven

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years, a nearly decade at thispoint, since uh Trump came into power.
Yeah, I don't. I don'treally know what else to say.
I feel bad for for for parentsas parents of color, I don't.
I don't know what would what y'alldo if you're raising kids here and you're

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and they're gonna grow up and they'regonna wanna go to these prestigious schools,
some of the best programs in thecountry. And the reality is is that
our race and cultural upbringings do makea stand out because it's that diversity that
actually brings creativity and in innovation intothese to these high high education programs,

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and those should be seen as astrength. But the court is literally saying
we can't consider that at all.It's it's a shame. It's it's a
real shame. And I think what'salso a shame is I think was it
was what an Asian student that ledthis fight against the Canadian Asian Fuck,
you don't even go in wrong Andit's and it's and it's even iritates me.

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It's said, it's so it's sosad because I'm like you're you're being
used as upon by the same peoplewho blamed and it's tired race of people
for the pandemic, and a bunchof other things. And and but now,

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what what I was gonna say,I'm sorry to cut you off.
Like what I was gonna say islike that point is is a big one,
which is they literally weaponized Asian folksagainst black people and other minorities because
they convinced them that the reason theirkids weren't getting into Harvard, Like,

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you're really smart, but the reasonyour kid isn't getting into Harvard's because that
black kid stole your spot. No, that's not the reason your kids not
getting into Harvard. Your kids notgetting into Harvard for the reason that Terrence
and I talked about earlier. Becauseseventy percent of the white kids, or
for excuse me, forty six percentof the kids at Harvard are legacy students.

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That's why your kids. I thoughtit was thirty percent, but it's
at least thirty percent. It's atleast thirty percent. You imagine going to
any school third, which means athird, a third of a third of
any incoming class is eliminated. Asfar as intellectual ability. It's just eliminated.

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Like look, let us let's look. You want to you know,
find like direct examples of this.We talked about this on Look Forward.
George H. W. Bush orexcuse me, George W. Bush isn't
is a legacy student for Yale.He's a legacy student. He's an forty

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three percent in Harvard, Right,so you're losing. That's insane, dude,
that's insane. It's almost half.But your student, your your Asian
son or daughter isn't getting in.It has nothing to do with people who
look like us. It has everythingto do once again, like I feel
like people really should understand that quotefrom LBJ, right, like if you

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can convince the lowest white man thathe's better than, you know, the
best black man, he will openhis pocket for you. Right, And
that's one hundred percent true. Andit worked on Asian folks too, not
all Asian folks. They're plent Asianfolks who who got the griff. They're
like, all right, these peopleare bullshitting us, right, but a
lot of them didn't. Complicity willnot save you trying to trying to trying

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to be complicit and stand next towhite supremacy will not save you, right,
we just taught like we talked aboutthis on the Leeds episode, and
look for it'll be out by thetime you guys here. Like there's an
article that Ron de Santis, thegovernor of Florida. He's like, hey,
white conservative women, you know,like, join me, join me,

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Like we're gonna fix yeah, Andthen fucker was like, oh,
by the way, we're gonna endpermanent alimony. Oops. Oops yep.
And so all of these, allof these white conservative women are like traditional
values and all of a sudden,Shi had no appreciable skills. After he
ended that sentence, one of themsaid, yeah, now, good luck
and get the fuck out of here. Complicity will not save you. White

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men don't give a fuck about you. They don't give a fuck about you.
They don't give a fuss about you. They don't give up fucks about
you. Playing up to that shipand thinking well, if I was just
stand next to him, it'll befine. Nope, it might be fine
today. But guess what you think, you think they won't figure out way
to get your ass the fuck outof there as out of that school.

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They're not gonna they're not gonna hireyou either when it's when it's for you
to go to go look for ajob, and the job is that you
are well qualified for and you haveand you have some some a group of
white folks who feel threatened by apresence, they won't hire you, and

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you just did. You helped leavethe charge that does lasting damage two millions
of people in future generations to come. Congratulations whoever that was. I don't
know that person's name. I don'tthink they're they're worth speaking on it.
But right, No, but lookinteresting about that whole thing when they say
they won't hire you as far aslike Asian Asian folks like, they probably

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won't hire it because they probably honestly, deep down think that they're smarter.
They think that you are smarter thanthat. Yes, just because based off
of like stereotypes. It's like absolutelyknows exactly. I'm not. No,
he's gonna do way better than me. So I'm not even going to allow
him to do that. As faras we're concerned, I don't think we're
stupid. We got everything because governmentgave it to us. Whatever the fuck
bullshit. But yeah, like man, I'm gonna keep saying that until people

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understand what I'm saying. I thinkthey got it. I read an article
on the Grio about the ruling makingHBCUs in brace for higher enrollment. I
think I saw something like a yeah, I mean, here's the thing like

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that. While that is true andI think that's that's great, I got
no problem with that. I'll tellyou this, Get yourselves ready to be
upset because they're coming for fucking federalfunding to help hbc used too. They're
coming for that ship because they arenot going to allow you. Like,
that's not how white supremacy works.It ain't just you go off to your

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side, right, that's what theysay. Oh we could just separate that
it'd be fine. No, theywant to separate, and then they want
to destroy you too. They wantto make sure then not only are you
not doing them that's right, likebecause then it's like, well, why
are those people getting special funding?Why we're not getting special funding? Right?
Like, they're literally already coming.Republicans are already working in Congress right
now to say that there shouldn't beminority scholarships. There shouldn't be minority scholarships.

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By the way, now, Mica, I know for a fact that
you know this because we went tothe same fucking high school. I know
that you and I set in thosefucking like like scholarship award things that they
had at our school. And it'slike, here's the Greek scholarship for local
Greek students, here's a fucking Italianscholarship. But they don't say jack shit
about that. White people will goonline and tell you there are no scholarships

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for white people. They are notfor everything. Yes, yes, there
absolutely are. You're if you're Greek, if you're it doesn't there's not a
white people scholarship. But there's aGreek scholarship, there's a Turkish scholarship,
there's a Russian scholarship. They haveall that shit. Absolutely. It's like,
what is the rule impact that too? Like what if schools are able

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to provide financial ai based on notnecessarily but that's what they're coming for next.
That's what they're coming for next.Like quite literally, they are aiming
to make sure that you do nothave a chance. They want to make
sure that whatever college, if youget into college, whatever college you go
to, will be low funded,it will not have great teachers, it

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will not have great you know,abilities to like research and shit like that.
They don't want it. They don'twant it again, Like it is
the single biggest fucking mistake this countryhas ever made by playing fucking bullshit with
that twenty sixteen election. It isone hundred percent the worst thing we can
do. And you can say,well, Hillary would have been terrible because

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X, Y, and T.None of this ship that you're seeing now
would have happened. Would she wouldhave? Never? Do you think she
would have put Amy Coney Barrett andthese assholes on the court a rapist on
the court? No, she fuckingwouldn't. It's a single worst decision they
you've ever made, the amount evermade. It's like like at this point,
like it's just a it's just ananger that I always feel for the

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rest of my life, even evenif I left like the States and and
went to go raise a family elsewhere, like I would just feel angry because
it's just like I can't imagine Iwould just feel I mean, I would
feel angry for for all the kidshere. I think about a friend of
mine whose son is like fifteen sixteen, and he is super bright, wants

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to go to med school. Hisparents are immigrants from South of the border,
and he is one of the brightestkids I've ever met. And they're
just opportunities like for him to goto the places like Hopkins or whatever,
to really make something of himself.And it's all and it was already hard
before this ruling, and it's itfeels almost impossible now for possibly him to

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to get in somewhere. Well,I'll just say I recently went to a
Johns Hopkins graduation. It's not gonnabe Dad Mark to get in. Oh
really, dude, Like I senta picture to Mike and Terrence. It
was just like one of their majors. There was like five American names or
like traditionally American names. Every othername was Asian, every one of those.

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Like now they ran they ran thestack on that. He's look but
like look there's there's people from alllike right, yeah, so like Johns,
Hopkins, Pargo, pr right,Like this is like local the local,
like you know, like we gota local talent, right, so
they might that might work in hisfavor. Well, he's not local to

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Baltimore, local to the state,no, not right, yes, and
not and not from not born notborn here, but been here long enough
to essentially be an American, trustme, not like Hispanic. Oh okay,

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well I'm paying attention to you.I'm thinking, you know what,
it's just a little black boy whowas screaming about that's what's Oh he's Hispanic.
I don't know, man, Butlike he's but like he is so

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he is so smart and his parentsworks so fucking hard, like right now
to make to make sure he haslike the best of everything, and to
see something like this happened, I'mjust like I look at kids like him,
and I'm like, you, thisis not your fault and you we
don't fully understand the rumifications that thiscould have in your life. Yeah,

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I mean, I mean, it'sit's interesting, right because what we're what
we're seeing right now is like it'slike a weird Dark Ages, right,
Like people didn't know they were inthe Dark Ages until after the Dark Ages,
right, but like because of ourperspective, like it's a little you
kind of you kind of see itand you're like, I think I think

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things are getting bad, something's wrong, and it and it is right like
I was I was talking to Iwas talking to someone and they were there,
you know, they do sort oflike neuroscience research, and and he
was basically saying, like, whilebeing here is great and there's like there's
there's plenty to do and everything else, they are so far behind people in

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Europe and other parts of the worldbecause simply they can't do certain ship that
the rest of the world can dobecause of like our religious hold back on
certain things with like stem cell research. Like quite literally, we can't do
these things. We're like five tenyears behind them. And that's that's some
dark age of ship. Yes,yes, look, I can tell I

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can tell you for a fact thatwhere I am now, you can you
can pick up a rock and throwit, and there are stem cell research
or stem cell clinics everywhere where.You can like try to find that ship
in the United States one. Ifyou can find it, you'll pay out
the fucking nose. Here. It'sit's like, oh, yeah, no,

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we've been doing this ship for tenyears, Like oh your shoulders busted,
fucking sign up, buddy, Likeit's it's crazy, right, So,
and it's some of the best,it's some of the best tech in
the world in that particular aspect,right, So, like we are finding
ourselves kind of locked in place becausewe are, we're electing morons. I

(28:52):
can't believe, Like I mean,like I can believe, because obviously we're
living through it. But I justthink about like the Supreme Court, the
pandemic, and where we could havebeen, and how close Trump was to
getting re elected, Like how hewas so close to getting re elected,
and when hundred thousands of people weredying every day or every week, and

(29:18):
it's be present to get us outof that. And that's just I don't
even know if we can call thata bright spot. It's just I can't.
I don't. I can't believe peoplereally let that man into office and
some people still have the nerve tonot admit that they were just fucking wrong.
Yeah, and how many lives arethey they've essentially ruined? I mean,

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and this, I'm just the SupremeCourt stuff, it's the separating the
kids at the border, it's justeverything. It's just when I think about
how how awful that presidency was andthe impact is going to have possibly after
after the four of us are gone, I'm just I can't belie people really
just let that happen and are willingto let it happen again and will let

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it happen again, which is crazy. I'm like, Yo, you put
your hand on the stove the firsttime, it's like, oh shit,
that's hot, Like, don't putyour face on it, Like, what
the fuck it was? It wasn'thot. They enjoyed it. They loved
all this shit. They love thefact that a million people died during the
fucking pandemic because we like, welike Donald Trump, Like, what the

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fuck? I'm physically ill when thatmorning when we when he when he won,
I was physically I was. Idon't think people really understand what the
fuck is about to happen. LikeI was sick to my stomach when I
woke up that morning when they werelike Donald Trump as the president of that,
I'm like, are you serious?I read that he wants to have

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his trial postponed until after the twentytwenty four election. Yep, guess why
because he thinks he's gonna wins well, and he thinks that if he wins,
he's that case is dead. Getdone. Yeah, it's done.
I can't believe what we're back hereagain, that we are back here again
with with the possiblity of him beingre elected. Look, there's some stuff

(31:10):
I'm gonna say for off line,but just saying not talk your shit.
No, oh this is not tall, right, Okay, no, I
say, okay, say what I'mthinking. Then say what you think I'm
thinking. No, don't do that. We get arrested for that. You
want me if all kind of shit? Man, you really don't have to

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dare terrors to be like fuck whitepeople like what the fuck hop get hit
by a fucking bus the night onTV on television and then someone you know,
like accidentally fumbles with a gun andthen it goes off and puts a
bullet in his head or something likethat. I don't know. Yeah,

(31:56):
this is not this. Yeah,this is all audio only. We're fine,
but I mean it is I'm notgoing to say that that's what I
was thinking. I was far withthinking some of the things. But Terris
just gave his own opinion, soyou know, I mean my opinion to
my own. And look, lookno I disagree, I disagree, but

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you know, it's it's just oneof those things where like this, you
know, eliminating affirmative action and watchingwomen's you know, right to choose be
destroyed and things like this like thisis not a game, man, This
is not a game. And andone of the things that is even more
terrifying about what we are about toembark on is if he wins, it's

(32:44):
horrible. If he loses, itain't gonna be fucking sunshine and rainbows either,
because these motherfuckers are gonna lose theirship. They're gonna lose. It's
going to be rigged if he loseshis rig again. No, no,
I no, I don't want himto win. Don't read it like I'm
saying that. I'm just saying thatthere are no good scenarios here, like

(33:06):
it is going to be bad,Like it will be what I would hope
though. The scenario, if thereis a scenario that is more positive just
from a just from a watch pointand laugh sort of situation, is him
losing the primary and then watching thatparty get destroyed. They're going to destroy
themselves. That would be great.But I think he's gonna win the primary

(33:28):
because meatball Roun de Santis fucking sucksand people hate him even in his own
state. Would you rather have Trumpor De Santis? Trump's Trump? Because
Trump is so stupid, like he'sdumb, so he like he can't get
shipped off because like he's just kindof dumb. Run Santas somehow can get

(33:52):
some shit done, which is terrifying. He just is a charisma vacuum.
Like we got friends in Florida,man, well, her friends in Florida
and their husbands, right, likethey they are they are the friends this
they're the parma hand people. Yeah, they're the partma hand people. That's

(34:14):
what That's what me and my wifesay when we want to talk about white
people in front of our sons.And one day he was like, he's
that, He's a that's a partmahand person. Nobody gonna know what that
means, right, anybody gonna knowwhat what a fortune teller? Yep,

(34:37):
that's it, exactly what it means. They love Ronda Santis show. They
love them and I don't know whybecause one of them caught COVID and was
on a ventilator and like what,like, I don't know what it is,
man, I like, Florida ain'tdoing that. Great man, and

(35:06):
he can't manage. He can't manage, you know, the biggest corporation in
their state wanting to give them money. They hate him, right, you're
governor and Disney hates you like it'sjust you know, abortion mostly illegal,

(35:30):
and education hard, higher education hardto obtain. One of whose groups of
people that that mostly impacts force birthscan't get a higher education. How does
that help the country? Like,guess what, that's my question? How
does that help as a whole?How does any of that help the country?

(35:51):
I don't need to be American,Like, we've been here along with
a lot of these things. Notmy choice, but we've been here longer
than a lot of these motherfuckers.I just don't understand how like beating people
down in your in your country,whether it be race, bass, whether
it be a gender sexuality base,Like they hate LGBTQ folks in Florida just

(36:16):
for nothing, no reason, Like, how do you hate somebody but because
they just happen to be attracted tothe same sex as it as they It's
a weird question. Do you care? Yo? Why do you not even
not even like you care, butlike just because they are attracted to the
same sex you hate them. That'sreally bizarre. Yeah, we're fucked.

(36:43):
We're just fucked. I don't know, man, these people are crazy.
And like if you if folks onour side just become incredibly complacent because it's
just I don't know if they're justnot paying attention. I understand a lot
of these issues don't affect your wallet, right, and that's what a lot
of people really give a funk about, Like, am I going to be

(37:04):
able to pay my bills? Fuckthe rest of them people until you have
a gig sign or until you havea well also, like I think,
I think depending on where you live, this situation isn't isn't real until it
is, Like if you're someone inCalifornia, where you know, I can
go get an abortion tomorrow, Likethat's fine. But the moment those laws

(37:25):
start coming here and they will eventuallylike then you'll start seeing people being like,
oh fuck us too, because yeah, I mean, you have people
here who quote unquote feel bad forfolks who who don't deserve this and live
in these backward at estates. Butthat that's outside out of mind in your

(37:45):
in your daily life as to impactyour daily life or or cause some sort
of event in your life where whereyou want to make that change or where
you're willing to like, you know, take these elections seriously. I was
gonna say I did see a lotof Asian folks on Twitter and stuff.

(38:07):
When this really came down shitting onthe dude who lets this, who filled
the lawsuit in the beginning, beinglike you fucked us all, and most
most Asian folks got it, likeit's just a couple on that just want
some bullshit again he's Canadian. Youdon't even go here, like, fuck

(38:34):
that dude, stay up there.Yeah, And and as you said earlier,
Ter, it's like the the stereotypesthere are, there are no good
There are no good stereotypes not beinglike so even the stereotype of like of
an Asian person being good at mathor whatever or an engineer or something like

(38:54):
that, like that's going to workwork against you. In fact, they'll
use that and then go throw someother nasty stereotypes. Yeah. Well,
like Terence said, like that's thestereotype, right, they're all smart.
Right, Oh, well, they'regonna be smarter than me. I can't
let that. I can't let themhere. They're gonna show me right like

(39:17):
it. I mean, I lovehow people just cannot see a force through
the trees unless they are you know, unless they're in the middle of fire.
And then in the middle of theforest, right and it's burning down
all right, because even in themiddle, even then, even then some
of them like somebody'll get me,it's fine, and and don't ask black

(39:45):
people to come save you the electionin get gather your people. Oh man,
Yeah, I mean, I meanI understand that mentality, but like
we can't have that mentality, right, Like, we can't. We can't
just be like, well, becausethat's the that's the peat, that's the

(40:06):
one. I'm just help spoke people, and I'm like, right, like,
we we still got to be vigilant. I know it's tired, it's
tired, it is tired. Yeah, I can't be vigilant all the fucking
time, but we have to be. And you know, black people in
this country have been the mind ofall the minorities. Black people have been

(40:30):
the ones that have had to likebe the tip of the spear. Yeah,
I can say, of lack ofa better term, it's really it's
really an inconvenient one for us,Like it really is. But if the
spears made a vibranium, then yeah, yeah, the tip of the the

(40:51):
tip of the fake spear, theyellow God damn this stereotype. It's terrible.
Or you know, we we canwe can do with some folks say
in some movies, or what somefolks say on Twitter, which is just
move some people do, some peopledo that, some people fucking talents.

(41:12):
Man, what can I say?I gotta go no, I mean,
I mean, look, I thinkthat sort of you know that the point
about being vigilant all the time,like you just you, you have to
like you, you have to beand and I can't be just us though,
it can't. It can't just be. It can't be. It can't

(41:35):
just be us. It can't justbe yes. But like we are constantly
dragging everyone else kicking and screaming intothe future. Look we do, and
then they go, oh, damnyou, you're right, You're right.
I mean, like we do.And it's I think it comes from us
having the best bullshit radar of anygroup. We just do. We do

(42:01):
because we have dealt with the worstof the worst, and we've dealt with
the lying and the fucking conniving bullshitand the like abject you know, slavery
and ownership and all this other ship. We've dealt with all of it.
So when people say some shit likehey man, I'm on your side,
We're like, m I don't believeyou. Because X, Y and Z
and ninety nine point nine percent.Another time we are dead to rights accurate,

(42:23):
Like we just are, like I'mnot impressed by I just talked about
this the other day, like thenumber one reason that black you know,
you know, black people have atendency like their opinions are all over the
place when it comes to why theydon't like Bernie. But in my opinion,
it's not because he says shit likenecessarily that we disagree with. It's

(42:47):
that heat like oh yeah, likeworking class people should like get properly paid
and not get fucked over in taxesand get health scare. None of that
we disagree with is that when hetalks about working class people, black people
know that he's not talking about blackpeople. He's talking about he talks about
When he says working class, he'stalking about white people. Well the backbone

(43:08):
in this country. That's not us, Like it's not that it isn't us.
But when he says that that's nothe's not talking about people who look
like us. And Black people havepicked up on that ship and we will
not let it go because we knowthat when you let white people ignore race
and not mention it, that meansthey will have no problem ignoring you and

(43:28):
not mention when you let white people, when you let white people ignore race,
they say, you don't need afirmative action bingo. So I just
I don't. Yeah, we haveto stay vigilant. We gotta, you
know, we gotta get our wewe I don't know, man, I

(43:52):
don't know because I don't like talkingto people right, Like, I hate
talking to people, but like Ineed I need like personable people like Tara
to go out and just be like, hey, guys, hey guys.
Yeah, I need an extrovert likeyou want to go out. First of
all, I'm not I'm not goingto say that I'm not an extrovert,
because I definitely feel like I'm alittle bit more extroverted nowadays, but I'm

(44:15):
not that personal when it comes tothis. This is the one thing that
actually makes me want to like justrage at everyone and like good. It
takes. It takes everything I haveto just not go on social media rants
when I see stuff like this.I have told myself it's not worth it
because people are fucking stupid. Thisis like the one subject I'm just not

(44:37):
I'm not reasonable about. Don't talkto me, are you going on line?
You're realize ninety seven point nine percentof people online are fucking morons or
not percent of this country is abunch of goddamn morons. Like they're really
fucking stupid. And I'm not evenexaggerating when I say ninety Like I see
people post stuff, I'm like,what do you what are you even saying?

(44:59):
That doesn't a sense? That's where, that's where, And I read
it and I'm like, I'm notgoing to I'm not going to interact because
no, I'm not doing that.Well. Remember that, you know,
if you look at a bell curveof intelligence, right like at the top
of the curve is the average.And have you've ever met an average intelligent
person, you would know an averageintelligent person is a fucking idiot. And

(45:22):
think about that because fifty percent ofthe country is dumber than that. They're
dumber than average. So yeah,like so it's very easy for them to
fucking get taken by like Catum.I hate that motherfucker. I can't stand
it. But he's very charismatic andhe's funny, like Trump is funny.
He's a funny dude, like hedoes that's hilarious. He does, but

(45:45):
like he shouldn't never been the presidentof the United States. That's insanity.
That's an insane thing to say outof your fucking mouth. Donald Trump was
the forty fifth president of the UnitedStates. Should make being the history books.
Guys literally going to be in thehistory books. Yeah, and they're

(46:09):
gonna look at a history book.Sorry, wasn't Wasn't there a state like
recently that rollback child labor protection laws? I feel like something like that.
That's Arkansas. Yeah, that's myHuckaby's daughter, you know, like Sarah

(46:30):
one eye opened, one eye closed, because she's very ugly. I mean
she is, she is birth Sowait, wait forth, first child labor
barriers to higher education. I justlook, what do you think that like,
I mean, honestly, I'm nota conspiracy theorist, but like,

(46:53):
what do you think that's setting up? They're literally setting up a society of
a bunch of poor brood mares pumpingout kids to work in factories while rich
white people continue to hold onto power. That's what it is. They don't
want black people to have those positionsbecause if they have those positions, then

(47:14):
they can help each other up,because that's what they do they don't want
it. They don't. Look Look, they're gonna bring Asian people right on
in, come on in, whoare your friends? And they gonna stab
your ass in the back too.Yep. And also like there were a
bunch of like folks who were inhigh up d and I positions, like
especially in the entertainment industry that likestepped down, like after this ruling came

(47:37):
out three in the same day.It was all women, all black women,
right yeah, ye, Look andthey I think they were all hired
around the George Floyd right around thoseprotests. And now those positions are are
going they're they're being let go.Yeah, so like something right, So

(47:58):
now the corporate America thinks, ohwell this is this is a precedent.
I'm glad we can stop pretending.Yeah. Look looks like David Zozelo he
had already stopped pretending a couple ofmonths ago. He was like, get
these get these black and brown projectson, fuck out of it. The
head of w B. Yeah,that's why he canceled all that. Like

(48:19):
every every almost every person he fired, what big people were all people of
no Warner Brothers like projects. Hewas he responsible for Bad Girl again,
gone, yep, that and aton of other ship, a ton of
other ship. So scrapped a bunchof shit. So it's if you don't

(48:43):
think that this all is connected topolitics, or it is all connected to
your desire or inability to vote,you're wrong. It absolutely has everything to
do with that. And they wantyour vote. They want your they want
every bit of power you have,they want your retirement, they want all
of it because they want to keepyou as even though there are more of

(49:04):
you, they want to keep youas a minority power in this country.
Young people have an opportunity. Nowthere are more of you. You have
a unique opportunity to run the fuckingtable. You just have to get off
your asses and give a fuck.That's it. That's it. And I

(49:25):
think a lot of them do.But like, stop all this, like
like again, both sides. Idon't like that, Like I what,
I'm sorry, I off like I'mwhat I'm What I get mostly annoyed about
is like there's still this thing tomake it seem like you're directly in the
middle, and I'm like, we'renot. We're not doing it no more
like that's there is no being inthe middle in terms of like I don't

(49:50):
want to see them like I'm toopolitical. I don't want to cat to
any one politician. I get that, but there's one political party that is
that is literally for the death anddestruction of millions of people. And I
mean I mean that quite literally,because that's exactly what they're doing. What
else was going to add is like, yeah, you say all that too,
but I'm also thinking like how thecost of living is going up.
It is increasingly harder to find decentplaces to live, even in typically lower

(50:15):
costs of living areas. It's justthe and there are other things too,
like the EPA robecks that will alsobuy the Supreme Court. They're just little
little things that are set at thesociety, the type of society that you
mentioned. And what I will alsosay is like, even if you're someone
who's childless, pay attention to yourlocal elections and who's running for the school

(50:38):
board because they're because they're taking overthere too. And and even if you're
in liberal cities, like pay attentionto who's running for a school board because
that's I feel like that's that's playinga major role in the foundation of how
these kids are going to be raised. And whether they're going to be learning
in school or not learning in school. Pay attention to to the zoning laws

(50:58):
that happen in your cities. Solook at to see who's who's a nimby
not in my backyard type of person, because some of those folks do not
want multi family housing, which weknow what would lift so many people off
the street if if they if theywere affordable housing as well. So pay
attention to stuff like that, notjust like obviously pay at touch like the

(51:20):
bigger elections to you, but lookat your local laws as well. Right,
I mean, it's this is nota joke. It's not a game.
And look, I'm not just sayingthis just because I just moved out
of the US, but I dothink that it is it does need to
be said because I think it's ait's an honest opinion, the idea of

(51:43):
like when we were growing up,the idea of the American dream and all
this other stuff in the American project, it is not moving in the right
direction. If fundamentally is not movingin the right direction. Do I know
that it will always continue on this? Like what I would argue is a
downwards I don't know. Blood Wait, this Supreme Court is right right now,

(52:05):
we don't know how long, likefucking class knows Raccoon is in there,
fucking all kind of shit up,Like it's fucking ridiculous that I don't
like him. Yea, No,you really shouldn't like him at all,
and you should have a piece ofshit. And look, I mean you're
talking. There could easily be anotherten years, ten to fifteen years of
this court. Yeah, like withthis makeup, that's insane. Right,

(52:30):
they put Katanji Brown Jackson in there, and it's almost pointless. Like I
love the fact that the first blackwoman to every be putting on the Supreme
Court and she's gonna be there forhowever long she wants to be on there,
but like with this particular court,she can't do anything. She can't
do ship like she's almost I'm notgonna say worthless, but like she's the
only one that dissents and be likethe fuck is wrong with y'all? But

(52:53):
I don't her. But like again, and there's still five four right,
yeah? Or no, six threesix, Yes, it's still sixty three.
So it's kind of like, whichis all the women except for what's
her name? Yeah, not evenlike graphic it's and Jackson and then the

(53:24):
other woman is what the fucking crazybitch? Right? Yeah? Yeah,
so I mean she's from a cult, which is which is why I said
earlier, like the marginal air forfuture elections is razor thin because you need
to elect a Democratic Congress and presidencyfour years to come just to balance at

(53:49):
that court. It expanded the way, the way that people keep kept on
shouting the last couple of years,Expand the court. Expand the court.
Okay, but if you want,like or you need some of those Supreme
Court justices, so like you know, he'll over and die, die die
quite literally just died, like wecan say that, like seventy five years

(54:09):
old, So he's got another tenyears because how old was her name when
she died, Ruth Bader Ginsburg wasninety Yeah, but she also had cancer
like five times. Yeah, Imean she she was like, I'm not
we's got at least five more years. Right, he's seventy five years old.

(54:29):
He's younger than the two people inrunning for president. We got ten
years, Man's what I'm saying.I think we got another ten years with
that. Hate. Hate does keeppeople alive. He's looked the same for
the last twenty years. He's hada resurgence right now, and he's probably
like fucking drinking the blood of children, all these fucking wins he's getting.

(54:49):
He's probably fucking jumping jumping. Idon't know, but I mean, it's
so you're you're talking at least tento fifteen years with this court. I
don't under I don't know how theAmerican experiment lasts another fifteen years. I
really don't. Because when you haveto hope, what you have to pray
for is that you don't get anotherRepublican president. And at any point in

(55:15):
the next fifteen years you don't geta Republican president at the same time that
you get well, it doesn't matter, just a Republican president period. Democrats
are Democrats aren't going to hold upeven if they run the Senate. They're
not going to hold up a SupremeCourt justice nominee. They're not because they
believe in the system. And Iknow people will go, well, that's
because democrats suck. No, it'sbecause they believe in the rule of law.

(55:37):
Like, that's the fucking problem.Now, if you want them to
break the law and just do whateverthe fuck they want, Well, then
that's a different conversation. But youhave to have somebody who believes in the
rule of law, or you don'thave a court, you don't have anything
right. So the fact of thematter is the Republicans stole two seats.
They stole them. So if youeven have a Democrat who becomes president again

(56:00):
and there's a Supreme Court justice seatthat's open, if the Republicans run the
Senate, they will just leave itopen and they will not give it to
Democrats, even though that's their fuckingjob is to do the do the right
thing, they will not do it. So I mean, best of luck
with your horseshit nuance. Right,Like, I listened to another podcaster who

(56:25):
I respect greatly on the left andhe was and they were talking about the
transis you, and he was justtalking about how like there are times where
you can have a nuanced conversation aboutlike certain aspects of it, but there
aren't also times where it is youknow, it is your responsibility as a
defender of these people and in thiscase, a defender of democracy, that

(56:46):
you don't play nuance with this ship. Because every time you play nuance with
it, and you harp on itand you go, well, Hulary Clinton
would have done X Y Z differentthing than we're talking about. You give
you give space in leeway the otherside to win. That's what you do.
Yeah, defend democracy first, secureit. Then you can talk about

(57:07):
nuance. There is no fucking nuancedconversation between having an eight one court for
conservatives, because that's which you'll endup with. Then what do you do.
They'll put a fucking baby on thefucking court ten years old. Fuck
it, you'll be there for afucking lifetime. If they think they can
pull it off, they'll do it. So it's not a fucking joke.

(57:28):
It really pisses me off how fuckinglighthearted people are about that ship, Like
that dumb asshole runs that shit podcast, Oh the Supreme Court. You guys
are overvaluing how serious it was,how much, how fucking wrong was whatever
the fuck her name is from thatbad faith podcast. She fucking helped ruin
this country, and people still listento her. They still listen to her,
They still give that dumb asshole moneyevery month out of their pockets.

(57:53):
I feel like I'm sing to me. I know I said this war on
the show don't give people money whodiscourage you from from voting for Democrats.
For people who do that both sidesstuff or try to make seem like democrats
with just as that if or worse, do not get those people. They
don't care about you. What's hisname from? Young Turks agreed with the

(58:16):
support Supreme Court decision. Yeah onaffirmative action. K Yeah, I saw
it. I was like, nigga, what are you talking about? Really?
Yeah? Yeah, I was likethat's I feel like. Yeah,
he was like, you don't getblack people more respect. I'm like,
it's like you don't you know.It's like my thing is he's he's super
progressive, but like you're not black. He also was a Republican when he

(58:37):
was young. Never forget that.Never forget he's he's one of those progressive
people that's so progressively they're actually likeconservative. And it's it's the horseshoe.
It's the horseshoe theory, right youif you go far enough left until it
right back up on the right.Absolutely, And Anna on that show too,
now she's saying like some like shadyshit about trans people, Like it's

(59:00):
the same thing. You go farenough, you end up right back over
there. I have my own thoughtsabout as to why she asks the way
she does, but I'm not goingto say it here just because it seems
really petty. But I'm not wrong. I'll say it's half for offline,
but it's just it's just really disgustingto me that people would be willing to
play fucking Russian roulette with the livesof their fellow country like it country one

(59:24):
like. I don't no, butI knew people who should be against this
ship. I don't know, man, baby. They don't pay attention.
They don't most people don't know.To the to the start of the summer.
Every year, we're gonna have tolook forward to what what rights?
What rights? Did we think we'rewe're setting stone? Do we lose this

(59:47):
this year to kick off the summer? Like I mean, look, I
have to be here. I justthink that is it that crazy that they'd
be like, m No, otherraces have a college like are we sure
that should be allowed? Right now? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
that non black people can go toHBC use doesn't matter, like the minority

(01:00:12):
scholarships on minority scholarship, that's correct. I went to school with a girl
who went to Morgan on a whitewoman on a minority scholarship, Like I
worked with a guy who did.He was wide as ship. He went
to he went to an HBC.He was like, it's a good school.
What the do I care? Look, I'm mad actually, like,

(01:00:34):
don't look, I'm not mad atit. I'm not mad at it.
I'm just saying, do you thinkyo? Why, Like, is that
what's gonna happen? White women aregoing to be like, oh no,
wait a minute, this affects thefirm of action to you, But will
it affect white women because yes,no, I know, I know that

(01:00:54):
they're the biggest, but like thiswas specifically about like race based Yeah,
but but affirmative action. Yeah,here's the thing it is. But what
they will likely what they will likelydo is they will go after the ratified
version of affirmative action, which wassigned by I want to say the original

(01:01:15):
was by JFK. And the ratifiedversion was done a couple of years later
by LBJ I believe, and itincluded sex right, which is so like
women did not benefit. White womendid not benefit from affirmative action at first,
and then they were like hey,man, like women are also treated
like dogshit, which is true,right, And white women were like,
oh, excuse me, let meput my Gucci booted foot over the line

(01:01:37):
of oppression and get right to thefront of the line in the words of
Bill Burr. And and so thenthey started benefiting from it, like way
ahead of people of color. Sodon't be surprised if they But they haven't
done it yet, that's what I'msaying. Not yet. But I think
this losing your losing your rights toyour you know, to your body and

(01:02:00):
everything else. It is only amatter of time. They gotta get you,
gotta get these white women out ofthese goddamn colleges and get these shoes
off and back in the kitchen,because that's what they want. The abortion
one. That's fucking nuts, man. But in the wild thing is they're
going to pay for it every singlefucking election, because it's a it's a

(01:02:22):
thing that people will not forget.They won't and good they shouldn't forget,
and people should be fucking furious aboutit all the time. But we'll see.
Didn't have to be here. Imean, I just I really didn't
know you could have had a mediocrepresident Hillary Clinton with a solid Supreme Court,
but it would have been fine it. We're gonna see years from now,

(01:02:45):
like some hopefully I assume people areattracting this data, but years from
now, some report about how manylives have been lost due to the actions
of this presidency. We're gonna we'regonna see, We're going to see that
that type of data, and it'sgoing to be its wi you said earlier
day, We're not going to understandhow how truly dark this time was until

(01:03:08):
we're out of it, if welive to see whatever the other side of
this is. Look, man,empires come and and empires go, and
we've had a hell of a runin the United States like we have.
I don't know. I don't knowthat it's gonna like there's going to be
like falling apart type of shit.It just won't be what it used to

(01:03:29):
be, right, Like people usedto come here, you know, used
to come to the US, andlike those reads are paid in gold.
It's all some bullshit that we toldthem and they believed it. And now
people are like maybe I'll visit orI don't know if I want to go
because I don't want to get shot. Shit list Yes, quite true.

(01:03:52):
I mean maybe people are quite literallyafraid, like like this is crazy,
Like yeah, nigoda is true.So I was at a conference a couple
of weeks ago, and I was, I met some folks, some other
like diabetes folks who are from Europeand Canada, and I was, we

(01:04:12):
were at like this this this session, and the FBA gives a presentation every
year on like the new devices andstuff that they're approving and what and what's
coming down a pipeline. And y'allknow, I wear an instument pump and
another c GM that beeps sometimes thebeeping could literally save my life. However,

(01:04:34):
they are updating these devices in theStates so that we could turn these
alarms off. You guess why no, because people think it's like a security
like a security alarm for like aschool or something like that. M Do
you want to take another guess?Because it's annoying. I mean, I

(01:04:56):
don't be serious outside of it.I'm really surprised, okay, all right,
because parents said that they were afraidthat their kids would diabetes would be
found by school shooting. Jesus ifthey were in if come on, man,
Jesus Christ, that's why so soso you have come across my mind.

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I will admit it could be annoying. But but but if you have
let's say, a five year oldwith diabetes, who's whose blushinger drops low
and their kids sometimes you don't alwaysfeel a little blushing until it's until you're
in dangerous situations, which is whyyou have alarm that goes off. But
what if you have a child thatis supposed to be hiding and that alarm

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goes off, and like, let'ssay a parent gets the notification and they
call their their child or that thinggoes off loud and it is loud.
Parents were like, we need tofound a way to turn this off in
the event that there's a school shooting. And I was, what the fun
country do we live in? Yo? That is that is fucking maddening that
that is a thought process, Andit's a valid thought process, right,

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It's not like, oh, that'scrazy, nobody should do that. Like
everybody everybody on this podcast is like, yeah, now that makes total sense,
and it's fucking horrified, and andit's it's interesting because, like,
like I said, I was sittingwith some some colleagues from Europe and Canada
and they were like they were likewhat And I was like, yeah,
I was. I was. Iwas like, that actually makes a lot
of sense. And I and II think about it if I'm dropping low

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and I'm like, what if I'msomeplace that you just hit bee bee beep,
it's a rat for me. Andthey were so shocked. They were
just like they they honestly they couldnot wrap their head around it because that's
not their lives. And I waslike, yeah, this is the only
place where you had where you wouldn'tneed that consideration. Yeah, I like,
God, damn, yo, that'sone of the most fucking horrendous things

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I've ever heard. M Bacon,United States. Look for real, Look,
I gotta tell you, like schoolshootings is one hundred percent was a
major decision, a part of themajor decision why my wife and I decided
to move. Like it wasn't thenumber one, but it was super high

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on the list like it was.It was because there isn't like yo,
I would I would lose my mind, Like I would just lose my mind
and I would just be a crazyperson, no longer podcasting because I would
be trying to kill whoever the fuckdid it. I actually have a real
life example of this A real lifeexample. So my friend I mentioned earlier

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said her son fifteen, sixteen yearsold, happened here at California. I
feel like I've told this story beforeon the show. So my friend has
diabetes, her husband, her sonare both on her dex com CGM,
so if something happens, they getand learn on their phone. Okay,
there was a school shooting at herat his school, and come on,

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he had to turn his phone offbecause my friend goes low a lot,
so his his phone would beep alot, and so he'll check his checking
on his mom and be like hey, you good whatever. But he had
to turn that off, so hewasn't getting updates about his mother's glucose levels
and if she was gonna be okay, she was with me, so she

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was she would'll be fine. Butit's just like that's a scenario where he
had to think about it and liketurn his phone off, and before he
did, he was sitting in hertext me like you know, mom,
you know I love you and stufflike that. Again, I I don't
know if if we can come outlike the United States. I don't know

(01:08:46):
if we can come out of thisdark age and what that looks like when
you do right, Like how baddoes it need to get before people go?
You know, if that's enough?Like I got it, I got
it. I like guns too,but like this is an like it's enough,
Like who is going to have theballs to really go after this ship
and really fix it? I don'tknow who it is. I don't know

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if it's possible. I don't knowif it's possible. I don't think it
is. Guns in this fucking country, you can't so many do anything about
that, Like at this point,I don't think there's anything you can do
about it outside of like banning assaultrifles. They're like, no, you
got to turn your assault rifle,which you don't fucking need in, Like
don't other countries get their guns fromus? Yeah, we're like the number

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one fucking You're creating a society ofpeople who are going to be relatively uneducated
or have access to weapons and won'thave because they're going to come for healthcare
again and not going to have healthcareto really take care of themselves. And
you're you're setting up a society ofpeople who are going to be stuck in

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a certain part of the lives thatwill never be able to get out.
We all know that improving all thosethings allows you to get to higher status
is in life, and these peoplearen't trying to do that. We're trying
to dismantle it for so many people, for people who are not white male
even but even for white people though, even if you if you're just not
rich enough, because guess what,look, if they can get rid of

(01:10:16):
the social safety now they can,it's a fucking rep guess what your grandma
gonna be eating fucking cat food whichshe's retired, episode of fucking good times.
Yeah, they don't give a fuckagain, they don't give a fuck
about you. They do not givea fuck about you. They do not
give a fuck about you. You'rebetter wake up, like, please stop

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playing this bullshit nuanced game. AndI look, I love a nuanced argument.
I love it, but there arecertain things you cannot play with and
as certain times you just go,I don't give a fuck about all that.
We gotta save the country, wegotta save democracy. And I'm really
hoping young people with all the powerthat they have now stop playing this game.

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Go out there for good. Stopjust walking into people's houses and doing
pranks. And I don't know whatyou take time algorithm, because that's not
what I see at all. Likeyour Ti TI algorithm is fucked because algoriam
and let somebody post a video andit's usually just something silly. But my

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Instagram algorithm, like I see havea lot of new shit on there.
Yeah, that's that's part of whatit's losing. Ass I don't Okay,
there we go, all right,Well, okay, I guess I mean
it's reality. Like, look,sometimes you can learn a lot, but

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the human body is amazing. Butit's but the larger point here is like
you gotta care, and when youdon't care, you'll lose afirmative action like
you do you do it, likeyour bodily autonomy as a woman. Yeah,
yeah, you'll lose it. Soall right, I think that is
a very good return to form forus for a preview episode. We'll be

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black. We'll be black, wewill. But we will also be back
next week for the Blackening for episodetwo forty five. All right later,
guys, yeah yeah, yeah,thanks thanks, thanks,