Episode 326
Episode 326: Are Politics Today a Reflection of Society's Desires or a Shift in Norms?
The primary focus of this podcast episode is the evolving landscape of politics, particularly in the context of the significant cultural shifts that have occurred since the election of Barack Obama, the first African American president. We engage in a profound discussion that interrogates whether the traditional political norms are dissipating, replaced by a more chaotic and celebrity-driven political arena. As we trace the trajectory from Obama’s presidency to the current political climate dominated by figures like Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, we question the implications of such transformations on the perception of political integrity and the electorate's expectations. Our discourse further delves into the societal ramifications of these changes, particularly the normalization of previously unacceptable behavior among political candidates and their supporters. In conclusion, we invite our listeners to reflect on the essential question: are the old political paradigms truly obsolete, or do they persist beneath the surface, waiting for a resurgence?
Takeaways:
- In contemporary politics, the notion that anyone can run for president has gained traction, exemplified by celebrities expressing aspirations for political office.
- The political landscape has shifted drastically since the election of Barack Obama, revealing underlying societal fears and tensions.
- The intertwining of celebrity culture with politics has led to a situation where the qualifications for political office seem to be less traditional and more based on fame.
- The fear of being labeled as racist remains a significant concern for many individuals, influencing their actions and public statements.
Transcript
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Speaker C:Yeah, I'm not a racist just because I did something racist that one time, even though I continue to keep doing that same racist thing.
Speaker C:Because once again, I've told you that a lot of white people's biggest fear is being called racist.
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Speaker A:The five minute warning.
Speaker A:Welcome, everyone, to a brand new episode of five minute Warner.
Speaker A:Of course, as always, this your man Reuben up in the house today.
Speaker A:So hope everybody's having a great day.
Speaker A:It is hot as everything outside.
Speaker A:And basically what we're gonna do, we're gonna go ahead and just get into today.
Speaker A:The topic is very, very simple.
Speaker A: So back in: Speaker A:He was a Senate Democrat who rose through the political ranks in a way that we were normally familiar with.
Speaker A:You know, they be a senator and they do their job and poof, poof, poof.
Speaker A:Then they become, you know, they decide they want to run for president, things happen, and everything happens after that.
Speaker A:So once again, in a way we're familiar with, you know, the man was a president first, a husband, a father, and then I would probably say he was a celebrity, right?
Speaker A:You know, he can't help that people like them because back in the day, presidents really weren't like, hey, you know, I want to talk to you.
Speaker A:I want to have you on my show, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker A:You know, that's also the boom of social media and all that beautiful stuff.
Speaker A:So, like, there's that, you know, but hey, somehow, you know, amidst all that, after, during his two terms, the world fell in love not just with him being president, husband and father, but the most important part of that last, as I said, what a celebrity, you know, and so, hey, remember, even though anyone who was born American can run for president.
Speaker A:There are also levels of that.
Speaker A:You know, you got to do your work.
Speaker A:You gotta.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You got to start home, then you got to move up to the state, then you got to move up to the House of Representatives, send it back in the day.
Speaker A:That's how it was done.
Speaker A:You know, then Donald Trump came, right?
Speaker A:But Donald Trump's been around for a long time.
Speaker A:You know, he's been this rich mobile mogul, had a whole bunch of opinions.
Speaker A:You know, at one time, people would say he was actually a Democrat.
Speaker A:And then somehow he decided, you know what?
Speaker A:Let me run for president.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:But remember, the company really, really knew that he was more.
Speaker A:He was known for saying those two magic words on tv, you're fired.
Speaker A:You know, on his show the Apprentice, and, you know, we elected him as president.
Speaker A:So this dude who was telling people that he was fired, and now he's got to make more important decisions that affected more than just himself and his company, but now affects the world.
Speaker A:Now, here's the thing, right?
Speaker A:Okay, we had one term.
Speaker A:Now we're in second term.
Speaker A:But now I feel like everybody who's got a pulse, hey, I can run for office.
Speaker A:And you know what?
Speaker A:They can.
Speaker A:There's nothing wrong with them running for office.
Speaker A:But the question part is, should they run for office?
Speaker A:You know, now we're talking about the Rock and even Stephen A. Smith talking about, hey, I want to be president or I might run for president.
Speaker A: razy stuff, you know, rock in: Speaker A:And now, of course, you know, as Moby loves to say, he's not a fan of Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker A:You know, he's talking about run for president.
Speaker A:I mean, because bas.
Speaker A:See, now with that, Donald Trump's president, anybody can run president, even though that's the most sacred office in the world.
Speaker A:And, you know, everything just changed because of the way that happened.
Speaker A:And now we got people out here like, you know, just kind of.
Speaker A:Kind of just being dirty.
Speaker A:Excuse me, out here being dirty.
Speaker A:But, you know, back in the day when people were dirty, it was a whole bunch of, hey, man, what the public don't know won't hurt them.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:And you kind of just moved on.
Speaker A:But now people are running out here, they got Nazi tattoos on them, saying that they.
Speaker A:They didn't know what the tattoo was.
Speaker A:First of all, I'm just.
Speaker A:We're not going to talk about that part, but on a side note, but why not?
Speaker A:I mean, we may.
Speaker A:But right now, this ain't the discussion I don't.
Speaker A:I don't understand how, you know, what tattoo is getting put on you.
Speaker A:And that' a different conversation that we may have later today.
Speaker A:But that's just what I want to basically come up with now, you know, and then they may win public offense and things as such, but when it's all said and done, everyone has the right to make their own decisions about who they vote for.
Speaker A:But tonight, the question is very simple.
Speaker A:Well, I like thinking simple, but it probably isn't.
Speaker A:Politics are way different now than we were growing up.
Speaker A:I mean, back then, it was, you move up.
Speaker A:Oh, and they know who you are now.
Speaker A:Now is a damn free for all.
Speaker A:So are the old politics gone, or they just looking to make.
Speaker A:Are they looking to make a comeback now?
Speaker A:You know, because of the last, you know, I want to say 10 years, but it's really more than that, you know, so that's the question of the day.
Speaker A:Are the old politics looking to come back, or we stuck with the way the socialization of politics is today?
Speaker A:All that for that.
Speaker A:So, Ag, talk to me.
Speaker A:What's your opinion?
Speaker B:My opinion is, by and large, it hasn't changed.
Speaker B:However, I do believe that Barack Obama is an accelerant in this fire that we're in.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, definitely.
Speaker B:And it's really that simple.
Speaker B:It's like, I believe that people were so mad or afraid or both that a black man actually became president.
Speaker B:Now, Eddie Murphy told you this in raw.
Speaker B:They told you what was going to happen, and exactly.
Speaker B:It happened exactly that way.
Speaker B:But it's like, I think a lot of people who are angry and afraid are willing to do anything to not have that happen again.
Speaker B:And when I say anything, I mean put up with a lot of things that they hate, a lot of things that they don't agree with.
Speaker B:Again, I told y' all before, when I was a kid, we might have not liked each other because of our skin color, but there were a handful of things that we agreed on 100%.
Speaker B:And having an SS or a swastika on your person or saying anything good about it was.
Speaker B:It was curtains for you?
Speaker A:Yep, very much so.
Speaker B:And so the idea that Elon Musk can get up in front of.
Speaker B:Can be a foreigner in this country at a very nationalized, patriotic event because of what it means in the vehicle that it is being, you know, the political vehicle that it is.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Be at the RNC and give the Heil Hitler salute twice.
Speaker B:He made sure everybody saw it.
Speaker B:Even a video.
Speaker B:Even the video screen.
Speaker B:The video screen saw it And I'm like.
Speaker B:And nobody said boo.
Speaker A:For real?
Speaker B:Yes, for real.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:I mean, so that's where we are right now.
Speaker B:We are at a place where, and this is one of many things.
Speaker B:We're in a place where Barack Obama was the symbol of everything this country does not want.
Speaker B:And they took it seriously because again, this dude was the guy that kind of put the, put the fly in the ointment of something they had been trying to do since the Civil Rights act was passed.
Speaker B:When lbj, racist as he want to be, was strong armed because democracy was working right into signing the civil rights bill.
Speaker B: ave been trying to do Project: Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So the day he signed it, the next day they started, they started planning and scheming to get to where we are now.
Speaker B:Barack Obama put a fly in the ointment.
Speaker B:So two things are happening.
Speaker B: ublic that doesn't know about: Speaker B:They just don't know it exists.
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker B:And for them to see a black man and win by a landslide twice.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, yeah, it wants you close.
Speaker B:I'm like, they don't appreciate that.
Speaker B:And they had to put up with that for eight years.
Speaker B:They tried to get him.
Speaker B:He wasn't gonna get got Ferrari tried to.
Speaker B:Ferrari tried to get him.
Speaker B:Because I don't believe Ferrari went to no black man talking about, you want a free car?
Speaker B:Nah, I don't believe Ferrari did that.
Speaker B:I believe Ferra was like, I can't prove this.
Speaker B:Okay, so for all your Ferrari fans out there, I'm one of them.
Speaker B:Sort of.
Speaker B:You know, I, this, this might not be as much of a conspiracy as it sounds, but when they went to him and offered him a car for free, that might have been one of them things to come back to get you.
Speaker B:Like, yeah, he took money, we gave him five hundred thousand dollar Ferrari.
Speaker B:He took money, he said, no, we can't take you through expensive gifts from people because of the integrity of the office.
Speaker A:And what did Trump do the first year?
Speaker B:See, we ain't talking about that dude right now.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So for somebody who couldn't get got, the best you could do was a tan suit and a gorilla and your arms hanging out.
Speaker B:If you're a woman, that's the best you could do.
Speaker B:And so since they couldn't get him, they couldn't get the first lady, they couldn't get the kids, they couldn't get any extended family.
Speaker B:Everybody cool?
Speaker B:It's like, okay, I'm extra mad now.
Speaker B:And so what's the Antidote for that Donald Trump.
Speaker B:He represents everything, honestly, he represents everything this country is built on.
Speaker B:Because like you just said, like you just said you were like everybody can run for office.
Speaker B:There is nothing, you know, there's nothing like you know, sitting out there that's elite that will stop you from running for office, especially when you start at grassroots.
Speaker B:But being that Donald Trump and his situation was so unique, he, he could start out at the top.
Speaker B:And yes, you're right, Reuben, he used to, I think it's feigning but I think he used to fame Democrat.
Speaker A:Oh yeah, definitely 100%.
Speaker B:They got receipts.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And so, but you know, he picked the one, he picked one of the money that.
Speaker B:Well, it's not only that, but he.
Speaker B:Yeah, honestly man, it's like you got to give this dude cred it.
Speaker B:He reads the TE's very well.
Speaker B:Yes, he knew what his country was in jump ship.
Speaker B:He knew what he was seeing in jump ship.
Speaker B:Just like when I, when I talked to my mother in law that day, I'm looking at her like Donald Trump gonna win this baby.
Speaker B:It's too many people like her in the world of different, different age demographics to, to tell me that, you know, that lets me know that this is possible.
Speaker B:Mr. You're fired.
Speaker B:Is, is possible, man.
Speaker B:I'm telling you, I knew it before it happened.
Speaker B:I knew it before it happened.
Speaker B:So like I said man, for me, I just believe that one of the biggest things to me personally, because there's so many things, was white folks having to give up their right to be awful and then, you know, going through all that political, is it politically correct stuff and everything?
Speaker B:Which politically correct usually especially in the beginning and just meant you couldn't be an awful individual out your mouth.
Speaker B:That's what it meant.
Speaker B:It wasn't that big of a deal,.
Speaker A:But to some people it was, you gotta be silent.
Speaker A:You can't walk around with Dwight Hood on.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker B:So it's just like, you know, again they got cops on wax reminiscing about the times of when they could just hang black people for no apparent reason.
Speaker B:This is being said on wax.
Speaker B:They caught them talking and recorded it.
Speaker B:So it's just like, you know, if I'm white, I would miss it too.
Speaker B:I would feel restrained too.
Speaker B:And then, and then have Barack Obama be the perfect president.
Speaker A:Oh yes.
Speaker B:And when I say perfect, I don't mean everything he did was on the up.
Speaker B:And I shouldn't say up and up, but everything he did, you know, wasn't clean.
Speaker B:Everything he did wasn't Right.
Speaker B:And that all depends on who you are.
Speaker B:And it's just like, that's not what I mean by perfect.
Speaker B:I mean, they couldn't get this dude, no matter how hard they tried.
Speaker B:They went in with a plan.
Speaker B:We can't do thus, and so we can't respond like thus and so all the things.
Speaker B:He was, like, wearing number 42 the whole time he was 44 because Jackie Robinson had the same plan.
Speaker B:I cannot respond to these people because that's what they want.
Speaker B:And so meanwhile, he's.
Speaker B:He's.
Speaker B:He's exacting his plan.
Speaker B:But the.
Speaker B:The downside to being that good is people be that angry.
Speaker B:So when.
Speaker B:So when his.
Speaker B:His.
Speaker B:His not reign, but when his.
Speaker B:His terms were over with and they voted Donald Trump in, he was everything they wanted him to be.
Speaker B:Everything.
Speaker B:So has politics changed?
Speaker B:Is Donald Trump different than Strom Thurmond?
Speaker A:Nah.
Speaker C:Is he actually.
Speaker B:He a lightweight?
Speaker B:For real?
Speaker B:I mean, when you think back about what politics were, especially with regard to anybody black or brown, I don't see the change.
Speaker B:I can feel.
Speaker B:I feel much more of the anxiety and pain that our parents and our grandparents and on back felt now than I ever felt beforehand.
Speaker B:Ever felt beforehand.
Speaker B:It's like things are happening in real time that it's like, wow.
Speaker B:Are y' all for real?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:So is it the same?
Speaker B:No, but you're talking about the difference between people that have control and then.
Speaker B:And then people that are desperate to get it back.
Speaker B:That's the only big difference I see is desperation.
Speaker B:Desperation and corruption.
Speaker B:Corruptness or corruption, I should say.
Speaker A:But I would say politics was honestly pretty boring.
Speaker B:Yeah, because everybody white.
Speaker A:I mean, I understand.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But, you know, and black people or.
Speaker B:Black people out here just like, practicing respectable politics, too.
Speaker B:So it's just like, you know, but.
Speaker A:I would say there's.
Speaker A:But there are differences, Right?
Speaker A:I mean, you had.
Speaker A:You had Bush.
Speaker A:You had Kid Bush, who was pretty whatever, and then.
Speaker A:But before him, you had.
Speaker A:Had Clinton, and then you had Daddy Bush, and then you had Reagan.
Speaker A:So, like, Excuse me.
Speaker A:And then before that, sorry, he had Jimmy Carter, and then, you know, so, I mean, really, there is.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There's a time when politics was, in some respect compared to now, just boring politics.
Speaker B:Are you sure about that?
Speaker A:But that's what everybody wanted.
Speaker A:I mean, yeah, you have the.
Speaker A:You have the occasional thing, but I mean, let's be real, man.
Speaker A:Everybody's got something, you know, like, of course, Reagan's got the Reaganomics that.
Speaker A:That was big during his time.
Speaker A:You had Daddy Bush, who Had,.
Speaker B:What.
Speaker A:Was it, Operation War on Drugs?
Speaker A:Well, no, that was.
Speaker A:That was more.
Speaker A:That was.
Speaker A:That was more.
Speaker C:Yeah, but Bush was a continuation of that because that's when Dare came out.
Speaker B:Oh, okay.
Speaker A:Yeah, but now.
Speaker A:But it was.
Speaker A:But Desert Storm.
Speaker A:Desert Stor.
Speaker A:That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker A:He had dead a storm.
Speaker A:And then, of course, Clinton, you know, was pretty much the Monica Lewinsky situation, or how some people call him unofficial first black president, which is whatever.
Speaker A:And then you had kid bush who had 9 11.
Speaker A:And then basically, even though he was there for eight years, he worked for the first five and the last three, he just induced it.
Speaker A:So, like.
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean, I would say except for one or two things in it, politics was kind of boring.
Speaker A:And then here comes Barack Obama.
Speaker A:And once again, like I said, my.
Speaker A:In my beginning, you know, he made politics exciting for a couple different reasons.
Speaker A:You know, one, he did, yes, he was black.
Speaker A:Two, he went to the young generation about it.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And plus, the person who was running against was, you know, kind of old school.
Speaker A:So he was real.
Speaker A:He was younger, he was just different, that sort of thing.
Speaker A:But what I will say, like I said in my piece, the biggest thing was he's the first president since probably Bill Clinton, who is more was.
Speaker A:Was a lot more celebrity.
Speaker A:You know, he became a celebrity.
Speaker A:He wasn't a celebrity before he became a celebrity as president.
Speaker A:But like you there earlier, ag, he won't.
Speaker A:He won't out here, you know, bite, you know, biting on the dumb, you know, when they tried to get him, he won't like night.
Speaker A:I'm not taking that car.
Speaker A:I'm not taking that money.
Speaker A:Ain't doing that.
Speaker A:Because I know I gotta be damn near above board for this presidency to work, because out there waiting one thing one day, they just wait for that.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:But politics have changed immensely because now, once again, it's more celebrity.
Speaker A:And now you got people like.
Speaker A:I'm not saying that people can't run for office.
Speaker A:I'm not saying that.
Speaker A:But now it's almost like, even though.
Speaker A:Yes, the rule is you have to be a born American citizen to run for office.
Speaker A:That's not the rule everywhere.
Speaker A:But I mean, you got Spencer Pratt out here in California running for the mayor of la, and I don't mean to harm or nothing, but, like, what.
Speaker A:What is he gonna bring to the.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:It's like, then you got Stephen A out here, who Moby really loves talking about.
Speaker A:You know, like, that's the problem is, in my opinion, the Presidency has become too celebrity.
Speaker A:It almost needs to go back.
Speaker A:But is it too late to put the, the back in the can?
Speaker A:So Moby, I know you had your head up a couple times, so what do you, what's up?
Speaker C:Yeah, I, I vehemently disagree with you about politics used to be born.
Speaker C:Politics were never born, you just were never informed.
Speaker C:And now there's so many outlets to that.
Speaker C:We have 24 hour news networks, we've got Internet, we've got that, you know, random people just reporting.
Speaker C:It's the same politics it's always been.
Speaker C:It's it.
Speaker C:Now the face of politics have changed.
Speaker C:But the actual political battle, I'm kind of with ag on it, man.
Speaker C:It's, it's the same, it's the same fight for.
Speaker C:It just sounds too basic to say.
Speaker C:But it's the same basic fight for white supremacy it's always been in politics.
Speaker B:Why is that basic?
Speaker B:That's not basic.
Speaker B:That's accurate.
Speaker C:No, it's, but it's, it's basic because everybody says it and it's like.
Speaker C:But nobody necessarily differentiates like what that actually means.
Speaker C:I think you encapsulated it better by saying there's more desperation in politics now.
Speaker C:Like with these white people trying to grasp for power because they feel like they're losing it.
Speaker C:Which is really weird because I'm still trying to find the point in history in which they lost the power because they really haven't.
Speaker C:I guess they lost the face card.
Speaker C:As soon as there was a black person in the face of it, they were just like, oh, throw everything away, like this is ruined.
Speaker C:But even like, even when Obama was president, like the same entities that's always been in charge of, were still in charge of shit just had a different face.
Speaker C:And the only thing that's changed, like the Spencer Pratt thing, like the face of what politics looks like has changed because now we're so informed, formed with information that we've all effectively become stupid.
Speaker C:Because now everybody thinks that they could be a politician because I've got all the information too.
Speaker C:Like that, that's, that's the, the only thing that's changed about politics is the fact that at once, once upon a time, people felt like there had to at least be some type of qualification to do it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Like even if you didn't know what that qualification was, you was like, you gotta have something.
Speaker C:You, you had to do something to get that.
Speaker C:And now, now it's just like, hey man, I got a name, I got a phone, I got a Twitter handle.
Speaker C:Like let's go vote.
Speaker B:Let's.
Speaker C:Let's do it.
Speaker C:Vote for me.
Speaker A:And so, yeah, like.
Speaker A:Like, I'm.
Speaker A:Moko Cowboy says, you know, like, he thinks the most important question is whether or not Republicans exist anymore or is there only maga Now, I'm going to table that because I do want to come back to that.
Speaker A:I do want to come back to that, because I haven't.
Speaker A:I have a thought on that, but I want to table that real quickly.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:I agree.
Speaker A:Like, I. I think that.
Speaker A:I think a lot of it.
Speaker A:Yeah, we know more now because of, you know, information.
Speaker A:But I've.
Speaker A:I've always been.
Speaker A:For me, I've always been a.
Speaker A:A staunch person, believing.
Speaker A:And, yo, man, we don't need to know every damn thing.
Speaker A:Like, I. I am a fan of not knowing every damn thing.
Speaker C:And I think that makes you a minority, right?
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker C:As long as you know that makes you a minority.
Speaker A:No, because that's like the whole.
Speaker A:Like, honestly.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And we can let.
Speaker A:I mean, we can talk about it, like, the whole Iran thing, man, bro, CNN knew that we were about to bomb somebody.
Speaker A:So we told Iran, hey, they about to bo.
Speaker A:Like, two hours.
Speaker A:Iran was ready.
Speaker A:Like, what are we doing?
Speaker A:Like, why are we telling everybody in the world what we about to do before we do it?
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:And then.
Speaker C:Because we don't have qualified people anymore, because now it's.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker C:Everybody feels like they can do it.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:And it's just like.
Speaker A:Like, because there are just some things.
Speaker A:There are some things that we as people, normal people on our level should not know or we damn sure shouldn't know before everybody else knew, like, if we gonna attack anybody, you shouldn't be like.
Speaker A:I mean, like, the man did it.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:He did it the night before on the State of the Union.
Speaker A:He spoke for an hour and a half about bombing Iran.
Speaker A:And the next day, he bombed Iran.
Speaker A:I was like, I mean, are you the dumbest human on the planet?
Speaker A:Like, that's just like, hey, I'm.
Speaker A:Throw a fastball right down the middle.
Speaker A:I dare you.
Speaker A:Like, you know, and so, yeah, that's unfortunately.
Speaker A:That's unfortunately part of the problem.
Speaker A:Like, there is too much information out there, and everybody is an expert.
Speaker A:Now.
Speaker A:I ain't an expert, and I ain't trying to be an expert, but everybody's a damn expert now, you know, and stuff like that.
Speaker A:So, you know.
Speaker A: social media was out there in: Speaker A:Would that change the world that we actually know it by now?
Speaker A:You know, and.
Speaker A:And that.
Speaker A:That's interesting.
Speaker C:Why is that interesting to you?
Speaker C:Because I feel like we have a prime case study happening in real time right now that lets you know that even if they know about all the stuff happening, they don't care.
Speaker A:Well, I think the first thing is, who's they?
Speaker C:The people who want the power.
Speaker C:What I'm saying is, like, all right, so if more scandals would have been known back in the day, it still wouldn't have affected the rich white people from wanting people to vote the way they wanted to.
Speaker C:So they wanted.
Speaker C:Wanted those certain people in power.
Speaker C:Like, look, the Bill Clinton thing, everybody was like, oh, my God, the moral compass is just ruined because he got hatched from some random chick.
Speaker A:And that's just going out the window.
Speaker C:And everybody saying, six months later, even six months later, it was just a joke.
Speaker C:It wasn't like, all right, we got to get him out the hot paint.
Speaker C:We were just like, all right, but the economy is great right now, so, I mean, if that man want to get, you know, he want to get topped off a little bit, you know, this Internet thing is booming right now, so.
Speaker A:Yeah, because Al Gore created it.
Speaker C:You know what I'm saying is, man, like, I know it.
Speaker C:It makes people feel good to think that the morality of our country is, like, way greater than it actually is.
Speaker C:But at the end of the day, man, the.
Speaker C:The only thing our country has always proven to have belief in is money.
Speaker C:Like, how does this serve the people that have the money?
Speaker C:Money?
Speaker C:How does this keep them with the money?
Speaker C:And how does this make sure people without the money can never grab any of the money?
Speaker A:Yeah, show's over.
Speaker A:There's nothing else to say other than.
Speaker C:I will admit I liked it better when it was boring, too.
Speaker C:Like, I liked it better when it was less scandal.
Speaker C:I liked it better when the, you know, the leader of the free world was, like, less overtly racist and scared stupid in public.
Speaker C:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:Like.
Speaker C:Like, look, when.
Speaker C:When Kanye west said George Bush was a racist that didn't like black people.
Speaker C:Like, that was shocking and appalling.
Speaker C:Not because everybody was like, that can't be true.
Speaker C:It was just like, hey, man, you're not really supposed to say it out loud.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:And now we look at this president, like, I mean, we don't even really have to say it out loud now.
Speaker C:It's kind of understood, isn't it?
Speaker C:Like, it's kind of a given.
Speaker C:Yeah, like, like I said, the tone of politics have changed.
Speaker C:Actual doings of politics.
Speaker C:Nah, it's pretty much the same.
Speaker A:I mean, yeah, you know, information, sometimes too much is too much.
Speaker C:I don't think too much information is ever too much information.
Speaker C:I think the problem is too much information gets to a point where people don't know what to do with it.
Speaker C:So when you have too much information, effectively you have no information.
Speaker C:Because, like, right now, we talk about it all the time with our education system.
Speaker C:Like, my kids have access to levels of information at speeds that when we were their age was unheard of.
Speaker C:Like, just randomly, they can just say, hey, Siri, ask any random question and get the answer.
Speaker C:And we both, all three of us collectively agree, agree this is the dumbest generation to man right now because they have access to all this information, but they don't know what to do with it.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's too much.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It takes him 30 steps to go from, you know, what's 24 divided by three?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:The new math that they have to show takes 15 pages, yet they all use their phone's calculator.
Speaker C:It's the, It's.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker A:I mean.
Speaker A:Yeah, this is crazy.
Speaker A:It's crazy.
Speaker A:So, all right, so let's shift from that and go back to one thing we talked about earlier, especially in the opening.
Speaker A:So we got this dude in Maine who is running Democrat.
Speaker A:And look, man, I mean, here's my problem.
Speaker A:My problem is very simple.
Speaker A:Look, man, in the, in the, in the day, if you made a mistake, you made a mistake.
Speaker A:Like, back then, I felt a certain way.
Speaker A:I changed my, you know, whatever, whatever.
Speaker A:But to sit up there and say, hey, I didn't know that was a Nazi swastika on my body.
Speaker A:I mean, like, see, like now you're just, now you're talking.
Speaker A:You're challenging the intelligence of people.
Speaker C:Are you.
Speaker A:Is it, huh?
Speaker B:Are you or is he.
Speaker A:No, no, him, I think.
Speaker A:Will you say like that?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You sure about that?
Speaker C:Because I don't think so either.
Speaker B:Because honestly, what you're saying right now makes a lot of sense to us.
Speaker B:But what it says to people that look like him, it says, I can relate to somebody saying that even though we both know we were.
Speaker B:We knew what we were doing, but publicly, plea, we gotta say these things we didn't know.
Speaker B:If I, if I didn't know it was that hurtful, I would.
Speaker B:All the things.
Speaker B:It's just like a cop saying, I Was afraid for my life.
Speaker B:Yep, you got the gun and the badge, and you're always afraid for your life when the guy you shot was running away.
Speaker B:Okay, but that's what that is.
Speaker B:So what.
Speaker B:Are you sure?
Speaker B:Because I think it makes white people feel comfortable because especially up north.
Speaker B:People up north feel like there was no slavery, so I couldn't possibly be a racist.
Speaker B:Maine is a Democratic, Democratic state.
Speaker B:And it's just like.
Speaker B:But they still.
Speaker B:I'm telling you, man, that dude saying that made all the white people feel much better.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:Because if he doesn't say it, then they got to do something about it.
Speaker B:Because like I said, man, when he came out and said what he said, I was.
Speaker B:I was.
Speaker B:I was listening to npr and they were going through all these things.
Speaker B:So many things, so many flaws that actually aren't flaws anymore.
Speaker B:Because the name of the podcast episode was Does Scandal even Matter anymore?
Speaker B:Yeah, and it doesn't, clearly.
Speaker A:Not at all.
Speaker B:But it just is just for the select few, which you.
Speaker B:If you're a white male, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker B:If you're a black anything or a person of color, anything gender, then it does matter.
Speaker B:So I'm telling you right now, him saying that makes his base, which is 97, 98% white because of.
Speaker B:Just because of where he's doing this, made them feel so much better and at the same time, relatable.
Speaker B:Because I remember going, and this.
Speaker B:This girl was black, but her uncle happened to live in New Hampshire.
Speaker B:And I remember driving by this dude shirtless with a swastik on his chest.
Speaker B:You already know who you are when you take the time to put that on your chest.
Speaker B:Anybody that's ever had a tattoo or seen somebody get a tattoo, blood running down whatever body part that's intentional, Everybody knows what they're doing.
Speaker B:So, again, but if I'm a white dude from Maine, I'm gonna feel better.
Speaker B:Especially if I've, like, changed my mind or I'm ashamed of it or I'm trying to hide it and be on the qt.
Speaker B:That makes me feel comfortable that he said that.
Speaker B:I can relate to that, dude.
Speaker B:I guarantee you, 50% of the people that vote for him, racist.
Speaker B:They want to be.
Speaker B:They playing out face, man.
Speaker B:They playing in our face.
Speaker C:Because all, all, all it does.
Speaker C:Reuben, see, you see it as.
Speaker C:It's insulting your intelligent.
Speaker C:They see it as you're justifying my own personal racism.
Speaker C:Because, yeah, I'm not a racist just because I did something racist at one time.
Speaker C:Even though I continue to keep Doing that same racist thing.
Speaker C:Because once again, I've told you that a lot of white people's biggest fear is being called racist, not actually being a racist.
Speaker C:They just don't necessarily want to be called racist.
Speaker C:So by him saying, you know, I didn't, you know, didn't know it was that my bad.
Speaker C:It's like, oh, now there's like, oh, you know what?
Speaker C:Yeah, when.
Speaker C:When.
Speaker C:When I said when I called that a. I didn't mean it either.
Speaker C:It was, you know, it just slipped.
Speaker A:I mean, yeah, if you're a doctor,.
Speaker C:Dre say a couple times.
Speaker C:And I just, you know, know.
Speaker C:Vernacular slip, man.
Speaker C:Vernacular slip.
Speaker A:I mean.
Speaker A:So, yeah, I mean, the crazy part about it is both of you are correct.
Speaker A:And he's probably going to win that race.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:Like,.
Speaker B:He gonna win it like Fetterman won, man.
Speaker B:He gonna win it like Ferman.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:The idea of being a racist, the idea of being a noxy.
Speaker C:The.
Speaker C:Like, those are not disqualifying factors in politics.
Speaker C:They never have been.
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker C:Like the fact that for some reason, I feel like you have cloaked yourself in a cape of thinking maybe at one point in time it was frowned upon.
Speaker A:Yeah, I don't.
Speaker C:I don't think it was ever overtly frowned upon.
Speaker C:I think it was just something you weren't supposed to advertise too loudly in certain areas.
Speaker A:Like, you can do.
Speaker C:Do it, but, you know, you can't tell nobody.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's.
Speaker C:It's like our swinger discussion we had one time.
Speaker C:It's like, you know what?
Speaker C:You probably know a lot of swingers, they just ain't out here telling you.
Speaker B:That's funny.
Speaker B:That is funny.
Speaker A:I mean, it's true, too, probably.
Speaker A:I mean, I don't know.
Speaker B:I mean, I mean, I understand where you coming from, Ruby, because it's not the first time we've talked about something like this.
Speaker B:And I'm looking at you like, huh?
Speaker B:But I understand you because you are much more willing to see a person, person per person.
Speaker B:I don't have time for that.
Speaker B:So eventually, I'm going to group you all in together, because, you know, just like you group me all in together.
Speaker B:I don't have time for that for you.
Speaker B:You will call somebody an idiot if they're racist.
Speaker B:For me, it's like, well, you're going to say the rest of it, but for you, it's not that way.
Speaker B:And you answer that way all the time, which is consistent.
Speaker B:So I understand how you feel, but I mean, asking us about it, huh?
Speaker C:That's why I also state when I tell Ruby, like, that also makes you a minority, Reuben.
Speaker B:Like you.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker C:Your way of processing information makes you kind of a minority.
Speaker C:It's not a negative insult.
Speaker A:It's just absolutely.
Speaker C:I ain't got time to try to cipher out the ones, you know, I'm just.
Speaker C:I'm just never surprised.
Speaker C:Like, I.
Speaker C:The older I get, I get accused of being like, I don't know, anti white person.
Speaker C:And I'm not.
Speaker C:I'm not at all.
Speaker C:But the older I get, the less I'm surprised by a white person doing something bad or doing something racist.
Speaker C:Like, it's.
Speaker C:It's not that I assume you're going to do it, but I also don't assume you won't.
Speaker C:That is, that's just where I stand.
Speaker C:It's like, I don't.
Speaker C:I don't assume that you are the oppressor.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But if I found out you were, I'm not sure.
Speaker C:Wouldn't surprise me at all.
Speaker C:I wouldn't be like, no, not Timmy.
Speaker C:Like, no, I wouldn't be like that at all.
Speaker B:I love your names, Timmy.
Speaker A:This guy just gives names.
Speaker B:I love when he says Zach.
Speaker B:Zach was hilarious.
Speaker C:No, I'm leaving Zach out of this, cuz.
Speaker B:But he was the one that was like, you know, the picking the cotton, the, the forgot what, what he said in the poster board to ask black.
Speaker C:Girl out back in the day, something.
Speaker B:But you said that be your one, that'd be your one.
Speaker C:Yeah, that be your one.
Speaker C:Z.
Speaker A:That's your one.
Speaker A:Z. Wow.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So, yeah, got me.
Speaker A:I would say a lot of things these days are just, you know, that used to be, I would say, at least frowned upon now, just like, whatever.
Speaker A:Such as, you know, like any type of sexual assault, if you are.
Speaker A:If you did sexual assault and you wanted to run for any office, like, that ain't a big deal no more.
Speaker A:You know, I mean.
Speaker C:Okay, okay, okay, pause.
Speaker C:When was it a big deal?
Speaker A:Well, I mean, I, I think I would say just.
Speaker C:I'm just saying.
Speaker B:That's a great question, but it was always a big deal on that one.
Speaker A:I would say back in the day, that's kind of frowned upon.
Speaker A:Like, you shouldn't elect a, A, a pedophile.
Speaker A:Like that didn't.
Speaker C:I mean, I mean, we had a Supreme Court justice get elected in the early 90s who had all types of sexuality.
Speaker A:I mean, I understand that.
Speaker A:I understand that.
Speaker B:Mo already said it.
Speaker B:It's not that it was always frowned upon, but it was only frowned upon if you were dumb Enough to let it get out.
Speaker B:That's when, like I said before, like to do from Maine.
Speaker B:It's just like if you say what you just said about not knowing, you make me feel comfortable.
Speaker B:Okay, I can relate to that.
Speaker B:If you come back and say anything other than that, then I got to do something about you, and I don't want to do anything about you.
Speaker B:I'm comfortable with you.
Speaker B:If I am a pedophile or if I like, if I like snuff films, everything is cool.
Speaker B:If I don't let it get out, if I put in mechanisms to make sure that none of my no one knows that I'm watching this stuff, then everything is cool.
Speaker B:Once it gets out, I am done.
Speaker B:However, now everything is cool no matter what I've done.
Speaker B:And I have to be a white male because I am part of the machine that's gonna get rid of the black people.
Speaker B:As long as I can get.
Speaker B:As long as I can be at least a cop and getting rid of black and brown people and protecting the white women and marginalize all the other women, as long as I can do that, then I'm good.
Speaker C:You gotta have money, too.
Speaker B:Well, see, that's unwritten because if they feel, if they feel really good about me, they will give me the resources to be protected.
Speaker B:So I didn't even really want to mention money because it's kind of like if you either have to have it or you have to have access to it, it's not worth mentioning.
Speaker B:We all know that.
Speaker B:But when what I'm saying to Ruben is nothing has changed.
Speaker B:It's just that the only thing that's actually changed is I don't have to keep nothing on the qt.
Speaker B:As long as I look the right way, I don't have to keep nothing on the qt.
Speaker B:And as long as I don't, even if it come out, I know I don't have, you know, I know it's not going to damage me, but as long as I don't admit to it, I'm golden.
Speaker B:That's the biggest thing.
Speaker B:And that's that desperation I was talking about.
Speaker B:Because back in the day where you were talking about even, even before, I mean, anything before Obama, what we're talking about are a white America that was still, you know, 80, maybe 70% part, you know, population wise of this country, makeup of this country, black people for just, you know, whatever they, they ain't nothing to worry about.
Speaker B:As long as they play sports and entertain us, we're all good.
Speaker B:But they're not doing Anything important.
Speaker B:You know, we'll.
Speaker B:We'll let.
Speaker B:We'll let one or two get up there.
Speaker B:We'll let one or two get up there and do a little something or whatever.
Speaker B:But he's just a token.
Speaker B:They weren't even looking at Chicago politics when, When a Barack opened.
Speaker B:They should have.
Speaker B:They should have put him down when he was in Chicago.
Speaker B:And they didn't.
Speaker A:Yeah, they did not.
Speaker B:They didn't even notice that some of the more.
Speaker B:More, you know, ethnic white people powerful in politics were giving this dude money to go.
Speaker B:They didn't even notice.
Speaker B:And I'm like, okay.
Speaker A:And they didn't believe it when he got up there.
Speaker A:They didn't think he'd win.
Speaker B:Man, that speech at the DNC changed.
Speaker B:That speech at the DNC changed everything.
Speaker B:And I'm telling you right now, those days are gone.
Speaker B:But like I said, getting back to my point is long, at this point is long as most say, have the complexion for protection.
Speaker B:As long as I have that, there is nothing I can do in my extracurricular that's going to damage whether I'm a politician or not.
Speaker B:Nothing.
Speaker B:Because what I stand for protects everybody, protects the interest of what people really want, which is white supremacy.
Speaker B:That's why I don't like to dance around it.
Speaker B:That's why it's not basic to me.
Speaker B:It is the thing.
Speaker A:Thing.
Speaker B:And they are willing to keep the main thing.
Speaker B:The main thing.
Speaker B:Oh, you can.
Speaker B:You can, you know, you.
Speaker B:You can sodomize little girls if you want to, or little boys, as it were.
Speaker B:That's fine.
Speaker B:Do you still hate black people?
Speaker B:Okay, we're good.
Speaker B:As long as you hate black and brown.
Speaker B:As long as you are willing to give, you know, sell your soul to billionaires and oligarchs.
Speaker B:I don't care how.
Speaker B:How awful you are as a person.
Speaker B:I don't care.
Speaker B:You.
Speaker B:As long as you.
Speaker B:As long as you keep the main thing.
Speaker B:The main thing.
Speaker B:Do you.
Speaker B:That's what this is.
Speaker A:And it was.
Speaker B:It's always been that way.
Speaker B:It's always been that way.
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Speaker C:And you know what?
Speaker C:And in all fairness, I would like to try to be a little even on this.
Speaker C:White people ain't that much different than black people too, because it takes us a long time time to really turn those people too.
Speaker C:I mean, how long did we still try as a people to pump out?
Speaker C:R. Kelly?
Speaker A:We.
Speaker C:We knew that was going on.
Speaker C:Like that was not a secret.
Speaker C:It had been circulating out in the atmosphere for a long time.
Speaker C:And we was just like hey man, that happy people track do jam though that they beloved.
Speaker A:Oh how many of us was like.
Speaker C:Yeah man, we pretty sure OJ did that.
Speaker C:But we were still also.
Speaker C:But we don't want him to get jammed up for that shit either.
Speaker A:AC all day, baby.
Speaker A:AC all day.
Speaker C:Once again, man, I don't want to just lump white people as this, but I will say we tend to support our people just because we just want to see something positive.
Speaker C:And white people tend to support because they seem to just be more inherently okay with their people doing really evil shit in the name of whatever they believe leaving and what I mean like, like you said Ag.
Speaker C:The main thing is hey yeah, you.
Speaker C:You do some with underage kids.
Speaker C:But you know them on the other side of town though, right?
Speaker C:You're gonna make sure they.
Speaker C:They stay over there, right?
Speaker C:Cool.
Speaker B:Cool.
Speaker C:Then we.
Speaker C:We cool what you did.
Speaker B:I pray for that.
Speaker C:Make sure all the money going to my kids school right?
Speaker C:Not.
Speaker C:Not them over there like.
Speaker C:All right, Cool, cool.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:Yeah, we good.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:So quick question.
Speaker A:Yes or know then we're gonna move on to something else.
Speaker A:Does Rubio get the.
Speaker A: The Republican nomination for: Speaker B:He Brown.
Speaker B:No he brown.
Speaker B:At the end of the day he's a Cuban.
Speaker C:Here's the thing.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker C: u think there's going to be a: Speaker A:I mean, I think.
Speaker A:You know what, I'm not gonna say what I thought because I ain't trying to get no secret service at my house.
Speaker A:So we.
Speaker B:To say we.
Speaker B:We'll be put on a message so I can say it for you.
Speaker A:No I'm good.
Speaker A:We good?
Speaker A:We good.
Speaker B:Don't be scared.
Speaker B:Come on, man.
Speaker C:I mean, I mean, I'm scared of that.
Speaker C:Got like two and a half years to basically amend the Constitution and make it so that he can run for another term.
Speaker A:Hey, man, they got rid of Ro versus Wade.
Speaker C:You know, the Constitution, that, that's, that's the brilliance and beauty of the Constitution is that it can actually be changed and amended with enough of the influence.
Speaker B:So it can be change two thirds.
Speaker C:Yeah, so.
Speaker C:So it can be changed.
Speaker C:So everybody's like, well, the Constitution says he can't run for a third.
Speaker C:We'll give him two and a half years.
Speaker C:He got time.
Speaker A:Well, yes, when it's all said and done.
Speaker A:Another reason for people to go out there and vote.
Speaker A:Because if they can, if they can.
Speaker A:If they can.
Speaker A:Try now.
Speaker A:All right, so one more thing that came up that I want to bring up.
Speaker A:Let's talk about Mo Cowboys comment for a second.
Speaker A:Second.
Speaker A:When he said the most important question is whether or not the Republicans exist anymore or in there is only maga.
Speaker A:I want to let AG start with that because, I mean, I think I'm curious on his opinion on.
Speaker A:About that statement.
Speaker A:It.
Speaker A:Are the Republican.
Speaker A:Is the Republican Party dead or are we about to get a third option at this moment in time?
Speaker A:Because if you're trying to get for years, is this going to be the year?
Speaker A:Is this going to be time?
Speaker A:We get.
Speaker A:We now have Republicans, Democrats and maga.
Speaker B:No, because the way it is now, Trump's got so much political clout that Republicans, whether they like it or not, most of them like it.
Speaker B:They're one in the same.
Speaker B:It's a, it's a difference with almost no distinction.
Speaker B:It's like you can say that you're Republican and not maga, but who, who believes that?
Speaker B:Because a lot of the things, the only for most of the time when MAGA says something and we're all shocked and appalled, the same Republicans that are trying to differentiate themselves and distance themselves from MAGA have always thought the same things.
Speaker B:They're not different.
Speaker B:They have a different name.
Speaker B:And certainly they do or say things that are.
Speaker B:They're, you know, just awful.
Speaker B:But what I'm saying to you is, like, we just finished talking about politics.
Speaker B:Hasn't really changed.
Speaker B:The goal has always been the goal.
Speaker B:Before there was a maga, they still were wanting to do this.
Speaker B:So I'm like, has it changed?
Speaker B:No, it hadn't changed.
Speaker B:So for me, based on the result, MAGA and Republican are the same thing.
Speaker B:Now I will say that the Republicans that don't rock, which there are.
Speaker B:That don't rock, you know, with the extreme right, they're just scared because they're scared of losing their jobs.
Speaker B:If they.
Speaker B:If they had.
Speaker B:Because I remember most said something about like 12 episodes ago that's really important now.
Speaker B:If you have term limits, you don't have fear.
Speaker B:If you vote unafraid, then you generally vote the truth.
Speaker B:So the people that are part of the Republican Party that don't actually rock that way, they wouldn't be afraid because you can't fire me because I'm out of here anyway.
Speaker B:You can't fire me because I just got here.
Speaker B:So I'm going to vote the truth.
Speaker B:You have more inclination to vote the truth because you're not afraid to get fired because there is no firing.
Speaker B:You're going to be gone in four years or six years or whatever the term is.
Speaker B:So that needs to be.
Speaker B:To be said because a lot of these men and women out here that had their Marjorie Taylor Greene moment, or they were never rocking with MAGA to start with, that are, you know, getting the stench of the cesspool that they're in.
Speaker B:Man, it's.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:I feel bad for him because they, they don't want to be a part of this, but they like being politicians and they know for a fact this has already been proven time and again.
Speaker B:If you go against Trump for any reason, he gonna get you.
Speaker B:And the first thing he gonna get is you.
Speaker A:Your job, which he's already got.
Speaker A:The couple.
Speaker B:Ask Texas, ask people in Indiana.
Speaker B:The first thing he gonna get is your job.
Speaker B:And this dude is the type of dude that will use his political weight to.
Speaker B:To ruin your personal life, too.
Speaker B:Like I said, a lot of the lawsuits, a lot of times when Trump sues somebody or an entity, they.
Speaker B:He just wants you to drag through the awful and, you know, anxious process.
Speaker B:He doesn't want to sue you because it's baseless.
Speaker A:But if he.
Speaker B:But if he comes to you from a legal standpoint and indicts you, you have to go through this awful process that you don't know that you're going to come out on the other side clean.
Speaker B:All that trauma, all that money you spent, he just laughing like, I know this is baseless, but you got to spend all this money.
Speaker B:You had to go through all this foolishness.
Speaker B:Your life is on display in a way in which never was.
Speaker B:And I'm just laughing at you if you are trying to hold on to power or if you're afraid for yourself and your family at all.
Speaker B:You are voting afraid.
Speaker B:So it looks like you're going along with this.
Speaker B:So in my opinion, based on all the information, MAGA and Republican are one in the same.
Speaker B:It doesn't matter to me.
Speaker B:You can have a red hat on.
Speaker B:You cannot have a red hat on if you're a Republican.
Speaker B:This is who you are.
Speaker B:Black or white.
Speaker B:This is who you are.
Speaker B:Brown, yellow, doesn't matter if you are Republican, you are maga.
Speaker B:They are one in the same.
Speaker A:Moby.
Speaker C:I mean, he's right.
Speaker C:Right on.
Speaker C:But I guess when.
Speaker C:When I think about this question, I think about.
Speaker C:I hate to tie it to, like, religion, but there's a very important.
Speaker C:There's an important hist figure, Constantine the Great, and he made a decision when he was in charge that, hey, man, my society has been a pagan society, but this Christianity thing is.
Speaker C:Is really.
Speaker C:It's coming.
Speaker C:There's no avoiding it.
Speaker C:There's no getting around it.
Speaker C:So I'm just going to.
Speaker C:I'm just going to jump on this.
Speaker C:And that's kind of what the Republicans have had to do with maga, which is like, yeah, it's not necessarily what we want.
Speaker C:Like, but hey, just like the.
Speaker C:Just like the we did with Christianity, you know.
Speaker C:All right, we're gonna try to make it at least a little familiar with us.
Speaker C:We're gonna give some of these pagan holidays and.
Speaker C:And turn them into some Christian background.
Speaker C:Like, the reason we celebrate Christmas when we do is because it's pagan thing.
Speaker C:Like, basically the Republicans are just like, all right, we're gonna try to still get some of the stuff we want in the midst of this stuff that we don't want anyway, because at the end of the day, it's coming whether we hear or not.
Speaker C:And just like AG said.
Speaker C:But what they ain't about to do is relinquish power to it.
Speaker C:They're like, no, I mean, if.
Speaker C:If I gotta shake this dude's hand to stay where I'm at, cool, I. I just have to deal.
Speaker C:So, yeah, I feel like, you know, I don't know if that's a terrible analogy, but I feel like in many ways, the Maga Republic, the Republicans have had to kind of make a Constantine the great decision and just be like, hey, man, this shit's coming whether I like it or not, so I gotta just make the most of it.
Speaker A:Of it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I mean, yeah, both of y', all, right?
Speaker A:I mean, I got nothing to say because you both said it correctly.
Speaker A:So, yeah, is.
Speaker A:Is what it Is, you know, it'll be December.
Speaker A:I mean, excuse me, November becomes more and more interesting the more we get.
Speaker C:Closer, and it's sad, you know.
Speaker C:Look, man, as somebody who, I mean, for a long time in my life, man, I. I just didn't really care.
Speaker C:Care about whether you're Republican or Democrat.
Speaker C:I mean, part of that was just not being informed.
Speaker C:The other part was just like, hey, man, at the end of the day, there's a lot more similarities and differences in the overall power concept.
Speaker C:But, like, I never thought I'd be to the point where I'm just like, man, I sure do miss some of these good old Republicans, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:Like, like, like think about, like, we just talked about McCain, like, McCain, when you think about MCC, like, as.
Speaker C:As a Republican, look, I'm sure he voted on a lot of shit that totally did not necessarily serve people that look like us well.
Speaker C:However, he at least reported himself as a respectable human being.
Speaker C:He didn't take all the racist bait which people tried to get him to.
Speaker A:Take during his, like, his daughter sucks, but whatever.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, but I'm not talking about her.
Speaker C:Like, you know, say I'm not.
Speaker C:I'm talking about him.
Speaker C:And at the end of the day, I don't know this dude from.
Speaker C:From Adam, but, like, the way he represented himself on the biggest stage with all the microphones and all the cameras and all the people who are now part of this MAGA movement that were also trying to basically get him to do all the Trump things, like when he was running against Obama, you know, basically calling him Muslim, doing all the things, and he would just never take the bait.
Speaker C:It was just like, man, that's a level of Republican that at least back in the day, I'm like, hey, he might call me a nigga behind closed doors, but damn it, I miss it when they did that in camera, though.
Speaker C:Like, I miss when they choose to respect, like, that, man.
Speaker C:Like.
Speaker C:And look, I'm not saying.
Speaker C:I'm not saying he was like, he.
Speaker C:From everything that we hear about him, he was exactly who he said he was now doing.
Speaker C:Do I always agree with the policies that he voted for?
Speaker C:No, but there are no perfect politics.
Speaker C:I don't care which side of the aisle you fall on.
Speaker C:There are no perfect politics.
Speaker C:Every policy ends up making somebody feel uncomfortable or somebody upset.
Speaker C:I wish people would stop acting as if there is a perfect political party that everything they suggest is all rainbows, unicorns, and sunshine.
Speaker C:It's not realistic.
Speaker C:It's too many people for policies that affect all people, to work for all people.
Speaker A:People.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker C:But, yeah, I do miss those good old days where it was just like, yeah, man, can you just give me, like, a.
Speaker C:A cool, like, boring ass, dull Republican?
Speaker C:Just like a lane, like.
Speaker A:Like, yo, I want.
Speaker C:I miss the worst thing about that just being like, he lame as.
Speaker C:Like, if that's the worst thing I could say about you back in the day.
Speaker C:Like, hey, man, he lame.
Speaker C:I miss.
Speaker C:Give me something.
Speaker A:It's like, look, man, you just want somebody born.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Like I said, we can say a lot of things about Trump, but, like, lame ain't one of the things I' ma call him.
Speaker C:Like, he.
Speaker C:Not that.
Speaker C:Like, it's entertaining as it's all catastrophically terrible for most people that look like us, but it ain't lame.
Speaker A:I would agree with that.
Speaker A:All right, cool, cool.
Speaker A:Thank you, Ag.
Speaker A:What's on your mind, bro?
Speaker B:The power to make lemonade.
Speaker A:Oh, Jesus.
Speaker B:And immigration.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker B:Yeah, two.
Speaker B:Two separate things.
Speaker B:I'm not trying to lock them together, but there's two things on my mind because it's like, I read a couple recipes to do, like, lemonade from scratch, and it's the easiest thing ever.
Speaker B:And it made my wife so happy.
Speaker B:Telling you, man, when you start out your culinary journey with respect to your wife's wants and desires, you are automatically on the right path.
Speaker A:Sir.
Speaker B:I'm just saying immigration.
Speaker B:As much as we talk about immigration and as much as, like, foreign people act like we owe them something, sometimes we need to.
Speaker B:We need to talk about immigration from the part where we're.
Speaker B:As a country.
Speaker B:Well, I shouldn't say as a country, because I don't have any control over policy, but people that make policy, have the power to make policy.
Speaker B:Need to correct the system.
Speaker B:It's a bad system.
Speaker B:And a lot of half the time, it puts people in a really precarious situation in which we can use their situation that we sometimes cause to make a narrative about people that they don't deserve.
Speaker B:We need to do better.
Speaker B:And, you know, we have had plenty of time to not necessarily dismantle it, but to look at it and go, okay, this is that causation and that caused this or whatever it is.
Speaker B:If we fix this part of it, we can move forward.
Speaker B:If we fix that part of it, we can move forward.
Speaker B:All the things.
Speaker B:All the things that we could have done, should have done, we're not doing.
Speaker B:We're still not not doing it.
Speaker B:And I know it's really fun to vilify people in this country.
Speaker B:We enjoy vilifying people in this country, especially if you black or brown, and you're not from here.
Speaker B:But the bottom line to me is we are not taking responsibility for our part in it because we.
Speaker B:We as a country, from an administration standpoint, have blood on our hands.
Speaker B:And we're making life difficult for people that don't deserve it because sometimes they play by the rules and do it the right way.
Speaker B:Way.
Speaker B:And then we're not there to support them.
Speaker B:And then we're going to talk about them like a dog and then put them on a plane to a country they don't belong to.
Speaker B:For real.
Speaker B:Do better, y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker B:So that's what's on my mind.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Did the lemonade come out good, though, bruh?
Speaker C:I'm confused about the lemonade thing, though.
Speaker C:Like, how many ingredients can actually be eliminated?
Speaker C:Like, you said you were looking for a recipe for lemonade.
Speaker C:I. I thought it was pretty simple.
Speaker B:Simple.
Speaker C:Am I oversimplifying?
Speaker B:No, no.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:But see, here's the thing.
Speaker B:There are a lot of dishes.
Speaker B:Like, I made.
Speaker B:I told y', all, I made a cobbler last week.
Speaker B:There are three ingredients in a cobbler.
Speaker B:People will buy the cobbler for $40, or they don't make it, or they're.
Speaker B:Or it's being erased from.
Speaker B:Like, if you black or brown, especially if you black, you're from the South.
Speaker B:Cobbler is kind of part of your childhood.
Speaker B:And the idea that people are growing up, grown people don't know how to make one.
Speaker B:It's lazy, man.
Speaker B:We need to do better.
Speaker B:We need to do better biscuits.
Speaker B:Another one, three or four ingredients, and you're golden.
Speaker B:It's like, we ain't got no.
Speaker B:We don't have no culinary want to.
Speaker B:So that's why I said what I said about lemonade.
Speaker B:I did go after the recipe because I wanted to be authentic.
Speaker B:But like I said, after that, it's like, it's too easy not to do.
Speaker B:And why I should.
Speaker B:He loves it.
Speaker B:It's lemons, it's sugar.
Speaker B:It's heat and overnight cooling.
Speaker B:That's what it is.
Speaker B:But more people than not will go out to Chick Fil a and pay $50 for a cup of lemonade.
Speaker B:And that's.
Speaker A:That's long ass.
Speaker A:Time for some goddamn lemonade.
Speaker B:See, there it is.
Speaker B:Lazy.
Speaker B:There it is.
Speaker A:I'm not going in front, man.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And I don't want you to.
Speaker B:And I'm not.
Speaker B:And this is not.
Speaker B:I'm not attacking you either, because I'm that way.
Speaker B:Everybody's that way.
Speaker B:It's like, that's why I wanted to learn how to make a pizza so bad.
Speaker B:I'm still failing at it, but it's just like I paid $43 for little Caesars.
Speaker B:Two things.
Speaker B:I can make my own, and I should have went out and got it, but I was too lazy to do it.
Speaker B:And I also said last week or whenever I was talking about it, the other thing that is legitimate about making your own food is more time than people have have to give to making their own food.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker B:It is time intensive and it's labor intensive.
Speaker B:And it's just like when you add up the cost of that first purchase.
Speaker B:Like, I've been making Chinese food lately.
Speaker B:Spring rolls are super expensive the first time.
Speaker B:The second time, they don't cost nothing.
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker B:But they.
Speaker B:Man, I spent an hour.
Speaker B:I think I must have made 50.
Speaker B:Yeah, I made like 50.
Speaker B:And I'm telling you, man, it's a lot because I made so much mixture.
Speaker B:It's like, man, I got.
Speaker B:You gotta do it now.
Speaker B:Yeah, you gotta do it now.
Speaker B:So rolling, rolling, rolling.
Speaker B:I thought I was on Rawhide.
Speaker B:So I'm just saying, bro, it's like, you're right.
Speaker A:I got a brother.
Speaker A:I'll eat some of that for you.
Speaker B:Well, they're all gone now because wifey loves them.
Speaker B:But it's like, I hear what you're saying, Mo, and you're absolutely right.
Speaker B:But I'm telling you, people still don't do it.
Speaker C:And because they have and.
Speaker C:No, because that's all.
Speaker C:I thought it was to make lemonade, but I was just like, I mean,.
Speaker B:When was the last time you made lemonade?
Speaker B:Well, you're diabetics.
Speaker B:It doesn't count for you.
Speaker B:But when it's.
Speaker C:Yeah, everybody say, like, it's been a.
Speaker B:Long time, but even in your lifetime, how many times have you gone into your own refrigerator or been at a family function or whatever and had access to homemade lemonade with the pulp in it?
Speaker A:Stasis.
Speaker B:Well, take the pulpit.
Speaker C:Actually, I. I have a lot just because my grandma.
Speaker C:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:So when I was younger, that.
Speaker B:That was all growing up, exactly one person.
Speaker B:Your.
Speaker A:Your.
Speaker B:Your plug.
Speaker C:I did it.
Speaker C:It was.
Speaker C:That's when I started.
Speaker C:So my mom did it too.
Speaker C:My mom used to be real big on, like, for a while, my mom didn't even used to want to get Kool Aid.
Speaker C:So, like, I didn't even know what Kool Aid.
Speaker C:I won't even on the Kool Aid train.
Speaker C:That so many other people was on until later on.
Speaker C:Like I said, I was still seeing the commercials with Kool Aid putting fr.
Speaker C:And I was just like, I thought that's what you did.
Speaker A:I need to have a conversation with your mother.
Speaker B:You grew up in a place that's special because what I see now, and I see the effects of it, like people in general.
Speaker B:I'm not putting this on women.
Speaker B:All of us need know how to cook.
Speaker B:No one really understands how to cook.
Speaker B:Now, I will say that I hope we're coming out of that because there's so much information on YouTube.
Speaker B:There's so many creators out there making recipes or like making food from basic recipes that, you know, we all know.
Speaker B:But all I'm saying is it's like, it's not hard.
Speaker B:It's not.
Speaker B:It's not even that expensive.
Speaker B:It's just want to.
Speaker B:That's what it is.
Speaker B:And so now it's just like, if I'm not stuck outside, I'm not going to Chick Fil a for no watered down lemonade.
Speaker C:Why?
Speaker B:But I.
Speaker A:It.
Speaker B:It took.
Speaker B:Want to, man.
Speaker B:That's what it is.
Speaker B:It's very simple.
Speaker B:It's 30 minutes on high heat, two cups of sugar and water.
Speaker B:That's your syrup.
Speaker B:Two cups of lemon juice or lemons or both.
Speaker B:I put lemon juice and lemons, like real squeezed lemons with the pulp in the.
Speaker B:In the water.
Speaker B:Put it all together, mix it.
Speaker B:If you want it right now, put a lot of ice in it.
Speaker B:If it doesn't matter to you, let it cool overnight.
Speaker B:That's it.
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker B:But do you want to do it bad enough or do you have the time?
Speaker B:Is the question.
Speaker A:Very true?
Speaker C:You know Reuben's answer.
Speaker B:He already said it.
Speaker C:Yeah, you know Reuben's answer.
Speaker C:No, I ain't doing that.
Speaker A:Well, it.
Speaker A:But I. I will say this.
Speaker A:I will say this.
Speaker A:I think that one of the biggest reasons for my culinary journey being halted is because I'm only cooking for me right now.
Speaker A:I can get it, freeze it.
Speaker A:I cook it at freezing all that stuff.
Speaker A:But I also know myself.
Speaker A:So, like, yeah.
Speaker A:I mean, there are certain things that, like Chinese.
Speaker A:Like, I think it's awesome that you cook Chinese.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's not it.
Speaker A:At least at this moment in time in my life, I'm not there yet.
Speaker A:But I could.
Speaker A:I mean, I cook basic, right?
Speaker A:I can cook regular food.
Speaker A:So I'm not like, you know, I mean, I could.
Speaker A:I could like any type of protein.
Speaker A:I could cook protein.
Speaker A:I'm solid.
Speaker A:You know, I've Cooked a couple of those casseroles and stuff like that.
Speaker A:I mean, so yeah, one day I want to get my hand in some lasagna, but that's.
Speaker A:Once again, that's a lot of food because you can't make a little small thing of lasagna.
Speaker A:I mean, I can, but yeah, I'm.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's why I have to think about when I cook things.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I don't know, man.
Speaker C:I feel, I feel like if it was.
Speaker C:I mean, I do a lot of cooking just for me, just because nobody else in the house necessarily for me.
Speaker C:But honestly, I feel like if it was just me, I'd probably cook even more because like, having more people to cook for actually makes me want to be more efficient with time.
Speaker C:It's like, all right, I gotta cook this and I gotta cook separate things.
Speaker C:Like, if it was just me, man, I'd be a. I'd be culinary adventurer, man.
Speaker C:I'd be making all types of stuff.
Speaker C:I'll be looking up recipe just cuz it's just me.
Speaker C:Because I'd be like, look, if an ain't good, I ain't disappointing nobody but me.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But I think that, I think I would say for me.
Speaker A:Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker A:But I also have a list of other things that I, I feel like I, I need and want to get done.
Speaker A:So when it comes down to it, like.
Speaker A:And plus I.
Speaker A:As picky as I am, I'm also supremely basic as far as my flight food choices.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm supremely basic.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:I'm that dude who could.
Speaker A:I could eat chicken seven days a week.
Speaker A:Like cooking a whole bunch of different ways and all that stuff.
Speaker C:And even more of a point, why you could cook more because like, you're not even one of those people.
Speaker C:Like, I get tired of eating the same thing all the time.
Speaker C:You just said I could eat this.
Speaker C:So like, you just be like, I'm gonna flip this.
Speaker C:I'm gonna do it this way.
Speaker C:I'm gonna try this season.
Speaker C:I'm gonna try to prepare it this way and.
Speaker C:But it's just you.
Speaker A:But I would say.
Speaker A:But I would.
Speaker A:I guess what I'm saying is for something like that, I would one have to plan like, and that's the problem.
Speaker A:Like, because.
Speaker C:So it's.
Speaker C:It's really what ag just said.
Speaker C:Like, it's just a want to.
Speaker A:Yeah, a lot of us don't want to.
Speaker A:And then you know what?
Speaker A:Ag's got a, a good reason to want to do it at Home.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:But you said you had a good reason because you kept saying you wanted.
Speaker A:My reason ain't that good.
Speaker C:You had a whole opening monologue on one podcast about how you wanted to get better at cooking.
Speaker C:That's one of the things you were trying to do, correct?
Speaker A:Every week I do something different.
Speaker A:It's not cooking every week, but every week I do.
Speaker A:I learn something different.
Speaker A:And I will talk about what I learned this week.
Speaker A:Different, cool.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:But yeah, it's not just about cooking for me.
Speaker A:I'm trying to learn about a whole bunch of different things.
Speaker C:No, I got you.
Speaker C:No, I was just simply saying when you were like, it's just me cooking, I'm like, man, I think that would make me more adventurous cooking, cuz it would just be me.
Speaker C:But that's probably just the way I process things too.
Speaker C:But Ag, thank you for making me feel a little bit better about the lemonade.
Speaker C:Cuz when you said looking at lemonade recipes, I just kept thinking, how have I been doing this wrong?
Speaker C:How many different ingredients could you put in?
Speaker B:And you.
Speaker B:That's why I said, you're exactly.
Speaker C:Too much stuff in it.
Speaker C:It ain't lemonade no more.
Speaker C:It's something else.
Speaker B:No, I. I understood exactly why you said what you said.
Speaker B:I'm just letting you know, one, I want to get it right the first time.
Speaker B:Number two, it's like just.
Speaker B:People don't do it.
Speaker B:They just don't.
Speaker B:They just don't.
Speaker B:And that.
Speaker B:And that, you know, it's also cool.
Speaker A:You got Boo Love there too.
Speaker A:That's good, baby.
Speaker A:Nah, that ain't that good, baby.
Speaker A:You know, so that's.
Speaker A:But most of the things you probably do is probably great.
Speaker A:So she's like, hell yeah, keep that shit up.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:Well, I have to ask her two questions.
Speaker B:I'll say, well, how was it?
Speaker B:Oh, so good.
Speaker B:Okay, what's the critique?
Speaker B:And then she'll be like, well, he could have used a little salt here, a little heat there, whatever, whatever.
Speaker B:Then I can get better.
Speaker B:Her initial response is, you made me food I like.
Speaker B:I'm over here doing a happy dance.
Speaker B:But when you really ask her, what's the critique?
Speaker B:Then she'll let you know, whatever, whatever.
Speaker B:Because I did the P. F. Chang's lettuce wraps the other day.
Speaker B:Not the other day, but other week.
Speaker B:And now her critique was it needed a little bit more salt.
Speaker B:I backed off the salt because you don't really.
Speaker B:I had.
Speaker B:I don't really understand what all the other Asian ingredients would do for salt content.
Speaker B:And so I was like, okay, I hear you.
Speaker B:I'll.
Speaker B:I'll do that.
Speaker B:But all of this, all of the lettuce wraps was gone.
Speaker A:Yeah, she.
Speaker B:So she.
Speaker B:It didn't slow her down.
Speaker A:Did you have the peanut sauce, too?
Speaker B:The peanut sauce?
Speaker A:The peanut sauce with the.
Speaker A:We'll talk about it.
Speaker B:Oh, you mean the dipping sauce I didn't make.
Speaker B:Because, you know, she doesn't care about that, so I didn't have to.
Speaker A:Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker B:I made her another.
Speaker B:I did.
Speaker B:But she.
Speaker B:She.
Speaker B:There was a sauce that I made for her that the base of it was peanut butter.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:And I made that for say what now?
Speaker A:Whatever works, bro.
Speaker B:And so she liked that.
Speaker B:But again, I made general's chicken.
Speaker B:I made orange chicken.
Speaker B:None of this stuff is hard.
Speaker B:None of it is.
Speaker B:And so again, I question why not?
Speaker B:Why am I paying all this money when I can do it here now?
Speaker B:Again, I will say I'm not judging because I do understand how much time it takes because now I got to cut up the chicken thighs, I got a deep fried.
Speaker B:I got to do all the things and then whatever, but you can do this stuff at home.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:Awesome.
Speaker A:Thank you, sir.
Speaker A:Moby, what's on your mind?
Speaker C:I mean, I'm hungry now.
Speaker C:I'm sorry, man.
Speaker B:I'm sorry.
Speaker C:Yeah, like, no, no, it's a good thing, man.
Speaker C:But I do need to eat something.
Speaker C:But, man, what's on my mind is kind of what we were talking about earlier, man.
Speaker C:Like, there's just an abundance of information that the generation.
Speaker A:After us,.
Speaker C:I won't say they take the information for granted because they don't necessarily just take it for granted, because taking it for granted would, like, actually assume that they use it all, but they don't use it all.
Speaker C:They actually just let a lot of it go to waste.
Speaker C:There's so much information at my kids disposal that I wonder how on earth they can make the decisions they make on just life things.
Speaker C:And then I realized there is no substitute for the human experience.
Speaker C:And I feel like that's the one thing that AI the phones, social media is really taking away from.
Speaker C:Like my kids generation is like, I can't even count the number of things that I've made reference to just on this show about things that like my grandma said to me when I was younger or my mom said to me when I was younger.
Speaker C:And we've got a generation of kids that barely talk to people older than them because as far as they're concerned, if the older person isn't sending them a message on the phone or they're not on TikTok reel, like they're irrelevant.
Speaker C:And I just, I just wonder if AI is going to completely eliminate wisdom because I realize it's not that the kids are stupid.
Speaker C:There's just no wisdom anymore.
Speaker C:And wisdom can only happen from experience.
Speaker C:And what are they experiencing?
Speaker C:Nothing.
Speaker C:They're experiencing their fake.
Speaker C:They're experiencing social media which is just experiencing somebody else faking real life experience which, you know.
Speaker C:So yeah, man, I, I don't know how AI is going to try to figure out a way to replace wisdom.
Speaker C:But I will say anybody out there, man, who has kids like man, please try to make them pause a little bit so you can give them some actual real life world people experience so they're not getting all the information from a tablet, a phone or tick tock.
Speaker C:And that's it, man.
Speaker A:Word.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:First of all, by going once on my mind, shout out to the average Joe's bear, besides GMO B, he's been chilling all day.
Speaker C:Yeah, he chill.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Hopefully they, they win.
Speaker C:We managed to keep him in business.
Speaker A:So yeah, I alluded to it earlier.
Speaker A:I try to do something new every week.
Speaker A:And this week, after about a month of investigation and planning and financial happiness and sadness, I decided that I am going to do paver deck, a paver platform in my backyard.
Speaker A:So I've looked at all the different ways.
Speaker A:You know, I had Ms. Utility come out so I don't accidentally kill myself if I had to dig, but I found a way not to dig.
Speaker A:Awesome.
Speaker A:So yeah, that's kind of what I've been working on since like Thursday.
Speaker A:I've got the, I've got stuff down the next day.
Speaker A:I just got to put the pavers out.
Speaker A:You know, I gotta do some adjustments because I don't.
Speaker A:Measurements are difficult.
Speaker A:A 12x12 should make sense.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:You have a tape measure and you do it and then when you get stuff for it, you realize is not what you did.
Speaker A:Because when you get two board, you know, they got paver things to hold the pavers in place and they're six feet long.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So two of them equals 12ft.
Speaker A:So when you put them on the ground and you realize that 12ft ain't your 12ft, you go through a little bit in your head because you know, counting and, and doing, you know, measurements.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You think you're decent at it.
Speaker A:I'm clearly not.
Speaker A:I wasn't all by a lot, but I was just off and I was annoyed by it.
Speaker A:So you know, got that straight, got Everything down.
Speaker A:Sand is a whole bunch of sand because I'm not digging.
Speaker A:I gotta put sand down, which is fine.
Speaker A:Fine.
Speaker A:25 Bags of sand.
Speaker A:There's a lot of sand.
Speaker A:And then you gotta flip, flatten it out.
Speaker A:Then I have paper boards, all the things.
Speaker A:So I'm not done yet.
Speaker A:I should be done by Tuesday because, you know, as much as I love being outside, you know, it was freaking blazing, you know, I decided, hey, let's do it on the hottest, like 10 straight days ever.
Speaker A:So, yeah, you know, and of course, after doing it, I started in the morning.
Speaker A:I try to do stuff in the morning because the shade in the backyard is there.
Speaker A:But at like 2:00', clock, that bitch is gone.
Speaker A:And, you know, I had to make a. I made a call today because I was like, let's go get these pavers.
Speaker A:And I looked at my watch, that shit said 1:30.
Speaker A:And I was like, look, all right, got a 10 already.
Speaker A:Got my phone stand for the summer already.
Speaker A:I ain't about to come midnight.
Speaker A:That ain't happening.
Speaker A:And, you know, I was doing this by myself, and I was like, if I pass out, this, like, I'm waiting for the.
Speaker A:The vultures to come because it's going to be a bad day.
Speaker A:So we're going to.
Speaker A:We're going to put that part off till probably Tuesday with a 70, like 2 degrees, and life is just easier.
Speaker A:But, yeah, man, the thing I want to say is I'm not a carpenter.
Speaker A:I don't build things, but I try.
Speaker A:And, you know, the one thing I have learned is measurements are never perfect, and you have to be willing to make adjustments, which I have.
Speaker A:So I'm super excited to get the pavers this week.
Speaker A:So I can put it down, put the sand down, spray it, and I have a paver deck in my backyard.
Speaker A:12X12.
Speaker A:Seems like it's big.
Speaker A:It kind of isn't, but, you know, excuse me.
Speaker A:It's okay.
Speaker A:You know, it's good to put a chair or two out and if I want to just hang outside, cool.
Speaker A:If I have some friends over, cool.
Speaker A:You know, and honestly, the other cool thing about it, that's the part of the backyard I ain't gotta cut no more because, you know, I don't have to.
Speaker A:So I'm super excited about that.
Speaker A:But, yeah, I would say, hey, it doesn't matter what it is.
Speaker A:Continue to figure out.
Speaker A:My thing is I want to learn something new every week, and construction is definitely not my thing.
Speaker A:But I'm in too deep now.
Speaker A:So it.
Speaker A:This may look horrible after it's done.
Speaker A:But it's my horrible and I'm gonna be fine with it.
Speaker A:It's gonna look, it's gonna look great to me because I ain't have it before and I ain't had to pay nobody ass little money just to do it.
Speaker A:So hey, you know like you, like you said about the food, hey, if it's you, if it's bad then that's your bad food.
Speaker A:If this, if this thing is bad, then that's my bad day.
Speaker A:But you know what?
Speaker A:I'm gonna love it.
Speaker A:It's gonna be great.
Speaker A:And I'm gonna be happy as because I actually did some with these two non labor ass hands because we don't.
Speaker A:These, these hands don't do labor.
Speaker A:As you can tell, they too nice for that.
Speaker A:So that being said, I'm excited.
Speaker A:Might get this done probably Tuesday.
Speaker A:I'm going to try to do something else this week so I can talk about next week, you know.
Speaker A:But hey, all I'm saying is keep learning, keep doing better and of course keep being you.
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