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Introduction to 'The Professor's Seminalmente'
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This was million
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toe release the flow Created by this micro Lights camera get low Action back back to back In fact this monster will grow
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Sports professor.
Sports recap and schedule updates
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ho Yo, yo, yo, what up? What up? What up, friends? You know what it is. Ball and Bud's back at it again.
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Omar, the Professor Fonseca, here with you with another special edition installment of The Professor's Seminalmente.
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Which for you, Marks? Just means weekly. That just means weekly. That means this is my weekly news headlines show, world news, U.S. news, entertainment, sports.
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But yesterday we did sports. Yesterday we had a special guest on with us, MLB insider Mike Wiebe from Ball & Buzz. I really want to thank him.
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for coming on yesterday and sharing his intricate, intricate baseball knowledge with us. It was an amazing fact-finding session and preview of the upcoming baseball season.
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So again, shout out to him. We did that special sports only edition of the professor seminar yesterday, which means, you know, I had to come on with the news and entertainment edition on another day. I was planning on doing it yesterday, but hot take Jake got called into his job.
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ah So we wish him well. we Working the evening shift. Bottom line sports will move to tomorrow night, 8 p.m. Eastern. And I am here with you tonight on a special edition of the Professor Seminar Mente. I am Omar, the Professor Fonseca.
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Upcoming show announcements
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things. speak oh Who we talked about earlier, Mike Wiebe and Clubber D will be joined by comedian, by Joanne Malavey and yours truly, the street professor Thursday night at 8 p.m. Eastern for Banter.
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brawls and bravado. That is our pop culture trash talking session. ah We'll be updating you on the lawsuits with Diddy and Drake versus Kendrick as well as we'll talk a little Stephen A. Smith and LeBron action and we'll go back on a few other stories that we missed in the past few months.
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um So definitely make sure you tune in for that because that's going to be hilarious. But that's not why we're here. We are here today for some news and entertainment headlines.
Technical issues and improvements
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So that's what I'm going to bring to you and hopefully redeem myself from yesterday.
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I did. I redid the whole setup. So I'm hoping that I sound good. My producer is checking in. Thank you. My wonderful producer checked in and said I have good sound.
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ah Salute to my producer. Thank you and I love you. um So I went ahead and made sure everything was redone. I reset up the cables so that way the Ethernet won't unplug while I'm in because that happened last night and it was very, very frustrating because on my end, when I'm streaming, I'm looking and it looks like I'm perfect. It looks like I'm moving and doing everything that's a good picture and all of that.
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But then when I went back to edit the video last night, there was an hour of me just like frozen and barely moving from time to time. Now, thank God our and MLB insider Mike Wiebe had a good picture this time and ah shots fired for the last time when he was skipping, but I'm the one that usually happens to. So, you know, I just had to poke fun.
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But you were able to see everything that he had to say, which was more important since he was the guest and not me. But I had to redeem myself anyways because Y'all deserve better than that. So I'm always working to continually improve my sound, my video, my picture, because I am good at this. I know I am. And I just need to have the right quality to be able to get the right attention.
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So we're going to keep it moving and kick this bad boy off again. Please hit hit that like button if you're watching right now. Helps us out in the algorithm. It's free. It costs you nothing.
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World news: Pope Francis's health update
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Prayers up.
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Thank God for Pope Francis being back to his Vatican apartment after a five-week stay at the hospital for a double pneumonia. ah
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Y'all didn't hear that. Admitted on Valentine's Day for a respiratory infection, which rapidly worsened, he needed regular ventilation, blood transfusions, and several other procedures. ah Pope Francis will now begin the two-month convalescence after two nearly fatal episodes in the hospital.
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we will We will know that he is not going to get back. to where he was before. He worked a grueling schedule as the Pope before his He started to get sick, so we're not going to be able to expect that he gets back to that. And this was the longest hospitalization for a pope in his second.
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It was a 38-day, and that's second behind Pope John Paul II's 1981 55-day stay. Observers said his speech sounded thin, and he looked a little frail. So we will continue to pray for Pope Francis and hope ah that he can ride this out as best as possible.
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Moving on, I know this is not the sports version, but we're going to update you on a little sports anyways. Thank you to my producer again. Good picture. Beautiful, beautiful. ah So we'll move it on to the – I know it's not sports today, but I've got to give you all some horrible, horrible sports news.
Sports news: Juju Watkins's injury
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And look, you all know if you always wish watch this program, you know I am a diehard UCLA Bruins fan. FUSC Trojan condoms. We do not like them on this program.
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That being said,
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prayers up to University of Southern California's superstar, Juju Watkins. I never thought in my life I would ever care about a Trojan, about an FUSC alumni or current member, as I despised that school with all of my heart.
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But honestly, i really like Juju Watkins. She is an amazing superstar basketball player. She's a killer on the court. She seems really friendly, really nice. I can't wait to meet her in the future.
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and And one of the worst things that can happen to an athlete happened to her last night in the Trojans blowout victory of Mississippi State, ninety six to fifty nine Unfortunately, it was not intentional, but a girl ah a young lady from Mississippi State bowed Juju Watkins, who was going towards the hoop to do a layup.
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When she fouled her, it was kind of a side block with like the arm as they were running side by side. And it pushed Juju, whose knee buckled to the right.
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As a member of the torn ACL club, not once, but multiple times, I unfortunately knew right away
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that something ah bad had gone on because I've been in that same situation and there's no way you go down with that much pain unless something's torn. Again, I know because I've felt that same exact pain before and it it was one of the worst pains i ever felt in my whole entire life. So...
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Again, never thought I'd care about ah ah someone from FUSC, you know, a Trojan condom, but prayers up to Juju. I'm wishing you the best. You're a superstar. Average 25-7-4 assist, two steals, and two blocks. Just an all-around beast.
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Don't know what this is going to do for her prospects for the WNBA because with NIL now she could stay and in college, nurse her injury back to health and then go. But also she could forego that, get the WNBA paycheck, and a team would definitely still draft her and put her on the bench and let her have a redshirt year as it's going to take at least nine months to come back from a torn ACL.
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So... We'll keep you updated on her progress over the next year and whether she decides to stay in college or go pro. But either way, we wish the best and full healthy recovery to Juju Watkins.
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ah There are remaining stars after the Sweet 16. or after we found out who will make the Sweet 16 on the
Women's college basketball updates
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women's side. You still got UConn and Paige Beckers, Aziz Fudd, the freshman Sarah Strong. You still got LSU, the Tigers, Floage Johnson.
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You still got South Carolina. Carolina Klo Kitts, who should be a first-round pick in the WNBA. And again, please do not forget about my UCLA Bruins, the best player in the country, Lauren Betts and DMV's own Sidwell friend, shout-out in the DMV, Kiki Rice.
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They're going to win the championship. Check out my limerick I did. A minute short video on YouTube. but It's pretty funny. I think you will enjoy it. All right. Oh, salute. Thank you, my brother. Salute to Skywalker Boxing Media. Y'all make sure you tap in with them. They are my partner in all things boxing.
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They are the ones that I partner with when I go cover country box here in Nashville, which will be Next week, Oliver McCall back in
Boxing event preview
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the building. So I'll be there to cover the fight since I'm back in town now.
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ah So salute. Y'all make sure you tap in with them. And as well, Country Box. Salute to Country Box. Again, next Tuesday, every every month or once a month, the first Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m.
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Central Time. And I appreciate you, brother. Hey, you know, the other sports shows, I can look a little... ah I can look a little laid back, right? Because that's up more of a relaxed, casual show. But this is my serious media personality show, so I must dress as someone on professional TV would.
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Put them shoulders back. Let them know who I am. Brother, salute. Thank you, bro. I appreciate man. For real. Y'all tap in with them. All right, cool. Just keep it moving. That was the introduction. Now it is time to move into
Broadway and drama reflections
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entertainment. And and again, entertainment, make sure you tap in banter, brawls, bravado, Thursday, 8 p.m.
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Clubber D to combat G. MLB insider Mike Wiebe, yours truly, the sports professor and super special guest, comedian Bajuan Malave. We will be going all out on Thursday at 8 p.m., so y'all make sure you definitely tap in for that. right, moving on to the entertainment podcast.
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world Let's see what's popping. First of all, as we mentioned, banter, brawls, and bravado, we will be updating you on the Sean Diddy Combs case. And the latest update comes in the forms of new charges that Sean Diddy Combs has pled not guilty to.
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These charges are related to alleged forced labor of past employees. And now these charges will be stacked on top of the racketeering and sex crime charges that Diddy already faces.
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We will update you more and give you our opinions Thursday night at 8 p.m.
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Banter, brawls and bravado. Moving on, Othello, the play, ah not a movie, but the Broadway play starring Denzel Washington. Pause on all accounts, but I love me some Denzel.
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He may be my number two favorite actor now. He was always number three because my favorite actor will always and forever be Morgan Freeman.
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Morgan Freeman will always and forever be my favorite actor. Love me some Morgan Freeman. um All the way back to Shawshank Redemption, which is a tremendous, tremendous film. But also my second favorite actor for a very, very long time there...
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was Johnny Depp and that started because of the fear and loathing in las vegas movie that me and my best friend rest in power ah j t would miss you ah we used to watch that movie together he's the one that put me on but what a great movie and so i loved johnny depp for so long until he started making all the pirates of caribbean movies and then he kind of fell off and so since then Denzel's catalog is is nearly impeccable. There are some other people out there that have some similar catalogs in terms of not only quality but quantity of movies.
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But Denzel Washington is definitely up there and he's probably my second favorite. No, you know what? Yeah, yeah, I would have to put him up. It would have to be Denzel.
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I was thinking Tom Hanks because Tom Hanks was always my number four, but he just doesn't do many movies anymore. So I can't really say that. Anyways, Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal. are a starring in the Othello play.
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Get this, y'all. Feats are going for an average of $921, according to the New York Times. So if you want to go see Denzel and Jake Gyllenhaal for one night in an Othello play in New York,
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You better get that next paycheck out for some of you dusty bunnies that don't make enough money. Y'all know who you are. ah You might not even be able to afford the next play we're going to talk about. Bums.
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Get like me. Be lucky. Or be dusty, as we say. Shout out, Clubber But the other play I want to tell you about, Good Night and Good Luck featuring George Clooney. I'm just going to take these off because I don't really need them anymore because i know the sound is working.
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and that's just about it. pardon um So anyways, good night and good good luck featuring George Clooney. Average price of $303.75. three hundred and three dollars and seventy five cents Or if you want to see Glenn gary glenn Ross starring Bill Burr, Kieran Culkin, and Bob Odenkirk from Better Call Saul, then you're going to fish out for one show $207.00.
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two hundred and shevin gollops Wowzers. Lots of money for a play. I will tell you, I'm not much of a play person. I have been to three plays he's in my life. Two of them have been with my wonderful producer.
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Love her very much. We went to a couple plays in the DMV there. I can't even remember what they were. I'm sure she may remember. The one play I do distinctly remember it going to was in college.
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So at the University of Maryland, one of my favorite absolute favorite classes that I took and I didn't think I was going to like this class and honestly i wouldn't even have taken the class except that I signed up for some of my electives too late because I was waiting on marketing electives and business electives that I wanted to take but by the time I had got registered at the university I wasn't able to ah get the electives that I wanted in time.
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So i had I had to shift. Ended up, I had two choices my freshman year at University of Maryland. I could either take...
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Two choices are tremendous. Drama was one of my choices. And dance was my other choice. Now... I am like i'm a pretty good dancer.
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Takes a lot to get me to dance. It's going to take a few drinks because I get, I don't know. I just don't really like dancing and in front of people or dancing really at all.
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Unless I have a but little bit of ah little bit of power boost behind me, so to call it. ah But you get a couple of me, I might start dancing a little bit. And I think I'm a pretty good dancer. I ain't got two left feet or nothing now.
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I know many people watching this stream can attest that I am a... i mean i'm no um' I mean, I'm no Ricky Ricardo. I'm no ah Usher. I'm no Casanova. I am a Casanova.
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Ain't no Usher, but you know I can dance a little bit. I can groove. me and ah a Shout out and Boy Wonder the Incredible. We used go out and in in college and dance with all the ladies at the club every night. and It was a great time. Not every night, but most nights.
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ah Anyways, moving on. So I had drama or dance were my two choices. And, well, hey, shout out my brother T-Roy.
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Turning in. What's up, brother? Thank you, my friend. ah ah You got to see be right back.
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Once we get in somewhere not a a sports bar related, you'll definitely see it. But also make sure, hey, tap wait in with us for Thursday. We're going to be there, me and Clubber D. But anyways, thank you for tuning in, everybody.
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Make sure you like that. Hit that like button if you're watching and if you like this story. So the reason I even thought about going to dance is obviously. Why do you think? I mean, look, i am a I have no problem with any choices that any people make in your life.
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You all choose what you want to do. You love who you want to love. I support your choices no matter what that choice is, as long as it's legal. Now, if you're doing something with animals or anything else, you probably don't want to go down those alleys.
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But I'm a heterosexual male.
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Why would I choose dance? Because the majority of the people in there were going to be females of the female persuasion. So I was like, hmm, I could just go do dance and just talk to all the girls all day. and But I decided against it.
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I decided that I would try to actually do something that would give me more knowledge, would generate more thought and critical thinking, and would allow me to actually...
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Harness my intelligence for my college education. Although look now looking back on it, it was my freshman year and I probably really should have wasted that elective on dance.
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Now that I look back on it right now, as I'm telling this story, I really regret not doing dance, but I can't say that because drama was one of the best classes I ever took.
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I wish I could. I wish I remember my professor's name. And I am so sorry that I forget his name. I can see his face. White hair. a White guy, chubbier face. But he was so cool.
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He was so awesome of a professor. And... He taught me so much in drama in that class that I never thought I would like because didn't care about plays. I read, but I read more books that I like. I wasn't reading, like, plays and and scripts and things like that, and I didn't want to get up in front of the class and try to perform or or or do anything like that, all of which you had to do in this class as well as go attend plays in person and then write about them.
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So, oh, that's right. No, we had to do two plays, not one. Two plays. Yeah, it was too. Okay. So the other good reason I like drama was because I met my roommate in that class.
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So when i moved to college, I moved there and I moved into an apartment in, shout out to the ghettos of Hyattville, Maryland.
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but But I lived in the ghettos of Hyattville, Maryland, and it was... It was a year, let me tell you that. ah Not only just because of where I lived, but also not that I'm not used to living anywhere like those places anyways. It's not like that's the first time.
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But there's some crazy, crazy things happened every day there. But also because ah my ex who I had moved there with, we ended up having a falling out.
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um We won't even talk about the Wolverine couch situation, which is a whole nother damn story. But anyways, I needed a roommate at that point in time after my freshman year. And luckily I met, shout out my boy, Rob Akbarian, my brother. I miss you. I love you. I haven't talked to him in a few months. Actually, i talked to him in December for Christmas. But anyways, um...
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Hope you're doing well. ah ah Me and him met in drama that first day. We ended up, like I don't remember if it was he saw me or I saw him, but it was like a seat open. i thought i saw I think I might have saw him. i was like, yeah he looks cool.
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so i just sat down like next to him and we just started chopping it up. We instantly became friends, decided that we were going to get a house together next year. Got a house, got some roommates, shout out to all my other roommates. I'm not going to put their governments out here, but three other cool roommates that, ah you know, i really, uh, have a, a deep affection for, but anyways, so to finish this story, now that I've been talking about the,
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is forever. I ended up taking drama and that was ah one of the plays, only plays that I've been to is because Rob and i went to the plays that we had to go to and right, because it was like, all right, well, we know each other. We're going to be roommates. We might as well do this together.
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So rob let me tell you this hilarious story. So Rob and I, right, Rob is a Middle Eastern guy. He's probably, well, he's not probably,
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He's a real, but I'm pretty Hispanic, right? So two brown guys were both in college. but both We're both pretty broke college kids at this point in time working ah minimum wage jobs. He worked at the mechanic shop. I worked at Hard Times Cafe, slopping out spaghetti and chili and shit.
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Anyways, so we're two broke college kids. We tried to put on a little, some slacks and a shirt or something like we knew what we was doing. Walked up in there. The most, I mean, look, I love all of my Caucasian brethren.
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all right. But let's just be honest. The whole crowd was mostly Caucasians, mostly white people. We're not going to lie on this show. We're just to be mostly honest with it. It was a Shakespeare play.
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So actually, what was it? It was King Lear. King Lear was the play. And actually, i really enjoyed it. I super enjoyed it the play. I never said this before out loud, but I really enjoyed it And because me and Rob just had the best time, people watching and then wondering what all of the Caucasian folks were saying about two brown kids in a play that they probably had no reason being at whatsoever.
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And so they're they're their stereotyping, their judgments would have been warranted. i didn't I didn't think we should have been there either. But we had a class project. We didn't have a choice. So it was like we got to... ah write this paper anyways hilarious story thank y'all for letting me share that because I just did 20 minutes of a news show to talk about that but I figured that did fit in really well and ah somebody liked it morning wombat yes appreciate you morning wombat always tuning in Loyal, loyal viewer of Ball and Buds.
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Salute, my friend. Thank you. I really appreciate that. I'm trying to do my best, man. i'm trying to live to those standards you keep me to. So hold me to it, brother. And give me some comments in here once I start getting into the news headline.
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and One more thing. Actually, you might have something on this. One more thing.
Opinions on movie adaptations
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Disney released Snow White ah and the new live action Snow White brought in $43 million dollars the opening weekend, which is pretty low for Disney's standards.
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Why? What kind of controversies did we have along the way? well The main controversy, and no one can act like this, was not an issue because when the movie trailer was released and they found out Rachel Ziegler would be the one playing Snow White and she is Colombian, part Colombian, there was an uproar.
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Oh, no. How can a minority play Snow White? Snow White needs to be a white person. Snow White needs to be a white girl. girl Just like they all complained about Little Mermaid becoming black, right?
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And these are the same. Look, I'm not going to cast any aspersions on this show.
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What I will say is if that you have so much of a problem with the movie because of the a ethnic or racial makeup of the character who was playing one of the characters, you have a bigger problem than you realize.
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And you need to check yourself instead of checking what they're doing. Now, I get it. It goes along with the whole conservative agenda of woke and the DEI and all that. i get it. I understand where the conservative side is on it. I understand where the liberal side is on it.
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But the fact is, it shouldn't matter. It's a movie. Who the hell cares? Movies are made to have characters that are anything from people to animals, from blue to freaking green. So who the hell cares if she's a little brown and she's playing Snow White?
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Irregardless, and yes, Irregardless is woman. word and if anybody out there wants to battle me on that I have a long long conversation for you and it will include Webster's Dictionary and Oxford so what other controversies well also ah co-star Gal Gadot who played the evil queen have publicly been on both on opposite sides of the Israel Hamas war on the Gaza Strip so also you look at the seven dwarves
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It wasn't them being live action, more CGI-ish. Plus, i mean I mean, this has nothing to do with this. This is just my personal opinion. and I don't like these live action movies.
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I don't care for them at all. at all I didn't like The Lion King. Just keep them cartoons. They were fine as cartoons. Why did you have to go change them to live action? You think it makes them look better because they're people? Because it really doesn't.
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But anyways, that's just me. I think it was the Avatar, and I never liked Avatar, so sue me, but I didn't like that movie either.
Cultural insights: Paddington Bear
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That movie sucked and was long. um What a horrible movie. Anybody who likes Avatar, get out of here.
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Left, okay, I'm being a little overzealous there. Anyways, so we'll see what happens, but obviously Disney did not make as much as they thought they were going to make on this movie, just like a couple weeks ago when...
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And again, this is another one here, and this is one of my favorite characters, so I have to say something here, because if y'all loyal viewers of this show, you know that Paddington the Bear was never from the United Kingdom.
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Paddington the Bear is Peruvian. Paddington the Bear was born in Peru, in South America. Paddington the Bear immigrated
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the United Kingdom. So when Paddington in Peru came out, the trailer, and people are up in arms, oh, how can you have Paddington in Peru? He should be in the United Kingdom with the rain and the glasses and the suit and this and that.
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Stop being a dummy. Do your research. Find out that Paddington was originally from Peru, so he's probably just going back to visit his family that he was stolen from. I don't know that that's true. The stolen part, but it sounds like a good part to add to the movie for more drama.
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That being said, I am going to see Paddington because love Paddington. Moving on into our United States news for the week.
National security breach discussion
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Wowzers. Do we have some stuff to talk about today, y'all?
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Oh, no. Y'all know where I'm going. You've watched the news today. You watched the news last night. I mean, unless you live under a rock, you know what's happened within the past 24 hours.
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You also know if you watch this show. um Yes, we love Paddington. That is correct. My producer, shout out. ah You watch this show, you know how imperative
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Informational security,
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and when it comes especially to national security of the United States, how important that is to me personally. um We don't need to get into why that is, but there's many reasons that that is important to me and important to safeguarding not only the lives of service members and veterans and civilians and contractors working with our armed forces.
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All of these things, uber important.
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But those are not the only things that you risk.
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That you risk when you put national security information That is classified on an unclassified platform.
00:31:38
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What happened? Y'all, this is going to get deep, so stay with me here for a second while I give the description of everything that has happened in the past 24 hours that we found out, and then I will give you my professional opinion on this, and it is a professional one.
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The journalist that was accidentally included in a secret war planning chat is Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly included in a conversation among top United States officials where they planned and debated military strikes on the Houthi rebels in Yemen on the encrypted message messaging app Signal.
00:32:16
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Now, yes, I did include the word encrypted there, and that will come in handy. <unk> in a little bit. The National Security Council, as described by Goldberg, included the Secretary of Defense, newly nominated and maligned by yours truly for not having enough experience.
00:32:35
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We'll get into that in a second. Pete Hegseth, as well as Vice President J.D. Vance, as well as another maligned cabinet member that I said had not the proper not Not that she didn't have the proper experience, because she did have the experience, but rather didnt may may not have had the proper relationships or ties or may have had some liabilities.
00:33:04
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Irregardless, allegedly, u s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz mistakenly included this journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, in the chat.
00:33:16
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I mean, that's red flag number one, right? Red flag number one is when your national security advisor cannot properly put together a email, a chat, a note, something without including the wrong people in it.
00:33:36
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That's red flag number one. Like, geez, that's the most basic of mistakes that should not be made. well I digress, let's move on. ah Did Director or excuse me, Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth share details of military plans to be used against the Yemen Houthi rebels within this ah chain that was led on this signal app?
00:34:05
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The chain included and as we know out now, and I obviously will give you all of the information as we get it and you know i only give you the correct researched information, what we know right now Because Jeffrey Goldberg is a stand-up human being and not someone out to just get people, that's where I don't get where the conservatives are coming from, saying that he was trying to get them because he could have really got them if he just released all the information.
00:34:34
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He didn't. He redacted anything he thought was important enough that could be classified because he knew that classified information should not be let out. We'll get to that in just a second.
00:34:46
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Then, after it all came out, Pete Hegseth went on to deny the report, even though it had already been called authentic by the National Security Council, and went on to blame the journalist, which is just, I mean, why do politicians especially continue to do this trick.
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Like we know what came out. We already heard the information. You can't say it didn't happen when we already know it it's verified. Like be, and I know you just got off a plane, but you got to be advised to that. Come on now before you talk.
00:35:20
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Anyways, he was probably getting ready for his Hawaiian vacation. So that is what it is. Heg Seth dismissed the report as deceitful and highly discrepant. but did and denied sharing war plans. Goldberg reported the chat contained detailed operational plans for upcoming strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. He says when he was added to the chat, it was two hours before when these were being discussed.
00:35:42
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Two hours later, he actually saw the bombs drop. He actually found out it was real and knew that he was in a real chat because he had thought the whole time that it was a joke or so or a scam. He didn't even realize that it was a real chat until the bombs actually dropped.
00:35:58
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This information reportedly included targets, weaponry, and attack sequencing. While the classification remains unclear, because he did redact what he thought was classified, so we still don't technically know what was in there.
00:36:13
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I can assume if the journalist probably thought it was highly classified enough and he has no clue, I'm pretty sure it might have been classified. Because most things in war planning are going to be classified.
00:36:25
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Take that from me. um Anyways, what happens though is this really, this truly, truly sacrifices operational security and the safety of our military.
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armed forces, veterans, contractors, civilians across the world. Any type of this information gets out to China, Russia, North Korea. And if you think they're not on the Signal app, you're tripping and you need to check it because they are definitely on that app, just like most countries are.
00:37:03
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Now, let's play a little advocate here. It was said that... um Oh, you know what? little more information first before we get into my my my professional opinion about this.
00:37:16
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The U.S. has been conducting airstrikes, by the way, since November of 2023. So as Joe Biden was leaving office, he actually had already um dropped an attack on the Yemenhuti rebels who have been doing this for over a year and they needed to be attacked.
00:37:34
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So first of all, let me... before I even get into any more, completely acknowledge the validity and necessity of the strikes on the Houthi rebels because they were very much so disrupting shipping lanes, which affects not only logistics, which affects not only how we get our our products um from across the world, but also ah was affecting other countries in Europe. and So, got it.
00:38:01
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Needed to be attacked. Was already being attacked before Trump ah even came into office. So not even going to say. It's Trump and Trump administration is wrong for launching this attack.
00:38:13
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Totally warranted. The issue is. When you then decide to talk about these things. In an app that although encrypted.
00:38:25
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Which it is. It's not classified and it's not encrypted and. Enough to have classified information on it. There is a different level of encryption that happens between Classified servers and platforms and classified servers and platforms not going to get into it You can google whatever you need to do Google to um
00:38:50
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That is the bigger issue here Why what Why? Why? As I thought I turned my ringer off, ESPN is telling me something happened. I apologize.
00:39:03
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And it looks like, let's give you an update. Damian Lillard of the Milwaukee Bucks has developed deep vein thrombosis in his right half, out indefinitely.
00:39:15
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Wow, prayers up to Damian Lillard. um He's actually dealing with the same thing that now Joel Embiid just went out with. And also, I have somebody very close to me dealing with deep vein thrombosis at this very moment. See, I'll make sure you get your your veins checked out.
00:39:31
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Make sure that blood is flowing properly, right? um Let me see.
00:39:39
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Mike, we've been sitting back like that. We've been talking. Dick Riders, but things done change. Ain't that the truth? You are completely right, my brother. Again, thank you for coming on yesterday. I wish my video looked like this yesterday rather than what it did, but I still appreciate it. Yes, we would call them Dick Riders, a faux show.
00:39:59
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All right. um so But anyways.
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And again, I don't care about President Trump claiming ignorance. Maybe somehow no one told him. I highly, highly cannot believe that. But maybe they did. Maybe for some reason in the time space continuum, no one decided to update the president on what happened.
00:40:19
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Fine. Again, I highly doubt that. But let's just say that he didn't know. The problem doesn't really have to do with him or if he knew. The problem has to do with conversations that should be taking place in SCIF, which is a sensitive compartmented information facility, which is where classified information is supposed to be discussed, held, stored, and otherwise handled.
00:40:48
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You do not take those discussions outside of the SCIF facility.
00:40:57
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Now I spoke because I have some some contacts in this story, some sources close to this story. So I reached out and I asked the questions.
00:41:13
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I asked, okay, How much of this was classified? The answer was not all of it, but why does that really matter? And you should know that. And the you should know that is what really hit me because when you sign up for this sort of thing, when you are put into a position as a military member, as a civilian, as a contractor, and you get a security clearance, your main job
00:41:46
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your main forget job the whole purpose of your life at that point in time from when you wake up to when you go to sleep from when you get your clearance to when you're to what to the day that you die not even there is no expiration of a clearance by the way there might be an expiration of a clearance but you still better hold those secrets till you die Because that's how important that information is.
00:42:16
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And when you take it to an unclassified platform, you risk that information getting out to our enemies. And that is completely, utterly unfathomable and unacceptable.
00:42:36
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ah they said there's going to be an investigation President Trump said I don't believe that I don't think there will be an investigation or it'll just be swept under the rug but you can guarantee that if this had happened while and again I'm not a liberal or a conservative I hate all politicians if you watch this show you know that I think they're all liars scums and cheaters liars cheats and scums shout out my boy Francis Long so I hate both sides of the aisles I think all parties are stupid I just come here to give you the neutral point of view.
00:43:10
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But had that happened when Joe Biden was in office, Donald Trump would have been the first person to say something. And so if he doesn't hold his own people to the account, this is going to look very bad if it's swept under the rug, which I'm sure it will be somehow, someway.
00:43:26
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He never gets caught for any of the things that he does, but that's neither here nor there on this program. Again, I'm not here to judge.
00:43:34
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Another problem. And I told you, before he got concerned confirmed, Pete Hegseth was wholly and fully unqualified to be the Secretary of Defense.
00:43:49
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Not only had he not been in the military for years and was working as a Fox News host, But even when he was in the military, he didn't head up any departments. He didn't head the Pentagon. He didn't head the Department of Defense.
00:44:02
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He didn't head any of these organizations that would belied to you the experience necessary to run an organization like the Department of Defense, which includes the military, which includes the Pentagon, which includes all the other things that come with that.
00:44:17
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No, I said he was unqualified. Fully, wholly unqualified. And he has proven it with this amateur, amateur, like toddler move.
00:44:30
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I just don't understand how you would even... Any logical, normal human being with half a brain could see that this was the wrong thing to do.
00:44:42
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But just admitting the mistake, well, granted, at least they've come out now after they were called out on it and then later admitted that they made the mistake. But the problem is that... that This should never happen in the first place.
00:44:55
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And when you have someone that's starting the chat that doesn't have the experience necessary and wouldn't even know where he should have a classified chat at versus where he shouldn't,
00:45:10
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this is what you get.
00:45:13
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Anyways, so we'll see what happens. I'll keep you updated on this, but this is definitely... a a A stunning, stunning and just ah absolutely horrifying breach of of national security intelligence. And I don't care that nothing came out of it. I don't care that. oh well I do care. And I'm very happy that no soldiers or civilians or contractors or U.S. personnel were hurt. I'm very happy for that. Thank God.
00:45:46
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addition someone needs to be charged, actions needs to be taken swiftly, someone needs to be chopped off at the head for this, not literally, so don't go running and saying, I'm telling you to kill anybody.
00:45:59
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um I believe either Secretary of Defense, Pete Pegsith, who probably, since he's the unexperienced one here, most unexperienced, should be the one to go, but Mike Walls probably needs to have some
00:46:18
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some comeuppance because it would it probably it would probably never come out had he not made that mistake now that's not good either we shouldn't look at it like that we should look at oh just because he put it out there that's not the way to look at it no the way to look at it is why did this ever happen and why would anyone think it's okay in the first place It's not okay.
00:46:43
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No one would be able to come on this show right now and argue with me that there would be any reason that that would even be okay, no matter even if it was installed on the government computers.
00:46:54
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Because they tell you when you get that security clearance and when you're dealing with classified information not to use it on any unclassified platforms. And Signal is an unclassified platform. There's nothing else to it.
00:47:05
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It's black and white. It's not political. It is a black and white issue.
00:47:12
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And even more rich about this is that just a couple weeks ago, Pete Hegseth was talking about how personnel in the Pentagon needed to be subject to new polygraph tests and other but things because of alleged leaks from the Pentagon. So that's really rich coming from him now that this has happened. And as well, Tulsi Gabbard, who on her X account just a couple weeks ago said that anyone who releases classified information should be punished to the fullest extent.
00:47:41
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Pretty sure she didn't feel that way today when she was in Congress saying, I don't recall anything.
00:47:50
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President Trump has dubbed countries that buy oil from Venezuela will have to pay an additional 25% tariff on trades. Now, if we go back to the tariffs that I talked about at the beginning, you will remember that I and my producer wanted me to correct this, but you will remember when I talked about the tariffs at first, I said that ah President Trump should use the tariffs in positions of power.
00:48:13
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Now, when that was said, it was taken to mean by some people that I meant doing that against all countries like Canada, like Mexico, our neighbors, stuff like that. But I did not mean doing it with those people. What I was referring to was doing it against our enemies.
00:48:31
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And this is one of those times when... This is one of those times when that political pressure, when those tariffs need to be put into place is to use that.
00:48:46
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power to force other countries to do things that we need to them to do, like take criminals out of our country. So this would be one of the times that I would agree on the tariffs that are being used. And this will also cause other countries to also respect the law of having, um you know, criminals infiltrating the country.
00:49:09
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So anyways, we will see what happens.
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00:49:13
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with that. We'll keep you updated here on that. But they did try to deport the Venezuelan gang members due to a 1798 Alien Enemies Act, which a judge actually in the middle of the flights to Venezuela told them to stop.
00:49:28
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They defied the orders and kept sending the planes. All of the gang members are now in venla Venezuelan jails that, by the way, the U.S. is actually paying for. We are paying them to house their own criminals.
00:49:42
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So, um yes, thank you. I appreciate you letting me know, producer, that we're doing good. I'm going wrap it up anyways. It looks like in that moment of lost audio, ah everybody dipped out. So not really much more point in me continuing.
00:49:58
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I'm getting a little tired anyways of talking. So I'm going to wrap this up. ah Let's see. We'll save that till next week. Save that till next week. i We'll save that till next week.
00:50:13
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um All right, world news. Moving into world news.
00:50:18
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um First of all, we're going to update you here on the Ukraine-Russian war and as well the Israel and Hamas ceasefire. So let me get my banner up here. Boom.
00:50:30
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There we go. Cool. So anyways, updating you, Ukraine-Russia talks continue this week in Saudi Arabia. U.S. officials are meeting with both sides, hoping to reach a deal by April 20th, 420 for all my friends.
00:50:45
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Smokers. um Anyways, talks with Ukraine were held yesterday evening, while talks with Russia will be held today. Discussions are focusing on the safety of the shipping in the Black Sea and temporarily protecting energy facilities and critical infrastructure from attacks.
00:51:04
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Russia and Ukraine agree on the latter, but details still need to be decided on. U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is aiming for a 30-day ceasefire to allow time for negotiations on a permanent truce.
00:51:19
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Ukraine previously accepted a 30-day ceasefire proposal, but... Russian President Vladimir Putin declined to endorse it. Russian demands for any agreement include an end of arms supplies to Ukraine from the U.S., which obviously Ukraine is going and to reject.
00:51:41
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ah These talks come after Russia and Ukraine traded drone attacks over the weekend. So we'll keep you updated as always and see what happens there. In Israel, new airstrikes in Gaza's southern city of Khan, Yunus, killed Hamas political leader Salah Baldawal.
00:52:01
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The Gaza death toll now passed 50,000 the gaza death toll has now passed fifty thousand per and this is by the Hamas Run, which is the terrorist organization, the Hamas Run Health military Ministry.
00:52:14
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Israeli strikes in Lebanon as well after the terrorist group Hezbollah fired rockets on Israel, on Israel, geez louise, and exchanges the worst violence since November.
00:52:28
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Other news, South Korean court overturns the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duk-su, and he has now been reinstated As president, you will know that's an update to a story we brought up on this show a few months back when he was first ousted as the president when he tried to attempt to use the military force to keep himself in office.
00:52:51
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He was then later impeached but has now been brought back by the south korean by a South Korean court who has now disregarded that impeachment.
00:53:05
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All right. Everything else seems to not be important enough to continue to talk about today. So all the other news I had for you, which was probably about 30 more minutes, that will move to next week, which will give me less research I have to do for next week. So that works out fine.
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Etymology of 'shit'
00:55:29
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these were. Actually, let me give you all a quick ah fun fact before we leave for the day.
00:55:34
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The word shit, which people now use to mean using the bathroom or whatever kind of other context you want to use it in, the word shit actually was not used in that context.
00:55:48
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It originally and still to this day means in logistics, in transportation, it means shipping high in transit, and And what that means, and I know this because I took business, international business in college and they teach they taught us this. ah Shout out my international business professor for this great knowledge.
00:56:08
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But what happens is when ships take cargo across the the sea, they ship the most important and valuable goods as high as possible on the crates. And that's why it's called shipping high in transit.
00:56:21
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So shit was never a vulgar word before someone decided to use it in a context that could be used to be vulgar. But instead, this whole entire time, it's truly just an acronym, which means in cargo ships, logistics, transportation, shipping high in transit.
00:56:39
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