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An audio manifesto
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If you've not listened to anything of ours, this is where you should start. Intellectual honesty requires discomfort. Quality strangers are better than indecent and uncaring relations. Here at The Ballgame we are about finding truth within the absurd. Join us, won't you, in exposing the truth even when it isn't funny or comfortable. THAT'S The Whole Ballgame.
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Current Societal Issues Post-Super Bowl
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You know, since Super Bowl Sunday, I've ah struggled to really put my finger on the pulse here of what is happening, what's going on, um because We had ah an opportunity as we get very, very frequently, daily honor on a just constant basis in this country.
00:00:32
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And um we we were given the opportunity to to show our racism and our bigotry and and how exactly it looks today and we we don't recognize it.
Kendrick Lamar's Performance and Societal Struggles
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it It allows for plausible deniability. It allows for you to be able to say, oh, that's not true, whatever. Like, it allows for bad people to enable bad people.
00:01:11
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And Lamar, Mr. Lamar, mr ka lamar aka Kendrick Lamar, a.k.a.
00:01:22
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Killer Lamar, um he did that in the one of the fucking most masterful ways I've ever seen. what what What he pulled off on that stage and being able to to to go up there and to say and do those things and the way he did it was perfect.
Regressing Values and Idolizing Controversial Figures
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And, you know, the there's look, I'm sitting here as a 43 year old white man in a in a fucking red state, unfortunately. And and,
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you know It's getting to the point where we have we've like circled back around almost. And it's like all the lessons that we learn from our early childhood about the world and history and the way it works and all the connection.
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Like enough time has passed now that there are people who... bad people prey on that and the intellectual dishonesty that they they get in in that realm.
00:02:35
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And then you have the people who don't know any different because they didn't live it. Your 18 to 29-year-olds that think Donald J. Trump's a cool guy.
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Like, the new cool is a dipshit. I hate to tell you that. So, do with that what you need to.
Dangers of Self-Centered Mentality
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But the... the the larger The larger scale of the whole thing, the song, they not like us, yeah whatever, the the Drake stuff, all that, that's not fucking important to what I'm talking about here.
00:03:09
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Because yeah and we've discussed many times on the show the the danger of the me and mine people. Well, it's me and mine. It's me and mine. It's you and yours because it can't just be you. If it could just be you, it would be.
00:03:23
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That's what you really would want. But you need you and yours to...
Call for Unity Against Ignorance
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we need You need them to to fucking enable you to be able to have your numbers, to be able to have the masses, to to just look the other way...
00:03:46
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And let them do what they want. They look the other way. Let you do what you want. And it's a marriage of cesspool of inconvenience for us and anybody in this world trying to do the fucking right thing.
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And it allows you all to just sit there with stupid looks on your faces and ignore reality. And, you know...
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Who is us, right? That's talking about the African-American community, you're talking about non-pedophiles, as in the case of Mr. ah D. Rake, you know, um and his posse.
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So, you know, who's us?
Personal Realization and Action Against Injustice
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And what I felt, what I saw, what that all resonated in me,
00:04:39
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was the larger larger issue of America and and where we sit today. And, you know, us as good people, that's what us is.
00:04:54
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As people, I care more about decent strangers than I do the familiar trash. And I will till the day I die. what what i saw lit a fire in my ass that I can't in good conscience, ah hope to I hope to die and not be laying there regretting.
00:05:23
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And I've got to the point where if there is something that gets sparked in my mind, and And I can't tell myself I'm doing the right thing to the best of my ability, um and whatever that is.
Support Among the Struggling
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i got problems and I get eaten alive and and i can't have that. And I'm going to use that. And we're going to use that um because we're going to come together and we are going to unite.
00:06:03
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And we're going to show them what it looks like when capable people, good, capable people, come together and do it for the right reasons.
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And it all aligns. When it all aligns, it all clicks and it's all undeniable and indisputable. You can say whatever you want.
00:06:30
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But when it's right, you feel it. And when you feel it, there's nothing you can do to stop that fucking train. So we need to feel it right now.
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And we need to get those fires lit.
00:06:48
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And we need to come together and unite. Us.
00:06:54
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Us is anybody that's got to get up in the morning and worry about The kids, their spouse, their significant other, like really worry, really worry. Like if something goes wrong, this they're going to suffer and I'm going to have to do something to fix that.
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Not not bullshit worry where, you know, just about anything could happen to you and you'd be fine.
Economic Disparities and Worsening Conditions
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we We are closer. you're You're closer to homelessness than you are to being rich, most likely.
00:07:31
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And that's not even fucking close. And to look at where, like, all the time, this is what you start seeing when you reach your middle age.
00:07:42
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You see these things, and it is like, with all the the the history and everything that has occurred in the reality of the last 25 years is whatever you want to call your fuck, whatever your adulthood has been.
00:07:58
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How the fuck is the gap bigger now than it was when we were kids? How the fuck is this shit and in this shape?
00:08:11
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It's worse than when we were kids. And it's fucking absurd. And it is because...
Uniting Against Intellectual Dishonesty
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We are not united. we We will sell each other out for a fucking quarter if it comes to that.
00:08:31
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Hell, some of them don't need a quarter. They'll do it just to fuck somebody or make sure somebody doesn't get something that they think they shouldn't and so they can be fucking miserable like they're miserable.
00:08:43
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And I got to tell you, because those people, as you've seen, Like, the the truth doesn't really matter. It doesn't resonate. And they're not interested in So ah we have to put a united front together and stomp this fucking shit out.
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That's what it is. That's us. That's who us is in this context. We are the people. We're not the fucking maggots.
00:09:15
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We're not here to make it worse. so it can be at our fucking level. We're here to fucking bring everybody up with us. That's how you do it.
00:09:26
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You lift people up, you bring them with you. You don't keep the bar lowered just because. It's fucking bullshit, it's unnecessary, and it all hinges on intellectual dishonesty.
00:09:42
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And that... That's what we're uniting against, and that's what the whole ballgame is all about fucking stomping out. Because those motherfuckers, those intellectually dishonest motherfuckers, I'm going to tell you this right now, there's no place at the table for you.
00:10:01
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There's a very, we made a very conscious decision with our words and our philosophy, and If you don't like it, you can fucking suck it because you bitches are not like us.