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🔥The Professor's Semanalmente #24 - News, Entertainment, Sports💯
Entertainment: Elon Musk AI Company buys X; TikTok Ban Update
USA News: Donald Trump "Liberation Day;" Consumer Prices & Sentiment
World News: Russia steals Kursk in Ukraine; Israel evacuates Gaza Strip
Sports: NCAA March Madness Elite 8; NFL Rule Changes; MLB Torpedo Bats
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Introduction and Show Overview
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that world heavyweight flow championship wrapped around my waist yo i got that rick flam figure slam you on the face that's why they call me street pro create heat on b2 like jordan after the second time he three pated folks get ready set let's go fight toe to toe release the flow created by this micro lights cameras get low action back back to back in fact this monster will grow y'all better let him know Man with the master plan and you have no need to know. You came prepared, now get ready for the show. Sports Professor on...
Weekly Seminar on Current Events
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Yo, yo, yo, what up, what up, what up, my friends? Welcome, yes, to a special weekly edition of The Professor's Seminal Mental.
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I don't have my soundboard working right now. I apologize. So you don't get the echo. Not that you really need that anyways. Not the point. The point for you, Marks, is that that means weekly in Spanish. And this is my weekly headlines, news, entertainment, world news, sports.
00:01:16
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ah But since we did three hours of sports yesterday on the Bottom Line Sports Network, If you really want to have all my sports takes, please go back to yesterday because we spent three hours with a special guest from IOW Sports, Wild Car Mar, my brother, and we had an amazing time. It was so much fun. Canteen, hot take, Jake. Y'all make sure you check out the bottom of sports every Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Sometimes we go Wednesday like we did yesterday.
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Either way, sometimes I go a different day. Why am I not here on Monday as I usually am for my weekly
Personal Story and Audience Engagement
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show? I was in Memphis this weekend. With my dad had an amazing time. We went to the Memphis Grizzlies.
00:01:57
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We went to go see the Memphis Grizzlies, rather. Get that behind, smattered, got that ass whooped by the Boston Celtics, my Boston Celtics. And you had you better see in life, I tell people.
00:02:10
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I tell people in life. You better be lucky. If not, you're going to be dusty. And see, I am blessed and highly favored. Thank God. And I have the funds to be able to sit two rows from courtside. So I got to meet Jason Tatum. I got to meet Al Horford. I got to say what's up to Joe Missoula and to Drew Holiday and everybody. No, I did not get the autographs. I had desire because they didn't have time. But I still got to, you know, give him salute and let him know what's good. We got to see a great game.
00:02:42
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had a great time with my pops as always. Salute. And, yeah, so now that's why we are doing our Thursday edition. Salute to my producer. She says we have a good sound, good picture. Thank you so much. You know i appreciate that. Love you.
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more, but the most important is to subscribe to our YouTube channel. We are really trying to boost that up, and we appreciate your support. So again, thank you for everybody for tuning in. Again, this is The Professor's Seminar Mente, episode number 24. can't believe I've been doing this for six months now, my six-month anniversary of this show. I can't even believe it.
00:04:07
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Again, I did so much sports yesterday. We did three hours of sports last night. If you really want to hear most of my sports takes, please If you're watching for that, I'm going to do a little bit of it at the end.
Focus Shift to Entertainment and World News
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But this is mostly going to be entertainment and news today since I did so many sports yesterday. But I will do the pro and college sports rankings at the end. also touch on the NCAA. tournament.
00:04:29
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So I'll talk about that at the end and a little bit about the NFL rules and MLB torpedo bats, but it's only going to be very ah little since I did so much on it yesterday, but I do want to get to all the things going on in the news world because it's been so, so crazy.
Impact of Natural Disasters and Personal Experience
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I am your host, Omar, the professor Fonseca, and i am I appreciate all of you being here. Again, hit that like button and let's kick this bad boy off.
00:04:52
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Yes, Jake, we are in here. Hot take Jake. Salute my brother at the bottom line sports with Hey, my brother, I appreciate you coming with those kind, kind words, sir.
00:05:04
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You are a yeah you are a a blessing and a friend, and you still have the worst takes on earth. Go check out the episode yesterday. We went off on Jake for about an hour for having some of the worst sports takes ever, including the fact that he said Carmelo Anthony is not a Hall of Famer.
00:05:20
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And he also went on, what was the other one he said? You know what? I forgot. It don't matter. you know go Just go listen. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yes, congratulations. Six-month anniversary on the show here.
00:05:32
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Let's kick it off. All right, first things first. ah Prayers up to the 65-plus million Americans across 13 states from Texas to Ohio, including right here in Tennessee. Last night at 3 a.m., m the tornado siren started going off, and it was raining and windy everywhere. Luckily, I don't go to bed until 3 in the morning anyway, so.
00:05:57
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Once they started going off, I was like, well, im guess I guess I'm glad I wasn't asleep because I would have been woken up. So instead, I was actually working on videos at the time, editing videos. So I just went outside on the balcony and was like watching all the rain and stuff like that. It was pretty cool.
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But anyways, it was also, you know... kind of scary when you get in those kind of areas. And since I'm lucky because I live up high in ah in a building, so I'm blessed, but there are people down there in houses that were destroyed. So we're praying for them in this extreme weather event.
00:06:25
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ah Tornado outbreak outbreaks, record flooding in different states. So please keep them in your prayers. If you want to donate and you have the ability to do so, please do so as well. I'm sure there's many Red Cross organizations out there That can help.
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All right, moving on.
Tribute and Cultural Reflections
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Another sad story, rest in power ah to Val Kilmer. So I don't know if you all remember or if some of you know who Val Kilmer is. I know some of you like Jake are a little young and may not know who vo v ah jimmymy Van Kilmer is, but he's a legendary actor.
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He died at the age of 65. Actually, a fun fact, he was born on New Year's Eve. But his leading roles, his most famous roles, were in Batman, which he was great in.
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But even better, you see the picture. He was in the movie, The Doors, representing Jim Morrison, one of the greatest entertainers and artists of all time.
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And Van Kilmer is one of the best actors of all time. Maybe not in goat status, as we did a lot of goat conversation yesterday, talking about how where LeBron and Michael Jordan were on tears and things like that. So he's not necessarily there, but he was a great actor.
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Great actor. Unfortunately, he did die in 2014. He actually beat cancer diagnosis in the throat. But unfortunately, now, 10 years later, he died from compliment complications excuse me to a pneumonia.
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He was actually the youngest admitted student to Juilliard's acting program at the age of 17. That's crazy.
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Juilliard is the foremost acting school in the world. And to me to get in there at the youngest ever, crazy. In 1983, he made his Broadway debut in ah a play called Slab Boys that also starred, get this, what a damn combination this was, Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon as well. Wow.
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He also went on to play other theatrical roles, including Hamlet, The eccentric ah Kilmer would perform in over 60 films, including other ones. And I know I didn't mention this with at the top, and I should have.
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Top Gun, obviously, he was in Top Gun. Awesome Tombstone, even lesser that some people may not have seen. The Saint. um So a lot of good movies, right? 60 films, over 60 films.
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But again, you see the you see the picture. And the reason I have that picture there is because Weston Power also, to my my best friend who passed away, one of my best friends who passed away about eight years ago ah now, about a month ago.
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And he was the one that put me on to the doors. He was the one that I watched that movie with first. He loved that movie. I got my skateboard. in commemoration of him. So rest in power to both Van Kilmer and JT Taylor.
00:09:37
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But anyways, so again, a great actor, and we wish him rest in power, prayers, and condolences to his family. Moving on to other entertainment news.
Entertainment Industry Insights
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Wow, y'all. The Simpsons. The Simpsons have been renewed for a 40th season. I repeat, a 40th season. It has been renewed. They are the longest running primetime series.
00:10:07
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That is amazing. Now, I do... watch The Simpsons from time to time. I would not say I am a Simpsons fanatic, but I do enjoy The Simpsons, and I really like how they make... They somehow make these predictions that seem to come true in the future. My mom always sends me the videos about it, and it's pretty...
00:10:31
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pretty Pretty crazy if you think about it that they get some of these things right. Now, some of them, like I was telling my mom, are things that, well, you could have predicted, like a major health event like COVID, right? You could have predicted that eventually that would probably happen again.
00:10:47
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So some of them are predictions that the Simpsons would have, or any person would have really been able to make, ah would have really been able to make just using logic, right? But the things they do get right sometimes are just are wild. So shout out to the Simpsons, fortieth season renewal. That is crazy.
00:11:08
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In horror... television and movie news, Snow White. I wanted to give you an update last week on this program. We talked about Snow White, how it only made $43 million dollars in its opening weekend.
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We talked about reasons why that might be. we talked about, obviously, there was some... discrimination or stereotyping, however you want to call it, because the girl who was playing Snow White is part Colombian and brown-skinned and that's not necessarily white. And so some people... Some people...
00:11:49
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Got upset about it. I'm not going who those people were. But if you're one of them listening, as I told you last week on this program, if you're that stereotypical that you're going to get upset about a movie character's skin color, you have bigger issues to look at in the mirror because movies should be made purple, yellow, brown, white, fish, blue, human, axe,
00:12:09
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goat, horse, I don't care. It's a movie. You probably watched Avatar, which, by the way, if you watched Avatar, unpopular opinion, that movie sucked. But I'm glad if you liked it.
00:12:21
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ah Anyway, but so o what happened this weekend with Snow White? So this weekend with Snow White, it only brought home $14 million dollars domestically.
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So it's truly falling down ah the charts in terms of what a Disney movie is usually making. So clearly the backlash or things that have been against it, which that wasn't the only thing that was just the most major thing.
00:12:52
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There were other things involved. There were posts on X that were done between the two main stars, one in support um of Israel, one in support of Gaza, which we'll get into later in our world news.
00:13:04
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So A lot of controversy with that movie, but a lot of people decided not to check it out. A lot of people decided they were going to not go see Disney's Snow White. is so So far, it has ah made ah total domestically of almost $60 million. dollars So, wow.
00:13:23
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We'll see if it picks up steam, but obviously people have their reasons. for not wanting to go whether those reasons are valid or not to me, they're still reasons to you. And i even if I don't agree with your opinion, and that's why y'all come to watch this show, because as the professor, I always stay neutral. I will give you my judgment.
00:13:43
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I will tell you what I believe about the situations that we talk about, but I'm also gonna give you all sides so you know what is happening and you can form your own intelligent opinion.
00:13:55
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Speaking of intelligence, moving on, Elon Musk, this, I mean, is it is it bending the lines of legal now where we're going with the Elon Musk situation and his different companies and stuff like that?
Tech and Economy Updates
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Let's start off with this article fish his artificial intelligence startup.
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So Elon Musk has an artificial intelligence startup called XAI. ai He just started this artificial intelligence company to try to build up AI here in the United States and around the world.
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He is actually using that company though, get this, to buy X, the social media platform. Yes, he started another company, an AI company, to acquire X in a deal that valued X at $33 billion. dollars Musk said he would actually pay $45, assuming the $12 billion in outstanding debt for X left over from his 2022 purchase of the company.
00:14:59
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The move comes in culmination of a recent efforts of Mark and Musk to leverage X as a source of data to train large language models. What does that mean? He wants to be able to combine these two systems to use XAI, which owns Glock, which is a sort of simpler, it's a similar to ChatGPT, Glock. Anyways, he wants to train it so that all of these systems can use their machine learning together to not only include,
00:15:29
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improve rather X's ecosystem such as the algorithm, things like that, but ah detection, but also increase the language learning of the AI. So that way they are going to try to build their AI capabilities as fast as possible as you should in business is something called economies of scale.
00:15:53
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And if you get to economies of scale, you are doing really well because that means you are exponentially, ah Now I lost the word I was looking for. um It means that you're exponentially improving.
00:16:08
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It means that you're always getting better, lack of a better word. Anyways, they also built a massive server farm in Memphis. Again, shout out to Memphis. I was just there this weekend. and Memphis gets a bad rap, y'all.
00:16:21
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I know Beale Street gets a bad rap for the the danger that might be there. and You see the air quotations. Because I've now been twice in the past year, and I did not ever feel in danger once. I saw police presences everywhere. I did not see any commotion or anything happen while I was there. We even walked outside Beale Street to other parts of the city.
00:16:44
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So please, y'all, support Memphis. It was dangerous. It wasn't very busy out there, and I feel like, and actually people told me on the strip, people that work there, they believe that it's because Memphis gets a bad rap in the news and in the media.
00:16:58
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So y'all, do not be afraid or worried. Definitely if you ever wanted to hit Memphis, the the blues are amazing. Me and my pops went on a blues jazz river bocars.
00:17:09
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That band was popping. ah The Memphis barbecue, pshh. Get at chef's kiss. You know what mean? Anyways, all right. Ooh. Morning Wombat. Shout out. Loyal.
00:17:22
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Ball and Buds. Follower and watcher. And always commenting on my streams. I really, really appreciate you. Thank you. And shout out to Morning Wombat. So, anyways, they built...
00:17:35
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200,000 processors on this massive server farm outside of Memphis in seven months to train all of this. So they are really going for the gusto in this. But you start to wonder, and I'm going to get to this in U.S. news, how do all of Elon Musk's companies figure into his work with Doge and the government.
00:17:57
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So stay tuned because I'm going to get into that in just a couple of minutes, but I want to update you first on the TikTok ban. So if you watch this program or you've been watching it for the six months that we've been doing this,
00:18:10
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There has been a TikTok ban that has been pretty much the whole entire time. I believe I even talked about it on my first episode. So the TikTok ban has been pushed back a few times now, extended.
00:18:22
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It is supposed to come up on Saturday again. Let me update you on all the craziness that is happening here. First of all, President Trump came out, said if it's not finished, it's not the biggest deal in the world. He will extend it again.
00:18:39
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Fine, we figured he would. At this point, if he's trying to make sure that the U.S. controls their portion of it, why would he necessarily, you know, let the ban go into effect? Now, at some point, he's going to have to if ByteDance, the Chinese part that owns TikTok, decided not to sell.
00:18:58
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The thing is, though, that China is under a lot of pressure to sell that app anyways, just if they want to
00:19:09
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if they want to keep us off of them for cybersecurity, for info security, for things of that nature, which we already see them, the United States sees them as the number one, number two, number one enemy in the world when it comes to cybersecurity, when it comes to InfoSec, when it comes to ah psychological operations, psyops, when it comes to all of these things. and If China owns a part of TikTok, which is why y'all know here, I am in favor of the TikTok ban if it does not get bought by the United States because it is such a security liability.
00:19:48
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But what's happening? There's a bunch of buyers that are popping up now. ah Amazon just came up today, but they think that they may not be serious because they just popped up today. We talked about Oracle last time.
00:20:00
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There's a thing called app loving. There's Blackstone, which is the... Financial Corporation that owns the stocks. Andreessen Horowitz. ah Mr. Beast is talking about it.
00:20:13
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Perplexity AI, which is an AI website. The own Dodgers owner, Frank McCourt, owns a company called Project Liberty, which is also thinking about it. You already heard about us talk about Elon Musk buying it, but now with this other purchase, he may not be able to.
00:20:29
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And then finally, get this, y'all. The founder of OnlyFans. wants to purchase TikTok. So, yeah maybe using some TikTok capabilities in the OnlyFans ecosystem? Hmm,
00:20:50
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hmm, little side eye, little side eye action. I cannot say whether that's a good or bad idea. I personally have never partaking in the OnlyFans website. I know what it was and I know what it is now. By the way, OnlyFans also, well, they did it to themselves, technically, because of the way they started off, but they are not just a model platform where you see a bunch of beautiful people, guy or girl, whatever it is.
00:21:25
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But you would... Now see other people on OnlyFans. Now there's actors, comedians. So don't think of OnlyFans as the explicit site that it kind of once was. Think of it now as actually a place where you can go and find people that maybe you are a fan of or things like that.
00:21:43
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Now, I'm not saying you have to peruse the site anyways. I still don't go on that site, even though that's what's on there. I don't have any reason that I don't go. i just don't have any reason to go either.
00:21:54
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So anyways, just wanted to update you on that. Pretty crazy. But Saturday is the deal. Well, the date that the deal is supposed to go down. We'll see if that actually happens or not.
00:22:07
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Tariff Policies and Global Economics
00:22:55
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news. We've had a huge, huge week.
00:22:59
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of news here in the United States. First of all, let's I'm glad I actually went today because had I gone on Monday, I wouldn't have been able to talk about Liberation Day. Yes, President Trump declared yesterday Liberation Day in terms of him applying tariffs on countries all around the world.
00:23:24
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So, what happens, you ask me, Omar? Well, let me tell you. We first know that there were existing tariffs on Canada and Mexico, our brothers and sisters to the north and the south.
00:23:40
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You know, on this program, I am all for tariffing our enemies. I am all for tariffing
00:23:50
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people that... are maybe not our enemies, but maybe trying to take advantage of us, which we'll get into in just a second. I'm not for terrifying our neighbors. Just doesn't seem very, very logical to, to, you know,
00:24:09
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tariff the people that are sitting right next to you. Now, that being said, i do understand why. get it. I understand the reasons, you know, saying with the fentanyl and some of the migration from Canada as well. We already know about the southern border. We don't have to talk about that, although I will hear in a little bit.
00:24:27
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But my point of this is, is that Donald Trump, President Trump, yesterday in the Rose Garden made an announcement that he is tariffing Get this, the whole damn world.
00:24:45
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Let me repeat to you. We are now going to be tariffing the whole world, every single country.
00:24:57
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Now, I can't tell you as a certified economist that But I graduated with a double degree, not to hundred just a humble brag, just a humble brag. I graduated with a double degree from the University of Maryland, shout out to Irrapins, in international business and marketing.
00:25:16
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International business portion of my degree within that track. I had to take economics, not only just pre-economics, I'd take economics three times.
00:25:27
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So I really do understand the principles of economics, the principles of supply and demand. And know Morning Wombat and I talked about this a few weeks ago, so we'll see what happens there.
00:25:40
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um But It is a 10% tariff ah across the board. Again, not a certified economist. But I can pretty much tell you that this is going to have a major impact and most likely skewing negatively on the global economy.
00:26:06
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Now, does... President Trump care about that? No. We know. At this point, we know who Donald Trump is. He does not care about any other country in the world than America. Fine.
00:26:21
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Great. i no ah but No opposition ah from this guy as a veteran. I love my country first.
00:26:32
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He is known To not only troll people a lot, especially the media, but also to try to
00:26:46
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extort, and for lack of a better word, I don't mean, not going to say he's not an extortionist, but there have been many times as a, he's a businessman, right? He's a businessman at heart.
00:26:58
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Before he was a president, before he was a reality star, he was a businessman. And as a businessman myself, as an entrepreneur, I understand the economics of business.
00:27:10
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I understand the point is to make a profit, a revenue, You want to make more money than you are spending. So yeah, in deals, and he is the art of the deal, you want to get, you want to try, let me back this up.
00:27:30
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You want to try to get as close to a compromise as possible that both parties are winning, but obviously you want to get out of it what you want from the deal.
00:27:42
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So if that means you have to do things sometimes to force those things, well, you have to take those things at least into consideration. Now,
00:27:55
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The issue here with taxing every single country and I'm going to bring up a chart right now so everybody can can see what I'm talking about. I actually brought a chart for y'all to show you all the tariffs here. So let me I'm going blow this up. Let me know if you can hear me when I go off screen because I want to make this bigger for y'all.
00:28:16
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Let me know if you can still hear me. um But anyways, you see here. We have all of, not all, but we have the the countries that are our enemies, the countries that we have most issues with, the countries that are probably most dangerous for Americans.
00:28:33
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Because I couldn't get all of them, obviously. I can only fit two charts on the slides, y'all. All right. It was like 20 pictures. But anyways, so look at this. Thank you.
00:28:44
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can still hear me. ah Poor penguin. I don't know. I saw some a meme about a penguin going around today, but I don't actually know what that means. I'm assuming that's because they might be tariffing Antarctica, which I didn't actually see in the chart. But either way, I did listen to the press conference, but um i'm I'm showing you the top two of these charts. Let's take a look here.
00:29:02
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Left hand side. Obviously, I told you on number one earlier. China, right? China is not only... one of the United States' biggest nemesis, biggest enemies, biggest ah foes in the world.
00:29:22
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They also, are one of the biggest buyers and suppliers, right? Purchasers, we just talked about supply and demand. It goes both ways with China.
00:29:34
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China buys a lot of the products from the United States, so much so that we actually have a surplus with China. And that's why you're I'm gonna show y'all something in the chart here.
00:29:47
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So look at this. You see how it says China, it has a 67% tariff ah in the United States. And then you see that United States is going to charge a 34% tariff. So why is it that the tariff is going to be half of what it is here in the United States? So what happened was...
00:30:11
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ah Again, in China, they run a surplus. So they buy more than we buy from them.
00:30:22
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When that happens, i we have a trade imbalance is what it's called. A trade imbalance. So when you have a surplus or a deficit,
00:30:34
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you have a trade imbalance. So because of the fact that we have a trade imbalance and China is tariffing us 67%, what they did is they cut that in half to 34%. So that's why you see that number of 34%. The White House Trump administration cut that number in half of their tariffs on us. Okay. And is applying that to them to try to offset the trade imbalance. And that's what that is, y'all, is a trade imbalance.
00:31:01
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It is not actually, um and I'm not going to say that they're not, because obviously, again, China is one of our foes in this world, but not necessarily mean that they're trying to get over honest us It just means that there's a trade imbalance. so I want y'all to know that.
00:31:18
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So take a look at the rest of the charts. Let's point out some other big ones here. You see the European Union. That's obviously going to be huge, y'all. The European Union, and we buy and sell so much stuff because remember, the European Union is such a huge country.
00:31:33
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um country. It's a bunch of countries, 13 to be exact, excuse me. So 39% tariff there. We are leveraging a 20% tariff on them. Move down Vietnam.
00:31:44
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They are leveraging 90% on us. Why Omar? Why is there a 90% number there? Why do they tariff us so much? And that again, y'all,
00:31:54
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You've got to look at the trade imbalance. It doesn't mean that necessarily they are trying to screw us over. It just means that there could be a surplus or deficit trade imbalance, which is causing the high amount of tariffs because they need to get back the money that they're losing in the trade imbalance.
00:32:14
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that's why you see that there. So again, take a screenshot if you can, because I'm not going to leave this up. I've got to come back and show my beautiful face, because if not, I'll start losing viewers. So i'm going to come back into the picture here.
00:32:25
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But I do want y'all to obviously take in this chart here and understand that when you see those differences, that does really balance to trade imbalances and not necessarily countries, as President Trump did say, trying to get over on The thing that's going to happen, though, this is one of the biggest
00:32:46
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Wow. May be the most significant shift in U.S. trade policy in generations since the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of 1930, which absolutely demolished this country. Now, those tariffs were not as well thought out, but Or didn't act, I shouldn't say thought out, because not because again, i believe that tariffing every country in the world at a standard percentage is is going to hurt the global economy more than it betters it, which in the long run hurts us because we depend on the global economy, as you can see from those charts that I'm showing you.
00:33:21
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so And Donald Trump did come out and say, oh we're going feel a little bit of hurt in the in ah in the in the short term for the long term benefits. But also, he also said that prices would lower on day one.
00:33:35
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And people took him at his word, not knowing that he was obviously lying, because it's not even possible. And then when prices didn't go down, ah people started to wonder, well, of course, there's no way he could do that. He was only saying that because, again, he blusters.
00:33:49
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He likes to... ah and He likes to exaggerate. He likes to boast. And sometimes, a lot of times, that comes out as lies.
00:34:02
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Just is what it is. yeah I mean, if you fact check, and I've watched hundreds of Donald Trump rallies over the past four years. Since COVID started, and I've been working from home the past four years, I have pretty much tried to catch every Trump rally I can.
00:34:18
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Not because I... think he's a great person because I don't think he's a great person. Not because care for him as a politician because on this show, you know, I hate all politicians.
00:34:30
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All politicians are liars, cheaters, and scums. Let me say it again. All politicians are liars, cheaters, and scums. Woo! Shout out my boy, Francis Long.
00:34:43
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Prayers up to Long's family. I love you, my brother. Um... He's the one to first put me on today, and it's the total truth. They are out to lobby for themselves and their constituents and their families and their friends, and again, all they are are liars, cheaters, and scums.
00:35:00
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You win! Our living theater, right? Just fine! You're stealing me! We're stealing! Woo! Woo!
00:35:10
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Woo!
00:35:13
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Yes, Rick, they are. Liars, cheaters, and scums. All of them. So you can't believe any politicians. They're not doing what's good for you. They're doing what's good for themselves. And Donald Trump is no different.
00:35:26
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It goes to everybody, Democrat, Republican, Independent. Any politician is going to be looking out for themselves and their constituents and their family and their friends and no one else.
00:35:37
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Irregardless, I don't like any of them. I don't like either party. I am an independent. i do not I come to talk about this because I want you all on this program to get the neutral side and be able to see both sides of the aisle.
00:35:51
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When I watch the news, I watch both conservative and liberal news channels to make sure I hear both sides of the aisle. what you should do. It's good. You should also do your research.
00:36:03
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Very important. Anyways, you saw the rest of them on the chart. Japan also gets a 24% tariff hike. Lesotho, which sends the U.S. s about $350 million in goods.
00:36:18
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we'll see the highest tariff at 50%. So again, this is where I don't necessarily, I don't think I can agree with the standard 10% across the board.
00:36:30
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I really think in the long run from knowing economics, not a certified one, it's going to hurt the global economy. And especially when you're tariffing little countries like this that already buy enough from us or send enough to us, whichever it is, buy or sell. It's kind of like, ah Maybe just not those kind of countries, things like that. But again, we will see what happens.
00:36:55
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ah He also said that in the future, he would be imposing...
00:37:04
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Half of these countries would be levied on U.S. imports and that he would have the combined rate of all tariffs, mo non-monetary barriers, and other forms of cheating.
00:37:16
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So again, trade imbalance is what he's talking about there. So again, that's why you'll see those differences in those numbers on that chart I showed you. All right, y'all. So we'll see what happens there with the tariffs. What do y'all think?
00:37:28
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Do you think that the tariffs are going to actually hurt the economy? Do you think that the tariffs will help the economy? Donald Trump's other argument for this is that he believes that by installing these tariffs, the prices of goods and service goods, rather, from countries outside of the United States,
00:37:51
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would be raised, which would cause Americans to buy more U.S. products, which is true. The only issue there is when you put tariffs on goods coming into the United States and you want people to only buy American goods, the problem is that American goods are going to go up in price because it takes a lot more money to make things here in America than it does to make things overseas, which is why companies went overseas in the first place.
00:38:21
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Because it was so cheap to make things in China, to make things in Vietnam, even to make things in Europe at one time before the dollar and the euro flipped.
00:38:33
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So what do you think is going to happen if we start bringing all the manufacturing plants here? Great. We are producing things the United States and selling them to other countries. But you're also raising all of the prices here in the United States.
00:38:48
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So for consumers... How much does it really help if you're spending more? I mean, does the does the pride of you buying so um solely American products take away from the extra money you're going to spend? Well, that's your ratio.
00:39:07
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that's your That's what you're going to look at when you're deciding, am i am I going to want to continue to purchase products that come from outside of the United States, or will I want to purchase United States products?
00:39:21
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Well, your ratio will be price pride. Price to pride. How much are you willing to pay to buy just United States goods because they are going to be that much higher in price than the ones will even from the outside, even if they raise those prices? Because you've got to think about it in terms, again, of economics.
00:39:44
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If the prices are raised, on outside countries for goods coming in. Again, great for the manufacturing here in the United States, bad for the consumer because then prices have to go up here in the United States, which still raises them, by the way, above overseas prices, which would still spur a lot of people to buy overseas.
00:40:04
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And then that's where that pride price ratio comes into play. Y'all feel me? Who's feeling me? I'm cooking right now. I am spitting knowledge.
00:40:16
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The professor is learning y'all some things today. I did immaculate research as always. Because I want to make sure y'all know what tariffs are about. Now, granted, again, I have an economics background in my international business, but it's good to know what you need to know, right? So we'll see what happens.
00:40:33
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It could, again, boost up the manufacturing in the United States, but it could also ruin the global economy, and it could also... uh, raise prices for consumers here in the United States. And I think all three of those things will happen. And I, I wait to see how correct I am. I i want to know how good my economics knowledge is out of, getting after getting out of college, uh, what was that? 10 years ago.
00:40:57
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So anyways, all right, we'll see what happens because last time we got to remember he and he imparted those tariffs on Canada and Mexico. He then later delayed those tariffs.
00:41:07
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So we'll see if he actually goes through. i think I think at this point he has to, right? You can't just tariff the whole world one day and then come out and say you're not going to do it. I mean, but this also gives him incentive to tariff Canada and Mexico finally because he can say, oh, well, I'm tariffing anybody else, so I might as well tariff them too. and it's,
00:41:27
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That's actually kind of smart. and' That's actually it's actually smart. But again, i really think it's going to hurt ah the global economy and also consumers here in the United States in long run. Rule of thumb, this comes from Chelsea Advisory Group retail analyst, Christina Fernandez. Thank you to her for this research.
00:41:45
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Rule of thumb, every 10% in tariffs results in a low single-digit increase in prices. So think about that. Let's say I'm gonna hit you with some math real quick. I'll make it easy on y'all.
00:41:57
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But let's say that China sends over a product for $1, right? Let's say that we increase the tariffs in China from 10% to 20%, right?
00:42:10
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You're looking at a 10% increase in tariffs right there. So if the product coming over was $1 and you're charging 10%, you're charging 10 cents on every dollar on that product coming over.
00:42:22
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You raise that to 20%. Wait a second. um um wait a second Take that back $1, not $0.10, $1, not $0.10 on every product coming over, right?
00:42:35
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And then if you raise it to 20% tariff on ah on a product coming over. No, I did have right because I said $1 product. I did have it right. Sorry about that. 10%, $0.10 on the dollar or $0.20 on the dollar, right?
00:42:49
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Now, that means that the price of the product will increase anywhere between 1% 9%.
00:42:58
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So the tariffs go up 10% on the outside country by the United States. The prices of the products coming in go anywhere from 1% to 9% increase, but usually a lower, probably around 1% to 5%.
00:43:14
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So you can probably think of it best like this. Let me give you a good analogy so you can remember it easily. Let's say that there's a 10% increase on a tariff. on a country, you can probably assume that the increase in the price price of the product, like avocados from Mexico, if we increase by 10%, will probably go up at least 50 cents per every dollar.
00:43:37
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Anywhere from 10 to 50 cents is the average. Cool? Damn, I am really learning y'all some stuff today. i hope y'all are learning. GPIC, shout out. Thank you for tuning in. Salute. I really appreciate the support. Says, time to worry about the United States.
00:43:54
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um I can't tell you that I'm necessarily worried about the United States because of what Donald Trump is doing with tariffs. But I can tell you I've been worried about the United States um for probably the past...
00:44:08
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ah 10 years now, um when Donald Trump actually, and again, this is not all attributed to Donald Trump per se, but when Donald Trump came out at first, when Barack Obama was still in office, obviously there was a lot of stuff that he put out there that caused a racial divide within this country that we are experiencing now at an even greater magnitude than we were 10 years ago.
00:44:39
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Right. And that's what makes that difficult, because i I myself love everyone. I don't care what color, what race you are. My friends are black, white, brown, blue and otherwise.
00:44:52
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Purple, green, yellow, orange, all of them. I know Bert, Ernie. I know the Cookie Monster. yeah i mean, I know all them. I know everybody and I love them.
00:45:03
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I don't care what your skin color is. I don't care what country you come from. I don't care what your race or your religion is. All I care about is who you are as a person.
00:45:15
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All I care about is are you a good person to other people? ain't even saying you got to be a good person to yourself because Lord knows I'm not a good person to myself.
00:45:26
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I'm good to everyone else, but I'm my own worst enemy as the song went by lit. Shout out. That that was a great song. Wow. Although that aged me a little bit because I was I'm not going to tell you my age on here.
00:45:37
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It will hurt the show. Oh yeah, no doubt. No doubt. Um, Anytime you do tariffs, regardless if it would have been against and just a few countries that import a lot of stuff or the whole world, it is going to hurt the short-term economy for sure.
00:45:51
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I am just more concerned that it's going to hurt our long-term economy as well in terms of not just our economy and consumer prices, but also the global economy. Because remember, the global economy is tied to it.
00:46:03
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Y'all, come on now. Our dollar has always been the base point. Our dollar has always been the standard. Now, granted, again, it flipped a little while ago. The euro even got more valuable than the the dollar.
00:46:19
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But the dollar is still the standard across the world. Don't get that twisted. The dollar will still always be the most stable form of currency. That's why when they do Bitcoin now, that's why when they all do all that stuff now, they tie it to the USD crypto, the US dollar crypto, because it's the most stable coin and they want to pin it or peg it, as they call it.
00:46:43
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to the U.S. dollar. So that way they know that even if there's a lot of ups and downs, which there's going to be in this world at all times, that at least the U.S. s dollar would always have some form of stability.
00:47:00
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That's why. That's why. But it's definitely, oh yeah, definitely hurt us in the short term. ah Consumer prices are going up here in the United States. It's gonna hurt the global economy, which in turn is going to end up hurting us more because again, in this case, y'all, you know the saying shit rolls downhill.
00:47:21
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In this case, shit rolls uphill. When you are the world power, the United States, shit rolls uphill. Okay? All the diseases, viruses you saw with COVID that start anywhere in the world are eventually going to come to us.
00:47:37
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All the monetary, economic issues, logistical, transportation, you saw how long we had to wait for products during COVID and after COVID.
00:47:48
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Anything that happens in the world inherently will affect the United States because we are the biggest world power, because we are the biggest economy, because we are the biggest,
00:48:00
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ah I can't say biggest nation because we're not in terms of size, but you get what I'm saying.
00:48:09
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In terms of the United States, y'all, when it comes to other countries and their failings and their drawbacks and their Inherences,
00:48:22
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shit rolls uphill. We deal with the ending here. We end up with everything here. but maybe not the plastic and the trash. But that's the Mind the Professor episode right there. I've got to check out my Mind the Professor. done a few of them because it takes a lot of research because i spend days researching the topics, but I've done five of
Influence of Key Figures and Corporate Ties
00:48:44
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them.
00:48:44
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Go back and check it out at Ball and Buds. Make sure you subscribe. B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S. Mind the Professor. Thank you, my producer. Oh, wow, Felicia. Shout out. Woo, Clever D. D. Cleasy's cousin.
00:48:58
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One of my favorite people. I love you, Felicia. You know you're awesome. We go back like two pimps in a Cadillac. Thank you, darling. I appreciate you. Shout out to you as well. Again, y'all hit that like button for me if you are watching. Again, it is free to you, but it is so valuable to us.
00:49:14
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Any like, any heart, any laugh, any wow. ah remember Remember my saying, give me a love, laugh, home decor photo, whatever. I don't care because it's going to help us out in that algorithm and boost us up on ya on YouTube.
00:49:28
Speaker
So I thank you so humbly from my heart. Moving on, more United States news. Billionaire Elon Musk. As we talked about earlier, right, we talked about Elon and his XAI business.
00:49:41
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artificial intelligence startup purchasing X, right? Well, now they're saying that he is going to end up leaving the white house. I say leaving in air quotes because they also say he is going to remain advisor to president Trump and vice president JD Vance and doge.
00:50:02
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So even though he'll be leaving and not be in as much public view going back to his companies, he's still going to have a big head. You can guarantee that that this is just a, hey, Elon is causing a lot of media, news coverage, sometimes controversy.
00:50:21
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ah President Trump doesn't even sometimes like him around because he's like a little puppy dog, President Trump says. So he's getting kind of kicked out, but they're still going to keep him around for All the Doze stuff that he needs to do.
00:50:33
Speaker
But again this brings into account. What I said earlier. Why. Is it that's okay because he's a billionaire? And that's the answer to the question. it is a rhetorical question. I know the answer is because he's a billionaire and because he's supporting President Trump.
00:50:52
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But why is this not a conflict of interest that a lot of Elon Musk companies are tied to United States contracts?
00:51:05
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A little side eye. A little side eye action, my friend my my fellow friends here. We got to ask the questions.
00:51:17
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Why is it that SpaceX has so many government contracts, but yet he can continue to cut through the government and fire a bunch of innocent people through the cutting of his Doge contract?
00:51:30
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And again, if you watch this program, you know I'm all for cutting fraud, waste, and abuse. All for it. Love that. I worked for the government for 10 years. Huge waste effort.
00:51:41
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in the government. Now, I won't say fraud fraud and abuse per se, because there's a lot less of that than there is waste, but there's a lot of waste and contracts that can be cut out. But again, that meant using a scalpel, going in with precision, not costing veterans jobs, not costing longtime employees that are on probation because they want to promotion a job.
00:52:01
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I tell this to y'all every time, there are employees that were just going up for promotion, and sometimes when you go up for promotion, you're put on a probationary period, especially veterans. And those are people losing their job due to those.
00:52:14
Speaker
Again, I'm all for cutting fraud, wasting proofs. All for it. But I'm not for innocent people losing their jobs. I'm not for innocent people losing their lives. And then we get and then the conservative side of the aisle, because I was watching Fox News, they were getting upset.
00:52:31
Speaker
and And saying, oh, what about the people at the Tesla dealerships? All of these people are going to you know lose their jobs. and not So you care about that? But you don't care about the the thousands of oh innocent people? And all of them are innocent. Not all them.
00:52:46
Speaker
I get it. there's There's people out there that don't do their job. I've always had very strong worth that work ethic. Yeah. where I would not only do my work at work, but I would also do work at home because I wanted to make sure that the job was done right.
00:52:59
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But I know there's a lot of people out there with no work ethic. Hell, I was an assistant manager for ah but for a for a biscuit house. I worked with Gen Zs.
00:53:10
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And I can tell you, and whatever they're called now, alphas. This was like seven years ago, six years ago, five years ago. ah Anyways, and the work ethic is lacking. Let's just, let's just say the work ethic is lacking. Not all of them, but I'll give you one example.
00:53:28
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this This girl, she was mad cool though. She was so chill at work. Never got mad at anybody. Just did her job quiet. Didn't cause no problems. One day out of the blue, like nine months into working, just called into work. And I was like, yeah, she was like, I'm not coming in. i was like,
00:53:47
Speaker
Oh, what's wrong? Do you need help? Like, that's the first thing as a manager. You're supposed to ask, like, anything wrong? How can we help you? Are you sick? do you need to go a doctor? Can we get you ride? Are you stuck in the snow? Whatever, right? Which, by the way, i hate hey i hate managers that make people come in the snow. Just close the damn restaurant.
00:54:03
Speaker
You don't need to be open if it's that much snow. If you can't, if it's hard for you to get there, don't make other people rest their lives. I don't like that. But anyways, I got off a train of thought there for a second. Hold on.
00:54:15
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Where was I going with that? ah Oh, yeah. So anyways, she calls in and she says, i sure she's like, she was very laid back, very chill girl. kind of. I think she might have like maybe been into mushrooms.
00:54:31
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Definitely probably, you know, ah took flight. ah But anyways, she was like, nah, I just don't want to work there anymore. And I was like, Well, you know you're scheduled for a shift, though, and we need people because we're kind of tight on on people as is.
Life Lessons and Work Ethic
00:54:47
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Yeah. Sorry, Omar. Just not going to show up today. Hang up. Boom. I was like, wowzers. I hadn't seen such a thing in my life before. Now.
00:54:59
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I mean, i had i'm being a I hadn't been personally in that situation to take that call. I was like, wow, that's crazy. i at least respected her I at least respected who her bravado.
00:55:12
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i respected her gumption. Like, at least if you're gonna if you're going to do something... Go, don't half-step it as Big Daddy Kane said, right? Ain't no half-step in, right? Don't half-step it.
00:55:26
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If you're gonna do something in life, go 100% because there ain't no point in doing anything less. Now, if you give up after a little while because didn't work and you want to move on to something else, that's fine too. I'm not gonna ever say don't give up on something. If you've given it 100% and you've done it for a little bit of time and it just doesn't work out and you want to try something else, that's not giving up.
00:55:46
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I've done it hundreds of times. Giving up is when you start something and then it doesn't work out right away and then you give up. That's giving up. don't Try not to do that. But the other part of it, try to do whatever you can. Try to be as as learned and as worldly as you can because the more you know and the more you do will help you out in life, I promise you.
00:56:08
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Right? Oh, my God, Felicia. ah These, yo, shout out to all my Gen Zers out there with your conviction. If you're to call me and quit a job and tell me for no other reason that you just don't want to work anymore, well then, I mean, if you can support yourself, I don't know how. I mean, I hope she had a significant other of some sorts because I know the salaries at that biscuit house. And I know she was, I know what minimum wage was. I know she wasn't making a lot of money.
00:56:36
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Let's just say that. I know, I know around what her salary would have been. And it would have been around $10 an hour probably. So, she wasn't, you ain't going live off of, most places you ain't going live off of $10 an hour, which is why it sucks that a lot of people are so poor in our country and that no one wants to help them. But that's and that's another mind of the professor. well another Shout out, Bianca.
00:57:00
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Salute. Yes. Shout out to Bianca, new follower here at Ball and Buds. Y'all check the, excuse me. Wow. I need to get some water. I'm a little parts. a little parts.
00:57:13
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this Y'all, i'm ah I'm on a fast right now. I'm on a three-day fast. Only water and coffee. Nothing else. No food, nothing.
00:57:25
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I'm on a three-day fast. I'm hitting the gym a couple times a day. yeah I'm feeling good. It's only the first day you got to get through. Once you get through the first day of fasting, it's all mental. On the second day, if you can get through that first night, which is my hardest one because I'm a night eater.
00:57:40
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I snack at night. I hate it. It's the worst thing in the world because you don't burn cal enough calories when you sleep. And that's why i that's why I stay having to go to the gym because ah because I stay eating at night and I eat too many sweets. And anyways, that's why I gotta keep going i got keep the fatness off. You know what I mean? Anyways, I'm a fat boy at heart.
00:57:57
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um So, I don't even know where I was going with that, but salute ah to Bianca. Oh, that's right. Rock Chalk Jayhawk. Y'all go ahead support their channel. Awesome. ah True Crime.
00:58:10
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podcast actually checked out the first episode today, Rock Chalk 2 True Crime Podcast. It was awesome. i actually wanted to give a salute to the chat like Bianca did, but they were talking about some horrible instance with a 16-year-old girl that was kidnapped and assaulted by these these people and over months. in might What a horrible story it was.
00:58:32
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and i was So I wanted to like comment, and I was like, this is not the right time to comment. Like, just don't do it. um So, yeah, that was a horrible story. But anyways, it is is true crime. So you got to be, if you're a little, you know, eerie about that sort of thing, maybe not. But if you like true crime, rock chalk, true crime podcast on YouTube.
00:58:53
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Go tap in with them. Salute to Bianca. All right. um So anyways, moving on to another Elon Musk situation. We're going to branch out a little bit here.
00:59:05
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We talked about his Teslas. Tesla vehicle failed ah sales fell 13% in the last quarter. three hundred and Only 337,000 vehicles sold in quarter one, making it Tesla's worst quarter since early 2022. This is the backlash from Doze, y'all.
00:59:23
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You saw all the fire burnings of Teslas, destructions of Tesla you know dealerships, things like that. This is the backlash from Doze. This is people. And again, I don't.
00:59:35
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I definitely, definitely, definitely do not agree with burning anyone's personal property or destroying anyone's personal property. So if you saw a Cybertruck on the street and just decided to destroy it because it was, that's that's jacked up. That's messed up because that's somebody's personal vehicle.
00:59:55
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Now, the ones of the Tesla dealerships, still bad, still not right, still not legal. I am not endorsing it. I'm just saying I understand the frustration of people around the world and I understand if they take it out on dealerships of a billionaire.
01:00:13
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Not saying it's right. Not endorsing it. I am saying I understand the frustration of the people around the world. Y'all remember, I was in the government. I'm from D.C. 75% of my friends and family are dealing with this issue right now. Probably more than 90% probably.
01:00:28
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So you got to understand people's frustrations and the Wisconsin ah judicial race for the Wisconsin so um Supreme Court yesterday, ah proxy, y'all, a proxy for what's going on in the nation.
01:00:45
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Elon Musk paid $2 million. dollars Crazy. Just handing out checks to these people to vote for these conservative judges. What happened?
01:00:57
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They collected $81 million dollars for a judicial race, y'all. $81 million, dollars a record. And Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimmel, Republican, conservative, got his behind demolished.
01:01:20
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Got his ass whooped. the The liberal judge, Susan, I'm blanking on her name and I don't have it written in my notes. Someone help me out if you can.
01:01:31
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Her first name is Susan because I was watching her speech yesterday where she was like, this little girl from Wisconsin never knew she would go up against the world's richest man and win. I was like, that's cute. That's cute. Okay, I get i get it. That's cute.
01:01:44
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But the fact is that this is a bigger indication of of what's happening in the nation, y'all. If this is happening in in Republican Wisconsin, where Trump won that state by a healthy margin, I don't remember the exact points at this time, but he won the state, if you're telling me now that Supreme Court judges that are conservative are getting blown out the water, that tells me that citizens, including conservatives, are not happy
01:02:17
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with what Doge and Elon Musk are doing.
01:02:25
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I'm not saying I'm the smartest man in the world. Elon Musk is probably smarter than me, but I'm very intelligent. Not even gonna humble brag and drop my IQ on here, because that would be pointless, but just know it's above 140.
01:02:44
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But that don't mean nothing. IQ don't mean shit anyways. IQ just means your intelligent quotient just means that you'll be good at taking tests and stuff. It don't mean nothing in the real world. If you ain't got street street smarts and common sense, you're going to flail out in this world anyways. Don't matter how much book smarts you got, um unless you just want to be an engineer or scientist, which is not my not my role, not my not my lane.
01:03:07
Speaker
Anyways, consumer sentiment has dropped 11% this month. Again, ah proxy, y'all. How does the nation feel about who's in presidency, who's in office, who's in Congress, who's in the Senate, who's in the House?
01:03:26
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Hint, hint. It's all Republican controlled.
Political Climate and Economic Implications
01:03:30
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So if you're seeing these things, if you're starting to see these patterns, People losing in state races, especially judicial races, you know you always want to support your judicial candidates if you're on one party or the other because they're the ones that are going to make the laws for you.
01:03:47
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Even more important than just the senators or the you know anybody else, all the other elected officials. So consumer sentiment dropped lowest in three months since 2020.
01:04:01
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Google searches for recession is the highest in 12 months.
01:04:07
Speaker
We told you earlier, even President Trump said there would probably be a short-term recession. People are not vibing with what is happening in the country right now, y'all. And if the Republicans do not turn this around, if the conservative side does not turn this around, in the midterm elections, they're going to have a lot of issues when Democrats and liberal sides start coming back and winning a lot of these areas, especially, as we know, Democrats.
01:04:36
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those most important swing states. Okay? Gotta remember this. So 70% of companies that have reported earnings so far have mentioned tariff and policy uncertainty as not so hopeful outlook for 2025.
01:04:56
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50%, more than 50% of fund managers consider a trade war triggered will trigger a global recession, which is what I just told you earlier.
01:05:07
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um That's exactly what I've been saying. ah Now, obviously, economic economists on both sides are going to have different opinions. Some are going to say it's going to be good. Some are going to say it's not. You're going to hear all all sorts of things.
01:05:20
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You need to do your research. I'm giving you all the research from both sides so you can make an informed opinion. ah But... Citigroup's chief U.S. economist, Andrew Hollinsworth, told Bloomberg, when you look at what's happened in the month past month or two, you see consumer sentiment down, you see consumer spending down.
01:05:39
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Consumer spending accounts for two-thirds of our global domestic product, our GDP. That means that people are not feeling strong about what's happening in the United States. Going back to what GMAX so astutely said, right?
01:05:54
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So astutely said was this earlier.
01:05:59
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Time to worry about the U.S. Now, I told you I've been worried about the but that my my precious United States for the past 10 years. But there is going to definitely be short-term and possibly long-term worries. So there's things that you got to take into account.
01:06:13
Speaker
U.S. border security has been seizing so many eggs that you may not be able to make your omelets in the morning. What's happening? Custom officials report 3,254 eggs. have seized the border. What?
01:06:29
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from last year over the past two months have been seized at the border what
01:06:37
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Look, y'all, let's have a little conversation real quick, please. Hey, come a little closer to the professor. want you to listen to what I'm about to say right now.
01:06:50
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I understand that we may be in tough economic times. I understand that egg prices may be they were at like $8 when this started happening, maybe even $10 in some places.
01:07:03
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I get it. I get it. I do. I love eggs. I love eggs. I love a good hard-boiled egg. i like a nice omelet from time. I don't eat breakfast. I'm not a breakfast eater anyways, but I like a good omelet.
01:07:19
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I like my eggs fried over hard with the yolk broken because I don't really like the runny yolk. Only if you're like doing the eggs Benedict and yeah, like maybe toast underneath. Anyways, that's me to hear a little bit. That's for my cooking show, future cooking show. Not really.
01:07:32
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I don't cook at all. I order out. Um, Egg prices skyrocketed because of the avian flu outbreak three years ago. Farmers had to slaughter over 168 million birds over three years, which again, you were facing those $8 charges. Now it's been down to around $5 or what eggs are going for. But still, y'all, if you...
01:07:56
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If you think... na I was going to say if you have to. I was going to say if you have to go over the border to go get eggs, you have an issue.
01:08:07
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But not even that. If you think that going over the border to get your eggs is going to be cheaper, are you not thinking about the gas you're spending?
01:08:22
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I mean, unless you live right across the border, gas ain't cheap. So you better be going down there hoarding truckloads of eggs, which is probably what this is, ah to be honest.
01:08:33
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But you ain't going over in your Hyundai Elantra throwing a couple dozen eggs in the back trunk and hoping for the best, putting in the wheel well like you got to pound ah some TAC in that bum.
01:08:46
Speaker
I was going say some harder drugs, but there may be some young people watching. Um... ah Yes, I get it. My producer says they're $1 an egg. I get it.
01:08:57
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ah you Okay, so let's do some math. Professor about to hit y'all again with a little math, right? Let's say you live in San Antonio, Texas, one of the furthest places south. Can't really think of anything further south because that was the furthest south I went in Texas.
01:09:11
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But let's say, actually, you know what? Even better. Let's say you live in San Diego, which is right across from Tijuana, right? You live in San Diego. You don't make enough money that you can afford $10 eggs, a dozen eggs, right?
01:09:26
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And you love eggs so much that you eat eggs every day, maybe like 10, a dozen eggs a day. You need 30 dozen eggs for the next month just to get by.
01:09:38
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And you don't want to spend $300 on these 10 dozen eggs. So instead, you decide to hop in the car, spend $100 in gas maybe, round trip between San ju said ah san Diego and Tijuana, maybe $100 round trip in gas.
01:09:55
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And then you're buying your eggs. 30 times 12 is 360 eggs of gas. That's $410 to $460 you're spending on round trip get dollar when you have just spent $300 on the $10 eggs at your
01:10:11
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on a round trip to get dollar eggs when you could have just spent the three hundred dollars on the ten dollars eggs that you're stored
01:10:19
Speaker
That doesn't make sense. The math ain't mathin', as the kids say. So while I understand it's a dollar an egg, the only way you're going to do this operation is if you're literally going down there as an egg smuggler, which is great, which is tremendous.
01:10:34
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That is fantastic. Please, if you are in the chat and you are a egg smuggler, I need to hear from you because I want to be your friend. If you are willing to take a truck and you are that bold to go down and smuggle truckloads worth of eggs and willing to go to jail for this, I like your gumption.
01:10:54
Speaker
I like your gusto. I want to be your friend. Please let me know. Holla at me in my DMs. I don't care if you're a guy or a girl. We can still be friends. Um... But that's crazy.
01:11:05
Speaker
No regular person should be doing that because, again, the math don't math. But even then, i mean, you got buy a lot of eggs and then hustle those eggs out just to make it make sense on the math. And then you're facing $300 fines as an individual, just in case.
01:11:19
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But anyways, the good news about that, in New York, wholesale egg prices have fallen 50% $4.08 a dozen after a record high eight dollars and fifty three cent in february Moving on, the federal judge has dismissed the bribery case for... was about to say the wrong thing, y'all, because I got some breaking news for you as well. Some breaking news for you.
01:11:54
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So what happened? Just today, New York City mayor...
Political Maneuvering and Legal Controversies
01:12:00
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Former Democrat now. was just announced a couple hours ago that Eric Adams is no longer a Democrat.
01:12:08
Speaker
All right. Like we didn't see that one coming. If you watch this show, I already done told you about this corruption ass case. What happened? There was a bribery case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
01:12:23
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which Eric Adams went down to Mar-a-Lago to meet President Trump. All of a sudden, the next week, the the federal charges are dismissed. You don't have to be, you could be a dummy and figure that out.
01:12:35
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I mean, you don't have to be smart to figure that out. yeah I could tell a baby that. I could tell a monkey that, and they'd be able to figure that shit out.
01:12:45
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Clearly, he went and and kissed the ring and begged for Trump to help him out. Trump had the judges throw out the case. Instead of throwing it out with prejudice, which would have allowed for future charges, they made the the DOJ argued the case was mo put politically motivated against Adams and hindered his ability to cooperate with the government's immigration procedures and dismissed it without prejudice, which means those charges can never be brought up again.
01:13:18
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They wanted Adams to go back to focusing on the city. So then today he comes out says he's no longer a Democrat. a My man, you are not slick at all, sucker.
01:13:32
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You are not slick. How do you think you're going to just get away with that with no one knowing what you're doing? I mean, obviously he's bold enough to not care. Obviously. But please don't come out on camera.
01:13:46
Speaker
Please don't come out on camera and use the blood of Jesus. Please don't. Please don't come out and blaspheme the name of of the great Lord Jesus. Don't do that.
01:13:57
Speaker
Don't do that. Because when you come out and say the blood of Jesus covered you, nah, man. Nah, man. You got yourself into trouble. And don't nobody think you didn't take a bribe because as I told it all earlier on this program, every politician is a crook.
01:14:13
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Every politician is a crook. They're all stealing money. They're all bribing, taking bribes.
01:14:24
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Look at clarence judge this ah ah Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court judge, taking all these lavish trips and cruises and things. Y'all got to think, man.
01:14:34
Speaker
We got to smarten up as a nation. Critical thinking is so important at this time. If not, we're going to turn into the movie Idiocracy.
01:14:45
Speaker
Have y'all seen the movie Idiocracy? one of my favorite movies. If you haven't seen Idiocracy with Luke with luke Wilson um and, oh, damn, em I'm blanking on her name. My bad, girl.
01:14:58
Speaker
I feel so bad. Someone help me out. What is her name? She's a famous ah black comedian, light skin, freckles.
01:15:09
Speaker
What is her name? She's in the movie Idiocracy with Luke Wilson. I feel so bad that I'm blanking on her because i love her so much. Someone help me on the chat. But anyways, if you haven't seen Idiocracy, go see it. It is what this world is headed to.
01:15:22
Speaker
The only smart parts of this world anymore are artificial intelligence, engineering, science, and other things like that. But if you look at the actual regular average Joe, average human being, not just in this nation, but largely in this nation, but more around the world too, because of the internet, because of solitude, because of all these other things that have made us more lazy, more ignorant, things like that.
01:15:49
Speaker
We're very fast turning into ah regressing into the planet of the apes. Let me just say that. Go watch Idiocracy, please. I beg you. if you If you are a fan of comedy, it is a great movie and it will show you where we're headed.
01:16:09
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as a nation with what's happening right now. So anyways, let's keep this moving. If you don't, oh, by the way, if you don't think that that, if you don't think that's a corruption case, you're out of your mind.
01:16:23
Speaker
All right, let's move this on. What we got here? 30 more minutes? Oh, that's easy. That's easy work. Get some water here. Thank you all for tuning in. Make sure you hit that like button. Again, I tell you all, it is free.
01:16:35
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Hit that like. Hit that heart. Hit that laugh. Hit that wow. It really helps us out in the algorithm. It's free to you, but it's so, so valuable to us. And there's a lot of people here at this network that I'm trying to get um amplified, and you would really help us out by liking, hitting that like button or whatever you can. Please smash that notification. Smash the subscribe button, as the kids say.
01:16:56
Speaker
All of that little bit really helps us out.
01:17:03
Speaker
Just to let everybody know, starting May 7th, there is the ah real ID that you're going to need. If you plan on flying, you are going to either need a real ID, which is the new IDs that they're giving out of DMVs and things like that, or a passport.
01:17:22
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All right? Maybe there's other things like, you know, people that are... diplomats and stuff, but these are the two main things that you may need as a consumer, as a regular average citizen.
01:17:33
Speaker
I have a passport. I'm good. um But if you do not, you're going to need this real ID. The problem is this starts next month and people forgot about it because it got delayed. And so now everyone is rushing the DMV.
01:17:48
Speaker
So if you thought the DMV was a hellhole beforehand, God bless, please schedule an appointment now because you may not get an appointment at all. You know what I mean?
01:17:59
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He may not get an appointment at all. Oh, yeah, about the eggs. You need to drive to NY. Yeah, okay, Mom. You just heard my math. Come on now. You know that's not going work. That's funny, though.
01:18:10
Speaker
So please make sure you schedule your DMV appointment now because if not, you're going to be real upset when you're sitting in the DMV for over 10 hours. It is so crazy that down in Miami, there are DMV scalpers, y'all.
01:18:25
Speaker
DMV scalpers like it's a damn Miami Heat game.
01:18:32
Speaker
There are people scalping places in line for the DMV. That means people are going to the DMV, standing in line, having some other sort of compatriot that can wait till they get close enough to the front or they've already sold it, pre-sold it.
01:18:49
Speaker
And now they're saving people's spots in line for money. Wowzers. So real ID coming up. You will need a bank statement and either a social security card, probably your old ID. Remember, you usually need two forms of ID in order to get these sort of documents.
01:19:08
Speaker
It will have a special symbol at the top, like a star or something else like that. But don't miss out because you're going to be hurting if you do. Let's end the United States news on a little bit. Oh, I'll.
01:19:20
Speaker
a little but First, before we get to the positive news, a couple more quick hitters here. President Trump announced a $20 billion dollars contract with Boeing for a new F-47 fighter jet. As well, the IRS is nearing an agreement to verify whether ICE officials have correct address...
01:19:39
Speaker
is addresses for any people that are expected to be deported. And lastly, U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigned after five years in this role.
01:19:52
Speaker
To you, sir, I say good to hell riddance. Wowzers, that guy was horrible. If you want to talk about some people that are really bad at their job, i don't even mind Linda McMahon as the education secretary.
01:20:07
Speaker
Fine. The one before her, I forgot her damn name. ah She was so bad I put her out of my mind. The education secretary before Linda McMahon, the last one from the Trump administration.
01:20:20
Speaker
He was horrid. And also Postmaster Louis DeJoy. He completely dismantled the U.S. Postal Service. It is a a she shambles of what it used to be, and it's never going to be that again.
01:20:34
Speaker
They're actually talking about privatizing now the United States Postal Service. So look for higher prices in your postal services in the future as these companies are going to start charging more now that the USPS will go private.
01:20:48
Speaker
right. Then now before we get you into a couple bits of world news to end and a little bit of sports news to end the program, a little bit of... We're going to we're goingnna start doing a segment here on this show called The Wackiest News in Donald Trump Land, or we should President Donald Trump Land.
01:21:10
Speaker
So President Donald Trump has gone on ah to tell associates... that he believes he can run for a third term.
01:21:27
Speaker
I just don't... You know, when before I started, before I was a media member, before I started doing journalism, before I started doing live TV, before I started coming on here with you beautiful people that listen to me for my goodness that I bring to you and my beautiful face...
01:21:42
Speaker
I always saw all the people on TV, you know, and they would be like, oh, man, the stories write themselves with Donald Trump. there she's like He's always going to give you something, whether positive, negative or otherwise.
01:21:54
Speaker
The stories write themselves. The jokes write themselves. All these sort of things. And I was always like, OK, I get it, but it can't be really like that. I can tell you in the past six months that I have been doing this program, there have not been any less than three Donald Trump stories per episode.
01:22:15
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And I only do the U.S. news as one segment. It usually takes up 80% of my U.S. news segment. So we're going to start doing the wackiest President Donald Trump news story of the week.
01:22:28
Speaker
And the wackiest news story of this week is that he wants to run for a third term.
01:22:36
Speaker
Sir, with all due respect that you are deserved that you do deserve as the president of this wonderful nation, as a veteran, I respect you your position of power. how this works.
01:22:56
Speaker
There was a 1951 law put in place to prevent this from happening. Just like there should be term limits for Supreme court Court judges and senators and House members and all of the rest of them, just like there should be term limits, there should be president term limits.
Historical Reflections and Racial Inequality
01:23:17
Speaker
That's why they instituted it. And no one else. tried to fight this until you came along and your attorney apparently, and you had a conversation about this. And maybe if it's a second, and second, non-consecutive term that may be blah.
01:23:34
Speaker
No. Sir, please, with all due respect, serve out your last term. You're going to be 82 damn years old. You're going to be the age Joe Biden was. Your faculties are not going to be there.
01:23:46
Speaker
All right. I mean, yes, you're a little better off than Biden was at this point. But if we really expect anyone really after 80 to be in the position to be able to be the president of the United States, we are all tripping and we need to check ourselves.
01:24:03
Speaker
No one over 70, I've said this, should even be a politician. No senators. No, no. I don't want Mitch McConnell's and Chuck Schumer's. No.
01:24:15
Speaker
Why do we have people that are at such an age that they lived in a world that was before what the United States is now?
01:24:28
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They were born in a whole different world. They were born before civil rights.
01:24:36
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They were born when it was... Oh, by the way, y'all, if you ever go to Memphis, I know I keep going back to Memphis. I went to the Civil Rights Museum when I was in Memphis. And boy, oh boy, i cannot tell you how surreal and how humbling it was.
01:24:52
Speaker
You got to see a fast mile of the bus that Rosa Parks sat on. You got to see a fast mile of the bus that the Freedom Riders got got burned in. You got to see...
01:25:04
Speaker
The Selma riots. You got to see John Lewis and the beatings he took walking across the bridge. You see all of these things and you're just like, I can't believe at one point in time in this great nation of ours now, obviously not at that time it wasn't, that there was a time where people were treated as subhuman. And it's not like I didn't know all of this. I obviously know very much about it. The majority of my friends are black.
01:25:33
Speaker
But to actually go into the actual Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and see the room he was shot in, to know that all of these things, to see the the demonstration of the Nashville sit-in, which by the way, shout out and salute to one of my best friends in the world.
01:25:56
Speaker
I'm going to put her her government out here. I'm not going you her last name, but Katie. I love you very much, darling. She set up a sit in for us after the George Floyd protests for us to go protest a restaurant that was for refusing or ah treating black and brown people bad after that incident happened and had bad things to say in the press.
01:26:18
Speaker
This amazing woman who is a teacher of our youth, and I am so proud of her, scheduled for us to do a sit-in la the Nashville sit-ins from 1913, 1953, something like that.
01:26:33
Speaker
Anyways, and if that as well was a surreal moment that really brought into perspective how there's still not equality in this country. I don't care what you say.
01:26:46
Speaker
i don't care what you think. It's not true. There is not a equality in this country at this point in time. There's not. Are we getting better?
01:26:57
Speaker
Yes. Are we progressing to a more, ah I don't even want to use the word inclusive. um might get canceled by Donald Trump for for saying inclusive because thinks I'm talking DEI. I'm not.
01:27:09
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I'm just talking about people being treated as human beings and not being treated as less than, not being treated as two-thirds of a human.
01:27:18
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I saw the replica of the slave ships that came across with the people having to hover three feet like this. I'm so glad that we are progressing. I'm so glad that we're getting better from that part of our horrid history and time.
01:27:35
Speaker
But that doesn't mean we have equality in this country. Y'all, whether you're black, white, brown, blue, yellow, orange, purple, green, otherwise,
01:27:48
Speaker
you have to understand the disparities that still exist in this country. And whether you actually want to say it out loud and admit that it's true, there's still an imbalance of equality, an imbalance of justice, an imbalance of power.
01:28:07
Speaker
If I, as a person, with as a man with the name Omar Fonseca, Omar, a Middle Eastern name, a very brown name. People call me a terrorist. And yes, it happens all the time still.
01:28:22
Speaker
My last name, Fonseca. Of some sorts. Ah, where is he from? If I was to apply for a job today with my name, with my with my name, I always would apply to a job with my name.
01:28:34
Speaker
But you also had John Johnson or John Doe.
01:28:42
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There is a very more likely high percentage that John Stevenson, John Johnson, is going to get an interview over me. Now, we may still get both get the interview, but then there will also be a likely higher percentage that he would be hired than me.
01:29:01
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Because believe it or not, y'all, inherent biases exist in this society. You may not be a racist.
01:29:12
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You may not even be a stereotypist.
01:29:17
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But we all have biases. We all stereotype from time to time. Even I, I am not above that. But when you do it to the extent where you become racist or where you become disparaging or enact a discrepancy against a different race or religion because you think you're superior, that's what causes these imbalances.
01:29:42
Speaker
That's what causes this injustice and equalities that happen, not just in hiring. Y'all, we can go back to redlining back in the 19-teens, in the 1920s.
01:29:55
Speaker
Why do you think, and I'm about to learn y'all and hit y'all with some real shit if you didn't know this already. Why do y'all think that cities, inner cities, and outer suburbs are divided by highways?
01:30:11
Speaker
Anybody got an answer for me? I feel like I'm back at Vanderbilt teaching class again. i feel like I'm teaching my Vanderbilt digital marketing class. Shout out to all my students out there if you're watching.
01:30:23
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I appreciate y'all tuning in.
01:30:26
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Do all know what that...
01:30:30
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Do you understand that?
01:30:34
Speaker
Do you understand that when you... Even in schooling, even in hiring, even in in all of these things, even in the places we live, y'all...
01:30:48
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If you didn't know, redlining is the process of redistricting and separating the affluent,
01:31:02
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hint, hint, Caucasian mostly, versus non-affluent, poor, aka mostly black and brown people,
01:31:19
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There was a reason that highways cut through the city and separated.
01:31:27
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They needed a barrier to keep the poor people from the richer areas. We got to think, y'all. Critical thinking. Do research.
01:31:38
Speaker
Go back and read history. And so what do you think that does? What do you think are the waterfall effects of something like that? That's where systematic oppression comes into play.
01:31:51
Speaker
First it starts with redlining. Highways separating inner city from outer suburbs. Black and brown from white. Then, what about gerrymandering?
01:32:04
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Politicians but separating countries between their constituents. Between conservatives and liberals. AKA again, mostly Caucasian or mostly brown and black, right?
01:32:18
Speaker
if you're looking at the composition of parties.
01:32:24
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So when you look at these things, y'all, you might not believe it, especially if you live in the outer suburbs or if you're a rich person. And if you are listening to me right now, I really appreciate you taking the time to learn.
01:32:38
Speaker
I really do. I love people that want to learn. i don't think you're a bad person because you don't know this. I think you're a good person for wanting to know this. But there's a reason that highways separate the inner city and the outer city. There's a reason why clusters of people are usually Caucasian clustered, brown clustered, black clustered, Asian clustered, right?
01:32:59
Speaker
It's because not only because people definitely want to stick together with their kind, sure. but also because the kinds created to be that way. And the people in power created it to be that way. And the people that were in power for that whole time, because before civil rights, no one else really had any freedom or power.
01:33:20
Speaker
It was all Caucasian people. So when you have the Caucasian side of the population deciding things for 50 to 100 years and separating themselves from the rest of the population in order to keep what some people call white nationalism, what some people still call white segregation, I won't call it that, but I will call it Keeping to yourself.
01:33:47
Speaker
I will call it wanting to be your kind. But the problem was at the time, the only people who could make those decisions were the white people. So it just just looks like the white people didn't want to be around any black, brown, or otherwise.
01:33:59
Speaker
It is. It is he couldn't be anything else. There's no other logical reason. Because if you don't have enough money, you can't move into those neighborhoods. If you're lucky enough as a black and brown person, you may be able to own a home in that neighborhood.
01:34:12
Speaker
And then you possibly still be. despair is dawn. People will still look at you as, oh, where's this person come from? The only black or brown person in majorhood. Maybe they're going to rob our stuff. It happens, y'all. There are inherent biases and stereotypes. I'm not saying it's you, but if you feel some type of way about what I'm saying right now, you better go check yourself in the mirror.
01:34:35
Speaker
Check yourself before you wreck yourself, as the great Wu-Tang Clan once said. So redlining, gerrymandering, all of these things lead to systematic oppression and then discrepancies because, yeah, for that long period of time, Caucasian people were paid more, did get better education.
01:34:54
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When I was in the Civil Rights um Museum, all that's what I should have done. I'm going to do this next week. I'm going to put a picture up. But and I took a picture from the Civil Rights Museum that had the discrepancies before set before segregation before segregation was taken out.
01:35:08
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um They had the differences between white schools and and and minority schools and how much teachers were paid and books. and It was all basically double and above that white schools were getting over the minority schools.
01:35:22
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All these things make a difference. When you have really nice books versus really shitty books, it makes ah it makes a lot easier to learn. And you don't get as depressed and not want to learn because you're in a classroom with no heating and no air conditioning and horrible books and no lunch.
01:35:41
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And no one wants to give you free lunch because you're in the hood and they think that you're trying to eat off society, even though most of the people that are on food stamps, by the way, are Caucasian and live in Republican areas.
Audience Interaction and Global Conflicts
01:35:55
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And again, I do not like either party. So don't think if you're just showing up, I see some people coming in. You might think I'm either. I do not like Democrat or Republican. We're keeping this neutral in this program. What I am saying, though, is that when you look at these sort of things, that's what comes out of this.
01:36:15
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A discrepancy. And minorities, black and brown people, are still trying to catch up from those discrepancies. So again, I don't need you to necessarily tell me you're not a yeah you're you're not a racist. I believe you're not a racist.
01:36:29
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I have biases. I have stereotypes. I just want you to be kind to your fellow man and understand that there is still a discrepancy. There is still an imbalance between the Caucasian and the any other minority in this country.
01:36:45
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It just is what it is. It is completely right there in any normal person. can you could eat You could be a monkey. You could be a child and understand that. I hope I learned you some things there. I'm to have to clip that because that was cooking.
01:37:01
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So I hope you all learned some things there. But yeah, man, you just got to look deeper into these things. These things cause issues. Remember, everything has a ripple effect, a butterfly effect. Anything you do is either going that shit's going to roll downhill or uphill.
01:37:17
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For the United States being the world power, shit rolls uphill. for the poor For the poor person in the hood or the homeless person that no one cares about, shit rolls downhill.
01:37:30
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And we gonna keep rolling downhill with a couple more segments before we get you out of here today. Again, please make sure you subscribe to Bowling Buds, B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S.
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01:38:21
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World news. Yes, wow. Not too much world news as it was United States news here, but I obviously have to update you. On Russia, Ukraine, as well as Israel and Gaza, as we are want to do on this program. So what's happening in Russia and Ukraine? Russia has now...
01:38:42
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re I don't even want to say retaken or acquired because it's not. It's a war that they started, by the way. Don't let anybody tell you anything different. Russia started this war 10 damn years ago and it continues it.
01:38:54
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Russia stole the border province of Kursk in Ukraine, which if you remember from this program, I've been telling you over the past month. that Kursk is a very important position in Ukraine for even for both sides because it's right there on the border and it's an important land mass for minerals and other things. So both sides really want that portion of land.
01:39:21
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um You got to remember, it's an estimated 40% of u k' Ukraine's mineral resources are inaccessible right now because they're occupied by what by the Russia invasion. go We'll keep you updated on that. The U.S. has agreed to resume military aid and intelligence to Ukraine after they agreed to talk more on ah on a ceasefire after that huge blow up in Washington last month that we saw between President Donald Trump, ah Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
01:39:53
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So, as always, we'll keep you updated on the ceasefire. As of now, it is on very... Very rocky ground. um And so is this other one.
01:40:05
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Another one on rocky ground is Israel and Hamas. What happened here? Israel has now, the military has ordered the evacuation of the Gaza southern border city of Rafa as it seeks to reoccupy 25% that enclave.
01:40:25
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of that enclave Basically, what happens was the Israelites believe that Hamas, the terrorist group, did not properly meet their end of the bargain in returning i Israeli hostages in good condition. some but way If you remember last week, I told you all some hostages came back dead.
01:40:46
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These Israelis did not like that at all. So the ceasefire basically there is basically shot. And I told you all not to forget about that because this war has been going on for so long.
01:40:57
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These ceasefires always usually fail. I don't, it's sad to say,
01:41:04
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and don't know if we'll ever get peace. in that portion. I know people say peace in the Middle East, but mostly even that portion. Like I know a lot of the Middle East has ah has ah has a real difficult time going on.
01:41:18
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Whether that's to their own doing or not is not what we're talking about here. I'm just saying, again, y'all, what did I just say? if you're the United States, it rolls uphill.
01:41:36
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If Russia eu trace so acquire or steals the border province of Kursk from Ukraine, what does that do? Let me give you a little butterfly effect from what happens there.
01:41:49
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If Russia were to keep that province, first of all, they'd have one of the most valuable pieces of land to come out of this war, which Ukraine wouldn't be able to get back, with a majority of the minerals that, hey,
01:42:01
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We want it in a deal. How are we going to get Ukraine to give us 50% of their minerals when Russia owns 40% of it? The math ain't math, and again, y'all.
01:42:16
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So that hurts us. If Israel... orders the evacuation of any part of Gaza, due to the Hamas terrorist group doing something, we have to back Israel.
01:42:31
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Which, yes, we want to defeat all the terrorist groups. Agree completely. But that still comes back on us. If something happens in Iraq or any other place, Afghanistan, you saw what happened with that war.
01:42:46
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The shit rolls up hell. You want to know even further how much it gets bad? You want to know even further?
01:42:59
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i don't think you're ready. Because you probably don't, you pray and now i don't I don't blame anybody. You probably got to be pretty much in the know to know this story yet because it's not in the mainstream media.
01:43:12
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But there were three U.S. Army soldiers, may they rest in power, found dead in Lithuania after their armored vehicle sank in a bog during a training activity.
01:43:24
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My prayers and deepest condolences to their families and salute to those that lost their lives, our precious soldiers.
01:43:33
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But they wouldn't be there if we weren't the United States. They wouldn't be there if we weren't the powers of the world. My best friends wouldn't have to have gotten deployed. My mom wouldn't have gotten had to gotten and deployed.
01:43:47
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A lot of things wouldn't have to happen if we weren't the United States, but we are.
01:43:55
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Shit rolls up hill when you are the United States of America. And soldiers lose their lives, unfortunately, because of that.
International Relations and Health Concerns
01:44:06
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Got to think, y'all. Got to think. Rest in power to those soldiers. i hope they i hope that they find the fourth. Prayers to the families.
01:44:17
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Moving on into other news in the world. um New Canadian Prime Minister... Mark Carney has called for new parliamentary elections to take place on April 28th.
01:44:30
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A vote was originally scheduled for October, but he wants to move it faster so they can replace outgoing ah Prime Minister Justin truaut Trudeau. The Conservative Party in Canada is replacing the Liberal Party, just as Donald Trump wants to make Canada the 51st state.
01:44:49
Speaker
I mean, if the Conservative Party in Canada actually gets power, it could make it a little more likely. I still don't think it would ever be possible because I know the majority of Canadians, I believe the last survey was like 70% or 80% of Canadians don't want anything to do with the United States, much less becoming a state.
01:45:10
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Why would they want to do that when they have their own independence? They're not going to become richer because of us. They're already pretty well off in Canada. They don't need us. but Okay?
01:45:21
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I love the United States. Yes, we are more powerful, but they don't they don't need us. Greenland. Greenland don't need us either. Although Greenland is more likely to be occupied by the United States or at least acquired because of the fact that a little more, probably like 40% of people in Greenland are actually open to being a territory of the United States, which I guess because currently they're owned by Denmark.
01:45:50
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And i I think Denmark is not that much. They're in some of the richest country in the world. So I don't know why you would want to leave from Denmark. It's not like they're a poor country.
01:46:01
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But anyways, it is a little more possible. I still don't think it's possible. And it's definitely not going to happen militarily. Because again, sir, you cannot just go out and conquer the world like it's damn risk.
01:46:14
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It's not a board game. There are rules, international law, that prevent this sort of thing. You can't just use military to take over other countries. I can't believe I have to say that out loud.
01:46:26
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In Turkey, court arrests and orders the jailing of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the former president, the former president rather or no, sorry, current president, Recep Tayyip Ergadon's rival, pending the outcome of the trial.
01:46:46
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um So we'll see what happens there. You'll remember we talked about that, and the reason updating you, if you haven't watched this program, is we talked about when the former Turkish president escaped the rebel group and fled to Russia under protection of Vladimir Putin.
01:47:04
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Now the rebels are trying to hold off the group that was kind of previously in power for elections. ah What else we got here? UK officials report the first world's known case of H5N1.
01:47:21
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What is that? The bird flu. That's what that is colloquially known as. Bird flu. h n one or H5N1 in this case. But what is the issue here, y'all?
01:47:34
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The issue is that this strain was found in sheep. It was found in the sheep. First known sheep to capture the bird flu.
01:47:45
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Now, while risk to the general public remains low at this point, please y'all be careful, especially if you're a farmer or work in farm areas or rural areas.
01:47:57
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Any animal at this point in time could have contracted the avian flu as there is very known risk of That sort of transmission.
01:48:09
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And I forget what they call it. What do they call that? Zoonotic. Zoonotic transmission, which is and just is a fancy name for animal-to-animal transmission. Cool.
01:48:20
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All right. Damn, I am learning y'all some... Man, I really... I'm learning y'all some things today. I am very much so learning y'all some things. open We're not there yet. You get out of the way.
01:48:33
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So anyways, moving on at, this is a big one. Y'all has anyone done 23 and me hit me in the chat. If you have done 23 and me hit that like button.
01:48:45
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If you've sent in your DNA to the 23 and me or incestry.com or any of the likes, Has anyone done that? I thought about it at one point in time.
01:48:58
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But then i i'm too I'm too secure with my data as is to want to give my dna DNA away like that. The government already has my DNA for being in the military. I don't think I need civilian companies having it as well. But has anybody used this? 23andMe. Anybody use 23andMe?
01:49:17
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anybody use twenty three and me
01:49:21
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All right. Well, if you have, I see a couple like, kid me a hit me on that like button. Yeah, actually hit the wow button. So I know that you've used it. Anyways, 23andMe is filing for bankruptcy after it lost 99% of its value since peaking at $6 billion dollars and is basically $6.
01:49:42
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worthless at this point in time. Its market cap now hovers around $20 million. dollars The company claims to have $100 to $500 million dollars in assets, but also the same amount in debt.
01:49:54
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So what happened to this unicorn company that took over during the time of COVID? Well, that's what happened. Boredom. boredom happened and all y'all decided you wanted to spit or swab your mouth or pee in a cup or do whatever and send it to these companies.
01:50:12
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Now these companies got all your information, all your DNA, all the life that they got, right? So now,
01:50:25
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23andMe has launched for the first time that DNA Ancestry Kit. Now they're going bankrupt. So what's going to happen to your information? Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
01:50:36
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Uh-oh. end up in the hands of some random private company that buys it. So now if you set your DNA into 23andMe, it's going end up in some random company. So right now, if you submitted your DNA to 23andMe right now, right now in my Ric Flair, that's a horrible Ric Flair impression, right now, I need you to go to your profile and absolutely delete everything.
01:51:08
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Delete everything.
01:51:11
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Because if not, your DNA is going end up not only with that private company, but then wherever else they sell it to. So if you were 23andMe, you better jump on your laptop, your mobile device right to hell now.
01:51:26
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Right now. And delete everything. Everything. Delete your whole account. Make sure they get rid of everything. Tell them. Email them. Get rid of my DNA. Okay.
01:51:38
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They struggled. They had a business model that wasn't going to work. Single test kits and a subscription service. Why would I want to subscribe when you already told me what I am? only needed that once.
01:51:51
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It was never
Sports Highlights and Achievements
01:51:52
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going to work. It it only happened because it COVID because people were bored sitting at home wanting to know where the hell they came from. I need to know that bad. I can tell you that much, but I can tell you one thing.
01:52:03
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About 7 million people were affected in 2023 to a data breach they had, and that was only half. That means that 14 million people have given their DNA to 23andMe.
01:52:14
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That means that 14 million people, whoever does not delete their account, is about to have their information given to some random companies all over the world.
01:52:24
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Better don't.
01:52:27
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Better don't, as my boy D-Club Z-Ridge would say, D-Cleazy. Better don't. You better get your stuff together and go delete that account. Let's keep it moving.
01:52:40
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Let's keep it moving. Craziness in the world today, y'all. Hit that like button. Thank you. Hit that like button. see a couple of y'all. Hit that hit that like button, please. um I don't know what that means, producer. I don't know what no means.
01:52:52
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That could mean no, you can't hear me. That could mean no to my last story. That could mean no, you didn't submit to 23andMe. I know you wouldn't. ah you We're not going to say that, but I know you wouldn't.
01:53:05
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I know you would not do that. We are one and the same. All right, moving on, y'all. Like I said, please go check out the bottom line sports from yesterday. We had an amazing episode, what could have been one of the best episodes ever, if not the best. We had a special guest from IOW Sports Wildcard, Mar on.
01:53:23
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Canteen, Hot Take Jake, Wild Car Mar, and yours truly, the sports professor, the professor, street professor. We went all out for three hours on sports. We ranged every single sport from golf to tennis to baseball to hockey to football to basketball. We ranged everything from Michael Jordan and LeBron James to Stephen A. Smith and LeBron James. We went all the way from oh Alex Ovechkin and the Great Chase, right? Oh, no, we didn't do that on there. Malcom Mar did that on his program last night.
01:53:58
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Go check that out because we're about to give you the update here as we are want to do weekly because you know we got to keep you updated on the Alex Ovechkin watch on this show here, the Professional Seminal Mente, which just means weekly.
01:54:11
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What happened, y'all? Alex Ovechkin scored three goals over the weekend. What? Yes. who yes Alex over the weekend.
01:54:25
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has scored three more goals over the weekend to bring him to within. Somebody give me a drum roll. a Three goals.
01:54:36
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He is now three goals away from breaking the great one, Wayne Gretzky's record of 895 goals scored in the NHL. amazing Alex Ovechkin, as I like to say, is like LeBron James.
01:54:51
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He has the 20-year longevity, and he is the most immaculate ah one of the most immaculate scorers, just like LeBron can still score. And I'm a LeBron hater. That comes from me. Both legends.
01:55:04
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Both the same. Alex Ovechkin, salute. He is going to break the record this year. I feel it. He missed five weeks in the season and should have never even been this close.
01:55:18
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He was even projected at the beginning of the season to barely possibly break it or even not. And that was without a five-week injury. That's how prolific a scorer this guy is.
01:55:28
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Alex Ovechkin. He is going to break the record. He has seven games to go, three goals to break it. I know a lot of people want the storyline. of him breaking in Pittsburgh ah versus the Penguins and Sidney Crosby, since that's their arch rival. And I know Mars so astutely pointed out that that that last night and that that would actually be a fun thing to see. Sure.
01:55:55
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But the problem therein lies that if that were to happen, not that he would do that on purpose, he wouldn't purposely wait till the last game. That wouldn't be smart. ah But if it were just to happen, great.
01:56:08
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But to actually wait for that to happen and try to make that happen, that's not smart because then if he doesn't break it, he has to wait a whole season until next year to break it. that would not be.
01:56:21
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a good idea. I am predicting now Alex Ovechkin will break the record of the great one Wayne Gretzky on Sunday, April the 6th when the Washington Capitals go into the New York Islanders.
01:56:41
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Yes, that is where he will break the record. it is coming from the Professor Damis here, Nostra Professor Damis here. That is my astute...
01:56:53
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prediction for Alex Ovechkin. But I would like to say, even though I am from D.C., even though I love Ovechkin because I've watched him my whole life, um I am a Wayne Gretzky fan.
01:57:06
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He was what brought me into hockey. When I was a Raiders fan and I was young and he went to L.A. and became a king, he made me a hockey fan. I became a Kings fan. I loved watching Wayne Gretzky.
01:57:19
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um He is the greatest player ever. Salute to Alex Ovechkin if he breaks this record. Salute to everybody in D.C. for being happy about this. But all I can tell you right now is that Alex Ovechkin is not the greatest of all time.
01:57:37
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Gordie Howe is not the greatest of all time. Mario Lemieux is not the greatest of all time. There is only one great of all time.
01:57:48
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His name is Wayne Ovechkin. The great one, Gretzky. I should have got his middle name for that. That would have sounded better. But anyways, you get to just, why do I say this?
01:57:59
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You say, hey, Omar, wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Back it up. Back it up. Why is it? Why is it that Alex Ovechkin is not considered the greatest if he's passing the goal record of the greatest ever played?
01:58:14
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Such a smart question from you, fan. Remember, I love your heart and I want you to learn. Let me hit you with some knowledge here. There's a great stat that proves and ends any hockey NHL GOAT debate.
01:58:29
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There is no Michael Jordan, LeBron James even close to, which isn't close either in my eyes. But in some people's eyes, they consider LeBron to be a little closer. I do not. Michael Jordan is the all-time GOAT in basketball. But in hockey, there's not even a question.
01:58:43
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Let me hit you with this stat, y'all, the professor stat here. Wayne Gretzky. has more assists. Assists for anybody who doesn't watch sports is when you pass the puck to another player who they get to score.
01:58:58
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Wayne Grisky has more total assists in his career than any player ever.
01:59:06
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Has points and assists. Let me repeat that again for the people in the back that ain't listening. Wayne the Great One Gresky.
01:59:19
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Woo!
01:59:22
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Has more assists, passes to other people to score. Then any other player has goals where they score or passes an assist where other people that they pass to score.
01:59:39
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So you can take the greatest players, neovechkins the Ovechkins, the Hulls, the Howes, the Lemus, the Crosbys, anyone, anyone. You can take all the legends you want.
01:59:52
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Line them all up. Line them up. Line all the legends up. And I want you to put all their total goals they scored. And I want you to put all their total assists up there.
02:00:03
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And I want you to add all them. I want you to add them up. Just add them nicely with the math that I taught you today. And I want you to go over and Google Wayne Gretzky. Maybe check his Wikipedia.
02:00:15
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And i want you to see how many assists, not goals, because Wayne Gretzky is still the goal-scoring record champion until Alex Vetschian breaks it.
02:00:25
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But not only does Wayne Gretzky have more goals than Alex Vetschian for the time being, His assists outnumber Alex Ovechkin's goals and assists.
Personal Aspirations and Social Commentary
02:00:37
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Nothing else you can say. Get out of here. There is no argument whatsoever. Rick, let me win a little woo for the great one. And now, you and I are limited to the right.
02:00:51
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Just fine. You're stealing. We're a dealer. Son of gun. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. Cause that's the bottom line!
02:01:02
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The Skull Goal Sipser!
02:01:07
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that's the bottom line, because the professor has spoken. Shout out to Stone Cold, my brother. Let's steve let's drink a Steve Weiser soon. I would love to get together and talk some with you on the Broken Skull if you want to holla at me. It doesn't have to be there. We just meet at a random dive bar, and that's fine.
02:01:23
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Anyways, what a great segue. The bottom line sports last night had our Final Four preview of Wild Car Mar. I'm not going through all that again. Please go back and watch the episode because that's going too much for me to do.
02:01:36
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But I do want to let you know my picks for the Final Four that's coming up this weekend. First of all, chalk across the board. What does that mean for you non-sports fans? That means that seven out of the eight teams that are in the final tournament were all number one seeds, which means they were the best seeds in their bracket. Only one team, number two women, UConn, the great UConn, made it.
02:01:59
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And that's only because they beat number one FUSC Trojan condoms. And it's only because Juju Watkins got hurt. Again, prayers up to Juju Watkins for getting hurt. But a blessing for her, even though she tore her ACL, which I know how bad that is and I'm praying for you, sweetheart.
02:02:14
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She won the National Player of the Year this year. So salute to Juju Watkins. I'm a homer. I think it should have been Lauren Betts from UCLA, but Juju Watts a killer and amazing player, and I'm so happy for her that you know now that she tore her ACL, she can at least have some some recompense, some good feeling due to the fact that she's been named the National Player of the Year.
02:02:40
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um That being said, who is going to win it all? First of all, in the men's division at the beginning, and I'm still good in one of my brackets, I chose the Houston Cougars to beat the Auburn Tigers, so I am staying with my picks since they are both still alive.
02:02:56
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I believe that Kelvin Sampson, the coach of Houston, who still has not been able to get over the hump, I believe, Him and his senior-laden team, very experienced, will be able to get over the hump.
02:03:07
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Even though Auburn has Johnny Broome, ah joni bo who's ah going to be the National College Player of the Year and hopefully drafted by my Celtics, I still think Houston wins that game.
02:03:18
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Hold on one second. While I get into my attire, it will be Yeah. Eight clap. yeah andla
02:03:30
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. UCLA. UCLA. Fight, fight, fight. Yes, my UCLA Bruins. you see l a fight fight fight yes my uc a bruins The women making their first ever NCAA Final Four appearance. as They're going for their first national championship. The last time they played in the Final Four was in 1979.
02:03:55
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I believe at that time, the great Cheryl Miller, Reggie Miller's sister, was still playing at USC, probably beating us down for it. ah Yeah, 1982, usually Reggie Miller was UCLA. Shout out to her, Reggie Miller.
02:04:11
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Anyways, so what happened here? Corey Close has been named the National Coach of the Year on the women's side. Shout out to our coach, Corey Close. She's been there at UCLA now for...
02:04:22
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Damn, like 13 years, I believe she's been there now, 13 or 14. Anyways, she put together a really good program this year. They were number one in many categories within the Big Ten.
02:04:36
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They also beat the aforementioned USC, FUSC in the Big Ten tournament. So shout out to my Bruins. If you have not seen the limerick, it is tremendous. So back on St. Patrick's Day, I created a limerick for the women's team for the UCLA Bruins, and I put that limerick up as a short on both YouTube and Instagram. So if you're following us at Ball and Buds, B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S,
02:05:03
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either on YouTube or Instagram, go check out that short. It's only a minute long, and I created a whole limerick that I wrote myself to honor the Bruin women, and I think it's pretty damn awesome and hilarious.
02:05:16
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Anyways, moving on, shout out to aforementioned Lauren Betts. She was named the National Defensive World player of the year because like I said, she was the best post player in the country, dominating everybody. She's just been going off. So shout out to her.
02:05:36
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ah for anchoring this number one us USC team, averaging 20 points, 10 rebounds, and three blocks a game. Simply amazing. One more point of news on the NCAA before we get out of here, after a little bit of NFL world changes at and MLB. Olivia Miles.
02:05:55
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playing for Notre Dame, one of the best women player in the country, has decided to transfer. What? Yes, a massive transfer migration happening at Notre Dame.
02:06:10
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Holy cannoli. Oh, excuse me, I need more water. Holy cannolis. They've had three out of their five starters leave the program, including Olivia Miles, their best player,
02:06:27
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Now, what happened here was Olivia Miles had a choice. She could go to the WNBA. But as we all know nowadays with the NIL deal, players can make a lot more money in college than they can in the WNBA. Maybe not the NBA.
02:06:48
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With Cooper Flagg, this is less of an issue that with because he's the number one pick at Duke. He's going to make so much money in the NBA. He should start that clock now. WNBA is a lot different.
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They don't make as much money. A lot of them have to go overseas to play. Remember the Brittany Griner horrible situation to happen. We don't ever want that to happen. Women should not have to leave the United States to play basketball. Your superstar athletes should be able to be paid enough that they shouldn't have to go play in unrivaled and other leagues.
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So that's the first problem here. But the other problem is that
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You prevent people from coming into your league at all when you don't pay enough. And I've been lamenting the WNBA for their pay structure for a long time. Even their best players are only making a million, 1.5, you know, something like that.
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It's probably gone up since I last checked a couple of years ago. But you get my gist. So why would Olivia Miles, who can probably go to LSU, ah you South Carolina, is trying to recruit her, where she can make three, four, five million dollars in an IL versus making minimum WNBA salary is I believe.
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so you're telling me i can stay in college Which, by the way, you've never been to college, amazing. Some of the best formative years of your life. Not only will you learn a lot, but you're going to have a great time and make new friends.
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ah She can stay in college, have an amazing fun time, still be a kid, and and make three to five times the amount. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
02:08:30
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Seems like a no-brainer. For but other people, maybe not Juju Watkins, because by the time her injury is done, she might actually be at that point. Because in the WNBA, you have to be, believe, 22 or you have to be in for three years before you can, something like that.
02:08:46
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I think it's 22 years old or four years. In the NBA, you can come out, obviously, after one year. So there's a big discrepancy there. So we'll see what happens with that in March Madness and how the n NIL actually affects all these things.
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But only power four teams, um only a few power four teams can actually qualify for the Sweet 16, as we remember. ah Actually, two, because 14 out of the 16 were from Power 5 conferences. So what that means is that 14 out of the 16 teams that made the Sweet 16 for the men's Final Four basketball came from the biggest schools, came from those schools with the most money, came from the schools with the biggest conferences, came from the schools that are the most watched on TV.
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If you remember last week, I told you nine out of those 16 teams were the ones with the highest ratings on TV this year.
02:09:43
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Money speaks. Money talks. Power walks. Cash rules everything around me. Cream, get the money.
02:09:54
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Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Shout out again to the Wu-Tang Clan. My favorite hip-hop group of all time.
02:10:05
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But that's how the world works.
02:10:08
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If you're poor, I am so sorry. I hope you become rich. Because there's no way most people are going to be able to live the life that they want to live in this world without being wealthy enough.
02:10:24
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Most people in this world would love to go travel the world, own boat, own a Porsche. i'm saying Send your kids to the best school.
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majority of the people in the world will never be able to do that. And it's sad. Because money isn't real, y'all. Money is fake. They print that shit.
02:10:46
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they They print that like we like we got water coming out the faucet. If you think you can't have it, you can.
02:10:55
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I've been manifesting more and more money into my life over the past few years, and I am blessed. Thank God I'm blessed and at a good position right now, but I ain't done. i need more. I need more money.
02:11:07
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Not because I'm greedy. Not because I want it for myself. I actually want it because I want to help the homeless people. Because that's my biggest thing. And I want to help my family and friends. But yeah, i want to I want to travel the world.
02:11:20
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I want to eat good. I want to drink the finest of the bourbons and eat the finest of the steak. I mean, I might only do it once in a blue moon because I would feel bad. This is how I am.
02:11:33
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i would think about the homeless people while i was eating it. That's don't usually go out and spend money on myself that often. But if I was rich, at least I could spend some more money on myself. And I will be rich soon enough.
02:11:44
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We're manifesting it. Everybody put that in your mind. Omar will be rich and he will come back for you. I promise. Come back for all of you. I couldn't ever buy a check. I'm like, Oprah, I'll come back when I'm rich. I'm handing everybody $10,000 checks.
02:11:59
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Hold me to it. Hold me to it. Somebody clip that. I promise you. If you're watching right now, when I'm rich, you come back to me and say, Omar, I remember that one time you said you was going hand out $10,000 checks.
02:12:11
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Come find me. I will write you a $10,000 check on the spot. I mean, I don't believe that people use checks anymore. I will use my black card at that time. How about that? Because I'll have one of them.
02:12:24
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That's only for the rich of the rich. Like I say, y'all, be lucky or be dusty or get lucky or be dusty. And I'm getting lucky and the rest of y'all be dusty.
02:12:36
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And that's why I'll be sitting courtside. And that's why y'all be having to sit in the nosebleeds. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that. It's okay. We all got to know our role in life.
02:12:49
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i'm just I'm just joking. I'm completely joking. I'm praying for all of you. I hope all of y'all are rich as well. You know, i'd just be messing around. I like to joke around on this program. Ain't wrong with having some fun.
02:13:00
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We all like to have fun. Anyways, all right, let's get a couple more stories in here. I know we're going a little, love wow, y'all are staying with me, and I love it. We still got everybody on the program, over 30 watching on the
Sports Innovations and Controversies
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live. Shout out, y'all hit that like button for me. Two more stories to go through.
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Let's get first one. NFL power brokers had their meetings this week to go over the rules. I'm going to run through them really quick. What happened? First of all, virtual Hawkeye technology in the NFL.
02:13:28
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No more old guys in zebra suits using their eyes that need glasses anyways because they're 70 damn years old. Judging where the hell a first down is. All right?
02:13:39
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I don't need ah Gerald, who's 75 and uses a walker on his off time. and don't need him eyeing the first down line and telling me with his 20-100 vision that he thinks the ball, that Josh Allen didn't get the ball over the first line, down line, when he clearly did in that damn playoff game.
02:14:01
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You see I had a bet on that game. Um... but So the ver the Hawkeye technology will be virtual cameras that will precisely spot the ball so we no longer have to figure out where the first down line is.
02:14:15
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Don't worry about the old guys. They still get to keep their jobs. They don't need their pension yet. Don't worry. Don't feel bad for the old guys. They don't go to get to go nowhere. They still get to run that little chain along the sideline.
02:14:33
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I'm sorry. That was pretty funny, though. I mean, we can't do AI. Robots can't do that now. I mean, come on now. Tush push stays. They are not banning the tush push.
02:14:44
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I know that sounds like some sort of erotic novel term, but it is not. It is a move predominantly used by the Philadelphia Eagles, who used it more than 2.5 times more than any other team last year or in the past Two years, rather, 122 times.
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The Knicks' closest teams were 55 times, and that was the aforementioned Josh Allen-led Buffalo Bills. What happened? Well, what happens? The tush push is when mostly Jalen Hurst, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, lines up behind his center, who used to be the famous Jason Kelsey now, who you've probably heard with his brother Travis, who's basically married to Taylor Swift. They have their own podcast. Anyways, I just need to make mention all those names for the algorithm. That's all. Try to get it out there. You know, the amplification of it. Anyways, oh so Jalen Hurst will line up behind his center.
02:15:40
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The center will snap the ball. All of the offensive linemen will dive to the ground to try to take out or form a wedge at the bottom legs of the defensive players so that they're not able to get proper rushes.
02:15:54
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Then what happens is the running back and fullback that are lined up behind Jalen Hurd Push his ass. That's why it's called the tush push. They take their hands.
02:16:06
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They put it on another grown man's ass, which is just pause worthy already. And they propel him across the goal line or across the first down line. The Packers,
02:16:19
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wanted to ban this. They said it causes injuries, which no scientific data has shown. They said it's too easy to do and it's automatic first down. Well, that's not their fault. If if it's so easy, why don't you do it?
02:16:32
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They say that there's a history of rules assisting the ball carrier. This is true. Way back in 1894, college decision makers outlawed the violent flying wedge because it permitted the same kind of play where people would dive for knees, other players would push players, and they'd outlawed being able to put your hands on any offensive ball carrier to try to help them move forward.
02:17:01
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Now, I know that happens with fumbles and piles and things like that, but when it's really out there and you that people can see it, well, then, yeah, you're going to get a penalty call. So we'll see what happens, but this is not being banned for now. It is going to stay. Again, I mentioned the Eagles ran it 122 times, more than 2.5 times the other team.
02:17:22
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Shout out to my but my boy Wildcard Marr yesterday. Hit me with the stat. um I'm usually the one with the stats, and I was like, man, you the man for hitting the press with the stats. 83% is their conversion rate on this play, so that's how successful it is.
02:17:36
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More than 8 out of every 10 times. Pretty crazy, right? So anyways, we'll see what happens. What what else? Over time, they changed the rules. Now, everybody got their wish.
02:17:47
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Both teams will be able to have a chance to score the ball. Before, what happened was if you had the ball first in overtime and you score a touchdown, the game's over.
02:17:58
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The other team doesn't get a chance. If you kick a field goal, then the other team would have a chance. Now all that's gone. Both teams get a chance regardless of what happens with the first team. More fair.
02:18:09
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The only point here, Mad Dog, Chris Russo pointed this out so out on ESPN First Take. They lowered the regular season overtime from 15 to 10 minutes.
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So one team could conceivably run a 10-play, 10-minute drive and wear out the whole clock, and then the other team only gets six seconds left to try to play. So we need to reinstate 15-minute overtimes in the regular season. They still are for playoffs.
02:18:37
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So we need to go back to that. Cool. All right. Also, real expanded use of replay assist. On-site replay will be involved for tripping, roughing the kicker, face mask, horse collar tackles, which is when you grab the player from the back of the neck and try to pull them down, which can cause horrible injuries, and hits to defensive players.
02:18:58
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They will have ah expanded replay assist. No flags will be able to be used or be put out. afterwards As well, the kickoff has been expanded.
02:19:09
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It will now be a touchback, which is when the ball goes into the end zone after it's kicked off. That will now be moved to the 35 for the offensive team. Last year was the 30, so they get an extra five yards. So the penalty on the kicking team for not allowing the team to return the ball will now be an extra five yards.
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more One more news on NFL. They are really trying to buck up the flag football trend. They are now got Serena Williams, the great GOAT women's tennis player, and Caitlin Clark, WNBA great. They have talked about investing into the NFL and flag football. NFL is still discussing an 18-game slate that will not happen this year. We will see if it does in the future.
02:19:57
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But they have also added UAE. United Arab Emirates to a slate of new international markets. They're looking to play up to 10 international games in 2026 is the National Football League.
02:20:12
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Finally, oh, shoot. I forgot I had that other story. Two more stories. I know I told you one, but hey, thanks for sticking with me. I appreciate it Hit that like button.
02:20:23
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Make sure you're subscribed at Ball and Buds. Um, so, Let's move on to baseball real quick. There's a huge, huge controversy right now in baseball.
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They're talking about the torpedo bats. What are torpedo bats, Omar? Well, let me hit you up with a little bit more knowledge today. First of all, torpedo bats were started to be...
02:20:49
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Constructed, created in 2022, designed by former MIT and Michigan physicist Aaron Linnart. It features a reconfigured barrel of the bat. So basically, to break it down in layman's terms for you, when you swing a baseball bat, hold on one second.
02:21:12
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All right. Prop time. Story time from the from the professor again. Since I got this from from the Louisville Slugger ah factory in Louisville when I went with my squab mob boys. Shout out my squab mob crew.
02:21:27
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Um... This is the barrel of the bat, right? And this is the shaft. Oz, wow. ah That was horrible. Anyways, God bless that was reckless. Here's the barrel. I'm gonna stop doing that movement.
02:21:42
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Here's the barrel. So as you can see in an older, older bat, It's still predominantly used in the Major League Baseball. But in the to torpedo bats, it's going to be different. let me show you this.
02:21:54
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Do you see how the bat is just straight across and proportional in size? And you see how it gets slender and more big towards the end?
02:22:06
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So as they constructed these bats, they constructed the main part of the barrel to be up here at the top. So when you swing the bat, if you hit the ball, you would try to get the most power up here on on the top.
02:22:21
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The issue is if you've ever played but ah baseball, softball, golf, any of the sorts, right? Let me remove myself for a better demonstration here. I don't know why i did that better demonstration here.
02:22:33
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But when you've ever if you ever played baseball or softball golf, you'll know if you don't if you hit the ball off the end of the bat, off any part of this end rim, um which is pause-worthy as well, ah it will shake.
02:22:48
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So you will shake it either to the right or left, depending on what hand you're using, if you're left or right-handed. So, baseball players don't want to hit it off the end of the bat because it usually just goes foul, left to right.
02:23:02
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What players in baseball and softball and golf want to do is hit it in the sweet spot. And the sweet spot is normally 7 to 10 centimeters from the top of the baseball bat.
02:23:15
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Okay, that's the sweet spot. That's where you want to connect for the biggest centrifugal force, for the biggest velocity, but the biggest for the most launch angle.
02:23:27
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So what players started doing with this new torpedo bat is they decided that pitching had got out of hand and they wanted the offense to come back. And they decided that instead of having the majority of the weight and, and lack of a better word, girth, which is pause-worthy as well,
02:23:44
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ah on the end of the bat where they don't want to hit it, they'd rather have it redistributioned through the middle of the sweet spot. So now the torpedo bats, instead of having the long head, here God bless, why is it so hard with a baseball bat?
02:24:03
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but Why is it so hard to not say anything pauseworthy? um With the long... end of the baseball bat, instead of having the weight up here and the mass up here, it's been moved to the middle of the sweet spot.
02:24:21
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So now you see what looks like a bowling pin or a duck pin. And you'll see a little bit more slender here on the end where they don't want to hit it. It'll be more it'll come up and be more fatter here in the middle. class thanks Someone save me from myself right now.
02:24:40
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This is horrible. I'm never doing this demonstration again. Wowzers. um And then from here, will start to decline again towards the shaft. That's that's it I give up.
02:24:57
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That's it. I'm done. No more demonstration. That's all the learning you get. I done said enough. I almost got myself into trouble too many times. I could have got canceled there. so we're just going to not do that motion and not act like like any of that just happened. to Anyways, moving on.
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The bats are perfectly legal. Essentially, they are the same mass. It's just shifted where that mass is going to be. This is revolutionary, y'all. This could change baseball like the like three the three-point shot in Steph Curry in the NBA.
02:25:27
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Will this be banned like the Tish Pushes they tried to ban? Probably not because everybody can use it too. It's not like... No one's allowed to use the bat. Anybody can use this bat, which, by the way, a lot of players are going out now and requesting it.
02:25:42
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But the problem was that there was an offensive explosion in the first two games of the city season and where the New York Yankees scored nine home runs and 32 runs over two games. That's 16 runs each game average.
02:25:55
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So everybody was like, what the hell is going on? They found out that five of the Yankees were using these new torpedo bats or newish torpedo bats. And so they were like, damn. So now other players are like, well, we want it. we have extra advantage.
02:26:09
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Is it an advantage? Yes, because you're redispu just, I need to obviously end soon. As you can see, my words are getting a little...
02:26:19
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tired it is not cheating because you've just redistributed the mass but it is a bit a bigger advantage for the hitter versus the pitcher because the mass has been redistributed redistributed damn i've got to get off here in second redistributed to the sweet spot of the bat where you're going to make the most connection and have the most power and velocity everybody get that Any questions?
02:26:46
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Damn. I just straight went back to Vanderbilt. I just, i'm I'm not teaching. I'm not teaching like that. yeah I didn't mean to do that. That was totally just force of habit. um'm a I'm a teacher. I ask if you need, if you have questions, because I like to answer questions.
02:27:00
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No question is stupid, by the way. Don't ever let you anybody tell you a stupid question. There may be unknowledged questions, but that doesn't mean they're stupid. And someone will always have the same question as you, so never be afraid to ask.
02:27:13
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These are things I've learned as a teacher. All right, um but you don't need to be a good player for this bat either.
Social Media Impact and Mental Health
02:27:21
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Aaron Judge, the reigning AL MVP, does not use this bat, and he hit four home runs over the weekend.
02:27:28
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So clearly, even if you have the tornado bat, as my boy Wild Carmar and my baseball insider here, Mike Wiebe on our MLB preview last week, check that out, shameless plug at Ball and Buds, they both pointed out so astutely,
02:27:45
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then you still have to have the hand-eye coordination. You could have the bigger bat. You could have the heavier bat. yeah Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, some of them so swung 40-ounce bats.
02:27:59
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But if you don't have the hand-eye coordination, if you can't keep your eyes on the ball to connect with the ball in the swing, it don't matter i don what kind of bat you have.
02:28:11
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You could have a damn caveman club And you ain't going to hit the ball. I can tell you you that right now. I played baseball my whole life. I played baseball from when I was four to when I was 16.
02:28:25
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And I can tell you, hitting a baseball is one of the hardest things you will ever do in your whole entire life. And I know it's just a game. I get it's just a game.
02:28:37
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But it's still one of the hardest things you will ever have to do in your life.
02:28:43
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So we'll see. The debate continues to rage, but right now there is no fairness debate as everyone is able to use it.
02:28:54
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Cool. Moving on, last story I want to touch on, and this is not true at all. um ah disparage or talk about or taunt or or anything.
02:29:09
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First of all, before I even go any further, I need to shout out Pat McAfee. Pat McAfee has done a great job in changing the media industry.
02:29:22
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Pat McAfee went from football player jock to media journalist with his friends to yeah ESPN host and one of the most popular media personalities in the world.
02:29:36
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He works for WWE. w He does college game day. he is what He is in the position where I want to be. My goal when I started Ballin' Buds was to be exactly where Pat McAfee is.
02:29:50
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I started the show, this network, because I wanted to start a network where I could talk ah sports, pop culture, entertainment, news with my friends. I wanted to be able to parlay them into their own expert positions.
02:30:08
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like i've Like I've helped to position you know everybody on that network as a you know different insiders of different sports. And I also wanted to get to where we got our own ESPN show.
02:30:20
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And I could have an yeah ESPN show with all of my friends. And then I wanted to parlay that to where I become a late night host. I want to take over... for Jimmy Kimmel and be with the roots.
02:30:32
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Now, I'm not pushing you out, Jimmy. I promise. i love you. I want to do things like that. I want to be the host of SportsCenter. i want to be on first take with Stephen A. These are all of my goals.
02:30:44
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which makes yesterday so much harder. And I'm not going to tell the story right now, but I really messed up an opportunity yesterday and it's so depressing right now. Like, I'm so glad I'm doing this show still actually, because I've been very depressed over my missed opportunity that I had yesterday. Uh, but,
02:31:01
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I guess life moves on. It is what it is. Got to keep it moving because I'm not going to do anything else. Pat McAfee, unfortunately on ESPN a few weeks ago, started his rumor with a damaging rumor, salacious rumor, about a young 18-year-old lady whose name is Mary Kate Cornett.
02:31:20
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So if you heard of this young lady, her name started trending on multiple social media platforms. She was an 18-year-old at Ole Miss University.
02:31:32
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A rumor started on Yik Yak, which is spelled b y a k is a social media site similar to twitter where people can post anonymously.
02:31:48
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So basically, you can get away with saying whatever the hell you want, which makes this a huge, huge issue. And that's more why I'm bringing this up. I'm not bringing this up because of Pat McAfee. He just happens to be part of the story. I'm bringing this up more because social media and the damage that social media causes to us as a society and can cause to an individual person.
02:32:07
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So because this rumor was spread on social media where it started, it did not start with Pat McAfee. want to say that. I just... It mentioned him because it was amplified on his show on ESPN a few weeks after the rumor started, but the rumor had already spread everywhere.
02:32:22
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So it wasn't like he was saying something that hadn't been known, but still, still amplified. The rumor spread that she had cheated on her boyfriend with the boyfriend's father.
02:32:34
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So you're talking something that is horrible. You're talking about someone sleeping with someone else's parental figure when they're dating you. That's just crazy. That's only something you see in...
02:32:49
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Let stop where I was going to go with that. ah You know, you know. Her picture was everywhere. So was her boyfriend. So was her dad, the boyfriend's dad.
02:32:59
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They all dealt with harassment online. And you can imagine how much athletes deal with harassment. And these other everyday people are now dealing with harassment. Jokes. ah things being told all over the internet by college sports fans because of the fact that it was a rumor that was not true and was started. Now, she went on to an interview with The Athletic to say that none of it was true.
02:33:23
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That came after, and again, i did not shut tell this story because of Pat McAfee, but it came because Pat McAfee had on February 26th led it with his show, and she is now suing yeah ESPN, Pat McAfee, and others because they amplified this rumor that it was started online.
02:33:44
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I don't think anything's going to happen to them. They may have to award some side kind of financial damages, maybe. But I believe since it was started online, I don't think they're actually goingnna have to have any issues. And Pat McAfee has a disclaimer on his show, which says that it's all comedic purposes, but that doesn't always shield you from lawsuits.
02:34:04
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So I'll keep you updated as to what happened with ESPN and this Mary ah Kate Cornette lady. But more why I brought this story up. is because if you're an asshole online targeting athletes, everyday people, whoever, if you're just trolling if you're trolling for fun and not hurting anybody, fine.
02:34:28
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But if you're truly, truly being an internet asshole and you're spreading rumors and you're doing these things that you shouldn't hurt do and you're really trying to ruin people's lives...
02:34:41
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You can take it from the professor right now. You can kiss my ass all the way off because you are a POS. You are one of the biggest POSs.
02:34:53
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Social media is already so damaging to our children already, their minds and ah and the loneliness of our adults, especially since COVID. Social media is such a and I teach social media, so take this, I've literally taught social media at Vanderbilt for three years.
02:35:09
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Take my word I'm one of the foremost experts in this subject. It is very bad for our community social media. Yes, it has its upsides. Yes, it's great. Yes, I teach it for a reason. The reason I teach it is for you to make money off of it as a business, but I still teach it.
02:35:25
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So I'm in with it too. I'm in bed with it. But it doesn't make it good, and it doesn't make it good for our mental health. It's one of the worst things for our mental health. We look, we admire, we aspire, we you know have wanderlust and all these different things that can lead to anxiety and depression and other mental health issues.
02:35:49
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And this lady, her family, all these people involved are having to deal with this harassment which is causing them mental health and life issues.
02:36:01
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She says her life was ruined. She's staying up till five in the morning every night. She's throwing up. She's not eating because she's anxious. She doesn't know what's going happen in the future. These are things that should not happen. And the Internet and social media cesspool is to blame when things like this are unregulated like they are on X, like they are on Yik Yak, like they are on Rumble and other places. And look, I'm all for free speech. I am.
02:36:27
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But the problem is free speech should not get to the point where you harm other people. Free speech is supposed to be free speech without the degradation, the disparagement, the harassment, the harming of other human beings.
02:36:45
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So if you're one of those people out there that is on social media spreading rumors that you do not know about,
02:36:54
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You need to check your yourself before you wreck yourself. And you're also a huge POS. You probably live in your mama's basement. And you have no respect for me whatsoever.
02:37:10
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Got it? Stop it. Leave people alone online. People are not on social media to be harassed.
02:37:21
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You might think the girl wants you to slide in the DM, but she doesn't because she doesn't want to see your junk pic. I was about to say the real word, we ain't that late night yet. Even though I have been dropping a couple words here and there that some people may consider curse words.
02:37:37
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I don't consider any word a curse word. We just talked about that last week. By the way, the reason I dropped the word shit so many times today and why i will continue to in the future is because...
02:37:49
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As everybody might have learned last week on this program, the word shit originally was formed in logistics and transportation, specifically shipping on boats, and it stands for Shipping Higher in Transit.
02:38:08
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The more you know. I need that NBC. So why you want to do that? People, when you're shipping in boats, going over ocean voyages with all these huge medical metal containers stacked on top of each other, you want the most valuable goods at the top.
02:38:24
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Shipping high in transit. Keep that shit up top. The more you know. Cool. Thank y'all for tuning in. i am so blessed that y'all stayed with me for almost three hours.
02:38:39
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Everybody that started in the beginning stayed here the whole entire time. And that is a blessing to my heart and makes me feel especially happy, especially after the past five weeks.
02:38:52
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I know I'm usually a very jovial and positive person when I come here on the airwaves because I don't come here. To make y'all feel worse, I want y'all to have the best time possible. I want y'all to learn, whether it's my mind to the professor, whether it's to Professor Shemin Almenti, whether it's the Bottom Line Sports on Tuesday at 8 p.m., whether it's Banter, Brawls, and Bravado, check us out next Thursday, 8 p.m., WrestleMania edition, whatever show it is that I am putting on. Total evisceration. Hot take, Jake. all air Everybody's favorite combat sports special with Clubber Whatever show it is,
02:39:30
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I try to come on as boisterous and positive as possible because I want you to be happy. I don't want you to watch me and come away depressed or anxious or things like that because then you're not going to come back to one watch me.
02:39:44
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Right? But that doesn't mean that I don't deal with my shit too, y'all. Everybody deals with their stuff. Right? Everybody deals with things. And I deal with my fair share as well.
02:39:57
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um So that being said, with this story, I want to wrap up by saying if you are dealing with any mental health issues, please, please, please do not hesitate to call um the mental health hotline.
02:40:15
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24-7, you can call the hotline. It's the um suicide prevention line. actually used to wear, because I work with a lot of homeless veterans.
02:40:26
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988 is what you can text or dial. um So 988 is the suicide crisis lifeline if you find yourself in any trouble. mental health or otherwise, and your feeling of harming yourself, please, please, please do not.
02:40:39
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It is not worth it. Your life is precious. I love you. Your family loves you. You are very much worth it to everyone in this world and especially to those that care about
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you.
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If you need help, call 988 911. And please, please do not go unhelped. There is no shame in getting help.
02:41:02
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Man, y'all, I've been amazing. It even increased in numbers since I started three hours ago. I am truly humbled and blessed. Thank y'all so very much. Holla! 5,000. five thousand
02:41:20
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That world heavyweight flow. Championship belt wrapped around my waist, yo. I got that rip flare, fake it flow. Slam you on the face, that's why they call me street pro.
02:41:31
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Create, eat on beat, flow. Like Jordan after the second time, he pre-peated, folks. Get ready, set, let's go. Fight toe to toe, release the flow, created by this micro. Lights, cameras, get low.
02:41:45
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Action bag, back to bag, in fact, this monster will grow.
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Sports Professor on the show. georger professor