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Unpacking Tim Walz’s, Olympic Scandals & The Baddie Life’s Cost
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Get ready for a dynamic episode of "Unsolicited Perspectives" with Bruce Anthony and his sister, J. Aundrea, where they tackle an eclectic mix of topics. The episode kicks off with some fun banter as J. Aundrea shares her journey into the 'Baddie' lifestyle, especially as she gears up for her 40th birthday—revealing the surprising challenges, costs, and time it takes to maintain that image. From there, the conversation shifts to a more serious note with a deep dive into Kamala Harris’s VP pick, Tim Walz. Bruce and J. Aundrea dissect his policy stances, military record, and the controversies surrounding his campaign, offering a comprehensive look at what his candidacy means for the 2024 election.
But that’s not all—they also delve into the recent Olympic controversy involving Jordan Chiles and the drama surrounding her bronze medal. Finally, the episode wraps up with a thoughtful discussion on the social stigma men face when it comes to celebrating birthdays and the outdated pressures of masculinity. With a call for better social etiquette in public spaces and a few laughs along the way, this episode is sure to keep you engaged from start to finish. #BaddieLife #timwalz #olympiccontroversy #masculinity #unsolicitedperspectives
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Chapters
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives
00:33 Sibling Happy Hour Begins
01:31 The Baddie Life: A Personal Journey
04:26 Dating in Different Cities
16:59 Tim Walz: The New VP Pick
39:01 Eyeliner and Military Service
39:30 Combat Service Controversy
41:00 Military Rank Dispute
41:58 Political Race Dynamics
47:16 Olympic Gymnastics Scoring Error
59:55 Breakdancing at the Olympics
01:07:00 Men and Birthday Celebrations
01:11:12 Patriarchy and Gender Roles
01:17:47 Final Thoughts and Etiquette
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Introduction and Episode Overview
00:00:11
Speaker
Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is unsolicited perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics in the shape of today's society. Join the conversation to follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch our video podcasts. Rate, review, like, comment, share, share with your friends, share with your family. Hell, you can share with your enemies.
00:00:33
Speaker
On today's episode, it's the sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're going to be Dilly Daddin a little bit. Then we're going to be talking about Tim Walz. To the windows, to the walls. And then we're going to be talking about men and their inability to be their true selves.
Jay Andrea's 'Baddie' Lifestyle Experiment
00:00:51
Speaker
But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
00:01:01
Speaker
What sis? What up, Bretta? I can't call it. I can't call it. Now, you sent me something yesterday. Ladies and gentlemen, please excuse my French. But you said, don't forget to ask me about why I'm a bad bitch. No, no. Correction, why I'm not.
00:01:21
Speaker
Oh, why you're not, why you're not. Oh, okay. I'm not. I was, you know, under the influence yesterday when you texted me. Gotcha. So I read that wrong. Okay, so why are you not a bad B? So as you know, my 40th birthday is coming up. That's right. Okay, next Friday. Now, I'm going on a trip with my friends, you know, the quintessential girls trip. And I said, I've always had a deep respect for baddies.
00:01:51
Speaker
and the amount of work they put in to be baddies. I've always had that. So ah that's not me. So I said, I'm going to try to be a baddie. I noticed y'all probably, if you're watching on YouTube, you see I got the lashes, and i get my nails are done, all the stuff. My hair is braided, because you know black women get their hair braided for the trip. And in the process of doing all of this, I realized this is a baddie life is not for me. It's extremely expensive.
00:02:20
Speaker
It's expensive, it's time consuming. I mean, you really have to love this. When I see women and fit, check, face, beat, face card, doesn't decline, hair done, baby hairs laid. I really honestly, all of us should bow down because the amount of work that they put in to bring beauty and batty energy into the world,
00:02:48
Speaker
We should be honoring that because it's hard work. I gave up. Wait, read you gave up. I was supposed to get more things done. I was going to get my eyebrows waxed and tinted. I was going to get more things done. ah And I quit. After the nails, after the mani-pedi, I said, this I'm done. And this is the best I can do.
00:03:14
Speaker
I think I am look pretty. And this is the best I can do. This is it. I'm just not a baddie. First of all, you always look pretty because our parents made good looking children. So that that is true. And that that is just what it is. And yeah ladies and gentlemen, if y'all think I'm good looking, my brother got me beat. Like my brother is better looking. My brother is classically handsome. It always has been.
00:03:41
Speaker
and And so like, that's the first thing. yeah Second thing is, all those women that do that, most of the time got somebody else paying for it. That's the reason why I'm seeing all these social media posts of women asking, hey, you're going to pay for this to get done. And where am I going to pay for this? Are you going to get done? Because this stuff is expensive. The lifestyle is so expensive. It's so expensive. And I just can't keep up. I can't do it. You're not living in Atlanta, and Atlanta is the home of bad bitches. And I can't keep up. Y'all have it. Y'all can have it.
00:04:18
Speaker
I bow down to you. I am not a baddie. And I'm okay with that. I have accepted it. And I'm okay.
Planning the Panama Birthday Trip
00:04:26
Speaker
Also, like, how many 40 year old baddies? How many 40 year olds in Atlanta? Yes. So I was talking to my bestie.
00:04:35
Speaker
A couple of weeks ago, and she was in Florida. And she was like, you know, walking around here, there's so many good looking people. Well, where their son, there's always going to be good looking at people that kind of helps. But also, I was telling her, because we're both in this dating game in the DC area. And we've both been here for at least 20 years. And we did they did everybody.
00:04:57
Speaker
Like between the both of us, I don't think there's anybody, we've dated everybody. And when I go to other places, I realized that even though the DC area is physically fit, like the um the county that I live in has been rated the number one fittest county in the country. So like people stay fit, they keep their body right. Their face on the other hand, it's like, DC is not holding it down facially.
00:05:25
Speaker
Yeah, I'm, I'm from there. And so I can tell you as a resident of the DMV, we like face cards. Okay. Yeah. We're looking at a lot of sixes and sevens. Like we're looking at a lot of mid-range mid-tier cards.
00:05:46
Speaker
mid tier cars where there's not a whole lot of Amex black cards. No, there is. um There's just not. And I was talking to an acquaintance. That's not from the area because we can't we you know, we're from here. We grew up here. Yeah. And the only reason why you are living in DC, the DMV area now is either you were born and raised here.
00:06:07
Speaker
or you came here for work.
Tim Walz's VP Selection and Political Profile
00:06:10
Speaker
Nobody ever is just like, you know what, I want to move to D.C. because I left here from a small town and they think the nation's capital is like that. So we're not getting the most attractive people, number one. And number two, my acquaintance was saying that Everybody that that lives in this area is stressed out because everybody has stressful jobs and we wear on our faces. So people here will age a little bit quicker, have more wrinkles. Botox I know is making a killing in this area because. Oh, yeah, I and I'm going to be a customer because I and there's no shame in my game, I will be getting injectables.
00:06:51
Speaker
collagen, rustling, Botox, all the things. I know there's no shame in my game over that. You ain't going to have me walking around with forehead wrinkles. Hey, look, I got my forehead wrinkles and I'm cool with it. Like whatever. i'm four four years old Only when you move your eyebrows, when you relax your eyebrows, the wrinkles, they're gone. And so that's see mine. I'll be like,
00:07:13
Speaker
I make so many incredulous faces that the wrinkles stick and so ah because I'm always incredulous. You act like that's not me. That's the same way. mike My normal default face is WTF.
00:07:31
Speaker
Yeah. That's my normal one thing. Truly. So much is going on. God. Because we I know we have a lot to talk about in this show. There's just a lot is going on. Yeah. So I'm not a baddie. And I i praise baddies for all the work y'all do to bring beauty into the world. And I salute you.
00:07:50
Speaker
you're talking about Betty as an action, right? Like the actual action of trying to keep up that appearance. Yes. um Okay. Cause we're na naturally good looking. Like that's the natural print. Like no got do fucking allow but I got to do that work. Right. I have to do that work. Not, I mean, not all, usually Betty's are when they take the makeup off.
00:08:15
Speaker
are typically still viewed. And makeup is not going to turn you into a completely different person. Yes. I mean, special effects makeup. No, I have seen some makeovers on TikTok and Instagram. I was like, that ain't you.
00:08:28
Speaker
sometimes Sometimes they do that for clicks. They'll purposely add makeup to make them look bad and then do the after with the makeup. like I've seen some, like I'm like, you don't really look like that. Nobody looks that bad. like Come on now. You need to be quiet, man. I can't speak. It'd be lying. People are doing it. They're like, oh, look at my before and after. This is how good my makeup skills are. But you purposely made yourself look bad.
00:08:55
Speaker
so that your makeup skills look that much better. But no, I'm talking about people who are in the bit like who actively work for the baddie aesthetic and like put up the money and the time and the effort for the for the facials and the hair and the nails and the lashes and the brows and the lip filler and ah whatever it is. like And y'all in the gym, like Megan The Stallion's in the gym, like y'all are in there in the Pilates classes. Speaking of which, did you see the video that she posted? Mamushi? No, the actual video with the towel is is coming down. Oh, yeah. oh Yeah. Megan. Her body is insane.
00:09:43
Speaker
Hold on, I want to make a personal plea, Megan. I just want to let you know that even though I am advanced in age, I'm also advanced in a lot of areas in life. Let me introduce you to this game. I would love to hang out with you sometimes. I can't say I'm going to take you out because you got more money than me. But I'll treat you to a lovely evening, a lovely, organic, regular evening. Just give me an opportunity.
00:10:08
Speaker
That's my little plea that I'm putting out there from back to static because I feel like wolf once she got a whole man, she got a whole man. Oh, she did? Yeah, she does
Scrutiny of Tim Walz's Military Record
00:10:19
Speaker
for quite some time now. She's her, I guess. Yeah, she got a whole man. and yeah but i i I don't know why, because Megan feels like she's my bestie, but I feel like she would like a regular, a regular date. Like, I feel like she will find it very cute and charming. So, yeah, keep it, keep it. Listen, you never know. I take it to the adult arcade over here in DC, you know? Yeah, I feel like she- Have a good time, have some drinks, play some games, and no one will laugh. I feel like she would love that. Yeah. Tell me more about your trip, because we own it now.
00:10:58
Speaker
Panama. Yes. I leave on Tuesday. I'm so excited. My brother is going to house it for me. So your other brother. Yes. Other brothers going house it, but I'm very excited. All my friends are excited. I'm like just praying that the weather, because I've been looking at the weather.
00:11:17
Speaker
And it all looked good. It's saying rain all week. And so I'm really, but it's only like 50% chance. So I'm praying. You know how that rain and that 50% kind of works, right? Like I just found this out. Like when they say it's like a 50% chance of rain, it's like a 50% chance of rain in a certain area. It doesn't, would like we live in DC or I live in DC. When they say it's 50% chance of rain in DC,
00:11:46
Speaker
it It could be DC or the surrounding areas and it's like 50% chance of rain in that particular area, not blanketing the whole city. So. Yeah. Okay. you know So it's only 50%. It's only 50%. And I am really holding out hope that the weather is nice. so And even if it isn't, y'all gonna still be in Panama. Y'all gonna still have a good time. Still have fun. Cause guess what? Bars are indoors.
00:12:12
Speaker
thanks and there' and And outdoors, but yes, they're still indoors. Yeah, they can be indoors. The strip club is indoors. It's all indoors. What if a strip club was outdoors? That'd be kind of... No, there's a public indecency. I mean, it's a closed area, but it's outside. Okay. So you're talking about like a strip Coliseum. Hey, that's even better. Okay.
00:12:42
Speaker
What? I like that idea. Take the Colosseum. Godzilla was already sleeping in the Colosseum. Might as well have a strip-a-thon in the Colosseum. Godzilla's in there. Like, that's... Well, he's out now. We're not going to go down this road because... I feel like the tangent that's coming up.
00:13:04
Speaker
It's too much. So with like, yeah, we that I can feel i very excited. I got yeah a lot of great stuff planned. And I'm very excited. So and the reason why I wanted to try to be a baddie is I'm taking professional photos while I'm down there. And, you know, this is going to be the photos that I look back on at that time when I was 40, you know, right.
00:13:28
Speaker
back in the day. and And it's like kind of like a revisionist history. I could tell people, see, I was a baddie back in the day when the truth is I wasn't. I really wasn't. and So you gonna lie to the people? Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm writing the story. And if I got photo evidence, who are you to dispute it? Well, you get it honestly, because that's how America does it.
00:13:53
Speaker
I've learned from my country. I tell a story I've wanted to. so You can still tell the story of a baddie even though you didn't get all the stuff done. I don't even know what this other stuff you were talking about. Highlight and eyebrows? What does that even mean?
00:14:12
Speaker
eyebrow tinting. So I always get my eyebrows waxed so they're in my shape and then I get them tinted so they're darker because as you like, I have very faint eyebrows. Yeah. know That one's in the family. There wasn't a family. They don't show up well in photos. So sometimes I get them tinted so they're darker and they show up better in photos. And of course I got a whole new sheen wardrobe. Shout out to sheen.
00:14:42
Speaker
a little fashion over mixed in. Because that's the only way I did all the war trip.
00:14:50
Speaker
I didn't realize she and I got an advertisement yesterday for she and I didn't know she in war meant I sold men's clothes. I thought it was all yeah women's clothes. um yeah And I saw some stuff on there and I was like, you know what, I could write this but oh It's a little different in Fashion Nova because Fashion Nova is based here. The end is based overseas and the overseas sizes don't be fit in my frame.
00:15:15
Speaker
Gotcha. Uh, you got to look at the reviews. Um, she and gives like customers rewards for leading reviews. So if you look at the reviews, people will tell you, yeah, it's true to size or know it's a little oversized or know it runs small. So read the reviews and you could, I've, I have never had anything but good picks from she and, and the stuff would be like $14. So, I mean, yeah, that's how it works. And, uh, how, how is the return policy?
00:15:44
Speaker
terrible. Okay. So if you get it, if you spend your money, you just spent your money. Yeah. yeah and But you know, and when you buy in a shirt for $5, you know what I'm saying? You're like, well, you know, I'll chalk that up to the game. Yeah, I guess you got to charge it up to the game. Yeah. All right. Well, we're, I'm excited for your trip. I'm excited to, you know, I'm sure you're going to post on social media while you're there.
00:16:10
Speaker
Yes. yeah't go so So I'm going to get the seed trip and then I see you the following weekend celebrate your 40th in person. So I'm going to be excited about that. It's a whole two week, three week celebration of you. Yeah. and Which, you know, you know, we don't do. No, we don't do.
00:16:30
Speaker
We don't do that. is you know We're not Jehovah's Witnesses, but we just don't celebrate our birthdays that often. I had i saw a meme about Leos. They'll talk about their birthday for a whole month, and then the actual day will come, and they won't care. And that that's how it is. And like we just like the excitement around it. But the actual day is like, I don't care about that. just you know I like the excitement around it.
00:16:55
Speaker
We're going to get into more of that in the third segment, specifically about men celebrating their birthdays and being called out for. But before we get to that, we got to go from the windows to the walls and talk about Tim Walls, the new VP pick for Kamala Harris. We're going to get into that next.
00:17:25
Speaker
All right, sis, there's a new VP candidate for the Democratic ticket. Yes. You hit me up and you were like, I want to talk about this now. I was like, we already filmed the show. The show is being released. I've already got a show live now for Friday, which, by the way, go check out, ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Stephanie L. Carnezales and her book, Senpaiges en Papeles, that talks about unaccompanied minors from Central America that migrate here to the US.
00:17:52
Speaker
Go listen, go watch that episode. She's brilliant, beautiful person she inside and out. Go get the book. I've started reading it. It is a eye opener. If you truly, truly want to learn about immigration and migration from Central America, she hits all the buttons. But I'd already released that, that had programmed to release that show on Friday. And he was like, who want to talk about it? I was like, well, we'll just get to it in the next simple happy hour. So we're here now. Yeah. I wanted to talk about it because I'm so excited.
00:18:20
Speaker
OK, well, let's let's give everybody a little background. Timothy James Walls, that's W A L Z, not wal T. There is no T in there. There's Walls, not Waltz. not Waltz. OK, tell black people that. did Black people going to get black people going to put an S at the end of a name and they're going to put a T somewhere. Yes, that's just what we do.
00:18:44
Speaker
so well ah He was born April 6, 1964 in West Point, Nebraska. He's an American politician, former school teacher, a retired US Army non-commissioned officer. Walls was served as the 41st governor of Minnesota since 2019. Before his governor role, he was a member of the US House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019, representing Minnesota's first congressional district.
00:19:12
Speaker
He was in the Army National Guard. We'll get to more of that later, where he rose to the rank of command sergeant major over 24 years. He's worked as a high school social studies teacher and a football coach before entering politics. I know a little something about being a high school social studies teacher. Well, yes almost.
00:19:31
Speaker
Almost. Almost. I went into that school, and I was like, nah, can't do this. But he did it. He did it. He was elected to the US House by defeating a Republican incumbent in the heavily rural district in 2006. And he was re-elected five times before becoming governor in 2018 and winning re-election in 2022. He was selected by Kamala Harris on August 6, 2024 to be Kamala Harris's running mate.
00:19:59
Speaker
for the 2024 U.S. presidential election. This election has generated a significant attention with various political figures and analysts weighing in on the decision. For instance, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who was one of the finalists to be on the ticket, said that adding walls was a strong addition to the ticket.
00:20:18
Speaker
walls has been actively campaigning alongside Harris with recent events, including rallies in Arizona and Nevada during a rally in Pennsylvania walls made headlines by calling Donald Trump and JD Vance weird, which prompted a response from Trump. We're not even going to get into Trump's responses.
00:20:34
Speaker
ah You're unhinged. Right. Always unhinged. In addition, Walls' military record has started to become under scrutiny, but we're going to get into more of that later. Jay, I know that you were really excited. You wanted to talk about this, so I'm going to give you the floor to just talk about why you're excited yeah or about Tim Walls.
00:20:56
Speaker
what ah What a great pick. I mean, I would not have been mad with Josh Shapiro, but we kinda need him in Pennsylvania.
Olympics Controversy: Jordan Chiles' Medal
00:21:06
Speaker
um No, Tim Walz, excellent pick. It really is feeling like, one of the reasons why I'm so excited about it is it really feels like the Harris campaign is listening to the people.
00:21:21
Speaker
Um, you know, it really feels like she, ah well, the whole campaign is taking into account what people are saying online, you know, what people are, are feeling about the issues and what's important to them. She's listening and adapting and that's reflected in her pick of Tim walls, Tim walls.
00:21:47
Speaker
has become a sensation because of TikTok and Twitter. He's become memed. um He actually has a really great presence on TikTok ah for a 60-year-old dude. Like, he's very adept at the internet. And not only that, you feel like you... What you see is what you get with Tim Rawls. Like, he's... He's very transparent, it feels like.
00:22:17
Speaker
in in terms of his stance on things, in terms of the policy positions that he supports and in his support of Kamala Harris. And also he definitely gives off the vibe of like, yeah, I'm here to support her. I'm going to be the number two. I don't have aspirations to be number one. I'm here to be a support. And you really feel that? I mean,
00:22:45
Speaker
Another thing that really excites me about him is he says the things that we're all thinking. Trump and J.D. Vance are weird and creepy. I don't like to use the word weird i didn when describing people. I like to use the word unique or different. No, because those don't have the... He means it with the negative connotation.
00:23:12
Speaker
Yeah, well, okay. We're not calling JD Vance unique, quirky, eccentric. No, he's weird and it's creepy. Him following Kamala's plane around everywhere trying to get some photo op like that never works out and he just ends up looking weird and awkward. Him doing rallies in the same city at the same time as Kamala, except she's got thousands in the crowd and he's got tens. He's got hundreds, not tens. No, some of them was tens.
00:23:46
Speaker
i've seen I saw the video, some of them was tense. It just, it comes off really weird. Like what's the game plan with that? It's weird. Why? Be confrontational. Right. But she is not the vice presidential nominee. She's the presidential nominee. He don't need to be following her around.
Armani Kaleef's Boxing Victory and Social Media Impact
00:24:09
Speaker
But I guarantee he's not gonna bring that same energy to Tim Walz because Tim Walz, I am praying for a VP debate. I'm praying. He's incredibly smart. He's quick witted, funny. He, he definitely gives off America's dad vibes and he's got a personal connection to things like, you know, the fertility journey he and his wife went through and the use of IVF, him being a service, a serviceman, um, and and, and fighting for the country. Like he has, he's tapped in to these different things. Him being a public school teacher.
00:24:50
Speaker
he's tapped into the community in a way that I don't think any other choice for a BP um would have been. So I just, I got, ah when I dug more into who he is and what he's about, very excited, very excited for this pick. Well, let's get into what he's about. So let's get into some of his key policy positions.
00:25:19
Speaker
Number one, let's start with healthcare. He's for abortion rights. He's a strong advocate for abortion rights and even signed a bill in 2023 codifying the right to abortion in Minnesota. One of the first governors to do so.
00:25:33
Speaker
He's also a big fan of the Affordable Care Act. As a U.S. Representative, he supported the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. What about the economy? Job creations and taxes. Walsh enacted policies aimed at ah job creation and tax modifications in Minnesota. In Minnesota, not Minnesota. Once again, I told you black folks put ass on everything. Don't put ass on it.
00:25:54
Speaker
His economy policies reflected a progressive agenda, including support for labor rights and increased public education spending. Why would he want to increase public education ah spending? Because he was actually in the classroom. A lot of these people that want to curtail education spending have never stepped foot in the classroom, never been a teacher, don't know what it's like. And and be clear. The goal, the Republican goal is to obliterate the Department of Education. Yep, that's part of the project 2025. Labor rights. what He's for union support. Wallace has been a champion of progressive labor policies, including outlawing non-compete agreements and raising the minimum wage for small business employees. He is a former union member and has actively supported labor movements. Of course,
00:26:46
Speaker
He's for public education spending. He supports increased spending on the public education, especially with his background being a high school teacher in a football coach influences his strong stance in education. Once again, he was down there in the battleground in the trenches. He understands what these kids need and we're going to get more into some of the stuff that he did as as an educator later.
00:27:07
Speaker
Climate energy, he's all about that climate action. Walls has a track record of supporting climate action and renewable energy initiatives. Gun control, he's for universal background checks. During his second term as governor, Walls pushed for and signed legislation for universal gun background checks. Now, for those people that are saying, well, he's coming for our guns. No, he's a hunter. He has guns.
Men and Birthday Celebrations: Breaking Stereotypes
00:27:29
Speaker
This is the thing that Republicans are kind of like, oh, how are we going to attack him?
00:27:34
Speaker
Because he has guns and he goes hunting. He's yeah a rural dude. That's what people do. Nobody wants to take the guns away. I don't want to take no guns away. I believe in the second amendment. I'm full guns. I'm invincible. Right. You got guns. You got the rifleman rifle, but you got guns.
00:27:51
Speaker
We are for guns. We are for also being smart about the legislation of guns. Yes. And a very interesting thing, he used to have an A rating from the NRA, but since taking his stance on ah common sense universal background checks, he it now has an F rating from the NRA and he is proud of that.
00:28:13
Speaker
Well, yeah, that's good. All right. Social issues. Cannabis legalization. Walls has supported the legalization of cannabis and other progressive social policies. If you don't know what cannabis is, it's sweet. Yeah. Marijuana. Snoop Dogg.
00:28:29
Speaker
yeah you um Sure. yeah so He's also, he also had a really great response for the protest for George Floyd's murder, moving the the DA that was or the prosecutor that was responsible for that and placing somebody that was going to be a little bit more impartial instead of being biased. I said I was going to go on one of his things as far as education. what I don't know if you're familiar with this story, but there was a young man that was in one of his schools that wanted to start an, ah essentially an LGBTQ plus club. Yes. Yeah. And and Tim Walz,
00:29:14
Speaker
The football coach decided that he was going to sponsor the club because he felt that it was extremely important for somebody for, for everybody to see a heterosexual, stereotypical football man, man to support.
00:29:31
Speaker
the LGBTQ plus community. And that student said that that support gave him so much confidence in his life because he felt supported and
Conclusion and Listener Appreciation
00:29:43
Speaker
loved. So yeah we talk about teachers. And I went into teaching to help the kids truly help the kids. Yes. How often did he help the kids? He gave them free school lunch. Yes. And and the great thing about that legislation is it made school lunch free for all children so that the children who needed it
00:30:11
Speaker
didn't feel any kind of way about having ah about getting it. You know what I'm saying? They didn't they don't have to face any kind of stigma or anything from their peers because it's free for everyone across the board. And to have that thought process, to think about it that deeply, to note there you know kids might have faced some stigma. Also, you never know what families are going through.
00:30:39
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right? Because they may be up and then they walk. Yeah, they may be up one day and down the next you never know what different families are going to but knowing that they can send their child to school and knowing that their child will be able to have school lunch regardless of their financial situation is amazing. It takes a stressor of parenting away from the parent. It's one less thing to worry about as a parent, as I've talked to so many parents, have to be focused on so much. yes and And for the people who are like, just the taxpayer money, who is against feeding kids? Typically, it's the hypocrites. And this is what I mean by hypocrites. It's the people who are saying that they're pro-life.
00:31:28
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We want to protect the life of the child. Feed them as part of protecting the life of the child. Yeah, you got to understand a majority of a child's day is spent in school. Monday through Friday. It's the whole damn day. Because you get up in the morning, you get up in the morning just to go to school. You come home from school just to do school work and then go to bed. That's it. It's school. It's school all day long. You would think,
00:32:00
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Part of that would be, hey, why don't we feed these kids? We got them all day. Why don't we feed them? So that they have the energy and the brain power to learn what we're teaching them. It feels like common sense. Who is against feeding children? That's why this country is in the situation that it is today, where you have so many unhoused and hungry children is because ah If y'all, if I'm going to pay taxes, cause I got to pay them. We all, we got no choice. You ain't got no damn choice. I would prefer that my taxes go to feed and house children and to support their education because they are the future of this country. It feels like common sense. And this is the kind of, and I feel like Tim Walz would say it just like this.
00:32:56
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You're an idiot if you don't think that this comes. I feel like that's the way Tim Walz will deliver it, and I love that. Yeah. Because that's how I will say it. That's how I'm saying it right now. Yeah. You know, I have an associate that brought up something like this and said, you know, I just want to be in control of where my tax dollars goes. And I said, OK, well,
00:33:21
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in the history of America has been so bad at helping anybody that doesn't represent them. Anybody that doesn't look like them. So why would we allow you to have control of where your tax dollars are going when we know it's only going to go to benefit people that look like you? And also, hey, listen.
00:33:47
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They're not the best people in the world, but Congress, the United States Congress, made up of Congress and the Senate, these are extremely intelligent people. Sometimes. Sometimes.
00:34:03
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Most of the, sometimes they are. They know what the they they know the job. Let's say the Senate does, okay? The Senate, most of the Senate does. They know the jobs, whether or not they do the right thing, that that's another question, but they know the job. And if people- Not Tommy he doesn't know the job. Well, yeah, he wins some, of you lose some.
00:34:24
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But they've spent decades on this finance problem. Some of the greatest economic minds in this country has spent decades on this finance problem. You sitting on your couch with a communications degree ain't gonna figure it out.
00:34:44
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can't even balance your own checkbook. People don't balance their checkbooks anymore. Give me it. Like, please, you want to be in charge where your tax dollars go? No. We have a government that we elect to do this for us. And if you have a problem with it, run for office. Can you imagine if people's in charge of their tax dollars, roads be all messed up?
00:35:10
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Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. how to run infrastructure you could barely run your own household and you go you go control the infrastructure of yo city or your state or the country shut up right shut shut up listen you be becomeba put um for twenty dollars on education let's put twenty on that Do we have to pay military right now? Okay, let's put let's put a hundred on that. Let's put a stack on that. like no you're Let's not even get into the fact that a lot of people talk about they are defenders of the military, but these VA benefits are straight trash. Trash.
00:35:56
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So you're not really the, you're the villain. You, you, you back up the arms yeah of the military, not actually the people. That's, that's what that's about. But speaking of military, I didn't even mean that segue. I'm just starting to get good at this, you know, podcasting and the show thing.
00:36:14
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I also read The Rundown, and I try to do a little lead-in, if I can, on various various things. I don't know if you pay it attention to The I've been doing this stuff, and I'm like, I don't know if Jay pay attention to it or not, but okay. Anyway, speaking of military, there's been some attacks on Timothy Walls' military record.
00:36:39
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particularly from JD Vance, who's got his own military yeah thing going on. Right. You're writing briefs from an air-conditioned room in Baghdad knocking on. You know what? I'm not going to knock anybody that went into the service to defend the country. I just feel like you should knock anybody either if no you ain't really do too much. But anyway, what are some of the attacks? Well, ah originally, ah one of the attacks is his deployment, Tim Walz's deployment to our Iraq. Here's the claim. Vance and others have accused Walz of dropping out of the National Guard when his platoon was slated for deployment to Iraq.
00:37:22
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Here's the actual fact, because I'm giving you the claim, and I'm going to give you the facts. Here's the actual facts. Walls retired from the Minnesota National Guard in May of 2005 to run for Congress. So he's retired. Everybody knew he was retiring in May 2005 to run for Congress. His battalion received official notification of potential potential deployment in March of 2005, but the actual order came in July, 2005, two months after Waltz had retired, retired, the man retired.
00:38:00
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After 24 years, he was running for Congress. So he left one service of the country to enter in another service of the country after he had done 24 years. And it wasn't because he was like, I'm not trying to go to Iraq. That wasn't it. That wasn't it. Do you know how many years JD Vance served in the US Marine Corps? How long? Four.
00:38:25
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Well, I mean, hey. 2003 to 2007 as a combat correspondent in a non-combative role, which included a six-month deployment to the public affairs office in Iraq. OK. Well, look, I'm not going to knock that. Not going to knock it. Because that's more than me. Yeah. It's still an important role. Right. But baby girl. We're not calling them baby girl, because it's eyeliner, are you? Yes. That's exactly why.
00:38:54
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He's trying to be a baddie. He's trying to be a baddie and I don't like it. No one does. Let me get more into the military service, but I am curious about his eyeliner. Is that just natural or is he actually doing something? I don't know because I don't know makeup. Right. I don't know either.
00:39:12
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ah Another attack on Tim Walz was his combat service. Here's the claim. The claim is that Vance, this is once again an accusation by Vance, has accused Walz of falsely suggesting he saw combat during his service. Here's the fact. Walz has made statements about carrying weapons of war during his service, which some have interpreted as implying combat experience. Now,
00:39:35
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I'll say that's a gray area. yeah I'll say that he misspoke and he probably shouldn't have said that. But if you're going on legitimate like wording, he probably did carry weapons of war. Yeah, he just probably did. I mean, he obviously didn't carry it during war, but I mean, he didn't say he used weapons of war. He said he carried them.
00:39:56
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Well, I mean, yes. but Some military people have been saying, oh, that's a gray area. You maybe shouldn't have said that. But once again, it was during a town hall, and he was talking about war and guns and OK. So I'm not giving it the claim that Vance has given it, but I'm saying a little gray, a little gray, like a shade. Like it's not dark gray.
00:40:24
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It's like great. It's it's like great. it fake It's faint. It's a faint, it's great. I think it's a matter of semantics. It is. But he was not factually incorrect. He probably did carry weapons of war. Yeah, he wasn't factually incorrect. All right. Another attack on his military record is this actual military rank. So here's the claim. The Republican national community criticized Walls for misrepresenting his military rank in campaign materials. Here's the actual fact. Walls did raise to the rank of commanding sergeant major, but retired as a major sergeant because he had not completed the requirements for a higher rank. So
00:41:10
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He ain't lying. yeah The military recognized him as a commanding sergeant major. but But you retire at different ranks. From what I understand in in the military, you retire at different ranks. So these attacks on Tim Woles are not valid. No. But they're trying because they really, really have no no good answer for this ticket. They just don't. Yeah. I will say the DEI stuff is kind of tapered down now. Yeah. Luckily, I mean, after after Trump's abysmal performance at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention, I think the full pivot was we are not going to talk about race anymore.
00:42:03
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Now, you still got him out there doing it because you can't rein him in. But and of course, Byron Davis, which do not even get me started on the fact that this man has biracial children and is also Jamaican, but is still calling Kamala Harris's racial identity into question. I e don't understand that. Does he call himself into question? Right. Because black people are not indigenous to Jamaica. But OK.
00:42:30
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anyways. um But it seems to be a hard pivot away from the race things. Yes, they they would be smart. So 10 walls, the VP candidate. Now, remember, ladies and gentlemen, when you are voting for President of the United States, Vice President's role in that is Really? You know, for they there it isn't. They'll have they'll have their own assignments. Yes. But yes, they're not the president. Right. That's the point I'm trying to make. They're not the president. So Tim Walz is cool.
00:43:06
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Kamala Harris is the person that you're voting for if you're voting for Kamala Harris. Donald Trump is the person that you're voting for. If you're voting for Donald Trump, it's not JD Vance. Well, they're on the ticket, so you're voting for both. We can't say it. You're voting for both, but for president. OK, so that's the point I'm trying to make. Yeah, you need to make that point to JD Vance, because I don't think he's, I don't think it's clicking, Stephen, because he's still following around the presidential candidate.
00:43:34
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but he That's also because Trump wasn't campaigning for a little while. He just got back on the campaign trail last night. Yeah, he's definitely not been doing the same number of rallies that he used to do. um because He's not drawing the crowds. Yeah, he's not liking the fact that, and my man said that his crowd,
00:43:55
Speaker
what them law was as big walk oh one look the caves ground and theha I have a dream speech. And, but the thing was is in his little speech, he said Martin Luther King had millions, I had thousands, but It was the same crowd. I'm like, no, millions, no a million and thousands is a different. If I gave you the option of a million dollars or a thousand dollars or even $10,000 or 20 or 30, or even $500,000, guess what? You're going to want more. So you're going to take the million. Million yeah is more than any thousand. You know why? Because a million is, I think a thousand.
00:44:35
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ah It's a thousand hundred thousands. Yes, a thousand hundred thousands. Yes. Is it? It's a thousand hundred thousand. I don't think it's a thousand hundred thousands. I think it is. Because a hundred thousand times 10 is a million.
00:44:52
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So that, that math would not be math. And right. That math ain't math. And that's a hundred thousand. That's a hundred million. Nevermind. It's a hundred thousand. It's a hundred hundred thousand. That's what I thought. Yes. It's like, no, that's 10 million. but Hold on. I'm going to get it. 100,000.
00:45:12
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that that's there you go that's what i said i just did it i just did the math is you didn't do the math that's what i said no i was doing it on a calculator as i was working well but y'all hey my degree is in english and mine is in secondary education social studies we are not math majors but regardless tim waltz vb candidate yeah the thing the thing about that first of all, comparing your January six crowd to Martin Luther King's, I have a dream speech is wild. Second, he said, when Martin Luther King gave that speech, great speech. I want him to name the speech. I want him to name it. Lastly,
00:45:58
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Trump does not come up with his own ideas. He gets pieces of things from other people, and he kind of stitches out together what he remembers, and it usually comes out as nonsense. So somebody somewhere compared his crowd size to Martin Luther King's, I Have a Dream Speech crowd size, and he took that as if that was a real thing and he ran with it. And I want to know who that person is. I don't know who that person is. yeah I don't know who that person is. But if i I was going to venture to guess, it would probably be Jesse Walters from Fox News because that's the type of buffoonery and ignorance that would come out of his mouth. If it if it's not attributed to him and I'm not attributed to him, I'm just saying that that's something that he would say because nonsense and and
00:46:46
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Idiotic statements typically come out of his mouth, but I got his buffoon. But anyway, that's that's Tim Wall's. Yeah, we're going to get into some more patriotic stuff before we talk about men. We're going to get into that next.
00:47:09
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All right, Jay, this was not on the original rundown. It was not. but But you texted me this morning and and you was hot about something that happened at the Olympics. So I'm going to give you the floor to go ahead and talk about that. Jordan Childs. Now, again, I'm Black and I know her name is Childs, but it's Childs. And that's what I'm going to say. I'm going to put that D in there. But no, Jordan Childs won bronze for her individual floor routine at the Olympics in gymnastics.
00:47:47
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What happened is they're scored on their difficulty and their execution. The difficulty score is decided before they even start. And it's based on the difficulty of their routine.
00:48:01
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The judges inputted the wrong difficulty score for Jordan Chiles. They put it much less than, I think like three tenths of a point, less than what it should have been. So when she was scored after her routine, it looked like she was in fifth place. So her team made an inquiry.
00:48:27
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And the judges realized their mistake, corrected it. It placed her in third. She got the bronze medal. She stood on the podium, took that amazing all black woman podium with Simone Biles and Rebecca Andrade from Brazil, who won gold. And great, that was five days ago. Now,
00:48:51
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The Romanian team challenged that, saying that she's said her team submitted the inquiry too late. You have one minute to submit an inquiry about your score. According to I Don't Know Who, she submitted the inquiry a minute and four seconds. So she was late. First of all, if the inquiry was late, why did they accept it? Because they knew they had made a mistake.
00:49:20
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that made a mistake and that she had earned and deserved the bronze medal. And so they corrected their mistake. Well, the Olympic court has ruled in favor of Romania that the inquiry was made too late and they are asking for Jordan's medal back. If I was the Romanian gymnast, I wouldn't want it.
00:49:45
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um because I didn't earn it with my score. my perform My performance did not earn a bronze medal. Jordan's performance earned a bronze medal. And so for me to get it on a technicality, to me, just undermines all the work that we've all put in to get to where we are. I don't wanna win something on a technicality.
00:50:14
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I want to win it because I earned it and I deserve it. So now forever, her bronze medal's gonna have an asterisk next to it.
00:50:24
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um I'm sure this is incredibly traumatizing for Jordan Chiles, who ah posted um yesterday that she will be taking time away from social media to focus on her mental health. Because she's already home. Like, she already is home. got her met She's home. So to ask for it back when she earned it is incredibly unfair. there's only There has never been an Olympian who has had their medal Rescended never there's only two ways to do that is cheating or doping she did neither She earned that so I 100% stand with her I believe I Saw this do not quote me on it, but that her team is fighting it um I sincerely hope that they do because
00:51:19
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Technicality or no, it was the judge's error in the first place, not Jordan's. I don't think that she should be penalized when she earned her medal. She earned it. Like it's not a situation where, oh, they raised her score, but it would, they made a mistake. No.
00:51:39
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And you know, you could bring race into it. I don't think this is a racial issue. I think it's a greed issue. But I mean, also I feel like as for the Romanian team, like I get the embarrassment. You thought you got the bronze, you got your flag or running around with it, taking pictures and stuff. And then a moment later to find out you're actually in fifth place. there um I'm sure that's,
00:52:08
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I'm sure I'm positive that that was embarrassing and upsetting. But you also earned that score. So I have a variety of different things going on in my head. The first and foremost, judges, y'all had one one job to do. And it's not the first thing in the Paris Olympics to where y'all have Boy, the whole thing with them locking out Shelly Ann Frazier Price and Sha'Carrie Richardson. Well, that's the committee. That wasn't the judges. So you're you're talking about the Olympic comedian. I'm speaking. I'm talking about the Paris Olympics ah period. There were several issues. There's some issues, yes. I'm talking about the judges. They had one job to do. okay ah You know me. I look at things from all point of view. It's really bad for Jordan. You stood up in that podium and you got the bronze medal. yeah And you legitimately earned the bronze medal. yeah I felt bad for the Romanian gymnast because and there was a point because of the judges' error that they felt like I'm a bronze medalist. The easy solution is both get the bronze medal.
00:53:25
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because they both legitimately have a claim to it. If the judges had never been pointed out their error, Romanian won it. Whether it's a technicality or not, Romanian won it. Once the error had got point and pointed out, Jordan legitimately won it. So I think this is an instance where they both deserve the bronze medal. I feel, I especially feel bad for whoever came in for. Right. Because good because they was like, wait a minute.
00:53:55
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They they get talked about being bronze medalists. What about me? Actually, let me correct. it It looked like Jordan was in fifth place. She was actually in third. I believe the Romanian gymnast got moved down to fourth place. Okay. All right. Okay. was So the the solution is they both get a bronze medal. I feel bad for Jordan.
00:54:14
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Yeah, the judges screwed this up. Yeah. The judges screwed this up. And I feel like that's the easiest solution. Both of them get a bronze medal. And it would be great if the Romanian government got together with the US government and did like a joint press conference where they took the picture together as bronze medalists. Jordan should kind of understand as well that the Romanian gymnast also went through something. They both got robbed. They tried to do that. Oh, they did. And the Olympic committee said no.
00:54:43
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ah Okay, so the committee is is is messing up. Hey, so you was right. Committee, dropping the ball on this one. Again. Well, this is a sad story, but you know what it is a good story? What's that? Armani. Kaleef. Kaleef won that gold medal. A did biologically from birth woman, won the women's gold medal in boxing yes after everything that she was going through from an emotional and a mental standpoint, persevered and won that gold medal. So shout out to Amani. I don't know
00:55:26
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and So I'm on social media. Yeah. And there is a lot of bots. There's a lot of Russian and Chinese bots that are purposely, if you guys think it's not real, it's real. A lot of the people that you think you're talking to are bots created by the Russians and Chinese to show, to sow dissent in the American society. And they have been doing a fantastic job because we all can't stand each other. But we never really.
00:55:52
Speaker
This is true. It's always miss him it's always been some The Civil War was only 160. It was less than 200 years ago. So but when really that this country is really not old, that's four maybe four generations, probably three. So yes, a lot of times people that are on there that you're arguing with aren't real. People don't argue with them. But i do I still see a lot of these bots saying that Amani is male. And it's just like, I don't know how much more information you need.
00:56:20
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Honestly, just watch her press conference after winning the gold and you will see a woman who went through immense bullying.
00:56:34
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And harassment was um refused a spot at the at Worlds for baseless reasons. Once again, it's controlled by the Russians. Yeah, ambiguous and vague reasons. um And she is nothing but graceful. And um All she did was ask for people to uphold the Olympic principles and to stop the bullying and harassment of athletes. She wasn't even speaking ah just on behalf of herself, but of all the athletes who have experienced harassment and bullying, um particularly online. And I don't i i am immensely proud. A lot of people, for some reason, think
00:57:28
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that they're in a rivalry with America. No, we literally love, we love, not an underdog, but yeah, like an underdog story. Like we love it because that's who we were at one time. Well, there's a bunch of factors of what people may feel like, and there are some Americans who are not happy about this. One, she comes from a Muslim country.
00:57:52
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to whatever the question was and or social media that was false. There are still some people who are not getting the corrective information and still think it's, it's, it was a man. It was a female. So, and I'm going to believe that a lot of the furor, the furor. Yeah. yeah Um, from say what fervor fervor. Thank you. From the the talk of about her gender. I'm going to believe that a lot of it was American because that's a part of our cultural war right now. I think it's bigger here. That culture war is bigger here than it is just about anywhere else. A lot of the prominent names were British. ah Well,
00:58:36
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prominent turfs and other people. ah But yeah, there were Americans doing it, but as far as like us supporting other athletes from other countries, particularly Americans of color, we will support other athletes from other countries. Like well obviously um underdogs USA all day, right but if we're not in it, if we're not in the competition, who who we're rooting for somebody.
00:59:05
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with. Okay, we gonna root for somebody. It's probably, you know, not gonna be Australia anymore, because they're hating on us. But y'all in that night yourselves, by the way, like, we don't consider you rivals. but ah They hating on us because of the sorry ass breakdancer.
00:59:24
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Listen, and the fact that y'all, I don't know if it was the prime minister or whoever that came on and said, she is the best brick dancer female that Australia has to offer. I love her and she shouldn't be subject to this bullying harassment. It's okay to not participate.
00:59:48
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in an event. America doesn't participate in every single event. We don't send an athlete for every single event. Sometimes we just don't have one. Right.
00:59:58
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or they don't make qualifiers or whatever, you don't have to send somebody for every event. Well, they can have pride in the fact that this breakdancing represented it. And the bullying is the bullying. Hilarious. But it's ah as DeChappelle has said, everything is funny until it happens to you. So yes, it's hilarious. Yes. But if we were being treated like that on social media, it wouldn't be funny.
01:00:28
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But here's the thing. Are we bullying her or are we just putting the video of her? No, it's the video and then the comments in the context. And yes, we are. you I mean,
01:00:46
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ah She tried her best. but there was I think critique critique of athletes on the global stage in global competition is fair. Critique of athletes is fair. some Some athletes would say, hey, some of it's not fair.
01:01:03
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and ah mean sayinging like hey This wasn't good because of this maneuver, or she didn't pop locked this way because of this maneuver. She was not good enough to be in that competition period. Because the Australian male that they put up was great. He was amazing. She should not have been up there. And y'all embarrassed her and yourselves by putting her up there.
01:01:35
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I just feel bad, I feel, you know me. I didn't have an answer. Yes, you are bleeding heart, and I get that. But nobody put a gun to Australia's head and said, send somebody for the female portion of the breakdancing competition or else. Did she see video of herself breakdancing before she went to the Olympics? She is actually a professor at a university in Australia, and she teaches cultural studies, including the culture of breakdancing.
01:02:04
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Oh, OK. But you didn't expect to teach her that. Yeah, because those who can do and those who can't yeah to teach. And that's where that was her lane. That's her lane. And I bet you she is and like emphatically enthusiastic about break dancing and probably hip hop culture. And she probably teaches an amazing course on it.
01:02:33
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That's her line. She should not have got up there bunny hopping, which is not a break dancing move. What if her country came to her and said, we want you to do this? And she was like, I don't know. And it was like, be good for the country. She should have said, I believe there are other dancers in this country who can better represent us in break dancing than me.
01:03:02
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because I'm going to get up there and flail around and roll around on the ground and embarrass myself and my country. ah And really make what was the debut of breakdancing kind of a joke, which sucked because there were a lot of really great dancers who competed. You're right. You're right.
01:03:25
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um Yeah, you you wouldn't. There's also this video. I forgot what country he's from. His nickname is the eel. If you watch Olympic highlights with Kevin Hart and Keaton Thompson, they show a clip of this man from, I forget which Olympics. I want to say maybe Rio.
01:03:46
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He is a swimmer, his nickname is the eel. He dove in that water and it took him 45 minutes to swim the length of that pool. It was the slowest possible, it was and embarrassing. He should not have been there. Okay? Should not have been there. It's like, if you sense, hey, the US men's four by 100 relay team,
01:04:12
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who in every year for the last 20 years, every Olympics have either dropped the baton or mishandled off that baton and not meddled. And they didn't meddle this year because again, the same thing happened with the baton. They don't need to be like, Carter Lewis said, this is abysmal. They don't need to be on that track.
01:04:36
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unless they can hand off the baton properly. They don't have any business on the track if they can't do that. And the problem is, is we had a relay team that we use for qualifiers and semi-finals and everything, and then you replace them with stars for the finals. And these stars are too busy worrying about their individual thing to think about what's best for the team. yeah And she and whoever sent her were thinking about themselves and that was best to represent their country. And the best, if she was the best they had to offer, they should not have sent anyone to compete for the female portion of breakdancing, period. Because everybody is laughing at breakdancing, which is an art form that has been around since the 70s.
01:05:26
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of course invented and developed and popularized by black Americans. Black and Puerto Rican. Black and Puerto Rican. Got it gotta to give a shout out to Puerto Ricans out there. Yes. Who are also black, so. um But. And American, so. but um Even though they compete separate in the Olympics, but whatever.
01:05:49
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ah And people have dedicated their lives to this. And so to get this platform like to choose dancing, to be in the Olympics, and them not go with something like ballroom, right? For them to have chosen breakdancing, trying to appeal to younger people, and you know trying to open it up. For y'all to make it a joke.
01:06:15
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like You've really heard it as a sport. And it might not appear again. yeah in the Olympics. Well, speaking of embarrassment, let's move to our final topic. We're going to make this brief. I saw something on the internet, on social media, and I shared it with you. And I was like, I kind of want to talk about this because I want to hear your perspective. It was a meme.
01:06:39
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In the meme it says, men don't like big celebrations for their birthday. They just want to do whatever they want to do that day and everybody respect it. And I was like, huh, that's interesting. It's important to the note that it's a woman who's writing this. Right. It was important to know that it was a woman that was writing it. And then I went into the comments and men and started commenting on this. Some of the comments was, because y'all will call a dude gay if you wanted to celebrate.
01:07:05
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Okay, you'll call a guy sassy or zesty if he wants to celebrate his birthday. It's considered not mentally to for men to celebrate anything, unless it's a celebration of somebody else, but not to celebrate themselves. and It would be called, it'd basically be called, they'd be deemed as less of a man celebrated. And I never thought about that, but men do not. First of all, let's let's talk about
01:07:39
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Uh, what is the pejoratives? Is that the right word? I don't know what you're trying to say. So maybe the pejoratives, I think, what does pejorative mean? Uh, it's a pejorative is like a negative, um,
01:07:58
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sentiment. Let's say that. Yes. Yes. Okay. So I had to write, uh, by using gay. Yes, they're using gay as a pejorative. as yes Using gay as pejorative to to make to make it be something as negative when, fact of the matter is, why can't men call up their boys and go out to dinner and celebrate their birthday? Women do it all the time. Why is it that men have to be zesty or sassy just because they want to celebrate themselves? I find it hypocritical
01:08:31
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that women are constantly saying men need to be hard in certain areas, but soft when handling them. Yeah. In other words, understanding their emotions, understanding what a woman is going through that requires ah a a a balance of emotional intelligence that they are not allowing some women, some women, and some women are not allowing men to have within themselves. And how can how can women expect that when men aren't doing it themselves? It's not a switch that you could turn on as you could say, oh, now I have emotional intelligence to handle you. And it was a lot of women in these comments that are saying, yeah, men can't do that. Men can't do that. And by the way, I would not date any of these women.
01:09:17
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Because if you want to restrict me or say I'm not manly because I want to do certain things like, oh, wear pink. Yeah. Or decorate my house with artwork. And and I found it interesting because. Artwork does not Jordan dunking. Right. Or a Nike swoosh. Right. I found it interesting because I know I've said it on the show. Part of the reasons why I didn't do theater in high school, though.
01:09:44
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I kind of secretly really wanted to was because I didn't want to be called as less manly because I was going to do something artistic. yeah And here I am now doing something artistic, but I wasted 30 years because of this connotation of, well, that's not a manly thing to do. Now I've just got that big age where I just don't care. But there's a lot of young men out there who are being forced into a certain
01:10:13
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Uh, I don't know. Box. Yes. They're being boxed into a certain characteristic of what is perceived as manly and he even fostered by other men. It's not just women. Other men will call you out as well. And that's, that's disheartening.
01:10:31
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Yeah, the answer is simple. It's the patriarchy. And guess what? Men and women can be bound up in that and and can be sexist um because society is telling you in order to be considered a man, these are the qualities and traits that you have to have. Your value lies in what you can provide or contribute, nothing else.
01:10:56
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Right? if fit Literally nothing else. Your value is in what you can provide. And these are the ways that you can present as a man. And that's it. That's it. And people, men and women, believe this. And it keeps everyone, particularly men, but everyone from living their best life.
01:11:25
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That's the point that I was trying to make. That's the point. We talk about authenticity and being your authentic self. And it's tough, right? yeah You succumb to peer pressure because society says that you should be a certain way. yeah And in some instances, society say says that you should be a certain way, and it's absolutely the way that you should be. But there are a lot of instances where it's stripping away who you are as a person where society is wrong.
01:11:53
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yeah, societies are right when it says don't go go out there commit crimes and hurt other people. That's definitely universal thing that society says, don't go do that. One of the ways a society is wrong is by saying this is the only way that a man can be and this is the only way that a man can present or woman or woman can present and you must adhere to these principles of what we deem as manly and feminine.
01:12:19
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And no, that's not how people are. My bestie has i more masculine traits than she does feminine traits. Yeah. She has BDE. If you don't know what that is, just Google search and I'm not going to say it on the show. She has BDE and she ain't even got no BDE. Right. But that's the energy. It's the energy. She's an alpha female.
01:12:48
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ah Well, my theory is nobody's truly alpha or beta. It's all circumstances. Yes. It's literally just your response to a given situation. You are always a different person. You're constantly changing and evolving. The way I respond to something today could be totally different than the way I respond to it tomorrow. There is absolutely no The alpha beta thing is not a real thing. I tell people that all the time. It's not a real thing. Because guys are always quit saying, I'm an alpha. I was like, OK, you're an alpha. If I punch you in your face right now, I bet you succumb to the fact that you're a beta in this moment. yeah I say that all the time to dudes. Because I'm like, OK, well, I'm bigger than you. I'm stronger than you. And my hands, even though they're a lot slower than they used to be, are still quick enough to punch you in your eyes. So in this instance, are you an alpha or a beta?
01:13:38
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Well, well, well, well, well, well, nothing. So that idea of you being an alpha is not correct. Another instance where you're not an alpha. Can you handle going to jail? Because there's a bunch of men in there that consider themselves alpha. Would you be an alpha in jail or a beta? Would you be an alpha or beta in the military? Most men that enter the military are betas because you have to follow orders. Yes.
01:14:03
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There is a pecking order, and you are not at the top of it. Right. In life, there's always a pecking order. At your job, you could say that you're an alpha male, but do you have a boss? Right. Because you played a beta role in that scenario. So, like, yeah yes.
01:14:17
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and and and People need to realize there is no such thing as being strictly alpha or strictly beta. It's all circumstances. And sometimes also men want to celebrate things. Sometimes they don't. I had a gathering last year. It was one of the most uncomfortable situations for me to have a gathering for my birthday. But everybody was saying, hey, let's do something for your birthday. And instead of doing 10 different things, I said, I'm going to just see y'all all at once because this is the only time I want to do this.
01:14:46
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right And I did it. And this year I decided not to do it. And then I had to do 10 different things all at once. And I hate them both. But yeah so but this but that's anxiety. check that essence but but That has nothing to do with how you feel about yourself as a man. And I will say this, I will say this to men, listen, every woman ain't healed. And it's okay to be like, you ain't worth a damn and keep it pushing.
01:15:15
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Just let her find another toxic man and they can be toxic and sexist together. if If that ain't for you, it ain't for you. Keep it pushing. That requires men to have a certain level of emotional intelligence. And we are very visceral creatures. And we will stay in a situation as long as a woman looks good because the woman looks good. And that is also patriarchy because it is this idea of having an attractive mate as a trophy.
01:15:50
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Right? To walk her around. Who is she attractive, that attractive for? Ooh, are you saying that I suffer from patriarchy? Because I get a kick when I'm with my significant other. Most men hate it when their significant other is being stared at by other men. I'm always like. Most men hate it because they're not as large as you.
01:16:15
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And so, you know. I would say not as secure. I'm pretty secure that I can, if I got a baddie, I can get another baddie. So if she decide to leave me, I'm not tripping. There's the insecurity piece of it, which is definitely the large piece of it. But another thing is the intimidation from other men.
01:16:34
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Right? yeah It's a way that like, a common way women deflect attention from men is to say you have a boyfriend, right? Because men don't respect your no, but they'll respect that there's another man there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I never thought about that. Yeah. So that's why we be lying to y'all and say I got a man. Sorry. Oh, you know, but I know earlier, we didn't mean one more for damn. Yeah.
01:17:04
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Alright, so men out there, if you want to celebrate your birthday, go celebrate your birthday. Don't care about what other people say. That's actually alpha mentality is to not care what other people think of you. and Just do you do what makes you happy. As long as you're not hurting other people. I need to put that caveat to people who are Oh, I like to hit women. That's is not what I'm talking about. No, no. Do what makes you happy as long as you're not hurting anybody else. Well, I like to play yourself. That's that's you. That's you're hurting me. You're hurting people that so that's not what I'm talking about. Have a bigger brain than that. But Jay, when do you want to tell the people out there? Were you at the nail shop or any public space?
01:17:47
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You don't have to be talking on speakerphone, especially when what you're talking about is whether or not some guy gave your friend herpes.
01:18:05
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That's a private conversation that you don't need to be having next to me while we're sitting here at this nail shop. Have some respect and decency for the people around you. Have a little bit of social etiquette. Put your AirPods in and have that conversation. That's not a speaker phone conversation for everybody up in the snail shop to hear. Get yourselves together. Have some self-awareness.
01:18:33
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That's all I can say. On that note, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. And until next time, as always.
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