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(From 4/14/25) @BALLandBUDS "The Professor's Semanalmente #27"
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Omar's Birthday and Travel Plans
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Peace with the millions!
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That world heavyweight float Championship belt Wrapped around my waist yo I got that Ric Flair, fake it float Slam you on the face hip That's why they call me Street Pro Create heat on beat float Like Jordan after the Created by this micro Lights, cameras, get low Active bag, back to bag In fact this monster will grow Y'all better let em Sports Professor.
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Yo, yo, yo, what up, what up, what up, friends? You know who it is, Omar, the Professor Fonseca, and yes, we are back with another installment of The Professor's Seminal Mente.
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a Yeah, your baby, your boy's in good, about your baby, your boy is in a good mood, baby. Let's get it rocking and rolling. You see me, usually I come booted to the nines with a suit on, but it is my birthday week.
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Ah, yes, it is my birthday week, and I will be going. to cover WrestleMania in Vegas. Then I'll be going back to Virginia to see all my friends and family. Then I'll be going next week to Costa Rica with some of my boys after that.
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Back to Virginia for a week and then off to Puerto Rico to go see La Familia. So your boy will be traveling back and forth here and there. Jet Shletton.
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Oh, Jet Shetton. Reminding you a little bit of who? ah We know who. We know who's coming next. Our boy. Give it to me. Give it to me, Rick.
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steam
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one Yes, yes, you already know that is how we are going to get down on my vacation. So you see, I'm already tropicaled out, ready for Costa Rica, ready for Puerto Rico, ready for Vegas, ready for all of the amazing times to come through
Engagement and Promotion Strategies
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Huge week. Huge. I wish I could do a better Donald Trump voice. Huge week. for balling buds. All right, y'all, tonight you got the professor on with you. I'm a hit you with news, entertainment, and sports today. Yes, we're going to talk masters winning Rory winning the Masters. We're to talk NBA, NHL playoffs. We're going to talk Donald Trump, our weekly update on his tariffs and the world response to those tariffs. We're also talking Ukraine and Russia. I will give you update on the Iran nuclear negotiations as well. Today's going to be jam-packed.
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I'm going to try to fit fit it it all in in an hour. because I know the go home show for Raw is tonight and I know all my wrestling fans going to want to be watching that. I will see you all Vegas this weekend. If you're watching, please hit that like button, maybe a laugh, maybe a heart, little love laugh, home decor photo, whatever you want to call it.
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Easter and Papal Health Update
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that. All right, let's kick this bad boy off. First of all, Update, I know we've been giving updates what because Easter is Sunday, right? Easter is Sunday, Good Friday, Friday, Easter Sunday.
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You'll hear from maybe, ah you'll hear some of your Christian friends saying he is risen ah to ah annotate the rising of Jesus Christ after the resurrection and the ascension into heaven.
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So that is what you will hear when they say that. So happy Easter to all of my fellow Christians out there. But update on the Pope, looking very good, came out to the ah crowd of the Vatican this past weekend.
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No oxygen, ah you know, The pump thing that he was using beforehand, he did not have that on him.
Tax Day and Personal Anecdotes
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So hopefully he is getting back stronger and stronger every day. Prayers up to the Pope.
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Tax day is tomorrow. Do not forget tax day. If you have not filed your taxes, you can file an extension that will get you through October. But you need to make sure that you do file that by tomorrow. It is free to file extensions.
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Cool? All right.
Rory McIlroy's Historic Masters Win
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Again, as I mentioned, this week is a big week. Tomorrow night, Bottom Line Sports. Check us out. Join the Facebook group. We will have NFL and DMV insider Shane Peter.
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We'll talk Alex Ovechkin. We'll talk all things DMV as well as do an NFL mock draft. And Wednesday, banter, brawls, bravado. WrestleMania edition, hot take, Jake, Shane Petra again joining us for a second day in a row. And our boy, Wild Car Marr, will be spitting on WrestleMania on Wednesday. And then finally, Sunday, y'all.
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Sunday, if you want to tune in, Clubber D, the combat G, and yours truly, we will be doing a live reaction to night two of WrestleMania. So you'll be able to see us laughing and making jokes and doing all this craziness all Sunday evening. Join us then.
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Okay, here we go. Let's start it off with our sports coverage ah for the day. ah What Pops? Appreciate it. Thank you for tuning in. Again, make sure you all hit that like button for me. It does help us out.
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ah And if you owe, you have to send an estimated payment. Yes, you are supposed to to send an estimated payment if you owe money.
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ah I can't say necessarily that they will penalize you for that because I've actually done that before where I owed and I didn't send an estimated payment and I just filed the extension and paid it later and they never said anything. But don't try to be a rebel like me.
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I am a bad boy. i am a bad person. You may not live my life. because your parents wouldn't like the way you ended up. All right, I'm just joking. All right, let's keep it moving. Cool. Masters this weekend, what happened?
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Rory McIlroy finally got the monkey, the dog. huge gorilla off of
Rory McIlroy's Personality and Skills
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his back. Yes, Roy McIlroy is now a four, well, he's a now an all four major winner, which means he's won the Grand Slam in golf as he's won the US Open, the British Open, now called just ah the Open, the PGA Championship, and the all-heralded Masters this past weekend in Augusta.
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What happened? rory mcelroy This is the only tournament he hadn't won. The last time he won was in 2014 when he won his his last PGA Championship.
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Ten years without a title. Ten years, and he had never had this one. And boy, everybody was hyping him up to win it. All the legends at the pre-game dinners and things, or at the pre-tournament dinners, were saying how they expected him to win because he's playing the best football.
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golf of his career, and surely he has been. Let's start it off and let's set the scene for you. Beautiful Augusta National Golf Course. I mean, I'm telling you, I was there this past weekend.
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It is beautiful. The hues of the azaleas are tremendous. All right, 5.38 p.m. Sunday evening. Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose tied at the top of the leaderboard.
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Rose goes up a stroke. And then at 557, a three-way tie, including Ludwig Eberg, excuse me, Ludwig Eberg,
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um So now we're moving from being in a tie to being in a three-way tie. Is starting to slip away from Rory, or is it at six ten the greatest seven iron of McIlroy's life, leading to a birdie on 15, p.m., 20-foot birdie putt from Justin Rose on hole 18,
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team to go down or to stay one stroke behind. x 6.53. No, no, no.
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You've got to be kidding me, Rory. texted my pops and I said, uh-oh, this bum is going to blow it again like usual. And look, am I the biggest Rory McIlroy fan in the world?
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No, not really. I think he's kind of smug and cocky and arrogant. i don't really care for his personality that much. Kind of reminds me of a Novak Djokovic in tennis. ah but he's yeah He's an amazing golfer. and That's really all that matters. No one needs to to like you ah for you to be ah to be a great golfer. So anyways...
Emotions and Celebrations of McIlroy's Victory
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six fifty three all he needs to do is make par on 18, and he gassed the putt. He misses it.
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He misses the pump to go tied and to have to go into overtime. All I could do was shake my head in disbelief, thinking, geez, Louise, this guy is going to blow it again.
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um ah So yeah, Albatross was getting fat. Yes, it was all over that neck. Amul, shout out. Thank you for tuning in, my brother. Well, see, you missed the beginning of the episode and that's okay. You would have heard all of the things about my birthday plans, including going to Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. So that's why you see your boy in a tropical getup because I'm a little ready for my birthday a little early. Stella about to get his groove back, if you know what I mean.
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It I-Y-K-U. okay YK, is how the kids say it these days? I don't know. All right, I'm not a kid. I'm a grown-ass man. Let's keep it moving. He did withstand a lot of criticism, and you know what?
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Even though he missed that putt on 18 to have to go into overtime with Justin Rhodes, he made a birdie on the first hole, and Justin Rhodes could not tie him, and Rory McIlroy finally takes home the coveted Masters that he's missed forever.
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for so, so long. Salute to Rory McIlroy for a... and That was a... That was a performance of a lifetime because like was mentioned earlier, that albatross around his neck, ah you know, was getting a little hefty and he could feel the weight. And when you saw him miss that putt, you could just see it in his eyes.
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Just you could see was everything starting to fall apart. He starts wondering. But then once he hit that putt and you saw the emotion come out, he yelled a primordial scream. What a great word for a Puerto Rican on a live TV show. primordial.
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primordial scream from Rory to the heavens. Let it out. His wife, his kids come over. They surround him. It's a joyous scene, a joyous occasion. So salute to Rory McIlroy. Hey, salute to Bianca as well.
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Shout out. Y'all type in with Bianca and Rock Chalk True Crime. If you like true crime, all y'all true crime lovers out there, check out Rock Chalk True Crime, the best true crime podcast on
NCAA NIL Policy Changes and Impacts
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YouTube. Hands down.
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Salute Bianca. Y'all hit that like button. But yeah, we did we did like what McIlroy did. And what he also did was become only...
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the sixth member to join the Grand Slam club, including Tiger Woods, obviously, Gary Player, Ben Hogan, Gene Serrazin, and the immaculate and great Jack Nicklaus in winning the career Grand grand Slam. So, you know, that's that's really good, and especially for his future Career earnings. He already makes a lot of money with endorsements, and he just started the TGL with Tiger, the Indoor Virtual Golf League.
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He also has Nike, TaylorMade endorsements, but all the other people on that list of Grand Slam champions went on to do so much more, like building their own golf courses and other things. So putting on that green jacket and even more having sports,
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The major, the the four majors, puts you on an extended platform above anyone else in golf's history. So that's just all it is. All right, cool.
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Hey, shout out. There it is, Rock Chalk. Yes, leaving that DNA. I appreciate it. Y'all make sure you leave your DNA on the stream as well. ah Hit that like button for me, please, if you're watching. And yeah, check out True Crime.
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Rock Chalk if you like that True Crime podcast. ah Yes, you already know. Yeah, how about that? Your boy called it. Hey, look, Clubber D was 4-1. You know, I got to give it to my boy because he's the expert. He is the UFC, and m MMA, boxing expert, combat sports expert. So I got to give it to him. He was 4-1 in his picks this past weekend. His club bang is...
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But he got one wrong, and your boy, the sports professor, got it right. I was not going to go against my boy Volk, and he did it, outlasting Diego Lopez in an electric bout.
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But how about our boy Patty the Batty as well? Patty the Batty got it in with it masterful, masterful performance over the team. OG Michael Chandler. he is no He is no soft cookie. He is one tough cookie.
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And Patty dismantled him. Dismantled him in a performance that, I mean, he came Michael Chandler came out bloodied and bruised, and Patty Pimlin was walking like he ain't even had broken a damn sweat. So shout out to both Volkanovski and Patty the Batty.
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um So, yeah, and thank you all for tuning in. All right, let's keep it moving on. In our next sports story, wow, this is this hits home.
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This is right here in Tennessee. Shout out to the Knoxville, or shout out to everybody in Knoxville there at the Volunteers. um But University of Tennessee had a huge, University Tennessee, huge, huge, huge crazy story but this weekend. So what happened?
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Their star quarterback, and I pronounced his last name, I practiced his last name all day today, so I really hope I don't butcher this, Nico Ayamayaleva.
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Boom! Nailed it! Let's go! i nailed it. Ayamayaleva, Tennessee's redshirt sophomore quarterback, surprised volunteers, coaches, and players when he did not show up to spring practice on Friday.
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Why? Get this, y'all. Seeking a new NIL contract, and he decided to hold out.
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Could not believe it. Yeah. Hey, he got taken out. Bryce Smith got taken out. Doug Nasty, that's what I mean. He got taken out. He got choked out.
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And it was crazy that ah they I read an article or I was saw a video earlier. Dave Portnoy who was there, was raising, waving the Israel flag after he got put to sleep. So I was like, ooh, well, guess he shouldn't have said all that stuff about the Holocaust, did you have?
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They're talking about none of that here. But anyways, yeah, so the end contract, he holds out. He doesn't show up to practice on Friday. and Could we imagine this, y'all, 15, 20 years ago?
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i mean, for the love of everything, Bear Bryant would be rolling over in his grave if he heard something like this.
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kids These kids are now holding out for millions of dollars. And let's be completely honest. He is not even a proven commodity yet. Now, granted, as I always say, here in the United States, this is society built off of capitalism.
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You make whatever somebody's willing to pay you. The market value of what you are worth is what you should try to get. Now, we usually hold that.
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strictly professional ranks. But since the NCAA for so long held down, and y'all know how I feel about this. If you've watched The Mind of the Professor, if you've seen any if you've seen me talk about it at all here on this channel about the NCAA, first of all, I despise the NCAA.
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They're one of the worst and most corrupt organizations on the planet. And the fact that they held on to the but with the buoyancy, what another great word for a Puerto Rican on a live TV show, the to the to the bullshit concept of amateurism,
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since the early nineteen hundreds When they started amateurism and decided that college students were not professionals and therefore not entitled to compensation and strictly only entitled to a college degree, they decided that amateurism was the name of the game. And that held strong for 100 years until the O'Bannon case. Ed O'Bannon at UCLA. Shout out my Bruins. A clap.
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And O'Bannon, when they started to try to get the NIL deals for the NCAA basketball video game. It started an avalanche. It started a snowball effect.
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To now, if you remember last week on this very program, I told you about Claudia Wilkin, the judge in California who's now to be ah deciding on the NCAA amateurism case, which, by the way, I might as well update you on that right now.
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ah she She came back and told them that she would approve the NCAA going forward with all the colleges having a kind salary cap of $20.5 million dollars that they can give out to students, whereas there will be no more n NIL collectives and things like that.
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She said she's going to approve it as long as they fix the roster limits because what's happening now is NCAA wanted roster limits, and what was happening, unfortunately, was a lot of kids were who were relying on scholarships in order to stay in school, were getting their scholarships taken away because of these roster limits.
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So a lot of students were losing their ability to not only play the sports they love, but even go to school anymore because they didn't have the scholarships. So she said that has to be fixed to allow those players to be grandfathered in, which I completely agree with. That is unfair to any student, and we should not.
00:20:24
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First of all, If you've watched any of my programs, including the mind of the professor, we shouldn't have to pay for school at all.
Debate on College Education and Athlete Compensation
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I believe college degrees should be free from the government.
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i I believe the government should give free schooling and free health care. Just my opinion. May not agree with it. May be unpopular to some. That's what I think. If you really want to have a workforce that is more intelligent than the rest of the world, we'll start by giving it free schooling.
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only makes logical sense to me. And that's coming from someone who also last week said college degrees aren't necessarily worth as much as they were in the past. And that's not to put down a college degree. I have two college degrees and I am very proud of both of them.
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But I also could have probably gotten my job without the degrees. Did they help? Sure. I'm sure when I was put up against the other candidates, my degree might've put me over the top. But honestly, for what I do, marketing and things like that, um,
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You don't need to have a degree. It's more about the experience that you have. That being said, tangent over. That was the update on the NCAA. That is going to happen. We are going to have this salary cap in the future, which is going to be needed because it ties into this story, y'all.
00:21:40
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$4 million? Okay. okay As you always know on this program, I'm going to give you both sides of the coin so you can make your own ah decision.
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He holds out. He was making $2 million dollars last year, which, by the way, for a 2.5 million, thank you. I appreciate you you you correcting me there. He was making $2.5 million last year as a sophomore quarterback who had only started one year, mind you.
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Now, he did take Tennessee to the playoffs last year, and if it wasn't for him, Tennessee would not have been in the playoffs last year. So there is that to be taken into consideration.
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But, $4 million, bro? You couldn't have just asked for an extra half a mil? Like $3 million, you probably would have gotten from the NIL collective.
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I mean, yeah, you took them to the playoffs, but man, you're still not proven. You could have a bad year next year and and have a sophomore slump, even though you would be a junior, because you redshirted.
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So, okay. So again, let me give you all sides of the story here. Tennessee said, Hail to the nod. That ain't happening. ah The coach, Josh Heupel, said we're not going to start that trend. He's gone. So they have released him, and he will hit the transfer portal Wednesday when the transfer portal opens.
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Just to let you all know, word on the street from my sources tell me that south Southern California, the FUSC Trojans, are in the number one spot since he is from California.
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He also got Indiana. a surprise playoff team last year, or a surprise top 10 team. that They did make the playoffs. That's right. They did make the playoffs. Indiana and North Carolina with Bill Belichick is said to be targeting the kid, which makes no sense to me because I would think Bill Belichick would be the ultimate person that didn't want to deal with any of that.
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But, you know, hey, who the hell am I? Only the professor, of course. So, Can he be fined for that? Right. ah No, unfortunately, they're not going to take back the money they already gave him, but they released the hell out of his ass and told him to take a hike.
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And so, again, he's going to hit that transfer portal Monday. It's getting into, it is. The NIL money is very, very lucrative, but also a ugly mess, and that's what I want to get into today.
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So there's a couple ways to look at this. First of all, you look at this from the side of schools. Tennessee was right to not allow this to happen, because if they start the trend and allow this to happen, then other schools would have to start to make the same concession, and and it's eventually going to happen.
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One school is going to make this concession at some point. But that's why they need this NCAA ruling to come into place where they can have a salary cap so that way they don't have to worry about this per se.
00:24:38
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So the issue is, though, that let's be completely honest about this, y'all. NIL was never supposed to be free agency.
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It wasn't. It wasn't supposed to be professional free agency. NIL was put in place for athletes to be able to make money off of their name, image, and likeness, signing autographs, doing autograph shows, ah you know shelling ah doing commercials for local car dealerships.
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Things of this nature was the original original intention. But since then, has spiraled into a cavalcade, another great word for a Puerto Rican on a live TV show, cavalcade of what could be no less or more described as a complete wasteland from where they originally intended to be.
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Now, again, with the NCAA being one of the most corrupt organizations in history, No doubt, I don't care about how the NCAA has to back pay this, what kind of things come out to a fallout from the NCAA, because for all I could care, the NCAA could disband and I'd be completely happy with conferences and schools managing themselves.
00:26:03
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The NCAA at this point is nothing more than a hindrance to everyone getting to where they want to be, which is everyone getting paid, because it's very rich. and it's And I say this, again, exclaiming that asking for $1.5 million more was probably a little bit too much, bro. You should have just probably went to $3 million. But again, get what you're worth.
00:26:24
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Another school is going obviously pay him. Three or four, because he's going to go somewhere else and request and request the same amount. And if you want to be a national championship contender, you'll pay him.
00:26:35
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Because let's be honest right now, Tennessee is not going to make the playoffs next year. There's no way on God's green earth, even if they go out and get the Baylor kid QB that they're trying to poach, which is just another problem with NIL now, because now they're going to go poach Baylor's QB or they're trying to, then where's Baylor going to have a QB? And this is all happening as spring practice and spring games are starting this weekend.
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Nothing more can be described as a mess, but at the same time, I cannot feel bad for the NCAA. They put themselves in this position with the bullshit amateurism.
00:27:09
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Students always deserve to get paid. Athletes always deserve to get paid the whole entire time. And the fact that they held them down for so long, well, good. I hope they get screwed.
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I hope the NCAA gets screwed and they have to pay back a lot of money, which they are They're going to have to pay back, ah you know, I believe. I'm going have to check the amount because i don't want to say the wrong amount. but hundreds of millions of dollars in back pay to athletes going back to, I believe, 2014 when these lawsuits started.
00:27:38
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And that's good. Those kids should get paid. And kids should be getting paid because a college degree is not worth enough for what these student athletes have to go through. Not only are they expected to go to class, but they're also expected to practice 40 hours a week, do games, study, and work on their craft. like that's up Those are two full-time jobs.
00:27:58
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They deserve to be paid. Now, is this what was going to come from that? Yes. Is this going to need to be fixed down the line? Yes. i Do I believe that this Supreme Court case is going to end up fixing it?
00:28:13
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I believe it will go a long way to doing that. Yes. But in the moment in in in the meantime... We're stuck in a place that is only going to continue to get worse.
00:28:26
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Nico Ayamayaleva is not a bad person for doing what he is trying to do. He's trying to get what his market value is. and And really, it's probably not even him. It's probably his people that are pushing him to do this. But at the same time, fine, get what your what you're worth. I'm not mad at you.
00:28:46
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you know i mean? I'm not mad at you, kid. But this is only going to continue to get worse. It's not like he was the only one that did. This is happening in other places right now as we speak with other players in basketball and football.
00:29:01
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This is just the first story we heard of it. But if you think there's not 50 other people like him right now talking to their schools and have been, you're you're you're not thinking logically.
Unionization and Rights of College Athletes
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Because I can tell you basketball school just ended. And I can tell you my school, UCLA, we had to let our seven-foot center a day Mara go because he wanted too much money at NIL and they weren't willing to pay him.
00:29:27
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UCLA, one of the richest schools in America, was not willing to, which good for them, I guess, don't pay him. I mean, I'm sad because we needed his seven-foot ass on the court next year. He would have made us a damn Final Four team, and we might not be that now without him, but he wanted too much money in the NIL.
00:29:45
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So ah Rock Chalk, Hunter Dickinson with KU was making sick money and not that great in my opinion. Right. But you saw what he did. He left Michigan where he was making lots of money to go to Kansas because they were like, well, we need someone to fill up that fog, you know, ah what do you all call it? The... um Oh, man, the, what's it called? Help me out.
00:30:11
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I know you're a Kansas fan, so I know you will. What's it called? It's not called an arena. It's called the, anyways, you'll tell me. So, anyways, he got paid. Kansas was willing to pay him more than Michigan was willing to pay to keep him.
00:30:24
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Right. So it is it is preposterous. And, yeah, show me the money is the theme. But at the same time, again, these kids were held down for so long without being paid for basically working a full time job.
00:30:40
Speaker
um And then what? And they're expected to go to school. Then what? They got to try to work a part time job at McDonald's just to get a little bit of money whatever. God forbid, now they're out here selling dope or having to do something else because we're not providing them with what they need.
00:30:57
Speaker
You know what I mean? it It is. ah ah Welcome to capitalism. Very much so. But again, NCAA, and that's what I'm saying, it is so rich for these administrators, for coaches, for Coaches who leave their schools high and dry to go to another school and make so much more money?
00:31:20
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no I don't want to hear that from any coaches. That's very rich coming from coaches who go to the highest bidder, right? Administrators. Schools.
00:31:31
Speaker
These schools are rich as hell. They don't need less money. They don't need more money. They need to give money away. So all of these organizations that are making money hand over fist are not willing to give it to the students.
00:31:48
Speaker
And now that the student athletes have gotten some sort of hold of control, some sort of momentum towards getting paid, now it's blown up into, all these kids are starting to, you know, these millennials, oh, they want all this. enough
00:32:07
Speaker
Wait a second. Wait a second. What are we talking about? If we allow administrators, NCAA, coaches, all of these things to go to the highest bidder, and we are going to allow kids to get paid now, why should we not allow those kids to get money that will go to the highest bidder?
00:32:30
Speaker
Why are we going to ostracize or ah desecrate these kids, and they are still kids now, Remember, these are still kids in college, but they are kids that deserve to be paid if they're going to have to play a sport that makes billions of dollars for other people to get rich.
00:32:53
Speaker
But then they can't have their hand out for a little piece of the pie. Sorry, I don't agree. So while I don't agree that Niko Maileva should have asked for that much more, I would have gone with the half a mil more and asked for three if it was me personally since I'm already making two and I'm a sophomore in college. I'm doing pretty well for myself.
00:33:17
Speaker
ah But at the same time, get your money, playboy. Get your money, bruh. Bruv, as my boy Will Ospreay would say.
00:33:36
Speaker
Cash rules and everything around me. Creep the money. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Shout out to the Wu-Chang Clan.
00:33:48
Speaker
I mean, y'all might, you know what mean? Like, back up that Brinks truck.
00:33:57
Speaker
Back up the Brinks truck, baby. What did they say is in in Jerry Maguire? Show me the money.
00:34:10
Speaker
Show me the money, baby. You want me to come out here and take your school to a playoff, which is only going to make the school millions and millions of dollars richer, and you're not willing to break me off another million of that?
00:34:26
Speaker
Olive. Chuck the deuces and be out. Chuck the deuces and be out. That's where we are. It is the Wild West right now.
00:34:38
Speaker
The NIL has caused free agency. The transfer portal has caused free agency and basically poaching and trading from team to team. It is the Wild West right now.
00:34:54
Speaker
Outlaws and gunslingers out here. Just fighting in the saloons.
00:35:03
Speaker
You know what mean? Thank you, Bianca. I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. I mean, it's just logical to me. If someone is making a lot of money off of other people who are not getting any of that money, it would only make sense to me that those people are going to start to want some of that money. It's the same reason we have unions in this country. And if you watch this program, you know I'm pro-union.
00:35:28
Speaker
Because unions help employees to get the rights and benefits and money that they truly deserve that the corporations who are making money hand over fist are screwing them out of. And I know it's a conservative liberal thing. Conservatives don't like unions. Liberals do.
00:35:43
Speaker
has nothing to do with that. You watch this show, you know I hate both parties. All politicians are scums, as my boy Francis Long was saying. Shout out, by the way. Francis, I love you. Thank you for my new microphone and my new camera.
00:35:55
Speaker
You are amazing. I love you so much, my brother. um Politicians, all. Lies, cheaters, and scums. Woo! Or snakes. Right? they're in for it They're in it for themselves. They're in it to make money for themselves.
00:36:11
Speaker
No different than these schools, than the administrators, than the NCAA themselves.
00:36:21
Speaker
Thank you, Rock Chalk. Allen Fieldhouse. The Fog. That's what it is. The Fog. Named after your legendary Hall of Fame coach, Bill Fog. who, by the way, I learned um because Kelvin Sampson tied him in career wins last week. That's how I actually learned that fun fact.
00:36:38
Speaker
Well, thank you for that. And thank you all for tuning in. Morning Wombat. Shout out to the professor. Salute to you, my friend. You're always tuning in, and I really, really appreciate it. Stay tuned for the news.
00:36:50
Speaker
You know, we got to go back and forth about our our weekly U.S. update. I'll be getting to that in just a moment here. Ah, yeah, see, my community, we're all friends of each other. I love it.
00:37:03
Speaker
All right. Let's keep it moving. That is what I think right now.
Critique of NCAA and Call for Reform
00:37:07
Speaker
Again, if you want to hear more about how I feel about the NCAA, I did a mind of the professor on this about six months ago.
00:37:14
Speaker
So if you go back and look for the mind of the professor where I talk about the corruption of the NCAA, I did a whole 30-minute segment on this. So please go check this out. I'll probably be doing an update here.
00:37:25
Speaker
I'm probably going to wait until the NCAA court case is done. And once that's done, I'll probably do an update on my next mind of the professor. But again, it's easy to point players ah fingers at the players for valuing money over tradition or loyalty or God forbid, and and a free education.
00:37:41
Speaker
But if everybody else is doing it above me,
00:37:47
Speaker
I mean, you tell me to respect my elders. You tell me to follow the lead of people who know better. I'm just doing what I see.
00:38:00
Speaker
I'm just doing what I see the people that are leading me, the people that are supposed to be the leader of these men and women. I'm just doing what they're doing. You told me to follow their example.
00:38:13
Speaker
I'm following their example.
00:38:17
Speaker
not my fault they're crooked. And now you want to be mad at me and call me crooked? Eh-eh. Eh-eh. No siree, Bobby.
00:38:30
Speaker
Mm-mm. Not on my watch. You're going to pay me what you what i'm what I'm worth. That's what you're going to do. You ain't going sit here and make all this money off of me.
00:38:43
Speaker
Because believe me again, Tennessee is not a playoff team. They will not be in the playoffs next year. Why? Because they let this guy go. Now, again, it was the right thing for them to do because you do not want to be the first school that lets that through.
00:38:59
Speaker
It's going to happen. And I'm yeah i'm i'm actually, i anticipate, I want to see who is that first school that's going to give into that pressure. Obviously, it's got to be a richer school that can afford it.
00:39:11
Speaker
But I wonder who is going to be that first school. It seems like something the Ohio State University would do. Right? Doesn't that seem like that? The Ohio State University. That seems like something. And I'm sorry, all my The Ohio State University friends.
00:39:25
Speaker
You know, i love you. But that seems like something your school would do. Or Penn State. Apparently, Penn State is about to start blowing everyone out the water with NIL.
00:39:37
Speaker
Apparently Penn State is loading up, which is why we need these salary caps because then it's going to get into, okay, well, obviously the richest schools are going to have the best teams and then we don't have that parity of competition.
00:39:51
Speaker
So we definitely need to get this NCAA Supreme Court case solved or this court case solved, Claudia Wilkin, and have it so it' we start to regulate these things because it is. It's the unregulation.
00:40:04
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Right now, it's a wild west of things that are happening, which is not allowing us to.
00:40:15
Speaker
It was overcompensation, right? The NCAA held student athletes down for so long, and now student athletes want their their recompense, right? They want their comeuppance.
00:40:27
Speaker
They want their yeah recompense. They want their what they're owed. It's an overcompensation, yes, and it needs to bring back breath be brought back to equilibrium, which it will be eventually.
00:40:43
Speaker
But right now, this is only going to continue. So, Claudia Wilkins, I mean, i personally don't care, but I know there's a lot of people out there that are probably very much hope that you make this decision very, very soon.
00:40:56
Speaker
So, yeah. And so what is the other recourse that they have to do anything? There is none. At some point, some school is going have to give in. Some school is going to have to give in.
00:41:10
Speaker
So we'll see ah which one that is. So let's take a listen listen to someone what some of these hypocritical coaches had to say, weighing in on this. Miami's Mario Cristobal, who is definitely a school I could see doing this, considering they have a damn illegal NIL collective right now that was paying out millions of dollars before it was even legal to do so, so even though he wasn't there at the time. He was at Oregon coaching, but still.
00:41:37
Speaker
He says if anyone's thinking that they could be the best player in the world if they want to hold out, they might as well play get out. We don't do that and don't want Miami to become that. I'm going laugh when they eat their words because I can definitely so see Miami being a school to do that.
00:41:51
Speaker
LSU coach Brian Kelly, very rich from Brian Kelly, who freaking just left Notre Dame a few years ago to go to LSU because he said he didn't have the money and resources to win at Notre Dame.
00:42:05
Speaker
came out and said, this is the first version of the correction. And I think we're going to see a lot of this. It's a new world. We're going to navigate the best we can, but there are going to be other situations that are going to come. And he's completely right about that.
00:42:20
Speaker
Just like I just said, this is not the only person that is in this situation.
00:42:29
Speaker
I mean, is it disruptive? Yes. Yes. But in order to in enact change, there has to be disruption. The revolution doesn't always have to be televised in order to make an impact.
00:42:47
Speaker
Now, this one is highly televised, so I guess that ah metaphor didn't make too much sense there, but I always like using that metaphor. So there we go.
00:42:57
Speaker
Anyways, we'll see more complaints, more pleas to Congress. We're not going to see anything change. He won't be able to line with another SEC team as the conference has a February 1st transfer deadline.
00:43:09
Speaker
So he has to transfer to another conference tomorrow. that will allow him to transfer for at this point of the season, which is just a whole other set of crap at this point, is the the transfer portal.
00:43:24
Speaker
Like, they've got fix the dates of this transfer portal. You can't have the transfer portal open when football season is still going on because then you have players sitting out of bowl games and not going to play because they don't want to get hurt for their new school, and you've got coaches doing this. Like, oh y'all got to fix this.
00:43:40
Speaker
Y'all got to fix the whole thing. Whole situation. Whole situation. Let's get some comments here. Morning Wombat. Can we please have a boxing? Yes. Preview live stream for Ben versus Eubank next week.
00:43:56
Speaker
The stream was 86. Skywalker Clubber D was fantastic. Back in February for BVOL. Better be dose. ah Yeah. You know what? Let me talk to Clubber D. And I think we will be able to make that happen. I will actually be back.
00:44:10
Speaker
with my brother, Cleber as I'm going back home. And we are we grew up together, so that is my brother from another, literally. um So I'll be seeing him this weekend. Actually, I'll be hanging out with him Saturday, so I'll talk to him about that, and well ah we might be able to get get that together with the boys. We'll see if they're good, by the way.
00:44:29
Speaker
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00:45:04
Speaker
All right, cool. So now let's move into another podcast. ah Or some more sports stories. Oh, and I completely forgot. I'm over here just yapping my mouth, although I'm kind of glad now that i think about it that I didn't have this up because I kind of wanted y'all to have me full screen there.
00:45:22
Speaker
um But let me go ahead and bring up my, ah you know, I like to have my little news portion of of things. So let me go ahead and bring up my PowerPoint for y'all. but yeah, we're going to move it on the NBA playoffs. I have the bracket here on my PowerPoint.
00:45:36
Speaker
Okay. ah So i want to bring that up. You know, the professor, we like to learn you here. The NBA play-in tournament starts this Tuesday and goes through tomorrow and goes through Friday with the NBA playoffs starting on Saturday. day So let me go ahead.
00:45:55
Speaker
And like I said, i want to bring this bracket up to y'all so we can show you the play in tournament matches that we have. And then we'll go into a little bit. Oh, yes. No doubt. Thank you, Rock Chalk.
00:46:07
Speaker
moboxing no problem salute your Mo Boxing, no problem. no problem. Love them. I've partnered with them on a lot of social media and other things. So salute to Mo Boxing, no problem as well.
00:46:19
Speaker
We are definitely partners with them as well. So shout out happening with them. so again um i didn't You didn't get to see my Rory slide, I'll go ahead and bring that up for you now. Now you get to see it. You see my hard work that I did earlier and didn't get to use it.
00:46:34
Speaker
There's my other hard work. I'm going to make you look at it because I did take 10 minutes to make the damn slide, but that was for the end. I just completely forgot. um But that's okay. I like to go full screen sometimes, and now that we've talked about it.
00:46:47
Speaker
Tennessee and Nico Ayamaya-Leva. Rory McIlroy, Masters win. That's for later when I cut it up. All right.
00:46:57
Speaker
2025 NBA playoffs. Now I am going to make this bigger. If you cannot he hear me when I go off screen, please somebody tell me, but I want you to be able to see this. So here are our NBA ah play in. Let's go ahead and check this out here.
00:47:14
Speaker
So you can see. In our play-in tournament, we have the Kings at the number nine seed versus the Mavericks. That's over here on your top left side. Yes, the Dallas Mavericks are at the 10 seed.
00:47:28
Speaker
And you say, Omar, well, unless you've been hiding under a rock, you know what happened. But the Dallas Mavericks in one of the truly horrendous events
00:47:43
Speaker
episodes of when a franchise becomes a trader to their star player, traded their star player and one of the best players in the league, Luka Doncic, to the Lakers for injury-prone Anthony Davis, which, by the way,
00:48:00
Speaker
This is going to be akin to the Babe Ruth curse against the Red Sox. But man, oh man, the Mavericks supremely screwed themselves on this one.
00:48:12
Speaker
And the Mavericks went all the way down from where they were when they traded Luka, which was a third seed, to the tenth seed. Why? Multiple injuries happened. And again, this is just an overall curse that is going to screw the Mavericks for, I don't, I don't see them winning a championship for the next 50 years for this.
00:48:33
Speaker
Uh, but anyways, And they're going to lose here to the Kings. ah mayor ah Then you got, and looking down at the bottom, number seven Warriors versus number eight Grizzlies.
00:48:45
Speaker
I appreciate you, Canteen, my brother. Thank you. I forgot to tell you I was going live. Canteen always shares me in the in the Bottom Line Sports group. If you all like ah sports news and trash talk, join the Bottom Line Sports on Facebook.
00:49:00
Speaker
We talk a bunch of trash, post a bunch of news. Thank you for getting me, brother. I appreciate that. I should have told you earlier. um So Warriors and Grizzlies down here on the bottom side, 7 and 8.
00:49:12
Speaker
Warriors suffered, ah Jimmy Butler suffered a bad ankle injury yesterday. It was bad watching him hobble around out there. But I do not think that affects the Warriors.
00:49:23
Speaker
The Grizzlies as well are in a free fall with... them firing their coach, Taylor Jenkins, a few weeks ago, and now John Morant trying to trying in every single which way possible to get banned from the NBA by pointing guns and throwing grenades, which, by the way, I think is terrible.
00:49:44
Speaker
Hilarious. But I'm also not the m NBA. And I'm sure Adam silver Silver does not find that to be funny at all. um Anyways, Warriors win that one. Moving on to the right-hand side, you got the Bulls versus the Heat, the number nine Bulls, number 10 Heat.
00:49:59
Speaker
Go Bulls, says Bianca. I agree with you. I got the Bulls here. That's just because I hate the Heat so much because they beat up my Celtics so much when they had LeBron back in the day, which, by the way, yep, shout out to my pops. Go Celtics.
00:50:12
Speaker
ah We will be there for another finals game this year, hopefully game seven this time around. ah Rob Chalk, Nuggets fan, of course. Of course, yes. Love me some Nikolai Jokic.
00:50:24
Speaker
Hopefully he's a Celtic after his contract is up. Me and my pops were talking about that the other day. Nuggets still looking good, though, even though they as well fired their coach a week before the playoffs, which makes no damn sense. Anyways, Magic, Hawks, lower right-hand corner.
00:50:40
Speaker
I mean, in terms of who I want to play as a Celtic fan, I want to play the Hawks. Let's be honest. The Magic are a much more physical team than the Hawks. The Hawks are a finesse team.
00:50:51
Speaker
I'd rather my team be able to blow out a team that's a finesse three-pointing squad like we are, except not even nearly half as good as us. So the Hawks are a wannabe low-budget version, a broke low-budget version of the Celtics.
00:51:06
Speaker
And so... I'd rather face them because I think it'll be an easier easier win in the series, and I want to save our wear and tear for the second round. um So, yeah, that is your NBA playoff bracket.
00:51:20
Speaker
Please, y'all, again, tune in to the bottom line sports tomorrow night. We are going to cover the โ this whole playoff bracket, we will give you all of our predictions and give you our championship games and championship winners tomorrow night, the Bottom Line Sports, 8 p.m. Eastern. Again, join at the Bottom Line Sports on Facebook, or you can watch at Ball and Buds on YouTube.
00:51:43
Speaker
ah Rock Chalk, I like CB. Okay, good, good, good. I hear that, yes. Josh Giddey fan. Okay, all right. Coming from ah from a female fan.
00:51:54
Speaker
Very interesting. ah We won't get into why that is on this program, but... If you don't know what Josh Giddey has been accused of, ah you can go look it up. I'm not going to disparage the man's name on here because I don't know that those charges are to be true.
00:52:12
Speaker
In the United States, you are innocent until proven guilty. And so as far as I as far as i know ah we don't know We don't know the outcome of what actually happened, but he has been charged for things that if were to be true, I personally wouldn't be a fan of him. But again, alleged allegations.
00:52:38
Speaker
But again, coming from a female, that's very interesting, Bianca. Very interesting. Okay. He's Aussie. Ah, yes. That makes sense. Ah, I'm putting the two and two together because Bianca is from Australia.
00:52:51
Speaker
Can't wait to go visit. What an amazing place. It seems like I can't i can't wait. But anyways, yes. ah Yeah, go check it out. um He's been alleged to have ah inappropriate relationships.
00:53:07
Speaker
Let's just say that. And from there, you can read on and and go look it up to anybody who doesn't get that. I think that kind of puts it out there for what it kind of is. But, yes, you salute. You are welcome.
00:53:19
Speaker
I am here to teach. The professor is here to teach. It is all good. That's why I'll come to this show to be learned a little bit. Yeah.
00:53:29
Speaker
Yep. It'll change your mind. yeah Yeah, yeah. Sorry, I didn't want to burst your bubble, but i'm actually actually, I'm not sorry. I'm glad that I informed you because you know what? If that changes your mind, then obviously you needed to know that so that way you could make an informed ah decision. But yeah, not a good look if it's true.
00:53:49
Speaker
Not a good look if it's true. All right. Anyways, we'll talk more about that tomorrow, including the fakers when I talk about hot take Jake and his bum-ass Lakers and who how they're going to get their asses whooped by the Timberwolves in the playoffs.
NHL Playoffs and Structural Suggestions
00:54:06
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So look forward to that. Moving on, NHL as well. The NHL playoffs will start here in Just about four days.
00:54:18
Speaker
ah We're ending the season here in the next couple days. This is the playoff bracket. If the playoffs started today, shout out to The Athletic for this wonderful playoff, but both wonderful playoff brackets that they provide us today.
00:54:34
Speaker
I subscribe to The Athletic for all of my sporting news, the most comprehensive news outlet for sports on the planet. I recommend them very, very highly, The Athletic.
00:54:45
Speaker
all right. 20, that's how I know so much. That's how I get all these stories and know all these stats and things because the athletic is my informant. ah there um They're my ah they're my my my rumor mill.
00:54:59
Speaker
um Anyways, no, I do have connections. All right, so NHL playoffs. Let's look at this real quick. First of all, Y'all see it? Oh, all you're going to the Nuggets and Clippers. Rock Chalk shout out. Yes, that's going to be amazing. That is going to be a great game. Now, I wasn't going to give my pick until tomorrow, and this is going to upset you a little bit, Rock Chalk, but the Clippers are playing some of the hottest basketball on the planet right now.
00:55:25
Speaker
And with Kawhi healthy, to one. ah I'm sorry. Y'all fired your coach a week before the season. That makes no sense to me. It's just so illogical.
00:55:37
Speaker
I have to pick the Clippers. I have no choice. um But good luck to you. Good luck to you. You know what i mean Good luck. Good luck. oh This girl, Jamie, I used to work with. Shout out to Jamie if she's watching, which she's definitely not.
00:55:51
Speaker
But if she was, ah good luck. She used to just say that every time I came into work. ah good look All right. Go Capitals, says my pops. Yes, everybody back in the DMV rooting for Alex Ovechkin in the Capitals. I'm not going to lie.
00:56:05
Speaker
if i If my Kings were not in the playoffs, I would be cheering for the Capitals as well to win. But you see my Kings? They're on the left-hand side. Tonight, we play the Edmonton Oilers. If we win, we get home ice advantage against them, which is extremely important because the Edmonton Oilers have beaten us the past three years in a row, and I'm getting really sick and tired of losing to this stupid team.
00:56:31
Speaker
By the way, that brings me to another point, NHL. Re-seeding. Re-seeding, NHL! Please, for the love of everything that is holy, please start re-seeding.
00:56:42
Speaker
Please, we cannot have, and not even re-seeding. Before we even get to re-seeding, which is a whole other issue, Conference seating out of the wild card is even more important.
00:56:54
Speaker
Why do you make conference teams play each other out of the wild card? That makes no sense. We're playing these teams. you art Now, granted, in the NHL, you play pretty much every team twice, at least once.
00:57:06
Speaker
But this is a team that now we have played four years in a row in the playoffs. No one wants to see that, NHL. No one wants to see the same matchup every year. And I know I'm saying that because we've lost every year the past few But still, still don't want to see that, okay? It's not just the losses.
00:57:22
Speaker
It's because that's just something you don't want to see. All right? We need a variety of matchups. A variety. Excuse me. We still have the other coaches.
00:57:35
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that's true. You still do have the rest of the coaching staff. That's a good point. um And, yeah, i do I do think that Mike Malone is a little bit grating. I could see how he would be a little bit grating on the nerves after years of coaching.
00:57:49
Speaker
I just don't think it's smart to do it a week before the playoffs. I think you ride that out. He already won a championship for you once. You ride it out. Hope he can pull that magic out one more time. And if not, get rid of him after the season.
00:58:01
Speaker
I mean, do you really think the interim coach is going to do better than the coach that's been the coach for the past seven years and won you a championship? Seems pretty illogical to me, but, you know, they don't call me the professor for no reason.
00:58:14
Speaker
Anyways, um and I don't call myself that sometimes. All right. If you can't hear me again when I go off, let me know, but I want to make this bigger so y'all can see it. NHL playoffs, you see we got the Vegas Golden Knights up there at the Minnesota Wild.
00:58:29
Speaker
um You've got the Winnipeg Jets at the third down on the left versus the St. Louis Blues. Shout out to the Winnipeg Jets. They won the President's Trophy as the best team in the league with the best record, beating out the aforementioned Washington Capitals.
00:58:46
Speaker
the and and The Winnipeg Jets had 55-win, 22-loss, 4-tie record. ah They beat the Capitals, who had 50-50 wins. So they beat them by 5 wins.
00:58:59
Speaker
So shout-out to the Winnipeg Jets there. All right. um And finally, Dallas Stars versus the Colorado Avalanche down there on the bottom left. On the right-hand side, you've got the Toronto Maple Leafs versus the Ottawa Senators.
00:59:14
Speaker
Then moving down second on the right, you've got the Tampa Bay Lightning versus the defending champion Florida Panthers. Third down on the right, again, the aforementioned DMV Washington, D.C. Capitals versus the Montreal Panthers.
00:59:29
Speaker
canadians And then on the bottom right-hand side, you've got the Carolina Hurricanes versus the New Jersey Devils. Now, I would like to point out one crazy thing here is if for some reason the Canadians do not make the playoffs, if they get if they don't meet the playoffs as an eighth seed, they're we may have NHL playoff without an original six team, one of the original six franchises, which is just wild considering those are some of the greatest and most prestigious franchises in the NHL. Now, the problem is a lot of those franchises have hit on hard times, especially since no Canadian teams have won at the NHL Cup. I believe it's
01:00:19
Speaker
The past, I think it's been like eight to ten seasons. I don't remember the exact stat. I remember talking about it on this episode a while ago, but I don't remember. think it's been eight to ten years. A Canadian team has not won, so.
01:00:32
Speaker
Yeah, not good not good for them. So we'll see what happens there. But, yeah, that is your NHL playoffs as we start right now. Also starting right now is the WNBA draft.
WNBA Compensation and Broadcasting Updates
01:00:47
Speaker
Yes, Paige Beckers will be the number one pick tonight. So if you're watching, it's go to it actually just started, I think, about 30 minutes ago. So she's probably already been picked.
01:00:57
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but she definitely got picked by the Dallas Wings as the number one pick to pair with Ogumba Wale, who is an amazing player, and they have another pick in the top 10, so they should be able to turn their franchise around pretty quickly. Another team or franchise that should be able to turn around quickly Quickly, another DMV team.
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The Washington Mystics have three top ten picks. Yes, three top ten picks. So hopefully they'll be able to remake their team. But anyways, the aforementioned Paige Beckers will be the number one draft pick in the WNBA draft. But...
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Even better for her, she has signed with Unrivaled. Yes, Unrivaled we know is the new startup three-on-three league that I talked about many times in this on this program while it was going on in its first year or first season that just ended. It is a three-year deal for Beckers, and get this, y'all, get this.
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Paige Becker's three-year deal with Unrivaled, her first-year salary, the first year alone, will exceed all four years of her WNBA earnings.
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What?
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What? Are you kidding me? um ha
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How does that make any sense?
01:02:22
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How does that make any sense? You mean to tell me? The WNBA, who granted doesn't make a lot of money, definitely not NBA money, but they're backed by the m NBA.
01:02:34
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The WNBA, who has rich owners, don't think that they don't, cannot afford to play their players more than 100,000, whatever is the, i think fifty thousand is the minimum salary, you can't pay your players enough so they don't have to go overseas to China and Russia and get arrested like Brittany Griner or whatever.
01:02:56
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Instead of having those situations because you don't pay your players enough, you mean to tell me a three-on-three league is going to pay more in one year than you pay your best players in four years?
01:03:12
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That is completely unacceptable. They don't have near the monetary resources or backings that the WNBA does. Hell, Unrivaled was started by WNBA players currently.
01:03:28
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Literally. Unrivaled was started by Brianna Stewart and a few other ladies, and I apologize for not knowing everybody's ladies' names off the top of my head.
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But a group of ladies that are still current WNBA players, not getting paid enough, by the way, somehow, some way, were able to forge up enough money to pay their players more.
01:03:54
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Now, granted, they don't have to pay as many players. Yes, I get it. I know. You don't have to tell me that. The professor understands these things logically. It's a three-on-three league. Their rosters are like five five, six players. They've got...
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Eight teams, 50 players at best. Yes, the WNBA has, you know, 200 players. So, yes, it is about four times the amount of players.
01:04:20
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But they also have four times less, probably more, of the resources or monetary value that the WNBA has. How does that make any sense?
01:04:35
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Come on, WNBA. Gotta be better. I've been saying this for a while. And now with the new media rights deals that y'all got? No!
01:04:46
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Start paying your players. We don't gotta keep talking about this. Corporations trying to hold their players down and not pay them what they're worth. Back up the Briggs truck!
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Back it up!
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yeah yeah What a surprise.
01:05:09
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cheap rich ass owners. Why do the richest people in the world got to be the cheapest? Bastards don't ever want to help the poor people. Don't want to even pay their own workers.
01:05:21
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It's very rare to see a rich person give back and they should. answer Yes, thank you, Bianca. Two minutes ago, she says, Paige Becker selected by the Dallas Wings two minutes ago.
01:05:32
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Appreciate the live update. Hey, I love it. Thank you, Bianca. Very much appreciate that. So there you go. She's going make more money in Unrivaled. yeah Who the hell am I?
01:05:45
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Who the hell am I? Western Michigan. Shout out to Western Michigan University topping Boston University to win its first ever NCAA men's hockey title. Yes, they beat the vaunted Boston University. So shout out to Western Michigan, who I believe...
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Don't quote me on this. I'm really good with college mascots. I know most of them. actually took one of those college mascot IQ tests, and I think I got like 100 out of 120.
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I believe Western Michigan, i know they're a Bronco of some sort, like a horse. I want to say they're the Broncos. I want to say they're the Western Michigan Broncos.
01:06:33
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but I could be wrong, but I'm picturing a horse of some sorts. Someone look up for me, the Western Michigan University, ah please. Oh, yes, more updates. Look at this.
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Number two, Seattle drafts the French woman, Dominique Malonga. Y'all, this chick is going to be crazy They're calling her the female Wemba Nyama.
01:06:59
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She's not just because she's from France, but because she's very tall as well. She's like I want to say. And she's balling. Balling.
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So they got a future Wemba there. Number three, Mystics. We talked about Sonia Cintron out of the University of Notre Dame. senior out of there. Very good player.
01:07:21
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She is exactly what the Mystics need. And the Mystics, don't be stupid here, Mystics. You better draft homegrown prospect Cheyenne Sellers, who played for University of Maryland, my alumni,
01:07:37
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Shout out to my alumni. I went to the university. That's where I got those two wonderful degrees from the University of Maryland. Shout out to my Terrapins. Y'all better draft Cheyenne Sellers, Mystics.
01:07:48
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Don't let the Baltimore native go to another state or another wherever. All right. Two more notes here in sports. Damn, I should have just done a sports and a news episode because it looks like this one's going to run a little bit long, y'all.
01:08:03
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Looks like we might have a two-hour episode in us today because I still got another hour at least. I still got to go through all the news. and We got a lot of Donald Trump to talk about. Reese Dave is sticking with ESPN's iconic college game day after an all-out effort by Fox What happened?
01:08:20
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Fox Sports tried to lure Reese Davis from yeah ESPN to join their big noon kickoff. You will know that Reese Davis has been the main guy on college game day for a long time.
01:08:31
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He's also been with ESPN, get this, for 30 years. Usually ESPN doesn't hold on to anybody that long, but they've held on to Reese Davis and they did it here.
01:08:41
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Apparently seven year deal worth tens of millions of dollars. So he's getting that, uh, Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, uh, Pat McAfee type ESPN money.
01:08:54
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So shout out to Reese Davis for getting that bag. Uh, just, Speaking of, the aforementioned Stephen A. sch Smith, ESPN's forecaster Stephen A. Smith announced on Sunday, with all the talk, propping him up as a presidential candidate.
01:09:12
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He's an independent. I love me some Stephen A. Smith. I know my pops disagree. He's not a Stephen A. spat fan, but I am. I consider myself to be in the Stephen A. ilk. That's what I'm trying to do here.
01:09:24
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I started this program... Pretty much, not that I had already been doing the audio version on the podcast a few years ago, but I started the video one once I saw Stephen A started doing it and was going out of his lane from sports. I was like, well, I can do it too then.
01:09:39
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And that's why I've been doing this show. So thank you to Stephen A, but he's looking at a presidential run in 2028. Because he's not happy where the Democrats are and he's he's he's independent. He's not happy where the Republicans are. He doesn't want Donald Trump to be able to run for a third term.
01:09:57
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Hey, maybe, maybe I'd rather have maybe the rock or Oprah, but I'll tell you, I take some Stephen A. Smith.
01:10:08
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Now, maybe your boy, the professor will be a presidential candidate. At one point in time, I thought I could never be the president of the United States.
01:10:20
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Why? Well, let's just say I've had a little bit of a little bit of a rough go at it. Some different portions of my life and got myself into a little bit of trouble here and there.
01:10:34
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But shit, we got a convicted felon as the president right now. And again, that's no no slight against Donald Trump. I have no problem with Donald Trump whatsoever. I don't care about any politician. I think they're all scum.
01:10:47
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He's just like the rest of them. But, ah I mean, he's the president. And been convicted in court. If he can do it, why can't anybody do it?
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I guess it doesn't matter what you do in your past.
01:11:05
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Probably kill somebody and still become the president.
01:11:10
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I mean, shit.
01:11:13
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My ex-girl, one of my one of my exes, I don't even know if I should tell this story on air, but ah you know what? Nope. Not even going to do it. not That would have been a very bad idea.
01:11:25
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I do not need a defamation lawsuit on my hands. um There will be no U.S. by 2028.
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ah I mean, I might not have to disagree with you. Might not have to disagree with you there. um ah No, no, no. Never never convicted of any anything, no.
01:11:48
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But, you know, still, ah it just i'm just I'm using it as a point that it doesn't matter what you do in life, that apparently you can become the president.
01:12:01
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So, again, no, not not not I. Not I, my friend. ah But, yeah, I was a wild and rebellious teen. Let's just say that. I was a wild and rebellious teenager and 20-year-older.
01:12:14
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I got a little crazy there for a while. Let's just say that. All right, anyways, oh, look at that. I was right. Shout-out to my college mascot knowledge. It is the Broncos. I was right, the Western Michigan Broncos. Shout-out.
01:12:29
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All right. Cool. Oh, you're so stupid, GB. That's hilarious. Not all Raiders fans are convicts. You better stop that. The smirchment of the good name of my Las Vegas Raiders.
01:12:42
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ah That's great. All right. Cool. That's it for ah for our sports. But, yeah, we'll see what happens with Stephen A. Smith and if he actually, you know, ends up becoming a presidential candidate or not. We'll ah but we'll see what happens.
01:12:58
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01:13:27
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Up at the top, let's move it in to entertainment.
Social Media and Content Creation Trends
01:13:32
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Ernie for Prez. Are you talking about ah Ernie from mba ah NBA, inside the NBA, Ernie Johnson?
01:13:39
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I would love some Ernie Johnson as president. I love me some EJ. I hope that's what you're talking about. ah Anyways, all right, let's move it on. Entertainment, Instagram, y'all. For all you Instagram content creators out there, I got some good news.
01:13:53
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especially for those of you like me out there who try to make shorts, but for some reason your shorts turn out to be five minutes and you have to spend hours editing it down to a minute to get it under the shorts. No more shorts on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok are all now three minutes across the board. So make those shorts three minutes long if you want to. I know that's going to save me hours of editing in the future.
01:14:20
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So awesome. Also, Instagram is changing their watch time metric ah because what would happen is when creators like me who create longer reels and longer shorts that are, you know, three minutes long or whatever, or at the time a minute long, they would, Instagram would calculate the first 10 seconds of watch time.
01:14:45
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And they would say, okay, well, if you watched and the first 10 seconds of a 10-second short, well, you watched the whole thing, 100% completion. And they rank that as really good and boost you up in the algorithm.
01:14:57
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If you made a minute short and they only watched 10 seconds, you still got 10 seconds of watch time, but it was only 15% 18%. jis yeah um fifteen percent or eighteen percent 17.5% watch time.
01:15:14
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So you were penalized because you had 100% watch time versus 17.5% watch time, but the watch seconds were the same. So now Instagram has fixed this.
01:15:26
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Now the first 10 seconds is graded the same regardless of how long your short is. So that's really going to help the engagement and ah metrics and, um,
01:15:39
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ah percentages ah for people like me who create longer shorts because they want to create ah create more value for for the for the the user. Right? Cool.
01:15:50
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Oh, and being said, let's go and add this back up here for a a hot moment. um ah There we go.
01:16:00
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There's our slide for our ah Instagram and TikTok. Other news. Meta. Meta antitrust trial begins today. What is this, Omar, you ask?
01:16:12
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Let the professor learn you a little bit. regulate Federal regulators are arguing that Meta, also known as Facebook, monopolized social networking services by acquiring smaller rivals with the goal of squashing competition.
01:16:32
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Well, duh. What the hell do you mean? That's the whole point of competition. Now, granted, I get it. We don't want to have companies that are, you know, monopolizing industries so that we have to bow to one company. And yes, we, of course, we don't want monopolization, but you're telling me that because Meta bought out Instagram, because if you didn't know, Facebook does own Instagram, and WhatsApp, they do own WhatsApp, because they bought those two social networking sites, that they're trying to get a monopoly.
01:17:08
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Google owns YouTube, if you didn't know that. Google owns all this other crap. And yes, Google's actually going to go under a monopolization charge case and and in about a month here. They start theirs.
01:17:22
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But obviously they can't both be monopolizing. You can't have two ah monopolizers in the same industry. So which is it? Are they monopolizing and forcing each other out?
01:17:33
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Or are they still competing with each other? Seems like TikTok is doing a pretty do damn good job by itself competing.
01:17:42
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Now they got chinese china China behind them. And we've talked a lot about this here on this program. So we don't need to go more into that. But come on now, y'all. And look, I don't agree with Zuckerberg and most of the things that he does, especially the way he stole Facebook to begin with.
01:18:01
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If you've ever seen the the movie or you know the the ah the background, he stole it from the Zinklevoss twins back in Harvard when it used to be a rating how hot ah co-eds were, girls and guys at school.
01:18:21
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like i don't really I don't agree with most of Zuckerberg's things that he's done, but you can't tell me that just because he bought two social media sites that he's trying to get a monopoly when there's all of these other...
01:18:39
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ah sites out there that are still competing. So I don't agree with this. ah Zuckerberg asked President Donald Trump for to intervene, and he probably will because we know that they now that now President Donald Trump is in cahoots with all of these social media site owners, including Elon Musk, as we know, because they're all putting money in his back pocket.
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which there's no denying that no one is going to come on this program and try to tell me that's not happening because I i was born in the morning, but I sure as hell wasn't born this morning. I know ah trump is making money ah President Trump is making money off all those people. And whatever, as I said earlier, all politicians do it.
01:19:22
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All politicians are in it for themselves, their family, there they're their constituents, their pockets. They're there to line them and theirs' his pockets. And that's it.
01:19:34
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They don't care about you. I said that last week. I'll say it again now. If you think a politician cares about you, they don't.
01:19:44
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Hell, the only one I may argue The only one I may argue that even cares about people is probably Bernie Sanders. Probably Bernie Sanders is probably the actual the only one that actually cares about people in general.
01:20:04
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The rest of them? No. Not even. Yep. That's exactly what I was talking about, Pops. Meta in court today. That's exactly the story I was talking about. They're being charged with a monopoly as well as Google.
01:20:16
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I don't agree. um Bianca says I make a lot of videos, takes a lot of work, editing, especially for a long video. Girl, whoo! Chica, you ain't got, we are in the same boat.
01:20:30
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I spend hours, tens of hours every week. Every day I spend hours editing videos. Literally, not a day goes by that I do not spend at least a couple hours editing videos.
01:20:45
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After I get off a here, I'm going to download this episode and I'm going to cut it up so I can repurpose it and put it out on YouTube this week. And it'll take me a couple hours to do that because I cut it the segments.
01:20:58
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So then when you when I do a five-minute short because I want to get all this information in there, and then I'm sitting there for three hours making a one-minute video, pisses me off.
01:21:11
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So thank God they did this. Thank God. Oh, thank you, Lord Jesus. Yes, it takes a lot. It drives me nuts, too. Yo, I'd be so mad sometimes.
01:21:24
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I'd be like, screw you, you stupid computer. And it's not even the computer's fault. It's usually user error at that point.
01:21:37
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ah Cracking me up. Y'all hit that like button. Thank you so much. Moving on, a couple more notes here before we move into our USA, United States, Donald Trump news.
Blue Origin's All-Female Space Crew
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Blue Origin. Amazon. Amazon's owner, Jeff Bezos, his phallus or phallic-shaped rocket, ah also known as a penis-shaped rocket, ah Blue Origin,
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This morning, sent its first all-female crew into space. Yes, I was about to make a joke about how a dick rocket just took six ladies into space, but that's not what the ladies have told me before.
01:22:23
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Or is it? I don't know. But, wow, I hope I don't get canceled for that. All right, anyways, who was โ that's great. that That's be fantastic.
01:22:35
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I'm going to use that line next time I'm in a bar. Anyways, I should have used that yesterday. Shout out to the beautiful young lady I was hanging with yesterday. You know who you are if you're watching.
01:22:47
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I know you subscribed to the channel yesterday, so if you're watching โ I had a good time with you yesterday. I'd like to hang out again very, very soon. And I'd like to ah like to wake up with you hungover one day. That's all I'm saying.
01:23:02
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Shooting my shot out here. All right, anyways, CBS. cbs
01:23:08
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I can hear Clever D right now. CBS Mornings host Gail King and Lauren Sanchez, the fiancรฉ of Jeff Bezos, were on the flight, as well as Katy Perry.
01:23:20
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Yes, Katy Perry was on the flight as well. These are the first women being sent into space since 1963 when the Soviet Union... when the soviet union which is now Russia, sent ah astronaut Valentina Tereshikova on a solo mission into space.
01:23:40
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ah Shout out to her. A solo mission in 63 for a woman? That's amazing. Why have I never heard of that lady before? Shout out to her. Anyways. um Katy Perry, if you wanted to know, did sing.
01:23:53
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She did sing to her fellow astronauts while they were in space. Can anybody take a guess what Katy Perry sung in space today to her ah to her astronaut Co-astronauts.
Space, Music, and Cultural Reflections
01:24:12
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No, probably not, but that's my show, so I don't i don't care. Who's going to cancel me anyways? First of all, who really cares anyways? I don't think anybody don think anybody important is watching this show.
01:24:25
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um ah Not that none of you are important. You're important to me. I mean, I don't think anybody with the power to cancel me is watching this show, so whatever. um Flowers to the lovely lady. Yes, thank you, Bianca. See, you're always looking out for me, Bianca.
01:24:39
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I really like that. You're always looking out for me when it comes to the ladies. Yes! Shout out to Bianca. You got it. It's a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong, the great Louis Armstrong.
01:24:52
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Yes. Louis Armstrong, who sang What a Wonderful World. She has covered this before, and she now sang it to them all while they were in outer space for 11 minutes before they came back down.
01:25:07
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Shout out to her. I mean, hey, if you're going to be the singer, then ah yeah, you might as well do that. I mean, they possibly could. They're not going to do that. I've talked about way worse stuff on on this airways. Shit.
01:25:17
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Go back and watch the show from last Thursday. we were talking about a lot worse stuff. um I saw why they all had makeup on and jewelry. It was a weird loss. Yeah, it's funny you say that.
01:25:29
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So Katy Perry, in her interview before they started, ah to Elle Magazine, she did an interview. She said, we're going to all get dressed up. And I'm paraphrasing here.
01:25:40
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She said, space is going to finally be glam and that they were going to put the ass in astronaut. So... Yeah, hey, shout out to Katy Perry. She can get away with saying things like that, which I guess maybe I can't. but ah Anyways, whatever.
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Update on Minecraft movie. We talked about how much money they made last week in the first biggest opening of a domestic movie this year. Well, Minecraft made another $80 million in its second weekend to become 2025 biggest seller thus far at the domestic box office.
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You can see how much power kids have over their parents in making them go watch a movie like Minecraft, which while the actors in it,
Nostalgia in Gaming and Technology
01:26:26
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not bad. You got Jack Black, love me some Jack Black. You got Jason Momoa, not necessarily a fan, but ah you know a lot of ladies are.
01:26:34
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So good actors in the film, just not my thing. I wasn't a kid when Minecraft came out. I don't really get it. um I mean, I get it. ah get it's a virtual world where you can play with your friends and have all these battles and games. It's kind of like, I guess, when back in my day we had Nintendo 64 and 64, and we used to all used to play GoldenEye together online. James Bond, what a classic game that was.
01:27:02
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GoldenEye, probably... GoldenEye may be the best Nintendo 64 game of all time. Maybe. Maybe. I'm going to have to do a ranking on that one time.
01:27:13
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Possibly. But anyways, I do get that. So I do get it's the... the group ah The group dynamics that makes it. So I guess I just answered my question.
01:27:25
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But I still don't. I don't care for it. It's not something. And I've tried to play like the Roblox games before, like what the Minecraft characters are made out of. Because they have games that are made for NBA and NFL. Like they have a Madden version of like the Minecraft. I tried to play that one time.
01:27:43
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I couldn't even get to a game. I was like, I'm not doing this. I turned that shit off like a minute into i was like, can't. I can't. I can't. We have so much. the the way that the graphics are on games now, why would kids even play that? I mean, I guess, well, you know, i was reading an article the other day.
01:28:03
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about how kids these days, Gen Z and the new Gen Alpha, are actually going, they're dumbing down. So they're getting rid of smartphones and going back to, like, flip phones, and even some people are going back to pagers, which is tremendous.
01:28:22
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I never got to have a pager as a kid. uh, ah No shout out to my parents. And that's a shout at my my mom and my dad.
01:28:33
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They wouldn't allow me to have a pager when I was growing up, even though all my friends and my cousins had pagers at like eight years old. I wasn't allowed to have one. probably because I would have got myself into trouble anyway, so it's probably a good idea.
01:28:48
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But I never got to have a pager, so I kind of want to have one. I might bring the pager back back my myself. ah But ah so, yeah, kids these days are dumbing it down. They're getting away from the smart and going back into the old days. So we'll see if that continues.
01:29:04
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um 80s, Atari, yes, original Nintendo, yes, yes, yes, I am a 80s baby as well, so I know about the Nintendo and the Atari and all that that that great, great stuff.
01:29:21
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that Man, I mean, Atari really started off with with Pong and and what was the one? um I got it on my arcade machine back there. Yes, that is a Come here, Testudo.
01:29:37
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Yes, that is an arcade machine. And yes, it does work. Don't act like I'm a broke ass. You can... ah You can be lucky or get dusty. It does it does work.
01:29:51
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um i have I have the game on there. i think it was like, ah what's the one where used to swing from the rope and jump over you or the guy in the jungle? The jungle something forever or whatever. I actually have that on my arcade. Tremendous. i'm going to play it after the episode.
01:30:07
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But anyways, get back out there. Just do that. I love you. Oh. Retro Mania Wrestling. Love it. Anyways, so, yeah. ah Jungle jungle so go Hunt? jungle Anyways, used to swing on the rope and try to jump over the...
01:30:27
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Tremendous. Nintendo? I mean, what are we talking about? Tetris? I mean, Duck Hunt? I mean, the original Mario?
01:30:38
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Donkey Kong? That's what it was. I think it was Pitfall. Pitfall or Junglefall or something. I don't know. it was it You know what I'm talking about. You definitely know what i'm talking about. Sega!
01:30:51
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Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Actually, I have a had the Sega Dreamcast growing up. Yes, I was the ah i was the the outcast that had the Sega Dreamcast when no one else did.
01:31:03
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actually still have it. It's sitting right over there. And I have a little handheld Sega that I bought, so it's kind of cool. um Pitfall, yes. That's great. Donkey Kong, yes.
01:31:15
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Let's go. Love it. so ah yeah so oh Speaking of, we'll talk about Nintendo delaying the Switch 2 in just a second. ah Actually, we can talk about that right now because what are we doing? We are moving into United States News.
01:31:33
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Yes, United States News giving you our Donald Trump weekly update. ah Buckle in. it's been a It's been a week, y'all, as it is every week in our world.
Trump's Tariffs and Economic Implications
01:31:48
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so anyway What happened last week? We talked about Liberation Day. President Donald Trump put a 10% tariff on virtually, not virtually, on every country in the world, and including, as we talked about last week,
01:32:02
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ah since Bianca's watching, the Australian-owned, think it's the Sound and Heard Islands or something like that, which are home to only penguins and seals and no residents and hasn't even had human residents since 2016.
01:32:20
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But Donald Trump still put a 10% tariff on them, which is freaking hilarious. It's great. That is tremendous work. Tax those damn penguins. this that great And see, but this is what I'm talking about.
01:32:38
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Everything has to be so huge, right, for Donald Trump. Everything has to be so huge. Everything has to be the biggest and the best, from his crowd sizes to his...
01:32:51
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I don't even know. Whatever. It's always got to be the biggest, the best plan, the biggest, the mass deportations, the mass cuts by does, the mass, ah you know, ah whatever. And it's like, dude, you'd save yourself a lot of trouble and a lot of hassle if you just did things a little more niche, a little more targeted.
01:33:19
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mean, just be a little more precise and you would save yourself half of the issues that you've gotten yourself into so far in your new presidency, which if I may add, God forbid had Joe Biden done anything that Donald Trump has done thus far, because Donald Trump would have ran him through the coals, would have dragged his ass through the coals.
01:33:44
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But I digress. Anyways, um, So what happened? Well, first, Israel prime minister, as we mentioned last week, Benjamin Netanyahu actually came in and talked Trump about the tariffs to try to get a deal, even though we know they're in bed with the whole Israel-Gaza strip, Hamas-Iran situation, which we'll talk about in just a second.
01:34:07
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So we don't need to even get into all that. Right now, President Trump provided a clarification later, actually walked back tariffs um on most electronic products.
01:34:20
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So even after he ah he ramped up the tariffs against China to 125% after they ramped ours up, ah to actually two hundred and forty five percent ah ah on after After we ramped ours up to 145% on China, they ramped theirs up to 125% on us.
01:34:43
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But then President Trump pulled back the the tariffs on electronics for at least, he says it's a pause, but that helps China because we import $390 billion dollars three three hundred and ninety billion dollars ah in electronics yearly, more than $100 billion come from China.
01:35:07
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So basically, when he puts that pause on the tariffs on electronics, that's letting those $100 billion from China come through untaxed. So technically, is it really the full tariff that he was saying?
01:35:18
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No. And so these are the things we have to look at, y'all, right? A lot of the things that President Trump has has done has been enacted through executive actions, which, aren't really not anything that is technically legal.
01:35:35
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Like it's still most of these things have to be, yes, there are certain cases where a president can override, but most of these things have to be ah ratified by Congress in order to actually be implemented.
01:35:48
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So a lot of times when he's signing these executive executive actions, they are more,
01:35:58
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they are more, in they're more for show. They're more for the pageantry. Okay? So don't always expect everything that he announces or every executive action that he signs to actually come true or actually come to fruition because not only most of the times is it not even fully legal because Congress hasn't i just did you know decided on it, but also he's probably going to pull back on it, as we've seen him do with the tariffs against Mexico and China and so many other things.
01:36:29
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So again, countries around the world started to react. Companies around the world, Nintendo delayed the Switch 2. Jaguar said they're not going to send any more shipments into the U.S. s of cars.
01:36:42
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um ah As well, other, well, on the flip side, right? What Donald Trump is hoping for, what President Trump was hoping for in this situation is to bring back investment industry, factories, things back to America.
01:37:05
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Great. Sounds awesome in theory.
01:37:12
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In theory, that sounds awesome. I'm a veteran. I love the United States of America. i at one point in time, ah signed on the dotted line a willingness to sacrifice my life for this country.
01:37:31
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And I did it proudly. And I would have done it again in a heartbeat. But, so I love the United States. And I would love For that to be the case, what he is proposing.
01:37:44
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I would love for the United States to be able to bring all of these things back. And us to be a great American-made country again.
01:37:55
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There's a reason that happened in the first place.
01:38:00
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There's a reason why we don't make half the shit we used to.
01:38:06
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Because it can be made for
01:38:11
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90% cheaper in so many other countries around the world. And whether you want to be patriotic and all of that, this, that, and the other, you can patriotic this, that, and the other until the cows come home.
01:38:28
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But if you can get something cheaper,
01:38:33
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ninety but if you're telling me I can go by and it's funny. going bring up this example because I watched a video on it today because Chinese sellers now y'all are all over Tik Tok, Aaron out companies, Aaron amount.
01:38:48
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I watched this one short where this Chinese guy, he was talking about how they were selling all these luxury purses, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, blah, blah, blah. And he said, and in the video,
01:39:00
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They said that they make 90% of those luxury goods in their manufacturing plants in China, and then they send them to to these Italian countries, and all they do is stick a logo on it and then charge you $300, and the Chinese say it only takes them $10 to make.
01:39:19
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So those $300 Gucci bags you're buying are only worth $10 because that's how much it takes the Chinese to make it. It's crazy. crazy
01:39:34
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So, I mean, there's a reason. Let me go check on these comments. I see them behind. My bad, y'all. Yeah. Hilarious, right? Yeah. you He texts the Penguins.
01:39:44
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Well, look. Hey. I mean, the Penguins obviously got some money if they're renting out tuxes. I mean, they got some nice tuxes on. Give me that money, Penguin. Come on come up with the Come up with the dough, baby.
01:39:58
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Give me that money right now. um penguin Penguin Blue waving tear is hilarious. Save me, Trump. I do not work.
01:40:08
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Yes. That's thats that's tremendous. true Tremendous. um And, I mean, i can even... I can even prove it to you. ah Because one thing that Donald Trump has talked so much about within ah this this you know production and bringing back factories and investments and all this stuff is he cites the car industry, the automotive industry, which is by far the worst example he could use.
01:40:43
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There's a reason why people choose Japanese cars over United States vehicles. Because they're just better made vehicles. They last longer.
01:40:54
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You're not going to have to go and them fixed as much. The maintenance is less. The insurance is less. So when Donald Trump says, yeah, he wants to bring back automotive factories, there's a reason why we don't have automotive factories.
01:41:14
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The Japanese cars are much cheaper and much better than our cars.
01:41:24
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My dad and I are both veterans. And yeah, you're right, pops. My dad's saying they're going to pay half. I mean, the whole world is going to pay. the global I said the global economy was going to be hurt by this. And what happened the next day, the global economy tumbled.
01:41:36
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Now, it has rebounded. We'll talk about that in a little bit. But yeah, you don't need to be in ah an economic person. animmist excuse me to know that. um No, China's not going to back down.
01:41:47
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China has no reason to back down. China owns a lot of us, so they have no reason to. And people are going to continue to buy from them because it's cheap. And again, let me give you one example. My dad and I are both veterans.
01:41:59
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When I was in the military and I needed a car when I lived in Hawaii, my dad bought me a Toyota.
01:42:07
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We didn't buy anything American. We bought a Toyota. a veteran buying his son active duty military, a Japanese car to drive around the military base because they were just better cars.
01:42:27
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That's funny, mom, right? Because they're better cars. Now, granted, my next car, I went out and I bought a Ford. I bought American made.
01:42:38
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And you know what was funny about that? all my All my military brethren, ah lot a lot of the Caucasians, lot of my white brothers and sisters, oh, fix or repair daily. ah You bought a Ford.
01:42:54
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Fix or repair daily.
01:42:58
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You want to bring that back?
01:43:02
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Now, granted, shout out Ford. My Explorer was a beast. And if it wasn't for me treating everything I own in life as a piece of shit, I'd probably still have my Explorer.
01:43:14
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Unfortunately, I treated it like it was a a dirt bike instead of a car. And I pretty much ruined my Explorer. But those are more stories for another day. Like I said, I was a rebellious e and 20 year old. Yeah, right?
01:43:33
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Why are you going to pay $300 for some Jordans when you can buy them straight from China? And them Chinese retailers are on TikTok trying to sell you right now. I ain't going to i've bought I've bought plenty of things from China because it was much cheaper.
01:43:56
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Right?
01:43:58
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Papi! Papi! Heavy on the poppy. Light on the yayo. Poppy chunyayo. Y'all tap in with my boy. Had my Toyota Celica since 2003.
01:44:13
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He's had a Toyota for 21 years.
01:44:18
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Driving all across Europe. And again. it wasn't for me being a horrible driver, I'd probably still have the Toyota. But again, I treated that like a dirt bike and not like a car.
01:44:32
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I totaled it. I totaled both of them.
01:44:37
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Never said I was a good driver. That's why I don't drive now. Let's be completely honest. I shouldn't be a driver. No one should ever allow me to drive again. It's good because I don't even like to drive anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
01:44:54
Speaker
Right? So, ah yeah I literally drove that thing into the ground. Literally. Actually, one time, you cave just you you came to save me from driving it into the ground.
01:45:10
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um Oh, I'm glad you bring this up, Papi, Ernest. I'm glad you bring this up. Timu, Wish, Shine, right? I'm glad y'all bring this up. Bianca, Timu is, Temu, as the Spanish people say, is so huge.
01:45:26
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um So if these tariffs actually go to fruition on China fully on electronics and things like that, one thing you'll want to understand about this is Temu and those others, if, again, if these tariffs go into full effect, are going to be affected by this.
01:45:50
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You're going to have to buy straight from the actual Chinese retailers because what happens is Temu, when they sell their products, there's actually... what's called a de minimis exception in tariffs.
01:46:05
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And what that says is if your product is below $100, it's exempt from
01:46:11
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it's exempt from From tariffs. And that's how Temu gets a lot of their low-priced goods over here so easily.
01:46:22
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Well, if those tariffs go into effect, President Trump is planning on eliminating that de de de minimis exodus, which would make Temu prices go up.
01:46:35
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So then you really have to buy straight from retailers because Temu and all the rest are going to have to raise their prices because they're going to be hit with those extra tariffs. Now, still going to be way cheaper. So you're still probably going to buy anyway, right?
01:46:50
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Just something to look forward to that I actually had as a story on today's episode.
US Economic Challenges and Global Role
01:46:55
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So I figured, thank you. I should bring that up right now. Right. um I have a Hyundai, but it was made in Alabama.
01:47:05
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Interesting. Very interesting. i yeah
01:47:13
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Maybe assembled in Alabama. Maybe assembled. I... i don't think i I would highly, highly doubt that those products or the actual components of the car were made in Alabama.
01:47:30
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Pretty sure it was probably just assembled in Alabama and all the products parts came from China. But I could be wrong. I just don't think that U.S. factories actually... it could be wrong. could be Wow, really? Well, shit, I stand corrected. Thank you, Rock Chalk.
01:47:47
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I appreciate that. I stand corrected. Damn. Okay. Well, there you go. Learn a new thing every day. um ah Still, for the most part, though, the the point holds, right, that most of the ones that are built in Japan anyways, or for the most part, or even if you just look at that as, okay, but they're still using the the factory plans from Japan, they're still using the assembly instructions that come from the original producer. So, I mean, yeah, you can look at it both ways.
01:48:21
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I'm sort of happy now. I'm the supplier. Yeah, there you go. Hey, if you're this... If you can be the supplier and not the supplied, then you are doing very well, my friend.
01:48:32
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Just don't get high on your own supply, as Biggie taught us. And that would have been 10 crack commandments, and that would have been commandment number... Number C. Number... Never get high on your own supply. Number... Number seven was never get high on your own supply.
01:48:52
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So definitely... Definitely. You're going broke. My producer says she's going broke with Temu. um Well, you're going to broke some more once those prices go up.
01:49:04
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ah I'm about to get me a Temu Pergula for a couple hundred. I don't know what a Pergula is, but it sounds fancy. um Even made in ah America products will be affected.
01:49:17
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The manufacturing is too intertwined. And that's exactly what I said on this program last week, right? um global Global tariffs or tariffs across the world that we put on other countries are only going to inherently affect us because once they start affecting those countries and making things worse in those countries, that comes back on us.
01:49:40
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As I ended my program last week saying, when you are the United States, the rest of the world's shit rolls up on us.
01:49:51
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You know how the old adage is, shit rolls downhill? The people at the bottom are catching the most shit. the the The lowest employees get the most crap, which is all true in all industries.
01:50:05
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It ain't true when you're United States. When you're the United States and you're the world power, shit rolls uphill. We get everybody else's problems. Just like we get everybody else's diseases, which is why we should be eradicating diseases overseas instead of taking money away from those things, which when Donald Trump and Doge and Elon Musk took out USAID funding, a lot of that goes to curing diseases overseas.
01:50:32
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And if we don't have money going to that, you may you may think, why are we supporting other countries? But when you don't have money to go eradicate diseases in other countries, Countries, that's that's bad. Those diseases are eventually going to get to us.
01:50:45
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How the hell do you think COVID happened?
01:50:49
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Lab leak or not?
01:50:53
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Don't ask me. Lab leak or not? I can understand the conspiracies. I could see it. Either way, the U.S. catches the rest of the world's crap.
01:51:08
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So when tariffs are put on the rest of the world and that makes it harder on those countries to do anything, that's going to make it harder on us. If the global economy takes a hit, our economy, the world-leading economy, takes a hit.
01:51:22
Speaker
So let's talk about that. What happened after these tariffs? After these tariffs, oil was in a free fall. Oil was down 14% after two days after the tariffs were announced.
01:51:36
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It was the lowest level in four years um and was the lowest demand for fuel in four years. What else happened?
01:51:48
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The markets, the markets absolutely crashed. The global markets crashed.
01:51:57
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Now, I'm going to be fair because I am always fair on this program. I don't take any sides on this program. Y'all come here for neutral information to be learned.
01:52:10
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The stock market is up 5.7% this week. So the market has bounced back.
01:52:18
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But what happened between all that time and the last week? He announces the tariffs, markets, oil, everything free falls.
01:52:31
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Once he notices everything is in a free fall, he then decides to pause most of the tariffs or starts giving tariff reliefs to countries that are coming to negotiate, which I would agree with.
01:52:44
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That's what you should do.
01:52:47
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The issue is
01:52:52
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that the effects had already taken place. And the hits to even the billionaires like Elon Musk, like Mark Zuckerberg, took huge hits. They lost billions upon billions. And now again, the stock market is back up.
01:53:09
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Fine. Fine. Right? But that little bit of time, that one little bit of global disruption, causes a butterfly effect that we'll be seeing years down the road.
01:53:21
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And if you don't think so, you're you sadly mistaken. That 48-hour period from when terrorists were announced to when a lot of them were paused, if you think that that's not going to have an effect down the line, you are sadly mistaken.
01:53:38
Speaker
That will have an effect for years to come. listen to the Listen to the world's largest hedge fund, the owner of the world's largest hedge fund. Take it from him. Ray Daliot, founder of Bridgewater Associates on Meet the Press this weekend, said that several factors will contribute to the breakdown of a monetary system, and we could have a recession similar to the nineteen thirty s
01:54:06
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He said, what is storeholded is wealth. That is a bond. In other words, one man's debt is another man's assets. Bondholders own the debt of other people.
01:54:21
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And so, he continues, we're going to be in a situation where the storehold of wealth is in jeopardy because there's too much supply and demand. And then we have monetary inflation and we will have great disruptions.
01:54:36
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And he said it could be a breakdown like the monetary system of 1971. He said it could be like 2008. Or he said it could even be even worse like the 1930s.
01:54:47
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He adds, the matter is the value of the money. The internal conflict in a way that is highly disruptive to a world economy and even military conflict.
01:55:02
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He goes on to talk about the monetary order, the new gilio geopolitical order that came about in the 1940s. He continues to go on and offers a solution.
01:55:13
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He does agree with using America's strengths to negotiate as Donald Trump is doing with some of these countries, which I as well agree with in the negotiation portion.
01:55:28
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Uh, But he also says the issue is when you have that monetary inflation and your GDP or your spending is not below 3% of your GDP, which is your gross domestic product, that's when you're going to start to see those global recessions.
01:55:48
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And y'all, 3% of GDP, that's very hard to get to. Most of the time, we're never even there. The government tries to stay at 2.5%, 2%.
01:55:58
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But rarely are we there. Rarely. I think we're now at like, someone can correct me on what our inflation is right now, but I believe it's like, or not inflation, but what our ah what our spending is percentage-wise of g op of GDP.
01:56:16
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But I believe it's 3.5%, 4%, something like that. So even Elon Musk is calling for free trade with Europe.
01:56:28
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He doesn't like all of Trump's tariffs because it's hurting his bottom line as well. Now, the EU is coming in this week to talk to Trump and negotiate about tariffs on the EU.
01:56:43
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So if your thing, if your Trump was to get countries to come in and negotiate, that's awesome. You've done what you were supposed to do.
01:56:56
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But no one in their right mind, and i watched I watch both conservative and liberal channels. I watch Fox News. I watch Newsmax. Sometimes I even watch crazy-ass OAN.
01:57:08
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I watch CNN. I watch MSNBC. I watch them all because I want to be informed of what both sides have to say.
01:57:19
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And the right, the conservative side of the aisle, came out and said, oh, was his plan all along
01:57:28
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to come out just to have people negotiate.
01:57:33
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So his plan was to cause a global economy disruption that will have effects for years to come just to get people to negotiate.
01:57:45
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Again, i was born this i was born in the morning. i was not born this morning.
01:57:53
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I'm one of the smartest, if not smartest people I know, which is probably not a good thing because you should probably have smarter people around you. But I'm just
01:58:07
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not here to brag about my intelligence. but
01:58:11
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And you're not going to tell me that. No. No. He did what he wanted to do in a huge fashion because that's how he does things. And he said, let me tax the whole damn world because I can.
01:58:25
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He saw what happened. And then they got together and said, all right, we're just going to tell him we did this on purpose.
01:58:33
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Because there's no way you're going to tell me that he's going to sit there and he costed himself money. Don't think that he doesn't own stock because we're going to get into insider trading in just a moment here.
01:58:45
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Oh, yeah. Don't think I'm not going to bring up the fact that our president, after he announced these tariffs, went on to post on True Social, this is a great time to buy d j t
01:59:08
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Which, by the way, if you didn't know what DJT is, it's his It's his stock market tickets, ticker symbol. It's for Donald Trump Industries.
01:59:21
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He literally, our president, our president of the United States of America,
01:59:35
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Our president of the United States of America put a tariff on the whole world causing a global economy disruption, including costing himself money.
01:59:49
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Then, when everything is depreciated, tells the whole world to go buy his stock.
02:00:01
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Then, after he's had a lot of people go buy his stock, because I can guarantee you within that few hour period, tons of his supporters went and bought stock. A few hours later, he pauses the tariffs, which causes everything to flip and go back the other way.
02:00:20
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So he made all this money within a few hour period and then cut off the supply.
02:00:32
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Where are, what world are we in right now? I literally said to myself when that news story came on the TV, I said, are are we living in some sort of, is this a reality TV show?
02:00:52
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Is this the Truman Show? Am I Truman? You're kidding me, right? The president of the free world,
02:01:04
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announced tariffs, subsequently told people to buy his stock, made money, and then paused the tariffs to cause everything to go the other way after he made enough money.
02:01:17
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And that shit went under the radar like nobody's business. You know why talk about it. ain't heard nothing since. Nothing since.
02:01:30
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And the conservative side had a lot of backing on him as it as though that's not insider trading.
02:01:45
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Let me give you a little side-eye action as I am wont to do on this program.
02:01:53
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You expect me to believe that bullshit? You expect me to believe that?
02:02:00
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Come on. Come on I continue to tell y'all. Every politician is in it for themselves.
02:02:11
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They do not care about you. They only care about money lining their pockets, and President Donald Trump is no different. Neither was Joe Biden.
02:02:24
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They're both the same.
02:02:27
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Neither was Barack Obama. Neither was Bill Clinton. Neither was... Especially not the Bushes. Oh, don't get me started on the Bushes. Bush knocked down the towers.
02:02:41
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just Conspiracy theory all you want. I know the truth.
02:02:51
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I know the truth.
02:02:55
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Most of y'all don't know the truth. I know the truth.
02:03:01
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I was privy to all that information.
02:03:06
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I had a very high important position at one point in time. Or I fucked it all up. But I had a pretty high important position at one point in time.
02:03:17
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But the point is that you're not going to give me that that wasn't insider trading. That's literally the definition.
02:03:27
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Literally the definition. Let me get back to some of these comments. I apologize when I get to reading off my notes. I cannot see the comments. I listened to a new segment where they said that the tariffs will affect Christmas because 90% of the decorations come from China.
Political Criticism and Insider Trading
02:03:41
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Yep.
02:03:42
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ah not even a not and is's not a That is not even something. That is a statement of fact is what that is. Talk about the Grinch that stole Christmas. That's great. Yeah.
02:03:53
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Well, if anybody, it would be him. ah My dog put tariffs on me for her treat. eat Hey, that dog said you better pay up, Poppy.
02:04:04
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You better pay up.
02:04:07
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She'd be doing every trick she knows. that's true yes i mean, it is. It really is. It really is. I mean, you can't defend that. You can't defend that.
02:04:18
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You really cannot defend that. Now, going to get into insider trading in a second because they they should not have no no senators, no congresspeople, no one. They should not be able to own stock.
02:04:29
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They shouldn't. They have too much information. And I'll get into it i did I did research on ah on a study, and I'm going to go into the results in just second. You're completely right. You're completely right, Papi.
02:04:41
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I need to surround myself. I need to find smart... Not that there's anything wrong with the people I'm with now. I love all of my friends, and my friends are very smart people. But... I need to find some other really smart people too that I can have them help me with my business ah because clearly I'm not smart enough to do it on my own.
02:05:01
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But you're right. that's the that's the That's what they say, right? They say you want to surround yourself with people who are smarter, make more money, you know do all these things because that's where you aspire to be too, right?
02:05:13
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So โ Now, it's not always that easy. not all of Not all of us are blessed with a a head start, as some people are in life. Not all of us are blessed with connections like other people are.
02:05:26
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I don't have any of that. I'm going have to do everything from just hard work. Yep, you're completely right. And this is the thing. And that's what was so hilarious about it. And again, I don't care for either you side of the aisle.
02:05:39
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But before Donald Trump got elected, He denied, denied, denied knowing anything about Project 2025 when literally Project 2025 was written by most of the people that were in his first cabinet.
02:05:53
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So let's just get that straight. Second of all, also backed by most of the conservative organizations. So, of course, everything, and we talked about this, Boppy, on our country box stream.
02:06:10
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Everything that Project 2025 had listed out in its manifesto so far has been enacted by President Trump.
02:06:21
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And i knew he was I knew he was lying when he said that. I knew he was lying when he said he didn't know. I mean, he's the same guy that said he didn't know anything. He's always, that is his go-to.
02:06:34
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If it's something, the signal thing, I didn't know about it. He said he didn't know about Stormy Daniels, who Stormy Daniels was. He said he didn't know who the leader of the Ku Klux Klan was when there were pictures of him.
02:06:47
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Like, okay, so we get it. He's going to lie.
02:06:52
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Okay. Is he the president? Yes. Does he get the respect of the position of being a president, me being a veteran? Yes. Is he the biggest liar I've ever seen in my whole entire life?
02:07:02
Speaker
Absolutely. Absolutely. I have never known a bigger liar in my life. Now, granted, that's also how he got so far in life. You've got to be somewhat of a liar to get as far as he did.
02:07:17
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And whether you think that's right or wrong, wow, wrong, right or wrong. Jeez Louise, i need some water. I don't have any. um Whether you believe that's right or wrong,
02:07:34
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he's the president. He can do whatever he wants. And really, the Democrats, the left, they have no recourse. They don't own anything.
02:07:46
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The conservative side owns the House. They own the Senate. They own the presidential. They own all three branches of the government.
02:07:56
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The only thing the Democrats can do at this point in time
02:08:02
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is get enough momentum from all of these Americans that are pissed off about the doge cuts and immigration and whatever else.
02:08:12
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All they can do at this point is garner up all that momentum and and use it in the midterms. And get elected in the midterms. Now, as I mentioned last week, with the Elon Musk-backed Judd in Wisconsin losing that that ah election, that's a that's a proxy for what we're going to see in the midterms.
02:08:34
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And if... If Donald Trump doesn't, if his policies don't play out before the midterm elections, we could easily see this swing the other way for the next presidential race.
02:08:47
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Insider trading has always existed. Yes, it has. And I'm going to get into that in just a second. um he mushroom stay He definitely did. He just took whipped it whipped his phallic out and slapped it on our foreheads. just Just like a ah just like ah like an adult film star. just he he He probably did the same thing to Stormy Daniels.
02:09:09
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Shout out. um Iraqi kids used to call call come up to me and call George Bush a donkey and make the noises donkey makes.
02:09:19
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Hee-haw, hee-haw, hee-haw. Yeah, I mean, look, y'all, there's a lot of evidence out there for you to go do your own research. I'm not into conspiracy theories and things like that, ah but that's where this is not a conspiracy theory.
02:09:37
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You can clearly go back. as yeah As very smart people say, you want to know the origin of something? Follow the money. Trace the money.
02:09:49
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And what happened? And this is this is in this is there. This is public knowledge, so I am not saying anything classified at all.
02:10:00
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Go back and read the documents. The Bush family, George Sr., in particular, equipped and trained the Al-Qaeda, including Osama bin Laden.
02:10:16
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Let me repeat. The Bush family, specifically George Bush Sr., equipped and trained Al-Qaeda terrorists and Osama bin Laden.
02:10:32
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Osama bin Laden was trained in America.
02:10:39
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02:10:44
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I don't know why y'all continue to think that these things are not interrelated and interconnected. All of these rich people, all of the most powerful people in the world are in cahoots.
02:11:03
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You think the Illuminati ain't real?
02:11:07
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go back and rewind what I just told you. you think the You think the Illuminati is not real?
02:11:15
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Rewind 20 seconds back and see what I just told you.
02:11:23
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Now, if you want to extend that out to the Bush family caused nine eleven I'm not going to.
02:11:34
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But I'll put it out there for you too.
02:11:41
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As the wise immortal technique once said, Bush knocked down the towers. Bush knocked down the towers.
02:11:52
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An oligarchy. They all are. They all are. It's an oligarchy. They're all in this together, y'all. all the rich, powerful people all around the world are all in cahoots.
02:12:05
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You can be up in arms about the Saudi Arabia and their public investment fund and this and that, which a lot of conservatives are, but they're they they they just ignore the fact, because they're not blind, they know, but they ignore the fact that Donald Trump and his family makes money off of the Saudi Arabians.
02:12:26
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Y'all got to do research. go yeah yeah yeah And then the conservative side has the rich enough tapestry to come out and talk about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden's laptop and this and that and how they make money from Ukraine and all these other things and Clinton and Burisma.
02:12:45
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And they ignore the fact that the Trump family makes money from Saudi Arabia, from China, from Russia. And if you don't think so, just go Google it. There's plenty of evidence out there.
02:13:01
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There are investigations and court cases and all sorts of things you can go look up. And the Simpsons do always get correct predictions, which is pretty crazy. My mom always sends me the little short videos whenever they get something right.
02:13:15
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um I'm looking for land in in the Caribbean or Africa, somewhere tropical. I feel you. I feel you. i definitely I definitely feel that. A lot of people are. My mom is talking about moving back to Puerto Rico, so yeah you never know.
02:13:29
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um Yeah, I mean, it is. I mean, it's just you just can't say that that they're not. And yes, there you go Right there.
02:13:41
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The Bohemian Grove. You want to look up some sick shit? Look up the Bohemian Grove. That's some crazy shit. That's the Illuminati having their weird sacrifice parties.
02:13:56
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You want to look even more into it? Look up the lady, and I forget her name. Somebody help me out here. But she's an artist. White lady, old lady overseas. I think she's from like Europe or some shit. Riches all get out.
02:14:10
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And she works with all the famous artists. you buy yeah You see her in pictures with everybody from Lady Gaga to Jay-Z. And she's like the ones that are like, she has them like drinking blood and things like this.
02:14:25
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Like drinking human blood. Sacrifices like y'all. Thank you. Thank you, Poppy. Ibrahimovic. That's her name.
02:14:36
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Ibrahimovic. She'd be having these celebrity parties where they'd be like eating off of like dead bodies and just the sickest shit you could think of.
02:14:48
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Just the sickest shit you could think of. And they're probably the ones that are also fucking, let's be completely honest, those are also the ones probably trafficking kids and all this sex trafficking shit.
02:15:00
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And they want to come out and try to talk about Pizzagate when they're the ones doing the Pizzagate. Maybe that is all a cover-up for their crimes. Just saying.
02:15:13
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Bianca. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
02:15:19
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Now, I'm not saying I'm jealous. Do i wish i was ah ah do I hope to be rich and be part of that powerful community at some point? ah Sure, I would love that.
02:15:31
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But that doesn't mean I would ever do any of that sick shit. That's just off the rails. I want to be rich so I can help people. I want to give back and help homeless people and poor people.
02:15:43
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I don't want to be rich to do none of this crap. You can keep that. You can keep that. Meat cakes? Nah, son. don't want no meat cakes. I ain't trying to drink no blood. i don't even like the taste of my own blood.
02:15:58
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The fuck going drink somebody else's blood? yeah
02:16:04
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Yeah, Jay-Z had a video. I seen her. ah seen him in pictures with her. He ain't throwing up the rock for no reason. You know what I mean? He ain't throwing up the rock for no reason.
02:16:17
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The rock is the Illuminati. The Illuminati is rock. Let's be completely honest. It's why he uses the all-seeing eye.
02:16:28
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Yeah, I mean, I hate it. It's it's it's sick. It's truly disgusting. ah You know, the the whole Diddy stuff, we've talked about that plenty of times on on Banter, Brawls, and Bravado. We just talked about it last week.
02:16:40
Speaker
Go check out the episode two weeks ago on Thursday. We did an update on the Diddy case. That shit is sick. Even if you're doing it with all grown adults. And having no 100 person sex party for what?
02:16:53
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Kidding. I mean, maybe a threesome. I'm good. Maybe a foursome. Other than that, don't even have that much energy.
02:17:07
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We just got crazy out here.
02:17:11
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ah a yeah yeah pop it
02:17:23
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Say it a little louder for the people in the back that can't hear you.
02:17:31
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Hey, they don't call it. they did They didn't say Sodom and Gomorrah was the worst place in history for no reason.
02:17:41
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It was the worst place in history because of all the debauchery and other things that they did in that point in time. Which is why God came down and wiped them all out.
02:17:54
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Because they were all heathens.
02:17:57
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I don't know what you heard, producer. Mom, I'm sorry. Whatever you heard, i apologize. I really wish you weren't watching the past 15 minutes. Sorry.
02:18:09
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Anyways, let's keep going before my mom gets upset at me. ah So anyways, let's talk about this insider trading. Members of Congress are required to publicly disclose stock trades valued at over $1,000 within 45 days.
02:18:22
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but forty five days So if any of the politicians, especially on the conservative side, actually took Donald Trump's advice and invested during that period of pause tariffs, or during that period before the pause tariffs, then we will find out ah here in 45
02:18:49
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um They are calling the left. Democrats are calling for investigations into the insider trading. They're actually calling for the SEC chairman as well as state attorneys to look into whether Trump or other people within the administration made money off of this, what was clearly insider trading.
02:19:11
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Clearly. I mean, again, you can't tell me it wasn't. And the fact that
02:19:20
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that a lot of people, including himself, had lost so much money in the stock market at that point. For him to capitalize on that by making money to make his money back that he lost while screwing everybody else, including every normal day Americans like you and me, it's pretty messed up.
02:19:43
Speaker
Don't you think? Even if you are a supporter. Don't you think that's a little messed up? He was trying to capitalize on making money off of these opportunities while you were losing money.
02:19:57
Speaker
I don't care. i don't own stocks. So I don't care. I don't have a foot in the stock market. I don't have a 401k so I could care less about any of that.
02:20:09
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ah But a lot of his supporters do.
02:20:15
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Right? lot of people do. Pretty much everybody.
02:20:20
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So we'll see. We'll see what happens. But as I said, the global economy was going to crater. It did. Now the global economy, again, is is bouncing back this week. But this is going to have ripple effects, a butterfly effect for years to come.
02:20:34
Speaker
Years to come. And that's clear stock manipulation. Clearly. Clearly.
02:20:43
Speaker
So let's think about this. There have been scandals relating to members of Congress all the way back to 1968, the first scandal, right? When they found that, you know, the first evidence of Congress people making money off of stocks that they could or could not have had, could, did, have information on previously.
02:21:08
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So, evidence... from the investment performances mixed and provides a diverse range. But in April 2012, the United States Congress passed the Stock Act, Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, which made it clear for the first time that laws against insider trading applied to members of Congress.
02:21:31
Speaker
That also applies to president, vice president, all cabinet members, et cetera, right? People supposed to announce all $1,000 stock purchases within 45 days. However,
02:21:46
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we've known plenty of times this has happened.
02:21:50
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And who has ever been charged and punished under this act? I have the answer for you. Zero. Zero politicians have been charged on the Stock Act since 2012.
02:22:04
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And you can't tell me that no stock, no Congress people have made money off of insider trading on stocks in the past 13 years. Because that's not true.
02:22:16
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It's just not. It's just not. I just gave you one example. It's just not. Okay? It's just not.
02:22:27
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For example, between early February and early April of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, 12 senators made stock purchases worth as much as million. So during COVID,
02:22:42
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and thirty seven members of the house made thirteen hundred and fifty eight trades worth as much as sixty million dollars
02:22:52
Speaker
so during covid
02:22:58
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45 senators and members of the House made purchases and trades to the tune of $158 million. dollars And not one of them had insider information.
02:23:20
Speaker
Side eye again.
02:23:25
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Side eye again.
02:23:31
Speaker
Don't be stupid. Don't be naive. Don't. It's not possible.
02:23:43
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It's not. 45 of them and not one of them. Okay. All right, you keep living under that dark rock you live under. Let me go into this this study I read.
02:23:56
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I went out and I read a study today from the National Library of Medicine, Biomedical Medicine, and they did a study on the actual ah correlation between congresspeople's stock purchases and the information available to those congressmen before they purchased the stocks.
02:24:24
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What they found, now listen to this, y'all. Check this out. They came up with a metric called information asymmetry. And they wanted to find out whether senators' trades were associated with a higher or lower level of information asymmetry.
02:24:42
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Meaning, did senators, House members actively engage in trades when they had higher levels of information, possibly insider information, or lower?
02:24:56
Speaker
What they found what they found was based on this Senators earned significant market-adjusted returns, 5% over three months, right?
02:25:15
Speaker
5% over three months, which is a lot.
02:25:18
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So what they found was that results that show senators' trades generally beat the S&P 500 over those intervals ranging from one week to three months after they made the trade.
02:25:36
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character characterized by increased high levels of information of symmetry, consistent with the notion that senators' connections with access to knowledge on legislative or lobbying activity may inform such transactions.
02:25:57
Speaker
And if you think
02:26:01
Speaker
Politicians who are literally the people lobbying on these issues and making the money, we're fundraising the money for these issues, don't have the insider information when they're literally the ones passing the bills.
02:26:22
Speaker
You again are being extremely ignorant.
02:26:27
Speaker
And you're clearly not watching this show because you would have been a lot smartened up from me by now. Because the professor has told you this time and time again.
02:26:38
Speaker
There is no social contract. Politicians don't owe us anything. Are they supposed to with what their job entails? Yes.
02:26:50
Speaker
Do they actually? No.
02:26:55
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A social contract theory suggests that an ethical politician would not violate any of the more moral propositions of fairness, harmlessness, honoring property property rights, and fiduciary relationships.
02:27:14
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But on a consistent basis, day they break those four all the time. All the time. There is no social contract.
02:27:27
Speaker
They do not care about you.
02:27:33
Speaker
I'm going to continue to repeat this until I'm blue in the face. They do not care about you. All you Democrats, they don't care about you. All you Republicans, Donald Trump doesn't care about you.
02:27:46
Speaker
Donald Trump don't even care about his own damn family. The only person I actually think Donald Trump likes in his family is Barron. That's the only one I think he likes. He definitely don't care for Donald or Donald, Don Jr. or Eric.
02:28:03
Speaker
He sure as hell don't care for Tiffany. I don't even think he knows Tiffany's his daughter. I remember one time, hilarious, he was doing, ah i think it might have been at at the election party when he got elected, and he he shook Eric and Don's hand. I remember because I texted my mom right away. i was like, did you see that?
02:28:21
Speaker
He shook Don and Eric's hand and literally walked right by Tiffany. I was like, how are you going to do that to your own daughter?
02:28:30
Speaker
but That's messed up. um So I truly... I could go deeper into that, but there's no need. Just know that these people don't care about you and they are making ah trades based off of high information asymmetry, based off high degrees of information that they have.
02:28:52
Speaker
And they measured this information asymmetry against a, they even took into account The degree of importance of the senator. What is their position?
02:29:04
Speaker
What is their age? Would they have more information? For instance, Chuck Schumer.
02:29:12
Speaker
Right? Mike Johnson. These people would have more information than a, I don't know, a John Fetterman or a Nancy Mace or something like that.
02:29:28
Speaker
Right? Right? Also, many of the same factors explain the buy and hold market adjusted returns of stocks purchased by race by senators. They always seem to know when to buy and when to sell.
02:29:43
Speaker
Isn't that a little strange? Or is that just a coincidence? I'll let you be the judge.
02:29:55
Speaker
It shouldn't be allowed. Senators should not be allowed. Congressmen should not be allowed. Presidents, vice presidents, no one in those positions of power should be able to make money off of stocks because they clearly have an advantage in what they know.
02:30:13
Speaker
Cool. right. Keep it moving on. oh here we go. Catching up on the comments. My bad, y'all. You know, once I get into looking at my notes, i got to I got to get away from the comments for a second. So hold on. Let me get back in here.
02:30:27
Speaker
All right. Oh, hey now. My boy, Poppy. That's why they call you Poppy, huh? Been invited to a couple of key parties in your day, huh?
02:30:39
Speaker
Look, I don't even know. that i don't even i don't think you don't even think I'd mind a key party. I'd be cool with a key party. It's the other stuff. It's when you take it past that. I'd be cool with a key party. My only problem with a key party, though, would be that the person I came with, you know what I mean?
02:30:57
Speaker
It couldn't be like your wife or your girlfriend if you really loved her.
02:31:04
Speaker
That's not me. I'm not a cuck. I don't want nobody.
02:31:11
Speaker
Let's keep this moving. Let's keep this moving before we do. This episode might get me canceled. I'm not sure. This episode might get me canceled. If I am canceled or assassinated by next week, if you do not hear from me ah next week,
02:31:27
Speaker
Search your local hospitals and jails. ah They may have tried to come after me, the Illuminati. That is, they wanted black military dudes in Germany. I mean, come on now, right? Like, really?
02:31:40
Speaker
i mean, now I know there's a lot of black people that have served in Germany, but I get your point. You want me to go where the worst dictator in history, the worst person in history, Hitler? Hitler?
02:31:52
Speaker
Holocausted millions of Jewish people? No. don't want that. Now, I was born in Germany. I can't really say anything. I do want to go back and visit. I was born there. My dad was stationed there. um That's where I was born, in Frankfurt.
02:32:05
Speaker
So, I actually have a special place in my heart for Germany. Obviously, i was born after all that, but, yeah, not a good history for them. Some the homies used to go hand out the Hebrew.
02:32:17
Speaker
Ah, that's stupid. Stupid. He says, one, have my choice of women overseas or I had a girlfriend at the time. Otherwise, I might have obliged. I'm not even mad at you.
02:32:29
Speaker
I'm not even mad at you. ah So many beautiful women in Europe. I did zero discrimination. I hear the the women in in ah in other countries, Europe, and Bianca, maybe you can help me out.
02:32:42
Speaker
I hear the Australians love a good American man. Now, I don't know if that's if that's changing with Donald Trump in office now, but I know i am going to travel the world and try to leverage, let's just say, those sort of advantages.
02:32:59
Speaker
Um, Papi Choon Tarzan, stupidest. You're so dumb. um Target and Walmart made out like the mob during COVID. They sure did. Sure did.
02:33:10
Speaker
And it is a wonder. I do side with a lot of people on the conservative side on this. Why they left liquor stores and other places like that open but closed the churches.
02:33:22
Speaker
You're going let somebody get sick. Let them get sick anywhere. Who am I? I'm a biomedical. Are you really, Poppy? Are you really? Holy shit.
02:33:34
Speaker
and I'm glad I surround myself with you because you might be smarter than me. All right. but Pelosi, she does the same thing. Champ, Pelosi ain't no different. Pelosi done made so much money off of insider trading. It could fill her eyeballs.
02:33:49
Speaker
I don't like Pelosi. I could care less for Nancy Pelosi. I believe Nancy Pelosi is a Well, you know what? Let me keep my my mom. They say if your mama didn't.
02:34:01
Speaker
Mom said if you don't have nice things to say, don't say nice things. I don't i don't care for Nancy Pelosi. I don't care for Chuck Schumer. I don't care for any of them really in those high positions. I don't care for Mitch McConnell, any of them. Any of them theyre in those really high positions, which is why, again,
02:34:20
Speaker
I'll go back to last week. Term limits. Term limits. Term limits. Term limits. Term limits. Term limits. Please, for the love of God, we need term limits. 20-year term limits, no more, and age limits.
02:34:37
Speaker
You should not be a politician after the age of 75.
02:34:41
Speaker
And I know that eliminates President Trump, and it would have eliminated President Biden. I think both of them should not be presidents at this age. I'm sorry, because if you're close to 80, you got a lot less mental cognition than someone in their 30s and 40s. Yeah, I know, right?
02:35:02
Speaker
I know. They came out, said President Trump had the great you know health checkup. He's doing awesome, which is great. Good for him. um I'm happy for him. I wish him nothing but great health because I don't wish ah you know bad things on anyone.
02:35:19
Speaker
But you can't be in that great of health at 78 years old. Sorry. You just can't. It's not possible. You're closer to death than anything else.
02:35:31
Speaker
You're closer to death than middle age at that point. So, Bianca says, i've seen a video where Elon and his son were in Oval Office. Kid clearly walks up to him and tells him that he's not the president. Yeah.
02:35:45
Speaker
Yeah. Hey, some people are on the left were saying that Elon Musk was president for a while there. think Don't think Donald Trump liked that very much. Donald Trump said, Elon, you got to go, sucker.
02:35:58
Speaker
Give back to Tesla. We ain't got no time for this. So yeah Trump is actually kicking Elon Musk back to the curb. Let's see what else. Trump's kid probably been to Epstein. Oh.
02:36:11
Speaker
oh I know Trump's been there plenty of times, but his survivors, the the supporters on the right will be real quick to point out Oprah and whoever else were on these imaginary flight logs that we still haven't seen, um even though they were supposed to have been released a couple weeks ago.
02:36:28
Speaker
But there were no actual concrete names. So yeah we'll see what happens. um But anyways, okay. All right, cool. Let's get this moving.
02:36:41
Speaker
So in some other other news before we get out of here, Senate confirmed President Donald Chuck's pick for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump's nominee, retired Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Raisin Cain, that's cool nickname, was confirmed by a Senate vote of 60 to 25, bipartisan, although significantly less than the Senate Armed Services Committee, approved advancement to the Senate floor, which was a vote of 23 to 4.
02:37:08
Speaker
Unlike the Pete Hegseth nomination for Secretary of Defense, which I did not agree with wholeheartedly, I do agree with this nomination.
02:37:19
Speaker
I do like this nomination. um He has a a military background. He flew F-16s after 9-11. He served in Iraq. he was a He got up to a three-star general.
02:37:32
Speaker
So this I do agree with, as I know i have I've said, especially about Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth, how they weren't experienced or qualified enough for their positions.
02:37:42
Speaker
This guy is clearly um experienced, so salute to him. ah In some positive news, scientists at Northwestern University have developed the world's tiniest pacemaker.
02:37:55
Speaker
Smaller than a grain of rice, y'all. A pacemaker. Smaller than a grain of rice. That's crazy. You're telling me something that's supposed to monitor my heart and make sure it's working correctly?
02:38:07
Speaker
can be smaller than a grain of rice. How can it have all those electronics in there? And it can be introduced, or inserted rather, with a syringe. This device could revolutionize heart surgery, offering a minimally invasive way to regulate the organ, pacemakers, or small battery device operated devices that assist heartbeats with irregular rhythms by sending small electrical shocks to help the heartbeat normally.
02:38:36
Speaker
That's crazy, y'all. If this comes to be into full production, this new invention, although it's going to be years before it can be tested on humans, this could change the game.
02:38:50
Speaker
for heart patients and and and our elderly and and all kinds of different things that can be used. So what happens is the small size is due to the power source, which is a galvanic cell, which is a simple battery that uses body fluids to convert chemical energy into electrical energy.
02:39:11
Speaker
How crazy is that? Mind blown. It's so amazing what we can do with science. That's awesome. So shout out to those scientists at Northwestern University.
02:39:25
Speaker
Moving on. into, we're moving in, yeah, actually, you know what, yep, let's go ahead and do that, we're gonna move on into our world news before we get out of here for the night, and I thank y'all for staying tuned in, y'all are amazing, all of y'all have stayed tuned in the whole time, I've had the same number of people, over 30 people on the live channel,
02:39:48
Speaker
I appreciate y'all. It has been two hours and 40 minutes I've been streaming live and y'all stayed with me the whole entire time, which means you're enjoying this content. I cannot thank you enough from the bottom of my heart, how much I truly am humbled and appreciate your loyalty and your fanship.
02:40:05
Speaker
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02:40:17
Speaker
ah You know, this is a good point, though. That is a good point, Poppy. You do start to ah cross sort of an ethical line. Then, when you start to introduce artificial intelligence with human anatomy or robots and humans, then we start looking into, um are we going to use human actual you know minds into putting those into robots?
02:40:42
Speaker
Which you know they're doing already. So they are doing. So that's definitely something that we have to be think about. And I mean, I've said it plenty of times on this show, usually in in jest, but I'm not really joking when I say robots are going to take over the world.
02:41:00
Speaker
If you believe that there is not going to be a planet of the apes like robot revolution in the future, you're sadly mistaken. Now, will any of us be alive for that? No.
02:41:11
Speaker
Anybody watching this stream right now, including myself, will be dead by the time that happens. But, well, actually, puppy, you put me onto that Don't Die documentary.
02:41:23
Speaker
If someone can figure that out, maybe someone will stay alive for the rocket revolution, robot revolution. But at this point in time, not any of us will be alive for that, but the robots will eventually conquer and take over the human population.
Robots and Future Ethical Concerns
02:41:35
Speaker
It's going to happen. um People should have paid attention to those weird boy Christian Colts in D.C. They got their poison ivy veins all throughout D.C. Agreed? ah g Agreed? ah It's funny that the conservative side will tell you that they don't have the same kind of power.
02:41:50
Speaker
You know they always, oh, the the the the left or the, what is it, the... what they call it the cabal of the the left and George Soros and all this other stuff is rich and hilarious considering the conservative sides have their own sorts of georges George Soros and other types of ah no cabals. And yeah if the left actually did have some secret cabal, don't you think they wouldn't have let Donald Trump take over?
02:42:24
Speaker
I'm just saying. All of them are interrelated. got to keep telling you all this. They all work hand in hand. You think these Republicans and Democrats don't go home at night and call each other on the phone and watch TV together and go out to drinks and shit? Yeah, okay.
02:42:40
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Okay. ah You keep thinking that. Okay.
02:42:52
Speaker
We use crystals for medical sensors. I built some cool stuff. which yeah and I definitely like to talk about that. I love stuff you do with crystals and other things. We listened to you for that. I know, right? I'm surprised you did not. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much.
02:43:07
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It's not. It really isn't. We're going to see the Terminator. We really will. So for sure, that's definitely going to happen. ah Yeah, come with me if you want to.
02:43:18
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That's right. Shout out. Thank you all for tuning in. um Yeah, so it's iss definitely going to happen. ah We'll see what happens. All right. World news. um I know I didn't bring up my...
02:43:32
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ah Oops, my Donald Trump slide I had earlier, but I did make a slide for our world news because, yes, we've got some world news to talk about here. There is a deal going down or a reported negotiation going down between the United States and Iran on a nuclear deal.
02:43:54
Speaker
Now. We have seen this plenty of times before, right? We have seen this plenty of times before where Iran has been talked into some sort of nuclear proposition where they pause ah uranium enrichment, but then they always get back into producing it because you think they stopped, they never did.
02:44:15
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If you really think they're not producing that you that uranium the whole entire time, again, you are sadly, sadly mistaken because they are. So the U.S. s and Iran are talking right now about a nuclear deal. We will see what happens as they continue talks this week.
02:44:32
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But... One thing that President Trump has done, and yeah I could in 130, 50% complete agreement with, is the way that he has handled ah Iran and the Houthis and all of the other terrorist groups.
02:44:48
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I do like the hardline stance that he is taking, and he said that ah the Iran would be held accountable for anything that the Houthis did, which I agree with, since that's where they are based out of.
02:45:02
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so um Again, you know Donald Trump does some things that are not necessarily anything you want a president to do, but at the same time, within this second term, he has done some he has done some things that are that are going to be good for the United States in the long run.
02:45:23
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And one of those things is the denuclearization of Iran, is the ceasefire of Hamas and Israel or the ceasefire in Ukraine and Russia, both of which we haven't seen, but at least he's putting it out there in the stratosphere for it to be a thing that could possibly manifest, which was not something that was done before.
02:45:50
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So... So we'll see what happens there. The ceasefire talks, as I mentioned, in Ukraine and Russia have not worked so far. Russia attacked Ukraine again over the weekend, killing 34, wounding 80 in a Palm Sunday services, a track on the Ukrainian city of Sumy.
02:46:10
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that's That's jacked up, y'all. That's jacked up. Now they're out here, Russia's out here bombing churches during the middle of services. That's jacked up. And I know Russia claims only to strike military and paramilitary targets.
02:46:25
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But again, if you believe that, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. Russia... Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin, they do not care about human or civilian life, ah not even their own humans or civilians in Russia, much less Ukrainians.
02:46:42
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And they have...
02:46:45
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attacked and killed lots of innocent civilians since the war started.
Ukraine Conflict and Political Critiques
02:46:51
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There is roughly 13,000 civilians, including more than 600 children that have been killed in Ukraine due to the Russian war.
02:47:06
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So, take that for what you will. That is actually out of... Um, ah, shit. I deleted the, I accidentally deleted the, the resource that I got that from, but that was, uh, like a global, global war, global war academy, global war council.
02:47:27
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Council. Yeah, that's what it was. a Global war council. Um, where they do like studies on all the different countries and the, you know, the, the, percentages that wars may happen or how wars can be ended, stuff like that. So um very interesting and information if you've ever looked into it.
02:47:45
Speaker
What else on the world front? Oh, did you hear about during the during the massive ah deportations that we have been doing here in the United States, there was one gentleman by the name of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was arrested in Baltimore on March 12th.
02:48:09
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Now, you may have heard about this because this has been the hot-button issue for these mass deportations, because apparently, even though President Donald Trump and the administration claim that this guy is MS-13, they have not given any direct evidence to the court to support that he was.
02:48:28
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um but he was deported as an illegal alien in those mass deportations to El Salvador, where he has remained in an El Salvadorian prison for over a month.
02:48:42
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Now again, the but the Donald Trump's administration, in order to enact these deportations, is using the Illegal Criminal Aliens Act of 1791, in which you are able to deport illegal aliens based on Based on even just having a a hint, even just having information that a person could be a terrorist.
02:49:11
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So there was a tip put out on this guy a few years ago that he was MS-13. But that tip was never corroborated. And I'm not here to defend any terrorist or any criminal.
02:49:23
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If he is ah criminal or was MS-13, then good. He should be because they all should be. But at the same time, you've got to have some sort of evidence for that.
02:49:34
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And when you don't present the courts with the proper amount of evidence, it then just looks like Again, you're just doing things in mass and there could be so many innocent people that are taken in these waves, in these doge cuts, in all these other things that are ending up losing jobs, losing lives, getting arrested, whatever. Now, you may be on the right to conservatives, which we'll say, and I was listening to a podcast earlier that is conservative, um and the guy said, oh, well,
02:50:10
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um Some casualties of of war sort of thing is what he said. He said, oh, well, if some innocent people get deported, but we get the majority of criminals out, he said he's okay with that.
02:50:24
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And that's the majority of how the conservatives feel about this. If they deport 100 people and 95 of them were criminals and five were innocents that just happened to be thinking along, the conservative side is going to tell you they're okay with that.
02:50:42
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Again, I'm not here to tell you right or wrong. You make your own judgment. But that's definitely the opinion of the right because I've heard it plenty of times.
02:50:54
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That would be my opinion. That would be my opinion, Poppy, five too many, which is why I say things need to be more targeted and niche rather than huge, right? If he was just a little more targeted in the doge cuts, in the illegal immigration and all these things, we wouldn't have these issues.
02:51:12
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Because it is. No one here, and again, that's ah positions of the conservatives, that even if you're here illegally as an alien, even if you're not a criminal, you're still here illegally, and that is a crime.
02:51:28
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Can't say that they're not right about that. But... Again, take your time. Do things the right way. Too many veterans lost their jobs during the doge cuts because they just want to do everything in mass because Donald Trump has to have everything be the biggest it has to be because he can have it any other way.
02:51:50
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It has to be a spectacle or it's not good enough for him. But what happens is innocent people lose jobs, lives, veterans are costed jobs and it's just It's sad.
02:52:03
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Warning, Wombat, you're spot on, Professor. Russia is trying to press their advantage because they know Trump won't hold them accountable. They want to improve their negotiating position as much as possible. <unk>re You're right. And we talked about that last week when we talked about Russia taking back the province of Kursk.
02:52:18
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which is a a a huge negotiating, ah a huge part of land that will be huge in the negotiation process because it's part of Ukraine that has the majority of the Earth's minerals that we are looking to harvest, which is not a good thing if Russia controls that because then we don't get it.
02:52:37
Speaker
Right? So anyone who wants that mineral deal with Ukraine, and if Russia owns that land, they're not going to give it to us. And that's another thing. It's very rich for Donald Trump to come out and talk about how Joe Biden did nothing about the Russian-Ukraine war, which he didn't.
02:52:50
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He didn't. He's right about that. Joe Biden did nothing about it for years. But at the same time, Trump's not doing it. He can talk a big game and say he wants a ceasefire. But if he really did, he would have already gotten Putin to do it.
02:53:04
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Putin and Trump are hand in hand in this, y'all. What are we doing? Why do you think he took Russia's side when Vladimir Zelensky came into the Oval Office?
02:53:14
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Remember that a few weeks ago when Trump and Vance lit into Zelensky, made him look like a little biatch?
02:53:24
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i mean, very good spectacle. TV was excellent that day.
02:53:32
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um He is. He's blamed everything on them. He even had the nerve to come out and say that Ukraine started the war, which if you watch this program or you've listened to Ball and Buds for the past few years since I started a podcast, you will know that's not true.
02:53:45
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I have covered this war extensively in the past three years over the audio and visual ah video versions of my podcast, ah not only just because I have a lot of knowledge in this area, because ah let's just say I'm a world historian from my military days.
02:54:01
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ah But um there is a lot of blame being assigned to Ukraine when Ukraine had nothing to do with this whatsoever.
02:54:13
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Vladimir Putin literally, literally, walked into Ukraine and took over. And this has been going on for a long time. He did it back in 2014. He just took a break for a little bit to get his troops back up.
02:54:26
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He don't even care about his own troops. He's willing to have mass casualties, which he has with so much Russian loss of life. He doesn't care. Think Putin cares about the Russian soldiers?
02:54:38
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Nah, nah, they don't. They don't. You know what I mean?
02:54:45
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Sean Ryan. I'm going to to check out Sean Ryan. I don't actually know sean Ryan. i'm going to have to check him out. Thank you for that. I'll check that out after I get off. um Again, with the penguin waving tear, I love it. I wish I could actually see the emoji. It doesn't show up here. But penguin protest march against Trump's terror.
02:55:02
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That's great. ah That's tremendous. ah You know what? yeah Morning Wombat. The most hilarious thing about Donald Trump that I just cannot get over is how obsessed he is with Joe Biden.
02:55:22
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I'm like, dude, you won. You won six months ago. Let it go, dude. Let it He's not even in the public eye anymore.
02:55:36
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Let him rest, son. Like, why every time you say something do you need to bring Joe Biden into it?
02:55:46
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There's not even a need for that. You were literally voted in over him. So people know, at least your supporters do, that he didn't do enough because they voted you for a reason.
02:56:01
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Stop bringing it up, dude. I have to think about how many times a day does Donald Trump think about Joe Biden? I think about, ah you know, let's just randomly make up some subject. Let's say that i'm but say that I met this girl, right, which I did.
02:56:20
Speaker
And let's say that I've been thinking about this girl all day, which maybe I have. That's what I imagine Donald Trump is doing. That's what I imagine Donald Trump is doing. I imagine Donald Trump is like thinking about Joe Biden all day long.
02:56:35
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Like how many times does the name Joe Biden run through his mind? Like wouldn't you get sick of that at some point? Dude, let it go. You won. You don't need to compare yourself to Biden.
02:56:47
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You don't. You won. People know that Biden do it didn't do enough a good enough job. That's why he was voted out. Stop it. It makes you look petty.
02:56:58
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It makes you look so petty. So petty. When you just, every time, oh, well, you know, the stock market, the best it's ever been. It wouldn't have been this way if I wasn't handed it by Biden. Like, we know you were handed it by Biden.
02:57:12
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ain't got to tell us that. You know what mean? Oh, we wouldn't have all this immigration if it wasn't for Biden. You tell us every day. go.
02:57:26
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My man, you act like you got a crush on him. Are you infatuated with him like I am on old chick? Because damn, dog.
02:57:38
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I'm not a Biden fan either. I'm not. I'm not. I don't think Biden did a good job. I don't. I don't think he did a good job. I think he did as well as he could with what he was given.
02:57:55
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considering coming out of Donald Trump's first term in COVID and all that, not blaming necessarily COVID on Donald Trump. Yes, he exacerbated the issue by playing it down and saying that it wasn't real, but I don't blame him for COVID the the origins.
02:58:16
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But yeah, ah Biden, did he he did he did okay with what he was given, but he didn't do a great job. i'm not I'm not at all and okay with the job that that Biden did as president.
American Racial and Political Divides
02:58:29
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No, I'm not.
02:58:30
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I think it could have been way better. But I think the same thing about Donald Trump's first term. And I think the same thing about Donald Trump's second term so far.
02:58:40
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I mean,
02:58:44
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honestly,
02:58:48
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The last times I can even think that America might have been in a decent spot.
02:58:56
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Clinton's second term? Bill Clinton's second term? Maybe? Nope. Bill Clinton's second term. Bill Clinton's second term was the last time that America was a place where
02:59:13
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we were in a really good spot. Ever since then, i mean, even though I was gonna say Obama's second term, but the problem then was that was when Donald Trump was starting to come out and and run and the divisiveness between Donald Trump and Barack Obama caused a huge divide in our community and in our country, which continues to this day between black and white.
02:59:35
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And it's caused so much just issues and problems between my black and white brothers and sisters. And it shouldn't be that way. We should all love each other and get along because we are all brothers and sisters in this human race.
02:59:49
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does It doesn't matter your skin color. I love you whether you're white, black, brown, yellow, blue, green, purple, bear, penguin, shark, white tiger, otherwise, Martian, camel.
03:00:10
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That's me. But I know that there is that divide in the United States. And I know it's something that needs to be fixed because it's causing huge problems. And eventually we could also have a civil war. I can't even say that that's out of the realm of possibilities.
03:00:26
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I can't.
03:00:29
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um No, i haven't. But I'll definitely check it out. ah ah Actually, I need to write that. i don't have my pen with me. I'll try to remember that. Maybe send me a... ah Oh, actually...
03:00:41
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I won't remember to look at the comments. have to just remember. Sean Ryan. um Look, most people would say Biden was a puppet in office and probably wasn't even alive for most of that time. And again, that's why there needs to be age limits.
03:00:56
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You should not be a politician over the age of 75. Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, none of these people could be politicians at all. It just shouldn't be a allowed allowed to.
03:01:09
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Because after 75, you're not you not as mentally cogent as you once were. Sorry, you're just not. It's not possible. You don't have as many brain cells. It's just not possible.
03:01:21
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um But is he alive? I don't even, I haven't heard about where Biden's been. As far as I know, he's up in his Rehoboth, which by the way, was another great thing about Donald Trump. Because we were talking about Donald Trump comparing him or always bringing up Joe Biden.
03:01:37
Speaker
Donald Trump talking about Joe Biden always taking but vacation while Donald Trump went to a three-day, four-day golf tournament after he announced all the tariffs and people were losing their money. Imagine had Joe Biden done some stuff like that.
03:01:50
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Donald Trump would have raked him through the coals, would have dragged him through the streets.
03:01:58
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And that's part of it. It just makes him look real petty. It just makes you look real petty when you're willing to bash on somebody that isn't bashing on you, and a lot of times when you're just making stuff up. um Every time he has to clean up a mess, I mean, again, I'm not saying that ah i'm not saying that Biden did a great job, right?
03:02:26
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But also not everything that happened out of his administration was His doing either. Just like the origins of COVID wasn't Donald Trump's fault. It's not like the economy that Biden inherited from Trump was his fault.
03:02:38
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was It wasn't.
03:02:41
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I mean, Trump was the one that downplayed COVID and said it wasn't real, which caused millions of people to die. We just got to be straight up with that. When COVID came to the United States for the first two weeks to a month, Donald Trump said, don't worry about it.
03:02:59
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He literally said that. And people didn't worry. And a lot of people lost their lives. A lot of his supporters lost their lives.
03:03:10
Speaker
Me too, Bianca. Me too. Yeah. Term limits and age limits. Age limit 75, term limit 20 years. Boom. Make it happen. Make it happen.
03:03:27
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I mean... Yeah. I mean, donna Joe Biden did some creepy stuff. You know, the pictures with, you know, him, you know, even giving kisses to little kids on their head. I don't get down with all that.
03:03:40
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But whatever. Maybe it's the old grandpa thing. I don't know.
03:03:46
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But I do know um that you just got to move on. yeah Stop making yourself look petty. Prop up what you're doing. You do a good enough job of that.
03:03:58
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You're a bluster strong man. You're good good at doing that. Do that. Business carries on when Trump not there. They are not the same.
03:04:08
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o I don't know that I get that. But business carries on. ah I mean, i don't think that has anything to do necessarily with presidents.
03:04:21
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you Unless you do something like terrorists that harm the global economy, but you know. um For presidents, yes. For presidents, yes. Yep.
03:04:32
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Eight years. I mean, meant 20 years now for senators and congressmen. Eight years for president. i agree.
03:04:40
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um Yeah, that's very sad, very sad. And anyone that harms any children, you are a sick, sick person and you deserve to die. And I don't wish death on anybody, but if you harm a child, you get what you deserve.
03:04:55
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All right, moving on. U.S. Where was I going? I already talked about that. already talked about that. already talked about that.
03:05:07
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Are you talking about China pausing exports? Oh, they're also pausing exports of rare minerals, which is going to hurt us because that's what we need for semiconductors and other things.
03:05:17
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right, cool. Well, that was actually it. All right. Yeah, that was my last note that ah China, on top of the tariffs, they halted exports. waiting on a new regulatory system, and it says that the Chinese could permanently stop exports to certain companies, including U.S. military contractors.
03:05:37
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Because what you have to remember is most of our military contractors buy all of the the heavy rare earth metals from China. China owns 90% of the world's rare earth magnets.
03:05:50
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And, i mean, metals. Magnets. Magnets? Magnets.
03:05:56
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we get so much stuff from China, anything that harms China is going to harm us. That's where we get our vibramium from.
03:06:08
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know what mean? We don't go all the way to Wakanda to get our vibramium. I mean, the Chinese give it to us stuff. You what mean? Come on.
03:06:19
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um Yeah, and I guess you could say that. I guess you could say, okay, eight-year term limit because you would then want, if the president presidency was to flip sides, then you would want the whole Congress and Senate to also flip. Okay, I could see that.
03:06:36
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So then you would just basically want a revolving Republicans, Democrat, Republican, Democrat, eight every eight years sort of thing. Actually, i don't know that I necessarily...
03:06:52
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Mind that idea. Actually, not a half bad idea, if that's what you were thinking, or maybe I just made it up. Maybe it should be four years. Every four years, four years a Republican, four years Democrat. And then that way you never you know and know you're never going stranglehold of one party.
03:07:10
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Maybe. Honestly, think there needs to be a third
Listener Connections and Future Plans
03:07:12
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party. Obviously not the Green Party or whatever. That's not going to work. um Some sort of independent party that can merge the best of both worlds.
03:07:23
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Yeah.
03:07:25
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If you can't remember where you put the fork at, you probably shouldn't be president. Agreed. Again, over the age of 75, you should not be a politician at all. I believe you've lost your faculties by that point in an ability to be cogent enough to make these decisions.
03:07:40
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Know what I mean?
03:07:43
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Hey, it is what it is. oh my God, thank you so much to all of you. i know that I am going to go to sleep tonight. I am going to say my prayers before I go to bed. And I am going to thank God for each and every one of you.
03:07:58
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There are still ah way more people than I, I mean, there were over 30 live at the beginning of the show and now we're up to 40 live and y'all have stayed with me the whole entire three hour show.
03:08:13
Speaker
Yes. I just talked by myself for three hours. I need water. and need some other accoutrements. I need to go take some flight and, uh, get my buzz on for a little bit.
03:08:25
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Uh,
03:08:27
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I-Y-K-Y-K-Y. I-Y-K-Y-K. Oh, there's no other Y. I don't know. I'm not a kid. don't use these kid terms.
03:08:38
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All right, I got the Riz. but That's the first time I ever said Riz. Sounded weird. I'm not going to say that again. Sounded weird. doesn't Doesn't sound good coming from 40-year-old.
03:08:54
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And I still talk very, very very very young. my my well When I'm on here, i used to i like to use my extended vocabulary. But on the streets, I use my slang.
03:09:07
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Because I'm a... I was about to say that wrong. I'm a... I'm a man in the streets, but a freak in the sheets. What?
03:09:18
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Anyway.
03:09:22
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No, I know, I know, I know. I was talking about 20-year term limits for senators and congresspeople. I want to make sure I state that. Obviously, the eight years for the president is already in place.
03:09:34
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I agree. I was saying that for myself, I think it should be 20 years. Yes, Rock Chalk said eight years, and I think Rock Chalk meant that for Congress, Senate, everybody. i i I can see that.
03:09:47
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Maybe 12 years. Let's agree on 12. um And the only reason I say that is because if you do have a party that does have control for eight years, if you're a senator or a congressperson on the other side of the aisle that didn't have the controlling party for those first eight years, you wouldn't be able to get much done for your constituents.
03:10:03
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So you would need four years of your own party. Twelve years.
Wrestling Events and Promotions
03:10:08
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Can we make an agreement on twelve years? All right. Oh, and I love you. Thank you, Bianca.
03:10:14
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Thank you, everybody. I really appreciate that. Eight for everybody. Okay, cool. Yep. Go get your bank on. Yes, for the pretty lady. Yeah, oh you know, I'm her up here in a second when I get my accoutrements in, see what she's talking about, ah see if she wants to hang out before I leave. By the way, if you live in Virginia in the DMV, I will be home Friday. Yes, I leave Nashville flying out Friday for my birthday, birthday weekend.
03:10:47
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I'm going to be hitting up Vegas. I'll be covering WrestleMania in Vegas ah Friday, Saturday, and then Sunday day I'll be back home in Virginia. Clubber D and I will have WrestleMania night two live reaction stream for the whole show. So if you want to watch three hours of hilariousness of me and Clubber D talking crap about old school and new school professional wrestling and a bunch of other friends maybe coming on and joining us,
03:11:16
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03:11:29
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All the sports news and trash talk. Catch Candace, that man, hot take, Jake, myself. And we will have special guest NFL insider and DMV insider Shane Peacher. We'll be talking about Alex Ovechkin. We'll do an NFL mock draft and all of that tomorrow night.
03:11:47
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Then Wednesday night, special edition of Banter, Brawls, and Bravado, WrestleMania edition. Hot Take Jake, myself. ah and Pro Wrestling Insiders Shane Peacher and from IOW, our brother and Pro Wrestling Insider Wild Card Marr as well as hopefully a special guest appearance from Clubber D and we will be going over a preview of all of the Wrestlemania action for this weekend.
03:12:16
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03:12:28
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03:12:56
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We're at NBA. I'm from the DMV right outside DC. So, uh, my, uh, my, uh, parents stay in Woodbridge, pretty much all my friends, Woodbridge, Lorton, Dumfries, Springfield, Manassas, uh, Manassas hole, uh, area.
03:13:14
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Uh, I stay on that side of VA, but also went to the University of Maryland. So I got all my peoples in College Park, Hydesville, Baltimore, Ellicott City, Columbia, and as well, all my peoples in D.C., North, South, East, West, where you're coming from.
03:13:30
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All of my people from Berry Farms to Anacostia, all my folks out in D.C. Love y'all. All right, so y'all catch me in the DMV. I'll be in Vegas Friday and Saturday. I'll be in the DMV ah Sunday to Thursday. Thursday, I fly out to Costa Rica.
03:13:46
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Your boy going to Costa Rica because I got to be like Stella. I got to get my groove back. Your boy been on a little bit of a rough patch when it comes to some certain different things in the life.
03:13:59
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And Costa Rica, the sun, the beach, the beautiful Costa Rican ladies are going to solve all. of my issues. Oh, I can't wait.
03:14:10
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I'm going to be like Ric Flair in the loving of some Costa Rican ladies next weekend. I cannot wait. What am I going to be doing? You and I are living in the right.
03:14:24
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Just fine. You're stealing. We're dealing. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. Yes, yes. Thank you, Rick. Thank you.
03:14:37
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Yes, happy birthday to you too. That's right. The 17th. I can't tell you when mine is because I don't want other people to know. But just know it is right right next to yours, give or take.
03:14:52
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and the weekend there, let's just say. I don't want anybody know my government information. um Birthday weekend for me and Rock Chalk. Let's go. Everybody celebrate our happy birthdays. After Costa Rica, by the way, i come back to Virginia for another week.
03:15:07
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Club Rd's birthday is that first weekend in May, so we're going to celebrate that. And then... I'm going to Puerto Rico for two weeks to see the family, to see the grandmothers, the uncles, the aunts, the cousins.
03:15:20
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So, y'all, the next five weeks, Vegas, D.C., Costa Rica, Virginia, Puerto Rico, and back to Nashville.
03:15:34
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Jet setting. I'm like Leonardo DiCaprio. You better catch me if you can, suckers. Shout out to you and the wifey. Safe travels to San Diego. My dad says it's a wonderful, beautiful place.
03:15:47
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I need to check it out sometime. Yes, looking forward to WrestleMania. Oh, shout out to my uncle tuning in. Bendy Shung, Theo. I will see you in about ah <unk> see in about three weeks, Theo. Bendy Shung, I love you.
03:16:03
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um Yes. Yes. Oh, you know what, Bianca? oh Check this. Check this. o Bring down the signs.
03:16:15
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Look at this bad boy. Look at what i got here.
03:16:22
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One day, I will have to tell the story of how I got this. You can see it's autographed by Rick up there at the top. I wish he would autographed it in gold or blue instead of gray, but gray is where all the accoutrements are made out of. It says, Nature Boy, Ric Flair, 16 times. um This is from Ric Flair's last match that was here in Nashville a couple years ago.
03:16:52
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And I'll have to tell the story sometime, but shout out my boy ah shut out my boys, Conan, Disco Inferno, and JoJo, Joe Feeney, the Keep It 100 podcast. If you like professional wrestling, check out Keep It 100, Conan and Disco, both former WCW and WWF professional wrestlers.
03:17:12
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Hilarious podcast. But also, ah Joe Feeney, their producer, shout out my boy Joe, he came out to Nashville and And we went to Ric Flair's last match together. Joe took me backstage. I got to meet all the wrestlers and everything. And while we did that, we snuck out for the last match for Ric's match.
03:17:30
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And we snuck into the front row, found a couple of empty seats. I happen to be sitting one with this commemorative chair. And I think at this point, the statute of limitations probably expired.
03:17:44
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Although I don't think you get in trouble for stealing a chair. I definitely stole that chair from the spot I was sitting in. So I hope nobody was sitting there. Although if somebody was sitting there and they left for the last match, for Ric Flair's last match, and that's what you paid for, you deserve to get your seat taken.
03:18:01
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I definitely did definitely to steal that seat. And I am not ashamed whatsoever. I'm not ashamed that I stole that at all. Not ashamed.
03:18:12
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Not ashamed. Sorry, I'm just not. I'm not. I would feel bad if it was somebody's chair. But again, if you paid to go see Ric Flair's last show and you sat front row, which was very expensive, and you decided to leave for the last match and didn't come back the whole time because that no one told me to move, you deserve to have your chair taken.
03:18:33
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I'm not going feel bad about it. I'll ask for forgiveness later. Keep it moving. Anyways, and then I met Rick the next year at an autograph show, and I got him to autograph it. um I was hoping to go see him this year, but me and my dad ended up going to Memphis instead.
03:18:46
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So once they come this year, I'm going to go and get him to autograph it again and get him to do it in gold this time. Oh, I know. I need a robe. That would be so great. If I could have a robe, that would be awesome.
03:18:59
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ah Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Yes, yes, yes. Prayers. Prayers up. ah Yeah, you know, sometimes in life you just got to take what you want. but Whatever. and And that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to take what I want, and that's taking my ass to the kids' ouch to go take some flight.
03:19:16
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That being said, my friends, thank you again for tuning in for three hours and 20 minutes. What's wrong with you heathens? Am I that good? Or are you all that bored? you all really have nothing to do?
03:19:27
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I don't know, but I love you, and you love me, and we are a happy family, Barney style. Go out. Be safe. Be blessed.
03:19:39
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Love each other. Be kind to each other. um appreciate it pops. And spread love the Omar way. Holla! 5,000. Peace with the
03:19:54
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Millions!
03:19:57
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That world heavyweight float Championship belt wrapped around my waist yo I got that rip flare fake and float Slam you on the face and that's why they call me street pro Create heat on beat float Like Jordan after the second time he free beat it folks Get ready set let's go Fight toe to toe release the flow created by this mic pro Lights, camera, get low Action bag, back to bag in fact this monster will go y'all
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Sports Professor.