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NCAA March Madness Final; NHL Alex Ovechkin Hockey Record; USA President Donald Trump Tariff Fallout
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🔥@BALLandBUDS "The Professor's Semanalmente: US/World News, Entertainment, Sports"💯
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Sports: NCAA Basketball Championships; NHL Hockey Alex Ovechkin Record; NBA Hall of Fame
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USA News: Donald Trump "Liberation Day" Tariff Fallout, Measels Outbreak
World News: South Korean President Impeachment, World Tariff Responses
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Introduction and Podcast Overview
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Championship belt wrapped around my waist yo I got toe release the flow created by this micro Lights cameras get low Action packed back to back in fact this monster will grow
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man with the master plan and you have no need to know. You can't prepare, now get ready for the show.
00:00:39
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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, this is the Professor's Seminalmente.
00:00:58
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Just means weekly, you marks. That's all it means, weekly. ah So yes, I thank you for tuning into my weekly news headlines show.
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Yes, we are going to talk about world news, the United States news. We're going to talk about all the fallout from the Donald ah Trump president president administration, administrational tariffs, excuse me.
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So we talked about the tariffs last week. Today, we'll talk about the fallout. We'll also get into a little bit of entertainment. We'll update you on that TikTok ban, talk a little bit of movies in the theater, as well as the new Mega Millions. You're going to want to find out how much the new prizes and new cost will be.
00:01:40
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As well, we'll talk a little bit of world news. We'll update you on that South Korean president impeachment, as well as how the rest of the world is responding to the tariffs from the United States.
Basketball Championship Highlights
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ah But first... Definitely going to start with sports today. We have to talk about the National Basketball Championship starting in an hour. Exactly. So don't worry. I will be off of here to go and let yeah everyone. I'm going to watch it myself. Let y'all watch it as well. so Also, we will not.
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Leave out our boy Ovi Alex Ovechkin from the Washington Capitals this past weekend. Broke the record of Wayne Gretzky. What? We'll talk all about it as well as I'll reveal to you the inductees that were announced for the upcoming interview.
00:02:29
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This is the NBA Hall of Fame class. it is a jam pack episode and i only got one hour to get it in so let's kick this bad boy off please make sure you subscribe at ball and bud b a l l a n d b u d s on youtube is the most important thing but if you really want to support all of our social media including follow us on instagram That handy QR code up top will take you to our link tree where you'll be able to find all that as well as the bottom line sports, which, by the way, tomorrow night, bottom line sports, 8 p.m. Eastern. Check us out. Join the bottom line sports group.
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ah And, yeah, we'll be on there talking all of the sports. But for now. Oh, and Thursday, don't let me forget, UFC 314 Clubber D the Combat G's Combat Sports Special. We will have that Thursday night at 8 p.m.
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Woo!
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Ball night. We got a ball night. Yes, we got the NCAA March Madness Basketball Championship going down tonight in San Antonio, the Alamo Dome, and it is going to be a doozy.
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So, Who do we have? We've got, again, we told you all last week, it's chalk all the way, right? So it's going to be a number one seed versus a number one seed. We've got the number one seed at Houston Cougars versus the number one seed Florida Gators. Houston ah was actually...
00:04:38
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Probably the higher ranked team for most of the season. They stayed in the top five. Florida was in the top 10-ish most of the year. so But that's because the SEC, as we know, as I've told you on this program, is the best conference in the country when it comes to men's – well,
00:04:55
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Men's basketball and football, to be completely honest, if we're holding all our cards out there. If we're playing all the spades, love spades. NCAA, both teams overcame double-digit deficits.
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Say that five times fast. As Florida advanced after beating the number one team, Auburn. They were number one all season. They beat them 79-73. And Houston, the Houston Cougars stunned Duke.
00:05:21
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Wow. Duke... They had a six-point lead in the final 35 seconds. But even before that, if you go to, I believe it was around the five or six-minute mark, Duke had a 13-point lead, a lead there in the teams.
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And the game was assumed at that point by most people to be over. I was betting on Houston, so I had to keep rooting for them. And they came back. Wow.
00:05:48
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What a comeback. Kelvin Sampson, we'll talk about him in a little bit. but'all But been sleeping on Kelvin Sampson way too long.
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right. Kelvin Sampson has 724 wins now, which puts him above the Hall of Famer when in which the Kansas Jayhawk Stadium is named after, Fogg Allen. So now we got to start thinking about Kelvin Sampson as a Hall of Famer, and he's definitely a college basketball coaching legend.
00:06:23
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So we'll see. The Florida Gators are favored by 1.5 points, excuse me, with a 140.5 over-under spread for all of you people planning on betting tonight.
00:06:39
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I am actually taking the over on the points, and I already told you I'm taking Houston. I'm not even going to take them with the points because I think they're going to win outright, so I'm taking them on the money line.
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How did Florida get here? Florida, round of 32, defeated UConn, barely by two points, then defeated Maryland. Shout out to much the Terps for such a great, great year.
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eighty Then they beat Texas Tech, close Texas Tech there in the Elite Eight. And then finally, in the Final Four, they defeated Auburn, as we said. ah ah Houston, on the other hand, defeated Gonzaga in the round of 32, then Purdue in the Sweet 16.
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In the Elite 8, they defeated the Tennessee Volunteers. Shout out to Knoxville. And then in the Final Four, obviously, the aforementioned Duke. How does it go down tonight? Let's give you like the sports professor's butpa papa but Preview.
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all right. How can the Gators contend with not only the Houston's defense, which is the best defense in the league, but also their physicality? And I've been talking about it this whole March Madness.
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Houston is an experienced laden team. They have everything going behind them in this matchup. So,
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Kelvin Sampson's Houston teams have finished in a top 15 adjusted defensive efficiency in seven of the past eight seasons, including this season, which means Florida's bigs will have to be in the paint, in the post, rocking it all night long, grabbing boards.
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kind of Trying to affect the offense. They've got to make sure they control the paint. Houston outscored Duke 19-12 in second chance points on Saturday.
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As well, Gators have committed a lot of fouls in this tournament, and Houston made Duke pay by making their foul shots in last game, including four crucial ones down the stretch.
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And Houston has been doing that all season long. So look at free throws for being a a crucial component tonight in this game. If the Gators put him to the line too much, that's going to be an issue. The only way, though, in my eyes, that Florida even wins this game is if Walter Clayton Jr. goes for another 25-plus point game.
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He is the... often He is who the offense flows through and rightfully so should. And fun professor's fact here for you, Professor Stapp.
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Walter Clayton Jr. is the only player in history. get i couldn't believe it when I heard this. The only player in history have... oh 30 plus points in the Elite Eight and in the Final Four.
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So, wow. I couldn't believe that when I i was like, wait, you mean to tell me all the great players in college history and no one's ever done that in the Elite? I couldn't believe it. thought Luau Cinder. I thought Bill Walton.
00:09:48
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I mean, Kemba Walker when he had his run, which is what Walter Clayton is akin to right now. Anyways, so they'll only go as far as Clayton takes them and facing the best defense in Houston is not going to be good. Clayton is going to have to be hot, but it's not likely as, again, Houston's defense just smothers opponents, suffocates them.
00:10:12
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So we'll see how Houston... or rather how Florida and Coach Todd Golden is going to go about game planning Walter Clayton Jr. to try to exploit that usually unexploitable Houston defense.
00:10:28
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Houston does not have many weaknesses, y'all, but they are also not that great on... ah on protecting free throws and on making free throws. Now I said earlier, free throws is going to be a huge component of this game. This backs that up.
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Yes, Houston made those crucial free throws last game against Duke. Yes, they've been ah decent, good enough during the tournament, but overall over the whole year Right.
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Houston has ranked fourteenth in offensive free throw rate. So they're going to have to make them like they did last game. And as well, they average fewer free throws because they get to the line less.
00:11:14
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We are going to see that's going to be huge. Houston has to be physical. We talked about the physicality with the Florida Gators. It's going to be coming from both sides. LJ Cryer is the guy you want to look to on Houston. He is their main guy. Well, they've got a lot of main guys, but LJ Cryer is the you know the the cream of the crop, so to say. And he's going to have to exploit that three-point line to give his teammates an advantage down low in the post like we just talked about a little bit ago.
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So this is going to be an excellent, excellent matchup. If you are a college basketball fan, you do not want to miss this game tonight.
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Cool. So let me give you, i think I have one more thing I wanted to mention. Oh, and one air other area, the three-point line, right? We talked earlier about how,
00:12:08
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Walter Clayton is going to have to make his three-pointers. LJ Cryer is going to have to make his three-pointers as well. Houston has a very strong defense, and that is as well included on the perimeter.
00:12:21
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But they allow a lot of three-point attempts. That bodes well for Walter Clayton Jr., So what is the sports professor's prediction tonight?
00:12:33
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I am not going away from the team that I predicted at the beginning of the season. Yes, your boy is on a roll. I predicted the last two National College football champions before the season, and I predicted before this season started that Houston would cut down the Nets at the end of the season. I see no reason for that to change now. Kelvin Sampson has been
00:12:58
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Trying to get over that mountain. Trying to climb the mountain. You know what I mean? He's been trying to get up there. And he is going to finally ascend to the summit and make his dreams come through.
00:13:12
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Houston wins tonight in a very, very close game. 74-73. seventy four seventy three Houston beats the ah night Book it. Go ahead and put that in your FanDuel, in your ESPN bet, in your DraftKings.
00:13:29
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00:13:42
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All right, moving on. Wowzers, record-breaking, yes, I said record-breaking, or record-tying, rather, excuse me, record-tying 12th national championship in basketball.
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We are talking about the Gino Auriemma-led matchup. UConn Huskies. They are back at the top of the summit where they have been 12 times before defeating the South Carolina Lady Gamecocks 82-59 to win their,
00:14:20
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again twelfth national title Oh, it is sorry, it was the record-breaking one. I was right before. I shouldn't have corrected myself.
UConn Women's Basketball Success
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They broke the tie with my UCLA Bruins men's basketball team with the great John Wooden. May he rest in power.
00:14:33
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ah For the most in NCAA history, men's or women. What? Mind blown. UConn again is the now the reigning most championships in basketball, men or women, led by Coach Auriemma.
00:14:51
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The 71-year coach has coached them to every single one of their championships up there in stores. now He's got some good players there with him.
00:15:02
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Zee Fudd won the most outstanding player award in the final four as well. He has a star freshman in Sarah Strong who dropped 24 points, 15 rebounds, five assists, and three blocks. A little Nikola Jokic line there for you to beat the Gamecocks. So he still has a very strong team as well.
00:15:26
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UConn did announce a five-year win. $18.7 million dollars extension that runs through the 2028-2029 season. So we would at least expect him to be there next year, maybe even through Sarah Strong's whole career.
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But at some point, we've got to be looking at him to retire. not that we Not that I'm saying anybody wants him to. I'm just saying as he gets up there in age, father time, no one outlasts father time. Put it that way.
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So we will see what happens and and how many more championships he can win in that period that he's around. Paige Beckers, Wowsers, the star of this team, widely expected to be the top draft pick in the WNBA draft.
00:16:17
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Yes, she is awesome. So she has now exhausted her eligibility and will be going to, well, I'm not even going to say where she's going to be going to because they are talking. There are as rumors in the rumor mill are saying that she may try to pull an Eli Manning as she does not desire to go to the team with the number one pick in the WNBA draft. And I do not remember exactly off the top of my head who it that is. So I apologize if somebody can help me in the chat. Oh, I forgot to check the chat. I'll check it in one second.
00:16:52
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But if ah somebody can help me, I forgot. Who that? I'm trying to remember. Anyways, I think it's the Dallas Wings, maybe. Anyways, it doesn't really matter. she She may try to pull Eli Manning and go wherever wherever she wants, which apparently she doesn't actually have a destination in mind.
00:17:09
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So maybe just the first good team that comes along. I don't know. Anyways, she's been awesome. And that run that she had in this tournament was historic.
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And again, UConn earning history. as well with their 12th, again, record-setting national championship for men's or women's basketball.
00:17:33
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All right, let's kick it into these comments real quick, see what we got pop, lock, and dropping over here. Oh, thank you to my wonderful producer. I appreciate that.
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Ah, oh, yes. Thank you, Ayesa, for tuning in. We really appreciate you. We appreciate all of our loyal fans here at Ball & Buds. Please, if you're watching, hit that like button.
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Every like helps. Thank you very much. And every comment helps. Oh, shout out to the NCAA final live on. Yes, I've been telling them all about it. We were just talking about that and just talking about the ladies win last night. So again, shout out to those ladies. Now moving on to a little more DMV centric.
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ah news, as I forgot to have my ah preview image up earlier with the game. I was wondering where it was at. i was like, I thought I had it in front, but apparently I had it behind the women's one because I thought, I guess I thought i was going to talk women's first.
00:18:39
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Oh, well, there's the image for the preview i was going to do. Shout out to CBS Sports for that image, but I already told you I got Houston 74, 73 over the Gators. seventy three over the gaatorator Alex Ovechkin, yes.
00:18:53
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Ovi, the great Ovi. You see him there in the middle just sliding down the ice. Just sliding down the ice. Yes, his classic celebration that he has performed numerous times in big moments.
00:19:09
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Alex Ovechkin did it again. Yes, he is awesome. He has now set the record. Four, most goals scored in National Hockey League history, passing the great one, Wayne Gretzky.
00:19:29
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So what happened, y'all? Give you a little background on this. Last night, in or yeah like yesterday afternoon, rather, in the UBS arena, playing the New York Islanders, Alex Ovechkin in his 1487th game,
Alex Ovechkin's Historic NHL Record
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ah which is funny because that's the exact same number of games that Gretzky played in his career. So that's pretty cool ah symmetry there. He passed him with his 895th goal with a wrist shot from his office. If you have ever watched Alex Ovechkin or you watch the Capitals or anything, you're a hockey fan, you will know that Alex Ovechkin's favorite spot on the ice is that left corner.
00:20:21
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Power play circle, that left face off circle um where he has made so many countless, countless shops shots. excuse me not shop ah So shout out to the DMV. They are ecstatic. I know our NFL insider Shane Peacher and as well, our political strategist, Amul Madan, are both extremely happy about this moment. So shout out to all y'all Washington Capitals and DMV fans with that.
00:20:55
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Now, I will say something here. I do love me some Ovi, okay? Ovi is is, to me, he's like LeBron, right? They both played for 20 years, and they both are prolific scorers that did not slow down scoring even into their older age.
00:21:16
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That being said, for all of you Alex Ovechkin stans out there, i need you to sit the hell down And shut the hell up, okay?
00:21:29
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I'm tired. I'm tired of the blaspheming coming out of people's mouths that I've been hearing in the past couple days, seeing on the internet. All these young folks ain't never watched Gretzky play.
00:21:42
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All these other people, just because they passed the goals record. Let me let you all in on a little secret here. And I told you all this last week. And so I'll give it to you in another way today.
00:21:56
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If Wayne Gretzky had never score scored one goal in his entire career, take away all 894 goals that Wayne Gretzky scored, take them all away, wipe them all out.
00:22:11
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He never scored a goal. He wasn't allowed to score, let's say. He was just too good. And they made a Gretzky rule where he couldn't score. Wayne Gretzky would still have goals Total points with no goals than any player in history.
00:22:30
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Let me repeat that again. If Wayne Gretzky had zero goals and he only could count his assists where he passes and makes somebody else better letting them get a goal and you took all of his goals away and just added his passes, he has more assists than than any player in history had goals plus assists.
00:22:56
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Mind blown. That is crazy. That is wild. Are you kidding me? You mean to tell me you could take away every goal he's ever scored and he would have more points than any player ever.
00:23:13
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edie put All the legends, all of them. Stack them up. From Gordie Howell on down, stack them up.
00:23:22
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I mean, that's that's some ah that's some that's some pretty immaculate immaculate stuff right there, y'all. you gotta ah You got to understand that, yes, Alex Ovechkin is a great, great player, an excellent player, but there are levels to this stuff.
00:23:39
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There are levels to this, and he is not on the level of the great one, Wayne Gretzky. Yes, thank you, Aisha. Oh, much appreciated. love everybody tuning in. We appreciate you all tuning in today for real. All right.
00:23:55
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Thank you. Let's keep it moving on. Make sure you subscribe to Ball & Buds. NBA Hall of Fame inductees announced Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, WNBA greats Sue Bird, Maya Moore, and Sylvia Fowles.
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will be headlining the NBA Hall of Fame 2025 class.
NBA Hall of Fame Inductees
00:24:23
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Wow. Really good class here if you think about the players you have, as long as you're not hot cake. Jake, who wrongfully, may I add, before I even say the ignorant comment he made, wrongfully and hella wrongfully,
00:24:40
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thinks that Carmelo Anthony is not a Hall of Famer, that is got that's ridiculous. Anyways, Carmelo Anthony is a bona fide Hall of Famer, and he's going into Hall Fame. Dwight Howard as well, although he faded off in the later years of his career. I still think he's more borderline for me in the Hall of Fame.
00:24:59
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i But he was such a good defensive player and and for a long time the often ah offensive and player too until he slowed down. I just, I don't know. i'd have to I'd have to really analyze his stats and his is plus minus and and kind of see what he had going on. Eye test wise, sure, I'm okay with it. I'm good with it. But I could definitely see it being borderline as well.
00:25:22
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um But there is no borderline with Carmelo, no borderline with Sue. Absolutely no borderline with Sue Bird. Absolutely no borderline with Sue Bird. And neither was Sylvia Fowles or Maya Moore either.
00:25:32
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And Maya Moore, just a great all-around person. We know what she did um in terms of advocacy for many different causes, ah but especially the one where she got her now husband. out of jail where he was incorrectly charged and incorrectly convicted for a crime he did not commit. So shout out to her. Also, some others, Bulls coach, current Bulls coach, two-time NCAA champion Billy Donovan, the Miami Heat's managing general partner Mickey Arison. Shout out my boy Rue, prayers up.
00:26:03
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and Longtime NBA referee Danny Crawford. Ensignment is set for September 5th and 6th at the Mohegan Sun in Uncastville, Connecticut.
00:26:18
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um And at the Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. All right, so shout-out, salute to all of those great players making the NBA Basketball Hall of Fame. We cannot forget one last note.
00:26:34
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Yes, i ah I am a LeBron hater, so I did i did not. I did put it last. LeBron and Chris Paul will be going in before their playing careers even end.
00:26:45
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Why? How is that, you ask Omar? Well, let the professor learn you some things. The class of 2025 will also include the 2008 U.S. Olympic men's basketball team, dubbed the Redeem Team.
00:26:59
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They captured gold in Beijing and started a now-still-going present-day run of five consecutive Olympic titles. Basically, they redeemed what was lost in From the early dream team days of Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and ah basically brought the United States back to the prominence when it came to Olympic basketball.
00:27:26
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All right. Moving on, District California Judge Claudia Wilkin will preside over the approval for the proposed House versus NCAA settlement.
00:27:41
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So if you've watched Ball and Buds for a while, you will know because I have talked about this subject recently. Plenty of times I have talked about how, oh well, especially on Mind of Professor, if you go back and watch the one where I talked about the NCAA amateurism and how how deeply i distrust and dislike the NCAA for how they treat these student athletes. I'm going to leave that for you to go back and watch.
00:28:09
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Please go check out that Mind of the Professor. I believe it was from this past summer. Anyways, so what's happening here, y'all? Well, The NCAA has long... I don't even want to say held the belief because they don't actually believe it in their own departments, but they have long held the public-facing
00:28:33
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opinion that that athletes that play college athletics are amateurs and therefore cannot be considered employees and therefore...
NCAA NIL Settlement
00:28:47
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not entitled to payments compensation. We all know that this started back with the Ed O'Bannon case and the name image likeness for the video games and all that ah about 10, 15 years ago. And it has progressed progressed as it has gone forward to this point.
00:29:07
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By now, if you even know of any college sports, which is probably most of the country, I would assume, you've heard n i l which stands for name, image, likeness.
00:29:20
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Well, there has been lawsuits against the NCAA in courts for the past few years trying to get NIL approved and be able to have schools provide payments to their student athletes so that their student, well, because let's be completely honest.
00:29:39
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And again, you can go back and hear all of this on the mind of the professor, but I don't care what you think. The athletes have to do so much more than a regular student that the education alone, which, by the way, they don't care enough for them to even want them to focus on. They'd rather them focus on the sport, but then turn around and tell them they also have to not earn any money.
00:30:04
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Well, when are they supposed to have time for a job then? And no, a A scholarship is not enough. And it never has been enough. These administrators, these TV companies, media rights holders, sponsors, companies all of them, making money hand over freaking fist off of these students and off these athletes who have gotten nothing, nothing for the past hundred and whatever, 50 years since the NCAA started because of this bullshit amateurism.
00:30:38
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Not a thing, and it never should have been, and I'm so glad it's going away. Now, Claudia Wilkins is not expected to decide today, but she will give some insights into things like the legality of new n NIL restrictions, revenue sharing caps,
00:30:54
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gender disparities in payments, and negative impact of roster limits. Because obviously, if you only have a certain amount of money to pay players, which by the way, right now is going to start, if if this is approved, will start in 2026, and it will be million. dollars that schools will be allowed to pay athletes. It could also be 2025 if they get it done more quickly.
00:31:20
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But since she's not supposed to decide yet, it may not be decided in time for football season. football and basketball season. So we'll see what happens. Anyways, the settlement between a group of D1 athletes, the NCAA and power conferences for three lawsuits filed over the past few years would offer $2.8 billion dollars in ah past damages to the players who were not able to earn NIL money before 2021. It will also, as I had mentioned earlier, allow schools to share the portion of their athletic department revenue with their players.
00:31:56
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This settlement is obviously and this the settlement is obviously anti-ethical to NCAA's business model of amateurism and that schools shouldn't have to pay players because they are not professionals.
00:32:11
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Again, that has always been BS. It is still BS to this day. These athletes deserve payments. They are expected to not only ah train athletes,
00:32:22
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countless hours a week, 40 hours a week, like a damn job. They don't have time to go get another job and they still have to go to class, even though you you don't really want them to care about their education. All of that tells me these people need to be paid for the stress that they have to deal with with these damn places, not to mention.
00:32:40
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A degree is not worth what it once was back in the day. Most jobs these days, I shouldn't say that. That's going to be probably incorrect and somebody's going to fact check me on that. Some jobs these days, you don't even need degree.
00:32:53
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like For instance, Look at me, right? I teach digital marketing. I used to teach at Vanderbilt. I taught digital marketing, social media, marketing, right? Marketing, you don't really need a degree.
00:33:05
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Does it help? Sure. I mean, I'm glad. I'm sure when I got my first degree, my first marketing job, after I had my degree, I'm sure the company said, okay, well, at least he has a degree in marketing. But honestly, I'm In marketing, digital marketing, things like that, it's more about the experience that you have.
00:33:24
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Because if you've been in the field for 10 years and you've got the experience, or even if you've been in the field for three or four years and you've got the experience, who the hell cares if you have a degree but that's not to shit on degrees i have two degrees i got a double degree from the great University of Maryland shout out to my alma mater the Terps and I am very proud of those two degrees that I have international business and marketing so I will never shit on it but I will say that it's not worth as much as it used to be back in the day when a degree was the end-all be-all and you couldn't even get a job unless you had a degree a lot of jobs aren't like that anymore
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Anyways, just a little tangent there from your boy. But governing body power conferences agreed o ah to save billion that they would save billions in damages if they were to lose this case.
00:34:15
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And also, they would lose control over future sports compensation rules. So that's why there's likely going to be this settlement and agreement that takes place.
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All right, moving on into some quick
Major League Baseball Updates
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hitters. Let's check the comments. Thank you for tuning in. Again, make sure you hit that like button. It is free to you but invaluable to us.
00:34:38
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Toronto Blue Jays signed their superstar first baseman, Vladimir Vladdy Guerrero Jr. to a, get this, 14-year, $500 million.
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five
00:34:57
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Yes. Obviously not on the level of the Juan Soto deal that he got from my Mets for 15 years, $765 million, but not shabby at 14 years, $500 million. not too shabby at fourteen years five hundred million i I mean, honestly, I didn't think Soto was going to get as much as he did anyways.
00:35:15
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I thought it was going to be 556. I still can't believe that it progressed that far. ah This is about right. This is about where Vladimir should be. Soto should be a little higher here.
00:35:27
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ah Again, levels, right? Otani, Soto, Guerrero, right? Working on on down the list. But Guerrero is an amazing player. he has hit He has the hit tool, and that's what he needs. And he plays a position that's not going to wear him down.
00:35:42
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Eventually, yeah, he's going to go full-time DH. He's not going to be able to play first base forever, but for the next few years, definitely. And as a DH, his tool, his best tool is hitting.
00:35:53
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So as long as his dad, Vladimir Guerrero Sr., who was an amazing baseball player, played for the Expos, played for the Nationals, um he was he was awesome.
00:36:04
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And they both got the same great hitting in them. And so I think his, just like Soto, I think both of their they're hitting will will hold up. The only thing is Soto plays a little more of a demanding position in right field right now, although I don't see him playing there past three more years either. So, all right.
00:36:22
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More baseball news. I'm shaking my head at you, Pirates. Pittsburgh, look at me in the eye real quick. Let take my glasses down for a second and look you straight in your eye, give you a little side eye action.
00:36:39
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o The Pittsburgh Pirates.
00:36:45
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Shaking my head at you. They have...
00:36:51
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what What a disgrace this is. So let me tell you something. The Pittsburgh Pirates are one of the most, and shout out to my to my brothers, the Malave clan, who are all Pittsburgh foot Pirates fans. This is not it to crap on the team, but the Pittsburgh Pirates are one of the most moribund franchises in MLB history.
00:37:15
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They are absolute garbage and have been booty juice. They are straight up booty juice and have been for a long, long period of time. And they're just now going to be good because they have Paul Steens and O'Neal Cruz. And that's if they don't mess that up like they mess everything else up.
00:37:36
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Just like they messed this up. you're going to tell me the last time your franchise was halfway decent, good, making the playoffs, was back in the 70s when you had the legend, the great Roberto Clemente from Puerto Rico. Wepa, wepa, wepa.
00:37:59
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And you're telling me that... one of the greatest, if not greatest player in your franchise's history, because I don't know if you can claim all of Barry Bonds since he went to the Giants, could be the greatest player in your franchise's history.
00:38:17
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And you mean to tell me you took the logo honoring your franchise legend that was on the right field wall and you replaced it with an advertisement for a vodka drink?
00:38:31
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For a canned vodka drink? You have disrespected the great and one of my national heroes from Puerto Rico, the amazing Roberto Clemente,
00:38:46
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to advertise some high noon. don't even know if it was high noon. Could have been neutral. I don't know. They're all right. have them from time to time on a rooftop on Broadway sometimes when it's hot outside.
00:39:00
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You don't replace your franchise legend with an alcohol advertisement.
00:39:06
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Unacceptable, repreensible, irresponsible,
00:39:15
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uneducated, ignorant. There's many other adjectives i could use to describe this situation, but I'm already pissed off as is then don't give me as an honest mistake and a miscommunication.
00:39:31
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There should be no honest mistakes and miscommunications. It should be, hey, that's a that's a ah logo advertising one of the best, if not the greatest player in our franchise's history.
00:39:44
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How about that doesn't get touched ever? Unless it's being moved somewhere else and you let the public know in advance.
00:39:54
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Because that stuff does not go unnoticed. And the family was especially hot in that situation.
00:40:04
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I'm glad you're fixing it. But it should have never happened in the first place. Moving on.
WNBA and Golf Updates
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Salute, happy retirement to another DC legend, WNBA MVP, Ella Della Don is officially retiring from pro basketball. She is an Olympic gold medalist.
00:40:25
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She won an MVP in 2015 for the Chicago Sky and a second one in 2019, leading the DMV's own Washington Mystics. to their first ever WNBA championship. And she also recorded her recorded the only, and I was very surprised by this.
00:40:45
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I thought somebody like Sue Bird, Maya Moore, that we talked about earlier, ladies like that, would have done this. Diana Tauron. She has the only... 50-40-90 season in WNBA history. Now you ask, Omar, what's 50-40-90 mean? Well, you know, I'm the professor, and so I come to learn you these sorts of things. So let me learn you some stuff. 50-40-90 represents the numbers for percentages of shooting.
00:41:14
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50, the first number, is the field goal percentage. So that is the percentage of shots that she makes out of all that she takes, right, the percentage she makes within the three-point line.
00:41:25
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The next number, 40, is related to the percentage of shots she makes outside the three-point line. And then finally, 90, 90, is the percentage of free throws that she makes.
00:41:38
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So obviously field goals are going be easier, especially for somebody her height who played in the post and was dominant in the post, right, is easier than shooting threes. That's why the three is at a 40 and a lower percentage.
00:41:51
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And obviously free throws are the easiest, which is why it's 90. 50-40-90 is a vaunted club to be in in both areas. I was going to say in both WNBA and NBA, but any basketball, I guess, any league you're playing. So salute to her.
00:42:06
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Happy retirement. Last note here in sports, golf. Scottie Steffler, yes, and Rory McIlroy will be the favorites to win the Masters this week. Yes, the Masters begins this Thursday in Augusta, Georgia.
00:42:28
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Obviously, if you do not, well, not obviously if you do not. if Obviously, if you watch golf, you know, but if you do not watch golf, the Masters is the most...
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prestigious tournament in golf.
00:42:44
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So it's such a pristine course. The competition is the highest of the high. The LIV golf players will be involved.
00:42:56
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So that's awesome, right? Because now you really got the best of the best and you're not just leaving out some of these people. So again, shout out. that is That is really great. I love Masters. So we'll see who wins this ah this time.
00:43:11
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around All right, cool. Now we are going to move it in to entertainment.
Coachella and Celebrity Tributes
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First of all, in our entertainment and pop culture news, we want to send out a a solemn and heartfelt rest in peace to Jay North.
00:43:31
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And you may say, Omar, who's Jay North? I've never heard of this person. but as Well, you know, the professor just here to learn you all these things today. ah And every day. That's why you tune in.
00:43:42
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Jay North was Dennis the Menace. Yes. but mischief The mischievous. Child menace on TV.
00:43:54
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Jay North played Dennis the Menace for four seasons starting in 1959.
00:43:59
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Unfortunately, he passed away at 73 after battling colon cancer, which is a good time to stop and tell everyone, go get your booty checked. Okay?
00:44:11
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And I'm not talking the country in Africa. Go get your booty checked. Okay? I don't know how you want to do it. There are ways you can get your booty checked without having to get the ah the old plungeroo.
00:44:26
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ah I did a i did a ah a holistic MRI, which tests for all that stuff, ah so you don't actually have to go get the manual.
00:44:39
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The manual, that's... dead stop a
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ah
00:44:48
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So you don't have to go get the manual tune-up. Oh, I'm so sorry. We don't have to go get the manual tune-up. That is that is tremendous. oh Anyway, so, yeah, everyone everyone make sure you go get checked. And I as well for any everything else.
00:45:00
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Breast cancer, obviously testicle cancer, all these things are very important. Make sure you're you're checking out your boys and your girls, um making sure there are no ah no ah things like – ah lumps or other things that you do not want to find prayers for everyone who is dealing with anything like that right now.
00:45:20
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ah North appeared on other TV shows, including The Man from Uncle, The Lucy Show, My Three Sons, Lassie, and The Simpsons, and also starred in movies like Maya, The Teacher, and Dickie Robert, former child star. He is survived by his wife, Cindy, and his three stepdaughters.
00:45:43
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May he rest in peace. Jay North, a.k.a. Dennis Domenice. Moving on, Coachella starts this week, and yes, you can see there are some major, major headliners going on.
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You got Green Day, love me some Green Day. You got Weezer, love me some Weezer. You got Ed Sheeran. You got Lady Gaga.
00:46:11
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You got Travis Scott. You got Posty, Post Malizone. I mean... Look, I don't actually listen to very much new music these days, so I don't actually listen to Post Malone or Travis Scott more than what I just hear recently.
00:46:29
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you know, on the streets in Nashville or on the radio or whatever. Uh, but I can tell you, I love me some green day and some Weezer. And I can tell you that the rest of them are all really famous for what, for their musical talents and their artistic abilities. Even lady Gaga is an actress as well.
00:46:43
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And a very talented, uh, performer. I don't care for her music, but that's just cause it's not my type. That doesn't mean it's bad. Um, I also don't care for Beyonce's music, but that doesn't mean it's bad. I just don't, don't care for it.
00:46:56
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Um, I shouldn't have said that because now the beehives is going to come after me. I was just joking. I love me some Beyonce. I do love Beyonce. I just don't and don't listen to that much R&B. And if I listen to R&B, I'm going to go old school.
00:47:09
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You know what I'm saying? I'm not going to listen to new R&B when the greatest R&B was back in the 70s and and 90s. Why would do that? I can just go back and listen to the classics. I don't need to listen anything now.
00:47:21
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Anyways, uh, it starts this weekend and then next weekend. Yes. If you didn't know Coachella Valley music arts and festival in California is a two weekend event. I actually need to get out there at some point in time.
00:47:33
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If anyone wants to go to Coachella next year, let me know. I need a partner to go with me as well. I was talking to my boy Austin last night. Shout out my boy Austin. Uh,
00:47:46
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I'm to go to Bonnaroo again this year. I don't actually like any of the artists that are performing per se. I just love Bonnaroo. I just love festivals in general. it' just a good time. ah You're there with a bunch of friends partying and listening to music. So, I mean, you can just never go wrong with that. At least not in my eyes.
00:48:04
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um That's my perfect time. All right. and We got a who we got comment. ah Yes. um Okay. Now you're just commenting to the family on my comments.
00:48:16
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Not sure why. I didn't see her even comment, but thank you. All right. Make sure that y'all are subscribed to Ball and Buds if you are watching on YouTube. Please, as the young kids say these days, smash that subscribe button as well.
00:48:32
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00:48:42
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TikTok and Mega Millions Updates
00:49:04
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TikTok has got another extension, a second extension, as President Trump said probably would happen. The China-based parent company now has and another 75 days to try to find an investor.
00:49:16
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They do now have proposals from investors, including Oracle, Blackstone and Andreessen Horowitz. So, ah but ah President Donald Trump said there would be more time needed to finalize any deal and it would still require China's approval for that to be sold.
00:49:36
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He says that he may be willing to trade tariff relief for that. We'll talk about the tariffs in just a second. The public isn't concerned in general, though. If you look at the public consensus, there was a survey done on 1,000 American adults by the Stagwell market research firm, and it found that 61% of ah The public within this, obviously, this this survey did not, were not concerned about a TikTok ban, would not be worried if TikTok went away. So, ah you know, almost two-thirds of the population. Now, if you are a small business that does most of their business on TikTok, you probably don't agree at all with that. And I completely understand because a lot of businesses, especially for TikTok,
00:50:19
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Students of mine that have businesses online do use TikTok as a as so as a promotional tool, as an advertisement tool.
00:50:31
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You know what I mean? All right. Minecraft movie. I never thought I'd ever be talking about a Minecraft or Minecraft anything in my life ah since I don't have kids. But a Minecraft movie, which probably makes my mom sad, but that's ah another joke for another day.
00:50:47
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Minecraft movie makes better... oh She's going to be mad when she calls me after. Minecraft movie makes bank and breaks a record despite a lukewarm response from the critics.
00:50:57
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The flick starring or the film starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa. 157 minutes.
00:51:11
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That is the biggest opening ever for a video game adaptation and was $77 million more than the analysts had predicted ah overall.
00:51:25
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that's the best day view ever for a video i'm sorry That's the best opening weekend. and That is as the North American box office revenue is down 11% over the first three months of the year. You'll remember the past couple weeks we talked about Snow White and how that did not make nearly the amount of money that it was expected to make. so ah For all of you out there watching movies in the movie theater, salute. I still i have not been to one since COVID. I need to go back.
00:51:58
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I just haven't had a movie that I really wanted to go see. I'm waiting for a new Star Wars. That'll probably be when I do that. Anyways, Mega Millions, for all you Mega Millions players out there, I am sorry to tell you I've got some good news and some bad news, and you're going to get the bad news first.
00:52:14
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The bad news, I'm sorry to tell you, prices are going up. If you play the Mega Millions, prices are going up. From $2, tickets will now be $5.
00:52:25
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dollars Yes, but the good news, jackpots will go up and prizes will get bigger and grow faster.
00:52:37
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So players who would have won $2 or the old format we'll now win between ten dollars and a thousand dollars or ten dollars Yeah, $10 and $1,000.
00:52:53
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Cool. So you can see how before, if you paid $2 and your lowest price coming back would be $2, now you're paying $5 and your lowest price coming back will be $10. So you're making a little bit more. Yeah, you got to pay a little bit more, but got to pay to play.
00:53:09
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As we always say on this show, quoting the ah the one of the great greatest hip-hop groups of all time, the Wu-Tang Clan, Cash rules everything around me. Cream, get the money.
00:53:20
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Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Shout out to the Wu-Tang. The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot also have improved from 1 in 302 million 1 in 290 million.
00:53:31
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to one in two hundred and ninety million I know. Still probably not going happen for most people. I'm not going to say myself. I will win the Mega Millions.
00:53:43
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um Hopefully you will too. But yeah, odds are most people will never win that as is possible. Very, very highly unlikely. The game is available in 45 states. The only ones it's not available in, which I never knew this until my research, Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Hawaii, rather, Nevada, hello to all my Ohana in Hawaii, in Hawaii, and Utah.
00:54:08
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ah as well as the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, D.C., where I'm from. But that doesn't really mean anything because if you live in D.C., you can just go right over the bridge to Maryland or Virginia and go buy tickets, and that's what most of them do.
00:54:22
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Drawings are held Tuesdays and Fridays at 11 p.m. All right, moving on into our United States news ah for the week.
00:54:36
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Oops, I forgot to change my slide. That's okay. You saw that slide last week anyways. all right. Moving on to our United States news for the week.
Measles Outbreak and Vaccine Discussion
00:54:46
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A second, yes, I repeat, a second measles outbreak has happened in, or sorry, second measles death has happened in the Texas measles outbreak. So what happened?
00:55:01
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There was an eight-year-old girl in Lubbock who succumbed to measles-related pulmonary failure. The two victims both were unvaccinated and are the first confirmed measles deaths in the U.S. since 2015.
00:55:19
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What is measles? It is a contagious airborne disease that causes rashes, fevers, and respiratory issues with young children and immunocompromised people at higher risk, which means non-vaccinated.
00:55:34
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The deployment of the vaccine in 1963, subsequent public health campaigns led the disease to being declared eliminated, meaning no continuous endemic transmission in the U.S. since then up 2000. So of the 607 measles cases reported this year, only almost 90% of them
00:56:01
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are linked to the outbreak straddling West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. And roughly 97 of those patients are either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.
00:56:17
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Human Health and Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., RFK Jr., who is a known vaccine skeptic, actually attended the funeral and had the nerve on X. And this was rich when I read this, considering, yeah, he's not necessarily a vaccine denier like most people make him out to be, but he's definitely a vaccine skeptic. I mean, as
00:56:44
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as everyone should be with certain vaccinations. Not the measles vaccination! and don't think I need to say this on this program again!
00:56:56
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You, there is no reason to not have the measles vaccination. It has been 60 years now that we have had it and it's proven safe. Okay?
00:57:08
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And if you don't have it and now it's causing everybody else issues, well, you're the problem.
00:57:15
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That's ridiculous. Now, um I'm going to back up what I'm saying right now real quick because I do want to put a little premise on this.
00:57:24
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From what i I read as well, this is part of a ah very highly religious step ah Mennonite community, maybe, or the think it was Mennonite.
00:57:36
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um So very, very religious people that maybe they don't believe in vaccines, maybe. Okay, fine. If there's some sort of religious exemption, which...
00:57:50
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I don't believe in, sorry, ah because I remember when COVID was happening ah in the Catholic Church, they were having a lot of discussion as to whether you should take the vaccine or not due to what was the stem cells and all these other things that could be included in in the vaccines. um No.
00:58:13
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The greater health of the bigger general population is more important than your belief. Sorry. Not sorry. That's the way it is. The health of the greater at large population is more important than any individual's belief.
00:58:33
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Just because you believe some shit which could be incorrect and you don't want to do something in this case take a measles vaccine and then you go out and get a bunch of people sick or killed but then that's your damn fault and you need to be put in jail for it.
00:58:51
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I get if you don't want to take the COVID vaccine. Got it. Cool. It was rushed, super rushed. It was not necessarily tested or rolled out with a lot of testing. They did a little bit.
00:59:03
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So i I am very understandable if you were hesitant and or did not take the COVID vaccine. I understand. Because you should have been skeptical. It was a rushed process that could have been botched.
00:59:17
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Now, it wasn't. I've known plenty of people that have are perfectly safe after taking the COVID vaccine. and ah And, you know what?
00:59:30
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I'm not even going back to COVID again. We're not even going back to that time. i just want to forget that ever happened. Moving on. Just get the measles vaccine, please. I guess if you have a religious exemption, okay.
00:59:41
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But at this point, there is no reason on God's green earth that anyone should not have a measles or polio. Really? So you want to get a disease that is going to cause you to be immobile because you didn't want to take ah take ah take ah a polio vaccine?
00:59:58
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That doesn't make sense to me. That doesn't make sense. And again, we've talked about it on this show before. I completely understand vaccine skepticism. You should be.
01:00:10
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Especially certain populations of the population that have been affected before. For instance, when African Americans were highly affected when they used to run the different,
01:00:25
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they called them studies, but they were really horrible experiments through vaccines. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can go look it up. Horrible. So I can understand the the skepticism when it comes to vaccines.
01:00:41
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But vaccines in terms of polio and measles, Man, just get that. Please just get that. ah um Just get it. don't That doesn't make any sense. right, moving up. Donald Trump, President Donald Trump announced Liberation Day last week 10% tariffs on every country in the world.
Global Economic Impact of Tariffs
01:01:02
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um including all of the penguins in Antarctica. We'll get to that in a second. and had to go find a funny story after my producer told me about that because I hadn't heard it last week when we talked about it.
01:01:13
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And I also need water as I am getting a little parched. But anyways, President Trump did enact those tariffs across the world. And man, after this, y'all,
01:01:28
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the markets plunged. The S&P 500 took a 10% plunge, which was the steepest two-day decline 70 years. on On par with all of the other horrible things that have happened, like 2008, a global recession, like COVID, like the Great Depression.
01:01:49
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Anyways, more than $6 trillion dollars was wiped out in stocks over two days. Not a lot of ah Trump's friends are very happy about this, especially the rich ones that lined his pockets to help him win the election. They are very unhappy that they have lost a lot of their market share over the past week.
01:02:07
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down 20% the NASDAQ is or was from the previous high. ah So we'll see what happens here. A lot of countries are, they say, well,
01:02:21
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Let's be completely honest. You can't take anything that any politician says at their word. I've told you that plenty of times on this program. You should never believe anything any politician tells you. And that goes doubly ah for the Trump administration.
01:02:34
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um We know President Trump likes to exaggerate. We know President Trump likes to bluster. We know President Trump likes to outright lie. We know he likes to make up stories sometimes.
01:02:45
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ah So when he says that all these countries are reaching out to talk trade, It could be true, but it may not be. So take that with a grain of salt. Either way, there are some as was exhibited today when Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the white house and talked with Trump about tariffs and about their plans to scrap all tariffs against the United States.
01:03:13
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But, uh, Until these agreements come into place, I'm sure there will be some, until these agreements come into place and until these tariffs are actually solidified, because as we do know, Trump did pull back on his tariffs against Canada and Mexico twice now.
01:03:33
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So we don't actually know that these are going to go through completely. But I, me personally, there's no way in hell I could see him not doing this. Like at this point, after you made such a big deal over it, and after you just told the whole world you were going tear it from, I mean, I think at that point, you just kind of have to go through with it.
01:03:49
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ah So we will see what happened, but this is a full trade war. People around the world are not happy, including his own constituents, including leaders around the world. The global economy, as I told you last week, is going to be hit very hard by this. I told you that last week when we talked about this story. I told you exactly what was going to happen and what happened the next day. Exactly what I said was going to happen.
01:04:13
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The global economy was going to go to shit. That being said, ah consumers and investors are being advised to evaluate their portfolios. Consider diversifying international equities, bonds, opportunistic plays, and avoid making panicked decisions.
01:04:29
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Make your big purchases now. If you're looking to buy a car, if you're looking to build a house, you need to do it now because taxes or tariffs are going to raise prices on everything from autos to lumber to build homes.
01:04:43
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Now, you may want to weigh your alternatives. Maybe it's better to just fix up your dusty-ass broken vehicle. right? I see you out there.
01:04:54
Speaker
You know who you are. I'm talking to you. Put that broken-down Toyota Corolla. Go get a new car. um Oh, dusty. Get lucky or be dusty, fools.
01:05:05
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All right. Anyways, consider me. consider making that purchase now or other alternatives such as fixing things up. You may also want to consider a Roth conversion, shifting your assets from traditional IRA to after-tax Roth IRA so that the value of the assets are down, you'll pay less in taxes.
01:05:31
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01:05:54
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We will talk about more about the world fallout from tariffs. Obviously, all can tell I talk long. It's been known, even when I taught at Vanderbilt, the classes were supposed to be three hours.
01:06:05
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I'd always go for like three and a half, four. I'd be like, well, y'all getting free education. Don't be mad. So you're not paying for this. It's free. So I'm going to move a lot of these fallouts, but just know that a lot of companies, including Nintendo,
01:06:18
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the Jaguar are either delaying or outright stopping production in some cases. Like for all my gamers out there, the Nintendo Switch 2 has been delayed in when it's going to be um released from April to June.
01:06:31
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Or not released, but when pre-release for the pre-sales and things like that due to the tariffs. so Also, Republican senators advanced a budget resolution this past weekend that will...
01:06:45
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Look to permanent, make permanent, excuse me, President Trump's 2017 tax cuts. Now, I know everybody, especially on the right side, the conservative side of the aisle, seem to trump up, ah pun intended, these tax cuts.
01:07:00
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The problem is, and I have to keep repeating this on this program. is that these tax cuts are more are mainly just going to help the rich, the people that are making over $150,000, households that are making over $250,000, $500,000 a year.
01:07:14
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This is not going to help most of you all watching this program. ah Now, if you're someone rich watching this program right now, First of all, thank you for tuning in, sir.
01:07:24
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May I have another? I would like to do, or ma'am, you could be a rich lady. If you're Oprah, I'll be your Stedman. um I'll do whatever you want. You just got to, you know, foot what I want to do.
01:07:36
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ah yeah it Any sugar mamas, any rich sugar mamas out there that need a boy toy, I'll let your boy toy. Shawn Michaels bars. All right. Anyways, the problem with this, though, and this is the rich part about this, is that Republicans continue to talk about how Democrats wasted so much money during Joe Biden's term.
01:08:04
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And yet and have nothing to say when things like this happen where they want to raise the the budget to $5 trillion. $1.5 trillion bill. ah one point five trillion dollar um increase, which would be the most.
01:08:22
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Get it from Rand Paul, senator, Republican from Kentucky, who even said this would set the record for borrowing money in American history. He said, if we expand the quote, if we expand the debt at $5 trillion, that will be an expansion of the debt equal to or exceeding everything that happened in the Biden years.
01:08:42
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Republicans who vote for this will be on record as being more fiscally liberal than their counterparts. They will vote to borrow more money than the Democrats ever borrowed. Again, this is from Senator Rand Paul, who's a Republican.
01:08:52
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The nonpartisan committee for responsible budget also found that the Senate's blueprint will add up to $5.8 trillion dollars to the deficit. So these are the same people that brought in Elon Musk to apparently go through the government and save money on Doge.
01:09:09
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And then they're just going in the back door and asking for more money to spend on other stupid shit. Do you all see what I'm saying to you now? Do you see why I'm saying do not trust any politicians?
01:09:20
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They do not care about you. They care about themselves. They care about their family. And they care about the people lining their pockets. the lobbyists, their constituents that pay them money.
01:09:35
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They don't care about you.
01:09:40
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Think. They don't care. They tell us one thing to our face and you all know watching this program, I hate but all parties. I hate all politicians.
01:09:52
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As my boy Francis Long, shout out prayers off to the Long family would say, they're all liars, cheaters and scums.
01:09:59
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And they are. And they should not be trusted. None of them. Not a damn one of them should be trusted. And this is one of those times. How you going to tell me you try and cut, draw, waste, and abuse and make the government more efficient to save money and cut income taxes and all this other BS you try to feed the public, but then you turn around and ask for almost $6 trillion dollars to add to the deficit?
01:10:24
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That's... That's... That's malicious. That's not even... It's not even diabolical. That is vitriolic. That is on another level of diabolicalness. That is vitriolic.
01:10:39
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What a great word for a Puerto Rican on a live TV show. Vitriolic. it means It means basically, lack of a better explanation, to express... severe anger or ah severe consequences to a person, place, thing, situation ah due to something that was done in a mean fashion or a a aggressive fashion or a malicious fashion.
01:11:06
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Cool. Here's your word of the day. Vitriolic. V-I-T-R-I. r I-O-L-I-C. o l i sheet had to think about where the other I that was there for a second. All right.
01:11:19
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right. Moving into world news. ah Pope Francis made a surprise visit. Yes. um Looking a little frail, as you can see there in the picture.
01:11:31
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um ah But, I mean, thank God he's alive. And, uh, You know, ah look, the man is 88 years old, y'all. He had a severe respiratory infection just a few weeks ago.
01:11:44
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So the fact that he's even showing his face in public in the Vatican, St. Peter's Square is just awesome and amazing. So shout out to the to the Pope. and And hopefully, you know, um he can stay alive.
01:11:57
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ah A lot longer, God willing. We'll see what happens. Also, for all of my all of the Christian and Jewish populations out there, Passover ah starts this Saturday evening. So, ah celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
01:12:19
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So, a little history lesson. For those of you who may not be Christian and or Jewish, That's what Passover is about. As you can see in our other pictures, South Korea highest court. Now, this will be the third update we've done on this news story. You remember I told you all that the South Korean president was impeached, and then they put him back into office.
01:12:41
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Well, now they have impeached him again. So this is getting crazy, y'all. South Korea's highest court unanimously decided to remove impeached president Yoon Suk-yul, from office yesterday, ending five months of political uncertainty after Yoon's martial law declaration in December, which was the worst thing he ever could have done because it led to this impeachment now.
01:13:03
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This will trigger a new election in 60 days to elect a new leader with Prime Minister Han Duk-su serving as acting president in the interim. Yoon had been indicted on charges of leading in an erection insurrection, ah where have we heard that from before January 6th, by imposing martial law, the first such declaration since the country democratized in the nineteen eighty s so Wowzers, y'all. This
Political Turmoil in South Korea
01:13:30
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is crazy. Again, the third side switch on this when he was impeached, December 14th, arrested, January 15th, later faced trial, then was reinstated, and now impeached again.
01:13:43
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He gone. They're going to hold a snap election June 3rd. Lee J. Myung, the leader of the Democratic Party, is considered a frontrunner in the race while the ruling conservatives have yet to decide on ah candidate.
01:13:58
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All right. Cool. Well, that's got to be it. i had some more stories to go, but the game is on. And I know a lot of y'all are probably watching it and want me to shut up so you can watch it. And I also want to go watch it in peace and have my accoutrements that I usually have to enjoy with a little ah sports.
01:14:19
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um But I will say this. One other thing, and just to make a light joke about this before we get out of here, my producer last week had mentioned how penguins were being affected by the tariffs, and yes, two tiny remote Antarctic outposts called the Heard and McDonald Islands, which are territories of Australia that sit 4,000 kilometers southwest of Australia and only accessible via a seven-day boat trip from Perth and haven't been visited by humans since 2016, yes, was hit with 10% tariffs from Donald Trump's administration.
01:15:03
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i don't know i You can't make this up. You really cannot make up that you are going to charge an island that is in have inha in inhabitable, has no people, unpopulated, and the only thing there is penguins and seals.
01:15:20
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What they going to pay you with? I mean, I know they got those nice tuxedos they rented. You like that penguin joke? Oh, do the penguin dance. Do the penguin dance. Shout out Tony Kornheiser. Do the penguin dance.
01:15:32
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um Yo, what? This is... wrong I can't. That's it. I got to end on that note. That is absolutely hilarious. But really, the more point that I want to put out on that is not that he's he's tariff penguins. It's funny.
01:15:47
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Yeah, it's great. But it's more that this is indicative. This is a microcosm. This is a preliminary baseline standing point from which you are to extrapolate, that shows you exactly what Trump has always been about.
01:16:04
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His whole entire life, he's a showman, he's a bluster, he's a reality star, he's a TV show man, he's a businessman, he is anything you can expect.
01:16:17
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And all he is saying is that, well not all he's saying, but what he's saying when he does things like this He wants everything to be huge, as he says, huge. It's going to be the biggest ever.
01:16:30
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You always hear him say it. Everything has to be the biggest. Everything has to be the the most grandest for him. So when he does something, just like we talked about with does, when they weren't using a scalpel like they should instead cutting with a chainsaw and affecting innocent lives, same thing happens here.
01:16:47
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You're not actually going in and doing what ah what an administration should do and say, okay, let's actually look at each of these countries individually and see which ones we should actually tariff. No. You just go through and say, fuck it. We don't got time.
01:16:59
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Excuse my language there. My bad. ah Screw it. We don't got time. 10% tariffs on everybody. Like Oprah. You get a car. You get a car. it's like You get a tariff. You get a tariff. And you...
01:17:10
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Get the professor every Monday night, usually around 730 Eastern, sometimes 7 Eastern. Yeah, there you go. My producer says penguins. She feels bad for the penguins. Usually 730 Eastern every Monday night. I come through um with the professor's seminar,
01:17:28
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a which just means weekly. You marks. That's all it means every week. Mondays, 730. Make sure you 730 p.m. Eastern.
01:17:38
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