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Jesse Jackson, Eileen Gu Backlash, and Pete Hegseth’s Culture War Tour
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This week on Unsolicited Perspectives, Bruce and Jay open with a heartfelt tribute to Reverend Jesse Jackson—his legacy, his coalition-building, and why his political impact still echoes through modern Black politics and beyond.
From there, the conversation takes a sharp turn into the weirdest kind of American outrage: the kind that shows up when an Olympic athlete makes a personal decision. We talk Eileen Gu, national identity, and why people are acting like skiing is a frontline war. Then we pivot into the latest political headache, as Pete Hegseth ramps up his culture-war agenda—cutting Pentagon education ties with Harvard while also inviting major controversy into the building under the banner of “faith.”
And just when you think the episode is done being serious, we land where all great democracies eventually land: karaoke. Specifically, the moment karaoke stops being community fun and turns into an ego showcase… complete with a trophy and the kind of resentment that lasts longer than most marriages. Jesse, Olympics, politics, and petty performance wars—welcome to the Happy Hour. #JesseJackson #CivilRights #RainbowCoalition #politics #WinterOlympics #EileenGu #olympics #CultureWar #PeteHegseth #harvard #ChristianNationalism #unsolicitedperspectives
Chapters:
00:00 — Jesse Jackson, Olympic Backlash & Karaoke Wars 🕊️🎿🎤
00:44 — Sibling Happy Hour: Sips, Laughs & Sibling Shenanigans 🍹😂
00:01:52 — Jesse Jackson: legacy, Selma & Rainbow Coalition 🕊️🌈✊🏾
00:07:45 — Actor pays strangers’ medical debt (internet still mad) 💸🏥😒
00:12:13 — 40th birthday trip drama: “If you can’t go, you can’t go.” 🎂✈️🙅🏾♀️
00:17:02 — “Perfect couples” divorcing: growth vs stagnation 💔📈🧠
00:19:32 — Marriage: business contract vs romantic love debate 💍📜🔥
00:22:55 — Lust vs “in love” vs real love (Bruce breaks it down) ❤️🧩🗣️
00:28:45 — Winter Olympics: why we care less than summer ❄️🏅🤷🏾♂️
00:29:34 — Eileen Gu backlash: choosing China & facing threats 🎿🌍😳
00:31:10 — Identity first: Black, male… then American 🖤👨🏾🦱🗽
00:34:15 — Carmelo + Puerto Rico: who gets to represent who? 🏀🇵🇷🏆
00:41:29 — Pete Hegseth cuts Harvard ties: “warriors not wokesters” 🎓🪖🙄
00:50:55 — Pentagon prayer service + Doug Wilson controversy 🙏🏛️🚩
00:55:38 — Karaoke is for the struggling, not the gifted 🎤🤣😤
00:56:58 — “Mariah Carey vs Mariah Scary” energy 🎶😬😂
01:00:12 — Trophy changed everything: now it’s competition 🏆😈⚔️
01:02:43 — Karaoke = community, not domination 👥🎤🫶🏾
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Introduction and Podcast Promotion
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Jesse Jackson and karaoke. We gonna get into it. Let's get it.
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Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcasts, YouTube exclusive content, and our YouTube membership.
00:00:34
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Rate, review, like, comment, share. Share with your friends, share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies.
Sibling Happy Hour with Bruce and Jay
00:00:42
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On today's episode is the Sibling Happy Hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea.
00:00:47
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We're going to be talking about Pete Hegseth, Jesse Jackson, and Cardi B. What do they have in common? Nothing but being on this show. But that's enough of this intro.
Honoring Jesse Jackson's Legacy
00:00:56
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Let's get to the show.
00:01:05
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Today, we honor the life and legacy of Jesse Jackson, born October 8th, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina, and who transitioned on February 2026 at the young age of A Baptist minister, civil rights leader, and national political figure, Reverend Jackson helped shape modern black politics and multiracial coalitions building in America. He rose from humble beginnings in the Jim Crow South, became a student leader and an athlete, and joined the movement that would transform this country. In the mid-1960s, he marched to Selma alongside Martin Luther King Jr., and later became a key figure within the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
00:01:50
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He founded Operation Push in 1971, advancing black economic empowerment and political engagement, and later created the National Rainbow Coalition, a bold vision uniting African-American, working class whites, Latinos, women, and other marginalized communities around justice and opportunity.
00:02:11
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His historic presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988 expanded the possibilities of American politics, proving that a broad progressive coalition could compete at the highest levels. He served as a voice for the voiceless, advocating for voting rights, economic equity and international human rights, even acting as an informal diplomat to secure the release of Americans abroad.
00:02:35
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And in 2000, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his decades of public service. Even after publicly announcing his Parkinson's diagnosis in 2017, he continued to speak out on issues of justice, inequality and democracy.
00:02:50
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Reverend Jackson was a charismatic orator and relentless organizer and an architect of what he called the Rainbow Coalition, a reminder that progress is the strongest when it's shared.
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May we honor his life not only in words, but in continued work towards justice and unity. Rest in power, Reverend Jackson. Rest in power.
00:03:12
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I am. Somebody. What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it. I can't call it. Look, I'm tired. Okay, look. Hey.
00:03:23
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I'm tired. It's that's that's That's what it is. Yeah. um Yes. I did my thing. You want to have your words for the late Reverend Jesse Jackson?
00:03:36
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um Man, you know, without... Reverend Jesse Jackson, i don't know that there would be a Barack Obama. Right?
00:03:48
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the The thought that we could ascend to the presidency. He was the really the first person, also shout out to Shirley Chisholm, but the first person to really make a real run for it.
00:04:10
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And was taken seriously. And I think gave us the, one, the thought and then the courage to pursue the presidency.
Reflections on Celebrity Deaths and Kindness
00:04:26
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Honestly, so... Very soon after the civil rights movement. Really soon. Yeah. Right. So, you know, I, am he definitely led an impactful life, an important life and just rest in power.
00:04:46
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Yeah. It comes in threes. You know, we were talking last week about James Van Der Beek. Mm hmm. Yeah. Then Robert Duvall passed. Robert Duvall, yes. The day before. And then I woke up yesterday morning.
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And I don't know why I do this. Why do I go straight to my phone? um I can understand why. okay I got to turn off the alarm. But I don't need to go on no apps. I don't need to. And oh, by the way, what is with Apple's new update? It used to be a time where the alarm would go off. I could just push a button. Now I got to swipe.
00:05:21
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and yeah this I mean, but it forces you to do more and to possibly wake up. I don't have that problem. mylar I wake up before the alarm and I have my little sound machine going from ah from the phone. And I know as soon as it cuts off, It's like a two-second delay, and then the alarm will go off. And so I know as soon as that sound stops, oh, time to get up.
00:05:47
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yeah I don't like the new update from Apple. It's caused a lot of problems for me, just running around the apps, figuring out what to do. I'm sending people some things I didn't want them to know. yeah Just that's what's going on. But what was the reason why I brought that up?
00:06:05
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There was a reason. Oh, the you woke up yesterday. First thing you did was look at your phone. Yep. First thing I did was the first thing that popped up. Yeah. Very first thing that popped up. I said, not Jesse. Same. And then I thought to myself, same thing I said with Robert Duvall. Not Robert Duvall. And then was like, oh, Robert is 95. Yeah.
00:06:22
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And then I was like, oh, Jesse is 84. Mm-hmm. You know, so that's about right. And i I actually did not realize he had Parkinson's disease. ah Yeah, I did know that.
00:06:34
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he did He did disclose that, like you said. um so But it it didn't stop him, of course, from from speaking out and um and still doing the work. so yeah he did i i He was there for every important moment.
00:06:50
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Every important moment, he was there. and so Yeah. you know to power to him as he rests in peace. He had plenty of acts of kindness through the years. And speaking of acts of kindness, I read a story that was really interesting and then at the same time disappointed me.
00:07:08
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ok So you've watched The Big Bang Theory, right? Yes. Kutupali. i would His real name, look, I could barely say Kutupali. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, if y'all watching... Hey, can just say Raj. I mean... I mean, yeah. Well, I forgot. That was yeah the first name. But hey, ladies gentlemen... remembered Kutupali.
00:07:29
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And didn't say it well. And forgot Raj. Yes. Okay. He was doing some interview for some outlet. And this is what this man does. He will go on GoFundMe. Mm-hmm.
00:07:42
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and pay people's medical debts. Just randomly. He'll just yeah scroll through and just randomly just like, oh, let me pay you this debt. Let me pay this debt. And I'm like, wow, that is such a beautiful thing. yeah Then the internet took over. And though he got a lot of praise, like that's a great thing. There's like, oh, say you do something nice so everybody can heap praise on you. and I was like, no, he was it was a throwaway line in an interview. And even even if he did do that, Yeah. Who cares? This man is taking his money and going and paying other people's medical bills, medical bills that are so expensive that they need to have a GoFundMe.
00:08:19
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You know, when people respond like that, like, oh what are you just looking for? A pat on the back. It's. It's a type of projection, right? Because you know there are ways in which you could show up better for other people in your life and you choose not to. And so it and it's like a mirror being held up to you when you see someone else who out of the kindness of their heart is is is doing things for other people and you know you could be and you're choosing not to and you feel some type of way about it. And so the only thing that you can do is lash out against, ah but if you think about it logically, you're lashing out against somebody doing a good thing.
00:09:12
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How did that make sense? Make it make sense. How sway? I don't know. I can't make it make sense because it make no sense to me. It doesn't make sense. just Don't get me wrong. I know what it's like to be angry all the time because like we've said before, we're angry all the time. But our anger isn't, we don't project our anger on other people.
00:09:31
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Right.
Managing Anger and Communication Challenges
00:09:32
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You know, i like I understand if you're an angry person. I understand if you're depressed, if you're sad, if you're angry, if you're anxious. You ain't got to put that on other people just because you're suffering through it. I know when I'm going through my things,
00:09:45
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That's when I pull away. People like, damn, where'd Bruce go? He ain't been around for a while. Bruce going through some things. And so I don't take it out on you. Yeah. I'm to stay right here. Yeah. going to tell you, sometimes my my clients be catching hell because somebody can catch it. Right. Like, yeah. Like I'm trying to hold it all in.
00:10:04
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But I didn't told you 17 times. We doing this one exercise 12 times. Yeah. This other exercise 10 times. Yeah. doing the group of them three times. How many times? That's a lot.
00:10:18
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That's a lot. If I say i couldn't even follow that when you just said it. or Let me break it down where simpler. We're going to do 12 sets of, we're going to do 12 reps of bicep curls, 12 reps of overhead extensions three times.
00:10:34
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Huh? We're going to do 12 reps of bicep curls, 12 reps of overhead extensions ok three times. Okay. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay, I got it. But you said it three times before it clicked, Bruce. Well, this is the thing for you. These people, it's not like these people started yesterday. They've been with me for years. So you ain't pick it up or they be like, what exercise is that? You've only done it literally 2,748 times. Yeah. Because you've been with me for 10 years. You can't remember which exercise this is.
00:11:06
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Fair. So they catch it. But like these people are just... like And it's because they can't be confronted because they're on the internet.
00:11:17
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Yeah, that too. Everybody with their Twitter fingers. I'm all for keeping it real. You what I'm saying? Like, if if I say something on this microphone, if I say something behind that keyboard, I'm going to say it to your face the majority of the time. Sometimes it might hurt your feelings, so might not say it to your face. But if I'm calling you out, I'm to say it to your face.
00:11:41
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Yeah. yeah my ah My point is this. A kind act is still kind whether you did it anonymously or publicly. na i don't see the difference. used to the The person or persons on the other end still benefited. so Right.
00:11:58
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Speaking of benefits, yeah yeah there's this viral story that's going around. So a man took a trip for his 40th birthday.
00:12:10
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Mm-hmm. And he took it alone because his girlfriend couldn't afford her half. Mm-hmm. And people have been up in arms on both sides.
00:12:21
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Yeah. There have some people like, why didn't he pay for his girlfriend? And then other people are like, it's his birthday. Why didn't she pay for him? Yeah. And then they were like, how is he just going to leave her like that? It's like, what what, he can't celebrate his 40th? And I'm not, I did my voices where it's man versus woman, but it wasn't. It was both sides. And I'm just curious to hear yo take about this.
00:12:46
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Yeah, i mean... she can't go. Like, it here's the thing. Like, here's the thing. It's my birthday. Okay? So, for for instance, for my 40th, also went on a trip with my friends.
00:13:03
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They pay. that I pay for some stuff like excursions or a photo shoot or something like that. i And if and if you you can't do it, then you don't go. Like, girlfriend or not,
Personal Growth and Marriage Dynamics
00:13:16
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like, why should she get an all-expense-paid trip for his birthday? That don't make no sense. Now, if it was her birthday, since I get it.
00:13:29
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If it's her birthday. Yes. But birthday? and But you knew his birthday was coming up for a full year. Or maybe y'all ain't been together. First of all, if y'all ain't been together for a list years, y'all shouldn't be taking a 40th birthday trip together. Right, right. Okay, that's kind weird. But you knew it was coming up. Mm-hmm.
00:13:48
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You can't afford to go, then you don't get to go. But I'm still going to celebrate my 40th. What do you mean leave you there? You left yourself. Right. Right.
00:14:00
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right And I'm going to have a grand old time. Look, I'm... I yeah yeah yeah i probably wouldn't be... It's probably the reason why i haven't had a long-term relationship in a while. I would be on the trip texting my baby, hey, baby, this is what I'm out here doing right now, taking pictures and stuff london pick theres yeah post on our socials like Yeah, Wish she was here. yeah Wish she was here.
00:14:22
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Would have got a smooth wish she was here. yeah Should have saved some of that Skrilla. Shoulda. Shoulda, coulda, woulda, but you didn't. And so, no. I don't think he owed her that trip. If he really, really wanted her to go...
00:14:38
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And he paid for her. That's up to him. That's yeah that's between him. He might not have had them extra ends. Trips ain't cheap. Trips are not cheap. They're not cheap. But just because she can't go doesn't mean he doesn't get to celebrate his birthday. that's That's insane. That's ludicrous.
00:14:57
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Now, what if this wasn't his girlfriend? What if this was his wife? Does that change anything? Hey, that's between that. Listen, that's between that. No, I don't think so. Like, I mean, I don't know because it just depends on how they handle their finances. Not all married people are like we have joint accounts. Everything's joint. um That's not how it works for everybody. So it do it depends on how they handle their finances. If their finances are separate and they each pay different bills and contribute different, you know, like,
00:15:32
Speaker
then her not having her half is valid. Right. But, yeah, don't yeah. No, I don't think that changes anything. I bet that would lead to divorce in a lot of situations, though. Going on a trip without your spouse? Uh-huh.
00:15:49
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I bet you it would. Because this is a reason why I bring this up. Because i was speaking to a friend recently. Mm-hmm. And it's a friend I hadn't talked to in a long while. You know, social media and stuff like that, you reconnect with people. could be 15 years, 20 years. yeah Like, oh, hey, how you been?
00:16:09
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Facts. Saw that they were married, had kids the whole nine. And the reason why I know this person is because we have a mutual friend. yeah Another person who I had lost contact with and randomly got a...
00:16:27
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a hacking email from them and was like, yo, is this you? And they're like, no, I was hacked, but how you doing? It's been so long. So friend number, the the recent friend that I just reconnected with through social media and not through the email, I was like, yeah, I just found out that our mutual friend got divorced.
00:16:49
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Now, I thought that they were the purple perfect couple. This is the second time. within the last five years that I've said these people are the perfect couple that get along great. They they are they are in love. They are in love, love. This is the aspiration of marriage. Yeah, yeah. That got divorced.
00:17:08
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And I was just like, yo, I couldn't believe it. And then the person that I was talking to was like, yeah, I'm getting a divorce as well. I said, what?
00:17:20
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and But they broke down the reason why, and they said that their partner, hasn't matched them in growth. Not financially anything, but like you get older, so you meet somebody in your 20s. I've changed so much since I was in I'm not the same person that I was in my 20s. I'm a different person. yes I'm expecting my partner to grow with me. Now, yeah sometimes we might grow apart because we just grow in different directions, right?
00:17:48
Speaker
The political landscape, not saying that this was a reason for any of the divorces, but the political landscape over the last 12 years, 16 years can cause major friction and has caused major friction in marriages. Right. I didn't believe that this was the person I'm married to. yeah Yeah. This is, this is who they are. But then there's also just like growth and ambition, right? Like some people get married and like, I did it.
00:18:15
Speaker
This is what I wanted. I'm good now. And it's like, well, but I still want to do this. Right. Yeah. Right. Like, I want to go over here. I want to expand my life with the family. No, I'm good right here. And eventually that'll just rub wrong with theci with the people. And that's not talked about enough when people get married is that you're going to change.
00:18:39
Speaker
Yes. Or your partner will change. And if you're not changing, that person that they married ain't the person that they want to be with anymore. Yeah.
00:18:49
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That's, you know, marriage is hard, right? Well, I wouldn't really know. I wouldn't have married that long. Ideally, you're supposed to grow together.
00:19:01
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And ah at least if if not, you know, in the same, like, some parallel in some way. Like, you're supposed to do life together, growth grow and all these things together.
00:19:15
Speaker
But don't know. I think you're just going to see a lot of divorces. And here's why. Marriage started as just a business arrangement. Here you go again. that's that I mean, it did, right? Like marriage was a business arrangement. Marriage is about love. No, no, no, no, no. It became that. But an originally...
00:19:36
Speaker
You married off to get more power, to acquire land, money, things like that. It was a business arrangement. And then we said, we shouldn't shouldn't do that. We should make it about something that, you know, doesn't last. And that is romantic love. Right? Yeah. We should base it on something ephemeral that nobody really has got a good handle on. ah Yeah, we should definitely base this entire institution on that. And don't make no sense. You know what I mean? I'm entering into a lifetime contract oh on a feeling. Right.
00:20:20
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Well, okay. Look, okay, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not going to my sister attack love and marriage. Because I know i know people who have been married. like can marriage I know people who have been happily married for a long time. i mean You know people who married for a long time. No, no, I'm not. No.
00:20:36
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I actually personally know people. I'm not talking about people in our family because I don't know anybody that's been married for a long time and happily, even though shout out to our aunt and uncle who just celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary.
00:20:49
Speaker
That's true love. That's that that's that Cupid from 112 true love. but But no, like love doesn't, love isn't fleeting.
00:21:04
Speaker
Depends on what type of love you're talking about. ah Love isn't fleeting. Being in love with somebody can be fleeting because that's a different form of love. That's almost really lust. I really hate the term in love because it's not a real thing. Like it's, I think people use that. I think people use that as a catch all for like lust, passion. It's a yeah bunch of the fire, you know, all of that. Oh, but I divide that up.
00:21:41
Speaker
A bunch of, I say that's lust. I say that's, I say there's lust, being in love and loving somebody. Lust, you can have with anybody, anywhere, anytime, right? Like, that's that's not really being enthusiastic about the person.
00:21:58
Speaker
It's more of a physical thing. Or it could be a vibe thing, but it's it's more of a a physical attraction as opposed to and um a strong emotional attachment. There's an emotional feeling, but not an attachment. Being in love can be an emotional attachment. that's These are these people that will date even for years and be in relationships, but that they don't really truly know each other. being Loving someone is truly knowing them.
00:22:30
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m Accepting them as a person for all of their flaws and for their good stuff. And loving them. Yes. That is absolutely possible.
00:22:42
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Now, I will say personally, only though I've said i love you to a handful of women, I've only truly loved one person. And the reason why I know that I love them is because even when things went left, I still wanted them to be good. Right.
00:23:02
Speaker
That's love. A lot of people say that they love their person. But then when things go left, they wish them all ill well, and it never really goes away. It never goes back to a point where I just, that you're just like, you know what?
00:23:16
Speaker
The time that spent with that person was fantastic. I love the being that they are. I just want them to be happy. That's love. When they can't do that, that's being in love. So I divide it. But what's also a problem is it was easy to stay married back in the day for a long period of time.
00:23:33
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You have no other options. all You had no option. All you had was the options in your town. Yes. Now, yeah it's options everywhere.
00:23:46
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And also the option of... I did that on purpose, ladies and gentlemen. There was an old, like, Bernie Mac saying, Everwhere. That's the one slip up I actually did on purpose. And there's also... Yeah, there's options in terms of other people, but there's also the option of just being by yourself. Right. And that that was not an option for people before, and it very, very much is now. Like...
00:24:15
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Folks get pets, plants, build up friend communities and chosen family communities and don't desire all of the baggage that comes with romantic love. So a said is in lows represents the initial, intense, passionate, and often idealized emotional state similar to a firework.
00:24:47
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Love... is a deeper, more stable, enduring, and conscious commitment that accepts a partner's flaws. Being in love is focused on feelings, while love is focused on actions and long-term connection. And that's where people mess up.
00:25:05
Speaker
Yeah, because I'm going to tell you, I'm about to attack women. Yeah, I'm about to attack women. Listen. Oh, boy. Listen to all y'all women out there and men, because I used to be, not used to be, still of them men.
00:25:19
Speaker
The spark fades. The electricity fades. It does not last forever. And you don't make me feel like you used to make me feel because we've been together for three years. Okay. That doesn't stay.
00:25:34
Speaker
Do you like me as a person? Do you like spending time with me? Even if it's not sexual, do you just want to do things with me? Do you just want to hear my voice? Do you just want to spend time with me?
00:25:46
Speaker
That's love. That's the difference. The you don't make me feel the way I used to blow blah, blah, blah, blah is really not about feelings. Again, it's about actions. It's about actions. It's about behaviors.
00:26:01
Speaker
There used to be behavior and action that made me feel special, wanted, needed, cared for that you no longer perform. No, sometimes people be still performing them and they just don't, they don't hit like they used to. Yeah. Sometimes. Oh, don't get me wrong. People get lazy in relationships because you haven't noticed people gain weight like that. That relationship gain is for real because y'all just kicking it and y'all be eating and chilling. And you would be thinking because of all the activity. I'm talking about sex, ladies and gentlemen, that you wouldn't be burning some of calories. But I guess you consuming a lot more calories than you burning. And hell, I guess if you burn a lot of calories, you need to consume more calories. It's the vicious cycle. It's the vicious cycle of being in relationships. And that's the reason why I am the way I am today.
00:26:50
Speaker
Look, ladies and gentlemen, i when I talked to my friend, i was just like, are you happy with the decision? They said that they were, that they feel bad for their partner because the partner didn't want this. And I was like, I can understand feeling bad.
00:27:05
Speaker
You love them. Yes. You love them enough, though, to leave a situation where you're going to be unhappy because eventually y'all are going to hate each other if you don't.
00:27:16
Speaker
Yeah, resentment will build up naturally. So, yeah. All right. That's enough of this
News Roundup and Identity in Sports
00:27:23
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diddly-daddling. We gave y'all a lot of this diddly-daddling. We're going to get into some news roundup. And speaking of people having resentment, people got a lot of resentment for a freestyle skier. We're going to get into that next.
00:27:46
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right, Jay. Have you heard about Eileen Goo? I have not. All right. Have you been watching any of the Winter Olympics? I also have not. Yo, I'll be real honest. I just have like forgot that they was even on one. i knew I know it's on but am as big a fan of the Winter Olympics as I am of the Summer Olympics?
00:28:08
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No. ah I wonder why that is. Why I'm not a fan of Winter Olympics? Uh-huh. I don't have an interest in a lot of the sports.
00:28:20
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I wonder why that is.
00:28:24
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I don't know. We lot more present in the Summer Olympics than we are in the Winter Olympics. Oh, us? Us. No, no, no, we're there. Listen. I didn't say that we weren't there. I said we're a lot more present. Yes, yes. We we yes we we be in the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics. The Jamaican bobsled team was a long time ago. They walking the door.
00:28:50
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No, we we there. In fact, I want to say it was Haiti's... Olympic uniforms. um Yes, they're Winter Olympics uniforms. If y'all have not seen the Haitian Winter Olympics uniforms, whoo they are gorgeous. But other than that, like, yeah, I don't i don't really follow a lot of winter sports. so Neither do I. But the reason why I brought this up is Eileen Gu is getting backlash over representing China instead of the U.S. Mm-hmm.
00:29:23
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In the Olympics. She's an Olympic freestyle skater skier. She's 22 years old. She was born and raised in the U.S., but her mother is Chinese. In 2019, she chose to compete for China instead of Team USA.
00:29:36
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Has since become one of the most visible athletes in the Winter Olympics because she didn't already got two silver medals. But she talked about... While she was attending Stanford, after she had announced that she was going to be on on China's team, that she got physically assaulted in the street near the campus. So much so that police were called to respond. She's received death threats. Her dorm room was reportedly robbed. And she described the experiences of something that no one should ever have to endure. Stanford.
00:30:06
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And campus police either declined or did not immediately comment on any of the specific allegations at the time of the reporting. The time of the reporting was literally the last time I read something was February 18th at 12 p.m. There was no response from Stanford. By the time this comes out, maybe Stanford will have said something. She said her reasoning for representing China was was that she wanted to give a bigger impact. she She wanted to have a bigger impact there. Felt that there were fewer skiing role models for young Chinese girls. Said that she was proud of both her American upbringing and her Chinese heritage. And she previously described the choice as incredibly tough. But that still didn't stop people from coming out to attacking her. Now, me personally, going to put this up front because I'm a little biased.
00:30:56
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When you ask certain people in America... What do they identify as? yes A lot of people will say American, first and foremost.
00:31:09
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yeah I don't say that I identify as American, first and foremost. ah America is third. Not because I'm not proud to be an American, but just because of historically how America has treated me. You ain't going to keep leaving me at the altar and me still put you number one. That's how I feel.
00:31:27
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So when somebody asks me, what are you? Black male American. Yeah.
00:31:37
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That's that's those are that's how I say it. Black cis male American. Mm hmm. That's how I do it. So I don't see no big deal about this. But for those people, the first thing that they say, I'm an American.
00:31:55
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Well, okay. You want to be offended because somebody chose not to have that as the number one identifier? Okay. She was born here. Her mother wasn't. Her mother is Chinese.
00:32:06
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And she gave you a reason why she wanted to represent China. That wasn't good enough for you. Yeah. Hey, she's... from from both places. She probably has um Chinese um family ah residency status or something like, you know, because her mother is from China. Maybe. So maybe she might have a Chinese passport if they register for it. She might.
00:32:34
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I don't know. Well, mean, I guess she would have to be on China's nest. She would have to. Yeah. I would think so. So ah she could choose either. So that's number one.
00:32:44
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Number two, Betty is skiing. Why are we talking about death threats, physical assault? ah We talking about some skiing once every four years. This is not...
00:33:02
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Nobody is getting, yeah like, y'all not getting no money for this. Like, you know, the athletes are, but like regular people, we, get you don't have a dog in this fight. Like, honestly, you don't. I do not understand. We are, we are talking about skiing.
00:33:23
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We're talking about skiing. one a ah one event every four years and she wanted to represent a country that she is descended from. Like, I don't... Honestly, if Black people knew where we was from, like, we... yeah Okay, like, we... yeah speaking and Speaking of that,
00:33:52
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speaking of that yeah There is a basketball player that played for Team USA, has got like three or four gold medals, is the most decorated medalist for men's basketball h ever.
00:34:09
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Right? Yeah. Famous NBA player. He also happens to be Puerto Rican. h when he was originally chosen to be on the Team USA going all the way back to, i think it's 2004, he was like second year in a league, and he got no playing time on that team. That was also the last time America didn't get gold in the Olympics, right? yeah And the only reason why he chose USA Basketball is because he was like, it's USA Basketball. Like, it's kind of like...
00:34:43
Speaker
Like a dream team, like Michael and Magic all playing for him. But he was going to play for the Puerto Rican national team. That man is Carmelo Anthony. Baltimore's own Carmelo Anthony. So there are a lot of people. Puerto Rico. and He's Puerto Rican. You're educating me on this, that Puerto Rico has a separate team from the U.S. team. Yep. oh Puerto Rican national team.
00:35:05
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yeah Oh, okay. Cool. Yeah. They're not part of the USA Olympics, even though they're United States citizens. I would imagine Guam also has, the if if Guam got any type of teams, I would ah imagine that all of our quote-unquote territories have their own national team because they're not, yeah yeah they're a territory not part of the United States. Yeah. Yes.
00:35:29
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So yes, he was going to play for the Puerto Rican national team the Puerto Rican national team had some players. They had some ballers on that team. Okay. They had some players. They had some players on the plate. Yeah. he was like, I couldn't because it was like, it's this prestige of Magic and Michael. But if that wasn't there, was like, man, I was going to play for the Puerto Rican team.
00:35:46
Speaker
Because I going to get to play. You were going get to play. Yeah. And I don't know if if Eileen was going to be a U.S. as big in U.S. team as she is for the China team. Like, I have no idea.
00:35:59
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i don't know nothing about no freestyle skiing. I'm going be quite honest with all of y'all. Don't. But... If she wasn't and she wanted to be in an the Olympics, I would absolutely, that would make sense to me. I'm like, hey, look, let me find out my lineage is from Ghana.
00:36:16
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Yeah. then it's like, Bruce, you you want to play for the Ghana national basketball team? My knees might not make it through, but I'm going go ahead and play But I'm going give it Right. I'm going give shot. Okay. So, yes, I would be on the Nigerian air rifle team.
00:36:32
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yeah If I knew...
00:36:38
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The Nigerian air rifle team. Okay. if we You know, you never know. But yeah, like she has a choice. And then she made a choice about something that honestly, it's important to really her.
00:36:54
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Like it's, ah I wish her the best. i i um I'm happy for all of her success, but I don't give a damn. Like it's not important to me. I don't get to share her medals.
00:37:06
Speaker
No. So what, y'all? Now, and let's be honest. Okay. You know what? Normally I would do this in after hours, but this is a little snippet of something that I would say in after hours. is i'm Minus the cussing.
00:37:21
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m Let's be real honest. People that are complaining about her choosing China over America because she has Chinese descent. If she had beat out an all-American girl,
00:37:35
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for that spot on the USA team, they would be up in arms about that. They would say it was a D, a higher association, and all types of stuff. So the same people complaining don't want her. They don't truly want her. They just don't want her to go nowhere else.
00:37:51
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I don't know. Yeah, I think probably. But also, I don't know. I feel like I also love the Olympics because it's really like the one time where like we really have that national identity because a lot of other countries, when you ask them, oh where are you from? They rep their country.
00:38:15
Speaker
who What are you? They rep their country, right? They're giving you their nationality first on Guatemalan. You know what I'm saying? Like they're giving you that first. We don't really do that. which may We typically give our race first. Nah, typically give my race first.
00:38:29
Speaker
So when you've gone to Italy Colombia and all that stuff, people ask what you are because people always ask what are because you're ambiguous. ah
00:38:39
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And I say I'm black. Okay. All right. They can hear from my accent that I'm American. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You know what I mean? But I think we're only ones that really do something like that.
00:38:50
Speaker
I don't know. But I just know that that's the one time where you're cheering on people even who don't look like you. Because honestly, if you watching track and field... Okay, now hold on. You ain't rooted against America in track field?
00:39:05
Speaker
I've never rooted against America in track and field. There's been a couple of times ain't rooted against America in track field. Listen, I was running? ain't saying Jamaica... That was exactly what I was thinking was Jamaica. ain't saying that I'm not in there like...
00:39:20
Speaker
Jamaica go. You know, I'm not saying that. ah That I don't also root for other countries. I do. But ultimately, I i want to see America win the gold, right? like that i mean i want to Yeah, ok i get I mean, I want to see America win the most. But sometimes my blackness comes out.
00:39:42
Speaker
And I not choose my blackness over everything else I told you, I identify first as black. Yeah. So, I mean, that is what it Now, if it's a predominantly black country against somebody else... Oh, that's automatic. I mean, hey, look, let me tell you something. I'm rooting for them.
00:40:00
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ah The only way going to root against a black country is if this obscure country got just the the the the person that's just happy to be there, just smiling, it's all smiles, I'm in the Olympics, just happy...
00:40:17
Speaker
And actually competing. And then that underdog thing that's inside of me will start rooting for him even when I'm like, no, wait minute, what am I doing? It'd be a conflict within myself. But I can't not root for an underdog. It's natural to root for an underdog. But like Issa Rae famously said, I be rooting for everybody Black.
00:40:39
Speaker
Not everybody. Anybody want to run against Tim Scott? You can go ahead. You got my vote. I'm talking about the Olympics.
Education, Politics, and Influence
00:40:46
Speaker
Okay. are Because I just voted in the Virginia governor race and it was a white woman versus a black woman. I voted for the white woman.
00:40:54
Speaker
And I'm happy as hell I did for now. ah Speaking of politics, we just going to touch on this for a little bit because because it's giving me a headache just getting ready to read what it is that we're about to talk about.
00:41:09
Speaker
Pete Hexeth, is a tool. I'm going to use a word that he's familiar with. He's one of them bro dudes. He's a tool. So apparently the secretary of defense, not war, has decided the biggest threat to America is Harvard.
00:41:26
Speaker
He's announced that the Pentagon will end certain official education ties with Harvard starting in 26-27 academic year. He's framing this as Ivy League schools are left wing. They underbind traditional values. They weaken what's called spiritual readiness. Says he wants to build more warriors and not wokesters.
00:41:50
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00:41:54
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By the way, He has a Harvard degree.
00:41:59
Speaker
Yeah. He went to Princeton. Right. yeah lot of the people in an administration, even even Dum Dum, the Cheeto in chief has a degree from an Ivy League. Now, how the hell he got it?
00:42:14
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Somebody did his work for. Yes, I know he went to Wharton. That's a Ivy League. That's Penn. The University of Penn. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, it's Ivy League. Because it I ain't get close to it.
00:42:25
Speaker
No, yeah, no. I mean, you could have if you really wanted to. to public Ivy. ah We did go to public Ivy and you went to HBCU Ivy. True.
00:42:36
Speaker
So there you go. There you go. this I mean, the the we're building warriors and not wokesters. Like, he's such... He's got a little pee-pee, don't he? He has to. He definitely does. There's no reason why you keep bringing this much bravado.
00:42:50
Speaker
but It's a lot of... It feels like it's a lot of men in this administration that... you know, drive the fancy cars because they're lacking. Like, they're lacking. we We talk about Trump, Pete Hegstaff, the Stephen Millers of the world, like, all these people. It's nobody that just exudes confidence. You know, as much as I didn't like W's policies when he was in office...
00:43:14
Speaker
I never thought that he was faking the funk. I didn't agree with him. I thought he might have been an idiot. Still not so sure where his intellectual prowess is. But I never thought that he was faking confidence.
00:43:28
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Yeah. He just was being himself. Yeah.
00:43:33
Speaker
Barack, I mean, Barack just walked in the room. He cool. He just he just got swag. I mean, these dudes just, they reek of a lack of confidence and they're trying to compensate and like yeah not trying to bring warriors, trying to build warriors, not wokesters. Wokesters is a word now. They now taken woke and created wokesters.
00:43:57
Speaker
Yeah. Is that like wanksters? I don't know. It's lame. It's about as lame as wankster was. No, wankster was dope. It wasn't. It wasn't. 50, I don't got no beef with you.
00:44:10
Speaker
50, I don't have no beef with you. It is what it is. was lame. um who was looking for something to rhyme with gangster and it sucked.
00:44:22
Speaker
What do you think about this Pete Hexfess thing? Like, cause I got another thing that's even worse. It's ah actually worse than that. Yeah. But just on that, what do you think? i mean, what do you think? i don't know.
00:44:35
Speaker
Yeah, so I don't understand this idea, and I'm going to make up a term because I don't really know how else to describe it, but Christian militarism, where it's like you are super Christian and also super aggressive,
00:44:59
Speaker
Like, militarily. Like, you want people to be, like, eat to it the Ivy League weakens spiritual readiness, but we want warriors. But he's hosting a a monthly prayer service. going to get to that next. It's like a weird, weird thing. Because I remember...
00:45:22
Speaker
it quote me, am i you correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was turning the other cheek. I don't remember Jesus knuckling up like this. there And he was well within his right. There is a tree. There is a branch, Christian Crusades.
00:45:36
Speaker
Like this this has been a thing. before this this isn't oh yeah i know yeah like this yeah no violence and and religion religion not new right yeah but i just find it deeply weird and also it doesn't seem like it coexists like it should coexist um not from jesus's teachings no no and i know thought That's what Christianity
00:46:07
Speaker
is um So I just find it weird. i think he's weird. i know you don't like the word weird. You'd like to say unique. No, I'm sorry. He's weird. No, he's weird. He's weird. No. Yeah. And and you know what? It don't have anything to do with Warriors versus Wokesters. What it has to do is the with is the accumulation of knowledge in general. They do not.
00:46:35
Speaker
Dumb people are easy to control because they believe anything. yeah They want the knowledge. Don't get it wrong. Pete Hedges is not a stupid man. He wants the knowledge. No, he went to Princeton. Yeah, he he didn't want other people to have the knowledge. He doesn't want other people because, again, people are easier to control when they don't know nothing because you can say anything with authority and they'd be like, sound right. You can put a suit on and say something at a podium with authority and people without authority
00:47:07
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discernment, not saying a formal education is needed to be discerning or to be intelligent, but that's what they think. Right. I'm saying what they think. um But people without the level of discernment.
00:47:21
Speaker
To call BS on something, they're going to believe it. And that's what that's what they're seeing. Right. And that's the the proof is in the pudding. Right. Because we have the current. executive legislative branches that we have right now. Okay. And judicial.
00:47:37
Speaker
And judicial. Hell, I forgot about that. Yeah. no Yes. So he wants, he doesn't want you to to know your history so that they can repeat it and you not catch on.
00:47:50
Speaker
He doesn't want you to educate yourself. It's not about Harvard. Doesn't want you to educate yourself. hmm.
00:47:59
Speaker
Why keep the enslaved from reading if you didn't think that they had the mental capacity to do anything else but be enslaved? If you truly believe that, why keep them from reading?
00:48:17
Speaker
The same logic is applying here a because they know that you're capable of more and they don't want you to realize that.
00:48:29
Speaker
Same reason why they are introducing this SAVE Act, right? They suppose to make sure, crack down on voter fraud, which is a hoax. that That actually is a hoax. or isn' It literally is a hoax. There's no widespread voter fraud. What it is is a newer version of a poll tax. People are like, no, it's not a poll tax. Yeah, because people have to pay for new identification. And I don't know...
00:48:52
Speaker
if most people realize this, or maybe in your world it's not a big deal, but a passport, because I got to get a brand new passport. Damn, I kind of got to get that soon. I've been talking about it for like the last two years. Literally, if you all have been listening to us from the beginning...
00:49:08
Speaker
For years now. Let's not detour. Let's not detour. But that's about $1.60, $1.80, right? When I got my real ID, I was jive like piss because it cost me like $50. And was like, yeah you making me get this and I got to spend $50 on this?
00:49:24
Speaker
Why is it so expensive? And now i have I have to have a real ID to travel in the United States. So yes, when you say people have to have a certain type of ID,
00:49:37
Speaker
It's a poll tax. That's what people are not getting. if people are, you choose $50. $50 ain't much to me or you, but to a person that's two weeks behind on their bills. Yes. So, in other words, people sometimes live check to check, yeah which means they cool long as that check come, right? They can pay their bills as soon as that check come. Ain't no big deal.
00:49:58
Speaker
What happens when you're behind? Right. When that check isn't paying next month's rent, but this month's rent. Mm-hmm. But it's the end of the month.
00:50:09
Speaker
You see what I'm saying? Like, people live like that. So, it is a big deal. But we're not done with Pete. We're not done with Pete. You brought up Christian. We got one more thing, and then we're going get to karaoke next. We're going to get some laughter next, ladies and gentlemen. But I got to get to this. Mm-hmm. At the same time, he's cutting down education. Mm-hmm.
00:50:26
Speaker
Hex, Hex Dev is hosting a monthly prayer services at the Pentagon. That's that. Look, I ain't no problem with praising the Lord. That's a good thing. that Okay. I can, I can, I can roll with that. Here's the problem.
00:50:41
Speaker
here's the problem His ass is closely aligned and has invited Doug Wilson, who is Doug Wilson. He's that Idaho pastor, Christian nationalist, who has said that he's argued for women that they should not be able to vote. He's defended or marginalized aspects of American slavery and taught strict male headship and subordination of women.
00:51:08
Speaker
Yeah. He's a misogynist. That's covered through the Pentagon. And racist. and And again, think about the things that he has argued for or against.
00:51:22
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Don't want women to vote. Mm-hmm. Defended American enslavement. Mm-hmm. Men are the head of the household and women should be subordinate.
00:51:32
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Mm-hmm. This is, again, all things that do what? Mm-hmm. maintain the current power structure. Well, that's not the power structure anymore. That's the problem.
00:51:46
Speaker
It's disrupting the power structure. You had just had two women run for president the United States. You had a black man win the presidency, not once, but twice. Status quo then shook him up. there yeah This ain't the America that I'm used to. I'm used to America, whereas the white man at the top, black man could be underneath him.
00:52:08
Speaker
White woman underneath that. Black woman underneath that. Everybody else underneath that. Now, if you're lucky, quote unquote, you'll get thrown into this white category.
00:52:20
Speaker
So Irish, you didn't used to be white, but you could be white now. Battalion, you didn't used to be white, but you could be white now. You know, Asian, hey, tell you what, you can't quite be white, but you could be more than black because I'm to you I'm I'm allow y'all to come over to this country, and we're not will give you loans to open up restaurants and stores in white neighborhoods. But what we will do is we'll give you loans to open up stores and restaurants in black neighborhoods. At the same time, not allowing black people to take our loans to open up stores in the black neighborhoods. So we'll put you above them, but you're not white.
00:52:54
Speaker
Because just remember, you can't go skate for China. You got to skate for us. Right. Right. You're right. This is America, ladies and gentlemen. This what they want to go back to. And Pete Hegstab, like i said, is a tool.
00:53:07
Speaker
Yes. i don't know. That's just the way feel. How you feel about it? If you got to put your foot on other people's necks to get anywhere, you're not supposed to be there.
00:53:21
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The places that you want to go, if you got to put your foot on people's necks to get there, you're not supposed to be there. And that's the harsh truth is that vast majority of people, all people from all walks of life, are mediocre.
00:53:39
Speaker
We're just regular people. We're just regular people.
The Community Spirit of Karaoke
00:53:44
Speaker
Most of us, we're just regular folks. Talk about yourself. I'm exceptional.
00:53:50
Speaker
Well, whatever. And who just want to just live out their lives peacefully. But there are mediocre people who have deluded themselves and built a society and a system that feeds this delusion that they are exceptional above others.
00:54:10
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And that's just not the truth.
00:54:14
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If you got a cheat to win. You ain't a winner.
00:54:26
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all right, Jay, we are running a little long here. You know, I like to keep these bad boys no longer than them minute and an an hour and five minutes. But we're going look, ladies and gentlemen, every now going to give you a long one Okay? Yeah.
00:54:37
Speaker
This segment is going to be short, but it's talking about something that hit me personally this weekend. This weekend, I was out celebrating a birthday. Yes. won't say Won't say who, because won't you know we won't say who. I was celebrating a birthday, um and it was a karaoke party. yeah Karaoke is for certain individuals.
00:55:01
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Okay. Okay.
00:55:04
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It's for the struggling, not the gifted. If you can really sing, you don't do karaoke. Why not? Just go. OK, now knew you was going to feel this way because you could actually sing. Because karaoke is meant to be fun.
00:55:22
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It's meant to make people laugh at you. It's meant to be all inclusive. When you got people that can actually sing, they don't just go up there and just sing. They do a whole damn performance.
00:55:34
Speaker
Yes. We got into a debate with this person at the karaoke event because they were using the karaoke event basically to strut their stuff, doing a performance, holding the mic all the way up above their face, hitting all the high notes. And really, I called them out on it because I was like, you do got a nice nice voice, but what you are is a mimic.
00:55:54
Speaker
Because i have you've sang like four or five different songs, and I've now heard your voice. What I've heard is you sound like the person that originally sang the song. Which doesn't mean that they're not talented. Like, here's the thing. Plenty of people listen to music, try to sing like the person that's singing, and can't.
00:56:16
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If mimicry was easy, then everybody could sing. No, if mimicry was easy, was easy, then everybody could sing. But they can't.
00:56:27
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They can't. And I know some of y'all think y'all sound like Mariah Carey, but sound like Mariah Carey. Yeah. I'd be getting mad at these people. They'd be choosing real songs. What I mean is, you know, the person that we know loves to sing a specific song.
00:56:43
Speaker
It's a little obscure. Only a certain people of a generation would know this song. That's what you do at karaoke. Other people are singing, I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston. And it's like, no. First of all, that's Whitney Houston. Why are you up there trying to sing like Whitney Houston? And they'd be singers. And then they give this arrogance about them.
00:57:02
Speaker
Or they give these passive aggressive kind of humbleness. Like, you know, you can sing. You went up there, you chose a song as you knew that that was going to blow everybody up. And then everybody's like, oh, you sound so great. You knew you sound great. But you got to be like, oh, thank you so much. I just want to just just sing a little bit. And just I'm really shy when I come up. It feels very pointed. I'm not. I'm pointed at the person, not you. You don't do this.
00:57:28
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You don't do this. yeah doesn't it As a person has some vocal ability. No, ladies gentlemen. ah She hates to talk about this. She hates to bring this up. She doesn't want to do it a person. She won't do it in person.
00:57:44
Speaker
My sister can sang. Not sing. Sang. Is she Kelly Clarkson good? No. Because Kelly Clarkson is like on par with almost... I sing better than Kelly Clarkson.
00:57:57
Speaker
You think your voice is better than Kelly Clarkson. I absolutely do. I just saw Kelly Clarkson. Not saying Kelly can't sing down. Hold on. I just saw Kelly Clarkson out sing Patty.
00:58:11
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That's also a bold face. No. Lie. No. They were singing on my own and she out sang Patty. Kelly can sing.
00:58:22
Speaker
Kelly Clarkson... I am going to crash out. Kelly Clarkson cannot out-sing Patti LaBelle. I said she did. She did. I'm to send you the clip. She out-sang Patti. Send it to me. Send it to me. Because first of all, Patti don't be remembering the words to her own damn song. ain't got to.
00:58:45
Speaker
We back on karaoke. And go ahead and defend the good-voiced people out there. It okay, you're right that there are people who get up there and want praise, accolades, all the things for singing down. And sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. But there are people who go up there with that kind of ego and arrogance. But there are also people, such as my myself, who never want to volunteer. Never, never want to volunteer. And the people they're with volunteer them.
00:59:20
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them OK. Yeah, that's true. That's true. And so now, you know, many a times. Yeah. But now, you know, that since they know you can sing, they're expecting you to get up there and sing.
00:59:33
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and So you can't just go up there and have fun with it, because that's not why they signed you up against your will. They signed you up against your will so they could hear you sing. In this particular instance this past weekend, this person, there was a trophy involved.
00:59:50
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There was a trophy involved. So then that's when I took it serious. Yes. Right? I'm like, right, a trophy involved. It's something that we're fighting for. Then we're fighting as a community against this one person who is trying to rig the system, who specifically is going up there and saying, you ain't got no vocals. Now I want to fight you.
01:00:09
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and win this trophy. And so these are the that's specifically the people I'm talking about. This was not a poignant attack towards you. Not everything in life is about you, my little sister. that Sometimes I am. The Leo. The Leo always is about me. Not everything is about you, okay? I'm talking about this one particular person ok who who who stole the trophy. They stole the trophy.
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Did they steal it or were they good? I mean, it it listen, there are people gotten up to do karaoke, can sing, but don't put on a good performance. There are people who've gotten up to do karaoke, can't sing, put on the best performance.
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yeah Okay, so I think that they... You know what? I'm gonna be real honest. I believe that they were a mimic, and a lot of time I couldn't hear their voice over the music.
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When I did hear their voice, I was like, oh, that sounds good. But their voice didn't overpower the music. yeah So i did i did I think that they should have won off of vocals? Yes, because there was a lot of people that was really, really off key. I was one of them. I thought I had this part nailed. And then when I sang it to the mic, I was like, that don't sound like what my ear be hearing. Yeah. That that that don't sound like what it... which that which Which means, again, being able to mimic an artist is a talent.
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Yeah, well, I didn't say the person wasn't talented. I just thought, you know, they're an asshole. Karaoke... Ladies and gentlemen, they thems, karaoke is for everybody.
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It's about having fun. And sometimes fun means you sing badly. Sometimes fun means you sing well. Every time I get up to do karaoke, the crowd is loving it. And i do I sing badly? no I don't. So it doesn't... But I've also gone crazy for somebody who is tone deaf, but is giving their all. And I'm just... And I'm loving it. So it's... the You made my point for me. Some spaces are meant for community, not performance.
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Karaoke isn't about talent. It's about a shared embarrassment. When talented people don't dominate, they turn... When dominated when talented people dominate, they turn into...
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what was participation into a competition. And so that's what this last weekend turned into a competition of which... was a competition. It was a trophy. and Well...
01:02:44
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Okay, so the karaoke people turned it into a competition. And that's bullshit because it was supposed to be just for fun. And now they made it real. And now I'm pissed off because I didn't take that trophy. And that trophy was kind of tall too. And you think that i wouldn't have put held it and put it on my ah ah on my bar and and put a light shining and directly on it to say I won that karaoke? So now I'm determined. I'm going to get my vocals chopped because I ain't you know i ain't challenged my chops in a long time. i and a My allergies was a little messed up. My throat was a little... Various reasons. I wasn't there. This person probably was drinking lemon water all day, hot tea, to make sure their vocals was clear. They prepped.
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Yeah, they were prepped. They wore a right clothing to make sure they was free-flowing. And this was some bull, and I should have got... Maybe I shouldn't have the trophy. maybe Somebody my crew should have got the trophy. That's all I'm saying.
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I think karaoke is 100% about performance. Yeah. Performance. Not vocals. It's not
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a competition. You said it is for community, not performance. And that's...
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that it No, it is 100% about the performance. I meant to say, look, players mess up sometimes, too. I mess up my words. I told you I was tired of time. Okay?
01:04:07
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You didn't say it. I didn't say it. You did. Yeah. I just stumbled over that Jesse Jackson monologue three, four times. What was the word that I said?
01:04:18
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It was, he got the Medal of Freedom, but you kept saying Friedman. But I wasn't lying, though. You wasn't. I wasn't lying, though.
01:04:29
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Jay, what you want to tell these people before we get out of here? It's skiing. Y'all are way too intense about things that matter to a few people. It's skiing.
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Just watch the Olympics. Know that you'll never be there. So I don't know why you're even worried about it. for fame And enjoy yourself. freedom them over cycle stays the same As the Jackson said, enjoy yourself. And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, they did say that. And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, and I want to thank you for listening.
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I want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holler.
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