Audacity Is at an All-Time High | Bonus Episode

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Speaker 1: This is Mandy B. Welcome to Selective Ignorance, a production of the Black Impact Podcast Network and iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 2: Ayo!
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Speaker 1: Welcome to a bonus episode. Selective Ignorance. A-King. Job.
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Speaker 3: Your girl.
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Speaker 2: Me. Me and B.
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Speaker 1: We in the building or whatever.
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Speaker 2: Let me make sure my mouth not ashy because they be talking about me. That nigga mouth ashy as shit. You know it's crazy. Nigga, ashy mouth over there.
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Speaker 1: When I be watching like my virtual episodes from Decisions, I be like, goddamn.
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Speaker 2: Damn. Bitch, lick your lips. Do something.
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Speaker 1: Lick your goddamn lips.
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Speaker 4: Oh, man, that is my worst fear to be somewhere and have a great viral video and have like a piece of crust or.
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Speaker 2: Have a wild crack mouth around your shit. I can't have none of that. Can't give them no ammo. No ammo at all. Because the first thing is, oh, that nigga will be on the podcast with a crusty mouth. The crusty mouth nigga. Fuck that crusty mouth nigga. No.
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Speaker 1: Well, this episode today is going to go a little bit all over the place. So not really an introduction like I normally do. But we're going to talk and lean into a lot of ignorance and audacity. And see where the intersection lines up. But I've pretty much just been seeing so many things on the internet lately. And just being a part of things lately where I'm just like, The audacity. Now, clearly our whole country has the audacity to have us living like this.
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Speaker 2: That's all they know.
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Speaker 1: Like, the flights, and I'm done complaining about flight prices. Actually, I'm not.
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Speaker 2: But it is, like, out of control.
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Speaker 1: Bro, I used to be able to get from Atlanta to New York and New York to Atlanta for about two 50-round trips. This is like $ 700.
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Speaker 4: CNN, they just did a report talking about from February this year, jet fuel prices was like $ 2.
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Speaker 2: 30 a gallon, now it's $ 4. 50 a gallon.
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Speaker 4: And that's in like the span of like seven months. I will say- It's not gonna get no better.
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Speaker 1: I will say, I don't know if y'all seen the Jacksonville man on the news, complaining about gas prices. They pulled up to some gas station in Jacksonville. When I tell you my algorithm be happy, but I just be like, I just be cackling. So it was a news feed of a man in Jacksonville, and I guess gas in Jacksonville now is $ 4.
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Speaker 2: 50.
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Speaker 1: So he get on there, real country, real Jacksonville, real Duval, and was like, I just don't understand. Do they think we in California? Because why are these gas prices so high? And he's like, man, I put $ 10 in the tank every day. And so the news lady's like, So you don't fill up your tank. You put it in $ 10 every day. Well, why do you do that? He's like, to get to work. But she's like, yeah, but why wouldn't you just fill up the whole tank? He was like, well, no, I put in $ 10, but the $ 10 be gone by the time I get to work and come back home. I got to fill it up again. He's like, but at one point I used to be able to fill up my tank for $ 50. Now it's $ 90.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I think, you know, when you're talking to people, you don't realize, like, some people can't just put out $ 90 at once.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: They got to wait for checks to come in.
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Speaker 2: I need that other $ 80 to buy lunch, to do shit.
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Speaker 1: You know, he literally said that. He said, gas price is so high, I can't eat. And I'm like, yeah, that's where we're at. That's where we're at. Well, instead of gas prices, something else that has been coming across my feet lately, and I know that they cost, you know, it costs a lot to buy a ticket on a plane, right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: Americans, my good people, I need y'all, if you want to sit somewhere, to pay that extra.
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Speaker 2: $ 15, $ 15, whatever it is. Whatever the fuck. Get your seat. Get your seat, African.
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Speaker 1: Because I've been seeing videos being recorded of people just sitting in seats that they want that they didn't pay for and then having to call the flight attendants over and then People really being like, hey, I want to sit next to my husband. Can we switch seats? And I wanted to know that if y'all were on a flight, and ask politely, because here's the audacity, right? The audacity is asking, first off, without paying for it. But if someone asked you to switch seats because they wanted to sit next to their partner, their spouse, their best friend, are you giving up your seat, yes or no? And in what circumstances are you doing it?
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Speaker 2: No, I'm not switching seats. In no way? Like, unless you tell, you have to come to me with.
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Speaker 1: A- Unless you got a middle seat and they offer you something better.
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Speaker 2: Something better, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, if I'm riding bitch, then yeah, of course, we swap that shit out ASAP.
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Speaker 1: Instead of you riding bitch?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, riding bitch. What's riding bitch? That's the middle. Yeah, it's riding bitch. Let's call it riding bitch. I hate that. Don't nobody want to ride bitch. You can't do shit. You can't do shit.
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Speaker 4: You just in there between two people. You don't know what they on. Nigga might stink. Nigga might have to fart a lot.
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Speaker 2: I'm not into sexism, but I.
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Speaker 1: Do think that the middle seat is not ever for a man. Men should not sit in the middle seat.
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Speaker 2: In the middle seat.
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Speaker 1: No, they shouldn't.
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Speaker 2: They shouldn't.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes, I remember when not too long ago when my flight got canceled and I had to take a United flight.
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Speaker 2: I had to take whatever seat they gave me.
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Speaker 1: Well, no, I get that.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about when you purchase a flight and you get on a.
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Speaker 4: No, I'm just saying, even in those moments, are you wrong for asking, hey, can we swap?
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Speaker 2: Can we swap it out? We need to... As a man, I'm just saying.
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Speaker 4: under the guise of a man shouldn't sit in the middle seat, but if I have a middle seat now, and it's two women, it's like, excuse me, ma'am.
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Speaker 1: You let a woman not have the better of the seat? This is the conversation where chauvinism and sexism.
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Speaker 4: I can be like, yo, you don't really want to sit in front of the window.
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Speaker 2: If something happens, I can protect you. I can protect you. I'm from what?
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Speaker 1: If the plane is going down... You ain't protecting the goddamn thing. So, okay. So, you're not giving up your seat?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 4: The only person, the only circumstance that I'm giving my seat up for is somebody for their child. If for whatever reason, your child, then I might let you like, all right. No, they got to take care of that shit before they get in. Especially if you have a little baby. I've seen, oh man, they make shit so uncomfortable sometimes.
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Speaker 2: They do? Because... But you have to make a choice.
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Speaker 4: Do you want this crying baby crying for mama the whole time or do I want to just get out my seat? You go over there and be with the boys or child so you don't got to hear your mouth the whole time.
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Speaker 1: Now, they don't be that far apart from the kids.
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Speaker 2: They shouldn't be. No. I'm not moving.
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Speaker 1: Fuck them kids. I ain't going to hold you. No, I ain't going to say what I.
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Speaker 2: Was going to say because they don't talk shit about me.
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Speaker 1: I don't even get up for my... Like, with the strollers and shit on the subway. Why you keep having babies in New York?
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Speaker 2: Do you... Oh, shit. I'm sorry. That's cruel.
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Speaker 1: Life is too hard to keep having babies in New York.
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Speaker 2: I just don't understand.
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Speaker 4: But that's... That's where community got to step in. I feel like you see a lady with a stroller and she got to come up those steps.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about getting up out of my seat on the train. Especially when I used to work. Bro, I done worked a long ass day and I got to get up because you with your kids? No.
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Speaker 2: Do they want your seat or are they just trying to get by?
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Speaker 1: A lot of times they want the kids to sit down.
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Speaker 2: I'm not getting up for your children. The kid is young. Young bone, young muscle.
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Speaker 1: They drink they milk at school.
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Speaker 2: Young bone, young muscle, they can stand up.
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Speaker 4: But the unwritten rule is that courtesy, elderly people, pregnant women, and kids.
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Speaker 2: If it's a 10-year-old kid, he got to stand up.
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Speaker 1: I will be honest, though. When I see the women with the strollers, And they got one or two that need to be in the stroller. Why do you keep having these children?
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Speaker 2: No, that is kind of.
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Speaker 1: Like, bro. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's intentional. I just think... No, no, no.
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Speaker 1: There's intention if you have an unprotected sex.
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Speaker 2: There's intention. It feel good.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: That's why it shouldn't be happening.
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Speaker 4: I be telling people all the time, nobody likes condoms. That's not a thing that nobody likes. Like, it's a thing you should do because it's safe, but nobody likes it. Like, that's not a thing that people... You know what I'd rather have right now?
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Speaker 2: A condom.
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Speaker 1: All I know is... Walking up and down fucking Delancey with a stroller is enough birth control for me to not have another one.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you.
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Speaker 1: Within a year or two to have to do the same shit now with two of them up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You ever been to New Lot's three train station in Brooklyn?
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Speaker 2: There's no elevator. Oh, yeah. You have to walk. And it's an outdoor joint. It's like you're outside. Oh, my gosh. But, yeah. I have had an opposite situation, though. We were coming back from.
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Speaker 4: Where were we coming back from? I think we were coming back from London or Amsterdam, something. And I was sitting next to.
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Speaker 2: What was it? Oh, I was sitting next to a lady who.
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Speaker 4: What was the situation? I think I was sitting next to a lady who... Me and my girl were split up. And I was sitting next to an older lady. And we were just talking, shooting and shit. I wasn't even tripping off of it. And she was like, we got to talking. I was like, yeah, my girl is over there. We just came back from there. She's like, oh, do you want to swap? Because I don't need to sit next to my husband. I fly with him all the time.
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Speaker 2: Fuck him. And I was like, okay, cool.
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Speaker 1: I tell my friends, my one friend wanted to sit next to me going to St. Martin. And I said, for what? Bitch, you're not going to talk to me the whole time. I'm sleeping.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Do not. Yeah, yeah. I'm not a conversation on a plane. Do not. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: You should see. I'm so bougie. I get mad. I'll buy sometimes Main Cabin and get upgraded to Comfort. Right. Why the fuck am I in middle? I'll go back to Main Cabin before I.
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Speaker 2: Sit middle seat in comfort. It's ghetto.
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Speaker 1: I'm also not giving up my seat. Y'all got to stop asking. Pay the extra price because I paid for my seat, motherfucker. I'm not giving it up. I'm not giving it up.
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Speaker 4: All that's dropping out is you're going beyond. I feel like that's when you're trying me now.
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Speaker 2: I feel tried. I feel like you think I'm pussy. You think I'm pussy.
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Speaker 4: On a plane, it feels different. There's some common courtesies that we do in the world. that's just like, okay, you hold the door for somebody or whatever the case is. But like on a plane, I definitely feel like you call.
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Speaker 2: It a pussy. But you gotta be pussy.
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Speaker 1: What other things make you feel like they think you pussy if they do?
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Speaker 2: Mmm. That make....
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No, that's a, that's a, no, that's a, first off, if y'all, if y'all get made to check your bagging, that means you're zone eight.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Because it's, you should.
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Speaker 2: Have ordered in zone one through four.
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Speaker 4: No, sometimes they'll say, yo, this is an overly packed flight. You know, whoever want to volunteer. No, that's not pussy. It's the ones.
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Speaker 2: No, you know that your shit is oversized.
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Speaker 1: Zone seven, zone eight.
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Speaker 4: No, it's pussy when, when, when they give you an option and you say, man, fuck that. But then when you get down to the shit, they'll be like, hey man, your shit gotta go.
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Speaker 1: You know why? It's because you're zone seven or eight. They don't ever check my shit. I'm just going to say that. I'm certified zone two. What did we just talk about?
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Speaker 2: Gas prices? You have to pick and choose.
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Speaker 4: I know one that does make me feel like they think I'm pussy. So when you're driving and the lane is supposed to merge.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 4: And somebody is obviously like, yo, bro, you're out of bounds already to merge in this spot. Like, now you gotta go behind. You can't get in front. If you wanted to be in the front merging spot, you should've used some gas and got up in there.
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Speaker 2: Now you trying to bully me out my lane? No, now we'll just be here.
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Speaker 1: You know what, y'all that do that, No.
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Speaker 4: I try not to do it no more because I don't know.
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Speaker 2: These niggas are no emotional challenges. You know, 100%. I'm not trying.
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Speaker 1: Mind you, in Georgia, like when I'm with Crystal and she be like, nah, this motherfucker not doing it. I be like, bro, I don't want to die today.
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Speaker 2: Nope.
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Speaker 1: Like, to me.
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Speaker 2: I did that today with a Range Rover. I'm not going to kill their ass. You're not the only one that's scary. You should be safe so that I don't kill you. How about that?
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Speaker 1: You do that? When you in the car by your goddamn car.
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Speaker 2: When I am in the car, I do not need to be collateral damage. We just trying to get to the next destination, bro, without the police reports. And that's great. Behind me.
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Speaker 4: You murdered back there. You're not going to bully. I don't care if you got an F450 and that shit is sitting on a riser and you got duallys and it's loud and all that shit.
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Speaker 2: No, nigga, wait your ass back there. You got to take that. You know why?
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Speaker 4: Because we just trying to get to another day. And police reports... Good pause.
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Speaker 2: Police reports, bro, is take mad time. Oh, three hours, four hours, and then you just fucked up your whole day. Yeah. To deal with something that you could have done. I don't like that shit. I know. I don't either. I don't either. I don't like that shit.
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Speaker 4: I hate when niggas go around you. You try to be the speed limit because you see on the GPS, there's a police.
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Speaker 2: Here comes somebody. I'm like, you got it. Go. He's right there. Go get him.
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Speaker 4: The worst ones, really, even worse than them is the people- The parking spots. Oh, well, the parking spots, they would definitely try you.
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Speaker 2: Duh, duh, duh.
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Speaker 4: Listen, you got, listen, I start clowning. You got, by the time I see you open the door and sit in the car, you got 20 seconds. To get out?
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Speaker 2: No, yeah. The reverse lights better come on. And what if they don't? If that, then I'm talking about your grandmama. I'm talking about your aunties. I'm talking about your little kids. But you're not getting out the car and knocking on windows. Hey, how are you going to go? No, I'm not getting out the window. But I will pull up on you. Like, if I'm a respectable distance.
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Speaker 1: What if they happen to start doom-scrolling while they sit in their seat?
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Speaker 2: Get your motherfucking ass off TikTok. and get out the goddamn parking spot. I always look, I was like, maybe they're putting the location in GPS. To the GPS. But that don't take that long, though.
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Speaker 4: There's not a single place that you about to go from the public's parking lot that you need the GPS right now. Do you ever think that those people that see you right behind, trying to get the park, you think they're there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they take longer because you're there? Some of them might, but I'm the nigga. I'm pulling up on you. I won't knock on your window.
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Speaker 4: But if I'm in respectable distance, I'm going to pull up closer.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to roll the window. I'm going to look in your side view mirror. So I'm staring now. You can see me here now. What's up? Back that ass up.
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Speaker 1: That is doing way too much.
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Speaker 4: Let me tell you, all the conservative black niggas do that shit. They're like, oh, fuck this nigga. And all the black women and all white people.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, white people don't give a shit.
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Speaker 4: They will sit there. Oh, you made my day. I'm going to sit in this car. I'm going to eat this chicken. I'm going to eat this celery stick. Girl got a good-ass parking spot.
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Speaker 2: She want to do her makeup and fix her little lip. Nah, nah, nah. I believe they do that on purpose. Nah, nah, nah. Get your ass up. Look at you.
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Speaker 1: Love bringing race into things, don't you?
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Speaker 2: Race is everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I know.
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Speaker 2: Every fucking way. I'll be honest.
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Speaker 1: When I went to Paris last week, we ended up going to.
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Speaker 1: The same restaurant like two days in a row just because we knew they would sit us down because they did. But like other restaurants, like.
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Speaker 2: They were just taking their time or acting like they don't.
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Speaker 1: Want to do it? Yeah, we just went where we knew we were welcome. But I will say, and it had me thinking, from my experience there to our experience a couple nights ago at Steak Market. So, which one is worse? Which would you prefer? So I was trying so hard not to be American in Paris, but it was very hard because for any of you who have not been to Europe, they don't tip.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to tip. Yeah, that's not a requirement. The bill is the bill.
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Speaker 1: However, I did everything except go behind the bar to make my drinks. I did everything but go into the kitchen to prepare my meal because God damn. 35 minutes later, what's happening?
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Speaker 2: Like, and so... Was it actually 35 minutes or was it 35 Mandy minutes? Listen, yeah.
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Speaker 1: 35 Mandy minutes.
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Speaker 2: 35 Mandy minutes. It's like, oh, it's been six minutes. It was so... 30 seconds. Shut up.
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Speaker 1: It was so... No, it took so... I also felt like going out to eat was a bit of a workout. Because the way I had to... You was doing Pilates in there? I was doing, like.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mandy went to food on the table as soon as she sit on the table. No, no, shut up.
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Speaker 1: The way we order drinks and like we order everything like, you know, what the fuck? So I was like, OK, my my patience, you know, is tried in Europe. But I know what I pay is what I'm going to pay. So we go to steak markets. the other night.
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Speaker 2: She deserved that.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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Speaker 2: But you could have it. I wouldn't have gave you no smoke about it.
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Speaker 1: So we go to Steak Market. Shout out to Kiki. It was her birthday.
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Speaker 2: Shout out to Kiki.
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Speaker 1: We went, you know, just to literally have what? A round of drinks.
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Speaker 2: That's it. A little, what was that motherfucking, the bread pudding?
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Speaker 1: Oh, the Biscoff bread pudding, yes. But this was following Jamila. Shout out to Jamila.
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Speaker 2: Shout out Jamila.
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Speaker 1: Jamila, please.
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Speaker 2: Jamila, please. Congrats, congrats.
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Speaker 1: So after that, we went to this restaurant called Steak Market 44. And so we go downstairs. We order drinks. Tell me how many minutes we waited on a goddamn drink.
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Speaker 2: Hold on.
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Speaker 1: And this ain't Mandy Minutes.
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Speaker 2: No, these aren't Mandy Minutes. These are legit like 60 seconds at a time. We for sure waited 30, 35 minutes.
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Speaker 1: I was going to say that.
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Speaker 3: Easy.
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Speaker 1: For one round of drinks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Just for also my drink to come in. It'd be nasty as fuck. So we waited.
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Speaker 2: And it wasn't packed in there enough for it to take that long.
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Speaker 4: But mind you, that area wasn't even the main area. That was like the private.
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Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, that's a little private. So that's less work around.
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Speaker 1: But it took so long. Ja was literally in motion to stand up and be like, fuck it, I don't want my jacket on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was about to cancel that shit. Like, all right, fuck this shit.
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Speaker 1: And then they come down. So check comes.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, because I was, okay. You had already left. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Check comes.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: It's 20%. Like, I look at it because the options now are 3%, 5%, 7%. Oh, right. Because that means that you're right. So I'm like, oh, so tip's already included, right?
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Speaker 2: Correct. No.
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Speaker 1: She corrects me. And this is where I'm like, fuck America and their goddamn hospitality industry.
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Speaker 2: Wait.
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Speaker 1: So wait, she corrects me and says, service charge is included. Oh, no.
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Speaker 2: Hold on.
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Speaker 1: Tip is not. Hold on. So I said, can you explain that to me? Service charge is tip, no? She said, actually, no. She said, so the 20% that's included, mind you, my bill was $ 2. 75. Hookah, we ended up doing a round of drinks. It was like, so I'm like, nah, there's at least a $ 50 tip in here.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: $ 10, $ 20 per hundred. And I said, there's at least a $ 50 tip in here. So she was like, yeah, but mind you, after we waited for all that time, she didn't really check in on us like that. We poured our own waters. She goes, so service charge means I have to split this with the rest of the restaurant. Tip goes directly to me. And I looked at her and I said, oh.
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Speaker 2: That's unfortunate.
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Speaker 4: No tip.
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Speaker 1: There's $ 50 already in here. that you now, cool, have to share with the rest of the restaurant, but then you need to take that up with your boss.
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Speaker 4: Well, also, is that a uniform thing down here? And if it is, it needs to be told because I feel like a lot of these restaurants just do what they want.
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Speaker 1: Well, not only that, you're also paying, so it's service charge, it's tax, then liquor tax. Bro, there was four different Sometimes the credit card charge.
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Speaker 2: What's the alternative?
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Speaker 4: You're walking around with a lot of cash. So now we're 35% on top of the bill already.
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Speaker 1: On top of the bill and the prices at this restaurant aren't cheap.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no.
00:19:31
Speaker 1: So I was just like, oh yeah, nah. And this is why so many restaurants are closing. But I literally sat there and was like, okay, would I rather a Pilates workout to wave down my server to bring my things? or pay this additional charge. And for me, knowing that in America, though, you're still not even guaranteed good service.
00:19:55
Speaker 2: Correct.
00:19:55
Speaker 1: When this is added, but the expectation is there for us to pay it.
00:19:59
Speaker 2: I was like, nah.
00:19:59
Speaker 4: You just don't have compassion to the fact that that's how they make their money off of tips.
00:20:04
Speaker 3: Right.
00:20:04
Speaker 1: And I think that we're guilted into that.
00:20:06
Speaker 2: Yes. Sure, 100%.
00:20:07
Speaker 1: Because I'm like, Okay, in Europe, they're getting paid their $ 20 an hour. They don't give a fuck. Whatever, I'm getting paid. Don't give a fuck. But here, to where there's literal videos online of people saying, well, you know we only make $ 2 an hour. This is how I feed myself. It's just like, we shouldn't be guilted as patrons to pay someone's living wage or salary for Yeah. In a place where the prices ain't going down for us either.
00:20:36
Speaker 2: Nowhere. There's a grocery store by the curve in New York, right? Across the street. And they had the iPad, the kiosk. Oh, yeah.
00:20:45
Speaker 4: At the grocery store, right? But when you turn, it's cool for payment, right? But when you put the card in there, it asks you if you want to give a tip.
00:20:53
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, a tip to the cashier?
00:20:56
Speaker 4: That don't do nothing. So I asked you, I said, yeah, I get it. I told her, I said, I'm going to give you grace. this is how this shit was programmed. But y'all need to take that shit off because this is great.
00:21:04
Speaker 2: No, he X'd it out.
00:21:05
Speaker 4: But I'm like, what if a tourist come in and then they feel like they're obliged to do it not knowing they don't have to do nothing because you didn't get no service.
00:21:12
Speaker 2: You just went and got all your shit. I feel like that's a post.
00:21:15
Speaker 1: I feel that way like when you go to a coffee, something where you're just ordering at a counter and picking it up?
00:21:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not a tip.
00:21:22
Speaker 1: Why is there a tip option here?
00:21:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not a tip job.
00:21:24
Speaker 4: I think the people who deserve tips, though, honestly, are the DoorDash niggas.
00:21:28
Speaker 1: Oh, I always tip them.
00:21:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they're the ones doing their shit, right?
00:21:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, not only are you bringing me the food and you're burning the gas to get here. I don't have a problem with tipping in general, but it has to be a tip-worthy job.
00:21:40
Speaker 1: It has to be a tip-worthy job.
00:21:41
Speaker 2: And don't do the job if you're not going to serve your patrons. Do the actual thing. Or you're going to have attitude, or if you had a bad day, don't show up.
00:21:47
Speaker 4: But I blame COVID for this new tip culture, for shit like that. Because post-COVID, it felt like, first of all, I blame COVID, and I blame toast.
00:21:55
Speaker 2: You know toast? They bring you the little machine, the tap machine. Oh, yeah. I don't know what kind of business. Oh, the QR code now too? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:22:03
Speaker 1: Bro, first off, why the fuck am I tipping when I have to order through a QR code, the runner brings it, and then you don't even talk to me to pay the bill. I go back into the QR code and pay into the fucking system.
00:22:16
Speaker 2: What are we doing now? What are we doing? We're doing that a lot.
00:22:18
Speaker 1: Okay, and you know what it is? And I hate, okay, here go my ignorance.
00:22:21
Speaker 2: Nah, go.
00:22:22
Speaker 1: If we doing all of that, I don't understand why there's anyone on the floor.
00:22:27
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:22:28
Speaker 1: Do the runners, but there shouldn't be waitresses. I shouldn't feel obligated to tip a waitress for what... By the way, when you do it that way, there's limited conversation with them. Right. It's order on the app. It's pay on the app.
00:22:40
Speaker 2: Yep.
00:22:40
Speaker 1: Bitch, you ain't doing nothing but bringing what I ordered.
00:22:43
Speaker 2: I didn't get no banter. I didn't get no hello.
00:22:45
Speaker 1: I didn't get no good morning. You didn't tell me what your favorite dish was.
00:22:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't give me no advice. Yeah, none of that. If you put any special instructions, I want.
00:22:53
Speaker 4: spicy ketchup and they fail to bring that shit, then what?
00:22:57
Speaker 1: Like, it's a mess.
00:22:58
Speaker 2: There's a Mexican restaurant.
00:23:00
Speaker 1: We used to have a proper country.
00:23:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, we used to be a civilized society.
00:23:04
Speaker 1: We used to be a civilized society.
00:23:07
Speaker 2: Capitalism. Niggas are trying to get us. Blame capitalism. They want you to charge you for everything.
00:23:11
Speaker 1: I mean, when I think of just like the simple things of life that now don't seem so simple.
00:23:16
Speaker 2: What's simple now?
00:23:16
Speaker 1: I'm like, but that's what, ooh, what's simple now?
00:23:19
Speaker 2: What's simple now? Simple reimagined.
00:23:23
Speaker 1: Because you know what's crazy? You know what used to be simple that we thought was going to be simplified and now we realize it's not so simple? Cable television. I have to realize, even for me to find a show that someone's talking about, I have to Google, what.
00:23:34
Speaker 2: Streaming app is this show on?
00:23:37
Speaker 1: Then I have to go find the streaming app. Heaven forbid I don't have it. Then it's another fucking 5991.
00:23:41
Speaker 2: Now I got to text somebody else, and let me get your password, dog. Let me get your password, man. The subscriber services app. They definitely pulled a wool over us.
00:23:48
Speaker 1: No, they pulled it.
00:23:49
Speaker 4: Because they did it over the last decade when they slowly introduced the low.
00:23:52
Speaker 2: It was like $ 199, $ 399, $ 499. Hold on.
00:23:53
Speaker 1: You know what I just got? And I don't know what's wrong. I swear to God, I got to pull it up. I think Netflix still went up to.
00:24:00
Speaker 2: $ 20- something. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%.
00:24:03
Speaker 1: Bitch, I got the low alert for that.
00:24:04
Speaker 2: And you can't share your shit.
00:24:05
Speaker 1: I said, now, when the fuck Netflix went up to $ 20- something a month?
00:24:09
Speaker 4: Listen, Apple, they just dropped the new iPhone 18 and the flip phone.
00:24:14
Speaker 2: I got an email. You don't get it? We'll talk about that. The hypocrisy. I got an email saying, hey, the Apple Music subscription is now $ 14.
00:24:22
Speaker 3: 99.
00:24:22
Speaker 2: I was like, what? I remember that shit was $ 5. 99. Then it went to $ 9. 99 and $ 5. 99 for students. Then it went to $ 10. 99. Slowly, another dollar, another dollar. Now I hold $ 15?
00:24:32
Speaker 1: I feel like it's my fault.
00:24:34
Speaker 2: Holy smokes.
00:24:35
Speaker 1: Because the way I stayed on that student plan for as long as my email address worked, bitch.
00:24:40
Speaker 2: I said, here goes my.
00:24:42
Speaker 1: LC.QE.EDU, bitch. They actually confirmed it, right?
00:24:46
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:24:46
Speaker 1: I said, as long as my EDU email worked, I had that, bitch. I'm not going to hold you, though.
00:24:51
Speaker 2: I'm going to do what I'm doing.
00:24:54
Speaker 1: It shows how much of sheep we are. Like, Apple, as a whole conglomerate, continues to have audacity.
00:25:03
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
00:25:03
Speaker 1: Because that is also the only one, bro, I could wake up and decide I'm not doing anything in my day. Guess what I will get? $ 1. 99 charge from Apple services.
00:25:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see it pop up.
00:25:13
Speaker 1: I will get a $ 4. 99 charge from Apple services. A $ 2. 99... Apple services. What the fuck is you serving me?
00:25:20
Speaker 2: Bro.
00:25:20
Speaker 1: I got to go through and figure out what the fuck I'm being charged for with these Apple services.
00:25:23
Speaker 2: I will say they're good.
00:25:24
Speaker 4: I remember I did like a three-day trial and then, you know, they charge you after.
00:25:28
Speaker 2: And I forgot. And I saw the shit. It was like 29. I said, whoa. I'm like, I just did my bundle. What's happening? And I went, I said, oh, shit.
00:25:36
Speaker 4: And then I went back in and then I said I didn't mean to do it. And they refunded it.
00:25:40
Speaker 2: So they're good with that.
00:25:42
Speaker 1: I do need to look. I mean, Gmail is another one. And I have to dig into it. Not sure if y'all saw. there is a $ 425 million lawsuit to Gmail because they were using just data from all of our emails and selling it without our knowledge.
00:25:59
Speaker 2: Of course they are.
00:26:01
Speaker 1: But if there is a $ 425 million lawsuit we will each get three cents a piece.
00:26:08
Speaker 2: Oh, that's three cents a piece.
00:26:09
Speaker 1: Literally, Gmail is how everyone.
00:26:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the standard email.
00:26:14
Speaker 1: Like, we used to be, again, a proper country. You could have Hotmail. You could have Yahoo. You could have AOL. You could have BellSouth.net.
00:26:22
Speaker 4: You could have MindSpring. For the off-brand niggas, like MindSpring. And all type of little different shit.
00:26:29
Speaker 1: And now, everyone has a Gmail.
00:26:31
Speaker 2: I just want to say.
00:26:33
Speaker 4: take a quick break for commercial identification, whatever they say, because we're talking.
00:26:37
Speaker 2: About dry lips. I would be remiss if just... Oh, my lipstick. See, look. No, your left tooth got lipstick.
00:26:45
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you.
00:26:45
Speaker 4: Because the last time she chastised me, why you ain't tell.
00:26:48
Speaker 2: Me my lips? I'm like, I'm here. I got to look at your lips.
00:26:52
Speaker 1: I did.
00:26:52
Speaker 2: But since I'm above and I'm like, all right, you know, I got it there.
00:26:55
Speaker 4: Well, you know, you talked about America having audacity.
00:26:59
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:27:00
Speaker 4: And.
00:27:01
Speaker 2: I saw this. So the CBC was this past week.
00:27:05
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:27:06
Speaker 2: Oh, shit. Yes.
00:27:07
Speaker 4: And there was a lot of content that came from the CBC, the Congressional Black Caucus in D.C.
00:27:13
Speaker 2: But one of the things that I saw- Which they're trying to get rid of. Wait, really?
00:27:16
Speaker 4: The MAGA's they're trying to introduce a bill to get rid of it. Okay.
00:27:21
Speaker 2: But I saw this screenshot of someone who was at a panel somewhere. Okay.
00:27:25
Speaker 4: And the panel was sponsored by Palantir. Now, for those of you watching who don't know about Palantir Palantir is was co-founded by a man named Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is like the techno devil of the modern era. He's a super conservative Silicon Valley.
00:27:45
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:27:46
Speaker 4: He's one of those billionaires move to Argentina, get the tax break, get, you know, legal standing and all this type of shit. But in this picture they had of Palantir's sponsor, they had Shirley Chisholm and Martin Luther King. And it was like, thank you to our sponsors and had their pictures in the background. And people was looking at the photo like, why do you have Shirley Chisholm and Martin Luther King as if they would be down with this program?
00:28:15
Speaker 2: No.
00:28:16
Speaker 4: These are super progressive people and Palantir is not a progressive entity in any way.
00:28:20
Speaker 2: Shape, or form.
00:28:21
Speaker 1: Palantir is doing what it's actually like.
00:28:22
Speaker 4: They identify stupidity. That's why they do it. Identify the stupidity in us. So Palantir is a technology company that works with the government. One of their biggest controversies is working with ICE. So they provide information to ICE about people who.
00:28:40
Speaker 1: May or may not be citizens.
00:28:41
Speaker 4: May or may not be citizens, need to be deported. One of their controversies was that the.
00:28:49
Speaker 2: CIA, FBI.
00:28:51
Speaker 4: One of the alphabet boys gave Palantir people's Medicaid information. And so Palantir makes it so that the government can go in and see like, okay, who's on Medicaid?
00:29:05
Speaker 2: Who's a citizen?
00:29:06
Speaker 4: How can we use this information to cross-reference this information and then find out who we need to go get, who we need to get up out of here? And ICE gave them like a $ 30 million contract. So like the people that you're seeing getting run up on in the streets, They might have gotten found out because of this company.
00:29:22
Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you, though. We know that all skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
00:29:29
Speaker 2: That's correct.
00:29:29
Speaker 1: We also know that there's a price.
00:29:32
Speaker 2: Everybody got a price.
00:29:34
Speaker 1: And when you brought up that you wanted to talk about this, my mind immediately went to Essence Fest. That is predominantly for us, with one of the largest sponsors still being Target, which we are also supposed to be boycotting.
00:29:48
Speaker 2: Correct.
00:29:48
Speaker 1: So when I hear Palantir and the Congressional Black Caucus, and that being a sponsor of this event or this weekend... It literally goes, to me, the same thing. Like, are we surprised? The same way we have some of our beloved hip-hop artists singing for Trump. Like, or rapping at Trump's, you know. Are we surprised? And at the end of the day, too, unfortunately, when you're also saying that MAGA or this administration is looking to remove this event... All we heard about Essence too was the amount of dollars they lost because of DEI now being not a thing. And so unfortunately, I'm curious how we're going to see and what's going to happen over the next two years with a lot of our black events that are dependent on sponsorship dollars. and who and where we decide to take our money because we still want these type of events being thrown for us. And how do we continue to put those on without the financial backing? And how do we as consumers or people that also want to partake in these activities separate kind of the art from artists or separate this event from where they had to go get the money from? I don't know. It's one of those where when I think of how we get mad at certain things or where we want to shame people for taking it. Like, unfortunately, what are some of our options?
00:31:23
Speaker 2: Well, I think.
00:31:24
Speaker 1: Because fundraising isn't an option right now. A lot of us, too, are very... The economy.
00:31:31
Speaker 4: These big events require corporate sponsorship. That's just how it's going to go. If you want to have a big event in your city, a big conference in your city, you're going to need some corporate sponsors to come in and put some money. We're not going to really be able to hold any of these corporations to any real moral standard.
00:31:49
Speaker 2: You ask me, am I surprised? No, I'm not surprised.
00:31:51
Speaker 4: It's just that there has to be a line somewhere and I don't know, I don't have a good read on what that line is. I think Palantir should be kind of easy. Like to me, Palantir and Target is like talking about like, somebody that you don't like in your personal life and the actual devil. Like there's devils of bad things that you can say, okay, I can deal with this. Maybe this is a bridge too far. But yeah, all of these places are going to need that kind of money.
00:32:18
Speaker 1: Even you saying that though, like it reminds me of, okay, thinking of a boycott, right? We talked about what just happened with Ed Sheeran and Macklemore and Robert Kraft, right? It's football season. How many people are aware that there's a genocide happening and that Palestinian babies and women are being killed and murdered on the daily, yet they still going to be at Gillette Stadium.
00:32:42
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, even here.
00:32:44
Speaker 1: Those dollars this season are still going to go into Robert Kraft's pockets despite the fact that he came out And not only pretty much said what he said, and we clearly know that he is not for the two words of Free Palestine being said in his stadium. He went to other NFL owners, and they kind of colluded to make sure that that tour got rearranged.
00:33:06
Speaker 2: But you know why?
00:33:07
Speaker 4: Because if they have financial interest in these stadiums, then you do as I say.
00:33:12
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that?
00:33:13
Speaker 2: If they're funding the stadiums or the arenas or whatever.
00:33:16
Speaker 1: No, I'm talking about us. I'm talking about the people buying the tickets now to attend those stadiums.
00:33:22
Speaker 2: They like their shit. People like their fix.
00:33:23
Speaker 1: But that's what I'm saying. The CBC being something that we want to continue for us, people are going to go and attend no matter who the goddamn sponsor is.
00:33:32
Speaker 2: Well, they are.
00:33:33
Speaker 4: But the problem is, though, the messaging or whatever it is that was happening in the onset, intentional-wise... that gets buffered because they're bound to the contract that they signed. You ain't gonna take my money. And I'm pretty sure they paid them handsomely. They probably paid it.
00:33:52
Speaker 2: They probably had extras.
00:33:53
Speaker 4: But you know why? Because they get to control the tone. We fund the shit. Y'all want to execute it? Nobody else ain't giving y'all our money.
00:34:01
Speaker 1: Right.
00:34:01
Speaker 2: So, boom. Just know where you stand.
00:34:03
Speaker 1: Money talks.
00:34:05
Speaker 2: All day.
00:34:05
Speaker 1: And everybody got a price. We constantly say that.
00:34:09
Speaker 2: Unless the entities say, nah, we don't want that shit. We'll just figure it out.
00:34:14
Speaker 1: But to figure it out sometimes at a scale like that?
00:34:18
Speaker 2: We'll go to Shaquille O'Neal. It may not happen. We'll go to Shaquille O'Neal and get some... some Shaq bucks, some cop, some FBI cop bucks. You see what he just did? That's why.
00:34:27
Speaker 1: Wait, what did Shaq just do?
00:34:29
Speaker 2: Oh, wake it up.
00:34:29
Speaker 1: Wait, what did Shaq just do?
00:34:31
Speaker 2: Shaq?
00:34:33
Speaker 4: Shaq accepted a, I guess it's an honorary FBI.
00:34:38
Speaker 2: Okay. Patel, Patel. Yeah, Pat Cash Patel. They gave him his honorary FBI agent.
00:34:42
Speaker 4: He's a federal cop. Now he's a fed, a real fed. But he's always been told to.
00:34:47
Speaker 2: Lie to be in a fed. He's always been big blue. They always give him the honorary Dr. Shambron. He aligned himself with somebody, not even an entity. Cool. I get it. As a child, if you wanted to be a fed, cool, no problem.
00:35:01
Speaker 4: But this dude just sat on Capitol Hill and said that we should not be concerned with a politician if they participate in beastality.
00:35:10
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
00:35:12
Speaker 1: Patel did, but not.
00:35:14
Speaker 2: No, no, not Shaq. Okay, here we go. No, no, no, you're not.
00:35:19
Speaker 1: Let me call out the hypocrisy here.
00:35:20
Speaker 2: Hold on.
00:35:21
Speaker 3: How?
00:35:21
Speaker 1: What is the difference between this man getting this honorary FBI federal agent title and Jay-Z, your beloved... being a part of the NFL, a league and entity that clearly, like, treats and.
00:35:37
Speaker 2: No, there's a difference.
00:35:38
Speaker 1: What is the difference?
00:35:39
Speaker 2: There is a difference.
00:35:40
Speaker 1: Because if you're sitting here talking about.
00:35:41
Speaker 2: Patel is on Capitol Hill affecting shit.
00:35:44
Speaker 1: But Patel is not representative of the entire... federal agency.
00:35:50
Speaker 2: No, he's the director of the FBI. Yeah, he's a nigga.
00:35:53
Speaker 1: And we just talked about, like, the Robert Kraft. We talked about all the owners in the NFL and how they even went against fucking Palestine. And we also have seen how they stood or didn't stand or they kept standing, actually, during the kneeling with Colin Kaepernick and how they really view Black Lives Matter. Yet, we're okay with Jay-Z going in and infiltrating it.
00:36:13
Speaker 4: So.
00:36:14
Speaker 1: If we see.
00:36:15
Speaker 2: I don't know if we're playing okay with that.
00:36:17
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Everybody that bought them goddamn tickets seemed to be just fine when they were.
00:36:21
Speaker 4: At Yankee Stadium. That's not everybody, though. But Mandy, I don't think... Every situation... Here we.
00:36:26
Speaker 2: Go with the hypocrisy. You gotta isolate.
00:36:28
Speaker 1: Bro, y'all just be hypocrites.
00:36:30
Speaker 2: No, it's not... Hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:36:32
Speaker 4: So you're saying everything is the same? There's no difference between anything?
00:36:35
Speaker 1: Everything in the world is the same?
00:36:37
Speaker 2: Case by case.
00:36:38
Speaker 1: I get it, but that's where I'm calling out.
00:36:40
Speaker 2: Who said we didn't have an issue? We still trying to.
00:36:43
Speaker 1: You just did.
00:36:44
Speaker 2: No. Hold on, hold on. Let me cuggle his dick.
00:36:47
Speaker 4: FBI director and the commissioner.
00:36:50
Speaker 2: Here we go with this nigga. Watch this nigga.
00:36:53
Speaker 4: Here we go with this thing.
00:36:56
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
00:36:57
Speaker 4: Look, the FBI director versus Robert Goodell.
00:37:01
Speaker 2: Is a dick.
00:37:02
Speaker 1: Come on. The lots are too evil?
00:37:04
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, though. This dude is responsible for coordinating with ICE to lock people up.
00:37:09
Speaker 1: Bro, and then you have.
00:37:10
Speaker 2: NFL ain't doing that.
00:37:12
Speaker 1: You're just going to compare him... To all racists and people who are okay with fucking genocide?
00:37:16
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this.
00:37:17
Speaker 4: Lester of Two Evils here. So again, your take is that.
00:37:22
Speaker 1: Everything is the same.
00:37:23
Speaker 4: I didn't say everything was the same, but what I said was, Y'all are hypocrites.
00:37:33
Speaker 2: But you can do this with everything. And you're going to be like, remember when you did that at seven years old?
00:37:38
Speaker 1: I do not be like that. But I literally am going to call the hypocrisy as I see it. Because don't sit here and be fake mad at the decision of one person when you're not going to be fake mad about the decision of another.
00:37:50
Speaker 2: I am. I want Colin Kaepernick. No, we talking about Jay-Z. We talking about Jay-Z. But people are mad at Jay-Z. There's lots of people who are mad at Jay-Z.
00:37:57
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the two of you nigglets.
00:38:00
Speaker 2: I think Jay-Z is wrong, though. I'm still going to go to the show.
00:38:03
Speaker 4: I want Jay and Colin, somebody to mediate and have them sit in the room.
00:38:07
Speaker 1: Me too. They need to do the show.
00:38:09
Speaker 4: There's an opportunity for them to hash this out.
00:38:13
Speaker 2: The people are not receiving this. They're not even paying. Nobody read books. So why would they understand what the hell is going on? I'm not going to lie. That shit might be too far gone.
00:38:19
Speaker 1: No, it's gone. Do you see he just went on a... He just went on... I think All the Smokey said it. He said that he received calls. And now I'm talking about Colin Kaepernick. He's been on a press tour with his book. And there's a few things I'm actually going to end up in the next couple episodes talking about his press run. Because he said some interesting things. But he said that someone reached out to him and pretty much said that there was a blitz... going through media from Roc Nation to say negative things.
00:38:52
Speaker 2: And trying to cheat things on.
00:38:54
Speaker 1: But it came back to him that it was specifically relayed by Roc Nation and that Roc Nation.
00:38:59
Speaker 2: Was involved with... There's no way for us to confirm that.
00:39:01
Speaker 1: There's not, but I mean.
00:39:02
Speaker 4: And everyone thinks that People have already think that Roc Nation is the most powerful conglomerate in.
00:39:10
Speaker 2: America that can do.
00:39:12
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying they're not powerful, but I'm saying people think anything, you can just.
00:39:15
Speaker 2: Be like, oh, Roc Nation did it. Roc Nation did it. And it's like... All them niggas want to go to the brunch. They want him to bring back the brunch. I don't know.
00:39:22
Speaker 1: The brunch ain't coming back.
00:39:24
Speaker 2: I know, but those are the people who would go. Hypocrisy. All of your friends... Yeah, but I mean, I.
00:39:33
Speaker 4: Have recognition as an entity.
00:39:36
Speaker 2: There are some good people in that building, so I can't... And.
00:39:39
Speaker 1: There are some good people in the FBI. Back to what I was saying.
00:39:43
Speaker 2: Oh, really? The new FBI? The new FBI that he wiped out and got rid of all the originals?
00:39:47
Speaker 1: First off, there are people within every.
00:39:48
Speaker 2: Today.
00:39:49
Speaker 1: Today.
00:39:50
Speaker 2: All right.
00:39:50
Speaker 1: You think everyone that works for the FBI is just a bad person and is okay with bestiality and all these other things?
00:39:55
Speaker 3: No.
00:39:56
Speaker 2: All the people there are in lockstep. Fuck 12. Fuck 12. are in lockstep with this administration's agendas oh.
00:40:01
Speaker 1: My goodness I mean there are a lot of people did.
00:40:03
Speaker 4: We not see all the people he fired when he got it off he fired like anybody who's not in a line with his shit.
00:40:09
Speaker 1: There are rotten apples in every there's a lot of them single company corporation.
00:40:15
Speaker 4: Agency this administration is like the Decepticons and Transformers and that nigga's Megatron who is your president Oh, my president?
00:40:26
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:40:27
Speaker 4: What?
00:40:28
Speaker 1: I didn't vote for that motherfucking Orange Cheeto.
00:40:30
Speaker 2: You sure? I'm 100.
00:40:31
Speaker 1: Oh, nigga. As a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, if y'all motherfuckers want to look it up, I voted and I did not vote for that motherfucker. You know I voted for the black lady. Who actually.
00:40:42
Speaker 2: Don't do it.
00:40:43
Speaker 1: If she runs, she has the audacity.
00:40:45
Speaker 2: Why?
00:40:46
Speaker 1: Because even Gavin Newsom, there's just certain people.
00:40:49
Speaker 2: Does it matter?
00:40:50
Speaker 4: It's just somebody other than.
00:40:54
Speaker 2: No.
00:40:54
Speaker 1: If she runs and all of the other Democratic possible nominees concede because they don't want to go up against her and give her the best chance, we're going to lose again. That's possible. We need another chance. We need another hope. We need someone else.
00:41:12
Speaker 2: Before we get there, we have November. That's the key. Yeah. Have to solidify that. Because that's the key. Because there won't be an option after that if that's the case.
00:41:21
Speaker 1: By the way, Don Lemon is doing man on the street shit right now for the midterms.
00:41:28
Speaker 2: Oh, they on his ass too right now.
00:41:29
Speaker 1: He literally goes on the street and is like, ask this black man, who you voting for in the midterms? He said.
00:41:36
Speaker 2: Trump, 2028.
00:41:36
Speaker 1: He said, well, the midterms is 2026. Trump, 2026. Well, Trump isn't on the ballot.
00:41:42
Speaker 2: Who are you? Can't let the president two years. Oh, my God. That's the unfortunate part about living.
00:41:47
Speaker 1: Why do y'all don't let me ask right now?
00:41:50
Speaker 4: Oh, well, because of the, you know, the Chris Brown, Jasmine Crockett of it all. Don Lemon was basically on his show talking about, like, Well, when do black men ever get.
00:42:03
Speaker 1: A second chance?
00:42:03
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
00:42:04
Speaker 1: We talking about that.
00:42:04
Speaker 2: We talking about that. We talking about that.
00:42:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't know why they on his ass about that.
00:42:09
Speaker 2: Remember the same FBI that you adore? That I adore.
00:42:13
Speaker 4: Locked his ass up when he was at the BET Awards.
00:42:17
Speaker 2: Cop lover. For no reason. Fed lover.
00:42:22
Speaker 1: What is happening here?
00:42:24
Speaker 2: I can't believe this.
00:42:25
Speaker 1: Literally, what is happening right now?
00:42:27
Speaker 2: You going to bed for the FBI. You know what?
00:42:29
Speaker 1: Maybe because I'm really enjoying Linus' agency. Furious.
00:42:32
Speaker 2: Like, there's a lot of... You ever watch Quantico?
00:42:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did.
00:42:37
Speaker 2: Quantico's fire. Oh, yeah. I've heard Quantico's good. Quantico's fire.
00:42:40
Speaker 1: I mean, to me.
00:42:41
Speaker 2: I like the stories of it. It's cool. Yeah, the stories are awesome. This shit ain't cool.
00:42:45
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:42:46
Speaker 2: But in practice, in actual life. Okay, Cash Patel.
00:42:49
Speaker 1: Is not cool. But to sit here and make Cash Patel the FBI when there's just a lot of other ways in which the FBI goes out and gets the bad guys.
00:42:58
Speaker 2: Do you remember when he got in there? Sure, they get some bad guys.
00:43:01
Speaker 4: We can't even quantify whether they're getting more bad guys or harassing people more.
00:43:06
Speaker 2: What do you think it is?
00:43:08
Speaker 4: I think they're harassing and surveilling. I think they're doing a lot more bad than good, probably.
00:43:13
Speaker 1: The FBI.
00:43:14
Speaker 4: Do you remember when he got in office? When they went to the FBI agents' emails, right? They told them, hey, you have to relinquish all your personal data. We want to investigate and audit your shit. Then they got a clean house. Whoever was not in alignment with the administration's goals and agenda, they got clipped.
00:43:31
Speaker 2: So they have people in there now that do as I say. So it's a direct reflection on the administration, for sure. So him doing that.
00:43:39
Speaker 1: So now y'all good on Shaquille O'Neal? The same way this shit is just honorary is the same way Cheyenne Bryant still ain't a doctor. So this don't mean nothing. It's a certificate.
00:43:50
Speaker 2: It's him aligning himself up. Yeah, it's not about the honorary thing.
00:43:52
Speaker 4: It's about the fact that he thinks this is dope. He wants to be a fed. But he has a pattern of aligning himself up with.
00:43:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, for years. I mean, for longer than a decade, Shaq has loved to be... Now, I will say Shaq has helped a lot of people. Of course he has.
00:44:07
Speaker 4: I always wonder if... I guess the thing is... Does he have any compassion to the other side of it, the other effects of what this looks like.
00:44:17
Speaker 2: The optics? He might, but he still wants to participate.
00:44:20
Speaker 4: A few content creators came out and spoke out about him, and then he responds, and they DM, like, oh, you broke.
00:44:29
Speaker 1: I love it.
00:44:30
Speaker 2: You broke.
00:44:30
Speaker 4: And then he did an AI music video with him going after.
00:44:36
Speaker 2: I'm like, bro, that ain't me, bro. Did he?
00:44:38
Speaker 1: I missed the music video. Wait, he did an AI music video going after who?
00:44:41
Speaker 2: One of the content creators. It is terrible. Was it for OG Big Mac? No, it was another dude. I forget the dude's name. That's funny. I'm like, what are we doing?
00:44:50
Speaker 1: That's funny.
00:44:51
Speaker 2: It's not.
00:44:51
Speaker 1: I mean, I hate that he wasted clean water for that, but, you know... Oh, wait, he previously received an honorary U.S. Deputy Marshal title back in, oh, go ahead.
00:45:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been on this for 20 years. He likes being a cop.
00:45:04
Speaker 1: So we're not surprised.
00:45:05
Speaker 2: And he was a, I think.
00:45:06
Speaker 1: He was a sheriff. Oh, and he served as the community relations chief for Henry County Police Department here in Georgia.
00:45:12
Speaker 2: That's fine.
00:45:13
Speaker 4: That's not the same as rocking with Mr.
00:45:17
Speaker 2: Panik Panir. This is totally different.
00:45:20
Speaker 1: No, that reminds me of like if we travel abroad and we say we're American, and they be like, damn, you fucking with Trump over there.
00:45:29
Speaker 2: Correct them.
00:45:31
Speaker 1: So then Shaq could, hey.
00:45:33
Speaker 2: Nah, he can't be petty. He's like, he's standing on his shit.
00:45:37
Speaker 1: But he probably doesn't believe or agree or stand with everything Patel stands for.
00:45:41
Speaker 2: I want to know. No, he might not. I don't know that he even.
00:45:44
Speaker 1: You know him, you motherfucking what?
00:45:46
Speaker 4: We supported Shaq since we knew Shaq. So I think, yeah, he should say, oh, no, I don't. like some of this shit, but I'm going to take this honorary FBI agency.
00:45:56
Speaker 1: You took Shaq's side instead of Kobe's?
00:45:59
Speaker 2: Oh, I've been a Kobe hater my whole life. No, big Kobe. Big Kobe. Kobe's the reason. I wanted Kobe to lose every single game he ever played.
00:46:05
Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie.
00:46:07
Speaker 2: John. Oh, you didn't like Kobe? No. John's the biggest hater.
00:46:10
Speaker 1: Why did you hate Kobe?
00:46:13
Speaker 2: I just thought Kobe was annoying. Why? His personality was just annoying to me.
00:46:17
Speaker 1: He didn't sit on no podcast.
00:46:20
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of people who could be annoying and don't have podcast microphones. But he was a disciplined, fierce competitor. He was, and I respect all those things about him, but I still wanted him to lose. All the niggas we like, that's their foundation.
00:46:31
Speaker 1: Who did you like during that time? The Kobe era?
00:46:33
Speaker 4: During the Kobe era, I was more of a Tracy McGrady, Allen Iverson, Vince Carter. I mean, Carmelo was probably in the LeBron, the crossing over of those generations.
00:46:47
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
00:46:47
Speaker 1: Tracy's a good friend of mine, but- So you aligned with everyone who didn't win.
00:46:53
Speaker 2: I knew she was going to say that. I'm a LeBron guy, too. I'm a LeBron one.
00:46:55
Speaker 1: But you hated the winner.
00:46:56
Speaker 2: I didn't hate Shaq. Shaq was the winner. Okay.
00:47:02
Speaker 4: Kobe's just annoying. And then he said that bullshit. Then he snitched on Shaq on some like, I should have paid my hoes the way he paid his.
00:47:08
Speaker 2: But guess what? But guess what? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. This is filthy.
00:47:14
Speaker 1: Like, who is this nigga?
00:47:15
Speaker 2: But remember, him and Shaq wasn't the best.
00:47:17
Speaker 1: They weren't?
00:47:18
Speaker 2: No, they weren't. Him throwing him under the bus or just whatever. But to the cops? Like, what are you... What are we doing here? I don't know. Listen, man, when your freedom is.
00:47:27
Speaker 1: On the line- Yeah, and your marriage.
00:47:29
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I mean, we found that out. Lil Durk homies know. Lil Durk, young NBA now. He said, I'm staying in Korea.
00:47:40
Speaker 4: Oh, so apparently one of his mans, right, they found out that he was a federal informant since 2018.
00:47:46
Speaker 2: Wait, who?
00:47:47
Speaker 1: Wait, one of NBA young boys homies? Was a federal.
00:47:52
Speaker 2: Employee since 2018. So that's almost a decade.
00:47:55
Speaker 1: Eight years.
00:47:56
Speaker 2: That means a nigga, his right-hand man.
00:47:58
Speaker 1: Look it, look it.
00:47:59
Speaker 2: Ten years of, yeah. Cash Patel, shout out to them, my nigga.
00:48:05
Speaker 1: You know what?
00:48:06
Speaker 2: You know, I changed my, let me get an honorary.
00:48:08
Speaker 1: Okay, now this is just a question. This is just a question.
00:48:11
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, he's telling everything.
00:48:13
Speaker 1: Is he alive?
00:48:14
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:48:14
Speaker 2: Who?
00:48:15
Speaker 1: Oh, the homie.
00:48:15
Speaker 2: Oh, the homie, yeah. Yeah, he just, yeah.
00:48:18
Speaker 4: And isn't another rap nigga about to go on trial this week?
00:48:21
Speaker 2: It's a lot happening.
00:48:21
Speaker 4: It's another light-skinned rap nigga who's about to go on trial. Y'all LaBeezy got the shit going on. Y'all LaBeezy about to go on trial.
00:48:27
Speaker 1: Oh, from that Mo3 killing, right?
00:48:28
Speaker 2: Yep. It's a lot happening. This is a lot. And I want to preface this. I think this is.
00:48:34
Speaker 4: The conversation, because I know people throw hip-hop in there. This is not hip-hop, niggas. No, these are hip-hop niggas. No, these are rap niggas.
00:48:41
Speaker 2: Oh, here we go. These are street niggas who... Who rap. Who rap. But they're not hip-hop culture. Who have the audacity. There's a difference. Who have the audacity. But these niggas are.
00:48:51
Speaker 1: To put these killings and raps and everything else.
00:48:53
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, rest in peace to Bloodhound Q50, you know, who just unfortunately got shot up in a Tesla.
00:48:58
Speaker 1: That was the one who died in a Tesla?
00:49:00
Speaker 2: You know, his ops went and did a music video like that night. Mm-hmm.
00:49:04
Speaker 4: And all the people were tagging the FBI. Shout out to the FBI again. FBI and the local authorities saying, hey, these are the idiots who did this shit. And they got them on ring cameras stealing a getaway car.
00:49:15
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie so you just gave me my new YouTube series to watch cause you know I love that shit when it was happening in Jacksonville oh the the Julio Julio yeah yeah but you know we.
00:49:24
Speaker 4: Were talking about in a previous episode about the surveillance right the fly camera the ring camera caught the suspects of course stealing a getaway car prior to doing the shooting.
00:49:35
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm sure. So when they showed them, they showed the hoodies and they're like, oh, that's him. And that's him. They were tagging the police and everything. Oh, they cooked.
00:49:42
Speaker 1: What did I say? You see how excited you told that story? It reminds me of how I said, wow, surveillance could be used for a good thing to catch the bad guys.
00:49:53
Speaker 2: My excitement is in the stupidity of doing.
00:49:56
Speaker 4: Of course it could be used to catch the bad guys.
00:49:59
Speaker 2: You know why the surveillance came out?
00:50:01
Speaker 4: Because they saw the music video. Like, these idiots did a fucking song. In the same clothes.
00:50:05
Speaker 2: And be on IG Live saying the name. A was in the car like, yo, yo, yo. These niggas don't want to change their lives.
00:50:12
Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie.
00:50:13
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:50:14
Speaker 1: And I hope I don't run into you. When rappers do that and it's like you want to get caught, I feel like they just are at a moment of their time in life where they can't openly live out loud.
00:50:28
Speaker 2: How much is street clout worth?
00:50:30
Speaker 1: And their homosexuality.
00:50:31
Speaker 4: Oh.
00:50:32
Speaker 1: And so they know that they could live their true selves behind bars. So instead of living out loud gay, guys, I'm ready to throw my life away and go be gay in jail. Because there's no other explanation except for you wanting to either do the bending or get to bending. One or the other.
00:50:55
Speaker 2: How much is street clout worth?
00:50:57
Speaker 1: No, it's not. Because you know it's crazy.
00:50:58
Speaker 2: Because that's why you do it. No, you don't get no clout. You don't get no clout. You know when you get it. No, no, no, look, look. They think they do.
00:51:05
Speaker 1: Street niggas, no, street niggas and everyone in the comments is like, these goofy ass.
00:51:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all niggas is dumb.
00:51:09
Speaker 1: Slow ass.
00:51:12
Speaker 2: Yep.
00:51:12
Speaker 1: Weak ass niggas. Like, you don't get clout. You don't look cool doing that anymore.
00:51:16
Speaker 2: You just look dumb.
00:51:17
Speaker 4: It's like when there's a terrorist attack and they say, oh, such and such group claimed this attack. That's them. That's what they wanted to do. They wanted to be known that, oh, we did that.
00:51:26
Speaker 2: We did that. It's not an accident. It's not a mystery. But that's the thing about it, though.
00:51:32
Speaker 4: You know, we talk a lot nowadays about, like, echo chambers, and it's like, that's part of the thing, though.
00:51:37
Speaker 2: They're only around other street niggas.
00:51:39
Speaker 4: So, like, they're not getting no clout with us, with civilians, but for the other dumbass niggas when they around who think that that shit is dope, who think that, oh, he's the realest nigga because he got four hats last week.
00:51:50
Speaker 1: Do you get a fucking badge of honor?
00:51:52
Speaker 2: No.
00:51:52
Speaker 1: Because what happens, you know who's not going to sit here and put money on your books?
00:51:55
Speaker 2: Them niggas. Them niggas.
00:51:57
Speaker 1: Who are we talking about?
00:51:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think what happened is, too, and this might be ignorant, but whatever, um, In ghetto America, we don't have the older authority overseeing these kids to give them different opinions or different, like maybe you shouldn't do that, young blood.
00:52:13
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? We don't get that. Now the OGs are 19 years old, 18 years old. You know what that reminds me of though?
00:52:19
Speaker 4: I don't know where, I guess, I don't know if this nigga was from Baltimore, the viral nigga who was like, they say it takes a village to raise a child, but what if the village is retarded?
00:52:29
Speaker 2: I know. Dog. That popped up in my time. What's that going to produce, bro? You know what? Because it's like, here, we say this shit all the time.
00:52:38
Speaker 1: It's the blind leading the blind.
00:52:39
Speaker 2: No, it is. It's a fact. It is.
00:52:41
Speaker 4: So that's why it's like, even when people say like, well, why didn't somebody in his group tell him that this was a bad idea, whatever, whatever, it's like, well, maybe somebody did try to tell him, but are niggas even willing to listen?
00:52:52
Speaker 2: Like, that's the other part. It's like, an OG can tell you a thing.
00:52:55
Speaker 4: But a nigga who's hearing it, communication works two ways, is what you say and how somebody received it.
00:53:00
Speaker 2: And if they're not willing to hear good advice, or they're not willing to act on good advice, then niggas are going to keep doing the same thing.
00:53:08
Speaker 1: You know what, actually, I want to put a pin in that, because I want to bring back that, I want to bring back, has there ever been a time, and maybe we'll do this for a whole other episode, especially when we go to New York, where... Has there actually been advice given to you by an OG, by someone older, by an auntie, where you didn't take it because you thought you knew better.
00:53:28
Speaker 3: Right.
00:53:28
Speaker 1: Which is honestly what happens. A lot of us that are young and arrogant, we think that we know it all. And so even when we have someone telling us what's better or what's right or how this is going to play out, we really don't listen because we think it's going to be different or we know how to navigate this. We don't got to listen to you because we're in a different generation.
00:53:46
Speaker 2: It's a different time. That's what I was going to say. It's a different time.
00:53:49
Speaker 4: You think that you, as a young person, you think that you're seeing something different. that an older person never seen before never interacted with before never had that experience and it's like yeah shit is different now you got phones and AI but like most of human experience is the exact same it's not that much different we'll have.
00:54:06
Speaker 1: To talk about that I did we'll talk about it in another episode we'll talk about it in another episode Well, y'all, I hope.
00:54:12
Speaker 2: Y'all enjoyed it. Yeah.
00:54:14
Speaker 1: All right.
00:54:14
Speaker 4: Y'all want my special agent recognition. Yeah, everybody who wants to be a fed, contact maybeb at gmail.com.
00:54:24
Speaker 1: I was about to say, what's the contact information?
00:54:27
Speaker 2: I want an honorary FBI.
00:54:29
Speaker 1: Oh, if I get my honorary, I just want a badge. I'm walking around with a badge.
00:54:33
Speaker 2: Show them. Mandy B and the B stands for badge.
00:54:37
Speaker 1: It stands for bureaucracy.
00:54:39
Speaker 3: Ugh.
00:54:40
Speaker 1: All right. Anyways, guys, thank y'all for tuning in to a bonus episode. Hope y'all enjoyed the free flow. And let us know who in your life or where in America you see audacity. Because, boy, is there a lot of it running around here. Hope y'all enjoyed. Thank you. And make sure you tune in to next week's episode of Selective Ignorance.
00:55:00
Speaker 2: Yeah. Bye. Yeah.
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