Easily Offended Podcast
What's Good my Pod Cast Family !! Welcome to "Easily Offended Podcast". Easily Offended Podcast was created early of 2020 because how the world is now and what we have been thru with the pandemic situation. I noticed that everyone was getting easily offended. The cancel culture started running rapid. So we created this platform to talk about tough topics and also have some fun with it. We will be talking about about life , hot topics , dating over 35 , fashion , music and more importantly Chicago Culture. We are 4 men in different points of our lives. L-Boogie A,K.A Boogie been in the Chicago Music Scene since 2001 & has also worked in the Chicago Fashion Culture since 1998. Chris A.K.A Wheezy Cage is in his early 30's married and has a funny sarcastic view on life. Shawn Knight is a host, photographer and comedian he is our Parks. Also my best friend Rell is also part of the show as our producer and editor. SO HIT THAT SUBSCRIBED BUTTON !!!
Easily Offended Podcast
The E.O.P - 62 Beats, Laughs, and Political Paths
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Ever wondered how the magic of Chicago sports, the thrill of concerts, and the intricacies of political debates all weave together into one lively conversation? Join us as we kick things off with a fond look at our beloved Chicago Bears and a humorous peek into the world of podcasting with plans for our infamous episode 69. With my journey as the house DJ at Riddle's Comedy Club, we unravel the blend of comedy and music while tackling the sensitive topic of body image with a dose of humor, reminding everyone about the true essence of health over societal expectations.
Our chat takes us on a musical journey through concert adventures at Ravinia, where timing is everything. We share tales of both lackluster and electrifying performances, spotlighting artists like Lenny Kravitz and The Roots. An unexpected twist lands us on MSNBC after an inspiring visit to the Black Man Lab in Atlanta, sparking plans to bring this empowerment initiative to Chicago. Alongside these stories, we share fashion mishaps, media misinterpretations, and the nostalgic vibes of youth, knitting together personal anecdotes with cultural reflections.
The final stretch of our episode unravels layers of political and social discourse, from the buzzing streets during the Democratic National Convention to the heated discussions on wealth taxes and economic policies. We explore the vibrant protests, the complexities surrounding abortion rights, and the intriguing prospect of black Americans considering life abroad. Through humor and candor, we dissect the political landscape, election speculations, and the spectacle of debates, promising a podcast experience that will keep you entertained, informed, and engaged long after the episode ends.
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Speaker 2You'll be so organized, you'll be learning some tactics. You'll be learning some revolutionary principles. You'll be having some guns hit out somewhere. You'll have some proper tactics, yo, if you get easily offended turn this shit, the fuck off you stupid, what the fuck are you even turning?
Speaker 4it on for, throw him a wave, and then you have the ability.
Speaker 5In fact, you have made that pig act in a desired manner. Check 1212. Check 1212. Easily Offended Podcast. Check it in right now. Happy song y'all.
Speaker 1Happy song y'all. It's been a while.
Speaker 5We got the whole team in the building. Thank y'all for tuning in wherever you at. Thank you, shout out to all the Chicago podcasts out here in the building Herb 2 In the zone Tackless Corner Convo.
Speaker 2What up Tackless quarter combo? What up Keys, open doors? So I gotta keep a set. Everybody know that I'm a Gotta keep a set. Everybody know that I'm a Gotta keep a set.
Speaker 5We from Chicago man, so we had to represent one time. Shout out to the Chicago Bears going 4-0 in preseason.
Speaker 3That means a lot.
Speaker 5We gotta be happy about something y'all. I was about to say can we get a little victory?
Speaker 4I actually think the Bears will be good.
Speaker 5You are now tuned in Easily Offended Podcast. Welcome to Chicago, niggas.
Speaker 3This Chicago niggas.
Speaker 1Don't get too happy Bears fans. We're going to Super.
Speaker 4Bowl, super Bowl Playoffs let's just be above 500.
Speaker 1Right, that's my goal.
Speaker 5I think we'll go above 500 yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, how y'all doing today, man, hola, hola, what up.
Speaker 3Hey, who here?
Speaker 5Easily Offended. Podcast episode 60 motherfucking 2. Well, goddamn, you know what I'm saying. We are definitely here in the building Now. We have all four of us. We have united like the Transformers.
Speaker 4Was it Voltron? Voltron, that was Voltron. There were Transformers that did come together, but you're thinking about Voltron. Okay, okay 62 is my number when I play football.
Speaker 1Okay, I got a question though.
Speaker 5What up?
Speaker 1When we get to Episode 69,.
Speaker 2Sean.
Speaker 1I know for a fact. You're going to have to do something. You got to give us a good story time with something on Episode 69. It's going to be all Sean, all Sean stories, anything Sean related Yep we got to put that in play, man we got to start planning that shit ahead. I don't know, we might get banned.
Speaker 3I don't know if we're going to be able to follow the community guidelines.
Speaker 2They are talking about taking it to Florida.
Speaker 1Florida, oh shit.
Speaker 5Not with all those crazy motherfuckers. That's what I said. That's going to be crazy. That's a lot of crazy shit. Man Yo, it's been a while. You know what I'm saying. You did the stand-up. You joined at Riddles. Yes, how did?
Speaker 2that go for you. It's been going all right. I feel like do I perform comedy in there Now? I'm the official house DJ at Riddle's.
Speaker 5Oh, that's dope man.
Speaker 1Hey, that's cold. That's cold as fuck actually. God damn it.
Speaker 5I'm fucking up shit, God damn it.
Speaker 2I'm sorry man, there we go. Okay, I'll take that.
Speaker 5Yeah, hey, that's big shit, brother, hey man, good shit, man, you gotta get your feet in the door you feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 4Indeed you like Jamie Foxx and Players Club and shit.
Speaker 2Don't touch the ladies Pretty much. I'm going to start. I got my DJ name, dj Sean the Don, and I'm just coming out there. You know I was trying to roll up sleeves and sweat out weeds. God damn it, let's go. You should find somebody to say that and tag that shit and play that shit right before you start any set. So yeah, but you know, when I DJ'd I kind of do comical shit Like if it was with this one fat dude.
Speaker 5He did his set and once he was done, I played the overweight lovers in the house, just for him. All right now, don't get fucked up.
Speaker 1We were like oh, you got jokes and shit with them, little tour tables.
Speaker 2Like this one fat dude. He was robust.
Speaker 5Played with fat boys and shit.
Speaker 1It's just funny how you put the emphasis on the F on that. I just found that funny. He was kind of fat.
Speaker 4I saw some shit, the other day Motherfucker was talking about wantinging Like actively trying to lose weight. Okay, it's fat phobic.
Speaker 1Oh god, oh, I saw that shit too. Yeah, yeah, I know, I saw that shit too.
Speaker 5I just don't want to be overweight.
Speaker 4Well don't then. Yeah, niggas just want to be, want to be healthy. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1Yeah, I saw that too.
Speaker 4That was a Fat phobic and there's nothing like you know what I'm saying. Like, yeah, I saw that too, that was a Fat phobic. And there's nothing Like you know. There's a difference between Like you know, some people are bigger. Like you know what I'm saying. Like niggas, like me, I'm never gonna be skinny. Like if, if, like, if I'm skinny, something is wrong. Get off that crack. Yeah, I ain't.
Speaker 4But, but yeah, but it's just like. Like you don't have to be fat, it's okay If you want to lose weight To better your life. That doesn't mean You're fat phobic.
Speaker 2Indeed, if I try to go to the car deal and try to get that scat pack and he say my credit's back and I say he's like my wallet phobic or something.
Speaker 1Probably yeah, in 2024.
Speaker 4I mean they would tell you To get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5You know, what I'm saying. To pay, sir. Are you buying a car? Yeah, you can get, maybe your interest rate gonna be, 37
Speaker 2don't wallet. Shame me, god, damn it hey 2024.
Speaker 1You should be able to say that.
Speaker 2So yeah, you're right, yeah, while ashamed. Yeah, how dare these, how dare these do that, how you been chris man, I've been decent man.
Speaker 1You know, it's just been um, this is working man. I was just working, I worked six days a week, but I was telling real estate I worked six days a week, but that was how I was telling the real estate agent. I work six days a week, you know so that's all I've been doing man.
Speaker 2It's nice, you should work and shit, boy, I mean it's cool, you don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1You know I make money, but at the same time I need to take a vacation, man.
Speaker 4Shit is getting old. Six days a week till I was working multiple jobs, like doing side gigs and shit In my regular job, I mean including my regular job. I did it was some years ago, but I did that shit for like a few years straight and like doing that for that long. You know what I'm saying. When you really only have like one day and then like that day, you really just end up wanting to rest.
Speaker 1You really don't have like a whole.
Speaker 4Yeah, you don't have like much of a life per se. You know what I'm saying. But you know, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Indeed, indeed Do it while you're young, because I'm too old for that shit now.
Speaker 1I know, I know right, I'll be 37 in a couple weeks. 37? Man, you're an old man.
Speaker 3I ain't nothing, man, you're on the way. I'm still an old man. You there, damn 30.
Speaker 4I'm close Wish I could go back to 37. Yeah, me too, we wasn't that fucking long ago. I'm 42. That's five years ago.
Speaker 1Five years ago, yeah.
Speaker 4That one definitely you been man, I've been good man.
Speaker 5Been outside. Yeah, yeah, been outside.
Speaker 4It's crazy. Went to go see the Roots yesterday, oh nice, yeah, that shit was man nice. It was Vinny man. They put on the motherfucking show. Wow dope. Yeah, it was Diggable Planets and Arrested Development.
Speaker 5Wow, all the earthy chicks out there.
Speaker 2Wow, all of them smell like incense, funk and essential oils out there.
Speaker 4I didn't even move around the whole IG, like you know what I'm saying. I walked to like cause we got there, said that we had cause it was a big group of us man. So we had a nice little area. We had hella food, you know what I'm saying hella liquor you food you know what I'm saying? Hella liquor. You know. We set up a camp right in front of the big screen you know what? I'm saying so. We was just sitting there watching. You know what I mean? Yeah, so we had a fuckin' ball.
Speaker 5That's what I like about those outdoor venues where you can sit out. You don't gotta pay the $100 ticket, you can just pay the $40 line seat.
Speaker 4I pay $50. That's why I go to Ravinia man every year.
Speaker 5I still haven't been there, me neither. You've never been to Ravinia. I've never been to Ravinia, you're working there, it's decent.
Speaker 4It's definitely. You know what I'm saying. It's an experience. Man, you go out there and you bring all your shit. We motherfuckers brought tables out there. You bring your chairs, uh, you bring your tarps and shit. So you can like designate your area. Okay, designate but we didn't have tarps because what we did was we ended up just putting strategically placing chairs and coolers. Wow really, we formed a perimeter that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 5That's what you gotta do. That's what you gotta do.
Speaker 4That's our shit, son.
Speaker 5You gotta go out there and plant your flag. You get your child from my blanket fam.
Speaker 2Get your baby.
Speaker 1It has to be strategic too, because you want to make sure you got enough room, and it's a good spot but at the same time, you want to be by the water, just in case you go to the bathroom or something. Yeah, that's the key what you want to or something you know.
Concert Stories and Political Twists
Speaker 4Yeah, that's the key. That's the key. So what you wanna do is you wanna get there early. So I'm like you know, people, that if you ever been to Ravinia with me, like if I'm a stickler like yo, we have to leave by a certain time. If you wanna get there, like when the parking lot, when the main parking lot, first opens, you wanna be there like right around there.
Speaker 3Okay, and then?
Speaker 4you can get in line to wait for them to open the gates for you to go in. So it's like, but if you get there too late, especially if it's just like you and one other person, you can get out there a little bit later. You know what I mean and you could find you a little spot somewhere pretty easy. But if you got like a large group, you gotta be out there. You gotta be out there when. You gotta be out there when that gate open. You know what I'm saying and you wanna go and just find your area like real quick and designate that shit. But like bro, especially if it's good. I've seen man, I've seen so many people. You've been there a lot. I saw Lenny Kravitz twice at Ravinia. Well damn, you know if I talked about it, that was one of the most disappointing shows. What so? When they performed it was great, but these niggas, like after every song, wanted to have story time and shit, oh hell no, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4Like they talked so much Like nigg, nigga, shut up, play the hits, nigga, you know what I'm saying. We didn't come here to listen to you tell stories. You know what I mean. This one day we was in the studio right, especially in the age of podcasting and YouTube.
Speaker 5Nigga, we've heard all this shit We've watched everything.
Speaker 4We came right here to see you play the hits. Nigga, Play the fucking hits.
Speaker 1But you know for them, you know how it is. They still a part of that era. So for them, you know how a lot of artists that you see that are from the 90s or even in the early 2000s, but definitely in the 90s in between each song they got to set up the next song with a story or some shit.
Speaker 4I mean, I understand, but I'm talking about these niggas was so long in between. And then like so like they learned, cause, like one of them learned how to play the guitar, one of them learned how to play one of the two I forgot. So then they wanted to talk about how we learned how to play instruments.
Speaker 4So then they wanted to like they had like a mini rock concert in the middle of it, which was it was cool, but it went on too long, bro. It went on too fucking long, like nigga we you paid me all to sing. Now play the guitar. I didn't come here to hear fucking Boyz II Men do fucking.
Speaker 3Jimi.
Speaker 4Hendrix songs. You know what I'm saying. Like, this is not what I came for. You know what I'm saying Play Motown Philly, nigga Right, fuck is wrong with you. But the Roots did not do that. So it was Arrested Development and Digable Planets and I thought they were just gonna be opening for the Roots but the Roots just played. So Blackthaw came out, the Roots, they opened up, they played for like 10, 15 minutes and then Digable Planets came on and they did a set, but the Ro roots were playing with them the whole time. And the white man. I'm telling you, bro, that's definitely one of the one of the best shows I've been to in a minute man they started at 7 30, they went to about 10.
Speaker 4And they was rocking. It was no break the whole time they were just they was playing the whole entire time, bro, like, like it was amazing. So that was dope I ended up on. I was on MSNBC this week For what? Which?
Speaker 2you was getting interviewed.
Speaker 4So, nah, I wasn't getting interviewed. It was weird. So I went to this event. It was at the spot. It was called the Black man Lab, so I didn't know what it was before I got there Black man Lab. So I didn't know what it was before I got there Black man Lab. So they had this group in Atlanta One of the guys that I should have had this information because I wasn't expecting to talk about it, but this is called the Black man Lab, so one of the guys that runs it is actually related to me.
Speaker 5Oh dope.
Speaker 4So my pops, he told me to come to this event and he didn't really have a whole lot of information about it. So I'm thinking, man, I'm finna go in this spot about to be a fucking pyramid scheme type shit. Them niggas gonna be trying to give me a sale insurance or something you know what I'm saying. Or sell knives, household cleaning products, some crazy shit.
Speaker 5How much is your light bill?
Speaker 4But no, it ended up being on some kind of like some black men empowerment shit basically. So it was like it's supposed to be, like a safe space. So our vision is to empower and inspire black men who will positively transform the world, provide a safe space for black men to have a culturally enriching learning experience. So they do a lot of shit with like mentoring.
Speaker 3Oh, that's dope.
Speaker 4And also just like a space for, like you know, black men to have conversations. Um. So so they they do it every monday in atlanta, uh, and they're trying to bring it so because it was a dnc, um, they, uh, they, they. They had their first one in chicago. Eventually they want to bring it up here as well, nice, um. So they were just talking about the election and shit and I saw cameras, but I didn't. I thought they were recording for their own purposes.
Speaker 4You know what I'm saying Get some footage yeah some motherfuckers asked me how they felt about the election, so I just said my little piece or whatever. And the next morning one of my home girls calls me. Like uh, my auntie said she was on msnbc talking about fuck kamala. And I'm like whoa, I never said anything like that but, and I definitely didn't. But that's crazy, they twisted your words, bro.
Speaker 2No, they didn't twist my words, so I I didn't.
Speaker 4That's crazy they twisted your words, bro. No, they didn't Twist my words, so I didn't actually See it, but it was like I wasn't the only one Speaking. So she and nobody said Fuck Kamala. But everything Wasn't all like. You know what I'm saying? Like she's the best ever, basically.
Speaker 2So basically you said fuck Kamala Right.
Fashion Tips and Event Highlights
Speaker 4You know what I'm saying? It is God damn. It is kind of funny, though, to hear I still haven't actually seen the clip.
Speaker 2They probably edited your shit.
Speaker 1You're a victim of media spin For real. They edited your shit.
Speaker 3You're going to get a whole bunch of hate mail?
Speaker 5Real going to just have dead animal heads on his doorstep?
Speaker 4But it was funny to see how motherfuckers were just totally misconstrued. They soundbited what you said.
Speaker 1No, you experiencing first hand. First hand, it was kind of wild.
Speaker 4That's kind of funny, I can see.
Speaker 2Donald Trump did the same they do to me.
Speaker 4But yeah, but shout out to the Black man Lab.
Speaker 2That's hilarious, that's horrible.
Speaker 4It was really right. It was a really dope event. Wow, you know what I'm saying. I gotta see that. But yeah, next time just let Nick know if he's going to be on MSNBC.
Speaker 2You're going to say you love Jamal.
Speaker 4I legit had no idea.
Speaker 2You want to stand away from nothing. There was nothing. That's kind of crazy.
Speaker 4I legit had no fucking clue what you going to find A little random.
Speaker 2Negro in the streets. What you going to look?
Speaker 4up. I also went to the XL Film Festival, man.
Speaker 5How was that?
Speaker 4It was only went for the first. So, honestly, I heard about it but I forgot it was happening. So I was with.
Speaker 3That was last week right.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, it was last week, last weekend. So I was with my kid and she wanted to go to Kilwins, nice. So we went to Kilwins and then, as we're walking through Harper Court, and I see everything set up, and I see Mila from Corner Cargo Shout out to Mila and she was like, yeah, xfl Film Festival. I was like, oh yeah, and they were supposed to be showing the leaders, doc.
Speaker 5Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah was like oh yeah, and they were doing. They were supposed to be showing the Leaders, doc.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it ended up. It started raining, man, so they cut the first night short, so I never actually got a chance to see it. Hopefully I can.
Speaker 5So it's actually like a piece of it. It's like 30 minutes because I'm actually about to get interviewed. They told me Corey put me in tune with Joshua, shout out to Joshua. Yeah, and he was like yo, I need just tell me a story about Corey and Leaders. And I gave him like three paragraphs.
Speaker 3You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5And he was like bro, we're definitely going to record you Like it's supposed to be like about an hour and 30, 45 minutes. Did you say you love Kamala?
Speaker 4We? We didn't talk about it. We was talking about leaders and Corey. It's a joke, oh, kamala. So basically what you said, you hope she dies Right.
Speaker 2I hope she dies. I'm going to bring your ass in the store, Kamala Right.
Speaker 5No, but yeah, man, that sounds dope man, yeah, yeah yeah, but the. Xm, somebody I follow on Instagram, and I can't think of her.
Speaker 4Oh, follow on Instagram and I can't think of her. Oh yeah, shout out to her, because I got the hat too, except for Film Festival socks out there. Oh okay, okay, okay, oh yeah.
Speaker 1Danny no, oh yeah, that's good, okay, flossing.
Speaker 5For real.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah no, I never turned down, I got.
Speaker 2I have. I think it's clean.
Speaker 4I think I I have like at least 30 white socks, hats. Damn yeah that I've accumulated over the years.
Speaker 2I have 30 white socks, but no.
Speaker 4I don't wear white socks, you don't actually Hell, no man Nah, because I feel like it's too hard to keep them clean. You know what I'm saying Like, yeah, you walk on the floor with them all the time, and then they look dirty, you know what I? Yeah, I don't wear white. The only thing I wear white is like T-shirts.
Speaker 1Yeah, same thing.
Speaker 4After this, I'm not wearing this bitch again and I got a white suit jacket too, oh shit, Whenever I want to do it Like thrills Get your James Bond on. I was about to say when I want to pull my James Bond, move out.
Speaker 1Okay, I do. I'm pulling Frankie Beverly Mays concert. Oh, oh yeah, no, you got you even made your jacket and shit hey man you need to have your white motherfuckin' blazer.
Speaker 3At least a sport coat.
Speaker 5My dad says as a grown man, you have to have a suit.
Speaker 1You have to have at least one or two suits.
Speaker 5That's up to date that you can wear. You know what I'm saying, that you?
Speaker 4just never know, and that fit well.
Speaker 5That's right.
Speaker 3Yeah, and they fit well.
Speaker 4That's real. Yeah, they fit well, because there's nothing I hate worse than a poor, ill-fitting suit. You know what I'm saying. They get that so like you can't really buy off the rack but sometimes you can. But sometimes, like, so for me, like because you can mix, match, put shit together, yeah, like I have like a I'll go to macy's somewhere, get, find me a nice blazer, you know what I mean like well, I get and I'll have like some, some slacks from like banana republic or something nice, you know, yeah, a shirt from golden nordstrom rack or something shirt to put?
Speaker 4yeah, you know what I mean gotta put it together, but so the thing is, because a lot of times like, because, like, if you like for a suit, so any suit that I've ever bought I know this is like this is totally off topic. Okay, steve, but no, but any suit that I've ever bought I know this is totally off topic.
Speaker 4Okay, steve Harvey. No, but any suit that I've ever bought like off the record, a whole suit I've had to have it altered. Yeah, always. But if I know these pants fit me well because I shop here all the time, you know what I'm saying. So I know these type of slacks fit me well and I find me a jacket.
Speaker 4Sometimes, I find me like a sport coat that will fit decent off the rack. I don't even have to really do nothing to. You know what I'm saying. But the pants won't fit right. Well, if it was a suit like, the pants wouldn't fit. But you know that's what I'm saying. You can mix and match, but just don't. Don't be out here looking like you got your little big brother suit on.
Speaker 1Yeah, man just take a couple hundred dollars go.
Speaker 4Yeah, you can get that shit altered you get $200 for a suit and then you get it altered for like $90. You can spend $300 and you can wear that suit Multiple occasions yes and the thing about it, bro, you can have, especially if you just got a regular black or a gray suit. A different shirt and a tie will make that suit look like a completely different suit. You know what I'm saying Just because you have one suit doesn't mean you can't wear it all the time.
Speaker 2Fashion tips on rail today.
Speaker 5Fashion tips Make that a seven XL Film Festival. Shout out to Special Events Agency. I think her name's Carmen. Me and her never met, actually, we just always talk on IG. She always show love to the podcast.
Speaker 4Carmen's always hard to find.
Speaker 1Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 4That's a when in the World is Carmen Sandiego joke. Thank you, somebody. Y'all didn't watch that show. It shows you. Show that because you motherfuckers are uneducated.
Speaker 3I understand.
Speaker 4You niggas wasn't watching. Where in the World?
Speaker 3is.
Speaker 4Carmen, san Diego, y'all wasn't watching Ghost Rider and all that shit on WTTW.
Speaker 2Channel 11. Oh wow, pbs, I was watching Great Space Coaster. I don't even know what I was watching? Yeah, man.
Speaker 5So I had a. My few weeks have been interesting. You know what I'm saying. Shout out to Mila and Sean from the podcast Came in to show love. We got something planned for September 7th For just all podcast people in general, just all podcasts Just come barbecue.
Speaker 4Details will be out shortly and um yeah, man, I bumped into sean yesterday, uh, and she was out there at the uh, at the roof joint too yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5But you know people would be outside like towards the end of something, you gotta go outside I mean, this is like this you get these few months out of the year gotta be outside, I'll be outside and then, once the winter time comes, yeah, so like my week was like, I went to the Green Day concert you know what I'm saying which was fucking amazing.
Speaker 5I've been a fan of Green Day since 94, since Dookie. When Dookie came out and then I ain't gonna lie I kind of slipped off for a minute for a couple albums, but then I went back. That was the first rock group that. Actually. No, you know what. The second rock group that I brought their CD to, the first rock group I brought, was Linkin Park. I was in love with Linkin Park. Linkin Park was just insane to me.
Speaker 4But that's that I hate my dad music, hey dad, I hate you music. Hey dad, that white boy I hate you dad.
Speaker 5Hey, the thing about it is it's like see Turn that down so. I know you don't understand me dad.
Speaker 4I'm sorry.
Speaker 5Don't slam my door, dad.
Speaker 5But you know the thing about like the difference between Linkin Park and Green Day. Linkin Park always has a DJ, so they do the scratches in the background, right. What I like about Green Day is that they have two guitars and a bass up front and every song, each one of them have a good 15 to 20, 30 second little. You know what I mean their point, but they always go ham. So that show was pretty awesome. Man, white people kick it hard Like I was probably the only black person in my section. Well, damn, I was next to uh, a young, uh, a dude. You know I'm saying of course he was there with his boyfriend and we're sitting. He was like I was like bro, yeah, like wait a minute, what? Yeah, like he was sitting there.
Speaker 4He was sitting, but you said, of course he was there, right? Well, not of course, but you know it's a great concert I meant to say something else before that.
Speaker 5Yeah, all the gay be at the green day. I know that no, but I didn't mean to say it like that, but I didn't know because, like I'm standing there and I asked him a question, we started talking about the music and his boyfriend was like you're not trying to steal my man, are you? I'm like whoa, whoa, whoa man. Excuse me, charles, this is not what it is, that's what it looks like.
Speaker 5I'm with my lady. You know what I'm saying, but he's like I'm joking. He was totally joking, but when we were standing in line, this random dude walked up and he pulled out a 20. He was like he gave it to my lady.
Speaker 1He was like hey, I give you a 20 if you let me get in front.
Speaker 5So we was like she's sitting there? Confused. I'm like let the nigga get in line. The liquor line is long. You know what I'm saying. He gave you $20 a week on order of a drink. You know what I'm saying. Let him saying let him get a front end up having a conversation with him.
Speaker 5His wife was walking around with a whole bottle of fucking wine that she had got from the suite, so she's like offering wine to everybody around. We ended up getting to the end of the line and he ended up buying our drinks. Oh, nice, after giving us the 20, nice. So I gave the lady the 20 for a tip. You know, I'm saying because I'm like man you you looked out for they wouldn't let you walk away with two cups At Wrigley. You can't like, so like when you get a double, it's considered two drinks, so legally they can't give you more than one.
Speaker 5More than one cup or more than one More than one drink, so like okay, this drink is a double, that's all you get.
Speaker 4So if you wanted two of those, they can't serve it to you because it's two shots in that one cup. So technically that would be four drinks if you got two doubles.
Speaker 1Okay, I followed by that. I was just trying to make sure.
Speaker 5So I had to keep going back to her and getting like what I got slick with is I went to one bar and grabbed a beer, put it in my back pocket, went to her let me get a double and let me get a beer, so she like that I can do so. Then I walk away with two beers and a drink.
Speaker 3Okay, I see what you did. You got to figure out, Okay, all right, but they opened up the show with a fucking queen Bohemian Rhapsody.
Speaker 5And when I tell you, when they played that joint it sounded like you heard neighbors, like the whole Wrigley Stadium was singing, word for word, and they played the whole song, the whole people.
Speaker 1You had to play it.
Speaker 5Yeah, you gotta play the whole, that's like an eight minute record. And then they came out. They had the Cubs dude come out. He, you got to play the whole, that's like an eight-minute record. You got to. And then they came out. They had the Cubs dude come out. I was like he was drunk, falling over the stage and shit. And then they came out and, when I tell you, the audience lit up. Hey man, that was the best hour and 45 minutes I ever had. I never jumped as much, screamed Whoa. It was a good time, man, it was a good time. You know what I'm saying. I took a little mini vacation With my dad and my son Down to Pulaski. You know what I'm saying. I hung out down there For a minute and then last night, so I had a wood Pause. Remember the wood, the movie the Wood right.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, alright.
Speaker 2What.
Speaker 4You said I had a wood. You did right.
Speaker 1You did say that?
Speaker 4Why didn't you just say I watched the wood?
Speaker 5No, no no, I had a wood moment. Yeah, that movie moment. Oh, okay, speak in complete sense.
Speaker 3I was about to say it, but you know I'm doing Uber.
Speaker 5I'm doing Uber and a ride comes up and it was like I got stuck in doing it because it was just moving that fast. So I was like, all right, I'm going to just stay on for a minute. So I ended up picking up this young dude. The young dude get in the car. He's about a senior in high school. So then we go to his homeboy crib, pick his homeboy up. His homeboy up. His homeboy is not in school, but he's about the same age. They went to pick up the other homeboy.
Speaker 5Mind you, I'm driving all these motherfuckers around, you know, I'm saying to get where they gotta go. So basically his mom paid for the uber to pick up the other two guys to go to a hotel party. But the conversation made me like flash back until like when we was kids and you're with your friends and you're sitting there talking about girls and school and the first day of school and what dramas happen around the block. One thing about chicago is that these shorties, they say faux in them like like you know, I'm saying like that's their slang. Like you know, I'm saying like I we, we come up in an era where you couldn't say that unless you was gd well, no well, not, you not foe well, no, they say folks, but it folks, yeah, you know I'm saying but, but it sounds like they say foe, but they really mean folks like you know.
Speaker 5I'm saying like you know, like a lot of folks like that's, that's, you know you know saying right, yeah, but you know, yeah, they ain't pronouncing the word all the way. But you know I'm saying, but it was just so crazy to me because I was like I had to stop and turn around to was like y'all GD they really do that, yeah what yeah, because I'm sitting there, bro.
Speaker 5I'm in the car with these niggas for 51 minutes. You're like, hold up, are you GD? No, I mean like Me too. We're having a whole. We're having a whole conversation. You know what I'm saying? Cause I like to, if I'm doing Uber, for me to feel comfortable, for you to be behind me. I'm gonna have a conversation With you, okay.
Speaker 4You know what I'm not to speak to you.
Speaker 5But if you keep the conversation going, because I'm going to ask you a question that you got to answer, so if you constantly having a conversation, we're going to talk On phone now, on phone now.
Speaker 3Why do you keep saying it like that On phone now?
Speaker 5So like the whole conversation, conversation was like oh my dear cuz, like it was just like bro and I was like y'all gd and it was like nah we just say that that's just like our slang and I was just like I like that's crazy.
Speaker 5He's like what a little shit. Like what's crazy, what's so crazy about it? I'm like because when I was growing up, it was certain things you couldn't say unless you was part of that that group. You feel what I'm saying? Like you can't just say certain things. Every gang in chicago had their own little slang, right, that lets you know what part or what set they from, or where they from, what side of town they from. But it was just so crazy that these kids they, they have no idea what the structure used to be like, so they just use it as a slang, and it just blew my mind. But it was cool though, because I what made me think of the wood the movie was listening to them and hearing the same conversations that I used to have with him or or my other guys like you know what I'm saying like just the the innocence of that time.
Speaker 5Like you know what I'm saying, Like you wanna see a dead body Right, Like going to like you remember like going to your first hotel party. You know what I'm saying. Going to that first party with your parents.
Speaker 2You were at a hotel party, but I'm fucking with you.
Speaker 5I did, you know, and that's what we talked about earlier.
Speaker 1Because I dropped my mother at the Hyatt.
Speaker 5I was about to die. I was about to say snitch on him and I didn't snitch on him this time, but no, but it was just crazy. It made me really reflect on. Like you know, as we grow older, you flash back on things that really meant something to you as a kid, growing up and just cherishing that. You know what I'm saying. So I think it was just dope, but I just had that whole thing. When I dropped them off, I had to sit there and smoke a cigarette for a minute and just thought about it like damn, that's so crazy.
Speaker 1I thought you started thinking about calling the security on the air On phone now.
Speaker 5Hey we got a great video and you know the crazy thing about it. Like when I pulled up there they was like man, ain't this the hotel to be tripping and shit.
Speaker 4Word got around about you.
DNC Events and Abortion Protests
Speaker 5I didn't even say that, I was just like Alright, man, have a nice night. Y'all be safe. Man, have a nice night, enjoy yourself.
Speaker 4Yeah, this lame ass nigga Wouldn't let us go. We had him set up and everything. We was about to Knock him down. This lame ass nigga Came up there. Y'all gotta go. Y'all can't have all these people in the room. I'm phoning them. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2I'm phoning them. We only got three. Not phoning them, right? Oh my God.
Speaker 5Man, that shit was crazy, though. Man, oh man, so yeah, so this week I was off, the DNC was in town. Woo, they forced us to be off work. Yeah, that shit was great. Oh my god, I've been like Since I was off, I was doing Uber a lot and I picked up a lot Did you pick up camera. No, I didn't. I picked up camera.
Speaker 4I don't think I don't think she's been using. Yeah, I'm pretty sure she had a way to get around.
Speaker 2She might have led you the wrong way. Anyway, no, oh.
Speaker 3Jesus, I love this show?
Speaker 5Shit, it's gonna. It's going to be one of those. I swear.
Speaker 1It's going to be one of those Sean on the roll already.
Speaker 5He on the roll. You going to wake up one day. It's going to be like 100 AKAs outside with your T-shirt, with your face on that T-shirt hey, I'm trying to kill you.
Speaker 2I said like that would be weird. She's treating black America kind of like an ex-boyfriend, because it's like we haven't heard from her in three years, but now she calling us, asking for shit.
Speaker 4Yes, the DNC is here. There's some truth to that. But yeah, it was pretty crazy.
Speaker 5The streets was blocked off, I couldn't go to work, but I did pick up a lot of During that time Was there a lot of protests out there.
Speaker 4No, it wasn't that really. It absolutely was. They was out there.
Speaker 5but the thing about it they had, basically you had to protest. They gave you like a parade line. That's hilarious, like you have to go down this street, turn here, come back down to this street, turn here, and that's it. They had the control.
Speaker 4I bumped in because the Free Palestine movement was definitely out there heavy. They was protesting everywhere. I bumped in and not even on some DNC shit. It was last Sunday. I went to whatever hotel. It was a rooftop. I went up there last Sunday by Sunday evening. I forget which hotel it was. We was right there off of Wacker and I don't know. And um state, okay, yeah you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4it's one of them, um anyway. So I was over over there and uh, yeah, they was out there heavy that day and then I actually ended up um. Randomly went to go see t-pain, hey um at the remover.
Speaker 4Yeah, I, yeah, I ended up going. It was. I didn't even stay for the whole thing because it was super late, bro, bro, because I, like you know what I'm saying Like I went to sleep earlier in that day, but you know I'm an old nigga, I can't. I went on a school night, you know what I mean, and it was like once it got to be like 1 am, like bro, nah.
Speaker 2I got to.
Speaker 1We got to go, but they was it was interesting, it was cool.
Speaker 5You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4I saw McKendee up there too. Okay, was it like an orchestra type thing? It was an orchestra and they was dope. They were dope. You know what I mean. I think it was a lot going on, because the Romova Theater isn't that big, it's a very nice theater and the restaurant, because I've actually gone up there just to go to the restaurant.
Speaker 5They have not to cut you off, they have a restaurant. Shout out to Rico, the guy that owns Lighthouse. You know what I'm saying. They brought you Lighthouse Mickey's. He opened up the. It's called the Stussy Stussy S-T-U-S-S-Y. It's named after his daughter. It's the diner. They brought that diner on 35th and Halston, right next to the Ramola Theater.
Speaker 4It's like a brewery.
Speaker 5It's a brewery but it's like a breakfast spot. It's all pink inside, it's just pink booze, all that shit, but it looked. You know what I'm saying? I went there and had a breakfast, but yeah, yeah but you know what?
Speaker 4I'm no center. The show was cool, but you know. But like you know. But but leaving out of there, I thought I wasn't even gonna be able to get out, like so, because they had the streets blocked off. So you, if you was parked right there, you were trying to leave, you was fucked. Luckily I parked a little further down, like I was just off.
Speaker 4Where I could, I could, I could get around you know, so I was just lucky I parked like a block and a half down but yeah, yeah, so they was definitely out there. It was a lot of protests, you know a lot of events.
Speaker 2Did you see that? Oh sorry, Did you see? I heard they had a big blow up thing of an IUD. Oh my God, I'm dead ass, serious oh you are you serious, I'm dead ass serious.
Speaker 4I thought that was a from the United.
Speaker 2Center.
Speaker 4So I never really. So I didn't go to any like. So I never went to the United Center. I was never around. I didn't go to any official. Well, the T-Pain thing was kind of like a DNC event.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4Because it was definitely because everybody people came like People still had fucking signs and shit, they was coming straight from the United States.
Speaker 2Yeah, wow.
Speaker 4But outside of that I didn't go to anything DNC related. Okay, so I didn't see, I definitely didn't see a blow up out here.
Speaker 2Yeah, I saw like pictures of you so you didn't see a fucking momma. Then Pretty much damn it you guys. I saw pictures of you in here, so, you just didn't see the fuck.
Speaker 3Kamala then.
Speaker 2Pretty much damn it, you guys.
Speaker 5I went down there, for I was down there for work for a little while, maybe like an hour, two hours. We had to walk around United Center. I didn't see no blow up UID, whatever IUD, uid, whatever IUD.
Speaker 2Yeah, don't get that mixed up ever.
Speaker 5I didn't see none of that.
Speaker 2Wait a minute, what?
Speaker 5about the abortion bust. That was out there but that was not on.
Speaker 4It wasn't affiliated with the DNC. It wasn't affiliated with the DNC.
Speaker 1Well, not directly. It's weird. No, it's what it is.
Speaker 5If I own a clinic that does abortions, I'm going to have a truck out there At the DNC. Yes, because they are for abortion. So why would I not put my truck out there At the DNC?
Speaker 2Why would I not put my?
Speaker 1truck out there. To me it's not like they were charging for it, it was free. It was free. And vasectomies.
Speaker 4Well, they weren't doing actual abortions, they weren't doing any sort of operations on us. That was not happening.
Speaker 2Was it like a they were giving away abortion pills.
Speaker 4basically they had abortion.
Speaker 2Oh, that's much better.
Speaker 4Well, I mean well.
Speaker 2There's a trick or treat stop.
Speaker 4Right. But given some I'll be a good but giving somebody an abortion pill and actually performing an abortion are two very different things.
Speaker 2What about the vasectomy? Were they given chemical vasectomies? I didn't see anything about vasectomy.
Speaker 4They weren't given no vasectomy, vasectomy can only be done through surgery.
Speaker 5You have to have and, once again, whoever they said are not correct.
Speaker 2That's what the joint from the St Louis joint said on their website. That's what they said they were doing. That's what the joint from the St Louis joint said on their website. That's what they said they was doing. St Louis who? This is Chicago. They came from St Louis.
Speaker 4We was talking about that in the group chat and I sent that link to the PBS article that explained what it was and what was happening. It's in there. There was no vasectomies being done.
Speaker 3That is kind of crazy A vasectomy in the bus.
Speaker 4That is kind of crazy yeah, bro you can't, they're Right Like a food truck and shit that's what I'm saying Bitch.
Speaker 5I said I don't want no more kids.
Speaker 4Right, but that's kind of ridiculous To even think about. Like niggas is not Going to be doing Operations on a bus.
Speaker 1Outside the Democratic.
Abortion Rights and Political Affiliations
Speaker 4National. No my. Thing.
Speaker 1Like I'm with you, of course you know Like you're having do it on the bus, I'm gonna give you this pill. You just do that in your, in the comfort of your, just take some water.
Speaker 4But the thing about it is like you don't even know necessarily that somebody that's getting an abortion pill is about to use it at that moment because you might need it for some later. Just imagine how is that? How is that? Why is that ridiculous?
Speaker 1That's hilarious, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4Somebody coming that's in town from the DNC, from a state that doesn't allow abortions. Okay, so imagine like, so you can imagine Stock up.
Speaker 4Not just stock up or bro, like what happens if a motherfucker and people women have to think about shit like this, because if you in a place and you get raped and the motherfucker impregnates you and you in the place is gonna force you to have that fucking child, then maybe you wanna have this shit in the chamber. You may never use it. That's just like having a fucking fallout shelter. You know what I mean.
Speaker 5It's just like when you coming out of a clinic and they give you condoms.
Speaker 3It's not the same thing, or sexual education.
Speaker 4That's not the same thing. Knock it off. You can't. That is not the same thing, sir. You can't equate condoms, sir.
Speaker 5It prevents pregnancies right?
Speaker 3No, Knock it off Well abortions, just take the pregnancy?
Speaker 4Yeah, you are, but I'm just saying Abortion appeal and the condom are two very different categories and for abortions I think it is specifically for the ones that are just doing it frivolously.
Speaker 2Not the ones, not people that are getting raped.
Speaker 1I don't think there's a real. Yes, there is conversation and I have heard some extremists, but of course, extremists are everywhere. But there are some extremists that said, oh yeah, even if you get raped, god wants that baby to be here.
Speaker 4Okay, we're not talking about them, motherfuckers, that's like a small percentage the vast majority are not in that position, so that's what, that's what I mean by it but, but the thing is, it's like there, I don't think there's anything wrong, especially if someone lives in a place that they're they don't have access to, that, that they want to have one, just in case, because? But the thing, but the thing is, it really is not up to us to determine the validity of any woman's reason to do if she wants to have an abortion or not.
Speaker 1Like I don't you the father it is.
Speaker 4Indeed. Well, that's a completely different, that's a completely separate conversation, it's not. I'm talking about us just in general, like to talk about women that we don't know. We don't Because, at the end of the day, you're talking about my right to my child. So if I get it. No, I'm not. No, no, no, you said, if you're the father of the child. No, no, no.
Speaker 1I'm saying no, no, no, no, no. Hear me, okay, let's okay. We are a community of people. We got to stop acting like we're individuals. We're a part. What affects one can affect the other. You are being for it or against. It may not be directly affecting you, but you're speaking as a, as a, you're voicing yourself as a part of that community, regardless of it affects you directly, in that when I'm saying the father, I'm saying the father of the baby, that is possibly going to be aborted, right.
Speaker 1So my thing is is like, for example, if you're like again well, let me say my stance. First of all, I'm I'm against abortion, but I ain't gonna vote against it. You understand, it's like. My whole thing is like it's. If you, if y'all, want to sit there and fuck of unprotected and get pregnant and want to kill it, that's up to you. I really don't give a shit. I don't support it, but I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3March against it Anyway.
Speaker 1So my thing is Is Is never really Any thought on a guy who, probably who wants the kid Right he has no rights.
Speaker 2You see, he says Alright, fuck you nigga. Like I don't want the kid, I'm gonna kill it At the same time, I'm gonna keep it. I don't want it. Right, that's on.
Speaker 1So, as far as a community aspect, we can say something because we are a part of this community.
Speaker 3If we're going to look at it on an individual standpoint.
Speaker 1Hey, my headphones popped out.
Speaker 4Somebody, I'm listening, go ahead, my bad bro, you can say something right, you can have an opinion on it. Do it again, wait, no, do it again.
Speaker 1There we go.
Speaker 4All right, cool, do it again. Wait, no, do it again. There we go. You can have an opinion on it, right, but what I'm saying is like I shouldn't be able to. I don't want to cut off access to anybody Because at the end of the day like if this is not a woman that's pregnant with my child, then I really don't have a right to tell her what to do, if her reasons for having an abortion are good enough or not, what she does with her life. Now, I get it for what you're saying from the community aspect having an opinion on it but at the end of the day, if somebody wants to go get an abortion pill and to have it just in case they need it, or if they really want to take it, whether they're going to get that pill and use it tonight, we're going to get that pill and have it, just in case they may need it six months from now. Like I don't think we have a right to say whether or not they can do either one yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2I don't think it's about at least for me, it's not really about the right to have an abortion or not. I I just really think it speaks a lot about the DNC. Just to have that there.
Speaker 4But it wasn't affiliated with the DNC dog, Like that's what I'm saying. So you really, but they were there because they're there, you acting like.
Speaker 5you keep saying like they called and like hey, can you bring your truck?
Speaker 2down. But what I'm saying? But we know that they're pro-abortion.
Speaker 5Yeah, abortion, but as a business owner, I'm going to go up it's indirectly affiliated.
Speaker 2It's indirectly affiliated.
Speaker 1I get what you're saying. It's indirectly affiliated with it.
Speaker 4So with the indirect affiliation, I don't even think it's indirectly affiliated. It is.
Speaker 1This is why I'm saying it's indirect, it's not direct, because you're absolutely right, I don't believe that the DNC or the people anywhere that's a part of organizing the DNC, or just Democrats in general, called Planned Parenthood.
Speaker 2They're not on their vendor list. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3Hey we want to be in Chicago at this time.
Speaker 1So we want you to make sure there's some sort of truck. We're going to have this spot for you, right outside of United Center, a couple blocks away. You know, we're going to make sure you have this amount of traffic. Blah, blah, blah. No directly, no Indirectly. Yes, because one of the talking points is reproductive rights and women's health. Therefore it would make sense for that to be there, so indirectly it is an indirect affiliation.
Speaker 4It makes sense on the part of Planned Parenthood, right? Right, that's what I'm saying, but that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1It's not direct, it's indirect. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's definitely not direct, it's not. I'm with you. I'm with you 110%, it's not direct.
Speaker 4Yeah, the only correlation is the fact that the Democratic Party is pro-reproductive rights. You know what I'm saying? Pro-allowing abortion, access to abortion and a Planned Parenthood. You can get abortions. That's the only correlation. That's there.
Speaker 2Right, that's a pretty big correlation. You ask me.
Speaker 1I mean it is, but I'm just saying, I wonder what they have at the Republican.
Speaker 5Yeah, I mean, I think it's just saying I wonder what they have At the Republican.
Speaker 4Yeah, I mean, I think it's just Republican convention. Yeah, I think it's just Important that we make sure that we Because there is there was absolutely no affiliation Between that van, that Planned Parenthood, because it wasn't, it wasn't even by the United Center, it was on the west side, it was right, it was outside.
Speaker 1It was a few blocks away.
Speaker 4Yeah, it was blocks away from the DNC. It was not right there, as motherfuckers make it seem like they had a bus right in front of the fucking United Center and they in that bitch doing mobile abortions.
Speaker 1And the whole time I was a victim of that headline at first. I'm like these niggas is wild.
Speaker 4Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what people was making it seem, and it was not that at all. People was making it seem and that shit was. It was not. It was not that at all.
Speaker 1I fell for that one. I fell for that one at first. Then I looked into it and was like no, it wasn't that.
Speaker 4Yeah, but yeah, I'm glad the DNC is fucking over, I'm glad it's gone. Indeed, you know, I'm not really, um, yeah, no, I mean I'm not like because I mean I get it. I will say that there are very just the shit that I saw between the two, between the Republican National Convention and the DNC, there are definitely very different vibes, very, the vibes were very different, very different.
Speaker 1They had little jobs.
Speaker 4And that's not saying good or bad for one or the other, I'm just saying they were very, very, very different. You know, and it's like what you were talking about with Kamala, you know, like there's definitely kind of like, you know, because I've saw some shit from her that's been pretty cringeworthy in terms of trying to like really lean into her blackness. You know what I'm saying Hilarious, but there's also like, but it's also pretty false that people are out here saying that Kamala is not black or she never claimed to be black before. Now.
Speaker 3You know what I mean.
Speaker 4So it's. But it's also kind of like cause I saw something like she has some. There's like a little ad or something with Taraji P Henson and they were talking about like talking about, like somebody, I'm out in these streets like we don't.
Speaker 1We don't need you to talk like that, right? We don't, we don't, we don't, we don't need you to talk like that you know what I mean, it's so disgusting yeah, talking to you what you want, what you, what do you plan to do?
Speaker 4what are your policies? You know what I'm saying. But I'll also get, but that's just part of the game. That's what they got to do. You know what I mean? That's they, they apart. A part of being a politician is pandering. It is a part of it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1It was, it was, it was plenty of it going on at the republican national convention as well hey, don't say that donald trump is the king of fucking pandering pandering no hold on, hold on whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa don't you don't think he panders to this, to his base, no, no wait Before you start.
Speaker 5Before you start, hold on Before you start. Before you start, hold on a second. I watched five speeches from Donald Trump. Okay, you can stomach five, shit Five, because it just amazes me how some people on the internet or in this world can actually think he can run a fucking country better than anybody else. Now I get it. A lot of things has been.
Speaker 4He was the president before.
Speaker 1He was the president before.
Speaker 5But there's a lot of misinformation out. Ever since, for like three or four weeks, I've been researching all types of shit. I've been looking at Republicans, what they say and what the Democrats say. A lot of people stats will show that this is a better economic, more jobs, biden industry, more jobs, biden industry. But then again you can argue that Trump had the lowest unemployment rate or the economy was booming and stuff like that. But there's a lot of things that people are not researching. What I found out for a lot of those things is a lot of those things that he took in was already in play when he took office. So a lot of those things he can't even take, take, take it in. Say oh, I did this. No, you can't take credit for that, bro, because, wait, this was already in plan before you got in before you got in, but to me that's even worse.
Speaker 2Look for the Biden administration. So you're saying Donald took the ball and ran with it and then, when Biden and them had it, it went left.
Speaker 5No, I'm looking at from the last person that was president into Trump. A lot of those things was placed in position before Trump took office and Trump got up there and made it seem after two or three years, oh I did this. I or three years, oh I did this, I brought this up, I did this, I did that. No, fam, you didn't. That shit was already in the play. You tried to destroy it and you got overturned by the Supreme Court and the Senate and they wouldn't let you destroy it. That's why this is going up high. You wasn't the reason why that shit was going crazy. That's what I'm just up high. You wasn't the reason why that shit was going crazy so that's what I'm just saying.
Speaker 2So would you say the reason that things are going crazy now because of what trump did or what biden did his right?
Speaker 5now I mean right now, to be honest with you from the bloomberg and the wall street journal. Honestly, see, if you google this shit right now, they would say the past four years america has made more money in the sense of when trump was in office. But you can look at other things too like the price of cereal and fox news what?
Speaker 5but once again, once again, people have to stop reading memes and headlines. We don't actually do the research, because in the research and a lot of the research that was going on, the reason why prices are high is because some of the things that Trump had did Really Some of the things.
Speaker 5But at the end of the day, my thing is this I don't like him as a character, I don't like him as an individual. As I said, I started this conversation off saying I watched five speeches from the man, just to see what the fuck does he talk about? Bro, he spends a good 45 minutes calling people names, really Talking shit about them, and then for the next 20 minutes he talks about his plan.
Speaker 2Exactly.
Speaker 5And that's it.
Speaker 2Now, when does Kamala talk about her plan? Really, I mean, did you watch the speech I did, and she really said nothing.
Speaker 1Okay okay.
Speaker 5Maybe, I don't know, Guys guys guys, guys, guys, guys.
Speaker 1Regardless of who's in office, inflation is going to continue to go up. I'm going to give youall just some, just some basic history of our economy and how it works.
Speaker 1America is a debt-based economy indeed and every year the inflation of the inflationary at the bare minimum is two percent. Meaning at the bare minimum is 2%, meaning everything will be going up at the very least by 2%, and that is a very, very low number. That's if you look at core inflation. That's a very, very, very low number and, I would argue, is not accurate. Regardless of who's in office matter of fact, let's just use Trump and let's just use Biden. The reason why inflation isn't the way it is now is a combination of money printing and the creation of treasury bills. It is those two things, regardless of who's in office, it does not matter. Those things are going to continue to happen. One of the things that transpired this past four years, don't forget interest rates.
Speaker 1That's a part of the puzzle. One of the things that happened as well Was the debt ceiling was increased.
Speaker 2I know.
Speaker 1So it doesn't matter who's in office. This is what I think is going to happen If Trump goes into office. If Trump goes into office, Trump is going to happen if Trump goes into office. If Trump goes into office, Trump is going to instantly try to turn on the money printer or he's going to cut insurance rates. The economy is going to bounce up and it's going to do great, but then next year, you know, is essentially kicking this inflation can down the road and inflation is going to skyrocket. That's what's going to happen if Trump goes into office. No-transcript um.
Speaker 2Fix it by throwing money at it.
Speaker 1No, she's going to attempt to cover that debt through increasing taxes. That's going to happen.
Speaker 2Oh, like that capital gains tax.
Speaker 1Oh, speaking of which, not even that?
Speaker 2the unrealized capital gains tax is crazy. That blew my mind.
Speaker 1I was like really so for those who don't know what an unrealized gain is, if that's going to affect any of your retirement plans.
Speaker 4Thank you, so an unrealized game is if that's going to affect any of your retirement plans, thank you, so an unrealized game is. I'm definitely not in favor of that.
Speaker 1For people that don't know what an unrealized game is, an unrealized game is. Let's just say, for the sake of an easy example, you bought a stock for $100. By the same time next year, it went from $100 to $200. That's how much the stock went up. Usually, once you cash out right, then you will pay taxes on whenever you cash out. What common or what what she is trying to introduce is an unrealized gain tax, meaning once it increases to this from 100 to 200, so that 100 that you made, that you didn't cash it out, you're going to have, that is going to be taxed.
Speaker 2Before you do anything, before you do, anything that's going to kill the crypto kids too.
Speaker 1No, that's going to kill Everything. Like he said, nobody's going to be able To retire, you're going to have to Work until you die.
Speaker 2But I'm saying what about? Like All the?
Speaker 1crypto millionaires. Now, what's going to happen is, in my opinion, if this does happen, first of all, if she does shut up, I don't think this is going to go. It's not going to go through, but let's just say, hypothetically, she did One of the things that's going to happen. One, because she's trying to increase the tax for the 1% To like something astronomical.
Speaker 2Like 45%.
Speaker 1Something crazy. So what's going to happen if that that happens? They're going to leave, right, they're either going to leave, they're going to leave America to go to other countries, indeed. Or they're going to use cheap labor via immigrants or automate.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1That's what I would do.
Speaker 2But you know that seemed to be a killing the plan.
Speaker 1That's why she let them all in. I mean that I can.
Speaker 2And she want to give them $25,000.
Speaker 1Yeah, but here's the thing With that. So there's Regardless if it was Democrat or Republican.
Speaker 4So just a quick. It only applies to individuals with at least $100 million in wealth who do not pay at least 25% of the tax rate on their income $100 million in wealth. So basically it would only apply to people that are already rich, that are already wealthy it wouldn't apply. That's what they're saying. It wouldn't apply to regular people.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's actually middle class cuts, cause that's what everybody says, everybody says middle class cuts.
Speaker 3Everybody says that.
Speaker 4Cause if that was the case, if you had that like you know, say your 401k or anything, I'm gonna be trashed when you come to try to actually live on that. It would be taxed as shit.
Speaker 2Indeed, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4You would end up basically with half of what you saved.
Speaker 1But here's my thing, though If the people that make a hundred, let's just go with that number. What is the percentage of people in America that makes over a hundred million dollars? Maybe one percent.
Speaker 4Less than that Maybe. Well, I are a lot of people that are $100 million. I mean, there's probably a lot more than you think there is.
Speaker 1If I had, I'm willing to bet it's about a thousand less than, like I would say, maybe 2,000 people in America Easily.
Speaker 5Out of 317 million people, Do you $100 million, but then again.
Speaker 2I'm thinking about, I mean $100 million, $100 billion, million, $100 million, that's a lot of cats making a hundred million, that's a lot of cats.
Speaker 1Nba cats, how many players in the NBA? First of all, people in the NBA. Don't make that much Not everybody in the NBA make a hundred million dollars.
Speaker 4So a hundred million dollars is a lot of money. I can't tell you exactly how many, but I mean it's not a lot. But so I'm just interested In what the numbers would be and how much. If this was to actually go through. What the numbers would be On how much it could, how much it could generate For one, for two, what would that money be for? You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 5How would that? You know? It's not for the wall, so that's 422,000. That can't be. It's not for the war, so that's 422,000.
Speaker 1That can't be, that's not 422,000 422,000 people Make 100 million dollars or more. Yep.
Speaker 5Wow.
Speaker 1That's 10%. That's less. That's about 10% of Americans. That don't make no sense, wow.
Speaker 3In America.
Speaker 1So that don't make. So 10% of America makes. I, I would think it's more than 2,000 people, though no, no, no no, okay, but which one sounds more real, close to 2,000 or close to 400,000? 10% of. American people make it. That don't make no sense. That means my 10% of people in America make $100 million or more.
Speaker 4So it's 300, how many of the population is? Like 317 million people or something like that.
Speaker 1That's even more than that.
Speaker 4In the United States of America.
Speaker 1It's not over a billion people in America. No sir, it's maybe 400 million maybe right, so you go somewhere between 300 400 million.
Speaker 4Hmm, when you talk about 400,000, I say either way hundred and thirty three million, all right, so yeah, there's no possible way that other people are making $100 million. I mean 400,000 out of 300 million is not that that's over 10%.
Speaker 1What is going on yo?
Speaker 5That's not, I mean, that's what it says right here bro, that is not accurate. Yes.
Speaker 1I pulled it up, wow, so just so I'm understanding this correctly in america, 10 over 10 people make 100 million dollars or more that's like one out of every what thousand no, that's one out of every 10. That's yeah, I can't be right. So you bring so every 10 people you run into making 100 million million. I need to meet this bitch. It's less than 1% Either way it's a horrible idea. It's a terrible idea. It's horrible Before.
Speaker 2I even say that out loud. It's horrible.
Speaker 1That is a horrible idea For anybody.
Speaker 2It's a terrible idea.
Speaker 1It's just a horrible idea. It's not feasible. For anybody.
Speaker 5Okay, here it is 9,630 people worth over $100 million. There's 770 people worth over a billion dollars.
Speaker 1That's a lot closer.
Speaker 2There we go. That's closer, that's more believable. How was he reading that? I knew?
Speaker 1it was I'm about to say. I knew 2,000 was low, but it wasn't 1,400,000.
Speaker 5I don't think it's a horrible idea. I don't think the taxes are just for that. 100 million people. I think, really, I agree it's not. Thank you, are you damn right To me? I think, honestly, what it is is tax the rich and cut the poor. Cut the poor, Like if they cut taxes for middle class, meaning we people sitting at this table that make under $125,000, you know, what I'm saying. Assumedly we won't get taxed as much as the person making $5 million. He would get taxed more because.
Speaker 1But you said $100 million, so $5 million. I know you said $100 million, $5 million, $100 million. Okay, so let me just, that's a big difference, though brother.
Speaker 2Let me just tell you, let me just, it's a horrible idea so okay, all right.
Speaker 4So this is not a new tax plan. This is actually a part of President Biden's latest budget proposal, so it includes a new tax on unrealized capital gains. It applies to only individuals with at least $100 million in wealth who do not pay at least a 25% rate on their income, inclusive of unrealized capital gains. Within that $100 million club. You'd only pay taxes on unrealized capital gains if at least 80% of your wealth is in tradable assets, ie not shares of private stocks or real estate. One caveat for this illiquid group is that there would be a deferred tax of up to 10% on unrealized capital gains upon exit. So, in short, it would not apply to most startup founders or investors if any group should be tweeting mad face emojis as top hedge fund managers. So this tax is really only there's really much to do about nothing.
Speaker 1Right, thank you. At the end of the day, this wouldn't apply to a lot of people. Okay, fair enough, but here's the thing. Okay, so I think this is the thing that we're forgetting. You can look up, Matthew. Y'all got computers, so you don't have to take my word for it. Type in the US government's balance sheet. Oh God, I want y'all to follow me on this. Type in the US government's balance sheet.
Speaker 2Let me know when you get and people who create jobs.
Speaker 1No, no, no, but here, but that's a whole nother. See that I'm going to tell you.
Speaker 4How unfeasible it is. Balance sheet.
Speaker 1Balance sheet. I want you to see how unfeasible this shit is.
Speaker 2But I'm saying, if you can say it's unfeasible, why would they even Come up with something? Because sentiment.
Speaker 1That's all they care about. Okay, now I want you To go down to Now. Keep scrolling. Horrible. You're going to see the assets and the liabilities. So that thing, that's the assets, I know we under liability, and then below that is liabilities. Right Now, I want you to go up Now. I want you to Wait, man, go down even lower, keep going. Oh, that's the spot. Pause. All right, go back up. I'm trying to make sure For the audio listeners and shit. I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1I can't think of which one to click on Anyway what I want is one of those that you click on. I want you to look at the entire balance sheet On the assets. Assets is what? The reason I'm saying this? This is the bottom line, this is all that matters. The assets is the money that's coming in. Liabilities is money that's going out. Just putting that short right. So if you your paycheck, whenever you get a paycheck from your job, that's your asset. The liabilities is your bills.
Debt and Taxation Debate
Speaker 1The US government's number one asset is student loan debt. That's number one. That's the one of the main ways that they get money. Number two is taxes, of course. Now on the liability aspect, the top three are treasury bills and bonds. For those who don't know what treasury bills and bond is, that is that is basically a government iou. So basically, what you're doing is yours. That is, that is subsidized government debt. And guess who buys that shit? Other countries and banks, meaning. And, mind you, that's guaranteed money. So you, if, anytime, if you bought a treasury bill, that means that however many that you buy, you're guaranteed to get that money back on, whatever the yield is. That's a whole nother conversation. But one thing they're not if. If I owe something like, for example, china is one of the biggest holders Of treasury bills and bonds. If I owe China this amount of money, right, it was somewhere in the trillions. No, no, I think it's in the high billions. I don't think it's in the trillions yet.
Speaker 1Probably. I don't get them random, okay, but if I know For a fact, I gotta pay them this money If they choose to cash it out. Right, if I got to pay them that money and the top two ways that I get money is student loan, debt and taxes, how am I going to get that money from people that is, if only less than 10,000 people first of all make X amount of money to help cover that debt number one, and you're telling me you're going to cut taxes for the majority of people you can get the most money from so it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4Well, but if they aren't trying to impose, basically so this they're trying to impose this tax on the super wealthy right. So you talk about people that have hundreds of millions, in some cases billions of dollars, then if you tax those people, if all those people pay a fair share of taxes, then what they would pay would be in the hundreds, or possibly billions you think they're going to stand for that?
Speaker 1That's not at all. Let me tell you why this is. I'm going to tell you why this is so you don't think if you tax.
Speaker 4So if there's 9,000 people who make $100 million or more and you tax all of them, you don't think you can get hundreds of millions of dollars out of that. I'm going to tell you why.
Speaker 1Because the government is in $31 trillion in debt, meaning that's what we owe. Our current GDP to debt ratio was 123%. What?
Speaker 1that means is 100% means you're breaking even. So they're at 123%, meaning their debt is outweighing their fucking assets. So if you literally took every dollar, let's just say the tax is 100% on nothing but the wealthy. Just add up all the billionaire's money from $100 million or more, just add up their money and let's just say we're going to take all that, we're going to put that towards the bill. How much money do you really think that's going to take away out of $31?
Speaker 5trillion $230,900,000,000. So if you tax 25% out of $100 million, that is.
Speaker 1Sir, sir, sir, sir. You didn't read what he was saying because it's way more specific than that. He also said if the majority of your as in a liquid liquidable assets, is that correct? Something like that like trade tradable assets?
Speaker 4so if you have to, which, a lot of people, people that are billionaires and millionaires, a lot of those, a lot of those numbers are money.
Speaker 1They're tied up in like stocks about saying this all right, that's a small stocks and bonds.
Speaker 4Very few people that are liquid when it comes to that type of money.
Speaker 1Exactly so that's even further ensuring that they don't.
Speaker 4So it would apply to most of those people, because most of their wealth would be tied up in like capital gains.
Speaker 1No, no, which is fair. So, for example, let's just say I'm worth a billion dollars and let's just say I got a hundred million dollars in liquidable assets. So what, that means that's nine hundred million. That isn't so? Do you see?
Speaker 4I'm saying like that, like that's right, so you would be taxed on so you don't know you, wouldn't you? Just that's what you read, right? No, if you say, if you're a billionaire and you have not I have.
Speaker 1you have a hundred million with liquid, a 100 million in liquidable assets that can be taxed and 900 million that isn't.
Speaker 4No, no, no, but no, no, no. The tax would apply to the 900 million that isn't liquid.
Speaker 2It's capital gains Does this apply to individuals or corporations?
Speaker 1No no, no Okay.
Speaker 4Liquid is cash. Liquid is pulling money out the bank.
Speaker 1Right, right, no out the bank, right? No, liquid liquid, your liquid assets, is what you can touch, right, and I'm saying nine a hundred million is, and 900 isn't right, so you would be taxed on that 900.
Speaker 4That isn't, it would be okay, okay, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1So even still, the amount of money that it would be required to even put a dent in that debt from that small percentage of people is not feasible. So so, so, so, so, so, so no but I don't.
Speaker 4I don't think that they were proposing this tax to fix that problem. It may be it could help, and who knows why the fuck they're proposing it, but it's not but to act. But it's also like that. If this tax were to go through and it would apply to this subset of people, is it going to fix all the issues? Hell, no, Of course it would. It wouldn't take us out of debt, it wouldn't do any of that Right, but it would generate a lot of money if that did happen For what.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 4Now, for what purpose? I don't know UFOs. Okay, but when you talk about just the tax in general, what it could do in terms of how much money it could possibly generate would be substantial.
Speaker 1Okay, so that's just one of them.
Speaker 5So this is the main thing what does Trump have?
Speaker 1Fuck him. I don't think he would even propose anything like that. No, he's not.
Speaker 5I'm just saying what is his plan on cutting taxes? What's his thing? He talks about cutting taxes and but he never specifically said. Out of five speeches I watched, this man said I will cut taxes. Okay, great, but on who, though? What? Who are you going to cut taxes?
Speaker 5on rich folks like is it going to be? But tell me who. You just say taxes, it's just out there. At least, if anybody else, if I say something, I'm gonna say this specific group, we're gonna tax this group. He just literally just says we're gonna tax what, we're gonna cut taxes. All right, how and what you're gonna cut what I would say about both of them.
Speaker 2It's like maybe both of them have great areas, but this is a horrible idea, just period. It's horrible. It's a horrible idea. Why is it horrible? Because it's like one you're taxing people who make a lot of money and I feel like if they're making this much money, they'll figure out a way to go around it and a lot of you.
Speaker 4That's typically what happens. That's why we're in the. That's yeah, that's typically what happens. So I'm saying you should do it too, you should I would no, of course.
Speaker 2But I'm saying, if you penalize people who are making money, I see it as I see it as a problem.
Speaker 4I don't think it's I don't think it's penalizing people, because I mean we have to pay taxes on every fucking thing we have the same loopholes though yeah, but but not, not necessarily. But we also don't have. So taking advantage of those loopholes are the same thing that rich folks do, but it's not as simple as, because you need to know what the fuck you're doing in order to do that.
Speaker 1That's why you go to the taxman who don't have a taxman right now. That said. They said, man, I can get you 15 stacks.
Speaker 4Hell yeah, I'm going to get you 15 stacks, yeah, but some of them motherfuckers don't know what doing it.
Speaker 1Some Nothing is 100%.
Speaker 4If you would let me finish what the fuck I'm saying? What I'm saying is is, like the people that have that type of capital, the accountants and people that they have access to to find those loopholes and do all that shit for them, like are not the type of people that people like you and me readily have access to.
Speaker 1Are you speaking of access, yes? Yes, we do have.
Speaker 4XSOs. No, you don't. No, you don't, you don't have, you can't. So for one, those people get paid. You can't always. You know what I'm saying, because motherfuckers can't, even, always don't even want to pay. Them niggas do their taxes once a year.
Speaker 5They process their W-2s. Them niggas pay them.
Speaker 4Them niggas charge can afford.
Speaker 2But I would say the biggest difference also is that most people like us, we're taxed on income. An individual making that type of money, he might say well, you know, I can set my money aside and put it in a corporation where my income doesn't even meet these requirements and my company's not even based in this country.
Speaker 4I don't even live in this country.
Speaker 2You'll still get taxed.
Speaker 4I don't live here. No, you'll still get taxed. I don't live here, no you'll get taxed.
Speaker 5Our friend Bakari has not been a citizen for 15 years. He still gets taxed.
Speaker 4Taxed for what?
Speaker 5Because they're like you still want to be a citizen here. So he has to pay taxes every year just to have the ID Larnell.
Speaker 4That's not to say that they don't pay taxes at all, but there are people that set up. That's why they'll have like there's like an island I forgot the name of this island where people would just have like PO boxes and shit there, just so they can say their business is based there. You know what I'm saying? So they don't have to pay certain taxes, like that's definitely, that's definitely a thing.
Speaker 4So people generally that are super wealthy they figure out ways to have offshore accounts, shit like that, where your money is not here, because any money that you hold in this country is going to be taxed at whatever rate they choose. So in places and there are plenty of countries and places that advertise these type of tax rates to people that have this type of money so they can bring their business there you know what.
Speaker 4I'm saying Because their GDP will obviously be a lot smaller than ours, but percentage-wise, in terms of their size, of their people and their economy, you know what I'm saying that's a big revenue driver for them. So, historically, and that's been one of the biggest things, and while this could be more symbolic than anything else because that's one of the biggest things that a lot of people talk about is because wealthy people are not taxed at the same rate that we are, and so it does seem to be a bit unfair that that happens. And there are reasons why people that are super wealthy because they're saying like, basically they are job creators, they generate a lot of revenue, they pay a lot of people, you know. So there are reasons why they shouldn't have to necessarily pay the same taxes that we do.
Speaker 1But what I give you. They are taxed higher than we are. They just know how to avoid it. They get around it. Yeah, they know how to get around it.
Speaker 1So I'm going to because I'm like, for example, like we can, let's just say, talk about something I think we all can have some sort of idea with as far as, like, an NBA contract, a $100 million contract in Houston pays out different than what it would be in New York, paid out different than what it would be in New York, paid out differently than what it would be in California.
Debate on Tax Laws and Loopholes
Speaker 4Oh yeah, Okay, so you see what I'm saying. Based on the state income tax right Right right. That's why a lot of people want to play in Texas, because Texas and Florida they don't have state income, State income tax. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1So, as far as tax laws go, in general, the tax laws are there. It's not like the millionaires and billionaires aren't taxed that way. They just know how to get around it legally Indeed. So what you're asking, or at least what they're trying to say, is they're trying to close this legal loophole. Yeah, to make sure people pay their taxes, but that will also affect them, and I don't see that happening.
Speaker 4A lot because, I mean, I don't think there's anybody in the Senate that's not a millionaire. There probably may be some people in Congress that don't have millions, maybe I don't know, but most politicians in this country are millionaires. You know what I'm saying and I mean and one can argue, a lot of them have their millions tied up in stocks and bonds and people will speculate that there's a lot of insider trading.
Speaker 1Nancy Pelosi, you know what?
Speaker 4I'm saying that goes on. I'm sure if that's the case for her, I'm sure that she ain't the only one that's doing it. If that's the case for her, I'm sure that she ain't the only one that's doing it. I'm going to put all mine on a link card, because you'll have access to certain information. You know what I'm saying? Things that the general public are not privy to in terms of things happening within business, mergers, things like that. Other shit like collapses, potential collapses bankruptcy filings.
Speaker 1You know what?
Speaker 4I'm saying things like that. You'll have access to that type of information before you know. Saying so, whether it may behoove you to buy or sell before the deuce, certain certain events may happen. You know I mean so. So, but you know, oh, there's a, it is, it is, it's called. It's almost like you know.
Speaker 4Remember, when public escobar first went, uh, went to jail and he basically, in Columbia, he basically made his own jail, he built a compound way out somewhere. Then he would on the weekends, he would still go out places and shit. Basically, what I'm saying is you were lying on the. That's the equivalent, I feel like, of these proposed tax cuts on the on the. That's the equivalent, I feel like, of these proposed tax cuts on the rich, because people aren't going to do things like that, with the fact that that will affect themselves. Now there may not be a lot of hundred millionaires, people that have hundreds of millions of dollars in congress and work, you know, and work in, uh, you know, and work in government Definitely a lot of millionaires. You're not going to see them do a lot of things that are going to directly affect their pockets.
Speaker 4That's why I never really pay too much attention to them saying you may have some that feel like they'll do their share, that we should pay more, but most people are not, because just because you're a millionaire Don't mean You're economically stable, because a lot of motherfuckers, no matter how much money you got, people spend that shit Just as fast as they make it. You know you fly in private, you got kids in private school. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3Just as fast as they motherfucking just as fast as they make it you know and you fly in private.
Speaker 4You got kids in private school you know, what I'm saying, you doing all this other shit. You know what I mean. You got like multiple properties. You got three, four mortgages. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2Five girlfriends.
Speaker 4You know what I'm saying. Yeah, you got side bitches that you got to pay their rent. You know what I mean. You got motherfucking five car notes, car insurance. You know what I'm saying? What I'm saying is, just because you got a lot of money, you make a lot of money don't mean you got a lot of money, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4Because a lot of people are cash poor. So when you think about it in that way, it's like okay, even if this person, that that's in the Senate and they can be millionaires. But it's just like, well, shit, if I gotta pay this much more taxes, that means shit. I might have to cut one of my side bitches off.
Speaker 5You know what I'm saying, tracy?
Speaker 4I'm not paying for your tuition, no more, you know what I'm saying or or, or, or, or even that, maybe shit I. I got five kids, all the motherfuckers in the college. Right now I'm paying tuition. You know what I'm saying. I got a motherfucker at fucking Stanford. I got a nigga at Yale. I got a nigga at Princeton. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2About to all. Transfer to King and King.
Speaker 4And all these motherfucking schools is like $50,000, $60,000 a semester or a year or some shit. So you're talking about like 100 racks a year. You paying a motherfucker. So if you got like so, you might be shelling out. You know what I'm saying. A quarter of a billion dollars. No, I'm sorry, a quarter of a million dollars into intuition. You know what I'm saying. A year. Okay, can we also put out there as well that, yeah, we don't get a chance to talk about none of the other shit we're supposed to talk about?
Speaker 1What is it we're supposed to be talking about?
Speaker 4I mean, I don't know. I know we have a list of stuff, but it's fine because we already yeah, because we well over an hour in at this point. Yeah. All right Well.
Speaker 1We almost in 90, almost 90 minutes, I will. That will last. One last one make, though. As far as the whole tax and things, oh, I think one of the things that people are also forgetting is this tax the rich, so we're gonna tax your personal income, okay, but a lot of these people don't have the money their company does. Hmm, yes, I was saying individuals operations.
Speaker 3That's what so was saying. That's what I was saying. It's an individual corporation.
Speaker 2That's what I was saying.
Speaker 5There's also the same people that give themselves a million, hundred million dollar salaries.
Speaker 1You- would too. You would too, sir, yes, you would.
Speaker 3Or.
Election Politics and Presidential Succession
Speaker 1I can be the CEO of King Drive Incorporated and I just handle a lot of money and I can be the CEO of King Drive Incorporated and I just hand a lot of money and I can buy this mansion and I just so happen to live in it and it's being paid by King.
Speaker 2Drive.
Speaker 1You can put it in the trust, yeah, or put it in the trust. You see what?
Speaker 4I'm saying, but that's the whole point when people talk about LLCs, the main point of having an LLC is to separate you from your business. Indeed, you know what I'm saying. So if something happens where your business gets sued, it's the business, you don't, so the money that you have as you, as a person, is not touchable. They can only take the assets of the business. You know what I'm saying so yeah.
Speaker 1So, so in all, if that does go into play, who is really gonna be affected and how much money will that generate?
Speaker 4with that in mind, I mean, it could, it could not, but it could also just be for show, or it could just be, or it could be some shit that may not even get in, and that's the thing about A lot of these things don't get pushed in, but but that's the thing about the office of the president. You know what I'm saying. It's kind of more of a figurehead position.
Speaker 4I mean obviously you have veto power and you can do executive orders and shit. But even executive orders can be. You know it may happen immediately, but that can still be overturned in court.
Speaker 2Well damn, what does that say about the vice president position?
Speaker 4I mean so the vice president, their main, their, so their Break the tie. No, so well, so they, yes, they break the tie. And they're also foreign policy. Ooh, you know what I'm saying. So yeah, which obviously doesn't. I mean consider this migration, but not necessarily in terms of the border, but in terms of their diplomat. They're the top diplomat, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5So, dealing with other countries and those politics, they're the one that got to go up and smooth shit over.
Speaker 4Which also which is also another thing that people have about the whole thing going on in Palestine. Hilarious to me, but most vice presidents you don't really remember. It's not like you don't see or hear a lot from vice presidents in general.
Speaker 5The vice president basically takes up things that the president doesn't have time for, so the fact that people are talking about you you don't see Kamala a lot.
Speaker 4What vice president did you see a lot? You know what I'm saying. It's just kind of what it is.
Speaker 2She makes me think of Joe Biden when he was a vice president. Barack Obama, I mean people kind of took that. I mean he did have a long career in government, but they kind of took that and that catapulted him to the presidency.
Speaker 4We thought we were getting white Obama. You know what I'm saying. White Obama Well, I didn't say we, because I wasn't a part of that, but that's kind of what he ran. As that's what I'm saying, joe Biden ran as white Obama. You know what I'm saying. You know what? Can I just?
Speaker 1say. Isn't it kind of funny, though? Remember when Obamaama was president, everybody loved joe biden. Uncle joe, he's so great, I want to sit with uncle joe and have a beer with uncle joe. And then, when joe biden wanted to run for president the first time, oh no, joe biden is a pedophile. He's creepy, creepy. Joe, did you see the way he touched this person's arm? Oh, my god. And then the next presidential race will get, uh, oh my god, joe Joe Biden is great and Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1Oh no, kamala is terrible, she can't be president. Kamala is this and Kamala locks up niggas. Oh no, we can't have that. And now, all of a sudden, kamala is the savior. I just find this like y'all don't find it a little humorous.
Speaker 4I mean yeah, because what the fuck else are they going to do? I, I mean yeah, it's politics.
Speaker 3Yeah, because what the fuck else are they going to do?
Speaker 4I'm just saying that's what they had to do. That, because who else were they going to put out there? No one. You know what I'm saying? The Democratic.
Speaker 2Party didn't have no one to put there. Well, they didn't give us a chance, they just said Kamala, you're next.
Speaker 4Who the fuck?
Speaker 1Who are you?
Speaker 4giving the chance to. I think RFK Jr won it right. No, he's a Republican, he's independent, he's a conservative leaning, but he's independent, but he officially endorsed Trump, so he's.
Speaker 1I mean by law, cause that's who I was gonna vote for. But fuck it by law.
Speaker 5If the president goes down, either he's shot, sick, killed, whatever the case may be. The vice president takes up, she becomes the nominee.
Speaker 2Yeah no, you supposed to vote for the nominee, right.
Speaker 4She doesn't automatically become the nominee, but that's what happened. That's what happened at the DNC.
Speaker 2That's why she had to accept the nomination officially Did Joe Biden little run and get him dirty.
Speaker 4I mean well, one could argue that yeah. I mean well, one could argue that yeah. But it became. There was no way Joe Biden was going to get reelected. It wasn't going to happen.
Speaker 1Crazy things have happened, sir. I don't know.
Speaker 4I mean.
Speaker 5We did have a rapist.
Speaker 4So okay.
Speaker 2George Washington, no, thomas Jefferson. Right here we had a few of those. We had a few of those. If you want to be real. Actually, I own slaves as president. Right, right, right.
Speaker 4Have you seen that shit about Thomas Jefferson? Have you ever read any of that shit? That nigga was wild bro. Thomas Jefferson was a wild boy.
Speaker 1That was a wild boy.
Speaker 2He had the first freak in the plantation.
Speaker 1Hey yo that shouldn't be funny, but that is.
Speaker 4What happened was not funny at all.
Speaker 1Not at all. But Thomas Jefferson was a wild boy. That was a wild man.
Speaker 4Nah, that just made me forget what the fuck I was just saying.
Speaker 5Well, vote for whoever you fucking vote for.
Speaker 4I mean so yeah, what the hell? This is crazy. What is going on. Point being bro, is they didn't have a choice. Joe Biden was not going to win. I can't say, because I can't predict the future Exactly, but he did not. I can't predict the future Exactly, but he did not. It wasn't looking good, bro. You see why they did what they did. After that first debate. Joe Biden, whether you can argue it was dirty or not, I can't.
Political Deterioration and Election Speculation
Speaker 4I mean, he was kind of but bro after you saw that first debate, you know what I'm saying. It was just his. He has deteriorated. It seems like he has deteriorated. His cognitive functions have deteriorated to a point where, like bro Joe, you need to just go ahead and live out the rest of your years Go ahead, go to the farm. You know what I'm saying, bro man? Just go to the beach house, bro, and just chill out, joe.
Speaker 1Go with Jimmy Carter, finish building houses.
Speaker 4Joe right, go enjoy the years you have left sir, you know what I'm saying To the best of your ability, because you don't need To be running no fucking country. Wow, you probably can't even Run your household At this point, oh Nah, but but that I like his black. Good job, joe Right. But I don't think Joe has completely lost his faculties. You know what I'm saying and who knows what his condition really is and how long it's been like that? But based on what we've seen, the deterioration that has happened over these past four years.
Speaker 4But my thing is, if y'all were gonna do this, y'all had plenty of opportunities.
Speaker 4You know, I'm saying because like it's not like, this shit is new because I remember you don't happen over there's a motherfucker, because I because I didn't watch the debate, but it's just like it was kind of like man. I remember some years ago this nigga, uh, the huffington post was doing this like live q a on on uh Q&A on their Facebook page and they were advertising and they were like man, they were going to do this live thing with R Kelly.
Speaker 3And I was like that is a bad idea.
Speaker 4You know what I'm saying. I don't know why the fuck they would do that, and sure enough that shit happened and they ended up having to shut it down Because they was taking live questions from Twitter and you know taking live questions from Twitter and you know taking live questions from Twitter for R.
Speaker 3Kelly, you know what I'm saying. Shit's going to be crazy, nobody thought about this.
Speaker 4It went left so quick. You know what I'm saying, but it's just like somebody should have seen this coming and it's the same thing with this, bro, Like we shouldn't have had to go to the first debate for people to realize that he wasn't going to perform well.
Speaker 1Everybody knew that. Here's my question. This is a serious question what up? Do you believe that the Democrats are kind of just throwing the election?
Speaker 2So they get the first draft pick.
Speaker 1No, hear me out. This is what I really, in my heart of hearts, think they want Trump to be. I just think Trump is.
Speaker 4Because they see the shit going down the toilet. You see what I'm saying. I got to be honest with you.
Speaker 1It doesn't make much sense Because I'm real. It didn't make sense for you to wait this long.
Speaker 3Y'all this.
Speaker 4This nigga was declining a long time ago y'all could have had somebody said how long they, because nigga sleepy Joe sleepy. Joe been going around for me and me on tiny.
Speaker 1It's always like he been keeping sleepy Joe for at least two years at least. At least you could been prepped, kamala Harris, but you didn't.
Speaker 4She was just off her. She was kicking it, she was doing her thing. Well, that's not to say, they didn't prep her. They could have been prepping her, but they didn't. Not the weekend though, right, not the weekend, not the weekend. So you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1So, as far as go, it looks like a rush job and it's like it's almost like y'all trying to throw it. You see what I'm saying. It's like y'all know something that we don't Do. You want Trump to be president?
Speaker 2Setting him up for failure? I don't know. I'm going to let y'all answer Me.
Speaker 5Personally, seeing the energy and watching both speeches, I really hope that he does lose. I mean, I just I don't have. I mean we're the laughing stock of the world. We was once the greatest nation in the world. Like we was once the greatest nation in the world, we was feared and we was respected.
Speaker 2Until four years ago.
Speaker 5We had integrity. Not being funny and being serious, we had integrity. We had morals, we had grounds. People respected us. The world does not fuck with the United States at all. We're like a laughing stock. Oh no, they see affairs.
Speaker 1Now Hold on, they got that military.
Speaker 4There's still a fear, but I'm talking about what he's talking about I figure
Speaker 2what he's saying though.
Speaker 4What he's talking about, because we were just Bakari has come up. We were talking about that because he's lived in Australia now for some years. He travels abroad a lot. I know Rasan also, his best friend yeah, lives in london you know what I'm saying so like. So they have, uh, a unique perspective or a different perspective in terms of what we, because they actually see it.
Speaker 4Indeed, you know, I'm saying from, from the outside, looking in, indeed, and in terms of so and bakari has been over there for like 10 years nice yeah, over 10 years yeah, over 10 years. So he he saw it from when it looked like. You know, because, say what you want about Obama, obama was presidential, he carried himself in a presidential manner. You know what I'm saying, and people across the world love and respect.
Speaker 5They love to see him and his wife. Yeah, except for Mark Adafi, of course.
Debate on Trump's Behavior and Presidency
Speaker 4And in regards to what you say about optics and what people see, what you see, how things look, how things are presented, is very powerful, right? I agree, you know what I'm saying. Now, obviously there needs to be substance and things to go along with that, but optics are extremely powerful, right? So, in terms of what we were seen as, and and under Obama, and then what, what transpired under Trump, trump is it behaves like a toddler a lot of times. You know, say he's like a, he's like a spoiled brat child. You know I'm saying like he's, he's just he's not. He. You can't. And for me personally, like bro, the way he behaves is just not. I could never, I would never want someone like that to represent me in any way, shape or form. You know what I'm saying and and, and that's pretty much, because it's not like I have this glaring hope or endorsement for.
Speaker 4Kamala right, he has his things for sizes you know what I'm saying, but there is just no way I can in good conscience support a man that acts the way he does, treats people the way he does, speaks to people the way he does, like there's just no way I could do that. You know what I'm saying and all I have to go off is what I see and what I read. I don't know Trump personally. I don't know Kamala personally. He was president. You can go with that.
Speaker 4Yeah right. So what happened during his presidency that I feel like, makes me, that should make me want to vote for him again.
Speaker 2This presidency wasn't going on.
Speaker 4So that means he's going to do better.
Speaker 2He did better.
Speaker 4No, he didn't. What did he do? What did Trump?
Speaker 2do. I'm just saying the country wasn't like this when he was president.
Speaker 4What did he do? What was the country like?
Speaker 2It wasn't that inflation.
Speaker 4A lot of that was a result of a pandemic, bro, and what happened and, like you said, all that money being pumped into the economy, and it still wasn't as bad as it is now.
Speaker 5We would have a pandemic if he would have just fucking listened.
Speaker 1That's not true. That's not true, that's definitely not fucking true.
Speaker 4But Trump didn't do anything. Or was it a pandemic? Is it a?
Speaker 5conspiracy theory.
Speaker 4That's a whole other story altogether. But Trump didn't do anything, bro. He didn't do anything. That's markedly better than anything that Kamala did, than anything Obama did or fucking Bush did or Clinton did, and that's the thing.
Speaker 1It's not like oh yeah, we've been Democratic for a while now. They don't have war crimes, though you said what? Now, a lot of them have. Well, you can argue there were some war crimes. I have war crimes, though you said what? Now, a lot of them. Well, you can argue there was some war crimes going on.
Speaker 4Oh, there was a lot of shit that happened during the Obama administration. You know what I'm saying. Like I mean, god help us all. What?
Speaker 5what you do? What? When he said he was in a plane with the judge that dated Kamala and he was about to go down and crash. And then they interviewed the dude and he was like I've never been in a plane with him when it was about to crash. I have no idea what he's talking about.
Speaker 1I know, see, I'm what you were. I personally, I think I can't listen to him talk dude his wife stole word for word for Michelle Obama's speech.
Speaker 5Like word for word, she stole the whole speech like tax on tips right, like for me. Where have you seen a vana? Has anybody?
Speaker 2seen it's like a vampire but I was just saying. Kamala said tax on tips and Trump said first. But she was like it's.
Speaker 4It's like for me. I feel like if you look at Trump and be like, yeah, that's the guy I want leading us, then I just can't understand it. I'm sorry, I don't know what you see.
Speaker 2I must be a crazy person because I just feel like when I was listening to these speeches at the DNC, it's like they were playing in my face. It's like All politicians play in your face, but not to this extent. It was just cringy. It's like when Kamala was speaking. It's like they start from before the Biden administration and skip to now. She always says, well, talk about what happened, like during Trump, and talk about Trump, but you don't talk about like when you were vice president, like now. You just skip that whole part and it's just like you playing in my face. You're not going to talk about that.
Speaker 4Then you say, well, kamala, you need to do some interviews. So what does she do? She interviews her vp. I'm like, don't do that, come on, man, that was horrible. I mean so she, I'm sure. Well, hopefully they will be. I mean so it hasn't been going on that long she has. It's not like she's, it's not like she's been. So this is only all happened within like the last 30 days, but much but nobody's interviewed her.
Speaker 4I mean so she should be, so we'll see what happens. What I'm saying is it's not like she's been running for president for like six months now.
Speaker 1And she ain't had no interviews. You know what I'm saying? I don't think she is going to get in. I mean because it's a rush job. I mean because, if you think about it, I mean because it's a rush job. I mean because, if you think about it, it might be.
Speaker 4It is a rush job.
Speaker 1That's why I asked y'all if you think you're going to do it.
Speaker 2They finna get to it. It's a rush job they finna. Get to it I mean because, if you think and I don't think she should do the debate with Trump.
Speaker 5No, she has no choice. No, no, I put money. I doubt it, Because all he's going to think about think about every debate, bro. He doesn't talk about issues. He talks about.
Speaker 2are you awake?
Speaker 4No, but also the thing about debating somebody like Trump is Trump doesn't care about what's true and what's factual or not. Trump would just say some shit in the moment just to make a point and win an argument.
Speaker 1Kamala's indirect too, brother.
Speaker 4I mean you know.
Speaker 2It's about joy.
Speaker 4All politicians lie, all politicians blow smoke and all that shit. But Trump would just get up there and just say some shit and talk about an event. Like you said my man on the plane straight up there, get up and talk about the shit. That didn't happen.
Speaker 5The last piece. I watched him. He was like the Obama's. When I met them they were so nasty. I thought that. So nasty. They treated me like like, so nasty. How? Why is they even being brought up in a convention?
Speaker 1That's what I'm saying. Like these man look.
Black People Moving Abroad Discussion
Speaker 5You know I'm going to say this and you know hopefully you know this will be a word of advice for anybody else that's listening. Get your money right. Start looking at other countries, because this shit's crazy.
Speaker 1Okay, who's seriously?
Speaker 5I'm seriously about to Nigga. I'm seriously thinking about that shit when you gonna go. Seriously when there? Are top 10 countries that black people are moving out to. I can send it to you.
Speaker 3Like where.
Speaker 5Panama.
Speaker 2Like where.
Speaker 5Panama and Costa Rica is number two. I'm not going.
Speaker 3I know they're number two. I know, I know I can see you, I can see you.
Speaker 5They did an actual study on what countries that black people are moving to. They feel accepted and less prejudice.
Speaker 2Do all these countries have a footlocker? Just saying.
Speaker 3And on that note.
Speaker 4That's a perfect place to end this conversation.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm going there footlocking. They got an outlet and everything.
Speaker 1I do like a little bit like Costa Rica.
Speaker 4I mean, but we're going to see, you know, obviously I'm sure this won't be the last conversation we have about this, but I mean the election will be here, Because what I mean, we at the end of August.
Speaker 3Three months.
Speaker 4Yeah, we at the end of August Three months.
Speaker 5Yeah, we at the end of August, now September, october, no, really two September.
Speaker 1October Two in two weeks.
Speaker 5That's when they finna get to it, bro. I'm telling you, it's September, october and then November. At the United Center, those suites was, and they was all sold out.
Speaker 1That's insane.
Speaker 4That was all sold out, so we shall see Indeed indeed.
Speaker 5She got that money coming in and she's definitely going to Tax the shit out of you, right? I got to wait to see this debate, man. Let's see how this goes. I'm speaking now.
Speaker 1No, I'm going to lie. That shit is going to be a clown show.
Speaker 2That's going, how this goes. I'm speaking now. No, I'm going to watch.
Speaker 1That shit is going to be a clown show. That's going to be hilarious. Both of them niggas. It's going to be Joe Biden and Trump all over again. The first one. We'll see A bunch of fucking kids.
Speaker 2We shall see, but time will tell All right man Look at you Pepto.
Speaker 5Bismol bro.
Speaker 2I'm drinking beer. You burp sometimes really what happens?
Speaker 4okay, you don't drink beer like I do okay, if I have some taco bell and I fart. Don't think you will tell you you've got some taco you might you do.
Speaker 1All right, if you're gonna do a taco, hey, any grow baby taco bear, you need to realize your diet you need to taste your. You know, we had a conversation like you're right, yeah, is that a g-unit tank top?
Speaker 2that is definitely g-g-g-g-g-g-Unit, g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-unit. I got it from one of them off-brand stores in Gary when they got all the urban gear.
Speaker 1They still selling those. You know it's got the Arab guy. You happen bro.
Speaker 2They selling that.
Speaker 1That's a fresh one.
Speaker 4Yeah, they sell all types of stuff, them motherfuckers still Unopened packages from 2003.
Speaker 3Yo, I haven't seen that in about 20 years I got a Nelly jersey in the car vocality alright, man.
Speaker 5Thank y'all for tuning in to the Easily Infected Podcast man. This is episode 62.
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Speaker 2And that's a campaign I can run behind. God damn we outside.
Speaker 1Right, I believe in equal rights for bitches. Hey, now that's a campaign I can run behind. Well, damn it. I recently changed my Instagram handle to Chris underscore Darius. I don't know why, but I just changed it.
Speaker 4Oh, you changed that. Yeah, I changed it, but my Twitter still.
Speaker 1X is still Wheezy Cage Okay.
Speaker 5So it's changed to Chris what?
Speaker 1Underscore Darius. Okay, I'm trying to grow up. Man, I'm still Weezy, though Everybody know that.
Speaker 5Weezy baby, that's still my nickname.
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