Racism, Rigged Elections, and the Wild World of Tyson vs. Paul

What happens when foundational issues like racism and corruption don't sway voters? Join us on Slap the Power as we wade through the emotional fallout of the recent elections, highlighting a national rift in what were once universally accepted values. We grapple with the disbelief and dissonance felt by many, questioning how these deep-seated issues could possibly be overshadowed. In the midst of this uncertainty, we spotlight the valiant efforts of some political figures and confront the chaotic influence of misinformation from digital moguls like Elon Musk. With this backdrop, we stress the urgent need for action towards positive change and a rekindling of the core principles meant to bind us all.

From politics to pugilism, we shift gears to the thrilling spectacle of an upcoming boxing match between social media sensation Jake Paul and boxing legend Mike Tyson, streaming soon on Netflix. Reminisce with us about Tyson's nostalgic days from Nintendo glory to intense advocacy for his beloved pigeons. Discover the surprising talents of these underestimated birds, from detecting cancer to predicting volcanic eruptions, and delve into Tyson’s potential plans for a pigeon protection initiative. As we sail through this diverse narrative, get ready to explore the exciting, the unexpected, and everything in between on Slap the Power.

Chapters

• 0:00 Unifying Artists for Progress and Change
• 9:58 Pigeon Pals and Boxing Excitement
• 21:31 Digital Media Promotion for Slap Network

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

All right, the world may not need another podcast, but it could definitely use a slap. Welcome to Slap the Power, the show that crosses artists who are using their powers for progress. I'm Rick Barrio-Dill.

Speaker 2: 0:11

And I'm Asia Nakia, that's right.

Speaker 1: 0:12

On the show today. You've heard a million takes and we're going to give you one more the election recap and kind of a change of purpose here. At Slap the Power, which is awesome, we hit our new animal rescue segment, paws for Progress, where we get into pigeons and Mike Tyson His first fight was over a pigeon which I did not know, and it's apropos what's coming up this weekend with the Jake Paul-Tyson fight and a little later we get into two scams and a slap where we take three batshit crazy events, two of which are fake but one is real, and one of us, one of the two of us, in real time, along with you, the listener learns which one is true and which one is a slap in the face of reality. Okay, but first we were talking about this show format and it just did not seem.

Speaker 1: 1:02

This is not a normal episode, did not seem. This is not a normal episode. You know this is post-election and so we felt that it was very important to kind of be as sort of open as possible, with us having the Harris campaign next door and stuff like that. And so, first up, miss Asia Nakia, how do you feel after the elections?

Speaker 2: 1:23

You know, I think when we left the office that night I was just still sort of in a state of shock. And then the days following were a bit tough. I just felt my body very heavy, you know, and I was struggling to like get myself out of bed pretty much. And since then, you know, I've picked myself up off the floor literally and, you know, using all of that energy and putting it into this show and the good things we're doing. You know that really I had to shift my mindset a bit because it was a very sombering moment for me, for sure.

Speaker 1: 2:03

There's a dissonance that is created, a cognitive dissonance that is created. That's asking 70 million of us to, you know, to accept something that we know. We have 10 years of evidence to be true. I'm encouraged because we have so many Republicans from, you know, the Cheneys to the insane clown posse to you that somebody being a racist, wanting to, you know, kind of nationalize the country. We're gonna start to see that more and more and that's a tough thing to swallow when we're like, okay, racism wasn't a a deal breaker, the you know, and none of it was a deal breaker. And that's what's. I think.

Speaker 1: 3:05

For me it's like for a while I was like it was. It's a tough hit, but again, a hundred times out of a hundred, I, we, we, we go all in with what we got. I think, like we said at the top, there's there's a lot of takes on this, but I think Joe, joe Biden obviously deserves his share of the blame for kind of, you know, putting the country and the Democratic Party and such in a situation like that. But even if you put that aside, this is much, much, much bigger than that.

Speaker 2: 3:35

I think back to like my grandma, and you know how we were raised and the ethos that were instilled in us. You know, at a young age and you go through like this sort of like top five list, you know sort of like the, the, the, the 10 commandments, but you know the, the manner commandments that we, that we live by, and those were things like you know, have manners, respect one another, respect women. You know no cursing and, and you know these things don't break laws, don't kill people, don't you know no cursing? And you know these things Don't break laws, don't kill people, don't you know?

Speaker 1: 4:06

And it's just Don't accept a $10 million bag of cash from the.

Speaker 2: 4:10

Egyptians on day one, that's number nine. Yeah, that was on there too. I was taught not to do that.

Speaker 1: 4:14

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, you can launder it through crypto, because then they can't catch it.

Speaker 2: 4:20

So I think you know it's hard to wrap your head around the most basic notions of humanity.

Speaker 1: 4:29

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 4:31

And the things that we thought were important and the fact that all of these people don't think those things are important. So, like the fact that we have such different ethos in this country, I think is really hard to understand for most people, because you'd like to think that most people are good and you'd like to think that most people understand racism is wrong, that you shouldn't steal, you shouldn't cheat, you shouldn't lie.

Speaker 1: 4:57

But it's. You shouldn't be anti any group of people.

Speaker 2: 5:00

You shouldn't be grabbing women by their you know. But the fact that that's okay with everyone for very small, like you know, economic improvements that they have in their head.

Speaker 1: 5:11

Yeah, well, inflation, when you can sell it as you know the way it was and I understand most people aren't, you know they're not in it like we are literally being 10 feet away from you know a campaign that was kind of, you know, had 100 days to get it together and really compete in the seven states which, by the way, she did and if there was a memo that was leaked and if indeed they had internal polling in the Biden administration that he was going to lose by 400 electoral votes at a specific time, then you can look at what she did. Is is incredible and you wonder what. What might have happened if you know Elon Musk wasn't spewing lies and spewing his propaganda, because ultimately, that's the toughest thing. We're going to see the things on television and they're going to do it.

Speaker 1: 6:03

Cruelty for cruelty's sake, right? We know it's coming. We know the people that you can just, and so most people didn't sign up for that, right, and so there's grace in that, and I think most people are like yo, we want less. You know immigration, and blah, blah, blah, but they're just voting on, you know, okay, a change candidate, right, if you're thinking that she wasn't changed, and I think that's kind of the thing where we realized, you know, we had kind of taken, I think, the show as far as we could, with its sort of, it has had very a national sort of lean.

Speaker 1: 6:40

Yeah, uh, shout out to my sykes for and and because when it was started it was a lot of the stuff was either local that we were concentrating on or things that were here in the us and and. So this is what's so great is what this has shown us and allowed us to even have a clearer vision on what we can do with. The show is global and, you know, animal-based, you know, and animal-centric in a sense of. We're still going to con, we're still going to comment on social context and progress, but there's a purple lane here where we're going to have to figure how to, how to sort of come together because, um, yeah, you know, it's like we don't really know. So it's like somebody can't say, well, we're going to be okay, be okay. What's the big deal, what's the worst that could happen? It's like, yeah, we don't come on.

Speaker 2: 7:33

We don't know.

Speaker 1: 7:33

Really, Really and so, unfortunately, yeah, we're going to need each other and that's why I think you do so much on the ground work every day. On the ground work every day and lifting that up, I think, and trying to build our ability to use the sort of spaceship that we've created here and try and help as many people as possible. You know, lift off in ways that they can for their Everybody's going to have a war that's coming up, so you know we're going to have to band together to help each other fight those.

Speaker 2: 8:13

Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head. I mean, I think, having this platform to help unify, connect and really elevate the artists that we've been, you know, trying to do, but on a bigger scale, on this international level, because we're starting to see how everything is interwoven and we're going to see it even more, yeah, sure.

Speaker 1: 8:34

You're pulling out of the climate accord. There's all kinds of things.

Speaker 1: 8:40

It's another pandemic, it's a global thing and yet at the same time, we have this giant nationalistic, very states' right movement going on right now with complete and total control of government and the military and the Supreme Court.

Speaker 1: 8:57

So it's one of those things where you know we don't know what this looks like, but we're going to need each other. And you know, for those of your audience that don't know me, I come come from a music background, a very fortunate to tour all over the world and and really people reach out to me all the time on dms from all over the world, kind of asking you know how, how this is going? Especially, we have eastern european friends that are hitting me up because they have their own problems that are going to get opened up from this, because it is a global situation. If, uh, you know, if he pulls out of nato and if he pulls out of NATO and if he pulls out of abandoned Ukraine and so all these things. So we'll see. There's always the talk and then we'll see what is real, but there's going to be a lot of chaos and a lot of distraction, a la Elon Musk with his fucking Twitter platform, $30 billion to buy the United States government.

Speaker 2: 9:50

I mean it was a good investment for him. That's a hell of a deal.

Speaker 1: 9:54

Back up your truck to the US Treasury man. It's insane, anyway. So let's move on to something that I am looking so forward to, because when I was a kid, boxing you know boxing it wasn't I was big into boxing, but I was big into Nintendo, and in Nintendo, iron, mike Tyson right was that game? Tyson's Knockout and I learned what his uppercut was like will knock you into the next dimension. And the fact that it's sort of YouTuber Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson coming up this weekend free on Netflix, I'm excited yeah.

Speaker 2: 10:32

I mean I'm super excited. It's always tough for me because I'm such a nonviolent. A hymns of a little soul. I mean to my core, even when it's sport, even when it's I just it's hard for me to watch violence.

Speaker 1: 10:48

But if you're going to knock the fuck out of somebody, if you're going to knock the no, no, no.

Speaker 2: 10:52

But I you know. I grew up with the Mike Tyson name.

Speaker 3: 10:56

You know it was in my world.

Speaker 2: 10:59

So I think I just I'm intrigued, I want to see if you know he can, you know, make this comeback and kick this guy's butt? I also really don't love people that are cocky. If he did get his ass kicked, I probably wouldn't be mad about it.

Speaker 1: 11:21

You see Tyson in the gym. He looks scary as he is, he is scary as F. I'm like, yeah, so I can't, I can't wait. But, um, you know, one of the one of the cool things is, uh, we have a new segment here that we're calling pause for progress, and this falls right into it because our um, I didn't know this, you brought this to my attention, but I saw on the sort of documentary on on netflix about tyson and his pigeons. Yes, and you were like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Dude, did you know? And I was like I did not. So the floor.

Speaker 2: 11:56

Asian akia yeah, I, you know it now. It just struck me because I was watching it on netflix as well I was like all right, let me, you know, check this documentary.

Speaker 2: 12:03

And I was interested. And then all of a sudden he says these pigeons are my life. And I was like what, who knew? So it was really sweet. And then I started kind of taking a deeper dive. And then I find out, you know, his first fight, you know, when he was growing up, was because of some bully kid. That I mean very horrible, horrifying situation like ripped the head off of him. I mean, I don't even want to talk about it. But yeah, that was his first fight. Was, you know, standing up for animals?

Speaker 1: 12:35

That's where he got the rage from.

Speaker 2: 12:36

Yeah, it's like to know where someone's story comes from, and from a seemingly insignificant animal, you know. And then I just went on this crazy deep dive. I mean, I've always been in love with pigeons. I've rescued quite a few. I've always felt for them because, you know, maybe not everyone knows, but they are a domesticated bird that now have to live out in the world. You know, they don't really have food source. That's why we always find them by garbage and they're always picking up things, but that's because they don't have access to seed and grain. You know, these are domesticated animals that now are like stray cats. They need to be taken care of, but it's just, the numbers are too big. There's no way we can kind of hone in on that. Just to lean into some of the cool things about pigeons Hell yeah, hell yeah For progress.

Speaker 2: 13:25

Yeah, I mean I went on a deep dive. I mean, did you know that pigeons can detect cancer?

Speaker 1: 13:32

I did not know that Pigeons can detect cancer. Correct, wow, okay.

Speaker 2: 13:38

And they also can detect volcanic eruptions. What yeah, they're like little weathermen.

Speaker 1: 13:44

Wow.

Speaker 2: 13:45

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 13:46

We don't give them enough credit. Weathermen without shoulders yeah, no shoulders.

Speaker 2: 13:49

But have you seen those TikTok videos where they put arms on?

Speaker 1: 13:53

birds On pigeons. Oh my God.

Speaker 2: 13:55

It's the greatest thing ever. And then they'll put it to like music. And yeah, if you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about. It's the greatest TikTok videos I think I've ever seen. But yeah, I mean just to go back, you know. I mean these were like war courier pigeons. I mean they were trained to deliver messages and they've saved lives, you know it's incredible.

Speaker 1: 14:19

Like one pigeon that you put in, this is great. One pigeon, GI Joe, saved British troops from a bombing with five minutes to spare. Another, by the name of Cher Cher Ami, delivered a total of 12 important messages for the US military during World War. I oh gee. I mean total badass birds. On his last mission, cher Ami was shot in the breast and still managed to fly another 25 minutes, completing his mission and saving the lives of 194 stranded soldiers. So yeah, don't knock your pigeons man, they're doing good work, that's right, otherwise Tyson will fuck you up, man.

Speaker 3: 14:57

Don't talk about my pigeons If.

Speaker 2: 14:58

Tyson does not have a foundation. I've got an idea for him, All right. It's going to be for pigeons and he can spread love and light about pigeons, our little friends that we meet on the sidewalk.

Speaker 1: 15:09

That's amazing, and so so should we be feeding pigeons.

Speaker 2: 15:13

We absolutely can feed pigeons, but we can't be feeding them garbage bread trash hot dogs? No, because the problem is that they're not getting the nutrients that they really need from picking at garbage and getting little pieces of bread.

Speaker 2: 15:29

So, to answer your question, yes, and you can feed them grains and seeds. But also it reminded me of a time that I was in New York City and I came across a pigeon that was. I wasn't really sure what was wrong with her. She was just laying on her side. I thought maybe she had run into a window. Sometimes they get this fog and it takes them like 20 minutes to get back up. But I ended up taking her to a bird sanctuary in New York.

Speaker 2: 15:54

Was walking around Manhattan trying to figure out where to take this bird, totally threw me off Only Asian Akita, yeah. And I just became, you know, close with this pigeon over the next few days while I was trying to figure out what to do with her days, while I was trying to figure out what to do with her Um, and then when I finally got her to the sanctuary and they did like all these tests to see what was going on, she had lead poisoning and it just broke my heart and I was like the impacts that we have. And then she had this like little bumble foot too, from um. A lot of pigeons end up with it because they get strings and, um, human hair tied around their little feet and it cuts off circulation.

Speaker 2: 16:32

So yeah, she had this little bumble foot and then lead poisoning. I'm like this poor little soul. But she lived and was released back into lovely New York City.

Speaker 1: 16:43

I imagine you hit the lotto if you wind up in Tyson's pigeon pen.

Speaker 2: 16:48

Absolutely. I think it's a good plug. We gotta figure out where this pigeon thing goes with tyson yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:54

Well, I'm rooting for the pigeons and I'm rooting for the 58 year old man to uh yeah, just hopefully uh deliver a knockout but let's see, so we're both rooting for him yeah, yeah, all right all right, coming up after the break we are going to have our update on Rescue Story with our sweet, sweet Cole who needs a foster.

Speaker 3: 17:15

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Speaker 1: 17:49

All right, before we go out of here, as promised, we've got two scams and a slap coming up, but also we have an update on sweet little Cole, asian Ikea. Tell us about Cole.

Speaker 2: 17:59

Yes, so Cole is one of our rescues from Compton. He was at the house with, sadly, the old man that had dementia and the animals weren't being fed Some days. You know they were forgetting A very sad situation. But anyways, cole is doing absolutely amazing. But he is going to be in need of a foster this week. So we're looking for some help in the LA area for our sweet, sweet little Cole. He's got a broken little jaw that can't be fixed, unfortunately, but he's fine, he does just fine with it. And he's this shepherd. But he's fine, he does just fine with it. And he's this shepherd beautiful blue-eye-looking little baby and we've got to find him a foster home.

Speaker 2: 18:36

Copy that Any help with that from our listeners would be most appreciated.

Speaker 1: 18:40

Yeah, All right. So before we get out of here, two scams and a slap. This world is batshit crazy, and so it's going gonna be hard to tell. I don't even know what's real, what's not, and so today I'm on the block with you. The good listener, Asia's gonna lay out three things, and we're just gonna have to say which one is a slap in the face and is actually real. Go for it.

Speaker 2: 19:02

Alright, here we go. First, one Robot dog saves a family from a burning house Okay, okay, okay. Two a man breaks into a bank to make a hot pocket in the microwave. Okay, and number three scientists create cloud-making machine to combat droughts.

Speaker 1: 19:30

I love the robot dog. I kind of there's a part of me that hopes that is true. But I'm going to say the clouds. Because the weather clouds? Because I think the Saudis have even been playing with that for a while, as the Chinese have too, I think. Right, yeah.

Speaker 2: 19:45

So the true story is that the man broke into a bank and microwaved hot pockets, oh shit. And microwaved Hot Pockets oh my God. But you're not wrong Like somebody.

Speaker 1: 19:54

Well, there are. There is cloud technology. It's really the Democrats that control the weather, correct.

Speaker 3: 19:59

And we control Only when we win we control the elections, yeah.

Speaker 2: 20:05

But yeah, so when the police went in, it was just funny. But yeah, so when the police went in, it was just funny. They asked the man after you know what was he thinking, breaking into this bank to microwave Hot Pockets? And he was just very matter of fact about it, Like he didn't have a place to microwave his Hot Pockets. And they asked him if he was worth it and he said hell yeah.

Speaker 1: 20:24

So I mean, there you go. You ever had that ham and cheese Hot Pocket.

Speaker 2: 20:29

Hell, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Hot Pockets are great, yeah, so you know, it makes sense.

Speaker 1: 20:31

All right. Well, thank you guys, the listeners, for indulging us today. It was a different kind of episode, and I think we, you know, hopefully we're going to pull together and, you know, reach out online. You know, continue to hit us with questions, because we're going to need each other's guidance and light as we push forward together. There's a lot of people that are also on our side that are disenfranchised right now, that need to know that they belong to a group as well. Alright, and just a reminder, we've got some of our favorite products that we're putting on the site slapthenetworkcom, and our Amazon links are there, which are actually really great as well. So, uh, make sure to check that out and uh, yeah, before we head out, make sure to like, comment, share, subscribe or foster, adopt a dog through compassion.

Speaker 2: 21:23

Kind Sonics love action progress.

Speaker 1: 21:27

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