From Philly to the Moon!

This week’s recap moves from culture to politics to major headlines shaping the moment. Rufus made his way to Philly while the TS Madison show kept things active on the culture side. In sports, Tiger Woods is reportedly in treatment in Zurich, while tensions rose between Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma ahead of South Carolina’s game against UCLA. On the political front, the fallout from Kristi Noem continues after her removal, raising concerns about leadership and federal oversight, while conversations around bimbofication added a sharper cultural lens. In Washington DC, officials are testing rat birth control methods, but the real issue remains poor trash management. Meanwhile, James Fishback is pushing a controversial sin tax position in his run for governor, and history was made as Victor Glover became the first Black man to travel to the moon as part of the Artemis II mission.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:40

Welcome to the Rufus and Craig show. I'm your wonderful host. Craig and there is Rufus.

SPEAKER_03 0:46

Happy Easter.

SPEAKER_02 0:48

Happy Easter, everybody. Um yeah, these pastors are not gonna beat those allegations of just wanting money. Um, what a great way to start the the episode. I don't know who is who that man was. Um, definitely not gonna look for him, not gonna attend his church um via Zoom or uh Facebook or YouTube. Uh, but it's very timely. I mean, that's everybody's, I won't call that a gimmick. I won't speak against the man of God.

SPEAKER_03 1:13

Sounds like a griff to me.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

Hey, wait, wait. Um, but won't come against the man of God. Uh, but yeah, that guy wants $20,000, and he was demanding that whoever that was standing in front of him with his hands up receiving that prayer. Um, so a seed of $20,000 before he left that service that night.

SPEAKER_03 1:31

So I know you got it.

SPEAKER_02 1:33

I I yeah, I I wanted you to get the money. But but Rufus, just catch us up. How was your week? Bring it on in.

SPEAKER_03 1:39

It was good. I had a great week.

SPEAKER_02 1:41

Yep, absolutely. Um, and and Rufus traveled by plane, by train, by foot, and I got to see my good brother this week. He came up midweek on what day was that? Was it it was Thursday. Thursday.

SPEAKER_03 1:55

Yeah, Thursday. And we did not record a live episode. Would you like to tell him why?

SPEAKER_02 2:00

Yeah. You know, I was just in the wrong headspace. I was preparing for something a week and a day out, and um, for what I thought was gonna be the next day. And given that, I was like, oh no, we just we cannot. I am not ready. I just I I can't mentally um dedicate because what I was just all you had to do is get on the mic and talk shit like we're doing right now.

SPEAKER_03 2:23

But you know, okay, I got it.

SPEAKER_02 2:24

We don't want the the people to know. We actually plan for this. We do prepare um uh a dedicated run-up show, whether we deep from that. Um, but it's it's Rufus and Craig. So there it is, two of us, and so there is a we. So um, I just I couldn't do it. It just, you know, when you get to your limit, people know when to unplug and know when to say no. I know I read a book years ago. It's called Boundaries, and so even in this uh family ship, because Rufus is my dear brother, but it was good to see him, and we have to tell people what did we go do, man?

SPEAKER_03 2:56

Absolutely nonetheless, I'm um we're here now, but what we went to see a live show of um the great TS Madison and Craig, the writer Stewart. Um, it was fun at the city winery in Philadelphia. I had a good time, and then we had some uh some dry ass chicken wings at this place around the corner. But um, I still had a good time. So I'm I enjoyed you.

SPEAKER_02 3:18

Absolutely. Rufus was on the ground, and yeah, it was a good time. Um, a lot of interesting people. You know, one thing about Philadelphia, you know, Maddie definitely brings out a crowd and a very different crowd. Umbrace diversity. Yeah, yeah, not one and the same. But they were there. We were there, we all were there. We laughed. Uh we had I had to take a shot to definitely ease into the moment. Um, because it was really a lot going on. But we made it. I enjoyed seeing Madison. Um, this is my first time ever seeing her beyond my telephone um or our TV screen because I watch her on YouTube faithfully. Um, but Rufus has seen her before. And and little Nikki has seen her in LA. I don't know if she was walking up the street or was she working? She works for a PR firm. But nonetheless, she saw her little Nikki. Yeah, she saw her out there too. So um, yeah. Great day. So we got a good show lined up for you all today. And and I I think we have to start with, of course, we always start with what's dominating the news cycle. We ain't talking about that war. Um, you know, um, prayers for everyone um who has anybody that's in the armed services that's being called to go over to the Middle East to um support our current president. So, you know, um for me, prayer for me and and thoughts and wishes, best wishes for Rufus. Um, Tiger Woods in the news. Sounds like Broadway Joe. Um, originally from Argentina.

SPEAKER_03 4:43

Oh god, Broadway Joe. I hated Broadway Joe in that spit mouth here. Well, let's say Tiger Woods in the news. Coming up next in the news, you know, yeah, and that little stupid ass accent. Broadway Joe from Little Rock, Arkansas, if y'all don't know. Absolutely on power. Was it Power 92?

SPEAKER_02 5:00

Power 92, the People's Jams.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

The mess. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if he's still there.

SPEAKER_02 5:04

Anyway, I think he is still working. Um, yeah, Zurich, Switzerland. Tiger Woods is a follow-up story to what we previously reported him turning over his um Range Rover last week. The brother has, well, we can't call it a cobblation, a brother. He's black black. That person, he's black. Um, I don't think he calls himself that. So as far as I can. He's still black.

SPEAKER_03 5:23

The one drop roots says he's a black, but go ahead. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Uh it's 2026. Stop that. No history less than a day. Um, he landed in Zurich with Switzerland by private plane, and I think we would be remiss. Allegedly, either he told TMZ that he was on the phone with President Trump um after the accident. So um immediately after the accident on the scene of the accident. But he's going to go get treatment. Um, once he got released from the jail. So whatever. We don't see or hear from him. So he's he's out of Florida. I wonder is the because it's Trump's son's ex-wife, who Tiger Woods is now dating, but she still carries a last name, Trump. But nonetheless, whatever. I wonder if she's with him. Um, because I think he has adult age children now, right? Those kids should be grown.

SPEAKER_03 6:09

No, they probably should be close to grown or if they're not grown, but yeah, in their upper, I mean, I would guess in there, because I don't really know, but their upper teenagers are or all the way grown. That would be my guess.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

He's out of here. Um, so you know, he won't be in a news cycle un unless, you know, something else comes about with that. Until he lands, that private jet lands again. So good luck to you, sir.

SPEAKER_03 6:30

Um it makes me beg the question if you could just zip off to Zurich Sweden out of whim, like, couldn't you just hire a driver?

SPEAKER_02 6:37

He said he didn't want, so they that came up too. They said him, was he gonna hire a driver? He said no, because that was an invasion of his privacy, something to that nature.

SPEAKER_03 6:45

Yeah, that's why you put him on the NDA. But hey, okay, do what you do, Tiger.

SPEAKER_02 6:49

Well, here we are. You know, one Arma Rosa on the NDA and she still wrote a book. I don't I don't know nothing about that. Yeah. So here we are. Um, also, you know, shout out to the college women basketball. Um, you know, shout out to you all. That was my phone going off.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

That was like the perfect fucking that was because that's the ESPN song.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

That was like the perfect football. You should let it go. No, no, no. I'll I'll call her back when we get done recording. But um, congratulations to Coach Don. You know, she is the is it seven figures? Yeah. Um, Irener, I think she her contract's about five million dollars. She's with the South Carolina Gamecocks, and they faced off with uh UConn, I believe yesterday evening, or it could have been today is Saturday, so it could have been, yeah, it could have been yesterday evening. We're gonna say it's yesterday evening. But nonetheless, um, one thing, you know, unfortunately, we know if it's on social media, you all, the drama's gonna dominate the news cycle. And, you know, she and the UConn coach Gino, um, who's supposedly responsible for helping founding the WNBA, um, you know, um, they had a heated exchange, you know. Supposedly one of her players ripped one of his players' jerseys. There were a few fouls that were not called, and she didn't shake his hand, but she didn't shake his hand before the the game started, but all of those things were alive. The girl, um, camera for the show, she tore her own jersey. They actually showed the image of him shaking, um, not mean her, Coach Dawn, who was a black lady, you all, um, shaking his hand before the game and something about the fouls. I won't even speak to that, but you know, um, yeah. And I I saw a pre-game taping or interview where she was really, you know, kind of singing him praises for that, what he's done with that program there, and saying that they pretty much are the standard. Um, and if you look at women's basketball, college basketball, that Yukon would be the standard for that. So, you know, to see this a couple of days later, her having this heated exchange because he couldn't control himself, um, you know, just says a lot about uh some of the white men in America today. So, and I don't even, well, you look white, but he has a different last name. But nonetheless, here's I don't remember. You can look him up, you do the research doing the show. But I Gino, y'all know him. It starts with an A. Um, it's a different last name, but it's not American, it's not like it's Smith or is it Italian? Not sure. Could be. But yeah, so South Carolina's head to play this Sunday, which is tomorrow. Um, UCLA, because they defeated Texas. So good luck to them. Um, I think this would be a wonderful look for Coach John and well deserved. You know, she's proven more and more why she's deserving of that salary that she has, and I'm just excited for her. So, yeah. And since we're on it, you know, speaking of white men, Byron Gnome and Bimbo Facation. Never heard of bimbofication to this past week, but that has dominated the trying to remember where else have I heard this word at before?

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Because I've heard it recently. I don't know where it though, but go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 10:03

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So for those who just need to be caught up today, Christy Noah is um she was the eighth United States Secretary of Homeland Security, and she did serve very briefly before Trump fired her. She served beginning, of course, January 25th, 2025, until earlier March, March 5th. So she made it a little bit over a year. Um, yeah, in his second, you know, this is his second term. So given that she was the first cabinet member to actually be fired, you know, it seems like he's Xing at all the women. Um, and and it, you know, pretty much it was the controversy um over the contract that she had, um, contract management, excuse me, um, with with her area, as well as um, she had a $220 million advertisement campaign. Now, I never saw any of those ads. But it was odd as fuck to see her riding a horse, and she it's like she played costume and dress up. So, you know, so given the bimbofication of her husband, it seems like they have a lot in common because she was playing dress up on the job.

SPEAKER_03 11:04

Right. Um what exactly was she advertising for DHS? Like, do they need commercials? Like, I know there was a commercial playing in the airport, but I never saw it on like regular TV. I'm just trying to figure out why she needed such an advertising budget because the TSA is a um you're you're you don't have a choice but to use that. So they don't need advertisement.

SPEAKER_02 11:25

It's it's weird, just like seeing her husband there. And so, you know, one thing, some of the um not necessarily arguments, but commentary that I've heard is that they knew that this picture is an image of him. I don't know if it's in spandex like pants, it's like these hot pink pants, and he has, are they fake titties or balloons?

SPEAKER_03 11:42

I think I heard there was a breastplate.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

What the fuck? Why would a straight man have a breastplate?

SPEAKER_03 11:47

That begs the question. I don't know. Um, you know what a breastplate is though, huh? No?

SPEAKER_02 11:52

The drag queens wear.

SPEAKER_03 11:53

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

Yeah. Yeah. Why would he oh I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 11:58

They say a lot of them people in Washington, D.C. is uh, you know, they on the not the spectrum, but they part of the the community, I guess you say they're under the rainbow flag, I guess, but you'll never know. There's a whole documentary about it that I watched years ago. Christy, what the fuck is going on around here? Um the main one they be talking about all the time is that uh what's that man's name? The um he's like the speaker of the house, or he used to be. I can't think of his name, but they say he's he went to Disney World recently and he ain't got no kids and shit. But yeah, they say a lot of the people in DC is under the under the rainbow umbrella. Well, I you know, I ain't got no breastplate.

SPEAKER_02 12:34

I ain't got none either. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 12:35

I just and I didn't marry a woman either and have children, so I it's just you know some people feel like they have to do that in order to you know come off as yeah, assimilate to the straight world, especially if you want to be in politics or entertainment, even like they feel like they have to come out. Like, look at allegedly look at Tyler Perry.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

I mean, and speaking of Tyler, you know, shout out to Tyler Perry. You know, they were trying to tell those uh the wonderful people at TSA, Brian, we love you, we adore you. Not by run this lady's whore husband. Um, but our friend Brian. But nonetheless, they got to keep their gift cards because it was like, oh, bring back the remember. Tyler Perry had given out apparently 250 because they said the total amount was uh $250,000. Yeah, the um the gift cards, and they were allowed to keep them. So, you know, shout out to Tyler Perry. Um, thank you for that plug for him, even though it was unintentional, Rufus. But nonetheless, that was a wonderful thing that you you brought up. Since we're speaking in the space of these are her people, right? In that wasn't that her department? Yeah, well, ICE is, right?

SPEAKER_03 13:38

But I don't know about it's all under the same umbrella. ICE, DHS, TSA, all that shit is under ice. I mean, under DHS.

SPEAKER_02 13:44

And they got her ass. She was the first to be fired. But yeah, that's what I was saying. They said allegedly they knew, speaking of like you, this is why I never watched that show. Scandal, well, I did watch scandal, but I had to stop because I said this is really real. This is not uh you were scared. Yeah, you know, and I always go back to that black judge. Was she in Pennsylvania or New York? That was in a river. And I was like, we don't do that. Somebody killed that lady. Yeah, you should look that up. We'll we'll cover that next week. But she was in a river, and I'm like, we don't do that, we don't offer ourselves. So what case was she handling that they just really took care of her? What's the man named Cyrus?

SPEAKER_03 14:19

Cyrus Bean, baby.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

My favorite character was dark evil ears.

SPEAKER_02 14:24

Yeah, so you know, but that bimbofacation, I just the word sounds crazy. Seeing that woman's husband. But they said the Trump administration's supposedly knew, and that's why her ass was terminated. You know, because it's one thing to just be sorry, but and and by the way, he's allegedly gonna fire his press secretary because he has a is it a uh he has a 93% failing rate um by the public or something. I think that's the most recent poll. 93% of those that took that said he's failing at his job, and he's gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_03 14:55

Do better. Do better, Mr. Trump. I don't think he can do good, you know. Do better best. He's not doing good. I'm saying if he wants to, he wants he's got a 90% 93. 93, do better. That's the way that you need to go instead of firing.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

I think that can only, uh well, you said that's the only way to go. So I think that's the best way for him to do better in any sense of the matter is to simply go.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

How that happens. I mean, yeah, I agree with that. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:20

How that happens, just go.

SPEAKER_03 15:23

If he wanted to do better, he could, but you know, he obviously doesn't.

SPEAKER_02 15:27

I don't think he mentally something is off. And cognitively it has been. Yeah, of course. It has been for some time now. Something is off, definitely. But you know, here we are, and um, yeah, I'll just leave it there. And and speaking of DC and rats, you know, I saw this, I've never seen a rat in DC, but I've heard a podcast. You hear about these stories. Like I've seen rats in Philly, I've seen rats in uh New York, yeah, New York City. Um, but I've never seen a rat in DC. Baltimore, yeah. You know, it was like scaling the metal fence.

SPEAKER_03 16:01

It was weird, but I've never been to Baltimore.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

You should go, yeah. You should go. I'll meet you if you go down there. They got good food. Maybe we can eat some soft shell. What is it? Soft shell, blue crab, is that we can't.

SPEAKER_03 16:14

But I'll go down there.

SPEAKER_02 16:16

Yeah, yeah, go to the harbor. I was there a couple of weeks ago. Um, yeah. But the rats in DC, uh, they're not the DC Health has not put the rats on birth control.

SPEAKER_03 16:27

Like the ones you gotta take every day? Like how do they how does this birth control work? Same one my cousin had to take back in the day when she put the pill out every day in their little container, like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. They put they take the pill in there. How does this work?

SPEAKER_02 16:38

Oh, yeah, and you gotta start over too. If you miss a day, you gotta start all the way over. But shout out to the women. I think.

SPEAKER_03 16:43

Or they're getting a depot shot. How does this how does this wrap up?

SPEAKER_02 16:45

Yeah, they have a lot of ways. Um, yeah, to do for for human um females. Well, women. I don't like females. That's weird, Tiana Taylor. Um, yeah, rats in DC, they're on birth control now. So what's happened is they're actually testing this chemical substance um in like a pesticide opposed to just killing the rats, and hopes to kind of neutralize them from reproducing, right? That's just really what this comes down to. And so that to decrease that fertility, it's the bait. And so they're looking in areas where they have high rats like the Adams Morgan neighborhood. So um I found this very interesting. You know, you hear stories like I remember hearing, I was like, Well, in New York, supposedly they say, Oh, well, call the police if you want them to come shoot and kill the rats.

SPEAKER_03 17:35

And I'm like, Call the police to kill a rat.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

Yes, that's the crap. Paul, it's somehow you New York is unique, and I that can be a unique lie, right? But I just remember hearing that. Yeah, and they said I've heard stories about supposed the officers shooting the rats when they get in people's apartments in New York.

SPEAKER_03 17:56

So I don't believe that at all. But go ahead, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 17:59

Hearsay, right? Hearsay, hearsay. But they said the the true solution um in any instance, because we had a similar in South Philly, it was overrun by rats. They were in the people's cars, they were in the streets, but the true solution is um controlling your trash, people. DC has told their residents do not throw that trash outside. Um, if it's trash day, um, you know, make sure that it is in a container.

SPEAKER_03 18:23

Put it in a band.

SPEAKER_02 18:24

Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Put it in a band. Um correct. Yep, absolutely. That's the real solution. And I know, I'm not gonna bring up, you know, I don't know Mayor Sherrell Parker here in the city of Philadelphia, but I know there were some issues with contracts, and I think she just gets a bad rap because she, number one, she's the first black female mayor, and she's the 100th mayor for the city of Philadelphia. But when I talked about South Philly in particular, um, about those trash issues, I think there was a contract dispute with the city trash, and then I think they have privatized trash pickups through waste management here. And I think you can even, you know, pay somebody else to like other private companies. I think the building I live in has a it was a little truck, it's not a big truck. Um, but it clearly was not marked by waste management, and it wasn't a city's truck. So privatized trash. So maybe we need to let's look into that in two years.

SPEAKER_03 19:21

What did your um your new stud friend say about Mayor Sherelle Parker?

SPEAKER_02 19:26

Oh, not going back to that. I Maddie, when you listen to this, um, because what did I say? We're friends of Maddie. Um, you know and Craig. You know, we enjoyed your show. However, there was everybody was hardened. And that person that sat across for me, um, she sat with the frown, and you know, I was tell people I can't just frown up. Yeah. I I was, you know, of course, okay, yeah, since we're going there, you know, it was at City Winery, so you can imagine in that um performance room with the stage or whatever, you know, those venues where you go, you just you don't know who's gonna be sitting across from you or beside you unless you buy okay, Rufus was clear beside me, but you know, somebody that you don't know could be sitting across from you. And this stubb was sitting there, and she did not crack us, man. I'm like, it's you are within breathing space, like I can feel your breaths. Um but nonetheless, I was like, Where are you from? You know, just opened up the door, and she was like, I'm from Philly. And I was like, Oh, okay. Rough. Yeah, real rough. Hardened. Hardened. Um, and so given that, you know, we were just talking, I said, why y'all don't like Sheryl? And she was like, She didn't do a good job. And I'm thinking, oh, well shit, Sheree. This it said, you ain't do a good job. I said, you know, y'all are rose, yeah, with the last cleanup, she did better. But the first time, nobody knew. Because what I would tell you is meteorologists do not always get it right. Facts. And they don't always get it wrong. However, when we had, it was tens of inches of snow dumped on the city, and they were upset with her response right now. It was about two or three weeks out where you had roads that could have been four-lane roads still reduced down to to one. People were getting still getting tickets um from the Philadelphia Parking Authority. So it was a lot going on, but there was another round of snow. So, you know, um, Rufus, for me and my listeners who believe in a God, um, you know, he's a God of second chances.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

One of our listeners.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

Um so she came back around, the snow came back down, and what that stud said was, she did real good the second time around, you know. And so I was a y'all don't like that girl. And one thing what Sharia Parker said on her mic, I don't care if I'm a one term mayor. She be talking her shit back. She Philly, she them. She is them, she is these people. Um, yeah, and then her little oh, I remember asking the stud about, I said, Well, what about the news, Anger? You know, y'all, I'm really engaged with the lady. And so the stud say, she knew the person's name. Because I said, Yeah, y'all. Talking about her wig and the news, the person got on the um things up. Bam, Sherelle Parker's doing a wonderful job. What'd she say? She was like, uh, y'all shouldn't be sitting up talking about talking about her wig. You know, she's bigger, she's better than that. There are things you would not do this. And I'm gonna say the previous mayor's name was Tom. If this was Tom, you would not do this to Tom. So it was just a lot, you all. Um, but the stud was like, uh-uh, she ain't voting for. She said she didn't vote for it this time. So um Sherelle, you know, enjoy. I think Sherelle's the mayor until 2028. So she got about it's January, like January 5th. Whatever that she got two more solid years to either redeem herself, um, or just you know, ride this out, get whatever it is that she wants from this, but mayorship. Um, but yeah, I don't see as many rats here in Philadelphia, but DC, good luck to you with that. Um, I've heard stories about them, but thank goodness that I've never seen them. Um, because that would definitely like push me back. And and speaking of, you know, races and politics, down in the wonderful state of Florida. Um yeah, governor candidate James Fishback. Like, bitch, you even got a fucked up ass name. James Fishback is propositioning um a syntax, Rufus.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

Oh, this this bullshit.

SPEAKER_02 23:20

And yeah, he's he's promising a syntax um for his run for governor. And what the syntax actually includes, if we just looked at it.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

Tell us this bullshit.

SPEAKER_02 23:31

It he wants to impose a tax on only fan workers. Um, he wants to tax their income, and Florida, my understanding, and your understanding, right, they don't have a state income tax, right?

SPEAKER_03 23:42

Correct. I lived in Florida for about three years, and they don't have an income tax. So for you to tax their income based off the fact that they're only fans performers or sex workers is kind of um unfair and probably wrong, in my opinion. I'm not a lawyer, but that's just my opinion. Well, I think it's it's it's a little bit over the top.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

He wants to tax them 50%, and and I know 50%. Yeah, 50% of their income. He wants to put a tax on it. Um and he actually went to his Twitter, he took to Twitter to shout out Sophia Rain. He said, Hey Sophia, pay up. It's time to raise teachers, pay, and improve school lunches. So my assumption is that Sophia is a OnlyFan star that might express herself with nudity and other things. I didn't go to her Twitter page to see what she's got going on over there, but at mention um from his official James Fishback handle, I'm sure Drew drove traffic to her. So for those of you who are interested in Sophia, this idiot really promoted her.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

I'm sure. I'm sorry, go ahead. No, you're good. You're good. Okay, I'm I'm sure that the the president of the United States, who is a resident, resident of Florida, um, via Mar-a Lago. I'm sure he's not paying 50% taxes on his income. So why the fuck would you try to tax this OnlyFans person, not only her, but the rest of the OnlyFans people who, you know, get money from um from OnlyFans. Like that's that's not that seems right to you, Mr. Mr. Fishback. That's kind of fucked up.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

He is saying if he does this OnlyFans tax, it will increase public school teacher pay and improve school lunches.

SPEAKER_03 25:16

And he really don't get it. Another thing, why the fuck is school lunch not free?

SPEAKER_02 25:23

Um, that's a good question.

SPEAKER_03 25:25

As a person who went to public school my whole life, lunch in schools was only a dollar. You mean to tell me you're making a profit off of fucking dollar? Well, back then it was a dollar and 40% for 40 cents for reduced lunch. Um, but you're making a profit off of this dollar? Like the the meal probably cost five dollars. Like, but you charging me a dollar. So how does this make sense that it's not free? Just the question I always ask. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 25:48

A lot of this stuff can be subsidized when we look at the trillions and billions of dollars that we're spending on a war. But those of us who won't do long debt forgiving, we just want to breathe. Uh, it's a lot of things because he's wanting to cut what this president wants to cut with Medicaid, Medicare.

SPEAKER_03 26:02

He wants to privatize TSA.

SPEAKER_02 26:04

Yeah, so he's doing a lot of cutting, but but he said he said the war was necessary. No motherfucker was coming back to your ass is necessary. So, you know, remember we always talk about elections having consequences. So shout out to those who did vote for uh President Barack Obama, one of his judges um that was put in place many, many years ago. Um, that particular judge is the one who has blocked another sanction that he was, you know, executive order, whatever the hell he was trying to do. I can't quite remember. But, you know, those people are still in place. I say this, just say that. Those people are still in place, and they're still able to bring about a balance to this fucked up ass country that we're experiencing right now, just right now, um, um, by way of that president and and staying in the stream of Florida, you know, governor kiss ass himself down there. Um and Florida lawmakers, as of last month, have um passed legislation to rename the Palm Beach International Airport to President Donald J. Trump International Airport. I've never gone to Palm Beach, and I don't give a fuck to go. I don't know anybody ever said, Oh, yeah, we're going to Palm Beach. Well, we we know um shout out to Amichi LLC for sponsoring this episode. You know, we know they go to um he goes to Key West. So I don't know if he was flying into Palm Beach, uh if they're close to the Florida Keys.

SPEAKER_03 27:22

Are they close to the case? Palm Beach is Palm Beach is north of Miami, I believe. So probably not. Like to go to the Keys, you probably have to fly to Miami, or if they have an airport in the Keys.

SPEAKER_02 27:30

Okay. Well, this shit is gonna be named after him. So yeah, whatever. Just, you know, it it's Florida being Florida, you know, if we if we may say. Florida being Florida. And, you know, we definitely want to end on a bright note, you know. Um, Victor Glover is the first black man to visit the moon. Um, and they left on this past Wednesday, um, I don't know it was down in New Orleans, on the Artemis II moon mission. So they're gonna go do some studies, and that's gonna be a 10-day mission. And so we're just gonna take a moment and hear from what Victor had to say in response to reporters saying, you know, how does it feel to be the first black man to do a moon mission? So here we go.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

It is a a big question. And I um I I want to highlight, I guess, maybe one's massive this detention I call it. I live in this, you know, this dichotomy between happiness that a young woman can look at Christina and just physicalize her tension or her interest, or even if it's not something she wants to do, she can just be like girl power and that's and young brown boys and girls can look at me and go, he looks like me and he's doing one, and that's great. I love that. But I also hope we are pushing in the other direction that one day we don't have to talk about these words, that one day this is just and I listen to this. That this is the human history. It's about human history, it's the story of humanity, not black history, not women's history, but that it becomes human history.

SPEAKER_02 28:57

You know, shout out to Victor Glover. He's a uh a man, there goes a Sigma man. He's a man of 58 or Sigma um fraternity incorporated. My father was a Sigma, so shout out to him. I know the Greeks picked that up on social media this week and and and everything black. Um and so to be in that position and say, well, damn, you know, I can't just it's 2026, and we're still having to say the first this, the first that.

SPEAKER_03 29:22

That's a that's that's crazy to me, too. Like the 2026, the first black anything seems just as crazy as ever.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

Yeah, so so shout out to him. And and I I think that that's a great way to end the show. And and Rufus, we appreciate you. So everybody will appreciate you for listening in this week, and we look forward to talking to you next week. Bye. Bye.