Shifts Power and Pressure

This episode breaks down major shifts across the country, from population trends that could make Texas the most populated state to the rise of automation and the human toll seen in workplaces like Amazon. In sports, we provide key updates on Sherrone Moore, Tiger Woods, and James Pearce Jr., while also touching on headlines involving Floyd Mayweather and Dave Merritt, including a bizarre impersonation case tied to a former Alabama player. We close with Black culture, discussing regional identity and the growing national voice of Jasmine Crockett.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

That's how I have to think because I have a job after the ball. That's why it doesn't bother me to know that people take my name and they say drag it. Where are you going with it? My name is too heavy for you to drag. You don't know how to drag that. You don't know you don't know the potency of my value. So I don't sign up. I'm not available. That's incredible, if y'all believe whatever that is. But what the way I am. Happy Saturday, Rufus.

SPEAKER_02 0:26

Happy Easter. Good morning. Welcome back.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

Okay, and those are sound effects that I made with my mouth.

SPEAKER_02 0:34

What are the air horns going on for?

SPEAKER_01 0:35

You know, but just excitement. We have not been here for two weeks, and so I it's only been one week. Wait. This is the second week. It's two.

SPEAKER_02 0:43

Are you sure?

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Yes, sir. Because I was I'll go ahead and start with my week. Um, I had the opportunity on last week to be go to Montego Bay to see my little cousin, um, Monique, and she got married. Congratulations. To Jeff. Yeah. So my partner and I joined one of my um childhood best friends and her sister, who's my sister, we're family, um, down there. And it was just a really good time, really good vibe. And we're already geared up to go next year, so I'm excited. Rufus, if you care to join us, um, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:17

In Jamaica or somewhere else?

SPEAKER_01 1:18

Yeah, it's gonna be in Jamaica, same resort, all inclusive.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

I'm always down for a trip, so that could be a possibility. Absolutely. I love to travel.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

You definitely should come with us. And there was a casino um that they're building, and so the resort opened up in November, brand new, and you know you can kind of tell, but wonderful experience. Oh, Princess. It's Princess. It starts there. Princess mangrove. That's the name of it.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

As long as it's not the Ryu, I am okay with it.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

And is that spelled R-I-U?

SPEAKER_02 1:52

R-I-U. They're all over the world. One of Jamaica, I did not enjoy. I thought we made it the Ryu Reggae. It was kind of ghetto, but I'm a good ghetto, but I didn't like it. No, I don't know. I always say that.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

We want better for you. We want better for you. So um, yeah, I'm rolling with you on there, Rufus. I'm rolling with you on there. So anything exciting happened to you this past week? No. Simply put, right? Just no, it ain't happening. It ain't going nowhere. What'd they say? Where are you going with this?

SPEAKER_02 2:21

Uh I I live my my day-to-day life, it's not very exciting, but it's oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

You know what? If people only knew, I think they'll be like, nah, I think that guy's on to something. But nonetheless, um, Rufus is a good guy. He's a solid guy, and I'm I'm glad that we could do this together. So I'm your wonderful host, Craig, and we're gonna get right into the show. So, speaking of the economy, we're just gonna go right into it, guys. Um, Rufus, can you guess where the middle class is disappearing?

SPEAKER_02 2:51

Into poverty.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

Okay, so actually, what I came across to say it isn't that the middle class is disappearing, it's that it's relocating now. Just give me a guess, which states do you think people are moving out of the most?

SPEAKER_02 3:05

New York or California.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

Correct. So to add to that, the top five would also include Illinois, New Jersey, as well as Massachusetts. Now you tell me this, because we talked about it in the previous show, so it's not necessarily a quiz. Where are they going? Texas. Correct. Texas is number one.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

The state that I live in. And I want to say that we're kind of full, so y'all can still go to go to fucking Colorado. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 3:28

Justin Frisco. Right.

SPEAKER_02 3:32

You say what?

SPEAKER_01 3:32

Justin Frisco. Full than Frisco. Remember they said there's no.

SPEAKER_02 3:39

Well, we're we're full everywhere. There's buildings and houses getting built everywhere. Frisco is a is a very populated suburb of Dallas, but we're growing everywhere. Even the little city I live in is growing exponentially fast. I've been here six years, and it's growing pretty fast as well. They're gonna have to ride in the main road here soon. Oh, wow. To be that they're they haven't got around to it yet. But on a Saturday, you can't get nowhere.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Okay. It says that they're also going to Florida. I think that's probably like a lot of people.

SPEAKER_02 4:07

I can see that too, because Florida Florida's uh they don't have state income taxes, and it's pretty, you know, it's relatively cheaper than New York, California, Massachusetts, or Chicago area. So I can see that too. And it's nice weather year-round.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

Number three is North Carolina, Charlotte.

SPEAKER_02 4:24

I can see that too, because Charlotte was Charlotte was a key. I like it.

SPEAKER_01 4:27

Number four is Tennessee.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

We're in a Memphis, probably Nashville, because Memphis is. Yeah, definitely Nashville. Yeah. What LeBron said about uh Memphis, he wasn't wrong.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

And the fifth state is South Carolina.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Okay, I can see that too. I've never been there, but I I think I would like it.

SPEAKER_01 4:45

Yeah, South Carolina. So that's that's good for them. And I we need to rewind. I know this is gonna be like the fourth episode, a third rather, that we've opened up with some church. What you all heard was the I'm not gonna call her wonderful. I'm just gonna, that was Kimborrell, and that was a very viral moment. And so I thought we should open the show with that. Unwonderful Kim Burrell. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so speaking in context of what Rufus just highlighted, I came across something else, and it did highlight. Let me make sure I cut that sound off because that's not necessarily good, right? Um, it says Texas is on track to become the most populated state by 2100.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

Oh, I'll be long gone by the year.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

So y'all have it. Yeah, you'll let them have it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gonna be mostly populated. So it will outgrow uh California. And I think a lot of that has to do, of course, as you stated, with affordability um and its central location to the other parts of the United States of America. So um a lot of things going in. And is it some what about you all's taxes? You don't pay a state tax, right?

SPEAKER_02 5:45

We don't have a state income taxes. Um, it's affordable, it's more affordable in California and New York, but I think the way we're going, it's gonna be along the same lines eventually. But uh, yeah, we don't have state income taxes. We do have um, you know, property taxes and the like, but no state income taxes. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

Alrighty. Well, that's that's something. And and speaking of not having something, Costco is now using driverless forklifts in their warehouses. And some of their warehouses, they're they're attempting to make them fully automated here in the United States. So we already know what that means. Lay off layoffs, massive layoffs, probably. Yep, yep, yep. And so those who have that credential, because I do you get a license for driving a forklift? Like, isn't that a thing?

SPEAKER_02 6:30

I think it's like a certification. I don't know exactly because I've never worked in the industry, but I do believe it's some type of certification or something. Which is to drive that. Yeah, I don't know how you get it or what the training is like, but I think it is some type of um documentation or certification.

SPEAKER_01 6:45

Yeah, well, it's it's is it's definitely automated. And um, one thing, what did Rufus tell you in the most recent episode, and I think the one before that, was you know, go to you got HVAC school, you have uh plumbing apprenticeships or school, um, as well as becoming an electrician. So those are the jobs that the I wonder what they they would be boomers, are retiring out of, um, and that not many are even moving into. So um there's some security in that.

SPEAKER_02 7:11

And uh earlier in the, you know, in the 19th century, or the 20th century, I should say, um, those skills were like mostly predominantly black skills. And we don't have those anymore. So we have somebody to go get those skills back.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Speaking of warehouses, but but Rufus, have you ever had an uh a colleague just die in front of you?

SPEAKER_02 7:33

Some like a a friend? No, I haven't.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

Yeah, a colleague. So in an Amazon warehouse in Oregon, um, the employee said that uh uh an Amazon, one of the workers passed away and they were told to keep working. And so the body was just is it called laying in state? What is that called?

SPEAKER_02 7:51

I don't know what the technical term of it is, but I would you know I don't know what the technical term is, but I know what you're talking about. I'm familiar with that.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

Yeah, yeah. This Amazon Filming Center, man. Somebody passed away on the floor, man, and the the workers were told to keep working.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

Um That's insane.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

So that that's definitely I guess they didn't have robots in that particular facility, huh?

SPEAKER_01 8:12

Um no, it hadn't made it that way yet. And I'm just thinking about areas like I know Georgia, where they're building a lot of those, you know, what's happening. I know um they're they're looking to reduce. So it's it's it's an interesting world, um, definitely over here in the United States or whatnot. For our South African listeners, we appreciate you all for tuning in.

SPEAKER_02 8:32

We got a South African listener.

SPEAKER_01 8:33

Yeah, we appreciate you all. Yeah, you got to check out the colour. We appreciate you all for tuning in. But over here in America, um, you know, they are getting rid of those of us that that ran to these jobs, and a lot of us didn't necessarily, and it's not to say that college is the answer to make money, right? But a lot of young people. A lot of young people went to Amazon because you can make a living, you know, you can afford rent, you can make, you know, food, make groceries, um, and things of that nature. But now we see is automation is coming into these work, you know, these workplaces. And I think, is it not in Texas where there's an automated um McDonald's? I don't know. Yeah, it's fully automated. I think it's in the Dallas area.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

Is it just one or is it most?

SPEAKER_01 9:14

I think it's one. Yeah, it's one, it's fully automated. Um you don't interact with a human there. So um I I know I've heard of Walmart, and of course, we've talked about in previous episodes. I believe, you know, Amazon's really kind of going to just being fully um, you know, without humans in that that aspect of doing the work. And so that kind of, you know, even ties back into Costco exploring that. Um, so yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Rufus, like many Americans. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_02 9:38

In fact, I'm sorry, I hate to interrupt, but I had to look this up because I was curious. Uh, there is apparently an highly automated McDonald's test location in White Settlement, which is near Fort Worth. It opened in December 2022, yeah, and it features order a headline where food is delivered by a conveyor belt. Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

So is somebody in there or not? You just so you order through an app and it's a good idea.

SPEAKER_02 10:02

I just found this on Google. I don't know how it works. I just I just read this off of Google. I don't know if there's a person in there or if there's somebody um monitoring the automation of it, but yeah, I just read that off of Google.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

So all right. Well, kudos to Texas for making things easy.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

No, not kudos. They need to have people in there working.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

Well, Mike said you didn't know that they weren't in there, right?

SPEAKER_02 10:23

Well, I didn't, because this doesn't say whether there's people in or not, but I'm just saying, like, somebody needs to be there in case the robots fuck something up.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

Or fight each other. I like those videos speaking to messing up. Where they're they're running races, or some of them just start destroying themselves, or just they just fall apart.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

They need to destroy themselves.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

Correct. I agree. I agree. I'm I'm in favor of that. I know we've seen things like this on movies, but it's not that I want that shit to really come to life like right now. Like, wait until as Rupert said, we're gonna be here by 2100.

SPEAKER_02 10:53

2100.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

Those of you who hear these videos, you know, uh is that a century or a decade? Decade is 10, decad. Um, so century 10. So 100, yeah. Um, yeah, you'll hear this and you'll be like, okay, well, they won't do something even then. Now, Rufus, I'm a man that works multiple jobs, and that's why I like Miss Phaedra Park's attorney at law, Esquire, because she works several jobs. Allegedly. Um, we see her.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

Because she hasn't practiced law in several years.

SPEAKER_01 11:25

We see her. She says, what did she say?

SPEAKER_02 11:26

Uh we see what she wants us to see, which may or not be.

SPEAKER_01 11:29

It's curated, but she I believe it. Exactly. I believe it. She's represented more recently, one of her castmates. Um, and I think they won, it was it was something really family-oriented. I thought she was an intern entertainment attorney, um, but nonetheless, she helped that girl get her money or some kind of judge.

SPEAKER_02 11:43

These are the lies she keeps telling.

SPEAKER_01 11:45

We saw her in the courtroom.

SPEAKER_02 11:46

Sure. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

On the AI. So speaking of people that work many jobs, um, and and Rufus has several job assignments, um, including this one. So we thank you for signing up for this. This ain't a job. This is a hobby. That too. A woman was fired after it was confirmed that she had been running three remote jobs simultaneously and raked in the top 10% at all three jobs. So, Rufus, what are your thoughts about this?

SPEAKER_02 12:17

I I think what she doing, what she did or was doing is pioneering, and I like it. I think that the companies that found out about her extracurricular jobs are kind of fucked up because as long as she was getting the work done and she was obviously a stellar employee at all three jobs, getting three paychecks all at the same time. I think that's wonderful because it's like it's like running a legal scam. And if you can do that, then why not? So fuck those companies for well, wait, did they fire her or take her, do something to her?

SPEAKER_01 12:45

I feel like the the image that I'm looking at her ass is in jail. They say she was terminated, though. Is it's Rachel Dorn of Christian, D.C. She's 41 years old. This image of her looks like she's 60. Um Yeah, she she was simultaneously employed as a senior data analyst, a remote operations manager, and a logistics coordinator for three separate companies. Um, and she attended all three sets of meetings. She hit all three stats and deadlines and raking in the top 10% of performance at every single one. And her salary looks like she collected $347,000, which is kind of low if I'm looking at those positions, remote-wise, maybe uh is that for all three of them combined? Yeah, it says, yeah. Okay. That was her combined salary. It's kind of low.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

Okay. I uh I applaud her for doing that. I think that these companies are getting over, so why shouldn't she be able to get over too? And uh I lost my train of thought, but yeah, I'm not mad at it. I don't see anything wrong with it. She was getting her job done at all the places. She was a stellar employee, so why not? And first, well, this is my thought, I guess. If she's in jail for the for this, because I don't see how that's like a mug shot.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

It it didn't, you know. I okay, gotcha. Yeah, and then whatever.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

Kudos to um Miss Miss Um Rachel Dorn.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

Miss Rachel. Yeah. Work Miss Rachel. Yeah, and she never missed a meeting. I mean, I know someone that's close to me that works. Um it's funny you told me maybe two weeks ago, he was like, Man, at 10 o'clock, I'll be logged in to like three separate meetings. So there are multiple people that do this. Um, and I know it was really popular around COVID. It sounds like Juice Dura when she says it. COVID.

SPEAKER_02 14:25

You said that the last time you said the word COVID.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

COVID. Thank you. C-O-V-I-D, not COVID. Why the hell she says that? I don't think people in Chicago talk like that. But nonetheless, let me stay on task, right? Yes, please. The task that is at hand. Um, I remember going on the one that Calvin's trip. Shout out to you, Cal. Um, and the guy was like, Oh, I'm full-time with Home Depot remote, and I'm full-time with, you know, these analytics jobs. I know I know someone personally too that also worked for Google full-time, as well as her other remote jobs. So it's just a lot.

SPEAKER_02 14:56

And not only that, the economy, we're talking about the economy, everything is hella expensive these days. So you kind of have to work two two and three jobs to afford to live in today's world, which is unfortunate because it definitely shouldn't be that way. And all these companies want more work out of you for less pay. So I'm not mad at her for working her three jobs at the same time, accomplishing all the goals and the tasks, and getting everything done.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

That's right. I said before. When I saw, I walked up one out in the grocery store, and when I saw that a single pack of Raymond noodles was 75 cents, I knew the world was changed.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

Speaking of that, yep, not yesterday. One day recently, I was in a grocery store. You remember back in the day, those little, you probably didn't eat them, but you know those little red Tosino's pieces, they used to be like 50 cents.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

We got red beer and yeah, we didn't eat those. Well, I think the car.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

I loved them, so I ate them a lot. But they're used to be like 50 cents and now they're like three dollars. Yeah, I'm like, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_02 15:53

It is very much not nutritionally, um, not nutritionally sound, but they were quite delicious when I was a kid.

SPEAKER_01 15:59

Yeah, yeah. Wow, so that's it for our economy segment. We're gonna switch over to what? Sports. Switching over to sports. Um, Sharon Moore, everybody, Sharon Moore. Um, the felony charges were dropped, and he's only, you know, was found guilty on the misdemeanor charges, and he has been sentenced to 18 months probation, and he will not serve any jail time. And everyone, that is Sharon Moore, who was the head coach at the University of Michigan, who also won them a championship um in his time there, who forfeited, or people are saying he forfeited, his $30 million contract when he decided to um be in an entanglement. But is it an entanglement of the other party if his wife didn't know?

SPEAKER_02 16:47

I don't think there's an actual definition of an entanglement. That was a word that J. Baker made up.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

Well, I remember some lady, the lady that calls us sis from the pool pits. Which lady is that not being a church. That lady, she got gray hair, mother king. I'm so sick of sissies, that lady. I felt like she was the one, but it could have been somebody else. No, it wasn't her, it was another lady close to her, seems like, right? That was like, young people, do not be in an entanglement. I'm so sick of sissies, I don't know what to do. Yeah, we I'm gonna find that scene and we'll open up the next show, but not with that sissy talk, but with the entanglement talk. I have to remember that to pull that. But Sharon, you know, good luck to you and your wife. And one thing that the judge said, I wish I had the audio. Um he said, I feel bad for your wife. I I commend your wife because she has stood by you through this mess, and he said she should be commended. So, and you know that's that black judge that kind of goes off on people a lot of times. So he he got his ass. No, it's a black male with a spray on a blackened hair.

SPEAKER_02 17:46

So Judge Mathis. I don't know. I'm just making up shit. Ain't no TV jumping. I don't know. I don't know, Mr. Williams, and I, you know, yeah, I don't know. But that's good. Good, good. He got off, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 17:56

Yeah, and speaking of that, we're gonna do another follow-up story. Tiger Woods. Um, he fights attempts uh to suspend his pharmacy records because they're trying to, you know, he wants them kept out of this DUI case. So Tiger's got a lot going on. We'll see if he will still depend on the president in chief um to get him out of this since he allegedly had called him from the scene of the accident. So it's it's an interesting world, interesting place. Um, and one thing this is kind of a mix of sports as well as um economy. You know, they're saying that Floyd Mayweather went from boxing first, the boxing's first billionaire to financial troubles and is almost broke. And I know I think Jake Paul came forward um within the last few weeks saying how he was promised a certain amount of dollars from a fight, it wasn't there. Floyd is actually attempting to sue, if not Showtime, don't quote allegedly sue, right? Because the it's so distant, it's just a lot around him, a lot of narrative around him as well as money. You know, he's the one that says pay me in cash, but we know that he puts out a lot of cash, right? While he might be paid hundreds of millions of dollars for these fights, but he also spends a lot of money. He spends a lot of money. So things are coming into question about uh Floyd Mayweather, you all um it's it's just a lot. So right now I said Forbes at one point called him the boxing's first billionaire. Um, he was 15 and oh um with his standings with over a billion dollars in career earnings. It says the Pacquiao fight alone paid him $250 million. Wow. Yeah, yeah, just in a single fight. Um, so what that meant for him, it said he had mortgages on multiple homes in 2024 and 2025, and he had two commercial properties that entered foreclosure. Um, and his Las Vegas strip club faced a tax delinquency. Um they said his Gulf Stream Jet is that he sold it in his Beverly Hills mansion as well as a Miami mansion. He's he's getting rid of properties now. So they're saying, you know, he's got something going on with him.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

He's trying to um do what basically what what companies do. They're trying to cut back on their spending.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

Well, there we go. It says he was sued for $1.375 million by a jewelry store. They say he walked in twice in one month and left with 26 watches and 15 gold chains.

SPEAKER_02 20:11

Well, no wonder he fucking broke. You but what the hell you need 15 watches for you got to do that?

SPEAKER_01 20:15

A lot of spending. A lot of spending. It says he was sued for $330,000 in unpaid rent on a $100,000 a month Manhattan penthouse. Um, while in default, it said he posted photos surrounded by cash. So the courts have authorized seizure of his Bugatti um to settle his debts. Now it says it's a February of this year. He was sued, he sued Showtime, you all, um, for at least $340 million. He claims that his advisor um in Showtime diverted his earnings into hidden accounts for over a decade. And so it says the Pacquiao fight generated $410 million in pay-per-view revenue, and he says he's never saw most of it. And so here we are here. It says $22 million in back taxes to the IRS is what he owes. It says he owes a Nigerian media company, $3 million because they got a judgment against him. Um, so he has unpaid jet fuel bills, um, unpaid car bills, unpaid garbage collection at his own mansion. Um, you know, it's just a lot that comes with this. And so, you know, I think he can't read, right? I mean, if they're sending him the bill, that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 21:32

I I'm pretty sure he can count. But he I I would obviously not if he broke after making a billion dollars, he can't count. Because why would you why would you buy 15 watches and whatever or if you can count, obviously you're not you can't count right because you you in default on all this shit. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 21:50

Living life with no limits, okay. Right, and and you can't you gotta be responsible with living life with no limits.

SPEAKER_02 21:59

There's if you have More going out than you have coming in, it's not gonna work. You're gonna be bankrupt like Donald Trump filed five times. So, yeah, obviously you can't count.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

And just to keep it going with the theme of criminology in these sports, ex-Alabama player Luther Davis is accused of Luther Davis. Yes, Luther Davis is accused of taking out a $3.3 million loan while impersonating Falcons quarterback Michael Phoenix Jr. while wearing a do-rag and a fake driver's license.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

Hmm that seems very criminal. I hope he gets caught and I hope he goes to jail if he did it.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

Yeah, it says he went further. He allegedly ran a $20 million fraud scheme, posing as multiple NFL players wearing wigs and makeup to look like them.

SPEAKER_02 22:47

Go to jail, sir.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

So if you did this shit, go to take your asses.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

Yeah, that's a lot going on. And we got a follow-up case to here where we talked about the Falcons, James Pierce Jr. Um, it's a chance that he could have his charges in the stalking case against the ex um, his ex WNBA player Rakia Jackson dropped if he completes an intervention program. Okay. Yeah, if you remember, he was the one that kind of got into it with the law. He was supposedly chasing her down in Miami and she drove to the um police station. Then allegedly he got into it with the officers. There was a physical altercation that ensued, so it was just a lot. So um, yeah. Yeah, and and going with the same vein of the NFL. Chief Assistant Coach Dave Merritt has been arrested for a domestic battery against his daughter um less than 24 hours before the NFL draft, which just occurred.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

So uh yeah, it was yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 23:41

Yeah, yeah, and his ass went to jail. So wow, that ends our sports segment.

SPEAKER_02 23:47

And one thing we want to talk about is what black culture.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

And so, how would you perceive you know different spots of the country? What do you think is the blackest part of the country?

SPEAKER_02 23:59

The South, period.

SPEAKER_01 24:01

Okay, all right, elements of it. So one thing that um I came across this this particular um infographic, and it talks about black culture in several areas, and so we'll go from the west coast over to the east coast. So it says for Los Angeles, it says black culture there carries an image of industry creativity and controlled visibility. And so it just makes me think back to when little Nikki was there. Shout out to Lil Nikki, um, as well as downtown LA. Yeah, she was down there across from the staple center. And shout out to our sponsor, forever sponsor, um, Amichi Builders LLC. So if you're in the Dallas metro area and you're needed um in need of general construction needs, hit us up. We will get you in contact with Amichi. Um for a fee. Yeah, yeah, find us fee. So going over there, so but he can't come to South Africa. So for our South African listeners, you know, you're on your own. We are here.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

We very much can go to South Africa, actually.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

Planes do cross water, right? Mm-hmm. Okay. Um, as far as Houston, so they say um the black culture there carries a golf soul, land, and quiet wealth.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

I don't know what that means, but it sounds good.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

I guess our Houstonians who listen will tell us what that means. So we'll yield to them and and and look for the email. Remember, that's Rufus and Craig at gmail.com. Um, this is a city you're really familiar with as far as New Orleans, Louisiana. It says it carries ancestry, spirit, rhythm, and preservation of African memory. And hoodoo. What he just said. And I was just in New Orleans for a conference this past week, Monday through Wednesday. So shout out to all, and it was so clean. I kept saying that. You change your tune so clean. I couldn't so it's um, I think they're some company they call it IBM. Yeah, it when I tell you everywhere, you don't really see as much unhoused people anymore. It's literally clean, like the city is clean. And I, you know, on my drive back to the airport, I just kept telling the Uber driver, I was like, man, this place is so clean. I said, This is not the New Orleans that I remember, right?

SPEAKER_02 26:09

Well, you know, I love New Orleans, clean, dirty, or otherwise. It just feels like home, and I love it.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

Good for you, good for you. So, all things constant, I might be in the area in the future. So cross some fingers, legs, toes, and arms and eyes. Um just going a little bit north it is because we're going from west to east. Chicago, it says it carries structure, resilience, and institution building under pressure. Rufus is quiet, so we're gonna keep going.

SPEAKER_02 26:40

Yeah, I don't really know I've been I've been to Chicago, but I don't really know much about it other than uh the from my experience, most black people that are not from another country in Chicago or from the South.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

So um I want them to stop acting like they're not country because y'all very much are.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

All right. Well, we'll we'll keep going up there. We'll go up the East Coast and we'll start in Miami, Florida. It says Miami carries international flavor, Caribbean roots, migration, and global movement.

SPEAKER_02 27:09

Yeah, I agree. I'm also very familiar with Miami, and I would agree with that. Um, it's very much it's it's ethnic, but there's also uh like a contrast between the blacks and the others.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Yeah, it is. So shout out to my man and his family. Love y'all. Um, going up to what? Probably the blackest city in America at this particular point.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

Philadelphia.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

But no, no. Atlanta, Georgia.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

Of course, Atlanta. So Atlanta, Georgia carries, guess what? Rufus I love this one. Church, culture, hustle, and influence.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

It's the South, so of course there's church there. Dr. King came back.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

But wait, it shouldn't. We're gonna have the now, we're gonna do some research on this. Because I wait. The next no, the blackest city should be DC. That's that's next, right? Chocolate City, right?

SPEAKER_02 28:01

Well, they call it Chocolate City, but I don't know if it's blacker than Atlanta. I really don't. I've been to both, and I think Atlanta might be blacker than DC because like I said, like I originally said, the black, the blackest part of the U.S. is in the south. DC is not really the south. I know it's probably it's south of the Mason Dixon. It's it's south of the Mason Dixon line, but when you think of the South, you don't think of DC. You think of Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi. And sometimes Texas.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

Well, that's DC. And then the last and New York. New York is our final city, and it says it carries speed, survival, style, and global cultural reach.

SPEAKER_02 28:45

Absolutely. What's the old saying? If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

All right. So that's our black culture in these areas. And shout out, our final cultural moment goes out to what? Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who is going back to use her law degree. So we appreciate her for her time.

SPEAKER_02 29:01

She's practicing law.

SPEAKER_01 29:02

That's right. She's there until January in her congressional seat. And we just wish her the best. Rufus, do you have anything good to say to the people before we sign off?

SPEAKER_02 29:12

Uh, it's not gonna be good, but I do have one final thought. Fuck Ashley Gonzalez.

unknown 29:18

Who is that? Oh, that's that police officer in Houston.

SPEAKER_02 29:21

Yep, fuck her.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

Yeah, we don't really talk about police officers here. Uh yeah. Yeah, I hope they review all of her tapes. I mean, I guess that's black culture because her ass is off the street because she said she was targeting black people. So to our Houstonians, she's out of there. Um, good luck to you all.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

Good luck.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

Alrighty, see you next week. Bye, Ruby. Bye. Bye.