MP3 The Podcast

The Pitts brothers discuss FCC football and race, as well as President Trump

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:28

I'm Marshall Pitts. Model Pitts. I'm Myron Pitts. And we are MP3. Welcome aboard, everybody, to Marshall, Miguel, and Myron, your trio of talk radio. And also now doing our own podcast. MP3 Brothers. MP3 Brothers. So we're glad to be here in the studios. And as Trio of Talk Radio was my idea, my name. Okay, well, that was necessary to interject that right that particular moment.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

Well, I mean, it's just other people had to know. It's so catchy. And I want people to know. That's my part of it. You let people often know that the show was your brain chat. Right, right. It was. So I'm letting people know. I'm the reason we're here. You can say that, right? But anyway.

SPEAKER_00 1:03

Myron, always say there are a lot of factors involved with us. A lot of things going to that.

SPEAKER_01 1:08

It's a blessing. Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

We can all say that. Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

So let's get started. What do we have for today, Myron?

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Okay, we're going to talk over a couple topics. First, uh SEC football and race. Uh, the issue was kind of kicked off by uh old Mrs. University of Mississippi's former coach Lane Kiffin, who now is going to be coaching LSU. He was explaining that it could be difficult to recruit for Mississippi because of all their conf black players, because of all the Confederate flag imagery, and that set off a whole discussion and firestorm. And we're going to tie into that how with the Voting Rights Act, with uh that's that's been changed by a Supreme Court to really make it uh to really eliminate black districts. And so some people are calling on these SEC football players, 18 to 22 year olds, to actually boycott that that conference. So we'll we'll talk about those issues. That ain't gonna happen. We'll see. We'll see. It's not gonna happen either, but we can talk about it. Uh then we're gonna talk about uh 4547, uh President Trump and all the monuments he's trying to build to himself, uh, the ballroom.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

He's only the second president that had that double, double name, double. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

Grover Cleveland was the only other one who was non-consecutive terms. That had non-consecutive terms. Grover Cleveland was Grover in the Good. Better than Trump, but uh where he raced. I think he heard okay, you know. I think he's kind of in the middle of the pack. Uh and so we're gonna talk about also, but it's not just the the naming uh and doing all these things, is there's a lot of a pretty clear element of misuse of funds and corruption involved. So we'll we'll we'll talk about all that and why this is so important to him that he has these these things going on. So on to the SEC. Yeah, football.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

You the football man, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_02 2:57

Yeah, no, no, no, so so now when you don't want to talk about something, I'm the man. I'm the man. You're the designated sports guy. This is not a sports topic, it's really a race topic. But but Lane's the nature of all that.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

But Lane Kiffin, he he kind of brought the Mississippi program from really not being on the radar too strong to the national contender. To being slightly on the radar, yes. Slightly on the radar. They didn't win anything when he was down there. Well, I mean, it's hard, as you say about these championships, they're hard to win. Especially But he certainly had he certainly had Mississippi in the hunt. Right.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

In the hunt for what? They were all the title. Didn't they play for the title one year? Yeah, for the for the SEC title.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

The very fact that we have to mention that, we have to say, did they play for the team? No, I'm saying the bold champion. He made them a better player. He made them a better team than they were. But Mississippi was never, as far as I know it, I don't think they were ever old miss. He was an old miss. Old miss, right. Ole Miss was never really a threat to win it all.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

But what he said controversial, that was controversial is that he was saying that when he was at now he was known as the the portal king. I didn't know that, which is to say that he was good at going in this transfer portal and getting players from elsewhere. So, but despite that, he said that he actually had a tough time with some of his black players. And he, to quote him, it was an interview Coach Kiffin gave with uh The Atlantic. Uh he says his players would come in there and say, hey coach, these recruits, we really like you, but my grandparents aren't letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi. And he says that does not come up uh when he as he is now where he is now in Louisiana State University. Now, both these states, at least, and the schools in particular of the states have a very uh poor-looking racial past, you know.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

And some would and racial future as well. Yeah, racial present.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

And some would say Louisiana State, as far as political-wise, the way they're redrawing their districts and things, it might be worse.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Yeah, they're there they're actually, you know, you talk about the redrawing of district, so the Supreme Court weakened, uh, some say hollowed out the voting rights act. Which will allow them to kind of elimin probably eliminate black.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

I have districts in that state.

SPEAKER_00 5:13

I have a both Mississippi and Louisiana. Louisiana, as my point out, has gone actually further down the road at this point to actually they stopped people, stopped the primary where people were voting, a congressional primary, halted it, threw those votes out so the legislature could meet and redraw and redraw districts to eliminate their one black district. Right.

SPEAKER_02 5:36

I have a problem with a coach that's that has gotten a better deal because that's the reason why he left uh O Miss. He didn't leave O Miss because he couldn't recruit players. Yeah. He didn't leave O Miss because all the things that he's talking about on his way out the door. He left O Miss because he's got a he's got a better opportunity to win the SU at LSU and to also maybe compete for a national championship. Listen, if I probably paid more money too.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

You said when we were growing up, is it's always you always expect uh a former girlfriend going out the door, kick a little dust up on you. Kick a little dust.

SPEAKER_02 6:11

She's gonna throw a little dirt in your way. Throw a little dirt in your way. And and so uh I think now what he's saying might be true. Right. But he's not saying it for the reasons that again, he can say something that might be true, but he's not saying it for the reasons that are authentic in my case, what I think he he left, he left Ole Miss because he wanted to make more money, he wanted to compete for national championship and those things, and he didn't think he could do that at Ole Miss.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

And part of the reason he he couldn't do it is because he said he had recruiting issues because the the best black athletes, a lot of their parents and grandparents, say, hey, you're not going to Ole Miss, you're not going to Ole Miss Mississippi. I mean, Mississippi. Do we know that that's not happening?

SPEAKER_00 6:47

Yeah, I share Migrant's skepticism on this for a couple reasons. One, he left Ole Miss in kind of an ugly way. You know, there's ways you leave a job, and they were in the hunt, despite what Major says. They were actually in the hunt uh in the football playoffs. They were in the playoffs. Right. And then that's when he basically announces he's going to LSU. Or it's it's clear LSU was courting him the whole time. And he it made this announcement and he made it clear he wanted to take his assistance with him. That's the last team a fan base, last thing a fan base wants to hear in the middle of a playoff run.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

So let me ask you two this. You have children.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

And he didn't mention this. The last thing I want to say, he didn't mention anything about this back then, last season. Right.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

Well, well, you said he it came up, and he talked about uh old Mrs. uh prior coach, uh the the guys in Congress now, I mean in the Senate.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

Uh oh uh uh Tommy uh Tupperville. Tubberville, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

And how the the issues that he had had with recruiting black players, whatnot. So would you two send your kids to Mississippi to play football? See this see what I'm saying? This is what he's talking about. Oh, that was what he's talking about, right?

SPEAKER_00 8:01

Rest of him. Uh uh agree, right, agree. Right.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

So the whole point about these Southeastern conferences, considered the best conference in football.

SPEAKER_02 8:09

He is the best, he is the best. Right. There's no consideration. Right, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Okay, okay, right. However, they they these conferences are in the South, primarily, a lot of them deep south, yeah, where the best teams are and where who have the most racist past. And so now they're still doing, uh they're still moving toward to do discriminatory stuff to disenfranchise black uh black voting rights. Right. And so do you continue to support these schools by this wealth of of black athletic talent? Do we is that is that what continues to go on? Well, otherwise, otherwise, people understand money. Yeah, they understand money, they may not understand anything else, but they understand the dough. Yeah. And so so at some point you have to say, well, you know, what do we do? We have some power. These young black athletes have some power here. Right. They have some power. Are they going to exercise it? And and and and it probably not. We've already said at the outset, probably. Why are you looking at your phone when you're trying to do this? I'm talking about Lane Kiff. He's your fact-checking.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

I'm looking at Lane Kiffin. And if I remember and if I remember correctly, Lane Kiffin has had some messy exits before, and I was trying to find out. This is not his first messy exit. He's the kind of guy that when he leaves the place for whatever reasons, then there's some dirt thrown on people. Again, you want to address a problem, address it while you're there. Right. Right. Lane Kiffin had the authority. They love to be able to get the thing.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

And as the the football coach is more powerful. A football coach for a program like that is the most powerful person on campus.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

The most powerful.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

More powerful than the chancellor or the uh president.

SPEAKER_01 9:49

And make a whole lot more money. Make a whole lot more money.

SPEAKER_02 9:52

I don't know which I don't know which one of them has the rebel. One of them things, one of them SEC schools still had the rebel flag out there.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

Well, I'm not Mississippi had it up until relatively recently. Right. They used to bring it to the games and wave it to wave it around. They did stop that, but that was relatively recently, a few years ago. But a lot of these SEC programs do have that past. The LSU, I learned from this controversy that the tigers, their mascot, is not about the the animal. It's named after a violent unit of Confederate soldiers. Right. That call themselves the tigers. Right. That's where LSU's mascot came from. We had we I sent y'all an image of University of Florida, also in the Red City. Yeah, they put the Confederate flag on their helmet in a 1962 game against Penn State, one to fire the team up because they were the underdogs, but also because Penn State had integrated players at that point. So there's an ugly racial history there. What I want to talk about: is there any way that athletes, black athletes, are gonna somehow join this movement and protest these black districts? Well, do we see any scenario where that would actually happen?

SPEAKER_01 11:05

I don't know. It's a long shot because the contracts. See, that's different in opinions.

SPEAKER_02 11:11

We talked about that in the interview show. The answer is no. That's an opinion.

SPEAKER_03 11:16

That's a thing.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

That's a me. A well-grounded opinion. Exactly. We're still in the vague. We go into this hope-y changey thing. Right, right. So we hope that that that black athletes will look at what taking the but back to. They have more power now than they can. But back to Lane Kiff and Jerry. Back to Lane Kiffin just for a second. If you're a coach and you're a coach of the football team in the SEC, as you mentioned, Myron, a successful football team, then what you want to do, what you want to do is you want to make that change while you're there.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:48

You're going to be more welcoming while you're at Old Mess. You want to change things around while you're there. Yeah. You don't throw dirt on the team on the way out the door.

SPEAKER_00 11:55

Yeah, he didn't have a problem. Right. Your point is he didn't really have this problem he's claiming to have.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

Well, we'll see how it all works out, but we got to wrap this topic up and go on to the next topic. Uh admire what we have on Twitter.

SPEAKER_00 12:07

Yeah, that's about uh uh Trump, uh Donald Trump. He is is doing these huge pro he's making over Washington, is what he's trying to do in more ways than one. And one of them is the physical look of uh Washington. If you've seen the inside of the White House, I wouldn't recommend gazing at it too long. But he's got these Well wouldn't you recommend gazing at it? It's ugly. He's got gold all over the place and it's gold plating, whatever you want to. It looks very cheap. Well, beauty's in the high to behold it now. It's very Trump-like. What he's doing. He's always like this sort of gearish over-the-top design. You know, if you look at Mare Lago, that's that's a classic example of the Trump style. Now, if you like that style, okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

But he always he's always said that the White House was an S-H-I-T house before you know he got involved.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

So yeah, so he he has these, but he's going further. So his big thing now, a couple of big things. The ballroom, we all know about. Yep. Uh he's trying to get this ballroom.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

After pushing down the east wing.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

Yeah, pushing down the east wing, which is where the first lady had been, whoever the first lady was, worked their offices for decades. A lot of history there. Push down, we go to sleep, Americans one night, and then the next morning we woke up, the east wing is in ruins. Uh so slip that by us. Um, and then, but she wants to build this ballroom. Now, initially, fellas, you remember he said it was AI at first.

unknown 13:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:42

I thought it was an AI. It was a wrecking thing. It was a wrecking ball and a wrecking machine to the east wing of the White House. Yeah. And you, and you, and we got to see it live on the news, and I was to myself, this can't be right. So I thought I actually thought I was watching a movie of some type of disaster movie. Yeah, some type of disaster movie. Someone was attacking an apocalypse. But he but so, and it took about one day to just put it all in ruins, and then he decided, because you remember now he had been talking about the larger ballroom. Yeah, yeah. But no one thought no one thought he meant just tearing it down. Right. They thought he was gonna make it for the.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

Well, and the reason no one thought that is because he initially uh was saying that he would not be destroying any of their initial footprint of the White House, the ballroom is gonna be added. So this was a shock. Right. Now, the other thing he's changed in talking about this ballroom, it was supposed to be funded entirely by private private donors. Cost about 200 million. Now the cost of it has ballooned to 400 million. Oh, yeah, no doubt. And now he has his his his uh his allies in Congress pushing to add a billion dollars in spending for security for the ballroom. So we all know what's I mean, those of us willing to look at it objectively uh can can clearly see that this billion dollars is gonna pay for the ballroom that was supposed to be paid of taxpayers' money. Right. That was supposed to be paid for by by his uh his donors, his friends.

SPEAKER_02 15:08

Well, one thing we know about uh President Trump is that he is always was and is whether he's successful or not, he's a businessman.

SPEAKER_00 15:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:17

So for him to for him to go to his business people and ask to pay for 200 million or 400 million, whatever the ball room costs, doesn't really make sense to a businessman when he can just lean on the taxpayers' wallets.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Right. And and and and because he has no ethics, no, there's no ethical considerations to him, that's his his uh his uh his piggy bank, the the federal taxpayer.

SPEAKER_02 15:39

So if you think about business people in general, a lot of business people, when they come to your town, Marsha, you former mayor, my you covered a lot of the stuff. Right, right. When they come to your town and they want to build something, one of the first things they want to do is they want to get money from you. Tax breaks or incentives. Tax breaks incentives. When someone, when someone, when some football pla football uh owner wants to get a team to come to your city, then one of the things he says, we'll bring all these jobs, but we're gonna need for you to pay for half the stadium. Right, get the stadium.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

You might want to tear the stadium. At least in those cases, the the team makes the case. Now I haven't looked in the numbers of each days, they make the case of the the large company that more money will be earned by the community over time. But sometimes that's probably the case. But he also has the the we're not gonna recover this money from Trump. Uh so he's also messing around with the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. Uh he's drained it. Is it blue or green? Blue. Blue. He's trying to make it look like okay, it's called a reflecting pool for the reason. This is the one that's between the Washington Monument and the uh the Lincoln Memorial. The long, iconic pool. Iconic, you know, where March on Washington and many other great events uh were held, they're historic events. So he wants the like a more of a swimming pool versus a reflecting pool. And and like the ballroom, the cost keeps going up on. Wait a minute, tell me that. He had said it was initially gonna be five or six million, now it's up to thirteen million when the work is being done. What do you mean swimming pool? No, he wants that look. You know, a swimming pool has a blue blue.

SPEAKER_02 17:11

No one's gonna be swimming in it. No one's gonna be swimming in it.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

No one's gonna be swimming in it. Well, who knows with him by the time he's gonna be. So the basin of the pool is supposed to be American flag blue, according to Trump. And we've seen some of the work. Uh a lot of the paint is uneven, it doesn't look good. And this was the contract for this was given to someone who has done pools at some of the clubs he's owned or the hotels he's owned. No bid contract, which means nobody else even had a shot for it. It was given to, and you tech usually you cannot do that with federal contracts, but he found some loophole, and the loophole was that I'm president of the United States. That's really his loophole. But that's my loophole. Right. Uh and they're saying they need it urgent in time for the 250th anniversary of the United States. So one thing Trump does is he exposes the the flaws in in some of the the safeguards we have. So now because I I don't think that would meet a lot of people's definition of urgency. There's no national security reasons. There's no reason this has to be done exactly right now. The problem I have with Well the celebration is in July. That's not urgent.

SPEAKER_02 18:33

The problem I have we can do it at 251 years. Versus 250. So versus the 250th anniversary. The problem I have with this is I remember specifically the things, and you guys, you too know also the things that Trump ran on when he was when he was running for president of the United States this time around. Not the first time, this time around. He was gonna lower the gas prices, they're higher. He was gonna lower the food prices, they're higher. He was gonna lower goods and services, they're higher. He was gonna stay out of the wars in the Middle East, and then we in all kinds of wars. He was gonna end the war in Russia. Rage is on. So the list goes on and on the thing. Listen, if he was doing all of this makeover Washington, but those other things he promised were right, then I wouldn't say anything. I would say this is a great president. He's doing exactly what he's supposed to be doing. Who cares if he wants a ballroom? Who cares if he wants to turn into a swimmer? Reflective for him. He wants to turn reflective for, but he's not doing any of those things. He's doing in addition to not doing the things that he said that he was going to do as president of the United States. Now he's also doing all this other stuff that really doesn't really, it matters, but it doesn't matter as many the American people are hurting.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

Two things he's really focused on. Let me mention this one one of his last big one of his big projects is this arch, what he calls the independence arch. It's supposed to be 250 feet tall. Estimates of that could cost as much as 100 million. No one believes it's gonna cost that little. Uh, but he's trying to get money from Congress to uh to build this thing. Uh a lot of people already it's modeled on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which is an iconic uh arc. Uh it's slated to sit between the Lincoln Memorial and the Arlington National Cemetery. People say it's kind of gonna block the views of Lincoln Memorial. Uh and again, this is just one of his vanity projects. And the important part is what you were saying, Baiju. Um, this isn't what the American people were promised. And the polling is showing that. Uh, Americans do not like him focusing on this. Uh, they definitely do not like the Iran War. That distinguishes that war from the Iraq War. Americans eventually turned against the Iraq War, but when it first started, it had 75% support. The Iran War has been upside down in his poll numbers every since then, because it kind of came out of nowhere. It was 100% avoidable. So he wants to build uh an arc and but but in addition to doing a makeover for Washington, D.C.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

Right that the president and his administration have done, there's also the financial gains that he has focused on as well for himself and his family.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

That they're they're they're making a Bitcoin and just all kinds of other stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:17

Uh all kinds of in fact they've got the uh is the gold watch or what else they got going on?

SPEAKER_00 21:21

The they got the the Trump phone. Trump phone uh that's may or may not come out uh making money off that. They have investments, uh particularly in the Middle East and in uh in Eastern Europe. Uh one of the Trump boys was talking about there about the one of his sons is talking about they're gonna build the tallest building in Georgia, the country.

SPEAKER_01 21:44

Uh so again they were they were gonna have uh authorize a gold card at one point.

SPEAKER_00 21:51

A gold card, the immigration gold card that people can get the skirt around the immigration. I mean, it's all they call it there's a word. They have for grift.

SPEAKER_02 22:01

Right. All this is grift. We all know that people make that presidents, not presidents, this president is about making money. I don't want to say a president. Right. This president is about making money. And again, I think the American people probably could live with that. Oh, yeah, yeah. If he had done all of the other things that he's supposed to be doing here. Which he wasn't gonna do. If my gas prices were lower, if my food was lower. Let the man make his money. If housing and all of those things, if people weren't living hand to mouth and, you know, month to month, you know, those types and weren't struggling worse than they struggle in decades, then people would say, well, you know, let the man make his money. But we can't say let him make his money now because it's just too much other stuff going. The American people are struggling. They are struggling. I mean, gas, gas in California is six dollars and something.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

He was asked about the when he's negotiating whatever negotiating is going on with uh the Iran situation, when he looks at it, the Iran war, does he think about the impact on Americans' pocketbooks? And he said he doesn't think about that at all. Right. Uh he says his only what he said his only thing is to stop them from getting nuclear weapons.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

And I'll say it again, there's no plan. People keep saying, well, there's a plan. He doesn't have a plan. He wakes up in the morning and says, you know what, today I'm gonna invade Iran.

SPEAKER_03 23:22

Right.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

Today I'm to tomorrow when I wake up, I'm going to do this. There's no plan. There's no rhyme or reason to what is going on. That's why they can't end the war in Iran because he doesn't know why we went over there in the first place.

SPEAKER_00 23:34

He he does he clearly doesn't have an end game. Uh and Iran, you know, I don't know if uh Iran had a reputation for being very savvy in terms of international relations. That's the reason why Israel didn't. But they are running circles around.

SPEAKER_02 23:49

That's the reason why Israel didn't go over there and jump on them by themselves.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:52

Israel knew that Iran is savvy when it comes to war.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:56

They don't Iran is not sitting around worried about starving their people and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 24:01

They were killing them in the streets in protest.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

Yeah, they've killed 600 of them since the war started. Yeah. That's an that's an estimate. It's probably higher than that. So what I'm saying to you is that you know you have to think these things through, and this American president, 45, 47, is not thinking those things.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

He's not the most patient man in the world, to say that to say the least. But I but I do think that at the end of the day, uh we're going to see a transformation in Washington, D.C. that and also from a financial aspect, his family and he will there there will be that part we can't do anything about.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

But the transformation part, as Myron said, you know, off the air, once we get another president, another president said, I don't like how to say.

SPEAKER_00 24:41

But it will take a look at the other thing. I I think it's likely he will get some kind of ballroom, perhaps. But if uh Congress changes hands and it is at least in the House, it's expected to, he's gonna need congressional approval for some of this stuff. And I think it goes without saying that the Democrats, uh, if they're elected, they get power, particularly if they get both chambers, which is a possible congressional approval, meaning they're gonna need money. Yeah, they're gonna need money because the the founders are very clear. They did not envision the president just spending money freely. They is they they put the purse, the power of the purse, in the hands of Congress as well as they should. Yeah, and it's one of many things that he just ignores, and his party, which is in power in Congress, has allowed him to ignore it. And that is going to stop if the if if uh the party the the Congress changes hands. All right, well, that's we gotta get out of here. It's been a great ride, but I am Marshall Pitts. Marshall Pitts.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

I'm Myron Pitts, and we are MP3