Ep 145 Phase Whatever

Maurice and Odie want to take over like Zach and Cody Black and Schnurdy is the best podcast going to boom like Wally coyote going to meet match. They move like they Harry and talking about mental health. No, it's not scary. You notice she coming up with the astrology. No God, that comic and that's the best policy. Maurice the goat talking about animation because you know oh, does she move away? We like the boat, watching some

movies and she taking notes. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Black and Snarky Podcast, the only podcast where two sexy black nerds get together to shoot the shit. I am MO AKA Kid Licorice and I'm Odie, and together we are the aforementioned nerds here on episode 145 of the Black and 30 Podcast. How are you doing today? I'm doing pretty good. We had a fun day yesterday seeing the what is it called the sumo? It was a sumo, but what is the group called?

The New York Sumo Club, I believe. Yeah, I think. The half. Sumo, half sumo. Which was fun. We went to Industry City 'cause they were doing a the half Sumo tournament, which was great. I've never seen sumo wrestling like in person. Me neither. So that was my first time. A chance to see them like going against each other was really fun. And just seeing like the different weight classes and the different styles of bodies that were present you.

I mean, like obviously there were, if you've seen sumo wrestling on TV or you've seen the concept of sumo wrestling like it's the there's gentleman on the thicker side of things, but the but there was different shapes of the thickness is what I'm trying to say. And there's I always found a video of two of the, let me share it, of two of the fighters who we were rooting for. One of their names was Kofi.

And the other one, I don't remember what his name was, but you were calling him the name you were you all were saying he looked like a wrestler. What was his name? Dilo Dilo. So I'm going to put a little just small. So this was one of the things we were one of the matches that we saw yesterday. ELO Brown really took him down. Yeah, it was, it was, it was great. It was great.

It was extremely competitive. Like I think the guy that we rooted for got the gold and the heavyweight and the light heavyweight. Perry. Something, something Perry. Kendall Perry. Kendall Perry Yeah, yeah. And yeah, it was a lot of fun. I. What I loved about it was there was so many black and brown wrestlers there. Yeah, they were. And I mean, there were obviously if you saw the clip, there were a lot of white, white guys

fighting. But I think it was great to see like the diversity of the people, not just like in their body shapes. And they seem like they're from all walks of life. So it was really interesting. It must be like a cool way of just kind of letting go of steam sometimes and just using your body and staying in shape, which is cool. So yeah, like, that was a lot of

fun. I give my credit to you for finding the event and, you know, convincing me to go because Lord knows on the Saturday, like if you if if you say, Hey, let's do a thing. I have to clear the entire Saturday to do that because with you, like it's a it's an all day affair essentially. No, I know no, that's the thing. I do know there might be some I always. Know we're going to shenan and we're going to shenan again. Anyway, how are you doing? I'm doing well. I'm. I'm tired.

It was a long week. Had a lot of team meetings just like fucking 3 but I survived and made it out the other end and now I I'm feeling pretty good. That's good. Yeah, so how about we Mosey on the oh, did you know that the New Jersey Transit workers are on strike? Yeah, James actually just messaged me that the strike was over.

Oh, the strike is over, Yeah. I had sent him a message because I saw I think it was on Friday that people want to take me to transit were having to go and take like the the Amtrak places. And so I asked him about it. And so he was just telling me some inside baseball about that because he works for the MTA. But he just messaged me to say it was over.

So hopefully everyone is able to get back on their trains because God knows the transit system, when it goes down, when there's any sort of glitch in the system. And it can become very frustrating, especially coming from Jersey because of the transit system goes all the way deep. You could be living in South Jersey and work in like Newark or work in the city and that is not an easy commute. No, it is not. At all. No, it's not.

I hope that they got the workers got what they needed and what they wanted because they they're not going to go on strike for no reason. Of course, nobody goes on strike for for no reason. Yeah, hopefully they they came to an agreement and got exactly what they want wanted. What they wanted. And what they deserve. Yeah, exactly. Yes, So. So. Speaking of well, Oh no, we're gonna get jump into our pop culture. Yes, we are. When you want. A hot meal. We've got a big.

Deal. What are you gonna pick pop topics? All right, Speaking of people getting what they deserve, did you hear about this huge fire in Louisiana that has burnt down the Nottoway plantation? No, I I did not hear about. That well, just for some back story, it was built in 1859 and it was known as one of the most brutal sugar plantations in the South.

From what I know about American history and enslavement, folks who were pretty not, let's say not necessarily they were up north, but if you were above like Georgia and above, generally hard work, backbreaking work and all that. But people did not want to get sent down to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, etcetera, because the Deep South had the worst kinds of things going on in the plantations. And you can imagine like plantation life was already

terrible. You're getting beaten, you're getting starved, you're getting mistreated, etcetera. But places like the Nalloway Plantation were just seen as the worst of the worst. But this past week, I think on Thursday, a fire started and two employees, they said they saw smoking come out of a room on the 2nd floor. The firefighters came, they were trying to contain it. They were able to contain it for a little bit, but then it just became completely unruly. And I have a quick little news

clip for us to watch about that. And I personally, I mean, let it burn, you know? Burn baby, burn, burn baby, burn when? You're in a. Place like. Burn but I want all of the plantations to burn, especially after like seeing. Watching It's weird that plantations still exist, are still a. Thing and they're like just like monuments. Obviously they're not like active plantations. Sometimes. But. It might sound. No. You turned the sound off.

I turned the sound, Yeah. Oh yeah, this is the plantation stated that they had gone into the museum on the 2nd floor and there was smoke. They went in and exited the museum, and at that time when they returned, the whole room was in flames. Yeah, that plantation is cooking. Burning right on up. Yeah, I have to say I am curious why more plantations don't just burst into flames. Quote UN Quote I I assume that they haven't found the cause of the fire.

They haven't found the cause. It could have been anything. That's old. Yeah, it could have been electrical. Electrical wiring. Someone could have had a smoke break and forgot to put something up. It was on the second floor of the museum, so yeah, it could have been anything. It could have been anything I told you about how how my my

house caught on fire, right? Yes, it was electrical and I was in the house when it happened and the I saw smoke coming from the back of my mom's bookcase and I called my mom and was like, hey mom, there's smoke coming from the back of your bookcase. And she said, call 911. How old were you when that happened 9? No, I was in middle school, so I was old enough to to No, I mean like what happened to all those? How old are you supposed to be

in a fire like you're? Supposed to see smoke and call the police. Nothing taught me how to do that. You had fire class Fire safety in tool. I'm sure, I'm sure we had fire to. The fireman and you had to go to the thing they gave you a little. But everything but everything is super conceptual. It's until it happened, until it happened. You know what I mean? Like nobody knows what they're going to do in a situation until that.

Situation. Well, black folk knew what they were going to do when this happened because this was one of the photos. Sure. That I saw online and I was cackling. That's hilarious. And I saw the woman in the that's in the red dress. I saw her pouring libations on the side of the road for the ancestors. And like, honestly, plantations, I don't think that they should be necessarily all burned down to the ground. I think they should be cordoned off the same rate concentration

camps are. I've visited the how in no the how. Oh, I thought it was decao. That's. Not how I've ever heard it pronounced, but. There's AC in there. Yeah, but just because there's a Yeah, I've visited there and it is completely like everything's memorialized. It's been turned into a big museum. You walk around and they have guides and things. You see the doors where it's like the iron gates where people would walk through and the gas chambers, etcetera.

And it is very, it's a very solemn place to be even like our tour guide, I remember he had to tell people like before we came in, he was like, please do not take selfies around here because this is not a place where you are showing how much fun you're having. Like it's a solemn place. It's basically a big grave. So have that respect.

But the thing about American plantations, there's there's only one plantation that I know of that has, even though it's still open, does not allow like weddings, doesn't allow these celebratory things. Yeah, when I found out that people were having weddings at these plantations was ridiculous, right? Reynolds had a wedding and a plantation. His wife got married on a plantation and when it came out several years ago, he's Canadian. They were, so they had

plantations up in Canada too. No, no, I'm not. I wasn't saying that to give a pass. I'm I, I was just saying like, well, like he's Canadian, so. What does? But what does Canadian have to they know about slavery. They had enslaved folks, so they know what a plantation is. There's no I don't know.

I don't know enough about, I don't know enough about history because I thought for the longest time that when the slaves were escaping to go north, they were escaping to Canada. Enslaved people, because they weren't just slaves, they were enslaved people. Enslaved individuals. Yes, they eventually would escape to Canada because Canada, when France abolished slavery, so did obviously Canada because it was a French territory. So they did eventually do that, but they were not free of slaves

or enslaved people. They were not free of them. So, and it's from a certain point, they had them. And even then, the black population in Canada was not nearly, it wasn't like it was like a gold mine for them. They set up communities and things like that as best they could. So they were still, you know, racial tensions and segregation, et cetera.

So he knew. And even still, if you didn't know, you should know because when you went to the place to visit it and they said we're called the plantation, they could not, they didn't tell you why. Plantation is not a just a random term. Like it does have a specific meaning of what It's a place you go from. It's a farming land or whatever. Yeah. But there there's a definition for plantation that is segregated, segregated, separated from the historical context of it.

But unfortunately in America, we know that when you think of plantation, you know what it means. It's just like when you say Pampers, you know exactly. You mean diapers. Yes. So. So when you say plantation, you mean the the places where enslaved folks were made to work? I'm looking up the definition. Britannica says a plantation is a usually large estate in a tropical or subtropical region that is cultivated by unskilled or semi skilled labor under central direction.

Now I know even outside of America there are plantations like there's tea plantations, rice plantations and any of these places, even if they may not have necessarily had slaves or enslaved people, they did have people who were being underpaid and overworked. The charger. And I know that in like Kenya, you can go to tea plantations.

And I remember when I heard I wanted to go see like where like the tea is a big deal in Kenya. And when I learned about the tea plantations that the Kenyans were basically used as slaves on this land to make this tea for the British overseers. So really, no matter where you are in the world, the world, the word plantation is going to hold some sort of negative connotation for unpaid or underpaid labor.

But the only plantation I know that in America that does not allow for weddings is the Whitney Plantation. And they have, I follow them on social media because I remember when they, I don't know who it was not. It hasn't been forever, but they like years ago, they said that they were no longer doing weddings there because it's a place, it's a needs to be. It's a solemn place of memoriam for those who lived there and died there and worked there,

etcetera. So like I wouldn't want the Whitney plantation to be burned down because they're they're trying to serve a purpose. But even if this plantation, like it says it, it was in the museum, but when oh man, I forgot. I found a video of one of like a plant of one of plantation tours they done at the not away plantation from at some point within the most recent years.

And the way that they were talking about what happened and the enslaved people was very gross and a very much retelling of history, which is not surprising. Oh, it was like a revisionist sort of thing. Yeah, it was like, you know. Oh, they would. Well. I was going to ask you why. Why was it gross? The woman was like Oh well when someone was being sold they would try to buy all the family together so they wouldn't be separated like. Which is not true. In what?

Motherfuckers were not trying. To. Keep a family. You were by everybody. It's not because you're trying to be so altruistic. You know, I don't want to separate them. You have more bodies for your work, especially a huge plantation like that. It was one of the largest antebellum plantations. So they knew what they were doing. And so I read on. Let's see. I'm trying to find the quote from the owner whose name is William Daniel Dyess.

He's so the fire officials have said that the fire was electrical and not suspicious. Oh, sorry. William Daniel Dyess is an attorney in and preservationist. I don't I guess what is a pres. I guess someone who preserves things but he he was saying that he wants to rebuild the home and said that in an article I read that he does isn't racist and that he said I take this position.

We are non racist people. I'm a lawyer, my wife is a judge and we believe in equal opportunity rights for everyone. Total, total equality and fairness. My wife and I had nothing to do with slavery, but we recognize the wrongness of it. We are trying to make this a better place. We don't have any interest in left wing radical stuff. We need to move forward on a positive note here and we are not going to dwell on past racial injustice. I'm curious how you could not

dwell on past racial injustice. In a plantation. On a plantation. I mean, that's the one thing about being, I assume that this person is white. Yes, yes. That's the one thing about white whiteness. And white people, like they can sort of pick and choose a history that they, like, ingratiate into themselves. Like they don't have to be mindful of the past in the way that other people have to, you know, like, especially us. Yeah. So like to them? Fucking plantation.

It's just a house. It's just a building. It's just. It's memories, it's history, and it is history. I don't. Think for them it it's history in the sense that it existed for a long time. For us, when we say it's history, we we we mean that it has a negative connotation to a very sore subject within our relatively not that so long ago my great grandfather. Great great grandfather was enslaved, yeah. So that's not really that long

of a, it's not like. You know what's sorry, No, could be my friend Haywood turn up seed from DC. Shout out to Haywood. No, he was a comedian. He had a sketch for, you know those commercials for ancestry.com back in the day when they were running those commercials was like I, I went on ancestry.com and discovered that my grandfather was a, was an oatmeal maker or some, some bullshit like that. It was all white people.

Like he came up with a sketch for where everybody was black and was like, I went on ancestry.com and discovered my great grandfather was a slave and. And everybody was like, Yep, found out he was a slave. Yeah, my great grandmother was a slave. So there's that. What are you going to do? Yeah, found out they were slaves.

So I hope more I would like, I was like the people who own plantations to go broke, unless they are doing what the Whitney is doing, which is hiring black people to lead the museums and the memorials and telling the real history. The rest of them, they get all burned down. But I don't really in really in my mind, I don't want them to actually all burned down because I do think that we need to have that history there, unless they just burned down and we just

make the whole thing a memorial. And people walk around and see like, look, let's look at the terrible conditions that they were make forcing these people to live in. While you look back at that huge burnt down mansion in the back that it probably had 20 rooms for two people. Because I know there was these Tik Tokers, these white Tik tokers who got in trouble because they had purchased an

old plantation. It still had the corners for the enslaved folks on them and they had put bathed them into little tiny houses for people to rent. Oh, tiny houses, yeah, and they. Were trying to like. So they were renting out the slave quarters? Exactly. And they were rent. They were trying to say, no, this is like, you know, we don't really know what these were used for. We were repurposing the existing thing. OK, ridiculous.

White people are always ridiculous and they never want to take ownership for their wrong. And it's not that. Yes, of course we are. Slavery ended 1865. We are not saying that you yourself are someone who's owning folks.

But more than likely, if you are in a place where slavery was the top of the economy and your family still has money and generational wealth of any kind, you probably were benefiting from that in some kind of way because our families did not have the opportunity to pass down plantations over generations and generations and generations. I think why people are too far removed from the atrocities that

were committed. I think we should just start blaming them and saying that that they directly benefited from slavery. There was. Why not? There was an article, it was talking about you. Own slaves. You probably own slaves. Like you could do all the ancestry.com looking up and everything like that to show that he was a fucking cheese monger.

Some bullshit like that. But no, if you if you have any level of prominence in this country, you probably benefited from slavery in your history, or you at least benefited from the racism that was going on. There is an article on reuters.com that talks about 100 people in politics whose families have ties to slavery. OK. It says more than 100 US leaders, lawmakers, presidents, governors and justices have slaveholding ancestors, but that few are willing to talk about it.

Yeah, duh. Which makes sense. So there's no reason why we shouldn't. Like. Of course they do. It's not. It's just a part of the history. That's. Sure. That's just what it is, so. Yeah, it is what it is. Fuck you Dale dies, Days. Whatever his name is. Fuck you William Days. William dies. I hope that you all go bankrupt over this and never have any money. Bless you guys. OK, all right, so now moving on to some good news. Ironheart has finally gotten it's poster revealed.

Not just as poster, it's. Trailer Yeah, Ryan Cooler is directing this. You know it's going to be great. He's executive producing it, not directing it. Oh, sorry. Executive producer. And so it's starring Dominique Thorne, who we saw her play Rhode Island, Rhode Island in Black Panther, Wakanda Forever. And I'm really excited about this because I mean, it's Ryan Coogler is going to be very black and I'm sure it'll be very

beautiful. And it comes out June 24th and it's on, it's coming out on Disney Plus. I'm I'm curious as to why. Why aren't they getting in a real movie? What do you mean? Why is it it this is this is this is a holdover from their remember, like for the last few years, Disney has been just flooding the market with content with marble content and all these either mid to terrible shows like fucking secret wars. Not secret wars. What was it called? Wasn't. It called Secret Wars what was

strong. With Samuel Jackson I. Think it was called Secret Wars the. Aliens. Secret Invasion or it's either secret. Secret Wars. Cause secret Wars I think is an Avengers movie that's coming out. I think it was called Secret Invasion. OK, I'm looking it up. Keep, keep talking. Yeah. Anyhow, this is a holdover from the what? Essentially they've been being they're doing a quality invasion, Secret invasion, yeah. So they're doing a quality over

quantity thing now. So that's why certain projects are being pushed back. If you've noticed, like Marvel hasn't been like, having nine different movies and 10 different shows coming out in a year and giving you homework to do by watching all of it because it's all connected. This is the last holdover from the previous regime.

And yeah, like I I am. How do you say I am optimistic about Iron Heart just because it is a character that I loved in the comics and a character that was introduced in the Black Panther Wakanda Forever movie? I think, and this is just my opinion, I think this could be kind of like Loki season 2 in that it'll be a surprisingly good story that's that's being told. So I'm going to hold off on any judgment until I've watched it all.

Well, Ryan Coogler in interviews has said RiRi is definitely in conversation with a street level show like Daredevil. You've got characters trying both heroes and villains to make what to make do with what they have. Then you combine that with cosmic Marvel characters who'd be at home in Doctor Strange or Wanda Vision. That mix of St. level Marvel and magical Marvel is a pretty crazy combination. And he did say that the show is

going to be set in hometown. It's following the events after Wakanda Forever. And that, you know, she's come home after spending time in this beautiful black magical place and is more eager to pursue her dreams and that her quest entangles her in a dangerous world of science and magic. And he also said that it was very quickly realized that she was her own character in her own lane.

There's a difference between RiRi and maybe a Captain America or a Black Panther where a mantle is being passed. This is a character who obviously was obviously influenced by Tony Stark and inspired by him, but she is also very different in doing her own thing. It's this young woman who has a chip on her shoulder and this arm and exterior, but inside she's just full of love. If that's not Chicago, I don't know what it is. And Anthony Ramos is supposed to be in it. Oh yes. Yes, he is.

So I look forward to seeing that. Look at these beautiful black people and tell me you don't want to support this show. She looks gorgeous. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I I I wonder. Who the villain is supposed to be? I haven't watched the trailer fully, I've been watching little snippets of it sure, but it looks from what the trailers I

saw it looks good. Apparently there have been a lot of idiots online who are like saying it's going to be terrible and trying to like throw salt on it or whatever bullshit. It's kind OK, So to to be fair, it's a little bit hard to like I, I am giving it like some grace and being optimistic, but we've been burned a lot in recent years from Marvel and just overall from Disney, you know what I mean? Like it's not like they're putting out and doors left and

right. Like they flooded the like I said, they flooded the market with a bunch of shows, varying qualities. Like you got like a bunch of she hulks and a bunch of secret invasions and shit. And it if I could find it, I would say the only good thing to come from. The movies and the shows, what was that? Was that, umm, what is it called? What are they called? They're called like, is it is that tears? Is it tears? What do they usually called? What do they break them out down into?

Phases, yeah. So this is we're we're currently in what phase 6, I think. So this is technically supposed to be a phase four or five project, like they been finished recording this thing. This thing has just been sitting on the shelves for a long time, waiting said. He's glad that it's finally coming out. So everybody's just been waiting. And one thing I'm surprised about when I just see the promotion, they're not really leaning on like Ryan Coogler's

name. At least I haven't noticed that like I didn't. Realize well, because it's not directing it like he's an. Executive. Producer, yeah, but like, executive producers aren't like the they're not writing the scripts and they're not shooting the project. But I think that having. I think they're doing more high level like like but.

Having a name like Ryan Coogler is synonymous with having a name like Spielberg or Jordan Peele or something like that, where, you know, this person puts out great work. And also because Sinners just came out, which was really great. And obviously people are have are still talking about it. They're cramming themselves into theaters to still see it after all this time. It's getting even more fanfare than Thunderbolts.

Yeah. So I would think that to make sure you are promoting this in the best way to use the names that you can use name drop somebody like put it out there like they do have them doing some some interviews. Yeah, but I'm not seeing nearly as much as we could be. Seeing Well, when does it come out?

June 24th. June 24th it it'll probably ramp up closer towards the date or they or, or or like I said, because this is a holdover and they're trying to quickly go into the next phase, they could just be trying to burn this off. Like no big. Deal Like, yeah, drop it. Do do like they did with with Snow White where they where they didn't really promote it. They just put it out there and then once it was done, they didn't care about it, moved on.

But I think that it made that's like, that's something shitty to do for a show or movie that has a black cast with a black, even if it's executive producer on it, because people are already not interested in giving black people the benefit of the doubt and saying it's going to be good.

So like, if this were to crash just because it was Disney's not putting the money behind and marketing, they're going to be looking at like, oh, look, see, I told you that Black Girl show was going to be good because like, there are some people I saw online. No, they canceled moon girl. Well, they did, which was stupid because it was such a cute show. Yeah, but they were saying like, oh, they're race swapping. It's a DI higher when in the comics when I've looked at the

comics. Yeah, re re. She's never been a white girl. She is. Really does exist in the comics. She's she's essentially that they're the online discourse is essentially like they, they're doing the same thing that they did with Miles Morales when he was first introduced in the Ultimate comics. They. Hate seeing a black person that is that's black in the in the comics be black on the thing.

Like they want so badly for everyone to be this like oh, we're being woke and hiring this black person when the black person is just that was their job always. It was not going to change. So, you know, we'll see. I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to watch it and it's a movie or a series. It's a series.

OK, I'm going to watch it. I hope it's really good and I'm looking forward to it. No, I found this really ridiculous and hilarious video, and it made me think of you because you always say whenever, whenever, like there's this big name in entertainment or whatever that gets caught in a scandal and you're like, oh, they're trying to buy NBC. Yeah, that's the running joke of this podcast. It's like they were. They were trying to buy NBCI.

Saw this and felt like this was something that would make you laugh and maybe it'll give you a new catch phrase. Are you ready to watch it? Sure. All right. So it looks like iHeartRadio was doing an interview with Will Smith and this is what came of it. Hold on. Prince. Let me read because it wasn't. And I talked to Prince 8 hours before he died. I talked to Prince and he called and he was pitching. He was saying that me, him and Jay-Z should start an

entertainment company. And he said he had talked to Jay and he wanted to do it. And we talked that night and in the in the morning he was gone. I just, I don't know what that says about me. Well, I don't think it. Well, so. I don't. First off, I don't. What does it say about you, Will Smith? That's that's my question. And also this is. What a weird thing. What a weird story. This is a weird story. Like oh, I talked to Prince the day before he died. 8 hours.

Not even a full day 8. Hours for for will. OK, you got a Take your mind back before the slap. Take your mind back before the entanglements with arguments with August, entanglements with August entanglements, entanglements, entanglements with August. Take your mind back all the way to when Prince was still alive. Will Smith was still probably one of the biggest box office smash hit actors to, you know, ever exist.

So it's it's not unreasonable to think that him talking to a legend such as Prince it it's, it's not unreasonable to think that that was a possibility because because they were probably of the same ilk running in the same circles. You know what I mean? What's weird to me is that why is the story being told now? Yes, that is exactly what I thought when I. Watched that. And why hasn't Jay-Z said anything about this or why hasn't Will Smith said anything about this before today?

Yeah, like I, I know wealthy people have to like, comb through their past for anecdotes to put on these interviews and shit like that in order to be relatable. But like, this is, this is something that is super duper unique because of who's involved. Yeah. Because it's Prince, Yeah. And Jay-Z, but also Prince, you know what I mean? Every time I will say. And what does it say about you, Will Smith, that you're just sitting on these fucking yes

you? Maybe you did hang out with or or talk to Prince before he died, but boy, oh boy, what does it say? That used to be a big deal. You used to kind of be a big deal. That's what it says about you. That Prince would sit on a fucking phone call with you. You said for 8:00. Hours. No, no no. It was 8 hours before he. Died 08 hours be OK because I'm about to say that's incredible if anybody was on the phone with Prince for 8 hours. I mean, not surprised.

I wouldn't be surprised. We've been on the phone for hours, hours and hours before if you're talking and you're watching. TV. No, we've been on the phone for like maybe an hour. We have been on the phone. For a long when you're doing stuff around the house, you're chit chatting you. It could happen, but I don't think. I yeah, when we're younger and we have all the time in the

world, I just. Find it weird that this is coming out now, but I also know that when I am on the interwebs and I said something goes up in like black entertainment. Sure, there's always somebody was like they were trying to buy and it won't even be embassy all they're trying to start this thing together and it was going to make black people all this money and see that's why they killed them.

And I know that somebody is on a TikTok right now watching that video and creating a whole nother section of freaking conspiracy theories. Yeah, about this whole thing.

Yeah, because I mean, the, the, the conspiracy theory already exists that like the powers that be took Prince out of the picture because of all the all the artist shenanigans that he was up to. Like he was he was, you know, into, you know, owning his masters and owning his own music and not having fucking his music come out post humorously or not being a fucking Tupac hologram, you know, So it's not out of the realm of possibility for me at least to think that maybe there

might have been some, let's say, untoward. Yeah shenanigans. No, it's. Never like oh this couldn't happen, but I know that the moment folks saw this video that they are picking up something out of the little myths of the news and immediately are saying Nope, this is what? It was, well at the very least, like this level of he was trying to buy NBC is at least more tolerable than most of the jokes that we usually make about

someone trying to buy NBC. Usually it's because they were being a creep or a pest or a monster. That's true. This one is just he was trying to buy NBC. Will Smith's memoir because I haven't heard of this this story before so I'm curious if that's why he brought it up because I didn't watch the the whole I Heart episode. I just saw that clip and I was just so confused as to why it was coming out now.

Yeah, me too. All right, so we do you want to talk about first the Brooklyn Bridge crashing Biden or the woman who was found alive? Let's do Biden first, because that'll be quick. OK, so unfortunately. Oh, and by the way, that was Will Smith Prince. Sorry, I just realized I didn't have the thing on. OK, so apparently, according to CNN, the former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate

cancer. In a statement made by his personal office today, it said last week President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of prostate of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer characterized characterized by a Gleason score of nine grade 5 with metasis. Metasis, Yeah, metasis to the bone.

While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone sensitive, which allows for effective treatment or for effective management. Now, a doctor, Jamin Brembart, who's a urologist and a robotic surgeon from with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida's College of Medicine, but is not involved in Biden's treatment. So that prostate cancer is very common. As we get older, most men are going to have little cancer

cells in them. But according to another doctor, Doctor Benjamin Davies, who's also a professor of urologic oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and again not involved in his case, said a Gleason score of nine means the most aggressive form of prostate cancer. This, I mean my one of my grandfathers passed away from prostate cancer, so it is very scary.

Yes, it is. Especially the older you get, even if it can be, if you can use a form of treatment on it, it's not something that like you don't want to be doing chemo at 30, at 50, at 80. Like it is very destructive to your body. Sure it is. But I mean, like, obviously he as the former president, he is going to be given the top doctors in this country and around the world. Top flight medical examiners of the world, Craig. So we know he'll be taken care

of, yes, as best as possible. But it is, I mean, that's a shitty news to to get out. Yeah, it's unfortunate, but I mean, I look at it as one, it's a reminder for everybody, every man of a certain age to get their prostate checked out. You know what I mean? Like go to the doctor, get your prostate checked out. I think I'm probably at the age now where that might be a thing that I need to do too.

Yeah. But also like I, I think about if Biden had just stayed in the race and if he had won and then he got this kind of news, where we would be. What do you mean? As in, like, where would we be if all like our fucking president had cancer? Well, they probably would be large things of mourning and people lighting candles and, and then there'd be a lot more folks who were going to get screenings and things like that when the

president gets sick. We haven't had a president of this age, late, late like this elderly age in a very long time. Right, right, right. So in general, when a president or the first lady or anyone in the first family gets a sickness, there's usually a big pushed behind it where they are telling people to go get screened. You're probably going to be free screening booths around different places and stuff like that. So it would be something that was difficult for the country to

deal with. As in, like you think about the politics of it, the stocks would probably go down a little bit because now other countries would be worried about how we're doing. Most often when when leaders of countries are sick, they will not say that because they don't want there to be all this inner turmoil in the political

circles. Yeah, they would probably, like, hide that information or bury that information so that the American people wouldn't have anything to worry about, which is what I'm really hoping is happening with our current president. Because he's old. He's old too. He is. I, I, I not, I'm, I'm sounding like a certain type of person, but like, if anything like that, that that dude's mental sphere is deteriorating. He's never.

Had a mental sphere. All that coke and stuff he's done in his life, yeah, it wouldn't matter how old he was. He has done so many drugs and so and and various other things that his brain has been degraded. Yeah, so. So it really does not matter how old he is. He could be 50 years old and we would have to be like, does he have the medical capacity to leave this country? Especially 'cause he's an idiot. But surprisingly, he didn't say anything foolish.

He put a, a post up on the true social that he's on, saying like he, they, he and Melania give out their warmest condolences or their thoughts and prayers with them or whatever. I'm sure his secretary or someone wrote that because I'm very surprised that he would actually say something that wasn't terrible, but this is. I mean we all say fuck cancer regardless of who gets it. Yeah, it's always fuck cancer. Is a terrible, terrible disease. Yes, it is.

You are fortunate enough if you have money and connections that even with cancer you can hopefully elongate, like have enough treatments to elongate your life and be able to have a good quality of life. But his the his son Beau Biden, the one that was Iraq war veteran, sure, he died of brain cancer in 2015. And then that's when Biden established the Cancer Moon Shot initiative when he was vice president to end cancer as we know it.

So he had said last, Biden had said last August, we're mobilizing the whole country to country, the whole country effort to cut American Cancer deaths in half by 2025 years and boost support for patients and their families. I'm confident in our capacity to do that. I know we can, but it's just it's, but it's not just personal. It's about what's possible.

And I do believe his son passing away from the terrible disease did spur him on to want to do great things and and try to reduce the amount of people who are also suffering. In the name of cancer. In the name of cancer. But I do believe that like there's so much time and money and resources that are not given to cancer patients and resources for their families and things like that, that it, it shouldn't

take someone in your family. Are you getting sick by something like that for you to do it? But unfortunately, like when you're saying what would happen if a president got cancer, like that's the type of thing that would happen. We, we would get all these initiatives that we should have had for X amount of time. Like, just like, what's her name? Oh, who was the president's wife? Who started the Was it Reagan's wife? Who started like the DARE was about drugs?

Oh, yeah. That was Nancy Reagan. Nancy Reagan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because she was friends with the Was it Clark who was the really big celebrity? Was it Clark Gable who passed away of AIDS? It was like a huge celebrity who she was friends with who passed away from AIDS. And that was what gave her, that is what pushed her to stop basically referring to AIDS patients or thinking of AIDS patients like they were, you know, not human. And Rock Hudson. Rock Hudson, thank you.

Yeah. So when he passed, then she started, they were like starting to do these initiatives. But before he passed, there was nothing that was really happening. So this is a sad day for their family. Hopefully, you know, he has all the best doctors, and those doctors will also take what they learned from him and bring that to the other patients. Yeah, who need it? Yeah, So, you know, Elle and I, I found the job that I was looking for during the marble

segment. You've got to do better, Senator. That's what I was looking for. Everybody's got to do better. Everybody's got to do better. All right, now you want to do the woman who's missing. Yes, all right. I'm just waiting for this video to finish. That's Tiffany, right? Tiffany, Yeah. Yeah, OK. Gotcha. All right, so this woman in Georgia, whose name is Tiffany Slanton, who's 28, was lost in the in the woods for three weeks, but thankfully, she was

found alive. Here's the music announcement. California wilderness for nearly three weeks. Tiffany Slayton, a solo hiker who was lost in a Blizzard last month, was found sheltering inside a cabin near Lake Edison. That's about 3 hours outside of Fresno now. Slayton says if the cabin hadn't been unlocked, she probably

would have died. I, I honestly do not think that without without Vermilion Resort, I would not be here at that moment because that was the 13th heavy snowstorm I had been in and it was going to be the last one. If he hadn't have come that day, I they would have found my body there when I talk about a miracle. Glass, she's OK, the resort owner says Tiffany gave him a hug the moment that he found her alive. And I can understand why. So this has me thinking of two

minds. The first mind is it's great that she was found. It's great that she survived A harrowing story of survival. The other side of me is like, This is why I don't do hiking or go to the mountains or do any of that shit. Like, just if anything can occur, she said. This is her 13th snowstorm. It was her 13th. It was her 13th snowstorm there during that three weeks. She said that. There were 13 snowstorms in in the span of a week. In three weeks, she was going for three.

Weeks 3 weeks. She said she's during her three weeks trying to get back, there was had been a recent avalanche, so she was unable to get to the main road. She couldn't reach 9911 because there was no cell service. She had to fight off animals. She survived. She was surviving on leaks with leaks, licked vegetables, foiled snow, hiking peak peaks up to 11,000 feet high, and she suffered through 13 heavy snowstorms.

That's insane. You know, they've been on a solo, a three day solo camping trip that turned into, unfortunately this three-week ordeal. But I mean, I don't think this should now, this shouldn't stop people from hiking or being, you know, doing the great outdoors. But I think this is something to be mindful of, of like what things do you need to make sure you're going to be safe? Have a fucking SAT phone. Satellite phone Aria. God damn it. Anyhow, continue.

We have a SAT phone. Having a SAT phone and trying to make sure you have enough supplies. Any kind of like count comp, some type of compass that can work through all different types of weather and things like that. But good thing that she was able to come across the resort and get in there because otherwise she would have just been outside. That's just, you know, it's a lot. But she's back in Georgia now

and she's going to recover. She's recovering and that she said she journaled the whole adventure and plans on going through the process of doing like a documentation of that. So maybe she'll get a book out of it or a movie or something like that. Like you got to. When life gives you lemons, you better fucking make lemon, make something profitable out of this and then never go out to do any fucking solo mountaineering ever again. Solo. I think that solo is a lot

insane. I you know Darby Allen right now, the wrestler is currently trying to climb Mount Everest. No. Did you know that? Yeah. And I. Would be. I wouldn't want to do. That I would not want to do that either. Just be up there, just climbing over all of the corpses of those mother fuckers who thought that they could do it. Yeah, and so often they think they can. And what happens? So you can't? Nope. Yeah. You couldn't do it. You should have just stayed home climbing. Mount Everest.

And eat your food. Mountaineering. Ridiculous. All right, so in other random, sad, weird news today, there was a boat crash at the Brooklyn Bridge. Yeah, a boat crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge. I was at work and I I saw this on the news. And we even got a question about like, oh, how will this affect things? And we had to be like, this doesn't affect anything. What? Oh yeah, no, that's disgusting. That is disgusting. Terrible.

Anyhow, we're we're for those y'all who are just listening to this looking. She's looking for photos of the Brooklyn Bridge crash, and apparently there's also. Penis almost out on Twitter talking about this is what the Brooklyn Bridge CR boat crashed into his ugly ass. Anyway, yeah. Who's Yeah, that's the whole emphasis of that photo. Anyway. It crashed into his junk. Can we be prepared and recognize what's happening right now? Yeah, I'm, I'm waiting.

I'm ready. So this Mexican Navy ship, oh, I hope I don't mispronounce this Kua atomic. Kua atomic crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge after losing power today two people were killed, 17 people were injured at the time of the crash sailors were on the ship's three masts, which snapped and partially collapsed when they hit the bridge. The Kwa Kwa Tomak is a training vessel with 147 foot mast and was stopping in New York but headed to Iceland so I found a video of the.

Kwa Tamak. Maybe it is Kwa tamak. It's look sounds like it's a Mayan word. So this is a video. Of course Mayor Adams is there fudging it up as we did this world so much I fucking Why can't we just allow? People to have a very clear. Picture watch some out there be and you can't even freaking skip it. Yeah, of course, you can't skip it because they know that this is here we go.

Thank God that as of this time, the 277 passengers that were on board of this Mexican vessel, they all were removed. Yeah, 19 total injuries of four serious injuries at this time. We have been in communication with Mexican authorities and we're joined by the Ambassador of Mexico, who's here as well. He immediately reached out and we were able to collaborate. We want to thank him for responding. I'm going to have our chief of operation give you an overview

of what we have thus far. And then we were here from the ambassador, from Mexico. Chief. So I'm really surprised Adams didn't have something that a shirt that said si SE puede or something on it because he's always pulling stunts like that. So one of the cadets that was killed was America Yamilette Sanchez. Let me get her picture up for you. She was only 20 years old, so it's very sad.

A beautiful young woman. I'm sure she was very excited to be, you know, on this is, it's like a, this is like a fun part of work. You know, this is like when you have people come in for the day, you're just hanging out. You're not really having to do anything. Like this is supposed to be fun, exciting, and then this happens, so you know. But who's the blame in all of this? Well. The thing is, it's the power went out so so the. Power went out on the boat and they just kept going forward.

Yeah, just like what happened with the with the the one in in Baltimore. I do remember the one in Baltimore. And then now this clip was what made me annoyed. This is a clip of people who are at the pier at the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Because if you've been to the Brooklyn Bridge Park before, you know that people go around, you're right under the Brooklyn Bridge. It looks fun, it's nice, it's beautiful and all that. But this pissed me off.

People are watching the the ship crash into the bridge. You're still standing there while the boat is careening towards the pier. Like what are you doing? Move those two idiots. There. At the freaking pier like. You're. Laughing and giggling as a boat is clearly in trouble and you're not doing anything to like, move yourself out. Holy crap. And This is why the aliens won't talk to us because they see how fucking stupid we are. Like a bunch of dodo birds wait to jump off the Cliff.

To be fair, if they're, I mean, we wouldn't have gotten this footage. We did get this footage. You could get the footage standing further back on the pier. They were literally people. The person who was who was shooting this definitely wasn't that far back. They definitely, they weren't close up like the other ones in front of them was, but they definitely weren't a safe distance.

They weren't. Because what to me, my fear is that OK, clearly there's something wrong with this boat because when I first heard about it, I didn't realize even know what type of ship ship it was. I just read about it being a yacht or whatever. So it's like, OK, are was it just people with someone drunk or whatever the case may be?

But like, you are seeing a boat careening into the Brooklyn Bridge and your Spidey senses are not going off that maybe something is going on. Maybe I need to be a little bit more careful. And like, you want to take a video, move back to the video. We're going to see the same thing. What's what's, what's going to change from you being back by like the ice cream shop or whatever? Like, right, you tell me. It's a huge bow. You're going to be able to see it. Right.

No friggin like self preservation. Yeah, no survival. No survival skills. Yeah. But of course, I mean, I'm a We are sending all of our love to the families of those who lost someone, another person, the two people that were identified of ours, America Yamalette Sanchez and Adal Jair Marcos. So I mean, they were cadets. So Marcos was was 22, America was 20. So it's sad, Yeah.

The apparently the vessel serves as a school trip for cadets and was departing for Reyjavique, Iceland, when it lost power around 8:30 PM Saturday and just to the bridge snapping on three Mass. So that's very sad. And I hope that their families get whatever they need to help them out during this time. And who like whoever needs to be sued for them to get any kind of compensation. I mean, there's nothing, nothing can replace your child but like that. Does Boeing make boats?

Shoot, I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that's who made the boat. Because if if this was a technical issue, the first thing I'm thinking of is it's probably the boat manufacturer. Yeah, it probably is. And y'all should need to sue. You need to sue the boat manufacturer and make sure you're getting the money that you deserve for your family. Yeah. All right. You ready to. That was a little of our pop culture stuff that we're we

have. I know that there's a lot of other things going on in pop culture. The Diddy trials happening right now. We're not going to talk about that just yet because we want to wait for us to get all the news from it. So, you know, it's a lot for it's a very sad, traumatizing, just disgusting situation. So reading that every week and staying at like I'm, I'm trying to stay up to date, but it's just very difficult to read through everything constantly.

So we're just going to wait until everything comes out. And then we'll talk. About it. But we are sending all of our love to Cassie and everyone who's testified against him, also to his daughters because, you know, they were walking out of the court during some of the testimony. So, you know, it's just a very terrible, unfortunate situation, which we'll have more on once it's all finished. But now let's go into the things

that piss us off. I mean, it's happy in our mental health check in. But before you do that, he applause, 'cause I want to get some juice. Let's get into our gripes. Bringing it what? We grind it. We're not griping any whales. We need to grind it and save space for us to share. We grind it, we ain't griping any whales. So what is on your mind that is upsetting you, annoying you, pissing you off, making you mad? Some things, so the first one is FAMU is slated to have a new president.

Let me just share this article. I was reading about her real quick. So her name is Marva Johnson and the Tallahassee Democrat says that she's been selected to be the 13th president following a four vote by the Board of the Trustees. She's sparked controversy because she's perceived to have right wing political ties and a lack of academic experience. The Board of Trustees approved a salary range of four hundred, $450,000 to $750,000.

And she'll be, she'll have to be confirmed by the Florida governor, Florida Board of Governors. So folks have not been happy about this. So this article is talking about Will Packer, who was slamming her choice, their choice because apparently she's backed by MAGA and I've seen what's his name? What is the name of the black man who is on The Daily Show? Trevor Noah. No. Roy Wood, Junior. Junior, who? I believe he might. Oh, hold on. Why is it saying my iPad, my

iphone's? Is that gonna change the audio? No. Right. No, it's all. It's all here. All right, so they had a town hall on May 7th for the florist finalist and Margaret Johnson was there. Apparently she's an ally of Governor Ron DeSantis.

So if you do not know, Ron DeSantis is a terrible, terrible governor of Florida who has been trying to do everything between banning books, bringing ice into the conversation, not allowing for any kind of DEI things in the country, and Will Packer said in a live stream he had, I know, sorry to comment on the town hall live stream that FAMU deserves better.

He said right this minute a group of activists Republicans are trying to put in the highest position of power someone who is solid, solidly and objectively unqualified for it. He said that Marva Johnson is a career lobbyist with no experience in higher education administration. Literally the same amount of higher education experience as you or I 0 None said but we cannot allow.

But what we cannot allow is a hostile takeover by someone who is aligned with a party that has loudly and proudly espoused ideologies that attack diversity and diverse institutions, attacked equitable economics, and attacked inclusive principles. The exact pillars that institutions like FAMU were built upon.

I think it's just it's unfortunate that this now we have to think about HBC us are not just being targeted because the government and the president have been pushing back on any kind of DEI anything alleged DEI anything. But now you have people being put in place in positions that are going to hurt the hurt the schools.

Apparently this is this whole situation that you're getting to be president because I don't remember if we talked about this on the show, but last year I believe, fam, you got a got swindled because someone I'm looking for his name here did did. Did did FAMU also get there like Howard scammer kind of guy? It wasn't that but this man named Gregory Jurami who's a 30 year old businessman from Texas.

So he wanted to make sure the historical black schools windfall would would help students who need the money most by giving a 237 .75 million gift to the school. Unfortunately, the then president Larry Robinson did not do and his board or you know the admin did not do their due diligence because it turns out that the what he was donating to

them wasn't real. So he has a small business and he was saying all these the stock options, whatever it was so, so high, but the money was was not in the bank. And even though he spoke a commencement, he had a huge check for them. And then people started having questions like what would make it possible for him to have all this money at such a young age and with a company that doesn't really have, you know, all, sorry, a huge backing.

And also he apparently also has at least one donation to another college that fell apart. So one of the Board of the Board of the Trustees, Kristen Harper last year on May 10th said that serious concerns have been raised regarding the validity of the gift, the adequacy of the due diligence processes and whether the foundation, whether the foundation Board of Trustees, sorry, and whether the foundation board and Board of trustees have been provided ample oversight opportunity.

So they no longer had the money and then everything kind of spelled out of control and they were looking for it and then they went and got, we're looking for a new president. So because of that situation, they started looking for this new present. This person's now tapped for that. And it's just really shitty that, you know, HBCU and all the students who are going there for the HBCU experience might get swindled by someone who seems to be very buddy buddy with the far right and MAGA folks.

And these institutions have been around for, I mean, most of most HBC us had at least been around for at least 100 years. Because how old is Howard now? 120 I think. I'm the I'm not the best person to know at. Least 100 years ago, I know we had our Centennial.

I think our Centennial was, was it last year, this past year or the one before because that's when everyone was trying to go because we had our 10 year on 20/22 and I think it was either 23 or 24. It might have been our Centennial, but either way, it's just shitty that people will try to come in and take over things that they have no business taking over. And the second thing that has been pissing me off, there is a mother in Georgia.

Her name is Adriana Smith. She is brain dead and in the hospital on life support and she's also pregnant. I believe she was between 6:00 and 9:00 weeks pregnant when unfortunately she went to the hospital and the hospital has not allowed her family to have any say in what happens to her body because of the heartbeat law. I found a news clip talking about this to share. Mother lies brain dead in a hospital room, being kept alive

only because she's pregnant. So her case is now raising a lot of new questions about George's controversial heartbeat law. Adriana Smith's family says they've been forced to wait without a voice while doctors try to keep her body functioning long enough to deliver her baby. 11 Alives Cody Alcorn is live outside of Emory Midtown, where Adriana was just moved hours ago. Cody, what have you learned

about what's going on here? Well Jennifer, Ron, Adriana has been on a ventilator for the past 90 days now. As you mentioned, she was moved here just hours ago so doctors can deliver her baby when it is time. Her family visits her everyday, including her young son who believes his mom is just sleeping a crushing emotional toe. As you can imagine, the family says it's been made worse because they have no say on what

happens next. 30 year old Adriana Smith was about 9 weeks pregnant when she started having bad headaches in February, enough to know that something was wrong. April Newberg says her daughter went to Northside Hospital for help. They gave us some medication, but. They didn't do any tests. They didn't do any CT scan. If they did, they would have caught it. The next morning, Adriana's boyfriend noticed something was terribly wrong. She was gasping her air and her sleep gargling.

What am I gave was blood. She was taken to Emory Decatur and then she was transferred here. To Emory University Hospital, where Adriana worked as an RN. Unfortunately, there was nothing doctors could do. They did ACT scan and she had blood clots all in her head so they had asked me if they could do a procedure to relieve them and I said yes and then they called me back and they said that they couldn't do. It doctors declared Adriana

brain dead, I feel. It was if somebody dropped the ball at the hospital and her boyfriend asked please keep her. If she was kept at the hospital, we wouldn't be here. Because of Georgia's heartbeat bill, which bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, her family says they weren't given any say in what happens next. It's torture for me. I come here and I see my daughter breathing but a ventilator, but she's not there and I'm touching her and she has a son.

What brain is see now 21 weeks pregnant, her baby's health uncertain? She's pregnant with my grandson, but my grandson may be blind, may not be able to walk. We'll chip out. We don't know if he'll live once she has him. A situation she says no one should be forced into. It should have been left up to the family because I'm in my 50s, her dad is in his 50s. So we're going to have the responsibility with her partner

to raise her son. You know, and I'm not saying that we would have chose to terminate her pregnancy. What I'm saying is. We should have had a choice. We should have. This is very reminiscent of Terri Schiavo. Yeah, Terri Schiavo, that I remember that case that happened when we were in maybe middle or high school where she was brain dead in the. Well, were you in high school or middle school?

Middle, middle or high school and the family was was arguing between it was like her family and her husband were debating on whether they should keep her own life support, she was pregnant, they wanted to have a baby, etcetera. But I think that the very least in that situation, it was the families who were at an impasse, not the families being having

something forced upon them. And I think that this reminded me of The Handmaid's Tale because I remember there was, I forgot which season it was, but there was a black woman who was in a coma for whatever reason. And they were just keeping her alive too, so that she could just take the baby. But it's not people think like, oh, because you're the baby's in there and she's breathing that that it means, okay, this baby is going to turn out great. But do not know that I and it's.

It's and there's ways of figuring that out, right? Like. Really, there's not really. I mean like the the from what I've read, it says the key factor influencing infant survival is the gestational age at the time of the mother's brain death. Survival rates improve significantly with later gestational ages, approximately 20 to 30 weeks at 2420 to 30% at 24 weeks, 80% at 28 weeks and nearly 98% at 3032 weeks.

Because The thing is when you are pregnant, your brain is sending signals to the baby back and forth. There's so many things that go about that. So like, yes, the hospital could potentially be able to regulate those things and the mother, but that's, we don't have the technology to be 100% in these cases. This is not something that happens at such a frequency that we've like nailed it down. So really it's your, it's

gambling. That's why the grandmother was like, we don't know what this child is going to have to deal with when they come out. They're already going to have to deal with having to take care of her son. They're older. So it's like you have these things that their their health, that they have the health issues that the parents have taking care of this child.

Then now the medical bills. Is the government going to pay for these medical bills because they're forcing her to have this child that come out in a variety of ways? And not to say just because your child is going to come out with any sort of medical complications that they should not be born, but you should be given the ability to say whether

that's a risk you want to take. It shouldn't be anybody forcing that upon you, especially when we know that there's so many things that could go wrong and there's nobody who was going to be with that family when this baby's born to help them financially, emotionally or any of that physically to help them with this child you're. Just the child could come out any number of ways and they're not going to be there for support to assist them in any way shape or form.

It always weirds me out how like we're so gung ho about like abortion and about preserving the sanctity of life but then when that life is born we don't give a fuck. That's it. Because they don't care. They're not pro-choice or sorry, they're not pro-life.

They're just pro birth. Yeah, they're pro birth, that's what it. Is they're pro birth the babies out of there, then they act like they don't have anything else to do with it. They don't want to give they they're trying to cut every single federal funded program that's going to make sure that kids can eat, that the the the parents can have money to buy groceries, send them to school, all these things like they don't care.

You just want to say, oh, we brought this child into the world, but are you giving any sort of brain power to what happens once the child is out there? No. Nope, Nope, not at all. Not even a little. Bit and I hope that you know this child is born healthy yeah. But I I also I just feel very sad for the family that this is something that's being forced upon them. No one should have anything

forced on them. It's you decide you figure out what's going to be the best thing for your family and go from there because it's she was only 9 weeks. So that's such a short period of time. Yeah, that's what. That baby needs. That's so short like and how many weeks until? So usually it's like between 36 and 40 weeks, I believe. So she's several months to be. Yeah, there are. Months they are months apart from delivering this baby and like. They're not even halfway there.

She was. It's not even like like some other cases when they like from the article I read, if you have been, if you're like 5 months and something happens that's only like a, you know, a few months that you have to be on in the be in a coma or whatever. But like, brain death is not even the same as being in a coma because you are literally brain dead. That means there's nothing going on. Your brain is not able to

regulate anything. It's a very different thing versus someone being in a coma where they just can't come back, come out of it, but things are still moving. She is literally a mannequin that's being strapped up in a hospital chair, a hospital bed with wires coming out of her. And I'm very curious of the impact that we'll have on her baby because people don't realize everything that happens to the mother while she's pregnant is happening to that

child. Yes. Is this child going to come out very nervous and frantic or whatever? Because they're constantly being like in a space, It's loud and noisy. There's no rest. She's not talking to the baby. Like, what are they doing to make sure that this child's gestation is as happy and healthy as it can be even without her mother or their mother being there? We have no ways of knowing how that's going to come out. And it's at this point, it's just the luck of the draw.

So I hope that people raise money for this family and help them out as much as they can. And you know, rest in peace to Adriana. I'm sure that wherever she is, she is not wanting her family or her children to be going through this type of distress. But again, the powers that be are just saying fuck women. Who cares and fuck the caregivers. No, but like, no, there's no heart or empathy or sympathy being put into these situations. So let's just sing off. What about you?

So as far as me is concerned, the things that are pissing me off are as follows #1 I need people to understand that if you reach out to me on either a Friday or a Saturday that I will not get back to you until Sunday. Because Friday and, and I'm specifically talking to people at work, I am off on Friday and Saturday. Those are my days off. That is it for me. So do not expect me to to follow up with you come Friday if you message me or something like that, or Saturday immediately.

No, you're getting a message Sunday morning when I make it into the office at 8:00. That is the earliest that you will get a message back from me. So stop doing it. Next. I want, and this actually might be my last one. I want people to stop with the the I know sneezing is an involuntary thing.

People can't help it, but like you got to be able to sneeze into your arm a chew, a chew if you feel it coming, like there should be, even if it's a 3 second build up, you should be able to instinctively put your arm up so that you can sneeze into your arm. If you're just sneezing Willy nilly. And and you have like not even, not even not even just if you're sneezing Willy nilly.

But if you have a strong, distinct sneeze Willy nilly and you're doing it Willy nilly, you need to fucking check yourself, because I'm not trying to get sick. I don't give a fuck if it's hay fever or fucking pollen in the air or allergies or whatever the fuck. Handkerchiefs. Yeah, yeah. Monogram handkerchiefs. In fact, let's bring back monogram handkerchiefs. Let's make that a thing.

More handkerchiefs, because my dad actually had a handkerchief when we were growing up. He was, he also had $100 bill inside of his wallet. And he would be like, I always have $100.00. So he was a classy fellow. I don't know why I'm saying was he still is. He's alive. But yeah, we we need more people to be more considerate when it comes to sneezing. Cover your sneezes. Cover your coughs, especially

wet sneeze. The biggest fear I have is someone's going to sneeze and it's going to get on me because then I'm going to fight you and I don't want to fight, but I'm going to have to. It's going to be like a feral response. If you sneeze and something gets on me, I'm that's it. Barfing while I'm punching you in the face. Gross. It's a gross experience. It's a gross experience all over. So that's everything from me, all right. Yeah. You ready to talk about things that make us happy?

Sure. And for that we are doing this. Baby merchant cats are us. I give you our service and no devils give the baby merchant just a week or two. I love your baby for you. All right, all right. What's making you happy this week? Going to the sumo event, hanging out with friends. It was nice to see Keith and Keith's friends, I forget their names. Latifah and Carlton. It's Carlton. What did you think it was? No, I I thought it was Colton. Oh. Maybe it's Colton, Carlton or Colton.

OK, well, either way, it was good hanging out with y'all, as always. I, I, I enjoy, I enjoy when it's specific people, like when it's a specific small group of people. When it's larger amounts of people, then things get a little bit unwieldy and I shut down. Emotionally yes, and physically, but the sumo event was great. Getting BBQ afterwards was really good. The BBQ at Morgan's is always really good. Yeah, I still really want to try that BBQ at Hometown.

I also really like the cute little outdoor set outdoor section they had. For hometown. Yeah, when we were sitting, when I was sitting down waiting for everybody. Oh yeah, that's right. Well, they ran. They ran out of half the menu. It was almost closed, so it makes sense. No it doesn't. It's. A very absolutely does not make anything fresh my ass. Like then have more chickens, then have more brisket like

folks have. To just go there on earlier time for a date and we can go around, walk around in Industry City, eat some BBQ, get some drinks and enjoy. Sure, because. It's a very cute spot. I like it over there. Yeah, it's it's you want. To live over there, but I like to visit. Yeah, I did live over there before it got built up into Industry City, so you know. And that that bar I went to was cute too. Yes, my, the bar that was near where I used to live, that was like my, my go to bar.

That was the bar that I used to go to right after yoga. Yeah. And I left my yoga mat there multiple times. Yeah, I left my yoga mat there several times after. Yoga. Why not it's? Defeating the whole purpose. Oh well, I was still flexible. Well, you'd go back to yoga. No, I don't. I'm. I'm fine. I'm fine as is, even though my back hurts. OK? So that's what's making me happy.

What's making you happy? Well I saw this news out of Nebraska of Omaha, NE that Democrat John Ewing Junior has won his mayor mayoral race and defeated a 12 year GOP incumbent Mayor Jean Strothurt and he is the first black mayor in the history of the OF. Omaha. Of the city, yes. Omaha was the 6th largest Republican LED city in the state, so no. OK so let me find it. I have I found a quick little video where he's talking about his win.

I don't know if it's his wife behind him, but she kind of looks like Tiffany Pollard's mom. Before I go forward my prepared remarks, I have to tell you all a story because he's standing right here in front of me. About 13 years ago, I was in the legislative. Chamber when? Omaha Leroy Adams told me I was going to be the first black mayor of Omaha.

I then came down the escalator and Pastor Cedric Perkins, who's standing right here in front of us, said you're going to be the first black mayor of Omaha. So within within about two minutes, I heard that from those two men and I said, OK, that sounds good. But I, I didn't know if I truly embraced it at that moment, but they said that to me with such conviction that it stuck with me.

And so thank you for sharing that with me and thank you for being a great friend throughout this whole process. Tonight we embark on a new chapter. I am deeply honored and humbled to stand before you today as your mayor elect. Well, congratulations to you, Mr. Mayor. John Ewing Junior. Congratulations. I am.

We are sending you safety, we are sending you love and just hope that you have a great time as mayor and you're able to get things done in a very RedState. So good shout out to you. And then I saw this other thing that made me happy. So you know, obviously I love any time I see black people doing things, especially when I see nerdy black people getting having joy. So I saw this video on Facebook and I thought it was just beautiful.

So apparently the boy in this video really loves the Berserk manga manga manga. Thank you. And his mother got it for him for his birthday. And she didn't just buy one, just by two. She bought him the whole entire series. Nice. So this was his response. Thank you. Oh, my goodness. Thank you. You're welcome. Oh, my goodness. You're gay. Make me want to cry. Oh, Trey, thank you so much. You're welcome. Oh, my goodness. Oh my goodness. I was so confused. Oh, my gosh. You got them all.

Thank you. Thank you. You're so welcome, baby. Oh, my goodness. Oh my goodness. You're making me cry, Trey. Thank you. You're welcome. Happy birthday, baby. You're welcome. Happy birthday, Trey. Happy. Birthday, and that is a great gift to give somebody who is a I've I often want to start my manga collection, but I'm secretly hoping to move into a different place so that I can. Well, no, it it's it's not a secret that I want to move into

a different place. But what's not, what is a secret, is that I as much as I love anime, I have not started my manga collection of works yet because I'm waiting to get into another apartment that has the space for it. I don't. No offense, but I don't want to mix up my books with you, with your books. I want my own manga section to be like its own thing. OK, segregation. Yeah, I'm going to segregate my manga from your books because Lord knows I can't.

I can't. I can't find any of my books in your bookcase. It's there by theme and alphabetical order, so there's. No theme and alphabetical. Order. Is it fiction? Is it nonfiction? Is it speculative fiction? Is it historical fiction? It all is categorized amazingly. Dewey Decimal wasn't a really racist human. I'm sure he would say good job. OK, well I'm congratulations to that Mama for knowing her son and going all out for him his

birthday. I read that the books are $50 a pop. Yes they are. So that's a lot for someone to. Buy and that's a lot of books cuz they. Said there was 11, 11 seasons or 11. Volumes. Volumes, yeah. So that makes a lot of sense. The you know, the creator of Berserk died not too long ago, right? Either last year or the year before last. Yeah. Kintaro Miura. But we've watched the show on Netflix, haven't we? Haven't we? Ever I, I I've tried to, I've tried to play Berserk to you.

I think you said it was too dark. What is this one about? This is about the one where the boy is crazy in the hospital. Nope. What is crazy in the hospital? Or he's in the hospital and then there's like. No, this is a medieval. This is a medieval one. All right, I'm. I'm. I'll. Try and give it another go, OK, it might. Maybe it was just dark because of the time we were watching it. And like other things that are going on, 'cause, you know, by darkness. Was it called my darkness

thermometers? It's low. All right, so the last thing. Oh, well, what was I going to say? Oh, that's exactly how I would respond to a birthday gift if someone gave me Beyoncé tickets. So congratulations to you, Trey, and happy birthday. So the last thing that made me happy this week is something very close and dear to my heart, something that I will pray for.

That happens fully. But if you do not know, the Knicks are heading to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2000. OK, I was 11 maybe at this point if it's if this I was 10 years old the last time that happened, that's crazy. And I like this. This NBA on NBA clutch points put this little image together and it says that back then it was Ewing versus Reggie. I wonder if the mayor from Omaha is related to Patrick Ewing?

I. It could be possible they could, or maybe their families have the same slave owner because Ewing is not a popular name. It is not a normalized I've. Never even heard of more than one person named Ewing. I you're absolutely right. I have not heard of a cluster of people known by the Ewing name. I'm just saying yeah, it's possible. Pretty sure that's a. That's a quick Google search. Google it, juggle it.

Me right now. But now, he says, back then it was Ewing versus Reggie. Now it's Brunson versus Halliburton. I wonder if they're related to the defense contractors. So the next one is the Knicks versus the Pacers is the next game and I'm looking forward to it. Maybe I'll go to, we'll go to a bar and watch it. And no, Mayor Ewing is not related to Patrick Ewing. All right, well, Patrick Ewing is a retired NBA basketball player. Mayor Ewing? Oh, wait. Hold on. You're.

Also reading the AI overview which is not always accurate. Oh God. As I tell my students every day. Hold on, wait a minute. You gotta go to the ACT, don't go to Wikipedia. OK, then I will. Go to the links, go to a real link, go back to the AIO review, click Show more where? Click on the little link thing. It'll tell you where it finds that information. It's Wikipedia, not reliable, but click on it. Then click on it and see. What was the name of the mayor?

May was it John Ewing, John Ewing Junior and Patrick Ewing. It. Might be, who knows? Well, either way, I'm very excited about this match up. I really hope that the Knicks don't piss me off, OK? Because a lot of times they'll get they'll get into the Finals, they'll be doing really well, and then they shit the bet. So now they've gotten all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals. Do right by us, OK? Please, Please keep your shit together.

Drink water, go to practice, stay away from the drugs and the hoes and just do what you have to do, OK? Because the Knicks. Unless that's your ritual. If you ritual cut 1. Because y'all keep losing. If, but if their ritual has been getting them this far, then. It's not been getting them far now because they haven't been taking home the gold. OK. So get your shit together, OK? Sure. All right, that's it for me. Yep, that's everything and that's that's everything. That's everything.

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