Bring Em' Out

[00:00:01] Speaker A: Testing 1212. You want to beef with the king? What you gonna do? [00:00:06] Speaker B: Welcome to the Call your Cousins podcast, a podcast dedicated to exploring deep and complex topics that shape our world and human experiences. Before we dive into today's episode, we want to acknowledge the sensitive nature of some of the content we discuss. Please be advised that this podcast may include themes and discussions that could be triggering or uncomfortable for some listeners, including but not limited to discussions on mental health, violence, abuse, and other potentially distressing topics. Listener discretion is advised. Remember, this podcast is for informational and educational, but most importantly, entertainment purposes only and should not be taken as professional advice. The views expressed by hosts and guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Call you Cousins podcast. Enjoy the good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Whatever time you're joining us. The cousins thank you for doing so. Welcome back to the Call you Cousins podcast, a now tangible group chat of cousins that wanted to share our thoughts, humor, and growth with the world. And everyone's invited, most of y'all. [00:01:38] Speaker C: I love y'all. I love this podcast, y'all. Even if we don't make it nowhere, I'll be looking forward to the recording. [00:01:45] Speaker B: It's therapy. [00:01:46] Speaker A: It is. It really is. [00:01:50] Speaker D: If nothing else is therapy, staying connected. [00:01:56] Speaker C: But even if we don't, facts, it's an enjoyable time. [00:02:05] Speaker A: Well, I would say define what I feel. Like some people, we were just talking about lying. Like, define success. What does success mean? What does success mean to you? [00:02:20] Speaker C: I don't think you should say that because we all have just kind of been like, well, we're here. [00:02:29] Speaker A: I feel like it's October. So that's the six. What do you define as success? Like, I ain't gonna lie. [00:02:36] Speaker C: If we get a thousand followers, I'm cool. [00:02:41] Speaker B: But, you know, the first thousand. Probably the hardest, though. No, Cap, because if you get a thousand people to listen to you, like, okay, this somebody with me, I ain't the only person that think like this. Like, it's pretty. It's probably pretty easy to multiply that and, like, get a little snowball going after that. [00:02:58] Speaker C: So I agree. I think that's. That's success to me. Like, we get a thousand followers, we in there. [00:03:08] Speaker B: Like some. Some of our YouTube, they be. They kind of approaching 100 views. But that's kind of. I think that's crazy because I know I click on it a hundred times. [00:03:18] Speaker C: And we ain't even been advertising or nothing. For real. [00:03:22] Speaker B: I mean, some. Somebody watching here and there, I guess. I'm thankful. [00:03:29] Speaker C: Me too. I think it's crazy. P. You ask like, what. [00:03:38] Speaker D: What is success defined as? [00:03:39] Speaker C: Because. [00:03:42] Speaker D: People'S definition of success is wild to me. And not like wow, like oh, that's a good. But wow, like that's. [00:03:50] Speaker C: What are you talking about? Well, I've realized a lot of people haven't seen success right. In any way in their lives. The people around them. So they don't really know what that means. [00:04:07] Speaker B: It's very subjective. And obviously it's. Your subjectiveness would be based around what you've seen in your life. To your point, Twin, like, it's plenty of us that like, especially back at the crib, like, people just be happy to get a county job and they successful. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, I got that bus job where I'm driving the. The what's some things that pick up the trash at the crib, the garbage truck. But people be proud and ain't nothing wrong with that. That's what's up. Like, but that's their success. [00:04:44] Speaker A: Yeah, but that's what I'm saying is I think that's one of the things that. That's probably what's intriguing to research team is like we. You can define these things for yourself. And that's why it's wildly subjective. Me and Twin was talking about it when she was down here. Like, you know, when we say these words, first, what does the word mean? Right. But then what does the word mean to you? [00:05:14] Speaker B: Right? [00:05:15] Speaker A: And so I think because when you do that, it strips away comparison being comparative to everybody else in the age of, you know, social media. Right. Like to say, well, in order for me to be. To have success, I have to have these things because that's what they define as success. And I just have five cars, two. [00:05:42] Speaker D: Chains, three dead mamas. [00:05:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, and I was actually at this conference this week and you know, like one of the native, like a indigenous member of Miccosukee, she was like, you know, my qua. My definition of quality of life is. Looks different to you. Like, you would see me on my land and you might think that I live. I'm not successful, I live in poverty. Right. And she was like describing how that's the problem with being in a western society is that we don't realize how indoctrinated we are into what we should think a way of life is. What we define quality of life. And I really felt that. And I've been feeling that like that's a part of just the woo woo in me is like, you really Start to see how much everybody is talking like a duck, walking like a duck, and quacking like a duck and kind of regurgitating the same things, you know? And that's because people, like. Right. All do things together too, socially. So you have that social component, right. [00:07:02] Speaker C: That go back to the lying part. On social media, it's like you could be spending time figuring out what makes you happy instead of trying to make it seem like you flying all over to the Caribbean and into Mexico and all this. Girl, most people don't ever take family trips. People don't be traveling every year. That is not people's reality. So why do you think you got to come on here talking about, oh, yeah, I did it. Oh, I need to get the six figures. Have you ever thought about what is feasible for you and what makes you happy? Because. Because mo money, more problems. For real. [00:07:43] Speaker A: No. [00:07:43] Speaker C: Diddy and I feel like people don't really know. Like, we be chasing wealth, but that come with a whole nother set of problems. And then it's stressful trying to hold on to wealth, especially if you not wasn't born into, like, a rich family or some. Like, you know, you could actually just be happy. Like Dub said in your bus job, okay, you got benefits. You could feed your kids, whatever. Maybe we could. I could save up. We can go on a trip next year, you know, Like, I don't know. I've been on my. Y'all know, I've been on my whole journey. [00:08:21] Speaker B: That's goals for a lot of people, though. That's like. That's what's up. There's nothing wrong with that. [00:08:26] Speaker C: It is nothing wrong with that. Like, y'all know I'm. I don't know if I told. The part was that I. I've been unemployed, and I had to stop telling people y'all, because every time I tell people, they'd be like, well, what you gonna do now? And what about this? I'm like, everybody calm down. Calm down. Okay? [00:08:50] Speaker A: I'm the one that's. [00:08:51] Speaker D: Honestly not you. [00:08:53] Speaker C: Not you. I ain't tell you to quit your job tomorrow. It's like, people are so. It's almost like people's happiness depends on how other people validate how they live in their life. [00:09:06] Speaker A: And it's like, but you don't gotta live the best. The best. [00:09:11] Speaker C: The. [00:09:12] Speaker A: The best description would be, you know, how I'm an anti wedding, right? Like, that be the biggest lie that people has bought into and want everybody to validate the lie by coming to the wedding and then Want everybody validate the lie by buying the gifts and posting. You know, I think I just seen that Pastor Bryant just got married. Jamal Bryant married this weekend. [00:09:44] Speaker C: The who, right? [00:09:47] Speaker D: The AKA lady. She's beautiful, by the way. [00:09:49] Speaker A: She's beautiful. She's a sister. Yeah, I. I mean, but I'm saying, what I'm saying is, you know, if that. That be. If I think of one thing that equates to these lies, it be them weddings. For real. For real. I hate weddings. [00:10:06] Speaker C: And I used to feel like you were cynical when you said that until. [00:10:10] Speaker A: You seen the real. [00:10:16] Speaker D: I could just not send you the invite. That's what you're saying. [00:10:18] Speaker A: Or don't send me no invite. I'm not coming. [00:10:22] Speaker C: I love weddings in theory. Like, I like being at the wedding. I don't give a. If the couple did, like, don't make it tomorrow, they can get a divorce. Tomorrow. I'll get annulment. Send me to the wedding. Open bar me. Okay. I will be on the dance floor. [00:10:41] Speaker A: Nah, I don't like, I. I don't. And it's funny because one of my friends, the only time, the only people I go to weddings for that, like, really, really want me to go. And I'm just like, you know, because they think of you and they say, like, you know, I really want you at my wedding. And those are the ones I'll attend. But yeah, if you just found. Especially if I don't even know the person, right? Who you getting married to? Like, don't invite me, please. [00:11:09] Speaker C: I go to a stranger's wedding. I love it because this is my thing. It's the same reason I love Christmas. [00:11:15] Speaker A: I feel like weddings, those are so random. [00:11:18] Speaker C: And Christmas are like the. The only real, real times that people are like, genuinely happy and like, nice to each other and like having a good time. It's like a all happy event. Unless you go to ghetto. But I don't go to them get. I don't go to that ghetto in general. I feel like it's a time to be the lulu and everybody's happy and kosher and just having a great time. Now y'all might be fighting behind the scenes, but I don't care about that. Give me the drink and the dance flow. [00:11:53] Speaker A: I was gonna be married. [00:11:54] Speaker D: So y'all just. You just there for the party? [00:11:56] Speaker C: I'm just there for the part. It's really just the party part. [00:11:58] Speaker D: Okay, okay. [00:11:59] Speaker C: This is just that because the wedding need to. The wedding part need to be 10 minutes. And let's go ahead and have Cocktail hour and move it on to the reception. [00:12:10] Speaker D: So you want a 10 minute reception. I mean a 10 minute ceremony with a 30 minute cocktail hour and a two hour party. [00:12:20] Speaker C: The party can go all night. For real. [00:12:23] Speaker D: Okay. I just wanted to make sure cocktail. [00:12:27] Speaker C: Hour can be like an hour or two. Okay. That. I feel like I really went off on a tangent. [00:12:36] Speaker B: All right, listeners. Yeah, we was really just sitting here kicking it as fam and we really just kind of seamlessly slithered into shoot the mental health check because we was talking about people putting on and what they be doing for the gram and all this, this, that, and the third. But you know, you here with it's the call your cousins podcast is dub here. We got twin P and research team, of course, but you've already heard our opinions on a couple different topics. But we're just going to keep it going. What else is up, fam? [00:13:12] Speaker C: Can I give a disclaimer? Because I know we're going to be talking about the election. We have not discussed the election amongst ourselves. And so we may have differing opinions, but to the listeners, just know, it's all love. Even if we start screaming at each other, which we won't, but if we have a disagreement, whatever, it's. It's all love. We just. [00:13:33] Speaker B: I'm screaming. [00:13:34] Speaker C: If anybody scream, it's probably gonna be me. So I. Maybe I'm talking for self. [00:13:38] Speaker A: I was gonna say. Are you talking to self? [00:13:40] Speaker C: Stop speaking for self. If I start screaming, it's all love. [00:13:45] Speaker A: I was gonna say I feel like you're speaking to self. [00:13:51] Speaker C: Correct. I have never heard Dub scream in my life. [00:13:55] Speaker A: But you heard him scream. [00:13:57] Speaker B: Never. [00:13:58] Speaker D: Never. [00:13:59] Speaker B: Usually. Usually y'all yelling. If I'm having fun or something, I'm talking too loud, but that's about it. [00:14:06] Speaker D: Even then, I don't. [00:14:07] Speaker C: I don't. I never. Yeah, okay, well, mental health check in. [00:14:14] Speaker B: Before you calling me. [00:14:15] Speaker C: Before we get into the foolishness, I was gonna unpack this, but honestly, I'm tired. I just want to say rip to those family members in my life who passed away in the past two weeks. I don't even know if we really need to mention them for real. [00:14:38] Speaker D: We don't. We can take that statement as. Yeah, we'll take it as that. [00:14:44] Speaker B: Rest in peace, Dawson. [00:14:45] Speaker C: I'm gonna just say rip. Leave it there. [00:14:48] Speaker D: Yep, that's fine. [00:14:52] Speaker C: Well, how y'all doing? Wow. It hasn't been a pleasant experience. So leave me out of. But I do. The family, whoever listening, leave me out of anybody. The next person that die, leave me out of it. Well, if you want to be involved. [00:15:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:19] Speaker C: And that's it. [00:15:20] Speaker B: Well, how's your. I mean, we don't gotta get into it, but you just say you straight or you not? Like, how's your mental health in regards to that? [00:15:30] Speaker C: I'm good today. It definitely was triggering, and I had to talk to my therapist. I wasn't good for about two weeks, I'm gonna be honest. But I did the things, you know, I talked to y'all to talk to some family and kind of got my feelings out, which is why today I'm kind of like. I just don't. I'm okay. I realize. And. And during shot o'clock, I have some news, but I realized I need to get away from family for a while because I still feel triggered by some things. And I need to get myself together so that I can be around family and not be so fragile when foolishness happens. So I'm okay today. [00:16:17] Speaker B: Yeah. People gotta realize anybody could get cut off at any time. [00:16:21] Speaker C: Listen, anybody. That part. Anybody. Okay. So I'm good today. How y'all doing? [00:16:39] Speaker D: I'm tired. [00:16:43] Speaker B: Truth is, I'm tired. [00:16:46] Speaker D: Like, yeah, physically I'm tired. Mentally, I'm tired. So, you know, taking it one day at a time. One. One box at a time. Because, you know, I'm moving, so. But, yeah, I'm tired. [00:17:04] Speaker C: Come on. One box at a time. I just use that analogy for somebody else. Yeah. [00:17:10] Speaker D: It's too much to, like, try to do all the things or try to tackle on a lot right now. So the goal is just, hey, just a box a day. And we'll. We'll progressively get, you know, better. But you gotta attempt to start. Otherwise you'll never get anywhere. [00:17:29] Speaker B: You move in cities or just your dwelling. [00:17:33] Speaker D: Oh, no, I'm moving into a whole different state. Whole different. What's that? What's that? Time zone. [00:17:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:39] Speaker B: Older. Oh, you're going west. [00:17:43] Speaker D: It's a. I am. I am. [00:17:46] Speaker A: I am. [00:17:47] Speaker D: I had to think about it right now. [00:17:49] Speaker B: So if you move into a different time. [00:17:51] Speaker C: Yeah. You know, you have to be going with. Okay. [00:17:55] Speaker B: Context clues. [00:17:56] Speaker D: I'm tired. [00:17:57] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay, listen. You just said that. So you're right. You're right. [00:18:02] Speaker A: You're right. [00:18:02] Speaker D: Moving west, moving out west. I'd be confused because I'm like. Of where I am right now. I'm like, wait, is it. But I see what we're saying now. [00:18:11] Speaker C: So. [00:18:14] Speaker D: How'S everybody else doing? [00:18:15] Speaker C: You ain't gonna be here no more. [00:18:18] Speaker D: Not in this time zone, in the country. [00:18:23] Speaker B: So you a Time traveler. [00:18:30] Speaker D: Man. [00:18:31] Speaker B: P. Money, how you doing? [00:18:33] Speaker C: Right. What's good, P Money? How's your mental. [00:18:38] Speaker A: I'm straight. [00:18:44] Speaker B: True, true. [00:18:45] Speaker A: I'm in the Upside Down. Right. Okay. You know, right now, you know, I would agree with research team that I am taking it at a time. Yeah. You know, from a astral perspective, Pluto is getting ready to move into my sign on the 19th, which is a huge planetary shift. It, like, it will last until 2044. So I'm really looking forward to kind of that energy because it's moving from Capricorn. And so, yeah, I just. I'm taking it a day at a time, showing up where I can every day. That's all I really got. I mean, I think as a collective, or in the collective, we're all in this kind of interesting energy would be the word I'd like to use. And so, yeah, that's all I really got. I take my vitamins, I wake up, thank the Lord. That's it. But you got Doug. [00:20:17] Speaker B: You know, Dub good. I'm chilling. I'm just happy this. This thing we've been going through the past two years is over. So, so happy. I think the entire country is drained and we're tired. [00:20:38] Speaker C: We are tired. [00:20:39] Speaker B: And by what. And what I mean by that is the. The election is finally over. I'm gonna insert an applause clap right here somewhere. [00:20:50] Speaker C: Can you also insert a sound of despair? Because. [00:20:56] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Deep side, deep side. [00:20:58] Speaker C: Yeah, A deep sigh because. Well, let's. Should we just go ahead and get into it? The question that I put here is. I put election 2024. How do we move forward? Go ahead, go ahead, D. [00:21:24] Speaker B: I can tell you what men think just because I am, you get up the next day and go to work. [00:21:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:38] Speaker B: Your life just continues. That it just is what it is, and you just find a way to adjust in your personal life. Now, are you asking how we move forward as a culture, as a country, as a people? Like what. What's your real question? [00:21:59] Speaker C: All of that? Because unfortunately, I've seen people saying, well, black people gonna be straight. We done been through worse. And it's just like that. That's a trauma response. And we have been through worse. And unfortunately, no matter who's in office, our daily lives is pretty much the same. And that is the real problem that I have. I mean, besides that orange man being in office, we know he don't care about women's rights. He don't care about immigrants. He don't care about. He don't care about none of that. But Money. But when I really think about it, what has changed for black people under anybody? [00:22:49] Speaker B: Just for context for the listeners, the election, this election cycle, 2024, United States concluded about 10 days ago, two weeks ago, maybe, at this point. So we've had some time to kind of sit back and reflect and see really what's. What Donald Trump did end up. I don't want to say beating, but, yeah, beating Kamala Harris in the primary election. And that's kind of where we are right now. [00:23:28] Speaker C: Yeah. I have several thoughts on how to move forward, but I'm not sure that I'm in. In right here. I'm talking about specifically as black people. I'm not sure that we want change enough to really galvanize and do anything about it. I feel like we're just kind of been. Been sorry for us. So. And. And then 15 to 18 million people didn't even vote. And I heard a lot of us saying, you know, I'm actually good. I probably won't even show up. And that's concerning because how are you going to enact change if you don't even. What y'all think? Pete, I know you got a lot to say. You've been real quiet over there. [00:24:32] Speaker B: She taking notes. She writing, pulling her notes out. [00:24:36] Speaker D: She got a whole. [00:24:39] Speaker C: What you finish? [00:24:41] Speaker D: I was gonna say, I feel. I know this may sound strange, but I kind of feel aside of like. I don't want to say relief, but it's just like, okay, it's finally done. He's been elected. Legally, he can't do a third term. So let's just. Let's just do our time, like, you know what I mean? Like, let's just figure out ways to navigate because. [00:25:18] Speaker C: It'S always a while. [00:25:20] Speaker D: Americas. But I think it's going to become an even more wild time for us. And I think, I guess the positive side or the takeaway here is that hopefully some people can kind of reflect back and say, you know what? I dropped the ball. I messed up. Let me do. Let me educate myself. Let me do the things that I can do to make things better. Because I think even though there's always some type of, like, trauma or like some type of like, oh, this is. This sucks. There's always like a wave of like, okay, well, how do we come together? How do we, you know, become smarter, faster, think more strategic for the future, I think that happens. You know, there's a. This is like the catalyst for change in some regard to some people's lives, behaviors in a positive way. [00:26:27] Speaker C: See, I Guess I feel like. Oh, go ahead. [00:26:30] Speaker B: I was gonna say, I think I just thought of something. I know you mentioned, well, both of you mentioned twin and research team about galvanizing and coming together. And now I'm thinking about it. There's probably, I mean, to galvanize or to come like you, you really need the majority of a specific faction or group of people. And when I think about it now, like the. There are millions and millions of educated black folks in this country, right? But our spectrum is so wide between black folks that are educated and those that are not or that live in poverty or in the hood. And I think that the educated ones are the ones that care, the ones that, you know, self educate, whatever they. I think we all just want different things as opposed to. It's just, it's just asking for different things between those that, that are in the know and those that don't know or don't care. So I think it's kind of hard to galvanize the people that don't care or uneducated about what's really going on because they're just looking at life as like a day to day thing. Like, I gotta make sure, you know, I got food to eat tomorrow type, you get what I'm saying? [00:27:52] Speaker C: Yes. And that was the intention of colonization and slavery, uap, US History. I had this old white man, he really taught us a lot. Divide and conquer was the goal from the beginning, and it's still the goal. And it worked. And I, you know, I just been thinking lately about, you know, if you don't study history, you're doomed to repeat it. Which is part of the reason why they want to take all this stuff out of our history books and stuff, because just been really a negative cycle in America. This is not the first time we had a clown in office, Ronald Reagan. This is not the first time that the American people have shown they ass and just completely gone back to caveman times because things was getting too progressive. It keeps happening. And black people, black people, people of color, everybody, we are so divided. Like you said, Dub, we want so many different things. Some of us just like, just give me the money and let me go live my life, right? Some of us, like, let me help us. Some of us like it. I'm gonna just scam the system and, and do what I got to do for my kids. You know, we, the white people, were successful in dividing and conquering us and that, that is why we are here now. So we're not. Yeah, go ahead. [00:29:17] Speaker B: I was just gonna say I did mean to mention that, like I was saying, our spectrum is so. So vast, like, just from one end to the other. And I think it is because of systemic oppression, because, like I was mentioning those that know or those that are educated versus those that are not or don't care. This. There's. There's no easy way for us to talk to each other and the other one understand clearly. [00:29:47] Speaker C: So what do we do about that? Is it. Is it over? Is it too late? Y'all were white people so successful that it's just over. And we are where we are and we gonna be here. Some of us gonna make it out, some of us ain't. And it's just. It is what it is. [00:30:10] Speaker D: But to me, I think that's always been the case. Some of us making it out and some of us progressing forward. [00:30:20] Speaker C: Even when they. But it's not enough of us making it out, I feel. [00:30:28] Speaker A: So. [00:30:28] Speaker D: I don't know if it's not enough of us making it out, but I think. [00:30:36] Speaker A: It. [00:30:36] Speaker D: It feels like there's been like a. I would say like a stall or of a wave of, like, you know what? We tired, so we just sitting down, you know what I mean? [00:30:50] Speaker B: And mind you, we're being very, like, reactionary right now, just based on emotion. We don't. I mean, there's some funny stuff going on because as we speak, they're doing, you know, Cabinet selections and stuff. But. But we don't have to be this somber or this sad because we don't know what's what yet. We. We can kind of see what we think it could be and listen to so quote, unquote, experts or whatever on what they think may happen. But we don't. We don't know for sure. We don't know if this is a death sentence for the country or whatever. But, you know, it's still. It's still very early. He hasn't actually been to. To office yet. So for this cycle, I mean, what you think? P. Money. [00:31:42] Speaker A: So, you know, I think with voting, and this is something that of President elect Trump previously didn't understand is in an electoral process, you really have to kind of accept it because it's almost like a census or it's a gauge or. I mean, it's polling the sentiments of the country. And if we are to believe, which we are to believe, that people think that President elect Donald Trump is the way forward, people in America feel that way very strongly. And when we think about voter turnout, you know, it's. This. Is this notion that everybody actually goes and vote. And I just want to give some perspective to the listeners that, you know, in America, you have roughly over around over 200 million eligible voters. It ranges from about 200 million to about 244 million in voter eligible population. And since 2012, you've only had up to about 64, 60% of voters actually turning out for voting. One of the highest voters voting turnout was actually during the pandemic in 2020, that election with 66% voted turnout. And so when you think about that, if I'm to back to my original statement, this election gives the sentiments to what America feels, then there's a big percentage of Americans who just don't care. [00:34:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree. Yep. [00:34:18] Speaker A: And so I have to start to ask black people if they're the ones who feel the most slighted by this election is what are you? Why do you care? Why do you. Why are we still trying to play this game, this, in this simulation that does not work for black people? And I, and I give that context by thinking about the cabinet picks. And this is why, you know, when, when you have people who want to play in this game of, you know, voter turnout should also represent, you know, you send people to an official office because they are representation of you. Right. So we look at the cabinet picks and I don't see any black people, not one. And so that, you know, and that goes back to this notion of killing dei. DEI was never really about what white people started to make it out to be. It's really that black people get tired of going into rooms and not seeing anybody that looks like them. And to say that they are not qualified is nearly ridiculous. Right. Like, it's, it's absolutely ridiculous. And so, you know, and so I think about all those people that are those black people that voted for Trump, President Elect Trump, and I, I wonder, you know, how does maybe, maybe you then cling to whiteness and believe that black people don't. Aren't qualified at all to have any federal appointments position. [00:36:40] Speaker C: I want to piggyback off your question when you said, why do you care black people? And that's where I am too. P. Because I don't think I realized how many of us still think the system gonna do anything for us. Like, people were completely devastated and shocked, you know, and I, I guess I just don't understand what it's going to take for us to revolutionize ourselves and realize white people ain't gonna do a damn thing for us. Why are we shocked by this? They would enslave us again. If they could. And I think that was the. So going back to what I was saying earlier, I think that is what has been heartbreaking for me. And like you said, the. You don't know if this will. Will break the country. But to me I've been thinking about will this break black people? Because it seemed like we've just lost hope and we really were like hoping for some type of change in the system that is never going to happen until we start shaking tables like they have shown us over and over and over and over again. They don't give a if you ain't white and male white women. [00:38:17] Speaker B: I will say this, this I don't think it'll break us just because us as a people would just some of the most resilient people on the planet. Like you learn when you're real young and are demographic in our culture, figure it out. And that's what we just keep doing over and over and over again. We may not fix anything necessarily, but we don't make it. We're going to be all right. [00:38:46] Speaker A: Right. But you. So resilience is the term to come back from, to bounce back from. Right. And so I think that. And this, and this probably goes back to kind of what you guys were speaking about earlier with this idea of galvanization of the collective right, the brown and black people. Right. And it just what do we, what do we come. What, what are we truly going to come back from this time? Like, how are we, how are we going to be resilient again? Right. And I think that because for the most part, and we talked about this on the pie a couple weeks ago especially, I think I'm the only conservative on the pod. I feel like, you know, where are we actually going? Because I'm still thinking in the context of the American sentiments, right. What American people truly think and what they believe and where when you say, okay, but black people have always been resilient. That is true. But how are we going to come back from this when you have in large part a lot of African Americans and black and brown people who put their trust in a party that completely failed them. I mean, the Democratic Party since President Obama has completely failed their constituents from a presidential standpoint. And so and I would even say even back to, you know, kind of you would have thought that there would have been a regrouping with Hip, you know, when Hillary Clinton ran, right. Like they would have, you know, galvanized themselves into something that really was reflective of the people. But you don't have that. And so what you see from the conservative side is people uniting behind a singular message. The problem is they don't care that with that message comes racism, comes, comes all these other hatred, indoctrination, like they don't care. Because if you have people who in this country, you know, feel if they're what, what matters to them, what they cared about. We just established that only 60 something percent of Americans actually went and voted. So there is a percentage of people who don't even care to go vote. So those that did care, what mattered most of them was the fact that they go to the grocery store and they, you know, their whole check is being spent there. And then they have this, this idea through misinformation or not, that we have a porter crisis. And so, which is almost sometimes hilarious to me because one thing I think about when I think about immigration is immigration has been how a lot of white people even got into America. Everyone, Elon Musk is not American. [00:43:10] Speaker C: That's how it started. [00:43:12] Speaker B: The exception of the indigenous, of course. But they, they've, they have their own problems and, you know, issues with this country, but every, everyone got here from somewhere else. [00:43:29] Speaker C: Correct. [00:43:31] Speaker B: Oh, and sorry, Pete, not to cut you off. So, you know, oh, go ahead, go ahead. [00:43:37] Speaker A: No, I mean, and, and so I, I leave, I la. I land there where you made a good point, Ada, when you said, you know, we don't necessarily have to be reactionary in this, in this moment and we can really just wait and see. You know, where do we go from here? How do we move forward? Is a question. And I think that, you know, we have to, I don't know when they keep saying they being anyone that is not pleased with this election cycle, I don't know when they say we are going to fight, what they mean because there are not enough people within even our own community that are willing to even fight because it doesn't matter to them the way that it matters to those people who have been carrying the flight. Right. When I think of resiliency, I think about Stacy Abrams. Right? Abrams. I got it right. Abrams. Yeah, yeah, that's the person I think that's resilient, right? Like she works tirelessly in the state of Georgia, but she's only one person. And one thing, if you looked at all of the voter turnout you had in these major cities, you know, that's usually where a lot of liberals live. So you'd have all this blue and literally within 10 to maybe 15 miles out, I would say 20 miles out, let's say 30, 50 to be safe. Nothing but red. So maybe the liberals are the ones living in denial about what do people care about and what. What matters to people. And I think that, you know, when we think about again, how do we move forward? Well, what is moving forward even look like? Because honestly, it's like when Trump, President elect Trump got elected the first time around, it was kind of like, well, he's supposed to be the successful businessman. So let's see. But proved for me, my singular reason for other than many other reasons, obviously, was just unforgivable to me, was the COVID crisis. I. I just never can, you know, with public health is always one of those things that like, I just, I could never. That was really unforgivable to me for a president to not inform the American people of a deadly disease that, you know, still to this day people, quote, unquote, believe or don't believe actually happened. Right? And so we're in this age of misinformation. We're in this age of artificial intelligence, which breeds off of misinformation. And I just think that we're just gonna have to. I. From my perspective, you know, as again, being just a radical person, we just gotta wait and see. Because I don't. I don't think that we are in the. The time of or the era of the civil rights movement. Like, those days are so gone because people within, just black people within their own community just don't care enough. And that's the truth. So let's start there. Let's just start there. [00:47:54] Speaker C: Shifting from black people for a second, I have a question. Latinos, are y'all okay? Are y'all okay? You are not white. They don't give a about you either. I saw this family on CNN talking about st them. [00:48:18] Speaker B: They look crazy. [00:48:19] Speaker C: Yeah, we voted for Trump. They're not going to deport our family because, you know, the people they deporting are criminals and our family's not committing crimes. [00:48:30] Speaker A: Huh. [00:48:31] Speaker B: Wait till they get that knock on the door. [00:48:35] Speaker C: What? [00:48:36] Speaker B: Come with me, please. [00:48:39] Speaker C: Are y'all okay? [00:48:40] Speaker B: That was racist. Sorry. This podcast is not racist. But that was race. I said that. My bad. [00:48:45] Speaker C: It's okay. It's okay. We're living in racist times, clearly. Because at this point, leave this in. I'm like, deport day ass. Deport them. Because what the. He blatantly told y'all to y'all face. He getting y'all up out of here. [00:49:04] Speaker B: A mass exodus, by the way. [00:49:06] Speaker C: Like, just let y'all all gotta go out of here. Yes, dude. Cause what are you talking about? [00:49:15] Speaker B: I mean, I think. I think the easiest way for Latins, Latinos, Hispanics to think about this is there has to be stepping stones for the. They came to the United States for a reason, right? Whether it be for work or for better opportunities or to. Is political asylum in their own countries or they come from a dictatorship. Whatever. Whatever the reason they come, they came for a better life, right? And the American dream is the American dream. You can literally come from nothing and become the president. Then that's. You can't do that in other countries. For the most part, there's a. There's a cast system, there's a class system or what. What have you, Which. There's a soft one here. It does exist, but you can. It's still possible. You know what I'm saying? I think what they don't understand or what they. What they aren't thinking about is that if there are no minorities being elected to these really high offices, there's no opportunity for them to do it either. Somebody's got to do it first. You get what I'm saying? So a black woman going into office, that just opens the door for, okay, now we've had a black woman, we've had a black man. What's next? Latinos? It's millions of them here. The tens of millions. Hundred, probably 100 million. That's light work. Like you. If they just thought about it that simply, like, yo, we could. We could be the president. Like, what, what, what. What else are you thinking about? Like, you thinking about today, but what about tomorrow? And that's. That's how I think about it. [00:50:51] Speaker C: I ain't gonna lie. That was one of the most shocking things about the. The outcome for me. Like, I know Cubans think they're white. You know, I know that it's. They have a big colorism issue in the Hispanic community. But he told y'all, to. Y'all face that, y'all getting up out of here, and you said, no, no, it's only the criminals. That's not what he said, and that's not what he showed us the first time. Is everybody okay? [00:51:30] Speaker B: I think some of them feel like if they. When they come here, they assimilate or act more white than they'll be afforded those privileges. And that's just. That's not true. [00:51:41] Speaker C: They were not enslaved like we are, like we were. So I guess they don't have the view of white people that we do. But they. White people care about whiteness. Pure Puritan, Anglo Saxon whiteness. And. And that alone, they was trying to get the Irish people up out of here. If you deviate at all from Anglo whiteness and the Italians, like what, I just think that was the most baffling part for me. And then when y'all get deported, you're gonna be looking around like, huh, so, black man, are y'all mad at Obama? [00:52:37] Speaker B: Black man here? Nah. Oh, this reminded me of something about what P said. I agree with you, P. The Democratic Party definitely did let us down. I think we were spoiled with Obama, like the policies and all that stuff. That's, that's one thing. But Obama was a superstar, like, as a, as a politician, like, just coming into running for election. Like, nobody had ever heard of Obama before he ran for president. He was just, he was just a guy, but like a senator from Chicago. And then all of a sudden he's running for president. But he was just so charismatic. But I think the Democratic Party did a great job of selecting him, grooming him, and I think they got too comfortable. So then when it was time to run against Trump the first time, they hadn't groomed anybody. They didn't, they didn't have anybody in waiting in the wings that was like, you know, a burgeoning superstar of a politician in the Senate or House or a governor somewhere. They didn't have anybody. So I think they definitely dropped the ball on that. And they lost. We lost the first time in 2016 happened, just luckily one in 2020. And it's like they didn't fix it. They just sat back and said, oh, see? And unfortunately, that got. It gets forced on the American people. [00:54:13] Speaker D: Yeah, they didn't set us, they didn't set up for success, I think. [00:54:20] Speaker A: I. [00:54:21] Speaker D: Don'T know what they was doing, what kind of fires they was trying to put out that hadn't distracted from the bigger plan here. [00:54:34] Speaker C: I, I, I agree. I do think that they are completely out of touch with what the average person wants and needs. And they're like, pandering to us and, and just not in reality with what we need. Because I think they thought, like you said, Dub, they thought Hillary was a shoe in because she a Clinton, so we don't really have to put forth much effort. And it was like, girl, you ain't saying nothing about what we, what we're talking about. People was apathetic then, and that's why Trump won. And I don't know why the Dems didn't regroup from that. It's like they just lost in La La land. I don't know if we just need a whole revamping of the Democratic Party or what. But they are lost. And I don't know what. [00:55:25] Speaker B: Why, mind you, Trump did win the Electoral College, but Hillary did have the popular vote. [00:55:33] Speaker C: She did. But people also. But I'm just saying, I don't think people were excited about it. Like, if they, like, you know, excited about Obama. Go ahead, research. [00:55:44] Speaker D: I g. To say they weren't. Yeah, they weren't rallying around her. And it's like we needed someone who had some sauce, some swag, some something. Because people were not. People were not excited. They weren't excited this time around. They weren't excited when she. [00:56:06] Speaker A: No, no. And it goes back to. They just don't care. Like, you got to give people something to care about. You got to give them a carrot. You have to. Because most people. I think we were talking about this on, you know, before we. I think we were, you know, chopping it up in the beginning of this episode. Like, people are very much. Not when it's because I don't want to insult anyone's intelligence, but the average person doesn't even understand that inflation has absolutely nothing to do with the economy is pure corporate greed. It's literally corporate greed. They don't have to. They do not even have to raise the prices that high. They raising it because they got to get their lick back from COVID Listen, talk about it like it's. It. It literally has nothing to do with the economy. It. And then you, you know, it's like when you start to realize that it's a bigger game being played. What simulation are y'all? What, What. Where are you logging in as? Like, what fighter are you choosing? That's what I'm saying. Like, I'm not choosing a fighter. What am I fighting for? What. The things that matter to me, I can't do nothing about it. The things that matter to me, there's literally nothing I can do. I can't starve. I cannot not buy gas. [00:58:01] Speaker C: I remember I said back, really? The economy is going to be in a few years. I remember having this conversation with research team. I said, what we don't know is the economy is going to be crap in a few years because one thing corporate America gonna do is get their money back by any means necessary. [00:58:24] Speaker D: Every time, every. [00:58:26] Speaker C: No matter. [00:58:27] Speaker D: No matter who die in the room on the back table over the weekend. [00:58:32] Speaker C: They'Re getting their money back. And what we gonna do? Just stop buying stuff. So it's been shocking to me that people have attributed the economy Straight, you know, strictly to the government. It's like, did y'all forget that we was inside for, like, two years? Companies was losing money. They got to get that back. Right? So I feel like we need. I feel like Malcolm X was right, y'all. I feel like black people, we need to somehow have our own again, like, separate but equal, whatever. Like, we need to stop being a peaceful people. Okay. I'm down with the Malcolm X philosophy, and I kind of feel like they were growing up in history. They kind of villainized him for real. But as an adult, I'm like, we need that type of revolutionary thinking again in order for us to. To start making progress. Did y'all see that his daughters is suing the FBI, CIA, dea, atf, all of the above for a hundred million dollars? [01:00:04] Speaker B: I seen that. I mean, I don't know when else they could have done it. You couldn't have really done it in the 80s or 90s because there wouldn't have been enough awareness on it. Yeah, but today, like, they can. Everybody can know, but I think there's just so many people, especially young people, Gen X, who. Who are in adulthood now, but they just don't know who Malcolm X was or what he stood for or anything like that. So they may not care. And a lot of times, court of public opinion can, you know, sway things that happen in civil court. [01:00:46] Speaker C: Yeah, that's true. It shouldn't, but it definitely does. [01:00:52] Speaker B: I'm saying that to say I don't think it's gonna go anywhere personally. [01:00:56] Speaker C: You don't think so? But in. In a perfect world, they. I feel like they give them. [01:01:06] Speaker B: Then we just spend the first, like, 40 minutes talking about our country. And this ain't no perfect world. They out of there. [01:01:16] Speaker C: I know. P. What you think. You quiet over there. [01:01:34] Speaker B: Anyway, I'm. Oh, go ahead. Research. Oh, but, you know, I seen. I seen him do the little press conference with. With your boy Crump. I said this before. I. I can't stand when that man speaks out loud. Like, it just. And that's beside the point. But. But damn. Come on. [01:01:56] Speaker A: I was. I was just taking up. I was taking a moment of silence because sometimes just the way to having these conversations just really just. It just. [01:02:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:12] Speaker A: Yeah. It really weighs on me because if we. Thinking from a historical standpoint, in context, you really start to think about our ancestors, right? And it's like, if they're with us, they endure it so much worse than we are now. Even, you know, America in general, when you had the Great Depression, Right. And So it's like this idea that we want things to be like Dub just said, like, we want things to be good and we want things to be prosperous and we want things to be roses and cherries and all those things. But it's like that's really not the reality of most people on this planet either. Like, most people in this world suffer, are suffering. You know, you have human conflict going on in other parts of the world right now. And it's just like it, the weight of it sometimes just really, it, it's heavy and you know, so that's why I'd say there was some quiet because I just really sit with this stuff and because I was thinking to myself, I'm like, if a listener is, is, is listening to us, you know, you know, how, how do, how do y'all feel, right? Like, what are y'all gonna do? What do you want to do? What do you care about? You know, like. And when you look at the exit pose, the exit polls are just some of the most fascinating things that I love to look at, you know, any after any election. And you know, when you look at them, they're very much either extreme. When I say extreme, you have extreme by gender, you have extreme by race, you have extremes by people who think they're political, right? And then you start to look at the economy aspect and it's really down the middle. When. So an example in 2023, total family income under $30,000 is right in the middle. 50% Democrats, 46% Republicans. Shimmies down the middle from 3,30,000 to 50,000. 45% Democrat, 53% Republican, 50,000 to 99,000. 46% Democrat, 51% Republican, 100,000 to 200,000. 51% Democrat, 47% Republican. $200,000 and more. 51% Democrat, 45% Republican. So when it comes to the dollar, everyone's voting down the middle. But the extremism starts when you look at religion. Protestant and Christian, 36 Democrat, 60, 63 Republican. Non religious, like, doesn't affiliate with anything. 71 Democrats, 26% Republican. Religion among white voters. I mean, this is a fascinating stat. 26% Democrat that are Protestant other than Christian, 72% Republican, non religious affiliation, 71% Democratic, 27 Republican. So like the country all agrees from an economic standpoint on basically what you make, what you, your dollar value is right down the middle. But it's when we get into these social, religion can be social aspects of our way of life, you start to see that there it just these Crazy extremes. And so for black people, again, for us, by us. Fubu, you know that Malcolm X complex. What, what are we gonna do? Because they don't care. What if anything this election cycle has taught us they actually don't care about what black people care about. And that' the Christians don't get. Don't care what black people want. Well, the, the Protestants don't care about what black people want. They don't care. So when are black people gonna do what they need to do? So what they. What their needs are being met. So that's what it goes back to the original question. What do. [01:08:19] Speaker C: What is. [01:08:19] Speaker A: What, what is the country gonna do for you? Because it ain't on that JFK no more. Ask not what he said. Ask not what, what the country can do for me, but what the. What can I do for my country? What, what is. What is it doing for you? And if it, if it's, you know, the, the, the sum, the summation of your. What's interest was the summation of what of is important to you is tick tock. Then we, we got a long road to go. And if that's gonna get banned, we have a long road. If the summation of what's important to you is the fact that Netflix keeps getting these live streaming deals. And I couldn't properly watch Mike Tyson shimmy across the boxer ring because who, who even who wanted to see that? I did not want to sign up to see his old behind in the ring. It was live streaming and then stopped streaming. Netflix messed up again. [01:09:33] Speaker C: Real. [01:09:34] Speaker A: Yes. [01:09:37] Speaker D: Forever buffering. [01:09:38] Speaker B: We were buffering, but yeah, it was buffering and it was pixelating. I was like, I know. I got gig Internet. Some, some's up here. [01:09:49] Speaker C: What? See, I ain't even watching. I ain't want to see that foolishness anyway. [01:09:55] Speaker D: Wow, Netflix, you had one job. One job. [01:10:03] Speaker C: Why did decide to start airing fights anyway? [01:10:09] Speaker A: That's what I'm saying. [01:10:10] Speaker B: I don't know about to have NFL games too. [01:10:18] Speaker A: See, this is what I'm saying. Like who, who wanted this? I think that's enough for Mind you. [01:10:28] Speaker B: What I was gonna say mind you is genius because obviously that would typically be a pay per view event. Most people already have Netflix, so it's just there. So of course you can turn on. Just turn on Netflix and watch a major fight or a football game. I mean they really just doing what, what Amazon did with the Thursday Night Football games. Like same thing. [01:10:57] Speaker C: It just seemed random. Like they was just like, hey, let's era Tyson fight. So it Was just buffering it. [01:11:09] Speaker B: Was anything random about this at all? [01:11:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:11:14] Speaker B: I don't dance now. I made money moves. Hey. Hey. That's all it was. [01:11:22] Speaker C: Yeah, boy. Trick Daddy said he not African American. How do we feel about that term these days? I kind of feel weird about it. I just feel like I'm black. [01:11:35] Speaker B: Right. I get the message. He was trying to say wrong messenger, though. Yeah. We black. [01:11:40] Speaker C: Yeah, definitely. [01:11:42] Speaker D: Wrong messenger. Definitely. [01:11:46] Speaker A: Yeah. And, you know, so with that, you know, I. I would say we. This is going to be a long four years. And we'll. We're gonna see y'all in 2028. Holl at us. See y'all then. [01:12:05] Speaker C: 2028. [01:12:07] Speaker A: I will see y'all then. [01:12:08] Speaker B: God willing. We. We make it. [01:12:12] Speaker C: We're gonna make it. We're gonna. You said we resilient. [01:12:15] Speaker A: We resilient. We're going to. That's what I'm saying. [01:12:17] Speaker B: I did. [01:12:18] Speaker C: We just can't lose all of our spirit and hope. Because I heard a lot of people say. Saying they feel hopeless because. Because they still had their faith in the system. So hopefully this wakes some people up, you know, and we're gonna move forward. [01:12:35] Speaker A: Literally all we can do. [01:12:36] Speaker B: Yeah. The left needs to be. They. The left should be in the lab right this second. [01:12:43] Speaker C: They. Yeah. [01:12:44] Speaker B: Formulating a plan, planning. Just at least make it more competitive. You know what I'm saying? Don't. Yeah, they should be coming up with something. [01:12:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:13:00] Speaker A: We shall see. But, you know, the highlight of the election process for me was Thugger is home. [01:13:10] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. [01:13:13] Speaker A: My dog back. Because somebody was like, fanny, I think Fannie got reelected. And I'm like, I don't care nothing about her. She locked my dog up. No, no, no. Y'all better leave black people alone. Stop locking these rappers up. Except for. What's that boy name? [01:13:33] Speaker C: Well, some of them need to be in there. [01:13:35] Speaker A: The one that the murder. Fire dirt. [01:13:43] Speaker C: He need to be in there. [01:13:48] Speaker A: I mean. Yeah, you. You. You're going. You ain't. We ain't gonna see you again. You. You gon over. [01:13:54] Speaker C: He was a menace, a complete. He was nuts. [01:13:58] Speaker A: Yeah. You can't. I mean, it's crazy about that. It's like, don't you know the phones listen? Even if you don't think the phone's listening to you, bro, like, the phones listen. You think you're gonna get away with murder for hire this age, like. [01:14:17] Speaker B: But the thing is, like, you gotta. I mean, that's what got Doug caught up, you know what I'm saying? Even though all his charges from, like, 2017. But once you make it, you can't have one foot in, one foot out. It don't work like that. Of course you're gonna get caught. Why would you. Why would you even do that? [01:14:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:14:39] Speaker A: You know, I don't know. I think it'd be the privilege. You know, that's the one thing about white supremacy that people don't understand or can't really rationalize is the privilege that comes with that. You know, this behavior, the behavior of privilege. And that also extends to wealth, Right? And you just have people that obtain this kind of wealth, and they. This then makes them feel that sort of privilege, and it just doesn't actually work the way that it works for white people. And so, you know, I just. I think that's really kind of what happens. Because we say that, right? Like, oh, well, you know, if you get out the game, you. You can't have one foot in, one foot out. But it's like, in reality, that's how most. It's how most people who are criminals continue to do their business. Right. Like, the biggest thing that we saw from Trump's presidency was he was president, but then he was also doing a lot of criminal stuff. Like, New York sued this man, and he can't even do business in New York, I think, for, like, three years, just based off of business ethic, his business ethical practices in the Trump Organization. Like, Rudy Giuliani was one of the most, you know, respected lawyers, law people ever, and he got disbarred. So I think it's this assumption that, like, you know, like you said, like, okay, you really shouldn't have one foot in and one foot out. Yeah. I mean, morally, you shouldn't. But at that point, who's defining the morals? Like, I don't. I think because someone was. I was talking to someone the other day, and they were like, you know, he gonna be. He's gonna be on parole for, like, 15 years. And I'm like, if you've been locked up for a year, you gonna. You. I hope you would find a way not to go back. Like, I don't. I think he'd been locked up maybe more than a year, but, like, I ain't trying to go back, so. I don't know, but. Welcome home, thug. So happy to see you first day out. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. With that I heard, you know, when they always. When they always lock them up like that. I always think about when Trick always saying that song because you still, you know, and what do we? What do we. He recently said he's not African American. [01:17:46] Speaker B: Cause use a. You still a. That's it. I forget the name of the song, though. But I know it was on Thugs R Us. [01:17:57] Speaker C: It was. [01:17:58] Speaker A: And you know what's funny about that? It was on Thugs R Us. And what's been hilarious to me is like, you know what people don't understand from a social standpoint with racism is then it becomes more blatant. Did anyone see that? ESPN girl say that say the N word on live tv. What was hilarious to me was the clown that was on the show and he just laughed. Laugh. Goofy. Goofy. Cause ain't no way. Not to my face. [01:18:43] Speaker B: I heard she said she was trying to say nuggets. I'm not giving the white man grace. I know it's a woman. [01:18:51] Speaker C: I watched it a few times. [01:18:53] Speaker B: Well, I'm just saying she was trying to say nuggets and she said it just sound like it sounded like. [01:19:01] Speaker C: To me. [01:19:02] Speaker A: No. [01:19:04] Speaker B: All right, don't believe me. Don't believe me. [01:19:06] Speaker C: I watched it a few times, too. I mean, I'm not saying that that's not possible, but also, sir, you was cackling. I just. It was. I ain't like it. [01:19:21] Speaker A: The cackling. For me, it's the cat. It was the cackling. [01:19:25] Speaker C: I'm like, I ain't like it. [01:19:26] Speaker A: I don't even care if it sounded remotely close to it. I don't care. I'd have been like. I'd at least gave a side eye. I wouldn't have been laughing. [01:19:37] Speaker C: Right. [01:19:37] Speaker A: It wouldn't have been. It wouldn't have been nothing funny about that. Nothing. [01:19:42] Speaker C: I might not have made a big deal. It's always getting a side. [01:19:45] Speaker B: He can't make a big deal. He trying to keep his black job. [01:19:54] Speaker A: You know, Ain't no way I'm telling you right now. So, you know, I would say that's just gonna be one of those things that start to circulate, you know, in. In society is the tolerance when you have racist ideology just seen as okay by your political government. You're going to see more of it here and there. So it's going to be. It's going to be an interesting, interesting time. I'm sure we're going to see more of that word being said on live TV or just slipping amongst people who are non black who feel the need to use the word. But. Yeah. Why did Trick say he's not African American, though, is he? [01:20:53] Speaker C: He said he don't feel no relationship to Africa he ain't never been there. That ain't got nothing to do with him. He's. He was. He's a black. [01:21:04] Speaker B: He ain't wrong. [01:21:06] Speaker C: Right? He's not wrong. I think y'all right. It's just the wrong messenger. Because when I read what he said, I was like. I mean, correct. [01:21:21] Speaker D: It's the messenger. [01:21:23] Speaker A: I was gonna say, because I think African American really is more about identifying us within the diaspora. You know, we are a displaced people. And so I would say African American, even blacks, black being. You know, I don't think people really remember that, you know, the word term black black person, pride, black beauty, blackness as a good thing really only kind of formulated in the 60s during the Civil rights era, where it became, you know, synonymous with pride and solidarity in. In the use of the term. But I would say African American really is a term that allows for us to keep that thread of Africa. And it goes back to, you know, kind of what I was saying earlier about, you know, the ancestors. I mean, I hope the ancestors want. They lit back, too, because, like I said, I mean, our ancestors dealt with so much worse than this. Like, truly, like, in. In perspective, the ancestors. Our ancestors dealt with so much more worse than this. So, like, we should, to some degree have peace in that, knowing that, one, we're going to be okay, and two, you know, the marathon to some degree continues. And so, I mean, yeah, I think wrong messenger, but I think that's really where that African part kind of stays with. Because you said it earlier, twin, like, having U.S. citizenship, you know, was something that you. You think that was just given to black people, but it wasn't, you know, it was something that had to be put into law to give us citizenship in America. Right? Like, when we were enslaved and then freed, they didn't know what to do with us, us being black people from Africa. So, you know, Trick could say, you know, I don't. I'm not African American. But your citizenship that you obtained came from those who were enslaved. That's why when your twin says things like, they would easily enslave us if they could, it's because they wrote a law to not slave us, but they can unwrite that law. And if you don't know that, you really need to Google the amendments. [01:24:36] Speaker C: They already. [01:24:37] Speaker A: These are amended messages. [01:24:41] Speaker C: Like, y'all saw them black people getting them racist text. [01:24:47] Speaker A: Like, they would enslave us if they could. They could. They would. They would. It was. It wasn't given to us. They had to make it a law. Just food for Thought people. Food for thought. So that's all I'm gonna say about that. [01:25:11] Speaker C: I mean, not to get too deep, but I've. I personally feel like the term now kind of feels a bit antiquated. Yeah. And. And like. And like. Like we're being rejected from being just Americans because when you think about Hispanic Americans or Asian Americans or other, like, they're Asian first, you know, and you can see that in their first generation, second generation, third generation, they have some connection there. That's why they have to call themselves Asian. I am an Asian living in America. We was born here. Our parents was born here, grandparents was born here. Their grandparents was born here. Like the slaves who came over here. Yeah, they were African American because they literally got off the boat. We've been here because y'all forced us over here. So at this point, it's almost like, yeah, they're African American. They're not really Americans. We are. We influence American culture. We've been here, we built the country. Like, at what point are we just black Americans? [01:26:31] Speaker B: I don't even think we need. If you're. If you. If you got feet on land and you standing here, I don't even think you need to put American after it, honestly. Like, yeah, people don't. People. White American is a term, but you don't use that in everyday talk. That dude is white. He's just white. [01:26:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:26:48] Speaker B: So if you talk about us, we black. We just black, which I'm sure black just came from. They were just called white. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, they not, oh, I'm Irish American, I'm Italian American. Like, nobody says that. Like, you just white. [01:27:04] Speaker C: Y. [01:27:05] Speaker B: So everybody should just be white, Black, Latin, Asian. If you from Africa and you live here in the African. Like, just. Why do you need to say African American if you are in America when you say it, like if I were over in China, Russia or something, and they say, what are you? Oh, I'm. I'm black American or I'm African American. That way you give a race and you give. Where you from. You get what I'm saying? But if you hear why even say American at the end? [01:27:40] Speaker C: That's true. And really, when you be other places, they just be like, American. [01:27:45] Speaker D: Yeah. They don't even care about facts. I think that's just another way to, you know, to separate, divide and make sure they maintain their. Their association to their white. [01:28:06] Speaker B: Well, crazy. Yeah. Do away with the term all together. We black. [01:28:11] Speaker C: Yeah, I agree. [01:28:12] Speaker B: Choose. What do you want to be called? You want to Be called black. You want to be called African. Just whatever. But, I mean, I'm so bad hyphenated names, they just. I don't. They don't make sense to me. [01:28:24] Speaker C: I agree. We. We are here in America. Why are we telling people we are Irish American? We know that we're here. We know that y'all. Candyman died. Rip To a legend. Tony Todd, he was also in Hatchet, which is the best movie of all time. And I just wanted to say, shout. [01:28:51] Speaker B: Out to him either, but rest in peace to that man. [01:28:55] Speaker C: You never seen Candyman? [01:28:58] Speaker B: No, it's good. [01:29:01] Speaker C: I mean, it's old now. [01:29:04] Speaker A: It's old now, but it was a classic. [01:29:08] Speaker B: Wait, no, I think. I think I've seen the remake, though. I've seen the remake. Okay, but they said the original is scarier, right? [01:29:17] Speaker A: I mean, Candyman. Yeah, Candyman was scared. [01:29:22] Speaker D: No, he's talking about the original. [01:29:24] Speaker A: Yeah, the original. The original. [01:29:25] Speaker C: I feel like it was scary for his time. Like, if you watch it now, you're not gonna be, like, terrified. [01:29:30] Speaker D: Yeah, I agree. [01:29:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Because, you know, if you go look in the mirror, you say, candyman, ain't nothing gonna happen. [01:29:39] Speaker C: Well, I'm still not doing that, but I feel you. [01:29:44] Speaker B: Look at you. Shook. [01:29:45] Speaker C: I'm. It was scary. It was. [01:29:56] Speaker A: Yeah. I was gonna say it was real scary. I mean, but I know, like, I'm a big person that believes in, like, I like scary movies that remain scary over periods of time. So I. I can agree. Like, it wouldn't be as. Because I know, like, I could go stand in the mirror right now and say, candyman, Candyman, Candyman. Nothing gonna happen. [01:30:17] Speaker C: I'm not doing it. I'm good. [01:30:22] Speaker A: But one thing, you know, one thing that I do. No, I'm saying, like, you know, I think that's one of those things with timeless movies. Like, some movies that are real scary. Like, they just stay scary. But like. Or some things like. Like, what's the most recent remake? The new. The. The new remake of Penguin. Fire Purifier. You know, like, it's thing. It's things like that. Like, when you get it right, it's timeless. Like, so the story. We all know the story of Batman, Gotham, and, like, enough, like, I don't even know, like, the comics, but I've seen them so much in my life now. Like, I knew enough like, that. I remember the original Penguin with Michael Keaton, I think, was the Batman. And so, like, you know, as I was watching the show, I just remember, like, certain tidbits, but not Even enough to follow it along because I never read the comments, but enough that, like, it was so enjoyable that they did an amazing, incredible job with it. So I think when you have any type of. When you make it any type of media or cinema, it's always nice when it's something that can be timeless. For sure. I really enjoy. Yeah, because you got Beyonce's new Baywatch. She clowning us. She never gonna give us no visuals. [01:32:08] Speaker C: Did you actually get those videos? [01:32:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I did. Because, I mean, she ain't put nothing. We haven't gotten any thing, you know, like from her nuke, from. What is the album called? Cowboy Carter or Carter Cowboy. She been doing everything for Sir Davis right now to Whiskey. So I don't think in her hair and the perfume she got going out. Somebody said on Twitter, talking about how much is Blues Daycare or something or. Or her school, how much does it cost? Because she running it. She running the girls for their pockets right now for sure. But I did watch it. That was good because I like that. You know, Pamela Anderson used to be the pinnacle of. I don't know what you call it. Barbie. Barbie Beauty at one point. [01:33:10] Speaker C: That was such a different time. [01:33:13] Speaker B: Yeah, that was like the 90s Americana kind of era. [01:33:19] Speaker C: Yeah. Seems so long ago. I mean, I guess it was. What a different time. [01:33:27] Speaker D: Yeah, it was. She looks interesting, by the way. Pamela Anderson. Now, I don't know if y'all seen her recently, but she didn't. [01:33:35] Speaker B: No, we haven't, thankfully. [01:33:39] Speaker D: I'll just leave that right there. [01:33:42] Speaker C: Wait, y'all, can we go back to Tyson for a second? Did y'all see that interview he did with the 15 year or 14 year old girl? [01:33:52] Speaker D: No. I heard that he was acting crazy with her. [01:33:56] Speaker C: She asked him something about how you feel about your legacy or something. He was like, what legacy? We all just gonna die. I hate when people be talking about legacy, because that's just made up. We all just die in that sense. And he was going on and on about it. I said, oh, he kept it a little too real. That's a. That's a child, Mike. You could have said something else. [01:34:23] Speaker B: He was definitely talking to her like he was in prison. But now that. Now that I'm listening to his tone, like he. That was probably right after Netflix and them had a conversation with him like, yo, you can't. You can't beat him. Like, we going to decision. He might have been hot. So he was just like. You get what I'm saying? [01:34:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:34:44] Speaker B: Wow, look at that. [01:34:48] Speaker C: I just thought that Was funny. [01:34:53] Speaker B: The little kid, she was just like so in shock. Just like, okay, yeah. [01:34:59] Speaker D: She wasn't prepared already. [01:35:01] Speaker B: All right. [01:35:04] Speaker A: I don't think people remember that. He actually off his rocker. [01:35:09] Speaker B: Never had no sense. [01:35:12] Speaker C: I'm like, you all know this man. Crazy. Why would you even have a 14 year old girl interviewing him anyway? [01:35:22] Speaker A: That's what I was thinking. [01:35:23] Speaker D: Like, where are her parents? This is not a good, it's not a good idea. [01:35:30] Speaker A: That's what I'm saying. Like when people keep saying that. I'm like, when people. The way he said before the fight and he kissed the man and he walked around with his, his behind. Now I'm like, do y'all know, y'all know who he is, right? Like, he, he is, he is Mike Tyson. Like, he, that's. [01:35:55] Speaker B: He bit someone's ear off. The man is schizophrenic. Like, he bit someone's ear off. [01:36:03] Speaker C: Because he been on his little positive writing books and giving and you know, he been on his woo woo for a little while. So I think they forgot, girl. [01:36:12] Speaker A: No, he ain't. He sell edible gummies that are in the shape of ears. [01:36:19] Speaker D: Wait, what? [01:36:20] Speaker C: I mean, the white people, I think the white people forgot. [01:36:23] Speaker A: No, they forget. [01:36:25] Speaker C: Remember. [01:36:26] Speaker A: No, they forget. It's like what you said, we appropriate culture so much that, you know, you know, these, these, these characters they try to emulate. But it's like sometimes you need the real thing. And that's what it really is. It's like they paid. Somebody said if, if Mike, if Mike was doing this for a check and he wasn't, I don't think he was doing it for a check to get knocked out. [01:36:56] Speaker B: I don't think so at all. [01:36:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it would have, it would have changed. It would have changed my whole childhood too. And that's what I'm saying is I think he's the real thing. And you can't, you can't, you can't recreate that. Like, you can't AI Mike Tyson because you don't know what he gonna do. And he was like that. You know, like the only thing that was predictable about him in the 90s was that everybody was gonna be at the fight, everybody was gonna pay for the fight and everybody was gonna win and he was gonna not. And you was gonna be mad because he done knocked him out before you. Why you went and got you a new another couple yet? [01:37:40] Speaker B: I mean, we don't ordered all this chicken and the fight over while I'm trying to fix my plate. This is crazy. [01:37:47] Speaker A: He would do that, you know, and so, so, but that was the real thing. You can't read, you can't replicate that. And so I think that's what that brought. Because like I said in the beginning of the episode, like I didn't understand why people even wanted to see a Mike Tyson fight. Like, I didn't want to see him old. I was confused about, in a ring like that. Just, that don't even seem appealing to me. [01:38:13] Speaker C: I don't look good out there, girl. [01:38:16] Speaker A: Ain't nobody see it because it was buffering. Didn't I tell you? [01:38:20] Speaker B: For like a 60 year old. Yeah, but after the fight, he definitely, he definitely looked old as hell. I ain't gonna lie. [01:38:33] Speaker D: He ain't look old is what you said. [01:38:36] Speaker B: And then during the fight, no, he, he looked old, but I meant like his movements like being a former app, him being like a former athlete and stuff. Like he, and then during the fight, like Roy Jones and other old, old head boxer, like he just kept talking about Mike Tyson knees, like his knees about to give up that knee locking up. I see you right there because you know they fought three years ago, four years ago, Roy Jones versus Mike Tyson. [01:39:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I forgot about this. [01:39:05] Speaker B: Mike Tyson won that one. But yeah, they, they just, I know they trying to probably sell this again, probably do like a rematch. But come on now, just sit down, Mike. [01:39:18] Speaker C: Just, just sit down. [01:39:20] Speaker B: You'll be all right. You'll be all right. [01:39:23] Speaker C: You. Oh, sit down. [01:39:27] Speaker B: I mean, they present you with a check, you gotta go get the check now. Because I, I kept saying like, Mike Tyson didn't go to Jake Paul looking for this. Jake Paul came to Mike Tyson. You get what I'm saying? Because it's something that he can sell. You always gonna be able to sell Mike Tyson's name and likeness. So if they say, yo, I got 20 million for you, you only got to fight for 15 minutes because they only did two minute rounds and it was only eight rounds. So wasn't like he was up there. They was up there playing pity Pat for the most of the fight. So I go get that 20 million too. [01:40:00] Speaker C: I mean. Correct. [01:40:03] Speaker D: I'm just mad. He was just put presented back to. [01:40:08] Speaker C: The world like that. [01:40:11] Speaker B: What are you supposed to do? [01:40:14] Speaker D: Sit down. [01:40:15] Speaker C: Something other than this. [01:40:17] Speaker D: Yes. You don't have to. [01:40:20] Speaker B: 20 million, 16 minutes. I get what you're saying he did. I don't think he needed the money. [01:40:28] Speaker D: I don't think he. [01:40:29] Speaker B: When it's there. When it's there. And it's so simple, why not you. [01:40:35] Speaker C: Right I, I probably would have had a hard time saying no to that in his position. [01:40:42] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I'm saying is if you looking at it from that perspective, right, where like again, this, you're selling yourself and that's that, that's that market is there. Cool. But like I said, I, I, for those of us who enjoyed Tyson fights as children in the 90s, there is no way to duplicate that, like period, you know, so that was for Jake Paul and his fan base. That wasn't for us because for us it would have been a pleasure to see him. Knock him out. I would have really enjoyed that. But that didn't happen and we knew that wasn't gonna happen. So. [01:41:34] Speaker B: Yeah, one more thing, like it was, it wasn't. Mike Tyson couldn't lose. Like the only person that could lose is Jake Paul. Either way, either way you look at it, Jake Paul wins. Oh, you beat a 58 year old man. Jake Paul loses. Damn. You lost to a 58 year old man like you, you get what I'm saying? [01:41:54] Speaker C: That's true. [01:41:55] Speaker A: Yeah, well, well that's what I'm, if. [01:41:57] Speaker B: Mike Tyson won, oh, he's still Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson lose, well, he 58, he get a pass. You know what I'm saying? [01:42:06] Speaker A: Yeah, but that's what I'm saying is that, that's, I guess that's where I land on. My point is like in our era, we, we simply wanted to see a Tyson fight because we knew he was gonna knock the person out. So to me, I didn't again, I just didn't understand what was the purpose of this fight in general other than them paying for Mike Tyson. The character, who he, who he is. Right. But everything that comes with Mike Tyson, Mr. Office Rocker, like that's what I'm saying is like for me, like I don't think when we saw was that Holyfield, we wasn't expecting that he was do something crazy like eat somebody ear off. Like that was just crazy extreme. Nobody, you know, everybody was kind of like when he did it, everyone's like, did he just eat his ear and then he spit, Then he spit it out. So it's like stuff like that, you know? Yeah. [01:43:06] Speaker B: You know what I think I just thought about this like, because like you said P Money, like this wasn't like a fight nobody was asking for. I think this was a Netflix experiment. They're like, let's see how we could do with pay per view events. Like there's only a couple boxes that can create this type of hype. Like, Jake Paul obviously has his own fan base, being a YouTuber, but you got Mike Tyson, you got Floyd Mayweather and probably Conor McGregor. Just. There's really only those three. Three names in history that can probably generate that kind of buzz from a boxing match. So I'm sure they probably said, okay, let's try to. We. They probably couldn't get Floyd, probably couldn't get Conor McGregor. So it was like, okay, well, let's try and get. Because those are like, real, real, real fighters. You know what I'm saying? So they probably will see this as like a gimmick or some. Even though Floyd been doing a lot of gimmicky fights lately. But they probably say, okay, well, will take Jake Paul and his fan base. Everybody's going to want to see Mike Tyson. We'll just couple those together and create a fight and put it on Netflix. And I think that's probably just what happened. It was just a Netflix experiment. Can our servers hold this type of event? It's probably because there's probably 40 million people watching because everybody got Netflix. So I'm. I'm sure that's probably how the fight came about. [01:44:40] Speaker C: And clearly it was a fail. [01:44:44] Speaker A: Yep. And Netflix, y'all can't be out here checking everybody household every five minutes. But y'all can't even. Y'all can't keep that. That stream going. Nah. [01:45:00] Speaker C: Use your resources, you know, usefully. Like when we. [01:45:04] Speaker D: When they actually need it. Y'all had one job. One job. [01:45:09] Speaker A: Yeah. And so I think, you know, with that, we're just gonna take a quick break and we're gonna be back. [01:45:14] Speaker C: Before we go to break, I just want to say shout out to Tropical Storm Sarah, girl. [01:45:19] Speaker A: Bye. Ain't nobody. Ain't nobody, you know, not even cool, though. Like, you got a name, girl, I. [01:45:31] Speaker C: See you, my girl. We here. [01:45:35] Speaker A: No, we'll be right back, y'all. All right. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. So, you know, we done talked a lot about the economy, but I'm telling y'all right now, if y'all take y'all black behinds out there and spend your money at Black Friday and Cyber Monday, you are part of the problem. Y'all, that keep out here with these. Thanks. You know, I don't. I don't think I've ever. Maybe I said it on the pot before, maybe not. But I don't celebrate Thanksgiving, and because one, it's a colonizer holiday, and two, it's like, why have we. Why are y'all carrying on these traditions? Because it's because it's traditional. Why? What's the point? Which I need to do is save your money and just treat it like another holiday. Why do y'all feel like y'all need to go and get the chitlins and y'all gotta make the macaroni? Y'all gotta make greens. Like, what do y'all. Why? Because it feels good. This is what I'm talking about. Y'all just went through an election cycle where they don't care about black culture, they don't care about black people. So why. What y'all celebrating for? Why y'all having holidays? Is that gonna make you feel better? [01:47:05] Speaker C: Our family topic of the day is Thanksgiving traditions, and if they're still relevant and to your point, P. I. I personally, I mean, my family situation is different now. I'm actually good on Thanksgiving. It's just not giving. I guess as you grow up, holidays are different and stuff, and it's just not giving, like, peaceful and calm. And that's what I'm about these days. So I'm just. I might go have me a nice steak dinner. I don't want to cook. I don't really want to see no turkey and gravy. I don't want to see none of that. What you got research? You was gonna say something. [01:47:56] Speaker D: Well, you know, I've already have a whole menu for myself, but most times for Thanksgiving, I would either, like, be working or working. So I'm, you know, definitely looking forward to just eating, relaxing, and, you know, pouring back into me. But I. I did. I did go grocery shopping because I'm gonna be hungry, so. [01:48:26] Speaker B: I'm indifferent on the matter. But I do understand why people still do it. Like, for a lot of people, it's the one time of year they see their family, maybe even whether it be all at the same time or just those three or four members that maybe don't live near you but will come every year for Thanksgiving or vice versa. I get it. [01:48:52] Speaker C: But then it's like, it seemed like a lot of times people be going to these family events and don't even like each other. For real. Like, you know, you didn't have to go, right? [01:49:06] Speaker B: Yeah. It's part of being a family, though. You, you know, ain't gonna like everybody. They ain't gonna like you. People gonna beef in the family. I get it. Makes it kind of fun, though. [01:49:21] Speaker A: Nah. No. Now, if anything, I'm gonna go around and go get. I'm gonna take my Tupperware, and I'm gonna go get me A plate to go. [01:49:36] Speaker C: But I will get a plate. [01:49:38] Speaker A: I will get a plate. Now, like if I was up where research at, I'd go get a plate from her because I trust her cooking. But you know everybody. That's what I'm saying. We're talking about it from the black perspective. But I done been to some people, some non black Thanksgivings, and they can't cook. So y'all just over here wasting. [01:50:01] Speaker B: That's different now. [01:50:02] Speaker A: Yeah, but we got all kinds of listeners. Like, you know, they love they little green bean casseroles. Like, girl, bye. They love that little green bean casserole. And they make. They look dry behind macaroni. And they dressed stuffing and they dry dressing. [01:50:22] Speaker B: What else they be doing to the potato salad with the raisins in it? Damn, is it potato salad? They do something else with raisins in it. Raisins nasty by themselves. [01:50:33] Speaker A: They love. They look. Cranberry juice. Cranberry. Cranberry sauce or whatever they call it. [01:50:40] Speaker D: Oh, I do like cranberry sauce with turkey. [01:50:45] Speaker B: Gotta have a cranberry sauce. [01:50:46] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:50:48] Speaker C: I'm good. I don't need it. Really. I don't need it either. I love it. [01:50:55] Speaker A: No. [01:50:56] Speaker B: And you know, not with actual cranberries in it, though. Yeah, Outside the can. [01:51:01] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:51:01] Speaker D: It's just a jelly one. It's like yellow. [01:51:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:51:05] Speaker A: And then, you know, the, the, the. The deep fried turkey saved them. Because before they was messing up turkeys up, they know how to cook no turkey fried turkeys. That the peanut oil be saving them. Okay. Because you were supposed to do stuff with the turkey, but they just be, you know, dropping it in there and thank God, you know, Turkey speak. Yeah, I mean, that's what I'm saying with turkeys, the brining and all the things you can do with it. But you could. I mean, if you don't do nothing else to a turkey but kind of just brine it a little bit and drop it in there, it's gonna taste all right. It ain't one of those, you know, if you, if you don't know how to make no turkey or season it correctly, you know, you can have just regular turkey meat. [01:51:59] Speaker C: Yeah. Speaking of which, I went to y'all cousin house last year and they undercooked the turkey. [01:52:08] Speaker A: I'm telling you, dog tell you, people be messing up turkey, though. [01:52:14] Speaker D: I think I remember this story. [01:52:16] Speaker C: They had put it in like five hours before. [01:52:20] Speaker A: Oh, I remember this. Trying to tell you, man, people be messing up turkey. [01:52:26] Speaker D: It'd be your own family, bro. [01:52:29] Speaker A: It's like all you need to do is do some turkey wings. Like, why you gotta try to do the whole turkey? [01:52:34] Speaker D: Well, I got two cornish hens that I'm. That I'll be, you know, doing my thug dizzle on, and I'm making two different Mac and cheeses, so. [01:52:48] Speaker B: Speaking of fried turkey, my old lady just told me to, you know, pop out through the fried turkeys. [01:52:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, the Cajun fried. [01:52:57] Speaker B: She said they like a hundred bucks. [01:53:03] Speaker A: They used to be $50. Yeah, I told y'all honey bun. [01:53:06] Speaker B: A whole honey bun. [01:53:09] Speaker A: And then people gonna be in line at them honey bait ham stoves over there fighting. [01:53:17] Speaker C: Y'all cooking. [01:53:21] Speaker B: Of course. [01:53:22] Speaker A: I'm trying to tell you, y'all be subscribing to all these. [01:53:26] Speaker B: You know. [01:53:30] Speaker A: The only thing that's cool about Thanksgiving is Christmas coming right after that with the trees. [01:53:39] Speaker C: Is it too early? I'm. I really want to put mine up now. [01:53:43] Speaker A: No, it's not too early. It ain't never too early. [01:53:48] Speaker D: You know, people have year round trees. Yeah, no, we usually leave ours up. [01:53:54] Speaker B: Till like maybe now. [01:53:55] Speaker A: Some people do that. [01:53:56] Speaker C: I mean, I definitely left mine up last year until like May, but I was just being lazy. [01:54:05] Speaker B: Nah. My old lady loved Christmas, so we don't mind. We leave that up. [01:54:09] Speaker C: I love Christmas too. [01:54:12] Speaker D: Yeah, y'all had the. The Felice 99 balloons. [01:54:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:54:16] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they did have that. [01:54:20] Speaker D: They still. [01:54:21] Speaker C: My bad. [01:54:26] Speaker B: Okay. So. So actually, I know I mentioned her like twice in the last five minutes, but she. My old lady was asking me like, what. What are the. What do you have to have on Thanksgiving and Christmas? I was like, thanksgiving, you got to have a turkey. Christmas, you got to have a ham. But Thanksgiving, traditionally, my family usually do turkey and ham on Thanksgiving, but yeah, the turkey is the actual staple of Thanksgiving. And then Christmas, the staple is the ham. But really, you could do both for each. Really? [01:54:59] Speaker C: We used to do turkey and a small ham for Thanksgiving, and we used to do Cornish hands for Christmas. We switched it up on y'all. [01:55:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:55:11] Speaker C: And maybe a ham. [01:55:12] Speaker B: They should probably do a ham and some Cornish hens for Christmas. [01:55:17] Speaker C: That sound amazing. [01:55:19] Speaker A: Yeah, I feel like they used to always do both for sure. Yeah, I think they always did both. My family. [01:55:32] Speaker B: Sorry, she. She just corrected me. She said, what you say? Ham, lamb, and Cornish pins. [01:55:38] Speaker C: Lamb. Come on, bro. [01:55:40] Speaker B: Yeah, lamb. [01:55:42] Speaker A: Yeah. When I hosted Thanksgiving, the last time I hosted, I did a rack of lamb fire. [01:55:54] Speaker C: I ain't making lamb for y'all that expensive. [01:55:57] Speaker B: Beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, lamb, ram, hog. [01:56:01] Speaker D: Hog, yes. Lamb Is. [01:56:10] Speaker A: Well, but I ain't had no turkey. I did turkey. I did turkey pieces. I did wings. [01:56:19] Speaker C: Popeye's gonna charge a hundred dollars for that turkey now. [01:56:23] Speaker A: Yeah, they do. [01:56:24] Speaker B: They corporate America don't get theirs. [01:56:27] Speaker D: You looked it up to confirm, twin? [01:56:29] Speaker C: No, I was just sitting here pondering on it because I actually the other day, I was like, well, maybe I'll just get me a. A turkey. A Popeyes. Turkey for the house. You know. [01:56:42] Speaker B: What I wish, bro, you lazy. If you're gonna pay a hundred dollars for a turkey instead of just making one. [01:56:48] Speaker C: It used to be $50. [01:56:52] Speaker A: I mean, 30 at one point. I wish they used to. I wish they would cut it for you so you can get, like, a meal. You go pull up and get somebody turkey and some mashed potatoes and gravy. I'll pay $20 for that. You know who does great turkeys? Whole Foods actually does a really good. I'ma slide over there. They usually have, like, a little Thanksgiving menu close. So Thanksgiving, they'll start. They'll serve, like, their turkey and their mashed potatoes. You know, they Mac and cheese. If you had a good one, they. Their Mac and cheese is pretty good. So, yeah, Whole Foods does a real good job with Thanksgiving because I think, yeah, when I lived in Tallahassee, I used to go there and get some. It was awesome. Good gravy. [01:57:46] Speaker B: Very, very big back conversation, and I'm here for it. I'm so hungry. This is making me hungry. Like, we just sit here talking about food, big back. [01:58:02] Speaker C: And then y'all making me change my mind. I'm like, well, I could put some turkey wings in the oven. [01:58:07] Speaker A: I'm telling you, just little greens on the stove. That's cause we can cook. But I'm telling you, I'll be pulling up the people house, and they over there with they look. [01:58:20] Speaker C: Yeah, some. [01:58:21] Speaker B: Some smothered turkey wings. [01:58:25] Speaker A: Telling you with some. With. Put that in there with that. What's that? The mushroom. Mushroom gravy. Campbell's. Use that Campbell's. But, yeah, so, yeah, we get into that time of year, so we want to make sure we wish y'all a happy holiday. Happy holidays to all of you guys. That's the one thing that, you know, always kind of interesting about election year is it takes us right into the holidays. And so, you know, spend time with your family, your loved ones, and, you know, be in a spirit of gratitude, being a spirit of blessings, being a spirit of gratefulness, all those things. And so really, really looking forward to the holidays this year. And Just, you know, easing into 2025. But y'all got what. What y'all taking a shot to for 2025? Y'all there yet or y'all not there yet? [01:59:32] Speaker C: Oh, I'm there. I'm at. I'm. [01:59:34] Speaker A: I'm. [01:59:35] Speaker C: I'm all the way there. [01:59:37] Speaker A: You already in 2025, correct. [01:59:39] Speaker C: I'm spending the last few months preparing. So January 1st, it's up. I'm still in my whole season. Happiness over everything. Okay, what you got, Doug now saying? [02:00:00] Speaker B: Claim that. [02:00:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:00:03] Speaker B: This ain't our year end wrap up yet? [02:00:07] Speaker C: No, not yet. But I. I done thought of a master plan, and I've started to put it in place. So I'm just excited for things to come. You know, I keep saying whole season, but sadly, I'm not in actual whole season. It's real dry out here. But I am pursuing happiness over everything. And so I'm gonna take a shot of water to that. [02:00:34] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna go with healing. If anything that I learned through this last year is how wounded, how hurt, you know, how broken a lot of people just are right now. And broken in spirit. Broken in. And that's because I think me and Twin are both empaths. And one thing that I did feel, it's just the way of how people just deal with disappointment and, you know, not being able to feel like they. They have any way to fight or they have any way to fight against the, you know, ideologies or that there is no, you know, the realization that there is no real equality or people having that shared mindset. And I just. I think for me, I'm a really thinking from a place of healing just in my own journey, in my own life. But as for the collective, I think that there's a lot of people that just are struggling in that. In that way, and they find that in, you know, social media or in digital ways to kind of use it as an outlet. But I really hope that people strive to find healing in self so that they can, you know, really start to live from a place of not just me, but we, if that makes sense. Because if anything, this last year has taught me is that we're in a society that's not we, and it is just I and self. And I just don't think humanity is better that way. I think we're always going to be better together. That's one of my biggest ethos that I believe as a. As a big belief system. And so I think that just starts from a place of healing. So that's what I'm on for the end of the year and into 2025, so I'm gonna take a shot to that with my water because it's good for you and it's delicious. She got duck. Duck. Say. [02:03:27] Speaker B: I'm going to take a shot for my Miami Hurricanes, and Miami Dolphins. Need the Hurricanes finish up strong. Need the Dolphins to turn thing around now that we got our quarterback back. Hopefully they can fix that great year from Cam Ward. Hopefully, they. They finish up and that's all I got. I'm gonna keep it light and fun, so shout out to Miami teams, and that's where my shot go. [02:03:54] Speaker C: What you taking a shot of, hen dog? [02:03:58] Speaker A: Okay. [02:04:04] Speaker C: Research. [02:04:08] Speaker D: Well, I'm taking. [02:04:10] Speaker C: I'm not. [02:04:11] Speaker D: I'm not doing handout, but I got some ACV water that I've been drinking, so I'll be taking a shot of that. I think for me, ending 2024. [02:04:31] Speaker C: Just. [02:04:31] Speaker D: With a better plan for 2025. [02:04:36] Speaker C: And. [02:04:37] Speaker D: Really being more, like, disciplined in what I want to get out of. Out of certain things, out of aspects of life. This new, new journey I'm going on onto this new state out, you know, on the west side of the world. So I'm excited about that. Just, you know, new beginnings and re, you know, getting disciplined about some stuff because I really want to have, like, a revenge body. So it's. [02:05:06] Speaker B: What term was that again? Can I hear that again? What is that? [02:05:12] Speaker D: You know, just a really nice sculpted body they call, like, a revenge body to get back at, you know, like, your exes and stuff. But I don't really have nobody to get back at except the old version of me, so, you know. [02:05:26] Speaker B: I like that. Maybe you should start rapping. [02:05:31] Speaker D: Okay, on that note, I'm taking a. [02:05:35] Speaker C: Shot of the ACV water. Love that for you. [02:05:43] Speaker A: Well, health is wealth. And with that, we want to wish all y'all again a very happy holiday season. Please make sure y'all continue to one shout out to all the love that we receive on. Not just YouTube, Instagram, Instagram, Twitter. We might be leaving Twitter. It's a mass exodus going on, so. Or X. X. Whatever. Whatever. All I keep. All I want Elon to do is to fix my algorithm, and I don't think he gonna fix it. [02:06:17] Speaker C: So I'm. [02:06:17] Speaker A: I'm. I think we might have to going over to Blue sky. But, yeah, make sure you guys check us out on all the social media platforms on X @. Call your cousins. That's C A L L Y O U R C O U s I n s Instagram. Call your cousin's pod. That's with the pod. Subscribe to our YouTube channel at. Call your cousins. And, yeah, drop us a line on our email at. Call your cousins pod gmail dot com. And with that, we will see y'all next time. Peace. [02:06:52] Speaker C: Bye. [02:06:54] Speaker B: But before we go, I got one thing to say real quick, because you mentioned the social media platform. If you out there on that alternative social media platform that we just mentioned, and you got my Twitter handle, I need to get that up off you, bruh. I'm gonna need that. Not Twitter handle. I'm sorry, but you. You know what I'm saying? I'm. I'm gonna need that about you. [02:07:21] Speaker A: Holl at me, Blue sky. Give back. Give a dub. His name. [02:07:27] Speaker B: I need that. My name is my name. Y'all have a good one. [02:07:42] Speaker C: Sat.