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[00:01:22] Speaker B: Welcome back to the Call your Cousins podcast.
Thank you for joining us today. In the building. We got research team keeping our facts together.
We got P. Money keeping our activism.
[00:01:36] Speaker C: Together.
[00:01:38] Speaker B: And we got a.
Your host just trying to keep it together.
Well, she might. She may pull up on us. Who knows?
She's not on the mic at this time, but hopefully she'll. She'll pull up on us.
Good morning, fam. How y' all doing?
[00:01:59] Speaker C: I'm feeling. I'm feeling good. Yeah. Yeah, I feel good.
[00:02:05] Speaker D: I'm a little hungry, but other than that, I feel good.
[00:02:09] Speaker B: Same, same.
[00:02:12] Speaker C: Yeah, I feel like, you know, yesterday was eclipse.
I think it was an eclipse in Aries. Yeah.
Yeah, we are in eclipse season.
[00:02:28] Speaker E: So.
[00:02:29] Speaker C: Yeah, Google your.
Take a Google and tap into the energy because it usually eclipse seasons. When an eclipse happen, it'll last like a couple days before the energies and a couple days after.
We're also in retrograde, so. Yeah.
[00:02:49] Speaker D: So we're in eclipse in retrograde.
[00:02:52] Speaker C: So, yeah, we are in eclipse season.
Oh, yeah, There's a lot of energy.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: Like, this is like crystals. Reddit.
[00:03:04] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Check it out.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: Crystals and rocks. Read it. Okay, got you.
[00:03:10] Speaker C: Yeah, Crystals, rocks, and sage.
And then we're at the end of the month, right? So, like, I always get excited at the end of the month because then you got a new month coming up and yeah, we've had the time change since we last was on the mic. I hate daylight savings time. I really do.
[00:03:33] Speaker D: They just need to eliminate it. Like it's not. It's not serving a purpose anymore. We could be done with it.
[00:03:39] Speaker B: That damn Ben Franklin.
[00:03:46] Speaker C: I don't understand.
[00:03:47] Speaker B: It could definitely be eliminated. I think the US Is the only country that still uses it.
[00:03:54] Speaker C: I believe United States is still the same country that's still doing a lot of things. Okay.
Oh, for real? Yeah, yeah. It's. It's feeling like we're in the Upside down on a day to day basis.
No, I think the. I think we're in the Upside Down. Yeah.
So we were just talking about. Doug just brought up like if we were in the crystals Reddit. So in the spiritual community, it's this concept of the new Earth.
Eckhart so wrote a book about it and people talk about it a lot, but it's this idea that, you know, on Earth there will be a new Earth.
And I am starting to feel like, like I love the book is great. Not. Not a plug at all.
It's just for those who want to kind of like really tap in. But when you read kind of. It's been, it's been interesting in these times because I read that book over 10 years ago and to feel like, yeah, you know what? This Earth is kind of trash. So I would like a new one.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: I mean, I don't know what none of that means. I haven't read the book, but I can agree with that last sentiment. It is. It's trash.
[00:05:24] Speaker C: It is trash. I mean.
[00:05:28] Speaker D: I feel like I don't know if I want a new one, like from scratch, but I definitely want an improved version because it's ghetto.
[00:05:41] Speaker E: It's real.
[00:05:44] Speaker D: Like there are parts that I like and then parts that I'm like, we.
[00:05:46] Speaker E: Could just cut that out all together.
[00:05:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: So optimistic research team. You. You a glass half full person, aren't you?
[00:05:57] Speaker D: Not really. But I mean, to start over and be like, nothing was great for me in my, you know, point of view, that's. That's not an accurate statement. There are great moments. We've had great things happen.
And then we've also had some really trash stuff.
[00:06:15] Speaker C: Can you name one this year?
[00:06:20] Speaker D: Some really trash or really great?
[00:06:22] Speaker C: Really great? Can you name one this year?
[00:06:24] Speaker B: Really? Definitely name some really great. Because it's easy to name trash stuff.
[00:06:34] Speaker D: I would say Aaron Mufasa.
I can't name those people.
[00:06:42] Speaker C: No, because I thought it was interesting with him that. Because I did see the new Lion King and it was good from a perspective. Like I can watch the original Lion King to this day and cry like a baby. And so I thought that they did a really good job with it.
Some people didn't like the pixel, whatever they call it. They don't. They didn't really like that.
The animation of the animals. But I just didn't like that as soon as his PR people that the black community got whiffed that he may or may not have been seeing a white woman or been dating white women, and immediately him and Tiana Taylor all of a sudden dating. I thought that was kind of funny. I didn't. I don't. I don't like. I don't like being gagged by the celebrities.
[00:07:36] Speaker D: I don't know if it was, like, immediate. They had kept it on the.
The hush for a minute, but they were spotted in, like, the same places sitting next to each other.
But if we not. If we're not doing Mufasa situation, then we can always default to Kendrick Lamar.
[00:07:57] Speaker C: Oh, you know what?
Hey, I mean, say research team. There you go. That is a good thing that happened this year.
[00:08:10] Speaker B: She found something.
[00:08:11] Speaker C: She found something.
[00:08:14] Speaker E: I mean.
[00:08:16] Speaker C: No, you're right. I. And. And that's why I love that you even said that. Duh. That like, we gotta have some optimism.
[00:08:26] Speaker E: Right?
[00:08:27] Speaker C: Right. Like we have to be. James Baldwin famously said that he can't be a pessimist because we're alive. And so I love that research. TW Research team, because in a world that is full of trash or feels trash, it is the good that we have to hold on to. So that's a great way to start the show. Okay, research team coming in. Fully locked and loaded.
[00:08:55] Speaker D: I'm just saying, you asked, I answered. So, you know.
[00:08:58] Speaker C: No, that was good.
That was good. So how we feel with our mental health since, you know, you.
[00:09:05] Speaker E: You.
[00:09:06] Speaker C: You're bursting rainbows in sunshine.
[00:09:12] Speaker D: I wouldn't say I'm bursting rainbows and sunshine. That's definitely not the case. But I'm being more intentional in 2025 to like, for every negative thought, talk, process, energy.
I'm, you know, also putting good thought out there and good energy out there as well.
Like just being more intentional about it.
So, yeah, I'd be complaining, but also I can speak on the good things that are happening as well.
[00:09:48] Speaker C: Dub, what you got?
[00:09:50] Speaker B: You know, dog be chilling.
I'm good. Start to keep me grounded, gang. Keep me sane. You know that type.
[00:10:02] Speaker C: Shout out to Twin last episode playing just casually mentioned this game Stardew Valley. Now Dub is a gamer.
Twin is a gamer.
Research team. Do you game?
[00:10:23] Speaker D: No.
Yeah, I'll be. Y' all got it.
[00:10:26] Speaker B: Like the building Candy Crush and stuff.
[00:10:30] Speaker D: I deleted Candy Crush. I do I used to play that.
I used to play that, but I got other stuff on my phone now.
[00:10:42] Speaker C: So. Do you. But do you game like. Like if you game. What's your game like? What do you like to play? Like, do you like wordle?
[00:10:51] Speaker D: I do like wordle, but it's a game that I'm currently playing.
It's called Match Factory, where you just match a bunch of stuff, but you be on a time crunch, you got to do it in like some seconds and it'd be like a ton of stuff to match.
[00:11:10] Speaker C: Games.
[00:11:13] Speaker B: That's what's up.
[00:11:15] Speaker D: Yeah, I also played a screw game where you gotta match up the screws.
It's a. It's another brain game because you gotta think steps ahead because you only got so many spaces. It's. It's one of those. Definitely a brain game.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: What the hell is wordle? Is that like Words of Friends?
Well, that's funny.
[00:11:43] Speaker D: Not. Not quite.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: Your friends used to be lit, so they started cheating.
[00:11:48] Speaker C: Who. Who started cheating?
You.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: You. You could hack Word.
[00:11:59] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: Like when people started jailbreaking the. The iPhone. You could hack Words with Friends. But why would you exit so you can say that you won?
Oh, why did Tom Brady deflate the footballs?
[00:12:14] Speaker C: Okay, sir.
[00:12:19] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:12:20] Speaker C: Yeah, No, I don't. Yeah, I don't know why.
[00:12:24] Speaker E: I don't.
[00:12:25] Speaker C: I don't like to cheat on games other than Monopoly. And I. If I do, I cheat in person. So that's crazy. Yeah, I'm one of those people that, like, if you don't set the rules of the game at the beginning of the game, if you don't make it clear what the rules are, it's the same thing with spades. If you don't set the rules, I'mma find a way to cheat.
[00:12:49] Speaker E: Just because.
[00:12:51] Speaker C: Yeah, because that's the problem is most people, they just think everybody play the same and everybody don't play the same. That happened with. The only game you can't cheat, honestly, is pool.
Like, it's real. Especially if you like playing with.
[00:13:10] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.
[00:13:11] Speaker C: You can't, like, cheat and pull because, like, everybody knows, like, you know, for the most part, other than like maybe playing with the white ball, you know, like, if you scratch or whatever. Whatever. But yeah, one time I was playing Jenga on this date with this guy, and I was. I had just. I just had demolished him in pool. And like, you know, most girls, they probably, like, want to, like, let the guy feel like he gonna win. I don't care nothing about that tan. His tearing him up.
Then we got the Jenga. And he was like, you can't hold.
You can't hold the.
The stick when you're pulling it out. I'm like, yes, you can. It's like, no, you can't. I'm like, so how would I actually remove the stick then if I don't hold it? He was like, in. In essence, if you're holding it to pull it out, then you're holding the entire.
The whole rack. And I'm like, that's ridiculous. Anyways.
[00:14:16] Speaker B: Virginia playing the. The big jingle or the table Jenga?
[00:14:20] Speaker C: The big one. You know, the one that, like, when you go out.
I was like, that's why he thought I was cheating because I was holding it as, like I could balance. So as I was pulling a stick out, the whole thing was shaking, but I was able to get them out. And I'm like, bruh, you just mad cause you getting. You losing sorely, right?
Okay.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: Ijs.
[00:14:49] Speaker C: But that's. No, no.
Anyways, Twin just casually mentioned Stardew Valley, and since then, Dub and I are hooked.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: Locked in.
[00:15:04] Speaker C: Locked in. Best game. Better than Animal Crossing. And it is cheaper. So if. If I had my mental health check in. Well, I'm actively seeing. I'm in. I'm in therapy, and it's been great. My therapist is really good.
Yeah, you know, I. I go to therapy every so often because it's just nice to go back because they then eventually kicked me out. Like, if you want to pay us to talk. But yeah, therapy's good and it's been good. You know, mental health is good here because of all that.
It's my favorite time of the year. March Madness. I love March Madness. I'm so glad we're at the end.
I like it because after football, we don't really have nothing. I mean, opening day for baseball just happened this week. Happy open day to everybody. And then.
Yeah, March Madness.
Loving it.
I love the women's and the men's side.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: I can't even speak on March Madness because I don't know any of the teams or the players. I think it's probably. Well, I don't care for college basketball in general just because I don't know the players. The women's be excited, though. But juju done went down, so. Okay.
[00:16:28] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I. I will say my viewership went down after juju went down. Juju.
Speedy recovery, man.
Just watching her go down, like, and then when they go down bad, it's just always tough.
So, yeah, I. I have. I will say for sure. And Then I'm always gonna ride for Dawn. But, you know, LSU's coach, that little pelican. I call her a pelican after she always was wearing them feathers on her. Her jackets.
The other day, she was wearing a jacket that looked like she was wearing.
Look like a Michael Jackson jacket. It was, like, black with, like, the gold embroidery all over it.
But, yeah, she just.
I just. I like those two. I like Don, and I like the LSU coach because they just keep it interesting. It kind of made me miss Pat Summon. Hey, Twin.
[00:17:29] Speaker B: Look at God.
[00:17:30] Speaker C: Pull up on me.
[00:17:33] Speaker E: What's up, y' all?
[00:17:35] Speaker C: Pull up on us. How you feeling, Twin? We just. We literally just started talking about March Madness and how we happy. Well, I'm happy.
[00:17:45] Speaker D: Yeah. You. You happy? Because I'm not.
[00:17:49] Speaker C: Stop.
Do you watch March Madness, Twin?
[00:17:54] Speaker E: I usually do, and I usually do a bracket, but. Oh, I've been effed up the last few years, so I ain't really did it, but I kind of miss it.
[00:18:02] Speaker C: It's.
[00:18:03] Speaker E: It's fun to participate.
[00:18:05] Speaker C: Listen, I love March Madness. I don't do the brackets just because I, like.
I'm not good at him. I always look at Barack Obama's bracket because, you know, he played basketball, and I guess his brackets, like, he signs off on them every year.
But I love college basketball. It's the most exciting, I think, out of basketball, because when I go to NBA games, I don't really know what's going on, and I really just go to drink and eat.
I like baseball.
Yeah.
Because I think, yeah, me and Twin have gone to baseball. We went to a couple baseball games, right? Yeah.
And we had a blast. Huh?
[00:18:45] Speaker E: It's a good time, minus the baseball part.
[00:18:48] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. I feel like.
No, I feel like we ain't watch no baseball, but, like, we had a great time when we went. Went to the Braves game. The stadium, I mean, the ballpark there is always packed.
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:19:03] Speaker B: More. More congregating than actual baseball watching.
[00:19:07] Speaker C: Yeah.
Yeah. You know how they got it set up? Where the back of the board you can see into the stadium. I mean, into the ballpark. I kind of like that. So shout out to March Madness and women's basketball. I think we're going into the elite.
[00:19:26] Speaker E: No.
[00:19:26] Speaker C: Are we in the Final Four? I think we're in the final Four.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Elite Eight, I think.
[00:19:31] Speaker C: Well, by the time this drop somebody yesterday. Yeah. By the time this drop either the championship, it's gonna be championship. So I got Florida to win it for the men's.
[00:19:45] Speaker E: Oh, shout out to my friend's sister. I was trying not to say her name. She. She went in sweet 16.
[00:19:54] Speaker C: But. Go, girl.
[00:19:57] Speaker E: The game was on Friday. I don't know if they won yet. I need to call her.
[00:20:01] Speaker C: Well, ucla, they say they got this girl there that plays.
She's a generational talent, they say.
[00:20:09] Speaker B: So is that a big white girl?
[00:20:13] Speaker C: Nah, she is not white.
Research team, look up. I'm gonna try to look up real quick.
All you got to do is put generational talent.
Lauren Betts. Is she white?
No, the name's Lauren.
The names are Lauren. They throw me.
[00:20:45] Speaker D: She could be like a Laura London.
[00:20:46] Speaker E: Other.
[00:20:49] Speaker C: She looked other.
Yeah. Racially ambiguous, generationally.
[00:20:55] Speaker D: Is that uf?
[00:20:57] Speaker C: No, no, no. UCLA number one.
[00:20:59] Speaker D: My bad.
[00:20:59] Speaker C: Oh, Wikipedia.
[00:21:02] Speaker E: Spanish born American.
[00:21:04] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. They call her this generational talent.
She. I mean, it was her, Lauren Bets, and juju Watkins that were kind of like, you know, I mean, in all fairness, South Carolina's team is stacked with a bunch of five stars, but these girls kind of holding it out, holding it down out there in the west.
So I, I don't know if it's. I don't know if it's gonna be UCLA or South Carolina. So we'll see.
[00:21:40] Speaker E: I don't like these knotless braids she got on her Wikipedia page.
[00:21:45] Speaker B: Okay, all right, what's.
[00:21:47] Speaker E: What's her name? Let me.
[00:21:48] Speaker D: Hold on, please.
[00:21:49] Speaker E: Take a look, because. No, girl.
[00:21:52] Speaker D: What's the last name? Lauren. What?
[00:21:54] Speaker C: Bets.
[00:21:55] Speaker E: That's B, E, T, T, S. Oh, dear.
You see?
I don't see it.
[00:22:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, the head. The head.
[00:22:08] Speaker E: No.
[00:22:11] Speaker C: Who did that to her?
[00:22:14] Speaker E: No, girl.
[00:22:15] Speaker C: And you know what? I hate. And see, this is why. Okay, this is gonna be a quick little tangent, and then we're gonna get back to the show. This is why I hate culture appropriation, because everything ain't for everybody, okay?
If you can't get something. No breath when it comes to braids, knotless.
Anything that is of a different culture. It's like when.
I think we talked about this on the show before. It's like when Adele wore them Bantu knots, girl.
No. You know what I'm saying? And so, like, the Jamaicans love that, though.
No, I, I, they loved it. Listen, because it's Adele and she, you know, and she can do the little accent, so I, I, I. Or she could do the dialect, you know, and. Okay, but I just.
When you like, it looks like in this picture, the weave looks bad.
Like, look at the weave. The, the actual weave, look that. So that means she had a man too long.
Then it looks like, they're supposed to be the hobo ones, the goddess ones, with the pieces out, and it just doesn't look good.
If you don't have somebody that knows how to culturally appropriate the. The. What the style is to your head, don't do it.
Okay. It's like, I think it. Most recently on.
On the media, there's been this. This white girl running around wearing braids and people.
You didn't see that? Well, I. I probably should have put it in the group chat, but this white girl was walking around with braids, and this black girl walked up to her and told her her braids was ugly. And she liked that. The white girl. So she started chasing her down the street. So then the black girl said, what are you doing? Why are you chasing me? She was like, no, because I'm finna confront you about you talking about my braids. She said, because your braids are, uh.
[00:24:22] Speaker E: Doing the Lord's work. Shout out to that lady.
[00:24:25] Speaker C: So you. You see what I'm saying? She literally told the girl her brains was ugly. And the girl. The white girl got bad and started chasing her down the street. So then she gonna slap the phone out of her hands, and then the white girl's gonna call the police. So the police go walk up to it, and it looked like it was down here in Miami, to be honest. Which, again, right as twins. Said In 2025, we are making white people uncomfortable as by any means necessary. Necessary, period.
[00:24:50] Speaker E: Please. Maybe if we start shaming them for these ugly braids, they'll stop doing it. Because it's not for your hair.
That looks terrible, girl. It looks.
[00:25:02] Speaker C: And then nobody. You know, she was at the Olympics, so maybe she felt like, you know, I'mma get braids for the Olympics. Right?
Or, I don't know. It's just. It ain't giving. But anyways, I don't know.
[00:25:16] Speaker B: To be fair. Look like she got some nig hair.
[00:25:19] Speaker C: No, it doesn't.
That weave is trash.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: No, I'm looking at this headshot from the New York Times.
[00:25:27] Speaker C: Oh, no, no, no. Oh, no. We're looking at the Wikipedia page.
[00:25:32] Speaker B: I saw the Wikipedia page. That's different. I'm looking at this other thing of her, natural hair, but that's me. I'm just cutting her some slack.
[00:25:43] Speaker E: Send a link.
I don't see it.
[00:26:03] Speaker C: Y' all.
[00:26:04] Speaker D: Oh, he put it in here.
[00:26:06] Speaker C: D. Don't put this little long.
Why he. Why you ain't send it to us? Ain't nobody. Nobody can't. This man here.
[00:26:14] Speaker D: I can't I don't think I can click on it.
[00:26:17] Speaker C: Okay. Do nothing with that.
[00:26:19] Speaker D: Can you send it into actual text message chat?
[00:26:23] Speaker C: What is this?
[00:26:24] Speaker E: I tried to copy and paste it. Didn't even do nothing.
[00:26:26] Speaker C: Me too.
[00:26:27] Speaker E: That's all.
[00:26:27] Speaker B: I was like, I've done it. I've done it.
[00:26:29] Speaker E: Oh, you gotta delete the data part.
[00:26:32] Speaker C: I don't know. I like her.
I like her.
Oh, she'd been wearing braids. Oh. So she had. She had braids in for the whole USA Olympics. Because I see another picture when her braids was a little bit more fresher.
[00:26:49] Speaker E: I don't know if it's giving hair.
[00:26:53] Speaker C: Nah, that ain't giving that. It's giving, like.
[00:26:58] Speaker D: Different texture.
I think it's more straight. It's giving, like, European.
[00:27:06] Speaker C: Yeah, but don't you.
[00:27:08] Speaker E: Yes. It's like I bought some European weave one time and it would look exactly. It was that texture.
[00:27:13] Speaker C: Yeah.
So, girl, how about this?
Condition your hair and. And keep your hair. Your hair. I like the middle part with the bat with the curl in the back. You look great.
[00:27:26] Speaker D: Y' all gonna say her natural hair is.
[00:27:30] Speaker C: You know what? Because if. If she's doing the more like Afrocentric look, she got hair that kind of reminds me of Sade.
Like, that kind of texture.
That's what it kind of looks like, that kind of texture.
[00:27:47] Speaker E: Because I see her. She wearing it natural. It's pretty.
[00:27:50] Speaker C: Now, her natural hair, it's. That's what I'm saying.
[00:27:52] Speaker E: Like, she don't got nice hair. I'm just saying in platts, wasn't it.
[00:27:56] Speaker C: Don't put the weave in there because the plat. The weave hair is not gonna be the same.
No. I wonder if it. Yeah. It had to be weave hair. Because I was about to say maybe she got.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: Maybe it was synthetic stuff.
[00:28:13] Speaker C: Yeah. Somebody. Somebody.
[00:28:15] Speaker E: I think it's the s. That's why synthetic hair, it blends with kinky hair. It don't blend in well.
[00:28:25] Speaker C: No.
[00:28:27] Speaker D: Got like human hair.
[00:28:30] Speaker E: I mean, I think it still would look bad, but.
[00:28:32] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:28:33] Speaker E: And maybe whoever did embrace was.
It might have.
[00:28:37] Speaker C: No, cuz the girl that do the knotless in Atlanta, I think she charged like a band for her for knotless. And she do human hair.
I'm for real. Because I wanted to get it done. But I ain't got $1,000. Not for no braids.
[00:28:52] Speaker E: Okay, we're gonna.
[00:28:53] Speaker D: I don't think I will ever.
[00:28:54] Speaker E: Like, I derailed the conversation. But then these. I'm just gonna end it on these hairstylists.
[00:29:00] Speaker C: Out of control.
[00:29:02] Speaker E: A Thousand dollars?
[00:29:04] Speaker C: Yeah. Over a band. Over a band, I said. That ain't including the tip. The tip probably a hundred dollars.
[00:29:11] Speaker E: No, did the hair. Was the hair included?
Okay, I'm done.
Shout out to ucla.
[00:29:20] Speaker C: Shout out to UCLA in South Carolina. What you got? What you got? Research team.
You got something to say?
She got something on her chest, like.
[00:29:31] Speaker D: Because I'm stuck on the thou. Over a thousand dollars and then here. Not included. So what are.
What's the service?
[00:29:41] Speaker E: Atlanta is outrageous with the hair prices.
[00:29:45] Speaker C: I'm telling you. It's pretty, though, because you know who go to her.
What's that?
[00:29:50] Speaker D: Real ain't enough pretty.
[00:29:53] Speaker C: It's because, look, it's the little Housewives girl. What's the one that got the funny looking nose? Cheryl with an S.
Shirley.
Yeah, it's an Atlanta housewife that go get her hair done by her.
[00:30:11] Speaker D: You talking about Shamia?
[00:30:12] Speaker C: No, it's a different girl. Or maybe it's the. Maybe it's with a J.
[00:30:16] Speaker D: Okay, now we're doing okay.
[00:30:19] Speaker E: I haven't watched Housewives in a while.
[00:30:22] Speaker C: Is she One of the OGs? She was there with Nene, though.
[00:30:25] Speaker E: Oh, you talking about who gonna check me, boo?
[00:30:29] Speaker C: Maybe.
Anyways, she.
[00:30:33] Speaker E: She bought what was her.
[00:30:35] Speaker D: Oh, she.
[00:30:36] Speaker E: By Charade.
[00:30:39] Speaker C: Hello. I knew Charade.
That's what it be. It'd be. They get a celebrity. Once they do a celebrity head, then they finna put the head. They finna put the price up. That's what happens. Tell me that's true.
That's like the barbers charging what they charged up. A hundred dollars? 165 in Atlanta.
[00:30:58] Speaker D: I've seen that.
[00:31:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Not my barbers, but yeah.
Mom tried to get up there, I cleared it. I was like, oh, no. We started at $25. My brother, he started cutting celebs. That man went up to about 70, then 100.
I disappeared quickly from his chair.
[00:31:20] Speaker E: What's. What's like.
[00:31:21] Speaker B: Like vanished in thin air type.
[00:31:25] Speaker E: What's the going rate for a cut these days?
[00:31:27] Speaker C: Like, what's a reasonable price In Atlanta, it's 165in Atlanta.
[00:31:31] Speaker B: I'm gonna say average. Gonna be average.
I found somebody good that cut me for like 40, so I'm cool.
[00:31:41] Speaker C: That's what your beard. That's what your beard. Yeah.
[00:31:43] Speaker B: He do everything.
[00:31:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
Y' all ain't seen it because Atlanta, it's two barbers, it's one guy, and it's a girl. They. When I used to be on social media all the time, I used to always. Because, you know, I. I Like, I. I have a barber myself, so I, like, would look at other barbers, and yeah, one of them, he charged 165. And then the other one, the girl, I don't know how much she be.
[00:32:06] Speaker B: Charging, but, yeah, 165 don't even sound like out. Out of the norm. Like, that's. That does happen. 200 even.
[00:32:16] Speaker E: No, my. My hair stylist pays that for hair because I know that it's ridiculous. I'm. I was just wondering what's reasonable, because clearly that ain't. That's not reasonable.
[00:32:27] Speaker C: We are in the Upside down twin, as I said at the top of the show, okay? Because like Dub said, this is why inflation.
People, like, gotta really get an understanding of how inflation works. And I had a really good friend of mine break this down to me, like, 10 years ago.
You remember when we used to be able to buy things with a dollar?
I could buy.
I could buy chips. I could buy a pickled egg and some candy. A whole snack for a dollar, girl. Yeah.
[00:33:05] Speaker E: That sound like a stomach egg waiting to happen.
No, it's just.
[00:33:10] Speaker D: It's a pink egg.
[00:33:12] Speaker B: That's a Miami staple.
Come on, bro.
[00:33:22] Speaker C: Let me get.
[00:33:22] Speaker E: Does that mean that it's not detrimental to the stomach? Because.
No, it's just an egg.
[00:33:28] Speaker D: It's a boiled egg in pickle juice.
[00:33:30] Speaker B: Pickle juice about to break your leg trying to run out the house. You hear that ice cream truck coming?
[00:33:35] Speaker D: What?
[00:33:36] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:33:37] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:33:38] Speaker E: That still sounds like. My stomach would not agree, but it's.
[00:33:43] Speaker D: Like pickled onions or like pickle. Like, it's just.
[00:33:50] Speaker B: That pickles it. That's it. Just egg and vinegar.
[00:33:53] Speaker C: It's.
[00:33:54] Speaker E: Yeah, I think it's going to upset my stomach. And an egg, a boiled egg by itself.
Oh, my God, it's already taking me out.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: We got to get you at least one bite because you sleep.
[00:34:07] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:34:08] Speaker D: And you're not eating it. You're not eating it. Like how you eat regular breakfast food or it's like in a. In addition to, like a hot sausage or.
[00:34:19] Speaker C: I mean.
Yeah, I used to eat my pickle ass with three. My hot sausages and my pickled ass. I ate with Doritos. Red. Red Doritos.
[00:34:27] Speaker D: I. I did the.
The hot fries.
[00:34:31] Speaker C: What you had.
[00:34:32] Speaker B: You said that's it right there. Hot fries. Yep.
[00:34:36] Speaker C: I didn't like my. I like my hot fries.
I used to eat my hot fries with nine letters. Because then after I got done with the hot fries, I wanted some nine.
[00:34:45] Speaker B: Letters, mind you, for those out there, we had hot Fries before hot Cheetos worked.
[00:34:50] Speaker D: Correct.
[00:34:51] Speaker C: Correct.
And, you know, hot fries now are 99 cent. This is what I'm talking about.
[00:34:58] Speaker D: Crazy.
[00:35:00] Speaker C: Got me. The only thing that's still the same price since I was legit was. Is Arizona tea. And that's crazy.
[00:35:06] Speaker D: Oh, I heard him do a thing on why. Why he not increasing it. I said, sir, I appreciate you, because you're not. You're not out here like these other companies.
[00:35:15] Speaker B: It's like, okay, if he doesn't have to increase it now, that means he was overcharging us for 30 the last 20 years.
[00:35:24] Speaker C: I don't know, because I. No, because I feel like.
Nah, I think T.
T itself is right. Like, think about the brew itself. And I'm just speaking for myself. Anytime I've ever picked up in Arizona, it tastes the same. It tastes the same. It's refreshing.
And this is like the. Remember the original ones, this before they had diet and like all the other flavors. But, like, it was refreshing and it was like a treat because tea is kind of expensive.
So I would say, like, I think he had a price point of.
[00:36:00] Speaker B: Right. Yeah.
[00:36:01] Speaker C: Some type of marketability because the tea is expensive. Like, I'm gonna say T leaves all of that. Like, he probably grows it somewhere is expensive. The fact that, like, he never changed the price for greed, that's what I think research team is saying, I feel like, is real cool because it was a luxury. Right. Like, if you ever wanted an Arizona, they'd be like, who finna pay a dollar for some tea?
[00:36:36] Speaker B: I'm saying, like, just if it's still 99 cents, it's still 99 cents. It's been that way since like the early 2000s, 90s or whatever.
I'm saying he had to be charging us probably three times of what his expenditure was of producing it was back then. He probably just getting closer and closer to, you know, maxing it, like, not making any profit on it. But I'm. That's all I'm saying. He probably was making them for 23 cents a can or something.
Well, back then. He might be at 75 cents a can now, but because he's still making a profit, he can still afford that to his customers.
[00:37:18] Speaker C: Okay.
Yeah.
[00:37:21] Speaker E: I was gonna say I was thinking maybe he's just found a way to keep his.
[00:37:25] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:37:27] Speaker E: But also, maybe he just made a.
A very good business decision.
[00:37:33] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:37:34] Speaker E: In the first place.
[00:37:36] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:37:36] Speaker C: Yeah. That's what I'm saying is I think that because at the time, he was creating something like can tea, and it Being cooled.
Like that's what I'm saying. Tea is a delicacy to some degree.
Right. So like let's say he started research saying look it up while we talking about it. When did they create Arizona Sea?
[00:37:58] Speaker E: But let me clarify. I agree with Dub. He probably, he, he probably was overcharging us. He probably just made a very good business decision accounting for maybe the future inflation and figured out how to keep his expenses a little bit low to keep his margin good. But he probably was. He probably making them cans for 10 cent back in the day.
[00:38:21] Speaker B: Yeah, well that's going to say overcharging because it's. It was smart of him to put the 99 cent is as much of a brand as Arizona on the side of the can. Like that's something that you recognize. You know, people gonna always come back to that. So I think he just did it presumptively. Like he just did it early as hell. Like okay, they know it's gonna be under a dollar. Even this, this is the 90s, 2000s, whatever. Like they always gonna come back to this kid. It didn't matter that he was charging more than he had to. He just like, this is gonna be part of my brand and I'm gonna stick with that.
[00:38:59] Speaker E: And you. And you didn't feel like you were being overcharged.
[00:39:03] Speaker C: That's what. Yeah.
[00:39:06] Speaker E: This worth 99 meanwhile.
[00:39:09] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying.
[00:39:10] Speaker E: 16 cent.
[00:39:13] Speaker C: Research team. When was it created?
[00:39:16] Speaker D: It was created in 1992 in New York.
[00:39:19] Speaker C: Oh wow.
[00:39:21] Speaker D: He is. He made it 99 cents because he saw how that particular market or niche, the 99 cent market was super popular and he was trying to like copy off of or formulate his business out from Snapple and also another beer can company.
But yeah, not a. Like a multi billion dollar company.
One of the top iced tea and juice brands in America with close to 200 flavors and 3 million units sold annually. So he can keep it at 99 cent.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: I'm glad he called that New York tea.
[00:39:59] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:59] Speaker B: And got the same ring.
[00:40:01] Speaker C: Nah.
And well I think he's.
[00:40:05] Speaker D: He done got new flavors so he's understood like these are the people who are gonna buy it. So I'm like cater to them.
[00:40:14] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I was saying before he got the flavors. But when you said I forgot that was who they. That's why I remember it being expensive. Remember Snapple tea?
I don't even think I've ever seen. When's the last time you seen Snapple? Are they still in business?
[00:40:30] Speaker E: I just bought some Snapple the other day.
[00:40:33] Speaker B: I got some.
[00:40:37] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying. So, you know, like, that's perfect example. It's like somebody the other day was talking about cranberry. The cran. The ocean spray, talking about they be raping the hell out of the cranberry flavor.
Doesn't be like cranberry, strawberry, cranberry, grape.
[00:40:57] Speaker E: That white crayon.
So I went to trusty Dusty Reddit, and apparently dude said he been having to make adjustments to the formula over the years to keep the price, but they also have higher margins in other markets outside of North America.
[00:41:17] Speaker D: Yeah, he did like a whole. He did a whole sit down interview on why he's not.
Why he doesn't feel like the need to change the price.
[00:41:24] Speaker E: It is.
[00:41:25] Speaker D: It's definitely due to, like, he's not like a greedy person. You could tell he's not in it for the money. He just. He really wanted to produce something that basically everyone could buy.
Like, he's a very rare, genuine, like, business person.
Yeah, yeah, he really trying to.
You know, he basically is like, I made all my money. I don't need anymore, so why increase? I said, okay, sir, we gonna see.
[00:41:52] Speaker C: I think, yeah, Twin made a great point that if you have a good business model from the jump, nine times out of 10, it's gonna. It's gonna survive. Because I was just trying to sit here and think about, what do I. What else do I know that's always been the same? Price hasn't really changed.
[00:42:13] Speaker D: And I think, I think for. For him, he did definitely have a good business model, but he also adapted well to, like, the change of the. The market. Like, he didn't just say, we only gonna make these two flavors or we only gonna do this.
He saw, like, you know, some popularity and flavors and different brands and how stuff was moving. He was like, all right, let's create it. Like, he was able to make the change over time. He just didn't say the same.
Yeah, like, 200 flavors.
[00:42:45] Speaker C: So, yeah, man, that was.
[00:42:53] Speaker B: I could tell y' all somebody that didn't adapt, though.
[00:42:57] Speaker D: Oh.
[00:43:00] Speaker C: Go ahead.
[00:43:00] Speaker D: Who didn't adapt?
[00:43:02] Speaker B: All these folks involved in the signal gate that was just. Just put in there didn't really have no experience of what they was doing.
Talking about war plans on the unencrypted app.
Y' all heard about that?
[00:43:17] Speaker E: Is that called Signal Gate? It got a name now?
[00:43:20] Speaker B: Yeah, the app is called Signal.
[00:43:23] Speaker E: So they were on. Okay. I didn't know. I didn't know.
Occurred on Signal.
[00:43:30] Speaker C: Yeah, it was on signal.
[00:43:35] Speaker D: Researching is lost.
[00:43:37] Speaker E: It's just right there. WhatsApp is right there.
[00:43:41] Speaker C: Well, I think so. Signal gates for the listeners. You probably heard about the group chat fiasco. SNL has already did a skit on happened this week.
And basically Mike Walsh created a, a waltz, created a group chat called Houthi PC basically to kind of seamlessly either connect some of the most important people in the government on their plans for the Houthis.
And unfortunately, this gentleman who created this group chat was not technology savvy at all.
My man's has no real understanding how to create contacts because apparently also his Venmo contacts were, were visible to the public.
But he, he, he accidentally added, he accidentally added a journalists in the group chat. A fellow white man.
And the journalists the entire time thought that he was being punked in the. Not punked, but being.
What's the word?
Hacked or just pranked.
He thought that he was being pranked in the chat because at first it started out as please identify your poc, your person of contact. So you have Mark Rubio saying his person, you have the Secretary of Defense Pete headsteps saying his person, and so on, so on.
And then out of literally nowhere, oh, VP Vice President Vance was in there as well.
And so out of nowhere, you see, hear them start talking about attacking.
[00:45:54] Speaker D: This is the group chat and WhatsApp or just.
[00:46:00] Speaker C: Signal.
[00:46:01] Speaker D: Signal, which is like WhatsApp.
[00:46:05] Speaker C: Signal is WhatsApp. But Signal is actually highly used by the, the military because it is believed to be encrypted.
Exactly.
But anybody like dub knows every app has a backdoor. Anybody knows that. Like if you listeners, if you don't learn nothing else today, every app has a backdoor. That means that a hacker or anyone who's very, very smart and knows how to hack can get into your app. This is why we keep telling y' all, Facebook, Instagram, any app you have on your phone, you have no privacy rights. They can get in your phone and they can find out everything they need to know about you. Said hackers. Anyways, so Pete has said, all of a sudden, start talking about the attack on the Houthis. And then Vance is like, whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't think it's good because of Europe.
Then another person chimes in, then another person chimes in. And you never are supposed to talk about anything government related outside of your government phone.
This is what the whole Hillary Clinton email thing was about. Was that the fact that she had her work email on her server at home.
This is what that's all about. It's the same thing.
Because if you ever see pictures of Hillary Clinton on her BlackBerry, that was always the thing, is that she had, like, her emails and her BlackBerry.
Mind you, one of the people that was on this group chat was actually in Russia at the time when then Pete had said, mission is a go, but we can hold off on the mission. No one knows who the Houthis are. No one knows, meaning the American public. Yada, yada, yada.
And then someone else in the group chat says, well, as I heard it, the President said, we are a go, which is also concerning. And then Pete had said, starts dropping all the war details.
But he himself has said, no one is texting war plans. Okay.
[00:48:26] Speaker E: Has anyone ever used signal? Like, is it that easy to just accidentally add somebody?
[00:48:34] Speaker D: I feel like, no, it can't be.
[00:48:38] Speaker E: That's just.
[00:48:38] Speaker D: But that's also just like group chat etiquette.
[00:48:41] Speaker E: Like, I just want to reiterate that Mike Waltz is the current national security advisor.
Okay.
[00:48:54] Speaker C: Scary.
[00:48:55] Speaker E: Bad enough as a random person in the administration, I think what this.
[00:49:05] Speaker B: A macro. It might be microcosm of how little these people know about what they're doing.
This is.
This is overly incompetent.
And now they're trying to spin it like, oh, no, these aren't. This. These isn't. None of this was top secret or classified. This was just sensitive.
Is. It's war plans. You added a journalist.
Y' all look. Y' all look crazy.
[00:49:35] Speaker C: Yeah. And. And I and dub and you know, even research team and twin all offer, you know, great perspectives. Where one, this is.
This is the head of national. He created the group chat, so he should obviously be fired.
As research team said, is it easy to add someone?
I've used signal before. It's easy if you think about it. We. Our show. This show is based on a group chat.
And we all have been in this group chat for. Since COVID How many times Remember when they added somebody in the group chat, we didn't know who that was. And then they left. One time it was like, who was that?
[00:50:17] Speaker D: That was me. We don't have to. We don't have to remember.
[00:50:24] Speaker C: You remember that?
[00:50:25] Speaker D: I knew where this was going.
[00:50:26] Speaker C: We wanted to kill you because we were like, who is that?
[00:50:31] Speaker D: But also, I could have removed them. It's easy to remove somebody as well. Like, it's not like you just said.
[00:50:37] Speaker C: How easy is it to add someone to a group chat. Right?
[00:50:41] Speaker D: And no, but that's because I thought that was that person's Number. This person is just out here just willy nilly, like, who.
[00:50:52] Speaker E: Trying to add. Were you trying to add someone else?
[00:50:55] Speaker C: We don't. We. He doesn't know.
[00:50:58] Speaker B: Guys, this is completely different. This. That's a. Yeah, like we talking about people that are.
[00:51:05] Speaker C: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not. That wasn't the point I was making. The point that I was making was that once they added this person, no one knew who that person was. That's my point.
So when research team did that, we didn't even know she'd added the person. Right. Because I think we were at a family event when she did it or we had just finished a family like family reunion or something. So she was just casually adding family members on a regular day.
[00:51:34] Speaker D: This wasn't even a family.
[00:51:36] Speaker C: I mean, I'm trying to help you out because I don't know how you added him. I'm trying to. I'm like Mike. Well, I don't know how the previous.
[00:51:43] Speaker D: Contact that I had for, let's say, I don't know, Graham, cousin Graham. That wasn't his contact information anymore.
[00:51:54] Speaker C: So that's.
[00:51:57] Speaker D: So like I already had your. Your information saved in my phone as Graham. But let's say you change your number and I didn't know.
[00:52:05] Speaker E: Text me the real name of the person who it was supposed to be because I forgot.
[00:52:10] Speaker C: Okay, okay, okay. So here's my point.
Duh. This is why. That's. This is why I'm simulating this. Because this is how ridiculous they are.
So obviously he thought he was adding somebody that wasn't the person he thought he was adding. So he says, how did that contact even get in his phone? So they are saying they. The ominous. They are saying that he hacked his way into the group chat.
So when research team added this family member into the group chat, we none of us noticed that the person was in there.
And maybe like randomly one night we were all in the group chat talking and this random person just left.
And all of us admitted was like, who is that?
When.
[00:52:55] Speaker D: But it showed when I added them as well. That's why I understand.
[00:52:59] Speaker C: Like, I don't think none of us saw it. So that's what I'm saying is let's say that all these.
[00:53:03] Speaker D: Oh, no one acknowledged that.
[00:53:05] Speaker C: Right?
[00:53:05] Speaker D: Okay, right.
[00:53:06] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying. Let's say when he added the journalist, no one saw who it was. And I say that because when they did the poc. When the national.
When Mike Waltz asked, can I please get everyone's poc, this number didn't respond, so that should have been an indicator right there. Number two, when he left the group chat before the story broke, they didn't even.
Again, no one thought to say anything about it.
When we saw that person leave our group chat, we were all like, who is that again?
[00:53:45] Speaker E: Y' all. Y' all should probably just keep it. The teams, whatever, no more group chat.
[00:53:52] Speaker D: But just like, to have a group chat with those.
Like, those type of people is also kind of crazy as well.
[00:54:01] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying.
[00:54:03] Speaker D: Like, just to start a group chat off of that alone with the. The members. That's like, you're. Wow.
[00:54:12] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:54:13] Speaker E: Like, should we really be discussing.
[00:54:16] Speaker D: No, we shouldn't even be talking outside of where we're supposed to be talking.
[00:54:19] Speaker E: In a secure room.
[00:54:20] Speaker D: Exactly correct.
[00:54:32] Speaker B: Basically taking, I guess, what Donald Trump does because, you know, Donald Trump always got his phone in his hand type stuff.
When you're at this level, you should have multiple levels under each person that should be in that group chat of people checking and rechecking your IT and security protocols or whatever. Like, this is crazy.
[00:54:56] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. That's why I said the comparison to what I did to what this is pecans and, you know, steak. It's. No.
[00:55:08] Speaker E: But these. I mean, these people are clearly incompetent and, you know, they don't. They are anti checks and balances.
[00:55:17] Speaker C: Yes, right.
[00:55:20] Speaker B: Good point. Great point.
[00:55:21] Speaker C: Right. And so to clarify for everyone, my demonstration in our own chat thing is because their whole thing now is the gaslighting. This is why I went through that simulation of what happened to us, because I, Twin research team and even Dub have all worked in corporate America for a very.
For a pretty good number of years.
And Twin said it best.
These people have no accountability, no checks and balances, and they gaslight and when they do that, they immediately try to ruin the credibility of the person who's snitching or telling on you.
And that is the problem that I have. That's what's been the most triggering thing about Signal gate is I have been in so many situations where there has been a problem or a mistake or an error made that was grave.
This is probably.
This is the equivalent to Watergate and the fact that they are treating it as, oh, it just is a happenstance and, oh, it's. Pete has said didn't even know when he got off the plane. He was first asked about it after the White House had already confirmed that it was authentic.
He immediately went after the reporter. It's just like all you had to do is be accountable to the mistake and take a lesson learned.
And that's why, like in those corporate meetings when we always, you know, this is why I didn't never like year, this is why I didn't never like reviews, like year end reviews with corporate jobs. Because if you got a problem or you have an issue with something that I'm doing during the year, pull me aside, tell me what it is so I can be corrected and I can make sure that I move forward. But don't you pull up a list and name all the things that I may or may not have done correctly. And by the way, this has never really happened to me because I'm pretty, I'm a pretty good worker. But I'm just saying in general, like, people always get to the year reviews and it's like, oh, you want to bring up something for March.
But you, these people screams and yells and cried and kicked about Hillary Clinton in these freaking emails for years.
This is why she lost the election.
Like, people forget Hillary was killing Trump the whole year and probably within a month of the election. Remember when the Department of Justice was opening up an investigation on her. That's what turned the tide that had Trump win back in 2016.
But see, that's the thing. We've been through Covid since then, so we've forgotten all of kind of like how scandals like this really can make or break administrations or people's careers.
Mike, if he hasn't already by now, should totally resign or Mark Rubio should totally fire him.
[00:58:33] Speaker D: But.
[00:58:36] Speaker C: This should be a moment that should break the Trump administration. And the fact that it hasn't is crazy.
[00:58:44] Speaker E: Well, I think what's also being highlighted during this foolishness is how inadequate mediocre white men are.
And like, it pisses me off. I was talking to somebody yesterday. I was at our cousin house and her friend was there and she was talking about how her friend said, first of all, didn't vote, so why are you even. But anyway, didn't vote, but if I did, I would have voted for Trump because he's a good businessman. Now let me, now let me just bring it back to the point that I'm making the decisions that these people are making now is proof that if they were not born into money and, or a white man, they would not be successful.
None of these strategies are long term. They're very short sighted. It's not taking into account how it's going to affect the economy.
And yet people keep saying, oh well, they good at business. So they going to turn the country around. They don't have basic checks and balances. They don't believe in that.
They think they should just be able to unilaterally just make decisions. And. And as long as it makes them a few bucks in the short term, then that's okay. That's not the sign of a good business person. Arizona, we just talked about that. They've been in business still making a profit for year decades.
So it really pisses me off when. When average. The average person is like, well, they're a good businessman. They got all this money. Girl, wake up and do research. Smell the T. Okay?
They would not make anything successful if they weren't born into money. And we see it now, the policies and they put in place. It's not for the benefit of anyone. And yet people still talk about, oh, they make they good business people.
[01:00:37] Speaker D: Oh.
[01:00:40] Speaker E: How sway.
[01:00:43] Speaker B: I think that's the stupidest thing somebody can say, is there? They're good business people. I understand that business is involved, but you bringing in people that aren't.
Were not politicians don't know what they're doing.
[01:00:59] Speaker C: Doug, you would say, right, so what.
[01:01:02] Speaker E: Does that even have to do with anything? Even if they were good business people, what does that have to do with running the government?
[01:01:09] Speaker B: Right, right. That's my point.
[01:01:10] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, right. But okay, so quickly, Dub just brought up to you guys, brought up two great points. And this is the one thing that the basic Americans need to start at. The average American needs to start at. And the average American is anyone that is not wealthy, anyone that does not have over $25,000 in their account. 10,000. 5,000. Okay, okay, so. So let's keep it like y' all need to start keeping it a buck because your influencers, if you.
Drake was broke before he had what he had and y' all didn't know. Okay? So let's keep it a buck. All right?
Doug just said it. If at his job he doesn't do what he's supposed to do, not only are potentially people's lives at danger or twin, if you don't do the job that you're supposed to do and you don't have checks and balances and what you do, nine times out of 10, because you're a tech person, it's going to cause a ripple effect.
Same thing with research team. If she doesn't do her job and what she's supposed to do, nine times out of 10, there's going to be a problem. But this is the problem with these white males is that when they create a problem or they make a mistake, all they do is gaslight, or they end up resigning, and then they go to become a CEO at another company, or they just do. What they're doing now is deflect to something else. And that's all Trump does is deflect, deflect, deflect.
You ask him a question about one thing, he talking about something else.
Sway.
[01:02:54] Speaker E: Oh, my God. I witnessed that. I think I told y' all this before.
I witnessed that firsthand at Georgia Tech. Y' all like mediocre white men just standing up.
Completely deflected from the question. Mind you, we in engineering, so how can you deflect? It's math. But completely deflected from the question.
And people really looking around like, maybe. No, no, he doesn't have a point. That had nothing to do with what we're talking about.
[01:03:28] Speaker C: Child.
I'm telling you, this whole signal gate has triggered me in a way that I didn't think was possible. That's why I was so glad I had therapy on Wednesday, because I was like this, bro, I think early in the week. And I just said, just like, at the top of this conversation, like, research team said, how it.
[01:03:51] Speaker D: How.
[01:03:52] Speaker C: How.
How do you do something like this?
How. But then for me, like, super cash, too.
[01:04:01] Speaker D: Like, right.
[01:04:05] Speaker C: You average Americans are not like, you know how many people I asked about signal gate and they didn't know what I was talking about? That's what even blew me the most. It's like, people are so not tapped in because groceries are high.
[01:04:22] Speaker D: I didn't know about signal gate.
[01:04:24] Speaker C: No, no, no. And. And that's fair, right? Like I'm saying is that it's been.
[01:04:28] Speaker D: An overwhelming amount of, like, you know what?
[01:04:31] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying. I think that everybody is just so overwhelmed with everything that. That's my point is, like, you have people who are just.
I mean, we're literally getting hammered to the max, and something like this happens, and you should be outraged. And meanwhile, they're disappearing people. People are being disappeared.
And no one seems to be upset with the fact that even with the deport. Now, we said this on a couple shows ago where if there are mass deportations. I know. I was the one that said it.
And we could have all agreed to agree.
If there are mass deportations, then we need to see. Okay, said mass deportations. Now they're actually showing videos of these deportees.
And why are we shaving their heads?
That's very confusing to me. What is shaving their Head anything.
[01:05:30] Speaker E: Huh?
[01:05:32] Speaker D: Wait, they shaving them people heads?
[01:05:35] Speaker C: Yes.
[01:05:38] Speaker E: Oh, no.
[01:05:40] Speaker D: It's giving.
[01:05:42] Speaker C: It's giving.
Concentrate.
[01:05:45] Speaker D: That's what I was just gonna say. Concentration camp. I was like, what did Hitler do? It's giving. Hitler. Yeah.
[01:05:50] Speaker E: And speaking of dictators, what's up with y' all boy? DeSantis.
I'm looking at you crazy Florida. Desantis.
[01:05:59] Speaker D: Never been our boy. Never been our boy.
[01:06:01] Speaker E: What are ' all doing?
[01:06:03] Speaker D: DeSantis. DeSantic.
[01:06:06] Speaker C: I was gonna say he been labor.
[01:06:10] Speaker D: Yeah, she knew to Desantis foolery.
[01:06:15] Speaker E: I just feel the need to call you Floridians out every time because it just keeps. Get what?
[01:06:26] Speaker C: Listen, so, yeah, I'm not. Because we've been stuck with him for so long, and I think this is it. I think we're on the last term for him.
Yeah, this is it. So, yeah, I think we're at the end. But, you know, I just. If this.
What I. The one thing I learned from Signal Gate more than anything is that if this is the mindset of this administration, then we as a government and a people are going to have a very long ride.
[01:07:10] Speaker E: Well, I think they represent. This is why these people are in office.
They, they kind of represent the average American. Like when I was at Shout out to Flannies, when I was at Flannies that time, and I met these random dudes from Scotland, somehow we got into a political discussion and, well, drinks, obviously. And they were just like, why? Like, what is wrong with Americans? And I told them, the average American is not smart and really being smart, I mean, informed, and it's by design. That's why I've always. I've never really had a candidate besides Obama that I was just like, yes, I, I, you are going to make do some good for the country.
Because I never hear people talking about education reform. The average American is not smart.
We don't know how stuff works.
And this is how Trump is in office. Because you niggas think that you are equivalent to people like Trump and you are poor.
Like, everyone in America is poor. Let's just be honest.
The average American is not wealthy or even middle class.
[01:08:28] Speaker C: Sorry, y' all, I gotta laugh, because, girl, is when you said that, I remember immediately back when I was in my nice little corporate job and I was making pretty good money.
I had to argue this white woman down to her face and tell her, sweetheart, there is no middle class. Y' all like to talk about the middle class as if the middle class is a. The same middle class from the 60s. They don't exist.
They it the 60s and the 70s and 80s, we, they don't exist anymore. The middle class is. It's literally the wealthy and the rest of us. And this is what it's the rest of us.
[01:09:10] Speaker E: Oh, I blame. Right. Y' all know I'll be going on my Reagan tangents. Reagan gave us the illusion of the middle class and that was the point to make the, to, to really make the, the wealth divide even broader. And now we are seeing the ramifications.
And if Elon Musk and then the.
[01:09:30] Speaker C: Rest of you, and I wanna, I wanna harp on that real quick because I will say that the biggest thing that I also noticed that Doge is doing with their, you know, their waste elimination is the federal government has been frauding the American people well beyond. Well before Biden, well before Obama, well before Bush, well before Clinton. And this is the problem that I have with their whole like, oh, well, they gave this to Stacey Abrams. And where did that money come from?
Just like it came from, from all the other administrations, the federal government. Y' all make these numbers out of nowhere. Okay, so when you talk about. And when I say numbers out of nowhere, an example is credit. The credit system people believe that the credit system has always been around when in fact, it's a scam.
It literally is a scam. The credit system is a scam, people. It's a scam.
Like if you pay off all your debts right now, every debt you own, your credit score will sink about 50 points, maybe 100.
[01:10:45] Speaker E: That happened to me.
[01:10:47] Speaker C: If you pay off, if you don't owe somebody some money and can't show that you can make those payments on time, you're. You literally are going to ruin, you're literally going to ruin your credit.
[01:11:00] Speaker E: Meanwhile, I let something go to collection so long that it dropped off and then my credit went up.
Up.
Scam, okay, Scam.
[01:11:12] Speaker C: So it's just these ideas that like Doge is like, oh, yeah, we're cleaning up fraud and waste and yada, yada, yada. And I'm like, okay, I get that.
But if you're going to eliminate it all, you can't just be targeting, looking for, you know, if you're going to talk about, okay, a billion dollars was given here, then here. Because the other day I heard somewhere where it was this initiative by the Biden administration to, I believe, give Internet to everyone in their home, something like that. And apparently it was like a couple billion dollars or million dollars, and it never even, like that's how much money they Quote, unquote, spit on it, spent on it. But it never even. Like every American, every average American doesn't have access to the Internet like something like that. And I just want to highlight again, this is something that happens in corporations all the time. They are called KPIs. Okay? And nine times out of ten every year you have a set of KPIs that you are trying to reach. Twin. What is a KPI? What? What is a KPI? For the people.
[01:12:26] Speaker D: Can you tell them this is such a triggering conversation because it's quarter closed.
[01:12:33] Speaker E: Key performance indicators that we are not performing well on.
[01:12:39] Speaker C: So, so when Musk keeps saying, oh, we're trying to cut a $4 billion in waste every day by September, that means that he has a KPI in mind. And what they're going to do by the time we get to September is they're going to then evaluate said KPI. Why? Research team? Because at some point, what is that measurement for them?
[01:13:04] Speaker E: I don't think they're going to do all that.
[01:13:05] Speaker B: Dollars.
[01:13:07] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:13:07] Speaker D: I don't say they bonus off of it.
[01:13:09] Speaker C: No, no, no. They have a kid. So he was talking. And this is again why we're talking about this in this way listeners, is you guys got to really start listening to what they're really saying beyond all the smoky mirrors of what Doge is talking about. I was listening to him and he said we need to cut 4, 4 billion dollars in waste a day by September. What is the number? Why September?
What does that come from?
[01:13:37] Speaker E: I don't trust when they start throwing numbers out. I don't trust none of that. I feel like they just making up stuff.
[01:13:43] Speaker C: To me it screams KPI, right? Someone has, they have made a KPI somewhere, right? We're not, we're not privy to it, right? Like we don't know the KPIs for target. We don't know. All we know is that we're going to disrupt the KPI for Target because they played us, right? Like we don't know the KPIs for Walmart or any big corporation. But the point is they're there. And just like research team said, when you get to the point of whatever that measurement is, what is? All you say is what, what, what? How those meetings go? Research team, how do those go when you're not meeting your KPI?
[01:14:20] Speaker D: Oh, they finna.
You're not gonna bonus, we're gonna have to restructure some. Somebody gotta get cut.
It's not happy conversations. People gonna be put on action plans.
[01:14:36] Speaker E: And that's why I'm saying I don't feel like they're even thinking that strategically. Because when you have actual.
There's a strategy around it and consequences and. Or benefits from you meeting or not meeting those. I feel like if we get to September and they have not eliminated waste, they're just going to move the goal post. So is that a true.
[01:15:01] Speaker C: So I think no, twin. That's an excellent remark because I believe that everything that they are setting up is to be able to. So when we talk about Social Security, they keep talking about how they're gonna, like, apparently they're gonna cut it, but they keep saying they're not going to cut it because they keep saying that there's fraud in Social Security.
Right? Like that's something that they keep saying. But what are they really going to do? Like you just said in September, I don't think they're going to move the goal post. I think they're just going to start taking. They're going to stop the payments and then they're going to stop them by saying, oh, because we need to verify if so. And so really should be getting this check. How are they going to do that? I don't know. Maybe they're going to have a new workforce of, you know, agents that are going to come to your house to check that you're really, you know, who you say you are. Because I know people. I know people right now that are actively frauding the federal government with Social Security checks because they do drugs or they are incompetent and someone is taking their check from them.
[01:16:13] Speaker E: I know exactly who you are.
[01:16:14] Speaker D: I knew she was going.
[01:16:17] Speaker C: Listen, and, and, and that's why I said I'm dead. I'm dead serious. If you're gonna say you're gonna really cut fry, I think I will call. I will call you. Give me the number for who I need to snitch on about it. Because what I don't want to happen is the other people that I know that live off of their Social Security check. That is only like our, our, I believe, our, our elderly cousin out. Our elderly auntie out in Cali. I know for a fact she lives off her Social Security check. And we know she's one of the most, like, she's thriving and living her life. You cut her check.
You see what I'm saying?
[01:16:55] Speaker D: Like, yeah, like it needs to be a way that they need to not cut. Cut everybody off to figure out who's supposed to have and who's not. That doesn't make any sense.
[01:17:06] Speaker C: But that's my point.
[01:17:07] Speaker E: Care who supposed to have it. They don't want nobody to have it.
[01:17:10] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying is I'm twin is on. I'm telling you they gonna cut everybody check and then they gonna like it's gonna be kind of like covet where they were furlough. I was just mentioning this other day. Y' all remember when they was forlowing people during covetous.
How you gonna start firing people and you didn't even know how long covet was gonna end.
[01:17:30] Speaker D: They don't people on the list or.
[01:17:35] Speaker C: You can just disappear yourself. Disappear yourselves from the Internet. Just get. Get off the grid. Get off the grid. So you can find us anywhere on social media. Just all you got to do is Google. Call your cousins.
I heard YouTube is a safe space. We're definitely on there streaming. We've been getting some views and we appreciate y' all. So if anything, find us at YouTube @ call your cousins. That's C A L L Y O U R C O U S I N S and we'll see y' all next time. Peace.
