0:00

I listened to the Black Guy Who Tips

0:02

podcast because Rod and Karen

0:05

are hot. And then, six

0:07

months later, while shopping for slightly damaged

0:09

Timberland chuckers at the Gabrielle Brothers

0:12

Department show store, I happened

0:14

to run into Rakia Curry, who

0:16

had sat in my classroom at Wilkinsburg as

0:19

an approximately inappropriate fourteen

0:22

year old freshman. Now sixteen,

0:24

Rakia had a job at Popeye's on Penn

0:27

Avenue and was beginning to make the transition

0:29

back to being an actual human. I liked her.

0:32

She saw me and greeted me the exact same way

0:34

every single student would when they happened to see me

0:36

outside of school.

0:37

Mister Young, I didn't know you shopped at Gabes.

0:40

For the record, I'd also, at various

0:42

points during my teaching career heard the following mister

0:45

Young, I didn't know you went to church. Mister

0:48

Young, I didn't know you got haircuts. Mister

0:51

Young, I didn't know you went to Kenny Wood. Once

0:54

while at Giant Eagle, I even heard mister

0:57

Young, I didn't know you ate food. Hah.

1:00

Apparently the students assume we teachers stopped

1:02

existing when they exited our classrooms

1:05

like like motion, sense

1:07

of lights with sentients and homework assignments.

1:09

Now, Rakia was tiny, even for a teenage girl.

1:12

She was barely five foote tall and maybe

1:14

weighed ninety five pounds. She also

1:16

spoken an aggressive, aggressively delicate

1:18

whisper. You'd hear the sound of her

1:21

voice and you weren't sure if she was if

1:23

it was her talking or kitting laughing. As

1:25

I was leaving the store with Brian, she waved

1:28

at me from the driver's seat of a car she

1:30

was driving. This tiny

1:33

and mousy little girl just two

1:35

years earlier, once asked to be excused from

1:37

the room while I showed the class Michael

1:39

Jackson's thriller video because it was too

1:41

scary hahaha. Had

1:43

a fucking license and was driving a fucking

1:46

car. All the driving related task I

1:48

allowed to frighten and overwhelm me were

1:50

apparently mastered by a girl who still

1:52

shopped at kids foot locker. Just

1:55

broke something inside of me, not a levy releasing

1:58

a new and advanced hyperspecific rain

2:00

of shame, but specifically relief.

2:02

Seeing Raquilla's Liliputian

2:06

as pushing a two thousand

2:08

pounds Chevy Malibu dissipated

2:10

all of the daunt I'd attached

2:12

to doing it myself. If she could do

2:14

it, I totally, definitely, absolutely

2:17

could. I also felt well, stupid,

2:20

so fucking stupid, like the dumbest motherfucker

2:22

whoever lived. I'd allowed this task to

2:24

become such an albatross that it blinded

2:26

me to the fact that the source of my shame was about

2:29

the solution. I, a twenty six

2:31

year old man, hadn't yet done something

2:33

that sixteen year olds regularly do, which

2:35

also meant that this impossible task

2:37

was something sixteen year olds regularly did,

2:40

so it couldn't be that fucking hard. Hey,

2:42

welcome to the Blackout Tis podcast, your host.

2:44

Rod and Karrie. We're live on

2:47

a Saturday afternoon.

2:49

We had to do it at special time because

2:52

he just we did the We had the memorial

2:54

for Karen's mom, so you

2:57

know, we had to start a little later.

2:59

I was thinking about just taking a day off, but Camera's like,

3:01

nah, let's do it, So let's do this.

3:03

We in here doing it.

3:05

Of course, you can find us on iTunes, stitch or potomatic

3:07

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3:09

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3:34

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donate it. But first I just wanted to say this

3:40

excerpt that I'm reading this from Damon Young's What

3:42

Doesn't Kill You Make You Blacker? And

3:46

I love this because I do this too. I get

3:49

this inside my head. There's normal shit

3:51

every day people do, and sometimes

3:53

I don't know if everybody goes through this, but sometimes

3:56

I'm the one that's petrified of these things and

3:59

I don't know why. There's no necessary rhyme

4:01

or reason. And then after a while,

4:04

not doing the thing makes it become

4:06

bigger than it was, so now

4:08

it's a hurdle of For example,

4:11

not learning to swim is a big one that

4:13

a lot of people have right you're like, right,

4:15

when you're a kid, you're like, I want to learn to swim,

4:17

or you know, hey, swimming. You know, people swim

4:20

all the time. And when you get

4:22

older, you know, and I'm not talking about the specific

4:24

racialization of swimming, but when you

4:27

get older, you're like, oh, yeah, I should learn

4:29

to swim. And then you get and then eventually

4:31

it's like I can't just go to day camp and learn

4:33

to swim. I can't just go to summer camp

4:35

and learn to swim. I can't take a swimming class

4:37

at school learn to swim. Now I'm

4:39

an adult, I have to now

4:42

pay for a class, go to a special

4:45

place, get special clothing to

4:47

learn how to swim. And now it's a

4:49

thing. And now that it's a thing, I

4:51

don't want to do it, you know. And one

4:53

of the things that has consistently

4:55

been the thing that got me over the hurdle is

4:58

seeing how mundane this that I'm

5:00

I put on a pedestal of not

5:03

even a pedestal on like a top of a mountain

5:06

that is like a fear mountain. That's

5:08

like, you can't do this, it's

5:10

too scary. That thing, often

5:15

down is often the thing that a

5:17

lot of people do, and not just

5:19

that. But let's say you do fail at it. Now, in the case

5:21

of swimming, you drown and you die. But

5:24

but but it must cases just say you fail it learning

5:26

how to swim.

5:27

It doesn't mean you drowing, you die.

5:28

You you're at the Y andc A and a pool, so

5:30

on a savior, you'll be okay. But

5:33

in general, even failure,

5:36

there are options around failure.

5:39

Even failure, you can learn, you

5:41

can continue.

5:42

Maybe it takes you three times to learn how to swim, Maybe

5:44

takes you three times learn how to drive. You know.

5:47

But it's funny because we find ways to cope with

5:49

these things. I can't drive, I'm taking the bus

5:51

everywhere, I'm getting the ubers, I'm doing

5:53

this, but I'm at the mercy of some other person at this point.

5:55

You are, you know, And there's also give

5:58

and take. Right, Well, I can't drive, but hey, at

6:00

least I don't have to pay.

6:01

A car bill.

6:01

I'm not put gas in it.

6:03

Yes, both not knocking

6:05

that, but just the fear of it.

6:07

It's like a skill you should learn and you should have.

6:09

And I know that's been a thing for me with

6:12

certain hurdles, and one of the things that really

6:14

pushed me over the edge for a

6:16

lot of stuff was looking at other people

6:19

and being like, well, if

6:22

you know, if this other person can drive

6:24

a car, why am I so scared? You

6:27

know, this other person learns how knows how to swim,

6:30

why should I be afraid to learn how to swim?

6:32

You know. So that's what it made

6:34

me think of.

6:35

And it was just listen to that

6:38

until you read that. It was hilarious because I

6:41

I was that child who whenever I walked

6:43

up the classroom, I don't know why, but I

6:45

thought the teachers just I guess

6:47

went into the back room and just popped that the next day

6:49

because when I saw teaching somewhere,

6:51

I'm looking like you do shit do?

6:53

Like I was.

6:54

It was a huge until I got older, it was a huge

6:56

disconnect that the teachers have lives.

6:59

Yeah, especially if they're like kind of younger,

7:02

right, and it's like you forget that they're

7:04

not like while you're in a classroom.

7:06

And plus you're young, so you think like you're thirteen,

7:09

fourteen, fifteen, you think thirty is like.

7:11

About the shit they gonna clunk

7:13

tomorrow.

7:14

Right, You're like, this is an old dead person in

7:16

my classroom. They don't know

7:18

the latest dance and shit. But

7:21

then you're out of tomorrow one day you see a teacher and you're

7:23

like, oh, that's right, they're a human fucking being, you

7:25

know. So yeah,

7:27

that's definitely something that I've you know, experienced

7:30

or whatever.

7:30

Yeah, And it's also one of those things where, you

7:32

know, when I got old and I realized teacher had kids,

7:35

I was like, you're a teacher, you got kids. They

7:37

doug careing the human being. But like I said, I

7:39

was, I was one of them, you weak two type

7:41

of chilture because like I said, in my mind,

7:44

for whatever fucking reason, it was disconnect.

7:46

Yeah, life was be so weird for teachers because

7:49

also when you're in school, at least for me anyway,

7:51

I know, I had like tremendous respect for the

7:54

role of a teacher, you know what I mean,

7:56

even if I didn't necessarily think, even

7:59

if they weren't a good teacher, I just in

8:01

my mind, teachers they run

8:03

the world.

8:04

Then I became an adult and.

8:06

You live a life and you see that teachers

8:08

don't get paid well, you see that people

8:10

don't respect teachers. People. You know, teachers

8:13

oftentimes work you know, three

8:15

fourths of the year or whatever, and then they have like the summer

8:17

off and they got to get another job. People

8:19

don't want to pay for their school supplies.

8:22

Like all the things you learned as a kid about respect

8:24

your teachers, teachers have an important job. Whatever

8:27

someone wants to demean an athlete or a rich person,

8:29

what do they say. I mean, it's not like they're

8:31

a teacher. Teachers and doctors should be getting paid

8:33

the most smart nay blah blah blah. But our society

8:35

absolutely does not feel that way about teachers.

8:37

Greed. So yeah, it's

8:39

I had all this reverence and then you see them out

8:42

somewhere at Chipotle, and it does

8:44

blow your mind. You're like, what teachers just go

8:46

to Chipotle? I thought they ate in the Library

8:49

of Congress because they're so important

8:51

and learning all the time and they're so

8:53

smart. So yeah, it was definitely a thing for

8:56

me to see, like a teacher at the mall

8:58

or something.

8:59

Yeah, when you was talking about like that, the hurdle

9:01

of.

9:03

Something that's it

9:05

could turn into something bigger when you look at it, and

9:08

you know, you look at like, well, this

9:10

little girl who's a fraction of

9:12

my age, can I here and do this shit? And

9:15

I'm like, oh my gosh, the

9:17

world's gonna end. I don't know what to do when

9:20

you're like, oh, this is shit that people do all

9:22

the time. Depend

9:25

on what it is, I can be like

9:27

that, but I have always

9:30

had the type of person out there.

9:31

I was like, Okay, let's do it.

9:32

You know.

9:33

But when it come to swimming as one of them things, I was like,

9:35

oh, I can't swim. My black ass ain't get in that water.

9:37

We having a pool party with I. I'm not going,

9:40

you know. They was like wow. I was like, because motherfuckers

9:42

don't realize when somebody tells them that you can't fucking

9:44

swim, they want to throw the joke out there.

9:46

We'll throw you in the pool, the fuck you will. My black ass

9:48

ain't coming like like they don't understand the fear

9:50

and a panic that comes on people.

9:52

Oh when you go, I don't I don't know how swimpe are you can

9:54

swim? No, no, bit, I don't.

9:56

I wouldn't lie to you about no shit like that. When

9:58

you got to come and fucking save me, you can, oh

10:00

shit.

10:00

She was down to bitch, yes, right, but you

10:02

know it's funny, that's also your fear

10:04

talking, because that doesn't happen that often, you

10:07

know what I mean. I'm not saying never, right, but the

10:10

most people that you care about that are your

10:12

friends. If you say, hey, I want

10:15

to go to the pool party, they're not going to be like, well now I'm

10:17

gonna drown you because I would like to murder

10:19

somebody during my birthday.

10:21

Yeah, like I said, and that was that fear

10:23

talking on well, I won't be there.

10:25

The right And I know for a while you took like

10:27

water classes at the YMCA

10:30

y yeah, you know, and my parents

10:32

put me in the in the ymcaad classes

10:34

and then that's how I learned to swim.

10:37

And then also I learned when

10:39

I was also in a summer camp. You

10:41

know, we would go out there had a pool and lifeguard

10:44

and I was swim it there. So but yeah,

10:46

it's just funny because I

10:48

remember the anxiety of swimming,

10:51

and honestly, I still would have

10:53

anxiety to this day. I'm sure if it was like

10:55

jumping off the diving board into the deep ind or

10:58

something, I don't know why,

11:00

but the height always bothers me.

11:02

I know, mentally, it's nothing different

11:04

and I've done it before because you have to do it

11:06

the past swimming class. It's like

11:08

the last thing is jump

11:10

off the diving board and then swim to the shallow

11:12

end and then you can get out. And

11:15

you do need to learn that lesson because the thing

11:17

that it takes away from you is the fear,

11:20

because once you go through it, you're like, oh,

11:22

why the fuck was I tripping? Like

11:25

it's like, not only is it not scary,

11:27

it's fun. No, there's

11:29

only two type of people that drown, really over

11:32

confident people and people who freeze

11:34

up because they're scared, right, you know, And

11:36

so you kind of want to be in the middle. Like I'm not,

11:39

you know, over confident. I don't think I can just swim

11:41

across a lake or some shit, but like at

11:44

a pool, like I can go in the pool and swim,

11:46

and you know, I stay in the middle, middle

11:48

to the shallow end and stay out of the

11:50

deep end. I don't really I'm not one of those people.

11:52

But yeah, it's just I just think it's

11:54

kind of interesting because those

11:57

things willcome bigger and bigger as you grow

11:59

up.

12:00

I think they will become smaller. But now it's like a fucking

12:02

thing.

12:02

I can't swim, and now I have to dictate

12:05

all my you know, issues through this. And

12:07

the other thing that's weird is you went swimming

12:10

in Jamaica every day to do

12:12

the thing, and it never occurred

12:14

to me that you don't know how to swim. I should have been scared

12:17

of shit and been like, what the fuck are you doing in the water, you

12:20

know?

12:20

But but you made it fine. You were like you

12:22

were able to do it or whatever.

12:24

But you know, because

12:26

I want.

12:27

I'm not.

12:27

I'm one of them

12:30

because when I took the adult class

12:32

years ago, there's some people just

12:34

the water itself starts a panic, like

12:36

they don't want their face getting with none of that.

12:39

Like, the water itself does not panic

12:41

meet. So I can be in the water,

12:44

you know, I can on a shallow

12:46

I can sit in the water with the goggles

12:48

on like that part doesn't bother me. My

12:50

panic comes when I can't touch the ground anymore. That's

12:52

when my panic kind of touches me. So I

12:55

was like, okay, let's go. I found out

12:57

how to wear properly strapped my life best

13:00

song, and I found out that

13:02

the life vest was designed to make my black

13:04

ass float. So I

13:07

was like, precautions, so I would because

13:09

I knew I couldn't swim. I made sure all the

13:12

precautions on top of the precautions work. So my

13:14

ass went brown. So I got my ass out

13:16

there and had a good time. But no, I

13:18

was snooking it every fucking day, And no, I

13:20

couldn't swim, but I was having a ball.

13:22

But but like you said, it's strangey, I.

13:24

Don't know how to swim. But my black ass got out there.

13:26

I was like, come on, y'all get out here too. They're

13:28

looking like book here and you can't swim,

13:30

and I'm like, I don't give a fox. So that's why I

13:32

said, I need you gonna have to swim for the simple fact

13:35

that I know that I it would be a lot more enjoyable

13:37

to me.

13:38

Yeah, you should take another class man, all

13:41

right? That is uh, today's

13:44

reading Rainbow.

13:50

In the sky.

13:52

I can go twice this time

13:55

looking

13:58

Rainbow.

14:00

Get your ass to reading.

14:02

Can go anywhere

14:04

anywhere, anywhere, anywhere.

14:06

Let's take reason

14:08

boat reading Rainbow.

14:12

I can be

14:15

anything anything.

14:18

Look it's in that book reading

14:21

Rainbow, reading

14:24

Rainbow.

14:28

OK.

14:29

I just need people to say that I also sound

14:31

happy when you sing the song.

14:33

I'm sick of being left out.

14:36

There's too many people out here talking

14:38

about how the joy and Karen's voice, like

14:41

it's not two people in the studio.

14:43

You trying to out join me. I don't think that's gonna

14:45

happen.

14:45

Well, I just did.

14:46

You've been served.

14:47

No, you cannot out join me.

14:49

Write in everybody, let her know that. I'll

14:52

make it the poll because I clearly

14:54

wanted to day nice try

14:57

oh all right before before

15:00

we.

15:00

Move on, Like Roger

15:03

said earlier, we had the memorial service, and y'all,

15:05

it was actually beautiful. We were talking about the way

15:07

home. It was a nice

15:10

service and it was like a

15:12

fan of reunion. I walked put

15:14

in their eyes and see family members in like twenty

15:17

years. I was like, good God, I ain't say y'all niggas

15:19

in fever. So it was good to get to

15:21

see family and friends

15:22

and loved ones and things

15:25

like that.

15:25

The subsequent really really well.

15:27

And my mama

15:29

she has with my aunt who raised me. Y'all, my mama

15:31

she has a green

15:34

what they call it like an extra green thumb. Because

15:38

some of our friends had sent like flowers

15:40

and stuff to her house and

15:42

I know that been there about week and some

15:45

change, but I'm not talking about plants. She I'm talking about like

15:47

flower flowers. Them

15:49

bitches were still shining, and I was like, oh

15:51

my god, she kept them things alive all this

15:54

time. I don't know what kind of green thumb she

15:56

got, but lord nos, she got a green thumb.

15:58

So when it was over, they was like, we got some plans

16:00

you. I said, no, don't you

16:03

given to me? The countdown will be on to

16:05

their depths. Give them to my mama. Let her have all

16:07

the oxygen and extra fresh air

16:09

in her house so she can breathe

16:11

all the f because they're gonna die at

16:13

my house. And all the plants and stuff people

16:15

got there done grown three inches taller.

16:18

I was like, Mama, yeah, you you keep all that stuff.

16:21

Yep. Also, thank you

16:23

to the people that donated to the

16:26

Facebook charity.

16:27

Thank you, thank you so very

16:29

much.

16:30

It meant the world to me, uh

16:33

that people have thought enough about me to do that,

16:35

so I wanted to tell it. I went from zero to

16:38

whatever that amount is, So thank you.

16:40

Yeah, it was a nice, happy time. I enjoyed

16:42

myself.

16:44

The pastor, of course, did preach, even

16:46

though they said, you know, just to

16:48

give words of encouragement. He went ahead and went into

16:50

the forest, you know, gave us a sermon.

16:52

I was like, yeah, because preachers preach, that's you.

16:54

Know what was gonna happen. I was waiting on it. I

16:57

did realize that I don't know any of the church

16:59

on.

17:01

I did. The only one I knew for sure was the one

17:03

that everybody knows, which is that last, like a

17:08

mean so that

17:11

one.

17:12

So I was like, one out of five guys I

17:15

would because I raised the church five.

17:18

Most of those songs are very traditional,

17:20

particularly if you go to like am Zion's

17:23

Baptist type of churches. It's them songs.

17:25

Well, you don't even need to pick up the HM book after

17:27

while because you don't rhythms. Even if somebody

17:30

remix it, you know, just how to kind of go.

17:32

You know how black people is, you're gonna have different versions.

17:34

So one person singing, three people singing in

17:36

the background their version of it, and

17:38

so that's you know, because we negroes. And so that's

17:40

happened, and everybody just clapped and sing along and had

17:42

a good time.

17:43

Yeah.

17:44

But like I said, as a heathen, the way my

17:46

heathen drey Is set up. I

17:50

know none of them songs. Oh go

17:52

ahead. They had some good food afterwards.

17:54

You had fried chicken, chicken, macaroons.

17:58

Beans, then

18:00

they had cakes and all.

18:02

That type of stuff.

18:04

It was one of those things where when they

18:06

was like, oh, go this way, you open up a door, you go

18:08

down the hall, where you turn the corner. It was like a map. So

18:11

once you got to the end, it was like, what all

18:13

this food back here? And they literally everybody

18:15

in the sanctuary. Mouse would have came and got food there,

18:17

but I could take the gold plates.

18:19

The food was good. Yeah, we had a good time.

18:21

Yeah, so it was. It was good man.

18:23

Everybody was you know, they're

18:25

in a positive spirit, so mean

18:28

a lot.

18:29

It did. It wasn't stressful or

18:31

anything. So I'm just glad that it turned

18:33

out to be a very positive event.

18:35

It was a lot of love, a lot of talking, laughing.

18:38

I got to see some of my friend friends that

18:40

I hadn't seen in forever. One

18:43

of my friends, she's uh,

18:46

somebody who I've.

18:47

Known her for a long

18:50

time and we

18:52

don't talk that often, but anytime we

18:55

talk, it's kind of like you, I'm like you, We picked

18:57

right up like we never skipped a beat.

18:59

And that's how it is. We might not talk for

19:01

ten years when we talk, Hey, gir, how

19:03

you doing, how your baby is doing, how your husband doing?

19:05

Us? How?

19:05

It was like we just keep it talking.

19:08

You know.

19:08

I was with her

19:10

when we're been friends, when she

19:12

was with her first husband, got divorced,

19:14

she's remarried, she has another baby, and

19:17

I've been there just cheering and supporting

19:19

her on. And it's just

19:21

one of those things where people

19:25

take true friends for granted,

19:27

and people think that friendship means we

19:29

have to be all all upon each other

19:31

all the time.

19:32

But that's in my definition, that's all.

19:34

We're not always true frienishing and people have things

19:36

to do and families and lives to leave and

19:38

stuff like that. So it felt really good

19:40

to see her.

19:41

Yeap, my parents came, my niece came,

19:44

mother came, Like yeah,

19:46

it was just cool.

19:47

It was like a much a very positive atmosphere.

19:50

You know. I know for a while, you know, you were

19:52

just wondering if you were going all this type

19:54

of stuff. But you know, it's that kind of thing where I

19:56

think you only

19:58

get events like this literally

20:00

wants one time events,

20:03

and you know, I

20:05

think It's one of those things where.

20:06

You regret it if you may.

20:08

You may regret it if you don't go, correct,

20:11

but you the I

20:13

you almost never regret it for going. For me,

20:15

that's my experience and I

20:17

and I'm the kind of person that I can. I'd rather

20:19

live with I went and it wasn't

20:22

good and I didn't appreciate it, and I wish I hadn't

20:24

have gone. I'd rather live with that

20:26

than than the regret of I didn't go.

20:29

And now, you know, I

20:31

have to wonder if that was the right move for the

20:34

rest of my life. And I can't make it up, you know. You

20:36

know something similar that happened with

20:38

my brother, you know, for his wedding

20:41

and stuff, And it was a situation where I wasn't sure if

20:43

I was gonna go and all the stuff, and

20:45

I went and not only was

20:47

it was it great. I had a great

20:49

time. Met my in laws

20:51

there. They're great people and

20:54

great road trip and all this stuff. But

20:58

like you know, it's one of those situations where

21:01

I know that if I hadn't a gone, it just

21:03

it wouldn't be the same. You know.

21:05

Now that's a happy quote unquote occasion, but

21:08

in a way, this is a happy

21:10

occasion because you

21:12

know, uh, this is about the connections

21:15

that we form in life, and people's

21:17

memorials, funerals and stuff is really for their

21:19

living and it's a celebration of

21:21

like their life tied all these people

21:24

together and brought all these connections, and

21:27

there is something positive about that,

21:29

you.

21:29

Know, right.

21:30

And it's also one of the things where

21:33

people told stories about my mama that

21:35

I never heard of, and it was laughter.

21:38

It was it was like literally laughter, a lot

21:40

of smiling, you know, a

21:42

lot of happiness. You know. Even

21:44

the preacher was talking, He's like, you are doing us

21:46

at Yeah, He's like a big old

21:48

smile on.

21:49

Yeah. We were sitting right in front of that big picture,

21:52

and the picture y'all really

21:54

do look alike, you know, like you'll favor

21:56

a lot. Yes, we do, so, you

21:58

know, especially when she had to fro and all that stuff.

22:01

And I loved that picture.

22:02

When I was going to her pictures, I was trying to figure out which one

22:04

and I wanted, and my mama has like

22:06

an old school pictures, like in her twenties,

22:09

and it was a gorgeous smile and.

22:11

She had like a really really big throw

22:13

in that.

22:13

Picture, and I was like, I won't this one right,

22:16

So shots out to my aunt Debby.

22:18

Lord, you know what have y'all ever

22:20

had an aunt?

22:21

Did? She just the best up in the whole wide world.

22:23

And y'all never met a better person than this woman.

22:25

That's how my Aunt Debbie is. I've never met a

22:27

better human being than her. And she

22:30

literally will give you everything in the clothes of all back

22:33

if you need it, and she got it uor she gonna make

22:35

it happen.

22:35

She's been like that all my life.

22:37

And I told her this is the picture I wanted.

22:39

So when she initially tried to get it done, it was like one

22:41

of the tinier pictures. So she was like,

22:43

well, they said that they couldn't

22:46

do this and blow it up as big as you

22:48

would like. So what she did she took it and

22:50

did some photocopy and finagoed and took

22:52

them like a larger version, and they took it and they

22:54

blew it up and they made a really

22:57

beautiful picture. And the urn,

23:00

y'all, the owner is gorgeous. Earn if

23:02

I'm pronounced that right, was gorgeous.

23:04

I got one with like these ros

23:07

pedals all over it and it was

23:09

absolutely beautiful.

23:12

I'm so because I was debating on if I when to

23:14

go, but I'm glad that I that

23:16

I went. And you know what, I'm

23:19

on hindsight, I think I probably would have regretted

23:21

not going if I would have opted not to go.

23:23

But like you say, sometimes you have to come to your own conclusion.

23:25

So it was something I was like, I don't know.

23:27

But then in my heart, I was like, you know what, Yes, I'm

23:29

going to go.

23:30

Yeah. It's funny because of

23:33

Carol's you

23:35

know, the vaiting this earlier in the week, and I

23:37

was, you know, I'm not a pusher,

23:39

so you know, she was like, you know, I might

23:42

not want to go, I might not feel like going, blah blah blah.

23:44

And I was thinking my whole time, like, you

23:46

are definitely gonna want to go. You're definitely gonna

23:48

end up going. You would regret if you don't

23:50

go. I didn't say any of this right because I was

23:52

like at that point, I'm like, it's you

23:55

got like a week and a half to make up your mind.

23:57

But slowly, you know, I

23:59

can see He'll be like, yeah, I am gonna go, and

24:01

I you know, at the time, I was like, well, if she's

24:04

going, obviously I'm gonna go, cause you

24:06

know, can't have you out there by yourself,

24:09

you know, depending on how cause you never

24:11

know, it could have been a really sad occasion and then you

24:13

know, you don't want to be driving home and stuff. So

24:15

I'm like, obviously we're going together. Like

24:18

in my mind, I had already blocked off this whole

24:20

day. I didn't even think we would be doing the show. But

24:24

uh, yeah, you know, I just

24:26

but I wasn't gonna tell her like, listen,

24:28

I know you're gonna go. You need to go. Let's

24:31

give to the I'm gonna go. I'm not going

24:33

do anything that day. I'm just gonna say it. Like

24:35

I just was like, I'm just I'll just wait

24:37

for her to get to that point. So yeah, I figured

24:40

we would get there now. It was for the best, So all

24:43

right, now we can get into the

24:45

show, right guys.

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Some of you guys did give

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Money to the show, and

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we do have to give you guys your shout

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Thank you.

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It's so hard to look up when you look down.

26:10

I sure would hate to see you give him now.

26:12

God, you look so much

26:14

better when you smile.

26:19

Never will be perfect student,

26:22

meet today.

26:24

Today's a new day,

26:27

but there is no sunshine,

26:33

hot and it feels like a cold NIGHTE.

26:37

Today's a new day.

26:40

But tell me where are my blue sky?

26:46

As your promise to tell me? All

26:49

right, I

26:52

almost gave up.

26:54

My power that I can't

26:56

explain.

26:58

Hell come heaven like a

27:00

shower.

27:01

End I

27:05

smile, hurt,

27:08

smile.

27:10

I know God is working, so a smile.

27:14

I'm for a while I

27:16

smile.

27:18

Now down,

27:22

I have a great time.

27:24

Yay.

27:25

See how happy I was?

27:26

That's all I was. I'm happier than caring.

27:27

Everybody.

27:28

Let's get you not going to out Casey

27:30

and Jojo did laughing?

27:32

You didn't. You didn't laugh in the singing,

27:34

and you didn't know Ryn. Please write here and

27:36

everybody say how much better I am? All right,

27:38

let's get to do we.

27:40

Talk about your insecurities.

27:41

What is happening right now?

27:42

I'm just trying to win, okay, everything that's

27:44

not No, it's not a competition, and.

27:46

I'm behind and I got a lot of catching up

27:48

to do. Apparently.

27:48

All right, a lot of people writing about all this

27:51

joy. Okay, I want

27:53

to I want to participate.

27:54

In some joy.

27:55

They know you happy too, I don't.

27:57

They didn't write in about it.

27:58

Oh let's see we got five star

28:00

reviews.

28:01

This trick is not gonna work. I don't know what's wrong with you.

28:05

After the eight thousand times you

28:07

don't want to seem a.

28:08

Little insecure about losing your top place at the top.

28:10

I'm gonna see why you're so threatened. No,

28:14

it's just interesting to notice.

28:16

I mean, it's fine, ah

28:18

and not out threat because okay, the

28:22

joy in me come up.

28:25

So it does sound like it's a competition, Okay,

28:27

all right, cool.

28:29

It's not a competition. No, it's not.

28:31

No, it's not because you're winning. It's not a competition.

28:33

When you at the top, I get it.

28:34

I get a competition when you at the top.

28:36

Exactly after the eight thousand times

28:39

five stars. This

28:41

is from random Move Random

28:44

Obi. I

28:46

recently read that a person has to hear a

28:48

marketing message seven times before taking an

28:51

action. With the blackout tips,

28:53

I probably heard the give

28:55

us five stars reviews directive

28:58

about eight hundred times. Ah,

29:01

I guess we're not that effective at marketing. Be eight

29:03

hundred and first time here, I am thank you

29:05

for producing this show. Well, it did work

29:07

three to five times a week every week. I've

29:10

learned so much and had my perspective change in

29:12

on so many topics for the better

29:14

over the past four plus years.

29:16

Continue keeping it one hundred percent.

29:19

Well, thank you, thank you, and I'm glad

29:21

we finally wore you down.

29:23

Baby.

29:24

Some people it takes eight hundred times, and

29:27

you know what, I'm okay with that.

29:29

I'm okay too.

29:29

We're gonna keep on doing it.

29:31

Beautiful Minds five stars. This

29:33

is from hearty girl, who

29:35

says, I am sad,

29:38

angry, and disappointed

29:41

now what happened?

29:42

It has taken me so.

29:43

Long to do a review for one of the most relatable

29:45

podcasts of our times. Effortlessly

29:48

entertaining, hard working, insightful, and smart,

29:50

Rob and Karen don't necessarily demand their audience

29:53

be better people or agree with their perspective. Instead,

29:55

they lead by example by striving to be

29:57

better themselves, and that is inspiring as hell.

29:59

And then they hold out a hand to.

30:01

The rest of us episode at

30:03

the episode and say you can come with us if

30:05

you want to. I cannot express

30:07

enough how much I truly believe Ron

30:10

and Karen act with the best of intentions

30:12

and our hot take culture. Intentions are unpopular

30:14

and inconvenient, and mostly because of a

30:17

few who hide behind them to avoid

30:19

accountability. But if we're really

30:21

if we're really honest, we dismissed intentions because

30:24

to value them will require we have patience

30:26

and compassion to consider the humanity

30:28

of imperfect people and view societal issues

30:30

with nuance. Oh

30:33

and they are funny. They've managed

30:35

to find the right balance of breath and

30:37

depth when covering pop culture, news

30:39

and politics, and they always find the funny angle,

30:42

even if it's just a key from crime. Also,

30:44

if you listen over time to black Out Tips, you get

30:46

to know Roger and Karen's our individuals

30:49

and as a couple without feeling like the

30:51

podcast is just a way to compliment themselves

30:54

or air their grites with the world. When we're

30:56

not all doing Karen going a rank earned.

31:01

They are genuinely interested in and

31:04

passionate about the subjects of their fury. Moreover,

31:06

as a born and bred Southern Black woman made

31:09

in Louisiana, live in North Carolina,

31:11

Hey, Louisiana Fast, I

31:14

appreciate the love that chicken

31:16

from Papa. I'm sorry I had to finish it. I

31:18

appreciate the representation. Ps. I'm

31:20

not only a listener, I have been a sponsor trying

31:22

to wind company oh Els

31:26

Girl. Working with

31:28

the Blackoutists have been a rewarding experience.

31:31

I mean friendly and professional.

31:33

They have always gone above and beyond, often with hilarious

31:36

results. They inject energy and personality into

31:38

every ad and I'm truly grateful. As

31:40

a small business owner bobbing and weaving in this economy,

31:43

I don't always have a budget to demonstrate my gratitude.

31:45

But I hope this with you helps girl, you know it

31:47

hells. I think her name is Tiffany Im. I'm

31:49

not mistaken. I

31:51

hope I didn't guess wrong, but

31:53

but absolutely, and you were a pleasure

31:56

to work with. Man, we try to make it easy

31:58

as possible to do advertising stuff with us.

32:00

But you know, it's just a fine

32:02

line because like.

32:05

It's just fine, like because one, you have

32:07

a rate that you should earn, right, and

32:09

black people we always taken less

32:12

for doing the same, if not more

32:14

work. Right. And there's a small

32:16

business owner, I know you understand too, Like there's

32:19

a certain level like yo, in

32:21

order to maintain my integrity,

32:24

I have to I want to get paid my correct

32:26

rate, right, right. But we've

32:28

been on a lot of stuff. You know, people are

32:30

willing to work with us. If

32:32

you know, there's been times where people

32:35

will be like, well I can afford, you know, to

32:37

do an ad for three days, and I'll be like,

32:40

well, let's you know, we'll stretch

32:42

it to five or something. We'll give you a couple free.

32:44

Depending on what the business is, who the person is.

32:46

There are times where you know, I ask

32:49

the person, what's your budget, you know, and we

32:51

see if we can if there's something we can do. Also,

32:53

you know, refer to the other podcasts cause

32:55

like just because you can't afford our rate, we

32:58

don't ever want it to be like well then, because I think

33:00

other podcasts need help and advertising

33:03

helps them too, but sometimes people just

33:05

want, you know, just the one podcast they listen

33:07

to it or whatever. I get it. So anyway,

33:09

all that stuff to say, like, you know, she

33:11

was a pleasure to work with. And then it was

33:13

also fun because we were able to

33:16

like have fun with the

33:18

ad and turn it into like a whole show

33:21

and you know, and I really

33:23

did enjoy and do you know that stuff

33:26

we still probably got wanting there.

33:27

Yeah, we enjoyed going and trying to find some cheese

33:29

and crackers.

33:30

Right, It's like, let's make it a thing because like

33:32

the ingenuity and creativity is

33:34

the thing that makes I think advertising

33:37

dope. Or because I wanted

33:39

to be fun and I wanted to feel different than other

33:41

shows because you know, another show they

33:43

read sixty seconds on your ad and whatever,

33:46

and there are some ads we have to do like that. You

33:48

know, all of them can't be

33:50

you know, because depending

33:53

on how you guys don't know. But behind the scenes,

33:55

some of these sponsors are like, read

33:57

our shit exactly, how the fuck we said

34:00

you got sixty seconds? Don't pay all the

34:02

shit, and don't be making

34:04

no jokes about our shit, Like get in there

34:06

and get it out right, and

34:08

you never want to like make them not get their money's

34:10

worse.

34:11

So we you know, for them people, we do it that

34:13

way. But you know, we had

34:15

fun.

34:15

I mean, we used to do bebble. I made a bebel wrap

34:18

one time, like so

34:20

yeah, and I'm glad to

34:22

hear a sponsor has appreciated us

34:25

going above and beyond and doing the extra thing

34:28

instead of just doing the live read or or

34:30

not the liveries aren't good. We're good at that too,

34:33

but you know, I appreciate that that they appreciate

34:35

it. All right. We got

34:37

one five star review on stitcher Black

34:41

as the Pit five stars.

34:44

So Black as the Pit is the name of the person left the five

34:46

stars.

34:46

Okay, the name of the

34:49

review is beat the Brakes off

34:51

of You.

34:52

Ha ha.

34:54

I've been listening for a strong year now

34:56

and finally decide to leave a review of my favorite

34:58

podcast, this show. It has been life

35:00

changing and gives me the culture supplement

35:02

I need as a as I remain a Southern

35:05

guy that has transplanted over the Phoenix,

35:07

Arizona.

35:08

The chicken has no season in here. What

35:12

oh no, that's hell.

35:13

Oh no, there's some black people

35:16

out there.

35:17

Yeah, you gotta gotta get with the right

35:19

crew. I don't know what you're doing. The chicken had

35:21

no season.

35:22

Man.

35:23

I don't know how white Arizona is, but it's

35:25

gotta be an enclave.

35:26

Of blacks somewhere right

35:28

in the corner somewhere.

35:30

You know what you gotta do. You gotta do what the people did

35:32

today.

35:34

Find somebody having a funeral memorial can

35:37

shut up, wait till the family leaving, get

35:39

it to go. Late.

35:40

We wouldn't have known. You could have walked off stre you but

35:42

here you go, here's the go go. But there was plenty of

35:44

food.

35:45

It's no way we knew all them people. Okay, it

35:47

was a good ten to twelve people. I knew that. I knew they didn't

35:49

know nobody because they came in like suits and shit. I said,

35:52

hold up, who these black people?

35:55

By the end, it was like some white people and shit, I

35:57

don't know what was happening. But I know they got some chicken.

36:01

Karen got you? What

36:03

are you? Oh? Man?

36:05

Sometimes I wish I had.

36:06

A TV show because I could make a whole

36:08

episode about going to church just

36:10

because you miss black food. Like,

36:12

wouldn't that be a thing? Like you go like you not

36:15

even you don't even believe in it, but you just

36:17

you just keep coming up with excuses to hit that

36:19

at the church meal, try to slide

36:21

in, slide out. That would be a funny TV show.

36:23

Yes, Karen puts something on my

36:26

mind when she brought up the old Negro

36:28

adage, I'll beat the brakes off of you.

36:31

What does this phrase really mean?

36:33

Right?

36:34

I believe I'll come up with the answer.

36:36

When one is going to beat

36:39

the brakes off of you, they simply

36:41

mean that they are that as you

36:43

stand there, assumably stuck in

36:45

one spot, talking mess, ready

36:47

to fight, or just playing looking stupid foot

36:50

on the break. Once I hit that Headlican,

36:53

your feet will begin to move fastly,

36:56

quickly lol, in the direction that is opposite

36:58

to your currents have

37:00

been removed.

37:01

Yeah, they have.

37:02

Maybe literally your guess

37:05

as good as mine. I really don't

37:07

know what the fuck that means. I just know

37:09

I don't want it to happen to me.

37:10

No, I don't want nothing beat off of me.

37:13

Yeah, I will beat the breaks off of you.

37:16

Like I'm really trying to think what

37:19

possibly fucking meant? And how long have we been saying

37:21

it?

37:21

Have we only been saying this is the advent of cars?

37:25

I know that is like a Negro spiritual

37:28

somebody saying that, everybody looking like,

37:30

oh.

37:30

Well, we're saying it when there was like horses

37:32

and buggies. And I will beat

37:34

the horseshoes off of you. I don't even know what you say,

37:37

beat the reins off of you.

37:39

I don't know.

37:40

What I do know is please don't beat the breaks

37:42

off me?

37:43

Okay, and don't beat the black off of me either,

37:45

and don't beat to the white meat either.

37:47

I'm good on all those beatings.

37:48

There's only one type of beating off that goes on around

37:51

here, guys. All right,

37:54

not doing the rest of this stuff. All

37:56

right, let's get into the comments

37:58

on the episodes on our website, the blackouotips

38:00

dot com. No comments on

38:03

our first episode, which is the feedback

38:05

episode twenty twenty nine, which was I

38:07

think Lovers and Friends. But we

38:09

did have a poll Are you planning

38:12

on having sex in twenty twenty? Yes

38:15

or no? Careen,

38:18

Yes, well

38:20

obviously yes. Then I was

38:22

gonna say no, but I guess yes, there's

38:25

something you wanna tell me? No?

38:28

No?

38:28

Is that being an android in this house?

38:30

The fuck is this?

38:33

Anyway?

38:34

Seventy four?

38:35

I like somebody me?

38:37

Was I doing it with something? Somebody?

38:41

For you?

38:41

With robot and remote end?

38:43

What is this, mister Manhattan? I could be in the motor

38:45

one place at once, working

38:48

on the podcast, having sex in another room

38:51

playing Borderlands three?

38:54

Anyway?

38:55

Yes? Seventy four percent. Twenty

38:57

six percent of y'all said no, even

39:00

if a marriage, I don't blame you, Okay.

39:02

That's how Sierra got Russell Wilson what

39:06

Brooklyn shoe Base said. See what happened was

39:09

my boyfriend and I broke up in June in an ugly

39:11

way. He's a nark and I got discarded. I'm

39:13

in the helio. Sex would be

39:15

really nice, but I'm not planning on getting

39:17

any. If I happened upon some sex, it would

39:19

be really nice. Uh

39:22

how do you happen upon some sex?

39:24

Yeah?

39:25

If the sex just come mosying on

39:27

around my way, I won't say

39:29

no.

39:30

Yeah, how does how.

39:31

Does why does want to happen upon sex?

39:34

Yeah?

39:34

I mean in a non in a consensual way,

39:36

obviously, I don't want Yeah,

39:39

not the the way that that like

39:41

Bill.

39:41

Posy happens upon sex.

39:42

I mean, I say, normal human

39:45

being in a healthy, functional

39:48

relationship.

39:49

Mind, how do they happen upon some

39:51

sex?

39:52

Yeah?

39:52

You just mosing about your way and you know, all

39:54

of a sudden, you know, Oh

39:57

that's how it is.

39:59

Oh, you know what we can do this?

40:02

You just walk into a room that you don't know what's

40:04

in there, and you're like, oh, it's sex in here.

40:06

I'll be participating. I just happened upon it.

40:08

M h.

40:09

I had the other day.

40:10

I happened upon some sex, and I gotta tell

40:12

you, guys, it was pretty good. I'm

40:15

just not in an emotional place of any type of relationship

40:17

for sex. And I never really been the tender hook up person.

40:20

So my copay for this therapy session will be in the

40:22

mail. Ah.

40:24

Nah, I don't blame you.

40:24

Man, I guess you can't force it, you know, uh,

40:27

and you only you know your emotional health. Man,

40:30

Like, there's nothing worse than you know, trying

40:32

to get into You're not

40:34

in a good place and you bring someone else into it

40:36

somehow, and now you know you gotta deal with

40:38

the fallout from that. Stefan

40:42

Edmund says to my to be honest,

40:44

I have been ghosted so many times this

40:47

year. I don't think I will be having sex now.

40:50

Did I vote yes? And the poll yes,

40:52

I did, because I do plan on

40:54

having sex. Well, like all plans,

40:56

they usually take longer than inspected and don't

40:58

always go as plan. Love it, y'all, Well,

41:00

Stefan, I think you need

41:03

to see if you can have it upon some sex. Okay, I

41:05

think maybe you should just start hanging

41:07

out where Brooklyn Shoe Babe hangs out and you just

41:09

like put a sign on your shirt or

41:11

something that's just like.

41:12

Just sex, some sex. If you

41:14

happen upon if you like to happen.

41:16

Upon me, let me know, let me know, let

41:19

me know.

41:19

Okay, I'm be in the Brooklyn

41:21

library. Okay, just happen upon

41:24

my sex. It's it's totally fine, all

41:26

right. We had episode twenty thirty

41:29

Pink Tacos. Yeah Justin

41:31

on this show everybody

41:33

loves Justin. Yes, we

41:36

had comments. JL says this was

41:38

the best reading Rainbow segment and

41:40

I'm disappointed that no one has accused me of

41:42

creating a different account to lead that four star

41:44

review criticizing Reading Rainbow.

41:49

Well, you know, I know it's accused.

41:50

You jail, because there's nobody

41:53

that would think you would hide behind

41:55

an alias.

41:56

No, you just come out and tell us if.

41:58

You were gonna say when have you ever said something

42:00

horrible to me that I disagreed with and

42:03

did it from behind.

42:04

Jail as I'm gonna say it to your face type of man.

42:06

Yeah, it's why I respect hate you,

42:08

you know, right, because like Lisi

42:11

said it to my face.

42:11

But obviously this is some coon shiit hating

42:14

black panthers.

42:16

Katrice two six has I officially nominate

42:18

sores as a new official weapon of the show.

42:20

Lo O l prices moment. I

42:22

don't know what was going on.

42:23

I don't know.

42:24

I was just awful, elfe,

42:27

says Takashi sixty nine. Bodyguards are

42:29

essentially the equivalent the equivalent of big insurance.

42:31

When you get sick and really need the insurance, they

42:33

are like whoa, whoa, whoa.

42:35

Now this isn't what we signed up for. A sicket,

42:38

right.

42:39

You expect us to pay out?

42:41

No, where's Kalisi says,

42:44

I love that name. I wonder if there are

42:46

cases of dildos on the menu. Oh

43:00

yeah, in case of dial thos,

43:02

and you can talking with some hallow penis.

43:13

All right, let's get the next one.

43:16

Some lingus.

43:23

I couldn't help myself out.

43:26

I couldn't help myself.

43:27

Well you got one in.

43:29

Uh.

43:29

Pancho said, sorry, but we can't give Tyler

43:31

Perry a pass because we

43:33

would give anybody else who has the resource

43:36

that he has a pass if they had a show called Sisters

43:38

with no black women writers. Well,

43:42

uh, I feel what you're saying,

43:44

Pancho, but I'm gonna be real.

43:45

I'm not part of that.

43:46

We I was

43:48

willing to watch Confederate, So I'm

43:50

definitely not in the in the group

43:53

of people that would have been pissed about

43:55

that if it was someone else.

43:57

Yeah, it's it's the group.

43:59

Of people and they just you're just mad and it's

44:01

okay, Like it's like fucking forever,

44:03

cool cool cool.

44:04

Yeah. My man Stereo Williams said something on

44:06

Facebook. I think people should really take it to account.

44:08

It was like, there's a difference between

44:11

critique and condemnation, right,

44:13

and people need to figure out which one

44:15

it is they want and which one they're doing.

44:18

I don't think people are critiquing Tyler Perry.

44:20

I think they're condemning him, and they wish it didn't exist,

44:22

and they wish his work didn't exist. I think

44:24

at this point, you're the one that's being unrealistic.

44:27

If you say I watched a new

44:29

movie and I didn't like it, and I'm gonna watch the next and

44:31

I'm gonna complain about that, now, you're unrealistic.

44:34

I just want you to be healthy and safe.

44:36

That's all. I tried my best to

44:38

watch the new movie because people said it was his best

44:40

work. No, no one said that. No one said

44:42

that. You know, no one said that Pancho. Let's

44:45

be honest. That's

44:47

not the viral. The movie went viral

44:49

with people saying it was his worst work. Right,

44:52

People was taking pictures of wigs.

44:54

There was not one single review you read

44:57

that said it was good. Let's just start

44:59

with the lies. Man, we gotta be real.

45:01

If you're gonna write into the show, just the

45:03

man, raw intentional honesty.

45:05

That's all.

45:08

All I seen was jokes. That's how I even knew it was up.

45:10

The jokes. Yeah, maybe they laughingly

45:13

say it was his best work on some like it's the best

45:15

satirical, like the best one to

45:17

mock. But no one, no one's saying this is

45:19

his best work. I haven't seen one person

45:21

say that. Nope, And I know there's

45:24

always a person that says everything. I haven't

45:26

even seen that, motherfucker right.

45:28

It always pops up like.

45:29

There's not even Like on Twitter, there's always someone going viral

45:31

because everyone disagrees with them and they keep retweeting

45:34

it over and over. Not one person

45:37

like, I'm sorry, but it's not We all know

45:40

that's not true.

45:43

Anyway.

45:44

I could only make it to the fifteen minute

45:47

mark. My question is why can't he be both do

45:49

both high quality for the niggas who

45:51

like Atlanta, Insecure and Blackish

45:53

and bullshit for the people who like to pay his house

45:55

to pay to have and have nots.

45:57

Nope, nope, no, you go.

46:00

That's the thing. You don't demand this on other writers.

46:02

When you're talking about demand and shit, you don't go to other

46:05

people and they go, well, make some shit for

46:07

people that are not your audience.

46:09

We don't say makes something for

46:11

the people that watch Tyler Perry movies.

46:13

I don't say that, we go raising her lane

46:16

doing the work she wants to do. We don't

46:18

demand that she represents all black people,

46:20

and we don't bash her. We don't use that as a cudgel

46:22

against her, like you don't represent all

46:24

black people. And the people who do that

46:27

that do that to every black artist. I don't

46:29

like them me either. I don't hang out

46:31

with those kind of black people think they're I

46:33

think those motherfuckers are a real

46:35

drag man. It's just, I mean, they're

46:38

just not good people to be around. The

46:40

people that elevate everything to like this super

46:43

duper cause of like unity of blackness

46:45

is like, who the fuck as a creative

46:48

wants that kind of pressure on them. We

46:50

don't put that pressure on anybody else.

46:52

So I don't like that shit, you know.

46:55

And down the line, by the way, if if

46:57

Leena Waite is a

46:59

lesbian woman, I don't expect her to make

47:02

all her movies have to represent all

47:04

lesbian or LGBTQ people properly

47:06

or else fuck her. I don't know why

47:09

people do that, because once you put that expectation

47:11

on something, you know, people, no one can

47:13

live up to it. Because we don't

47:15

have a unity of opinion, and then you're

47:17

just using it to you know, like

47:19

like I said earlier, to condemn them.

47:22

You're not critiquing, you're condemning.

47:24

Yeah, you just don't want him to exist.

47:26

And the thing is, you know you can always opt

47:28

out. What about you opting out?

47:30

Right?

47:31

Like you act like they you tyler

47:33

parients supposed to cat it to me? No, no, no, no no no. He's

47:35

a creative and creatives just create,

47:38

and you, as a consumer, you determine if you

47:40

want to consuming or not.

47:41

Your first and foremost audience is a creative

47:43

is typically yourself. Right, So

47:46

if I like what I put out, y'all can't

47:48

do shit about it.

47:49

Mm mmm, you know, matter of fact.

47:51

But what we do is a podcast.

47:52

We've had people right in with their criticisms

47:54

and what we should do and change, and

47:56

sometimes, you know, we've taken okay,

47:59

maybe we can try this, and other times

48:01

it's been like, yeah, I think I like

48:03

what I do more than I care what

48:05

you think about it, right, And people can't

48:07

relate to that until they're on the other side.

48:09

But that's how I feel for sure.

48:11

I don't care what people think

48:13

about reading Rainbow if

48:15

I like it more than they

48:17

more. I like it more than I like their

48:19

opinion of me. So we do reading your

48:22

rainbow, now, see what I'm saying.

48:24

You know, So for me is one

48:27

of those things to where like

48:29

I said, you're making a demand on him

48:31

that you don't make on other creatives,

48:34

right, and you know, and it's also one

48:36

of them things is that you're acting

48:38

like you you can

48:40

always not watch you can, because that's

48:42

the thing a lot of times. But

48:45

I just I don't care about what people like and don't

48:47

like like that Like for me, that's not the problem.

48:49

The problem is the people that don't like shit are so fucking

48:51

vocal, right, they were

48:53

like, I don't like it, I don't like it, Okay, Okay,

48:55

you don't like it. Okay, okay, you didn't like the last

48:58

twenty five movies, Okay, calm down about

49:00

it. Gives a fuck that you don't like the twenty sixth movie.

49:02

And that's the part, that's the part that you don't want

49:04

to hear. And I think people telling y'all proud

49:07

enough of you, and.

49:07

I think they're being dishonest, because who the fuck

49:10

watches twenty six movies and keeps

49:12

watching the next one? Talking about they hate it.

49:15

So at some point, either you line or

49:18

you're you're one of those people that what they say,

49:21

repeating the same thing action expecting

49:23

different results is the definition of insanity.

49:26

So you're either insane in that way,

49:28

or you're fucking just lying

49:30

to everybody, and you actually do secretly love

49:33

telling everybody how fucking bad it is and

49:35

how you can grant stand in your blackness and say

49:37

how bad he is for black people and how

49:39

great you must be because you hate him so

49:42

right.

49:42

And also for the average person, when

49:45

they don't like shit, guess what, they don't talk about

49:47

it, they don't consume it.

49:48

They stay away. Like most people.

49:50

If they go with I don't like this, they

49:52

might say I don't like it, But guess what, that's

49:54

the it for the average person. They're not going

49:57

to continue to consume something that they don't like.

49:59

Like if we don't like Adam Sandler, no

50:01

one goes, well, Adam Sandler needs to make

50:03

a movie for the people

50:05

that don't like his other movies. Why And

50:07

then there's always a part that they skip over in this because

50:09

it's inconvenient.

50:11

Tyler Perry movies make a lot of money.

50:13

They go, well, you only say he makes a lot

50:15

of money to defend the fact he's not good. No,

50:18

I'm saying, I'm agreeing

50:20

with you. I don't think he's very good at it. I

50:22

don't like the work right for the most

50:24

part. What I'm saying

50:27

is, what's the reward system

50:29

that you want? Because the people that see his

50:31

name and go, I want to see that shit are

50:35

not going to like the

50:37

higher Art Atlanta shit when

50:39

they go in there.

50:40

They're that audience is gonna feel betrayed.

50:42

No one thinks about this audience because everybody

50:44

thinks they're better than these southern black women

50:47

that that church going.

50:49

Everyone thinks they're better than these people.

50:51

So everyone's like, well, make the fucking

50:53

Atlanta for like the movie,

50:55

but with Tyler Perry's name on it, and those

50:57

people are gonna walk in there and go, that was some bullshit.

51:01

I want my fart jokes, I want my cussin. Someone

51:03

didn't nobody popped the cap up in here, like

51:06

I don't like this. So I think if you

51:09

really truly respect black people

51:11

and black art, you have

51:13

to be like this person found that audience.

51:15

I'm just not in it. And that's the right.

51:18

And I'm and I'm cool, not going to

51:20

see it.

51:21

Right, And the thing is reconciling and being

51:23

okay with it because this is the thing. Tyler

51:25

Perry overserved and

51:28

super served a market, like

51:30

like, this is a market out there, y'all. That's why he's

51:32

making so much fucking money. And people, I don't understand.

51:35

You're not his market, and so you were, you

51:37

were never going to be fed by what he

51:40

put out there. He oversaturated

51:42

a market that was dying a straw,

51:45

a market that was like give me something, give me something.

51:47

He served them and so they were

51:49

dedicated because he actually met

51:51

their needs. It's the same thing with black

51:53

women Lehanna. Lehanna

51:56

came out with her makeup. She served

51:58

the underserved market, so

52:01

people paid her money because all of a sudden,

52:03

I can get some shit in my cloth and I don't

52:05

have to mix and blend and all this shit used to shades.

52:08

But Rihanna gets praised for that to write because

52:11

it's makeup. So rye rah rah rah

52:13

rah Rihanna a rye rah rah rah rah.

52:15

Somebody a black woman that that feels

52:17

this hole and black women kind of be like,

52:20

ooh, I need this, and then

52:22

they get paid as the reward. But for some

52:24

reason, when it comes to Tyler Perry and Henry One and his

52:26

audience, everybody goes, fuck that, fuck

52:28

that, fuck that, fuck that, fuck that. But this audience

52:30

still needs to be served.

52:32

Right because what they want, and I truly

52:35

believe this, they want his audience not

52:37

to exist.

52:38

Right, They want his work not to exist.

52:40

They keep talking around it because they know that

52:42

saying that is essentially,

52:44

you know, anti black, because

52:47

they're only saying it under the auspices of blackness.

52:49

They're not saying it because because

52:51

there's plenty of terrible quote unquote directors

52:54

and movie makers that nobody that we

52:56

like. We just don't see their movies. So

52:58

if you're not saying, there's a reason and this man

53:00

has to change everything because

53:02

you need to instill some type of black pride

53:05

about his work. And I'm just like I checked

53:07

out on that. I don't need that from him,

53:09

I don't need that from anybody. To be honest,

53:12

I like to I think the idea

53:14

of these people being individuals is probably

53:16

the most radical fucking idea that

53:19

can exist in blackness. It's

53:21

the hardest one to get to and

53:23

we all have our moments where you just can't make

53:25

it there with people. But that,

53:27

to me, that's the ultimate thing is being able to

53:30

the day that I'm able to say Ben Carson

53:32

is out here cooning and doing fucked up

53:35

shit and it has no reflection on me as a black

53:37

person, That'll be the day that I feel

53:39

really free until you

53:41

know, until then, I'm always trying to get everybody

53:44

to have to essentially live

53:48

up to some level of respectability. That's

53:50

what I'm doing. I'm not just saying individually I

53:52

don't like your work. I'm going you must change

53:54

your work for the goodness of the race. Well, then that's

53:56

not really.

53:57

Freedom, no, and diversity,

53:59

And the thing is people going out a monolift.

54:01

Well, being not a monolift means everything don't

54:04

have to be high art fart jokes is the part

54:06

of the monolitht too, you know, telling

54:09

Ranchi's stories and sex stories.

54:11

That's black shit too. Black people don't

54:13

And the thing is, y'all lie about so much stuff

54:16

because the shit that y'all quote Q A lot of people

54:18

claim they won't people won't fucking watch, right,

54:20

you don't watch.

54:21

The shit, And where's the money coming from then?

54:23

Right? Like, no

54:25

one likes to These are the questions people don't

54:27

like to answer, man like when they have these critiqueses.

54:30

So why should he listen to you? Because

54:33

it's gonna come down to some black respectability

54:35

shit. There's no good answer for

54:37

why he should have to listen to you. That's not couching

54:40

some level of I find

54:42

this to kind of be embarrassing to

54:45

me personally as a black person, because

54:48

there's no fucking reason he should listen to you. He already

54:50

told you he don't care about white people awards,

54:53

right, he said, Well, y'all was worried about to see at the

54:55

table. I made my own table. He don't care about that,

54:59

So you just have for me personally, I

55:01

reconcile it by I respect that

55:03

man's path that he

55:06

is taking on his own. Not a

55:08

big fan of his work, don't

55:10

mind that he exists, don't not bother about

55:12

it at all at all. And if I find something

55:15

reprehensible or whatever, I don't watch it. But

55:17

guess what, I don't watch anything reprehensible.

55:20

I don't like by people, so it's

55:22

not you know. And then and

55:24

I take it one step further. Sometimes

55:27

I enjoy bad shit, correct,

55:29

So I'm gonna partake in this bad shit

55:32

because I find it to be enjoyable and

55:34

it's a shame that, you know everybody

55:36

can't get like me and find their happiness

55:39

in it. But cool, but you're watching

55:41

this literally with your fucking like respectability

55:44

lenses on, being like, I need this

55:46

dude to do something for blackness. That's it. Don't

55:50

forget that him and Oprah even had a fallen out

55:52

because she wanted him to get writers one.

55:55

I have not heard that story, but I don't care.

55:57

Y'all don't like Oprah every other week too? So

56:00

what the fuck today? Today? Oh

56:02

man, I gotta listen to Over. Tomorrow is gonna be she better

56:04

than run for president? And then the next day

56:06

she all him doing documentaries about black

56:08

men, the sexual predators? What about Harvey

56:10

Watson? I don't know what the funck y'all don't think about

56:13

Over next week? I like

56:15

Over too, so

56:17

I'll just leave it at that. I don't really have a problem

56:19

with Oprah either. I got love for him,

56:22

but I do want him to do better and think that everybody's

56:24

criticism about his work, No,

56:26

it's not I

56:28

put it this way. I don't know you, Pancho, Maybe you really

56:30

are the last and the most unique nigga on

56:32

the earth, and you truly do think

56:35

fifty movies in He's gonna get it, right

56:38

you, Maybe that's really how you feel.

56:40

I don't know you, so I can't say. But

56:44

not knowing you and knowing people that have said

56:46

this same.

56:47

Thing, right, that's what I'm speaking.

56:49

I know this much. I don't

56:51

believe you, and I don't believe

56:53

them either. I don't give a fuck

56:55

it. They could be my best fucking friend. They can tell me

56:57

that shit to my face, and I'm gonna tell them. I think

56:59

you're lying, either in denial or

57:02

because I don't want to say you're dumb. But

57:06

I mean, I made this analogy or just another

57:08

day. It's like watching the NBA. I'm

57:11

watching James Harden. I

57:13

know how James Harden plays. Imagine

57:16

that I keep going, well, I'm waiting for the day when

57:18

he stops playing like James Harden and starts

57:20

playing like another NBA player that I do like, that's

57:23

ridiculous. I'm the one

57:25

who's you would look at me and be like, Ron, what the fuck

57:27

is wrong with you? This dude has won two MVPs

57:30

and or whatever the fuck and he's averaged

57:32

the most points in the NBA. This is

57:34

his game and this is how he's gonna play it for

57:37

as long as he can.

57:38

And I go now.

57:39

But I think if he plays like Lebron James, you

57:41

will be like Rod Something. You're gonna go crazy

57:44

watching this man's games, getting upset every

57:46

time you watch him play. You're gonna I'm

57:49

saying this as a friend, don't do it right.

57:51

That's how I feel like my friends would tell me if they saw

57:53

me hating on James Harden day in day out, right. I

57:56

feel like that's what y'all are doing with

57:58

Tyler Perry. I feel like you are my friend

58:01

who has a fucked up significant other who

58:03

you love to complain about, but you won't

58:05

break up with them. And god damn it, I

58:08

got a lot. I don't have many. Any time minutes, okay,

58:10

anytime minutes are running the fuck out, and

58:13

I don't want to be on the phone with you all day, wasting

58:15

any time minutes. Listen to you complain about

58:17

this nigga over and over again.

58:19

It's the same complaints from the last movie

58:22

and the movie before that and the movie before

58:24

that. It's too fucking much there's

58:26

a couple of highs within his entire catalog

58:29

and a whole bunch of lows. You don't fuck with.

58:31

I don't know what to tell you.

58:32

Dog.

58:33

You gotta let it go for your sake,

58:35

not.

58:35

For me, because I don't want to see y'all

58:38

mad all the.

58:38

Time, right, because I could continually cook

58:40

off of this nigga making these movies me too,

58:42

for the rest of my life. I'm never gonna

58:45

get tired of these movies.

58:47

I'm never gonna get tired.

58:48

In fact, I want him to bring back the boot series.

58:51

Yeah, boo three.

58:53

I don't know what to tell y'all.

58:54

Man, I'm sorry that y'all are upset, but yeah,

58:57

And the other thing too, is like when we're like, I

58:59

can't give them a pass, nigga, Tyler Perry don't

59:01

know you like,

59:04

like we elevate our own entitlement and importance

59:07

when we do this, Like I can't. I

59:09

gotta hold Oprah accountable. Oprah

59:12

doesn't for she will never hear what you

59:14

said about her. So

59:16

so like, what can we control?

59:18

You know what I'm saying.

59:19

I'm not saying you can't be upset, blah blah blah,

59:21

but just this idea that you're holding

59:23

them accountable with your comment

59:26

on our on our podcast that she's never

59:28

heard of. I'm promising you you're not.

59:30

Nothing's happening. You can start a petition,

59:33

she'll never see it, and if she

59:35

does, she'll you know, it'll be a gofund

59:37

me. I mean, what else petition

59:39

dot org websites and they'll be

59:41

fucking a million signatures

59:43

and you know she'll be like, tuh, I'm not doing that right.

59:45

That's just how it is.

59:46

These motherfuckers don't They're not sitting

59:49

around trying to please us, and especially when

59:51

they are being fed by these other people's

59:53

money, They're never coming around here.

59:55

They do not miss y'all dollars.

59:56

Now, I hope y'all understand that they are not missing

59:59

your protesting. And

1:00:01

for somebody, I was a fauxcot because this shit

1:00:03

probably wouldn't trend it on Netflix because

1:00:05

everybody hated it.

1:00:07

Some of y'all watched it.

1:00:08

Yeah, So anyway, man, good luck with that

1:00:10

though. I mean, like I said, I just

1:00:12

see it differently. I'm not trying to be disrespectful

1:00:14

Pancho, but I mean, you represent

1:00:16

and I'm glad you wrote there because you represent a lot of people

1:00:19

who.

1:00:19

Say these things.

1:00:20

Right, that's what we're talking to.

1:00:21

Like I said, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I

1:00:23

just simply cannot believe you, and I don't

1:00:25

feel like you're being honest with yourself. I think if you're

1:00:27

honest with yourself, you'd realize that

1:00:29

it's not about hoping he gets better. It's really

1:00:32

about hoping he goes away.

1:00:33

Right and doesn't exist.

1:00:34

Yeah, because every time someone's like, well he get at least

1:00:37

fund other people's work.

1:00:38

Who's gonna be the person that picks who's worth the fun?

1:00:41

Yeah? So you think he gonna pick people

1:00:43

they do the opposite working him. No, he's gonna pick people

1:00:45

they do shit like he likes for his audience,

1:00:47

who likes the shit that he does? So you're

1:00:49

just gonna get td Jake's you

1:00:52

know producing or right, you know I'm

1:00:54

producing the TDJ Show. Now, that's just what the fuck

1:00:56

is gonna be? Man, Stalnad

1:00:59

says, I can't believe said very casually.

1:01:01

Are there any games today? What? My

1:01:04

team has battled a multitude of misfortune for

1:01:06

fifty years, including the Madden Curves

1:01:09

this year that Rod so eloquently pointed out

1:01:11

earlier in the season, they delivered some

1:01:13

of the most entertaining football games in the last

1:01:15

two seasons to reach back to back

1:01:17

ALC championship games, and Justin is

1:01:19

talking like there may be a pickup game

1:01:21

of touch football going on later at the park.

1:01:23

You hate to see it as a regular

1:01:26

faithful listener to.

1:01:27

Balls these sports to not hear

1:01:29

one peak from Rod Karen Justin

1:01:31

about the epic Kansas City Chiefs

1:01:34

come back against the Houston Texas. That

1:01:36

hurt. But maybe it's my fault for

1:01:38

not writing into the show. Okay, before

1:01:41

we go in, definitely your fault.

1:01:43

You know, we don't talk about you all little sports games

1:01:45

on the Sports Show.

1:01:47

You want to talk about the shit that really matters, baby

1:01:49

mama.

1:01:50

You want to talk about sports on the Sports Show.

1:01:52

You get that up front and right in, and we can

1:01:54

give you the full breakdown of

1:01:57

the numbers and stuff that you know we're not

1:01:59

gonna do.

1:01:59

But you can write in and.

1:02:01

We could talk about what we've seen we talk about.

1:02:03

If you weren't excited enough to write in, how

1:02:06

can I be excited enough to talk about it? You

1:02:08

know, I watched like three minutes of football

1:02:10

and I listen, I bought

1:02:13

a pair of colleg Kaepernick shoes. Okay,

1:02:15

guys, I'm boycott. I've been

1:02:17

telling you all this all. I'm

1:02:20

off of the NFL. Okay,

1:02:22

I only catch it for

1:02:24

five minutes before I had take my old

1:02:26

man cash up catch nap.

1:02:27

I haven't really been watching.

1:02:29

Yeah, we talked about Instagram thoughting.

1:02:31

Yeah. I told people years ago

1:02:34

I've been falling off of football for a

1:02:36

long time, and sure, if I

1:02:38

can focutt now, I guess I'll

1:02:40

join the focus. Yeah,

1:02:43

you know, I got to get to you know, the people

1:02:45

that hate that that was that.

1:02:47

Was talking all the ship and that hate.

1:02:48

Uh, that hate that I wasn't

1:02:51

joining in the protest even though I was telling

1:02:53

them, I'm not really watching football as much because

1:02:55

I just don't. It's not as good as it used to be.

1:02:58

So anyway, I haven't been watching the games. I've seen

1:03:00

some of that comeback because I think we went to a

1:03:02

bar. Yeah, we went to a bar

1:03:05

and we saw the comeback. I mean

1:03:07

when it was happening, I said, these niggas gonna come back, so

1:03:10

you know, and then of course the Titans

1:03:13

game, I mean, that shit was boring.

1:03:15

The Titan shouldn't even be out there with Kansas City.

1:03:17

Kansas is too good and honestly

1:03:20

the only thing that can happen coming out of this

1:03:23

Super Bowl. I

1:03:26

mean the Titans have to win. I mean the kan

1:03:28

City Chiefs have to win or

1:03:31

else, your

1:03:33

man, my homes has failed all black people.

1:03:35

It's it's really a zero something game. So I

1:03:37

hope he wins.

1:03:38

Yeah, and you're talking about somebody

1:03:41

that won her own fantasy football league and didn't

1:03:43

even realize it.

1:03:43

Karen didn't even know she wanted to fantasy football.

1:03:45

I thought I was out the playoffs.

1:03:47

We don't have red ones.

1:03:48

My team was bad. My team was bad.

1:03:51

I was like, because I always play to the end. My team

1:03:54

was so bad that, well, shit, I'm at the playoffs, but I keep

1:03:56

playing, fucked around and win. You

1:03:58

know you want big No, I didn't.

1:04:00

Right, So Okay, there's no

1:04:02

offense to y'all. Appreciate you right now. But if

1:04:04

you want to talk sports, please write in, because I

1:04:07

want to talk about Cam Newton cheating on

1:04:09

his baby mama with another woman. Yes,

1:04:12

I talk about Antonio Brown now

1:04:14

on one call, I'm trying to

1:04:16

talk about Drea putting

1:04:19

up a picture of Russell Wilson with baby

1:04:21

Future talking about what I gotta do, Sierra for

1:04:23

me to get.

1:04:24

A man like this.

1:04:25

That's the type of sports we come.

1:04:26

That's the sports show. Okay. This

1:04:29

motherfucker is Eli Man and Hall of

1:04:31

Fame.

1:04:32

Nigga, I don't care, you

1:04:34

know what I'm saying. Those are sports topics. Cares

1:04:37

about that shit.

1:04:39

And why don't they call it the Hall of Accomplishment because

1:04:42

it's not the Hall of Fame.

1:04:43

Eli Man and is famous.

1:04:44

He should be in the Hall of Fame if

1:04:47

we're talking about the Hall of Statistics, then of course

1:04:49

not.

1:04:49

He's sorry, shit had like three

1:04:51

good games.

1:04:52

Like anyway, just

1:04:55

saying sports sports stock is stupid, But

1:04:57

that's okay. I'll keep riding my Kansas City Chiefs

1:05:00

Wave all the way to Miami, and I keep.

1:05:02

Listening to Balls EAS Sports too, And that's why I

1:05:04

like to hear it.

1:05:05

I mean, how else will I know that cam news out

1:05:07

here getting caught up in the leg like see, this

1:05:09

is the work we do. See, Yeah,

1:05:12

this is our mission at Balls D Sports.

1:05:14

We keep y'all informed on the stories

1:05:16

that nobody else is covering.

1:05:18

He literally was Balls Deep Okay,

1:05:21

yes, right, up our Ali and

1:05:23

her Alley. I mean, let's

1:05:26

be honest, that's why we listen. Love you

1:05:28

guys. I always love when Justin George's regular show styles

1:05:30

Nage in Atlanta, KC Native Go Chiefs,

1:05:32

Go cheese. Thank you baby.

1:05:34

I hope y'all win.

1:05:35

Man.

1:05:35

What's the other people playing?

1:05:36

I don't know, but I'm moved for KC.

1:05:40

Forty nine ers.

1:05:41

Forty nine ers the other team playing, and I

1:05:43

don't like them, Like, there's nothing

1:05:45

about that team that I really like. Good team

1:05:47

though, you know, they only need

1:05:49

to play one good game. So hey, maybe just

1:05:52

I don't know, maybe they can do that thing where they just

1:05:55

running the ball a whole lot and Patrick

1:05:57

Mahons didn't get the ball. You know, Super Bowls always

1:05:59

be weird as fucking anyway. It's always some stupid shit

1:06:01

that happened, like, uh,

1:06:04

the one the sorry teams be

1:06:06

raining or something. It's always some weird shit that make

1:06:09

it like a, oh, it's gonna come down to the fourth

1:06:11

quarter, you know, at least lately.

1:06:13

But I to be honest, I'd love to see

1:06:15

like Kansas City go just blow

1:06:18

these niggas out, just just like not

1:06:20

even like we only watching for the commercials.

1:06:22

I love to see that.

1:06:23

Yeah, I always come for the commercials anywhere.

1:06:25

I love to see that. Evie says, I bet the deal

1:06:27

though, Taco's Ladies customers are always

1:06:29

wanting why the tortillas tastes so yeasty?

1:06:33

Yo?

1:06:33

Wow? Yeah, thank

1:06:36

you. V The

1:06:38

poet should Instagram in form you

1:06:41

when a pick has been altered. Yes,

1:06:43

we need to know the truth. No, I don't want

1:06:45

to know, Karen, I

1:06:48

don't want to know, okay, uh

1:06:50

sixty six actually don't care. I

1:06:54

say, yes, we need the true.

1:06:56

Sixty six percent of people agree with me. Thirty

1:06:59

four percent of people agree with Karen. The reason

1:07:01

I know comments, by the way, But the reason I

1:07:03

like this idea is because, honestly,

1:07:06

for the kids.

1:07:07

You know, I think the body image issues.

1:07:10

From that perspective.

1:07:11

Okay, because I was just thinking about for me and as an adult,

1:07:13

but yeah, for children, yes, yes, yeah,

1:07:16

put know on it said that this you know, this

1:07:18

is the before and after something, this picture has been

1:07:20

altered.

1:07:20

Yeah, I want them to be like, look, man, I don't

1:07:23

you know this is not this

1:07:25

is photoshop?

1:07:25

Yeah no, nobody's body actually

1:07:28

looks.

1:07:28

Like yeah, so don't like fucking try to kill

1:07:30

yourself to get to look like this woman who clearly

1:07:32

just is using a whole bunch of you

1:07:34

know, angles, filters and photoshop. Come

1:07:37

on, Eve says, I agree with you. Oh, episode

1:07:40

twenty thirty one, the water warehouse. This

1:07:43

is a momentous of cajun here, guys, so

1:07:45

be ready for Eve's comment. I

1:07:47

agree with you on Burger King. They are doing the absolute

1:07:50

most. They seem to be throwing

1:07:52

stuff at the wall to see what sticks. I knew

1:07:54

something was up when they started selling tacos. Burger

1:07:56

King is trash anyway, worst fast

1:07:58

food fries and Burger's taste like our cold

1:08:01

doesn't even come close to Arby's. Wow,

1:08:04

we agree on everything but the last sentences. I'm

1:08:07

gonna take this as a victory.

1:08:09

Take it as a win.

1:08:09

Yeah, I'm moving on to the next topic the

1:08:13

poe. Should the pr Should the Puerto

1:08:15

Rico Emergency Director have to go to jail?

1:08:17

Yes? That was a criminal negligence having all

1:08:19

those supplies in the warehouse. No,

1:08:22

it was messed up, but not a crime care Yes.

1:08:25

Wow, you negroes always

1:08:27

love to send somebody to the prison industrial complex.

1:08:30

Why can't we just have

1:08:32

prison abolition and person like

1:08:34

this that is in charge of life saving resources

1:08:37

and dozens of people die. Why

1:08:39

do they gotta go to jail? It's just like the Flint thing all

1:08:42

over again. I'm sick of jail being the

1:08:44

only solution you guys all look into.

1:08:47

What is the option that we were both.

1:08:48

We will talk to them nicely, We'll

1:08:51

say you should not have done that bad

1:08:53

job, bad bad job, and

1:08:56

then they on loan not to do it again. We leave them in charge

1:08:59

because I mean, watch anyone, you

1:09:01

know, we don't hurt their feelings.

1:09:03

I disagree. I disagree, homeboy.

1:09:04

Okay, well, I guess you and everybody

1:09:07

just ninety four percent of y'all basically

1:09:09

said. Ninety three percent of y'all said they

1:09:12

should go to jail.

1:09:13

Lock them nas up.

1:09:14

Seven percent of y'all agree with me

1:09:16

that they should be free to

1:09:18

just do it again, because fuck it? What are

1:09:21

rules? Why why do we even get the

1:09:25

last The last

1:09:27

episode of the week was twenty

1:09:29

thirty two Panic Culture, all

1:09:31

right, and we talked about

1:09:34

a lot of stuff, all right. The opening

1:09:36

reading Rainbow was about

1:09:39

how social media changes our creativity. Ms.

1:09:42

Barnes seventy two says, thank you for your perspective

1:09:44

on panic culture. I was that person

1:09:47

that watches the news all the time. But the way

1:09:49

the news tries to make everything panicky, I

1:09:51

will either lead to I would either

1:09:53

read the news from BBC or

1:09:56

I'm going back to reading

1:09:59

newspapers. Yeah,

1:10:01

I also read my news from the BBC. Okay,

1:10:04

you know, y'all, they do a lot

1:10:06

of good work.

1:10:06

No, two different BBCs to the two completely

1:10:09

different like.

1:10:10

Car Please, the BBC featured

1:10:14

on Black Black Raw.

1:10:17

I don't think you're talking about that. You're talking about

1:10:19

the British Columbia all all

1:10:21

the all, the.

1:10:22

British Broadcasting Company. Okay, my

1:10:24

bad, okay BBC.

1:10:26

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, they're

1:10:29

both on films, but they two different types of films.

1:10:31

They do good work.

1:10:32

I mean, they both can inform you of ship,

1:10:34

but they inform you in two different types.

1:10:35

Okay, no, no, I thought she was talking about

1:10:37

like lex and still Man.

1:10:39

Then you know, okay, cool, cool, I get

1:10:41

it. My bad, total forget

1:10:43

what I said.

1:10:45

She had to tell you what's happening.

1:10:47

Okay, just complete misunderstanding, My bad. Just

1:10:49

clarify next time.

1:10:50

Can y'all write it all the way out, because that's

1:10:53

just not what I've been told the mings. That's all, uh,

1:10:56

Felix says. Really love to reading Rainbow segment.

1:10:58

I keep finding myself starting to get mad at things I see

1:11:00

on the news of social media, and catching myself and

1:11:02

just logging off for Twitter or turning up off

1:11:04

the news before I stress myself out. Even

1:11:08

with using social media way less than

1:11:10

I used to, every time

1:11:12

I took a look at it, it's always gets

1:11:15

harder than not to not just keep strolling scrolling,

1:11:17

which is very bad, especially when the time I can spend

1:11:19

doing creative things is limited. You

1:11:22

both really hit the nail on the head with the discussion.

1:11:24

Thank you.

1:11:26

Yeah, man, another thing

1:11:28

I've been doing lately.

1:11:29

I didn't realize they added this feature on Facebook,

1:11:31

and maybe they've been at it. I just didn't realize it. But

1:11:34

you can like choose to unfollow people

1:11:37

in your main feed without unfriending

1:11:39

them, so you'll have to worry about their hurt feelings.

1:11:41

And it's the best shit ever. I

1:11:43

actually used that a lot.

1:11:45

Yeah, because some of these people man like I

1:11:48

find I think it's the algorithm

1:11:50

though, because I'm sure they find me too much as well,

1:11:53

But it's like they like It's like Facebook

1:11:56

seeks out these people that like you got to interact

1:11:58

with this, look at their opinion on this, and

1:12:00

I I.

1:12:01

Got the most interacting okay, bitch and positive.

1:12:04

So I just unfollow a lot of people now trade

1:12:09

right saying thanks for the reading rainbow segment.

1:12:11

I think one of the key things is obviously people not falling

1:12:13

for the butan and the tailpipe. It bothers

1:12:16

my mind when I see folks on social media less strangers

1:12:18

take them to that stressful last place. Roy, you

1:12:20

always make a good point of pointing this out

1:12:22

on the show that you never know what

1:12:24

a person's motives are for posting wild shit online.

1:12:27

Yeah, you don't.

1:12:27

Man.

1:12:28

The other thing I'm realizing too, man Like,

1:12:32

it's about that time for the primaries. They're heating

1:12:34

up and people's opposition

1:12:36

research is starting to come to a head. And you know,

1:12:39

the fans online that that do the

1:12:41

kind of culture personality thing for these politicians

1:12:44

are going back and forth. And one

1:12:46

of the things I realize is I can post

1:12:48

an article an opinion and I just don't have to interact

1:12:51

with you. No, I don't.

1:12:52

I don't owe it to anybody because not everyone's

1:12:54

in good.

1:12:54

Faith interaction is not guaranteed,

1:12:56

nor is the promise.

1:12:57

I prefer to talk to people I know perfect

1:13:00

her, hopefully in real life, or not at

1:13:02

all. And so you know, that's why I

1:13:04

put on my quality filter. That's why I'm not normally

1:13:07

in my mentions going back and forth with people anymore,

1:13:09

because it's just like it was not healthy. It

1:13:11

was I was in a bad place.

1:13:13

It's putting me in a bad place. And anger

1:13:16

feels like power.

1:13:17

So at that time, I never felt like I was in a bad

1:13:19

place, but I was, and I only

1:13:21

know so now in hindsight, well, I'm like, I

1:13:23

shouldn't have been arying with some fucking like

1:13:27

anime avatar nigga all day. What that's

1:13:29

not good anime in animal

1:13:32

right.

1:13:33

Landscapes do

1:13:35

with SHA's and hat on. It's just it's

1:13:37

a bunch of just.

1:13:38

No horizons of the sun coming up, note

1:13:41

right, and some of that.

1:13:42

Some of those people are gonna be good people, real people.

1:13:44

I don't care put

1:13:46

your face in your fucking avatar. What's

1:13:49

going on with everybody? Like, whether

1:13:52

you're saying online is so scared you gotta

1:13:54

be like, I'm just gonna make myself a cartoon because

1:13:57

don't nobody need to know.

1:13:58

I'm over here saying this ship. I'm scared, like

1:14:01

I don't.

1:14:01

Like that shit.

1:14:02

I don't like that shit.

1:14:03

Oh it just a way to be like not just the just

1:14:05

all cartoon avatars, No, like

1:14:09

be a real person.

1:14:10

Eagles flag.

1:14:11

Yeah, maybe a caricature of yourself would

1:14:13

be okay, but not know like Bob's

1:14:16

Burgers is yelling at me talking about I

1:14:18

don't see what's wrong with Joe Rogan saying the N word.

1:14:20

You know what, I don't want to talk to you.

1:14:22

No, okay, I don't believe sk Chiha

1:14:25

would have this opinion, so I'm gonna need you to cheer.

1:14:27

He would actually be against this, right.

1:14:31

Listen to the Leaf Village.

1:14:32

We listened to Joe Rogan's podcast all day

1:14:35

and we don't have no problem with him.

1:14:36

Now, Retold would not go for that.

1:14:38

One thing I learned for myself is to try, and

1:14:40

I stress, try to use the platforms for good in

1:14:42

some kind of way, whether it's bringing awareness and

1:14:44

causes are justly adjustice

1:14:47

situations, or in my case, I used to

1:14:49

educate myself or get advice from pro filmmakers.

1:14:51

The screenwriters will follow on Twitter use a platform

1:14:54

for some kind of good. That's

1:14:56

smart if you can, and just keep stroggling

1:14:58

past the bad.

1:14:59

Thanks again, Ryan Caaren.

1:15:01

Yeah, to be honest, man, Like

1:15:03

what I'm trying to do, and it's hard because

1:15:05

you know, I'm a human being, and it's

1:15:07

like the quickest thing you can do is just like fire for tweet

1:15:10

or something. But what I'm trying to do

1:15:12

is try to remember my lane is funny,

1:15:15

right, and go back to like what

1:15:17

can I I don't mind commenting on things, but what

1:15:20

how did I get to the funny end of thing rather

1:15:23

than the first thing?

1:15:24

Because the first thing I think most of.

1:15:25

The time is not funny, especially

1:15:28

when it's something serious, like I'm normally

1:15:30

I'm pretty mad, but I can point

1:15:32

out the irony or the funniness

1:15:34

or the this is like this or people

1:15:37

say this thing but then they do this thing. You

1:15:39

guys, hear it on the show out the time. I'm sure something y'all

1:15:41

sick of it. But that's how

1:15:43

that's how my brain works, and that's what the fuck I'm gonna

1:15:45

do, you know. So if I can find

1:15:48

that, I don't mind talking as much. But sometimes

1:15:50

I can't find it, and there's topics I

1:15:52

just don't talk about because I'm like, this shit is stupid,

1:15:55

or what I'm gonna say is so obvious

1:15:57

and not funny. I just don't want to

1:15:59

contribute. And

1:16:01

then sometimes and then sometimes the joker hit

1:16:03

me. I'm like, boom, that's that's the joke. So

1:16:06

Evie says, I really love the joy in your voice

1:16:08

when you sing reading Rainbow parents see

1:16:10

Here we go, Here we go, And

1:16:16

that's why Rbye sucks. It's my new

1:16:18

favorite segment because not only do I

1:16:20

learn things, I get my life when you sing the

1:16:22

song. I saw the latest Tyler Perry

1:16:24

movie on Netflix and there was a hot ass mess

1:16:26

and I loved every minute of it because I laughed

1:16:29

and laughed. The key to watching Tyler Perry

1:16:31

movies is suspend disbelief, don't try

1:16:33

to think hard about it, or else they're not as enjoyable.

1:16:35

Yeah, I mean, I'm just here

1:16:38

for my stories. Honestly,

1:16:40

I want Tyler. Netflix would put this out in the theaters

1:16:42

for a week. I'll go see it.

1:16:45

I don't give a fuck. Is a Fathom event, I'll go

1:16:47

see it. Yeah, I'll pay the extra money.

1:16:50

I'll go see it with my folks.

1:16:53

If the Black House'll be fun. If

1:16:55

we could rent out of theater and sell the tickets

1:16:57

and just have a private screening of

1:16:59

Tyler. I would to this for

1:17:01

the folks, for the culture, for the people that give a

1:17:03

fuck, that want to have a good time, and for the

1:17:05

ones that hate. I'll show you how to have a good

1:17:07

time. It's so much more fun than what you're doing.

1:17:10

Like, Damn, nobody think

1:17:12

it's good, but we do. We are gonna have

1:17:14

our fun, sir, last or

1:17:17

not least. I'm probably gonna get called a kun for this,

1:17:20

But during the white people segment, in my opinion,

1:17:23

I like the original white versions of the song

1:17:25

versus the covers. Although the black covers

1:17:27

are way better than when white people cover black songs,

1:17:30

still some of those white songs slap.

1:17:32

Please don't come for me, Wally D. Listen.

1:17:36

I'm not gonna say a single bad thing about you. Ev

1:17:39

That's your prerogative, and that's fine with me. I

1:17:41

feel like it lends to equality

1:17:44

that we have diverse opinions of people that write

1:17:46

into the show, So don't feel bad about

1:17:48

that at all.

1:17:49

Anybody don't always agree with us.

1:17:51

What I will say is this, people

1:17:54

that are listening to the show. This

1:17:57

is the motherfuckers that talk about Arby's

1:17:59

is good. Arrest

1:18:01

my fucking case. Let's get

1:18:03

to the pole. That's

1:18:05

all. Leader. Okay, Uh

1:18:08

did you get a bonus? Did

1:18:11

you get a bonus at your job? Yes?

1:18:13

No, I don't have a job. Care

1:18:17

No, you know, I don't get a bonus.

1:18:19

Is we pay ourselves?

1:18:21

Although, could I give myself

1:18:23

a bonus?

1:18:24

Yes, you could if you

1:18:26

want to be taxing abut your

1:18:28

rate?

1:18:29

Oh yeah, that's right, the tax implication. Now, Ima,

1:18:32

I'm gonna.

1:18:32

Just keep paying myself the same

1:18:34

amount.

1:18:34

Of digging in North Carolina, they with

1:18:37

that bonus.

1:18:37

Yeah. I don't know everything. I feel like I'm

1:18:40

I don't need the IRIS call in my house and shit like, nigga,

1:18:42

this bonus, what's up with this?

1:18:44

I don't know how it works anyway?

1:18:46

Uh?

1:18:47

Yes, our audience got

1:18:49

a bonus at their job. Good congratulations,

1:18:51

good for you forty job.

1:18:53

Stop doing that.

1:18:54

Yeah, and I used to do like that was

1:18:56

a company.

1:18:57

We used to get a bonus, but it was like one hundred

1:18:59

dollars and so one

1:19:01

hundred dollars tax at fucking sixty

1:19:04

percent.

1:19:04

No Carolina, fucking ridiculous. Like I said, they

1:19:06

tax is so goddamn how you like just

1:19:09

give me a fucking gift card?

1:19:10

That hell was this? Yeah? Uh, forty

1:19:12

five percent said no, I'm sorry,

1:19:15

and five percent don't even have a job. And

1:19:17

I completely I've been there too, been

1:19:19

in all these categories, Eve,

1:19:22

He says, at my last corporate job, we got twenty five

1:19:24

dollars gift cards bonuses and it was

1:19:26

tax damn.

1:19:28

Oh, so they just didn't go up the street and just get

1:19:31

a gift card and give it to you like most johns.

1:19:33

I mean, I would feel sad for you, but twenty

1:19:35

five dollars tax is really like three

1:19:37

meals at Arby's. So you congratulates, I guess

1:19:40

says you love it so much? Why don't you marry

1:19:42

Arvey's. Stephan

1:19:46

said, Eve, He's

1:19:48

been listening long enough that I know she's

1:19:50

she's like to get the jokes. Yeah, uh,

1:19:53

Stephan says, Hi, guys, I have to just see

1:19:55

the impact of me.

1:19:56

Guys, I leaped out just now fucked up

1:19:58

my own.

1:19:59

Good feeling of jokes.

1:20:00

It was like, but what if her feelings are hurt

1:20:02

from these jokes?

1:20:03

Like, oh god, no, she's been

1:20:05

around long enough Stefan says, Hi, guys,

1:20:07

I just had a question for Rod. I heard

1:20:09

you mention you watched The Leftovers. I'm a huge

1:20:11

fan of the show. However, the show had so much going

1:20:13

on the last four episodes had me kind

1:20:15

of confused on some things. However, I just wanted

1:20:18

to know what did you think of the show overall?

1:20:20

How did you feel about the ending and were you satisfied

1:20:22

with how it ended?

1:20:22

Thank you, oh Man. I really

1:20:25

enjoyed the show because of

1:20:27

the ending.

1:20:28

I appreciate the ending because I

1:20:30

guess it's a spoiler, but it's old right for

1:20:33

five years now. So the idea of like

1:20:36

this alternate dimensioned Earth where

1:20:38

the half the people had gone and the other

1:20:40

half of the people had stayed on

1:20:42

the Earth that we originally saw, and I

1:20:45

actually liked that. I thought it for

1:20:47

a Lindelophs show, I had low

1:20:50

expectations. I didn't think we would even get any

1:20:52

real answers. I thought he's gonna end it with the like

1:20:55

it's really about the journey, and no, he gave us

1:20:57

definitive answers.

1:20:59

I do Lindelof.

1:21:03

Just like Lost I found the Leftover was a little tedious

1:21:06

and we need to keep coming up with

1:21:08

questions that are the answers to other

1:21:10

questions thing. But

1:21:15

between the acting performances and

1:21:18

that ending, I felt that

1:21:20

it was enough of a payoff for me to at least

1:21:22

ad meant it was a huge improvement over

1:21:25

Lost for me. That

1:21:27

being said, it does not even compare to

1:21:29

Watchmen. To me, Watchmen was fucking fantastic.

1:21:31

Ten out of ten. I'd say Leftovers

1:21:33

is probably like seven out of ten for me, maybe

1:21:36

six out of ten because there

1:21:38

is a long wait for some of these answers and

1:21:41

the answering questions with question thing is

1:21:43

where and that joint also

1:21:45

had a magical Negro type thing

1:21:48

happening in it with some like niggas

1:21:50

was it's like this witch

1:21:52

that happens to be black and this other person to the future

1:21:55

and the black and there's other I'm like, that's happening

1:21:57

with all the black people with the powers. But

1:22:00

but yeah, I other than that, I mean, I really like

1:22:02

the show, to be honest, man, I And it

1:22:04

introduced me to uh some

1:22:06

some some good actors and stuff. So yeah,

1:22:09

I liked it a lot. So hope

1:22:12

to answer your question. All

1:22:15

right, that's it for that segment.

1:22:17

We also have some voice a voicemail.

1:22:20

Okay, uh seven O four

1:22:22

five five seven zero one a

1:22:25

six is the voicemail line.

1:22:26

Make sure it's two minutes or less. You will get

1:22:28

cut.

1:22:29

Off the voicemail.

1:22:30

Don't play, Yeah.

1:22:31

So seven O four five five seven zero

1:22:34

one a six.

1:22:34

And before you play, I hope you if y'all know, it's

1:22:36

not our voice, though, if you expecting the heroes, you're

1:22:39

gonna be like, am I calling the right number?

1:22:41

Yeah? Hey, Rod, Jake,

1:22:43

Karen.

1:22:44

I was just calling because

1:22:46

I was listening to the pre games

1:22:49

yesterday of I Guess your Own pre

1:22:52

game episodes. There's so many premium episodes.

1:22:54

I don't always listen to them in order. I haven't

1:22:56

been listening to the main podcast and

1:23:02

how you lost your moms? I just want can

1:23:04

go and.

1:23:05

And send your love and thank you.

1:23:08

Journey is going well.

1:23:11

He hadn't been listening

1:23:13

to the main podcasts because we lost two

1:23:15

people uh in my family

1:23:20

alone, so uh si

1:23:23

dam and just

1:23:25

want to send you guys love and tell you guys

1:23:28

that I love you in the podcast and I hope you

1:23:30

guys are doing well all

1:23:32

right, Karen, love you,

1:23:35

thank you?

1:23:37

Yeah, Love back to you, man for yourself

1:23:39

and your family. It's you

1:23:41

know, it's hard.

1:23:43

You know, like I say, Mama

1:23:45

said, there's gonna be days like this right.

1:23:47

For real, for really that both folks saying, you know

1:23:49

whatever mama't

1:23:52

get rid of.

1:23:56

That's what I mean by Mama say they going okay

1:23:58

cool? Because yeah, absolutely Mama did say,

1:24:00

and.

1:24:00

Yes it is.

1:24:01

She told me that and now Blue off which she was right.

1:24:04

Yeah. We got a couple podcasts

1:24:07

emails. Let me see if I can

1:24:09

get to them because my computer's moving slow.

1:24:13

The first one is from.

1:24:14

Bria, who says, please

1:24:16

please review Tyler Perry's a Fall from

1:24:18

Grace on Netflix.

1:24:21

I mean I would, but guys,

1:24:23

we just want him to do better, and so.

1:24:27

We can't. We can't do that, okay, that

1:24:29

like we would just be encouraging him

1:24:32

to not make insecure level

1:24:34

art. Okay, No,

1:24:37

absolutely, we're gonna review.

1:24:38

Uh.

1:24:39

The title says it all high Rod.

1:24:40

The title says all my boyfriend and I watched the movie

1:24:42

three times this weekend. Okay, it

1:24:45

has provided us and listen entertainment in hours

1:24:47

of discussion. We can't we really can't believe this movie

1:24:49

got made at all. It's the most Tyler Perried,

1:24:52

Move Tyler Perry movie that has ever Tyler

1:24:54

Perried.

1:24:56

I noticed this isn't a movie you would normally review. Oh,

1:24:58

yes it is.

1:24:59

Well, I would love you and Justin dissect

1:25:01

this movie bad ways and all. Yeah, I'm gonna do

1:25:03

a review with Justin and do on with Karen.

1:25:06

Yes.

1:25:06

Also, I'm so it's just you guys

1:25:08

can imagine. It's been busy,

1:25:10

right, So so that's the only

1:25:13

reason we haven't. I haven't watched it yet.

1:25:14

And I'm like, here's why, because all the stuff

1:25:16

happened in this month.

1:25:17

I'm literally saving it like a treat. Okay,

1:25:20

looking forward to this. Also, I'm so

1:25:22

sorry to hear about Karen's mother. Please let her

1:25:24

know she is loved supported.

1:25:25

Thanks Brea, Thank you baby.

1:25:27

Well she knows, at least I

1:25:29

try to make sure she knows.

1:25:30

Thank you. And Crystal says

1:25:32

Uncle Tom history, Uh

1:25:35

hello rider. Karen was perusing Facebook

1:25:37

it came across this article. It's very interesting as

1:25:39

it discusses the history of Uncle Tom

1:25:42

and the man who inspired the story. I think of the rewriting

1:25:44

of history often. Yeah, because that's

1:25:46

that's the thing that's not well known. We call people

1:25:49

uncle Tom's but Uncle Tom and Uncle Tom's

1:25:51

cabin was not a coon. We

1:25:54

just like somehow it became known

1:25:57

through common nomenclature or whatever, through

1:25:59

you know, the rebranding and shit, Like I think it's done

1:26:01

like the seventies Black Power

1:26:04

movement, that the term uncle

1:26:06

Tom became this pejorative thing of like

1:26:08

this motherfucker's and Uncle Tom. But then if you read

1:26:10

the book, is like Uncle Tom was

1:26:13

just a black man trying to do his best. He wasn't out here

1:26:15

like selling out his people and shit. I

1:26:18

think of writing about history often when they are changing

1:26:20

the narrative of the textbooks, and obviously everyone

1:26:22

is in the uproar, but we don't think about the true applications

1:26:25

of this. And one hundred to two hundred

1:26:27

years when people think slavery truly was just a work

1:26:29

for slaves who were paid in food

1:26:31

and shelter, because that's what the textbooks told

1:26:33

them, and people are wondering why African Americans

1:26:36

are so angry about it. This is how it happens. I haven't

1:26:38

researched the validity of this article, but

1:26:40

wanted to share to find out if y'all knew all this.

1:26:42

I certainly didn't, but do often

1:26:45

wonder the true origins of the certain words

1:26:47

koon, uncle Tom, etc. Yeah.

1:26:49

I didn't get a chance to read this whole

1:26:51

thing yet. It's on

1:26:53

Urban Intellectuals, so

1:26:55

I don't know. This is not a site

1:26:58

that I'm familiar with the validity

1:27:00

of it.

1:27:00

Or not, so, but

1:27:03

yeah, you can google it.

1:27:04

Man.

1:27:05

It's like Uncle Tom's

1:27:07

cabin is.

1:27:08

Not what people what you would

1:27:10

think with the way we think of Uncle Tom.

1:27:15

You know, now

1:27:17

you know what I'm saying. Yeah, HARRYT beat your stove ro That.

1:27:21

Is. Stowe's melodramatic story humanized a suffering

1:27:24

of slavery for white audiences by

1:27:26

portraying Thomas a Jesus like figure who ultimately

1:27:28

is martyred beating it up by a cruel master

1:27:30

because he refuses to betray to whereabouts the two women

1:27:33

who had escaped from slavery. Right,

1:27:35

But uh, that's not that's

1:27:38

not at all what the definition

1:27:40

of an Uncle Tom is, you know.

1:27:42

So anyway, that's it for today's

1:27:45

episode, except for one thing.

1:27:46

We did get one more card in the mail, yay.

1:27:49

Oh, and then Paul Andre Joes We mentioned this already

1:27:51

on a pregame of Boss Deep which is what he emailed. But

1:27:54

he sent us so much

1:27:56

fucking sweets and alcohol. Yeah,

1:28:00

I'm gonna die, Okay, I said, listen, Justin,

1:28:03

I'm just gonna pick out half of this stuff

1:28:06

and then you have the other half.

1:28:07

Nobody's died.

1:28:08

I know Karen doesn't give adamn about me, my

1:28:10

health or any of you. Uh, she's

1:28:12

gonna do the podcast by myself as I just

1:28:15

wither away.

1:28:15

But I do care about your health with

1:28:18

you. But I said, I'm not gonna die. Even

1:28:20

though the stuff is written in another language. I know I

1:28:22

can look at the I know a gummy word when I see one.

1:28:24

Let's not start the liese. Okay, you know you

1:28:27

don't care. But

1:28:29

Noah, we gave half to Justin and he

1:28:31

got a bottle and we got a couple of bottles.

1:28:33

So thank you, thank you. Uh. This

1:28:36

one is from

1:28:39

Ms Barnes, who writes wishing

1:28:41

you peace on the cover of

1:28:44

it. Inside to heal your heart and bring

1:28:46

you comfort. It says I'm so sorry to hear about

1:28:48

your mother. May you find peace

1:28:50

and comfort in this time. Loves

1:28:54

as something cam

1:28:56

Ms Barnes seventy two aka Miss Barnes

1:28:59

seventy two Finn you aka Miss Bond seventy two.

1:29:01

Okay, cool, got.

1:29:02

It, thank you, thank you, We appreciate

1:29:04

it.

1:29:06

And yeah, man, we

1:29:08

uh you

1:29:10

know, like I said, been a hell of a week. We

1:29:13

are about that time where we need to take a week

1:29:15

off. I can't. I have to look at the schedule

1:29:17

and see if it's gonna be this week or next week. But

1:29:20

soon, my geez, okay, gotta

1:29:22

take some time off. And

1:29:25

honestly, like this was a day

1:29:28

that I was like, when we get to this day, we

1:29:30

can breathe and then start

1:29:32

evaluating things. So we may

1:29:34

not be we may not be doing regular

1:29:36

shows this week, or

1:29:39

we may. I mean, there are some things I want to talk about,

1:29:41

but it's pretty soon one of these weeks

1:29:44

week off, so just be prepared. I

1:29:46

won't see no complaining and stuff actually

1:29:49

happened where at.

1:29:50

Yeah, you can complain, I don't care. Let

1:29:52

us know we missed Yeah, just let us know.

1:29:54

You missed us. So it's cool. But

1:29:56

go listen to some of these other podcasts. Okay,

1:29:59

when we we take some time off, there's a

1:30:01

bunch of other black podcasts that could

1:30:03

use listeners and deserve listeners. They

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make really good stuff. So don't just don't

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just only listen to us when we take time off, you

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know, all right, y'all, until then, I

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love you, yeah,