Some More News - Even More News: I Wish He Wasn't Such A F**king Demon

Episode Date: April 19, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, welcome back to even more news. The first and only news podcast. My name is Katie Stoll. What's in the news? Hi. Hi, Katie. Hi, Cody. It's the news is your name. Katie is all I'm doing poorly right now. We both are tired. Hi. How you doing? I'm good. We you're not tired. You're perky. You got a smile. You're feeling great. So am I. I've got various caffeine in front of me.
Starting point is 00:00:39 I don't have a head cold. I just wanted to say something differently. When you introduce me and I panicked. I know. I know. I get it. I felt it. I wasn't in the same space as you. So I couldn't physically help but I wanted to but you know it's a bad sign. What? Hosting a podcast and panicking at the beginning. He's a poet. He's a coffee maker and host of the podcast hood politics. That's right. It's prop. What's up y'all? I'm body rolling. You can't even see it.
Starting point is 00:01:15 But I'm so excited. I'm giving you a body roll right now. happening. It's been so long since we've had you on here. In fact, Jonathan pointed this out. It's been so long since we've had you on here. In fact, Jonathan pointed this out. It's been almost two years to the day. It's two years to the week since you've been on here. Wow. I miss you. Like I miss y'all. Like I don't know how else to explain that. Like I'm like, I'm an avid listener, OBS. And yeah, like I was like, dude, man, I thought you'd never ask. It's like eighth grade, middle school dance. You can ask us also anytime.
Starting point is 00:01:49 Just send us little notes. We're going to be better about it. Check the box and we'll send it back. Hey, just, yeah, just know. It is, we listen to each other's shows. I hear you people on different shows, but then you're like, I haven't physically spoken with them in a long time. Also, this does, I don't know if we said this on air with Anna and Shereen, but the beginning of the pandemic. Yeah, we're on each other's shows all the time. All the time. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:12 OK, we got a shout out some holidays and we're going to catch up a little bit. April 19th, Friday, April 19th, National Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet Day. I feel like I'm specifically going to be I'm being called out on this one. It's a good one. I really need to do that. It's actually not bad, it's one of those like, just like a reminder. Remind you to do a thing.
Starting point is 00:02:31 This is a rare like, yeah, good use of a day. Functional holiday. Yeah. So we should get this one out there, you know, tell people to do it. There's a lot of stuff you don't need in there, dispose of things properly. Did you know you're not supposed to throw them in the trash?
Starting point is 00:02:47 Did I know that? Oh, wow. Yeah. Yes. I never thought of that. It makes perfect sense. I literally like, I have my little coffee shelf over here and I opened it and it was like, Vicodins.
Starting point is 00:03:00 And it was like from like a toothache, you know, I had to do, I was like, oh my gosh, just sitting in the drawer. I have children really going to need this coffee. Yeah. Coffee's amazing, guys. It's like I'm relaxed, but I'm not. Yeah. Clean out your clean out your shit.
Starting point is 00:03:21 Be safe about it or just take it. I don't know. That's a safe way to dispose of medication to right just take it Well, what is this drug drug take back days? No, no do that do this part You could also buy dispose our exes white powder solution that can safely dissolve with the question mark your Medications before you throw them out. I'm sorry with the question mark your medications before you throw them out. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:03:45 Dissolve RX created this holiday to try to get people to buy their powder that dissolves medications. I was on board until the name dispose RX showed up three times. Also, tell me how that's safer. I was gonna ask because. You don't say it like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:04 You're already putting it there. If you're dissolving it, you're just dissolving it. It's easier to get into the water system. Like, the reason I put a question mark there is because I didn't know exactly how the dispose rx powder breaks down the medication because right, you're not supposed to just throw it out and can get into the soil or the water and could in my I don't know it's like easier to get in the soil like this it seems like it would it seems like a little bit of Vicodin spread across the land yeah whatever is in their chemicals cancels out the chemicals of the first chemicals is my guess you had me at
Starting point is 00:04:42 chemicals perfect yeah nice and don't do that, but. Or ever chemical. Yeah, do the other thing. Take everything in your medicine cabinet and then call it a holiday. I don't know what they're doing with the pills once we give them back, but I'm not gonna go too far down that path.
Starting point is 00:04:57 No judgment. April 20th. Hey, you know. There's lots to be said about April 20th. Is that why you guys had me on today? I think I finally figured it out. It was not OK. It's the dreadlocks, isn't it? Absolutely was not.
Starting point is 00:05:16 But you were on on April 20th last year. I was two years ago. Two years ago. That last time it's just very wild. We promise. We don't know guys. I don't know, man. We wouldn't have brought it up. True.
Starting point is 00:05:32 If it was hidden, you would totally wouldn't have been like, what do you think? You pick this date. Is that what Jonathan's saying? Touche. I did pick this date. This was you. Dang it. Got him.
Starting point is 00:05:42 But this is also one one lesser known variation of this day is that it's national lookalike day. So let's celebrate the people who look like other people. Cody, who do you get? I've actually I've gotten Sean William Scott before. But that's the only one that I can really remember getting. Well, I look a lot like my twin brother. Perfect. That'll do it. I'm just kidding.
Starting point is 00:06:09 I don't have a twin brother. You don't have one? I don't have a twin. I'm just kidding. That'd be great though. Do you get anybody? Usually it's like, it kind of depends on the environment and like the decade, you know, when like when high school, you know, when like, when high school,
Starting point is 00:06:25 you know, I got bussed to like a suburban high school. So when, when the white kids discovered Bob Marley, I looked like Bob Marley, you know, and then, and then little Wayne became a person and essentially who's ever like hot right now at dreadlocks is who. God. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Yeah. Yeah. Jonathan. Most recently I got the writer that Bojack Horseman betrays. He was in like several, he's like an animated guy with a red beard, you know? Oh, I thought you meant the horse itself. I was like, that's-
Starting point is 00:06:56 I do get Bojack, yeah. I was like, you need to slap the shit out of somebody who says you look like Bojack Horseman. I'm sad with a long face. Yes. Katie. I don't know who I get anymore. When I was younger, I got sad with a long face. Yes. OK, I don't know who I get anymore. When I was younger, I got one on a writer.
Starting point is 00:07:07 Sometimes I get Carrie Russell, but only from the profile. Carrie Russell from the Americans. But there's one specific I could find it. It's going to take too long. I can't. But I'll send it to you guys and you'll see that in profile. It's remarkable how much we look alike. But I've seen it's pretty wild when she's wearing a black in the Americans.
Starting point is 00:07:31 Oh, I'm going to put it in the chat, actually, because I just found it. Cody's found it. Perfect. OK. I just had to Google two names. Are you serious? Just Google the two names. Yeah. Well, because I tweeted about it at one point. You guys are pretty fast in the research. OK, so. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:07:50 Right? That was an actual response. Yeah. Damn. Did you see it, Jonathan? I see it, yes. Thank you. OK, we've all validated me.
Starting point is 00:07:58 On from the visual element of the audio podcast. And for listeners at home, I shall retweet it tomorrow. Oh, you actually tweeted it. Slash status. Slash 117-847-471-700-4480-513. That's the tweet. Perfect. OK, thank you.
Starting point is 00:08:17 So we've all got that. Promo code the Americans. Promo code the Americans. OK, we do have a lot of news to talk to. But one piece of new, lots of news to talk to, shoot. Okay, one piece of news since last we spoke to you is that you founded a coffee company. I did.
Starting point is 00:08:37 Tell us about it. Yes. Well, it's out of money. Yeah, no, cold brew called Terraform, cold brew, the coffee was birthed out of a book, poetry book called Terraform. And then out of the book was four, like seven song musical EPs. And then the final piece originally was just going to be a merch was like, what better goes with a book of poetry than some coffee? And yeah, then it was just like,
Starting point is 00:09:08 once we started doing it and just like the whole, how the missions aligned, and then I was like, oh, I have a whole supply chain. And this was much, this isn't just like, you know, ordering a t-shirt and putting a logo on it. I was like, this is a lot of work for just a drop, you know? So we were, so we just kind of were like, dude, like this seems like kind of a, the next evolution.
Starting point is 00:09:31 It just kind of like, hey, let's have a, let's have a coffee company. And it was great. You know, I went, I got, it did great. You know, I had the normal problems that everyone does with the business where it's like, right now it's like high demand and low supply.
Starting point is 00:09:46 I think what I did, the worst part is like, cause I come from music. So I thought, go get distribution. Like that's what you do, right? So like, well, distribution in a commodity means you're going wholesale, which means you're selling it for half the price, bro. Like, so I'm like, oh, so now it,
Starting point is 00:10:06 that's why there's no money, cause you're buying it at 50%, oh, so like really, really good lesson. Yeah, not a DistroKid tune core situation. No, no, no, it's not like, you know, I was just thought distribution, but it's been super fun. We're working on it again. You just, you get to really travel and like,
Starting point is 00:10:29 if you care like, you know, about like supply chain and the fact that like, you know, coffee only grows at the equator, you know what I mean? And in, you know, specialty coffee, less than 2% goes back to the farmers, you know what I mean? Like that matters, you know what I'm saying? So if that's the case, then like, yo, let's go to Honduras. Let's go to Ethiopia. Let's go to Columbia. Let's meet these people. I can speak
Starting point is 00:10:53 Spanish, you know what I'm saying? So like, there's so much more going on there. And then now that I know this person, it's like, okay, this is different. You know, here, here's what we did was like 30% above, you know, market. So we would pay 30% above market, you know what I'm saying? And, and cause I'm like, this is, these are our ancestors. These are our people, you know what I'm saying? And yeah, you know, and, and it's been cool, you know, it's just right now, like we're sold out, but you know,
Starting point is 00:11:20 there's merch, you know, but. But you're currently sold out, but you will, of cold brew, yeah. Your plan to continue in the future., you know, but. There's merch, but you're currently sold out, but you will. Of cold brew, yeah. Your plan to continue in the future. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We met this dope farm in Honduras. They have this co-op that they did. And then there's this like app where, you know, you're on the side of a mountain in four hours away from the nearest cell tower.
Starting point is 00:11:40 And this kid breaks out his smartphone. He's snapping pictures of his families like after they wash their cherry and he gets to put into this, it's dope. That's what I'm doing. They're called Bex360. He gets to put inside of the app, like this how much we have, this how much we're charging.
Starting point is 00:12:00 And then when you buy it, and when you buy your cup of coffee, you can follow, scan the QR code, follow the employer supply chain. Make sure that everybody got paid, how much they got paid, you know what I'm saying? And it has to be verified on both ends. It's super dope.
Starting point is 00:12:14 I love that. Yeah, you know, and then there's like, there's, we call it third payment. So like whatever, however much bag the bag of coffee is, you add a dollar. And then that dollar is like, so the people that actually pick the cherry off the tree, that's like day labor, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:12:31 Like that's not like, you just get the kids from the neighborhood, they're missing school, they're, you know what I'm saying? So like that third payment goes back to them. So now it's not coming out of the farmer's pocket, you know what I mean? It's who's barely feeding their family also, you know? So it's a super dope program.
Starting point is 00:12:46 So I'm like, okay, we need to put this in a can, you know, and that's what we're doing. Well, man, that's so rad that you, first off, this started as some side idea. Yeah, it was like a side idea. Some cool thing. And then you go further. First off, turned out to be something you enjoyed.
Starting point is 00:13:04 Yeah. And you go farther and farther down, turned out to be something you enjoyed. Yeah. And you go farther and farther down this rabbit hole and you learn all this stuff that has actually big picture implications. And now there's this whole other exciting project that you're exploring. I think that's incredibly dope. And I can't wait for you to be back in stock.
Starting point is 00:13:21 Shit, me too. And I don't even drink coffee. Oh, well, you will now. Just kidding. I will now. I really will. Can I ask y'all a question? This is the question I've been asking.
Starting point is 00:13:32 This is my newest icebreaker. Ooh, okay. I learned it from another, not a news podcast, but a political podcast. Yeah, because there aren't any other news podcasts. There aren't any other news podcasts. That's what I was saying. Yeah, I was like, there's no other thing.
Starting point is 00:13:44 So it's like their mirror image question. So the first question is like, okay, what's the worst thing you love? And then like, what's the best thing you hate? I'll give you an example. The worst thing I love is like harsh chemical cleaning products for like your bathroom. Give me all the comets, give me all the, you know,
Starting point is 00:14:08 it smells like I should feel lightheaded when I'm cleaning the bathroom. Like we've made nerve gas, you know, like I want, give me all of the forever chemicals to clean this bathroom. Yeah, I've had that, yeah. That's the worst thing I love. Okay. Best thing I hate is probably boundaries. It's like I hate when people I hate when people
Starting point is 00:14:31 have boundaries. I'm like, text me back, bro. Like, I'm calling you like, don't answer. Oh, man, I feel like this is a question that I am gonna think about a lot in the days to come and keep being like, oh, that's a good answer. Yeah. Best thing you love. That is very funny. Yeah, what's the worst thing you love?
Starting point is 00:14:54 Cody, you got one? I have a joke answer, but I'm trying to think of a real one. Yeah, me too. My joke answer is Star Wars. Star Wars is great. I know. Yeah. I know, I love it. Yeah, exactly. I know. I know. I love it.
Starting point is 00:15:06 Yeah, exactly. Worst thing I love. I mean, the first thought that came to mind was like love is blind and shit like that. Dude, my one of my closest friends, one of my closest friends, that was like without even thinking. Like, that's definitely the first one that came to mind. My manager's assistant said the same thing. She was like, Oh, 100% love is blind. 100%. That's exactly what it is.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Addicting. But it's, Oh man. Um, it is, I mean, it's just awful. Yeah. My brother said Kanye. He was like, it's Kanye West. It's that a hundred percent. It's the worst thing I love. It's like, I won't say John Lennon, but there's some shady stuff about his. Oh, really? But OK, the best thing I hate, is that the phrasing of it? Yeah, I don't have a good one either for this, but I'm going to. But the first thing that came to my mind was like getting my nails done,
Starting point is 00:16:00 something that everybody loves to go do. It makes my skin crawl for some reason. It's just so weird to you, yeah. It's weird to me, but also I don't like sitting still for that long, and I don't like people waiting on me like that, like it feels really, it feels like, but people love to do it, and I never do. But I think there's definitely a better answer.
Starting point is 00:16:20 Boundaries is so good. That is such a good answer, I need to, I need to do a little more time. Okay, yeah, all right, we'll come back to it. Then that means when I'm listening next week, you guys will answer it. Well, we can put, yeah, we'll either answer, or let's see if we can circle back at the end of the show
Starting point is 00:16:33 if we've come up with one, but. I'm not a hater, I'm a lover. There it is, yeah, exactly. All right, we should talk about some news. News, we've got that. Yeah, it's in the name of the show. But, uh, yes, it's been a week full of Trump dates. And Jonathan's going to tell us about it so that we can react much Trump all the time.
Starting point is 00:16:56 Trump, he he his jury selection is taking place right now in his hush money case in New York. This is the one where he's being charged with falsifying business documents to cover up the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels in 2016. He has to be in court every day for this, so it's kind of a big circus. They've been trying to seat some jurors, but of course, it's hard to get an impartial jury on Donald Trump. They seated seven jurors, but two have already been dismissed. One was dismissed because she was worried that her identity was going to
Starting point is 00:17:30 be found out because there were a bunch of identifying details about her that were being printed in the New York Times and reported on Fox News such as that she's a nurse and they said here's where she works and she's engaged and all this stuff so she's been dismissed and then another juror was dismissed. I just can't believe that was allowed to happen in the first place. This is so awful. I mean, jaw on the floor about that. Yeah, it's not even like, I mean, yeah, I'm not surprised by these freaks doing this. It's so obvious what they're doing. It is a little wild. They said they were going to just specific when you say freaks. Oh, Jesse water specifically did an entire segment on all of these jurors. And as we've said before, and I will continue to say I am going to throw up on Jesse waters. It's going to happen. He deserves it. He's going get thrown up on by me or anyone else listening who gets there first
Starting point is 00:18:25 yeah, but yeah, he did this whole segment about it and Specifically with juror number two. He was like weirdly like I don't know about juror number two in that way that he does and then yeah, they Asked to be taken off the jury because people figured out who they were Yeah this person that will remain nameless that works at this place and lives near this city and goes to this coffee shop and has a size shoe, size 10 shoe, like just, man.
Starting point is 00:18:54 It's so obvious and like, it's this weird smug, like I'm just doing the news. I didn't say their name. It's so stupid. Yeah, Jonathan's included. Another juror was dismissed because the attorney's thought his answers weren't credible. Well, it's not entirely clear. It's not entirely clear, not based on social media based on his answers. Like when they ask
Starting point is 00:19:19 you questions to see if you can be impartial and be on the jury. I think I'm not sure exactly what happened because this just happened recently. I think the, you know, opposing counselors like approached the bench to talk about this, but the speculation is that the person may have been lying to try to get on the jury. But I don't know about that.
Starting point is 00:19:39 Absolutely. I do not know how you actually get an impartial jury in this situation. Seems hard. It seems like- Because like, even if you, let's say it's that someone truly is, I'm apolitical, I don't have strong opinions
Starting point is 00:20:01 about Donald Trump or Joe Biden. I haven't been paying attention to what's going on. I don't have opinion. That alone says a lot about who they are. You know, that alone feels impartial because like nobody has not heard of these people. Nobody hasn't. It seems to me almost impossible because if you don't have a strong opinion of Donald Trump or some of the things that he's done, we'll. You kind of shouldn't be on the jury. You don't have any. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Yeah. Even that person should have been on a jury because I'm like, you are completely checked out, right? Then you have no, then you don't care about the justice system. Like calls into question. You're just. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:43 I'm like, this person shouldn't be on a jury either. Like that's not. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the the the exposing of like, yeah, all this is theater. You know, even even what we consider our justice, I was like, this is theater, guys. Like, come on, man. And these what Trump's gift of like. Pushing reality into a corner and just kind of being like,
Starting point is 00:21:09 take your mask off, what, this is what's really going on and you know it's what's really going on. America jumped the shark a long time ago. The, you know, Stefan Urkel episodes have already happened. We've already added, you know, Leo DiCaprio's already on Growing Pains. Like we've jumped the shark a long time ago.
Starting point is 00:21:30 Like, so, and you knew it and you know it, you know. I'm facing 91 charges and I'm about to be most likely your next president. Yeah. It's just, you know, it's just like guys, stop pretending. Yeah. I'd love to play this clip from a Trump rally this week of him talking about the Battle of Gettysburg.
Starting point is 00:21:54 Oh, please. This is glorious. I'm so forward watching that. This is more entertaining than, you know. Oh, it's very entertaining, I think. Union was saved by the immortal heroes at Gettysburg. Gettysburg, what an unbelievable. Immortal. Battle that was the Battle of Gettysburg.
Starting point is 00:22:11 What an unbelievable. I mean, it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible. And so beautiful in so many different ways. It represented such a big portion of the success of this country. Gettysburg, wow. I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to look and to watch. And the statement of Robert E. Lee, who's no longer in favor. Did you ever notice that? No longer in favor. Did I? Never fight uphill me boys. Never fight uphill. They were fighting uphill. He said, wow, that was a big mistake. He lost his great general. And they were fighting
Starting point is 00:22:47 never fight uphill me boys, but it was too late. Oh, it's so funny. There's an element of I wish he wasn't such a fucking demon. Yes. I know. I know. He'd be a hero. He'd be so I want like there's, there's a version of reality where somebody slowly realizes like, wait, Trump, you're the funniest guy in the world. Yes. Like 10 years ago, 15 years ago,
Starting point is 00:23:16 and they do like a drunk history type of show, but it's just him, and they don't get him drunk, he doesn't drink, they just like tell him a historical event and they have him describe it and they act it out. I would watch every, I would watch world history of that every night. He would be beloved by all. If you remove like everything else.
Starting point is 00:23:38 Every 10th grade US history teacher is going, yep, that's second period right there. That's exactly, that's exactly how the how all of the reports I'm reading sound, you know, oh, God, there's a few reasons this is specifically very funny, because he's talking to people in Pennsylvania, not at Gettysburg, like 120 miles from getting the word so Schnecksville, Pennsylvania is not at Gettysburg, like 120 miles from Gettysburg. So Schnecksville, Pennsylvania is not particularly related to Gettysburg. But it's just like, well, it's in the same state.
Starting point is 00:24:10 Whatever I'm going to talk about. The Flyers aren't in the playoffs or whatever. He's talking about that place being a beautiful place. So right. It's so funny. It's like, I wish we were in Gettysburg right now. Yeah. So he's like, well, this was a big union victory, and it had so much to do with our country. But also that Confederate general,
Starting point is 00:24:28 he's not in favor anymore. Isn't that, isn't it bad? Did he ever notice that? Robert, yeah. Did he ever notice? Did he ever notice? It's so good. Did he ever notice?
Starting point is 00:24:37 Robert E. Lee is no longer in favor now, wow. So it's unclear if he thinks the outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg was good or bad. Yeah. Yeah. Like, oh, he made one mistake and it was trying to go up the hill. That was his mistake. Like, bro, you think what he could just keep saying it all the time. As well with a mustache being like, go, don't fight up. Like Robert E Lee did not say that he did not fight uphill. No, he did not say that. He did not to fight uphill. No, he did not say that.
Starting point is 00:25:06 Like there's no never fight. Oh boy. He didn't say me. Boy. And I'm like, what is the Irish now? When do you get Irish? Yeah. Well, of course, he didn't actually say that.
Starting point is 00:25:15 I mean, we do. Me, boy. Do you remember the river of blood that he claimed? Yeah. Trump's river of blood. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:23 Fake the fake civil war thing that he made up. Yeah. We just want to, I just want him, I just want him to give a nightly. That'd be so great. Nightly address to the nation. Him hosting hardcore history would be unbelievable. Exactly, just like.
Starting point is 00:25:39 Just like a hardcore history show. Just roll, just roll for four hours. Quote. And Robert E. Lee said, quote. Unquote. Don't fight uphill, end quote. What else, John? There have been many scholars who are looking
Starting point is 00:25:56 at what may have been said, never fight uphill, me boys. It isn't in the official record. Robert E. Lee. Quote. Also with Trump, there's this whole thing about whether or not he'll be able to go to his son Barron's high school graduation in May. So they made this request and then the judge is like,
Starting point is 00:26:15 well, I'm not gonna rule on this yet because that's a month away. Let's see how far we get. And then that, you know, the week before or whatever, I'll say, hey, maybe we won't be in court on Friday. Also the Trump judge, the Trump lawyer asked to have another day the following week off so that he could attend his own son's graduation. So there's multiple requests in there and the judge is like, I'll rule on that later.
Starting point is 00:26:38 And then Trump immediately goes outside and he's like, they won't let me go see Barron. I got to go see Barron. And I very much believe that Trump is hoping the judge will say no, we're in court that day you can't course so that one he can complain about it and two so that he won't have to go to some board with graduation. I'm like, Hey, hey, hey, Don, what's Baron's middle name?
Starting point is 00:27:03 You don't know that kid. I don't want to go either. I feel you. You know, he's Baron has been a convenient little prop for yeah, sorry to use your name, but For the trumps like think about Baron, but now he's graduating. I Don't know. I don't have much to say but it all throughout this, he's like always the use of Baron. William. William is his middle name. Six. Now we know. I would really love some fanfic, some fanfic about Baron. Dang. We can map on so many stories about Baron right now.
Starting point is 00:27:38 Like, I would love that of just like. He's just the biggest like Travis Scott fan. And like, you know, he's actually at Coachella right now. You know, like that'd be so great. We don't know anything about Baron. Absolutely nothing, which is good. That's good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:57 I do subscribe to leave the kids out of it unless they're grown up criminals of their own unless they run crooked Baron is an excuse for things totally but any who this is we're circling back I'm just laugh. I've been laughing to myself because in the doc Jonathan has written as far as historians know Robert E Lee never said never fight uphill me boys historians know Robert E Lee never said never fight uphill me boys. No, you're meme.com has done a very thorough analysis. You said we're going to fight uphill and then did a whole like boys.
Starting point is 00:28:41 You got to have conflict. He's a storyteller. Jonathan, storyteller. I'll just say. If we're going back to that, the Trump word salad speech is a phenomenon for sure, but I've said it before. You it just lets him get out, say anything and everything and get out of anything and everything. You're kind of appealing to the people that like Robert E. Lee and without saying that he's specifically the hero that he's referencing.
Starting point is 00:29:06 He just kind of confuses it and people are like, and then we're through it so fast that there's no time. Some other absurd semblance of set in. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. Anyway, hilarious man will also constantly talk about the poisoned blood of our nation. Yeah. So it's a real, again, conflict. He's a storyteller. He likes to live the conflict. Yeah. Vermin.
Starting point is 00:29:30 I call him Vermin. Oh, yes you do. Yes you do. Yeah, you do. We do know you do that. Yeah, we know you do that. You get it. Anywho, we're gonna take a real quick break for ads.
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Starting point is 00:32:26 Jonathan, what's next? We have some- What's next in the news, Jonathan? Supreme court stuff? We sure do, we got some Supreme Court stuff. We got some Supreme Court stuff? Is it good now? No, nope, still bad.
Starting point is 00:32:38 Damn it. Still bad, but a lot of this is like still bad, maybe worse, maybe better, but probably bad. Love it, maybe worse worse maybe better, but This week the Supreme Court said it won't hear the case McKesson v Doe which leaves in place a lower court ruling that allowed a protest Organizer to be sued and found liable for an act of violence carried out by someone at the protest So while this case is about a Black Lives Matter organizer named DeRay McKesson, who gathered people
Starting point is 00:33:08 outside a police station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2016 to protest the death of Alton Sterling and someone else, everyone agrees, not DeRay McKesson, someone else threw a, quote, rock-like object. Wait a second. End quote. That struck a police officer in the head causing injuries. That lower court ruled that McKesson could be sued and held liable
Starting point is 00:33:30 for this act of violence. And so by not hearing the case, they're letting that stay in place. And meaning it's not it doesn't ban protesting in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, but it's like you'd be pretty unwise financially to organize one. Chilling effect. It's like it functionally it bans. That's what so many of these laws we've talked, you know, these started popping up in 2016 2017 2018. And it's very clearly like, no, they're functionally banning protest, but the language is loosey goosey enough to that they can kind of add the idea like, okay, it sucks that something hit this officer in the head, I guess. I know, right?
Starting point is 00:34:12 This is a police officer that no, I'm just trying to say, I know the job of a police officer is to put themselves in situations where, you know, stuff like that happens. You're not dead. Obviously there you have to you can't even prove intent to hit the police officer in the head. It's absolutely that was flying through the air. There's absolutely no ground in my mind. It's absurd to sue someone else.
Starting point is 00:34:37 Also, it's not like DeRay McKesson did all the work for every element. There's a whole bunch of people that, yeah, and process a community project that you can't I mean, again, they can apparently do this. But like, if we're getting into this realm, where you can't really organize a protest without being liable for like anybody's actions at that protest, yeah, then it just it causes so many problems. It makes me like well so then should like I don't want to we don't need to talk about January 6th a lot But like that we're going to anyway in a minute anyway
Starting point is 00:35:13 But that's a protest that turned into something else and though like a lot of violence there Yeah, I mean yeah, that was the point. I wanted to bring it when we get to that It's like there's a real double standard here. So yeah, well, I was the point I wanted to bring up. When we get to that, it's like, there's a real double standard here, so. Well, they just wanna beat up protesters. That's their whole thing. At the end of the day. They want, like, they want free reign to beat the shit out of protesters, basically. They wanna beat up black protesters.
Starting point is 00:35:36 Yes. Yes. There's an element for the, like, Supreme Court that they're just like, I can, in their defense, like you guys say, to be F and B, right? Thank you. Cause I'm a true fan. They ain't got time for this shit. Like there's, there's a lot y'all need to deal with.
Starting point is 00:35:53 I get it. You know what I'm saying? If it's like, if I can, if I can delegate one of these things, you know, you got the Chevron Defer and shit, you got the like, you know, all of a sudden, all of, oh, all of a sudden y'all don't want an abortion no more. You know what I'm saying? Like, so you got a gang of shit you gotta deal with. So in their defense, they're just like,
Starting point is 00:36:12 okay, we can't take on them. We can't take them all on. Okay. Having said that, the logic of the like, like let's just extrapolate like, all right, well, if DeRay hadn't organized this protest, then the rock wouldn't have been thrown. Oh, well, if Alton Sterling wasn't murdered,
Starting point is 00:36:35 this wouldn't have been, oh, well, if he didn't have any bootleg DVDs, oh, well, if the meteor didn't hit the dinosaur, that killed the dinosaurs, didn't hit, didn't hit Europe instead of South America, then it's like, where do you put the, where do you drop the pin in to say, this is- You're suing the primordial soup.
Starting point is 00:36:55 Yeah, since, you know, hey, listen, listen, listen, listen. If that other promo planet didn't smash into earth to make the moon, so like there's so many, and as this, I'm like, that's why we go to the Supreme Court because the Supreme Court is supposed to say, now wait a minute now, I don't know. Tell me how you got to this conclusion.
Starting point is 00:37:15 Like, how did you get here? And if you got here, will that stand up later? Like that's what we need you for. We need you to be eight yearyear-olds that hit us with a million, well, what ifs? Yeah, well, what if this? Well, what if that? What if this? Yeah, that's what the Supreme Court does. Well, what about that? Well, you said this. Well, what about that? You know what I mean? So like, I need you to do that for this one because clearly you know what they trying to do. But also they're gonna have to explain why if someone gets injured at a Dallas Cowboys
Starting point is 00:37:48 game, you can't sue Jerry Jones. That's the logic I'm talking about wouldn't happen if it wasn't for him. If Netflix does a pop up restaurant to promote something in Louisiana and someone gets injured from there that has nothing to do with Netflix's negligence, you can't sue them right that was what I guess that's the supreme in general we do not take that attitude across the board in this country like if there's some big group some corporation or whatever and there is a death there's injury at there's not a personal individual person that's ever held liable for that
Starting point is 00:38:24 There's not a personal individual person that's ever held liable for that. Should we read this Tom Cotton tweet? We should! Ooh, give it to me. Psychopaths tweet. Give it to me, baby! So this was in reaction to some pro-Palestine protesters that had blocked the Golden Gate Bridge, I think. His tweet describes them differently, Jonathan. His tweet describes them somewhat differently He tweets I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro Hamas mobs blocking traffic
Starting point is 00:38:50 Take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way It's time to put an end to this nonsense and this is an edited version of the tweet It originally didn't say to get them out of the way just said take matters into your own hands And then he's like I better qualify this and make it not so fascist. And he put to get them out of the way. You just wanna scooch him, you wanna scooch him. Hey man, here's what you learn as, and I think like, whether it's, whether it's DeRay,
Starting point is 00:39:17 whether it's this, or if we do get to the USC thing, if we have time for that, what you learn as a being a member of the diaspora of people that season their chicken, you know, you just, you're a person of color and a person, persons like yourselves who are like have eyes and are logical and you can see things are obviously unjust. That's what I would say about you three on the screen. You're logical and you can see when things are unjust. That's what I would say about you three on the screen.
Starting point is 00:39:45 You're logical and you can see when things are unjust. Like just, you have eyes, right? The lesson you learn though is the only real sin is to make these people uncomfortable. Whatever you do, do not inconvenience them. If they feel inconvenienced or in some way unsafe, the world unravels. And it's just, you can't, so like,
Starting point is 00:40:19 whether it's like what we learned as soon as you get your license, okay, son, your hands at 10 o'clock, two o'clock, put your keys right here because I can't let this cop feel scared. Right. I'm like, I'm 14 with no facial hair. I don't understand how I'm scary to you, but I am right. The, you know, whatever the Karen phenomenon it's cause she's scared. Right.
Starting point is 00:40:41 You have to do everything in your power to make sure these people ain't scared or inconvenienced. So the equivalent, like this person said, the equivalent of you being inconvenienced, it is equal to a starved out genocide is the fact that you stuck in traffic. That's the same, right? So I'm like, you know what? Cause you're inconvenienced. That is the one thing you can't do for these people. Do not inconvenience them. Do not make them feel uncomfortable. Do not make them feel nervous.
Starting point is 00:41:10 That's what, why you, why you stop and direct? Why you stop and direct? We were, we felt uncomfortable. Like it's just, that's, that's the lesson. And, and that is the part why you people always talk about like, well, I'm gonna bring my full self. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, why, why we say we drink white tears. It's just like, well, I'm gonna bring my full self. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, why we say we drink white tears.
Starting point is 00:41:26 It's just like, man, I'm not finna like, I'm not finna worry about how uncomfortable you are. Like that is not, I don't need, I'm prejudiced to the choir here. But you know- No, yeah, it needs to be said though. It's the truth. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:38 Well, yeah, it doesn't need to be, they don't need to be coddled. Like they don't deserve to be coddled this much. So why, yeah, you're required to do that work. Yes, the maddening part, which is again, what I love about this show is that like, how you guys point out how maddening it is that you, these people see their inconvenience as equal to
Starting point is 00:42:02 what's going on with the people in Gaza. Like it's the same. Like, and just, how is that the same to you? Like, I don't even wanna like argue the merits of, like we said earlier about the DeRay situation, like the arguing the merits of this is absurd. You obviously know this is absurd. Because like you said, you're not gonna sue
Starting point is 00:42:30 Netflix. That's stupid. Yeah, this is absurd. But it's like, oh, I get it. No, you're just inconvenienced. Just saying not like, just for the people on the bridge, but the people like Tom Cotton is a Arkansas senator. So I'm seeing it on TV. And that's right. Threatening to me so much. Yeah, I'm saying run them off, throw them.
Starting point is 00:42:50 He said on TV that if this happened in Arkansas, they'd be a little wet. Those protesters, they'd be thrown over. He'd throw them off a bridge and maybe like from that. Yeah, right. So it's so violent. Yeah. And just we also have the Internet and like he'll use whatever opportunity he can to play into culture warshit. Yeah. So there's that. But but yeah, it's true.
Starting point is 00:43:12 They see the own. The minor inconveniences in their day to day life. They as on par with these huge big picture issues, you know, and so often it's like, well, if you just stay out of my way, your opinion's fine to have to stay out of my way. Yeah, it's fine for you to want to do that with yourself or dress however you want. Just don't make me see it. Yeah. Don't make me uncomfortable. Yeah. Well, how about the rest of us feeling uncomfortable with the status quo as it is? What about the rest? Anyway, again, preaching to the choir. We should move on to other things. We just mentioned briefly the January 6
Starting point is 00:43:52 defendants. Should we touch on that real quick before moving on? Just to highlight the differences and type of rulings here. Yeah, they're weighing a case, the Supreme Court. They haven't ruled on this yet, but in oral arguments, the six conservatives on the Supreme Court seemed receptive to an argument that a law that preventing the obstruction of an official proceeding shouldn't be used on January 6th defendants. This is a statute that was put into place after the Enron scandal. Part of it has to do with destroying documents and other things in the statute have
Starting point is 00:44:27 to do with obstructing an official proceeding. So about a quarter of all January 6th defendants have been charged with that specifically. And the six conservatives seem to be OK with saying, well, you can charge it with other stuff, breaking and entering or vandalism or something, but you can't use this obstruction statute. And it looks like they're going to rule in favor of this.
Starting point is 00:44:50 But they did do that, but they were obstructing the official proceeding. Yeah, but it wasn't a document. There wasn't a piece of paper that was destroyed. That's the argument. As in, and I feel like any of us could be like, well, yeah, they did. You trying to tell me they didn't shuffle no files or nothing.
Starting point is 00:45:06 You try to tell me that. Yeah. But they did the thing. Right. And the Solicitor General, the Solicitor General, who's telling the supreme who's like arguing with Clarence Thomas about this, who's presenting the government's case, the Department of Justice's case is saying like, look, we believe we can show intent a big part of this law is intent to obstruct, which was, of course, clearly the point of January 6. That was the thesis. That was the point. That was the point.
Starting point is 00:45:34 It was in the name. It said stop the steal. They said to hang the guy. They wanted to hang him. I could go so far as to say that. It's absurd. I have some of the most important things that I've ever said in my life. I've had a lot of conversations with people who have been in the same situation.
Starting point is 00:45:42 I've had a lot of conversations with people who have been in the same situation. I've had a lot of conversations with people who have been in the same situation. I've had a lot of conversations with people who have been in the same situation. I've had a lot of conversations with people who have been in the same situation. I've had a lot of conversations with people who have been in the same situation. I've had a lot of conversations with people guy. They wanted to hang him. I don't like it. Go so far as to say that it's absurd. I have some mixed opinions about how many people that were just there got swept up in the January six stuff and how that, you know, in general protests and stuff. But how the I feel a little
Starting point is 00:46:05 conflicted with being on the side of protesters a lot of the time, and also this specific case being what it is. That said, there are plenty of people that absolutely deserve their sentences. And this specifically is the thing that they did. Like, this is, you don't have to figure it out. It's like, you know, like just some fucking dumb dumb that ended up there, you know, but this is specifically what they did. I would even push back on the idea of like getting swept up because I'm like, you guys are full grown adults.
Starting point is 00:46:38 You lived in, you went to high school parties. How many times? Yeah. How many times have you argued with myself on this? How many times were you at a party, some sort of kickback at somebody's house and you just kind of had a feeling like, yo, I should probably leave now.
Starting point is 00:46:51 Like it's probably time for me to go. Like this is getting like- Vibeshift, big vibeshift. Vibeshift and it's like, you know what? I think it's time for me to fly. Like I can't tell you how many felonies I was not a witness of because it was like, you know, the guy to girl ratio here is getting pretty, it's
Starting point is 00:47:10 getting pretty weird. And like, there's a lot of, you know, we went from like cool baseball hats to a lot of bandanas in this room. I should probably, I think it's time for me to go. Like, again, obviously, I'm from LA. So like, once you start noticing, like, a lot of bandanas, So like once you start noticing like a lot of bandanas I thought I heard somebody say hang
Starting point is 00:47:35 I think it might be time for us to go you guys want pancakes like I heard this is dope Like it's time to go bro. Yeah, and there are people who are there January 6th You know supporters of Trump who felt that and said that I said,, all right, I'm out, guys. Too much, I'm out, yeah. They went back to the hotel. It would help if, like, maybe our justice system can sort of do some PR maneuvering. So we, like, the people who did the thing and tried to hang the vice president,
Starting point is 00:48:01 they get their punishment, but the people who did get that vibe sense and leave, we can give them some sort of reward or gift. Just extra vacation day or something. Or how about not going to jail? Like that's your reward. Not going to jail. That's your reward. Your reward is you don't go to jail.
Starting point is 00:48:17 You had sense enough to be like, yeah, it's about to get real insurrection-y here. So like, I thought we was just mad. I thought we was just mad. And now, okay, so now, oh, they done broke into the thing. I think it's time. I should have thought about the logical conclusion to the phrase, stop the steal. Probably shouldn't.
Starting point is 00:48:41 How would we do that? I do think that there's room to imagine that somebody truly was like kind of swept up and found themselves to a point, but not many of them. But they wouldn't necessarily be the sharpest people. No, I have a teenage daughter and when she started hanging out, I gave her this exact lecture. I'm like, all right, you're at the high school football game. You see a crowd gather on the other stadium. What do you do? She was like, go the other way.
Starting point is 00:49:11 I was like, baby, you ready to go. Here go your $20, go have fun. That's exactly what you do. You hear a lot of sounds over there, what do you do? I go home, baby, here go another $20. You ready to, you're ready. You got it. You don't go look, you can can check you don't check Instagram later
Starting point is 00:49:27 check your Snapchat later but right now do not be there. Research what a great decision you made by research what a great decision. Yeah. Oh, there is like I do know you're saying Katie I think that yes, it's tough for some people who would like also feel like they would have wanted to be there for like the little the fun little protest and like yeah maybe I would have gone in but I don't know it's just like you try you broke into the thing I didn't really have anything to say actually there were people who you know like the the stereotypical like the grandmother
Starting point is 00:50:02 who just walked through once the door was open. I'm not sure that they charged a lot of those. Right. The thing also, she was not in the D.C. one. That was somewhere else, too. She's like lump. She's the lady. The lady we're all thinking of. Yeah, I forget where it was, but it was on the same day. But it wasn't like the storm.
Starting point is 00:50:22 The capital stopped the steel. That's logical. I understand. Yeah, that's logical. She just was like, yo, but like I'm thinking even because like I was looking up and I don't think that I think he was just arrested. He hasn't been I don't know if he took a plea deal or something. Jay Johnston, Mr. Show guy. Yeah. I was like, well, what did he do? Did he just walk through or did he hit someone? And like even he they say he stole a police shield,
Starting point is 00:50:48 held it over his head and passed it to others and then like gesture towards the top. Are you serious? Choo-choo the herky jerky dancer. I thought he was just there. Well, right. He got arrested last June. And so it's like that kind of thing is maybe like in the middle. Like he didn't he didn't assault a cop He didn't throw something through a window. He didn't have his feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk or whatever He held a stolen police shield over his head passed it to rioters And when he was close to the entrance to the tunnel, he turned back and signaled for other Rioters to come towards the entrance
Starting point is 00:51:21 So is that enough to say like intent to obstruct the proceeding? Like maybe that's one of the edge cases. But then still, even if you're, I would still allow the Justice Department to charge him with that, and then he could get acquitted. Right. Probation, fine, yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:37 Like, absolutely. Capital Mee-Maw was in Kansas. It was Topeka, Kansas. Oh, Capital Mee-Maw. Yeah, that's what they Kansas. Oh, capital Meemaw. Yeah, that's what they apparently have. Meemaw. I know. She's the cutest, sweetest. Meemaw.
Starting point is 00:51:52 Attempted insurrectionist, I guess. Grandma, what is you doing? Yeah. Well, if we want to talk about this USC valedictorian speech, I guess we want to talk about USCs. We do. The canceled speech. Let's set it up first before. USC has said that valedictorian Asna Tabassum will not be allowed to give a
Starting point is 00:52:13 commencement speech as is tradition at college graduation. They say they're doing this because of safety concerns. Tabassum is a first-generation South Asian Muslim or South Asian American Muslim who majored in biomedical engineering with a minor in resistance to genocide. She posted on social media a link to a pro-Palestine website and that website called for the abolishment of the state of Israel. So they didn't, USC says it's not because of what she said, but because of safety concerns surrounding
Starting point is 00:52:53 what she might say at graduation, although she says she has not. Or what people expect her to say, and so they're preparing to. Nobody wants to be uncomfortable. Can't make them uncomfortable. Mm-mm. Look, if you make these people nervous,
Starting point is 00:53:11 your very existence already does. Somebody who has all those accolades, or somebody who has all those descriptors like South Asian, Muslim American, who's also smart as shit. You know what I'm saying? And minored and resisted. And minored and resisted.
Starting point is 00:53:28 Who knows what the fuck she talking about? You know what I'm saying? Like that, don't, oh, that's scary. You know, don't let her talk. She know what she talking about. Don't put her up on a stage with a microphone. Yeah. We're scared that someone who has vastly less education
Starting point is 00:53:44 than this person might disagree. Right. And that there are going to be people made uncomfortable, like whether or not she spoke to it or not, she would be a visual reminder. People know who she is and what she represents. So you're afraid of the general idea that there might, people might be uncomfortable. So you're canceling her speech. I'll tell you what's going to happen. It's going to be a lot worse than if you'd let her speak because I think that this is
Starting point is 00:54:14 just going, people will be up in arms about it. I bet there'll be more protesting happening at the campus. I wouldn't have known. Like, do you like, I would have had no, I don't, who's a valedictorian of the University of Kentucky? I don't know, like. Barron, Donald Trump. Yeah. They won't let me see his speech.
Starting point is 00:54:35 They won't let me see his speech. He's pro-NAS. I would not have known. But yeah, no, no one would have known about this at all if. I'd still be talking about, I'd still be talking about Drake versus everybody, which you guys need to really know more about.
Starting point is 00:54:50 Yeah, we do. I'm sorry. I can't be just a pain. I'm sorry. OK, so Drake's try to say this as fast as possible. Try to say this is fast as possible. And there's a conspiracy theory attached to it. But fast as possible. Drake and Kendrick have had a decades long tit for tat.
Starting point is 00:55:05 They are arguably, like I even made this argument in our book, in my book, it's like, it's Michael Jackson and Prince. It's like, you got Michael Jackson, it would be Drake where it's like just King of Pop. And then you have Prince that's like, I'm riding naked on unicorns. I can play 27 instruments.
Starting point is 00:55:20 You're gonna follow me. You know what I'm saying? So like that would be Kendrick. You know what I'm saying? They like that would be Kendrick, you know what I'm saying? They've had this tit for tat forever, right? A few years ago, Kendrick had this verse called the control verse where he essentially dissed everyone. Every rapper in his world, right?
Starting point is 00:55:36 Dissed them all, Kendrick's the goat, I'm from California, you can't tell me any different. Anyway, Future Metro Bloomin' put out an album, there's a verse on there. There's a verse on there. There's a song on there where Kendrick essentially references a song that Drake and J. Cole did called First Person Shooter. And in that song, J. Cole calls them the big three, Drake, Kendrick, and Cole.
Starting point is 00:55:58 Kendrick being Compton-born, literally doing prison burpees right now, like I'm from the streets. I don't care about this, right? Basically he was like, mother fuck the big three. I'm the big me. And blows up the whole thing because it's really about Drake, right? It's really about Drake, you know, Kendrick Dissism,
Starting point is 00:56:18 poor Cole was like, I was giving you a compliment, right? But Cole had to, but this is hip hop. You have to respond. He responds, the response was mid, like it was just mid. And then apologizes, which doesn't happen in rap. Like he was like, I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have done this. I didn't sleep well, you know. What?
Starting point is 00:56:43 And it's like, so all of your like, oh, I got shooters in the street talk is done because you apologized based on a battle that was, these are grown men writing poems about each other. You're not gonna die. You understand what I'm saying? So like, but you're apologizing, but everybody's like, when is Drake gonna respond?
Starting point is 00:57:01 Drake responds and it it was, to everyone's surprise, phenomenal. Like Drake actually like really came with it. Right. So now we're all waiting for Kendrick. But the point is, Rick Ross jumped in, he's making fun of Drake. You know, ASAP Rocky jumped in, he's making fun of Drake. Everyone's making fun of Drake because Drake is, quote me on it. He's he's verifiably corny. Like he's just, he's just a corny guy. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video.
Starting point is 00:57:25 I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video.
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Starting point is 00:57:39 I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put it in the video. I'm gonna put y'all. We are not cutting 10 minutes. Yes, yes. The conspiracy is Drake is in some ways like Nick Fury in music
Starting point is 00:57:51 because there's this organization called Gamma which essentially has like enveloped and has bought points and ownership of pretty much half of hip hop. So anybody under UMG, which is like, everybody signed to either Sony, UMG, or some sort of version of that, right? So once you get to the major.
Starting point is 00:58:13 So like, that means that he owns a percentage of Kendrick's catalog, Smoke's catalog, ASAP's catalog, Meek Mill's catalog, everybody's catalog. Essentially, there is this conspiracy theory that he actually owns them all. So in his song, he says this thing called Drop and Give Me 50, when he's talking about Kendrick,
Starting point is 00:58:35 which is a reference to something else that happened before, but it might be because he owns 50% of the guy's work, right? Which may be why everyone hates Drake, you know? Which is, and Drake has been calling himself MJ, Michael Jackson, and as you may know, as Beatle fans, that Michael Jackson has owned the Beatles masters for years, so that's the conspiracy that it's like, it's really, he's just trying to run up his thing.
Starting point is 00:59:02 Anyway, it's been a great distraction. Yeah, it's been a great distraction to like the fact that like this USC things happen and 91 criminal charges. I like that. But you said Drake's response was really good. And is there a sense that Drake himself did not write that? That is always the thought. Is that like you and your ghost writers killed it. Right. You got to have it. You got to have it. That is always an thought. Is that like, you and your ghost writers killed it.
Starting point is 00:59:25 Right. Rapper with a ghost writer. That is always an option with him. And the thing is, it's so like, the hard part is he's so mask off about the times that he doesn't, that he does use ghost writers. Like he's like, yeah, of course it is. It's songwriting.
Starting point is 00:59:41 Every genre does this. It's songwriting. I don't know why rappers feel so weird about it. We're like, because it's hip hop. That's why. Because it's different, you know? And that's been one of the- Poetry by committee?
Starting point is 00:59:54 Yes. And it is different, right? Yes. What are you doing? Yes, but yeah, so- This is some hot gossip. Yeah, buddy. It's pretty, it's hot gossip for sure.
Starting point is 01:00:03 And it's a good, but it is a good distraction. It's been a great disruption. And if I were even more conspiracy filled, I would couple that with Diddy being raided and Beyonce all of a sudden have an American flag on her. Like maybe you're trying to distract us as a people. But that would take, that would have me tying
Starting point is 01:00:25 a lot of things that aren't connected, connected. To connect. Does the new Taylor album have anything to do with this? That her album's now all of a sudden, now she's doing country music. It's like, okay, trying to make black people pro America here and distract you with all the stuff that you're talking about the ditties.
Starting point is 01:00:42 You're not gonna vote. But that would be. Wait a minute. Yeah, I know. It's absurd what I'm saying. I'm giving this last part because it's absurd. Okay, it's absurd, but I do like. Okay, it's absurd, nevermind.
Starting point is 01:00:56 Yeah, I know, right? I'm gonna go think about it. This is the only thing that was absurd. Cody, I know you've got one more thing to talk about. It's unimportant, I don't even necessarily want to talk about it. I'm just going to read this tweet. Thank you so much. It's important to you.
Starting point is 01:01:08 Thank you so much for your patience and your time. In the interest of free speech, we're talking about free speech a lot today, you know, protesting, the speech, all this kind of stuff. Elon Musk. Drama with Drake. Yeah, the king and drama with Drake, all this stuff. We're all talking speech today. We're speaking about speech.
Starting point is 01:01:26 Elon Musk, the king of speech. Did he speak freely? He exed freely earlier today, about two hours ago. And I just have to read this. I'm just going to read it. I'm just going to read it. Just read it. Given the relentless attacks on free speech,
Starting point is 01:01:46 I am going to fund a national signature campaign in support of the First Amendment. What? Wait. What the fuck does he mean by that? Like a change.org petition? Right, that's what he means, right? In support of the First Amendment? In support of the First Amendment. In support of the First Amendment?
Starting point is 01:02:06 OK, man. Bro, you are he is so high when you wrote this. Like you are so high. This is happening. First Amendment is illustrated by the fact that it still fucking exists. What's like what do you you want to sign in support of the first amendment? What are you doing? What?
Starting point is 01:02:27 It's it's it's very funny. And what's free speech? Was he referencing the USC? What do you what do you? It's just like this weird like virtue signaling, like like I support dinner and you should join my campaign in support of having a nice dinner. Like what is what?
Starting point is 01:02:49 Great, yes. I support a law that already exists. It's so silly. Yes. What a good use of your energy, my friend. It's just like, you know, if it were anybody else, he'd be like, oh, your virtue signaling with your petition. Like, what is the point of this?
Starting point is 01:03:08 Maybe he means the attacks on Rob Schneider after his stand-up bit failed after a bunch of Republicans, now that Republicans are trying to cancel Schneider. Well, Republicans are woke now, unfortunately. Much like Grok. Yeah. I don't need to talk about this more. I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 01:03:24 Grok! I thank you for indulging me. I think that's a fun. I've to talk about this more. I'm so sorry. I thank you for indulging me. I like, I've been thinking about it for so long. He's been thinking about it. That was a fun, it was perfect, Cody. You did great. Thank you so much. You're welcome.
Starting point is 01:03:36 And I am sincere. Yes. Lastly, worst thing you love. Fuck. Damn it. I've been not thinking about it. Okay, don't worry about it, Spurgers. Worst thing I love, free speech. it! I've been not thinking about it. Okay, don't worry about it, Spurgers. Worst thing I love?
Starting point is 01:03:46 Free speech. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah! People don't like it, it's mad, but I love it. I love it. I got away with it. Did I get away with it? Red Bull. Red Bull for road trips.
Starting point is 01:03:58 Oh, that's pretty good. That's good, that's a good one. It's like- Worst thing you love, Red Bull? Oh, I would say like energy drinks actually are like- Energy drinks. You just feel like mine! I am, but it's a good answer. It's like. Worst thing you love, Red Bull. Oh, I would say like energy drinks actually are like. Energy drinks. You just feel like mine. I am, but it's a good answer.
Starting point is 01:04:07 It's a great answer. Celsius, that's, I don't need that. I don't need that much caffeine. Are you gonna drink that after your coffee? Cause now it's cold. I'm doing that later. Yeah, see, yeah. Worst thing you love, there it is.
Starting point is 01:04:18 That's my afternoon caffeine. Yeah, it's your afternoon. That's the one that's actually keeping you up at night. I know. Prop, thank you so much for joining us. This was great. I could do this every week. I love it here, guys.
Starting point is 01:04:30 We're not gonna wait till next 4.20. Please don't wait until... We're gonna have you on. 4.20 in 2026. Right. Yeah, before that. Just in like four months or so. Four months is great.
Starting point is 01:04:43 We'll check. Four months and 20 days. Four months and 20 days. Four months and 20 days. There it is. Good. Yeah. Good. Thank you guys for listening.
Starting point is 01:04:50 Oh wait, Prop, tell them where to find you. Yeah. And promote the things. Promote the things. That's the thing I was forgetting. Prophiphop.com. That's where all the things are. That's all my social media.
Starting point is 01:04:59 That's all my, oh, and if you're in California tomorrow or today, I have a show in Long Beach, full band. Very rare, very rare doing a full band. And the band is, oh, I don't know. Anderson Pax Band. So it's going to be pretty great, man. It's yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Down in Long Beach.
Starting point is 01:05:17 Which is down south. Yeah. Long Beach. Cody, pull up, man. I'll put you on the guest list. I will put you on the guest list, Cody. But you said you like going outside. I do love going outside, as we've discussed, I go outside. Live music, live funk, soul, hip hop,
Starting point is 01:05:31 it'll be super great. That sounds so dope. You will have a great time, and I will make sure you have a lot of marijuana. There will be a lot of marijuana there. Yes. Oh, I'm taking care of it. Oh, I can't prepare.
Starting point is 01:05:45 Yeah. So that's that's it's called Fat Fridays. LBC. But yeah, all my stuff, hud politics, everything is on the website. Prophip pop dot com. OK. You know where to find us. Presumably at this point in time, you don't know where to find us. I don't know what to tell you. We're online. And gosh, I just have to tell you, and I mean it.
Starting point is 01:06:07 Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Why not? Don't do it. No, do it. I'm gonna. We love you very much. Much. Thank you. Globally, humans are facing massive problems that are widely ignored by governments and the media. Like personal space invaders. Had it with these couples that sit widely ignored by governments and the media. Like personal space invaders. I had it with these couples that sit on the same side of the booth. Yak mouths.
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Starting point is 01:06:46 Nailed it. See you next Tuesday.

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