The Harland Highway - 942 - The effects of RAP music. Stop the TRUMP hate! Question of the day!

Episode Date: May 14, 2018

Prof. Rutherford Grimes discusses the effects of RAP music. Stop the TRUMP hate! Question of the day! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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for us? Oh my God. And then we kind of get into a big conversation about the rap culture and the rap scene. Professor Rutherford Grimes, he's a professor in African American sociology and urban planning and all that stuff. And he's going to be calling in to discuss rap music and its effects on society. So here we go. This is the Harlan Highway. I have an announcement to know. You're about to go down the Harland Highway. Lock the door. I don't want to be a product of my environment.

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Where's the pound button? I don't know, but nothing like starting the show with a, you know, a rap from one of the pavement pounders. I mean, that's just, you know, that's just like, whoa. I mean, who, whoa, cool, right? What a, what up, what up, what a, what a, what a, what a, oh, yeah, word to that, brosuf. Word. Oh, man, I mean, that is some solid, solid rap action right there.

I mean, holy crap, all I can say is where in the name of holy hell is the pound button, bro? Where's the town button Pound button, bro Town, town, town, town, town, town, town, town, town, town, town, town. Where's the town button? What a, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up. What up. Oh.

Yo. Mom was a dancer on Puerto Bino. Yeah, sing it, boy. What up, what up, what up, what up, what a. Oh, yeah, there it is. The rap world. It's an interesting world, isn't it? The rap world.

A lot of it comes out of urban culture. A lot of the rap movement came out of, you know, black disgruntled youth. A lot of younger black kids living in the projects and, you know, having experiences in the streets. And, you know, it was kind of a go-to way of expressing themselves. and, you know, some of them used it as a way to climb above any of the maybe desperate situations that they were in, or they found it as a way to create a means to, you know, bring themselves up financially and artistically and all that stuff. There's a lot in the rap, the urban rap world. I mean, you know, it also applies to white rappers and Asian rappers.

rappers and and Latino rappers, but I think, I think kind of the whole thing started, uh, in, in the, uh, in the African American black culture. And, uh, you know, I think, I think, uh, Rogers on the phone. He's waving me. We got him. Okay. Yeah, this gentleman can probably explain it way better than I can. Uh, this is a man who, who works up at Berkeley in, uh, northern California up by, uh, just, uh, close to San Francisco, Professor Rutherford Grimes. He's been on the show before. He's a professor of African-American social studies, African-American culture, African-American history. He's got many diplomas in black sociology, and he has a very rich and deep understanding of the black community, the black culture, as I said.

And I think it would be interesting to put them on and have him explain kind of the roots of the rap culture and what it represents, what it means, what it's done for the African American community, both on a musical level, on an artistic level, on a social level. Maybe we can touch on why it was important or even touch on how it may be detrimental to society. Who knows? There's those those that say rap is violent and ugly and crass and racist and demeaning to women. And then there's those that say it's a vehicle to lift people up and help them prosper. So without further ado, let's get Professor Rutherford Grimes on the line. And let's ask him all these important questions. Are you there, sir?

Yes, Mr. Williams. It's good to be here, sir. Thank you for having them on your broadcast. asked. Yes, sir, Professor Grimes. It's great to have you. We always like getting your insight, your perspective on these matters, and I think you heard the intro. Could you comment on the rap culture in the black community, sir? Mr. Williams, although, albeit to some of the claims you made, some of the observations you made, it does stem from a, you know, a violent aspects of our culture.

nefarious access of the drug trade, illegal drugs, gang, violence, poverty, impoverishedness, neighborhoods that are, you know, were possibly substandard in terms of the housing and the education. And so the rebellious voices of the black youth were able to find an outlet, Mr. Williams, an escape, if you will, in the rap music and the lyrics that they were, you know, constructing on the street. Yeah, it really, you know, if nothing else, it really came from an honest place, a sincere place. It was literally probably a byproduct of the environment that these young kids were living in. Absolutely, Mr. William. And so when you are full of rage, when you are perhaps full of hopelessness,

sometimes people are the only thing they have left to turn to is their artistic self. What's in their heart, what's in their soul, what their eyes are seeing, what their hearts are feeling. And children are wrapped up in that environment, that intense, chaotic environment, They have a need to emote Mr. William to express oneself, if you will. Yeah, I totally get it. And sometimes the most destitute or desperate of situations can very often spawn, you know, art. Because it's like it's such a dramatic culture, a dramatic, excuse me, professor, a dramatic environment to be in that it,

It just inspires, even though it might not be in a positive way. Well, there's another element that come into play with the black culture, Mr. Williams. And, you know, a lot of children in these neighborhoods, in these low-income neighborhoods, or these crime-knitled gang-driven neighborhoods, a lot of the youth are forced at a very, very early age, to look at life in real black and white colors. Yeah, I think I know what you mean, sir. It's very stark, it's very bleak.

Well, have you ever heard the expression of Mr. William? The glass is either half full or the glass is half empty, sir? Yeah, that's a pretty common phrase, yes. Well, in this case, the children in these environments in neighborhoods, they looked, a lot of them didn't have a glass to drink out of. I mean, that's how destitute some of these young children were. It's just horrible to think in this day and age, in the United States of America, that people don't have plates and glasses and... So my point is, Mr. Williams, that it's hard to do the half-furt. full, half-empty glass comparison when you don't even have a glass to drink from.

Yeah, that just breaks my heart. So what a lot of these children did, Mr. Williams, have you ever heard, we have a wonderful actor in a festival, if you will, here in the United States of America? He's an Oscar winner. Um, an actor, sir? Oh, he's an Oscar winner, Mr. Williams. He just recently came out, played a wonderful, wonderful role. Very intense, very driven in the movie, The Black Panther.

Did you see the Black Panther movie, Mr. Williams? I did see the Black Panther movie. I wasn't a huge fan of it. Well, whether you're a fan of it or not. There is an iconic African-American actor in that movie who is beloved by most of the African-American community. did they look up to this man? As I said it before, he's won all schools.

He's been nominated for all schools. I'm talking about Forrest Whitaker. Are you familiar with his work? Yes, Forrest Whitaker. Absolutely, sir. I'm an incredible actor. What a talent. Absolutely.

And so when the youth in these crime-ridled streets and these low-income and published neighborhoods, Mr. Williams, they need a light to look up to. They need something to. grab hold of, you see? And when they look at someone that's successful as a Forrest Whitaker, or then, you know, that gives them hope. Okay, and I'm not sure how this relates to you. You were saying something about the glasses half empty or the glasses half full? Well, this bring me around, like I said, a lot of the, a lot of the family

don't have a glass to drink from. So how are they going to draw that comparison of hopefulness or lack of hope? Okay, I think I see where you're going. So what they're doing, now I don't know if you're familiar with Forrest Whitaker, but his left eye, his left eye are meaty and hang down like a mud flap on the back of an 18-wheel of vehicle. What was that, sir? Forrest Whitaker, the actor I was referring to? Yes, sir.

His left eye, now if you notice it kind of half-closed sometimes and sometimes it's three-quartered clothes. It looked like a Japanese fisherman hooked into a giant squid right in the eye and pulled him up out of the water and his eyes blinking and flapping, you know, that gelatinous squid meat. What, wait a minute. Yes, I think we're familiar with Forrest Whitaker has a lazy eye. Is that what you mean? Oh, that, that eye more than lazy. I'll tell you what, that eye in the fucking welfare line. That eye, that is be all lazy. I mean, that, that, that, That fucking I's having a CS down underneath the 405 bridge is what that I's doing. Sir, I don't, that sounds a little bit much.

You know, I don't know that we should be highlighting Forrest Whitaker's eye. And by the way, what does it have to do with the half full, half? Well, if you let me, if you be a little patient with me here with you, I'm trying to call the analogy. So the youth, the disrupted youth of all these communities, the hopelessness, and what they have to look up to is Forrest Whitaker's left eye, and instead of, is the glass half full, or is the glass half empty? Okay.

The children look at a picture of Forrest Whitaker on the movie screen, and they go, is Forst Whitaker's left eye half open or is it half closed? You see what I'm saying? What? Well, a lot of people can't even afford it. bought a glass to put in their hand, so for free, for free of charge, they can turn on the TV, and there's sports critics are just hanging down, hanging down like a garage door that went to a level four hurricane. He just ripped off its in his island meat, just flapping down,

like the, like the fold on a rhinocer's fucking back leg, just flapping down, Mr. Williams. Sir, are you telling me that children, instead of seeing if the glass, is half full or half empty. They're looking to Forrest Whitaker's left eye to see if it's half open or half closed. That's right. Hallelujah. You've needed and thank God for the talent of Mr. Forrest's winner. Is an Oscar winner? Did I mention that? Yes, sir, you've mentioned he's an Oscar winner, but you know, you're lifting him up, but at the same time, I feel like you're knocking him down because you keep referring to his eye. Well, now, just not any eye, Mr. Williams. I mean, any eye is almond-shaped or oval, sometimes even quite round, but Forrest Whitaker's eye,

oh my goodness, it looks like somebody folded a sleeping bag over like four or five times and, you know, stuck it under a cement mixer and had the cement mixer roll over the sleeping bag and press it all down and his eye just flapping down like a, you ever see a bat hanging upside down in a cave, Mr. Williams, and he wraps his leathery wings around his hairy little body. That's not forced Whitaker's eye. It's like that eyelid, that meat flap, and hanged down over his eyeball and wrap around his eye like a vampire eye.

Sir, Professor, listen, I think we're straying away from the talk about the rap music and you're getting a little, you know, hung up on his eye. Well, you know, Mr. Williams, you know, I spend time with my faculty and in my lab and in my lecture halls. And I disseminate this data and this information all day long. And when I try to tell you these facts, when I try to share this data with you and you who challenge me, I find that not only offensive, sir, but that might be borderline racist. Now, sir, there's no racism at all. I just feel that we're having this talk about the rap culture

and its effects or non-effects on the African-American culture, and all cultures, for that matter. And you keep kind of drifting back to Forrest Whitaker. Left eye? Oh, my God. I'll tell you what. Sometimes in my classroom, I will put up a chart, you know, some some scientists in there in their laboratories will put up a you know the chart of the elements and

maybe a geography teacher will put up a map of the world i put up a giant almost i got about 12 foot by nine foot poster of forest Whitaker's eye and i have my student i say i say look at that flap look at that look at that his left eye it's like the way it come down it's like if someone if the incredible Hulk went into an office building and turned an elevator it took an elevator and with his great rippling muscles

Mr. Wims, he grabbed an elevator and turned it from vertical to horizontal and the elevator door came down from up above instead of a cross and that's what it looked like. It looked like the incredible hulk got slammed an elevator door down on

forest critical left eye, just come down and slowly, just deep, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, you know, just hanging over his eyeball, and then he'll look at you, look at you like, like an owl hiding in a cave or something. Sir, can we... Hey, everybody, who wants to have better sex? No, yes, yes, the answer is yes, you always want to have better sex. That's what, you want it to be better, not worse, trust me.

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This is an exclusive offer specific to this podcast. So be sure to use this code Harland so you get your discount and 100% free shipping code Harland. Have fun. Don't throw your back out. You know, Professor Grimes, okay, okay, we got the reference about the half, half full, half open, half shut thing. Now, can we kind of steer it back to, do you think there's any negative effects of rap music? You know, some of the language can be quite salty and provocative. as some of the references towards women and kind of the gun culture and the money culture. And, you know, there's a lot of stereotypes in rap music that I don't think are necessarily healthy. Well, you know, Mr. Williams, I appreciate you saying that,

because there are a lot of negative stigmas attached to a rap culture. And I think what you're asking me here, are there other things that a child could look up to? I think so. I have to agree with that. Should a child at a young age be exposed to provocative images, which is street violence, drag racing, guns, women being sexualized and demoralized. And that's why, Mr. Williams, there is something else that children can look at. Oh, okay. And something more positive? It's something positive, but it's intense, and it's a little bit scary, but I think it teaches a good life lesson.

Okay, what would that be, sir? That would be Forrest Whitaker's left eye. Now, hold on for a minute. Sir, if you could... Now, hear me out, Mr. William. This is important. Sir, I'm really not sure... Now, you'd let me speak here, you didn't you? You invited me on your show. I'd like to get my point across. Well, if it's just more about Forrest Whitaker's left eye It is, it is, I'll be honest, for disclosure

It is about Forrest Whitaker left eye But there's a point here to be made, Mr. Williams Well, make it quickly, sir, because I hate to say it, but now you're kind of testing my patience and my audience patience because you keep drifting back to Forrest Whitaker's left eye Oh, amen, amen And here's where Forrest Whitaker's left eye is so important in this conversation, Mr. Williams.

Because here you have, you have a black man in the entertainment business. Already the odds are stacked against a black man in the entertainment business. But you layer on top of that a black man in the entertainment business and not only is a black, but my god he's got an eye left eye okay he's got a left eye that hanged down over his eyeball oh it hanged down it swoop low it like a gray storm cloud rolling across from the horizon it just rolled down on his face look like maybe uh you know somebody uh shaved a piece of meat off of roast beef and got a staple gun and just stapled it to his forehead and that meat come flapping down and the grizzle on the edge and the juices just rolling into his eyeball

and even when he blink, you can hear his left eye making slurping noises. You know when he blink his eye, all that meat slapped together like and just, you know, imagine if he got something in his eye like a bug in his eye like a bug in his I would just flap and sound like a meat waterfall, Mr. Williams. Stop it! Mr. Williams? Just stop it. Professor Rutherford Grimes.

No. Mr. Williams, are you? Yes, I'm telling you to stop it. Forrest Whitaker is a fine, upstanding, a lesbian, a human being, and I just don't like where this is going. I think this is getting borderline cruel. Mr. Williams, look, you know, this is what I do.

This is what I do. Well, what you do, sir, is coming off as a bit cold and crass, and I dare say cruel. Well, look at you. Look at you trying to step on the neck. step on the neck of the African American man Sir, don't go there

Look at you And you know what, right up from the neck? Sir? Right up from the neck Is the head The head of the African American man Sir, let's not go there That's not what I'm doing

And you know what on the head, Mr. Williams? What, Professor? On the head, you got the ear You got the mouth you got the nose you got the right eye oh no and you got the left

arm mr williams and forced Whitaker got a left eye that eye flap around like a like a stingray that got tossed out of the water by a giant killer whale flapping in the air flip

hate up god what is wrong with that guy every time I try to to get into a serious conversation with him. It's all about Forrest Whitaker's left eye. I don't want to... Good, he's gone.

God, I keep getting fooled by that guy because he's this professor at Berkeley, and he's got all these credentials, and I always forget that he keeps bringing it. I think every conversation we've ever had with him, Roger, he starts going on about Forrest Whitaker's left. left eye. I mean, the guy can't help, but he's got a lazy eye. It's not a big deal. So what? It's a lazy eye, but this guy acts like it's like the universe revolves around Forrest Whitaker's

left eye, for God's sakes. You know, let's just move on. How about can we, let's move on to something easier to digest. Let's do a Harland Highway question of the day. Please, God. The Harland Highway, question of the day. Okay, so here it is, question of the day. It's kind of a weird one, a simple one, but why is it, here's the question today, why is it that when people like who are in a service, whether they're a plumber or a locksmith or a producer or a lawyer? Have you ever noticed? And here's the question, why do they give you more than one business card? I've noticed that. Like people will hand me their business card. Like, oh, here's some cards, plural. Okay, it's not, here's my card. Take it. It's like, here, have some cards.

And now suddenly I've got like four business cards of Larry the Plummer. I don't like, oh, thanks for all the, I'm going to be walking around and handing out plumber cards to all my friends at my next social get together. You know, the guy, I'm buying some blinds for my windows. Here, have some cards. I'm like, okay. You know, think, do I really need four of your cards, six year cards? I just find it weird.

Like, A, they're wasting their own money. Okay, they're printing the cards. Nobody needs more than one card. But I just find it odd. I think it's almost like, like in their head, they're thinking, if I give them more cards, I have a better chance of hearing. from him again. If I give him more cards, he'll be handing them out to all his friends,

and I'm going to get all kind of residual work. Because you know people like to hand out my card. Like, nothing's worse than handing out the business card of someone else. Can you imagine me at some fancy soiree? Hey, Harland, you have a card? Actually, I do. Here. Hmm, I didn't know you were a plumber now, Harland. Well, you asked for my card. I mean, it's not really my... Well, it's mine because someone gave it to me, but now it's yours. Here, have three more. Wait, what? No, I don't three more. Have six more. Here, have a whole. It's raining cards. Hallelujah. Just throw them up in the air like confetti. So, you know, that's my question of the day. Why do people who give out business cards give you more than one card? Just give me one. That's all I need.

I'll put it in my little file, and I'll remember you. The Harland Highway Question of the Day. The Harland Highway Question of the Day. Okay, I've got to talk about this. It's at the end of the show. It might get a little political. So if you don't like politics, if you don't like my political point of view, you know I'm a Trump guy. This isn't about Trump.

This is more about the system, but I have to talk about Trump because he's part of the system. he's the damn president. So if you hate anything I say about Trump or you just can't stand to hear anything said about Trump and you can't stand people who like Trump and just stop now because I don't know if you'll get anything out of this segment. But this doesn't have, it has to do with Trump, but it has more to do with our political system

and the people involved in it. And I've been watching this stuff. I watch the news. I watch on several different networks. And I look at all this stuff that's been going on for a year and a half with James Comey and the FBI and blah, blah, blah. And they've been searching for all this collusion and all this stuff. And it's just become apparent to me. And again, I don't know the answers, okay?

But just if I'm a guy just looking at clues and making deductions and looking at all the coverage and looking at the media and looking at the forms that are being released and looking at what's been said by the various players. Comey, the director of the FBI, and Andy McCabe is his number two and a few of the other players. I look at this and I just go, these guys kind of had it in for Trump right out of the gate. I mean, they started the whole Comey with his taking memos and then leaking them

and then admitting that he leaked them under oath to Congress and then saying he leaked them for the purpose of generating a special counsel to investigate Trump and on and on and on and on and then he's out with this book and he's talking about all the things he's done and how he feels and how he actually wished

Hillary had won the election and like it just seems very biased to me but again this isn't about who won or lost this this is what i don't like and this applies to whether it was baroque obama or hillary or donald trump isn't isn't the president whoever it may be the top dog like isn't everyone under the president supposed to be working for the president supposed to be complimenting the president supposed to being on the president's team, supposed to be helping lift the president up and follow the president's orders? I mean, he is the top dog that he's the boss. That's why we elect him.

We don't elect a president to be halfway there. It's like, let's hire someone to, let's elect someone to run our country, but then not really let him do it. I mean, if Barack Obama or Hillary, whoever's in power, I want them to have full power. I want them to have full power. to be in control. And everyone else underneath them has a job to do, but they're subservient to the commander-in-chief. The new BMO-V-I-Porter MasterCard is your ticket to more. More perks, more points, more flights,

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people under the commander-in-chief should be trying to lift him up and should not be going out of their way to trip him up and trick him up and not support him or her and do a great job and work for the betterment of the country and I'm looking at all this stuff unfold and I'm sorry man if this same all these shenanigans had happened to Hillary I'd be saying the same thing I'm saying right now

if they happened to Barack I'd be saying the exact same thing it ain't right man it's ugly to watch it's using up so much time and effort and I could see if maybe you know three, four years in or even three years in the head of the CIA was like, you know what, or the FBI, if he was like, you know what, I'm just not getting along with this guy.

I don't like Trump. I think he's a buffoon. I'm not getting along with him. He's crooked. He's this, he's that. But if you follow the timelines, And Comey was starting to work against Trump before he was even inaugurated. Comey was planning and pardoning people and not investigating people and setting Trump up for this whole thing.

It seems like the whole group of them ran on it. And it's just like it's so disheartening because, you know, and then all these guys, The former CIA and FBI guys, Clapper and the other ones, they're all out there bad-mouthing them. They're writing books about them. They're trashing them. They're saying horrible things.

They're saying stuff. And when pressed on it, they're like, well, I don't know if it's true, but it could be true. Like, they're just making up all this superficial hearsay about the president. And it just, it degrades and demeans the office of the president and if I was

if I was from another country looking in I'd be like God what kind of country is that it's almost like when if you're in a relationship and you're at a party and you get in a fight and you think your boyfriend or your girlfriend's going to be on your side

and all of a sudden she sides with everyone else and you're standing there like I thought it's going to have a little support here you know and it just, it just, it makes me mad and sad to see all this stuff wherein, you know, I feel like there was a time when it's almost like, it's like if you want to, you know, do a comparison to royalty. That's like you have the king and the queen,

and everyone else is their servant. And I'm not saying that the king or queen can just, you there, take off your clothes and jump around naked. It's not that, but there's a hierarchy, there's a pecking order. You know, it's like if you go into any police station, there's a chief of police, there's a commander, there's a corporal, but the chief of police is the top guy, man, and the orders come down from him, and everyone respects him, and everyone does what they're told, and that's how it works. But I just feel like Trump got in, he didn't get in by any other means than the people of the United States, a lot of. elected him, okay? The people want him. And here's these jack wads in the higher, you know, echelons of the government.

And I have to say in a very, like, scary part of the government, like the intelligence branch of the government, where you have to figure they have the wherewithal and the means and the knowledge to kind of to rig things and jiggle things around and make things disappear. and, like, they're experts in espionage. They're experts in stealth and cunning and spying and all that stuff. And you see this stuff happening to the president who, whether you hate Trump or not, man, you should look at the stuff he's getting done. This guy, you know, I'm kind of over everyone bashing him. This guy's kicking ass.

What do you want? It's like he's your manager on your baseball team and he's taking you to. the World Series, and you're sitting there going, this guy sucks, what an asshole, what a douche. I mean, you got to stop listening to the rhetoric, in my opinion, and start looking at the facts and looking at what this guy's done and what he's doing. It's the guy is history, whether, you know, all of you haters are going to, the only thing that's going to remain is the history books and the checklist of all the stuff he got

done. and it's going to be a mind-blower. It already is a mind-blower what this guy's done in a year and a half. It's like jaw-dropping. If you take the time to stop hating and just put your partisanship and your team to the side and just look at facts, almost like a court case, forget about the emotion, forget about all the hoopla.

Just look at the facts. Man, there is a lot there, man. And so it's just, it's just, it's sad to watch a president that's working so hard, trying to get so much done. He's very effective at it. And even with all this stuff coming at him, all this stuff being bombarded and accused, and he's still kicking ass more than any other president. It's almost mind-boggling. And that's just going to add to his legacy, you know, with all the blocking that he's had

and all the kind of nefarious things that have been going on where people from day one have been trying to trip this guy up, like not only trip him up, but get him out, get him impeached, get him, get him gone. And it's almost like, it's almost like if you're on the Patriots, you say, you know what, let's get Tom Brady out of there. You know, I mean, we don't want a good chance at winning the Super Bowl. In fact, we don't even want to get to the playoffs. Let's get rid of, let's figure out a way to get rid of Brady

and let's get a guy, a rookie from, you know, St. Louis, who's never played in the NFL, but we want that guy. He'll get us to the Super Bowl. It's just very bizarre. People are so caught up in the hatred and the name-calling and the accusation. and they're so determined to trip this guy up and make them look bad and, oh, it's just, it's, it's amazing. It's stunning to watch.

Imagine if people got on board and help this guy try to break poverty and create jobs and reduce taxes and try and find world peace talking to Kim Jong-un and, you know, bombing ISIS and bombing Syria when they're not behaving. could go on and on man I mean look I'm not trying to say everything he does is great there's things I hate like fact he's not big on the environment and stuff I hate that but that's what I mean I'm not I'm not here to talk about a you know a guy that I like or a girl that I like it's just it's just whoever is in there deserves to have their staff working for him and and that's that that's the key they work for him he's the commander and chief. He's the top dog. They should be doing backflips, kissing his ass, trying to do what he wants to get done. And nothing nefarious, you know, any leader can get powered going to their heads.

And next thing, you know, it's like, well, my leader of the FBI, I really like what you've been doing. And now I want you to go and chop anyone with blue eyes. I want you to chop their heads off. no we don't we don't we don't want anyone blindly following power but we want respectful responsible you know staff members following their leader that's the way i see it and again because i know there's people going oh my god this guy loves trump i'm trying to tell you i hate that i always have to justify this but people get so upset if baroque obama was president or hillary Clinton was president. Hear me. Every word I just said would apply to them to, okay? The reason I have to say Trump is because this is the guy it's happening to right now. And not only undermining him,

they're being mean to his wife, they're being cruel to his kids, they're being, I mean, they're just lamb-baseding the whole family. And there's other countries are going, man, that Trump guy, like, yeah, he was a reality star, but as a president? This guy says, kicking ass. Wait a minute. Why are all the people hating on them? Why are they all making fun of them? Why are they all making up stories about?

Why are they all trying to get them kicked out? This guy's kicking out. If you kick him out, can we have them? We'd like a lot of this stuff. This guy's a relentless workaholic. This guy's an incredible deal maker. This guy's tough. He's got balls.

So I don't know, man. Keep hating if you want to hate, but, man, I would just say, shake your head and clear out the cobwebs and just, you know, work, work for what's good for the people in the country and forget about the party affiliation shit. As I've said, because I always get people going, I love, I'm not a party guy. I am not a Democrat or a Republican. I go, I drift to who's doing the best job, who's kicking ass. and I can sit here and say Trump's kicking ass but you're not going to believe me if you're a hater so that's why I say

look at the statistics look up what he's done go through a checklist the guy's done a hell of a lot man so I'll leave it there I just had to express my disappointment in these these kind of weasily

people that are snaking around and not not being team players man they're all like after the fact, little whiny babies, little schoolyard brats. That guy won. Let's get him out. You know, it's almost like, you know, we talk about bullying.

It's almost like all these people have gathered together and they're just bullying the guy. They're bullying his family. They're bullying his wife. They're bullying it. And thank God Trump can stand up to all this foolishness. And that's the sign of a strong leader. This guy's just plowing right through it. And not only that, he's fighting back.

When they throw a fight, a punch, he punches back. And that's impressive, man. Because let's be honest, Obama was not a swinger. Obama just kind of laid back and had the swagger. And there wasn't a lot of fighting that guy, if you ask me. So, anyways, there it is. I hope anyone who doesn't, you know, like the political talk, which I rarely do.

But this is more about, you know, freaking, the ugliness of what I'm seeing so I hope you're able to sit through it maybe be objective, maybe be angry I don't know it's up to you that's what this is all about you don't have to listen if you don't want to I gave you a warning I told you it was going into politics

so I don't even know why I apologize that's the craziness of this world now it's like ooh everyone's going to get so upset relax everybody just food for thought we'll leave it there we'll leave it right there and uh you know you can make your own conclusions i'm not trying to i'm not trying to turn you i'm not trying to make you into something i'm just i'm just expressing myself if if you want to express yourself you know go do your to your own podcast and make everyone else listen to suffer through your opinions but that's part of why you're here because i you know

i like to offer it up and throw it out there uh so there you go uh anyways let's close it up right there and what do we got going on man what do we got going on um let's see i'm trying to look oh yes next week next week my friends I will fill you in on all the details of my incredible holiday that I took overseas. I went to some incredible exotic places. I will share that with you. Bring you up to date on some of the cool stuff. And then this week, later in the week, May 16th, sorry, May 17, 18, and 19,

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