In this episode of News and Trends, hosts Dave and Len delve into diverse topics impacting today's society. Kicking off with the unpredictable weather and reminiscing about the infamous blizzard of '96, the conversation takes a turn towards unexpected winter predictions.
The episode further explores the recent Los Angeles fires, shedding light on the resilience of first responders and the unfortunate plight of those who lost their homes, touching on the complexities of insurance claims amid natural disasters.
Dave and Len then navigate a whirlwind of controversial celebrity actions at significant events, examining how these moments affect public perception and personal brands.
The discussion also seeks to understand the broader implications of political maneuvers, potential economic consequences, and the polarizing nature of cultural dynamics under current leadership. Tune in for a thoughtful analysis of societal trends and their repercussions.
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00:00:11 --> 00:00:19 All right, y'all, get ready for another edition of News and Trends with your host, Dave and Lynn.
00:00:29 --> 00:00:32 Welcome, welcome, welcome to News and Trends with Dave and Lynn.
00:00:32 --> 00:00:36 This is one of your hosts, Mr. David Coker, proprietor of Dave Mark,
00:00:36 --> 00:00:40 Inc., promoter, event planner, and all-around good guy.
00:00:41 --> 00:00:45 I'm hanging out with my partner, Mr. Leonard Young. What's going on, sir?
00:00:45 --> 00:00:49 Hey, Dave. Everything is good. This is Leonard Young, CEO of National Black
00:00:49 --> 00:00:54 Guy, Delaware Black Doc, Black Media Specialist and all-around good guy.
00:00:55 --> 00:00:56 How's everything going, Dave?
00:00:57 --> 00:00:58 All right. I can't complain.
00:01:00 --> 00:01:07 I guess we're bracing ourselves for another wintry type of week.
00:01:07 --> 00:01:12 Oh, yeah. Yeah, which is so crazy because the weather's been up and down.
00:01:13 --> 00:01:19 You know, we've had 50-degree days and 30-degree days, so it's interesting.
00:01:20 --> 00:01:26 So, but, you know, but, you know, as long as we don't have the blizzard of—
00:01:26 --> 00:01:30 it's funny because it's come up a lot this week over the last couple weeks,
00:01:30 --> 00:01:33 the blizzard of 96 when we had those 30-inch days. Oh, yeah.
00:01:33 --> 00:01:37 I do remember that. Yeah, I think everybody remembers that.
00:01:38 --> 00:01:41 So as long as we don't have anything like that. But, you know,
00:01:41 --> 00:01:45 Punxsutawney Field came out the other day and said, we got six more weeks.
00:01:45 --> 00:01:48 So that ain't good. That ain't good. I know.
00:01:49 --> 00:01:55 But I think human nature, because there was a report that was on not too long
00:01:55 --> 00:02:00 ago that said like 21 states will get like,
00:02:01 --> 00:02:05 there's supposed to be like 15 snowstorms that are supposed to come through
00:02:05 --> 00:02:08 those states over the next couple of weeks.
00:02:09 --> 00:02:15 Oh, wow. Yeah. I mean. All right. And then, you know, I'm going to say half
00:02:15 --> 00:02:18 of them states will probably be states that don't even get snowed like Florida,
00:02:18 --> 00:02:20 Alabama, Mississippi, New Orleans, Texas.
00:02:21 --> 00:02:25 Yeah. I mean, you know, it even snowed in California in some places.
00:02:26 --> 00:02:30 So, I mean, you know, it wasn't in, you know, the Los Angeles area,
00:02:30 --> 00:02:33 of course, where all the stuff was going on.
00:02:34 --> 00:02:38 But, man, I tell you, it's just kind of crazy right now.
00:02:39 --> 00:02:43 The world's a crazy place right now, Leonard. It really is.
00:02:43 --> 00:02:45 We got so much going on.
00:02:47 --> 00:02:52 We have to apologize, folks, because we didn't get a chance to talk with you guys last weekend.
00:02:53 --> 00:02:59 Just in the last week to 10 days, so many things have happened. It's unbelievable.
00:03:00 --> 00:03:04 You know, before we get into our stories, just to touch on a few things.
00:03:04 --> 00:03:10 Of course, we had the fires out there in Los Angeles, you know,
00:03:11 --> 00:03:12 of course, praying for those families.
00:03:13 --> 00:03:14 You know, I'm surprised.
00:03:16 --> 00:03:21 I guess it's good that the fire department and the first responders and everything
00:03:21 --> 00:03:22 reacted the way they did.
00:03:22 --> 00:03:27 Because considering all that happened there and all that was lost,
00:03:27 --> 00:03:30 not many lives were lost. And that's good.
00:03:31 --> 00:03:36 That's really a good thing. And of course, we feel bad for those who did lose
00:03:36 --> 00:03:38 their lives and the families that did lose loved ones.
00:03:38 --> 00:03:43 But it could have been a lot, a lot worse. So...
00:03:45 --> 00:03:49 Thank God they were able to get those. But there were a lot of celebrities,
00:03:49 --> 00:03:52 a lot of people who lost things.
00:03:52 --> 00:03:53 I mean, you know.
00:03:54 --> 00:03:59 And, you know, it's a shame, too, because, you know, we also heard about all
00:03:59 --> 00:04:02 the people who were dropped from insurance companies prior to the fire.
00:04:03 --> 00:04:08 Yeah, because insurance companies. And then I saw something today saying that
00:04:08 --> 00:04:13 State Farm was saying that they didn't have enough money or,
00:04:13 --> 00:04:16 you know, they were financially struggling to pay out all these claims.
00:04:17 --> 00:04:22 Yeah. Well, State Farm was like one of the main companies that was dropping people, you know.
00:04:22 --> 00:04:27 Right. Because, you know, apparently they said that there was some type of tip
00:04:27 --> 00:04:30 once the fire started, you know.
00:04:30 --> 00:04:36 Because apparently, from what I had heard from a couple different news things
00:04:36 --> 00:04:41 I was looking at, they kind of knew when the fires started.
00:04:41 --> 00:04:45 And the insurance companies, when they started seeing that the fires were spreading,
00:04:45 --> 00:04:49 the insurance companies started dropping people right away. Yeah, that's crazy.
00:04:50 --> 00:04:56 Because they knew, you know, I mean, keep in mind, didn't they have wildfires in California?
00:04:56 --> 00:05:00 Was it last year or the year before? Yeah, I mean, it almost seems like every
00:05:00 --> 00:05:08 year was just not this big Yeah, and so I think they were still trying to recover from that You know.
00:05:09 --> 00:05:16 And it just adds, I mean, to what we've been saying all these years About insurance being such a racket,
00:05:17 --> 00:05:23 Because when you do have a big thing to happen like this They don't want to
00:05:23 --> 00:05:25 pay You know, they take your money.
00:05:27 --> 00:05:29 But they don't necessarily all the time want to pay.
00:05:30 --> 00:05:37 And it's really unfortunate for a lot of these people who have lost their whole
00:05:37 --> 00:05:40 lives, basically, as far as their homes and everything are concerned.
00:05:42 --> 00:05:51 Then we had we had that going on then we've had these interesting and crazy crashes in the air,
00:05:52 --> 00:05:58 with planes and and i mean you know we had plane in the helicopter the crash
00:05:58 --> 00:06:05 last week and then a day or two later plane falls out of the air on the way to mexico to,
00:06:06 --> 00:06:12 with a young girl who had been treated here and was on our way home.
00:06:13 --> 00:06:15 And the plane just fell out of the sky.
00:06:16 --> 00:06:23 Now, Leonard, didn't your first thought, did you see the video of how that plane dropped? I did.
00:06:24 --> 00:06:29 Didn't it seem like it was shot down? Yeah, I mean, it was definitely weird.
00:06:29 --> 00:06:31 You know, I mean, it wasn't.
00:06:32 --> 00:06:37 It didn't look like what I thought a normal. And I mean, unfortunately,
00:06:37 --> 00:06:40 there's no normal plane crash. But right.
00:06:41 --> 00:06:45 I mean, you know, it's it looked different. But, you know, of course,
00:06:45 --> 00:06:48 nobody's been saying that. So I didn't want to speculate that.
00:06:48 --> 00:06:54 Yeah, I know. I mean, of course. And yes, folks, that's true. Nobody has said that.
00:06:55 --> 00:06:58 But there has been people who have made.
00:07:00 --> 00:07:03 Who have alluded to it like something weird
00:07:03 --> 00:07:07 that was really weird the way the trajectory
00:07:07 --> 00:07:10 of that train i mean that plane just falling
00:07:10 --> 00:07:14 out of the sky it's happening and where it landed that
00:07:14 --> 00:07:17 was another thing because the plane basically had just taken off
00:07:17 --> 00:07:19 to go to mexico and then all of a sudden
00:07:19 --> 00:07:22 it falls out the sky and even with the
00:07:22 --> 00:07:26 the helicopter and the plane a couple days before that
00:07:26 --> 00:07:29 that was weird too yeah definitely
00:07:29 --> 00:07:32 weird i mean you know
00:07:32 --> 00:07:35 that happened in the dc area and you know had
00:07:35 --> 00:07:38 the plane that dropped out of the sky of course everybody knows what's
00:07:38 --> 00:07:45 up in the philadelphia area but you know of course anytime you have anything
00:07:45 --> 00:07:52 that happened in those facilities it's hard not to think about you know terrorism
00:07:52 --> 00:07:56 there is because of what happened back in 9-11, you know?
00:07:57 --> 00:08:01 Because it was kind of basically the same territory, you know?
00:08:01 --> 00:08:07 I mean, you know, with the other territory being New York, but DC had a plane
00:08:07 --> 00:08:11 to fall out of the sky back then, too? Right. So...
00:08:12 --> 00:08:17 So it's just a lot going on. And yesterday, I was on my way to work.
00:08:17 --> 00:08:20 I started seeing those streaks in the sky again with the drones.
00:08:20 --> 00:08:26 Oh, wow. The drones again. And remember, you know, I told you about that a couple
00:08:26 --> 00:08:30 months ago about these things, these streaks I was seeing in the sky first thing.
00:08:30 --> 00:08:34 And, like, I hadn't seen any in a while, but yesterday, no, Monday,
00:08:34 --> 00:08:35 that was Monday morning.
00:08:36 --> 00:08:39 Monday morning, I was on my way to work. I was talking to one of my coworkers
00:08:39 --> 00:08:43 on the phone, and I just got quiet. And I said, there's those streaks again.
00:08:44 --> 00:08:48 And you couldn't, you know, you could see, you know, you know how when they
00:08:48 --> 00:08:50 do the sky writing, they have the smoke that comes.
00:08:52 --> 00:08:55 And that's all I kept seeing was the smoke. And I was like, but you couldn't
00:08:55 --> 00:08:59 see the vehicles, you know, with them.
00:09:00 --> 00:09:04 And that's why I said, are those drones or what? Right.
00:09:04 --> 00:09:10 And this is like seven or seven in the morning because I was on my way to work.
00:09:10 --> 00:09:11 Yeah, it's about 7 o'clock in the morning.
00:09:12 --> 00:09:16 So just a lot of strange things going on, folks.
00:09:16 --> 00:09:21 I mean, you know, I know we're just in a really weird place.
00:09:22 --> 00:09:24 More things, more weird things to go on.
00:09:25 --> 00:09:30 Our new president gets into office and starts freezing everything and trying
00:09:30 --> 00:09:36 to get rid of everything. And, you know, he's got he put people on furlough
00:09:36 --> 00:09:40 and with pay and with from the federal government.
00:09:40 --> 00:09:46 You have people from Homeland Security, people from IRS. You have people from,
00:09:46 --> 00:09:53 I mean, just different branches of the federal government. And he's just telling them, hey, look.
00:09:54 --> 00:10:01 You guys, you know, we're going to put you on, well, basically on like a furlough type situation.
00:10:01 --> 00:10:03 You're going to get paid for now.
00:10:03 --> 00:10:06 We just got to figure out what we're going to do with you later.
00:10:06 --> 00:10:10 And then all of a sudden, you start trying to freeze all these different programs,
00:10:10 --> 00:10:13 federal programs and grants and stuff.
00:10:14 --> 00:10:20 You know, thank God some, you know, Congress stood up to them and said, hey, you can't do that.
00:10:21 --> 00:10:25 I mean, what were you thinking when you heard all this? Yeah,
00:10:25 --> 00:10:30 I mean, well, you know, I heard someone say yesterday, and I kind of believe it, smoke and mirrors.
00:10:31 --> 00:10:34 You know, he's throwing so much stuff at us every day.
00:10:35 --> 00:10:38 Is something happening behind the scenes that we're not even realizing?
00:10:38 --> 00:10:43 Because we're worried about the DEI and the transgender and the legal immigrants.
00:10:44 --> 00:10:45 That was where I was going to go next.
00:10:46 --> 00:10:52 But, you know, I mean, you know, we all we all heard them talk about the project
00:10:52 --> 00:10:57 2025 and how the whole thing was set up to give him more power than he's ever
00:10:57 --> 00:11:00 had, than the office has ever had.
00:11:00 --> 00:11:05 And it just seems to be that that's exactly what he's trying to do.
00:11:05 --> 00:11:08 He's almost trying to build a dictatorship right now.
00:11:08 --> 00:11:14 That's the way it feels like he's trying to be a dictator. and up there talking
00:11:14 --> 00:11:17 about trying to make Canada the 51st state.
00:11:17 --> 00:11:19 How are you going to make Canada the 51st state? I know. Right.
00:11:21 --> 00:11:24 Or the Gulf of America.
00:11:25 --> 00:11:31 And Dave, I don't know if you heard what he said about the Gaza Strip that he said today.
00:11:32 --> 00:11:39 They want to kick all the Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip or move them out,
00:11:40 --> 00:11:44 and they're going to develop it into like a luxury tourist.
00:11:44 --> 00:11:46 And I was like, oh my goodness.
00:11:47 --> 00:11:50 That's why he got all those billionaires. That's why he got all of them.
00:11:51 --> 00:11:54 He's definitely going to start some wars. Yeah, he's going to start.
00:11:54 --> 00:11:58 And then did you hear about how he was trying to get Ecuador to take,
00:11:58 --> 00:12:03 make a deal with Ecuador to move some Americans, move some of these immigrants
00:12:03 --> 00:12:05 there? Did you hear about that?
00:12:06 --> 00:12:12 Oh, no, I did. I did. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, unbelievable.
00:12:12 --> 00:12:16 I mean, a lot of this stuff is unbelievable, man.
00:12:16 --> 00:12:23 I really feel that we're really in a lot of trouble. We really are.
00:12:23 --> 00:12:30 I mean, have you looked at your electric bill? And not all fees.
00:12:31 --> 00:12:38 Yeah. Well, you know, people are going nuts because the electric Delmarva has raised its rates.
00:12:38 --> 00:12:43 And people are having, you know, you're paying for the actual service,
00:12:44 --> 00:12:45 the electric and everything.
00:12:45 --> 00:12:51 But then they're charging an extra fee and calling it a delivery or a supply fee. Oh, wow.
00:12:52 --> 00:12:56 Yeah. I mean, things are just so out of whack right now, man.
00:12:57 --> 00:13:00 And then, you know, you just kind of touched on it.
00:13:00 --> 00:13:05 You know, of course, he was trying to vanquish all of the DEI programs.
00:13:05 --> 00:13:11 And then, you know, you got the DEIs being pulled out of stores and the stores
00:13:11 --> 00:13:18 that everybody deal with, even, you know, our favorite place to shop online, Amazon, and, you know,
00:13:18 --> 00:13:23 all these people pulling all these merchandise out of places.
00:13:23 --> 00:13:26 And then getting rid of people who are working for him as well.
00:13:26 --> 00:13:32 But I read an article recently that said that, you know, he's trying to hurt people.
00:13:33 --> 00:13:36 Well, I don't know if I should say hurt, but he's trying, you know,
00:13:36 --> 00:13:42 he's targeting these DEI programs because he figures that a lot of them had
00:13:42 --> 00:13:45 to deal with, you know, people of color.
00:13:46 --> 00:13:50 But it's affecting more whites than blacks.
00:13:51 --> 00:13:56 Yeah. And I don't even think they realize that, you know.
00:13:56 --> 00:14:02 And so it's, folks, you know, I mean, you know, we missed our show last week.
00:14:02 --> 00:14:03 We didn't get a chance to talk to you guys.
00:14:04 --> 00:14:08 But just right now, every day we're talking about something new.
00:14:08 --> 00:14:14 It's something new going on. And it's just so crazy right now.
00:14:14 --> 00:14:18 And just kind of wanted to touch on a few things before we got into our show.
00:14:19 --> 00:14:24 Oh, you know, on a different note, you know, we had the Grammys on Sunday.
00:14:25 --> 00:14:28 And the two big winners and Beyonce
00:14:28 --> 00:14:32 finally got her album of the year award and then
00:14:32 --> 00:14:35 she won best country album of course
00:14:35 --> 00:14:38 a lot of people are saying that the academy you
00:14:38 --> 00:14:41 know was not going to let this year go by
00:14:41 --> 00:14:44 without getting her right or so you know
00:14:44 --> 00:14:47 but there was definitely i don't know if you saw did
00:14:47 --> 00:14:49 you did you see any other shows did you see when she got her
00:14:49 --> 00:14:53 awards yeah i i saw her initial reaction
00:14:53 --> 00:14:55 there yeah and did you see like the
00:14:55 --> 00:14:58 interaction between her and her husband that that's what everybody's talking
00:14:58 --> 00:15:04 about you know like she it wasn't you could tell there's something going on
00:15:04 --> 00:15:10 there yeah the body language was way off there everybody's talking about their
00:15:10 --> 00:15:15 body language so then you got kanye walking around with his naked oh my god
00:15:15 --> 00:15:18 yeah that was crazy that That was crazy.
00:15:18 --> 00:15:24 And for the first time, you could actually see that she was kind of bucking
00:15:24 --> 00:15:26 on the situation. Did you see when.
00:15:28 --> 00:15:31 Did you see when she had the fur on and he told her to take it off and she kind
00:15:31 --> 00:15:34 of hesitantly took it off? Mm-hmm.
00:15:34 --> 00:15:40 Yeah, I did see that. And they said she said she didn't want to do it, but he told her to go hit.
00:15:40 --> 00:15:47 I just saw something today that said that he was going to lose $20 million.
00:15:49 --> 00:15:54 Because of that situation because he was supposed to perform in Tokyo.
00:15:54 --> 00:15:57 Uh-huh. and they told
00:15:57 --> 00:16:00 him because of what happened on
00:16:00 --> 00:16:03 the rear carpet with her and what he did with
00:16:03 --> 00:16:08 her had her wearing that outfit and so forth they didn't want him to perform
00:16:08 --> 00:16:13 oh wow what's what they you know we a little bit different than kanye that 20
00:16:13 --> 00:16:18 million dollars probably wasn't i know i know what it would be for us yeah that
00:16:18 --> 00:16:22 that's like one percent of his salary i mean what he makes.
00:16:22 --> 00:16:27 But I mean, mine is that, you know, I understand fashion and people pushing the limits.
00:16:28 --> 00:16:35 But, you know, there's something very, very weird about bringing like,
00:16:35 --> 00:16:37 why does he always want her to be naked?
00:16:37 --> 00:16:40 You know, she's always wearing these naked outfits.
00:16:41 --> 00:16:48 And I mean, Dave, this was the most naked of the, like, you can't get more naked than that.
00:16:48 --> 00:16:51 Other than naked. I mean, you really can.
00:16:52 --> 00:16:58 I mean, you know, she's always been pushing the envelope, and she really pushed it a lot that day.
00:16:58 --> 00:17:04 I mean, you can't push it any more than that. And he's always fully clothed. That's what's so funny.
00:17:05 --> 00:17:11 Has anybody checked on her? Like, is she a mental slave?
00:17:12 --> 00:17:15 I don't think anybody can get close enough to her.
00:17:16 --> 00:17:24 I really don't. I think he probably has her. I mean almost like his cult yeah,
00:17:25 --> 00:17:30 Something's going on there. Something's going. And she never looks happy.
00:17:30 --> 00:17:33 No, she never smiles. She never smiles. Does she talk?
00:17:34 --> 00:17:37 She does talk, but she doesn't talk a lot. Yeah.
00:17:38 --> 00:17:41 Because there was an interview. Somebody asked her a few questions.
00:17:41 --> 00:17:44 And she did answer the question, but she don't talk a lot.
00:17:45 --> 00:17:52 So, I mean, but that night, you know, we had Beyonce and, of course,
00:17:52 --> 00:17:56 Kendrick Lamar. and won all of his Grammys for Not Like Us.
00:17:57 --> 00:18:01 And that was really interesting because everybody's talking about how upset
00:18:01 --> 00:18:03 Drake was about the whole thing.
00:18:03 --> 00:18:07 So I tell you, it's just been really weird, man. There's a lot of weirdness going on.
00:18:08 --> 00:18:13 You kind of saw those two getting most of the awards that night anyway,
00:18:13 --> 00:18:16 because I mean, Not Like Us was the record of the year.
00:18:17 --> 00:18:19 I mean, you can't take that away from them. You really can't.
00:18:20 --> 00:18:23 I mean, what other record had a bigger impact than that one?
00:18:24 --> 00:18:27 You know, so. Except blow your whistle for the Eagles.
00:18:28 --> 00:18:38 You know, so. But anyway, so that was our little recap as far as what's happened
00:18:38 --> 00:18:41 over the last week since we last talked with you guys.
00:18:41 --> 00:18:44 Well, the last two weeks since we last talked with you guys.
00:18:46 --> 00:18:51 I kind of touched on a little bit of the first story that I wanted to talk about.
00:18:51 --> 00:18:55 But we can just say a little bit more about it.
00:18:55 --> 00:19:00 But I was going to ask you your opinion on this.
00:19:00 --> 00:19:06 And I'll just put it out like this. Donald Trump, the erasing of America.
00:19:07 --> 00:19:11 Do you think he's doing too much? Yes.
00:19:14 --> 00:19:19 All right. Well, what's your full thoughts on everything? I mean,
00:19:19 --> 00:19:24 we touched on some of the stuff that he's already done and the stuff that he's planning to do.
00:19:24 --> 00:19:28 So what's your thoughts on why you think that way?
00:19:29 --> 00:19:35 So my thoughts on it, and I mean, really, he does so much, I can't even remember,
00:19:35 --> 00:19:37 I can't even list all the points.
00:19:40 --> 00:19:43 But what I can say is that,
00:19:45 --> 00:19:50 I feel like, okay, well, okay, so let me start from the beginning.
00:19:50 --> 00:19:59 So I feel like his style of leadership is more of a dictator than a democracy.
00:19:59 --> 00:20:06 And I feel the biggest thing that comes to my mind offhand is that these people
00:20:06 --> 00:20:10 that he's appointing for these top positions are unqualified.
00:20:10 --> 00:20:13 Their pat not only you know educationally and
00:20:13 --> 00:20:18 experience but morality unqualified and
00:20:18 --> 00:20:23 he's kicking out you know top qualified people to bring in these unqualified
00:20:23 --> 00:20:29 people that's one two pretty much anything dealing with black people is getting
00:20:29 --> 00:20:34 rolled back they i don't know if you heard but next week they're calling for
00:20:34 --> 00:20:37 all african americans to report back to the plantation,
00:20:38 --> 00:20:43 and I think they said last names that begin with A to D are picking cotton.
00:20:44 --> 00:20:46 So just get ready.
00:20:47 --> 00:20:52 Get ready to go on back. Dave, all that stuff you'd be doing at work reading
00:20:52 --> 00:20:57 and writing, get rid of it because in about two weeks, you're not going to be
00:20:57 --> 00:21:00 allowed to sneak to read and write.
00:21:01 --> 00:21:03 We got AI, man. I don't need to do it.
00:21:04 --> 00:21:08 I get AI to read for me. Right. But yeah, I mean, long story short,
00:21:08 --> 00:21:10 I mean, he's doing a whole lot.
00:21:10 --> 00:21:14 And, you know, like I hear some people, well, you know, what about this? What about this?
00:21:14 --> 00:21:22 But it's like, I always think about the same people say a broken clock is correct twice a day.
00:21:23 --> 00:21:28 Yeah. You know, so anyway, long story short, I think what he's doing overall
00:21:28 --> 00:21:29 is a detriment to America.
00:21:30 --> 00:21:33 And I personally feel like the economy is going to be jacked up.
00:21:34 --> 00:21:38 Race relations are going to be jacked up and our international relationships
00:21:38 --> 00:21:39 are going to be jacked up.
00:21:39 --> 00:21:49 So I'm just curious how soon, you know, all these MAGA voters are going to start seeing the truth.
00:21:49 --> 00:21:55 Oh it's already coming out you see some of the people on on social media that
00:21:55 --> 00:22:00 have come out they were people who voted for Trump these young people and so
00:22:00 --> 00:22:05 forth that's a lot of young that 25 to 35 year old graphic,
00:22:06 --> 00:22:10 demographic who voted for him a lot of them are coming out and saying wow I
00:22:10 --> 00:22:15 didn't know he was going to do all of this yeah you know there was a thing,
00:22:16 --> 00:22:23 they are there was a story on reels and it was a picture of Kamala Harris with
00:22:23 --> 00:22:26 a sign in her hand saying, I told you.
00:22:27 --> 00:22:32 You know, so, you know, this is, you know, when I look at the,
00:22:32 --> 00:22:38 the racing of America, the cultural, I should have called it the cultural race,
00:22:38 --> 00:22:41 erasing of America. Cause that's all he's interested in.
00:22:42 --> 00:22:46 I mean, and things have gotten so bad. Did you see that it was Rosa Parks birthday?
00:22:46 --> 00:22:48 Did you see this thing, Rosa Parks' birthday?
00:22:49 --> 00:22:56 And they did something commemorating her birthday, and they had a seat on this
00:22:56 --> 00:23:00 bus that was left open, and it had a picture of her. I saw that.
00:23:00 --> 00:23:05 Yeah. And did you see that there was a white man that sat down in the seat?
00:23:05 --> 00:23:10 No, I did not see that. Yeah, well, there was a white guy that sat in the seat,
00:23:10 --> 00:23:16 and just totally disrespected what that was all about. Oh, wow.
00:23:17 --> 00:23:21 Yeah, yeah, mm-hmm, and they didn't show his face or whatever,
00:23:21 --> 00:23:24 but he definitely sat there, and it was a white woman sitting next to him.
00:23:26 --> 00:23:29 You know, all the places that they probably could have said,
00:23:30 --> 00:23:33 why there? Yeah. And especially there's a picture there. Yeah.
00:23:34 --> 00:23:37 Like, even if you don't know who Rosa Parks is, you know there's something a
00:23:37 --> 00:23:39 little bit different about this city.
00:23:39 --> 00:23:43 Yeah. Yeah. Why did they have this set up the way they do? Yeah.
00:23:43 --> 00:23:49 But, like I said, the cultural erasing of America.
00:23:49 --> 00:23:55 And then what about all the holidays that they want to try not to recognize anymore?
00:23:56 --> 00:23:59 You know, we just got Juneteenth. They're trying to get rid of it.
00:23:59 --> 00:24:04 Oh, I'm sure. Oh, MLK Day. They're trying to get rid of it.
00:24:04 --> 00:24:08 Any of the Hispanic holidays, they're trying to get rid of those.
00:24:09 --> 00:24:11 I mean, it's Black History Month.
00:24:12 --> 00:24:16 Well, we know they definitely want to get rid of that because they never really
00:24:16 --> 00:24:17 wanted us to have it anyway.
00:24:17 --> 00:24:20 That's why they gave us the month that had the shortest amount of days,
00:24:20 --> 00:24:23 shortest number of days in it. Well, Dave, hold on.
00:24:23 --> 00:24:28 You know, that's not true because we talked about that on a prior episode.
00:24:28 --> 00:24:32 Oh, about that not being original. Yeah, you remember it started a Black History
00:24:32 --> 00:24:33 Week. Yeah. Okay, all right.
00:24:34 --> 00:24:38 I know. But now they're talking about getting rid of it all together, you know.
00:24:39 --> 00:24:47 So, I mean, so it's just, we got a lot going on. And this guy that's heading
00:24:47 --> 00:24:53 up this country, you know, hanging out with his billionaire friends and, you know, Kanye.
00:24:53 --> 00:24:57 Did you hear about Kanye walking around with his MAGA hat up there talking about,
00:24:57 --> 00:25:01 man, I'm so glad that Trump is back. He said, now I'm back.
00:25:01 --> 00:25:05 He said, I'm back to being a millionaire, a billionaire again.
00:25:05 --> 00:25:09 Trump is back in office. Did you hear him talking about this? No, I didn't.
00:25:09 --> 00:25:13 Yeah, he definitely said that. He said, I'm a billionaire again because Trump is back in office.
00:25:15 --> 00:25:26 I tell you. All right, yeah. Craziness. It's really a dark place right now. It's really sad.
00:25:27 --> 00:25:33 We're in a day and time that's really... I feel bad for the young kids that
00:25:33 --> 00:25:37 are coming up because I don't know what's going to be left. I really don't.
00:25:37 --> 00:25:41 So, all right. That's enough talking about that.
00:25:43 --> 00:25:46 You know, it almost makes your head start hurt. Yeah, it does.
00:25:47 --> 00:25:51 It just makes you kind of puke.
00:25:51 --> 00:25:56 But then, you know, the next story is kind of fallout from some of the stuff
00:25:56 --> 00:25:59 that we were just talking about as far as Trump is concerned.
00:25:59 --> 00:26:04 Now, you know, this story is a little bit old because we didn't get a chance
00:26:04 --> 00:26:06 to talk about it last week, but I still wanted to talk about it.
00:26:06 --> 00:26:14 Everyone knows that Snoop performed at the Crypto Ball for the inauguration
00:26:14 --> 00:26:18 for President Trump. And...
00:26:20 --> 00:26:23 Course there was a lot of people that made comments
00:26:23 --> 00:26:26 about it and you know because snoop snoop
00:26:26 --> 00:26:29 had been everybody's boy you know i mean you
00:26:29 --> 00:26:34 know everybody everybody loves snoop right and then also snoop makes the decision
00:26:34 --> 00:26:40 to perform at this ball along with you know the well the inauguration weekend
00:26:40 --> 00:26:48 and everything along with nelly and soldier boy and who am i missing Nelly Soldier Boy,
00:26:49 --> 00:26:51 Snoop, somebody else.
00:26:52 --> 00:26:54 Rick Ross. Rick Ross. There you go.
00:26:54 --> 00:26:58 What a combination of people, too. Isn't that a strange group of people?
00:26:58 --> 00:27:03 That's probably, they, look, that's probably, you know, all the A-listers said
00:27:03 --> 00:27:05 no, well, except for Carrie Underwood.
00:27:07 --> 00:27:13 You know, but, I guess this is what they can get, you know, but he got these
00:27:13 --> 00:27:18 people to come out, and they, you know, you know, You don't know when you're being pimped out.
00:27:19 --> 00:27:24 Come on. Come on. Think about it. You would think that they would know that
00:27:24 --> 00:27:26 they were being singled out for a reason.
00:27:27 --> 00:27:30 You know, but of course, they got paid well.
00:27:32 --> 00:27:37 And Nelly tried to put a spin on him when they asked him why he was doing this.
00:27:37 --> 00:27:41 And he was saying, look, he said, it's an honor to perform for the president
00:27:41 --> 00:27:45 of the United States. He said, no other president called me. Ha ha ha,
00:27:47 --> 00:27:47 All right.
00:27:49 --> 00:27:52 Whatever. But I wanted to read. I wanted to read real quick.
00:27:53 --> 00:27:56 I wish that made sense. I mean, I understand.
00:27:56 --> 00:28:03 Well, no, I don't understand. But, you know, but I understand what he's saying,
00:28:03 --> 00:28:06 but it doesn't make any sense because.
00:28:06 --> 00:28:12 OK, so if if they were soon next week, we'll be back on the plantation.
00:28:12 --> 00:28:19 But when we get to the plantation, if Massa brings you up to perform in front
00:28:19 --> 00:28:22 of all the other slaves, that's not no honor.
00:28:23 --> 00:28:29 No, it's not. Yeah. I mean, really, you're tap dancing and, you know,
00:28:29 --> 00:28:32 shucking and jiving for Massa, not us.
00:28:32 --> 00:28:38 Well, that brings up the scene in Roots when Chicken George used to perform for the slaves.
00:28:38 --> 00:28:41 And you know even though he pretended
00:28:41 --> 00:28:44 like he like it he really didn't like doing it and
00:28:44 --> 00:28:47 they didn't you know but that was his you
00:28:47 --> 00:28:53 know his moment to to i guess do some releasing you know playing the fiddle
00:28:53 --> 00:28:58 and everything like that but you know but i mean nobody want to see that man
00:28:58 --> 00:29:03 nobody want to see that and especially people that we consider to be people
00:29:03 --> 00:29:05 that we really like and, you know,
00:29:06 --> 00:29:08 we kind of identified with.
00:29:08 --> 00:29:13 We had just gotten into talking about, we talked about Snoop how many times,
00:29:13 --> 00:29:16 you know, over the last year because of the Olympics and all of that stuff.
00:29:17 --> 00:29:20 Yeah, you know, him and Dre released a new album.
00:29:20 --> 00:29:23 I mean, there's been a lot of stuff going on. But anyway, let me just kind of
00:29:23 --> 00:29:27 give you a little thing about what happened with him.
00:29:27 --> 00:29:32 So he lost half a million social media followers after performing.
00:29:33 --> 00:29:37 Trump Crypto Ball. Now, keep in mind, it was like that 20 million that we just
00:29:37 --> 00:29:38 referenced talking about.
00:29:38 --> 00:29:42 Snoop has so many followers, you know, that's a drop in the bucket for him.
00:29:42 --> 00:29:47 But it's still a lot of people, you know, you know, both you and I together
00:29:47 --> 00:29:50 would love to have a million followers, you know, so.
00:29:50 --> 00:29:56 But it says famed rapper Snoop Dogg lost more than 500 followers on Instagram
00:29:56 --> 00:30:01 and nearly 20 on X after his appearance at the Crypto Ball.
00:30:01 --> 00:30:13 They said the singer's Instagram dropped by 571 and 17 on X,
00:30:14 --> 00:30:20 as fans accused Snoop of hypocrisy due to his past criticism of Trump.
00:30:20 --> 00:30:23 And we know there's there's a video that
00:30:23 --> 00:30:26 talks about how he back in
00:30:26 --> 00:30:29 2016 he was doing all this talking about people that
00:30:29 --> 00:30:31 perform about to perform and he
00:30:31 --> 00:30:35 said i wish one of y'all would you remember seeing that video i
00:30:35 --> 00:30:39 i do yeah one of y'all jigaboos yeah
00:30:39 --> 00:30:45 yeah you know and then he turns around and does it says snoop who boasts over
00:30:45 --> 00:30:50 88 million followers on instagram as of monday isn't the only A-list celebrity
00:30:50 --> 00:30:57 to have had followers abandon him in droves over perceived,
00:30:57 --> 00:30:59 hold on, let's see.
00:31:00 --> 00:31:04 Over perceived support for the Republicans' president.
00:31:05 --> 00:31:12 Kim Kardashian, the reality TV star and entrepreneur, lost nearly $150.
00:31:12 --> 00:31:16 Her people really love her, so $150 is nothing.
00:31:17 --> 00:31:24 And after she posted an image of First Lady Melania Trump wearing a stylish
00:31:24 --> 00:31:26 outfit at the inauguration.
00:31:27 --> 00:31:30 Now, these are some of the comments that people made. It says,
00:31:30 --> 00:31:33 shaking and crying as I unfollow Snoop on all platforms.
00:31:34 --> 00:31:38 One alienated fan wrote on X, adding a sad face.
00:31:38 --> 00:31:42 And then another one said, how could he turn on us? The fan wrote.
00:31:43 --> 00:31:48 Another Snoop fan said, got to unfollow anyone that performed for Trump.
00:31:49 --> 00:31:55 Love me some Snoop, but you got to go, bro. You know, another one said,
00:31:55 --> 00:32:02 Dan, I had to unfollow Snoop today, shaking my head. He broke my heart.
00:32:03 --> 00:32:09 They said in response to the criticism, Snoop addressed the issue on Instagram,
00:32:10 --> 00:32:15 stating, Y'all can't hate enough on me.
00:32:15 --> 00:32:18 I love too much. Still a black man.
00:32:18 --> 00:32:21 Still 100% black.
00:32:22 --> 00:32:28 And and and i disagree with that i'm sure could they i went to his uh his page
00:32:28 --> 00:32:33 yeah they when i say all the comment comment after and you know i think he was
00:32:33 --> 00:32:37 trying to do he was trying to post a lot of stuff to like you know bury stuff
00:32:37 --> 00:32:40 because you know he he was posting like four or five,
00:32:40 --> 00:32:45 posting how the things would disappear yeah and
00:32:45 --> 00:32:48 and i can't lie i mean let me know how you feel I
00:32:48 --> 00:32:51 now look at Snoop differently I do
00:32:51 --> 00:32:54 too I do you know I'm not a
00:32:54 --> 00:32:57 fan like I used to be and I don't
00:32:57 --> 00:33:02 know what that looks like in the future I don't dislike him but you know I just
00:33:02 --> 00:33:07 I look at him different and I may not be as supporting as I used to be yeah
00:33:07 --> 00:33:12 I feel the same way I feel the same way I mean you know you and I been talking
00:33:12 --> 00:33:17 about Snoop off and on especially over the last year we talked about him a lot and,
00:33:17 --> 00:33:19 you know, just talking about he was out there getting his paper,
00:33:20 --> 00:33:22 he was out there doing, you know, Snoop was everywhere.
00:33:23 --> 00:33:28 You know, everybody was feeling Snoop. Every time you turn on the TV, there was Snoop.
00:33:29 --> 00:33:35 But making a move like that, we saw other people get canceled for affiliations
00:33:35 --> 00:33:42 with Trump and his views and everything.
00:33:43 --> 00:33:46 And people, you know, definitely, career definitely changed.
00:33:46 --> 00:33:51 And Snoop, I'm sure, you know, his allegiance and so forth to Donald Trump has
00:33:51 --> 00:33:53 already cost him some things. I'm sure.
00:33:54 --> 00:34:00 Yeah, I'm sure. You know, now, of course, he has been careful not to say,
00:34:00 --> 00:34:05 you know, he's a follower of Trump or, you know, that he...
00:34:07 --> 00:34:11 You know, like, like Kanye is this, you know, blatantly, you know,
00:34:12 --> 00:34:15 I don't know if he's trolling people for real or whatever, but he's totally,
00:34:15 --> 00:34:21 you know, we know he sold out that way, you know, but Snoop hasn't come out and said that.
00:34:21 --> 00:34:26 But what else, what other reason would you have to make a move like that when
00:34:26 --> 00:34:27 you know it can hurt your career?
00:34:28 --> 00:34:31 It's all about the money. Of course, it's all about the money,
00:34:31 --> 00:34:37 you know, and then, you know, I'm sure Trump is probably off.
00:34:37 --> 00:34:41 You know, told him, hey, you do this for me.
00:34:41 --> 00:34:47 Because Snoop, if you think about it, it's probably top five entertainers in the world right now.
00:34:48 --> 00:34:52 Because he's, I mean, just, you know, because of everything he does.
00:34:54 --> 00:35:01 Well, so Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing when he got Snoop to perform, you know.
00:35:01 --> 00:35:05 And Snoop was, they said Snoop was complaining the whole time that he was performing,
00:35:05 --> 00:35:06 but you still got that paper.
00:35:06 --> 00:35:17 He still did it Yeah he did Oh wow Yeah so But Folks You know There's an old axiom All money.
00:35:19 --> 00:35:24 Ain't good money No Yeah All money ain't good money Especially when it's Trump
00:35:24 --> 00:35:29 money Yep there you go There you go Alright So But,
00:35:29 --> 00:35:34 That's all I'm gonna say about Snoop right now I'm disappointed bro Really disappointed
00:35:34 --> 00:35:39 But You know I mean, you're still all right, but, you know, we watch you with
00:35:39 --> 00:35:41 the side eye now. We really are.
00:35:42 --> 00:35:45 You know, let's see what else you do. You know, so...
00:35:47 --> 00:35:51 You got a story there, right? Yeah, so Dave, this was an interesting story.
00:35:52 --> 00:35:55 I'm not sure if you've heard of Pastor Carlton Lynch.
00:35:56 --> 00:36:00 Why does that name sound familiar? And actually, I just saw the video today.
00:36:01 --> 00:36:08 So apparently, maybe a couple of days ago, of course, with the whole DEI rollback.
00:36:09 --> 00:36:13 Specifically with Target rolling back their DEI initiatives,
00:36:13 --> 00:36:20 is Pastor Jamal Bryant had mentioned something about specifically boycotting Target.
00:36:21 --> 00:36:27 So in this video that Pastor Carlton Lynch has, and I believe he's a pastor
00:36:27 --> 00:36:35 out of the Michigan area, possibly Detroit, he goes into Walmart and I'm sorry, I apologize.
00:36:35 --> 00:36:38 He goes into Target. he walks around
00:36:38 --> 00:36:41 the store with the cart he fills his
00:36:41 --> 00:36:43 cart up with items you know a lot
00:36:43 --> 00:36:48 of expensive items you know electronics and you
00:36:48 --> 00:36:52 know small kitchen appliances and you know all that stuff he loads up his cart
00:36:52 --> 00:36:59 he goes to the register and he's and i'm sorry while he's walking around target
00:36:59 --> 00:37:05 he's videotaping this whole thing and he's showing how empty target is and he's saying you No,
00:37:05 --> 00:37:08 of course, people are boycotting. So that's why Target is empty.
00:37:08 --> 00:37:14 So he loads up his cart with items and he gets to the register and they bring
00:37:14 --> 00:37:19 up his items and his items come up to about two thousand three hundred dollars.
00:37:21 --> 00:37:25 And when it's time to pay, he says to the girl, the register who was a white
00:37:25 --> 00:37:30 girl, he says, have you heard of DEI?
00:37:32 --> 00:37:36 And the girl's like, no, you know, I haven't heard of it. And he said,
00:37:36 --> 00:37:38 oh, OK. Well, he said, well, you know what?
00:37:39 --> 00:37:45 I was treated very badly today in the store, you know, this and that and, you know, whatever.
00:37:46 --> 00:37:51 And then he said, because of that reason, I'm not going to purchase any of these items.
00:37:51 --> 00:37:58 You know, you'll just have to, you know, restock them. And then he proceeds to walk out.
00:37:58 --> 00:38:06 Now, while he's walking out the store, he does say it's not enough that we just boycott Target.
00:38:06 --> 00:38:09 We have to inconvenience them as well.
00:38:10 --> 00:38:13 And, you know, Dave, to be honest, I kind of like what he did.
00:38:14 --> 00:38:15 You know, I wasn't mad at him.
00:38:16 --> 00:38:21 And the reason why I liked it is because, yes, we have to inconvenience him.
00:38:21 --> 00:38:25 And, yes, I mean, there are going to be black people who are still working at Target.
00:38:26 --> 00:38:30 But when we look at the greater overall picture, it's almost like,
00:38:30 --> 00:38:33 Dave, OK, so next week we're on the plantation, right?
00:38:34 --> 00:38:39 Some stuff that, and Dave, you already know you work. And you're really on the
00:38:39 --> 00:38:41 plantation, but go ahead. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
00:38:41 --> 00:38:44 Well, Dave, you know you're going to be working on the field,
00:38:44 --> 00:38:47 and depending on what type of time of year it is, I may be working on the field.
00:38:47 --> 00:38:50 I got to make sure they can eat. Yeah.
00:38:51 --> 00:38:55 But, you know, so next week when we're on the plantation, working,
00:38:55 --> 00:39:02 slaving in the sun, when we fight back for justice and the house Negroes say,
00:39:02 --> 00:39:05 well, why are you doing that? You're messing with our jobs.
00:39:05 --> 00:39:07 We're fighting for a greater purpose.
00:39:08 --> 00:39:11 So I felt like he was fighting for a greater purpose. And yes,
00:39:12 --> 00:39:14 there may be black people who have to restock that.
00:39:14 --> 00:39:16 There may be black people who lose their jobs.
00:39:17 --> 00:39:24 But at the end of the day, if we don't stand up for DE, well, I won't even say DEI.
00:39:24 --> 00:39:29 If we don't stand up for fairness overall, where everybody can be treated fair,
00:39:30 --> 00:39:33 then you know it doesn't i don't think it applies too
00:39:33 --> 00:39:36 much to the people who work there and all that but anyway i posted
00:39:36 --> 00:39:38 it on social media and there was a lot of
00:39:38 --> 00:39:41 backlash people were like oh why are you doing that that's
00:39:41 --> 00:39:47 dumb what about the black people who have to restock it so i was actually surprised
00:39:47 --> 00:39:51 and i understand the other points too but i'm just curious you know what's your
00:39:51 --> 00:39:57 thought do you think that was an effective strategy or do you feel like it might
00:39:57 --> 00:40:00 have been a waste of time And like one person says specifically.
00:40:01 --> 00:40:04 You know, just don't shop there. You don't got to do all the extra.
00:40:04 --> 00:40:06 Just don't shop there. Well, what are your thoughts?
00:40:07 --> 00:40:11 Well, it's interesting because, you know, that especially that last statement
00:40:11 --> 00:40:13 you just made, just don't shop there.
00:40:13 --> 00:40:18 Well, when you look at the stores that are mostly affected by this whole thing
00:40:18 --> 00:40:23 and the people, you know, the president and his cabinet and all that stuff.
00:40:23 --> 00:40:27 And when you look at this, are the stores that most people shop at.
00:40:28 --> 00:40:31 I mean, the places that people shop, Target, Walmart,
00:40:32 --> 00:40:40 Amazon, you know, these are places that make up mostly 90% of the shopping that's
00:40:40 --> 00:40:43 done, you know, retail shopping that's done.
00:40:43 --> 00:40:52 I said at least 85% or 90% of the shopping that's done is done in those three places, you know.
00:40:52 --> 00:40:56 And now you're talking about this DEI
00:40:56 --> 00:40:59 thing and people are telling you to boycott stuff
00:40:59 --> 00:41:02 and don't buy this and don't buy that and
00:41:02 --> 00:41:05 it's is is you know we're really at
00:41:05 --> 00:41:12 a place where what do we do I mean because you know you just said that how they
00:41:12 --> 00:41:16 were saying that the guy went into Walmart and they were saying I mean targeting
00:41:16 --> 00:41:23 saying that it wasn't that full because of course you know People are boycotting right now.
00:41:24 --> 00:41:29 But, you know, well, first of all, I was never really a Target fan because I've always felt...
00:41:30 --> 00:41:34 They were prejudiced. I've always felt that. Did you? Yeah, because I had this
00:41:34 --> 00:41:39 situation that happened to me in a Target store, and I don't think I've been back in one sense.
00:41:40 --> 00:41:47 Because, you know, the way the person made me feel, because I bought something for my youngest son.
00:41:48 --> 00:41:50 It was a video game system.
00:41:52 --> 00:41:59 And I got a couple games and got the system, went through the counter,
00:41:59 --> 00:42:01 gave me my card. My card didn't go through.
00:42:02 --> 00:42:05 I said, try it again, because, you know, it was my debit card,
00:42:05 --> 00:42:06 and I knew there was money on there.
00:42:07 --> 00:42:10 I said, try it again, because I knew there was money. You know,
00:42:10 --> 00:42:11 I said, it should go through.
00:42:11 --> 00:42:16 Now, keep in mind, this is going in December, busy season, Christmas.
00:42:17 --> 00:42:19 And actually, it was for my son's birthday.
00:42:21 --> 00:42:24 And try it again. Didn't go through.
00:42:24 --> 00:42:30 So the girl, you know, young white girl kind of gave me this look like,
00:42:30 --> 00:42:34 you know, you're wasting my time, so forth.
00:42:34 --> 00:42:38 And they only had like one other system on the shelf.
00:42:38 --> 00:42:43 And so I said, well, can you just hold it to the side till I find out what's going on?
00:42:43 --> 00:42:49 And then I hear this white guy standing. I'll take it because I need one of those systems.
00:42:50 --> 00:42:53 I'll take it and so forth and so forth. I said, you'll take,
00:42:53 --> 00:42:56 don't sell my stuff. I'll be back for it.
00:42:57 --> 00:43:02 And she just looked at me and said, whatever. Like that. She said,
00:43:02 --> 00:43:04 you don't have another card that will go through?
00:43:05 --> 00:43:10 That's what she said to me. I said, well, I want to make sure this one goes through.
00:43:11 --> 00:43:17 So I'll be back. So I stepped away. I made a phone call. Called the bank and
00:43:17 --> 00:43:18 they had put a block on the card.
00:43:19 --> 00:43:24 Because, you know, the amount wasn't something that I normally do,
00:43:24 --> 00:43:29 you know, and they thought it might have been fraud in court since that time
00:43:29 --> 00:43:34 of year, you know, and I was like, no, it's me, so forth and so forth,
00:43:35 --> 00:43:40 and can you hurry up and get this block off so I can go in and do what I have to do?
00:43:41 --> 00:43:46 So I go back. The guy who wanted the system has his hands on the system.
00:43:48 --> 00:43:54 Like he erased all it to him and i said i told you i was coming back i'm purchasing that,
00:43:55 --> 00:44:01 and because i went right to the the front of in front of him because i wasn't
00:44:01 --> 00:44:05 standing in line they had long lines too i wasn't standing back in line and
00:44:05 --> 00:44:09 i said i want this take my card run my car through.
00:44:11 --> 00:44:13 She did. It went through. And she's like, oh, went through that time.
00:44:14 --> 00:44:16 And I was like, I told you there was something going on.
00:44:17 --> 00:44:19 You know, I said, I wasn't sure what was happening.
00:44:19 --> 00:44:22 But can you put my stuff in the bag and let me get out of here?
00:44:22 --> 00:44:24 I never went back to that story again.
00:44:25 --> 00:44:30 All these years. It's been a long time. And but this is the way that we're being
00:44:30 --> 00:44:32 treated with these stories or whatever.
00:44:32 --> 00:44:37 When you when you look at all the Trump has who Trump has aligned himself with.
00:44:39 --> 00:44:42 And you know it really it's
00:44:42 --> 00:44:48 really bad right now because we have we could be doing we can be doing so many
00:44:48 --> 00:44:54 more things i saw the curries steph curry and his wife had to shut their store
00:44:54 --> 00:44:59 down i didn't know that yeah they had to shut their store down because of all that's going on,
00:45:00 --> 00:45:05 and people you know the a lot of people that have these specialty stores and
00:45:05 --> 00:45:08 especially those are people of color they're going to lose their businesses,
00:45:09 --> 00:45:16 you know because it's going to be hard to compete you know because it's already
00:45:16 --> 00:45:21 hard to compete with these with everybody ordering stuff online and.
00:45:22 --> 00:45:28 We know how that goes right now because that's it's very convenient to do that
00:45:28 --> 00:45:35 so but this that's basically my whole thoughts on on everything when it comes to that,
00:45:37 --> 00:45:40 we're just in a different place in time and unfortunately,
00:45:42 --> 00:45:47 and mainly it's because of the convenience of everything that people are doing where we are.
00:45:49 --> 00:45:56 That's where we are I mean so that's my thoughts on all of that you got any more on that?
00:45:56 --> 00:46:04 I mean I agree this is just where we are and now we see everyone who was not
00:46:04 --> 00:46:09 true to the cause They were only doing it because of the current state of emotions.
00:46:10 --> 00:46:14 Yep, exactly. That's a good way to put it. Exactly. Yes, I agree.
00:46:15 --> 00:46:21 So I'm going to move on to this next story because it's funny.
00:46:21 --> 00:46:26 We've been talking about DEI all this time and how it comes into play.
00:46:26 --> 00:46:28 It's basically coming into play with a lot of stuff right now.
00:46:29 --> 00:46:34 So this story also has something DEI tagged with it as well.
00:46:35 --> 00:46:40 But this is a positive one. It says, Air Force says it will teach videos on
00:46:40 --> 00:46:43 first black pilots after DEI review.
00:46:45 --> 00:46:49 And it says the United States Air Force on Sunday said that it will resume instructions
00:46:49 --> 00:46:55 of trainees using a video about the first black airman in the U.S.
00:46:55 --> 00:47:04 Military, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, which has passed reviews to ensure compliance
00:47:04 --> 00:47:08 with President Donald Trump's ban on diversity,
00:47:08 --> 00:47:11 equity, and inclusion initiatives.
00:47:11 --> 00:47:17 Trump, who took office in January, has prohibited DEI throughout the United
00:47:17 --> 00:47:19 States government and the U.S. military.
00:47:20 --> 00:47:26 New Defense Secretary Pete Haxson, who was sworn in on Friday,
00:47:26 --> 00:47:32 has made eliminating DEI from the military a top priority.
00:47:32 --> 00:47:38 It says Reuters reported on Saturday that the video about the Tuskegee Airmen,
00:47:38 --> 00:47:43 as well as another, about civilian women pilots trained by the U.S.
00:47:43 --> 00:47:51 Military during World War II, known as the Women Air Force Service Pilots, or WASP.
00:47:51 --> 00:47:54 Did you know that's what that stood for? No.
00:47:56 --> 00:48:01 I never knew. They might need to switch that up. I knew the term WASP,
00:48:01 --> 00:48:03 but I didn't know that's what that stood for, though.
00:48:03 --> 00:48:08 Yeah. Yeah, I did not know that. So that was something that I learned when I saw this article.
00:48:09 --> 00:48:16 We're not being taught in basic training at the joint base in San Antonio.
00:48:17 --> 00:48:22 The move was first reported by the San Antonio Express News.
00:48:22 --> 00:48:27 The Air Force on Sunday said that both videos will be taught.
00:48:27 --> 00:48:34 But no airmen or guardians will miss the block of instruction due to the revision.
00:48:34 --> 00:48:39 However, one group of trainees had the training delayed, said Lieutenant Brian
00:48:39 --> 00:48:44 Robinson, who led the Air Education and Training Command in that statement.
00:48:44 --> 00:48:52 The Tuskegee Airmen included 450 pilots who fought overseas in segregated units during World War II.
00:48:52 --> 00:48:58 Their success in combat helped pave the way for President Harry Truman's decision
00:48:58 --> 00:49:02 to desegregate the armed forces in 1948.
00:49:03 --> 00:49:07 It says DEI programs seek to promote opportunities for women,
00:49:07 --> 00:49:12 ethnic minorities, and other traditionally unrepresented groups.
00:49:14 --> 00:49:17 That's pretty cool. I mean, that they're using those videos to train.
00:49:18 --> 00:49:22 And hopefully they'll be able to continue to do that.
00:49:23 --> 00:49:27 Because, you know, they were a part of history.
00:49:28 --> 00:49:33 They can't erase it. They can't erase what those guys did. They tried for years.
00:49:33 --> 00:49:38 But those pilots went over and did those missions, you know,
00:49:39 --> 00:49:44 that we, first, they didn't think we were capable of being able.
00:49:44 --> 00:49:52 To do but then they did and they did it well you know so with minimum loss on top of it you know so.
00:49:54 --> 00:49:56 Yes that training video both of
00:49:56 --> 00:50:00 those training videos that they're using sure are
00:50:00 --> 00:50:03 great tools and you should be
00:50:03 --> 00:50:06 honored anybody who's who's watching
00:50:06 --> 00:50:09 those videos and learning under those videos should be honored to
00:50:09 --> 00:50:12 use to have those material that material being used
00:50:12 --> 00:50:19 in their training really that's that's awesome i i really feel i had an uncle
00:50:19 --> 00:50:25 that was a career air force air force guy he was a trainer later on in his life
00:50:25 --> 00:50:31 i'm sure i'm sure that's something he probably would have been jumping for joy about you know so,
00:50:33 --> 00:50:38 Any thoughts on that? No, I mean, I agree. I think you've done. You said it all.
00:50:39 --> 00:50:46 Yeah, okay. All right. So hats off to those two groups and for the WAPS and
00:50:46 --> 00:50:51 the Tuskegee Airmen. Okay. All right.
00:50:52 --> 00:50:59 Okay. So, wow. That actually brings us to your favorite part of the show, Dave.
00:50:59 --> 00:51:02 All right. Well, let's get ready to close out. Theme music it is, huh?
00:51:04 --> 00:51:08 Well, this is going to be fun Because I kind of switched it up I'm going to
00:51:08 --> 00:51:13 let you off the hook a little bit But I'm checking your black card again You know, here we go,
00:51:15 --> 00:51:21 So we're checking Leonard's black card So let's see if Leonard passes the test here,
00:51:22 --> 00:51:27 This one, Dave's Corner is saying Famous black sayings,
00:51:28 --> 00:51:31 And then I just said Let's see if Leonard gets to keep his black card,
00:51:31 --> 00:51:36 folks So what I'm going to do is I'm going to say the first part of a black
00:51:36 --> 00:51:37 saying, you have to finish it.
00:51:39 --> 00:51:44 Okay. Okay. You game? Okay. Here we go.
00:51:44 --> 00:51:50 Dave, I'm always game. Okay. Well, let's see how good you are at this thing. Okay.
00:51:51 --> 00:51:54 All right. You got your black card out? I do.
00:51:55 --> 00:52:00 Okay. All right. Nice and safe. Let's see if we can separate you from it. Okay. Okay. All right.
00:52:01 --> 00:52:03 First one. God is good?
00:52:03 --> 00:52:08 All the time. Okay, all right. You better get that one right before you get struck by life.
00:52:08 --> 00:52:12 Okay. All right. Here's the next one.
00:52:12 --> 00:52:19 Trying to make a dollar out. Dave, you know, I say this all the time. 15 cents.
00:52:19 --> 00:52:23 Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Okay.
00:52:24 --> 00:52:28 He's two for two, folks. Let's see what happens. Do I look like.
00:52:29 --> 00:52:32 Do I look like Boo Boo the Fool? Come on now.
00:52:34 --> 00:52:38 Okay. All right. Here's the next one. Number four.
00:52:38 --> 00:52:42 God don't like. God don't like ugly.
00:52:42 --> 00:52:48 Okay. All right. All right. Come on now. Come on. He's trying to keep his black card.
00:52:49 --> 00:52:52 When are you going to bring the hard question? I'm going to get you.
00:52:52 --> 00:52:54 I'm going to get you. I got a few more. Okay.
00:52:55 --> 00:52:59 I brought you into this world. And I can take you out. Okay.
00:52:59 --> 00:53:04 Yeah, I'm sure you heard that one a few times, I'm sure. Too many. Okay.
00:53:05 --> 00:53:11 The next one, the grass is not always... Greener on the other side. Okay, all right.
00:53:12 --> 00:53:15 He's trying to go undefeated here, okay?
00:53:15 --> 00:53:18 All right. I'm black, black, black, black, black, black, black,
00:53:18 --> 00:53:21 black. Okay, I think I'm going to get you here.
00:53:21 --> 00:53:26 Is your father a glassmaker? I mean, I know... No, no, no, no.
00:53:27 --> 00:53:28 Okay, what's the next part of that?
00:53:30 --> 00:53:33 I mean there could be i've heard different options for
00:53:33 --> 00:53:36 that you hear him stammering people yeah
00:53:36 --> 00:53:40 is your father a glass maker because i can't
00:53:40 --> 00:53:45 see through you or move out the way okay all right i'll give you that okay okay
00:53:45 --> 00:53:49 i can do that look you had to think about it a little bit though well no i mean
00:53:49 --> 00:53:56 what what what was the response well it's a little bit all that but get Get
00:53:56 --> 00:53:58 out of the way. Yeah, move. Yeah.
00:53:59 --> 00:54:06 All right. All right. A hard hit makes... A soft ASS.
00:54:07 --> 00:54:09 Or behind. Okay.
00:54:12 --> 00:54:14 All right. Don't make me...
00:54:16 --> 00:54:18 Don't make me angry.
00:54:21 --> 00:54:25 Don't make me spank you. No, no, no. Uh-uh.
00:54:25 --> 00:54:31 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay, I see you. Well,
00:54:33 --> 00:54:37 hold on. I'm going to go out on a limb. Don't make me over. Wrong.
00:54:38 --> 00:54:41 Okay. All right. No, man.
00:54:42 --> 00:54:49 Don't make me come over there. Dave come on now you should be ashamed of yourself
00:54:49 --> 00:54:54 with that one don't listen to me come over there you've heard that before I'm sure Dave.
00:54:57 --> 00:55:01 Listening audience when you see Dave at work tomorrow tell him he was wrong
00:55:01 --> 00:55:06 tell him he was wrong for that I'm sure everybody that's listening probably
00:55:06 --> 00:55:11 sitting there saying come over there Leonard come over there that's what I'm
00:55:11 --> 00:55:15 sure they're saying I don't think so Yeah. Okay. All right.
00:55:15 --> 00:55:19 I got two more for you. All I have to do is.
00:55:20 --> 00:55:24 All I got to do is stay black and die.
00:55:24 --> 00:55:28 Okay. All right. You do that one. Okay. All right. All right.
00:55:29 --> 00:55:38 And this is, this is one that you hear a lot, but everybody hates to hear it. As long as I owe you.
00:55:39 --> 00:55:42 You'll never be broke, Dave. Yeah. Yeah. There it is.
00:55:44 --> 00:55:47 You did pretty well you got one wrong you get to keep no no
00:55:47 --> 00:55:50 no no i did not get one wrong
00:55:50 --> 00:55:54 i got them all correct you got one wrong you didn't you didn't get you didn't
00:55:54 --> 00:55:59 answer the way i that i needed you to answer it so you got one wrong but one
00:55:59 --> 00:56:03 out of one out of 11 is not bad man you got your black card you get the david
00:56:03 --> 00:56:07 david the question you had asked had unlimited multiple answers.
00:56:07 --> 00:56:10 It had one answer as far as I was concerned.
00:56:11 --> 00:56:15 My test, my words, so that's what you had to do.
00:56:17 --> 00:56:22 Anyway, I'm sure everybody got, all my people that were listening,
00:56:22 --> 00:56:26 I'm sure they went 100%. So I'm sure their black card is secure.
00:56:29 --> 00:56:33 Hold up, Dave. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. He always got to challenge
00:56:33 --> 00:56:36 me. Okay, here we go. Are you ready? Go ahead.
00:56:37 --> 00:56:45 And I didn't get to vet these to make them hard enough so if they eat you like it I love it,
00:56:47 --> 00:56:54 Black. Don't crack. No, you didn't answer the way I wanted you to answer it. Black.
00:56:55 --> 00:56:59 What do you mean? You only gave me one word. I know.
00:57:00 --> 00:57:04 Black is beautiful. Yep, black is beautiful. There you go.
00:57:07 --> 00:57:12 A myriad of things. This right here is a trick question. Okay, go ahead.
00:57:13 --> 00:57:16 This right here is a Black History Month trick question. I'm sorry,
00:57:17 --> 00:57:21 it's not even a trick question because it's not a trick a black history month
00:57:21 --> 00:57:30 level 5 question injustice anywhere we serve what did you say?
00:57:30 --> 00:57:35 We serve you said injustice anywhere?
00:57:35 --> 00:57:44 Yes so you're not saying injustice we serve no I'm saying two words yep the
00:57:44 --> 00:57:49 two words that's the first two words of a famous quote injustice okay anywhere,
00:57:51 --> 00:57:52 injustice anywhere.
00:57:54 --> 00:57:57 I don't think i know that one
00:57:57 --> 00:58:03 all right well it is yeah i mean you may not know it's by a little known african-american
00:58:03 --> 00:58:10 name dr martin luther king what the and what go give me the rest of it And justice
00:58:10 --> 00:58:16 anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
00:58:17 --> 00:58:20 I wouldn't have got that. Okay.
00:58:21 --> 00:58:23 What speech is that part of?
00:58:24 --> 00:58:27 Would you know if I told you?
00:58:28 --> 00:58:31 Well, you don't know the answer to that without looking at it.
00:58:32 --> 00:58:35 Well, no, I knew that one. Okay. Okay.
00:58:36 --> 00:58:39 You better. You better.
00:58:40 --> 00:58:43 That's another one that can happen more than one answer.
00:58:45 --> 00:58:50 You better. See, you only give me two words. I gave you more than two words.
00:58:50 --> 00:58:52 The quote's only four words.
00:58:53 --> 00:58:55 It's only four words. Okay, you better watch out.
00:58:57 --> 00:59:04 No. You better than me. Oh, you think. Oh. You better than me. All right.
00:59:04 --> 00:59:10 Let me just see if I can find this. Let's see if this one has any good ones.
00:59:11 --> 00:59:14 See, I gave you better ones than these that you're giving me.
00:59:15 --> 00:59:25 Well Dave you also have more time okay well Dave I'm not one to play with no,
00:59:26 --> 00:59:32 one and see you have heard that before I'm not one to play with you've heard
00:59:32 --> 00:59:38 that before okay but there's one that is a black saying like blackity black,
00:59:39 --> 00:59:46 your mama probably said it to you when you were little I'm not one Who cares?
00:59:48 --> 00:59:52 A blackity black thing. A blackity black thing. I've heard her say that before.
00:59:56 --> 01:00:02 Okay. So which one, what is the end of that? I'm not one of your little friends.
01:00:03 --> 01:00:07 Oh, that's not a real black one. No, no.
01:00:08 --> 01:00:11 Dave, no white mamas be saying that.
01:00:12 --> 01:00:18 Okay. All right. one monkey don't stop the whole show yeah.
01:00:21 --> 01:00:26 God knows my heart. Yep. Let's see.
01:00:27 --> 01:00:34 What we not going to do. Okay. Or finna do. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Okay.
01:00:34 --> 01:00:38 Let's see. And I think that may be.
01:00:40 --> 01:00:47 Okay. Let me just. Okay. That's it. All right, Dave. You did okay. Four out of eight. Yeah.
01:00:48 --> 01:00:52 He said four out of eight. Okay. I did better than four out of eight, Leonard.
01:00:53 --> 01:00:57 Barely. Oh, my God. You're such a hater. You really are.
01:00:58 --> 01:01:03 But, you know, I know a lot of people sitting there saying, wait,
01:01:03 --> 01:01:04 hold on. I don't remember that one.
01:01:04 --> 01:01:07 Okay, yeah, my mom used to say that. My father used to say that.
01:01:07 --> 01:01:11 Some of these are definitely ones that you definitely heard in your lifetime
01:01:11 --> 01:01:13 at some point or another.
01:01:13 --> 01:01:17 I know my mother said, you know, I brought you into this world.
01:01:17 --> 01:01:20 I could take you out more than a few times in the past.
01:01:20 --> 01:01:23 Know that for a fact so so but
01:01:23 --> 01:01:26 if i'm sure that you guys probably have some that
01:01:26 --> 01:01:31 we didn't mention so if you you know feel free to send them to us and so we
01:01:31 --> 01:01:37 can check them out you know or you know drop them in our chats on our pages
01:01:37 --> 01:01:44 our facebook and and our instagram pages also you know you can reach out to us on, you know,
01:01:45 --> 01:01:48 the Apple Podcast page or Podbean.
01:01:49 --> 01:01:53 So, you know, but, you know, just give us your thoughts on the ones that you might have missed.
01:01:54 --> 01:02:00 Thank you for taking the time to listen to the show that's also on the MBG Podcast
01:02:00 --> 01:02:03 Network along with some other great podcasts.
01:02:05 --> 01:02:13 We'll be back on our regularly scheduled night next week, and we want to take
01:02:13 --> 01:02:15 the time to thank you again for listening.
01:02:15 --> 01:02:19 Len, anything you want to answer, add before we find out?
01:02:20 --> 01:02:23 I just hope everyone has a good weekend, and I'll say for Dave, go Eagles.
01:02:24 --> 01:02:29 Oh, yeah. Oh, I couldn't... Didn't even mention that at all. I know. You're welcome.
01:02:30 --> 01:02:34 And look, there was a rally downtown. Look, did you hear about the rally downtown?
01:02:35 --> 01:02:38 What? You know, after the NFC Championship?
01:02:39 --> 01:02:45 No, there was a rally down in Rodney Square in town. this lunchtime today. Oh, yeah.
01:02:45 --> 01:02:47 It was a big... Everybody was uptown.
01:02:48 --> 01:02:51 Yeah, it was big. Everybody was there cheering on the Eagles and everything.
01:02:52 --> 01:02:56 So, for those folks that are listening, go birds.
01:02:57 --> 01:03:02 And we'll talk to you after the game. Join us next week for another edition
01:03:02 --> 01:03:06 of News and Trends with your hosts, Dave and Lynn.
01:03:09 --> 01:03:23 Music.
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