Hosts Dave and Len open the episode with personal stories — a lively family reunion and growing concerns about automation spotted at restaurants and in cars.
They discuss heated headlines, including Marjorie Taylor Greene’s remarks about Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Snoop Dogg’s reaction to LGBTQ+ representation in the film Lightyear, tennis pro Sasha Vickery’s OnlyFans and $1,000 date deposit, and President Trump’s firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook.
The show closes with a forward-looking conversation about technology, AI, self-driving cars, and how social interaction and jobs might change by 2035, along with a reminder to listeners to stay safe over the holiday weekend.
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00:01:27 --> 00:01:30 And i'm hanging out with my partner like i said mr leonard young what's going
00:01:30 --> 00:01:35 on sir hey dave everything is good this is leonard young ceo national black
00:01:35 --> 00:01:42 guy delawareblack.com black media specialist all around good guy how's everything with you dave.
00:01:43 --> 00:01:48 Going on man just watching the summer fly by again you know it's you can tell
00:01:48 --> 00:01:54 that it's getting dark earlier now and you know there's a lot changing.
00:01:54 --> 00:02:00 See the schools are opening for some people and you know the bus you're starting
00:02:00 --> 00:02:07 to see buses on the roof and you know so you know it's just the changing of the guard man you know we,
00:02:08 --> 00:02:13 we're in that last you're heading to that last quarter of the year you know so yeah,
00:02:13 --> 00:02:17 But other than that, man, I'm still here. How about yourself?
00:02:18 --> 00:02:22 Yeah, I mean, same here. I mean, to be honest, I don't know what it feels like
00:02:22 --> 00:02:25 because this year is just flying by.
00:02:26 --> 00:02:30 So, I mean, Dave, sometimes I don't know whether it's a winter,
00:02:30 --> 00:02:33 spring, summer, or fall, or Monday through Sunday.
00:02:35 --> 00:02:39 Like everything mixed up. Right. I get it.
00:02:39 --> 00:02:46 I get it. But I did want to say that I got a chance to do something this past weekend.
00:02:46 --> 00:02:50 I mentioned I was going to a family reunion, which I did.
00:02:51 --> 00:02:55 You know, there was a lot going on this weekend, too. It was a lot of stuff going on.
00:02:55 --> 00:02:59 Well, man, holiday weekend always is mad at choices.
00:02:59 --> 00:03:03 Yeah, people trying to get those things in before Labor Day,
00:03:03 --> 00:03:08 I guess, or prior to the summer ending, so to speak.
00:03:09 --> 00:03:13 I went to a family reunion down at Killing Fond, not far from your place down
00:03:13 --> 00:03:15 there at the campground.
00:03:16 --> 00:03:19 And I hadn't been to Killing Fond since I was a kid.
00:03:20 --> 00:03:23 And I didn't realize how much they've done down there at that park.
00:03:23 --> 00:03:24 You know, they have a water park in there.
00:03:25 --> 00:03:28 Yeah. Yeah. We actually refer people from the campground over there sometimes.
00:03:29 --> 00:03:32 Oh, OK. You know, have you been, have your kids been over there?
00:03:33 --> 00:03:37 No, my kids have not been over there. I have been over there when the water
00:03:37 --> 00:03:43 park was closed. So I kind of saw what it looks like, but I have not been or seen it in action.
00:03:43 --> 00:03:46 Okay. I was shocked.
00:03:47 --> 00:03:50 I was shocked to see that because I didn't know they had it there.
00:03:50 --> 00:03:53 But it was, you know, and it's a busy, it's a busy park.
00:03:53 --> 00:03:59 But I got a chance to meet up with some family members I hadn't seen in a long
00:03:59 --> 00:04:02 time since I was probably 12, 13 years old.
00:04:03 --> 00:04:07 And I have to give a shout out to one particular person.
00:04:08 --> 00:04:18 I had, and I posted it on Facebook, but I have a cousin named Alma Rita Scott Howey. Okay.
00:04:19 --> 00:04:23 So you have four cousins? That's the same person.
00:04:25 --> 00:04:28 But she is really, really something. She's my...
00:04:29 --> 00:04:35 Oldest living relative. I told you I did the reunion upstate here.
00:04:35 --> 00:04:41 Me and my cousin Tron did the reunion in June up here. And we had over 200 people to show up.
00:04:43 --> 00:04:50 Well, this was kind of a continuation because we have a ton of family downstate as well.
00:04:51 --> 00:04:57 Right. And so the downstate clan, usually they've been pretty consistent over
00:04:57 --> 00:04:59 the years. They've always done a reunion.
00:04:59 --> 00:05:04 We haven't, and we used to do it together. We used to all be together,
00:05:04 --> 00:05:09 but it's since the people who could connect upstairs and I mean,
00:05:09 --> 00:05:12 upstate and downstate have passed away.
00:05:12 --> 00:05:16 You know, my mother being one of my mother knew just about everybody.
00:05:16 --> 00:05:21 Um, you know, people kind of drifted apart because we don't know each other like that.
00:05:21 --> 00:05:23 You know, even though we know that we have cousins down there.
00:05:23 --> 00:05:25 I mean, I know some of them, but I don't know all of them.
00:05:26 --> 00:05:31 Right. Well, This Almarita is our oldest living relative, is the oldest living
00:05:31 --> 00:05:33 relative in my family. And she's 95.
00:05:34 --> 00:05:41 Man, I was sitting there watching her Saturday. I was exhausted just watching her move around.
00:05:42 --> 00:05:47 She was dancing. She had done a lot of cooking for the thing.
00:05:47 --> 00:05:49 She was greeting people.
00:05:49 --> 00:05:52 That woman hardly sat down the whole time she was there. Oh, wow.
00:05:53 --> 00:05:57 And she's her memory sharp everything you
00:05:57 --> 00:06:01 know i mean she's just a walking marvel i
00:06:01 --> 00:06:04 mean she really is you know and you know
00:06:04 --> 00:06:09 and for her to outlive everybody that she came up with you know it's just a
00:06:09 --> 00:06:14 you know it's a testament and i always say you know something about being born
00:06:14 --> 00:06:18 in the country you know that keeps people young you know because they're just
00:06:18 --> 00:06:22 dealing with a lot of different stuff, you know, than we're dealing with up here.
00:06:22 --> 00:06:27 But I want to give her a shout out and to say thank you for,
00:06:27 --> 00:06:32 Showing us a great time and just being you and, you know, and,
00:06:32 --> 00:06:36 you know, and getting a chance to hang around with people I hadn't seen in a
00:06:36 --> 00:06:39 long time and people that I just got a chance to meet for the first time,
00:06:40 --> 00:06:41 you know, but all family members.
00:06:42 --> 00:06:46 So, yeah, well, you know, there were a couple of articles a while ago and I
00:06:46 --> 00:06:48 think we probably talked about it.
00:06:48 --> 00:06:53 So I'm not going to kill the subject, but they were talking about the breakdown in the black family.
00:06:53 --> 00:06:58 Like these younger generations don't know each other. They're not getting together.
00:06:58 --> 00:07:04 They're stuck on, you know, I guess we call the online generation where they're stuck online.
00:07:05 --> 00:07:07 Where back in the day, you know,
00:07:07 --> 00:07:12 we were getting together on Sundays and holidays and family reunions.
00:07:12 --> 00:07:16 So it should be real interesting. These next couple of generations,
00:07:16 --> 00:07:20 you know, there may be first cousins who don't even know who they are,
00:07:20 --> 00:07:22 live in the same city, same house.
00:07:22 --> 00:07:26 And it's funny that you just said what you just said about first cousins who
00:07:26 --> 00:07:29 don't know each other and live in the same city we have.
00:07:31 --> 00:07:37 My family down state has a Facebook page that they formed that I just recently
00:07:37 --> 00:07:41 joined because I didn't know about it and I just recently joined it prior to
00:07:41 --> 00:07:43 probably about two weeks ago I did it,
00:07:44 --> 00:07:49 one of the first people to introduce themselves to me that I didn't know,
00:07:50 --> 00:07:53 was a young lady who lives up here.
00:07:53 --> 00:07:55 I think she's in Newcastle, I think.
00:07:57 --> 00:08:00 And she's a cousin. I never knew her.
00:08:01 --> 00:08:05 And she reached out to me. She said, oh my gosh.
00:08:05 --> 00:08:10 She said, I didn't know I had cousins up here, that there was any family up here.
00:08:10 --> 00:08:13 Because she was thinking all her family was still downstate.
00:08:13 --> 00:08:15 She'd been up here about seven years.
00:08:16 --> 00:08:19 But she was up here all along. And I had to laugh.
00:08:20 --> 00:08:23 And we had a couple phone conversations since then
00:08:23 --> 00:08:26 and whatever the case may be i said let me tell you
00:08:26 --> 00:08:29 you are not alone up here believe me i said you
00:08:29 --> 00:08:32 know you got family all around did she
00:08:32 --> 00:08:35 so i'm assuming she didn't come to your uh the is
00:08:35 --> 00:08:38 this part of the rust family or this is a different family this
00:08:38 --> 00:08:41 is all the rust family even down the day it's all you
00:08:41 --> 00:08:44 know it's all you know it's either my grandmother's side
00:08:44 --> 00:08:49 or my grandfather's side but there's all the rust guys but
00:08:49 --> 00:08:52 and she's part of it you know but she didn't know
00:08:52 --> 00:08:55 she didn't know me then and she didn't see of
00:08:55 --> 00:08:59 course she wouldn't have seen the advertising unless she knew somebody else
00:08:59 --> 00:09:02 up here and she didn't know anybody she didn't know any of her family up here
00:09:02 --> 00:09:08 gotcha you know so you know so the task is to get her around some of the people
00:09:08 --> 00:09:12 up here so she gets to know them because she thought she was up here all by itself.
00:09:13 --> 00:09:19 You know, so, you know, and she's, you know, she's like, she's like 50 or in
00:09:19 --> 00:09:24 her early 50s, but she didn't know, you know, so, and of course her kids didn't know.
00:09:24 --> 00:09:28 So, so this is the type of thing, and you're right about that,
00:09:28 --> 00:09:34 you know, I kind of tend to think because just talking to people in my family,
00:09:34 --> 00:09:38 younger people in my family, they don't have the need to know.
00:09:38 --> 00:09:41 You know they don't necessarily you know
00:09:41 --> 00:09:46 they're fine with the way they they're going about their business my
00:09:46 --> 00:09:49 my mother and my you know my aunts and
00:09:49 --> 00:09:55 uncles we were always around each other they were they we had picnics and barbecues
00:09:55 --> 00:09:58 all kinds of stuff on a regular basis you know we were always around each other
00:09:58 --> 00:10:04 so the cousins i came up with we're all very close right you know because we
00:10:04 --> 00:10:07 spending a lot of time around each other, but it's different now.
00:10:08 --> 00:10:12 You talk about how your kids are right in the house. Yeah.
00:10:13 --> 00:10:15 They don't talk, right?
00:10:16 --> 00:10:19 Everybody's got their own little agenda, right? Yeah. I'm about to say you can
00:10:19 --> 00:10:21 barely get them to come out of their rooms. There you go.
00:10:24 --> 00:10:27 Before we get into the story, real brief, I know we're running behind and I
00:10:27 --> 00:10:30 know you like to keep everything on a tight schedule.
00:10:31 --> 00:10:38 So this morning, I drove down of Virginia and we had stopped at a Bojangles, right?
00:10:39 --> 00:10:42 And have you, have you ever stopped at maybe McDonald's and there'll be a,
00:10:42 --> 00:10:48 an automated system that says, you know, would you like to use your app today? And then you say no.
00:10:48 --> 00:10:51 And then like a person comes on and say, okay, welcome McDonald's.
00:10:51 --> 00:10:52 How can I take your order? Right?
00:10:52 --> 00:11:00 Yeah. Okay. So we went to Bojangles and the automated voice said something similar
00:11:00 --> 00:11:03 to, you know, will you be using your app today?
00:11:03 --> 00:11:08 And I was like, no. And they said, are you ready to place your order? And I said, yes.
00:11:08 --> 00:11:10 And then I was sitting there.
00:11:11 --> 00:11:15 And I was like, yes, I'm ready to place my order. And the voice said,
00:11:15 --> 00:11:18 okay, place your order. And I was like, this is so weird.
00:11:19 --> 00:11:23 And my wife was like, this must be an automated system. Go ahead and place your order.
00:11:24 --> 00:11:27 Dave, would you believe I placed my order at the computer?
00:11:28 --> 00:11:33 No, no, no live person ever came on the drive through speaker.
00:11:34 --> 00:11:44 I place my order through the drive-thru with a computerized computer AI voice.
00:11:45 --> 00:11:50 And they got everything right? Yeah. I mean, well, I mean, you know,
00:11:50 --> 00:11:53 they just take the order. The people still got to put the order together.
00:11:53 --> 00:11:59 But real quick, you know, it just made me think of how, as crazy as it sounds,
00:11:59 --> 00:12:02 we are contributing to our own demise.
00:12:02 --> 00:12:08 And I say that because when I came up to the window and I looked at people working
00:12:08 --> 00:12:14 inside, in my mind, I'm thinking they don't even know that, you know,
00:12:15 --> 00:12:18 AI is slowly taking over that restaurant.
00:12:19 --> 00:12:24 Yeah. And I mean, to be honest, no fault of their own, because there's stuff
00:12:24 --> 00:12:28 that we probably, you know, like when we're using chat GPT, you know,
00:12:28 --> 00:12:30 that it's taking away jobs and all that.
00:12:30 --> 00:12:34 But, you know, I just thought it was so trendy and scary that,
00:12:34 --> 00:12:38 OK, now they don't even need to be a live person at the drive through.
00:12:39 --> 00:12:42 I just wanted to bring it up. I'm not sure if anyone's encountered it or if
00:12:42 --> 00:12:48 you haven't encountered that yet, but I'm sure they won't be the first and they won't be the last.
00:12:49 --> 00:12:53 I mean, I saw that. The McDonald's over there bought my job.
00:12:53 --> 00:12:58 You go in there, you know, sometimes they don't have a person at the counter.
00:12:58 --> 00:13:00 You have to order everything to the kiosk.
00:13:00 --> 00:13:05 And, you know, I was like, okay, all right.
00:13:06 --> 00:13:09 Where are all the people? Because you remember back in the day,
00:13:09 --> 00:13:14 McDonald's, they had 15 people in back of that counter. Now you might see three.
00:13:14 --> 00:13:18 Yeah, now you are. So, but anyway.
00:13:19 --> 00:13:24 All right. Well, this is the world we're living in, folks. Just pay attention.
00:13:24 --> 00:13:27 Stay woke. I'll tell you, stay woke. Okay?
00:13:28 --> 00:13:32 Well, we're going to get into a few stories for you guys that we wanted to talk
00:13:32 --> 00:13:36 about, starting with our favorite, one of our favorite people,
00:13:36 --> 00:13:37 Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:13:38 --> 00:13:43 Clown for saying Jasmine Crockett doesn't understand black struggle.
00:13:44 --> 00:13:48 Now, why would she say that? Well, let's find out why she would say it.
00:13:48 --> 00:13:55 That Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is under fire after making new racially
00:13:55 --> 00:13:57 charged remarks about Rep.
00:13:57 --> 00:14:04 Jasmine Crockett. During an August 1925 interview with podcaster Megyn Kelly,
00:14:05 --> 00:14:09 Greene claimed that Crockett doesn't understand the Black American struggle.
00:14:11 --> 00:14:24 The comments have sparked outrage on social media and renewed attention to their ongoing feud.
00:14:24 --> 00:14:29 Critics called Green's remarks offensive, especially given Crockett's identity
00:14:29 --> 00:14:33 and career as a civil rights attorney. Here's the background.
00:14:34 --> 00:14:43 It says, the conflict began during a May 24th, I mean, May 2024 House Oversight Committee hearing.
00:14:43 --> 00:14:49 Green insulted Crockett's appearance, saying her fake eyelashes were interfering
00:14:49 --> 00:14:52 with her reading. Crockett clacked back.
00:14:53 --> 00:15:03 With a noun virtual line referring to Green's bleach-blind bed-built butch body.
00:15:03 --> 00:15:09 You know, and that did go viral. Oh, my God, didn't it?
00:15:09 --> 00:15:13 The exchange exploded online with many accusing Green of targeting Crockett
00:15:13 --> 00:15:15 with racist stereotypes.
00:15:16 --> 00:15:20 Crockett defended herself saying she wouldn't allow personal attacks or disrespect
00:15:20 --> 00:15:22 to go unchecked in Congress.
00:15:24 --> 00:15:29 Greene's August 2025 comments stirred new controversy.
00:15:29 --> 00:15:35 In her latest interview, Greene repeated gabs about Crockett's eyelashes and
00:15:35 --> 00:15:36 said she wasn't a real person.
00:15:36 --> 00:15:42 She accused the Texas Democrat of forcing a male staffer to carry her big,
00:15:42 --> 00:15:48 heavy handbag, a claim many online users mocked as bizarre.
00:15:48 --> 00:15:53 The most controversial line came when Greene said Crockett didn't understand
00:15:53 --> 00:15:55 the Black American struggle.
00:15:55 --> 00:16:01 Many viewed this as racist attempt by a white congresswoman to discredit a Black
00:16:01 --> 00:16:04 woman's lived experience and career.
00:16:05 --> 00:16:09 Public relations reaction to Greene's statement was swift and harsh.
00:16:09 --> 00:16:15 Social media platform X was flooded with criticism of Greene's remarks.
00:16:15 --> 00:16:17 Users called her statements racist.
00:16:18 --> 00:16:22 Delusional and completely out of line one post
00:16:22 --> 00:16:28 read so now marjorie taylor green and megan kelly are experts on the black experience
00:16:28 --> 00:16:35 others highlighted green's long history of racially inflammatory rhetoric calling
00:16:35 --> 00:16:40 this latest incident part of a disturbing pattern i'm gonna stop there,
00:16:41 --> 00:16:48 You know, this is almost like an MMA fight or wrestling, you know,
00:16:48 --> 00:16:55 one of those wrestling things, you know, so, you know,
00:16:56 --> 00:16:58 I don't, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:16:59 --> 00:17:06 I, the stuff she says is so, so crazy and so misleading,
00:17:06 --> 00:17:13 misleading that you just figured that she must have some diabolical plan to
00:17:13 --> 00:17:20 make herself be relevant by saying these things because she can't be really serious.
00:17:20 --> 00:17:26 And the last person that you think that she would want to attack is a Jasmine
00:17:26 --> 00:17:28 Crockett because we know Jasmine ain't playing.
00:17:28 --> 00:17:32 You know and she will she will
00:17:32 --> 00:17:35 attack her back so why why pick
00:17:35 --> 00:17:38 on her why why why choose her is
00:17:38 --> 00:17:42 that is that her way of trying to stay relevant what
00:17:42 --> 00:17:47 do you what do you think about all that she says and all that she does especially
00:17:47 --> 00:17:51 when it comes to this particular person jasmine crockett well dude first of
00:17:51 --> 00:17:56 all i think that they just need to fight you know no i'm i'm gonna say like
00:17:56 --> 00:17:59 like you Forget Jake Paul, Mike Tyson,
00:17:59 --> 00:18:02 and Mike Tyson, Roy Jones.
00:18:02 --> 00:18:07 Dave, I wouldn't pay to see Jasmine Crockett and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:18:07 --> 00:18:10 Let them fight. Let it be for charity.
00:18:12 --> 00:18:19 Well, first of all, I don't think Marjorie Taylor Greene would get in the ring
00:18:19 --> 00:18:21 with her. I think she would be too scared.
00:18:21 --> 00:18:25 Well, I don't know. She acts like she ain't scared. I do say that.
00:18:25 --> 00:18:27 Dave, you know what I learned?
00:18:27 --> 00:18:32 People who do all that talking, well, I have not learned this.
00:18:32 --> 00:18:37 My thought would be, I can't imagine Marjorie Taylor Greene doing all this talking,
00:18:37 --> 00:18:40 all of her life, and not getting into some fights.
00:18:41 --> 00:18:45 You know, I mean, yeah, it's just great. But, you know, one thing I was thinking about,
00:18:46 --> 00:18:54 you know, the maturity and the ethics and politics have really hit new lows
00:18:54 --> 00:18:56 all the way around. Dave, think about,
00:18:57 --> 00:19:03 let's say go back 20 to 30 years, you know, so, you know, that put us in the
00:19:03 --> 00:19:07 nineties and I, I mean, who was in there, Reagan, Bush, Charlotte, somebody.
00:19:08 --> 00:19:16 Can you imagine back then hearing one politician say the other one had fake
00:19:16 --> 00:19:24 eyelashes and then the other one clapping back and saying bad body bleach bond,
00:19:24 --> 00:19:27 you know, butch, we know you, I mean,
00:19:28 --> 00:19:31 I mean, it's almost funny, but you know, it never happened back then.
00:19:32 --> 00:19:35 I mean, back in the day, love and hate on politicians were straight laced.
00:19:35 --> 00:19:39 You know, there was, and I won't say respect because it probably wasn't a respect,
00:19:40 --> 00:19:44 but there was a, and I'm willing to say a classiness, but there was a standard.
00:19:44 --> 00:19:50 But, you know, now, I mean, as we can see it, it's all, you know.
00:19:50 --> 00:19:53 Well, I think a lot of it has to do with this letter.
00:19:53 --> 00:19:56 Look who's running the country. Yeah, no, I agree.
00:19:57 --> 00:20:03 And did any of this happen prior to him coming into the office? No, no, it didn't.
00:20:04 --> 00:20:08 It didn't happen during the Obama administration, you know.
00:20:08 --> 00:20:15 I mean, other than when the current president, I can't even think of his name
00:20:15 --> 00:20:19 at the moment, Donald Trump, made that run,
00:20:19 --> 00:20:23 the first run against Obama, you know, during Obama's second turn,
00:20:24 --> 00:20:29 going into the Obama second turn, you know, that's when all the name calling
00:20:29 --> 00:20:31 and all the craziness started happening.
00:20:32 --> 00:20:35 And you know because him figuring that
00:20:35 --> 00:20:38 he can attack him because of who he was and
00:20:38 --> 00:20:41 trying to expose him and all of that kind of
00:20:41 --> 00:20:50 stuff that was his way of you know trying to win the election but ever since
00:20:50 --> 00:20:56 then he has continued to do the same stuff and then all the people that he brought
00:20:56 --> 00:20:58 in under him has done the same thing.
00:20:59 --> 00:21:02 And then when he started, when he ran the campaign against Biden,
00:21:03 --> 00:21:06 remember all the crazy ads and everything, you know, I mean,
00:21:06 --> 00:21:11 a lot of this is because of the Trump administration.
00:21:11 --> 00:21:18 And what has happened since he has become a political candidate. Right.
00:21:19 --> 00:21:22 You know, because this didn't happen in the Obama administration.
00:21:22 --> 00:21:27 Well, you know, I think it started gearing up and Obama, because,
00:21:28 --> 00:21:32 you know, when Obama got in, a lot of those Republicans really got very bold
00:21:32 --> 00:21:36 with saying things that kind of started leading up. And then,
00:21:36 --> 00:21:38 of course, Trump got in after that.
00:21:38 --> 00:21:41 And then he kind of emboldened it.
00:21:41 --> 00:21:46 So, I mean, I think it started with, you know, think about what Trump was saying
00:21:46 --> 00:21:47 when Obama was president.
00:21:48 --> 00:21:53 One, the whole birth certificate thing, You know, he was saying stuff that could
00:21:53 --> 00:21:57 be easily proven, but there were a whole bunch of people who jumped on that bandwagon.
00:21:58 --> 00:22:01 Oh, why more than born in the United States? He's not an American citizen.
00:22:02 --> 00:22:07 Yeah, I know. I know. And and then he just started saying crazy stuff, you know.
00:22:08 --> 00:22:13 And, you know, I mean, that's why, you know, that's why Michelle Obama,
00:22:14 --> 00:22:17 you know, decided that she was just going to walk away with politics.
00:22:18 --> 00:22:23 You know, because, you know, because Michelle, Michelle, you could tell wasn't
00:22:23 --> 00:22:25 one that's going to hold their tongue for so long.
00:22:26 --> 00:22:31 Yeah. You know, so, you know, so she just decided to walk away from it and not deal with it at all.
00:22:32 --> 00:22:39 You know, so, but it is crazy that we have these two women who definitely have platforms.
00:22:40 --> 00:22:44 Now, I know a lot's going on there in Texas. You heard about all the redistricting.
00:22:45 --> 00:22:46 I can't even get the word.
00:22:47 --> 00:22:50 They're changing the districts. I'll make it easy for myself.
00:22:51 --> 00:22:52 They're changing the districts.
00:22:53 --> 00:23:00 And so did you see that supposedly more, I mean, that Jasmine Crockett was supposedly
00:23:00 --> 00:23:01 being pushed out of her seat?
00:23:02 --> 00:23:08 Yeah I did yeah yeah because of the way they were changing the district and
00:23:08 --> 00:23:14 that's for Republicans being you know just being bullies and doing what they want to do you know.
00:23:15 --> 00:23:20 But they're not going to silence her I mean she's just going to get she's just
00:23:20 --> 00:23:26 going to figure out a way to get stronger you know so but these two if they
00:23:26 --> 00:23:28 do end up in the ring it could be interesting.
00:23:30 --> 00:23:31 Let it be for charity Thank you.
00:23:33 --> 00:23:35 I'd like to see a debate. It doesn't have to be in the ring.
00:23:36 --> 00:23:40 Let's do a debate. Just to have them go back and forfeit each other.
00:23:40 --> 00:23:46 But you already know a debate is going to be a lot of yelling, a lot of viral sayings.
00:23:47 --> 00:23:52 Well, I mean, it wouldn't be bad. But at the end of the day,
00:23:52 --> 00:23:57 a celebrity boxing match, somebody, well, more than likely, somebody going to
00:23:57 --> 00:23:59 go down. Yeah, somebody going down.
00:24:00 --> 00:24:03 Yeah, they have to use the bigger gloves. You know, so, you know,
00:24:04 --> 00:24:07 but that would be interesting, though, hopefully.
00:24:08 --> 00:24:15 But that's sad. It's also sad, too, because, you know, it's really sad that
00:24:15 --> 00:24:19 we, those two, we want to see those two do that.
00:24:19 --> 00:24:23 You know what I mean? So, you know, but that's where we are.
00:24:24 --> 00:24:26 I mean, and especially Margie Telly Green.
00:24:26 --> 00:24:29 She just looks like somebody that she doesn't want to, you know.
00:24:29 --> 00:24:35 So I'm sure all the females just want to take her and just beat her up. You know what I mean?
00:24:35 --> 00:24:40 So I still call her one of the white chick girls, you know, because that's what
00:24:40 --> 00:24:43 she's like, one of the white chick girls from the movie.
00:24:43 --> 00:24:46 But in case you guys didn't know what I was talking about out there.
00:24:47 --> 00:24:53 All right, let's move on to another person that has become kind of a whooping post recently.
00:24:55 --> 00:24:59 Man, wasn't it like a year ago this guy was on top of the world doing the Olympics
00:24:59 --> 00:25:02 and all that stuff? Yeah, just about.
00:25:03 --> 00:25:09 Yeah, I mean, you couldn't do no wrong, right? Then the election came, and he chose his side.
00:25:10 --> 00:25:13 You know, he did what he did with performing, you know, and all that stuff,
00:25:13 --> 00:25:15 and people still trying to forgive him for that.
00:25:16 --> 00:25:20 And then this happens, you know. And a lot of people are going to – this is
00:25:20 --> 00:25:24 going to be something that people are going to take sides on.
00:25:25 --> 00:25:30 But I find it interesting because, I mean, people just jumped on it right away.
00:25:31 --> 00:25:34 So what am I talking about? And who am I talking about, people?
00:25:35 --> 00:25:46 Snoop Dogg. Uncle Snoop faces backlash for LBTQ community over light year comments.
00:25:47 --> 00:25:50 So this is what this is all about.
00:25:50 --> 00:25:54 And it's funny, I saw this movie, I don't even remember that part in this movie, but anyway.
00:25:56 --> 00:26:05 Snoop Dogg has stirred controversy within the LGBTQ community after expressing
00:26:05 --> 00:26:13 unease about taking his grandchildren to see Disney's 2022 animated film,
00:26:13 --> 00:26:19 Lightyear, which is about Buzz Lightyear, from the Toy Story movies.
00:26:20 --> 00:26:25 Which featured a same-sex couple. As The Hill reported,
00:26:26 --> 00:26:33 during an appearance on its given podcast, the rapper recounted his grandson's
00:26:33 --> 00:26:39 confusion over a scene of a same-sex couple sharing a kiss.
00:26:40 --> 00:26:45 And Snoop said, oh, and then he said, sugar, honey, iced tea.
00:26:46 --> 00:26:49 I didn't come in for this sugar, honey, iced tea.
00:26:49 --> 00:26:57 I just came to watch the movie Snoop recalled thinking he said it effed me up
00:26:57 --> 00:27:02 like scared to go to the movies now y'all throwing me in the middle of this.
00:27:04 --> 00:27:09 That I don't have an answer for. He added, these kids, these are kids.
00:27:10 --> 00:27:15 We have to show that at this age? They're going to ask questions.
00:27:15 --> 00:27:17 I don't have the answers.
00:27:17 --> 00:27:23 The remark drew criticism from activists and media personalities such as T.S.
00:27:24 --> 00:27:30 Madison, who addressed the issue on TMZ Live.
00:27:30 --> 00:27:35 She said, Snoop is part of the problem. She said, arguing that his comments
00:27:35 --> 00:27:41 perpetuate harmful stigmas around the LGBTQ plus representation,
00:27:42 --> 00:27:46 particularly in media for younger audiences.
00:27:46 --> 00:27:49 The scene at the center of the debate,
00:27:50 --> 00:27:56 part of a montage in the Toy Story prequel, prompted international backlash
00:27:56 --> 00:28:02 with countries such as, here we go, Saudi Arabia.
00:28:03 --> 00:28:13 Kuwait, Malaysia, and United Arab Emirates banning the film after Disney refused
00:28:13 --> 00:28:15 to remove the couple's relationship.
00:28:16 --> 00:28:21 We're not going to cut out anything, especially something as important as the
00:28:21 --> 00:28:28 loving and inspirational relationship that shows buzz when he was missing by
00:28:28 --> 00:28:31 the choices that he's making.
00:28:31 --> 00:28:33 So that's not getting cut.
00:28:34 --> 00:28:40 Producer Galen Sussman told Reuters at the film London Premiere.
00:28:41 --> 00:28:46 Chris Evans, who voiced Buzz Lightyear, also weighed in doing a 2022 Variety
00:28:46 --> 00:28:50 interview, expressing frustration over the controversy.
00:28:50 --> 00:28:56 The goal is we can get to a point where it is the norm and that this doesn't
00:28:56 --> 00:28:59 have to be some uncharted waters.
00:29:00 --> 00:29:06 That eventually this is the way it is, he said. that representation across the
00:29:06 --> 00:29:09 board is how we make films.
00:29:09 --> 00:29:14 Luke Doyle's comments have intensified discussions about the role of the LGBTQ
00:29:14 --> 00:29:23 plus representation in family-oriented films and challenges the navigation under
00:29:23 --> 00:29:28 navigating inclusivity in Main Street media. So.
00:29:30 --> 00:29:34 I mean, I guess it's kind of two ways to look at this.
00:29:34 --> 00:29:39 As a parent, or in this case, a grandparent.
00:29:39 --> 00:29:47 And then as being a woke person in the world today. Okay?
00:29:48 --> 00:29:56 Now, how do you think you might have reacted if you go to the movies You're
00:29:56 --> 00:30:02 taking, let's say, your 8- to 10-year-old kids there or grandkids there,
00:30:03 --> 00:30:08 children who are old enough to notice certain things.
00:30:09 --> 00:30:14 And then they see this, and then they say to themselves, okay,
00:30:14 --> 00:30:17 it must be okay to do this, because they're doing it in the movies.
00:30:18 --> 00:30:26 Now, of course, I always laugh about Disney movies, because if you've ever seen
00:30:26 --> 00:30:30 Disney movies, there's always adult content in their movies.
00:30:31 --> 00:30:33 Have you ever noticed that about their animation?
00:30:35 --> 00:30:38 You know so and they're real slick about how
00:30:38 --> 00:30:41 they do it but there's always something that
00:30:41 --> 00:30:44 if you pay enough attention to is an
00:30:44 --> 00:30:47 adult reference and in
00:30:47 --> 00:30:50 this case and it's like i said i've
00:30:50 --> 00:30:53 seen this you know i've seen this movie
00:30:53 --> 00:30:57 a part of it i don't know about the whole thing i
00:30:57 --> 00:31:00 don't remember seeing that in there but if i
00:31:00 --> 00:31:03 was taking my kids i was
00:31:03 --> 00:31:05 it would it would probably it would probably say to me
00:31:05 --> 00:31:08 hmm okay that's interesting
00:31:08 --> 00:31:14 why is that there what do you think what i mean is snoop wrong for thinking
00:31:14 --> 00:31:21 what he's thinking okay and you know i'm just saying now you know from from
00:31:21 --> 00:31:25 your thoughts i mean you know without getting political about it you know what
00:31:25 --> 00:31:28 i mean yeah you know they and Like you said,
00:31:28 --> 00:31:32 I think it's a double-edged sword where there are different perspectives.
00:31:33 --> 00:31:37 But, you know, I'm going to go with the first perspective that you said where
00:31:37 --> 00:31:46 we talked about if I'm going there with my kids and, you know,
00:31:46 --> 00:31:49 maybe it's a justification, maybe warrants it, maybe not warrants it.
00:31:49 --> 00:31:52 If I'm going there with my kids or a movie.
00:31:53 --> 00:31:57 It's possible there's going to be some content that I do, well,
00:31:57 --> 00:31:59 that I do not want them to see.
00:32:00 --> 00:32:04 And that content may be regarding sexual orientation.
00:32:05 --> 00:32:09 It may be related to just sexual content.
00:32:10 --> 00:32:15 It may be related to profanity. It may be related to violence.
00:32:16 --> 00:32:21 So for him speaking out as a parent, and maybe not the first part of what you
00:32:21 --> 00:32:24 said, the second part of what you said where he was like, you know,
00:32:25 --> 00:32:29 you know, he, he don't, you know, he wants to kind of be in control of what
00:32:29 --> 00:32:34 his kids are and they're not seeing, you know, I, I definitely understand that.
00:32:35 --> 00:32:40 And hopefully anybody would understand that. Um, and you, you know,
00:32:40 --> 00:32:42 I mean, it's so funny cause it just made me think real quick.
00:32:42 --> 00:32:43 And I thought about this yesterday.
00:32:44 --> 00:32:49 There was a point where, when my kids would be in the car with me and you know,
00:32:49 --> 00:32:52 something happened and you say a curse word you know
00:32:52 --> 00:32:55 your kid be like oh oh it's like
00:32:55 --> 00:33:01 oh we heard what you said and they don't do it anymore do they no no no no no
00:33:01 --> 00:33:07 no now that they get older it just it fly off of them yeah but you know i think
00:33:07 --> 00:33:10 you know as a parent long story short i think as a parent we try to protect
00:33:10 --> 00:33:14 our kids from certain things until they can fully understand,
00:33:14 --> 00:33:21 And I think some content for them to see at a certain age, they don't quite understand it.
00:33:22 --> 00:33:25 So, and, you know, I'm not knocking, you know, T.S.
00:33:25 --> 00:33:30 Madison or anyone else who is, you know, kind of fighting for free expression,
00:33:31 --> 00:33:32 free speech and free content.
00:33:33 --> 00:33:38 But I think if there's a certain age where they don't understand,
00:33:38 --> 00:33:40 they're not mature enough.
00:33:40 --> 00:33:45 So I'm going to side with with Snoop Dogg on that. Now, I wouldn't have phrased
00:33:45 --> 00:33:46 it like he phrased some of it.
00:33:47 --> 00:33:53 But as far as what I think he was implying, I'm going to side with him.
00:33:54 --> 00:34:00 Yeah, I think, and, you know, Snoop and Snoop came off as being Snoop,
00:34:00 --> 00:34:02 you know, and that's fully is.
00:34:02 --> 00:34:08 But, you know, when you, I mean, you know, we have the rating system with the movies.
00:34:09 --> 00:34:16 You know, we got, you know, we got G, we got PG, we got R, we got TV,
00:34:17 --> 00:34:19 we got all these different ratings now.
00:34:19 --> 00:34:24 Yeah, you know, all the way up to X-rated and all that kind of stuff.
00:34:25 --> 00:34:26 We got all these ratings.
00:34:27 --> 00:34:32 So are we going to now have to create a separate movie?
00:34:32 --> 00:34:42 I mean, rating for controversial or, you know, or something that just kind of says, okay,
00:34:43 --> 00:34:47 there may be something in this movie that could be,
00:34:47 --> 00:34:50 you know, controversial whatever so just
00:34:50 --> 00:34:53 preparing you for that to give you an idea or
00:34:53 --> 00:34:56 give you a choice and whether or not you want
00:34:56 --> 00:34:59 to still take your young people to
00:34:59 --> 00:35:02 go see this movie or you know
00:35:02 --> 00:35:05 even if let's say they're a little bit older they're 13 to
00:35:05 --> 00:35:09 15 years old you know and because
00:35:09 --> 00:35:14 a lot of these movies nowadays have some type scene and almost every every movie
00:35:14 --> 00:35:23 is dealing with almost lg lgbq plus movie references and all of that type of
00:35:23 --> 00:35:26 stuff and we have to be able to.
00:35:26 --> 00:35:29 Make sure that our kids are prepared but
00:35:29 --> 00:35:32 then like you said they know they
00:35:32 --> 00:35:36 know already they i mean you know
00:35:36 --> 00:35:39 it's probably stuff that they already know about you know
00:35:39 --> 00:35:41 or they've already dealt with because most of
00:35:41 --> 00:35:44 them are wrapped up in their phones everything's right there on social
00:35:44 --> 00:35:49 media no way is you can't hide from look i
00:35:49 --> 00:35:53 listen to the radio in the morning going into work almost every
00:35:53 --> 00:35:57 radio program has some type of host
00:35:57 --> 00:36:01 that is you know probably gay
00:36:01 --> 00:36:04 i mean there's almost every radio or
00:36:04 --> 00:36:07 personality that might be on the show most of
00:36:07 --> 00:36:10 your tea people most of the people that are
00:36:10 --> 00:36:13 doing gossip a lot of them are are
00:36:13 --> 00:36:16 gay right you know so you know
00:36:16 --> 00:36:18 so it's hard for the the young
00:36:18 --> 00:36:21 folks not to know who a lot of these people are
00:36:21 --> 00:36:24 and listen to a lot of these people because it's in their
00:36:24 --> 00:36:27 face almost everywhere they go and the
00:36:27 --> 00:36:30 cartoons nowadays are pretty progressive with a
00:36:30 --> 00:36:34 lot of things that they do in these cartoons and we
00:36:34 --> 00:36:39 won't even we're not even talking about the south parks and and the even with
00:36:39 --> 00:36:44 family guy and those guys you know because they they're you know they're going
00:36:44 --> 00:36:47 to do what they're going to do and they've been doing it all these years you
00:36:47 --> 00:36:52 know so you know so but i just thought it was interesting that you know.
00:36:53 --> 00:36:58 Jumped on Snoop right away too, man. They did. I said, well, what did he say?
00:36:59 --> 00:37:06 Because I started hearing the brushback yesterday morning. I was like, well, what did he say?
00:37:06 --> 00:37:11 And then I had to go look it up. And I was like, oh man. Okay. Here we go. All right.
00:37:12 --> 00:37:17 But I get it. I understand what Snoop was trying to say.
00:37:18 --> 00:37:22 And I think we all kind of understand it.
00:37:22 --> 00:37:28 But right now, Snoop is is a hot topic period right now. You know what I mean? So, yeah.
00:37:29 --> 00:37:34 But you guys give us your thoughts on what you think about everything as far
00:37:34 --> 00:37:36 as that's concerned. You can let us know.
00:37:37 --> 00:37:43 I mean, it's one of those type of topics, you know, could be on either side on.
00:37:43 --> 00:37:46 So we'd be glad to hear what you have to say.
00:37:47 --> 00:37:50 All right, moving on to our next story. Yep.
00:37:50 --> 00:37:54 So Dave, the next one, and this is one that I heard about, over the weekend.
00:37:54 --> 00:37:57 I just had to chuckle to myself.
00:37:57 --> 00:38:02 But there is a pro tennis player, black tennis player,
00:38:03 --> 00:38:12 Sasha Vickery, who has opened up about her having a page on OnlyFans and recently
00:38:12 --> 00:38:19 publicizing that she charges $1 deposit to take her out on a date.
00:38:20 --> 00:38:25 So this week she made big news just because she qualified for the U.S. Open.
00:38:25 --> 00:38:29 I think she won her first round and then she got eliminated in the,
00:38:29 --> 00:38:33 I guess, the second qualifier round.
00:38:34 --> 00:38:41 But long story short, she said that just to kind of recap some of what she said,
00:38:41 --> 00:38:48 she said that OnlyFans was the easiest money she's ever made and she enjoys doing.
00:38:48 --> 00:38:55 Now, she did say that she only posts suggestive content, you know,
00:38:55 --> 00:39:01 no full nudity, no, you know, nothing that would be considered sex work or any
00:39:01 --> 00:39:03 or any sexual acts or anything like that.
00:39:04 --> 00:39:08 But, you know, the part that I thought was interesting was just where she mentioned
00:39:08 --> 00:39:13 $1 deposit to go on a date with her.
00:39:13 --> 00:39:20 And she said that she did it because basically she's tired of the BS that she
00:39:20 --> 00:39:24 had to put up due to the behavior of a lot of men.
00:39:25 --> 00:39:29 And then with that, she put her cash app so people could actually cash app her.
00:39:30 --> 00:39:33 So, you know, I thought this was interesting. So some of the questions I had
00:39:33 --> 00:39:37 right off the bat, but I'm going to let you comment first, Dave.
00:39:37 --> 00:39:42 What do you think of, and hopefully this doesn't start a trend,
00:39:43 --> 00:39:45 but girls requiring deposits.
00:39:47 --> 00:39:52 I have a question because the word deposit usually means you get it back,
00:39:52 --> 00:39:58 but I haven't heard anything about refunds or credited toward the date.
00:39:58 --> 00:40:05 But long story short, what do you think about this possible trend of women requiring
00:40:05 --> 00:40:11 men to pay upfront deposits in order to go on a date with somebody?
00:40:11 --> 00:40:15 I kind of chuckled because I've said, that's crazy.
00:40:15 --> 00:40:18 But then as i
00:40:18 --> 00:40:21 started hearing more and more people talk about it on my
00:40:21 --> 00:40:24 way to work this morning they talked about it on um on the
00:40:24 --> 00:40:27 radio and i was like
00:40:27 --> 00:40:29 huh i don't think
00:40:29 --> 00:40:33 that it's a bad idea for
00:40:33 --> 00:40:37 her to do that because he
00:40:37 --> 00:40:40 was talking about how many knuckleheads and many
00:40:40 --> 00:40:44 how many bad day she's been on or guys
00:40:44 --> 00:40:47 that she's dealt with and she said if a
00:40:47 --> 00:40:51 guy is willing to put up a thousand dollars to go
00:40:51 --> 00:40:55 out on a date with her then that
00:40:55 --> 00:41:02 means that this guy in more cases it's probably more is on the serious side
00:41:02 --> 00:41:10 about what he wants and what he wants from her now as far as whether she gives
00:41:10 --> 00:41:12 any money back or whatever the case may be.
00:41:12 --> 00:41:15 They didn't say. I haven't heard anything about that.
00:41:15 --> 00:41:20 And I don't know if she does find Mr. Right this way, whether she would give
00:41:20 --> 00:41:27 the money back because that person measured up to what she was looking for, whatever.
00:41:29 --> 00:41:35 And she definitely doesn't have to have guys pay to go out with her.
00:41:36 --> 00:41:40 She's a very nice looking person and she
00:41:40 --> 00:41:43 kind of reminds you of a young serena williams
00:41:43 --> 00:41:46 the way she's you know put you know shaped
00:41:46 --> 00:41:49 and everything and you know she's very athletic
00:41:49 --> 00:41:55 looking and it's funny she's a tennis pro but nobody's talking about her tennis
00:41:55 --> 00:42:01 you know so you know matter of fact i never heard and i watch tennis i watch
00:42:01 --> 00:42:06 a lot of the matches what dave here says that Her highest ranking was in 2013.
00:42:07 --> 00:42:13 She's been around that long? Well, yeah. Well, in 2013, she won the U.S.
00:42:13 --> 00:42:17 Tennis Association Junior National Championship. Oh, she's young then. Okay. Right.
00:42:17 --> 00:42:25 She went to reach a career high ranking in the world of number 73 in 2018.
00:42:26 --> 00:42:32 But here in 2025, she's currently world ranked at 509.
00:42:33 --> 00:42:37 So that's why you haven't heard her, though. Yeah, I did hear she was down there.
00:42:38 --> 00:42:44 So that tells you how serious she probably has been working at this tennis.
00:42:45 --> 00:42:48 But she did manage to get into the U.S. Open.
00:42:50 --> 00:42:55 But I'm sure that with all the notoriety she's getting right now,
00:42:55 --> 00:43:02 that's going to put a spotlight on her, and maybe she will become more known for tennis as well.
00:43:03 --> 00:43:06 But i don't think that it's a bad
00:43:06 --> 00:43:10 idea if it's something that you know
00:43:10 --> 00:43:15 if she really has had a bunch of crazy men to approach her and all of that kind
00:43:15 --> 00:43:22 of stuff and she only looking for serious people and and that's what she's really
00:43:22 --> 00:43:27 doing or is this a money grab for her you know because after all,
00:43:27 --> 00:43:30 obviously, she was making money on OnlyFans.
00:43:31 --> 00:43:33 It probably will start a trend, though.
00:43:35 --> 00:43:38 And it's probably, the trend is probably already out there, Leonard.
00:43:38 --> 00:43:42 Maybe she's just the first black one to talk about it.
00:43:42 --> 00:43:45 Well, Dave, now, you know, I mean, I've heard women say that.
00:43:45 --> 00:43:50 Now, I haven't heard $1, but I have heard things similar.
00:43:50 --> 00:43:54 And, you know, I'm kind of on the fence about it, but I have heard women say.
00:43:56 --> 00:43:59 And, you know, they may not call it a deposit, but, you know,
00:43:59 --> 00:44:04 Dave, I think the way a lot of women phrase it is a turnoff to men,
00:44:05 --> 00:44:06 but they're basically saying the same thing.
00:44:07 --> 00:44:10 Dave, imagine you meet a girl and she wants you to take her out.
00:44:11 --> 00:44:13 I'm sorry. And you want to take her out. You want to go on a date.
00:44:14 --> 00:44:18 And she said, oh, oh, Mr. Coker, if you want to go on a date with me,
00:44:18 --> 00:44:23 you need to pay to get my hair done and you need to pay to get my nails done.
00:44:23 --> 00:44:27 You know, so I've heard things similar to that.
00:44:27 --> 00:44:32 Now, we haven't heard of straight cash, but, you know, at the end of the day,
00:44:32 --> 00:44:33 they kind of add up to the same thing.
00:44:34 --> 00:44:38 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Basically, basically, you know, because they want an outfit.
00:44:38 --> 00:44:41 They want they probably want their nails done. They want their hair done.
00:44:42 --> 00:44:46 You could be spending some money right there. So, yeah.
00:44:46 --> 00:44:53 So, and keep in mind, this goes back to the old days when the male jigglers,
00:44:53 --> 00:44:58 they used to charge to go out with people too, you know, so,
00:44:59 --> 00:45:03 you know, or, you know, we have the escort services that, you know,
00:45:04 --> 00:45:10 charge for that kind of stuff, not necessarily for sex, but just to go out with somebody, you know?
00:45:11 --> 00:45:14 So this is interesting. And I guess
00:45:14 --> 00:45:20 we'll be hearing about this just to see how this works out for her and see if
00:45:20 --> 00:45:27 she does find her significant other this way or whether she's just going to
00:45:27 --> 00:45:31 keep dating and getting the money. Right.
00:45:32 --> 00:45:35 You know, so I guess we'll see. We'll see.
00:45:35 --> 00:45:39 And it's going to be interesting to find out how many people actually,
00:45:40 --> 00:45:48 tried to try to go out with her so but this is the world we're in it's all about
00:45:48 --> 00:45:52 the money man it's all about the money yeah yeah.
00:45:54 --> 00:46:00 That's all I got to say at the moment. So anyway, we'll keep it moving to our next story.
00:46:01 --> 00:46:09 Looks like President Trump fires Lisa Cook, the first black woman on the Federal
00:46:09 --> 00:46:16 Reserve Board under opening a new front end fight for control over the central bank.
00:46:16 --> 00:46:23 So it says, President Donald Trump fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook late Monday,
00:46:23 --> 00:46:30 a sharp escalation in his battle to exert greatness or greater control over
00:46:30 --> 00:46:38 what has long been considered an institution independent from day-to-day politics.
00:46:39 --> 00:46:44 President Donald Trump fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook late Monday,
00:46:44 --> 00:46:49 a sharp escalation in his battle to exert greater control over what has long
00:46:49 --> 00:46:54 been considered an institution dependent from day-to-day politics.
00:46:55 --> 00:47:01 Trump said in his letter posted on the Truth Social platform that he is firing
00:47:01 --> 00:47:06 Cook because of allegations that she committed mortgage fraud.
00:47:06 --> 00:47:13 Bill Pulte, a Trump appointee to the agency that regulates mortgages,
00:47:14 --> 00:47:18 mortgage giant Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
00:47:19 --> 00:47:21 made the accusations last week.
00:47:22 --> 00:47:28 Pulte alleged that Cook had claimed two primary residences in Ann Arbor,
00:47:28 --> 00:47:33 Michigan, and in Atlanta in 2021 to get better mortgage terms.
00:47:34 --> 00:47:40 Mortgage rates are often higher on second homes for those purchased to rent.
00:47:40 --> 00:47:45 The announcement came days after Cook said she wouldn't leave her post,
00:47:45 --> 00:47:49 despite Trump previously calling for her to resign.
00:47:50 --> 00:47:57 Fed board had seven members, meaning Trump's move could have deep economic and
00:47:57 --> 00:47:58 political ramifications.
00:48:00 --> 00:48:08 President Trump decided that this was the best move and that,
00:48:09 --> 00:48:14 you know, he said that it wasn't necessarily racially motivated,
00:48:15 --> 00:48:18 but he just felt that it was
00:48:18 --> 00:48:21 that it wasn't a good look on her
00:48:21 --> 00:48:24 behalf as far as you know having these
00:48:24 --> 00:48:29 mortgages and so forth now i know this is not the first time somebody has done
00:48:29 --> 00:48:34 something like this so why why do we think that he would go after her the way
00:48:34 --> 00:48:40 that he did well i'm sure it had to do with because he was a black woman and
00:48:40 --> 00:48:42 that he's been wanting to,
00:48:43 --> 00:48:52 gained control of that bank central bank since he's been in office so i just feel that you know.
00:48:54 --> 00:48:59 There's a lot of bullying going on and it seems like when he wants somebody
00:48:59 --> 00:49:06 out of the seat he gets him out the seat i mean have you seen anything different and especially,
00:49:07 --> 00:49:11 if it's if it's a black person it's just like you know there's a big thing right
00:49:11 --> 00:49:16 now with You know how he's been sending police into, you know,
00:49:16 --> 00:49:19 these different cities to police the city and so forth.
00:49:19 --> 00:49:22 He just recently did D.C., but he did Los Angeles and so forth.
00:49:23 --> 00:49:28 Did you know that most of these cities that he's sending these troops and everything
00:49:28 --> 00:49:32 into are ran by black leaders?
00:49:33 --> 00:49:33 Yeah.
00:49:33 --> 00:49:36 Is that a coincidence? I bet not.
00:49:38 --> 00:49:42 So what's your thoughts on all this? I mean, to be honest, I don't feel like
00:49:42 --> 00:49:43 anything is surprising.
00:49:44 --> 00:49:49 You know, I'd be like, you remember when Trump prior, well, either prior to
00:49:49 --> 00:49:52 when he got in office or right when he got in office, he had made the statement.
00:49:53 --> 00:50:00 He's done more than that. He's done more for the blacks than any other president in history. Right.
00:50:01 --> 00:50:05 And then we start with all the whitewashing stuff coming out of the history
00:50:05 --> 00:50:11 books, statues coming down. Black people being fired and let go.
00:50:12 --> 00:50:16 So, you know, it's just crazy that, well, it's not expected this,
00:50:16 --> 00:50:20 what you just mentioned, but it's just crazy that he would even say,
00:50:21 --> 00:50:23 you know, Dave, maybe he's right.
00:50:23 --> 00:50:28 He has done more for the blacks, you know, because all these policies,
00:50:28 --> 00:50:31 a lot of them are affecting the blacks more than anybody else.
00:50:34 --> 00:50:37 I think he's got more to the blacks. Yeah, definitely.
00:50:39 --> 00:50:42 And there's still some blacks that still swear by him. I mean,
00:50:42 --> 00:50:46 you know, it's not a good thing.
00:50:46 --> 00:50:53 You know, it's so much you can say. It's so much you want to say.
00:50:54 --> 00:50:58 And, you know, we tried, you know, he's the president of the United States.
00:50:59 --> 00:51:03 So because he holds the highest office in the United States,
00:51:04 --> 00:51:09 well and for years that was the highest office in the in the world you know
00:51:09 --> 00:51:15 at one point you know for him to do some of the things that he's done because
00:51:15 --> 00:51:17 he was just being malicious.
00:51:19 --> 00:51:26 And vindictive and retaliatory is it's really unbelievable and that he's able
00:51:26 --> 00:51:31 to get away with it it's like nobody's stopping them now i did hear that katanji
00:51:31 --> 00:51:34 our supreme court justice,
00:51:34 --> 00:51:41 she's fed up and she's saying something needs to be done you know because she
00:51:41 --> 00:51:49 says that he is definitely using his position to be a bully you know so i'm
00:51:49 --> 00:51:54 glad that somebody is looking at him that has, you know,
00:51:54 --> 00:52:00 credibility and power to be able to try to see about doing something about it.
00:52:01 --> 00:52:05 But, you know, you and I said, you know, at the beginning of his turn,
00:52:05 --> 00:52:10 do we still see him being in office for four years? I don't know. We'll see.
00:52:11 --> 00:52:15 We'll see what these Epstein files look like if we can get them released.
00:52:17 --> 00:52:20 He's going to do everything he can to keep them things from coming out.
00:52:20 --> 00:52:24 He wants to talk about he wants to release all the other stuff like the Kennedy
00:52:24 --> 00:52:26 stuff and all of that other stuff,
00:52:27 --> 00:52:32 but you don't want to talk about the meth team file. Right. But I just thought
00:52:32 --> 00:52:37 that was interesting because here it is, another black person in office that
00:52:37 --> 00:52:39 all of a sudden is losing their job.
00:52:39 --> 00:52:45 Now, whether she does, she did the crime and not, you know, it doesn't seem
00:52:45 --> 00:52:48 like it's that big of a deal to me, you know, but then,
00:52:49 --> 00:52:53 because I'm sure she's not the only one in that case that has done something
00:52:53 --> 00:52:55 like that, you know? Yeah.
00:52:55 --> 00:53:00 But I guess we'll see. We'll see what happens. And once again,
00:53:00 --> 00:53:02 Donald Trump being Donald Trump.
00:53:03 --> 00:53:11 So, and I'm sure there's going to be some legal blowback on this as far as I'm sure she's going to sue.
00:53:11 --> 00:53:17 Because they say she's not going away quietly. She does not want to leave her office. Right.
00:53:17 --> 00:53:21 I'm sure. Yeah. And you know how we do.
00:53:21 --> 00:53:31 You know. So, yeah. But anyway, Leonard's favorite part of the show, which is Dave's Corner.
00:53:32 --> 00:53:37 And I got a simple question for you. I was looking at something on the computer
00:53:37 --> 00:53:40 today, and this made me think about this.
00:53:40 --> 00:53:48 Give me your thoughts on what life would be like in the year 2035 in your eyes.
00:53:49 --> 00:53:50 So that's 10 years from now.
00:53:51 --> 00:53:55 What do you think life would be like at that point.
00:53:57 --> 00:54:01 So I mean it's so much because you know I was talking about AI at the beginning of the show,
00:54:02 --> 00:54:05 one I think we are going to have self driving cars
00:54:05 --> 00:54:09 I mean I got you oh wait hold on let me
00:54:09 --> 00:54:12 stop you hold on hold on I thought this was my question
00:54:12 --> 00:54:14 no no it is
00:54:14 --> 00:54:19 your question but I'm just saying you brought up self driving cars
00:54:19 --> 00:54:22 when I was coming when I came back up from downstate
00:54:22 --> 00:54:25 on Saturday I had parked over in
00:54:25 --> 00:54:28 the Acme parking lot I rode down with my cousin and he
00:54:28 --> 00:54:32 met me there and when we got back this
00:54:32 --> 00:54:35 car was pulling out of his parking space
00:54:35 --> 00:54:37 and rode right past us but it kind of stopped kind of funny
00:54:37 --> 00:54:41 right and let us go by and as
00:54:41 --> 00:54:43 we went by I looked over and I said wait hold on there's nobody in
00:54:43 --> 00:54:46 that car so the car was driving
00:54:46 --> 00:54:51 by itself it was a tesla and the
00:54:51 --> 00:54:56 people who the car belonged to was up towards the acne they had the car coming
00:54:56 --> 00:55:02 to them where they were but the so they were up by the cart where they put where
00:55:02 --> 00:55:07 you put the carts and put putting their cart away and they were having the car
00:55:07 --> 00:55:09 someone to the car to come to where they were.
00:55:10 --> 00:55:14 Okay, so you said that, so it made me think of that just then,
00:55:14 --> 00:55:16 seeing that car driving by itself.
00:55:16 --> 00:55:20 I said, hey, ain't nobody in there. Ain't nobody in there. I like that, right?
00:55:21 --> 00:55:26 But anyway, go ahead. Finish. So this is the reason why we're not going to have Dave's porn.
00:55:26 --> 00:55:32 Man, for me on, Dave just put in a whole story inside.
00:55:33 --> 00:55:37 I know. Well, you should have said this out driving cars. It made me think of it.
00:55:37 --> 00:55:43 Okay. And, you know, I think the biggest thing, I think human interaction is
00:55:43 --> 00:55:45 going to drop dramatically.
00:55:45 --> 00:55:52 So let's just say human interaction right now is at 80%. You know,
00:55:52 --> 00:55:55 I think in 10 years, there's got to be around 40.
00:55:55 --> 00:56:01 And I just say that there's going to be more things that we used to do where
00:56:01 --> 00:56:03 we would deal with somebody directly. You know, like before,
00:56:04 --> 00:56:07 you know, you call a company, you know, pay a bill. You know,
00:56:07 --> 00:56:09 you speak to someone over the phone.
00:56:09 --> 00:56:11 Now you're in the automated system.
00:56:12 --> 00:56:17 As I said, you know, going to restaurants, you know, where you order on a tablet
00:56:17 --> 00:56:21 or order through like an AI voice.
00:56:22 --> 00:56:26 You know, people ain't going to go to restaurants no more. Like food delivery
00:56:26 --> 00:56:33 is probably going to be huge. So, you know, I think it's going to be the decline of social interaction.
00:56:34 --> 00:56:37 And I saw something funny today.
00:56:37 --> 00:56:44 They said, you know, a lot of students now are studying for jobs that won't even be here in 10 years.
00:56:44 --> 00:56:51 And I definitely agree with that. You know, so like if it's anything with graphic design, planning.
00:56:53 --> 00:56:59 Writing, journalism, business consulting, you know, those are all stuff AI can do for darn near free.
00:57:00 --> 00:57:03 So that's what I envision to look like. What about you, Dave?
00:57:04 --> 00:57:09 Pretty much the same thing. I just think that we're probably going into the robotic age.
00:57:09 --> 00:57:16 I mean, you know, iRobot is probably going to be pretty prevalent.
00:57:16 --> 00:57:20 I mean, you're going to have robots walking amongst us.
00:57:21 --> 00:57:26 Being and working around. I really feel that we'll see more and more robots.
00:57:28 --> 00:57:34 Jobs will be different. You probably will have less humans involved in the job process.
00:57:35 --> 00:57:42 And I agree with the whole thing that you just said about those jobs that people
00:57:42 --> 00:57:44 are studying for, even with teachers.
00:57:44 --> 00:57:53 I mean, I think the teachers will be replaced by a lot of the electronic learning and AI stuff.
00:57:53 --> 00:58:00 So I think one major thing that could also happen, we might be in a money,
00:58:00 --> 00:58:04 actually moneyless society at that time.
00:58:05 --> 00:58:10 You know, the dollar bill will probably be obsolete.
00:58:11 --> 00:58:14 You know, paper currency could go away altogether.
00:58:16 --> 00:58:20 When you look at some of these movies and so forth you never see any money being
00:58:20 --> 00:58:24 changed when the futuristic stuff is always tapping this or tapping that you
00:58:24 --> 00:58:30 know you know so money is not going to be something i think it's going to be
00:58:30 --> 00:58:35 around much longer i don't know if we'll ever get to the flying card thing,
00:58:35 --> 00:58:39 but there's a possibility it could happen i think
00:58:39 --> 00:58:42 the cost of having something like that would be astronomical though
00:58:42 --> 00:58:45 and would people be able to really afford it
00:58:45 --> 00:58:49 you know so other than
00:58:49 --> 00:58:53 the bases and guys like that you know so but
00:58:53 --> 00:59:04 i think the major major thing that will cause us to suffer so to speak not necessarily
00:59:04 --> 00:59:12 not survive but just saying the verbal communication will suffer.
00:59:13 --> 00:59:20 Like you said earlier, I just think we will have less and less to talk about as far as to each other.
00:59:21 --> 00:59:27 And that's sad. That's scary because we see it already with our young people.
00:59:27 --> 00:59:32 You know, nobody really takes time to talk to each other. They just kind of,
00:59:32 --> 00:59:35 you know, send text messages or...
00:59:37 --> 00:59:41 Emails or whatever, chat GBT stuff or whatever the case may be.
00:59:41 --> 00:59:46 If they do talk, it might be a voice text where they ain't got to have a back and forth.
00:59:46 --> 00:59:52 You know what I mean? So I think that's where we'll be. Who will be running
00:59:52 --> 00:59:53 the country at that time?
00:59:55 --> 00:59:59 Hopefully we're not in a dictatorship at that time. Because that's the way it
00:59:59 --> 01:00:03 seems like it's heading right now. That's my thoughts.
01:00:04 --> 01:00:11 Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So you guys let us know what you guys are thinking as far as 10 years from now.
01:00:11 --> 01:00:15 I mean, we see how things are rapidly changing on, you know, from year to year.
01:00:16 --> 01:00:20 So 10 years from now could be a big difference from where we are right now.
01:00:21 --> 01:00:25 So give us your thoughts on what you're thinking about and let us know.
01:00:26 --> 01:00:30 All right. I guess that's it. We got through the show.
01:00:31 --> 01:00:35 We want to thank all you guys for listening and taking the time to tune in.
01:00:36 --> 01:00:40 We will be back with you again next tuesday and
01:00:40 --> 01:00:44 you got anything you want to add before we sign on that's just you know hopefully
01:00:44 --> 01:00:49 everyone has a fun safe labor day weekend oh yeah that's right we got labor
01:00:49 --> 01:00:54 day weekend coming up so then supposedly the official end of the summer so yeah
01:00:54 --> 01:00:59 definitely be safe if you're traveling let's be careful out there on that road okay,
01:01:00 --> 01:01:03 all right guys we'll talk to you next week have a good night.
01:01:12 --> 01:01:17 Tune in next week, ladies and gentlemen, for another edition of News and Trends
01:01:17 --> 01:01:19 with your hosts, Dave and Lynn.
01:01:26 --> 01:01:38 Music.