GOML LIVE #178 - COPS AND ROBBER "ACAB"
Episode Stats
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Summary
On this week's episode of the podcast, the boys discuss the recent death of a young African-American man in the hands of the Zimbabwean police, the controversial case of the late George "The Rock" Floyd, and the aftermath of his death. Plus, a special guest joins the boys to talk about his favorite Zambian rock band.
Transcript
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It is clearly your archetypal run-of-the-mill 70s Zambian rock band, right?
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Sylvia, what's your favorite Zambian rock band from the 70s?
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Maddie O'Dell, favorite Zambian family rock band.
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As soon as it's time to really put the pedal to the metal.
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I'm always amazed when anyone, anything in Africa works.
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Like, I guess this is racist, but when there's a building in Kenya, like a skyscraper, I'm like, who the fuck?
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Oh, we're getting into like all those late 60s, early 70s revolutionaries like AIM and the Black Panthers and everything, right?
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What's that strange sound we have clipping away?
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We didn't do much preparing, I guess, before we started the show.
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We have Tim Dickman, as usual, and his partner, Neil.
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Now, I know you homophobes jump to homosexuality when we say partner.
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You guys were together as friends for, what, 20 years?
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Well, you know, a lot of the situations you get in are, you know, how you present yourself.
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You may deflect some things, you may de-escalate some things right away that, you know, you never know what could have happened.
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You know, we got plenty of guns off the street, plenty of bad guys.
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Do you think Derek Chauvin could have de-escalated that situation better?
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I think the confrontation between him and George Floyd was pretty routine up until the point.
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He looked up and people were videotaping him while he was kneeling on his back and he was overdosing from fentanyl.
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He could have de-escalated it by just pretending to care that he didn't overdose and got him out of it.
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It shows me that police work is contingent on who's filming and how the media will run with it.
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I think George Floyd was going to die that day, whether he was kneeling on his back or not.