This Past Weekend with Theo Von - E281 Edit Content： Raise Your Hand

00:00:00.900 Now, I remember when I was young, they had, we played basketball on a select group in a really budget basketball team.

00:00:17.160 And after practice, sometime the coach would drive us home.

00:00:22.080 And, you know, if you had, if your mom had a little bit of money or she had maybe a Toyota Camry or maybe a, you know, a van or something like that, something nice, your mother come get you, scoop you up from the practice.

00:00:41.460 But the remainder of us children would, coach would give us a ride home.

00:00:47.520 So you hop in the coach's truck or you hop in the coach's, he had a van with a ladder on the back, you know, and it didn't go anywhere, but, you know, it's nice.

00:01:00.100 It is kind of, you know, it was nice to have.

00:01:03.940 And anyway, you know, you get to know the coach well when he drives you home from practice.

00:01:10.640 And sometimes he would take us to do stuff, you know, he would take us to help him do some work for him giving us those rides.

00:01:22.180 So one weekend, he drove us out into the country somewhere to, we were helping him move something and loading things into a truck or something.

00:01:31.220 And it was me and this young fella, Boo Boo Tyson.

00:01:36.980 And this was a black gentleman and his name was Boo Boo Tyson. 0.50

00:01:40.060 And his brother had tried to burn his legs off, but he, he didn't, he still had his legs. 0.69

00:01:47.300 He didn't, you know, he, it didn't happen, you know.

00:01:52.100 And he had one leg that was a little hot, you know, but he was, he was fine and he was a friend of mine.

00:01:59.040 And we're driving along this road one time and on a highway, me and him in the back of the truck and maybe they had a, you know, a lawnmower back there or a little canteen of diesel or something, you know, maybe a jug of sipping water or something back there with it.

00:02:18.600 And we drove probably in the back of this little truck, this little Japanese truck, maybe a Korean truck, a little K truck, Daihatsu or something or, you know, Shaizatsu or some kind of little, just a little truck, man.

00:02:37.340 And it sounded like under the hood, they had about 7,000 Korean people just, you know, just straining hard to keep it going.

00:02:46.660 You know, one of them little Shaizatsus or something, you know what I'm talking about, little truck.

00:02:52.180 And we've been going along the highway and, you know, and Boo Boo's looking at me and he's looking at me and he just starts kind of just really looking at me kind of funny.

00:03:07.620 And at one point, the highway came to a stop sign or intersection with another highway and so coach was driving and we're sitting in the back of the, in the open cab.

00:03:21.880 And he said to me, he said, hey, he said, hey, Theo, what's it like to have your hair blow in the wind?

00:03:28.300 And I'd never thought about that, you know, cause he had a high tight fade cut and, uh, and I'd never thought about that, man. 0.99

00:03:45.640 And I said, man, what's it like to have your penis blow in the wind? 0.99

00:03:50.840 And, uh, and we died laughing, man. 1.00

00:03:57.220 The two of us just died laughing.

00:04:01.040 And, um, and man, it was, I don't know, I miss being young, man.

00:04:12.520 I really miss being young.

00:04:14.200 Let's go.

00:04:20.840 I'm just sitting on your front porch.

00:04:33.660 Wondering how could I be so far from my home.

00:04:39.560 Hey, meow.

00:04:41.720 And my mind is somewhere else, but when I find it, I'll patch up where it's been blown.

00:04:50.840 Now, I'm just floating on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.

00:04:58.920 I must be cornerstone.

00:05:04.160 Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.

00:05:09.560 I can feel it in my bones, but it's gonna take a little time for me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind.

00:05:26.360 Shine that light on me.

00:05:29.360 I'll sit and tell you my story.

00:05:37.000 Shine on me.

00:05:41.320 And I will find a song.

00:05:44.540 I will sing it just for you.

00:05:47.820 Good to be here.

00:06:01.100 I am.

00:06:03.080 I have me a little London broil.

00:06:05.740 Shout out London.

00:06:06.840 Shout out England.

00:06:08.960 You know, for getting meats over here.

00:06:10.940 We just getting through the core of it, and everybody's, you don't know what's gonna come in.

00:06:15.160 And you see the articles.

00:06:18.340 You see the article in the news.

00:06:20.200 Say, hey, meat's gone.

00:06:21.840 No more meat.

00:06:23.380 All the meat, you know, spoiled.

00:06:25.180 All the meat fell off a boat.

00:06:27.640 You know, birds, buzzards stole the meat.

00:06:30.020 They just, every day, something else happened.

00:06:33.400 The chain, the meat chain, it's done.

00:06:36.080 There will no, you will never see any more meat.

00:06:40.760 And then, bam, here we are.

00:06:46.340 You know, one week after the disease is, if it ever was a disease, whatever, I don't know.

00:06:53.360 One week after it's gone, and London's hooking us up with that hardy rump hitter, bro, that shank. 1.00

00:07:02.100 Because it's, you know, it's just nice to have.

00:07:07.080 So, shout out England.

00:07:08.120 Shout out UK for getting us those meats over here. 0.98

00:07:11.520 Had that London brawl.

00:07:14.160 Set that thing up in that crock pot.

00:07:17.660 Mmm.

00:07:19.780 Gotta cry.

00:07:21.160 You know, and I had, this is my second crock pot.

00:07:24.540 The first one, too small.

00:07:27.460 You could barely do two bacons in it.

00:07:31.740 You almost had to do one bacon at a time.

00:07:35.960 Because first time I tried, you know, I was using my crock.

00:07:40.060 I threw about maybe nine pieces of bacon in there.

00:07:42.940 And I left.

00:07:44.740 I went and drove around for a couple hours.

00:07:46.820 I wanted to see if the thing worked.

00:07:48.180 And I come back.

00:07:51.220 And, uh, and it just hadn't really, it had done a little bit at the bottom. 0.99

00:07:58.180 So then I realized, damn, I need one slice at a time in this little bastard. 0.99

00:08:02.020 It was just like a dam. 1.00

00:08:03.020 It was like, the pot on it was so small.

00:08:07.000 It was like somebody, it was like one person's kind of medium hand in a cup.

00:08:13.060 Like cupped up, like they're trying to sip water to, you know, give a little water to a dog or something with their hand.

00:08:20.780 Make a, make a shape like a little baby.

00:08:23.060 Like half a banana with their hand.

00:08:25.960 And give a dog that moisture. 0.66

00:08:28.880 Um.

00:08:30.280 But anyway, now I got that. 0.98

00:08:31.640 Now I got a real, just a damn, a bathtub for some meat. 0.98

00:08:35.760 So I threw that London in there. 0.99

00:08:37.920 You know, threw some, some, uh, couple pot tots.

00:08:43.060 Some of them orange, uh, you know, veggies, those phalanges, bruh.

00:08:50.860 Those beta carotenes, bruh.

00:08:52.500 Them carats, son.

00:08:54.740 Put them in that pot. 1.00

00:08:56.620 And let that bad bastard do its work. 1.00

00:09:01.020 What else? 1.00

00:09:02.160 Um.

00:09:03.620 I watched the fights this weekend.

00:09:06.140 Uh.

00:09:06.960 Not on the news, not on, or on Twitter.

00:09:09.580 I'm talking about UFC.

00:09:11.400 I watched the UFC.

00:09:12.460 It was, it was enjoyable.

00:09:14.920 Shout out, uh, Sugar Sean out there.

00:09:18.780 Busting them down. 0.98

00:09:20.600 Hitting them with the frickin' straight up glucose. 0.99

00:09:23.460 To the chin, bruh. 0.99

00:09:26.180 Um.

00:09:26.580 Oh, I enjoyed watching, uh, Cody Stamen, too.

00:09:30.560 Young fella.

00:09:32.240 And it was just so sad.

00:09:33.740 He had lost his brother the week before.

00:09:36.480 And, and he was fighting Brian, I think, killer her.

00:09:41.460 And I thought he showed him a ton of respect as well.

00:09:44.140 I mean, just, uh, you know, uh, both of those guys.

00:09:48.680 Um.

00:09:50.120 But man, to get out there and fight after, you know, just a family tragedy.

00:09:54.700 To be able to still show up, uh, for yourself and for your team and, and for your brother's spirit.

00:10:02.760 I thought it was, oh, it was really touching, man.

00:10:05.720 It was real, real touching.

00:10:07.840 Um.

00:10:08.240 Um, what else is going on?

00:10:12.400 Not, not, you know, everything, really, or nothing, or, you know, we're back in business.

00:10:19.080 It seemed like they got some restaurants open.

00:10:22.920 Um.

00:10:24.860 And, you know, they've, you know, this whole, this past weekend was a lot of, you know, a lot of unrest.

00:10:31.240 In the media, in the news, and, um, and we had a lot of voicemails about it.

00:10:37.020 And I want to talk about some of it.

00:10:38.400 And, and, um, and, you know, I want, I want to say if, if you, if you come to this podcast and you, you know, if you are, you know, this isn't like a controversial type of place here.

00:10:53.380 You know, if, if you come here listening to, you know, um, oh, what, Theo's going to say something wrong or we're going to catch you.

00:11:03.580 This is the, you know, it's a type of environment where people are, you know, uh, you know, where I'm going to prove to him my point or something like that.

00:11:12.540 And, man, I'm not, I, I don't have any answers.

00:11:19.620 I don't have any answers.

00:11:22.240 You know, and, um, and I don't know how people can 100% have an answer.

00:11:30.920 You know, cause the time is really time is kind of a long question.

00:11:41.260 So if you, you know, but I'm just saying, if you, you know, and I look, there's a lot of great people in here and just, I don't know.

00:11:53.940 I've just gotten a lot of social media comments and stuff this past weekend.

00:11:57.560 And if you, I don't know if you come in here to say, oh, I know better than you, or you don't know, or this, you've already won.

00:12:07.600 I'm not trying to be right.

00:12:11.660 You know, I'm trying to be alive.

00:12:13.320 I'm trying, um, I'm trying to stay in contact with, with life, I think, and stay in contact with just the long question that is life.

00:12:29.840 You know, um, and this show, you know, everybody's welcome on this show.

00:12:35.580 You know, you could be Arabic. 0.98

00:12:37.420 You could be, uh, you know, you could be homosexual. 0.99

00:12:41.320 Homosexual, you could be, uh, in a wheelchair. 1.00

00:12:45.400 You could be from Spain. 1.00

00:12:46.840 You could be black. 0.92

00:12:49.440 You could be, uh, you know, um, what else? 0.99

00:12:57.200 You could be a spirit.

00:12:58.500 You could be a, uh, uh, vapor.

00:13:01.720 I don't, you could be anything. 0.70

00:13:03.040 Native American, un-Native American.

00:13:06.480 Um, you know, you could be whatever you want.

00:13:10.000 You could be, uh, tired.

00:13:13.040 You could be menthol, anything.

00:13:15.320 You could be somebody who welded their legs together on accident and shop and now has to play a, a mermaid every year.

00:13:23.440 You know, in a local play.

00:13:25.500 Everybody's welcome here, man.

00:13:28.500 You know, I just want to let you know that you could be anything.

00:13:31.340 You know, Spanish, Mexican, Latino, uh, Latina, you know, Latina, Latina, Latina Vida, bro.

00:13:42.120 You know, that female Christmas. 1.00

00:13:44.100 Baby, you could be anything.

00:13:45.480 And you're welcome here, man.

00:13:46.580 You know that.

00:13:47.160 Um, but yeah, a lot going on out there.

00:13:51.380 And, uh, and so, yeah, thank you guys for showing up.

00:13:54.880 A lot of people had calls that came in about it.

00:13:57.360 Um, and so I want to get to some of it, uh, get to some of those calls, man, and just kind of talk about what people are talking about a little.

00:14:05.240 Um, here are people's points of views.

00:14:08.960 Um, and what's my experience been like this past weekend?

00:14:14.760 Uh, you know, I had a rough instance.

00:14:17.760 We, um, you know, the Rat King came to visit because obviously, you know, your boy Tom Shug, your boy Tom Sugar Knight over there is, uh, he wanted some.

00:14:32.120 Um, and so he got some, you know, cause that's how it is sometimes.

00:14:39.400 If you want some, then you got some, you know, knock, knock.

00:14:43.720 Who's there?

00:14:44.600 Some, because that's what she's about to get.

00:14:49.840 Um, and, and I'm on Twitter the other day and, uh, and I didn't know how bad, uh, I mean, I, I mean, Twitter is just, uh, it's obviously a real story.

00:15:02.120 And, you know, I see Drew Brees in there cause I follow all saints stuff.

00:15:08.860 And so Drew Brees comes up in my feed.

00:15:10.700 And so I, I'll click on the video and I'm doing something.

00:15:16.180 And next thing you know, I hear Brees talking about how he supports the American flag.

00:15:21.040 So I share it, you know, I retweet it, put some strong arms with it and just retweet it.

00:15:27.220 Well, you know, we're doing work about an hour later.

00:15:31.100 I get a text, uh, from Brendan shout, you know, um, or Baskin Robbins, whatever people call them, different nicknames.

00:15:40.320 And he says, uh, Hey man, people are upset about your tweet.

00:15:44.500 And so I look at it and, and I didn't realize that, um, that Drew Brees had been talking about people's reaction to Colin Kaepernick Nealon.

00:15:55.200 You know, I, I didn't watch the question from the guy in the beginning from Yahoo, which I don't, I do not like.

00:16:03.700 I used to work for Yahoo, but I don't like their website, man. 0.98

00:16:06.680 I think it's a bunch of garbage.

00:16:08.040 Um, but, uh, but anyway, next thing I know, I look on there and it's like, Oh man, people, people that I know are just dragging me through the mud, just dragging me through the mud, man. 0.94

00:16:24.360 And, um, and it was just kind of crazy, you know?

00:16:28.440 And so I just took my tweet down, you know, I didn't feel like dealing with, I didn't feel like dealing with it.

00:16:37.660 Um, you know, I watched the video fully that Drew Brees had up and I thought, man, he, he could have expressed himself differently.

00:16:46.560 Who knows if he heard the question fully, he's over, you know, the things over Skype or Zoom, you know, I don't know.

00:16:51.900 He, you know, he could have probably expressed his answer differently.

00:16:57.120 Um, but people were ripping him a new head and I had no idea, you know, I'm a Saints fan.

00:17:02.940 I see Drew Brees, um, he's talking about supporting the flag.

00:17:06.980 And so I share, um, you know, that's where I'm at.

00:17:10.180 That's where I'm at with it.

00:17:11.720 I didn't, uh, I didn't know it was in correlation to Colin Kaepernick, et cetera.

00:17:16.600 Anyway, so next thing you know, there's just so much hateful stuff.

00:17:20.460 People that I know just ripping me up.

00:17:23.140 And so, uh, I just realized, man, I'm some of this social, social media stuff is just, it's too much.

00:17:31.820 You know, it's not a place where you can converse.

00:17:35.320 I thought about saying, oh, uh, you know, I'm a Saints fan.

00:17:40.540 And, you know, I just saw the part where he said that he's excited, you know, that he respects the flag and why he likes and why he supports it.

00:17:48.720 Uh, but people don't want it.

00:17:51.400 There's no, there's no discussion on Twitter.

00:17:54.160 And there's really probably, it's really tough to discuss anything anymore on social media.

00:17:57.940 There's really not a lot of discussion.

00:18:00.520 There's not a lot of conversation.

00:18:02.140 Um, you know, uh, I had another rough experience this week.

00:18:09.480 Everybody's posting black squares.

00:18:11.600 And this was, um, and people say, well, you could stand, you know, you could fight for yourself and this and that.

00:18:19.080 I'm not gonna, I just don't want to spend all day doing that.

00:18:22.280 You know, I don't want to be in a place where I can't, where there's no conversation.

00:18:30.220 You know, I grew up my whole childhood not knowing how to express myself or when I could or what, you know, when it was okay to talk, you know, or have feelings about something or how to express them.

00:18:42.560 Um, and I'm still not great at it.

00:18:46.140 And, uh, but to be in a vacuum where you can't even raise your hand.

00:18:55.680 Uh, that's what it feels like.

00:18:57.260 It feels like you're like Twitter feels like a place you can't even raise your hand.

00:19:00.940 So, um, anyway, so then the same thing, a similar thing kind of happened with the black square.

00:19:07.440 People put up the black square and, um, and I put up the black square and I, I felt, you know, I support black lives matter.

00:19:16.860 I support any lives matter.

00:19:18.420 I support everybody's life.

00:19:20.640 Um, you know, I, I felt bad because it became this thing where

00:19:30.940 everybody's doing it.

00:19:32.780 You know, when I started looking at people that I admire, I said, are people that I admire doing this?

00:19:37.720 Do I need to do this?

00:19:39.180 Is this a real thing?

00:19:40.420 I don't know.

00:19:42.160 You know, I don't know.

00:19:43.200 I don't know what to do.

00:19:45.660 Um, and I probably should have just done nothing because I don't like to be forced to,

00:19:53.440 you know, I like to be unique.

00:19:56.760 You know, I was trying to think of a way, how can I support my black friends and support

00:20:00.900 black community and support the fight?

00:20:03.360 The fact that I don't think that anybody should struggle at the hands of police brutality.

00:20:11.960 Um, and I realized that that's what I didn't like about the black square is that it didn't 1.00

00:20:18.800 give me a chance to be unique.

00:20:20.540 It didn't give me a chance to be, you know, kind of find a unique way to express myself.

00:20:27.380 Um, and then I got messages from people, uh, from people of color.

00:20:32.800 I don't know if that's the right term.

00:20:34.760 Um, telling me that I had done it wrong, that I didn't do the right hashtagging. 0.74

00:20:39.880 Uh, and so I just said, screw it, man. 1.00

00:20:42.640 I'm not dealing with this shit. 1.00

00:20:43.760 I'm not dealing with something where you have to get it. 0.99

00:20:50.560 Like you can't even have any, you're a millimeter off from the exact way something's supposed to

00:20:58.700 be done and you didn't, and you're wrong.

00:21:02.420 It just didn't rest well with me, man.

00:21:04.780 And, um, so that's kind of, you know, how I ended up feeling about a lot of the social media

00:21:10.700 stuff.

00:21:10.980 I had a lot of people ask me about it.

00:21:13.360 Um, you know, and I'm not going to argue with the, with the lady. 0.92

00:21:17.460 I'm not going to argue with, uh, you know, I don't know.

00:21:23.100 I don't like feeling, um, forced.

00:21:26.400 I don't like feeling forced.

00:21:28.060 I like to try and be unique.

00:21:31.560 Um, so those were just some of my thoughts.

00:21:34.620 I'm not saying that those thoughts are right.

00:21:36.340 I'm not saying that you have to do anything or you don't just kind of telling you what

00:21:40.300 happened with me.

00:21:40.960 That was kind of my experience.

00:21:42.520 Um, uh, and it, and it upset me that people that I knew didn't call me to say, Hey man,

00:21:48.680 this, do you, do you don't understand what's going on here?

00:21:51.260 Like this, you know, people are upset because of this or it didn't, they just like, just hung

00:21:59.260 me out to dry.

00:21:59.820 Like they were trying to use me to get their clout up, their online clout up.

00:22:03.600 And that hurt my feelings, man.

00:22:06.860 Uh, so I just said, I don't have to say anything, but then you see stuff that says silence is,

00:22:15.160 uh, I don't even know.

00:22:18.240 It just became so impossible.

00:22:22.840 Um, um, it just made me realize the best way for me to be involved is to be involved in

00:22:35.280 practices in my life.

00:22:37.700 Uh, that this stuff online, a lot of this stuff is, it's not even for a movement.

00:22:44.880 It's for the individual sometimes is for people trying to look a certain way.

00:22:52.340 That's even why, well, you know, when I thought about it too, about the black square, my, yes,

00:22:57.380 I support black lives.

00:22:59.420 Now I would never want to see anybody hurt.

00:23:05.320 Um, you know, uh, so I called my friends. 0.89

00:23:10.580 I called my friends that are black.

00:23:13.280 That's what I did.

00:23:15.620 And I spoke with them and I heard their voices and I talked with them and I let them know that

00:23:21.740 I love them.

00:23:23.640 That's what I did.

00:23:25.660 I think that's about four guys, uh, that I spoke to.

00:23:30.420 And, um, and it was nice, man.

00:23:35.140 It was nice.

00:23:36.080 It was nice to know that, uh, on a, in a real place and a one-on-one connection place,

00:23:43.720 everything was pretty comfortable.

00:23:47.220 And so that's, you know, that's really what I've been doing.

00:23:55.900 And I know a lot of people had a lot of different thoughts.

00:23:58.820 Um, you know, but I spoke to my friends.

00:24:02.520 That's what I spoke to them and, uh, and I enjoyed it.

00:24:07.700 And, you know, there was some laughter, there was some, you know, touching moments and just

00:24:11.740 checking in with each other.

00:24:14.220 Um, you know, that's kind of, so that's sort of how, you know, this is a tumultuous weekend

00:24:21.920 for a lot of people.

00:24:23.420 Um, and again, I'm not telling you how to live your life or do anything.

00:24:26.640 Uh, but I am saying that this podcast is a place where people can communicate and it's

00:24:33.800 not, you could raise your hand here.

00:24:38.800 You know, this isn't a place where you're not allowed to speak or to think or to feel.

00:24:44.680 Um, you know, uh, cause I don't want it to be that for me.

00:24:51.200 You know, I was scared to even do this episode a little bit.

00:24:54.140 I'm scared to talk about some of this kind of stuff because so many people, you get one

00:24:59.380 word wrong, you're going to hell, you're doing this. 1.00

00:25:02.800 You with the devil now, boy, you hate black people. 1.00

00:25:06.940 You hate leopards. 1.00

00:25:08.400 Somebody said you hate leopards. 1.00

00:25:10.640 If you don't get this right, what the fuck are you talking about? 1.00

00:25:16.660 Huh? 0.98

00:25:17.140 You know, just, uh, just, it just, um, I just don't want to play that game.

00:25:26.480 I don't want to live in that game.

00:25:27.460 I don't want to live in that space.

00:25:30.140 Uh, and that's the space that's created online a lot.

00:25:34.760 You know, when I got out of there and I got into the real humanity, uh, and checked in with

00:25:42.500 my friends, things were, it was, it was a lot safer than that, than, uh, than the world where

00:25:49.660 they want you to believe that everything is, is, uh, all verklempt, you know, we're lopsided

00:25:56.320 or that the whole world has flat tires on it, that, that every human heart is rolling around

00:26:02.560 with a flat tire on it.

00:26:03.740 I don't believe that.

00:26:04.540 Uh, you guys had some thoughts, man.

00:26:07.220 Let's get into a couple of them.

00:26:08.820 Sorry to be serioso on here. 1.00

00:26:12.180 Uh, but sometimes, you know, shit hits you, bruh. 1.00

00:26:16.320 Sometimes you running down a block and a turd catches you in the neck, you know, and that's 1.00

00:26:23.000 God, bruh.

00:26:25.700 What's up, Theo?

00:26:26.740 This is Mike.

00:26:28.460 Hey, brother, I just wanted to give you, uh, a couple comments about our current environment.

00:26:33.080 Thank you for calling, Mike.

00:26:35.720 I appreciate it, man.

00:26:36.820 Onward.

00:26:37.680 Give you a little bit of a perspective from, uh, a police officer up here in California.

00:26:43.440 Hey, man, first of all, I just want to say that, uh, you know, what took place out in

00:26:48.740 Minneapolis with this officer, it's pretty disturbing.

00:26:53.020 Um, and I'll tell you on behalf of everyone I know in the law enforcement community, that's

00:26:59.500 just not how we do business.

00:27:00.880 Um, you know, we, we're governed by strict policies and procedures that guide how we have

00:27:12.620 to use force against somebody that's a combative.

00:27:14.980 And I'll tell you, man, under most circumstances, we try to use the least amount of force as

00:27:24.740 possible for every given situation.

00:27:28.220 Oh, yeah, brother.

00:27:28.840 LF, baby.

00:27:29.600 Least force, baby.

00:27:30.760 Onward.

00:27:31.020 Um, our goal is definitely not to, um, to hurt anybody.

00:27:37.100 Um, but unfortunately, those things happen.

00:27:40.460 And, uh, it's just sad, man, that, uh, you know, that we take a hit on that, on one guy's

00:27:48.740 action.

00:27:49.600 Our whole, uh, law enforcement family has to take a hit on that.

00:27:53.080 Um, I guess the most important thing and the message I really want to get out there, man,

00:27:57.500 is that's just, that's just not who we are.

00:28:01.200 There you go right there.

00:28:03.500 And that's an adult man right there.

00:28:05.920 That's an adult male police officer.

00:28:08.840 Uh, I'm assuming could also be female. 1.00

00:28:11.860 You do not know a hundred percent.

00:28:13.180 I don't want to jump to conclusions, but it could be Mike, you know, female Mike, Miss 0.83

00:28:18.920 Mike, um, but thank you for the call.

00:28:23.080 Yeah, I'm sure that's really tough.

00:28:25.780 You know, you applied for a job, you're part of a group, you know, it's just, I mean, it's

00:28:34.160 heartbreaking when one person ruins things for people, you know, it's heartbreaking.

00:28:39.540 And, um, and that's gotta be tough, man.

00:28:43.820 It's gotta be tough for you as well.

00:28:45.780 You know, being on, you know, being at a job where you have to go out and you're, you

00:28:51.320 know, your responsibility is so much heavier than somebody that's going to do, well, electricity

00:28:59.520 is pretty, that's, that's pretty hardcore.

00:29:03.140 Whenever, you know, you know, voltage is basically the burglary right there. 0.99

00:29:08.280 And that shit's about to trying to steal your soul every time you were around a cable. 0.97

00:29:11.980 So, but yeah, like, uh, somebody that works at the pool or somebody that works at a, um, 0.99

00:29:17.720 dairy, you know, they got an easier path than, than, uh, than a police officer, man.

00:29:25.920 Thank you for the call, uh, Mike.

00:29:28.560 And thank you for, uh, thank you for your service, man.

00:29:31.120 Um, let's take another call here.

00:29:33.260 Here we go.

00:29:33.740 9-8-5-6-6-4-9-5-0-3, uh.

00:29:39.780 Hey, what it do, Tio?

00:29:41.720 It's your boy, Kenny, from the far Florida.

00:29:44.760 What's up, Kenny, from the beach, baby?

00:29:46.860 Sandcastle Kenny, son.

00:29:49.300 Drawbridge Kenny down there.

00:29:51.300 Baby, sitting them beauties in them alligators, baby. 1.00

00:29:55.320 Them Spanish alligators. 0.99

00:29:57.000 Bam, bam.

00:29:59.200 Onward.

00:29:59.680 Just bringing up, uh, what's going on in the world today, you know?

00:30:04.680 Obviously, you see, a lot of people think it's white versus black and whatnot, but in

00:30:09.380 actuality, you know, it's, it's cop versus people of color, people of oppression and whatnot. 0.88

00:30:17.280 So, a lot of people like to combat, like, all right, blue lives matter. 0.99

00:30:23.380 Like, okay, black lives matter, you know, stuff like that.

00:30:26.640 But, they're trying to make it seem like blue lives, like cops are a race.

00:30:32.020 Like, they wake up blue.

00:30:33.500 Like, they are Smurfs or something. 1.00

00:30:35.040 You know what I'm saying?

00:30:36.000 Papa Smurf out here.

00:30:37.400 And, speaking of which, the Smurfs, low-key, I think, was a racist TV show.

00:30:42.980 Because, if you look, they're all the same color.

00:30:45.240 They're all wearing white hoods.

00:30:46.940 Papa Smurf, man, he got the red hood on.

00:30:49.440 Okay, but that's a whole different story.

00:30:51.400 So, yeah, they're acting like, you know, cops are a race.

00:30:55.680 Because, they don't wake up black, you know, they don't wake up brown. 0.99

00:31:00.420 They don't wake up Latino, Hispanic. 1.00

00:31:02.760 You know, they, it's a choice for them to have that job and whatnot.

00:31:07.500 So.

00:31:08.260 I appreciate that, man.

00:31:09.660 Yeah, that's a good, yes, people do try to make it real racial. 0.82

00:31:16.900 You know, people do.

00:31:18.080 People try to make it racial.

00:31:19.400 People, yeah, yeah, cops wake up.

00:31:23.540 And, they're all different colored people, too.

00:31:25.980 Cops come in all different shades.

00:31:28.520 You know, the George Floyd, the gentlemen that, that took his life.

00:31:33.260 I mean, they had the main man.

00:31:35.360 And, he looked white.

00:31:36.560 He's a white guy, I think.

00:31:38.360 Chauvin.

00:31:38.780 And, then, they had, then, they had another guy, a black gentleman.

00:31:46.140 And, then, they had another white tall guy.

00:31:49.920 Maybe Dutch, practically. 0.63

00:31:51.780 And, then, a Vietnamese guy.

00:31:55.560 Tom Tom, I think.

00:31:56.840 So, they have a multitude, you know, it's, you know, it's, it's, yeah, it's not, it's not like it's white cops versus people of color.

00:32:14.800 You know, and, I believe, yes, some people try to turn it into that.

00:32:19.420 It's, it's police brutality.

00:32:21.860 And, I think it happens sometimes because, and I could be wrong, and I probably am wrong.

00:32:30.440 But, I think it happens sometimes because you have more poverty in diverse communities.

00:32:37.900 You know, and I'm sorry to say that if you, you know, if you are extremely diverse.

00:32:42.980 And, it, you know, it hurts you to hear that.

00:32:45.280 You know, I don't mean anything by it.

00:32:46.880 I'm just, you know, and statistically, that's, it's tougher.

00:32:51.240 It's tougher.

00:32:54.620 So, in the end, I think it even comes even into a poverty, a class issue.

00:33:00.140 You know, I don't know if you see a lot of wealthy black and Latino people having trouble with the, as much trouble with the police.

00:33:12.140 Like, actual to the point where you're seeing death.

00:33:15.520 Now, you still probably have more racial profiling.

00:33:22.000 But, I don't know.

00:33:22.820 You know, I don't know all the statistics on that.

00:33:26.000 And, I'm not trying to get into that.

00:33:27.820 You know, but, yeah, it's interesting.

00:33:31.680 I don't know if we, if making it out to be a race thing doesn't help.

00:33:34.700 I think, and there's two things that's going on.

00:33:36.740 You know, you see a lot of race stuff going on.

00:33:38.560 And, you see things that are just really focused on police brutality.

00:33:45.020 This next gentleman that called in. 0.99

00:33:47.160 Damn, this hat is tight, man. 0.99

00:33:49.560 My hair is so long right now. 1.00

00:33:52.120 I got to get a dang cut, man.

00:33:54.140 But, I appreciate you calling, man.

00:34:02.340 You know, this next gentleman called in.

00:34:06.800 And, this guy had a suggestion that I thought was super interesting.

00:34:09.540 Let's take it right here, guy.

00:34:12.060 Yo, what up, Theo?

00:34:13.920 Rich.

00:34:14.960 Raleigh, North Carolina.

00:34:16.840 Rich out of Raleigh.

00:34:18.360 Raleigh rich, huh?

00:34:19.700 Rich got that cash.

00:34:20.840 Rich got them coins, baby.

00:34:22.160 Bank roll, Richie, huh?

00:34:25.380 Richie with that bread, huh?

00:34:28.220 Stacks on stacks on stacks.

00:34:30.480 Rickety rackets.

00:34:32.620 Racks.

00:34:33.780 Richie rickety rackety racks.

00:34:37.900 He is Richie Racks.

00:34:39.740 Richie with them racks.

00:34:43.160 Onward.

00:34:44.520 Wow.

00:34:45.720 Hey, look.

00:34:46.500 There's a former 82nd Airborne Baricrooper served in Iraq twice at the end of San Luis.

00:34:54.920 I'm done with angry mobs.

00:34:57.280 And, unfortunately, that's how you calm down disobedience.

00:35:07.040 It was with a hammer.

00:35:10.660 And, um, people don't like that.

00:35:14.500 But, what I was going to say was, you know, I'm not a mayor or a police chief or anything,

00:35:18.980 but you have female detainees, female insurgents, to just prevent any kind of investigation or anything, you know, 1.00

00:35:31.780 misbehavioral, that may happen, we had a female that conducted the search, you know, that handled that. 1.00

00:35:39.860 And maybe that's what, you know, it has to come down to is if there's a black, you just need more black cops. 0.99

00:35:47.420 Black cops. 0.98

00:35:48.580 Black cops deal with the black people, perpetrators, whatever. 0.99

00:35:55.100 Black lives matter. 0.98

00:35:58.940 Gang, brother, thank you for the call.

00:36:02.140 That's, that's, that's, um, you know, that's something to think about there.

00:36:06.760 I was thinking about this as well, man.

00:36:08.380 What if, yeah, you call a police station, you say, hey, you know, I have, you know, I got two white guys over here.

00:36:16.160 I got a, you know, I got one Latino and I got a, you know, one Neapolitan, you know.

00:36:23.960 And that's who, so that's, they send you that, that style of officers.

00:36:28.540 Then you have, just to find a way to take the race element out of it. 0.79

00:36:34.220 You know, to take it and to make it not a, you know, to make it not a racial thing.

00:36:40.480 Um, it'd be interesting.

00:36:45.020 You know, you're like, uh, hey, can you send somebody over?

00:36:48.520 Um, yeah, I need a guy.

00:36:53.080 I got a Dutch, somebody over here that's Dutch.

00:36:55.780 And I got, uh, mm, two Viettes over here, you know, throwing rocks. 1.00

00:37:01.640 And they're like, oh, shit, we understaffed over here. 0.99

00:37:04.500 All we got is, you know, we have a black guy and we have a, uh, Croatian female. 0.99

00:37:11.800 I don't think we can help you.

00:37:13.200 We can't help you tonight, you know.

00:37:15.200 That'd be crazy, wouldn't it?

00:37:16.520 But would that be interesting if they had, um, you know, if they had certain, uh, ethnicity

00:37:26.000 authors, you, uh, officers, you match it up.

00:37:28.920 You match this, you match that.

00:37:31.960 You know, I'm just thinking outside of the box here.

00:37:34.520 Thinking of different ways because if, if things continue to be a problem, then, then you have to

00:37:43.040 try and, you know, think of some different options.

00:37:47.760 You know, like I used to work at that place.

00:37:49.540 What was that place called in Charleston?

00:37:51.040 It was called, uh, Frozen Options.

00:37:54.020 And you could get a different something, a little, you know, frozen candy or a frozen, uh,

00:37:59.980 ice treat or something.

00:38:01.820 Get you something.

00:38:02.700 Get your little cousin a little, you know, grape, uh, something.

00:38:07.220 Um, a little Eskimo sour sauce or something, sipper.

00:38:14.600 Um, what else we got, man?

00:38:18.260 Let's hit this other call that came in right here, gang.

00:38:21.940 Hey, what's up, Theo?

00:38:23.340 Uh, my name is Eric.

00:38:24.880 Uh, I live in Sacramento, California.

00:38:27.540 Uh, saw your post on Instagram, you know.

00:38:29.640 Thank you for calling, Eric.

00:38:31.200 And yeah, I posted on Instagram if you have thoughts about what's going on to give a call,

00:38:34.720 man.

00:38:34.920 And I know, I mean, after I found it so hard to try and, there's just not a lot of room

00:38:40.820 for communication out on social media.

00:38:44.880 Uh, it's a, it's not, it didn't feel very welcoming.

00:38:50.520 Uh, and we got so many calls.

00:38:52.200 It's so many calls.

00:38:53.420 Onward.

00:38:54.020 You know, um, it's crazy out here, man.

00:38:57.120 Um, I live, I actually work in a police department, uh, not as a officer, but as a janitor.

00:39:05.040 And, you know, I've been a big fan of your podcast and keeps me motivated, keeps me working.

00:39:09.560 But, uh, anyway.

00:39:10.820 Yeah.

00:39:11.260 Thanks, man.

00:39:11.920 And congratulations on your work over there, you know.

00:39:14.060 Uh, it reminds me of that movie, um, Good Will Hunting.

00:39:19.080 And that, uh, you know, that guy was a janitor for a little bit and then, bam, he's, uh, you

00:39:26.260 know, he's driving an El Camino out, you know, and he's going to get the girl.

00:39:30.340 So, gang, bro.

00:39:31.480 And we're, yeah, man, like, I'm here and I'm just kind of walking around doing my own

00:39:35.180 thing. 0.98

00:39:35.700 And, you know, I overhear cops, some cops talking shit about what's going on and, like, bashing 0.99

00:39:40.620 other people. 0.99

00:39:41.260 And I hear other cops, like, you know, uh, just being, you know, a little bit more mindful

00:39:47.840 about what's going on.

00:39:49.640 Um, you know, I know that a lot of people say that all cops are bad, but me working here,

00:39:55.300 I've been working here for a little bit over a year.

00:39:57.340 And I think it's pretty safe to say that really, if not all cops are bad, there's some that 0.96

00:40:03.820 are total dickheads to me. 0.98

00:40:05.440 I'm a Mexican and they do me mug, you know, the, they me mug me and they give me dirty looks, 0.99

00:40:11.720 but there's some that are trying to get to know you, trying to give you opportunities.

00:40:15.980 And, um, yeah, man, it's crazy out here.

00:40:18.820 Uh, I hope everybody stays safe.

00:40:21.580 Gang brother. 0.79

00:40:22.420 Thank you.

00:40:23.560 And that's from BTS, the police department behind the scene.

00:40:28.340 So, yes, it's, uh, you know, it's heartbreaking, man, what happened to the man and, and George

00:40:39.120 Floyd and, and you see him, you know, just that stuff is heartbreaking and it hits you in

00:40:47.100 a place where, you know, it just hits you in a human, it just hits me in a human place.

00:40:54.180 And I don't think that that place that's inside of me has any color in it.

00:40:59.180 You know, there's a place inside of us that doesn't have any, that doesn't even know what

00:41:07.800 color we are.

00:41:08.520 You know, there's a place inside of us that, uh, there's a place inside of us that really,

00:41:23.900 I mean, just really can, that, that feels each other's pain.

00:41:28.420 It's like a, it's not even our heart.

00:41:31.600 It's not our brain.

00:41:32.460 It's just, um, I don't know what it is.

00:41:35.420 I, I, I don't even know if they have a name for it.

00:41:38.880 I mean, I know they have a name for it, like empathy or sympathy or understanding, but I

00:41:43.320 don't know if they have a name for this.

00:41:44.760 Uh, this, uh, I don't know.

00:41:52.640 It's like a, it's a place where when I, well, you have it and, and, and when you see pain,

00:42:00.100 it hurts even if it's not yours, you know, and it hurts you at a place that's deeper than

00:42:07.520 our skin and bones.

00:42:11.280 Um, you know, one thing I was thinking, uh, before we get into this next call they had

00:42:17.680 was what if maybe it's time to kind of rebrand the police, you know, maybe it's time to have

00:42:29.500 a, to not have police departments, um, and to have just national guard or just

00:42:37.280 uh, you know, a different type of force.

00:42:41.840 Um, just because you start to wonder has the, has the, has police gotten too much of a negative

00:42:50.180 connotation with it now that it just makes the whole job even tougher.

00:42:58.560 You know, it makes the whole job even tougher that I don't, I don't know if you got a man

00:43:05.640 out there and he's coming out, you know, and, you know, and now you got a different

00:43:11.160 name, you got a different color suit, you got a different, you know, I don't know, maybe

00:43:17.300 you make it so the weapon, you got to answer a trivia question or something for you can use

00:43:21.320 it or something, you know, you got to, I don't know.

00:43:24.900 But I'm wondering just if, you know, if it's too police, the police, so for, so it's had

00:43:31.100 too much of a, it has too much negativity with it attached to the name, not attached with

00:43:37.100 all the officers, but just that it has too much negativity attached with the name or too

00:43:43.140 much bad branding that maybe you do use a national guard or you use a military police

00:43:49.280 or something like that, of course, you'd have to change their name.

00:43:54.440 I don't know.

00:43:55.260 I'm just thinking out loud and I don't have any right answers, man.

00:44:02.320 You know, I thought it was beautiful to see, oh wait, let me get this call while we're

00:44:06.040 on national guard.

00:44:06.840 Onward.

00:44:08.200 Hey, what's going on, Theo?

00:44:09.440 This is Andrew out of Virginia.

00:44:12.740 Hey, how's it going, man?

00:44:13.840 I'm in the military and I just want to bring light to a, you know, certain situation.

00:44:18.480 I don't think anybody's really talking about, you know, those guys in the national guard.

00:44:22.120 I'm sure they all want to protest too, but us military people, we're held to a different

00:44:27.760 standard.

00:44:28.280 We can't really protest like everybody else protests or it's federal charges at that

00:44:33.360 point.

00:44:33.620 They could take our livelihoods away.

00:44:35.680 Wow.

00:44:36.180 I didn't even know that.

00:44:38.300 That, yeah, you see a national guardsman, you see them, you know, court owning or court on.

00:44:43.840 Court owning off an area and yeah, you immediately, I feel like people immediately feel like, oh,

00:44:53.460 these are the bad guys.

00:44:56.680 That's crazy.

00:44:57.440 And that's crazy, isn't it?

00:44:59.860 That people immediately, they'll see a man in military, oh, he's a, that's the bad guy.

00:45:04.620 That guy's just you or me.

00:45:06.160 They just put a different outfit on him and he, he has to do his job.

00:45:10.180 He can't even protest if he wants to.

00:45:14.840 You know, I didn't know that, man.

00:45:16.000 It's, you know, so it's like, uh, there's feelings behind the, the outfit.

00:45:23.720 Onward.

00:45:24.460 So, I just want to put that in your ear and what, and see what you think about, you know,

00:45:29.480 the position that they're in.

00:45:30.700 It's hard for us because we can't even speak out on things like social media and certainly

00:45:34.320 be caught out in the streets like that because, you know, they can catch us up.

00:45:39.920 And, uh, you know, I'm an avid listener of this past weekend, the king of the sting.

00:45:45.020 Uh, I'm a Theo Von, uh, fanatic.

00:45:49.820 I just, well, uh, uh, I appreciate that, man.

00:45:52.980 Thank, thank you, bro.

00:45:54.020 Thanks for, thanks for saying some of that nice stuff at the end and, um, you know, thank

00:46:00.960 you for your service, man.

00:46:02.120 Um, you know, I, it's hard.

00:46:04.720 I, I'm sure it's hard for you guys.

00:46:07.380 You know, it's, uh, I'm sure it's hard.

00:46:12.280 It's hard.

00:46:12.620 You know, things are hard for a lot of people.

00:46:14.340 Different things are hard for a lot of people.

00:46:16.060 And, um, and it is unfortunate when, you know, there's that Chris Rock bit going around.

00:46:25.340 You can't have a bad apple on a police force.

00:46:27.340 You know, you can't, that's a job you just can't have it on, um, and I'm sure a lot of

00:46:36.040 these forces, they don't want it to be that way, you know, uh, but that, that, that job

00:46:44.360 has just got to be so, that job's got to be tough, man.

00:46:47.060 It's got to be really tough for a lot of people.

00:46:50.080 Now, if you're, some people might be out there just wanting to be an egomaniac and just

00:46:55.960 wanting to play Robocop and do this and that, um, you know, uh, it's unfortunate when, you

00:47:05.880 know, there's bad, there's, there's, there's police officers that don't do well and, and

00:47:11.300 that, you know, that, uh, that use extra violence and extra brutality and just enforce their will

00:47:18.860 at a, you know, at, um, unfair and even deathly amount sometimes.

00:47:25.980 It's just, it's heartbreaking, man.

00:47:30.480 I don't think anybody, I don't know anybody who doesn't agree that that's heartbreaking.

00:47:35.680 You know, uh, it's heartbreaking, man.

00:47:41.380 Um, but yeah, you don't know, we don't, we don't, we don't know what these people in

00:47:44.620 the, in the uniforms are thinking.

00:47:45.840 You know, these people are, they don't even get to protest if they want to.

00:47:49.220 That's kind of, that's kind of interesting that you got a man right there.

00:47:52.460 He can't even, or a woman right there who's serving the country and they can't even protest 0.99

00:47:58.460 if they want to.

00:47:59.980 Um, what else?

00:48:01.760 Let's take another call that came in right here.

00:48:04.900 Onward.

00:48:05.300 Yo, what's up, brother?

00:48:07.880 Hope everything's good.

00:48:08.980 Hope all is well.

00:48:10.500 Nick, shout out to you, man. 0.99

00:48:11.940 You're a beast on the producing. 1.00

00:48:14.240 Yeah, I just, these riots, man, they're crazy. 0.99

00:48:17.220 Everything's crazy right now.

00:48:18.240 It's crazy times.

00:48:19.460 I actually, uh, you know what I mean?

00:48:20.780 I just want to say rest in peace, George Floyd.

00:48:23.060 Justice for George Floyd. 0.99

00:48:24.800 That man that stood on his neck with his knee, he deserves to be executed. 0.99

00:48:28.300 That's 100% fact. 0.99

00:48:29.980 Yeah, it's me.

00:48:30.960 But I just want to say, they, uh, they were rioting on the main avenue.

00:48:34.280 In, uh, my neighborhood, I was, I was down there.

00:48:37.040 I was right in the middle of all of it, just watching.

00:48:39.320 And, uh, it was really heartbreaking to see, because I didn't get the vibes that anybody

00:48:43.780 was really out there protesting.

00:48:45.200 It was more, uh, vibes of everybody who's kind of having fun in the chaos.

00:48:49.620 So, I don't know, it's pretty heartbreaking.

00:48:52.660 In the center of my city, though, there, it's mostly peaceful protesting.

00:48:55.960 It's beautiful what they're doing.

00:48:57.660 Amen, brother.

00:48:58.460 Thank you for that message.

00:48:59.420 And that's out of Philadelphia, that man called in.

00:49:01.460 And, um, yeah, the, the, the protesting, uh, a lot of the rioting I get, the looting and

00:49:09.540 stuff, I, I, I do not, I, I don't get it.

00:49:13.400 Um, I, I just don't get it.

00:49:16.240 I understand that, you know, it's people that say that they, you know, they have nothing

00:49:20.280 and they can't, uh, you know, uh, I just don't get, I just don't get it.

00:49:30.880 Um, it just, uh, it doesn't equate to me how, you know, how you're burning down or how you're

00:49:39.100 taking from a small business owner, that kind of stuff.

00:49:43.340 I just don't get it.

00:49:45.320 You know, I just don't get it. 0.99

00:49:46.660 Now, an old Navy fucking break into an old Navy, dog. 0.99

00:49:50.140 You know what I'm saying, dude? 1.00

00:49:52.720 Break into an old Navy.

00:49:55.520 Because, bruh, you'll probably help the place out.

00:50:00.240 Get in there and help. 1.00

00:50:02.280 You know, they just, they got a whole bunch of shit they selling in there and steal that 0.99

00:50:05.920 dog. 0.99

00:50:06.280 They always got that little dog statue to steal that, but somebody using a flamethrower 0.99

00:50:12.560 at a damn DSW shoe store or fucking, uh, hiding, you know, put covering a, uh, uh, Cinnabon 0.99

00:50:21.860 or a Shake Shack in a kerosene and lighten that bad burger bitch up. 1.00

00:50:27.460 I just, what are you doing? 0.98

00:50:29.820 That's not helping anything.

00:50:31.400 Now, I do think, though, that people could have chaos in them and they've been having

00:50:36.860 it pent up and then this is just a place where, you know, it was a real perfect storm

00:50:41.960 for chaos to get out there.

00:50:44.360 Um, we got a call that came in right here.

00:50:46.160 Here we go.

00:50:49.040 All right, man.

00:50:50.300 I live in Delaware. 1.00

00:50:53.320 Fucking, the motherfucking first state. 1.00

00:50:55.780 First. 1.00

00:50:56.740 Right?

00:50:57.120 And we've been having all these riots. 1.00

00:51:01.520 Motherfuckers want to break into the mall. 1.00

00:51:04.180 We only got two of them. 1.00

00:51:06.360 You want to break into the closest one in our, in our state's capital?

00:51:12.120 Like, I don't, I, I understand that they want, everybody wants like black rights and

00:51:17.420 everything, but why are you breaking into the mall?

00:51:20.680 That ain't helping you.

00:51:22.640 Yeah.

00:51:22.800 Gang, bruh.

00:51:25.380 Yeah, man.

00:51:25.900 When you breaking into that mall, you know what I'm saying?

00:51:28.540 You shooting up an American Eagle or something.

00:51:31.320 Are you in there?

00:51:32.320 Are you throwing a hand grenade into an hour pastali?

00:51:35.700 Right? 1.00

00:51:36.140 You blowing up a damn set of jean shorts or something. 0.99

00:51:38.620 That ain't doing nothing. 1.00

00:51:41.160 You know, you in there, somebody throw a bowling ball into a damn Claire's boutique, man. 1.00

00:51:45.960 That, you ain't doing nothing. 0.99

00:51:49.240 You ain't doing nothing.

00:51:50.500 But now I understand, I understand aggression.

00:51:55.440 I understand anger.

00:51:56.660 I understand now if you don't have anything, bro, I remember when I was young and we didn't

00:51:59.940 have anything.

00:52:02.280 Dog, if a little bit of chaos started, it's easy to just hitch a ride on that chaos cart.

00:52:10.340 It's easy.

00:52:13.380 So, you know, you have people that have been inside for months.

00:52:17.060 Because they can't even meet up as a group, the first thing they're allowed to do to meet 0.99

00:52:21.240 up as a group is burn down a damn, you know, is burn down a damn, whatever that place is 0.99

00:52:33.840 called. 0.99

00:52:34.240 What is that store in the mall where they, you can do that thing to your face? 0.98

00:52:47.080 Art of shaving, bro.

00:52:49.080 And now if you want to get in there and you want to, you know, take a Tommy gun to an art 0.96

00:52:54.260 of shaving, bro, I'll fricking load the bullets back behind you. 0.86

00:53:00.140 But you over there and you, you know, you taking a chainsaw to fricking Luzette's sandwich, 0.98

00:53:07.500 sandwich, you know, shop or somebody selling homemade licorices or licorices, bro. 0.90

00:53:19.220 And you're going to run in there and you're going to, you know, shank somebody because

00:53:27.380 they over there, you know, at the hot air balloon outlet or whatever. 0.64

00:53:31.020 Come on, man.

00:53:33.400 You're going to run into a Donna Karen, bro.

00:53:35.580 George Floyd didn't even wear Donna Karen.

00:53:38.300 Has nothing to do with him.

00:53:39.820 But now I understand that if people get upset enough and they don't get there, they feel

00:53:50.200 like their voice isn't being heard.

00:53:54.680 And they're like, well, how do I, how do I get my voice heard?

00:53:58.940 You know, let's hear more.

00:54:00.920 Here's another call.

00:54:02.460 985-664-9503.

00:54:05.140 And actually, let me tell you right now, thank you for being here for this episode.

00:54:09.500 I do want to tell you that, you know, thank you for supporting my podcast and this podcast

00:54:14.100 and this group and our group.

00:54:16.840 And, you know, I'm grateful for that, man.

00:54:22.320 I really am.

00:54:23.840 You know, I don't know what I would do if I didn't have this job right now.

00:54:27.000 And, you know, you know, you bet you helped make that possible, you know.

00:54:34.160 And, you know, I have friends that listen that I didn't even know.

00:54:38.360 You know, it's funny.

00:54:39.240 I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, a black friend, actually.

00:54:42.220 And I am black dropping right now.

00:54:44.760 My friend Stan and, you know, he said we were just texting and he said, you know, I've listened

00:54:53.300 to every episode of yours, even when you were doing two a week.

00:54:57.820 And that just hit me heavy, man.

00:55:03.000 It hit me heavy, man, to think that just that people listen, that people listen to me.

00:55:11.180 You know, it just, I don't know.

00:55:23.100 You know, it made me think a lot of stuff.

00:55:24.840 It made me think, man, wow.

00:55:28.280 You know, how much, what do I, do I, what, what do I consume of my friends?

00:55:32.720 You know, am I paying attention to what they're doing sometimes?

00:55:34.940 You know, what do I listen to of people that have a different skin color than me?

00:55:41.620 You know, am I checking in with other stuff?

00:55:43.380 Do I, you know, what am I supporting?

00:55:53.260 But that was just, you know, that hit me really in a, you know, it just hit me in the heart.

00:55:59.060 But, you know, in this whole, in this, all of this stuff, all of this stuff going on.

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00:57:56.460 What are we talking about?

00:58:01.640 Oh, I know that, you know, I thought a lot of things is, you know, I thought a lot of things once, you know, things got real racial as well.

00:58:11.460 You know, this past week, things have got real racial.

00:58:13.980 And America is tough.

00:58:18.640 You know, America is a country that has diversity in it.

00:58:24.200 Some countries, it's not like that.

00:58:26.040 Diversity is, it's not easy.

00:58:28.860 Apparently, apparently, diversity is not easy on planet Earth.

00:58:35.820 I'm not saying that it's impossible or that it's, I'm not even saying that it's hard.

00:58:41.160 But, and I'm also saying this is just my perspective, man.

00:58:45.860 You know, I try to keep an open heart and mind, but it's hard.

00:58:49.240 I only have my own experience with the world.

00:58:53.380 But, you know, it's, but I definitely asked myself this week, I said, well, am I racist?

00:59:07.900 You know?

00:59:09.960 And it's a good question to ask yourself.

00:59:13.740 Man, am I racist?

00:59:17.560 And what I don't like is, I don't like things you see online that says, if you have to ask yourself,

00:59:21.940 then you, if you have to ask yourself, then you are racist.

00:59:25.560 If you have to this, then this.

00:59:27.660 Man, stop.

00:59:30.560 Stop with that.

00:59:31.320 You're shutting down people's voices, man.

00:59:33.060 That's the worst.

00:59:37.160 But, yeah, I definitely asked.

00:59:38.940 I said, man, am I, or do I have racist ways that I'm not seeing?

00:59:45.840 I know I have some behaviors.

00:59:47.360 You know, I feel like some of those are based on experience, on experiences.

00:59:54.740 You know, you know, I think I get nervous if I go into a group where I'm the only one of a certain ethnicity.

01:00:04.040 You know, if I go into a group of Mexicans, or I go into a group of blacks, or I go into a group of Asians, or I go into a group of women.

01:00:16.900 You know, I go into any group, I get, I do feel a, sometimes I guess it's a nervousness.

01:00:26.180 Sometimes it could be more scared.

01:00:27.840 Now, if I know people in the group and stuff, that's different.

01:00:37.940 But I don't feel that because, oh, I hate these people, or I have hatred.

01:00:43.900 I feel it because maybe you've had an experience.

01:00:48.100 Maybe you walked, maybe I'll, you know, when I was young, I got jumped by a couple groups of guys who had darker skin than me, man.

01:00:54.820 And, you know, and so I think, you know, I probably have had experiences that leave me, you know, kind of lead me to be feeling a certain way sometimes.

01:01:11.420 But, but I think it's a good question to ask ourselves, man.

01:01:16.540 You know, sometimes it's like you're just, you may have had experiences that leave you feeling a certain way, but that doesn't make you racist.

01:01:28.740 You know, so, I don't know, it's, it's, it's a lot.

01:01:35.580 You go online also, and it's, everything online is extremely, you know, you feel white shamed a lot. 1.00

01:01:43.040 You feel a lot of white shaming, and I, shaming, I don't like that shit, man. 1.00

01:01:49.480 You know, and that's, that's scary. 1.00

01:01:54.180 It's scary to navigate, okay, is this just something that I'm just, do I just need to stay off of this kind of social media, you know, what's going on here?

01:02:02.340 And then also, how do I not make this about me?

01:02:04.720 This has nothing, you know, this is a movement supporting black or people of color.

01:02:12.020 I can't, I don't know, I don't even know what to say sometimes, but supporting, you know, police brutality.

01:02:18.860 It's confusing, man.

01:02:20.920 It's very confusing.

01:02:22.140 But I do think it is a good idea to ask your heart sometimes, what's going on?

01:02:28.420 And I'm grateful to protests like this and stuff, because it makes me do that.

01:02:34.580 You know, I literally, I said, man, am I, am I racist?

01:02:40.000 You know, where do my racial experience, what, where do my experiences come from with race?

01:02:44.620 You know, it's interesting to think about those things.

01:02:53.200 What else we got, man?

01:02:54.420 We had some beautiful calls that came in.

01:02:56.460 Sorry to just be going through calls this week, but, you know, I put on Instagram and so many calls came in that, that it was a lot, man.

01:03:04.520 That it was a lot.

01:03:07.700 Here we go, right here.

01:03:09.640 The hotline is always 985-664-9503.

01:03:13.160 Hey, yo, brother.

01:03:16.400 This is Beat Cake here in Virginia.

01:03:19.540 What's up, Beat Cake?

01:03:21.520 Let's hear it, baby.

01:03:22.820 Thank you for calling, sir.

01:03:24.140 A George Floyd murder, 100% wrong.

01:03:27.940 Peaceful protests for equality, 100% right.

01:03:32.780 Rioting, looting, and hijacking the movement of the peaceful protesters, 100% wrong as well.

01:03:39.960 An overwhelming majority agrees.

01:03:43.280 The time we leave the police at the station like we do firefighters and EMTs.

01:03:50.080 We'll call you if we need you.

01:03:52.180 Leave us alone.

01:03:53.200 And that's an interesting way.

01:03:56.600 That's an interesting way of doing it.

01:03:59.740 You know?

01:04:03.780 We'll call you if we need you.

01:04:06.020 Leave them there.

01:04:08.120 You know, not having patrols.

01:04:09.500 Does patrols make people feel a certain type of way?

01:04:11.900 We got this call that came in here from a young lady.

01:04:19.460 Where do we go right here?

01:04:21.460 Hey, uh, this is Miriam from San Diego, California.

01:04:29.820 What's up, Miriam?

01:04:30.780 Thanks for calling.

01:04:31.980 Uh, San Diego down there.

01:04:34.040 And I've been down there. 0.99

01:04:35.020 A good place to, you know, they got a lot of bulldogs, uh, doing sex down there. 1.00

01:04:41.520 You could, you know, get you a little pit bull and get you something, you know, get you a little cut of watermelon. 0.95

01:04:47.760 Get you a little slice of, uh, you know, they got hoagies and everything down there.

01:04:52.660 Tacos down there.

01:04:53.460 What am I talking about?

01:04:53.960 Pacific Beach.

01:04:55.300 Get you a beautiful treat.

01:04:56.760 Onward.

01:04:58.280 Um, this is a first-time caller.

01:05:01.060 Uh, I believe this is an important time to speak up.

01:05:06.100 Um, I'm Mexican-American and I've been very affected with the whole thing going on.

01:05:12.820 Um, and I'm speaking up because I'll be mad if I hear another white person honestly complain about the riots being too much and saying that there should be another way.

01:05:25.960 But, um, I don't think there is in the past.

01:05:31.240 In 2014, Kobe Bryant wore a t-shirt that says, I can't breathe.

01:05:39.580 And he got a lot of hate for that and that was peaceful.

01:05:43.280 Um, in 2016, uh, the NFL took a knee during the national anthem and you saw the backlash.

01:05:51.260 Um, it, it will continue and I think this is the only way I believe that can really get under people's skin.

01:06:03.420 Um, and even if people are complaining about the violence, just maybe consider the fact that people of color never fully felt a part of society and people ruining neighborhoods may be the one way to get to people who are racist or the system.

01:06:25.720 Thank you for that call, young lady.

01:06:29.160 Appreciate it.

01:06:30.000 I believe that's a young lady you do not know 100%, but I'm going to go, I'm going to stick with that. 1.00

01:06:35.340 Uh, the assumption there.

01:06:38.020 Yeah, you know, it's, you know, it's, if you feel like you can't, you're not heard.

01:06:46.140 You know, when Boosie was in here the other day, he said one thing that I thought was interesting that he talked about.

01:06:51.780 Um, and thank you to everybody.

01:06:52.840 I got so many nice messages, man.

01:06:54.220 I was so excited to have him in that.

01:06:56.380 I was so excited.

01:06:58.240 Um, isn't that crazy that when started this podcast, I talked about, man, if Boosie came in, man, man, it would be great.

01:07:09.180 Could you even imagine?

01:07:11.360 And then there he was.

01:07:13.180 Um, man, it was cool too, man.

01:07:18.980 It was cool.

01:07:19.700 He was cool, bruh.

01:07:21.980 It was, I was nervous.

01:07:24.000 I was kind of, I mean, I wasn't, well, big baby said that he, that Boosie, that is a gangster. 0.79

01:07:31.400 So I was definitely nervous.

01:07:34.000 That's what I was.

01:07:35.520 Um, and, and he said something that was interesting, man.

01:07:40.880 And, uh, he said that, you know, about black people having their own, their own towns, their own infrastructure, their own schools, their own laws, their own, um, their own, you know, everything, their own everything.

01:08:04.780 And when you just said that too, about people not feeling a part of society, um, you know, that's interesting.

01:08:15.060 I wonder if, you know, cause there's probably people that feel like that.

01:08:19.800 There's probably people that feel like they would like to just have their own society.

01:08:23.920 So it's like, how do you get that?

01:08:27.340 You know, maybe they're in the future, you know, you have places where if people want to just live with people like themselves, um, then they can.

01:08:39.720 And then, then, then that's a choice, you know, and I'm not talking about segregation.

01:08:43.120 I'm not talking about anybody being forced to live anywhere or I'm talking about if people choose, this is the, this is the, what we want.

01:08:51.420 This is what I want.

01:08:53.480 Um, I don't know.

01:08:59.600 You know, I don't know because America is just a system.

01:09:02.280 It's just a, you know, it's just a, it's just a system.

01:09:07.120 Um, and it's a system that's always kind of changed over time.

01:09:11.780 Um, and the more it gets diverse and the more people stand up for what they, you know, that groups protest, it's going to continue to change.

01:09:23.360 You know, it's kind of like a chameleon, I think.

01:09:27.380 I mean, I like to think of it as that.

01:09:32.040 You know, um, and I'm, it, there's, there's, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a.

01:09:37.100 much there's so many voices there's so many voices but i feel like the protests and stuff

01:09:43.920 this weekend and last week seemed really magical a lot of it you know seeing a lot of the humanity

01:09:50.060 just the people getting together and you know it seemed a lot more diverse than pictures you see a

01:09:56.720 protest of of other protests for me anyway it seemed really i don't know it seemed like a

01:10:06.280 movement you know and i think you have most people agree that you know you want that people deserve

01:10:14.460 to feel safe in their country um i don't know what i'm talking about really uh but yeah if you felt

01:10:25.140 like you have not like yeah what would you do if you feel like nothing else is working to get your

01:10:29.840 voice heard you know boosie and i were also talking about how atlanta now is such a prosperous

01:10:38.300 city for african americans and i believe a lot of stuff is time a lot of stuff is time

01:10:44.840 and a lot of stuff is money

01:10:47.460 you know uh

01:10:51.840 you know when i was young i could relate a lot to poor black children because they didn't have

01:10:58.660 anything like we didn't have anything

01:11:00.160 you know when it was such a uh

01:11:06.120 you you know the

01:11:08.980 and then you get to places like atlanta and you really see like a blooming

01:11:15.220 prosper i mean it's just it's it's crazy it's it's amazing

01:11:19.300 it's awesome um but that's money

01:11:23.880 you know that's money man uh what do we got right here here we go let's take a call that came in

01:11:31.600 hey yo what's up the uh this is maurice all the way out in maine

01:11:38.280 what's up maurice from maine uh and maurice up there baby and i freaking met a girl up there

01:11:44.880 who let me touch that sea roch one time maybe i can't remember but

01:11:49.500 um but i remember a bat was flying at us bro and we was up there in an abandoned house and i hit that 0.99

01:11:57.380 bitch with a uh tennis racket man not the girl the uh the bat so that little bastard look a little 1.00

01:12:05.420 dirty bastard that little fucking air bastard bro that little fucking cough smuggler came at us 1.00

01:12:11.660 run us i clipped that bitch out the sky with that andre agassi bro hit that bitch john uh onward sir 1.00

01:12:19.420 real far other side of the country uh you know i a lot of people are pissed a lot of people are upset 1.00

01:12:27.740 a lot of people have good reason to be upset

01:12:30.000 but but the vast majority of people are they're seemingly doing this looting 0.98

01:12:37.040 uh terrorizing uh vandalizing defacing a property all that shit seems to be 0.92

01:12:47.080 just a way to put themselves out on on instagram or social media just to get attention you know to be 0.90

01:12:55.740 part of the group to be one of them you know stand out even when everybody's doing the same thing

01:13:01.640 uh but people do have a reason to be upset and some of this will help with change some of it won't

01:13:09.360 a lot of it's just going to be awful tax money through the through the drain down the drain

01:13:17.580 but that's what i feel it's a little crazy out here but i'm ready for that boogaloo let's do it gang gang

01:13:25.400 gang man thanks for calling um

01:13:29.560 yeah it's uh you know i i don't know man i don't know how you get

01:13:36.860 you know i don't know really if there is a solution it's just a slow evolution and

01:13:43.800 and i think there's that awareness is key and

01:13:47.840 you know i definitely think yeah a lot of people out there for social media

01:13:52.260 a lot of people trying to get social media

01:13:54.560 just trying to just get the right thing the right picture the right

01:13:58.600 um

01:13:59.800 well for one the right thing to express what they're feeling and i understand that

01:14:04.760 uh

01:14:06.260 but other stuff yeah people just trying to 0.95

01:14:09.480 you know i'm trying to get my cousin to fucking 0.99

01:14:11.680 you know hit somebody with a skateboard who's stealing a bag of oranges and shit 1.00

01:14:16.660 and you're like damn man that's crazy bro 1.00

01:14:18.660 you know that's really 1.00

01:14:20.680 that's some don mattingly citrus type shit right there man 0.99

01:14:24.780 um 0.99

01:14:26.440 but yeah let's take this call came in man and i felt like that a little bit with this call right here

01:14:31.640 here we go

01:14:32.460 hey this is about the protests in atlanta the proudest blackest city

01:14:39.600 um can't believe i got home safe tonight

01:14:42.760 um we don't know what the next you know the next step

01:14:46.700 kind of thing is like how does this all end

01:14:49.360 and we were asking police to just say the word black lives matter or just take a knee

01:14:54.880 and they refused and i was looking them straight in the eye

01:14:58.320 and they were looking back at me with with kind of a look of just like

01:15:03.060 you know why i'm not going to say it

01:15:04.980 um

01:15:06.060 like they were racist

01:15:07.880 and so

01:15:08.880 that i mean

01:15:10.160 we just have to keep pushing because you

01:15:12.660 they have to be able to say it right

01:15:14.480 i don't know why they won't

01:15:15.900 they won't respond

01:15:16.840 i don't know why they just refuse to respond

01:15:20.060 we're supposed to be a team

01:15:21.380 yeah i mean that's interesting kind of you know that

01:15:27.020 i i don't know if if an on-duty police officer

01:15:30.380 i mean trying to get them to do something

01:15:33.660 you know i just don't

01:15:39.260 i mean that sounds like it's something for you

01:15:42.120 um

01:15:43.360 you know i don't know

01:15:46.000 trying to get an on-duty police officer to take a knee or do black lives matter

01:15:49.620 that sounds like it's something for social media

01:15:51.720 you know that man's at work

01:15:54.360 and also he's at a stressful probably the most stressful day at work he's ever had

01:15:59.160 um

01:16:00.820 and trying to get something for social media

01:16:03.500 it's just

01:16:05.460 you know or

01:16:08.900 that doesn't make him racist

01:16:11.600 because he doesn't want to

01:16:12.640 to be a part

01:16:13.560 because he chooses not to

01:16:15.060 that man's working

01:16:16.760 he's at work

01:16:18.420 um

01:16:20.880 you know maybe catch him when he's off of work

01:16:23.220 and talk to him

01:16:25.360 um

01:16:26.880 and then police officers

01:16:28.680 i don't know if they can just be racist

01:16:30.040 like this man saying like police officers aren't just blue

01:16:32.420 you know they're

01:16:33.880 police officers are every color

01:16:35.740 and every type of person

01:16:38.160 you know one of my good friends red grant

01:16:41.700 his wife is a police officer

01:16:43.140 um

01:16:44.880 you know if you watch that television show

01:16:48.460 um

01:16:49.600 it's called uh

01:16:51.500 it's a show for tv

01:16:54.060 it's a tv show

01:16:55.280 it's called um

01:16:57.600 where the water where they couldn't drink it

01:17:01.540 where your boy daddy long neck is from

01:17:03.640 oh grand no

01:17:04.780 uh

01:17:06.140 murder

01:17:08.300 no

01:17:10.140 it's 0.98

01:17:11.740 damn 1.00

01:17:14.220 let me see this shit 1.00

01:17:23.540 don't drink the water 1.00

01:17:25.000 we can't drink it

01:17:26.780 we can't drink the water

01:17:29.480 in michigan

01:17:30.520 flint

01:17:35.520 it's called the flint police

01:17:38.200 show

01:17:39.740 basically something like that

01:17:40.860 flint pd or something

01:17:41.940 and it's just interesting

01:17:43.460 it's interesting to see what there's

01:17:44.680 what those people's lives are like all the time

01:17:46.580 you know

01:17:47.460 uh

01:17:48.420 it's real interesting to see

01:17:49.920 um

01:17:51.780 but yeah i mean

01:17:54.120 i don't know if um

01:17:56.740 you know i think that would be the best thing to catch them off duty

01:18:00.380 and see how they feel

01:18:01.200 but they're it's very diverse these police forces

01:18:03.620 most of the police officers that i see here in

01:18:06.220 uh

01:18:07.760 los angeles are probably latinos

01:18:09.120 you know

01:18:09.660 or mexicanos

01:18:11.080 dude one thing that gets on my nerves

01:18:14.080 when somebody is mexican and people call him spanish

01:18:17.220 dude 1.00

01:18:18.280 don't do that shit 1.00

01:18:20.520 spanish bro 1.00

01:18:22.540 he's mexican

01:18:25.080 don't do the spanish thing man

01:18:27.500 come on

01:18:28.180 that guy ain't spanish

01:18:30.220 that guy's a mexican guy

01:18:31.700 have some respectsican

01:18:34.140 you know

01:18:35.100 for the mexicans man

01:18:37.200 spanish dude 1.00

01:18:39.440 that's some fucking 0.99

01:18:40.240 this is my spanish friend 0.99

01:18:43.060 somebody said one time

01:18:44.360 dude 1.00

01:18:44.820 you don't know shit 1.00

01:18:46.320 that ain't your fucking friend 1.00

01:18:47.420 if you don't know your 1.00

01:18:48.080 your boy's mexican right there

01:18:50.020 that's an hombre papa

01:18:51.840 just that kind of stuff man

01:18:55.120 um

01:18:56.660 what else man

01:18:59.480 oh

01:18:59.880 let's get into one or two more calls man

01:19:01.800 yeah

01:19:02.380 sorry to focus just on this stuff this episode

01:19:04.220 but

01:19:04.700 i felt like uh

01:19:06.580 you know

01:19:07.200 i committed to it by having people call the hotline

01:19:09.880 and um

01:19:10.540 and

01:19:12.160 and so i wanted to honor that

01:19:14.500 uh

01:19:16.160 but

01:19:17.660 yeah

01:19:19.160 i don't know if trying

01:19:20.380 yeah it's just

01:19:21.360 i don't know man

01:19:23.440 i don't know

01:19:25.060 it's a

01:19:25.960 it's a

01:19:26.380 it's a choppy time

01:19:27.580 it's a choppy time

01:19:30.240 uh

01:19:32.540 let's take another call

01:19:33.980 that came in right here

01:19:35.400 hey theo

01:19:36.180 it's miller calling from canada

01:19:37.740 you told us

01:19:39.060 that we can

01:19:39.760 uh

01:19:40.000 leave a comment on

01:19:41.120 uh

01:19:41.720 all this protesting

01:19:42.960 what we think of it

01:19:43.920 and um

01:19:44.700 you know

01:19:45.640 i'm a white kid from a small town

01:19:47.180 and uh

01:19:48.140 i always grew up feeling like i

01:19:49.780 was lacking a certain perspective

01:19:51.920 so

01:19:52.400 i moved to a big city

01:19:54.140 and

01:19:54.460 i studied criminology for four years

01:19:57.020 and

01:19:57.300 you know

01:19:58.700 i haven't really been saying much on social media

01:20:00.780 these days

01:20:02.500 because i just feel like everyone should tend to their own garden

01:20:05.040 and

01:20:05.400 you know

01:20:06.060 i don't want to tell anybody else what they

01:20:07.880 should or shouldn't be doing

01:20:09.620 but

01:20:09.960 i've gotten some comments from people saying you know

01:20:12.920 oh

01:20:13.940 you know

01:20:14.620 silence is an inherent form of racism and stuff

01:20:17.580 and

01:20:17.820 you know

01:20:18.980 like a lot of people don't know

01:20:20.300 other stories

01:20:21.440 i i spent fifty thousand of my own dollars

01:20:24.220 and four years of

01:20:25.720 of hard work

01:20:26.840 to

01:20:27.120 to better understand

01:20:28.460 and gain a better perspective of

01:20:30.620 what's going on in uh

01:20:32.460 minority communities

01:20:33.440 and

01:20:33.780 and their experiences with police

01:20:35.640 and

01:20:35.880 you know

01:20:36.640 i hope to be a police officer someday

01:20:38.300 and

01:20:38.600 i just feel like doing things like

01:20:40.620 you know 0.98

01:20:41.540 building a relationship with this homoerotic man 0.92

01:20:44.000 in my community

01:20:44.680 and

01:20:45.860 and

01:20:45.920 and mowing his lawn

01:20:47.440 you know

01:20:47.840 that's uh

01:20:48.560 i'm better suited

01:20:49.800 you know

01:20:50.280 just focusing on myself

01:20:51.640 and not telling other people what to do

01:20:53.040 so

01:20:53.300 these are some of my thoughts

01:20:54.660 thanks for creating space for us to

01:20:56.460 to leave thoughts like this

01:20:58.060 and

01:20:58.280 gang gang

01:20:59.040 gang brother

01:21:00.100 yeah man

01:21:02.440 i think yeah

01:21:02.920 i think that's one way

01:21:03.860 to uh

01:21:04.880 to make things better

01:21:06.260 is to try things a little bit different

01:21:09.360 you know

01:21:11.260 touch out

01:21:11.840 you know 0.99

01:21:12.180 touch a gay friend 0.96

01:21:13.160 you know 0.99

01:21:14.700 touch a gay friend 0.98

01:21:15.560 touch 0.99

01:21:15.860 touch them

01:21:16.560 hug them

01:21:17.380 hold their hand 0.81

01:21:18.060 do the yard

01:21:18.820 do something

01:21:20.220 blow up a 0.94

01:21:20.860 uh

01:21:21.380 you know

01:21:22.400 help help them

01:21:23.180 help them do something

01:21:24.640 change the garden

01:21:25.540 change the house

01:21:26.420 you know

01:21:27.880 get the mail

01:21:29.180 get the mail for somebody

01:21:31.140 that's latino

01:21:31.920 you know

01:21:33.060 or not spanish

01:21:34.560 you know what i'm saying

01:21:35.260 mexicano

01:21:35.900 you know

01:21:38.240 do something nice

01:21:39.260 go and knock on that person's door

01:21:40.860 say what's going on

01:21:42.140 you know

01:21:44.360 uh

01:21:44.880 this

01:21:45.780 the

01:21:46.060 the disconnectivity

01:21:47.280 these days

01:21:48.780 we do i think

01:21:50.760 start to wonder more

01:21:51.900 we start to wonder

01:21:53.980 am i okay

01:21:55.140 are they okay

01:21:55.920 are they thinking these things

01:21:58.540 am i thinking these things

01:21:59.560 you know

01:21:59.920 you start watching the news

01:22:01.000 or you start getting caught up

01:22:02.480 and then i start wondering

01:22:05.300 man i don't feel good

01:22:06.580 you know

01:22:09.400 the news make me feel like i'm a bad person

01:22:12.840 you know

01:22:14.880 or

01:22:15.240 uh

01:22:16.320 the news just wants to keep showing the same thing

01:22:18.680 you know

01:22:22.440 you gotta call

01:22:23.040 check in with a buddy

01:22:24.020 check in with a friend

01:22:26.500 say hey man

01:22:26.940 this stuff had me thinking about you

01:22:28.540 you know

01:22:31.300 and i'm

01:22:31.620 i'm sorry it took for this kind of thing

01:22:33.320 for me to call

01:22:34.100 but

01:22:34.420 i just wanted to let

01:22:36.440 you know

01:22:36.760 i just wanted to say hey

01:22:37.860 you know

01:22:40.300 check in with somebody

01:22:41.100 that maybe has a different experience

01:22:42.840 yeah i mean it's

01:22:51.380 because i just

01:22:53.540 there's so many good people out there

01:22:54.940 and

01:22:55.120 and it's wild to me

01:22:56.100 that the news makes money off of this whole thing

01:22:58.200 that's the craziest thing too

01:22:59.360 that the news is making money off of this

01:23:01.320 and they keep telling us this same story

01:23:04.460 and they don't

01:23:04.860 and the news doesn't

01:23:06.140 if you just watch the news

01:23:08.320 you think that people are bad

01:23:09.800 isn't that crazy

01:23:11.480 if you just watch the news

01:23:14.740 you think people are bad

01:23:15.860 and i just do not find that to be the truth

01:23:22.080 you know

01:23:23.840 the only choice is to be hopeful

01:23:25.460 but thank you for the call young man

01:23:32.080 yeah tend to the garden that you can touch

01:23:33.920 you know

01:23:36.780 talk to your friends

01:23:37.580 communicate with people you care about

01:23:39.340 communicate with people that are different than you

01:23:41.720 you know

01:23:43.400 take a little

01:23:44.600 take a

01:23:45.100 take a

01:23:45.600 you know

01:23:47.740 take a

01:23:49.240 couple 0.99

01:23:50.340 take a thing of soup to a black friend 0.91

01:23:53.120 take a 0.98

01:23:55.160 you know

01:23:58.060 take a piece of art to a

01:23:59.720 Mexican friend

01:24:00.660 you know

01:24:02.980 take a

01:24:03.380 do something

01:24:04.000 you know

01:24:05.440 extend a hand

01:24:06.140 a pat on the back

01:24:06.820 just an extra

01:24:07.380 hey man

01:24:07.880 you know

01:24:09.260 just an extra look in the eyes man

01:24:11.560 hey man

01:24:12.560 i care about you

01:24:13.360 you know

01:24:14.900 i care but that your experience here

01:24:17.240 on earth is good

01:24:18.680 you know

01:24:23.740 if there's something that you feel like i don't do

01:24:25.280 personally

01:24:25.920 that could help that

01:24:27.900 or that

01:24:29.940 that makes it ungood

01:24:31.080 let me know what's up

01:24:32.080 but yeah

01:24:38.860 i mean i don't know

01:24:39.520 i just have my own perspective

01:24:40.760 but i appreciate the people calling

01:24:43.560 i appreciate

01:24:44.060 you know

01:24:45.240 it's

01:24:45.520 this is life

01:24:47.700 this is life

01:24:50.700 and i choose a lot of times also to see

01:24:59.200 i'll see a lot of the positive things going on

01:25:01.060 you know

01:25:03.420 i look around and see a lot of good stuff going on around

01:25:06.100 in america for

01:25:07.240 people of all ethnicities

01:25:08.800 i mean

01:25:10.280 every

01:25:10.780 every music

01:25:11.760 every

01:25:12.180 so much music is

01:25:13.760 black influenced

01:25:14.820 you know

01:25:16.160 so many of the top

01:25:17.120 athletes

01:25:17.920 entertainers

01:25:18.900 um

01:25:20.260 i see a lot of diversity

01:25:24.520 and people could say

01:25:28.880 you can

01:25:29.120 you can pity

01:25:29.680 you can say

01:25:30.140 you don't know

01:25:30.620 you don't this and that

01:25:31.520 and

01:25:31.740 and it's hard

01:25:32.860 yeah

01:25:33.440 i can look at all that too

01:25:36.400 but

01:25:37.480 but that is

01:25:40.280 it doesn't make me blind

01:25:41.220 if i choose to

01:25:42.320 look on the bright side

01:25:44.620 you know

01:25:48.800 sometimes it's like online

01:25:50.100 like people don't want to

01:25:51.080 they don't want to

01:25:52.900 hear you

01:25:54.480 they want to control you

01:25:56.800 that's something i didn't like on social media

01:25:59.340 people want to control you

01:26:00.800 they want to control you man

01:26:03.980 no this is what you say

01:26:05.700 this is how you say it

01:26:06.980 ah

01:26:08.160 i'm not a part of

01:26:11.240 whatever this

01:26:11.980 this uncomfortable thing is

01:26:14.360 where i don't get to be myself

01:26:17.060 where you're not

01:26:17.620 where i'm not

01:26:18.540 i'm just a piece of some

01:26:20.080 fictional puzzle

01:26:20.980 that

01:26:21.600 you know

01:26:23.440 that's

01:26:25.860 is that doing anything

01:26:27.320 i don't know man

01:26:29.860 i'm thinking out loud

01:26:30.540 i'm sorry if i'm complaining a lot

01:26:31.900 or something

01:26:32.220 i don't know what's going on

01:26:33.320 i should probably go home soon

01:26:34.960 uh

01:26:35.340 we got one more call

01:26:36.240 that came in

01:26:36.820 from this young fellow

01:26:37.560 in north carolina gang

01:26:38.860 hi

01:26:41.660 it's eric from north carolina

01:26:43.220 just been calling

01:26:44.620 i've been going through

01:26:45.300 a rough time recently

01:26:46.280 and

01:26:46.620 been trying to kick the booze

01:26:49.460 brother

01:26:49.740 thank you for calling eric man

01:26:52.120 and i'm sorry to hear

01:26:52.940 that you're having trouble

01:26:53.620 with it man

01:26:54.140 i know that

01:26:54.680 uh

01:26:55.180 i know

01:26:57.000 uh

01:26:57.380 i know

01:27:00.160 some stuff about that

01:27:01.500 onward

01:27:01.920 just can't seem to

01:27:04.420 bring myself through it

01:27:06.820 more isn't that case

01:27:08.760 it's

01:27:09.380 it's like that

01:27:13.140 richard prior joke

01:27:14.080 your first heartbreak

01:27:16.880 your first everything

01:27:18.220 i was with the same girl

01:27:19.560 for seven years

01:27:20.440 we broke up unfortunately

01:27:23.020 now

01:27:25.380 i'm running back to the same issue

01:27:29.800 as always

01:27:30.420 just

01:27:31.580 the coping mechanism

01:27:35.500 i had essentially

01:27:36.540 just

01:27:40.160 the heartbreak

01:27:40.900 just

01:27:42.080 the betrayal feeling of

01:27:47.780 how

01:27:50.200 everything can change

01:27:51.460 from one second to another

01:27:52.620 man i can relate to that feeling

01:27:56.600 when

01:27:56.960 when you part ways

01:27:58.520 with somebody

01:27:59.180 uh

01:28:00.240 especially when you're young

01:28:01.840 and man

01:28:03.500 it feels like you have nothing

01:28:04.580 man it feels

01:28:08.320 that is such a

01:28:09.480 if you're really sensitive

01:28:11.720 like i was

01:28:12.520 when i was young

01:28:13.160 and still am

01:28:13.900 uh

01:28:15.740 god man

01:28:17.820 that's a deep

01:28:18.740 it's a deep cut

01:28:19.760 when you're young

01:28:20.360 onward

01:28:20.840 your world can just shatter

01:28:22.880 and

01:28:23.360 everything just falls apart

01:28:27.020 i'm trying to get clean

01:28:28.940 i'm trying to

01:28:29.760 do everything right

01:28:34.260 i got hooked on meth and coke

01:28:37.900 from a young age

01:28:38.880 about the age of 14

01:28:42.540 i moved down to mexico

01:28:43.720 and 0.96

01:28:46.420 it just really fucked me up 0.92

01:28:50.100 you know

01:28:50.460 just all messed me up

01:28:54.460 and right now

01:28:54.980 i'm trying to get clean

01:28:55.860 i'm trying to do everything

01:28:56.780 i can't

01:28:57.740 get out of bed

01:28:59.640 i can't do anything

01:29:00.900 i

01:29:01.320 can't bring myself

01:29:06.120 to go to work

01:29:06.820 i'm at the

01:29:07.460 point of

01:29:08.960 i have a little money put up

01:29:11.740 i'm at the point of

01:29:13.200 just

01:29:15.080 my whole world collapsing

01:29:16.460 and i want to understand

01:29:17.520 i've heard your podcast

01:29:19.160 in the past but

01:29:20.200 and i've listened to you

01:29:22.960 throughout the years

01:29:23.740 i saw you in charlotte

01:29:24.940 i saw you do

01:29:26.120 all of that

01:29:26.980 and

01:29:27.380 you're just an amazing person

01:29:29.420 i wonder how

01:29:30.040 you can remain so charismatic

01:29:31.760 even when

01:29:32.560 you've gone through

01:29:34.540 through so many hardships

01:29:36.200 throughout your years

01:29:37.180 your addiction

01:29:38.000 you overcoming it

01:29:39.160 your father's death

01:29:40.160 and everything

01:29:40.640 and

01:29:41.020 hey brother

01:29:43.520 i appreciate your call man

01:29:44.660 let me uh

01:29:45.540 let me see if i can call you

01:29:49.080 get you on that line baby

01:29:51.680 get something real going on here

01:29:54.580 you know we're about as real as i can get

01:29:58.460 since you're over there in north cackalack

01:30:10.160 nine

01:30:14.160 hey eric man

01:30:16.640 what's up bro

01:30:17.220 this is theo

01:30:17.900 um

01:30:18.800 i got your voicemail man

01:30:20.760 i just wanted to say thanks for the voicemail

01:30:22.740 uh

01:30:23.800 yeah

01:30:25.480 uh

01:30:26.060 man uh

01:30:27.020 yeah i just wanted to

01:30:28.500 i just wanted to chat with you bro

01:30:29.960 uh

01:30:30.680 if you get a chance man

01:30:31.720 give me a call back

01:30:32.720 uh

01:30:33.740 it's the number that i text you from as well

01:30:35.540 um

01:30:36.800 yeah man i just

01:30:38.520 yeah your voice message was

01:30:39.820 i just appreciate it bro

01:30:42.000 you know it was uh

01:30:43.740 yeah let's just circle up man

01:30:45.860 hit me up all right

01:30:47.000 yeah

01:30:47.340 oh man

01:30:55.100 um

01:30:56.100 yeah what else

01:30:59.200 you know i know a lot of people out there

01:31:01.680 are uh

01:31:03.000 you know i know it's been a hectic week

01:31:05.020 and

01:31:06.960 you know i know there's so much

01:31:09.680 involved

01:31:10.800 involved if you really get into

01:31:11.880 the racial side of things

01:31:13.680 and

01:31:13.940 i'm not discrediting any of that

01:31:16.080 or discounting any of it

01:31:17.700 um

01:31:18.920 you know i appreciate everybody's calls

01:31:21.880 and everybody's thoughts

01:31:23.000 uh

01:31:24.360 so many points of view

01:31:26.260 um

01:31:27.600 you know and i didn't want it to get it too heavy

01:31:30.380 where

01:31:30.820 you know

01:31:33.140 where

01:31:34.420 where people get angry

01:31:35.700 there's so many

01:31:36.480 people think about a lot of different things

01:31:38.640 you know

01:31:40.260 um

01:31:41.200 but i believe in the end

01:31:44.080 you know

01:31:44.420 i i just believe the only thing we can do

01:31:46.520 is just

01:31:47.100 you know

01:31:48.440 one step at a time

01:31:49.660 and

01:31:50.600 you know

01:31:51.480 i was talking to my friend glenn

01:31:52.680 and he was saying

01:31:53.320 you know i think that good is going to come from this

01:31:55.480 and i agree

01:31:57.260 i agree

01:31:59.280 you know i believe that good is going to come from this

01:32:03.840 you know

01:32:05.280 after tough things and

01:32:06.580 after tough things good stuff happens

01:32:11.120 you know that's how

01:32:11.980 you know

01:32:14.680 nothing changes

01:32:15.540 if nothing changes

01:32:16.560 you know

01:32:17.100 um

01:32:18.200 and

01:32:21.020 sorry i don't have a ton of

01:32:22.840 you know

01:32:23.820 introspection for you guys

01:32:25.900 uh

01:32:26.400 you know

01:32:28.400 i've been thinking about

01:32:29.720 you know

01:32:31.640 what people's lives are like

01:32:33.300 you know

01:32:37.400 um

01:32:38.040 i've been wishing that we could have more honest

01:32:41.760 conversations about stuff

01:32:43.300 you know

01:32:46.440 we could have more

01:32:47.400 you know

01:32:49.600 real dialogue about things

01:32:51.240 you don't see it that much in the news

01:32:53.320 they can't do it

01:32:55.840 um

01:32:58.680 and so maybe we'll get into more

01:33:00.920 some of that stuff next week

01:33:02.200 or

01:33:02.580 or

01:33:02.860 in the future over time

01:33:04.320 you know

01:33:05.480 uh

01:33:05.820 if you had some thoughts or suggestions

01:33:07.120 or

01:33:07.640 constructive criticisms about this episode

01:33:09.960 you can always hit the hotline

01:33:11.140 985-664-9503

01:33:14.180 um

01:33:15.360 you know

01:33:17.240 that's all i really got

01:33:18.440 man

01:33:18.860 uh

01:33:19.480 that's all i really got over here

01:33:24.940 um

01:33:26.140 what's something sweet

01:33:27.880 that could take us out today

01:33:29.300 man

01:33:29.820 and yeah

01:33:41.620 i think just us

01:33:42.420 us trying to tap into that part

01:33:44.120 inside of us

01:33:44.800 that doesn't have a color

01:33:45.720 and you know

01:33:48.720 if you have it in you already

01:33:49.800 you know

01:33:50.180 if you already spend time

01:33:51.260 hovering over that place

01:33:52.420 you know

01:33:59.060 uh

01:33:59.640 you know

01:34:03.500 i think that's a good place

01:34:04.540 and i think

01:34:04.940 that that place is

01:34:06.360 is really

01:34:07.420 it's really big

01:34:10.080 inside a lot of us

01:34:11.080 i really do believe that

01:34:12.940 um

01:34:14.720 let's go out with a little

01:34:16.720 levin bartels man

01:34:18.100 he's always got something

01:34:20.020 beautiful going on

01:34:21.080 and uh

01:34:21.640 and this song

01:34:23.720 i feel like

01:34:24.560 you know

01:34:26.680 was always something

01:34:27.600 special for me

01:34:28.440 uh

01:34:29.480 you guys be good to yourselves

01:34:31.280 man

01:34:31.460 you deserve it

01:34:32.180 and

01:34:32.360 and just know that uh

01:34:35.040 you got this

01:34:36.820 you know

01:34:38.320 take care of yourselves

01:34:39.240 you know

01:34:39.560 let's

01:34:39.860 let's

01:34:41.620 let's tend to that garden

01:34:43.720 we can touch

01:34:44.380 you know

01:34:44.760 man if we all did that

01:34:46.360 or what if we all prayed

01:34:49.800 at the same time

01:34:50.380 if we all prayed

01:34:51.060 to a higher power

01:34:51.780 it doesn't have to be

01:34:52.280 a specific one

01:34:53.220 but if we all just

01:34:55.200 you know

01:34:58.520 what what could happen

01:34:59.380 you know

01:34:59.820 maybe the world

01:35:01.100 cracks open then

01:35:02.220 and

01:35:02.480 and

01:35:04.760 you know

01:35:05.440 and we all get the candy

01:35:06.900 you know

01:35:07.380 i mean

01:35:11.960 because

01:35:12.180 you know

01:35:12.640 we're all barreling

01:35:13.580 towards

01:35:14.280 beige man

01:35:16.560 it's beige power man

01:35:18.560 it's all

01:35:19.080 in four decades

01:35:21.840 it's everybody's

01:35:22.640 patrick mahomes

01:35:23.420 that's it

01:35:24.680 everybody's a super bowl

01:35:26.600 mvp man

01:35:27.360 that's what i believe

01:35:28.100 uh

01:35:29.460 you guys take care of yourselves

01:35:30.560 man

01:35:44.280 man this song really gets me man

01:35:57.040 evan bartell's promised land

01:36:00.480 this is his ep

01:36:01.200 i could see the rain coming

01:36:06.440 from a hundred miles away

01:36:09.720 baptizing empty skyline

01:36:13.260 with the hope

01:36:14.720 better days

01:36:16.160 and i tell myself

01:36:18.700 this will all be fine

01:36:21.260 and i'll watch you from a window

01:36:30.500 i've built inside my mind

01:36:32.760 i wonder who i am

01:36:36.120 the way i am

01:36:37.740 every man that's walking

01:36:42.660 will fall from time to time

01:36:46.300 every time i feel the thunder

01:36:49.820 i remember i'm just a child

01:36:53.020 i would die

01:36:55.300 a thousand times 0.90

01:36:57.580 a thousand times

01:36:58.580 for i ever let you down

01:37:05.580 t-4-t 0.99

01:37:24.980 they laugh all right

01:37:29.380 ain't worth the trouble

01:37:31.020 that they cause you

01:37:32.960 so i find

01:37:34.520 i ain't burning

01:37:38.800 the candle at both ends 0.98

01:37:42.660 i just throw the whole damn thing 0.98

01:37:46.000 to the fire 0.99

01:37:47.340 and i tell myself

01:37:51.520 this will all be fine

01:37:54.120 i would die

01:37:58.160 a thousand times

01:38:01.160 before i ever let you down

01:38:09.300 i wish it was easier

01:38:24.780 i wish i had more

01:38:27.580 i wish i had more

01:38:33.820 i wish i had more

01:38:37.920 i wish i had more

01:38:41.800 i wish i have more

01:38:44.360 i wish i had more

01:38:45.860 i wish i had more 0.53

01:38:47.940 I would die a thousand times

01:38:55.600 If I ever let you down

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