＂Dumbest Way To Go Viral＂ - Joy Reid's CRAZY Claim Elvis' Nickname Is RACIST
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
188.99283
Summary
In this episode, the guys discuss the controversy surrounding Joy Reid's comments about Elvis Presley and whether or not she is a racist or not. They also discuss Jillian Michaels and her comments about slavery and white supremacy.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
I want to go to the story of Joy Reid and Elvis Presley.
00:00:02.500
This one just really is, I don't understand it.
00:00:05.420
I don't understand, you know, to go after something like this.
00:00:10.640
It's almost like she wakes up in the morning saying,
00:00:18.640
They're talking about me and not realizing this is definitely not the way of doing it.
00:00:25.980
So Joy Reid launches finger-jabbing rant against Elvis.
00:00:35.380
Rob, do you want to just play this clip and let the audience see it?
00:00:41.040
Their ancestors made this country into a slave hell.
00:00:47.040
But they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian.
00:00:52.280
They can lie about the history to the children.
00:00:53.980
They can't originally invent anything more than they ever were able to invent good music.
00:00:59.300
Like, we black folk gave y'all country music, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, rock and roll.
00:01:06.300
But they have to call a white man the king because they couldn't make rock and roll.
00:01:11.240
So they have to stamp the king on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.
00:01:42.100
How do you wake up in the morning and that's what you're talking about?
00:01:48.380
And people like Joy Reid, Pat, that's all they want to keep bringing up is racism and slavery.
00:02:12.120
Yeah, when Abraham Lincoln in the North won 1865.
00:02:19.880
When you hear white supremacy and white this and racism and slavery.
00:02:28.560
We're nowhere near where the hell we used to be.
00:02:35.080
It just keeps reminding you of shit that happened in the past.
00:02:40.740
Did you guys see the Jillian Michaels clip on CNN?
00:02:48.520
Rob, can you go to this clip with Jillian Michaels?
00:02:53.120
They're talking about what percentage of Americans own slaves.
00:02:57.400
And they've been trying to target her since that day till today.
00:03:02.300
So we're now literally reviewing parts of American history and parts of American culture
00:03:07.760
to make sure it comports with dear leader and what the MAGA organization wants.
00:03:11.780
Can we address some of those things that are in there?
00:03:13.600
Because have you looked at some of the things that are being reviewed?
00:03:16.320
Yeah, slavery was a bad thing that was to talk about.
00:03:23.820
And you cannot tie imperialism and racism and slavery to just one race, which is pretty
00:03:34.740
Let's talk about the fact that slavery in America was-
00:03:37.400
Do you realize that only less than 2% of white Americans own slaves?
00:03:42.460
Do you realize that slavery is thousands of years old?
00:03:45.000
Do you know who was the first race to try to end slavery?
00:03:50.460
I'm very surprised that you're trying to litigate-
00:03:51.460
This is an extraordinary exercise in historical religion.
00:03:56.000
Jillian, I'm surprised that you're trying to litigate who was the beneficiary of slavery
00:04:03.460
In the context of American history, in the context of American history, what are you
00:04:08.340
saying is incorrect by saying that it was white people oppressing black people?
00:04:12.680
Every single thing is like, oh, no, no, no, this is all because white people bad.
00:04:20.900
Like, for example, every single exhibit, I have a list of every single one.
00:04:25.700
Like, people migrated from Cuba because white people bad.
00:04:35.260
Do you know that when you walk in the front door-
00:04:38.580
Jillian, you have a lot of stuff in front of you.
00:04:53.380
And then it goes on to talk about how it's complex to do gender testing in sports.
00:05:06.200
Is it fair to have biological men competing against biological women in sports?
00:05:20.360
The part I'm surprised with is when she's going through it.
00:05:29.660
Can you keep going, Rob, to see if he says anything at all?
00:05:32.140
Or he's letting go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
00:05:39.720
Because normally in a situation like this, he would have jumped in.
00:05:42.520
And maybe he's waiting for them to come to her.
00:05:45.800
But the reality of it is when they broke down the numbers, and you keep going, she opened up the Pandora's box.
00:05:53.240
She opened up the Pandora's, and they're losing their absolute mind when she opened this up.
00:05:59.060
Wait, don't say that only 2% of whites weren't slaves.
00:06:07.000
Tom, you look like you want to say something about this.
00:06:08.480
As a matter of fact, this is why people will start to freak out when you bring numbers screen to this.
00:06:17.500
Because it's the step they don't want to talk about.
00:06:22.760
It's a boat trip back to northern Africa when the tribes enslaved each other, and they sold their prisoners for profit.
00:06:30.740
Slavery started with blacks enslaving and imprisoning blacks tribe by tribe in northern Africa and selling them to people that then traded them elsewhere.
00:06:49.900
That doesn't mean we didn't need 1864, 1865 and legislation.
00:06:55.420
That doesn't mean we didn't need civil rights in 1968.
00:06:58.960
But it also means no one wants to talk about the scope of the problem because it's their blankie.
00:07:06.880
And they can use that to keep doing things and to keep pushing things and to keep punishing and going back in retribution because their feeling is, says, reparations and retribution is forever.
00:07:29.960
It should never die in the pages of history incorrect or edited or change ever.
00:07:37.680
There was a very famous video that was a British teacher going after, and I think it was BBC, absolutely going after the newscasts and saying, you know, slavery started in northern Africa when tribes and slave tribes after wars, and they deliberately didn't kill their prisoners so they could sell them for a profit.
00:08:00.200
This is their history, but this is their history, not our history.
00:08:03.860
And so it's like, no, no, no, you're not changing history.
00:08:09.460
They were proud of it because they conquered other people.
00:08:13.480
And then they sold them to, you know, to explorers and traders.
00:08:20.800
They want to take, remember, take a small percent, give them victimhood, make them a voting block, and then make them see bigger than everything else.
00:08:33.640
We should never, ever walk away from the horrors of slavery or the need for it to be changed or the brave people or the fact that it was the Southern Republicans that had to get it through because the Southern Democrats wouldn't work for it.
00:08:47.600
That history has been changed, ladies and gentlemen.
00:08:50.160
We should never forget what happened and how it changed for the good.
00:08:53.500
But to go back the way Abby and those are trying to do it now and getting in Jillian's face when Jillian is bringing receipts.
00:09:04.940
Meanwhile, Rob, can you go up on ChatGBT and type in the following question?
00:09:10.080
I'm going to text it to you if you can just literally type this in.
00:09:15.780
It says, Jillian Michaels recently talked about only 2% of whites were slave owners.
00:09:20.200
Can you show where most of the white slave owners were?
00:09:22.620
What percentage was part of the South versus the North?
00:09:25.720
If you can just take that copy paste, put it in there and we'll go through it.
00:09:28.340
And just Tom, I love that you're saying that nobody is saying I'm saying they're they're acting as if we're going to forget.
00:09:35.740
It was a horrible part of our history, but it is our history.
00:09:38.140
But it drives me crazy is people like that with the attitude that America was built on slavery.
00:09:42.920
The truth of the matter is America took a very small percentage when it came down to it.
00:09:48.880
Out of the 12 million Africans that were shipped across the Atlantic, guess how many came to the United States?
00:09:58.200
Four to five million went to the Brazil and the Caribbean islands.
00:10:02.980
So to act like you talk about numbers scream, how much more screaming?
00:10:09.220
But that victim, that whole like like it's happening, still happening, that white supremacy, that slavery.
00:10:16.260
My favorite, my favorite interview, Pat, was with Don Lamont and he was with Morgan Freeman.
00:10:22.460
And he goes, so you mean to tell me that slavery goes, how do you fix it?
00:10:33.100
He goes, you find that thing that you want and you go get it.
00:10:44.680
It's a part in wealth distribution or either a mindset that you can't or cannot.
00:10:56.460
Put your mind to what you want to do and go for that.
00:11:04.980
You know, I said, and it's probably getting me in trouble, but I said to some of my colleagues
00:11:09.680
recently, I know that it's an issue, but I've been, it seems like every single day on
00:11:14.800
television I'm talking about race and it's because of the news cycle, it's in the news,
00:11:18.440
but sometimes I get so tired of talking about it.
00:11:27.580
It's not like it exists and we refuse to talk about it.
00:11:36.660
Julie Meyers collect that only small minority Americans own slaves about 1.5 to 2% of population
00:11:40.840
1860 and then if you go a little bit lower, the U.S. population 31, enslaved people 4
00:11:45.420
million, white slaveholders 385, 8 million families, that's 1.5 to 2% overall.
00:11:53.440
Almost all slave owners, holders were concentrated in the South, about 25 to 33% of white families
00:12:00.280
This varied by state, Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia.
00:12:04.980
So Northern states by 1804, all Northern states had enacted gradual emancipation laws by 1804.
00:12:11.920
By 1860, slavery was virtually extinct in the North, not the South.
00:12:16.640
So now here's the next question I want you to ask.
00:12:18.920
I want you to ask, were most of the South Democrats, that's all I want you to ask, were
00:12:40.160
The South in the 1800s was overwhelmingly Democrat.
00:12:45.380
Southern politics before and during Civil War, the Democratic Party was dominant across
00:12:49.040
Democrats on the South were the party of slavery and state rights.
00:12:51.920
They defended the institution of slavery as essential to their agricultural economy.
00:12:55.360
By contrast, the Republican Party, founded in 1854, was based in the North and opposed
00:13:02.580
The opposition has triggered Southern succession after Lincoln, a Republican, was elected in
00:13:08.880
In the 1860 election, Abraham Lincoln got almost no votes in the South.
00:13:14.000
Southern states mostly voted for Southern Democrats, John C. Breckinridge, or Constitutional Unionist
00:13:21.100
After the Civil War, during the Reconstruction, Republicans briefly gained influence on the
00:13:25.680
South, thanks to the freedom of Norton carpetbaggers.
00:13:30.720
The South then became the solid South, voting almost exclusively Democrat for the next 80 years.
00:13:37.440
The Democratic Party in the South was deeply tied to segregation and Jim Crow law.
00:13:41.880
So, I mean, this is the part where Jillian kind of goes in, not on Fox, on CNN, boom, drops
00:13:51.320
By the way, you want to talk about the amount of hit pieces she's going to get?
00:13:55.900
She's going to get so many more hit pieces of people coming after her, trying to defame
00:14:01.380
But good for her for doing that and showing the receipts afterwards, because even a Chad
00:14:06.980
GBT that some would say is more left-leaning defended the argument of what Jillian
00:14:12.780
Yeah, I used to be obsessed with the Civil War.
00:14:15.660
If you looked at it, when I was a kid, I saw a movie called Glory.
00:14:19.080
And if you've never seen the movie Glory, oh my God, you talked about Morgan Freeman.
00:14:23.820
He was actually in that movie, Denzel Washington, Matthew Broderick, Cary Elwes.
00:14:29.980
I watched his movie, I think I was like nine or ten years old.
00:14:32.780
I was like, what is this all about in America, right?
00:14:37.700
And it was just so shocking and so crazy and just such an emotional roller coaster.
00:14:44.020
And you're like, this happened here in America?
00:14:48.880
If you came into my bedroom when I was a kid, I had Pamela Anderson posters, a life-size
00:14:53.260
cutout of Isaiah Thomas basketball, and the Glory poster talking about the North versus
00:14:58.700
South Civil War, very weird sort of dichotomy going on there.
00:15:02.680
But here's what I understood about the Civil War.
00:15:05.020
You know, racism, America, what's going on here?
00:15:07.700
Jillian Michaels, great point about only 2% of Americans or even the Confederacy owned
00:15:14.900
Do you know how many Union soldiers fought to free the slaves?
00:15:22.120
Do you know how many Union soldiers died, white people died to free the African-American
00:15:34.540
So, Joy Reid, spare the racist drama because it was white people that died to free black
00:15:42.720
people from crappy white people that wanted to run and operate their business in the South.
00:15:48.340
So, it's so easy to be like, slavery, racist, you know, you know, the least, the word that
00:16:04.720
Can you show all three polls or no when you run on the podcast?
00:16:15.020
Before you pull it up, Rob, I hope they don't see.
00:16:19.560
So, the poll is, is Joy Reid right that whites calling Elvis King is racist?
00:16:26.620
What percentage of our audience do you think said yes?
00:16:53.960
Oh, by the way, James Brown is the godfather of the soul.
00:16:56.440
Oh, now we're racist because he's the godfather.
00:16:59.700
Guys, if there's a clip that I'll be with my kids.
00:17:05.480
If I've showed, Rob, do you have this clip or not with Elvis?
00:17:08.280
If there's a clip, I'll send you the last performance, specifically the one I like.
00:17:15.520
This is the first time ever he performs Unchained Melody publicly.
00:17:22.980
He, you can tell, he's either inebriated, he's either on drugs.
00:17:30.620
And you realize the magic of this guy, no matter how drunk he was, no matter what was in his body.
00:17:37.960
And you tell me if you would call this guy king or not.
00:17:47.620
I have to play the piano, so it'll take just a second.
00:18:01.500
Now, Charlie, you're going to make it your mind, son.
00:18:05.120
You're going to hold the microphone, put the scarf on, hold the ring, show him with the right keys.
00:18:17.500
And never performed internationally because of his manager.
00:18:39.320
You're going to have the chills all over your body.
00:20:25.160
I'll be coming home, wait for me, my love, my darling.
00:20:55.060
I mean, listen, there's a reason why they called this guy the king.
00:21:01.120
This is what he had to say when they asked him about his political views.
00:21:03.780
Mr. Presley, what is your opinion of war protesters, and would you today refuse to be drafted?
00:21:11.920
Honey, I just seem to keep my own personal views about that to myself.
00:21:16.000
I'm just an entertainer, and I do what I'm saying.
00:21:19.040
You think other entertainers should also keep their views to themselves?
00:21:28.340
Yeah, but when his career was taken off, he was like, I'm going to go serve.
00:21:32.880
Let me tell you, he loved America, and guess what?
00:21:35.600
If they called him the king and a market wanted to call him a king, good for him that they called him.
00:21:39.900
If the man want to be called king, we'll call him king.
00:21:45.000
By the way, just how you're saying that Elvis loved America, I don't think this is a shocking statement.
00:21:49.460
I actually don't think that Joy Reid loves America.
00:21:54.900
She can go back to wherever her family came from.
00:22:00.800
Today happens to be the National Lemonade Day, okay?
00:22:07.500
So, when you think about the National Lemonade Day, we launched this campaign a few months ago.
00:22:13.160
If you remember, Rob, if you can go to it, it was the Zested Forward Lemon Box, which ended up becoming a hit.
00:22:20.900
And we got so many awesome stories and testimonies.
00:22:23.880
The other day, I was reading all the reviews at the bottom of what stories people were saying and the reaction they got from folks.
00:22:36.920
They open it up and there's a message there, okay, an inspirational message there that they hear.
00:22:42.520
And then outside of the inspirational message, there's a few items.
00:22:46.640
A Zested Forward hat, Future Looks Bright hat, a few other items.
00:22:55.380
Okay, so I want to read some of these stories to you of people who use this and send it to others and what their experience was from the people that received it.
00:23:11.480
Helped me to surprise gentleman who has everything and more for his 90th birthday.
00:23:30.680
My sister-in-law is going through chemotherapy.
00:23:33.300
She was very surprised and blessed by the gift.
00:23:35.760
Thank you for thinking of such a lovely gesture.
00:23:41.940
My customer is going through some hard times with business and family.
00:23:45.400
The VT Lemon Box put a smile on his face with a heartfelt thank you.
00:23:52.060
Folks, if you know a friend or family that's going through challenging times, go to VTMerch.com, place the order, zest it forward to somebody, make someone's day.
00:24:01.020
Sometimes the best feeling in the world isn't receiving the gift.
00:24:04.620
Sometimes the best feeling in the world isn't you getting the promotion, isn't you getting all of that.
00:24:08.060
Sometimes it's just doing it for somebody else.
00:24:09.500
So if you want to start your day, you know, for me, anytime I was having a bad day in sales the last 25 years, the first thing I would do when I would go through a lot of rejections, I would call five of my clients or five of my guys, and I would tell them how amazing that I would find a way to make somebody else's day.
00:24:25.060
Then I would perform and go out there and, you know, make my calls and meet with my clients that I needed to.
00:24:29.340
So if you want to be able to do that for somebody else, send this to someone.
00:24:32.920
Not only will you bless someone's day, but it's going to come back and do the same thing to you.
00:24:36.960
Number two, August 27th, I want to remind you guys of what's happening here on the campus.
00:24:42.300
August 27th, we're giving private tours of the entire campus.
00:24:49.400
Literally we're building a futsal field here, one of the biggest futsal fields in all of the state of Florida that's being built right behind me as we speak.
00:24:56.180
Every time people come and see our campus, they're like, we had no idea you guys had nearly 200 employees and you guys are doing all this stuff.
00:25:03.920
So if you're somebody that wants to come and get a private tour of what we're doing here at Valuetainment, line holding, all you need to do is have a ticket that you bought to go to the Valk Conference.
00:25:15.360
So if you're somebody that's going to the Valk Conference, if you get a general ticket, you can come here to network in the hangar.
00:25:22.240
But if you're somebody that gets a platinum or an executive, our guys will give you a tour of the entire operation.
00:25:27.860
Obviously, no cameras when you come to the executive floor.
00:25:30.160
And if you get a founder and a CEO ticket sold out, but if you get a founder ticket, and even if you're an existing CEO ticket holder, you come through, I'm going to give you the tour of the entire property multiple times with all the other people that are coming down.
00:25:41.880
We've already had hundreds of people that have registered.
00:25:45.240
This is limited to a certain amount of people because we're going to have security all over the place.
00:25:49.260
If you want to go out there and get registered, get yourself a ticket.
00:25:51.900
Rob, how does somebody register to put their names on the list?
00:25:54.420
I'm putting the link in the description right now, and it'll also be pinned in the chat.
00:25:58.420
So he's going to put in the link in the description, and it'll be in the chat.
00:26:02.660
Either make someone's day or get yourself a ticket to go to the Valk Conference.
00:26:06.420
Come and get a tour of the office here and network with nearly 400 other people that will be here as well.
00:26:12.220
If you enjoyed this video, you want to watch more videos like this, click here.
00:26:14.920
And if you want to watch the entire podcast, click here.