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Find me and the show on social media. Click the following links or search @DrWilmerLeon on X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube!   FULL TRANSCRIPT: Wilmer Leon (00:00): So here's a question. How does the false construct of race, and yes, it is a false construct or the real constructs of culture and cultural identity factor into our opposition to or support for a political candidate. Let's find out Announcer (00:26): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge. Wilmer Leon (00:33): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon and I am Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they occur in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historical context in which most events take place. During each episode of connecting the dots, my guests and I have probing, provocative, and in-depth discussions about the broader historic context in which most events occur. This enables you to better understand and analyze the events and the impact that these events have on the global village in which we live on today's episode. The issue before us is, as I stated, how does the false construct of race and it is a false construct and or the real issues of culture and cultural identity factor into our opposition to and support for candidates for insight. Let's turn to my guest, Dr. (01:35) Chantel Sherman is a historian and journalist whose work documents deconstructs and interprets eugenic themes in popular culture, identity formation among African-Americans and reproductive apartheid in carceral spaces and within marginalized communities. Publisher of Acumen Magazine, author of In Search of Purity, eugenics and Racial Uplift among New Negroes, 1915 and 1935, as well as popular eugenics in television and film. Also, she's a novelist of Fester and Spill. Dr. Chantel Sherman, welcome back. Good morning. Thank you for having me. And as always, thank you for joining me. And I got to add, she's a very, very dear friend as well, so I get to call her Chantel, before we get to the question posed in the open, A viewer of our last discussion reached out to me and wanted us to elaborate on the issues of eugenics in medicine because many of us know some things about the Tuskegee study as well as Ms. Henrietta Lacks, but there's an awful lot more to eugenics and medicine than just those two issues. So starting there, particularly with the Tuskegee experiment, I elaborate, clarify what you know to be some of the misunderstandings about that, a little bit about Henrietta Lacks and then where are we with eugenics in medicine? Shantella Sherman (03:10): Sure. It's a loaded question because it actually has, the response is almost a series of volumes, quite frankly, but to synthesize this understanding, eugenics means what you're trying to do is create better people. And in order to create better people, you have to know what they're made of, what makes good stock, what makes good genes. And so what we've tried to do in this country through eugenics is to create better people by restricting who can and who cannot have children incarcerating people performing sterilizations for sterilizations on folks who we deem as unfit. And so it's not just about the body, but it's the body politic. So if I determine that you're poor, for instance, it's believed that poverty is in your DNA diseases are automatically in your DNA. And so black people as a whole, were considered to be contaminated. We are still considered to be largely contaminated. (04:17) We are a bad gene pool, we are a subhuman group according to science and eugenics. So based on this, studying any type of disease means studying black people, and sometimes it means injecting them with certain things. So with Tuskegee, there's been a bit of a revisionist history about these are black people who had syphilis and we simply did not treat them in order to see the development of the disease or the course of the disease over years. The truth of the matter is many of these men were injected with syphilis, and that's the original documentation that we don't necessarily look at. We have to get to a point where we're looking at the entire scope of information and data. Alabama, Tuskegee was not the only place where these syphilis studies were taking place. The serological studies were taking place in six different states and they were all connected to sharecropping or farming communities, sharecropping communities where the black people there could not necessarily leave of their own free will. (05:23) And then based upon that, you had a population that you could study, you could inject with different things. I've seen studies where folks are literally looking at how pesticides work by spraying cotton fields and leaving the black people who are working in the cotton fields in the fields so that as they develop lung conditions, you now start to talk about how black people don't have the capacity to breathe in certain places or they have bad lungs or these other things as if they're genetic, when the truth of the matter is you are experimenting on them. And so we've been the Guinea pigs unwittingly in this country for a long time, but because the stroke and the core of the information is based upon black people being somehow contaminated anyway, being less human, then we become like the lab rats or the little white mice in the labs where constantly we're having things tested on us and we don't necessarily know this. Then the scope of that becomes black people are 10 times more likely to have this. They're 10 times more likely to do this or to die of these conditions, or their behaviors lend themselves to these particular things. Wilmer Leon (06:39): When you said make better people, it was inferred, but I want to state the obvious. When the Nazis were trying to make the superior race, they were not doing this for the betterment of mankind, even though in their warped racist minds, they thought, so this was not altruistic by any stretch of the imagination. They were trying to make better white people at the expense of people of color. Is that hyperbolic on my Shantella Sherman (07:22): No, it's on point. I mean, the fact of the matter is if you consider non-white people to be subhuman, there we go. Or a subspecies. Let's pull this into America. When you say American, you're not talking about black people, you're talking about white people. That's why you have to add these hyphens, African-American, because America is the culture. It is also the race. It is also the health. It is also the patriotism. It is also the citizenship. And so this language becomes loaded. So when you say American, I'm looking at things that are talking about the American birth rate. The American birth rate is not going down when we're talking about black people or Hispanic people. So where in America is the birth issue? It's an American issue. It's a white issue. Wilmer Leon (08:15): It's a very white issue. And I'm quickly trying to put my hands on a piece by Dr. Walters here. I think I have it that speaks to this in the political context where, well, I can't find the quote, but he basically talks about, it's very important to understand that, oh, here we go. This is from white nationalism, black interests, and so this is your eugenics. On the policy side, if a race is dominant to the extent that it controls the government of the state defined as the authoritative institutions of decision-making, it is able to utilize those institutions and the policy outcomes they produce as instruments through which it is also structures its racial interests. Given a condition where one race is dominant in all political institutions, most policy appears to take on an objective quality where policymakers argue they're acting on the basis of national interests rather than racial ones. So that's Dr. Walters telling us, if I can just cut to the chase, when white folks run the show and they speak in the national interest, they're talking about their interests, not ours, and that's absolutely okay. Alright, Shantella Sherman (09:55): That's it. Wilmer Leon (09:55): So two other points about Tuskegee that I think are very important for people to understand. I know there were black nurses involved and weren't there also black physicians involved? Shantella Sherman (10:08): Absolutely. Wilmer Leon (10:09): And there is some question about whether there was actual consent. How much of this did they actually know or were they dupes? Isn't that a question that gets posed? Shantella Sherman (10:24): It's a question that's posed often because the belief is that if there's a black person in the room that they're going to side for black people, they're going to defend, they're going to try and help. But the reality is when we're talking science, we're talking medicine and science on behalf of the nation, on behalf of American Americans, we want to make sure that we have a healthy pool of black people as well. So it benefited and it benefits currently many black leaders to hold onto these eugenic things and these eugenic tropes and these eugenic theories where even though we don't talk about sterilizing people in the same way we did, then you still hear people say, black people, even this person has too many kids, they don't need to have any more kids. They're on welfare already. So what do you do? You Wilmer Leon (11:18): Give them Ronald Reagan's welfare queen, Shantella Sherman (11:20): Right? Well, right. If a white person says this, it's racist. If a black person says she already has 10 kids, she doesn't need anymore. She can't afford 'em, now she's neglecting them. We start with this other thing and it becomes, so what do we do? Give her no plan or something. And if that doesn't work, go ahead and give her a hysterectomy. That's eugenics. Wilmer Leon (11:41): An example of that on the other side is Octo mom. Shantella Sherman (11:45): Exactly, Wilmer Leon (11:47): Exactly. She got a TV show or she was trying to get a, there were people who were saying, oh, this woman is out here tripping and something needs to be done. But there were also those that wanted to glorify her, put her on television in order to generate revenue, Shantella Sherman (12:11): Generate revenue, but also public opinion, where she was one, a single woman, she already had one child that she was having trouble supporting. Then it became who should have access to IVF and all these other things, and then who's going to pay for all of these eight now nine children that she has? And it was like, what is she going to do with them and dah, dah, dah, dah. But you give the duggars one, she's single. If it's the Duggars who are just full of all types of deficiencies over here, I'm using eugenic terms. I'm sorry. All of a sudden it was like, right, give them a TV show. Give them money, give them this, give them that. Because what you're doing with television is programming people to believe some people need this, some people don't. If this was a black female in Chicago, in the Robert Taylor homes years ago and she had 10 or 11 kids, you'd be running her up a flagpole at this point and talking about the degeneracy and her kids are going to be this and there's no father in the house and all of these other things. (13:09) So when you push this politically and you start talking policy, this is what you're concerned about. We should be concerned about on a local, national, and even an international scale. And so as you start to talk about candidates, we have to have a clear understanding of where our potential leaders fall, whether they're black or white, because black people are also Americans. And so we're living the American dream, and I don't want these people living next to me and I don't want a prison next to me and I don't want halfway house over here, and I don't want the school of kids over here and I don't want this, this, this and this. And that's an American thing, even if the person or the kids or the people I'm talking about happens to be brown just like me. Wilmer Leon (13:57): So to wrap up the Tuskegee, what are the two biggest misnomers about Tuskegee that you want this audience to have a better understanding of before we get to Henrietta Lacks? What do you want people to understand about Tuskegee? Shantella Sherman (14:13): The Tuskegee was not the only place, and I don't even like it being named, that it was the Eugenics records office. Serological studies. And you had five other places, five other places other than Tuskegee, where these serological tests were being done and they did not necessarily stop. Wilmer Leon (14:34): Oh, meaning that they're still ongoing. I know they were going well into the seventies at least. Shantella Sherman (14:43): And if Tuskegee is the only one that they're talking about, what makes you think that? The serological studies that were taking place in Mississippi and in Tennessee, in Georgia, just in North Carolina. In North Carolina, and again, there's a whole record of this, but we don't talk about that and we don't talk about the black people intrinsically involved in these studies and in this research, Wilmer Leon (15:08): Henrietta Lacks, if you would elaborate, Shantella Sherman (15:13): One thing that we don't discuss with Henrietta Lacks is that the fact of the matter is that she was at Crownsville, she was in Maryland. Once again, you must make the connection between eugenics and these carceral spaces, either asylums places where you need to have a mental rest. I don't like even calling them. It's a home for the mentally ill. This person may have been having menopausal symptoms. They have women in there, they were reading too much. There's a Howard University professor and his name Escape Smith, the moment high ranking Howard University professor. He was caught up in Crownsville at some point and died there. And Wilmer Leon (15:52): For those that don't know, what is Crownsville? Shantella Sherman (15:54): Crownsville was the Maryland, it's, we would say asylum now, but it was a place for people who were feeble minded or had mental health issues. And you could be put there for any of a number of reasons. But once you were there, this was the one specifically for black folks. So a whole black neighborhood was cleared in order to put this asylum there and to let you know what they thought of black people, they made the black people who were supposed to be the patients actually build the hospital itself. And it remained open for quite a while, but it was a place of torture. It was a place of experiments. And Henrietta Lacks ended up there. And so while people are, she's telling people, okay, I'm having fibroid issues. The potential cancer issue, once you're in these spaces, you don't have rights over your own body. (16:45) So the experiments and the biopsies and the whatever else are also taking place in these spaces. And so that's where she was when all of this transpired, grabbing her cells, studying her cells. If you knew the cells could give us the cancer treatments that we have today, were you actually trying to treat her or were you trying to advance science? And so we have to start looking at who were some of the black doctors that were there, who were the other universities? You have universities that are attached to these asylums. And so it's not just, even if you're talking to Tuskegee, it's not just Tuskegee as the area, it's Tuskegee, the university, it's Howard or it's me, Harry. It's black institutions as well. And you have to look at this. Some of this is a class issue, but it's always a consciousness issue. You all right? Wilmer Leon (17:40): And just so people know that Henrietta Lacks, she was the first African-American woman whose cancer cells are the of the hela cell line, which is the first immortalized human cell line, and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. And a lot of people made a lot of money, Shantella Sherman (18:05): Still are Wilmer Leon (18:06): Hundreds of millions of dollars off of her body. And up until recently, her family did not receive any type of compensation for the illegal use of her body. And I want to put it in the context of body because when you talk about cells and people go, oh, cells, what the hell? No, it was her body that they used to create an incredibly valuable, some would say invaluable. You really can't even put a value on it. And up until recently, her family, I can see you want to go ahead. Go ahead. Shantella Sherman (18:52): Well, when you start talking about the value of black bodies, we can go currently, as of last year, the children that were involved, there was a situation in Philadelphia, 1985 where it was a group of what they called militant resistant black folks, the Africa Family Wilmer Leon (19:12): Move Shantella Sherman (19:12): Movement community. They were in a lovely community. And so they had this move project that they were doing, this is their thing. And you had a black mayor at this point who said, Wilmer Leon (19:23): William, good, Shantella Sherman (19:24): There you go, mayor. Wilmer Leon (19:26): Good. Who was bad? Shantella Sherman (19:28): I'm sick of having to deal with this. And instead of charging the house which had children in his whole family communal type of space, he said, let's drop a bomb, get a helicopter to drop a bomb on the house. Which of course ended up spreading. It tears up the entire neighborhood. But here's the point with this, two of the children that died in the bombing, somehow their bodies were sold given over to the University of Pennsylvania for study for research. Because the idea is, is there a difference in the brain and the mentality of a resistant black family and their children, their progeny that we need to be aware of? So now you have a university studying the brains and the body parts of dead children. The family does not know. The family did not know until last year that the university didn't even know that the bodies were sitting on the shelf Now Wilmer Leon (20:30): Because some of the other children survived and are now in their thirties and forties. Absolutely. Shantella Sherman (20:36): Absolutely. Absolutely. So they had to give those but become, we're going to give you the bodies back so they can be interred. What were you doing with these children? You were studying them, you're studying them not just as cadavers. They were being used in the classroom for what purpose though? And so I think that we need to really grapple with the fact that there's a value to black bodies, even if there's not a value to black people. The culture is amazing and this and this, but there is a value to black bodies that we don't talk about. And so there are folks that are, you have dollar signs on you when they see you, they have dollar signs on your womb, they have dollar signs on you as you matriculate through life and you navigate different systems. And the goal is to extract as much as possible while we are just kind of not paying attention to any of it. Wilmer Leon (21:34): There is the adage, you are a product of your environment. And so people will look at me, look at you. And how did you all become PhDs? Well, they haven't met your mother. I've had the blessing. They haven't met your parents. They haven't met my parents. We are products of our environment. So when you look at the children in the Africa family from move in Philadelphia, those children, there was nothing biologically different that made them one way or another. They were products. They were raised a certain way just as they want to talk about black on black crime, ignoring the fact that crime occurs everywhere. You tend to commit crime in the space that's closest to you against those that are closest to you. And that poverty is one of the greatest contributors to a criminal element. Not psychosis, not phenotype. And final point as they talk about black crime, who did the mafia commit most of its crime against other Italians? Who did the Polish Mafia? Who did the Russian mob? Who does the Israeli mob commit crime against those that are closest to them, but we don't understand it in that context. Shantella Sherman (23:19): Wiler, I'm going to throw this in here real quick. The University of Pennsylvania has a long history of studying black folks, especially ones that they consider to be degenerate types. For years, I did a series for Acumen Magazine called the Crack Baby Turns 30. And it looked at a study, a longitudinal study that the University of Pennsylvania was doing where they actually studied the children, the newborn babies that were left at the hospital by women who were crack addicted at that point. And they had these terrible lines in their notes saying things like, these children don't look you in the face. They are born with a pathology. They will be criminals and they will be murderers. And they don't even cry like real babies. They're like animals, okay, 30 years on and they're studying these kids every month 30 years later, they come back and say, each one of those children provided they were given to an aunt, a grandparent or someone else, and they were loved on and taken care of. (24:21) They turned out just fine. None of them have been in prison. None of them have committed crimes. None of them have had out welock babies, most of them. I think they said 90% of them have been to college. Alright. So it automatically tells you that the nature versus nurture is really just a dream. It's a dream sequence in some madman's laboratory where you're going to try and make a case by creating an environment where you're defunding this and unhinging people and then saying, this is a self-fulfilling prophecy or this is all about the numbers and these are the stats and this is where this goes. And it is simply not true. Wilmer Leon (25:04): Some may have heard me tell this story before, but nature versus nurture, really quick example, I went to a private Catholic high school in Sacramento, Christian brothers high school and had to pay tuition to get there. So whether it was hook or by crook, I can obviously afford to be there. I'm there. So the guidance counselor at the time, Mr. Patrick O'Brien sees me wearing a Hampton sweatshirt and I'm walking down the hall and he says, Wilmer, what is that? And I said, oh, this is the sweatshirt from the college I'm going to go to. And he says, you're going to college? I said, yeah, Mr. O'Brien, I'm going to college. He said, Wilmer, have you ever thought about trade school? I said, no, I have never thought about trade school. He says, well, why not? I said, because honestly, Mr. O'Brien, I don't want to have to take the ass whooping that I'm going to take if I go home and tell my parents I'm not going to college. Now there's nothing against going to trade school, but in my house. Shantella Sherman (26:13): Exactly. Wilmer Leon (26:14): That was not an option, Shantella Sherman (26:16): Not one. So Wilmer Leon (26:21): It was all a matter of environment. And so people look at my son now who just graduated from Hampton, and the boy understands he has two options, conform or perish. So it's not a miracle, it's an environment. It's a level of expectation that is set. It's a matter of standards that must be maintained and understanding if you follow the path, life is great. If you deviate from the path, you might have a problem on your hands and you have to make a decision, do I want this problem or do I? That's all. Am I wrong? Shantella Sherman (27:12): No, I mean it's spot on. And I think that again, we understood this 50 years ago in a way that we are not passing that information down now. So the fact that someone can come to me now with eugenic thoughts and tell me if a black child hasn't learned to read by the time they're in the third grade, they have automatically lined themselves up to go to prison. Who came up with that foolishness? Wilmer Leon (27:38): Wait a minute, I'm one of those kids. I'm one kids. Shantella Sherman (27:45): Come on now. Wilmer Leon (27:46): I was reading well below grade level when I was in the third grade and they had shifted, and that was the time when they had shifted how they were teaching reading away from phonics to sight words. Fortunately for me, my parents, we had a very dear friend, Mrs. Bode, Mrs. Gloria Bode, who was a reading specialist, she would come to the house three times a week after dinner. She taught me phonics. And within Goy, it wasn't even a month, I went from reading below the third grade level in third grade to reading at the seventh grade level. All she did was teach me phonics. Shantella Sherman (28:40): Exactly, exactly. So the fact that you can add fake science over here with the eugenic themes, add it to policy, trickle it into the school system, add some funding issues with this, it's like I need you to understand that's what public libraries are for. I need you to understand that every child learns at a different rate. I need you to understand that if there's calamity all around this child outside in the neighborhood, they're not listening for concentration purposes and it may be hindering them. There are things that we knew and we knew how to meet those challenges to ensure that the children in this great space would be able to matriculate. We haven't gone bonkers. So why is it that we are feeding into this and actually accepting that it's true? And then getting on television and saying yes, as a black psychologist, it is true that if black kids don't start reading, you have black people who don't know how to read until they are adults, but they've never committed crimes and they didn't turn into degenerates. So why are we leaning this 10 toes down? It really is a fact. Wilmer Leon (29:47): I know some of those people who became very productive individuals and education became very, very important for them because they understood the value of what they didn't have. And they instilled in their children who went on to college and went on to get master's degrees and other advanced degrees, and many of those kids didn't even realize until after they got out of school that their parents couldn't even read. Shantella Sherman (30:13): Many people went to their graves as black people and white people who never learned to read period, but that was not a part of their character. If you can't read, you're automatically going to become a criminal. That's not the way this works. It's not the way it works. So the fact that we bought into this again tells me that we're moving back into these eugenic themes without, it's the popular social eugenics that the average everyday person is just like, yeah, that makes sense. It does not. Wilmer Leon (30:43): It only makes sense if you don't have any sense. So moving into these popular eugenics themes, getting to now the question that I opened the show with, how does the false construct of race and yes, race is a false construct or the real constructs of culture and cultural identity factor into our opposition to or support for a political candidate. And that all centers around, and I'll state the obvious here at right now, the presumed democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, whose father is Jamaican, whose mother is Indian, and she in some circles is considered to be an African-American woman. I've heard her referred to as such. I've also heard her in many current commercials referred to as an Indian-American woman. And I want to stress this is not a judgmental conversation. Shantella Sherman (31:54): No. Wilmer Leon (31:55): Let me throw it to you, Dr. Sherman. Shantella Sherman (31:59): The issue at hand warmer is that however many of those boxes she chooses to check that show diversity or Wilmer Leon (32:06): Check for her Shantella Sherman (32:08): Either way, either way, all of those lend themselves to the greater eugenic conversation, which is she is non-white. Okay, 1924, racial integrity, that act coming out of Virginia said there are only two races. Skip the Monga, Loy Caucusi. We're going to scratch all of that. There are only two races, white and non-white and the fact that she's also female, that's another thing that we have to deal with. Public perception, American public perception, sometimes global public section of what it means to be any of these things or an amalgamation of all of these things. And some people may be offended by the term amalgamation, a mixture. We're all a mixture of a bunch of other things. What does that mean? And so each one of these people who are definitive about whiteness and Americanism and patriotism, they're questioning as they did with Obama citizenship. They're questioning her womanhood at this point. They're questioning as Wilmer Leon (33:15): They did with Michelle Obama. Shantella Sherman (33:17): Exactly. They're questioning. But on this side, how many kids does Kamala have? And then the fact that, Wilmer Leon (33:26): Didn't JD Vance call her a cat woman because she doesn't have any biological children of her own? Shantella Sherman (33:31): What is that exactly? Wilmer Leon (33:34): Wait a minute. I got to mention when I mention his name, we always must say for those who don't know, JD Vance is now Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee. He's the same guy who about three years ago compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. So one has to ask the question, how does the guy who three years ago called another guy Adolf Hitler, wind up standing next to that guy as his vice presidential nominee. He didn't even call him Mussolini. He called him Hitler Shantella Sherman (34:07): And pay attention to the fact that when Kamala, Kamala was named as Joe Biden's running mate, once again, I heard the senator call say, okay, now we are going to have aunt your mama in the White House. This woman doesn't look like aunt your mama, no connections whatsoever. But all of a sudden this is what folks are thinking of you in these spaces all along. And so the nastiness of it starts to come out the thing. Wait Wilmer Leon (34:40): A minute, and that takes me to Tiger Woods when he first won the master's tournament and the year after the master's tournament, the winner gets to determine the menu for the player's dinner. And Fuzzy Zeller says, oh, we going to have fried chicken tonight. Shantella Sherman (34:58): Fried chicken and watermelon. Wilmer Leon (35:00): There you go. Shantella Sherman (35:01): Yeah. So again, my question is if we are that removed from the plantation at this point, why are you constantly trying to throw people back onto it? Or these are the only references that you're coming up with when you can clearly see in front of you that this isn't the case, it's the Fair State University, their whole thing, their memorabilia collection that they have of racist items that came up 1870 and moving forward. And it was like while we are saying they're racist, these are the things that keep peace in many white minds. I need an anama salt and pepper shaker. I need an anama cookie jump. I need to put her face on the pancake box. I need to have two little black kids as the icons or the folks that I'm using for gold dust soap powder and for this and for that and for the other. (36:00) And so in researching how labels and emblems and mascots were created, you start to find that when white people feel uncomfortable in this country, they tend to hold onto the things that they did love about black people. And so that hasn't changed. We're going to show Kamala dancing and we're going to show her doing all of these things, loving cats, the things that make white people feel good and feel comfortable and feel wholesome and feel whole. She is a part of our group. And at the same time you have black people who are going, but she's married to someone who's not black. Wilmer Leon (36:40): I was asked that question, I won't mention the woman's name who said to me, Wilmer, why do black men, Hey Kamala Harris. And I said, I don't know that black men do hate Kamala Harris. I haven't seen any data. I said, but let me pose this to you. Why does she hate black men? And it was what I said, well, she didn't marry her brother. And I said, so I'm not equating the fact that she didn't marry a brother to say that she hates black men. I am just posing that as a ridiculous premise to your ridiculous premise and riddle me that and I couldn't get an answer. Shantella Sherman (37:28): No, we are still stuck in an antebellum mindset. Many folks are just still stuck there. And so it doesn't make sense that I can walk into a room and someone is waiting for me to flip some pancakes or am I the cleaning lady? Am I here for any type of servant position? Nothing wrong with servants, but when you visually look at a person and you start to assess them, not my character, not any of these other things, but sight, you're seeing me for the first time. If your reaction is to put me into this particular position, you need to ask yourself why. This is something that as the commander in chief, potential commander in chief of this country, that she's going to have to face down in the same way that President Obama had to. But she's also going to have this added level of this is a female who does not have children and all of these other, she's suspicious to folks. She's suspicious to the nation. And that is simply unfair and it's unfounded, but it's how we do things here a lot of times. Wilmer Leon (38:40): So let's take the other side of this because when she first announced that she wanted to be president in this, after Joe Biden stepped down, the narrative was she's earned it. She deserves it. I think it was Simone Sanders Townsend who was saying, and some of her other surrogates who were saying, what does the Democratic, what problem does the Democratic party have with wanting a black woman at the top of the ticket? It was all about her being an AKA. She went to Howard and she can do the electric slide. We were falling into that same mindset in terms of rallying the troops around her instead of asking the questions, where does she stand on Gaza? What's she going to do about Ukraine? What's her policy on Cop city? Where is she on the George Floyd Act and policy issues? And when we started listing policy issues and wanting her to articulate where she stands on policy, then the question becomes, why are you hating on the sister? Why do you hate black women? No, I don't hate black women. I know that AKAs Howard University and I have two degrees from Howard, so I ain't hating on Howard and being able to do electric slide that ain't going to feed the bulldog. Shantella Sherman (40:16): Well, and the truth of the matter, I don't believe our percentage is 13% still because it's just not fathomable we've been producing. So I'm going to say the black population is country. Let's say it's at about 18% right now. Alright? You still have the whole rest of the country that to some extent mentally and emotionally, you're going to have to reunite in the same way Obama had to reunite them because they had blown apart with even the thought of having a black man in office. Okay, you're going to have to suture us back together. Wilmer Leon (40:54): Donald Trump was the reaction to Barack Obama. Shantella Sherman (40:58): Absolutely. And the belief that even at this point, I still have people saying, Barack Obama is running the White House behind Biden all this time. And I'm going, are you serious? So it doesn't matter the truth. The truth doesn't matter at this point. It's what you feel. And I'm telling people it's not about what you feel. Your feelings don't enter into the facts at this point. Thank you. I need you to start talking about the fact that the housing in this country is so deliberately greedy and ridiculous that working people are living in homeless shelters. All right? I need you to talk. College Wilmer Leon (41:33): Professors in California are living in their cars. Shantella Sherman (41:38): I need you. And this is across the country and quite frankly across the globe. So I need you to talk to me about investing and divesting in certain things. I need to know where Kamala stands on certain things. I haven't really heard. I don't know what her platform is on certain things. I would love to have someone talk to her rather than having Megan thee stallion up dancing with her. I don't care about that. I don't want to hear about that right now. You're telling me people are blowing me up about Project 2025, which by the way is nothing but the NATO group and some other folks from 1925 still trying so much conservative policy. This isn't new. Wilmer Leon (42:14): It's not new. It's called New Gingrich's Contract with America. Shantella Sherman (42:18): Thank you. Nothing on that list is new. Nothing on it is new. So it's like even if it were true, and I understand that a lot of it is not true. It wasn't in the 880 page document that most people haven't read. When I started sifting through it, it was like that didn't happen. That's not in the document. That's not there. These are proposals. And do you know how many think tanks put out proposals every time there's about to be a change of leadership? So it's like don't get up in arms. This is something that we always face. But in the meantime, can you tell me where if this were something that was about to take place, where are your local leaders positioned on this? Because we got Biden in office right now, but you still can't afford to get a bag of potato chips for less than $4 or $5 right now. What is going on with the cost of living and the American dream? Why are you having corporations buying up housing so that the average person can't afford 'em? Wilmer Leon (43:10): BlackRock, Shantella Sherman (43:12): Help me out. Wilmer Leon (43:14): People don't understand that As a result of the Covid crisis and the mortgage crisis and all of these homes that people were put out of BlackRock and other venture capitalist companies were buying up the housing stock and they weren't putting the housing stock back on the market for sale. They were putting the housing stock back on the market for rent. Absolutely Shantella Sherman (43:45): For rent. And if you're charging, there's nothing, I'm going to say it on the record, there's nothing inside Washington DC that's worth $5,000 a month as a two bedroom apartment. Nothing. Nowhere in this city is it worth it. But those are the going rates. And so we can look at this. Go ahead, I'm Wilmer Leon (44:02): Sorry. And as Vice President Harris is on the stump saying, Donald Trump is a convicted felon. And as a former prosecutor, I know how to deal with felons. I know that personality well, when you had Steve Mnuchin in your sights when he was the bankster in California and your staff brought you a thousand felonies committed by the man, you didn't pursue the case against Steve Mnuchin who wound up being our Secretary of Treasury under Donald Trump. So don't hate Malcolm said, when my telling you the truth makes you angry, don't get angry at me. Get angry at the truth. I don't do the electric slide. I'm not an A KAI am in the divine nine, but I don't do that. And so those things don't matter to me, Dr. Sherman, Shantella Sherman (45:00): It's going to have to matter to us what the policies and standpoints are that Kamala Harris brings to the table. I just want to know her positions on things. I have the lesser of two evils true as it appears, and I believe she would make a wonderful president, but I would love to know where she stands on all of these issues that are also international issues that are also, I've been trying to get someone from the state of California, a representative, and I don't have to call the person's name to talk to me about the sterilizations that are being forced on black and Spanish women inside California penitentiaries for the last eight years. And I can't get a callback. So I want you to understand that it's not about blackness. It's about I need you to make sure that my American dream isn't a nightmare, that you get to blame on Donald Trump or anybody else. We have black elected officials. We're not holding anyone accountable and we're not holding them accountable from the moment we elect them. You're not asking the proper questions, and so you Wilmer Leon (46:04): Won't get the right answer. Shantella Sherman (46:06): I want Kamala Harris to win. I put on the T-shirt, all of that. But in the meantime, I want to know where she stands on some things that impact my quality of life and the quality of life for the folks who are around me. I've crossed 50 years old at this point, so I'm trying to figure out if I had to go lay down and retire somewhere, is there a patch of dirt in the woods for me that you want going to then come through and arrest me for being homeless on and lock me up for it? That's a reality. They're locking up homeless people. It's their laws in certain states now. And these states have black representatives. No one's talking about this. We are talking about the suits that people are wearing and their connections and affiliations with other things that don't benefit us at the moment. Wilmer Leon (46:51): And rappers Shantella Sherman (46:52): Well, and just while you dancing, when it comes time to pick your kid up from the daycare center, are you going to find out that they've raised the rates? So you got to pay $3,500 a month for the kid to go to the daycare? Wilmer Leon (47:04): And two things. One is we keep hearing that we can't afford to provide quality daycare to people across the country, but we can send a trillion dollars to Ukraine. See, budgets are numeric representations of priority. Shantella Sherman (47:26): And also add to that, even if we didn't have the money, we had the consciousness, we had the heart to say that the grandmother in the neighborhood who was opening her home should still be able to do that without being licensed to a point where she has to pay $2,500 to the city and go to a class for eight. She raised 10 kids and 15 grandkids. She knows what she's doing. You've kept us from being able to have that communal space. Now that's not just, I want some money that's being vindictive. You're setting up the parameters, the variables that are going to lend to the things that you're talking about as black people and poor people. You're creating poverty. That's what you're doing right now. Wilmer Leon (48:11): Norway can do it, Finland can do it. Denmark can do it. They're doing it. Shantella Sherman (48:19): Anyone who is for their citizens can and will do it. The difference here is that we're not working together. We've always been fighting against each other. It's the infighting. I want my kids to be able to have it, but not your kids. I don't want immigrant kids. I don't want my kids around the Spanish kids. They're going to learn Spanish and it's too many of 'em and they're undocumented and they can have diseases, and I don't know what they're into. Well, the same thing was said about black people coming into white spaces. So if we're going to do America, we got to do America for everyone, and we got to make sure that these policies don't hurt this person in order to make me feel better. And in the long run, end up hurting me as well. Wilmer Leon (48:58): My current piece is you're with her, but is she with you? And the premise of the piece is, and I say this in the piece, it's not about her. It's about us. And what are we going to demand of her relative to us? Because that's what policy politics is all about. It's about policy output. It's not about the Divine nine and Howard University and the electric slide. It's about policy output. She went to the Cara comm meeting as vice president and try to convince the leaders of those Caribbean nations to be the minstrel face on American imperialism to invade Haiti. How does a black woman whose father is from Jamaica believe that our invading Haiti is a good idea? She didn't go alone. She went with Hakeem Jeffries and some other folks, Linda Thomas Greenfield. How do these black people, how do these black people buy into imperialist, neo-colonial policies like that? And so I make that to take us back to the eugenics question and the identity Shantella Sherman (50:26): Question, and I'll throw that to you because it's all about the fitness of the individual person or the group. And so Haiti has always been the bastard black child that even black folks don't want to claim a small minority of black folks always down for Haiti, always. I'm there with you. But there are all these people who are still, you want to glamorize Africa, but you won't set foot there. You want to go to Africa, but you don't want to stay there. You don't understand the politics, the culture, the language, the faith, none of it. But since it's been tagged onto you as African-American, you claim it. But again, when you get down to it, we still have eugenic thoughts as black people about who is fit and unfit, who is worthy, who is unworthy. And it's about nothing related to character. It is about nothing related to morality or how people handle you or them being good people. (51:27) It's all about the same things that white people use the litmus test to define you. And so we cannot get away from that as easily as we think and things like this. When we get into a space like this, it magnifies it and we start to see ourselves and it does not look good. It doesn't look good on us at all. Haiti, poor black people, folks living in the projects historically by colleges and universities, not the elite eight, the big eight, but the rest of 'em, the ones that we don't really want to talk about this in them other states that we don't want to deal with, alright? We don't want to deal with that. There are things that we need to discuss to make sure that HBCUs and the Divine Nine still exists. If the federal government starts pulling money back. We've had the heirs desegregation case. (52:20) We've had a similar case in Maryland where basically HBCUs are being said to be anti-white at this point. And in order to get the money that these HBCUs won for having been discriminated against with funding, it's being said, in order to get the money, you now have to have five to 10% of your student population be minority. That minority has to be white. So now you are giving free education to white students in order to get the money that's owed to you from having been discriminated against in the first place. You have to understand in street terms, we've been in a trick bag for a minute, right? And we need to stop playing games. It's late in the day. You need to heal your line. Alright, I'm going back to Hurston. Heal your line. You need to understand that you're about to get caught up in the very trap that you've been setting and you're not paying attention. You're simply not paying attention. We haven't been paying our alumni fees like we're supposed to. Our schools are still dependent on federal government funding and state funding. We are not standing alone. So we need to make sure that our leadership also understands that, that we need to have practical solutions and policies so that we're not reacting to things, but literally charting a course and setting it and staying on that course. Wilmer Leon (53:44): What are you demanding? And two things to your point about funding and HBCUs, the HBCUs in Maryland won a case against the Maryland government for not properly funding those HBCUs. As the state had funded, the predominantly white institutions went all the way to Maryland Supreme Court and the schools won. The Republican governor, Larry Hogan refused to give them the money that the court awarded and forced those institutions to negotiate a lower number. I don't remember what the numbers were off the top of my head, but Shantella Sherman (54:33): What? Yes, sir. What again? The exact same thing happened in Mississippi. And that's why I said that was the heirs desegregation case. And it was the exact same thing. The money that came down to fund the Mississippi schools, they gave the HBCUs less money when they disseminated. And it was like, okay, Mississippi won the HBCUs won the case, but the content, the little fine print said, we are going to give you the money, but now you are required at this point to add 10% of your population needs to be minority on a black campus that's not black students. And they said, we can pull in some Africans and some people that still fit. No, you need to have some white students on this campus now. So that was the quote. That's how they got around it. And it was like, wow, these are the nasty tricks that I'm talking about. And so if it happened in Mississippi and it's happened in Maryland, where else is this happening? Can I get leadership to understand this is how you tie black hands behind the backs of citizens that actually want to go to school. Wilmer Leon (55:45): Final thing, symbolism. And again, I'm getting back to ethnicity and cultural identity as it relates to Vice President Harris. And I'm not picking on her, she just is the poster child of this in the moment because there's an awful lot of symbolism that is being used here. And again, they rather be symbolic than talk about substantive policy output. Shantella Sherman (56:22): The symbolism goes to the heart of the nation. Whose nation is it? Whose America is it that's which one of the presidents? Wilmer Leon (56:39): Well, you mean we want, we want, oh Shantella Sherman (56:41): No, no, Coolidge, Calvin Coolidge. Okay, whose country is it anyway? And so you literally, you're having white Americans say, this is ours and we've allowed you to be here, Wilmer Leon (56:56): Tom Tancredo, and we want, and the Tea Party, which was the precursor to Donald Trump. We want our country back. Shantella Sherman (57:06): So again, but how have you lost it? Wilmer Leon (57:09): Who has it? Because I don't have it. Tom Tan credo. If you're listening, if you're watching, I don't have your country. Shantella Sherman (57:18): And again, so that's how you start again. You're going to see an explosion of language about women having babies and birth control and all this. And again, it's this. They're having natal conferences once or twice a year where people are talking about we need to get the country back. And getting the country back means we need white women to have babies and they're not having them. And so based on that alone, any white female who's out here supporting Donald Trump and all of these policies, they don't necessarily understand what you're about to do is send yourself back into the house because there's a good white man that needs the job that you're sitting in. You need to be producing babies bottom line. And if you're not, you serve no purpose. Now to the nation, that is a Hitler esque thing, but Hitler got it from us. So that is a Francis Galton thing. Wilmer Leon (58:11): In fact, thank you very much because you and I had talked about that Francis Galton father of modern eugenics, there's a book Control the Dark History and troubling present of Eugenics just by Adam Rutherford. Talk about Francis Galton and talk about Adam Rutherford's book. Shantella Sherman (58:32): Just the idea First Rutherford's book is an amazing examination. I think that it's something that pulls together a lot of the research from different spaces and different years and to synthesize it the way he has it makes it make sense to the average person, which is critical at this point. It's not talking above folks head. So you get to the critical analysis of we need these birthing numbers. Statisticians started coming in and Galton is right here in the middle of this. And you have the eugenics record office who are literally charting birth rates and they're trying to figure out with immigration, emancipated black people. And then you end up with Chinese people and all these other folks that are coming in. And then you start having women who decide they're not going to stay at home. These rates matter and they have mattered for the last 150 years because whoever has the birth numbers, when we start talking politics, these are voting blocks. (59:32) And if I can put you under duress, if I can incarcerate you and then tell you based on the fact that you're in prison, you are no longer a citizen, so you are not able to vote because you have a felony charge. That is a reality for those black men who are huddled in prisons. But the other part of that reality is that because during the reproductive height of their lives, they're in prison, it means that they're not reproducing children. And so there's a duality to having black men and Spanish men and locked into these prisons and degenerate white men. We don't want babies from them anyway. Wilmer Leon (01:00:08): And the fastest growing cohort in prisons are women. Shantella Sherman (01:00:13): And when the women go into the prisons, they are automatically taken before what used to be the sterilization board. They're given a physical examination. If you're a black woman, a Spanish woman, and you have fibroids, they're going to tell you, we're not going to manage your fibroids while you're here. We're just going to recommend that you have a hysterectomy. Or they may not even tell you. So great documentary Belly of the Beast looks at the California state Penitentiary system and they're just ad hoc deciding to sterilize black and Spanish women without their consent and without their knowledge because they said, once we open you up, it's easier just to go ahead and snip you than to worry about having to pay for your children, either ending up in prison, being slow and retarded mentally having to go to special schools or having to pay through the welfare system because they're not normal. Because you're not normal. You're breeding criminals. And so we have to look at these things. I think Rutherford did a great job, but Galton has been talking about, he started talking about this when he coined the phrase, we were already talking about this and the black bodies on plantations started this whole, let's check the women's bodies and see what they can manage and hold as far as their fecundity, as far as they're being able to breed the next crop of Americans. Wilmer Leon (01:01:28): Are those eugenic practices relative to women of color in California? Prisons still going on as you and I are speaking right now. Shantella Sherman (01:01:38): Absolutely. Wilmer Leon (01:01:40): So our vice president, Kamala Harris, who is the presumptive Democratic Party nominee is from Berkeley, was the DA in San Francisco, was the attorney general in the state of California, was the senator from California. I haven't heard anybody ask her this question. Shantella Sherman (01:02:05): I have not heard anyone ask Wilmer Leon (01:02:10): Anybody Shantella Sherman (01:02:10): Elected official. You've only had the Congressman Ell from North Carolina who got reparations for folks who had been sterilized, many of them black in North Carolina. He's since passed away. Virginia asked that people come forward if they had been sterilized, but people couldn't come forward because they didn't know they'd been sterilized. You took them in and told them that they had an appendicitis. So they didn't know that the reason why they didn't produce children is because when they went into the hospital, you decided to do a hook and crook on 'em. They didn't know. So based on just that information, you have very few people in the state of Virginia to come forward and to receive the money. California is now offering some reparations to folks. But if you're in those penal systems, it's still going on. You don't have control over your body. Wilmer Leon (01:03:08): And I want to be very clear to say, I'm not for those that just heard me ask that question and Wilmer, why are you blaming her for this? I'm not. I'm saying I haven't heard anyone ask her this question again because it's not about her. It's about us. And what are we as a political constituency? What are we going to do? What are we going to demand? What are we going to get if we are responsible for putting her in office, which everybody says Democrats can't win without black people. Speaker 4 (01:03:55): Okay, Wilmer Leon (01:03:56): All right. Speaker 4 (01:04:00): Again, I think that she would make an amazing president again. I simply want to know what her policies are. I want to know how she's going to fight against and how she's sizing up her time in office. And that's what I want to hear from her. That's it. Wilmer Leon (01:04:19): Dr. Chantel Sherman, I am so appreciative of you joining me today, as always, dear. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, Speaker 4 (01:04:27): Thank you. Anytime, Wilmer Leon (01:04:29): Folks, thank you all so much for listening and watching the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wilmer Leon, and my brilliant, brilliant friend and guest, Dr. Chantel Sherman. Stay tuned for new episodes each week. Also, please follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share the show, would greatly, greatly appreciate it. Follow me on social media. You can find all the links below to the show there. And remember, folks, that this is where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge talk without analysis is just chatter. And you can tell by this, we don't chatter on connecting the dots. See you all again next time. Until then, I am Dr. Wier Leon. Have a great one. Peace.

In Revolutionary times, Thomas Paine said the following:“These are the times that try men's souls”.And indeed these are the times that try women's souls, some at least now that the United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade.Thomas Jefferson admonished Americans of his time that the blood of patriots must be shed from time to time in order to refresh the Tree of Liberty. In short, the Constitutional America of 1776 (Declaration of Independence) and the Constitutional America of 1787 needed new patriots, new passion, new commitments to liberty and freedom. Now more than ever that is true. The constitutional, rule of law, freedom–liberty America of old is not only under attack but becomes divided, angry and more violent by the day. Freedom and liberty we have always taken for granted are now all the more at risk and at stake.The patriot Patrick Henry provided a testimony applicable to all of us:“Give me liberty or give me death”.Henry was willing to die for freedom. He would live under no form of bondage. Oppression and bondage in his time was English. Today it comes internally from anarchists, that small virulent, violent minority which wishes the destruction of the greatest country on earth.Our forefathers fought for freedom. They gave their blood then which we can assume made Jefferson proud. They gave us the greatest ruling document in the history of mankind, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. That incredible document contained the First Amendment which gave every American citizen the following rights and freedoms:1.Freedom of religion2.Freedom of speech3.Freedom of press4.Freedom of assembly5.Freedom of petitionGuaranteed, unconditional, unchanging, FOREVER FREEDOMS. Every one of those sacred, inalienable (God–given) rights and freedoms are at risk today, EVERY ONE! We the People seemed to have lost our vision, our understanding, even in some cases our desire to protect and preserve this incredible country. We have become indifferent to the struggles and problems we face. So many of us are ignorant of our history, and our Constitution, and our rule of law, and how we are governed. So many of us have withdrawn from the political process. As few as 10% will vote in some elections and perhaps no more than 60% of eligible, voting Americans will go to the polls in the most serious of elections. It has become tragic how We the People take democracy for granted. It is as though freedom will always be there no matter what we do. We the People are an easy target for violence and anarchism.One of the most anti–American Americans was one Saul Alinsky. In essence, Alinsky championed the destruction of everything, every institution, every tradition, anything and everything in America so that the country could be rebuilt and reestablished. The philosophy and beliefs of Alinksy were adopted by George Soros among others and the state of objective of Soros and others was to:BRING DOWN AMERICA.Bring it down. Destroy it. Rewrite its history. Do away with its Constitution and its rule of law. Get rid of the moral standards of the country today and especially the Judeo–Christian heritage and morality of the past. Do away with it completely! Beneath the violence, disrupt, and the lack of accountability today is this Alinsky model, the destruction of America, the destruction of everything which America holds dear. WOKE better serve to wake up America, defend itself, its values, morality and principles or all will be lost. WAKE UP AMERICANS, WAKE UP. The time may be near when the blood of real patriots will be required once again in America.We the People assume that we live in a democracy. We live by democratic principles, the core of which is freedom. That is true but our government is not a democracy. Our forefathers who forged our Constitution were suspicious of democracy. They feared an intolerant majority. They created checks and balances which would prevent as much as possible the potentially crushing majority rule. They created for us a REPUBLIC. That of course consisted of a president, senate and house of representatives. It also consisted of an independent federal judiciary with the Supreme Court of essentially nine justices as final arbitrators of the rule of law. Such a republic respected democratic principles but it guarded so very well against abuse.Those founding fathers gave us the concept of federalism. That is, that each of the individual states of America, then 13 and now 50, would be protected, have rights not specifically granted to the federal government (Constitution Amendment X), and otherwise make certain that its people were protected, and larger states would have no real advantage over smaller ones. It was and continues to be a brilliant system and check and balance.The founding fathers gave us an electoral college where leaders were not elected by majority vote but by states according to their population.They gave us the rule of law, they gave us the Declaration of Independence, they gave us the Constitution, incredible documents with incredible freedoms, fully protected. They gave us all of this as a result of the blood of so many Revolutionary patriots shed in the cause of freedom. How tragic it is that we sit back and take those then given freedoms for granted, watch them whittle away daily, observe the indifference among younger generations and the beginning of the erosion and eventually the elimination of our great Country, its way of life and government. The great destroyers win, Alinsky, Soros, Sanders the socialist. They refuse, those anarchists and anti–Americans to work within the system for reform. They work for radical change and ultimate destruction. And, We the People sit back and watch it happen and in so many ways do nothing. Violence is everywhere. There are threats, intimidation, radicalism everywhere. A senator threatens a supreme court justice. Senator Schumer from New York threatened Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh as follows:You will pay the price.It is simply unbelievable how seemingly everything America stands for, believes in, the fundamental structure of our great Country is not only under attack but is being destroyed day by day. History shows us that democracies as the foundation of government cannot last. Democracies in history last at or about 200 years. America is now 246 years young and We the People, our democracy, our great constitutional republic may be near the end. How I for one hope and pray that simply does not happen.The Constitution and its Amendments of the United States is the finest document, political governing document which mankind can produce. But it cannot last forever. Only one document can. And that is THE WORD OF THE LORD, the Holy Bible which gives us the world's only reliable ABSOLUTE TRUTH. The Constitution gives us the freedoms of mankind. The Bible gives us heavenly freedoms, eternal freedoms, the ways of the Lord God Almighty, the most important freedom of all and the most important freedom of all, salvation in Jesus Christ. Man's democracy cannot last, but the democracy of peace and love of Jesus Christ will last forever.Human leaders, people, men and women, politicians and those in power can never last. The only person, leader, visionary, difference maker who can is Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of Glory. That eternal leader will never fail.So, now in America violence reigns. Everything is under attack. The spiritual warfare has begun. The:FIGHT OF FAITH IS HERE AND NOW!So, my fellow Americans, my fellow Christians, how will you fight this fight of faith? HOW? Put on for sure the armor of the Lord. And the helmet of salvation. And the breastplate of righteousness and be ready for the spiritual war. It is here, IT IS HERE. You will be called upon to defend your faith with everything you have. If you truly believe as a Christian and you will not compromise, you will take on a danger you never have before.How will you respond? Will you stand up to violence? Would you use any means at your disposal to protect your family, your friends and yourself from violence? You will engage in prayer, more prayer perhaps than ever before. But you will be called upon to ACT, and perhaps act returning violence for violence. Would you do that? We the People, we Christians have choices to make we never have before. In prayer, may our Lord lead us to the right decisions for God, and Country, and family, and all humankind.Freedom, inalienable rights, God–given rights, are of the most value, the most important to all. Don't lose them or lose life in the process. May God bless you, my fellow Americans as you energize the courage to stand for Christ, for Christianity and for the greatest Country in the history of mankind.Always remember. FREEDOM ONCE LOST IS LOST FOREVER!

In Lecture 6 at the Jamaica Theological Seminary, we continue to explore Caribbean History but as part of the American American experience and the Pan-African experience. We picked up from Lecture 5 sharing a voice-over lecture where Renaldo interact and narrates a material about Caribbean History and DNA. The Lecture then explored the comparative differences between the Caribbean islands and began to discuss the independence and freedoms of black peoples in the Caribbean and the diaspora as an experience that connects the post-colonial peoples in the new world. We utilized a video which features C.L.R James a West Indian mind that has contributed to critical history of the Caribbean and the Haitian Revolution. We touched on Latin Caribbean and the Cuban Revolution, and the civil rights leaders connections to the Caribbean and their experience. The class continues next week. The end is just the beginning. You are invited to the live class lectures. Send an email to the Professor, Renaldo McKenzie at renaldo.mckenzie@jts.edu.jm. Subscribe for free https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal, and access all our past lectures via the Caribbean Thought playlist on the channel. Support us at https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support. Visit us at https://theneoliberal.com and https://renaldocmckenzie.com. Get a copy of my book "Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance," available in all formats worldwide. Also in audible at: Will be available at our store at: https://store.theneoliberal.com/html, coming soon. New Release: We are working on releasing Renaldo's second book: "Neoliberal Globalization reconsidered, Neo-Capitalism and the Death of Nations". Follow us on social media: twitter: renaldomckenzie, theneoliberalcoFacebook: renaldo.mckenzie, theneoliberalReddit: lust1712/theneoliberalpostLinkedIn: revrenaldocmckenzie, theneoliberalcorporationTikTok: renaldocmckenzieInstagram: renaldomckenzie, theneoliberalcorporation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

This week Jun and Daniel discuss the Korean language in all of its beautiful and confusing glory. Specifically, Daniel brings up the topic of how it is very indirect and how he struggles with that as an American. What are some confusing American phrases for Koreans to learn? What is a high-context vs low-context society, and what impact does this have on language in Korea compared to America? What are some regional differences within Korea when it comes to language and directness? What are some phrases that Daniel has had to get used to? How has being in Korea for close to 2.5 years now changed Daniel's Korean drama viewing experience? If you're interested in any of these questions, tune in to hear Daniel and Jun discuss all this and more! Also in this episode, Daniel shares a story about buying a car right after moving to Korea, Jun bravely attempts his Gyeongsangdo accent, and both hosts place themselves on the Korean Korean to American American spectrum.As a reminder, we record one episode a week in-person from Seoul, South Korea. We hope you enjoy listening to our conversation, and we're so excited to have you following us on this journey!Support us on Patreon:https://patreon.com/user?u=99211862Follow us on socials: https://www.instagram.com/koreanamericanpodcast/https://twitter.com/korampodcastQuestions/Comments/Feedback? Email us at: koreanamericanpodcast@gmail.com

In Revolutionary times, Thomas Paine said the following:“These are the times that try men's souls”.And indeed these are the times that try women's souls, some at least now that the United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade.Thomas Jefferson admonished Americans of his time that the blood of patriots must be shed from time to time in order to refresh the Tree of Liberty. In short, the Constitutional America of 1776 (Declaration of Independence) and the Constitutional America of 1787 needed new patriots, new passion, new commitments to liberty and freedom. Now more than ever that is true. The constitutional, rule of law, freedom–liberty America of old is not only under attack but becomes divided, angry and more violent by the day. Freedom and liberty we have always taken for granted are now all the more at risk and at stake.The patriot Patrick Henry provided a testimony applicable to all of us:“Give me liberty or give me death”.Henry was willing to die for freedom. He would live under no form of bondage. Oppression and bondage in his time was English. Today it comes internally from anarchists, that small virulent, violent minority which wishes the destruction of the greatest country on earth.Our forefathers fought for freedom. They gave their blood then which we can assume made Jefferson proud. They gave us the greatest ruling document in the history of mankind, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. That incredible document contained the First Amendment which gave every American citizen the following rights and freedoms:1. Freedom of religion2. Freedom of speech3. Freedom of press4. Freedom of assembly5. Freedom of petitionGuaranteed, unconditional, unchanging, FOREVER FREEDOMS. Every one of those sacred, inalienable (God–given) rights and freedoms are at risk today, EVERY ONE! We the People seemed to have lost our vision, our understanding, even in some cases our desire to protect and preserve this incredible country. We have become indifferent to the struggles and problems we face. So many of us are ignorant of our history, and our Constitution, and our rule of law, and how we are governed. So many of us have withdrawn from the political process. As few as 10% will vote in some elections and perhaps no more than 60% of eligible, voting Americans will go to the polls in the most serious of elections. It has become tragic how We the People take democracy for granted. It is as though freedom will always be there no matter what we do. We the People are an easy target for violence and anarchism.One of the most anti–American Americans was one Saul Alinsky. In essence, Alinsky championed the destruction of everything, every institution, every tradition, anything and everything in America so that the country could be rebuilt and reestablished. The philosophy and beliefs of Alinksy were adopted by George Soros among others and the state of objective of Soros and others was to:BRING DOWN AMERICA.Bring it down. Destroy it. Rewrite its history. Do away with its Constitution and its rule of law. Get rid of the moral standards of the country today and especially the Judeo–Christian heritage and morality of the past. Do away with it completely! Beneath the violence, disrupt, and the lack of accountability today is this Alinsky model, the destruction of America, the destruction of everything which America holds dear. WOKE better serve to wake up America, defend itself, its values, morality and principles or all will be lost. WAKE UP AMERICANS, WAKE UP. The time may be near when the blood of real patriots will be required once again in America.We the People assume that we live in a democracy. We live by democratic principles, the core of which is freedom. That is true but our government is not a democracy. Our forefathers who forged our Constitution were suspicious of democracy. They feared an intolerant majority. They created checks and balances which would prevent as much as possible the potentially crushing majority rule. They created for us a REPUBLIC. That of course consisted of a president, senate and house of representatives. It also consisted of an independent federal judiciary with the Supreme Court of essentially nine justices as final arbitrators of the rule of law. Such a republic respected democratic principles but it guarded so very well against abuse.Those founding fathers gave us the concept of federalism. That is, that each of the individual states of America, then 13 and now 50, would be protected, have rights not specifically granted to the federal government (Constitution Amendment X), and otherwise make certain that its people were protected, and larger states would have no real advantage over smaller ones. It was and continues to be a brilliant system and check and balance.The founding fathers gave us an electoral college where leaders were not elected by majority vote but by states according to their population. They gave us the rule of law, they gave us the Declaration of Independence, they gave us the Constitution, incredible documents with incredible freedoms, fully protected. They gave us all of this as a result of the blood of so many Revolutionary patriots shed in the cause of freedom. How tragic it is that we sit back and take those then given freedoms for granted, watch them whittle away daily, observe the indifference among younger generations and the beginning of the erosion and eventually the elimination of our great Country, its way of life and government. The great destroyers win, Alinsky, Soros, Sanders the socialist. They refuse, those anarchists and anti–Americans to work within the system for reform. They work for radical change and ultimate destruction. And, We the People sit back and watch it happen and in so many ways do nothing. Violence is everywhere. There are threats, intimidation, radicalism everywhere. A senator threatens a supreme court justice. Senator Schumer from New York threatened Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh as follows:You will pay the price.It is simply unbelievable how seemingly everything America stands for, believes in, the fundamental structure of our great Country is not only under attack but is being destroyed day by day. History shows us that democracies as the foundation of government cannot last. Democracies in history last at or about 200 years. America is now 246 years young and We the People, our democracy, our great constitutional republic may be near the end. How I for one hope and pray that simply does not happen.The Constitution and its Amendments of the United States is the finest document, political governing document which mankind can produce. But it cannot last forever. Only one document can. And that is THE WORD OF THE LORD, the Holy Bible which gives us the world's only reliable ABSOLUTE TRUTH. The Constitution gives us the freedoms of mankind. The Bible gives us heavenly freedoms, eternal freedoms, the ways of the Lord God Almighty, the most important freedom of all and the most important freedom of all, salvation in Jesus Christ. Man's democracy cannot last, but the democracy of peace and love of Jesus Christ will last forever.Human leaders, people, men and women, politicians and those in power can never last. The only person, leader, visionary, difference maker who can is Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of Glory. That eternal leader will never fail.So, now in America violence reigns. Everything is under attack. The spiritual warfare has begun. The:FIGHT OF FAITH IS HERE AND NOW!So, my fellow Americans, my fellow Christians, how will you fight this fight of faith? HOW? Put on for sure the armor of the Lord. And the helmet of salvation. And the breastplate of righteousness and be ready for the spiritual war. It is here, IT IS HERE. You will be called upon to defend your faith with everything you have. If you truly believe as a Christian and you will not compromise, you will take on a danger you never have before. How will you respond? Will you stand up to violence? Would you use any means at your disposal to protect your family, your friends and yourself from violence? You will engage in prayer, more prayer perhaps than ever before. But you will be called upon to ACT, and perhaps act returning violence for violence. Would you do that? We the People, we Christians have choices to make we never have before. In prayer, may our Lord lead us to the right decisions for God, and Country, and family, and all humankind.Freedom, inalienable rights, God–given rights, are of the most value, the most important to all. Don't lose them or lose life in the process. May God bless you, my fellow Americans as you energize the courage to stand for Christ, for Christianity and for the greatest Country in the history of mankind.Always remember. FREEDOM ONCE LOST IS LOST FOREVER!

Broadcasting from the Free State of Florida. The GOP is celebrating a Debt Ceiling Crisis Averted as we careen toward further higher and higher taxes. Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell have teamed up with Democrats to spend money we don't have instead of tightening the Govt's belt and doing what any rational family or company would do--pay for the important things first. Instead we are told it's all or nothing and we have to spend $6 trillion in the next two years to avoid "default." It's all BS--Barbara Streisand. If a Biden falls and the media pretends it was nothing, is the POTUS still a feeble old man. We revisit how the media covered Trump's descent down a wet ramp compared to how they cover this perpetually falling Biden. Victor Davis Hanson thinks the onslaught of Leftism has awakened a sleeping conservative fire-breathing dragon. We go over his piece in American Greatness with expert analysis. Did you know the Covid vaccines contain tumor genes from monkey viruses? The Florida Standard covers this shocking discovery and we discuss implications for those who have been injected with mRNA shots and what could happen to their DNA. You thought GMOs were dangerous. Smokey Robinson blows the liberal mind of Chris Wallace by proclaiming his is an "American American" not an "African American." Ron DeSantis' culture battles are more important that poll numbers or even winning the GOP nomination. We discuss the conservative hand-wringing over Ron's fight with Disney and why it matters that he lead the charge--no matter whose corporate ox is gored. https://doctortommy.com/podcast

In this episode I sit down with one of my best friends (over a cigar and glass of aged rum) to discuss monetizing hobbies, guns, whiskey, regulations, and why the government ruins everything it touches. Want to build a high income freelance career? I reveal everything I know in my course Breaking Free https://freedombusinessnetwork.thrivecart.com/breaking-free/?ref=podcast Work with me one-on-one: https://www.henrybingaman.com/consulting/

First Quarter – Order, Freedom, and Violence the big three of Christian Nationalism (Perry and Gorski, The Flag and the Cross)Additional Informationhttps://bjconline.org/bringing-more-engagement-to-the-fight-against-christian-nationalism/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/20/white-christian-nationalism-buffalo-abortion/Institutions of CN propaganda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institutehttps://americanmind.org/salvo/why-the-claremont-institute-is-not-conservative-and-you-shouldnt-be-either/ “Let's be blunt. The United States has become two nations occupying the same country. When pressed, or in private, many would now agree. Fewer are willing to take the next step and accept that most people living in the United States today—certainly more than half—are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term…They do not believe in, live by, or even like the principles, traditions, and ideals that until recently defined America as a nation and as a people. It is not obvious what we should call these citizen-aliens, these non-American Americans; but they are something else…. Authentic Americans are men, not gerbils—or robots…If you are a zombie or a human rodent who wants a shadow-life of timid conformity, then put away this essay and go memorize the poetry of Amanda Gorman. Real men and women who love honor and beauty, keep reading. Authentic Americans still want to have decent lives.”Hillsdale College and the 1776 Report an unveiled response to the 1619 Project. Horrible lack of peer review! Lack of citation evidence Second and Third Quarter – Drew Strait, part 2 Fourth Quarter – Transition music by James and the Shame, In VainSports, Culture, Cooking

Another great interview with brilliant professionals such as Beverly Neal -Clinton, Senior Executive Trust Officer, Director Of American American Trust. We talked about the importance of money, understanding money, using money as a tool, understanding taxes ,the codes, benefits, investments, generational wealth, financial wellness, and more! Did you know The IRS Codes has over 73,000 pages and only 522 of them are relevant to personal income taxes? There are 143 million people who find themselves receiving a 1099 or who are small business owners or who are in the medical profession. She would like to share how economic empowerment is a choice. You can do better when you know better. It is our intent to show that we can all do better. Questions to ASK yourself... Do you or anyone you know like paying taxes? What could you do with an extra $74,458, if you are single or $94,645 if you are married? What if inflation is actually a gift? Use the US Internal Revenue Codes to legally pay only what you owe, and not a penny more. What would you do if you thought you were failing only to find out that you were actually succeeding? They are having a drop in for every who receives a 1099 on FBLive: Upcoming event on FB, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 @ 3:00 MT: use this link to attend: https://fb.me/e/5WIPNlqZG Show hosted by: Terrance Hutchinson www.yourbestlifestyles.com 404-3122748 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourbestlifestyles/message

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This week Harry and Grigori invite Nikki (Dr. Cerise) and Calibold onto the show to discuss the newest GOI of note: Vikander-Kneed Technical Media. We think it's the best GOI ever... and we are entirely unbiased! Harry's Author Page: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/this-page-intentionally-left-blank Grigori's Author Page: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/grigori-karpin-s-author-page Calibold's Author Page: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/calibri-bold-s-mega-cool-author-page Join our Discord with Scip Squad Cast and Goodnight Rounderpede https://discord.gg/4PxXeDURrg Articles Discussed: VKTM Hub: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/vikander-kneed-technical-media-hub SCP-5904: Inhuman Resources https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5904 SCP-5379: The Taped Confession https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5379 SCP-6221 A Very VKTM Christmas https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6221 SCP-6780 ‘helth by dado' Brought to You by Vikander-Kneed https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6780 SCP-6359: American American https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6359 SCP-6677: Finn's Hollow https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6677 SCP-6156: Oh, Doug! https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6156 SCP-7000: Misfortune Gorge https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/7000contestgrigorikarpinvivarium Email: Simplycreativepeople@gmail.com Twitter: @simcreat @grigorikarpin @HarryBlankSCP @DrCerise_scp @Calibri_Bold The voice of VKTM is John Whinfield, @JakMockery_ on twitter Musical background for the ads was by Kevin Macleod and all CC compliant, visit his website at https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html Music for background: Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio Royalty and Copyright Free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6hY7dB54bc --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/simply-creative-people/support

In Revolutionary times, Thomas Paine said the following:“These are the times that try men's souls”.And indeed these are the times that try women's souls, some at least now that the United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. Thomas Jefferson admonished Americans of his time that the blood of patriots must be shed from time to time in order to refresh the tree of liberty. In short, the constitutional America of 1776 (Declaration of Independence) and the Constitutional America of 1787 needed new patriots, new passion, new commitments to liberty and freedom. Now more than ever that is true. The constitutional, rule of law, freedom–liberty America of old is not only under attack but becomes divided, angry and more violent by the day. Freedom and liberty we have always taken for granted are now all the more at risk and at stake.The patriot Patrick Henry provided a testimony applicable to all of us:“Give me liberty or give me death”.Henry was willing to die for freedom. He would live under no form of bondage. Oppression and bondage in his time was English. Today it comes internally from anarchists, that small virulent, violent minority which wishes the destruction of the greatest country on earth. Our fore fathers fought for freedom. They gave their blood then which we can assume made Jefferson proud. They gave us the greatest ruling document in the history of mankind, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. That incredible document contained the First Amendment which gave every American citizen the following rights and freedoms: Freedom of religion Freedom of speech Freedom of press Freedom of assembly Freedom of petitionGuaranteed, unconditional, unchanging, FOREVER FREEDOMS. Every one of those sacred, inalienable (God–given) rights and freedoms are at risk today, EVERY ONE! We the People seemed to have lost our vision, our understanding, even in some cases our desire to protect and preserve this incredible country. We have become indifferent to the struggles and problems we face. So many of us are ignorant of our history, and our Constitution, and our rule of law, and how we are governed. So many of us have withdrawn from the political process. As few as 10% will vote in some elections and perhaps no more than 60% of eligible, voting Americans will go to the polls in the most serious of elections. It has become tragic how We the People take democracy for granted. It is as though freedom will always be there no matter what we do. We the People are an easy target for violence and anarchism. One of the most anti–American Americans was one Saul Alinsky. In essence, Alinsky championed the destruction of everything, every institution, every tradition, anything and everything in America so that the country could be rebuilt and reestablished. The philosophy and beliefs of Alinksy were adopted by George Soros among others and the state of objective of Soros and others was to:BRING DOWN AMERICA.Bring it down. Destroy it. Rewrite its history. Do away with its Constitution and its rule of law. Get rid of the moral standards of the country today and especially the Judeo–Christian heritage and morality of the past. Do away with it completely! Beneath the violence, disrupt, and the lack of accountability today is this Alinsky model, the destruction of America, the destruction of everything which America holds dear. WOKE better serve to wake up America, defend itself, its values, morality and principles or all will be lost. WAKE UP AMERICANS, WAKE UP. The time may be near when the blood of real patriots will be required once again in America.We the People assume that we live in a democracy. We live by democratic principles, the core of which is freedom. That is true but our government is not a democracy. Our fore fathers who forged our Constitution were suspicious of democracy. They feared an intolerant majority. They created checks and balances which would prevent as much as possible the potentially crushing majority rule. They created for us a REPUBLIC. That of course consisted of a president, senate and house of representatives. It also consisted of an independent federal judiciary with the Supreme Court of essentially nine justices as final arbitrators of the rule of law. Such a republic respected democratic principles but it guarded so very well against abuse.Those founding fathers gave us the concept of federalism. That is, that each of the individual states of America, then 13 and now 50, would be protected, have rights not specifically granted to the federal government (Constitution Amendment X), and otherwise make certain that its people were protected, and larger states would have no real advantage over smaller ones. It was and continues to be a brilliant system and check and balance. The founding fathers gave us an electoral college where leaders were not elected by majority vote but by states according to their population.They gave us the rule of law, they gave us the Declaration of Independence, they gave us the Constitution, incredible documents with incredible freedoms, fully protected. They gave us all of this as a result of the blood of so many Revolutionary patriots shed in the cause of freedom. How tragic it is that we sit back and take those then given freedoms for granted, watch them whittle away daily, observe the indifference among younger generations and the beginning of the erosion and eventually the elimination of our great Country, its way of life and government. The great destroyers win, Alinsky, Soros, Sanders the socialist. They refuse, those anarchists and anti–Americans to work within the system for reform. They work for radical change and ultimate destruction. And, We the People sit back and watch it happen and in so many ways do nothing. Violence is everywhere. There are threats, intimidation, radicalism everywhere. A senator threatens a supreme court justice. Senator Schumer from New York threatened Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh as follows:You will pay the priceIf Roe is overturned. We are promised a summer of rage by JANE'S REVENGE. That means violence, firebombing, destruction, perhaps killing, Alinsky and Soros rage at work. We live in the age of post–Truth, as former president Barrack Hussein Obama told us where there really is no absolute truth of any kind, no morality and it is indeed a day and age of:ANYTHING GOES.It is simply unbelievable how seemingly everything America stands for, believes in, the fundamental structure of our great Country is not only under attack but is being destroyed day by day. History shows us that democracies as the foundation of government cannot last. Democracies in history last at or about 200 years. America is now 246 years young and We the People, our democracy, our great constitutional republic may be near the end. How I for one hope and pray that simply does not happen. The Constitution and its Amendments of the United States is the finest document, political governing document which mankind can produce. But it cannot last forever. Only one document can. And that is THE WORD OF THE LORD, the Holy Bible which gives us the world's only reliable ABSOLUTE TRUTH. The Constitution gives us the freedoms of mankind. The bible gives us heavenly freedoms, eternal freedoms, the ways of the Lord God Almighty, the most important freedom of all and the most important freedom of all, salvation in Jesus Christ. Man's democracy cannot last, but the democracy of peace and love of Jesus Christ will last forever. Human leaders, people, men and women, politicians and those in power can never last. The only person, leader, visionary, difference maker who can is Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of Glory. That eternal leader will never fail. So, now in America violence reigns. Everything is under attack. The spiritual warfare has begun. The:FIGHT OF FAITH IS HERE AND NOW!So, my fellow Americans, my fellow Christians, how will you fight this fight of faith? HOW? Put on for sure the armor of the Lord. And the helmet of salvation. And the breastplate of righteousness and be ready for the spiritual war. It is here, IT IS HERE. You will be called upon to defend your faith with everything you have. If you truly believe as a Christian and you will not compromise, you will take on a danger you never have before. How will you respond? Will you stand up to violence? Would you use any means at your disposable to protect your family, your friends and yourself from violence? You will engage in prayer, more prayer perhaps than ever before. But you will be called upon to ACT, and perhaps act returning violence for violence. Would you do that? We the People, we Christians have choices to make we never have before. In prayer, may our Lord lead us to the right decisions for God, and Country, and family, and all human kind. Freedom, inalienable rights, God–given rights, are of the most value, the most important to all. Don't lose them or lose life in the process. May God bless you, my fellow Americans as you energize the courage to stand for Christ, for Christianity and for the greatest Country in the history of mankind.Always remember. FREEDOM ONCE LOST IS LOST FOREVER!

In Revolutionary times, Thomas Paine said the following:“These are the times that try men's souls”.And indeed these are the times that try women's souls, some at least now that the United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. Thomas Jefferson admonished Americans of his time that the blood of patriots must be shed from time to time in order to refresh the tree of liberty. In short, the constitutional America of 1776 (Declaration of Independence) and the Constitutional America of 1787 needed new patriots, new passion, new commitments to liberty and freedom. Now more than ever that is true. The constitutional, rule of law, freedom–liberty America of old is not only under attack but becomes divided, angry and more violent by the day. Freedom and liberty we have always taken for granted are now all the more at risk and at stake.The patriot Patrick Henry provided a testimony applicable to all of us:“Give me liberty or give me death”.Henry was willing to die for freedom. He would live under no form of bondage. Oppression and bondage in his time was English. Today it comes internally from anarchists, that small virulent, violent minority which wishes the destruction of the greatest country on earth. Our fore fathers fought for freedom. They gave their blood then which we can assume made Jefferson proud. They gave us the greatest ruling document in the history of mankind, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. That incredible document contained the First Amendment which gave every American citizen the following rights and freedoms: Freedom of religion Freedom of speech Freedom of press Freedom of assembly Freedom of petitionGuaranteed, unconditional, unchanging, FOREVER FREEDOMS. Every one of those sacred, inalienable (God–given) rights and freedoms are at risk today, EVERY ONE! We the People seemed to have lost our vision, our understanding, even in some cases our desire to protect and preserve this incredible country. We have become indifferent to the struggles and problems we face. So many of us are ignorant of our history, and our Constitution, and our rule of law, and how we are governed. So many of us have withdrawn from the political process. As few as 10% will vote in some elections and perhaps no more than 60% of eligible, voting Americans will go to the polls in the most serious of elections. It has become tragic how We the People take democracy for granted. It is as though freedom will always be there no matter what we do. We the People are an easy target for violence and anarchism. One of the most anti–American Americans was one Saul Alinsky. In essence, Alinsky championed the destruction of everything, every institution, every tradition, anything and everything in America so that the country could be rebuilt and reestablished. The philosophy and beliefs of Alinksy were adopted by George Soros among others and the state of objective of Soros and others was to:BRING DOWN AMERICA.Bring it down. Destroy it. Rewrite its history. Do away with its Constitution and its rule of law. Get rid of the moral standards of the country today and especially the Judeo–Christian heritage and morality of the past. Do away with it completely! Beneath the violence, disrupt, and the lack of accountability today is this Alinsky model, the destruction of America, the destruction of everything which America holds dear. WOKE better serve to wake up America, defend itself, its values, morality and principles or all will be lost. WAKE UP AMERICANS, WAKE UP. The time may be near when the blood of real patriots will be required once again in America.We the People assume that we live in a democracy. We live by democratic principles, the core of which is freedom. That is true but our government is not a democracy. Our fore fathers who forged our Constitution were suspicious of democracy. They feared an intolerant majority. They created checks and balances which would prevent as much as possible the potentially crushing majority rule. They created for us a REPUBLIC. That of course consisted of a president, senate and house of representatives. It also consisted of an independent federal judiciary with the Supreme Court of essentially nine justices as final arbitrators of the rule of law. Such a republic respected democratic principles but it guarded so very well against abuse.Those founding fathers gave us the concept of federalism. That is, that each of the individual states of America, then 13 and now 50, would be protected, have rights not specifically granted to the federal government (Constitution Amendment X), and otherwise make certain that its people were protected, and larger states would have no real advantage over smaller ones. It was and continues to be a brilliant system and check and balance. The founding fathers gave us an electoral college where leaders were not elected by majority vote but by states according to their population.They gave us the rule of law, they gave us the Declaration of Independence, they gave us the Constitution, incredible documents with incredible freedoms, fully protected. They gave us all of this as a result of the blood of so many Revolutionary patriots shed in the cause of freedom. How tragic it is that we sit back and take those then given freedoms for granted, watch them whittle away daily, observe the indifference among younger generations and the beginning of the erosion and eventually the elimination of our great Country, its way of life and government. The great destroyers win, Alinsky, Soros, Sanders the socialist. They refuse, those anarchists and anti–Americans to work within the system for reform. They work for radical change and ultimate destruction. And, We the People sit back and watch it happen and in so many ways do nothing. Violence is everywhere. There are threats, intimidation, radicalism everywhere. A senator threatens a supreme court justice. Senator Schumer from New York threatened Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh as follows:You will pay the priceIf Roe is overturned. We are promised a summer of rage by JANE'S REVENGE. That means violence, firebombing, destruction, perhaps killing, Alinsky and Soros rage at work. We live in the age of post–Truth, as former president Barrack Hussein Obama told us where there really is no absolute truth of any kind, no morality and it is indeed a day and age of:ANYTHING GOES.It is simply unbelievable how seemingly everything America stands for, believes in, the fundamental structure of our great Country is not only under attack but is being destroyed day by day. History shows us that democracies as the foundation of government cannot last. Democracies in history last at or about 200 years. America is now 246 years young and We the People, our democracy, our great constitutional republic may be near the end. How I for one hope and pray that simply does not happen. The Constitution and its Amendments of the United States is the finest document, political governing document which mankind can produce. But it cannot last forever. Only one document can. And that is THE WORD OF THE LORD, the Holy Bible which gives us the world's only reliable ABSOLUTE TRUTH. The Constitution gives us the freedoms of mankind. The bible gives us heavenly freedoms, eternal freedoms, the ways of the Lord God Almighty, the most important freedom of all and the most important freedom of all, salvation in Jesus Christ. Man's democracy cannot last, but the democracy of peace and love of Jesus Christ will last forever. Human leaders, people, men and women, politicians and those in power can never last. The only person, leader, visionary, difference maker who can is Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of Glory. That eternal leader will never fail. So, now in America violence reigns. Everything is under attack. The spiritual warfare has begun. The:FIGHT OF FAITH IS HERE AND NOW!So, my fellow Americans, my fellow Christians, how will you fight this fight of faith? HOW? Put on for sure the armor of the Lord. And the helmet of salvation. And the breastplate of righteousness and be ready for the spiritual war. It is here, IT IS HERE. You will be called upon to defend your faith with everything you have. If you truly believe as a Christian and you will not compromise, you will take on a danger you never have before. How will you respond? Will you stand up to violence? Would you use any means at your disposable to protect your family, your friends and yourself from violence? You will engage in prayer, more prayer perhaps than ever before. But you will be called upon to ACT, and perhaps act returning violence for violence. Would you do that? We the People, we Christians have choices to make we never have before. In prayer, may our Lord lead us to the right decisions for God, and Country, and family, and all human kind. Freedom, inalienable rights, God–given rights, are of the most value, the most important to all. Don't lose them or lose life in the process. May God bless you, my fellow Americans as you energize the courage to stand for Christ, for Christianity and for the greatest Country in the history of mankind.Always remember. FREEDOM ONCE LOST IS LOST FOREVER!

Here's the horror talk of Gerald Stano ((born Paul Zeininger; September 12, 1951 – March 23, 1998), a former American American convicted serial killer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY-h81fso0U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsvMrBAEncs

Korean-Korean, American-American, and Third Culture Kids. Conversation on parenting as a TCK.

Here's Part 1 of the horror talk of Richard Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991), a former American American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slm_YDzx4vI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUuZYTGKD9g Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007): https://tubitv.com/movies/615595/chicago-massacre-richard-speck?start=true&utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed *Happy 15th anniversary* Mindhunter (2017-2019): https://m4uhd.tv/watch-tvseries-mindhunter-2017-20961.html

Here's Part 2 of the horror talk of Richard Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991), a former American American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slm_YDzx4vI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUuZYTGKD9g Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007): https://tubitv.com/movies/615595/chicago-massacre-richard-speck?start=true&utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed *Happy 15th anniversary* Mindhunter (2017-2019): https://m4uhd.tv/watch-tvseries-mindhunter-2017-20961.html

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Indictments issued for Harris Co. Judge Lina Hidalgo's top staffers in the COVID outreach contract scandal.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Abilene City Council to consider Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance petition this week.HD60 runoff candidate Mike Olcott gets endorsement of Ted Cruz. Abbott endorsed the first term RINO incumbent Glenn Rogers.HD84: Lubbock Association of Realtors PAC endorses Carl Tepper in the big runoff for the state house in Lubbock.Excerpts from a Podcast Extra interview I did with Douglass Blair of Heritage on “woke” Disney and other anti-American American companies. Along with that, why is Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan hostile to stopping the movement to sexualize our children as well as push the homosexual/transsexual political agenda?And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Nehemiah Mitchell and Darreon Herring, co-founders of We Ball Sports, an e-commerce site specializing in quality, affordable football gear and sports apparel , the first profitable American American-owned online sports apparel store.

Your earbuds will cross themselves and kiss the rosary, when Diablo goes down to the PYFC with Big Luck's, Ol' Blue Eyes, Schwartz and Chumahan, hell has no fury like Diablo on the West Side, he hits the burn tables with true tales about female guards and Prison D, and hear Diablo's legend about Ghetto Prison Guard Ruby and her hangover remedies, finally the Prince of Darkness takes us into a conversation about death that'll melt your vinyl.  Um, and hi, my name is Schmidt. Hi, my name is Schmitty and I'm from the hard luck show. Please come in the podcasts and try to try to find thisshots, shots,shots,shots.Good morning. Welcome to the hard luck show. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, you've tuned into the greatest show on earth. It's the hard luck show coming at you from the people. He's a family center in the city of Santa Monica, sitting across from me is my co-hostto Mohan Bowen, a married Southern California, elegant by Barry. Yeah.Roll up your weed, drink your liquor. Come on. I'm going to tell the story much quicker. Any particular surface, the pan lands on, on sound, old blue eyes himself. Yeah, buddy Sean Lewis certified audio professional.when a plan comes together,check that guy that guy's still you shop that's 18 baby. Um, and the most extraordinary showrunner of them all Mr. Ryan shores. Yep. Hey.Schwartz morning guys, fellows. I'm trying, man, trying, you're trying you're doingis being handled Ali Baba and theUh, you already know what it is. All you on the visuals go, you know what I'll eat. That's the first time I saw you trying to do shit. He was, he was doing stick this time now, you know, it's funny. And somehow that made it not asking, right? Yeah. I just had a warmup. Yeah. Good. All right, good. You're doing cut on it.You're doing look at his face. Ali. Do you like those? Just spin on it with the women's spin on a Dick. Fuck. No comment. exactly what not to go. What road to go down. I ain't even go in there. He didn't deny it. He saidthat's the worst. I was like that, bro. You really lost it on that one. Nice. Okay. Let's do it. Sean's looking at me like where do we go from here? Motherfucker. Do something, motherfucker. What the fuck? I love awkward silence. I do too. It's so it's so. It's something people try to avoid. Like they try to move away from it.All right. Uh, shorts what's on tap. What are we doing? You're in charge of, you know, we can roll it out with the, uh, world war two. And the Eddie Carter that you were telling me about was that the gentleman's name? That Carter Eddie Carter. Yeah. That isn't related to Jimmy. No, but this guy is, his story is amazing too.Mom gave me a little, a little, a preview of it and uh, fucking blew my mind. Hey, um, so, so the really start this out really is to talk about black history month. That's what February is, right? Yup. Ollie, why don't you get on his mic, man? I do consider yourself African-American yeah, he does. He does. All right.So Ali, uh, is black history month. What do you understand about black? Sit down my brother. What do you understand about black history man? A month? It's time to celebrate a culture that has been suppressed from the get go. So it's a time for people who are in color to embrace who they are and be happy in their skin and not try to be any other race.Just like, be happy that you're you. But like, it would be cool if like everyone had their own month to celebrate. Like, I don't want to be like, oh, like just take all the shine. Like everyone should have that opportunity. Hey Ali, do you know how black history month got started? Can you just let me know?Okay. Uh, does anybody actually have any idea how black history month even got stuff? Schwartz and shaking his head, Sean. I mean, do you so black history month? Cause I, I didn't know. I looked it up because I wanted to know. Cause it seems like it feels like you just have these sort of politically quote unquote correct holidays that it seemed like the government put out to try to keep everybody cool and like not pissed off.Right. So I looked it up and it's not that in fact, what it is is black history month started out as black history week and black history week started because a guy who was black African-American went to Harvard. Wooden is his last. Wouldn't and he discovered in all the history books at Harvard that know nothing about black Americans contribution to this country history, anything was in any of the textbooks at Harvard.What year is this? We're talking like 19, early 1900. Right? So he's sitting there and he's thinking, and he starts the first, like African-American academic journal from Harvard. Right. And it's like, he reads through the history books and we're talking college level zero, mention about African-Americans contribution to history.And so he says, fuck it. And he said, we're going to start black history week. Now there had already been before the 19 hundreds, a tradition in the African-American community to celebrate, to celebrate the first week in February already. Does anybody know why? No, because. Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln both had birthdays in that first week.I think a Frederick, I think Frederick Douglas is Valentine's day 14th and what? No, no. I thought Lincoln's was like the 13th or something. It's like the eighth, I believe. Right. So African-Americans were like, that was a major change in our situation. It wasn't fixed. Right. But it was. So that week eventually right.Turned into an entire month as, as more and more folks started to push the idea and the whole cause of it was because, um, only one history was shining at the time of that white history. Well, two things about what you said is one, how many African-Americans were at Harvard or at any of the big universities at that time?That could even point out, oh shit. There's nothing in here. Black contribution to this country. Um, and so I think it's amazing that he did that, but also too, I think it's important for people to know it. Wasn't given black history month. Wasn't given out, you hear all these, maybe it's urban legend, like, okay, it's black history month because it's the shortest month in the year, right?That's a, that's a common joke in the comedy circles. Right. And the truth of the matter is, is it, and this is what really gets fucked up in these situations. Is that the common culture, common sense people, right. They think like, oh, this was dispensed from the government. Right. And it was dispensed out of some feeling of obligation to keep black and it's bullshit.Right, right. It was picked because Abraham Lincoln who fucking defeated the entire south and Emmy murdered motherfuckers, that's really what I wind up when grant did that March to the. Right. He burned crops, salted the earth and it was, it was to break the back of the Southern fuck faces. And I love the south, but I'm also saying a lot of those motherfuckers wanted to keep slavery and place.He's the reason why, uh, blacks, at least slavery ended right now. Frederick Douglas. I mean, dude, none of us talked about Frederick Douglas, that dude was born a slave and he tricked white people into teaching them English. He tricked him into teaching them how to read and write when it was illegal for black people, illegal for black people to read or write.And the whole reason is they didn't want black people reading because if they read, then they would read the Bible. Then they read about the Jews who fucking broke out of slavery. And that might lead to us losing a fucking dope ass system. This is American history. And that's the pur and that's the next, that's the next phase though, is that there's a movement like Morgan Freeman and other folks have said, well, I don't want to call it black history because it's really American history.It is American history. Yeah. It's not black history. The problem is is that if you do. Privilege that piece. It won't be acknowledged. It won't be acknowledged. That's the part that, that a lot of these conservative whites gloss over, that's the hidden power structure behind this dialogue. First, as soon as you say black, it goes into a certain column.Right. But the problem is, is if you don't say black, then the P goes into no column and it goes into zero column. Right. Uh, you would hear people, so that's kind of, you would hear people like, oh, well, black history month and why, why isn't there a white history month? Why isn't there, whatever. And you know, the argument and it's true that if you didn't have that, it wouldn't be at all.And like every other month is white history month or American history month without the inclusion of the African-American contribution. So then how does that, how do you think that plays into American when they are talking about just American history? They have the slaughter of the. And that's just American history.It, that is American history and it should be American history. And then you also have to go in. And so this is what I think personally, I think that it should be approached from, uh, from the angle of a disciplinary angle. For instance, if you were to say the history of automobiles, right. Or the history of gambling or the history of song or the history of America, right.All of that would fit under America, but it's still a category, but it doesn't mean that just because you put it into the category, it's separate and apart from America. Right. So if you said, I want to study heavy. Right. You wouldn't necessarily approach it and say, well, don't call it heavy metal. Cause now you're separating it from music.You would already understand that that's a subcategory of the general category of music. So in this case, the general category is American history. Sub category would be African-American history because you need that kind of detailed study in that little branch of the history in order to bring all those details to life.So that the general category of American history is actually more accurate, not better, not worse, accurate the true story. And so I think when you get bogged down into like the fighting about what, what should we call it and should it be the same and blah, blah, blah. I think there's a place for people to say it's American history, but then I think it makes sense from a, from a intellectual standpoint that you have to label certain things in order to feel.Uh, all of the details in order, but that's kind of what the fight is going on now. You know, a lot of Republicans and people on the right are saying, oh, we shouldn't burden our kids with the fact that there was slavery. Fuck. Or there was prejudice, all these things that, oh, you know, they're going to feel guilty or hate their country.No, they're going to have an appreciation and an understanding from where we were, where we're at now and the road that we can take to go. And you know, those same. I gotta say this. Like when I look at old pictures of slavery and read about it, and I look at the problems that I have today, it just like completely wipes out any little negative thing in my life.Like just comparing like my life to what used to be like, knowing about all that messed up stuff. It's like, it's pretty necessary to know. So you can realize like how far we came and like, damn like life ain't that bad. Like it could be a lot worse. I know about that stuff. You gotta know about it because you got to know it could be worse.You got to know about it, that what people consider golden ages of history, where actually rife with complete violence and injustice so that you don't get some fake ass idea that like, oh, it was all good before, you know, part of the power. People don't understand this, but in our Western thinking, we have a tendency to look back in a direction that everything was perfect.At some past point, there was a garden of Eden. There was no trouble. Adam was walking around naked, his vision was naked and they could do anything and they didn't have to work. And there was no menstruation. There was none of that. It was cool. It was. Now we live in this corrupted society and it's all fucked up.It's actually always been fucked up. That's the first point it's always been fucked up. It's always been corrupted. So in looking at that, I wanted to get that out to make sure that our audience and myself and us are aware that black history month started out because black history was not being taught.And it was only a week. And it was already a tradition of celebrating the fact that Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas, right, were people who really advanced. I mean, you can talk all the bullshit you want. You can fucking say all this other stuff. Those are two guys that put their asses on the line.To advance a cause or a people in this country. And, and, and so I think that piece of it is super important and to really the politics of it should be taken out. There should be no question on, in anyone's plate that, uh, the true history of America should be taught to the citizens who are gonna inherit this country.Frederick Douglas, you said he tricked the wipey. Wouldn't teaching him how to read and white. So what did he do with that to help both by being, oh, so he didn't make black history month, but he did was he eventually got himself out of slavery at a time when slavery was still there and traveled through Europe and became emblematic of a guy that showed that African-Americans even see, this is the part that really hurts motherfuckers that are weak.Frederick Douglas showed. You can say, I'm not a man. And you can say that I'm not human and you can put me in jail. But through my own intellect, owls, outsmart you, and I'll make all pain. I'll get myself paid out of this thing. And I'll go on speaking tours throughout Europe and America as a free man.Yeah, he was the, I, I would say during that time, probably the most prominent and respected African-American, um, men, he came out of slavery. Think about, think about being you talk in this country. We all make a big hoopla about being a self-made man. People fucking waxed, you know, Elon Musk's car, because he was like, ah, I, I slept on beanbags and coded all night.Think about Frederick Douglas, what he had to overcome in terms of what he was labeled. The rules were all against him to eventually get to a place where he was free and was able to come and go and places. So Frederick D we could do an entire show. Frederick. Oh, that guy was a real hero. An American hero.I think we should for black history month, I think during this month let's let's do one. I'll do it. I'll do it. You could imagine how crazy it would be if he was living in this time period, like how he would be able to finesse. Cause like that knowledge he has, like, you can't take that away from him. Like when you said like, when you put chains on me, you calling whatever, like you can't change.Like my mom's. Yeah. But, but, but, but hold on a second. All right, but hold on. You're right. But I think a Frederick Douglas came here today. He'd be very disappointed. Oh yeah. Because nobody's working as hard as he did. That's exactly right. That's exactly fucking right. And like you're right. He. W figured out where the freedom is, it's in the mind, but our generations of folks have been so brainwashed by companies like apple, Microsoft fucking Coca-Cola, all these jerk-off companies, Nike, right?That they no longer are free in their mind. You're free in your body. You ain't free in your mind. Oh, like they are brainwashed to consume brainwashed, to consume meaningless jobs, create a meaningless life, which creates people a desire to buy meaningless junk. Meaningless junk to fill a hole in themselves because they haven't developed their mind.And that's where our society is today. And that's why you got all these fucking idiots that they're not genuinely idiots. Like they have the capacity to think, but they're just under so much layers of bullshit that they're so confused that they would try to overthrow their own country and smear feces in their own Congress and then act like it didn't happen.Right. Oh, you talking about like this government? Fuck. That's right. So now that we've hit that point, I want to turn now to write the project here where my, my, my desire here and talking about, um, the African-American contribution to the American project, the American dream, the American home, the American goal, the American success, and one of the things that, um, I want it to do is also connected to Los Angeles.Right. Okay. And I wanted to talk about somebody called Eddie Carter. Nope. Eddie Carter. And in relation to Jimmy Carter, none. What was his, um, ranking by the time that he was done? Was he like a Sergeant? What do you know? Yeah. But by the time that he was, well, this is a good question to ask. Cause I can tell you this, he made it to Sergeant, but he had to give up those stripes.Oh yeah. That's right. So Eddie Carter, his dad, um, was from LA and he was like, um, like, uh, like a, a preacher, right. One of these preachers and he went to, and we're talking like, you know, 1908 or 1910, like around that time, his dad, a black man. Think about that. Right. Went to India to convert Hindus into Christianity.Christian man, they're going everywhere, fucking way team. They're trying to increase their numbers big and uh, I'll sign anybody up. Border will kill you. Right. And so he was up there and he married an Indian woman, I think, here in LA. And that's why they went to India together. And Eddie Carter's mother was from India and his dad was, um, a black dude from LA and they went there.And, uh, and, and when you went to India back then, right, you had to like take a fucking boat. It was no like massive thing. Right? So they stopped at Hong Kong and all this other stuff now really think about an African-American dude, an adult from LA at that time, seeing like Hong Kong and Singapore and Ryan goon and all this shit, it was pretty way out there.They got to India, they set up shop. And the thing of it was, was that for whatever reason, this young Eddie Carter had, was always drawn to the middle of. Um, and in India he said he was visited by a spirit that told them if you, you will become a great warrior. And for whatever reason, when he was like 14, that stuck with him and in India, right.Eddie's his mom ran off with another dude and they took the church money. Oh. So imagine that God damn. Fraud's not, but not the dad. Wasn't okay. Okay. The dad was, it was a die. I mean, this dude would pray and praying all this other shit. Right. And then one day, one of his buddies and his wife just disappeared with the church.Kitty, Tammy Faye ran off with the bag. And I mean, imagine what, how that would make you feel. You're Eddie Carter. You're in India, right? You don't know anybody, your mom's gone now. It's just you and your dad and your kids. It's a fun. Think about that. So, so, so start. So they, they lose all their thing. They try their luck and China, the dad goes to China with Eddie, everybody that goes to China with Eddie and they start up the holy roller shit over there.Cause you know, just like you said, Christians are trying to sign up mothers, right? When they're trying to sign up the Chinese, there was already a lot of white Christian dudes over there. Right. But get a load of this, the Chinese hated white people. You imagine that Steve, why would the Chinese around that time hate white motherfuckers?Cause they were. Pretty much making them go railroads. Yeah. I love you, Steve. I can see right then and there dude, you're like a master of like, I'm gonna throw out an answer. That's correct. Probably in some way, I'm just going to be general enough. Cause they were listen. Why people enslaved a lot of different kinds of people.So if I just say enslaved them, that's probably right. That's a good reason. I can just imagine you in high school brother, I could just see you being like, because they were bad. Well, yes and yeah, no, because of the British and the opium trade got their fucking old country strung out on fucking heroin and then started fucking buying it and doing that, you can make them buy it from all that shit.Do this horrible. What was that called though? The heroin, the Hong Kong or something heroin thing or it was the opium wars. Yeah. So think about that. So, so, so you're hating them at a deep level. Yeah, it's just strung out their whole country. Do they do the pusher? The pusher man was the British kingdom and the queen and she rugged went over there and said, you know what, try this little powder and then got them all hooked up on it.And it's, it's it's England bull that story. When I read that, I was like, God damn. Why is it that that level of evilness comes out of England? Like that, man, what the fuck is that, man? My blink of a shit about nobody up some themselves. They still bro. They still don't. I was just having dinner with that client.He's a, he's a pro he was, he's a retired university president with a lot of connections and shit. He was laying some stories out to me about the British Royals. Oh man, bro. No, no blame. No Blaine. So, so, so, so, but, so, so at that time, right there was like white Christians doing missionary work over there.Right. But the Chinese were like cock block and I'm like, nah, motherfucker, no, we dealt with you before. And we got all fucked up. We ain't going to deal with you now, but Eddie's dad was a black man and the Chinese embraced him. It didn't matter that he was married. I mean, it was his, he was as far from white as possible.So embraced it. Anybody was also American. Right. And this is right around the time that like chairman Mao in and, um, check hi shack where we're clashing about who's going to control, China's going to be communism or is it going to be now American back? Uh Sheck is he going to be right? And the Americans were actually putting a lot of money and energy and in part of the American push, when they saw that Eddie Carter's day.Hat's it was getting some fucking purchase with these fucking, uh, the, with the, the American back Chinese folks, all of a sudden Eddie Eddie's father's dad was able to get his hold of a publishing and the printing press. Next thing you know, they're floating out all that fucking propaganda through Eddie's that now that his dad became close with check, I check and the women is so close.In fact that when that dude's daughter got deathly ill with the fucking typhoid Eddie's dad was praying over the daughter and she miraculously healed. And as a result shack and his crew became converted to Christianity. Schwartz's shorts. Tell us you shaking your hand. You got the cynical scowl. What was that about?No, it's like they, they had, uh, they had some little bit of proof and they fucking ran with it. It was like, man, you performed a mirror. Yeah. So do they Buddhist, do you know what they were to switch over? What type of religion they worked this before? They weren't Buddhist. They were something akin to, I think Confucianism.Okay. All right. And there was a lot of like veneration and it was not Buddhist. And I think the maturation, yeah. Like respect to the ancestors, all that shit you see in those Disney fucking Chinese ones where it's like borderline racist, but are they supporting it or is it racist? And they're like black and incense and then goes to the ancestors, come out and sing some fucked up song.And you're like, I don't know if this might be racist. So all of that. But Eddie Carter, the young man was in military schools in China during that time. And because of the connections, uh, he got into the military to fight against Mao in the early days. And his dad flipped out because the tensions were growing.It was clear that something was going to happen and they were struggling over. Who's going to control China. And so his dad with his connections got his son out early and they moved back to LA. That's crazy. I didn't. So he was like a part of the Chinese military, basically. That's even crazier. Yes. Think about that.That's fucking nuts right now. This is him wanting to fucking, I don't know, what's up with dudes that lost their moms from some shit, but you, you like, you want to get discipline and military, you want join shit and fight shit. And, and young Eddie was already and he could already speak Chinese. He could already speak Hindu.Right? He's like 15, 16. And he's like out there carrying rifles in the Chinese army, fucking throwing down in a fight. That's not even his battle. Cause that's how bad he wanted to fucking fight. He was a soldier through and through. Go back to LA. Right. And all of this is a precursor and leading up to Japan, coming down and starting to take over China, which it did.Right. All right. But Nan king, look it up. Then you go there, all that shit up. Look it up. So all that's kind of bubbling now at this time, this is pre-World war two, right? When now we're getting into pre-World war II and for the first four years of shit that the Nazis were doing, right. Or maybe even five, the United States was like, man, we ain't getting involved.I mean, you know, you're killing Jews over there. All right. Just as long as you pay us and you window down or nah, we're not gonna, you know, and who was it? Which was, um, God, I wanna think it was for. Pushing around that children as ion or the Zionist stuff. Remember Ford was like passing around that anti-Semitic fucking propaganda book called the elders of Zion, which was a total fraud.Right. All right. So, so pre w YouTube America, right? Pre W2. I love watching Steve shakers. So pre WWT bullying me the fucking Connecticut white people did not give a shit about the Jews at all. And at this time though, there was a guy named Franco, which country was Franco in? I don't know Spain. Oh dude. I just guessed it was Franco.Franco was addicted. In Spain. And he was taking over Spain. There was something called the Spanish civil war. Now just like the time that's happening right now, there was something called there was fascist breaking out all over Europe. You had Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, right. And some people have said, it's part of an echo that comes out of the depression, the depression, economic situation set up the perfect circumstances for these dictators to come in and use fascia a dream that's right, right.And blame blame. Right. Right. Okay. That's the biggest thing they need to have. Now. This is, what's so special. Now this is, what's so special about Eddie Carter Jr. When Franco in the Spanish civil war was going on, now you might know, right. There's a lot of, um, Books, you know, uh, you know, um, Hemingway, you know, all of that, there was a rider tradition in America that got involved in the Spanish civil war on the side of the antifascists right.Antifa and motherfucking Tiefer that's Antifa antifascist against the spread of it. And it's not even in America it's way over there, but the danger was so real and they knew it was such an evil thing. This fucking fascism that Americans fat ass Americans, red blooded Americans who had no dog in that fight.We're like, I'm going to sign up and volunteer and go fight in that war. And one of those folks was Eddie Carter Jr. Right. Eddie Carter. And there was something called the Abraham Lincoln brigade in the Spanish civil war. Which is a group of Americans of all stripes, Jewish, black, white, gay, straight BI curious, right.Allied questioning all of those types, going to Spain to fight against the fascists. And Eddie Carter was one of them. And I mean, that dude, when he showed up, have most of the people that showed up over there with were nut Knicks, like idiots that had never had any military training. Eddie Carter had already been in military schools and already fought in the Chinese war.So when they sent him, he was training guys over there. Okay. So this was official, like what branch of the military did he sign up for here in this country? This is unofficial. The government was so hands off. Well, when the government gave you a passport for Europe, the stamp said, this is not valid to go to Spain because they didn't want anyone interfering with Franco's takeover of Spain.And so these people were. Um, the Abraham Lincoln brigade would, um, smuggled themselves through the pier and ease into Spain through a back route. And like Eddie Carter was one of those dudes and Eddie Carter fought. He killed, he got captured. There you go. Hood hood every quarterfor duty, sir, reporting for duty. So he's there. Right? And in fact, I'm going to play you something. This is back when racism, when fascism was something that people of all different creeds believed in. Even Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the Abraham Lincoln brigade. Oh, wow. And let's see if I can find it right here.It's called, it's called valley. And it's about the valley in Spain where the Abraham Lincoln brigade fought against the fascists. Just, just, just, just to give you an idea.there's a valley and Spain called her on, uh, it's a place that we all know so well, it was there that we fought against the flashes. We saw peaceful valley turned to him. That's an issue we'll put you on to that song myself. Oh, really? Well, cause I know you played that song that your dad had, uh, by his son by our low.And so I didn't know if he was just a fan of the Guthrie's my dad was, but he never played that one. Right. But it came up when I was looking into the Abraham Lincoln brigade, I didn't realize that Woody Guthrie had like, written about. And Eddie Carter had actually fought in it. Whatever you're funny, peacock's got it.Exclusively stream classic sitcoms, like the office parks and recreation and two and a half net. Plus cats, peacock, original comedies like AP bio saved by the bell for all your exclusive comedy phase. Go to peacock tv.com and get started. When you love your team, you spend every moment wondering what they're doing.Well, stop wondering, get contour TV from Cox and follow them anywhere. Anytime with the contour app. Plus use your voice remote to search and filter games or record one that starts past bedtime because even a 24 7 fan has to sleep. Occasionally learn more at cox.com/sports. I mean, that's real proud American history right there.Eddie Carter. Now this guy's not even in a war yet, right? He's he's gotten himself all the way over there. He can speak German. He can speak Chinese. He can speak English and he can speak Hindu. And he's over there in Spain with a rifle, with a w as a volunteer, not getting paid. Anything. How old is he at this time?Approximately? He's like 18. 19. So he's fresh. Yeah, but he's already got a lot of experience fighting in the valleys. Sean, what do you, what, in terms of thinking about what Woody Guthrie represents as part of like an audience, what do you think about that at a time that, that Woody Guthrie was singing about fighting fascists in back then?And in that 20 way, what do I think about him singing in that way? Yeah. And like, what are you, I mean, to me, it blew my mind that there were these songs that were against fascists circulating around in the music industry back then, that's the first I've ever heard of it. Right. Victim music was so much more culturally relevant and impactful.That was, it's more connected to like a folk music. It does sound like, it felt like country foci. Right. Right. But that's kind of interesting to me, I guess what I'm saying is, is like, where's our correlate for that today. None, there really isn't a record, like some sort of record taking musical output, right?Like where does Cardi B represent or she, can she pull back and talk about, you know, the great, uh, you know, recession? Cause she talked about, you know, things that have politically happened, right. Or even like a, yeah. Some sort of like, I dunno conflict. Yeah. No, she doesn't talk about that, but she will talk about some wet ass.Sure sure. There's no coffee. There is no conflict conflict with that. You know what I'm saying? Even the weekend, I liked the weekends beats and everything, but where is, where is the correlate to Woody? Guthrie's singing about the Abraham Lincoln brigade about volunteers in another country from America fighting for fascism.The, the, well, the only the surprisingly enough in, um, some underground hip hop, some conscious hip hop, you will get people really intelligent MCs covering historical and speaking about, um, those, those issues or the history of things. So I really do the only correlation that I can see. I think that that does exist.And I think. Um, to our detriment, they're not the gatekeepers and when they still act like there's no gatekeepers now because of the internet, but they're still gatekeepers. Those gatekeepers are keeping those voices down. Sure. That's not it. That will never be popular music that's given to the masses.All that shit is the same thing. Y you know, talking about dumbing down or keeping people uninformed and uneducated. I mean, the find the rules hiding the fucking right, right. Think about like Trump, you going, I mean, our president of the United States able to have a platform dig, say Antifa is full of fucking villains and criminals, but then, you know, 80 years ago, there's a guy with a guitar and a record.And he's talking about fighting fascism color, color, style era, regardless. It doesn't matter. Irrelevant. How far have we fallen? And drifted, right? It goes back to when we're talking to Ali about how the history is not really being taught. So Eddie Carter's over there. Eventually he gets captured by Franco's forces and he escapes from military prison.Excuse nuts. Unbelievable. Gets back to the United States. And whenAmerica enters world war II, he's ready to rock. He's ready to rock. So he signs up. Where's my fucking drums.Yup. Edward Carter reporting for duty and the, what did the army do? They said, yes, black man come under the army, but we have segregation in the army. Alright, no different than it is out here. Don't take, you're joining the army and you don't get no fucking, uh, you don't get no metals around here. You got here.Listen to you guys. All right. You're telling out right now, listen, this is what we're going to do. We're going to create a black army and the black army. You're going to be allowed to carry stuff, cook stuff, take stuff off the ships and that's it. You can do the service work. How's that? How's that sound is that good?This is good. A uniform you liked that you liked it, right? And the wagon. Right. They're all going to carry the guns because we don't want any black people carrying guns because we know what we did. And we're afraid that when we're sleeping, you might fucking turn around and shoot us. We don't think you're going to be loyal because we weren't loyal to you.So for a lot, for the most of the world war, uh, and a lot of African-Americans did join the army and, and whatever else, but they were relegated to service roles and, and that pissed, uh, Eddie Carter off. But, but that was the reality of the day. So he was in it and he was a cook and he rose to the level of a Sergeant to, as a Sergeant of a black outfit in the army.Now, at this point, I need to pivot in world war II. I got a fucking pivot. All right, Mr. Mrs. Turn to the side, right? Because I'm going to switch and give you some background to get explained what? Cause we haven't even got to the amazing part of yet everything we just talked about was just kind of like leading up.Yeah. Okay. So in world war two, what was in, I don't know who I should throw this to. Maybe I'll throw this to oh, blue eyes. Oh, blue eyes. What was the major first entry of the Americans into world war II, Eastern theater of operations. It was not the big band swing dance phase. What was it? What was there?What was the big entry? What was the big Tudou the hoopla as it were my good man of American entry into Eastern theater of operations. And it looks like a IP dog right. D day. And what's do they short it's when we stormed the beaches of Normandy and, um, went fucking straight up in the, in the belly of the beast coming right into the, the Nazis Lux. Why did they call it D day? I don't know, because they couldn't think of anything else. So they called it day day, and they shortened it to D day.That's the true story of why it's called D day fucking, they couldn't think of anything else at the time. And I was like, fuck it. We'll just call it D for day D day. And that's it. Nothing special. And what happened is that the American and the British storm to beat. The first group of, in everyone saw saving private Ryan, right?Everybody got cut down, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it was such a massive amount of numbers that eventually overwhelmed the Nazis who had fucking build all these pill boxes and shit up into the fucking cliffs and all this other shit. Right. But eventually they got overrun. Not only did they get over run.Right. And remember, soon Zhu said, when you're climbing up the mountain with your allies, hold hands. So the British and the Americans were holding hands French. Wasn't doing Jack shakes up smoking cigarettes and fucking wearing braids. They were coming up to fucking from that coast going towards Germany, which you know, and you look at a map you're like, okay.And Hitler looked at him and he's like, okay, they're coming from this angle. And that's the only place that they can come from. So blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So for six months, we kit fucking German fucking ass all over the place and all this masteries talk and fat Americans and mongrel Americans with mixed racial blood.They allow Jews and blacks in their armies. They don't know how to fight. They're weak and soft. All that shit got put to rest and Hitler was tripping. Hell. I was like, look, man, I talked to big one and we're getting our asses handed to us. And in fact, even his own generals around him were starting to be whatever.And they had actually tried to kill him in his Ravens dead. Oh no, no. His Wolf's den. They tried to kill him with a bomb that actually, because the windows were open. If the windows hadn't been open, when this, when this bomb went off from one of us, he would have killed him. Instead, the windows were open, so the compression went out and he just walked and Hitler walks out like in a days with that fucked up mustache and black face.And he's like, well, what happened? And at that point, everybody was in on the plot was like, are you all right? Oh man, what happened? How long did it take before you had them all killed? Uh, like, like a couple of weeks. I think that was, you know, the movie Valkyrie, Tom cruise. That, that was that, uh, attempt. So now you're Hitler, you sitting there on the couch, right?You got these crazy bitches rubbing your shoulder. You've got a massive headache and you're sitting and thinking to yourself, the walls are closing in the Americans and the British are coming at me. I gotta do something. I gotta do something. And so what does he do? He's like, I'm going to do, what's worked in the past.I'm going to do the offensive Nazi punch. All right into the allies, right into their line, and I'm going to punch him so hard. You're going to be knocked back all the way in a fucking Atlantic. That's what I'm going to do. And he called up right. His most trusted warlocks. And one of those was like, uh, what's like this super secret dude who had a whole plan where he dressed up as an American and his troops as Americans and infiltrated the American lines to get sabotage and fucking information.Right. And this myth freaked Americans out. They thought that there was, they, they believed that there was Nazis running around dressed like Americans talking like Americans and believe it or not a good chunk of the Nazi soldiers had studied in America. There was no problem before this war. So a lot of them knew about these different towns that a lot of our service men came from.So really shit. Yes. Ah, it think about it. So, I mean, Pennsylvania is a half of it's German. They call it Pennsylvania Dutch, but it means German. That's ridiculous. They almost break you. So, so, so, so he gets ready and he also gets all of his tanks, the Panzer divisions. Now you got to understand these Nazi tanks.They're pretty fucking ass at that point in time. Right. They've got the dope tank, but what was that? The other, the tiger tanks. So one of the things that the Nazis had on their side, because in world war one, the Nazi, not the Nazis, the Germans at that time, right. They had restrictions put on their industry that they couldn't build any more fucking war weapons.And then world war II. They got the Germans, whatever the Germans get heavily armed, it started getting nuts, right. They just lose control. And they're like, ah, y'all do things for getting high on their own fumes. Oh, they go crazy. So world war one, they're like, look, you can make stuff, but you can't make guns.And one of the guns that the Germans were making, which eventually became, who tells a country, you can make stuff, but you can't make guns in the U S right. Well, when world war one, when Germany loses, when you, when they chop your Dick off and you've got all the country standing around you and it's Europe, right?It's England, it's France. It's fucking Belgium. Right? Belgium is like right next to fucking Germany. It's like on the top of it, or maybe on the side of it, I'm going to pull up the map here and it's gone. So in that treaty, they tell you, you can't. And they got people watch sending. We were telling Saddam like no more, fuck you, no motherfucking chemical weapon.You go to war and you, and there is a not complete annihilation. There's an actual, like lay down of arms and they sign a treaty to end the hostilities. They actually, you, you set the terms. Yeah. Right. And you also set some embargoes like, well, we're not going to give what we're not delivering led to Germany after world war one, because those fuckers went crazy, super chill with it.But they had this gun that was an anti-aircraft gun called the 88 millimeter. And it's like a huge ass motherfucking gun. And we're talking like, yeah, it's twice. It's two double, a 44caliber, 88 millimeter is that that's a caliber where it's different. Who are you telling short 88 instead of 44. But this thing is, is so big. This gun is so big. It's what they use against aircraft. And the Germans after world war one were able to use their Swiss connection to keep working on it and refining it.Right? So fucking loophole. So they were like, yo y'all know, we're not making the gun. And they don't know. We're just making cuckoo clocks in Switzerland. We're just ordering cuckoo clocks. So they make this giant 88 millimeter gun. This gun is probably the most impressive gun in the war in world war two for any country, including the fucking Russians.And this gun was able to punch huge ass motherfucking holes into Sherman tanks. No problem, pal done deal. And it had like, uh, a delayed fuse so that when they shot it up at the, that the flying fortresses that were coming in and Melton down. It would explode shrapnel and this huge like hundred foot arch that these planes would get hit and the people piloting them would get hit.So they weren't trying to hit one individual plane out, although they would try, they were also fucking firing the giant frag grenades into clusters of planes and knocking them all out. And dude, a lot of fucking pilots died in world war two, bombing the shit out of Germany with these flat guns, they called them flat guns at them.Now these flattens, the thing that you got to really understand about it is that they were highly mobile and whatever German fucking engineer figured it out. Instead of trying to build this massive base, they had these foldout legs. And when you see these guns, it's being pulled by, uh, And he pulled his giant gun behind it.And you could put all kinds of brush on it and fucking, and, and the guy would sit in the little fucking cradle, right. And spin these guns on you, fire them the whole thing jumps. Yes. And they, and I think the, each shell was 37 pounds, which was, they had figured out, this is how crazy these Germans are.They're like, what is the most that a man can carry by himself? And they could fire 20 of the 20 of these 37 shells in a minute. They had a whole system. They even had a special little fucking tool to list how many per minute, 20 Jesus Christ. And these were the most feared guns in the fucking war. And so eventually.They not only would shoot at the planes, but they could lower it, so it could shoot at tanks and it would punch holes in the Sherman changes to the biliterate them. Then the Germans were like, yo, you know, I've, you know, you know that, I think maybe it would be a good idea to, uh, put this gun on it on a, on a tank.And they made a tiger tank. And the millimeter armor of the tiger tank was so thick that German tanks couldn't punch through it. And these tanks would sit up and like, just face whatever the American or the burden, the British had some real fucked up tanks. Their tanks looked like their tanks look like some kind of like three-year-old with fucked up Legos made it.Oh, so all of this gets set up. Right. And, and Hitler's like, I'm gonna punch through. And now the art ENS is a piece as a mountain range that only has one road. And nobody ever expects anybody to be able to go through this mountain pass. And so the Americans, after six months of kicking ass, their supply lines got stretched.Okay. Like how are you getting fuel and all the shit to these tanks. And also their men had been depleted. So now they needed to rest. So what did they do? They arrested up in this area, in the Ardennes in the forest, did mountains of art, the gardens, and nobody expected any kind of attack. And in fact, it LER was setting up this whole situation where during the day would look like tanks are going to Russia at night, they would circle around and come back and they were building up these forces in the Arden mountains.And so they were getting ready for this massive fucking Nazi fist, right into the fucking allies and allied intelligence. Had fallen down. They didn't know that this was happening and there was men on the ground with binoculars and they were like, Hey, uh, I'd seen 500 tanks come up. And the fucking military brass was like, you must be seeing things because we don't have any reports like that.So these slim amount of fucking dudes, right? They were the ones that were going to stop the Nazi fist punch into the allies and they barely hung on, had it broken through the, the whole war would've gone differently. But the reason why it's called the battle of the bulge is because that Nazi fist made a bolt into the line of the Americans and the British once the Americans and the British were able to contain that Nazi fist then, and Hitler was almost like not going to give up.I mean, his journey, his generals are screaming in his face. Like, dude, what the fuck are you doing? As soon as it started to cave in then Patton general Patton was tasked with driving right into the German country and annihilating them. Right. Patent was patent in Montgomery and patent had a tank battalion and had been, must've been licking.His chops. Duke is waiting for Eisenhower, right when the first that Nazi first punch came through and they finally became aware of the severity of the situation. I, as in how I had all his generals and he's like massage his bald ass head. And he was like, man, huh? And he's like, what patent, how soon can you get your tanks up into the area?And Patton was like two days and Eisenhower and everybody else stopped. Patting was just being as bragging and acting stupid. And he's like, stop, you know, enough with the manly shit parenting. How, how can you really do it? Pat said two days and Patton did get his fucking people up there in two days. A member of patents, fucking tank brigades, and one of them had their patches ripped off.You borrowed a tank brigade or stole a tank brigade from another general, had the patches ripped off. And they were known as the mysterious battalion. Nobody knew who they were, but they have, they had, you know, different, weird fucks in it and shit like, and this is where you start this bastards. This is where you start getting all these myths about the fucking and they were promoting it like, oh, these were, these are guys that were in prison.It's not true. There was no like criminals in fucking world war II, five minutes to scare the Germans to get them back for that fucking, we got Nazis running around in American clothes, freaking people out. So we were like, yeah, well, we got all our prisoners that we gave them guns and told them, you kill Nazis.You win. So it's going, right. So this American fucking charge is going right to the heart of Nazi Germany in your country. You know, A couple of years before that you were talking about how the third Rock's going to last for a thousand years and given this mission, now, everyone in your country is seeing American flag tanks roll by their little fucking castle.One of the people that was in that was Eddie Carter. And how did he get there? When the battle of the bulge happened, we lost like 80,000 men and Eisenhower was like, we need resupplies. And that's when they finally decided to let black people join the fighting part of the war. They were like, It could take us like another year to get a bunch of white dudes over here.But we've got all of these brothers who are, it was born out of necessity. But when that happened, they, the generals, then the people that never wanted to integrate the army or let them have weapons were probably like, holy shit, no, you know, so, so Eddie Carter, Sergeant Eddie Carter, they said, you ready to fight?He was like, Sergeant Carter reported for duty. They go, it's cool. But you can't be Sergeant anymore because we can't have you outranking any white people. So fucking sick dude, just sick. Think about that. And you're worthy, but we're not letting you have it. He's like fucking, I'm going to go kill it. You still got to listen to the dishwasher.So Sergeant Carter was such a dedicated warrior. He was fighting fascism. He was fighting for freedom, right? He was fighting for equality, which is the principles that America claims the standard. That he was willing to demote himself so he could carry a rifle for uncle Sam and I did true American Patriot.Right? So he's one of the rifle men on these tank brigades and they're, they're, they're heading right to the heart of the Nazis. And he's out in the open now he's really trained well. And one of these tank brigades is going and they go towards this town called Spire. Spire is a small little town in the Rhineland.What's the Rhineland, that's the German, uh, wine country. That's the German like San Louis Obispo. Right. You know what I mean? Napa valley, Napa valley German, Napa valley, because the Rhine river goes by it. And so as a result, you've got a ton of warehouses in that area because they're storing wine and grapes and.Submachine gunfire fires at, and one of these 88 millimeter gun things fires at one of the tanks misses from one of the warehouses and the Americans fucking take cover right there. It was like, oh shit, we got shot at fucking machine guns, man. And they sit there and they get cut. So now everyone's like, what do we do?How we got it. We can't go any further on this road, but we got a timetable and that we don't know what's in those warehouses and Eddie, Eddie, Eddie Carter, volunteers to lead like five dudes to storm the warehouses and find out what the fuck is going on there. And these warehouses are on the other side.So they're in the trees, right? The Americans got up into the trees, try to figure out what's going on. There's the road, then there's nothing but about one football field of open space. And then the warehouses that's got the Germans in it. Right. And they got burp guns, which are the, those little German, M forties.Yeah. They got it. Mortar fire going off, hitting the lines. And they got somewhere around there and 88 millimeter. So Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Carter's like, all right, give me a Tommy gun. And a bunch of grenades. I got this. I was born for this. And they go, you bet, take them in with you or right behind ya. So Eddie and his dudes run right into the field.All of a sudden shots start firing out. Three of us, men are killed right off the bat and they realized the tanks. Didn't follow them into the field, near up at an observation. And we'll be right there. And they're like, well, we could just send them out and figure out where they're shooting from. Eddie Carter tells his other two guys.Go away. I got this. Eddie gets shot in the arm five times. Oh shit. And it goes down. There's a submachine gun somewhere behind one of the warehouse walls or whatever it is. He takes his phone grenade. He throws it in there, takes it, the entire machine gun nest out with one grenade. He gets back up and he's got his Tommy gun and he starts charging again.Again, he gets shot. He gets shot so hard. He gets knocked into the air. He falls down on the ground. He's been shot like six times now he's bleeding. He's shot. He's thirsty. He raises his canteen up to give himself a drink. Someone shoots it out of his hand, fucking pisses him off. He's fucking pissed. And he sits there and he's like, fuck it.And he gets up with his Tommy gun and he runs and like eight Germans come out shooting. And he kills all of them except two right shot, six times fucked up hand. Six Nazis to surrender, surrender to him, surrender to him. That's the way he throws another grenade at the mortar crew, knocks them out. He kills the mortar crew, and now I've got these two Nazis and he's like, fuck, nah.How do I any recognizes that one of the Nazis as an officer now, Carter bleeding says to himself, you know what? I speak German. If I can get these motherfuckers back to the American lines, I can find out where the rest of the German guns are up ahead and we can get there even faster. So while he's losing blood, he bugging grabs.These two Nazis uses them as human shields to go back across that open field injured. And as he's going back, two other guys come out with like pistols and they try to shoot at him. He fucking peels their caps. He's got these two guys because a fucking bad ass, bro. Finally. The 88 mortar or the ADA gun, the 88 millimeter gun dudes are like, we gotta fuck this dude up, man.So they fired a fucking 37 pound shell at him. It didn't hit him, but the fucking excuse made a, the explosion with the shrapnel shot up his legs. So he has to lean on his hostages, but because it was such a big explosion, there was a huge dusk. And Eddie Carter use that dust cloud and he would shoot. And he leaned on him and dragged their fucking punk ass.His back to the American lines. Now he's got the German and the German officer back in the Maryland lines. And now he's like, CEO's are like, Hey man, we gotta get you to the hospital. You lost, you been you're fucked up. And he was like, nah, not right now. We've got to interrogate these motherfuckers who here speaks German.None of you. I do. Okay. Hold on. And he interrogates them in German and he gets the information and he is quintessentially the linchpin to the American success in the fucking hit, Nazi, Germany and knocking out Hitler and all that other shit. Now, after all of that, they go now, will you go to the hospital?And he's like, sure, take me to the hospital. It goes to the hospital within two weeks, he's better. And he breaks out of the hospital and rejoins his fucking army and continues to fight the rest of the war and then goes back to LA. Now he goes back to LA. 'cause he's like, Hey, I'm a fucking hero. Right. I fought in world war II.We beat the fascists when he gets back to LA, he's nearly heartbroken because he's still not allowed to walk through the front door of a regular private business because he's black. It's disgusting. It's really, really discussing when you hear a story like this. That's what true American heroism patriotism.That's what it's all about. And he couldn't even have basic fucking human rights in the country that he did. Was willing to give his life for defended and, and help them be victorious. It's and you know what? This is a great story. And I think that that's one of the reasons about black history month that should, these stories should come out because so many, I didn't know about Juma is going to bring out the stories every black history month.Right. And I think it, I think it's great. I think it's a really, really great man. I, I, this is this guy, Eddie Carter, man, Eddie Carter, who wouldn't. I know this story until now. So this guy is a true American hero. Came back. Racism was not fixed back in America. He re-enlisted in the army. They made him a trainer.And in fact, Eddie Carter, they asked him to build the first national guard here in California in LA, and he built it and he trained those dudes. He's responsible for that. He doesn't get any recognition. They gave him the distinguished service cross at the time. It's the second highest. Metal you could get, but they would not give him a medal of honor because he was black.That was why they wouldn't because he was black. Right. Even though he was more deserving than probably most on it listed the color of his skin. And he was a career soldier. Okay. So he had planned on staying in the army forever. When he got back, he got a hero's welcome from the people around, but he was being surveilled by the FBI.What, Hey, now listen, a person like that. With those skills, with that knowledge, I could totally see why people in the FBI would consider him dangerous.It's disgusting, but they even put him, they took him out of the national guard. He didn't want him training anymore and black people on how to use soldier equipment. So they put them on. In Washington, where he was part of the military police and he was doing drug busts, he, and every place that he went, by the way, all of the white people that were leaders above him, loved him and respected his soldiery.He would spend an hour and a half just cleaning his equipment every day do was fucking disciplined and Ty, and he had a family yet sons. Right? And this thing about him being suspicious, grew into them, worried about the fact that he had fought in China and that may be come, might have a communist sympathy.And so when they, they, they kicked him out of being able to be in the military. And when he tried to re-enlist, he was denied. And when he tried to re-enlist and was denied, he went through every. White black, whatever to help them. And they all, everybody who knew him knew he was a solid dude and they all tried to help him and the government and the army would not give him a fair hearing and explain their reasons for not allowing him to re-enlist.He eventually was broken and bitter. He wrote letters to, uh, the presidents, Eisenhower and all those other people and said, you know, I fought for all this stuff only to come back and have it all taken when you know what fascism isn't dead, it's alive and well here in this country. And eventually he came back to LA any work the rest of his days at a tire shop and died 48 from lung cancer, Jesus Christ.And in 1996, finally right here. They contact his family and they say, we want to award him to metal on after he's gone posthumously. And it was kinda around the time that bill Clinton had gotten into some trouble. And I think he was trying to, you know, uh, I can't believe what happened. Well, that's, that's fucking sad, but think of everything he did, he died at 48 about the life span, man, 48.Yeah. I mean, I don't believe, you know what man, Eddie Carter, that's somebody who, you know, that's an American American hero hero. Thank you for your service west side LA and LA. Wow. Thank you. Check-ins you're sharing this new welcome, like we do about this.I want to, I want to, before you take it out, I gotta hit these, uh, sponsors real quick. I want to give a shout out to Raul. The graphic artist are, Ooh, are you 10 on Instagram? Hit him up. I want to give a shout out to supermax hardware, right? Yes. Hard luck showed out. Come Monday, Wednesday, Friday. That's right.I want to also give a big shout out to a pool up bull beard oils. Um, my understanding is they work well in guns as gun oil as well. Border ball, bullpup beard oil. 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After canceling my scheduled live event because I was sure this was a spoof, it is true that President Joe Biden is sending crack pipes and other drug related items as a form of reparations to American American communities. I still hope this is a joke but if not, this may be the most racist and offeisive action ever taken by an American President

Your earbuds will storm the beaches at Normandy when Big Luck's, Ol' Blue Eyes, Schwartz, and Chumahan reveal the true origins of black history month and tell the greatest American WW2 hero story you never heard of about the masterful amazing patriot, LA's finest warrior who single-handedly wiped the floor with Nazi scum: BONUS understand finally why it's called battle of the bulge. TRANSCRIPT Um, and hi, my name is Schmidt. Hi, my name is Schmitty and I'm from the hard luck show. Please come in the podcasts and try to try to find thisshots, shots,shots,shots.Good morning. Welcome to the hard luck show. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, you've tuned into the greatest show on earth. It's the hard luck show coming at you from the people. He's a family center in the city of Santa Monica, sitting across from me is my co-hostto Mohan Bowen, a married Southern California, elegant by Barry. Yeah.Roll up your weed, drink your liquor. Come on. I'm going to tell the story much quicker. Any particular surface, the pan lands on, on sound, old blue eyes himself. Yeah, buddy Sean Lewis certified audio professional.when a plan comes together,check that guy that guy's still you shop that's 18 baby. Um, and the most extraordinary showrunner of them all Mr. Ryan shores. Yep. Hey.Schwartz morning guys, fellows. I'm trying, man, trying, you're trying you're doingis being handled Ali Baba and theUh, you already know what it is. All you on the visuals go, you know what I'll eat. That's the first time I saw you trying to do shit. He was, he was doing stick this time now, you know, it's funny. And somehow that made it not asking, right? Yeah. I just had a warmup. Yeah. Good. All right, good. You're doing cut on it.You're doing look at his face. Ali. Do you like those? Just spin on it with the women's spin on a Dick. Fuck. No comment. exactly what not to go. What road to go down. I ain't even go in there. He didn't deny it. He saidthat's the worst. I was like that, bro. You really lost it on that one. Nice. Okay. Let's do it. Sean's looking at me like where do we go from here? Motherfucker. Do something, motherfucker. What the fuck? I love awkward silence. I do too. It's so it's so. It's something people try to avoid. Like they try to move away from it.All right. Uh, shorts what's on tap. What are we doing? You're in charge of, you know, we can roll it out with the, uh, world war two. And the Eddie Carter that you were telling me about was that the gentleman's name? That Carter Eddie Carter. Yeah. That isn't related to Jimmy. No, but this guy is, his story is amazing too.Mom gave me a little, a little, a preview of it and uh, fucking blew my mind. Hey, um, so, so the really start this out really is to talk about black history month. That's what February is, right? Yup. Ollie, why don't you get on his mic, man? I do consider yourself African-American yeah, he does. He does. All right.So Ali, uh, is black history month. What do you understand about black? Sit down my brother. What do you understand about black history man? A month? It's time to celebrate a culture that has been suppressed from the get go. So it's a time for people who are in color to embrace who they are and be happy in their skin and not try to be any other race.Just like, be happy that you're you. But like, it would be cool if like everyone had their own month to celebrate. Like, I don't want to be like, oh, like just take all the shine. Like everyone should have that opportunity. Hey Ali, do you know how black history month got started? Can you just let me know?Okay. Uh, does anybody actually have any idea how black history month even got stuff? Schwartz and shaking his head, Sean. I mean, do you so black history month? Cause I, I didn't know. I looked it up because I wanted to know. Cause it seems like it feels like you just have these sort of politically quote unquote correct holidays that it seemed like the government put out to try to keep everybody cool and like not pissed off.Right. So I looked it up and it's not that in fact, what it is is black history month started out as black history week and black history week started because a guy who was black African-American went to Harvard. Wooden is his last. Wouldn't and he discovered in all the history books at Harvard that know nothing about black Americans contribution to this country history, anything was in any of the textbooks at Harvard.What year is this? We're talking like 19, early 1900. Right? So he's sitting there and he's thinking, and he starts the first, like African-American academic journal from Harvard. Right. And it's like, he reads through the history books and we're talking college level zero, mention about African-Americans contribution to history.And so he says, fuck it. And he said, we're going to start black history week. Now there had already been before the 19 hundreds, a tradition in the African-American community to celebrate, to celebrate the first week in February already. Does anybody know why? No, because. Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln both had birthdays in that first week.I think a Frederick, I think Frederick Douglas is Valentine's day 14th and what? No, no. I thought Lincoln's was like the 13th or something. It's like the eighth, I believe. Right. So African-Americans were like, that was a major change in our situation. It wasn't fixed. Right. But it was. So that week eventually right.Turned into an entire month as, as more and more folks started to push the idea and the whole cause of it was because, um, only one history was shining at the time of that white history. Well, two things about what you said is one, how many African-Americans were at Harvard or at any of the big universities at that time?That could even point out, oh shit. There's nothing in here. Black contribution to this country. Um, and so I think it's amazing that he did that, but also too, I think it's important for people to know it. Wasn't given black history month. Wasn't given out, you hear all these, maybe it's urban legend, like, okay, it's black history month because it's the shortest month in the year, right?That's a, that's a common joke in the comedy circles. Right. And the truth of the matter is, is it, and this is what really gets fucked up in these situations. Is that the common culture, common sense people, right. They think like, oh, this was dispensed from the government. Right. And it was dispensed out of some feeling of obligation to keep black and it's bullshit.Right, right. It was picked because Abraham Lincoln who fucking defeated the entire south and Emmy murdered motherfuckers, that's really what I wind up when grant did that March to the. Right. He burned crops, salted the earth and it was, it was to break the back of the Southern fuck faces. And I love the south, but I'm also saying a lot of those motherfuckers wanted to keep slavery and place.He's the reason why, uh, blacks, at least slavery ended right now. Frederick Douglas. I mean, dude, none of us talked about Frederick Douglas, that dude was born a slave and he tricked white people into teaching them English. He tricked him into teaching them how to read and write when it was illegal for black people, illegal for black people to read or write.And the whole reason is they didn't want black people reading because if they read, then they would read the Bible. Then they read about the Jews who fucking broke out of slavery. And that might lead to us losing a fucking dope ass system. This is American history. And that's the pur and that's the next, that's the next phase though, is that there's a movement like Morgan Freeman and other folks have said, well, I don't want to call it black history because it's really American history.It is American history. Yeah. It's not black history. The problem is is that if you do. Privilege that piece. It won't be acknowledged. It won't be acknowledged. That's the part that, that a lot of these conservative whites gloss over, that's the hidden power structure behind this dialogue. First, as soon as you say black, it goes into a certain column.Right. But the problem is, is if you don't say black, then the P goes into no column and it goes into zero column. Right. Uh, you would hear people, so that's kind of, you would hear people like, oh, well, black history month and why, why isn't there a white history month? Why isn't there, whatever. And you know, the argument and it's true that if you didn't have that, it wouldn't be at all.And like every other month is white history month or American history month without the inclusion of the African-American contribution. So then how does that, how do you think that plays into American when they are talking about just American history? They have the slaughter of the. And that's just American history.It, that is American history and it should be American history. And then you also have to go in. And so this is what I think personally, I think that it should be approached from, uh, from the angle of a disciplinary angle. For instance, if you were to say the history of automobiles, right. Or the history of gambling or the history of song or the history of America, right.All of that would fit under America, but it's still a category, but it doesn't mean that just because you put it into the category, it's separate and apart from America. Right. So if you said, I want to study heavy. Right. You wouldn't necessarily approach it and say, well, don't call it heavy metal. Cause now you're separating it from music.You would already understand that that's a subcategory of the general category of music. So in this case, the general category is American history. Sub category would be African-American history because you need that kind of detailed study in that little branch of the history in order to bring all those details to life.So that the general category of American history is actually more accurate, not better, not worse, accurate the true story. And so I think when you get bogged down into like the fighting about what, what should we call it and should it be the same and blah, blah, blah. I think there's a place for people to say it's American history, but then I think it makes sense from a, from a intellectual standpoint that you have to label certain things in order to feel.Uh, all of the details in order, but that's kind of what the fight is going on now. You know, a lot of Republicans and people on the right are saying, oh, we shouldn't burden our kids with the fact that there was slavery. Fuck. Or there was prejudice, all these things that, oh, you know, they're going to feel guilty or hate their country.No, they're going to have an appreciation and an understanding from where we were, where we're at now and the road that we can take to go. And you know, those same. I gotta say this. Like when I look at old pictures of slavery and read about it, and I look at the problems that I have today, it just like completely wipes out any little negative thing in my life.Like just comparing like my life to what used to be like, knowing about all that messed up stuff. It's like, it's pretty necessary to know. So you can realize like how far we came and like, damn like life ain't that bad. Like it could be a lot worse. I know about that stuff. You gotta know about it because you got to know it could be worse.You got to know about it, that what people consider golden ages of history, where actually rife with complete violence and injustice so that you don't get some fake ass idea that like, oh, it was all good before, you know, part of the power. People don't understand this, but in our Western thinking, we have a tendency to look back in a direction that everything was perfect.At some past point, there was a garden of Eden. There was no trouble. Adam was walking around naked, his vision was naked and they could do anything and they didn't have to work. And there was no menstruation. There was none of that. It was cool. It was. Now we live in this corrupted society and it's all fucked up.It's actually always been fucked up. That's the first point it's always been fucked up. It's always been corrupted. So in looking at that, I wanted to get that out to make sure that our audience and myself and us are aware that black history month started out because black history was not being taught.And it was only a week. And it was already a tradition of celebrating the fact that Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas, right, were people who really advanced. I mean, you can talk all the bullshit you want. You can fucking say all this other stuff. Those are two guys that put their asses on the line.To advance a cause or a people in this country. And, and, and so I think that piece of it is super important and to really the politics of it should be taken out. There should be no question on, in anyone's plate that, uh, the true history of America should be taught to the citizens who are gonna inherit this country.Frederick Douglas, you said he tricked the wipey. Wouldn't teaching him how to read and white. So what did he do with that to help both by being, oh, so he didn't make black history month, but he did was he eventually got himself out of slavery at a time when slavery was still there and traveled through Europe and became emblematic of a guy that showed that African-Americans even see, this is the part that really hurts motherfuckers that are weak.Frederick Douglas showed. You can say, I'm not a man. And you can say that I'm not human and you can put me in jail. But through my own intellect, owls, outsmart you, and I'll make all pain. I'll get myself paid out of this thing. And I'll go on speaking tours throughout Europe and America as a free man.Yeah, he was the, I, I would say during that time, probably the most prominent and respected African-American, um, men, he came out of slavery. Think about, think about being you talk in this country. We all make a big hoopla about being a self-made man. People fucking waxed, you know, Elon Musk's car, because he was like, ah, I, I slept on beanbags and coded all night.Think about Frederick Douglas, what he had to overcome in terms of what he was labeled. The rules were all against him to eventually get to a place where he was free and was able to come and go and places. So Frederick D we could do an entire show. Frederick. Oh, that guy was a real hero. An American hero.I think we should for black history month, I think during this month let's let's do one. I'll do it. I'll do it. You could imagine how crazy it would be if he was living in this time period, like how he would be able to finesse. Cause like that knowledge he has, like, you can't take that away from him. Like when you said like, when you put chains on me, you calling whatever, like you can't change.Like my mom's. Yeah. But, but, but, but hold on a second. All right, but hold on. You're right. But I think a Frederick Douglas came here today. He'd be very disappointed. Oh yeah. Because nobody's working as hard as he did. That's exactly right. That's exactly fucking right. And like you're right. He. W figured out where the freedom is, it's in the mind, but our generations of folks have been so brainwashed by companies like apple, Microsoft fucking Coca-Cola, all these jerk-off companies, Nike, right?That they no longer are free in their mind. You're free in your body. You ain't free in your mind. Oh, like they are brainwashed to consume brainwashed, to consume meaningless jobs, create a meaningless life, which creates people a desire to buy meaningless junk. Meaningless junk to fill a hole in themselves because they haven't developed their mind.And that's where our society is today. And that's why you got all these fucking idiots that they're not genuinely idiots. Like they have the capacity to think, but they're just under so much layers of bullshit that they're so confused that they would try to overthrow their own country and smear feces in their own Congress and then act like it didn't happen.Right. Oh, you talking about like this government? Fuck. That's right. So now that we've hit that point, I want to turn now to write the project here where my, my, my desire here and talking about, um, the African-American contribution to the American project, the American dream, the American home, the American goal, the American success, and one of the things that, um, I want it to do is also connected to Los Angeles.Right. Okay. And I wanted to talk about somebody called Eddie Carter. Nope. Eddie Carter. And in relation to Jimmy Carter, none. What was his, um, ranking by the time that he was done? Was he like a Sergeant? What do you know? Yeah. But by the time that he was, well, this is a good question to ask. Cause I can tell you this, he made it to Sergeant, but he had to give up those stripes.Oh yeah. That's right. So Eddie Carter, his dad, um, was from LA and he was like, um, like, uh, like a, a preacher, right. One of these preachers and he went to, and we're talking like, you know, 1908 or 1910, like around that time, his dad, a black man. Think about that. Right. Went to India to convert Hindus into Christianity.Christian man, they're going everywhere, fucking way team. They're trying to increase their numbers big and uh, I'll sign anybody up. Border will kill you. Right. And so he was up there and he married an Indian woman, I think, here in LA. And that's why they went to India together. And Eddie Carter's mother was from India and his dad was, um, a black dude from LA and they went there.And, uh, and, and when you went to India back then, right, you had to like take a fucking boat. It was no like massive thing. Right? So they stopped at Hong Kong and all this other stuff now really think about an African-American dude, an adult from LA at that time, seeing like Hong Kong and Singapore and Ryan goon and all this shit, it was pretty way out there.They got to India, they set up shop. And the thing of it was, was that for whatever reason, this young Eddie Carter had, was always drawn to the middle of. Um, and in India he said he was visited by a spirit that told them if you, you will become a great warrior. And for whatever reason, when he was like 14, that stuck with him and in India, right.Eddie's his mom ran off with another dude and they took the church money. Oh. So imagine that God damn. Fraud's not, but not the dad. Wasn't okay. Okay. The dad was, it was a die. I mean, this dude would pray and praying all this other shit. Right. And then one day, one of his buddies and his wife just disappeared with the church.Kitty, Tammy Faye ran off with the bag. And I mean, imagine what, how that would make you feel. You're Eddie Carter. You're in India, right? You don't know anybody, your mom's gone now. It's just you and your dad and your kids. It's a fun. Think about that. So, so, so start. So they, they lose all their thing. They try their luck and China, the dad goes to China with Eddie, everybody that goes to China with Eddie and they start up the holy roller shit over there.Cause you know, just like you said, Christians are trying to sign up mothers, right? When they're trying to sign up the Chinese, there was already a lot of white Christian dudes over there. Right. But get a load of this, the Chinese hated white people. You imagine that Steve, why would the Chinese around that time hate white motherfuckers?Cause they were. Pretty much making them go railroads. Yeah. I love you, Steve. I can see right then and there dude, you're like a master of like, I'm gonna throw out an answer. That's correct. Probably in some way, I'm just going to be general enough. Cause they were listen. Why people enslaved a lot of different kinds of people.So if I just say enslaved them, that's probably right. That's a good reason. I can just imagine you in high school brother, I could just see you being like, because they were bad. Well, yes and yeah, no, because of the British and the opium trade got their fucking old country strung out on fucking heroin and then started fucking buying it and doing that, you can make them buy it from all that shit.Do this horrible. What was that called though? The heroin, the Hong Kong or something heroin thing or it was the opium wars. Yeah. So think about that. So, so, so you're hating them at a deep level. Yeah, it's just strung out their whole country. Do they do the pusher? The pusher man was the British kingdom and the queen and she rugged went over there and said, you know what, try this little powder and then got them all hooked up on it.And it's, it's it's England bull that story. When I read that, I was like, God damn. Why is it that that level of evilness comes out of England? Like that, man, what the fuck is that, man? My blink of a shit about nobody up some themselves. They still bro. They still don't. I was just having dinner with that client.He's a, he's a pro he was, he's a retired university president with a lot of connections and shit. He was laying some stories out to me about the British Royals. Oh man, bro. No, no blame. No Blaine. So, so, so, so, but, so, so at that time, right there was like white Christians doing missionary work over there.Right. But the Chinese were like cock block and I'm like, nah, motherfucker, no, we dealt with you before. And we got all fucked up. We ain't going to deal with you now, but Eddie's dad was a black man and the Chinese embraced him. It didn't matter that he was married. I mean, it was his, he was as far from white as possible.So embraced it. Anybody was also American. Right. And this is right around the time that like chairman Mao in and, um, check hi shack where we're clashing about who's going to control, China's going to be communism or is it going to be now American back? Uh Sheck is he going to be right? And the Americans were actually putting a lot of money and energy and in part of the American push, when they saw that Eddie Carter's day.Hat's it was getting some fucking purchase with these fucking, uh, the, with the, the American back Chinese folks, all of a sudden Eddie Eddie's father's dad was able to get his hold of a publishing and the printing press. Next thing you know, they're floating out all that fucking propaganda through Eddie's that now that his dad became close with check, I check and the women is so close.In fact that when that dude's daughter got deathly ill with the fucking typhoid Eddie's dad was praying over the daughter and she miraculously healed. And as a result shack and his crew became converted to Christianity. Schwartz's shorts. Tell us you shaking your hand. You got the cynical scowl. What was that about?No, it's like they, they had, uh, they had some little bit of proof and they fucking ran with it. It was like, man, you performed a mirror. Yeah. So do they Buddhist, do you know what they were to switch over? What type of religion they worked this before? They weren't Buddhist. They were something akin to, I think Confucianism.Okay. All right. And there was a lot of like veneration and it was not Buddhist. And I think the maturation, yeah. Like respect to the ancestors, all that shit you see in those Disney fucking Chinese ones where it's like borderline racist, but are they supporting it or is it racist? And they're like black and incense and then goes to the ancestors, come out and sing some fucked up song.And you're like, I don't know if this might be racist. So all of that. But Eddie Carter, the young man was in military schools in China during that time. And because of the connections, uh, he got into the military to fight against Mao in the early days. And his dad flipped out because the tensions were growing.It was clear that something was going to happen and they were struggling over. Who's going to control China. And so his dad with his connections got his son out early and they moved back to LA. That's crazy. I didn't. So he was like a part of the Chinese military, basically. That's even crazier. Yes. Think about that.That's fucking nuts right now. This is him wanting to fucking, I don't know, what's up with dudes that lost their moms from some shit, but you, you like, you want to get discipline and military, you want join shit and fight shit. And, and young Eddie was already and he could already speak Chinese. He could already speak Hindu.Right? He's like 15, 16. And he's like out there carrying rifles in the Chinese army, fucking throwing down in a fight. That's not even his battle. Cause that's how bad he wanted to fucking fight. He was a soldier through and through. Go back to LA. Right. And all of this is a precursor and leading up to Japan, coming down and starting to take over China, which it did.Right. All right. But Nan king, look it up. Then you go there, all that shit up. Look it up. So all that's kind of bubbling now at this time, this is pre-World war two, right? When now we're getting into pre-World war II and for the first four years of shit that the Nazis were doing, right. Or maybe even five, the United States was like, man, we ain't getting involved.I mean, you know, you're killing Jews over there. All right. Just as long as you pay us and you window down or nah, we're not gonna, you know, and who was it? Which was, um, God, I wanna think it was for. Pushing around that children as ion or the Zionist stuff. Remember Ford was like passing around that anti-Semitic fucking propaganda book called the elders of Zion, which was a total fraud.Right. All right. So, so pre w YouTube America, right? Pre W2. I love watching Steve shakers. So pre WWT bullying me the fucking Connecticut white people did not give a shit about the Jews at all. And at this time though, there was a guy named Franco, which country was Franco in? I don't know Spain. Oh dude. I just guessed it was Franco.Franco was addicted. In Spain. And he was taking over Spain. There was something called the Spanish civil war. Now just like the time that's happening right now, there was something called there was fascist breaking out all over Europe. You had Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, right. And some people have said, it's part of an echo that comes out of the depression, the depression, economic situation set up the perfect circumstances for these dictators to come in and use fascia a dream that's right, right.And blame blame. Right. Right. Okay. That's the biggest thing they need to have. Now. This is, what's so special. Now this is, what's so special about Eddie Carter Jr. When Franco in the Spanish civil war was going on, now you might know, right. There's a lot of, um, Books, you know, uh, you know, um, Hemingway, you know, all of that, there was a rider tradition in America that got involved in the Spanish civil war on the side of the antifascists right.Antifa and motherfucking Tiefer that's Antifa antifascist against the spread of it. And it's not even in America it's way over there, but the danger was so real and they knew it was such an evil thing. This fucking fascism that Americans fat ass Americans, red blooded Americans who had no dog in that fight.We're like, I'm going to sign up and volunteer and go fight in that war. And one of those folks was Eddie Carter Jr. Right. Eddie Carter. And there was something called the Abraham Lincoln brigade in the Spanish civil war. Which is a group of Americans of all stripes, Jewish, black, white, gay, straight BI curious, right.Allied questioning all of those types, going to Spain to fight against the fascists. And Eddie Carter was one of them. And I mean, that dude, when he showed up, have most of the people that showed up over there with were nut Knicks, like idiots that had never had any military training. Eddie Carter had already been in military schools and already fought in the Chinese war.So when they sent him, he was training guys over there. Okay. So this was official, like what branch of the military did he sign up for here in this country? This is unofficial. The government was so hands off. Well, when the government gave you a passport for Europe, the stamp said, this is not valid to go to Spain because they didn't want anyone interfering with Franco's takeover of Spain.And so these people were. Um, the Abraham Lincoln brigade would, um, smuggled themselves through the pier and ease into Spain through a back route. And like Eddie Carter was one of those dudes and Eddie Carter fought. He killed, he got captured. There you go. Hood hood every quarterfor duty, sir, reporting for duty. So he's there. Right? And in fact, I'm going to play you something. This is back when racism, when fascism was something that people of all different creeds believed in. Even Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the Abraham Lincoln brigade. Oh, wow. And let's see if I can find it right here.It's called, it's called valley. And it's about the valley in Spain where the Abraham Lincoln brigade fought against the fascists. Just, just, just, just to give you an idea.there's a valley and Spain called her on, uh, it's a place that we all know so well, it was there that we fought against the flashes. We saw peaceful valley turned to him. That's an issue we'll put you on to that song myself. Oh, really? Well, cause I know you played that song that your dad had, uh, by his son by our low.And so I didn't know if he was just a fan of the Guthrie's my dad was, but he never played that one. Right. But it came up when I was looking into the Abraham Lincoln brigade, I didn't realize that Woody Guthrie had like, written about. And Eddie Carter had actually fought in it. Whatever you're funny, peacock's got it.Exclusively stream classic sitcoms, like the office parks and recreation and two and a half net. Plus cats, peacock, original comedies like AP bio saved by the bell for all your exclusive comedy phase. Go to peacock tv.com and get started. When you love your team, you spend every moment wondering what they're doing.Well, stop wondering, get contour TV from Cox and follow them anywhere. Anytime with the contour app. Plus use your voice remote to search and filter games or record one that starts past bedtime because even a 24 7 fan has to sleep. Occasionally learn more at cox.com/sports. I mean, that's real proud American history right there.Eddie Carter. Now this guy's not even in a war yet, right? He's he's gotten himself all the way over there. He can speak German. He can speak Chinese. He can speak English and he can speak Hindu. And he's over there in Spain with a rifle, with a w as a volunteer, not getting paid. Anything. How old is he at this time?Approximately? He's like 18. 19. So he's fresh. Yeah, but he's already got a lot of experience fighting in the valleys. Sean, what do you, what, in terms of thinking about what Woody Guthrie represents as part of like an audience, what do you think about that at a time that, that Woody Guthrie was singing about fighting fascists in back then?And in that 20 way, what do I think about him singing in that way? Yeah. And like, what are you, I mean, to me, it blew my mind that there were these songs that were against fascists circulating around in the music industry back then, that's the first I've ever heard of it. Right. Victim music was so much more culturally relevant and impactful.That was, it's more connected to like a folk music. It does sound like, it felt like country foci. Right. Right. But that's kind of interesting to me, I guess what I'm saying is, is like, where's our correlate for that today. None, there really isn't a record, like some sort of record taking musical output, right?Like where does Cardi B represent or she, can she pull back and talk about, you know, the great, uh, you know, recession? Cause she talked about, you know, things that have politically happened, right. Or even like a, yeah. Some sort of like, I dunno conflict. Yeah. No, she doesn't talk about that, but she will talk about some wet ass.Sure sure. There's no coffee. There is no conflict conflict with that. You know what I'm saying? Even the weekend, I liked the weekends beats and everything, but where is, where is the correlate to Woody? Guthrie's singing about the Abraham Lincoln brigade about volunteers in another country from America fighting for fascism.The, the, well, the only the surprisingly enough in, um, some underground hip hop, some conscious hip hop, you will get people really intelligent MCs covering historical and speaking about, um, those, those issues or the history of things. So I really do the only correlation that I can see. I think that that does exist.And I think. Um, to our detriment, they're not the gatekeepers and when they still act like there's no gatekeepers now because of the internet, but they're still gatekeepers. Those gatekeepers are keeping those voices down. Sure. That's not it. That will never be popular music that's given to the masses.All that shit is the same thing. Y you know, talking about dumbing down or keeping people uninformed and uneducated. I mean, the find the rules hiding the fucking right, right. Think about like Trump, you going, I mean, our president of the United States able to have a platform dig, say Antifa is full of fucking villains and criminals, but then, you know, 80 years ago, there's a guy with a guitar and a record.And he's talking about fighting fascism color, color, style era, regardless. It doesn't matter. Irrelevant. How far have we fallen? And drifted, right? It goes back to when we're talking to Ali about how the history is not really being taught. So Eddie Carter's over there. Eventually he gets captured by Franco's forces and he escapes from military prison.Excuse nuts. Unbelievable. Gets back to the United States. And whenAmerica enters world war II, he's ready to rock. He's ready to rock. So he signs up. Where's my fucking drums.Yup. Edward Carter reporting for duty and the, what did the army do? They said, yes, black man come under the army, but we have segregation in the army. Alright, no different than it is out here. Don't take, you're joining the army and you don't get no fucking, uh, you don't get no metals around here. You got here.Listen to you guys. All right. You're telling out right now, listen, this is what we're going to do. We're going to create a black army and the black army. You're going to be allowed to carry stuff, cook stuff, take stuff off the ships and that's it. You can do the service work. How's that? How's that sound is that good?This is good. A uniform you liked that you liked it, right? And the wagon. Right. They're all going to carry the guns because we don't want any black people carrying guns because we know what we did. And we're afraid that when we're sleeping, you might fucking turn around and shoot us. We don't think you're going to be loyal because we weren't loyal to you.So for a lot, for the most of the world war, uh, and a lot of African-Americans did join the army and, and whatever else, but they were relegated to service roles and, and that pissed, uh, Eddie Carter off. But, but that was the reality of the day. So he was in it and he was a cook and he rose to the level of a Sergeant to, as a Sergeant of a black outfit in the army.Now, at this point, I need to pivot in world war II. I got a fucking pivot. All right, Mr. Mrs. Turn to the side, right? Because I'm going to switch and give you some background to get explained what? Cause we haven't even got to the amazing part of yet everything we just talked about was just kind of like leading up.Yeah. Okay. So in world war two, what was in, I don't know who I should throw this to. Maybe I'll throw this to oh, blue eyes. Oh, blue eyes. What was the major first entry of the Americans into world war II, Eastern theater of operations. It was not the big band swing dance phase. What was it? What was there?What was the big entry? What was the big Tudou the hoopla as it were my good man of American entry into Eastern theater of operations. And it looks like a IP dog right. D day. And what's do they short it's when we stormed the beaches of Normandy and, um, went fucking straight up in the, in the belly of the beast coming right into the, the Nazis Lux. Why did they call it D day? I don't know, because they couldn't think of anything else. So they called it day day, and they shortened it to D day.That's the true story of why it's called D day fucking, they couldn't think of anything else at the time. And I was like, fuck it. We'll just call it D for day D day. And that's it. Nothing special. And what happened is that the American and the British storm to beat. The first group of, in everyone saw saving private Ryan, right?Everybody got cut down, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it was such a massive amount of numbers that eventually overwhelmed the Nazis who had fucking build all these pill boxes and shit up into the fucking cliffs and all this other shit. Right. But eventually they got overrun. Not only did they get over run.Right. And remember, soon Zhu said, when you're climbing up the mountain with your allies, hold hands. So the British and the Americans were holding hands French. Wasn't doing Jack shakes up smoking cigarettes and fucking wearing braids. They were coming up to fucking from that coast going towards Germany, which you know, and you look at a map you're like, okay.And Hitler looked at him and he's like, okay, they're coming from this angle. And that's the only place that they can come from. So blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So for six months, we kit fucking German fucking ass all over the place and all this masteries talk and fat Americans and mongrel Americans with mixed racial blood.They allow Jews and blacks in their armies. They don't know how to fight. They're weak and soft. All that shit got put to rest and Hitler was tripping. Hell. I was like, look, man, I talked to big one and we're getting our asses handed to us. And in fact, even his own generals around him were starting to be whatever.And they had actually tried to kill him in his Ravens dead. Oh no, no. His Wolf's den. They tried to kill him with a bomb that actually, because the windows were open. If the windows hadn't been open, when this, when this bomb went off from one of us, he would have killed him. Instead, the windows were open, so the compression went out and he just walked and Hitler walks out like in a days with that fucked up mustache and black face.And he's like, well, what happened? And at that point, everybody was in on the plot was like, are you all right? Oh man, what happened? How long did it take before you had them all killed? Uh, like, like a couple of weeks. I think that was, you know, the movie Valkyrie, Tom cruise. That, that was that, uh, attempt. So now you're Hitler, you sitting there on the couch, right?You got these crazy bitches rubbing your shoulder. You've got a massive headache and you're sitting and thinking to yourself, the walls are closing in the Americans and the British are coming at me. I gotta do something. I gotta do something. And so what does he do? He's like, I'm going to do, what's worked in the past.I'm going to do the offensive Nazi punch. All right into the allies, right into their line, and I'm going to punch him so hard. You're going to be knocked back all the way in a fucking Atlantic. That's what I'm going to do. And he called up right. His most trusted warlocks. And one of those was like, uh, what's like this super secret dude who had a whole plan where he dressed up as an American and his troops as Americans and infiltrated the American lines to get sabotage and fucking information.Right. And this myth freaked Americans out. They thought that there was, they, they believed that there was Nazis running around dressed like Americans talking like Americans and believe it or not a good chunk of the Nazi soldiers had studied in America. There was no problem before this war. So a lot of them knew about these different towns that a lot of our service men came from.So really shit. Yes. Ah, it think about it. So, I mean, Pennsylvania is a half of it's German. They call it Pennsylvania Dutch, but it means German. That's ridiculous. They almost break you. So, so, so, so he gets ready and he also gets all of his tanks, the Panzer divisions. Now you got to understand these Nazi tanks.They're pretty fucking ass at that point in time. Right. They've got the dope tank, but what was that? The other, the tiger tanks. So one of the things that the Nazis had on their side, because in world war one, the Nazi, not the Nazis, the Germans at that time, right. They had restrictions put on their industry that they couldn't build any more fucking war weapons.And then world war II. They got the Germans, whatever the Germans get heavily armed, it started getting nuts, right. They just lose control. And they're like, ah, y'all do things for getting high on their own fumes. Oh, they go crazy. So world war one, they're like, look, you can make stuff, but you can't make guns.And one of the guns that the Germans were making, which eventually became, who tells a country, you can make stuff, but you can't make guns in the U S right. Well, when world war one, when Germany loses, when you, when they chop your Dick off and you've got all the country standing around you and it's Europe, right?It's England, it's France. It's fucking Belgium. Right? Belgium is like right next to fucking Germany. It's like on the top of it, or maybe on the side of it, I'm going to pull up the map here and it's gone. So in that treaty, they tell you, you can't. And they got people watch sending. We were telling Saddam like no more, fuck you, no motherfucking chemical weapon.You go to war and you, and there is a not complete annihilation. There's an actual, like lay down of arms and they sign a treaty to end the hostilities. They actually, you, you set the terms. Yeah. Right. And you also set some embargoes like, well, we're not going to give what we're not delivering led to Germany after world war one, because those fuckers went crazy, super chill with it.But they had this gun that was an anti-aircraft gun called the 88 millimeter. And it's like a huge ass motherfucking gun. And we're talking like, yeah, it's twice. It's two double, a 44caliber, 88 millimeter is that that's a caliber where it's different. Who are you telling short 88 instead of 44. But this thing is, is so big. This gun is so big. It's what they use against aircraft. And the Germans after world war one were able to use their Swiss connection to keep working on it and refining it.Right? So fucking loophole. So they were like, yo y'all know, we're not making the gun. And they don't know. We're just making cuckoo clocks in Switzerland. We're just ordering cuckoo clocks. So they make this giant 88 millimeter gun. This gun is probably the most impressive gun in the war in world war two for any country, including the fucking Russians.And this gun was able to punch huge ass motherfucking holes into Sherman tanks. No problem, pal done deal. And it had like, uh, a delayed fuse so that when they shot it up at the, that the flying fortresses that were coming in and Melton down. It would explode shrapnel and this huge like hundred foot arch that these planes would get hit and the people piloting them would get hit.So they weren't trying to hit one individual plane out, although they would try, they were also fucking firing the giant frag grenades into clusters of planes and knocking them all out. And dude, a lot of fucking pilots died in world war two, bombing the shit out of Germany with these flat guns, they called them flat guns at them.Now these flattens, the thing that you got to really understand about it is that they were highly mobile and whatever German fucking engineer figured it out. Instead of trying to build this massive base, they had these foldout legs. And when you see these guns, it's being pulled by, uh, And he pulled his giant gun behind it.And you could put all kinds of brush on it and fucking, and, and the guy would sit in the little fucking cradle, right. And spin these guns on you, fire them the whole thing jumps. Yes. And they, and I think the, each shell was 37 pounds, which was, they had figured out, this is how crazy these Germans are.They're like, what is the most that a man can carry by himself? And they could fire 20 of the 20 of these 37 shells in a minute. They had a whole system. They even had a special little fucking tool to list how many per minute, 20 Jesus Christ. And these were the most feared guns in the fucking war. And so eventually.They not only would shoot at the planes, but they could lower it, so it could shoot at tanks and it would punch holes in the Sherman changes to the biliterate them. Then the Germans were like, yo, you know, I've, you know, you know that, I think maybe it would be a good idea to, uh, put this gun on it on a, on a tank.And they made a tiger tank. And the millimeter armor of the tiger tank was so thick that German tanks couldn't punch through it. And these tanks would sit up and like, just face whatever the American or the burden, the British had some real fucked up tanks. Their tanks looked like their tanks look like some kind of like three-year-old with fucked up Legos made it.Oh, so all of this gets set up. Right. And, and Hitler's like, I'm gonna punch through. And now the art ENS is a piece as a mountain range that only has one road. And nobody ever expects anybody to be able to go through this mountain pass. And so the Americans, after six months of kicking ass, their supply lines got stretched.Okay. Like how are you getting fuel and all the shit to these tanks. And also their men had been depleted. So now they needed to rest. So what did they do? They arrested up in this area, in the Ardennes in the forest, did mountains of art, the gardens, and nobody expected any kind of attack. And in fact, it LER was setting up this whole situation where during the day would look like tanks are going to Russia at night, they would circle around and come back and they were building up these forces in the Arden mountains.And so they were getting ready for this massive fucking Nazi fist, right into the fucking allies and allied intelligence. Had fallen down. They didn't know that this was happening and there was men on the ground with binoculars and they were like, Hey, uh, I'd seen 500 tanks come up. And the fucking military brass was like, you must be seeing things because we don't have any reports like that.So these slim amount of fucking dudes, right? They were the ones that were going to stop the Nazi fist punch into the allies and they barely hung on, had it broken through the, the whole war would've gone differently. But the reason why it's called the battle of the bulge is because that Nazi fist made a bolt into the line of the Americans and the British once the Americans and the British were able to contain that Nazi fist then, and Hitler was almost like not going to give up.I mean, his journey, his generals are screaming in his face. Like, dude, what the fuck are you doing? As soon as it started to cave in then Patton general Patton was tasked with driving right into the German country and annihilating them. Right. Patent was patent in Montgomery and patent had a tank battalion and had been, must've been licking.His chops. Duke is waiting for Eisenhower, right when the first that Nazi first punch came through and they finally became aware of the severity of the situation. I, as in how I had all his generals and he's like massage his bald ass head. And he was like, man, huh? And he's like, what patent, how soon can you get your tanks up into the area?And Patton was like two days and Eisenhower and everybody else stopped. Patting was just being as bragging and acting stupid. And he's like, stop, you know, enough with the manly shit parenting. How, how can you really do it? Pat said two days and Patton did get his fucking people up there in two days. A member of patents, fucking tank brigades, and one of them had their patches ripped off.You borrowed a tank brigade or stole a tank brigade from another general, had the patches ripped off. And they were known as the mysterious battalion. Nobody knew who they were, but they have, they had, you know, different, weird fucks in it and shit like, and this is where you start this bastards. This is where you start getting all these myths about the fucking and they were promoting it like, oh, these were, these are guys that were in prison.It's not true. There was no like criminals in fucking world war II, five minutes to scare the Germans to get them back for that fucking, we got Nazis running around in American clothes, freaking people out. So we were like, yeah, well, we got all our prisoners that we gave them guns and told them, you kill Nazis.You win. So it's going, right. So this American fucking charge is going right to the heart of Nazi Germany in your country. You know, A couple of years before that you were talking about how the third Rock's going to last for a thousand years and given this mission, now, everyone in your country is seeing American flag tanks roll by their little fucking castle.One of the people that was in that was Eddie Carter. And how did he get there? When the battle of the bulge happened, we lost like 80,000 men and Eisenhower was like, we need resupplies. And that's when they finally decided to let black people join the fighting part of the war. They were like, It could take us like another year to get a bunch of white dudes over here.But we've got all of these brothers who are, it was born out of necessity. But when that happened, they, the generals, then the people that never wanted to integrate the army or let them have weapons were probably like, holy shit, no, you know, so, so Eddie Carter, Sergeant Eddie Carter, they said, you ready to fight?He was like, Sergeant Carter reported for duty. They go, it's cool. But you can't be Sergeant anymore because we can't have you outranking any white people. So fucking sick dude, just sick. Think about that. And you're worthy, but we're not letting you have it. He's like fucking, I'm going to go kill it. You still got to listen to the dishwasher.So Sergeant Carter was such a dedicated warrior. He was fighting fascism. He was fighting for freedom, right? He was fighting for equality, which is the principles that America claims the standard. That he was willing to demote himself so he could carry a rifle for uncle Sam and I did true American Patriot.Right? So he's one of the rifle men on these tank brigades and they're, they're, they're heading right to the heart of the Nazis. And he's out in the open now he's really trained well. And one of these tank brigades is going and they go towards this town called Spire. Spire is a small little town in the Rhineland.What's the Rhineland, that's the German, uh, wine country. That's the German like San Louis Obispo. Right. You know what I mean? Napa valley, Napa valley German, Napa valley, because the Rhine river goes by it. And so as a result, you've got a ton of warehouses in that area because they're storing wine and grapes and.Submachine gunfire fires at, and one of these 88 millimeter gun things fires at one of the tanks misses from one of the warehouses and the Americans fucking take cover right there. It was like, oh shit, we got shot at fucking machine guns, man. And they sit there and they get cut. So now everyone's like, what do we do?How we got it. We can't go any further on this road, but we got a timetable and that we don't know what's in those warehouses and Eddie, Eddie, Eddie Carter, volunteers to lead like five dudes to storm the warehouses and find out what the fuck is going on there. And these warehouses are on the other side.So they're in the trees, right? The Americans got up into the trees, try to figure out what's going on. There's the road, then there's nothing but about one football field of open space. And then the warehouses that's got the Germans in it. Right. And they got burp guns, which are the, those little German, M forties.Yeah. They got it. Mortar fire going off, hitting the lines. And they got somewhere around there and 88 millimeter. So Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Carter's like, all right, give me a Tommy gun. And a bunch of grenades. I got this. I was born for this. And they go, you bet, take them in with you or right behind ya. So Eddie and his dudes run right into the field.All of a sudden shots start firing out. Three of us, men are killed right off the bat and they realized the tanks. Didn't follow them into the field, near up at an observation. And we'll be right there. And they're like, well, we could just send them out and figure out where they're shooting from. Eddie Carter tells his other two guys.Go away. I got this. Eddie gets shot in the arm five times. Oh shit. And it goes down. There's a submachine gun somewhere behind one of the warehouse walls or whatever it is. He takes his phone grenade. He throws it in there, takes it, the entire machine gun nest out with one grenade. He gets back up and he's got his Tommy gun and he starts charging again.Again, he gets shot. He gets shot so hard. He gets knocked into the air. He falls down on the ground. He's been shot like six times now he's bleeding. He's shot. He's thirsty. He raises his canteen up to give himself a drink. Someone shoots it out of his hand, fucking pisses him off. He's fucking pissed. And he sits there and he's like, fuck it.And he gets up with his Tommy gun and he runs and like eight Germans come out shooting. And he kills all of them except two right shot, six times fucked up hand. Six Nazis to surrender, surrender to him, surrender to him. That's the way he throws another grenade at the mortar crew, knocks them out. He kills the mortar crew, and now I've got these two Nazis and he's like, fuck, nah.How do I any recognizes that one of the Nazis as an officer now, Carter bleeding says to himself, you know what? I speak German. If I can get these motherfuckers back to the American lines, I can find out where the rest of the German guns are up ahead and we can get there even faster. So while he's losing blood, he bugging grabs.These two Nazis uses them as human shields to go back across that open field injured. And as he's going back, two other guys come out with like pistols and they try to shoot at him. He fucking peels their caps. He's got these two guys because a fucking bad ass, bro. Finally. The 88 mortar or the ADA gun, the 88 millimeter gun dudes are like, we gotta fuck this dude up, man.So they fired a fucking 37 pound shell at him. It didn't hit him, but the fucking excuse made a, the explosion with the shrapnel shot up his legs. So he has to lean on his hostages, but because it was such a big explosion, there was a huge dusk. And Eddie Carter use that dust cloud and he would shoot. And he leaned on him and dragged their fucking punk ass.His back to the American lines. Now he's got the German and the German officer back in the Maryland lines. And now he's like, CEO's are like, Hey man, we gotta get you to the hospital. You lost, you been you're fucked up. And he was like, nah, not right now. We've got to interrogate these motherfuckers who here speaks German.None of you. I do. Okay. Hold on. And he interrogates them in German and he gets the information and he is quintessentially the linchpin to the American success in the fucking hit, Nazi, Germany and knocking out Hitler and all that other shit. Now, after all of that, they go now, will you go to the hospital?And he's like, sure, take me to the hospital. It goes to the hospital within two weeks, he's better. And he breaks out of the hospital and rejoins his fucking army and continues to fight the rest of the war and then goes back to LA. Now he goes back to LA. 'cause he's like, Hey, I'm a fucking hero. Right. I fought in world war II.We beat the fascists when he gets back to LA, he's nearly heartbroken because he's still not allowed to walk through the front door of a regular private business because he's black. It's disgusting. It's really, really discussing when you hear a story like this. That's what true American heroism patriotism.That's what it's all about. And he couldn't even have basic fucking human rights in the country that he did. Was willing to give his life for defended and, and help them be victorious. It's and you know what? This is a great story. And I think that that's one of the reasons about black history month that should, these stories should come out because so many, I didn't know about Juma is going to bring out the stories every black history month.Right. And I think it, I think it's great. I think it's a really, really great man. I, I, this is this guy, Eddie Carter, man, Eddie Carter, who wouldn't. I know this story until now. So this guy is a true American hero. Came back. Racism was not fixed back in America. He re-enlisted in the army. They made him a trainer.And in fact, Eddie Carter, they asked him to build the first national guard here in California in LA, and he built it and he trained those dudes. He's responsible for that. He doesn't get any recognition. They gave him the distinguished service cross at the time. It's the second highest. Metal you could get, but they would not give him a medal of honor because he was black.That was why they wouldn't because he was black. Right. Even though he was more deserving than probably most on it listed the color of his skin. And he was a career soldier. Okay. So he had planned on staying in the army forever. When he got back, he got a hero's welcome from the people around, but he was being surveilled by the FBI.What, Hey, now listen, a person like that. With those skills, with that knowledge, I could totally see why people in the FBI would consider him dangerous.It's disgusting, but they even put him, they took him out of the national guard. He didn't want him training anymore and black people on how to use soldier equipment. So they put them on. In Washington, where he was part of the military police and he was doing drug busts, he, and every place that he went, by the way, all of the white people that were leaders above him, loved him and respected his soldiery.He would spend an hour and a half just cleaning his equipment every day do was fucking disciplined and Ty, and he had a family yet sons. Right? And this thing about him being suspicious, grew into them, worried about the fact that he had fought in China and that may be come, might have a communist sympathy.And so when they, they, they kicked him out of being able to be in the military. And when he tried to re-enlist, he was denied. And when he tried to re-enlist and was denied, he went through every. White black, whatever to help them. And they all, everybody who knew him knew he was a solid dude and they all tried to help him and the government and the army would not give him a fair hearing and explain their reasons for not allowing him to re-enlist.He eventually was broken and bitter. He wrote letters to, uh, the presidents, Eisenhower and all those other people and said, you know, I fought for all this stuff only to come back and have it all taken when you know what fascism isn't dead, it's alive and well here in this country. And eventually he came back to LA any work the rest of his days at a tire shop and died 48 from lung cancer, Jesus Christ.And in 1996, finally right here. They contact his family and they say, we want to award him to metal on after he's gone posthumously. And it was kinda around the time that bill Clinton had gotten into some trouble. And I think he was trying to, you know, uh, I can't believe what happened. Well, that's, that's fucking sad, but think of everything he did, he died at 48 about the life span, man, 48.Yeah. I mean, I don't believe, you know what man, Eddie Carter, that's somebody who, you know, that's an American American hero hero. Thank you for your service west side LA and LA. Wow. Thank you. Check-ins you're sharing this new welcome, like we do about this.I want to, I want to, before you take it out, I gotta hit these, uh, sponsors real quick. I want to give a shout out to Raul. The graphic artist are, Ooh, are you 10 on Instagram? Hit him up. I want to give a shout out to supermax hardware, right? Yes. Hard luck showed out. Come Monday, Wednesday, Friday. That's right.I want to also give a big shout out to a pool up bull beard oils. Um, my understanding is they work well in guns as gun oil as well. Border ball, bullpup beard oil. 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Steven Heller is an eminent American graphic designer, art director, art critic and scholar.​ He ​has authored or​ co-authored ​more than 200 ​books which variously trace​ the history of typography, illustration and other subjects related to graphic design.​ I talk with Steve here about Alvin Lustig an American American book designer, graphic designer and typeface designer. Some of Lustig's most innovative work was for New Directions, the independent publishing firm. For example, he designed more than seventy iconic dust jackets for the New Classics literature and other series from the mid-40s until his death in 1955. His non-literal designs exuded a modern art sensibility and incorporated a fresh approach to typeface design that defined the New Directions look.    Steve and I met via Zoom to discuss Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig a book he co-wrote with  Elaine Lustig Cohen, Alvin's widow. Among other things we talk about magic shows and magicians, design as sleight of hand, illusions, tactility, Frank Lloyd Wright, hot metal, Constructivism, helicopters, furniture design, Ward Ritchie, New Directions, James Laughlin, expressionistic modernism,  primitive art, catholic church propagandists, soldier's ribbon bars, being close to genius, Alvin's blindness, and Steve's forthcoming memoir Growing up Underground (Princeton Architectural Press, 2022). 

This episode is an exploration of what gets in the way of partnerships between Black women and white women: control, superiority, power struggles, and plantation narrative. We also talk about the white wounds that we unwillingly bring into the work and what's possible when we heal and move beyond the wounds. Dr. Audrey Jordan is the Jerry D. Campbell Professor and DEI Specialist at Claremont Lincoln University, and is a certified executive life coach, focused on “accompanying social justice leaders and teams to unchain power for transformation.”  Audrey is also currently an independent consultant with her own practice – ADJ Consulting and Coaching: capacity building for constituent-centered, place-based community change; cultivating community democracy; strengthening organizational and collaborative partnership capacities for learning and accountability; and teaching about and facilitating conversations to promote racial equity and social justice.  Audrey currently lives in Fontana, CA and enjoys the company of her siblings and their spouses, her two sons, nieces and nephews, and the most recent family addition - her amazing grandniece, Eloise. Correction: W.E.B. DuBois's Talented Tenth was intended to be 10% of the African American population that 4 million African Americans, 41 million is the total number of American American in the United States.Resources mentioned on the show:Get in touch with Dr. Audrey Jordan Linked in PageBook: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B.DuBois  Book: How the word is passed by Clint SmithBook: Emergent Strategy adrienne maree brownBook: The Politics of Trauma Staci HainesMargaret Wheatley Islands of SanityOriginally recorded on 1/26/2022.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/posts/35274155)

Uhh Yeah Dude is a comedy podcast hosted by Seth Romatelli (born September 20, 1973) and Jonathan Larroquette (born August 7, 1977). Episodes have generally aired once a week since 2006, and run about an hour long. The podcast is described as 'A weekly roundup of America through the eyes of two American-Americans'. In this episode, part two of a series of two, all intro and outro songs from the 2021 episodes (#867 to #898) of Uhh Yeah Dude. Lineup: Con Funk Shun, Leo Kottke, The KLF, Ted Greene, Felbm, Holger Czukay, J4soul Musique, Gina X Performance, Joseph Spence, Erkin Koray, Barış Manço, Soft Machine, Grateful Dead, NEU!, Max Romeo, The Upsetters, Prince Jazzbo, Les Sins, Ariel Kalma, SFV Acid, Touché, Yomano, Moodymann, Curved Light, The Horn, Gwen Guthrie, Moderna, Theus Mago, Charlie Haden Quartet West, Cienfuegos, El Gran Combo De Puerto Rico, Andy Montañez, King Sunny AdŽ, Azymuth, Lijadu Sisters, Bill Frisell, Imagination, Pat Martino, Three 6 Mafia, Maxo Kream, Black Brothers, The Outlaw Blues Band, Gábor Szabó, João Gilberto, Frijid Pink, Patrick Cowley, The Beginning Of The End, Sonny Clark, Jim Hall, Ron Carter, Instrumental Group Cabas, WAHM (FR)

Uhh Yeah Dude is a comedy podcast hosted by Seth Romatelli (born September 20, 1973) and Jonathan Larroquette (born August 7, 1977). Episodes have generally aired once a week since 2006, and run about an hour long. The podcast is described as 'A weekly roundup of America through the eyes of two American-Americans'. In this episode, part one of a series of two, all intro and outro songs from the 2021 episodes (#838 to #866) of Uhh Yeah Dude. Lineup: Neil Young, Tuxedomoon, Squarepusher, Norma Tanega, Captain Torkive, I-Robots, Steve Hillage, Sonya Spence, CAN, Michael Nesmith, The First National Band, PRISM, Susumu Yokota, Dorothy Ashby, Sonny Sharrock Band, Kuruki, Bill Laswell, Dan Curtin, Patrick Cowley, Sylvester, Eddie Hazel, COMPLEX, Dub Specialist, DJ Re Edit, Lena Platonos, Brian Bennett, Bonobo, Capitol K, Paul Blackford, Cerrone, Abba Gargando, John Beltran, CN, Bill Orcutt, Eddie Murphy, Buddy Emmons, Richenel, Bucky Barrett, Ashra, Dog Soldier, Terekke, Delaney & Bonnie, Davey Graham, The Action, Rodney Crowell, Hank Williams, Drifting Cowboys, Black Uhuru, Ahmad Jamal Trio, Intrusion, Rick Barranco, Grateful Dead, Takako Minekawa, Culture, Bohannon, Con Funk Shun, The Bar-Kays, Yarbrough & Peoples, Audience, Indian Ocean

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Isaac Jean-Paul was born in Evanston, Illinois. He has a visual impairment called juvenile retinoschisis which affects his peripheral and central vision. He played able-bodied sports growing up, his favorite being basketball. After not making his college basketball team at Lewis University, he turned his attention to track & field and became a five-time American-American in the high jump from 2014-2016. He graduated with a degree in Sociology in 2016. He became involved in para-athletics in 2017. He's won multiple medals at the World Championships in the long jump and high jump and took home the bronze in the long jump at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games. Sports Saved My Life is produced by Angel City SportsClayton Frech is the Executive ProducerDave Pantano is the Producer and EditorMackenzie Soldan is in charge of MarketingTony Memmel wrote and performed the theme songAbout Angel City SportsAngel City Sports provides free, year-round adaptive sport clinics, equipment, and competitive opportunities for kids, adults, and veterans with physical disabilities or visual impairments. Angel City Sports' flagship event, the annual Angel City Games presented by The Hartford, debuted in 2015 and is now the largest multi-sport Paralympic competition in the U.S. for kids, adults, and veterans. Participants include, but are not limited to, individuals with limb differences and amputation, spinal cord injury, quadriplegia, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, blindness or visual impairment, traumatic brain injury, stroke, muscular dystrophy, and dwarfism or short stature. Ultimately, Angel City Sports is working to create a community and sense of belonging for people with physical disabilities, supporting them to reach their full potential and unlock their dreams through its programming in sport, the arts, health and wellness, higher education, career opportunities, and personal development. To learn more, please visit http://www.angelcitysports.org and follow @angelcitysports on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linked-in, and YouTube. 

Brad and Dan begin by discussing the Senate Judiciary Committee's findings on how Trump sought to overturn the election by pressuring the DOJ. Dan relates these revelations to the concepts of populism and nationalism, showing how Trump used tactics used by populist leaders who take control of every aspect of government in order to take complete control of a nation. They then turn their attention to a brand new interview with the president of the Claremont Institute, the MAGA think-tank that helped produce the lawyer who outlined Trump's plan to decertify the electoral college votes. Brad and Dan discuss the view expressed in the interview (and an additional essay) that half of Americans aren't real Americans, the Founders framed the Constitution to work for an exclusively Christian nation, and that a civil war is on the horizon. They finish the episode by discussing how the Texas abortion bill may be the catalyst that finally turns the Lone Star state blue over the next decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://swaj.supportingcast.fm

A new MP3 sermon from DTBM, International is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: DON'T BE AN AVERAGE AMERICAN--Americans Watch 140 Hours of TV Monthly--BIBLE TAKES ON Subtitle: God's Word Is True - The Book Speaker: Dr. John Barnett Broadcaster: DTBM, International Event: Sunday Service Date: 10/6/2021 Length: 5 min.

2654 – July 29, 2021 – OPEN LETTERS TO A NON-AMERICAN, AND AN UN-AMERICAN AMERICAN – Non-American Piers Morgan gets it from Beth Ann first, for his total lack of understanding of the concept of American liberty.  Then un-American American Joy(less) Bizarre Behar gets a lesson about true American freedom. The post OPEN LETTERS TO A NON-AMERICAN, AND AN UN-AMERICAN AMERICAN appeared first on CSC Talk Radio.

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Denne uges episode handler om to forskellige film med American i titlen. Der er nemlig tale om American History X fra 1998, med Edward Norten i hovedrollen, samt American Gangster, med Denzel Washington og Russell Crowe i de ledende roller. Vi diskuterer om filmene har mere til fælles end bare deres navn, og snakker blandt andet også om forskellige instruktørers trademarks. Derudover er der selvfølgelig skud ud til nogle af vores sædvanlige boys. Næste skal der noget lidt anderledes på menuen. Vi kommer nemlig til at diskutere comedy specials. De shows der er på tapetet er Inside med Bo Burnham og Raw med Eddie Murphy.

The Rev. Dr. Marcia Ledford's ministry is in Southwest Detroit's Latinx population—an international port with an aggressive regional ICE director. Dr. Ledford is a civil rights attorney representing society's most marginalized. An Episcopal priest, she holds a Master of Divinity from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. She earned her Doctor of Ministry in political theology from Pacific School of Religion. Dr. Ledford founded Political Theology Matters, LLC, to help the faithful develop public theology mission and broadcast messaging for greater social justice. She is trained for community organizing through the Industrial Areas Foundation and volunteers with Michigan United. Connect with Marcia here https://www.politicaltheologymatters.com/ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/DocLedford/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/politicaltheologymatters/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DocLedford YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvIgWMtYhhL51H9rtvjnObw Brandon Handley 0:43 321 Hey, there's spiritual dope. Today I am on with the Reverend Dr. Marsha Ledford, who is a civil rights attorney representing society's most marginalized. Her ministry is in southwest Detroit's Latinx population and international port with an aggressive regional ice director. Yeah, I think I could what that is an Episcopal priest she holds a master of divinity from the church Divinity School on the Pacific of the Pacific. She earned her doctorate of ministry in political theology from Pacific School of religion. Dr. Ledford founded political theology matters, LLC to help the faithful develop public theology mission for greater social justice. Marsha teaches speaks and preaches about political theology and very forums. Marsha, so glad to have you here with us today. How are you? Marcia 1:33 I'm good. And I'm delighted to be with you, Brandon. Thank Brandon Handley 1:36 you. Absolutely. So I always like to start these off with this, this kind of idea that we're we're vessels for source creative energy, the divine right, as it were, and you know, as it is, you and I are having this conversation, but somebody on the other end is listening in and they're gonna get a message that just, I don't know, lights up that divine spark within them today that's going to be delivered through you. What is that message today? Marcia 2:06 That we can work for the greater good, even though it seems like our problems are super complex, because we can tap into our spirituality to empower us. Brandon Handley 2:17 I love that right? The idea that I'm tapping into our spirituality, I think it's um, and I'd love to get your perspective, especially as you said, you come from a marginalized population. Hmm. I feel I from my perspective, anyways, our spirituality is just vastly over neglected. Right. And we don't look at it as this resource that can help propel us to this divine space. Right, right. So in this community that you're serving, how do you? What are some of the tools or ways that you're teaching them to tap into that source? Marcia 3:00 Well, and it's really not just a parochial ministry, my full time work is teaching everybody how to tap into our spirituality of resistance. So you know, it's, like I said before, it seems like it's super complicated, but in some respects, it's not, we just have to do some inner work. And we have to join voice forces with others to do this work. So and I apologize, I kind of lost your question. Brandon Handley 3:37 It's quite alright, so the idea, right, so sorry, you know how so? Yes, connecting to that divine right, so that they can, yeah, leverage that source for themselves? So when you say do some inner work and join forces with some others? What's that look like? Right? Marcia 3:53 That's a great question. And so Roger Gottlieb, who is a professor of philosophy, and is active in his Judah ism, wrote a book called The spiritual spirituality of resistance A few years ago, and his primary focuses on creation care, climate change us, you know, stopping that. But the techniques that he has written about I have really embraced. And essentially, there are two things. And when you when you do this, you can apply it to any issue that is important to you. So it's not limited to climate change or anything else. So you do the inner work, you spend some time with yourself, do some reflection, take some take a course on meditation. Write down what's important to you. That sounds like overly simplified but when you listen to the news every day, you know What really gets sticks under your craw, What makes you say to yourself, I've got to do something about this. And then incorporate that into your meditative practice and listing out things that concern you and that you want to work a list out your skills and abilities. Take a personality inventory, like Myers Briggs or something, doing a Nia Graham, there are lots of resources out there for you to do some of this inner work that I call it. And the other there's another inventory type of inventory that you can do, which is conflict, like, what is your threshold for conflict? Because I get questions, sometimes people will say, Well, you know, I can't be out on the front line of a protest, I am just super uncomfortable doing it, it's not my thing. And my responses, you know, there are all kinds of activities that are required to pull off a protest, or to testify in front of a governmental body or start a ministry or whatever it may be. So there's a place for all of us, we all have gifts that complement one another. Then the second part of doing spiritual resistance is finding a group of people that want to work on issues that are important to you, and bring those skills to the table. We're so much more powerful in numbers. And we know when we know what we're good at, and what's important to us, that makes us even more powerful. And we can join forces with others who can do things that we can't, and we can do things that they can't. And we work together primarily, my recommendation is through community organizing, I think it's the best way for a spirituality of resistance, Brandon Handley 6:56 right? I think that, um, you know, normally with spiritual spirituality of resistance means it means Marcia 7:08 two things happen to us, when we live in such a complex world, we either try to avoid what's going on, or we try to deny it. So the spirituality of resistance, takes that head on, and says, I'm not going to avoid stuff, and I'm not going to deny that it's happening, I'm going to lean into the needle as it were, which is a pretty nice analogy right now. Because even if you're afraid of needles, you got to lean into that. That vaccination, in order that we get this pandemic wrestled to the ground once and for all. So you lean into that, which bothers you. When we avoid things, Gottlieb has this is his expression. And so I'm going to credit him, but he talks about how we have a tendency to put stuff that bothers us or we don't like under the floorboards of our consciousness. Okay, so when we are going to stop avoiding things, we pull that stuff out from under the floorboards and we start dealing with it, and we name it, that's a very important part of the spirituality of resistance. To name What is wrong, because as soon as you do that, you take a little bit of its power away. And then as you continue to work to eradicate whatever this wrong is, obviously, over time, it becomes even more disempowered. So that's avoidance. That's when like, pretending that stuff is not as bad as it is or that, you know, pretending it's not there. And the other thing about avoiding stuff is it takes a lot of our energy that we could put into positive forces positive works. So when we spend a lot of time doing this, and pretending we're wasting our energy and our gifts and talents, does that make sense? Brandon Handley 9:17 It does make sense. So okay. And what I wrote down there tos is the idea of when we avoid these things, or deny them either way, we have an awareness of them. Yeah. Right. And it's the idea of our brains being kind of like computer programs in the sense that if or I think other people refer to it as like, your browser having too many tabs open. Yeah, right. And so you've got all these tabs up, right? You've got all these tabs open and but like, I'm not gonna go back to that page. I'm not ready for it yet. So that tabs like sitting there, sucking up resources that like if you go back over to it, and if you label it as you're saying It takes its power away. But it also says to that this, this has now been identified, right? You've categorized it, you've identified it. And now once it's got a label or a category, you've got the, hopefully, right, you've got some tools that you can leverage with, with those labels and categories, right? So you, right? Or, or you could at least go to somebody and say, hey, look, I've got a couple of these things. Can you help me with this? Because I think another thing that you mentioned is this whole idea of community, building it, or being a part of it, or leaving it was Western societies all? I've got to be the hero in every movie, right? And every scene, if I don't do this all myself, then did I do it at all? Right. Right. And so, you know, I think that when, when you're talking about this person who says that they've, you know, they don't see themselves on the forefront of the line? You know, what, and they think that that's the only way it can be, but you're saying that they can get involved in so many other ways? Oh, yeah. Marcia 11:02 Right. Okay, you know, maybe your speech, or maybe you write great speeches, maybe your graphic designer, and you know, you, whatever project you're doing, need some outreach material. And so you can, you can participate in, it's just as important, as you know, the extroverts out on the front lines, the, the, you know, the the background stuff, the preparation is just as important. I was on a show recently with a really interesting and insightful young man who's a disability advocate, and he's on the autistic spectrum. But I was talking to him about when you're doing the group work, you have to do a power analysis, and you have to study and prepare. And he immediately went to the rope, a dope example with the Frazier Ali fight in 1974. And, you know, at the time, foreman was knocking people out before the fifth, Unknown Speaker 12:00 fifth Marcia 12:03 round. And so Muhammad Ali studied the film, and he realized that while he delivered these thunderous blows, he got tired fast. And so he just barely decided he was going to just go to the ropes and observe some abdominal blows, and just kind of wear him out. And it worked. He knocked him out. And I'm not a huge fan of boxing. But I think the analogy is really important, because it's about studying your opponent together doing power analysis, which is a very specific community organizing activity, figuring out who maybe are the decision makers, because that's where you've got to go. But, and in that sense of persistence in resistance, where you just keep working until you wear them out. And that's all a part of the spirituality of resistance as well. Now, I mentioned denial. We have seen this in this country, we have seen a degree of denial that is really goes beyond description. You know, 80 million people denying that the election was legitimate. a president that lied 33,000 times in the course of a four year term, half of which occurred last year. You know, we have developed a very strange and foreign relationship with the truth. And so when people deny that things are happening, we create an alternate reality. And we absolutely have seen this happen this this past year, and it's strangely enough, still seems to be having some steam to it, even though as the months roll on a beat these conspiracy theories and fantasy assessments of our culture are being proven wrong. So you see the power of denial, and what it can do in terms of undermining good social change. Brandon Handley 14:24 Right. And I think that that's, you know, your your application of the spiritual resistances for social change. Is that, you know, kind of way Yes. Right. And so, let's talk a second about how do you go from practicing kind of, I guess I'll call it a material law. Right. I mean, I don't know what I know, the standard law. Yeah. spiritual law. Right. I think this is an interesting, it's an interesting shift. You know, talk a little bit about kind of the differences and how they kind of you know, how they align Marcia 14:59 for you. They're actually aligned very easily. So when I was coming out in the late 70s and early 80s, first, I sensed a call to ordination, when I was about 15 years old. But of course, back then I wasn't seeing a whole lot of women at the pulpit or the altar. So I decided to become an attorney because I wanted to work to help people. And so I became a civil rights attorney. But that call of the Holy Spirit never left. And in fact, started getting louder as I got older. And I got frustrated, because you can't really argue the gospel of compassion and mercy in a court of law and expect to have a successful legal career because it doesn't really work that way. So, you know, there's, there's no precedent for the gospel. So I decided to go to seminary in my late 40s, along with a lot of other women who experience the same thing because of our, you know, or our common age. And so, when you are an attorney, you read texts, sometimes you write them, you write persuasive arguments, you interpret the law, you do all those things. You do the same thing. As a priest or pastor. It's all about reading texts, and interpreting them and preaching or teaching whatever it may be. But, and, and I, Martin Luther was a lawyer before he became a priest, I am in no way comparing myself to Martin Luther. But you know, that's a famous example of somebody. Brandon Handley 16:55 It's interesting, you put it that way. And I think just as you're saying it, you know, it's kind of dawning on me that Yeah, exactly. Right. It's because I think I did like all maybe three months of business law. And I was like, this is for the birds. I was like, because it's not logical. Yes. No, there's no real logic in it, you really have to have an understanding of a whole bunch of other pieces. Yeah, to be able to interpret it. And I was like, I don't have time for this right now. Yeah. Marcia 17:25 To is really so subject to interpretation. Unknown Speaker 17:29 Right? Yeah. My God, it was mind boggling. I couldn't I couldn't, I did. I'm sure I could have if I really cared enough to, but I didn't. Brandon Handley 17:38 So one of the things that we were talking about, too, was the idea of, um, you know, Christianity and and spirituality. Are they really separate? Or are they, you know, how do they How do they, you know, kind of walk hand in hand, because I hear people always separating religion from spirituality. I'm like, I don't, you know, helped me out there. Marcia 18:00 Well, I think that's a really interesting and excellent question. I think most religions have a component of spirituality in and of course, it's going to vary depending on what that tradition is. Christianity is a very spiritual tradition. And in fact, you know, going back to the Old Testament, and the prophets, having conversations with God, having, you know, this direct relationship, and then seeing Jesus continue that. And as a matter of fact, often the disciples would lose track of him because he went off somewhere to pray. And we see this particularly in the Gospel of Luke, which is, I think, a very spiritual gospel. Jesus is off praying very often. And he's helping, so he goes and prays, and then he goes, and he helps somebody. So Christianity, as a tradition, I think, is very, very spiritual. Unfortunately, and this bothers me a lot. And it's one of the reasons that I started political theology matters, is to underscore that to look back to the Gospels of Jesus and what he did, he prayed and healed. And he challenged unjust systems, and then he healed somebody. You know? That's not what we're seeing in the public square right now. And Christianity is looking is melded, if you will, say to January 6, you know, there's all these flags waving Jesus saves as people are storming the capital of the United States of America. that bothered me greatly, greatly greatly. So it's, it's really important that we bring this idea of spirituality back to the fore I think the American American people, I'm going to make a very broad based statement here, this is my opinion. But I think the American people are just parched for spirituality, they're parched for reconnecting with their Creator, the divine being this, you know, whatever it is that you call it. We don't respect that in public in society. And we should, Brandon Handley 20:28 I'm going to, I'm going to agree with you. And I think that we're seeing a lot of that research. And since I could, it could be, of course, that I've just gone through myself in the middle of all of it. And that's the only people I talked to pretty much outside of outside of work, you know, because but the other thing is, we're seeing it in the workplace. We're seeing, you know, wellness, we're seeing meditation, we're seeing yoga, we're seeing breathwork, we're seeing all this other stuff show up in the workplace, you know, without calling it specifically, you know, you know, reconnecting with source or anything, right. But the surge of people that are running towards it, and embracing it. That's, That, to me indicates that, that what you're saying is 100% true, right? The idea of that the idea of this thirst for it, it exists right now. And of course, it always makes me think of, and I don't know, the Bible for nothing. But you know, it makes me think of makes me think of the line of, you know, I've got bread that are meats that you know, not have, right, that's the nourishment that yes, we're seeking the spiritual nourishment and right that that, you know, will feed us to sustain us that, you know that that's, that's why we're parched. Right. That's why we're hungry, because we haven't been. And we're banished. Marcia 21:53 There's a in the fourth chapter of john, the gospel of john, there's one of the most amazing stories in the whole Bible, and it's when Jesus is at the well with the Samaritan woman. And he says to her, I will giving I'll give you a living water, and you will never thirst again. And of course, she wants this water. And she's taking him much more literally than what he's talking about. But I think that when people and then by extension individuals and by extension of community are more tied into the spiritual, mystical, you know, part of life, I think our regard for other human beings will go up. One of the reasons I think we're seeing these, this episode, we are in a pandemic of police shootings. And I think one of the reasons that we are seeing this is because instead of connecting spiritually, and praying and recognizing that we're all children of God, there's just a lot of fear and power plays. And that's not spirituality, spirituality is getting in touch with our Creator, and by extension, the folks that we share this planet with and in creation. Brandon Handley 23:15 And would you also say that we can eliminate some of that fear if we have some faith? And in our Creator? Of course, I would say that, yeah. You know, but it you know, it goes, it goes to the brain up all the time, it's, you know, it's this, this this kind of idea of let go and let God it releases a lot of these fears. Yes, right. Yeah, you can, you can look at that. And I, I put it into a bunch of different frameworks. But I think that, once you make that statement work for you, and you see in action, there is my book, salming surrender effect was the thing that you feel, and you're like, why haven't I've been doing this all my life, right? Because, you know, there's this resistance to the institution of church and religion. I think that that's what's that's what keeps a lot of people from trying to make that way forward. So, Marsha, we were down to, we're down to kind of get into the end here. We've got political theology matters, right? Yeah. I want to know, a couple of questions. We're gonna do like a couple of spiritual speed dating questions. Okay, so this is like, you know, hey, you and I are at the table. I want to date you, but I'm not quite sure if you're the right spiritual as a line person, for me. And so you know, what's let's take a let's take a couple, take a couple of these questions and see if we can come up with okay. To do what is wisdom and how do we gain it? Marcia 24:52 Well, I think wisdom basically is knowing right and wrong. I think it just boils right down to that, you know, having a moral through line in your life that guides you in terms of your thoughts and conduct and the decisions that you make. And, and we, I think we acquire this as we live longer for a reason. Because as we experience life, it helps us understand what our moral through line is, and should be even greater as we age. Brandon Handley 25:27 Like that. You know, I was always a wise ask growing up as a kid, right. But that wasn't the wisdom that it served. Marcia 25:36 wasn't always asked is different than wisdom, who, you know, you Brandon Handley 25:39 still still put the two in there? Yeah, put the two in there. I was Marcia 25:42 the wiser as to so there you go. That's just a bit. This Brandon Handley 25:45 is part of the journey. Right? I'm going from thinking that you know, everything to knowing that you know, nothing. Yeah. Right. Marcia 25:53 humility, that's part of wisdom. For sure. Brandon Handley 25:56 Yeah. Is current religion serving its purpose? Marcia 25:59 No. Tell me more? Well, yes. And no. I think we're seeing it, I'm going to talk about Christianity, because that's what I know, I really have no business talking about any other tradition. But Christianity has lost its way, and is much more concerned, at least certain corners of Christ's vineyard are more concerned about power than they are about people, and about judgment, and damning people because they're this or that, or they're not this or that. And dictating the terms of that individual's relationship with their Creator, which I think is crazy. And I quit doing that, we got to stop this horizontal stuff. Alright, you did this. So you're bad, you're going to hell, or whatever, like anybody really has the right to say that to somebody else. Our relationship needs to be like this. You know, we need to dictate a relationship with our Creator, or we need to craft it and follow our tradition, and our Creator, and not let society get in between. And I think that's really bad. I think that's where Christianity is failing. The most. Are there any Brandon Handley 27:27 churches, groups, communities and Christianity that you feel like are doing it right, right now? Marcia 27:34 Well, of course, I would have to put in a plug for the Episcopal Church. I am a priest ordained in the Episcopal Church. And I'm, I'm a lesbian. So I didn't have a lot of choices outside of mainstream Protestantism, to become ordained. But I'm still really glad that I'm where I am. Because we have an incarnational theology, which means that God chose to send Jesus to walk the earth with us to understand our lives and to understand what we go through, in order to reach out to us and invite us into the reign of God. And so I, that really works for me, we are very inclusive, we are dating, obviously, we are dating LGBT people. As a matter of fact, we specifically passed a, you know, a resolution a few years ago at our general convention to ordain trans people. So we're on the cutting edge of the LGBTQ issues. But we're also very active in lobbying for greater social justice. reconciliation, racial reconciliation, climate care, you name it, and we are involved on the progressive and of Christianity, and I'm very proud of that. I wouldn't be an Episcopal priest if I was a Brandon Handley 29:01 class. Fantastic. And you know, it's it's great to hear, you know, called sex they called branches. I don't know what they're called. denominations. That's what they are. Right? Marcia 29:10 Yes. denominations. And several that are in company with us. It's not just us, but Brandon Handley 29:16 right right now, but it's great to hear that. There's this kind of release of judgment. Right. Yeah. And there's this acceptance of calm as you are, right? Because, I mean, that's kind of what it's supposed to be about. Right? Come as you are, you're accepted no matter who, what, where you are, right, what you've done. who, you know, you feel like you've wronged I mean, you know, as a parent myself, right. And I can only imagine like, as you know, you know, you know, God, Jesus, whoever, whoever, you know, the creator is that's our eternal parent, you know, doesn't want us to, like, you know, sit their misery over the fact that I don't know yeah, you know, if you Have cause an accident, like by running into a car like that. That doesn't mean you're damned to hell, you know? Like, hey, you made a pretty shitty mistake, right? But go ahead and come on in, we're gonna we're gonna work through this right? Let's talk about this. Let's know, let's, where can we go from here, Marcia 30:15 there's, in my opinion, way too much emphasis on being strictly sinful create creatures of constant failure. And, you know, disappointment. God created us, we're told, because God didn't want to be alone and wanted to be with us in community. And Jesus was all about community. And I think that we have to remember that we are also children, a God created in God's image. And so what we can do then is stop focusing so much on how faulty we are all the time. Recognize that we are children of God, but also recognize that Jesus created avenues for us to seek and receive forgiveness so that we could stay in relationship with God. And that's just incredibly important with that. Brandon Handley 31:08 I mean, I've heard some people call that the way, right there's like, Yeah, right. Yeah. So, so, so much fun to have you on today. Thanks for thanks for stopping on. Really appreciate it much. Yeah. Appreciate it. Where can people go to have more Marsha? Marcia 31:24 Okay, so my website is called political theology. matters.com. I know that's kind of long. We'll put it in the show notes. You can email me at Marsha m AR c IA at MMI. PTM. PTM for political theology. matters.com. So that's the shortened version. Marsha, at my PTM calm. Thank you so much for being on today. And oh, more. Would you like me to send you info when the book drops? Absolutely, absolutely. So yeah, you've Brandon Handley 32:01 got you've got a book coming out. You're working on it. And you're expected to come out this year? Marcia 32:05 Yeah, at the end of next the end of this year. And I'll be sure that Brandon knows when it is. And you can get more information. It's about it's a book about how to do faith based advocacy for social justice. Brandon Handley 32:19 That's great. And I love it. Thank you so much for being on today. Marsha, my pleasure. Marcia 32:22 Thank you, Brandon. Unknown Speaker 32:23 We really hope you enjoyed this episode of the spiritual dove podcast. stay connected with us directly through spiritual dove co You can also join the discussion on Facebook, spiritual and Instagram and spiritual underscore go. If you would like to speak with us, send us an email there Brendan at spiritual dove calm. And as always, thank you for cultivating your mindset and creating a better reality. This includes the most thought provoking part of your day. Don't forget to like and subscribe to stay fully up to date. Until next time, make on your zone and trust your intuition. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

Michelle Lee is the powerhouse Editor-in-Chief of Allure—an iconic magazine that in 2021, celebrated its 30th birthday.  Since taking on her position, Michelle has eliminated the term anti-aging from the magazine’s vocabulary and has redefined beauty through the lens of diversity. In one single issue, Michelle broke the record for the number of American American faces that have graced the cover of Allure since its inception. She’s incredibly thoughtful and intentional in the direction she’s taking the magazine, and I couldn’t be more grateful for that as someone who didn’t grow up seeing myself reflected in media. Tune in to understand why Michelle feels like your uniqueness is an asset, and how to find the confidence to be exactly who you are.  We connect on the importance of self-promotion, and of course, I had to ask Michelle about her holy grail beauty products.   Head over to https://www.allure.com/ to learn about and support this culture shaping publication. To find out more about the Hear Us Roar podcast, and sign up for my mailing list, visit www.hurpodcast.com.  Please subscribe to the show, and leave a comment.  I look forward to hearing from you!

Continuing in the thread of 19th century liberals and why we love them, this episode considers "Song of Myself" and a couple of shorter poems by Whitman. Is he a very modern, post-Christian, sexually-depraved degenerate? Probably yes to all those. Do we still love his poetry?--yes!--even though it doesn't rhyme?--still, I think yes! There's never been a more anti-nationalist writer than Whitman, unless you count Anacharsis Cloots, but at the same time, Whitman is the most American-American ever... so, what's going on there? Can we salvage any of this? Here's my take: we DO want some serious emphasis on the esoteric elements of religion. Religion is not merely a language that we use to organize society. It is also the gateway to the other dimension of thought, to the twilight zone -- and this gateway cannot be inherited genetically, and it cannot be forcibly inculcated by a doctrine. Instead, one has to discover it for himself. And once he does, he is now qualified as what William James would call "the twice born," which means he is no longer LIKE all the other people -- including the people he has known for his whole life! He's a new man! Born again! And he will THEN go on to seek others who have experienced this second birth. He will identify with his fellow-twice-born even more than he did with his blood-ties. Can we imagine a society of the twice-born? Can such a society avoid ossifying?

Journalist Kenny Xu, has written a book 'An Inconvenient Minority', which looks at the treatment of Asian Americans in the US education system and how the so called “woke” policies of the left are damaging to American society. The book examines the effects of present day policies such as eliminating standardised testing, racial preferencing of non-Asian minorities, the peddling of anti-Asian stereotypes, and lumping of Asians into “privileged” categories. An Inconvenient Minority chronicles the political and economic repression and the renaissance of a long ignored racial identity group—and how they are central to reversing America's cultural decline and preserving the dynamism of the free world. Kirk Clyatt lives in a predominantly Hispanic neighbourhood and loves it. He is so passionate, he will eventually relocate to Mexico. Today he tell's us why. Asia Pacific Today. April 3, 2021

LyNea Bell "LB", the first African American woman to create a private & secure Search Engine GOT CONN, shares her backstory on the Un-pretty side of "Hollywood," being a woman talent agent, and having the boldness to stand in your Faith and God's Word on this episode of the Lin. Woods' Gospel Entertainment Podcast. Listen. Follow. Download FREE. Subscribe. Social Connects; Twitter @linwoods, @LyNeaBell Instagram @linwoods96, @LyNeaBell

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MADcast podcast episode 4. B-RY aka Brian Gregory is the all American American of the MAD athletes. In this episode Brian talks about his struggle to come to the darkside. The darkside being crossfit. He too is a Doctor in Phisical Therapy and he explains how his knowledge has helped him become stronger than he ever imagined. Brain also shares his favorite pro wrestler and how it impacted him after said wrestler suffered his first loss. We also have a special guest crash the show. Lets just say she wanted to make sure he was not drinking too many beers. So grab a cold bevarage of your choosing and enjoy this great conversation between Dave and B-Roni! Email us your suggested topics or questions at, madcastpodcast2222@gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tillman gyms in Austin- CrossFit Cedar Park www.crossfitcp.com 512-331-0992 Tillman Fitness Training at 2222 www.tillmanfitnesstraining.com 512-669-5222 MAD Athletes www.madathletes.com 512-331-0992 Tillman Physical Therapy & Sports Training Center, Inc. www.tillmantherapy.com 512-331-6200 Instagram - madathletes Facebook - CrossFitCedarPark Twitter - crossfitcp --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Who is an American? Americans have a dream. As one president said, "As a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea that everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That is an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up." Clearly, the American construct recognizes that our strength is based on values, not bloodlines. Today, we are going to speak about the U.S. immigration system. A system that almost all our families have dealt with in one form or another. I talk with Abigail Trillin, the Executive Director of Legal Services for Children, an organization that is one of 15 non-profits that make up the San Francisco Immigrant Legal Collaborative. You can find Abigail at Abigail@lsc-sf.org. The website for Legal Services for Children is lsc-sf.org. The website for the collaborative is sfildc.org.

This episode is part of our ongoing direct-consumer genetic testing series. Joining the show is an award-winning journalist, Libby Copeland. Copeland, who writes about culture, science and human behavior, is the author of a new book, “The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Upending Who We Are,” which explores the personal, familial and ethical implications of recreational DNA testing. Copeland was a reporter and editor at The Washington Post for eleven years, has been a media fellow and guest lecturer, and has made numerous appearances on television and radio. Enter our giveaway to win a copy of Libby Copeland’s book, “The Lost Family” on our Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.Also be sure to enter our mentor session giveaway with our host Kira Dineen who will be meet with the winner in an hour zoom call to discuss applying to genetic counseling schools including essays and resumes.On This Episode We Discuss:DTCs Topics explored in “The Lost Family”Approach and implications of Yaniv Erlich’s 2013 groundbreaking study identifying “anonymous” male DNA donation to researchAncestry information revealed through the Y chromosomeCompanies that offer Y and mitochondrial DNA testingPrevious genetic database techniques to catch criminalsDatabases and techniques used to catch the Golden State KillerHow CODIS works for law enforcementCompanies with the largest databasesChanges to GEDmatches policy after catching the Golden State KillerLaw/protections to prevent law enforcement from using genetic genealogical databasesThe relationship between FamilyTreeDNA and the FBIStatus of DTC genetic testing companies opt in/out policiesThe amount of the American American population that could be identified from the DTC databasesPicture Genetics is our sponsor for this DTC genetic testing series and offers a unique DNA testing service. These tests are designed for every stage of life, from family planning and newborn health, to personal wellness and disease risk. Unlike other companies, this is actually a clinical grade test where physicians and genetic counselors are involved. The test sequences entire genes that are medically actionable. It’s easy to order and understand with good looking reports! To order your Picture Genetics go to picturegenetics.com and use code “DNATODAY” for 25% off and free-shipping! Get actionable genetic insights today to benefit your family of tomorrow.Stay tuned for the next new episode of DNA Today on October 2nd, 2020 where we continue our DTC genetic testing series! New episodes are released on the first and third Friday of the month. In the meantime, you can listen to over 130 other episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, streaming on the website, or any other podcast player by searching, “DNA Today”.See what else we are up to on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube, including our book giveaway! Questions/inquiries can be sent to info@DNApodcast.com.

Chris Tannehill and Herb Lawrence talk about the strategy of the double switch and how they'll miss it dearly, their favorite Bartolo Colon and Wilson Alvarez memories, White Sox draft Garrett Crochet and Jared Kelley signings and their immediate future and what happened to American American players in baseball in this Mailbag Monday edition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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There are roughly 350 car models on the market this year from 13 different automakers across 14 states.

The situation in Atlanta. Two white policeman shoot an American American.

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00:07:12 - Exploring the meaning behind both Diallo and Okemefuna’s African names and their experiences of having non-western names growing up.00:14:42 - Coronavirus vs COVID-19: the distinction.00:20:12 - CDC stat cited by Dr Okpara: Approx. 80% of those who contract the virus will have a mild/moderate response.00:22:30 - Dr Okpara walks us through the common and uncommon symptoms of infected COVID-19 patients.00:28:57 - Nic shares her experience of how she contracted the virus and how the symptoms showed us for her.00:38:58 - How the virus spreads.00:44:00 - Being quarantined with an infected person. Dr Okpara shares his self-quarantine process and how he has been protecting himself and his family from potentially being exposed to the virus.00:47:45 - Masks. Which ones and why.00:52:56 - Diallo Brooks hits on why the black community is vulnerable and therefore heavily impacted by COVID-19: “Choosing between a paycheck and protecting our health”.00:59:05 - Death toll of American Americans are disproportionally higher than any other race/ethnicity. The latest data from APM Research Lab.01:00:00 - Diallo Brooks highlights the racial disparities that continue to exist in this country’s (the USA) structures, leaving a majority of African Americans vulnerable to these pandemics. What about hazard pay for those working on the frontlines?01:07:00 - Africa & COVID-19. The role of hydroxychloroquine; a malaria treatment. Dr Okpara shares why African Americans are more susceptible to this disease.01: 17:18 - Nicole raises the shame that comes along with being a COVID-19 patient.01:19:47 - My guests share their biggest adjustment since COVID-19 and the first thing they will do when this is eventually over.01:36:30 - The lightening round. Everyone’s favourite bit. A series of quick questions on popular culture.For more information on today’s guests:Follow Diallo Brooks on: Twitter: @DKBrooks45Instagram: @DialloBrookswww.PFAW.orgFollow Dr Okem Okpara on:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/okemefuna.okparaMore about Austin Emergency CenterFollow Nicole Clark on:Instagram: @nicworldwide

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While socialism can seem to be about compassion, it's really about a few people gaining power, and it's an anti-American concept. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Mark Young talk about how the next presidential election will be a decision between the American ideal and its opposite. Diametrically opposed: The next presidential election will feature two competing philosophies that are diametrically opposed: entrepreneurism and socialism. Philosophically opposed: Every quality that's philosophically American is opposed to the Green New Deal. Bringing back: Some Democratic candidates are proposing bringing back ideas that were the reason that some people left Europe for America in the first place. Daily transactions: What changes society are the daily transactions of buying and selling things. Constantly shifting: Marketplace-determined prices for products and services are constantly shifting, which defeats the notion ofcentral planning. Controlling power: Socialism is first and foremost about a very small number of people planning all of the transactions in society. Other people's money: Socialism is great for some people, but it has to be paid for with other people's money. No competing: Socialism is for people who don't want to have a measured result or to compete. Voting socialist: Socialism is dictatorship that's been voted for. For the philosophy: It might be that in the upcoming election, the philosophies will be so starkly opposed to each other that people will vote for a certain candidate even if they don't like the individual. Give H2Max a try and let us know what you think: buyh2max.com Help us bring you the best content possible. Due to the left’s boycotts of those who advertise with Conservatives, we have had a number of advertisers backout to avoid possible backlash. Support the show and gain access to even more content at https://www.patreon.com/bftpodcast Don’t forget to leave us a voicemail for the chance to have it played on a future episode. You can do so by clicking the link. https://bluntforcetruth.com/voicemail/ Also, check out the store on our website to get your own Blunt Force Truth gear. https://store.bluntforcetruth.com/

This week’s Bourbon Community Roundtable touches on lots of good hot topics. We look at MGP's stock as it continues it's downward trend with our thoughts on how this will play out for them. Then we talk about sourcing in general and if consumers are getting oversaturated with the same bulk market products. Stickers are always a fun subject, but this week there was one released that got national media attention. Will distilleries crack down on stickers? Lastly, we congratulate Old Forester on it’s revamp of the barrel program and cap it off with our most annoying bourbon terms. Show Partners: Barrell Craft Spirits is always trying to push the envelope of blending whiskey in America. Learn more at BarrellBourbon.com. Receive $25 off your first order at RackHouse Whiskey Club with code "Pursuit". Visit RackhouseWhiskeyClub.com. Show Notes: This week’s Above the Char with Fred Minnick talks more about smoked grains. Breaking Bourbon announces Stagg Jr. as their whiskey of the year. Let's discuss. What do you think about the MPG losses for the 3rd quarter in a row? Is the bourbon market oversaturated with brands? What happens when the aged whiskey runs out? Let's discuss the effect of stickers on bottles. What do you think about the New Riff Pitino sticker? Sticker predictions? Brown-Forman comes out with a barrel proof single barrel program for Old Forester. What is taking everyone else so long? What's the most annoying term in bourbon? 0:00 Kenny didn't did my over talking on the sticker thing. get in the way of getting the opportunity to talk about vodka. 0:11 I guess so, 0:13 son of a bitch. Yeah. Hey, I got it. I got it. I got to dial it back a little bit. Man, I really need to talk about vodka on this show. But how much I hate it. I've never done that before. 0:35 Maybe one it's Episode 237 of bourbon pursuit. I'm kidding. And here's some of the news. You know, we've been keeping up with the talks of the trade war going on. And however President Donald Trump and his French counterpart president Emmanuel Macron, have agreed to hold off on the escalating trade war. And this is now avoiding what would have been a massive tariff increase on French goods such as wine, cheese and handbags, Trump and threaten the new duties and retaliate. 1:00 For a tax slapped on revenue earned in France by American tech firms such as Facebook and Google, the two sides will hold off on potential tariffs until the end of the year, as French officials have said and negotiations over the digital tax will continue at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. A 25% tariff still remains intact and in place due to separate trade disputes related to Airbus numbers are starting to come in for visits to distilleries across Kentucky, and Sazerac, who is not a part of the Kentucky distillers Association has released their numbers earlier this week. The distillery ended 2019 having a record breaking 293,996 visitors during the calendar year. This is a 35% increase in visitation over 2018. And as you know, there is currently a $1.2 billion investment going into everything around Buffalo Trace, including producing more whiskey but also expanding the visitor center. The expanded Visitor Center will be utilized together 2:00 A bit more distillery archives. And as the expanded space will back up to the recently completed fermenter expansion, the visitor center will have a backdoor access to the whiskey making process allowing for new and updated to a routes. The expanded space will also supply another place for event locations for hosting evening parties. Now for this week's podcast, this roundtable touches on a lot of good subjects, we look at the stock of MGP as it continues its downward trend, and with our thoughts on how this is going to play out for them. Then we talk about sourcing in general and of the consumers. You and I are getting oversaturated with some of the same products that we see on the bulk market, and stickers. It's always a fun subject. However, this week, there was one that got released that got national media attention. And does that mean that distilleries are going to start cracking down on them? Who knows? We'll find out and then we congratulate old forester on the revamp of their barrel program. While we cap it off with our most annoying bourbon terms. Are you interested in this 3:00 See what sort of barrel pics we have going on. Right now we are still set to select an old forester whistlepig to Buffalo Trace barrels to four roses barrels and a new roof barrel this year, or aiming to do somewhere around 20 barrels this year and you can get in part of the action as well. Not only just getting a chance to have a bottle from the barrel pick, but you could also be on this selection team. Go to patreon.com slash bourbon pursuit and you can learn more there. Alright, it's that time once again to see what Joe over barrel bourbon has to say. And then you've got Fred minich with above the char 3:35 it's Joe from barrell bourbon. We're always trying to push the envelope of blending whiskey in America. Find out more at barrel bourbon com 3:43 I'm Fred minikin. This is above the charm. Last week in my above the char I talked about smoking the grains before distilling them and how that is changing the character and the flavor profiles of bourbon really all American whiskeys 4:00 And I asked a question in the barrel finishes, we bring up a stink as to whether or not those are really bourbon. I asked, should we start asking ourselves are the smoked grayned Bourbons, also bourbon. Now they technically meet all the qualifications but there was a time in American whiskey history in which they tried to dictate what types of grains were used and where they were coming from. So the question is, because smoking the grains changes the character so much it takes a big right or left hand turn on Kentucky bourbon, Should we open that up? And we got a really good email from Jason Lambert. He's the lead distiller at came and spirits company in the Grand Cayman says he's a big fan of the show. Thank you very much for that Jason. And he, he says, When you think of bourbon, you often think of this as tradition in history. But when it comes to smoking grains, I think 5:00 Industrial kilns were mainstream and most all malls were smoked to stop germination. In this respect, a smoke bourbon would be welcomed with open arms. So as long it is properly labeled, however, this would open a Pandora's box to include grains like the smoke corn, you discussed about MB rolling. But again, I should 5:24 I think they should be accepted as long as it is very clearly labeled. Now, Jason brings up a great point. And I think that is always my main concern is that consumers are not deceived. And that's what has happened in a lot of whiskey labeling is like somebody will follow it to a tee, and then someone else will take advantage of the equity that that one person has built and do something like dump a gallon of sherry in there and then call it it's Sherry finished barrel. The Sherry finished blend or 6:00 Whatever. And you know, when it comes to the smoking of the grains, I just want to be, I just want to make sure that consumers are protected. And the fact is, is that people will do things that they can get away with. So as long as people are, you know, making note on their labels that they're using smoke grains, I don't think we have a problem. But the minute that someone comes out and is pumping mosquito smoke or peated Bourbons into the market without notifying the consumer, that's what it is. 6:35 That's when we have a problem. Because what will happen inevitably, someone will taste that product, and then not like it or like it, and they'll expect that's what bourbon is supposed to taste like. You have to remember that when we talk about consumers, we're really talking about, you know, one or 2% of the consumers, people who are not necessarily engaged in whiskey at all. We're definitely not talk about people in this podcast. 7:00 But when people are arguing for class action lawsuits that somebody was deceived or something, they find like a small amount of people to prove their case. And that's what I'm talking about here. I imagine someone going to some some place like Walmart that's where attracts everybody and they grab a bottle of what they think is bourbon, they go home and taste it and it tastes like smoke or tastes like pee or something that the tourism away from buying another product of bourbon because what they think of in their head is bourbon is that smoke flavor that they didn't like, and so they go back to Crown Royal or vodka or gin or whatever it is never giving something like Evan Williams a shot even though Evan Williams doesn't taste anything like that smoke product that they dislike. And they're in is what why Jason has hit the nail on the head when he talks about it's all about labeling, and trying not to deceive the customer. And as long as we have upfront labeling, I'm always going to be okay. 8:00 With just about anything as whether or not barrel finishes, or actually bourbon, now, that's a debate for another time. But I can tell you 1955 things like four roses of today and Buffalo Trace, they were not even considered the way they are made today would not be considered bourbon in 1955. And that's when the barrel entry proof was the legal maximum was 110. So, even though we have some rigid standards in American whiskey, it's always evolving. What American whiskey looks like in 10 years. Who knows? Maybe mosquito smoke corn finished and Sherry barrels is the standard. I don't know. But I do know that I'll be here to taste it. And that's this week's above the chart. Hey, if you'd like to write me and tell me what you think about above the char, maybe I'll read it on the next episode. shoot me an email or hit me up on Instagram. 9:00 Graham at Fred minich Until next week, cheers 9:06 Welcome back to another episode of bourbon pursuit the official podcast of bourbon and tonight we are having bourbon Community Roundtable number 40 and it's also the first verb Community Roundtable of 2020. So welcome back everybody. Glad to have everybody here right 9:22 here. So pretty much we got the whole crew here tonight. So Fred, Ryan, Brian, Nick and Blake as well. So how's everybody doing? Doing well doing well Kenny start to the New Year. 9:35 Just fantastic. 9:39 So excited. And for anybody that's not able to if you're just if you're in the car you're just listening or something like that. Ryan has finally got a new background. He's He's finally stepped up and he's got a whole new house renovations got bottles behind them now. I know. I'm like halfway through. You can maybe see if I get all the way. running our shells. I have another 10:00 One next to me. That's empty. But uh, yeah, I'm only halfway there and I'm running out I should have went bigger like Kenny said, but I don't have any more walls so 10:10 I think that's one thing is as we start going down and when people ask they're like, Hey, can you send pictures of like your your shelves or? Anybody have ideas and as soon as you have an idea for how big your shelves need to be, just triple it. Yeah, because always triple it because that's exactly i mean even doubles not going to get there but so when you think you need shelves for your bourbon, just triple it, because that's what's gonna happen. I yeah, just liquidate. I've been like giving like somebody comes to my house and I'm like, Here, take this bottle bottle for you, bottle for you. 10:44 So I'll go on over. I'll give you a funny story. So this past Sunday, my wife kind of went on a cleaning spree and went down to the basement and y'all know my basement. I know many people have seen it on social media. I mean, it's just littered with bottles and just crap everywhere. And she's 11:00 Like, this has gotta go. I probably ended up dumping out probably like three bottles worth of whiskey of just like samples of like 100 ml ml samples of just stuff that like it's, it's stuff that's all like from distilleries that wasn't very good or under age and I'm just like, I'm never gonna drink this. I don't know why I'm hanging on to it. But there's a little piece of you that just dies every time you sit there just empty down the drain. 11:26 Yes, I did. Actually, I had a bunch of media sample bottles and I just dumped them into the canter. We'll see what happens here. Infinity bottles. Yeah, exactly. already had one infinity ball that never touch. And then I like wow, be a great idea to create another one. So I don't drink it and let it sit there but uh, yeah, it's, it's good problem to have. Yeah, yeah, it is. Alright, so let's go ahead and go around the horn real quick. So Blake, we'll start with you. Just go ahead and do the usual. Yeah, I'm Blake from bourbon er calm. Bo you are Bo you are Bo, nr? It's been a 12:00 wow you know I almost forgot how to spell the name so glad to be back these are a lot of fun to do so that you can check me out at all social medias Instagram Twitter, Facebook as well as CEO box comm that's s ELBACH s I'm Nick from breaking bourbon, breaking bourbon com check us out 12:20 on social media all at breaking bourbon. And so I'm not going to spell it for you like Blake Blake i don't know i don't i don't want to screw it up and embarrass myself on live here. But yeah, you guys should know it by now. Breaking bourbon again. Glad to be here guys. Good Brian. Yeah, thanks for having me back. Happy to be for the first one of the of the New Year Brian with sip and corn. You can find me on Twitter Facebook and Instagram at sip and corn si p p n co CEO or MC there I go next can't even spell your own name anymore. And and also see me at bourbon justice.com. Let's start getting into some of the 13:00 The topics for tonight and so one of the one I kind of look at is how breaking kind of made stag Junior famous because it was one of these things that's like stag Jr. has been around, it's been around forever and all of a sudden, they come out and say it was their whiskey of the year and 2019 batch 12 and never at least correct me if I'm wrong Never before has Sazerac ever put out a press release about a new release of stag Jr. and now all of a sudden people are just going crazy for it it's just I don't even know if the initial release of stag Jr. Got a official press release 13:35 batch number 13 yeah even know they had badges 13:40 not getting 13:42 Okay, can I jump in so I was going to share this story earlier but so I was in South Carolina this weekend when we hit a few stores just see what they had three different no it was one bar and two different stores. They're like well, you know, we did just get the George t stag Jr. I don't know if you know this, but it was just named whiskey of the year. 14:00 I'm like, No, no, don't trust those guys. 14:05 It was gone off the shelves and the guy was like, yeah, you know, one of the employees grabbed it here because it was just named whiskey of the year. So, like, dang it breaking strikes again. 14:17 Y'all have a meeting with Jim Murray, you know? 14:22 I wish somehow it's like, it's like a catch 22 because, like, in a way, it kind of it kind of hurts us to to do something like that, because it's generally not insanely difficult to get here. I mean, it's not on the shelves all the time. But it shows up. I mean, if you're in liquor stores as much as we are, you're going to see it, you know, it's going to be out, you're going to have a chance to get it, you know, and so when when you do stuff like that, you know, you always think about the impact of, you know, are people going to lose their minds about it, but the flip side of that is, is, you know, it's kind of nice to have something that's just kind of a regular release, you know, they're not all going to be great. I don't think you know, there's going to be a 15:00 Elijah Craig barrel proof that's fantastic there's going to be a larceny you know barrel proof that's that's fantastic you know that kind of thing you know so it's that idea that kind of these regular releases that we get some really good once in a while we don't have to necessarily hunt you know the crazy stuff that everyone's already going to go nuts for no matter how good it is or not you know that you might just stumble upon you know really good batch or you know really good run a single barrels or something like that. So that's what's kind of exciting about that. But yeah, the catch 22 is it probably is going to be a little difficult to find for a little while at least although you know, probably taper off and be able to find it like you did before. If you know the know the liquor store, guys and you're getting your area. I think it'll still show up, you know, couple months from now. So one of the benefits of never deleting an email is that I have been able to trace every single Buffalo Trace, press release, and I found the original one with the original George t stag Jr. Or the stag Junior bourbon press release July 25 2000. 16:00 13 and I did not find any other follow up releases. So this 16:08 this is the first based on my inbox, which is a very well kept never deleted inventory of all Buffalo Trace press releases. And I remember the first either the first one or the first couple of those were just hotter than all hell. I mean, they were just unveiled. 16:28 Yeah, yeah, terrible. Yeah, terrible one of the one of my lowest rated Bourbons and everyone was super excited for it when it came out. And everyone thought I was going to be the, you know, the George t stag just a little younger, really, it's pretty much should be the same thing. Otherwise just maybe not quite as developed. But that one was pretty bad. And that one kind of turned us off from it for a little while. Of course, I have three bottles of that batch one. But you know, so it's been a little while we've had it here and there. You know, this one kind of popped up and Eric was the one who got it first and he was just going on and on about how great it was. 17:00 We had it and we're like well it's yeah we're going to start buying this again now you know so just yeah I think there's going to be hits and misses they're not all going to be they're not all gonna be home runs but this one was pretty good and from what I hear batch 13 is pretty good too and from a lot of comments people I don't think people didn't realize there were batches you know, if you're not a die hard bourbon enthusiasts, I don't think you're necessarily noticing that the proof is different. And it doesn't say batch anywhere so you know, I think Buffalo Trace maybe realize they could educate people a little bit better. You know, kind of talking about that there are actually different batches of this. You know, like for example, having held us with their you know, how they're identifying their batches now. We're knows maybe we'll switch to doing something like that. Maybe they're just going to try to get people on their website and do press releases from now on you know, be interesting to see what happens you know, everybody actually not opposed to like the the the announcement of a new release like this, if anything, it helps. It helps in a lot of ways kind of like Chronicle when these things are coming out. It gives you you little nuggets of information. 18:00 Because let's face it 18:02 We are at the liberty of what information they want to divulge to us we're very fortunate that someone like new riff or heaven Hill will tell you answer any question that you want. But Buffalo Trace, doesn't they, they don't tell you everything and so like to get any kind of like real like actionable information from some of those distilleries that don't give you information is always a plus. You know, it's the funny thing is this one question that came in and said how many people in the roundtable do the news earlier and guilty of insider trading? You know, for me, I don't even know how this was on your radar because stuff like you know stag Jr. Huge t single barrels are I mean, even even a lot of I mean, thankfully, heaven Hill sends us a lot of the samples for every release of the Elijah Craig barrel proof so we have an opportunity to taste it but a lot of times like a new stag, Jr. thing, just it's just not on the radar for me to go and search out among the liquor stores so well, they're gone anyway, they're not on the shelves here. It's like 19:00 Global's a different scenario Yeah, they get kind of compiled in with the you know Weller releases well or 12 where people have to camp out for it so I'm like stag jr No thanks not camping 19:11 or people camping out for stag Jr. He had they just do like they just they budget in 19:18 the raffles in the lotteries in the release. Yeah yeah it's part of the long line scenario maybe not the camping out but at least a two hour wait sort of scenario that's bourbon for you. Mm hmm. All right, let's go ahead. Let's move on to something fun. Well, maybe not fun, fun to talk about. You know, this is something that was an article that came out of Barron's calm on Friday and talked about MGP is now posting its third loss in a row, sorry, third quarter loss in a row. On Friday, the news came out that the stock had actually lost 20% of its value. It's currently I just checked it before we started here around $38 a share. It's high was back in around June of 2018, where it peaked around 19 20:00 $5 and it said at least within the article that it made a bet on aging whiskey, and that was related to blame, and really was a failed bet at the end the day. So I want to kind of look at the finance guys over here, because you all know what this means about, you know, trying to hit numbers, not posting or not meeting your, your expectations, your results. So what is this to you kind of say about the current market of maybe craft distillers that maybe don't need to source as much whiskey anymore? 20:31 Yeah, I mean, I think it's actually pretty telling, you know, if you dig in a little bit, they dig into like the, you know, the price to earnings ratio, all this other stuff in really what it comes down to is, I don't think MGP is getting the prices for their age whiskies that they wanted to, they thought that they could just kind of they were controlling the market, they could demand whatever price they wanted. And, you know, but you also have a lot of these other distilleries you've got Bardstown. 21:00 bourbon popping up you've got some other you know castle and key who's doing a lot of contract distilling, as well as just some other places around the country we've got a lot of decal bourbon that popping on to the market. So 21:11 I think they were just thinking they were in the driver's seat in our kind of getting proved that they weren't. 21:18 You know what that means for a stock forecast? I don't know that may be a little tough, but 21:24 ultimately, I think they're going to have to bring the prices down some they're still extremely high demand for MGP whiskey. But as I think that MGP probably thought that they would be able to release their own black brains with a little little bit of a better result and they haven't really done that, you know, what the remis and then well, they had the 21:46 the one that Oh, shoot with the old master distillers name that they released under his name, met Greg. 21:52 Greg Mets select but then you know that after he left, I assume they didn't care that on so I think between the fact that they haven't been able to really 22:00 thrown brands with much success. And then there's other stuff popping on the market where you know brands and smaller craft distillers they're looking to source. They have more options now. So I think that's the big thing. So let's analyze what MGP is MGP for years has been a supplier to people who were seeking craft spirits or distilled food, basically distill, distill the alcohol use for food. And in 2016, they hired Gus Griffin as their CEO Gus. Gus comes from Brown Forman. He's not from that kind of brought home and certainly had its like it played in the source market. Don't get me wrong, but not to this extent. And that facility in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, had been used as a blending agent for years and Canadian whiskey and American blends. It was never a place to do it's to have its own whiskey until Pernod Ricard sold it to ldi or Angostura 23:00 We're up, and they started selling stuff out into the wholesale market. They saw so much success with this. Unfortunately ldi could not, could not survive, so they had to sell you MGP MGP saw so much success with the source market that they said, Hey, why don't we have all this great whiskey and hey, you taste the honeybell from NGP. And you tell me it's not great. It is fantastic whiskey. And they're like, why don't we do our own brands. So they bring in this guy from Brown Forman Absolutely. Perfect position ready to go. Here's the problem. The company's infrastructure had always been built around 23:41 the wholesale market or the trade industry or other distillers and helping other other brands. They had not successfully done their own brand. They didn't have the sales infrastructure. They didn't have the marketing teams in place. They had some here and there but they did not build brands. And so in 2016, they shifted 24:00 gears and they started let letting go contracts and they started saying, hey, you're gonna have to find another source for your whiskey because we're cutting back. And here we are, we're basically seeing the results of a fantastic distillery not being supported by, you know, something that we always talk about that we hate in marketing and sales or apps. So that without that infrastructure there, you can see the results. And I know the stock market is not like real life, but it's an indication of what what happens. 24:38 Yeah, I mean, I also think when you look at this as a as a distillery going into this, you want to be able to buy whiskey and and have something that you can kind of buy and then sell almost overnight like that. That's kind of the goal a lot of these people went with. And now when even I mean, Ryan and I, we've been down this path we've talked to MGP like the most that they really sell 25:00 to people like us is like four year old product of that they have the 36%. Right? If you're buying a lot of 30, or buying a lot of four year old product, that means you're banking on betting your whole business on aging NGP stock. And so that doesn't necessarily play into the long term category of a lot of distillers where they say like, okay, we're going to get this to get us over this hump, until we can actually start selling our own whiskey. And so, most people unless you're, unless you're trying to build a business where it's NGP all day, every day for the rest of eternity, then it's gonna be hard for I think, to keep to keep selling some of these younger stocks. I think that's right. I also think frankly, Indiana has something to do with it. I mean, they they caught some bad press with Templeton and everyone referring to it as Oh, it's just 25:48 a whiskey made in a factory in Indiana, and they can't call it Kentucky bourbon. And everyone knows when Indiana's on the on the back. That's where they got it from and it's just a brand trying to 26:00 Make make it go until they can sell their own. And in the meantime, you've got brands stocking up on that can call themselves Kentucky bourbon and you've got a JW locally in particular, with all kinds of warehouses that are full of bourbon. And they'll have that cachet that MGP just won't and a half wonder if it's the market figuring that out. Also, you got to think about to Ozi Tyler has a lot of stuff on the market. Bardstown, bourbon, which 26:30 Blake mentioned earlier barsa Berbick and he's got a lot of stuff out there. I mean, the market is almost in about a one or two years if you're starting a brand. It's a buyers market, you know, because a lot of these people are going to be you know, desk selling have also heard rumors as that anything I can confirm it. So there's been some really strong Major blueblood distillers that are starting to say, Well, you know what, maybe we sell some of those two year old age doc that we have in tanks. So you're starting to see some Kentucky probably 27:00 open back up on the market. Well, you know, the old Barton stuff that's 12 and, you know, 17 years old remains there for half the price as you will know, Kenny. Yeah. Well, it is Kenny was alluding to or talking about, you know, us being in the source market. It's hard to I think MGP is actually built a name for themselves especially for the rye whiskey and the older bourbon I think. I think if you carry the rye whiskey, a lot of people will give you a benefit of the doubt because it's damn good rye whiskey, probably the best out there but the problem is is their pricing it's you can pay $1,000 more for aged, you know, product from Tennessee or or Barton's, and 27:43 then a four, you know, a four year old NGP and it's like, what you know, and when you taste it, it's just it's hard to, you know, invest that kind of money for that young of a product. And like Kenny said, You're banking on you know, aging, that stock and whatnot. So 28:00 I don't know, I think they're, they're getting squeezed barsen by recovery, like other said, and castle and key and 28:07 yeah, I think that's just all part of it. And, you know, they, it's adapted. So they'll they'll figure it out, I'm sure, when they shifted their business plan, they left the market open and people took advantage of it, the only way that they can correct this, you know, to get themselves back in place, is to flex their muscle. And I would really, I would really say that they should spin off their brands, and they should go back to servicing, you know, the craft market because they were so good at that and their infrastructure is set for it. And the market accepted it, you know, we can all say what we want about those class action lawsuits and everything, but no one was ever really bitching about the whiskey. And, and and that's that's telling you something 28:50 that's true. When you're going into you're really putting the marketing in a lot of other people's hands in you don't have to bank everything on your own strategy. You know, you're going to get some great 29:00 ideas from from some really inspired people by doing it that way. And I think that's what's built up their name to this point, because there's certainly an enthusiast group that's, you know, follow these brands that are, you know, probably built from enthusiasts themselves that have sourced MGP To get started, you know, done really well with it. And I think that's built such a strong name for them, you know, in that group, and then just by and large, as a lot of people out there that I don't think they care if it's MGP or not, they just care if they feel somewhat connected to the brand and they liked the whiskey enough in That's it, and it's just about getting distribution to the right places. So I think that makes a lot of sense, Fred. 29:39 You know, I mean, maybe this is, you know, certainly could be a bit of a glut here. Everyone's producing like crazy, you know, we're seeing whiskey come to market a lot younger, you know, then it was he came and dropped off a lot of regular everyday products we see on the limited release stuff, of course, you know, but is it to the point now, where it's just gotten that much harder to compete, and people may be overproduced 30:00 A little bit, you know, compared to what the what the projections were, Nick, you bring up a very interesting point. You know, we always talk about the glut but The what? The thing that's different now is that there's this whole lifestyle and tourism impact that American whiskey has jack daniels is enjoying it and so like if you're a fan of it, you can go to Jim Beam, you go to Maker's Mark what a Buffalo Trace and have the experience of your life. No one's going no one's going to Indiana. So you know that's, that's a that's a component there and I'll say this about MGP I hope that they stick with it because I think that's a good company. They just, you know, we all make business mistakes. I think this was a business mistake but I do not want to see them sell I think they have the passion for it. I do not want to see this get in the hands of printer card or Dr. Joe or someone like that, who's just going to turn this into a churn and burn place without any attention, you know, to the whiskey in American American whiskey hands and I don't want to see it be sent off to for blending purposes again, the world got 31:00 taste that whiskey and the world said we like that whiskey from Lawrenceburg, Indiana. 31:07 And the people have spoken here here. 31:11 So while we're also on the source whiskey path right here, you know, as we start looking at the scene of more and more Bourbons coming to the market, there's only a limited supply of sources that things are coming from. And this is one that, you know, we all kind of talked about before on the show, are we starting to see that the bourbon market is now being oversaturated with brands? Because, and don't get me wrong, we're probably problem too. Right? We're part of the problem too. Now, however, like it's it is becoming to the point where there is a lot of private label stuff out there. 31:45 I just saw somebody released one called Blue Ribbon bourbon, which is a revitalization of a label that was a 12 year old Kentucky bourbon about a week or so ago. And I think we're going to end up seeing more and more of these in the next probably few 32:00 months, few years, something like that. So do we see the over saturation of the market starting to happen? Well, I was I was wrong about this about four or five years ago. And so I guess I'm not, I'm not going to be reporting on the demise or the bubble being pop just yet. I mean, I thought four years ago that I'd be buying someone's still out of bankruptcy and I'd be the able to have my own little distillery on the first side hospital. Sure, didn't happen, obviously. And if we can get past tariff issues, and if we can get past trade issues, there's so much capacity overseas, it'll it'll soak all this up, and we won't notice a blip here, despite all of this production coming out. So we just have to think it's going to keep pushing. And I guess I would say, you know, from a, from a production standpoint, there's there's a lot of it, you know, where it's going to get consumed, it's going to grow almost just from 33:00 A pure, like, different brand standpoint, pure number of producers out there. You know, I think there's probably plenty of them out there that do not necessarily have a passionate person behind them. You know, there's a lot of money in it right now. You know, there's plenty that do have passionate, excited people behind them, I think we're going to see, you know, a percentage of those succeed, you know, but they're fighting for shelf space on a limited number of, you know, a limited number of retailers. You know, they've got to go through the distribution system. You know, there's, there's ways around it, of course, to some extent, but I think the reality is, is I think if you flood with flood with just too many different brands, there's just too much noise. And I think we're going to see a challenge for, you know, just an overflow of these to succeed if they don't have the driving force, the passionate people behind them, you know, kind of that gumption to, you know, to stick with it. I don't know, I don't think it's necessarily a quick money play, you know, per se, the same way. It may have been, you know, five, seven years. 34:00 years ago, at this point, I think the competition's a lot tougher. And so you got to pull a little bit more into it. You gotta have something special, you got to bring a destination into the mix, you've got to you just have to do more. You're not just, you know, the bottle something, put it out there and have nothing behind it and succeed. Yeah, one thing, I think with the source, you know, I mean, obviously, like Kenny said, there's a few sources that people get it with the refreshing thing about the source, age market, it's comes with an age statement, like nothing else out there is really coming with age statements. And you know, that's one niche they can hang their hat on. It's like, okay, we can give you a 11 1214 year old, you know, whiskey and you can't hide age. You can't there's just, you know, five, six, it's fine. But when you get 11 1214 there's something special unique you get with those types of Bourbons and still, and we're whiskey geeks. So we noticed these brands, we know where they come from, but the general public, they have no idea. You know, they're like, oh, any idea about this brand? No, it's 12 years old, you know? 35:00 They've been producing forever. Right? They opened up yesterday. Yeah. And so it's, 35:06 you know, as us we probably think, yes. Like, oh, how ridiculous. Can there be another 12 year old baartman brand out there. But the general public, I think, doesn't see that it is see that age number 12 years, and they get excited about it. I guess the other question that kind of comes with this is, we all kind of know what happens when you buy a bunch of stuff. It ends up running out right, it'll go dry. So what do you all kind of see is like some of these brands that are hanging their hat on putting that big number 12 of Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey as their brand. When we know here in maybe a year, maybe six months, maybe it's two years? I'm not too sure. But this will run out? 35:49 Yeah, I mean, I think it's tough to say because I'm, I'm kind of with Brian, where, you know, probably four or five years ago, I thought and by 2020. We'll see a glut nobody's gonna care about 36:00 This stuff anymore and I'm going to pick up, you know, 36:03 maybe not Pappy, but at least like well, or 12 or something again, but the demand is increased even faster than anyone expected. So 36:12 I think people will stick with brands, even if age statements are dropped. I mean, look at Elijah Craig. Granted, that's a massive company behind it, but they've gone through it Look at you know, Jim Beam eight year, the Black Label that they've gone through it and seems to be no issues. So, you know, I think a lot of these things are just blips on the radar radar, and it's a marketing thing that they have to figure out. Even when, you know, you hang your hat on age statement, you have to drop that age statement later. That ultimately what I think it comes down to is, is the is the whiskey good and, you know, it's easy to get stuck on a age statement. If it's good people drink it, people will talk about it and you know, it'll continue to grow so I don't I don't see any signs of slowing down even with it. 37:00 There's going to be a huge flooding of the markets in the next five to six years of Bourbons from New distilleries have been, you know, aging for a while, as well as other major distilleries that have just increased production over the last six to seven years. 37:15 As long as bourbon is cool, people keep buying it. 37:20 You keep it cool, Fred. 37:23 I've got that. 37:25 Pretty sure. So, you know, as we start looking at you know, Bourbons come on the scene. 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There's one thing that we always also see that that happens in this world of bourbon and that's that sticker 39:00 And there's one that the recording of today is Monday and there's one that just kind of get real big real fast and this was a play you know, one thing that I always loved about new riff is somebody that's something about riffs something and so riff pitino of play on Rick Pitino is one sticker that kind of got big on bourbon today. And what this does is it depicts a a kind of like a to face of Rick Pitino you got UK on one side you have Elad another, they have UK holding up a trophy and they've got a bunch of UFL players throwing dollars at strippers on the other side. And this got so big that it got picked up by Kentucky Sports Radio which is a very large syndicate here in the state that then got picked up by barstool sports. And in the barstool sports article, it actually talked about how it was coming from the distillery, right it didn't say it was a pretty 40:00 private group I didn't say it was a pic it like it said new riff. I'm sure they love that. Yeah, I mean, I guess I guess you know any publicity is good publicity but like At what point or I don't know maybe how about practicing a little journalism I Tommy call me old school but hey how about we actually call the company that there's no money in it with it you could call somebody for that. Yeah, yeah I mean all of this I feel like new riff is is an enormous victim right now and it just it drives me crazy because this has this has been happening I've been covering this business for you know 1415 years in all it's never happened this egregiously but like a brand really got damaged today it there's no question about it that someone saw that article in is going to have a bad opinion or saw the tweet is going to have a bad opinion about new riff for the rest of their life and they will not have taken the time to follow up to see you know what the real story was, but new riff got 41:00 Damage today because somebody made a sticker and put it on the bottle and made national national trending news, whatever you want to call it, but you know they're hurt from this or are they hurt? I mean they sure they're they're hurt I mean that's 41:20 but they're getting press on this folks who had never heard of this small distillery in Northern Kentucky now know about new riff and they're going to hear a lot of response to me about Oh, new riff is actually you know, get get the get the new riff. I mean, this is a fantastic single barrel. Well, I don't think anyone actually most people, you know, the way the world goes with this stuff, it's it's going to be the one thing that someone clicks on and then they're going to see a cat and they're going to go to something else. So I that I don't think there's any kind of real value in any kind of trending topic. I mean, there are multiple studies of somebody who comes up with something you know, clever on Twitter. 42:00 They don't their Twitter followers don't grow, you know, they get 30,000 retweets and what have you and their Twitter followers grow by 20 or something silly like that. And, and, and the fact is, is that within the Kentucky Community, you know, they're already kind of an outlier because they're in Northern Kentucky. They're not in Lexington, or they're not unlovable, and they're not in Bardstown. So they're an outlier as it is. And, you know, this sort of thing, puts them in kind of like a weird position in the state. And it has made state news. It's been tweeted by Matt Jones. And so everyone sees it, and all anyone had to do was pick up the phone and call the distillery. And then there's the whole thing could have been like, hey, this barrel group is doing this using this. They just pick up a sticker. Now it's free speech, right. And the distilleries can't dictate to anybody what they can do to the bottle after it's been purchased the same way that Nike can't dictate to you what you do with a pair of shoes that you pick up, you know from shoe locker or 43:00 Whatever. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to spray paint shoes. And that was probably stupid at the time, but I did it. No Shoe Company was coming after us to, you know that we couldn't spray paint our shoes. And that's really what it is here is that you have to practice you know, practice some, some, you know, some common sense of say like, Hey, is this a good idea? Does this pass the smell test? And I think this, this whole thing has 43:28 it could be the one sticker that, you know, puts the whole 43:33 you know, takes the fun out of all of this. I mean, honestly, a lot of people don't like the stickers. I love them. I love looking at everybody's stickers. I like getting on social media. And seeing people's post about it. I thought it was great. And this one even if 43:49 I mean I it was too far, it was too far. 43:55 actually makes it cool with younger people and that's growing. 44:00 It looks like because most bourbon brands are like, old man kind of like real old school kind of thinking. I don't know, the barstool sports, you know, they have a lot of millennial. Most of you know followers and that's where Bourbons growing and that's the future of bourbon. And I think they'll probably think it's cool. I know it probably drives me crazy Fred that that's what they love, they love like, I like tweeting and all this stuff and I and I, and I watch barstool sports. I listened to the pizza, the guys pizza reviews are great. And I just, you know, this is just one where I don't know it's just I would have to agree with Fred where I thought this one kind of went over the line a little bit on on a sticker but but the press was fantastic. You know, it's you can't pay for that kind of that kind of viral effect. But was it wasn't Ken Lewis, the one who on the on bourbon pursuit said he didn't like the stickers and is like, you know, I understand people are free to do whatever they want, but we put a lot of time and effort into those 45:00 bottles and 45:02 we prefer that then they stay the way they are you're right it was killing us on this podcast and said that I think he's the only the only you know owner I can really think of who's talked about that now granted new riff gets way more just because of the the funniness of the the name way more stickers and craziness than other ones but overall you know it definitely hit an audience but i mean i don't know i can't condone putting strippers on your bourbon bottle that's just a little far for me. So here's here's another side okay, so I like again that that audience that's getting touched is not going to get converted for new roof. It's just not they're not going to take the time to go seek out a bottle if they do they're going to do it in Jersey where the bottles not available and find a bottle go to seal box calm 45:57 should a quick link in the show notes. 46:00 Nice I like it. This is the whole setup, you know, not what this stuff but this is this is a this is a trend that that social media has brought that a lot of people do not appreciate and that's the social responsibility aspect of, of, of alcohol, their actual laws about what can be put on the bottle and their actual laws about what the distillers can promote. Yeah, putting a stripper on the bottle is is is within many violations now obviously new rifton do that. But I have seen multiple bourbon groups have a have their child hold the bottle and you know quickly those things often get taken down. But people don't practice they don't they don't look at. They don't look at the bottle as like some kind of 46:55 regulated you know, piece of real estate and 47:00 You know in these kinds of things are going to end up hurting the the distilleries, the community, the hobby, all of it. Because we're all the the bourbon world's already under, you know, every Attorney General in the country is already looking at, you know, the secondary markets as like some kind of like easy press release for them to take down and arrest arrest Joe Schmo in a parking lot in Pennsylvania. They're like, pound their chests and say like, hey, look at us, we're taking down illegal illegal drinking and legal selling. And so, you know, we don't need this kind of activity happening. Because all it does is it puts it puts a bigger Bullseye on the entire industry. And it just frustrates the shit out of me that people don't get that when it comes to like having their kids next alcohol when it comes to the stickers when it comes to anything and the fact is, at any given moment, like Facebook or whoever could just snap 48:00 It's all gone, it'll pop up in something else, but it'll be gone in that particular medium. And that is where you know that the stick that particular sticker is in that same kind of categories, right there. 48:13 Yeah, I mean, we've talked about stickers plenty of times on the show before and, you know, whether it's you know, you want to commemorate something or whether it's a an opportunity for you to pay homage to somebody I know we've seen people that have like had Freddie on the bottle before I know there's people are afraid to on the sticker. You know, there's a lot of fun things that get played with it. This just happened to be one that blew up rather quickly. And only because I think it 48:39 It had a little sensitive subject around to it, but you know, it's a it's it's Kentucky and it's basketball in the day. So maybe that's just why it started really supporting it. You know, you shouldn't ever went to frickin level. 48:55 There's just there's no restrictions on the rival 49:00 Read between Kentucky and u of L so that that that's part of it. And that's, that's why it's on. That's why Matt Jones is is tweeting it. And that's why it gets on barstool sports. But I think overall there's there's obviously the risks, Fred, that you point out. I think overall, it'll end up being fine for new riff. I think what it's going to do though is it's going to call the attention to all the distilleries about what goes on these, these stickers for the private groups, because a lot of them use trademark images. I mean, there's plenty with with Marvel Comics, images that are trademark images. There's, there's there's just free use of anything out there that are protected marks, and the distilleries are going to have to have some responsibility for that. I absolutely disagree. I disagree with you on that because once that once it is bottled, it is going to the distributor and it's being sold to a retailer. So the the 50:00 The responsibility on this is going to be on the retailer. If they are putting that sticker on there at the distillery, there's some liability there, I would assume. Yes. Yeah, it's wherever they go place. Yeah, that's where a lot of them come on. I mean, I've know some that go on on post sale, but a lot of them go on at the at the distillery, they'll give them the sticker and it goes on there, that that's going to be restricted. Now once it gets into into the group's hands and gets whatever stickers on it, that can still be trademark infringement, but you're gonna have to go after the group for it, which will be next to impossible. So if it's if it's Disney trying to protect a Marvel mark, they're going to go to the distillery and say you need an agreement with whoever does private selections that they will not be using any infringing marks. I wonder what Rick Pitino thought when he saw 50:55 the he says 50:58 he's like, I just can't get away from this trip again. 51:00 thing, you know, you know, he's he's probably, you know, he hasn't did he Sue anyone with all the coverage that he got? I don't think you know, probably now i don't think i don't think he will I think he's just trying to get another job and to be honest with you, if the Oklahoma State job pops up, I pray to God that he goes there because we could we could use a winning season anyway, that this whole thing is 51:26 it it just kind of like plays into a whole nother 51:31 you know, conversation to be had about, you know, what is, 51:37 you know, what, what is the standard of, I guess, being cordial, you know, we've lost in, in an overall society, we just, we just put pictures up with people and, and, and have a good laugh at it. And yet we have 12 year olds trying to kill themselves on a daily basis, because they're getting made fun of online. It's like 52:00 At some point in our society, we're going to have to take some, 52:04 some responsibility for what we're posting online. And this is this is a part of all that it's a greater conversation. But 52:13 you know, 52:15 it's sad, it's sad that it's accepted. And people just go on with it and have a good laugh. But the fact is, you know what, my grandpa wasn't doing this you know, when when they were trying to you know, create a cut, you know, basically rebuild this country after World two. And you know, and here we are, and it's just kind of like, this is what we're This is what we do on a daily basis. That's it 52:42 your mood and change the mood? Yeah, go look a little like a good device. The subject I feel like the you know, the the router game will fall every problem. 52:52 All right, let's move on. I think we're ready. 52:57 I'm ready. That went deep. So you know, as we are 53:00 Talk about private barrels and you know, private pics and stuff like that. You know, I think there's one and I think, actually, Blake before we can go on to that I think you had a had a sticker prediction for 2020 as well. Did you want to kind of really? Yeah, yeah, it kind of, to piggyback on that a little bit, I think there's going to be a brand or distillery that comes out and says, you know, they can't control it. But they will be very boisterous, kind of how the Van Winkle have been about the secondary about, you know, no stickers on their bottles. Like we said, you know, if the bottle comes untouched, gets in the hands of a customer. You know, my six year old can color on it, I can throw a sticker on it, it doesn't matter. But a lot of times when these things are getting advertised, I think they could stop it and you know, somebody put it in the chat. That's why steel box puts the sticker just in the box and doesn't put it on there. But I think there's going to be somebody else who comes out and says, You know what, we don't like that. And we'd prefer that you know? 54:00 People not do this to our bottles and in there a little more outspoken about it. So I think that's coming especially after today. You think that's what it's new riff Blake or do you think somebody Yeah, I mean they already kind of said it. I think it's new riff I mean you think about the the major ones are getting stickers. New riff will it a lot of Buffalo Trace pics you know Buffalo Trace Weller's, all that kind of thing. Will it seems to be okay with it? I don't know. I've never seen them have an issue. I've seen them do some distillery releases where they have stickers. But yeah, I think it'll be new riff, you know, especially after this backlash, that that does say something. 54:42 You know, some people kind of get the fun of it and others, you know, to his point that he made on the podcast it was we put a lot of work and design effort into this bottle. We prefer that it stays the way it is. So, you know, I think it'll be interesting to see what they're able to get away with it. 55:00 Cuz, you know, they can't, they can't dictate free speech? Well, I'm very much in opposition of, of poor taste, I also support free speech. And, you know, if when someone gets that bottle, and they can put whatever they want on it, and I think the only thing could probably dictate his say, you can't, we will not be putting this label on the bottle. And if we catch you doing it, we're not going to resell to your group. I think that's about the extent of it. And honestly, I think that would be the biggest return of all they said, Look, you know, we're just not going to let you do another pic. If this is how the bottles are going to be treated. I don't think there's anything wrong with that legally, you know, they're allowed to choose which groups they allow to buy barrels. 55:49 So I don't know it take a little bit of the fun out of it. I mean, I know we had some fun with our rollers trail pick, so it does add some fun, but overall, I think it's gonna 56:00 If it continues, you know, they'll have to at least acknowledge the fact that they're not associating with with a lot of these stickers. I mean, it we can all, you know, prevent all this by just, you know, practicing common sense, right. 56:18 That's way too much to ask these. 56:22 Remember we started what what is bourbon? bourbon is drama. Yeah. So that's what it's all about. Yes, it is, always has been, by the way. So as we as we continue this theme of talking about single barrel selections and stuff like that, there's there's one that's sort of leading the pack and kind of made a big splash this year already. I know it's rolling in January. But the biggest news was that brown Forman is now coming out with a barrel proof and 100 proof option for their single barrel program of old forester and will be retiring their 90 proof version. This all is going to come into effect around the May timeframe that kind of begs 57:00 Question. What's taking everything else so long to get on board with this? Gosh, I applaud them for listening. I mean, yeah, absolutely. I'm Foreman's like just they are like nailing it on all aspects the past like two, three years, they just been doing great releases at great prices like putting out ever since Jackie's joined. I mean, it's just they've been nailing it out of the park and they're listening to fans. They're doing everything like I commend them so much like it's it's incredible. I've done an old forester pick at barrel strength it's absolutely incredible. You know, and it's I'm so excited for this unfortunately our pic will be at 90 proof because it's not before 57:39 before May So, but Gosh, way to go brown Forman like talk about company and listens to people and then listen to their fans like I applaud that. Absolutely applaud them. I mean that's on those barrel pics there have been some of the best straight out of the barrel bourbon, I've have had hands down and we've been 58:00 crying for it for five years, and maybe it takes that long but we finally have so I'm happy. Yeah, I put this in a post today about I've never been that huge of a brown form and fan for over the years. But there Honestly, I think they did better than any other distiller I can think of in 2019 really last couple years with their whiskey row or releases, you know, the the hundred proof raw or the straight rye that they released. That's like 23 bucks a bottle. And now this with the barrel picks, what does every single person say? Whenever they go to do the barrel pics, what will they let's do it a barrel proof. And the answer's no, you got to water it down to 90 you gotta water You know, one of seven. There's something hard to do. We got to do a TTB filing. Yeah, yeah. And I don't think they just continue. I thought the old forester birthday bourbon was fantastic this year. So yeah, I mean, kind of hats off to them. I think they're 59:00 They're crushing it with the whiskey crowd right now or the, you know, the enthusiast crowd at least. So, I want to get in on their barrel program now. Like, who do I need to call on that one, but now I'm excited to see what else comes out of there because we know they have a lot of good barrels sitting so it should be a lot of good barrels to kind of, so a little breaking golf. Sorry. 59:23 Breaking News. Yeah. Okay. Let the man talk. Okay, kind of sorry, Fred, kind of to that point. 59:31 Blake, you know, I think you know, talking about the enthusiast crowd, you know, you gotta wonder if if the Steelers are looking at it as a real small portion of the community that does really want that is going to be impacted by that and you know, look at it as from a cost benefit that maybe it's not there, you know, but that kind of listening to the enthusiasts and even if it you know, the single barrels and barrel proof only do get into a small number a hands, you gotta wonder if they're looking at kind of that spiral effect of, you know, if that kind of interesting 1:00:00 goes down from there to just people's association with the brand. So kind of talking to everybody, you know, the enthusiasts, I think we're relatively speaking a pretty small group, you know, when you look at what really sells and where the numbers really get posted, but we're a pretty vocal group too, I think and it's great that they're listening and making their products better. And yeah, I mean, across the board when you have those pics and you're there and you're tasting all the barrel, and it's so good then they water it down and it's it's not the same It's a shame to know that it's going to be watered down and they're basically going to ruin what's otherwise a fantastic bourbon. 1:00:36 Well, and so I wouldn't go to room. Sorry. 1:00:40 I want to hear what you say. But I've some of your and watered down some of those old forester private selections have been fantastic. Sorry. I just mean, I just mean in general, you know, yeah, I'm with zero proof. It's fantastic water down. It's just not anything near where it was. Yeah, you know, it's really those it actually some tastes better with 1:01:00 Water than they do it barrel proof, you know and so it's kind of funny how that goes to. All right, go Fred. All I was going to say is because of everything that she has done and is continuing to do, and her 1:01:14 her effort to find herself we're putting Jackie's I can on the cover. bourbon plus. All right, fantastic. She if you guys can beat me out, 1:01:32 pulled away. We should probably 1:01:34 more community vote next time. 1:01:38 Jackie's gonna win every day of the week. Yeah. The photography on her is amazing, but this story is about her. We know about the whiskey side and that's there but on the personal side, she's she fought like hell. And I got to tell you all when I tell you that every single great thing that is happening on the old forester line. 1:02:00 is in large part because of Jackie's I can. But also you know who she would say is her partner in crime Campbell Brown, the president Campbell deserves a lot of credit for taking a brand that was kind of like forgotten in the world and giving it the love and attention that it's deserved. And that's a good brown Forman on it sharp dude, he's done. They've done amazing things since he joined. So that's a great point. Yep. And I guess kind of like last question that we do, as we kind of wrap this up is, you know, as we see, brown Forman come out with this barrel proof single offering, and I know that the eyes are on one company, now that everybody kind of looks at and says like, okay, we love We love to taste your stuff, a barrel proof, we want to see a barrel proof offering. I mean, is it do we actually see this as a change of the bourbon consumer market, where more people are actually opting to actually want to have barrel proof expressions, rather than saying like, Okay, well, I'll just 1:03:00 Take this 94 proof counterpart because that's all you're going to give me. Haven't we always been there? We have. But I mean, now you see the them actually starting to adjust to maybe some market reactions. Yeah, well, the single girls are like, really for whiskey geeks. It's not for the general populace. So, I mean, but the general population, they even think 94 proof is fucking hot as hell. They're like, you know, they even like 86 they're like, Oh my gosh, it's so hot. You know, but uh, 1:03:31 I think so. Yeah. 1:03:35 Yeah, I'm Ryan, I come across this people. I wonder their way. Yeah. Yeah. 1:03:40 What has happened is they finally have listened to the data and listen to the people who are out in the market saying that new consumers and women and people who are wanting to, you know, to drink in a sophisticated fashion, want higher proof and I believe it you 1:04:00 No, Peggy no Stevens has played a big, big role when she handed over the bourbon women's research that women preferred basically Booker's as the as their drink of choice and the like every day that you can find in the in the market. And so when they started seeing that data, they're like, Oh, well, we all need to kind of, you know, create, you know, somet

#FilmScene #DanielWaters #IlleanaDouglas LIVE! From the Alex Theater in Glendale, we interview Bela Lugosi Jr, son of the greatest American American horror icon of all time, Bela Lugosi. Enjoy this special show, and Happy Halloween! Popcorn Talk Network, the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary proudly presents “The Film Scene w/ Illeana Douglas”, a weekly, freewheeling discussion show where industry veteran Illeana Douglas interviews Hollywood's most important voices in TV and Film, discussing some of Cinema's most important films, scenes, and shots. Produced by Ryan Nilsen and co-hosted by Jeff Graham, this show is essential listening for serious and casual fans of film! #PopcornTalk Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thepopcorntalk Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/PopcornTalk/ ABOUT POPCORN TALK: Popcorn Talk Network is the online broadcast network with programming dedicated exclusively to movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary. Popcorn Talk Network is comprised of the leading members and personalities of the film press and community including E!’s Maria Menounos. Current Roster or Shows: -Anatomy of a Movie -Box Office Breakdown -Meet the Movie Press -Guilty Movie Pleasures -Marvel Movie News -DC Movie News -Action Movie Anatomy -Watchalong Series! Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thepopcorntalk Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/PopcornTalk/ ABOUT POPCORN TALK: Popcorn Talk Network is the online broadcast network with programming dedicated exclusively to movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary. Popcorn Talk Network is comprised of the leading members and personalities of the film press and community including E!’s Maria Menounos. Current Roster or Shows: -Anatomy of a Movie -Box Office Breakdown -Meet the Movie Press -Guilty Movie Pleasures -Marvel Movie News -DC Movie News -Action Movie Anatomy -Watchalong Series! Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thepopcorntalk Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/PopcornTalk/ ABOUT POPCORN TALK: Popcorn Talk Network is the online broadcast network with programming dedicated exclusively to movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary. Popcorn Talk Network is comprised of the leading members and personalities of the film press and community including E!’s Maria Menounos. Current Roster or Shows: -Anatomy of a Movie -Box Office Breakdown -Meet the Movie Press -Guilty Movie Pleasures -Marvel Movie News -DC Movie News -Action Movie Anatomy -Watchalong Series!

#PopcornTalk #BelaLuglosi #IlleanaDouglas LIVE! From the Alex Theater in Glendale, we interview Bela Lugosi Jr, son of the greatest American American horror icon of all time, Bela Lugosi. Enjoy this special show, and Happy Halloween! Popcorn Talk Network, the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary proudly presents “The Film Scene w/ Illeana Douglas”, a weekly, freewheeling discussion show where industry veteran Illeana Douglas interviews Hollywood's most important voices in TV and Film, discussing some of Cinema's most important films, scenes, and shots. Produced by Ryan Nilsen and co-hosted by Jeff Graham, this show is essential listening for serious and casual fans of film! #PopcornTalk Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thepopcorntalk Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/PopcornTalk/ ABOUT POPCORN TALK: Popcorn Talk Network is the online broadcast network with programming dedicated exclusively to movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary. Popcorn Talk Network is comprised of the leading members and personalities of the film press and community including E!’s Maria Menounos. Current Roster or Shows: -Anatomy of a Movie -Box Office Breakdown -Meet the Movie Press -Guilty Movie Pleasures -Marvel Movie News -DC Movie News -Action Movie Anatomy -Watchalong Series! Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thepopcorntalk Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/PopcornTalk/ ABOUT POPCORN TALK: Popcorn Talk Network is the online broadcast network with programming dedicated exclusively to movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary. Popcorn Talk Network is comprised of the leading members and personalities of the film press and community including E!’s Maria Menounos. Current Roster or Shows: -Anatomy of a Movie -Box Office Breakdown -Meet the Movie Press -Guilty Movie Pleasures -Marvel Movie News -DC Movie News -Action Movie Anatomy -Watchalong Series! Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thepopcorntalk Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/PopcornTalk/ ABOUT POPCORN TALK: Popcorn Talk Network is the online broadcast network with programming dedicated exclusively to movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary. Popcorn Talk Network is comprised of the leading members and personalities of the film press and community including E!’s Maria Menounos. Current Roster or Shows: -Anatomy of a Movie -Box Office Breakdown -Meet the Movie Press -Guilty Movie Pleasures -Marvel Movie News -DC Movie News -Action Movie Anatomy -Watchalong Series!

This week we follow Brian, Luis, Troy, Manda, Zach & Katelyn with what they’re playing and the latest (at the time) in gaming news. Their thoughts on PUBG being banned in Jordan, a Myst TV show, how they made EA fix their lightsabers, the most American Americans in video games and if we think that racing games makes them better (or worse) drivers. They also voice their praises for the ‘Dragon of the Week’ the founder of Ubisoft Toronto: Jade Raymond! Recorded at 'TATE'S Comics' in Sunny South Florida and powered by our friends 'The 3000 Brigade'. You can find us at the following:IG: @tasteofdragonsTwitter: @tasteofdragonsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TasteOfDragonsPodcastE-mail: tasteofdragons@gmail.com

The un-American American women's soccer team played this week and were an embarrassment. Rep. Ben Crenshaw has to prove he is a patriot and he does it in an unusual way. Sarah Sanders, my favorite press secretary of all time, resigns. And it was the anniversary of one of the greatest speeches in American history. Follow me on Twitter @RunninFewl Visit my website at http://www.dumbassestalkingpolitics.com

Manny and Silas sit down with Native American comedian Danny LittleJohn to talk about the Karate Kid, cultural appropriation, and Danny’s story of growing up learning about his native heritage. Also, Black & A Half is making a short film this summer. We need your help to make it possible. Check out http://www.BlackAndAHalf.com/fundraiser to see how you can help. Every $5 makes a difference.   About Our Guest Danny Littlejohn is a US Air Force Veteran born in Wisconsin and raised in Minnesota, so his internal conflict runs deep. Danny began writing and performing stand-up at Seattle’s Comedy Underground. Early on he won a stand-up comedy radio competition but most recently can be heard doing voices while reading bed time stories. Danny has the ability to meld his Native American culture and his American-American culture, which gives him a unique outlook on the world and humanity. His comedy brings humor to history’s painful moments and insight to the absurdity of modern life. Danny is based out of Seattle where he spends most of his time driving his two kids around. He can be seen writing at his kitchen table and performing in venues all over the northwest, midwest and west-west. For booking, email: dmclittlejohn@gmail.com

Another phallic episode! Join us in our discussion about hiding the male erection, getting pregnant, our fears, our favorite podcasts, stupid hurricane Florence, and a gripe about cell phones... Correction: The podcast Uhh Yeah Dude's MO is, "America, through the eyes of two American Americans." Music selection by Brad Music by Katy Perry: Teenage Dream | Firework Suggestions & recommendations are welcome at DrinkTankDC@gmail.com and (202) 681-1916 [Explicit Content]

From Buffalo soldiers to Ku Klux Klan members, Dr. George Junne discusses the role of American Americans in Colorado’s rich history.

Intro to ORCHID! Podcast. The Un-American, AMERICAN! by Pei-Lan Ku

Alongside a live studio audience, Shawn and Steve run the gamut from Vacation Bible School, the dreamy Trivago guy and loaded Instagram models to David Spade’s surprising game, an extraterrestrial free screenplay idea and the spate of non-American American superheroes. Also: a close encounter with the guy who played Dutch!                  

Putting “black faces in high places,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor argues, has not only failed to benefit the working class and poor black majority — it has actually harmed them by pushing an individualistic, meritocratic narrative that blames poor black people's condition on their own personal failings. Taylor is a professor of American-American studies at Princeton and the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, from Haymarket Books. She is a regular contributor to Jacobin and contributed a chapter called "What about racism? Don't socialists only care about class?" to The ABCs of Socialism.

The Triple Bill Title Word for Episode 018 is AMERICAN and we lived a life in a day in George Lucas' American Graffiti (1973), strayed off the moors in John Landis' horror comedy An American Werewolf in London (1981) and watched George Clooney get all bad-ass in The American (2010). 0:56 - Ben and Daryl's intro bits 05:45 - American Graffiti 38:23 - An American Werewolf in London 1:08:32 - The American Please review us over on Apple Podcasts. Got comments or suggestions for new episodes? Email: sddpod@gmail.com. Seek us out via Twitter and Instagram @ sddfilmpodcast Support our Patreon for $3 a month and get access to our exclusive show, Sudden Double Deep Cuts where we talk about our favourite movie soundtracks, scores and theme songs! Episode 019 - RISING launches on 23rd March and we will be covering Rising Sun (1993), Deep Rising (1998) and Valhalla Rising (2009).

In December 1958, US Senator Hubert H. Humphery recalled that at some point during an eight hour meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier “tore off on a whole long lecture” that the Senator wished he could remember because it was “the best speech I could ever make in my life on antiracialism. Boy, he really gave me a talking to.” Thus beings Meredith Roman‘s fascinating book Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of US Racism, 1928-1937 (Nebraska UP, 2012). At first read, the image of animated Khrushchev haranguing a US Senator with “the best speech” the latter ever heard on the topic of race seems out of place, odd, and to some extent even comical. After all, what could Khrushchev really have known about race in America to impress an American? Khrushchev's fluency in “speaking antiracism” was no mere preformative dig at the United States. In fact, many African American travelers and expatriates to the Soviet Union in the 1930s were astonished how much its citizens knew and were concerned about American race relations. In Opposing Jim Crow, Roman shows that antiracism was a genuine vernacular constructed through show trials, antiracist campaigns, media, and representations of racial oppression in the United States. It was through American racism that the USSR was crafted into a morally superior, raceless society. Nothing reinforced this idea more than the adoption of Soviet antiracist discourse by American Americans visitors, expatriates, and sympathizers themselves. But more importantly, it was via these multiple intersections that speaking antiracism became an important, and until now ignored, component in the effort to create new Soviet people in the 1930s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

In December 1958, US Senator Hubert H. Humphery recalled that at some point during an eight hour meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier “tore off on a whole long lecture” that the Senator wished he could remember because it was “the best speech I could ever make in my life on antiracialism. Boy, he really gave me a talking to.” Thus beings Meredith Roman‘s fascinating book Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of US Racism, 1928-1937 (Nebraska UP, 2012). At first read, the image of animated Khrushchev haranguing a US Senator with “the best speech” the latter ever heard on the topic of race seems out of place, odd, and to some extent even comical. After all, what could Khrushchev really have known about race in America to impress an American? Khrushchev’s fluency in “speaking antiracism” was no mere preformative dig at the United States. In fact, many African American travelers and expatriates to the Soviet Union in the 1930s were astonished how much its citizens knew and were concerned about American race relations. In Opposing Jim Crow, Roman shows that antiracism was a genuine vernacular constructed through show trials, antiracist campaigns, media, and representations of racial oppression in the United States. It was through American racism that the USSR was crafted into a morally superior, raceless society. Nothing reinforced this idea more than the adoption of Soviet antiracist discourse by American Americans visitors, expatriates, and sympathizers themselves. But more importantly, it was via these multiple intersections that speaking antiracism became an important, and until now ignored, component in the effort to create new Soviet people in the 1930s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In December 1958, US Senator Hubert H. Humphery recalled that at some point during an eight hour meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier “tore off on a whole long lecture” that the Senator wished he could remember because it was “the best speech I could ever make in my life on antiracialism. Boy, he really gave me a talking to.” Thus beings Meredith Roman‘s fascinating book Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of US Racism, 1928-1937 (Nebraska UP, 2012). At first read, the image of animated Khrushchev haranguing a US Senator with “the best speech” the latter ever heard on the topic of race seems out of place, odd, and to some extent even comical. After all, what could Khrushchev really have known about race in America to impress an American? Khrushchev’s fluency in “speaking antiracism” was no mere preformative dig at the United States. In fact, many African American travelers and expatriates to the Soviet Union in the 1930s were astonished how much its citizens knew and were concerned about American race relations. In Opposing Jim Crow, Roman shows that antiracism was a genuine vernacular constructed through show trials, antiracist campaigns, media, and representations of racial oppression in the United States. It was through American racism that the USSR was crafted into a morally superior, raceless society. Nothing reinforced this idea more than the adoption of Soviet antiracist discourse by American Americans visitors, expatriates, and sympathizers themselves. But more importantly, it was via these multiple intersections that speaking antiracism became an important, and until now ignored, component in the effort to create new Soviet people in the 1930s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In December 1958, US Senator Hubert H. Humphery recalled that at some point during an eight hour meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier “tore off on a whole long lecture” that the Senator wished he could remember because it was “the best speech I could ever make in my life on antiracialism. Boy, he really gave me a talking to.” Thus beings Meredith Roman‘s fascinating book Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of US Racism, 1928-1937 (Nebraska UP, 2012). At first read, the image of animated Khrushchev haranguing a US Senator with “the best speech” the latter ever heard on the topic of race seems out of place, odd, and to some extent even comical. After all, what could Khrushchev really have known about race in America to impress an American? Khrushchev’s fluency in “speaking antiracism” was no mere preformative dig at the United States. In fact, many African American travelers and expatriates to the Soviet Union in the 1930s were astonished how much its citizens knew and were concerned about American race relations. In Opposing Jim Crow, Roman shows that antiracism was a genuine vernacular constructed through show trials, antiracist campaigns, media, and representations of racial oppression in the United States. It was through American racism that the USSR was crafted into a morally superior, raceless society. Nothing reinforced this idea more than the adoption of Soviet antiracist discourse by American Americans visitors, expatriates, and sympathizers themselves. But more importantly, it was via these multiple intersections that speaking antiracism became an important, and until now ignored, component in the effort to create new Soviet people in the 1930s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices