Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh dissect racial dynamics, critiquing the "defund the police" movement as performative while debating Nancy Pelosi's media strategies against Donald Trump. They analyze corporate signaling in movements like Black Lives Matter, compare modern extremism to historical entitlement loops, and discuss Bill Still's longevity despite Federal Reserve criticisms. The hosts conclude that conspiracy theories often fail due to public complacency, predicting eventual market crashes once stimulus funding depletes, while promoting their upcoming tour resumption. [Automatically generated summary]
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Sister, Doctor, and F1 Sabotage00:14:12
Now, um, what am I getting my dog?
I'll get my dog, I think, in a couple weeks.
I'm not exactly sure.
No, actually, no, Mark asked me.
Take it back.
Hey, bro, I'm gonna keep it too virgins with you, Al.
That shit was mad rude, bro.
Yeah, say that.
You know what my feelings?
I'm all excited about my dog, bro.
We gotta start hot, bro.
Son, I got a fucking hater in my girl's family, bro.
My girl's brother.
You don't care, though?
No, I don't care, but my girl's brother.
But I do, but I don't.
Here's the reason.
I thought it was just like you hate me as one of my girls' brothers hates me.
I thought you just hate me.
And I was like, I'm cool with it.
Yeah.
But I think he's trying to sabotage your boy.
Wow.
Like, he was talking to the pops and trying to say that I wanted to give away the dog.
Wow.
Not my golden dude, the shitty one we got that I wanted to do.
I feel like he's just a fan of the podcast.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I'm like, all right.
But where are you going to tell the dad that, bro?
Where's the news?
It was crazy.
I'm trying to, you know, impress the dad, get the dad on my side.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, and it fucked up when somebody tries to sabotage your relationship from the outside.
Ain't that a horrible thing?
Who did that?
Spell apple coin.
That's the hottest clip ever, yo.
The hottest clip in Indian history.
We're going to get to one of the best things that Akash has ever retweeted in my entire life, bro.
This shit was amazing.
Fucking goat.
But how fuck is that?
I'm meeting the dad and everything like that.
Shit is going swimmingly.
You know what I mean?
Al, you don't know what that's about.
And for real.
And then all of a sudden, the last time we met, apparently, called the pops and tried to fucking sabotage your boy saying I wanted to get rid of the dog.
Yeah, again, he just told the truth, man.
He probably just preparing the dad.
Like, yo, get ready.
Man, y'all really making good arguments for this, bro.
I didn't come at him that way.
How did you come back from it?
Were you like, no, I love it.
You know what I said?
I didn't deny it.
I said, you know what?
I don't like that dog, but I don't like the dog because I only value animals as much as they value me.
So if an animal doesn't like me, I don't like it.
That's a decent save.
That's what I said.
And I don't like that dog.
But what is the dad doing to impress you?
Because that's what matters.
The parents got to impress you.
If you really wanted to sabotage, he would have just been like, yo, dad, you know, he thinks you need to impress him?
I'll be honest with you, bro.
I'll be honest with you, bro.
Double down shelter.
I'll be honest with you, bro.
He was driving that car fast.
I think he was letting me know.
He's trying to impress you?
I think he was like, oh, I'm good driving cars fast.
Oh.
Did you think he was Senna?
Is that what's going on?
He was doing some Eriton Senna.
Y'all don't know about F1.
Y'all some F fucking 10s.
I mean, isn't that better?
Wait, what?
That's better.
I was just using the F word differently.
You are the F1.
If I had a name in F1, it would be you.
Andrew Schultz.
Capital F1.
Is that the new word for maggot?
Just calling someone an F1.
Oh, dude, we just figured it out.
That's ill.
It's so lit.
It's ill.
And it's European.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So why is that the thing he tried to sabotage you with?
Why?
Is there something else?
Yeah, you need to impress him.
I was impressive.
I was like, yo, pick me up from Rogan, you know?
No, that's ill.
He probably don't know what that means.
Nah, he did.
He was in there in the green room.
You took him to the green room?
Bro, my girlfriend.
He just lying as he was trying to impress him.
Yeah, 100%.
I'm trying to impress him.
I go lying.
You don't care to impress.
You be talking shit like you don't care to impress.
Be lying.
Because you deadass feel that way before you're in the moment.
You know what I mean?
Like, before you're there.
It's almost like going, like, I don't care if I bomb with this open mic.
And then you get on stage, you're like, no, I'm going to kill these motherfuckers.
I was throwing haymakers, bro, all weekend.
Let's go.
All weekend.
Oh, my God.
Nah, it was fun.
It was good shit.
Did you throw out there that you hit up Rogan?
Like, hey, I'm going to be in the city.
You know, what you want to do?
And then Rogan was like, oh, come through.
That's a look.
Like, you're just casual with Rogan.
I didn't say, I didn't say it like that.
I didn't say it was cash like that.
You know what I mean?
I didn't say it was cash like that.
You know what I'm saying?
But I will tell you this.
And I told you earlier, but I get to tell all the Flagrant 2 people right now.
We went full red pill on Rogan.
Yeah, yeah, he told me.
Okay, I brought up your boy Bill still.
Yeah.
We brought up the fed.
We went deep state.
I asked Rogan.
I was like, I go, yo, what's the conspiracy you really want to know about?
Because he was trashing flat earth.
And he goes, he says that for a second.
He goes, honestly, I want to know what's up with the deep state.
And then we went in.
Wild shit.
I mean, the only thing less interesting than Bill Still is hearing you talk about this.
Yo, as I was saying it, I was like, man, this is losing speed.
Yo, it's like when the train, you know, the train is speeding up.
It goes, chuck it, chuck it, chuck it, chuck it.
Choo-choo!
Bro, my shit was no choo-choo.
Even worse than when you know your bombing.
Fuck!
Fuck, dude.
Bomb with a dad, but I'm talking about his experience.
You didn't bomb with a dad, you had a heckler.
Fucking up your shit, dude.
I had a heckler, man.
Yeah.
Ah, shit.
Shit.
Like me, my girl's brother.
Come on.
What's good?
He do.
You know what I'm saying?
He listens.
Fuck.
You know what I mean?
He listens.
Say what?
He listens.
He's going to not like me when we, I fuck your sister.
Like, like, that's crazy.
Like, like, shouldn't you like me?
Nah, off the jump.
Off the rip.
Like, shouldn't you love me?
Yo, son.
But, like, hey, bro.
Hey, bro.
I'm wrong, Mark.
Nah, that's selfish.
That means he doesn't like his own sister.
Yo, right?
Wait a minute.
Make the makeup argument.
I'm with you.
Because you're making her happy.
And so if he doesn't like you, that means he doesn't like his own sister.
He doesn't want her to be happy.
He don't want her to have that multiple gasms.
Come on.
Come on.
I don't know.
As a friend, I feel like I should tell you to stop.
But I also don't want you to be out here alone.
You know what I mean?
Why didn't you just tell him that?
You should just look him in the eye and said, look, dude, I give her that back.
If you just tell her, if you just tell him that, he goes, all right, I didn't know you gave her that back, bro.
True.
True.
Oh, fuck.
You should have considered that.
What if I was just like, yo, the real thing is that there can only be one doggy style in my house.
That's why we got to get rid of that little motherfucker.
Oh, boy.
Shit.
But no, I do got a point.
I do have a point.
Do I not have a point?
You think that's wild to say, Al?
That's wild.
Why so wild, bro?
We're fighting against oppression right now.
You are being oppressed a lot.
I'm being oppressed.
Defund the family.
He got brother privilege.
He does have brother privilege.
Yeah, you got a point.
You know inside this dude's sister, bro.
Wait a minute.
That's my girl.
You're talking about fun.
Yeah, that was people.
I'm like, girl, bro.
I'm fucking like, girl, dad.
No, we're making fun of this guy's sister.
Oh, yeah, dude.
So easily tricked.
Yo.
What's up, Al?
Al took that one crazy.
So white boys, y'all just white different.
Why?
Y'all just do it different.
Why?
Wild, crazy.
Wild, disrespectful.
He should punch you in your face.
For what?
It's cuz.
I don't know.
For some reason, what?
Fucked up.
It's disrespectful, but it's not wrong.
It's disrespectful to have sex with my girlfriend?
With my dick?
Hey, dudes.
Real talk.
Is that disrespectful for me to take my fucking chunk?
You know, that blue chew.
Bro, is that disrespectful?
Is that disrespectful?
Doesn't know you chew it out?
Nah, bro.
He listens.
Yeah, ducks.
Anyway, yo, go check out the Rogan episode.
It's up today.
It's fun.
It gets wild.
I mean, yeah, it gets wild.
It gets wild.
There's one moment where I go to the bathroom in the middle of a wild conversation.
I promise you, we didn't cut anything.
But I know people are going to go, yo, why wouldn't they were talking about these people killing people?
All of a sudden, you took a break.
Also, if anything happens to me, tragically, I want everybody to listen to that.
Like in the near future, I want everybody to listen to that episode and there's the reasons in it.
The reasons in it.
I can even point to what I think it would be.
Son, what's your glam pick?
My what?
Your glam pick that's going to be on the murals.
I'm not letting you pick it.
I'm asking you right now.
I got to pick mine.
Yeah.
What pose I would want to do?
I mean, which one do you want to see on all the murals?
Like, black people need a glam pick.
You need to go to a pick, huh?
It's just a nose.
A nose.
You know what I mean?
No, but like on some revolution shit.
Son, you know, it would be kind of dope if you buried me, but like my nose was above.
Like you put me under the dirt, but just my nose came up like a shark fin.
No, but I'm saying on some revolution shit.
Like that, you know what I mean?
Like the fucking the mask for V from Mendetta is just the nose of Andrew.
You spray paint and like the revolution is happening here.
That means secret meetings here.
Yo, we having secret meetings, bro.
We're getting down to the bottom of this shit, bro.
Motherfucker.
You know what I'm saying?
Applecoid.
Yo, y'all got to play this clip, bro.
Do you know?
Did you see the thing Akash posts on Twitter?
Nah.
Look up the tweet with all the Indian flags that I tweeted.
Oh my God.
I'm on the shit.
I'm on Twitter.
I literally have, I took the red eye in tonight.
The red pill?
I took that red pill.
Then we took that red eye.
Okay.
I go on, I land in New York.
I go on Twitter.
I believe I land.
New York, go on Twitter.
And Akash has this up.
There's this video.
Do you see it out?
Do you want me to text it to you?
Text it.
All right.
Let me go get it right quick.
So Akash has this video.
Explain what's going on.
It's a throwback tip to the spelling beat in like the early 2000s, maybe even earlier.
But an Indian kid goes up.
This is before everybody knew what we were doing at the spelling bee.
This might have been our moment, like our coming out party.
It gets the word Alopecoid, I think.
Alopecoid.
Oh, you got it right there?
Yeah.
Also, by the way, just real time, they're trying to cancel me over that joke about Somali clits back in the day on Twitter.
Again?
Yeah, they're coming back from me.
It's funny they don't try to cancel the people.
Cutting off the clits.
You might want to cancel those motherfuckers.
You can cancel the clits.
They did.
That's exactly what they do.
Okay, so okay, so now the tweet.
All right, so we'll give you up-to-date information as the podcast goes of how many more people are jumping on this band.
It's like big right now.
Oh, it's going down.
Yeah, yeah.
Full screen.
So this is at a million views.
This is back when the spelling be was still ESPN2, mad grainy, no high deaf.
And the kid gets the word alopecoid and then legit passes out.
Well, no, no, just play it just so we can see it.
Okay.
Okay.
Go.
Lapakoid means like a fox.
Volpine.
All right.
Yeah.
Oh, oh.
He's trying to hold it together.
Oh, and he out.
Please stand back.
Cast it out.
Keep watching.
Okay.
I've seen this happen.
The poor gentleman.
He's a gentleman.
Motherfucker.
Apparently, has fainted.
But look.
He gets himself off the ground.
Comes back up.
He did start.
Wobbly.
A-L-O-P-E-C-O-I-D.
Let's fucking go.
That's what I'm saying.
Look at my man's right there.
First of all, nobody helped him.
That shit was hilarious.
A child in front of adults passed out, hit their head on the ground, and none of the other kids budged.
Done.
Right?
None of the other kids budged.
None of the fucking parents did anything.
How do you feel about that?
Do you think they were just so confident that, like, there's a doctor here?
Someone will help him.
It was a doctor.
Yeah.
Already?
He knows.
He's fine.
Yo, we can do that.
Yo, Doogie Hauser does sound Indian, right?
Doogie Hauser.
Oh, man.
They take all our roles.
You know what I mean?
What can he do?
Yo, how cool is that?
That was impressive.
What, that kid?
Yeah.
Indians don't play.
Bro, we know.
Indians don't play.
It just happened.
He probably passed out from stress, and then he just like, yeah, fuck it.
I'm up.
Let's do it.
Holy shit.
Yeah.
If he didn't get up, they might have left him there the rest of the fucking spell.
Yeah, his parents are going to beat his ass horse.
Well, that's honor killing, bro.
Can I say?
I think nobody went to help him because if you did, maybe they would have told you the word and how to spell it.
Oh.
That's why the parents were like, fuck, I can't go help my kid.
Interference.
Yeah.
His parents are a piece of shit.
Yeah.
That's Indian parents, right?
Yeah.
They just don't care.
They don't give a fuck.
That's fucked up.
That's great, yo.
Go be great.
Norm McDonald's Carrot Top Roast00:03:08
That spelling, bro.
Why'd you pick spelling?
Y'all pick some weird shit to be good at.
Spelling, doctor.
Yeah, how's doctor engineer?
How's that weird?
What?
The spelling, I get you on that one.
Spelling.
What else are we good at?
Oh, what?
That baseball shit that y'all played?
Cricket?
With a stick.
It is poor baseball, bro.
They don't even got mitts.
I know.
They're just out there in their fucking bare feet with that one.
You guys love insects that much, dude.
Crickets and bees.
Spelling.
You saved that shit.
I was like, Mark, you think I don't put your hair in a bun, Mark?
I don't got it, bro.
Samson.
How dare you doubt the chosen one, bro?
You do got that Jesus hair, too.
Son of God.
Yo, spelling bee is all we can do.
It's an easy way to a scholarship.
You just got to spell.
Like, it's just memorizing.
I can't fathom you get a scholarship from just being able to spell things.
If you guys, if you're a national spelling bee champion, I think you can go wherever you want.
Okay.
All right.
How you spell bored, because that's what I am by this time.
It's a homonym, so you're going to have trouble with it.
Bro, one of the best.
What's that comic?
What's his name?
He's like, Neil or something?
Every white comic?
No, no.
Yeah, that was Mark Norman.
Yeah, yeah.
But, like, the older guy of that, I went to the Norm McDonald.
Yeah, Right?
Right there.
You know, and then I got my coffee.
It's so funny how you can ruin anybody.
You know what I mean?
Like, no, I'm about to big him up.
Okay, he's a genius, but when you, who's that guy?
Man.
But now you get it, though, right?
Now I'm like, oh, that's Neil McDonald.
What's his name?
Norm McDonald, yeah.
So Norm McDonald, he was on Conan, right?
And he was on with Carrot Top.
Yeah.
Oh, this is so good.
Oh, my God.
This clip is amazing.
You've seen this clip?
You've seen it.
All right, look, look.
So he's on Carrotop.
I'll explain what happened.
And Carrot Top is.
No, he's on with a girl who's doing a movie with Carrot.
The girl's doing a movie with Carrotop.
And the movie's called Chairman of the Board.
And the whole time, Norm is sitting in the second seat.
You tell a story, you fucking Indian motherfucker.
Why don't you spell the story while we're at it?
No, go, go.
You say it.
Go.
So the whole time, Norm is in the second seat.
You know, normally after the person interviews, they stick around and they barely talk.
Yeah.
He's sniping.
Norm just keeps shitting on Carrot Top via this girl and the fact that she did a movie with him.
Like she literally cannot say a sentence without Norm sniping and ruining everything.
So Conan goes to girl.
Well, all right, what's the name of the movie?
And she's like, it's chairman of the board.
And then Conan goes to Norm.
He goes, so do you have a joke for that, Norm?
And he goes, is it spelled B-O-R-E-D?
And then Conan fucking one of the greatest in the moment reactions, bro.
Oh, man.
See?
Two great stories back to back.
We got to get off the spelling topic, dog.
Segregated Pools and White Supremacy00:08:39
How you spelled drown?
How you spelled that, dog?
Fuck.
Let's talk about black people.
Yo, that's an interesting segue that you did that.
Why?
Because black people can't swim.
Oh, how y'all got that reputation?
Can you swim?
I can, but I'm Puerto Rican.
I mean, but it is funny, though, when like you look at the Caribbean and the islands, it's all black people that love swimming.
They can swim.
Yeah, but they're talking about American blacks.
But why are American blacks not good at swimming?
Why?
What is the aversion to water?
Well, you learn to swim when you're young, and most people don't get the opportunity to go to a pool or a beach.
Ah, but what about like a lake or something like that?
Community pool.
Where's the lakes?
The lakes in the hood.
I don't know.
That's what I'm saying.
If you don't start early, then boom.
That's all it is.
Yeah.
But what about poor whites?
Poor whites always be swimming.
They'd be around lakes.
They find a lake.
They'd be around lakes, yo.
I like lakes, camping, all that outdoor white people shit.
Poor blacks are not settling around lakes or water.
We don't like nature.
We don't like outdoors.
Okay, now, did they not settle around water?
Because the last time.
Where they're like, nah, let's go inland, bro.
We're going to go in.
That's really good.
That's really good.
Fuck port cities.
You got your mind.
You think I'm going there?
But also, I think pools were like super segregated.
That was like one of the most segregated things.
Really?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Where it was like, some stuff started to get integrated a little, but they were like, nah, pools.
We can't.
Mark be no intentional.
Definitely no integration in the pools.
Really?
They were pissed about.
There was one place where they were like, no, you have to integrate the pool.
This is in like Montgomery, Alabama.
They're like, you have to integrate the pool.
Is that why they created the deep end?
They needed a place for their dicks to hit the pond.
Well, they fucking drained the whole pool.
No.
Yeah, they were like, all right, black people are going to come in.
We're just not going to have a pool anymore.
Like, they like canceled the whole party.
Ain't that some Alabama shit?
You guys got to integrate the school.
What do you want better?
We'll shut the whole fucking thing down.
Fuck that.
Oh, that's so weird.
Why would you not want to go swimming with blacks?
Wouldn't it be nice to be better at something athletic than a black person?
Yeah, just for once.
I mean, for argument's sake, let's entertain it.
Oh, man.
No, like, if you're coming through it from that example, it's just such a weird.
That's the thing I don't understand about white supremacy.
It's like they don't seem that confident that they're supreme.
Yeah.
Very true.
Pray, like, all these white supremacists are super afraid of Mexicans because the Mexicans are coming.
Right?
They're super afraid.
The black people are going to take our girls and fuck all our girls.
It's like, if you really believe you're the shit, why are you worried?
How you let Mexicans steal your jobs if you're better than them?
Boom.
Those don't both hold up.
You can't steal my job if I'm better than you.
That's what I'm saying.
If you true, like, we're going to need to require some more like this.
No, no, no.
I'm kind of tight.
Like, if you really believe you're supreme, be about that life.
How funny is that?
They work at a gas station.
They're like, the Jews will not replace us.
Yeah, I don't think they will, bro.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Is this an alcohol joke, bro?
No, that's the thing they were saying in Charlottesville.
They're like, the Jews will not replace us.
Oh, I thought you were doing gas station like their cast.
I was like, whoa, Mark, you are going for it.
What's funny, though, is the Jews are just building electric cars.
So you are getting replaced.
You're done.
Yeah.
You work at a gas station.
It's over.
Dude, it is.
It's over.
It's a wrap.
White people.
White people done.
Huh?
White people are done.
Spell gas station.
We already did a spelling beyond here.
Spell gas station.
Bro, spell gas station.
We spell that shit so nice, we own them.
Yeah, I mean, that's not you, Indians, though.
Yeah.
Nah.
Who is it?
How do you tell it hip?
Huh?
How do you tell it hip?
It's not his Indians.
So which one's on it?
That's the Punjabis that own it.
And Good Juice.
Gujratis.
And Gujratis, but not you.
Yeah.
What are you guys on?
Gujratis and Punjabis.
I cast out this bitch.
Nuanc.
Yo, you know what's mad?
That's mad funny about Indians, bro.
Is Indians out here with the Black Lives Matter?
Like, we got to support.
We got to have equality.
And the second you ask an Indian about their caste, they're like, no, technically, I'm one of the higher caste.
I am a higher caste person.
Like, you know, honestly, like, we are the fucking sheriffs or whatever.
What are they called?
Popes or some shit?
What are they called?
Brahmins?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Priests.
Priest.
Priest.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You love that high-cast shit.
Be honest.
You love.
Arcash love to brag about the meat he can eat, but none of the rest of them can.
What can you eat?
What can you eat?
Everything except beef.
Look at that.
Take a sip, too.
Take a sip on that.
Just starving ass Indians.
Wash that turkey down.
Oh, man.
Yo, one thing I noticed this past weekend.
Yeah.
White people have taken over this movement.
I went to two marches.
Can I?
Can we go on to this?
Can you son to this?
Can you go on to it?
Go.
Talk to me.
And they turn me into Coachella.
I know.
I would say there was five black people for every hundred white people there.
Son.
I was shocked.
And this was in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Son, I was in Santa Barbara.
Okay.
Oh.
White as fuck, but they had a march going.
And so I took my girl's family and shit.
I was like, really tried to impress.
Shout out to Shelton.
I don't know if that impresses them.
I mean, it's like it shows you.
I'm with it.
Yeah.
Goodwill and all that.
I mean, her dad was fresh out of surgery.
I'm like making him hobble down the fucking street to go to this Black Lives Matter march.
And but I just wanted to check it out because I was like, there's no black people in Santa Barbara, like very few, right?
Yeah.
And there was a few people there and it was cool.
Everybody was supporting everything like that.
But I started to look around at the people at the march and I was like, hmm, saw mad white bitches with dreads, hippied out burning man shit, right?
A few like trannies and shit.
And one just had a sign, this chick with titties and everything.
I'm a man.
I was like, that got nothing to do with what's going on here, right?
And I go, oh, shit, this has become the outcast.
Like anybody who's an outcast that wants to fight against the system that they believe has oppressed them is now supporting this thing.
And they're saying it in terms of Black Lives Matter.
But part of me is kind of like, they just want to tear down the system that made them feel like shit or inferior or not part of something.
And I wonder if it's going to start to get co-opted because as I see more of these things, they're looking fun.
And I'm not saying you shouldn't have fun at a protest, but you shouldn't.
Black people should have never Cupid shuffled at that protest.
That was the tipping point.
That's when white people were like, you know, we should do this.
Yo, son, be honest, right?
If you're at a protest and you're the powers that be and you see them screaming and angry and defacing public property and doing that kind of shit, you're like, yo, we got to do something.
If you see motherfuckers dancing and singing and YG dropping new music.
That's a block party.
It's a block party.
So you're like, oh, they're good.
They just want to kick it.
All right.
They're going to be good.
Everything's fine.
I really don't know if it helps the severity and seriousness of the movement if everybody's so joyous.
Can I be honest?
That's why if you're just doing a peaceful protest without like any kind of economic sanction of any kind, informal to formal, nobody I don't think is going to listen.
You're just hanging out screaming.
Who gives a fuck?
Women's March.
Yeah.
What that changed?
They're more annoying.
I can't name like a single piece of legislative difference.
Like, what would it change?
I would say just the, like, the money.
It gave some of these women the climate they wanted.
Yeah, like, again.
It gave some of these women the careers they wanted.
What?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I guess I hear what you're saying.
But I would just say, like, behavior has changed a little bit.
Yeah, I don't know if that was from the march, but I hundred percent.
But it is interesting that you saw that.
And I wonder if that affects it.
I think the Me Too movement, a lot of people were like, oh, shit.
Yeah, maybe we could be a little better.
But the March, I don't think.
I don't want to talk about the Me Too shit.
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That's true.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying the March, I don't think, did anything.
I don't think the March where people were like, oh, yo, these bitches are walking for this.
They're serious.
Oh, that sign really changed my perspective.
Yeah.
Let's talk about this Black Lives Matter thing.
Okay, so you're in there.
Yeah.
And then you feel like what happened?
Like, was it still Black Lives Matter?
Was it like, yo, this is a party.
People just need to know.
The message is still on point, but there is fun being had.
So it's like, you know, the chants, the rhyming, it's like, it is fun.
Yeah.
And sometimes somebody will pass with like a really big ass speaker and just be playing music and shit like that.
But at the same time, there's still for every for every two songs of fun, then there's a chance to fuck the police and all that type of stuff going on as well.
So it's like the message is still on point.
It's still Black Lives Matter very much so.
Yeah.
But now I feel like what's, and this is my concern, right?
I'm concerned that what happens is when you get power and you get influence, you start to ask for more and more shit, right?
And I fear that the focus will go away from the thing that they want.
And then the goals will start to get unrealistic and then nothing will be achieved.
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You know, I think the first thing that we saw was when Chauvin got his murder charge upgraded to murder two.
So murder three to murder two.
Anybody listening from another country doesn't understand it.
I'm sure you guys have similar rules where there's different degrees of murder.
Al, murder three is what?
That's almost like unintentional.
Yeah, unintentional.
It's very close to manslaughter, but just a little bit like it's like not a mistake.
Yeah, like manslaughter, you truly didn't mean to kill the person.
Yeah.
This is you're doing an action to them that they ended up dying.
Yeah.
So it's like you know this action could kill the person and you continue doing it.
Now, murder two, you get closer to the idea.
Like you want, I think murder two is you want to kill them and then murder one is premeditated murder.
So two is intent with no premeditation and one is premeditation.
So the concern I have is they up the charge and then the masses were like, yes, they up the charge.
But I'm like, yo, hold up.
If you charge, if you go in there trying to get murder two, you can't settle for murder three.
You're not going to settle for murder three.
So you might not get anything.
So here's a strategy because I was looking that up.
I was worried about that as well.
Okay.
Added to it.
And so it's better to go in with a bunch of charges.
Better.
Okay.
Because then you're more likely for them to be like, all right, we're not going to charge them with the hardest shit, but we'll give them one of the little ones.
Okay.
And so if the biggest one was the murder three, he might have walked on that one.
But now that murder two is the biggest one, now it's like most likely.
It's like a divorce settlement.
Boom.
The bitch goes, I want half.
And you go 10%.
She goes, all right.
And that's my same theory on these marches because I know you disagree.
Fuck out of divorce negotiations.
How do you think divorce works?
That's not how it goes.
Oh, yeah.
10%.
Okay.
You feel like that's generous.
Nah, it don't work like that.
10%.
I'm not saying what's right and wrong.
I'm saying what happens.
You think dudes out here getting divorced and giving up 10%?
How much they give?
About half, yo.
Man, come on, bro.
That's usually more than that.
These bitches working for the government?
What's going on over here?
It's no coincidence that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants rich dudes to give up 65%.
Single ass.
Why don't you get a man that could give you half?
All these single bitches in Congress, like, we want half of your tax money.
Get a rich man.
Okay.
Okay, back to this.
Stop distracting us from black lives and the white people that support it.
I think you disagree with this, but I think the protest and them asking for either defunding or abolishing the police is a good place to start.
Fam, what is going on here?
I feel it's a great place to start.
Okay, let's have this discussion.
Defund the police.
Yes.
Defund the police.
Okay.
Why would you want to make them less fun?
Wow, that was a ticket to say.
That was what you were saying to say, son.
Nah, I got something in the tuck.
That's not the point.
That's how I was like, I got something in the tuck still.
It's right here.
It's right here.
You know what I mean?
It's right here.
Okay, go, go, go.
Go.
Okay, break down.
What is what is defunding the police?
Break it down.
Because at the surface, anybody that hears that that's realistic, right?
And calls the police.
Anybody that's like, I'm going to call the police.
It was like, don't defund them.
Yeah.
So break it down.
Maybe it's something that we don't understand.
Two different things.
So there's one group asking to defund the police as in take away funds because their practices haven't been like for the people and redistribute those funds to other things like community leadership or counseling or things of that nature, like just different ways to police the community.
Then there's people who want complete defunding, like almost abolishing it and starting anew.
So let's start with the first one, which I think is like the most realistic one that a lot of people are, which is basically, and Mark, clarify this because we had this discussion before, which is like, from, and if I'm saying something wrong, correct me.
Gotcha.
But right now, the police do a lot of jobs that aren't necessarily policing.
Correct.
For example, like if there's a homeless people doing something wrong, right?
The police will be sent there instead of maybe like a counselor that might be better equipped with how to deal with a crazy person.
They can help them out.
My cousin is a psychiatrist and he's like, police don't give a fuck.
They just drop them off of the hospital.
They're like, here you go.
And then they get out.
So they go like, okay, that's a perfect example.
And then maybe like suicide is another situation where the police will go there.
But maybe again, you could have a different division where you'll have counselors go there and help, right?
Hostage negotiation.
I'm sure there's like a hostage expert there, but you might also call the police.
So I think the defunding thing, the idea is, and it's poorly worded, but instead of going, take, instead of defunding the police, you're basically going, why don't we just use the police for what they're supposed to do and then use other experts for these fields for what they're supposed to do?
A couple other things are like the DNA testing, sex kits, rape kits and stuff like that.
Yeah.
Because all those stuff tend to be really backed up in most places.
Right.
And the police claim, oh, we don't have the funding.
We don't have whatever.
So then let another division just do that.
So that'd be interesting about defunding.
I think that's why if we had a different word, people would digest it way better.
So the pushback that I would give to that, this is what I've read, is how that helps save black people.
They're talking about, so let me just make the point.
It's like all these divisions that are talking about defunding aren't when police kill black people, right?
One second.
So it's like black people aren't homeless when they're getting killed by the police, right?
Black people aren't crazy when they're getting killed by the police.
What other things they do?
It's not DNA kits or sex kits that black people are getting killed by the police.
The places where black people are getting killed by the police are in the violent crime situations, the pullovers, the stops, the ticketing.
I would disagree with that.
Give me one that's not.
Floyd.
He was called for a counterfeit bill.
You don't need police for that.
You can send like an auxiliary cop that doesn't need a gun.
For like a type of like financial fraud situations?
Yeah, like it's you, I think police should be there for violent situations.
If a guy is just like, oh, he's trying to counterfeit a bill, let's just call it, you know how they have like the ticket cops?
Back up.
Outside of that, right?
Outside of that, we can look at a lot of these scenarios and a lot of these situations where cops have killed innocent black people and they aren't in the situations which they're saying that they should defund.
And I would probably go so far as to say 99% of the times where innocent black people are killed by the police, they're not in those slivers of policing that they want to defund.
So I don't know if that functionally helps the problem.
That's the pushback I would say.
Yeah, but I'm saying the people who are asking for that, they just want police for violent situations.
And those are the situations where they unlawfully kill blacks.
So why would you still want them to be?
Violent situations like a robbery, like shoot out someone, come solve that.
A counterfeit bill, a selling a loose cigarette.
These aren't things where a cop with a gun needs to defund is what he's saying.
Yeah, getting pulled over as Philando Castillo is just a routine traffic stop.
Yo, low-key?
So back up.
You don't even need to defund.
Why does a highway cop I'm trying to think of scenarios trying to poke holes in my own argument?
Poke holes in my argument.
But why does a routine highway cop, not just routine highway cop, why is it that, why do they have to have a gun?
If you're just given tickets, why do you do that?
What they're going to say is the way the number one way cops get killed is routine traffic stops.
I need to have my gun.
You are putting us in danger.
To which kind of I would be like, yeah, you knew that when you signed up for this job.
It's a dangerous job.
That's what they tell cops in Europe everywhere.
Let me just poke a hole in my own argument.
Sometimes you pull someone over and then they have drugs in the car and they don't want to get caught with those drugs.
So then they start shooting.
And then it becomes a bigger type of crime.
And a lot of like smaller things escalate quickly because of the person that's involved.
That person might be some mafia dude that's got fucking kilo cocaine in the back.
He's like, I'm not going to jail for 25 years.
Boom, boom, boom.
But you just pull him over because he's speeding.
And so I would say I think those occurrences happen a lot less than a normal traffic stop.
Yeah.
So for those situations, if all the people are aware, like it's almost like how London, most cops don't have guns.
People are aware that the cops don't have guns.
So things don't tend to escalate to guns.
But people also don't have guns, right?
It's not an armed republic, whereas America is.
But I'm saying like, so say if a drug dealer knows like, oh, the traffic cop doesn't really have a gun that I don't really need to shoot him to get away.
I can just run away.
And then that person just calls in the actual police, be like, yo, this person ran and I suspected something.
Now the police can come in for a situation like that.
But for a routine traffic stop, you don't need to have this police officer who's been trained in combat training, whose first thought is like, oh, I got to protect myself at all costs.
Like, and I could be in danger in a split second.
Because we're trained to react.
No, we're trained to anticipate.
And that's one of the problems in like the way we're trained, like as a law enforcement person, it's like we have to anticipate that there's going to be danger and then don't hesitate to react on it.
And that's what goes wrong half the time.
It's no split decisions where someone's like, some white people complain about the way cops talk to you during a traffic stop is like, you're not trying to de-escalate anything.
You're almost trying to escalate.
You know, I pulled you over?
What makes you think you're better than everybody else that you can just speed and they can't?
And it's like, it's just not anything that could happen is just escalating.
Right.
You know what I mean?
And if you had people that were trained and de-escalating, just writing the ticket, hey, man, I got to do this.
Sorry.
It is what it is.
And then if we need to search the car, call for backup, whatever, you're going to have to wait here.
And then one of the tertiary benefits is that you can have military police or actual violent police, like police that are dealing with violence are able to get more specifically trained, trained for longer, and you're able to allocate more money into a smaller subset of police.
But to Schultz's point, where you're fucking up marketing-wise is saying defunding the police.
Such every report choice that says, oh, I'm in danger.
And that's, but that's how you market headlines.
But back up, it's not only Republicans.
I think the average person sees the word defund police and they go, well, I don't want a police force that's so depleted that they can't protect me.
Is that reasonable?
Is that what you guys thought when you first saw the word?
And this is, I personally think is a problem with like liberal academia is that they will work through all of the problems and then come up with solutions and then present the solutions and they sound crazy.
So like, for example, they're like, oh, like everyone has to acknowledge their white privilege.
And it's like, wait, you're saying my life is easy?
And it's like, no, no, no.
I've actually just been thinking that like, you know, we've been studying sociology for, you know, 50 years where we're like, oh, yeah, white people just do the virtue of your skin.
You have an easier time, blah, blah, blah.
And so now you have to acknowledge like the whole explanation of it.
And so they come up with, they solve the problems over years and years and years, and then they come up with the solution as just like a headline.
And it sounds crazy.
As opposed to what?
As opposed to like, okay, here's the problem.
Or like.
Yeah, but that can't be a headline.
Exactly.
So the issue is that like they want to make waves with it and they know it's going to be spread around and they know that this idea is going to be shared by everybody and now it's this common goal and it sounds sexy and you jump behind a sexy idea.
It's no different than what Trump does.
Right.
It's like, it's just, it's super interesting.
But it is true though.
Sorry to cut you, but like about how the Democrats operate in that way.
Like I think a perfect example was that fucking horribly embarrassing like Kinte Cloth photo.
Dude, white people are tap dancing for your vote right now.
How does it feel?
How does it feel?
How does it feel, Al?
I mean, it feels good.
I ain't gonna lie.
Did you get one of those?
So now you get it?
No, no, no.
But it only feels good because it's like we're finally being acknowledged.
The way they're going about it is funny.
So it's more so it feels good because it's entertaining.
But it's like, hey, any awareness to improving the way my livelihood, I'm all on board.
Yo, white people really treating black people like an angry girlfriend.
Washing your fucking feet.
Nah, like, is there anything I could do?
How are you feeling?
Like, I got you, babe.
Watch whatever you want to watch.
Like, yeah, but it's like, you know what I mean?
Hey, you want to watch 13 tonight?
You're going to give me a shit on the police.
Let's just go for the police.
Yeah, but it's like, it's like they're treating, they're talking to them like how you would deal with an angry girlfriend whose previous boyfriends have been beating her up.
Yeah.
So it's like she's more on edge.
She's more like that.
Yeah.
So it's like you need to coddle a little bit.
Yeah, but what was that foot rub shit, man?
Foot, foot rubber.
Can someone explain what that foot rub shit?
How racist.
So for anybody who doesn't know what's going on, apparently there was some protests where like black people were able to sit down and then white people were washing their feet or like rubbing their feet.
Have you guys seen this imagery going around?
Yeah, it's a thing.
Reparations have gone down so much for black people.
You guys were promised a lot of shit.
And I understand foot rubs?
Yeah.
Nah, but like for me, when I look at that, I'm like, how racist do you have to be?
Yeah, man.
That you are going to rub someone's feet so that they don't know how racist you are.
Because nobody that actually sees black people as equal, if a black guy came up to me and be like, yo, you're white, I'm black, rub my feet.
I'd be like, I will beat your fucking ass right now if you weren't scary and black.
Watch your white ass.
No, but for real.
Like, are you fucking kidding me?
Talking, tell me to rub your feet.
Yo, maybe that's why white people want to rub black people's feet because that's the whitest part of their body.
I'm sorry, but it's the only part they'll touch.
Yeah.
Say, I'll touch the white part.
Yeah.
Yo, but isn't that crazy, though?
Like, I couldn't believe it.
And I really think there's some like deep down fucking racism and guilt about your racism.
Nobody that treats someone equally would do that to themselves.
I don't know.
Racism, I just think it's like they don't know what to do.
Like you were saying like that.
That's an overreach.
It's really simple.
Not knowing what to do.
So like, okay, if this is going to show that I'm not racist, like I'll do it.
But would you do that?
Like, what if Indians were like, you've met black people, you've made fun of us for years.
Rub our feet.
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Nah, nah.
Just rubbing our coach's feet.
They just, like you said, it's over.
They also don't really be equal.
So it says an interesting point you bring up.
But the point is.
What do you mean?
I said, there's no way black people say Indians is equal.
There's no way.
Y'all look down on anything.
There's no way you could look at somebody that athletically inferior and say, that's my equal.
You equal enough for them to use your hair.
Yeah.
Maybe black people as a whole, maybe.
Like I do, but maybe.
We're like, my dog is like, we're like golden doodles to them.
Like we're exotic.
You know what I mean?
No, don't, don't do that.
Hey, don't do that.
That's not just that.
Hey, bro, don't do that.
Don't make my dog Indian, bro.
No, your dog's Indian.
Hey, hey.
Don't do that, bro.
Hey, hey, hey.
Don't do that, bro.
Why?
What's wrong with the dog being Indian?
What?
What's wrong with the dog being Indian?
I named my shit's name Tiki.
See?
Tiki Wiki?
No, it's actually Tiki Masala, but Tiki Wiki works too.
Now that my dog's a Sabi, but for real.
Don't do that, bro.
Don't, don't, don't, don't do that to my dog.
Sabi.
Ewasabi.
Oh, what does that mean, a Hindu?
It means.
I take Bussy, no problem.
You gotta do what you gotta do.
Yo, this picture.
Okay, so back to the picture with the scarves.
I gotta give credit to this bitch, Nancy Pelosi.
This bitch smart, bro.
She's the only Democrat that knows how to play Trump's game.
She's the only Democrat that understands the most important thing is the conversation, not the content.
So she's like, yeah, put all this dumb shit on.
We're gonna go take a knee.
We're gonna look absolutely ridiculous.
They're gonna make memes about it.
They're gonna do everything.
And the conversation will be about us and what we want to get accomplished or not even what we want to accomplish about us, not Trump.
She is taking attention away from Trump.
As long as we're talking about them, we're not talking about Trump.
And Trump dominates the news cycle because we're talking about him.
If I got to give her credit, she's Takashi, bro.
She's Takashi.
I didn't even look at it that way.
Bro, Tecansi6ix9, dog.
Pelos, I'm telling you, this girl is, she knows what she's doing.
I just know that all of their knees are fucked up.
See, there's one girl that didn't get up and nobody.
Nancy couldn't get up.
None of them touched that bitch.
Like, this bitch got us looking goofy in the middle of this fucking floor.
She was like, I had a fucking spelling bee or some shit.
She just felt that.
She looked exactly the same.
Spell the N-word.
They took a knee on a hard floor for eight minutes.
Yeah.
Eight minutes?
Diff.
Nine or some shit.
As long as George Floyd was a little eight and change.
Yeah.
Democrats will do this.
Will make they'll do some shit to make you think, Al, they'll do some shit to make you think that they're supporting you, but they're actually fucking you over.
That's what Democrats do to black community.
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That's exactly what they did.
Why are they fucking us over?
Because they're doing the exact same shit that the officer did.
Is this for Chauvin or is this for George Floyd?
You don't know.
If somebody was like, Yo, these people right here are supporting Chovin, you'd be like, Okay, I see it.
What do you think all the white supremacists are doing to celebrate this shit?
The exact same thing.
They're taking a knee for George Chovin.
What's his name?
George Floyd or Derek Chovin.
Derek Charvin.
George Zimmerman, Derek Chauvin.
They're taking a knee for his ass.
All right.
All right.
I'm just saying, bro, this shit is crazy.
You feel honored by this, Al Son.
They're doing something, man.
Are they?
Something is better than nothing.
They bought some kinta cloth, bro.
Yo, like you said, they stole the attention.
They like now you're talking about this issue instead of Trump.
They look like they're graduating from a bunker.
They look like they're graduating from an HBCU or some shit.
Yeah, shout out to them.
That's so silly.
Oh, we actually have to get to who is that?
They look like they're pledging in a black fraternity, and this is part of the hazel.
Omega.
The Q dogs, dude.
Them Q dogs.
Son, do they know how fire that shit is?
Yeah, that shit looks fine.
That shit is so hot, dude.
You can't get mad at people for doing that shit.
Oh, that shit looks good.
S too fire.
So is this black supremacy?
Oh, we're getting to Terry.
Is it black supremacy if white people only wash black people's feet all the time?
Is that not black supremacy?
Nah.
I've said this before.
If you make a job more competitive, that helps weed out a lot of the idiots.
Now, it should be much easier to lose your job as a cop, but if you pay a cop an amount of money, it's like it's like $150,000 a year.
Somebody who's actually smart might look at being a cop and be like, oh, I'll risk my life for $150,000 a year.
Let's do that.
Right now, you're getting fucking, you're getting a lot of dumb cops who are doing this because it's like a decent job.
It's safe.
And I don't really have a lot of their options.
And now you can't lose their job because nobody else wants to do it because you get paid fucking $50,000 a year or whatever.
Son, a lot of cops are making six figures.
They milk overtime because their budget is so massive.
Yo, I got a little.
I got a little idea, bro.
I got a little idea.
Try to poke holes, but I got a little idea.
All right, y'all ready?
Okay.
A union should not be able to negotiate against the government.
That should be illegal because the person that's representing the government doesn't have any skin in the game.
Oh, it's not a private.
Okay.
A private business, right?
Let's say we own a factory.
Yeah.
Right?
And we're negotiating with the union that works at the factory.
And they're like, we want this.
Well, I got to pay that shit to them.
So I'm like, nah, you're not getting all that.
But if you work for the government, that's not your money.
And you're out of there in two years anyway.
You're out of there in four years anyway.
So now you're negotiating for some shit that isn't your money.
And it isn't even your job.
You might be gone in a fucking heartbeat.
You're not invested in that company.
So that's why these unions body the government every single time.
Yo, son, they get these absurd pension things where they do this thing called like pension stacking, where the gut, the pension is matched for their last year of work.
Yeah.
And then the last year of work, you know what they do?
Keep going.
Son, I'll be talking, bro.
So the last year they're on a job, and I don't blame them for doing this.
Work the system if you can, but crazy overtime.
Crazy overtime.
So let's say you were making 70 grand.
That last year, you try to bump it up to 150.
And guess who's got to pay you 150 for the rest?
Now, if you own the factory, you think you would, you, especially you, you think you ever settle in for that?
Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
Spell no.
That's a good point.
Spell not interested.
They don't really respond to it.
The pushback I would give you on that.
Yeah, yeah.
Poke holes.
The government decides the budget.
Yep.
So if they don't have any skin in the game, it's like, oh, why do we need to pay these people?
And then these people who are supposed to protect and serve can just make you look bad as a politician.
I got you.
I got you.
Ready?
If you don't pay them enough, they will go do other jobs.
Okay?
No.
They will not, they'll do their job badly.
Like say they'll just let crime happen.
Yep.
Yep.
And then it looks like crime went up while you're a politician.
Yeah.
So now it just gets them out of there for the next person to be like, yo, if you don't want that shit to happen, you better give us some money.
Yes.
And that is an option.
But if the money is so low, I don't even think they accept the job.
For example, if they can make more money doing construction than they can risking their life as a cop, I think they just go do construction.
Okay.
So that free market actually makes you pay cops more, right?
Okay.
So if you create a system where cops have to take on more risk with their lives, right?
Meaning you can't just go in guns blazing.
You can't just shoot the second you're scared or whatever like that.
You actually really got to protect yourself.
If you do that or actually really protect the public, keep going.
How do you do that?
That's what we're talking about.
Cops not going in guns blazing.
We want to change that.
Change the culture.
It's tough.
It's tough.
And part of it has to be you're afraid of losing a job, but you said this yourself.
The reason they're not afraid to lose their job is the union.
The union.
So if they're afraid to lose their job, right?
Or they go, oh, shit, I got to take that amount of risk.
I ain't going to do that shit.
So now you got to increase the price so that people are willing to take the risk.
Nobody wants to ice road trucks.
Higher base salary.
That's another thing.
Increase the price, but then also take away the union.
I don't think...
Now, listen, I've just started thinking about this.
So I could be completely wrong.
That being said, I don't think it should be legal.
For example, the military cannot unionize against the government.
The military can't go, hey, we ain't fighting, bro.
The fuck you ain't?
That's true.
You fighting.
So why if the military can't do it?
Why the fuck the police can't?
Why can the teachers?
Why can't all these people do it?
It doesn't make any sense.
You shouldn't be able to walk on your job if it's an essential job.
Now, I'm sure people listen right now.
FA, you probably listen right now, you liberal pussy.
And you could probably poke a lot of holes.
Please poke holes in the argument if you can, but it just makes sense to me.
Also, cops making money, that's probably some shit you find out after you become a cop.
When you're choosing a career, nobody, I don't know anybody that's like, I want to be a cop because it pays great.
I don't know that person.
I mean, I was told that.
That's why I lean towards law enforcement.
I think you got to, yeah, you got to like be inside.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You got a different idea of pay grade.
If you're coming from like a working class neighborhood or a poor neighborhood and you got guaranteed money and that guaranteed pension, you're like 20 in and I'm out and I'm out at 100 for the rest of my life.
That sounds fantastic.
So maybe that's what I'm saying.
Maybe if you make the base higher, you start getting some guys white collar, think things through, a little bit pussy, not trying to shoot everybody like that.
I mean, you got to use the pussy ones out of one shooting.
The pussy ones shoot.
They're pussy blue collar, ready to kill.
Not like, I ain't killing nobody.
I'm going to put that to you right now.
You may put a gun in my hand.
I don't care how scared I am.
I'll shoot myself.
I mean, no, I hear what you're saying, but the whole thing is just about changing the culture, changing the system.
It's like, if you take guns out of the cops' hands, or less cops have guns, and so they don't approach a situation ready to shoot.
I like that.
That's what changes everything.
But I think there's a precedent for it.
Like, remember when air traffic controllers all went on strike?
Reagan, son.
Yo, shout out to Reagan.
They all went.
Outside of him fucking up black communities.
That motherfucker had it, bro.
Like, the air traffic controllers were like, we're going on strike.
And he said, listen, pussy boy, if you go on strike, you're all fired.
What did that motherfucker do?
Fired him.
All of them.
Can't do that now.
Brought, wait for it.
Brought in the military.
The military ran air traffic control while they retrained new air traffic control people for like two years.
So flights were dumb late and shit was fucked up for two years, but he wasn't having it.
And then motherfuckers started going, oh, I don't know if I really want to walk out like that.
Why do you do that with cops?
If police union wants to strike, all right, go ahead.
We got military.
They're too big.
Too big?
That's why.
I mean, that's.
I mean, if the people out here are saying we don't need cops, so then what's the leverage?
Son.
If people, if we don't need cops, all right.
But now it's illegal for air travelers to control us to strike.
Hell yeah, as it should be.
That's what the idea is.
If the cops want to strike, all right, you're all fired.
We'll send a military, retrain people who can't strike.
Yeah.
Should be illegal, bro.
You cannot strike.
TSA can't strike.
You cannot strike.
You should not be able to unionize against the government.
The interests are not aligned.
Now, having said that, TSA doesn't necessarily make me feel like they're protecting us.
Like when I look at a TSA agent, I'm not like, oh, I feel safe with you.
Sure.
So there's, you know, there's no TSA at all.
But it's not their job to protect us as the machines.
But they'd be letting the mad shit slide.
So just.
Just machine does.
Oh, sorry.
No, you go.
No, they're not very good.
Like, every time they test the TSA to see if they're confiscating what they should, they're just like, they're not searching anybody.
Mad shit will get through the machine.
They'll just be like, yeah, whatever.
Oh, yeah, that's for sure.
What gets through the machine?
Akash, what are you trying to say, bro?
What are you saying?
The machine, dude.
Yeah, don't do that.
That's a dangerous game to play.
You sell it.
You started it, bro.
You're out here like, yeah, they let a lot of stuff.
I'll take it to this one.
I get on a plane with a straight blade every time we fly.
With a straight blade?
Straight blade.
Like a straight blade razor.
Akash, do you take your curvy sword when you fly?
Leave it at home.
Take your fucking gay knife.
Fucking TSA don't let you kick that elastic shit on the plane.
You got to put that in the violin.
Let me leave my pointy shoes on, dog.
It's foul.
You got to get that preaching.
You really take a knife on the plane?
No, so it's my straight blade razor that I use to shape my shit up.
Okay.
But it's in my carry-on bag.
Ain't nobody robbing a plane with a fucking straight blade.
Son, bro, 9-11?
Box cutters.
Real talk?
9-11 was the exact thing I have in my bag.
Real talk?
Yeah.
What do you mean?
I'm going to say it right now.
Oh, boy.
All right.
I just said some wild shit.
Oh, my God.
Do not forget to edit this out.
Holy fuck.
Anyway.
Even on Patreon.
I had to let it slide on Patreon.
That's the only place you had that conversation.
So I get on the plane with a razor blade.
Yeah.
And TSA misses that every single time.
But they don't miss it.
They just know you're not doing shit.
That's bullshit.
Like, that's the main reason.
Like, how do they know I'm not doing shit?
Black people don't hijack planes, bro.
All right.
You're going to start.
You never know.
I could be the first time.
Name no hijack planes.
Name her plane, black people hijack.
I could be the first.
Name a plane, black people hijack.
Go.
And not soul plane.
Name a real plane that black people hijack.
Snakes on a plane.
That'll count.
Snakes on a plane.
Samuel L stole that movie away.
Black people don't hijack planes, bro.
They're not going to loot a plane.
Come on, bro.
Come on.
Walking out with a first plane, late flag.
They got mad biscotties.
Cough up them biscotti cookies, fuck you.
Go get all the juices.
Sky waitress.
Give me all them shit.
I want the whole bottle of water.
Nah.
Give me the full bottle.
Not this little ramekin.
Yo, that should be so funny.
They just loot the airplane.
Yo, son, it'd be lit.
What?
What?
You're not looting planes.
I'm not worried about anybody black looting the plane.
I'm not worried about anybody Asian looting the plane.
We're not talking about looting the plane.
Who's David Dow trying to do it?
My bad.
My bad.
Not looting.
You know what I mean?
Stealing.
What do you call it?
Robin?
Hijacking Policygenius Save Money Plan00:03:19
Hijacking.
Hijacking.
I ain't got to be all hijacking.
Because it's in the air.
Because you're in the air, dude.
High.
But it's not.
You know what I'm saying?
If you're not low, you're high.
But it's not called lowjacking when you take a car.
No, that's what Lucy Kay did.
Mark.
Mark Carter, the haymaker.
That's good.
Now let's bring it up.
Okay, we got to bring in our illustrious guests.
I'm very excited to have this gentleman in right here.
So we're going to take a break for a second, reorganize some shit.
Unimportant information to tell you because you wouldn't have known the difference since you're not here.
We're just going to edit that part out.
I do look, Net, can I just say one thing?
Sure.
No?
Yeah, you can say everything.
This is going to all get cut.
Given what we know now about people hijacking planes, okay?
If somebody came up on the plane with a box cutter, they're like, the plane is mine.
How y'all say it?
If they were like, the plane is mine, we're taking the plane.
You think we're standing for that?
Not now.
Not now.
But it's still going to take a group of people.
Can I just say, can I continue?
If we know that, right?
Why we got to take our shoes off?
What?
Let's bring in our guest, bro.
All right, we're going to take a break for a second, pay some bills here.
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Border French Simps De Escalation Talk00:14:49
Now let's get back to the show.
All right, we're back, man.
We have an illustrious guest in the building.
I'm very excited.
You might be our first official guest during Corona, but I'm very excited.
We've been talking for a while.
We've been trying to make this happen for a while.
You and I have been trying to get, we were trying to get you down here three months now, four months, maybe.
You were going to come around Corona.
Yeah, the same weekend that was supposed to happen.
And then they shut the border down.
Right.
Probably right decision to not do it in the moment in retrospects.
No, they just shut the border down.
It's the exact same situation as it was then.
Here's what's fucked up.
Yeah.
Well, I've got to say who you are.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
So you have a YouTube page, Abba and Preach.
Yeah.
We connected first when I was in Montreal and I did your guys' show.
It was absolutely crazy.
Fucking 10,000 people or something like that.
I didn't realize it was a family show.
I told that story on this podcast, I think.
Just families, children running away, crying.
I'm talking about ass eating, I think.
It was insane.
Being in the audience was the best part.
Just seeing parents put their ears up.
But here's the thing.
I didn't know it was clean because everybody went before me was speaking French.
So I don't know what they're saying.
Dirty shit.
Say what they were.
Speaking in Quebecois.
They were speaking that well, no matter what French, I wasn't going to understand it.
Do you know what I mean?
Maybe they didn't understand what the fuck you were saying.
Oh, they understood.
Oh, gosh.
They understood.
Okay.
You know what I mean?
Was there, okay.
You do this amazing show.
Was there a backlash for that, by the way?
Nah, nah, nah, nah.
To be honest with you, you came to me backstage and you're like, yo, can I just do what I want?
I was like, yeah, do whatever.
Y'all said I could.
Yeah.
And here's the thing.
It's like the initial show, which is like the 7 p.m., was like, yo, it's like family-oriented.
Once it gets dark, we told everyone, this is an adult show if you can stay with your kids at your own discretion.
So I ain't mad at you at all.
Yeah, that's why y'all are great.
And this is cool because it's not often you find somebody organically in this business.
I've organically found y'all.
Then he brought you up, but your whole thing is like, I don't know, like, we're not just canceling people for no reason.
We're thinking shit through.
So that's exactly why if you come to their show, and they it's like, look, if you see Cuss and they're not going to say anything, so you guys have this YouTube page.
You guys upload how often?
Every day.
Daily.
Every day.
Abba and Preach.
Once this pandemic hit, every day.
Every day.
I love it because I feel like you guys are this really interesting antidote to like the woke PC culture.
Yeah.
You're kind of like canceling cancelers.
Does that make sense?
That's fair.
And you're like fighting against like cuckery.
The simps is the term.
Yeah, simps.
Like y'all hate simps.
Y'all hate dudes that don't get pussy.
I don't understand that shit, but like every other video be like, these motherfuckers that's not fucking.
Fuck you.
It's like they already know they're losers, though.
You guys are going to create some school shooters 100.
Probably.
100%.
Probably.
But it's really great because the internet is the only place where you're going to find this equal and opposite reaction to everything going on.
Yeah.
And we've obviously done it in the stand-up sense, but you guys are doing it in the journalistic sense.
Like, I'll go to your shit if I don't know about something.
And I don't want to hit you up right before.
I was like, you know about defunding the police?
Yeah.
That's a video I would watch of yours.
Okay.
And it's really interesting to see.
And it's so cool that it sprouted up.
And then I've been following your trajectory on YouTube and you guys have been exploding.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Last two months, it's like we doubled everything.
Yeah, even like now when I look at the view counts, it's like crazy now.
Yeah, yeah.
So this is ABBA.
We have ABBA.
Preach is not here.
Preach got a family.
Yeah.
Shouts to Preach.
He's got responsibilities.
He can't take these risks.
Yeah.
What's up, Preach?
Sa poisé.
Sac Passe.
Whatever the fuck.
I heard some crazy shit from Mike Ward, another Montreal comic that preached would like go to all these like countries and just like buy machetes and shit like that.
Yeah, that's an impression.
When we were in Haiti and the riots happened and the whole city was the whole country shut down, he had a machete ready on him.
That's like a thing he does.
On deck.
Yeah, and I heard like motherfuckers try to press him in Haiti or somewhere like that.
And he just hopped out of his machete.
Like, what's up?
Yeah, that was crazy.
That was one of the most insane experiences.
Like, if you ever see, you think like riots are crazy?
Yeah.
When you go to like a third world country where they shut everything down and they know how to write, like we're amateurs.
They know how to write.
They know how to write.
Keep it going.
Okay, so here's the fucked up thing.
It's like, so the World Cup was happening and essentially the president put forth a law that would raise gas by like four, four times.
And so what happened was for a poor country, that's unacceptable.
They use that to get around.
This is in Haiti.
Haiti.
So they're big fans of Brazil.
Brazil was playing Belgium.
And once Brazil lost, the whole country was shut down.
They enacted roadblocks everywhere.
Everything was done.
You couldn't move.
The whole country was essentially gridlocked.
And we had to leave because we were just there to do shows.
And we had to pass through these roadblocks, but there's people there waiting with machetes.
So just to get out of the country was one of the craziest ordeals because there's no laws anymore.
It's essentially what it would look like if police everything was gone here.
So police just said, fuck it, we out.
That's defunding the police.
So Haiti is defunding the police.
And was it lit?
Did anybody get fucked up?
Yeah, a lot of people died.
A lot of people.
So you kind of need police a little bit or what?
Okay, you want to get into defunding police?
Yeah, let's get into defunding the police, bro.
Such a dragstick.
Come on, dude.
He got his Democrat kids.
This motherfucker tells me all the time.
He's this Nancy Pelosi sending that shit, bro.
Come on.
No, no, you're always talking about it.
We're not kneeling for two, three minutes.
Bro.
Eight and a half, bro.
Hakash made the best point.
Isn't that the most disrespectful thing to do to George Floyd, bro?
Take a knee.
Such bullshit.
I hate that virtual signaling shit.
But also, he was also saying that's how he died.
Like, come on, yo.
What y'all doing?
Fair.
You didn't like it when they all laid on the cement, like two inches from each other with no masks on.
And they're all like, man, let's do this for Floyd.
What happened?
That was one of the ways they were going to commemorate Floyd.
A lot of people just laid on the floor.
You didn't see that?
You saw that picture, right?
There's a whole bunch of people.
People protesting is so gay, man.
Like, y'all can't stop being peaceful.
This is how out of shape Americans are.
This isn't basically supposed to walk for a cause.
And they're like, man, we got to just lay this one out, guys.
Look how far we walked already, bro.
It was an hour.
We cured leukemia.
What was going on here?
Okay, so break down the defunding shit.
So, okay, what do you use a resource?
Okay, well, that's kind of scary because I don't consider myself one.
So that's frightening.
Well, fuck, man.
That's the best resource.
Yeah, you're going to look at you people like, man, you're so smart.
And I'm like, nigga, I'm dumb.
I'm dumb as shit.
Why are you looking to me for resources?
But what do you guys understand about defunding?
Because I hear a lot of people talking about it.
And I think a lot of people don't know.
Seems like just reallocating funds.
Yeah.
And that's like, if a police budget is bloated, that seems to make sense.
If you're not effective at any job, your budget should get cut.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's how I also understood it initially, but it goes a little bit deeper than that.
I think a lot of the rhetoric online is like, what do you do if there's no more police?
And I'm like, it's not that extreme, right?
And especially the changes that they want to make are gradual.
They don't want to change it overnight where they just get rid of everyone and sign into law.
They want to make a gradual reduction and then essentially allocate those funds to other specialized professions.
So police officers themselves complain a lot like they have too much to do.
Something bad happens at school, they send us.
Mental health issue breaks down, they send us.
Fires, they send us.
They send us for a lot of different things that we shouldn't be doing.
And so the idea behind this is like, all right, well, let's take money away from them, put it towards specialized units, and then that way we can cater to the public better.
And I like that idea.
Question.
If they're just focusing on policing the public, aren't they going to kill more black people?
Like they were distracted with the school and the homeless people.
Now you make the time.
Yeah.
Crack, crack, crack.
You know, like it seems to me it could be a dangerous thing to do to give them less stuff to do and then one singular focus.
Right.
Right.
Then you hope that they're better trained.
And if they're not, then.
You have to train someone not to just shoot somebody.
I think you can train that.
How?
Yeah.
What's the training?
I mean, you can train somebody to shoot someone.
You probably train somebody to not shoot someone.
How would you do it?
Son, I don't know.
I'm not a police chief.
There's de-escalation, communication.
All that shit.
Come on.
Like, what are you talking about?
What do those mean?
Mediation.
There's literally, bro.
De-escalation.
What does that mean?
Every time you've had a problem in your life, the way you've dealt with it, that's what that means.
Yeah.
Because you've never shot somebody up until this day.
Because I don't have a gun.
That's what we're saying.
But if I had a gun, it's going to be escalating.
There should be a lot more police without them solving.
It's going to be.
But not everybody should have a gun.
I get that.
I just don't understand the trick.
Look, I'm sure it's possible.
You can go.
You can train it.
Of course.
I just don't know how the fuck you go about doing it.
And de-escalation happens all the time.
Like a fucking couples counselor just de-escalates.
That's all they mean.
Talk about it, dog.
Hey, so hey, you know, couples counseling?
Let me de-escalate.
What's the first way they de-escalate?
Hey, why don't you just step outside for a couple minutes?
And that's what they usually tell the black people in the car.
Yes.
And then they end up dead, bro.
That's why you can't do this, dude.
Hey, you can't do it.
You're trying to get black people killed.
Yo, I'm, and you know what?
I'm gonna go back in the car for a minute.
I'm gonna see how I feel.
I'm gonna go back in the car for a minute.
Let me take a minute.
We need a different word for defund so we can all get on the same page.
It's got to be better marketed.
I think this is the way that people interpret it that just went to an extreme, you know?
And it's not necessarily that.
Sometimes things are not well-branded, but it doesn't mean what you think about it.
Well, how would you rebrand it?
Because that's what we're trying to figure out.
You can't say defund because then everybody's like, what?
There's no more cops.
We all freak out.
But it is what they're doing.
They are essentially defunding them, but just not completely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just.
Maybe like replace the police.
Replace them.
It sounds worse.
That's not going to work.
That's terrifying.
Yeah.
It made me think of the lawyer who's like, guys, we have to film all the cops.
And he's like, hashtag shoot the cops.
That's what you put out.
You can literally call it like.
Yeah.
Sounds accurate, but it's not.
Specializing the police force or some shit like that.
Like, we're going to reallocate special teams.
Specialize the police.
Yeah.
I like that.
Man, you guys are just dumbing down Americans so hard.
Like, you're not even forcing them to make any kind of informed research.
No, they won't.
You know what I mean?
You don't think that someone should read a headline and be like, I'm going to read a little bit further.
No, you guys won't.
We voted for a reality TV star, bro.
Yeah, dogs.
Come on, we're totally different in Canada.
That's true.
You know, you guys have like a real qualified politician that's running your country, right?
With tons of political experience and zero nepotism.
And I see the sarcasm.
I see you, bro.
I thought you were being serious at first.
I'm like, you're right.
He's got real life experience, you know, in the bit.
Like, how many jobs has he had?
Oh, yeah, he hasn't had any.
He hasn't had to have any.
Even your language is just dumbed down French.
How you got a problem with dumbing things?
Yo.
Yo, how do you think people talk about Americans in England?
The same way the fucking French talk about y'all.
Yeah, so you know, we're not so far apart.
That's what I'm saying.
They're not allowed to open their mouths about us in England.
No, it's true.
We ended at 1776.
Hey, bro.
Hey, bro.
If you want to talk about it, be about it.
Fall back.
Catch these hands again, bro.
Yo, we the first Brexit.
They're going to be able to.
If you guys keep getting fucked up like this, they're going to be able to.
You think?
I think so.
I think, you know what?
You know, there's a rise and fall of every civilization.
I think it's my brain.
It's seen as decline.
We might have to get him out of here.
Okay.
Here's something genuinely fucked up.
I came here, right?
Bro.
I came here.
You experienced some racism?
Not even, not yet.
I'm excited for it.
You know what I mean?
We can start now.
I want to get there.
Mark, roll up your sleeves.
You can't talk a shit about America.
So the border shut down, technically speaking.
Yeah.
It's only, here's the thing.
Americans, you guys can't come to Canada at all.
You can't fly.
You can't drive.
You can't ferry up.
Y'all ain't gonna build no wall, no pussies.
Y'all already popped you.
You know what I'm saying?
Let's go.
We don't need one.
Yeah, we come whenever we want, bro.
You know what I'm saying?
Love to see that, though.
I wouldn't mind seeing that.
We got up here.
We gotta go back to 18.
Was it 1812?
What was the war that we had with Canada?
You guys had a war with Canada?
Yeah, I think there was a war.
I don't know.
Some battle with Canada.
Man, Mark's Canadian, by the way.
His parents are, right?
Yeah, my parents are.
I'm American, bro.
Yeah, you said.
That's the whole talk about shit.
How do you handle him calling you Gagnon all the time, though?
That's his choice, bro.
He identifies as that.
Yeah.
I thought my parents fled that country, bro.
We had to come to where we're free.
Man, I get so annoyed every time you say Gagnon.
I'm like, nigga, it's Gagnon.
No, dude.
We're not doing.
Because you know, your name went from like winner to like, I might suck dick.
You get me shot.
That's still true.
Like, I'm angry for you.
Oh, my God.
Because Gagnon's winner in French.
It's a winner both ways, bro.
Shit.
You're winning about that.
I never thought about that shit.
No, ganging is like losing.
That's like your vocal cords giving up.
Your throat being like, I'm out.
Yo, he looks genuinely upset.
Like, damn, I didn't think of that.
Damn.
That's fucked up, dude.
Yeah.
He's bad.
He didn't think about that joke for his own day.
All right, dude.
Hey, man, you can have it.
I thought Gagnon meant waiter.
That's Garcon.
Oh, Garcon is waiter.
I thought that's why he changed it so easy.
But Gagnon, that's a kind of fire name.
Yeah, Garcon actually means boy.
Garcon.
Yeah.
Means boy.
Sometimes because they're basically, it's like they're looking down on them a little bit.
Whoa.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, this is already.
Yeah, I was going to say, out of that shot.
Garçon is also just like, it's in that same thing.
You got to.
But, bubbly.
Yeah, Drew.
You should.
Yo, what's up with you when you snap your fingers?
How come that shit coils back like that?
Come on, bro.
Yes, I'm snapping your fingers.
Come on, bro.
This is my Black Lives Matter snap, bro.
Come on, are we out of here?
Keep it going, girl.
I learned this at the parade, bro.
Just the way the wrist rolls back.
I always look at that shit suspect.
Like, if my guy's like, yes, I'm excited.
You know how much better this was than like how Schultz's used to snap their wrists?
How they used to do it.
It was very bad.
We can't recreate.
Just make sure you say Garcon and not boy.
Okay.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Okay.
So, where were we?
Defund the police.
Right.
Can we talk about Canada getting involved in this shit?
And like, didn't they break stories in Montreal and shit?
Yeah, there's a couple anarchists, you know what I mean?
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There's a couple people similar to that.
You told him messaging me saying cops are racist in Montreal, though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I was telling Schultz about this, but we had our own riots in Montreal over a police killing.
And, you know, there was a lot of looting.
Who would the police kill?
A man named Villa Leva.
So this happened in Montreal North.
And essentially, they shot him.
And then there was protests.
And then her protests turned violent right afterwards.
And it was a big thing.
And then a lot of reform came afterwards.
So it's not a type of reform.
Well, essentially, they just handled how police investigate themselves, which is already a little fucked up.
And then...
Yeah, why are you investigating yourself?
That's what we do here.
That's the main problems.
Yeah.
We got to reform that.
Yeah, we do.
Yeah.
So get it out of here.
No more reform.
What is it?
Investigating yourself?
No.
Keep going.
So that happened.
And we have a long-standing history of just problems with the police.
There's like studies that came out that showed their racial bias and racial profiling was like very explicit stuff.
So it's a well-known problem in our city.
So some shit happened here, and y'all were like, oh, it also affects us.
That's right.
Okay.
Do you think sometimes black people in Canada adopt a black American identity because they don't really feel a connectivity to blackness outside of like where they're from, their parents from?
Yeah.
Well, I think that's most second-generation English-speaking black people.
In the world.
In the world.
Because America, like, well, that's one thing that I think Americans don't realize.
Like, you guys do a great job of exporting your culture.
Oh, we know.
We know.
Yeah, so when I'm in Ethiopian, I see a New York Yankees hat on some like poor village kid.
I'm like, we only send you guys the losing hats.
And that's not the Yankees.
Okay.
I definitely see mad Yankee shit everywhere.
Nah.
That's Mets.
I'm not familiar with baseball enough to know.
But yeah, you guys do a great job of exporting.
So I think as a result, people learn to identify with that because their environment, they have a hard time identifying with it.
But they see black American culture everywhere.
They're like, yo, that speaks to me to some degree.
So they identify with that.
Now, your background is Ethiopian.
Oh, you are Ethiopian.
Yeah, yeah.
I know the forehead fooled you, but yeah, I'm Ethiopian.
No, no, your shit is all right.
Taking a long stare.
Like, is it though?
I was looking.
I was making sure.
He's questioning himself, making sure.
Now, when you're in Ethiopia, are you Canadian?
No, no, no.
They treat you as an Ethiopian.
Thing is, I was raised over there.
Oh, so you're Ethiopian.
Yeah, yeah.
So my childhood was mostly over there.
So I got a bit of a different experience.
Right.
But the experience that some people who are second generation, they go back home, they don't really feel.
Yeah, no, they get called like in Haiti, it's a weird word, but they say blanc, which means white.
So even though you might be black, they consider you white as saying you're a foreigner.
You're not from here.
Yeah, when I go to India, they think I'm an American.
Yeah, Akasha has spoken about that.
Like, you didn't feel American until you were.
Until I went to India.
I find myself defending America in India.
Yeah.
I'm like, yo, fuck you, we poor ass India.
You're like, wait a minute.
How'd I get here so fast?
Interesting.
Yeah, it's just, it's just an odd thing that's happening.
You see it all around the world.
And there was like protests in Rome.
And I feel like, I don't know, what is your take on this?
Like, that maybe the protest has grown outside of just the black struggle, but anybody's struggle with authority.
Yeah.
And is that a concern?
Because when more people take part of it and they have their own objectives, does that take away from the specific, does it become in a weird way, all lives matter because there are all these lives that want something from?
I don't think so.
I think, you know, one thing that people have to keep in mind is like inequality is what drives a lot of these issues.
Even for like racial issues here.
Like if there wasn't as much income inequality, a lot of these racial issues would disappear.
So I think in a time where it seems like inequality is so rampant everywhere, people see black people struggle and they kind of resonate with their own issues with authority.
So I think it's a good thing.
I don't think it waters it down to me personally because you're seeing solidarity and people protesting all at the same time.
I do think it's good.
But I can understand your hesitation.
I think in America, sir, yeah, good.
I think in America, you got to keep the focus until something gets done on Black Lives Matter.
That's what I said.
When I saw fucking Ocasio-Cortez tweet back at the Redskins to change their name when they tweeted Black Lives Matter, it's like, yo, chill on that.
We got priorities right now.
Black Lives Matter.
Trans people, you don't like using the bathroom.
Let's wait on that.
Everybody's hoping that's on hold until black people stop getting killed by cops.
And the more you start tagging on the shit, the more exit ramps it gives people to not care.
Not care.
That's what happened with so much of PC culture.
It's like, yeah, we all agree people deserve equal rights, but at a certain point, so many people are complaining.
It's like, you know what?
I'm done.
Fuck all this.
Well, here's a caveat though.
A lot of the people who are protesting even here in America aren't necessarily all that crazy about necessarily the black lives stuff, but they are angry, period.
And so their numbers and their added numbers, don't you think that's a benefit?
Yeah, but we keep the focus on black lives.
You start throwing your other shit in there.
Nah, bro, we're good on that.
Because the crazier the request gets, the more easy it is to dismiss.
Yes.
So defund the police is actually really reasonable when it's described.
As it's like stated, it sounds absurd.
I think most people just really only read headlines, right?
Obviously.
So maybe some better branding, some better marketing with that.
But as they get more grandiose of things that, like some people are saying, literally abolish the police.
Like let's get rid of police.
Yeah, that I disagree with.
But what's going to happen is like enough people are going to ask for it.
And now you're going to get division in this group.
Let's everybody get on the exact same page, exactly what we want.
And then let's just ask for that until we have it.
Well, that's, I think what happens is like the way we see defund the police and we go, oh, that's stupid.
There's people that sit left that go, oh, defund the police.
Yeah, let's abolish it.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like they read the headline too and didn't go into it.
And then they jumped to their own stupid conclusion.
Everybody reads headlines.
The number one news source in the world is Twitter.
That's why you got to market the shit.
Specialize the police force.
And so now you have these dumb people that are like, no, well, I'll just live in harmony, abolish the police.
And it's like, you don't even know what side, like your side's putting up points and you're not even fighting for the points.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just a, it's a tricky, it's like we're in this weird battle, right?
Where a few years ago, we all started kind of pushing back against like the woke PC shit.
Right.
And now we're seeing the other side of that coin, which is the bigots.
Not like we haven't seen them before, but now they're like really showing themselves.
Emboldened.
But they're pretty much the same ideology, just flipped.
The ideology is essentially, I want the world my way, nobody else's way.
And I'm entitled to having it my way.
And if you don't agree with me, we should get you the fuck out of here.
That's how racist think, and that's how PC motherfuckers think.
It's the matrix shit.
Over it, it's like the more powerful Neo gets, the more powerful Agent Smith gets or whatever.
And I think that's what we're fucking seeing again.
And we have the exact same animosity to both of them.
Like I'm sitting here going, I hate both of these motherfuckers.
Why do I hate them?
Oh, because you're the same fucking person.
Rush Limbaugh said this.
He said, people think politics is on a spectrum.
It's more of a loop.
Give me an example.
It's not like far left and far right and it goes this way.
It travels like a loop.
And then at the extremes, they both just kind of meet.
Extreme right and extreme left are the same person.
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Yeah.
It's a loop.
You just grew up in different neighborhoods.
That's all.
Only difference between you.
Same mentality.
Yeah, that extremism is the characteristic.
If you were in that different neighborhood, you would be prone to those beliefs.
The thing that makes them missing in that extreme right more dangerous is you guys are pro-gun.
You're scared, bro.
You're pro-gun.
I was scared.
They came out with Akash.
Oh, yeah.
Did they?
Death threats and everything was big.
Yeah, 100% scary because you hate brown people and you're pro-gun.
Aka soft, bro.
Aka scared, bro.
A little bit.
I'm going to buy a gun.
Y'all got me.
Hey, gun control.
Y'all lost this one.
Y'all lost one.
Y'all done lost one.
I'm seeing that I wasn't.
I'm fucked out this bitch.
Y'all has one.
You copping a gun, bro.
Bro, I was like, I wasn't super gun control to begin with.
I was like, I see why people would have it for sure.
I don't think you need an automatic assault rifle or whatever, but now I might just have a bazooka at my fucking house.
You know what I mean?
You need to go straight Indian, have a fucking Cobra and a flute.
Dog.
If you had a Cobra and a flute, dog.
Real talk, you put that.
You can't scare the shit out of anybody.
A basket, yo?
No, you got to be a real basket.
And no Cobra in it.
And you just got a little Maraca in there that you move around and a flute right next to it.
Nobody breaking into your fucking house.
Yo, you're right about it.
It's better than a watchdog.
You got to watch Cobra.
You know the people that put the Brinks sticker on the hat?
That would be my version.
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The Somalis are coming after me right now.
Oh, yeah.
Because that joke that you did about the clips.
That shit came back up, dude.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Too bad those clits can't come.
Yeah, what?
What is so good?
That's how weird Ethiopians are knowing they got clits.
You laugh at all that.
Nah, nah, man.
My country's good on the general mutilation shit.
Yeah, y'all don't do that shit.
Yeah.
Why?
Because you're 50-50?
Because I think one is religion.
We're not the same religion.
Like a lot of Christians, a lot of Jews and shit in my country.
Yeah, the diversity.
How big of a problem is it in Somalia?
Depends who you ask.
I think Sam Harris said 98%.
96%.
98% of women in Somalia.
Are you sure Somalia is not Sudan?
No, Somalia, they said.
But I was like, how you calculate that?
Yeah, it seems.
You can't go around measuring pussies?
That's an insane dude.
Like, where do you get that stat?
That made no sense.
I don't believe it.
Probably just self-reported.
Hey, has your clip been cut off?
That's probably how I see it happening.
But, you know, I'm not surprised that they're coming for you.
Why?
I feel like me, where I'm from, I wouldn't, I would never, I want to live back in Ethiopia, but I would not want to do stand-up back there.
Really?
Because you get thrown in jail.
You've probably been to certain countries where you can't joke about certain things.
India is super sensitive.
It's a lot of people who don't have access to anything, even education, but they got access to internet now.
So like they're going to throw out opinions on this shit and they don't understand a lot of like what stand-up is or whatever.
I don't think it's education, though.
What is it?
It's really just cultural sensibilities.
There's just some things that are taboo.
Like you don't play on God over there.
You don't make fun of the press.
Like if you go to Dubai or like Saudi Arabia, you can't make fun of royalty.
You know, there's a small.
There's rules in places.
This is interesting.
And yeah, in Thailand, like you make a king.
Yeah.
This is an interesting thing.
And this is Mark was telling me about this the other day.
This is why like social media policing and social media policy is so interesting because you're developing a singular policy for the world because the world is on Facebook, the world's on Instagram, the world's on Twitter.
But the world has very different values.
Yes.
Right.
So what is completely acceptable and tolerable in America is not in Ethiopia in a lot of cases.
So if you cancel, you kick someone off Twitter for some shit in America, like, oh, you use the wrong pronouns or whatever fucking dumb shit there are.
And then people in Ethiopia are like, you could be a boy.
What do you mean you could be a boy?
That's not even on their radar.
Right.
So how the fuck do you create one policy for a global company?
I don't think you do.
You just do it based on American people.
I think everybody's in their own space.
There's a whole everybody, even within America, there's all these different internet worlds that we don't know exist.
Yeah.
And they got their own policy.
That's interesting.
So, you want to go back to Ethiopia, huh?
Yeah.
And what is that?
Do you want to be in politics over there?
Nah, I just like the quality of life.
So for me, it's just like, if I make quality of life is great.
For everybody?
No, not for everybody.
But if you've got some cheddar, you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, it's yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just, it's much easier life, much more calm.
A lot of things I don't necessarily like always about the West, but the liberties are more important to me than that quality of life.
Because I think the liberties that we have here matter to me more than just that comfort that I would be able to experience.
So that's why I'd want to go back for more than anything.
And it's not like out in common.
There's a lot of people who do that.
And so you think you'll do that eventually?
No, because I love doing stand-up.
And so for me, I just couldn't imagine living in a country where I could potentially go to jail because I made the wrong joke.
Yeah.
You know, and to be fair, my country, Ethiopia specifically, is far more progressive than some other countries.
That being said, that is something I worry about.
Yeah, there's something about, I was watching this video.
I forget the fucking philosopher, but he basically said, he's like, if there's one, if there's just one religion, it's tyranny.
If there's two religions, it's war.
And if there's more than two, everybody gets along.
Yeah.
Because you got to find a way to kind of like work with each other.
But when you don't have that like diversity of religion, you don't really have to accept anybody else's beliefs.
So maybe a place like Ethiopia, which is because of history, is quite diverse in terms of religion.
Like, don't you have Ethiopian Jews?
Yeah, we got a lot of Jews in Ethiopia.
Yeah.
So who, yes, somebody made it down.
Like Joseph's nephew or something made it down to Ethiopia way back in the day, right?
Yeah, we got ancient relics for like Jewish ancient relics of the north.
It's crazy.
Dude, and that weird church that's like underground that I think Indians made.
I don't know if it's necessarily Indians, but yeah, I know which church you're talking about.
Yeah, we get it's a country with like a lot of like the oldest human ever recorded found in Ethiopia.
Lucy really, Lucy, I believe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's a whole bunch of Lucy's a weird name for James.
You couldn't give her an Ethiopian name.
You get named after her.
Come on.
Come on, yo, she already got that.
Give her her first.
You know what I mean?
They said it was because they were listening to Lucy and this guy with diamonds when they discovered the remains.
Ah, sure.
So that's what they said.
And then they were like, ah, Lucy.
Still don't fuck with it.
But yeah.
I'm not mad at it.
When do how about diamond?
That's a black girl name.
Also, they got them in Africa.
Y'all chose the wrong fucking part of that song.
You think Diamond's a trigger word in Africa?
They're just like, yo, stop that shit, yo.
That shit has haunted my life.
Bro, we gentrified.
Diamonds over for you.
That shit's cutting our lifespan dramatically, actually.
Now that you mention it.
Congo.
Yeah, what do they propose with in Africa?
What's that?
Like, what do they propose?
What do they propose on?
They lost their arm getting cut off in diamond trade.
But you fucking listen, if she don't got a hand, she don't need a ring.
We made it a nice toe ring.
Okay, here's a question.
Yeah.
When does in Africa, when do you think blackness begins and Arabness ends?
Ooh.
Oh, because we were having this discussion before.
I'm trying to figure this out.
Which is, which is like we've divided people based on continents because it usually kind of works out like that.
Like Asians are Asia and it works like that.
But then again, you go to parts of Asia and they're not.
You go to like the Russian parts of Asia and they look white, right?
You look at the Indian parts of Asia, they're Indian, right?
Yeah.
Everybody that's in Africa just is assumed as black, right?
Because we look at Africa as the black continent.
But in North Africa, especially when I was in Egypt, yeah, you see black Egyptians, but you see white Egyptians.
Yeah, for sure.
Do you think that there's like a line where Rami self-identifies as Arab?
Rami is Arab.
He's an Egyptian.
Yeah.
Self-identifies as Arab.
And yeah, like he's from Africa, but he can't drop that M-bomb.
Yeah.
So, like, I basically, what's the end bomb line?
Where's the Mason-Dixon line for the N-bomb?
What's the 51st parallel?
When is it safe?
That's a good question.
That's a good question.
You know, when people talk about Africa, at first, they just see it as like a homogenous country.
Of course.
You know, they just see it as Africa.
So, what do Africans think?
Not recognizing like Ethiopians and Somalians who are neighbors don't think alike whatsoever at all.
You know, so it's a hard one to tell you, but yeah, North Africa is a good indication.
Like, they consider themselves different.
They might call themselves Africans, but not nearly as much enthusiasm.
And then, Horn of Africa is also different.
Like, Somalians, Ethiopians, we feel different from Central Africans and South Africans.
But when you are in the West, you'll use the N-word.
Yes.
And North Africans, if you're Algerian or stuff like that, I would assume less so.
Man, I don't know what circles you guys hang around, but I know.
They dropping it?
Oh, yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
That's crazy.
And they feel.
But y'all got Asians here who drop it.
Yeah, it's wild.
Everybody.
Well, no, we're not talking when, I'm talking about when black people are around.
Even when black people are around.
Everybody uses it.
But it's like what?
It's mad awkward being with a bunch of Indians are all just saying the N-word.
And I'm like, none of y'all would say this to a black person.
They actually do that?
Oh, dude.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then the weirdo.
The weirdest defense is.
We were in Koreatown.
I saw them dropping that shit.
Yo, Asians be dropping.
He's right.
Asians drop it.
And the weirdest defense is my black friend lets me say.
And it's like, I don't say it around a black stranger.
And then I'll be like, okay, now I see.
Okay.
Let's see how confident you really are in that word.
Yeah, it makes me think of Rich Chigger.
Remember him?
The rapper?
Rich Chigger, the Asian dude.
Yeah, he changed it recently because he got enough backlash about it.
But he basically was just saying.
It's Brian, he calls himself now.
Yeah, yeah.
But remember?
And he had a great line.
He's like, you don't want to fuck with a chigger like me.
And I remember just laughing so hard because he got around saying nigga, but he still said it.
Yeah.
That's a funny one.
But yeah, they say it all the time.
And here's the thing in Africa, too, it's like, it's not the same thing.
We don't have the same history.
So the relationship that word is not the same.
If you go around Africa as a white person, you're like, nigga, nigga, black people, they won't care.
Really?
Yeah.
I wouldn't recommend you go do it just in case you get filmed.
But because you guys probably have your own words, they're way more painful.
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Not necessarily.
We don't have the same colonial history.
So no.
Yeah, y'all should not the ones the colonial.
Well, Ethiopia specifically doesn't, but there are tons of places that do.
Yo, how did y'all body out everybody?
How'd you never get to Africa be?
Have you seen those jungles?
Yeah, it was hard for those Italians who used to sunny fucking countrysides to be like a rainforest.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like, that's a difficult thing to navigate.
But they bodied everywhere else.
Why is it Ethiopia is the one spot that they couldn't colonize?
Because we live in mountains.
It's a mountainous country.
It is impossible to traverse.
And we were patient.
You know what I mean?
We hid in the bushes.
We dragged that shit out.
It wasn't instantaneous.
We beat them back like three, four times, but they were long campaigns.
And you knew it.
And it was just part of the culture.
We're like, we're not going to get bodied no matter what.
I don't think it was necessarily part of the culture, but they just fought and they just kept fighting and they just didn't stop.
And the other, it's like, you know, war is not always about just direct conflict.
Sometimes it's just a matter of attrition.
Yes.
You wait the other group long enough and their supply lines dry out.
They can't stay here long enough.
So war is complicated.
It's expensive.
That's what people need to realize with these fucking protests.
Yeah.
It's going to be a process.
Dry out the money supply.
Like, I think it was, I think George Washington has a losing record in battles.
He's the most famous general who's trash.
But the idea behind the Revolutionary War was we can't beat them, but we can make them broke.
So stretch this motherfucker out as long, stalemate, stalemate, stalemate, and eventually they're just going to go away.
It's not financially worth it.
And that's probably Vietnam.
Anytime you see a big empire lose a war, it's not because they can't just keep killing people.
It's like, is this worth the money?
Is this, can I afford to keep killing?
How much shit am I really going to get?
At the same time, I was thinking about these protests.
I'm like, these cops are on the sidelines getting happy as fuck because they're getting so much overtime.
Yeah.
Just to stand there.
They're like, defund the police.
He's like, ha, 1.5 peg.
They're literally extra funding the police.
Whoa.
Yep.
What do you think?
What do you think?
You think that you think cops have the right to be furious about the way they're getting treated right now?
By who?
By the protesters and by the sentiment.
Like just the overall sentiment?
Yeah, a little bit, but then ones that are ones that can empathize, I feel they probably understand.
But the ones that are, it's harder for them to empathize with others outside of their own group.
They probably feel resentment.
And I feel like you could police each other a little better.
Like I always hear cops being like, hey, we want this guy to get prosecuted just as much as you.
I don't hear a lot of Minneapolis cops coming out and saying, no, Derek Chauvin needs to go to jail.
Like you'll say that when it's another precinct and you don't know the guy.
It's impressive to me and it's noble to me when it's your precinct and you're like, yo, this guy killed somebody.
He should pay the price.
Cops always say that, hey, there's great cops.
Most of us are great.
We want punishment for the bad cops.
That was awful.
But when it's somebody you know, you don't say shit.
And that's different.
Yeah.
Yeah, the silence is weird.
I was talking about this on Rogan that like I look at Bernie Sanders in that way.
Yeah.
Like he's one of the good cops that just won't talk about the bad cops.
Yeah.
And like the DNC fucks him every single primary.
Brutal.
Brutal, right?
Brutal.
It's hard to watch.
He's just silent.
Yeah.
But he's silent every single time.
It's like, okay, well, you just, you're complicit now.
You're letting it happen.
Yeah.
Do you look at American politics like that?
And like, do you see, is this just like a show to you guys?
Is it all entertainment?
Is it confusing?
No, because I think a lot of the problems that happen here are reflected in other countries.
That's why people resonate with it so much.
It's not just watching from afar, like, what the fuck.
To some degree, people can understand a lot of their frustrations.
It's like, yo, we feel like we're in a two-party system in Canada as well.
Right.
You know what I mean?
That's the same issue in a lot of different places.
So whatever you guys are going with, it's just broadcasted to everyone else.
So it's like days of our lives for us.
Yes.
Now, when you're doing stand-up, do you think, like when people come out, are they expecting what's in the videos?
Sometimes, like, if you get a YouTube audience, like you've probably had this happen, like people come to your show and they've never seen stand-up before.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they're like, oh, I didn't think it was going to be like this.
I thought you were going to talk about Amanda Seals.
That doesn't happen.
Sometimes people scream some shit out of a show, but you just cultivate the audience and you make them realize what stand-up is and then they warm up to it and they're like, oh, I actually like this shit.
It's crazy how many people have never been to a stand-up comedy show, but they see someone they like.
Even the person's never done comedy, they'll be like, I'll pay 50 bucks to go see that.
That's a weird thing.
They want to be in the same room as you.
I think that's really what it comes down to.
And it's just interesting, you're in a unique space because the thing that you're doing is funny, but the first intention is not to be funny.
It's funny because you guys are funny.
Not because you're like, oh, I'm writing these punchlines.
Yeah.
Well, we don't rehearse anything.
We have the idea and then we just start talking and then we edit it down.
Yeah.
I want to ask you something, though.
This is the way you guys do shit.
Do you guys ever feel like you sacrifice the conversation for the jokes every now and then?
Sacrifice the conversation for the jokes.
Yeah.
What does that mean?
Meaning sometimes you guys are delving into serious shit.
Yeah.
And sometimes it just goes off on a tangent with the funny shit.
And it's dope.
It's fun to watch.
Yeah, yeah.
But do you guys ever feel like you have that second question?
I'm sure there's been times after where I'm like, I wish we visited that more.
But the thing we're trying to harness is the fun.
We're always trying to tap into the fun.
So if we both have the understanding, that's the idea of flagrancy is we're not going to sacrifice fun because something could be offensive.
Right.
So as long as we keep that as like our North Star, then I think we're good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's a lot of resources out there for like straight information and facts.
Right.
And we're giving you perspective.
Right.
That's fair.
We're not trying to give you the fucking data.
Yeah.
We're just giving you perspective and it could be wild and crazy.
And when we're becoming more like journalistic, I think we're having less fun.
And I think it's not there.
That being said, I think there's, I think if you're just goofy all the time, that becomes the norm and it's no longer fun.
You still need something to be juxtaposed against.
You know, like, I think our funniest moments come oftentimes when it's a serious conversation.
When it goes left fast.
Yeah, because it's not expecting it.
Like, if we take a goofy topic, right?
Something that's already silly and we try to be silly on top of it.
It's like the, it's like a peanut butter jelly sandwich, but it's only jelly.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's just, you're just missing that something that you could bounce it.
But when we got like the serious conversation that we cut off of this podcast, but it was earlier, like that's a real heavy topic.
Right.
So the tension's thick.
Yeah.
And wherever there's tension, there's going to be some funny.
But it's a good question.
Like when you're joking around stuff about shit, can you not get to the meat?
Yeah.
Well, I only ask is like, I can tell you guys care about some of the topics you bring up.
You know what I'm saying?
And so it's funny to just see that juxtaposition and then it just goes left.
And I enjoy it a lot.
But I always have that frustration sometimes with myself.
Like, cause our shit can go left sometimes too.
And a lot of times I have to edit it out or like put in the extra footage.
But yeah, I'm always trying to find that balance.
That's the coolest thing about this rant show that we've been doing.
Right.
So it's like the coolest thing about it to me is that when I just do stand-up and I do a bit, I can't explain the real meaning behind the bit afterwards because they're like, no, no, no, we're here for comedy.
Like, what are you doing?
Giving the fucking TED Talk about this.
Right.
But the cool thing about this is that when we're putting together the idea, we have the fun, we execute it through fun.
And then at the end, we can go, hey, this is the real part of it.
And that's not really allowed per se in stand-up.
Maybe if you're Chappelle, you could take five minutes and pontificate on something and tell the whole story about whatever the fuck it is.
But he's earned that because he's so fucking prolific.
You're like, I'm just going to listen to you.
And maybe one day we get there.
But yeah, it is an interesting question.
Well, those clips have been doing super well.
I see them all the time being.
Man, it's been cool.
It's crazy.
It's just been fucking cool.
Yeah.
It reminds me of what a late night show monologue would look like if it wasn't PC.
You know what I'm saying?
I think that's a good idea.
Yeah.
That's what we've been doing.
That's what all politics show should be, I think, is what the idea was.
Yeah, we were just talking about this and I was talking about it on Rogan a little bit, which is like it's very difficult right now to have a fair cultural or political satire show because the institution that you're working for is politically aligned.
Right.
And they won't allow you to make fun of that institution.
So there's only one other institution left.
Right.
The opposition.
So you have to push in that direction.
And what we were basically saying is like, we're just going to do like the funniest joke or even the truth never has a party, right?
Like sometimes the truth is left, sometimes the truth is right.
That's just how it is.
So we're just going to do the funniest bit.
We're going to have the most truthful take.
And another reason why I watch your guys' shit is like, there's ammunition in it.
Like I watch your videos.
Like, I got some ammunition for a defund.
Anybody wants to talk to me about defunding?
I got a few bars I could give to the people and I'm ready to go.
I didn't research it.
You did all the intellectual heavy lifting for me, but now I got it locked.
Right.
You know, and I think we try to put that into pieces as well.
It's like, all right, what is the one thing this week that we want to talk about?
It's five minutes.
Now, when you talk to your friends about masks later, you can be like, well, the masks don't even work.
I'm like, how do you know that?
Fauci, but it's really, it's really marketing just fucking writing these jokes, you know?
So yeah, it just works that way.
Yeah.
I wanted to ask you guys, this is like a question I've been asking myself all week.
But do you guys feel like, especially in the States, we focus so much so much on race?
And I say this because I find like companies like Amazon, like Black Lives Matter and all this shit.
And then they align themselves as if they're very liberal and left, but then their work policies are extremely conservative in the way they operate.
So I feel like there's so many people trying to invest in this racial conversation just to keep away from their own shitty behaviors.
Mark has an interesting thing about this.
Go.
But yeah, like I completely agree.
But also, just the fact that you have all these corporations that are supporting this quote-unquote revolution is effectively, it should be an indication that it's not going to affect anyone's money.
No.
It's not going to affect anyone's bottom.
Break that down, though.
Like, why would, like, if there's some sort of like revolution against like the 1% or an Occupy Wall Street thing, no wealthy corporation that's making a ton of money, especially off the backs of poor people, is going to support some sort of labor revolution.
It could potentially hurt their bottom line.
Yeah.
Like, you're not going to support a revolution that's like, yo, take down Amazon.
Amazon's not going to be like, yeah, you're right.
It's like, this is like some sort of social issue that's not going to affect anyone's money.
So they can get on board.
And on top of that, if they get on board, it can actually affect, it can actually improve their money.
Yeah, because now they look like good guys.
You imagine if Black Lives Matter tried to be like, yo, let's fuck up tax havens.
How fast?
Find Amazon feel like we're not shipping those niggas.
That would change instantly.
100%.
And so for me, it's like such a focus.
And people don't realize if you eliminate a lot of this wealth problem, a lot of these racial issues will disappear as well.
People always talk about like police reform and this and that.
And I'm like, that sounds great.
I get it in the short term.
But in the long term, if you don't fix people's finances and their money problems, these issues will persist.
The most interesting thing about the Derek Chauvin murder is the amount of diversity in the cops that killed him that is completely removed from the conversation, right?
Like I knew this was going to happen.
We even fucking talked about it in the last piece.
We're like, they will make this a race war when this is a war against police brutality that is disproportionately affecting black people.
100% race plays a part in everything.
Don't get me wrong.
But it's not a white people, black people on the street beefing.
This is authority and authority abusing a certain percentage of the population.
But it's not as exciting as if you can create a race war.
No.
That's the fun shit.
Additionally, it's not.
Race is a weapon.
That's what I think we're all getting at.
Yeah.
If you can keep the poor people feuding over race, they're not going to feud over the fact that they're not getting money, that minimum wage is fucking them up or whatever the economic issue is.
They're not going to let us war over something they don't have the weapons for.
Yeah, poor people.
Amazon is like, cool, y'all war over race.
And yeah, black people are getting fucked up.
We're not denying that at all, but we'll keep that as much as we can.
We'll protect our money.
And then we'll send out an email in support of these black people who are getting killed because they shouldn't be.
And it's not fucking up our money.
Wait, you don't think it's going to fuck up their money?
Because I saw Bezos post over the weekend.
He's getting emails for, because they have like Black Lives Matter.
They support Black Lives Matter when you go to Amazon.
So now he's getting emails that people are like, oh, I ain't fucking with Amazon anymore.
He knows good and goddamn well.
Ain't nobody canceling their Amazon.
Yeah, go get your shit.
Go get your shit.
Where else are you going to get it?
Go to Walmart.
Guess what they said?
Black Lives Matter.
Yeah.
Well, everybody.
I'm not positive.
You know what this is?
This is another version of the environmentalist movement.
It's like, you know how every actor cares about the environment?
Because it's the issue you can care about and not piss anybody off that's going to buy a ticket to your film.
Like Leonardo DiCaprio is like, okay, I got to be the biggest actor, but I can't be this rich and successful and fuck this many 19-year-olds and then not do some good.
What good can I do without pissing off the population some of it?
Polar bears.
Done.
And I feel like this, they've realized the companies have realized that this movement, they're like, okay, maybe we'll piss off some cops, but we can deal pissing off with 1% of the population if we're going to get tons of free promo, tons of free PR, and we're going to have black people who truly organize as a group, especially when it comes to like purchasing power.
We're going to have black people ride for us heavy.
They did the same calculations as Nike.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say.
I remember when people were like, oh, I'm going to boycott Nike, blah, blah, blah.
Their stocks are going to drop for supporting them.
Nope.
Shit went right up.
And I'm like, Nike's the same company that sells like overpriced sneakers to niggas.
And I'm like, yo, they don't give a fuck.
Yeah, it's like it's all virtual signaling because it benefits their bottom line.
They're strategically placing themselves to be on the right side of conflicts for their bottom line.
They rarely make miscalculations on that.
As soon as it's unfashionable to support black people, the corporations will empower black people.
Unfashionable, or as soon as it, I guess, unfashionable is also tied to their bottom line.
Yeah, I'm saying more specifically, like if it's going to really affect their bottom line.
Like Nike's been around for a minute.
They know what they're doing.
Corporations see color, and I'm sure that is shown in their hiring practices, etc.
But more than color, they see green.
Yeah.
Where's the green?
That's where I'm aligned.
Yeah, dude.
You know, it's you know what's crazy that I've been thinking about like why didn't those these corporations that existed like during the fucking Nazis, why didn't they rebrand like which company?
Like Volkswagen is still Volkswagen, but it's good for their brand because Nazis had great vehicles.
Oh, bro.
But they did, though.
They had great machinery.
So I'm like, I might hate them, but if I need a good car, I'm going to get it from the person.
When they were pulling up into France, they were like, oh, man, we're fucked.
But that shit is moving.
Horsepower.
You think Jews in Germany are taking the service road?
Art Advil Vaccine Invented Validation00:14:41
Fuck out of here, yo.
Hey, put me in the left lane on this Autobahn.
Gee, let's go.
Wow, that's interesting.
So even though it's this horrible tragedy, there is positive equity in the things that I mean, I guess that's how NASA got started, right?
Fill me in.
I don't know.
Oh, you didn't know about that shit?
No, no.
Oh, son.
It's that red pill, dog.
We stole all the scientists from the Nazis.
Oh, we split them up with the Russians.
And then our whole space program is designed by the Operation Paperclip, I think it's called.
I think somebody has a bit about this, but it's like dope shit outweighs anybody's morals.
Yes.
Yeah, Louis.
Gerard.
Gerard.
Yeah.
And I think that's very true.
It's like people virtually signal all they want, but if you got a dope product.
All right.
Let me throw something at you then.
Okay.
Art, artist.
Seemingly inseparable.
I like how you started that shit like it was poetry, right?
Art.
Artist.
Seemingly.
So seemingly inseparable in terms of the actions of the artists versus the art they create, right?
And if the actions of the artists are immoral, we also cancel that art that they produced.
Do we?
Some people would say, right?
We can say hypothetically, right?
Like Cosby shows taking off air, et cetera.
You might not.
Yeah.
But that's why I'm asking.
I might not.
And you might not.
We know you don't.
I do not.
Yeah.
This guy was wearing a fucking Tillman universe.
So, or Hillman, what is it called?
Hillman.
Hillman God.
I gotta go.
I was wearing the Hillman collar.
He's wearing that shit all the time.
Crew neck all the time.
During the Cosby trial.
That's where Cosby got his teenagers.
Like he was tired of old bitches, raping old bitches on his show.
He's like, I need a fucking college show.
What?
I had a picture.
My dead hoodie on with the hood up and my head down.
And I sent it to Charlamagne.
It said, Justice for Cosby.
Wow.
So he did not respond.
Surprisingly.
Science, scientist.
Scientist does some horrible thing.
In Greece, they used to use little 14-year-old boys as like flesh dogs.
Fuck them all back in the day.
Fuck them all, right?
They did.
Back in the day.
Every scientist, Pythagoras, fucking every little kid, right?
That was just what it was.
You had it.
The science exists.
We separate those.
We're not going to stop using antibiotics because Alexander Fleming did some foul shit back then.
Right.
Can we do that with art?
Or should we?
I think the distinction that they always make is like, we need those inventions in terms of science because it's like life important.
You know, if you come up with a vaccine, but you've raped 100 people, they're still not going to throw away the vaccine because it potentially will help and save folks.
So I think they'll make a distinction between that and art.
That's the argument they would make.
Rogan said this.
He goes, all right, go, go, go.
Yeah, well, the question he asked in the podcast is, are we saying science is less important than art?
And I would say, yeah, we are.
Also, I think.
More important than art.
Science is more important than art.
Yeah, sorry.
Also, I think with artists, when they put out their art, that's like you're like, you feel like you know them and you connect the two.
So art is a reflection of who they are.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
Pythagoras' theorem isn't a reflection of its.
That existed and he discovered it.
Yeah.
Whereas art is something that actually comes from you and you create your soul.
Question.
What about if art is so powerful and so therapeutic that it has almost scientific ramifications?
Like, I think there are people that feel so good when they listen to Michael Jackson's music and it evokes so many emotions, maybe like childhood stuff or whatever it is.
It makes them feel so fucking good.
Well, some people, a lot of childhood emotions.
But like, can that reach the level of science?
Here's one difference.
An artist, it's like the double-edged sword.
If you get famous for your creation, you get worship for your creation.
Alexander Fleming, I didn't even know who the fuck he was until 10 seconds ago.
You don't desire or enter this business for fame necessarily.
You might get fame within your community, but within your community, the people who worship you, if they find out Alexander Fleming fucks kids, might be like, yo, fuck that.
Fuck that dude.
Foul ass motherfucker.
Science isn't necessarily performative.
Whereas like art is kind of like inherently performative.
You're doing it because you want some sort of like credit.
You want some sort of validation.
Like want adulation, but like it's just sort of goes with the territory.
It's impossible to be a singer without singing.
You know what I mean?
Like the very, like, it's intrinsic to being a singer that you must perform.
Rogan brought up an interesting one.
He said, the guy who created like fertilizer, you guys heard about this one?
No.
Maybe.
I think like the same type of formula used for the fertilizer, I could be getting this wrong, was used for the gas where they gas the Jews.
Oh yeah, I've heard about this.
Something like that?
Yeah, Zyklon B.
Yeah, and then Zyklon A is like the fertilizer or something like that.
Zyklon B.
So apparently, while they're gassing Jews, he's winning the fucking Nobel Peace Prize.
While they're gassing Jews with the exact same thing.
And understandably so for the Nobel Peace Prize because how many people are getting fed because now you can actually fertilize these crops.
There's way more crops out there.
Go.
Just to just to add to your point, the whole Nobel Peace Prize.
What?
The whole guy that invented the Nobel Peace Prize.
You know his story?
What's that?
Literally the guy, I think it's like Alfred Noble or some shit.
Okay.
He's the guy that invented dynamics.
He invented dynamite.
What?
He's the guy that invented dynamite.
He invents his dynamite.
It starts getting used in like wars and people are blowing each other up and shit.
That's him.
Someone writes an article where they're like, oh yeah, Alfred Noble, you know, the agent of death or some shit like that.
Where they're like, they basically gave him the title of like, oh yeah, this guy invented death and like killed all these people.
And he was like, oh, shit, I can't be remembered as the guy that killed all these people.
So he went out and started this fund and this charity basically to be like, no, we got to reward like humanitarians.
So he literally invented the Nobel Peace Prize.
Out of guilt.
Out of guilt because he kills so many people.
So he's like those white people rubbing black people's feet during these protests now.
Is that what they're doing?
They're rubbing feet?
Bro, you didn't see this?
This shit got to be set up, B. Some of them, one of them was set up.
One guy was like walking up to white women and he's like, do you believe Black Lives Matter?
She's like, yeah.
Bend the knee.
You bend the knee.
I was like, what is happening?
Some of it is a setup.
Some of it is a setup to just basically strawman the movement.
But to come back to your point about the product, I feel like with art, art, it's hard to measure the impact it has on people.
A vaccine, you take it, you get better, or you prevents you from disease.
We know it.
With art, you can say it makes people feel great and all this stuff.
But it's just like most people's problems.
If they really can't see the impact, they don't believe it or they don't really care.
You know, I can talk about inequality all I want, but watching a black man get snuffed in front of me is always going to have more impact because it's a visual.
Even though this problem is more important and it is bigger, that is always going to make people feel more.
In that same token, art may have more of an impact on people's happiness levels and fighting off depression and all this other shit.
But a vaccine is always going to hit home harder.
So it's just, people's minds are not apt to understand.
I understand.
Like you can quantify how many lives you saved with a vaccine.
You can't quantify how many people were going to kill themselves until they heard this guy's music or whatever.
That's all like.
Yo, totally separate note.
You know how like Corona went out of business because of Corona?
Yeah.
Yeah, the beer went out of business.
The beer went out of business.
Oh, it's actually dead?
Y'all didn't hear about this?
I heard they like stopped production or something like that.
I mean, it's such a big beer distributor.
They're probably owned by some other big company.
He'll probably figure it out.
But it was severely effective.
Yeah.
Right.
Has Advil not taken a hit?
I'm sure they have.
Because everybody blamed.
Like, I'm not taking Advil no more ever.
For what?
They said, I know.
You didn't hear about this?
No.
The initial situation.
That shit makes you gay, bro.
They said, they found out.
Fuck, where are you getting these stories?
Yo.
Yeah.
What?
Advil makes you gay.
They did this.
They did a study over.
No, no, no, no.
They did a study over the last 50 years and they found that people who took Advil instead of Tylenol had a higher activity of gay.
It was like a Tuskegee experiment, but they did it in Atlanta.
You see what I do?
No!
Nah, this is serious.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Okay, you know how white Mark is?
Smartest guy we know.
What kind of experiment?
The Tuskegee experiment.
It's all right, dog.
It's all right.
Motherfucker can't even pronounce his own last name.
You think he's going to be able to pronounce Tuskegee, bro?
What?
What did I say?
Tuskegee.
What's up with you and G's, motherfucker?
Figure him out.
Been taking all these Advils.
In all seriousness, Advil makes you die from Corona.
So you're saying Advil makes you Gagnon?
It's Gagnon, bro.
Okay, so this is like.
I'm like, early on, where like, if you take Ibuprofen, it will kill you faster if you have Corona or some shit like that.
It's so harmful for treating Corona.
So why would you ever take Advil again just on the risk?
The study was false.
Turned out later.
But the dash has been done.
They want to give up that you fucking dork.
You're knowing about studies and shit.
Fucking nerd ass mode.
Well, technically, the ticket told me IB proven.
I don't call it Advil.
That's just a brand name.
I've been proven.
You cannot call me a dork and like David Still.
Bill Still, motherfucker.
Put some respect on the God.
Fucking fuck.
You watch Bill Still yet?
I don't know who that is.
Yo.
You don't need to.
That's the God, bro.
Bill Still is the fucking GOAT, dude.
He looks like Steve Kerr.
He's out there talking shit about the Fed.
Is it any good?
Do y'all gotta tell me that?
This is how boring he is.
He's still alive.
Say what?
You know how boring you gotta be the shit on the Fed your entire career and you're still alive?
The documentary exposed like all the banking families and all the foul shit that's going on through years, but it was so boring that all the Rothschilds were like, let that shit rock.
Should we kill this guy?
They're like, oh, you finished this?
Which part you got to?
Is that an indication that a conspiracy is bullshit?
If like you can put out as much information as you want, they still decide not to act.
I just think they know people don't give a fuck enough.
I think like as long as we're comfy, everything's cool.
Yeah.
They just need to keep us comfy.
That's the whole thing.
Yeah.
But they got to squeeze us enough so that they get theirs.
They get theirs.
And then I literally think the trajectory of society is squeeze, We start to push back.
And they're like, all right, release it a little bit.
Let them get a little something.
And then we go back to squeeze, Because right now, like you said earlier, this is a Black Lives Matter movement, but everybody who feels aggrieved by anything is part of it because they're like, all right, we're taking down the system in any way.
I'm about it.
Let's go.
And I think the powers that be are seeing that and they're like, oh, yeah, we were screwed.
We were doing a little too much squeezing.
So let's see what happens.
I think you're going to see some, outside of obviously just giving people money, that's what they just did with the stemming check or whatever.
But I think you're going to see money getting back into people's hands in some way.
Really?
They got to, like, if you're a billionaire, right?
You can only be a billionaire as long as we allow you to be.
Fair.
Right?
Like, if we just go fuck it, fuck the country.
We're not going to have a country anymore.
Yeah.
Good luck.
Yeah.
It's not going to work.
But I don't, this is what, to your point, maybe is all bullshit.
The stock market just keeps going up.
Like, it's almost back to where it was before Corona.
Bro, none of it makes sense.
It's because they're giving people money.
Yeah.
Everybody who applied for unemployment, even if you're even if you're not getting money from your state, which that's where you're supposed to get it from, the government's sending you $600.
I have not gotten this money yet.
Everybody who applied for this shit.
So it's like, hey, shut up, everybody.
But at some point, that has to lead to crazy inflation.
Yeah.
You're peeing on yourself.
Eventually you run out of P, bro.
Yeah.
So at some point, it's going to catch up.
And if there's inflation, they come back down.
You never pee on yourself when it's warm?
Yeah, but run out of P then.
And you run out of P and then it gets cold.
And you've got P all over you.
You made it work.
I used to pee in my wetsuit and love it.
It'd be so warm.
Yeah.
That's all.
Disgusting.
Can we talk about how much bullshit Anonymous is?
The new Anonymous.
It's just because the first Anonymous was like the shit.
They were really hacking shit.
We're going to get you Trump's.
You can even get Trump's salary.
But that's what I'm saying.
This new anonymous because they went away for mad years.
And now they just come back under a new name, but same imagery.
And they haven't released a single thing that isn't just like.
That's because the social media manager was trash.
He's like, yo, during this pandemic, let me release all this important information while Black Lives Matter is going at it.
It's like, no one, if this would have happened during regular times, I feel like it would have got way more traction.
I was like, why would you drop it?
Nah, the beginning of the pandemic when we all had nothing to do, drop it then.
Sure.
But not now.
Why would you drop it now?
You got to be careful with your content right now.
There's a lot of comics posting stand-up clips right now.
And it's like, do you not know what's going on?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, now is not the time.
They're getting views, though.
Are they?
Yeah.
Are you posting on Instagram?
No, I haven't posted in a bit, but I'm trying to hold out and figure out when to get back in or whatever.
Yeah, it feels weird to not post about, because especially with everything, everybody wants you to talk about that.
And so oftentimes when I deviate from, because I don't want to cover policing and all that shit all the time, but it's so omnipresent in people's minds that's all they want to click on.
Yeah.
You have to.
Yeah, man.
Well, look, we got to wrap this up, man.
Tell the people where they can find you.
Is there anything else that you want to get off your chest?
You know what I mean?
No, no, I'm pretty good.
As far as finding me, I wouldn't preach.
You just find us on all social medias as that.
ABA and preach.
And I guarantee if you watch our videos on the internet, you've probably seen at least a thumbnail pop up from you guys.
Yeah.
I think that we're kind of locked into a very similar part of the algorithm.
Yeah.
So go check them out.
Great stuff.
And then when are you guys going to come here and do some stand-up?
We were supposed to do a tour right before this Corona stuff popped off.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
We were planning the visas and everything.
Almost gave the lawyer the final payment.
I said, nah, bitch, wait like another two weeks.
I'm going to see.
And I'm not giving her the payment anytime soon.
But yeah, I think once this all kind of winds down, we're supposed to do our world tour.