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It's it's been a long week, but I'm excited for this show. I had to put we got a lot a lot of stuff to talk about it. Yeah, yeah, we do. It has been a long week. Man, I was dragging Man and uh Dragon getting too the finish line. But I'm glad we're doing the show because we got a lot of important stuff to talk about. Misslemalley, you know what, I'm right there with both of you. And it has definitely been a week. But i'd say my week kind of it's it's ending better than what it was going. I got my son switched over. I'm gonna be doing him in homeschool for a little short period of time, so at least I know I don't have to like you know, custom no teachers out and in that in that sense, but uh yeah, school is literally like right around the corner, and I mean things are going pretty good for me. I'd say when they start a two different Uh my daughter she don't go back until next month. My son actually goes back at the end of this month, and I'm actually excited for him to do it. I mean for my daughter, she's because she's going into the fourth grade and she was like, but mom, I don't know how to do fourth grade math. I'm like, guilty to do you listen, don't come to me and ask Mama to help you, because that is not my listen. I'm okay, it's you want somebody else. Math. I can look, I can count money. Math is not my thing. This new get that new man. I don't know nothing on media with algebra. She was like, I don't know nothing about this algar role, honey. So we have a topic that we're going to discuss opening the show. Uh, something that Robin loves to talk about. She didn't even know we were gonna do this. Relationships. Robin loves this crap. But there is Dante and I had a conversation before the show started about just some some dynamics right now that are very concerning. A perfect example is and the conversation really started about the appeal of you know, guys like liking Andrew take for example. And I can already see the smoke coming from Robin's ears because she explodes every time you say that man's name. But we were having a conversation before the show started, just in a larger sense, about why there is why people like that have an appeal in the first place. And you know, one of the things I said was there The problem is that men and women across the board, races, whatever, don't matter. There's a disconnect, and you have an epidemic, in my opinion, of broken men, which I believe is a result of an overcorrection. So you had women who had went through some legitimately awful things, and society corrected itself as a result, which is good. But after the correction came the over correction, and you have a generation of men who are beat down, who don't have any purpose, don't feel any worth, don't feel any value, and they look to the first person who's going to say, nah, f that right. So I always say, like, I understand, even though I personally think some of the things that Angel Tate says is reprehensible, I understand the appeal because we have a young man problem in this country. It's something that we're not talking about. And this is one of the reasons why the whole when it comes to violence and black man bad, one of the reasons why that conversation irritates me so much is because we aren't We're missing the point. The real issue is that we have a man problem in the country period. If you look statistically. Since people love to talk about statistics. If you look statistically, there is a high rate of young black men committing homicides, but there's also a high rate of young white men committing suicides. So when I look at that, that tells me that there's a problem across the board. It may manifest itself in different ways, but at the root, in my opinion, is the same or a similar problem. And that's a lack of purpose, a lack of value, a lack of pride in oneself. And I don't mean pride in an arrogant way. I mean pride is in like belief in yourself. And there aren't people feeding into these men, you know what I'm saying. And so we have created a society where we say where we associate masculinity in general with toxicity, when a there's a lot of toxicity to go around and be. If you alienate masculinity, all you have left is so called toxic masculinity because what happens is you get the overcorrection to the overcorrection, which is where I think we are today. Where you have men who are writing women off, where you have men the marriage rates are dropping, the birth rates are dropping. You're having men who aren't even interested in women. Straight straight men who aren't even interested in women and aren't even interested in having conversations with women. And I think this environment has a lot to do with it, where we have made toxicity the norm, and as a result, you're seeing it boomerang all across the culture. Dante your thoughts, I think you made a lot of good points, and I you know the thing, I mean, it really was brought up to my attention today that a lot of young men, really under the age of thirty kind of really look up to these Andrew Take types. And you know, you if you're on social media at all, you've come across these people. So I mean you see these people and you realize like, oh okay, you got some engagement. But I didn't realize how how prevalent it was in a lot of communities where I mean people look up to this guy like like he really is profound, and you know, some some of these talk ahead types or you know, populist figures that rise up. It's like okay, you know you can say like okay, forty percent is b as another forty percent is way out there, and then maybe you know you got some of the things you say is accurate. I have ever heard take make a salient points some of the things that he says is sort of reprehensible, especially when it comes to women. And I wonder what what happened, right and we like you you mentioned and I'll go a little bit deeper here about just some of the plights that men have faced, right and and specifically black men right where whether it was the prison system, violence, the crack era, right, we we we've seen a lot of trauma. And so now a lot of a lot of black men are out earned by their women counterparts and are also out educated by their women counterparts. And so I can understand where it may be more difficult, especially if you're purposeless or if you you know, or if you're not seeing the type of responses from women that you want. But I just think that there's a there's got to be more of a way to elevate that conversation versus you know, just to let it express itself in a violence or in an anger that I don't think I've ever really seen before. Because I d out, like we were talking earlier, it's like I'm I'm shocked, Like I didn't realize that there was such a market for this type of you know what, I would just call it deplorable behavior, where like like you mentioned, I mean, straight men but talk about women like they ain't nothing. And it's like in our community, it's really shocking, especially because a lot of us raised by mom and grandma. So it's like where does where does this hate and anger come from? And I, you know, it really kind of blew my mind. That's why I had called you initially because I'm like, bro, this is I didn't realize how serious this guy wasn't and shout out to Robin. I mean, she mentioned it a bunch on the show. Well seriously, because I'm like, come on, man, nobody listens to this guy. And if y'all remember when Robin first brought him up, Dante and I both didn't know who he was, Like we didn't even know who he was when Robin first blow and then when we talked about him, like come on, you know, come on man, no nobody and nobody really listening to it is because you know, growing up, I was always pushed like man, you better go on and get you you know, go go. We was always pushing it. It's not necessarily right, but it's like man, you better go talk to some girls, Like you don't want to be in the house all day, you better go talk to some girls, like you know what I'm saying like that, I mean, that's just you go to be around women, right that? What why would I not? But I think you know, and and I think a lot of this could come from a self loathing as well, Like if you are not making money and you know you have been rejected before, it could be more difficult. Maybe you that rage instead of turning it in where you're pushing it outward. But something has to change and that that conversation has to be elevated, because I mean, we can't just have you know, well men straight men not trying to reproduce with women, you know, like or it's not good for society. Well, but here's here's the issue though, And this is the issue across the board. And Robin, I'm gonna I'm gonna pivot to you in a second on this because of something that you said before the show started, which actually you didn't even know it, but it actually goes perfectly with this topic. Well, part of the issue is that there's a lot of money to be made from toxicity, right so people aren't interested in elevating the conversation because that's a slower burn, that's a slower build. It takes a little bit more time, It takes a little bit more work to be able to to build a sort of platform where you can elevate instead of denigrate. Right, you even have women doing it like this. Have you seen the Pearl Davis chick. I think that's her name, Pearl Davis. She says some wow, she's a she's a male Andrew take, I mean a female Andrew Take. She says some wild stuff, like some wow stuff about women, like she's a woman, and she became famous virtually overnight. Because that's what happens. Toxicity. Toxicity sells in this in this environment. And so, Robin, you said something before the show started about this generation. What did you say about this generation? What is this generation? Oh see? Oh my god? Asking me that on the spot is like when I'm going off, When I'm going off, it just comes out, it just comes out. It's like not planned. Yeah, this generation is literally about toxicity, like fighting and sex. And that's literally all you hear. That's all you see, whether it be on TV, whether it beyond social media, like everywhere you look, that's what it is. That's just what it seems to be. And I mean we are so far gone, like I don't even I don't know like how we are going to make our way back. It is definitely going to take a lot of work. And you know, it's it's insane. As you were just talking, Darby O, I was just listening, you know, as you both were saying, you know what you what you felt about it is. It makes sense now because when I am constantly preaching about people healing and I know this, like how it feels and what it's like to go through that phase of healing, to do that shadow work, and a lot of people won't know what that is, but it's really looking internally and working on a lot of things that you really it's it's hard. And that's the thing is it's all of a sudden it makes sense to me now because when you watch, like you know, the TV shows that we were talking about, like im VH T one and stuff like that, people being toxic. Like when you were saying that is like it takes too much effort. It takes too much effort to work on yourselves. It takes too much effort to be healthy, to be happy, to be good to one another. It takes too much effort, and it's a lot easier to just be toxic and to be negative. And I just if y'all want to be lazy, I mean, I guess, but like I just don't understand how it's like it's a big thing now. I mean not even just men that are under the age of thirty. I mean there's a lot of men that are older that are also joining into this. I mean example, I don't know how old Andrew Tait is, but you know this childish man baby, you know. I as far as what you guys were saying, like you don't like what Dante was saying, like he don't know where it stems from truthfully, you know how like we always talk about like things that that we learned down in history, like whether it be in you know, the white culture, the black culture, et cetera, et cetera, things that we learn that that's carried down in history. And that's kind of like similar, you know what I mean, Because you learn from your parents. They learn from their parents, they learn from you learn from aunts and uncles and cousins. You learn this toxic behavior. You these men are learning how to treat women because that's what they see. If the mom is single, chances are because you know, a lot of women fall into that that position, you know, unfortunately, because we don't think, we don't think with our minds, you know, obviously, we think what our hearts, and we end up in situations with where guys you know, are just really like just abusive and just mean and hateful just because and that's because what they were taught. And then, you know, you go down the path and then they start hanging out with people that are like Andrew Tate or listening to people that are like Andrew Tate, and so it makes it worse. Same with the women truthfully, because a lot of these women are lost. Yeah, you know, they listen to the wrong people, y'all listening, And the thing is is they're not listening. They are not hearing. They're listening to as y'all. I know, a lot of men say and listen, I let it soak in. Okay, it's taken some time. But women don't listen to hear to understand. They listen to respond, So they're not hearing it. They're not hearing. And a lot of women, so they're like really toxic. And that's why a lot of women are following all the other women. So one, you know, one dummy follow the next dummy. You know, the blind leading the blind. That's really what this is, man, woman, That's really what it is. The blind leading the blind, and that's why we all are doomed. And I agree with you robbing at the normal level. I just think there's something sinister with this tape character and some of these other people that have grown the prominence. Like I don't you know what I'm saying. I don't want to get too conspiratorial, but like something is not right where this is just where like somebody can be become this famous on the internet based essentially telling man like you don't need no, you don't need these, you know, you know, something is sinister. That's the well here's here. Here's the thing though, there's well, yeah, what sinister is that is the culture. It's not it's not rocket science as to why this works. And here's the other thing too, And Robin kind of touched on it a little bit and and I wanted to pivot to this too. So I'm glad this brought up the what makes it even more dangerous on both the man's side and the women's side. Is what makes it the most dangerous is the fact that there's a little bit of truth in it. Because if you put a little bit of truth and mix it in with a bunch of bs, a little bit of truth justifies it. Here's a perfect example. So Dante, we were talking on the phone about women who place value on money and plays value on things. And now how men have gotten displaced because you have women who are earning more than men, which itself was a correction for women who weren't getting paid what they deserved for the work they did, right, So that was a correction, and now we've gotten into an overcorrection where women are consistently are consistently paid more than men. They are consistently more educated as far as college goes than men. And now you're having this displacement of men. And now you have some women who plays value on money and plays value on things. Verset is people. But what that is a response two dudes who was really out here taking everything women got, riding around in a girl car, eating up, eating up the baby's fruit, choose and all that kind of stuff. So that was a response to that. So when you have a situation where you can point to a legitimate example it in your mind, sometimes it justifies all this bs on the man's side, I told I told you on the phone, and Robin, you know exactly who I'm talking about. I had an experience this year where I was dealing with somebody where I was like, damn, you really for the streets. That's the first time in my life I've had a regardless of whoever, whatever, woman I've been with, relationship, things don't work, whatever, This year was the first time that I had a legitimate, you are just for the streets experience. I've never dealt with a woman who was just for the streets. So when I saw what that looked like. And then I sent y'all that video the other day of the Tucker Cross and AI where they had him saying all this stuff that he wasn't really saying, but it was some of it was describing the chick that I had dealt with. So what happens is if you're not a mature person, if you're not a sophisticated person who is securing who you are as a man or a woman, you take these real life examples, and you blow it up and you say, Okay, this is the world, this is how it is with everybody, you know what I'm saying. And it's easy to It's easy to believe that because it looks like dead. Because you see toxicity, whether it's from a male perspective or a female perspective, see toxicity everywhere. And it takes a really rooted and grounded person who is secure in themselves to not allow all of that toxicity to pervert them. Dante, You're right, You're right, and I yeah, I just it just really hit me like a ton of bricks today in these past couple of days, you know, just scrolling the time, it's like wow, this cat retweeting andwton, Okay, you you really believe this? And then you know, talking to more people where it's just like yeah, man, you know women's and women's like you wait, you you believe believe this. But but like you said, I mean, if if you if this is your experience, your lived experience, or if you've seen it right, maybe it does make it a little bit easier to believe that. I just my caution would just be like you said, from in terms of practicality man like you gotta we need from a sustainability standpoint, we cannot just have men become in sales and not procreate. We we just can't have that right. We won't last. So I you know, my my encouragement to young men, especially especially young black men, would be find that purpose right, Find that purpose, whether it's going back to school, going for you know, trying to get that job, whatever it may be, so that you can feel better about yourself. Because when you on that, when you on the right path, that right woman to be there for you right and you could have it could be a thousand you know women talking loud, and I know we're gonna touch on her later, but I mean it'll be a thousand different sexy reds out there. But if you on the right path and you walking in your purpose, you're gonna find the one that's right there for you, you know what I'm saying. So that that would just be my encouragement, two young brothers, as you know, do do the opposite of what you hear these toxic talking head people on the internet telling you to do. Do do do what they don't do. And here's the other thing too, And I'm glad you brought this up because it reminded me of a point that I wanted to make because all of this stuff and this is this is the thing about this conversation that I always want to make clear because it's easy to point out what's wrong about the toxicity and that's coming out of these people's mims, but we also have to acknowledge the void that it's feeling, why there is a market for it, right, And one thing I want to point out is society has stripped away anything that identifies a man as a man, like there is no difference and we're equal, but we're different. And for men specifically, if you have a man who is purposeless, that's when they become self destructive. Men have to have a purpose. We are wired that way. It does not work if we don't have a purpose. We have to do something right. We have to even if we're not successful at it. We have to have something that we're trying to obtain because if we don't, men become self destructive. We cannot function without purpose. But really, the root of all of this, the root of all of this is a conversation that nobody wants to have. And then after this Robin, I'll give you the last word. The root of all of this. This is what happens when you take God out of the culture. Because if you get your purpose from God, it doesn't matter what happens around you, because that's your foundation. You can't be shaken from your foundation. But the issue is, once again, I talk about the God's shaped hold. All the time, we are looking for other things to feel something that it cannot feel. It doesn't work, it doesn't work. We are putting so much value in things, in money and how many men or women we've been with, how toxic we can be to one another. We put value in so many different things that do not work because we're running away from the only thing that does work, which is God. That's the only thing that works. None of this stuff works. So we're living in a world filled with unfulfilled, purposeless, broken people who have no idea where to go to heal. All of this boils down to that. That's the conversation that nobody wants to have. But it's the truth. The stuff doesn't work. None of this stuff works. You cannot. When you have a society without God at the center of it, you create chaos. Our country was not designed to be like this. When you have a country based off of liberty and freedom. One of the things that John Adams says is that this country does not work if you unless you have a moral and religious people because of the fact that without that, without God at the center of the culture, our liberty and our freedoms that we have, we turn them on each other. That's what we do. It's the same story throughout human history. That's what happens, and that's what we're seeing. We are seeing culture chaos because our culture has intentionally taking God out of the center of it. Robin, you get the last word. Ooh okay. First of all, after both of y'all, I mean amen, but I was like in my head that whole applause sound after both of y'all spoke. But you know what, Darvo, I think what you just said is like right on point. Actually, first of all, you need to be a preacher or uh. And but my my personal opinion, and I was actually thinking about that the other day, is maybe maybe our one of our reasons, obviously one of our reasons as humans is to find middle ground with one another in in every aspect, because clearly that's the biggest issue all around. That's the purpose. Yeah, yeah, I mean this. We're going from one extreme to the other, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, and we're not see here's the other thing. I'll just I'll close with this. One of the reasons why the importance of God matters in this culture is because if God is the center of your worldview, that also dictates how do you view people. If you're consistent. There's a lot of people who aren't consistent. There's a lot of people who say they believe in God, but they don't, they don't really live it. But if I believe in the things that I say I believe in as a Christian, specifically as a Christian, then that means that me, you, Dante, everybody listening to this show was made in the image of God. So as a result, you have intrinsic worth and value purely from being born. Your value is not in what you have. Your value is not in your money. Your value is not in whoever you sleeping with. Your value isn't in what you identify as Your value is intrinsic as a human being, because you were made in the image of the creator of the universe. So when you believe that you don't have to there's nothing you can do to prove your worth to me. I already know your worth. Your worth is someone who is a reflection, was created in the image of the creator of the universe, the one who made the sun, the moon, the sky, the stars, the mountains, the lakes, the rivers. So when you understand that, it does two things. One, it tells you there's always going to be a base level of respect that I show you. There's always going to be at least a fundamental, basic level of value that I place on you because I view you in the image of God. But it also gives you value when you view that, because you then understand what your worth is. You're made in the image of the creator of the universe. What is bigger than that? What can give you more value than that? We're searching for all of these different things, But you were made in the image of the creator of all of this, the world, the sun and the moon, the stars, the sky, the planets, and the creator of the universe saw fit to make his creation in the image of him. And when we actually listen and do what we're supposed to do, we reflect that image. So when you believe that, I truly believe that, how can I devalue you. I can't devalue you because, first of all, I didn't give that value to you. God did. And when I know how much your worth, I can never treat you below that. On that note, stay tuned. 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Me all right, y'all, so you know what, I don't know if I want to start off with the Okay, so I'm gonna go with the light the little lights to you, Okay. So let's talk about Usher. So I don't know if everybody remembers, probably do. Kiki was like, you know, she was being a little fast with Usher at one of his shows. And mind you, she just had a baby and she was in a relationship and her Kiki and her boyfriend did break up. Now that they Usher and kick turn around, which by the way, I think this was just for like publicity to type thing. But anyway, they turn around and they just came out with a song. I do believe it was yesterday. It might have just dropped yesterday. And it's called Boyfriend. Ussher is singing this song and Kiki Palmer is the main leading lady in the video, like she is like mouthing the words of Usher and it's like as if she's singing and it's just I mean, it is petty beyond petty first and foremost, she is a virgo, so that explains everything. But I think with that, I think is because Darville, like you said before, I like to do the whole relationship talk thing. But you know, a lot of the times, y'all. Okay, y'all used to be on my case because I would stick up for the for the girlies. You know I would. But since is wrong, she's wrong. I love Kiki, I do. I absolutely love her, but she's wrong because, first and foremost, with the whole situation that happened, you shouldn't have been all up on usure you knew you had a man at home either, even despite the fact of all the comments that you see on social media talking about she could do whatever she wants. That's her boyfriend, not her husband. Y'all real slow, but they think some man is gonna is gonna be a husband man, because let let me be out there on a man. I can guarantee you I'm gonna be single, like, I don't care if it's usher, if it's Romeo. I mean Romeo a little anyway, but it doesn't matter celebrity or not. You know, it's disrespectful. And then you turn around and you get mad because like okay, yes, her boyfriend at the time, her baby father. He could have handled it. We've had this conversation where he could have handled it differently, like not going to social media, because everybody knows, do not embarrass your woman publicly. Never never. Men, Let that be a lesson to you. Never ever, ever embarrass your woman publicly, especially if she already if she's naturally petty, like super petty, because they will forgive you. Women will forgive you on a lot of stuff. They will not forgive you if you make them look stupid. Don't do that. But you know what, darvel, the thing is is, if you really think about it, I mean, like he was wrong, However did she not embarrass him publicly by being all upon usher? That's true, tru It's fair. So I mean, that's that's one of the stories I got. But whatever opinions you guys have upon that, you can go ahead and then I will give you the next one. I just thought about the ghost face killing Neil Song and he was like, yeah, what I did was whagg But you ain't gotta give me back like that. Man, dan't tell your thoughts. Yeah, I just you know, I think we could all kind of see that that probably wasn't gonna last, but he should not, Like why did he go to why did he just try to put her own blasts on social media? Like that was weird? Bro? Like I don't. I mean, that's one thing where it's like, she come home and y'all need to have a conversation if you were uncomfortable with this. But don't you know what I'm saying, Just don't. I can't believe you did X Y like that. I mean you might if you ever feel like you gotta go to social media publicly for whatever you're doing with your relationship, for whatever your partner is doing, just break up with him because it's not gonna work. Like, just break up. Just just break up and move on, bro, you know what I'm saying, Like, let let focus what's what's the new line of focus on yourself? Can't if you feel like you gotta go to she doing X, Y and Z with with another dude, you uncomfortable focus on yourself? Man, she not the one for you. Just go yeah, man, I mean you know it's especially like the weirdest part about that was that they were still together at the time. Yeah, man, I understand and sometimes I'm not necessarily not necessarily opposed to a good sub tweet for someone that you not that you're no longer with, but to do it to somebody you still with, like and you think that y'all just gonna work it out, not gonna happen. How does that work? It don't. It doesn't work. No, they not gonna see. Yeah, having And one of the things, if you remember when Robin did the story before, you know, Robin pointed out that Kiki was specific like, don't do that. So now not only have you embarrassed her, but you did something that she already told you she don't wine right, even though she's a hypocrite. However, that's that's a different conversation for a different day. But yeah, no, this is Robin. This is extremely petty, and in some ways it actually kind of ties into the last conversation we just had. I mean, I ain't gonna lie. The song. The song is, it's a good song. I listen to it Bankers all day listen. I mean, it's in the favorites, but I mean it's a good song, you know, I mean, but I definitely that's I think that at this point with the whole song is. That's why it makes me question, makes a lot of people question, really did this really happen? Did her and her boyfriend really break up? Or is this all publicity stunt? Because not only did they just randomly pop out with this whole song, but Kiki also came out with a clothing line like literally immediately after and and like literally at the end of the video the music videos, she goes, she's answers the phone and she goes, oh, I missed the show. She answers because she was sleeping. She's like, oh, I missed the show. And she was like, oh, but you're right, I am a mother. And then she like looks up through her glasses at the camera. She was like, I am a mother, and it looks up and goes after all and winks, and I'm like, yo, it's been a while since like this has died down, and like for you to keep it going, like I just there's I mean, I don't know. I guess virgos are just like Betty. I don't know, but yeah, I think that's all the publicities, not personally, but yeah, all right, next, so the next one we are going to go with it. Oh, they're both good we'll go with Elon Musk. So, Elon Musk is doing away with what we like to call blocked on x quote unquote x. So he is removing the blocked option where you cannot block people only in messages. And I think that that is a very bad decision. Either that or he is also very you know, I think he's toxic with that because that that's where he's that's what he's going with. I think, because I mean we were speaking about this before, is oh, yeah, there's people that just need to be blocked. I don't care if it's a man block somebody or a woman blocking somebody. Listen, it's not listen. It's not sassy. First of all, ladies, it's not sassy. It is finding peace. It is bringing yourself peace because you are not dealing with that. You're not dealing with the nonsense of whatever and whomever is that you prefer to block. And so I think that that's he's gonna lose a lot of people, you know, removing that, because if I want to block you, I should be able to block you when I have to keep seeing you pop up on my feed or whatever. I don't know. Yeah, I do not like this. At all, like at all, and it would. I wouldn't leave Twitter or X, but I would the amount of posting that I do would drop dramatically. When you are someone who gets and I'm not saying this as a humble brag, but when you get millions of impressions a month on Twitter as I do, you get a lot of goofballs sometimes that say some crazy stuff to you. I've had neo Nazis tweet at me. I've had white supremacists tweet at me, white nationalists tweet at me saying, you know, awful stuff. And those are people like I'm not getting in a conversation with you. I'm not having there's no point in having a dialogue with you, So I block you. Now here's the thing. Well, people say, well, well you can just mute. Well you can mute them from you, but that allows them to continue to harass the people that follow you if they're commenting on a thread, you know what I mean. So I hide they comment, and I blocked the ass so that you don't come here and tear up the whole conversation. Because there are people on X or any social media platform where that's what they're intentionally trying to do is to just be agents of chaos. And so this is this is going to cause people, for their own mental health and stability to not post as much or not post at all because a lot of us deal with a lot of hate. I had somebody asked me, a relative, was like, how do you deal with that? Because y'all seen there There are times and I get some I get loved too, So I don't want to make it seem like it's all hate. You know. I get a lot of love too, But y'all have seen it. Sometimes I get a lot of hate, you know what I mean, depending on what the topic is, especially when it's political, and especially when it's political that goes against the narrative, whether that's the left narrative or the right narrative. Because there are times where I say things that goal gets both and I get a lot of hate, you know what I'm saying. And it's easy to hide, to comment, block and gone about your business. But if I'm not allowed to block anymore, then now you're leaving me with two choices. Because I'll just tell y'all, like I said on social media, I want to be nice. I don't have to be nice. This is a choice. I am choosing to be this way, and I have not always been this way. So, you know, when you're dealing with people who don't really play, who really down with to get down, you're giving me two options. If you take away my ability to block, You're either going to force me to have to just start dogging people, which I don't want to do but I can do and I'm pretty good at it. I just don't like having that. I don't like the place that I have to go to in order to be able to do it. I don't like what that feels like anymore. Right, So it's either that or I stop posting on your platform or stop posting on your platform as much. It's gonna be one or the other, because what I'm not going to do is just sit on your platform and just take abuse. That's what I'm not gonna do. So either I'm gonna start cussing them out or I'm not going to post as much, and that's going to yet. Yeah, it hurts us because it you know, it hurts divisibility and stuff like that. But if a lot of people do that, it hurts the platform because there's a lot of people this is overwhelmingly negative. Nobody wants him to do this because a lot of us, those of us who get a lot of hate mail, who get a lot of hate tweets. I told you all about a person who a post was sent to her and she she shared it today to point out why you need to be able to block people. Somebody got so mad about something that she said politically that they said, I'm going to find you, I'm going to murder you, and I'm going to rape your corpse. These people are nuts out here, you know what I'm saying. And social media is already toxic enough as it is, Like we don't need any more encouragement to make it more toxic. You know what I'm saying. It's it's insane if I didn't have to do it for what we do, because that's the whole purpose, because we're trying to get somewhere, We're trying to do something, we're trying to win. So you gotta put whether you like social media or not, you gotta put that aside for the greater good, because the greater good is what we're trying to do. But if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't even be on this stuff because of the toxicity. I hate it, you know what I'm saying to get and then when when you get into it and you gotta respond sometimes like it, it can be physically draining. So it's like, no, I'm not gonna live on a Twitter or an X. That's worse because it's already bad now and it was bad and it's not necessarily Elon's fault. It was bad before he bought it. Twitter has always been a cesspool, you know what I'm saying. But it's he do this, it's gonna be worse. Dante. Yeah, Twitter is a cesspool. That's why I don't really take it seriously. I have a way of compartmentalizing this social media thing. And y'all know for sure. I mean, Robin always make fun of me anytime I post on Instagram, which is like twice a year. I am. I would I am only on social media because as much as I am because of this show. I used to love to create chaos on Facebook politically, but I don't do that anymore. And so now, I mean, if it weren't for sports and this show, I wouldn't have So I would have deleted social media a long time ago. And I'm barely on ig. Now. That's why again robbing. Every time I post, You're gonna stop texting me or stop commenting on any picture I say and say, oh look you all, Oh you posted, You're gonna stop doing that? No, no, I be shocked, Okay, everything. If I post a story tomorrow, I'm gonna get a text from Robin and it's gonna be like, look at you posting a story. Stop doing that. He's so disconnected, y'all. We have to make sure that he sees the stuff that we post for the show, so that he shares the stuff from the damn show. Because if you look at my Twitter, it's it's gonna be some about this show, something about sports, and that's it. Maybe you'll get an occasional political opinion, but I don't I get away from that now, just because it's way too many trolls on here and so and I haven't ever blocked anyone, but what I just, you know, mute, keep it pushing or whatever I'm about to go. You know, it's pretty Look, my joke is I don't have time to know what racism and stuff is talking about on Twitter because we got NFL preseason, which means the NFL seasons. Right around the corner college football is Ohio State players this first game. On the second we all like fifteen days away, were about to have a baseball playoffs. We got the NBA coming back. Uh. I don't I don't care what these people talking about in the in the land. That's not real. But I do think that you should be able to block somebody if you know, I mean, you can block somebody's number right in your phone, like you can block somebody, you know what I'm saying. You can block somebody's number, You can block YouTube channel me Jill, listen, call me Blackana, because listen, I'll be blocking you. Put on up my phone block Listen. I swear I used to didn't be I. I was the guy Dante where where I would pride myself on engage with anybody, right yeah, But once your social media started to get to a certain point, it's like you can't do that no more, because first of all, there are people who are genuinely not here to engage. They just here to be agents of chaos. So if I know that you just here to troll other other than when I want to make you look like a fool, because there are times where I will do that, and I personally enjoy that. But there are times when I do that. But other than that, there's no point in me even talking to you because it's a waste of my time. I'm just gonna keep it pushing. Listen. That's listen, because I told exactly how I am. Because I will not set there and argue with nobody. I do not care who you are. I'm not gonna set argue with your mama. Okay, I'm not arguing nobody. I don't I don't know you. I don't know you from the next person, so I'm not gonna stay here and give you that energy. So for me, like on social media, I don't even be pressed about that unless if it's like something occasionally that i'll comment on that like really kind of strikes a nerve with me. Occasionally I'll make a comment, but usually I'll go to the point where I'm like typing something out and I'd be like, you know what, nah, let me not. Let me not because then I have to mess around and block somebody. And I remember, you got into it. I don't even remember what the topic was, but you got into it about something on Instagram and people was coming at you and you started blocking people. Man, like the list goes on, but uh yeah, I personally, like, you know, that's why I don't be making a lot of comments on a lot of things like and if I do, like I try to watch what I say because people a real sensitive on social media, Like they're super sensitive, so you can't really you can't even just be real. You can't even just speak your personal opinion and you just keep on pushing like so that's why you can you know, yeah, I mean social media the same thing, the very thing that makes social media great is the very thing that makes social media awful. Social media is great because everybody has a voice. Social media is awful because everybody has a voice. It's awful because people's soft people. They don't like you to have a voice. They don't like nobody to have a voice like they That's the thing, you know what. I'm not even gonna lie though, because I used to be a kind of a person like that. I mean I want that bad, but like real sensitive to when people would say things to me, I would take everything to the heart and next to me know, I'm crying. My feelings is hurt now you apologizing to me because my feelings is hurt. But you know, and that scene, you know, a lot of people gotta learn how to just get some tough skim man like toughen up, toughen up and and and just take it to the chin and open your mind up. And so I mean, but at the end of the day, like he needs to not take away that block button because people saw up. So you have the freedom, you have the freedom of association we talk about. You know, he talks a lot about me in a free speech absolutists, and it's about, you know, the first a member where I have a I have a right to not engage too. I have the freedom of association. I have a freedom to choose whether I want to talk to you or not. Ye all right, closes out robbing. Okay, so I have one more we have we have to go on this topic because this one actually kind of hits a little close to home for me, I spice. So some people love or some people don't, I mean whatever, you know. But she went on Instagram or Twitter wherever, somewhere on social media once, you know, once again the whole social media thing, and she made a post and I think she wrote it to be funny, but at the same point, like I don't know, she was like being for real or not. Irregardless, she said, I don't care if I got like four or five friends, she said, because I only had like five people in my class. Like when she went to school, and immediately everybody starts putting like gifts of like a short bush. They would say things like, oh, she's special ed. She was a special ed and like, I don't know. I immediately ran to her defense, like and it's like because first and foremost, like I said to you guys, let me just let me just top it off, start off right. So SIS got money. Sis is a celebrity, so irregardless if she's slow or not slow, she dare and you on the other side of this computer calling her special it, so let that be there. But the other thing is, you know, it is okay if you are in special education classes. There's nothing wrong with that. It does not mean that you are stupid. It's okay if you are a slow learner. And I can say, you know, I have a child who is in special education classes, and he is very intelligent, but it takes him a little while to catch onto things. But once he does, he's real good, real good, And so I think the other thing, you know, with that is what I wanted to say about that real quick. There's a lot of damn bullies, And I was just like when I seen this, I was just like, Wow, you could tell who the hell the bullies were in school, because y'all going crazy in these comments talking about all she's special is, she's specials, she's special ed. Like, I get it. She might have been joking or might not have been joking, but the fact of the matter is is a lot of people are making fun of people that are are the whole point of special education and that's not cool, and God gonna get you for that. But however, like I said to you guys off air, who's to say that she was in special education classes because she could have been in the honors classes. She could have been in one of those high classes where not a lot of people get into and there's only so many people, like five people in the class, because well, not everybody got in there. So y'all immediately went to special edd So who the dummy? Now you don't So I got a couple of thoughts on this one. I don't understand, and I said this to y'all off the air, I don't understand why there's so much hate for Ice Spice, to be honest with you, because she's fine. Well, yeah, there's that, but I've heard her music. You know, it's not my cup of tea. She has a song or two actually that I like that one record Gangster Boo. I actually like that record. We play that on on on First Class Hip Hop, which you can get on iHeart Radio and Odyssey by the way. So I don't I mean I listened to her. She don't sound no, no better or worse than than the average today's average female rapper, right, I mean, there's some female rappers that she's better then, So I don't understand the hate. I don't understand the level of hate that goes to her in general. The second thing, too, is Robin I completely agree. I thought that that was petty and unnecessary and childish for them to not only be insulting her like that, but you know, I'm sure that there are some people who were in special education classes who were reading those comments. You know what I'm saying, and it right, It doesn't make you dumb, It doesn't make you know what I mean. I remember when I was a kid, you know, one of my classmates, he would like they had the trailers right, and he would do most of his classes with us, and then there would be like a class or two that he would do in the trailer. And for years, we didn't even know what the trailer was for. It was like why is it? Like, what is that? Why does he have to go there? You know what I mean, We didn't even know what it was. And then we learned that, you know, it was a special education you had to go to a special education class, special education teacher or whatever. We didn't care because most of us really didn't even know what's what's that? What's special it? You know what I mean, We didn't know. And now he's he's he's successful, he's done well for himself. So you know what I mean, it doesn't that doesn't mean anything. It's me anything, whether or and specially in classes or what And like you said, she could have been in those in a in a honors class, you know what I mean, may not necessarily be the been the special education class. But people are people say again say crazy things on social media. But I'm reminded of the controversy that happened a few years ago over Floyd Mayweather, and I'll pivot to you on this Dante when Floyd Mayweather, when there was questions about whether he could read, and Floyd was like, I can count. He's worth last I checked, he's worth over half a billion dollars. He's done pretty well for himself for a guy who supposedly can't read. Yep, he's he's figured out how to hire people and put people in position to to, you know, handle things for him. You know, people were like, well, he can't read a contract, cyc. Well, I mean most people aren't reading contracts anyway. When you get to that level they have, you have lawyers and representation, you know. So I think people just people want to take a dump on somebody who who's you know, famous and more popular and uh yeah, I mean Ice Spices. You know, she she you know, she's the hot thing right now, and uh, people want to you know, people want to make fun of her. I don't know any I don't know any of your music, but Ice Spice is fine. She got an open invite on this show. We would prefer her to come in, uh in person. Yeah, we prefer her to come in to the show, do the show in person. She could sit right next to me. Well, you know, we'll talk, we'll chop it up. Well, I don't care what class she was in. Probably do you have anything else? I hate you, Dante. You are a handful. That That's that's it. That's all right. Stay tuned. We have Dante's hot takes coming up next here on the Fuck Up True, Sir Pray, Welcome back, Welcome back, and listen to the Outlaws. Make sure that you subscribe to the show on Apple, podcast, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you listen to the show on Apple, please leave us a five star review and a comment is very important for the algorithm and for those of you who have already done so, thank you, oh so very much. And now it's the time to show that we like to call Dante's hot takes telling the truth. Whether you like it or not, it's Dante's Takes on the Lawn's Radio show. Well, as everybody knows by now, Trump has been indicted. President former President Trump has been indicted yet again, his fourth one. His fourth indictment, this time on a state level case in Georgia for essentially a racketeering in criminal conspiracy case where the prosecutor is alleging that their role, his role among what eighteen co conspirators role to overturn the two and twenty election was criminal. Among others, his former chief of staff was indicted and also, ironically enough, Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lawyer, right, which made for some ironic posts on social media just because as if you remember, Rudy Giuliani as a prosecutor, championed the Rico acting. He used it in New York to help clean up organized crime, and now he's being charged under that same thing in Georgia. So we'll see how it plays out. The indictment was over one hundred pages. My take on this is, I'll be honest. We've talked about this on the show before. The first thing I did was I went to go check what kind of impact it had on in terms of polling, and it didn't really move the needle for desantists. So I had a good laugh about that. I didn't even chuckle. I laughed about that because we just talked about that on the show, and I'm most recent episode that you know, Trump hasn't indicted, been and died three times, and you know it hasn't helped the Santists at all. So that was the first thing I did was because you know, I'm no lawyer, I read bits and pieces of the indictment. I understood that it was coming. I know some people think that you know, it's a which hunt. Other people think that it's found it. I just the first thing I did was I was like, let's see if this helped the Sances. Nope, nothing can help them. This is what your campaign looks like when you're da right, And that's what I was thinking for the Sances. But you know, I just in in the grand scheme of things with Trump. I'm just looking around, and I think what the Republican Party failed to do is something that we called on them to do post election, is you should have found a way to pivot. You should have found a way to make en rolls with with African American voters and other groups. Because it looks bleak for you right now. Because the thing about this being a state case is that should Trump when he could not, he could not pardon himself even if he lost. Uh and say Joe Biden won again, he couldn't, but he could not be pardoned at from by by the president. There's a state case. So I just think when I when I when I look at how feckless Ron de Santis is, I'll just say, wow. You know, the Republican Party really miss an opportunity to pivot at the end of twenty twenty when when President Trump lost and they didn't, and now they're paying the consequences for not with with Trump's indictment indictments because those those will play out. But we once again and and and who comes out the loser, and that is is us is minority voters, black voters, because we once again don't have a serious party that can compete for our vote with the Democrats, right because which leaves us out to dry. And that's something that that's been a real disappointment to me over these last few years, is just seeing how again one side takes us for and at the other side ignores us. And this was a perfect opportunity when you could have cultivated other other candidates, You could have started building grassroots organizations and funding those but you know, instead you put all of your eggs into the basket of you know, a man who's now been indicted four times, and it's really going to be an uphill battle for him to win a general election. And we know that, you know, his primary challenger on the you know, in the in the primary is I think the best word that I can find for him is feckless. Right that that, to me is what dessens is. Campaign is over, in my opinion, So some some irony in this case, but also we'll see how it goes right. Uh. You know, if you would have told me six years ago, uh, in twenty twenty eighteen, twenty twenty seventeen, at you know, Trump and Giuliani would headline a Rico charge in Georgia, I'd be like, what is going on? What is happening in twenty twenty three? But here we are, and we'll see how this plays out. So I got a lot of thoughts out try to get to him as as quickly as I can. I view personally, I view this the Georgia charge with a lot of skepticism, and I'll get to that in a second. But you know, I've been involved in around politics for almost twenty years now. There's only been two people that I've seen that even made an effort on the Republican side that even made an effort the court black voters. That was George W. Bush in two thousand and four and Trump himself in twenty twenty. You know, I saw that effort on the ground. You know, people could say whatever they want, you know, about the black voices for Trump and all that, but I saw, I saw what they did. I knew the person who was in charge here in Ohio, and I saw that they they put boots on the ground, they spent money, they it was it was a real effort there. I mean, I don't think it's an accident that his black numbers went up. I don't think it was an accident that he ended up getting eighteen percent of black men and thirty percent of black men in the Midwest, you know, I mean, I don't. I don't think that that's an accident. So ironically, the pivot that you're talking about, as far as on the national level, other than maybe Tim Scott, the only one who's running for president who seems to even want to do it is Trump. That's the that's the ironing about it, because we know, you know, someone like DeSantis, he's not only not doing it, he's going in the opposite direction, and you know some of the others, we're not even part of the conversation. So it's a so it's a weird place to be in there. Now, as far as the case itself, there is a lot of legal questions when it comes to this case. In general. There's a question of whether the Georgia DA even has the authority to bring this case because it's basically similar to the federal case, and the federal case is supposed to take precedence, its supposed to take jurisdiction over, So there's questions of either of even if she has the authority to do this case in the first place. Should Trump become president again, and let me let me point this out about his poll numbers. First of all, we know he's curb stomping the Santists. As you mentioned, I saw a poll, I saw a pola came out from an A from an A minus poster. So this is a pretty top of the line polster in Louisiana. He's beating Desantists by like seventeen not valuable. Never seen anything like this before my level one, see what I mean. So so there's that we know he's curb stomping desantists. But if you and you can make a you can read read into this anyway you want, whether it says something about Trump or whether it says something about Biden. Trump is actually his numbers are better today than they were at the same time running up to twenty twenty against Biden. Like, so she's actually not only is he curb stomping desantists, but he's in a better position. He's either most of the polls show him either up up against Biden, he's up one or two points, or he's down one or two points or tied. He was he was not that in the polls in twenty twenty. And if we recall, even though Trump lost that election, he still did better than the polls said he would. Right, He's still only lost it by like fifty thousand votes in a certain amount of states or whatever. So even though Biden beat Trump in twenty twenty, that race was still really close. So if he's closer in the polls now than he was then, and we know that the polls are weighed against him, because there's a lot of Trump voters who don't tell anybody that they're Trump voters, and you don't know that they're Trump voters until they show up in the polls. That tells you that he's actually in a much better position even though he's been indicted four hundred and seventy times. Now, that may also make a statement about about how you feel about Joe Biden that out of everything that's happened to Trump, Trump is still tied. Would be statistically tied? Would that should? That should also tell you a lot, Right, So this whole thing, I think people are starting to are almost getting indictment fatigue, where it's just becoming baked in. One of the things that people never really understood about Trump because Trump was so unapologetic that a lot of the stuff that happens is that is a negative for him. The voters just end up baking it in so it doesn't hurt him the way that it would hurt another politician. If any other politician running for president, or any former president running for president again had one indictment, his campaign would be over. He'd be done. Trump is a phenomenon, is a political phenomenon that people are going to write books about because the same rules of political gravity clearly do not apply to him. Because there's been so many things that have happened that would have taken out a normal politician, Like you said. You looked at his numbers after this last and his numbers against Desantists in particular are either the same or they've went up. No, No, no impact for DeSantis at all, none, none, Never seen anything like it. Really, this is so so we are, we are living in It's in People ask me all the time, well, what do you think is gonna happen? I have no idea because we are living in a time. People will write our kids, Our kids will read about the period of time that we're living in in their American history books. Correct, you know what I mean? Like this is this is the period. I have no freaking idea. We've never seen anything like this before. I've never seen a situation where you have the former president who is the direct opponent of the current president being indicted multiple times, including by the current presidents a Justice Department. While at the same time, I believe by the time we get to next by this time next year, Biden will probably have been impeached or gotten close to impeachment. There will be an impeachment inquiry between now, and We've never seen anything like that before. You're gonna have a former president who's been indicted versus a current president who's been impeached. I have no idea what's gonna happen. I have no idea what's gonna happen. I just suggest that I'm humble enough to say I have no idea what's gonna happen. I just suggest that we all strap in and enjoy the Ridot Dante closest side. Yeah, this is gonna be a why this maybe even too much chaos for me in this upcoming election, But but this is I mean, this is what happens when when really neither party has anything better to offer, right, because you cannot again and I run the risk of alienating you know, their supporters, But I mean, come on you, if you're being if you're an honest person, you know this is not our best and brightest, and I'll just leave you with that, right like you you know that. Listen, Democrats you can do better. Republicans, you can do better. Right and for the sake of the country, please start doing better. No way we should be left with eighty year old man under you know, facing four indictments. I don't he knows how many. By the time you know we start, we kick this off and you know, eighty year old man who doesn't know what he ate for breakfast this morning. So we we just gotta do better, gotta do better. But yeah, I'll just leave it. I'll leave it at that without until we get until we get out of this cycle. You got what you got, so so at some point we'll have to do that. Day doesn't have to be today, but at some point we're gonna have to make a decision because you got what you got, so this is this is what you got, so you got to pick from what you got. Let everybody know how to follow you, sir. We'll follow me on Instagram and Twitter at tabri ta e b r y e. Oh. And I just want to point out to yes, we're talking like the primary is over because it is the Republican primary. Yeah, yeah, that's not that. Come on again, if you're an honest person. I got a friend that listens to our show who who likes this Santis And he was like, I don't think that it's uh, I don't think it's a foregone conclusion and wait till the debates, And I'm like, have you ever seen this Antis debate? Like have you ever have you seen him take live questions? If you do, you really think that he's going to stand on a debate stage against Donald Trump and like come out looking better than Trump, Like, come on, man, like, let let let's be serious. Trump's gonna hit him hard on race. Trump's gonna hit him on that flo. I mean, come on, like, you don't actually believe that this Antis is gonna So where is he gonna make up the ground? Because this is I mean, this is bad. Like there's he's not he has no where. He's not gonna be able to make up the ground. It's nowhere for him to do it. He's not gonna do it at the debates. We know that. And Trump's not even going to the first one. He's He's doing a he's doing an interview with Tucker Carlson to compete with it, which means which means everybody else that's on the stage is going to They're going to be crabs in a barrel with DeSantis because he's going to be the main target because he's the leader. They're at the debates, yep, So they're gonna be trying to claw and scratch and somebody someone, hopefully it's Tim Scott is going to take a baseball back to his knees over that, over that. So we'll see. But hopefully that's who it is, that's who it needs to be. Yeah, they're gonna draw blood, but hey, you know what, we love people who listen to this show who are Desantist fans. We love y'all too. We're just given our opinion. We're just looking at the numbers and it don't look good for your boy at all. That's all. That's all he's saying. That's all he's saying. The biggest comeback in modern primary times was when John McCain became the nominee. And I think he was down his lowest, Like he was down by like fourteen points. De Santis is down by like forty. You know what I'm saying. It's kind of hard to make that up. So we'll see what happens. Miss O'Malley let him know how to follow you. 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