This week, Gadiel Del Orbe is joined by Norberto Briceño and Black Rose for an unfiltered conversation mixing music, comedy, and NYC politics. We cover: 🎶 Cardi B’s new track “Bodega Baddie” and how it’s lighting up New York streets. 🏈 Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl halftime show and what it means for Latino culture. 😂 Behind the scenes of Dominican vs Puerto Rican comedy shows and why they’re selling out. 🏛 Eric Adams dropping out of the NYC mayoral race — what’s next for the city? 📱 The U.S. buyout of TikTok and how it affects creators. Expect laughs, raw takes, and honest perspectives from three voices repping NYC and Latino culture. 👉 Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review to support the show.
This week on the podcast, Gadiel Del Orbe is joined by Norberto Briceño and Black Rose for an unfiltered, funny, and culture-packed conversation about the headlines everybody’s talking about.
We cover:
🎶 Cardi B’s new track “Bodega Baddie” and how it represents the Bronx, Dominican women, and NYC bodega culture.
🏈 Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl halftime show — what it means for Puerto Rico, Latino pride, and the music industry.
😂 Dominican vs Puerto Rican Comedy Showdown — behind the scenes from Gadiel’s sold-out weekend shows and why these events are bringing communities together.
🏛 Eric Adams dropping out of the NYC mayoral race — what this means for the city’s future and why politics always finds its way into comedy.
📱 TikTok buyout drama — could U.S. control of the app change how creators share their voice?
Expect laughs, real talk, and sharp perspectives on Latino culture, comedy, and NYC politics.
0:00 Ladies and gentlemen, we have a special episode for you guys today. We got two of your favorites that are bringing back 0:07 favorites of the show 0:13 Black Rose. She's a fan favorite. I read the comments. All right. The 0:18 comments like every time Black Rose is here, I love Black Rose. So, special shout out to Passion. She be watching 0:24 and she's always commenting on on the podcast videos. So, thank you so much 0:29 for watching. If you're watching, you're coming here for the first time. Welcome to the show. Today, we have an 0:36 interesting episode. We're going to talk about a lot of things that's been going on like Cardi B with her new song Bodega Batty is hitting the streets of New York 0:42 City. We hear it all over the place. Uh this past weekend, we talked about this past weekend, we had a couple of shows, 0:49 which was fun. We shot uh a little video. Hopefully, it goes viral. We hope 0:54 it gets the attention of Cardi B. So, let's see what happens with that. Um, 0:59 we're going to talk about Bad Bunny and his Super Bowl appearance. This is a big win for the community and Eric Adams 1:07 dropping off in New York City as a mayor candidate and uh the US is buying out 1:14 Tik Tok. How do we feel about that? What's going on? What can we expect from 1:19 that? And I love Tik Tok. So, uh, another person that we have here today is Norberto Breno. OG in the, yeah, 1:31 OG in the internet space. I would say that's my brother, you know, uh, him and 1:36 I became tight back in 2016. We did a lot of content together and for him to come back and being here, we're in New 1:42 York City doing it, creating something new, a show especially for you guys. So, let's rip it up. Let's start it up. 1:49 Okay. Okay. Welcome. This is like episode 14, I think it is. What? For real? 1:54 I think it is. Yeah. Wow. 14 episodes. Yeah. This is the first time you guys are together, bro. Yes. I've never met him before. 2:00 No, this is the first time. Why we shaking hands? This is so formal. Recommended to me by some people. 2:08 There we go. Um, we're Jenz. We're Jenz. We're 22. 2:16 So, let's start it off with with bad butt. I mean like a Bat Bunny. They started off with Cardi B. She got a new 2:21 album out. Is that what either drama? Oh, and Black Rose. It was your idea or not? Whose idea was it for us to get 2:28 together? You know, number one, when Cardi dropped, I think all of us thought like, bodega, we're going to do a video in La 2:35 Bodega. So, I thought about it and then Jazz calls me, Jasmine Ruiz. Shout out to our our Borqua. She she's she's 2:42 Dominican by injection, I think, sometimes. But, shout out to her. She called me and was like, "Rose, I want to 2:48 do this video." And I said, "This is a great idea. I was going to do it, but we could do this together. We're going to 2:53 have to call all the guys." A all the Dominicans. And it was like it was you, me, Ivonne, 2:58 Tommy was in it. Yes. Dainci. It's the first time I did a video with Da Vinci. You know, that's not like a 3:04 like that is a skit. I would love to do a skit with Da Vinci. I think Dain and Da Vinci usually, you guys know 3:10 Da Vinci has always prided himself on just kind of doing videos on his own. Like when it comes to the skit things. 3:15 Yeah. So, it was cool to see him also like to do this. Yeah. I loved it. And um and 3:22 Juju, right? We had Juju, Ivan, Juju. That was the first day I met Juju. 3:28 Such a cutie. Patie, sweetheart. And and and our our our hot baby, 3:34 you know, the deli that we got to do it in. It was a hot baby deli. Yes. And that was the deli that Cardi 3:39 did her she um appearance. She she pulled up to her old block. She grew up 3:45 around that neighborhood. That's why they had all the decals on the doors and and the banners because that is the 3:51 store that she stood in front of and the crowd, the community pulled up. So, you 3:58 know, Jasmine was like, "Let's do it at this store." I said, "Oh, it was pretty cool to go back there and 4:04 I saw like Cardi B's banner." I love Cardi B because like she represents the people, bro. like and and she gets a lot 4:10 of shit sometimes, but I'm like, yo, like like it's dope to see a Dominican 4:15 woman, bro. Like, she represented and she's authentically her, bro. Always. I think that's how a lot of people fuck 4:21 with her. And and and also I feel like it's an homage, bro. Like I think that 4:27 song, bro, is not a baddie is not it's an homage for Dominican woman, the culture here in New York City, and it's 4:34 also like the song itself. Yeah. It's a solid song, right? Is it? It it isn't it 4:41 proje? Yeah. It It just reminded me of the baby shower times. Did you get to hear like 4:47 the whole song and album? I I don't like some of the feedback that I was seeing from some people like I 4:54 guess jumping on the bandwagon. Oh, what's up with this album? I'm like I love this album. It literally broke down 4:59 her story. Yeah. Of everything that kind of has been happening the past eight years that she hasn't dropped. And the thing is maybe 5:06 for me it's different you know Dominicana I did live in the Bronx as well and I used to promote Club Divas 5:14 which is a a gentleman place you know strippers were there and that's when I first met Cardi 5:20 so like you met Cardi personally I've seen her growth grow and she was always the best dress 5:27 dancer very quiet very to her very friendly and then she started doing skits online 5:34 right just being herself and you know people were making fun of certain things in her appearance and 5:39 then you know she got her teeth fixed and and you know she just blew up and I feel like we we have to support our 5:47 people. You have especially somebody that's so authentic. Money has not changed her. She has grown as a 5:53 individual and a very smart business woman. So she knows what she's doing when she says certain things out and 6:00 about and and then she doesn't shy away from being that's why I love she don't shy away being Dominican. 6:07 She's also not trying to package herself for like mainstream culture and I think that's an important thing to take into 6:13 account like even even her appearance in the in uh in court. Yes. It was just so it's so real like 6:19 yo. And the thing is she's not trying to be funny, but that's just her personality shining through. And I think 6:25 that's something that people love, especially like like the Latino community, that's something that we always gravitate towards is that 6:31 authenticity. Well, even with Bad Bunny right now, right? Like the thing is a lot of these people are very much 6:36 themselves. They're not trying to package themselves for for the world. For the world, for everybody else. It's 6:41 like, oh, okay, I'm true to myself, but also raising up the bar. And yo, and yeah, you know what? We could still get 6:47 into Let's get into the Bad Bunny whole thing. Like the Super Bowl, the Super Bowl. 6:55 This is a big year for Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny has demonstrated to LA like the 7:00 world, bro. That that us Latinos were a powerhouse. A powerhouse, bro. for him to do a 7:08 30-day residency. I think he raised over 400, he injected like more than $400 7:13 million in Puerto Rico itself, bro. And the first few ones were just for 7:19 Puerto Rican residents, which is to show how much he loves and respects his 7:25 Puerto Rican people. And you know, everybody wondering, oh, but why didn't he do one in New York in the United 7:30 States? Because he's an honorable man. and he was literally afraid of ICE coming into 7:36 the concert to take his Yeah. people. You know what I'm saying? So, he didn't he was like, "There's no need to 7:42 do one in the United States." But now the Super Bowl. What do you guys think? What do you think? What do you think is is Bad 7:48 Bunny's mission? Cuz he's he he's definitely an activist, bro. Like, he came from the streets, from the hood, 7:54 like he used to bag, you know, bags in the grocery store. Yeah. You know, he he came out as a trap 8:00 artist, right? And it was like it was hood. But like but the but also that's what uh 8:07 hiphop was all about in the beginning is like speaking truth to power right you know but what do you guys think is is 8:13 Bad Bunny's goal what is he trying to do and what messages he's trying to portray I wonder right I mean just think about it like he cares 8:20 about Puerto Rico like that's that's his thing right and and I one of the things I do appreciate is that he's a 8:26 mainstream artist he knows he's got the platform to be able to use it to better his community and I I think we see that 8:32 time and time again. Now, this is not to say like I think there's there's been criticisms in the past of like, well, he 8:39 hasn't spoken up about this issue and that issue and that issue, but at the same time, I'm just kind of like he knows what he cares about. And I think 8:45 that's an important thing to recognize because not a lot of people in that in that environment are able to do that. 8:51 Yeah. But he's doing that. He's putting, you know, he he's not only like speaking for the cause of Puerto Rico, but he's also, 8:59 you know, injecting money into the economy of Puerto Rico. He's he's walking the walk. He's Yeah. He's talking the talk, but 9:05 he's also walking the walk, bro. And the thing, he doesn't care to be judged about, you know, um with a Devi 9:13 Masoto album, like people were kind of like, "Oh, why is he doing salsa? Why is 9:18 he doing this? I don't like the style that he used." He's like, I'm not trying to be like anyone else. This is just my 9:25 interpretation of this and this is why I did the song like this. And but this is what we get from 9:31 Bad Bunny. He keeps changing, not changing, he keeps uh branding himself 9:37 with different subjects that he wants to represent in each album. I think each album kind of shows that, 9:44 but it's always going to go back to his Puerto Rican people. Masoto is definitely like, wow, remember 9:50 how things used to be back in the days and look at the gentrification that's 9:56 happening in Puerto Rico now. Wow. You know, and he has spoken about things with ICE. Like I he does it his own way. 10:03 And I think we got to stop expecting celebrities to have to touch every 10:08 single subject. And what was the backlash that he was getting? Like it's not necessarily backlash, but there like there's criticisms, right? like why 10:15 has he spoken about like there's a plethora of issues that are out there right now in the world that they can be 10:22 talking about and the thing is I think it's unrealistic to expect our celebrities to talk on every single 10:27 subject the thing is he's focused in on his issues that he wants to focus in on and he again he walks the walk and I 10:34 think that's something that is commendable um but but that but that's the thing about him he's not packaging 10:40 himself out for mainstream consumption he's being real to himself. 10:46 He's being real to Puerto Rico. And I think that's something that I've I don't know that like you respect that. 10:51 I remember when when I first talked to him and I asked him a question, I said, "Bad Bunny, what makes you different from everybody else?" And he said, "I 10:57 always change my style." Yeah. And it and it makes sense now. Like now that I think about cuz I when I took 11:02 when he first told me that, I thought his style was in looks. I thought I thought styles and looks. No, he talk 11:08 about style and everything. music cuz he came as Latin trap artist 11:15 he also did them and took that shit to number one and now he's also doing bomba salsa and even though people could say 11:23 whatever they want about his salsasa whatever bro first of all like he did salsasa right I think 11:29 I loved it I loved it he did it justice because he went back to what Sasa was and Sasa was 11:35 jazz and he had that in his music he had jazz styles saiya in a sense that that every 11:42 instrument had his moments that we lost that essence of satis. He brought that back there. I was like, "Whoa, I 11:49 appreciated that." And two, I always the like like Latinos, bro. I don't think people we we I was 11:55 like in the train yesterday, right? And I was sitting down and I was going to a show at the stand and I was listening to 12:01 this song called by by 12:08 and how beautiful it is. I was like, man, it's so beautiful to be Latino and listening to this rhythms and and 12:16 synchronicity and the trumpets and everything. I'm like, wow, this is amazing. And and then Bad Bunny did the 12:22 right thing in bringing that shit back and he's showing how fluid we are, how 12:29 beautiful we are, but he also showed how powerful we are. Yep. Because for him, one artist to inject $4 12:39 million, $400 million to Puerto Rico. Yep. Him himself that his government and the 12:44 government Puerto Rico couldn't do that. Could not do it. That chose not to do that. that chose not to 12:50 do that for him. The Latino buying power is like at $3.4 trillion dollars today. 12:58 Can you imagine us as Latinos understood the power that we have when it comes to 13:04 buying power? Because Bad Bunny is demonstrating that. Yep. Mhm. I mean, he's demonstrating the fact that Puerto Rico doesn't need to go out 13:11 to the world. The world will come to Puerto Rico. I think that's the beauty of that. Yeah, 13:16 that's the beauty of that of the residency that he did, the 31-day residency and it was beautiful. Did you see how like they were selling um the tickets 13:22 when they first dropped? It was like package deals like hotels. That's why they like you were able to 13:28 get the your VIP tickets and and book your hotel stay like do like 13:33 it was just so seamless and such a smart idea. And then at the end for him to stream it for free. The last one. 13:40 The last one, bro. In Amazon. And it also broke records, didn't it? 13:45 Broke records. All the watch parties. I didn't I didn't watch it at the watch parties because I had my show, Bad Money. Why? I don't 13:52 know why you chose the same day as my Say something comedy show to do this, but it's okay. 14:05 see people there. Um, but after we went to a bar and and all the screens at the bar, it's 14:12 like everywhere. It was a watch party. It doesn't matter how small or big there. The screens were paying 14:18 attention. The first thing when I walked into the bar, I just heard the bombasto. 14:25 You know what I'm saying? I was like, "Oh my god, it's bad bunny." What? Stuck on the street eating wings. I was just 14:32 like this. That that was so beautiful. Like even the the the look, the camera, 14:37 like the the cinematography, everything about it was beautiful. It was It's 14:43 definitely a moment in history because well, we like here in the United States, I feel like there's a lot of shit 14:49 against Latinos. There's a lot of propaganda going against us, right? And and I I stand with him and him being 14:56 like, I'm not doing shows here. I I get it. You see what I'm saying? And even even for us like here in United States 15:02 of America like like this weekend we had a show called Dominican versus Puerto Rico and it's been selling out bro. 15:09 Like Dominicans and Puerto Ricans coming together. We're putting a show together. 15:14 No is spearheading that shit. He's the one that put it together. Brought Puerto Rican comedians brought Dominican 15:20 comedians. Brought them together. We had I it was like a five shows that were sold out in in New Jersey right 15:27 now. It was this weekend. This past weekend. Yeah, record numbers. Record numbers that even 15:33 the comedy club was like, "Bro, that even they called the club up. They were like, "How come we're making that much 15:39 money?" Because you know why? Cuz Latinos spend money. They spend money. Ecom. 15:44 Yeah. And and and they know how to support and celebrate. Um and it's it's just 15:51 beautiful when we join together, join hands because sometimes people try to say 15:57 Domo don't get along. I don't know. I've always gotten along 16:02 with my Puerto Ricans and I've seen my Puerto Ricans really love like I don't know between all our friends I feel like 16:08 we all love each other and do support each other. So I don't understand why people think or still have that stigma 16:15 like we can't you know. Yeah. I think I think it I think it's because they're privileged 16:21 like they you always been around like if you're Dominican you always been around Puerto Ricans like in New York City especially New York. 16:27 Yeah. Go go go go go to another place where there's no Dominicans. You gonna see how you feel when you see 16:32 a Puerto Rican flag. You see what I'm saying? You what I'm saying? When I was in San Diego for the first time and there was no Dominicans and I the first time I saw 16:39 a Puerto Rican flag, I was like, "Oh shit, I'm home." Like I was lost for a second. I saw 16:44 Puerto Ricans and there was mad Puerto Ricans there. And you know what they did? They took me in and and the holidays. 16:53 I was basking in my culture and the Puerto Ricans brought me in. They taught me. They treated me like family. That's 16:59 I always have a special spot for Puerto Rico. What's your background? 17:05 I'm Mexican. Oh. Oh. I must have been a Mexican stripper in my past life. I love tacos and I like walking around my house 17:11 naked. That's what I do all day. 17:20 Cuz that's what I That's cuz I'm Mexican. That's what I do. I'm telling you, 17:30 between his legs. In between his legs. Yo, I ain't going to lie. I Yo, there 17:35 was once I did a video with Korto. We did a papy chulo. I'mma talk. 17:41 I want to see this now, bro. We did a papy chulo transformation. 17:48 Wait. And then we we got him some white pants. 17:54 And then he came out. Very some very tight white pants. Some thick w 18:01 the pants split his thing apart. He he the comments were all the women 18:07 like we didn't know the snake emoji. The snake emoji. 18:13 All the comments was like moose knuckle. Moose knuckle. 18:18 Yeah. That's why I don't get a tummy tuck cuz that's what you know. 18:24 We're waiting for Noto come out with only fans. No. Well, you know, you never know. In this 18:30 economy, you never know. You never know. Listen, we'll make an AI. We make an AI. Only fans for you. One for me. Do you 18:37 get any DMs after that shit? Of course. It's the I think that was the first time 18:43 that I started getting DMs. What? And I think that was the thing that was just like, "Oh, this is weird. I don't like this." 18:49 They were like, "We want What do they say?" What the DMs? 18:54 It's a winky face. Was Was it men as well? Yeah. Yeah. 19:00 Not going to but not going to lie. All right. Not for the I was flattered. I was flattered. I was flattered, but then I started, you 19:07 know, got a little too weird. What was the weirdest thing you got? I I can't remember. It was what over 10 19:12 years ago at this point. Did you get any videos or pictures? Did anybody send you pictures? I've gotten I've gotten videos. I've gotten videos before. 19:18 Uhhuh. And I think that's the part that I was just like, this is this is strange. What was the videos? A guy or a girl? 19:24 It was It was a girl. Oh, he was like He wasn't ready for that. I wasn't. No, 19:31 I'd be I'd be like I'd be happy with the videos again. 19:53 It was a prime deal. That's what that was. That was a prime. That was Jasmine's moment's coffee. 20:00 Shout out to Jazz's. So, so right now, right now, Eric Adams dropping out of the major race. What do 20:07 you think, Norto? I know you got some things to say about that. No, I mean, I think it's rid Look, the whole thing is ridiculous. Uh-huh. 20:12 I think the way that uh first off, you know, I don't think it's a secret. I, you know, 20:19 I uh I like Zoron. I like his platforms. I think they're they're incredible. I think 20:24 it's refreshing to hear somebody talk like that to inspire hope. And I think we saw that in the primaries that there 20:30 was this man that was delivering something that I loved hearing from a politician. And I'm just like, you know what? 20:37 We can talk all day about what he can can't do, but you know what? At the end of the day, I need that energy right now. Exactly. 20:42 And I think that's what I appreciate about it. And I think the Democratic party right now is being ridiculous right now. 20:47 Right. With uh with Andrew Cuomo, you know, trying to come back in as an independent 20:54 the the the city spoke already. They already the city spoke I don't even know this. So Andrew Como is trying to 20:59 come back in. Yeah. He he th he's back on the theory race. 21:04 This is the thing. I had the pleasure of meeting Zoron directly when I first saw Zoron um campaigning online. I'm like I 21:12 emailed them. I was like me as a content creator, what do you need to help you? Yeah. And I'm not I wasn't asking for money or 21:19 anything like that. They were like just post about it. I I started sharing some of the things and then shout out to Carmen Dear Rosa. 21:25 Um you guys know that I do a lot of activism for stuff in our community. So she called me in. She called Jasmine 21:32 Ruiz in and we got to campaign a little bit with Zoron. And it's like you're saying, it's such a refreshing 21:39 energy that we see from someone that's speaking up for our community without 21:45 sugarcoating anything. And he's, you know, he has all these propositions that I think it doesn't hurt to try because 21:51 we've tried everything else. And mind you, listen, I've I've gotten to meet Major Adams. I did a community event 21:59 once for Dominican Comics and did a free show for the community and he popped up on me talking about, "Oh, I I see 22:06 everything you're doing. Great job. We welcome this man. They had the song New York." I got roasted as soon as as soon as that 22:12 happened. Everybody was like, "Why are you supporting this?" I was like, "It's not me supporting him." I had a show. Adams pulled up. 22:19 Let's see what could come out of this. Nothing. It was just a It was just a moment of him using us. 22:27 Yeah. Yeah. To try to make it seem like he's going to help. There there is there is there is a there 22:33 is a video I don't know if you guys seen it uh and is circulating right now and he was sitting Zoron was sitting down 22:39 with Jorge Ramos and Ramos was was asking him do you think Nicolas Maduro 22:45 is is a dictator? And I feel like Zoron was and it looks like it doesn't look 22:50 good on for Zoron because it looks like he was evading the question. I don't know. You seen the video? I've seen the video. What do you think about that? Cuz he was 22:56 also asking about the Cuban uh dictator. What's his name? Uh 23:02 I forgot his name. Whatever. But so he was asking him like, yo, like do you see 23:07 like will you call these people a dictator? I think it's it's a there's there's a 23:12 couple couple layers here. One of them being that like it's interesting to see first off like a lot of journalists 23:18 asking him about you know foreign policy. Yeah. When in the reality like this dude is 23:23 running for mayor of New York City. And I think that's the thing that sometimes people forget. On the other hand, the thing is Zoron gives nuanced 23:31 answers. He doesn't give you a sugarcoated yes or no answer which is what a lot of people want. And that's 23:37 the thing about it. This world isn't that simple. It's not a yes or no. I think it's very 23:42 much and the thing is how you going to compare what's happening in Venezuela to what's happening in Cuba, right? Is 23:47 different circumstances. But at the end of the day, that shit don't matter because he's not running foreign policy for the United States. He is running for 23:54 mayor of New York City, New York City. But why do we see a lot of like that's 24:00 crazy because I was watching like Andrew Cuomo uh Netanyahu came in to New York City and then Andrew Como like greeted 24:06 this man like like like what's up with and Eric Adams I think also did the same thing. 24:13 But we're seeing them like cozying up to foreign policies. Why? Like why are we seeing that? because they don't want to 24:18 release the MC's files because you know all our money is going 24:23 to Israel and um you know like it's it's so weird the you could just see the the 24:30 manipulation and it really bothers me that they think that we're dumb 24:36 like we don't get it and then they want to silence us as soon as somebody speaks up against these things that we are 24:42 seeing happening then you know we're anti-semitic we're anti- this no That's 24:47 not the case. I have friends that are Jewish that I respect. You know why? Because they also believe everything 24:54 that's happening is wrong. Mhm. But when it comes to these bigger corporations and and and uh politics and 25:01 foreign policies, all this stuff, at the end of the day, the reason why these people are backing all these people up 25:08 is because they probably have stuff on them that they don't want exposed. Mhm. And and I just can't wait for it 25:14 like a reset button to be clear for all these people to get exposed. They talk about everything but what they 25:20 need to speak about. I mean always remember that debate the first one for the primaries of New York City, right? Where is it that you want 25:27 to go? Where do you want to travel to? Everyone's Israel. Israel. Israel. Israel. Zoron. No, I'm staying here in 25:33 New York and serving and serving New York City. Jewish community become a state. You know, he's like, I am going 25:39 to be talking to the Jewish community in New York City. This is what they need. Weird. That's That's so weird. Does that 25:45 mean that that Israel Do you think Israel is funding like New York mayor 25:50 base? Like are they are they making money from No. No. We are funding them. Israel has 25:56 free healthcare. Mhm. Funded by the United States. Like for real, we are giving most of our funds to 26:04 Israel. Yeah. our tax dollars are going to Israel which is also funding a genocide. 26:10 And so the thing is also there's this group called Apac that is funding a lot that is contributing giving a lot of 26:17 money to a lot of these politicians. That's why you have people like Richie Torres, for example, speaking out like 26:24 he's speaking out for Israel in a way that is just like this. Like 26:29 you can't believe the the Richie Torres. Richie Torres is a uh is a congressman 26:36 uh and from New York and the thing was with him is that he was a very progressive can uh was a very 26:43 progressive politician and still is to this day. However, when it comes to the issue of Israel, he is a diehard Israeli 26:53 fanatic and it's and it doesn't make any sense until you see the contributions 26:58 that Apac have given him. And then suddenly you're like, okay, 27:04 it's interesting to see who stands up for Israel. The math starts mathing. That's that's weird to have like Israel 27:11 and Apac like funding like that should be illegal. Isn't that illegal in a way? 27:16 Like No, it's not. It's not illegal. It's uh uh we can get 27:22 into it, but it's it's a lot of court cases that made this happen, right? We have we have a lot there's a 27:29 lot of um like Citizens United being a big court case that essentially enabled 27:36 this type of funding. Yeah. And the thing is like again one of the things that a lot of progressive 27:42 people want is money out of politics so that we don't have to so that politicians can't be bought like this. 27:47 Yeah. But that that's a it's going to be a lot of undoing that we are not prepared for. Right. 27:52 But what what was interesting that I saw like like I think that Israel uh took I 27:57 think 150 congressmen and women to Israel and they pay for the trip and 28:03 they give like that sound that's like weird to me. I don't know if you guys heard about that. 28:08 Well, they, you know, if if you are part 28:13 of them as well, like they they they offer them like a free trip to Israel like if you're Jewish, right? 28:20 So, they they must have some type of collaboration, you know, that they don't 28:26 maybe they are using some of the money or maybe it's free. I don't know. But that's always been like the thing to to 28:32 go over there. Just like how you know how people will be like, "Oh, we're always going to go home to our homeland." 28:38 Mhm. For them, it's that. So, if Congress is funding most of it, of course, they're 28:44 going to find a way to take everyone over there and explain their history and and story and get to see everything that 28:50 happened, which was unfortunate, everything that happened to the Jewish people a few years back. I just don't 28:55 understand how they don't see what they're doing to Palestine. I I definitely think that there's 29:01 something to to be said about, you know, like if private citizens want to go out there and understand that story, go to 29:06 Israel. Like there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with it. Um I I get weirded out when it's politicians, whether it's our elected 29:13 officials that are participating in this cuz it's like, "No, no, no, wait. Stay here and service our communities." Like 29:19 that's what you got elected for. But also like you know at the end of the day you know this isn't again this isn't 29:25 about um this isn't anti-semitic. This isn't about being 29:31 anti-Jewish in the least bit. Um it's more about calling out was essentially a genocide. 29:36 A genocide. Yeah. Yeah. They were talk about I was just watching earlier today. I was watching John Oliver and it was talk about that 29:43 that the this administration sent $3.4 billion to Israel and it's funding this 29:49 this genocide. And it scared me because I was like, go that these people like 29:54 for the past two years they've been under attack and killing innocent people, right? And I'm like, fuck. So 30:00 what? We're going to spend three more years doing something like this? Well, like even before that, 30:06 the United States has always funded Israel. We're now getting to see how 30:11 much they are funding it because of the genocide that they want to deny is a 30:16 genocide. They're so busy trying to say, you know, we just want you don't think Israel deserves to become a state. It's 30:23 not that they don't deserve it, but if you becoming a state is means abolishing 30:30 another uh community of people, then no. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 30:35 It's just that simple. Like they're bombing hospitals, they're bombing kids, they're bombing like it's the media, everything like 30:41 eth ethnic cleansing. E ethnic cleansing. They can't report anything. And they're they're killing the kids. They're killing the press. 30:46 They're killing everyone. All because they, you know, everyone's Hamas. They cut off aid. 30:52 Wow. Like they're cutting off people who are there to just feed people. Like the flotilla trying to make it over 30:58 there. We had some people and some of them I did actually know in the flotilla. What's the flotilla? Um the flotillaa is a group of people 31:06 from different countries getting together on a boat to go help the people in Palestine. They are not crossing 31:14 Israel waters, but they are hovering over it. So, Israel is stopping the 31:20 boats from reaching to give people aid so they could actually make it to them through the beach. 31:25 Wow. Through their beaches. They're trying to make it over there through the beaches. They have stopped a few of them. They've 31:30 droneed them. They've tried to bomb the I mean, they try to burn the ships. And right now, as we're speaking, there's 45 31:38 flotillas. There's 45 boats from different countries, including Mexico, 31:44 going to try to break the siege. And let's see, they they were able to stop the first two or three, but can they 31:50 stop 45 boats at once? Is that going to, you know, I heard Italy was providing support to 31:58 protect them? Yeah, cuz it's like again, they're they're getting serious. They're they're they're cutting off aid 32:04 to people in need. That's what it is. Yeah. Damn. What do you guys think is going to happen next? Like where are we going to 32:10 where where is the end of this? 32:16 It's I mean it's going to the thing is right like it's going to continue. This has been happening. This been happening. It's not, you know, 32:22 even before October 7th and what happened there. Like this has been a situation, but I think now more than 32:28 ever, there's a lot of attention to it. And I think now we're waking up to like, oh, look at the atrocities that are 32:34 happening over there, but also look at how much money it we are sending over there, how our tax our tax dollars are 32:42 funding this, and then also how how much money Israel is giving to our 32:47 politicians and buying up our politicians. And you know what's crazy? I think this is the one situation that I seen I am seeing 32:54 like a lot of right and left agreeing in this. You know what I'm saying? Are you guys seeing the same 32:59 finally like with certain things especially what happened with 33:05 um Kirk, right? That there's just certain things that I'm seeing the the 33:11 right and left agreeing on finally, right? Like we need to keep our money here. 33:16 They're sending all this money out away to this other country, but they're 33:21 cutting our school fundings here. Yeah. They're cutting our fundings for welfare 33:27 for people. And guys, not I don't know if you've guys done this re research, 33:32 but it's not necessarily the blacks and Latinos that are using welfare as much as that other community. 33:39 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. White folks. You can say white. Jewish and white. Yeah. they like they are big in that field as well. So, of 33:47 course, it it kind of always comes back to bite them in the ass 33:53 in a way. Mhm. I I don't know. That was just my logic. I was like, "Oh, all this stuff is happening. They're cutting all our 33:58 funding." But then when you look at the statistics of who's really on welfare, who's really, you know, using this 34:05 money, like it's not necessarily been us. Mhm. That's true. 34:10 Yeah. There's a lot of very much like black and black and brown people have always been scapegoated as the people 34:16 that are using up these resources and this funding or illegal immigrants and it's just like you know this it's kind 34:22 of ridiculous and the thing is those lies get spewed so much that it's hard to counteract that. 34:27 Yeah. Misinformation. It's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lie. There's a propagandist like for for Hitler uh that 34:35 that said uh you say I lie so many times it becomes reality. It becomes reality. Yeah. 34:41 Right. And they believed in that. And I feel like and then talk about propaganda. That's where we at. I feel like, you know, with Tik Tok being 34:47 bought, I think that is the route that we're going. What do you think of the the United 34:53 States owning Tik Tok? Oh, man. I I I think I'm more afraid of it because I'm like, we are so 34:58 controlled by social media. Like even myself, like like I can't even get off. Like last night, I want to see by 4:00 35:05 in the morning. I put the phone down still scrolling. Yo, I put the phone down here, too. I'm That's it. I'm done. 35:11 I'm doom scrolling. I'm done. I put it down. Yeah. But 10 minutes later, you thought and I'm like, how the fuck did I 35:18 get I don't even remember how I started scrolling. You see what I'm saying? And and I was 35:23 like, and then now that the government now programming, they could program us like this could is so strong and they 35:29 could feed any information to us that they want. And then I think we are under an administration that doesn't shy away 35:35 from that. I They don't care. They I feel like they don't care about what this is what we 35:42 want to because I tell you straight up they're like eto malo we yeah I would like to put out more propaganda when it 35:48 come which is more right leaning or like we had Trump Trump went on Fox News the other day like he was like you know what 35:55 the radical right they have a point to be radical like like this like we're talking about man that this is not a 36:01 stable person that but if it's a radical left it's a problem. Yeah. So he's like, yeah, he said that's 36:07 exactly what he said. The radical left is the problem. You know, it's okay when we do it, but it's not do 36:13 it. And the thing is that you're you're the president of all Americans, bro. Like 36:20 you're the president like like bring down the temperature, do something, talk, unite us. We're not going to get 36:26 that. We're not going to get that from him. Bring Obama back. He's he's the thing that's the thing 36:31 about it. This man, it's the point of no return at this point. Yeah. Right. He's had plenty of opportunities to bring people together. He's not going 36:37 to do it. He He actively hates Democrats. He act actively hates the left. Yeah. He's already made it clear that that's 36:43 what he wants, right? He hate my enemy. He He celebrated He celebrated the fact that Joe Biden has cancer. And that's 36:48 the thing about it. I disagree with a lot of things that Joe Biden does. Don't get me wrong. I am not supporting the 36:54 Democratic party, but talk about that too. You have you have but you have the opportunity as the president, right, as 37:00 the commander-in-chief to bring people together and you fucking don't do it. Don't do it because that man actively wants us 37:06 everybody wants everybody divided. Yeah. Because he benefits from it. He just wants to remain a celebrity like 37:11 how he always was. He he forgot to step out of being a celebrity to actually being a leader. 37:17 Yeah. And and that's the problem. And we all remember that even when um he was just 37:22 Trump, you know, the billionaire that everybody Leica loved. Um what did he 37:27 say? If I ever ran, I would run Republican cuz they're the dumbest. Yeah. The funny thing about 37:34 don't listen to anything when when I would, you know, I was in my ent entrepreneur phase and I was like a 37:39 a big Trump lover at that time, right? And I I got his book, The Art of the Deal. I I even got pictures of of George 37:46 Ross, I think it was, like was his attorney, listened to stories about him, right? You know, and you know, there was 37:52 a time I remember I was like, "Yo, he should run for president because he's a billionaire." And that was my mentality at that time, right? You know, it's so 37:59 funny like you and like a bunch of like people that I know that like they all 38:04 love Trump because he was like this image of success and power business, you 38:10 know, smart business man. He did a good job in in putting himself in that position like his brand and 38:16 he sold it. He sold the image. Yeah. He did a great job in selling the image, you know. And then and then I was like, 38:23 yo, because I'm like at that time I was like America's a business. he's a billionaire. That's how I saw it. Like, 38:29 you know, but that didn't take to account of of of where healthcare, 38:34 right? That people's livelihoods are affected. Like, you're saying like like real repercussions like Yeah. Okay. At that 38:41 time, I was like, "Oh, he's a successful businessman." But I didn't put two and two together. Like, okay, running a country is something completely 38:47 different. Also, I I did not expect to this this level of division and there's 38:54 no uh emphasis on trying to bring people together is is dangerous, right? 39:01 Yeah. It's okay. We could have difference of opinion, bro. Like I'm used to like I remember when George when 39:06 911 happened, George Bush came out and brought everybody together. Yeah. Giuliani did a great job in bringing big 39:14 uh people together. Rudy Giuliani when the seven uh they got 7 oh yeah 911 happened. You see what I'm saying? 39:19 But then to see this today like like you know Erica Kirk went up and she's like I 39:25 forgive my enemies. I was actually I felt relieved that she did that because 39:30 we she's talking to a people I hurt and she's like I forgive this Tyler Robinson guy. have my own um opinions. Yeah. 39:38 But you also in that whole situation that helps in a it helps a little bit because now we have 39:44 I was waiting for them to just cuz the turnaround you have the president going like she she's for I 39:49 don't forgive anybody like I hate my enemies and he's always talking about like Venezuelans need to get out of 39:55 here. They're like ruining this country. you need to get it and talk about these bad things about Latinos and Venezuelans 40:01 at the same time while people are hurt like it's just beating chandel bro and it's like yeah I I don't think 40:08 people look at this and be like yo this is the man that's leading all of this and you're you're you're like his words 40:17 have a lot of weight but you're taking a blind eye turning a blind eye to the 40:23 things he's saying right and that's the thing he's he's a president he like and you know regardless and I think that's why 40:29 sometimes even like in in in the past like Republicans that you don't agree with you know they're still the 40:35 president they brought people together there was a philosophical differences right yeah um you know and we can get into that but 40:41 it's but one of the things that that Trump has done is very much like it's it's it's a it's at a point where 40:48 he says he hates his enemies. Yeah. And that tells you everything that this man stands for. He goes straight to just 40:55 Trump have always said it and I think we all agree should just do standup, right? He can continue being a a celebrity. He 41:01 can continue being on reality TV entertaining like all right. He says the craziest things like he 41:08 always just insults people when he can't when he doesn't have a credible uh um 41:15 statement. He just insults and that's the problem. He's like a little kid. No, he but he lies. He's told so many 41:22 lies that we forget the lies that he said. Remember when he said that Haitians were eating dogs? Yeah. They're eating the dogs in the 41:28 car. Yeah. It's just like what what the fuck is this man doing? And I think like and and that's the 41:34 thing that we forget. It's like the other thing is is that I I remember uh uh seeing a a report on 41:42 the fact that there were a lot of like Latino men who voted for Trump because he was entertaining. And I'm like, yo, I 41:49 do not want my elected officials to be entertaining. No, I need them to do their job. I need them 41:54 to do what they what they're elected to do. They're to service the community. I don't need them to be funny. 42:01 Yeah. I don't need this dude to be a fucking celebrity. I don't need him to entertain me. I need him to do his 42:07 fucking job. And the thing is, and a lot of men, a lot of Latino men 42:12 were like, "No, but he's just funnier, right? Kla Harris is boring. I don't like Karis. 42:18 Yeah, she she's she's she looks mad all the time. It's like what the fuck? Like listen to the policies. Listen to what 42:24 they are offering the country. Nowadays, people don't care about that. They care about like are you charismatic or not. 42:29 They were I think a lot of people were also just done with a lot of the things that the Republicans were also doing and 42:37 standing behind. And I remember when the comma situation came up, you know, what I saw a lot of um especially like the 42:45 the black community were like, "Well, she arrested so many people, black people, and this um 42:51 what is she really going to do for us?" And okay, I get wanting to ask those 42:57 questions, but then they pushed that rhetoric so much. Yeah. that it made people that probably 43:02 would have voted Democrat kind of either go Republican or not vote 43:08 or not vote, right? Mhm. So, we have all those things happening and then after all of it happened and 43:15 and and how how many months we have with Trump in office now people are now are 43:20 like, "Oh, Camala was right." Yeah, Camala was right. She warned us. Yeah. That this was going to happen. She 43:26 warned us that he was going to be this aggressive. Yep. because everybody the every 43:31 president has deported people. Uh Obama has deported 43:37 way more people than Trump has. But now Trump know Yeah. But that's the thing about 43:42 it's how it's being done. I think it also has to do with the fact that like we like I believe all 43:49 politicians regardless of your political affiliation, regardless of your party, you need to be asking questions. You 43:55 need to be poking at them. You need to be demanding more of them regardless of who they are. Yeah. You have to hold 44:01 them accountable and it doesn't matter the party. It doesn't matter if they're Democrat, Republican, independent, doesn't matter. They have to be held 44:06 accountable and you have to ask a lot of questions and always push back. The thing is we conveniently forget to do 44:12 that when it comes to Trump. A lot of people conveniently suddenly don't care don't ask too many questions 44:20 about Trump. Why do you think that is? Like how did we get here? Like they're in the Epstein F. 44:25 How do you think we got here, bro? like 44:30 I mean, yeah, release the Epcene Files. That He ran on that. Yeah, he ran he ran he ran on releasing the Epstein files 44:35 and now we don't want to release the files because the left it's a hoax all of a sudden. 44:42 I think he he does he knows how he knows what he's doing. I think we I think he knows what he's doing. Especially like 44:49 when he talks about immigrants and the way that he talks about like like they're terrorists. There's a reason why 44:54 he uses the term terrorist, right? Illegal every time when it comes to, you 45:00 know, and and specifically, it's always Latinos that they're talking about, right? There's a a a point to doing all 45:07 of this because you need especially to have a cult. You need to have a certain type of enemy. And the enemy is always 45:12 the left or is marginalized people, is the immigrants, the undocumented immigrants, the trans folks, is gay 45:20 people, right? You see what I'm saying? Like I always noticed like every time they talk about uh immigrants is always 45:26 like oh the terrorists attached to it purposely you know he 45:32 knows why he does it. We all know he paints villains villains who are the real terrorists who are we just had four 45:39 school shootings two days ago. Yeah. I mean we had four mass shootings two days ago. Church and school just two 45:47 days ago bro. Two days ago. Four. Four. When the Charlie Kirk incident 45:52 happened, another one happened that same day as well. It ain't get known. And it's never us. 45:58 No, it is the real terrorists are right here and they're from this country. 46:04 They're domestic. It's it's very domestic and and and and you know they're not black or brown 46:10 people and they're not gays there. It's not the LGBTQ community. So, they're always going to 46:17 deflect to point towards us and the minorities. Um, but it's really them that is doing 46:24 it. And you know, I feel like a lot of people, my algorithm shows me the white people that stand up for us. And I 46:29 really appreciate that. Mhm. Because they're seeing it. And that's goes back to your point. The some 46:35 Republicans and Democrats are finally agreeing. So, are we pivoting finally? Are we finally going to pivot or are we 46:42 going to forget with the next trend? I don't know. when when you're programmed like if you're able to forgive like if you turn a blind eye to 46:49 all this man has said and done and you never hold them accountable like what do you think this going to why is it going to start happening now you know uh 46:56 watching videos about what a lot of things that Charlie Kirk has said and and he's uh the way that he did it with 47:03 like as a it was propaganda that was he was spreading he would say something extremely racist and then the next line 47:10 he made it seem like this is not something I want to think but he just said something completely racist. We're 47:15 like, "That's not something that I believe in." I'm like, "You just said this." So, it was like a he masquerade the dog whistle, right? But he was great 47:23 at being a propagandist. He didn't care about stats and data. We live in a world 47:28 that people don't care about data no more. I think his own people set him up once he You think his own people set him up? 47:34 His own people set him up after he's I'm sorry. allegedly after he started to speak up uh against Israel and you know 47:42 like now his wife has taken over. I feel like two days later that was whole that 47:47 was a whole show to me that whole uh service and it was weird. 47:52 Now that you're looking at her background this girl did one of the pageantss back when she was 17. 47:59 Uhhuh. Run ran under Trump. Right. The pageant was under Trump. Then she went to 48:04 another country so they could open up a thing for kids like uh displaced kids 48:11 and that country dismissed her after like a year or two because kids were missing 48:17 for real. Check Tik Tok. How much is that? It's probably a conspiracy. Is that real? What do you 48:23 think? No. I said that's why I said allegedly. I mean, you know, you got to just do we got to do our research, right? I 48:29 I I will be on the side of like we don't know. We don't know. Yeah. a lot that we don't know. There's a lot that's being said. 48:35 There's a lot of hearsay, but at the end of the day, there's a lot that we still don't know. But that's the thing about 48:41 it, right? Before we knew the identity of the shooter, the talking points were already being made. 48:47 Bro, they were saying that who they thought it was. Yeah. Who they thought who they thought it was. But they don't they but they 48:52 don't use allegedly. They just say this is the farleft Antifa transman who 48:59 killed Charlie Kirk. And you were like, "What the?" They kept they kept saying was an illegal trans person. 49:05 Yeah. It was a trans man that was 49:10 everybody that they hated in one. It was a leftist radical leftist trans illegal. 49:16 You hit me. How do you do that? That person 49:22 everything the bullets had manifestos on them like yo what? But like, but I think that's 49:30 the thing about it. Sometimes we got to say we don't know and and that's okay. And that's okay. That's okay. And that's 49:35 okay. I I also see it like this. We also think about like a lot of these uh Cong 49:40 because there was also a lot of people congressmen, senators of like that were saying these things like you're in a 49:45 position of power. Why would you say that? Like be a a good person. Be like, "Yo, be responsible with your words, 49:52 bro. Be responsible. Like, yo, first of all, be like, yo, whoever did this, I'm not for this." That's the first thing 49:57 you do as a leader. Mhm. I'm not for this. I don't stand by this. Right. And I respect everybody that came out and was like, "Yo, you know what? I 50:04 denounce like violence versus anyone." Charlie Kirk should have never been killed or shot like that. That was 50:10 disgusting. And and anybody that celebrated some shit like that that we saw, you're you're a sociopath 50:16 because we saw that. Yeah. Everybody publicly saw this man get shot on the throat and it was disgusting. 50:22 You see what I'm saying? I don't agree with what he says. You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah. You you could debate the dude. I'm okay with 50:28 slapping a nigga, but come on. To take his fucking life like that. And also that's a bitch way to do it. To assassinate somebody like 50:36 I see. Yeah. You're a bitch for doing that. You know what I'm saying? But but you're you are responsible to be 50:42 like, "Yo, these people that follow me, voted for me, be like, you kid, this is not okay. Let's bring it together. This is America. We got to come together." 50:49 You see what I'm saying? But when you benefit from the divisiveness, you're gonna be like, "Oh yeah, there's also people like that have podcast, bro, and 50:56 they have an audience, bro. What you say to the audience is very important. 51:01 It's very important." You tell them like, "Yo, like this is not okay. This is not okay. I'm not for this and I hope 51:08 it could come together." But if you come out right away like is this is that is is these person these are the people 51:14 doing that to you. You're also feeding into this cultish tribalist 51:19 environment that and it's extreme. I feel like I go outside sometimes I'm like 51:24 who who is this person? They do something and that's a environment we live in and 51:31 that's not normal to be like and it doesn't feel good right like going out like and you see certain groups and you're like 51:38 I caught myself one day I was like and then I was like oh that's not nice Rose. Yeah. You know, like that. Like my 51:44 initial thought right away was like, and then I was like, you don't even know them. 51:49 Yeah. You don't even know them. You don't even know them. I'm like somebody. 51:55 Uhhuh. I I I will say I get a little bit like I think like the question of who you voted 52:01 for, right? I think it's an important one these days. I think in the past you were like there were Republicans. If you 52:06 voted for Republican, it was like, okay, well, maybe you're a fiscal rep, you know, a fiscal Republican. You go, you believe in fiscal responsibility. 52:13 differences of opinion these days. It's like if you voted Republican, okay, that 52:20 means you heard what this man had to say. Yeah. You heard that he he called Mexicans rapists. Yeah. 52:25 That he wants to take away women's, you know, women's rights, right? He you heard all the countless lies that he has 52:31 said and you said, "Yeah, that's the one that I'm going to go for." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I judge you a little harsher these days 52:39 because of that. Yeah. And that's why it's like when you when I ask you who' you vote for, if you say 52:44 Trump, you're not you're not with me. I don't fuck with you. I know. So, what what what are you guys doing? Are you unfollowing these people? 52:52 What What are you doing? Even the the whole January 6 and you still was like, "Okay, that's okay." 52:58 Right? There there's a limit. There's a limit to to to how much grace we can give people. And the thing is like sometimes 53:04 and again it's not and it's weird because I like get like I think it's it's also important to give people 53:09 grace. Yeah. Like sometimes there and you're like oh Trump is a businessman 53:15 right you said like oh Trump is a businessman he's going to run the country as a business and maybe they didn't do enough research about what 53:21 this man said and people living their life and people living their life and they don't you know they do their 9 to5 and 53:26 they can't you know be focused in on this but at the same time I'm like there's only so much grace that I can 53:32 give you right and again the thing is if you tell me that the second time you voted for like you the second time came 53:39 around and you voted for Trump after what he's done, after what he's said. Yeah. After having a proven track record of 53:46 the amount of of of hate that this man spews, you still say, "I'm still going to vote for this guy." 53:53 I can't I can't I don't I don't fuck with that. Yeah. There's nothing. Cuz after after something like that, it's like being an 53:58 abusive relationship and you're like somebody cheated on you and beat you and you you bring them back until you you get with them again. You're like, "What 54:05 else can they There's nothing that they could do after that that you're going to leave them. They already did the worst thing. You already forgave him for 54:11 everything. You already turned the blind eye. It's like being in a toxic relationship. You're like, there's nothing that this person could do. And I 54:18 got a friend, bro, that like he loves Trump so much. Yeah. He's an immigrant, Latino. And I was like, and I swear to 54:25 God, if Trump shoot your kids, he'll be like, "What did they do now?" 54:31 That's the type of man like, you know what I'm saying? Leave your wife, he will do it. But that's how the and the that's the level 54:38 of like idolization he has of this man, you know. And what do you guys think now 54:44 that that America is buying out Tik Tok? What do you what do you guys' opinion? What do you think is going to happen now 54:49 with that? It's dangerous. Yeah. Dangerous what it is. We saw what happened with Twitter. 54:55 Mhm. And and it's a ranted place. Yeah. It's a hateful place. I don't I don't I 55:01 don't fuck with Twitter. I don't fuck with whatever ex I took it off. before they even transition transitioned to X. 55:09 But you know the the thing with buying Tik Tok is once again control, right? 55:14 Mhm. They saw number one, Tik Tok was owned by China. 55:20 Was it owned by China or who was Is that what they were saying? That's what they were saying. Uh but it's it's owned by a company from 55:26 Singapore. Okay. Yeah. So they they felt like um they had too 55:31 much information for us on us. Uhhuh. They were collecting too much data on Americans. 55:37 But then you know what? Tik Tok is a place of a lot of information. People go live there. People post it goes viral 55:44 pretty quickly with certain subjects and it became a place where people were talking truth about certain things and 55:51 and going against some of the policies. So of course they want to control what people hear just like they want to 55:57 control the press. even to go speak to the president, the press now has to have 56:03 premedit pre premeditated questions that they approve for you to ask. 56:09 Oh, no way. And whatever is you ask has to be preapproved. So, they want to control 56:15 the media. So, of course, they're going to go with hitting gen um the the younger generation right now. And the younger 56:21 generation uses Tik Tok the most. Damon, sorry. The uh to clarify because I I was 56:29 wrong. Uh Tik Tok is the parent company is from China. Okay. So that it is that 56:34 it is that. Yeah, I was checking that. I remember some research on the side. 56:41 I like this. We we have it's we have this. 56:46 I wish people did that more often, man. I I I'm not going to lie, man. I I do I feel like I live my life every single 56:53 day going like at the oi and I feel like I've been consumed with politics United 56:59 States and I know that we're adults now and that we vote and we need to pay attention but I feel like I'm living in 57:05 a place that I'm consumed by this motherfucker, right? You know, like and I feel like as a Latino, it's hard for 57:10 me to turn a blind eye, especially I do stand up because I'm like sometimes I get on stage I I feel like a lot of 57:17 these people are looking at me like who is this guy? What is he going to talk about? I I feel a type of way already 57:23 with him even his presence even being here, right? Because it's so much uh 57:28 negative propaganda versus our people. So sometimes I feel like I got to talk about it. So like that talk about the 57:33 elephant in the room, right? But I am also tired because I feel like a lot of times I wake up in the morning, bro, and 57:40 I turn on I get on YouTube and I'm watching videos. You see what I'm saying? And I feel like 57:46 I'm consumed by this thing, this circus that's going on right now in this 57:51 country. And I feel like it's also done like that purposely. Like, come on, man. 57:56 Let's take a break, bro. You You're not wrong. It's It's my best friend says it all. She's like, "I don't 58:03 know how you do it, Rose. I get you have a presence and you could speak about certain things, but I just don't like 58:09 she she does not like to see me stressed about certain subjects just like you know like you're over 58:16 consuming all this negativity and sometimes it does affect my creativity right because I feel like 58:22 like I mentioned to you I've called you oneon one like yo my god you see what's happening are we going to bring this on 58:28 stage because you know we always have this conversation are we going to talk about these subjects on stage is it a good time? Is it too soon? You know, 58:36 it's it is a battle and and at the end of the day though, I'm proud 58:41 of you when you do speak about those things. So, I appreciate seeing you on stage 58:48 touch on some of these subjects. Thank you. Like I, you know, like it's needed. We 58:53 have so many comics that just joke around about the regular joke stuff. Regular joke stuff. We might take a hit 58:59 with certain views because we do speak about it, but you know what? That's honorable. 59:04 Totally. I think everything is political these days and I think it's hard to disassociate. Um it's not as easy as it 59:12 once was. I think because of the fountains of information that we have. We have Tik Tok. We have all the social media 59:18 platforms telling us all the terrible news that's going on day in and day out. But for for for y'all specifically, you 59:24 guys are comics, right? And I think it's imperative like like to talk about what's happening in 59:31 the world. It's it's imperative. It's what you do. Uh, you know, and some of the greatest comics were said political 59:38 stuff. You got George Carlin who used to do time and time again talk about politics 59:44 and it was, you know, and he's one of the greatest comedians of all time. Ever. Ever. So, it's one of those things that it's 59:49 kind of like yes, it's important to make people laugh. Yes, it's important to also it never lose sight of that is that 59:56 to entertain is is important but you also part of living life is that we have 1:00:01 to keep our you know our finger on the pulse of politics because that affects our everyday lives. So, you know, you 1:00:09 got to keep doing it, I think, and find that balance, right? At the same time, we do got to learn how to 1:00:14 disconnect sometimes because it is part of the division, right? Like it's 1:00:20 it's a balance. It's a balance cuz you know, social media is great, marketing is great. 1:00:25 Um, but it can also then like let's say we consume it so much we really start 1:00:31 hating and become them. You know what I mean? It's such a like it's a program. is the and also like 1:00:39 people are so easily radicalized right I think there's so much information there also false information 1:00:45 spreads so fast that when it come the reality and the truth comes out it's a really too late too late you can't undo 1:00:50 a lot of the false things you already spread out you see what I'm saying yeah well the thing is like when you 1:00:57 know when I worked at at Latino it was like day in and day out every morning I have to read the news 1:01:04 it's just bad news after bad news after bad just like I like you know my dad was 1:01:10 like yo you look stressed you don't look good and it's true after after six years of 1:01:15 doing it you're just like I can't like this just overwhelm there's only so much so much like you 1:01:21 get overwhelmed by how much terrible news you wake up and you're like well there's five news stories that we can 1:01:26 talk about all of them terrible shit that's happening like oh you got 10 videos of ICE kidnapping people and 1:01:34 you're just like what what are we supposed to do with all is bad news. And I was always like I always, you know, I 1:01:39 always told my team, find positive news stories, see if we can find something positive, something that we can elevate 1:01:44 that is good news, that is positive for the community. And the thing is media right now, it delves in negatives. It 1:01:52 does not like to amplify positives. And that's the thing about it. That's where that's where y'all come in. Like you 1:01:58 that's like to me like it's important to keep your finger on the pulse of politics but also remind people that it's 1:02:05 important to be to it's important to provide the joy unite us through the comedy as we're addressing 1:02:11 Yeah. I like that the subjects do you feel I feel like today's 1:02:17 comedians have added uh especially with the podcasters and stuff do you guys 1:02:23 feel like they how did they impact politics today podcasters 1:02:29 yeah I'm like the comedians that that's known the how like right now the communities that were that's known today 1:02:35 you know what do you guys think how they're affecting our culture and 1:02:40 politics in that envirment All right, cuz I have my own opinion. I want to see what you guys think. 1:02:45 They are key. Uhhuh. They are key in the sense that you uh we like to discard them cuz they're like 1:02:52 this comedians with like who just got podcasting equipment. Look at us. Right. 1:02:57 But it's one of those things where like we like to discard them, but the reality is that there's a lot of young there's a 1:03:03 they have a large young following. Yeah. And there's a reason why Trump went onto 1:03:09 these podcasts. Yeah. There's a reason why they consistently try to reach out. That's they're being paid by the uh the RNC. 1:03:17 Yeah. Right. Like it's one of those things that like there's a lot of power when it comes to comics with podcasts. 1:03:23 They're influencers. They're influencing people. Yeah. Um but it's also that's why we also have to hold them accountable. 1:03:30 They you like you can't be just be spreading out lies. You can't just be spreading propaganda. You have to also 1:03:35 be held accountable. Charge. You got to challenge them. Yeah. Because you have if you have millions of people listening to you, 1:03:41 that's a lot of you have power. You have a lot of power. So at that point, you're not just 1:03:46 another comic with the podcast. Yes. You have now a responsibility to be able to tell the truth, to be able 1:03:52 to be truthful. Okay. Yes. I do feel like comedy, especially like the Austin comedy scene has bea 1:03:58 become more hacky is nothing but race jokes, trans jokes. Uh, a lot I think a lot of these 1:04:05 comedians that have podcasts have kind of destroyed us because they had these politicians come over and not challenge 1:04:12 them. They ask them questions. They made them seem the their craziness. They normalized their craziness. 1:04:19 And as a comedian, you got to be able to look at both sides and be like, "Oh, no." 1:04:25 You see what I'm saying? Mark Marin, I think, recently said something about like if Adolf if Adolf Hitler was alive today, he'd go on he'd 1:04:32 be on podcast. He would be on podcast. He would be a guest on podcast. Yes. I really like the Daily Show. 1:04:37 Mhm. Right. Mhm. But the Daily Show is kind of mostly left, right? I would say 1:04:44 definitely. Yeah. Then um as in terms of and I wanted to double check this before I I I said it, 1:04:49 Joe Rogan does have the biggest or most viewed podcast and correct me if I'm wrong. 1:04:57 Like usually he's very much right, but then lately he's been speaking up 1:05:02 some things that maybe I think everyone can agree on. So that's a positive change I think. 1:05:10 Yeah. And what other comic there's Theo Von, there's the Flagrant. 1:05:16 Flagrant had and I think Flagrin also did damage, bro. And and I've been a fan of Flagrin. I've been a fan of of Andrew 1:05:23 Schultz. I think he's hilarious. Andrew Schultz also started shifting a bit, but to me it was a little too late. 1:05:30 He made it known that he voted for Trump. He made, you know, he's he's very open. So dumb after when they put the 1:05:35 little caps, you know, and then like, you know, and I think we a lot of times we 1:05:41 bro like they had Trump on, bro, and they asked him, "Who do you think tried 1:05:46 to kill you?" And they asked a question five times, 1:05:52 "Who do you think did it? Who do you think Five times you asked that same question. And then Trump was like, "That's a very 1:05:58 good question." I'm like, "No, it's not a very good question because we all know who tried to do it. The dude is dead as 1:06:03 a kid, right? We know the name of the kid. Michael Crook. Who else would Who do you 1:06:09 think? We Yeah, we know. Michael Crook. Who do you think did? Who else would it be? The the dude with 1:06:14 the rifle." So, it's like like asking questions like that, bro. Like when you have a dude running for president of the 1:06:20 United States, it's the stupidest thing that you could fucking do cuz they're not equipped. They're not equipped. They're not equipped to be 1:06:25 able to ask per questions. They had what was it? Uh was it Steinian company? I 1:06:31 forget what those dude the the Neelk brother or whatever. Yeah. So they had Benjamin Net and Yahoo 1:06:37 and you're just kind of like why why learn? We're here to learn from Benjamin and Yahoo. 1:06:44 Like what? Learn learn. You're not equipped. You're the most evil man on earth. You're not equipped to have that 1:06:49 conversation. Yeah. I'm not even equipped to have that conversation. None of us. I don't think any of us are 1:06:55 any of us. Journalists should be the ones asking these damn questions. People they're shutting up the journalist. 1:07:01 They're not allowing the journalists to journal. Yep. But that's why again we expect more from 1:07:07 our our comics now. We expect more responsibility. The thing is even with with the Daily Show with 1:07:13 with Last Week Tonight, like those shows do thorough background checks. They fact check their stuff 1:07:19 and that's the thing about it. Like it they're funny, right? And people can say that they're they're leftleaning, but at 1:07:24 the same time like I mean they're putting out facts out there. That's true. That is my dream job. I hope to get to 1:07:32 the level that I could do my comedy in a way in a show like that. It it it does everything 1:07:40 that we kind of do already, right? We We're activists for our people and we do comedy. We like doing sketches. I I 1:07:46 love doing sketches. Mhm. That that show I felt like does it so well. 1:07:52 Yeah. The way like those monologues are just hilarious. So funny. 1:07:59 And then just the way they present themselves. Like I love it. Like it's just like I used to think SNL was my 1:08:04 dream job. No, the Daily Show is. No, I just want to work for me. 1:08:10 You know what? Yes. You know what? This is what we This is what Nobody else is doing right now. 1:08:15 Fuck that. You know, uh I want to thank you guys for coming in today. This was I knew it was going to be an interesting conversation. You know, all of us we 1:08:23 think alike and and I I got respect for both of you. You're fucking hilarious. Black roll. Keep fucking shining. Thank 1:08:29 you for coming. Nortoman from the Mexican side. Uh, I want you guys to drop in the comments like what 1:08:35 do you guys think about the conversation? Add to it. What else you guys want us to talk about? Right. Uh, make sure you follow them. Roberto Beno, 1:08:43 he's all over the place, especially on Tik Tok. Black Rose is I am Black Rose, am I right? 1:08:48 I am Black Rose NYC. NYC much. And I'll see you next week.