Leaked GOP group chat. “No Kings Day” protest drama. Comics backing out. We unpack how streamer culture, propaganda pipelines, and algorithm incentives shape today’s politics—and why art (from stand-up to hip-hop) feels like it’s suffering. With Norberto Briceño and Black Rose, we talk receipts, responsibility, immigration myths, media bubbles, and whether podcasts should platform politicians at all.
In this episode:
The group chat leak & why “they’re just kids” doesn’t fly
When comics say “no”: the No Kings Day backout
Streamers, shock value & the outrage economy
Immigration rhetoric, Medicaid myths, tariffs & farmers
Are we trapped in media bubbles—or seeing clearly?
Politicians on podcasts: access or propaganda?
Is social media ruining art—or exposing weak craft?
Timestamps
00:00 – The Leak: Inside the “young Republican” group chat
02:40 – Infantilizing men? Why 24–32 isn’t “just kids”
12:18 – Streamers & shock: How Aiden/Neon normalize slurs for clout
26:52 – Immigration myths, Medicaid & the “blame the poor” playbook
49:58 – Algorithm vs Art: Are comedy, hip-hop & film getting worse?
Guests
Norberto Briceño — educator, writer, cultural commentator
Black Rose — comedian & storyteller
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Today we have a special episode. Ready? Now we got your favorites back in the house. Norberto and Ben's black rose battle. You know, we're going to start the conversation. Let's start this conversation about this group chat, son. Go off. Go off. Yes. I'm pretty sure you saw the group group chat. Those, like, a little, like young Republic in group chat.
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Let me know what you guys think on this Hawaiian mama mobilization first. You know what? Well, let's, Pull up the receipts. Pull up the receipts on what they talking about? Maybe I figured.
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Whoa. It was so bad. Yeah. So bad.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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Yeah. Not young children, guys. Not trolls and not little.
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Oh.
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Wow.
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Unknown
Oh, wow I think I saw that. And then they're like what between 24 years old. Between 24 and 32 years old. Yeah. Yeah yeah I heard that the youngest one is like 24 years old. Pero pero I think we have an issue in this country now in this country. But I think this generation we kind of have infantilized men.
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You guys notice that I'm like holy men at all. Like especially like they, we I remember the, the whole thing that happened with, with neon and The Breakfast Club and everybody's like, oh my God, they're pressing this kid, this kid I'm going to. And this kid is like 20 years old, 20, 21 years old. I'm like, you're he's a man, bro.
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When I was 19, I was serving in the military, bro. You see what I'm saying? Like, when I look back, when in my dad's days, right? My dad was already taking care of me at 17 years old. So it's like we gotta stop infantilizing. And these we talk about these guys are 20, the youngest is 24. Grown men don't even focus on the youngest one.
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Focus on. Yeah, in the 30s, bro.
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They're they're making all the younger focus.
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They're not young. Oldest.
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Yeah. I think the also the problem is they're not condemning these, these this type of language.
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Yeah. Okay. Nuh Like.
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Of the United States. Wow. Like I think for you. Yeah. Like.
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Oh.
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But what's the worst thing they do. Have you seen like anything like it's bad. It's not one thing out of no way. And these are like the people like within the government that they're also make decisions are like in the future they're going to be future leaders also within the Republic or they.
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Wow.
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Everything.
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What do you think will wait? Because they feel like they obviously feel comfortable in doing that. Now, do you think that people are more comfortable doing that now? And what do you think that. What? Yeah. What do you think? Cause. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like like.
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That's the that's the normal now.
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Wow. That's just so look, this is.
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They elite. How do you get like, does anybody know.
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I got a question for you guys. It's like, we all have talked shit before right. And you guys have ever talk shit behind people's back or like, are they anything out there? You know, that you guys have said they like me, and I'm afraid of this shit coming out.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean that's natural. Gotcha. Everything that came up. Yeah. Yeah. You know I.
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I talking.
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Yeah. Yeah. At the same time I feel like back in the day like when I was a teenager. Well 15 years. Well I would say some messed up shit. I was all I think I somebody messes me right. Right from high school. And I read the old messages I sent her and I was like, oh my God, I was talking about sucking dick and all this extra shit that not me doing it.
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Yeah, me doing it, but I'm like, oh my God. I was reading all these things. I was 14, 15 years old and I was like, oh, hey, I am so sorry that I, I know it's 20 years later, but I can't believe I sell these. And I went back and I read everything I said. I was like, oh my God.
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Bro. But you talk about Facebook, I have Facebook, I have Facebook. When it was the Facebook I, I, I remember I had I have one, I have one, I had one Facebook com and going like, I'm over here kidding. Cockroaches. I'm like, why? Why would I post that? And it's just and I remember like in the, in the military as a teenager, like we will say some fucked up things like people just yell out the n word because it was funny to us as we were, we weren't like politically correct that we would say some fucked up shit within that age range.
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I wonder when is the cutoff right? When does it caught up to be like, yo, this person is not young. They know what they're doing. You said. I'm saying, I need you.
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I think I.
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The thought the black rose. I honestly cannot tell you. When is the last time like I stopped you said I'm saying. Or when was the cutoff for me? Like, you know, probably was early 20s, right. We are we also like we're also the jokes. Veterans are so messed up in their heads. We're so messed up, like we say, so many messed up things and we joke racially, comfortably and around of each other.
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So it's like there's no of this, political correctness. And now when I left, I was like, so, not politically correct. And I think I learned a lot more when I started working at BuzzFeed, when I was like, remember, I started working? People were like, you can't say that, right? They don't say that no more. And I was like, what was wrong with that?
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You know? You know, and it was just slurs that that drinks. Oh I when people I de them I'm like, what the hell you mean they then wouldn't you know what that diciendo de them. You know it's I mean that the end there. Pero it took time for me to be around that environment to learn about it. All right.
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Right. What about you. Yeah.
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Like I got I. Yeah, yeah yeah. It's.
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Yeah. Especially like.
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Yeah. Yeah I yeah I'm like.
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Yeah. Like.
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In that manner I got it.
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Yeah.
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That's when I talk share with somebody. Yeah. That's.
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And who are these people in this group chat. Like are these people like the other. They hold positions and part of power or they're looking to become like what? Like who are these people? The leader.
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Oh.
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Do you think how much you think media has impacted that next generation to be like that? Because I feel like there's also like these streamers. I say some messed up stuff like the Aiden Ross's, the, the neons, like they made their popularity, being extremely racist. Right. And then these kids are watching them, and I, like these guys are also supported, you know, this president.
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So how much you think like, these influences are impacting the next generation to be in this way? You said I'm saying.
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And.
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This is this.
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You know, you got the president. Guys.
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Unknown
Yeah. I say it's you. Yeah, yeah. Know that is. I also feel like when I look at these people, a lot of times I'm like, I have to understand that, you know, how we see our parents and our parents tend to be ignorant, like they are our ignorant parents, but that hold power.
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That's exactly that's what I that's how I see it. Am I wrong, right or wrong?
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Yeah. It's stupid. It's stupid. Like like, trying to try to hold your parent accountable for anything. Nowadays, they don't take.
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Sharing. Yeah.
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It's crazy because. Because we are so used to this now. But back then you did something like that. Back then you be like, oh, okay, what is this? You know, this is the same people that were outraged that Barack Obama wore a tan suit and Barack Obama. Okay. I remember when he came out of the task of being at the ombre and everybody's like, I can't believe he wore a tan suit.
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Why would I? And then now we got this dude coming out with a meme, just shitting on people. And, and it was the first item called calm. Yeah, by far. Garbage went, April. Yeah, yeah. Because all the garbage they had. And I know garbage. I see so many people different.
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And they present petty the.
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Like like. Yeah.
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We're going to take ten back. Right. There's no like it's like it's like a war against progress. Yeah I feel like.
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Our part.
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Why I want I wonder if this is more of like of a distraction than anything or is like, this is more of, like, creating more chaos to keep people involved. Cause I'm telling you, like, I, I think this is done purposely, so like they. But. Oh, let's create more chaos so we could do whatever we need to do back here.
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Yeah.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Unknown
Just, just.
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Do you guys feel politically constipated? Because I think I'm politically cast, and I. I will say.
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That.
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Yeah. Because.
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It's the new normal. Yeah. Yeah. Oh.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Thanks.
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Yeah yeah yeah, a lot is. Yeah, yeah.
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Oh.
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I'm,
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Unknown
Yeah. Tampoco. Yeah. I saw people on the train. I'm like. Oh. And I was surprised to see, like, there was all the white people in the train and the no kids coming back with their signs of that. Okay. So it's not all of them I see. That's props to them. Yeah.
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And,
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Unknown
I think at the end this is, this is done in a way and I think is orchestrated in a very smart way. It's like let's create all this chaos and let's put everybody against each other, you know, let's create this fear mongering against trans people. Let's fear mongering escape people. You know, where Latinos, immigrants, they're taking over.
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Unknown
They're taking your jobs like they're using up your health care. And I think it's working. And it worked, right. It's just let me distract you guys and separate everybody. But the thing is that everybody is being oppressed by the same people, right? The people that own all the money, they run this government, but they're right away. They're still create.
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Unknown
They they're so quick to be like, this is what's going on. Those people are the ones taken away from you. Right at the I saw the sociologist talking about that on social media that you graduated from, from Harvard. He was like, capitalism is built that way so that you could distract yourself, right? So they could keep you down.
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Unknown
You're being oppressed, but you didn't even know it. I had a friend here. Right. And and you know, you know, whatever Trump supporter. And he was like. And he was sitting here telling me about like, man, you know, these these women are collecting food stamps. These women are collecting food. I'm like, yeah, you worry about the woman that got no money collecting food stamps, and they're having kids supposedly to collect food stamps.
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Unknown
I'm like, you got a bigger problem than her. She's not the problem, right? We we I think we in this country, we have to be honest, is that the middle class is gone that way where it's facing us so drastically. Right. And then you think that we're going to make all this money right from tariffs, right. That we're going to make money from tariffs.
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Unknown
But like you're talking about a government that doesn't believe in social programs. Right. So how can how you're going to benefit from these tariffs from people that don't believe that you should get anything right.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Unknown
Yeah. I yeah. Anything.
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Else I'm.
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Unknown
That's why the world there's not going to be any food stamps for like, no way I own be.
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Unknown
The funny thing is a friend. Well, he was complaining about food stamps. The funny thing is that food stamps boost the GDP. It helps food stamps, helps the GDP in the country, and there's people that don't have it. And I'm like. And I was like listening to this economist, she wrote this book and this economy and just to get people out of below, poverty is only, like $176 billion to get people from below poverty level.
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Unknown
Right. And it's just somebody paying their fair share. It just that's how we take the below, like. Right. But the thing I think there's an attack on education, reading understanding was going on. I think people are so quick to be like, you know what? Whatever he says is right? Without even searching the data, I think people need to be.
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Unknown
Let's go back to searching the data. And facts mattered. And one point at a time, right after we live our life, that people are too lazy to even look up facts. Some history.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Unknown
I need a minute getting rid of this. Dollars. Oh. The area. The easy money is okay. They're they're doing well now. They're doing, negocio con China. So Argentina is doing also going to change it. I mean, so Anton said, what about the farmers in the United States? They now we got to bail out these farmers.
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Unknown
The farmers that.
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Are our work.
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And.
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Unknown
Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Unknown
All of this was.
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It was all in protest. So. Yes. Yeah.
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Unknown
Right. Oh. Oh.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Unknown
His name in there? Yeah. Damn. 48%. Let's think about it.
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Unknown
Is. Yeah. And he denied. He denied. He denied it. Yeah. Terrible. Terrible.
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Unknown
No. Not better, not important. Latina say nice way to get.
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Unknown
Yeah. Never seen this best because. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, I but no, I do, I do I feel I, I do feel like there wasn't enough voices especially for Latinos. Right. Like, like where was our Latinos speaking out against like, yo, this is dangerous for our people, I think just talk about the aliens. Enemies act right. Any enemies act we.
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Unknown
It puts us as a target, whether you're a citizen or not and a we, you know, history. This happened to the Japanese where they put a Japanese internment camp. Like what's going on? Like, I look at this alligator Alcatraz happened to the Japanese people, and two thirds of the Japanese people were put in internment camps, right? That were where there was U.S. citizens.
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Unknown
Right. So if you know history, the moment that he said that you should have everybody Latino should have been like, oh, yeah. But I remember talking to Latinos were like, I saw the speech. It was a good one. You hear me? And I go to not what does that mean for you?
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Unknown
TPS.
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Unknown
Mean? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I Atiba.
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Unknown
No no no no you have to there's a. Yeah. Well yeah. Yeah I think I was. Yeah.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Unknown
And it's crazy because over here in New York City we see a lot like I come in here to New York. I was actually surprised of how many especially like people from my background that were supporting this man. I'm like, Holy shit is crazy. New York is crazy. Supported. This man, right? And it's like, oh, they're not talking about me type of attitude.
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Unknown
They, they talk about, oh, he's cleaning up. He's getting these people out of there. There's even undocumented people that were happy about this. I'm like, it's like these people were excited about being the enemy. I'm like being the enemy of this government, because that's what this administration has done. And they don't hide it. They don't hide it. So they're so quick to be like, oh yeah, illegal immigrants.
00:27:13:17 - 00:27:30:07
Unknown
Every immigrant was considered illegal. And also classifying them as terrorists. This rhetoric is done purposely, right? The propaganda is done purposely, and they succeeded.
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Unknown
He's here. The thing is that he has. That's all. It's all it's.
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Unknown
No.
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Unknown
No. He's funny. I.
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Unknown
Do.
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Unknown
No. No way.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Unknown
Yeah. Is it.
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Unknown
Oh yeah. Like the government. The government never was like we're not playing around like you coming over here. Well you don't I think Texas said in their National Guard and he was like yo you come over here bro. Everybody going to do all your cars will tow your car. If you have no tags on your car, we're going to tell it like he's like that guy over there.
00:29:03:04 - 00:29:14:11
Unknown
He's not playing around.
00:29:22:17 - 00:29:52:22
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. That don't make no sense I mean I wonder like well this thing happened like you know what's interesting bro Lane. There's a lot of comedians that supported this I and this comedians that I loved and look up to like and hilarious. Great. The me comedians like Theo Von like Andrew Schultz are the flagrant. I was I was a big supporter and and listening I would listen to flake and I also and Joe Rogan and I were like, really, this is a Joe Rogan.
00:29:52:22 - 00:30:17:00
Unknown
But I feel like all these people had a massive amount of influence and power. Right? And they used it in a way and brought in the, the, the politics without challenging choosing a side, without without really doing the due diligence, without, oh, everything's going to be fine. I see all of them backpedaling now. Right, right. And it is.
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Unknown
And it's heartbreaking because I feel like Andrew Schultz also comes out and he's like playing both sides. He's like, oh no, they're both equal. Pero no it's not both equal, he said. I'm saying that you were one of the reasons why this person is in power, right? I wonder I wonder what is the media's going how is going to look like in the future, especially for comedians and comedians doing podcasts, but they realize the power that they have.
00:30:42:17 - 00:31:08:11
Unknown
And I wonder, like going forward, like these politicians are now using podcasts as a propagandist to spread their propaganda. Right? I just wonder, what do you guys think about all of that?
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Unknown
I wonder. I wonder do we control I or oh I control us. But you say that we don't from.
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Unknown
What is this. Because they use it I.
00:32:16:20 - 00:32:20:10
Unknown
Yeah.
00:32:20:12 - 00:32:29:10
Unknown
But you I mean yeah part of it.
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Bias.
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To get the
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Grabbing attention.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Unknown
Okay.
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Unknown
Is to get the views it's not really about like oh.
00:33:19:22 - 00:33:23:09
Unknown
You know actual journalists.
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Unknown
Everyone is. So should we get politicians out of podcasts.
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Unknown
Because part of the reason all this shit.
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Unknown
Everybody is like everybody I want to be trending. Was.
00:34:10:10 - 00:34:20:00
Unknown
I wonder what's going to happen with this government shutdown. And what the do you guys think that there's going to be an end to this.
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Unknown
What is happening. Yeah.
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Unknown
I feel like.
00:35:16:08 - 00:35:43:08
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah I want I wonder if all of this that we're talking about is are we in a bubble. Or like because sometimes we have to question these things. Right. Is it because we are in a bubble that we are getting this information because of the information that we get biased information? Are we being biased? That's the the question, you know, or what what are other people saying that there's not in this sizing?
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Unknown
You said I'm saying our.
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Unknown
I, I've seen it I've seen.
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Unknown
What the hell is going on.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Unknown
Right.
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Unknown
It's not both either.
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Oh.
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Unknown
Wow.
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Unknown
At the. Yeah. No. Yeah.
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Unknown
Good.
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Unknown
Oh I'm.
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Yeah.
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Unknown
Yeah. They want to blame the Democrat I think. But they're trying to say is that the Democrat is trying to give Medicaid to or health insurance to undocumented immigrants. And the problem is that undocumented immigrants cannot receive, Medicaid, right? They can't get federal aid at all. Right. So right now, here's the thing. Oh, you for the.
00:38:06:02 - 00:38:17:09
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. Let's the.
00:38:17:11 - 00:38:25:09
Unknown
Wow. This is all on.
00:38:25:11 - 00:38:28:13
Unknown
The level.
00:38:28:15 - 00:38:56:11
Unknown
Two undocumented immigrants. That's. There. I heard something they like. Oh, they're Republicans. We'll, we'll take away. Well, okay, well, take away programs so you wouldn't eat just in case. One person that, that's immigrant eats. Are you saying? I'm saying. But Democrats, ones, everybody they eat, even though there's somebody that is supposedly undocumented, eats or is not supposed to.
00:38:56:13 - 00:39:23:20
Unknown
So it's like there's an analogy. I was like, oh, wait, we cannot give people medical insurance or free health care because there might be an illegal immigrant or an immigrant that might benefit from this is crazy. I'm like, let's punish everybody because one person or a few.
00:39:23:21 - 00:39:30:04
Unknown
But yeah.
00:39:30:06 - 00:39:40:04
Unknown
And
00:39:40:06 - 00:39:52:15
Unknown
I, I, I wasn't, I, I yeah.
00:39:52:17 - 00:40:01:12
Unknown
I got.
00:40:01:14 - 00:40:13:01
Unknown
And then the thing is the livestock spent cause closed doors. Yeah. Yes. Right. I don't know.
00:40:13:03 - 00:40:24:13
Unknown
That has nothing. Affect them. Are.
00:40:24:15 - 00:40:36:09
Unknown
No. Grinder. It just boggles my mind so far that might.
00:40:36:11 - 00:40:47:13
Unknown
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't yeah, yeah.
00:40:47:14 - 00:40:54:08
Unknown
Yeah, I.
00:40:54:10 - 00:41:02:19
Unknown
Mean.
00:41:02:21 - 00:41:18:03
Unknown
That's where I'm at. Where the. I think it is. Yeah. I'm like yeah, yeah. It's hard not to.
00:41:18:05 - 00:41:23:18
Unknown
Vent. Right. Oh.
00:41:30:05 - 00:41:33:15
Unknown
Yeah.
00:41:33:17 - 00:41:42:02
Unknown
Well.
00:41:42:04 - 00:41:49:09
Unknown
It's hard.
00:41:49:11 - 00:42:25:10
Unknown
Yeah. Which is crazy because I'm not going like I don't, I don't want this to be a political podcast. Right. And how far you to this is it. Yeah. Yeah, it is political. Yeah. I didn't want to, I didn't, I didn't want the guy the other show to be politic political but but but but the, the crazy part about this is also how could you not talk about something that is, affecting our community that is real right now, that people are like, we're people are really being affected by this.
00:42:25:10 - 00:42:45:00
Unknown
And it's like, is they not to talk about something that's it's like not talk about the elephant in the room. I feel like every time I go on stage, I feel like I am the elephant in the room. I'm the Latino, they're looking at me and there's some people that probably don't even want me there. Right? So it's like, how can I not address that?
00:42:45:01 - 00:43:05:08
Unknown
Are people being attacked, bro? Like, you know, there's a lot of our people being deported. There's missing like this. Like missing, like 1200 immigrants missing that don't even know where they at. Right? How can I not talk about this? How can I? And I feel like what happened to the Venezuelans? Nobody defended them. Now one person, now one person.
00:43:05:08 - 00:43:34:23
Unknown
Defend the Venezuelans. And guess what? Venezuelans cannot defend themselves because you can't say nothing about a government where you don't have citizenship, even if you have a visa. So now one other Latino was like, you know what? This they're using these people for propaganda. And and then the data shows something completely different. Right. And I think I think about Venezuelans all the time, bro.
00:43:35:01 - 00:43:57:14
Unknown
And it hurts. It hurts, you know, because we dedicated our lives to represent Latinos, to represent we want to showcase who we are. Right. And I feel like there was none of us. None of us stepped in to be like. I mean, I look at the person on the corner. Venezuela. No, but the esto es la verdad.
00:43:57:14 - 00:44:25:14
Unknown
This is the data. What happening with the Venezuelans, right? They didn't have that. Everybody just went with it. And look at them now they're paying for something. There's been a there's innocent Venezuelan people that came over here in search for a better life and a better dream. There in Saka, there's an El Salvador, innocent men and women. One person, one innocent person is too much.
00:44:25:16 - 00:44:45:14
Unknown
One.
00:44:45:16 - 00:44:54:06
Unknown
Yeah.
00:44:54:08 - 00:44:57:00
Unknown
Yeah.
00:44:57:02 - 00:45:04:07
Unknown
Yeah.
00:45:04:09 - 00:45:24:09
Unknown
I no way. I didn't know that. There's a lot going on. Yeah. That, that's, that's part.
00:45:24:10 - 00:45:30:20
Unknown
Yeah.
00:45:30:22 - 00:45:37:00
Unknown
Well what do you, what does it.
00:45:37:02 - 00:45:47:22
Unknown
And the bills are expensive.
00:45:48:00 - 00:45:54:23
Unknown
Nah.
00:45:55:01 - 00:46:06:04
Unknown
Yeah. They stress. It's so sad. It's so sad. I think that.
00:46:13:09 - 00:46:19:18
Unknown
I what do you think? What do you guys think people need right now?
00:46:19:20 - 00:46:26:05
Unknown
Because it's distraction. I should be good for people.
00:46:30:11 - 00:46:35:05
Unknown
Yeah.
00:46:54:11 - 00:46:57:11
Unknown
It's easier said than done.
00:46:57:13 - 00:47:10:15
Unknown
I also think.
00:47:37:11 - 00:47:53:23
Unknown
Where are you. Yeah. There you go. What do you guys think makes it. What makes you guys distracted and makes you happy. You can start because.
00:48:22:10 - 00:48:33:10
Unknown
Oh what about you. You ready to see your grandson.
00:48:33:12 - 00:48:37:12
Unknown
Or what about you. What makes you happy.
00:48:51:02 - 00:48:55:01
Unknown
Everything. Everything.
00:48:55:03 - 00:48:59:12
Unknown
Yeah.
00:48:59:13 - 00:49:03:02
Unknown
I.
00:49:03:04 - 00:49:08:17
Unknown
Am.
00:49:08:19 - 00:49:25:05
Unknown
Are you doing great at it bro. I love, I love what you're doing. And and this man is focus that we did a 40 hour fast and I call them know that. What are you doing here. I just edit it two videos and wrote three scripts. Yeah I got a headache. I can't do nothing. Hey, is my father's writing through scrubs?
00:49:25:06 - 00:49:40:03
Unknown
I feel like I'm not doing enough in my life because I knew that if I. I was a better media.
00:49:40:05 - 00:49:58:10
Unknown
I got a question for you guys before we close out. You know, there's a last question. Like they I feel. Do you guys feel like art is taking a hit or what do you think about today's world? I feel like that is impacting art in a way, right, in a sense that there's a lot of distraction on social media.
00:49:58:15 - 00:50:22:08
Unknown
A lot of conversations about pods of comedians are very, extremely political nowadays. But like, I feel like before comedy was the one to talk like, to power, what do you call it? Like like talk, what do you call it? There's a saying that it was talk truth to power, but it was something like that. But it became the gesture for power.
00:50:22:10 - 00:50:45:22
Unknown
Right. What do you think is happening nowadays with art? Because I feel like hip hop is not the same. Hip hop. Hip hop was. They were. You taught truth to power. Comedy was to that as well. I feel like I don't see specials like I used to see them. Right. I feel like art across the board is no great movies like they used to.
00:50:46:00 - 00:50:59:00
Unknown
Do you feel like what is hurting art and what do you think is impacting that? You guys seeing the same thing?
00:52:03:19 - 00:52:09:12
Unknown
What about you. Yeah. Look at.
00:52:09:14 - 00:52:12:20
Unknown
Marinate.
00:52:12:22 - 00:52:24:01
Unknown
To.
00:52:29:18 - 00:52:33:08
Unknown
First.
00:52:52:06 - 00:53:12:17
Unknown
Yeah. Artists I think art is suffering like like I don't remember the last time I saw a special. Okay. There's only one special album and I'm a plug in because and I also had a conversation with Ian Lara special was it was one of an amazing special one of the best specials. And I'm not being biased because he's Dominican.
00:53:12:19 - 00:53:37:17
Unknown
You know, I probably am, but, and I know the the specials phenomenal. Is like, is line by line, phenomenal comedy, bro. And and and when I was in the audience, I was like, oh, I need to work on my own shit, right? And I haven't seen a special like Ian's in a very long time. And we seeing a lot of special coming out on, on Amazon Prime on Netflix that are not good.
00:53:37:19 - 00:54:00:15
Unknown
Yeah, I think it's coming out on YouTube on November 7th. Right. It's. But but besides, let's put Ian to the side. There's no good comedy specials. There's no great albums like how Hip-Hop lost the best album of the year. Right. So it's like like what's going on here? Like if music was the I used to do this and some music all the time was the new thing and it's not a thing anymore.
00:54:00:15 - 00:54:13:04
Unknown
People listen to podcasts more than what they do, listen to music. I don't even know who's the latest artist now.
00:55:01:13 - 00:55:10:09
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:10:11 - 00:55:15:19
Unknown
Yeah. Well they just went down.
00:55:15:21 - 00:55:27:01
Unknown
Colorado another. Yeah. They do something else. No. Where like what.
00:55:27:03 - 00:55:44:21
Unknown
Oh I don't know. Elena. Wait. Timeout. All right. This wraps this wraps it up either Q there you go. Infantilizing. And the world. And this is a cycle, you know that,
00:55:44:23 - 00:55:49:20
Unknown
Oh, I don't.
00:55:49:22 - 00:56:08:23
Unknown
Like that temper. Everybody's got the temper thing. Yes. I.
00:56:09:01 - 00:56:26:16
Unknown
Oh, yeah. All right, so we're going to conclude this podcast episode. I appreciate you guys coming. I fucking love you guys. This is always interesting when you guys come over here and we talk about this and, you you. What do you guys think about everything that we talked about? Also, leave a comment. What do you guys think is happening to our.
00:56:26:16 - 00:56:42:16
Unknown
And why do you think this is happening within art right now? Am I the only one seeing this? Are you guys seeing the same thing? You know, leave a comment like subscribe, tell your friends, share this episode. And I love you guys. You guys have a good day. Ehm.
00:56:42:23 - 00:57:13:19
Unknown
Yeah, and we got another post as good laughing. Y'all know how I laugh with a heckle. And surprise. That was good. Perfect. Hey, I like to. Take the microphone off the way. All right. Let me punch in closer. Do you want me to. Looking at the camera or. Yeah. Look at the camera. Look at the camera. Smile.
00:57:13:21 - 00:57:45:04
Unknown
Laughing. We got this. And now. Surprise! Why is surprise? Surprise always works? If somebody told you something shocking. Oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Perfect. There you go. Now, I got to do the same shit. The wait. Because I was.
00:57:45:06 - 00:57:53:20
Unknown
Amazing. I just.
00:58:02:03 - 00:58:09:11
Unknown
You know. Yeah. Let's go. You're calling me bitch.