supermegashow - EP 198 - We Gotta Talk, America

Episode Date: June 26, 2020

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Call 1-866-531-2600 or visit connectsontario.ca. Ah, well, I'm back. Well, you know, we're all, it probably wasn't even that noticeable because we backlogged podcasts and stuff in advance. Yeah, so people are like, back, back from what? But I sent my uncle away in his blimp and I'll see him again, I'm sure, in the future. God bless.

Just put on the autopilot and sent him away. You know, he forgot his charger, and I tried to throw it up, but I couldn't throw it up that high, so I'm unfortunate. I don't know why I said that. It's just an anecdote. That's what I remember. I said goodbye to him today. It nicked the side of the blimp. Hope that there wasn't.

It did make that pfft, like a little. If anything, it'll get them home faster. You've seen a balloon when it's letting out air. You're in a blimp and you want to fast travel? Here's a little tip. Cut the back of the blimp and it'll go Holy hell. It's been a while since I've seen Ryan.

Today is the first time Ryan and I have seen each other in three weeks? Right? Yeah. Three weeks. It actually didn't feel- A little over three weeks. It didn't feel that long. It didn't. When I saw you pull up in the driveway today, I was like, damn, it feels like just yesterday.

I got so happy and giddy. I was like, yay. Me too. I was like, it's my boy. Uh-oh. But Ryan, was that COVID? No. Ryan, his uncle Beans was here, but he's gone now.

So no more self-quarantining. Now the boys are together. And we're about to kick Super Mega into high gear. We're about to really, really. Y'all always say that. Well, and we're lying once again. Just to keep you guys here. See, we're peddling falsehoods.

See, when we say these things, it's not like we actually have a passion for what we do and we want to make these things happen. Yeah. say these things it's not like we actually have a passion for what we do and we want to make these things happen yeah it's that we're intentionally lying to you to keep you giving us money so we can continue to laze about and do you know they're like oh the good stuff's about to be here yeah exactly but you fools you'll support anything yeah you guys are really are a bunch of i'm talking about the regular the fan not the patreon no the patreon fans are very smart genius people very intelligent and wise with their money spending choices um no but we really uh we're we're basically hold on a second i have you know

when you have to burp but it's not burp it's more just like yeah it's like i got that right just some guttural gas that you need to release um super mega for a couple months has been a little uh stale for for me and ryan, admittedly, where sometimes if we do this long enough without something really new, we kind of hit this. It's been our fault by not providing that newness as well. Yeah, because it's easy for us to just kind of like, let's say we're just uploading Let's Plays every day. It's easy to just kind of get in the habit of like. Every day? What channel are you watching that uh well okay almost not even almost every day but we

upload just let's play a few times a week yeah um and it becomes really easy just to just to get in that that mode but we don't you know we never want to force out the content if we're not in the mood to record a let's play i know it's our job and it's like, well, normal people have to go to their job. It's just like, I don't know. We're, we're, it's different. We're given, we have a lot of luck

and we're given the availability to kind of steer where we want to go. We, we have full control over what we want to do.

Like, we don't have a boss that's like, you have to get two let's plays out today. Like we do to Justin. Yes, exactly.

We love Justin. A little bit. Yeah. I love do to Justin. Yes, exactly. We love Justin. A little bit. I love Justin so much. No, but we if we wanted to, we could just put out Let's Plays all week and then never anything else and be like oh, okay, the money will keep coming and we're good. But we want to keep making better stuff.

And that would drain our souls too. We're actually working on something. We have a big project that we're now that Ryan's back from quarantine that vlog we said that we spent a year making and it's still not out forgot about that there's just some things where after you film it you're like

is that as good as it could have been it is good though the vlog is funny we just haven't edited it yeah I get it it has that one scene in it with the okay yes that's a good vlog I like the part where I'm chasing Jackson around.

We also have a vlog we shot with. The part that nobody else can even, they're like, I would like to see that, Ryan. I would love to see this vlog that you're talking about.

I think I still need some of the footage from Jackson. Fingers crossed. He still has it. Yeah, I know. But we also shot a vlog with Freddie Dredd

when we were still bald back in like October. Oh, at the round one. We did like an arcade vlog and got really drunk. That was fun. That one was good too. We just got to start sending this shit to Justin because we're not going to ever edit it. We're too lazy.

And Justin is like begging. He's like, please send it to me. But we're babies and we're like, oh, we'll edit it. Don't worry. I liked editing the Japan. I don't know. There's that part of me where sometimes, a lot of the times, we'll edit it like i liked editing the japan i don't know there's there's that part of me where sometimes a lot of the times we'll film something and i'll look back at it and i'll be like i don't know if i can make this funny to other people or whatever so i just kind of don't

do it yeah but there's certain projects where i just like i want to edit that there's japan where's where the last last group of projects. I don't want to promise too much, but we are working on something groovy. I will say this, actually. We have officially two major projects in the works. Yes. And not just ideas, like actually working on them right now. Just before this podcast, we had a meeting about it. We have two big projects on the way

that are not like... People will love it, I think. It's not like, oh, it's another show, or this or that. It's two very big projects, which is what you guys have been asking for forever, and I'm very excited to work on them.

So actually for the next few weeks, we might even be away from the office and YouTube works. We got to go filming. We got to go do some stuff. And honestly, I think it would be best, and I'm saying this because now the fans will be annoying about it if this turns out to be a lie.

But I think giving updates about these projects to patreon for example or putting more on our story it's just we're not together that often so it's like i don't know we're together now what can we do uh i'll post something to our instagram story i don't even think i'm logged in here to get a good picture one thing you might be able to see in that picture Is actually I have two freckles On my side I'm going to zoom in I don't think I can see them

It was blocked by the arm of the chair But I have two freckles on my side Ryan That have always been there but recently Suddenly have taken shape So I think that's a bad sign That usually indicates cancer So I need to go get that checked out Are you logged into the SuperMega Instagram? I am logged into the SuperMega Instagram That's a bad sign. That usually indicates cancer. So I need to go get that checked out.

Are you logged into the SuperMega Instagram? I am logged into the SuperMega Instagram. I'll send you that photo. Send me that photo. I'll post it right now and say, long time no see, bitches. Did you see that some programming team created a depixelizer? Like a face depixelizer? Does it work with breasts? I don't know.

So I can go back to those Girls Gone Wild commercials? And look at their bazongas that they didn't want you to see. Look at this, though. Although I think they were covered up with the logo and not the... See, they're smart with that. I like someone did this picture of Obama and just output it as a white man. It doesn't actually show what's underneath. It just does its best to like guess and figure out

what the picture is my favorite part with the uh obama being the first black president was people going no he's only half black he's not truly the first black president and those who were saying it were like the people who have like the confederate flags on their trucks and stuff he's not really black why is it your job to take away the fact that yes like whatever i don't know i just thought it was weird. There's a lot of weird shit going on. I remember that. It's like, oh, he's hardly black.

We have our yearly Confederate flag debates going on currently. It really is a yearly thing at this point. NASCAR banned the Confederate flag from the whole fucking thing. The whole shindig. And then a huge slew of people did a Confederate flag parade and protest? Outside of NASCAR. They drove their... We saw the NASCAR headquarters.

You know what I see when I see the Confederate, people flying the Confederate flag? I see a bunch of losers. I see a bunch of losers and mouth breathers. No, quite literally, they are losers. They're lost. Get over it. That's the thing. It's like, why...

Sorry your relatives lost a war. Why are you proud of a heritage that fought against America and lost? They should have been better at fighting, but I guess the people who flew the Confederate flag were just weak because they didn't win. And the Confederate flag should just be a big white flag for surrendering. Yeah, I know. Oh, my God. Well, we're trying to fight for our... Shut up.

Shut the fuck up. This is probably a bad time for me to tell you I did get a Confederate flag back tattoo. Oh. I was going to surprise you with it. Well, it's for history. It's for history, yes. It's not about slavery or anything.

It's heritage, okay? I got a lot of family members that I'm sure love the Confederate flag. I think the Confederate flag is just something to protect. It's something to get emotional over. I don't really think these people have this. No.

This, well, you have to think, right? You and I belong to the state that was the first to secede from the Union. The Civil War literally started in my hometown. Yeah. And they made it pretty apparent in their little letter of secession that it was about slavery. No, it's about states' rights. Well, it's about states' rights to keep slaves. Yeah.

One specific state right. Now, I'm no historian, but I'm pretty sure the Confederate flag wasn't waived to liberate slaves. Yes, it was, dude. You clearly pick up a history book, Ryan. Dude, dude, I don't think I... Can you envision a guy on this fucking white horse in a KKK robe with a Confederate flag just running, freeing slaves?

Yeah, because guess what? The Democrats were the ones that owned the slaves, Ryan. They were. Open a history book and read. Who was Abraham Lincoln? A Republican? Yep. People forget about that. I love I love that fact.

And people use it like without the slightest knowledge of of historical understanding that the party shifted. We're in a time right now, 2020, a lot of shit's been going down. We are at a time of peak unrest because it's election season and there's a lot of stuff going on. It's not just because it's election season. You know, the death of George Floyd is a big. Yeah, that actually we have not recorded a podcast. Not only George Floyd. I mean, there's a long there's a long there's an unfortunately long list.

You got Breonna Taylorlor which i think is is something that that one's they're all fucked up it blows my mind where it's like oops like no you can't just fucking say oops about that like the well they did and they're the police department that's not an oops, uh-oh scenario. That's a you fucked up, pay the price scenario. What if I walked into your house and thought you were a robber in your own house and I killed you? And would I just be free right now? Would I be?

Well, the thing is, they arrested the boyfriend. Yeah, they arrested the boyfriend. Yeah, they arrested the boyfriend. And could you imagine the case of what it would have been if that boyfriend had a firearm in his drawer and shot and killed one of those officers? He would not be out right now. No. He would not be out. No.

And people would justify the entire case. Like, he was an armed thug, see? Of course. I can't believe the police officers are still free it's weird it's weird to see people deny uh one the just the the facts of like hey you know people are trying to it's literally just a a couple sleeping in their bed that's all it was and i don't think i think a lot of people like no one's defending that. No one's defending George Floyd. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yes.

But you get to the people who start, Candace Owens is a big one. Candace Owens, you know, they bring up. Breaker you, baby. You bring up the criminal history. And while. He was a porn star. Did you know that, Ryan? He had sex on camera for Money with Women. George Floyd did?

Did he really? I didn't even hear that. But see. Shows how much I didn't even hear that. But see? Shows how much I know. Look at me. It shows that he was a bad person. So, hmm, we should think about that a little bit more, shouldn't we? Yeah.

It's weird because, you know, innocent until proven guilty is one of the biggest things that's echoed throughout, you know, most debates, right? I don't think it's right to just be tried there on a sidewalk. Do you, right? I don't think it's right to just be tried there on a sidewalk. Do you, Matt? You're really having to think about this. Does he have a criminal record?

That's the thing, right? That's true. That's true. Now, do you think I'm going to cut this out of context? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, it's so fucked up. It's just, the criminal record argument is just a way for people to try to, like, des meant to desensitize you. Desensitize it and justify it because they're like, well, you know. People did the same with Ahmaud Arbery.

Yeah. They've done it with everyone. They did it with Michael Scott. Michael Scott. I got to cut that out. Michael Brown. No. Michael Scott.

Jesus Christ. I think the case that I've been looking into, which is another heartbreaking case, was about the kid who was wearing the ski mask. And he's very introverted. And I don't want to say weird. Weird is a negative connotation. But he was a very unique individual. Like we all know unique individuals who just like, I don't know, you can picture like when I was young or like even now, like I dance in my backyard and shit, whatever. Did you hear about this? Basically, they got a call about some kid in a ski mask and they went and they tackled him and held him down.

And the kid started throwing up and had a heart attack and I think died on the way to the hospital. Regardless, he died. And I think a lot of that has to do with the anxiety brought on. I mean, I'm no doctor, but like. Yeah. brought on i mean i'm no doctor but like yeah i think the conversation is should definitely be steered more towards how the the police departments one are literally given situations which they shouldn't be you know when you think of a police department first of all you think of like emergency response you don't need to call the police if you see someone acting strange because then you have

two people pulling up with guns that could essentially escalate a situation to where wouldn't be yeah um i i i've been reading a lot of stuff and i and i fully agree that there should be some sort of separate quote-unquote task handle nonviolent crimes. And then people are like, what if those, what if those crimes turn violent? Well, just like there, there are countries out there that do this, where then they will call the emergency response team. You don't have to respond directly to slightly disorderly contact. And these people, the people that are responding, the police are like, what, how much training do you have to have to become a police officer?

You don't have to have an education. You just like six weeks of training and then you're given a gun and a badge and it's like, go be go protect society. Go have authority. It's just too easy for everyday people to abuse that power. Yeah, because let's say you like if you want power and you don't have any power in your life and you failed out of school, it's like, oh, six weeks. I can go be a police officer and arrest people. Not even that. But I, I, I feel like police officers, you know, it's, it's very much. And yes, like, you know, for the longest time, it's them versus criminals and who are criminals, but civilians, right? Every civilian is a potential

criminal, right? Right. So it's, it really is. I'm not going to say a war, but I mean, there is a good versus bad mentality when you are an officer and that creates the good versus bad mentality when you're on the opposite side of an officer. If you can be you can feel threatened by an officer just as much as you feel threatened by someone on the street. I feel I don't feel like their badge negates the fact that you can be threatened by them. No, absolutely Yeah I think that over proves that a lot of officers that we've seen there's video evidence and you got to think of the ones that don't Have video evidence that there's a lot of officers who do abuse that power I'd be like once the protest started I was shocked at at the compilations an amount of police brutality videos coming out where people would be peacefully protesting expressing their first

amendment right and cops would just drive their car into the crowd or cops would just beat the shit out of people or like the one where like they rip the dude's mask off and pepper spray him and he's not doing anything it's like there there is so much of of that out there and you and charleston of a guy talking to the cops and they pick him out of the group he's on his knees uh there's another video they just arrest him yeah there's been a few videos where they just kind of pick someone out from the crowd because they're talking loud i guess i don't know what their reasoning is i mean they're right there's no right reasoning to to do that yeah especially if they're peacefully protesting i here's the thing and i think also a lot of the big problems like i i can't i don't know how to

solve these problems i i can think of situate I can think of things that might help, but I think it's up to the public. It's up to the people who we appoint as public servicemen to hear our cries. Yep. I mean, in a sense, it is up to us to make that noise. But at the end of the day, it's only noise, and the only that can do anything about it are unfortunately the people that we put in power. So our vote does count for something at least. Absolutely. I think it's – I think we're at a point right now where – because all of this – you guys are probably wondering why on recent podcasts like we haven't addressed the George Floyd stuff or any of the recent uprising stuff.

It's because this happened while we were on a hiatus. We have not recorded since then. We recorded a lot before all this went down. So now we're seeing the fallout from that afterwards. And it's crazy to see. It's just crazy. You just look at American history timeline. And I think like there's a clear indication of where you can pinpoint to why communities are held back and why there still is a problem historically with prejudices amongst the the the police like think about this, like think about looking at an officer and just knowing that like at one point it was their job not too long ago, the police officer's job to keep black people out of white spaces because white people needed their safe spaces. Yeah. And I it's it's it's just that builds so much mistrust in a community that's had a history of mistrust through – you can go back to what?

1865 is when historically a lot of people pinpoint to when a group of – the main group of I guess slaves were brought over. It took all the way up to 1965 to abolish slavery. Not only that, but of course, they that happened in between that too not 19 sorry not sorry um i i got the dates wrong on that um 1619 uh and then 1865 was the abolishment of slavery sorry okay you said 1965 i know i know i didn't mean it 1865 is the abolishment of slavery. I got it mixed up. 1965 was the civil rights movement. And 1965 was, I think, the end of because black people weren't allowed to vote. Yeah, yeah. And not only that, but segregation was a huge issue. So it took 100 years from the abolishment of slavery to even get basic human rights.

The abolishment of slavery wasn't the start of rights happening but also in between that like in 1920 i don't i don't know the exact i think 1921 you have the tulsa massacre which which displaced that's the black wall street yes incident right yeah um which i didn't even know about this which is crazy i didn't either i i knew about what the bloody massacre, whatever it was. You know, the massacres that happened in British territories. Yeah. All that. But like this is a this is something where I think like up to 300 black Americans were killed.

And a lot of them, a lot more. A lot of them also were displaced. a lot more a lot of them also were displaced and because it was it was a it was in tulsa it was known as like black wall street where it was it was a heavily black owned area with a lot of success business success and people came and just destroyed it and killed everyone when you just have events like that that just happened throughout this period it wasn't just like slavery was finished and then black people got their rights and it was all fixed you still have these things that are inherently ingrained in the system that was structured and that is exactly why so i used to be of this argument when i was in high school i i didn't understand

uh race in america and i used to be pretty conservative growing up too and i remember being like well you know it's's, it's the current year. Everyone is equal, right? Like we shouldn't have to worry about slavery anymore. Like, like people should like everyone has an equal chance. They're like in your head, right? Logistically, you're thinking you can't point to a specific law that promotes segregation. Yeah.

It's like, it's like, oh, everyone's equal now. And I think a lot of people believe that where they're like, oh, in 2020, everyone has an equal shot. But what you got to realize, what was the big eye-opener for me is you have to understand history and realize that the reason,

yeah, everyone's free in 2020. Like, you know, a black person can stand in the same bank line as me, but you have to understand they can also be charged more heavily for the same crime exactly there's things there's things throughout history that have very deeply ingrained in our culture and our laws uh that put minorities and people of color at such a disadvantage uh in so many ways over white people. So there is no way to say that it created a huge pocket of dysfunction that hasn't been able to be repaired.

There's no way to say that that I'm born and, you know, a black kid in Chicago was born and saying that we have the same equal opportunity. He's going to have it so much harder because of the way the system is set in place to stop him at every turn and to hold him back. And that's not an opinion. That's a fact. This is something that is real. The system is literally set up this way

to hold people of color back. My mom was literally, I mean, she wasn't in the US, but just to think about it, my mom was born essentially in a time period in the u.s but just to think about it my mom was born essentially in a time period where segregation was still a fucking thing so it was my mom which is crazy to think about your mom has a very distinct memory my mom was walking down the streets of charleston as a kid with her mom and said she saw uh black people being firehosed and to think that that mindset is completely gone because of a law is crazy.

No. Because it goes much deeper than the written law. Those people that were doing the fire hosing can still be alive. It's in culture. It really is in, I feel like it's ingrained in, I'm sorry, but southern culture. There's a lot of ties there. Well, the reason southern culture is so ingrained is because who's the one that had the slaves, right? Yeah.

It's still deep-rooted there, you know? Well, then maybe they shouldn't have sold their fellow man over to the white men. I think that what's crazy is, remember that little girl that she was, I don't remember her name, but she was the first girl to go to an integrated school? She's only 60-something. Yeah, she's only slightly older than my mom. I know you're talking about. And I'm like, when I saw that,

cause in my mind it's like, Oh, she's long dead now. It's like, no, she's only in her sixties. Teachers quit the school because of this shit. And those people,

their kids and stuff are still alive. They took their kids out of that classroom. These ideas, because of the simple fact of a person with a different color skin, like this shit's not that long ago. It's not that long ago at all. And to think that a large amount of people still don't hold these prejudices in some way albeit masked is i think i think i think wishful thinking yeah it is it's wishful thinking because

it it makes you it's like i'm not i don't think this way so things must be better yeah i don't commit murder that doesn't mean murder still doesn't happen like you could you things can happen outside of your world view yes and I think uh a concept that I I learned about recently that it's it's so true is uh I saw someone saying that like in 2020 it's not enough to be not racist you have to be anti-racist because if you're just not racist you are just kind of staying silent while the system continues to do this time to fucking cut it off you have to you have to stand up and say no no like absolutely not you have to go out of your way to fight against it because it's not enough to just be not racist yeah you know it's great to be not racist but you have to

be anti-racist you have to be actively against it how about i mean to link to link with your idea it's not enough like to just be a cop who doesn't intentionally kill someone because of the inherent biases you have developed through your childhood and through your life about someone because of the color of their skin or the way they dress it's it's about also those officers who just stand by and and watch it happen yeah or are afraid to do anything because then their fellow officers will be mean to them or some they're bully them i don't know it's just um uh being complicit in this system is honestly i mean it's just like there were there were people who probably weren't complicit and didn't like slavery back then but they didn't say shit

like there's people who are complicit and being complicit in a way is is just as bad imagine especially i'm talking specifically in in this case of george and cops. One bad cop, yes, there will always be quote unquote bad apples, right? Bad people. But you also then have another larger group of people who will sit and watch those people get away with that stuff. They're not doing the action, but they're not doing anything to stop it. Think about it in this term. Let's – instead of racism, let's make it pedophilia.

It's one thing to not be a pedophile, but it's another thing to be fully anti-pedophile. Cause imagine, let's say your neighbor has as a young kid and, and you see that they're clearly abusing them and you know that's happening, but you're not doing anything, you know, that's kind ofusing them and you know that's happening, but you're not doing anything. That's kind of similar. It's like, it's not enough to just be like,

oh, well, I'm against pedophilia, but I'm not doing anything about that. Well, it's the same reason why there are laws to, what is it? There are laws to incriminate people who didn't commit the crime, but were there to help commit the crime. You know what I mean?

Who, the person who didn't go in there and rob a store but they stayed in the car. They may have not pointed a gun at anyone. Aiding and abetting. Yeah, aiding and abetting. But then also – Those officers were aiding and abetting that murder. That they just stood there. Yeah.

And also the people that were on top of George Floyd. And there's that one officer that just stood there next to it just like – Yeah. george floyd and there's that one officer that just stood there next to it just like yeah i think the the the thing that struck a chord with people also like there's a lot of things about that situation but it's also the fucking fact that he had his i look at it and it's just he had his hands in his like pockets and it was a power because because you're because you're watching this shit and it's already happened you already it's you're in your mind it's like it's already too late like with brianna taylor you know you know what happens and you can't do anything it's already too late there's

nothing to be done you can't there's no fucking like what you're gonna hire him like a birthday magician to bring these people back to life. No, like they're gone. Unfortunately, they're gone forever and they can't defend themselves. They can't they can't say, hey, that was unfair because now the law is protecting these officers in some way. The thing is, those are also like Breonna Taylor's. Yeah. Well, what's fucked up is as of recording this podcast, Breonna Taylor's murderers are still free.

They have not got fired. Right. Fired. Yeah. but they're still free. No, that's what I'm saying. Only one got fired. But fired is it like... Hey, sorry. I know.

We gotta let you go for media. Could you imagine if I was just on my property, right? And I see some guy in dark clothing. And I get scared. And I go out there. a dark, in a dark clothing and I get scared and I, and I, and I, and I go out there and I shoot him in the head cause I, cause he scared me and he's an officer. It's like, I can't just go, oops, my bad. I'm going to be arrested. I'm going to be tried and I'm going to go to jail for a long fucking time.

If not life. Yeah. Most people would. I think. Yeah. And so I, i don't know i i just i i get i get a little bit tense and upset when the excuse that our law enforcement agencies had and they're like oh it was a mistake shouldn't have happened but literally it just boils down to oops that

shouldn't have been a fucking we fired the officer it's like there needs to be more account of he killed somebody yeah it's somebody innocent and and for there to be more accountability. He killed somebody. Yeah. It's somebody innocent. And for there to be- It was a mistake, yes. That mistake shouldn't have been made, regardless. It's like they're like, oops, sorry. There needs to be accountability for mistakes. So many times it just boils down to oops. And it's like-

Oopsie, didn't mean to. That's not a fucking oops. Yeah. You know? Like, that person should never have had a position of power. And the problem is there's still so many out there that uh have this position of power and have worse ideas and worse beliefs yeah and i think uh i don't know how to fix all these problems yeah you know i i one of them in my head is like try to do our best

to demilitarize the police the police budgets restructure the quote unquote police system that we have today in effected. So we have more of an emergency response team. A more community driven people that are actually trained for these things and not someone who's just joining because they don't know what to do and they failed out of high school. Yeah. And has a power tripping complex. We need people that actually have to go through extensive training for specific topics and can be there in a moment's notice to help with things. It's also like there's the power trip aspect. But you're also talking about these are everyday fucking people. And like their biases can lead them to – their biases can lead to unwarranted fear on their part,

which leads to unwarranted action on their part, which leads to the unwarranted death of an innocent civilian. Like, uh, I'm, I'm so fucking awful with names. Uh, the guy who was shot dead in front of his daughter and girlfriend, right?

He, yeah. In the car. Yeah. Like that officer, you watch that video it's a horrible video that officer's voice is shaking he's scared and it's like i feel like for for people who have guns and are going out there and and and are and are given the quote-unquote right to

take human life like you would you would think that it would be it would be just common sense to have some of the best training possible because if if these not only that like it's not training that's going to fix that person that person needed to have an evaluation and then been kicked off because they weren't ready to handle high stress situations we need like people need to be able to handle high stress situations without killing someone if you have to go to fucking. And I'm not saying you can go in the comments section. So, yeah. But what if you had a gun and pointed at the officer's head?

It's like that's a different fucking story than someone who's reaching for their wallet. That's what reality is. He's reaching for his wallet. Now he's dead. Yeah. So do all your what ifs. But why? Why do you have to fucking go to medical school for like 12 years to be a doctor?

But then a job like where you're carrying around a gun and have ultimate authority over everyone in your community. You don't need an education. You don't need – Teachers need more training. Exactly. My mom had to go to school for fucking four years just to become a teacher. Yeah. And spend all of her own money to do it.

But cops are just like, here you go and i'm not saying like it's the same job but like and there definitely needs to be i think just better way better vetting and training and uh and rethinking about what this job is this isn't a job for people to just join who don't know what to do as you said this is a job for people who like when you think of the military and you can there's a whole nother discussion with the military but the military they train they they train a lot like a shit ton with firearms they have firearm training they have um uh what is it called close combat training where it would be would be like with an assailant with a knife and you don't have a gun like shit like that. And what cops have to I forget what it is, but it's like every year they have to do a certain few hours of training with their gun. Also, in the protests, like a majority of those – I might be talking out of my ass, and I'm sorry if I do, but I stand by the fact that I 100 percent know that officers require less training than is absolutely needed for the type of job that they're going against. And on top of that, it's like, for instance, most of the LAPD has zero riot training. Yeah.

So when you have all these officers beating protesters that are really doing nothing but peacefully protesting, it's like they're not trained for this situation. Flashes pictures of fires. You call this peacefully protesting? Yeah. Well, I saw I tried telling my dad that there's videos of like police officers smashing their own cars and stuff. And he's like, no, no, no, no. I'm like, yes, it's it's ridiculous. Things aren't as black and white as they seem.

And, um, it's a very, it's, here's the thing. It's not complicated in a sense where you can see the problem and be like, they have too much power. They obviously don't have enough training. They're not hiring the right people for this job, but then it's complex in how deep it goes in the way that it was built up in in the way that it's integrated into our society right now, how it has been for a long time. And I think in terms of – I know there's the argument of restructuring versus abolishment, but it really is a fucking tricky situation because it's just – it's not as simple as i i don't think it's as simple as defunding i think there are a lot of problems that are going unchecked in the in the

in in our uh if we do if we simply just defund the police system if we just defund you're gonna get more pissed off cops yeah and you're gonna get even worse trained people. They do need to be defunded because the budget that the police – Or take away like – defund in a sense of take away the money that – see, this is the hard part because there needs to be better training for emergency response people. You can't send people out there that are going around with, I don't know, I can't really voice it right. But there's so much wrong with the system that one solution isn't going to fix it. There needs to be a whole type of restructuring and conversation. You know what they say, Ryan? The system ain't broke. It was built this way.

Well, it was built broken. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's the thing. It's not a mistake that it's like this. It was built like a lopsided Jenga tower. It's not a mistake that like all of a sudden it's like, oops, the police are racist. Yeah.

It's like it was built this way. And like it wasn't good and then became corrupted. It was from the beginning. It was created this way. And like, it wasn't good and then became corrupted. It was from the beginning. It was created out of that. Not to mention, you know, we mentioned the Tulsa Massacre and be like, that was in 1921. All this, you know, 1865 was the abolition of slavery. 1965, all this stuff. You have to remember, after 1965, you still had the drug wars.

You still had Clinton, who, I forgot what it was called. It was like the three, the three strikes, right? The three strikes where it was like three felonies. And I don't think that was Clinton. That was a Bill Clinton. Wasn't that Reagan? Bill Reagan was like part of the drug war. Bill Clinton was the one who put in the three strikes.

That's so fucked. It's not that it's not that long ago where, and it's like traps. They, they, they put in place to get a specific group of people. And then the police officers are more biased to get those specific people. So when someone's like, well, why are there so many crime rates so high? It's because cops unfairly target minorities.

Well, it's because history has created this pocket of people that can't rise. Some of them can and those are great stories, but I'd be lying to say that I didn't have a leg up in society due to like the sub, like, yes, I grew up in a, in a, in an apartment complex for a little bit of my life, but you know, in the South, my dad, he had financial issues, but he was still able to get a house. And even though this isn't the case for everyone, you do have cases where you have just southern racist realtors, even though there are laws put in place where you can't discriminate. People find loopholes all the time, and they can always be like, oh, it wasn't racist. I just feel like their credit wasn't – if my dad with financial insecurity could have secured a home for me, but at the same time, if a black family came in, it would be harder for them. Yeah.

I'm not saying maybe not today. I'm saying at that time, definitely. For instance, you grow up in a neighborhood like mine, at least the one that I lived with in my mom. I lived in Lexington County and we lived in a pretty nice suburban neighborhood it was very apparent when a black family moved in everybody turned their neck everybody rubbernecked and looked their way you know it was like even one of my friends is a teacher down in South Carolina and he had a neighbor when a black family moved in and said don't worry they don't cause much trouble like this these ideals these ideals even though they're not brought up in law in terms of like specifically segregating people, there's still an inherent culture that is deeply ingrained.

I feel in America that go that. Yeah, sure. This guy isn't going out and lynching people. But that mindset is so disruptive and is so and so poisonous. That mindset is so disruptive and is so poisonous. Because not only that, it infects his children. It infects that kid's friends. It infects not, it's not just one racist person.

But he is going to also be maybe not actively racist towards people in real life. Like, let's say he is checking out of the grocery store and the person serving him is black. He might not think he's being actively racist. Like, you know, he's not going to call him the N word or something, spit on it. But like his and his mannerisms and the way he just treats him generally, like is a form of very passive racism. He doesn't even realize he's doing it. Dude, I've witnessed this shit. You and I have lived in the South.

You and I have, I have so many stories. I worked at Food Lion. There'd be sketchy ass, hillbilly ass white people that would walk in all the time right you know they they they would they would sag they would they would wear torn up shirts they weren't followed around no one bats an eye guy a black guy comes in with a little bit of a torn shirt or slightly sagging pants you have an employee following them throughout the store and then all of a sudden you know what that does that escalates a situation because all of a sudden that person feels uncomfortable and they're going to call it out.

Why wouldn't they call it out? If they were to call it out, why are you following me? Why wouldn't they start a verbal altercation with someone who they feel is unjustly looking at them based on the color of their skin? Next thing you know, they're arrested. Exactly. Get the wrong cop, boom, he's dead. Yeah.

And that's the thing. That's white privilege. Because for me to say that i didn't benefit from white privilege is like an absolute lie like you and i both benefited from from being white in the south well as much as i hate logan paul and as much as i think that the words that he said were possibly written by someone else. I don't, you know, as much as, you know, I don't know how much he meant. I still feel like his words are true where he said all of the stupid shit

that he's gotten in trouble with, with the news and stuff like that. Partly he's been able to get away with all the stupid shit he's done is because he's white and because cops look at him and go, oh, that's my son. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Or that's just, you know, i mean yeah or that's just you know boys being boys there's a difference between looking at a young white kid and saying boys will be boys and then looking at a young black kid and automatically the word in your head goes thug that's a problem yeah and that's a problem that a lot of not a lot of people fucking recognize and that's a problem that a lot of people have a lot of people that we know yeah not not like our friends not like i mean like people like in our extended people that we know yeah not not like our friends not like i mean like people like in our extended life that we know yes by living jackson um i don't you know

here's the thing it definitely is a more culturally heavy in the south because i don't see it as much in california even though it does racism it it exists everywhere but i feel like it's more open and we we see it more in the South. Just because you're around, you're in an environment that's more conducive. More people hold those thoughts. Actually, well, no, maybe not even more people hold those thoughts, but it's just like that environment from the beginning has been a racially, it's been more okay. You know, like in South Carolina, I think it's a lot easier to be as you thought it was. And then also getting older and realizing that the system is fucked up.

And instead of just blindly trusting it like you used to, you realize that like, oh shit, this is actually built to hold certain people back. Because the people that built this system are the ones that were doing the oppression to begin with. And there might not be, you know, this white guy with a twirling mustache and a top hat going, aha, I will keep all of the black Americans back in society. Like, it's not that straightforward. It's like a deeper rooted, the people making the rules. Like, are they necessarily outriping like, yeah, this is the whole black spec? No, but they. necessarily outriping like yeah this is the whole black spec no but they it holds back certain communities that are majority that are um that are majority black and are also a majority held

back because of the low income impoverished areas that they are in and those and the reasons that they are like that are because of historical and a great example of that like with a lot of fucking even shit today uh just policies whether they be and i know you're gonna be like oh you haven't talked about democrat policy yeah there's a lot of fucking democrat i'm not i'm not giving anyone a pass a government in general republican democrat there's always been someone on both sides who has who has helped this who has helped the system progress in a way that is not conducive to to the way of thinking where everything is equal where it's where as i said you know you want you want to tackle big crime but that leads into uh uh for example that leads into new york with stop and

frisk yes you can go oh see that when you see someone dressed like this you know you you you develop this this kind of individual and you kind of know what type of what type of person commits crimes but then now it just all of a sudden turns into a cop with a bias will not pay attention to those white kids that are dressed a certain way but put all of their focus to a group of black kids that are dressed a certain way. Exactly. There's a video even recently of a restaurant where they're not allowing this – I saw it recently. And look, some stuff is fake on the internet. Some is bullshit.

I have to feel that this is real. And this is just another argument to just the ingrainedness of some of our ways of thinking there's a video of this nice restaurant and this black kid's wearing like gym shorts or some shit and sneakers and he's like a young young black kid he's wearing the ryan mcgee and uh the manager even though the manager has been put on leave since i'm just showing that these people do have a say as i said it's already too late by the time that manager said something and i know i haven't finished the story basically he said there's a dress code you're not allowed to eat here the camera pans and looks at a white kid wearing this essentially the same shit shorts sneakers a bright blue shirt yet he's just they're

leaving i think they're leaving the restaurant because they just had their wonderful meal shirt yet he's just they're leaving i think they're leaving the restaurant because they just had their wonderful meal there's still inherent biases in people that while you're like yeah that that that's just a restaurant whatever it's like yeah but it's already too late there that shouldn't have been a problem it's already too late by the time someone is turning someone away and that same person if they chose a different career path could be someone that is a police officer or someone that's a mayor you know but they have those same biases. And a great example of with evidence you can look specifically how ridiculous these district lines are drawn to include all of the black people into one specific area or basically it's ways to give districts with black people less voting power and districts with white people more voting

power, because then the white people are going to vote in more white people that are going to be in their favor. And the black people, even though there's more of them in this area, the way the district is drawn up, it breaks them up and et cetera, et cetera. Go look up gerrymandering if you don't know what it is. It's it's it also goes on today. It also is very classist to where. Yes. The rich people get to decide what happens.

Yes. Which that's an example of how the system is very biased and drawn up to favor these people. And like I said, it's not, it didn't just break. It was created this way. I'm no historian. I'm not in public office. Yet. I am a YouTube Let's Player that has a podcast.

So you can combat what I'm saying and you would have every right to. But I'm just speaking what I see. Yeah. Stick to the let's plays, funny boy. No, I agree. Because a lot of people don't like when we talk about the stuff on the podcast, but it's like we have 200 episodes where we talk about dicks and shit. We're going to talk about— We'll listen to the poo-poo episode.

Yeah. Next episode will be a big poo-poo episode, I promise. Next episode will be a huge poo-poo episode. It'll be the biggest poo-poo episode. It'll be $1.99. It'll be the big poo-poo episode. Nothing about be a huge poo poo it'll be the biggest poo poo episode it'll be 199 it'll be the big poo poo episode nothing about poop I mean it'll be everything

everything poo poo will be in this episode we won't talk about race or politics don't worry yeah yeah but no but a reason that this one's so full of this god I can't wait for

the poo poo episode I can't fucking wait not for this race shit uh is is we haven't seen each other since all the George Floyd stuff happened so we gotta we gotta vent and

also we have a platform so it's our responsibility to um you know ryan and me and the boys streamed recently and raised money for color of change and it's important that if you have a platform you got to use it because a lot of people just are completely silent it's a that's an example of you can't just be not racist you got to actually he how about this there are okay so uh there there there are two names recently that i'll that i'll throw out and there are things you can do whether it's sign a petition sign a petition or just make fucking noise on social media or make noise about it have discussions with like your family the only reason they arrested the officers that killed george

floyd is because people wouldn't shut up about it. Yeah. And now they actually are making different moves like abolishing the police department in Minneapolis. Like these things happen because people speak out. So people that say

protest doesn't do anything. Sorry. So basically Breonna Taylor and Elijah McClain are two names. Look into their cases. Don't just

don't just take you know what we've said about it. Like look into their cases don't just don't just take you know what we've said about it like look into the cases and i and i and support in what ways you can as i said you know there's oh i didn't say this but it's a good connector um not a lot not everyone has money to donate but you do have time to just go sign an online yeah five minutes give an online signature you know a petition uh retweet something about it uh i don't know there's just the there's there's a lot there's a lot more that can be done and i think right now um even though a lot of people see this as a giant overcorrection in terms of maybe some of the things that are going on,

but I feel like there always needs to be a major swing in one direction before it settles down and we come to a place of understanding and maybe a resolution of some kind. There needs to be noise for change to happen, it seems. You're hearing that noise all across the united states and even globally yeah like the protests in paris and stuff for this yep and i a lot of people like well i don't want to get political on on my twitter and stuff and it's like because you're afraid of offending racists like you gotta just not even that like as i said if if you have some sort of anxiety i'm sorry

like if you don't if you're like i i don't know if tweeting about if your signature means something i think yeah i think even and this might even though it's small i see some some of my friends doing it with their family have debates with your family call them out and don't let it stand like this needs to be a time where i guess this shit educate needs needs to stop i think the biggest it needs to stop with in terms of like just the the overlooking of the blatant facts and the blatant history of our situation in terms of holding the Confederacy up to some sort of historical standard that not even the Nazis were held. You know, like the Nazi flag was bye bye, you know, statues. Bye bye.

Why can't we just do the same for the Confederate soldiers? Well, they're trying to erase history. We're going to forget all about. No one's trying to fucking erase history have a museum have it historically teach people the fucking facts and those statues can this statue was made in honor of this how fucked up is that that's the lesson we don't we there's no lesson in just having a statue like you're telling me the these republicans whenever they walk by a Confederate statue, they go, damn, what an awful time in history. I have to make sure that slavery and racism against black people never happens.

No, it's bullshit. It's a stupid argument. Take it. Take it. Take that shit down. It's so shit down. There's a fucking statue of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan sitting outside. What is this state? the state house of some state

like Tennessee or something I don't remember what state and for people to even debate like no it's history it's like what so the history is memorializing them and making a statue to preserve their image it's like that is not believe me as much as a lot of a lot of people would love to just forget about the erase the history of the Ku Klux Klan. That's not possible. Taking down a statue isn't going to erase the history of racism that the Ku Klux Klan still puts out and has put out in the past. Like, I don't understand. You think. OK, so it's like

you're erasing the history of the Ku Klux Klan. So? Like, who gives a fucking shit? It's a bunch of dumb asses wearing stupid sheets. I'm sorry. It's a stupid little club. It's a club filled with dumb, immature racists. Which is still, by the way, not

or it's still not designated as a terrorist organization, even though they literally hang people from trees, burn down businesses and kill people. I don't get how people still defend the Ku Klux Klan in 2020. But here we are. So the good thing is, I think that a majority. Here's the thing. I think a majority of people look at the KKK as an as 100 percent negative. I'm not saying that we like America is inherently saying like, oh, we're OK with the KKK as an, as 100% negative. I'm not saying that we like America is inherently saying like, Oh, we're okay with the KKK.

I'm saying there's still an awfully, awfully big subset of people. Yeah. There are like, there's a, there's a huge subset of people that still hold those ideals while they might not wear those robes, the inherent biases that they hold in their head. Whenever they see a, a black teen looking at shit in a grocery store it goes even just even to that minuscule minuscule of an instance i feel i think that's one of the biggest problems in america is that deep-rooted racism yeah like we're not every like as i said not every i think i honestly in my opinion i think a majority of america realizes that slavery was awful,

realizes that people should be equal. But I still feel there is a large subset of people that have their voices heard and there are groups formed that should not be formed. And one thing is, I think it's important to hear those people sometimes and not as in like give them a platform to like go out and speak publicly and say the N-word and berate people. But I think these idiots need to have their opinions shown as like, I think that the black race is inferior to the white race. Why? Because of the melanin in their skin.

That's stupid. No, you're stupid. And then it's like, okay, well, that's a stupid idea. We know that that idea is stupid. Bye. Like, let them scream their racist ideals because you know what? They're going to be, those people, like, what's worse? I don't think, I think they're gonna be those people like what's worse i don't think i think they're both equally as bad a closeted racist and a racist that's outspoken right i

knew this kid in high school that goes yeah i'm racist but at least i can admit it i'm like that does not let him admit it dude let him let all the racist fucking admit it let them share their ideals because i think it just proves just how stupid their ideas are and where they're where it's based in it's not it's not based in. It's not based in anything. It's not based in like science. Our entire conversation is null. I just forgot. JonTron said racism doesn't exist in America.

Oh. So case closed. Well, unfortunately, racism will exist throughout the world forever. And ever. That's just because that's the way shitty people work. And shitty ideals work. I mean, there are still people who hold

up the ideals of stupid little man Hitler. Yeah. In America, too. It's weird that he changed his first and middle name to stupid little man before he killed himself. I know. I thought that was a questionable choice, but honestly, it's kind of funny. Yeah. Yeah.

But Jesus Christ. Yeah. Racism, big thumbs down from Super Mega. Yeah. I don't – I'm not a fan. I'm not really feeling this one. I'm going to have to say no to this racism stuff. You know, I was thinking I could have, you know, full out racism.

No, it's too much for me. Diet racism. Still bad for you. How about no racism? Racism free. How about anti-racism? Yeah, that would be good. That sounds pretty good.

That sounds pretty good to me. I'd give that one a thumbs up. But racism, I'm going to go right on that. I would much rather have a society that that screams from the rooftops of how bad racism is than the people who are defending racism. I think anyone can agree on that. I don't see what the argument is. There's going to be a whole lot of bootlickers in the commons.

Those flags aren't doing anything. There's going to be a whole lot of bootlickers and confederate flag wavers in the commons. I'm pretty sure it's hurtful to the people whose ancestors you tortured and brought over. They treated them nice sometimes! They sang with them! They gave them boiled eggs on Sunday

sometimes! What the fuck are you talking about? They let them ride on the back of the horse sometimes! And sometimes when they hunted them down for running away, they didn't let the dogs kill them! They'd pull the dog out before they let them bleed out! Stupid!

History books were kind of taught like that, where it was like, I remember reading things like the masters would sometimes have feasts and sing with the slaves. I saw a really good tweet. And while that might be true, that still doesn't take away from the fact that black people were owned as property, much like you and I own dogs and cats today. Like, there's no reason that someone should be on the same level. They're treated a lot worse than dogs and cats. Oh, 100%. Isn't one of the weird parts is that, like, dogs back then were treated much better than slaves?

Yeah. What do you mean? Nuh-uh, not true. Okay. See you, Dale. Get out of here. I like this tweet a lot. American books be like slavery was bad but then lincoln fixed it then segregation was also bad but malcolm x didn't have to be so mean about it i

just like the the weird part is that that tweet struck a core especially with them malcolm x didn't have to be so mean about it i know i know like i was like going up i thought that he was like an extremist and super mean because I didn't know anything other than what I was like taught from my surroundings in the South on what Malcolm X was. And then like I got older and I read his quotes and I read what he was about and I was like, what the fuck?

Like, I don't understand. It's just like this black man's being too aggressive about what he believes. I think the idea is that a lot of people were like, ooh, well, I guess he was promoting racism too, was when he was talking about and I i can't remember if he i think he walked back these statements eventually older through time i i don't know about that but i think that a lot of the people take his statements of wanting to create basically just staying within the black community and building it up he was like he had a lot of people like, I would not marry a white woman.

You know, there's a lot of those things where people are like, oh, see, he was racist. And in my head, I'm just like, listen, okay. This is, it's not that simple. This is a guy whose relatives and who he as a person was actively being targeted because of the color of his skin you you think him saying that his people need their own separate community to feel safe is is in some way like brash or or going over the line like i can understand that mindset 100 if if the if if

the laws of the if the laws of the white man were you know holding them back why should why should they be in why should they feel that they need to be included in that society yeah instead of building up their own and i fully agree with that mindset in terms of not like segregation, but I can see where he was coming from. I think, I forgot his name, Elijah something. He was a pastor. He had the same way of talking and I was listening to some of his speeches.

Thing is you can understand where like the hurt comes from and they want to have these things. And I think a lot of white people feel so threatened when this kind of thing is brought up. When a black man speaks words that yeah well because they think that they don't know it's a break yeah he had access to a dictionary he educated himself it's a breaking of a status quo right because it's like white people are in power it had been empowered and then the thought of that's why people freak out like whites are

going to be a minority by 20 so the thought i think a lot of it also at that time they feel threatened like they they don't want to hear like they're like no no no I didn't get to where I am because I'm white I got to it because of hard work and passion and blah blah blah it's like hey listen man if it's illegal for a black man to run for office then you had to step up above like that's just the way it was absolutely and people like what is he talking about that they're saying that black men can't be in office i'm talking about back then back then when segregation was in place i'm not talking about today yeah oh barack obama hey all i have to do is say thank you barack obama for becoming president because you fixed racism thank you and that's how a lot of people

view it no how can we be how can how can a country still be racist when we had a black president? I don't know. Maybe ask the people writing at college campuses hanging a pinata of Obama from a noose by a tree. I don't know. The next episode is the poo-poo episode. We had a lot of good talk today, a lot of good discourse. And also, wear a fucking mask. Don't be one of those dumbasses like, freedom. Wear a goddamn mask because America is going to be stuck in this pandemic for months and months longer because you dumbasses aren't wearing masks. I was watching a video of these Orange County bitches talking about how unfair it is that they have to wear masks and breathe in the CO2. No, naturally, CO2. I'm not a scientist.

I'm just putting out these words. I'm not a scientist either, but I'm going to listen. I'm going to fucking put on a mask. Go wear a fucking mask, you dumb shit. Sneezing propels the virus up to 26 feet away. Coughing is like six feet or something like that. Talking and talking. The more people that are like opening things back up

and choosing to go out and not wear a mask because it's like a pride thing and a freedom. Guess what? No other countries are politicizing this except America. You guys are being dumbasses. Is Boris Johnson not politicizing? Boris Johnson, yes. But other countries are handling it because it's just a common sense thing. It's not like a right versus left thing.

The virus is apolitical. It will keep spreading if people don't follow the rules. And it's like, oh, but fuck the rules. It's my freedom. It's like we are, America is going to be stuck in this so much fucking longer because people aren't following rules. They're being dumb asses. So follow the rules.

I know no one likes to follow the rules. It sucks, but it's a fucking pandemic. Just wear a goddamn goddamn mask sorry for those who skipped this podcast because we were political i'm not sorry because you're not listening to it obviously but yeah well you guys can enjoy the poopoo episode next week no i don't like when they talk about politics but damn when they talk about that poopoo when they talk about that poopoo i'm ripping roaring oh i'm just laughter abound i cry myself to sleep with laughter but when they talk about the injustices of the historical implementation of racism in america i to turn it off really grinds my fucking gears stick to the let's plays boys i'd rather tear off my own balls and eat them in front of my children than have to

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