# 200K Get Voting Rights Back. Bishop Barber Mobilizes Voters. Black Athletes Fight College Sports Act

An episode of [#RolandMartinUnfiltered](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1434424449), 19 Sep 2026, 2 h 22 min.

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9.18.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: 200K Get Voting Rights Back. Bishop Barber Mobilizes Voters. Black Athletes Fight College Sports Act Over 200,000 previously incarcerated felons are being notified that their voting rights are being restored. The national organizer of the voting campaign will explain how thye are being notified. We'll also talk about Bishop William Barber's kickoff of his 100-Day Voter Mobilization tour this Saturday in North Carolina. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison dropped his lawsuit against the Texas governor for not extraditing an ICE agent back to Minnesota after the agent appeared in court. Opposition to the Protect College Sports Act is growing as more people speak out about the damage it could do to college athletes. We'll talk to NAACP's Director of Youth and College Division. We'll show you what got a white McDonald's manager in Minneapolis fired. He's on video verbally and physically assaulting a black 16-year-old girl and her friends. We'll also recap the Chris Tucker Golf Tournament that took place in Georgia. Black Star Network Partner: Chapter Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. ____ Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:36] Speaker 1: Today is Friday, September 20th. First of all, today is Friday,
[0:39] Speaker 1: September 18th, 2026. Coming up on Roland Martin Unfiltered, streaming
[0:42] Speaker 1: live on the Black Star Network. More than 200,000 previously
[0:45] Speaker 1: incarcerated felons are being notified that their voting rights are
[0:48] Speaker 1: being restored. The National Organizer of the Voting Rights Campaign
[0:52] Speaker 1: will explain. We'll also talk about Bishop William Barber's kickoff
[0:55] Speaker 1: of his 100-day voter mobilization tour this Saturday in North Carolina.
[0:59] Speaker 1: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison dropped his lawsuit against Texas
[1:02] Speaker 1: Governor Greg Abbott for not extraditing an ICE agent back
[1:05] Speaker 1: to Minnesota after the agent appeared in court in that state.
[1:09] Speaker 1: Opposition to the Protect College Sports Act is growing as
[1:11] Speaker 1: more people speak out about the damage it could do
[1:15] Speaker 1: to college athletes. We'll talk with the NAACP's Director of
[1:18] Speaker 1: Youth and College Division. We'll also show you what got
[1:21] Speaker 1: a white McDonald's manager in Minneapolis fired. Wait till you
[1:24] Speaker 1: see this video where he was verbally and physically assaulting
[1:28] Speaker 1: a black 16-year-old girl and her friends. Also, we'll recap
[1:31] Speaker 1: the Chris Tucker Celebrity Golf Classic that took place in Atlanta.
[1:34] Speaker 1: It's time to bring the funk. I'm Roland Martin Unfiltered
[1:36] Speaker 1: on the Blackstar Network.
[1:37] Speaker 2: Let's go.
[1:41] Speaker 3: He's on it, whatever it is He's got the scoop,
[1:44] Speaker 3: the fact, the fine.
[1:46] Speaker 1: And when it breaks, he's.
[1:47] Speaker 3: Right on time And it's.
[1:48] Speaker 4: Rollin', best belief he's knowin' Puttin' it down from sports
[1:53] Speaker 4: to news to politics With entertainment just for kicks.
[1:57] Speaker 3: He's rollin', yeah It's Uncle Roro, y'all Yeah, yeah It's Rollin.
[2:06] Speaker 5: Martin, yeah Yeah, yeah.
[2:14] Speaker 1: He's funky, he's fresh, he's real the best.
[2:16] Speaker 3: You know he's rolling, Martel.
[2:31] Speaker 6: Martel.
[2:31] Speaker 1: More than 200,000 newly re-enfranchised voters in Virginia are being
[2:34] Speaker 1: notified that their voting rights have been restored ahead of
[2:37] Speaker 1: the November elections. However, voter restoration will not apply if
[2:40] Speaker 1: you have been convicted of murder, voluntary manslaughter, or involuntary manslaughter.
[2:45] Speaker 1: Campaign legal centers Restore Your Vote campaign restores voting rights
[2:49] Speaker 1: to people with past convictions. The national organizer Restore Your Rights,
[2:53] Speaker 1: Yahasia Downey, joins us right now. I'm glad to have
[2:55] Speaker 1: you here. First off, people also don't realize in Virginia
[2:59] Speaker 1: they have a constitutional ballot initiative that is on the
[3:03] Speaker 1: ballot that will automatically restore voting rights to formerly incarcerated.
[3:08] Speaker 1: This has been a battle for a very long time,
[3:11] Speaker 1: and denying voter rights to formerly incarcerated individuals goes back
[3:16] Speaker 1: to the 1900s, and it was purely based upon racism.
[3:21] Speaker 6: You're absolutely right.
[3:22] Speaker 7: Virginia historically has been one of the most difficult states
[3:25] Speaker 7: to vote if you have a prior felony conviction. Prior
[3:29] Speaker 7: to this court order this year, Virginia denied the right
[3:32] Speaker 7: to vote to over 260 Virginians, and that's the fourth
[3:36] Speaker 7: largest disenfranchised population in the country. But after a series
[3:41] Speaker 7: of court orders this year, including the most recent one
[3:45] Speaker 7: last month, the state of Virginia Commonwealth has now determined
[3:49] Speaker 7: that only those three that you just mentioned, felonies, murder, involuntary.
[3:53] Speaker 8: Manslaughter, manslaughter, take a right to vote.
[3:55] Speaker 9: So it's a huge win.
[3:57] Speaker 7: For Virginians that are now eligible to vote on the
[4:01] Speaker 7: amendment that you just.
[4:02] Speaker 1: Spoke on how are they being notified.
[4:06] Speaker 7: Yeah thank you so we campaign legal center also on
[4:10] Speaker 7: the behalf of legal women voters virginia and virginia gaffer
[4:14] Speaker 7: virginia came to an agreement with the elections office also
[4:17] Speaker 7: known as elect to ensure that these newly franchised virginians
[4:21] Speaker 7: were informed and they agreed to send out mailers today
[4:26] Speaker 7: actually um They should be going out. People should start
[4:29] Speaker 7: receiving letters from the Virginia elections office, address to them
[4:33] Speaker 7: by name, letting them know that they have been identified
[4:37] Speaker 7: of having one or more felony convictions that no longer
[4:40] Speaker 7: take away the right to vote and to register.
[4:43] Speaker 1: Now, by being notified, do they then have to then
[4:48] Speaker 1: register for November?
[4:50] Speaker 6: That is correct.
[4:52] Speaker 1: If y'all could pull the slide up of the deadline
[4:55] Speaker 1: in Virginia, of course, we're coming up in about three
[4:58] Speaker 1: weeks to most states, the deadline to actually register to vote.
[5:02] Speaker 1: And so, look, this is huge, that 200,000. If you
[5:07] Speaker 1: look at the constitutional amendment in November, any idea of
[5:11] Speaker 1: the number of formerly incarcerated individuals who could have their
[5:15] Speaker 1: voting rights restored if that amendment is passed by the
[5:18] Speaker 1: voters in November?
[5:21] Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I can say that, so, since this court
[5:24] Speaker 7: ordered it, Covered a vast majority of folks that were disenfranchised.
[5:27] Speaker 7: We went down from 260,000 people disenfranchised now to around 5,000.
[5:33] Speaker 7: So that 5,000 includes people that are incarcerated and not incarcerated.
[5:38] Speaker 7: So I don't have the exact number of how many
[5:39] Speaker 7: people in prison that would be eligible coming out. But overall,
[5:43] Speaker 7: that number, there's 5,000 people that the state is saying
[5:46] Speaker 7: that is left on the disenfranchised list.
[5:50] Speaker 1: Gotcha. Well, look, this is a huge, huge deal, so
[5:53] Speaker 1: congratulations on that. And this is not just a Virginia issue.
[5:58] Speaker 1: You've got other states like Tennessee. It's absolutely awful. Some
[6:01] Speaker 1: 20 percent of African-Americans are disenfranchised there because of being incarcerated.
[6:08] Speaker 1: I think they're probably at the top of the list
[6:10] Speaker 1: in other states as well, Mississippi as well. And so
[6:14] Speaker 1: this continues to be a major issue that folks are
[6:17] Speaker 1: trying to get addressed.
[6:19] Speaker 9: Yes, it's a huge population for sure.
[6:22] Speaker 7: I would say that majority of the states, as long
[6:26] Speaker 7: as you finish your sentence, you do have your right
[6:28] Speaker 7: to vote reinstated automatically.
[6:31] Speaker 6: But yet there are a lot of states that are left.
[6:32] Speaker 7: Behind that need to catch up and start re-enfranchising people
[6:35] Speaker 7: for sure.
[6:36] Speaker 1: All right then.
[6:38] Speaker 7: I just want to say that, sorry, I just want
[6:40] Speaker 7: to let the people know that no matter where you are,
[6:43] Speaker 7: whether it's Virginia or anywhere else, and you are not
[6:46] Speaker 7: sure and want to find out laws around knowing your
[6:48] Speaker 7: right to vote after a felony conviction, you can just
[6:50] Speaker 7: visit restoreyourvote.org or you can reach out to us at
[6:55] Speaker 7: restoreyourvote at campaignlegal.org.
[6:56] Speaker 6: As an email.
[6:57] Speaker 1: All right, then. Well, we certainly appreciate it. And the folks, again,
[7:01] Speaker 1: give the address again if they want to get more information.
[7:05] Speaker 1: If they, first of all, want to see if they
[7:06] Speaker 1: can get their rights restored, but also if they actually
[7:08] Speaker 1: want to volunteer to assist.
[7:10] Speaker 10: Absolutely.
[7:11] Speaker 7: So restoreyourvote.org would be the perfect place to start. There's
[7:16] Speaker 7: a tool on there where you can answer a series
[7:18] Speaker 7: of yes or no questions. It's completely anonymous. None of
[7:21] Speaker 7: your information is recorded. And once you answer those questions,
[7:25] Speaker 7: it'll give you, it'll let you know either you're already
[7:27] Speaker 7: registered to vote. I mean, you're, I'm sorry, you're already
[7:29] Speaker 7: eligible to vote. And if not, it'll give you the
[7:32] Speaker 7: first steps on how to get your rights restored. And
[7:35] Speaker 7: we also connect people with local organizations and resources as well.
[7:38] Speaker 10: So.
[7:39] Speaker 6: All right.
[7:39] Speaker 1: You hate you out. We certainly appreciate it. Thanks a lot.
[7:42] Speaker 10: Thank you.
[7:43] Speaker 11: Take care.
[7:43] Speaker 1: My panel, Matt Manning, civil rights attorney out of Corpus Christi,
[7:46] Speaker 1: Justin Cadu, Final Tennessee holler from Nashville and Michael Imhotep
[7:49] Speaker 1: hosts African History Network show out of Detroit. Justin, I
[7:52] Speaker 1: want to start with you. I mean, Tennessee is just
[7:54] Speaker 1: so notorious. We've covered the stories there where folks have
[7:57] Speaker 1: been fighting desperately. And, you know, you know, they have been,
[8:02] Speaker 1: you know, African-Americans got a, you know, got a bullseye
[8:04] Speaker 1: on their back. And, you know, those right wing Republicans
[8:08] Speaker 1: in that state just refuse to recognize that people have
[8:11] Speaker 1: paid their paid their price and they, you know, serve
[8:15] Speaker 1: their time. they want to continue to disenfranchise folks from voting.
[8:22] Speaker 9: Good to see you, Roland.
[8:23] Speaker 12: Yeah, well, first of all, you were right on it.
[8:25] Speaker 12: We are number one in black voter disenfranchisement in Tennessee.
[8:29] Speaker 12: There was a big New York Times article about it
[8:30] Speaker 12: not too long ago. I think it's a quarter million,
[8:33] Speaker 12: upwards of a quarter million black people can't vote in
[8:36] Speaker 12: this state. And, you know, what we always say is
[8:38] Speaker 12: that Voter suppression is an art form in Tennessee.
[8:41] Speaker 9: We're at the very bottom.
[8:43] Speaker 12: And we've had the same Secretary of State, Trey Hargett,
[8:46] Speaker 12: with his henchman, Mark Goins, for a long time. And
[8:48] Speaker 12: what I always say to them when I see them
[8:49] Speaker 12: is like, if I was dead last at something time
[8:53] Speaker 12: and time again, and they didn't fire me, I might
[8:55] Speaker 12: start to think that that was the job I was
[8:58] Speaker 12: sent to do. So the fact that we're so low
[9:00] Speaker 12: in voter turnout, the fact that voter suppression is basically
[9:04] Speaker 12: what their strategy here it tips you off that that's
[9:08] Speaker 12: kind of the goal. They know that if everybody voted,
[9:10] Speaker 12: Tennessee wouldn't be a red state. It's just a low
[9:13] Speaker 12: voter turnout state, and it's a voter suppression state. So
[9:16] Speaker 12: this is how they control what happens here, and they're
[9:18] Speaker 12: really good at it.
[9:20] Speaker 1: And what we have, of course, Matt, when you look
[9:23] Speaker 1: at Amendment 4 that took place in Florida, that voters
[9:26] Speaker 1: passed there restoring the voting rights to 1.4 million formerly incarcerated.
[9:30] Speaker 1: This issue has gained steam. Look, you're not going to
[9:33] Speaker 1: be able to really get any progress with these Republican legislatures,
[9:36] Speaker 1: and so it's going to really have to be through
[9:39] Speaker 1: ballot initiatives like that constitutional amendment there in Virginia.
[9:44] Speaker 13: I think that's exactly right, especially because I think the
[9:47] Speaker 13: general public does not realize the extent to which people
[9:51] Speaker 13: are disenfranchised from the voting process. through felony convictions and larger,
[9:56] Speaker 13: I think, just a sea change across society. where felons
[10:01] Speaker 13: are allowed to more substantially, now than ever, you know,
[10:05] Speaker 13: reintegrate into society. I actually took a case just last
[10:08] Speaker 13: week where my client got charged, and he had a
[10:11] Speaker 13: felony from, I think, 1994.
[10:14] Speaker 14: Hopefully I get it dismissed.
[10:15] Speaker 13: But the point is, I mean, the way prosecutors look
[10:17] Speaker 13: at it now is a felony no longer disenfranchises you
[10:21] Speaker 13: from all parts of society. And to your point, I
[10:24] Speaker 13: think that's a philosophical change among most people in the country.
[10:29] Speaker 13: And to that end, I think people will say, look,
[10:30] Speaker 13: you served your time, you got off parole, you got
[10:32] Speaker 13: off probation, whatever the.
[10:33] Speaker 14: Case may be, you should be able to vote.
[10:36] Speaker 13: And I think if you put it to a referendum,
[10:38] Speaker 13: then it allows people to weigh in on that process.
[10:40] Speaker 14: And I think you're exactly right.
[10:41] Speaker 13: But in places like Texas and in Florida and in Tennessee,
[10:44] Speaker 13: that is certainly never going to happen when you have
[10:46] Speaker 13: Republican-controlled state houses where it is not in their benefit
[10:50] Speaker 13: to restore those voting rights.
[10:54] Speaker 1: Michael?
[10:57] Speaker 15: Yeah, Roland, you know, this is something that's really good,
[10:59] Speaker 15: and felony disenfranchisement historically has been used to target African-American voters,
[11:07] Speaker 15: going back to Reconstruction.
[11:09] Speaker 6: Probably the state that had it first.
[11:11] Speaker 15: Was— Florida, in 1868, when they rewrote their state constitution,
[11:16] Speaker 15: they imposed the felony disenfranchisement law, where you lost your
[11:20] Speaker 15: right to vote for life if you were convicted of
[11:23] Speaker 15: a felony. And the Brennan Center for Justice has research
[11:26] Speaker 15: on this. And they said that one of the people
[11:29] Speaker 15: that was involved in rewriting— in the state legislature and passing
[11:33] Speaker 15: that law said that they did this to prevent what
[11:35] Speaker 15: they called a Negro legislature. And Florida was 48 percent
[11:39] Speaker 15: black at that time because of the legacy of slavery.
[11:43] Speaker 15: You had Desmond Meade here on the show a number
[11:48] Speaker 15: of times, Roland, when he got it and others got
[11:50] Speaker 15: it put on the ballot in Florida and got it overturned.
[11:53] Speaker 15: I think it was around 2018 or so or 2020,
[11:56] Speaker 15: something like that. But that law dates back all the
[11:59] Speaker 15: way to 1868, three years after slavery ended. We've talked
[12:03] Speaker 15: about Mississippi 1890. That law, felony disenfranchisement law from Mississippi,
[12:09] Speaker 15: when they rewrote the state constitution and imposed poll taxes
[12:13] Speaker 15: and literacy tests and that felony disenfranchisement law, that's still
[12:16] Speaker 15: in effect today in Mississippi, OK?
[12:18] Speaker 6: But what a lot of people don't know is states like.
[12:21] Speaker 15: Maine and Vermont— Right now, felons in prison can legally
[12:27] Speaker 15: vote for prison in Maine and Vermont. The difference is
[12:31] Speaker 15: Maine and Vermont never had large numbers of African Americans.
[12:35] Speaker 15: But those southern states did. So this is great. And Virginia,
[12:40] Speaker 15: and we know Virginia, you've talked about, you know, Virginia, Richmond,
[12:43] Speaker 15: Virginia being the seat of the Confederacy.
[12:45] Speaker 6: But this is all tied to suppressing the black vote.
[12:48] Speaker 15: And lastly, the irony is that Former felons in these
[12:54] Speaker 15: states who can't vote still have to pay taxes. That's
[12:58] Speaker 15: the other thing. That's called taxation without representation to me.
[13:01] Speaker 15: So this is good, but we have to study the
[13:04] Speaker 15: history behind this as well.
[13:06] Speaker 1: Well, again, and I hope folks understand if they're doing
[13:10] Speaker 1: all they can to deny the right to vote, that's
[13:12] Speaker 1: why you've got to use it when you've got it.
[13:14] Speaker 1: Going to a break. We'll be right back. Roland Martin,
[13:16] Speaker 1: Unfiltered on the Black Standard.
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[14:56] Speaker 16: Congratulations on your eighth anniversary of launching Roland Martin Unfiltered,
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[15:20] Speaker 14: But most importantly, I want to thank you.
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[15:26] Speaker 16: one of the first investors in supporting your vision. You're
[15:31] Speaker 16: there when nobody else shows up. And now more than ever,
[15:34] Speaker 16: we need black media now more than ever. And so
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[15:48] Speaker 6: Roland Martin, you are the best.
[15:50] Speaker 14: You're my brother from another mother.
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[16:06] Speaker 14: Thank you so much. Enjoy your night.
[16:19] Speaker 1: In July, Bishop William Barber announced their effort to have
[16:22] Speaker 1: 100 marches to the polls over 100 days. Well, of course,
[16:27] Speaker 1: we are now within 60 days, less than 60 days
[16:31] Speaker 1: of the election. But on tomorrow, he'll be kicking off
[16:33] Speaker 1: a North Carolina leg. of the mobilization tour. The tour
[16:36] Speaker 1: began in Fayetteville with a 7 p.m. rally at Crossroads
[16:39] Speaker 1: United Methodist Church. The rally and tour are part of
[16:41] Speaker 1: Bishop Barbara's Love Forward Together voter mobilization initiative designed to
[16:45] Speaker 1: mobilize 5 million low-wage infrequent voters. The initiative focuses on
[16:50] Speaker 1: the South and battleground states and will use peer-to-peer text messaging,
[16:53] Speaker 1: grassroots phone banking, door-to-door canvassing, and more in addition to
[16:56] Speaker 1: marches to the polls. Also, they'll be recruiting more than
[16:59] Speaker 1: 40 different organizations to partner in the project. The initiative
[17:02] Speaker 1: has already helped organized more than 320 marches to the
[17:06] Speaker 1: polls on the first day of early voting. The 100
[17:09] Speaker 1: Days of Voter Mobilization Tour will also stop in Elizabeth City, Wilson, Winston-Salem,
[17:14] Speaker 1: and Durham. On, of course, Monday, Bishop Barber was speaking
[17:20] Speaker 1: and addressing Trump in his efforts to restrict mail-in balloting,
[17:25] Speaker 1: and he stood with various faith leaders. Here is some
[17:28] Speaker 1: of what he had to say about that very issue.
[17:31] Speaker 1: Which side are you on?
[17:33] Speaker 17: Which side are you on, my brother? Which side are
[17:37] Speaker 17: you on? I'm on the freedom side. One more. Which
[17:52] Speaker 17: side are you on, my sister? Which side are you on.
[17:56] Speaker 1: My sister?
[17:56] Speaker 17: Which side are you on?
[17:59] Speaker 1: We're on the justice side. Which side are you on,
[18:03] Speaker 1: my sister?
[18:04] Speaker 11: Which side are you on?
[18:06] Speaker 1: We're on the justice side.
[18:08] Speaker 17: Which side are you on, my sister?
[18:12] Speaker 1: Which side are you on?
[18:14] Speaker 10: Amen. Before we close with prayer, we want to see
[18:20] Speaker 10: if there are any questions from members of the media.
[18:23] Speaker 10: To the attorneys, to any of the other clergy that
[18:25] Speaker 10: have spoken. Yes, ma'am. Hi.
[18:29] Speaker 18: So, mail-in ballots have already started.
[18:32] Speaker 9: Going out, coming in.
[18:34] Speaker 18: Obviously, overnight, Trump's executive order was blocked by another federal judge.
[18:42] Speaker 19: Kind of talk to me about.
[18:45] Speaker 18: Why do you think the timing, or what do you
[18:47] Speaker 18: think of the timing with this executive order as North
[18:51] Speaker 18: Carolina is one of the earliest states to start sending
[18:53] Speaker 18: out mail-in ballots?
[18:55] Speaker 10: We are in a time when, if you look at
[18:57] Speaker 10: the data, For instance, in this state, over 3 million
[19:01] Speaker 10: poor and low-wage brothers and sisters that are eligible to vote.
[19:04] Speaker 6: And when you look at the.
[19:05] Speaker 10: Data, Trump won last time 183,000 votes. 1.2 million poor
[19:10] Speaker 10: and low-wage voters didn't vote. Over 600,000 African-Americans. If just 12,
[19:15] Speaker 10: 14 percent of the voters that didn't vote were mobilized,
[19:20] Speaker 10: it changes. It could potentially shift the entire outcome and margins.
[19:25] Speaker 1: And that's all over.
[19:26] Speaker 6: The country and even in the South. If anywhere in the.
[19:30] Speaker 11: South right now, a 15% of poor, low-wage, infrequent voters
[19:35] Speaker 11: vote and vote a vision, not even vote party, just
[19:39] Speaker 11: vote a vision for justice, they can shift the margin.
[19:44] Speaker 11: And the extremists know that. Some places it's 2%, 1%.
[19:46] Speaker 11: These are not laws.
[19:50] Speaker 19: Margins.
[19:50] Speaker 6: So what do you do if you want to cheat?
[19:52] Speaker 1: You create confusion. You create confusion.
[19:57] Speaker 10: People don't know now if their ballot's going to be counted,
[19:59] Speaker 10: if it's not going to be counted, if the rules
[20:01] Speaker 10: say if one is messed up, they have to send
[20:04] Speaker 10: the whole batch back. It's creating confusion. And we don't
[20:08] Speaker 10: know what else he may do. He may call an
[20:10] Speaker 10: emergency election. And the law says it would take two-thirds
[20:13] Speaker 10: of the Congress and two-thirds of the House and the
[20:16] Speaker 10: Senate to overturn if he does that as president. So
[20:19] Speaker 10: we then have to say, okay. We're going to mobilize.
[20:25] Speaker 10: We're going to march. I said we're going in mass.
[20:27] Speaker 10: This must be a movement vote, not a midterm vote.
[20:30] Speaker 10: That's right. We need a movement vote. This is not
[20:35] Speaker 10: even about what party you're in. This is about whether
[20:38] Speaker 10: or not we're going to be on the side of democracy.
[20:41] Speaker 10: And that's why we're saying to folk, okay, mail in.
[20:45] Speaker 10: They're creating confusion. But one thing is not confusion. You
[20:49] Speaker 10: can get together, go to the polls, start in the
[20:52] Speaker 10: first day of early voting.
[20:54] Speaker 6: And in our state, if folk aren't registered, help them get.
[20:57] Speaker 1: All their stuff and march together.
[20:58] Speaker 6: They go one time.
[21:00] Speaker 10: They register and vote one time. Then we cut out
[21:03] Speaker 10: a lot of the confusion because we're there together. We're
[21:07] Speaker 10: voting all at the same time. Our lawyers are going
[21:09] Speaker 10: to be in place. We have to say, when folk
[21:13] Speaker 10: are trying to do all these crazy things, the Bible
[21:17] Speaker 10: says be faithful over one thing. One thing. While they're
[21:22] Speaker 10: doing all this craziness, we're going to be faithful over
[21:25] Speaker 10: one thing. And that's using everybody, every church, every synagogue,
[21:28] Speaker 10: every club, every group to mobilize people to the poll.
[21:33] Speaker 10: That's the only way you can challenge all of this
[21:36] Speaker 10: crazy confusion. While the lawyers are in court, They do
[21:40] Speaker 10: their work.
[21:41] Speaker 1: Our work.
[21:43] Speaker 10: As moral leaders is to be faithful on this one thing.
[21:47] Speaker 10: And right now, that one thing is walk together, children.
[21:52] Speaker 10: March together, children. Don't you get weary and know what
[21:55] Speaker 10: side you're on. You're on the side of democracy. Yes, ma'am.
[21:59] Speaker 1: I think that right there, Michael, was important. Listen. We've
[22:04] Speaker 1: had the marches. We've had the gatherings. We've had the protests.
[22:07] Speaker 1: This is now mobilized, organized. Organized, mobilized. Micro, macro. And
[22:13] Speaker 1: that's what folks have to be on. Listen, the Correction
[22:16] Speaker 1: of Black Caucus Foundation, AOC, is happening right now. I
[22:20] Speaker 1: haven't spent much time over there because... I'm just being
[22:25] Speaker 1: straight up. Right now, this ain't about gathering. This ain't
[22:28] Speaker 1: about parties. This is not about all those different things.
[22:30] Speaker 1: This is literally, how do we get folks completely focused?
[22:34] Speaker 1: Like right now, voter registration deadlines. I'm going to be
[22:38] Speaker 1: showing those deadlines. I mean, folks got to be hitting that.
[22:41] Speaker 1: As I'm looking at people on social media, again, I
[22:44] Speaker 1: don't give a damn about, you know, the parties and
[22:47] Speaker 1: the receptions, things along those lines. We are operating in
[22:50] Speaker 1: a state of emergency, the level of attacks that are
[22:53] Speaker 1: happening upon black people, and this is all hands on deck.
[22:59] Speaker 6: Yeah, I totally agree, Roland.
[23:01] Speaker 15: We're dealing with a time right now where African Americans
[23:03] Speaker 15: are being politically lynched. We look at April 29, 2026,
[23:07] Speaker 15: Louisiana v. Cali decision gutting Section 2 of the 1965
[23:11] Speaker 15: Voting Rights Act.
[23:13] Speaker 6: We look at.
[23:14] Speaker 15: Efforts from Donald Trump trying to go to the Supreme
[23:17] Speaker 15: Court to gain control over mail-in balloting, things of this nature, right? So,
[23:25] Speaker 15: One of the things that I think is important— and I
[23:29] Speaker 15: can understand the marches and trying to draw attention and
[23:36] Speaker 15: gather people. But when— you know, I just did a presentation
[23:40] Speaker 15: for Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated. They're dealing with— for their
[23:45] Speaker 15: voter engagement.
[23:47] Speaker 6: State of Michigan form that they had.
[23:49] Speaker 15: And one of the things that I talked about is,
[23:51] Speaker 15: when we talk to African Americans about voting, there's a
[23:54] Speaker 15: couple things we have to do. Number one, we have
[23:56] Speaker 15: to talk about power, power acquisition, using politics to acquire
[24:02] Speaker 15: power and to put policies in place that are beneficial
[24:05] Speaker 15: to you, your family, your communities. Number two, we have
[24:08] Speaker 15: to connect the activity of voting to the outcome of
[24:13] Speaker 15: policies that are beneficial. Because oftentimes— and I'm not saying Reverend
[24:17] Speaker 15: William Barber is doing this, and I love that, brother— but oftentimes,
[24:21] Speaker 15: a lot of people focus on the activity of voting.
[24:24] Speaker 15: and voting for symbolism, voting for— because of Dr. King and
[24:29] Speaker 15: Fannie Lou Hamer, but not understanding you have to vote
[24:32] Speaker 15: to stop the threat, vote to stop the clear and
[24:34] Speaker 15: present danger, and vote to protect gains that have been made,
[24:38] Speaker 15: but also vote for policies that are beneficial for your community.
[24:42] Speaker 15: And policies that are beneficial for African Americans are beneficial
[24:45] Speaker 15: for America in general. So, yeah, this is— I' ve said before here, Roland,
[24:50] Speaker 15: this is the most consequential— this probably since the 1876.
[24:56] Speaker 6: Presidential election that brought about an end to Reconstruction?
[25:00] Speaker 1: Well, listen, we've had a number of significant elections. And
[25:05] Speaker 1: so for me, Matt, it's not even compared to anything
[25:11] Speaker 1: in the past. It's about present and future. And what
[25:16] Speaker 1: we have been focusing on here is what I call
[25:19] Speaker 1: this direct attack, this GOP MAGA attack on Black America.
[25:24] Speaker 1: And it's every day. People need to understand what's going on.
[25:29] Speaker 1: When you start looking at... And I need people also
[25:31] Speaker 1: to understand the map. Listen, today's the 18th. Y'all, it's
[25:40] Speaker 1: only 12 more days in September.
[25:42] Speaker 9: Okay?
[25:45] Speaker 1: All of a sudden, it's 31 days in October. And
[25:50] Speaker 1: the election day is November 3rd. It's seven weeks. You know,
[25:54] Speaker 1: I've said to all these campaigns, when I called out
[25:57] Speaker 1: Sherrod Brown's campaign the other day in Ohio, hey, man,
[26:01] Speaker 1: you ain't mobilizing black folks. It's seven weeks. It's seven weeks. Tallarico,
[26:06] Speaker 1: you got seven weeks. Ossoff, you got seven weeks. Roy
[26:11] Speaker 1: Cooper's campaign is concerned that people think that he's just
[26:14] Speaker 1: going to win. They're concerned about people just assuming that.
[26:18] Speaker 1: I've said to his campaign, y'all better be concerned about
[26:21] Speaker 1: the down ballot races as well. Listen, a poll came
[26:24] Speaker 1: out showing in Florida Angie Nixon and Moody are tied.
[26:29] Speaker 1: So for all those people who said, oh, she ain't
[26:31] Speaker 1: got a shot, that's a lie. Republicans right now, they
[26:35] Speaker 1: are up against the wall. And so this right now, Matt,
[26:40] Speaker 1: is where you go in for the kill.
[26:43] Speaker 14: It absolutely is.
[26:44] Speaker 13: Look, there's a psychological principle called diffusion of responsibility, right?
[26:49] Speaker 13: And you learn about it, I'm sure, in a lot
[26:51] Speaker 13: of different contexts, but you learn about it in law
[26:52] Speaker 13: school with this famous case called the Kitty Genovese case.
[26:56] Speaker 13: The principle from that is the idea that sometimes people
[26:58] Speaker 13: don't get involved because they think other people will get.
[27:01] Speaker 14: Involved or will handle the lifting that needs to be done.
[27:04] Speaker 13: That is the existential crisis we face right now, because
[27:07] Speaker 13: I would posit that if you look at social media
[27:10] Speaker 13: and if you look at the topics du jour across
[27:12] Speaker 13: the country, people are more energized, more plugged in and
[27:15] Speaker 13: more informed about things that are happening politically than I
[27:19] Speaker 13: think they probably ever have been in history. How you
[27:22] Speaker 13: translate that to people feeling the onus upon themselves to
[27:25] Speaker 13: actually go to the ballots is still the difficult part.
[27:28] Speaker 13: But to your point, here in Texas, James Tallarico has
[27:31] Speaker 13: every opportunity, realistic opportunity, to be the first blue senator
[27:35] Speaker 13: here in our home state in 30-plus years.
[27:38] Speaker 14: If people actually go to the polls.
[27:40] Speaker 13: But the issue is, how do you get them to
[27:41] Speaker 13: go from being social media engaged to going to the polls?
[27:45] Speaker 13: And obviously, there's a lot of conversation about mobilization and
[27:47] Speaker 13: all of that. But ultimately, people have to feel that responsibility,
[27:51] Speaker 13: that somebody else is not going to be able to
[27:53] Speaker 13: do it for me. I have to put this burden
[27:55] Speaker 13: on my shoulders myself, go and cast that vote. And
[27:58] Speaker 13: if that happens enough in Texas and across the country,
[28:01] Speaker 13: I think there will be major change. But that's always
[28:05] Speaker 13: the issue, and I think that's the issue in this
[28:06] Speaker 13: election as well, despite all of the fervor that we
[28:09] Speaker 13: see across the country in some of the prior primaries
[28:13] Speaker 13: and other elections that have already taken place.
[28:16] Speaker 1: When I say you've got to go in for the kill, Justin,
[28:20] Speaker 1: I mean, you look at what's happening, and you look
[28:23] Speaker 1: at how these Republicans are running scared. You got a
[28:30] Speaker 1: candidate in Florida. Man, she is running... All of a sudden,
[28:38] Speaker 1: she's now doing ads saying that, hey, I don't agree
[28:44] Speaker 1: with Trump, you know, on immigration. ICE has gone too far.
[28:47] Speaker 1: Yet she was out there stumping for more funding for
[28:51] Speaker 1: ICE and Border Patrol. They're scared. They are scared to
[28:56] Speaker 1: death of losing. Miami-Dade. I saw this... I saw this
[29:02] Speaker 1: one thing here. Miami-Dade, 70% Hispanic county, they, all the
[29:09] Speaker 1: people saying, oh my God, we're scared to death, what's
[29:13] Speaker 1: going on? Well, guess what? Y'all can't act, and I
[29:16] Speaker 1: saw one Republican consultant just then said, well, Latinos are saying,
[29:20] Speaker 1: we didn't expect all of this. I'm sorry, no, go back.
[29:25] Speaker 1: These were the signs they were holding up. They were
[29:27] Speaker 1: open saying mass deportation now. These same Latinos, these Cubans,
[29:33] Speaker 1: these Venezuelans, oh, they thought, oh, no, it's them. It's them.
[29:37] Speaker 1: It's somebody else. It's not us. It's not us. No, no, no, no.
[29:41] Speaker 1: They said they want to get rid of all y'all.
[29:43] Speaker 1: Trump just simply played them by saying, oh, we're only
[29:46] Speaker 1: going to go after the criminals. Now they are learning.
[29:49] Speaker 1: These farmers are now learning. You got some of these
[29:52] Speaker 1: Trump folks who voted who are like, man, I don't
[29:54] Speaker 1: have any workers. Well, guess what, dumbass? That's what was expected.
[29:59] Speaker 1: They are scared. They're losing on the economy. Diesel's over $ 6.
[30:03] Speaker 1: They're now going out saying, hey, you know what? You
[30:06] Speaker 1: should feel appreciative for voting for higher gas prices. You
[30:11] Speaker 1: talk about insane. That's not what Trump Republicans were saying
[30:14] Speaker 1: when Biden was in the White House.
[30:17] Speaker 12: No, I mean, it's very tempting always to break out
[30:21] Speaker 12: the I told you so. You know, I have no
[30:24] Speaker 12: tolerance right now for the people you're talking about It's
[30:27] Speaker 12: only when it affects them that they start to feel
[30:30] Speaker 12: like they made a mistake. The farmers, the truckers, the
[30:34] Speaker 12: white guys who are married to Latino women that suddenly
[30:37] Speaker 12: when they grab their wife, they have an.
[30:39] Speaker 9: Issue with it. But I think we've got to focus
[30:42] Speaker 9: on the goal.
[30:43] Speaker 12: The goal is making sure that those people, when they've
[30:47] Speaker 12: changed their minds, that we don't push them in the
[30:49] Speaker 12: other direction. So it's hard for me because I'm an
[30:51] Speaker 12: attack dog. And I'm always tempted to break out the,
[30:54] Speaker 12: I told you so. I'm happy to see the dam
[30:57] Speaker 12: is breaking. I can affirm that it is breaking. I
[31:01] Speaker 12: do communicate with some Republicans here in Tennessee. Some elected
[31:04] Speaker 12: Republicans have told me that they are having second thoughts,
[31:08] Speaker 12: that they're done with this crew because it's affecting their business.
[31:13] Speaker 9: So it's definitely happening.
[31:14] Speaker 12: There's a lot less Trump flags flying around where I
[31:18] Speaker 12: live here in the belly of the beast in Williamson County, Tennessee.
[31:21] Speaker 9: So it's certainly happening.
[31:23] Speaker 12: But just to go back to Reverend Barber for a minute,
[31:25] Speaker 12: I think he really put it perfectly when he said,
[31:27] Speaker 12: this has to be a movement vote, not.
[31:29] Speaker 9: A midterm vote. The shenanigans are coming. We know they're coming.
[31:33] Speaker 12: We know they're going to do whatever they can in
[31:36] Speaker 12: terms of sending people to the polls, kicking up dust,
[31:39] Speaker 12: causing chaos, doing whatever he can to say, hey, this
[31:43] Speaker 12: doesn't count. So the only way to overcome that is
[31:46] Speaker 12: just overwhelming them with numbers. This is what Justin Pearson
[31:49] Speaker 12: here in Tennessee is always saying. He's doing a really
[31:51] Speaker 12: good job of rallying people from Memphis to Williamson County.
[31:55] Speaker 12: The district is ridiculous now, but it has to be
[31:57] Speaker 12: a movement vote. We know the shenanigans are coming. We
[32:00] Speaker 12: know they've put their election deniers in all the different
[32:03] Speaker 12: places around the country. I think it's fair to wonder
[32:08] Speaker 12: what's coming, but we just have to do everything we can.
[32:12] Speaker 12: Just to go back to the Reverend Barber thing for
[32:14] Speaker 12: a minute, He's been sounding the alarm and saying every
[32:18] Speaker 12: election is the most important election for.
[32:21] Speaker 9: Many years now.
[32:22] Speaker 2: And guess what?
[32:22] Speaker 9: He's been right.
[32:24] Speaker 12: I always say the alarmists have yet to be wrong,
[32:26] Speaker 12: and that's still true. So we all have to do
[32:28] Speaker 12: everything we can.
[32:30] Speaker 2: I'm with you.
[32:30] Speaker 9: No parties.
[32:31] Speaker 12: Focus on the task at hand. And when people change
[32:33] Speaker 12: their minds, we've got to let them.
[32:37] Speaker 1: The thing that we have to understand is how these folks–
[32:47] Speaker 1: They're running scared, Michael. This right here, there was a post.
[32:52] Speaker 1: Senator Tim Scott was asked about Congressman Mike Collins' reported
[32:55] Speaker 1: white nationalist ties. And Ben, of course, the wimp that
[33:00] Speaker 1: he is, he refused to even answer the questions. Let
[33:03] Speaker 1: me just show you what took place in the hall.
[33:05] Speaker 1: Watch this.
[33:07] Speaker 18: Senator Scott, are you worried about Mike Collins' white nationalist ties?
[33:10] Speaker 3: Are you worried about Mike Collins' white nationalist ties, Senator Scott?
[33:13] Speaker 1: Good morning. You got a guy running for United States
[33:17] Speaker 1: Senate in Georgia, white nationalist ties, former staffer, posting Nazi stuff,
[33:23] Speaker 1: and the lone black Republican United States Senator won't say
[33:27] Speaker 1: a damn word because he's gutless. That's what he is.
[33:30] Speaker 1: He's gutless. People have to understand the climate that's going on. Michael,
[33:35] Speaker 1: in Kansas, in Kansas... You've got a U.S. Senator, Roger Marshall,
[33:41] Speaker 1: who gave one of the most ridiculous answers during a debate. Dude,
[33:45] Speaker 1: that race is right now a toss-up. And this fool
[33:49] Speaker 1: actually said this about gas prices on television.
[33:52] Speaker 19: Listen.
[33:53] Speaker 20: We're the leading producer of oil in the world. We're
[33:57] Speaker 20: exporting more than we're importing. We're not standing in lines.
[34:01] Speaker 20: That overall wages have been growing faster than inflation under
[34:04] Speaker 20: this president. Here it is.
[34:06] Speaker 2: It's going to be tax day very soon.
[34:08] Speaker 20: And Americans are going to get an extra $ 1, 000 or
[34:11] Speaker 20: $ 1, 500 rebate as well. So I'm sorry the gas prices
[34:14] Speaker 20: are going up, but help is on its way. And
[34:17] Speaker 20: your national security, yes, is even more important than your pocketbook.
[34:21] Speaker 2: Wow!
[34:21] Speaker 1: So, national security is more important than your pocketbook. So,
[34:26] Speaker 1: you mean the war he started in Iran, which is
[34:28] Speaker 1: also the reason why it's going up in the tariffs
[34:30] Speaker 1: as well. Uh, and Roger Marshall, of course, U.S. Senator
[34:34] Speaker 1: from Kansas, but he spends more time at his home
[34:36] Speaker 1: in Florida, where his wife is registered in Florida. His
[34:40] Speaker 1: fishing licenses are in Florida. You know something is happening
[34:44] Speaker 1: in the country, Michael, when Republicans are losing. in places
[34:49] Speaker 1: like Kansas when they are running tight, when you've got
[34:54] Speaker 1: this idiot Democrat who refuses to drop out in Montana
[34:58] Speaker 1: because the independent candidate, if she dropped out, the independent
[35:01] Speaker 1: candidate would be beating the Republican candidate. As I said,
[35:04] Speaker 1: Angie Nixon tied with Moody. The mood is shifting. This
[35:10] Speaker 1: is not the time to be playing cute, going to parties,
[35:14] Speaker 1: having a ball. No, this is called the next seven
[35:18] Speaker 1: weeks you put both feet on their necks and you
[35:22] Speaker 1: crush them.
[35:23] Speaker 6: Yeah, you break their political backs. You pull out all
[35:27] Speaker 6: the stops.
[35:29] Speaker 15: You need massive voter engagement with African Americans, putting people
[35:36] Speaker 15: on the ground. door-knocking, phone calls, phone banking, things of
[35:42] Speaker 15: that nature, and talking about policies that matter to people. So,
[35:46] Speaker 15: a few things here. Number one, you know, there was
[35:49] Speaker 15: an article from NBC News on September 17th that talked
[35:53] Speaker 15: about how several Republicans— start to distance themselves from Trump
[35:57] Speaker 15: as the midterms near, because they see the writing on
[36:00] Speaker 15: the wall. So, that's going exactly to your point there, Roland.
[36:04] Speaker 15: You had Roger Marshall sounding like.
[36:07] Speaker 6: An idiot there.
[36:08] Speaker 15: Now, that's the same Roger Marshall, who I think it
[36:10] Speaker 15: was the New York Times talked about. He sued— he' s a
[36:13] Speaker 15: doctor and sued, like, 81 patients, you know, for unpaid bills.
[36:19] Speaker 6: Things of this nature. And then you have this war
[36:23] Speaker 6: in Iran.
[36:24] Speaker 15: Now, he talks about Americans are going to get like
[36:28] Speaker 15: a $ 1, 000 or $ 1, 500 rebate from taxes, right? But when
[36:32] Speaker 15: you look at the research, it shows that in 2025,
[36:36] Speaker 15: because of Donald Trump's tariffs— that the average family paid
[36:42] Speaker 15: $ 1, 700 more, okay, for groceries and expenses, things of that nature.
[36:46] Speaker 15: This year is expected to be $ 2, 000 more. And with
[36:52] Speaker 15: diesel prices at a record high of over $ 6, that
[36:56] Speaker 15: has a ripple effect all throughout the economy, okay? Now,
[36:59] Speaker 15: we know that fertilizer prices are up 50%. We know
[37:03] Speaker 15: that beef is up as well, and the cattle ranchers
[37:09] Speaker 15: are screaming bloody murder because of what Donald Trump is
[37:13] Speaker 15: trying to do, importing foreign beef as well.
[37:16] Speaker 6: Okay?
[37:16] Speaker 15: So, all of this has a devastating impact through the economy,
[37:22] Speaker 15: but what I— don't understand.
[37:26] Speaker 6: Is how— and I'm going to wrap it up with this.
[37:30] Speaker 6: On CNN and MSNOW and.
[37:32] Speaker 15: These other cable news networks, they are lying when they
[37:36] Speaker 15: said the 2024 presidential election was about the economy and
[37:45] Speaker 15: inflation and prices.
[37:46] Speaker 6: If they're saying that.
[37:48] Speaker 15: People voted for Donald Trump, Because of that, when the
[37:52] Speaker 15: majority of the economists were telling you that his policies
[37:56] Speaker 15: would destroy the economy, they said his tariffs would destroy
[37:59] Speaker 15: the economy, as well as his immigration policies, and his
[38:03] Speaker 15: immigration policies would devastate the labor force when it came
[38:06] Speaker 15: to farmers, because 45% of farm workers are immigrants, right?
[38:11] Speaker 15: So if you said that you voted for him because
[38:15] Speaker 15: of that, and you voted against the economists, you're lying.
[38:17] Speaker 6: No, this was about the fear of the browning of America.
[38:20] Speaker 15: And I keep seeing this day after day on a
[38:23] Speaker 15: lot of these white-controlled outlets.
[38:25] Speaker 6: They don't want to tell the truth, but the evidence
[38:27] Speaker 6: is there.
[38:28] Speaker 15: Because, lastly, in 2017, there was an article from The
[38:32] Speaker 15: Atlantic that looked at the 2016 presidential election.
[38:36] Speaker 6: They said the driving force.
[38:38] Speaker 15: For non-college-educated white voters who voted for Trump was not
[38:41] Speaker 15: the economy. They said it was cultural anxiety.
[38:44] Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's also because you had these mainstream outlets
[38:49] Speaker 1: who were more focused on Joe Biden's age, him walking slow.
[38:53] Speaker 1: They did not actually want to cover what the hell
[38:57] Speaker 1: Trump was doing with the economy. They didn't want to
[38:58] Speaker 1: tell the truth. This is that Florida congresswoman, Maria Salazar,
[39:01] Speaker 1: Maria Elvira Salazar. She's facing a tough challenge. If y'all
[39:05] Speaker 1: want to see a flip-flop, watch this.
[39:08] Speaker 2: Mr.
[39:08] Speaker 4: President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far.
[39:12] Speaker 4: In July, 50% of the 50,000 people that were detained
[39:16] Speaker 4: had no criminal record. Be careful what your advisors are
[39:18] Speaker 4: telling you about immigration policy. The same Hispanics who helped
[39:20] Speaker 4: What a bullshit-ass ad, because this is also what she
[39:21] Speaker 4: said when she went on Meet the Press.
[39:21] Speaker 4: you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.
[39:22] Speaker 6: Watch.
[39:25] Speaker 4: You can be for immigration when Lincoln was for slavery
[39:27] Speaker 4: and Reagan was for communism. I'm not talking about you.
[39:46] Speaker 4: And we have to fund ICE and DHS, ICE and
[39:52] Speaker 4: Border Patrol.
[39:55] Speaker 1: See, they're running scared, Justin. They're running scared. They are
[40:00] Speaker 1: freaking out Jim DeFede, who is a great journalist out
[40:04] Speaker 1: of Florida. Man, if you want to show exposing this
[40:07] Speaker 1: idiot Salazar, who's scared to death, and by the way,
[40:13] Speaker 1: We had David Jolly on the other day. Democrats have
[40:15] Speaker 1: been winning these elections, but they've been winning mayoral elections
[40:19] Speaker 1: in places where Republicans have control for a very long time.
[40:22] Speaker 1: This is him putting the screws to her. This is
[40:25] Speaker 1: one reason why, listen, Jeffress is putting money into this race.
[40:29] Speaker 1: Democrats could very well win this congressional seat.
[40:32] Speaker 6: Watch.
[40:33] Speaker 21: I want to talk about some of the spending going
[40:34] Speaker 21: on in Congress and the fact that Congress doesn't seem.
[40:37] Speaker 6: To be able to.
[40:38] Speaker 4: Let's talk to America's Act, which both ties with Argentina.
[40:41] Speaker 6: No, let me go to spending.
[40:43] Speaker 1: Which I also introduced in Congress.
[40:44] Speaker 21: Last month, you were at FIU, and you presented a
[40:47] Speaker 21: check for $ 650, 000 to help small businesses at FIU. But
[40:51] Speaker 21: you voted against the bill that gave the money that
[40:55] Speaker 21: you then signed a check for and handed and had
[40:57] Speaker 21: a photo op, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, right?
[41:01] Speaker 6: You voted against that bill.
[41:04] Speaker 4: Right now, you have to give me more details, but
[41:06] Speaker 4: I do know that every time I have an opportunity
[41:08] Speaker 4: to bring money to my.
[41:10] Speaker 1: Constituents, I do so.
[41:12] Speaker 15: I just did $ 400, 000.
[41:12] Speaker 14: But you voted against the Chips and Science Act, right?
[41:20] Speaker 4: Listen, right now, I need to ask my staff, what
[41:23] Speaker 4: do we look at the $ 40 million that I have
[41:26] Speaker 4: brought to this community?
[41:28] Speaker 14: Aren't you proud of me? Aren't you proud of the
[41:30] Speaker 14: $ 40 million that I brought?
[41:32] Speaker 6: Aren't you proud that I wrote.
[41:33] Speaker 14: The Dignity Act?
[41:34] Speaker 6: Let's talk about the Americas.
[41:35] Speaker 14: Wait, wait, wait a second.
[41:37] Speaker 10: One second.
[41:38] Speaker 2: Tell me.
[41:39] Speaker 21: The money that you talk about, the $ 40 million that
[41:41] Speaker 21: you bring back to the district.
[41:43] Speaker 6: Sometimes that money comes.
[41:45] Speaker 1: From bills that you voted against.
[41:46] Speaker 21: You voted against the CHIPS Act, and yet you praised
[41:49] Speaker 21: the fact that the South Florida Climate Resilience Tech Hub
[41:53] Speaker 21: is going to be started in Miami, right? You voted
[41:56] Speaker 21: against the infrastructure bill, and you talk about all the
[41:59] Speaker 21: money that comes back to the airport. So at the
[42:02] Speaker 21: same time that you're taking credit for the money that
[42:05] Speaker 21: you bring back to the district, in Washington, you're voting
[42:08] Speaker 21: against these projects on party-line votes.
[42:11] Speaker 6: Listen, that was, I think, last cycle.
[42:13] Speaker 4: I cannot really remember right now, but just look at the.
[42:17] Speaker 8: Americas Act, which is what I'm going to vote.
[42:19] Speaker 1: So you don't want to explain why you vote against this?
[42:21] Speaker 2: I really cannot.
[42:21] Speaker 4: I mean, right now, and I'm not trying to be
[42:23] Speaker 4: a politician, there's so many bills that I've introduced that
[42:26] Speaker 4: I know that.
[42:26] Speaker 14: Many of them— No, no, these are bills that you
[42:27] Speaker 14: voted against.
[42:28] Speaker 1: that I understand. I need to go ask my staff
[42:33] Speaker 1: what I voted for?
[42:34] Speaker 19: Wow.
[42:41] Speaker 9: I hadn't seen her ad. What a fraud. But this
[42:45] Speaker 9: is a common theme.
[42:46] Speaker 12: Marsha Blackburn does this all the time.
[42:48] Speaker 9: I actually showed up at a bridge.
[42:53] Speaker 12: Naming that there's a big giant check and her staffer
[42:56] Speaker 12: showed up and I said, where's Marsha? Because she voted
[42:59] Speaker 12: against this and they show up and they take credit
[43:01] Speaker 12: for it. One of the things that the Biden administration
[43:03] Speaker 12: wasn't good at was taking credit for the things that
[43:06] Speaker 12: they did. And so then these Republicans got to run
[43:09] Speaker 12: around and take credit for it, and they're still doing it.
[43:11] Speaker 12: So she was so busted there. That's such a great clip,
[43:15] Speaker 12: but you could really superimpose any Republican on them. And
[43:18] Speaker 12: then just to mention that Roger Marshall clip, because the
[43:22] Speaker 12: gas prices are what's really hurting them. The diesel prices
[43:24] Speaker 12: are what's really hurting them in their own districts. Their
[43:27] Speaker 12: own people are on them about this. And for him
[43:30] Speaker 12: to say, National security is more important than prices. I
[43:34] Speaker 12: just think we can't let them get away with starting
[43:37] Speaker 12: that equation with national security.
[43:39] Speaker 9: This war was pointless. It was based on a lie.
[43:42] Speaker 12: They're trying to tell us that these nuclear weapons– that
[43:46] Speaker 12: they were getting these nuclear weapons that they said they obliterated.
[43:48] Speaker 12: This whole thing has been a lie. So the rising
[43:51] Speaker 12: prices and diesel prices are really where the pain is
[43:55] Speaker 12: coming from, and we can't let them hide behind national
[43:57] Speaker 12: security on that. and also not take credit for these
[44:01] Speaker 12: bills that they voted against.
[44:02] Speaker 9: I mean, that's.
[44:03] Speaker 12: Unbelievable that they do it all the time. Shamelessness is
[44:06] Speaker 12: their superpower.
[44:08] Speaker 1: This is the moment. This is the moment, Matt, where
[44:13] Speaker 1: if you're out there and you're talking about how do
[44:17] Speaker 1: we win, how do we defeat these fascists, how do
[44:20] Speaker 1: we sit here and do what's right, listen, listen. The
[44:24] Speaker 1: folks at Black Voters Matter, you know, they're doing that.
[44:28] Speaker 1: They have this new campaign where you can sign up
[44:33] Speaker 1: to become a poll monitor. You've got the right wing.
[44:37] Speaker 1: They're out there trying to put their people out there.
[44:39] Speaker 1: They're saying, hey, guess what? Let's fight the intimidation by
[44:42] Speaker 1: having our own people at the polls to become a
[44:46] Speaker 1: poll monitor. Again, right now, the focus, Matt, has to
[44:50] Speaker 1: be right now, registration.
[44:53] Speaker 19: But.
[44:54] Speaker 1: Watch what's happening in your state. Louise Lucas, the state
[44:57] Speaker 1: senator in Virginia, she dropped this video today. And again,
[45:03] Speaker 1: people have to recognize early voting is starting in some places,
[45:07] Speaker 1: such as Virginia. Give me one second. I'm going to
[45:13] Speaker 1: run this here. Early voting actually started today in Virginia.
[45:17] Speaker 2: Watch.
[45:17] Speaker 14: Good morning, course, with.
[45:18] Speaker 1: Eloise Lucas here. I just want you all to know
[45:21] Speaker 1: that early voting starts today and that I.
[45:23] Speaker 6: Was number one in line.
[45:24] Speaker 1: I want you all to come out and vote like
[45:26] Speaker 1: your life depends on it because this.
[45:28] Speaker 16: Midterm election is the most critical election of our lifetime.
[45:32] Speaker 1: Come on out and vote. So, again, no matter where
[45:35] Speaker 1: you are, figure out what's going on. But between now
[45:38] Speaker 1: and these dates, get folks registered. And then once registration closes,
[45:42] Speaker 1: go hard on getting them to vote early and not
[45:44] Speaker 1: wait until Election Day, Matt.
[45:47] Speaker 14: Yeah, absolutely.
[45:48] Speaker 13: I mean, get out there, get to the polls, make
[45:50] Speaker 13: sure you know the dates and the the when the
[45:53] Speaker 13: polls open and also keep receipts, man. I mean, just
[45:56] Speaker 13: pay attention to what's going on. You talked about Marshall there.
[45:59] Speaker 13: But the thing that I think should be looming over
[46:02] Speaker 13: this conversation right now, at least in Texas, is Beau French.
[46:05] Speaker 13: Beau French posting a picture of South Asian students saying
[46:09] Speaker 13: that this is America being taken away from us. That's
[46:12] Speaker 13: the kind of stuff that should drive you to the polls,
[46:14] Speaker 13: especially when people like John Cornyn, disingenuous John Cornyn, is
[46:19] Speaker 13: calling him out. I mean, the climate right now is
[46:21] Speaker 13: at a fever pitch, and you got to be involved.
[46:24] Speaker 14: You need to know how things work.
[46:25] Speaker 13: And more than that, you have to force yourself to
[46:28] Speaker 13: get out there and vote because the responsibility falls on
[46:31] Speaker 13: all of us, not on others. And that's what we
[46:33] Speaker 13: ultimately need to do is shoulder that burden.
[46:34] Speaker 1: Yo, well, Matt's talking about Beau French, absolute racist. who,
[46:39] Speaker 1: Tarrant County Republican leader, he's running for the Texas Railroad Commission,
[46:43] Speaker 1: which actually doesn't focus on railroads. They actually regulate the
[46:46] Speaker 1: oil and gas industry. He posted this racist-ass tweet. Now,
[46:51] Speaker 1: y'all know I don't give a shit about that little
[46:53] Speaker 1: school in Austin. I don't give a damn about Burnt Orange.
[46:57] Speaker 1: I don't give a damn. They can all go to hell.
[47:00] Speaker 1: But this is what he posted. He said, I heard
[47:03] Speaker 1: UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn't believe it.
[47:06] Speaker 1: The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.
[47:10] Speaker 1: And this was the photo. So what he's angry about,
[47:13] Speaker 1: he's angry about these Indian students. He's pissed off. And
[47:20] Speaker 1: you've got other Republicans. Karl Rove made it plain. He
[47:22] Speaker 1: is not going to vote for him. Senator John Cornyn
[47:26] Speaker 1: has been calling him out as well, calling his racism out.
[47:29] Speaker 1: And in fact, if y'all want to understand, again, what
[47:32] Speaker 1: happens when you unleash racism uh, these races and they say, uh,
[47:37] Speaker 1: these type of things. Let me see if I can
[47:40] Speaker 1: give me one second, if I can pull it up. Uh,
[47:43] Speaker 1: cause somebody sent me, uh, I was looking at, um,
[47:47] Speaker 1: I was looking at, uh, one of these, uh, someone
[47:49] Speaker 1: sent me a link. Um, hold on one second. Let
[47:52] Speaker 1: me find it. Um, I'm gonna have to go to
[47:55] Speaker 1: this phone, look at it here. Okay. It was, so
[48:01] Speaker 1: it was this deranged white woman, uh, Boy, she was
[48:04] Speaker 1: just upset. Let's see. Based in Malibu. That is her handle.
[48:11] Speaker 1: Let me see if I can get to her. She
[48:14] Speaker 1: may have deleted it, but more than likely that bigot
[48:18] Speaker 1: kept it up. Okay, here we go. Let's see if
[48:22] Speaker 1: I can play for y'all the video of her just
[48:25] Speaker 1: being just really, really upset. And she agreed with Bo
[48:31] Speaker 1: French 100%. Is this it? Nope, that's not it. Here
[48:37] Speaker 1: we go. Where is it? And again, this is one
[48:43] Speaker 1: of those folks who Beau French was appealing to. And
[48:50] Speaker 1: she goes out here, she posts these things, and this
[48:54] Speaker 1: is the bigoted group of people who Republicans in Texas
[49:01] Speaker 1: want to turn out. And if you're one of those
[49:04] Speaker 1: people who go, okay, I don't see what the big
[49:07] Speaker 1: deal is, guess what? If you're a voter in Texas,
[49:11] Speaker 1: you vote for the Texas Railroad Commission. That is a
[49:14] Speaker 1: statewide office. You vote for it. Okay, listen to this bigot, y'all.
[49:19] Speaker 22: This video of the University of Texas game is going viral.
[49:22] Speaker 7: Check it out.
[49:38] Speaker 22: Okay, so what did you notice? Because that video actually
[49:41] Speaker 22: made me curious, so I started looking into what has
[49:43] Speaker 22: happened at UT Austin over the last decade, and the
[49:47] Speaker 22: numbers are insane. In 2012, roughly 49% of UT Austin
[49:53] Speaker 22: undergrads were white, and today that number is at 29%. Meanwhile,
[49:58] Speaker 22: the Asian share went from 19% to 26%. So naturally,
[50:04] Speaker 22: I wanted to know, well, what's changed? And that is
[50:08] Speaker 22: where the immigration conversation gets interesting. India is now the
[50:12] Speaker 22: number one country of origin among UT's international students, according
[50:18] Speaker 22: to their enrollment data. And nationally, people born in India
[50:22] Speaker 22: accounted for 71% of the approved H-1B petitions in 2024.
[50:30] Speaker 22: You know, the H-1B petitions that have been cause for
[50:34] Speaker 22: concern about fraud and abuse. You know, the ones that
[50:37] Speaker 22: Nick Shirley has been investigating. And even Governor Abbott went
[50:40] Speaker 22: as far as freezing all new H-1B petitions while they
[50:44] Speaker 22: investigate potential fraud and abuse.
[50:46] Speaker 1: So here's the thing.
[50:48] Speaker 22: When Texas's flagship university goes from roughly half white to
[50:53] Speaker 22: less than one third white in 13 years, while Texas
[50:57] Speaker 22: is simultaneously having a massive conversation about immigration, H-1B abuse. Yeah,
[51:03] Speaker 22: I feel like Texans are allowed to ask questions. What
[51:06] Speaker 22: the hell is going on? What I want to know is,
[51:09] Speaker 22: are these universities prioritizing Indian students of immigrants over Texas-born
[51:15] Speaker 22: white students? I mean, I feel like these are questions
[51:17] Speaker 22: everyone should be asking. Because that video was shocking.
[51:22] Speaker 2: I guess on that note.
[51:23] Speaker 1: Oh, it was shocking. But I thought y'all about merit.
[51:29] Speaker 1: Maybe the white kid's not smart enough. But I need
[51:32] Speaker 1: y'all to understand... This is public policy. What you're seeing
[51:35] Speaker 1: right here, this is public policy. And Beau French, he's
[51:40] Speaker 1: running as Republican. And there'll be Republicans who are going
[51:42] Speaker 1: to press his button and they're going to say, no, no,
[51:45] Speaker 1: vote for him because he's a Republican, just like they're
[51:47] Speaker 1: going to say vote for Ken Paxton. The only way
[51:50] Speaker 1: you beat these bigots is if we show up in
[51:53] Speaker 1: record numbers. And I keep saying this. Let's not make,
[51:58] Speaker 1: let's not shoot for 70% of black eligible turnout. No,
[52:02] Speaker 1: let's make that the base. Let's make that the minimum.
[52:05] Speaker 1: I'm telling y'all it is a fact. If 70% of
[52:09] Speaker 1: eligible black voters in Texas, Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia,
[52:18] Speaker 1: Ohio vote, these people lose. Donald Trump will no longer
[52:27] Speaker 1: control the House. He will no longer control the Senate.
[52:31] Speaker 1: and he will be neutered. I'm telling you, that's what's
[52:35] Speaker 1: going to happen. All right, y'all, going to go to break.
[52:39] Speaker 1: First of all, before I do so, let me give
[52:40] Speaker 1: you the deadlines of voter registration. October 5th deadline is Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Tennessee,
[52:50] Speaker 1: and Texas. The 5th of October, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico.
[52:55] Speaker 1: October 7th, Missouri. October 9th, North Carolina, Oklahoma. October 10th, Delaware.
[53:01] Speaker 1: October 13th, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, West Virginia,
[53:06] Speaker 1: District of Columbia. October 14th, Wisconsin. October 16th, Connecticut. October 19th, Alabama, California, Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
[53:13] Speaker 1: South Dakota. October 20th, Wyoming. October 23rd, Idaho, Nebraska, Utah, Virginia.
[53:19] Speaker 1: October 24th, Massachusetts and New York. October 26th, Hawaii, Colorado,
[53:24] Speaker 1: and Washington. First of all, and of course, in New Hampshire,
[53:28] Speaker 1: voter registration varies from 6 to 13 days before Election Day.
[53:32] Speaker 1: Contact your local supervisor's office for the deadline. North Dakota
[53:35] Speaker 1: has no voter registration. You need to have a valid
[53:38] Speaker 1: ID showing a North Dakota residential address to vote. In Vermont,
[53:42] Speaker 1: you can register through Election Day. All right, folks, let's
[53:46] Speaker 1: go to break. We come back. More to talk about.
[53:48] Speaker 1: Talk about the ICE agent who was seeking shelter in Texas.
[53:52] Speaker 1: He's now traveled back and played guilty, played not guilty
[53:55] Speaker 1: in Minnesota. We're talking about also the so-called Protect College
[53:59] Speaker 1: Sports Act, which is really about protecting the big-money universities
[54:03] Speaker 1: and the NCAA and not the athletes. Lots for us
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[58:45] Speaker 1: More than 20 collegiate athletic conferences representing 228 colleges and
[58:49] Speaker 1: universities across 46 states, including HBCUs and current student-athletes, support
[58:53] Speaker 1: the Protect College Sports Act. However, opposition to the bill
[58:58] Speaker 1: seems to be growing stronger. Mike Florio, the host of
[59:00] Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk Live, was talking with former NFL player
[59:05] Speaker 1: Chris Sims, and they pretty much were very clear about
[59:09] Speaker 1: this thing.
[59:11] Speaker 5: The sense I've gotten in recent days, there had been
[59:15] Speaker 5: people supporting it and this kind of loose, disorganized opposition
[59:20] Speaker 5: that hadn't really coalesced. I feel like in recent days,
[59:23] Speaker 5: ever since you got Ted Cruz showed up on game
[59:26] Speaker 5: day wearing his burnt orange shirt, I feel like the
[59:29] Speaker 5: opposition has really coalesced since that moment.
[59:32] Speaker 19: Yeah, it's crazy. First off, it's stupid they're even involved.
[59:36] Speaker 19: We got so many issues in this country, in this world.
[59:38] Speaker 2: It's embarrassing. I mean, it's embarrassing.
[59:41] Speaker 19: But we're worried about, you know, some young kids making
[59:44] Speaker 19: money in college football. And a year coming off that, oh, college.
[59:47] Speaker 2: Oh, wait, hold on. You know, it's really hurting. Oh,
[59:50] Speaker 2: that's right. More people watch college football last year than
[59:53] Speaker 2: ever before. It made more money than ever before. Oh,
[59:55] Speaker 2: hold on. It's struggling. It needs to be saved. Let's
[59:59] Speaker 2: call this what this is.
[1:00:00] Speaker 19: This is save the ESPN and the sec contract act.
[1:00:05] Speaker 2: That's what this is. This is all it is.
[1:00:08] Speaker 19: ESPN paid a lot of money for the sec and it's,
[1:00:11] Speaker 19: Oh no, the sec might not be King anymore. The
[1:00:14] Speaker 19: big 10 won the last three national championships. The SEC
[1:00:18] Speaker 19: wasn't even in one of the three. Oh, no, we've
[1:00:21] Speaker 19: lost our grip. We want to go back to the
[1:00:23] Speaker 19: old rules somewhat to where everybody else follows rules. We're
[1:00:26] Speaker 19: the SEC. We'll cheat and pay people under the table.
[1:00:29] Speaker 19: And we liked it that way better. That's the way
[1:00:32] Speaker 19: we want it. Because now schools that have money and
[1:00:35] Speaker 19: they're legal, Notre Dame and Miami and all that endless money,
[1:00:40] Speaker 19: we can't compete with that. Their alumni base is too rich.
[1:00:43] Speaker 19: What are we going to do? So we have to
[1:00:45] Speaker 19: save the ESPN and the SEC contract act. And that's
[1:00:48] Speaker 19: why ESPN gave Ted Cruz that. What a stupid thing
[1:00:51] Speaker 19: on game day to have.
[1:00:53] Speaker 2: How stupid.
[1:00:54] Speaker 19: You're going to bring in that bull crap politics into
[1:00:57] Speaker 19: it for the biggest game of the year.
[1:00:59] Speaker 2: That was an embarrassment. An embarrassment.
[1:01:02] Speaker 19: And I wish Ted Cruz would fly to some other
[1:01:04] Speaker 19: country and avoid this altogether. Go to Cancun like you
[1:01:07] Speaker 19: did when everybody was frozen in Texas, all right?
[1:01:09] Speaker 2: Do that.
[1:01:10] Speaker 19: It's so stupid that our politicians are worried about this
[1:01:13] Speaker 19: while they're fixing nothing in the rest of the country.
[1:01:16] Speaker 2: Nothing. Nothing at all.
[1:01:18] Speaker 19: The country's more divided and ruined more than ever in
[1:01:21] Speaker 19: my lifetime. But we're worried about the Save the ESPN
[1:01:25] Speaker 19: and the SEC Contract Act.
[1:01:27] Speaker 2: Good job, Randy Levine.
[1:01:28] Speaker 1: No, you want to talk about crazy reporters caught up with.
[1:01:32] Speaker 1: ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit in Oxford, Mississippi. And just listen
[1:01:40] Speaker 1: to this nonsense.
[1:01:42] Speaker 6: I was first really impressed.
[1:01:43] Speaker 24: I've never seen a guy boo that long and be
[1:01:47] Speaker 24: able to just power through that. I don't know if
[1:01:49] Speaker 24: he couldn't hear what I could hear, but I think
[1:01:52] Speaker 24: he was booed pretty much the entire time he spoke.
[1:01:55] Speaker 24: I don't really get into politics. I'm kind of an
[1:01:58] Speaker 24: independent guy right down the middle of the fairway.
[1:02:01] Speaker 2: I'm for America. So whoever helps us.
[1:02:03] Speaker 24: As a country, I'm for. Whether it's somebody on the left,
[1:02:06] Speaker 24: somebody on the right. So I don't really follow it.
[1:02:09] Speaker 24: I don't know anything about his political views. I don't
[1:02:12] Speaker 24: know what he's for or against. I care about football
[1:02:16] Speaker 24: and my family and my faith and my country. Those
[1:02:19] Speaker 24: are things that I love.
[1:02:20] Speaker 10: And so.
[1:02:21] Speaker 8: I don't really pick sides, and.
[1:02:24] Speaker 2: I was surprised.
[1:02:24] Speaker 24: I didn't know what his deal was, so him being booed,
[1:02:27] Speaker 24: I had to ask people.
[1:02:27] Speaker 1: Like, what's going on here?
[1:02:29] Speaker 2: So I, you know, and we are, we had.
[1:02:31] Speaker 24: Him on because they were going to be voting this week,
[1:02:34] Speaker 24: and maybe he could give us some insight to what's
[1:02:36] Speaker 24: going on.
[1:02:36] Speaker 1: That was really it.
[1:02:38] Speaker 24: So we're not picking sides in any way at all.
[1:02:40] Speaker 24: We just want to see the chaos that's surrounding this sport.
[1:02:44] Speaker 24: kind of be reeled in. And if this will help
[1:02:48] Speaker 24: us get to that, then great. You know, the fact
[1:02:51] Speaker 24: that the guy that sits right next to me, Nick Saban,
[1:02:54] Speaker 24: was heavily involved in putting this act together. This guy
[1:02:57] Speaker 24: loves college football more than anybody I've ever met. And
[1:03:00] Speaker 24: so if he's happy about what this could do, then
[1:03:04] Speaker 24: I follow his lead.
[1:03:05] Speaker 2: But yeah, that was surprising. But again, I don't.
[1:03:08] Speaker 24: Really follow it, so I didn't really understand it.
[1:03:12] Speaker 2: Okay.
[1:03:13] Speaker 1: Do y'all understand how utterly bullshit that answer was from
[1:03:18] Speaker 1: Kirk Herbstreit? First of all, I don't really know this
[1:03:23] Speaker 1: guy's politics. So what you're telling me, Kirk, is you
[1:03:27] Speaker 1: had a guest come on your set and you did
[1:03:31] Speaker 1: no research before he did. He came on, right? So
[1:03:41] Speaker 1: I love this here. Somebody Kirk Herbstreit said he doesn't
[1:03:46] Speaker 1: do politics. This is some people who he follows. Kash Patel,
[1:03:52] Speaker 1: director of the FBI, Speaker Mike Johnson, Sean Parnell, who
[1:03:57] Speaker 1: is the assistant secretary for public affairs for the Department
[1:04:01] Speaker 1: of Defense, and Roger Clemens. Let's just say all Republicans.
[1:04:10] Speaker 1: But you don't know. Oh, well, the guy sitting next
[1:04:14] Speaker 1: to Nick Saban, he's been, you know, he loves college
[1:04:17] Speaker 1: football more than anybody else. So, you know, if he
[1:04:19] Speaker 1: thinks this is great and then, and then, then Kirk goes, well,
[1:04:23] Speaker 1: you know, if this is able to, you know, reign
[1:04:25] Speaker 1: things in them all for it, that means you've taken
[1:04:27] Speaker 1: a side. You took a side. Then I love this
[1:04:34] Speaker 1: one here. Um, so yeah, so Nick's, Nick's for it.
[1:04:40] Speaker 1: You know, I'm going to follow his lead. That means
[1:04:44] Speaker 1: you've taken a side. You can't say you don't do
[1:04:47] Speaker 1: politics when the whole bill is about politics. Why does
[1:04:54] Speaker 1: the federal government need to intervene? Why does the federal
[1:04:58] Speaker 1: government need to give the NCAA an antitrust exemption? Explain that. Oh,
[1:05:09] Speaker 1: and Kirk said, no, no, no, no. We're not taking sides.
[1:05:12] Speaker 2: Kirk!
[1:05:15] Speaker 1: You work for Disney. Disney has given money to the
[1:05:22] Speaker 1: lobbying effort to pass the bill. So, Kirk, you're lying.
[1:05:28] Speaker 1: Disney has taken a side. ESPN has taken a side.
[1:05:36] Speaker 1: Mark Florio is right. that you've had this loose coalition
[1:05:40] Speaker 1: of people who are opposing this. And since, he is
[1:05:43] Speaker 1: also correct, since Ted Cruz went on ESPN, it has
[1:05:48] Speaker 1: caused people to sort of coalesce. After that, people were
[1:05:52] Speaker 1: highly critical, and ESPN gave Senator Ted Cruz all of
[1:05:57] Speaker 1: that airtime on the air, but did not put someone
[1:06:02] Speaker 1: on the exact same show opposing it. Couple days later,
[1:06:06] Speaker 1: they had the president of NAACP on SportsCenter. Y'all, the
[1:06:10] Speaker 1: ratings on SportsCenter don't even compare to College Game Day.
[1:06:14] Speaker 1: Joining us here is the NAACP Director of Youth and
[1:06:16] Speaker 1: College Division, Tyleek McMillan. Glad to have you here. First
[1:06:21] Speaker 1: of all, what is the NAACP doing to build a
[1:06:26] Speaker 1: coalition of African-American groups and others about this? Because I'll
[1:06:32] Speaker 1: be honest, Tyleek, I'm on a text chain right now
[1:06:35] Speaker 1: with Derek. I heard nothing about the NAACP's involvement. I
[1:06:40] Speaker 1: was talking to some folks earlier today who are here
[1:06:44] Speaker 1: for CBCF. They haven't heard anything. And so how is
[1:06:48] Speaker 1: the NAACP organizing and mobilizing black people to oppose this bill? Italic,
[1:06:59] Speaker 1: you're on mute.
[1:07:04] Speaker 8: I'm back in.
[1:07:05] Speaker 25: I would just say one thing, you know, not being
[1:07:08] Speaker 25: new to this fight, as you all know, we launched
[1:07:10] Speaker 25: the Out of Balance campaign. Of course, what we are
[1:07:13] Speaker 25: doing to bring awareness to our college athletes and black
[1:07:16] Speaker 25: athletes and ensuring that they have fair representation, but also
[1:07:20] Speaker 25: at the same time, what we're doing is calling out
[1:07:23] Speaker 25: the folks.
[1:07:23] Speaker 8: I'm frustrated when.
[1:07:25] Speaker 25: Organizations that represent HBCUs in our communities stand behind this
[1:07:29] Speaker 25: type of legislation without asking the hard questions about what
[1:07:32] Speaker 25: Black athletes and what Black institutions are actually being asked
[1:07:35] Speaker 25: to give up. For example, having conversations and calling out
[1:07:40] Speaker 25: folks that we see at this WAC amongst the organizations
[1:07:42] Speaker 25: publicly supporting this Protect College Sports Act. And I think
[1:07:46] Speaker 25: that position deserves scrutiny, not because An institution doesn't have
[1:07:50] Speaker 25: the right to advocate for its interests or its students,
[1:07:52] Speaker 25: but because we have to ask whether those interests are
[1:07:56] Speaker 25: aligned with the long-term interests of our students and our
[1:07:59] Speaker 25: athletes and our HBCUs. And so, as I mentioned before,
[1:08:03] Speaker 25: our Out of Bounds campaign of understanding, you know, how
[1:08:06] Speaker 25: this is interconnected.
[1:08:07] Speaker 8: To fair representation and how this is interconnected. No, no, no.
[1:08:13] Speaker 1: I understand that the out-of-bounds campaign, though, had to do
[1:08:16] Speaker 1: with getting athletes not to pick states in the South
[1:08:21] Speaker 1: where they had been disenfranchising black voters. We've talked about
[1:08:24] Speaker 1: that on the... But what I'm saying is, listen, opponents
[1:08:28] Speaker 1: of this bill were greatly helped by Congressman Thomas Massey's
[1:08:35] Speaker 1: discharge petition... to impeach Pete Hickseth. That forced Speaker Mike
[1:08:40] Speaker 1: Johnson to recess the House for the next seven weeks.
[1:08:46] Speaker 1: So even if the Senate passes this bill, the House
[1:08:51] Speaker 1: does not take up this bill until after the election.
[1:08:55] Speaker 1: at seven weeks. So this is the question I have.
[1:08:59] Speaker 1: What specifically is the NAACP doing to organize and mobilize
[1:09:05] Speaker 1: black organizations? to use their heft and position to challenge
[1:09:13] Speaker 1: this bill to oppose it. I'm on the NAACP's email list.
[1:09:17] Speaker 1: I just pulled up my email. I got an email
[1:09:20] Speaker 1: of a weekly news recap of NAACP in the news,
[1:09:25] Speaker 1: but I don't have a single email from the NAACP
[1:09:28] Speaker 1: saying we are focused on killing this bill. Where is
[1:09:32] Speaker 1: that campaign?
[1:09:35] Speaker 25: As I said before, it's connected to how we're connecting
[1:09:38] Speaker 25: it to the out-of-bounds and fair representation and connecting it
[1:09:40] Speaker 25: to voting. Having conversations with folks about what this means
[1:09:44] Speaker 25: for our college students.
[1:09:46] Speaker 2: Okay, what folks?
[1:09:47] Speaker 1: It's all interconnected. What folks?
[1:09:51] Speaker 8: It's all interconnected, Roland.
[1:09:52] Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no.
[1:09:53] Speaker 1: Tylek, Tylek, I'm sorry. Tylek, it's not interconnected. There are
[1:09:56] Speaker 1: a lot of people.
[1:09:57] Speaker 25: It's interconnected to how we show up for voting and
[1:10:00] Speaker 25: how we show up at the ballot box. We have
[1:10:02] Speaker 25: to organize folks around what is happening with the issues
[1:10:05] Speaker 25: and what is on the table in the Protect College
[1:10:07] Speaker 25: Sports Act.
[1:10:08] Speaker 8: And this all goes back to how folks show up
[1:10:10] Speaker 8: at the ballot box.
[1:10:11] Speaker 25: And that goes in tandem with educating folks on what
[1:10:14] Speaker 25: is actually in the bill, how are HBCUs affected, how
[1:10:17] Speaker 25: are students affected, how are college athletes when it comes
[1:10:20] Speaker 25: to how they're being paid and scholarship dollars. That's all
[1:10:24] Speaker 25: connected to this bill. And all of this is connected
[1:10:27] Speaker 25: about how we show up. And so that is going
[1:10:30] Speaker 25: to be important in our messaging of connecting what is
[1:10:33] Speaker 25: actually in this bill.
[1:10:35] Speaker 1: But I'm asking, though, I get all of that. But
[1:10:39] Speaker 1: this is the point I'm still asking. Where is the campaign?
[1:10:43] Speaker 1: This is what I mean. This is what I mean.
[1:10:46] Speaker 1: The NAACP has not even sent out a specific email
[1:10:50] Speaker 1: regarding the Protect College Sports Act. I'm on the email list.
[1:10:55] Speaker 1: What I'm saying is, is the NAACP, has it called
[1:11:01] Speaker 1: a black leadership meeting? to pull together Dean Dine and
[1:11:06] Speaker 1: other groups to say, hey, here's this bill. The Senate
[1:11:10] Speaker 1: has already had one vote. We got to stop this bill.
[1:11:14] Speaker 1: We need to be having all of our black groups,
[1:11:17] Speaker 1: educating them and sending the information out. What I'm saying is,
[1:11:21] Speaker 1: is that happening? And if it's not happening, when is
[1:11:24] Speaker 1: it going to happen? Because I have talked to the
[1:11:27] Speaker 1: presidents of several major black organizations who knew nothing about
[1:11:33] Speaker 1: this issue? That's what I'm asking.
[1:11:37] Speaker 8: Yeah, of course.
[1:11:38] Speaker 25: So, our president, as you mentioned, has been in conversation
[1:11:40] Speaker 25: with leaders, whether that's at other black organizations, et cetera.
[1:11:45] Speaker 25: But I absolutely think, you know, of course, there could
[1:11:48] Speaker 25: be a bigger push and a bigger push on, like,
[1:11:50] Speaker 25: what is actually in the act. And I think that
[1:11:52] Speaker 25: is something that is in discussion on the table in
[1:11:54] Speaker 25: coalition with... with partners and in coalition with other set
[1:11:58] Speaker 25: of organizations. And so I think we just have to
[1:12:00] Speaker 25: do a better job of explaining to our community what
[1:12:03] Speaker 25: is in this Protect College Sports Act, how does it
[1:12:05] Speaker 25: affect our institutions and our students, and what we can
[1:12:08] Speaker 25: do to fight back against the passage of this act
[1:12:11] Speaker 25: before it hits the House post-election season and back into
[1:12:16] Speaker 25: the new Congress.
[1:12:17] Speaker 8: And so that just has to be the job of how.
[1:12:19] Speaker 25: We show up to ensure that we don't have folks
[1:12:21] Speaker 25: also in the House who would agree with these same
[1:12:25] Speaker 25: tactics that are all within this bill.
[1:12:28] Speaker 1: Okay, got it. So, listen, Derrick Johnson went on ESPN
[1:12:31] Speaker 1: yesterday Is this president, CEO of the NAACP, is he
[1:12:36] Speaker 1: going to be hitting black radio, black newspapers, black digital
[1:12:43] Speaker 1: shows next week? Again, what I'm trying to understand, Tyleek,
[1:12:48] Speaker 1: and the people in the chat room and others, what
[1:12:50] Speaker 1: they want to know is where is the organization? Matter
[1:12:54] Speaker 1: of fact, I'm going to play the Mike Florio comment again.
[1:12:57] Speaker 1: Mike Florio is right, and I'll be honest with you.
[1:13:01] Speaker 1: The more people have been talking about this, really it
[1:13:04] Speaker 1: being folks like this show and Bomani Jones and others,
[1:13:07] Speaker 1: then I'm hearing from black groups and the NAACP's position
[1:13:12] Speaker 1: is that this is hurting black students, which I agree with.
[1:13:17] Speaker 1: I believe the NAACP should be taking the lead to
[1:13:21] Speaker 1: be organizing black people against this bill. Play the Florio
[1:13:26] Speaker 1: clip and I'm going to come back and I'm going
[1:13:27] Speaker 1: to talk about that.
[1:13:32] Speaker 5: The sense I've gotten in recent days, there had been
[1:13:36] Speaker 5: people supporting it and this kind of loose, disorganized opposition
[1:13:40] Speaker 5: that hadn't really coalesced. I feel like in recent days,
[1:13:44] Speaker 5: ever since you got Ted Cruz showed up on game
[1:13:46] Speaker 5: day wearing his burnt orange, I feel like the opposition
[1:13:49] Speaker 5: has really coalesced since that moment.
[1:13:52] Speaker 1: Okay, so, perfect example. You got all these people who,
[1:13:57] Speaker 1: all these black folks who are in town for CBCF.
[1:14:00] Speaker 1: Is this happening? And, again, what's the plan of action
[1:14:07] Speaker 1: for the next seven weeks? You've got elections going on?
[1:14:10] Speaker 1: I got it. But this specific bill right here, you've
[1:14:14] Speaker 1: got seven weeks to really hit this thing. And what
[1:14:19] Speaker 1: I'm asking is, what's the plan of action? People are saying, yo,
[1:14:24] Speaker 1: I want to get in this. What do they do?
[1:14:28] Speaker 1: The people listening, the people watching, they're the chat saying, man, I, Hey,
[1:14:31] Speaker 1: I'm down with it. What do they do?
[1:14:36] Speaker 25: Well, one, as I mentioned, as I mentioned, having the
[1:14:38] Speaker 25: conversation about what is, what is, what is in the
[1:14:40] Speaker 25: bill and us, uh, of course, having those conversations with
[1:14:43] Speaker 25: our units and our folks on the ground of how
[1:14:46] Speaker 25: we can show up, uh, in November is all roads
[1:14:49] Speaker 25: lead to November.
[1:14:50] Speaker 8: Now this is connected to the issue of voting rights.
[1:14:53] Speaker 25: Um, and so, It just comes down to us really
[1:14:57] Speaker 25: educating the community and giving out the tools and the
[1:14:59] Speaker 25: resources that they need ahead of this midterm election and
[1:15:05] Speaker 25: us doing the groundwork to really educate our folks on
[1:15:07] Speaker 25: what is all in this bill and how it affects
[1:15:10] Speaker 25: our communities and our students.
[1:15:11] Speaker 1: NWCP has, what, 2,700 branches?
[1:15:16] Speaker 10: We do.
[1:15:17] Speaker 1: Okay. Is there any plan to unleash picket lines or
[1:15:27] Speaker 1: information lines or anything at select college football games over
[1:15:33] Speaker 1: the next seven Saturdays?
[1:15:36] Speaker 25: What I can say, I'm not the only sole leader
[1:15:39] Speaker 25: at the NAACP, but has been in conversation around what
[1:15:42] Speaker 25: exactly is the game plan moving forward to educate our
[1:15:45] Speaker 25: communities on this Protect College Sports Act and how it
[1:15:49] Speaker 25: is relative and connected to the issue of voting and
[1:15:51] Speaker 25: how we turn out our communities to show up this
[1:15:54] Speaker 25: midterm election cycle. But what I can say, it is
[1:15:57] Speaker 25: definitely something that is on the table and working in
[1:15:59] Speaker 25: coalition of how, what other coalition partners we can pull
[1:16:02] Speaker 25: in to really do a mass movement of how we
[1:16:05] Speaker 25: organize our communities around this issue to be in the know.
[1:16:08] Speaker 25: Because as we know, this vote really came out of nowhere.
[1:16:13] Speaker 8: And the issue really, really.
[1:16:16] Speaker 1: Actually, no, Todd, no disrespect. It did come out of nowhere.
[1:16:20] Speaker 1: This had been discussed for several weeks. We had been
[1:16:23] Speaker 1: following it.
[1:16:24] Speaker 10: It was.
[1:16:24] Speaker 1: This thing had been moving.
[1:16:27] Speaker 25: Also, the issues of mail-in voting and all, et cetera,
[1:16:30] Speaker 25: for the fight as we are getting towards midterm.
[1:16:32] Speaker 17: And so.
[1:16:33] Speaker 25: It was definitely in the midst of a mass distraction
[1:16:36] Speaker 25: that we saw. But luckily, we got the win out
[1:16:39] Speaker 25: of the Supreme Court. But I think this is definitely
[1:16:42] Speaker 25: an opportunity for us to say, like, hey, this is
[1:16:46] Speaker 25: what's happening within the Protect College Sports Act and to
[1:16:50] Speaker 25: bring much awareness to it. But that is conversations that
[1:16:52] Speaker 25: is being had, as we know, as I mentioned, all
[1:16:55] Speaker 25: things leading up to November the 3rd and how we
[1:16:58] Speaker 25: connect these issues to the issues of voting rights.
[1:17:02] Speaker 1: Um, the, um.
[1:17:06] Speaker 1: Before I go to my panel with questions, um, we
[1:17:09] Speaker 1: played a soundbite, um, on this, um, and again, I'm looking,
[1:17:16] Speaker 1: you talked about the, um, um, the toolkit, um, um,
[1:17:25] Speaker 1: that you guys, uh, launched, um, regarding getting, uh, athletes
[1:17:29] Speaker 1: not to go to the Southern schools. The Republicans organized
[1:17:38] Speaker 1: a news conference on Capitol Hill, and they had a
[1:17:43] Speaker 1: group of students who stood in front of the cameras opposing,
[1:17:51] Speaker 1: supporting the bill. And one of them, it was the Senate,
[1:17:56] Speaker 1: this is the Senate Commerce Republicans. This took place three
[1:18:01] Speaker 1: days ago. And they held this news conference. You will
[1:18:05] Speaker 1: see right here, this is a Howard University student. Ted
[1:18:09] Speaker 1: Cruz is standing right next... Guys, come on, go to
[1:18:12] Speaker 1: my iPad. Thank you. Ted Cruz is standing right next
[1:18:14] Speaker 1: to him. So here's my question. Does the NAACP plan
[1:18:19] Speaker 1: to organize... a news conference of, and whether you do
[1:18:23] Speaker 1: it in D.C. or whether you do it, let's say,
[1:18:27] Speaker 1: in 8, 10 cities where those universities are located, or
[1:18:32] Speaker 1: does the NAACP plan to organize similar news conferences to
[1:18:37] Speaker 1: have actual athletes who are getting NIL money, who are
[1:18:42] Speaker 1: going to be greatly impacted by this bill if it
[1:18:45] Speaker 1: gets passed? Are y'all looking to do anything such as this,
[1:18:49] Speaker 1: which is what the Republicans did?
[1:18:53] Speaker 8: There has been.
[1:18:54] Speaker 25: There was also an additional press conference that happened right
[1:18:57] Speaker 25: before that press conference happened where the president of the
[1:19:02] Speaker 25: National College Players Association was there, Senator Chris Murphy. We
[1:19:06] Speaker 25: also had folks, Megan Burke, National Women's Soccer League Players Association,
[1:19:11] Speaker 25: That was converged by the AFL-CIO, parents of Jordan McNair,
[1:19:16] Speaker 25: the college football player who died of a heat stroke
[1:19:18] Speaker 25: during practice as well. And we also had some student
[1:19:21] Speaker 25: athletes that was from women's basketball and men's football players
[1:19:26] Speaker 25: to join that virtual press conference that happened right before.
[1:19:30] Speaker 25: But I absolutely agree with you that we must have
[1:19:33] Speaker 25: communication plans of how we plan to communicate what is
[1:19:36] Speaker 25: exactly in this Protect College Sports Act to students. our communities,
[1:19:40] Speaker 25: but we must continue to really amplify that message of
[1:19:46] Speaker 25: what is all within this bill.
[1:19:47] Speaker 8: But it was similar to that press conference when that
[1:19:50] Speaker 8: was held the day prior.
[1:19:52] Speaker 1: Michael.
[1:19:54] Speaker 6: All right, Fred, how you doing, Tyleek?
[1:19:57] Speaker 8: I'm doing good.
[1:19:58] Speaker 6: Go mob. Go mob, Fred. All right, so my question is.
[1:20:03] Speaker 1: Boo mob?
[1:20:03] Speaker 6: What the hell.
[1:20:04] Speaker 1: Y'all just say? Boo mob?
[1:20:07] Speaker 6: I said go mob.
[1:20:09] Speaker 1: Go Ma.
[1:20:10] Speaker 6: Don't worry about it, Rolla. Go Ma. Don't worry about it, Rolla.
[1:20:12] Speaker 1: What the hell is that?
[1:20:14] Speaker 6: So, so, so.
[1:20:17] Speaker 25: Make sure y'all screen record that part and crop that
[1:20:20] Speaker 25: when he said it.
[1:20:20] Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds like some Martian language, but go ahead.
[1:20:25] Speaker 15: I know you've been talking about the out-of-bounds campaign, and
[1:20:28] Speaker 15: I've been talking about that a lot.
[1:20:33] Speaker 6: And I wanted to.
[1:20:35] Speaker 15: Well, first of all, the NAACP got a lot of
[1:20:38] Speaker 15: backlash from people who didn't understand it and thought that
[1:20:40] Speaker 15: you were telling black athletes not to play at all,
[1:20:46] Speaker 15: not to play football or basketball at all. And that's
[1:20:51] Speaker 15: not what you were saying. But How do you connect
[1:20:56] Speaker 15: the two policies? Because with the Protect College Sports Act,
[1:21:00] Speaker 15: it's actually going to put a cap on how much
[1:21:03] Speaker 15: college athletes can earn.
[1:21:05] Speaker 6: So you had some black people saying, oh, you're trying to.
[1:21:08] Speaker 15: Get the— you' re trying to keep the athletes from getting the bag.
[1:21:11] Speaker 15: And Roland talked about that here on the show as well,
[1:21:14] Speaker 15: all the people talking about, oh, you're trying to stop
[1:21:16] Speaker 15: them from getting the bag. But This bill would actually
[1:21:20] Speaker 15: limit how much bag they can get. So, how do
[1:21:24] Speaker 15: you connect the two to actually galvanize African Americans as
[1:21:29] Speaker 15: well and voter turnout for midterm elections?
[1:21:32] Speaker 6: Because this all ties to politics.
[1:21:34] Speaker 15: This all deals with policy and how policy impacts economics.
[1:21:41] Speaker 25: Of course, as I made the major flag around the
[1:21:44] Speaker 25: billion dollar that was put into the bill over the
[1:21:48] Speaker 25: course of six years that was given to HBCUs, we've
[1:21:51] Speaker 25: been very clear that protecting athletes should not require granting
[1:21:55] Speaker 25: these sweeping protections to these institutions.
[1:21:58] Speaker 1: While at the same time, our communities are fighting for
[1:22:02] Speaker 1: representation in the ballot box. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
[1:22:05] Speaker 1: You said the bill has how much in it for HBCUs?
[1:22:09] Speaker 8: There is a billion on the table over the course
[1:22:12] Speaker 8: of over six years.
[1:22:14] Speaker 1: Where is that mentioned? Because it's a 171 page bill.
[1:22:17] Speaker 1: I've seen no money mentioned in the bill.
[1:22:21] Speaker 25: They were going to put nearly a billion dollars on
[1:22:24] Speaker 25: the table for over six years for HBCUs, but it
[1:22:27] Speaker 25: was not a guaranteed investment, but instead it was a
[1:22:30] Speaker 25: political bargaining chip because they were authorizing a billion dollars
[1:22:35] Speaker 25: towards HBCUs, but it was not appropriated to HBCUs.
[1:22:38] Speaker 8: So that was one major flag as well. Okay, got it.
[1:22:41] Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead.
[1:22:44] Speaker 25: And so, as I mentioned before, connecting those two things
[1:22:47] Speaker 25: together and saying, you know, you cannot have a black
[1:22:51] Speaker 25: players making billions of dollars, making billions of dollars for
[1:22:57] Speaker 25: your athletic programs, but not give fair representation. And so
[1:23:01] Speaker 25: really connecting the issues to our HBCUs and also our students,
[1:23:05] Speaker 25: our students who are attending these institutions and saying, it's just,
[1:23:08] Speaker 25: it's just.
[1:23:08] Speaker 8: A drop in a bucket for, for them in our,
[1:23:10] Speaker 8: in these, in our institutions.
[1:23:14] Speaker 1: Okay.
[1:23:16] Speaker 22: Matt.
[1:23:19] Speaker 13: So I'll readily admit, I don't know everything in the bill.
[1:23:23] Speaker 13: I understand kind of the basic highlights, but here's my question.
[1:23:26] Speaker 13: I know the NAACP stands for union labor and stands for,
[1:23:31] Speaker 13: you know, laborers, right? And this to me is a
[1:23:34] Speaker 13: very basic labor issue. It's people participating in a free
[1:23:37] Speaker 13: market and that being hampered because of the moneyed interest.
[1:23:40] Speaker 13: So my question is, how is the NAACP addressing the
[1:23:43] Speaker 13: basic labor parts of this because this, to me, seems
[1:23:46] Speaker 13: to be the seminal issue here, which is where you
[1:23:48] Speaker 13: have the athletes who are the value, right, who are
[1:23:50] Speaker 13: providing the value, and that's being hampered and being controlled
[1:23:53] Speaker 13: by Congress or trying to be controlled through this bill.
[1:23:56] Speaker 13: And I'd like to know kind of what the NAACP's
[1:23:59] Speaker 13: stance is on that and the nexus between the athletes
[1:24:02] Speaker 13: and the labor and, you know, the NAACP's position on labor.
[1:24:07] Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
[1:24:09] Speaker 25: Our call is for collective bargaining rights for our student-athletes.
[1:24:13] Speaker 25: Our student-athletes should retain their ability to obtain an education
[1:24:17] Speaker 25: if a sports-related injury makes it impossible for them to
[1:24:22] Speaker 25: play or compete. And we are also calling for lifetime
[1:24:24] Speaker 25: paid health care for our student athletes who are experiencing
[1:24:28] Speaker 25: life-altering injuries. And our understanding, as we talk about the
[1:24:31] Speaker 25: whole NIL contracting, that ownership of individual NIL and contractual
[1:24:38] Speaker 25: rights is important for our student athletes.
[1:24:40] Speaker 8: And I'm also.
[1:24:42] Speaker 25: Calling that revenue share with university from school use of
[1:24:45] Speaker 25: the NIL should also be shared to our players as well.
[1:24:50] Speaker 25: And so this whole support for the whole student, understanding that,
[1:24:54] Speaker 25: you know, labor rights and they are putting their talents
[1:24:57] Speaker 25: and their bodies on the line for this sports that
[1:25:00] Speaker 25: are making billion dollars, making these programs billions and billions
[1:25:03] Speaker 25: of dollars.
[1:25:04] Speaker 8: And so we're also.
[1:25:05] Speaker 25: Calling for that as well for that collective bargaining rights
[1:25:09] Speaker 25: for our student athletes.
[1:25:12] Speaker 1: Justin.
[1:25:15] Speaker 12: Well, first, let me just say, Tyler, you're doing a
[1:25:17] Speaker 12: good job hanging in there, man. I know this has
[1:25:19] Speaker 12: not been an easy one. My question before I get
[1:25:23] Speaker 12: to the question, I just want to go back to
[1:25:25] Speaker 12: the Herbstreet clip.
[1:25:26] Speaker 9: That was wild. What a coward.
[1:25:28] Speaker 12: I hadn't seen that. And he needs to figure out that,
[1:25:31] Speaker 12: you know, there's no third way when it comes to
[1:25:34] Speaker 12: issues of morality. you have to take a position and
[1:25:37] Speaker 12: you just end up looking like a coward.
[1:25:38] Speaker 9: So that was, that was wild.
[1:25:39] Speaker 12: My question is about, you know, you're talking about collective bargaining,
[1:25:44] Speaker 12: but what about just the seat of the table when
[1:25:45] Speaker 12: it comes to this bill? Like, is there, can there
[1:25:48] Speaker 12: be a call for the athletes to have more of
[1:25:51] Speaker 12: a say in the bill itself? Because everything I've read
[1:25:53] Speaker 12: about this bill is that the athletes and, you know,
[1:25:57] Speaker 12: there's no representation even in this discussion.
[1:26:02] Speaker 8: No, I absolutely would agree with you.
[1:26:03] Speaker 25: And our hope is that this entire bill gets scrapped,
[1:26:07] Speaker 25: which is why we're fighting against it. Of course, they
[1:26:10] Speaker 25: had conversations with folks such as SWAC commissioners, et cetera,
[1:26:13] Speaker 25: representing certain associations or folks within our community. But I
[1:26:20] Speaker 25: will say that they go back to the drawing board
[1:26:23] Speaker 25: and actually have conversations with students and student athletes, whether
[1:26:27] Speaker 25: that's going into towns and having town halls or whether that's,
[1:26:29] Speaker 25: you know, how we show up and organize before our
[1:26:33] Speaker 25: college day, you know, game days. I think there's a
[1:26:36] Speaker 25: lot still to be done. And I also think, you know,
[1:26:39] Speaker 25: we got to go back to the drawing board as
[1:26:40] Speaker 25: relates to how HBCUs.
[1:26:43] Speaker 8: And Black students are represented within this bill.
[1:26:46] Speaker 25: Oftentimes, we are the afterthought, exactly as we see with
[1:26:50] Speaker 25: the billion-dollar allocation. And so we got to fight for more.
[1:26:54] Speaker 25: We deserve more. And there's a lot more that is
[1:26:57] Speaker 25: owed to us that is not within this bill.
[1:27:04] Speaker 1: First of all, let's deal with some facts here. HBCUs
[1:27:10] Speaker 1: are not getting a billion dollars in this bill.
[1:27:13] Speaker 6: They're not.
[1:27:14] Speaker 1: That's actually the ceiling, meaning they potentially can get up
[1:27:21] Speaker 1: to a billion dollars. So that's first. Now, anytime there's
[1:27:27] Speaker 1: a bill that ain't got money in it, it's a
[1:27:31] Speaker 1: bullshit bill.
[1:27:32] Speaker 22: Okay?
[1:27:33] Speaker 10: Exactly.
[1:27:33] Speaker 1: I'm very clear on this bill. HBCUs are getting pimped
[1:27:40] Speaker 1: and played. Listen, we've reached out to Thurgood Marshall Fund. Now, Carol,
[1:27:47] Speaker 1: do they agree to come on the show? Okay, well,
[1:27:51] Speaker 1: Thurgood Marshall Fund, we've been trying to call them for
[1:27:53] Speaker 1: three days about coming on the show to explain why
[1:27:56] Speaker 1: they support this bill. They ain't got back to us.
[1:28:00] Speaker 1: We reached out to the United Negro College Fund. They
[1:28:02] Speaker 1: support this bill. They declined to come on the show. Now,
[1:28:07] Speaker 1: here's my whole deal, Thurgood Marshall Fund and UNCF. You
[1:28:12] Speaker 1: cannot say you represent black people if you are scared
[1:28:17] Speaker 1: to come talk to black people. You need to have
[1:28:20] Speaker 1: the courage to say why you support this bill. Now,
[1:28:26] Speaker 1: let me explain to y'all how they're playing HBCUs. And
[1:28:30] Speaker 1: I need all the folks in the HBCU community to
[1:28:34] Speaker 1: listen to what I am saying. There's a guy named
[1:28:38] Speaker 1: Cody Campbell. who's a billionaire, who's a graduate of Texas
[1:28:43] Speaker 1: Tech University. He's the one who has been funding their
[1:28:47] Speaker 1: NIL program. He's the chairman of the board of the
[1:28:51] Speaker 1: Texas Tech Board of Regents. He is going to spend...
[1:28:57] Speaker 1: seven figures on ads to run during HBCU games in
[1:29:04] Speaker 1: support of the bill. This right here is from Awful Announcing.
[1:29:10] Speaker 1: And Semaphore also reported this. Per SEMA 4 sources, Saving
[1:29:16] Speaker 1: College Sports, a group founded by controversial Texas Tech University
[1:29:22] Speaker 1: Board of Regents Chair Cody Campbell, is launching a seven-figure
[1:29:26] Speaker 1: ad buy supporting the bill that will first air during
[1:29:31] Speaker 1: HBCU games over the first two weekends of the college
[1:29:35] Speaker 1: football season before running on national cable in the second
[1:29:40] Speaker 1: week of September. The ad features Dr. Charles McClellan, the
[1:29:45] Speaker 1: commissioner of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, pointing toward the support
[1:29:49] Speaker 1: the ad has received from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund
[1:29:54] Speaker 1: and the United Negro College Fund. So this is the
[1:29:58] Speaker 1: commercial that they are running. So first of all, all
[1:30:03] Speaker 1: HBCU people, y'all need to be aware of who is
[1:30:09] Speaker 1: funding this. the commercial that's running during HBCU games. Now,
[1:30:17] Speaker 1: I'm going to play the commercial so y'all see it.
[1:30:21] Speaker 1: The SWAT did not pay for the commercial. The MEAC
[1:30:25] Speaker 1: ain't paid for the commercial. The HBCU conference didn't pay
[1:30:28] Speaker 1: for the commercial. Let me be real clear. The MAGA.
[1:30:35] Speaker 1: Texas Tech billionaire who is the chairman of the board
[1:30:39] Speaker 1: of Texas Tech University is the one paying for these
[1:30:43] Speaker 1: commercials targeting HBCUs.
[1:30:48] Speaker 26: Historically, black colleges and universities provide student athletes not just
[1:30:52] Speaker 26: an opportunity to succeed, but a legacy.
[1:30:54] Speaker 1: Let's see. Hold up. Something's going on. Let's see. I'm
[1:30:57] Speaker 1: going to try to see if I can get this to...
[1:30:59] Speaker 1: Sometimes these things don't properly play video-wise. Let's see here.
[1:31:05] Speaker 1: Let's try it now.
[1:31:07] Speaker 26: Not just an opportunity to succeed, but a legacy to
[1:31:12] Speaker 26: carry forward. That's why groups like Thurgood Marshall and the
[1:31:15] Speaker 26: United Negro College Funds are proud supporters of the Protect
[1:31:18] Speaker 26: College Sports Act. This legislation protects the rights of student
[1:31:22] Speaker 26: athletes everywhere and provides nearly $ 1 billion for historically black
[1:31:27] Speaker 26: colleges and universities so no school gets left behind. Join
[1:31:31] Speaker 26: the team and help carry this legacy forward.
[1:31:34] Speaker 1: Okay, so Tyler, just to be clear, that's a lie.
[1:31:38] Speaker 1: The bill does not provide a billion dollars to HBCUs.
[1:31:46] Speaker 1: What it does is it authorizes Congress Two, if they
[1:31:53] Speaker 1: choose to allocate or appropriate up to a billion dollars
[1:31:59] Speaker 1: over several years for all HBCUs, that line that Charles
[1:32:04] Speaker 1: McClellan just stated is a lie.
[1:32:09] Speaker 6: Absolutely.
[1:32:10] Speaker 8: And I think that is a major flag.
[1:32:12] Speaker 25: That money will never see the light of day to
[1:32:15] Speaker 25: our campuses. And we're talking about Over the course of
[1:32:17] Speaker 25: six years, what does a billion dollars do for all
[1:32:20] Speaker 25: of our institutions over the course of six years is
[1:32:23] Speaker 25: literally a drop in the bucket. And I think what
[1:32:25] Speaker 25: we see here is really between the fine print as
[1:32:28] Speaker 25: we look at this commercial, you cannot put logos of
[1:32:33] Speaker 25: TMCF and UNCF behind it and talk about how billion
[1:32:38] Speaker 25: dollars and millionaires are using the imagery of Black people
[1:32:44] Speaker 25: to sell and talk about Black power in this moment,
[1:32:48] Speaker 25: when in turn, it is hurting our institutions.
[1:32:51] Speaker 8: And I think we really have to.
[1:32:52] Speaker 25: In our point, as you mentioned, and how we are
[1:32:55] Speaker 25: reaching folks and talking to folks in our comms plan
[1:32:57] Speaker 25: of outreach over the course of these next couple of weeks,
[1:33:00] Speaker 25: leading up to election day, about how this is hurting
[1:33:05] Speaker 25: our communities, because we have folks within our community saying,
[1:33:10] Speaker 25: and saying it's good for us when it's really a
[1:33:13] Speaker 25: drop in the bucket, and they're giving us monopoly money
[1:33:15] Speaker 25: at this point.
[1:33:16] Speaker 1: Let me also... See, here's my other deal. If you're
[1:33:20] Speaker 1: the third-grade Marshall Fund at UNCF, you know what you
[1:33:24] Speaker 1: should have said? Okay, Ted Cruz. Okay, Maria Cantwell. Okay,
[1:33:30] Speaker 1: Chris Coons. Okay, all y'all. If y'all want our support
[1:33:35] Speaker 1: for this bill, tell the Republican governors to give the
[1:33:39] Speaker 1: HBCU the $ 13 billion they're owed when they were cheated
[1:33:44] Speaker 1: out of the land grant money. That's $ 13 billion. Tennessee
[1:33:48] Speaker 1: State is owed $ 2 billion alone. Fort Valley State is owed...
[1:33:52] Speaker 1: So there's more money that's actually owed to individual HBCUs
[1:33:56] Speaker 1: that's actually in this bill. But again, I need people
[1:33:59] Speaker 1: to understand. And so, hey, Kenan, we're going to do
[1:34:02] Speaker 1: this here. I want y'all, I'm going to send you
[1:34:04] Speaker 1: the link, Kenan. We're going to put the whole bill
[1:34:09] Speaker 1: on BlackstarNetwork.com. And entirely, y'all need to be having this
[1:34:14] Speaker 1: whole bill on the NAACP's website. And you need to
[1:34:19] Speaker 1: be pulling out the provisions. And again, I want people
[1:34:23] Speaker 1: to understand that what this bill does, and I'm using
[1:34:29] Speaker 1: pimp for a reason. And I'm very clear. I believe
[1:34:35] Speaker 1: that the reason they inserted HBCUs in this bill is
[1:34:41] Speaker 1: is because they knew they were gonna get pushed back
[1:34:46] Speaker 1: because the people playing football and basketball who were making
[1:34:50] Speaker 1: the millions of black athletes, they needed some black cover.
[1:34:54] Speaker 1: And that's what they've gotten. What they also did was
[1:34:58] Speaker 1: merge the Ignite, this other bill, with this bill and
[1:35:06] Speaker 1: what no money in the Ignite bill. So I'm like,
[1:35:10] Speaker 1: what we doing here? But I need everybody, I read
[1:35:12] Speaker 1: this the other day on the, and again, and I'm not,
[1:35:16] Speaker 1: let me be real clear. I'm going after, on this bill,
[1:35:19] Speaker 1: the NCAA. I called out Calipari. I called out the
[1:35:23] Speaker 1: head coaches. This bill has no cap on how much
[1:35:26] Speaker 1: the coaches can make. Kirby Smart at Georgia is making
[1:35:32] Speaker 1: $ 13 million a year This bill would cap what athletes
[1:35:37] Speaker 1: are paid at $ 20 million. That means Kirby Smart is
[1:35:42] Speaker 1: making more by himself than what all the other athletes
[1:35:48] Speaker 1: combined would make. And I need the people watching. And
[1:35:52] Speaker 1: so when all these people say, and I'm about to
[1:35:54] Speaker 1: throw a number out, I'm about to mess y'all up.
[1:35:57] Speaker 1: So all these people are trying to convince us that
[1:36:00] Speaker 1: college sports is in chaos. Do y'all know, in the
[1:36:06] Speaker 1: last two years, $ 750 million is being paid out in
[1:36:14] Speaker 1: college sports to buy out the contracts of football and
[1:36:18] Speaker 1: basketball coaches? Now, I'm now confused. How is it chaotic
[1:36:26] Speaker 1: that y'all can find $ 750 million to buy out the coaches'
[1:36:30] Speaker 1: contracts and hire new coaches, but now the players getting
[1:36:36] Speaker 1: money is causing the chaos?
[1:36:43] Speaker 8: Problematic.
[1:36:45] Speaker 25: The rich get richer, and I think that is why.
[1:36:48] Speaker 8: We must hold them accountable. And as you mentioned, and
[1:36:52] Speaker 8: I'm glad that you brought it up on the show.
[1:36:54] Speaker 25: The fact that a Texas tech billionaire is trying to
[1:36:58] Speaker 25: tell black folks what black folks should do. And we
[1:37:01] Speaker 25: got to be mindful and ensure that our folks know what.
[1:37:06] Speaker 8: Is exactly in this bill. And it is not helpful,
[1:37:09] Speaker 8: but it's more harmful.
[1:37:10] Speaker 10: Yep.
[1:37:11] Speaker 1: He's funding the whole deal. All right, then, Tylek, I
[1:37:13] Speaker 1: certainly appreciate it. Again, let me know when y'all plan
[1:37:18] Speaker 1: to mobilize and organize black folks on this, because, again,
[1:37:24] Speaker 1: we do not have much time on this very thing.
[1:37:28] Speaker 1: We don't have much time.
[1:37:29] Speaker 8: No, I appreciate it, and I appreciate you.
[1:37:31] Speaker 25: Appreciate you challenging the question and always lifting the issues
[1:37:34] Speaker 25: up to eight more years of the Black Star Network.
[1:37:37] Speaker 8: Always grateful to join.
[1:37:38] Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. I want you all
[1:37:41] Speaker 1: to understand, again, this is page 149 of 171 pages.
[1:37:49] Speaker 1: They have in here, y'all, it's called Title III HBCU
[1:37:54] Speaker 1: Sports Media and Connectivity Programs. And when you read in here,
[1:38:02] Speaker 1: it lays out that the assistant secretary will award grants
[1:38:05] Speaker 1: to eligible entities to support long-term improvements to broadband information technology,
[1:38:11] Speaker 1: media infrastructure, including infrastructure for the production, transmission, and distribution
[1:38:16] Speaker 1: of live coverage of intercollegiate athletic events and local journalism
[1:38:21] Speaker 1: for student learning. So when you start going through this, y'all,
[1:38:24] Speaker 1: and you start reading this sort of stuff, and it
[1:38:26] Speaker 1: lays out what they gonna do, how they gonna provide everything, Y'all,
[1:38:30] Speaker 1: let me tell y'all something right now. The issue with
[1:38:33] Speaker 1: HBCUs ain't got a damn thing to do with the
[1:38:36] Speaker 1: live transmission of a college game. The problem is the
[1:38:39] Speaker 1: HBCUs don't have no real media rights contracts. That's the
[1:38:42] Speaker 1: real deal, okay? That's where the money is. That's where
[1:38:46] Speaker 1: the money is. And so when I sit here and
[1:38:50] Speaker 1: look at this, and again, the reason this ticks me
[1:38:54] Speaker 1: off the most, Matt, they are using HBCUs as cover
[1:39:02] Speaker 1: when we know that it's a ton of black athletes
[1:39:06] Speaker 1: who are economically benefiting from NILs. And their families. And
[1:39:14] Speaker 1: their mamas and daddies. And brothers and sisters. You got
[1:39:19] Speaker 1: freshmen buying mama and daddy a house when before... Man,
[1:39:24] Speaker 1: I hope they make it to the league so they
[1:39:27] Speaker 1: can take care of mama and daddy. They doing this
[1:39:29] Speaker 1: now as freshmen.
[1:39:33] Speaker 2: Yep.
[1:39:34] Speaker 13: Yeah, and that's exactly why I asked Tylek the question
[1:39:37] Speaker 13: about the labor issue, because what this is really about
[1:39:40] Speaker 13: is recalibrating the power as between the athletes, who are
[1:39:44] Speaker 13: the people who put the butts in the seats— And
[1:39:47] Speaker 13: those who are the boosters and the moneyed interest and
[1:39:49] Speaker 13: the people paying the NIL. And, you know, just I
[1:39:53] Speaker 13: don't know enough about the bill. So I want to
[1:39:54] Speaker 13: readily admit I don't know every part of the bill.
[1:39:56] Speaker 13: I've only read a couple synopses. I wasn't really aware
[1:39:59] Speaker 13: of how the bill worked. But in looking at the
[1:40:02] Speaker 13: little bit that I've seen, first off, look at the language, quote,
[1:40:04] Speaker 13: protect college sports. it doesn't become a protection issue until
[1:40:08] Speaker 13: you have exactly what you're talking about. A freshman who
[1:40:11] Speaker 13: now is a star athlete who can buy his parents
[1:40:14] Speaker 13: a house or can make a bunch of money now
[1:40:16] Speaker 13: has an amount of leverage in the market he would
[1:40:19] Speaker 13: not have had five years ago before NIL.
[1:40:22] Speaker 14: So this is about reigning in that power. This is
[1:40:25] Speaker 14: about a labor struggle.
[1:40:26] Speaker 13: And this is also about, as Chris Sim said, about
[1:40:29] Speaker 13: making sure you protect those moneyed interests between ESPN and
[1:40:33] Speaker 13: those with the media rights deals. But what I think
[1:40:35] Speaker 13: is disingenuous about this is that these are the same people,
[1:40:39] Speaker 13: generally Republicans, who talk about free markets all the time, right?
[1:40:44] Speaker 13: Don't put regulation on me. Don't regulate me. Don't hamper
[1:40:47] Speaker 13: my ability to make money. Don't stifle my entrepreneurial ability.
[1:40:51] Speaker 13: Don't stifle my ability to sell my proverbial wares in
[1:40:55] Speaker 13: the market and get whatever I'm worth. That's precisely what
[1:40:58] Speaker 13: these young people are doing. They're running a football and
[1:41:01] Speaker 13: they're making money the way they should be for running
[1:41:04] Speaker 13: that football and putting the butts in the seats of
[1:41:06] Speaker 13: the University of Texas's Darryl K. Royal Memorial Stadium where
[1:41:10] Speaker 13: I was this weekend when you text me and we
[1:41:11] Speaker 13: got that legendary win.
[1:41:13] Speaker 14: That's what this is about.
[1:41:14] Speaker 1: I might give a damn about y'all. Just keep talking.
[1:41:17] Speaker 13: This is about labor rights, and this is about divesting
[1:41:21] Speaker 13: the athletes of the power.
[1:41:22] Speaker 14: That's all it comes down to. And, I mean, I
[1:41:25] Speaker 14: don't know all of the contours of.
[1:41:26] Speaker 13: NAACP's pushback against the bill, but that's what I see
[1:41:30] Speaker 13: very saliently, and that's what I think is dishonest about this, because—
[1:41:34] Speaker 13: If we're going to talk about free markets, then let
[1:41:36] Speaker 13: these young people not only earn, but let them fetch
[1:41:40] Speaker 13: on the free market what they are worth and what
[1:41:42] Speaker 13: they can negotiate. That's what happens in professional sports. And
[1:41:45] Speaker 13: that's what happens in the free market in terms of careers, right?
[1:41:48] Speaker 13: As an attorney, firm wants to pay me better. They
[1:41:51] Speaker 13: think I'm a good trial attorney. Then I go fetch
[1:41:53] Speaker 13: what I'm worth, so to speak. That's all that we
[1:41:55] Speaker 13: see happening here. But they're trying to take back that
[1:41:57] Speaker 13: power from the athletes. And that's why I think it's problematic.
[1:42:01] Speaker 1: Justin, you're there in Tennessee. People just need to understand
[1:42:04] Speaker 1: what's going on. What they're mad about, they're mad that
[1:42:09] Speaker 1: a player can sit here and say, nah, I ain't
[1:42:12] Speaker 1: gonna take $ 200, 000 from you. How much you gonna pay me? Oh,
[1:42:15] Speaker 1: you gonna pay me $ 700, 000? Oh, you gonna pay me
[1:42:18] Speaker 1: a million? I'm gonna see y'all later. Then they go
[1:42:20] Speaker 1: to this school over here for a million, and they
[1:42:23] Speaker 1: show up and show out. Another school say, yo, we'll
[1:42:26] Speaker 1: give you $ 4 million to transfer. They like, yo, I'm out.
[1:42:30] Speaker 1: What they don't like... is the fact they don't like
[1:42:34] Speaker 1: the fact that, damn, we've been getting over. They've been
[1:42:39] Speaker 1: sharecroppers all these years. And now, we now have to
[1:42:44] Speaker 1: pay for the labor. So all these people are in confusion.
[1:42:50] Speaker 1: I showed you John Calipari. Well, John Calipari, when you
[1:42:53] Speaker 1: left UMass to go to Kentucky, was that about money?
[1:43:00] Speaker 1: And was that about perks? See, Nick Saban, Nick Saban,
[1:43:05] Speaker 1: I need everybody to understand, Nick Saban left, he retired
[1:43:09] Speaker 1: from Alabama, making 10, 9, 10 million a year. Nick
[1:43:13] Speaker 1: Saban owns two Mercedes dealerships in Alabama. Off the labor
[1:43:23] Speaker 1: of the players. That's what they don't like, Justin. That's
[1:43:27] Speaker 1: what they don't like.
[1:43:29] Speaker 12: Yeah, coaches have been doing exactly the thing that they're
[1:43:32] Speaker 12: upset that players are doing now.
[1:43:34] Speaker 9: And it's been going on my whole life.
[1:43:36] Speaker 12: So now the same people that had the cartel before
[1:43:40] Speaker 12: are coming around saying, no, we need to be the one.
[1:43:43] Speaker 9: To fix this. Trust us.
[1:43:45] Speaker 12: So I think you just got to go back to
[1:43:47] Speaker 12: who's asking for this, who's pushing for this. It's not
[1:43:50] Speaker 12: the players. You know, the players don't even have the
[1:43:53] Speaker 12: seat at the table. And I think you're right to
[1:43:55] Speaker 12: hone in on Why are they even talking about HBCUs?
[1:43:59] Speaker 12: They're talking about HBCUs because they're using them as cover.
[1:44:02] Speaker 12: That's really gross. Tennessee State, like you said, is owed
[1:44:06] Speaker 12: billions of dollars. We know they don't care about HBCUs,
[1:44:09] Speaker 12: so they're using them for political.
[1:44:12] Speaker 9: Cover because they're good at it.
[1:44:13] Speaker 12: Your first clue that this isn't on the up and
[1:44:15] Speaker 12: up is that Ted Cruz is the face out in front.
[1:44:19] Speaker 9: We all know Ted Cruz is a.
[1:44:21] Speaker 12: Snake, and for him to be the one that they're
[1:44:24] Speaker 12: putting out in front tells you all you really need
[1:44:26] Speaker 12: to know. What's really gross is that there are Democrats
[1:44:28] Speaker 12: that are going along with this. So in this seven weeks,
[1:44:31] Speaker 12: it would be nice to see some mobilization to put
[1:44:34] Speaker 12: some pressure on Democrats, especially since by the time they
[1:44:36] Speaker 12: come back, Speaker Jeffries might be the one deciding what
[1:44:41] Speaker 12: comes up for a vote. So it may be that
[1:44:43] Speaker 12: the Democrats are the ones that need to hear from
[1:44:45] Speaker 12: people more than anybody else so that they don't go
[1:44:47] Speaker 12: along for this.
[1:44:48] Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
[1:44:49] Speaker 1: The reason we should be Democrats and Republicans, because there
[1:44:52] Speaker 1: are people.
[1:44:52] Speaker 17: Yeah.
[1:44:52] Speaker 1: A lot of our people are represented their constituents in
[1:44:56] Speaker 1: these districts of Republicans.
[1:44:58] Speaker 10: For sure.
[1:44:58] Speaker 9: I'm just saying.
[1:44:59] Speaker 1: I just think our people.
[1:45:00] Speaker 9: It's both.
[1:45:00] Speaker 17: Right.
[1:45:01] Speaker 19: Right.
[1:45:01] Speaker 1: But here's the problem we have right now. This thing
[1:45:05] Speaker 1: was like 74, 24 Republicans. in the Senate, okay? So
[1:45:08] Speaker 1: you got Democrats and Republicans who are backing it. And so, yo,
[1:45:11] Speaker 1: you might have 300 votes between Democrats and Republicans, you know,
[1:45:15] Speaker 1: in the House. So even if Democrats get control, Republicans
[1:45:18] Speaker 1: can do a discharge petition. All it needs is 218 votes,
[1:45:21] Speaker 1: the sucker passes. So I need everybody up. Now, I
[1:45:24] Speaker 1: found the number. So, again, yo, this literally... This is
[1:45:28] Speaker 1: literally the last line on the last page in the bill.
[1:45:36] Speaker 1: It's 171 pages. This is the last line of the
[1:45:41] Speaker 1: whole bill. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
[1:45:47] Speaker 1: out this title $ 180 million for each of fiscal years
[1:45:54] Speaker 1: 227 through 2032. Let me say that again. The money
[1:46:02] Speaker 1: is not in this bill. By the way, it could be.
[1:46:06] Speaker 1: They could actually put the billion dollars in this bill. No,
[1:46:11] Speaker 1: they're saying what this bill does, it authorizes Congress, if
[1:46:18] Speaker 1: they so desire, Michael, to appropriate... as they say, to
[1:46:24] Speaker 1: carry out this title, $ 180 million for each fiscal year,
[1:46:29] Speaker 1: 2027 through 2032. But it does not mandate that they
[1:46:35] Speaker 1: do it. It gives them the option, and it don't
[1:46:38] Speaker 1: mean Congress is like, yeah, we ain't going to do
[1:46:41] Speaker 1: 180 this year. We're just only going to do 50.
[1:46:44] Speaker 1: That's why it's trash.
[1:46:48] Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, this is something that Derek Johnson, president
[1:46:53] Speaker 15: of the NAACP, pointed out Tuesday night when he was
[1:46:57] Speaker 15: on ESPN talking about this. There's a good article from
[1:47:01] Speaker 15: the New York Times that talks about how he rips
[1:47:05] Speaker 15: Protect College Sports Act, and he called it greed by
[1:47:08] Speaker 15: the conferences. And this is really the Protect College Act,
[1:47:13] Speaker 15: because it goes to just what you've been.
[1:47:15] Speaker 6: Saying, Roland.
[1:47:17] Speaker 15: And also, I just want to say, Tonight, and even
[1:47:20] Speaker 15: last night, when you played the segment from Senator Cory
[1:47:24] Speaker 15: Booker on the Senate floor, last night was the most
[1:47:27] Speaker 15: coverage I've seen from any major news outlets on this.
[1:47:32] Speaker 6: And tonight is even more coverage.
[1:47:34] Speaker 15: I haven't seen extensive coverage on this from CNN or MSNOW,
[1:47:41] Speaker 15: anything like that. But, yeah, so— You have colleges who
[1:47:47] Speaker 15: now have to pay more money because they were making
[1:47:50] Speaker 15: $ 14 billion.
[1:47:52] Speaker 6: The article says here.
[1:47:53] Speaker 15: They generate $ 14 billion in revenue annually, major colleges and universities,
[1:47:59] Speaker 15: from football and basketball. Now they have to spend tens
[1:48:04] Speaker 15: of millions of dollars collectively or more. for these athletes.
[1:48:09] Speaker 15: And it's like, wait a second, is it, you know, uh,
[1:48:13] Speaker 15: they're trying to figure out how to protect their earnings.
[1:48:15] Speaker 6: That's what it is.
[1:48:17] Speaker 15: And then they throw in up to $ 1 billion for HBCUs.
[1:48:23] Speaker 6: But I doubt if HBCUs see any of that money.
[1:48:28] Speaker 15: And if it somehow gets authorized— What stops the states
[1:48:35] Speaker 15: from holding up the money like they've been holding up
[1:48:38] Speaker 15: that we talked about before, $ 12 to $ 13 billion already
[1:48:41] Speaker 15: owed by.
[1:48:41] Speaker 6: The states to HBCUs?
[1:48:43] Speaker 15: So, this is more of a con game, okay? And, yeah,
[1:48:48] Speaker 15: this is something from Senator Ted Cruz, who's a con
[1:48:51] Speaker 15: man and a lackey for Donald Trump.
[1:48:54] Speaker 1: Well, again, I just need people to understand what's going
[1:48:57] Speaker 1: on here. And the bottom line is this here. The
[1:49:02] Speaker 1: female athletes that this bill claims to protect, there are
[1:49:05] Speaker 1: a lot of female athletes who are making bank off
[1:49:08] Speaker 1: of NIL. Angel Reese made more money off of NIL
[1:49:12] Speaker 1: at LSU than she's making in the WNBA.
[1:49:16] Speaker 10: Mm-hmm.
[1:49:17] Speaker 1: Y'all, that's real. And let me tell you something right now.
[1:49:20] Speaker 1: When this money is capped, when they cap it, The
[1:49:26] Speaker 1: female athletes, they ain't getting that money. They're not. Y'all,
[1:49:31] Speaker 1: y'all need to understand the game that's going on. This, there's,
[1:49:35] Speaker 1: Congress has no, there serves no purpose for Congress to
[1:49:38] Speaker 1: be involved in this. The NCAA can establish a five-year
[1:49:44] Speaker 1: eligibility rule because they have already done it. They can
[1:49:47] Speaker 1: do it right now. The NAACP could say one window
[1:49:50] Speaker 1: for the portal. They can sit here and say you
[1:49:55] Speaker 1: can only transfer with no penalty one time, and if
[1:49:59] Speaker 1: you transfer a second time, you got to sit out
[1:50:02] Speaker 1: a year. They don't need Congress for that. The people
[1:50:05] Speaker 1: who are behind this, the SEC, the Big Ten, the
[1:50:10] Speaker 1: Big 12, the major conferences, and the television networks, because
[1:50:17] Speaker 1: what they desire, they want continuity. They don't like the
[1:50:21] Speaker 1: fact that a guy can go from one school to
[1:50:24] Speaker 1: another school to another school and keep getting paid. They
[1:50:27] Speaker 1: don't like that. That's what's going on here. And again,
[1:50:30] Speaker 1: I need y'all to understand, the reason I was pressing Tyler,
[1:50:35] Speaker 1: the NAACP opposes the bill. But what I'm looking for
[1:50:39] Speaker 1: for the NAACP to be organizing and mobilize black groups
[1:50:43] Speaker 1: is to also oppose the bill. Because the group that's
[1:50:47] Speaker 1: supporting the bill, they've got millions of dollars. They have
[1:50:51] Speaker 1: been running ads on television for months in support of
[1:50:58] Speaker 1: this bill. And they've been going, oh, we must support
[1:51:01] Speaker 1: Olympic sports. We must support... Y'all, let me be real clear.
[1:51:08] Speaker 10: Listen.
[1:51:10] Speaker 1: Matt sitting there in Texas, Justin in Tennessee, Michael there
[1:51:15] Speaker 1: in Detroit, that's in Michigan. I'm born and raised in Texas.
[1:51:19] Speaker 1: Tell y'all something right now. The only two damn sports
[1:51:24] Speaker 1: that are bringing in real money, football and basketball is
[1:51:32] Speaker 1: so far behind them, you can't even see them in
[1:51:34] Speaker 1: the rearview mirror. That's it. Football and basketball. So when
[1:51:40] Speaker 1: we say who is finally reaping the benefits of NIL,
[1:51:45] Speaker 1: it's a lot of black kids. And that's what they're
[1:51:49] Speaker 1: upset about. Because, yeah, they love the free market. Until
[1:51:56] Speaker 1: black folks start and benefit from the free market. Game
[1:51:59] Speaker 1: recognized game. So, Thurgood Marshall Fawn, UNCF, y'all need to
[1:52:04] Speaker 1: come to this show and talk to black people Because
[1:52:10] Speaker 1: this is the only daily news show that centers African Americans.
[1:52:15] Speaker 1: The UNCF, listen, UNCF, y'all hit me about everything else.
[1:52:20] Speaker 1: Thurgood Marshall, y'all hit me about everything else. Y'all need
[1:52:24] Speaker 1: to come on and talk to us about why y'all
[1:52:28] Speaker 1: are supporting this bill.
[1:52:31] Speaker 2: Don't run and hide.
[1:52:33] Speaker 1: Come on. And Carol, she going to call Charles McClellan,
[1:52:38] Speaker 1: the SWAC commissioner. And let's see if he comes on.
[1:52:42] Speaker 1: And a MEAC commissioner. Every HBCU conference commissioner supporting this bill,
[1:52:47] Speaker 1: I want them on this show looking us in the
[1:52:50] Speaker 1: eye and telling our audience why. Before we go, y'all,
[1:52:56] Speaker 1: I saw this video, and man, this is what I
[1:52:59] Speaker 1: call brain to funk. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott got sick
[1:53:06] Speaker 1: and tired of these punk asses at the Fox affiliate
[1:53:10] Speaker 1: in Baltimore that's owned by Sinclair, always attacking him. And
[1:53:16] Speaker 1: so Fox 45 reporter Keith Daniels, he got the business
[1:53:22] Speaker 1: from Brandon Scott, the mayor, after there was a shooting
[1:53:25] Speaker 1: that injured seven people, including a three-year-old child. This took
[1:53:28] Speaker 1: place Wednesday in East Baltimore. Watch this.
[1:53:42] Speaker 27: Well, I think Keith, I knew that you were going
[1:53:45] Speaker 27: to ask some dumb ass ridiculous question tonight.
[1:53:48] Speaker 14: It is.
[1:53:49] Speaker 1: A three year old was shot, right?
[1:53:51] Speaker 27: You and I could sit here and talk about If
[1:53:53] Speaker 27: this was your three-year-old, you would want everyone to be upset, right?
[1:53:57] Speaker 9: You would want people to be.
[1:53:58] Speaker 6: I didn't say did.
[1:53:59] Speaker 27: Are you going to let me talk? You want to
[1:54:01] Speaker 27: interview or you want to talk? I'm worried about a
[1:54:04] Speaker 27: three-year-old child being shot. You're worried about perception and some
[1:54:08] Speaker 27: story that you're crying. The only thing that matters to
[1:54:09] Speaker 27: me is the life that we're talking about that's being
[1:54:13] Speaker 27: fought for in a hospital in Baltimore.
[1:54:15] Speaker 17: Right?
[1:54:16] Speaker 27: This is what I say to you all the time.
[1:54:18] Speaker 27: This is why I say to you guys every week
[1:54:21] Speaker 27: that I'm not out here celebrating that we have the
[1:54:24] Speaker 27: lowest amount of violence that this city has ever seen
[1:54:27] Speaker 27: because it's still too much. Because one is too damn
[1:54:30] Speaker 27: many for me, Keith. That's why I'm not happy. I'll
[1:54:33] Speaker 27: never be happy. I will die unhappy if we still
[1:54:36] Speaker 27: have violence at all because we all should want it
[1:54:39] Speaker 27: to be none. Yes, having a 50-year.
[1:54:41] Speaker 6: Low It's great.
[1:54:43] Speaker 27: That's a great thing for us to acknowledge. But it
[1:54:45] Speaker 27: does not matter right now to a 3-0 who doesn't
[1:54:49] Speaker 27: understand why they're in that much pain. That's what I'm
[1:54:52] Speaker 27: trying to get you to understand.
[1:54:54] Speaker 1: Nah, that's how you get checked. This is the reporter,
[1:54:58] Speaker 1: Keith Daniels, who Mayor Scott was checking. Again, he works
[1:55:04] Speaker 1: for Fox 45. That is the Sinclair-owned affiliate. And I
[1:55:09] Speaker 1: just think you ought to understand that Sinclair, right-wing local network,
[1:55:14] Speaker 1: that the chairman of the board of Sinclair buys the
[1:55:17] Speaker 1: Baltimore Sun. And the Baltimore Sun, on his ownership, and
[1:55:21] Speaker 1: Fox 45, have been constantly attacking Mayor Scott for the
[1:55:26] Speaker 1: last several years. And they attacked him in the mayoral race,
[1:55:30] Speaker 1: and then when he blew everybody else out, they had
[1:55:33] Speaker 1: to realize, they had to kiss his ass. And so
[1:55:36] Speaker 1: part of this is an agenda of Sinclair Television and
[1:55:41] Speaker 1: their chairman constantly attacking this black mayor. Uh, and we
[1:55:46] Speaker 1: see this with Sinclair and all his other markets across
[1:55:50] Speaker 1: the country. Uh, uh, Michael, you first.
[1:55:54] Speaker 15: Yeah, I saw that clip, and I've been following somewhat
[1:55:57] Speaker 15: the attacks on Brandon Scott from St.
[1:56:01] Speaker 6: Clair Media.
[1:56:02] Speaker 1: I know you've.
[1:56:03] Speaker 15: Had Brother out of Baltimore, Davon Love, I think it was,
[1:56:10] Speaker 15: you've been talking about that. So this is a good response,
[1:56:14] Speaker 15: and it seemed like Keith was more focused on trying to...
[1:56:24] Speaker 15: or interject negativity into that press conference than really concerned
[1:56:31] Speaker 15: about the seven people who were shot and the young
[1:56:35] Speaker 15: child who was shot. So, you know, Brandon has been
[1:56:39] Speaker 15: doing some fantastic work there in Baltimore, so he needs
[1:56:42] Speaker 15: to keep it up and not worry about people like Keith.
[1:56:46] Speaker 1: Well, Justin, this is the chairman of Sinclair, David Smith. Again,
[1:56:52] Speaker 1: he owned the Baltimore Sun, and between the Baltimore Sun
[1:56:58] Speaker 1: and the Fox affiliate, they have been attacking black leadership
[1:57:01] Speaker 1: in Baltimore. They've been attacking Governor Westmore. It is a
[1:57:06] Speaker 1: constant right-wing hit job on black elected officials in that state.
[1:57:13] Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm glad you're calling out Sinclair. I'm glad you're
[1:57:15] Speaker 12: putting a face on the reporter. I think it's really
[1:57:17] Speaker 12: important to name and shame this stuff. There's a really
[1:57:20] Speaker 12: creepy video about the Sinclair anchors all getting fed the
[1:57:24] Speaker 12: same lines and saying the same things at the same time.
[1:57:27] Speaker 9: So this is an echo chamber for sure. He handled
[1:57:31] Speaker 9: it perfectly.
[1:57:32] Speaker 12: Every time one of those things happens, it's an opportunity
[1:57:35] Speaker 12: to show grace under fire and to show what real
[1:57:37] Speaker 12: leadership is.
[1:57:38] Speaker 9: And Brandon really did that.
[1:57:40] Speaker 12: Reminds me of mayor brandon johnson in chicago he's been
[1:57:42] Speaker 12: doing a lot of the same things he's been having
[1:57:44] Speaker 12: these press conferences getting attacked in much the same way
[1:57:48] Speaker 12: probably by the fox outlet there and uh he just
[1:57:52] Speaker 12: holds his own and again it's just an opportunity but
[1:57:55] Speaker 12: it really speaks to the failure of local media in
[1:57:58] Speaker 12: a lot of ways we see it around here too
[1:58:00] Speaker 12: a lot where you know they they tend to kind
[1:58:03] Speaker 12: of tow.
[1:58:03] Speaker 9: The right wing conservative line in a.
[1:58:09] Speaker 6: You know, I just.
[1:58:10] Speaker 12: It was a really i saw that moment before you
[1:58:11] Speaker 12: played it that was really great and you know again
[1:58:14] Speaker 12: it's it's real leadership and on display uh indeed indeed matt.
[1:58:20] Speaker 14: I hadn't seen it.
[1:58:21] Speaker 13: I mean, seeing it now, I echo Michael and Justin— pardon
[1:58:25] Speaker 13: me if I said the.
[1:58:25] Speaker 14: Wrong name— sentiments. I think that's right.
[1:58:28] Speaker 13: And I think it's important for people to see politicians
[1:58:32] Speaker 13: not staying always in that little box, right, where they're
[1:58:36] Speaker 13: trying to be overly genteel in how they respond. I
[1:58:38] Speaker 13: think sometimes you have to speak very directly to it,
[1:58:40] Speaker 13: because a lot of these questions are disingenuous, right?
[1:58:43] Speaker 14: I mean, that's what they do.
[1:58:44] Speaker 13: They ask a question as though it is seeking a genuine,
[1:58:47] Speaker 13: substantive answer, but it's in fact attacking you. And I
[1:58:50] Speaker 13: appreciate that he called it out directly, especially in the
[1:58:54] Speaker 13: way that he did. Now, I think sometimes that's going
[1:58:56] Speaker 13: too far. I think we see too many politicians attacking
[1:58:59] Speaker 13: journalists who are doing their job, asking them questions they
[1:59:02] Speaker 13: don't want to be asked. But I think discerning people
[1:59:05] Speaker 13: can tell the difference between a genuine question that the
[1:59:07] Speaker 13: politician doesn't like and a disingenuous question, which is precisely
[1:59:11] Speaker 13: what you saw here. So, I'm glad he reacted that way.
[1:59:13] Speaker 13: And I think that's a perfect— Speaking to the Chicago mayor,
[1:59:18] Speaker 13: Brandon Johnson, because he's, I think, an exemplar at that.
[1:59:21] Speaker 13: He gets asked ridiculous questions all the time, and he
[1:59:24] Speaker 13: absolutely blasts the reporters, which I think you have to
[1:59:27] Speaker 13: do to let them know they don't have latitude to
[1:59:29] Speaker 13: do that to you.
[1:59:30] Speaker 1: All right, then. Folks, that is it for us. Let
[1:59:33] Speaker 1: me thank Matt, Justin, and Michael for being on today's show. Folks,
[1:59:37] Speaker 1: I'll be broadcasting live Monday, Monday from Columbia, South Carolina.
[1:59:42] Speaker 1: My man Alex English, the Hall of Famer, he has
[1:59:46] Speaker 1: his course annual golf tournament, so I'm looking forward to
[1:59:52] Speaker 1: doing that and enjoying that golf tournament. We were going
[1:59:55] Speaker 1: to show you the recap of the Chris Tucker golf
[1:59:57] Speaker 1: tournament today, but we're going to hold that for next
[2:00:00] Speaker 1: week's show. We had a great time with Chris Tucker. Y'all,
[2:00:03] Speaker 1: see the video. It's going to be hilarious. All the
[2:00:06] Speaker 1: stuff that we were talking about. Matt, why in the
[2:00:08] Speaker 1: hell are you frowning? Matt, hold up. Matt, have you...
[2:00:14] Speaker 1: Hold on.
[2:00:15] Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
[2:00:15] Speaker 1: From last week.
[2:00:16] Speaker 2: Matt, Matt, Matt.
[2:00:18] Speaker 1: Have you made any plans to attend Howard University's homecoming? Roland,
[2:00:24] Speaker 1: I want all.
[2:00:25] Speaker 14: Your viewers to know that you.
[2:00:27] Speaker 1: Had the audacity to text me before halftime. Matt, I'm
[2:00:30] Speaker 1: asking you a question, Matt. Have you made any plans
[2:00:33] Speaker 1: to attend a Howard University homecoming?
[2:00:35] Speaker 13: Look.
[2:00:36] Speaker 1: Hey, Logan, are you in the control room?
[2:00:37] Speaker 14: I'm not answering your question. I'm going to talk about
[2:00:39] Speaker 14: what I want to talk about. Hey, Logan, are you
[2:00:41] Speaker 14: in the control room?
[2:00:42] Speaker 6: I want to.
[2:00:43] Speaker 1: Talk about how you had the audacity to text me. Hey, Matt,
[2:00:46] Speaker 1: have you learned the Howard signals in the last week?
[2:00:50] Speaker 1: Have you learned how it was here last week? And
[2:00:52] Speaker 1: not only that, after last week, after last week, how
[2:00:54] Speaker 1: do you come on here and not wear a Howard shirt?
[2:01:02] Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell it is, Gabrielle. He
[2:01:04] Speaker 1: the one.
[2:01:05] Speaker 14: Logan, he did it.
[2:01:07] Speaker 1: Gabrielle, get your ass over here. Gabrielle said Logan did
[2:01:11] Speaker 1: it wrong last week. So what the hell is y'all thing?
[2:01:14] Speaker 12: I don't know.
[2:01:15] Speaker 3: It's supposed to be Bison, let me get.
[2:01:17] Speaker 13: Two claps and a horns up.
[2:01:19] Speaker 1: Hold on, stop it. Bison, let me get two claps
[2:01:23] Speaker 1: and a horns up.
[2:01:25] Speaker 13: Bird with one tooth.
[2:01:28] Speaker 1: Okay, what the hell? So it's not two, it's one.
[2:01:32] Speaker 8: This is fam you.
[2:01:34] Speaker 15: This is a snake.
[2:01:35] Speaker 1: First of all, that ain't no damn snake. But anyway,
[2:01:38] Speaker 1: what's y'all thing again? So we do bison, let me
[2:01:41] Speaker 1: get two claps and a horns up. Bison, let me
[2:01:43] Speaker 1: get two claps.
[2:01:44] Speaker 10: And a horn.
[2:01:44] Speaker 1: Now, where y'all start that? We start, I think, probably
[2:01:48] Speaker 1: my freshman year, like 2021.
[2:01:49] Speaker 19: Okay.
[2:01:50] Speaker 1: Well, Matt ain't been to homecoming in 15 years.
[2:01:52] Speaker 13: Matt, you got to learn it.
[2:01:54] Speaker 1: I mean, he ain't been to... Matt ain't been to... So,
[2:01:58] Speaker 1: he claims University of Texas more than he claims Howard.
[2:02:01] Speaker 1: And he didn't even go there.
[2:02:04] Speaker 14: I can't... I don't.
[2:02:05] Speaker 10: No, I don't.
[2:02:06] Speaker 1: No, I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I got... Listen,
[2:02:08] Speaker 1: I got two... I got two Bison who work here, Matt. So,
[2:02:12] Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
[2:02:12] Speaker 19: I mean, I.
[2:02:13] Speaker 1: And listen, I.
[2:02:15] Speaker 10: You got.
[2:02:15] Speaker 6: And then you got to learn this one, too.
[2:02:17] Speaker 1: Okay, what the hell is that one? What's that?
[2:02:19] Speaker 3: So, this is what you do with your Bison family.
[2:02:22] Speaker 15: So, y'all can do it together.
[2:02:23] Speaker 19: So.
[2:02:25] Speaker 1: Y'all, y'all. Matt don't know none of those. Oh, but
[2:02:31] Speaker 1: he'll do hook them horns all day. See, again, he's
[2:02:35] Speaker 1: claiming an institution he never even went to. His parents
[2:02:38] Speaker 1: went there, but he got more burnt orange stuff than
[2:02:42] Speaker 1: he got bison stuff. Like, even after last week, I
[2:02:45] Speaker 1: can't believe he didn't come on this show wearing a
[2:02:48] Speaker 1: bison shirt, but we know who his allegiance is with.
[2:02:50] Speaker 1: Matter of fact, let me show y'all who his allegiance
[2:02:53] Speaker 1: is with. We ain't got no evidence of Matt in...
[2:03:02] Speaker 1: We rarely ever see... Look at that. He got a hat.
[2:03:06] Speaker 1: He got a hat and he got... Hold on, y'all.
[2:03:10] Speaker 1: Let me airdrop this. I just want y'all to see
[2:03:15] Speaker 1: who Matt's allegiance is with. So, Matt, when did you
[2:03:21] Speaker 1: so-called graduate from Howard?
[2:03:22] Speaker 14: 2008. 2008.
[2:03:25] Speaker 1: So you so-called graduated from Howard in 2008. It is
[2:03:29] Speaker 1: very rare, somebody said Matt just got on mute, it's
[2:03:33] Speaker 1: very rare that you actually, so yeah, here you are,
[2:03:39] Speaker 1: decked out in all that ugly ass burnt orange, but
[2:03:44] Speaker 1: no Howard shirt, no Howard hat, no bison two claps,
[2:03:49] Speaker 1: and I mean, nothing. I'm just saying, I mean, I mean,
[2:03:54] Speaker 1: after last week's show, did your fellow Bison, were they
[2:03:57] Speaker 1: embarrassed by your lack of allegiance to HU?
[2:04:04] Speaker 13: First off, first off, let me shout out my father.
[2:04:08] Speaker 1: Hold up, hold up, stop, stop.
[2:04:09] Speaker 14: Let me shout out my pops.
[2:04:11] Speaker 1: Logan did. Oh, I thought Anthony did because Anthony went
[2:04:14] Speaker 1: to Hampton, so he said that's the real HU. But
[2:04:16] Speaker 1: y'all can have a debate later. Matt, go ahead and
[2:04:19] Speaker 1: go ahead.
[2:04:22] Speaker 14: Let me first shout out my pops. My pops, the
[2:04:25] Speaker 14: Reverend Steve May.
[2:04:26] Speaker 1: Matt, let me ask you a question. Is there any
[2:04:31] Speaker 1: Howard stuff behind you? Is there like a Howard book
[2:04:35] Speaker 1: on the shelf?
[2:04:36] Speaker 14: Listen, the worst part of this show is I can't
[2:04:40] Speaker 14: talk because when.
[2:04:40] Speaker 1: You start talking, my mic goes out. Is there anything
[2:04:45] Speaker 1: behind you that represents Howard University?
[2:04:48] Speaker 19: Listen.
[2:04:49] Speaker 13: Listen, first off, if you don't realize, is anybody older?
[2:04:54] Speaker 1: Matt, you got a bunch of blue-ass books. You got
[2:04:57] Speaker 1: a bunch of blue books. Ain't nothing behind you, Howard.
[2:05:00] Speaker 13: Look, listen, you got Baby Bison in the studio talking
[2:05:06] Speaker 13: about a hand sign nobody has.
[2:05:07] Speaker 14: Ever heard of. Matter of fact, is there any Howard
[2:05:09] Speaker 14: gear even near you? I'm in my firm's conference room.
[2:05:19] Speaker 1: I bet if I get out of my chair, I
[2:05:21] Speaker 1: can find some Howard Gear faster than you. What you got?
[2:05:25] Speaker 1: What you got?
[2:05:26] Speaker 14: Is that good? Is that good?
[2:05:30] Speaker 1: That's an old, dirty-ass lanyard.
[2:05:33] Speaker 2: Damn.
[2:05:33] Speaker 14: Exactly.
[2:05:34] Speaker 1: I'm an old head, baby.
[2:05:36] Speaker 2: No, no.
[2:05:37] Speaker 1: It's an old, dirty lanyard because your ass ain't been
[2:05:39] Speaker 1: back to Howard.
[2:05:42] Speaker 6: In a long-ass time.
[2:05:43] Speaker 1: Here we go. You ain't got a new lanyard.
[2:05:45] Speaker 6: Here we go.
[2:05:47] Speaker 14: Here we go. No, I tried and true. I don't
[2:05:50] Speaker 14: need a new one.
[2:05:51] Speaker 1: I don't need a new one. I mean, you know
[2:05:53] Speaker 1: you can.
[2:05:53] Speaker 14: Let's talk about how.
[2:05:54] Speaker 1: I mean, you know you can buy one online. I mean, because,
[2:05:58] Speaker 1: you know, I'm just saying, you know, let's see. You know,
[2:06:01] Speaker 1: what I got here.
[2:06:02] Speaker 14: It's the worst part of this, though, because my mic
[2:06:04] Speaker 14: goes out.
[2:06:04] Speaker 6: My alpha lanyard is new.
[2:06:06] Speaker 1: My alpha lanyard is new. I mean, I'm just saying.
[2:06:08] Speaker 1: Look at this here. You can't even make. Your letters
[2:06:11] Speaker 1: are beige. You can't even make out your letters or
[2:06:13] Speaker 1: your lanyard. Your lanyard is so dirty. What's that, Justin? Justin,
[2:06:20] Speaker 1: what's that? Oh, Justin, go come to this bullshit-ass Knicks hat.
[2:06:23] Speaker 1: They ain't won nothing since the original shaft came out.
[2:06:27] Speaker 1: And so they finally won something. Yeah, but don't let
[2:06:31] Speaker 1: me have to remind you about that bricklayer John Starks, Justin.
[2:06:37] Speaker 1: Game 7 versus my Houston Rockets. In 1995. That's my guy.
[2:06:42] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[2:06:42] Speaker 1: You can't talk about my guy like that.
[2:06:45] Speaker 2: Yes, I can.
[2:06:45] Speaker 9: That's my guy right there.
[2:06:46] Speaker 1: Yes, I can.
[2:06:47] Speaker 9: Oh, that's my guy.
[2:06:48] Speaker 1: Yeah, he built a 10,000-square-foot mansion. All the bricks that
[2:06:52] Speaker 1: he threw up in that game. Uh-huh. So here's the deal, Matt.
[2:06:57] Speaker 6: That was one game.
[2:06:58] Speaker 2: One game.
[2:06:59] Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. It was one game. It was game seven.
[2:07:02] Speaker 1: It was the right game.
[2:07:04] Speaker 9: It was an important game. That's true.
[2:07:06] Speaker 1: That's fair. So let's just do this here, Matt. Matt,
[2:07:10] Speaker 1: next week, if you ain't wearing no Howard stuff, you
[2:07:14] Speaker 1: can't come on the show. I mean, I got Howard
[2:07:17] Speaker 1: people in the chat room. I got Howard Bison people
[2:07:21] Speaker 1: texting me saying they are thoroughly embarrassed. thoroughly embarrassed that
[2:07:28] Speaker 1: a Howard graduate rarely ever, ever represents him. You don't
[2:07:34] Speaker 1: throw up the bison. You throw up the hook'em horns.
[2:07:37] Speaker 1: You don't. I'm just saying. I mean, I think you're
[2:07:40] Speaker 1: a poser.
[2:07:41] Speaker 10: Oh.
[2:07:42] Speaker 22: Oh.
[2:07:44] Speaker 6: Okay.
[2:07:45] Speaker 1: All right.
[2:07:46] Speaker 14: All right.
[2:07:47] Speaker 9: All right.
[2:07:47] Speaker 14: Cut me deep. That's cool, man. That's cool what you
[2:07:49] Speaker 14: need to say, brother.
[2:07:50] Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
[2:07:51] Speaker 14: You didn't know I went to Howard. That's why when Dr.
[2:07:53] Speaker 13: Carr was on here, he could attest to it because
[2:07:55] Speaker 13: I was there and Dr.
[2:07:56] Speaker 14: Carr No, no, no.
[2:07:58] Speaker 1: You may have attended. You may have attended. Don't mean
[2:08:01] Speaker 1: you walked.
[2:08:04] Speaker 14: Across the stage at Howard, I'm going to lie about that.
[2:08:08] Speaker 14: I'm not Cheyenne Bryant. I done told you that. Don't
[2:08:10] Speaker 14: try to do that to me.
[2:08:11] Speaker 1: Hey, I don't know, Doc. I'm just saying. The fact
[2:08:15] Speaker 1: that I see more Halloween colors, black and burnt orange,
[2:08:20] Speaker 1: than I see red, white, and blue, and I ain't
[2:08:23] Speaker 1: talking about the American flag, I'm just saying. I think
[2:08:26] Speaker 1: you have questionable loyalties.
[2:08:30] Speaker 14: You know what?
[2:08:30] Speaker 13: I'm going to text you a picture of me walking
[2:08:33] Speaker 13: across the stage at Howard or in my garb, and
[2:08:36] Speaker 13: I want.
[2:08:37] Speaker 14: You to put it up on the screen right now.
[2:08:39] Speaker 2: We'll do that.
[2:08:40] Speaker 1: We'll do that. And we would love to also have
[2:08:44] Speaker 1: some 2026 video of you at a homecoming or a
[2:08:48] Speaker 1: game or something.
[2:08:50] Speaker 13: Well, I mean, apparently I'm a poser, so I'm going
[2:08:54] Speaker 13: to go ahead and send you this photo and So
[2:08:57] Speaker 13: you can see, let me see if I can.
[2:08:58] Speaker 14: Grab it real quick.
[2:08:59] Speaker 6: Let me find, oh.
[2:09:00] Speaker 2: Is it in black?
[2:09:00] Speaker 14: I'm going to text it to you.
[2:09:01] Speaker 1: Is it in black and white?
[2:09:02] Speaker 14: I'm going to text it to you right now.
[2:09:03] Speaker 1: Is it in black and white?
[2:09:04] Speaker 14: I want you to put it on the screen. I
[2:09:06] Speaker 14: want you to put it on the screen.
[2:09:09] Speaker 1: There you go.
[2:09:10] Speaker 13: I just sent it to you. And in fact, you'll
[2:09:12] Speaker 13: see a blue and red banner there in the back.
[2:09:15] Speaker 13: And you can go ahead and put it on the screen.
[2:09:18] Speaker 13: And then you can stop talking all that crazy noise.
[2:09:22] Speaker 1: Hold on one second. Since you sitting here.
[2:09:26] Speaker 10: Hold on.
[2:09:27] Speaker 1: Let me see if I can. Let me show y'all
[2:09:29] Speaker 1: the photo. Hold on one second. Let me show y'all
[2:09:33] Speaker 1: the photo that I received of Matt. Matt, hold on.
[2:09:38] Speaker 1: Let me show y'all the photo. Yeah, go ahead and
[2:09:41] Speaker 1: put it up.
[2:09:41] Speaker 14: Go ahead and put it up.
[2:09:42] Speaker 19: I am.
[2:09:42] Speaker 13: I am.
[2:09:43] Speaker 1: I'm about to pull up right now. Matt, is this you?
[2:09:49] Speaker 1: That's actually you, Matt? Hold on one second, y'all. It's
[2:09:52] Speaker 1: coming up. It's coming up. Here it comes. Here it comes.
[2:09:55] Speaker 1: Give me one second. Give me one second. That's it?
[2:10:05] Speaker 13: That is a picture of me with the Howard hat on. Yeah,
[2:10:08] Speaker 13: but not the one I just sent you. Put the
[2:10:10] Speaker 13: one I just sent you up.
[2:10:12] Speaker 1: No, no, we're going to go with that one. Oh,
[2:10:14] Speaker 1: that's funny.
[2:10:16] Speaker 14: Put the one up I just sent you.
[2:10:17] Speaker 1: Put the one up I just sent you. We're going
[2:10:20] Speaker 1: to go with that one.
[2:10:22] Speaker 6: With me walking up to the stage.
[2:10:25] Speaker 14: Put that one up.
[2:10:27] Speaker 27: Hold on.
[2:10:28] Speaker 2: Here we go.
[2:10:29] Speaker 1: Hold on, y'all. Hold on, y'all. I don't even think
[2:10:35] Speaker 1: this you. Let's see here. Y'all, Matt, Matt, Matt. Let's
[2:10:43] Speaker 1: see here. All right. Let me see if I can.
[2:10:46] Speaker 1: All right. Let me see. Y'all, Matt. First of all, what?
[2:10:56] Speaker 1: In the hell fraternity are you supposedly in?
[2:10:59] Speaker 13: That's Phi Mu Alpha.
[2:11:03] Speaker 2: Who?
[2:11:03] Speaker 13: Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. It's a music fraternity. Don't say
[2:11:07] Speaker 13: anything crazy about fraternity.
[2:11:08] Speaker 1: I ain't never even heard of that.
[2:11:12] Speaker 14: Well, Howard is the alpha chapter of black chapters.
[2:11:15] Speaker 1: I've never even heard of that.
[2:11:16] Speaker 14: So, Matt, that's you right there.
[2:11:24] Speaker 2: Matt, you.
[2:11:24] Speaker 14: Yes, it's me graduating. You graduated from Howard.
[2:11:27] Speaker 1: Matt, you're claiming that's you. You're claiming that's you. That's me.
[2:11:33] Speaker 1: Me personally? Let me see. Let me see, because I
[2:11:36] Speaker 1: think these are the same people, y'all. Hold on. Give
[2:11:39] Speaker 1: me one second. I think these are the same people. Y'all,
[2:11:44] Speaker 1: Matt says this is him. But I think that's Matt
[2:11:49] Speaker 1: Bushwick Bill. I.
[2:11:53] Speaker 1: I think that's Bushwick Bill and that's Bushwick Bill.
[2:12:00] Speaker 14: Oh, that's good. That's good.
[2:12:03] Speaker 1: That looked like the same people.
[2:12:09] Speaker 14: Oh, man, that's good.
[2:12:10] Speaker 1: That's the same pants?
[2:12:11] Speaker 19: Oh.
[2:12:18] Speaker 6: That's good.
[2:12:19] Speaker 13: I didn't see that one coming.
[2:12:21] Speaker 14: All right, I'm going to give you that. That's funny.
[2:12:24] Speaker 1: All right, Bushwick, man.
[2:12:28] Speaker 14: All right, all right.
[2:12:32] Speaker 1: You better have some Howard Bice. See, had you worn
[2:12:34] Speaker 1: some Howard Bice's stuff, you could have averted all of this.
[2:12:39] Speaker 13: Hey, I don't run from things like you running from
[2:12:41] Speaker 13: that accountability about the game.
[2:12:43] Speaker 1: I don't run from that.
[2:12:44] Speaker 14: It's all good, brother.
[2:12:45] Speaker 1: First of all, I don't look any remotely in my school,
[2:12:48] Speaker 1: so I don't give a damn about one of them schools.
[2:12:50] Speaker 1: But this is Bushwick Bill right here. This is Bushwick
[2:12:54] Speaker 1: Bill graduating from Howard. That's back claims. I understand. How
[2:13:03] Speaker 1: did you decrease in size?
[2:13:04] Speaker 13: You.
[2:13:07] Speaker 1: You shorter. Okay, I'm just saying. All right, y'all, we got...
[2:13:11] Speaker 1: I advise you to wear a Howard shirt next week.
[2:13:23] Speaker 1: I advise you to wear a.
[2:13:23] Speaker 6: We'll see what happens next week.
[2:13:25] Speaker 1: Yeah, you better wear a Howard shirt next week because
[2:13:27] Speaker 1: I'm going to have.
[2:13:27] Speaker 14: We'll see what happens next week.
[2:13:28] Speaker 1: I'm going to have more stuff dug up. All right, y'all.
[2:13:31] Speaker 1: That is it. Justin, don't ever show that Knicks hat again, ever.
[2:13:37] Speaker 1: And Michael, and surprisingly, Michael kept his damn mouth quiet
[2:13:42] Speaker 1: except for that go-mo-mo or go mo-boo, or go boo-boo,
[2:13:47] Speaker 1: whatever the hell.
[2:13:49] Speaker 6: But that was another segment.
[2:13:50] Speaker 1: Whatever the hell you entirely go mob, go something, whatever. Shit,
[2:13:57] Speaker 1: we just say go away. All right, that's it. Y'all
[2:14:01] Speaker 1: have a good weekend. All right, y'all. Y'all want to
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[2:14:07] Speaker 1: we do. Matt just run.
[2:14:10] Speaker 10: Dr.
[2:14:11] Speaker 1: Carl, send Matt some gear.
[2:14:12] Speaker 10: Uh....
[2:14:15] Speaker 1: Somebody said, damn, Rochelle, Matt don't deserve all that. Yes,
[2:14:18] Speaker 1: he does. Oh, this here's a beautiful picture of Matt
[2:14:25] Speaker 1: on graduation day. Roland, you cold. Matt, I can't take
[2:14:28] Speaker 1: it anymore. Oh, shit, that's wild as hell, Roland. People
[2:14:33] Speaker 1: telling me I'm wrong, telling me I'm bad. Yes, I'm petty.
[2:14:37] Speaker 1: I am King Petty. Absolutely. Wear the crown with distinctions.
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