Fighting Irish President

Chapters

• 0:05 Meta's Policy Changes and Societal Impact
• 10:31 Navigating Oppression in America
• 21:56 Drake's Controversial Freestyle and Analysis
• 28:50 Drake, LeBron, and Academic's Drama
• 34:48 Celebrity Relationships and Public Image
• 40:18 Ironic Lawsuits and Performative Actions

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:05

so, in case you missed it, somehow mark zuckerberg announced that there will be some changes to meta platforms, at least in terms of moderating social media, where the restrictions on what you are allowed to say will be loosened into the point where there's practically no fact checking whatsoever. A disastrous, just a disastrous policy decision in terms of you know, I think it's better publicly traded yeah, publicly traded social media company making decision to just allow free for all on their platforms Harmful to society in numerous ways. Platforms harmful to society in numerous ways. I mean, there's a reason why, over the course of the past 20 years, every major platform that offers any kind of social interaction largely has, you know, and they've all landed on the same general decision when it comes to moderating user posted content, and there's a reason for that.

Speaker 3: 1:02

I mean mean, if you don't do that, you will eventually arrive at a place, uh, where your platform becomes 4chan, if not even more nazi, prevalent, and then that scares away much, but it's so crazy because did you see the article, which was it um tech crunch, I think, and it was um how people could delete their Facebook, their threads and their IG, but how they could download all their data, their pictures and basically archive it like you can archive on Xchan? But they were saying that there was a meeting that they had on what is acceptable, that uh, and what is, and there's a thing and it says allow or deny when it comes to like certain comments, and they were like oh so you can direct comments at a racial group, a freaking gender group for the lgbtq community.

Speaker 1: 2:07

you can't directly attack a person yeah, but you can attack the larger, but you can, yeah.

Speaker 3: 2:13

You can say you can't say you're a nigger, but you can say I hate, that's different, or?

Speaker 4: 2:20

all gays are pedophiles.

Speaker 1: 2:24

Yes, it's out of control. So, yes, the way in which people are allowed to comment on marginalized communities on meta platforms now is insane. You can find numerous examples of it, surprisingly, on Twitter, because, again, that place is also unmoderated, so those comments don't get.

Speaker 3: 2:41

I mean, even like the screenshots of comments on those other platforms, I do want to point out is that people act like Zuckerberg, and Facebook hasn't been a cesspool for a minute, it's just been in a different kind of fucking way. I mean, they've allowed Russian bots to storm. I mean, come on, cambridge Analytica. We can never forget that shit. So are we really surprised?

Speaker 1: 3:09

no, zuckerberg's been in the bag of republicans since 2016 and I think largely that is due to the idea that he believes, um, you know, congressional regulate or just regulation by the federal government. It will be harmful to his bottom line. But again, just capitalism, man like. Not everything needs to necessarily-.

Speaker 3: 3:30

His bottom line is like 3,000 leads under the sea. He's a goddamn bitch. Okay, but whatever.

Speaker 1: 3:37

We have convinced ourselves as a nation that the most important thing in life is to make as much money as possible, even though only a handful of Americans will ever get remotely close to making as much money as possible. And it's allowed a lot of egregious and unsavory behavior that is, at the end of the day, results in large negative impacts for every single American in the world at large. But again, american and the world at large. But again, I'm not going to give a dissertation on the evils of unfettered capitalism, and this is someone who's like yeah, I'm largely pro-capitalism, except for in the extremes. Right, it's great for people in the middle, it is terrible for people at the bottom and it awards an atrociously dangerous amount of power and influence to people at the top. And you know we should. I mean it's too late now, but we should install some systems to protect the people at the bottom and limit the people at the top from having unbalanced and unfair influence. And control.

Speaker 4: 4:42

Yeah, I mean just yes for sure.

Speaker 1: 4:46

Too late, I mean, but you know, look, we've elected the billionaire president Like he's. Elon Musk is who I'm speaking of now. We've got President Elon Musk, which is man in America from largely. I mean, every once in a while he might trade places with Bezos here and there and he'll be back up in a couple of months.

Speaker 1: 5:10

We've also got Vice President Trump, trump, who is probably now officially a billionaire. I mean, I don't know what his net worth is on paper, but he's probably, you know, by the time you balance in his losses and all this debt. Maybe a few years ago he probably wasn't actually a billionaire, but I'm sure he is now, especially with all of the all of the billionaires pouring money into his pocket and all of the foreign connections involved investing in Trump's companies. And we've got numerous tech billionaires and other billionaires sending millions of dollars to him for his inauguration, even though we've never discovered what happened to the funds from the inaugural his inauguration in 2016, where he raised over $120 million and his inauguration looked like it cost a fraction of that. Never figured out where that money went. I'm assuming it was laundered into shell companies that eventually funneled the money and the funds back to him. I mean we're about to have a repeat of that. Hope someone's investigating that Mel.

Speaker 3: 6:05

now Melania's got her own bag, her $40 million bag. She's got her own money now.

Speaker 1: 6:10

So Jeff Bezos is pouring $40 million directly into Trump's pocket with this biographic.

Speaker 3: 6:20

I don't want to call it a biography Straight into Melania's purse, and that was how he bribed her to be seen with him more times, I think, in the last two weeks.

Speaker 5: 6:32

That's not what it is.

Speaker 1: 6:36

We'll give you $40 million for this documentary. That's probably not worth a million if you'll go to the White House. Is that what it is? So you don't embarrass Trump?

Speaker 3: 6:43

Well, I don't know.

Speaker 1: 6:49

With the Pornhub ban ban, how are maca gonna be able to see the documentary? Well, I live in tennessee and I think our our state supreme court kind of overturned that ban, or at least um stated have you seen tennessee?

Speaker 3: 6:58

they live in tennessee all the motherfuckers freaky.

Speaker 1: 7:02

I gotta tell you if, if, if dudes down here ain't able to beat off, I would be concerned about the impacts that that might have on civil life, because dudes down here is they, yeah, it's a lot going on. Um, yeah, I don't know if you, if you all listening to this, pay attention to tennessee politics, but it's insane down here. Like, I know, like, texas and florida get a lot of attention because they're huge, but tennessee is actually, I would say, florida light, but florida is likely tennessee light in that like, because their insanity gets so much attention, they kind of take their foot off the gas pedal. No, it's insane down here. Buddy, now I live in a blue dot like. My city is awesome, uh, as are most blue cities in in the south. They're largely, uh, you know, bastions of what you would like society to largely be in in the former confederate states. But the rest of the state man, it's out of control and memphis is its own beast, it's. It is as different from the rest of tennessee as atlanta is from the rest of georgia. I can't even describe.

Speaker 1: 8:11

Well, that's all right, so that when I I don't participate in that form of um, you know, I don't participate in that form of economic, so Tennessee is weirdly placed in that it is a kind of a pit stop on the road to other cities along the eastern seaport and vice versa, in Florida and New York and Michigan and Ohio and whatnot, in terms of trafficking of the drugs. Now I don't know what the current drug prices go to. Again, I'm not involved in that market, but I can almost say that's like 20 years. I can certainly tell you you are not getting keys for 10 a piece at this point in time. Prices have gone up Now maybe if you're buying hundreds of pounds you might can get it down to 15. But I would suggest you not even get yourself involved in that endeavor. It's a haphazard business. The life expectancy in that line of work is akin to being a coal miner. You might want to. You might want to stay far from that.

Speaker 3: 9:23

You might live longer as a coal miner.

Speaker 1: 9:27

And I would say in terms of like health benefits. It's probably similar coal mining Anyway. But Trump, rather President Biden, had comments on Meta's reversal in terms of platforming, liars and disinformation.

Speaker 2: 9:47

On MECA's decision to end its fact-checking operations in the United States. Is that a good decision in your?

Speaker 5: 9:54

opinion Well look, the whole idea of walking away from fax checking as well as not reporting anything having to do with discrimination regarding TPS, I find to be just contrary to American Justice, american, the way we talk about one another. Telling the truth matters. I mean it's. I know I'm on national television, but you all are local reporters and national reporters, I'm not. This is not a legit, real question. But what do you think? You think it doesn't matter that they let be printed or millions of people read it, things that are simply not true? I mean, I I don't know what that's all about.

Speaker 1: 10:57

It's just completely contrary to everything america's about mr biden, I can tell you what it's about If you rewind the tape back to 1930s Germany. One of I know we've been doing a lot of that lately and I'm sorry to continue upon this track of comparing the Trump administration to the Nazi party of early 1930s Germany.

Speaker 1: 11:21

but Well, I mean, it tracks, it tracks, tracks so one of the ways in which the nazi party won an election, despite being a minority party, and worked their way all the way up to being not only a controlling majority but a single party nation, is the elimination of factual information being presented to the public. Dis Disinformation ran rampant. They did a lot to encourage the media to not only spread lies and disinformation, but they eventually just took outright control of the entire media apparatus in Germany at the time, which was largely radio and print journalism. I mean, you know, journalism works differently in 2024. Now we don't necessarily rely on journalistic outlets to inform the country, but they do inform the people and influencers who spread that information. And now this information will be allowed to spread like wildfire, the same way it did as the Nazi party took power, and you know, again, we saw how that ended Fingers crossed.

Speaker 1: 12:28

America doesn't end up following the same route. But hey, look, we just had an election where we had a presidential candidate outright quoting Hitler. So don't know what to tell you in that regard. But yeah, biden's right, it's absolutely disgusting, mark Zuckerberg. Not having his you know multi-billion dollar platforms engage in some kind of reasonable journalistic fact checking when it comes to the spreading of false information is just outright absurd. But again, you know this is what happens. This is what happens when you have a Hitler-like figure or a Putin-like figure. Take power right. Like figure, take power right. The people understand that if we want to survive financially, we either have to unite and fight that individual as a whole or they're gonna have to buy his affections, which never really works. It never works.

Speaker 3: 13:17

I mean appeasing addicted because look, even after abc gave that 15 million dollar, then brendan carr, the fcc, and he was like, oh, he paid that 15 million, so you admitted you defamed him. So now we have to look into this like it's. It's never, it's like what we do not negotiate with terrorists, like there's a reason for that saying you know what I'm saying, I mean that, yes, the sentiment, the the factual nature of negotiating with terrorists and as it pertains to that statement is largely overblown, but the sentiment stands.

Speaker 1: 13:48

There's a reason it exists, because oftentimes negotiating with terrorists or trying to appease a dictator just encourages the dictator or the terrorist to ask for more until there's no more left to give, at which point you become expendable. So yeah, or complicit. There's also the point where you've poured so much time and investment, financially and otherwise, into these unruly figures that you become complicit in their bad actions and then it becomes extraordinarily difficult for you to disentangle yourself from engaging in further harm to whatever party. Yeah, good luck guys. It's going to be rough out there over the course of the next four years. I mean, I would imagine at some point like once they get through working their way down from all of the important political figures and harassing news and media outlets and such and such, they'll probably work their way back down to me in utah okay, see how much time we have.

Speaker 3: 14:45

I'll get my pogrom go back.

Speaker 1: 14:48

Yeah, yeah, what do they wear? What do we wear in the? Do we get like the gray jumpsuits? Do we get stripes? Are we gonna get tattoos?

Speaker 3: 14:56

I don't want stripes, I think I'd rather have gray or one of those like dingy brown.

Speaker 1: 15:03

Oh, like the the siberian russia jumpsuit, yeah yeah, do we get.

Speaker 3: 15:08

We don't need grinder wear.

Speaker 1: 15:09

It's that short solidarity, I'll take that and we got her back, though she's like I, you mean, I got escaped russian captivity. To come back to this shit, to this American captivity. At least we won't have to wear stars. We're already marked by our skin color, so we don't need the extra accessories.

Speaker 3: 15:36

That's going to be all we need.

Speaker 1: 15:38

They don't have to mark us Just the pink mafia, the rainbow mafia or yeah I I'm sure there's someone listening to this like you, guys are really minimizing the harm that's going to come to every. No, we're we, we understand and we're making light of it.

Speaker 1: 15:53

We are fully aware, I am we are making light of it in the sense of In the sense. Oh yeah, no, we, we, we can only make light of it in the sense that, as being part of a historically oppressed and marginalized group, that we're extraordinarily comfortable with the idea that we just going to have to tough it the fuck out.

Speaker 3: 16:13

It's just that just how it is, exactly, exactly, and that's what I said. I'm like you know, you white women no offense, white women y'all about to fuck around and find out. And see me, yeah, I'm a sufferer too, but I'm used to being a marginalized class and see, we always, we always live on the edge of, we can go back, because they've always been attacking us, regardless of the problem we are constantly aware of the fact that we might always go problem.

Speaker 1: 16:43

We are constantly.

Speaker 3: 16:43

We are constantly aware of the fact that we might always go back years. We are good, we're constantly like living on that edge. So like when I don't know if it was called activism or uh, yeah, I think it was called activism and then it was like you know, what do you think about obama? And sit next to trump, and then people like, oh, look there, and I and I said honestly, I'm indifferent, he's, he's, obama's nothing if not gracious. However, as a black person, I know what it's like to move in in spaces and having to put on that face and smile and laugh when your co-worker tells that n-word joke.

Speaker 1: 17:22

Obama is on the clock. The people who are complaining about Obama have never seen a Black person on the clock.

Speaker 3: 17:30

Yeah right, Exactly.

Speaker 1: 17:32

This is how we got to move and work. I don't know what to tell you.

Speaker 3: 17:35

We survive jobs and dig in the fire. Because when he comes in he goes hey, what do you call a Black guy that walks in a bar and then something ends with the n-word? You're like ah, charles, that was a good one. Like yeah, I mean, like you know, we don't have a fucking choice, all right.

Speaker 1: 17:52

People take this for granted, right. So a majority of the black population in the united states to this day still lives in the south right. And do you understand? Do they understand what that means? Probably not. It means that black people historically for the past hundred and we're going on what 160, 70 years now have had to learn through just multiple encounters with our former oppressors how to navigate through life causing the least amount of harm to ourselves and our communities. And the distillation of that can be seen and keeping a job.

Speaker 1: 18:26

And keeping a job, even though they, for the longest time, wouldn't even allow us to have jobs, no matter how skilled we were in any particular form of labor or otherwise. The distillation of that principle can clearly be seen in Obama sitting there at the funeral of president carter and having to yuck it up because, for unfortunate reasons, he got sat next to trump because his wife was out of. She's out of the country, right she's in hawaii.

Speaker 3: 18:55

Oh okay, she's in hawaii.

Speaker 1: 18:56

Yes, she's out of the country. Yeah, she was otherwise. She was otherwise occupied and unavailable to attend the funeral. Therefore, obama former President Obama got seated next to Trump and had to yuck it up for the cameras, because the country is watching and if he behaved in a manner of which most of us other black people would likely engage in, if we were to be forced to sit next to trump, it would cause a spectacle, and the one thing obama ain't never done in his entire life has caused no spectacle his cause is spectacle exactly that ain't that didn't engage or look stoic in any way.

Speaker 3: 19:35

It would have been angry black man see he's so divisive. It would have been let pit, let let karen pence, let mother take that heat.

Speaker 1: 19:43

Yeah, she's white, it's okay yeah, when a white person don't want to shake kamala harris hand, people just you know they boohoo it, but they there's really no political consequences when they're like what was he laughing about?

Speaker 3: 19:56

you know, obama could have been laughing in his mind, thinking. This mother said that yeah right, he was laughing because you know trump told him a hearty, hard, hard, like now on the flip side.

Speaker 1: 20:11

Kamala harris did take a peek back there to look at them like bro what are you? Doing and you know what. You know what obama did when she was looking he shut the fuck up.

Speaker 3: 20:20

I'm gonna have to watch that again.

Speaker 1: 20:24

I didn't, it was it was like watching friday. He, he obama was like she gave him that.

Speaker 3: 20:30

Uh, no, no, no, no, no, she gave him that debo look.

Speaker 1: 20:34

And obama was like debo be like shut the fuck up, and I'd be quiet. But when he, I'll be talking again.

Speaker 3: 20:40

I mean I? I did love seeing mother. Uh, just, she didn't even stand up and ignore him, she sat down, but I did love how George and Laura walked right back.

Speaker 5: 20:55

I had to watch.

Speaker 3: 20:56

I rewound. I rewound that clip like five times because I was like did I miss something? Did I see what I just saw? And it was like they were not even there. And then when pence was, when my mother was sitting down and uh, I didn't know that they'd been married 44 years. He doesn't look that that old and I know that she was married before, but because, but see, everybody keeps saying you know well, what do you expect? He tried to she, he tried to kill her husband oh, and her, she was there exactly, that's exactly my point, but they keep leaving out.

Speaker 3: 21:32

She was there on january the 6th with their young child for sure who all three of them is like no, you didn't just put my husband, now fuck him. You put my daughter in danger, my fucking child, because you guys were like 40 feet away yeah, it really goes.

Speaker 1: 21:50

It really goes. And said that pence's whole family was at the capitol on january 6th and trump tried to also have their murder. Um, also, just quick note melania's hair. It looked like her hairdresser is joy taylor's hairdresser. Like her hair, her hairdresser. Her hairdresser was like I'm filing a lawsuit and I'm out of here. I don't know what was going on.

Speaker 3: 22:07

I don't know what the fuck was going on with her in general, I mean because she always just spends $400,000 a year on her stylist.

Speaker 1: 22:20

But ain't got no style in her hair.

Speaker 3: 22:23

That whole, that that look, that, that it was like a new version of the handmaid's tale, like she was like promoting the new robes and such that we would have to wear at that point the but I, I, I, I, I don't get it, I don't. And someone had pointed out whatever that little design was on her collar. I guess someone had blown it up. I don't know. They didn't show the source, cause you know Derek, the guy, he's always doing the breakdown on the fashion.

Speaker 3: 22:54

Yes, our, our, yes, our favorite fashion expert Blown it up and it was this man, naked man and woman embraced, and you know, kind of one of those artsy, fartsy type but that you might see in a museum, and then her, her titty was on him and her ass cheeks was on the ground.

Speaker 1: 23:15

You could see her ass cheeks on the ground and I was like wow, that was, that was something, but in her hair it just looked like it looked like Karen. She looked like Karen Bass.

Speaker 3: 23:27

It was insane oh oh, in the Upside down program when she was reading it. Man that was bananas.

Speaker 1: 23:33

Barack Obama, having to show white people how to read is just Incredible turn of events. Alright Quickly before we get out of here, so In a total shit from what we've been covering previously on the podcast, drake released a freestyle. I did not personally release it. I believe it was released on Instagram by way of the producer. That goes by the moniker. The conductor is extraordinarily interesting. It's called Fighting Irish Freestyle and it's noteworthy for a couple of things. We'll play that for you real quick.

Speaker 2: 24:25

I love. You got tickets seem like they loved every minute. Just know, the shit is personal to us and it wasn't just business. Analyzing behavioral patterns is somewhat suspicious. Niggas was never happy for me when I run up the digits or when I'm breaking world records still as I guzzle a Guinness, or when I get my fifth made back because the color is different. Remember, we traded watches. I gave you the Arabic dial. You gave me a numbered edition. You would even check up on my son like a pediatrician. Sure, convinced the gang that shit was rooted in love when it isn't. Show me how different we are. There's lessons in juxtaposition. I guess now you boys got a band of your summer tradition cold shoulders. I gave in a hamper as it come with the distance figure. We was always gonna be close like ovens and kitchens. I was sadly mistaken. The loyalty wasn't a given. It's all good and niggas cry the blues for you saying it wasn't malicious Talking about we family.

Speaker 2: 25:16

Well, I'm not the cousin to visit. God forbid we ever gotta tarnish your public image. All that brother talk as if I really discovered a sibling. Six degrees my memories retrieving our humble beginnings. Niggas want to trouble. Grab the shovel and dug up some ditches Cover my body in dirt, but that wasn't me. That wasn't me.

Speaker 3: 25:36

Not bad, Not bad Well it's something.

Speaker 1: 25:39

So, first of all, we're not going to do a literal analysis on that, because that's not. We're not a rap podcast, although I do. I am fond of the rap genre. It is my favorite. Although I do, I am fond of the rap genre, it is my favorite. I have actually written some songs myself and you can check those out on the Spotify or whatever if you so choose, d-night obviously, anyway. So the course of 2024, in a song in which Kendrick Lamar called Drake a PDF file I don't know that's how the YouTubers tend to call it, but yes he basically suggested that Drake engages in sexual relations with underage women. Now, I don't particularly think that Drake is a pedophile, although like candidate. So Drake is Canadian and Canadians are strange. And also the age of consent, up there is 17. You can make of that what you will. That's not a defense of anyone. Again, drake is almost 40, dating an adult.

Speaker 1: 26:46

But so one of the, in the midst of the aftermath of that battle, kendrick Lamar held a concert that was shown on Amazon Prime, the pop out in LA, ken and Friends and whatnot, to which LeBron attended, and he was dancing along and singing at the songs and looked like he wanted to hop on stage with Kendrick Lamar, and if you're familiar with Drake and LeBron's relationship, they've been super buddy-buddy for over a decade now. At this point, I think I think weirdly, drake has a tattoo of LeBron James on him, somewhere on his arm.

Speaker 3: 27:17

Oh dear.

Speaker 1: 27:18

Extraordinarily weird. If you notice the title of the song again, it's called Fighting Irish Freestyle in reference to LeBron James' high school team, which was the Irish. So there's the connection. There was the Irish. So there's the connection there. Of note, Drake is throwing numerous shots at what he perceives to be a fake friend who was not down with him in the midst of this beef and you know, depending on how you feel about it, like if I was with my homeboys and somebody dropped a song and in the whole country was singing it and it was calling me a pedophile and my homie was out there at the concert dancing around, you know IG playing the dude songs, I would feel some kind of way. I feel like if that's the homie dog what are you doing?

Speaker 1: 28:01

Fair enough, but at the same time. If I'm a rapper and, like I have, also have a huge platform, what I ain't going to do is cry about it in a song in front of the whole world in a way that everybody knows exactly who I'm talking about.

Speaker 1: 28:18

Now, in terms of the verses itself, like look, anyone who hates Drake. You're probably going to be like, oh Drake sucks. Drake does not suck. He has his flaws. Even his rap, his music, has some flaws, but largely that song was you know, lyrically it has the same thing every classic Drake song has. It's like 80% dope bars, 15% filler and then like 5% oh yeah, that dude is from Canada, that's right when he just say some weird shit, like I always. I thought we'd always be close, like ovens and kitchens, bro, ovens are in kitchens. I don't. Is that like a reference to you and LeBron being so close?

Speaker 3: 28:59

I don't know, maybe you should have said like fridges and freezers.

Speaker 1: 29:02

I don't, yeah, that's see, that's what I'm talking about, that is what.

Speaker 1: 29:07

I'm talking about that. That is what I'm talking about. That's what I'm saying right there. You know, like we live in america and we make like normal references where we understand like the context of, even like a metaphor, like close, like like like fridges and freezers and this dude is making a reference like me and lebron are so close that it's like lebron is in me. I don't really that's not a title like is someone who is not a professional musician or an artist in that regard, but I do understand like the basic concepts of writing a song. That is not a reference that I would have made and largely that's because ovens are maybe ovens and kitchens do things a little different.

Speaker 1: 29:44

Man, maybe maybe ovens and dining rooms, like maybe your dining room is adjacent to your kitchen and that would have made a look. I don't understand that and like so. There is also a line in the song where he's talking about I don't, didn't want to have to dirty your image and that could be talking about a number of people, but given that the song is largely directed at his relationship with LeBron James, he could be insisting that there is probably some secrets or dirty laundry in LeBron James. He could be insisting that there is probably some secrets or dirty laundry in LeBron James's past.

Speaker 3: 30:13

There's some tea out there, yes.

Speaker 1: 30:15

Now again, this is another, another issue of like the difference between your. I mean I don't know if there's that much of a difference, but like where the normal American will look at that and be like dog. Is you really out here about to spill the tea on the bronze games? No, you do not. We do not snitch on the homies, even if they out here running around with other women, whatever. I'm sorry we just don't do it like and look again.

Speaker 3: 30:42

I'm not saying whether that's right that's the bitch shit like no, we don't do that, no, we just don't do that.

Speaker 1: 30:46

They're just not like you, don't rat on your girls. I'm sure there's like some kind of girl code that I may not be familiar with because I'm not a woman, I don't know. But like dudes just out here ain't ratting on dudes like that. And if you out here even suggesting that you might possibly do that in the song, that's the lamest possible shit ever. Now that started a rumor, wind, storm, firestorm on the Internet about the possibility of LeBron James stepping out on his wife, and that was further fueled by some leaked dms between Drake and another individual, where he compared his lawsuit against his record label UMG, where he was accusing them of inflating the streams of his rival's song, the one that called him a child molester in all, generally speaking, him and his crew. He compared that to Nike engaging in a campaign to paint LeBron James out as a cheater, which is just a weird reference to make for that to be at the top of your mind when you're even considering what the lawsuit is like. So that led to even more speculation.

Speaker 1: 31:50

And then we had none other than DJ Academics. If you're familiar with his work, he's a live streamer who engages in well. He covers music content in his own particular way. He had a few comments on the situation surrounding LeBron James and his wife and their relationship and their activities that Drake and LeBron might have engaged in in the past. And, jesus Christ man, this is out of control right now.

Speaker 4: 32:21

News flash for LeBron. Yo LeBron, I talked to enough whores in Canada. I've talked to enough people. Maybe Drake will keep teasing it. Let me just tell you what I've heard.

Speaker 4: 32:33

Yo LeBron, you and Drake used to go on two mans. Okay, you've been cheating on your goddamn wife. Drake used to facilitate the host and basically, essentially, you can't dance to a song about him being a pedophile. He used to supply you with the bitches. I'm sorry, my nigga. Yes, if I'm Drake, I'll snitch on you too. Sorry, buddy, you can't do that. No, you've been living a lie and everybody been thinking you're this perfect guy, but when you come to Canada, I know some of the whores. When you come to Canada, you know some of the whores. When you come to Canada, you know you come to certain places. I'm supplying you with the white women you love. You don't even like black people, white women, I'm the guy. So when I bring the tings and I'm hooking you up, when Kendrick drops a song saying Certified Lover Boy, certified Pedal, you're the first one to say whoa, me and Drake done, did some two-mans. He ain't never bring no underage girl. What the fuck.

Speaker 1: 33:40

Alright, so.

Speaker 3: 33:42

Why was he so angry?

Speaker 1: 33:45

Alright, so if you're not familiar, does he?

Speaker 3: 33:47

have Stephen A Smith syndrome.

Speaker 1: 33:49

If you're not familiar, that is a thing. If you're not familiar, that is a thing. If you're not familiar with the academic's work. He is the number one Drake stan on the internet. He is the stan of all stans. I don't think I've ever seen any one person, man or otherwise, stand for another man like that in my life. It's more insane than the deadheads that follow the Grateful Dead around for 25 years straight and didn't miss a concert. I've never seen anything like it. Yes, but just first of all, academics is probably going to face the largest defamation lawsuit we've ever seen in the history of lawsuits Like out here accusing LeBron of basically cheating on his wife and trying to ruin his public reputation.

Speaker 3: 34:31

I can see Blacks never having their dragon hip for filth.

Speaker 1: 34:35

It is. You know what? It's who, LeBron or academics, it's like 50-50.

Speaker 3: 34:42

No academics, oh yeah.

Speaker 1: 34:47

No, it's insane out there. So look, rumors have been following lebron around for years about, you know, such kind of behavior on lebron's part. But again, like anyone who's in the public image, to agree that lebron is especially with his spectacular record as far as this public image is concerned, like the fact that the dude has gone this long with not a single public scandal is actually incredible.

Speaker 3: 35:10

Uh, but yeah, so actually it is, but I never really looked at lebron and saw him as a perfect guy outside, like off of the court, just one, because he's a professional basketball player. So I already have preconceived notions anyway, and I also know that a lot of relationships there have, their wives are unbothered and that they like, they like I got the ring bitch, you just true story.

Speaker 1: 35:34

I mean, if you want to zoom out for a second in macro, yes, like when we, it comes to celebrities, like, let's be honest here, people like to have sex, and when you're like a superstar celebrity, you have more access to just sexual conquest than the average person could ever possibly dream of. So people in these positions have not always, but quite often, have a different kind of arrangement with their significant other than than the average person on the street might have. And so whatever LeBron James is doing in private when it as it pertains to I don't know, I can't speak on that, I don't know.

Speaker 1: 36:07

But if that's true, it's entirely possible him and his wife like she understands, I'm not shocking to me. She understands the game right. And look, it's not just men, like female celebrities, have sex too. Surprise, surprise, welcome to reality. Congratulations. But saying that academics making that accusation so fervently with no evidence to present whatsoever is rather insane.

Speaker 1: 36:30

It's so in depth in depth than so in depth, it's crazy, it's absolutely wild that that academics is such a drake stand that he is out here burning drake and lebron at the same time because lebron's feelings was hurt because I mean the drake's feelings was hurt because this boy was out here dancing to another rapper song.

Speaker 1: 36:49

I it's absolutely wild.

Speaker 1: 36:51

Now I would say if I was lebron, I would just not comment on this whatsoever, because at the end of the day, uh and lebron has made this point once before upon losing the fight in the finals to golden state, uh, the the time that they got swept, uh, where he almost won game one single-handedly, but JR Smith didn't know how much time was left on the clock, he made a comment, I believe, after the game it might have been after the finals where he said, at the end of the day, you get to go home and be you and I get to go home and be me.

Speaker 1: 37:28

Lebron James, and I would suggest he keep that same energy because at the end of the day, no matter what these academics say about you, dog, you know what Ain't nobody else got you know down three games to one finals comeback against the winningest team in the history of basketball. So he ain't got to think about this shit, just relax, dog man, academics man, I mean. It's beneath him, his team in the history of basketball. So he ain't got to think about this shit, just just relax, dog, academics man, I mean it's beneath him.

Speaker 3: 37:56

You, what the fuck you're gonna respond to a podcaster like dude, like you, you like, even though he's like looked 40 since he was 12. How old is he? He's been in? What? 20?

Speaker 1: 38:11

Yeah, LeBron is currently 40 years old.

Speaker 3: 38:15

Okay, so he's 40. And then he went. He was. He drafted right after high school.

Speaker 1: 38:20

Yes, age of 18.

Speaker 3: 38:22

22 years and his career. He's got nothing to prove and, like I said, I don't look at, if anything, I'm always throwing some side eye at a professional athlete in any genre. If you don't have any of that smut in your life, I'm surprised because I just to me it just goes with territory and, like I said, I'm not in their household and that's between him and his wife. Whatever they got, it's not something that I'm shocked by that. Oh God, when you was in Toronto I used to get hoes for you and I'm not really telling you know, because of course he's not going to go cruising, like of course they all got people telling you know, because of course he's not going to go cruising, like of course they all got handlers, people that you know go out and owe you this type, or you know some, some, or you know.

Speaker 1: 39:19

No celebrities. Celebrities like at that stature, especially if they're in a committed relationship. You know what they ain't doing. They ain't going out to the bar, like you and me, with the homeboy to meet the host.

Speaker 3: 39:29

I don't care what academic says like you and me with the homeboy to meet the host. I don't care what academic says, no, they're bringing you up to the room where there's some bottles, there's some music.

Speaker 1: 39:36

You go, kick it put your phone away and everybody gonna leave and then whatever.

Speaker 3: 39:40

Yeah, exactly exactly like they don't rock like us. You know regular folk how you know all the republicans always getting getting caught doing some dirt out in the trenches Cause they ain't got nobody like that to procure it for them. Yeah, You're not you're not seeing anything shocking to say that you pulled some bitches for a professional athlete.

Speaker 1: 40:06

Yeah, whoop-dee-doo.

Speaker 3: 40:07

Now I would say they were white, I'm not shocked.

Speaker 1: 40:11

I mean I think Right, yeah, yes, a black athlete has never had sex with a white woman before Out of wed.

Speaker 3: 40:18

Never, not in the history.

Speaker 1: 40:20

Not in the history, no, but what I would say? What are you talking about? What I would say is just the most ironic part. He looked, would say, is just the most ironic part. He, he does that quite often. It's extraordinarily performative, but he also partly means it. No, I would say, what's the most ironic part of all of this is that the entire world laughed at drake when he filed this lawsuit uh, against his record label, and didn't even file a lawsuit against kendrick lamar for defamation uh, when, when? If leBron decides to in fact file a lawsuit against academics for defamation, that the world will likely applaud, because DJ academics is kind of a fucking moron. And that concludes this episode of pardon, the insurrection.