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Do you know what a shock jack is?

Obey and Antity and Howard Stern were kind of like,

there were a lot of people who sort of copied it,

but they were kind of the most well known.

And so one day this should explain to you

why all the white boys of my generation

are like kind of the way we are.

So they had this like psychologist on the show

and some guy calls in, some guy from Long Island calls in

and he's like, oh yeah, so I had my name is Joe

from Long Island a couple of years ago,

my daughter died in a car accident.

And she had a, she had one of those cars,

she had a satin that like folded up like paper.

And this guy starts like going on about his daughter.

He's calling like the shock truck show

to talk about his daughter dying,

to talk to his psychologist about his daughter dying.

Some people really don't have anyone to talk to.

But then Antity starts playing sound effects

of car crashes.

He first he plays like a car crash.

Then he plays like a woman screaming at a car crash.

He's just trying to like talk to nobody in the room

like knows what to do.

And then Antony continues to like,

then he plays like a all like a truck and then a scream

and then a car crash and then the sound effects

from reading Rainbow.

And yeah, yeah, it's good stuff, you know?

RIP to the go, Anthony Cumia.

You have autism.

What's wrong with that?

I don't know how to do that stuff.

I don't wish you would do that.

And I just, I can't control you.

Welcome to Racine Time, everybody.

Thanks for joining us.

It is, it is March.

It is St. Patrick's Day.

We're recording this on St. Patrick's Day.

And it is, I don't know where, what the weather is

where you live, but it is like 30 degrees in New York City.

The woke up this morning, 30 degrees outside,

felt like 20.

Last week we had some very nice weather.

The weather was, it got up to 67 degrees.

And my four year old was very excited about this

because it was six, seven outside.

And, but you know what, there's a term for that.

There's a term for when it becomes not when it's nice.

When it's, when there's a random,

when there's a random nice day in February or March,

they call it a full spring.

And so this morning we're trying to get

bending off to school.

And she goes, I can't find his jacket.

I go, where's his other jacket?

Where's his green jacket?

He's got a heavy green jacket for winter.

And she goes, I gave it back to your mom.

I gave it to your mom with all our winter clothes.

I go, you fell for full spring.

And it's just kind of the experience that I have,

being a father.

I think this is the experience a lot of people have

being a father where, you know, it's like you,

you know something, you're in charge of this,

you're in charge of this thing.

And the people around you don't listen to you.

And you can, you can, you can have the information.

You can, you can beat the drum, but sometimes they just

don't seem to listen.

I was watching an Instagram video a couple of days ago.

And they were interviewing this like cowboy guy,

this cowboy guy with like a long beard.

And this guy was saying, uh, this guy was saying, you know,

if you, if you're a father, if you're a father,

and you, you're not comfortable being the bad guy,

you got no business being a father.

And I watched this video I was thinking,

what's this, what's this guy talking about?

You know, what do you mean?

You're going to have to, what, what do you mean?

You're going to have to put your foot down

for your family or whatever that doesn't,

I couldn't think of any examples.

But then I was like, no, sometimes your wife falls

for full spring.

And now there's no winter coat in the house.

A couple of weeks ago, my wife is asking me about terror attacks.

Okay, she's saying, listen, I'm really worried,

you know, this war just started.

I'm worried about, I'm worried about our son

going to school in Lower Manhattan.

You know, what do you think I go, I go, well, you know,

there's only a few, there's only a few scenarios

where we all get stuck in a terrorist attack.

Okay, I said there's a, there's a, there's a large scale,

there's a large scale false flag.

Okay, there's Iranian missiles.

That's probably not going to happen because they,

their missiles can't reach us.

And also they don't, they said they don't want to.

They don't have any beef.

An Iranian guy actually did release a statement

and he said, I listen to the Racine Time podcast

and I'm a big fan.

We, please come to Tehran.

They said, Mike, they said,

Mike Racine, please tour Tehran.

That's what the, yeah, the foreign minister of Iran,

I'm not, I wish.

Hey, I can dream though.

There's a big world out there of people

that you can reach, you know, I, I have a lot of,

I have a lot of Latino fans.

Talked about this.

Trying to, I'm trying to figure out a reach more of them.

It's, I, I, I, I lose sleep at night

thinking about how many Latino guys love Mike Racine.

How, I lose sleep thinking about how many Latino men

are missing out on, on the comedy of Mike Racine.

You know, hardworking, hardworking, edgy, Latino boys.

But anyway, so I'm talking to my wife about,

the terrorist attacks and stuff.

And she was like, well, you know, I'm just going to,

I'm going to email the school in Brooklyn

and just see if they have a, see if they have a spot.

So she goes and emails them and I go,

all right, listen, like there's, there's either going to be,

you know, a small scale attack, a large scale attack,

an Iranian attack or nukes going to start flying.

And so here's why I don't think you have to worry

about any of these and, and before I know it,

she goes and emails this other school in, in Brooklyn.

Why am I telling you this?

I'm telling you this because having the information,

monitoring the situation, paying attention to politics,

refreshing the feed all the time, you know?

It can be a lonely life.

It can be a lonely existence.

It really can.

It could be a lonely existence to, to sit there

and to pay attention.

And you feel like, what am I doing?

And, you know, but, hang in there is what I want to,

is my message, hang in there because it's not,

it's not going to be like this forever.

We're headed towards a better world.

Okay, it's Tuesday, March 17th, we're recording this,

is Netanyahu dead?

Is he dead?

They don't seem to be giving us,

they don't seem to be giving us any of the,

anything to work with.

They don't seem to be giving us the satisfaction,

but we do have to take a look at, at the circumstances

and make an assessment of our own.

Now, my favorite thing and, like I said,

I always emphasize staying positive,

looking at the bright side of the,

looking at the bright side, okay?

There was an Indian journalist who was in Israel

and who was trying to get footage of Netanyahu.

He was at Netanyahu's house, right?

Which had been bombed and he was going,

Michelle, can you do the voice?

He was going,

I'm here at, I'm here at Netanyahu's house.

He was like, we out here at Netanyahu,

we're here at Netanyahu's compound

and his house has been hit by a missile

and there he is right over there.

And apparently that was the last time he's been seen alive.

I think we all know that we're not really getting

good information, it's hard to get

any kind of reliable information.

You can spend time online and stuff

and you see all kinds of, you know, clickbait

and misinformation and stuff like that.

So I want to focus on what we know here.

There was a video in the Indian journalist saying

there's Netanyahu right there.

And apparently that was the last time he's been seen alive.

That journalist has been arrested,

arrested in Israel, so that's cool.

He's been missing from multiple security meetings.

His son is on Twitter, a lot.

His son tweets about 30 times a day.

He's been pretty much silent for the past

since March 2nd.

And yeah, it very well could be that

this war that he's been advocating for for the past 35 years

or so has killed him in a week.

And that's really funny.

It's just really funny.

It doesn't seem like there's any evidence that he's alive.

So Sunday morning, I opened up my phone

and there's a video that says, they're saying I'm what?

And he's at a coffee shop and he picks up a latte

or whatever and the thing is spilled to the brim

and he picks it up and it doesn't spill.

And he takes a sip and it stays.

You know what I really like?

In response to, he posts the video like,

oh, you know, here I am enjoying coffee, whatever.

Everyone's posting like, oh yeah, I'm there too,

like the same in the same coffee shop

enjoying the same cup of coffee.

Show is like, it could be fake.

Yeah, they puts in water in there too.

That was kind of cool.

He's alive.

But it makes you wonder, it's like, so he's,

so he's definitely missing.

He's definitely, he's definitely dead or he's hiding.

I feel like they're robbing me of,

they're robbing us of,

because by the time they announce it,

he's gonna make a video.

He's gonna be like, I have an announcement everybody.

It's me, Benjamin Nidenio.

And I'm HIV positive.

So I was, me and Michael Rappaport was doing heroin together

and having gay sex and I'm now HIV positive.

So I'll be just, I'll be just spending most of my time

in this coffee shop.

He'll just put videos out in the coffee shop.

I'll be spending most of my time here on my laptop

while I, while I slowly succumb to HIV.

Yeah, yo, it's, it's, yo, it's man real.

Hey, it's man real, it's Michael Rappaport.

Hey, yo, HIV, get you, yo, check you.

The fact that some of you are celebrating this man

getting sick is disgusting.

Oh, so, so me having butt sex with Nidenio,

who's funny to you?

Damn, y'all, y'all on some, y'all on some bullshit.

Thank you, thank you, Michael.

I'm just, thank you for, but I feel like

they're not gonna announce it because,

because people were saying that when Ariel Sharon passed away,

it was like, he was in a coma for eight years

and they didn't, he was like, yeah.

So who the hell knows what's happening?

I did see another video where this guy was like,

this guy was like, yeah, so I tracked his plane,

his plane like left, his plane left Tel Aviv.

It was, it circled off the coast of Gaza for like four hours,

which is like really funny.

Survelled off the coast of Gaza for like four hours,

tried to go to Greece, they said no,

tried to go to Cyprus, they said like,

tried to go to Italy, they were like, get out of here.

And then he landed in Germany, maybe that's what this,

that's what this guy said.

And like I said, it's hard to get any kind of good information,

but what we know is that this video is very suspicious

and he's released multiple short videos.

And then I think apparently like,

but could this be like them just trying to

so confusion or something?

I mean, I don't think that they're,

or yeah, it could be in their interest

to have everyone claim he's dead

and then for him to actually be alive

and be like, look, or it could be like

to get Iran to stop targeting him.

So if they think he's dead, they'll stop trying, yeah.

If they think he's dead, they'll stop trying to kill him.

Yeah, but then that does mean that he's hiding

and he's like worried and he's vulnerable.

It is really funny though, like I don't think,

the thing with them, right,

is that they're always lying obviously,

but they're not doing, they're never like,

it's never like, oh, you got me with that one, you know?

Like it's always so, like they, yeah.

Like they always lie in a way where it's like,

I know you guys are lying.

It's never like a good, it's never like,

oh, you tricked me.

Although I did feel that way when I watched the coffee video,

I said, oh, no, he's alive.

But then it's like, I immediately,

everybody starts kind of picking it apart.

But they definitely like, they lie in a way,

they lie like like five year olds lie to you.

But I did see another video where this woman said,

this is the first time where like they had,

they're not really controlling the narrative.

So they're not really giving you,

they're not really showing you what's happening.

There's little footage is kind of trickling out here and there,

but this is the first time where they're not in control.

And isn't that, isn't that kind of beautiful?

I mean, isn't that, isn't this something

like we haven't really seen in our lifetime before?

We saw Afghanistan, we saw Iraq and we saw,

Syria, but Iran was always kind of the big,

it was always kind of like their white, their white whale.

And it was always, but it was always like a thing

where it's like, don't, you know, people were pretty,

pretty vocally opposed to Iran,

people like Charlie Kirk, you know, very against,

what's that, why are you rolling your eyes?

He wasn't really against the Iran, you don't think?

Well, there was no war in Iran yet.

He was questioning like Israeli influence

on US politicians rightfully,

but that's just from like an America first perspective,

though, nothing was like anti-imperialist of that.

He didn't give a shit about Muslims or Iranians, obviously.

But how do you feel about right-wing media?

Because it does feel like sometimes people on the left

kind of underestimate how influential these people are.

And it does kind of feel like the American right

is a little more vocally kind of anti-war and anti.

There's a big, do you think that maybe there is like a populist,

left and a populist right,

we should kind of like talk to each other a little bit?

Like, I think there's plenty of right-wing people

who are against, you know, who wanna.

No one is your enemy except for the ruling class

in the feds.

Right, yeah, cause I saw this Instagram video today

where this, this, this, this,

this Zoomer was talking about like revolution.

And he was like, you know what, you know what I think guys?

I think when the revolution comes, we need to be,

we're gonna have like a softer,

we're gonna have like a cultural revolution.

We're gonna be out of this street.

So we're gonna be growing tomatoes and making art

and sharing it with each other and like,

all the comments were like the CIA is probably behind this

or they're salivating or they're,

and yeah, and I hate to, I hate to be somebody who's like,

like I don't wanna feel like a larper who's like,

oh, if there's gonna be revolution,

it's gonna be really violent.

But I do think it's a little naive.

It's a little, I kind of have to feel,

I kind of have to, I kind of have to use,

I kind of have to use the term fake and gay here.

When I think about that, when I think about that type of,

that type of stuff, that cultural stuff, that hippie stuff,

you know, I think people should study their history,

look at the hippies, your instincts are right.

When you see a hippie, your instincts are right

to not trust that person.

When you see a hippie, your instincts are correct

to be disgusted by that person,

to know, to look at that person and go this,

I don't want anything to do with this.

Anyway, I wanna get back to that Netanyahu video,

because I wanna talk about how shamelessly

these people lie, okay.

Is this video of Benjamin Netanyahu

now being dubbed Coffee Gate, a deep fake?

What's up, Dodu?

Hello, I'm Barat, you're welcome.

I'm a coffee shop, I'm a coffee shop,

it's a fantastic business.

I'm going to the spot, the spot is both.

Now this video of the Israeli Prime Minister

buying coffee went viral after claims

started circulating online,

that Netanyahu had been killed or seriously injured

by an Iranian strike on Israel.

Now this speculation began around March 13th,

after Netanyahu posted a press conference,

where some users claim that footage was AI generated,

pointing to what they said was a sixth finger

on his right hand.

So the Prime Minister took to social media

debunking these claims by posting this video,

but soon after social media users

and also AI tools such as GROC,

claim that this video was also a deep fake.

So, even this is also AI.

It's confirmed AI in deep fake by GROC.

Good job, this time they fix the extra fingers,

maybe next time they'll take care of the

magic coffee cup too.

Can't believe they have unit 8200,

and this is the best AI work they can do for PR.

So yeah, it's very odd, and I just,

I don't, once again, I don't feel like they're that smart.

I don't feel like they're smart enough

where this is like them playing 4D chess or something,

you know, I think, I think I'm starting to get

a little fed up with how dumb they think we all are.

And it's been, it's been this,

it's been this for two years.

I mean, we're used to it, we're sick of it.

When you watch the Netanyahu coffee shop video,

one thing that you notice is that there are other people

in the video, but the camera never stays

on the other people for that long.

And to me, that's a little suspicious, okay?

There's a couple of security people,

there's a couple of employees at the coffee shop,

and it's almost like that you would think

that if you were gonna put,

if you're gonna feature other people,

if you're gonna feature other people in a short video,

those people would be on camera for more than like a second.

If the point of the video was to say,

look at me, I'm out among the people,

but there's not any real focus

on the other people in the video.

However, despite that, they are trying to make,

they are trying to make a viral star out of this barista,

who they're saying is 17 years old.

So I'm seeing posts that are like, wow, look,

this, look at the, look at the,

look at this beautiful 17 year olds,

we haven't even looked at it.

People go, look at the beautiful 17 year olds

that we have in this country.

This girl is, and here's a headline from I-24 news,

barista in Netanyahu,

cafe video becomes unexpected international star.

A day after video of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

visiting a Jerusalem cafe went viral online,

attention has shifted from the political message

to an unexpected figure in the background,

a teenage barista who briefly appeared serving coffee.

The clip, filmed in Hassataf Cafe in Jerusalem

and released by the Prime Minister's office

shows Netanyahu addressing rumors circulating

on social media about his health and condition.

While the video was intended as a direct response

to online conspiracy theories,

many viewers instead focused on the smiling employees

seen behind the counter.

Now you would think that in an article like this,

they would go, the person in the video is 17 year old

Michelle Hanukkah or whatever her name is.

She's a student at, she's a student at Tel Aviv University

studying, studying skull shapes or something like that,

but it just says social media users quickly began

sharing screenshots of the young barista

with some post gaining hundreds of thousands of views

on platform X.

One widely circulated comment claimed the employee

had done more to fight anti-semitism in 24 hours

than the anti-definition leak has in years,

reflecting the viral tone of the discussion.

And of course, because look at her, she's blonde,

she's beautiful, you know?

She doesn't look, Zionists are,

it's just so funny that they're like,

look at this beautiful young blonde woman.

You know what I mean?

It's like there's nothing, she doesn't look,

she doesn't look, like Zionism is kind of anti-semitic.

It's kind of anti, it's not like this,

it's not like this girl looks like Mel Brooks.

I mean, she looks very Aryan.

So it's kind of cucked when you think about it, right?

It's like, these people killed us,

but we'd look like them.

Why would you aspire, why would you aspire

to look like the master race, doesn't make any sense?

But it says, according to posts from the account,

global updates, the teenager effectively became an internet

celebrity after appearing in the clip

while serving coffee to the Israeli leader.

Uses across multiple languages, including Spanish,

shared memes and commentary about the moment.

And they're saying, they're saying,

look at this beautiful girl, then look at Zoran's ugly,

Syrian wife.

What side do you want to be on the side of beauty

or the side of big nose, big nose ghouls

who look like Halloween monsters?

But you know, this entire video, there's no,

there is not a single mention of her name or what she is

or it's just like, I don't know,

playing right in front of your face once again.

Well, just judging by my timeline,

this is really barista has reduced global anti-semitism

more than the ADL ever could dream of.

Do you remember hashtag Hamas is ISIS?

Do you remember that when they were going Hamas is ISIS?

They're just like ISIS.

ISIS in al-Qaeda are like, they're also fake.

They're a creation of the CIA and the Messiah.

So yeah, FSA on the Sura, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Boko Haram.

Come on.

Yeah.

Get a job, Boko Haram.

Because what is al-Qaeda?

They're just like guys, they're just guys in the,

right, they're just guys in the mountains with guns.

Like, where do they, do they have jobs?

I mean, at least the guys in Hamas, right?

Like, or Hezbollah or whatever.

It's like, you know where they live, you know?

They live in, they live in houses with big missiles

under their kids' beds.

That's where they, and they all work.

But like al-Qaeda always felt like somebody,

somebody's paying their rent, you know?

Iran, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.

Those guys are, those guys are salt to the earth.

And then it's almost like when you meet like comedians,

you know, when you have, when you have a comedian friend

and you go, I have a feeling that your dad pays your rent.

That's al-Qaeda and ISIS, right?

It's giving, it's giving like, it's giving Neppo baby

a little bit.

It's giving Neppo baby.

It's giving, it's giving somebody is paying for this.

It's giving, I pretend to be working class, and I'm not.

It's giving, it's giving, hey, I'm from Long Island

and I'm just like you, but actually my parents

are worth millions of dollars.

And I just, you know, they said I could,

they said I could pursue stand-up comedy

if I moved out of the house.

That's what ISIS, why don't you guys get your shit together?

Get your shit together.

Yeah, Hamas is ISIS.

So it's funny, you just gotta just,

you just gotta sort of connect the dots.

Can I, I saw the funniest, I saw maybe the funniest post.

This is a little off topic,

but I saw maybe the funniest post ever.

Sean Lennon, right?

So you gave me that book, you gave me that book

drugs as weapons against us.

John Lennon has a son named Sean Lennon.

Yeah, okay, so here's, here's this family, right?

The world is a fascinating place.

The world's an interesting place.

People are very interesting.

I always thought, until you gave me that book,

I always assumed that John Lennon was like,

just a woman beater, right?

I thought he was like a, I just said,

I just thought John Lennon was some woman-beating comedy, you know?

However, drugs as weapons against us is the book.

One of the best, I think one of the,

one of my favorite books that I ever read,

Michelle gave it to me.

Okay, but John Lennon was very political.

John Lennon used to, and this is a funny,

this is a fun anecdote about him in the book.

When he would play Germany,

he would like look at people in the crowd,

and he'd be like, yeah, where were you during the war,

you crowd?

And that's such a funny thing to do

that people who've like paid to see you.

You can just stick to these, right?

Yeah.

So they're all like, yeah, right, right, yeah, yeah.

Did I tell you that Deb is doing like a course

at the YMCA, she's doing like a baby,

like a baby course at the YMCA?

And she had me come to the first course,

and there was a dad that showed up with his baby.

There was only one person that showed up to the first course,

and it was a dad, he had his baby,

and he's like speaking Hebrew to his baby.

And Deb's like, oh, that's nice that your baby is like a bilingual,

you know, and the guy's like, oh, yeah, yeah,

I'm from Israel.

And so we were like, oh, okay, oh, that's very nice.

But it was only me, Deb, our baby,

and this guy and his baby.

So we're like, well, we're thankful that you're here, you know?

This guy, I mean, this guy paid money to take Deb's course,

so obviously we're gonna be polite and everything.

But that's so funny that John Lennon was doing that,

being like, you're a Nazi to people who paid money to see,

and that's cool.

I mean, that's like, that's me, basically,

like, principal to the point where, you know,

you don't have any friends anymore,

and your wife is annoyed by you,

and everybody is bothered by you.

Okay, so John Lennon,

so John Lennon, he was, okay, so he was a woman beating Kami, okay?

But Yoko Ono's family was from a very wealthy family

in Japan who might have been connected to the CIA.

So what does that tell you?

But also, but also, I waited on Yoko Ono one time,

and she tipped me like 100% of the bill.

I mean, she only got two coffees.

So she, it was a $7 bill, she tipped me seven bucks.

But it meant a lot.

Even though this guy's a woman beating Kami,

it's like, maybe she was a little, maybe it was an A.

Can we actually beat her, is that true?

I think he, I think he did beat.

I don't think he had a great,

I don't think he was great on women.

So anyway, so, but so Sean Lennon is his son,

and Sean Lennon is like, medically untalented,

like a very like, you know, nepo baby with like no talent,

and he just like posts very mediocre stuff.

So Sean Lennon posted, Sean Lennon posted something like,

I think when we look at the decline of civilization,

we'll see that it started with the rise of Barney.

So Sean Lennon is a guy who's like,

probably in his mid 40s, and he's mad at Barney.

Then somebody respond, they said,

nepo baby is attacking a self-made artist

with a legendary catalog.

Yeah, whose show was on public TV?

Public TV for poor kids.

For poor kids.

No public access TV, yeah.

Literally.

Yeah.

And had a diverse cast.

But one thing about me, I did watch Barney

till I was like five, like past the age

where you're supposed to watch it.

Like to the point where it's like in that,

like I had this kind of secretly watch Barney.

No, but then somebody else responded to him,

and they were like, did he shoot your dad?

And then Sean Lennon quotes me to that.

He was like, all of this because I attacked Barney.

So it's like, we really got under his skin.

It's fun to get under people's skin.

It's fun to bully people.

Dude, moving on from people who are African-American coded.

I saw an interview with Jack Harlow.

And he was, they were like interviewing him,

and they, dude, I love, I really like, I love Wiggers.

Like I love, I love a guy that like,

because first of all, they make, like, first of all,

they're not afraid of anybody.

They're the most, they're completely fearless.

I love seeing a Wigger like reinvent himself,

but still as a Wigger.

I love watching a Wigger go deeper into the lean-in

to being a Wigger, because I follow Phoebe Robinson

on Instagram, she's a friend of mine,

and she was sort of like, she does these videos

where she talks about pop culture,

and she yells at people and everything,

but no disrespect to Phoebe.

She's a friend and everything.

But she was like very upset.

She was very upset at Jack Harlow,

because now Jack Harlow is the guy who does the,

I'm vanilla babe, I'll choke you,

but I know kill a babe.

You know that song?

It's 28, I'm 28, he's old, but I'm still a baby.

But he's very committed, he's very committed.

He's very, he's very committed to being black.

And I think what happened was when Jack Harlow came out,

there was a secret, there was like this nefarious,

like secret, they paid black women

to like tweet about him and to be like,

to be like, oh, I like that.

You know, they paid, yeah, they paid black women

to be like, oh, this white boy, this white boy got it.

Some day if we have the budget to do that,

I would love to get that, I would love to get that going.

I would love some grassroots, some thing.

I would love to, what I would love to do is find like a,

like a bot farm to be like, I love micro scene, you know?

Maybe look into that, see if we can make that happen.

But anyway, so, but, but there's something about like,

there's something about like,

Wiggers already make people so mad.

And then they like reinvent themselves.

Like Cheh Hanks, Cheh Hanks was a Wigger,

but then he was like, I'm gonna be Jamaican now.

I mean, like what?

Deeper down the, deeper down the rabbit hole.

Like, there's something beautiful about that.

Because Jack Harlow, and I don't,

I couldn't even name another song of his,

but I guess he's got a new album out, right?

So he's on this New York Times podcast,

and they're like, they're asking them about, you know,

white rappers, and if it's easier for, for,

for white rappers to change genres or whatever.

And he's like, he's like, yeah,

well, I guess I hadn't really thought about that.

But there is something about being a white rapper

that first puts the chip on your shoulder,

and I think that that's why a lot of the people,

I just mentioned, maybe post Malone,

especially a side, but yourself included,

rapping your ass off is really important at the beginning.

Like bars, like proving yourself, right?

You could hear that in your early music.

Absolutely.

Okay.

And then you prove yourself,

and then you have, we're talking about privilege,

you have the ability to say, I wrapped my ass off.

I'm not gonna do that anymore, at least for now.

And radio programmers, award shows, press,

like people take you seriously if you do that.

If a black rapper wants to do something

completely sonically adventurous,

it can often be treated as a whim,

or something to be ignored or a joke.

Country music, for example,

has become a safe landing place for former white rappers.

Rock music has become a safe landing place.

These are sort of pre-existing industry structures

that welcome a famous person who got famous.

Johnson, you didn't retreat into a white or a genre.

In fact, you arguably went deeper into black music.

Deeper into black.

So I guess with this album, I became more black.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

It's on YouTube, I think it's on it.

Yeah, no, I hold on.

It's on New York Times podcast.

Hold on, Mike.

But yeah.

His new album is called Monica.

Uh-huh.

What's that?

Like the singer?

You need to give it up, had a bad enough.

We should do some, we gotta do some more karaoke.

If you like what I sing, I mean, I'm not gonna,

I'm not gonna sing unless you guys encourage me.

So, so I, we are gonna need to see some,

if we're gonna keep the singing,

we are gonna need to see some positive comments

about the singing, because we're only getting negative.

I'll get some black women.

We're only, yeah, please, yeah.

Find a bot farm.

We're only getting negative comments about the singing.

And you don't know why, but you'd die in

to try you wanna kiss the girl.

I sang that at karaoke the other night,

but I was very respectful in the way that I did it.

I didn't, I didn't go like full-on Jamaican accent,

but I did, I did a nice balance right between,

right between white guy and Jamaican guy.

She don't got a lot to say,

but there's something about her and you don't know why,

but you'd die in to try you wanna kiss the girl, right?

That's like just, that's like just Jamaican enough, right?

So anyway, so Jack Harlow is like,

it's so funny because he's become like a different

kind of black guy in his new music video.

Like he's like, because the old one was like,

you know, rapper got like white rapper.

But this new one, he's like,

he's doing like middle aged R&B singer.

He's doing like a tone down de-Angelo.

Like he's literally-

He's doing like a tone down de-Angelo.

Like he's literally-

His album name is Manica.

Manica, yeah.

Ooh, I know, they're playing right now.

What is that?

They're really-

I mean, I haven't listened to it obviously,

but like that's such a funny album name for someone

who's famous for being a wager.

Yeah, right, right.

Dude, sometimes it's like, nothing is like,

nothing is really subliminal anymore.

You know, I was actually talking to my uncle this weekend

about 9-11, but I showed him the Larry Silverstein video

and he was like, yeah, they just,

it's like right in our-

They're not even like subtle about it.

You're right.

That says, that is not a good album name.

I guess what I'm getting at is like,

it's really funny if it's like you're a wager

and you reinvent yourself as a new kind of black guy.

Cause that would be like me being like, you know?

I'm going down.

I'm going down to the Chinese buffet.

Got my Bluetooth in my ear.

I'm going to eat some crab legs with my wife.

I can't get my son to act right.

My son ain't acting right.

He on some bullshit.

But me and my wife going to eat some crab legs.

Baby, don't fill up on the-

Baby, don't fill up on the egg rolls.

Wait till they put out the crab, yeah.

I want to be a middle-aged black guy so bad.

Like it's such a more, as I approach middle-aged Michelle,

it's such a more dignified way to like live, to like get to age.

Being black, you just age so much more gracefully.

Aging as a white guy, you get, you just get sloppy.

You got to, you know, but aging, aging as a black guy,

you get to wear all kinds of like sweaters.

You get to wear all kinds of,

all different kinds of sweaters and like suits.

All different kinds of hats, can go hats,

maybe a cowboy hat.

You can even wear like a, like a straight,

like an African type hat.

You know, like those, like they just look good,

like they look good in every single type of hat.

I do remember one time I was at my,

I had a great aunt and uncle and my great aunt had Alzheimer's.

And so she had really bad Alzheimer's,

but she was like really into God and Jesus and everything.

So she would just like ramble about God all the time.

There was this middle-aged black guy,

like eating dinner with his wife.

And she just like wandered over to their table

and started talking to them about God.

And the guy was like, yes, man, that's right.

And he's like, and you know what?

The best is yet to come.

And I was like, this is, this is cool.

I'm like, I was like that.

I remember thinking like that guy is cool.

I don't know.

If you guys have any tips on how I can,

how I can age more like a black guy,

age with dignity.

Yeah, check it out and shout out to Jack Harlow

and good luck, I guess, with your album, I don't know.

I don't know how I feel about that.

I gotta look into that a little bit.

Who is Monica?

Anyway, our mayor is under fire.

Dude, Dev and I were doing some like mayor.

We were doing like, we were practicing like political stuff.

Like I was like, I was like,

I was like, me and Michelle play this game

on the show called Mayor Mike.

That's like, you ask me a question.

I have to answer it.

You try to get me with like a gotcha question.

And I have to answer it.

And I was like, all right Dev, you be the mayor.

And I'm gonna ask you a question.

I asked her about, you know, I asked her about rhetoric.

And I know I asked her if Israel has the right to exist.

That's what I asked her.

And I did, I did a good job as the reporter,

as the reporter who was like, there's your supporters

have dangerous rhetoric.

Your supporters have dangerous rhetoric

and they make the community in this city feel unsafe

and how do you feel about that and blah, blah, blah.

You know, it's interesting.

It's interesting because it's easy to,

it's easy to trap Pete like it's easy with politics.

We definitely get to say whatever we want.

That's nice.

It's nice being able to say what you want

not having people to answer to.

But he's in a little bit of trouble

because apparently his wife, so they're going after his wife.

They're looking, they're doing a deep dive on, on,

Rama, is Rama Zoran's wife.

She's Syrian, I believe.

Now, she is, what do we know about her?

She's an artist.

She seems a little like, she doesn't really talk very much.

I saw one of her Instagram videos where she was in a,

she was, she was, she was doing an illustration

and she was talking about how she was doing an illustration

of somebody who was a, who was a symbol

of Palestinian resistance.

And I said, all right, well, that's going to be a problem,

you know, just the word resistance, that's a problem.

But they, she got a little bit of trouble

because she did an illustration for a Palestinian author,

a very well-known, okay, a very well-known Palestinian author

named Susan Abulhawa, who wrote a book called Mornings

in Jeanine, one of her most famous works

and she wrote another book in 2020.

Anyway, she's a very well-known, very well-known

Palestinian author and activist.

And she's also somebody who has enough respect for herself

and doesn't mince words and doesn't compromise

on the, on the language that she wants to use.

And I think, I think the, we want more of that energy,

we need more of that energy.

But Rama did an illustration for some essay,

I guess for an essay that Susan wrote.

Somebody cornered Zoran about it and they said,

what do you think of this?

Your wife is doing an illustration for this author,

this author has said all this, all this,

all this inflammatory stuff about, about Israelis

and everything and what do you think of that?

And, and Zoran said, yeah, you know,

I don't know, she was just a third party.

I don't know, I don't know why they're asking him about,

I don't know, I don't know why, like I wish,

I don't know, I wish that we could have,

I really wish we could have somebody on the left

who could take a page out of Donald Trump's book

and just kind of say what they want to say,

speak honestly.

If you remember during 2016, when Trump was kind of,

when Trump was getting some heat, getting some traction,

he wasn't, he wasn't censoring himself,

he wasn't missing words.

He went on stage in South Carolina and said,

Bush got us into a war and Bush lied about the war,

Jeb's brother lied about the war.

They knew they were lying and he was booed and everything,

but I want, it makes me wonder if the left

will ever have that.

I hope someday, and I don't know if it'll ever happen

just because of the nature of our side, our politics,

but I think about this a lot, I really,

I hope maybe someday we can have somebody

who's a little bit honest, who's a little bit,

who is a little bit unfiltered,

maybe even a little rough around the edges,

but somebody who's not gonna be intimidated

and pushed around by everybody outside the party,

but also within the party, I think the rights

very good at falling in line and getting behind somebody

and the left has trouble with, you know,

we remember when Joe Rogan back in 2020,

when he said he was probably gonna vote for Bernie Sanders,

everybody lost their minds and everybody said,

but Bernie, you have to reject this.

People who, people who by the way,

probably didn't even like Bernie Sanders,

people who didn't even want to see Bernie Sanders

win the nomination, okay?

Coming out and saying Bernie needs to reject this,

Bernie needs to reject this endorsement

because Joe Rogan's a transphobic,

Joe Rogan said this and that and we can't have people

like that, we can't have people like this in our party

and it's like, it's bullshit, it's a fucking lie.

It's, I don't know if these people are stupid

or if they're actively trying to sabotage

and they're doing it under the, under the,

what is the word, the guys, I guess,

of, well, I'm just being, you know, I'm being,

I wanna be tolerant and I wanna be accepting

and I wanna make sure everybody,

I wanna make sure everybody feels safe.

I wanna see less of this, I wanna see less of this horseshit,

I wanna see less of this horseshit,

melee mouthed criticism, right?

Because Susan is somebody,

she's a Palestinian woman who grew up in a refugee camp

and it's crazy now, Zoran came out and said,

listen, like, my wife didn't know about,

my wife got the job through a third party

and she's never met Susan and I find that language

reprehensible and he said reprehensible,

he said that a Palestinian woman's language

was reprehensible and I want to,

but there has been some discourse about this, okay?

And the people who are critical of people like Susan

will say, well, listen, we're trying to build a coalition here.

Why even ask them about that and why even answer questions

on that?

You know what I mean?

Why even, I'm the mayor of New York City,

why are you, why are you asking me about Ireland?

I don't know, I don't give a shit,

I don't think about Ireland.

I'm an eighth Irish, I don't think about those people.

That's why I'm not completely annoying

because I have an eighth Irish in me.

That's why I'm not 100% Mongoloid

because I'm Italian and Polish, Mongoloid,

but I have an eighth, I'm like one eighth intelligent.

But what I'm getting at is that it just bothers me

to see people, critical of people like Susan, who go like,

well, we have to, we have to build a coalition,

we have to get people on our side,

we have to bring people in,

let's tone down the rhetoric.

All this bullshit about rhetoric, shut the fuck up,

shut the fuck up about rhetoric, I'm sick of it.

I'm sick of like, you, I don't even know if you realize it,

but you're the way that you're approaching this whole thing.

There's literally Palestinian people who are like,

give me back the key to my grandfather's house.

No, you actually you stole my house

less than a hundred years ago, I want it, I want it back.

It's kind of insane, it's a little insane to me

that after watching a genocide for two years

that we're doing this, it's bullshit,

that we're criticizing people's language.

I mean, like, would you criticize if a, if a,

if you met a Jewish person who was critical of Germans,

who didn't like Germans and said the German people

or whatever, are you gonna,

are you really gonna sit there and go like,

that's, you know, hey, let's tone down the rhetoric.

Who the fuck are you?

What are you ashamed of yourself?

It just, it just really demonstrates a lack of,

just a lack of understanding and a removal from,

and we're all more or less removed from this,

from this stuff, but it just,

it just really demonstrates a lack of,

a lack of empathy, I guess,

a lack of understanding of the whole of the big picture.

And it makes people think that you're just kind of doing this,

that your support of Palestine is self-serving,

that you're serving your own ego.

And I'm just, I'm kind of done with it.

I'm done with this, this academic nonsense,

because she released a response video that was like,

really, if I was Zora and I'd say,

you could come over to the Gracie Mansion and spank me right now.

She said, quote, Jewish supremacist slaughter

was happening in Gaza and that quote,

the sons of Satan will taste what they needed to us,

met it.

Yeah, met it.

Met it to us.

Yeah, okay.

So I think the point is like, she's saying Jewish,

you know, she's not saying Israeli.

But she also said that like, you know, 82% of,

I mean, I think this is kind of the uncomfortable territory

that you get into, but is it something like 82%,

I mean, all synagogues support the state of Israel,

most Jewish Americans are like,

look at some right-wingers wife

in what she might have retweeted once.

Like, I'm sure she might have retweeted someone online

that said something about black people,

but no one cares because there isn't like a giant,

you know, anti-defamation league for black people

coming through everyone's stuff.

Right.

Yeah, I just think we have to kind of,

we gotta be done with this, we gotta be,

we gotta move past all this,

we gotta move past this like liberal arts,

we're liberal artsing everybody.

We have to stop thinking about everybody's feelings

and we have to think about who is the most affected.

We have to, because it just shows a lack of urgency

to the problem, there's a very urgent problem right here.

There's a very, there's a very, I mean,

if you saw somebody beating up a kid on the street,

you know, if you went, if you went,

hey, don't fucking do that.

Somebody was like, hey, can we turn our language down?

Now, it is delicate, it is delicate when there's,

you know, given the history, given the history

and persecution, everything, it is kind of,

it is kind of delicate.

I'm still like, how do you feel about the term,

the term Jewish supremacy?

How do you feel about that?

Is that accurate?

That's like what a lot of Zionists want.

That's literally what they believe in.

Yeah, and I'm still, I guess I'm still not totally comfortable.

I'm not totally comfortable using terms like that.

And I still, I think we all still have that education,

that Holocaust education.

And Grandin, as I saw this,

I saw the Oscar nominated, and the Oscar nominated,

and the Holocaust education, the lesson of that

is to apply it no matter which group is doing the oppressing.

So, Aryan supremacy, bad Jewish supremacy,

as an ideology, also bad.

I just think we all have a little bit of a knee jerk hesitance

to like,

to appease the Zionists that might be listening.

Nothing's ever gonna be enough for them anyway.

They wanna control the conversation.

No, but I guess I still, I guess I still hesitate

when, I guess I still hesitate, when it's time to,

yeah, there's no need to say Jewish when you could say Zionist.

That's true.

Right.

And this will criticize you for saying Zionist too.

They're gonna criticize you no matter what.

Unless you're saying Israel has the right to exist

in the defend itself, and they don't target civilians

in Hamas's ISIS.

But there are some people on the right,

and maybe also a little bit on the left too,

who will say that like, it is a Jewish,

like Jewish supremacy is part of their religion.

It's in their Bible.

And I'm starting, I'm getting a little bit,

I'm starting to dip my toe in the religious stuff a little bit.

Cause I don't know what you know about evangelicals,

but have you seen like Jesus can't bring a thing like that?

Cause evangelicals, evangelicals are Zionist.

They believe that Israel is like the recreation of the whole,

so evangelicalism is like, it's a perversion of Christianity.

Now, Jesus Christ was actually the most masculine man

to ever exist.

So all you guys in the manosphere,

I got a man for you to follow Jesus Christ, and I'm not joking.

But evangelicalism is a perversion of Christianity

because they believe that is modern day Israel

is like the return to the Holy Land.

And then it's like, if you believe that,

then why are they bombing it?

Why are they, you know, all that stuff?

So evangelicalism is, it's fucked up.

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