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On this week's episode we'll revisit the TSA's new guidance on marijuana, we'll revisit the body cam footage from a Capitol Police officer on January 6th, 2021, and we'll even visit the "Ironman" Porche custom..

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome in, you magnificent survivors, you glorious sleep-deprived caffeine and bourbon-fueled warriors, y'all glorious messes who keep showing up even when the world feels like it's been marinating in hot sauce and bad decisions. Yes, on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio, it's the only life lesson that ever really teaches us. Keep going. I'm your host, Gavon Bordelon, and I'd like to tell you a secret while we enjoy another couple fingers of this fine stuff. Life isn't a sprint. It's not even really a marathon. No, it's not that cliche. It's more like the scene in Goonies, where the kids are sliding down the water slide into a pit of questionable decisions, and Mikey is screaming, This is our time. And then splat, they land in a heap of bruises, broken bones, and massive pirate ship. That's life. You don't get to opt out. You just get to choose how hard you laugh on the way down and whether you crawl out fighting or crying into your glass. As we always do on this show, we're we're gonna reference the Bible. And yes, the Bible, that ancient, oft-misquoted, sometimes weaponized tome, it has that life lesson in it. It's tailor-made for us in Luke 18. Y'all might remember the story of the persistent widow. She's got no power, no influence, no TikTok followers, no blue check mark, just a grievance and a refusal to shut up. She badgers that unjust judge until he finally caves, not because he's righteous, but because she's annoying as hell. The moral is keep going. Wear life down until it surrenders like a cheap bourbon that finally opens up after 10 years in the barrel. She didn't have a podcast. She didn't have a crew. She just had grit. And sometimes that's enough to make even God's representative on earth say, Fine lady, take the justice already. Look, pop culture has taught us this often. Those of us in Gen X, we got some of these lessons through movies, which means that some of you, those who maybe haven't seen the movie Better Off Dead, might not recognize this. But the fact that you haven't seen Better Off Dead is a genuine American tragedy. Let me recap. In the movie, John Kusak's character gets dumped by the girl of his dreams, who, let's be honest, wasn't worth the paper route from hell he was living. He then spends the whole movie trying to win her back with ski jumps on one ski and the paperboy heroic. Well, here's the the beautiful twist. He doesn't get her. Instead, he gets something better. He gets himself back. He gets a new girl who actually sees him and likes him. And the realization that the prize he thought he wanted was just a participation trophy in disguise. That's at the end of the day, the lesson. Life isn't about winning the prize you thought you wanted when you were 22 and stupid. It's about surviving long enough to realize the real prize was the person that we became while chasing the wrong damn thing. Kind of like aging a good whiskey. You start out maybe a little bit rough, but if you keep going, something magical can happen. Another movie reference. Think about John Wick. I mean, his wife dies, his dog dies, he bleeds, and at one point he cuts off his own finger. But what does he do? He just keeps going. You think Keanu Reeves woke up one morning as a black belt and Japanese jujitsu and a firearms expert? No. He put in training, it got painful, it was strenuous time, and he got both the actor and the fictional character to be a man of singular purpose and focus. In other words, here's the truth: persistence, it's the superpower we should already all have. We don't need a cape or a red pill or training montage set to Eye of the Tiger. We just need to decide that quitting isn't an option today. Maybe you're like Remo Williams from, you know, the adventures of Remo Williams, for those who remember that one. An ordinary guy thrown into an absurd circumstance, forced to learn karate from a grumpy old man who insists you can dodge bullets if you just breathe right, life will throw us into the deep end pretty quickly, every single day. We get no floaties, and then life says, swim, buddy, and somehow we just do. So when the world tells us to quit, when our bank accounts laugh at us like a disappointed uncle at Thanksgiving, when our ex texts us at 3 a.m. with, hey, stranger, like it's a plot twist nobody saw coming, when your boss emails you on a Sunday like the Sabbath was just a suggestion, when the algorithm tries to convince you that nobody cares what you have to say. Remember the widow. Remember Wick. Remember Mikey from Goonie screaming all the way into the abyss. We're all writing this thing down together, yeehaw and all. And then just keep going. Because implicit bias radio isn't stopping. We'll be here this week, whiskey in hand, bourbon on the tongue, solving, or at least loudly complaining about the world's problems, one bad idea and one hot take and one questionable life choice at a time. For you, for the crew, for every glorious survivor who refuses to tap out. Cheers, y'all. Pour yourself something nice and keep going. We'll see you on the other side of this break for whatever fresh hell this week brings. Cheers. We just keep going on implicit bias radio. Welcome into the TSPL. That is the top secret podcast there, located somewhere in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana, where we record this show. I'm your host, Kavan Bordelon. And man, we've got a great crew for you here in the Mr. Lester's TSPL. Let me introduce you to those who are around. Renee, say hello. Hello. See, he follows direction every now and then. No, he is the certified wizard of tobacco. It's always cool to have one of just 15 on the planet certified master tobacconists here in the studio with us. We will talk cigars a little bit this show.

SPEAKER_04 6:05

So you're not identifying this week?

SPEAKER_01 6:07

Not today.

SPEAKER_04 6:07

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

Not at this minute. I might change my mind later in the show and identify later in the show as a certified master tobacconist, but outside of that, no, at this moment, I'm just Kavan.

SPEAKER_04 6:18

It wouldn't be prudent at this juncture.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

Thank you. Thank you, Dana Carvey, for his George Bush impersonation. Wouldn't be prudent at this juncture. Speaking of this juncture at the bar, we have an OG member of the crew. He is Mike Trammell. And we've we had nicknames for him. The wheel stuck for a very long time, but now that he is with Box Drop of Lafayette, it's kind of difficult to call him the wheel, even though he's still driving a lot.

SPEAKER_04 6:46

Oh, yeah, he's delivering a lot of mattresses.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

Oh, that's maybe that's his nickname to the mattresses. Yeah. The mattress. Mattress Mike.

SPEAKER_05 6:53

There you go. Mattress Mac. Mattress Mike. It's better than the drip, y'all.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

The drip is the drip, the drip didn't stick. So, you know, and plus we know how much time you spend on your back, so the mattress might just work. You walked into that one. I'm sorry. You walk straight into that one trammel.

SPEAKER_05 7:09

See, there's no love over here. They just said I'm an OG member. And is this how you treat?

SPEAKER_01 7:14

Yes. Because you know on this show, we operate by the animal house rule, which is they can't do that to our pledges. Only we can do that to our pledges. When we don't make fun of people that are on this show, that's when you know we don't like them, which is why we don't make fun of Paul.

SPEAKER_05 7:31

Well, you're up then.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

He is the guy, he is the guy next to the mattress at the bar. He is Paul Sabatier.

SPEAKER_02 7:38

See, you forgot it already.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

Yeah, I can't remember the acronym.

SPEAKER_02 7:42

I'm not gonna bring it up.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

Oh, I'm I I I remember what the acronym stood for, right? I don't know. It was F-I-Y-G-D, right? Yeah. And how do you say it? Fiat. I mean, I can't remember exactly what it was. Because he's Paul Sabatier. He's his name sounds like he was in the castle in Monty Python's holy grail.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

In your general.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

Ephiod. There you go. Efiod. Ephiad. Yeah, e fig. Whatever. E fig. There we go. E fig.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

I think we can do better.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

Yeah, I do too. It's it sounds forced. It's appropriate, but it's forced. Yeah, so it just doesn't work. All right. Speaking of something that is not forced, something that just works, our weekly whiskey on this show. I mean, we always said when we started implicit bias radio that we would have the conversations that people aren't supposed to have in public. We would do it on the radio and we would do it with whiskey. So that means that we have to have a whiskey on the show. So we might as well start about talking about the whiskey. So let's start talking about this whiskey. Now, little bit of a detour from our normal path on this show with regards to our weekly whiskey. Normally, we only feature picks from the Implicit Bias Liquor Collective. We're still sticking with what's available at the Implicit Bias Liquor Collective, but this is not a pick. This is something that is brand new to the market. It can be found at some of our Implicit Biased Liquor Collective partners, whether that's Benny's and Opalouses, whether it's Ambassador Wine and Spirits, Champines in Carn Crow, Champines in Abbeyville, whether it's New News Markets in Youngsville, Scott, Milton, Maurice. Blue Note has been out for a while. Everybody's seen Blue Note. We've seen some picks of Blue Note. But Blue Note Weeded Bourbon is a whole different dynamic. So that's what we're featuring on the show this week. This one comes in at 101 proof. So 50.5% alcohol by volume. And I'm really curious to know what the TSPL, what the crew thinks, and how we're going to rate this particular offering. And then we will play, you know, what would you pay for the what would you pay championship belt chain presented by Box Drop and all that fun stuff. So let's start at the bar. Mike just had a sip. He's the most recent person to partake here on the show. So Mike, I'm curious as to what you think of this blue note weeded.

SPEAKER_05 10:03

The whole dynamic is thrown off by you standing up back here. I just have to say this. So Paul is standing up for this.

SPEAKER_03 10:10

It's not like here.

SPEAKER_05 10:17

But you're standing up and like the chairs are over here, so don't get too excited.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

But I understand that I understand that somebody who actually deals in furniture has new bar stools on the way. They're on the way, come on.

SPEAKER_05 10:30

They're on the way. We are graciously donating two bar stools to this rinky dink operation. He cannot afford bar stools back. I'm literally sitting halfway on a crooked bar stool right now that Paul can't even sit on. He has he has to stand up.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

At the end of the day, this is why we have partners like Box Drop Laughing.

SPEAKER_05 10:49

Because they don't just do sponsors, they don't just do mattresses.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

No, actually, I'll tell I'll tell everybody the story of how this worked out. The stool broke during a show a couple weeks ago, or right before a show a couple weeks ago. And we said that we needed new bar stools. We said it during the show, and somebody, um, Mike Trammell, wink wink, nudge, nudge, happened to hear it listening to the show. And he's like, hey, y'all need new bar stools? I got you. And he just took that. I mean, that's the kind of partners we have.

SPEAKER_05 11:13

So thank you from Box Drive. I believe Burley was actually talking about it. And yeah, you know, me and Burley are like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 11:19

Yeah, but it was my stool that broke, not Burley's.

SPEAKER_01 11:21

Oh. Okay, so Mike, back to the whiskey. What do you think of this blue note weeded bourbon at 101 proof?

SPEAKER_05 11:30

So I heard Renee talking about this during commercial that he couldn't get a grasp on it. And I'm having the same issue, but it's to the nose, I'm getting a peach. I don't know if y'all are catching that. It's a strong peach. But on the palate, it's almost like a, I want to say like a graham cracker kind of taste to me. Oh different.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

I hadn't come up with that, but yes, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_05 11:58

I I absolutely agree. Renee was saying he was, and I was thinking about it, I was like, man, what is what is it? Yeah, I it but it's it's a totally different, you go from a peach smell to graham cracker on the palate.

SPEAKER_01 12:12

So when you say peach, what I was gonna say was, and I I go a little more general, I was gonna say stone fruit. What is a stone fruit? It is a fruit that has a a stone ape.

SPEAKER_04 12:22

Like like peaches, nectarines, okay, okay. Okay.

unknown 12:25

Generalization.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

Right? Yeah. So nectarines have a yeah. I was gonna say plums have a pit. Yep. Right? So I get that's what I get. I get stone fruit. Okay, right. And it's typically more white on the the actual meat of the fruit, the flesh of the fruit. And I yes, I absolutely get stone fruit on the nose. I don't get a big, heavy nose on this. Like it is not overly aromatic to me. No, and I mean but it is not unpleasant at all.

SPEAKER_04 12:52

And you would figure with the proof it's 101, which is not weak, weak, but it's kind of weak. But you would you would get some aroma out of it, but I don't really get a whole bunch out of it.

SPEAKER_05 13:02

It's very faint. Yeah, very, very faint. No, not much spice. Um, it's I mean, it's for a 101. I mean, it's it's weak to me, I guess you'd say.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

So there's really interesting. I don't think this drinks at 101. No. And and remember, we know that on this show we are absolute proof hounds. We believe that life starts at like 107, 110. And I'm gonna use 107 as kind of a hint, hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge for our Monty Python fans out there, because that reference will probably come back when it comes to me. But Mike, I am so on point with you and in agreement with you. I don't get a ton of aroma on it. I don't get that bourbon, bourbon-y McBourbon that you expect with a heavy corn that spent a lot of time. I mean, you can look at the color of this. For those that are watching on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook X, by the way, please like, follow, share, because that helps not just us, but it helps you with your implicit bias as well. It's not overly dark. So we're not looking at something that I think is aged. And I don't even know that there's an age statement on it.

SPEAKER_04 14:04

They don't, they don't have a state.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

But you're not looking at something that's aged, you know, five plus years, maybe not even four years, would be my guess.

SPEAKER_04 14:12

I would, yeah, I would guess probably two to three.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

But what's interesting is usually a two to three year is, I don't want to say unpalatable, but a two to three year usually is not enjoyable. Right. I find this enjoyable.

SPEAKER_04 14:24

Yeah, I mean, this one's very drinkable. It it looks and it smells like a young whiskey, but it doesn't taste like a young whiskey. But I don't get a typical whiskey taste out of this, and I don't know why. I mean, it it might be the weeded that's affecting it, but we've had I've had weeded whiskeys before and still got the the whiskey flavoring.

SPEAKER_01 14:44

This one I just don't get a whole bunch of flavor out of.

SPEAKER_04 14:47

So I don't know what's going on.

SPEAKER_01 14:48

I'm gonna disagree, but when I tell you the flavor that I get, it might make sense. Okay. I don't get, like I said, I don't get that bourbon, bourbony McBourbon, that big bold. This is not that big bold whiskey. Yeah, it's just not. This almost to me has a flavor profile more of a light American whiskey than it does a flavor profile of straight bourbon whiskey. Paul, I'm curious as to what you think of this one.

SPEAKER_02 15:12

So I obviously don't have the knowledge of taste of what you guys. I I got it it smelled sweetish, not sweet-ish, but sweet-ish.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

Not like the fish, like sweet-ish, like two words.

SPEAKER_04 15:29

Not like the not like the bikini team. Correct, correct.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

Not like the bikini team from the 80s.

SPEAKER_02 15:34

Or the bobsledding team. Yes. Um, and when I when I put it, when I tasted it, it was it's definitely got no burn at all. It's nothing on the front end. Uh, I got a little bit in the back end, but it was very, very faint. Um I I kind of when you said graham crack graham cracker, I was like, Yeah. It it is like a hint of graham cracker, so I could definitely see that. I would actually say, do you get the Irish whiskey like that we had that that no?

SPEAKER_01 16:01

Not not a hundred percent, but like in that yeah, I I I understand what you're talking about. You don't get that Irish flavor profile, right? But when you talk about like lighter in the mouthfeel, how light it is, yeah, the the I don't want to say lack of finish, but a very light and short finish that it has. This is dangerous because to me, this goes down, and I say dangerous, I mean that in a good way. Yeah, it goes down very easy. Yeah, yeah. This is a great whiskey or bourbon if you have someone who maybe doesn't drink a ton of bourbon and they go, man, I'm not sure. I don't know that I'd like it. This is a great gateway.

SPEAKER_04 16:37

Or they're or they're looking for something with a little less heat on the flavor and stuff. Yeah, a beginner. It'd be a great beginner whiskey.

SPEAKER_02 16:45

This is the stuff fighting '69. That's the one, the Irish whiskey. And I know that's the one you're going for. That's the one I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

Yep. I know exactly the one you're talking about. So let me tell you what I get off of this, and we'll we'll go from there. This is where maybe Mike and I really align on the flavor profile. Because yes, I do get stone fruit on the nose. Where I immediately went was I get light watered down honey on this. So while honey would be sweet, this is not nearly as sweet, but honey gram. Yeah, honey graham. Right? Literally, if you I what I see when I drink this is the bee with the little honey thing, the ball that's dripping onto the graham cracker. That's the image that I get. That is the image that I get when I drink this. Almost the Cheerios bee, right? Because you do get that light, thin honey flavor profile. But I find this very tasty.

SPEAKER_03 17:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

As much as we say it's not the big, the bold, it's still really easily drinkable. And you've heard us talk about on the show, and it's been a long time since we've said it. You want a summer bourbon? Oh, yeah. This is it. I mean, this week where we live and where we broadcast out of Lafayette, Louisiana, we were in the 90s multiple days this week. So when you start thinking about some of the bourbons and whiskies that we drink, that thick, viscous 110, 120 proof that sits and warms you from the inside might not be what you want to drink when you're sweating bullets throughout the course of the day. I mean, when you need a shower walking from your house to your car, if it's not in a garage, you probably aren't in the mood for a heavy warming whiskey. This is not heavy warming. This is almost light and refreshing for a bourbon.

SPEAKER_05 18:28

Yeah, this is something you can go sit on your patio in the afternoon when it's still 80-something degrees in the afternoon, the sun's setting. You're right. We always go after the strong and the this is perfect to me, like a nice warm weather bourbon.

SPEAKER_01 18:41

It's a profile we have not had on this show in a very long time. And that's actually what I really like about it. Because every now and then you need that curveball. You've got to keep going because if you look at, and we'll show you a shot of what the bar looks like, and everybody who watches the show knows there's a lot of stuff on the bar. But if you go from bottle to bottle to bottle, even to our infinity bottle, it's a lot of the deeper, darker flavors. It's a lot of the dark caramel, it's a lot of the toasted flavors, that toasted marshmallow. This, if you even thought about caramel, this brings you to, for those who've hadn't, it's my favorite dessert on the planet. And now I'm gonna go all caleb. If you've ever had what they used to call caramel custard in Europe or flodn in Spain or Mexico, when they make it, the custard is actually baked. It's baked in a water bath. And on the bottom of the custard is a light caramel sauce, and it's watery, it's not thick, made like caramel with cream, it's just there's water to it. So when you take it out and you turn it over, there's this wonderful sauce all over the plate. And it is very light, it's got that sugary caramel flavor, but it's not deep, it doesn't have the depth of like a chocolate-covered caramel that you might buy in a high-end chocolate shop. This to me is reminiscent of that almost honey-ish light caramel that is a light summer bourbon that, man, I could just sit and sip all day long. And here's the really good part this makes a fantastic cocktail. Don't ask me how I know. How do you know? I said, don't ask me. I'm just telling you. This bottle was open when it came into the TSPL because it came to me after a show one night, and I got it home and I was like, I tasted it. I said, Oh, I need to make a cocktail out of this. And I made an old-fashioned out of it and said, Oh, this is just fantastic. It really allows for the old flash old-fashioned flavors to just play off of one another because the whiskey doesn't overpower it, but it's still there, and it's just enough. So I think it's time because I don't know how much time we have, because apparently Matthew's not doing Walker's job in the corner. I don't know how much time we have left in this segment. One minute. Okay, so we're gonna go a little bit long. Of course, one minute, which means we're probably over time, but that's okay.

SPEAKER_05 21:05

Way to be there.

SPEAKER_01 21:05

So here's what we're gonna do. We are gonna play what would you pay for the what would you pay championship belt chain, where everybody just gives their number of where they think this bottle comes in, whoever's closest to the hole wins the box drop what would you pay championship belt chain here in the TSPL. And where would you rate this? A red, I wouldn't drink it even if it was free. A yellow, I would only drink it if it was free. A green, I would buy this, or a blue, I would seek this out. So let's start at the bar. Same order that we went before. Mr. Trammel, where would you rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code? And what would you pay?

SPEAKER_05 21:37

This is a solid yellow.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

Really? You would not buy it. Okay. I would I would.

SPEAKER_05 21:43

Man, it's uh I know Caleb says don't go with the high yellows. I wouldn't buy it. Maybe if it was a maybe a special summertime kind of deal. Okay. Possibly would buy it.

SPEAKER_01 21:53

Just not your flavor profile that you'll just I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 21:56

I guess now we're so spoiled to all these good bourbons and whiskey.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Oh, whoa, stop. Halt the presses. We're going long. You're not used to donkey whiskey anymore?

SPEAKER_05 22:05

No, he's he's come on donkey whiskey. Since I've come back on this new contract when I was with Lux Limo, I used to get all the donkey whiskeys. Like that's because that's because you were always driving. We've got to be a good thing. That was the Boone Farms and the LED 2020 and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 22:21

Strawberry Hill is a good one. Okay, so yellow, what would you pay?

SPEAKER_05 22:26

I keep thinking going back to like a well or weeded on this, and I kind of know what that price range is, and I I know this is gonna be below. Man, I'm gonna put this around 49.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

49 and a yellow. Okay. Sabatier. Sabatier.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

Sabatier. So I'm gonna give it a green and I'm probably around the 45. Green and 45. High 45. Like I would I would say it's like co-pave anywhere from 35 to 45.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

Can you be a little more vague for a go 45? 40. 45.

SPEAKER_04 23:02

Okay, Renee. I'm gonna go with Mike and give it a yellow because it's just I just don't get a lot of flavor out of it. I'll drink it because you know it is free and you gave it to me, so I'll drink it. Okay. Um I'm thinking 40 on this one.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

40 on this one. Everybody's in the 40s. Everybody's in the 40s. So here's the deal. I get to be the tiebreaker because my vote counts more than y'all's. This is a green. I would absolutely buy this. There is no doubt this should be a green, especially at 42.99, which means Sabatier, no, 42.99. You said 45. Yep. Yep. Sabatier gets to wear the what would you pay championship belt chains presented by Box Drop. An official green available. This one came from Champines Abbeville. It's available at Implicit Biased Liquor Collective. Partners, we will come back. We will keep going right after this commercial break. We will keep going on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Gavon Bordelon. And yes, this story is one where maybe the people shouldn't have kept going because it led to an indictment. Welcome into the TSPL. It is the Mr. Lester's TSPL, which by the way, we're going to talk about the indictment in a second, but we also have to talk about what is available in the month of June at Mr. Lester Steakhouse at Cypress Bayou Casino. And it is Mr. Lester's private barrel picked with implicit bias radio at a single barrel, $17.92 $5 pores. Ooh. You can literally only get this barrel at Mr. Lester's Steakhouse. You can buy bottles in the restaurant if you want. Yes. You can buy the bottle in the restaurant at Mr. Lester Steakhouse. Hopefully they'll have some at the end of the month. Well, that's the big question. Do they have any left at the end of the month? Which, by the way, for those who don't know, and yes, tune in because we will be giving them away via social media. Tickets to summer supper at Mr. Lester Steakhouse with the crew, where Mr. Lester covers food, drinks, and hotel for the night on June 27th. Gonna be tons of fun. We're looking forward to hosting some of you, our loyal listeners. What, Trammel? I can see you wanting to say something.

SPEAKER_05 25:13

Drinking with Lincoln.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

You need the microphone. You need the microphone. Drinking with Lincoln. See, Trammel's dating himself there. That was when in the 90s you would go to a bar, give them five bucks, and it was all the beer you could drink. I remember those days. Actually, I remember some of those days, if you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_05 25:29

Yeah. I grew up in Alexandria, so we had the cotton gin. It was an old, it was an old cotton gin that was turned into a bar and drinking with Lincoln. Five bucks, baby.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Yep. The pours at Mr. Lester Steakhouse from their own private barrel, huge announcement of $17.92, which you know how good the food is at Mr. Lester's. Trust me from being a part of the panel that picked this. Oh my goodness, this barrel is straight fire. You do not want to miss it. Do not want to miss it. Okay, so back to the indictment. And we often say on this show, it's not a theory. What is it, Renee? It's it is a theory. It's no, it's not a theory. It's not a it's a conspiracy. There you go. It's not a theory, it is a conspiracy.

SPEAKER_04 26:16

Yeah, it's a conspiracy theory.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

And this indictment might have proven that it's not a conspiracy theory, it is a conspiracy. So in the month of May, and I love waiting to talk about these to let these stories marinate and make sure that we're on point, but we're on point with this one. Please, as we always say on the show, please don't believe this. Go look this up. This is a great read if you think that the game of life that we are playing isn't rigged. If you think the game isn't rigged, go read this. Why? Because the now defunct Texas Lottery Commission and the Commissioner have now been indicted. And basically it's a fraud charge. It's a malfeasance charge. Why? And here's the allegation. The allegation is that the commission failed the oversight while the commissioner worked with an international gambling syndicate to be able to purchase every single possible outcome in order to rig the game so the syndicate could win every single time that it was worth it. So follow me here. The lottery will get to a point based upon the number of balls that get drawn, where the jackpot is larger than the cost to purchase every single possible outcome. Right? I mean, you might have a one in five million chance of winning, or a one in ten million chance of winning. So the logical thought process would be: hey, if it's a one in ten million chance and the jackpot is $70 million, it's worth it. If I can get $10 million, I'll buy 10 million tickets, one of every single possible outcome to guarantee myself $70 million.

SPEAKER_04 28:03

Well, if you don't split it with somebody. But the the odds are doing that, you got to rig something up because for you to be able to buy 10 million tickets, those machines can only spit out so much, so many tickets at a time. How many machines you gotta set up to do that?

SPEAKER_02 28:27

100%. So like when is that like the what the Powerballs at like five or two billion, right? Right. Correct. So I'm like, well, why doesn't somebody go and purchase every single one number? Like, because that's it's way more of a profit to do so. But then you start doing the math and you're like, you can't physically do it.

SPEAKER_01 28:44

Well, unless you had so let's let's also talk Powerball. We'll talk Powerball specifically. This does not pertain to the Texas lottery. Correct. Powerball gets to $2 billion. If you win, the only way to get the full $2 billion. Number one, you have to take that as an annual annuity for what, 25 years? Yeah, it's 20 or 20 years. It's 20 to 25 years. So you've got to wait a long time to get the full payout. Second of all, you got to pay taxes on that payout. So you're not getting the full 2 billion.

SPEAKER_04 29:12

Unless you're in California. Of all places, California does not tax lottery winnings. They tax the hell out of everything else, but not lottery winnings. That's interesting. They win a lot.

SPEAKER_01 29:23

Ah they win a whole lot. Okay, so this is why this is a wonderful conversation, because now we're starting to put two and two together. So the other option is that if you win, you can take the cash option.

SPEAKER_04 29:35

Right.

SPEAKER_01 29:35

At which point you get like 64% of the total $2 billion. About half. It's if it's still before taxes. Right. So if it's still one point, if it's a $2 billion jackpot, you could say you get 60%, call it, as a one-time payout. So now you've got $1.2 billion. Now you got to pay taxes on the $1.2 billion, and you have to say, all right, how many total combinations do I need to buy in order to get that? Well, if it's $394 million, number one, coming up with $394 million is not easy. No. That's number one.

SPEAKER_04 30:08

I don't think the bank will loan you the money for that.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

No, they're not. That'd be a dumb loan because you if you could prove you could do it. Yeah. Number two, here's the other part of it. The other thing you have to worry about is oh, well, now I'm getting $1.2 billion, which after 40% of taxes is somewhere around $700 million. So now it's a possibility, well, it's 390 some odd million combinations. Oh, so I only made, you know, call it, call it 400 million for round numbers, unless two other people win it. Right. Now you're splitting it three ways.

SPEAKER_04 30:39

Yeah, but one of the things that you're not thinking about is in between, yeah, you're buying every number combination. So that means you're gonna get more winnings, more winnings because you're gonna get two number prizes, three number prizes, four number prizes, five number prizes. I mean, some of those prizes are a million dollars right off the bat.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

You know, so but here's but here's the big question I have, and this is where Paul came in. Do you think this is gonna be the only person doing this? Oh no. Do you think those are the only people trying to rig a game where you can win at times 40, 100 million dollars, right? Yeah, do you think, and why would you get so many winners in California? We don't think about it because we go, oh, well, if you think about the number of people in California, they're probably buying more tickets. I look at it and go, Well, gee, if I'm gonna rig the game, I'm not gonna rig just the drawing. I'm gonna rig the whole thing. I'm gonna rig the taxes on it, I'm gonna rig everything.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

Yeah, can you imagine going through that many tickets to see how many are winners?

SPEAKER_04 31:36

Yeah. So, first of all, that's another thing. You just bring your stack of tickets to your local convenience store and go, here, scan these for me. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

You're backing up an 18 liter full of tickets, of a lot of tickets. Scan these for me. Yes, here we're gonna sit here and scan these. I can only see the person behind the counter.

SPEAKER_05 31:52

That'd be me, usually. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

Or the person behind you in line being like, I just want to buy a Coke. Yeah. Just wanted to buy.

SPEAKER_04 31:59

You have to wait your turn. Not gonna scan these 9 billion tickets.

SPEAKER_01 32:03

But I'm telling you, this whole thing, yeah, it bothers me because remember, Jeffrey Epstein's estate in Arizona somehow managed to win two or three, yeah, right, multiple. Did they have somebody on the inside just like this person did?

SPEAKER_05 32:19

If memory serves me right, wasn't the Monopoly game with McDonald's compromise? It was raised by the agency.

SPEAKER_04 32:26

That's why they pulled it off for a while, and they just recently came back and modified highly modified.

SPEAKER_01 32:31

So here's different here's how that happened. The guy entrusted to maintain the security of the McDonald's Monopoly game was finding a way to get the pieces that were needed to win the million dollars. He would make a deal with a friend, a family member, and they were all being one in the same place. And here's the other part of that. What McDonald's calculated when they did this was somebody's gonna throw away the winning pieces, right? So you might have had, say you needed boardwalk and park place in order to win the million dollars.

SPEAKER_04 33:06

There's only one boardwalk.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

There was only one boardwalk a year or two boardwalks a year. Right. So what companies calculate, and this goes down to coupon redemption as well. Companies calculate we are only going to get this many redeemed every single year. They're calculating somebody's gonna throw away, there's a 40% chance somebody's gonna throw away the winning boardwalk, somebody else might win the other. So any given year, we might only have one winner of the million dollars. But every year, they started getting two winners over and over and over and over. And that statistical anomaly said, somebody's rigging this game. They knew it was rigged, they just couldn't figure out who until they started tracking pieces, they started looking at geography and went, oh my goodness, the guy who actually is, and he like he survived one investigation, but couldn't survive the the second or the third. It was a really interesting story.

SPEAKER_04 33:58

But I'm telling you, if we think that lotteries aren't rigged, eventually, it might start out not being rigged, agreed, but eventually the greed gets to you. When you're involved in that, and it's normally it's gotta be somebody on the inside that rigs it because they have access to everything. Eventually, the greed gets to them.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

It's why I always say when people talk about the NFL being rigged, the NBA being rigged, MLB being rigged, hockey being rigged, I'm like, they're all there, there's influence there somewhere. I'm like, let's let's talk about proof. We know the 1917 World Series was fixed. Right. We know this. That was the White Sox scanner. We know the NBA has been fixed because of Tim Donahey, the official who said, I will name names, and the NBA itself swept him under the rug. Yeah. We're talking about somebody rigging a multi-million dollar lottery. The NFL is worth $35 plus billion dollars a year. Don't tell me that they're not trying to influence us.

SPEAKER_04 34:56

Oh, yeah. And those, and I'm sure, you know, referees, you know, what was that couple of years ago? The infamous non-catch or you're thinking the no-call against the saints, yeah. Against the Saints.

SPEAKER_02 35:08

Yeah. So they we haven't talked about it, but do you know this was actually dismissed three days later?

SPEAKER_01 35:14

So they dismissed the indictment.

SPEAKER_02 35:16

Yeah. So that's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 35:18

But here's the question: what's the grounds for dismissing the indictment?

SPEAKER_02 35:20

Right.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

Well, who's the assistant DA? You know, what's going on? This goes, this goes to all kinds of people, there's multiple people potentially involved, right? So the indictment was filed, it then gets dismissed. Yeah. But now you have to start wondering how much money is involved and how much does it cost to get somebody to go, uh, well, so for example, there is a case, um, and I can't remember the exact name of the case, but it was about six protesters that just got dismissed where they were interrupting ICE operations. And the reason they got dismissed was because the prosecutor went to the grand jury and committed like five overt acts that they are not supposed to do. And the judge presiding over the case said, no, the prosecutor cannot go in after a no-true bill on the indictment and then swear, oh, trust me on the evidence, this is what's going to happen. You're gonna be famous. The prosecutor can't do all these things. But the really interesting thought process behind it is because now that prosecutor is working for someone who would not be happy about six protesters actually doing time for interrupting ICE, uh, aka Dick Durbin is who the prosecutor now works for. Where people are saying, I wonder if the prosecutor did it on purpose to intentionally sabotage the case, aka Jim Comey's daughter, when she was prosecuting some big high-profile cases in New York. People are wondering who's tied in, what's the cost to get this dismissed? And if I can guarantee myself a $40 million win and a million dollars gets everybody out of jail time, you spend that million dollars, and that's how people think. They just keep going on these things, which is why we have to keep going on the right things. Right? We can't keep going and doubling down on the bad things. Sooner or later, that will catch us. But it's doing the right thing that's important. Are we close to the one-minute finger?

SPEAKER_04 37:12

Yeah, we are.

SPEAKER_01 37:12

Oh, now now he stuck it up. No, it'd been and nobody tells me. Fine, we'll take the finger, we'll come back. Is it the final segment of hour one after this? More implicit bias radio, because we will definitely keep going. We just kept going in the last segment of implicit bias radio and went a little bit long, but it's okay because we still have plenty of time for the final segment of hour one of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Gavon Bordelon. Welcome into the Mr. Lester's top secret podcast layer, located somewhere in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana, where we are somewhat marveling, Renee.

unknown 37:47

Marveling.

SPEAKER_01 37:48

Marveling Marveling.

SPEAKER_04 37:50

Not like the superhero marveling. Oh, that's right. You know, my son was going to watch one of the Marvel movies. Yeah, that is not what we're talking about. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:57

Because if he's doing this as Marveling, you don't you might not want him doing this. I don't know. You might not care. Because the bar apparently knows how quickly you can get this. Yeah. Because TSA apparently doesn't care.

SPEAKER_04 38:09

Which is kind of weird because we don't even say this is, but they are a federal agency and they're gonna allow you to carry marijuana through if it's prescribed.

SPEAKER_01 38:20

If if it's quote, medicinal, yes, nudge nudge. I mean, apparently that's that's kind of what this is. Right. But they are letting people now go through TSA with marijuana in their luggage as long as it's medicinal. So my question is when they get somebody with a suitcase that's got two keys and a medicinal card, I mean, at what point do they draw the line and be like, um, maybe that's not personal use?

SPEAKER_04 38:44

I got a bad, I need it bad.

SPEAKER_01 38:46

I got a bad case of glaucoma.

SPEAKER_04 38:47

Yes. And in my anxiety, I get real nervous. I I need this this kilo to keep me calm.

SPEAKER_02 38:54

I I could be wrong, but if you drive across state lines, that's important. Like if so the state you're going into doesn't recognize that.

SPEAKER_01 39:03

If you drive across state lines with too much alcohol in your car, you are still bootlegging.

SPEAKER_02 39:08

Yeah, correct. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:09

Much less I'm getting on a plane. I I still wouldn't. I mean, I don't, but I still wouldn't.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

Yeah, but sure you don't.

SPEAKER_04 39:16

No, man. Yeah, but I'm sure that you know, if you're flying from, let's say, Colorado to California, both states are it's legal. So that's I'm sure that's why TSA, but if you're flying from, you know, let's say Colorado to, I don't know, what a state that doesn't Kansas, Oklahoma, I mean, I I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

It's a guess. I'm sure then there would be an issue. But technically, is there, and here's why. Because the skies, the airport, that's all federal.

SPEAKER_04 39:48

Yeah, but you're flying over states, you're not stopping, but you're landing in a state that it is illegal.

SPEAKER_01 39:53

But the airport is federal jurisdiction with regards to security.

SPEAKER_02 39:56

Well, marijuana is still illegal federally.

SPEAKER_01 40:02

All I know is this. I just find it hysterical that they are now saying, oh, TSA is gonna let marijuana go. Because if you start reading the comments on this story and please don't believe us on this, please go look this up. The comments are hysterical. They're like, oh, I've been doing this for the last five years. I'm thinking about my experience with TSA. So I used to fly a lot. Y'all are aware of this. I was gone for a week out of every month. We would have to record two episodes in a week and all this. One time I was coming back from Chicago and I wasn't feeling well, and I would always travel with a pocket knife. And the knives that I travel with, trust me, they're not TSA friendly. So I pat myself down and I always checked any knife that I would travel with into my check bag because that's legal. Well, I get in line to go through TSA and I hit my back pocket and I went, oh no. I've got a knife that absolutely is going to get confiscated. And it wasn't cheap. It was a gift, it was like a $300 knife. And I'm like, oh my goodness, I really do not want to just give this to TSA. So I was like, you know what? We're gonna we're gonna find out how TSA does. Dropped it in my backpack, Kavan one, TSA zero. Well, I got sick on the flight. Like I had a stomach virus, not like got sick from motion sickness, like had a stomach virus, and it was bad. Like, thank God it was only one direction, not the other direction, but it was bad.

SPEAKER_03 41:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:17

So I had a layover in Atlanta and said, you know what? I need to stay in Atlanta tonight. Hopefully this will pass and I can fly home tomorrow. Went and got a hotel room, stayed in the hotel room, slept like 14 hours, came out the next day, and I'm like, I still have this knife with me because my check bag made it back to Lafayette. So I'm like, what's gonna happen here? I was like, you know what? We're gonna put this in the backpack again. Drop it in the backpack. Here's the fun part. My wife had to send me new clothes and sent me a bag to put the clothes, which had absorbed some of me being sick on them, if you know what I mean. And I put them in this bag. Well, you have to put them in two separate carriers in the Atlanta airport. So they come through and it's automated. It slides the bags over and the baskets over, the containers to the side to be inspected. It slid over the bag that had the sick clothes in it. And I was like, oh, this is gonna smell horrific when this dude opens this up. And I'm like, you don't want to open that. And he's like, I'm like, look, feel free. I don't care because there's nothing in it. Kavan 2 with the knife, TSA 0. And if you count the TSA guy opening it, getting a whiff of what's inside, going, Oh my God. I was like, dude, I told you I was sick yesterday.

SPEAKER_03 42:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:26

He zipped it back up and goes, I don't care. Go. Kavan 3, TSA Zero. I'm like, now we think they're gonna find marijuana.

unknown 42:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:33

That's why they're not gonna look for it. And I'm sure there's so many people flying with it now. They're like, dude, we would be confiscating so much stuff.

SPEAKER_05 42:40

We ain't got enough storage at the airport for this. I'm personally, when I'm flying, I'm not worried about the guy that's got the medical marijuana. I'll really TSA concentrate their efforts on weapons and somebody that's trying to do something. The guy that's yeah, the guy that's got the miracle marijuana, he's gonna be the happiest guy on the plane.

SPEAKER_01 42:57

Did y'all hear the did y'all hear the Freudian slip that Mike just said? He didn't say medical marijuana, he said miracle marijuana. Maybe he knows something about that that I don't because he's never been there.

SPEAKER_05 43:07

I've tried the governor side, not yet.

SPEAKER_01 43:10

I love the way he tries to like buy into half of it and let the other side of it go.

SPEAKER_05 43:15

Yeah, that guy that's on the plane with that, let him go with it.

SPEAKER_04 43:18

Yeah, he'll be mellow. It's like a buddy of mine years ago who's a police officer. He said he would never get in a fight with a stoner. Drunks, they always want to fight you. But a dude that's that's high on weed, he just he's more mellow, just wants to get along.

SPEAKER_01 43:35

This is why I have an issue sometimes trying to figure out about legality of marijuana versus alcohol. I mean, what's it what's somebody who's got they're they're gonna rob you for your bag of Cheetos? I mean, at the end of the day, it's like, how many times do you find people who are who are inebriated or under the influence of marijuana who want to get in a fight? I I don't know, but it really makes me wonder.

SPEAKER_02 43:58

That's that's the Marijuana guy who I don't want the marijuana guy on the plane to be pilot. So, you know, the same thing, right?

SPEAKER_01 44:07

Well, they they don't have the testing for that for marijuana as they do for alcohol, which is the hang up on why the legality of it, in my opinion, is where it is. All right. Hour two of Implicit Bias Radio is always more fun. We have a guest who's gonna join us in segment one where we're gonna talk about a new football team, a new football league coming to Louisiana that should be tons of fun. We're gonna talk about why people have to keep going because it's gonna give some of those Louisiana people more opportunity and why sometimes you just need better entertainment than you're getting right now. That's all gonna be more fun in hour two of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. Cheers. Hour two of Implicit Bias Radio is always more fun. Why? Because we got more weekly whiskey for those who are watching on the YouTube X, Instagram, Facebook side. By the way, please go find us on our socials. Like, share, subscribe, follow all the good things. Why? Because it helps you propagate your implicit bias. I'm Gavon Bordelon. We are in the Mr. Lester's TSPL, and we have a crew here for you this week. If you're listening in hour one, you already heard Renee Girard, Louisiana's only certified master tobacconist.

SPEAKER_04 45:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 45:16

And we're gonna talk, we're gonna talk what cigar you would put with this blue note in a minute. So take some time. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 45:22

I'm gonna have to think about that.

SPEAKER_01 45:23

Take some time. But we're gonna give you some time because we have a guest here in the TSPL, it's gonna be fantastic. I feel bad because we put Coach Ananias Johnson next to Paul at the bar. And that is just Coach, we're sorry. No problem, no problem. So, coach, first of all, I I gotta ask because this is your this is your inaugural appearance. This is your initiation to the crew of implicit bias radio. You've been sitting out there listening for an hour. What do you think? You can be honest, it's all right. We don't care. Y'all having a good time. I like that. Well, we do have a good time, and we talk about a bunch of stuff. And I uh when the season starts, I hope y'all invite us back. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. But coach, I mean, we designed this show to be the conversation that you heard your dad, your uncle, your grandpa having the middle of the afternoon, sitting around having a couple of adult beverages, right? Trying to fix things. This this is a universal conversation, isn't it? I mean, you hear your family members going through the same stuff we're going through. Yes, all your missing just eagles. Well, unfortunately, we can't we can't partake here in this studio. We don't own the studio, so it's that's ours. Normally we do, but that's why we're gonna have Renee talk cigars in a minute. Yes, sir. Gotcha on it. We have had lots of fun talking about some of the just stupid stuff. Some of it's political, some of it's criminal, some of it's just fun. But these conversations also turn to sports. And we've actually touched on the NFL a little bit. We've touched on there being all this stuff. You are involved. You will be the head coach of a new football league that's launching here in Louisiana called the Apex Football League. Tell us a little bit about it.

SPEAKER_00 46:58

Yeah, we are called an Apex Pro Football Team. Um, short A um short APFL.

SPEAKER_01 47:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 47:04

Um we are similar to the UFL, it's gonna be our spring um team. Okay. Um, not the fall, because you know, nobody could compete with the NFL. So um we're gonna be our spring league. Okay. Um, we're gonna start out with four teams uh in 2027. It's gonna be us, the Louisiana Venoms, it's gonna be the South Carolina um Seawolves. Okay, it's gonna be the Virginia Battles, and it's gonna be New York. Now, I don't really don't know their name because I don't pay attention to none of them, but I'm paying attention to the Louisiana Venoms. I got you. Because we're trying to win the championship, we're trying to bring it on home.

SPEAKER_01 47:35

I gotcha. Well, look, let's so let's start there because one of the reasons I love that we have a new football team in Louisiana is I'm an old sports guy. I worked in the sports department at WWL in New Orleans decades ago. I worked in the sports department here in Lafayette, the CBS affiliate. And the one thing that you very quickly realize as you start to see kind of grassroots football in Louisiana is that a Louisiana kid, a Louisiana football player is just different. Think of it this way. And this is the prime example. Justin Jefferson was a three-star recruit coming out of high school. Justin Jefferson is arguably one of the top two receivers in the NFL. By the way, the other guy that is the other top receiver in the NFL played with him in college, also from Louisiana, played at Rummel High School in New Orleans in Jamar Chase, right? It's hard to argue. But the question then becomes why is Justin Jefferson a three-star and almost didn't get to LSU because of the stars. It's because the talent level here is so much better than anywhere else. You are correct.

SPEAKER_00 48:39

Um, I could go further back. We could use the Honey Badger. Honey Badger was Tyron Matthew. He was not looked at at all until he went to a football camp. He went to a football camp, and that's how he got looked at. And that's, you know, Louisiana got some talent. Louisiana got talent, and that's, and that's what that's why I'm so happy about this Louisiana team, because I know we could bring home the um the championship. Because if you really look at it, we have maybe 10 D1 schools in Louisiana. All D1 schools. You you go from the top LSU, you go to Louisiana Tech, you go to UL Monroe, you go to Tulane, you got UL, you have Gramlin, Southern, Northwestern, Nichols, Magnese, uh, Southeastern. You only have one NAIA school, and that's uh in Louisiana, Louisiana College. Oh, so it's all D1 or D1W schools in Louisiana. So I can't, you can't tell me I can't find 53 men roster right now because we're gonna have an NFL roster. You can have an NFL roster, and that's what the combine is gonna be about. It's gonna be like an NFL combine, the trout's uh on the um on June 20th.

SPEAKER_01 49:41

So I I love that you're talking about a combine on June 20th, where you've got an opportunity for people to try out because this is an opportunity for some people and some young men who maybe want to keep going in their football career to have a chance to say, hey, look, I can play with these guys.

SPEAKER_00 49:54

Yes, uh, matter of fact, um, that's what we're looking for. We're looking for guys who didn't get drafted, who got overlooked last year. We're looking for guys who got overlooked this year. I'm gonna give you an example. I have a guy that called me already. He said, Coach, I'm gonna sign up. He just got cut from the CFL, who just played, who just finished at Southeastern um called KK Reno. He played at Southeastern, got um went to the NFL trial day. He didn't get drafted, went to the CFL, just got cut. And he wants the second opportunity to try to make it to the NFL, which that's what we're here for. We want we want you to come. We love to keep you, we'd love to have you. But and we this a pain, we didn't I mean let me go back. We are a paying lead. We we paying these guys between 44 to 55,000 for the season. So we we give them, we're gonna give them health insurance, we're gonna give them in-season living, uh, meal planes, we take care of these guys.

SPEAKER_01 50:42

That's amazing and outstanding here. And I'll tell you one of the reasons why I'm thrilled we have another football league is because I quit watching the NFL. I'm done. There's a couple reasons why. Number one, because you can catch a football doesn't mean that you have a master's degree in geopolitical affairs. So why don't you just not talk about geopolitical affairs and talk about catching a football? That's number one. Number two, there's too much money in the NFL. And it's not about football to me anymore. It's about all the other stuff that they're trying to cram down people's throats.

SPEAKER_00 51:11

I'm gonna be honest with you. Y'all gonna love us. Let me tell you why. I ain't gonna tell you the big secret why, but I'm gonna tell you why. We're gonna be more entertaining. It's gonna be football/slash entertainment. Okay. Meaning they're bringing a lot of computer, not I'm gonna say computers, but uh, I'm not the computer guy, I'm the football guy, but they're gonna bring a lot of I've heard there's a lot of camera angles coming with regards to how you can watch if you're not there.

SPEAKER_01 51:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:36

If you're not, if you're at your house, if you're on the field, they're gonna interview you. What you uh if it's four fourth um inches, they're gonna interview you and ask you, what you think, plate we run in this net. It's gonna be more fan entertainment, but it's gonna be football.

SPEAKER_01 51:49

And that's that's fantastic. The team in Louisiana is a Louisiana Venom. I actually I I love the hat, I love the logo. I think it's fantastic. It looks like Mardi Gras with a snake. How did you get to the be the Louisiana Venom?

SPEAKER_00 52:00

Well, to be honest, uh the president, the president of the league, me and him are good friends, and um, he asked me what mascot we I won't. I say, well, I said, let me think on it. So about a week later, I called him back. I say, I want to be the Louisiana Moccasins. But with the license, um, the license, somebody already had it, had the name Moccasins. So he said, What else in Louisiana that make y'all so deadly? I say, Water moccasins make a deadly down here. Um he said, What? Say, what then he asked me, he said, What you think about the water moccasins? I say, maybe. He said, I said they're pausing this. He said, They're pausing. I said, he said they got that venom. I said, Yeah. He said, Why don't you name it? I said, Let's go, Luzon of Venoms then. I love it. And the colors came because of Mardi Gras. So the colors was easy. So we got the snake, like the black mama, like Kobe Brian, the black mama with the Louisiana colors.

SPEAKER_01 52:46

Well, you essentially you got the moccasin in the snake, but it's the it's the venom that makes the snake deadly. I love it. Yes, yes. Okay, so you know the the next part of this conversation, and I tell this to people everywhere, I love that that the colors of Mardi Gras are what ended up being and making up the logo. Because I tell people all the time you can export Louisiana anywhere. Yes, you can take what is Louisiana, and people love Louisiana no matter where we are. Now, they get a little upset because we don't change for you. Sorry, not sorry. If you like us how we are, suck it up and enjoy it. But at the end of the day, don't come here and tell us how we need to change. Yes. So the fact that you are basically exporting Louisiana with other states like North Carolina and New York, I mean, it's big that we get this opportunity and that you guys will be playing at Southern for the first year and then maybe moving around after that.

SPEAKER_00 53:40

Well, no, um, we're gonna try um to stay at Southern. Well, we we say Louisiana, because that's where we are. We are the whole state of Louisiana. But we're gonna be out of Lafayette and Bat Rouge. We're gonna practice everything in Lafayette, but we're gonna um play our home games in Bat Rouge at Southern University. Um, we tried to get it at UL, but didn't work out. Didn't work out. Yep. So we tried to get it um at UL, but it didn't work out. So Southern University took us took us in, you know, with no problem. Um, we signed a contract with them and everything, and so we're gonna play our home games there, which is right up the street. So it's like we like the New York Jets and New York Giants. Yep. They play this, you know, travel right up the street, so it don't matter.

SPEAKER_01 54:19

So home games start in 27. 27 in the spring. In the spring. Which means you need a team ASAP. ASAP.

SPEAKER_00 54:26

Which means you gotta have tryouts coming up soon. Well, we're having trials June 20th in Lafayette. It's gonna be at Lafayette Renaissance Charter School. It's gonna be from 8:30 to 12. Uh, I'm talking about we're looking for O line and D line. We're looking for the whole team. And is we're gonna have a draft. It's gonna be a draft. And then um June 27th, the following week, we're gonna be in Bat Rouge at 54th Um Birdbank Street at the club, uh, at the um Elite Center in Bat Rouge.

SPEAKER_01 54:53

So, coach, I'm not gonna lie, the one thing I don't like is that y'all got a draft. Because here's why. I put our Louisiana boys against anybody.

SPEAKER_04 55:00

Some Louisiana, so in other words, some Louisiana boys might wind up playing for New York or Virginia or something.

SPEAKER_00 55:06

And that's and that's the that's the that's the tricky part come in at. To be honest, our president wants us to draft most of our guys from your home state. Yeah. Because that's where the fans were coming from. You'll see like you know, but if you have, but it's like this. I gotta make up a 53-man roster. So I get my best 53 from Louisiana. So if New York might see, well, I want he didn't draft so and so, you know, they they gonna I'm well.

SPEAKER_04 55:35

I mean, I can understand the whole object of this league is to give these guys a second chance to get looked at. And so, you know, you gotta do what you gotta do to give these guys a second chance.

SPEAKER_01 55:45

I'm also looking at it going, you know, if they don't like getting at whipped by Louisiana all day, every day, and twice on Sundays, yeah, we're gonna go a little D generation X professional wrestling. I got two words for you.

SPEAKER_00 55:58

Yeah, right? Yes, yes. You know what? What's unique about this? So and what's unique about this, not only are we paying them guys, we uh every game we go to, we we we flying. Like we flying in New York, they're paying for all expense, you know. We're flying. This so this is like legitimate pro league. Legitimate pro league?

SPEAKER_04 56:16

I mean, and and how many games we were talking about, coach, right in the season?

SPEAKER_00 56:19

The first season we're doing 10. We do we're gonna do we're gonna do um so it's four home, four away, and then two playoffs in the championship. It'll be um one exhibition. Now I know they're gonna do an exhibition. Okay, it's gonna be the four games, um, a playoff and a championship. Yep. Yeah, um, then the next year, they're gonna add two more teams. They're gonna supposed to be out of Texas and Florida, and then they only want to get to eight teams, and then in 29, it'll be San Diego and somewhere else. Um they never came up with the next one, but it's it's gonna be it's gonna be nice.

SPEAKER_01 56:48

Look, everybody I've talked to with this league, every engagement that I've had with anybody in this conversation in order to set this up was just a fantastic conversation. And I'm telling you, that like coach, I need a hat. I'm gonna tell you right now. I need a hat. I got you. Next time you see me, you won't have a hat. No, I didn't see it. Because mine needs to be a little smaller than yours.

SPEAKER_00 57:07

Yeah, yes, yes, yes. I'm 5'8 on a good day.

SPEAKER_01 57:10

Like, I get it.

SPEAKER_00 57:12

Um, you know, on back, I love that y'all get your smaller hat. Back on the serious note, uh, you only have 1.6% people make it to the NFL. Oh, yeah. So we we tap into that, we tapping into that other 98.4%, you know, to give these guys. This is like playing junior college football. You need you, you know, you play when Juco, yeah, but you're trying to make it to LSU and all these other schools.

SPEAKER_01 57:38

We have talked about on this show, and this is one of those statistics that I always love to tell parents. Because I've been around football as a broadcaster for the better part of 30 years. It's look, from high school to college, 1% of players who play football in high school will play in college at all. Much less play at LSU, a real school, or Alabama, which is a semi-pro team. Um, right? You get 1% who play from high school to college. From college, it's 1% of college players will play at the NFL level. So think about it's the 1% of the 1% as you graduate. Yes. But it doesn't mean that the scouts catch everybody they're supposed to. I mean, look at Pierre Thomas, to me, one of the most famous undrafted free agents in Louisiana because never got drafted. Marcus Colston was Mr. Irrelevant, almost didn't get drafted. And that dude should be in the Hall of Fame, should have been a multi-time pro bowler and wasn't.

SPEAKER_04 58:35

Well, look at guys like Kurt Warner. Kurt Warner played if it wouldn't have been for NFL Europe.

SPEAKER_01 58:42

Yeah, we're looking for the beer man. Yeah, you know. I mean, those guys. Renee's point, Kurt Warner, Jake Delome from right here in Acadiana from Bro Bridge, was an undrafted free agent, went to the Saints, left the Saints to go to Carolina, went to the Super Bowl, and went to Super Bowl in his first season. Hold on. And was a, forgive me for saying this, was a dumbass John Casey off out of bounds kick away from winning the Super Bowl over the Patriots in 01. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 59:10

Remember that clear as the Jake had the game-winning drive, and on the ensuing kickoff, John Casey kicked it out of bounds, which is what gave the Patriots the ball at the 35 and allowed them to kick the game winner. That's the Super Bowl with uh the Jenny Jackson malfunction, huh?

SPEAKER_00 59:24

Yeah. Oh, I don't remember that. Might have been. Might have been.

SPEAKER_01 59:29

But yeah, but that's the player that you're looking for. You're looking for those guys that the Diamond might have missed. I mean, look, you got you got players here in Lafayette that I know made it to practice squads in Washington. You got a quarterback who played at Southeastern and made it to that, but never made it farther, who might be your kind of guy. Again, tryouts Lafayette, June 20th at Lafayette Renaissance Charter School. And June 27th in Baton Rouge at the Elite Um Academy Center. And if they want more information, where can they go to get that information?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:02

Okay. They could go on our Facebook page. Apex Pro Football League. Apex Pro Football League. Short ass APFL. Okay. And then they could go on the Venom underscore APFL on Instagram. Outstanding.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:15

Coach, we appreciate you being here. Thanks for having fun with us for having me on Implicit Bias Radio. Now we have your hat for you. Thank you very much. Smaller size when we come back. Yes, sir. Implicit bias radio. Man, we're having more fun than I think we should be allowed to have this week, haven't we, Renee?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:30

Yes, very much.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:31

I mean, Caleb's not with us, which means that Renee is in his place, so we're sorry. No, I'm happy. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It's always fun when we've got everybody in. Just man, schedules this month have been kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:43

Well, he's not hogging up all the time when he talks about the whiskey. That's like a three-segment part there when he talks about his mama who's cooking into the whiskey. Yeah, now we've had time to talk today.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:54

Yeah, Mattress Mike over there is referencing Renee when uh I'm sorry, Caleb when he gives his whiskey reviews. Yeah. All right, Renee, so real quick, this blue note, what cigar do you think would be part with this one?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:05

Um because it's a light flavor, I'm thinking the Aladino, Connecticut. Okay. It's just the Aladino, Connecticut is a very light cigar. It's a good, it's probably one of my favorite morning cigars. I smoke a lot of those. Um, it's just a nice light cigar. Um I it's hard to describe, but I think it would go very good with the blue note because of the flavors are very light on both of them.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:28

So I I was actually curious about that. So you wouldn't actually do something with more flavor to get to the colour.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:34

You don't want to you don't want to overpower, you don't want either one to overpower each other. You want to kind of keep the flavors the same so you want them to complement each other, correct? You don't want you don't want one to overpower the other. You just kind of balance balance them out to where they're both about the same. So you can enjoy both of them.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:51

Kind of like at the bar. We don't overpower each other, we enjoy each other.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:54

Yeah, we compliment. I know this is a verbal medium, but I'm saying everything through my facial expression.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:02

The standing thing is changed the whole thing right here. I'm not going there. Yeah, I'm not going there either.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:07

It's not like we're at a bar. Yeah. Well, okay, remember, you need to put the microphone.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:12

It's like we're at a bar.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:13

Yeah, it is like you're at a bar. Speaking of being at a bar, you know, what happens at bars is you sit down and you end up talking to people and solving the problems of the world. And one of the big stories that I sent out this week, and I wanted to save this one when I knew we would have plenty of time, and we have plenty of time here in an hour or two to discuss this, is that we have now had some time to actually review the body cam footage from a guy by the name of Michael Fanone. And for those who don't know who Michael Fanone is, he testified at January 6th hearings in Washington, D.C. He was a Capitol police officer on January 6th of 2021 when there was, and I'm gonna say this, allegedly an insurrection. What he testified to is the following. He testified to being beaten, he testified to having a TBI, a traumatic brain injury, he testified to being hospitalized from the beating that he got from the crowd. And then we got his body cam footage. Somebody want to tell us what happened in the body cam footage that we got to watch.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:24

Well, I I I watched a little bit of it. It got me, what got me is his testimony. He said he was electrocuted several times. Tased call it tased. I mean No, he said his word electrocuted.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:38

Well, he okay, obviously he's not he's not an electrical engineer.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:42

You know, so if you're electrocuted, you ain't getting electrocuted multiple times. You electrocuted once and you're done.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:48

Okay, so I'm not gonna argue the semantics of him being tased versus electrocuted. He was shocked.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:52

He he flat out said he was beaten, he had to crawl out to get save himself. He said he was hospitalized. Yeah, he said his gun was stolen. Like he flat out lied. And I think all the other officers on that video should be said, hey, did you say something was stolen?

SPEAKER_01 1:04:10

Because you sure are laughing about my gun was stolen too. Let me give you the context behind that. So on his body cam footage, they get him out of the crowd, and a lot of the crowd is saying leave him alone because obviously some things were happening to him. We are not saying nothing happened to Michael Fanone. Yeah, all the FBI informants were beaten. Oh, that's a whole nother thing. I don't disagree with you there. But the majority of the crowd was saying, get him out, leave him alone, take care of him. And a lot of people were trying to extract him from the crowd. So he gets extracted. At the end of the body cam footage, he is sitting with a medical professional, an EMT or the like. And the EMT says, I see no major injuries, I see nothing of the effect that he testified to. Number one. Then another officer comes by and Fanon says, Yeah, I think they took one of my clips, which, first of all, most military people will say there's no such thing as a clip. It's a magazine. But he says, they got one of my clips or some sort. And the other officer sarcastically says, No, you mean they got both of your magazines, just like they got mine. And the context is clear. The context is we're gonna lie and say they got everything so we can get more equipment.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:18

Yeah, but they were joking about, oh, well, how we how he could have should have beaten more of them before. Like they were it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:25

What I want to know is which one of them shot Ashley Babbitt? Neither of them shot Ashley Babbitt.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:31

Somebody did. But here's but here's the important thing about Ashley Babbitt. There was only one person who was by coroner autopsy certification murdered by someone else in the crowd on January 6th in the Capitol. It was Ashley Babbitt. Because the narrative was this officer was killed, that officer was killed, and by the actual autopsies. Please don't believe us on this. Go look up the autopsies. And you know why I can say that? Because I've read The Cause of Death on the Autopsies. But please, you go do it. Read The Cause of Death on the Autopsies from January 6th at the Capitol. There's only one person who was killed by someone else. And they have video of that happening. And unarmed. Yeah. So herein lies the question. Now we know, and Paul, I'd love you to chime in on this. Now we know that there were multiple people who were being paid by the FBI. So when you think of confidential human informants, let me rephrase that. Maybe not paid. Compensated.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:41

Because it might not have been cash payments. It might have been, oh, we're going to let this charge go. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:46

Well, I'm going to say when you go through that rabbit hole of that whole article, you see guys uh getting arrested, then you see them on camera later on getting unhandcuffed, fist bumping the guy that's unhandcuffing him, like, hey, yeah, we got it started. Good job. Like, you know, it's it's easy to rile up somebody, which that's called inciting riots. And if it's a paid individual of the federal government, bruh, we got plenty. Because look, human beings aren't they're not, they're they're under uh uh emotions, they're they're under a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:16

I'm not saying it's right, but I'm saying is so Renee, ring the bell for me here, and here's why. Because the conspiracy theorists on this show were right in 2024 about this. How do we know this? Because Clay Higgins, United States representative, Clay Higgins was on this show in this room, different format, but we had a conversation about what happened and how many confidential human informants, how many federal government people, and he told us the camera footage from inside the Capitol will show things of this nature. And it's exactly what we're looking at. It's literally that you have a guy, as Paul Sabotier just showed us, that walks into frame, handcuffed, the officers take his handcuffs off and they turn around and fist bump each other, meaning that he had to be handcuffed somewhere in front of somebody. Walked to where he is and then fist bumped the people who handcuffed him. Yeah, that tells you that something nefarious happened.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:17

Normally the arresting officer will not fist bump you after he handcuffs you. I yeah, that's normally that that does not happen. And then Congressman Higgins, I was here for that that show that we did. He talked about the buses that mysteriously disappeared. Disappeared.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:34

Actually, the buses were left.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:35

Yeah, but the buses were abandoned, all them and all the markings were painted over and everything else. There was no uh federal markings on them that are required for commercial carriers. It's just the whole thing stinks. And then, you know, the the whole setup show that the Democrats did, the committee investigating did hiring a uh ABC television producer to produce the show so it would be it would look good, and that whole thing went to crap. It just it's bad.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:07

Paul Sabatier doing his best Saturday night fever impersonation at the bar, throwing that finger up because sometimes it's hard to see Matthew from my peripheral giving me the finger, but we got it. I was giving it back. Which means we are coming back with the penultimate segment of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. Cheers. We'll see you right after the break. The penultimate segment of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio is on tap right now. I'm your host, Kavan Bordelon. We got a great crew here in the Mr. Lester's TSPL. Paul, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:38

I know you've never won the chain because you already know the price.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:41

Oh no, I've I've won the chain. Really? Yeah, because sometimes we'll have our liquor collective partners on the show and I don't know the price.

unknown 1:09:48

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:48

It's heavy. It's metal, not gold. So here's what we're gonna do. We actually have a pair of pants. Yeah, but gold is heavy. So here's here's what we here's what we've got for you, Paul. We've got a pair of pants you can take off your skirt and change into them. Oh that's how y'all do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:02

Yeah. Yeah.

unknown 1:10:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:07

Hey, you want it to work out for the Mike's like, I we can't get these chairs in fast enough.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:11

You you want it to work out? Hey, you want it to work out to play football. There you go, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:15

That is that is Mattress Mike. That is Paul Sabatier of Superior AV. That is Renee Gerard, Louisiana's only certified master tobacconist. I am Kavon Bordelon. Matthew Johnson is actually working the audio for this week's show, and it's a pleasure to have everybody here, especially you, with us, as we talk about just keep going on this week's episode. So the silver swan was something I saw, and it was just it, it fit in.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:39

That was just that was just weird to me. Why is it weird? Watching the video of it, it's just it was it's strange.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:45

Okay, for those who don't know what the silver swan is, here's what I want you to look up the silver swan automaton that has been running for 250 years. I want you to think about that. 250 years, and when you see it, what what Paul? Right at 250 years. It actually uh broke and they had to fix it.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:07

But it's still it's still going, right? And it lasted longer than my current car and the one before that.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:14

My my point is the design and the mechanism works. Does it eventually wear out? Yes, which is what happened. It's not like it was a design flaw. No, it was literally wear and tear. Right. Right?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:26

But it ran 200 and something years before that it stopped. They had to fix it. So actually, they have to clean it.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:33

So here's here's kind of here's kind of how I want people to think about this. Think about a music box. And I know music boxes are things that are maybe old-fashioned. I mean, I don't know that current generations even recognize or see or think about music boxes as a thing, they're watch type designs. I mean, these things are intricate, it takes a mind to truly create the music that comes out of them and the movement on the mechanisms, but this thing is massive. Like it is a life-size swan. So if you've never been close to a swan, they're not small animals. No, they are big birds. Big, bigger than a goose. Correct, much larger than a goose. This one preens itself. It is all metal as it plays the music. And as fish come out along the kind of band, if you think about a music box and how it turns, it will spot a fish. It will quote capture the fish as it keeps going and it just keeps going as long as it's wound. It's just really cool that we could design this. And my question is, why don't we design stuff like this anymore?

SPEAKER_05 1:12:31

Money.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:32

Well, because tell me more, Trammell.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:35

Because why? So back in those days, things were made to last and last and last, last forever. They're designed correctly. Nowadays, you want that consumer to buy again and buy again and subscribe to repairs. That's what you nowadays. Everything is throw away. TVs. Let me back when I was remembering when I was younger, my uncle used to work on TVs. He was a TV repair manager.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:56

Oh, the TV repairman business is dead.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:59

It doesn't exist in there. That's why when your TV goes out now, you just throw it away and you buy another one, watch them repeat. But that's back in those days, they made things to last.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:07

Nowadays they want you to keep you used to have the fix-it shop where all your small appliances and stuff, if it would break, you would bring it to the fix-it shop, and the guy would take it apart and put a new cord or a new switch or new heating elements. They would actually fix things. Now people just throw it away. The Maytag repair man.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:24

He was always sitting down doing nothing because he never had to repair anything.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:28

Ring the bell for trammel. That is that is a great reference. Because especially, especially Gen Z, especially Gen Y, they have no idea and cannot understand the concept of the Maytag Repairman. No. Because literally the Maytag Repairman, for those who don't know, it was their advertising campaign that the Maytag Repairman never did anything because you never had to repair a Maytag.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:57

And today there are companies who build products that the repairmen refuse to work on. Well, because it's cheaper to replace it than it is to repair it.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:06

Well, that and the the repairmen or like the Maytag repairmen, they don't do nothing because you can't fix the uh the items now. You can't be repairs. You either can't get to parts or they're they're impossible to repair, or so you just throw it away and buy a new one. 100%. So oh crap.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:29

Somebody's had a little too much fun an hour or two. Yeah. I'm driving him home. It's okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:34

So I mean it's the same concept, right? So my my wife was talking about we get all this mail, right? You get all these credit card applications. She's like, why do we get so much? It's because they want people to live in constant debt. It's the same concept. They don't want you to be able to get out of debt. They want you to keep buying, keep doing this whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:51

The term that you're looking for is designed obsolescence. Products are not designed, like the Silver Swan, to run for 250 years. No, they are not designed to be like the washer and dryer that my mother had when I was a kid. When I moved out of the house, I was 22 years old when I moved to Hammond from New Orleans. My mother had the same refrigerator and freezer, and the same clothes washer and dryer and the same dishwasher that I remembered from the age of five. Why? Because they worked. The dryer just dried clothes. The washer just washed clothes. The refrigerator freezer kept food cold and frozen. And the dishwasher, clean dishes. You know what the you know what the dryer didn't do? It didn't steam my clothes so that I had to hook up a water line to it.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:42

But at the end of the day, I did it didn't hook up to the internet to tell you when your clothes was dry.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:48

No. At the end of the day, I I talked to someone who actually does appliance repair. I talked to someone who did computer design in the 90s. And I remember them telling me because the y'all will laugh, the premier computer at the time was a 286 hertz gateway.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:06

And he laughed. And the guy said, dude, the 586 is already built. Yeah. And what they're doing today is designing software that won't run on the 286 to make you buy the 586. It's planned on that.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:21

It's planned obsolescence.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:22

Planned obsolescence. Why? Because they know that if they create a world that you can't live in anymore, you have to spend more money to do it, which creates constant debt. It creates a situation where you, our listeners, me, we never get off the hamster wheel.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:43

Right. Well, you look at you ever wonder why all of a sudden your phone stops working?

SPEAKER_01 1:16:49

Oh, there's a huge conspiracy theory about updates to your phone and what they do specifically and intentionally to your battery.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:56

You gotta, you gotta, you gotta buy a new one because it don't work.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:59

I I like to tell the story because to me, this is the perfect synopsis of it. Many, many years ago. Look, I'm a video game kid. I grew up with an Atari 2600. I had a Nintendo NES, right? So by the time I was a little older, I was like, oh, first person shooter games, World War II history. I'm into it. A buddy of mine says, You need to go buy this game for your computer, we can play online. Now, this is 2003, 2004, 2005. So I go buy this video game that we're gonna play on our PC on the internet with a buddy of mine. $70 video game, $60 video game that cost me three grand. Why? Because the video game was programmed under certain parameters that needed a whole new computer. And when you need the whole new computer, I'm like literally, then you have to upgrade to this and this and this.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:46

You can't run that comp that program on an 8088.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:50

You just it wasn't a Commodore 64 that we had in the house. But my point is they are constantly designing to make you spend more. And Mike had it on point. It's the designed obsolescence of where we live. Yeah, it's why we don't have those anymore, like the silver swan.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:07

So if it's swan, it's obviously one, and we know uh goose is one and geese is two, and mouse is one, and mises are two. No, not meese. It's mises. I don't know. I have looney tunes, sir. What is you are looneytoons?

unknown 1:18:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:25

Is it swans or swings? Swans. Sydney Sweeney? No, that's swans. That's Sydney Sweeney. Because you've had a little too much here in an hour or two, but that's okay. We we understand that you appreciate Sydney Sweeney, much like we appreciate the final segment of Implicit Bias for this week, where we will have tons of fun because we have something that I brought to the topic just for Renee. Because why? Because, you know, Renee, I love you enough to tell you you won't fit in a Mark 42, but you might fit in this version of the Iron Man suit when we come back on Implicit Bias Radio. Wrapping up this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. We always like to have fun. We always like to talk about stupid guy stuff, but I don't think this is stupid. Because this, man, this is this is this is way cool. This is way I knew Renee would love this. Way cool. So for those who don't follow the show, God, how many years ago was it, Renee? Oh, geez. Two or three years? At least three. We were in the old studio. We found a guy who built Iron Man suits. Yes. And for those who don't for those who don't have the visual, you need to absolutely find us on X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and have a visual of Renee right now. Because here's what I want you to think about. Oh, yeah. I want you to think about Renee in an Iron Man suit.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:45

Four years ago, I wouldn't have fit. I would fit now. You could buy the Mark 46. You could probably still get me on Mark 46. Don't lie.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:52

I'm not I ain't lying, man. You could you could fit if the shoulders were smaller than the midsection in a Mark 42. That is not what Iron Man looks like.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:02

But Iron Man suits are custom built, they would be fitted to me.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:07

Would that be like Iron Bowling Ball Man?

unknown 1:20:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:11

The first one. It was a big guy. Well, it's uh Lebowski was it the guy, the evil villain. The big Lebowski was but that wasn't the first suit. I mean, that was the second suit, so which makes us point claim.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:22

Yes. No, because the Mark 42 and the Mark 46, with Renee was one of the two.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:26

Yeah, 46.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:27

They're built to a certain specificity. They're like, the shoulders are wider than the hips.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:32

Yeah, the latest Iron Man suit, it's way cooler.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:34

The shoulders are wider than the hips. I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:36

Are y'all talking about the Michelin man suit? There you go.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:39

There you go. Trammell's got it. So this one we know Renee could be Mr.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:43

Staypuff.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:43

That's okay. But we know Renee could fit into this one. Gunterworks took a Porsche Cabriolet. So a convertible Porsche 911, essentially, and made an Iron Man version of it.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:54

Yeah, it's it's way cool. You go look at the video, man. It's all tricked out. It's got the colors, it's got the things that move.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:00

And uh so first of all, it is the the color schematic is sweet.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:05

It's that dark maroon with gold. Even the engine. You open up the engine bay, and the cylinders are have the gold heads on them. Heads on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:16

Did they uh are Dayton's back? It's got gold Dayton's, right? Dayton's. Are you serious? Yeah, I'm serious. My New Orleans crews got that then. They know what that is.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:27

I don't know what a Dayton is. Yeah, I said rims. I wasn't I wasn't that kind of kid in high school. Yeah, 15-inch Daytons. That was oh, rims? No, it doesn't have Daytons on them. But it does something way better. Correct. It's it's got a classy version of that.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:40

Yeah. I mean, it's gonna be German because it's correct. Gunter works at its doing the car. I mean, and it's a Porsche. So you're not gonna have Daytons. It is, you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:51

It is one of those cars that you look at and you're like, all right, I don't understand somebody who pays. I mean, I I don't even want to know what the price is. I didn't look it up because I don't want to use it. But I mean, you're it's gotta be 250. It's got to be 250. Well, just the car alone is probably the car alone, the car alone's probably 150 to 170.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:08

Yeah. Then tricking it out, it's gonna be at least 250. So you buying that for me from from my birthday?

SPEAKER_01 1:22:15

Keep waiting on it.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:16

Hold my breath.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:18

Yeah, hold hold your breath, Renee. Because here's the deal. If I'm buying one of those, it ain't for your birthday, it's for my birthday.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:25

Okay, well, you let me ride in it. Oh, absolutely. Okay, good.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:28

Absolutely. I mean, why not? One at a time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:32

Well, yeah. Unless he lets me drive it and then I can bring somebody else.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:36

How about no? How about no? But look, it's it's those things that's cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:42

Go, go, go on the internet and look it up.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:45

It's those things that we think about as a kid, and we're like, man, it'd be really cool to have a car like that.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:49

If I win the lottery, you know, if we were in Texas, we might could win the lottery to buy that.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:53

Yeah, because we might be able to rig it. Yeah. You gotta get the DA's office, then you gotta go. You gotta you got some processes to go through, but yes, you can to be a millionaire.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:03

It's a process, but you know, it might be worth it to they indict you.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:07

But then release the indictment. Right. Well, yeah. Yeah, no big deal.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:11

Yeah, you know what, we thought it was against the law, but we can get one of the Capitol policemen to arrest us and then take our handcuffs off. Maybe.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:19

Until they say, you know what, you're indicted, but eh, it's okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:23

Yeah, we we'll look the other way this time.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:26

Between that and the Brabus that we talked about a couple weeks ago, yeah. I mean, those cars, and look, it's funny because I got a text from Monroe about American muscle. I mean, American muscle did get faster, but I mean, I I miss that we don't talk about fast cars on this show enough because, in my opinion, for those of us who grew up in Gen X, you grew up leaving rubber on roadways quite frequently. You grew up, we were having a conversation. My first car was an Oldsmobile 98, 1981, Olds 98. It had a V8 in it. And what I'm telling you is this that land yacht, if you came around a corner and you goosed the accelerator just a bit, you could get the back end to go a little squirrely on you and have some fun. I mean, these things happened.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:09

I had I had a 74 Chevy truck with a three on the tree with a 350.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:14

I drove a three on the tree.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:15

Yeah. So my first car might have been a 1983 Toyota Corolla hatchback. But my real first car was my dad's 1990s Chevy Silverado, which was a 350 V with the sports size on the site, which was awesome. I thought that was the biggest engine, but then they said there was a 454. Oh, yeah. That's kind of what I want to get for whenever I hit my midlife college list.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:36

Well, if you remember, you can't fuel for that now. Was it okay? So was it Dodge or GM that made a cyclone? It was a small truck with the big V8.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:46

Well, GMC had the the cyclone, it was a uh twin turbocharged V6 and like a 1200 pound car. It was yeah, it was a little trigger blazer uh SUV looking thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:56

Well, they had the truck version, they had the truck version too, but yeah, it had a V8, it had a small V8 in it. Sabace's like, I've never heard of the Cyclone, I need to look this up. I just want to get a 1990s V.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:05

They came with Daytons on them.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:06

Yeah, and the hydraulics already pre-made.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:09

Yeah, and if if you bought the Toyota version, it didn't say Toyota, it only said toy on the back. Yo, yeah, or yo. Yeah, yo. For the vanilla ice fans out there back in the 90s in high school. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Trammel actually laughed at that. I'm impressed. You know how hard it is to get Trammel to laugh?

SPEAKER_05 1:25:29

He doesn't laugh very much.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:32

I tickle it.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:33

See, I was I was in the day, I had the lowriders. I didn't need the speed, like yo, and the muscle. I was low riding. What did you drive? 1991 Mitchy Bichy Mighty Max.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:44

DJ magic mic across the why do I believe every single word of that?

SPEAKER_05 1:25:52

I got pictures. That's what the movie was about.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:54

Did it say DJ mattress mic?

SPEAKER_05 1:25:57

That was back, that was back in the day.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:58

Yeah. That was back, that was what, 92, 93?

SPEAKER_05 1:26:02

If you want to say so, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:03

Yeah. Can you imagine how many kids he would have if he was DJ Mattress Mike back in the day? My god, I mean like dude. It's in Daytons, huh? I'm still stuck on this one, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:17

Look, all I know is that's a better DJ name. All I know is you know who his nemesis was? Speed bumps. Yeah, because if he hit a speed bump, all you heard was phom. Which is every road in Louisiana, basically. I remember because back then, I mean, we're going back to the original Mustang 5.0.

unknown 1:26:40

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:40

I mean, you're you're talking that time, so 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, which was when you had certain kids who went to the grunge side of it and certain kids who were still trying to emulate vanilla ice in 95 after he'd been hung off the balcony by uh by Suge Knight, right? And they're thinking that vanilla ice was the man. Wait, don't tell me you've never heard this story.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:02

Suge Knight hung vanilla ice outside.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:05

Off of a balcony, allegedly.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:07

Like Michael Jackson did to his kid.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:10

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So allegedly, and this is the story, go look this up, please don't believe me. Suge Knight brought vanilla ice in, and vanilla ice is making all this money off of Ice Ice Baby. And vanilla ice did not have someone running protection for him. And Suge Knight apparently, allegedly, had a couple of his guys take vanilla ice and hang him by his ankles off of a balcony and tell him, you're gonna sign this and sign over X amount of dollars to us. Because if not, we're just gonna kill you. That's the story that's out there. That's how vanilla ice allegedly was shook down by Suge Knight back. Because I mean, you got to remember now you're starting to talk 93, 94, 95, 96 when you're getting into East Coast, West Coast, you're talking, you know, Tupac, you're talking Biggie, you're talking, you know, Snoop Dogg, gangster rap. All this is real. And allegedly that's how Shoge Knight got money out of Vanilla Ice. And it's why vanilla ice had to start. I mean, he's done everything from like race dirt bikes and jet skis and his own DIY show now.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:12

Yeah, building mansions and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:14

And he hates that song now. Which why would you hate it? Yeah, I get it. Well, allegedly it made him a ton of money until it got him the attention he didn't want to get, right? Which means unfortunately, poor vanilla ice just had to keep going because he you would have thought he's got it made at that point with Ice Ice Baby.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:32

Yeah, that's really the only song he ever did.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:35

Oh God, yeah. I mean, he was, I mean, the guy's last name literally was Van Winkle.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:41

To bring it back to Bourbon. You didn't, I did you not know this, Paul? That just I I didn't I wasn't a vanilla ice fan. I mean, come on. Well, I mean, everybody knew Ice Ice Baby. You didn't have to be a vanilla ice fan.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:55

Now wait, DJ Magic Mike knows because I know when the the other oh crap, you're gonna kill me for this one. Yes, we are.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:02

We're we're gonna crucifix it. It's taken off of under pressure. Vanilla Ice, yes, was taken off of under pressure. If he ever gets sued, it was sampled. He did get sued for that. He had to pay for that.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:11

There was a court appearance about that, and it they proved that it was slightly enough different.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:18

Slightly no, he had to pay for it. He had to pay for sampling. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:21

I thought I thought they had to do it.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:22

No, it was no the baseline was exact that there is no difference in that riff. It was the theft of intellectual property, right? Not different from Weird Al, who took Gangsta Paradise, which we all know how that worked out. Yeah, I'm we got the one minute finger. I hate to end this conversation. This has been tons of fun.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:45

We just got on that.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:45

Uh we just got on whatever. Paul's done. I'm driving him home. We hope you've had fun on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. We'll see you in seven. Cheers until next week.