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All right, mister A. R. Shaw, Welcome back

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to the show man. How are you doing this? Late

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morning for you, the same time for me?

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Because daylight savings is kicked in. What's the latest

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out there?

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Yeah? So daylight savings is it? Always?

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It kicks your butt the first hours you

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realize that you don't realize that that hour

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of sleep that you miss and now just throws your

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entire day off.

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Yeah.

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So it actually threw them off this morning

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with us. Yeah, well

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earlier, so yeah,

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it kind of. It takes about a day to adjust

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to the time change, gotcha.

1:02

Gotcha?

1:02

Yeah, Well, you know we're here now and the

1:05

time is right, so let's

1:07

get to these stories.

1:08

Thank God, I live in a place where

1:11

we don't.

1:11

It's such a weird thing to switch your clocks, but

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we've never switched to our clocks in Arizona. And

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I think Arizona and Hawaii are the only two places

1:18

where they look at the rest of the country like, what are you guys doing?

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It's only in your brain, But I

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digress, all right. First up, this comes

1:25

from Wisconsin Public Radio. If

1:27

you want to check out the full story at WPR dot

1:29

org. On September twelfth,

1:32

twenty twenty two, Malcolm X became the

1:34

first black man or woman voted into

1:36

the Nebraska Hall of Fame. But by

1:38

May, a bust of Malcolm

1:41

X will be inside the Nebraska state Capital

1:43

along with twenty six other Nebraskans.

1:47

In two thousand and four and two thousand and seven, the Nebraska

1:49

Hall of Fame Commission proposed his induction, but

1:51

chose someone else. The state will celebrate

1:54

Malcolm X Day on May twenty

1:56

second. Malcolm X Memorial

1:58

Foundation will soon be unveiling a

2:00

new cultural education center and outdoor

2:02

event space as a result of the twenty million dollars

2:05

state grand So

2:08

you know, this.

2:09

Is pretty big news.

2:11

It's your thoughts, No, it's big news

2:13

and someone like Malcolm X is always

2:15

deserving of an honor. The

2:18

impact that he had just not

2:22

from a community black community standpoint, but

2:24

from America, an American standpoint,

2:26

like he's an American legend where you can

2:28

go overseas and you see murals of Malcolm

2:30

X, and you know, there's classes

2:33

international where they study some

2:36

of his teachings.

2:36

And so it's great that he was

2:39

honored.

2:39

But it's interesting that Nebraska that he's the

2:41

first first black person to

2:43

be inducted into the Hall of Fame

2:45

or the state. Considering that you've had so many

2:49

notable black figures from

2:51

Nebraska.

2:52

You have Kathy Hughes Radio one.

2:55

You have a woman black woman named Brenda Counsel who

2:57

was the first black woman to be the

2:59

president of the own House school Board, and

3:01

so you have several leaders who actually made

3:03

an impact. And it's you know, considering

3:06

that that he's the first black person to

3:08

enter the Hall of Fame for the state shows

3:11

you that there is an issue with who's

3:14

ever chosen individuals who should be given

3:16

this honor.

3:17

Absolutely, you know, it's well, first thing, let

3:19

me make sure that I make this point. So this

3:22

news broke on

3:25

March ninth, and so that's why we're getting

3:27

to it today.

3:29

But you know, yes, the dates were accurate.

3:31

This happened on September twelve, twenty twenty

3:34

two, when he was voted

3:36

in finally after two failed attempts

3:38

earlier in the two thousands.

3:41

But you know, to your point,

3:43

I think that there's been a lot of intentional

3:46

demonization of

3:49

Malcolm X, of the Panthers

3:52

of Stokely and

3:55

on and on, because

3:57

they were a.

3:58

Little bit more.

4:01

Speakers and organizations, right,

4:04

whereas doctor King being

4:07

a minister, and of course you know,

4:10

uh, having a non violent

4:12

approach to creating social

4:14

change was a little bit more palatable and a little

4:17

less threatening to white sensibilities.

4:19

And as you know, whoever

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is chronicling.

4:22

The story is able to give

4:25

it the spin that

4:28

you know reflects I suppose their

4:30

sensibilities and their the

4:32

lens through which they've used society. So if this, if

4:35

you know, going back to the sixties, you know,

4:37

if the media is controlled

4:39

by you know, mostly white individuals,

4:44

then I would imagine that a person

4:47

like Malcolm X might

4:49

offend and upset

4:52

and scare a lot of those people based

4:54

on their sensibilities, right, And so

4:56

again unfairly villainized and

4:58

demonized over the years. And

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it's not until you have the hindsight

5:03

of you know, living through the

5:06

ripple effect of you know, the change that

5:08

he was making, that you can look back and see,

5:11

Okay, that was necessary, even if it

5:13

was just necessary to serve as a contrast

5:16

between him and doctor King, right,

5:18

you know, they both kind of wanted more or less the same thing,

5:20

they just had different paths to get there. And so you're

5:23

absolutely right, it's fantastic to know that

5:26

Malcolm X is finally being

5:28

celebrated. He of course was born in Nebraska,

5:31

so this is why the Nebraska Hall of

5:33

Fame is, you know, called

5:36

to honor his legacy. And

5:38

I think that this kind of opens the door

5:41

for other organizations to really step

5:43

into honoring him and researching

5:46

because, as you mentioned, black people, we've always

5:48

looked at Malcolm X like, okay, he's one of our

5:51

great heroes. Absolutely, you know, Spike

5:53

Lee of course made the film of him,

5:56

starring Denzel and you

5:58

know, just in our encloses circles,

6:00

you know, in private conversations, we've always

6:03

kind of known that Malcolm X was a good

6:05

man. He was a strong man and that's kind of

6:07

what we needed when we were getting our heads busted open

6:09

in the streets with you know, police batons

6:12

and just kind of being treated unfairly.

6:15

And you know, we're still kind of going through

6:17

that. But he's one of the folks that certainly showed

6:19

us the way. And you know, and lately,

6:22

not to dwell on it, but lately i've heard, you

6:24

know, he's one of the heroes that a

6:27

lot of the Palestinian folks look

6:30

up to. They espouse his methods along with

6:32

you know, Nelson Mandela and

6:34

and you know a few other famous black

6:36

actors that were pushing for

6:38

social reform in their various countries.

6:41

And so you're absolutely right that he's

6:43

a celebrated individual around the world. And now

6:46

he's celebrated in his home state of

6:48

Nebraska by being voted finally

6:50

into Nebraska Hall of Fame. So shout

6:53

out to Malcolm X one time,

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if you don't mind moving on our

6:57

next story.

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This comes from hip hop d X.

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Chuck d has told his followers

7:01

to manage their expectations about

7:03

their elected leaders, cautioning against expecting

7:06

politicians to be saviors. In the wake

7:08

of the recent State of the Union address,

7:11

the public enemy MC made clear on x

7:15

formerly known as Twitter on Thursday,

7:17

March seventh, it was more important to know about

7:19

the issues brought up in the annual presidential

7:21

speech than about any similar

7:24

entertainment event.

7:25

He says, pay attention. Understanding

7:28

this state of the.

7:29

Union right now is more crucial than any sporting

7:31

event going on, especially with elections looming

7:33

in November. The divided country looks

7:35

on these faces on this screen is

7:40

sad expletive deleted comedy

7:43

of a haunting terrain ahead either way,

7:46

making sports appear as important as someone

7:48

else's. I'm

7:52

going to skip some of this stuff just because it's not

7:54

entirely appropriate for our audience, but belonging to

7:56

short of it, pay attention, it's going to be

7:58

a lot of civil casualties or who you vote

8:00

for. And that's the end of his the

8:02

first part of his statement. I'll get the second part

8:05

right now. We'll get your thoughts on matter. So he

8:07

says, when I say pay attention,

8:09

it doesn't mean I'm making assumptions of who to vote

8:11

on. I'm just telling folks to stop voting

8:13

for candidates and expecting them to be Jesus

8:16

man.

8:17

They ain't.

8:18

And you best make them accountable

8:20

and stop waiting for the news. So

8:23

your thoughts on Chuck D's take of

8:25

the State of the Union address.

8:27

No, I mean Chuck D is one hundred percent right.

8:29

I think what Chuck D

8:32

years ago, decades ago, he said that hip hop

8:34

served as almost like the CNN

8:37

of urban America. Yeah, he's been one

8:39

of the most vocal leaders that from the hip hop

8:41

community that we've had, and so.

8:43

He's right, and I think he's.

8:46

And it works on both sides because you

8:48

know, we see someone like Donald

8:51

Trump and all the things that he's going through and all the things

8:53

from a criminal aspect, and you see people

8:55

who will follow him he

8:57

is not not anything that he would do for the country,

9:00

but just based on him as a person. And so everything

9:03

he said was correct in that sense where

9:05

you have people who are following these

9:07

individuals just based on their name,

9:09

not their actual policies.

9:11

And so it's interesting that he bought it

9:13

up.

9:13

And it's a perfect time and that, you

9:16

know, potential voters should think about that

9:18

what are these candidates doing in terms of

9:20

policy, What laws are they actually

9:23

going to implement to help

9:25

you to serve your communities, And

9:27

so it's just you know, unfortunately,

9:30

where he's right, we live in this time where

9:32

uh, there's an idolization of

9:34

these political figures that's almost

9:36

sickening to the point where it's like you're

9:38

letting these people get away with things that they

9:41

shouldn't get away with that they were they wouldn't

9:43

get away with there was an average person.

9:45

So hopefully moving forward that

9:47

resonates to some of the potential voters

9:49

coming up, because we have two candidates

9:52

that we should both look at and say,

9:54

Okay, what are they actually doing for the people?

9:57

Sure, you know, there's something interesting that

9:59

I heard another

10:02

political pundit say, I

10:04

couldn't tell you which one, but I believe it

10:06

to be true having traveled around

10:09

the world a bit,

10:11

a good bit, and

10:13

that's that in other countries,

10:16

people are almost

10:18

inherently critical of

10:21

their elected officials, right. They

10:24

don't elect their representatives

10:28

nearly as enthusiastically as

10:31

some of us do. I know that there's

10:33

not a lot of people as enthusiastic about this particular

10:35

election, but the fact is is that in

10:37

other countries, for the most part,

10:39

people aren't as enthusiastic about their guy

10:43

or their woman that they're electing,

10:46

and they're all very critical

10:48

of the job that they do. Now, if you

10:50

did a job

10:53

at any other workplace

10:57

and you did five

11:00

percent of the job excellent, you know,

11:02

you'd be a good person. You know, obviously you'd

11:04

be you'd

11:07

be okay, you know, there's no reason

11:09

to fire you. But they would constantly work on work

11:12

with you on getting that last five percent right.

11:15

And so what happens with our elected officials

11:18

is that if they do the

11:20

job sixty percent right or

11:24

less, even people will

11:26

just ignore the other forty percent right.

11:28

And so I think that in other countries

11:31

how they scrutinize their elected

11:33

officials like, no, this is everything that you said,

11:35

and we expect you to do everything that you said, and

11:38

that approach makes the

11:41

elected officials certainly more accountable

11:43

to their electorate, whereas with

11:45

here, again, what we're seeing lately

11:48

is there's this almost like cult like mentality

11:50

that goes into politics.

11:54

And I'm not just talking about Donald Trump, because

11:56

he's one example of

11:59

it and perhaps obviously the most pronounced example,

12:01

but there's a lot of people, certainly on the

12:03

like the state level,

12:05

and then of course there's you know, congressional

12:08

representatives and

12:10

you know, Senate candidates and so

12:12

forth around the country that and then as

12:15

gubernatorial candidates as well. But these

12:18

folks that get the same sort of like fiery

12:21

passionate supporters, and

12:24

you know, whenever they fall

12:26

short of their their their

12:29

their job description, or they fall

12:31

short of their promises, you

12:33

know their base will continue to support

12:35

them blindly. And so I think Chuck Dee's position

12:38

is absolutely right. No matter who gets in there, we

12:40

need to not expect them to be Jesus.

12:43

They are human beings.

12:44

They are not nearly as

12:46

smart as people think, they

12:49

are not as qualified

12:52

as people assume. They are just doing

12:54

their best with the information that they're being fed,

12:56

and so voting for people with the

12:58

right temperament, knowing that

13:01

you know they might hope to do a lot of things,

13:03

can't quite do all of them. But your position

13:05

should be to compel them constantly

13:08

to not forget about you and not forget about the

13:10

little guy, to do the job that they've

13:13

been elected to do. I think that that is part

13:15

and parcel to any job

13:17

that anyone's been elected to. However,

13:19

in this kind of celebrity obsessed culture, we've

13:22

kind of blurred the lines between politics

13:24

and celebrity and sports, you

13:26

know, because we root for our

13:29

guy or again our woman. I

13:32

live in a place where Kerrie Lake ran and she

13:34

was not beaten

13:37

by a lot like she should have been, you know,

13:39

and she's running again, so you

13:41

know this, it's just an interesting thing

13:43

to see. So shout out to Chuck Deefer for telling

13:46

her like it is. Today's

13:51

guest is the author of the book Trapped History

13:54

and the executive editor of Atlanta Daily

13:56

World. Mister A. R. Shaw

14:00

all Right, This from News one. A black woman was

14:02

intentionally struck by a white driver in Alabama

14:04

who fled a hid and run scene before returning later,

14:06

only for the police to delay his arrest

14:09

on Thursday, according to the victim's sister,

14:11

who documented the scene and graphic

14:13

video footage posted to social media.

14:16

The video, recorded in the small city of Jemison,

14:18

showed a small pool of blood on the ground

14:21

of an apparent church parking lot that the woman recording

14:24

said was from her sister after the driver,

14:26

identified as Stephen Fuller, decided

14:28

to run her over. The woman's

14:30

recording said that she had been on the scene

14:32

for more than an hour, demanding Fuller's arrest

14:35

to no immediate avail. Quote

14:37

I want to know why no one is in handcuffs

14:40

unquote, The woman recording asked an officer

14:42

as the suspect is shown in the background calmly

14:44

smoking a cigarette. The officer responded

14:46

that he was waiting on a state

14:48

trooper, prompting the woman recording to ask

14:50

incredulous, incredulously sorry, quote,

14:53

you guys can't arrest him. She said, Fuller,

14:56

twenty five, should be arrested for a quote

14:58

attempted murder. She

15:00

explained that her sister was airlifted

15:02

to UAB Hospital in Birmingham after

15:04

Fuller's pickup truck collided with her sister's

15:07

car. The woman recording said her sister got

15:09

out and told Fuller he hit her. Then

15:12

he proceeded to hit my sister with his pickup

15:14

truck. The woman recording says

15:16

she credited angels on the scene who were

15:19

able to track him down after he ran over

15:21

my sister. She added, quote,

15:23

he fled the scene, then they

15:25

went and got him and brought him back to the scene.

15:27

He has yet to be arrested unquote.

15:30

The video an unidentified officer with the Jemison

15:32

Police Department refused to arrest Fuller let

15:34

alone, even handcuff and detain a suspect

15:37

accused of fleeing a hit and run that

15:39

caused personal injury, which is a felony

15:42

in the state of Alabama.

15:43

Quote.

15:43

I want to know why this man has not been arrested. Unquote,

15:46

the woman recorded repeated before the officer

15:48

told her to stop hollering. According

15:51

to the Chiton County Sheriff's

15:53

Office, Fuller was charged with aggravated assault

15:56

and granted a bond of five thousand dollars not

15:59

attempted as the victim's sister

16:01

was demanding so a

16:04

lot here, but I wanted to make sure that we were able

16:06

to paint this picture fully. I know

16:08

you know a little bit more about this, but

16:11

you know, initially just kind of what was your reaction

16:13

hearing about this?

16:15

Yeah, I mean it's just it's just another case

16:17

of uh, you know, police

16:19

brute well police uh, not

16:21

doing their jobs in Easton what we

16:23

call sundown towns that still

16:26

exist across the

16:28

country.

16:29

Uh.

16:29

The fact that he was that he was in charged with

16:31

attempted murder after this just shows

16:33

you that there's something that's

16:35

that's an issue with the Jameson Police

16:38

Department and the Department of Justice.

16:40

Should be should open up an investigation

16:42

until this matter not just not

16:45

just for Jamison Police Department, but there are other

16:47

police departments in Alabama that's uh

16:49

that's done a lot of foul things

16:52

to individuals. In December twenty

16:54

twenty three, that was a black man who who

16:57

was who was tased to

16:59

death by police officers their mobile.

17:02

And the twenty and last year, in last

17:04

May, there was a police

17:06

dog that attacked a black man

17:10

at his home. And so it just

17:12

shows you that there is some issues

17:14

that's happening in the state of Alabama, but it happens

17:16

across the country. But I think the Department of Justice

17:19

should do a better job of making

17:21

sure that these police

17:23

departments are held accountable for their

17:25

actions.

17:27

You know, there's something that's really interesting because

17:29

we talk a lot about Alabama, we talk a lot about

17:31

Mississippi and rural

17:34

Georgia on the

17:36

Black Information Network, not just the show, but all

17:38

of us here, because there's a lot of stories

17:41

that come from places like that, and you would think after

17:44

being known for

17:47

being these like

17:49

almost racist, backwards backwater

17:52

states, I'm

17:54

not talking about Atlanta. Atlanta

17:57

is where it's at. I'm talking about rural Georgia,

17:59

though, right, You would think that,

18:03

you know, after all this time, these people would say,

18:05

you know what, let me take a look around here, that we're

18:07

one of the poorest states. We

18:10

have the lowest everything

18:12

bad, the highest

18:15

of everything bad, and the lowest of everything good. That's

18:17

what I mean to say. Every

18:21

metric that we value in society,

18:23

we're performing poorly. We

18:26

should probably do something about

18:28

this. Racism has not worked

18:30

for us. You would think they would have kind

18:32

of adopted this posture fifty

18:34

years ago. You

18:37

would think that behavior like this, like you mentioned

18:40

sundowntowns, you would think that these people would

18:42

recognize, hey, you know, this might not be working for us.

18:44

There's other places where the money's moving. They

18:46

have an industry to have options, they

18:49

live, nicer lives, whatever it

18:51

is.

18:51

That they might value.

18:53

And it just seems like, based

18:56

on the amount of stories that we get to come from these places,

18:59

it just seems in Florida too, like in

19:01

the backwater Florida places in Texas

19:03

too. I don't want to be unfair Arkansas

19:06

as well, but you know these places where it's

19:09

like, come on, y'all, get it together, and

19:12

you know, for this story in particular, I

19:15

think that it shows that, at least in Alabama,

19:18

there is and I would argue that around

19:20

the country, but we certainly have an example

19:22

of Alabama here that there

19:24

is two criminal justice systems, one

19:28

where you're innocent

19:31

until proven guilty

19:35

and another one where

19:37

you're guilty until proven innocent.

19:40

And the innocent until proven guilty.

19:42

I think that kicks in if you're

19:45

white and the person

19:47

who caused harm to you or the

19:49

or let me say this, right, if

19:51

you're white, okay, If you're the person accused

19:53

of the crime and the person that

19:56

you've caused harm to is also white,

19:58

okay, then you're in a until proven

20:01

guilty.

20:01

Okay.

20:02

If you're black, If the person

20:05

that you've caused

20:08

harm to is white,

20:11

you're guilty until proven innocent.

20:13

Right.

20:14

If you are.

20:17

White and the person that you've caused

20:19

harm to is black, you

20:22

are innocent until proven guilty.

20:25

And you're starting to

20:27

understand how there's two different criminal justice

20:29

systems. And in this case, you know, he's

20:31

a white man who's caused harm to a

20:34

black woman, innocent until proven guilty.

20:37

You can have your cigarette stand around in the parking lot,

20:39

but had the table's been turned, it's

20:42

very easy to assume that if

20:44

a black man had run

20:47

over a white woman in a parking lot,

20:49

it probably would have gotten killed in that parking lot, right,

20:52

And so just interesting

20:54

to see the state of things in Alabama

20:57

and how these things continue

20:59

to shape the national narrative

21:01

around these like backwater states. What company

21:05

would want to establish

21:07

any industry in the state of Alabama?

21:10

What you know, like and I think that they're economic

21:13

infrastructure there shows that nobody

21:15

would touch that place with a ten foot pole.

21:17

And the sad thing is.

21:18

That there are people on the ground there who live there, brilliant,

21:21

beautiful people who are kind of all

21:23

races, and they're unfortunately

21:27

represented by a

21:30

group of people that see nothing wrong

21:33

with this behavior, as illustrated by the fact that it

21:35

has not changed.

21:35

So what are we going to do? Right?

21:38

But hopefully we'll keep following this story and justice

21:41

will be served. And you know, obviously with the

21:43

national exposure, there's a lot of people on it, so we'll

21:46

stay on top of it and if there's more to report, we'll

21:48

do just that. Finally, our

21:51

story, our last story today, comes from hip

21:53

hopwire dot Com. For the past few years,

21:55

Jake Paul has been making quite a name for himself

21:57

in the boxing arena by putting together a rather

22:00

has a record at nine wins one loss, and

22:02

now the internet celebrity turned professional fighter

22:04

will be taking on one of the greatest boxers of all time,

22:07

Iron Mike Tyson. This

22:10

fight will be available to everyone who has a subscription

22:12

to Netflix, and

22:15

the fight will be taking place on July

22:18

twentieth. So a lot of people excited

22:20

about this. What's your thoughts over here?

22:23

Well, you know, so it's you

22:25

know, I'm kind of torn because it's like, I

22:28

look at Mike Tyson as as a legend

22:30

and I think, you know, the things that he

22:32

did in the eighties early nineties in

22:34

terms of how he you

22:36

know, being the youngest heavyweight boxing

22:39

champ in the history.

22:40

Uh, he's you know, he's a.

22:42

Legend, and and you know, for me, it's like, why would you

22:44

align with someone like Jake Paul when

22:46

you have a legendary status

22:48

like this. So from

22:51

that standpoint, I'm just like, I don't,

22:53

you know, I don't really agree with it that in that sense

22:55

where Tyson

22:57

would would use his cachet.

23:00

To align with someone like

23:02

Jake Paul.

23:03

But I'm guessing what I'm sure that Netflix

23:05

wrote a massive check, a

23:09

massive check, and so that's where

23:11

that's where I guess that, you know, we talk about

23:14

the entertainment business.

23:15

That's the business part entertainment.

23:18

I'm sure he's going to get a paydy that's gonna set

23:20

him for life where he doesn't know his kids probably

23:22

won't have to work again. And

23:25

I don't think they had any anyway, I don't think,

23:27

you know, I don't think he was missing any money. But he's

23:30

fifty seven, Mike Tyson is fifty seven. Uh,

23:33

Jake paul Is is twenty seven.

23:35

And so regardless

23:38

of like you can't defeat for the time,

23:40

right, yeah, I think that there's no

23:42

way, Like it's just it's just it's

23:45

impossible, right, Like you just can't all

23:48

the time. I think last year Mike Tyson was walking around

23:50

with a cane. So yeah,

23:53

so it's it's I don't know what his health status

23:55

is. I know that he you know, indulges

23:58

in. I know he likes to smoke a lot of weed,

24:00

and you know he's he's living a retired

24:02

life and so what he could do and so but

24:05

my thing is it's he in box and shape, and can he

24:07

get in box and shape in ninety days to

24:10

face someone who's who's thirty years younger

24:12

than him.

24:13

Sure, who's who's in that, who's an

24:15

athlete?

24:16

I think with muscle memories, I think boxes would

24:18

always have the muscle memory to to They

24:20

can fight in the street like anybody. Tyson

24:23

can fight anybody within a

24:25

one to two minute span, right, he

24:27

can go to toe to toe with anybody. But when you're talking about

24:29

a boxing match where it's five or six

24:31

rounds.

24:32

I don't know, it's a different story. Yeah, different

24:35

story.

24:35

So I think I think if Mike Tyson could

24:37

get him early, maybe the first two rounds,

24:40

it's good. But then if it the longer it goes,

24:42

Jake Paul has the advantage. Okay,

24:45

well, you know, I appreciate that, uh insight.

24:48

You know, I've I've seen some

24:51

Mike Tyson boxing like highlights

24:53

over the years. I'm not

24:55

a big boxing person,

24:58

you know like that. I don't really this

25:00

doesn't really move me in the same way. But I've

25:02

seen a few boxing matches over the years

25:05

of course, like everyone, So I

25:07

appreciate the technical analysis

25:09

and the strategy that you're suggesting these people

25:11

adopt.

25:12

Because when you say it out loud. I'm like, oh,

25:14

yeah, that, I guess that makes sense. But one thing I

25:16

do remember is when

25:20

it was a couple of years ago, Mike Tyson

25:22

had a similar fight. It was like an exhibition fight,

25:25

and he fought Roy

25:27

Jones Junior. That's right,

25:29

Okay. So I

25:32

saw the training videos of

25:34

Mike Tyson leading up to that, and

25:36

he looked ferocious. And

25:39

then Roy Jones Junior came back with his own

25:41

kind of training videos too, and he looked

25:43

fantastic, but he did not look like Mike Tyson.

25:46

I would never, ever, ever

25:48

want to get punched by Mike Tyson.

25:51

Just seeing that video and him he was

25:53

moving and shifting his stance

25:55

and then punching, and the punch was coming back

25:57

before I knew it had left in the first

26:00

place, it was already headed backwards.

26:01

I was like, what what? Okay?

26:04

So, so I know he's got a couple more

26:06

years on that, But if that video

26:09

is in any indication of kind of the

26:12

the skill that he still has,

26:17

I don't know. Man, There's there's

26:19

there's something to be said about still getting in

26:21

the ring with Mike Tyson at fifty seven. Now,

26:23

with that said, I think you're absolutely right, this

26:25

is a big payday for

26:28

Mike Tyson, and you know why not. And I

26:30

don't know that if

26:33

Mike loses, everyone will have

26:36

their reasons, you know, like, Okay, well, Mike Tyson

26:38

is fifty seven years old and he's boxing a person

26:40

thirty years younger than him. And if Mike

26:42

Tyson wins, then he's, you

26:45

know, still Mike Tyson. So I

26:47

don't know that there's really much in the way of a downside

26:49

for him and Jake Paul of course, getting in the ring with

26:52

Mike Tyson, he's more of an internet guy.

26:54

So for him, just.

26:56

The fact that he gets to fight Mike Tyson,

26:59

he's that uote unquote caliber a fighter.

27:02

I think that that.

27:05

Kind of further cements his name

27:07

as more of an athlete

27:09

less of an internet personality.

27:12

And I think that maybe there's he's trying to

27:15

move more into that arena. You

27:17

know, he's done the YouTube

27:19

stuff already. If that's kind

27:21

of behind him, I think he still does it. But I don't

27:23

I don't really pay too much attention to Jake Paul. Why would

27:26

I, But anyway, I know

27:28

that he's moving in this direction, and

27:30

so you know, I guess good for good for

27:32

everybody. I know there's a lot of people who have watched

27:34

this fight, and if I'm not at home, there's

27:36

a good chance I'll be watching it too. If I'm at home, I'm

27:39

I got no reason to watch a fight between anybody

27:43

I'm not. I'm not in fights like that. So anyway,

27:45

I hope everybody has a good time. And you

27:48

know, the checks cash where they're

27:50

supposed to cash, so we'll keep

27:53

you posted. I'm sure we'll have some commentary after the fight

27:55

too. So with that in mind, I'd like to thank you as always

27:57

for taking the time to review the stories over

27:59

the weekend with me. Your brilliant

28:01

insight, and of course your presence

28:03

on this show is always well received. Once again, today's

28:05

guest is the author of the book Trap History

28:08

and the executive editor of Atlanta Daily World,

28:10

Mister A. R.

28:12

Shaw.

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