This is the FCB Podcast Network. Great thanks when they trying to. Jump foot change at time. Dun we don't listen to y'alls. This d hou joh, we don't listen to y'all. This d hotel. Make um scream out. Now that gota sound duncause the ruckets in the crowns like a tune in the charge for the outdo tune in the Charge for the out. Laun Welcome to the Outlaws. This is Darby O the King Ben Tomorrow alongside Robin O'Malley and Dante Brian don't forget too Like us on Facebook at Facebook dot com, slash the Outlaws Radio. Follow us on x and Instagram at the Outlaws Radio. Dante, how you doing? Sorry, Oh it's been a week, man, I'm fine. The bright side is that the weather looks great. Alight, it was great today. It's our first really nice day of the year. But man, it's just been a week. I am exhausted and yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready for the weekend. Man. It seems like it's uh, it's just been one of those type of crazy weeks where it's just like one thing after another thing after another thing. But it is the weekend and we're back, Like, it's it's good to be back all three of us together on the show. We haven't it's you know, it's been I want to say, maybe a month or so or even. With all of us. Yeah, yeah, it's probably been even longer. So it's good to be back. That's the bright side. And then you know, the weather hopefully we go hopefully we pass the snow and all that. Yeah, absolutely, man, Yeah, it's it's a good we're taking us on a Friday. It's been a good, good weather day, great weather day to day. Real quick, you and I have been. Having some conversations via text message about uh, sports media. Yeah, it seemed like they've been crashing out lately. I gotta get your thoughts real quick. Keep it breathed because we've got stuff to do on the Lebron and Steven a thing. Where are you on that? Yes? Weird, Like I I don't know it's so weird because I just think like I think the I think with the shift that ESPN has undergone the last like ten to fifteen years has been. Really really weird. Where like ESPN used to be about don't do anything to hurt the product, right, like don't do anything yourself bigger than the story. But now like the last two or three years has been like, hey, steven A is a star and we're gonna put steven. A like he just got paid a hundred million dollar contract. Yeah, And so it's just it's just weird because I mean, the ESPN is you know, they'll show clips of like steven A. Smith walking into a into an arena like aha, like yeah, like he's gonna play or something. So it's just weird to see the shift that ESPN's undergone. But yeah, I mean, I guess I understand it from Lebron's perspective. I think both guys actually are kind of perfect for each other because to me, steven A. Smith is one of the most dramatic and loud and again dramatic people in his business, probably the most, and Lebron is as well. So it's like they were kind of a match made in heaven with this, Like they both obviously are loving the attention from this and no matter what they say, like they kind of deserve each other. Right, Okay, So I gotta get your opinion on this again, make it brief. Do you agree with Charles Barkley's criticism of the basketball media in particular for not covering specifically the Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder as much as they should. Yes know, so like, yes, those have been the two best teams in the league. They should get covered more. We know that. On the other side, it's hard to really do that because in the NBA specifically, and one of the things I actually love about the NBA is like, you don't get anything until you win. You're always doubted, you are always questioned until you actually win. And so nobody actually believes in the Caves and Thunder because they haven't seen them do it. And even like last year with the Celtics, it was similar. Right now, they got covered more because it was a Boston team, but even still, like the way people talked about it was like, well, you know, they kind of have a propensity to choke blah blah blah until they finally won. And now you just get the benefit of the doubt, right, even when you're not that good or as good as you were, Right, Like, people give Denver the benefit of the doubt. And this Denver team is fine, but it's not a championship level team like it was two years ago, but they still get the benefit of the doubt over a team like the Calves who are clearly better, especially because we've seen them win a title. So I think that's part of it. And I also think the other part of it is the NBA has been so beholden to their elite elite stars and I mean Durant, Lebron Curry, that generation, and they don't really know how to pivot. And I think that's really what their their biggest issue is, Like they they're so beholden to those guys because those guys have made them so much money, and they really don't know how to pivot. So I just, you know, I wish they would talk about the Calves more, but I understand it. And so what the Calves have to do is we just got to win. So I'll say. This real quick, and then we're gonna go to Robin. You're way more gracious on that than I am, because I absolutely there is no doubt in my mind, and there's mountains. And mountains and mountains of evidence. To prove it that the sports media import particular, particularly when it comes to the NBA, has a huge East Coast bias and a huge West Coast bias. There is no doubt in my mind about that. I don't believe. I think there's some of what you're saying, but I don't believe it's all of that. I believe some of that is just their own natural bias of only covering and caring about the stuff that's in their backyards. Which we see all the time all the time. Like I think sports media my personal opinion, I think sports media, particularly on the national level when it comes to the NBA, is more biased than political media. I think they're worse. So for me, I think, yeah, some of it is that they haven't won, but I also think a lot of it, too, is just their natural bias of not giving a damn about teams that aren't in New York or Los Angeles, or California in general, or Boston. I think there's a lot of that real quick. Do you think they give the Knicks the benefit of the doubt? I don't they. Cover I wouldn't say they, And it depends on how you're defining the benefit of the doubt there. We saw multiple, multiple, multiple national Knicks games on national TV when they were garbage, because they've been garbage for a very long time, I think the coverage remember Lyn insanity, right, Like I think anytime, like if the Knicks are even mediocre, let alone decent, the coverage gets way. Overblown for them in my opinion. So do they have the benefit of the doubt as a championship team or a team that can compete for a championship? I think that's a different conversation, Like real basketball people will have that conversation, and real basketball people will tell you, no, they don't have a shot to winning championship. But the amount of cover that they get when they're good, when they're bad, when they're mediocre, when they're like those teams, I remember, I remember seeing Charles Barkley a few years joking about it when like it was like the Knicks and the Lakers was one of the tn T games and they both were bad, they both were awful, and they still were getting national games. So to me, that's part of the bias also where there's so much oxygen given to teams that suck depending on what market they am. Now this year, the Lakers are good and the Knicks are good, so you can understand them talking about them, but they talk about them all the time, And that was really the the the jest of Chuck's criticism, and that that part I completely agree with it one hundred one thousand percent. I think the sports media, the national sports media, is incredibly biased and they don't give a damn about anybody not on the East coast or the West coast. That's my thought. I'm sure we'll have plenty of time to get into that a little bit more later on, because as we're well, we got a month till the playoffs dontay. Yeah, April nineteenth, the NBA playoffs start, yep, so we'll I'm sure this conversation to be coming up again, Miss O'Malley, How are you? I am great. Actually, I've just been busy working on that project that I once upon a time talked about. Actually a couple of times, I'm almost to the finish line. It's like it's so far, it's so close. We get so far, like you know, ugh, you know, the ADHD kicks in and I'm like a project starter. So it's I've been I've really been pushing myself on that. I'm doing really good with that. Complete it. Yeah, yeah, I'm doing good with it. I'm doing good. But and then you know, not long ago. Guys. I'm you know, I just recently stepped back into the modeling world. Yes, and for c L E Fashion Week, a promo shoot I did for them, and I like, I can just say right now, an eighties photo shoot was definitely on my Bengo card for this year. And I'm telling you, the Good Lord heard me. He was like, here you go, girl, got you like, here you go? So it was pretty it was pretty fun. But yeah, I'm good. I'm looking forward to I saw some of the pictures. I love them. But I'm looking forward to the when they roll the whole campaign out. That's gonna be dope. I'm like, no, hurt. I'm so excited for it. Like it's it's awesome. It's a great team. I mean, so many amazing models. Just it was. It's awesome. Definitely awesome, right right, Absolutely, that's what's up. That's what's up, all. Right, Stay tuned. Speaking of miss O'Malley, when we come back, we're gonna go to tea time with Roe here on the Outlaws. This is the Outlaws Radio Show. Welcome back, Welcome back and listen to the Outlaws. And now it's the time of the show that we would like to call up to Time with Row. Turns Up Out, the Infectation, the latest celebrity news, and gossipation. It's Tea Time with Row on the Outlaws radio show. All Right, y'all, so listen. I sent something to the group chat the other day and. Y'all ain't heard this man's name in a long time. R. Kelly, Oh my god, it has been a long time. So anyway, Chris Brown, who is an R and B singer, he has a song, so he has like this residual. What is it like a tick tack trend? That's his song his album, I should say, but it's a TikTok trend of people coming up with their own lyrics for that song. R. Kelly. He did it through a phone call, a collect a collect call from prison, and he came for his team or his label. He came for his label because he was basically, did you guys hear the song? Did you guys hear it? I've heard about it, but I haven't heard it. Have you heard it to you? See, they don't listen to me listen in a group chat. I feel like you guys are neglecting me. Anyway, we have like seven group chats. I'm the text message. I said it, y'all, don't listen to me. We got most. Facebook, text message and Instagram. I said that text message. I'm gonna listen to it. I promise. I did see it though, so I know, I know it exists. Only if you had listened to it. Only if. But anyway, so he came after his label basically saying, who's got all of my residuals? Who has all of my money? You guys are still making money off my music, off my name, and you ain't even put on my commissary. What's up with that? Like in so many words. And I was actually when I seen it in the comments that he won the whole trend or whatever, and I'm like, wait, or Kelly put something out so here, I am going strolling over to YouTube so you know, I go find it. And I was dying, okay, because he actually went in it don't sound bad. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not. It's one of those where you can't listen to him in public. But like I had to listen to it. It wasn't it bad. You know what's funny though? And this is off topic, but on topic, what's funny. Though, is like there's been places like if I go to the hood, they still playing our Kelly, Like, they still playing our They they don't care about none of this stuff. But they said, you gotta separate the music from from the man. That's right, that's right, you separate the music from the man. They still love the music. It was and it was almost like shocking sometimes because like you haven't heard R. Kelly in so long, but like when I go to the hood, man they still playing R Kelly. They like, Look, I like the song. I don't agree with everything he did, but I liked the song. Like not everybody looking at everybody sideways out the corner of their eye, like am I loud? Like we're cool? Okay, yeah, just the hood we talking about. They just do it. Y'all better listen to it after it is. I promise you. I promise you I'm gonna listen. Matter of fact, listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and react to it right now. I reacted, y'all. See that. Y'all see that I've reacted to it. Y'all see that. Okay, Yes, yes. I promise you. I'll go back and listen to it. Now here's here's another question on this real quick. Did y'all see that Tory Lanez did a whole album in jail? I did see this. Yeah, you know what I told my niece. I mean, I like Tory Lanez. I do. I like. I like to Lane's music too. But I was joking around the other day and I go, shoot, Tory, you need to hit up R Kelly and figure out how to make that album pop off. Because so don say, let me ask you this. I would love your perspective on this. So you got you got R Kelly doing songs from prison, you got Tory Lanez doing a whole album from prison. Suld Knight got a podcast from prison. What's your thoughts on. Text dollars hard at work? Hey, listen, my mama always told me if there's a Wilders away. Man, it's incredible and it's funny too. Like have y'all heard the Sugar Night interviews from jail where like he'll be talking and then like for five minutes and then it'll be like this call is. Really like he has to stop collect calls from prison and they were just recorded it as a podcast. Yes, bro, Wow, I didn't know that. Yes, Yes, he got a whole podcast and he's doing interviews. Hey, you know, like I said, like that's creative. It is, and that's creative. Yeah, it's creative. I wonder if you know the people that run the jails and get pissed off about it and shut it down. You know, they'll probably be listening to the podcast, probably so and. At some point they got to probably have some level of compliance, right, Like how does r Kelly get this out? How does Tory Lanes get his music out? Without some level of compliance? Right? Because you know they're doing it because everything when you in jail, like everything, yeah. Everything you do is monitored. And then rob in R Kelly and Tory they're in prison, right, They in prison exactly. That they're you know oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah, those guys are in prison. So like that's but it does not matter. They can get away with it as long as it's not something where you're breaking the rules type thing like they don't they don't care if you're not saying something like they'll record everything. But if you're as long as it's not something like say you make a phone call and then you add another call in, they gonna Enjoe call, right, there. But like if they do something like that or they try to record it, no, they will end your call right there. But if you're doing something like a podcast or just saying some words, singing a song, whatever, like they don't care. No. I just want to make this I just want to make this clear because it sounds like we know a lot about this. I just want to make this clear. None of us have been to prison. No, but you just know people that have, you know, Is that correct? Yes, none of us have been there. I mean, has there been a few times that you know? I mean, you know, people triggered me where I probably you know, but you know y'all be threatening me telling me. That we stopped you from going to jail ready to fight somebody in the airport, were like robbing that's a bad idea. Don't do that, not in the airport. So so yes, I just want to make that clear. The three of us, none of us have been to prison. Just all three of us just happen to know people that have. So it is what it is. Is this a hard knock life? Next, so this is actually not about a celebrity. So as we were saying before, well what Dante was saying earlier. How today was the first nice day here in Cleveland, Ohio. First of all, I was at work for the majority of it. I was high key jealous, very high jealous. But anyway, let me tell you about our Cleveland folk. Okay, it was nice. It was seventy degrees out, and they were definitely down at the beach in the water. They were in the water, and the. Water has got to be like twenty five to thirty degrees. Like I thought that was just some Florida stuff. But I guess we like them. I don't know. I guess, Dana. Would you be out there in the water right now? No, I don't swim in lake water. I don't swim in the Lake Ward ocean. Really, Oh so you would swim and swim in the ocean. Either, No, no, no, no, I'm not getting in the ocean. I'm not getting in the lake. I only swimming pools because my thing is I only get in bodies of water where I know. Nothing in the water is bigger than me. Right, so I don't know what I know that there are animals in the in the ocean bigger than me. I'm definitely not getting in that. And I don't know fully, what's all in Lake Erie? So I'm not not doing it right. Only swimming pools. Okay, I can see that. I can see that I have not. Been inside of Lake Erie water in years. I mean, I can't swim anyway, but I would like go in and like be at the edge, you know what I'm saying, get in a little bit and and do all that. But like when I was younger, but. Oh no, I was deeper in the water, like out. Yeah, I didn't get in. I didn't get deep in the water. I got traumatized, man, because I went to I was trying to learn how to swim when I was a kid, and I would go to like the Salvation Army and go to like some of the other like city pools or whatever, and almost drowned three times. At this point, you knew why you ain't have no floaties on. Because I'm black and from the hood. And then it was like, y'all just gonna get out there. I just learned how to swim last year, see what I'm saying. You know what, I'm gonna buy you some, buy you some of those floaties. Thirty eight years old. I ain't about to be out with those floaties with my old ass. I'm not doing it. I see a whole movie scene with those that's great. That's great about third, I got gray hair and everything. I'm not getting my old ass out there on no floaties. That ain't happening. No, you know what, I want my goal in life when I won, When I like my goal as far as water is concerned, I want to make enough money to have a boat. That's where I'm at. You still gotta have the dang the life jacket. Oh, I have life jacket, But a life jacket is not a floaty basically. The same thing that's helping you float. No, no, no, floating is what you get a kid. I'm not doing. You. But I could justify life jacket versus a. Floating like I be out there, hey. With the little thing that you put around your waist to have a little little pony or something on it, like, you know what, Absolutely not, I will rock. That pony floating. Okay, you're too old for that. I will, I will, I will. We're gonna be somewhere near pool. I'm gonna wear it. Just I'm gonna wear it. I'm gonna wear it. Hey, you know what we Hey if you do that. That is definitely going on our social media page. I'm quite okay with this, I am. I am confident and comfortable. Okay, you think she'd actually do that? Oh yeah, yes I would. We gonna record that, I promise you We're gonna but for. The record to the listeners, I can swim. Right right, so you'd just be doing it, just to do it. Before we close, uh this segment here speaking because we haven't really talked on talked about this. I'm personally excited about this. I think it's great for the city. Speaking to Cleveland, Cleveland is about to get a done NBA team again. And Dan Gilbert put up what two was it? Two fifty Dante? I think so, yeah, two hundred and. Fifty million dollars to bring a w NBA team back to Cleveland. I'm I'm excited about it because I'm as a Cleveland fan and as a sports fan, I think we should. Have all the things. I want every every major league sports team, like every every sports league that's out here that's major league. I think we should have a team. I want all the. Things, and Cleveland's sports market, like people are like, well, you know, is there gonna be enough to support if they win, people to show up. Like I saw a sold out arena. It's called Rocket Arena now it's been like it's had like forty seven different names. But I saw a sold out Rocket Arena for an arena football game, so like. We will show up. So I'm I'm I'm all down with it, and I'm a basketball fan anyway this, but I'm one of those guys like I gotta have my my city got to have a team in order for me to watch it. So I wasn't really watching the w NBA because I ain't had nobody to root for. But with Cleveland getting a w NBA team, like now I have a rooting interest in it. Uh, Dante, You're gonna check out some of the w NBA when the team comes back. Maybe, I'm I'm excited that the w NBA is expanding. I think that's a good sign for the health of the league. Hope, I don't. I don't follow the WNBA that closely to know if the talent pool is big enough to know how they they are planning to expand with, Like are you doing an expansion draft? I don't know the particulars. Yeah that way, but it's cool that they're expanding. I mean that that means that the league has to be at least somewhat healthy for them to to be able to expand. And obviously you have you have multiple cities with multiple different bidders looking to put up real capital to be expansion teams. Right, So that's also for the league, right. We know the NBA is probably going to expand as well to thirty two teams, with Vegas and Seattle being the likely destinations here probably within the next like three to four years, will start more about that. So like that's good and Cleveland being one of them, I mean, that's just another example of Dan Gilbert's investment into this city. Though, Like that's a huge, huge thing, and I'm happy. I'm happy because like, why not writ it's something to do over the summer, right, absolutely, that long ago? Why not? Absolutely? I love it. I love the idea. Does the NFL have thirty two teams? The NFL has thirty two teams, the. NBA the NBA, So the NBA is trying to go to thirty two. Yeah, Yo, it's it's not technically done because it hasn't been announced, but it's it's all but a formality now where it most likely will be Vegas in Seattle, and it'll right now, we just don't know who the actual who's actually gonna get those bids, but quite a few. There's gonna be quite a few for both in those teams. And they're gonna bring the Seattle SuperSonics back. Yeah, and that the other one is gonna be Vegas. So it'll be some it'll be some like restructuring too, because you know those are two obviously two Western conference. I was just thinking about that. I was just wondering. So it'll be some some realignment in terms of the conferences and then divisions, right, So like one of the things was like, what do you do maybe Memphis moves city. I was just. About to say that that Memphis would probably be I don't know why miss Memphis is in the West. Anyway, It'll be like, well, because remember Memphis, you to be Vancouver. Yeah, that's right, that's right. So they and then when they moved, they didn't they they just relocated another one that was that's has the potential to be in the Eastern conferences. Minnesota. I can see that they also have the So that's why I say it's not. It's done in theory in that because of the how lucrative this most recent television deal that they just signed that's about to kick in with seventy six billion dollars they're gonna get and with the health of the league despite what everybody says about you know, ratings are down all this, they've already got the money. And you can just see what teams are selling for now, like Boston is about to get sold. The Boston Celtics are about to get sold. That team is gonna get sold for like at least four billion. So any franchises are are more valuable today than they've ever been. Well, and I think part of that too to your point, going back to what we were just talking about, that has also helped the WNBA because there's more money. The league is bigger, and the w and the NBA owns and operates. To the WNBA. So now you have WNBA teams like Dan Gilbert put up a quarter of a billion dollars for WNBA team that would have been unheard of ten years ago. Right even five even five years ago, the WNBA wasn't in a position to expand and it is now. And so I know a lot of people like to troll the WNBA and say, well, the league isn't profitable and stuff like that. People don't realize that the WNBA, or like professional basketball for women in America, is relatively young, right, Like the WNBA is not even thirty years old. I don't think it's either. It's not thirty years old in nineteen ninety six. Yeah, so it's not even thirty. Well it'll be thirty next year, next year, not even thirty years old. And I know, you know, people don't like history or the concept of it. But like compare, you know, because people will try to troll WNBA players when they say, like, hey, we want to be paid our fair wages and things like that. They're not asking to be paid two hundred million dollars like NBA players. They're asking in terms of the collective bargaining. Right. They want NBA players collective bargaining. They get fifty percent of the revenue, right, So w NBA players this, this is good for them, right, They'll they'll be paid more, and I think they deserve it, right, Like they they should be able to collectively bargain what they should get whatever they can collectively bargain in a larger pot means that they'll have larger things to bar, you know, something larger to bargain over. Right, right, Robin, speaking of this whole thing, first of all, what are your thoughts on us getting a WNBA team and what does that say about more opportunities for women in particular? Honestly, I love it. I love that they are bringing this to Cleveland. I feel like Cleveland is making a big come up, like we're starting to climb the ladder, you know what I mean. We're starting to do better, We're starting to shine more. They're starting to see us. I think we're doing good. I think we're doing a lot better. And having a woman's WNBA NBA team, I think that is something huge for the ladies because I I think we kind of been getting like, you know, the other end of the stick, you know what I mean for the women, and so I think that. That is. That's awesome, that's awesome to give us that spotlight. I think about the little girls in Cleveland right where who may love basketball, be playing basketball and middle school or junior high or high school or whatever, and they have something that'll. Be realistic and attainable to them. You know what, I'm saying like, oh, wow, I can if I do this and I'm really good at it, you know, I can make this my profession. So and you know what, there are having children, you know, I can tell you like oftentimes people will automatically assume. Like for the boy, the boy, oh he's tall, he's gonna play basketball? Is he gonna play basketball? And the thing is is chances are i'man be honest with you, my boy he is not a basketball person. He prefer football, you know what I mean. But my daughter, more. Than likely if you gave her that opportunity, she would love that. Like and she tall too, But people more so than not look at boys rather than girls and say, oh, you're gonna play basketball. You know what I mean. So your daughter was one of the people I was thinking about in my head when I said that, Like literally, you know, you think about people like her to see, like what's possible, because that's the biggest thing with like kids, like they have to see what's possible and make it be realistic to them that oh this is. Something I could do. So I love it, man, I love it. I'm all for it. I will be I don't know if I'll be at the first game because I'm sure it'll probably be sold out. Maybe we'll cover it. We'll see. But I know I'm gonna going to be at one of the Cleveland Rockers because they bringing the old name back, so it'll be the Cleveland Rockers. I'll be uh, I'll be there at one of those games. I'm looking forward to see it. All right, stay tuned. We have Dante's hotas coming up next here on the Yellows. SA. Welcome back and listening to the out Laws. Make sure that you subscribe to the show on Apple, podcast, Spotify, I Heart, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you listen to this show on Apple, make sure you leave us a five star review. And the comment is. Very important for the algorithm and for those of you that have already done so, thank you, oh so very much. And now's the time of the show that we like to call it Dante's Hot Takes. Telling the truth. Whether you like it or not, it's Dante's Hot Takes on the out Laws Radio Show. Well, we are. A little over a month into a full month and little over full month into Trump two, the second Trump administration, and things are not off to a good start economically. We talked on this show a lot after the election, and what we deduced, as well as Exit posed, is the real reason why Trump won was because the previous administration failed Americans with the economy. At least that's how they felt. That's that's what Americans told you at the ballot box in November was that we are unhappy with the state of the economy. Inflation is too high. It's hurting us. Inflation is just a tax on the citizen, and we don't like it. And in fact, we trust president you know, President Trump to be able to fix that. So more than a month in and you could say things have gone from bad to worse. Now, I want to preface this with what we're currently in now, in my opinion, should not lead you to panic. Right, I'm sure if you pay attention to any of the marketplaces, if you look at inflation right, things look worse than they did six months ago. Your stocks are probably down. If you're a crypto investor or a trader, that's probably not doing well for you. Like a lot of things are read right in the marketplace, meaning down whatever market you're in, that's probably about a six to ten percent downslope. What I would say is that's a correction, and usually a correction is healthy. It's okay to reconsolidate certain things and then run later or get better later. That's normal. And if you had a you know, we talked about this on the show. I believe that that was always inevitable. A market correction was alway inevitable. There was only but and it's a good thing. You don't want to just keep putting band aids on a gunshot. Won't let the market correct itself. Let it fix itself. That's the beauty of a free market. And our markets are mostly free. Right. We do have a federal reserve, but our markets are mostly free. So that's a good thing. However, this administration did not run on that. They did not run with the promise of hey, things are gonna get a little worse, but that's okay. That's not what they ran on. Recently, and President Trump and a lot of his economic team have been saying that, you know, this is right now, this is a transitional period for the economy. That's not what you ran on. Between that and some of the other foolishness is what i'll call it. That Republicans have engaged in, whether it's just woke is or you know, the Ukraine stuff, which not to get off in the woods with that, but people have mixed feelings about that. But you seemingly lost the plot. You were hired for this job to fix the economy, and now the economy is getting worse. Don't keep making that mistake thinking that you either have the people always supporting you or that you have unlimited time, because first and foremost, when you get hired as as a politician during a four year term, especially when you have midterms at the federal level, you have about eighteen months since from the time you take office, because what happens in two years we have midterms. So if the economy doesn't correct, or if you continue to say the word tariff, which if you say the word tariff as a president, the stock market is going to go down right that. It's just it's very basic. It's obviously more complex than that, but the word tariff makes the market very very bearish. People don't like to hear that. That makes people nervous. So when you say tariff, even if it's just a negotiating tactic, even if it's just for leverage purposes, the market's gonna go down, which means people are gonna notice their four oh one case getting worse, their investments are gonna get worse. That's not what you were hired for. So you can talk about waste, fraud and abuse, you can talk about the wins that Doge is having, you can talk about certain things. But when people say, hey, I'm still paying eight dollars for eggs and you said that this was going to go down, people aren't gonna be patient about that. That's what you were put in place for. And if you don't fix that in a timely manner, you're going to be the party with the incumbent team that is now trying to explain why the economy isn't working like you promised it would. And that's what just happened last November. You had an incumbent team trying to explain why the economy wasn't working and trying to spin it. But as we see, and as we've seen throughout history, when Americans are dissatisfied with the economy, the incumbent party does poorly at the ballot box. Yeah, I means you hit it right on the head. You hit the nail right on the head. Like, first of all, they're making the same mistakes. That the Democrats did. They are being too much online, they're being terminally online, caring too much about tailoring their message to a fringe element instead of the American people. They're taking their eye off the ball. They're making excuses instead of handling what they were elected to handle. And to me, when people ask me, what do I think is going to happen in the midterms. My assessment is very simple. If the Republicans improve the economy, they'll do well next year in the midterms. If the Republicans don't fix the economy, because. That's what they were elected to do. If they don't fix the economy by the midterms, really by the something like because when the fall hits, people are starting to make up their minds about who they're going to vote for. So they really got until about the summer, the late summer or early fall. If they don't improve this economy by then, they. Gonna get blown out. They're gonna get dogged walked, they're gonna get curb stomped, whatever whatever phrase you can think of. They gonna get beat, and they gonna get beat really, really badly. Because like Dante said, people elected them because they felt like the other guys weren't. Paying enough attention to the economy. And if they hear you talking about fighting Woke and DEI and wasting time on all of these other distractions, and if the Democrats are smart, that's exactly how they would frame their arguments, is that the Republicans have been focused on all of these distractions. If they were smart, that's how that's I'm giving y'all free game, Democrats. If you listening like the Republicans don't fix the economy, that's how you need to be campaigning. But if they don't keep their eye on the ball and fix this Seaco, I mean, I look, there are things that they're doing that could work, and there are things that they're doing that can't work. I actually personally believe, you know, I don't support all of the di stuff, but I think some of that they've went so far. When you create uncertainty, and this is going to some of some of what Dante was saying, when you create uncertainty, businesses absolutely hate uncertainty, And as an e kond guy, Dante knows that like businesses hate uncertainty, and so this is what he was saying when he was talking about the tariff conversation, which, to be honest, I am not opposed to some tariffs. But what I've been hearing some of the business people saying is. Just give us the plan, Like it can't be all right, We're gonna put this tariff on tomorrow and then we're gonna increase it on Monday, and then we're gonna take it away on Thursday, and then we're gonna double it, bring it back, and double it the next Friday. Like you can't do that. Business people just. Want to know what are the rules and then they'll. Adjust, because that's what businesses always do, set the rules and will adjust. And so in a situation where we have so much debt, I know those just talking about we're gonna cut waste, fraud and abuse and all that stuff. I'm gonna just be honest with y'all. It ain't enough waste for aud abuse in the government. As much as you think it is. It ain't enough waste for an abuse in the government to plug the holes that we have in our budget. It's just ain't. Because we're so far in debt, which means you need more businesses to come online and to create, to generate wealth and generate in you have to grow your way out of this, and a lot of the things that they're doing, some of that is encouraging that growth, and some of. That is discouraging that growth. And to be honest, one of the things that's doing it is them. Going overboard on DI when it come to going after contract minority contracts and supplier diversity and all that kind of stuff. You're hurting minority businesses when you actually are are in a position where you need more of them, and you need them to get bigger, You need them to make more money, you need them to be more profitable, because you need every business in America to be as profitable as possible, because that is the only realistic way that we are going to get out of this mess. You can cut waste, fraud and abuse. That's a good thing if you actually cutting waste, fraud and abuse and not using that as an excuse to just get rid of stuff you don't like waste. Getting rid of waste for an abuse and abuse is a good thing. It's a great thing. Making the government more efficient is a good thing. It's a great thing. But that's still not enough. To balance our budget. That's still not enough to pay the debt that we have. You have to grow. And if you want to grow, that means you need everybody at the table, not just white men. That means you need women, That means you need black people, That means you need Latinos, That means you need everybody. You need everybody to start businesses. You need everybody to grow businesses to be wildly successful so that we're all paying more taxes to the government so that you can pay down the debt. That's the only way this is gonna work. You can't cut your way out of it. Even though getting rid of like I said, getting rid of waste, fraud, abuse is not a bad thing. But you can't cut your way out of this. You're gonna have to grow your way out of this. Dante last thoughts and let them know. How to follow you. So, Yeah, the way that you do that, like you said, this is to create incentives for everybody to come to the table. Right. One of the one of the things that the Trump administration champion it was that like, hey, we won with a very with a very large tent, Right, we had a very diverse coalition. Well, you need to always remember that just for the simple fact in order for businesses to grow, you know, I'm basically giving away the school of economics that I subscribe to. You need to create incentives. You need to push people to make the type of decisions that incentivize growth. So it's one We've always had tariffs, right, Tariffs is always tariff. The word tariff is always seen as an as a negative in the marketplace. But we've always had terroriffs, right. What we haven't always had are these sort of blanket tariffs where the administrayation sort of seems either indecisive or incompetent. Those are two words that no market likes. So when you look at that twelve thirty and you see President Trump on Truth Social and he says something about, you know, tariffs and trade wars, and you read words like that, and then you look over at the marketplace and you see, oh wow, every single sector is down. Yeah, because everybody's afraid because just yesterday you said you were pulling them off and now we're going even harder. Right. And these are not like averge aial countries. These are Canada and Mexico, right, So you are creating fear in the marketplace, and then you are also creating uncertainty around We'll shoot, if I hire this black woman, do I am I gonna lose my government contract? Are they going to see her as d I Like, you don't want to be doing that. You want to set markets free. One of the things that you know you would have thought with a business friendly administration would be that like regulation coming off, right, we want to deregulate right, not punish growth and opportunity. So that's just one thing that they need to keep in mind because again you probably again you got eighteen months from the time you took office. Otherwise you're you're cooked for the midterms and then you know, if you can't govern, then you're just a lame duck at that point for the remaining two years of your presidency. So because all that's gonna go away, right, we know what we saw what happened the first time. Right, If if the Democrats control the Senate or the House, right, you're gonna get the investigations, you're you know, you may get more impeachment proceed like it's over. You are not going to govern. So if you want to get anything done, the first thing that you should do is you should focus all your attention on fixing the economy in a manner that looks competent and a manner that is sure of itself, because uncertainty will turn will always turn markets red. You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter at tay Bride t A E B R y E Miss O'Malley. You could follow me on Instagram at Real Rodin O'Malley, and you can follow me on Facebook at Robin O'Malley. Also TikTok you know how to get me and you. Can follow me at D D king Penn Area where that's D T H E K I N G P I N. First of all, before we close out here, I gotta say shout out. Just thought about it when I said your last name. Saint Patrick's Day's coming up, Miss O'Malley. The the party for your peace people. I just some you know, some corn beef. You know, you. Know what's crazy? Did y'all see my post? Like my last name is Irish and I'm fascinated to find out how the hell I got this Irish last name Because if you know anything about history, black people typically got their last name from the slave owner. But for the most part, the Irish didn't own slaves because they were poor. Yeah, and. Many of them were working on plantations too, So I am fascinated. I did this post yesterday. I just was like, chat, gpt in my last name right, and I'm like, yo, this is crazy, So I'm gonna read it real quick, says. The surname Marl has strong Irish and scott origins. It is derived from the Gaelic old m mercada. I think that's how you say it, meaning descendant of Murkata, which itself comes from murcata meaning sea warrior. Equal sea cath equals battle. The name is. Common in both Ulster, which is northern Ireland, and Scotland, particularly among the Scots Irish who immigrated to America in large numbers. Many Scots Irish settled in the Appalachian regions of the US, as well as in cities where Irish immigrants worked in labor intensive jobs. If your last name is Morrow, your ancestors may have come from this background, and at some point the name was passed into your family, possibly through intermarriage, adoption, or community connections, rather than direct enslavement. Ain't that crazy? That's crazy? So I'm gonna do one of these. Me and my mother been talking about it forever. Look, we're gonna do one of these, those twenty three. And me's man or no, don't do twenty three? And me? Which one you do? Ancestry? That one? I don't do that one. Do the ancestry one? Well, don't put don't put them on blasts on the radio. Don't do that to get to But yeah. I like that ancestry one. We'll just go with that. I'm going to do it too, because I'm sick and tired of people being like, yo, you related to so and so. It might be my cousin. I was just about to ask if either one of y'all did it? Have you done it? Dante? Have you done that? Now? My sister has and my niece. I think my niece may have, but I know my sister has. She's done both of them, the twenty three and me and the ancestry. Okay, yeah, I'm I'm looking at ancestry because I'm very fast, Like I know more about my mother's side of the family, Like I know more about that side history than my dad's. I can, like I can trace all the way back to slavery. Mother's side. You do have to pay the extra so you for to get all of the all of the details, like who you're related to, all like within depth, you have to pay the higher price. All right, I may do that, I really I really might, because I'm fascinated to find out how this Afro American man ended up with this Irish last name. We could mess around and find out you got a billionaire cousin somewhere. Hey, Robert, we could be related. We'd be good and you never know, you never know. All right, we are out of here. We'll see you next time. This has been a presentation of the FCB podcast Network, where Real Talk lifts visitors online ad fcbpodcasts dot com.
