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Fan Faces
Sports, Politics, and Culture: NBA Free Agency, LeBron's Championships, Women's World Cup, and Sierra Leone's Challenges
Are you ready to join us on an exhilarating journey through the dynamic realms of sports, politics, and culture? Together, we'll dissect the latest in NBA Free Agency, with a special spotlight on the contracts of Kyrie Irving and Draymond Green. We'll crunch the numbers, cut through the jargon, and reveal what these star athletes truly earn after taxes and fees. Moreover, we'll analyze the impact of significant player shifts, like Jordan Poole's exit from the Warriors.
Ever wondered if LeBron James' championships should be counted as two? We're stirring up that debate and more! We'll ponder his accomplishment of bringing championships to multiple teams and compare his journey with other players like Kevin Durant. We're also touching on the long championship droughts of iconic teams like the Lakers and Celtics. But our sports conversation won't stop there. We'll be journeying into the world of women's sports, offering updates on the upcoming Women's World Cup, discussing the dominance of the United States, and emphasizing the importance of investing in youth level sports.
Our path then veers into politics and education, as we unmask the recent presidential elections in Sierra Leone and the aftermath of the Capitol storming. We'll delve deep into the challenges that plague Sierra Leone's education system and share eye-opening insights into the corruption and bribery rampant in their elections. We'll wrap up our discussion with the significance of literacy in Africa and provide a brief review of Drake's new book of poetry. So, buckle up and get ready for a riveting ride through these hot-button topics! You won't want to miss it!
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All right, all right, all right. Welcome to Ben. Faces It's been a while since we've been at your neck. It is definitely a while, but we're back. Well, andrew's back. I've been here, you've been here.
Speaker 2:Listening. you've been doing an awesome job. You've looked at the concours all those guys that can handle the stuff all around And you're doing a very good job, man.
Speaker 1:Well, you gotta try. You gotta try to have a conversation with yourself. Disagree and agree, but keep it going. Straighten people's necks and the heads and let them know where you sit.
Speaker 2:That's how I wrote a book. I just thought I was like, how'd you write a let bio? I was like, wow, i'm kind of used to talking to myself all the time, so that's how I was able to make it happen.
Speaker 1:No, that's good, But since you've been away, andrew, donald Trump has been everywhere in the new cycle. He got charged with 37 indictments of espionage, stealing basically documents from the president of the office of the president, which he once was the president, And he brought it all the way to one of your favorite places in the world, miami, where he lives.
Speaker 1:And no state income tax where he lives, and he stored all the documents in a bathroom stacked on top of one and another, and another and another. And also, while you were away, lionel Messi decided that he wanted to come to enter Miami And I bought a jersey, did you really? I didn't spend $139, because that's how much the MLS jerseys cost, but I bought something off of Amazon. It's supposed to be on the way, and I was like It's a Miami jersey.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, i got a Miami jersey. We can wear it next time we do the video.
Speaker 1:And I was thinking that I wanted to go down there because I have lots of Sierra Leoneans that are messy fans. Oh, they live down there. They don't live down there.
Speaker 2:I'm going down there. There's got to be a nice group. There are no Sierra Leone restaurants down there. I'm going to take you to one of them.
Speaker 1:I don't Sure When we go. I do want to go. I don't know if it's Sierra Leone, i know it's just African food OK, well, the Caribbean is real close to it But I want to go see him And I want to go watch him play. And it's not just for me, it's for all the people in Sierra Leone that cannot afford, that never could afford, to go see messy playing person. I can't even afford to see him playing.
Speaker 1:Yes, you can The tickets are cost more than the NBA finals. Well, tickets have gone up due to the messy. Well, obviously, tickets have gone up 1,000%, from freaking $48 to $480, the cheapest to $3,000 for the most expensive seats in the house. But messy should be here July 22nd or so he should play his first game. Yeah, it's that soon, july 22nd. Yeah, guys, before we go any further, i am Amadou, amadou the great. We got Andrew Back in the building. Back. He's back with that energy. We need to keep this energy.
Speaker 1:So some of the contents we will be discussing today we got the NBA Free Agency. We got the Women's World Cup coming up The field is very competitive And we got politics, a mercenaries, a whole bunch of stuff going on in the world, and let's get right to it Then be a free agency. We got the most notable name on there as Kyrie Irving, but he did not get the most notable money Before even the free agency started. You got Chris Spall. I thought for sure, when they traded him from Phoenix to the Wizards, that there goes his hopes of ever winning a championship. And then there was a quick U-turn from the Wizards to the Warriors And I'm like, oh, maybe he still has a shot now. Maybe they could win a ring, but this was before free agency started. But free agency started, draymond Green gets 100 million for four years And the Bay Area that's really nothing. Draymond Green got way more. I think he got 130. No, he didn't get 130. He got 100 mil for four years. For sources for ESPN ESPN is my source.
Speaker 2:Yeah, i mean you think about the. you immediately take 50% off the tax, that's 50 million. Then you got his fees, agents fees.
Speaker 1:if you have an agent.
Speaker 2:He's going to have his state tax. The state tax is one of the highest California, i think like 10%, 9% or something like that. Yeah, he's still walking away with like nice, 30 million, 30 million.
Speaker 1:Doing the math for four years, I believe he'd walk away with anywhere between after everything's had done, which probably like five to 10 mil A year.
Speaker 2:A year Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'd say that's how it works. Yeah, because that'd be. yeah, that makes sense. But I was like whoa because all this talk that was going on at the bottom, as if he was going to sign this crazy deal No, he's an older guy and he knows that.
Speaker 1:No, i mean Colin was saying that Draymond Green he's going to sign for. He's going to sign for, you know, a lot of money and he's more valuable with the warriors which he is. He's a glue And he's the reason why Jordan Poole is out of there. He punched them and sent them packing Did And nobody expected that. Poole thought he was going to get all this money and he's going to stay with Golden State and win more championships, but your championship hopes may be over, jordan Poole. This is true. You came, you saw, you won one and that was that. And it's very hard to go back to the top. This is true. And you got who else? who else was it? You got Desmond Bain. Desmond Bain got the most money as of right now 205 million for five years.
Speaker 2:Well, it's, yeah, it's. in the past 24 hours, over a billion dollars have been committed to free agencies and the NBA.
Speaker 1:Well, the NBA is a good league, fully guaranteed The leagues, i mean the teams of basketball, fully guaranteed with baseball. The rosters are not that big. The rosters are not. Oh yeah, Three man rosters Yeah it's 15, 16 players, yeah Easy.
Speaker 2:So yeah, you're going to make a lot of money.
Speaker 1:And I believe, bruce Brown from. he played. he played with the, he played with the championship Denver Nuggets. He got some money going to the Pacers But he's a glue guy. I think when guys like that leave teams to do one championships with, it's great that you get your money, but that's and you're going to get all this money And then eventually you're just going to be a reserve wherever else you go. I don't think they cared. Well, it was nice to have him. He did some things for them. He did.
Speaker 2:He played very well.
Speaker 1:Oh, he played very well He messed well with the team, absolutely With the team dynamic, absolutely. Well, i mean, that's great for him.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he played great man. He was a good contribution to the Nuggets And all you need is like one, two really good solid star players on your team. The rest of them big glue players, i mean, even though they might have heat this year, what they did, i haven't cheese.
Speaker 1:Last time I was on the Oh yeah, you have Miami Heat lost in the finals.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, you laughing. Like they were the eight seeded, like they're only the second eight seeded in history. But make it that far. They got a little Jimmy Butler magic, yeah, but there was a lot of the role players that came in there and contributed to the team. Just like you know, can't take anything away from that squad.
Speaker 2:First somebody did with the Celtics and the Perseveres. They did even when they were down, when they were up three nothing. Then the Celtics came all the way back and the heat won game seven in Boston, which to this day is probably one of the most satisfying wins I've ever seen in my life, because I was like good God that he cannot be the first team in history to lose a three nothing lead in the NBA. So thank God they won that. But it's been great man. It's been actually pretty cool for the whole state of Florida when it comes to finals the FAU and Miami making the final four, florida Gators making the NCAA championship series, the Heat, the Panthers, and they've all lost. They've all lost the titles, man. Not one of them has won a title championship. So Florida is over five right now as they should be.
Speaker 1:Wow, it's an eight seed Cinderella story. They don't happen in basketball and NBA. They happen in NCAA basketball. It could have happened, but it didn't as it should, it shouldn't, and then, if they were to win, they'd be shitting on LeBron everywhere. Oh man, they want to be bad, but they shouldn't, because LeBron James went to championship after championship after championship after championship, another one, no he went to them.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying, right, i mean he won four, he's won 10.
Speaker 1:OK, He's been Nice segue. He's won four. For all you Jordan fans out there, you Jordan lovers out there, every championship that LeBron James has won should count as two at least, Because everywhere he's gone, he's won a championship or two. He won with Cleveland. That's one. Cleveland's never won before and may not win after, And if they do, it'll be a long time. The Lakers the last time they won a championship was jeesh 2010. 2010 with Kobe and ours Eons ago, but that was 10.
Speaker 2:Then they won in 2020 during the bubble season. That was. so we're talking a 10 year gap. It's not that long.
Speaker 1:It's still a long time for Lakers on the Celtics to not be in the championship.
Speaker 2:The Celtics have won one championship since 1986. So you're talking about almost 40 years This has the 1-1 championship. Now it's in 2008 with Kelly.
Speaker 1:Well sure, with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, and Rauch, alvin, ray Allen and all that squad. But I mean those two teams should always be in championship contention. But LeBron James, for every one championship he's won It should be counted as two.
Speaker 2:I don't think I don't like that argument And I think it's absolutely dumb, because what people try to do is they're trying to constantly use the comparison for the championships when it comes to Jordan.
Speaker 1:What makes it dumb? Because a championship is one championship. No, jordan never went anywhere else and won, so what? but they either did Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. No, the comparisons between Michael Jordan and LeBron James, lebron James is one. Everywhere he's gone, ok, and it's harder to win everywhere else you go.
Speaker 2:But it's not easy, no, it's not, it's not.
Speaker 1:There's plenty of guys that have switched teams, from one team to the other, to the other, and hopes to win, ie most recently Kevin Durant He went from. He went from the Thunder, where he almost won a championship, went to Golden State, won a champ, won two championships, and then came to the New Jersey Nets, tried to win the championship with a stacked roster, with a roster with bench players, stars, all of that, but couldn't win. And then went to Phoenix last year, which was also a decent roster, couldn't win. No, so that that alone shows me how difficult it is, because Kevin Durant's a plug and play player. You put him anywhere, you know, he just goes, he just fits. He messes as well, it's true. So that makes my argument even stronger that LeBron James deserved to be the greatest of all time, no matter what, no matter who?
Speaker 2:OK, that's when we're why It's a nice debate, but to say that one championship or two championships is ridiculous. I always say, look, the championships he lost are just as impressive as the championships he's won And my and the only reason. I would say that is because the championship teams that he took to the finals and lost had no business even being in the NBA finals. Like that 07 Kav's team had no business beating the the Pistons in the Easter Conference finals. That was 100 percent LeBron James carrying that squad against a very, very good Detroit Pistons team. And then you also have the teams when it came back to from Cleveland, the 2015 squad which lost Kevin Love in the first. I believe it was the first round the Kyrie Irving went down in the NBA finals in game one, two of 16. Obviously, they won the championship, but even the 2017, 2018, when they went to the finals I mean they were not like picked favorites to win. I mean the Toronto Rothers were also really good at that time too.
Speaker 1:So yeah, man, i think you may not like my argument, but you should love my freaking argument. Why? Because it makes all the sense in a freaking world And no, because one championship is one championship. No one championship is one championship, but if you move from one section, one team to another and another, and then when, when, when, it's a great, it's a great argument.
Speaker 2:OK, so Karim Madhuljabbar won the NBA championship with the Milwaukee Bucks in 1971. And then he goes to the Los Angeles Lakers. I believe it was in 1978 or 1979.
Speaker 1:He won.
Speaker 2:And then he won again. So does that one championship in Milwaukee count as two? It should. It should count as two, it should. Ok.
Speaker 1:So Karim Madhuljabbar really has, i believe, seven championship Right It should count as two, because after he left, when was the next time the Bucks won a championship? Two years ago. That's the recent history, right, but that was years after he left. Oh, totally, and he was tired and moved from basketball, Right? So, yes, his championships with the Bucks, his championship with the Bucks, should definitely count as two LeBron James's championships with Cleveland. That's two championships right there.
Speaker 2:Ok, so she's like that's when you go, when you go to the State Farms Fieldhouse in Cleveland it should, and you see the 2016 or 2016 chance of better? Should I say this, motherfucker counts as two?
Speaker 1:No, i should just like championship times, two reason being Not my dude. No, no, no, no, he went there. Cleveland Cavaliers had Kyrie, they didn't have Kevin Love.
Speaker 2:They had Kevin Love.
Speaker 1:No, they didn't have Kevin Love on the 2016 championship. I said when he went to Cleveland they didn't have Kevin Love.
Speaker 1:He brought Kevin Love, oh yeah, yeah, so they didn't have Kevin Love, but Kyrie Irving was there and the team was pooping the bed. The team was doing absolutely nothing, right, and then all of a sudden, all of a sudden, lebron James comes, kevin, he brings Kevin Love along, he trades Andrew Wiggins out and they take it, they go to the championship and they go against a team and the Golden State Warriors, who are 73 and nine Right, yeah, and on paper that's the greatest team ever. And on paper, lebron and them LeBron and them should have definitely been smashed because the team wasn't all healthy, right, and someway somehow they pulled. They pulled off a 3-1 deficit and win the championship. But that also, i mean there was also an argument to be made. Had Jermaine Green been there, maybe that wouldn't have happened. But Jermaine Green did his, did his team with the service by playing the way he played, kicking people in places he shouldn't have. So LeBron and them really deserve that championship, because everything Do you have, anything You know, injuries happen all the time They do Like.
Speaker 2:Look, even the 2015 title that the Warriors won would be the Cavs. Like I said, kevin Love wasn't even Kevin.
Speaker 1:Love and.
Speaker 2:Kyrie weren't playing. They weren't even playing. So and LeBron and the Cavs were actually winning that series two games to one, with game four still in Cleveland. They could have went up 3-1 in Cleveland if they had won game four. But so, yeah, dude, i mean these injury things, i'm just because Jermaine Green played in game five like big web dude. So you know this, that stuff was a game five. We think six. Yeah, those are game five. It was game five because they came back. It's like what happened. You know, if you're 73 and 19,. You win that game anyway, you find a way to win And the Cavs just still win three straight games. The NBA Finals is absolutely remarkable. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So Well, everything worked out as it should have.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, I think it's good for the city of Cleveland too. Man, That was a lot of fun. That NBA Finals was a lot of. Do you think about that too? With LeBron went to Miami in 2010,. You're talking about eight straight. The next eight years, in the NBA Finals, LeBron James was featured Four straight with the heat and then four straight with the Cavs. That's incredible. To me that's, I think.
Speaker 1:Forget the championships, It's one, The fact that this guy We can't forget the championships, as one reason being, when the conversation is over, all they talk about is how much of you won, how much of you won.
Speaker 2:See, those are dumb because, like I said, you can always go back to Bill Russell, who won 11 championships. He won, you know, he won 8 straight, 8 straight. Lebron went to the finals 8 times in a row. Yeah, Bill Russell won 8 straight in a row. So, like these whole championship. Oh, jordan's got more rings, ok, so we're not doing rings. Basketball is a team sport. It is a team sport, right? So it's not just these one players that are going to be able to do it. So that's why we say the fact that LeBron James can even get these teams in the NBA finals was important.
Speaker 1:We'll just put a hammer to this, a nail to this hammer, right Nail this coffin shot. Lebron James won in multiple different places and those championships away just as heavy as Jordan's, winning 6-1. Amen, lebron James is the greatest player in the world. Lebron James is the greatest of all time. That is all Because every team he went to, they had to make the team around him and he had to play in a way that he could get everybody else involved and make sure that they came out with a championship. And he's done that in three different stops. Amen, lebron James is the greatest wherever. Michael Jordan, you did great with the Bulls, but you didn't win with the Wizards. Amen, and you suck as a GM. Case closed. Lebron James is a GM. Jesus, i don't even hate your choice.
Speaker 2:Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1:I don't hate Michael Jordan, but he does suck. I don't. I feel a lot of student reports.
Speaker 1:No, he does suck as a GM Case closed. On to the next topic on hand here, speaking of our team, sports. We've got the Women's World Cup coming up. The United States women are always favorite basically Seems like it's a given And the sports becoming more competitive because women around the world, in the continent of Africa, in the continent of South America, women all around the world and in the continent of Europe, women all around the world In Asia, in Asia, they're all getting the opportunity now to be able to compete and play soccer regularly. So that's even. That's bringing more quality to the sport, more competition to the sport, which is great.
Speaker 1:And America, the team that went the last four years it's not the same team that's coming this year, but they're considered to be the best, they're compared to be the best, they're considered to be the best team on hand And we can see how far they go. But Costa Rica is going to threaten, japan's going to threaten the crown And China definitely is going to threaten the crown because they all have, they all invest money into the sport at the youth level. And the European women, as well as the Netherlands, england, they all investing money into the sport, they're investing in it so much that they have women's leagues, women versions of team sports, of the, of the professional teams Playing, just like the USA has. I mean, the USA basketball league has women's sponsored teams that they bring, that they put in there Like the men's professional teams sponsored the women's professional teams, to make it so possible that they play, because they have them on TV.
Speaker 1:Now, if you're watching soccer in the continent of Africa, you could see like a female version of FC Barcelona, a female version of Manchester United, a female version of Tottenham Hot Spurs. They all exist now. So the competition is really heavy, the competition is really great And it's just going to get even better and give women more of an opportunity to win more of a quality product that everybody want to watch. And, of course, country pride is going to come in and come in as well. America's had the best squad, for I have a long. We've had professional. America's had the most complete and competitive squad For our alone. We've had women's sports as far as soccer goes.
Speaker 2:Well, the women's World Cup was established in 1991. So they started in 1991. So, in United States, one for of the World Cups, yeah, four of the World Cups. I think Germany's won twice, japan's won a couple of years ago and Norway, i believe, was the other one. That's one. So, yeah, dude. I mean United States has been really the favorites And I imagine they will be the favorites again. It's in Australia, new Zealand, down under Yeah, that's where it's going to be. Yeah, sydney. So, dude, that's going to be a lot of fun. Man, i'm really pumped about this. I can't wait. I think it starts. So when does it? When's the first game?
Speaker 1:Do you know When's the first?
Speaker 2:game. It's in July. I know it's this month. Yeah, it is this month. I believe it's like in the 15th, like a couple of weeks. Well, july 20th was the first game. Wow, it's the end of the month.
Speaker 1:Okay, Well, it's going to be great. I'm going to be watching Yes, you and me both. But you know what? I want to watch it in a country that appreciates soccer. Watching it in America is kind of like ah ho, hum. But watching it, watching it in like countries that is where soccer is Oh yeah, that sounds like a lot of Yeah it's exciting, like when I watched the men's World Cup in Sierra Leone.
Speaker 1:Oh, did you? I did. I was there the whole time, man, but a whole month I was watching soccer. Going to the beach every day. That sounds like a lot of fun. It was a good time Going to the bars at the beach. You're sitting there watching and people are getting excited, people are getting all crazy about it And I was just like, wow, i like this feeling, i like the fact that the sports so embraced And it makes for a great product.
Speaker 2:Yeah, i can definitely see Boy. Once again. Greece doesn't even qualify.
Speaker 1:Poor Greece. Well, do they consider women playing sports a thing? Because this course man, women, No, there's. there's countries that are absolutely against it.
Speaker 2:No, we're not. The Greeks don't care, they just can't play. Well, they need to.
Speaker 1:They need to invest in the youth level This. I'm sure there's plenty of women out there that saw men playing soccer Nice.
Speaker 2:Haiti made it to the debut. Good job for Haiti, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's hope they're not. You know they're not knocked out in the group stages, like you know, and they're a group of four.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Panama has now made it to Morocco's. They're making their debut.
Speaker 1:Morocco had a great men's team.
Speaker 2:They made it real far.
Speaker 1:Well, good job, dude. Well, some of these teams are first timers and they're expanding it.
Speaker 2:Good for them, that's awesome, that was gonna be fun. I can't wait. Can we check this?
Speaker 1:out. Is that right? Well, I got my. Let me go for a team other than America. I'd say I go for Germany. I've been going to twice. Okay, I'll go for Japan. They've won it once.
Speaker 2:They've won it once. Yeah, i'm going for Canada, canada. Yeah, man, my name is.
Speaker 1:In the north We're like an hour away from them. This is true. Where are we now?
Speaker 2:I was for Canada, but they'll probably get knocked out. They wouldn't even make the knockout tournament, but I like it if they can, though. Okay, i like them, man, they're awesome. They're people are awesome, so anyway, so what else is that? You've been ready for football season? I imagine. No, no, not right now. Are you gonna do it? We're all baseball. Can I get you into baseball at some point?
Speaker 1:I like watching. I sent you a picture of me watching the Rochester Red Wings.
Speaker 2:Yes, You like going to the games.
Speaker 1:I do like going to the games. It was a good time. It was the Rochester Plates.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right. They're like their city connectors or something.
Speaker 1:And then they won against Syracuse team.
Speaker 2:Yep, the Mets. They used to be called the Sky Cheese and then that got politically inappropriate So they changed it to the Mets because they you know, the Mets are the farm team. So we had a man we should try to get to Toronto and go see a Blue Jays game. They did some renovations in the ballpark and do a little day trip out there.
Speaker 1:No, that'd be fine, that'd be good. It's only what Two hour drive to Toronto? Not bad. Is it two hours or four hours? Oh no, it's not four hours Or three hours, No You don't believe, so Let's look it up right now. Well, that's all right, let's go. Let's hit the world of politics. What's been happening in the world lately? You don't know.
Speaker 2:Donald Trump got indicted, but he's not going to go to jail.
Speaker 1:He may not go to jail like Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden got a slap on the wrist, so Donald Trump, you know, would be the same Smack him with a slap on the wrist and say, but here's the crazy thing, right, yeah, he could not go to jail, he could be. I mean, they could give him like probation or something like that, but he could still run for president, whereas if you're a criminal, you can't vote But you can run for office, which is crazy And there's never been like a precedent set where you know, all people used to do was probably a morality clause, where they're like, hey, since I have all this cast going on around me, i would step back, i'll, i'll, i'll stop my campaigning and, you know, focus on what's going on with me and my personal life, but not Donald Trump man. He's taking this head on and just like, yep, i'm using this, i'm using this to my benefit And going on campaigns, talking about the witch hunts, talking about their after out to get him, which is not the case at all. So I'll say that, to segue to this, the Sierra Leone, the country Sierra Leone, had a public election, had a presidential election, june 20, june 24th, and the person that won. The person that they say won is Julius Madagio. Like Trump was saying, stop the steal, julius Madagio. Actually they're saying he stole the presidency because the first the five years that he spent for his first term right, he put everything in place to be able to make it possible so that he can get a second term.
Speaker 1:When I say put everything in place, everybody that he appointed and key positions are people, are people that you know, that are part of his tribe And the continent of Africa. There's always tribalism. If you're not fighting the white man, you fight each other because you know you are not my tribe, you don't speak the same language as they speak, even though everybody in Sierra Leone speaks Creole, but there's hundreds of different little indigenous languages that they speak there, in Bahia, fula, timonix, kuanca, mardingo, so so for some people, so many different, different, different languages, my fabulous of the mandate tribe. So he appointed a bunch of mandates and key positions And when he appointed them, it's so that he can ensure his election victory And even though, if you look at the numbers the international community have, have have numbers for each party's counts, basically how many people voted for them, and all those numbers don't show that my WLU's party, the SLPP, won. But according to his people, the person that announced the election, the the the announcer results. I don't know his first name, but his last name is Kone, muhamed Kone. His last name is. His first name is Muhamed, last name is Kone. They said that my WL one, but according to all the results, my WL didn't win, but he's taking it upon himself.
Speaker 1:This is what Trump would have done had he been in Africa. He'd been like I won. Joe Biden's numbers don't matter And he would have gone on with the second term. But since we're in a civilized country, civilized nation, everybody that ride it in January six they've been put on trial. Some of them are already got some jail time. It could be a year, it could be 20 years depend on the severity of the issue. And there's a grant. There was a something they call her. They call her a Maga granny. Maga granny got a year in jail for a storming the Capitol And she was telling Donald Trump, according to Twitter, that Donald Trump's to stop using her story, cause Donald Trump is using her story saying look, they arrested this innocent granny and threw her in jail. She's like no, i'm not innocent, i committed the crime, so I did the time And that's all there is to it, whereas whereas in free time, everybody that everybody that's part of that was part of what's it called, that's part of my WOS crew will not get to go to jail. There's no repercussions, there's no answers for it. Even though they said they won, which is great I mean they said that's how PP won SLPP party supporters They're out in the streets killing people, destroying property. They're not being gracious victors According to that. If I was you and I won the election, i'm not out there disturbing people.
Speaker 1:The economy has gotten worse since my WO got in power five years ago. The Leons was at 700,000 Leons per hundred dollars. Now it's a 200 and 220,000. 220,000, 2.2 million Leons per every hundred dollar, which is crazy. And people are still like, yeah, let's vote them in power, which does not make any sense whatsoever. Why would I vote somebody in power that's made the cost of living go up? A bag of rice is up to 700,000 Leons. People eat an enormous amount of rice Breakfast, lunch, dinner, rice. In Sierra Leone, you'd get sick of rice And with the economy I've always said this, not to you, but to other people Sierra Leone operates as if it's an island. Everything is imported, so it makes the cost of living go up, which is crazy.
Speaker 1:Because if that's how the country is people's theoretically speaking, my WO there's no way he should have won the election, because he didn't make the country better, he made the country worse. But somehow people are like, hey, let's vote for him. And they die hard too If you say anything about him stealing the election or this, that and the third somebody's going to come for you, somebody's going to come kill you Or somebody's going to come destroy your property. It's a very authoritarian rule in that sense, and they say that he's killed a lot and lots and lots of people, but not directly, indirectly. And the way he's ruling over there is the way Donald Trump would have loved to rule America.
Speaker 1:But the greatest thing about America is this education. School systems are decent enough, where you and I know how to read, our kids know how to read. Our kids' kids will know how to read, so they'll be able to question, they'll be able to make critical thinking decisions, critical thinking choices. Whereas the greatest thing my WO did for himself, he came in an office and said free education. He's going to give everybody free education, but the people that are in school right now don't know how to read. Some of them may not even know how to write, write a proper sentence. So if you don't have that knowledge, how are you able to stand up? to stand up to anybody? You can't, because whatever they tell you may seem right to you, even if it's not right. And whatever they say to you, you just yeah. Yeah, that sounds about right, you go for it. But if you're educated enough or you have, you've been taught well enough in school you could critically think and critically execute what you need to execute. And if there's something that doesn't feel right to you, you'd be able to stand up for it. But everybody, everyone of the support, everyone of my WO supporters, seem to be blinded.
Speaker 1:But it all comes back to the appointments that he made earlier in his administration. He shook a bunch of people's hands with a lot of money. So he appointed somebody in charge of, he appointed somebody that's supposed to be the ambassador for music. He gave him good, he gave him. He shook his hand. Well, when I say shake his hand, he gave him some money. So these guys, when election time came, they're out there parroting what he wanted them to parrot and they're promoting him as if this is a great second coming. It isn't the great second coming. The economy's down the drain. The cost of living is up high. Everybody that's poor is very, very poor. Still, everybody that's rich, they have money, that's part of the government. They're going to continue to live well. Yeah, that's how it is in a lot of countries. That's how it is in a lot of countries, but over there it's even worse.
Speaker 1:So because if you have money, you can send your kids and give them a decent education. If you don't have any money, even though the education system is free, teachers are not teaching. They're there to get money. They're like you give me money, i give you the pamphlet with the answers Instead of. You need to learn this material, understand this material and be able to execute this material if need be, but most kids don't.
Speaker 1:I had a letter from somebody that I know, a family member. I had them write letters to me. My eight-year-old daughter at the time could write better than this 20-something-year-old person. Or your seven-year-old daughter could write better than this 20-something-year-old person. I was like, oh my God, this is terrible. You're reading a letter from a 20-something-year-old person and it is. You're so horrible, so hard to read. You get stuck in your ways, getting stuck and making sense of what you're reading because it's so hard to read and it's not structured properly at all. So the greatest thing he did for himself as president Marabio is to ensure Sierra Leone's self-destruction from here for the long run, for like the next 2030, maybe even our lifetime. He's insured the country of that due to lack of education. It's not just him the people, the people of the people.
Speaker 2:How do these people allow to even do that to a country. How do they get away with just continuing to? continue a pattern where it's showing yourself discretion and people are just like yeah, There's no checks and balances.
Speaker 1:In America, we have the executive branch, the judicial branch, and then we have the what's it called. We have the Senate. They're all different, they all do their own separate things and they all can check each other. In Sierra Leone, there's no checks and balances. The president's charge is in charge of everything ABCD. There's nobody to check him.
Speaker 1:Whoever he puts in place is who he puts in place, but if anybody decides to not go with that line of direction, they end up getting put out. You end up losing your job. You end up being put in a place where you become an outsider instead of an insider. Everybody needs that money. Everybody needs that support. It makes it very difficult for you to say no, and when you know for a fact you are not going to earn the same money doing what you do, doing something else, versus doing what you do now and following the status quo. So you got to follow the status quo. The people that feed me are the people I'm going to be loyal to. My radio feeds a bunch of people. So a bunch of people are going to be loyal to him because we're getting paid, they're getting paid to be loyal and they're he's maintaining their lifestyle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, of course. That's why most people are loyal to people that are criminals.
Speaker 1:That's how come it won't change anytime soon? Because, in order for us to change, the country is known for bribery, heavy bribery, and same with this country. You don't have enough to bribe anybody to have any influence True, over there. You do have enough to bribe somebody to have some influence. Interesting. There you go. So if you throw somebody, the average person could make $25 a month. If you bribe somebody, that's even a lot of money. If you bribe somebody, if you give somebody over there every month $200, which is how much you're giving away to your ex-wife now, yeah, yeah, if you give somebody that much a month they'll be loyal to you.
Speaker 1:Okay, they'll be loyal to you. There's nothing else you could say to them. There's nothing not you. There's nothing else anybody could say to them about you. You will have them hook, climb and sinker. So, if you like, if you're like, i'm willing to give that money away there for you. Nobody could say nothing against you about you. So there's no checks. You could do literally whatever you want, however you want it, and they'll be like yep, andrew's right, andrew's a man. So money talks, money does talk. So with that in mind, my WO has set up everything in place And there's a lot of people they're going to be dirt poor, they're going to be struggling during this administration that voted for him that are looting and criminalizing other people for him, and it's just blind love.
Speaker 1:They're like oh we. Some of them are doing it because he's your tribesman And some of them are doing it because they don't. They don't know any better. They lacked understanding that he did not make the country better when he came And six or five years in the country's not better off. The country would be better in spite of him, not because of him. And had they elected the other party, maybe it was possible.
Speaker 1:Freedom of the press and all that, instead of being around like a Gestapo state. But now it's being around like a Gestapo state. It's too bad. So that that's what's happening right now. And the international body? you can't do much with another country. You just got to watch how they upgrade themselves. And as long as a civil war doesn't break out, you can't do much about it. You just got to watch. But maybe if people do get angry enough, they could have a coup if they get angry enough. But we don't want that to happen. We want civil war to be.
Speaker 1:And also what the people of Sierra Leone, the majority of the people that live in the urban suburban sides of the country. They don't know that the government's supposed to work for you. You don't work for the government. Yeah Well, you gotta run a lot of people that. But you, you, you, the president. The president works for you. You don't work for him. He's supposed. He's an elected official. He's supposed to prove himself to you. If he doesn't prove himself to you, you have your day when you could say I don't want you anymore. But in spite of that, my DO is taking, taking my DO. Administration is taking it upon himself. So like say, hey, we do what we want, we do what we want. Like I said, the way he's ruling over there is the same way.
Speaker 1:Trump would have loved to rule America. Yes, but due to the checks and balances in America, donald Trump has to have his day in court And he has a court date in New York state. He has a court date with the federal, with the federal investing, with the federal court, and then he's going to possibly have a court date with the state of Georgia. So and that's the base There's going to be lots of money spent around, so he better have his supporters donate a lot to his cause. Yeah, have fun with that one.
Speaker 1:Well, no, they donate. They believe in him so much they donate. Donald Trump has been getting a lot of money, a lot of money. There's so many people that believe that he's been prosecuted for for political reasons instead of what he's done. There's even tapes out there that said he's guilty, but you know they'll find every reason to say otherwise. Oh man, you know that might have been a fake tape. Man, he didn't make that. But, donald, this is your voice. No, it's not. How'd you know that he didn't doctor that?
Speaker 1:There's a lot of conspiracy theories, the theorists out there that I think that the government's out to get him. I mean, it's possible because he is very outspoken. But there's plausible reasons why they're going after you. They said return documents that belong to the government. You say no, and you're caught on tape saying I could declassify them, but since I didn't it's very important stuff in here But since I didn't and it's too late now and I'm not president but you didn't declassify them And they told you to bring them back and you kept playing hooky with them, what are you doing? Return the documents, live your life.
Speaker 2:What if he burns them? What do you think would happen?
Speaker 1:Oh, they'd absolutely have. There'd be evidence of it And where would he would have to given it to, given up to somebody to burn them, and whoever that person is. You know Trump is. Trump only looks after Trump. So Rudy Giuliani is going to look after Rudy Giuliani. Mark Meadows is going to look after Mark Meadows. Everybody else that's part of his staff is going to look after themselves, because when it gets hot enough, trump is willing to throw anybody under fire. He promised you that. You know I'll get you off, but he's willing to throw anybody under fire, and there isn't anybody. Well, i mean, there isn't anybody that's impervious to, you know, to his it's a, it's a, his whim. If he feels like it's me or you, it's you And that she's crazy, it's a good thing that we don't live in a continent, we don't live in an authoritarian world where Trump could have been like no, i do not approve of Joe Biden, he can't be president, i'm president, that's it. Mike Pence, go back. You can't certify this election. Mike Pence is part of Donald Trump's party, but he still had to certify the election for whoever wins it, which is great. Had him and Trump won, it would have been business as usual, but since they didn't win, he had to certify it for Joe Biden And Juan Medconé certified election for Madagascar, because I'm in Madagascar and the same tribe, and since there's no checks and balances over there, it's just business as usual, let's keep going.
Speaker 1:But for great change, for anything that changed in Sierra Leone, the people need to look within themselves, cause the things, the same things that you are, that you're like wow, that you accept the same things that you accept in your life, is the same things my dad you did to get the people on his side that are on his side to do the, to do his bidding. And Sierra Leone, there's lots of bribery going on for everything. Like I told you, you give somebody $100 a month, they're yours. You give somebody $600 a month, nobody can say anything about you. They defend you to the core And with that in mind, it's just like wow, where did we go wrong? Or what can we do to make sure that this doesn't happen again? It'll be a long time.
Speaker 1:He could even my dad. You could even change the. You're supposed to have only two terms as president. He could even change it this next five years to where he is like basically a what's it called A dictator for as long as he's alive, so that he, so that he never leaves power until he dies or somebody overflows him with a shame. That's possible, of course it is, and that sucks for the people of Sierra Leone, cause things won't get better. But what they do, these people that are in politics over there? they send their kids to grade schools, while the poor can't afford to send their kids to school at all Or can't even afford to. You know cause? kids wear uniforms over there, like get your nice uniform for you to be, for you to be appropriately just enough to go to school. So it's a bleak, bleak future looking right now, that's a shame, i really sucks to hear that.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, it's a bleak future for the people that live there, that are poor. Yeah, it won't get any better for them And they can't really change it. And the international bodies are only onlookers. They can't do anything unless a war breaks out. And if a war doesn't break out but they're slaughtering people, they'll be okay with it. They'll be okay Cause it's not. We can interfere in other people's governments. But on some more lighter hearted things, antonio Brown On the Owned a arena football team. He decided he didn't want to pay to find they kicked this team out of the arena football. The whole team, the whole team got kicked out.
Speaker 1:Antonio Brown, you're really going down a steep, steep hill. You say you have nothing's wrong with you, but you're doing everything wrong. You're not. You don't want to follow rules. Don't want to follow rules. Go from your own league, don't join anybody else's league. Just do your own thing. Nobody question you be like Kanye West on your own. You don't own your own and you're working with other people. You gotta you got. You gotta Acquirest of them. You gotta appease them. If you don't appease them, they can kick you out. Yeah, maybe you and Kanye West could get together from your own league, geez wouldn't that be something, man, lots of people watch?
Speaker 1:No, they wouldn't yes, they would know they wouldn't. Don't care, andrew, we love watching chaos. We love watching things go wrong.
Speaker 2:I don't think anybody want to watch the football though. Oh well they. It's giving people. I'm telling you, right now, nobody really even cares about what's what I'm thinking right now We talk about it but, like the, the bachelor who could care less about what's happening, they don't care. He's not playing football, it's not catching touchdowns, He's not helping their team win.
Speaker 1:So they don't really give a room so he can just say and do what he wants and He was a million dollars worth the game base like who's the who do you think is the best corner that can cover? Who's the best corner? who's the corner tree? have them toughest time with. He's like I haven't seen one.
Speaker 2:Yeah. He was he was fantastic. I mean, that's not a secret, that guy was no, he didn't say I've been seen one.
Speaker 1:He's like I'm, so looking for him.
Speaker 2:He's was fantastic. It's incredible that stealer team.
Speaker 1:He went a super bowl.
Speaker 2:They didn't. They didn't even get to a super bowl. That's, to me, is with what the Antonio Brown and they've been on bell and big bed and their defense was great. They couldn't. They couldn't even make a super ball. I'm not stunning to me. Yeah, what do you know?
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