Welcome to the Tweed Trends podcast. Hey, Evette, what's trending today? Hey, I mean, that's pay girl. And you are tuned in to Tweed Trends.
It's the quickest way to find out what's trending today. Hey, guys, welcome back to Tweed Trends. Honestly, my question today is, what's up with June? Let's get started.
I am 100% sure at this point in time that the month of June has close to zero worthwhile days to talk about, or at least the ones that I've scanned through so far. I'm like, you know what? And maybe it's because of the seriousness of the moment of the day of this season that we're going through as to why I look at these days. And it's like, you know what?
I cannot pull myself to talk about hugging a cat today. I just can't. Honestly, I don't even remember what today is because it was just that unmoving. It was just beneath me.
Yes, I'm going to say it was beneath me to talk about it today because there are too many serious things going on in the real world right now to focus on something so trivial. Now, one thing I will say, right now, I'm not sure why so many deceased celebrities are trending. I've been trying to figure it out. I've been looking.
And I'm like, I don't get why people are talking about them right now. But like, so one of which is Bonnie Pointer. Now, this one makes sense at the age of 69 just yesterday. She passed.
So I get that one. But you've also got Princess Diana, Robin Williams, Bill Hartman, Craig Monty. You know, you've got these people. I said, Craig is Corey.
Corey Monty, I don't know where Craig came from. But yeah, you've got these people that are trending right now. And I'm really struggling trying to figure out what, why now? But OK, you know, show respect for the deceased.
And say a word or two, people are sharing pictures. And they're favorite moments from these people here and there. And like I said, I've been hunting trying to figure out why. Why?
Because that's my thing. I want to know why people talking about what's the significance. And I can't put my finger on it. I got nothing.
OK, so as for people that are trending, one such person is Tucker Carlson. You may know him from Fox News. And I don't like when people call other people names. His hashtag that's trending is that Tucker Carlson is racist.
And I guess I don't know how I feel about it because most people that are racist don't come out and say that they hide it. They camouflage it in other things. And therefore, each person's individual opinion as to what they see, how they classify people. But on flip side of that, the truth is the light.
The truth is that you're free. Tell the truth, shame, devil. We got a lot of truth statements out there that when somebody shows you who they are, you should believe them. And so I struggle with Fox because I wonder, are there are the people that work there?
Are they, honestly and truthfully, who we see in front of the camera? Or are they doing that to secure the bag? This is how I get paid. This is what I do to get paid.
And so this is what I'm going to continue to do. I'm going to continue to say these outrageous things because there are people out there that believe these outrageous things. And as long as there's an audience for that, then I'm going to use it up till it all runs out and suck it dry and all that good stuff. And so I thought it was interesting that he was talking about the rage of the mob.
And he brought up Drew Brees as an example. Just recently Drew Brees spoke out of turn, if you will. And tried to make it seem like Colin Kaepernick's thing was about a flag. And you would like to think that today, he would realize that it had nothing to do with a flag.
It just happened to be during a moment where a flag was involved that Colin Kaepernick chose to do his protesting. And so since that time, Drew Brees has come back multiple times to apologize. And then for the president of the United States to come in and make a comment saying he shouldn't have apologized. He should have stuck to his guns.
And I struggle. But I feel like this time period is causing a light to shine on various people in the community, in our country, and show us who they are. For the president of the United States, the person that's supposed to be there for all of us has proven to be for self. He's all about this sensationalism of reality TV.
If only it was reality. But the reality TV aspect of keeping that smoke and telling people, come on, if you want to smoke, come get it type thing. He's a bully. And to say that his wife's stance is to stop bullying.
How ironic is that? Because your husband is one of the biggest bullies in the country. He's the highest ranking bully in the country. But so back to Tucker, though.
Him, Hannity, there was that interview the other day with Rush Limbaugh on the Breakfast Club. And I struggle when people are so much into trying to protect themselves, protect their brand, protect their talking points that they're not listening to anything. Their eyes are closed. And not because they haven't seen it.
They saw it. And then they close their eyes. I choose not to address it, though. And I feel like a lot of that is going on right now.
People are choosing not to address the elephant in the room. Even though you've got the streets full of people that are addressing the elephant in the room, they're like, oh, nope, nope, nope. So Tucker was saying that this has nothing to do with Black Lives Matter. And it's like, how can you say that when it was a Black life that seemed to not matter in this situation?
And people are fed up. This situation is opening the eyes of some people. My husband was just telling me yesterday that multiple people at various times throughout the day have pulled him aside and wanted to talk to be like, hey, man, I grew up in this place. I grew up seeing this.
And whatnot, this is so foreign to me. But I feel like I want to do something because it's wrong. It sucks that it had to take a man dying on camera for some people to be like, oh my gosh, did you see that police officer's face? Because he didn't give a, yeah, I need to beat myself out.
But he didn't. He didn't care. He had a nonchalant look on his face, very just whatever. And this man died right there.
I want to know how do these guys feel? How do they feel? Are they cool with that? That that's going to sit on their conscience?
That this man died on their watch? Or is it like whatever? He had a counterfeit bill. For real?
So is that worth a death sentence? Hey, we still don't even know if he knew that it was counterfeit. As a Girl Scout troop leader, they make us buy the little pen to mark the money during cookies season. Because guess what?
People put their counterfeit money through Girl Scouts. I had no idea. They'd launder their money through Girl Scouts. They're like, you'll be amazed at how much counterfeit money will show up in your deposit.
So deposit often, use your pen. Make sure that the money that you're getting is actual money. This man probably didn't even realize what he had on him. I had to kind of take a step back because I was just going to end up going off the deep end.
But as a black female with a black husband, with black children, black parents, cousins, it hurts when people like those talking heads on Fox. It hurts when they say the things that they do and point the finger the way that they do, knowing that there is an angry person out there that feels the sentiment that they're putting out there in the atmosphere. And although it's those people out in the community that come back and retaliate, those are the Dylan Ruth's and stuff like that, where they come after people with violence. And I look at it and I say to myself, you know what?
These people on Fox are no better than these killers that come out here and do things to black and brown people. Because you boosted them up. You added that extra little bit of fire. You know, you fan the flame by putting this rhetoric out there that for some reason, you know, the fact that Tucker Carlson was saying that this has nothing to do with Black Lives Matter.
And like warning people, like they came for Drew Brees, they'll come for you too. Well, who's the day? Who are you talking about? You know, if you're wrong, then it should be OK to be corrected.
Drew Brees, although his sentiment about how he feels about the flag, is his own sentiment. But to sit there and say that what Colin Kaepernick did was about a flag that was wrong. And he needed to be corrected. Somebody needed to step forward and let him know, hey, hey, man, you got it all wrong.
And that's what they did. And in doing so, Drew Brees came back and corrected what he said. Now, do I believe in the overnight turning over a new leaf type thing? No, I don't.
Do I believe that people can change? Yes, I do. But that's just like the gentleman in Florida in Jacksonville who went on a Facebook Live on accident and broadcast a conversation between himself and his wife. He's a retired commander.
And him and his wife, they sat there, and they badmouthed and bashed. People of color, women of color, and then their families are now having to come back and apologize for them. What are you really apologizing for? Are you apologizing because they got caught?
Are you apologizing for how they felt? Because guess what? You can't apologize for how somebody feels. If that's how they truly feel deep down in their heart, then that's something that the community now has to revisit.
And be like, what damage has been done under this man's watch? What people have been passed over for promotions and different things because this man felt some type of way and didn't want somebody of another race, nationality, to come and take what's theirs? The fact that there are people out there that think that something belongs to them and them only. That's amazing to me because the Native Americans are the only ones who are native to this land.
Everybody else came here by way of some other method. But then they claim this. This is mine. No, it's not.
It's not yours. If you want to be honest about the whole thing, none of this belongs to us. This is all God's stuff. And it's a struggle for me.
And the struggle is real. It's getting more real every day because there's more stuff. And having a child to raise in this, having young adults to raise through this, it's tough because when they're younger, there comes that point where they have that first experience of racism. And you have to explain to them because they don't get it.
They don't get it. You have to be taught this stuff. It's not inherent. It just doesn't come to you in a dream.
You have to be taught to hate. And so I don't know. I just hope that we can all teach each other about ourselves to try to come together, see things through. I don't know that we can ever see things through the same lens.
But at least a modified lens that things can be fair for all people and not just some. Alright guys, that was today's episode of Tweech Trends. I hope you enjoyed it. And you know what?
There is a video that I'm going to link out there to today's show. And it was a video of a young lady who was talking about the differences between the protesters, the rioters, and the looters. And she made a very good point about what... When you play a game and you don't have a chance at winning, there's no way you can win, then you get to a point in the game where you're winning and then your opponent can just turn the board over, take all of your stuff, take the game and leave with it again.
It does something to a person. And I think it made it clearer, easier to understand. So I'm going to link that to today's episode. So I'll see you back here again on Thursday.
We'll see what we got for you then. Have a good one.