Guitars, Gods, and Great Debates

Have white men ever truly faced oppression in America, or is it just a historical misconception? Join us as we navigate this provocative question sparked by Representative Jasmine Crockett's fiery statements during a House hearing on the Dismantle DEI Act. We dive into the complexities of historical narratives and racial dynamics, examining the progress and persistent challenges within American society. The conversation doesn't shy away from controversy, offering critical analysis of Crockett's perspective while encouraging listeners to reflect on their own views of oppression and race.

Shifting from the political battleground to the archaeological stage, we unravel the intrigue surrounding the Megiddo Mosaic, a groundbreaking discovery that might reshape the understanding of early Christianity. Does this ancient inscription, declaring Jesus as God, really revolutionize Christian beliefs? Join us as we question the significance of this find and its alignment with traditional teachings. We then pivot to lighter fare with a touch of humor, exploring Donald Trump's latest venture into limited edition guitars, pondering the implications of his marketing moves, and speculating about his next product if he returns to the presidency. This episode promises a rollercoaster of emotions, from heated debates to bemused curiosity.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Debate on Oppression and Ancient Inscription
• 8:59 Trump's Limited Edition Guitars

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:19

All right, all aboard this choo-choo train. We're getting ready to go on. I'm gonna take you from being outraged to fun in about 15 minutes. You ready, let's go? Woo-woo. Okay, first up we're gonna talk about Miss Crockett going off the white man during a hearing on the dismantle DEI act. Wow, I'm sure some of you have seen this video already out there of her railing and ranting.

Speaker 1: 0:53

Representative Jasmine Crockett, democrat from Texas, became upset during a House hearing on Wednesday which led her to rant about how white men were never oppressed in the United States. During a House Oversight Committee hearing about the Dismantle DEI Act, which seeks to weaken diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, good Crockett responded to Republican colleague championing the bill as strong response to the oppression of our rights, liberties and freedoms. So I'm trying to get to this part. So you consistently said, over and over, the word oppression, and every time that you said it it was almost as if I was hearing nails on a chalkboard, because it seems like you don't understand the definition of oppression and I'd ask you to just refer to google to help you out. Oppression is the prolonged, cruel and unjust treatment or control. That is the definition of oppression, she said. And so, as I sit here as a black woman who practiced civil rights. Sit here as a black woman who practiced civil rights. Tell. Let me tell you the reason that my colleagues wanted to make sure you understood the same black history that our side of the aisle wants to delete out of classrooms is because you can misuse words like oppression. Um, let me read that again. Let me tell you the reason that my colleagues wanted to make sure you understood the same black history that your side of the aisle. We don't want to delete that out of our history, not that I'm aware of. When I grew up, we learned about slavery and how bad it was. Hello, I don't know what the hell she's talking about.

Speaker 1: 2:39

Crockett argued white men in the United States haven't faced oppression because they weren't forced off their lands and sent to a foreign country as slaves. I'm trying to get to the part where she says oh, here we go. There has been no oppression for the white men in this country. You tell me which white men were dragged out of their homes. You tell me which one of them got dragged all the way across the ocean and told that you are going to go to work, we are going to steal your wives, we are going to rape your wives. That didn't happen. That is oppression, crockett said.

Speaker 1: 3:18

I would like to ask, miss Crockett, and who drug those people out of their homes and who sold them? Who sold their own people? Have you? Have you studied that, miss Crockett? I don't think so.

Speaker 1: 3:35

I'm so sick and tired of this crap. We are in 2020, damn for 2025. I'm not saying racism doesn't exist. I'm sure it does. It will always exist. If you cause people are ignorant, okay, but we have. We have come a long way. Ms Crockett, as you sit there in the house of representatives as a Congresswoman yourself, I don't see you being oppressed anytime ever. So get over it. No, no, yes, we have a bad history, but we're better. We're a whole lot better. So just shut up about this crap. I am sick of it.

Speaker 1: 4:16

All right, we're moving on to the next topic. I just I can't believe the gall of these people sometimes. Oh, do something positive, all right, podcast. Okay, here we go. Earliest jesus is god inscription found, deemed the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls. This is kind of big, I think, and Jeffy touched on it a little bit yesterday during Pat Gray's show in his Fat Five or Fab Five, I don't know. I can't ever understand their pronunciation. All right, scientists are going gaga over the earliest inscription declaring Jesus. Is God claiming that this 1800-year-old engraving could change, or our understanding of christianity? I don't know how it's going to change our understanding of christianity because, from what I understand, this is what we've been taught all along anyway. All right, the mosaic is the greatest discovery since the dead sea scrolls, declared carlos campo ceo of the museum of bible in washington dc, where the theologically significant relic has been housed since July.

Speaker 1: 5:23

The Jewish News Syndicate reported Dubbed the. Now I'm going to screw this pronunciation up. Just going to tell you right now Dubbed the Megiddo M-E-G-D-O Mosaic. Megiddo, m-e-g-g-i-d-o Megiddo that's how I'm going to pronounce it. Forgive me if I've messed it up. Dubbed the Megiddo Mosaic.

Speaker 1: 5:46

The 581 foot artifact was originally underneath a floor of the Megiddo prison in Israel in 2005, after which it was excavated in pieces by the israel antiquities authority over the course of four years. So we've known about this for a few years already. It's not like all of a sudden we oh, there it is. It had reportedly adorned a private chapel in 230 ad that was reportedly the earliest known house of prayer, according to Gil Lynn, the head of Megiddo Regional Council. Inscribed on the mosaic are Greek words the God-loving Akeptos, a-k-e-p-t-o-u-s. Akeptos has offered the table to God Jesus Christ.

Speaker 1: 6:37

As a memorial, lynn described this as the first physical proclamation of Jesus as God. The Daily Mail reported that is wild. The mosaic presents groundbreaking. Is it really, though, wild? Is it really wild? We've known this all along. If you're a Christian, you've kind of been taught this all along, all along. So why is? I don't know why this is such a revelation? The mosaic presents groundbreaking, oh gosh.

Speaker 1: 7:05

The mosaic presents groundbreaking physical evidence of the practices and beliefs of early christians, including the first archaeological instance of the phrase God, jesus Christ, sounded the exhibition's curator, alagre Sevriego. So many words I'm going to mispronounce today. This was significant as the artifact declared JC Jesus Christ as God before Christianity became part of the Roman Empire. Megiddo, which was designed by a craftsman named Brutus, also features some of the earliest depictions of fish, one of the trademark symbols of the Messiah in Christian theology. In the Gospel of Luke, 9.16 in the Bible, jesus notably multiplied two fish and several loaves of bread to feed 5,000 people. Also included was a reference to Gaius. Remember him, gaius, the Roman officer who commissioned the tile during the Roman occupation of Judea. This, along with the mosaic's proximity to a Roman camp, suggested that Romans coexisted with Christians to some degree, despite the notorious tales of bloodshed and violence involving the two factions. This is arguably one of the most important archaeological discoveries for understanding the early Christian church, said Bobby Duke, director of scholars initiatives at the Museum of the Bible. Truly, the mosaic presents a wealth of new data for church historians. Well, that's quite interesting. I would like to hear more about that and learn more about that, but you know, we'll see if more will be revealed, but I think it's pretty self-explanatory, don't you? Do you find that fascinating? I do. All right, we have two more topics. I'm going to get to them quickly.

Speaker 1: 9:00

Susan Smith was up for parole and I knew she was not going to get out. She has not been behaving well in prison, she has not been doing good in prison. She's been sleeping around with everybody and she expected she was going to get out. And I guess she showed no remorse for her actions. Of what? When she killed her two children? Her two children. Do you remember I'm sure you remember susan smith boy? I do. I remember her. I've talked about this on the podcast before when this first happened. When she first made her first appearance on tv begging for her children to be returned, I knew something was not right with her. I knew she had done something bad. I knew she was responsible. I could just tell All right, here we go.

Speaker 1: 9:47

Killer mom Susan Smith has been denied parole by a unanimous vote after she sobbed and begged to be let out of prison on Wednesday. Goodness gracious she's been in there for a while. You'd think she'd be used to it. Smith apologized for drowning her two young sons 30 years ago and said she wished she could take it back. But, true to form, smith still refused to take full responsibility for her actions, blaming others for the choices she made. The seven member south carolina board of paroles immediately voted to deny smith's request. However, she still not. She will now be able to apply for parole every two years, meaning the family of her murdered sons, alex and michael, will have to show up to fight her request if they want to ensure she stays behind bars. Have to show up to fight her request if they want to ensure she stays behind bars.

Speaker 1: 10:44

Smith faced a disciplinary action several times in prison, including two separate sexual encounters with correction officers, incidents of self-harm, possession of marijuana and most recently for giving contact information for family and her ex-husband for a two documentary producer. She blamed the documentary producer, saying I trusted the wrong person, but admitting the fact that she had asked the producer for cash and other compensation for her story. Smith also claimed that her convictions for misconduct behind bars were not her fault. Excuse me Attending the meeting remotely via Zoom. Smith 53, told the board that she had lost touch with reality when she killed alex and michael by strapping them in their car seats and letting them drown in a south carolina lake in 1994. So 1994, I think, gosh 1994, um 1994. I wonder if I was pregnant with Gracie. Gracie was born in April of 95. So I don't know when. This I just golly. This was before I was, before I had children, but I still knew something was wrong with her. Okay, you can go finish reading that story, for like we need to move on to the next one, a little fun one here here, and this will lead into my question of the day.

Speaker 1: 12:00

Trump unveils limited edition american eagle acoustic and electric guitars. I don't know if you've heard recently on the radio. I don't know what you listen to on air, but you know we'll listen to things on the radio or as we're driving or whatever, and you hear these commercials of trump selling this and selling that. The latest one was his watches. He has, you know, limited edition watches that he's selling and I, you know, I'm like, oh, I just I wish he would stop. If he wants to sell them, fine, but let somebody else do it for him, let somebody else talk it for him, let somebody else talk. It just bothers me that he gets on there and he's hawking his wares. It just I don't know. It bothers me because he's going to be president again. President elect Trump on Wednesday announced the sale of limited number 46 guitars on his social media site. Coming soon the limited edition 45 guitar only 1300 of each. Acoustic and electric guitars made, some personally signed. Trump wrote on true social.

Speaker 1: 13:05

So my question is why is he doing this? Okay, that's not the question of the day, but do you think he should? This is not the question. I'm going to get to it, I promise. It bothers me that he does this. I don't know why. It's comical, it's not like heavy on my heart or anything, it's just comical and I just I don't know, it's just I wish he would stop. It reminds me of used car salesman-y stuff. But what do you think his? This is the question of the day.

Speaker 1: 13:36

What do you think his next thing he should sell? What do you think it should be? I mean, we've had watches, we've had Bibles, we've had shoes. Now we have guitars. We've hats all the time the hats I don't mind. Uh, what do you think his next? What do you think Donald Trump's next item should be that he should sell? I just hopefully, when he gets sworn out on January 20th, he won't be selling the stuff anymore. Do you think is that? I don't know if that's a legal thing. Is he allowed to do that as president? I'm not sure. All right, I gotta go. Thanks for listening. Y'all have a good one Bye.