all right so today we will be discussing trump's plans for a large scale military parade us in north korea and just basically what they'll be doing at the winter olympics school districts pulling out too you know classic novels classic books and the justice system protests by eagles and so i'm going to sort of off today we talked about the we're going to talk about the mixed congressional reviews to towards the the trump the military parade so the pentagon has confirmed that trump has told the military officials to arm to plan a large scale military t and the soldiers like his role by saluting him and the president and i think he just wants to do something just like that so this has been looked at multiple different ways but i think we could just you know separate this into two like maine you know different opinions i think mainly it's just true and what he's trying to do is just you know pride for the military and appreciate the mentor appreciate the military and then the other side is just oh he's trying to show the whole world you know america's got this big powerful army  indirectly disrespect the people serving us so maybe this is because yes you want to appear in the military but my my thing is that i don't think he's doing it for that reason and even you know south carolina republican senator lindsey graham he believes that this  something behind this is not just about actually appreciating appreciating the leaders and he thinks if we actually want to appreciate them they want to appreciate the veterans and our military men and women these are the steps that we can take and i think that like like john john kennedy said the world knows that the u s has the strongest like is the strongest we don't need to show it like there's no need to broadcast i mean you know trump but i mean it could be just you know he has that pri for the military you know as he was saying how all the people in the n f l who knew should be fired i mean i think that's just his you know his pride his american pride showing up again no but i mean i think his his other his own pride might end up harming us really because you know as someone would say confidence is silence but insecurity is allowed we'll see in countries like north korea as things like china all those countries that are somewhat unstable really especially north korea you know infamously known for their for their parades we know they're doing this because they just want to key allies in nato and stuff but still i mean yeah you have a point like just in history you know it's generally and a lot of the times we've seen you know these big parades there has been like signs of you know trying to show your power to the road but  with muslims and in france they getting treated a lot of hate towards towards muslims a lot of hate groups popping up so maybe france is a is a decent example but i don't think it's an example that we should be putting ourselves we should be trying to be like friends and you is this this parade would be quite costly as george george bush sr had won in one thousand nine hundred one and at the time that it cost around twelve million with inflation this today would cost around twenty one million so do you want to in mentioned you know friends might not be a great comparison that is a good point actually because france has been doing this for a while now yeah exactly so they've been doing this for a long time since like eight hundred eighty i think just like it might not be a great example to compare it to but still i mean i don't know who really knows what trump is really think yeah i mean who would really know that that's a bad thing you i think as citizens we should know exactly what our president or what our leaders are thinking but we should have an idea where he lands but with them we really you back and we saw this before with what's his name kim jong un the one button frightening you know trampling on said i have a bigger but yeah and smile actually works so i think it's just like just really bragging about their powers and i would not want my country to be showing off all the power they had i question why it makes us seem like you know kind of petty right look petty and anyways we could be revealing some secrets yeah i have a question like how do you think we could appreciate the vats appreciate all this without being parody without seeming like flaunting our power like how do you think we should do this if we were to do it you know i'll go ahead i think i think we could put like twenty one million dollars say something around that if that were to be the cost of a parade that that veterans usually have to go through it's extremely flawed the process does not work if you know anything about it you you know it just doesn't work out it doesn't work at all and you don't even have we don't have to spend that much money to appreciate them really if you know someone has sort of the military really this is you know call to action go out you know thank them for their services it's such a small thing but it goes a long way i mean we have a parade at belmont high school and people appreciate that i appreciate that i know that people put their lives on the line for us and it's just small thing but it really shows the world and that money can do so much with that we could create programs to homes for them could create a place where they can be taken care of rather than just showing off our weapons really but this isn't surprised me you know coming from trump like it seems like trump would be like the his saying that the n f l player should be fired shows true love for the country and for the fun you could make that is i think point does it though i think his point of view like i think that trump really thinks that one one the players are nearly down there are either like i'm not like i'm glad i'm not the only dance all night it just doesn't make sense all that money for what i did you cannot disregard the fact that we'll see in countries besides friends will see and maybe china will see a north korea north korea like when i see north korea's north korean soldiers marching down an open space with their weapons i don't see i don't see that as something positive i don't see that as appreciate i'm not saying our parade would be the same but i just don't see it as a appreciation i see it as a show off and i would not want the united states to be a show off confidence confidence when that you might be confident i don't need to be cocky about it you should not be like that yeah and i mean we've also seen i found some things on the internet that actually surprised me you know kind of so  i found this tweet you know by senator former senator marco knee and he said we already have thirteen people who signed up to lay lay down in front of the tanks if trump brings out a military parade this is not a military authoritarian state so i mean so and he posted this with a picture of you know the famous picture of the guy standing in front of the tank at tiananmen square i think that's horrible like you know this is completely different that was ridiculous i mean and you know i mean why do you think so like from china and i've definitely heard of this intending is was a completely completely different situation it was college students risking their own lives to protest something they didn't believe in even though we might not support the idea of this parade because i've spen before he became president we saw him you know at his rallies he would say you point out to media and say you know what if the guy walked out of here in a stretch your own mind he's credible news sources what new york times is calling them the start their government is officially communist but their government like in reality is no way near communism they're much more similar to the capitalist society yeah you know exactly i think it's really unfair you know to just compare a leader or someone turning into a right we've seen this pattern is going throughout his i mean his president has been a you know about a year right now and we've seen him say the same things call out anyone that goes against him i mean he only he tried to fight he fired he things with a lot of i'm of i'm afraid this is not a good idea i don't i really don't appreciate this it's not a way to to appreciate the military these more ways you could be doing this these programs the military men and women who are serving as the this other thing that we can do the money could be  many other programs you know i don't know and showing off you know it definitely is a way to appreciate the military is just i think just like what's being questioned here are the intentions i think is the wrong time i think and i disagree with both of you i think that i think the intentions in the area that he's doing it to show off what we have but that's that's right that's trying for us what he's doing for good intention and that's trump unpredictable you never know when to move on to the next topic so we talked about this a few weeks ago we talked about north meet with north korean officials but recently north korea has just completely denied like they had no intention meeting with the u s during their visit yeah and so we do know the highest official from from north korea that will be there is very shocked that she has not yet been killed by kim jong un as we saw what he did to his uncle which is it's i'm scared by well i think it's completely different so you know kim jong un was sent to a boarding school when he was younger you sent to a different country to like study them so like these two have a bond yeah i guess you could say you know but yeah that's definitely a fair point and i see i find it interesting how i'm kim jong un deals with his relatives about a different that's a different point but with with this i'm kind of disappointed i really thought this is a turning point to find because the korean the north korean people are suffering really they're you know they don't have resources and even if they get any resources they're not going to the top ranking officials so i really think the united states needs to make i mean and we've tried exactly they haven't tried was i was going to mention like a few episodes ago you know we were just talking about how like there was hope for us you know maybe to better our relationship with north korea and you know you want to be buddy buddy just a step closer yeah that's a step away from you know nuclear war something like this is the perfect opportunity like there is the olympic games at south korea that north both north korean officials and american officials are going like why not here why not but i think it's just reluctance from north korea for some reason i don't know why but on the american side we're willing to do it willing to meet well right before the statement where he said he was willing to meet with north korea to north korea he said that he the u s will soon announce and i  toughest and most aggressive round of economic sanctions on north korea ever so i mean that does make sense you know why they want exactly once you know have a little chit chat with us after that you know how things yes and i think i mean still i think we definitely would have hoped you had an effect small stuff build up and i think that's the big thing you can't expect to change north korea all at once or make it better all at once you know i don't think the small steps i don't think that i one small talk you know i think it would it would i wish the fact that united states and north korea start of a conversation that leads to something else and it's sad that that's just squashed like we can't we can't do anything about that yeah so i guess that's and when who knows when i'm going to get the chance again do you think we'll ever get the chance i think something  completely different opinion and they probably did feel like they could compromise i thought it would have made you know north korea maybe like a bit more bitter about things you know yeah that could have been a maybe that was the determining factor of the refusing to meet up or refusing to come to any sort of agreement but we'll find out but i'm very disappointed with this i was expecting this is going to spark something i really believe that was going to spark something of what you know i would and that that's gone and really i'm saddened because i don't think there's any other chance that this this is perfect this is perfect right i don't think that the next time we have you know winter olympics or lympics i don't think they're going to go i mean i don't know if it would have been you know perfect because it would have been like a big you know form bring them together even though they don't agree on anything or the other that i don't anything that's real but that's the one place where they can kind of like look at the same point of view and i think this was the place for them because i don't if we have like olympics or anything else and i think you think the olympics not the right place to have this kind of meeting but i think this is perfect because olympics is all about coming together and right all these uglies from all over the world coming together and showing us their talent and just having a good time and i think this would be perfect i think what would have been perfect you know it was like i want to do this is perfect you know i think it would have been much more casual than like a formal completely like diplomatic you have to take baby steps you can start flying before you start crawling i don't think i don't think that's  you have to compromise if you're going to go in it without willing not not willing to compromise you cannot expect anything if you expect north korea to bring kim jong un out to let's say london on anyway exactly what happened they're not go closest any u s official has been like in like distance wise to a high ranking north korean official like out think like most of the threats we've exchanged with north korea and they've exchange with us has been over  media over the news over over press statement you know this would be more like face to face you know yeah and so i think i think that's it for that topic we don't have it's just speculation there's nothing else that's going to happen though that we're that's an opportunity that's gone by hopefully hopefully we can we can find another chance to to meet with them i would really want to see that happen and so i stopped school districts pull two classic novels from reading list and so that there's a school in minnesota district in minnesota school district dropping to kill a mockingbird and the adventures of huckleberry finn from the required reading list and why did they do that well because they said the use of n word and of the n word and and racial slurs is just too much for the kids but i disagree with that i don't think it's too much for the kids i mean we never did we covered this curriculum actually middle school and eighth grade which is i'll say quite young i don't life lessons that i still like go by every day yeah from especially to kill a mockingbird like you learn a lot from in these type of things and like what like i think this these books i've set an example of like what not to do it's like a history lesson like it's why we learn history history is the sole purpose is of history is the teach us not to repeat the mistakes of the past and to kill a mockingbird will teach us not to repeat the racism and the segregation no but you also have to keep in mind right it  does teaches all that and i agree with that but if let's you have enough and i've gone through this i will read this and then wish an eighth grade i'd like the book but the problem is you know when you're reading it in class when you get to the n word you'll see a group of look at you like i an african american to look at me that makes me feel really uncomfortable i don't want to i don't have to be i understand why they're looking at me but i made me feel really uncomfortable and i completely understand your point and it puts me in a position where like ok yeah i understand but like do you have to look at me  awkward i don't want to really i would want like i think americans have to deal with that really pulling this book out we're just only i do more of that like how it took to kill a mockingbird like us reading it well i guess i guess a lot of students not like associate think that things with african americans like i feel like just pulling this book would just bring more of that bring more racism like if you think that the book would bring more love pulling the book would bring well i mean it depends how you look at it because it's also the teacher's duty to make an emphasis to put an emphasis on how you know how terrible and bad these things are and not to repeat them because in these books like they're not necessarily portrayed as like oh it's so terrible you know there's no you don't have to depend on the teacher  and that's not a good thing you know you don't you know to depend on a teacher these odds i mean especially if someone high school we have a great teacher and they think i am not worried if i'm going to be reading this if i'm going to have a teacher from on high school from despairing middle school teach me about you really anything like this as maybe just like carolyn yeah maybe maybe not intentionally but just might slip up once in a while so i'm afraid that if we're going to have teachers teach this who are not not qualified but who are not prepared now for this you might send the wrong message i mean you know prepared is also a good point because this is a heavy talk and for me was that in my teacher it was the delivery that made the book so powerful and it meant so much to me it was all about the delivery and if the delivery is not done right i'm afraid the book might be might do more harm than good and the schools are to teach the same lessons presented in the book with different books without like such racial slurs exactly and i think a way to kind of transition from having to just teach a book that is very heavy on racial slurs is starting a curriculum that has more minorities in it right if you rather than having reading a book that has by the side such such heavy slaughter as teach a book that's written by an african american and say ok listen you know you don't have to be african american the african american community interesting i actually do that more i have like had the opportunity you know to take a look at a few of these books by also i don't think a lot of people a lot of people have and so i think just looking at a perspective a book written by i read the book at the help by kathryn stockett it's a great book it's written by an african american from an african american perspective phenomena book it really taught me out so much that i you know i thought i never knew right and i think just having books written by african americans from an african american point of view i think it does the job i think i having these books written by african americans is a good idea but banning like that to kill a mockingbird and a hug and huckleberry finn won't like resolve the problems of society like they will resolve the racial thing should be banned i think it's ridiculous they're doing that but i think they should make sure whoever is delivering the message knows what they do in they need to be very careful and bending banning these books bring up questions on l about to bring up the point i see a lot of people like you know having a problem with this like oh i like these classic novels like every kid every kid should read this you know i read this my my dad read it cetera et cetera i see i could see like a lot of people being unhappy with yeah almost perfect really the in some instances of what was say some insensitive stuff some of the shouldn't say and but i know everyone is making a conscious effort to be to make us to make a safe space for everyone you know because i know that in eighth grade we all read about the stuff we read about we read night wiesel we talked about it was such a heavy curriculum in eighth grade especially in english but we covered so much and it makes the most high school a better place almost as we went over this is what not to do because you  think cutting something out cutting something like this out is not a good it shouldn't happen yeah and i think about it for the kids that are going to grow up without having to read this book because we're going to be left in the dark yeah and also you know it might make you know i just think socially in my thin i might make things a bit more challenging for a bunch of people definitely i mean it does because if you don't understand the power i mean i don't think that she understood the power of the n word until i read this book i feel like to kill a mockingbird especially not only like taught me about the n word about racial tensions but talking like different life lessons there is a specific instance in the book where main characters father told the main character like just not to give up what all the things are stacked against her and i think like so you should be putting this books out and i'm glad someone high school is actually not doing that because i mean i know but one who makes a conscious effort to make sure that everyone is included in the same space and by especially keeping those books in the in the in the can like you learn of the whole process it's part of the process it's such a weasel word that i don't think you should even even even if you're reading off shewn use it but the thing is this book teaches you know just a kid the power of the word yeah it really does and we see tom robinson i mean right tells you what it was like to be an african american man at the time and it was it wasn't good for anyone it wasn't good and then people and even though i would say that you know the way african americans are treated back then and they were they should have now is different it's better they're treated better right now and an african american i feel safer  you know i'm a soldier pretty great but there's some instances where it's not right it's not perfect yeah and i think this book kind of tells you ok it was worse in the back then but that means this word carry something heavy this words mean something to people so don't topic today is the justice system protest by the eagles so we had the peace we had the a super bowl last last weekend sadly the pitchers lost yes it was a very sad night that unfortunately but there was something else that you jail for violating for violating probation now i am all for the justice system i think it's broken but i understand why we have the justice system and what and why we have laws you know works and works even the most part it's broken i don't think it actually works i think it's extremely broken if an african american and you're against the justice system i think you're done i think the other stuff or i mean and we can see here he's been on since two thousand and eight he's been on good behavior nearly ten years and then he's now facing i mean he is now facing two to four years probation you you have disorderly conduct you know you go have some alcohol how disorderly conduct outside your probation you start all over again you're facing jail time now so any small thing that you do puts you at zero and you have to restart and it just doesn't probation system as a way to get people back into the society and back into the system to on good hands but it's not working it's it's and it's ruining this people's lives and like how hard is it to like find a job find a place to stay like right now it's not like being on probation says that ok you're history is clean for now it's not on you you still can't find a job you still every time when you go to a job that the last you have any any previous any previous criminal records the they run a check on you which i completely agree with but it just seems like the justice system is not working with us i mean it's not like it's not like the justice system is just like throwing out provisions at random i mean they're getting it they're giving to people who deserve them yet they do deserve them i believe that they do deserve them but i that black and fall all your high school listeners i know you guys know a lot about those guys so they're very young rappers some would say they're talented i don't agree with that statement but some would say they're talented and different i mean we're seeing them right  respect to someone when someone is supposedly loved you want to disrespect them and violate them like you did he deserve that and then we'll see in court a black right recently i think two weeks ago he was put back in jail he was on probation and house arrest yeah and you that you have spent time in prison but if you're going to put a young child who's two years old and the presence of my one other and we all know the harm the harm of marijuana we all know that it's not good for you if you're going to put a child in danger you deserve that like i don't care if the system is working against you but if you're going to just have disregard for it's a two year old like come on i mean you know and he did something he wasn't supposed to do like you want and i know that some of the probation the rules your probation a little strict but you have to you have to have some kind of like a lesson in the lesson or vision but i feel like you know going to prison is is it's not really teaching a lesson is teaching you've got your back you know what you're going to you're going to break the law want to screw you over and i think  going to police should be a way to kind of like talk teach people the right way but at the at the end of the date ending up like it's teaching to the wrong lesson and the probation is ending up putting people in really bad positions and like wired or rappers like are getting into trouble i give money sudden they want use of this money and then you have to keep in mind that the widow brought up it's not i don't think they were brought up in the same circles as that we are and especially i mean that's how the ideal exactly like a friend if i'm having some trouble i'll go to my guidance counselor you know i'll talk to  the you know they talk about you know guns drugs all this stuff that you would think a fourteen thirteen year old is not going to be involved with but this is their reality and i think that ends up actually really affecting them when they get older when they get when they realize they had to sell they had to doing something wrong that's that's why it's so tough for me i'm a person that really i respect the law if you're in the wrong you're in the wrong you should make steps to not be on the wrong but for quarterback it seems like he's just he doesn't care about it like is he on the wrong by putting them i mean he's been a preacher for ten years by giving them such a long period of time to get back into society almost something that i think you almost something them and the thing is this is i think all of these programs just grew back to how  people were brought up and that's a whole other front it's a whole other problem but i think the justice system i respect and i really appreciate the fact that you know if someone does some wrongdoing they will be punished and that's how it should be and that's how it should be but i think his name was john smith in a white suburb i don't think you'd be facing anything that's an issue this is the truth and i have a lot of research the justice system i do think it's broken but i do i have to respect it because i have to but that no that can't be the case you cannot be clean for ten years and then pull weili even though you are on the wrong i've you have to respect the fact that you are committing a crime and then you face two to ten years to two to four years for that this would be a fine money somehow they make their money a lot of musicians over what i know this once you sign your record deal you're basically signing away you're signing away your rights because the record deal no such and to make all the money you signing away your they don't musicians don't make their money from the record they don't make their money from from actually their own music they make it from they tore sales so if you have restriction on where you can travel then how can you tour if you can't touring can't make money regularly you know they can really like any remote can't promote understanding or anything like that anything if you look us norway is sweden like i was i watched a documentary a few years ago a few years back their prison systems that are not about punishing people they're about giving people skills that make them better i think we face like a problem like like i want to generalize but norway is mostly norwegians white and i feel like the united states is a melting pot of different cultures but that's the problem we face and i mean if you notice it is a melting if the us the  system are the system yeah i guess it's the system that's working against young african american men yeah like i know that they're on the wrong you know they're doing the wrong thing but it's too harsh but you can not be wrecking their lives on and there are some examples like that's that makes me sad that's my life it shouldn't be like you have better like that's life you have to be better than you have to the person next to you but you should be facing you know two to four years for such a minor like i can't life and then it's washed away like that like i mean for yourself and make those position you had been clean for ten years you i mean doing really really understanding like really restrict and is this not the time you are really doing whatever you want living in paradise it's not paradise