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got something to talk about tonight Afro man is winning hip-hop's weirdest beef

Michael Kosta wants to steal your kids Pokemon cards and the war with Iran is

more busted than your March madness bracket so let's get in headlines we are

now almost three weeks into the war in Iran and it's not going great oil prices

are surging our planes are getting shot out of the sky and now Pete

Hexeth is asking for an extra two hundred billion dollars to fight this war

and they say women be shopping and on top of all of this our allies are angry

that Trump started this war without consulting them but of course president

Trump is smoothing things over with his trademark chart why didn't you tell us

eyes in Europe and Asia like Japan about the war before I think you are because

we wanted surprise who knows better about surprise than Japan why didn't you

tell me about Pearl Harbor okay wow the Japanese prime minister did not like

that I haven't seen an American bomb in front of Japan that badly since you get

the idea although I will give Trump credit though he didn't do a Japanese

accent so let's call that progress but taking all of this into account feels

like America could really use a win right now rapper Afro man wins a

defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff Stephanie is calling it a

victory for freedom of speech yeah we did it America yeah that looks like

American victory to me I mean just look at what he's wearing if aliens landed

here in America they'd be like take me to your lead oh it must be this guy right

here right this glasses love the glasses now you might remember Afro man from his

hit song because I got high or you might not remember it because you got high

but basically back in 2022 local police at Ohio busted down Afro man's door

rummaged through his clothes took money from his house scared his kids all to

look for evidence of crimes that they never ended up charging him with now

after a raid like this a lot of people might try to lay low for a while not piss

off the cops but Afro man happened to notice this particular moment where one of

the deputies was searching his kitchen and looked longingly at a lemon pound cake

and Afro man did what Afro man does he released multiple satirical music videos

using his own security camera footage of the incident that included images

you're seeing some of that here of these officers

mummaged with me in town okay it tastes so nice

it made this year wanna put down his gun and carry my slime

oh man oh I'll tell you I'll tell you rap songs have really evolved

they used to say police now they body shame them over carbs and that was just

the beginning Afro man put out a whole series of videos about the cops addressing

specific grievances and songs like will you help me repair my door and why you

disconnecting my video camera as well as songs with more general observations

and that is why AI will never replace real musicians

now a lot of people found these cuck the police music videos funny but the

police officers who started them did not so last year they sued Afro man for

defamation and right away the officers had a problem which is that when you sue

someone for making fun of you you have to get up on the witness stand and talk

about how badly you suffered from it which led to moments like this

Sean you were called officer pound cake

multiple times your three hundreds of pound cakes that weren't

my god the horror the horror I can't imagine the pain of being sent free

desserts I just hope Afro man doesn't find out that I love banana pudding from

Magnolia bakery it would be devastated if my haters sent me hundreds of

them with the with the nila wafers specifically I mean oh god I would never

recover remember officer pound cake wasn't Afro man's only target officer

Randy Walters sued Afro man for saying what was it again right right right

which again met Randy Walters had to get up on the witness stand and answered

the question are you a son of a bitch they call you a son of a bitch that would

be an opinion I'd say that would be an opinion because there's no way we can

prove whether you're a son of a bitch or not she's been dead from you I'm sorry

no one mentioned your mom your dad could be the bitch okay I got to say I didn't

realize that determining whether or not someone was a bitch was part of the

legal profession it does give me hope for my new pilot bitch court with judge

Jordan and this you know anybody's mind this is generally the big challenge with

the defamation lawsuit because to win you have to argue that a reasonable person

would believe that Afro man's claims were facts and not just jokes that's

especially awkward because Afro man also said he slept with Randy's wife or oh

wait no I'm sorry how did he put it yes thank you so now poor Randy Walters had

to argue that a reasonable person might believe that which led to perhaps my

favorite moment of the drive so you're claiming that is the defamation statement

that he said he had sex with your wife yes okay and that's painted you in a

false light it's caused tremendous pain in my life that my wife is shooting

with Mr. Foreman but we all know that's not true correct I don't know I don't

know just look at me and my whole deal here I think a reasonable person could

assume I'm unable to satisfy my wife look okay obviously obviously no one

thinks that Afro man is sleeping with this guy's wife I wouldn't dare slander

them or their beautiful child now can I just say this this puts officer

pound cake in an even an even worse light the other guy is like Afro man called

me a son of a bitch and said he f***ed my wife and then you're like yeah he said

I had a sweet too again okay the central question of this case wasn't

whether Afro man songs were factual it was whether people would think they were

true and this is how his lawyer made the case look at that suit does this look

like a man who thinks that everybody's gonna assume that everything he's saying is

back I'm beginning to see how brilliant wearing that suit is ladies and

gentlemen there's my client look like someone you should take seriously he

dresses like the DJ at the club where Betsy Ross strips and by the way I love

this lawyer to look at look at Hagrid Esquire over here let's wrap this up I

got the big ZZ top case at three and then I got to go back to forging my own

swords thank you your honor but there were actual free speech issues on trial here

and Afro man was unapologetic about his rights after they run around my house

with guns and kicked down my door I got the right to kick a can in my backyard

use my freedom of speech turn my bad times into a good time yes I do and I

think I'm a sport for you and say if I don't go to their house kick down their

doors flip them off on their surveillance cameras then try to play the victim and

suit them wow I don't know if I want to stand up and salute because of the

speech he gave or because he's wearing all the American flags regardless I'd

say Afro man should run for president except that was a real thing that

happened in 2024 and all of you idiots didn't support him we could have had

president Afro man right now and look I'm not saying that would be ideal but you

can't tell me it wouldn't be an improvement

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welcome back to the vanley show my guest tonight is a writer at large for New York

magazine and best-selling author whose latest book is called angry girls will

get us through please welcome Rebecca Tracer

welcome thank you for having me of course angry girls will get us through angry

as in good anger is a good thing a force for good can be a good thing can be a

good thing can be a good thing walk me through this okay this be a good thing so

there's a lot of different things that anger can be including political anger I

would say that we live in a period in which a certain kind of political anger

that is not good is radically shifting this country in a terrible way that's a

punitive anger on behalf of the inequitable power system and angry people a lot

of angry white men who want to get back their power and are doing an enormous

amount of destruction this book is not about that no this book

no there's no angry white man here it all oh my good

this book is about the women who have pissed those men off so this book is a

book about angry women and girls and gender nonconforming people who have

been angry at inequity at injustice and I would argue that that kind of

anger is good can be good but also one of the reasons I'm writing this book and

one of the reason this is a this is an adaptation for young readers of book

that I wrote for adults is because that anger has been under recognized we

don't get taught about it it's not appreciated in fact women and girls and

gender nonconforming people are often told that their anger makes them ugly or

hysterical or crazy or dangerous and in fact when I have gone back to get an

education that I never got and I had a very good education but was never taught

that at the beginning of almost every major social movement that has

reshaped this country not just the officially women's movement one civil

rights environment labor there were angry women and girls at the start and

their stories haven't been transmitted to us so this is an attempt for me to

begin to tell some of those stories that I don't think got recognized or

appreciated and it's specifically about the anger that didn't get appreciated as

catalytic and righteous also a good time to write about history it's being

rewritten as we say is there any you you kind of walk through a lot of

characters within the women's movement is there anybody who stands out to you

in this as particularly important in a moment like this well there there are

a lot of people who are very important I will tell you somebody I've been

thinking about recently in part because she just died a woman named Claudette

Colvin and that's a name that a lot of people might not immediately recognize

and that's in fact kind of nuts Claudette Colvin was 15 in 1955 March of

1955 almost exactly seven years ago when she as a 15 year old girl refused to

give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery this is nine months before Rosa Parks

refused to give up her seat now the civil rights movement which had been

planning to stage an action around this did not want Claudette Colvin this 15

year old girl to be the face of that action she did get arrested she became a

plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that ultimately that in 1956 would bar

racial segregation on public transportation so she's incredibly important her

choice that day on that bus actually changed the law and yet we're not taught

about her there are a lot of very messed up reasons that were not taught about

her and that the movement itself wanted to choose Rosa Parks who herself is

angry and ways were not taught about she's also in this book but one of the

reasons that I think about Claudette Colvin in particular writing this book for

young readers is that the way she described her choice that day as a high school

student was that because she'd been reading history specifically about the

abolition movement a century before her she says that she felt like the

ghosts of Harriet Tubman and Sergerna truth were pushing on her shoulders

gluing her to that bus seat and it reminds me of why it's so important that we

have this history that we do tell these stories of anger and resistance because

a 15 year old girl can be inspired by them a hundred years later and wind up a

plaintiff in a Supreme Court case that winds up altering the law around

segregation and public transportation mm-hmm now I'm doing you see the

important in recognizing the pattern where anger has been in many ways white

washed or sanded down and you're asking people to connect with that anger

right now but I think a lot of people also feel the burnout attached with

anger like how does someone hold that that anger that right just feeling that

they have when they're pissed off at the system when I go and talk to a lot of

people who are watching the news there's no shortage of being mad at it but

almost for self-survival there's a desire to step back and give yourself that

space how do you reconcile keeping that that fire burning and also staying

sane in this world well there's it's such a great question and it's so real

and especially these past couple years I've heard that so much from so many

people people who are angry in the first Trump administration and now are

tired right it's another reason that it's it's really important to tell a

longer and more complex history and the first thing I want to say is that that

anger can be a very destructive force I don't I never want to pretend that it

can't be it can explode relationships between allies between friends it can be

very combustible and destructive we don't talk enough about how anger shared

anger can also bring people together it's the building blocks of organizing

and of movements it's also how people support each other and when you

discourage people on the margins from expressing their anger that means they

can't let other people know what they're angry about and they can't hear the

other people who might be right next to them in class on their block at work

who are angry about the same things and with whom they could form a bond that

winds up being supportive people they can work together with do organizing

and also celebrate with one story in this book is about kids who plan to

transprom you know there's celebration and anger and an organizing there's

comfort through the losses and then there's also people who can spell you when

you're exhausted and so one of the things that I want to stress about anger

including for young people is that well it can be harmful and hurt it can also

draw people together and and we don't talk enough about that so actually I think

that the answer to burn out there's sometimes no answer to burn out but

community helps community connection working together really listening and

paying attention to the who the the people who you're who are angry about the

same things you are how they're doing how they're feeling can you help them can

they help you you talk a little bit in this about your own writing process and

how years ago you comedy was a tool many people used as a way to invite people

in and still do but that you shifted to a an angrier stance and immediately

found that that was resonating more or it got much more attention but when I

look at the media landscape right now or the platforms with which people engage

and anger is sort of the bar for engagement yeah so how do you balance what

seems to get clicks with actual effectiveness feels like the conversation

happens amongst a din of anger and and it just gets lost within that so that's

a question that I think we could ask about almost any era right where you're

trying to break through whether that's a newspaper periodicals or whether it's

in a television era or now whether it's in an internet clickbait era and there's

not an easy answer except that I think people I think all of us here can

recognizing connect with things that are authentic versus things that are

performed right and I don't think there's a formula you can't perform anger

in a way that's gonna resonate you can perform it in a way that's gonna make

people laugh that might make people but but you know I don't think there's a

single solution to that problem I think it's a matter of continuing to think

hard about what we want to say and to whom we want to say it and how we want to

say it and make sure that it's coming from a place that's real and not just

trying to get the attention because people can see through that pretty quickly I

think oh I hope they people can't see that's my greatest fear it really is you

are your your audience for this is primarily a younger audience right did you

consider boiling this down to a 90 second tick-tock they love me on tick-tock

yeah no I'm a huge tick-tock star in talking to a younger audience though is

there you know there's lots of conversations around a shorter attention span in

the way in which to get their get their attention have you found a response

from younger audiences into digging to this history that they haven't heard yet

yeah you know I have two younger readers at home and and I know a lot of

younger readers because of them in my real life and you know it's funny there

are shorter attention spans but I think we really under we undersell the

curiosity we don't take again part of what this book is about we don't take

seriously the curiosity and appetites of young people yes there's all kinds of

candy around you know what people are curious about the world we send them

scary messages about it all the time right we tell them they live in unprecedented

times that's terrifying for young people to hear they actually sort of have

hunger and you know there's lots of different ways you can be satisfied but

with actually getting fuller richer more complex sometimes funnier sometimes

angerier stories so I actually I give young people a lot of credit for having

varied appetites well it's a great book I think it is it it does it doesn't

elucidate some history that a lot of people don't don't normally see

and if you really could get that down to a 90 second tick-tock I think I think

I'm working on you're going to get it the book is angry girls we'll get us

that's our show for tonight

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