Episode 90 - Dealing With America's Racist Past
In this episode of The Chris and Andre Show, the guys talk about primarying a sitting president and Joe Manchin’s ongoing lies, dive into business to understand how nflation is having a greater impact on the poor while Apple is paying top-dollar for talent, make fun of the Missouri governor for thinking source code is a crime and compare bluetooth keyboards, address the real issue with how the media is covering the Antonio Brown situation, and give their reactions and predictions to a bunch of Pop Culture, including The Matrix Resurrections, CW/DC shows, Andrew Garfield and Spider-Man, Morbius, and The Book of Boba Fett.
In this episode of The Chris and Andre Show, the guys talk about primarying a sitting president and Joe Manchin’s ongoing lies, dive into business to understand how inflation is having a greater impact on the poor while Apple is paying top-dollar for talent, make fun of the Missouri governor for thinking source code is a crime and compare bluetooth keyboards, address the real issue with how the media is covering the Antonio Brown situation, and give their reactions and predictions to a bunch of Pop Culture, including The Matrix Resurrections, CW/DC shows, Andrew Garfield and Spider-Man, Morbius, and The Book of Boba Fett.
(00:00:00) Intros - The guys are back and ready to kick things off on their 2022 edition of The Chris and Andre Show!
(00:02:26) Politics - The guys try to understand why some progressives are considering primarying President Biden in 2024 (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/01/progressives-2024-primary-challenge-526299), discuss the ugly history of New Year’s for parts of America (https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ugly-history-of-new-years-is-too-real-for-white-republicans), laugh with a former West Virginia state senator as he tears Joe Manchin a new one (https://www.wtrf.com/news/local-news/former-west-virginia-state-senator-texts-manchin-you-are-caught-being-paid-off-joe/), wonder how Republicans in North Carolina can sleep at night with their continued gerrymandering, and discuss the “National Divorce” idea being thrown around by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
(00:40:58) Business - Economists are warning of inflation inequality that will hit poor people much harder than anyone else (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/29/economists-warn-of-inflation-inequality-in-2022.html), meanwhile Apple is willing to pay top-dollar to keep top-talent from leaving (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-28/apple-pays-unusual-180-000-bonuses-to-retain-engineering-talent).
(01:01:56) Technology - The governor of Missouri doesn’t understand how the internet works and wants to arrest a journalist who spotted a major security breach on their website (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/31/22861188/missouri-governor-mike-parson-hack-website-source-code), Andre admits defeat in his battle against Docker (https://youtu.be/DW81Pj-uOQI), and the guys share their likes and dislikes about their current Bluetooth keyboards.
(01:20:21) Sports - Chris gets real for a minute and says that everyone is missing the point on the Antonio Brown situation (https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01/05/antonio-brown-tampa-bay-bucs-released/).
(01:37:29) Pop Culture - Everybody saw the Matrix Resurrections this weekend and no one is hesitating to share their critical thoughts on the project, then they pivot to discussing why CW shows seem to keep getting worse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u1x6wxar0w), whether or not Andrew Garfield should return for TASM 3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeAis4Dh1BQ), the fact that Morbius is delayed (and whether or not it can be good), and close things out with The Book of Boba Fett.