Episode Details

This is the penultimate Taking it Back, and Adel Nero and Zak Paine make the most of it with Frank Val on vacation. The bulk of the hour is a long unflinching breakdown of the Carmelo Anthony conviction for stabbing Austin Metcalf, with both guys arguing the disproportional response to a shoulder push has nothing to do with self defense and everything to do with a victim mentality that has been engineered into a generation of young people. They walk through the OJ Simpson juror parallels, the Jasmine Crockett "it was only a four inch blade" defense, and the new trend of black assailants in Tampa and Jacksonville assaulting random white strangers and claiming they were on the jury. From there, the conversation pivots to what the guys see as the cultural roots of the problem: fatherless homes, gangster glorification, and self imposed segregation in universities. They close on the California primary, where Spencer Pratt's voters are reportedly receiving mass signature rejection letters while Q's "watch California" drop hangs over the whole election fraud reveal everyone has been waiting for. Heavy hour, sharp commentary.