Speaker 1: If I'm being transparent, I need to give credit where
Speaker 1: credit is due. This credit is due to New York.
Speaker 1: Now normally, you know, I believe the West, but you know,
Speaker 1: not a hater. That being said, I do think and
Speaker 1: I believe New Yorkers would appreciate and believe the same.
Speaker 1: Like sometimes I've been thinking, man, y'all hella extra just
Speaker 1: every alli y'all slanging, it's just actually dead ass, Like
Speaker 1: why y'all all sounds so aggressive? Yo? You wile it
Speaker 1: right now, yo, dead ass? Like fam, why are you screaming?
Speaker 1: Or I just think it's a loud city, So I guess,
Speaker 1: like and your son marks you know back in the Yeah,
Speaker 1: your son, Yeah, you're done and your son done? Like Fam,
Speaker 1: Oh you got Jill spark this LB Yo, dead ass? Yo,
Speaker 1: you o d right now? Just unnecessarily aggressive like happy sad,
Speaker 1: it don't matter. And if you've ever been up to
Speaker 1: Washington Heights, I want to blow my homegirls through lakey
Speaker 1: uh and the hommy Rich Perez and some other hommies. Uh.
Speaker 1: I didn't get to go to Alex, but I know
Speaker 1: my dog Alex Medina, he works over at spring Hill,
Speaker 1: is an incredible artist, Like designer. Um now you're from
Speaker 1: wash Heights and I needed to confirm that I wasn't tripping,
Speaker 1: But I was like, who, I just feel like this
Speaker 1: entire city area culture it's just y'all crank the gain
Speaker 1: way up to forty five. Just I was like, why
Speaker 1: is you go into a restaurant and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: can't talk over the music. It's so loud in here.
Speaker 1: It's four in the morning, you're on the you're on
Speaker 1: the stupid a hooka pipe. It's just so why is
Speaker 1: everything so loud? I was like, yo, y'all got no
Speaker 1: They were like, yo, that ass, Yo, that ass New
Speaker 1: York man. I love it. But anyway, that being said,
Speaker 1: there is a phrase that they gave us that Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think there's like regional variations of the same sort
Speaker 1: of idea and and phrase that is perfect for this
Speaker 1: two parter of hoo politics here because it's there's two
Speaker 1: people that call for this, And honestly, I also think
Speaker 1: that the New York version is really the best suited.
Speaker 1: It's almost like you have to turn on a New
Speaker 1: York accent when you say this, because it's just it's
Speaker 1: just so perfect. And the phrase is this Yo, Who's
Speaker 1: man is this? Hood Politics? Y'all? Who's man is this?
Speaker 1: Who's man is this? Who's man is this? Whose man
Speaker 1: is this? All right? Welcome man? And my voice a
Speaker 1: little raspy. I uh. I started giving myself a more
Speaker 1: regulated schedule, so I record politics episodes on Mondays, um,
Speaker 1: But usually the first Sunday of every month is the
Speaker 1: event I host called Club Real Ones out in Long Beach,
Speaker 1: So probably once every month, I'm gonna have a really
Speaker 1: raspy voice when it's time to record this podcast because
Speaker 1: it's the day after and I'm really tired and I've
Speaker 1: been screaming on a mic over DJ's UM for good
Speaker 1: four hours. If you're in l A area, you know
Speaker 1: we're even Orange County, you know you cally you should
Speaker 1: pull up on us one day. It's a very fun time.
Speaker 1: You get to see me in a different light. Rapper prop,
Speaker 1: not podcast or prop, but yo, whose man's is this? Now?
Speaker 1: Here's the thought. Let me see if I can tie this.
Speaker 1: And for people who have, like who couldn't already figure
Speaker 1: this out? A lot of y'all probably already figured this
Speaker 1: out as far as like what we mean by that
Speaker 1: when you shout like Yo, whose man's is this you're
Speaker 1: talking to? And you can apply it to other people,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, But generally you're talking to
Speaker 1: the people you know. Like if you picture the scenario,
Speaker 1: we're at a kickback, you know, you with the hommies
Speaker 1: and someone says some really extra dumbass ship or is
Speaker 1: doing things that are clearly out of pocket. It's like
Speaker 1: or making some like super wild takes, just just stuff
Speaker 1: that like all of us know better. The thought is,
Speaker 1: I don't know who this guy is, Like why are
Speaker 1: you even here? So you're trying to figure out, like
Speaker 1: who invited this dude? And can you come get your boy?
Speaker 1: Because he wild? Y'all? Whose man's is this? Like who
Speaker 1: who brought him here? So it's almost like y'all are responsible?
Speaker 1: Whoever brought him here is responsible for this extra wild
Speaker 1: dumbass stuff he's doing right now? This unnecessary? Why is
Speaker 1: this going down right now? Yo? Whose man? Who mans
Speaker 1: is this? And it's like because the stuff that they're
Speaker 1: doing is so extra out of pocket, I can't even
Speaker 1: address them directly. One I don't even know him, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't even notice for like, uh, you don't even
Speaker 1: go here? You know what I'm saying, like, who is
Speaker 1: who are you? You know, I'll tell your story one
Speaker 1: of my home he's telling me about he had some
Speaker 1: friends from New York that, uh, it's so funny like Harlem,
Speaker 1: like so so much New York stuff. Now Harlem, you
Speaker 1: have to remember Harlem is also out here a gang.
Speaker 1: You know. It's not just at Borough in New York.
Speaker 1: But if you're from Harlem, you wouldn't know that. So
Speaker 1: essentially his friends were like following some girls, you know,
Speaker 1: and ended up at this party out in Inglewood. As
Speaker 1: a rule of thumb, you're gonna end up if you're
Speaker 1: gonna go to some like kick back or some party
Speaker 1: or something, you're gonna end up like a house for
Speaker 1: full of full of blood, you know, because that's just
Speaker 1: that's who's over there. They're not the only people over there.
Speaker 1: But it's a safe bet. You know that you could
Speaker 1: be a rule full of blood. And if the dice
Speaker 1: can't kicking off you from New York, you know how
Speaker 1: to shoot dice, right, And the truth is you're probably
Speaker 1: really good at it. Now. Of course it's a game
Speaker 1: of chance, you know what I'm saying. But if you
Speaker 1: had a party, you don't know nobody except for some
Speaker 1: girl you're following, which is already strike one because she
Speaker 1: couldn't been getting you set up, So that's number one.
Speaker 1: What is you even doing here? There? Baby? Some dude
Speaker 1: there that thinks she is his girl, even if they're not,
Speaker 1: it don't matter. Can be following some girl into this
Speaker 1: kick back in a city you're not from, in a
Speaker 1: part of town that you're not familiar with. This is
Speaker 1: just you should not do this. But if you understand
Speaker 1: New York culture, how parties are like that, you just
Speaker 1: pull up, you throw hours party, throw the jam people.
Speaker 1: Just you're just there, right, that's that's not callie. We
Speaker 1: don't you're not welcoming in if we won't know you. You
Speaker 1: You need this who you know? Who you got over here?
Speaker 1: Who brought you? Like, all this stuff needs to be
Speaker 1: cleared first because we don't know if you're setting us
Speaker 1: up anyway. So he's so he in the dice game
Speaker 1: and he messed around, start winning. So now Foods is
Speaker 1: upset because he winning and he taking all these dudes money.
Speaker 1: So eventually somebody stepped back. It was like, wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold up, hey, who know blood right? Because
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, first of all, we tired at you winning,
Speaker 1: but like hey blood, like hey, who know blood? And
Speaker 1: if he's like, uh, I came with some and say
Speaker 1: they're like you came with who if that's not even
Speaker 1: her house? And then that now they now they said, hey,
Speaker 1: where are you from? And they're like, yo, we're from Harlem.
Speaker 1: Now them not knowing that Harlem is also a gang.
Speaker 1: Now they're turning up right, and I'm just like, oh, bor,
Speaker 1: like so now they now they're really banging on because
Speaker 1: you like, do who are you? What did you doing here?
Speaker 1: You can't be coming in here and just messing up
Speaker 1: the vibe. So then he was it was like, yo, man,
Speaker 1: I don't funk with New York and they're like New York.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, the borough Harlem, New York. And they
Speaker 1: were like, oh man, we thought you was soda. They
Speaker 1: told him. But I have to say, you know, it's like,
Speaker 1: oh man, no, you know Harlem hood out here, like
Speaker 1: y'all can't be doing it. So okay, so you just
Speaker 1: visiting from out of town. Okay, that's different. They still
Speaker 1: have to run their pocket, but at least they're gonna
Speaker 1: like tell them hey, nah, homie, Like, this's not you
Speaker 1: can't just do that out here. This is different, you know,
Speaker 1: this is this. But the point is they gotta hit
Speaker 1: with the California version of like hey who know blood?
Speaker 1: Or hey who know cause he who brought us? Like
Speaker 1: you know, and if somebody don't answer quickly like you
Speaker 1: feel of be in trouble and listen, don't let the
Speaker 1: media fool you. We're not animals, man. In the scenario
Speaker 1: I'm presenting to y'all, like, hear what I'm trying to say,
Speaker 1: You're gonna check first, like and then if it's a misunderstanding,
Speaker 1: it's just a misunderstanding. We're not not animals, you know,
Speaker 1: So don't don't don't let them. Now that being said,
Speaker 1: if you're from the era I'm from, every time I
Speaker 1: hear somebody get on the TV and talk about the
Speaker 1: crime rate, I'm like, oh, no, fam it is Listen, y'all.
Speaker 1: Don't forgot the nineties and eighties. Now. I was a
Speaker 1: child in a baby and eighties, so I don't know, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But like the thing is,
Speaker 1: and it was crazy, is like the data does play
Speaker 1: out that like crime is going up, but overall it's down.
Speaker 1: It's still less than what I know I lived through,
Speaker 1: like the numbers and just the sheer feel of see
Speaker 1: it like where I live. If ain't no way I
Speaker 1: should be able to just stand outside and water my
Speaker 1: grass like that's just normal stuff like that, like it
Speaker 1: during my childhood. Ain't no way, you know, we just
Speaker 1: you would not just go play outside as a child,
Speaker 1: fam you just but it's different, you know it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not what it was anyway. I'm sidetracked here. The
Speaker 1: point is where whose mans is this is? Nobody understands
Speaker 1: your actions right now. This don't make no sense. You
Speaker 1: ain't supposed to be here right now. That's it's origin story.
Speaker 1: Now as it evolved, you could usually pull that card
Speaker 1: when anybody is just doing something like out of pocket.
Speaker 1: You're just looking like, yo, whose hands is this? What
Speaker 1: is we doing now? A less violent version of this,
Speaker 1: I think is the guy in the club. But kay, listen,
Speaker 1: the brother in the club that got too much cologne
Speaker 1: on Kay, it just got the alcohol breath with too
Speaker 1: much cologne. All this coil closes designer, but their fake
Speaker 1: designer who just pushing up on every girl. You know
Speaker 1: you're running all the all the cute girls off because
Speaker 1: you're being too much. At some point you're gonna look
Speaker 1: at the creps like, yo, who's man's is this? Dog? Like? Yo?
Speaker 1: You you okay? You ruined everybody's play right now? Like
Speaker 1: and you just taking els, just continual els, and you're
Speaker 1: causing the rest of us to take els. Somebody did,
Speaker 1: somebody go get your boy? Right? But nobody puts up
Speaker 1: worse numbers. No one does. Then the where's my hug? Guy?
Speaker 1: The ladies rocked up. He's like, hey, where's my hug? Like, Bro,
Speaker 1: that don't work. You're whose man is? This is asking
Speaker 1: all the girls where's hug at? You lose that ten
Speaker 1: out of ten elves? You're putting up numbers. You're making
Speaker 1: the whole squad look ridiculous. Tom I, Hey, hey, baby girl,
Speaker 1: wear my hug at Nick. If you don't, don't sit
Speaker 1: down somewhere now, maybe after fifteen shots, maybe the sixteenth
Speaker 1: might work and you might get a hug. But big dog,
Speaker 1: you can't keep putting up these els like this. This
Speaker 1: is bad for everybody. When is you gonna get the
Speaker 1: picture taste? So Kevin McCarthy was putting up to where's
Speaker 1: my hug guy numbers, Yo, whose man's is this? Let's
Speaker 1: talk about it. Who's man is this, y y'all? This
Speaker 1: man is this, y'all? Who's mass is this? Y'all? Who's
Speaker 1: is this? All right, we're back now. Sometimes sometimes it
Speaker 1: be your own people, okay, sometimes it be your own
Speaker 1: squad that'd be messing you up. Now, in Kevin's situation,
Speaker 1: it might have been like that. Now. Sometimes it's a
Speaker 1: good thing that you have homies that will be like, boy,
Speaker 1: if you don't sit down somewhere and shut your ass
Speaker 1: up like sometimes you need a friend. I don't know
Speaker 1: if y'all saw that clip for that boy leaning over
Speaker 1: in the Matt Gates's ear, like leaning all close, and
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, I'm picturing like gritted like mama,
Speaker 1: gritted teeth, just trunking you don't shut the funk up
Speaker 1: and get the lock it up and squaring. Do you
Speaker 1: know I'm saying. Somebody was like, come get your mass.
Speaker 1: But yeah, sometimes you know hung me like that that
Speaker 1: is wise enough to be like, hey, go get your boy.
Speaker 1: And then when you go get yo, whose man is
Speaker 1: this you? Like? That's my boy? Man? I'm sorry, y'all.
Speaker 1: And then that boy put his arm around you and say,
Speaker 1: nig if you don't shut the funk up, dog like,
Speaker 1: you need to chill, just just just hold this hell
Speaker 1: sit down somewhere. So in some senses you do need that, right,
Speaker 1: But then sometimes you got homies that just want to
Speaker 1: see the world burn that might just be throwing shade
Speaker 1: at you, you know, kind of kind of taring up
Speaker 1: your game just because they don't like you. Maybe they
Speaker 1: think you're not the man for the job. And for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they may not got no plan B. They
Speaker 1: just think you ain't the man and for the job.
Speaker 1: And and it'd be your own people at that right there,
Speaker 1: if it'd be your own people, I'm sorry. This is
Speaker 1: like watching this vote for the Speaker of the House.
Speaker 1: Was It just sparked all these memories right here, like yo,
Speaker 1: this guy is to where am I? You just taking elves?
Speaker 1: And then why are you taking these elves? Is your
Speaker 1: own people? Yeah, I gotta get your ship together there, man, Like,
Speaker 1: but you might be looking around, if you really into
Speaker 1: politics like this, you might be looking around at a
Speaker 1: bunch of think pieces that have like, no, you don't
Speaker 1: understand this is moved from funny to a serious problem.
Speaker 1: So what I'm gonna cover for the rest of this
Speaker 1: show is first of all, what happened and what are
Speaker 1: the protocols, like why did this happen? And what its
Speaker 1: implications are as far as like predictions as to like
Speaker 1: is this bad or good? Is this assigned for the future,
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. So let's let's let's get into it.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. Last year, I think it was
Speaker 1: last year, Well, yeah it was because it's Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: stepped down as Speaker of the House and civics one
Speaker 1: on one, right, So you got three branches of government,
Speaker 1: but the legislative branch got two parts. It's got the
Speaker 1: Senate and the House of Representatives. Right, there's two senators
Speaker 1: per state, right, and then there's Congressmen that are represent
Speaker 1: certain districts, and I think there's four and fifty of those.
Speaker 1: The point is there's a lot more congress people than
Speaker 1: senators because each state only has two senators. Anyway, the
Speaker 1: Senate leaders the Senate, the Senate team captains are your
Speaker 1: Senate Majority leader and your Senate Minority leader. Right, they're senators.
Speaker 1: That's a different thing. The House Speaker of the House
Speaker 1: is about the House of representatives. You follow me those
Speaker 1: this for Congress, but you need a speaker who is,
Speaker 1: in case of an emergency, the third in command. So
Speaker 1: if we lose the president, vice president takes over. You
Speaker 1: lose the vice president, the speaker of the House takes over, right.
Speaker 1: And also the thing about this position is like, yo,
Speaker 1: you gotta be like super respected by your peers, even
Speaker 1: if they don't like you, they gotta be like you
Speaker 1: gotta be such a g and be able to like
Speaker 1: really really get it done because your team captain in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, a lot of ways, you can
Speaker 1: look at it like that this is a team captain
Speaker 1: and like of of this squad, Like you gotta know
Speaker 1: how to like really get the stuff together, get people
Speaker 1: that really disagree with each other and people that actually
Speaker 1: really disagree with you from both sides of the aisle.
Speaker 1: You may have people in your own party that's like
Speaker 1: which we just witnessed, that really don't mess with you,
Speaker 1: but they have to respect your gangster so much and
Speaker 1: understand how this thing works. Like, so you really got
Speaker 1: to be a boss. Like in some ways, you really
Speaker 1: got to be a boss. And even if you're not
Speaker 1: like legit a boss, you have to like present in
Speaker 1: a way that says you really might be next you know,
Speaker 1: either you elect either you a legacy fool to where
Speaker 1: it's like my my certification is already so so so
Speaker 1: stamped because I'm good in so many different places that
Speaker 1: when I come into the room, I can make sure
Speaker 1: everything even if that's not my hood. Like they respect
Speaker 1: me enough, you know what I'm saying. They're cool with
Speaker 1: me enough that they're like, all right, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, we'll listen whatever you got to say.
Speaker 1: You feel me, uh, and I'm able to go back,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and and in and and
Speaker 1: in my own squad. They love me so much, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying that I I can. You gotta
Speaker 1: be really be able to get stuff done. You gotta
Speaker 1: be like really really respected or like I said, it's
Speaker 1: got to be a calculation to where like I need
Speaker 1: to stay on your good side because you might be
Speaker 1: you might be going up like real soon as a
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House. It's a very important position. Now
Speaker 1: you think of somebody like I've used this example before,
Speaker 1: like Mitch McConnell, who's like, yo, he's been like you know,
Speaker 1: Senate majority leader sent a minority leader, which is not
Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House. But it's a like I
Speaker 1: told you before, like his position is such a position
Speaker 1: of power. It's such a like sifth lord position in
Speaker 1: the sense that I don't have all the drama that
Speaker 1: like the president or the Speaker have, but I could
Speaker 1: get stuff done in a way that like without needing
Speaker 1: all of the drama. It's like being able to be
Speaker 1: like an A list celebrity without TMZ or like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, tabloids, but you're an A list superstar, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Uh Billie Eilish level, you know,
Speaker 1: beyond say bad Bunny level. But you can still just
Speaker 1: go to a grocery store, you know, you can still
Speaker 1: just pick up your your kids. You know. Like that's
Speaker 1: the type of position that like Mitch has, and in
Speaker 1: some ways the Speaker could kind of be like that
Speaker 1: but also have enough star power to where when you
Speaker 1: decide to come out and be like, yo, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: run for president, you got the respect of your colleagues,
Speaker 1: or at least the fear of your colleagues, and you
Speaker 1: could jump on. So it's a big position to get
Speaker 1: because one it's a stepping stone if you want to
Speaker 1: go further, if you don't want to go further. It's
Speaker 1: really a position of immense power. So it's it's coveted now. So,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned before, Nancy Pelosi was the speaker form
Speaker 1: some January to January right for that session of Congress.
Speaker 1: Before that, it was Paul Ryan. Um. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember his name, and he was like one
Speaker 1: of those dudes I was creeping on a come up,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh. So from two thousand seventeen to two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, Paul Ryan was uh and you know, basically
Speaker 1: Trump kind of ended his career. Before that, it was
Speaker 1: Speaker Bayner, Um, John Bayner. You know, that was two
Speaker 1: thousand thirteen and fifteen for that. Look, Nancy, it was
Speaker 1: two thousand nine and then before that like Dennis Hazarded
Speaker 1: and then back to like nud Gingrich back in the nineties,
Speaker 1: which was again so if you look at like some
Speaker 1: of these names, like these names were like yo, these
Speaker 1: were big names, you feel me. Like Paul Ryan like
Speaker 1: for the Republicans as it were, was like yo, he
Speaker 1: was a young, little up shot right until like I said,
Speaker 1: until you know, Trump broke the Republicans, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was Fishers already there, but
Speaker 1: like the man broke them, you know. So uh, Paul
Speaker 1: Ryan lost any opportunity because he was you know, he
Speaker 1: didn't know what to do with somebody like you know,
Speaker 1: and it just it broke him. And as you see,
Speaker 1: Nancy got elected twice. Now, say what you will about her,
Speaker 1: but that what that means is like the respect of
Speaker 1: her peers is like really up there, like they know,
Speaker 1: like her kind of strange, eccentric, super old head ass,
Speaker 1: like they respect their gangster, you know, whether they like
Speaker 1: or not. It's like, look, man, she do what she do.
Speaker 1: And it's easy for me to criticize any of these
Speaker 1: people from sitting here in my um in my office,
Speaker 1: you know, with my bonnet still on cover, in my air,
Speaker 1: you feel me. But their jobs, like you know, as
Speaker 1: much as I dragged them, their jobs is really hard.
Speaker 1: But the way that our democracy is set up, I'm
Speaker 1: allowed to drag them. I'm allowed to call these fools
Speaker 1: because again, like DJ Head said, like y'all watch it,
Speaker 1: I fun with you. You You know, you're gonna have all
Speaker 1: this power and authority you need to like show improved anyway. Now,
Speaker 1: generally it's a no brainer with whoever party has the majority,
Speaker 1: the speaker is from your party. Right now, as absurd
Speaker 1: as our two party system is because clearly there's four
Speaker 1: parties up there, right you have you know, traditional centrist Democrats,
Speaker 1: which are like Republican light you know, and then you
Speaker 1: have progressive Democrats, and then you have the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: which is just the run of the mill, wonderbread, white
Speaker 1: bread Republican, and then you have cuckoo for coco posts Republicans. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's what I said, because I don't know what the
Speaker 1: hell some of y'all be talking about, Like this is absurd. Listen, okay, listen, dude,
Speaker 1: Q and on is not real. And the fact that
Speaker 1: like something, I just don't know what the hell else
Speaker 1: to tell you, the fact that we don't elected people
Speaker 1: that is down for the calls. It's like, look, I
Speaker 1: don't know what to tip. My homeboy, Darren dun came
Speaker 1: over and he said it it was an interesting thing
Speaker 1: to say. He was like, look, if I revote Republican
Speaker 1: and let's just say I'm in the front of the line,
Speaker 1: I have to look at the back of the line
Speaker 1: that I'm standing in and see the clan, you know,
Speaker 1: it'd be like, uh, they're in the line that I'm in,
Speaker 1: you know. So he's like, I just this is what
Speaker 1: just because we're in a two party system, that's part
Speaker 1: of the situation. I said that about, you know, a
Speaker 1: long time ago, about having like, you know, extremely gangster,
Speaker 1: extremely violent cousins where I'm like, I know we share
Speaker 1: the same grandmother and that's I'm not gonna ever not
Speaker 1: ride for my family. But yo, like it, I don't
Speaker 1: know what to say. Man, that's the end of the
Speaker 1: line they you know. And so it's a great like
Speaker 1: point he's making to where it's like because of the
Speaker 1: way that our governmental structure is set up, Like you
Speaker 1: stuck with him. Yeah, when when the other lie, when
Speaker 1: the Republicans look back and or when the Democrats look
Speaker 1: back and they go, ya, who's man's is this? Y'all
Speaker 1: gotta be like, Yo, that's my bad man. That's hard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's our dude. Like that's what you're supposed to be. Like, Yo,
Speaker 1: that's our dude. Uh damn making you right? You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Who's man is this? Who's man is this? Yo? Yo?
Speaker 1: Who's man is this YO. Who's man's is this YO?
Speaker 1: Who's man's is this YO? Who's man is this yo? Yo?
Speaker 1: Who's man's is this Yo? Whose man is this Yo?
Speaker 1: Who's man is this yo? Who's man is this Yo?
Speaker 1: Now another thing for this position is like again, when
Speaker 1: I want to define what I mean by like, yo,
Speaker 1: they really respect you. It's not that these people think
Speaker 1: you're smart. It's more your ability to hustle. Because again, nobody,
Speaker 1: I know I've said this before, I can't stress this enough.
Speaker 1: Nobody is arguing the merits of whatever bill they're trying
Speaker 1: to get past or not, Like what was it there
Speaker 1: to a good bill? Or not? No, they're like I
Speaker 1: need something, you need something? How can we both get
Speaker 1: what we want? Or if you need me to vote
Speaker 1: for your thing, what you're gonna do for me? Then
Speaker 1: that means you're gonna vote for my thing. And if
Speaker 1: you're voting for my thing's gonna mess you up with
Speaker 1: your constituents, then that's your problem. I'm not gonna vote
Speaker 1: for your thing because that's gonna mess me up with
Speaker 1: my constituents. So what do we do? How do we
Speaker 1: make this work? Was the speaker's job to get get
Speaker 1: all that stuff worked. This is so it's not the
Speaker 1: too smart, it's that you hustle, you understanding bargaining chips,
Speaker 1: you know. And this is where like dark money and
Speaker 1: lobbyists and all this stuff come in. You feel me.
Speaker 1: And why if you're a speaker like you gotta be
Speaker 1: tapped in with everybody because you're gonna know who in
Speaker 1: everybody's ear, you know. And obviously people are wild cards.
Speaker 1: You can't really predict what they want to do and
Speaker 1: what they don't want to do. And then you got
Speaker 1: this like this bizarre force that is Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: the MAGA, right, that's like and even they divided you.
Speaker 1: Seeing Bobert and Margie Taylor Green on different sides of
Speaker 1: the coin here is like, yo, this is an interesting
Speaker 1: fam So anyway, this position here is not elected. It's
Speaker 1: like a public election. It's it's it's elected by the
Speaker 1: by the Congress themselves. Now, Congress can't do nothing until
Speaker 1: you swear in a new speaker of the House. There's
Speaker 1: nothing we do, no laws or passed, no none of is,
Speaker 1: no budgets, no nothing, We can't present nothing. You can't
Speaker 1: do nothing because nobody gets sworn in for this session
Speaker 1: of Congress. Until that happened. Now, normally, like I said,
Speaker 1: it's a no brainer. Whoever party in charge, you pick
Speaker 1: your dog, you put them up. You get the majority
Speaker 1: of the votes because you got the majority in the Congress,
Speaker 1: and that's it. Only this time the majority of the
Speaker 1: Congress were the Republicans, but at least twenty of them
Speaker 1: was like, we don't mess with McCarthy, which is really
Speaker 1: ill because McCarthy and Trump Dude, and even some of
Speaker 1: the Trump dudes which they called the Freedom Caucus, they
Speaker 1: not down with him either. And here's the problem with McCarthy.
Speaker 1: McCarthy started off as a centrist. He started off as
Speaker 1: like a regular white brand Republican, and then eventually as
Speaker 1: Trump got famous, he started riding for Trump. And this
Speaker 1: is what I know. This is what I know. It's
Speaker 1: cool when somebody started believing you and started enjoying your side.
Speaker 1: But a little bit of respect is lost. Just a
Speaker 1: little bit of respect is lost. Listen, I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you a strange example, but I'm telling you this. It
Speaker 1: really compares. Last week for New Year's I hosted like this. Uh,
Speaker 1: I do a lot of hosting of like music events.
Speaker 1: I was hosting this one for you know, sort of
Speaker 1: one of the underground like hip hop scenes out here,
Speaker 1: uh project Load, and there was like a ton of rappers.
Speaker 1: They all wanted their shine, they all wanted their spot,
Speaker 1: and obviously the stage was running late. Now, for some reason,
Speaker 1: there's this belief that the host is also the stage manager,
Speaker 1: and it's also the person that can like have a
Speaker 1: time machine in his back pocket to make sure that
Speaker 1: like everything is you know what I'm saying. So like,
Speaker 1: since I'm not the time since I ain't got a
Speaker 1: time machine, really, I just gotta paper with names written
Speaker 1: on it, and I'm just saying the names. But that's
Speaker 1: not who they're taking their aggression out on. They're taking
Speaker 1: the aggression out on on on me because again I'm
Speaker 1: the guy saying the name. So there's this assumption that, like,
Speaker 1: I'm actually also the stage manager, but I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm passing on information. But in this scenario, because
Speaker 1: of the type of personalities I'm dealing with, there has
Speaker 1: to be this dance of I mean, which is essentially
Speaker 1: just customer service that like, I hear what you're saying
Speaker 1: and I want to validate how you're feeling. Right now,
Speaker 1: there's not much I can do about it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do the best I can for this. There's really not
Speaker 1: much I can do. And I think you and I
Speaker 1: both know that, Like, bro, I'm not gonna I can't
Speaker 1: just cut other people set because you want to go
Speaker 1: on now, like there's like you know that, but you
Speaker 1: also know like if you got seniority, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like and and and there's at that point
Speaker 1: there's nothing I can do. Now. My option is I
Speaker 1: can either be like, yo, it's above me. You can
Speaker 1: speak to my manager, you know, or like me call
Speaker 1: one of the other O g s and be like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Hey, this is what they're saying. But
Speaker 1: if I do that, like it's in customer service when
Speaker 1: I get back on the phone. These people got these
Speaker 1: people understand it. I ain't got no authority. You ain't
Speaker 1: got you can't get ship done, Like man, give me
Speaker 1: that microphone. You know what I'm saying, So like that
Speaker 1: would be will have I would lose control of the
Speaker 1: stage period because they realized that like one that could
Speaker 1: bully me into like you ain't calling no shots. You
Speaker 1: gotta control. We could do what we want because you
Speaker 1: don't know how to stand Joe ground. Even though I'm
Speaker 1: challenging you and I want you to back off, I
Speaker 1: also respect that you didn't. Does that Do you understand
Speaker 1: that when you make too many concessions, nobody respects your geister.
Speaker 1: You just want the position too bad. And if that's
Speaker 1: the case, I know I can run you up and
Speaker 1: down this court right now. I could run you up
Speaker 1: and down this this Congress because you make it too many,
Speaker 1: too many concessions. And what them concessions are going back
Speaker 1: to the Congress is what do you need to give
Speaker 1: these people to make them vote for you as the
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, Like you give me something, make
Speaker 1: it worth, make it worth my while, because I really
Speaker 1: don't like you. And what was crazy about the freedom
Speaker 1: concusses They didn't have no other person. Now there's a
Speaker 1: side note as to how they started voting for this
Speaker 1: for this black Republican, which really felt like you just
Speaker 1: mascotted the black person. And I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and let that slide because they had no
Speaker 1: intentions on having this food actually be the Speaker of
Speaker 1: the House. They were essentially turn that black man into
Speaker 1: a mascot. Now, side note I feel like at this
Speaker 1: point you should know better. You knew what you signed
Speaker 1: up for. Brother, But that's what they did to him.
Speaker 1: But that's not what this episode is about. This episode
Speaker 1: is about who's many, right. So McCarthy was the shooing,
Speaker 1: he was the guy. Then they started voting and he
Speaker 1: lost the first vote. Where's my hug? Okay lost the
Speaker 1: first vote. Then he lost a second vote, then he
Speaker 1: lost third vote, then he lost the fourth vote. And
Speaker 1: what was crazy was the Democrats just kept voting for
Speaker 1: Hockey and Jeffreys. They're like, that's our dude. They was
Speaker 1: all in one of court. It was republcase that was
Speaker 1: all over the place, and it's like they couldn't get that.
Speaker 1: They that Look, look, I know McCarthy would be your
Speaker 1: own people, right, People like Matt Gates was like not
Speaker 1: f that food. And then look look they almost went
Speaker 1: to blows. Y'all see that, y'all see what they almost
Speaker 1: with the blows? Oh man, that was so funny. This boy,
Speaker 1: Mike Rogers lunged at his colleague. Now, my wife saw
Speaker 1: this clip and she was like, yo, the real one
Speaker 1: is the that held him back, you know, to put
Speaker 1: his hands over his mouth. That was like, you don't
Speaker 1: say nothing, you ain't supposed to say. That's a real one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Man, the person that holds you off in
Speaker 1: the club from punching his food, Like, that's a real
Speaker 1: After the fourteen vote, now listen, y'all tired man, And
Speaker 1: especially at this point, the whose man's is this? Switches
Speaker 1: from Kevin McCarthy to these fools who just keep just
Speaker 1: salt in the game, Like, Yo, whose man's is this? Man? Like, look, fam,
Speaker 1: the hell is your problem? You ain't got no other? Like, Yo,
Speaker 1: who's man is? Man? Come get your boy? And you
Speaker 1: see picture of of Margie Taylor Green trying to put
Speaker 1: somebody on the phone. She clearly her phone show DT
Speaker 1: which is Donald Trump? So Donald Trump on the phone
Speaker 1: right now. Basically there was like, yo, come, can you
Speaker 1: come get your boys? Man? Like what to tell him?
Speaker 1: Was telling him what's good? And they're like, man, I
Speaker 1: ain't trying to talk to that fool. Man, who's man's?
Speaker 1: All fourteen of these man's is? This? Just absolutely frustrated
Speaker 1: because it took fourteen votes for what was gonna go
Speaker 1: down anyway, finally win down because nobody had any other
Speaker 1: nobody had any other choices. That's the part that probably
Speaker 1: frustrate everybody, and most was like, well, NIGGI, you was
Speaker 1: gonna win anyway, we might as well get what we want.
Speaker 1: Now here's the game. If you as a Democrat, you'd
Speaker 1: have been watching all this and been like, I'll change
Speaker 1: my vote what you're gonna give me for it, right,
Speaker 1: because clearly you ain't got enough of your own squad
Speaker 1: to be on your side. Now it's like we're playing
Speaker 1: the game because again we knew it was inevitable, dog
Speaker 1: like you were gonna be the speaker of the house,
Speaker 1: like it is what it is, but maybe I can
Speaker 1: get something out of it. But the Democrats ain't make
Speaker 1: that move. They tried to stay in array. Who made
Speaker 1: the move was the extreme side of the Republican. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what he had to give up
Speaker 1: to get there. But I think it's super dope. We're
Speaker 1: not super dope. But I think it's a really interesting
Speaker 1: quote that he said at the end of this. He
Speaker 1: was like, yo, don't judge us for how we started,
Speaker 1: judges for how we finished. That's what Kevin mccarthife said.
Speaker 1: It was good we had this disruption. Now so now
Speaker 1: we know how to work together, is the way he's
Speaker 1: spinning this, and he's like, hey, man, I want to
Speaker 1: thank Donald Trump for coming out here, and like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll see what you're doing. You setting yourself up for
Speaker 1: I feel you. But on the other hand, that Broyd
Speaker 1: Tony Gonzalez, right, uh, Republican senator was like, look, the
Speaker 1: speaker vote was probably the easiest thing we're gonna do
Speaker 1: for the rest of this Residents to the session, like
Speaker 1: you see this, We're down, and I'm gonna say why
Speaker 1: this went down this way again, because it's like, you
Speaker 1: just showed that we could bully you because you just
Speaker 1: wanted the position so bad and now we can get
Speaker 1: what we won't, right, So what are the concessions he made?
Speaker 1: Basically after the vote. What happens is after the vote,
Speaker 1: and if you lose, you go to the people that
Speaker 1: didn't vote for you in your party and you be like, yo,
Speaker 1: what's good, bro? Like, what do you need? Here's what
Speaker 1: he said he need? He was like, and here's the
Speaker 1: many things that he said. They said, Allow one member
Speaker 1: to call for a vote to out the speaker. Now
Speaker 1: it used to be a lot more than one vote.
Speaker 1: Now just one fool cannot feel what you're doing, and
Speaker 1: they could vote to get you out like got dog.
Speaker 1: Now you look, you want a razor thin line here. Uh.
Speaker 1: They said that McCarthy a line pack won't play in
Speaker 1: an open seat of safe primaries, meaning if there's a
Speaker 1: if there's a Republican guy who's about to be primaried. Um,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna try to like run any of his homies. Right. Uh,
Speaker 1: He's gonna hold votes on key conservative bills. Right, he's
Speaker 1: going to the death seiling hike paired with spending cuts.
Speaker 1: He's gonna move twelve appropriations to bills individually. Now this
Speaker 1: is a big one. So appropriation bills are like this.
Speaker 1: When you have a law or a bill or something
Speaker 1: that's gonna become a law, you have a bill being
Speaker 1: put to vote right by the legislature. What usually have
Speaker 1: pens is you put a whole bunch of other bills
Speaker 1: up under the big one so you can kind of
Speaker 1: sneak them in, and the opposition side usually cause that
Speaker 1: like a poison pill. So it's like, if we're gonna
Speaker 1: vote on you know, abortion rights, but that abortion right
Speaker 1: bill is tacked up under a bill about I don't
Speaker 1: know jaywalking, that we're gonna remove the fine for jaywalking.
Speaker 1: Oh and we're gonna legalize abortion again. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So like you you you you put these
Speaker 1: like big things in innocuous things, or the vice versa,
Speaker 1: you put innocuous things inside of big things so that
Speaker 1: you can get a lot of stuff pushed in it.
Speaker 1: Once the Republican is like, na, Doc, We're gonna vote
Speaker 1: on the one issue and only the one issue, right,
Speaker 1: And the last thing they said is we want more
Speaker 1: freedom concuss members on the Rules committee. So he was like, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: if y'all do all that, will you vote for me?
Speaker 1: He could no longer pull to whose man's is this
Speaker 1: card because he actually needed them man's And if you
Speaker 1: do that, then I'll cease to be to where's my
Speaker 1: hug guy? And stop getting these ASLs and get this
Speaker 1: position great one Now, implications one side is saying, which
Speaker 1: is what I think it's happening, is that like this's
Speaker 1: gonna be You think the Congress been dysfunctional thus far,
Speaker 1: you feel me it's gonna be dysfunctional thus far with
Speaker 1: a coach they don't respect, or with a coach that
Speaker 1: is willing to just bend and fold and hopes to
Speaker 1: hold on the power. Listen, you got a coach that
Speaker 1: the team punks family man talk about dysfunction. Also, the
Speaker 1: realness is the concessions you made yo them only the
Speaker 1: concessions you told us you made. We don't know what
Speaker 1: else you said behind closed doors. How many handshakes you've
Speaker 1: been made on some stuff that like you can't really
Speaker 1: make public, but you had the wheel and deal you
Speaker 1: can won't know what them things are and we ain't
Speaker 1: gonna know how any of that blazes out until later
Speaker 1: the other side of this says, it's no, like the struggle,
Speaker 1: the dysfunction is a built in feature. It's supposed to
Speaker 1: be like this. This is how democracy works. You fight
Speaker 1: for what you believe in, you you and you get
Speaker 1: to consensus. And as McCarthy says, it's like, dude, now
Speaker 1: we know how to do it. It's like, look, man,
Speaker 1: this this eventual, this this early struggle was really really
Speaker 1: hard and we were able to get to a consensus.
Speaker 1: So now it's like we know how to govern, we
Speaker 1: know how to work together because like we went through
Speaker 1: something really hard. It's like we're trauma bonded. That's the
Speaker 1: way he's spending it. I mean, you tell me, all
Speaker 1: I know is you had a room full of people
Speaker 1: yelling whose man is this? Right? Back and forth at
Speaker 1: each other. But at the end of the day, Kevin McCarthy,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Speaker of the House, good luck,
Speaker 1: my boy. Now, while all this was going on, there
Speaker 1: was another young man sitting over in the corner, sweating
Speaker 1: bullets but really trying to keep it cool. A rookie,
Speaker 1: somebody who has not yet been sworn into but was
Speaker 1: facing one of the strangest situation, his very own crisis
Speaker 1: of yo, Who's man's is this? That man was George
Speaker 1: Santos And we'll talk about him next week. Who politics, y'all, y'o, y'o.
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