Speaker 1: For the first time in a long time. At a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, in the history of this show, I
Speaker 1: get to report on some good news because I gotta
Speaker 1: tell y'all, man continuing to do this show was really
Speaker 1: wearing me out, you know what I'm saying. I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't never get to look at something fun, which
Speaker 1: is I kind of enjoyed the balloon stuff because it
Speaker 1: was funny, but it was like jokes on us, ye
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like it's not like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is great, Ah, this is funny. Hidds, like this is funny.
Speaker 1: We're dumb, and so it wasn't like, really, I finally
Speaker 1: get to talk about some good news and believe it
Speaker 1: or not, it's about the Congress. I'm so excited. And
Speaker 1: there's some deep cut stuff. It was Watchington Post article
Speaker 1: and then they talked about it on the Slate gab Fest,
Speaker 1: which I'd recommend that show. Great show anyway. The best
Speaker 1: way to explain this is an area in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: called them part Everyone needs a Lamert part Hood politics.
Speaker 1: Y'all all right cha, I'm gonna take y'all on a
Speaker 1: journey this episode. Some history, some relationship, some deep cut
Speaker 1: LA stuff, but really it's at the end of the
Speaker 1: Day's this all of us are watching because that's what's
Speaker 1: getting fed to our news feeds, and it's because it's
Speaker 1: really going down. It's like our government is just one
Speaker 1: hundred percent dysfunctional, Like what is going on? And part
Speaker 1: of it is because, Yeah, there's too much money in dysfunction,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, you you
Speaker 1: gained too much power and just and you know this
Speaker 1: type of cloud chasing and stoking anger and you just
Speaker 1: you know, you get people route. There's too much money
Speaker 1: in that. But at the same time, like government gotta work.
Speaker 1: Like it's crazy when you look at these people, you're like,
Speaker 1: y'all work at the same place, you know, Like how
Speaker 1: y'all always never on the same page? You know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you ever seen a couple that just
Speaker 1: always arguing. It's like, man, I thought y'all loved each other, like,
Speaker 1: you know, but at least with a couple like y'all,
Speaker 1: could I mean, y'all could ended you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I think we're just like yo, like y'all have to
Speaker 1: figure out for the sake of all of us how
Speaker 1: to work together. And this is the story about you know,
Speaker 1: they did, and at least in this one little way.
Speaker 1: The sister Amanda Ripley wrote this article for The Washington
Speaker 1: Post about this one way that hey, Congress kind of
Speaker 1: figured it out, and it just kind of reminded me
Speaker 1: of like La meurt Park. It just kind of reminded
Speaker 1: me of La and like, dang, yeah, Like at some point, man,
Speaker 1: like y'all look for everybody's sake, y'all gotta figure out
Speaker 1: how to live together. I'm not saying, don't rep your hood,
Speaker 1: don't rep y'r set, you know, hold down your section,
Speaker 1: but like dog man, like we all gotta live here. Man,
Speaker 1: we didn't figure out something. If I could carry this
Speaker 1: metaphor and some a little more universal I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: into a little later, but like in you know, couples therapy,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, At some point, when someone
Speaker 1: expresses or hurt, even if you think that's bull or
Speaker 1: you experienced it differently, a person just want to be hurt.
Speaker 1: You feel me like I want you to feel the
Speaker 1: pain I felt. And you be surprised how far that goes,
Speaker 1: whether it's in your conflict mediation with your homies, with
Speaker 1: your loved one with your partner, or with streets or
Speaker 1: with Congress. People just want to be hurt. Okay, y'all,
Speaker 1: Like I said, your boy's been real diligent this year.
Speaker 1: So um, I'm a couple of couple of weeks ahead
Speaker 1: of y'all, which feels really good. I ain't gonna lie
Speaker 1: to you, know I'm saying, But sometimes it's it's I
Speaker 1: don't need to keep explaining that. I want to talk
Speaker 1: to y'all about an area very special to meet personally,
Speaker 1: and I feel like there's probably some sort of comparison
Speaker 1: I would say in any city that has like struggled
Speaker 1: in any way with gang violence. I'm gonna try my
Speaker 1: best to not get in the weeds here about the
Speaker 1: extended history of this Lamert Park, but enough to just
Speaker 1: give y'all context as to what I'm trying to explain
Speaker 1: actually happened in the Congress, because again, this is good
Speaker 1: news now in the city of Los Angeles. When I
Speaker 1: say the city of Los Angeles, I don't mean the
Speaker 1: surrounding areas. I saw this horrible take that by the
Speaker 1: Homey cav on stage on Twitter talking about the big
Speaker 1: city with the worst food culture is Los Angeles, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, first of all, you up in the
Speaker 1: valley number one, and I don't need you putting the
Speaker 1: sins of Sherman Oaks or on the shoulders of Crenshaw.
Speaker 1: You want me picking another you want me pick another place?
Speaker 1: How about this? If you're in Chicago, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, don't be putting the sins of Aurora, of
Speaker 1: Hopmann Estates on the heads of Pilson. Let me want me,
Speaker 1: let me what other cities do I know? Well, okay,
Speaker 1: you in Houston, don't be putting humble Texas situations on
Speaker 1: my shoulder. You in Dallas, don't be putting Carrollton sins
Speaker 1: on my shoulders. Portland, you're in Portland, don't be giving
Speaker 1: me no Tiger, no Hillsborough takes. That ain't Portland. So
Speaker 1: I mean specifically Los Angeles, and I'm gonna get even
Speaker 1: more specific. You could really see it when you fly
Speaker 1: into Los Angeles coming from well obviously coming from the east,
Speaker 1: but you know, sometimes if you're coming from the north,
Speaker 1: like you kind of go over the Pacific and land
Speaker 1: facing east rather than land facing west. Anyway, when you
Speaker 1: if you're coming into Los Angeles from the east of
Speaker 1: the country. You know, you're starting out in in Way,
Speaker 1: and then like you'll see the Grand Canyon, then you
Speaker 1: see Phoenix, and then you're going to see this vast
Speaker 1: desert and that's like the Coachella Valley. Over this mountain thing,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see palm springs. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the Inland Empire starts and you're gonna fly over the
Speaker 1: Inland Empire. And then finally when the downtown skyline comes
Speaker 1: into place. This is where I want you to look.
Speaker 1: There's that It looks like the freeway you're seeing coming
Speaker 1: out of downtown is the one ten Freeway and it's
Speaker 1: running north and south, and you're usually you're generally flying
Speaker 1: along the pathway of the one five. Right, if you're
Speaker 1: landing in lax And in this area, there's this wide grid. Right,
Speaker 1: it looks like a perfect and it's the only area
Speaker 1: that has this. As you're flying into the city, this
Speaker 1: perfect sort of rectangle blocks for as far as the
Speaker 1: eye can see until you get to Sofi Stadium. Once
Speaker 1: you see like Inglewood, you your past what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: By then you're you're pretty low. You're about to you're
Speaker 1: about to land. But in this grid area, this is
Speaker 1: what we refer to as South Central LA. This area
Speaker 1: has the streets that are running east and west are
Speaker 1: numbered right, So that's where we get things like Roland sixties,
Speaker 1: you know, foties, thirties, the twenties. Right. It's because these
Speaker 1: are the blocks that run sort of east and west,
Speaker 1: and then the rocks that run north and south are
Speaker 1: some of the sort of the major streets. So it
Speaker 1: would start with you'd start with Guaroa, right, So these
Speaker 1: are the I'm skipping a lot of stuff, but essentially
Speaker 1: this is the area. Now there's one area that's almost
Speaker 1: now now I'm talking west of the one Tin Highway
Speaker 1: right freeway and south of the Eye ten that y'all
Speaker 1: would call We just call it the Tin. Right. When
Speaker 1: you get north of the ten, you're in Fairfax District.
Speaker 1: It's mid city. It's it's about to become Beverly Hills
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, right. So that for native especially natives of color,
Speaker 1: like that area don't count. That's not what we're talking
Speaker 1: about unless you're talking about Koreatown, right, or Echo Park,
Speaker 1: which used to be predi active, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But that's north I'm not talking about that. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about South what black folks. He is, right, Latino folks, well,
Speaker 1: Latinos are everywhere because there's just so many of y'all. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this grid, right is the birthplace of Crippen. Now. To
Speaker 1: be even more specific, gang banging really started in actually
Speaker 1: my grandma's neighborhood in the Fremont area on the east side,
Speaker 1: because that used to be the major black area. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I digress, right, you can go a little further south
Speaker 1: you get the birthplace of the Bloods, you know, and
Speaker 1: and Piru is an actual street in Compton, so that
Speaker 1: was that was a little bit further down, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But gang banging, as y'all know it
Speaker 1: West Coast LA. You know khakis and chucks, you know flannels,
Speaker 1: red rags, blue rags. You looking at it right here, right,
Speaker 1: And in this area, which we call the Crenshaw District, right,
Speaker 1: there's a few streets in this grid that kind of
Speaker 1: v into a singular point, and it vs into a
Speaker 1: singular point in the forties, right, which is a hood,
Speaker 1: but it's in the forties now in this area this
Speaker 1: is called the Lamert Park Village and it's off Crenshaw right,
Speaker 1: which is the main street. And Crenshaw was a historical
Speaker 1: Like now, when I say historical, i'm talking within my age.
Speaker 1: There is a history that predates me. Crenshaw's generally was
Speaker 1: was an affluent area, even if even as as black
Speaker 1: as it is, it was black affluents, but it didn't
Speaker 1: mean it wasn't gang bang. Now you go further south
Speaker 1: down Crenshaw and you once you cross Slawson. Now you
Speaker 1: in the sixties, that's the nipsey hustle world. That's neighborhood.
Speaker 1: That's neighborhood, roll in sixty Crips's, that's that area. I'm
Speaker 1: a little further north, this little village little it's designed
Speaker 1: to be walkable, it's designed to end as a park.
Speaker 1: It's designed actually the mirror this area up north in
Speaker 1: Hollywood called Large Month. Now, to give you a little context,
Speaker 1: Colan O'Brien studios, they're in Large Month. So if you
Speaker 1: can picture that, I'm talking Crenshaw Lamert Park right. And
Speaker 1: as a child, we used to go there for drum circles,
Speaker 1: drum circles every Sunday. But this area was designed to
Speaker 1: be walkable, almost like a like a European style villa,
Speaker 1: like where you you know, where you walk, you know,
Speaker 1: you sit down at the little cafes, right and and
Speaker 1: again it culminates in this gated sort of park area
Speaker 1: right now. Every Saturday and Sunday they have like open
Speaker 1: flea market there. Again my whole life now in the sixties,
Speaker 1: this was like the jazz hub. I think I've said
Speaker 1: this plenty of times, Like it was equivalent to like
Speaker 1: our Harlem. It was black art and diaspora art, like
Speaker 1: whenever I used to want to get incense and like
Speaker 1: cool African bracelets. When you know, in the seventies, we
Speaker 1: wanted Joe Daishikis you feel me, you wanted your good oils.
Speaker 1: You would go down there my father, I say, my
Speaker 1: father used to take me on a weekend because that's
Speaker 1: where sort of like black Pan African culture was happening.
Speaker 1: This area, although it is inside of a gang territory,
Speaker 1: as far as I can remember, was always neutral. I
Speaker 1: mean we like we stood on the street corner freely.
Speaker 1: There was an event called Project Load again again like
Speaker 1: if that's actually it's finally on Netflix. Finally Eva Deverney's
Speaker 1: first film, it's called This Is the Life. It's about
Speaker 1: this spot called the Good Life a little bit further
Speaker 1: north on Crenshawn Exposition. It was a health food cafe.
Speaker 1: It was one of the open mics out here in
Speaker 1: the early nineties that essentially birthed our hippop scene, you know,
Speaker 1: not like Radio Tron like which is in MacArthur Park.
Speaker 1: That's like the eighties. That's the b Boy. That's like
Speaker 1: breaking and breaking two. That's Ozone Turbo just to get
Speaker 1: the rip rap to get the stamp. That's that's a
Speaker 1: little that's a little earlier than us, you know, saying uh,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about like as we know it far side dilated,
Speaker 1: people's gas corrupt like you know, um, this this this
Speaker 1: this music freestyle fellowship that that birth and entire movement
Speaker 1: you could go see that, and out of that became
Speaker 1: event called Project Blow because of one of the elders
Speaker 1: of that city, um who ran this thing called the
Speaker 1: Chaos Network, which which name was Cogwell. Right. So anyway,
Speaker 1: before that Fifth Street Dicks, this spot over here in
Speaker 1: Lamerte was where you would hear jazz, you know, and
Speaker 1: in free form, and so of course it became a
Speaker 1: natural arts hub, right. This places you've seen this place.
Speaker 1: It's been in If you've ever seen Insecure our HBO,
Speaker 1: the coffee shop they go to is actually Harrone Coffee.
Speaker 1: Uh Stahomi Chase Infinite, that's his spot. This little strip
Speaker 1: was in um Oh, it's in the It's in the
Speaker 1: New Creed movie. You can see when Homie gets off
Speaker 1: the bus. I'm like you getting he's getting off in
Speaker 1: Lamert Likes. That's Lamert Park. Once you see it in
Speaker 1: all these films, you can't unsee it. Right Snowfall, there's
Speaker 1: a scene in Snowfall. In Snowfall, it's the coffee shop
Speaker 1: haroun Is actually says. It says like Self Scientific cleaners.
Speaker 1: It's a cleaners and self Scientific. I'm getting in the
Speaker 1: weeds here, but Self Scientific was the group that Chase
Speaker 1: Infinite was in. Who owns Haroun Coffee. So it's a
Speaker 1: little nugget. But I digress this area. As far as
Speaker 1: I can remember. Now, I am giving you that caveat
Speaker 1: has always been neutral. I don't know of personally, and
Speaker 1: I've never heard any stories of any like real action
Speaker 1: going down here. It was just kind of mutually respected.
Speaker 1: Now granted again, it's in the middle of a crib hood.
Speaker 1: And so there's that, right, But as we know, there's
Speaker 1: so many crips. A lot of times crip gangs, you know,
Speaker 1: have problems with crypt gangs. But it's just this arts
Speaker 1: and African sort of Pan Africanism, just black art, enjoy
Speaker 1: and experience and elders and wisdom, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's we smoke everywhere, you know what I'm saying. It's
Speaker 1: Jamaican food. It's like, you know, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: community center where you learn Pan African movement. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like it's it's a it's a barbershop.
Speaker 1: There's where you you know, you'd you'd buy like masks
Speaker 1: and you know, and just it's just and we would
Speaker 1: freestyle till the wee hours of the morning standing outside
Speaker 1: and yeah, I just you just don't do that in
Speaker 1: La Like usually you have to go inside and it's
Speaker 1: not like what no dogs there. It was just understood.
Speaker 1: Now that being said, when there's ever peace that needs
Speaker 1: to be negotiated among the streets. Now, if we're talking
Speaker 1: at LA riots and the peace treaty that came after that,
Speaker 1: I am too young to be able to tell y'all
Speaker 1: it exactly what went down too. I'm too young for that,
Speaker 1: so I can't tell you what the location was, but
Speaker 1: I will say this, I know for a fact there
Speaker 1: has been plenty of things that have been brokered and
Speaker 1: negotiated in Lamert Park because it's considered to be neutral.
Speaker 1: And I would imagine every hood across America has some
Speaker 1: some place that is just understood that it's okay because again,
Speaker 1: at least in LA parks or territory parks and apartments
Speaker 1: their territory. Like that's my park, you know, this is
Speaker 1: day this, you know, this is our park. This is
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying now, I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: like it's movie scenes when you turn the corner and
Speaker 1: it's just dudes working out, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and just you're like, children should not be playing here
Speaker 1: for some reason that I could really only speculate about
Speaker 1: lamerts our spot. Now. Obviously, to you and to me,
Speaker 1: everyone would need a place like this. Every hood would
Speaker 1: need a place like this, especially a place where you
Speaker 1: have factors that don't get along right, because generally if
Speaker 1: you just don't get along the way, the only way
Speaker 1: to keep pieces just to avoid each other but you
Speaker 1: can't live like that. That's not sustainable. At some point,
Speaker 1: we need to talk out our grievances. Now, if you've
Speaker 1: ever done any gang intervention, or if you've ever sat
Speaker 1: in which I doubt you have, but if you ever
Speaker 1: sat in any sort of conflict mediation, there are certain
Speaker 1: things that have to You can't just start being like
Speaker 1: y'all listen. It can't be Rodney King. Can't we y'all
Speaker 1: just get along? It don't work like that. My home boy,
Speaker 1: who shall rename nameless, you know who got the red
Speaker 1: who got the red shoelaces in his shoes? He was like,
Speaker 1: I was around during that time, and when y'all talking
Speaker 1: about broker in peace, He's like, that's me spitting on
Speaker 1: my homeboy's grave because this person I'm sitting across the
Speaker 1: table from you might have killed my cousin. You might
Speaker 1: have killed my home I like, how can we talk
Speaker 1: about peace? And he's like, and I understanding that dude's perspective,
Speaker 1: because I probably killed his own boy. What we gonna
Speaker 1: there's no peace? Like, there's nothing we could talk about.
Speaker 1: There is no truce. Now, obviously that's a remarkably violent
Speaker 1: way to look get it. But even in the love relationships,
Speaker 1: so you know, me and the do me and the
Speaker 1: dot CP prefer to her by her prefix my lovely spouse. Listen,
Speaker 1: we're in I ain't no shame. We're in weekly and
Speaker 1: sometimes monthly, depending on how good we're doing counseling and therapy.
Speaker 1: You can't be letting this stuff build up because once
Speaker 1: you let it build up, it's too much for us
Speaker 1: to uncover before we can actually get to what we
Speaker 1: need to get to. It's it's almost too far gone.
Speaker 1: You let it go too far gone. That's when that's
Speaker 1: when the therapist be like, guys, it's the damage is
Speaker 1: too deep. Now. I don't mean it's not every Everything
Speaker 1: ain't savable, you know what I'm saying. So you have
Speaker 1: to like get to a place now. We also learned
Speaker 1: as a couple, Oh man, this is good stuff. We
Speaker 1: also learned as a couple some stuff we just can't
Speaker 1: talk about with just us. We can't deal with this
Speaker 1: at the crib. There's got to be another place for
Speaker 1: us to go where we could talk about this in
Speaker 1: a neutral space. There's got to be a neutral space,
Speaker 1: and there has to be a third party that's listening
Speaker 1: because if not all were gonna do is end up
Speaker 1: yelling at each other. Now, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: have been lived, you have tried to like hold down
Speaker 1: a relationship, then you know what the hell I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Y'all end up in the same place every time. Now,
Speaker 1: if we talk about gang, you know, we end up
Speaker 1: with we end up with bodies on the sidewalk. That's
Speaker 1: what we end up with. There's too much. We can't
Speaker 1: even get to what we need to get to until
Speaker 1: we deal with what we got to deal with. You
Speaker 1: you're picking up with him throwing down here. You feel me,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna hold you. Shit is really hard. There's
Speaker 1: somebody I'll give y'all the follow's name is Chef Crawford.
Speaker 1: He had passed her out here. He actually did the
Speaker 1: eulogy at Nipsey's service when Nipsey passed. Because this man
Speaker 1: is well known in these streets of brokering peace because
Speaker 1: he'd been out here, you know, and obviously everybody don't
Speaker 1: rock with him. But at the same time, the things
Speaker 1: he's been able to accomplish because of how he understands
Speaker 1: how this stuff works, what we got to get to,
Speaker 1: how to dig up under the foundation to get with.
Speaker 1: We gotta get to I don't know many people like him,
Speaker 1: so yeah, y'all, y'all find him on Instagram Chef Crawford
Speaker 1: and you'll see what I mean. How it takes a
Speaker 1: lot of work to do this, but it unless there's
Speaker 1: a place where everyone is able to put their guard down.
Speaker 1: And what you see in the hood is oftentimes what
Speaker 1: we always talk about. It's like, man, you FeelA getting
Speaker 1: murdered by a person that looks just like you. I
Speaker 1: went to the same head start, y'all. We went to
Speaker 1: the same preschool, We was in the same county line,
Speaker 1: we're running from the same police. Do you understand what
Speaker 1: I'm saying? Like this across this table is a person
Speaker 1: who lived the exact same experience in section. They just
Speaker 1: like I'm living the exact same experience. But just because
Speaker 1: you wrapping where your mama pay rent, I'm wrapping where
Speaker 1: my mamma pay rent. We somehow, enemies like you have
Speaker 1: to get past that to be like, man, you love
Speaker 1: your block. I love my block. We love LA, So
Speaker 1: let's protect La. You know what I'm saying, You gotta
Speaker 1: find what that is. But how do you get to that?
Speaker 1: If it's like I said, you shot my little brother.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, are you protecting a dude
Speaker 1: that shot my little brother? And even even if I'm
Speaker 1: doing the same about your little brother, I look, how
Speaker 1: do we get to it? What it takes time? I
Speaker 1: want to tell you how to Congress figured this out.
Speaker 1: After this all right, we're back in the building. Listen,
Speaker 1: this is kind of dope. Man. Maybe you know or
Speaker 1: don't know, but either way you're about to know. Right now.
Speaker 1: Congress is broken up into committees. Once you get into Congress,
Speaker 1: you get assigned to a particular committee. Now I saw
Speaker 1: that stuff that was going on. Remember when like Margie
Speaker 1: Taylor Green was spouting out the like the Jewish space
Speaker 1: lasers and she got kicked off her her committee because
Speaker 1: it's like, fam, what is you talking about? You know?
Speaker 1: And that's where you do your work. You do your
Speaker 1: work in these particular committees and you hear things and
Speaker 1: you make recommendations. Those recommendations sometimes become bills either way.
Speaker 1: This is how Congress breaks up. That there's one select
Speaker 1: committee that's called the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.
Speaker 1: So and it's day job to make recommendations on how
Speaker 1: to make Congress function better. Right, so they mission your
Speaker 1: job fixed, Congress. Now, who'll try to be on this one.
Speaker 1: It's got to be perfectly and evenly bipartisan. Six Republicans,
Speaker 1: six Democrats, and you gotta make Congress work better. Good luck, FAM.
Speaker 1: So if there's any committee that is destined to fail,
Speaker 1: big dog, it would be this one. And they got
Speaker 1: all the way up to the last time the Congress
Speaker 1: convened in twenty eighteen. Let me tell you. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you how many recommendations they made. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you how much they got done. Goose Egg, nothing, fam nothing.
Speaker 1: But this one has worked so well that they continued
Speaker 1: it two different sets of Congresses, two terms. It's this
Speaker 1: weird altered universe. It's like, really good news. There these
Speaker 1: twelve Congress people that actually figured this out. Now for
Speaker 1: you to understand what I'm mean by this and some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that they figured out to do, you
Speaker 1: kind of got a flash back to kindergarten as right now,
Speaker 1: I remember all this stuff I talked about by Lamurt
Speaker 1: Park about being heard and stuff like this. Here's what
Speaker 1: you find out, you know, in the Congress buildings, because
Speaker 1: everything's controlled by the speaker, Speaker of the House sent
Speaker 1: a majority leader. It's all controlled by them. So you
Speaker 1: can't even get even if that big old government building,
Speaker 1: you can't get no room because the rooms are signed
Speaker 1: by the speaker. It ain't a single room in there
Speaker 1: that's meant to be bi partisan. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've ever been to the Capitol. They don't even eat together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ain't even know. Ain't even no lunch table up in
Speaker 1: the cafeteria. Like, how y'all possibly ever gonna get a lot?
Speaker 1: You can't even get no y'all can't even get nold
Speaker 1: rooms together. So that's one thing. Another thing that Congress
Speaker 1: do that just bass accords, like they used to say,
Speaker 1: it is like foods be signed up for hearings and votes.
Speaker 1: They be having like three votes at noon in three
Speaker 1: different buildings. Like how to hell? These people is overworked.
Speaker 1: They ain't got time for nothing else. It's you've given
Speaker 1: them impossible schedules to do impossible stuff and you in
Speaker 1: the room always segregated. Remember I said, I guess you
Speaker 1: could keep the piece if you just stay on your section.
Speaker 1: You feel me. You remember when you was in kindergarten
Speaker 1: and your teacher was like no, you can't sit by
Speaker 1: your friend. You gotta sit boy girl, boy girl, remember that?
Speaker 1: Or they had signed the seats because they trying to
Speaker 1: get you to learn how to get along with people
Speaker 1: that you don't necessarily choose to get along with. Or
Speaker 1: when you sit with your homie all the time, y'all
Speaker 1: always stay in trouble. You're always talking. Now in kindergarten,
Speaker 1: they figured out you can't just be sitting like that.
Speaker 1: You gotta sit with somebody else. So you know what,
Speaker 1: So you know what, this committee was like, y'all need
Speaker 1: to stop segregating y'all sitting Why don't y'all sit together?
Speaker 1: They figured out simple stuff like let's just change the
Speaker 1: furniture my day get like you know when you watch
Speaker 1: the TV and you're seeing like a Senate hearing or
Speaker 1: like a Congress hearing, and you got that like panel
Speaker 1: of people sitting on high and they only got five
Speaker 1: minutes to say they piece and they're yelling at yelling
Speaker 1: these like these quips at people who are testifying. I mean,
Speaker 1: how in the hell are we posted to get along
Speaker 1: like that? That's not you can like we just don't
Speaker 1: even feel like equals, like yeah, and you sitting next
Speaker 1: to your homie, Like, how am I ever gonna understand
Speaker 1: what this person? All I'm thinking about is like is
Speaker 1: Kendrick's lyric you killed my cousin back in ninety four? Yo? Truth? Right?
Speaker 1: All the public want us to get along, but like,
Speaker 1: I don't even mess with these people. And then throw
Speaker 1: on a January six throw a January throw a Donald
Speaker 1: Trump grenade in the middle of this. If you're a Democrat,
Speaker 1: it's like, man, I feel like I'm in a relationship
Speaker 1: with somebody that cheated on me, but cheated on me,
Speaker 1: with somebody that tried to get me killed. Fab we
Speaker 1: almost die because and that was your folks. Remember remember
Speaker 1: remember what I said, You want me to have a
Speaker 1: peace treaty with you. You You killed my cousin, and now
Speaker 1: I ain't no peace. There's nothing to sit around about.
Speaker 1: Where is your press conference about January sixth, telling everybody
Speaker 1: you almost had us killed? When is you gonna say
Speaker 1: something about that? You feel me? So it's like there's
Speaker 1: like there's nothing. Remember I said, sometimes it's like there's
Speaker 1: nothing to discuss, and I'm not going to your side
Speaker 1: of the Capital building to discuss this, just like you're
Speaker 1: not going to my side of the capital discuss this.
Speaker 1: The government don't gotta lamurt park. The government don't got
Speaker 1: no place for them to meet where there's no cameras
Speaker 1: number one, right, because every place in theres a camera.
Speaker 1: So if there's a camera, you gotta ship, you gotta stunt,
Speaker 1: you gotta put off for the set. So there's there's
Speaker 1: no way. You feel me you set up to failure.
Speaker 1: So this this committee is to figure out how to
Speaker 1: fix some of this stuff. But how because they were
Speaker 1: a part of the problem also, so this one, however,
Speaker 1: they didn't adopted two hundred and two recommendations according to
Speaker 1: this article, right, because again some of the stuff that
Speaker 1: Congress do just don't make sense. Like I said, they overworked.
Speaker 1: It's all it is, right, It's just everything's terrible right now.
Speaker 1: The chair of this committee's name is Derek Kilmer. He's
Speaker 1: a Democrat from Washington, right, and he's like apparently, like
Speaker 1: according to this article, he's just like a hopeless, like optimist.
Speaker 1: He just like like a nice dude. But then he
Speaker 1: did this, like he called each member one by one
Speaker 1: and was like, all right, what can we do to
Speaker 1: make this work? How can we get this thing together? Right,
Speaker 1: and Infus was like, like I said before, they was like, listen,
Speaker 1: some of the Democrats were like, I can't even sit
Speaker 1: in the same room with these people. They almost had
Speaker 1: as killed. You gotta remember the trauma these people. They
Speaker 1: not really street folk. You have to remember the trauma
Speaker 1: these people experienced on January six, Like that ruined everything.
Speaker 1: But before that happened, right, they was kind of figuring
Speaker 1: stuff out, you know, And some of the things they
Speaker 1: would do is like like if anything, it's like, listen,
Speaker 1: you have to have a shared goal when you have
Speaker 1: when you have a conflict between two people and two
Speaker 1: different parties, Listen, I'm gonna go back to you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give y'all some couples therapy idea. It can't be
Speaker 1: you against your partner. If you're going in a couple's therapy,
Speaker 1: it's gotta be y'all together versus the issue. The issue
Speaker 1: is the common enemy, and the common goal is a healthy, growing,
Speaker 1: flourishing relationship. It's gotta be that. But if you're going
Speaker 1: in there to defeat your partner, oh, it's over before
Speaker 1: it started. Y'all have already lost. Same with Congress. The
Speaker 1: goal has got to be a more perfect union. Right.
Speaker 1: So one thing that they did that they was like, okay,
Speaker 1: well number one, let's get some snacks together. Just like kindergarten.
Speaker 1: If we ask snacks, we just discuss a shared goal.
Speaker 1: We need to start having rooms that we could actually
Speaker 1: kick it in. They started having like mandatory like dinners
Speaker 1: together because it's like, at some point, man, I gotta
Speaker 1: see you as another person. Like I said, just like
Speaker 1: in the Gang of Mediation stuff, I have to remember
Speaker 1: that you went to the same head starts I did,
Speaker 1: as you ran from the same cops I did. I
Speaker 1: have to see you as a as a person also, right.
Speaker 1: And then so then this is what they started doing.
Speaker 1: They said, Okay, before we get busy, this is pre
Speaker 1: January six, this pre twenty twenty, he said, before it
Speaker 1: is twenty eighteen, before we get busy, before we start
Speaker 1: start getting down, we need to figure out like what
Speaker 1: we're trying to do. Let's have a planning retreat. Now
Speaker 1: that's never happened, right, So they put together a planning retreat,
Speaker 1: and and it was bipartisan, so both parties got to
Speaker 1: plan the planning retreat. They hired one staffer team together.
Speaker 1: Rather than saying this team the Republicans bringing staffers, Democrats
Speaker 1: bring staffords. So now even the assistance is beef. And
Speaker 1: they was like, no, let's put our heads together. Let's
Speaker 1: put together one staffords, right, and they started coming up
Speaker 1: with things that they could figure out to do. And
Speaker 1: then January six happened, and this is like, again, this
Speaker 1: is that earth shattering you killed my cousin type situation.
Speaker 1: Why I killed your cousin because your cousin tried to
Speaker 1: kill me? You know what I'm saying, Like that earth
Speaker 1: shattering thing. That's like, look, this mug will not ever
Speaker 1: work right, And a lot of influence was like, listen, man,
Speaker 1: not only on January six, was that your folks, if
Speaker 1: you're Democrats talking to Republicans. One of the Republicans who
Speaker 1: actually voted against certifying the election was was Timmins, who
Speaker 1: was the who's the co chair of this committee. So
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, man, you don't broke off trust Tomy.
Speaker 1: Shit ain't gonna work. We can't work together dog this. Remember,
Speaker 1: there's too much to talk about. We can't even get
Speaker 1: to the task until we deal with what we gotta
Speaker 1: deal with. So then in March in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: I told you, this is actually like a good thing.
Speaker 1: In March twenty twenty one, according to the article, they
Speaker 1: got themselves from Tequila right, and they got on Zoom,
Speaker 1: you know, because he was still in a pandemic, and
Speaker 1: they said, okay, listen, we got to talk about the thing.
Speaker 1: Nobody want to talk about the thing. We got to
Speaker 1: talk about the thing. And the thing was the insurrection
Speaker 1: because these people were like seriously traumatized, and they was
Speaker 1: like I like, I like I hunkered down, like I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna die out this mug and y'all
Speaker 1: don't even get your man's Like, y'all can't even say
Speaker 1: nothing about this. You was gonna die too, Like I
Speaker 1: can't believe, Like how was y'all cool on this? And
Speaker 1: you even voted to not certify the other like it's
Speaker 1: like you on the side. So then Tim and spoke
Speaker 1: and he was able to be like, listen, I still
Speaker 1: feel like the election was weird. Obviously, this breach of
Speaker 1: the capital was terrible. I feel like all them need
Speaker 1: to be prosecuted, like all this stuff is wrong. That
Speaker 1: is all now. At the same time, I still feel
Speaker 1: like some of the election things, you know, some of
Speaker 1: the certifications was still kind of fraudulent. That's why I
Speaker 1: felt like in his brain he was like, yo, both
Speaker 1: these things can be true. Of course this was terrible.
Speaker 1: Of course that shouldn't have happened. But also and I still,
Speaker 1: I'm not really convinced about this election and the people.
Speaker 1: And then one by one of members, twelve folks, one
Speaker 1: by one, everybody got to talk. Now, of course they
Speaker 1: got to still disagree. Like I said, it's still my
Speaker 1: hood on mine. I still think you're tripping, but I
Speaker 1: at least understand where you're coming from. Hell, you know,
Speaker 1: to be personal on this one, I went through a
Speaker 1: situation where you know, my my, my lovely queen of
Speaker 1: my house had to tell me, like, yo, this the
Speaker 1: way I felt about this situation. I've been holding onto
Speaker 1: this for a while, you know, and I may not
Speaker 1: have agreed, but I can't disagree with her feeling. That's
Speaker 1: what you felt, you know what I'm saying, and like
Speaker 1: it would suck to feel that way. And I can
Speaker 1: see that, you know, so your experience. I got to
Speaker 1: see her, and for her, she got to see me
Speaker 1: as look, I have a I lived the whole last
Speaker 1: life before her. I at one point was just a
Speaker 1: twelve year old little boy that was awkward around girls,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So she got to see
Speaker 1: me in a light that was like, hey, he was
Speaker 1: just a little boy, just like I was just once
Speaker 1: a little girl once, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: even though there's some stuff, there's some experiences that were like, look, man,
Speaker 1: I just don't see this the same way. It's the
Speaker 1: same in the streets, like we ain't gonnaver. You ain't
Speaker 1: gonna ever get me to agree you know that, this said,
Speaker 1: like that's my family, this is my relies. You ain't
Speaker 1: gonna ever give me to agree to that. But I
Speaker 1: understand that they got relly. I understand that we can't
Speaker 1: keep moving like this, and I get that you have
Speaker 1: to live your life, and I want you to live
Speaker 1: your life. I see a value in your life. You
Speaker 1: got mama. You gotta loved ones just like I gotta
Speaker 1: loved ones. Right, we gotta move forward and whatever that
Speaker 1: way moving forward is. It's not you against me, it's
Speaker 1: us against the system. Right, that's the only way to
Speaker 1: move forward. One of the quotes that came out of
Speaker 1: this thing is like these people said, man, this is
Speaker 1: the most I've ever learned the most fun I've ever
Speaker 1: had in Congress because their job follow me, y'all, the
Speaker 1: job is miserable. Like it sucks being a congress person,
Speaker 1: you feel me. One quote that came out of this
Speaker 1: is like we learned by conversation instead of confrontation. One
Speaker 1: thing one change they made was that, like I said,
Speaker 1: they have to eat together, they found a room where
Speaker 1: they sitting a round table, rather than sitting on high
Speaker 1: like I said, like on television, and rather than sitting
Speaker 1: by seniority. Did you notice your seating assignment in Congress
Speaker 1: is by seniority? Nigga, oh geez sitting in the front,
Speaker 1: help me sitt in the back. It's by partisan. How
Speaker 1: in the hell was they ever it? Would they ever
Speaker 1: have a chance to possibly get along, you feel me,
Speaker 1: to possibly figure anything out? Y'n't even y'all't even sit
Speaker 1: y'a't even eat the same food. Y'all even y'all can't
Speaker 1: even eating the same room. Cus right. So that's one
Speaker 1: of the changes they make this particular committee. Rather than
Speaker 1: saying everybody gets five minutes to talk, they're saying, you
Speaker 1: speak when you're ready. They had conversation. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: trying to have some sort of relationship or dialogue with
Speaker 1: somebody when there's like a time clock on it it's
Speaker 1: five minutes. Everybody get five minutes. I don't get to
Speaker 1: respond to whatever you're saying. And if I'm trying to
Speaker 1: respond to whatever you're saying, you like bud times up,
Speaker 1: I reclaim my time. Like that's not gonna work. Fam
Speaker 1: y'all can't learn nothing like that. Like it just don't work.
Speaker 1: So anyway, they they made these changes and they're continuing on.
Speaker 1: This is one of the only functional parts of our congress. Look,
Speaker 1: they found a lamert part. What they was able to
Speaker 1: sit down and be like this neutral. I see you
Speaker 1: as a person, were from the same soil, and we
Speaker 1: want the same thing. Wrap your section, wrap your hood,
Speaker 1: believe what you believe. But y'all, let's make this work now.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately is where it gets bad. The comic goal is money.
Speaker 1: It ain't us nagged just as Palestine, Ohio good comic goal.
Speaker 1: Ain't us naked like comic goal is. They bred. But
Speaker 1: at least at least they figured out how to work
Speaker 1: together just for this one thing. So there goes some
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