WEBVTT - Cliqued Up At The Lunch Tables 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.000 So I don't know if I'll ever forget the feeling 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:08.720 of that pit in my stomach, that absolute terror and 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:14.640 adrenaline when some kid is like I saw good, I'll 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.119 see you after school. Some sort of altercation happening, maybe 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.440 even it was an accident. Point is it's going down. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.599 The only question is am I gonna have to face 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:33.080 this food by myself? Politics? How you so little right now? 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:43.559 Little politics? Y'all, yo yo, everybody, welcome to another episode 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:48.600 of Hook Politics is called clicked Up. I want to 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:53.400 help you understand what an ally is as far as 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:59.160 nation states go. Foreign policy. It's a big turn people 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:03.280 running for what you with your stance on foreign policy. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.880 It's like the most complicated question you could be asked. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:14.720 We want to lay it all out, but first you're 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:21.800 sweating because it's fifth period, and maybe everybody saw at school, 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.839 all the homies, everybody even not the homies all saw 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.280 you kind of like get into this situation with big 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.679 homie over there. That The point is you're gonna have 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.959 to throw hands very soon. The onliest question you should 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.640 be asking yourself is which one of you niggas are 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.200 right with me every day? Is gonna jump in and 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:48.280 can y'all throw hands, Like, if you you ain't got 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.120 no hands, I really don't need your help throw hands? 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.240 Is in? Can you fight right? I'm also concerned as 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.400 to which how many of his friends is gonna jump in? 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.280 Are we gonna just be able to square up? Is 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.520 it just gonna be and him? Or are you gonna 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.240 bring all your squad? If you're gonna bring your squad 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:04.920 and you know I'm gonna bring my squad, and we're 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:19.640 gonna rumble, clicked up rumble, We're gonna have a rumball? 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.520 Who says rumbull? You need to know who's gonna help 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.839 out if things go down at the end of the day. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:33.120 Foreign policy since post World War two, actually World War One? 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.440 Who's gonna jump in if we're fighting now? As for 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.400 me and my house, I'm personally I'm a buck fifty 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:44.399 soaking wet, and I have been for many years. I've 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.720 been blessed with them East African jeans. I'm literally the 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.760 same way I was when I was in high school. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.680 I mean, I've tried the gate weight just just don't work. 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.240 So I'm the type that no look at, I got 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.280 no delusions of grandeur. I'm not finished everything for me 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:04.040 is a metrical warfare because I can't square up with 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.880 none of these fools. I don't know how many punches 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.400 I could take. I take no pride in that. So 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.720 for me, I'm not waiting until after school. I'm sliding in. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.639 I'm figuring out who you got for fifth period. I'm 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.440 gonna run over there and be like, talk to the teacher. 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.760 Oh hey, Mr Terry says she needed to borrow one 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.240 of your dictionaries. And I'm a good student. I'm an 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.040 honor roll student. I'm just a little art nerd. I'll 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:29.600 just be here. I'm not I'm not involved in the 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.200 gang life. Didn't look I'm a nice kid. So all 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.680 I'm gonna do is go head over there and grab 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.680 that dictionary and just happen to walk by this fool's 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.000 desk and then well, pole and just break this fool's 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:47.560 jaw in front of everybody with the dictionary. Because I'm 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.760 not waiting till after school. I'm not giving you a 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.160 chance to jump me, and I'm not giving you a 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.800 chance to let me get my behind kicked in front 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.640 of everybody. I'm not like that. I'm waiting at at lunch. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.680 I'm finding your lunch table, and I'm breaking your face 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.520 with one of the trades because you see how little 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.200 I am. It ain't gonna be fair anyway. I'm not 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.119 wasting time. And then what happens is maybe I gets 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.280 suspended for a couple of days, maybe even a couple 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.680 of weeks. All I know is the whole school. No, 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.760 that little skinny boy right there, Look, look he ain't 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.520 really he's a civilian, ain't really part of all this stuff. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:23.640 But I tell you what, he ain't no easy come up, 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.320 that boy fight back. He got hort like the old 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.760 foods sound from l A. So hort, we say hard, 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.760 like you parked the cord. You know what I'm saying, Yeah, 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.760 parked the car around the corner. Homie, Hey, little nigga 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:40.280 got hurt. That is so l A. Please No, I'm 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.920 not condoning any of these actions, So don't do this. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.320 One thing we all know is that just because y'all 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.599 both crips don't mean you get along. Just because y'all 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.839 all bloods don't mean y'all get along. There could be 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:58.080 some sort of thing that happened, maybe even to your 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.680 older brothers and your older sisters that now that y'all 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.040 old enough. Now that y'all in high school, you learned 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.599 that you and your two neighborhoods actually don't get along. 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.880 You may not even know. The thing was so interesting 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.320 about inner city life is almost all of us went 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.200 to the same head start program. We was in the 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.120 same we had the same babysitters, We was in the 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.760 same free and reducing lunch program. We went to the 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.240 same elementary school, hell, the same church, the same youth group. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.200 You know what I'm saying. It was in the same 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.480 children's choir. Because that's how complicated in the city life is. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:32.120 Same vacation Bible school, the church I went to. I mean, 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.279 I'm not gonna name no names, but like i mean, 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:40.280 our Sunday school teachers, their kids was active. Just didn't 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.280 nobody know it, you know. And then maybe went off 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.480 to different middle schools. And now we're in high school. 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.680 And your recruitment happened when you was in middle school. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.480 So now all of a sudden, you're banging that set. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.120 I'm banging this set, or I'm not banging that set. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.400 I'm just affiliated over here because it's where we're from, 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.240 because that's what my brother did. Now we got beef, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.120 or sometimes the other way around happened. Maybe some of 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.440 the ogs went off to jail, we're happened to share 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.760 a cell block, ended up becoming friends in prison, and 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.800 then the word comes back down to the city that like, hey, 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.200 we squashed the beef at the ol G level, So 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.240 y'all cool, y'all stop shooting at each other. Maybe somebody 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:21.200 missed that memo and then acts upon some sort of 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.000 old beef that you ain't know about, and then now 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.680 these two sets got problems, or maybe there was some 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.680 sort of other situation to happen. Maybe the Russians moved in, 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.520 and the Russians are now controlling the flow of the 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.800 narcotics or the pills into the city. So now all 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.520 of a sudden, this historical beef that happened over some 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.000 sort of party who hit on the wrong old lady 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.200 now is seeing trivial because all of y'all are out 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:52.120 of business by these Russians. Or you didn't messed up. 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.240 This is one of my favorite ones. Or you didn't 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.000 messed up thinking that the Mexican dudes the Colos were 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.920 to connect because the Ciolos had the plug with Mexico 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.560 in the cartels and mafia and stuff because they was 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.360 getting they was carrying the weight from across the border. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.479 You run up to homeboy. It turned out homeboy you 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.520 run up to ain't a part of Mexican mafia. He 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.960 actually mouled through to fool El Salvadorian. You don't know 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.600 no difference. You just nigket from the hood. They both 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.520 speak Spanish. I don't know. You didn't stepped into a 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.600 situation you ain't know nothing about. Now all of the sudden, 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.360 now you've got problems with the Vatos. These networks of 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:32.880 connections among hoods are very hard to navigate, and they 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.560 change every five to ten years. You don't know. You 0:07:36.720 --> 0:08:18.800 just gotta know how to navigate it. Now, what I 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:24.320 got to do with politics, This is trying to understand 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:30.240 how the modern nation states, how they relate to other nations, 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:36.559 and how does an administration sort this out? Cabinet members 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.120 This is why cabinet membership is so important in the 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.840 way that you select them. You gotta have some shrewd 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.319 cats about this mug who understand the lay of the land, 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:51.680 understand what's been happening all over the world. What's so 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:58.640 unique about America is we're changing our entire government every 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:05.360 four to six years. It's like brand new president, maybe 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:09.600 brand new chiefs of staff. It's enough to keep another 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:14.360 nation really unbalanced. You gotta like, there's no guarantee that 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.440 America is gonna jump in just because we said we 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.360 would jump in four years ago. So if you're making 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.680 your plans, you're another country trying to make your plans, 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:28.240 and you're counting on America's guns, America's money, America's trade. Yo, 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.840 you ought to be careful. You don't know who the 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.400 new president gonna be. So of course a country that 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:40.520 got like consider us competition, you know you kind of 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.560 like I kind of got a stake into who who 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:48.000 actually win this thing because you probably messing up my bag, 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:53.120 or if I get a new guy that decides the 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.560 old dude was too soft on you or on me. 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.720 I mean this this guy is a lot of applications. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.319 You made me clear war. It's kind of like it's 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.840 a little you know, like you can't really make no 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.200 plans about your own future if you don't know this 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.880 trigger happy country where there's more guns than humans, you 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.920 feel might decide they don't like you no more Like 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:23.520 that's kind of a hard situation to be in, or 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.839 they may decide they love you now. So you start 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.680 like we're good, and then you just kind of like, man, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.040 I hope this dude get reelected because I want to 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.680 stay good with y'all. Like are we making money? And 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.760 we you know what I'm saying, And we're doing this 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:42.160 from the American side. You know, you have to be 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.680 fully aware that the other country don't know about the 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.360 jockey and and and the inner attitude. We speak of 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.200 nations as if they're monolists. You know, China, everybody in 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.080 China think like this. Everybody in Russia think like this. 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.280 Everybody wrong think like this. Do everybody in America think 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.640 like quote unquote this, No, like we we don't all agree. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.400 A matter of fact, that's the one thing we agree 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.080 on is the fact that don't none of us like 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.480 our government, and don't none of us agree as to 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.200 how to handle stuff outside of our borders as it 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.960 relates to like are we gonna protect them? What are 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:16.880 we gonna let them? Are we gonna let them sell 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.400 on our blocks? You're gonna charge y'all? Which is a 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.439 whole other conversation, a whole other episode. We're gonna do 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.400 on tariffs, which is really fun because ultimately that's like 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.199 you gotta pay me to sell on my block. It's 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:30.120 I mean, it's it's kind of extortion. Extortion that's legal 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:36.520 all my Libertarians in the house, Texas taxes are extortion. Anyway. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.920 It's a scary thing. So you really need people that 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.520 are not gonna be in there into these meetings being 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.480 a hothead. You can't have somebody just walk in here. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.120 It's already tense, especially when you're like a new administration. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.480 You gotta prove who you are. You a uh, don't 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:55.720 get a twisted dog. I can throw hands, but let's 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.040 make this money. You feel me, Let's let's let's get 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.319 this bread going. You know, maybe don't like the situation 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.000 we had before, y'all making too much money off us 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.520 or the other way around, where you like, hey, look here, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.800 I don't feel like we're making enough on this situation. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:11.680 I don't like. I don't like how this is going down. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.480 You need somebody in your cabinet that's not gonna be 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.280 kind of angling for himself for herself, you know what 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:24.160 I'm saying, Like this is a difficult thing to really 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:28.560 figure out, and you gotta have access to all these 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.440 other behind closed doors things, because again, you don't know 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.360 what's been discussed before you was there. You don't know 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.520 what the ogs was talking about. You don't know what 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.160 side deals have been being set up. You don't know. 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.920 But if none of this stuff makes sense, let me 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.680 make it as simple as this. The lunch tables dead 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.800 serious middle school. In high school, one of the most 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.280 you understand that first week of school, one of the 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.839 most important things to do is figure out where you're 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.160 gonna sit at the lunch tables, because it's a out 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.400 about you and I I honestly remember, and I think 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:08.400 every school had this. You could survey the whole subcontinent 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.720 of your high school based on where people were sitting 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.400 for lunch. For us, where the thing called prep hill 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.600 on the hill. It was like we had this like 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.800 sloping staircase that were kind of like extended on the hill. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.240 That was like the a SB kids the quote unquote 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.640 popular for us. It was like those are the white kids. Um, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.640 of course they weren't just white kids, but it was 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.040 like whiteness. There was just preppy, you know what saying 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.480 rest we used to call it back then. They just 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.360 they fancy they got a little mold than us. Right, 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.840 there was the Asian tables, that's where all the Penois 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:35.640 and Filipinos where they all hung out. Most of my 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.120 school with Asian squad was Filipinos, so you sprinkle in 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.080 a few other type of agents, but anyway, they all 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.600 kind of blended into the Filipino population. We had a 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.000 section under the awning by the multi purpose room where 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.440 the Tongans and the Samoans kind of hung out, but 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.280 mostly Tongans. You have one side of the table with 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.360 like all the Latino like the Mexican dudes, and there 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.440 was other lunch sabs where the black people were right, 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.120 so we just you know, and then there was like 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.680 the sports fools. There was this hip hop section where 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.560 we were just kind of freestyle where remember we used 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.199 to go to like our teacher used to let the 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.280 wrestling room with all the wrestling masks. We're going there 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.839 and teach ourself how to flare and windmill and who 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.200 have battles and such. But like you navigated the school 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:14.079 based on the lunch tables and where you sat told 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.679 us everything we needed to know about who you went 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.600 and who's gonna jump in ifever there's a problem. I 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.320 went to a rather tumulture with school, all those multi 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.560 ethnic we have some serious assok like serious like race riots. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.880 We had to figure out who's on whose side. And 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:34.240 it started among like them Tonging hoods and the Latino hoods, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.120 so us a little us black folks. We had to 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.920 make a calculation like, O, don't no man in Pacific 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.000 Islanders and nigs don't feel pain. I don't think you 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.800 ever want to be on the side of the wrong 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:48.360 side of the targetics. Obviously I don't think like this anymore, 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.480 but at the time, we had to make a calculation 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.360 who who we're gonna throw our lot in because let 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:54.960 me tell you what I don't want to do. I 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.600 am not trying to catch no Pacific islander fist to 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:03.000 my jaw. I just I don't understand why y'all are 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.080 as strong as you are. I'm not trying to get 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:10.400 into no like forchnology or genetics. I don't know. All 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.400 I know is you know what I can talk about 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.200 my brother in law. My brother in law's half Polly, 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.080 half black. This don't make no dog on sense. Why 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.120 strong you are? My homeboy? To Dashi, I can name 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.120 Tadashi to Dashi do music with me one of my 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.360 home boys, Flow and Samoan. I don't get why you're 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:30.600 so strong. I'm way off the rails here. The point 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.760 is we had to decide where you're gonna sit for lunch, 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.640 because that's gonna tell us you're gonna communicate to the 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:41.080 whole school what your situation is and how all of 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.840 it's gonna work out in the same way in the hood, 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:49.040 how navigating this stuff costs actual lives. These aren't abstract 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:53.320 ideas what an ally is like. The cost of these 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:59.160 things going wrong are in actual deaths. A good sort 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.920 of case study with be World War One. Now for 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.360 all you nonhistory nerds, let me let me, let me 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:12.240 put you on game. So Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand not 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.040 the band, I say, don't you know? You say you 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:17.840 don't know that song was a bob. I don't care 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:23.479 what y'all say. But Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.440 by this kid right named Gabriello Priss up Right. He 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.920 was a member of this like Bosnian, like Serbian nationalist 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.760 group who was trying to unite the territories around like 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.040 ethnic Serbs under like Serbian control. It's just think of 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.280 it as like, you know, we have like serious race 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.960 problems here. They had them then too. They were just 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.720 much more ethnic than white supremacists. Is always weird for 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.320 me to as a black man, watching like white ethnic 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.560 groups beef with each other and call each other less 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:53.000 white than any other. Like I like, there's like Russian 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:57.360 white supremacists because other Russians ain't white enough. It's the 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.720 strangest thing I ever seen anyway, because white is a 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:07.359 social construct. So he was the Archbishop of Austria Hungary. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:12.119 So they was furious right now, Austrio hungry. This is 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:16.359 World War One. They clicked up with Germany. Germany right 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.800 now feeling froggy because you remember Germany been trying to 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.399 take over Austria hungry for a while, you know, Kaiser 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.359 Wilhelm and them, like nig was hungry. You feel me 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.879 like he was like, yo, man, y'all looking like an 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.640 easy come up. The problem is Russia got Serbia's back, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:35.040 and Russia, I don't think people will understand. First of all, 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:41.080 the land mask that Russia is like it's Russia is 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:48.200 freakishly big and at the time they military cause them 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:54.600 fools be Mark, but Germany ain't no slouds to Germany 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.040 was throwing hands back then, dog like, throwing real hands 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.280 like we had never seen no military like Germany. Y'all 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.320 gotta remember them. Nick is almost one, Joe said, But 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:08.000 Austria hungry, got this stuff. Germany jump in. But if 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.199 Germany jump in, that means Russia jumping in. And if 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.760 Russia jump in, that me needs people jump and if 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.040 these people, that mean next people jump in. Eventually whole 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:21.440 earth jumped in except for Africa. Were chilling. I don't 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:27.880 know what they probably whoa. We was like, look, it's good, 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.040 let's give us a second. Leave us alone. You know 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.840 what I'm saying. Dang, y'all fight amongst each other, that speculation. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.920 The point is all these countries jump in, and it's 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:42.600 it's it's because of how the Allied networks work out right, 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.480 Like you can't just be hitting on my homeboy like that. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.919 We got this understanding here. In the past episode we 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.240 talked about like all the all the fun we did 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:53.000 back in the Middle East, and at some point we 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.760 got to revisit that. We got to talk about how 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.639 the Iran Contra scandal and how that dead ass leads 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.560 right into the crack attack. I know Snowfall to show 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.639 how f X is about that, but like they're not. 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:09.960 Really the story is more about sat Who's it's freeway. 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:11.919 Rick is is who's saying is based on it, But 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.359 like the story is more about him, not necessary to 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.440 politics around it. Like we really got to get into 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.240 how crap got on our streets because of the CIA, 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.640 But all of that again is about being clicked up. Ultimately, 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.719 Reagan and him was worried about quote unquote communism spreading 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.680 in the America's because you're gonna sunk up the money, 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.120 so we need to make sure the money don't get anyway. 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.440 The whole other thing, y'all remember but shar Allah aside 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.919 when he was gassing his own folks in Syria. I 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.960 think I gave this example in the introductory episode. That's 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.400 exactly what I'm talking about. Trump out here running with shooters. 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:49.960 You can't say ship, you gotta jump in. You can't 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:51.879 jump in because you clicked up with his click. You 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:55.600 can't say nothing. All this stuff is like it's all confusing. Now, 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:59.239 before before Trump was around, before Trump was trying to like, 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:00.919 you know what I'm saying to click up with Russia 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.960 when we was more like, look, kick rocks Russia, Like, 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:05.639 y'all need to get this ship together, because like I 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:07.800 don't trust y'all, you don't trust us. We got some 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.120 long running beef, and this beef and running for even 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.880 if it was a misunderstanding, they like it got too hot. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.880 I don't I don't play with y'all. You stay at 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.240 our way, we stay out of yours. Trump kind of 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:20.600 gummed all that up and in the middle of that, 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:25.240 but Charla side was like file gas my own people. 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:28.920 But but the network too is too complicated. You feel 0:20:28.920 --> 0:21:00.879 me now. Lastly, I want to talk about how this 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.720 stuff plays out, even not in just like big old wars, 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:09.119 but in real cultural moments, and why it's important to 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:13.919 understand how does foreign policy work. The assassination of Jamal Kashogi, 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:17.719 so Jamal ka Shogi has happened last year, and that 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:22.640 event like started a string of other events that really 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:28.760 capture not only what happens in the streets but also 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:33.639 what happens in the government. So Jamaal ka Shogi was 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:37.280 popped in Turkey at at the embassy out there in Istanbul. 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:39.560 And the thing is like we're good with Turkey and 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.919 he was and what we think happened and it's we 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:45.240 have good reason to think this is that the Crown 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:48.520 Prince Mohammed al Saman like green lit this nigger. It's 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.000 like the worst kept secret in the world that like 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:55.400 the crown Prince and the family out in Saudi they 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:59.119 shoot and have no problem taking out dissonance. But to 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.160 get real sticky, because we supposed to be good with saudeast, 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:04.199 what're you supposed to do? But it's a big deal 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.880 once you start shooting journalists because it says a lot 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:10.000 more about like how you feel about the press and 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:12.240 being able to move and do things that are like 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:15.119 getting on with your if you could just kill the journalists, 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:18.480 and how dictatorships work without getting into the details of 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:22.720 like the Arab spring and like the Shiite and Sunni history, 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:26.280 which is also its own thing, like Saudi Arabia is 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:33.399 like super unpredictable when it comes to America, and I 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:39.320 think we really don't appreciate the long history and cultural 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:44.080 and tribal effect and how all that intersects with religion, 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:46.520 like how that works over there, Like I don't think 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:51.000 we get it. We see these buckets of like tribal, cultural, 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:54.520 religious as like their own buckets, rather than the way 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:56.720 that all this stuff overlaps. You know what I'm saying, 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.920 to form not only a national but an individual idea, 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:01.520 like I don't think we get out that works in 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:04.320 the same way how I freely say, because but I 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:06.320 just already told you I never gang banged the day 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:08.320 of my life. And I already told you all we 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:10.040 went to church, and I already told you I rapp 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:12.080 And I already told you I don't think you understand 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:16.680 really how our identities overlapping against critical race theory, intersectionality. 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:18.800 I'm becoming a teacher right now. This ain't the point. 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.920 All we knew about Saudi Arabia was Niggadey got oil 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:26.280 and it's for sale. We gotta make the calculus as 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:28.119 to like how to jump in over there, because you're 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:30.520 jumping in some ship that's been going on for a 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:34.879 long time so recently. Actually this was under the Biden administration. 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:40.160 They did there like full investigation as to like, okay, 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:42.960 did did the Crown Prince really call this hit? Was 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:49.320 this really a hit? Or was it not? We all 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:53.200