Speaker 1: Call zone media. All right, there's some game I'm finna
Speaker 1: give y'all that's gonna sound considerably more cynical than it
Speaker 1: needs to. But honestly, as people of color, someone like
Speaker 1: myself who comes from now see, I know a lot
Speaker 1: of y'all got evangelical baggage. I just don't come from that.
Speaker 1: We come from inner city church that has a liberation
Speaker 1: theology tone. And whether you come from Now or even
Speaker 1: come from like the FOI or you know, the Nation
Speaker 1: of Islam, the gods and the arts, the fire for centers,
Speaker 1: there is a resilience that exists inside of suffering people.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna speak specifically as a black man, an
Speaker 1: African American slave descendant black man in America. You can
Speaker 1: add my socioeconomic to it, which obviously you know, intersections matter,
Speaker 1: so you which is why we should teach you critical
Speaker 1: race theory and intersectionality. All that stuff matters. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, there's nothing more important than
Speaker 1: the program. Now that can be interpreted many ways depending
Speaker 1: on how much of your levels of the streets that
Speaker 1: you in. When they talk about the program, you know,
Speaker 1: oftentimes if you, I mean, if you cripping, they mean
Speaker 1: like the gang, Like what we are doing as a
Speaker 1: gang is the most important thing, more important your family,
Speaker 1: your children, your everything. That's what they mean by the program.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we mean programming. Again, depending on how outside you are,
Speaker 1: you might be talking about like doing your uh burpies.
Speaker 1: You feel me like you outside, you know, making sure
Speaker 1: you take it care of yourself. You stay on the program,
Speaker 1: you out your programming, making sure you working out every day.
Speaker 1: Nothing more important than the program. But it comes from
Speaker 1: a resilience that the profit of the Westside Roland sixties
Speaker 1: gave us, the stance that has continued to be a
Speaker 1: rallying cry that is really just again a continuation of
Speaker 1: our forefathers, our fore mothers. You know, whether it's soon
Speaker 1: our rise, we shall overcome. What he says is the
Speaker 1: marathon continues. Hood politics, y'all? All right, y'all post election
Speaker 1: thoughts now by this being Wednesday, meaning if you're listening
Speaker 1: to this today, it dropped. It's been a whole week
Speaker 1: and a day since we found out that Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: getting his electric boogloo. And as him getting his electric boogaloo,
Speaker 1: I think that I can probably guess that there is
Speaker 1: of the listeners on this show, y'all probably fall into
Speaker 1: what I'm guessing is one of three categories. One of
Speaker 1: you are deeply disappointed because you know you fell into
Speaker 1: the liberal or where we are as pretty much a
Speaker 1: team you know with cool zone either leftists or anarchists,
Speaker 1: or like where you know I'm personally at, which is
Speaker 1: like we need to go back to indigenous practices because
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, just putting a dude
Speaker 1: in charge has yet to work. I'm going, like, I'm
Speaker 1: going like terror for my fam like over because like
Speaker 1: none of this shit works. I don't even think our
Speaker 1: borders make sense. Like that's see, I'm like way over
Speaker 1: there but us, but you know, ocean, you might as
Speaker 1: well swim. So so the fact that America decided to
Speaker 1: overlook all possible signs of toxicity, the fact that like
Speaker 1: none of the trade off was worth it for them,
Speaker 1: that the twice impeached thirty four felony convicted rapists. Do
Speaker 1: y'all hear all that? Y'all hear all them sirens and stuff?
Speaker 1: I live in the hood, Do y'all hear that it's
Speaker 1: going wild outside? I don't know if y'all hear that,
Speaker 1: but I went to go check this ghetto bird just
Speaker 1: circling around the street next to mine. It is what
Speaker 1: it is. I don't know what to tell you, and
Speaker 1: what's dope about it is like people just outside mowing
Speaker 1: a lawn. It's Veterans Day, so we're just mowing our
Speaker 1: lawn and bring your trash cans back in. It's like
Speaker 1: just or hey, like hope you get awake us anyway,
Speaker 1: speaking of which I just don't know how well I
Speaker 1: do know how apparently the trade off don't matter that
Speaker 1: none of it none. I can't even get the sentence out.
Speaker 1: None of it mattered. Like the court cases. The boy
Speaker 1: is not allowed to do business in New York. He
Speaker 1: is a felon. There are countries he's not allowed to
Speaker 1: go to. None of that matters. They eating the pets
Speaker 1: don't matter. None of it mattered. So some of y'all
Speaker 1: are either flabbergasted or like grieved this weekend. It's crazy
Speaker 1: walking around LA people was like grieving, like like somebody died,
Speaker 1: and I tell you what died. I can and again
Speaker 1: you probably in this first bucket optimism, your hope and
Speaker 1: optimism died because especially you know, shout out again the
Speaker 1: faux black people and seven Filipinos and all the rest
Speaker 1: of the Latinos that is in this on this particular show,
Speaker 1: who we kind of knew to not get our hopes up.
Speaker 1: But we thought maybe maybe this time, maybe y'all got
Speaker 1: a code. Maybe this man is so ratchet that this
Speaker 1: would that this would shake you out of your stupord.
Speaker 1: But nope. And speaking of code, this is another thing
Speaker 1: you know, you learn in our way of life, is
Speaker 1: that whether we're talking about the G code, like which
Speaker 1: you know kind of like in some ways is like
Speaker 1: the you know, sort of a dying art with some
Speaker 1: of these gangsters out there, and as we know, like
Speaker 1: you throw enough time at somebody you start talking about ten, fifteen,
Speaker 1: twenty years, just be like f the code, you know.
Speaker 1: But I will say this, that translates to a type
Speaker 1: of manhood that for me, flies completely in the face
Speaker 1: of any of these like right wing blogosphere dudes that
Speaker 1: like clearly it created a pipeline for Trump to get into.
Speaker 1: Like strategy wise, I mean, I'm jumping ahead of myself
Speaker 1: because I want to talk about code, but strategy wise
Speaker 1: is real simple, Like where are young men at They
Speaker 1: at video games at jiu jitsus they're at mmas and
Speaker 1: guess who runs all those YouTube channels, all those blogs,
Speaker 1: all those this. There's a great book you could read
Speaker 1: call Hate in the Homeland, and it's about the modern
Speaker 1: far right in the person who studied like the advance
Speaker 1: or the new growth of the modern far right movement
Speaker 1: in Western civilizations. And they're like yo, MMA and UFC.
Speaker 1: Shit is breeding grounds video game like like you know,
Speaker 1: message boards, they're breeding grounds. That's where they are, right.
Speaker 1: So of course you just you put put a Rando
Speaker 1: in that pipeline. You're gonna make them a start because
Speaker 1: that's where all the boys are, right, but they feeding
Speaker 1: them a type of manhood that like, listen, I feel
Speaker 1: like for me. I'll even add Robert to that. We
Speaker 1: cisgendered heterosexual men. You know what I'm saying that, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I like I beat the dog shit out
Speaker 1: of you, like if I need. Robert likes guns like
Speaker 1: I'm a dude, you feel me. I don't like fighting.
Speaker 1: I don't like confrontation, but like you know, like like
Speaker 1: the prophet way and saying to killer, but don't push me.
Speaker 1: You feel me so and Tupac say it too. I'll
Speaker 1: quote quote all the quotables. But the point I'm making
Speaker 1: is like we live by these codes that you learn,
Speaker 1: whether streets or street adjacent, you just you just live
Speaker 1: by a code. Part of that is like all money
Speaker 1: ain't good money. There are lines that we draw like
Speaker 1: you don't some transactions the juice ain't worth the squeeze,
Speaker 1: Like you know. One of those things is like shit.
Speaker 1: You learn it in little league. You take your beating
Speaker 1: like a man. If you lost, you hold your chin up,
Speaker 1: you valuate, you don't. You don't blame the refs. You
Speaker 1: don't call cheating, No, that's coward shit. I'm using your
Speaker 1: own terms, like be a man. Sometimes you gotta take
Speaker 1: it on the chin. You feel me. You don't make
Speaker 1: no excuses. You don't blame nobody else. It's you. The
Speaker 1: buck stop with you. You feel me. You man the
Speaker 1: fuck up. You get the fuck up, and you shut
Speaker 1: up about stuff. We live by a code that how
Speaker 1: you do anything is how you do everything. You look
Speaker 1: at somebody and you like, man, you ain't. This man
Speaker 1: don't got no day ones around him, everybody around you
Speaker 1: just met your whole team. You only known him for
Speaker 1: like a year and a half. Like that's a red flag.
Speaker 1: To me, I'm like, oh, this man ain't got no code.
Speaker 1: You don't have no actual loyalty because you not a
Speaker 1: rider or die. You only want rider dies. And so
Speaker 1: I'm like this, this man don't have no code. So
Speaker 1: I feel like we live by codes that you when
Speaker 1: the juice an't worth the squeeze, I back up. There
Speaker 1: is a line you have shown me how you care yourself.
Speaker 1: And I don't care how much money you're saying you're
Speaker 1: gonna give me. It's not worth it. So if your
Speaker 1: boy is mourning, I'm mourning the fact that, like I thought, y'all,
Speaker 1: I thought my code is. I know my code might
Speaker 1: be different than y'all's, but I thought you at least
Speaker 1: had one. That that's to me, was like, oh, there's
Speaker 1: no line for y'all. There's no there's no trade off,
Speaker 1: like it's all that that made me sad. But it's
Speaker 1: not like I didn't know. Nope. So we running around
Speaker 1: here grieving dudes, people texting each other. Okay, let's go
Speaker 1: for a walk, let's go work out, make sure you
Speaker 1: take care of yourself, take a break. It's funny except
Speaker 1: that I be except I was one that was also
Speaker 1: grieving because I thought, maybe this time, maybe we found
Speaker 1: a person so repugnant that you'd have a line. So
Speaker 1: people's just grieving. I know what I was grieving. I
Speaker 1: was grieving the fact that, like I thought, I thought
Speaker 1: there was a line. I thought that there was a
Speaker 1: point that the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. It's not
Speaker 1: even about him, per se. I mean it kind of is,
Speaker 1: but just the fact that like there's no there's no bottom,
Speaker 1: there's no bottom, like there's you're like completely mask off.
Speaker 1: Eggs cost too much. So I'll believe this dude that
Speaker 1: said he can make eggs costs go down. I'll ignore
Speaker 1: everything else about this man. I thought maybe y'all's memories
Speaker 1: was longer because he keeps saying, well, Kamala is in charge, now,
Speaker 1: why is she not being able to do the thing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, nigga, you used to be in charge too,
Speaker 1: And nostalgia's a hell of a drug. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: like I don't it didn't feel much better or worse
Speaker 1: to me. It is what it is. Anyway, you might
Speaker 1: be in that bucket, some of y'all might be in ah.
Speaker 1: And I was talking to one of my little homeboys yesterday.
Speaker 1: That's almost in like the accelerationist bucket, but in reverse
Speaker 1: to where it's just like, yeah, let the please let
Speaker 1: this bull into the china shop. Please. I wish you
Speaker 1: would just break every just just just break it all,
Speaker 1: like so we can finally just let's just get it
Speaker 1: over with, right. Let the empire crash, let it burn?
Speaker 1: Can we fight like it's we're on our way. We're like,
Speaker 1: we're obvious on our way to destruction. At some point
Speaker 1: in the holidays, we gotta run reruns. I'm going to
Speaker 1: try to run the Ray dally O one when he
Speaker 1: talks about the collapse of empires. We gotta run that
Speaker 1: one because, like I mean, we're on the brink of
Speaker 1: extinction as far as like if you understand global empires,
Speaker 1: it's just the world is reordering. So some of y'all
Speaker 1: might be absolute accelerations. And then maybe there's five of
Speaker 1: y'all that secretly didn't want to tell nobody but was
Speaker 1: kind of like it was kind of my guy. And
Speaker 1: a lot of times in my experience, it's over maybe
Speaker 1: one or two issues. It's abortion, But I'm assuming if
Speaker 1: you listen to this show, it's the border stuff just
Speaker 1: didn't do it for you. You was just like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a scare tactic. But then again, things do cost
Speaker 1: a lot, so you probably ain't one of these three buckets.
Speaker 1: So today this is what I'm gonna do. You've probably
Speaker 1: had your feel of analysis, so I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: a short version of mine and just remind you of
Speaker 1: what work we continue to god to complete. Wow, that
Speaker 1: was a horrible sentence, but you feel me. The marathon continues.
Speaker 1: Let's go all right, obviously, don't need to drop a look.
Speaker 1: It's like this because we know it's like, first of all,
Speaker 1: shout out Kendrick for opening his mouth and getting every
Speaker 1: possible He's nominated for every category. Like what category is
Speaker 1: Kendrick not nominated? It? Like demand is goal? It's absurd anyway, Uh,
Speaker 1: but let's get to it. Listen, here's some analysis. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pull some of my own receipts here and pat
Speaker 1: myself on the back a little bit, and hopefully if
Speaker 1: you've been following along all year, these these are the
Speaker 1: blase black woofed, the whoops, These are the interpretations that
Speaker 1: Lick reads that had you been following with with me,
Speaker 1: you might have been a little more prepared for today,
Speaker 1: right when someone just gets the dog shit beat out
Speaker 1: of them, when somebody like, listen, the Democrats ain't lose.
Speaker 1: They got they ass beat like they whooped your ass.
Speaker 1: Now I don't okay, listen, yeah, you're gonna win some
Speaker 1: house seats. Grade you know, there was some local elections
Speaker 1: shout out, you know, Tussa Oklahoma hiring or acting they
Speaker 1: first black mayor. Like that's a beautiful thing. We got
Speaker 1: to finally got two black senators in at the same time,
Speaker 1: you feel me, we got a trance. There's a trans
Speaker 1: in Delaware, you know what I'm saying, Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's been some some like some like wow, this is
Speaker 1: a big deal. You feel me. The people spoke. We
Speaker 1: appreciate that on the local level. But let's not okay,
Speaker 1: just because just because you scored forty points in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, it didn't mean that these people ain't beat
Speaker 1: your ass. Okay, the Republicans whooped your ass. So the
Speaker 1: easiest answers sometimes, although helpful, don't tell a full story, right,
Speaker 1: And you and me know, the easiest answer is America's racist.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I don't understand what the hell, what
Speaker 1: the hell is confusing about that motherfucker's racist, like we
Speaker 1: know that is you surprised people that you don't think
Speaker 1: is racist are actually racist. They are, of course they are.
Speaker 1: They just they just there's a different kind of racism.
Speaker 1: There's the like, you know, make America white again racist,
Speaker 1: and then there's the make America great again race. You
Speaker 1: understand what John to say, like nigga of course, like
Speaker 1: what delusion is what you wonder? You know, So there's
Speaker 1: there's the easy answer, and sometimes, like I said, is helpful.
Speaker 1: But I think getting into the minutia because understanding that
Speaker 1: racism don't always play along color lines. Sometimes in internalized racism,
Speaker 1: sometimes a desire for whiteness, a desire for power. Because
Speaker 1: somebody got to get their brain around Latinos for Trump.
Speaker 1: Now we probably gonna do one on it could happen here.
Speaker 1: I've been digging into that thing for a while. And
Speaker 1: also I'm saying that with the caveat that I am
Speaker 1: clearly not Latino. I'm from they hood, I'm married one.
Speaker 1: But that's just that just gives me, that just gives
Speaker 1: me a Delta sky Lounge pass. That don't mean I'm
Speaker 1: one of y'all. You understand I'm saying so like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say that with that that sort of like caveat now.
Speaker 1: When we did the to the Boom Incorporated RNC, the
Speaker 1: one thing I told y'all that I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what dog respect due it is they told an
Speaker 1: amazing story. I have a merch item on prop hipop
Speaker 1: dot com. It's called tell better stories because words build worlds. Right,
Speaker 1: that's another merch item I got tell better stories. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, now, is this story grotesque? Yes?
Speaker 1: Was this story deeply false? Absolutely? It was just a
Speaker 1: better story. It was cohesive. It brought you in, It
Speaker 1: gave you your exposition. You knew who the hero was,
Speaker 1: you knew who the villain was, and you knew what
Speaker 1: the solution was supposed to be in this story. That
Speaker 1: story included a nostalgia, and we all know a nostalgia
Speaker 1: is so powerful. I mean, just if you are again
Speaker 1: within a ten mile radius of my age, go visit
Speaker 1: a high school. Feel the time warp you're sending in
Speaker 1: as you look at the clothes these kids is wearing.
Speaker 1: I mean they even they've even socially stratified themselves in
Speaker 1: the same way the skaters look the same and they
Speaker 1: all kick it in the same spot. It's the most bizarre. Like,
Speaker 1: what like nostalgia? How many podcasts right now are rewatches
Speaker 1: of shows from your childhood? Nostalgia is so powerful? And
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Was it that great when you was
Speaker 1: living it? You don't remember? You know why, because that's
Speaker 1: how nostalgia works. Was it that bad? You know what?
Speaker 1: You don't remember because that's how nostalgia works. Nostalgia is
Speaker 1: not memory, it's feeling. Nostalgia ain't got nothing to do
Speaker 1: with what actually happened. It happened to do with the warm,
Speaker 1: fuzzy It's the moment you was in, how the moment felt.
Speaker 1: Trump calling on a nostalgia that some of these people
Speaker 1: not only never existed in, but if they was alive,
Speaker 1: then wouldn't even be allowed in the room. Like that's
Speaker 1: the Who has Bewitched You? Part? That I really blow
Speaker 1: my mind. But nostalgia's powerful and it's a wonderful story,
Speaker 1: and who would not wish to be a part of it?
Speaker 1: You know? A Christmas story with the Red Rifle bb
Speaker 1: gun Mon's Gonna Kill Ralphie? I love that movie? Do
Speaker 1: you know I wouldn't be allowed in that boy's house.
Speaker 1: I need you to like, like, this is what I
Speaker 1: mean by nostalgia. You'll shoot your eye out. Kid. I
Speaker 1: would not be allowed to play with him. That's a
Speaker 1: segregated community. What do any black kids have any business
Speaker 1: enjoying a movie like this. That's not my nostalgia. But
Speaker 1: I remember being a child watching the movie and thinking
Speaker 1: that's fun. You're a shoot your rye ho ho. And
Speaker 1: I know the feeling of wanting something so bad on Christmas.
Speaker 1: Christmas morning listen. I'm California. I ain't never had no
Speaker 1: white Christmas. What nostalgia, But it's a powerful drug. That's
Speaker 1: what he did. It was better back then. And then
Speaker 1: he presented something that was so cohesive that I just
Speaker 1: I keep looking at the Democrats and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I just don't understand why y'all couldn't do this. But
Speaker 1: like with truth, he would say, it's very simple. The
Speaker 1: system's broken. That's a big old dove. It does not
Speaker 1: serve you. I have cracked the code, because you see,
Speaker 1: I'm on top of the world. I could crack that
Speaker 1: code for you. Here's how I'm gonna fix it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make America safe again. I'm gonna make America strong again.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make America wealthy again. I'm gonna make America
Speaker 1: great again. The system don't serve you no more. And
Speaker 1: you know why I don't serve you, dim fools. Then
Speaker 1: Nigga gave you a bad guy. And you know who
Speaker 1: the bad guy is. Everybody that's not them? What a
Speaker 1: simple story? If you not with us, you're what an
Speaker 1: easy story? That's an easy story to get around. Listen,
Speaker 1: I've used this example plenty of times. When when that
Speaker 1: drug dealer, when that hustle and that gangster come ben
Speaker 1: in that Kona and that a tray impalla, you feel
Speaker 1: me in that sixty four lo? Lo, you understand I'm
Speaker 1: saying with the eighteen inch rims right, he pop out,
Speaker 1: handout everybody a twenty dollars bill to come to go
Speaker 1: get go, get some ice cream? You feel me? Yo,
Speaker 1: you need some school supplies? Hey, tell your mama, Tell
Speaker 1: your mama. If Chevin needs something like come holler at
Speaker 1: me man, that man come through, pay your pay your
Speaker 1: electric bill, put groceries in your house. It feel good
Speaker 1: and part of your brain turns off as to where
Speaker 1: that man got his money from. I get it it's powerful,
Speaker 1: but at some point you got to grow up and
Speaker 1: be like, all money isn't good money. But if you
Speaker 1: could tell me, this man could tell me, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go get your bread for you. This stuff costs to
Speaker 1: love it. Don't your food costs too much? She the problem,
Speaker 1: data problem. These people eating your pets, and you know what,
Speaker 1: you don't even like them that much anyway. Look, look
Speaker 1: if you black, telling you like, hey, what have they
Speaker 1: done for you? And the hard part is like but
Speaker 1: for black people, but most of us like gas lighters,
Speaker 1: cause they looking at they looking at the Republicans like, nigga,
Speaker 1: we know you racist, like we know y'all are I mean,
Speaker 1: you mask off about the shit. But the Dems, I'm
Speaker 1: just keeping the basic basic story. They talk a good game,
Speaker 1: but like, what have y'all done for us? Are we
Speaker 1: better off? Now? Me as being a smarty y awt nigga,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, look me being the
Speaker 1: square You feel me the weird cuse that can run
Speaker 1: off all of the programs the head start nigga, like
Speaker 1: the free and reduced lunch programs, like are you kidding me? Bro?
Speaker 1: You sit across tell you from your grandma and them,
Speaker 1: and she like, man, it's the cheapest my medicine has
Speaker 1: ever been. Like that feel good. This This man wanna
Speaker 1: wanna up the retirement age or by ten years while
Speaker 1: gutting the amount of money that goes into it. So
Speaker 1: I'm like you telling me my mom and them gonna
Speaker 1: have to your mom and them, she might your grandma
Speaker 1: might be ready to retire. She came for another ten years.
Speaker 1: She got a bad hip, she got a bad knee.
Speaker 1: This nigga telling you that he's better for you. It's
Speaker 1: a good story. Nigga, You finna make my mama life harder.
Speaker 1: But you know what, though, what the DEM's done for me?
Speaker 1: Them head start programs like it's friends. It's people I'm
Speaker 1: friends with to this day because of those programs. Man,
Speaker 1: a lot of us ate like we had food in
Speaker 1: our bellies because of these programs. You trying to tell
Speaker 1: me that, like thems ain't done nothing for us. Now listen.
Speaker 1: And then the part that gets frustrated about it is
Speaker 1: like when you try to get in this conversation, you
Speaker 1: be like, man, I can't believe I'm defending these democrats
Speaker 1: because like I don't y'all gaslight us. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm saying like I'm not. I'm not a
Speaker 1: fan of them. You feel me at least with Trump,
Speaker 1: you like, look, Trump draw a line. Everybody like a
Speaker 1: bad guy. He draw a line in the sand. He's like, look,
Speaker 1: you either get on. You either get down or get on.
Speaker 1: This is what we're doing, this is how we're doing it.
Speaker 1: You roll with us or not. And sometimes that bad
Speaker 1: boy thing, I mean, shout out Diddy, what it seemed
Speaker 1: like they could offer you make you override and overlook
Speaker 1: stuff that in a normal situation because you're not in
Speaker 1: this heightened sense of need. You can't reason with somebody hungry.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this again for you. You can't reason with
Speaker 1: somebody hungry. I'm gonna say this one more time for
Speaker 1: you. You can't reason with somebody hungry. When you hungry, you
Speaker 1: overlook a lot of stuff, especially when that person is
Speaker 1: spending an amazing tale and telling you that none of
Speaker 1: your problems are your fault. It's a good story. And
Speaker 1: then you could and then and then you take that
Speaker 1: whole thing and wrap it in the Chakaina glory that
Speaker 1: is the Western Evangelical Church. You say stuff like God
Speaker 1: kept me alive to save this country, because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, the most obvious question to ask
Speaker 1: is when you say make America great again, the obvious
Speaker 1: question is when was it great? What do you mean
Speaker 1: by that? And here's the thing he told us exactly
Speaker 1: what he meant by it. It's when the darkies new
Speaker 1: they plays. Bill Burr had a great joke on SNL
Speaker 1: this past week when he was like, why it was
Speaker 1: they were doing a spoof about like Buffalo Wild Wings,
Speaker 1: where he was like, well, I would love to watch
Speaker 1: this game in my big mansion on the top of
Speaker 1: the hill. But what sucks for me? I was born
Speaker 1: white fifty years too late. So he's like, I gotta
Speaker 1: be with the poors because I ain't get all the
Speaker 1: privilege y'all talking about. But wouldn't it have been nice?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it been nice to be included in that? Oh,
Speaker 1: you poor Appalachian, You got to live up here with
Speaker 1: the poors, knowing full well that you could have been
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be nice? That's a great story. Hey, look, look, look, look,
Speaker 1: you Latino. You came in here. You fought too fanil
Speaker 1: to get to the city, to get to this country.
Speaker 1: You working hard, yo, Daddy worked night shifts. You work
Speaker 1: in sixteen seventeen hours a day. You get your kids
Speaker 1: in a good school. They done lost their accent. They
Speaker 1: gonna go to like they go to a nice college.
Speaker 1: Just for your cousin, our Tuto to sneak through the border. Man,
Speaker 1: fuck are tuto? I feel it? Wouldn't it be nice?
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it. It's a great story. And
Speaker 1: listen across the world, y'all act like everybody be first
Speaker 1: a second generation. Some of these people be like fifth
Speaker 1: and six generations, Like I have no memory of Mexican.
Speaker 1: My grandma ain't from Mexico, Nigga, my grandma, my grandma
Speaker 1: from Boiled Heights, like you know. So like just because
Speaker 1: just because they just because they Mexican, don't mean they
Speaker 1: got any connection in Mexico. Like somebody even be straight
Speaker 1: up Chicano, like' I don't got no connection to no
Speaker 1: kind of immigration. But look all over the world, incumbent's
Speaker 1: been losing, and theyve been losing because of the bread.
Speaker 1: The inflation too high. You just can't we can't talk
Speaker 1: about high and lofty concepts when you can't afford no
Speaker 1: eggs it's a great story. System's not working for you.
Speaker 1: Here's why. I've clearly the code and I'm gonna fix
Speaker 1: it for you. Sign them up. It works. He was
Speaker 1: even able to separate himself from the extreme abortion positions
Speaker 1: because you even have conservatives that are like still believe
Speaker 1: that a woman's had a right to choose to which
Speaker 1: a Democrat would be like, well this nigga just removed
Speaker 1: it from you, And there could be like, well that
Speaker 1: was the Republicans. He's like you heard him, he say
Speaker 1: not really, somehow you've demand just this gravity don't work
Speaker 1: around him. It just he bends gravity. It's like laws
Speaker 1: of physics. Just and you know what, they told a
Speaker 1: better story. The end of the day, Utility beats morality.
Speaker 1: And that's what we saw, just utility the media. Now
Speaker 1: on the Democrat side, everybody can start pointing fingers. That's
Speaker 1: the other thing that happens. After you get your ass beat.
Speaker 1: You always point your finger at each other, everybody else
Speaker 1: on the team. Why didn't you hit that three pointer?
Speaker 1: Why ain't you? Everybody got reasons, There are a million
Speaker 1: reasons why, but the main reason is you got beat
Speaker 1: because they played better than you. That's just they played
Speaker 1: the game better. Like that's like, I just don't understand
Speaker 1: why these people not willing to admit that you just
Speaker 1: got outplayed. And look, they outplayed you with lies. And
Speaker 1: of course sometimes lion is cheating because you lying. I
Speaker 1: just tell you what you want to hear. But you
Speaker 1: got y'all have facts on y'all side, and you ain't
Speaker 1: how to use it. Now. I don't want to contradict
Speaker 1: myself on the possibility that the Republicans did actually cheat,
Speaker 1: you do and me claiming cheating, But I mean there
Speaker 1: was some there was some burnt ballot boxes. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just I'm just saying I don't put it past them.
Speaker 1: But a loss is a loss. Obviously, she Kamala came
Speaker 1: in late. There's that they probably should have done an
Speaker 1: open primary so she'd have got the rust off it.
Speaker 1: Probably could have done that. Joe Biden probably could have
Speaker 1: stepped down earlier. Probably could have done that. She could
Speaker 1: have actually kind of been like the rock in the
Speaker 1: hard place that she was in, which is like throw
Speaker 1: this nigga under the bus. I don't know why she
Speaker 1: didn't do it, Like she could have just thrown him
Speaker 1: under the bus in the most respectful way possible, be
Speaker 1: like I love Joe, I respect him, that's my OG,
Speaker 1: but I'm not him. I supported him because it was
Speaker 1: my job, Like that's all you had to do. They
Speaker 1: kept blaming administrative stuff on her, known full well she's
Speaker 1: the vice president. But that's a sticky situation too, because
Speaker 1: she can't be like, we know, the vice president ain't
Speaker 1: got a real power, nigger, Like what do I do? Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not that I don't make the decisions he does.
Speaker 1: So when she had a chance to be like, yo,
Speaker 1: what would you do different she could have been like, look,
Speaker 1: I probably handle a lot of things differently. She could say, like,
Speaker 1: I mean, given an example, would obviously put her in
Speaker 1: a bad position because she still worked there, but acknowledge
Speaker 1: it to be like, listen, dude, it was my job.
Speaker 1: It's my job to support him. There are things that
Speaker 1: we talk about behind closed doors that yeah, like I
Speaker 1: probably would have handled some things differently. It's a bad look.
Speaker 1: It would be like saying something like this, Yo, it's
Speaker 1: a bad look right now because the rest of the
Speaker 1: world's watching for me to, like, you know, undermine him
Speaker 1: at this point. But no, we don't. Of course, we
Speaker 1: don't agree on everything. Of course we weren't. We weren't
Speaker 1: in you know, lockstep, you know, in my platform, you
Speaker 1: could see, you could see these are things that I
Speaker 1: would do differently. So rather than just saying he did
Speaker 1: this and I would do this, I'll say this, this
Speaker 1: is what I would do. You could run a gambit
Speaker 1: like that and people who would not respect her saying, look,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna throw the homie under the bus. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not the same person. But nah. He kept being like,
Speaker 1: y'all the same, and she couldn't counter that. She was
Speaker 1: on her back foot the whole time. And when you
Speaker 1: on your backfoot the whole time. When he was like, look,
Speaker 1: the system broken, here's how I'll fix it, the Democrat's
Speaker 1: response was, well, your plans are trash. I can't believe
Speaker 1: you have no respect for our institutions, which makes it
Speaker 1: sound like she don't think the institutions are broken. Now,
Speaker 1: if you sitting somewhere in the middle of America and
Speaker 1: you got to choose between paying for your medicine or
Speaker 1: paying for your rent, then you like the system's broken.
Speaker 1: You'd have been pumped full of this. Immigrants are your problem.
Speaker 1: Because he then told you that it's her fault that
Speaker 1: these doors is open. She need to be able to say, listen,
Speaker 1: you're right, the system is broken. Here's where his plan
Speaker 1: will hurt you deeply. Here's where my plans will help you.
Speaker 1: Systems broken. I got solutions too, except my solutions are
Speaker 1: based on fact, science, research and not hate. He could
Speaker 1: she could have said listen. She could have said listen.
Speaker 1: It is deeply immature and irresponsible to blame all your
Speaker 1: problems on an entire swath of people. That's called a scapegoat.
Speaker 1: That is not taking responsibility for your actions, which clearly
Speaker 1: this man will never do. He will never take responsibility
Speaker 1: for his actions. Here's where we've messed up as democrats.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm modu different because I take responsibility for
Speaker 1: my actions. There were some things that we could have
Speaker 1: done better. This is why we did it. Then it
Speaker 1: was based on this It was based on this data.
Speaker 1: It turns out data is just data, and people are people,
Speaker 1: and sometimes they unpredictable, and sometimes you predict things and
Speaker 1: it just don't work out the way you want it
Speaker 1: to work out. Here's my plan to change that. Who
Speaker 1: are absolutely right, your cost of living is too high,
Speaker 1: and that's on our watch. Here's what I would do different.
Speaker 1: Y'all remember that you can't argue with j cole fans episode. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I don't know how well that aged with, Like who
Speaker 1: knew that the Big Three was gonna happen? Like I
Speaker 1: was I supposed to know that was gonna happen. But
Speaker 1: the point was about how something feels. You can't tell
Speaker 1: me the economy is good if it don't feel like
Speaker 1: it's good. What and Trump was able to do is
Speaker 1: tell you how it felt right. I used to tour
Speaker 1: with In two thousand and six, I had a chance
Speaker 1: to tour with karas One. It depends on how much
Speaker 1: you in the hip hop? Is that name matters? Like
Speaker 1: if you really in the hip hop, you should be
Speaker 1: really impressed by me. And one thing karas One said
Speaker 1: is a good rapper can tell you how he feels,
Speaker 1: but at MC can tell you how you feel. He
Speaker 1: used to get on stage and do this whole fuck
Speaker 1: George Bush thing. He's like, I don't even sit about
Speaker 1: George Bush. That's how y'all feel. So the power is
Speaker 1: saying if it don't feel right, if it don't if
Speaker 1: I don't feel like you love me even no matter.
Speaker 1: So you running the evidence, You running the gambit of
Speaker 1: here's all my receipts that shows you that we've done
Speaker 1: good for you and for your economy. It don't feel
Speaker 1: like you did. So what you got to do is
Speaker 1: figure out how to say what they feel and make
Speaker 1: the listener feel like you hear them and that your
Speaker 1: your solutions feel right. See that's what Trump do. Trump
Speaker 1: worried about how you feel because tariffs that he talking
Speaker 1: about verifiably don't work, but it feel like it do.
Speaker 1: So what Kamala sh ain't You ain't get into what
Speaker 1: it felt like. It feel like the system feeling it
Speaker 1: feel like your plans don't work well? You not. You
Speaker 1: not making me feel like you understand what we're going through.
Speaker 1: And that is why the Democrats come off as elite
Speaker 1: because it don't I feel like you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: feel what we feeling. You just tell us we wrong
Speaker 1: for feeling this. This is why I don't run a
Speaker 1: campaign because I wouldn't know how to fix that except
Speaker 1: for saying it don't feel right. I just today I
Speaker 1: couldn't even finish this podcast because we had to stop
Speaker 1: and do a vocal session. Shout out to Homie. Lisa
Speaker 1: Gunger came through and did the oohs and odds on
Speaker 1: the new poetry album. There's a poetry album coming out
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. She did the oohs and odds
Speaker 1: on it, and some of the things she was saying.
Speaker 1: It wasn't words. There was a few things where the
Speaker 1: timing was off, but it felt right. Some thing's gotta
Speaker 1: feel right, and some things just feel wrong. You gotta
Speaker 1: know how to harness that. And that's just Democrats didn't
Speaker 1: do it. It just didn't feel just didn't feel right.
Speaker 1: It feels like you don't feel like how we feel.
Speaker 1: But the two things that are clearly the most obvious
Speaker 1: that at cynical as you say this is I differ.
Speaker 1: I differ from Cody and Katie. I differ from Robert
Speaker 1: probably in this one sense. She's a black woman and
Speaker 1: ain't no way in the world, y'all, we are ain't
Speaker 1: no way in the world. And part of me weeks
Speaker 1: because silly me for actually thinking that it was possible
Speaker 1: that at the end of the day, she got the
Speaker 1: most electoral points in the history of any other black woman.
Speaker 1: You know, fannyluhay Ran, you know walk so she can
Speaker 1: run like that's real. But y'all, listen, come here, come here,
Speaker 1: come here, listen. That's a black woman. This is still America.
Speaker 1: I just you just you just gotta face it, y'all.
Speaker 1: I've said many times that anti blackness is global, and
Speaker 1: it just is. But you know what else is global patriarchy?
Speaker 1: It just I know how I know it feels like
Speaker 1: an oversimplification because it in some ways once you get
Speaker 1: into the minutia, Yeah, descend into the particulars. But guys,
Speaker 1: you're you gotta look at it, you know, political, political, pundits, political,
Speaker 1: we have a way of naval gazing. Ignore not obvious.
Speaker 1: This is why you need black voices in the room.
Speaker 1: This is why you need people of color. Nigga, that's
Speaker 1: a black woman. It is what it is. But you know,
Speaker 1: the marathon continues just because it ain't happen now, don't
Speaker 1: mean it won't happen. Ever. That's the resilience of the
Speaker 1: ancestors that course through my veins. The marathon continues, all right, y'all. So,
Speaker 1: had we woke up to the first female black president,
Speaker 1: the war in guys are still happening, we still would
Speaker 1: have needed to organize. Had we woke up with a
Speaker 1: black woman president, Houselessness would still be a crisis. Had
Speaker 1: we woke up with a black woman president, Flint still
Speaker 1: don't got water. The marathon can continues, y'all. Now, when
Speaker 1: you pull from a deep well of resistance, there's a
Speaker 1: few things that you know, one of which is the
Speaker 1: personal is political. Now, Audrey Lord said this, but also
Speaker 1: this girl named Carol Hannish, who was a second wave feminist.
Speaker 1: She was talking about abortion rights, right, that your personal
Speaker 1: choice is also a political choice. People say, well, abortion,
Speaker 1: that's a personal choice. Well, the personal is political. And
Speaker 1: that's been an organizing thought for me for a long time.
Speaker 1: In my song I like me, I start with that
Speaker 1: the personal is political. The revolution start at home. Your
Speaker 1: first protest should be your own choices you make personally,
Speaker 1: despite who in that office. Continues that marathon. When I
Speaker 1: think of climate change choices, it sounds stupid. It's might
Speaker 1: sound but and I know it might be a drop
Speaker 1: in the bucket, but it's a political choice. I bought
Speaker 1: a bidet a little the tushy, you know that Cody
Speaker 1: and them was advertising, why it's just less paper. We
Speaker 1: don't buy paper towels. I went to home depot and
Speaker 1: I bought a whole hundred thousand pack of them, like
Speaker 1: little square cloth towels, and I just wash them on Saturdays.
Speaker 1: It's these are little choices that aren't making, that aren't
Speaker 1: turning me in a homesteader. All of us, all of
Speaker 1: us can't be Robert in homestead like I look, we
Speaker 1: all can't do that. I still got to take my
Speaker 1: kids to school. One of the choices I made. LA's
Speaker 1: train station train system has gotten better. I drive less.
Speaker 1: That's me doing climate stuff. I focused a lot on
Speaker 1: our local elections, although the measure six not passing is bizarre,
Speaker 1: but you focus on what you could do locally. Really,
Speaker 1: there are certain positions you can get in your city
Speaker 1: that aren't even elected. You can just you can join
Speaker 1: a school board, you join a city council, you can
Speaker 1: sit on an advisory board, and a lot of times
Speaker 1: it just be two hours a month, Like it don't
Speaker 1: even be that hard. Remember in the coffee one I
Speaker 1: did for it can happen here when I said there
Speaker 1: is a beauty in the fact that the solution still
Speaker 1: kind of remains community. What wakes people out of their
Speaker 1: stupor and also what gets people in stupors is community.
Speaker 1: Your very presence, especially if you're a person of color.
Speaker 1: Obviously don't put yourself in danger, but your presence as
Speaker 1: a person of color is proof of concept that some
Speaker 1: of the shit they believe about your people is clearly
Speaker 1: false because you are a living and breathing example. I
Speaker 1: don't know where you stand politically, but when we was
Speaker 1: in the pickup lines, you know, picking up our third
Speaker 1: and fourth gradest, you see, I'm a regular ass dude
Speaker 1: picking up my child who gonna complain, just like your
Speaker 1: child gonna complain that she don't like Dino Nuggies. No mo, nigga,
Speaker 1: I'm regular. The personal is political. You just being in
Speaker 1: community and a lot of times beat the start Robert
Speaker 1: talked about. You know, he could have totally became an
Speaker 1: in cel if it wasn't for him joining an online
Speaker 1: gaining group with some older, like twenty two year old
Speaker 1: girls who would call him on some shit. When he said,
Speaker 1: dumb shit, it's community, you're like, oh wait, what, you'd
Speaker 1: be surprised. Palestine still ain't free. We still got protests
Speaker 1: to show up to an Another thing you could do
Speaker 1: is just share some game, right, give some game to
Speaker 1: people one of the things we do, and we gonna
Speaker 1: do that across all the cool zone. We're gonna give
Speaker 1: y'all game. Delete me. I use it, y'all don't know.
Speaker 1: Y'all can't find my address on the internet, monigga Like nah,
Speaker 1: that scrubbed off the internet? You feel me? James helping y'all.
Speaker 1: If you got immigrant family, immigrant folk, Look, they need
Speaker 1: an address. You gotta live at a certain place for
Speaker 1: thirty days, and that'll at least shave off you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, the mass deportations. That could at least
Speaker 1: stall it till we could figure out what's going on. Look,
Speaker 1: you got people in your life like that, let them
Speaker 1: use your address, Let you know, put it, put it,
Speaker 1: put put the water bill in their name. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Just these are little things you could do. The marathon continues.
Speaker 1: What did doctor King say, I might not get there?
Speaker 1: You're right, you ain't see this, My black panther father, man,
Speaker 1: it's this. There's things that I've been able to accomplish
Speaker 1: that he couldn't even imagined. You're part of a larger story,
Speaker 1: a longer story. You see that, You see that resilience. Man,
Speaker 1: You see people and you see these dudes doing parkour
Speaker 1: and buzzn't allis and kick flips over rubble in Gaza Dog.
Speaker 1: There's a resilience that's inside of us. The marathon continues,
Speaker 1: the fact that there is still a country called Germany.
Speaker 1: The marathon continues. You do what you gotta do, organize,
Speaker 1: you take care of yourself. You'all teach your kids to
Speaker 1: not be weird. Those we get back to the program.
Speaker 1: But Yo, America, you ever see somebody walk in to
Speaker 1: like the bar or the club or something, and you like,
Speaker 1: you know, you're kind of low key a batty, like
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like it's I see it
Speaker 1: in there. And then you look at their partner and
Speaker 1: you like, really, that's your that's who you came with,
Speaker 1: that's your boat. I must be missing something because I
Speaker 1: really feel like, no, America, this fault, this is really
Speaker 1: your boat. Okay, y'all really elected a convicted felon hood politics, y'all. Okay, wait,
Speaker 1: one more thing, one were thing when we're thing, I
Speaker 1: just want to calibrate for a second, in the sense
Speaker 1: that we all worried about our drift of fascism, which
Speaker 1: is partially because America don't be existing in the global community.
Speaker 1: I feel like every other country can look at us
Speaker 1: and be like, oh, you having your first fascist dictator.
Speaker 1: Oh you haven't. You've never had a military coup. Oh
Speaker 1: is your You've never had a military queue. Oh hey, everybody, look,
Speaker 1: they're about to have their first military cue. The thing
Speaker 1: is America are toddlers. Okay, this is our first, but
Speaker 1: when you look at the rest of the no world, baby,
Speaker 1: they've been through this before. Okay, really the in now?
Speaker 1: All right, now, don't you hit stop on this pod.
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