1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Yo, West West. Everybody my name is propaganda or prop 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: for short. I mean, I'll answer to any of it. 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: I'm give y'all some game real quick. I want to 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: put you onto my uh my podcast called Hood Politics 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: to the black people always want to do something real quick. Anyway, 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: let me tell you where I'm coming from. I firmly 7 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: believe that if you understand hood life, gang life, you 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: understand geo politics, because politics is gangbanging in nice suits. 9 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: Let me tell you what I mean. Dig this. We're 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: gonna cover all kinds of hot topics that are in 11 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: our news and in our daily zeitgeist, and even concepts 12 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: that maybe take a little more to understand, kind of 13 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,959 Speaker 1: like how the January six insurrection could be understood as 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: like the hood boss given a green light that was 15 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,279 Speaker 1: clearly a green light. Kind of like how Vladimir Putin's 16 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: foreign policy is basically Tupac stance, which is, I ain't 17 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: a killer, but don't push me. You know what I'm saying. 18 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: How the GOP had to make a calculus when Trump 19 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: was leaving office to be like, am I gonna ride 20 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: with the boss or ride with this that? Because bosses 21 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: come and go, but the Hood lasts forever. It's all politics, 22 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: it's just hood life. It's gangbanging. You understand it, and 23 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: if you don't, I'll show you how our politicians tend 24 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: to talk to us like like this, like alien language, 25 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,199 Speaker 1: and it makes you feel like you posted just trust 26 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: what they're saying. But I think inside all of us 27 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: were kind of saying to ourselves, I don't know, man, 28 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if I trust y'all because what I'm 29 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 1: experiencing is quite different than what you're saying. I'm experiencing 30 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: what you're doing is so much different than what you're 31 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: saying you're doing. Somehow, another deep down inside of us, 32 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: we're like, no, I don't know if I understand this, 33 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: but this kind of looks familiar to me. I want 34 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: to lean into that feeling of familiarity. Okay, little background 35 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: on me. I'm from south central Los Angeles. I've moved 36 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: all over the l A surrounding areas, and before I 37 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 1: did music full time, I used to teach hight school 38 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: and when I was in the process of getting my 39 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: teaching credential in history and social science, I kept stumbling 40 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: over the last part of the test, which is the 41 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: economic part, and it wasn't that I didn't know what 42 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: I was talking about, because economics, in my mind are 43 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: real simple because I'm from the hood, scared money, don't 44 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,679 Speaker 1: make money, right, don't spend money you don't have right. 45 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: But I didn't understand their terms. I am of the 46 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: belief that most of us are like that, where we 47 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: know what we're talking about, we just don't know the 48 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 1: way you want us to talk about what we're talking about. 49 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: But again, if you understand hood life, you actually understand 50 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: all this stuff. Can I give you some more examples? Well, 51 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: I'm going to anyway. How about this. If a person 52 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: wants to expand their business to a neighborhood next to him, 53 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: you gotta pay for that. You have to pay that 54 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: block to be able to sell their But if you 55 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: feel like you're being charged way too much, and that 56 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: neighborhood wants to sell a product on yo block, you're 57 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,639 Speaker 1: gonna charge them a high price. You're gonna sell on 58 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: my block, It's gonna cost you. So what does that 59 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: mean for the consumer? Well, it means that it costs 60 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: the seller way more than it normally would. So what 61 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: they're gonna do. You think they're gonna keep the price 62 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: to say, no, they raised the price all of a sudden. 63 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,119 Speaker 1: What you used to be able to buy, but ten 64 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: dollars now cost twenty dollars. So it's like, who's being 65 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: punished here? Turns out that's called a tariff. And what 66 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: I just explained was a trade war. You're looking around like, 67 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,959 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the cost of aluminum foiled and tripled. Why, 68 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,239 Speaker 1: it's because we got beef with China. We had a 69 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: trade war with China. The government doesn't raised the tariffs 70 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: on aluminum. Everybody in the city already understood it. You 71 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: just didn't know that's what it was called. Here go 72 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: another one. You know, Vietnam War, Korean War, those are 73 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: called proxy wars. Turns out of proxy war is real simple. 74 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: It's just two dads that kind of don't like each 75 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: other and their sons are on rival. Pop Warner teams. 76 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: Turns out mixed. McConnell's moves are actually real simple. He 77 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: needed his judges. Trump was just a leg. Are we 78 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: really ever confused as to why, despite this not being 79 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: in your own best interest, you always vote along party lines? Well, 80 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: because the hood comes first, as the great profit of 81 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: our time. Kendrick Lamar said, Democrats re blood of kins. 82 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: It's all the same, Ride or die, loyal to your soil. 83 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: I could go on for hours, and I'm going to 84 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 1: cease fires, workers unions. It's all there. You actually already 85 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: understand this stuff here. I can't stress this enough. You 86 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: don't have to be just from the hood to understand this. 87 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: If you navigate the eighth grade, if you ever had 88 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: to figure out which of the lunch tables you can 89 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 1: sit at during lunch, you understand geo politics. So join 90 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: me every week. This is what we're gonna do. We're 91 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: gonna go through the news, maybe go through a concept 92 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: that's going on in the news, maybe something that takes 93 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: a little more background to understand. I'm gonna show you 94 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: how you could use what you already know to understand 95 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: what you think you don't. We're gonna laugh, We're gonna 96 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: have fun. I don't take myself too seriously, but I 97 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: do want you to feel empowered. These people ain't smarter 98 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 1: than you. They just use a different language. Joe. If 99 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: you're feeling real Froggy, go ahead and check out. Like 100 00:04:57,839 --> 00:04:59,799 Speaker 1: some of the old episodes, they're still in the feed. 101 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: What I'm saying kind of get You get yourself a 102 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: primer as to what's going on in here. I'm trying 103 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: to tell y'all something. Dig this because politics is just 104 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: gang banging in nice suits. So tap in with me 105 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: weekly hood politics would problem Catch me on the I 106 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.