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Speaker 3: last night. He worked one day. Now he's taking a
Speaker 3: well deserved break until next week. But the campaign continues,
Speaker 3: and so do we. With Indecision twenty twenty four. Now,
Speaker 3: for once, the big news in the GOP primary is
Speaker 3: not about Donald Trump. It's about Nicki Haley and what
Speaker 3: Donald Trump said about her.
Speaker 5: Former President Trump taking heat for questioning why Nicky Haley's
Speaker 5: husband has not been with her on the campaign trail.
Speaker 3: Where's her husband? Oh, he's away, he's away.
Speaker 1: What happened to her husband?
Speaker 3: What happened to her husband? Where is he? He's gone?
Speaker 3: Your husband, Michael is a major with the South Carolina
Speaker 3: Army National Guard currently deployed in the Horn of Africa.
Speaker 6: It's disgusting and let's take it and move me and
Speaker 6: Michael out of it. If you're going to go and
Speaker 6: criticize a combat veteran, you criticize one veteran, you're criticizing
Speaker 6: all of them.
Speaker 3: Wow. Now that is the spine of a leader, someone
Speaker 3: who will stand up for our troops when Donald Trump
Speaker 3: attacks them. I mean not John McCain or a or
Speaker 3: the gold Star family. She worked for Trump after that.
Speaker 3: But but if you go after a troop that Nicki
Speaker 3: Haley is married to, that is where she draws a
Speaker 3: very specific line. Haley's obviously been hitting this very hard,
Speaker 3: and honestly, I don't blame her for milking this. The
Speaker 3: only time the media gives her attention is when Donald
Speaker 3: Trump is roasting her. In fact, if I were Nicky Haley,
Speaker 3: I text Trump like, hey, Donnie, uh, check out this
Speaker 3: pick of my son's weird overbites. Send. But this whole
Speaker 3: thing might be a misunderstanding. I don't want to be
Speaker 3: a Trump defender one because he never pays his defense bills.
Speaker 3: But I honestly don't think he was trying to insult
Speaker 3: her husband's service. He was just trying to maliciously insinuate
Speaker 3: that their marriage is collapsing. So Nicky, I think you omenology.
Speaker 3: But if you are going to engage Nikki, don't just
Speaker 3: do this? How dare you? Have you no decency thing?
Speaker 3: Because he doesn't. We've seen this. You can't take the
Speaker 3: high road with Donald Trump. That off ramp has been
Speaker 3: closed since twenty sixteen. If he goes after your missing husband,
Speaker 3: you go after his missing wife. Yes, get the glove dog,
Speaker 3: take him off. Something like I'm not surprised you can't
Speaker 3: keep track of one spouse, Donald, since two already left you. Boom,
Speaker 3: Donald's why is it easier to spot a classified document
Speaker 3: at mar A Lago than the mother of your children? Boom?
Speaker 3: Turns out the only way your wife would spend time
Speaker 3: with you is if you golfed on the hole where
Speaker 3: you buried her. Just spitballing here, guy. But the Haley
Speaker 3: Trump feud isn't just about whose spouse hates them the most.
Speaker 3: It's about the direction of the Republican Party. Something I
Speaker 3: found out over the weekend. Take a look. Trump is
Speaker 3: cruising in the GOP primary, yet Nikki Haley has refused
Speaker 3: to back out, despite losing in three states where she
Speaker 3: was beaten by the general concept of none of these candidates.
Speaker 3: So I went down to a Haley campaign stop in
Speaker 3: her home state to see if she has found any
Speaker 3: cracks in the MAGA foundation. I love Nikki Haley, what
Speaker 3: she did for South Carolina. I'm about it for Trump twice,
Speaker 3: and I'm embarrassed she's going up in the pulp. She
Speaker 3: keeps going up. I mean, she did lose to none
Speaker 3: of these candidates. I know back in Nevada tough. Now
Speaker 3: we're looking at poles here. The holes aren't great for
Speaker 3: Haley up against Trump for this primary one.
Speaker 7: I am not smart enough to till you number, but
Speaker 7: I can tell you one thing. She is certainly not
Speaker 7: going to get embarrassed in this state. I have a
Speaker 7: problem with people insinuating she might not have been an
Speaker 7: effective governor. Really well, they either lived in another state
Speaker 7: or they're high as a Georgia pine.
Speaker 3: I know I'm not prom They are those tall trees
Speaker 3: buried tall buddy.
Speaker 1: The idea is just to stop Trump.
Speaker 2: I'm a Republican all my life, but I cannot support Trump.
Speaker 3: But even in the face of tough odds, her supporters
Speaker 3: had a long term strategy to the GOP nomination.
Speaker 2: Staying in all the way to the convention because he
Speaker 2: may not be around by the convention.
Speaker 1: Because she gets put in jail or convicted.
Speaker 3: What do you think Haley needs to do to convince
Speaker 3: those Trump voters who say they.
Speaker 8: Will never ever ever, ever, ever ever ever ever ever ever.
Speaker 3: Ever vote for NICKI Haley. And obviously I'm abbreviating this.
Speaker 3: The crowd was small, but there were people in South
Speaker 3: Carolina hungry for a new choice. I wondered, here in
Speaker 3: Haley's own backyard, what kind of a crowd would Trump
Speaker 3: muster in? Oh shit, Brady was huge. You could even
Speaker 3: say big.
Speaker 1: Lee, God, it's going to be loud.
Speaker 3: It's going to be loud, loud, and it's going to
Speaker 3: be crazy. I mean it's kind of quiet in business
Speaker 3: like outside, but it's a party of the bat.
Speaker 1: It's going to be huge.
Speaker 3: You would know, my friend, you would know, tell me
Speaker 3: about your off What's what's going on here? This is
Speaker 3: and short, so sometimes I got to answer unique placement
Speaker 3: of his mouth area.
Speaker 1: I loved everything that he is implemented in the past,
Speaker 1: so I love if he could put that back into
Speaker 1: office to keep that going.
Speaker 3: Like what's up?
Speaker 2: I like the border control?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's a big point. It should be working
Speaker 3: to fix what's happening at the body. It feels like
Speaker 3: Congress is just sitting on their hands right now doing nothing. Yes,
Speaker 3: they brought up a bill to do something and Trump said,
Speaker 3: no freaking way. Why was that a good idea?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Okay, So what did they think of Trump's only remaining
Speaker 3: human opponent?
Speaker 7: I think she changed, Yeah, they changed fake Republican.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Not familiar with nikky globalist.
Speaker 1: She belongs to the fascist.
Speaker 3: She was in the UN for God's sakes, I know
Speaker 3: that's so global fastiest capital of the world. To be fair,
Speaker 3: she was appointed by Donald Trump, Okay, but.
Speaker 7: She stabbed him in the back as quick as she could.
Speaker 1: Yes, loyalty matters.
Speaker 3: Loyalty matters. Fidelity that matters. When you say fidelity matters,
Speaker 3: you're not talking about like marital.
Speaker 1: All fidelity matters.
Speaker 3: Fidelity matters. Have fun and they're inside with Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: I don't know if his third wife will be in
Speaker 3: there with him. I think she might still be mad
Speaker 3: at him. And Trump's recent court challenges have inspired a
Speaker 3: brand new demand. Trump has been talking right now about it.
Speaker 3: He says he thinks he should be immune from the
Speaker 3: actions he takes, while presently you think he should have
Speaker 3: total immunity. Otherwise everyone's going to jaility. You're fine with
Speaker 3: Trump as king? Yes, Trump is king.
Speaker 1: Is good.
Speaker 3: That's about an American that you can get. Yes, it
Speaker 3: is King Trump. Yes, however Trump is it's asking to
Speaker 3: be a king. He wants to be a different kind
Speaker 3: of rule. He says, you're not going to be a
Speaker 3: dictator yet.
Speaker 1: I said no, no, no other.
Speaker 3: Than day one. A dictatorship for day one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what we need.
Speaker 3: What does that actually look like.
Speaker 7: Well, that means that about half the people in the
Speaker 7: Department of Justice should be arrested and put behind bars.
Speaker 3: That's like a true dictatorship.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, you know, if it needs to happen.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump said it'll be a dictator day one. What
Speaker 3: do you think of that? Is that a good idea?
Speaker 3: Let's get it.
Speaker 1: Done, get in and get it done, let's go.
Speaker 3: He's not going to be like a Hitler dictator. No,
Speaker 3: more like a Mussolini dictator for d Yeah.
Speaker 1: Put the people in place.
Speaker 3: A dictator can do that, right, It could put people
Speaker 3: in place. The good people are over here, the bad
Speaker 3: people over here into gula at this point, that's what
Speaker 3: America needs. So they're on board. With the Dictator justice.
Speaker 3: But what about all the big dictator talk. Trump said,
Speaker 3: they're poisoning the blood of our country.
Speaker 2: Trump kind of speaks in allegories. What he's talking about
Speaker 2: is the blood of the country's been tainted. People who
Speaker 2: have come here and immigrated. It's a different story.
Speaker 5: And they don't know our American history and our values.
Speaker 3: Nor do they respect this. So when he says poisoning
Speaker 3: our country, it sounds harsh. It sounds much nicer in
Speaker 3: the original German. Yeah, yeah, there you go. While many
Speaker 3: were on board with Dictator two point zero, I did
Speaker 3: start to see some small crafts in support, Like when
Speaker 3: I found this woman who spent sixty days in prison
Speaker 3: for her role on January sixth.
Speaker 6: You were a Trump supporter, absolutely, I was a Repolican
Speaker 6: and I was wrong that day for even being there.
Speaker 3: January sixth was an insurrection. Keep her voisedown. This is
Speaker 3: a Trump rally. That's not the most popular take to
Speaker 3: have right now. And this guy who confessed he's scared
Speaker 3: about losing his money after investing in a bunch of
Speaker 3: weird financial MAGA products like Trump debit cards and a
Speaker 3: dubious Trump currency, I.
Speaker 2: Have supported him with checks and the gold gold Trump
Speaker 2: cars one hundred dollars gold things.
Speaker 3: I can't get rid of those.
Speaker 2: And a T cards a t RB cards.
Speaker 9: Now is that wor they gave me a pin number
Speaker 9: or they could at any ATM.
Speaker 3: Went to ATM, couldn't get nothing out. The card has
Speaker 3: nothing on. You think it was a scam.
Speaker 1: It might have been. I don't know.
Speaker 3: You've invested a lot of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone is telling me to buy something different, stop by,
Speaker 2: don't buy any I just as as a guy.
Speaker 3: Who's just getting to know you here, stop it, right,
Speaker 3: I am, but I had this one guy.
Speaker 2: He wants to be putting in more money. Right.
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 3: Here's here's the I'm afraid if you go in there again,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be taken in by a scam again. No yes, no, yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: no no no, no, yes. All I'm saying is here,
Speaker 3: I'm saying there is hope that you can make better
Speaker 3: choices and not give into a scam. Moving forward, right, Okay,
Speaker 3: So I think I think you just walked that way
Speaker 3: right through those gates.
Speaker 1: No, no, my cars aren't here.
Speaker 3: Well, we almost saved one person if it'd only parked
Speaker 3: in the wet spot.
Speaker 10: When we come back, we'll fix the border crisis. Stick around,
Speaker 10: Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: For months now, Congress has been working on a deal
Speaker 3: that would send more military aid to Ukraine, because if
Speaker 3: Russia defeats Ukraine, then Europe is next and then America.
Speaker 3: And I don't know about you, but I'm never going
Speaker 3: to be able to learn Russian. I mean, look at this,
Speaker 3: there's a six of pi symbol, the end is backwards.
Speaker 3: It's wearing a beret for some reason. I mean, what
Speaker 3: am I going to do with this? These people have
Speaker 3: to be stopped their entire life, which it's just a
Speaker 3: very strong password. But the good news is last night
Speaker 3: the Senate finally agreed to a ninety five billion dollar
Speaker 3: for an a bill give you money to Ukraine, Israel,
Speaker 3: and Taiwan. They just stuffed all the current and future
Speaker 3: wars all into one bill like a delicious defense Turducan.
Speaker 3: Bad news is it's already pretty much dead.
Speaker 5: The bill's future is now uncertain due to opposition from
Speaker 5: Republicans who insist that it also addressed the border crisis.
Speaker 11: Open the champagne, Pop the cork, the Senate Democrat leader
Speaker 11: and the Republican leader are on their way to Kiev.
Speaker 11: They've got sixty billion dollars they're bringing. Get the champagne
Speaker 11: ready and fly to Kiev on Friday. They will take
Speaker 11: the sixty billion dollars to Kiev, crack the champagne. And meanwhile,
Speaker 11: each day between five to ten people come across the
Speaker 11: border illegally.
Speaker 3: Does rand Paul wants some shipping. Feels like that's the
Speaker 3: energy of a drunk X making a wedding toast. Sure,
Speaker 3: pop the champagne. Share of you and your new lover
Speaker 3: are what's going away to Kiev? Well, you know what,
Speaker 3: I got a studio apartment above a weed stor so
Speaker 3: I'm doing fine. I'm blaming. I'm blaming. You sent the invite.
Speaker 3: You didn't have to send an invite. You know what,
Speaker 3: you know what? No, I want a working government.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: And if Republicans cared that much about the border and
Speaker 3: Democrats cared that much about foreign aid, maybe these senators
Speaker 3: can negotiate a compromise.
Speaker 5: But that is exactly what senators originally try to do.
Speaker 5: A group of bipartisan senators worked for months to negotiate
Speaker 5: a massive build that would address for an aid and
Speaker 5: the immigration crisis, but then Donald Trump derailed it by
Speaker 5: pressuring Republicans to vote against it.
Speaker 3: I'm right, because they had a border compromise until Trump
Speaker 3: tore it up like it was a federal subpoena. Frankly,
Speaker 3: it blows my mind that Republicans rejected this bill. It
Speaker 3: was the strongest border bill in decades, but it still
Speaker 3: wasn't good enough for them. It's like the Democrats asked
Speaker 3: Republicans to prom and they said, off, we're waiting for
Speaker 3: Jeremy Allen White. Well, guess what Republicans you missed out?
Speaker 3: Because Chuck Schumer is over there in the corner with
Speaker 3: his dancing shoes on. It's a perfectly nice man who
Speaker 3: also has a horse just gigantic, you know, just like well,
Speaker 3: you know what, those glasses are always falling off. That's
Speaker 3: just that's the gravitational force is just just it. This
Speaker 3: is a giant horse just pulling, just pulling everything, just
Speaker 3: just pulling everything to the grounds. It's just you missed out, Republicans,
Speaker 3: and Republicans you could have had all that, but Trump
Speaker 3: made them turn it down. The question is why to
Speaker 3: offer some analysis. Let's turn now to Desi lighting Deisy,
Speaker 3: Is there any is there any any possibility of a
Speaker 3: compromise on the border, Oh.
Speaker 12: You sweet naive idealists, shit for brains. No, if the
Speaker 12: Republicans solved the border crisis, then Trump can't run on
Speaker 12: the border crisis. The border was the perfect campaign issue.
Speaker 12: It was scary, it was racist. It had a catchy chant,
Speaker 12: Build the wall, build the wall.
Speaker 3: Build the wall, build. It's got me just like that.
Speaker 12: Really, see, see, if they want to get Republicans on
Speaker 12: board with solving the issue, they need to give them
Speaker 12: a new issue that they can run on, some heat,
Speaker 12: some fresh meat to rile them up.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, like like what like anything?
Speaker 12: Like Democrats pass the law that makes old guns gay.
Speaker 12: Republicans would be so pissed and also a little turned on.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, let me try one here. Democrats
Speaker 3: could cut funding for after school programs.
Speaker 12: Oh no, Jordan, they don't give a shit about that.
Speaker 3: They could make after school programs days. Yes, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: You're getting it. Now, you're getting it.
Speaker 12: Do you Republicans need a campaign issue that scares the
Speaker 12: shit out of their base? And you know what they're
Speaker 12: Afraid of Everything, cities, books, vaccines, gut health, high.
Speaker 3: School, musical theater, Black Little Mermaid, the first three hundred
Speaker 3: years of American history.
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, rainbows, drag brunch, drag dinner, drag afternoon snack,
Speaker 12: Beyonce singing Country Views, M and M's.
Speaker 3: Crtpbs are anything with letters, and of course Taylor Swifts finding.
Speaker 1: Yeah no.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, like maybe that gets a border deal done.
Speaker 3: But we can't just keep swapping one problem for another.
Speaker 3: I mean, the whole point of politics is to solve problems.
Speaker 12: No no, no, no no no no no. The whole
Speaker 12: point of problems is to let people do politics. If
Speaker 12: we solve all the problems, then there'll be no more politics.
Speaker 12: And if there's no more politics, then there's no more
Speaker 12: political satire.
Speaker 3: And then we have to find real jobs.
Speaker 10: No real jobs, no real jobs, yes yes, yes, no
Speaker 10: real jobs. No real job, no real job.
Speaker 3: That is something you can chad Emy lineuch, everybody. When
Speaker 3: we come back, Killer Mike is here, so don't go away.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, Welcome back to the other show.
Speaker 3: My guest tonight is a Grammy Award winning rapper whose
Speaker 3: latest album is called Michael. Please welcome Killer Mike, Sure.
Speaker 9: Congrats first than sweeping all of the major rap categories
Speaker 9: at the Grammy. I'm sure you can't talk about what
Speaker 9: else happened there.
Speaker 1: But I did sweep them like a new broom in
Speaker 1: your grandma's living room.
Speaker 3: That's what it's there for. Has it out to sweep
Speaker 3: all those Grammys?
Speaker 1: That's out the betting man rent the feast of my girl.
Speaker 3: Well, I have to ask the big question though, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the big question everybody had after the Grammys. The Taylor
Speaker 3: snubs Lean.
Speaker 1: Shouts out the Taylor Man. She she God, damn she
Speaker 1: wanted the Grammys? Or boyfrien one of the chiefs. If
Speaker 1: she's if she's in the poly me and my wife,
Speaker 1: you need a third?
Speaker 3: Is that what Poward gives you?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 3: You feel like you could throw off polygamy?
Speaker 1: Right now? I feel I could pull it off on
Speaker 1: the problems. My wife's good with a gun. She doesn't agree.
Speaker 1: But I'll keep trying for all the men out there.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's good. Yeah, I say, you see like you,
Speaker 3: whatever you throw out there is gonna come back to
Speaker 3: you as well as I mean, you are on quite
Speaker 3: the streak. I mean, as well as winning the Grammys.
Speaker 3: You're your son. After a three year for a kidney.
Speaker 1: Holy boy got his Holy boy got his kitney. I
Speaker 1: had to talk with him about his kidney like you
Speaker 1: do a puppy, Like this is your kidney. You're gonna
Speaker 1: take care of it. Marijuana, alcohol, no, you know, but
Speaker 1: his nurses. We were sitting there as the nurses were
Speaker 1: telling us, and I was like, God, damn, this was
Speaker 1: a lot for a twenty one year old kid to
Speaker 1: be taken on. But my kids are warrior man. I
Speaker 1: just gotta tell him he's my hero.
Speaker 10: That's what.
Speaker 3: I mean. Frankly, it is legitimately wonderful to hear good
Speaker 3: news happening to a good person.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: So what Genie Lamp did you rub? What is the
Speaker 3: what do you? What do you owe your success to?
Speaker 1: I owe it to the fact that I was just
Speaker 1: too stubborn to give up. My manager, Will from Active Management,
Speaker 1: Will Bronson, and my an r because like we're all friends,
Speaker 1: but we have just saying just get up every day,
Speaker 1: put one foot in front of the other. So I
Speaker 1: have a lot of tabent, but it took me twenty
Speaker 1: years to get here, and I was just too stubborn
Speaker 1: to quit. And I think that that's that's half the battle,
Speaker 1: just being tenacious about it. And I want to take
Speaker 1: time to honestly thank my children because my children have
Speaker 1: lost so much time with their dad as I was
Speaker 1: doing it. We've had great quality time, but the quantity
Speaker 1: of time has been cut short. So Malik a naya
Speaker 1: pony boy, Mikey, just thank you guys so much for
Speaker 1: allowing dad to do this.
Speaker 3: You know, I love it.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 3: You've been you've been at this for a long time.
Speaker 3: And yeah, you famously said like, don't give.
Speaker 1: Up, don't give up. You're never too old, You're never too.
Speaker 3: Old forty five? Well could I could I win the
Speaker 3: best rap album that happened?
Speaker 1: As long as you got a hairline? And you do
Speaker 1: and there's it looks great though you're on it. Maybe
Speaker 1: we're too old for porn, but rap, we got rap.
Speaker 1: We're for rap.
Speaker 3: There was never an age where it would have been
Speaker 3: an appropriate choice.
Speaker 1: At eighteen years old listening to Luke in the Two
Speaker 1: Loud Crew can throw.
Speaker 3: That that was the I want to talk a little
Speaker 3: bit about your album, a personal album, but I want
Speaker 3: to also look at like your reference satan a lot
Speaker 3: on this album, even on the cover right here we
Speaker 3: had you know, you have double hor horns and halo
Speaker 3: horns and halo right. Uh. Spirituality is a big part
Speaker 3: of this album. Yeah, we're an interesting time right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: People seem to be moving away from spirituality.
Speaker 1: Yeah uh.
Speaker 3: And it feels like you infuse a lot of your
Speaker 3: work into it. I know you have a lot of
Speaker 3: respect for the craft of hip hop. Do you feel
Speaker 3: like that can serve as a conduit for people who
Speaker 3: are looking for spirituality, who are looking for something what
Speaker 3: do you see that role?
Speaker 1: I came out of a rap album called rap Music
Speaker 1: twelve years ago and it was you know it was
Speaker 1: it titled Rebellious African that Me be Me and the
Speaker 1: People's music for all the people. And at that time
Speaker 1: I realized that the only religious experiences I really hat
Speaker 1: at were when I listened to or was a part
Speaker 1: of music, and music is a very big part of
Speaker 1: the church. I'm a Southern Black man. I grew up
Speaker 1: in Baptist and Pentecostal churches, so music was a conduit
Speaker 1: to put everybody in the room on the same frequency
Speaker 1: and the same energy. So I actually believe that people
Speaker 1: aren't away from spirituality as much as they're running from
Speaker 1: the institutions that promise them spirituality and just deliver things
Speaker 1: like give us money or we need tithing. I think
Speaker 1: that people are trying to find I think that they're
Speaker 1: trying to find God in spirituality, but they're finding it
Speaker 1: in places you wouldn't regularly find it. They're finding communing
Speaker 1: with one another, they're finding it away from church and
Speaker 1: out in nature, and not that nature becomes their God.
Speaker 1: As much as it gets a lot easier to talk
Speaker 1: to God when you're standing under a tree smoking a joint,
Speaker 1: you know, I was. You know, I won't talk about
Speaker 1: my thing, but I was sitting in a jail cell
Speaker 1: and I didn't have anything to do, so I just
Speaker 1: prayed and I just thank God for three hours. I say,
Speaker 1: you know, just thank you for the blessings I've been
Speaker 1: bestowed upon me, thank you for the life you've given me.
Speaker 1: I invoked the spirit of my mother and my grandmother
Speaker 1: and was like, I hope you guys see me, not
Speaker 1: the jail part, but the winning part. And after I
Speaker 1: got out the next morning, I got a call to
Speaker 1: my son. I got the kidney. So I'm very much
Speaker 1: a more. I believe I have a white manager. Will's
Speaker 1: the white guy, and he said shit. For fifteen years,
Speaker 1: I thought you were an atheist. I was like, no, Will,
Speaker 1: I was more agnostic. But making this album brought me
Speaker 1: closer to God. It brought me closer to the grand
Speaker 1: being that is designed human beings to be here. So
Speaker 1: I'm thankful that music brings me closer to my creator.
Speaker 3: Well said, Well said, I mean, it's interesting you talk
Speaker 3: about it like that, because I do think I spent
Speaker 3: a lot of time on the world. Yeah, I go
Speaker 3: to a lot of allies, talk to a lot of people,
Speaker 3: and you know, it's very easy to otherwise the Maga,
Speaker 3: cru the Trump Crew or whatever side you're in. I
Speaker 3: think we are. We're on a search for something that
Speaker 3: makes us feel whole. It makes us feel part of
Speaker 3: a community and gives us a sense of meaning, and
Speaker 3: I think without that in our lives, we replace it
Speaker 3: with the quickest, easiest, loudest thing. And so finding a
Speaker 3: conduit for potential good I think is remarkable and to
Speaker 3: be commended. So yah, kudos on the way tell me this.
Speaker 3: I'm also a big fan of Run the Jewels. Yes,
Speaker 3: I love Run the Us.
Speaker 1: I felt like Running Jewels got snubbed a few years ago.
Speaker 1: And one of the best parts about being one half
Speaker 1: of to me, the greatest rap group going today is
Speaker 1: the fact that this album Michael also brought LP his
Speaker 1: first Grammy. Yes, so shouts out and congratulations to my
Speaker 1: partner rhyme lp L.
Speaker 3: I'm curious. Actually, what it's fun is a fan of
Speaker 3: yours and a fan of LPs. You hear your influences
Speaker 3: and what you do on solo projects and what you
Speaker 3: bring to Run the Jewels project. I think when you
Speaker 3: are marinating on Michael and sitting down thinking about what
Speaker 3: is a Run the Jewels project and what is a
Speaker 3: Killer Mike project? How do you delete anything?
Speaker 1: Well, it's all the same, So not that it's the
Speaker 1: same sound, the same thing, but so imagine running Jewels
Speaker 1: the Uncanny x Men. And then if you've read if
Speaker 1: you're a careader, we're about to nerd out on you guys.
Speaker 3: So if you can earn Polygamby into this, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1: Well man boy who wouldn't want to marry Storm? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there we go. So, so Run the Jewels is don
Speaker 1: Kanny x Men. There's a lot of characters come in
Speaker 1: and out rest in peace to Gangster, the Booze, Thatch Day, Laroka,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe Staples, Josh Hamy, all these people have
Speaker 1: come in and what we have there at the university
Speaker 1: where you can find anybody, right, And Michael is just
Speaker 1: the prequel story to one half of the group Run
Speaker 1: the Jewels. So Michael is an extension of the Run
Speaker 1: of the Jewels world and you get to see the
Speaker 1: reason why I rap about my mother and run the Jewels.
Speaker 1: You get to hear the whole story on Michael. So
Speaker 1: imagine Logan to Wolverine, and that's what this is. So
Speaker 1: this is an extension of Running Jewels.
Speaker 3: Right, here's other sum Let's switch gears a little bit.
Speaker 3: I will say I rewatched it recently after the George
Speaker 3: Floyd murder. You met an impromptu press conference in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: You're asked to make a press conference, which I think
Speaker 3: is if you haven't seen it, I think is not
Speaker 3: only the clarity of it, the catharsis within it, and
Speaker 3: the call to action, I think is is a pretty
Speaker 3: remarkable moment over the last decade.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Something you said there resonated with so many people. You
Speaker 3: asked people at a time of unrest. You said to
Speaker 3: focus on to plot, plan, strategize, optimized, organized, and mobile mobilized.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Uh, we're on that process right now. Yes, I know
Speaker 3: you're talking specifically about police brutality. Here we are three
Speaker 3: and a half years later. Yeah, where are we on that?
Speaker 3: How are you seeing that process unfolds?
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you this what I was saying at night,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of misconstring it and just like
Speaker 1: I mean, to be honest, people be lying. They did
Speaker 1: some people, haven't you know. Some people are like you
Speaker 1: were defending the cops and crying. I'm like, no, it's
Speaker 1: not what I was doing. I was actually smoking blunts
Speaker 1: when Noriega even fished sound we're just trying not to go.
Speaker 3: And that's Noriega the Rappah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, shouts out the north. And my friend he I said, hey,
Speaker 1: the mayor called me, there's someone risked. I was like,
Speaker 1: she never called me, and he was like an hour
Speaker 1: after asking for about an hour, he says, well, if
Speaker 1: you're not gonna go, I'm not gonna go. And you
Speaker 1: and everybody knows the rap rules. You can't leave your
Speaker 1: homies down. So I went with them, and I so
Speaker 1: I'm pulling up to the jail with a quarter pounds
Speaker 1: the marijuana, little stone, a quarter public. I mean, I
Speaker 1: had just scored and how look does that last about
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks? Mane. So I'm there and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, okay, and I see our mayor who's also
Speaker 1: from me and Tii's neighborhood, and she's doing a dynamic
Speaker 1: job of telling the police, hold off, don't make a move,
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to the public first. And then Tip
Speaker 1: gets up to speak, and I'm just like, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: still in solidary to Mahomie. And then he's like, and
Speaker 1: now kill a mike, and I'm like, oh shit. And
Speaker 1: I just simply told the truth. And the truth is
Speaker 1: what happened to George Floyd was a murder. It was evil,
Speaker 1: it was wrong. The truth is also that Atlanta has
Speaker 1: long been a fortress for the black civil rights movement
Speaker 1: in this country and civil rights period. And if we
Speaker 1: would have burned Atlanta down, we'd have burned down a
Speaker 1: fortress that people could use the plot, plan, strategize, organized,
Speaker 1: and mobilized. So ultimately, all I was saying in that
Speaker 1: speech was use your homes, use your businesses, use your
Speaker 1: churches as centers to welcome people in and plan, plot
Speaker 1: out what are we going to do next, strategize, organized,
Speaker 1: and mobilize, and then do the next thing. I challenged them,
Speaker 1: and my city stepped up. What I'm seeing in Atlanta
Speaker 1: now is organizers be supported. I'm seeing more organizers come out.
Speaker 1: My man row It down there just gave an amazing
Speaker 1: speech yesterday. Shouts out to him. He's an Indian American guy.
Speaker 1: He's in Atlanta. He's organizing constantly. We're organizing around the vote.
Speaker 1: I saw Atlanta's really welcome other people in to try
Speaker 1: to push back against the powers that be. That's what
Speaker 1: my city's always done. That's what we're doing now, and
Speaker 1: that's what I think we'll do going forward. We don't
Speaker 1: organizers do not have to agree with each other. We
Speaker 1: do not have to agree with methodology. But what we
Speaker 1: must start to agree with is that there's a problem
Speaker 1: to be solved, and if we waste too much time
Speaker 1: in fighting, the problems never get solved and the oligarchs
Speaker 1: and corporations continue to run this country.
Speaker 3: Tell him, like everyone, Michael available. Now, we're gonna take
Speaker 3: it quick break. We'll be right back half of this.
Speaker 3: That's our show for tonight. Now here it is eleven
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