1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: Calls media. All right, First things first, the Endling, the 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: beautiful Endling, as in the first round of the Grammys. 3 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: If you are in a some sort of voting member 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:16,319 Speaker 1: of the Grammy Association, happened to be listening to this 5 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 1: cast one in there in the Poetry Spoken Word Album 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: of the Year section for Your Boy the rest of Us. 7 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: October twenty second, me and Matt al Saski will be 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: at the a Legion Theater doing the album live along 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: with my beautiful spouse refer to her by her prefix, 10 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: Doctor Almazaragoza Petti will be reading from her book Chin 11 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: Gunna and then uh Cat simply Cat, one of the 12 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: deppest poets I've ever known in my life, will be 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: doing some poetry. So tickets are in the links in 14 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: the bios and in the show notes the podcasts Man 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: Do to Waiians do Bill Cosby Impressions. All right. They 16 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: say journalism is the first draft of history. I say 17 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: history can only be understood through poetry. Were y'all writing 18 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: any of this stuff down? And y'all know the ancient 19 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 1: that Gypsums didn't call themselves ancient, right, They was just 20 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: them right? You think they knew their way in life 21 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: was slipping away. I mean, you're right, how could they? Okay? 22 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: So apparently Ezra Klein and tanahasse Quotes have had some 23 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 1: sort of interview that has generated a ton of discussion 24 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: and commentary. I haven't seen the interview, but I planned to. 25 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: I also know that California has passed five new immigration 26 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: laws that are actually pretty good that I'm probably gonna 27 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: pot about next week. I just ain't finished that project. 28 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: The President reached out to national guards in other states 29 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: to try to send them to states that are just 30 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: on the list of people he don't like Chicago out 31 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: there looking like la just running ice agents out of 32 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: their neighborhoods. But also I saw the Damon Dash interview 33 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club, and I do definitely have thoughts 34 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: on that, But those gotta wait, because today is October seventh, 35 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 1: when I'm recording this, which is the three year anniversary 36 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: of this round of murderous, debacle genocide that's happening in Palestine. 37 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: I ain't gonna hold you. I can't keep up y'all 38 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: taping in with me, So listen, y'all. Colin Kaepernick paid 39 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: for a second oddutopsy about that little boy in Mississippi 40 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: in college that was ruled a suicide and apparently hung himself. 41 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: A little black boy in Mississippi hung himself according to 42 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 1: the official coroners report, which was already proven false because 43 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: the first time they said they found the boy in 44 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: his room, and then they found a boy hanging, so 45 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: we don't know which one it is. Now there's reports 46 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: about a blunt force trauma. I have not done any 47 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: due diligence. Let me tell you why I haven't done 48 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: any due diligence, because the Dodgers are in the playoffs. 49 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: But the issue with the Dodgers right now is the 50 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: CEO are the main holder of the Dodgers. Mark Walter 51 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: apparently is tied in with this investment firm called Giggenheim Investments, 52 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: who apparently benefits a immensely off of private prisons, private 53 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: prisons that are apparently being used to hold immigrants as 54 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: in aiding in ice. Listen, haven't proven any of that 55 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: stuff either, because all I can find is connections via 56 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: Reddit and some sort of dot biz website. So I 57 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: don't know if I'm supposed to boycott the Dodgers, But 58 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: if I'm supposed to boycott the Dodgers. We still ain't 59 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: going to Target because we still boycotten Target. But you 60 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 1: act like Walmart's any better either way. I need a 61 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: pack of socks and some black T shirts. I also 62 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: need a pair of Dickies. They're starting to wear out. 63 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: I wear the California tuxedo. Obviously not to be confused 64 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: with the Canadian tuxedo, but the California tuxedo would be 65 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: Chucks and or Vans, Dickies, a white T shirt and 66 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 1: or flannel. This is your boy. I would love to 67 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: just run into one of these stores and just buy 68 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: a pack of that. But I'm probably gonna have to 69 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: do is go down says er Chabas right here and 70 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: some of these niney nine cent stores that aren't ninety 71 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: nine cent stores, they just hood stores to try to 72 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: get a pack up socks and black T shirts. The 73 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: problem is then black T shirt's gonna fall apart in 74 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: twenty two minutes. I grew up going to the Santi Ali, 75 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: the garment district out here in Los Angeles, where we 76 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: would do all of our clothing shopping. The issue is 77 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: half of them people ain't there because of ice raids, 78 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,919 Speaker 1: So I can't even go to the hood spots because 79 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: these people too afraid to go outside. Oh yes, the 80 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: military left LA, but the Ice raids is still happening. 81 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: Cardi B and Nicki Minaj are beefing again. I have 82 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: no idea why. Somehow Cardi B crashed out with Ice 83 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: Spic's manager over some sort of line that apparently she 84 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,119 Speaker 1: must have said in a song. I'm not even sure 85 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: the yns know who either of these women are. Do 86 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: you know what a yn is? That's what I thought. 87 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: The greatest news source for most people really in this 88 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: generation is Kai Sannat, who is a streamer who truly 89 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: gets millions of streams. He just hit his one million 90 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: subscribers and had Oh. I don't know Lebron James, who 91 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: apparently has a second big announcement come in which probably 92 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: means he's retiring. Maybe this is his last season. I 93 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: don't know. All I know is apparently preseason started last 94 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 1: week and I did not catch a single basketball game. 95 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: You know why because basketball is on seven different streamers 96 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: right now. You gotta have the NBA TV packet, YouTube 97 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: plus Amazon Prime, Peacock and out here. You have to 98 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: have Spectrum if you're gonna watch the Lakers it is 99 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: impossible to just watch a basketball game anymore. But I 100 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: don't have time for watching those basketball games right now, 101 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: because I'm really interested to hear what Greta Thornberg got 102 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: to say. Thornberg, I don't even know how to say 103 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: her name. You see what I see? The point I'm 104 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: getting at her on the flotilla who which you may 105 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: or may not know, Nelson Mandela's grandson, was on that 106 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: flotilla where they use her, They try to use her 107 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: as a piece of propaganda, where they apparently they done, 108 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: dragged her hair, they wrapped the flag around her, made 109 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: her kiss her, she get her kissed the flag. She 110 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: got out of that mug saying, don't nobody care about 111 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: how horrible we was treated? The fact is we walking 112 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: into a genocide and y'all won't let us bring her food. 113 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: Now she catching flak by some people because you know, 114 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: she come from money, and they like, yeah, it must 115 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: be nice for you to be doing these performative activism 116 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,559 Speaker 1: stunts while you obviously don't have to work for a living, 117 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: so you get to do this stuff, to which I think, actually, 118 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:01,559 Speaker 1: I feel like that is a good use of generational wealth. 119 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: You don't have to work, so gonna put your body 120 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: on the line. It sounds like a win win To me? 121 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: Is that not what we want for people who have 122 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: generational wealth, who are benefiting from Like the Bible would say, 123 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: you are drinking from wells you did not dig. So 124 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: to me, it seems very good that she outside trying 125 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: to make life better for others because she could just 126 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: chill out. You know who I think is also set 127 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: for life, the grandson of Nelson Mandela. He owned that 128 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: thing too. But none of it matters though, because apparently 129 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: you trying to bring food to them people is messing 130 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: up the peace talks because uh oh, mister Gandhi himself, 131 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: Donald Trump believe he up for his Nobel Peace Prize 132 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: and he done worked out a deal. And in me 133 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: talking about this deal, I have yet to podcast about 134 00:08:53,960 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 1: Sudan and the Congo. Last week was Ethiopia's Thanksgiving celebration. 135 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: I wanted to teach y'all about that. Did nobody talk 136 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: about the coffee prices? Yet? The tariffs is gone? Crazy 137 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 1: farmers is unionizing, and my daughter wants to take a 138 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: k pop dance class. What I'm trying to say is 139 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: I ain't gonna hold you. I feel just like you do. 140 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: I can't keep up with all this shit in blackness. 141 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 1: The biggest gospel group of this time is this group 142 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: called Maverick City Music. And Maverick City Music used to 143 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 1: be black as hell. It's getting less and less black 144 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: every day. Chandler Moore was one of the lead singers 145 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: on there, and this other girl named Naomi right, Naomi 146 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: leaving Chandler a few years ago, was out there dipping 147 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: his stick into every whitcher thing. Did the work. The 148 00:09:55,640 --> 00:10:00,559 Speaker 1: boy did the work, y'all, did his repentance, did his therapy. 149 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: I know the boy did the therapy because I know 150 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: some of the people on his support team. The boy 151 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: did the work, got his life together. But Naomi leaving 152 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: Maverick City now, so I'm just like, listen, we can't 153 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,719 Speaker 1: even have gospel music. I know, I always drag the 154 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: white evangelicals, but then I always tell y'all, it's not 155 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: like Black Church ain't got his problems. Case in point, 156 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: my nigga, which we need to set aside because Trump 157 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: trying to bring back conversion therapy. What in the world? 158 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:37,719 Speaker 1: And you got two episodes to catch up on for 159 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: all your favorite shows in podcasts, and I got the 160 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: nerve to ask you to buy some tickets to come 161 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: see me do some poetry. What I'm trying to say 162 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: is I feel you. Okay, we all in this together. 163 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: Ain't no pithy answer at the end of this one. 164 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 1: I'm just saying I get it. It's a lot, y'all. 165 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: You can only do what you can do. You can 166 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: only care about what you could care about. I'm gonna 167 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: give you a little little old folk wisdom. Okay. See, 168 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: we come from we come from church that had that 169 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: had a motherboard, you know, the ushers, right, so they 170 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: would say stuff like you are called to where your 171 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: feet are. And sometimes I have to remind myself that 172 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: you want me to take it. Say it. Let's churchy, 173 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: Just be present. You can only be where you are, 174 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: So listen to everybody, whether it's changing. Life is really 175 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 1: in crisis for a lot of people, especially if you 176 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: care like I care, which I assume you do, which 177 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 1: is why you listen to this show. Listen, dog. You 178 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:00,040 Speaker 1: can do what you can do. Okay, you can do 179 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 1: what you can do. Stay tapped in with me. Oh 180 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 1: and Lebron's announcement was a Hennessy ad