Speaker 1: I guess this one struck such a chord with me
Speaker 1: because as a person of color, specifically like an African American,
Speaker 1: I know that existing in my bones is a you know,
Speaker 1: ever present artifact that my way of life was destroyed
Speaker 1: and there is no going back to it, my god,
Speaker 1: not just mine. And I think, I think it's just
Speaker 1: you're just we're just more acute to it rather than
Speaker 1: like sort of like European history, because y'all's history got
Speaker 1: flattened so much into being y'all just white people's, then.
Speaker 2: You forget that you were tribal.
Speaker 1: Also say like y'all was just as tribal as we were,
Speaker 1: and your way of life got flattened multiple times by
Speaker 1: the Romans. Naga Yo said, I think of Native Americans,
Speaker 1: you know, I think of Central and South Americans, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and even with yeah, well not
Speaker 1: even with them, but Central and South Americans, you know,
Speaker 1: at the and Cortes andem touchdown, you know, or or
Speaker 1: the ones in you know, USA proper, like when then
Speaker 1: when that mayflower touched down on the East coast, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously there It's not like there hadn't been Europeans before then,
Speaker 1: you know, but that doesn't demark like.
Speaker 2: The end of.
Speaker 1: A world, like a world is about to die, you know,
Speaker 1: metaphorically speaking. And if you could get up high enough,
Speaker 1: like at a high enough vantage point to look down
Speaker 1: at you know, a timeline where you can look at
Speaker 1: the movement of time from a vantage point where you
Speaker 1: can see all these different plot points, but also high
Speaker 1: enough to see different locations, like what's happening on one
Speaker 1: side of the Atlantic and the other side of the Atlantic.
Speaker 1: Like stay with me at this metaphor, Like if you
Speaker 1: were standing at the at the North Pole, you know,
Speaker 1: and then you're following the lines of latitude. Those are
Speaker 1: the vertical ones, right, no longitude, those are the vertical ones,
Speaker 1: because latitude is moving lateral anyway. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: either way those lines Like if we're standing at the pole,
Speaker 1: you're all the lines at the equator, like meet all
Speaker 1: the lines across the equator, meet at the pole. Don't
Speaker 1: get lost in this metaphor. The point I'm trying to
Speaker 1: say is if you had an omniscient view, you know,
Speaker 1: where you can see everything. If if a native you know,
Speaker 1: American first nation person could see it all and be like, yo,
Speaker 1: that was the moment. That was the moment where the
Speaker 1: line was crossed, and it was the beginning of the end.
Speaker 1: Where are this land as we know it is now done?
Speaker 1: I just think that that that sits inside of me
Speaker 1: in a way that maybe I'm a poet. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: because I do have a politics, so I'm maybe because
Speaker 1: I'm part of cool Zone Media, which, as you know,
Speaker 1: we're we're always looking into the brinks of destruction. Are
Speaker 1: all of our shows are about the event horizon before
Speaker 1: you go into the black hole yokes, but also the
Speaker 1: possibility of coming out of the black hole, which you
Speaker 1: know or literally speaking a possible, but we're saying like, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's also possible life at the end of this or
Speaker 1: through this, or there are things that we can do
Speaker 1: and say to at least mitigate some of the harm
Speaker 1: that we're all experiencing. For me, I'm gonna get real
Speaker 1: transparent with you because it's a bonus episode. Obviously, when
Speaker 1: I was coming to iHeart, my first hope was to
Speaker 1: be over there on the Black Effect Network. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, come on, Charlotte Mane to God
Speaker 1: like you act like I didn't listen to the same
Speaker 1: radio shows. You know what I'm saying, Like I wanted
Speaker 1: to in some ways be mentored by Charlomagne.
Speaker 2: You feel me.
Speaker 1: I mean, in a lot of ways, he's doing what
Speaker 1: I would hope to do, you know, And I hope
Speaker 1: hears this, you know what I'm saying. And my manager,
Speaker 1: you know, presented my show to the network, and who
Speaker 1: knows what happened behind closed doors. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe people are protecting my feelings. Maybe he passed, maybe
Speaker 1: he didn't, Maybe he never got the email, maybe his
Speaker 1: people never showed him.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I was at the same time, I was always I
Speaker 1: was obviously connected to Robert and Sophie, and we had
Speaker 1: already built a rapport. And when Sophie was like, y'all
Speaker 1: we're building a network at that point, it was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this is a no brainer.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I know what y'all were trying to build, you know,
Speaker 1: And I had just finished, you know, writing the Terrorform book,
Speaker 1: and the idea of what cool Zone was about to
Speaker 1: become was exactly what I meant by Terraform. It's about
Speaker 1: imagining a better future living, you know, building a livable
Speaker 1: world and for me hood politics, which may have started
Speaker 1: off as something like just kind of fun and quirky. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: I think as I got you know, g checked a
Speaker 1: few times by some actual gangsters, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: and also like as I thought through really what I.
Speaker 2: Wanted to do, I really, I really do.
Speaker 1: Hope that this this show softly puts its arm around
Speaker 1: people who look and talk and sound and come from
Speaker 1: areas like I do you know what I'm saying look
Speaker 1: like me? You know, basically I'm saying colored folks, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like who you know may either
Speaker 1: really really really been outside or just lived on the
Speaker 1: streets where niggas was outside, whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: for us to like look into that abyss and be like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I know you understand, I know you feel it, but
Speaker 1: let's look at what it is and just remember that
Speaker 1: like we are the possibility that we can possibly we understand.
Speaker 1: We understand this world better than we're given credit for. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I wanted to share this poem as a bonus for
Speaker 1: this last show. We just did a lot of times
Speaker 1: Black people really ain't moved by climate change, which I
Speaker 1: talked about in the in the episode. But anyway, part
Speaker 1: of why I do is because I feel like and
Speaker 1: as much as sort of mourning, pain and suffering that
Speaker 1: came from us losing our way of life. We ain't
Speaker 1: lose Earth, Nigga. I don't know if y'all get it.
Speaker 1: We're finna lose Earth. No, no, no, let me say this better,
Speaker 1: earthinna lose us ain't gonna be our Fault's poems called
Speaker 1: at the Brink of Extinction. On the brink of extinction,
Speaker 1: your awareness of urgency finally finds a focus. You see
Speaker 1: no point in being angry at the past, and the
Speaker 1: future ain't got you in its plans. All there is
Speaker 1: is this now, just a couple more nows. You notice
Speaker 1: a sweet taste that now has which has eluded.
Speaker 2: You the whole time.
Speaker 1: On the brink of extinction, your definition of family stretches,
Speaker 1: priorities find their final form. Your palate becomes refined and childlike,
Speaker 1: a somalie of fine whiskeys, fried food, corn syrup, and pain.
Speaker 1: And the best cup of anything you've ever had is.
Speaker 2: To warn in your hand.
Speaker 1: On the brink of extinction, the songs are your fore mothers,
Speaker 1: which once produced the most dizzying of eye rolls take
Speaker 1: center stage and receive their lifetime Achievement awards. You remember
Speaker 1: that they have been a warm blanket and a north
Speaker 1: star the whole time.
Speaker 2: You empty your draft folder.
Speaker 1: Not on some sort of scorched earth, because that's what
Speaker 1: got us here in the first place. Nah, it's a
Speaker 1: massive deletion, because who needs.
Speaker 2: Luggage in paradise.
Speaker 1: At the brink of extinction, forgiveness feels as involuntary as breathing,
Speaker 1: and all inner mirroal b feels silly. Why would I
Speaker 1: spend my last moments fighting with me? You turn into
Speaker 1: an anthropologist. Your conservation season is behind you. Activism is
Speaker 1: for those with younger needs. I have already enjoyed my
Speaker 1: low dropping. I have backed that bang up enough. On
Speaker 1: the brink of extinction, loneliness finds the strangest source of
Speaker 1: comfort and reflection, regret and reimagining. On the brink of extinction,
Speaker 1: your concern to have a yard sale. You decide which
Speaker 1: is worthy of being reserved for your loved ones. What
Speaker 1: can be thrown away? What is heirloom and heritage? What
Speaker 1: is heresy and hearsay? On the brink of extinction, you
Speaker 1: embrace the ever climbing, spiraling circle. Soon you are going
Speaker 1: to become all that follows you become what is taken.
Speaker 2: You finally see clearly.
Speaker 1: Nuanced and conundrum and mourning and celebration exist in the
Speaker 1: same place. At the same time your sense of wonder, humor,
Speaker 1: and curiosity explodes. You have been forced to be a
Speaker 1: silver lining hunter, comforter and mascot last of an ancestor too,
Speaker 1: the choice of yours and yours alone? What is valuable
Speaker 1: enough to pass on? To survey the wreckage of your
Speaker 1: own destruction, salvage what the devastation left in its wake,
Speaker 1: quickly and forcibly develop wisdom. You may or may not
Speaker 1: be ready for mourn alone and inspire together, direct and console,
Speaker 1: release and reinvest, Prepare, and perpetuate. Because procreation is clearly
Speaker 1: out the question. Because some outside force, some heartless, colonial,
Speaker 1: imperialistic parasite concerned only with its own posterity, pushed you
Speaker 1: to the break of extinction, you are made to let
Speaker 1: go of what was and embrace what will be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I told you in the episode the Fuck Around
Speaker 1: and find Out, motif isn't a graph as much as
Speaker 1: it's a cliff.
Speaker 2: And I don't know what it's gonna take for us
Speaker 2: to wake up. I just fear that we.
Speaker 1: Ain't gonna wake up until our heads hit the rock
Speaker 1: on the bottom of that cliff.
Speaker 2: Hood politics, y'all,