1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: I cracked a joke on Twitter about having a family 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: member that when you call them, they're your problem solver, 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: but sometimes they kind of like overly solved the problem 4 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: that you can't unsend that call. You know that they're 5 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna fix the issue all Bernie like, like 6 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: Amazon rainforests clearing for cattle grazing solve the problem. They 7 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: just gonna torch it. And we're like, look, the ground's clear. 8 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: We got family members like that that like it. You 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: have to really count the cost on calling that cousin, 10 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: that auntie, that uncle when the issue gets to a 11 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: place to where you feel like you can't handle it 12 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: on your own. And some of y'all replied like, oh, look, 13 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: I am that cousin. Ha ha ha ha ha. Now 14 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: maybe in a metaphorical sense, you probably are, but that's 15 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 1: not the sense I'm talking about. Okay, this hood politics here, 16 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: which you should know, aboy now, because you a whole 17 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 1: minute into this episode. Cousin I'm talking about is the 18 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: one that's gonna like it unless you beg them. They're 19 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: gonna tie the body up and stash them in a 20 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: hole somewhere. They're gonna commit a felony is what I'm 21 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: trying to say, probably multiple felonies. If you call this 22 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: person for you you know what I'm saying. So like, 23 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: if you go, if you're gonna sit in this text, 24 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: you need to really really count the costs. And on 25 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: the other hand, the person receiving that text, they also 26 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: counting the costs. One about how much they actually love you, 27 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: how much of a personal disc they feel, a personal 28 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: insult or injury they feel by their family member. In 29 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: this scenario, you being disrespected. Do they feel like that's 30 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: a personal disrespect? Do they feel the juice's worth the squeeze? 31 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: Do they feel like this is light work, this is 32 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: something that we can handle without any particular repercussions. Do 33 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: they feel like you have some sort of favor you 34 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: could offer them back later on? Do they feel like 35 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: if they get into this situation, is this gonna cause 36 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: some repercussions for themselves that they are necessarily ready to handle. 37 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 1: There's a lot of counting of costs here. The moral 38 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: of the story is, if you send this text and 39 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: this person received this text, you gotta understand you can't 40 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 1: unsend this. Do you look you when you squeeze the 41 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: toothpaste out of the toothpaste little thing. You can't get 42 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: it back into tube. You can't unsay this. I'm reminded 43 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 1: of the scene in Boys in the Hood when Doe 44 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,679 Speaker 1: Boy and m was on their way to ride and 45 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: old Cuba gunnon Cuba gunning. Junior's character was like, hey, 46 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: stop the car, I'm getting out. They look at him 47 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: and they like, all right, you you're getting out, and 48 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: he liked them getting out. He made that decision because 49 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: here's the thing if you continue on that, there's a 50 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: point to where you like, listen, once we turn this corner, 51 00:03:54,920 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: ain't no getting out, ain't no getting out now out 52 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: in streets in the in the rules of the streets 53 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: and streets certification, like listen, like if you if you 54 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: wear this flag, you rock this band down, or you 55 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: wear this cousin, you're not allowed to get out the car. 56 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: But uh, you know, Cuba Gooding carry. He hain't signed 57 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: up all this. That's just his family. He just in 58 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 1: a situation where he felt like he was down. But 59 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: you know what, like he you know, he went on 60 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: to go to Moorhouse. Do you feel me? I remember 61 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: the interview of Game. Game was talking about the difference 62 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: between him and Kendrick. He was like, I feel like, 63 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: you know, I have sort of the intelligence of the 64 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: tiler to Kendrick. Just Kendrick had the sense enough to 65 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: get out the car. He was like, Um, it was 66 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: too late for me. I already signed up for this. 67 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: I felt like I couldn't. But looking back, man, I 68 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: should have got out the car. I should have. Kendrick 69 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: was smart get off the car. Like, you don't have 70 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: to live like this. But either way, if you if 71 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: you if you're gonna send that text, if you in 72 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 1: a situation where you feel like you can't handle this 73 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: on your own, you need some help. You need some 74 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 1: backup up, you know. I think JB said it last week, like, Hey, 75 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Dare. I'm gonna go help you in 76 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: this fight. But you gotta remember you gotta help me 77 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 1: when I need it too, and that you gotta help 78 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: me when I need it too. You know, pay me 79 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: back later, get me next time. You know what I'm saying. 80 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: That's sometimes that's a really high cost, especially if you're 81 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: not really you know, with it. So whether you're sending 82 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: the text or receiving the text, there's some thoughts to 83 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: be thought. Let's talk about the US in Germany sending 84 00:05:40,560 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: them weapons to Ukraine, hood politics. All right, so welcome. First, Secondly, 85 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:06,039 Speaker 1: I'm recording this like the weekend of the Tyree Nichols 86 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: video dropping, so not very okay right now, especially just 87 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: talking about violence. You know, I think there was a 88 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: part of me that, like any other black man, you know, 89 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:24,799 Speaker 1: got triggered. I think there's a study out of Rutgers 90 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: University that talked about the experience of black people having 91 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: PTSD from like watching us being murdered. But you know 92 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 1: that it's called linked fate. That's the name of the 93 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: phenomenon to where we just you know it really it 94 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: really messes with us, I think in a very unique way. 95 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: I think this one, you know, obviously has another layer 96 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: in the sense of one, it's just brutality, and then 97 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 1: secondly the fact that they were you know, black officers, 98 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: and I try to prepare myself, you know, I had 99 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: a little little TikTok, a little video go kind of 100 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: go crazy, just you know, kind of talking about the situation, 101 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: which I can get into a little later. But I 102 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: think it's important, even in this episode to talk about 103 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: just the effects of continual violence, you know, on the Psyche, 104 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: Like I really didn't want to record an episode this week, 105 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: like Alams didn't even want to do hood politics at all, 106 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: because I'm just like, man, I'm tired of talking about 107 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: hood stuff, man, you know, And I think this is why. 108 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: It's because hearing them officers talk just sounded like gang shit. 109 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: Y'all ran up on an op and you beat the 110 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: brakes off him, and as that man laying there, they 111 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: just kind of going over there, you know, sort of 112 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: the just like the the post game play by play 113 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: about now man, y'all you know what I'm saying, like 114 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: just I don't even want to like reenact it, but 115 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: just when I say verbatim, maybe not verbat him because 116 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:05,679 Speaker 1: that's like too literal. I've heard that conversation a ton 117 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: of times. It's did you know again after you just 118 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: stomped somebody out, you know, and you catching your breath, 119 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: you talk about parts of you that heard like that 120 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: scene because of like how do I how do I 121 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: explain this? I don't wish like gangshit on nobody, whether 122 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: you lived it, lived through it, you know, somebody like meat, 123 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: I was just there and even like you know, like 124 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: in the beginning game talking about man like I know 125 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: this did a number on me, Like I know that 126 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: she was not healthy, but it's just what It's just 127 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: what it was. This is just who we were. And 128 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: I think for your own psyche, it's like to keep 129 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: your own self together, you have to figure out how 130 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: to like redeem some of them things that you knew. 131 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: It was just like, nobody posted to live like this, 132 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: but we did, and it made us who we are. 133 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: And you can't live in the past. You can't like 134 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: live with regret. You have to figure out a way 135 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: to redeem your story, you know what I'm saying. Any 136 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: of us who were able to survive a lot of this, 137 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: remembering that we saw death at an age, nobody should like, 138 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: let's just be real. We shouldn't have been experiencing death 139 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: the way we experienced death, and it as early as 140 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: we experienced death, you know, and as frequent you just 141 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: nobody should live through that we just did, you know, 142 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: But nobody should like that's not that's no way to live. 143 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: It's no way. It's nothing to like for real, for real, 144 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,439 Speaker 1: it's nothing to glorify it. That's why when you hear 145 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: rappers who really lived the ship when they talk about 146 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: like Nigga, we're not glorifying it. This is just our stories. 147 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: We're just being truthful about our stories like they I 148 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: honestly believe niggas believe it like it is truthful. We 149 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: are not glorifying it. But at the same time, like, 150 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: how opposed to keep my psyche together if I can't 151 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: find some sort of joy or meaning in what we 152 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:50,679 Speaker 1: went through. I'm rambling right now. But the point I'm 153 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: trying to make is hearing them talk about just the 154 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: post fight play by play after they stomped this boy 155 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: out was way too familiar to me, and I feel 156 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: like triggering is such a like triggering word, but that's 157 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: the way it felt for me. I'm not even layering 158 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: the fact that they was police. I'm talking about specifically 159 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: the experience of being ran up on and stomped out. Obviously, 160 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: the next question for you would be like, have I 161 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: ever been stomped out? I've never been stomped out. I've 162 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: gotten out of situations, I've had the threat of being 163 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 1: stomped out, I've got away, I've talked to myself out 164 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: of stuff. But that pit in your stomach, that part 165 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 1: of you that's preparing yourself. And some people like that adrenaline. 166 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: They like that adrenaline rush. You know, we remember the 167 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: episode we talked about, like, yo, these are the rules 168 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 1: when you're gonna get jumped. It's like, okay, you know, 169 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: you prepare yourself for pain. You just cover up your 170 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: you know, vital organs. You know, don't let nobody get 171 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: behind you. You just hope that the damage ain't as 172 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: bad as it gonna be. But you look, I'm a 173 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: dog walk one of y'all, but I'll be damn you 174 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: dog walk me. And you you're like, I don't know 175 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: if you've ever been in this situation. And the thing 176 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,319 Speaker 1: is like, how frequently is the point I'm trying to 177 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: get to. How frequently we've been in situations where this 178 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: is for our life or for some serious, real, real, 179 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: real safety. I'm about to experience some severe pain and 180 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: I'm trying to get out of it, you know, And 181 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: I hope the homies help, but if they don't, maybe 182 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: we'll get revenge later. But right now, I need to 183 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: try to make myself seven feet tall and three hundred 184 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: more pounds to try to fight this off, or I 185 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:46,719 Speaker 1: need to just hope these niggas get tired, you know, 186 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: just there's there's strategies to the thing. But that's when 187 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: it's gangshit. When NATA police, oh god, when you add 188 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 1: another layer of the fact that this is the police, 189 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 1: what option you got? There is no fighting back, there's 190 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: no strategy. It's the state. The state is doing this. 191 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: Who going out, Who's gonna who's gonna jump in. I 192 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: don't know if I can express to you the depths 193 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: of fear and despair when you realize no one's coming 194 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:37,079 Speaker 1: to help. I like, let's pause this for a second, 195 00:12:37,559 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: no one's coming. When I saw that paramedic coming like 196 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: kind of like, try to help him out. When I 197 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 1: tell you why they still talking about he's sitting there, 198 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: Why they're still talking about stomping him out? When I 199 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: tell you how deeply that hit a chord for me 200 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: to the point to where I was like, I don't 201 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: want to do her politics no more. I'm like, I 202 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: just don't don't want to talk about none of this 203 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: shit no more. Tired, naked, tired, like and those other 204 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: black men that did it, dude, oh man. And whether 205 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:03,079 Speaker 1: these officers are understand the depths of like institutionalized racism 206 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: and self hate and being indoctrinated by joining a system 207 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 1: that is clearly biased and giving that person that power 208 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: almost like being an overseer oversea oversea oversea officer, you know, 209 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: black black, black cop, Like if you whether they know 210 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: the depths of like the psychological sort of trauma and 211 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: implications that causes, you know, that badge giving you that 212 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: feeling of power that you can exert that kind of 213 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: power over somebody in the streets like this who was 214 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 1: running from you because you sprayed them, whether they understand 215 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: that or whether it was like, man, I'm just trying 216 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: to get these blows off, I'm just it just kind 217 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: of feel good to beat the nigga up, you know 218 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like whether or it's just that street 219 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: shit who clearly also doesn't understand the depths of self 220 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: hate in how those things work. And that again, if 221 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: the institution is biased, and race is a social construct, 222 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: which it is as it relates to power, which means 223 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: that anyone despite their color, can participate in institutions that 224 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: uphold that thing, despite whatever your color is, then you 225 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: know you would understand how a act like this, which 226 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: is as you like to say, black on black crime 227 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: is still a vector of systemic racism and anti blackness, 228 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: even though it was carried out by black hands. If 229 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: you really understand how that works. There's a whole body 230 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: of study about how race intersects like that, and it'd 231 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: be critical for you to understand that. Yeah it's called 232 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: critical race theory, but you know that's banned. You'd understand 233 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: how all that works together. But I digress. The point 234 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: is no one was coming. And I think that that 235 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: depth of despair is the piece I want to talk 236 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: about because it's that point that makes you want to 237 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: send that text. Let's talk about it after the break. 238 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: All right, we're back now. I want to talk about 239 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: the obviously the war in Ukraine and Germany and America 240 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 1: deciding to all right, we're gonna send the blicky's, We're 241 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna send it, send the heavy, the heavy stuff. 242 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 1: And I want to talk about what this means that 243 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: Ukraine understands about the situation, uh, the implications that America 244 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:14,679 Speaker 1: needs to think about, like in this in what we 245 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: thought about. But I think more interesting is what Germany 246 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: need really need to think about if they really gonna 247 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:24,120 Speaker 1: send their heavy artillery stuff. But before that, Like, I mean, 248 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: there's some sort of there's blood running in the streets 249 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: in East Jerusalem right now, some sort of green light 250 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: has been lit out there. They're killing each other in 251 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: the streets again. And while America and the rest of 252 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: the West is talking about all that in the news, 253 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: it's interesting because we might be sending a person over 254 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: to the Middle over to uh Israel and pala Stign 255 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: to try to broker some sort of piece, but like, 256 00:17:55,400 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: are we really willing to get in this? How do 257 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 1: you like this? A synagogue shot up, but that's because 258 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 1: there was a shooting before that. And when we talk 259 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: about East Jerusalem, what you're talking about is a place 260 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 1: that's supposed to be Palestine, but it's also has Israeli 261 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: like settlements inside of what's supposed to be Palestine. So 262 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: there's just this like you know, whenever we the law 263 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: go way back in the episode called You wasn't outside 264 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: where I was trying to lay out, like really what's 265 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: going on over there and how it's almost impossible for 266 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 1: it's too thorny for any of us to really understand 267 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,439 Speaker 1: what's happening over there. But I tell you what, I know, 268 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: the feeling that nobody's coming. I understand that you, like, listen, 269 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,439 Speaker 1: I don't look, I don't y'all not gonna help us. 270 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: I need somebody who's down to send the key, who 271 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: down to blow some shit up. Ain't nobody gonna help us? 272 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: Nobody praying for me? I know that desperation, granted, not 273 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: enough to put the heater in my aunt, but enough 274 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,159 Speaker 1: to send the text now on some street. Shit. Is 275 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: that cowardly? Maybe that I'm not willing to pull the 276 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 1: trigger myself. I don't know, but I have been scared 277 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: enough to think that had I had a heater on 278 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: me at that moment, that I probably would have You 279 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: just I listen, I can't explain to you the fear 280 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: of when you when looking across the eyes of this 281 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: you know, this damo blood. I'm just in the fact 282 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: that like where I'm like, this man might take my life, 283 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: you know, and and like just the desperation of being like, 284 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: had not my cousin jump in, it would have been 285 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: like it would have been a very my cousin jumped in, 286 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: you know. And I'll be it, I'm eternally grateful for 287 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: one of my cousins jumping in, But I'm very it's 288 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 1: very interesting to see America's position here in relation to 289 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 1: America's position in the war in Ukraine. If you don't 290 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: know what's going on, I don't know you. Apparently you 291 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: you've you've you've protected your mental health much better than 292 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:39,679 Speaker 1: the rest of us, and you've kind of sort of 293 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: buried your head and don't understand there have been a 294 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: war going on between Russia and Ukraine for the last year. 295 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: But essentially that to make it, like I always try 296 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: to do in the Crimea River episodes, I try to 297 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: give y'alls at least a perspective, not a validation, but 298 00:20:54,560 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: a perspective from Russia and from Ukraine, and from Russia's perspective. Again, 299 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:18,919 Speaker 1: Russia don't believe Ukraine should be a country anyway. They 300 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: still believe that this all because of the Cold War. 301 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: You don't broke up, our empire got broken up. But okay, 302 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 1: it is what it is. I guess you your own thing, 303 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: but you're gonna give us back Crimea. So they got 304 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: back Crimea in whatever shady, jankie weird ways they got it. 305 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: But ultimately the deal is this all right, Ukraine. Look, 306 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 1: we'll stop, we'll drop it, We'll squash it. But just man, 307 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: don't join NATO. Dog. We don't need them niggas in 308 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: our backyard. Craine is like, I don't trust y'all. I 309 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: don't know, like I can't really make a deal with you, 310 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: like I don't trust you. How I supposed to make 311 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,360 Speaker 1: a deal with somebody that don't think we should exist, 312 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: that still think you we belong to you, like I 313 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 1: need some backup, homie. And then from the Russian side, 314 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: they like fam that's that was our only request. Again, 315 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: like I said in no early episodes, you don't need 316 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:15,200 Speaker 1: the like the opposition hood in your backyard, like we 317 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: cool as long as y'all way over there, like if 318 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,400 Speaker 1: you Russia, and it's like, okay, nay, don't way over there. 319 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,360 Speaker 1: I don't need y'all in my backyard, Like that shit 320 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: is dangerous. I want my neighbor clicking up, like you 321 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: don't want your neighbor a part of a rival set, 322 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 1: like like this is dangerous, but your neighbor like, well, 323 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: you dangerous too, y'all volatile. I don't undert y'all crazy, 324 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: And like I listen, I have grossly underestimated the amount 325 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: of cloud that Vladimir Putin has been able to continue 326 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: to uphold because I thought at some point then rich 327 00:22:54,320 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 1: Russian arligars would be like, okay, enough you is messing 328 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:07,120 Speaker 1: up the money. But no, no, he's still doing this thing. 329 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: And now I feel like it's a matter of principality. 330 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: Now it's a matter of pride, because you wasn't suposed 331 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 1: to go over there and get your ass beat and 332 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: just declare yourself a winner one day in certain regions 333 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: that be like, all right, we run this. The people's 334 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 1: foking like you're still just trying to bully your way 335 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: over here because you actually listen again, you just declare 336 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 1: yourself the winner right then in certain parts of the country, 337 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: But listen, I don't know, I look at going back 338 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: to the street fighting thing. I don't know if there's 339 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: anything scarier than a person that just won't drop, Like 340 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 1: if you're giving them, I mean two pieces with a 341 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: side of fries, like you giving them or everything you 342 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: got and they not dropping. That's terrifying. Cray not dropping. 343 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: So at this point, you like, maybe I could outlast them, 344 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 1: and I could outgun them, right, but as we all know, 345 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 1: Russia guns is trash, right Zelisk in Ukraine going help 346 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 1: me help me right looking at the rest of the west, 347 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: like y'all see this food look so crane is like, listen, 348 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: I'm counting the costs. I'm out here getting stumped out. 349 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: I'm fighting back. I'm holding my own you know, but listen, 350 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: I don't know how much longer I could last. I 351 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: think it's time to send that text. So if you're 352 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,919 Speaker 1: the if you're Ukraine, you like, I know, if I 353 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: send this text, I'm gonna owe you a favor. At 354 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: this point, my situation is so bad and it's so long. 355 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 1: I just want this shit to be over. And I 356 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,160 Speaker 1: know because you got it right there, and I already 357 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: know you don't like this nigga either, Like this could 358 00:24:54,640 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 1: be good for everybody. Fam, cut the chat, send the goons, 359 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: or if you can't send the goons, at least sending 360 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 1: the sticks. Man, send me some sticks. Fam you y'all, y'all, y'all, 361 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: paddocket you you're sending me these little twigs, like I 362 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: need the sticks, Homies so I can end this. You 363 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 1: see me out, You see I got heart, you see 364 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: like our folks can handle it. Man, send the sticks, Germany, 365 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 1: you around the corner, dog like we share a border homie. 366 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: You don't think you're not next. Send the sticks, bro, 367 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,640 Speaker 1: got dog man, Send the sticks now. If you Germany 368 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: and you're America and even the UK, you're thinking, okay, yeah, 369 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: you know I really don't like lad But I also 370 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: really I have to think what is his what's his 371 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 1: cut offline? Because they know, like they know that he 372 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: know that we homies with the Ukraine, that we that 373 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: we back to Ukraine. He he know that he knows 374 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: me to opt and you know, like you're supposed to 375 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: back up your homie, like he know that, So of 376 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 1: course in his brain he like, I can only bully 377 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,479 Speaker 1: you to tell you to stay out this fight for 378 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 1: so long. I can only like convince you to like, 379 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 1: don't jump in for long enough that but at some 380 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: point I know they're gonna jump in. But if you America, 381 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 1: if you Germany, you have to figure out you got 382 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 1: to try to get in Vladimir's head and be like, Okay, 383 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: now if I jump in, when does this problem go 384 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 1: from me helping to being my problem? Es? Actually, if 385 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: you journey, when does me sending these tanks turn into 386 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 1: me helping the homie to me inheriting his beef? Because 387 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: Ain't nothing worse than inherited beef, some stuff. You ain't 388 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,439 Speaker 1: had nothing to do it. Now you ow you in 389 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: the fight. Ain't let me tell something. Ain't nothing worse? 390 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 1: Would you? When you get secondhand smoke? You feel me? 391 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: That's what Germany trying to avoid. They trying to avoid 392 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: the secondhand smoke. Don't nobody won't know secondhand smoke. That's 393 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: not even It wasn't even my problem, and then now 394 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: it is. And the other part of that problem is like, 395 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,360 Speaker 1: what if my helping don't help? What if I try 396 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: to come in here and do this and then make 397 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: this nigga so mad that he starts taking it out 398 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 1: even worse on the rest of these civilians because he 399 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: just salty that somebody jumped in and now I'm now 400 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: I'm making matters worse. So it's a lot to think about. 401 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: This is why it's in our news. Gee, we give 402 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:54,679 Speaker 1: weapons all the time all over the world. Why is 403 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: we talking about? Why is this a big deal? Why 404 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 1: is Zelinsky allowed to address our Congress? I mean, some 405 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 1: of it could say hash tag whiteness. You know what 406 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying? Like again, something for some reason, this particular 407 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: war is most special than the rest of the wars 408 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:15,120 Speaker 1: we involved in across the world. None of their presidents 409 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: get to pull up and be like, yo, y'all gonna help. 410 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: That don't happen with none of the brown folk, you understand, 411 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 1: saying like okay. So one could make a very good 412 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 1: argument that that's because these is white people, white people. 413 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: One could also make the argument that it's because Russians 414 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: are I mean, these are our main enemies. This the 415 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: old like this are old, like you know, our sparring partner. 416 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: You can make that argument too, that that's why this 417 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: this hits a particular sort of like like cord. But 418 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 1: I think there's also I think all those things are true. 419 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 1: I also think a third one. The third one is nukes, 420 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: nukes under the finger of Vladimir because that nigga crazy 421 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: and like, this has bigger repercussions. Now listen, it got 422 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: bigger repercussions on the nukes, but we all the way 423 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: on another continent. Not if you Germany, nigga, your oil 424 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: come from there, your power come from there. Nigga ain't 425 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 1: next door. Now, for most of my life I've lived 426 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: next to except for at my MoMA house when we 427 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 1: was in the Burbs. My particular street was that was 428 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: that was all right, Joe said it, but what was it? 429 00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 1: Lat But I was in Whittier, like I look, there 430 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: was a and now there's a blessing and a curse 431 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: to living next to volatile people. You The blessing is, 432 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: don't nobody wants to smoke, y'all said, because you know 433 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: your neighbor crazy. Right. The curse is everybody wanted to 434 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:26,479 Speaker 1: smoke because your neighbor crazy. Listen, man, I'm telling you. 435 00:30:26,640 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 1: Politics is just it's just, it's just hood levy y'all. Okay. 436 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 1: Now a few specifics. America agreed to give these like 437 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: Patriot missiles, which at first we weren't trying to give 438 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: them the big guns because we was not confident according 439 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: to I mean, this is what we said. We was 440 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: not confident that they was actually able to operate them. 441 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: You know, what's the point of giving you these things? 442 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: If we got to fly over there and train you 443 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 1: on how to use them like this like this, that's 444 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: at least that's the cover story, which I agree, because 445 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 1: now we're sending people over and don't nobody like niggas 446 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 1: ain't I'm not ain't going I ain't going over there now, 447 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,480 Speaker 1: like you can borrow you can. It's like somebody helping 448 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: you move. It's like you can borrow my truck. I'm 449 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: not gonna help you move, but you can borrow the 450 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 1: truck though. You know, I'm saying, oh man, that'd been 451 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: a whole funny premise for this too. That's less violent anyway, 452 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 1: so we'll send you the things. So that was a 453 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 1: cover story. But I think, as you just heard me 454 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 1: explain over this last twenty minutes, I think there was 455 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: more more to it than we don't know if they 456 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: know how to use it. And then the rest of 457 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 1: European countries are now sending over these tanks, okay, and 458 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: this type of heavy artillery what it does in the war, 459 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: it's without getting into too much just warmongering and like 460 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 1: battle theory, but essentially it's like any boxing match or 461 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: sporting thing in the sense that there's this and it's 462 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: it's hard to tell. It's a very like hindsight kind 463 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: of situation, or you have to really be kind of 464 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 1: endo the thing. But to spot these critical windows of time, 465 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: I think when you like, if you're like an avid 466 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: sports watcher, depending on what type of athlete you're talking about, 467 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 1: there's a moment in like, you know, if it's basketball, 468 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: like in the third or fourth quarter, where momentum, like 469 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: that's something that people talk about, like just this intangible 470 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 1: thing where something inside one of this team just kind 471 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 1: of flares up and it's like we're not losing this 472 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 1: that change that shift, and then they go on like 473 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 1: a twenty point streak and then maybe the other team 474 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: can rally a comeback. But there's something that happens mentally, 475 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: even when you're down by like fifteen, it's like it's 476 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 1: it's intangible. But when you it's like if you're an 477 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 1: avid sports watcher, you know it when you see it 478 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: when the game shifts and you're like, oh, these they're 479 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: gonna win a day. I remember once one of the 480 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 1: obviously you know me, I'm you know, I believe the Lakers. 481 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: It was during the Bubble Finals, which okay, everybody always 482 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: puts an asterick on that, but a win is a win. 483 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 1: But in one of the games, it was like the 484 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,680 Speaker 1: first quarter, a d Anthony Davis, you know, gets a rebound, 485 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: puts the ball back, dumps it in a certain way, 486 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: and his whole body, his whole like just his body 487 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 1: language changed. It's like he just evolved into am and 488 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 1: raw right there, and it was like we're winning this game. 489 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:14,920 Speaker 1: Just there's just something in like this this competitor where 490 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 1: you're like I am not losing, and like I wish 491 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,440 Speaker 1: you could see like my arms balled, my fist balled 492 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: up in this day like that that happens. So if 493 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,440 Speaker 1: you're the West, back to the war thing, you're watching 494 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 1: this and you see basically like now switching sports to 495 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:38,200 Speaker 1: like boxing to where you know, you Craine getting a 496 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 1: few good jabs in there, but it's all defensive, like 497 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: you're just you're just basically holding off these things. Like 498 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: I said, you're taking blows, but you're not falling. Russia 499 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 1: can't finish you off. So there's this window of opportunity 500 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: that if you're watching, you say, actually, bro, if you 501 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:03,319 Speaker 1: can land this next punch at the right time in 502 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,799 Speaker 1: the right window, then this whole fight changes and now 503 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 1: you're on the offense. So this type of weaponry that 504 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 1: the West is looking at at this particular moment is 505 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,280 Speaker 1: deciding that like, if this is gonna end in any 506 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: way one they need better ways to defend themselves and 507 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:29,480 Speaker 1: to a chance to go offensive to not just stop Russia, 508 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:33,920 Speaker 1: but push Russia out because if again, if these foods 509 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 1: going to actually be NATO nation, you can't be no punk. 510 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:44,400 Speaker 1: And again, nobody wants secondhand smoke. And if you join NATO, 511 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:50,879 Speaker 1: it's official, you just gave a secondhand smoke, right so, 512 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:56,239 Speaker 1: and again going back to the metaphor America, No, you 513 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: right next door, right next door to the op And 514 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: if you were America, you wouldn't want that on your doorstep. Heil. 515 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,840 Speaker 1: We did a whole thing on Iran contract that was 516 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:10,000 Speaker 1: America saying I don't want this next door nig like 517 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,880 Speaker 1: that's this, this this, this same seas won't want the 518 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:17,600 Speaker 1: next door So anyway, so you're so as the West. 519 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,640 Speaker 1: That's one of your calculations in like in actuality, like 520 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: you're calculating is this the right time to give them 521 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,920 Speaker 1: the right things? Is this a chance for them that 522 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:33,120 Speaker 1: can they actually turn this into a win. Secondly, like 523 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,600 Speaker 1: we said before, can you handle this type of weaponry? 524 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,279 Speaker 1: You know, you don't mess around, hurt yourself. You know, 525 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,560 Speaker 1: you know, shoot your old toe of shadow, bob this mug. 526 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:42,880 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, if I give you 527 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: the wrong stuff you're not prepared for it, which is 528 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,920 Speaker 1: pretty sucky to think like that, but it is what 529 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 1: it is. And then thirdly, like I said before, is 530 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:59,799 Speaker 1: this gonna make Vladimir too angry? And if it is, 531 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,719 Speaker 1: am I giving y'all enough heat with enough training to 532 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:10,120 Speaker 1: squash it before it comes to our doorset. I mean, 533 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: it's a lot to think about. Now. All the western 534 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,440 Speaker 1: countries are looking at each other almost being like, okay, 535 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,400 Speaker 1: you go first. Collect you gotta put yourself in this 536 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:29,040 Speaker 1: position here Russia volatile, so uk like right, I mean, 537 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,920 Speaker 1: I'll give him something. You give him something America like, 538 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,359 Speaker 1: we'll do it to Germany. Do it Germany, like I'll 539 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,840 Speaker 1: give him the tanks. You give them them tanks, you 540 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,560 Speaker 1: give them them missiles. I'll give him our tanks. You first, 541 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,360 Speaker 1: NIGGI I mean we are Our tanks are old. You 542 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,120 Speaker 1: can ask you. We got this, we got this one 543 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 1: special tank. But hell, I look, you go first, job 544 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,719 Speaker 1: saying like you have all these people that are available 545 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,760 Speaker 1: and able to actually change as world. We decide among 546 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,320 Speaker 1: each other like I go, if you go, But I 547 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,319 Speaker 1: ain't going by myself, Nigga, ain't sitting that over there 548 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,319 Speaker 1: by myself could you gonna help me. Like JB said 549 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,080 Speaker 1: last week, I'll jump I'll jump in, but you gotta 550 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,839 Speaker 1: help me later. That's happening around the side of the squabbles. 551 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,640 Speaker 1: Country's broke around with each other looking at each other 552 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:20,439 Speaker 1: like this, like listen, dog, this ain't I mean, it's 553 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,040 Speaker 1: a lot like high school, but the stakes is much higher. 554 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 1: This ain't like you know, I go to the party, 555 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:28,479 Speaker 1: you go to the party, or you know what I'm saying, 556 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,120 Speaker 1: I help, if you help, I go with him. You 557 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,320 Speaker 1: was like, Noah, you know what I'm saying, Like nations 558 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:38,000 Speaker 1: could die. It won't do this right. We might be 559 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 1: setting it traject you for the next fifteen twenty years, 560 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,840 Speaker 1: might have a whole new Western front. We won't do 561 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,799 Speaker 1: this right. So there's a lot to think about. In 562 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,759 Speaker 1: addition to this, the weapons that you actually choose, Like 563 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:56,040 Speaker 1: you have to remember the wars in the beginning was 564 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,880 Speaker 1: a it was a city war, like those were mostly 565 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:05,000 Speaker 1: urban areas, so the help we was given were conducive 566 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:09,200 Speaker 1: to that. I always laugh when you see like, uh, 567 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:14,880 Speaker 1: sort of like military fatigues when they bring in like 568 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,920 Speaker 1: military grade police into the city and I'm like, is 569 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:22,840 Speaker 1: that camouflage? What is you camouflage? Why are you wearing 570 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,840 Speaker 1: fatigues in the city, Like, that's not and that's supposed 571 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,200 Speaker 1: to camouflage. You look ridiculous, right, So you want stuff 572 00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:34,319 Speaker 1: that actually matches the situation. Situation has moved away from 573 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,640 Speaker 1: the cities and now it's in more rural, you know, 574 00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,799 Speaker 1: kind of open field areas, more towards you know, these 575 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 1: border lands. So the question now is like and it's winter, 576 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,799 Speaker 1: Like it's like, you know, it's cold now, you know, 577 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,600 Speaker 1: and what are we actually protecting. We're protecting power grids, 578 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,520 Speaker 1: protecting water sources, right, you're pushing them out of particular areas. 579 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,480 Speaker 1: So you need you need tools that match you know 580 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,480 Speaker 1: what I'm saying in your situation. So while you just 581 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,399 Speaker 1: asking us, you know what I'm saying, Yo, send the heat, 582 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,040 Speaker 1: Send the heat, Send the heat, we need to be like, okay, 583 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,200 Speaker 1: well what heat should we send and will it really help? 584 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:13,160 Speaker 1: And again, like I said, that's also very insulting in 585 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,080 Speaker 1: the sense that like you think them foods don't know 586 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 1: what they need, Like really, I think they do know 587 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:27,120 Speaker 1: what they need. But either way, we have to decide, 588 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:32,480 Speaker 1: like is this juice worth to squeeze? And again there's 589 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:36,960 Speaker 1: a whole conversation to be had about are we giving 590 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:43,520 Speaker 1: this much care to Yemen? To African nations? I just 591 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,960 Speaker 1: heard we sent a delegation down to Africa because we're 592 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,600 Speaker 1: trying to like different nations of Africa, because we're trying to, like, 593 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,240 Speaker 1: we need to get in on that sweet, sweet, sweet 594 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:56,400 Speaker 1: sweet trade money that China been raking up on for 595 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,120 Speaker 1: the past couple of years, past couple of decades. China 596 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,320 Speaker 1: invest a lot of money in Africa. Some African nations 597 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,280 Speaker 1: are like, look, we don't need none of y'all money. Okay, 598 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,840 Speaker 1: you don't really love us, you never had. Other African 599 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,680 Speaker 1: nations are like, Nigga, cut the check. Yeah, y'all fight 600 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,319 Speaker 1: over who're gonna pay for this? Sound good to me? 601 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,839 Speaker 1: I don't know. But are we giving that type of 602 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:31,080 Speaker 1: care for conflicts across the world? I doubt it. I 603 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:35,520 Speaker 1: think some of it, again, is because these situations posed 604 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:42,280 Speaker 1: no threat to us, you know, like, is the Northern 605 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:48,640 Speaker 1: Ethiopia Coalition? Are they going to invade? And no, we 606 00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:52,480 Speaker 1: don't care. Obviously that sucks for me to say, but 607 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:59,440 Speaker 1: it's true. The calculation has much more to do with 608 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,920 Speaker 1: how does this affect us? Rather than how much blood 609 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:10,080 Speaker 1: might be shared, because again it's just street shit. And 610 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,160 Speaker 1: then the last thing you have to calculate, which is 611 00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:17,040 Speaker 1: what I've been trying to say earlier about like this 612 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,120 Speaker 1: fool got nukes is they're calling it the red line. 613 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,920 Speaker 1: That's what they're calling about. What is the What is 614 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:27,880 Speaker 1: the line that if we do too much, we're just 615 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:32,640 Speaker 1: gonna set Vladimir off so bad that it ends up 616 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,800 Speaker 1: being a problem for the whole world. Like the homie 617 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:40,400 Speaker 1: justin the company man says, I don't have the answers 618 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:46,520 Speaker 1: to these questions. So yeah, man, rest in peace to 619 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:54,680 Speaker 1: Tyree Nichols. Man. I'm praying for peace for his mama, 620 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:59,680 Speaker 1: praying for black people everywhere who are subject to seeing 621 00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:04,040 Speaker 1: us again. Man, you know, praying from my own neighborhood 622 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,880 Speaker 1: in Monterey Park. That that's down the street y'all know, 623 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,120 Speaker 1: Like if y'all don't know La, like that's Montery Park. 624 00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,880 Speaker 1: Is it borders East La. It's I mean, it's just 625 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,960 Speaker 1: Asian part of town. Like this is a very special 626 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,400 Speaker 1: that's Look, that's where when I go to the movies, 627 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,560 Speaker 1: it's in Monterey Park. That's like, that's how close it 628 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:29,200 Speaker 1: is to my house. It's just so much violence out 629 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,960 Speaker 1: here to die, and it sucks when you feel like 630 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:39,120 Speaker 1: nobody's coming to help you, you know, and especially when 631 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:46,280 Speaker 1: that violence is you know, in Tyree's place and actually 632 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:51,320 Speaker 1: in the um Montery Park situation and half Moon based situation. 633 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:52,719 Speaker 1: Well no, I don't know about the half Moon based 634 00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,359 Speaker 1: situation very much, but the Monerate base situation, it's done 635 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,719 Speaker 1: by the hands of people that look like us, that 636 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:03,320 Speaker 1: look like them, you know. M Then with Tyree, like 637 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,719 Speaker 1: it was done by the state because like got dog Man, 638 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:54,960 Speaker 1: nobody coming to help. So I understand, man, Sometimes you 639 00:44:55,040 --> 00:45:00,920 Speaker 1: gotta send that text and just hope somebody comes. On 640 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,480 Speaker 1: a personal note, there was once in my life where 641 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,480 Speaker 1: somebody owed my mother some money and just kept kind 642 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:17,080 Speaker 1: of chucking her around, and I was a good ten 643 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,560 Speaker 1: minutes from sending the text, and then my mom called 644 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,359 Speaker 1: and said he paid me back, and I was like, 645 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:30,120 Speaker 1: you just saved me from being an accessory. I almost 646 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:36,120 Speaker 1: sent the text. Man. I have so many other stories 647 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,799 Speaker 1: that I am not at liberty to share. But either way, 648 00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,560 Speaker 1: we sent the black the text was sent, the text 649 00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:47,560 Speaker 1: was received, and look at you can't unsend that text, y'all. 650 00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:53,799 Speaker 1: We can't unsend them. Weapons Germany. You win the game now, UK, 651 00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,720 Speaker 1: y'all in the game. Now we didn't all sent weapons. 652 00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:17,719 Speaker 1: We've made our choice. We'll see how I got politics, yo, y'o. 653 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,400 Speaker 1: This thing right here was recorded by Me Propaganda and 654 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:26,600 Speaker 1: East Low Spoiled Heights, Los Angeles, California. This thing was mixed, edited, mastered, 655 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,399 Speaker 1: and scored by the one and the only Matt Olsowski. 656 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,040 Speaker 1: Y'all check out this fool's music. I mean it's incredible. 657 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:38,640 Speaker 1: Executive produced by Sophie Lichterman for Cool Zone Media. Man, 658 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,359 Speaker 1: and thank you for everybody who continue to tap in 659 00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,560 Speaker 1: with us. Make sure you leaving reviews and five star 660 00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,640 Speaker 1: ratings and sharing it with the homies so we could 661 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,520 Speaker 1: get this thing pushed up in the algorithm and listen. 662 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:51,640 Speaker 1: I just want to remind you these people is not 663 00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:55,319 Speaker 1: smarter than you. If you understand city living, you understand politics. 664 00:46:55,360 --> 00:47:05,040 Speaker 1: We'll see you next week.