Speaker 1: I cracked a joke on Twitter about having a family
Speaker 1: member that when you call them, they're your problem solver,
Speaker 1: but sometimes they kind of like overly solved the problem
Speaker 1: that you can't unsend that call. You know that they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna fix the issue all Bernie like, like
Speaker 1: Amazon rainforests clearing for cattle grazing solve the problem. They
Speaker 1: just gonna torch it. And we're like, look, the ground's clear.
Speaker 1: We got family members like that that like it. You
Speaker 1: have to really count the cost on calling that cousin,
Speaker 1: that auntie, that uncle when the issue gets to a
Speaker 1: place to where you feel like you can't handle it
Speaker 1: on your own. And some of y'all replied like, oh, look,
Speaker 1: I am that cousin. Ha ha ha ha ha. Now
Speaker 1: maybe in a metaphorical sense, you probably are, but that's
Speaker 1: not the sense I'm talking about. Okay, this hood politics here,
Speaker 1: which you should know, aboy now, because you a whole
Speaker 1: minute into this episode. Cousin I'm talking about is the
Speaker 1: one that's gonna like it unless you beg them. They're
Speaker 1: gonna tie the body up and stash them in a
Speaker 1: hole somewhere. They're gonna commit a felony is what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say, probably multiple felonies. If you call this
Speaker 1: person for you you know what I'm saying. So like,
Speaker 1: if you go, if you're gonna sit in this text,
Speaker 1: you need to really really count the costs. And on
Speaker 1: the other hand, the person receiving that text, they also
Speaker 1: counting the costs. One about how much they actually love you,
Speaker 1: how much of a personal disc they feel, a personal
Speaker 1: insult or injury they feel by their family member. In
Speaker 1: this scenario, you being disrespected. Do they feel like that's
Speaker 1: a personal disrespect? Do they feel the juice's worth the squeeze?
Speaker 1: Do they feel like this is light work, this is
Speaker 1: something that we can handle without any particular repercussions. Do
Speaker 1: they feel like you have some sort of favor you
Speaker 1: could offer them back later on? Do they feel like
Speaker 1: if they get into this situation, is this gonna cause
Speaker 1: some repercussions for themselves that they are necessarily ready to handle.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of counting of costs here. The moral
Speaker 1: of the story is, if you send this text and
Speaker 1: this person received this text, you gotta understand you can't
Speaker 1: unsend this. Do you look you when you squeeze the
Speaker 1: toothpaste out of the toothpaste little thing. You can't get
Speaker 1: it back into tube. You can't unsay this. I'm reminded
Speaker 1: of the scene in Boys in the Hood when Doe
Speaker 1: Boy and m was on their way to ride and
Speaker 1: old Cuba gunnon Cuba gunning. Junior's character was like, hey,
Speaker 1: stop the car, I'm getting out. They look at him
Speaker 1: and they like, all right, you you're getting out, and
Speaker 1: he liked them getting out. He made that decision because
Speaker 1: here's the thing if you continue on that, there's a
Speaker 1: point to where you like, listen, once we turn this corner,
Speaker 1: ain't no getting out, ain't no getting out now out
Speaker 1: in streets in the in the rules of the streets
Speaker 1: and streets certification, like listen, like if you if you
Speaker 1: wear this flag, you rock this band down, or you
Speaker 1: wear this cousin, you're not allowed to get out the car.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, Cuba Gooding carry. He hain't signed
Speaker 1: up all this. That's just his family. He just in
Speaker 1: a situation where he felt like he was down. But
Speaker 1: you know what, like he you know, he went on
Speaker 1: to go to Moorhouse. Do you feel me? I remember
Speaker 1: the interview of Game. Game was talking about the difference
Speaker 1: between him and Kendrick. He was like, I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, I have sort of the intelligence of the
Speaker 1: tiler to Kendrick. Just Kendrick had the sense enough to
Speaker 1: get out the car. He was like, Um, it was
Speaker 1: too late for me. I already signed up for this.
Speaker 1: I felt like I couldn't. But looking back, man, I
Speaker 1: should have got out the car. I should have. Kendrick
Speaker 1: was smart get off the car. Like, you don't have
Speaker 1: to live like this. But either way, if you if
Speaker 1: you if you're gonna send that text, if you in
Speaker 1: a situation where you feel like you can't handle this
Speaker 1: on your own, you need some help. You need some
Speaker 1: backup up, you know. I think JB said it last week, like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Dare. I'm gonna go help you in
Speaker 1: this fight. But you gotta remember you gotta help me
Speaker 1: when I need it too, and that you gotta help
Speaker 1: me when I need it too. You know, pay me
Speaker 1: back later, get me next time. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's sometimes that's a really high cost, especially if you're
Speaker 1: not really you know, with it. So whether you're sending
Speaker 1: the text or receiving the text, there's some thoughts to
Speaker 1: be thought. Let's talk about the US in Germany sending
Speaker 1: them weapons to Ukraine, hood politics. All right, so welcome. First, Secondly,
Speaker 1: I'm recording this like the weekend of the Tyree Nichols
Speaker 1: video dropping, so not very okay right now, especially just
Speaker 1: talking about violence. You know, I think there was a
Speaker 1: part of me that, like any other black man, you know,
Speaker 1: got triggered. I think there's a study out of Rutgers
Speaker 1: University that talked about the experience of black people having
Speaker 1: PTSD from like watching us being murdered. But you know
Speaker 1: that it's called linked fate. That's the name of the
Speaker 1: phenomenon to where we just you know it really it
Speaker 1: really messes with us, I think in a very unique way.
Speaker 1: I think this one, you know, obviously has another layer
Speaker 1: in the sense of one, it's just brutality, and then
Speaker 1: secondly the fact that they were you know, black officers,
Speaker 1: and I try to prepare myself, you know, I had
Speaker 1: a little little TikTok, a little video go kind of
Speaker 1: go crazy, just you know, kind of talking about the situation,
Speaker 1: which I can get into a little later. But I
Speaker 1: think it's important, even in this episode to talk about
Speaker 1: just the effects of continual violence, you know, on the Psyche,
Speaker 1: Like I really didn't want to record an episode this week,
Speaker 1: like Alams didn't even want to do hood politics at all,
Speaker 1: because I'm just like, man, I'm tired of talking about
Speaker 1: hood stuff, man, you know, And I think this is why.
Speaker 1: It's because hearing them officers talk just sounded like gang shit.
Speaker 1: Y'all ran up on an op and you beat the
Speaker 1: brakes off him, and as that man laying there, they
Speaker 1: just kind of going over there, you know, sort of
Speaker 1: the just like the the post game play by play
Speaker 1: about now man, y'all you know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 1: just I don't even want to like reenact it, but
Speaker 1: just when I say verbatim, maybe not verbat him because
Speaker 1: that's like too literal. I've heard that conversation a ton
Speaker 1: of times. It's did you know again after you just
Speaker 1: stomped somebody out, you know, and you catching your breath,
Speaker 1: you talk about parts of you that heard like that
Speaker 1: scene because of like how do I how do I
Speaker 1: explain this? I don't wish like gangshit on nobody, whether
Speaker 1: you lived it, lived through it, you know, somebody like meat,
Speaker 1: I was just there and even like you know, like
Speaker 1: in the beginning game talking about man like I know
Speaker 1: this did a number on me, Like I know that
Speaker 1: she was not healthy, but it's just what It's just
Speaker 1: what it was. This is just who we were. And
Speaker 1: I think for your own psyche, it's like to keep
Speaker 1: your own self together, you have to figure out how
Speaker 1: to like redeem some of them things that you knew.
Speaker 1: It was just like, nobody posted to live like this,
Speaker 1: but we did, and it made us who we are.
Speaker 1: And you can't live in the past. You can't like
Speaker 1: live with regret. You have to figure out a way
Speaker 1: to redeem your story, you know what I'm saying. Any
Speaker 1: of us who were able to survive a lot of this,
Speaker 1: remembering that we saw death at an age, nobody should like,
Speaker 1: let's just be real. We shouldn't have been experiencing death
Speaker 1: the way we experienced death, and it as early as
Speaker 1: we experienced death, you know, and as frequent you just
Speaker 1: nobody should live through that we just did, you know,
Speaker 1: But nobody should like that's not that's no way to live.
Speaker 1: It's no way. It's nothing to like for real, for real,
Speaker 1: it's nothing to glorify it. That's why when you hear
Speaker 1: rappers who really lived the ship when they talk about
Speaker 1: like Nigga, we're not glorifying it. This is just our stories.
Speaker 1: We're just being truthful about our stories like they I
Speaker 1: honestly believe niggas believe it like it is truthful. We
Speaker 1: are not glorifying it. But at the same time, like,
Speaker 1: how opposed to keep my psyche together if I can't
Speaker 1: find some sort of joy or meaning in what we
Speaker 1: went through. I'm rambling right now. But the point I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make is hearing them talk about just the
Speaker 1: post fight play by play after they stomped this boy
Speaker 1: out was way too familiar to me, and I feel
Speaker 1: like triggering is such a like triggering word, but that's
Speaker 1: the way it felt for me. I'm not even layering
Speaker 1: the fact that they was police. I'm talking about specifically
Speaker 1: the experience of being ran up on and stomped out. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the next question for you would be like, have I
Speaker 1: ever been stomped out? I've never been stomped out. I've
Speaker 1: gotten out of situations, I've had the threat of being
Speaker 1: stomped out, I've got away, I've talked to myself out
Speaker 1: of stuff. But that pit in your stomach, that part
Speaker 1: of you that's preparing yourself. And some people like that adrenaline.
Speaker 1: They like that adrenaline rush. You know, we remember the
Speaker 1: episode we talked about, like, yo, these are the rules
Speaker 1: when you're gonna get jumped. It's like, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: you prepare yourself for pain. You just cover up your
Speaker 1: you know, vital organs. You know, don't let nobody get
Speaker 1: behind you. You just hope that the damage ain't as
Speaker 1: bad as it gonna be. But you look, I'm a
Speaker 1: dog walk one of y'all, but I'll be damn you
Speaker 1: dog walk me. And you you're like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever been in this situation. And the thing
Speaker 1: is like, how frequently is the point I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get to. How frequently we've been in situations where this
Speaker 1: is for our life or for some serious, real, real,
Speaker 1: real safety. I'm about to experience some severe pain and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get out of it, you know, And
Speaker 1: I hope the homies help, but if they don't, maybe
Speaker 1: we'll get revenge later. But right now, I need to
Speaker 1: try to make myself seven feet tall and three hundred
Speaker 1: more pounds to try to fight this off, or I
Speaker 1: need to just hope these niggas get tired, you know,
Speaker 1: just there's there's strategies to the thing. But that's when
Speaker 1: it's gangshit. When NATA police, oh god, when you add
Speaker 1: another layer of the fact that this is the police,
Speaker 1: what option you got? There is no fighting back, there's
Speaker 1: no strategy. It's the state. The state is doing this.
Speaker 1: Who going out, Who's gonna who's gonna jump in. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I can express to you the depths
Speaker 1: of fear and despair when you realize no one's coming
Speaker 1: to help. I like, let's pause this for a second,
Speaker 1: no one's coming. When I saw that paramedic coming like
Speaker 1: kind of like, try to help him out. When I
Speaker 1: tell you why they still talking about he's sitting there,
Speaker 1: Why they're still talking about stomping him out? When I
Speaker 1: tell you how deeply that hit a chord for me
Speaker 1: to the point to where I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to do her politics no more. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: just don't don't want to talk about none of this
Speaker 1: shit no more. Tired, naked, tired, like and those other
Speaker 1: black men that did it, dude, oh man. And whether
Speaker 1: these officers are understand the depths of like institutionalized racism
Speaker 1: and self hate and being indoctrinated by joining a system
Speaker 1: that is clearly biased and giving that person that power
Speaker 1: almost like being an overseer oversea oversea oversea officer, you know,
Speaker 1: black black, black cop, Like if you whether they know
Speaker 1: the depths of like the psychological sort of trauma and
Speaker 1: implications that causes, you know, that badge giving you that
Speaker 1: feeling of power that you can exert that kind of
Speaker 1: power over somebody in the streets like this who was
Speaker 1: running from you because you sprayed them, whether they understand
Speaker 1: that or whether it was like, man, I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to get these blows off, I'm just it just kind
Speaker 1: of feel good to beat the nigga up, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like whether or it's just that street
Speaker 1: shit who clearly also doesn't understand the depths of self
Speaker 1: hate in how those things work. And that again, if
Speaker 1: the institution is biased, and race is a social construct,
Speaker 1: which it is as it relates to power, which means
Speaker 1: that anyone despite their color, can participate in institutions that
Speaker 1: uphold that thing, despite whatever your color is, then you
Speaker 1: know you would understand how a act like this, which
Speaker 1: is as you like to say, black on black crime
Speaker 1: is still a vector of systemic racism and anti blackness,
Speaker 1: even though it was carried out by black hands. If
Speaker 1: you really understand how that works. There's a whole body
Speaker 1: of study about how race intersects like that, and it'd
Speaker 1: be critical for you to understand that. Yeah it's called
Speaker 1: critical race theory, but you know that's banned. You'd understand
Speaker 1: how all that works together. But I digress. The point
Speaker 1: is no one was coming. And I think that that
Speaker 1: depth of despair is the piece I want to talk
Speaker 1: about because it's that point that makes you want to
Speaker 1: send that text. Let's talk about it after the break.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back now. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: the obviously the war in Ukraine and Germany and America
Speaker 1: deciding to all right, we're gonna send the blicky's, We're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna send it, send the heavy, the heavy stuff.
Speaker 1: And I want to talk about what this means that
Speaker 1: Ukraine understands about the situation, uh, the implications that America
Speaker 1: needs to think about, like in this in what we
Speaker 1: thought about. But I think more interesting is what Germany
Speaker 1: need really need to think about if they really gonna
Speaker 1: send their heavy artillery stuff. But before that, Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's some sort of there's blood running in the streets
Speaker 1: in East Jerusalem right now, some sort of green light
Speaker 1: has been lit out there. They're killing each other in
Speaker 1: the streets again. And while America and the rest of
Speaker 1: the West is talking about all that in the news,
Speaker 1: it's interesting because we might be sending a person over
Speaker 1: to the Middle over to uh Israel and pala Stign
Speaker 1: to try to broker some sort of piece, but like,
Speaker 1: are we really willing to get in this? How do
Speaker 1: you like this? A synagogue shot up, but that's because
Speaker 1: there was a shooting before that. And when we talk
Speaker 1: about East Jerusalem, what you're talking about is a place
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be Palestine, but it's also has Israeli
Speaker 1: like settlements inside of what's supposed to be Palestine. So
Speaker 1: there's just this like you know, whenever we the law
Speaker 1: go way back in the episode called You wasn't outside
Speaker 1: where I was trying to lay out, like really what's
Speaker 1: going on over there and how it's almost impossible for
Speaker 1: it's too thorny for any of us to really understand
Speaker 1: what's happening over there. But I tell you what, I know,
Speaker 1: the feeling that nobody's coming. I understand that you, like, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't look, I don't y'all not gonna help us.
Speaker 1: I need somebody who's down to send the key, who
Speaker 1: down to blow some shit up. Ain't nobody gonna help us?
Speaker 1: Nobody praying for me? I know that desperation, granted, not
Speaker 1: enough to put the heater in my aunt, but enough
Speaker 1: to send the text now on some street. Shit. Is
Speaker 1: that cowardly? Maybe that I'm not willing to pull the
Speaker 1: trigger myself. I don't know, but I have been scared
Speaker 1: enough to think that had I had a heater on
Speaker 1: me at that moment, that I probably would have You
Speaker 1: just I listen, I can't explain to you the fear
Speaker 1: of when you when looking across the eyes of this
Speaker 1: you know, this damo blood. I'm just in the fact
Speaker 1: that like where I'm like, this man might take my life,
Speaker 1: you know, and and like just the desperation of being like,
Speaker 1: had not my cousin jump in, it would have been
Speaker 1: like it would have been a very my cousin jumped in,
Speaker 1: you know. And I'll be it, I'm eternally grateful for
Speaker 1: one of my cousins jumping in, But I'm very it's
Speaker 1: very interesting to see America's position here in relation to
Speaker 1: America's position in the war in Ukraine. If you don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on, I don't know you. Apparently you
Speaker 1: you've you've you've protected your mental health much better than
Speaker 1: the rest of us, and you've kind of sort of
Speaker 1: buried your head and don't understand there have been a
Speaker 1: war going on between Russia and Ukraine for the last year.
Speaker 1: But essentially that to make it, like I always try
Speaker 1: to do in the Crimea River episodes, I try to
Speaker 1: give y'alls at least a perspective, not a validation, but
Speaker 1: a perspective from Russia and from Ukraine, and from Russia's perspective. Again,
Speaker 1: Russia don't believe Ukraine should be a country anyway. They
Speaker 1: still believe that this all because of the Cold War.
Speaker 1: You don't broke up, our empire got broken up. But okay,
Speaker 1: it is what it is. I guess you your own thing,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna give us back Crimea. So they got
Speaker 1: back Crimea in whatever shady, jankie weird ways they got it.
Speaker 1: But ultimately the deal is this all right, Ukraine. Look,
Speaker 1: we'll stop, we'll drop it, We'll squash it. But just man,
Speaker 1: don't join NATO. Dog. We don't need them niggas in
Speaker 1: our backyard. Craine is like, I don't trust y'all. I
Speaker 1: don't know, like I can't really make a deal with you,
Speaker 1: like I don't trust you. How I supposed to make
Speaker 1: a deal with somebody that don't think we should exist,
Speaker 1: that still think you we belong to you, like I
Speaker 1: need some backup, homie. And then from the Russian side,
Speaker 1: they like fam that's that was our only request. Again,
Speaker 1: like I said in no early episodes, you don't need
Speaker 1: the like the opposition hood in your backyard, like we
Speaker 1: cool as long as y'all way over there, like if
Speaker 1: you Russia, and it's like, okay, nay, don't way over there.
Speaker 1: I don't need y'all in my backyard, Like that shit
Speaker 1: is dangerous. I want my neighbor clicking up, like you
Speaker 1: don't want your neighbor a part of a rival set,
Speaker 1: like like this is dangerous, but your neighbor like, well,
Speaker 1: you dangerous too, y'all volatile. I don't undert y'all crazy,
Speaker 1: And like I listen, I have grossly underestimated the amount
Speaker 1: of cloud that Vladimir Putin has been able to continue
Speaker 1: to uphold because I thought at some point then rich
Speaker 1: Russian arligars would be like, okay, enough you is messing
Speaker 1: up the money. But no, no, he's still doing this thing.
Speaker 1: And now I feel like it's a matter of principality.
Speaker 1: Now it's a matter of pride, because you wasn't suposed
Speaker 1: to go over there and get your ass beat and
Speaker 1: just declare yourself a winner one day in certain regions
Speaker 1: that be like, all right, we run this. The people's
Speaker 1: foking like you're still just trying to bully your way
Speaker 1: over here because you actually listen again, you just declare
Speaker 1: yourself the winner right then in certain parts of the country,
Speaker 1: But listen, I don't know, I look at going back
Speaker 1: to the street fighting thing. I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: anything scarier than a person that just won't drop, Like
Speaker 1: if you're giving them, I mean two pieces with a
Speaker 1: side of fries, like you giving them or everything you
Speaker 1: got and they not dropping. That's terrifying. Cray not dropping.
Speaker 1: So at this point, you like, maybe I could outlast them,
Speaker 1: and I could outgun them, right, but as we all know,
Speaker 1: Russia guns is trash, right Zelisk in Ukraine going help
Speaker 1: me help me right looking at the rest of the west,
Speaker 1: like y'all see this food look so crane is like, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm counting the costs. I'm out here getting stumped out.
Speaker 1: I'm fighting back. I'm holding my own you know, but listen,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much longer I could last. I
Speaker 1: think it's time to send that text. So if you're
Speaker 1: the if you're Ukraine, you like, I know, if I
Speaker 1: send this text, I'm gonna owe you a favor. At
Speaker 1: this point, my situation is so bad and it's so long.
Speaker 1: I just want this shit to be over. And I
Speaker 1: know because you got it right there, and I already
Speaker 1: know you don't like this nigga either, Like this could
Speaker 1: be good for everybody. Fam, cut the chat, send the goons,
Speaker 1: or if you can't send the goons, at least sending
Speaker 1: the sticks. Man, send me some sticks. Fam you y'all, y'all, y'all,
Speaker 1: paddocket you you're sending me these little twigs, like I
Speaker 1: need the sticks, Homies so I can end this. You
Speaker 1: see me out, You see I got heart, you see
Speaker 1: like our folks can handle it. Man, send the sticks, Germany,
Speaker 1: you around the corner, dog like we share a border homie.
Speaker 1: You don't think you're not next. Send the sticks, bro,
Speaker 1: got dog man, Send the sticks now. If you Germany
Speaker 1: and you're America and even the UK, you're thinking, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know I really don't like lad But I also
Speaker 1: really I have to think what is his what's his
Speaker 1: cut offline? Because they know, like they know that he
Speaker 1: know that we homies with the Ukraine, that we that
Speaker 1: we back to Ukraine. He he know that he knows
Speaker 1: me to opt and you know, like you're supposed to
Speaker 1: back up your homie, like he know that, So of
Speaker 1: course in his brain he like, I can only bully
Speaker 1: you to tell you to stay out this fight for
Speaker 1: so long. I can only like convince you to like,
Speaker 1: don't jump in for long enough that but at some
Speaker 1: point I know they're gonna jump in. But if you America,
Speaker 1: if you Germany, you have to figure out you got
Speaker 1: to try to get in Vladimir's head and be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: now if I jump in, when does this problem go
Speaker 1: from me helping to being my problem? Es? Actually, if
Speaker 1: you journey, when does me sending these tanks turn into
Speaker 1: me helping the homie to me inheriting his beef? Because
Speaker 1: Ain't nothing worse than inherited beef, some stuff. You ain't
Speaker 1: had nothing to do it. Now you ow you in
Speaker 1: the fight. Ain't let me tell something. Ain't nothing worse?
Speaker 1: Would you? When you get secondhand smoke? You feel me?
Speaker 1: That's what Germany trying to avoid. They trying to avoid
Speaker 1: the secondhand smoke. Don't nobody won't know secondhand smoke. That's
Speaker 1: not even It wasn't even my problem, and then now
Speaker 1: it is. And the other part of that problem is like,
Speaker 1: what if my helping don't help? What if I try
Speaker 1: to come in here and do this and then make
Speaker 1: this nigga so mad that he starts taking it out
Speaker 1: even worse on the rest of these civilians because he
Speaker 1: just salty that somebody jumped in and now I'm now
Speaker 1: I'm making matters worse. So it's a lot to think about.
Speaker 1: This is why it's in our news. Gee, we give
Speaker 1: weapons all the time all over the world. Why is
Speaker 1: we talking about? Why is this a big deal? Why
Speaker 1: is Zelinsky allowed to address our Congress? I mean, some
Speaker 1: of it could say hash tag whiteness. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying? Like again, something for some reason, this particular
Speaker 1: war is most special than the rest of the wars
Speaker 1: we involved in across the world. None of their presidents
Speaker 1: get to pull up and be like, yo, y'all gonna help.
Speaker 1: That don't happen with none of the brown folk, you understand,
Speaker 1: saying like okay. So one could make a very good
Speaker 1: argument that that's because these is white people, white people.
Speaker 1: One could also make the argument that it's because Russians
Speaker 1: are I mean, these are our main enemies. This the
Speaker 1: old like this are old, like you know, our sparring partner.
Speaker 1: You can make that argument too, that that's why this
Speaker 1: this hits a particular sort of like like cord. But
Speaker 1: I think there's also I think all those things are true.
Speaker 1: I also think a third one. The third one is nukes,
Speaker 1: nukes under the finger of Vladimir because that nigga crazy
Speaker 1: and like, this has bigger repercussions. Now listen, it got
Speaker 1: bigger repercussions on the nukes, but we all the way
Speaker 1: on another continent. Not if you Germany, nigga, your oil
Speaker 1: come from there, your power come from there. Nigga ain't
Speaker 1: next door. Now, for most of my life I've lived
Speaker 1: next to except for at my MoMA house when we
Speaker 1: was in the Burbs. My particular street was that was
Speaker 1: that was all right, Joe said it, but what was it?
Speaker 1: Lat But I was in Whittier, like I look, there
Speaker 1: was a and now there's a blessing and a curse
Speaker 1: to living next to volatile people. You The blessing is,
Speaker 1: don't nobody wants to smoke, y'all said, because you know
Speaker 1: your neighbor crazy. Right. The curse is everybody wanted to
Speaker 1: smoke because your neighbor crazy. Listen, man, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: Politics is just it's just, it's just hood levy y'all. Okay.
Speaker 1: Now a few specifics. America agreed to give these like
Speaker 1: Patriot missiles, which at first we weren't trying to give
Speaker 1: them the big guns because we was not confident according
Speaker 1: to I mean, this is what we said. We was
Speaker 1: not confident that they was actually able to operate them.
Speaker 1: You know, what's the point of giving you these things?
Speaker 1: If we got to fly over there and train you
Speaker 1: on how to use them like this like this, that's
Speaker 1: at least that's the cover story, which I agree, because
Speaker 1: now we're sending people over and don't nobody like niggas
Speaker 1: ain't I'm not ain't going I ain't going over there now,
Speaker 1: like you can borrow you can. It's like somebody helping
Speaker 1: you move. It's like you can borrow my truck. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna help you move, but you can borrow the
Speaker 1: truck though. You know, I'm saying, oh man, that'd been
Speaker 1: a whole funny premise for this too. That's less violent anyway,
Speaker 1: so we'll send you the things. So that was a
Speaker 1: cover story. But I think, as you just heard me
Speaker 1: explain over this last twenty minutes, I think there was
Speaker 1: more more to it than we don't know if they
Speaker 1: know how to use it. And then the rest of
Speaker 1: European countries are now sending over these tanks, okay, and
Speaker 1: this type of heavy artillery what it does in the war,
Speaker 1: it's without getting into too much just warmongering and like
Speaker 1: battle theory, but essentially it's like any boxing match or
Speaker 1: sporting thing in the sense that there's this and it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to tell. It's a very like hindsight kind
Speaker 1: of situation, or you have to really be kind of
Speaker 1: endo the thing. But to spot these critical windows of time,
Speaker 1: I think when you like, if you're like an avid
Speaker 1: sports watcher, depending on what type of athlete you're talking about,
Speaker 1: there's a moment in like, you know, if it's basketball,
Speaker 1: like in the third or fourth quarter, where momentum, like
Speaker 1: that's something that people talk about, like just this intangible
Speaker 1: thing where something inside one of this team just kind
Speaker 1: of flares up and it's like we're not losing this
Speaker 1: that change that shift, and then they go on like
Speaker 1: a twenty point streak and then maybe the other team
Speaker 1: can rally a comeback. But there's something that happens mentally,
Speaker 1: even when you're down by like fifteen, it's like it's
Speaker 1: it's intangible. But when you it's like if you're an
Speaker 1: avid sports watcher, you know it when you see it
Speaker 1: when the game shifts and you're like, oh, these they're
Speaker 1: gonna win a day. I remember once one of the
Speaker 1: obviously you know me, I'm you know, I believe the Lakers.
Speaker 1: It was during the Bubble Finals, which okay, everybody always
Speaker 1: puts an asterick on that, but a win is a win.
Speaker 1: But in one of the games, it was like the
Speaker 1: first quarter, a d Anthony Davis, you know, gets a rebound,
Speaker 1: puts the ball back, dumps it in a certain way,
Speaker 1: and his whole body, his whole like just his body
Speaker 1: language changed. It's like he just evolved into am and
Speaker 1: raw right there, and it was like we're winning this game.
Speaker 1: Just there's just something in like this this competitor where
Speaker 1: you're like I am not losing, and like I wish
Speaker 1: you could see like my arms balled, my fist balled
Speaker 1: up in this day like that that happens. So if
Speaker 1: you're the West, back to the war thing, you're watching
Speaker 1: this and you see basically like now switching sports to
Speaker 1: like boxing to where you know, you Craine getting a
Speaker 1: few good jabs in there, but it's all defensive, like
Speaker 1: you're just you're just basically holding off these things. Like
Speaker 1: I said, you're taking blows, but you're not falling. Russia
Speaker 1: can't finish you off. So there's this window of opportunity
Speaker 1: that if you're watching, you say, actually, bro, if you
Speaker 1: can land this next punch at the right time in
Speaker 1: the right window, then this whole fight changes and now
Speaker 1: you're on the offense. So this type of weaponry that
Speaker 1: the West is looking at at this particular moment is
Speaker 1: deciding that like, if this is gonna end in any
Speaker 1: way one they need better ways to defend themselves and
Speaker 1: to a chance to go offensive to not just stop Russia,
Speaker 1: but push Russia out because if again, if these foods
Speaker 1: going to actually be NATO nation, you can't be no punk.
Speaker 1: And again, nobody wants secondhand smoke. And if you join NATO,
Speaker 1: it's official, you just gave a secondhand smoke, right so,
Speaker 1: and again going back to the metaphor America, No, you
Speaker 1: right next door, right next door to the op And
Speaker 1: if you were America, you wouldn't want that on your doorstep. Heil.
Speaker 1: We did a whole thing on Iran contract that was
Speaker 1: America saying I don't want this next door nig like
Speaker 1: that's this, this this, this same seas won't want the
Speaker 1: next door So anyway, so you're so as the West.
Speaker 1: That's one of your calculations in like in actuality, like
Speaker 1: you're calculating is this the right time to give them
Speaker 1: the right things? Is this a chance for them that
Speaker 1: can they actually turn this into a win. Secondly, like
Speaker 1: we said before, can you handle this type of weaponry?
Speaker 1: You know, you don't mess around, hurt yourself. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, shoot your old toe of shadow, bob this mug.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, if I give you
Speaker 1: the wrong stuff you're not prepared for it, which is
Speaker 1: pretty sucky to think like that, but it is what
Speaker 1: it is. And then thirdly, like I said before, is
Speaker 1: this gonna make Vladimir too angry? And if it is,
Speaker 1: am I giving y'all enough heat with enough training to
Speaker 1: squash it before it comes to our doorset. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a lot to think about. Now. All the western
Speaker 1: countries are looking at each other almost being like, okay,
Speaker 1: you go first. Collect you gotta put yourself in this
Speaker 1: position here Russia volatile, so uk like right, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll give him something. You give him something America like,
Speaker 1: we'll do it to Germany. Do it Germany, like I'll
Speaker 1: give him the tanks. You give them them tanks, you
Speaker 1: give them them missiles. I'll give him our tanks. You first,
Speaker 1: NIGGI I mean we are Our tanks are old. You
Speaker 1: can ask you. We got this, we got this one
Speaker 1: special tank. But hell, I look, you go first, job
Speaker 1: saying like you have all these people that are available
Speaker 1: and able to actually change as world. We decide among
Speaker 1: each other like I go, if you go, But I
Speaker 1: ain't going by myself, Nigga, ain't sitting that over there
Speaker 1: by myself could you gonna help me. Like JB said
Speaker 1: last week, I'll jump I'll jump in, but you gotta
Speaker 1: help me later. That's happening around the side of the squabbles.
Speaker 1: Country's broke around with each other looking at each other
Speaker 1: like this, like listen, dog, this ain't I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a lot like high school, but the stakes is much higher.
Speaker 1: This ain't like you know, I go to the party,
Speaker 1: you go to the party, or you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I help, if you help, I go with him. You
Speaker 1: was like, Noah, you know what I'm saying, Like nations
Speaker 1: could die. It won't do this right. We might be
Speaker 1: setting it traject you for the next fifteen twenty years,
Speaker 1: might have a whole new Western front. We won't do
Speaker 1: this right. So there's a lot to think about. In
Speaker 1: addition to this, the weapons that you actually choose, Like
Speaker 1: you have to remember the wars in the beginning was
Speaker 1: a it was a city war, like those were mostly
Speaker 1: urban areas, so the help we was given were conducive
Speaker 1: to that. I always laugh when you see like, uh,
Speaker 1: sort of like military fatigues when they bring in like
Speaker 1: military grade police into the city and I'm like, is
Speaker 1: that camouflage? What is you camouflage? Why are you wearing
Speaker 1: fatigues in the city, Like, that's not and that's supposed
Speaker 1: to camouflage. You look ridiculous, right, So you want stuff
Speaker 1: that actually matches the situation. Situation has moved away from
Speaker 1: the cities and now it's in more rural, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of open field areas, more towards you know, these
Speaker 1: border lands. So the question now is like and it's winter,
Speaker 1: Like it's like, you know, it's cold now, you know,
Speaker 1: and what are we actually protecting. We're protecting power grids,
Speaker 1: protecting water sources, right, you're pushing them out of particular areas.
Speaker 1: So you need you need tools that match you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying in your situation. So while you just
Speaker 1: asking us, you know what I'm saying, Yo, send the heat,
Speaker 1: Send the heat, Send the heat, we need to be like, okay,
Speaker 1: well what heat should we send and will it really help?
Speaker 1: And again, like I said, that's also very insulting in
Speaker 1: the sense that like you think them foods don't know
Speaker 1: what they need, Like really, I think they do know
Speaker 1: what they need. But either way, we have to decide,
Speaker 1: like is this juice worth to squeeze? And again there's
Speaker 1: a whole conversation to be had about are we giving
Speaker 1: this much care to Yemen? To African nations? I just
Speaker 1: heard we sent a delegation down to Africa because we're
Speaker 1: trying to like different nations of Africa, because we're trying to, like,
Speaker 1: we need to get in on that sweet, sweet, sweet
Speaker 1: sweet trade money that China been raking up on for
Speaker 1: the past couple of years, past couple of decades. China
Speaker 1: invest a lot of money in Africa. Some African nations
Speaker 1: are like, look, we don't need none of y'all money. Okay,
Speaker 1: you don't really love us, you never had. Other African
Speaker 1: nations are like, Nigga, cut the check. Yeah, y'all fight
Speaker 1: over who're gonna pay for this? Sound good to me?
Speaker 1: I don't know. But are we giving that type of
Speaker 1: care for conflicts across the world? I doubt it. I
Speaker 1: think some of it, again, is because these situations posed
Speaker 1: no threat to us, you know, like, is the Northern
Speaker 1: Ethiopia Coalition? Are they going to invade? And no, we
Speaker 1: don't care. Obviously that sucks for me to say, but
Speaker 1: it's true. The calculation has much more to do with
Speaker 1: how does this affect us? Rather than how much blood
Speaker 1: might be shared, because again it's just street shit. And
Speaker 1: then the last thing you have to calculate, which is
Speaker 1: what I've been trying to say earlier about like this
Speaker 1: fool got nukes is they're calling it the red line.
Speaker 1: That's what they're calling about. What is the What is
Speaker 1: the line that if we do too much, we're just
Speaker 1: gonna set Vladimir off so bad that it ends up
Speaker 1: being a problem for the whole world. Like the homie
Speaker 1: justin the company man says, I don't have the answers
Speaker 1: to these questions. So yeah, man, rest in peace to
Speaker 1: Tyree Nichols. Man. I'm praying for peace for his mama,
Speaker 1: praying for black people everywhere who are subject to seeing
Speaker 1: us again. Man, you know, praying from my own neighborhood
Speaker 1: in Monterey Park. That that's down the street y'all know,
Speaker 1: Like if y'all don't know La, like that's Montery Park.
Speaker 1: Is it borders East La. It's I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: Asian part of town. Like this is a very special
Speaker 1: that's Look, that's where when I go to the movies,
Speaker 1: it's in Monterey Park. That's like, that's how close it
Speaker 1: is to my house. It's just so much violence out
Speaker 1: here to die, and it sucks when you feel like
Speaker 1: nobody's coming to help you, you know, and especially when
Speaker 1: that violence is you know, in Tyree's place and actually
Speaker 1: in the um Montery Park situation and half Moon based situation.
Speaker 1: Well no, I don't know about the half Moon based
Speaker 1: situation very much, but the Monerate base situation, it's done
Speaker 1: by the hands of people that look like us, that
Speaker 1: look like them, you know. M Then with Tyree, like
Speaker 1: it was done by the state because like got dog Man,
Speaker 1: nobody coming to help. So I understand, man, Sometimes you
Speaker 1: gotta send that text and just hope somebody comes. On
Speaker 1: a personal note, there was once in my life where
Speaker 1: somebody owed my mother some money and just kept kind
Speaker 1: of chucking her around, and I was a good ten
Speaker 1: minutes from sending the text, and then my mom called
Speaker 1: and said he paid me back, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you just saved me from being an accessory. I almost
Speaker 1: sent the text. Man. I have so many other stories
Speaker 1: that I am not at liberty to share. But either way,
Speaker 1: we sent the black the text was sent, the text
Speaker 1: was received, and look at you can't unsend that text, y'all.
Speaker 1: We can't unsend them. Weapons Germany. You win the game now, UK,
Speaker 1: y'all in the game. Now we didn't all sent weapons.
Speaker 1: We've made our choice. We'll see how I got politics, yo, y'o.
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