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Speaker 1: the money you made, we talk about extra avocado. That's

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Speaker 1: what we talking about. But anyway, that extra avocado saved

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Speaker 1: millions of lives. Is the point they're trying to make.

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00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: You could end world hunger, so we need to make

427
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Speaker 1: a case for that. So us not knowing Trump one

428
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: oh one, just having a feeling about Trump one oh one.

429
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: When they said all right, it's up for it's up

430
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: for like renewal. Usaid the money to end world hunger,

431
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: it's up for renewal. We were like, they got renew it.

432
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: He was like nah. So they was like listen, we

433
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: got to like we got to figure out how to

434
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Speaker 1: make a groundswell, right, pressure the administration to not stop this.

435
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: Now this was the first this was the first Trump administration. Right,

436
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 1: So we need to make music, we need to do

437
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 1: do whatever we need to do to use our social

438
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,879
Speaker 1: medias whatever the case. They basically like they need a

439
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: new voice that is protecting the moral compass of America

440
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: as a global institution. Is the wait for which they

441
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: sold us to us? Now here's here's a freebie. Okay,

442
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 1: this was put together by the Gates Foundation. Now, before

443
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 1: you judge me, I had never heard of the Gates Foundation.

444
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 1: I just knew these people were very kind for which

445
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: that I met, in the way for which they treated me.

446
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 1: I was like, this is dope. It's to me. These

447
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 1: are nameless and faceless white people. Said they're billionaire philanthropists

448
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: who want to see the world be better, and I

449
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: was like, huh. Never connected the dots, even when they

450
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: said Bill and Melinda, never connected the dots, had no

451
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: idea what they were talking about. The thought never crossed

452
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: my mind that the Microsoft document had anything to do

453
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 1: with the fact that I'm sitting out here in Nashville.

454
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: No zero, y'all can judge me. I can feel you

455
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,199
Speaker 1: judging me through the screen. I had no idea. I

456
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: just knew that fool's cool. I just talked about this.

457
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: You've ever been in the institution that you like? Yo,

458
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: this institution is trash, but that fool's dope. It was

459
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: kind of that scenario. They're cool. You know. I'm speaking

460
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: my mind, having a great time. The story gets better,

461
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: just a freebet, y'all. Listen. I just get a video

462
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,640
Speaker 1: call and they said, hey, our staff really enjoyed, said

463
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: they really enjoyed their time, and your wisdom and your

464
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: intellect and your insight. They were really really impressed. And

465
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,479
Speaker 1: everybody reported back to Bill and Melinda that like that

466
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: you were You're a very important voice in this world,

467
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: and he would like to have dinner with you. We'll

468
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: send a flight for you tonight if you're down. Now

469
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 1: this is like three point thirty PM. And at the

470
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: time I get this text, I am driving to my

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Speaker 1: oldest daughter's ballet rehearsal. She's got dance class. I'm just

472
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: in a parking lot, right. It's my turn to do

473
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: the after school activities. We just I just did the pickups.

474
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: She got on her little leotard, you know, two to

475
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: two whatever, and we was going to we're dance practice.

476
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: I'm just being a dad. Now, keep in mind, I

477
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: just got back from this trip that I'm telling you about. Now,

478
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Any of y'all cis gender

479
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: or not even sister? Any of y'all married to a female?

480
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this is she? Is you married

481
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: to a latina? Is you gonna tell this woman who's

482
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: been working all day after you had been gone for

483
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: a week, that you're gonna drop your child off ahead

484
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: to the airport again right before dinnertime? You gonna tell

485
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: her today you're talking about, I'm gonna send you a flight. Bro.

486
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: Let me get this straight. You want me to get

487
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: on You want me to walk into this You want

488
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: me to walk into this house and tell this woman

489
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm leaving again for dinner. So I'm thinking you are.

490
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave. I gotta drive all the way to

491
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: the airport. You gonna catch you, You gonna send me. You

492
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: gonna pay for my plane? Like, oh, so you're gonna

493
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: pay for my flight tonight? Bro, it's to hurry like dog,

494
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: like I got a booking agent. You're not gonna go

495
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: through my system. I'm good. So I was like, all right,

496
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: let me see what's up. I just ignored it. Listen y'all.

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00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: When he said I'm gonna send you a flight, I

498
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: know now he meant I am going to send a plane.

499
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: You have to remember, I still don't know that Bill

500
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: Gates is Bill Gates. I've not connected the dot in

501
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: any way. So so they don't send the plane. I

502
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: forget about it. I mean two to three years later

503
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: I run into one of the employees that was at

504
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: the thing, or one of the visitors, or I ran

505
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: into somebody that was at the stuff, and they go, yeah,

506
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: that was the Gates Foundation. And I was like, huh.

507
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: There was like Bill and Melinda Gates and I was

508
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: like yeah, they were like prop as in Bill Gates.

509
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: I was like what when I tell you? I was like,

510
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: are you serious? They even said we're gonna fly you

511
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: to Seattle for dinner. I still did not connect the dot.

512
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: It wasn't until two to three years later I ran

513
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: into and then almost ten years later, almost no, like

514
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: six seven years later, I ran into that assistant at

515
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Speaker 1: the watch This the word Salad in Portland, Oregon at

516
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Speaker 1: the Moloma Whiskey Library. I ran into him and I

517
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: told him that story, and he was like, I remember that,

518
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking, prop must be the coolest man

519
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: on earth who turns down Bill Gates somebody that don't

520
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: know is Bill Gates. Anyway, That's how I found out

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00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 1: what USAID was.

522
00:31:22,360 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 2: Now let's get to the history.

523
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: Ir back now. So that's my story as to how

524
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: I understand it. But let me teach y'all about where

525
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: it comes from and what its real purpose is. So

526
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Speaker 1: USAID started in nineteen sixty one by John F. Kennedy.

527
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: It was an executive order. Now, one might think that

528
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: the reason for doing this, I mean, there's war, there's famine,

529
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: there's horrible things going on all over the world, would

530
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: be self evident. You do it because it's the right

531
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: thing to do. But do we ever do anything because

532
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: it's the right thing to do? I mean, you must

533
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: be new here. You tell me, you tell me what

534
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: thing is in American culture, especially at the governmental level,

535
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: that's altruistic. Why did we go to the moon? You

536
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: remember we talked about this before. While we go to

537
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: the Moon, Well, one, we was developing nuclear weapons, and

538
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: so the technology was therein two. It was a pisson contest, right,

539
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: It's this is the Cold War, and during the Cold

540
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: War all things are pissing context right, like everything whose

541
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: way of life is going to win? This is a

542
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: without being cornery, this is a world order issue, like

543
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: I know, like New World Order NWA, suck it, degeneration

544
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: x I get it right, That's not what I'm talking about.

545
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: I mean, by definition a world order, what's going to

546
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: win capitalism and democracies or communism and socialism. This is

547
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: a way of life that is existential to the European powers. Now,

548
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: keep in mind because wealth has been hoarded so much

549
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: by these countries that you and I talk about as

550
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: the world, which again, if you got a little melanin

551
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: you understand it. This is a very small faction, but

552
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: they just hold most of the wealth in the world.

553
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: To exert those powers, you can go the Roman Empire route,

554
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: you could go the Alexander the Great route and just

555
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: go conquer them and just throw flag on top of them.

556
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,719
Speaker 1: That's how colonialism and perialism works, right. You just make

557
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: them subjects to your sphere of influence, which I remember

558
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: in high school is like my favorite word. Just like

559
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: in the hood, you could just go just go bust

560
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: missions and I mean you start beating, you start beating

561
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: heads in You could do that, right, you start taking

562
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: lunch money and robbing bikes, and niggas will learn. I

563
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: mean you could. But is that always the best route?

564
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: Is that always the best route to secure people's silence,

565
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: people's allegiance? Because who hasn't heard the phrase, you know,

566
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 1: you catch more bees with honey. Again, we're talking about

567
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: a time where there's this like biblical level fight in

568
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 1: the eyes of the Western countries for how the world

569
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: is going to look for the next hundreds of thousands

570
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Speaker 1: of years, well not thousands of years, but for the

571
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: next hundreds of years, will democracy prevail? You have to remember,

572
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 1: in the eyes of the West, Russia represented everything wrong

573
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: with the world. And the other problem with Russia in

574
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: the Red Scare and all this stuff Macarthyism, is the

575
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: fact that like they're actually closer physically to the rest

576
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: of the world. We way over here on the other hemisphere,

577
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: we're not connected to none of these other European powers.

578
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: We way over here connected with this. That's why we

579
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: were so scared about Cuba, That's why we were so

580
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: scared about Iran. Contra all this stuff, because it's this

581
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: idea that like, I can't have no one blood set

582
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: just over here in my neighborhood, like you allegiance to

583
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: the Pyrus. I can't have you. We can't have that.

584
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Speaker 1: That was the attitude. So Kennedy say this, Well, rather

585
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: than running up there with guns, why don't we run

586
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: up there with food. Now, you have to remember they

587
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,320
Speaker 1: was playing from behind, since Russia got all this bread

588
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 1: and they already communists, they already socialists. They like, well,

589
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: we'll help you. We right next door, We'll take care

590
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: of you. Don't worry about it's so then when the

591
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 1: big bad Americans come, dude, just remember who took care

592
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: of you. America was like, bet you right. So we

593
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 1: stopped coming with guns, and you know, we started coming

594
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: with We started coming with food, with medicine, building schools,

595
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: building hospitals, paving roads, providing resources, and we not stupid.

596
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,720
Speaker 1: You slap your logo on there. You think this person

597
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: in the middle of Zimbabwe, this person in Chile, when

598
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: they when they walk, when they when that person come

599
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: from out the mountains, right, come from down from the

600
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: from the from the mountains. Because you just need some

601
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: penicillin for your baby because your baby might die. And

602
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 1: then you walk it to the clinic, and the clinic

603
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: got a little emblem right on the counter with the

604
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: American flag, and it says in Spanish, you know, greetings

605
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: from Gustavos who negos gasi ia migos as sulfamilia. You

606
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 1: think they remember that. Let me tell you how I

607
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: know they remember that. I remember I was torn through

608
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: South Africa and one of the one of the the

609
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: the promoters that brought us out was from Zimbabwe. We

610
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: was talking politics or whatever, right, and he told me

611
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: his his hero was Momar Kadaffi. And I was like,

612
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sorry, what I've never heard anyone say that.

613
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: Then he started explaining how every school he went to

614
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: was built by Kadafi. I was like, he says, you

615
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,760
Speaker 1: ask anyone in Africa their doctor's Cuban. It's a trope,

616
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: the Cuban doctor, because it's only us they got a

617
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,720
Speaker 1: problem with Cuba. Cuba been sending doctors all over the world,

618
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: all over these third world countries, all over these If

619
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: think about it for a second, child, just use your antennas.

620
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: If push come to shove, If America were to attack

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00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 1: the nation of the people that provided your clinic. Who

622
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,720
Speaker 1: do you think they're gonna side with America? Wasn't stupid?

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Speaker 1: We need to be the clinic. So if we the clinic,

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00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: if we're the ones that investing in your infrastructure, if

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00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 1: we're the ones that are taking care of your children,

626
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: if we're the ones that are digging wells and providing

627
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,359
Speaker 1: food when you get up, when your nations get up,

628
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: and especially in Africa, follow me, there's not a single

629
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: natural resource that Africa ain't abundance in that that that

630
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 1: that precious coal, balt you know what I'm talking about.

631
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 1: That's keeping your iPhone sixteen up, that nickel that we

632
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: need to make these up solar panel that comes from Africa.

633
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 1: So when your country figures out how to export them things,

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Speaker 1: Ay a hey, remember remember who helped you build this infrastrcuar.

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Speaker 1: Remember who paved this road? Uh huh? Remember remember who

636
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Speaker 1: Remember that flag that was on that We've been taking

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Speaker 1: care of that flag that was on that that that clinic.

638
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Speaker 1: We've been taking care of y'all for a long time.

639
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Speaker 1: Uh huh. We while your babies are alive, while your

640
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Speaker 1: boys are healthy, while y'all not dying of AIDS. So

641
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: when it's time to start trading, why would you trade

642
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Speaker 1: with Russia? What they do for you, they wasn't here

643
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: for you. And let me ask you this. Let's just

644
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 1: say you decided to trade with both of them. I

645
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: need a better deal because I don't already invested a

646
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: whole lot of money. You was about to have no mail.

647
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Speaker 1: They was gonna you were gonna you weren't gonna have

648
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Speaker 1: a work force if we didn't provide this medicine for you.

649
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 1: So I feel like you need to hook us up.

650
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: I feel like me and you. I feel like I

651
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: have a say over who you trade with and who

652
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: you don't trade with, because you alive because of us.

653
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: What I am describing to you is called soft power.

654
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: That's what I mean by like, ain't nobody boy scouts.

655
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: I'm guaranteeing that I can continue to strip you of

656
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 1: resources and you will gladly let me do it, rather

657
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: than me sending troops down there to take it from you.

658
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,919
Speaker 1: It is at this point when we start singing Nate

659
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Speaker 1: Dog again. Girl, you see you to love me? Now,

660
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: everybody love it and see that's now listen, that's Trump's argument.

661
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Speaker 1: Love us now while we're paying for you, will you

662
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Speaker 1: love us when we down and out? Will you still

663
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Speaker 1: have love for me? Because that's hard power. Now let

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Speaker 1: me back up. That's the logic. Now, let me back up.

665
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Speaker 1: There was this book called The Ugly American that Kennedy

666
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Speaker 1: almost wanted to make all the diplomats read because the

667
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: trope about loud, gross, obnoxious Americans. It's a trope for

668
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: a reason. Our diplomats used to be like that. We

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Speaker 1: go to the Orient, the Orient wow, because I'm using

670
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Speaker 1: the sixties terms. We would go to Asia, nigger order

671
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Speaker 1: French fries. It's place socks. There's no burgers, just nasty,

672
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Speaker 1: obnoxious hot dog shoving in your face. American difference. Don't

673
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: did no homework, did no research, ain't got no decoral

674
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Speaker 1: We walk it all over the world talking about, hey,

675
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Speaker 1: we hear homie, Where the where the hoes at these countries,

676
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: just like I can't stand the Americans. Russia comes in different,

677
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Speaker 1: Russia come in low key, Russia understand culture. So it

678
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: was like, listen, man, we gotta change our ways. We

679
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: can't just come in here and just be in these boisterous,

680
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: annoying upshots that swear we know everything you gotta chill

681
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: bro and hence the birth of USAID. And it continued

682
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Speaker 1: on another way that USAID, which I realized seven told

683
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Speaker 1: you what it have stood for. It stands for the

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Speaker 1: United States Agent see for International Development, and it's also

685
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: us AID USAID, right, so you know they think they

686
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: got bars. Anyway, when the world shifted from the Cold

687
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Speaker 1: War and just being like America's got a bad reputation,

688
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 1: the next issue was post nine to eleven, it's terrorism again,

689
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: we had a bad reputation. Our reputation is we come in,

690
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 1: destabilize your country and then leave take your oil. And

691
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 1: when a country is destabilized, like we said in all

692
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Speaker 1: of the you wasn't outside episodes, you're just making This

693
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: is how you create radicalization. Do you think I'm gonna

694
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Speaker 1: have You've bombed us to the Stone age? What love

695
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: would I have for you? Are? Like, are you crazy?

696
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: Of course I'm gonna get radicalized. I just watched you.

697
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:05,280
Speaker 1: Like there's a song on my ep terra Form the People.

698
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 1: It's called we were only ten And it's a comparison

699
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 1: of the things that turn someone to the streets compared

700
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 1: to the things that radicalize a person, like all through

701
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Speaker 1: the Middle East. This, this extremism was being birthed, not

702
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. It was a natural response to targeted

703
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: air strikes, to removals of presidents. Do you like, my god,

704
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: the fucking aroundery of what America has done in this region,

705
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: Like it's it's a college level PhD course, the amount

706
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 1: of tomfoolery we have done in the Middle East, Like

707
00:43:54,960 --> 00:44:00,040
Speaker 1: like funding both sides of civil wars, Like just the

708
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: mouth of bullshit we've done there. You're gonna your attitude

709
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: is gonna be like, man, fuck America, Like why wouldn't

710
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: it be like that? It's just we are of horrible reputation,

711
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: and for some reason, the light bulb didn't turn on

712
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: about America that this the way that the Middle East

713
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: feels about us until nine to eleven, that for some

714
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Speaker 1: reason we thought something was wrong with they. Religion is

715
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: what turning them into this. No, why is America the

716
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 1: great evil? Because y'all be evil, y'all be treated us terribly.

717
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: Somebody went, Okay, now we gotta do better. We gotta

718
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: do better around the world. So we switched our brains

719
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: from world destroying to world building. So all those infrastructure

720
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: things where we're supposed to be going in there and

721
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be rebuilding nations with our monies. That

722
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: stuff was because the light bulb turned on that you

723
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: can't just be a bully everywhere. You gotta like help

724
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: in some ways. Now, this is where a lot of

725
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: the like when you go back and look at well,

726
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 1: has any of this stuff worked? This is where a

727
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: lot of the like the drama starts setting in because

728
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: it in a lot of places it didn't work. We

729
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: spent a ton of money only for the nation to

730
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:31,760
Speaker 1: not look any different. It a great example of stuff

731
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: in our lifetime, like the Fall of the Taliban gave

732
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: birth to isis like that where it's just like it

733
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: didn't do what you thought it was gonna do a

734
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: lot of programs that got put together ended up being

735
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Speaker 1: not a good use of our money because it didn't

736
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Speaker 1: not only did it not help these people, it didn't

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Speaker 1: secure us in any way. It had no utility utilitarian, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it had no utilitarian in service anyway. It's messy. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, for sixty years, it has been a way

740
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Speaker 1: that not only have we exerted power, but we've also

741
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Speaker 1: kept diseases out of our country because the world is global.

742
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: The world is interconnected. Think about ebola, think about other

743
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: diseases that could have traveled here. A lot of those

744
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: things stop at their nation's border. Why because we send doctors.

745
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: Are we doing that because we love them? Absolutely not.

746
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Speaker 1: We're doing that so disease don't come here. That that's

747
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 1: not obvious to you. It should have been. So if

748
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: that's what we're doing, why would we stop? Because one

749
00:46:54,239 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 1: could make a very clear argument that a big reason

750
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: why war is rarely, if ever, played out on our

751
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 1: soil is because of soft power. Why people continue to

752
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 1: trade with us, it's because we take care of them.

753
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,240
Speaker 1: Do you want to do you if you the other country,

754
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: you want that to stop? Do you want us to

755
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: stop sending aid? You want us to stop building roads

756
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: for you? Then go ahead on take your chances. This

757
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: practice has continued on again. If you travel because now

758
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: we're not just talking about Russia, were talking about China now,

759
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: because when you travel through Africa, guests who's building their

760
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: roads now? Who's building their airports? Now? There's even a

761
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: discussion among African activists that are just like, are y'all

762
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: did not was y'all not here last semester? Don't y'all

763
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: know what's happening right now. These people are giving us

764
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 1: these things not because they love us. They're exerting power.

765
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Speaker 1: I am you. They building airports and paving roads so

766
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Speaker 1: that they trucks can take your resources and fly them

767
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: back to China. They just built their own road for it.

768
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Speaker 1: Is that terrible? Yes? Do we got the right to

769
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 1: say it's terrible? No? Because that's what we did. Are

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Speaker 1: y'all following? Are you following me right now? Now? Is

771
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 1: there corruption in USA? I d is their frivolous spending?

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00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: Of course, there is a lot of frivolous spending. There's

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00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: even arguments for things that you know didn't work. There

774
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: was a program in Afghanistan to give women job training

775
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: and put them into the workforce as a way to

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00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,760
Speaker 1: help liberate this place. And they say, of that program,

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00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: the thousands of women that are part of that program,

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Speaker 1: eight eight girls got a job. That's that's a fail.

779
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: I don't know how else to explain it. That's a fail.

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00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,799
Speaker 1: But then there's other programs that, like I said, I

781
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:21,839
Speaker 1: know firsthand through Search for Common Ground, through preemptive love.

782
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:25,280
Speaker 1: Before I was with Search for Common Ground, I'm reading

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00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: emails I got a I got a board meeting next

784
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: week to discuss the programs that are ending. If you

785
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: can go back to the first Terrorform episode I did

786
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:41,919
Speaker 1: with Shamil or Shamil shaml Idris, the CEO of Search

787
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: for Common Ground, we did this around this time last year.

788
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 1: I encourage you to pull that up and just listen

789
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: to the programs that he talks about and even the

790
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: work that they've done in Palestine. Right now, it's like

791
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 1: these are these are real lives and real consequences that

792
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 1: from a humanitarian perspective are very scary. But just from

793
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: a sheer utilitarian perspective, people remember who abandoned them. People

794
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 1: remember who take care of them. This is why you

795
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: need soft power now. Obviously, Trump and Elon and them,

796
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: they don't believe in no soft power. They believe in leverage. Now. Granted,

797
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: soft power and leverage might be synonyms, but their version

798
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: of that leverage is the stick. It's you either do

799
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: this or I beat your ass. Now, as a parent,

800
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Speaker 1: this is the case I'm gonna make, at least a

801
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 1: parent trying to be better at it uses a combination

802
00:50:54,480 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: of these things, soft power and hard power. If you

803
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: come from a more melanated home. When a dinner plate

804
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: is set in front of you, you already know where

805
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: I'm going with this. You eat what I give you

806
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: right now. If you don't like it, you can have

807
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: sleep for dinner, because I'm not. This is what you

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00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 1: can that's authoritative hard power. It's either I know your options,

809
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 1: is this or nothing? You can go to bed. Then

810
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: there's other ways to say, hey, listen, it's real simple.

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00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: I've provided this for you. There are a few options.

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00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 1: If this is completed, there is a dessert for you. Now.

813
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 1: If you choose not to eat this, then you have

814
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: chosen to not eat your dessert right now. Refrigerator's fine.

815
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,840
Speaker 1: You can get up and I'm not Your hands aren't broken.

816
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 1: You can make your own I'm not cooking another thing.

817
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: But if you would like something else, I require for

818
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,760
Speaker 1: you to eat a vegetable to have these things like you,

819
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: you can do this, but if you do that, there

820
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 1: is no dessert for you. Dessert comes from finishing the

821
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: meal that I've made for you. That's it's a different

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00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: type of power. Right So, then as the child, you remember, okay,

823
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 1: there's something in it for me. If I just trump

824
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,800
Speaker 1: prefers the authoritative power. Now, if you got again any sense,

825
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: the case is you need a combination of both. Again,

826
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: if we're talking sheer utilitarian, you just need to you

827
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't go one way or the other, because,

828
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:41,839
Speaker 1: as any bully knows, it's exhausted. It's exhausting. You can't

829
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:43,800
Speaker 1: play king of the hill all the time. You can't

830
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 1: always be like what what what what? At some point,

831
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: these people gotta want to listen to you, because if not,

832
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,879
Speaker 1: all they gonna do is hunt for cracks. They're gonna

833
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,760
Speaker 1: wait for moments of weakness. They're gonna watch you real clothes.

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00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: And why they watching you real close? It's somebody over

835
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: here saying, hey, hey, you don't have to live like this,

836
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: do you? Are you hungry? Let me take you to dinner.

837
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,799
Speaker 1: And they gonna remember that. So usaid came out of

838
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: an understanding from the Cold War that we have to

839
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: have a better reputation in America because if we don't,

840
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: Russia going in. Oh, and maybe we'll stop some diseases

841
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 1: from being brought here by them dirty brown folk. All right, now,

842
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: don't you hit stop on this pod. You better listen

843
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Speaker 1: to these credits. I need you to finish this thing

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