Speaker 1: All ze media. So in the inner cities, at least
Speaker 1: I can say in Los Angeles, there is a tradition
Speaker 1: called park Day. If you were from what I understand,
Speaker 1: in a Piru neighborhood, it was more set Day, right,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. It was a day of peace.
Speaker 1: We were at the park and it was a chance
Speaker 1: for not rival gangs, but just for like, you know,
Speaker 1: sets like sometimes that you know, the the hood from
Speaker 1: San Diego would drive up or La dudes would drive down.
Speaker 1: They'd have like kickball, they would barbecue. It was a
Speaker 1: time for the families. Now I know, out of context
Speaker 1: this might seem very bizarre, but these were, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of normal occasions. And one of the things you
Speaker 1: have to remember is a lot of times them dudes
Speaker 1: over there and boys over there, you went to the
Speaker 1: same head start with these guys. A lot of times
Speaker 1: you play Pop Warner football with these guys. You know,
Speaker 1: you you've you kind of know them. You know, when
Speaker 1: when elementary school ends and then you have to go
Speaker 1: to the different feeder middle schools, you lose contact. And
Speaker 1: around middle school normally, at least in the era that
Speaker 1: I come from, that's around the time that you start
Speaker 1: sort of self selecting yourself into whatever, like you know,
Speaker 1: set you're gonna you're gonna be a part of or subculture.
Speaker 1: You know. For me, I discovered graffiti and discovered hip
Speaker 1: hop and you know, and then something cataclysmic happens, like
Speaker 1: your family splits and you move, and that's what happened
Speaker 1: with me, Like my family split. You know, my mom
Speaker 1: went to one part of town, my father went to
Speaker 1: another part of town. And joint custody is a whole mess.
Speaker 1: But sometimes that happens. You know, before that splitting, you
Speaker 1: find yourself moving across town. Now you're in a whole
Speaker 1: other thing. So the boys you grew up with went
Speaker 1: one route, and you know, now you live in this
Speaker 1: other route. Right, So all the times, you know, those
Speaker 1: dudes and park Day, like believe it or not, it's
Speaker 1: like it's kickball, you know, you just like there's barbecue
Speaker 1: and believe it or not, there's a philanthropic element of
Speaker 1: park Day where how do I say this? Back to
Speaker 1: school packs are given and you're giving away backpacks. You know,
Speaker 1: there's sometimes the food's free. It's just a potluck. There's
Speaker 1: a dj like it's really a good time and depending
Speaker 1: on neighborhood you in, or the rules of the politics,
Speaker 1: if you will, your neighborhood, like you kind of have
Speaker 1: to show up for park day, you know, and then
Speaker 1: sometimes there's a even some squabbles around the fact that
Speaker 1: you only show up for park day. You only here
Speaker 1: for the fun times, you know. But these moments are like,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes they could be like a breath of
Speaker 1: fresh air, you know, and you sort of like get
Speaker 1: to know your friendly neighborhood gangster. So like everybody's guards down,
Speaker 1: it's just it's a time right now. In that time,
Speaker 1: sometimes beefs are squashed where there's like finally a broker
Speaker 1: ring of certain misunderstandings. Maybe you find out what the
Speaker 1: next lick is going to be. But whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be, there is an exchange of information, of joy,
Speaker 1: and in some sense is if you were just living
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood a provision. Some movie tropes that you
Speaker 1: have grown up with their tropes because they sort of
Speaker 1: match our experience, you know, when the know, if you've
Speaker 1: ever seen any sort of New York mob movie, you know,
Speaker 1: guy going, hey, here's twenty bucks, go carry this over there.
Speaker 1: You know, how's your mother doing? You know, tell her
Speaker 1: tell her thinking about it. You know, you just break
Speaker 1: the kid off some money, and you know you take
Speaker 1: care of your mom because again, these neighborhoods aren't that large.
Speaker 1: That dude knows your mama, the slink Johnson niggas know
Speaker 1: yo mama. You know it's just something else. But you know,
Speaker 1: like the Ojesus, like this dude, you know, went to
Speaker 1: high school with your auntie, you know, with your cousins,
Speaker 1: So like you, there's you guys kind of know each
Speaker 1: other and when there's familiar ties when things come up,
Speaker 1: I'm just probably gonna look the other way or I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come to you if I have a particular issue.
Speaker 1: But most of the time, while there is a loving
Speaker 1: aspect of this, because you know, gangsters are also humans,
Speaker 1: there is a utilitarian part of this. You're investing in
Speaker 1: your freedom to move about the city. I mean, you
Speaker 1: could go to every house with a gun with the
Speaker 1: stick and just be like, my niggas is out here.
Speaker 1: They ready to slide, so don't nobody say shit. You
Speaker 1: could do that, or you could be like, man, I
Speaker 1: mean this, you know this man is I mean bought
Speaker 1: my school supplies, you know what I mean? Like you
Speaker 1: always look out for me. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like he done ran off, which was my experience. When
Speaker 1: these big boys they run off, the guy's picking on you.
Speaker 1: At that point, I'm going to defer to them. Think,
Speaker 1: if you ain't got your head about you, you start
Speaker 1: truly trusting these people as your protectors, right, and then
Speaker 1: you feel an obligation to give back. Right. So when
Speaker 1: when opportunities arise, say someone like myself, for example, let's
Speaker 1: just say you start having decent career. You know, then
Speaker 1: when big homie says his little cousin been doing is
Speaker 1: like rhyme and his shit. That's so they say, eve
Speaker 1: rhyme and his shit. You know, he gonna tap in
Speaker 1: with me to be like, hey, man, talk to my
Speaker 1: little I mean, of course, yeah, I'm gona talk to
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to the homies. You know, nephew, you
Speaker 1: feel me now, this man, this og is very dangerous.
Speaker 1: I know that. I know that at anymore, all this
Speaker 1: can change. And again, if you don't keep your head
Speaker 1: about you, you might forget that. But these experiences are
Speaker 1: creating what we call soft power, which is what I
Speaker 1: want to talk to y'all today about and why usaid
Speaker 1: actually matters hood politics. Y'all. All right, welcome everybody. I've
Speaker 1: missed y'all. Not that I ever see you, guys, but
Speaker 1: I've missed y'all. I've missed doing the show like this.
Speaker 1: I've been on the road to go to All Star Weekend,
Speaker 1: which was crazy. You know, that was super fun. I
Speaker 1: went to a poker game and didn't play a single hand,
Speaker 1: but I was at the building. Know. Then after that,
Speaker 1: I went up to Vancouver to Keats Island to this
Speaker 1: thing called Sanctuary, which was pretty dope. It was about art,
Speaker 1: spirituality and mental health and want to help church folks
Speaker 1: talk about mental health better, which was a great thing
Speaker 1: to be a part of. Sawce Homi's there. These is
Speaker 1: what I like to call my white friends. But then
Speaker 1: I made some black friends, y'all saying shout out to
Speaker 1: to to Johnny Lane. What I'm saying, it was a
Speaker 1: good time. I was glad, glad to be a part
Speaker 1: of something like that, especially when you could say ass
Speaker 1: at church, you know what I'm saying. Anyway, it was
Speaker 1: a good time. But I'm glad to be back in
Speaker 1: the seat here. This is teacher prop again. As you know,
Speaker 1: we put out a survey to try to see, like
Speaker 1: what y'all like if the menu is up to y'all's liking.
Speaker 1: Teacher prop seems to get a whole lot of feedback
Speaker 1: and desires. So I'm going to try to have more
Speaker 1: teacher prop episodes like we did with it birthright citizenship.
Speaker 1: You no, we're not taught about how to how to
Speaker 1: how to schoe this works? You feel me? So this
Speaker 1: teacher prop in the building. So I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you all about us AI D. I'm sure unless
Speaker 1: you work in philanthropy and nonprofit sector or in humanitarian peacemaking,
Speaker 1: peace building, unless you work in these spaces, you ain't
Speaker 1: never heard of nothing like this and how much money
Speaker 1: it actually spent. So I when to talk about its origins,
Speaker 1: and it seems like it would be such a great thing,
Speaker 1: you know, but that great thing. Almost everything in this
Speaker 1: world got two utilities. This is one of those things,
Speaker 1: which is why I started this episode the way I
Speaker 1: did that is really the circle VENN diagram, where it's
Speaker 1: just one circle of how the street politics in some
Speaker 1: senses really overlap with geopolitical politics. Again, if you understand ood,
Speaker 1: you understand politics like this is one of those crazy
Speaker 1: sort of overlaps. So this is actually going to once
Speaker 1: we're done with talking about this, besides all the history
Speaker 1: and the facts of stuff, you're gonna already know this
Speaker 1: stuff You're gonna realize. Yeah, I kind of already knew this,
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna make an argument as to why gutting
Speaker 1: USAID really not only puts the bag in danger, puts
Speaker 1: our immune systems in danger, and ain't nobody gonna have
Speaker 1: our back, which is why this episode is called Girl
Speaker 1: you seem to love me? Now? Will you love me
Speaker 1: if I was down and out? Will you still have
Speaker 1: love for me? Girl recipes snake dog E What a
Speaker 1: unique voice. I have some personal connections to this before
Speaker 1: I get into the history of it. The personal connections are,
Speaker 1: first of all, my introduction to USAID and what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk to you guys about pep FARV and these.
Speaker 1: If you think your field, if you think your world
Speaker 1: got some acronyms, got some jargon, right, would blow your mind.
Speaker 1: I came from education, so without teaching. When I would
Speaker 1: teach a high school, the amount of acronyms to try
Speaker 1: to keep up with was like Pokemon cards. It was like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like keeping up with stats in seventeen sports.
Speaker 1: Ain't no way in the world you can keep up
Speaker 1: with all these things unless that's your life. Right. Government's
Speaker 1: even worse the amount of acronyms. But I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: to y'all about Pep Bharf, talk to y'all about USAID.
Speaker 1: I've experienced with both of them. My introduction in USAID
Speaker 1: came in, i want to say, twenty fifteen, sort of
Speaker 1: from two different sources that kind of made them both
Speaker 1: work together. First was the One Campaign that's Bono's joint. Now,
Speaker 1: the history of the One Campaign had a lot to
Speaker 1: do with World hunger and AIDS. Now, they had called
Speaker 1: up leaders in music that have some sort of faith
Speaker 1: angle to lobby the Congress to continue this funding. Right,
Speaker 1: but the origins of even why they called us to
Speaker 1: be a part of this it will be a word salad.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we had a training from what like they
Speaker 1: say on the Capitol Hill, like the policy wonks. Those
Speaker 1: are the people that just like they be the ones
Speaker 1: in the weeds that like can tell you that that
Speaker 1: actually that actually read read the law. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, y'all know you hear on the news. They
Speaker 1: be like, Yo, this was a one thousand page document.
Speaker 1: Nobody's reading a one thousand page If there's anything chat
Speaker 1: GPT should be for, nobody is reading a one thousand
Speaker 1: page document. I know. My voice just peaked right now.
Speaker 1: And Matt keep the peak. No one should read a
Speaker 1: one thousand page document. But somebody do those be the
Speaker 1: policy wonks, but you should be able to run a
Speaker 1: document through chat GPT to be like, what the hell
Speaker 1: does this say? You know? So they sat us down
Speaker 1: and they made an argument or built a case as
Speaker 1: to why this was important, right, and why this was
Speaker 1: important believe it or not? Goes back to President Bush
Speaker 1: and are you all ready for this? All my ex
Speaker 1: evangelicals and the newsboys, Oh my god, the newsboys. So
Speaker 1: I might as well just jump into this. So okay,
Speaker 1: So one campaign in Peth card Bono got hipped to
Speaker 1: suffering everywhere, Okay, right, Bono got hip to the AIDS epidemic.
Speaker 1: All this stuff was going on, and age was raging
Speaker 1: through Africa and obviously raging through America, right so so,
Speaker 1: so AIDS was whooping everybody. Ass Now, somehow news got
Speaker 1: out that George Bush got saved. So George Bush is
Speaker 1: believe it now, and George Bush is listening to Christian rock. Right,
Speaker 1: So Bono had this idea. He hooked up with this man.
Speaker 1: Now listen again. Now, if you don't know nothing about
Speaker 1: White Church, these names don't mean nothing to you. But
Speaker 1: he hooked up with Michael W. Smith. Bono, Yes, Bono
Speaker 1: hooked up with Michael W. Smith and called up the newsboys,
Speaker 1: Michael tating them DC talk listen these days, I think. Listen,
Speaker 1: I know I'm saying stuff that if you, if you,
Speaker 1: if you White Church adjacent, this is bonkers to you, right,
Speaker 1: the rest of y'all trust me, this is the if
Speaker 1: it didn't end so well, this would be the funniest
Speaker 1: story you've ever heard. So anyway, since George Bush, now
Speaker 1: this I'm talking about, Junior, since George Bush now spost
Speaker 1: to be supposed to be a Christian man, he stopped drinking.
Speaker 1: You know, remember he was party animal, you know, so
Speaker 1: he stopped drinking. This aide research and this medicine that
Speaker 1: has been that was that was being developed, that America
Speaker 1: had and had the bread to spread out. If we
Speaker 1: were to just share the wealth a little bit, you
Speaker 1: could pretty much eradicate a getting it if it's not
Speaker 1: gonna go away. I don't know. If you know how
Speaker 1: our age medicines work, It's like it doesn't get rid
Speaker 1: of it, but it keeps the cells to undetectable. Right,
Speaker 1: So if you depending on your case, if you you
Speaker 1: know you you you keep your meds, if you keep
Speaker 1: your meds up, you could essentially live a normalized life
Speaker 1: even have you know, sexual intercourse, because you're at a
Speaker 1: levels of undetectable. So it's a great thing, absolutely saving lives.
Speaker 1: I mean people was dying. So anyway, Bono got these people,
Speaker 1: these Christian artists to sit down with George Bush Junior
Speaker 1: and make a theological case that this is you loving
Speaker 1: your neighbor and you now this new Christian right, you
Speaker 1: being a global citizen. This is you when the scripture
Speaker 1: talks about Jesus saying depart from me, I never knew you,
Speaker 1: and then saying to these other people like, hey, when
Speaker 1: I was poor, you cover me, when I was hungry,
Speaker 1: you fed me. When I was in prison, you took
Speaker 1: care of me. And they say, when did you? When
Speaker 1: did we do that? He said, when you helped the poor,
Speaker 1: when you served the needy, you weren't just serving them,
Speaker 1: you were serving me. That's the Jesus that we grew
Speaker 1: up with. You feel me. So so they make this
Speaker 1: argument to President Bush, I know, war mon gird drone striking,
Speaker 1: I know, and make the argument to him and he like, well, goddamn, yeah,
Speaker 1: cud let let's do this. Now. You want to take
Speaker 1: a picture with me. Gotta take a picture with you, Sirtain.
Speaker 1: You like, I can't understate how big of a star
Speaker 1: Michael W. Smith was, which I know for thousands of you,
Speaker 1: this is the first time you've ever heard that word
Speaker 1: the words together. But please, please, please, please please please
Speaker 1: trust me. He's he there, him, he there, Bono he
Speaker 1: he White Evangelical CC and Bono Michael W. Smith Like,
Speaker 1: I don't. I almost I almost don't want you to
Speaker 1: google it. I mean, you gonna do it, but I
Speaker 1: almost don't want you because there is no way that
Speaker 1: the music that's gonna come out them speakers, that's gonna
Speaker 1: come out your earbuds is matching the story I'm telling
Speaker 1: you right now. I know, I already know. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you I've been in some green rooms where I was
Speaker 1: like him. That's y'all one, Okay, anyway, So this is
Speaker 1: the origin story of PEP FARV and believe it or not,
Speaker 1: AIDS dropped when I say when I say in half,
Speaker 1: when I say the number of deaths, you had to understand,
Speaker 1: like you, I can't, I can't. I don't know how
Speaker 1: to transfer you back to the eighties, to when we
Speaker 1: didn't know what the hell AIDS was, when they used
Speaker 1: to think it was a gay disease. Like, listen, people
Speaker 1: were I mean, you thought we thought a lot of
Speaker 1: people during COVID. You thought hospitals was overran during COVID.
Speaker 1: BR people were like dieing with an incurable Are you
Speaker 1: listening to me? When I say an incurable disease? How
Speaker 1: freaky that is to a nineteen nineties brain. This is incurable.
Speaker 1: You are going to die from this. It's just a
Speaker 1: matter of time. Well, what's the disease? How the hell
Speaker 1: do I know? We don't even know what the disease is.
Speaker 1: It's AIDS whatever, I don't know. We was gonna call
Speaker 1: it AIDS, immunity immune deficiency syndrome. We don't know TADES.
Speaker 1: You're gonna die. But we got these pills though, which
Speaker 1: is another reason why I really don't understand why they
Speaker 1: trying to bi doze in them is cutting the CDC.
Speaker 1: Because the one thing that we got in common, one
Speaker 1: thing that we got that we leading in. That's good.
Speaker 1: We are definitely leading in incarcerating our citizens, We are
Speaker 1: definitely leading in mass shootings. Were the best in the
Speaker 1: world for both of them things. But we also the
Speaker 1: best of the world in medical research. We really are
Speaker 1: ahead of the game when it comes to breakthroughs in medicine.
Speaker 1: And for some reason, these people are hell bent on
Speaker 1: taking w's off the table, Like why you keep you
Speaker 1: keep removing your wins. Operation ward Speed was a win.
Speaker 1: You trying to remove that. I don't understand why you
Speaker 1: want to remove your wins. The trade deal? All this
Speaker 1: trade deal is a joke. Like I said last month,
Speaker 1: that was your You brokeer that deal. Like why the
Speaker 1: second black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ever
Speaker 1: was a Trump appointee. You just removed it. Why do
Speaker 1: you not want your wins? I don't understand. So this
Speaker 1: was one of the American wins was wait, let me
Speaker 1: back up. I was sold this story in Capitol Hill
Speaker 1: while preppering to go make an argument to keep doing
Speaker 1: this right. That was an amazing, amazing thing that I
Speaker 1: got to experience that I'm very thankful for. And you
Speaker 1: got to and we got to meet our congress, our congress,
Speaker 1: our senators. Now, oftentimes you don't meet the senator themselves
Speaker 1: unless you're really lucky. Most of the time you meet
Speaker 1: with one of the staffers, and the staffers pretends to
Speaker 1: take notes, go in there and telling me. But again,
Speaker 1: whether I know what I'm talking about or not, whether
Speaker 1: I am making an argument or not. Again, believe it
Speaker 1: or not, these people truly do work for you. They
Speaker 1: truly do care, They truly do want to know what
Speaker 1: the streets is saying. When it comes to the things,
Speaker 1: it's not just who's gonna keep giving me power? Because listen,
Speaker 1: if see, if you can follow me on this, on
Speaker 1: the politics of it all, I can't take a No
Speaker 1: one's gonna want to bribe me if I'm a politician
Speaker 1: with no power, So follow me. You could say, back
Speaker 1: end deals and all that stuff is real, Like don't
Speaker 1: you're wrong? All the back end deal stuff is real
Speaker 1: like that, like, oh, well there's this lobbyist and then
Speaker 1: there's this person, and then there's this person. Now, if
Speaker 1: you a lobbyist why would I lobby somebody who ain't
Speaker 1: got no pull in they hood? So you know what
Speaker 1: that means is you have to remain for you to
Speaker 1: even be able to get the kickback, for you to
Speaker 1: be able to even be lobbied, for these people to
Speaker 1: even care, you gotta have some pull. So you need
Speaker 1: to protect your pull, not just so you could keep
Speaker 1: your job, so you could keep getting them sweet bribes. Baby,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, you don't get none of
Speaker 1: the perks. So, in a weird, twisted way, my California
Speaker 1: representative needs to know if I represent hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of people, if the words I'm bringing to you represent
Speaker 1: really the will of the street. Like like I said,
Speaker 1: like Kendrick saying, I'm what the culture feels. I'm saying
Speaker 1: what the culture feels, And if you had any sense,
Speaker 1: you would be like, wait, is he saying what the
Speaker 1: culture feels? Because if he's saying what the culture feels,
Speaker 1: I better listen to young brother right here, because if
Speaker 1: I don't listen to young brother, then I am messing
Speaker 1: up my own bag. Is you following? Is you picking
Speaker 1: up what your boy is trying to teach you? Politics?
Speaker 1: Fam at a chance me and the doc ZP refer
Speaker 1: to her by her prefix doctor Olma. We had a
Speaker 1: chance to go meet with a couple of senators and
Speaker 1: congress men and women to make our case as to like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you need to you need to keep doing this. My
Speaker 1: second introduction to artists to USA in the aid that
Speaker 1: we do across the world was this story that I
Speaker 1: told in my book as that I said, one day
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about the most whitest email I've ever
Speaker 1: gotten in my life. I told you all about the second.
Speaker 1: If you read the Terrorform book Building a Better World
Speaker 1: please Terrorform by Propaganda, the poetry and short story, go
Speaker 1: check that out. I talk about the first, the second
Speaker 1: most whitest email I've ever gotten in my life, and
Speaker 1: that was to go to Montana to go fly fishing
Speaker 1: with a bunch of men. It was a incredibly in
Speaker 1: prairie dog hunting. I was like, yeah, this is white
Speaker 1: as hale. I'm good I ended up going. It was
Speaker 1: a great time. Try new things, guys. But the first
Speaker 1: whitest was this one. The email was just and I'm
Speaker 1: glad I went again again. More of the story try
Speaker 1: new things. That's where actually where I met the poet
Speaker 1: of Jasmine Man's like I met her at this thing.
Speaker 1: Shout out Jasmine an incredible, credible poet. She has merch
Speaker 1: that says byeweed for women. She's dope. But I got
Speaker 1: invited to this thing that took place an hour outside
Speaker 1: of Nashville at a resort center in the woods. Now
Speaker 1: when I say resort center, it's more like a retreat center.
Speaker 1: And for me, when I hear Tennessee retreat center, I
Speaker 1: think former plantation. So there's already that you don't convert
Speaker 1: the plantation, And I'm gonna come here and feel comfortable,
Speaker 1: Like That's what I was thinking at first, right, But
Speaker 1: the email was entitled horibital Perspective. Now the word salad
Speaker 1: I'm about to tell you about this is makes it
Speaker 1: even more fun. But anyway, they talked about that if
Speaker 1: the science is right, if the aide stays together, you know,
Speaker 1: according to the researcher from the One campaign and other
Speaker 1: philanthropic and humanitarian organizations. Now this was the year that
Speaker 1: Trump first got elected. I said that if we if
Speaker 1: we stay on the route, if we continue to do
Speaker 1: what we're planning on doing in thirty years, we could
Speaker 1: end world hunger. Which is part of again with the
Speaker 1: one campaigns directive that if this was twenty sixteen, if
Speaker 1: we continue to use the USAID funding in the projects
Speaker 1: that we just have going to, if we just stick
Speaker 1: to the plan, don't increase it. You ain't got you
Speaker 1: ain't got to increase it. If we just stick to
Speaker 1: the plan in thirty years, we could end world hunger.
Speaker 1: That was the argument. So what they wanted to do
Speaker 1: was to get us millennials because the Michael W. Smithson
Speaker 1: in the newsboys they done aged out. So they need
Speaker 1: the young shooters right to come in here who are
Speaker 1: globally aware, have some sort of faith foundation to come
Speaker 1: talk to y'all about ending world hunger. I don't know
Speaker 1: why you need a faith to do that, that seems anyway. Now.
Speaker 1: The side note about all this is, of all the
Speaker 1: money that you spend on USAID as part of the
Speaker 1: budget of the national budget, it's less than two I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the difference between you buying a second beer once
Speaker 1: for the whole year. That's how much money we talk
Speaker 1: about in relation to let's just say, in three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five days you went to Chipotle every day.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's wrong with your stomach and why
Speaker 1: you would choose to do that. But if you would
Speaker 1: if one of those days, if on March second, you said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not going to get the avocado today,
Speaker 1: that's how much money we talk about. That's it. Everything
Speaker 1: you spent the entire your entire year's salary the one
Speaker 1: time you got alvocado. That's what we're saying. Now. I
Speaker 1: know alvocado is expensive, That's why I'm using that comparison,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, of the when compared to your
Speaker 1: rent every month and every bill you got in all
Speaker 1: the money you made, we talk about extra avocado. That's
Speaker 1: what we talking about. But anyway, that extra avocado saved
Speaker 1: millions of lives. Is the point they're trying to make.
Speaker 1: You could end world hunger, so we need to make
Speaker 1: a case for that. So us not knowing Trump one
Speaker 1: oh one, just having a feeling about Trump one oh one.
Speaker 1: When they said all right, it's up for it's up
Speaker 1: for like renewal. Usaid the money to end world hunger,
Speaker 1: it's up for renewal. We were like, they got renew it.
Speaker 1: He was like nah. So they was like listen, we
Speaker 1: got to like we got to figure out how to
Speaker 1: make a groundswell, right, pressure the administration to not stop this.
Speaker 1: Now this was the first this was the first Trump administration. Right,
Speaker 1: So we need to make music, we need to do
Speaker 1: do whatever we need to do to use our social
Speaker 1: medias whatever the case. They basically like they need a
Speaker 1: new voice that is protecting the moral compass of America
Speaker 1: as a global institution. Is the wait for which they
Speaker 1: sold us to us? Now here's here's a freebie. Okay,
Speaker 1: this was put together by the Gates Foundation. Now, before
Speaker 1: you judge me, I had never heard of the Gates Foundation.
Speaker 1: I just knew these people were very kind for which
Speaker 1: that I met, in the way for which they treated me.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is dope. It's to me. These
Speaker 1: are nameless and faceless white people. Said they're billionaire philanthropists
Speaker 1: who want to see the world be better, and I
Speaker 1: was like, huh. Never connected the dots, even when they
Speaker 1: said Bill and Melinda, never connected the dots, had no
Speaker 1: idea what they were talking about. The thought never crossed
Speaker 1: my mind that the Microsoft document had anything to do
Speaker 1: with the fact that I'm sitting out here in Nashville.
Speaker 1: No zero, y'all can judge me. I can feel you
Speaker 1: judging me through the screen. I had no idea. I
Speaker 1: just knew that fool's cool. I just talked about this.
Speaker 1: You've ever been in the institution that you like? Yo,
Speaker 1: this institution is trash, but that fool's dope. It was
Speaker 1: kind of that scenario. They're cool. You know. I'm speaking
Speaker 1: my mind, having a great time. The story gets better,
Speaker 1: just a freebet, y'all. Listen. I just get a video
Speaker 1: call and they said, hey, our staff really enjoyed, said
Speaker 1: they really enjoyed their time, and your wisdom and your
Speaker 1: intellect and your insight. They were really really impressed. And
Speaker 1: everybody reported back to Bill and Melinda that like that
Speaker 1: you were You're a very important voice in this world,
Speaker 1: and he would like to have dinner with you. We'll
Speaker 1: send a flight for you tonight if you're down. Now
Speaker 1: this is like three point thirty PM. And at the
Speaker 1: time I get this text, I am driving to my
Speaker 1: oldest daughter's ballet rehearsal. She's got dance class. I'm just
Speaker 1: in a parking lot, right. It's my turn to do
Speaker 1: the after school activities. We just I just did the pickups.
Speaker 1: She got on her little leotard, you know, two to
Speaker 1: two whatever, and we was going to we're dance practice.
Speaker 1: I'm just being a dad. Now, keep in mind, I
Speaker 1: just got back from this trip that I'm telling you about. Now,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Any of y'all cis gender
Speaker 1: or not even sister? Any of y'all married to a female?
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this is she? Is you married
Speaker 1: to a latina? Is you gonna tell this woman who's
Speaker 1: been working all day after you had been gone for
Speaker 1: a week, that you're gonna drop your child off ahead
Speaker 1: to the airport again right before dinnertime? You gonna tell
Speaker 1: her today you're talking about, I'm gonna send you a flight. Bro.
Speaker 1: Let me get this straight. You want me to get
Speaker 1: on You want me to walk into this You want
Speaker 1: me to walk into this house and tell this woman
Speaker 1: I'm leaving again for dinner. So I'm thinking you are.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave. I gotta drive all the way to
Speaker 1: the airport. You gonna catch you, You gonna send me. You
Speaker 1: gonna pay for my plane? Like, oh, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: pay for my flight tonight? Bro, it's to hurry like dog,
Speaker 1: like I got a booking agent. You're not gonna go
Speaker 1: through my system. I'm good. So I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: let me see what's up. I just ignored it. Listen y'all.
Speaker 1: When he said I'm gonna send you a flight, I
Speaker 1: know now he meant I am going to send a plane.
Speaker 1: You have to remember, I still don't know that Bill
Speaker 1: Gates is Bill Gates. I've not connected the dot in
Speaker 1: any way. So so they don't send the plane. I
Speaker 1: forget about it. I mean two to three years later
Speaker 1: I run into one of the employees that was at
Speaker 1: the thing, or one of the visitors, or I ran
Speaker 1: into somebody that was at the stuff, and they go, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the Gates Foundation. And I was like, huh.
Speaker 1: There was like Bill and Melinda Gates and I was
Speaker 1: like yeah, they were like prop as in Bill Gates.
Speaker 1: I was like what when I tell you? I was like,
Speaker 1: are you serious? They even said we're gonna fly you
Speaker 1: to Seattle for dinner. I still did not connect the dot.
Speaker 1: It wasn't until two to three years later I ran
Speaker 1: into and then almost ten years later, almost no, like
Speaker 1: six seven years later, I ran into that assistant at
Speaker 1: the watch This the word Salad in Portland, Oregon at
Speaker 1: the Moloma Whiskey Library. I ran into him and I
Speaker 1: told him that story, and he was like, I remember that,
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking, prop must be the coolest man
Speaker 1: on earth who turns down Bill Gates somebody that don't
Speaker 1: know is Bill Gates. Anyway, That's how I found out
Speaker 1: what USAID was.
Speaker 2: Now let's get to the history.
Speaker 1: Ir back now. So that's my story as to how
Speaker 1: I understand it. But let me teach y'all about where
Speaker 1: it comes from and what its real purpose is. So
Speaker 1: USAID started in nineteen sixty one by John F. Kennedy.
Speaker 1: It was an executive order. Now, one might think that
Speaker 1: the reason for doing this, I mean, there's war, there's famine,
Speaker 1: there's horrible things going on all over the world, would
Speaker 1: be self evident. You do it because it's the right
Speaker 1: thing to do. But do we ever do anything because
Speaker 1: it's the right thing to do? I mean, you must
Speaker 1: be new here. You tell me, you tell me what
Speaker 1: thing is in American culture, especially at the governmental level,
Speaker 1: that's altruistic. Why did we go to the moon? You
Speaker 1: remember we talked about this before. While we go to
Speaker 1: the Moon, Well, one, we was developing nuclear weapons, and
Speaker 1: so the technology was therein two. It was a pisson contest, right,
Speaker 1: It's this is the Cold War, and during the Cold
Speaker 1: War all things are pissing context right, like everything whose
Speaker 1: way of life is going to win? This is a
Speaker 1: without being cornery, this is a world order issue, like
Speaker 1: I know, like New World Order NWA, suck it, degeneration
Speaker 1: x I get it right, That's not what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I mean, by definition a world order, what's going to
Speaker 1: win capitalism and democracies or communism and socialism. This is
Speaker 1: a way of life that is existential to the European powers. Now,
Speaker 1: keep in mind because wealth has been hoarded so much
Speaker 1: by these countries that you and I talk about as
Speaker 1: the world, which again, if you got a little melanin
Speaker 1: you understand it. This is a very small faction, but
Speaker 1: they just hold most of the wealth in the world.
Speaker 1: To exert those powers, you can go the Roman Empire route,
Speaker 1: you could go the Alexander the Great route and just
Speaker 1: go conquer them and just throw flag on top of them.
Speaker 1: That's how colonialism and perialism works, right. You just make
Speaker 1: them subjects to your sphere of influence, which I remember
Speaker 1: in high school is like my favorite word. Just like
Speaker 1: in the hood, you could just go just go bust
Speaker 1: missions and I mean you start beating, you start beating
Speaker 1: heads in You could do that, right, you start taking
Speaker 1: lunch money and robbing bikes, and niggas will learn. I
Speaker 1: mean you could. But is that always the best route?
Speaker 1: Is that always the best route to secure people's silence,
Speaker 1: people's allegiance? Because who hasn't heard the phrase, you know,
Speaker 1: you catch more bees with honey. Again, we're talking about
Speaker 1: a time where there's this like biblical level fight in
Speaker 1: the eyes of the Western countries for how the world
Speaker 1: is going to look for the next hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of years, well not thousands of years, but for the
Speaker 1: next hundreds of years, will democracy prevail? You have to remember,
Speaker 1: in the eyes of the West, Russia represented everything wrong
Speaker 1: with the world. And the other problem with Russia in
Speaker 1: the Red Scare and all this stuff Macarthyism, is the
Speaker 1: fact that like they're actually closer physically to the rest
Speaker 1: of the world. We way over here on the other hemisphere,
Speaker 1: we're not connected to none of these other European powers.
Speaker 1: We way over here connected with this. That's why we
Speaker 1: were so scared about Cuba, That's why we were so
Speaker 1: scared about Iran. Contra all this stuff, because it's this
Speaker 1: idea that like, I can't have no one blood set
Speaker 1: just over here in my neighborhood, like you allegiance to
Speaker 1: the Pyrus. I can't have you. We can't have that.
Speaker 1: That was the attitude. So Kennedy say this, Well, rather
Speaker 1: than running up there with guns, why don't we run
Speaker 1: up there with food. Now, you have to remember they
Speaker 1: was playing from behind, since Russia got all this bread
Speaker 1: and they already communists, they already socialists. They like, well,
Speaker 1: we'll help you. We right next door, We'll take care
Speaker 1: of you. Don't worry about it's so then when the
Speaker 1: big bad Americans come, dude, just remember who took care
Speaker 1: of you. America was like, bet you right. So we
Speaker 1: stopped coming with guns, and you know, we started coming
Speaker 1: with We started coming with food, with medicine, building schools,
Speaker 1: building hospitals, paving roads, providing resources, and we not stupid.
Speaker 1: You slap your logo on there. You think this person
Speaker 1: in the middle of Zimbabwe, this person in Chile, when
Speaker 1: they when they walk, when they when that person come
Speaker 1: from out the mountains, right, come from down from the
Speaker 1: from the from the mountains. Because you just need some
Speaker 1: penicillin for your baby because your baby might die. And
Speaker 1: then you walk it to the clinic, and the clinic
Speaker 1: got a little emblem right on the counter with the
Speaker 1: American flag, and it says in Spanish, you know, greetings
Speaker 1: from Gustavos who negos gasi ia migos as sulfamilia. You
Speaker 1: think they remember that. Let me tell you how I
Speaker 1: know they remember that. I remember I was torn through
Speaker 1: South Africa and one of the one of the the
Speaker 1: the promoters that brought us out was from Zimbabwe. We
Speaker 1: was talking politics or whatever, right, and he told me
Speaker 1: his his hero was Momar Kadaffi. And I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sorry, what I've never heard anyone say that.
Speaker 1: Then he started explaining how every school he went to
Speaker 1: was built by Kadafi. I was like, he says, you
Speaker 1: ask anyone in Africa their doctor's Cuban. It's a trope,
Speaker 1: the Cuban doctor, because it's only us they got a
Speaker 1: problem with Cuba. Cuba been sending doctors all over the world,
Speaker 1: all over these third world countries, all over these If
Speaker 1: think about it for a second, child, just use your antennas.
Speaker 1: If push come to shove, If America were to attack
Speaker 1: the nation of the people that provided your clinic. Who
Speaker 1: do you think they're gonna side with America? Wasn't stupid?
Speaker 1: We need to be the clinic. So if we the clinic,
Speaker 1: if we're the ones that investing in your infrastructure, if
Speaker 1: we're the ones that are taking care of your children,
Speaker 1: if we're the ones that are digging wells and providing
Speaker 1: food when you get up, when your nations get up,
Speaker 1: and especially in Africa, follow me, there's not a single
Speaker 1: natural resource that Africa ain't abundance in that that that
Speaker 1: that precious coal, balt you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: That's keeping your iPhone sixteen up, that nickel that we
Speaker 1: need to make these up solar panel that comes from Africa.
Speaker 1: So when your country figures out how to export them things,
Speaker 1: Ay a hey, remember remember who helped you build this infrastrcuar.
Speaker 1: Remember who paved this road? Uh huh? Remember remember who
Speaker 1: Remember that flag that was on that We've been taking
Speaker 1: care of that flag that was on that that that clinic.
Speaker 1: We've been taking care of y'all for a long time.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. We while your babies are alive, while your
Speaker 1: boys are healthy, while y'all not dying of AIDS. So
Speaker 1: when it's time to start trading, why would you trade
Speaker 1: with Russia? What they do for you, they wasn't here
Speaker 1: for you. And let me ask you this. Let's just
Speaker 1: say you decided to trade with both of them. I
Speaker 1: need a better deal because I don't already invested a
Speaker 1: whole lot of money. You was about to have no mail.
Speaker 1: They was gonna you were gonna you weren't gonna have
Speaker 1: a work force if we didn't provide this medicine for you.
Speaker 1: So I feel like you need to hook us up.
Speaker 1: I feel like me and you. I feel like I
Speaker 1: have a say over who you trade with and who
Speaker 1: you don't trade with, because you alive because of us.
Speaker 1: What I am describing to you is called soft power.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean by like, ain't nobody boy scouts.
Speaker 1: I'm guaranteeing that I can continue to strip you of
Speaker 1: resources and you will gladly let me do it, rather
Speaker 1: than me sending troops down there to take it from you.
Speaker 1: It is at this point when we start singing Nate
Speaker 1: Dog again. Girl, you see you to love me? Now,
Speaker 1: everybody love it and see that's now listen, that's Trump's argument.
Speaker 1: Love us now while we're paying for you, will you
Speaker 1: love us when we down and out? Will you still
Speaker 1: have love for me? Because that's hard power. Now let
Speaker 1: me back up. That's the logic. Now, let me back up.
Speaker 1: There was this book called The Ugly American that Kennedy
Speaker 1: almost wanted to make all the diplomats read because the
Speaker 1: trope about loud, gross, obnoxious Americans. It's a trope for
Speaker 1: a reason. Our diplomats used to be like that. We
Speaker 1: go to the Orient, the Orient wow, because I'm using
Speaker 1: the sixties terms. We would go to Asia, nigger order
Speaker 1: French fries. It's place socks. There's no burgers, just nasty,
Speaker 1: obnoxious hot dog shoving in your face. American difference. Don't
Speaker 1: did no homework, did no research, ain't got no decoral
Speaker 1: We walk it all over the world talking about, hey,
Speaker 1: we hear homie, Where the where the hoes at these countries,
Speaker 1: just like I can't stand the Americans. Russia comes in different,
Speaker 1: Russia come in low key, Russia understand culture. So it
Speaker 1: was like, listen, man, we gotta change our ways. We
Speaker 1: can't just come in here and just be in these boisterous,
Speaker 1: annoying upshots that swear we know everything you gotta chill
Speaker 1: bro and hence the birth of USAID. And it continued
Speaker 1: on another way that USAID, which I realized seven told
Speaker 1: you what it have stood for. It stands for the
Speaker 1: United States Agent see for International Development, and it's also
Speaker 1: us AID USAID, right, so you know they think they
Speaker 1: got bars. Anyway, when the world shifted from the Cold
Speaker 1: War and just being like America's got a bad reputation,
Speaker 1: the next issue was post nine to eleven, it's terrorism again,
Speaker 1: we had a bad reputation. Our reputation is we come in,
Speaker 1: destabilize your country and then leave take your oil. And
Speaker 1: when a country is destabilized, like we said in all
Speaker 1: of the you wasn't outside episodes, you're just making This
Speaker 1: is how you create radicalization. Do you think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have You've bombed us to the Stone age? What love
Speaker 1: would I have for you? Are? Like, are you crazy?
Speaker 1: Of course I'm gonna get radicalized. I just watched you.
Speaker 1: Like there's a song on my ep terra Form the People.
Speaker 1: It's called we were only ten And it's a comparison
Speaker 1: of the things that turn someone to the streets compared
Speaker 1: to the things that radicalize a person, like all through
Speaker 1: the Middle East. This, this extremism was being birthed, not
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. It was a natural response to targeted
Speaker 1: air strikes, to removals of presidents. Do you like, my god,
Speaker 1: the fucking aroundery of what America has done in this region,
Speaker 1: Like it's it's a college level PhD course, the amount
Speaker 1: of tomfoolery we have done in the Middle East, Like
Speaker 1: like funding both sides of civil wars, Like just the
Speaker 1: mouth of bullshit we've done there. You're gonna your attitude
Speaker 1: is gonna be like, man, fuck America, Like why wouldn't
Speaker 1: it be like that? It's just we are of horrible reputation,
Speaker 1: and for some reason, the light bulb didn't turn on
Speaker 1: about America that this the way that the Middle East
Speaker 1: feels about us until nine to eleven, that for some
Speaker 1: reason we thought something was wrong with they. Religion is
Speaker 1: what turning them into this. No, why is America the
Speaker 1: great evil? Because y'all be evil, y'all be treated us terribly.
Speaker 1: Somebody went, Okay, now we gotta do better. We gotta
Speaker 1: do better around the world. So we switched our brains
Speaker 1: from world destroying to world building. So all those infrastructure
Speaker 1: things where we're supposed to be going in there and
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be rebuilding nations with our monies. That
Speaker 1: stuff was because the light bulb turned on that you
Speaker 1: can't just be a bully everywhere. You gotta like help
Speaker 1: in some ways. Now, this is where a lot of
Speaker 1: the like when you go back and look at well,
Speaker 1: has any of this stuff worked? This is where a
Speaker 1: lot of the like the drama starts setting in because
Speaker 1: it in a lot of places it didn't work. We
Speaker 1: spent a ton of money only for the nation to
Speaker 1: not look any different. It a great example of stuff
Speaker 1: in our lifetime, like the Fall of the Taliban gave
Speaker 1: birth to isis like that where it's just like it
Speaker 1: didn't do what you thought it was gonna do a
Speaker 1: lot of programs that got put together ended up being
Speaker 1: not a good use of our money because it didn't
Speaker 1: not only did it not help these people, it didn't
Speaker 1: secure us in any way. It had no utility utilitarian, yeah,
Speaker 1: it had no utilitarian in service anyway. It's messy. Like
Speaker 1: I said, for sixty years, it has been a way
Speaker 1: that not only have we exerted power, but we've also
Speaker 1: kept diseases out of our country because the world is global.
Speaker 1: The world is interconnected. Think about ebola, think about other
Speaker 1: diseases that could have traveled here. A lot of those
Speaker 1: things stop at their nation's border. Why because we send doctors.
Speaker 1: Are we doing that because we love them? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: We're doing that so disease don't come here. That that's
Speaker 1: not obvious to you. It should have been. So if
Speaker 1: that's what we're doing, why would we stop? Because one
Speaker 1: could make a very clear argument that a big reason
Speaker 1: why war is rarely, if ever, played out on our
Speaker 1: soil is because of soft power. Why people continue to
Speaker 1: trade with us, it's because we take care of them.
Speaker 1: Do you want to do you if you the other country,
Speaker 1: you want that to stop? Do you want us to
Speaker 1: stop sending aid? You want us to stop building roads
Speaker 1: for you? Then go ahead on take your chances. This
Speaker 1: practice has continued on again. If you travel because now
Speaker 1: we're not just talking about Russia, were talking about China now,
Speaker 1: because when you travel through Africa, guests who's building their
Speaker 1: roads now? Who's building their airports? Now? There's even a
Speaker 1: discussion among African activists that are just like, are y'all
Speaker 1: did not was y'all not here last semester? Don't y'all
Speaker 1: know what's happening right now. These people are giving us
Speaker 1: these things not because they love us. They're exerting power.
Speaker 1: I am you. They building airports and paving roads so
Speaker 1: that they trucks can take your resources and fly them
Speaker 1: back to China. They just built their own road for it.
Speaker 1: Is that terrible? Yes? Do we got the right to
Speaker 1: say it's terrible? No? Because that's what we did. Are
Speaker 1: y'all following? Are you following me right now? Now? Is
Speaker 1: there corruption in USA? I d is their frivolous spending?
Speaker 1: Of course, there is a lot of frivolous spending. There's
Speaker 1: even arguments for things that you know didn't work. There
Speaker 1: was a program in Afghanistan to give women job training
Speaker 1: and put them into the workforce as a way to
Speaker 1: help liberate this place. And they say, of that program,
Speaker 1: the thousands of women that are part of that program,
Speaker 1: eight eight girls got a job. That's that's a fail.
Speaker 1: I don't know how else to explain it. That's a fail.
Speaker 1: But then there's other programs that, like I said, I
Speaker 1: know firsthand through Search for Common Ground, through preemptive love.
Speaker 1: Before I was with Search for Common Ground, I'm reading
Speaker 1: emails I got a I got a board meeting next
Speaker 1: week to discuss the programs that are ending. If you
Speaker 1: can go back to the first Terrorform episode I did
Speaker 1: with Shamil or Shamil shaml Idris, the CEO of Search
Speaker 1: for Common Ground, we did this around this time last year.
Speaker 1: I encourage you to pull that up and just listen
Speaker 1: to the programs that he talks about and even the
Speaker 1: work that they've done in Palestine. Right now, it's like
Speaker 1: these are these are real lives and real consequences that
Speaker 1: from a humanitarian perspective are very scary. But just from
Speaker 1: a sheer utilitarian perspective, people remember who abandoned them. People
Speaker 1: remember who take care of them. This is why you
Speaker 1: need soft power now. Obviously, Trump and Elon and them,
Speaker 1: they don't believe in no soft power. They believe in leverage. Now. Granted,
Speaker 1: soft power and leverage might be synonyms, but their version
Speaker 1: of that leverage is the stick. It's you either do
Speaker 1: this or I beat your ass. Now, as a parent,
Speaker 1: this is the case I'm gonna make, at least a
Speaker 1: parent trying to be better at it uses a combination
Speaker 1: of these things, soft power and hard power. If you
Speaker 1: come from a more melanated home. When a dinner plate
Speaker 1: is set in front of you, you already know where
Speaker 1: I'm going with this. You eat what I give you
Speaker 1: right now. If you don't like it, you can have
Speaker 1: sleep for dinner, because I'm not. This is what you
Speaker 1: can that's authoritative hard power. It's either I know your options,
Speaker 1: is this or nothing? You can go to bed. Then
Speaker 1: there's other ways to say, hey, listen, it's real simple.
Speaker 1: I've provided this for you. There are a few options.
Speaker 1: If this is completed, there is a dessert for you. Now.
Speaker 1: If you choose not to eat this, then you have
Speaker 1: chosen to not eat your dessert right now. Refrigerator's fine.
Speaker 1: You can get up and I'm not Your hands aren't broken.
Speaker 1: You can make your own I'm not cooking another thing.
Speaker 1: But if you would like something else, I require for
Speaker 1: you to eat a vegetable to have these things like you,
Speaker 1: you can do this, but if you do that, there
Speaker 1: is no dessert for you. Dessert comes from finishing the
Speaker 1: meal that I've made for you. That's it's a different
Speaker 1: type of power. Right So, then as the child, you remember, okay,
Speaker 1: there's something in it for me. If I just trump
Speaker 1: prefers the authoritative power. Now, if you got again any sense,
Speaker 1: the case is you need a combination of both. Again,
Speaker 1: if we're talking sheer utilitarian, you just need to you
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't go one way or the other, because,
Speaker 1: as any bully knows, it's exhausted. It's exhausting. You can't
Speaker 1: play king of the hill all the time. You can't
Speaker 1: always be like what what what what? At some point,
Speaker 1: these people gotta want to listen to you, because if not,
Speaker 1: all they gonna do is hunt for cracks. They're gonna
Speaker 1: wait for moments of weakness. They're gonna watch you real clothes.
Speaker 1: And why they watching you real close? It's somebody over
Speaker 1: here saying, hey, hey, you don't have to live like this,
Speaker 1: do you? Are you hungry? Let me take you to dinner.
Speaker 1: And they gonna remember that. So usaid came out of
Speaker 1: an understanding from the Cold War that we have to
Speaker 1: have a better reputation in America because if we don't,
Speaker 1: Russia going in. Oh, and maybe we'll stop some diseases
Speaker 1: from being brought here by them dirty brown folk. All right, now,
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