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Speaker 1: a very sloppy fourth July weekend, but you know, I'm healthy,
Speaker 1: I'm alive. Everything's intact as it were Oh snap. I
Speaker 1: worked on a bunch of new music stuff over the
Speaker 1: weekend too. That was fun, um surprisingly, putting together this
Speaker 1: show every week and trying to make an album. It's uh,
Speaker 1: it's hard, it's hard. How are you doing? How's how
Speaker 1: are you? A week removed from your first performance of
Speaker 1: I'm in markedly less pain than I was the night
Speaker 1: of uh whatever that was? Yeah? Up, Yes, I came
Speaker 1: home and I was in an unspeakable pain, um from
Speaker 1: just jumping around stomping and flailing and ship. But I
Speaker 1: got in the pool, went over my friend's pool yesterday
Speaker 1: and floated and definitely was a far more therapeutic than
Speaker 1: I had expected. I was like, my doctor recommended not
Speaker 1: getting the pool, like that must be some kind of
Speaker 1: placebo like duh, m you you're you know you have
Speaker 1: a headache, drink more water, you know that kind of
Speaker 1: ship like thanks bro. But no, I actually got in
Speaker 1: the pool and it felt like it was zero fourth
Speaker 1: of July where the July was. I um actually had
Speaker 1: a baby shower and so I had a fucking shipped
Speaker 1: out of people over my house. It was very it's
Speaker 1: very overwhelming. I'm still getting used to that. Um. But
Speaker 1: that was good, didn't really blow up anything. I'm not
Speaker 1: super into that ship for myself particularly, you know, I've
Speaker 1: never really been like that celebrity celebratory. Is that the
Speaker 1: word of Fourth of July? It's always kind of you know,
Speaker 1: Fourth of July and Thanksgiving just personally have always been
Speaker 1: kind of holidays that are about family and friends, but
Speaker 1: not necessarily about what they're meant for to me anyway,
Speaker 1: take the excuse to get together with family. But I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about freedom like I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I think of our Pilgrims influenced. Like I remember Iced
Speaker 1: Tea when I was a kid and they used to
Speaker 1: listen to him. He always used to like mention that
Speaker 1: in a couple of albums you'd be like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: bullshit as Thanksgiving, we was in chains back then, that ship,
Speaker 1: you know exactly. But um yeah, let's get into it.
Speaker 1: We got a pretty dope stacked show for you today.
Speaker 1: We are going to be talking about a little theme
Speaker 1: that has been recurring lately on the show in the
Speaker 1: last few episodes, which has been in the increase in
Speaker 1: violent crime and shooting that's been crime wave. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the violent crime or the murder thing at least
Speaker 1: you know it's real, it's in the data. But like
Speaker 1: one thing we know for certain is that the right
Speaker 1: wing in this country is definitely going to start using
Speaker 1: that whole spectra of mura I just said, crime wave
Speaker 1: and that whole narrative, so they can like use that
Speaker 1: as part of their strategy for the mid terms, whether
Speaker 1: and even not just the midterms, but like local elections
Speaker 1: that are going on now, might be going on in
Speaker 1: town that you're in right now, listen to the show.
Speaker 1: So it's like important that we monitor these things and
Speaker 1: prepare ourselves because who knows where they're gonna take it.
Speaker 1: You know, the Democratic Democrats there, you know they're gonna
Speaker 1: go with the wind on it. So if the Republicans start,
Speaker 1: you know, effectively tagging them with that whole soft on
Speaker 1: crime narrative, we know where this where they can go.
Speaker 1: It happened in the nineties, and we've got the fucking
Speaker 1: dude who did it as president right now. So the
Speaker 1: way I see it, if the messaging is good enough
Speaker 1: to scare enough people that Republicans start taking office again,
Speaker 1: and they're doing it all on the campaign of crime
Speaker 1: is getting out of control, we need more cops. We
Speaker 1: need cops to have even longer relation. They need to
Speaker 1: be able to do more things and stopping first nationwide
Speaker 1: all that search ship. I personally don't have any evidence
Speaker 1: that suggests the Democrats wouldn't eventually go with that. It's
Speaker 1: just further shifting that Overton window of everything being like
Speaker 1: some fucking right wing nightmare, you know. So I think
Speaker 1: it's something important to address, Yeah, for sure. So we're
Speaker 1: talking about some crime statistics from around the country, our
Speaker 1: thoughts on like why this is happening, as well as
Speaker 1: a very variety of perspectives of those you know, with
Speaker 1: various political agendas as well, and how they're kind of
Speaker 1: spending the data towards their personal ends, um along the way.
Speaker 1: So yeah, in the music discussion, we're gonna dig into
Speaker 1: some songs where m c s paint narratives and portraits
Speaker 1: to maybe you know, get into the mindset of how
Speaker 1: some of these violent situations happened in the first place.
Speaker 1: And all right, we'll get to all that after the jump.
Speaker 1: All right, so, you know, just a little recap because
Speaker 1: we have been mentioning it in some episodes before, but like,
Speaker 1: how has this recent I guess surge in some of
Speaker 1: this violent crime effected you and and where you're at
Speaker 1: I mean I um, I would say the uptick in
Speaker 1: violent crime as as as a commissioner I was hit
Speaker 1: home for me in a number of ways, both in
Speaker 1: terms of just interpersonally one on one with constituents, hearing
Speaker 1: some of the stories they've told and how that's impacted
Speaker 1: me emotionally, and then like in terms of community organizing.
Speaker 1: So on the one side, it's been really hard for me.
Speaker 1: And you know, particularly when we saw our big space
Speaker 1: of shootings back maybe a month and month and a
Speaker 1: half ago, getting calls every day from mothers who were
Speaker 1: trying to relocate their children because their house that got
Speaker 1: shot at the night before, talking to families of folks
Speaker 1: who had not survived violent exchanges of gunfire. Um, and
Speaker 1: these kids being very young and sort of just like
Speaker 1: UM hearing I guess like one of the most impactful
Speaker 1: things is hearing all the positive things as you see
Speaker 1: in the newspaper, like oh, you know, you know thug
Speaker 1: had like you know, previous gun chartists, whatever kind of
Speaker 1: bullshit has drawn straight from the police report, and we
Speaker 1: know the police lie. We know the police want to
Speaker 1: tell the full story and so getting to hear from
Speaker 1: these families about how like all the potential of these
Speaker 1: young men had and like what they meant to their communities, etcetera.
Speaker 1: Like it on top of just like you know, it's
Speaker 1: my job to like do constituent services, but like it's
Speaker 1: sucking hard sometimes. And then I mean, particularly we've got
Speaker 1: the violent crime in the community. But what's really unaccounted
Speaker 1: for and on the day that we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: today as well as just um and in the national
Speaker 1: rhetoric around this quote unquote carme wave is the amount
Speaker 1: of like police violence and whether or not it has
Speaker 1: gone up or down um during this time has a
Speaker 1: different kind of harm For people who take on very
Speaker 1: tough on crime stands, you know, siting community violence, they're
Speaker 1: also leaving out like this other form of state violence
Speaker 1: that then just perpetuates cycles of harm. Like you've got
Speaker 1: people out here rob and stealing the salton people, and
Speaker 1: then you got the police out here robbing people people.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things that you know, has me
Speaker 1: particularly concern because it's like every every point within the
Speaker 1: last like sixty years that we've had these sort of
Speaker 1: like national upticks in crime or whatever, it has resulted
Speaker 1: in police getting their leash, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: getting a longer a longer leash to to do their ship.
Speaker 1: It's stuff that it's like, you know, policies that were
Speaker 1: set in place back in like the sixties and eighties
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. We're still like dealing with the
Speaker 1: effects of that stuff now, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it's like we don't want to have like another
Speaker 1: you know round of that sort of stuff being institutionalized
Speaker 1: and ingrained. Yeah, but I brought up a rise in
Speaker 1: police violence, which I don't have any tats. I don't
Speaker 1: know where we are at with regards to whether we
Speaker 1: are seeing a decline or an increase or a stagnation.
Speaker 1: But I mean, honestly, the thing that impact me the
Speaker 1: most is when that man was killed by the cops,
Speaker 1: like around the corner from my house. I also probably
Speaker 1: about a month and a half ago, um, because like
Speaker 1: it stays with me to this day thinking about, like
Speaker 1: I found his Facebook be the man that lost his life,
Speaker 1: Like two days before this happened, he was posting on Facebook,
Speaker 1: like you know, can somebody cash at me in dollar
Speaker 1: so I can go to the gas station and like
Speaker 1: get some chips, like he was so desperate, like you know,
Speaker 1: no likes, no comments or anything. And then you see
Speaker 1: like in this is earlier, like as as you get
Speaker 1: closer to when the ship went down, his sense of
Speaker 1: aggravation that like nobody had his back, that he couldn't
Speaker 1: get ahead in this world, that he couldn't provide for
Speaker 1: his family. And then he then then there's a point
Speaker 1: where like he posted a video where like it's kind
Speaker 1: of clear he's snapped. And it stays with me, man
Speaker 1: that like Nigga just as just need wanted a dollar
Speaker 1: from somebody, reached out to the internet and not and
Speaker 1: not a soul had his bag. And when we get
Speaker 1: later into um and so eventually, yeah, like he was
Speaker 1: rolling around the streets of the shotgun and tried to
Speaker 1: rob the pool from the corner from my house, ended
Speaker 1: up getting shot at police. Um. But yeah, when we
Speaker 1: get into preventative solutions and prevention and solutions later, we'll
Speaker 1: take a little bit more into the linkage between that
Speaker 1: economic pecurity and the emotional state. Then people get in
Speaker 1: and how it ends up with sad things like these
Speaker 1: people people in our communities killing each other or people
Speaker 1: were getting killed by the cops. Well, it's good that
Speaker 1: you brought up, you know, checking the sources of some
Speaker 1: of these numbers in statistics. So, American City saw thirty
Speaker 1: three increase in homicides last year. And according to a
Speaker 1: report produced by the Major Cities Chief Association, which is
Speaker 1: this organization that's comprised of police executives representing the largest
Speaker 1: cities in the United States and Canada. According to them,
Speaker 1: sixty three of the sixty six largest police jurisdictions saw
Speaker 1: increases in at least one category of violent crime, in
Speaker 1: which included homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault. Now this is
Speaker 1: contested because like what's happening with with homicides isn't necessarily
Speaker 1: part of the quote unquote crime wave. It's actually many
Speaker 1: crimes from larceny to robbery to rape have all dropped
Speaker 1: during that They all dropped during the pandemic, and they've
Speaker 1: continued to fall during the first you know, a few months.
Speaker 1: Also really important contextualize this in the in the historical
Speaker 1: lens of the last forty or fifty years, because crime
Speaker 1: is down from the nineties still um and so we
Speaker 1: are seeing like we are seeing an uptick in some
Speaker 1: forms of violent crime. Relative to like two thousand and nineteen. UM.
Speaker 1: But and it seems like, you know, because we've all
Speaker 1: been in these little boxes for a year and a half,
Speaker 1: Like it's shocking when it goes up a little bit
Speaker 1: and like you're hearing about a lot of shootings in
Speaker 1: the community, but news cycle and like how you know,
Speaker 1: you just you see more stuff now you see remember
Speaker 1: what it was like in the nineties, Like you kind
Speaker 1: of like either you get nostalgic about it and like
Speaker 1: kind of look at it from that lens, or just
Speaker 1: like it's hard to like recall how bad it used
Speaker 1: to be. I mean for me, I was barely even
Speaker 1: alive back then. Um, And so I've grown like during
Speaker 1: the course of my life, crime has just fallen and
Speaker 1: fallen and fallen in most major cities u um, the
Speaker 1: entire time I've been alive. And so it's like, um,
Speaker 1: I think it's hard for people to remember how far
Speaker 1: we have come with regards to violent crime. UM, because
Speaker 1: it's so shocking when it does slightly uptick as it
Speaker 1: has in this like transition out of the pandemic time.
Speaker 1: Well a lot of it is messaging too, That's what
Speaker 1: you know. I was barely alive back then too, But
Speaker 1: I was a kid, you know, I mean like a
Speaker 1: little kid, and it's like from what I remember comparing
Speaker 1: it to now, is it was just the messaging of
Speaker 1: it was a lot more deliberate back then, and now,
Speaker 1: whether it's deliberate or not, it's just more ubiquitous now,
Speaker 1: you know, like back then in order to like be
Speaker 1: ginned up and scared about, like, oh, crime is increasing,
Speaker 1: crime is increasing. It's like you have to be watching
Speaker 1: the news, you know, and it's like now you've got Facebook,
Speaker 1: you've got um Twitter, you've got Instagram, and it's like
Speaker 1: you you know, if you just like scroll in it
Speaker 1: or you look at the trending topic, is like depending
Speaker 1: on what city you're in, like stuff is gonna be trending.
Speaker 1: Local news stories are gonna be trending. And it's just
Speaker 1: like a saturation of it that if you spend even
Speaker 1: a few minutes looking at it, you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: ship is out of control. There's just like there's just
Speaker 1: like people are going crazy left and right. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, when it's really just isolated stories, but you're
Speaker 1: getting bombarded with all these different all this you know,
Speaker 1: different media and messaging that you kind of go along
Speaker 1: with the flows, like, oh, man, I guess we have
Speaker 1: a crime wave like that. I mean, so I guess
Speaker 1: the broader category of violent crime has only really increased
Speaker 1: about three percent this year according to preliminary data from
Speaker 1: the FBI on a large subset of cities, But it's
Speaker 1: homicides in particular that have increased as other crimes. Foll.
Speaker 1: I think with this the fact that like, yeah, it
Speaker 1: seems like things are going crazy because like one homicide
Speaker 1: is enough, Like there's no acceptable number of people to
Speaker 1: lose their lives ever. Um. And so if you hear
Speaker 1: about you know, six, it might be less than you
Speaker 1: had heard about growing up. But I mean, from my perspective,
Speaker 1: it's like that's six families at six schools that lost
Speaker 1: the student, the six churches that lost you know, a member, etcetera.
Speaker 1: It's a whole bunch of lives ruined. Yeah. And and
Speaker 1: then beyond that, beyond like the very real impact of
Speaker 1: like yo, I'm not I'm not downplaying this because homicide
Speaker 1: is incredibly um, it's just incredibly painful for a community
Speaker 1: to experience. Um. Also the fact that it gets clicks
Speaker 1: when things like people are scared so when they hear
Speaker 1: of always homicides like this, stay glued to their TV
Speaker 1: and not to see their ducal acts, commercial or whatever
Speaker 1: because they're like fucking freaked out that it seems like
Speaker 1: the crime surgy. So I wanted to run this by you.
Speaker 1: It's something that I came across in CNN, and it
Speaker 1: just I just wanted to get what your thoughts were
Speaker 1: about it, all right, So in this article in CNN,
Speaker 1: they were saying, experts point to a perfect storm of
Speaker 1: factors economic collapse, social anxiety from the pandemic, d policing
Speaker 1: in major cities after protests that called for the abolition
Speaker 1: of police departments, shift in police shifts and police resources
Speaker 1: from neighborhoods to downtown areas because of those protests, and
Speaker 1: the release of criminal defendants pre trial or before sentences
Speaker 1: were completed to reduce the risk of COVID spread in jail.
Speaker 1: All may have contributed to a spike in homicides. Now, says,
Speaker 1: COVID has seemed to exacerbate everything. Officers sometime had to
Speaker 1: quarantine because of exposure to cases in their ranks, reducing
Speaker 1: the number of officers available in patrol. The reason that
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about your thoughts of that
Speaker 1: is like as an abolitionist, like what do you say
Speaker 1: to like something like that, say to what part specifically?
Speaker 1: So specifically the you know, the rationale that officers having
Speaker 1: to quarantine during COVID, so they're having to reduce the
Speaker 1: number of officers out their fault because these dumb asses
Speaker 1: don't wear any fucking masks anywhere they go. No, no, no.
Speaker 1: But I was saying, like them saying that contributed to
Speaker 1: an increase of crime. I mean I don't believe. I
Speaker 1: don't believe police prevent crime, and so I don't believe
Speaker 1: that excuse. Um they I mean, it might have affected
Speaker 1: their response rates with regards to following up after crimes
Speaker 1: have already occurred, because that's all they fucking do. Um,
Speaker 1: But I don't think that. I don't buy. I don't
Speaker 1: buy that excuse because I think it's it's propaganda to
Speaker 1: get some more money. That's what they want you to think.
Speaker 1: The same thing with the whole the policing arguments, like well,
Speaker 1: we were all demoralized and you all didn't want the
Speaker 1: cops around, so we you know, we pulled up, you know,
Speaker 1: we like you know, rolled up our carpet and went home,
Speaker 1: took our ball, went home, and that caused an increasing crime.
Speaker 1: It has study done in Kansas City. I can't remember
Speaker 1: quite when it was pretty old, and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it had been duplicated empirically so the
Speaker 1: findings of it could be considered pulmonary, but they had
Speaker 1: um They did an experiment to see the effects of
Speaker 1: police visibility on crime rates and three different zones in
Speaker 1: the city. It's an extra cops to one zone, they
Speaker 1: kept another zone the same, and then they sent out
Speaker 1: less cops to a third zone. And they found no
Speaker 1: substantive difference in the reported rates of victimization, crime rates,
Speaker 1: um increase in traffic fatalities anything like literally not like
Speaker 1: it did not impact at all the degree to which
Speaker 1: crime was happening or people were being victimized in these
Speaker 1: three different areas of the city of Kansas. I don't
Speaker 1: know why people have this like imagination that should have
Speaker 1: fucking gangs in New York and like, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, there's like roaming street gangs for us to
Speaker 1: need like patrolmen just all all over the place, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's like, what are they really
Speaker 1: preventing Are they really preventing anybody from doing anything illegal
Speaker 1: that they're going to do anyway you wait for the
Speaker 1: cop car to go buy yeah, or you know, or
Speaker 1: just do it blunt, like straight up in their face
Speaker 1: because they ain't scared of them or like whatever. Um
Speaker 1: and in its acts of like oh you need fear.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about how all we far we have fallen
Speaker 1: if the we believe the only way we can get
Speaker 1: people to not do bad things is scare them with punishment,
Speaker 1: like that's I think it's a scess, really sassinated affairs
Speaker 1: because a lot of people who don't do crimes because
Speaker 1: they don't hurt other people and as an ethos that
Speaker 1: we are failing through preventative means to like fully seed
Speaker 1: in the culture. I don't think it's and I don't
Speaker 1: think it's impermeable. I don't think's immutable. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, we can't change it. We have to
Speaker 1: rely on police because people don't care about each other.
Speaker 1: It's just like a failure to like believe that people
Speaker 1: aren't naturally like that and it's something socialized into them
Speaker 1: that can be socialized out in a generation or so
Speaker 1: if we were just like focused on having that as
Speaker 1: a component of education, etcetera. Anyway I'm going off are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean any sort of pretty much anything cops have
Speaker 1: to say about white crimes going up. I don't care
Speaker 1: because they're allowing to get more money and I don't
Speaker 1: care about them. So so Um. In Chicago, homicides are
Speaker 1: up thirty three in the first three months of the
Speaker 1: year compared to while shootings are up nearly in the
Speaker 1: same period year over year. In New York City, the
Speaker 1: NYPD DADAS shows murders jumped by nearly fourteen percent through March,
Speaker 1: the latest number of the department is made public, while
Speaker 1: shootings were up nearly fifty Again, those are all yeah,
Speaker 1: police numbers also year over year numbers, so compared to
Speaker 1: when everyone was inside and not like taking the against
Speaker 1: the cloud or whatever. Yes, homicides are up, but let's
Speaker 1: look at those numbers from let's say, right, um, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's shocking because like life is going back
Speaker 1: to normal. Um and but like the bottom has fallen
Speaker 1: out of our economy and the social fabric of our communities,
Speaker 1: and so people are you're fucking they're getting out back
Speaker 1: in the streets and then they're killing each other dubb
Speaker 1: bit like it's unfortunate, but like what y'all thing is
Speaker 1: gonna happen if niggas be inside for a whole year
Speaker 1: and a half, lost their job, have to stay at
Speaker 1: home with their kids because the kids are aline school.
Speaker 1: They ain't got no you know, I ain't got no money,
Speaker 1: so they like, you know, economic that economic exactly talking
Speaker 1: about the funk house, you think gonna happen. But still
Speaker 1: it's not as quite quite as bad as we may
Speaker 1: have seen thirty or four years ago. Um Dida also
Speaker 1: show that there's the rising homicides likely translated into an
Speaker 1: additional fourth house, and our five thousand people killed across
Speaker 1: the country compare with the year before. According to early estimates,
Speaker 1: cities that have never seen decreases in gun violence to
Speaker 1: match the overall national trend were hit especially hard to
Speaker 1: places like Philadelphia and St. Louis were clearmed returned close
Speaker 1: to the historic ties for the number of people killed
Speaker 1: in a single year, according to the Philadelphia inquir and
Speaker 1: the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Early data suggests that the
Speaker 1: homicides increase isn't necessarily happening at random. But that the
Speaker 1: additional violence is clustered in disadvantaged neighborhoods of color, that
Speaker 1: we're already struggling with higher gun rates of violence before
Speaker 1: the pandemic even happened. So that's according to UH criminologist
Speaker 1: Richard Rosenfeld, who has done who's authored multiple national reports
Speaker 1: on crime and violent trends. So have you your you know,
Speaker 1: obviously we talked about some of those personal UH instances,
Speaker 1: but just overall, like, have you noticed like or or
Speaker 1: heard of any sort of UH national carry through and
Speaker 1: have that affecting Georgia. Honestly, what I'm seeing is a
Speaker 1: kid to what we see, Like we see a spiking
Speaker 1: crime every summer, and be it kids are out of
Speaker 1: school and acting up in the streets more. There's more
Speaker 1: parties in the summertime, and so people get intoxicated it
Speaker 1: and then emotions get high. Um or it's just a
Speaker 1: fucking weather. It's hard to know, but it feels like
Speaker 1: every single summer we see a spike and shootings. Um
Speaker 1: And so I am seeing these patterns in my district.
Speaker 1: But I am also able to put them somewhat more
Speaker 1: into like a recent historical perspective of like a cycle
Speaker 1: that we free we continue to experience because we keep
Speaker 1: doing the same thing over and never again expecting different
Speaker 1: results with regards to crime prevention. UM. So, the the
Speaker 1: spike that I feel like we are seeing, like I
Speaker 1: feel like I've seen this before, Like I feel like we're, oh,
Speaker 1: we're back here now. Definitely I've seen an increase, but
Speaker 1: it's like, except for last summer, I mean two thousand,
Speaker 1: eighteen seventeen, I feel like I feel like it's summer
Speaker 1: has always felt like this when it comes to violent
Speaker 1: crime in the districts. Well as we're gonna get into
Speaker 1: in a second, um, some of this might you know,
Speaker 1: definitely is going to have a relationship to guns. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a Erica, so everything kind of comes down to guns.
Speaker 1: A preprint study from researchers at the University of California, Davis,
Speaker 1: which has not yet been peer reviewed, just so that
Speaker 1: you know, UM suggested a spike in gun purchases during
Speaker 1: the early months of the pandemic was associated with with
Speaker 1: the nearly eight percent increasing gun violence from March through May,
Speaker 1: or about seven seventy additional fatal and non fatal shooting
Speaker 1: injuries nationwide. The Researchers found that states that had lower
Speaker 1: levels of violent crime pre COVID saw a strong connection
Speaker 1: between additional gun purchases and more gun violence. And that
Speaker 1: is from the Guardian. So places that didn't have long
Speaker 1: guns before, some people wouldn't buy guns, and then exactly
Speaker 1: if everyone has guns. And community groups say that the
Speaker 1: pandemic forced them to shutter prevention programs and created huge
Speaker 1: challenges for the work of violence interrupters, who rely on
Speaker 1: close relationships and in person interventions with people at risk
Speaker 1: of shootings are being shot. Yeah, so even in the
Speaker 1: preventative measures that at places it started to you know,
Speaker 1: expand on or see you know seed and then let
Speaker 1: a later grow um or even things that aren't explicitly
Speaker 1: crime preventative but like do help strengthen the social fabric
Speaker 1: of the neighborhood. Stuff like a lot of our tutoring programs, UM, churches, UM,
Speaker 1: different kinds of leatra services, activities for the young folks,
Speaker 1: like without those around, like people isolated and they go
Speaker 1: a little stir crazy and start making decisions and and
Speaker 1: then yeah, I mean, but even this work of like
Speaker 1: these inner personal relationships, these folks working within like violence
Speaker 1: interruption cultivate like you know, social distancing mass everything all
Speaker 1: of that ship fell apart. So what did you think
Speaker 1: was gonna happen? I don't want to repeat myself because
Speaker 1: I feel like I've said this the last two episodes,
Speaker 1: but I just don't I don't even understand how even
Speaker 1: like the most bad faith person or right wing but whatever,
Speaker 1: I don't even know how understand how you can even
Speaker 1: be like genuinely susceptible to like not understanding what's going on.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, we all lived through the pandemic,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like how many people do
Speaker 1: we know? Or if you're not one of them who
Speaker 1: lost the job, you know what I'm saying, So we
Speaker 1: like all know how hard this last year was. And
Speaker 1: it's like I'm I personally, I don't like I don't
Speaker 1: like making excuses for people who kill people, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like there's never a reason to
Speaker 1: take a life life like all that ship. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, it's like, like you said, what do
Speaker 1: you expect is going to happen? Like billions of people
Speaker 1: went out of work, everyone was inside, everyone was nervous.
Speaker 1: There was a point in time when we didn't know
Speaker 1: if this ship was about to be fucking outbreak times too,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Then then like the turmoil
Speaker 1: over in the summer happened. It's just like all of
Speaker 1: it to me seems like you know, one plus one
Speaker 1: equals too. I mean, like, I mean, we did a
Speaker 1: bunch of there were a bunch of like kumbaya, we're
Speaker 1: all of this together as fucking like celebrity or I
Speaker 1: don't know what, you know what I mean, like there
Speaker 1: are sounds of like, oh, you know, we all have
Speaker 1: finished pandemic. We know it's like like for some people,
Speaker 1: a lot bed for a bunch of rich conservatives that
Speaker 1: are clutching their pearls about roving gangs of blm an tifa,
Speaker 1: you know, riding through their Bagonians in the freyard um.
Speaker 1: They don't. They didn't live in the same world we
Speaker 1: did for the pandemic in terms of like seeing like
Speaker 1: losing jobs, losing income, seeing friends lose income, seeing friends
Speaker 1: get sick and not be able for to go to
Speaker 1: the hospital like um get seeing friends and family, you know,
Speaker 1: become homeless because they couldn't afford childcare. There's nowhere to
Speaker 1: send their kids and their kids doing online school, so
Speaker 1: they had like quit their jobs, and then you know,
Speaker 1: they're having money they if they couldn't pay rent and
Speaker 1: they could get the house. Like also all this kind
Speaker 1: of christ stuff. There's tons of people who did not
Speaker 1: see any of that. M who and most of them
Speaker 1: are But I would say a lot of people who
Speaker 1: are making a lot of the decisions for our country
Speaker 1: have no proximity to the reality of the pandemic for
Speaker 1: low income people whatsoever. Um, They're so yeah, it does
Speaker 1: not occur to them. It's like, Oh, it wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1: We always worked from home, right, It's like, uh, non niggasm.
Speaker 1: People was working in public and like didn't have any
Speaker 1: health insurance and are dead now. And that is just
Speaker 1: because you know, like should just starting to open back up.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that people aren't going to be feeling the
Speaker 1: effects from everything that you know, we just went through
Speaker 1: for years to come, you know what I'm saying. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Some police officials and their allies have asserted that last
Speaker 1: summer's big, volatile protests against police violence diverted police resources
Speaker 1: and attention away from their normal patrols, and they have
Speaker 1: also suggested that demoralized angry police officers might be less
Speaker 1: proactive or effective in dealing with violent crimes. I think
Speaker 1: called bullshit. UM and Jeff Asher, a crime analyst who
Speaker 1: writes extensively about homicide trends, um An examined sixty cities
Speaker 1: and found no correlation between the number of Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter protests in the size of the city's homicide increase. UM.
Speaker 1: I've also read UM that there's that you know, crime
Speaker 1: has increased in gop led cities as well as democrat
Speaker 1: led cities, small towns as well as big cities. Places
Speaker 1: was very huge protests, Places with no protest movement whatsoever. UM.
Speaker 1: Places where they defunded the police, you know, the very
Speaker 1: few that did love to be clear. UM, places where
Speaker 1: they increased with this budget. So like none of these
Speaker 1: you know, if people want to say, oh, they want
Speaker 1: to blame it on BLM, like what about places that
Speaker 1: didn't have that movement happened? Yeah, like okay, bro um
Speaker 1: and so Asher explained, well, he warned that any policing
Speaker 1: focused explanation for the homicide increase needed to also explain
Speaker 1: why the change would have only affected serious and deadly violence.
Speaker 1: But I think it's a good point It's like, why
Speaker 1: if it has to do with policing and the effectiveness
Speaker 1: of like proactive patrols, etcetera, why is it only only
Speaker 1: violent crime and no other kind of crime that is
Speaker 1: being an impacted by this There there isn't a clear
Speaker 1: explanation for them. Yeah, he said, most crime is down,
Speaker 1: including most felonies serious crime. If deep, if the deep
Speaker 1: policing argument is correct, why did it only affect the
Speaker 1: uptick and violence and that other street crimes. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. Bron Well,
Speaker 1: let's get into sort of the way that uh or
Speaker 1: partisan corporate oligarchy is fucking spending the ship to break
Speaker 1: in fundraising dollars in So we've got GOP operatives in
Speaker 1: Washington's who see this whole debate with the rising crime
Speaker 1: ship is like, you know, a potent centerpiece of how
Speaker 1: they're going to start running their campaigns for Senate next
Speaker 1: year in the mid term elections. It motivates the base
Speaker 1: party voters, as evidenced by the primary fight in Mississippi's
Speaker 1: fourth district where Mike Easel, How you say that, who's
Speaker 1: a Golf Coast sheriff is centering his primary challenge against
Speaker 1: his incumbent, REPS Stephen Palazzo, on defund the police or
Speaker 1: his opposition to it. And he's doing this even though
Speaker 1: the nigga he's running against shares the same sentiment is
Speaker 1: the Mississippi. I love the ship. It cracks me up
Speaker 1: when like the Republicans had to be like Democrats wanted
Speaker 1: to fund the police. I'm like, I fucking wish brother ay,
Speaker 1: even unlessil neither like y'all, y'all all on the same team.
Speaker 1: Don't even try to play with me about it. So
Speaker 1: this guy as well, he was saying, in some districts,
Speaker 1: we focus on to fund the police and the broader
Speaker 1: cultural fight. He didn't say the Republican operatives, But in
Speaker 1: many suburban districts, we took to fund the police and
Speaker 1: turned it into a public safety issue about whether there
Speaker 1: should be increase or discrease and police in your neighborhoods
Speaker 1: and what public safety officials do to keep people safe.
Speaker 1: In another state, Iowa, Republican Governor Kim Reynolds had promised
Speaker 1: additional checks on police conduct after the whole George flight.
Speaker 1: Think you remember there was a point in time when
Speaker 1: the Republicans were pretending that it was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, George Floyd dying is bad and cops maybe
Speaker 1: aren't perfect, but they've all there was this brief glimmering
Speaker 1: moment where they yeah, they got so fucking jawed jaw
Speaker 1: jack you know there, So um, she didn't. She did
Speaker 1: say all that ship and paid that whole lip service
Speaker 1: during that whole thing. But now she plans on making
Speaker 1: it harder to sue police on the job. It's part
Speaker 1: of her re election strategy. And just like the further
Speaker 1: Republican regression to the mean and then Biden of course
Speaker 1: rejected the framing of the defunded police movement during for
Speaker 1: the White House, calling for additional resources for st in
Speaker 1: local law enforcement. It's been really funny to me to
Speaker 1: see like my boomer parents that like were very down
Speaker 1: with the authorizing. My dad said some crazy ship like
Speaker 1: when they burned on the windows. He was like, well,
Speaker 1: we burned, we built this country. Uh so what if
Speaker 1: we burned to the ground. I was like, what, I
Speaker 1: have never heard you say something like that before. What,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, damn, what the fuck? So like, but
Speaker 1: now like h like sharing memes about oh past the
Speaker 1: George Floyd Justice and Policing Act, like not realizing it
Speaker 1: gives like was seven hunty million more dollars to the
Speaker 1: police to specifically to so that they can investigate themselves
Speaker 1: when they kill us, so not to prevent them from
Speaker 1: killing us, just like, oh, to have more money to
Speaker 1: find that get to the bottom of it. Like we
Speaker 1: know what happens when they get to the bottom of
Speaker 1: it if I get protect each other. Uh. And I'm
Speaker 1: saying that they did nothing wrong, so anyway, Um, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just like correct family does. It's just yeah, exactly, Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, the lack of clarity about where the White
Speaker 1: House stands on policing was side is the cost for
Speaker 1: the just supporting results in several congressional races or I
Speaker 1: guess there would be right House at the time during
Speaker 1: presidential election and theocratic democratic activist groups. You're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how best to respond, if at all, to
Speaker 1: the Republican line of attacked. I just think that uh,
Speaker 1: I mean one infirm it looks make you like a
Speaker 1: fucking stupid baby, like, oh, no, I want to give
Speaker 1: the cops more money. Opposite of what he said. It's
Speaker 1: just like, why are you letting them run the debate
Speaker 1: for pure on a pure reactionaries man on a purely
Speaker 1: political end of it. It's like, why are you drawing
Speaker 1: attention to Like I'm just this is just you know,
Speaker 1: purely like thinking like political nuts and bolts. It's like
Speaker 1: you can't control what activists say, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I don't even know. It's like the
Speaker 1: fact that they're so worried about it and they want
Speaker 1: to like squirm themselves and twist themselves and pretzels over
Speaker 1: something that they know that they don't agree with. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I don't. I don't even It
Speaker 1: just seems like you're you're playing into their hands to
Speaker 1: begin with, you know what I'm saying. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is effective politicking or not,
Speaker 1: but I just feel like morally it makes the most sense.
Speaker 1: And this is an analogy. Um, I guess I would say,
Speaker 1: got a friend who's running from mayor and like a
Speaker 1: moderate size city in North Georgia, and um, people are
Speaker 1: trying and he's the unity Democrat. People trying to like
Speaker 1: put him in the corner because it's more of a
Speaker 1: rural red leaning area about CRT we're like, oh, what
Speaker 1: do you think about the RT? Like he's running to
Speaker 1: be mayor. He's not running to be your school principal
Speaker 1: or your superintendent or teacher gym class. He's going to
Speaker 1: be mayor. And so I keep telling him over and
Speaker 1: over again, and people come at you with that stuff.
Speaker 1: Pivot back to what the mayor does and what you're
Speaker 1: really about, and how embarrassing that these like GOP dudes
Speaker 1: are making it about the culture war when like, literally
Speaker 1: people can't afford housing, people can't afford food. You know,
Speaker 1: our environment is our fucking oceans are on fire, Like
Speaker 1: can we talk about some real ship? And that, honestly
Speaker 1: is what my advice to Democrats would be, like, Oh,
Speaker 1: are you trying to defind the police? Like, you know what,
Speaker 1: that's a local issue. You know what happens with police
Speaker 1: departments is a local thing. And it's embarrassing that y'all
Speaker 1: are trying to like bring it back to this when
Speaker 1: the reality is people need jobs, we need infrastructure, we
Speaker 1: need climate action, and y'all are trying to make this
Speaker 1: about like cultural war slogans. Again, Yeah, I mean, but
Speaker 1: I just I have like this really bad feeling in
Speaker 1: the pit of my stomach that this ship is working. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry Uma. During the election, when like Kenosha went
Speaker 1: down and Democrats are starting to get a little scared about, oh,
Speaker 1: this whole Trump law and order message is gonna start sticking,
Speaker 1: I personally wasn't really sweating it because you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just I saw that that that's what they were doing,
Speaker 1: but I didn't think it was going to be effective.
Speaker 1: But now I think, you know, I think the culture
Speaker 1: war issues are gonna stick a little bit more hartially
Speaker 1: due to a lot of factors. But you know, I
Speaker 1: think there definitely is a good amount of the population
Speaker 1: that's susceptible to it. Well, we should probably get to
Speaker 1: this in a future episode sometime soon, with like the
Speaker 1: Ocean Beyond Fire ship. I don't even think, like I mean,
Speaker 1: I like I am, I am concerned about it about
Speaker 1: you know, obviously asked like as an abolitionist, this is
Speaker 1: like a key framework through which I, like, you know,
Speaker 1: sift policy and policy decisions. But like, yo, we also
Speaker 1: at the same time, like we're all about to like
Speaker 1: literally burn and die exactly. I don't even know. It
Speaker 1: is very hot. People are dying in our infrastructure is
Speaker 1: melting like and so I just remember when it was
Speaker 1: so when So I guess I say that though, because
Speaker 1: when people get to be like, oh, what the impact
Speaker 1: could I have on the mid terms, and I like
Speaker 1: Cam even I'm just like, none of these people are
Speaker 1: gonna save us. Holy sh it, Like I almost don't
Speaker 1: even give a fuck. But in terms of some of
Speaker 1: the quote unquote crime wave prevention, what are some effective
Speaker 1: things that you feel that like, you know, fun the
Speaker 1: policy and like what are what are some effective things
Speaker 1: that you think that people can do in their communities
Speaker 1: themselves to like reduce reduce some of the violence that
Speaker 1: we are seeing, I mean in Athens particularly, And I
Speaker 1: think this is I mean, it's it's as exacerbated here,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure it's true if many countries around there,
Speaker 1: around there many cities around the country. Um, we have
Speaker 1: a we have a working property problem. We got h
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent poverty rate, but you know, like a
Speaker 1: threecent unemployment rate, So we got thirty percent of the
Speaker 1: city who are working full time and still can't make it.
Speaker 1: To mean, so why wouldn't you go rob somebody of
Speaker 1: the dash and maybe getting to shoot out or if
Speaker 1: you get home from your you know your you. You
Speaker 1: worked all day at school and now you're gonna go
Speaker 1: ride the Santation trucks tonight. You get home and you
Speaker 1: get into a dispute with your wife. Why wouldn't it
Speaker 1: come to hands when you're stressed out about how you're
Speaker 1: gonna feed five kids working eighty hours week. Like, um,
Speaker 1: I think the issue is just like if people have
Speaker 1: more economic security, they'd be able, they'd be more liberated
Speaker 1: to make choices for healthier choices for themselves, be that
Speaker 1: escaping an abusive relationship because they can afford their own housing,
Speaker 1: or going back to school just for the hell of
Speaker 1: it's to find your passion and what you love and
Speaker 1: enjoy um, or seeking out mental health counseling, or does
Speaker 1: any other things that like maybe easier breathe, Like money
Speaker 1: can't buy happiness, but yeah fuck that, yes yeah I can.
Speaker 1: But fuck that, yes it can. Um. And so I
Speaker 1: think the economic stability is a crucial point there. Um.
Speaker 1: And so through that, like you know, I've been working
Speaker 1: with this organization. We're trying to provide opportunities for you
Speaker 1: to help sort of help them grow into productive and
Speaker 1: healthy adults. You know, just see a path like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's cool to be into other things and not that
Speaker 1: you know, aren't the streets. But also we're trying to
Speaker 1: get people, you know, young men trained up to get
Speaker 1: their CDL license so that they can fill in some
Speaker 1: of these bus driver shortages, etcetera around town and not
Speaker 1: only take these less of them in wage jobs, but
Speaker 1: trained up enough of them where they can go in
Speaker 1: as a bargaining unit from the jump and say, Yo, look,
Speaker 1: y'all got a shortage of ten drivers, ten of us
Speaker 1: apply for this job. We'll we'll all take it. We'll
Speaker 1: end your driver shortage right now if we get a
Speaker 1: five thou dollar like salary increase over what y'all are
Speaker 1: offering us. So stuff like that ways of like not
Speaker 1: only giving people that economic empowerment, but like really like
Speaker 1: super charging it by teaching folks these um these um
Speaker 1: the value of collective out to bargaining from the jump,
Speaker 1: Like we don't get you a good job, but also
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring you in with a squad such that
Speaker 1: you'll have leverage to get the working conditions and the benefits, etcetera.
Speaker 1: The trove rely deserve UM. I think that's a fundamental
Speaker 1: piece and I could go on and on. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I think with UM, I mean exercise I do
Speaker 1: frequently with people who are like, well what about X
Speaker 1: y Z crime, sort of like asking them, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: why do you think someone did that? Oh you're scared
Speaker 1: someone gonna break into your house to a TV? Why
Speaker 1: would he do that in the first place? And getting
Speaker 1: out of the roots of like, oh, is he a
Speaker 1: drug addict? Does he need treatment? So? Okay, your house
Speaker 1: wouldn't have got broken into if you if he had
Speaker 1: gotten drug treatment, or oh he broke into your house
Speaker 1: because you need money because he can't be his kids. Well,
Speaker 1: let's address that situation in your house wouldn't even get
Speaker 1: broken into, etcetera. I think there's a lot of directions
Speaker 1: that can go in, but very often I feel that
Speaker 1: it falls down to economic empowerment, having that the liberty
Speaker 1: to make choices for yourself, um and and choose healthy
Speaker 1: ones rather than being caught cycles of of of harmony
Speaker 1: and community that you're just forced into by nature of
Speaker 1: not having resources. Well, yo, do you want to listen
Speaker 1: to some rap songs? Never? I hate rap. Let's get it,
Speaker 1: let's get it. We'll be right back with the music.
Speaker 1: Discussion after the joke. Okay, so we are back. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into some rap songs that provide a
Speaker 1: little bit of a narrative that kind of gets you
Speaker 1: into some of these situations that we've been speaking of where,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, everyday things are going on
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden violence breaks out, and
Speaker 1: then it's a statistic that we're reading that's part of
Speaker 1: some number, you know, in some cities somewhere. So I
Speaker 1: tried to lean for stuff on the more serious and
Speaker 1: with me saying that the first song we're gonna listen
Speaker 1: to is a song big Els Casualties of a Dice Game. Now,
Speaker 1: for some of you who have heard Casualties of the
Speaker 1: Dice Game, you'll know that at the second half of it,
Speaker 1: it kind of gets pretty crazy and turns into a movie.
Speaker 1: It is not like the realistic scenario that which I'm describing,
Speaker 1: But the first half of it very much is like,
Speaker 1: you know, some like a real narrative that very much
Speaker 1: feels like, oh man, this could be the whole story
Speaker 1: for something that you just see as a news headline,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So let's check out this
Speaker 1: is Big l casualty of a dice game and why not.
Speaker 1: Quick's the story of a character going to a dice
Speaker 1: game and he's armed because everybody's they're going to have
Speaker 1: lots of money on them, and he's going to have
Speaker 1: lots of money on him too, and you never know
Speaker 1: what could happen. He goes, he starts winning the game,
Speaker 1: and then on his way home, he's being followed by
Speaker 1: the dudes who he won the money from and a
Speaker 1: shootout occurs, leaving everybody injured, dead or whatever. Yeah, innocuous,
Speaker 1: just like someone saw an opportunity to get some quick
Speaker 1: cash through you know, probably an I legal dice game
Speaker 1: happening on the corner. And then someone's like, yo, that
Speaker 1: my fund just left some ship. Um, let's let's get him.
Speaker 1: Let's get that money word. And if you listen to
Speaker 1: the rest of the song, like I was saying, Big
Speaker 1: l gets real nuts with it, and it becomes kind
Speaker 1: of like a fantasy crime story at that point. But
Speaker 1: that opening part of it, it definitely struck me as
Speaker 1: something that was rooted in Oh man, that sounds like
Speaker 1: a real situation. For the next joint, we have a
Speaker 1: song by Mers called Walk Like a Man let's check
Speaker 1: out a little bit of this drop top stop complete
Speaker 1: what I've seen with construct reality. When if two girls
Speaker 1: scream and so, yeah, I mean like a very simple
Speaker 1: you know, they're paying a really vivid portrait of a
Speaker 1: very simple altercation and misunderstanding. It seems escalating and the
Speaker 1: violence when it's really and it's really easy to get
Speaker 1: that form when everybody got guns. So in the story,
Speaker 1: he's talking about him and his friend on the strip.
Speaker 1: They see some girls that they go in holler at,
Speaker 1: and they didn't see that there was a guy in
Speaker 1: the car. So when they went and knocked on the door,
Speaker 1: the dude thought that they were trying to rob him
Speaker 1: and he got out. Altercation occurred and the rapper, the
Speaker 1: rapper's friend ended up getting killed. So you know, just
Speaker 1: like you said, everybody's everybody's arms. So something that's a
Speaker 1: misunderstanding that at worst could have could have been a fight,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it could have been a
Speaker 1: fistfight or some ship. Yeah, ends with some idea. Now
Speaker 1: this next track, I struggled with including it solely just
Speaker 1: because you know, I feel like we've been having a
Speaker 1: lot of NAS songs. I mean, yeah, I hang, I never.
Speaker 1: I just I just you know, we are not paid
Speaker 1: by NAS, but damn it, the man writes some good songs.
Speaker 1: We're gonna check out this track that I think should
Speaker 1: probably be more popular of something in his catalog than
Speaker 1: it is. But it is the track off of his
Speaker 1: Stillmatic album I think that was back in two thousand one,
Speaker 1: and it is the song rewind. Let's check that out
Speaker 1: real quick. Back with the starts at the end and
Speaker 1: the bullet goes back in the gun, the bullet holes
Speaker 1: close in his chest up with nick, and now he's
Speaker 1: back to square one, screaming shoot don't please. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: the unique the unique thing about the song is that
Speaker 1: he tells the story in reverse, but it's it's just
Speaker 1: that was that's probably like the standout aspect of the song,
Speaker 1: but in terms of the overall stories telling, it's just
Speaker 1: a simple story of you know, some some gangster guys
Speaker 1: having a night that turns into somebody seeing a person
Speaker 1: that's a target and then they go after him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was actually never understood that that song was all
Speaker 1: going backward. I was like, I was like, no, it's
Speaker 1: just being fucking wild, just like just being wild with it,
Speaker 1: Like I gotta say that album is definitely not my
Speaker 1: favorite album, but that song is one of his best songs.
Speaker 1: I think that ship needs to get more props than
Speaker 1: it does. So, ladies and gentlemen, that is it for
Speaker 1: the week. That's it. That's it. Stay safe, love one another,
Speaker 1: build community, networks of care so we can just like
Speaker 1: just keep ourselves safe. It's it's wild out here. It's
Speaker 1: wild out here between stay violence and violence and intracommunal violence. Man.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard times as we recover from the
Speaker 1: economic fallouts of the year that has been. But if
Speaker 1: we watch each other's back, support each other, and we
Speaker 1: can get out of this together. And we're gonna help
Speaker 1: you out by giving you some dope rhymes. Hey, Joel,
Speaker 1: why don't you drop a drop a beat for us?
Speaker 1: Pretty please? I'm walking with a d bost s big ego.
Speaker 1: Now give me all you see those please bags empty?
Speaker 1: I don't really see no cheese. These niggas wrapped like
Speaker 1: they're working with the gop is dope. Let me give
Speaker 1: you nothing. I am a little bit of front. And
Speaker 1: we was at a house body the last of six
Speaker 1: or something. One guns, everybody sticks and busting we out
Speaker 1: the pandemic. Everybody rips and touch and it's disgusted it.
Speaker 1: Instead of going giving people healthcare, they just gave us
Speaker 1: a bunch of shots. Now we're watching shell slid. Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: now you say he's really in the pitch hundred pound
Speaker 1: dudes talking about they really with the ships on the knife.
Speaker 1: I don't need a Macmillie with the clip. I just
Speaker 1: soli podcast activity when I spit, and I must admit
Speaker 1: I'm ice trade. But I gotta say bucks to six
Speaker 1: don't watching them miss NBC and looking at the crime
Speaker 1: rates cops and from a nothing just telling me it's
Speaker 1: crime wave higher than the sky scrape. How many people
Speaker 1: got today between the COVID and the kids up to
Speaker 1: another and I right, but it's really popping off like
Speaker 1: the nine page. It doesn't really help the networtive the
Speaker 1: billions that were spending jailer kids and someone Pepper did
Speaker 1: instead of giving it to their parents and school. So
Speaker 1: unless everyone on some temprity give them jobs making twenty
Speaker 1: dollars an hour, because the safety some place, it's always
Speaker 1: economically in power. Watching with them like a week bunch
Speaker 1: of flowers, like a flower. It's a policy decision. The
Speaker 1: options always out. We are waiting on reparations next time
Speaker 1: see UH. Listen to Waiting on Reparations on the I
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