Speaker 1: Call zone media. It is a long standing, well known fact.
Speaker 1: And when I say fact, I mean fact not This
Speaker 1: is uncontested, undisputed.
Speaker 2: It is a fact.
Speaker 1: If you go to a Jamaican restaurant, they're not going
Speaker 1: to have your first three choices. It's just understood. There's
Speaker 1: another thing that's understood. It's that well, let me say
Speaker 1: it like this, here's my advice. If you're going to
Speaker 1: a Jamaican restaurant, pack a snack cause you're you are
Speaker 1: going to be waiting for a long time. Just and
Speaker 1: they they just don't they just they just move at
Speaker 1: they pace. It's an island pace, which I don't understand
Speaker 1: what you're so worried about.
Speaker 2: We don't.
Speaker 1: They don't want to have no conversation with you, Like
Speaker 1: it's weird. You know, I don't need no greetings. This
Speaker 1: is a transaction. Like we're not friends, we're not family.
Speaker 1: We make good food. You want to food. If you
Speaker 1: want fast food, you go somewhere else.
Speaker 2: That's it. Like, I don't what you are. You just
Speaker 2: we're not friends. Just order your food.
Speaker 1: Now. What's also understood about Jamaican culture Jamaican restaurants is
Speaker 1: if you come like open minded, not like and curious
Speaker 1: if you don't know what you're doing, but you don't
Speaker 1: come with a sort of arrogance like you know, let's
Speaker 1: say you you dumb and you venture out Kingston or
Speaker 1: you know, Montigo. I think a lot of like Caribbean
Speaker 1: cultures like that period, like and you're just but you're
Speaker 1: showing a type of respect and you want to learn.
Speaker 1: If you're just like, hey, uh, this advice is more
Speaker 1: for white people, like for black folks, they could be
Speaker 1: a lot more judgmental.
Speaker 2: But if you just like, yo, hey, I've never had
Speaker 2: Jamaican food.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to order, but I want but
Speaker 1: I like spicy stuff. Like I'm down to try anything,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just I'm just down, like I want
Speaker 1: to learn more. Oftentimes, unless there's like a rush, like
Speaker 1: if it's a rush, that's different, dey'd bee like why
Speaker 1: I you know what you want?
Speaker 2: You know, like it'll be annoying.
Speaker 1: But a lot of times, like especially if it's a
Speaker 1: small enough spot, they might be like, oh that's dope, Okay,
Speaker 1: Yeah you like fish?
Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, you know what do you like? I
Speaker 2: like fish?
Speaker 1: You know? You try to curry golp? You know, Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: you know, and then they'll just like show you, especially
Speaker 1: if you on the either you was like, yo, I
Speaker 1: got all the time in the world. I'm going owhere
Speaker 1: like I'm down for whatever, like teach me everything. Clearly,
Speaker 1: I'm pasty white, I've never done this. I'll just I'm
Speaker 1: down whatever. I'm not scared. Let's go, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Then, like a lot of times, there'll be
Speaker 1: a respect for that. Now, they ain't gonna smile at you.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody go you ain't gonna get them type of
Speaker 1: pleasantries until you eat something super spicy and they watch
Speaker 1: it suffer. But most of the time it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's cool.
Speaker 2: You know, we like this dude.
Speaker 1: But the the one thing I could guarantee you walk
Speaker 1: in and you.
Speaker 2: Say, how you doing, man, let me get the oxtail
Speaker 2: on a how do Oh?
Speaker 1: All right, okay, let's see man, let's get the all right,
Speaker 1: let's do the soft fish.
Speaker 2: I know how that.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, how about let's see y'all got Let
Speaker 1: me see y'all got the curry gold and curry gold,
Speaker 1: curry gold. Wait, hold on, jay Don, you're not carry gold.
Speaker 2: I know how that. You're like, oh, damn, Okay, what
Speaker 2: y'all got? What do you got?
Speaker 1: They're like, yah, menu and if it foods a point
Speaker 1: at the menu or the point at like where the
Speaker 1: what looks like an impanada? Right like it kind of
Speaker 1: looks like that she just got like rice on peas
Speaker 1: inside of it, or like chicken, it's a it's a patty.
Speaker 1: They call it patty, like chicken patty, beef patty whatever. Right, yeah, menu, And.
Speaker 2: You're just like, bro, you just shot down.
Speaker 1: The three so you're gonna have to go four to
Speaker 1: five items down the menu.
Speaker 2: Foe.
Speaker 1: You could pick something and they just expect you to
Speaker 1: just it's just it is what it is. This is
Speaker 1: what's on the menu. We had it, I mean maybe
Speaker 1: we had it, maybe we didn't. Maybe it's all out.
Speaker 1: The point is ana, how that they not gonna have
Speaker 1: your choices? That men, you gonna be down to like
Speaker 1: two or three things because you can always go to
Speaker 1: another restaurant. Hey, you gonna wait, they gonna go at
Speaker 1: their pace. You're gonna sit there and you're gonna eat
Speaker 1: when we give you. I know how, they're not gonna smile.
Speaker 1: Get it.
Speaker 2: You ain't going for the customer service.
Speaker 1: You going because the shrimp or the lobster or the
Speaker 1: cocoa bread slack, because it's delicious and it is what
Speaker 1: it is, and this is the place we eating guanguan
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's the twenty twenty four election
Speaker 1: hood politics. Y'all welcome, welcome, welcome, Let me get the
Speaker 1: rights on pisa. I mean there's like skits, Like obviously
Speaker 1: when you're doing skits, there's an exaggeration, but you know
Speaker 1: these skits come from something like I just don't know
Speaker 1: what it is, but they just not.
Speaker 2: Gonna have what you want.
Speaker 1: Like you got to have like three and four choices,
Speaker 1: which seems like a better way to run our politics,
Speaker 1: right that you can have your first choice, right, but
Speaker 1: you don't want your choice to be binary. Who likes
Speaker 1: a restaurant unless the restaurant is so good at what
Speaker 1: they do, so flawless, so perfect, right that they got
Speaker 1: two things.
Speaker 2: On the menu.
Speaker 1: There's a spot called Little Squartro Milpas down in San
Speaker 1: Diego in Chicano Park. It opens at eleven and they
Speaker 1: close when they out of food. You get a to
Speaker 1: maalere Hale's dei Eros or Takethos, but that's what you're
Speaker 1: there for only. Now, if you're a vegetarian, I guess
Speaker 1: this ain't your restaurant. If you vegan, I guess this
Speaker 1: ain't your restaurant. But they got sense enough to not
Speaker 1: put it on the menu.
Speaker 2: This is what it is.
Speaker 1: This is what you signed up for. So there's that right.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, the Cheesecake Factory menu, the novel,
Speaker 1: that's a whole other situations. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: won't that either, Like, I mean, that's a word scramble,
Speaker 1: the Cheesecake Factory menu.
Speaker 2: And it's a book. Fam Like y'all really got this.
Speaker 1: I just feel like people just walked in and suggested stuff.
Speaker 1: Y'all was like, yeah, why not, let's just put on
Speaker 1: the menu where there's anything you can order cheffel pull
Speaker 1: it up.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want my politics to look
Speaker 1: like that, but I will say the idea of saying,
Speaker 1: which is the thing I'm getting at ultimately in this
Speaker 1: is we've gotten to a place now in this twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four election, to where essentially, in reality, we got
Speaker 1: two options on the menu, and if you want anything
Speaker 1: other than these two options, you basically at a Jamaican restaurant.
Speaker 2: I know how that.
Speaker 1: And you like, but I'm seeing it on the menu.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing a Cornell Wes on the menu. I'm seeing
Speaker 1: a Dean Phillips on the menu. Even hell, there might
Speaker 1: be a mary Anne Williamson who just you just finally
Speaker 1: was like, nah, we don't have that and we never
Speaker 1: had it or not. I'm seeing an RFK on the menu.
Speaker 1: And these may not even even be your first choice.
Speaker 1: These may not even be the choices that you actually want.
Speaker 1: You just not really happy with the first two. And
Speaker 1: what all the polls are saying, and you don't even
Speaker 1: need to poll it.
Speaker 2: We all know. Don't nobody like them?
Speaker 1: For the things you do got, don't nobody like the
Speaker 1: only two choices you have on the menu.
Speaker 2: It's just the only things y'all got.
Speaker 1: This is not what I ordered, fam this say what
Speaker 1: I came to this restaurant or you telling me this
Speaker 1: or my only choice?
Speaker 2: You telling me my only choice?
Speaker 1: You walked in and was like, yo, let me get
Speaker 1: a Let me get a functioning adult without any felony
Speaker 1: charges that maybe has more than thirty years of life inspectancy.
Speaker 2: Anahadats what about this? We anahadats, You're like this can't be.
Speaker 1: This can't be our only choice. You probably thinking, like
Speaker 1: I'm thinking.
Speaker 2: How sway? How is it in a institution where we
Speaker 2: get to choose our leaders.
Speaker 1: That we the only option is two leaders that nobody won't. Now, obviously,
Speaker 1: when I say nobody, clearly is not nobody.
Speaker 2: Somebody won't.
Speaker 1: These people Trump consistently pulled at forty seven percent. Now,
Speaker 1: remember when he first won. I mean, the man only
Speaker 1: had eleven percent. It was just a ton of people
Speaker 1: in off in the thing. But you not gonna break
Speaker 1: his fan base. But forty seven percent isn't a winning
Speaker 1: That's not half. That's not a winning thing unless, and
Speaker 1: here's where it get bonkers, unless the person he competing with.
Speaker 1: Does the person he competing with have fifty three percent? No,
Speaker 1: Joe don't got fifty three percent. But if Joe has
Speaker 1: any I hope to having fifty three percent, he's got
Speaker 1: to take.
Speaker 2: All the other votes.
Speaker 1: And this is why people get so pressed about third
Speaker 1: party candidates. This is what it means to split the vote,
Speaker 1: because in our realistic situation, it's that the alternative choices.
Speaker 1: And I hate to say it like that, but that's
Speaker 1: just how a situation works. The alternative choices are going
Speaker 1: to snipe off Democratic votes. Again, You're not chunking away
Speaker 1: of that forty seven percent. You chunking away at Joe's
Speaker 1: at Joe's possible fifty three. You chunking away at that
Speaker 1: because Trump. Trump then broke the Republicans like and in
Speaker 1: the few the twenty percent of the independence.
Speaker 2: That's that's who Biden is fighting for. But like they
Speaker 2: know if they got other options.
Speaker 1: This is why people try to press you about voting
Speaker 1: for other options and say, well, if I vote for
Speaker 1: a third party, I'm just guaranteeing the other guy get in.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is why. This is where that comes from.
Speaker 1: Do I think that that's legit? I think that that's
Speaker 1: why in practice, But I'll tell you what I really
Speaker 1: think at the end of this episode. But for real, though,
Speaker 1: how did we get here? So listen, this show has
Speaker 1: this episode. Think of this episode most episodes is think
Speaker 1: of it as we sitting on the stove, we sipping
Speaker 1: whiskey or apple juice, whatever you into smoking a stove,
Speaker 1: smoking some herb or not smoking at all, or either way,
Speaker 1: this show big Homie putting you on most of the time.
Speaker 1: That's what this show is now today, I'm just one
Speaker 1: of y'all. Man, I'm listen, I'm mostly venting. This is
Speaker 1: us after work at happy hour, talking cheesemade masa, just
Speaker 1: talking shit about our coworkers. That's what today is about, Okay.
Speaker 1: I mean I do have like one thing to tell
Speaker 1: you at the end, like I said.
Speaker 2: But I just I live here too.
Speaker 1: And here's the reality, guys, Just to bring it all together,
Speaker 1: it's really not our only choice. We have a system
Speaker 1: that in practice which is very different than in design,
Speaker 1: and one could argue that it actually is the design.
Speaker 1: Its way to maintain power is that I convince you
Speaker 1: if you order off the menu, if you order something else,
Speaker 1: you are going to eventually guarantee the one you don't want.
Speaker 1: So if I am, you know, stark raving Republican, and
Speaker 1: I think that Trump is absurd that if I voted
Speaker 1: for a Nikki Haley, I'm basically guaranteeing Biden because I'm
Speaker 1: splitting our votes in the other way around, like if
Speaker 1: you vote for a more progressive person, you're guaranteeing Trump
Speaker 1: coming in. Now that I am convinced that that is
Speaker 1: again what practically ends up happening. But I wonder if
Speaker 1: it really has to be this way. And if you
Speaker 1: keep saying that, then and it's obviously going to keep
Speaker 1: being that. It's one of those like our belief in
Speaker 1: it makes it real. If that y'all following me, it sucks.
Speaker 1: But listen again, I'm just here with you talking trash
Speaker 1: about our coworkers at happy hour. But that being said,
Speaker 1: that is the thing that is very magical about American politics.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff that ain't really real. It's
Speaker 1: just the fact that we think it's real makes it real.
Speaker 1: That's how constructs work. Maybe I'll do a whole show
Speaker 1: on that at some point. Anyway, I'm today, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you some more background on some of the
Speaker 1: other choices on the menu.
Speaker 2: And the idea that like.
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about RFK because you got to
Speaker 1: talk about him. I'm going to talk about Cornell West,
Speaker 1: And I want to talk about Mary Anne Philip Marianne Williamson,
Speaker 1: mainly because okay, she's dropped out, But I think that
Speaker 1: there is something there. I think here's here's here, here's
Speaker 1: here's me not doing the hood politics stick. This is
Speaker 1: just me being a citizen with you. We are just
Speaker 1: so desperate for another voice, for another option on the menu.
Speaker 1: That it's almost like if you just give us just
Speaker 1: a little bit of sanity, just a little taste, will
Speaker 1: take all the other shit, Like, well, I'll take it.
Speaker 2: You know. It's it's a. It's a.
Speaker 1: It's the it's the girl or the person who just
Speaker 1: been dating just trash dudes or just just trash people.
Speaker 1: So if you meet somebody that just shows you the
Speaker 1: just the bare minimum of respect, just just the person,
Speaker 1: just the slightest bit of care and affection towards you,
Speaker 1: like a person who says, I could this is great,
Speaker 1: Like he don't actually live with his baby's mama like this,
Speaker 1: then this is good?
Speaker 2: Like fam, that's that's the bar. That's the bar. And
Speaker 2: we just we have been beaten to a place to
Speaker 2: where we will.
Speaker 1: Take all of and I'm just like we the royal
Speaker 1: We we will take all of the crackpot conspiracy theorists
Speaker 1: that is RFK because the brother y'all listen, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go over his policies, which are some of them are decent,
Speaker 1: but it's sprinkled with just pandemic like absolute you are
Speaker 1: out of your mind, conspiracy theory pilled but I'll take
Speaker 1: it because you understand big pharma and you're willing to
Speaker 1: say something about that, like just little things like that
Speaker 1: where it's just like we're just so desperate for another voice.
Speaker 2: It just please tell me.
Speaker 1: You have more on this menu than just the side
Speaker 1: of cocoa rice.
Speaker 2: Let's get into it, all right, we're back now.
Speaker 1: Please understand, the profiles I'm about to give you are
Speaker 1: just almost criminally thin, like, do not This is in
Speaker 1: no way comprehensive. Do not, y'all, listen, do not take
Speaker 1: this these things I'm about to tell you as deep
Speaker 1: dodges because they are not. What they are are profiles
Speaker 1: and other options and ultimately a case for you know,
Speaker 1: ranked voting in a way that so much any other
Speaker 1: things in our democracy actually exist in And just guys, man,
Speaker 1: the two party systems, it just it just it broke
Speaker 1: us and it just sucks. And I don't I'm not
Speaker 1: smart enough to figure out an answer as to like
Speaker 1: how to get us out of this death spiral. I
Speaker 1: don't know, because if I did, I wouldn't be podcasting.
Speaker 1: I'd be a billionaire because I would definitely sell it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: First off, though she's dropped out, let's talk about the
Speaker 1: rose water and charged crystals of it all.
Speaker 2: Miss Maryann Williamson.
Speaker 1: Now I'm being silly about that, but she got her
Speaker 1: original star power from finally landing a best selling book
Speaker 1: called Return to Love. Before that, she wrote this joint
Speaker 1: called the Mystic Jesus. So if you were somewhat faith
Speaker 1: based but kind of had a little woo will about you,
Speaker 1: you understood Jesus to be something different than the bully
Speaker 1: white evangelical conquering just bully that a lot of America
Speaker 1: sees Jesus as you may come from a tradition that's
Speaker 1: a little more again about Jesus being a mystic that's
Speaker 1: worried about much more of the spiritual, the inner piece,
Speaker 1: you know, the being. And a lot of times the
Speaker 1: churches you came from are either you're you're completely turned
Speaker 1: off by the esoteric or anything like that because it's witchcraft,
Speaker 1: or you're only wrapped up with the hyper pentecostal moving
Speaker 1: of the spirit. You know you want somebody it's like
Speaker 1: a little more mystic, right. So this was a number
Speaker 1: one best seller, like this is back in ninety seven.
Speaker 1: It's called Return to Love, a Return to Love, and
Speaker 1: it's arguing that how we can become a miracle worker
Speaker 1: by accepting God and by the expression of love in
Speaker 1: our daily lives. Right, So, whether it's mystic pain or relationships, career,
Speaker 1: or health, right.
Speaker 2: Love is the potential force, you know.
Speaker 1: So she's coming from this very centered So anybody who's
Speaker 1: in like this spiritual health and wellness world was already
Speaker 1: up on her right now.
Speaker 2: The the draw.
Speaker 1: From her is the fact that most people that feel
Speaker 1: like that usually have an aversion of politics.
Speaker 2: It's just so icky, you know, you just.
Speaker 1: Because you think that like the things that you want
Speaker 1: are so far away from being possible, or that you know,
Speaker 1: the like I mean, I was guilty of this as
Speaker 1: a kid too, where it would be like you know,
Speaker 1: I'd be I'd be chasing after a girl and she
Speaker 1: would be like, now you more like marriage material? Like
Speaker 1: you you too nice? Like I don't want you ever
Speaker 1: been told you was too nice? So you don't you can't,
Speaker 1: you can't get to the yams because you too nice,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like you you're a keeper.
Speaker 1: I think it is a lot of ways like that.
Speaker 1: Besides a lot of her sort of woo woo kind
Speaker 1: of mystic talk. What turned most of America off, because
Speaker 1: most of America ain't gone to therapy is the fact
Speaker 1: that it's like you two nice, like this arena you finished,
Speaker 1: step in like they finish, eat you alive, like ma'am,
Speaker 1: you know, but we still like how you talk. Now,
Speaker 1: what are some of the specifics that's not just all
Speaker 1: this she is she actually has some very enticing positions.
Speaker 1: And again, because your men, you only got two options.
Speaker 1: You keep telling me you ain't got nothing else, right,
Speaker 1: and this the other thing you got is like, well damn,
Speaker 1: let me, let me. I mean, you could convince me
Speaker 1: that the steam rights is the most delicious thing here, because.
Speaker 2: That's all that's my only other option.
Speaker 1: Now she of this board, unless you're not talking about Cornell,
Speaker 1: which is different, but like she pulls the progressive thing
Speaker 1: on Gaza, She's like, obviously this is atrocious. These are
Speaker 1: these are things that obviously should not happen, you know,
Speaker 1: And and just if you don't know, like this is
Speaker 1: the second time she's ran for president, right, she's already
Speaker 1: been on Oprah Winfree, you know, she ran for Congress
Speaker 1: and Cali as an independent. But either way it didn't work, right,
Speaker 1: She believes in a universal health care system, emphasizes the
Speaker 1: need for it. Oh wow, how about healthier food, right,
Speaker 1: water and air and a less stressful lifestyle, saying that
Speaker 1: our current economics system hires the probability of sickness like food, dug. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like our work week, the
Speaker 1: necessities of being able to just like, oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: pay the rent probably means.
Speaker 2: We gonna get sick more.
Speaker 1: You feed us plastic food, you know, with no nutrients
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 2: The water ain't pure, the air is toxic.
Speaker 1: Maybe that should be a part of our understanding of
Speaker 1: health care. That makes a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 1: She also wants to create what she's calling a Department
Speaker 1: of Peace to suppress violence and address the root cause
Speaker 1: domestically and internationally. Right, She has this more like listen, listen,
Speaker 1: holistic approach to policy, and it's underscored. I'm quoting this
Speaker 1: from Al Jazeera, underscored from her soft spoken, guru like persona. Now,
Speaker 1: the problem is people don't be owned that woo woo stuff,
Speaker 1: So people just don't take her serious. Right. There was
Speaker 1: a clip from twenty nineteen when she ran against When
Speaker 1: she was trying to run against Trump. Right when she
Speaker 1: was saying after a primary debate that she would harness
Speaker 1: love to beat the president the bear President Donald Trump
Speaker 1: in his campaign of fear. Then there was some stuff
Speaker 1: that came out, you know, on Politico about her having
Speaker 1: an abusive culture inside of campaign, and people were saying, like, god,
Speaker 1: she rerates people often. You know, all those things started happening,
Speaker 1: things that come with your star kind of like shooting up.
Speaker 1: You know, you're gonna get people saying that there are
Speaker 1: things wrong about you. Right, she's stating the bare minimum
Speaker 1: that there should be a cease fire in Gaza, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. She's like questioning this idea of
Speaker 1: like this unwavering support to Israel life. She like, yo, unwavering,
Speaker 1: Like you're telling me there's nothing they could do that
Speaker 1: would make you You see how desperate we are for
Speaker 1: somebody to just say something that regular, right, that like
Speaker 1: undying like unwavering support.
Speaker 2: Guys, you tried to so there's nothing they could do
Speaker 2: that would make you change your mind. Nothing, twenty thousand
Speaker 2: Palestinians dead.
Speaker 1: Nothing, She says, I understand Israel's need to slay the monster,
Speaker 1: but this military action is only feeding it. That's I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, right, Like that's rooted in research and factual.
Speaker 1: So she's like progressive on health care. Like I said,
Speaker 1: y'all got to dig in. She progressive on health care.
Speaker 1: She thinks that healthcare should have a holistic approach and
Speaker 1: that maybe if we were you know, more stricter on
Speaker 1: the foods we allowed ourselves to eat, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: cleaned up some air, maybe add some climate stuff, then
Speaker 1: the necessity of so much you know, health care coverage
Speaker 1: wouldn't be that because I mean, I mean, god damn.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, she.
Speaker 1: Want to put together a Department of peace and listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not making fun of her. I'm just saying this
Speaker 1: is why don't nobody take her serious? Cause it's like
Speaker 1: where your claws at Like this we there's a belief that,
Speaker 1: like this system you're going into is gonna eat you alive.
Speaker 1: Now go to her website, Okay, get more deep into
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Like I said, these are cursory
Speaker 1: surface scraping things.
Speaker 2: But it's on the menu. It's just it's on the menu.
Speaker 2: It just don't nobody order it. So they like that.
Speaker 1: So the stuff she talking, I mean that ain't gonna
Speaker 1: pull no Trump votes, right you you pulling, that's you
Speaker 1: playing the left of the Democrats, like you pulling Biden votes.
Speaker 1: That's again, that's the argument next to brother Cornell West,
Speaker 1: who is also running. Now here's the thing, guys, we
Speaker 1: already know why y'all not gonna serve him up. Why
Speaker 1: why you're not gonna add him? Keep him on the menu.
Speaker 1: Just look at the dude.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm speaking reality.
Speaker 1: Mark ain't gonna put no man like him in the office,
Speaker 1: which sucks because in in my opinion, Cornell got the
Speaker 1: juice multi hyphenated. As an activist, he would say justice
Speaker 1: is what love looks like in public, he says. A
Speaker 1: lover of music, I'm a blues man in the life
Speaker 1: of the mind, I'm a jazz man in the world
Speaker 1: of ideas. As a scholar, deep education requires an habitual
Speaker 1: vision of greatness. I mean he channeled all he checks
Speaker 1: all the boxes for like a black man.
Speaker 2: You can't lead to people if you don't love the people.
Speaker 1: He speaks with that kind of thing thang, you can't
Speaker 1: save the people if you don't serve the people. He
Speaker 1: got that kind of rhythm in the way that he talks.
Speaker 1: He's a scholar, public theologian, right, a philosopher, and just
Speaker 1: understands the concept of justice. But what the concept of
Speaker 1: justice calls for is a dismantling of the system we
Speaker 1: have now. Right, So how like that, my friend, is
Speaker 1: where it becomes so much more complicated. See, the organism
Speaker 1: ain't designed to support this type of superbug. How can
Speaker 1: never kanez a chant down Babylon from a Bible scholars. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, here goes platform. You go to the website,
Speaker 1: see it yourself. Economic justice. So my first step is
Speaker 1: to abolished poverty, abolish hopelessness.
Speaker 2: Oh word, you just finish end it right.
Speaker 1: Establish a federal public banking institutions to fund public infrastructure
Speaker 1: and green reconstruction.
Speaker 2: Sure that'd be great. Establish a universal basic income.
Speaker 1: See these What I'm trying to tell you is people
Speaker 1: looking at this man and it's like, nigga, are you
Speaker 1: trying to build Waconda cus like, And here's the thing, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's what he trying to say, Nigga, we don't. It
Speaker 1: don't have to be this way. The problem is it's
Speaker 1: coming out of black lips. He ain't saying nothing more
Speaker 1: revolutionary than Bernie well, I guess he is in some ways,
Speaker 1: but like y'all ain't even want to hear it out
Speaker 1: of Bernie's lips. I just we in a world that like, listen,
Speaker 1: you can't tell these white people the truth.
Speaker 2: Now, y'all, I'm just playing. I'm messing around.
Speaker 1: There's a movie coming out, I know it's out by now,
Speaker 1: The Society of Magical Negroes, and the premise is this.
Speaker 1: So the phrase magical Negroes coined by Spike Lee. It
Speaker 1: was this idea of like this movie character's character in
Speaker 1: in the movies that are so integral to the plot,
Speaker 1: but they have no actual background, like there's no they
Speaker 1: have no history. They just kind of PLoP up in
Speaker 1: the movie with no beginning and they just they just
Speaker 1: got it there, like but somehow save the story like
Speaker 1: driving Miss Daisy, like you know, where does Nigga come from?
Speaker 2: Like this is the magical Negro, you feel me? That's it.
Speaker 2: So he coined the phrase.
Speaker 1: And then but then sometimes the magical negro is the
Speaker 1: guy that's like, hey, you know, well, if you just well,
Speaker 1: when the meteor is coming to earth, like if y'all
Speaker 1: would just put this formula in, it would oh nobody.
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 1: You know, the og asked the little homie, like, what's
Speaker 1: the most dangerous animal in the world, and the.
Speaker 2: Guy goes the sharks. He goes, No, it's white people
Speaker 2: when they feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Because when they feel a slightly uncomfortable, a little bit nervous,
Speaker 1: bad things happen to the world. When you feel when
Speaker 1: they feel the least bit challenged. You understand I'm saying,
Speaker 1: when they see success happen to anybody else. So the
Speaker 1: Society of Magical Negroes what they do is they assess
Speaker 1: the feeling of threat that white people have and magically
Speaker 1: do what they gotta do to make them feel comfortable
Speaker 1: as to save the world. So it's satire, it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be absurd, but there's a critique going on here,
Speaker 1: and the critique is the idea that specifically as black people.
Speaker 1: But you can stress this stretch this to not just
Speaker 1: white people but dominant culture because obviously, again guys, it's satire.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about every single white person that ever lived, Like,
Speaker 1: come on, like, no, we's smarter than that.
Speaker 2: No, I'm smarter than that.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the institution of dominant culture, which here
Speaker 1: just happens to break along racial lines, right, it just does. Now,
Speaker 1: we spend a lot of our time as people of
Speaker 1: color making sure that white folks ain't nervous, making sure
Speaker 1: that like we kind of like just kind of placate
Speaker 1: and not be too much of ourselves, cause when they
Speaker 1: get nervous.
Speaker 2: January sixth has happened.
Speaker 1: Too much can go wrong if white people feel uncomfortable. Right,
Speaker 1: So we do a lot of our team you know,
Speaker 1: I don't you know, And these are things that you practice,
Speaker 1: looks as as a young black man, these are things
Speaker 1: you practice. It's like, listen, you gotta you can't wear
Speaker 1: the outfit you was gonna wear when you're gonna be
Speaker 1: around a lot of the white people. You can't talk
Speaker 1: as loud as you was gonna talk when you be
Speaker 1: around a lot of these white people.
Speaker 2: Make them nervous.
Speaker 1: There are things that I remember I used to always
Speaker 1: have to do, even walking home, like to make sure
Speaker 1: that this white lady who's about to cross me, you know,
Speaker 1: she gonna clinch her purse if me and a homies
Speaker 1: like making sure that we like, okay, let me make sure,
Speaker 1: like how what do I do to make her feel comfortable?
Speaker 2: To make sure that she know so she don't call
Speaker 2: the police.
Speaker 1: There are things that we kind of have done, whether
Speaker 1: it's like if you speak another language, just making sure,
Speaker 1: oh man, you know, they getting urd Like white people
Speaker 1: get scared when we speak in our own land. They
Speaker 1: think we're talking about them. So like you gotta like,
Speaker 1: either let's talk later, or you know, do what you
Speaker 1: gotta do to make them feel comfortable. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Because it's like, because when they feel threatened,
Speaker 1: genocides happen, you know.
Speaker 2: So, So the issue with Cornell West.
Speaker 1: Nigga, even though that's not what he's saying. He's saying,
Speaker 1: my movement is love, right, it don't matter. He be
Speaker 1: making white people feel uncomfortable. That's that's the problem. You
Speaker 1: can't make white people feel uncomfortable with American nigga. Now,
Speaker 1: some of y'all may think that makes him the perfect candidate, right,
Speaker 1: He's he's hated by the any establishment, like the democratic
Speaker 1: establishment can't stand him. He's reviled among the academics because
Speaker 1: he called Harvard to task. He was like, y'all got
Speaker 1: me window dressing out here, Like I'm trying to really
Speaker 1: start a revolution in this mug and y'all like you know,
Speaker 1: y'all not y'all not with it, so like don't nobody
Speaker 1: like it? And he broke They ain't got no money
Speaker 1: for the for the for the campaign. A lot of
Speaker 1: the Democrats say like, yo, this is a vanity project,
Speaker 1: like you're an election spoiler and an excuse to get
Speaker 1: on television. The This is from the Democratic National Committee
Speaker 1: Chair Jamie Harrison in July. It was like this is
Speaker 1: this is not the time in order to experiment. They like, look,
Speaker 1: it's too much at stake. You can't just be out
Speaker 1: here talking all this radical stuff. Because essentially, as everybody's
Speaker 1: argument is, this is gonna make Trump win is because
Speaker 1: you're splitting the.
Speaker 2: The Democratic vote.
Speaker 1: Now what sucks is like, how in actual practicality that's
Speaker 1: probably true, that sucks, But anyway, the wheeling and dealing
Speaker 1: and the knowledge of foreign policy and the positions that
Speaker 1: America has, this would be a complete divergence in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways from what America the direction in America
Speaker 1: has been going since its inception.
Speaker 2: I just like, you.
Speaker 1: Can't The practical reality is it's you're unplugging your computer
Speaker 1: with seven seventeen programs running like you're just you're going
Speaker 1: to crash the system. And again, I don't know how
Speaker 1: you can chant down Babylon by being the president of it.
Speaker 1: And that's just this I'm not again, these are cursory things.
Speaker 1: This is why we can't have a good Jamaican restaurant because.
Speaker 2: When ahats.
Speaker 1: And last, but certainly not least, is the COVID denying
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan podcasting, child of an American legend, Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy Jr.
Speaker 1: Y'all, listen, people really like this dude. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you why they like this dude. They like this
Speaker 1: dude the same reason everybody who do like the other
Speaker 1: two people I just talked about, because he talked to talk.
Speaker 1: He also smart enough to not do the COVID thing,
Speaker 1: Like that's not really what he running on is the
Speaker 1: anti vax stuff.
Speaker 2: He running on the stuff that.
Speaker 1: Could actually help him pull some votes. And then the
Speaker 1: part that's like really a brain baker is the fact
Speaker 1: that like nobody knows really who's fan base he's chunking off,
Speaker 1: Like is he chunking off Trump voters? Is he chunking
Speaker 1: off Well, I mean we know he chunking off the
Speaker 1: briden voters, But is he is he chunking off like
Speaker 1: he pulling from these other places that nobody like we
Speaker 1: ain't seen nothing like this, because like I'm gonna set
Speaker 1: aside the weirdness, because there's weirdness him talking about i'ma
Speaker 1: bring Aaron Rodgers or Jesse the body ventur out this
Speaker 1: mug to be my running mate, guys, sideshow Bob Styles. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's set that aside, that the pandemic was planned. The
Speaker 1: let's set aside the QAnon the which is there, like
Speaker 1: y'all just listen to the man talk, like, let's set
Speaker 1: aside the conspiracy theory, pilled stuff, and let's get to
Speaker 1: why why people want to hear what he got to
Speaker 1: say and why he would why people here want to
Speaker 1: hear what he got to say is in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways, the same reason people fall for those said
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. It's because he's not ignoring the obvious Big
Speaker 1: Pharma is obviously crooked, it is obviously wrong, and we
Speaker 1: as Americans are walking into this restaurant so desperate for
Speaker 1: y'all to have a curry something like curry gold curry, chicken,
Speaker 1: curry lobster. Just please tell me you have some curry,
Speaker 1: some courage, bars somebody finally say and be like and
Speaker 1: really talk to talk and really like show the data
Speaker 1: that like Nigga, like all of us, as verifiably accurate
Speaker 1: as the science is about COVID and its vaccines. Why
Speaker 1: the vaccine, Why we got to it so fast is
Speaker 1: because we've been studying this strand we already did our homework.
Speaker 1: We've seen similar strands, so we didn't have to start
Speaker 1: at chapter one. We got to start at chapter ten
Speaker 1: and just make some adjustice and be able to get
Speaker 1: to the solution. Nigga because of microbiology, Because Nigga, because
Speaker 1: of science. That's how we was able to do the shit.
Speaker 1: Like it's not that it's not that serious. However, something
Speaker 1: that's plaguing the country, dare I say it plaguing the world,
Speaker 1: and you got to make us pay for it, and
Speaker 1: pay for it at an astronomical price. Is us So
Speaker 1: me with the bare minimum of brain cells to understand
Speaker 1: that millions of people died from this disease and I
Speaker 1: don't know eight people that can agree on pizza toppings
Speaker 1: rather than a an entire cub ball of people that's
Speaker 1: willing to keep the secret, like there's not enough money in.
Speaker 2: The world to keep everybody mouth shut.
Speaker 1: So the idea that like it's an inside job put
Speaker 1: together that like no, but damn, nigga, you got a
Speaker 1: point to say that our main political parties have lost
Speaker 1: their way, nigga duh. To say that you are susceptible
Speaker 1: to or or be holden to lobbyists, nigga duh.
Speaker 2: You know, like of course you are.
Speaker 1: And the brilliance the man has like tapped into is
Speaker 1: like with the conspiracy theory stuff you pulling in that
Speaker 1: right wing, with the like healthcare stuff you bringing in
Speaker 1: that left wing. And since nobody trusts the government, and
Speaker 1: he got a last name like Kennedy, even though his
Speaker 1: whole family is like this nigga crazy, y'all. Please y'all,
Speaker 1: please don't please don't put this.
Speaker 2: Man in office.
Speaker 1: Despite that, man has been able to threat a needle
Speaker 1: that people like Gary Johnson a Ross Parole, you know,
Speaker 1: Ron Paul. These people who are able to thread particular
Speaker 1: needles continue to cut through. Now why do they cut through?
Speaker 1: It's because we're just so desperate somebody to say something else.
Speaker 1: The man got sense enough to understand that climate change
Speaker 1: is real, Like he was an environmental lawyer. It's just
Speaker 1: like the he's just there's a part of him that's
Speaker 1: like again, at least he don't live with his baby mamas,
Speaker 1: like just where you could. I mean, he's Harvard trained,
Speaker 1: you know, London School of Economics, so just he's smart,
Speaker 1: but also really holds to public health conspiracy theories. I
Speaker 1: mean he also you know, took Heroin. Like just still
Speaker 1: there's there's some there's some other stuff. Our elections are
Speaker 1: a Jamaican restaurant Lena hadat.
Speaker 2: But well what do you got? Well, you got a.
Speaker 1: Person who understands it's climate change and knows that Big
Speaker 1: Pharma is crooked. But he also got a side of
Speaker 1: anti vaccine conspiracy theorist who literally said he might he considering.
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers as a running mate.
Speaker 1: Or you can get a healthcare guru who actually just
Speaker 1: dropped out, Or you can get an academic revolutionary who
Speaker 1: ain't nobody gonna take series. That's what you I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what's on the menu. After all this, I will say,
Speaker 1: it is not our job as the voters to figure
Speaker 1: out any of these candidates strategies. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: people don't want us to point out from at least
Speaker 1: from my circles, from these left circles, like we're not
Speaker 1: supposed to point out Joe Biden's flaws. We're not supposed
Speaker 1: to because if we do, you're just gonna make Trump win.
Speaker 1: Don't vote for a third elect third party because you're
Speaker 1: just going on make Trump. It's not my job to
Speaker 1: cover up his multiple flaws. It is his job to
Speaker 1: show improve earnest shit, Like if you okay, prove it,
Speaker 1: you hear what these people are saying.
Speaker 2: Like get your man's like, yes, this the bare minimum.
Speaker 1: You could lose my vote for you because you won't
Speaker 1: say shit about Gaza and you won't do the things
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do. You could lose my vote. Right,
Speaker 1: there's some things you can't do. Nothing about your age.
Speaker 1: You can't do nothing about that. Right to my conservative listeners,
Speaker 1: if there's like three of y'all, like, look, be real
Speaker 1: about your dude, Like you know what I'm saying, and
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, just look bro like,
Speaker 1: don't let nobody like vote who you want to vote for.
Speaker 1: Don't let nobody be like, oh, you're throwing away. That's
Speaker 1: not my job to figure out your strategy. You're throwing
Speaker 1: away your vote. You're just heading no nigga like show
Speaker 1: your receipts, like prove it to me. And of course
Speaker 1: you could be realistic in the sense that like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're the dude. If you're gonna vote for a third
Speaker 1: part of your right, that person's probably not gonna win
Speaker 1: in a practical sense. But we ain't gonna ever see
Speaker 1: nothing better if we just keep letting them tell us
Speaker 1: that my vote one way is only gonna result in
Speaker 1: something else going like listen, dog, vote for who you
Speaker 1: believe you you want in off because some point you
Speaker 1: gotta tell that Jamaican restaurant.
Speaker 2: Well you better get that. But don't ever yell at it.
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