Speaker 1: Cool media.
Speaker 2: This is a you wasn't outside Siri side quest about
Speaker 2: the Houthis in Yemen.
Speaker 1: That's why I said, who respond to that? Did you hear? Siri?
Speaker 2: She was like, I don't know how to respond to that.
Speaker 2: That is absolutely hilarious. Well, you don't need to know
Speaker 2: how to respond to that, SII. You could just listen
Speaker 2: and let me teach you. A while back, when we
Speaker 2: were doing the crimea River episodes, we had one with
Speaker 2: my man Jake henrah Ham where I was trying to
Speaker 2: explain to y'all that there are wars going on outside.
Speaker 2: No man is safe one all over the world, and
Speaker 2: we actually went over the civil war in Yemen, which
Speaker 2: is where the Hoothyast hail from. Tell me, you guys
Speaker 2: get the Hoothy who reference like HOODI who? Okay, if
Speaker 2: you don't know, the US decided to toss nice little
Speaker 2: bomb over there at the hoothy'st or at the Yemen East. Yeah,
Speaker 2: at the hooth East because they were shooting down ships coming.
Speaker 1: Through the Red Sea.
Speaker 2: There's a lot going on here and it is the
Speaker 2: epitome of what we mean by a hood politics, because
Speaker 2: when a fight breaks out, you know, fight breaks out
Speaker 2: up the school. Everybody circle up and it's going down.
Speaker 2: You have a side, but you just know better than
Speaker 2: to jump in. The other dudes on the other side
Speaker 2: of the circle, they have a side. They chose the
Speaker 2: other dude, and they don't necessarily want to jump in,
Speaker 2: but they for damn show not gonna let you jump in,
Speaker 2: and you ain't gonna let them jump in. So this
Speaker 2: so we just gonna be fighting over here too, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like, Hey, hey, hey, don't be
Speaker 2: messing with my own boy. Hey, hey, hey, you don't
Speaker 2: be messing with my own boy. Hey, stay the fucking
Speaker 2: you stayed the fuck out of it, and then out
Speaker 2: Now second fight breaks out because you were stopping them
Speaker 2: from jumping in. They were stopping you from jumping in.
Speaker 2: Now we got we're all going on hood politics, y'all.
Speaker 1: All right, y'all.
Speaker 2: There's something to be said about some of the overlaps
Speaker 2: of any sort of subgenre or subculture. Anytime you have
Speaker 2: a gathering of a community, apparently, no matter how much
Speaker 2: you stand on business, no matter how just callous the
Speaker 2: people are, it's gonna be some cheesemay, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a network of interconnected people and events and relationships that
Speaker 2: can get so complicated. Y'all should watch The brother Son,
Speaker 2: which is the side note I'm gonna give y'all today,
Speaker 2: The brother Son. It's a new show on Netflix. Obviously
Speaker 2: they not paying me for this, because why would Netflix
Speaker 2: pay me anything? But I burned that show in a day,
Speaker 2: like eight episodes. It was so dope. One reason why
Speaker 2: it was so dope is because it takes place in
Speaker 2: my beloved six two six. It takes place in an
Speaker 2: area called the San Gabriel Valley. There's a part of
Speaker 2: the San Gabriel Valley. Like I said, I was over
Speaker 2: in La Point Day, but Linda, this is twenty minutes
Speaker 2: east of South Central where I was born. That area
Speaker 2: is like I mean, it's one hundred percent Mexican Filipino
Speaker 2: sprinkle with a couple of black folks, right, So I
Speaker 2: grew up in that type of area. Now, the northeastern
Speaker 2: part of East LA is actually Monterey Park. Monterey Park
Speaker 2: is Asian. It's specifically Chinese. So when you start talking
Speaker 2: about cities like Alhambra, Rosemead, San Gabriel, this is the SGV,
Speaker 2: the San Gabriel Valley, this part of it.
Speaker 1: I mean it's Asian. It's all I mean, it's all Asian.
Speaker 2: It's and again specifically Chinese, because Koreatown is Koreatown, you know,
Speaker 2: but that area, oh, it's Asian. So if you if
Speaker 2: you're trying to get some some good dim sum, if
Speaker 2: you want that good you want good Asian food, you
Speaker 2: could drive to Chinatown if you want to out in LA.
Speaker 2: But don't sleep on Monterey Park, don't sleep on Temple City,
Speaker 2: don't sleep on Rose Meat because over there bro that
Speaker 2: area is it's it's south of Pasadena. And then as
Speaker 2: you keep going east, after you pass like Rosemead, you're
Speaker 2: into El Monte where it starts to become Vothos again,
Speaker 2: and then El Monte, Baldwin Park, La Pente, Belinda where
Speaker 2: I'm from. So this network, this part of LA is
Speaker 2: such a community that I'm so familiar with that when
Speaker 2: people do shows, they don't never necessarily talk about it.
Speaker 2: They always talk about La proper to, you know, Chinatown,
Speaker 2: Little Tokyo, Koreatown, they talk about over there. But this
Speaker 2: over here is like, oh, you grew whoever made this
Speaker 2: show you from here?
Speaker 1: And it is so dope.
Speaker 2: It's such a good take on the Asian community, the
Speaker 2: immigrant community, the triad, and just the gang life that
Speaker 2: they have and the complications of that's the part that's
Speaker 2: so relatable to anybody else who grew up like in
Speaker 2: any sort of hood, who family affiliated. But you like
Speaker 2: you weird because like you you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You just you just happen to be a part of
Speaker 2: the family, but that's not really your life, and you
Speaker 2: really don't want to be a part of that life,
Speaker 2: like that complication. But at the same time, you with
Speaker 2: the shits like if it go down and go down,
Speaker 2: Like I ain't scared of you much, but I'm just
Speaker 2: that's that's my brother and them, that's my mom and
Speaker 2: there my auntie and him. That that's day life. I
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways relate to the character. That's
Speaker 2: like my father would not let my uncles in them
Speaker 2: bring me around, and my uncles in them knew that
Speaker 2: my dad didn't play, so they kept me at a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: Of a distance.
Speaker 2: That really resonates with me, you know, So please go
Speaker 2: see this show. It's about those type of complications. But
Speaker 2: anyway I bring this up. Michelle Yo, the girl that's
Speaker 2: in girl that professional won that just won an Emmy,
Speaker 2: that's in everything, everywhere, all at once. It's just just
Speaker 2: this brilliant, brilliant actress, the mom and that. So she's
Speaker 2: in there and her character's phenomenal. But anyway, when she
Speaker 2: goes and plays Majong with all these aunties, just these ladies,
Speaker 2: that's really how she understands what's going on in the hood.
Speaker 2: Like how she knows what's going on in the streets.
Speaker 2: It's because of this network of people just gossiping. These
Speaker 2: aunties whose brother, you know, her husband sleeping with his secretary.
Speaker 2: His secretary run this grocery store. Who know because they
Speaker 2: serve out the back of that liquor store right there,
Speaker 2: and they serve the owner of that restaurant whose mistress
Speaker 2: works there because her daughter is dating this nephew. So
Speaker 2: that network, yo, saying it's so real, you feel me
Speaker 2: now for me. One of the other deciding factors was
Speaker 2: I've said this so many times, like I can't keep
Speaker 2: up with you can't miss one party, you can't miss
Speaker 2: one kickback because you don't know who we beefing with.
Speaker 2: You can't don't holler at this girl because you don't
Speaker 2: know if she's setting you up. You don't know if
Speaker 2: she used to day old boy from you know, from twenties,
Speaker 2: you feel me.
Speaker 1: I don't know, and she might not like this nigga.
Speaker 2: She might be trying to get the nigga from twenty
Speaker 2: set up you feel me by messing with you because
Speaker 2: she know you connected with somebody. You feel me from
Speaker 2: insane even though you don't bang in saying you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You just happened to be from that part of.
Speaker 2: Town, and she just really just trying to set up
Speaker 2: that dude. So she figured she, you know, start messing
Speaker 2: with you. She at your house and that nigga might
Speaker 2: be there, and then she could call the ogez to
Speaker 2: come and now everybody getting packed out and just you
Speaker 2: can't keep like, I don't know, I might just be
Speaker 2: you might've just gone to like I was just I
Speaker 2: was just playing basketball at the park with old.
Speaker 1: Boy here, like so we struck up a friendship.
Speaker 2: He cool, I don't know that our hood beefing with
Speaker 2: them like I don't know, like you can't. That stuff
Speaker 2: was exhausting to me, and it really in a lot
Speaker 2: of ways kept me out. I was like, man, I can't,
Speaker 2: I can't, you can't miss nothing. With these niggas, like
Speaker 2: you have to be at everything because you don't know
Speaker 2: it's Oh and on top of that, the stuff be generational,
Speaker 2: like stuff may it happen with our parents, like with
Speaker 2: our uncles, like stuff we don't know, Like I wasn't
Speaker 2: even born yet when this beef started. You feel me like,
Speaker 2: I don't know that's my granny got beef with your
Speaker 2: granny nigga, Like you know with this nigga nephew, because
Speaker 2: you know back in the eighties, you know this shit happened,
Speaker 2: Like I like, it's generational. And now like at least
Speaker 2: gang culture in La, like it's been around long enough
Speaker 2: to where that stuff is generational where you just don't
Speaker 2: like you not only can you not keep up with
Speaker 2: And now I'm at an age where there's law homies
Speaker 2: and they got beef with stuff that I'm not part of.
Speaker 2: I'm going to party with no twenty year olds. It's generational.
Speaker 2: And sometimes you don't even know why we beef. I
Speaker 2: don't even know why, like we won't get along with them.
Speaker 2: I just know we don't get along with them. But
Speaker 2: something that all of us can relate to is when
Speaker 2: a fight breaks out after school, like the whole plan air.
Speaker 1: I know we's finna fight after school. You know you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to see me.
Speaker 2: Now, most people in these situations know that my homies
Speaker 2: jumping and they Homi's gonna jump in. I just need
Speaker 2: to know if it do go too bad, like if
Speaker 2: I'm about to squab and I do know, excuse me,
Speaker 2: but I just want to make sure you got me
Speaker 2: just in case, Like if them niggas jump in, I
Speaker 2: know you gonna come help, right and even if you not,
Speaker 2: like I said, like if this is just we just
Speaker 2: like this is just my boy, that's my ace, Like
Speaker 2: we may not even it may not be on set,
Speaker 2: like I might not even and I'm probably not even
Speaker 2: on set. It's like he on set, I'm not, but
Speaker 2: we just know, like this nigga happened to go to
Speaker 2: school today. If it go down, he need to know
Speaker 2: a if it go down, you got me. So a
Speaker 2: lot of times how you get affiliated is like this.
Speaker 2: It's like this is just my friend, Like we walked
Speaker 2: home together since elementary school. He lived two doors down
Speaker 2: for me. He on the set, but so of course, man,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna defend my homeboy, like if he getting packed
Speaker 2: out like, I'm not gonna just stand around let him
Speaker 2: get packed out. And especially if we're playing for it,
Speaker 2: he's just like, yo, you got me. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I got you. So it's same go when they come
Speaker 2: up in our hood, or like if the police come,
Speaker 2: it's like, man, you can't beat us all, you can't
Speaker 2: arrest us all. So you come out in force, like
Speaker 2: that's what you're supposed to do. The guy that he's
Speaker 2: fighting the guys that he's fighting, sees this and now, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm with them. I'm now officially an OP because even
Speaker 2: though I'm not on the set, you fought alongside somebody
Speaker 2: that is so as far as the ops concern, they're like,
Speaker 2: it don't make no difference to me.
Speaker 1: You wanted them.
Speaker 2: So now I'm affiliated, which is something that like it
Speaker 2: happens all the time. So in a lot of ways,
Speaker 2: this is how countries make foreign allies. Is like, are
Speaker 2: you gonna jump in if I'm getting packed out? I
Speaker 2: saw all I need to know. Are you gonna jump
Speaker 2: in if I'm gonna get packed out? Really that's NATO,
Speaker 2: the NATO agreement is if you getting packed out, We're
Speaker 2: gonna jump in.
Speaker 1: You want to understand NATO. It's that.
Speaker 2: I mean, this isn't necessarily a NATO situation, but that's
Speaker 2: basically you know, that's the idea. Now specifics the Americans,
Speaker 2: as in US hit a nice little drone, little weapon strike,
Speaker 2: little bomb strike at the nation of Yemen in response
Speaker 2: to the Hoothy's throwing little missiles at ships going through
Speaker 2: the Red Sea. Now, why this is the thing is
Speaker 2: we need to understand who Yemen is, their years of
Speaker 2: civil war. You need to know who the Houthy are
Speaker 2: and why the Red Sea is so important.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it, all right, So we're back. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of history here, and the history isn't complicated,
Speaker 2: like the same thing with like the network of like
Speaker 2: hood stuff. It's not complicated if you're from there. If
Speaker 2: you're from there, this is just the air you've been breathing.
Speaker 2: These are the things that you already understand. You know
Speaker 2: the players, you know the people on the chess board,
Speaker 2: you know how the relationships work, and how far this
Speaker 2: stuff go back.
Speaker 1: That's if you in it.
Speaker 2: If you're not in it, you learning all this stuff
Speaker 2: secondhand and in a book, and a lot of times it.
Speaker 1: Don't make sense. These connections.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna try to do is try to make
Speaker 2: these connections make sense. What the hell does Yemen have
Speaker 2: to do with Palestine, which has to do with America,
Speaker 2: which got to do with this Israel guys of war,
Speaker 2: Like what is how is any of this stuff connected? First,
Speaker 2: you need to talk about Yemen. And the first thing
Speaker 2: you need to know about Yemen, if anything, know that
Speaker 2: it is it's the it's the poorest air quotes poorest
Speaker 2: Arab nation. Because remember Arab nations are freakishly rich with resources,
Speaker 2: with natural resources, whether it's oil, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2: It's just so has such a wealth of resources, and
Speaker 2: a lot of the nations have figured out how to
Speaker 2: get involved.
Speaker 1: In the global economy.
Speaker 2: Yemen been in such a civil war and quietly has
Speaker 2: been one of the greatest up until now humanitarian crises.
Speaker 2: I mean even during the Syrian refugee crisis, like what
Speaker 2: was going on in Yemen was so bad, and part
Speaker 2: of that has to do with a civil war. Another
Speaker 2: thing to know about Yemen is it's probably one of
Speaker 2: the most beautiful It's coffee. There's even just little this
Speaker 2: little friendly rivalry between Yemen and Ethiopia about who had
Speaker 2: coffee first. Now, granted, coffee was discovered in Ethiopia, that
Speaker 2: is official, everybody knows. But who started grinding, brewing and
Speaker 2: putting it in water? The Yemenies say they first. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but it is really hard to get your
Speaker 2: hands on some Yemenese beans, which was why I made
Speaker 2: the song Yemenese Beans, which I'm gonna make sure Matt
Speaker 2: puts in this thing.
Speaker 1: Matt, you hear me, You gotta put that song into
Speaker 1: this thing.
Speaker 2: I don't dare because all of it's unfair. I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to manage my own square to get the blue
Speaker 2: right on these Yemenese beans and run up the scoreboard
Speaker 2: on all y'all teams.
Speaker 1: Like grand you're more all ride for the poor, staying
Speaker 1: with the fuse, staying with the crew.
Speaker 2: I'm giving out game, investing in change. So it's coffee
Speaker 2: is at such a premium, first of all, because it
Speaker 2: is undeniably delicious, like the this is my world's combining,
Speaker 2: but like the quality.
Speaker 1: Grade of the Yemenese.
Speaker 2: Bean because it hasn't been exported often, because it's not
Speaker 2: oversaturated in the market equality and the taste is like
Speaker 2: there's no there's really no other flavor profile anywhere in
Speaker 2: the world like Yemen E's coffee. It's insane. It just it.
Speaker 2: It can't get out the docks because of war. Second
Speaker 2: thing you need to know about Yemen that makes this
Speaker 2: story so important is where Yemen is. A simple cursory
Speaker 2: look at a map would make you understand why the
Speaker 2: Red Sea is so important. Like just right now in
Speaker 2: your brain, just picture the Horn of Africa and then
Speaker 2: the Sinai Peninsula where Saudi Arabia Yemen. Where that other
Speaker 2: little piece over there right that the top of that
Speaker 2: little piece is you have where egypt land connects to
Speaker 2: what we call the Middle East, and that border on
Speaker 2: the bottom of that is Gaza. So now Yemen is
Speaker 2: on that that little piece that's connected to the Horn
Speaker 2: of Africa. You have the top part where Egypt is,
Speaker 2: and then the bottom part where like Ethiopia and se Sudan.
Speaker 1: Is that little piece just across the river.
Speaker 2: That little piece on the bottom that's the main part
Speaker 2: of that is Saudi Arabia. The little bottom part is Yemen.
Speaker 2: That's why it was so easy for coffee to go
Speaker 2: the sect. The first the first stop that caught when
Speaker 2: coffee left Ethiopia was Yemen. Now that little area you
Speaker 2: have to think about if you're taking things from let's
Speaker 2: just use the European the Eurocentric terms the.
Speaker 1: East to the west.
Speaker 2: If you need to get to the Mediterranean, you trying
Speaker 2: to get to spices from India to Spain or Portugal.
Speaker 2: If you're shipping things from Greece right down into India,
Speaker 2: you trying.
Speaker 1: To go to Asia. Here's your option.
Speaker 2: You can either go around Africa, so you go out
Speaker 2: the Red Sea or out the Mediterranean and down the
Speaker 2: Atlantic Ocean into the Indian Ocean. The second largest man
Speaker 2: mass in the world is Africa. There's a big old
Speaker 2: You can either go around Africa to get to Asia,
Speaker 2: or to get out of Asia in the Middle East
Speaker 2: into North America and the rest of the world and
Speaker 2: the rest of Europe. Or you just cut through the
Speaker 2: Red Sea get to the Mediterranean. Like it's duh, Like
Speaker 2: why would you not do that? Like it's it's just
Speaker 2: a short cut. Now if you live there, Oh that's
Speaker 2: a lick and a half. I mean, why do you
Speaker 2: think we made the Panama Canal, Cause it's like I
Speaker 2: need to cut through, Like I gotta go all the
Speaker 2: way around South America to get to California. You tripping,
Speaker 2: I can't get a boat like I needed. Let me
Speaker 2: just let me just cut through right here. It's like
Speaker 2: it's so long to try to get a ship like
Speaker 2: I like, like think about that, Like you're adding like
Speaker 2: you're adding months to your trip, You're adding millions of
Speaker 2: dollars of car. Just let me just go through the
Speaker 2: Red Sea now again, if your ant sentence is up,
Speaker 2: you like.
Speaker 1: Oh, nigga, you trying to get through here. You need
Speaker 1: to pay us.
Speaker 2: I mean, duh, Like you know that's not even that's
Speaker 2: not even gangster, that's just this just good business.
Speaker 1: It's like you.
Speaker 2: The Lord God Almighty has blessed you with a location
Speaker 2: that says there is so much money to be made
Speaker 2: right here because everybody gotta go through this. I mean,
Speaker 2: and I'm not making you. You could go around Africa. Well,
Speaker 2: your other option is to go north. You want to
Speaker 2: go through the Arctic Circle. I mean you could do that.
Speaker 2: You go so so in their mind you you you
Speaker 2: leave India, you go around in between Australia, you go
Speaker 2: around Japan, around China, Manchuria, Siberia, you go around the
Speaker 2: top of Russia, through the Arctic Circle. And then down
Speaker 2: all the way across Russia, all the way down to
Speaker 2: Scandinavia and then down to New England.
Speaker 1: Word, I mean, it's up to you. But if you
Speaker 1: don't cut through here, you got to mess with us.
Speaker 2: I mean should It makes sense to me because so
Speaker 2: the location is just like it's the most perfect it's
Speaker 2: the most perfect location, all right. Now, there's some proxies
Speaker 2: going on here. I think there's a way that it's
Speaker 2: not a one to one, but I think there's a
Speaker 2: way to view the Yemeni Civil War the way most
Speaker 2: cold wars and proxy wars work. You have this place
Speaker 2: that has its own issues and its own agenda and
Speaker 2: things that itself is trying to accomplish, and like anybody,
Speaker 2: you looking for help, right, Like I said, in relation
Speaker 2: to the rest of the Arab nations, like Yemen is
Speaker 2: the least wealthy, so they gonna need some help on
Speaker 2: them weapons. Another thing you need to understand about what
Speaker 2: you should already. I mean, if you listen on my show,
Speaker 2: you should know this stuff already, is that like it's
Speaker 2: a Muslim nation, but there are a lot of different
Speaker 2: types of Muslims, just like there's a lot of different Christians.
Speaker 2: Like I mean, it's just it's so insane in the
Speaker 2: West that like we just don't understand that you like
Speaker 2: Shia and Sunny that's even an umbrella. Like there's just
Speaker 2: like Christian and Catholic, or like Protestant and Catholic, like
Speaker 2: among the name Protestant. You know how many different denominations,
Speaker 2: you understand what I'm saying. So there's so many different
Speaker 2: things in there. So just because so even some of
Speaker 2: that right wing like you know, fantasy war porn, that's
Speaker 2: like hella racists that kind of had this idea that
Speaker 2: the Muslim nations, the Muslim world is gonna take over,
Speaker 2: like niggas don't get along, Like don't y'all understand that
Speaker 2: like Shia and Sunni, like they're different, they different, and
Speaker 2: they beef so just because they both Muslim, just like
Speaker 2: don't think just because like Islam is just as diverse
Speaker 2: as every other like monotheistic Abrahamic religion. So like don't
Speaker 2: be silly, like it's so there's so much diversity among
Speaker 2: the religion, my lord, like y'all know, you know, I
Speaker 2: come from a Christian background, and like the theological differences
Speaker 2: how serious they run like it it runs deep, Like
Speaker 2: it's Christians that think other Christians ain't Christians that like,
Speaker 2: y'all are in such error, right that like we're not
Speaker 2: even sure if you saved or not. Like, and they're
Speaker 2: both Christians, So theological differences can run very deep.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: One year, I was performing some poetry at the MLK
Speaker 2: fifty years celebration and they had a preacher get up
Speaker 2: there and say, MLK, you know he was grave. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was wrong about the Gospel, but he did great things.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what, Like, it's too bad he was a
Speaker 2: false price. Like it runs deep, y'all. And among the
Speaker 2: way that that religion can play out nationally, right in
Speaker 2: the same way that we got Christian nationalists and you
Speaker 2: got Christian pacifists, remember, like think about it like this,
Speaker 2: in the way that Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria are
Speaker 2: Muslim countries, so it's Morocco. You see them exporting any terrorists,
Speaker 2: you see them involved in it. It's because your faith
Speaker 2: can map onto nationalism, just like Christianity maps on the
Speaker 2: nationalism in ways that aren't necessarily reflections of the faith
Speaker 2: as much as it's reflections.
Speaker 1: Of that people there.
Speaker 2: You feel me, like how Donald Trump could convince any
Speaker 2: evangelical that he wanted them. Is proof of what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. It's people that really look in Revelation and
Speaker 2: think America is mentioned in this that we are a
Speaker 2: part of the revival of Christ coming back, like they
Speaker 2: really think America in the Bible. Now, quick and dirty
Speaker 2: idea of the Huthie their civil war and who's got
Speaker 2: who's back? Okay, so civil war basically started in we're
Speaker 2: gonna say the war itself twenty fourteen. But you got
Speaker 2: to back up a little bits when basically when the
Speaker 2: Huthis took over the capital and overthrew their government. For
Speaker 2: any of that to make sense, you got to understand
Speaker 2: who the Houthis are, right, and the historical context when
Speaker 2: Islam first came to Yemen, because the Arab nations are
Speaker 2: just like everybody else. They were tribal nations, right and
Speaker 2: had their own local beliefs. And then one of the
Speaker 2: one of the crusades happened just this happened to be
Speaker 2: a Muslim one, so it's like Arab nations are no different.
Speaker 2: It was Zaidism and I'm trying my best.
Speaker 1: I looked up how to pronounce it. Hopefully that's close enough.
Speaker 2: But Zaidism that was up north, right, so and they
Speaker 2: were again they were they were they were Shia. Now
Speaker 2: the Sunnies were down south, and they came a little
Speaker 2: bit later, right, and they started competing with each other.
Speaker 1: And those were the Rosalids.
Speaker 2: And that's again these are sects of Islam that we
Speaker 2: don't have time to go into. But their rivalry essentially
Speaker 2: was cut short by the.
Speaker 1: Fall of the.
Speaker 2: Rosalid rule and the succession of the imperialless powers and
Speaker 2: the involvement in the Middle East and basically the expansions
Speaker 2: of like the Ottoman Empire once anyway, this is what
Speaker 2: happens when empires get involved. Man, it's just like you
Speaker 2: just you map yourself onto these worlds that are already
Speaker 2: having their things going on, and then it basically exacerbates
Speaker 2: the problem. Fast forward to the who Thi's all right,
Speaker 2: so the whu this? They're from the north, they're Zaiati, right,
Speaker 2: zaiads Zadi God. I wish I knew. I wish I've
Speaker 2: been trying to practice Arabic. I should have just stuck
Speaker 2: to it. Anyway, So once they were not in power
Speaker 2: like anything else, just like the Ethiopian and stuff. Once
Speaker 2: they were not in powered, they started facing discrimination. They
Speaker 2: felt like the remember their Shia, they felt like the
Speaker 2: sunification of policies, right, the governments that was mostly Soony
Speaker 2: ended up being issues for them as Shia, and like
Speaker 2: everywhere else, the group that's not in power eventually puts
Speaker 2: together an armed resistance, and the arm resistance became their
Speaker 2: own government once they overthrew the capital, right, And they
Speaker 2: overthrew the capital through an armed resistance, and now they're
Speaker 2: actually in charge of most of Yemen, right, but they're
Speaker 2: still beefing because remember, at least as far as this
Speaker 2: narrative is concerned, they used to be on top. The
Speaker 2: Houthis are the rebels who took over, right, that's the idea.
Speaker 2: Right now, if you ask the West, they are terrorists.
Speaker 2: Now that's if you ask the West. Now, I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure you ask different people in Yemen, maybe like absolutely,
Speaker 2: then you ask other people that are like no, the
Speaker 2: government we had was this was gross, gross human rights
Speaker 2: concerns happening with our actual government. Now while this is
Speaker 2: going on, remember I said the location of Yemen is
Speaker 2: very important. That it's two people that had jump in
Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia and Iran and quick and dirty. The Houthis
Speaker 2: are backed by Iran. They're assuming, right, So the Houthis
Speaker 2: are backed by Iran. You remember, Iran's connected to Hesbualah,
Speaker 2: which is connected to Lebanon, which is you know which
Speaker 2: has backed the Palestinian cause. Right now, you follow in
Speaker 2: the web the other side of Saudi Arabia. Now, Saudi
Speaker 2: has this really interesting relationship with the rest of the
Speaker 2: Arab nations because Saudi Arabia is completely cool with America,
Speaker 2: and I think in a lot of ways that's an
Speaker 2: issue over there.
Speaker 1: It's a big issue.
Speaker 2: Because niggas don't trust America, and I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: blame them, but that's a thing. One of the reasons
Speaker 2: why it's just such a big issue is because you
Speaker 2: ever asked what Mecca is.
Speaker 1: Mecca's in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2: So every person practicing Islam has to make their Hajj,
Speaker 2: you have to make a pilgrimage to Mecca. Saudi became
Speaker 2: the sort of steward of the city of Mecca where
Speaker 2: they make their pilgrimage and walk around the thing seven times. That, like,
Speaker 2: Saudi is a super important thing. And secondly, as far
Speaker 2: as America is concerned. We need some homies in the region.
Speaker 2: How do we get the homies in the region. Well,
Speaker 2: one of them was Israel. But don't nobody like Israel.
Speaker 2: You have to remember that, like where they at, don't
Speaker 2: nobody like Israel. Israel got the bread, Israel got the guns.
Speaker 2: But in the Arab nations, no one likes them. It's
Speaker 2: so crazy. Don't nobody like them over there? Now remember it.
Speaker 2: They've been living peacefully with Jews for years, centuries. So
Speaker 2: it's not their jewishness, it's the Zionness, it's the it's
Speaker 2: the nation state that don't nobody really mess with, So
Speaker 2: keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, you got.
Speaker 2: Saudi, which is a newer in relation to the rest
Speaker 2: of these places. It's a newer nation state and Mecca's
Speaker 2: in there. So it's one of those situations where you
Speaker 2: got to mess with them, like you can't. You can't
Speaker 2: not mess with them, Like, what are you gonna You
Speaker 2: gotta go to Mecca? Right, Saudi picked a side in
Speaker 2: this war for whatever reasons. Iran picked a side in
Speaker 2: this war for whatever reasons. Now let me ask you this,
Speaker 2: who side you think your rans on? Not only in
Speaker 2: the Russian Ukraine situation, but also in Israel. Who you
Speaker 2: think Saudi with? I mean that you see in the
Speaker 2: network is the network coming together? So you can't jump
Speaker 2: in like we talked about before, Like all right, I'm
Speaker 2: watching you to make sure you don't jump in.
Speaker 1: You can't jump in.
Speaker 2: Michrophone fiend and fostering graffiti gone through my catalog to
Speaker 2: untangle your cord of Lani meaning them impostas.
Speaker 1: Trying to shock chakras. A foster in a man based
Speaker 1: the spot of man fake and the floor reshapes the
Speaker 1: earth like when the.
Speaker 2: Damn breaks man, I'm from where the land shakes, native
Speaker 2: fleets through the quakes one time for the tongue for
Speaker 2: tried witnesses came and fullet.
Speaker 1: Braded into black and brown businesses. Listeners extended, puscle is endlisted.
Speaker 2: Listen, I can't force it to eat your four courses
Speaker 2: and spot the four horsemen ignoring the warnings. Now here's
Speaker 2: what happened. What had happened with US Yemen watching all
Speaker 2: this the Houthis specifically, because remember right now, the Houthis
Speaker 2: are in charge of most of Yemen, even though there's
Speaker 2: still a war going on over there.
Speaker 1: They watching all this happen.
Speaker 2: They watching everything happen over there, and now remember what
Speaker 2: Hamas was hoping what happened is that this situation would
Speaker 2: remind everybody of the Palestinian plights that like and hopefully
Speaker 2: that the rest of the Arab nations would start feeling
Speaker 2: froggy and jump in.
Speaker 1: The closest one was Lebanon.
Speaker 2: Lebanon was like, uh, we're gonna protect our border, Like
Speaker 2: I'll shoot like that, Like I really don't mess with Israel.
Speaker 2: But as long as it's beefing, this beef is yours.
Speaker 2: We got your back. But like this your war. Hamas
Speaker 2: was like, dang it, y'all supposed to jump in. They
Speaker 2: don't jump in, right, But it's some shooting going on
Speaker 2: up there, right, They're like, how could we help? Remember,
Speaker 2: Israel wants us to be down to on they side.
Speaker 2: Israel like, send them tools. What we're gonna do? You
Speaker 2: remember last time when we had that issue with with Egypt.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And Kissinger, old Kissinger dead ass.
Speaker 1: He he threw us them tools. What's up? Man?
Speaker 2: We're still good and you know you gotta be on
Speaker 2: our side because of the Holocaust.
Speaker 1: Nigga, Like you can't you better be on outside? Is
Speaker 1: they stands?
Speaker 2: Meanwhile South Africa like, hold up, I know you could
Speaker 2: say to everybody, they wasn't outside, but we was. Nigga,
Speaker 2: we went through this. No y'all tripping like that day
Speaker 2: at the Hay. Right, I'm gonna do a whole episode
Speaker 2: about South Africa being.
Speaker 1: Like no, no, no, no no no no no no.
Speaker 2: No, no no no, we had shit like this happened.
Speaker 2: We actually understand what's going on, and y'all niggas are tripping.
Speaker 2: They did they wasn't outside, but we was outside. We
Speaker 2: done went through this, so uh, no y'all bugging and
Speaker 2: America looking at Israel like, I mean, I ain't gonna
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna blast you out in public because but
Speaker 2: like what you're doing is kind of wilding out over there.
Speaker 2: But I tell you what, I'll tell you what. We'll
Speaker 2: send some money, we'll send some weapons, but listen, we
Speaker 2: can't be publicly jumping in on this uff like this, nigga,
Speaker 2: because like you you you kind of while we was
Speaker 2: with you at first, but you know you kind of
Speaker 2: you kind of wilding out now.
Speaker 1: You look, he making us all look bad.
Speaker 2: Nigga, like I had your back, but god damn and
Speaker 2: obviously like that's lower than the bare minimum.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of America stands.
Speaker 2: And even as a side note, the fact that America
Speaker 2: won't really like denounce the shit is like fam like, like, dog,
Speaker 2: we're not gonna this might cause Biden the election, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like at least as far as
Speaker 2: like the votes of the people that.
Speaker 1: Put him on.
Speaker 2: They like, nigga, you wild like were like, I don't
Speaker 2: y'all don't see like it's been a hundred days. This
Speaker 2: is Israel is like this is off, Like what the
Speaker 2: fuck are y'all doing? Yeomen like, okay, listen, are the
Speaker 2: hoo thiees I'm gonna say specifically.
Speaker 1: They like, look, God, what we're not gonna do.
Speaker 2: We while we can't jump in, what we're not gonna
Speaker 2: do is sit idly by and watch this shit go down.
Speaker 2: So if a boat go through our waters, we go
Speaker 2: shot just to make sure, just in solidarity. We're gonna
Speaker 2: do this in solidarity with y'all, we just gonna shoot
Speaker 2: that whoever jumped through.
Speaker 1: Now now.
Speaker 2: These ain't no boy scouts now follow me now because
Speaker 2: they shooting at anybody that come through.
Speaker 1: They don't shot at like commercial. They done shot at
Speaker 1: like a Greek, like the Greeks ain't even evolved, like
Speaker 1: why we catch a straight.
Speaker 2: You feel, but the hoo Thi's is like, look, man,
Speaker 2: I'm not just gonna let y'all traffic these we like,
Speaker 2: not through our waters if you gonna do it, like
Speaker 2: at least like can we at least show the Palestini
Speaker 2: is we got your back a little bit, like I
Speaker 2: ain't finna go down there, but I got you like this,
Speaker 2: like I ain't finna let them.
Speaker 1: I'm not just gonna help them. Help help you.
Speaker 2: Understand I'm saying, like, nah, fam like, not not through,
Speaker 2: not on my watch, That's.
Speaker 1: What this boy said.
Speaker 2: They was like, look man, y'all just not finna just
Speaker 2: run through my backyard as a shortcut. Like nah, if
Speaker 2: you're gonna do this, you're gonna go around, ye, I'm saying.
Speaker 2: America was like, hold up, you shooting at who? You
Speaker 2: don't get to be involved in this shit matter. In fact,
Speaker 2: I kind of been wanting it with y'all, well wow,
Speaker 2: but we've been chilling cause we know, you know, you
Speaker 2: really ain't got them things like that. But like, nigga,
Speaker 2: y'all feeling real froggy, you know, and like, well, we've
Speaker 2: been chilled with you who this, But nigga, you need
Speaker 2: to know what it is. America said, okay, you think
Speaker 2: we can't do two things at once. We playing it
Speaker 2: cool in this Israel thing, but you can't jump in
Speaker 2: if we're not jumping in. You not jumping in. Ruthie's
Speaker 2: are like you've already jumped in. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: You're already in. We know, we know where our enemies
Speaker 2: getting their money from. America's like Saudi Arabia. Whuth He's
Speaker 2: looking at them, like, come on, fam, we know you
Speaker 2: passing bread to Saudi Arabia. It's Saudi Arabia passing bread
Speaker 2: to our ops. America likes, so, nigga, you getting bread
Speaker 2: from Iran and they're like, we're not hiding it. We
Speaker 2: know can't afford no damn missiles. Of course we're getting
Speaker 2: this from Iran. Well, Iran's our op. So, since Iran
Speaker 2: is our op and you work with Iran, you now
Speaker 2: are op so. Now me and you beefing, it's just
Speaker 2: you see how hood this is. It's just gangt like
Speaker 2: we don't want you to jump in, so we gonna shoot,
Speaker 2: but I'm not gonna help. But you wouln't get the
Speaker 2: right to relp. Now y'all jumped down. Now, y'all jumped in.
Speaker 2: Now there's a whole other fight happen. And while this
Speaker 2: fight is happening, and in the meantime, tens of thousands
Speaker 2: of Palestinian civilians day in the meantime, this like man
Speaker 2: not only that is really uh, military dudes just getting
Speaker 2: thrown in this meat grinder like this, Like y'all don't
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 1: That's gonna mess him up.
Speaker 2: Like in the meantime, that boy Pharaoh Manch was like yo,
Speaker 2: in a song, I viewed a baby's insides outside of
Speaker 2: its body inside a place of worship. It's ungodly like
Speaker 2: that will mess you up the carnage. My homeboy, Thiszle
Speaker 2: I may have told y'all before, My homeboy Thistle, like
Speaker 2: I consider him the he's a nipsey hustle of a
Speaker 2: Saint Louis, Like yeah, he, like Thistle, is an absolute
Speaker 2: real one.
Speaker 1: Thiszle was was the blood he was outside.
Speaker 2: He's an amazing artist, like incredible dude, But he's doing a
Speaker 2: lot of motivational speaking right now, and what he talks about.
Speaker 2: I just saw a clip about it, Like he was like, look, man,
Speaker 2: like what they don't tell you?
Speaker 1: A part of the game. They don't tell you. He
Speaker 1: was like, Man, I am buried.
Speaker 2: He was like when I was outside as a teenager
Speaker 2: and like really really running the streets. He's like, I
Speaker 2: buried at least twenty five of my home boys, Like
Speaker 2: at least twenty five of them. And I watched all
Speaker 2: they kids grow up without a father, right, And he's like,
Speaker 2: and whoever grow and all them boys who grew up
Speaker 2: without fathers?
Speaker 1: Who gonna raise him? He's like the lions don't raise him?
Speaker 1: The hyenas.
Speaker 2: Dude, you know your little boys, your little girls, Like
Speaker 2: it's a creepy old man out there that knows that
Speaker 2: your daughter ain't got no daddy. You in jail, you
Speaker 2: doing twenty thirty years, You can't protect your kids.
Speaker 1: So there's a generational.
Speaker 2: Victim in this, which is the children of those who
Speaker 2: decide to be in this thing. Now, what does that
Speaker 2: got to do? What I'm talking about right now? Eventually
Speaker 2: the shooting is gonna stop in Gaza and the long
Speaker 2: term effects, first of all, like I think I've said
Speaker 2: this before. You're guaranteeing a new extremist groups by doing this,
Speaker 2: your response is guaranted. Israel's guaranteeing a new extremist group
Speaker 2: by their actions guarantee and probably not just not just
Speaker 2: a palace to anyone. You're guaranteeing a new Israeli extremist group.
Speaker 2: You're guaranteeing because you just this is what it does.
Speaker 2: So when you gone, the hyenas is gonna raise you.
Speaker 2: They're gonna look at there and they're gonna.
Speaker 1: Be like, you see what these people do.
Speaker 2: You see what your government thinks of you, See how
Speaker 2: you see how they think about you. They don't care.
Speaker 2: These people do not care. They say it's in your name,
Speaker 2: they don't care. All these protests popping up in Israel
Speaker 2: is basically the people saying our government don't care about us.
Speaker 2: They say they're doing this for us, but they not.
Speaker 2: All the hostages that have been rescued so far and
Speaker 2: exchanged have been through diplomatic negotiations, except for like two.
Speaker 1: What works is y'all putting these guns down? Now?
Speaker 2: Let me say this, not a pacifist Okay, sometimes you
Speaker 2: gotta shoot, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I wish Nigga would.
Speaker 2: But as far as this one hundred days of this,
Speaker 2: you know, Israeli Gaza war here, what's been effective has
Speaker 2: been the negotiations.
Speaker 1: That's just what's worked, y'all.
Speaker 2: Y'all bombs ain't doing shit except for making everybody mad
Speaker 2: at you. I don't know why you keep doing that.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, It's just this isn't effective.
Speaker 2: It's not do you're you're losing every part of this war,
Speaker 2: like except for the idea that unless you're just trying
Speaker 2: to ethnic clyins like this is just what was adding.
Speaker 2: But essentially the Houthis were like, yo, not on not
Speaker 2: on our watch. But that's why I called this a
Speaker 2: side quest because this is a separate brawl that broke out,
Speaker 2: you know, and that separate brawl that broke out is connected,
Speaker 2: but it's its own thing. Now again, I know I
Speaker 2: said that I told you who's backing who in Yemen,
Speaker 2: But please understand that like these Hoothies have their own agenda,
Speaker 2: that Yemen got its own thing going on. So don't
Speaker 2: think this isn't just you know, cold war esque puppeteering.
Speaker 2: They got their own things going on. Here and the
Speaker 2: hoothis they said this we stand on business. We shot
Speaker 2: them on purpose and guess who loses? Same people that
Speaker 2: losing Gaza uh Politics. Y'all all right now, don't you
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