1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: As media. All right, I had a thought, Okay, go ahead, 2 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: get your jokes off. 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh you had a thought, Wow, first time of 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 2: your life, a little girl. 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: And get your jokes off. But it kind of hit 6 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: me as I was deciding if I had any spare 7 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: you know, quote unquote because my mama listens to the show. Now, 8 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: f's to give about the East Wing being tore down. 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: I'm like, we're not finna have food stamps. This snap 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:39,959 Speaker 1: is ending what that ice is still in our streets? 11 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: And the funny thing about ice is like you know, 12 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 1: you know the they lower in the standard while accept 13 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: pet have except trying to raise the standards of the military. 14 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: They was like, look, man, can you run a mile 15 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: and a half? And can you do thirty two pushups? 16 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: And they can't. I am proud to say I can 17 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: do thirty two, No, thirty two sit ups? Thirty two 18 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: situps and I think twenty five push ups something something 19 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: bare minimum. If even if you were one week, one 20 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: day a week at the gym, but. 21 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 2: Even if you not, obviously. 22 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: You also not trying to raid somebody's house and take 23 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 1: they me mall. 24 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 2: To the break. 25 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:34,320 Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying. So anyway, I forget what 26 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,039 Speaker 1: I was saying. Oh yeah, that there are things that 27 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: I care much more about, And I'm like, do I 28 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: have any spare Is there any space in the things 29 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,639 Speaker 1: that I'm carrying to really care that Trump is tearing 30 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: down the East Wing to build a ballroom, Cause I'm like, 31 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: I mean he gaudy, like that's what he trying to 32 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: make it more lago, Like it's so obvious that's what 33 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: he's trying to do, whether it's legal or not. 34 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 2: I feel like that ship is sailed. 35 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 1: He has taught us, he has trained us to not 36 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: even ask that question whether it's legal or not, because 37 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 1: most of the time, nigga know it's not, or it's 38 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: just the law of first move. 39 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 2: Like I haven't even got to the point. 40 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: Of this episode yet or even the thought, because I 41 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 1: would say, I'm getting to the thought process of how 42 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: I got the thought. So one of the things you 43 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: learn me being you know, Buck forty five, soaking wet 44 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: as a kid, just a big old string being with just. 45 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 2: Not a heavyweight. 46 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: The thing is you just need, especially when you're dealing 47 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: with bullies, like you just need to move first so 48 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: that there's a chance that you catch them off guard, 49 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: like I don't believe with my dad was never about 50 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: like you know, never started. Don't let him, you know, 51 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: if he throw the first punch, you know, like you 52 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: don't ever throw the first punch. If he throw the 53 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: first punch, you defend yourself. That's my dad was staying 54 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: like me, He was like, somebody throw that first punch. 55 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 1: That might be it what I'm saying, like it might 56 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: be lights out. You don't let nobody hit you first's 57 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: wrong with you? So to that point, you know, obviously 58 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: like another one the other folks you to say, is 59 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: a good run beats a bad stand any day, But 60 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: like shout out past the Daylan mccampbell, that's where I 61 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: got that from. 62 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 2: Uh, but. 63 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: He say you, But what I'm saying is like, if 64 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: you square up first, you take off first, even if 65 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: it's a matter of just threading threat, the threat of 66 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: the fact that like I'm gonna have to make you respond. 67 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: And oftentimes you know, you heard the phrase like ask 68 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission. Is like 69 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: y'all gonna have to catch up, you feel me, And 70 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: that's kind of how Trump moves. 71 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 2: He's like, you got to keep up with him. Like 72 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 2: if you not, if. 73 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: You're not keeping up with him, you know, you got 74 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: to get on and get down. You understand what I'm saying. Like, 75 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: so he makes he moves first, and when you move first, 76 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: it's the type of confidence that keeps the other person 77 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: on foot. And now you're the Poindexter point in your car. 78 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: I don't think he can do that. Can he do that? 79 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 2: That's not how he work. He just do it. And 80 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 2: it's like, I I mean, Dary, just try to stop me. 81 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: So so what I'm saying is it's the law first move, 82 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's when you. 83 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 2: Do that a lot of times. 84 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: That's why we say how we drive in LA, it's 85 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 1: like you have to drive offensively, like no, I'm making 86 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: the move like confident. This is what I'm doing, y'all 87 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: look it out the way, yo. So that's how you work. 88 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,239 Speaker 1: He just like, yeah, I'm an tear it down. It's like, nigga, 89 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 1: can you do that? I mean, what you're gonna say 90 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: now it is already down, Like I mean, what did 91 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: you pull permits? I mean, I don't know. Nobody like 92 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: pulling permits. But the what I'm trying to. 93 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 2: Make is. 94 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: He'dn't already done it. He said he'd gonna do it, 95 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: and he'd do it. My question is, do I care 96 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 1: care enough to do a whole episode about it. 97 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 2: And here's the thought. 98 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: I feel like this might be the blue or gold 99 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: dress of the president's moves hood politics, y'all. Okay, this 100 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: seems like simultaneously last week and last century, that moment, 101 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 1: in the height of the innocence of Twitter. I feel 102 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 1: like it's before the Internet died. I mean, you had. 103 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 2: Listicals on BuzzFeed. 104 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: People were sharing I'm all greg videos just this innocent 105 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: all right, where the hottest discussion on our social media 106 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 1: was what color is this dress? And it was It's 107 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,679 Speaker 1: truly just a trick of light, you know what I'm saying. 108 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: It just depended on which angle you took the picture. 109 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: It made the color. It's just it's a really normal 110 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: thing that happens with optics and light. But it just 111 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: it broke the Internet as to like people were writing blogs, 112 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 1: y'all remember, oh man, I remember blogs? God damp anyways, 113 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: look at me, look at me, strange reminiscing about the 114 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: the mid the mid aughts Internet. Anyway, that moment was 115 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: very much you saw what you believed. You saw, and 116 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: you are going to interpret what you saw based on 117 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: what you already believed. I wrote, speaking of blogs, uh, 118 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: this article for Preemptive Love Collige, and I don't think 119 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: it's up now, but it was the I believe it 120 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: was the first pre Trump. It was the first Trump era. 121 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: There was a like pro lifelike rally on the steps 122 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: of the Capitol, and this little boy was photoed staring 123 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: down this this like elder indigenous person that was like 124 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: singing and playing drums and and and the little boy 125 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: had this little smirk on his face that when you 126 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: look at the still it was, it invoked for me 127 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: to the point it invoked for me this ambiguity that 128 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: when left unchecked, it turns into the young Republicans group chat. 129 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: What I mean by it is this the smirk is 130 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: I'm only calling it a smirk because that's what I 131 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: saw in that he might have just been smiling. He 132 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: wasn't saying anything. He was standing there while this native 133 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: man was playing his music. It's a very very visceral image. 134 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: And I remember writing like, you saw what you already believed, 135 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: and this image affirmed it. So that little boy was 136 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: taken onto some Fox News about him being a hero 137 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: and this old this grown man was staring down this child. 138 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: He's a child, you know, and he wasn't saying anything. 139 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: He wasn't bothering you, he wasn't touching you. But how 140 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: do you how are you the one that feels that 141 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 1: you were being accosted by him? So they talked about 142 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 1: how this little boy was a hero and just like, man, 143 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: you didn't back down when that old man was looking 144 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: at you. That. Now, that's because you already believed that, 145 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: because that's we weren't there you just looking at this image. 146 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 1: The other side of that was what I saw, which 147 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: was I know that smirk. That smirk reminds me of 148 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: them little punk ass racist kids that when we moved 149 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: to the Inland Empire, these little white boys I had 150 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: to deal with because yes, technically he's not touching me. 151 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 1: He could they they could always go back in to say, 152 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: but what did I do? 153 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 2: It was just a joke. Come on, We're just kids. 154 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 2: It was just a joke. Why did you feel Why 155 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:03,359 Speaker 2: did you feel intimidated? 156 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you're the racist one? 157 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 2: Right, So. 158 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 1: We as as people of colored, what is being said 159 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: to us without being said is to tone down, turn 160 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: it down, don't express yourself, because when you express yourself, 161 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: it's something that either A I can laugh at. 162 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 2: Or B can shame you without using words you like. 163 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: I feel like every woman knows that every cis gendered 164 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: woman or a heterosexual woman, or yeah even not even 165 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: hetero sexually, any just girl who had to deal with cisgendered. 166 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: Hetero males know that smirk. They know that I didn't 167 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: say anything. Come on, girl, why are you mad? You 168 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: know that look and it's and it's its power is 169 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: in its ambiguity. You feel me, And I mean I 170 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: don't even have to explain. I mean, I feel like 171 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: I don't have to explain that because again, ladies, you've 172 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: just existed in public. Some dude that said a word 173 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,199 Speaker 1: to you like this, some dude has gave you that 174 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: that smirk, the smirk that you like. Sometimes I should 175 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: just I should just slap the shit out of you, 176 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,319 Speaker 1: just so you don't look at nobody else like that. Again. 177 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: So the point I'm trying to make is, like I know, 178 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: in my life, if that would have happened, that smirk 179 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: that I'm talking about, that I remember vividly. I can't 180 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: even remember the boy's name, A couple of the boys names. 181 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: They used to do that, and like a part of 182 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: me was being afraid of being suspended, getting in trouble, 183 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: getting jumped. I was new to the city. I didn't 184 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: really live here. You know. It was like, you know, 185 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: my sister is so many years apart from me. She 186 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: was already in high school at the time, but the 187 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:08,719 Speaker 1: part of the Inland Empire that she went to high 188 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:12,199 Speaker 1: school with was actually had a very robust black community, 189 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,679 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I didn't go there. I 190 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: was still kind of back and forth between the area 191 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: we're from that's talk with all the time, and then 192 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: this like middle school space that we were possibly moving to. 193 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: Now we had moved there by then, but I still 194 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: had a lot of my social network and anyway, it's 195 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:37,079 Speaker 1: not the point. The point is I had all these 196 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: things I would consider, you know what I'm saying, like 197 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: I would be the one to get suspended. I would 198 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 1: be the one that like I'd have to, you know, 199 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: watch myself every day. This wasn't like this is a 200 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: different type of thing. It's not street in the sense 201 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: that I mean, we understand that, like they bus we 202 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,439 Speaker 1: bus if you scrap like that, Like is there's a 203 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: little bit of respect that comes with being able to 204 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: like I'll break your face with a lunch trade, Like 205 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: there's a space for that that is sort of understood. 206 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: This there was a race power dynamic that I was 207 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: very inexperienced and I had never been in a situation 208 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:15,079 Speaker 1: like this where I was like, I mean these are 209 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: like this is like Doc Martin's skinhead white shirt, you know, 210 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: suspenders like era, you know what I mean. Like, so 211 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: I'm like, I am, I feel like I'm on another 212 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 1: planet right now. So I know, but I know this smirk. 213 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 2: All of that. 214 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: I did that whole diversion or yeah, side quest to 215 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: explain that I brought all that to that image. So 216 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: when I looked at that image, I was seeing decades 217 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: of these little quasi cute, overly protected, privileged little white 218 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: boys that get away with stuff that I could never 219 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: get away with. And the fact that he didn't feel 220 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: any sort of way to see an elder and give 221 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:14,479 Speaker 1: that elder the type of respect that seems so intuitive 222 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: to me. But millions of people didn't see that. Millions 223 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: of people just saw he's a little boy, he has 224 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: a little smile on his face and not frowning at you. 225 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: He's not saying anything. He's just standing there. Yeah, blue dress. 226 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: Was it a blue dress or is it a gold dress? 227 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: What you think about this East Wing? Let me make 228 00:14:36,840 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: a case for both next Ira back, So the facts 229 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: as they stand can kind of go like this. But 230 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: Trump said, you know, I wanted to, and he's wanted 231 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: two for years, build a ballroom at the White House. 232 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: And he also wants to do some sort of triumphant march. 233 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: Because I mean, okay, let me stick with the facts, 234 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: because I'm about to tell you what I see with this. 235 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: You could obviously you know what I see there. But 236 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: so he wants to build this triumphant march arch. He 237 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: wants to do this ballroom in the East wing. Now 238 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: out of his mouth, he said he's not going to 239 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: tear down any of the existing White House things. So 240 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: apparently off camera, offline, we didn't see none of this happened. 241 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: They went through, crunched the numbers, and it was like, look, 242 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: it would be way more expensive to leave this thing 243 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: here and try to figure out an addition, right, It 244 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: would be much more cost efficient to just tear the 245 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: thing down and build something new. Now. The East Wing 246 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: only goes back to like nineteen hundred, like an earlier thing. 247 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: It was an addition to the White House that we 248 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: all know of. We all know of the West Wing. 249 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: Ain't no movies about the East Wing. I've been to 250 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: the East Wing, which you could still say you've been 251 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: to the White House, you know what I'm saying. I 252 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: had a meeting there with my homie, Derek Minor about 253 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: finding financial support for black small businesses. This is a 254 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: really dope program. Like I say in the lyrics, I 255 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: ain't never been no online contest, I ain't never won 256 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: no online contests. But I spoke at to Congress. Okay. 257 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: So it was with the Better Business Bureau and the 258 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: SBA had Small Business Association anyway, meeting with them anyway. 259 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: So over on that side there's like a place for 260 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: like if you're gonna have dinners the stenographers there. There's 261 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: a couple offices. Usually the first lady had our office 262 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 1: over there, and we met in this just like just 263 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: fancy meeting room. Right, there's just a bunch of offices, 264 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: you know. Really, the the White House in some ways 265 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 1: is because you don't get to see the part they 266 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 1: live in. You know what I'm saying, It's like it's 267 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 1: still it's still just a government building. Now I want 268 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: to get into the conceptual stuff. I'm just stick to 269 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: stick to the facts prop so, so there's really not 270 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 1: much going on there. But it was an addition that 271 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 1: at this point is over one hundred years old, right, 272 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: And y'all remember keep in mind, like the White House 273 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 1: has been it burnt down once, you know, it was rebuilt. 274 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: It was the last big renovation was in the during 275 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 1: the Truman which is like one of the funnier ones. 276 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: Like Truman was in the tub and he felt the 277 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: floor kind of getting shaky while that. While that was happening, 278 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: and his lady was his wife was downstairs entertaining guests. 279 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,400 Speaker 1: They said the chandelier was rocking. It was a time 280 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 1: where somebody put their foot through the through the floor 281 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,399 Speaker 1: and it poked through the roof, like the mug was 282 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: falling apart. So he was talking about he's talking about 283 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 1: he was in the bath and he was like, man, 284 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: I would have really ruined her party if he'd have 285 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:24,160 Speaker 1: fell down through the path. So in that scenario, obviously 286 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: like okay, man, you got to fix the White House 287 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: like I understand, you know. 288 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 2: But. 289 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: That that's but like I said, but the east wing 290 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 1: was added later. So obviously it is just a structure 291 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: and it needs renovations. Sometimes, it needs additions, it needs fixings, 292 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And every president is in 293 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 1: some way, you know, taken on parts of this. Now, 294 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: what Trump did for this one was, like I said, 295 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 1: it it is you go dress or blue dress. It 296 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:01,679 Speaker 1: seems to be a legacy project, like a pet project, 297 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So because of that, since 298 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: there's no real it's that there's no damage to the building. 299 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 1: The building's fine. He just wants to make it better. 300 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: He tapped this lady, old Rouric who was there Trump 301 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, like fundraiser leader right to get people 302 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,919 Speaker 1: in here to hold a dinner to raise money to 303 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: build this thing, you know, so he could tap his daughter, 304 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: you know, Vodka and Krishner and just all these different 305 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: people to be like, yo, come come help me pay 306 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: for this. You know it's gonna be dope, right, And 307 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: he raised the money through that to get this thing done. 308 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 1: And since it's again I'm just trying to stick to 309 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: the facts, since it's not the rules around historic preservation 310 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: buildings don't really apply to the White House. I know, 311 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: crazy that sounds, but they just don't. And what the 312 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: permits you pull are technically about construction, not destruction. It's 313 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 1: silly to say something like that, but actually, you know 314 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's just something that, like again, sticking 315 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 1: to the facts just looks illegal, Like it just looks 316 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,439 Speaker 1: like you shouldn't just be able to tear down the 317 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: White House because again, factually that's not your house. You 318 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: you don't really you don't really live here. You just 319 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 1: you don't really live here, unless, of course, like I said, 320 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: he's planning to die there. That man is not leave anyway, 321 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 1: So this is just what it is, right, he's building 322 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,479 Speaker 1: a ball. So my question, like I said, was like 323 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: I don't I kind of don't care, right, I'm like, 324 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 1: there are so many other things that I should be 325 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: worried about, which made me go, maybe I maybe I 326 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: do care because I probably had the same visceral sort 327 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: of like pearl clutching, not even in a pejorative way, 328 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: but just like for real, like this like pearl clutching 329 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 1: response to seeing the image of the bulldozers at the 330 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: White house. I thought it was ai, I ain't gonna 331 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: hold you. I was like, there's no way that this 332 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 1: is Let me wait a second. Then we practiced some 333 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: media literacy and just be like, uh, oh my. 334 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:29,199 Speaker 2: God, look at this. 335 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 1: And you also don't want to be Now this is 336 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 1: me playing keeping it cool like I I'm I'm stepping 337 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 1: in here like I personally don't want to just you know, like, 338 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: oh oh did you see what he did? Cause it's 339 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: if you just if you just always that you feel me, 340 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: you gonna exhaust yourself. And like I said, demand trained 341 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: us like this isn't a trump stand, like I'm not, 342 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: this is not my show, Like it's about all of 343 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: the stuff. So I can't just be like that about everything. 344 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,159 Speaker 1: So I honestly I wasn't no cover or I was 345 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: gonna just gonna talk about untapping it because I was 346 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 1: just like, man, whatever, bro, I don't really think I 347 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: truly care. But then that made me say, well, that 348 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: is actually a position because of the things that I 349 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: do care about. I do care about the fact that 350 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: like air traffic controllers aren't being paid, like the planes 351 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: is finna stop flying you asking people to go to 352 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 1: work for free. Meanwhile, we're about to lose our healthcare. 353 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 1: You don't see the optics in this. So then I 354 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: was like, Okay, I see the two different views here, 355 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: and I think this is interesting. Let's talk about one side. 356 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 1: So on one hand, it's exactly what I'm saying. You've 357 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 1: put the military, the National Guard in American cities. You 358 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: looked at the military and said, I want you to 359 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: practice your expertise in insurgencies and fighting insurgencies in America, 360 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 1: Like that's what I want you to do. You're hiring 361 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: dudes that can't do can't do fifteen pushups to go 362 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: attack somebody's grandma on her way home from going to 363 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: her immigration meeting. So you finding people that are trying 364 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,479 Speaker 1: to actually do the right thing and still doing this 365 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 1: to them, stopping somebody and punishing and locking them up 366 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 1: because they didn't have a papers, Like show me your papers. Boy, 367 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: You're like this, there is chaos in our streets. BB 368 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 1: played you like a fiddle, cause like you really thought 369 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: you made piece in the It'll east my nigga, Like 370 00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 1: dumb is a. 371 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 2: Bag of rocks. 372 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: But you just want to act like gold Member and 373 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: just spray gold over the shit. They's so what the 374 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 1: what are you doing your own base? The farmers that 375 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 1: you duped in the listening to you, you about to 376 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: end they subsidies, They farms are dying. Which as a 377 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 1: side note, y'all remember the Black ag episode when we 378 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: talked about how the FDA and you know, the the 379 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:39,160 Speaker 1: body that distributes funds and aids to the agricultural community 380 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: of the country, how they weren't giving loans to black 381 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 1: ones when we talked about that, and that he was 382 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: suing them. So it's funny, how now who got their 383 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: hands out? You didn't already told black folks, no digitous 384 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: folks know, you already told us we can't get the load. 385 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: So we had to figure it out ourselves. Now the 386 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: people that was getting your hand is like where my handouts? 387 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 1: It's it's my how the tables have techniques twelve hundred. 388 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:15,919 Speaker 1: So anyway, it's just as bonkers to me. How metaphorical? 389 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, is like you're looking at that 390 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: like this is personification, this is it's poetry, this is 391 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 1: a meta this is what you do. You're tearing it down. 392 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:31,159 Speaker 1: You didn't already aired out the damn Supreme Court. You 393 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:36,679 Speaker 1: already talking about birthright sentences. Ship my god, you this 394 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: is what you're doing to America. Like you're looking at 395 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: this picture, You're like, yeah, that's what he did. You 396 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,919 Speaker 1: feel me like, You're like, this is the You're literally 397 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: tearing down our institutions, right, And how you did it was, Paola, 398 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: you have funders come do this? 399 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 2: Who are the funders? Are them? 400 00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 1: Funders are people that are gonna be able to get 401 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: favors from you because they pay for your little funky 402 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: ass Like so I was like, okay, maybe there is 403 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: a thought here, right, like are you serious? 404 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 2: Pro He's serious? This is what we're doing. 405 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: And then if you already don't like his style, like 406 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:20,679 Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever been to any of 407 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 1: the golf courses, any of the hotels or the Trump thing. 408 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: I just look like a baroque like kind of victorian. 409 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 1: Just this just the oddest looking, just gaudy gold member. 410 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 1: He's already spraying gold shit Like just if you already 411 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: don't like the aesthetic, you like man, you feel like 412 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 1: and if you was one of them people that was 413 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 1: just thinking again, I'm just expressing one of the views. 414 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 1: If you was one of people I was thinking, like, yo, 415 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 1: if we could just get through it, like, let's just 416 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: get through this just grit, Like maybe we'll be able 417 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: to put. 418 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 2: The house back together again. 419 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 1: Maybe we'll be able to just just like what he's 420 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: the institutions have like not crumpled completely. You know, there's 421 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: mid terms, Like at some point he's gonna have to 422 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: leave the office. You know what I'm saying, Like if 423 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 1: we get our shit together, if we just we just 424 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: grid our teeth and just like you know, thug it out, 425 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: like we'll be all right. None of this shit is 426 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: permanent until you look at the fact that the building's gone, 427 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: and just as a metaphor of like this Nigga broke it, 428 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: we will never end the building we're gonna get we 429 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 1: gonna never get rid of that are what are we 430 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: gonna tear it down and build another one? Like I 431 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: don't want to get in that cycle. 432 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 2: You have just. 433 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: Metaphor just just physically manifested. The way we feel about 434 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: your presidency is that we'll never We're stuck with this. 435 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 2: And Nigga is not your house. You are a renter. 436 00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 2: What do you what the. 437 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,360 Speaker 1: You got your crony boys, We already know you done 438 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: already sold out to the oligarchs. Now them niggas got 439 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: you in they pocket even more like, don't you think 440 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: you playing them? Nigga, ain't playing you? Like I don't 441 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: understand for somebody who swear the king of the deal. 442 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: Somebody that swear he the most, he the smoothest hustler. 443 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: Somebody swear he got the silver his tongue. Nigga, ain't 444 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 1: playing you. You can't. 445 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 2: You can't tell they playing you, right? You just like power. 446 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 1: You just want somebody to tell your shit don't stink 447 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 1: and then pay for the shit you want to pay 448 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: for get you want you love Steven You even making 449 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: jokes about Steven Miller, how like we don't really want 450 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: him to say what he really think? 451 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 2: Good? 452 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: Good because you know the nigga a Nazi like you're 453 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: white supremicist head ass. 454 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 2: You know it? That man playing you. 455 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: The Project twenty twenty five people, they playing you out 456 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: your mouth. You ain't no damn Christian, you know that. 457 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: I'm just saying these people gonna won't they favors back? 458 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: Maybe you cool with it. I'm just saying, now we 459 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,719 Speaker 1: stuck with it. That might be the blue dress. Now 460 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: if you see the gold dress next, all right, now 461 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: you're looking at this thing, you might see the total opposite. 462 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: You may look at somebody that's saying, like, bro, like 463 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 1: you about to the snap and all of a sudden, 464 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: you got the money to do this, and they're like, 465 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: maybe you see the goal side. You like, oh, he 466 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: fundraised for that. That's not taxpayer's money. And if somebody 467 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: want to do a pet project, they should pay for it. 468 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: I don't see the problem he paid. He's paying for 469 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 1: it himself, and donors believe in him, and he did 470 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: what he did. He's not touching the taxpayer's money. Matter. 471 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 1: In fact, the taxpayer's money that's tied up because of 472 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: the Democrats. I'm trying to get these people paid. I 473 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 1: don't already, he don't already call You might be like, 474 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: he don't already co mingled funds to make sure some 475 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: of the military folk getting paid. Now, the air traffic 476 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: controllers are all mean. I can only co mingle so much. 477 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: Tell the Democrats to like stop. You know what I'm saying. 478 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: I told him we'll talk about all the Medicare and 479 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,239 Speaker 1: Medicaid stuff. After I said let's talk about it, I'm 480 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 1: not saying I'm not gonna do it. I'm just saying, like, 481 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 1: let's get the thing done so we get paid and 482 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 1: then we'll figure out the other stuff later. That's all 483 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. Again, I'm arguing day position, and 484 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 1: they like, Yo, he's got towers and buildings everywhere. I mean, 485 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: isn't that what we wanted? We wanted to do that 486 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: new business. That know, that's what he do. He do 487 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 1: real estate, Like, that's what he do. The man crunched 488 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: the numbers. He said he wasn't gonna tear it down. 489 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: Then he looked at the numbers and was like, you 490 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 1: know what, it's actually cheaper to tear it down. And besides, 491 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: what's wallowing a renovation? Every president does it. Only difference 492 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: is I'm paying for it myself. I don't understand why 493 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: y'all mad at me. You get over here and hug me, 494 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: not making you pay for it? Shit? And yes, like 495 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: that's how donations work. People do stuff and in return 496 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 1: they get access. 497 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 2: What the planet? What planet you live on? 498 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: That's so normal? What are you talking about? I think 499 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: it's great. No, you ever been to Versailles, my nigga? 500 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: You ever been to you know? You go to the 501 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 1: hall you Buckingham palace, cause like you ever go like 502 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: them things is beautiful, homie, Like we out here slumming it? 503 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 1: What's wrong with us like doing that? And they're also 504 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: again putting on the view. Also, if you see the 505 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: gold dress, you might look at that and say that 506 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: destruction of those buildings, of that building is beautiful. I 507 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 1: wrote a whole poetry book and a set of albums 508 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 1: called Terraform, building a livable world, and sometimes to build, 509 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 1: actually every time to build, you have to have a 510 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: controlled demolition. You gotta tear it down. They may see 511 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 1: that as a beautiful metaphor of the destruction of a 512 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 1: something of an era far gone, a moment that needs 513 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: that we need to let go of. We need to 514 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:53,239 Speaker 1: stop being so precious about these institutions that have not 515 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 1: served us all. I think this is a metaphor. I'm saying, 516 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: if you see the gold side, you're damn right, that's 517 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 1: a metaphor. Trump and his legacy will stay with us 518 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: forever because what did he do. He tore down a 519 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 1: system that wasn't working, and now he's about to build 520 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: a beautiful one, and we will have him to thank forever. 521 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 1: I'm just that's one way to look at it right, 522 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: and yeah, like why would we not want to be 523 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: in good graces with the wealthiest humans on earth? That's 524 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: just logical, Like why would I not want to be 525 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 1: good with them? They got all the money, and hey, 526 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: once again, they're kind of paying for it. So this 527 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: way he did, he tapped his own resources, he tapped 528 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: his own network, and he's doing what he do best. 529 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 1: He's not even touching the American money for that. That's 530 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 1: not even their funds. And you're gonna love it, like 531 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 1: you get to keep it. Like it's not like I 532 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 1: get to take it home with me, like you get 533 00:33:58,040 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: to keep it. It'd be different if I was building 534 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 1: building from our own house, y'all can take Like you're welcome, everybody, 535 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,239 Speaker 1: go take pictures at the arch in New York City. 536 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: Y'all don't want one to DC. I want to stand 537 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 1: the problem. You've been in a Washington monument. It's just 538 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,719 Speaker 1: it's an opulous, it's just from it's just a Egyptian 539 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:24,239 Speaker 1: stick of like what the I feel like I'm trying 540 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 1: to help y'all. That's if you see the go address. 541 00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 1: But I think the point I'm trying to make is 542 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,279 Speaker 1: ultimately this is a metaphor of where our politics are. 543 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: We kind of already see what we already believe to 544 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 1: be true when we're looking at these things. So the 545 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 1: leading question for me is do I actually care at 546 00:34:50,400 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 1: all about the East Wing being destroyed? And in terms 547 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:06,480 Speaker 1: should you care? I actually don't have an answer for you. 548 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: What I care about is what this says about us. 549 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 1: What I care about is does any of our protests 550 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 1: even matter if we're not going to do a collective 551 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,960 Speaker 1: strike or a general strike. 552 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 2: If we win, or if the the. 553 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:42,720 Speaker 1: Congress gets a little more even doubt, are we really 554 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: going to pass laws that are going to liberate our people? 555 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:56,919 Speaker 1: I what is going to break this death grip that 556 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,759 Speaker 1: capitalism has on our Like just this show, this type 557 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: of capitalism that is just listen, guys, I obviously sell 558 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 1: things that is called commerce, okay, the but this institution 559 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:16,760 Speaker 1: that is just funneling every possible scent up to the 560 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 1: top in a way that is got us squawking like 561 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,879 Speaker 1: the dog on baby swallows, just waiting for these rich 562 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,640 Speaker 1: folks to chew a worm and spit it out into 563 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:35,960 Speaker 1: our mouths, Like, yo, what is we doing? I am 564 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,880 Speaker 1: not at any point gonna go on a. 565 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:45,319 Speaker 2: Recreational tour through the East Wing. 566 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,480 Speaker 1: I'm still keeping in the back of my head that 567 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,520 Speaker 1: slaves built the White House is so like do I 568 00:36:54,719 --> 00:37:04,319 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't what do I care? I mean, 569 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:10,080 Speaker 1: I'm all out of pearl clutches with Trump himself. That's not. 570 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll tell you what I do know. 571 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,560 Speaker 1: I gotta I mean, Cali, I got a vote on 572 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,320 Speaker 1: Prop fifty. If we're gonna Jerrymander, if we're gonna Jerry 573 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:29,040 Speaker 1: tactically Jerrymander. You know when somebody you know what I'm saying, 574 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,640 Speaker 1: walk into the lunch room and just giggle over your trade, 575 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,879 Speaker 1: just trying to decide which snack is gonna take. Reach 576 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,040 Speaker 1: in slowly. 577 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:40,319 Speaker 2: Grabs your little. 578 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,800 Speaker 1: Carton a pudding that used to give us cartons a pudding, 579 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:50,759 Speaker 1: and just looks at you like you ain't gonna do 580 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:55,759 Speaker 1: shit because you're a good boy. You don't want to 581 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,279 Speaker 1: get in trouble. You have a code, so I ain't 582 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,160 Speaker 1: gonna do nothing. I'll be back for your carrots and 583 00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:09,000 Speaker 1: chocolate milk. Like I said, that little boy was just 584 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:18,040 Speaker 1: standing there smiling. But the areas that I come from, 585 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,319 Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta wipe a smile. Off of somebody's face, 586 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:28,640 Speaker 1: not because they did anything, but just so that everybody 587 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:36,120 Speaker 1: watching those don't ever look at me like that. They 588 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 1: need to know you not playing, because if they can 589 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,759 Speaker 1: fall back and keep saying, I'm just kidding, it's no 590 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,960 Speaker 1: big deal. Why are you looking at it like that, 591 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,120 Speaker 1: then they get to start sharing Hitler memes and call 592 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:58,000 Speaker 1: him basketball monkey ball, you know, watermelon eaters. You know 593 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:02,799 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And did you know there was a 594 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:11,680 Speaker 1: slur called moon crickets. That's because black people would sing 595 00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:17,560 Speaker 1: their Negro spirituals at night as we were escaping, you know, 596 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,840 Speaker 1: or when we had our church services. We were saying 597 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,480 Speaker 1: it would all be at night. It was our only 598 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,640 Speaker 1: time to be together. So that's when we started. They 599 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,759 Speaker 1: called us moon crickets. Just creative because but it might 600 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:33,799 Speaker 1: be trivial, it might not be trivial. I just maybe 601 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,439 Speaker 1: there are some things you should let slide. Maybe there's 602 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,000 Speaker 1: some things you shouldn't let slide. 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