Speaker 1: Well, let's let's put it back, and let's put it
Speaker 1: back in hood terms. Right. So, when the nineties, drive
Speaker 1: bys were everywhere, people was doing drive bys just to
Speaker 1: do them. And then I'm not gonna say what organization
Speaker 1: it was, but there's an organization that runs the prisons
Speaker 1: in California, and that organization sent the word down and said,
Speaker 1: no more drive bys. You show up in here on
Speaker 1: a drive by charge, you're getting it drive by stop
Speaker 1: because they realized that that you're killing innocent people. It's
Speaker 1: not cheap. It's not cheap. It's not cheap, it's not
Speaker 1: boss staying there like that came from Rick Ross. He's
Speaker 1: a an American rapper that I'm about to kill your
Speaker 1: magic about Welcome to the Politics, Episode three. It's already
Speaker 1: I'm already flipping up the format for a number of reasons.
Speaker 1: One because the news is psycho. And then two, I
Speaker 1: had this whole thing planned out about tariffs securing the
Speaker 1: bag that I was gonna do, which I did with
Speaker 1: the Patreon At some point, I was gonna do that
Speaker 1: one with this one, and it turns out my guests
Speaker 1: couldn't come. Number one, and then number two, I was
Speaker 1: in New Zealand, which if y'all follow me on social
Speaker 1: media that's where I was, you'll know this is like
Speaker 1: my second thing I'm doing. I'm saying like I still
Speaker 1: gotta put food on the table. And thirdly, Bamboos the
Speaker 1: interview was so good. There were so many extras that
Speaker 1: I wanted to put out, but it wasn't long enough
Speaker 1: for a whole episode, so I had to kind of
Speaker 1: build this around a the news that's happening right now,
Speaker 1: and then be some of the extras that Bamboo had
Speaker 1: dropped this first half. Essentially, it's just gonna be like
Speaker 1: a dump to explain what's happening with this dog on impeachment.
Speaker 1: It's like I have to remove the metaphor for y'all
Speaker 1: to understand what I mean. Times somebody's like, d m
Speaker 1: me and be like, can you explain what's happening? And
Speaker 1: what's happening is the moves of a bousse and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna click back to Bamboo from last week. I
Speaker 1: asked him a very specific question as a veteran about
Speaker 1: how he felt about drawing strikes. It's very interesting to
Speaker 1: hear from someone who was in the streets and in
Speaker 1: a war um kind of just what he thought about this.
Speaker 1: Get a little information about Ricky Rose as to why
Speaker 1: this makes sense. Now. Ricky Rick Ross is an incredible,
Speaker 1: very accomplished rapper. There's no getting around his mogul nous
Speaker 1: in hip hop, but there is getting around his persona.
Speaker 1: It's made up. He was a correctional officer, he worked
Speaker 1: in a prison, he's he's a cop, and his whole
Speaker 1: drug kingpin persona is this guy named Freeway Rick Ross,
Speaker 1: who was an actual So all the stories he talking
Speaker 1: about him being from the streets, is really that dude,
Speaker 1: And for some reason that had no bearing on the
Speaker 1: success of his career personally, because the guy's voice is incredible,
Speaker 1: and I'd be lying if I didn't say that, like,
Speaker 1: Ricky Ross can wrap his tail off and songs kind
Speaker 1: of go and too, because you know, they just don't
Speaker 1: make them like you and me, no more like I
Speaker 1: like my drug dealer rappers to have actually have been
Speaker 1: drug dealers. And if that wasn't your life, I prefer
Speaker 1: you not rapped like it was. However, when you're a puss,
Speaker 1: you get to do these things, whether you got the
Speaker 1: blood in the streets or not. A matter of fact,
Speaker 1: we did a whole episode on something we called Performative
Speaker 1: Hood and his two seasons ago on Our Parents Pod
Speaker 1: Uh The Red Couch. Anyway, y'all go check that out.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. Performative Witness. Anyway, let's go in Hood
Speaker 1: politics Tuesday of the first week of February and the
Speaker 1: defense and prosecution in the impeachment trial of the president.
Speaker 1: They're doing their closing arguments. Now. The super Bowl just happened,
Speaker 1: and if you've ever like been out of town, you
Speaker 1: had to record the game. Um, so you kind of
Speaker 1: already know how it's gonna end, but like you still
Speaker 1: want to watch it. That's kind of like if you've
Speaker 1: been following the impeachment, that's pretty much it. Like we
Speaker 1: kind of already know how it's gonna end now unless
Speaker 1: a weird twist of fate happens that I don't know,
Speaker 1: lightning strikes pretty sure my man is gonna get acquitted because,
Speaker 1: like I called before multiple times, bosses don't go to jail,
Speaker 1: but bosses also leave a trail of just scorched earth
Speaker 1: and scorned homies who are all sitting in prison or
Speaker 1: lost everything they knew and love because they wouldn't roll
Speaker 1: on the boss, right, and then the dudes that don't
Speaker 1: talk keep their mouth shut get rewarded. That's pretty much
Speaker 1: trying to peach right now. So here, let me see
Speaker 1: if I can try to like put this together real
Speaker 1: quick so you'll can understand. We can move on here,
Speaker 1: bamboo talk check this out. It would be like this.
Speaker 1: Somebody said, yo, you did the thing, and then the
Speaker 1: dude goes, not, fam no, I didn't and no one
Speaker 1: saw me. You're like, wait, you didn't do it or
Speaker 1: no one saw you? Yes, but what about those three dudes?
Speaker 1: They saw it? And then she was like, well, I
Speaker 1: did nothing, but yeah they saw, but they can't talk
Speaker 1: to y'all. But because they're not allowed to talk to
Speaker 1: y'all anyway, even though I didn't do nothing, but if
Speaker 1: I did, they couldn't talk to you because it's not allowed.
Speaker 1: Well that's weird, um okay, but if you're telling us
Speaker 1: they could clear you, why don't you want them to talk?
Speaker 1: And the fourth dude raised his hand and says, wait, no,
Speaker 1: he did it. I saw it. I'm actually writing a
Speaker 1: book about it in about a week, about a month,
Speaker 1: do you guys, you guys want me to talk? Can?
Speaker 1: I mean if you tell me to come, I'll come.
Speaker 1: So it's almost like Tommy commmmmm com if you tell
Speaker 1: me to come, or I don't know, I was there. No,
Speaker 1: he can't come, right, So that that guy is not
Speaker 1: allowed to talk. So so you got three actual witnesses
Speaker 1: that the accused is saying, can clear your name, but
Speaker 1: just off general principle, off the principalities that boy ain't.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna let them talk because it's the principalities
Speaker 1: of the situation that's the defense. Defense is basically saying, listen, dude.
Speaker 1: It went from he ain't do it too. Even if
Speaker 1: he did, it's really not a thing. Right the president
Speaker 1: thinks a re election is in the government's best interest,
Speaker 1: then maybe a person's motives can be mixed. Was he
Speaker 1: maybe it was a little bit of A and B
Speaker 1: right that he was trying to get his personal gain
Speaker 1: with this whole Joe Biden you know, investigation, and let's
Speaker 1: be real, Joe Biden is a little crooked. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's something we should be looking into. Anyway. Come y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all want witnesses, Why you ain't calling in Joe. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to tell you there's something going on here? Right?
Speaker 1: It isn't everybody's decisions kind of in their own personal interests.
Speaker 1: I mean all my people in relationships, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, if you you get something for your
Speaker 1: significant other, of course you love that significant other. How
Speaker 1: also there is something in that me right, And I
Speaker 1: told you all before two seasons ago. Again, if you
Speaker 1: could make the case be about motives, that's something you
Speaker 1: can't really prove. And why are we still not talking
Speaker 1: about Joe and a hunter? Right? That's the defense the
Speaker 1: prosecution is going is this is this bizarre world? Are you?
Speaker 1: Is you serious? Demand right there? Just you just told
Speaker 1: us three people saw it. Why ain't you letting them talk?
Speaker 1: This don't make no sense to me. John Bolton, who's
Speaker 1: a war monger himself, don't let this guy think he's
Speaker 1: a hero. John Bolton going, he triggered happy, Yo, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to tell you the man did John Bolton like
Speaker 1: the little boy that's got the big dude behind him,
Speaker 1: you know, just standing behind the big dude going like,
Speaker 1: hold me back, hold me back, bro, hold me back.
Speaker 1: You're glad they're holding me back. Man, I'm gone. So
Speaker 1: it's like you low key kind of scared to talk,
Speaker 1: but I know you can't look like you're scared to talk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and he's both playing a game here. He like,
Speaker 1: Trump told me directly that's what he was doing. I'm
Speaker 1: holding up this money. I'm holding up this money until
Speaker 1: they do this Joe Biden thing, all right. William Barr
Speaker 1: was nervous too. William Barr was like, Yo, this boy
Speaker 1: Trump selling selling favorites to Turkey and China. Man, I'm good, right,
Speaker 1: But it sounded me like, wellyam Bard, either he got
Speaker 1: some skin in the game or he just knows the
Speaker 1: code where it's like, I'm just not gonna talk about
Speaker 1: you in public like this, but you're in private, man,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? And the prosecution is going I
Speaker 1: don't understand how this is a defense. Your defense is
Speaker 1: whoever says I'm wrong is lying, that's your defense. And
Speaker 1: they like, you're trying to tell me, Hunter gotta conflict
Speaker 1: of interests. Huntur ain't work for the government. What about
Speaker 1: your children who do work for the government and it's
Speaker 1: making money off this. Don't understand how this is your defense.
Speaker 1: But since you get to set the rules for the game,
Speaker 1: you ever been on the playground, somebody trying to play kickball,
Speaker 1: and one dude get to pick all the rules for
Speaker 1: how to play kickball. I mean, we already know how
Speaker 1: this is, indeed, right, So I mean basically that was
Speaker 1: the last six months. I didn't do it. But if
Speaker 1: I did, those foods saw me and but they're not
Speaker 1: allowed to talk. But if they did talk and I
Speaker 1: did do what you're saying I did, which I'm not
Speaker 1: denying I did, is that really a high crime and misdemeanor?
Speaker 1: I mean, is that was I serving with my best
Speaker 1: interests or my own personal interests? Isn't aren't we all
Speaker 1: functioning in our own interests? Boss? They don't go to jail?
Speaker 1: Well that's that. Also quite of a boss move is
Speaker 1: for Trump to be continuing his normal days as usual. Uh.
Speaker 1: Meets with Benjamin nettan Yahoo who also on trial for corruption.
Speaker 1: Right about about a piece plan where half of the
Speaker 1: people ain't invited to the convo? Yo, how many y'all
Speaker 1: going through marital counseling would be okay with just the
Speaker 1: husband and the counselor deciding on the plans for the marriage?
Speaker 1: Pause do what I won't? Just continuing to move through
Speaker 1: time and space as if nothing's happening because bosses don't
Speaker 1: go to jail. Well, there it is. That's your impeachment.
Speaker 1: And be honest with you on our house to cut it,
Speaker 1: except for the the boss moves you mixed. You got
Speaker 1: the judge and the jury in your pocket because they're
Speaker 1: afraid for their own future if they don't give you
Speaker 1: the result that you say you need. Boss, whether he
Speaker 1: got any blood in the streets or not, it don't matter.
Speaker 1: He's a boss. That's the president. Now that you're caught
Speaker 1: up on the home front, what about abroad? I know
Speaker 1: the news stopped talking about the drone strike in Iran
Speaker 1: that killed sulimani Um and someone would try to convince
Speaker 1: you that that means it's died down, tempers have gone down,
Speaker 1: everything's okay. I just don't believe that. All of my
Speaker 1: hood antenna's tell me that that's not possible. Plus, I mean,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we're still talking about
Speaker 1: war or anything all the way going back to nine eleven.
Speaker 1: Have y'all heard of the document that even made drone
Speaker 1: strikes and all of our war on terre like legal.
Speaker 1: It's it was the authorization of military force and most
Speaker 1: of y'all know, like war has to be declared by
Speaker 1: the Congress, right, I mean most of y'all should know that.
Speaker 1: Like basically, it's like we were talking about last episode
Speaker 1: with BAM, which is like, hey, before you just go
Speaker 1: shooting up stuff, man, you gotta like talk to the
Speaker 1: O g S first. That's how Congress works. But they
Speaker 1: were like he said before, Hey, if we heard somebody
Speaker 1: who's going to ride, do you mind if I just
Speaker 1: pop whoever comes around the corner. Essentially, that's what the
Speaker 1: document says. It's sixty words inside this whole thing. There's
Speaker 1: this delpe like radio episode about this whole thing and
Speaker 1: how this got in there. But I'm gonna read it
Speaker 1: to you. It says, in general that the President is
Speaker 1: authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against nations, organizations,
Speaker 1: or persons he determines planned, authorized, or committed or aided
Speaker 1: in the terrorists acts that occurred in September eleven two one,
Speaker 1: or Herbert such organizations or persons, in order to prevent
Speaker 1: further acts of international terrorism against the United States by
Speaker 1: such nations, organized nations, or persons. Basically, if you in
Speaker 1: any way affiliated in some way, shape or form with
Speaker 1: that hood that shot us up in two thousand one.
Speaker 1: I'm coming to get you. I don't care where you live.
Speaker 1: I don't care who you live. I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's your cousin's uncle's roommate, you feel me. I don't
Speaker 1: care if it's your baby's mama's neighbor. If you affiliated,
Speaker 1: we're coming for you. And if I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a problem, you know that I'm saying, we're shooting
Speaker 1: at you. That's how you can legalize the drone strikes.
Speaker 1: But I asked Bam what he thought about a drone
Speaker 1: strike in the first place, And Uh, check this out.
Speaker 1: Is it really a boss move or not? When I
Speaker 1: think of like drone strikes, you know, speaking of which
Speaker 1: you know, speaking of which like following somebody out into
Speaker 1: the into like a war zone. In my mind, my
Speaker 1: Pops used to talk about like, you know, you're you're
Speaker 1: shooting into smoke, right because he used to Vietnam. So
Speaker 1: it's just it's just fog, you know, and you're just shooting,
Speaker 1: and you don't know what you're shooting at. You're shooting
Speaker 1: in the fog, you know what I'm saying. And you
Speaker 1: and this bullets flying back at you. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So there was like a reality you know. Um,
Speaker 1: and even just to add some color to that story,
Speaker 1: like he was a part of like the time when
Speaker 1: like you know, the leaflets were falling from the sky.
Speaker 1: That was like black man. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: This yellow man has never done nothing to you. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. As a matter of fact, Like
Speaker 1: when he came home from war, we just talked about
Speaker 1: it yesterday. He came home from war, landed and landed
Speaker 1: in l A, went straight to forty one in Central
Speaker 1: It became a black panther like that day, join the
Speaker 1: black Panther party, Like I'm done with this, you know.
Speaker 1: But he would talk about that. He would talk about
Speaker 1: the smell. But he always talked about like the awareness
Speaker 1: that it's it's people over there, Like you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying that, Like I know, I'm shooting out a
Speaker 1: person and that person can't shoot back. So for him,
Speaker 1: he was like in a lot of ways, it felt
Speaker 1: like I had to respect the reality of this moment,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Um. Yeah, So but when
Speaker 1: I think about drone strikes, I'm like, man, you ain't
Speaker 1: bad eyes. You know what I'm saying, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: like I feel the same way. It's not you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they in World War two they used to use
Speaker 1: flamethrowers under the Geneva Convention. They was like we gotta
Speaker 1: we gotta band. I think it's World War One and
Speaker 1: it was like we gotta bands in humane And I
Speaker 1: feel like drones and slippers need to be the next
Speaker 1: one on there, because it really is. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just real. It's like, yeah, it's it's horrible really, you
Speaker 1: know when you think about it, Yeah, it's a laser
Speaker 1: from sky, you know, saying like you know, I just
Speaker 1: feel like yeah, like no, obviously I'm not a war Vett,
Speaker 1: so I can't speak to it directly, but I could also,
Speaker 1: but I am in a sense of like knowing the
Speaker 1: weight of if we're about to bust this caper, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like the the reality of like
Speaker 1: this might be my last day and the reality of
Speaker 1: it might be that kid's last day. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like that's a sobering and you just think twice,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, You just you think twice
Speaker 1: before you make moves. Like knowing that that's another human being,
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying it back in hood terms, right, So,
Speaker 1: in the nineties, drive bys were everywhere. People was doing
Speaker 1: drive bys just to do them. And then I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say what organization it was, but there's an organization
Speaker 1: that runs the prisons in California and that organization set
Speaker 1: the word down and said, no more drive bys. You
Speaker 1: show up in here on a drive by charge, you're
Speaker 1: getting it drive by stuff because they realized that that
Speaker 1: you're killing innocent people. It's not it's not cheat, Like
Speaker 1: that's that's so opposite, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: that's not throwing hands, you know what I mean, that's
Speaker 1: not doing this and hiding around the corner and popping
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I can't see what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, hiding around the corner
Speaker 1: and popping that's not that wasn't There was still some
Speaker 1: sense of pride in what we did, even when we
Speaker 1: did dirt and oh that's you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like it's nothing. Yeah. And Obama, Obama is a drum
Speaker 1: strike guy, you know, really really really you know, during
Speaker 1: his era, you know, and and you know from his vantage,
Speaker 1: but we won't lose casualties that. But again, like you said,
Speaker 1: there's just this huge disconnecting when you talk about humanity
Speaker 1: and if you believe in spirit, like and if you believen,
Speaker 1: if you believe in human energy. You know you already
Speaker 1: know I'm not you know, I'm I don't believe in God,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just, but I do believe that people
Speaker 1: have energy. Yeah, there's a there's an immaterial world that
Speaker 1: we need to really recognize. Don't name for it, I
Speaker 1: don't you know. Yeah, people ask me about God and
Speaker 1: I say, everything to me is like I want to
Speaker 1: talk about like it doesn't have a form. I can't.
Speaker 1: I couldn't draw you guy, like it would be in
Speaker 1: my opinion, again, it would be arrogant of me. As
Speaker 1: as a small which I would say is much more
Speaker 1: is actually a much better, A much better theology is
Speaker 1: to have an understanding that Like it's so, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to spend my time, in my opinion, like trying
Speaker 1: to figure that out. I'm just gonna do what is
Speaker 1: natural to me. If I hug you, probably you're gonna
Speaker 1: feel good. You know. If I punch you, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna like it. And that's that's why I teach my son,
Speaker 1: like if it makes you feel good and you just
Speaker 1: show love and you love. If there is a guy
Speaker 1: and there is a heaven, how is he going to
Speaker 1: not you? You know what I mean? Like if you
Speaker 1: say you didn't go to church one day in your life,
Speaker 1: but you were good to everybody, and you show up
Speaker 1: to you know, people say that the gates of heaven
Speaker 1: and that and whoever is there is is now you
Speaker 1: can't come in because you didn't do it. Did You
Speaker 1: didn't worship this? Dude? You don't say this sentence. You know,
Speaker 1: deal with that when it comes. But I can't see
Speaker 1: a person or a person. I'm sorry, I can't see
Speaker 1: an entity. Like what we believe is God turning you
Speaker 1: away from taking care of people. And that's where I'm
Speaker 1: at now. For honoring the for honoring the center of
Speaker 1: you know, micro scale when it comes to gang banging
Speaker 1: like these you know, uh people who came before when
Speaker 1: especially with immigrant gangs. You know what I mean, you
Speaker 1: owe this debt of gratitude to them, but you don't
Speaker 1: worship them. You just do what you feel will continue
Speaker 1: their lineage, which is you know, like you just continued,
Speaker 1: do that, that's how you honor them. And that's kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, my philosophy. I don't know how I got here,
Speaker 1: but you know that's my philosophy. No, it's great. You're
Speaker 1: talking about just honoring the human spirit. An strike man,
Speaker 1: you erase that, you know what I mean, and something
Speaker 1: will happen. Something is that you know, like that that
Speaker 1: energy has to go somewhere. Yeah, and I feel like it.
Speaker 1: It kills you feel like like you're robbing because that
Speaker 1: energy has nowhere to go. It's just gonna root, it's
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna take it from you. Yeah. Yeah, Drona
Speaker 1: strikes are horrible. I felt the same when when that
Speaker 1: movie American Sniper came out. I was one I was
Speaker 1: very vocal about, like it's not a heroic thing, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I couldn't watch it. Man. I was like, I just
Speaker 1: don't want to see this. I don't want to It's
Speaker 1: just something I did. You tell me this is entertainment,
Speaker 1: Like I'm supposed to entertain myself. I mean, like I've
Speaker 1: been watching you know, I keep up on movies. I'm
Speaker 1: a big movie guy. It's a lot of more movies
Speaker 1: coming out in the summer, not that not that it
Speaker 1: wasn't that way, you know. But now here we go again,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, there we go, you know, and
Speaker 1: and we're gonna see it a lot in the election.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see see you gonna see uh a president
Speaker 1: who's gonna tell you. Look, man, I got you all
Speaker 1: through this war. We war right now you don't want Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Like I'm the one
Speaker 1: who started this ship, you know what I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna finish it. And I'm the one that's gonna finish it. Boss.
Speaker 1: Well that's our show, guys. I know, somewhat of a
Speaker 1: grab bag, but I just thought it was too important
Speaker 1: to not let y'all hear him talk about drawing strikes.
Speaker 1: And y'all just kept asking me a million questions about
Speaker 1: the impeachment. But it just wasn't enough to make a
Speaker 1: full show. So we try to make a full show
Speaker 1: with both of them. Sorry anyway. Shows produced mixed mastered
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