Speaker 1: Hey, yo, pop quiz. So how many members are there
Speaker 1: of the Wu Tang Clan? And now, if you're under thirty,
Speaker 1: you like who you know? Is a just a methad band,
Speaker 1: specta deck master, Killa, ghost face killer, old dirty beast
Speaker 1: that you still probably like who?
Speaker 2: Now if you're over thirty, you like nine.
Speaker 1: No wrong, one hundred and thirty six and probably much
Speaker 1: more because Wu Tang Clan is actually a gang. But
Speaker 1: are the nine that wrapped the original nine? I mean,
Speaker 1: what's the original? You know saying like who knows?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: It's a lot of them, though, I mean you gotta
Speaker 1: think about King Justin and the Grave Diggers, like listen,
Speaker 1: cap of Donna, y'all. It's a lot of members, and
Speaker 1: they all got subcommittees. It's a whole thing. What about
Speaker 1: the ASP Mob? How many of them are there?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Some of you might be like ASoP rocky, Well, what
Speaker 1: about Yams and ferg Asop's a crew like that. They're
Speaker 1: a mob ASoP Mob, It's a lot of them. Their
Speaker 1: names all start with ASoP something right or asap whatever
Speaker 1: you want to do it. I'm so used to like
Speaker 1: ASoP rock, but like as in like Asop's fables, anyway,
Speaker 1: whole other genre of hip hop. The point is it's
Speaker 1: a lot of them. You know what I'm saying, what's
Speaker 1: a gang? I mean, are there crips and bloods? Well, no,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different types of crypts, bloods.
Speaker 2: Y're said, this.
Speaker 1: Roller sixty crypts, then this West Side roller six their
Speaker 1: neighborhood crips then and then their neighborhood sixty crioks. In Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, it's a lot of them. Gangs, clicks, sets, hoods,
Speaker 1: it's a whole lot of them.
Speaker 2: But somehow they all make sense.
Speaker 1: And the way that those delegations work is quite confusing.
Speaker 2: It's quite a network, but somehow, somehow it works. Somehow.
Speaker 1: You ask anybody from grew up around this stuff, it's
Speaker 1: not really hard stry to explain, but you get it.
Speaker 1: Like if I were to say, Young Money is a
Speaker 1: division of cash money millionaires, which was really a label,
Speaker 1: but really actually it was all of this stuff that
Speaker 1: bird Man put together and built the foundation upon Lil
Speaker 1: Wayne and let Lil Wayne spouted out and did the
Speaker 1: young money, but they all part of one group. It's
Speaker 1: all cash money millionaires, but young Money is just somehow
Speaker 1: all that makes sense, and Drake it all makes sense.
Speaker 1: If I were to say Grave Diggers is a subgroup
Speaker 1: that Rizis started as a members of Wu Tang clan
Speaker 1: somehow or another, that would make sense. What the hell
Speaker 1: that is a caucus? And why is Ayawa was so important?
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Speaker 2: What up?
Speaker 1: Everybody is about that time? Election season? You about to
Speaker 1: hear all kind of names running up to this thing.
Speaker 1: Besides just the players that are in the thing. You're
Speaker 1: gonna hear stuff like the candidates and just announced candidates
Speaker 1: are all gathering in Iowa for the caucuses to try
Speaker 1: to get enough delegates to go into the primaries to
Speaker 1: be selected as the primary elected official for the president
Speaker 1: of the United States. But the Democratic Party needs super delegates,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna hear all these turns and be like, niggas,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you taking? Who are y'all sended?
Speaker 1: What does any of this mean? And why everybyce, what's
Speaker 1: up with Iowa? Why everybody so, why everybody's so worried
Speaker 1: about Ale, Why everybody's so worried about New Hampshire? Seemed
Speaker 1: like the little off brand states no disrespect, but I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure y'all skip this section of civics. Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: according to the last report that didn't came out, nobody
Speaker 1: knows civics. And I don't blame you because this stuff
Speaker 1: be be mad convoluted, But when you in it, it
Speaker 1: just kind of makes sense, just like I understand the
Speaker 1: hieroglyphics relationship to Soul's a Mischief and why Dale is
Speaker 1: the guy. It just I don't know, it just makes
Speaker 1: sense for some reason in the Dungeon family when I
Speaker 1: talk about that as something different to outcasts, and how
Speaker 1: Narls Barkley somehow plays a role in all that basically
Speaker 1: because of Goodie Mob and see Lo Green, it all
Speaker 1: makes sense. So today I'm going to talk to y'all
Speaker 1: about I just want to teach y'all some vocabulary as
Speaker 1: we go into this next season, for you to know
Speaker 1: what the hell we talk about. What the hell is
Speaker 1: a caucus, what's a delegate? Why do we need them?
Speaker 1: Why IOWA? And why this matters? Just so you could
Speaker 1: know what's happening. And again, ain't no test coming at
Speaker 1: the end of this. This is at no actual class.
Speaker 1: I just want you to know what they talk about
Speaker 1: when they start talking. And again, as proven by the
Speaker 1: main thesis of this show, you understand more than you
Speaker 1: think you do. These are just very strange words. Are
Speaker 1: you all ready to get into it?
Speaker 2: Let go? So I'm gonna immediately mix my metaphors here.
Speaker 1: The season we're in now, like I'm gonna use the
Speaker 1: sports analogy here. This is more like walk on tryouts. Right,
Speaker 1: You're just trying to make the red shirt team, and
Speaker 1: you know red shirts are usually just they're the practice team.
Speaker 1: They're the team that scrimmages, the team that actually made
Speaker 1: the team. Like, I know, if you're not in the sports,
Speaker 1: that don't make no sense either, But essentially that's what
Speaker 1: we're looking at right now.
Speaker 2: These are walk on Like.
Speaker 1: Some of these people have been recruited, some of them
Speaker 1: just trying to get they shot. Some of y'all probably
Speaker 1: not gonna make it out of summer league. You know,
Speaker 1: some of you're gonna go down to the D League,
Speaker 1: the G League, some of y'all gonna go play some
Speaker 1: of the Bush league, minor stuff. But if you lucky,
Speaker 1: you're gonna bet the main recruit, you're gonna make it
Speaker 1: to the You're gonna make it to the squad. Now,
Speaker 1: look though, but if you already on the squad, if
Speaker 1: you already know you got a slot, ain't no point
Speaker 1: you coming in those summer league stuff. You don't see
Speaker 1: no ballers at the summer league game. Why you going
Speaker 1: to tryouts. I'm already on the team. Now you might
Speaker 1: get a Cinderella story like a Austin rei'es out this mug,
Speaker 1: but like, if you already on the team, you ain't coming.
Speaker 2: I tell y'all, quick little story.
Speaker 1: I remember I had this gig at this uh small
Speaker 1: It was probably like a D two college. That's Division
Speaker 1: two if you don't know college out in I want
Speaker 1: to say it was in Alabama. And the guy that
Speaker 1: booked me knew I like playing balls, so he was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: you want to come run with the team, Like I'm down. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well you know you can come scrimmage with us before
Speaker 1: we start practice. I was like, hell, yeah, let me
Speaker 1: get some run in now. So I went to go
Speaker 1: hoop with him, and I was super proud of myself
Speaker 1: because I was like, you know, I was getting buckets,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like I was holding my own.
Speaker 1: It was pretty dope. Then the starters came. Turns out
Speaker 1: wouldn't play with none of the starters. When I tell them,
Speaker 1: boys ran me up and down that court. The caliber
Speaker 1: of cooping just jump so at. You don't look. If
Speaker 1: you don't already made the team, you ain't got to
Speaker 1: come to none of this stuff. Trump said he ain't
Speaker 1: going to Ohio with Caucus. He also said he ain't
Speaker 1: doing the first few debates. He'd like nigga for what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see what I'm gonna see how y'all shake out.
Speaker 1: It's great to do, but Iowa caucus. But all of
Speaker 1: you are welcome to try out for this team. You're
Speaker 1: not trying out for every team. You're just trying out
Speaker 1: for this team. So you got people like Larry Elder,
Speaker 1: you got Tim Scott, you got Now I'm focusing on
Speaker 1: the Republicans because they're the ones that have to run
Speaker 1: a primary like right now. The reason why you're not
Speaker 1: hearing a lot about Democratic primaries, if you don't know
Speaker 1: this already, is because we have an incumbent president. The
Speaker 1: president right now is a Democrat. Generally, you usually don't primary,
Speaker 1: which means run to be your party's choice for president,
Speaker 1: when you already got somebody from your party as the president.
Speaker 1: It's such a dis you know, it's such a vote
Speaker 1: of like a vote of lack of confidence, like we
Speaker 1: do not believe in you, you feel me, So it
Speaker 1: just make your whole party look trash.
Speaker 2: So generally you don't do that.
Speaker 1: Now in this scenario, it's not that don't nobody hate
Speaker 1: Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: It's that nobody loves Joe Biden. That's the difference. Right, So.
Speaker 1: Your kind of hands are in a pretzel here, like,
Speaker 1: I mean, what do we do?
Speaker 2: This is our guy.
Speaker 1: It's like the Lakers stuck with D'Angelo Russell right now.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm a little I'm a little in pain
Speaker 1: right now. I really wanted him to be the dude.
Speaker 1: I mean, we can't trade him either. Good, you gotta
Speaker 1: match your salary. Anyway, I'm all over the place. The
Speaker 1: point is right now, people trying to make the squad.
Speaker 1: So these are the open tryouts. Now, what is a caucus?
Speaker 1: So you have your big umbrella political party, right, so
Speaker 1: you have Republican like it would almost be being.
Speaker 2: Like crip, you got this big thing, right.
Speaker 1: And as you know how the parties work, each of
Speaker 1: these parties have offices in different states, right, And inside
Speaker 1: of those parties are committees, clicks sets you feel me,
Speaker 1: and each of those clicks and sets kind of hold
Speaker 1: a different interest, a preference group, if you will.
Speaker 2: They have a desire that they kind of lean towards.
Speaker 1: Now for a caucuslet's see if I explain it like this,
Speaker 1: try to say it as simple as possible. When we're
Speaker 1: nominating a preferred candidate for the general election, the caucus
Speaker 1: is the meeting of registered members of the political party,
Speaker 1: and they're going to.
Speaker 2: Select a delegate.
Speaker 1: For their party's convention and hopes that these delegates will
Speaker 1: then nominate the preferred candidate for representative for their party
Speaker 1: in a general election.
Speaker 2: I know you just said, what.
Speaker 1: Ed. Let me pull back and say why we use
Speaker 1: the term caucus. The caucus actually just comes from a
Speaker 1: club in Boston called the Caucus Club. It was an
Speaker 1: informal eighteenth century political organization, right. But then it gets
Speaker 1: real confusing because caucus is also used interchangeably as like
Speaker 1: a subgroup or of members of Congress or state legislator
Speaker 1: or a legislative body belonging to a particular faction. Right,
Speaker 1: So like the freedom caucus. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: them the weirdos. Well, from my perspective them the weirdos.
Speaker 1: But I'm not talking about that kind of caucus. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about this kind of caucus, not the Caucasions. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing in terms, making it even more confusing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: caucuses they differ from a primary. But wait before I
Speaker 1: get into that, let me go back and explain to
Speaker 1: you what a delegate is, because again, caucus is a
Speaker 1: meeting of registered members of a political party who select
Speaker 1: delegates for their party's convention SOS. It's so convoluted, but
Speaker 1: trust me, once you in there, it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So the delegate is the person or persons that represent
Speaker 1: the state they come from. How you get them delegates
Speaker 1: comes from state caucuses?
Speaker 2: You following me?
Speaker 1: So when you know when you see on TV the
Speaker 1: Democratic National Convention or Republican National convisuating all them speeches
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. A lot of times them speeches,
Speaker 1: them shows whoever they put like on like almost like
Speaker 1: the direct support to the headliner. You feel me the
Speaker 1: main opener, that dude who gives that speech. Usually you
Speaker 1: could tell that that food's finna be next. That the
Speaker 1: party is trying to like groom, like get this food
Speaker 1: together because you fin to be you Finita be next.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's Wayne putting Drake on a song, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because he's like, look this boy
Speaker 1: fin to be next.
Speaker 2: People, you do it in music all the time.
Speaker 1: You feature the person who you think finna be next
Speaker 1: to try to give them that shine to shoot him
Speaker 1: into the stratosphere. Right now, the Democratic Party and the
Speaker 1: Republican parties select their delegates differently, and each delegate has
Speaker 1: a certain amount of power differently, But whoever wins the
Speaker 1: party's nomination to go into the open election, which means
Speaker 1: you running against the other party, you're not running against
Speaker 1: your own folk, who have to get a certain amount
Speaker 1: of delegate votes.
Speaker 2: You're following me.
Speaker 1: But the delegate votes depending on the side of the state,
Speaker 1: and how many delegate votes each state gets, goes to
Speaker 1: the candidate. Now, the big difference with this part is
Speaker 1: like how the delegate power is like distributed. Generally speaking,
Speaker 1: in a Democratic caucus, the delegates are proportionally based on
Speaker 1: their level of support for each candidate. What I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say is, if you ain't got fifteen percent of
Speaker 1: the room rocking with you, then essentially you're out right
Speaker 1: you receive less than fifteen percent of the vote than
Speaker 1: them supporters, because that you ain't you ain't gonna win
Speaker 1: if you only got fifteen percent of your own folk.
Speaker 1: Democrats like, ain't no way you're gonna win in an
Speaker 1: open election like it. If we don't support you, we
Speaker 1: on your team, ain't no point, Like this is a
Speaker 1: waste of our time. So they like all right, fifteen percent,
Speaker 1: y'all gotta choose somebody else. It's like the person in
Speaker 1: the room that's like, yo, let's get some pineapple anchovy,
Speaker 1: uh vegan cheese pizza. Like, you choose something else, Nigga,
Speaker 1: your little points gotta get those people that were like that,
Speaker 1: comprised that fifteen percent got to vote again and choose
Speaker 1: somebody else because the dude they want it ain't gonna win,
Speaker 1: So then it gets distributed among whoever other people, whereas
Speaker 1: of the Republican it's just winner take off, whoever got
Speaker 1: the most wins. You ain't got to like switch around
Speaker 1: or nothing like that. That's just that's just one of
Speaker 1: the big differences for delegate votes.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: With all that being sick, keep in mind Trump lost
Speaker 1: the Iowa caucus and it went on to be the president.
Speaker 1: So it ain't the end of the world if you lose,
Speaker 1: you feel me. But we don't get to what the
Speaker 1: Iowa caucus actually predicts later. But just remember that that
Speaker 1: boy lost to Iowa caucus.
Speaker 2: So the caucus.
Speaker 1: Is choosing delegates that's gonna vote for their preferred person
Speaker 1: in the general election.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But again, this just Iowa is not the whole country.
Speaker 1: It's just Iowa. And I don't say just Iowa pejoratively.
Speaker 1: I just mean like, it's only Iowa that we talking about. Now,
Speaker 1: how does one caucus? What's so interesting about this is
Speaker 1: it's like it's physical, like it's in person, Like you
Speaker 1: really go into a building and you stand in groups. Right,
Speaker 1: So it's like I mean, it's you create little clicks,
Speaker 1: you create sets. It's like, yo, who's rocking with Nikki Haley?
Speaker 1: Come stand over here? Right? So you go into it
Speaker 1: over there, and you stand over there and you really
Speaker 1: talk about why you think this person is dope. And
Speaker 1: as people are walking by, they literally going, yo, come
Speaker 1: talk to us. Let me tell you what it's like.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you why it's fool dope. Then they go, okay,
Speaker 1: that's great, like a swap beat out this mug. Then
Speaker 1: you go to the other table and you be like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, they kind of cool too, right, And then
Speaker 1: once you decide which one of these tables you want
Speaker 1: to sit on. As a side note, obviously I'm talking
Speaker 1: to people from states that don't caucus. Obviously, you from
Speaker 1: a state to caucuss' this is ridiculous. You already know
Speaker 1: all this stuff, but the rest of us are like, man,
Speaker 1: what galli don't caucus anyway? You quite literally raise your
Speaker 1: hand for the first vote.
Speaker 2: It's like, it's like it's a very.
Speaker 1: Physical sort of type of situation, like you. And then
Speaker 1: sometimes they have a quiet ballot, right, and then so
Speaker 1: they do three rounds of that quiet ballot just mean
Speaker 1: like a secret ballot, meaning you don't actually raise your hands,
Speaker 1: but they tally right, which.
Speaker 2: One of these fools we like?
Speaker 1: And that's just the Iowa cock That's how the Iowa
Speaker 1: cocus works.
Speaker 2: So that's really it.
Speaker 1: You register for your party and then like on a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: you go to a gym and you sit around at
Speaker 1: tables that represent the candidate that you kind of like, right,
Speaker 1: you have the opportunity, and then you get to speak
Speaker 1: on that person right on behalf of the presidential candidate,
Speaker 1: because remember the presidents of candidate ain't.
Speaker 2: Really they ain't in a room, you feel me.
Speaker 1: And then the voting occurs again by show of hands
Speaker 1: or through a secret ballot, and whichever candidate receives the
Speaker 1: highest amount of support gets the highest number of delegate votes.
Speaker 1: And again, like I said, the Democratic Party a little different,
Speaker 1: you know, they do, like, yo, if you below fifteen percent,
Speaker 1: then that mean you got to move around and move
Speaker 1: around them people because that man ain't gonna win or
Speaker 1: that lady ain't gonna win. Now, is different types of caucasus.
Speaker 1: As an open causus, which is like in a primary
Speaker 1: or caucus, all registered voters, regardless of party affiliation, are
Speaker 1: permitted to vote in each party's contest. Right, there's a
Speaker 1: closed caucus, right which you got to be registered within
Speaker 1: the particular party that that primary that that president is
Speaker 1: trying to primary. Then there's a semi open which you
Speaker 1: allows participants to vote in either party of the presidential race,
Speaker 1: but request a specific party ballot when you're identifying it.
Speaker 1: And then there's a semi close where the same rules
Speaker 1: are closed caucus while also permitting those who are non
Speaker 1: affiliated to a party. So if you are unregistered to
Speaker 1: any particular party, like you're registered independent, then you can
Speaker 1: you could get into these early caucuses. Now, one of
Speaker 1: you might ask, what's the difference between a caucus and
Speaker 1: a primary election. They're actually very different because a primary election,
Speaker 1: which occurs pretty much like a general election, with members
Speaker 1: of both parties voting the secret ballot at Poland places.
Speaker 2: Right, does that make sense? You ain't got to go
Speaker 2: in the no room and raise your hand.
Speaker 1: It seems it's so crazy that that's the way they
Speaker 1: do it, But look, it just it's a way to
Speaker 1: have a visual representation, right. And I think one reason
Speaker 1: why they's so important is because it's people. It's not
Speaker 1: like people that work for the candidate's office. Well it's
Speaker 1: not only them. Obviously there's a lobbyists involved, but it's
Speaker 1: not only workers for the candidate. It's the actual people
Speaker 1: talking about why they actually rock with homeboy, a rock
Speaker 1: with home girl.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And you look in people in the eyes and you
Speaker 1: actually sitting in a physical place is something that in
Speaker 1: some ways I think it's kind of dolt that we
Speaker 1: haven't let that go in our modern era. Now, the
Speaker 1: next question is why Iowa, because there's other states that
Speaker 1: do caucusing such a fun word, but why Iowa. Well
Speaker 1: here's why, Because Iowa, just because of election cycle schedule,
Speaker 1: they just happen to be first. It's really no magic
Speaker 1: to it. It's the beginning of the cycle and it
Speaker 1: creates momentum for people. So if you can get a
Speaker 1: buzz here out in the beginning, it betters your chances.
Speaker 2: Now, does Iowa predict presidents?
Speaker 1: Like I said, Trump lost to Iowa cockic meaning can
Speaker 1: if you win Iowa, that's probably means you gonna win
Speaker 1: the primary and probably become president because generally foods who
Speaker 1: don't do well in the Iowa coccus pretty much drop
Speaker 1: out of the race. It's like, okay, what's the track record, right, Well,
Speaker 1: the track record since nineteen seventy six was, you know,
Speaker 1: when Jimmy Carter became president. He was the first Democrat
Speaker 1: to win both the Iowa coccus and the White House
Speaker 1: right and kind of be set the presidents or like
Speaker 1: what they would say, like the Bell weather for how
Speaker 1: you try to predict like your chances in the future.
Speaker 2: However, do it work though?
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, since then, it's really only chosen fifty
Speaker 1: five percent of the Democratic winners and forty three percent
Speaker 1: of the Republican winners. One of the few exceptions is
Speaker 1: a result in two thousand and eight when President Obama, right,
Speaker 1: the underdog at the time, won the Iowa caucus and
Speaker 1: then the Democratic nomination and then the presidency. But generally
Speaker 1: it don't it's kind of random, like, I mean fifty
Speaker 1: five and forty nine mean you got a fifty to
Speaker 1: fifty chance, do you feel me? But for some reason,
Speaker 1: we still believe that it's that important, all because of
Speaker 1: what Jimmy Carter did. Now, see, the thing about predicting
Speaker 1: elections is the fact that it's so unpredictable. You know,
Speaker 1: culture changes so fast and so drastically. No wonder people
Speaker 1: are looking for something to try to make it make
Speaker 1: sense because if not that of a job, like how
Speaker 1: do you set a you know more marketing campaign unless
Speaker 1: you're looking at all data. It's just the problem is
Speaker 1: culture shift so much. Obviously, this ain't the same world
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter lived in. Who knows what's gonna happen out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. Russia might decide to invade Ukraine. That's gonna
Speaker 1: change everything, you know what I'm saying. Or you might
Speaker 1: you might get a reality show star facing fourteen criminal
Speaker 1: charges that just happened to be the far and away favorite.
Speaker 1: You never know what's gonna happen. But these politicians, just
Speaker 1: like all of us, are just trying to make sense
Speaker 1: out of chaos. We're just trying to wrap our mind
Speaker 1: around whatever's happening, hoping to find meaning in things we
Speaker 1: don't understand. Sorry, y'all, I got real theological right now.
Speaker 1: But you know God is good, and all my black
Speaker 1: people just filled in that space.
Speaker 2: God is good. Find your nearest black friend and ask him.
Speaker 1: The next question would be but still, though, you haven't
Speaker 1: really made it clear as to why Iowa, because before
Speaker 1: that Yoda Convention was in Chicago. The problem was that
Speaker 1: was in nineteen sixty eight, after Lendon B. Johnson decided
Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna run and guess what, there was a
Speaker 1: dog on riot.
Speaker 2: Homie.
Speaker 1: You have to remember this was the summer of riots, right.
Speaker 1: This was after doctor King was assassinated. This was actor
Speaker 1: President Kennedy was assassinated. Robert Kennedy was assassinated. The country
Speaker 1: was on fire. And listen, if you could take a
Speaker 1: second to look at the nineteen sixty eight Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you I'm gonna take a break
Speaker 1: here and let y'all google this. Matt, go ahead and
Speaker 1: play some music right here, big dog. I mean, there
Speaker 1: was talks of like that one people uh huh, sending
Speaker 1: like acid tripped out hippies and hookers into the party.
Speaker 2: To try to like.
Speaker 1: To try to sabotage these politicians. It was a riot
Speaker 1: out that mug. Just just listen, go look this up.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was this, This bug was legendary. The
Speaker 1: reason why I got moved to Iowa just because they
Speaker 1: didn't want to smoke. And the reason why Iowa First
Speaker 1: is so important is just because it's first. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no magic, right, and it's supposed to be able
Speaker 1: to create momentum, you know, And why it creates momentum
Speaker 1: is because you almost get a feel of like what
Speaker 1: the streets is saying about you, right, because it's actual
Speaker 1: people making the claims based on whatever info you put out.
Speaker 1: But it's folks trying to convince they neighbors, they friends,
Speaker 1: they other community, the other community members.
Speaker 2: Why they rock with this person.
Speaker 1: So that's a So when you're caucusing, that means you
Speaker 1: sitting at that table.
Speaker 2: I'm part of this. I'm at the Iowa Caucus, in
Speaker 2: this caucus for this fool. Right. And then if this.
Speaker 1: Fool if my food, if I'm a Democrat and my
Speaker 1: full only get fifteen percent, then guess what, he ain't
Speaker 1: make the team.
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna so I gotta figure out.
Speaker 1: Okay, who else am I gonna I'm gonna bet, like
Speaker 1: so you off the squad, you have to set you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But then but if I'm a Republican,
Speaker 1: it's like, well, look, my man got fifteen points, you
Speaker 1: got twenty points, this fool got thirty points, and whatever
Speaker 1: how many delegate points total that my state has. Whoever
Speaker 1: wins this mug gets to go into the primary and
Speaker 1: not yeah, it gets to go into the to the
Speaker 1: convention to be chosen by the whole party, and then
Speaker 1: that is the primary election.
Speaker 2: You make sense.
Speaker 1: And then once once the party chooses, then you get
Speaker 1: that big speech, I am honored to accept my party's
Speaker 1: selection to for be the president of the United States.
Speaker 2: That's the whole thing.
Speaker 1: So listen, inside the party, you got states, states, got districts,
Speaker 1: and inside of these districts you got caucauses, you got sets,
Speaker 1: you got hoods, you got gangs, massives, clicks, crews, Caucasus.
Speaker 2: They're just words. The point is.
Speaker 1: Supposed to be using hood, gang, set, click, using them
Speaker 1: all interchangeably.
Speaker 2: But we kind of know what we mean. Iowa really
Speaker 2: ain't that special.
Speaker 1: It's just first Iowa doesn't always predict. Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: you got a fifty to fifty chance. But it's a
Speaker 1: good way for us to know who's gonna stick around
Speaker 1: and who ain't gonna stick around. So there you have it.
Speaker 1: That's a caucus. Go caucass everyone. You know, I don't
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I can't believe I ain't think of this
Speaker 2: still right now, yo, yo.
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