1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: Calls media, but I g gendin two. Hey y'all, I 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: got some random raps that popped in my head. Anyway, politics, 3 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: as we you know, come into the let's circle back 4 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: after the New Year's era, kind of wanted to round 5 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 1: out the year with another one of the city Scapes 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: Healthscapes episodes. There's gonna be a two parter one because 7 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: it went long. We just gushed, and then second because 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: that uh stretches out till the end of the year. 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: Homegirl Bridget Tod and I we gush about the city 10 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: that my mama and her mama and her mama after 11 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: that is from Washington, DC, Chocolate City, Southeast South Southeast. Listen, 12 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: DC will always hold a special place in my heart, 13 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: like I said, because like you'll hear a meet gush 14 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: about it with Bridget very soon. Because it's kind of 15 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: like a hometown I never lived in. You know, my 16 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: grandma must stay so many roots, there are so many 17 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: memories there. Anyway, but it's a hell hole apparently according 18 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: to my current president. All right, this is part one. 19 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: All right, ladies and gentlemen, hood politics. We are here 20 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: holding down the let's say seventy five fifty to seventy 21 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: five percent of the diversity at Cool Zone, right maybe. 22 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take those numbers, yeaheah. 23 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's somewhere around there. Like you know, obviously 24 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: in including the trans community into the diversity hires, you know, 25 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: I would leave it at about roughly fifty to seventy five. 26 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: This is me and Bridget toide. Everybody say, what's up 27 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: to the Homi Bridget. 28 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so happy to be here. 29 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, so glad to be here. This is 30 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: the continuation of the Hellscapes series coming into the holidays, 31 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: and I think both of us have been like, I 32 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: don't know how much heavy lifting research we're trying to 33 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: do now, So I'm just trying to like, what can 34 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: we do that really don't take a lot of work? 35 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: You feel me? And which But I say that to 36 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,399 Speaker 1: also say, like, you know, in this series, we were 37 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: speaking from the heart, you know, about places that we 38 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: love that apparently our president would like to cast as healthscapes. 39 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about today the hellscape that 40 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 1: is the District Washington, d C, Prince George County and 41 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: all the surrounding areas. 42 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad that you said it. 43 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 3: That way because people sometimes talk about the district, but 44 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,559 Speaker 3: it's really the whole DMV, the district, Maryland, Northern Virginia, 45 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 3: depending on where you're at. 46 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: Absolutely Now I've said this many times on our show, 47 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: but bringing this to this to this moment, like it's 48 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: it's weird to be for me from a city you're 49 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: not from, right, So I say that because so my 50 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: mama is from the district. By the time I was around, 51 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: even look, she was like, you see that area, like 52 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: when you fly in Torontald Reagan, She's like, you see 53 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: that area right there. She was like, that was our beach, 54 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: like it was because it was the black neighbor hood 55 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: and we all got kicked out because they were building 56 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: an airport there. So she was like, there's no parts 57 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: of DC that we haven't driven around that. She was like, oh, 58 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: I used to walk that was where my brother's barbershop was. 59 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: That was you know what I'm saying. And by the 60 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: time I was around, they were in Northwest. My mother 61 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: is one of nine, my grandmother is one of twenty, 62 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: Like this is all on my mom's side. So I 63 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: spent every other summer in DC. So for me, like 64 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: there was a song on one of my records called 65 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 1: Southeast DC because we were driving down was it Carolina 66 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: East Capital something like that. One of the streets that 67 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: goes into Upper Marlboro, like across from six Flags, so 68 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: the street that goes right into there. We drove by 69 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: this community garden and it was called the East Capitol 70 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: Community Garden, and she goes, those were our projects. I 71 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: was like what she Yeah, I used to live in 72 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: the East Capital East Capital Projects. It was on this 73 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 1: corner and just the building wasn't there. I've never seen it. 74 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 1: I didn't know, you know what I'm saying, But like 75 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: this feeling of like did I just lose some of 76 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:18,280 Speaker 1: my history? Like I've never seen it, But I felt 77 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: this love and this loss in this for a city, 78 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,119 Speaker 1: like I said, for a city that I am not from, 79 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But DC and the DMV 80 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: has always meant a lot to me. So I feel 81 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: like I could gush, but I don't live there. You 82 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I could gush forever. So now 83 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: your turn. 84 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean what you just said. 85 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 3: You know, did I just lose something that I didn't 86 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 3: even really know I had. That is the experience of 87 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 3: being a DC resident. Right, I've looked here for most 88 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 3: of my adult life. 89 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 2: You know. 90 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 3: I also had, you know, taught like like generations of 91 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 3: ties to the area. 92 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 2: And I think there is something. 93 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 3: Specific that happens in a city that is known for 94 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 3: being kind of a transient city, where not just the 95 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 3: people but the land beneath your feet can change so 96 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 3: quickly and so deeply. And you know, I look back 97 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 3: at old pictures, even pictures that I took ten years ago, 98 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 3: fifteen years ago, and I think, where was this? 99 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 2: What is this now? 100 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: You know? 101 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 3: And I think it's one of the things that makes 102 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 3: DC special but also sort of heartbreaking, is that you 103 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 3: don't really know that you're experiencing things that are going 104 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 3: to become memories and memories in this like very weird 105 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 3: way of did I ever even really have that? 106 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 2: Because it's a city that changes so quickly. 107 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: Yeah that's good. Yeah, yeah, man. I remember, you know, once, 108 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: at least the generation of cousins that I was in, 109 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: I'm like at the tail end of all my cousins. 110 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: But like once we can now start driving, you know 111 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: what I mean. So you know, he finally took me 112 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: to a go Go. Now I actually understand go they 113 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,559 Speaker 1: used to bring tapes back and I was like, what 114 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: is this? Like this horribly recorded like cover songs. I 115 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: don't understand it. But anyway, we were driving and I 116 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: just remember being like, I don't understand how you learn 117 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: how to drive here these corners there's no corners, it's 118 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: like it's five lights, they're just they're straight. I was like, 119 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: how do you know how do I stay on the street? 120 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 2: I'm on like now even just driving straight as a challenge. 121 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: I was like, how are you doing this? Like that 122 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: was like this makes no sense. My auntie, my aunt 123 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: aunt Stephanie, I never forget it. I'm Stephanie from the 124 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: backseat goes, well, you know this was designed by a 125 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: black man. It was designed by Benjamin Banneker, and it 126 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: was because these were horse routes. And I was like, wait, 127 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: it just my soul kind of like sunk in me 128 00:07:55,960 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: because I was like, y'all all know this and they 129 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: were like yeah, we like we all know this. And 130 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: I'm like, are you serious that the capital is designed 131 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: by like you know, just that? And then now the 132 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: streets are starting to like straighten out and ye a little. 133 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 3: Bit, but they're still caddy wampus as fucked to drive through. 134 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 2: Fun. 135 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 3: Fact, my local community pool or the rec center or 136 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 3: the pool is that I go to every summer is 137 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 3: the Bannocker Community Center. Serious, Okay, yeah, I mean you 138 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 3: really put it well, DC. To live in d C 139 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 3: and to love d C is to also hate it 140 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 3: a little bit because driving here is such a pain. 141 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 3: I actually don't drive a ton, And it's one of 142 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 3: the perks of living in a city like DC is 143 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 3: it's very. 144 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 2: Walkable, vicable. 145 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 3: But the rare times that I if I'm particularly if 146 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 3: I'm driving I've done that East Capital drive, particularly if 147 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 3: I'm driving out of the city into nearby Maryland or Virginia, 148 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 3: just get ready for screams and swearing. 149 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, buddy, that that you know. 150 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, something that brings the city together, is it really does? Man? 151 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, Like it's not walkable until you get into the city, 152 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: you know. Like I remember, we used to live my 153 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: grandmother's sister, my you know, great aunt. She was the 154 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: one I spent most of the time with, mainly because 155 00:09:55,640 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: apparently that my mom was that aunt's favorite, so so 156 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: she took care of me and my sister mostly, you know. 157 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: But anyway, she lived off South Dakota Ave and Bladensburg Road. 158 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,479 Speaker 1: So she lived over there in the Fort Lincoln area, 159 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: and I remember we were like just my just Southeast 160 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: Bama cousin, you know, was like going to Checkers. I 161 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: was like, what Checkers? I was like, what are you saying? 162 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: I didn't understand him. He was like, do you let's 163 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 1: go get some checkers? 164 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 2: You know. 165 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 1: So I didn't know that was a burger joint, you 166 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. 167 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 2: I think that Checkers is still there, still there. 168 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: So we walked, but I was like, this is the 169 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: most dangerous, Like there's no this is such a dangerous 170 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 1: walk because you're not in the city yet. Now now 171 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: it was so scary, but it was so fun man. 172 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: And there was a community pool up on the hill 173 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: that mister Woods who used to like who apparently was 174 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: the who ran the rect Center when my mother was 175 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: a child, you know what I'm saying. So like yeah, anyway, 176 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: but like I that that trying to navigate was just 177 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: it's still a core memory of mine. Like I don't 178 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: know how we got. I don't know how y'all know 179 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: where you are? 180 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:21,199 Speaker 3: Yeah, poor prop like running across like essentially a highway. 181 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a highway. 182 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: Yes, that's so I love that you know that it's 183 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 1: a highway. 184 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. 185 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 3: So the kind of thing that your older cousins that 186 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 3: you kind of want to impress, ye kind of talk 187 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 3: you into. 188 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: Doing exactly, that's exactly what happened. That is exactly we 189 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 1: were left, you know, because it's the summertime and everybody's working, 190 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: like you know, all of our our aunts and uncles, 191 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: our parents, they're working, you know, and Granny not going nowhere, 192 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, So like you're just you 193 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: either you're in the basement and the basement is sweaty 194 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: because it's hot. You know, My uncle Allan lived in 195 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: the basement, so he was like, like, y'all can't play, 196 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: And Uncle Allan, what in the safest due to be 197 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 1: around anyway, you know what I'm saying. So it was 198 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 1: just like y'all need to go do something. So my 199 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 1: little checkers just walked across the highway anyway, So tell me, 200 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 1: I'm putting you on the spot here. But I'm like, okay, 201 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: So the three things I need is the fondest memory 202 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: that is like this only happens here. 203 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 2: Oh my god, I know. 204 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: It's a lot of those the most frustrating thing to 205 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 1: where you're like, this only happens here, and then where 206 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: we getting them crabs at? Like, where are you going 207 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: to get that bushel? 208 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 2: Wow? 209 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 3: Okay, it makes me kind of sad to say this. 210 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 3: The thing that is, I have the answer that I 211 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 3: have kind of in the chamber. As much as I 212 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 3: love DC is the frustration part. I could tell you 213 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 3: exactly what that is, which is the way that I 214 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 3: think DC is often ignored in the larger kind of 215 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 3: conversation nationally. I think that people are so used to 216 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 3: think and they're not wrong, but they're very used to 217 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 3: think about DC as you know. 218 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 2: This seat of federal power, where the. 219 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 3: President lives, where lawmakers are, where federal stuff happens. And 220 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 3: again that's totally correct, but people completely forget the fact 221 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,439 Speaker 3: that there are over half a million people who live 222 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 3: here in the district, who many of whom have no 223 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 3: connection to. 224 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 2: The federal government. 225 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 3: There's people who live here and are living their lives here, 226 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 3: and I hate that when we talk about DC, that 227 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,839 Speaker 3: conversation gets missed. I've had people say like, oh, well, 228 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 3: nobody really lives in the district, and I'm saying, oh, 229 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 3: that's not true I do, or do they say, well, 230 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 3: people weren't meant to live there, they shouldn't be living there. 231 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 3: I one time was with a friend, I think we 232 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 3: were someplace in the Midwest and we were trying to 233 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 3: get into a nightclub or a bar and we had 234 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 3: to show our ID And when we showed our district IDs, 235 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 3: the bouncer was like, what is the Like, what is 236 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 3: this idea? 237 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 2: Where's this idea from? And called the district of Columbia. 238 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 2: It was like, what is that? We were like, it's 239 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 2: not a state, yeah, but a place I like, but 240 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 2: it is. 241 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 3: You get a little tongue tied because it's not a state, 242 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 3: so you know, it's a little it is a little 243 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 3: bit complicated to describe. But I really had to sit 244 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 3: in my feelings a little bit in that frustration when 245 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 3: over the summer Trump was, you know, deploying federal agents 246 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 3: and the National Guard. I have been talking about and 247 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 3: screaming about d C and the need for statehood and 248 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 3: autonomy and respect for DC's residents for for the longest time, right, Yeah, 249 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 3: but when that happened, I really kind of felt the deep, 250 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 3: long simmering frustrations of the way that I think that 251 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 3: something about DC. It just is easy to overlook that 252 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 3: there are people here that these things impact. And so 253 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 3: you know, when that initiative started in DC and then 254 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 3: quickly expanded to other cities. I I'm happy that people 255 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 3: talked about the ways that was showing up places like Chicago, 256 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 3: as they should, but I. 257 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 2: Guess I feel and Portland. 258 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 3: But there's something about d C that I think makes 259 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 3: it easy for people who don't live nearby to just 260 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 3: overlook it. And I would come on cool Zone shows 261 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 3: and say, you know, the reason why Trump was able 262 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 3: to start this in the district and why he started here, 263 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 3: it's not a coincidence. It's because DC is not a state, 264 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 3: and that makes DC vulnerable in all these different ways. 265 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 2: And I just wish that that. 266 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 3: Were a conversation that more people understood. 267 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 2: And I get it. 268 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 3: I mean, it is like a complicated, wonky thing of 269 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 3: why DC is not a staate and what that means. 270 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 3: But it's it makes me so frustrated. And what's interesting 271 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 3: is that when I see certain DC celebrities like the 272 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 3: rapper Walley Well yeah, so often like people clown him, 273 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 3: but everything that he says, I'm like, I get it. 274 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 2: He's right, like like you know, and so I see 275 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 2: it mirrored and. 276 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 3: Our celebrities who are from d C where they seem 277 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 3: like they have a chip it on their shoulder, but 278 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 3: they do and they're right, they're not wrong. 279 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: I was absolutely I was Wilee was. I was just 280 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 1: about to bring him up as the example of like, no, 281 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: there's a culture here, yeah, and there's a senior and honestly, 282 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: as somebody who lives on the opposite coast, I like 283 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: to your point and my shame, I wouldn't have known 284 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: if my mother wasn't from it, you know what I'm saying, 285 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: Like I would have I would have I would would 286 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 1: think the same thing because even growing up, it's still 287 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: kind of didn't make sense to me of like you're okay, 288 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: so you're but my mom's from this state that's not 289 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: a state and you blink and you're in Maryland. Like 290 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: so like I didn't get that either, because we would 291 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: go from you know, I have an ant in Capital 292 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: in uh yeah, in Capital Heights. But it's I mean 293 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: it's seven minutes from my grandma's house and I'm like, wait, 294 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 1: we left DC, you know what I'm saying, Like, just yeah, 295 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: it was so fast and like I so I could. 296 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: I honestly couldn't get my brain right there, Like, Okay, 297 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: but we're gonna go down and visit your on Bernice 298 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 1: And I'm like, she's only fifteen minutes away. She's like, no, 299 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 1: but that's Virginia. And I'm like, when did we get 300 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: to on the other side of the airport's Virginia? Like 301 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: it's just I could not, and especially a state as 302 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: large as California like that. I didn't. I didn't. But 303 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:35,160 Speaker 1: all that to say, from a political standpoint, I only 304 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: understand because my mom's from there. From a cultural standpoint, 305 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: I also only understand because my mom's from there, you 306 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I for me just being just 307 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: a crate digger. I think about there was this group 308 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: that it was called question Mark Asylum. They had one album, 309 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: you know, but just me being a backpacker rapper. I 310 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: remember when that tape got to this store called Fat Beats, 311 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: and I remember they mentioned DC and I lost it 312 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,640 Speaker 1: because they he had a song. There was a song 313 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: on there that samples Chuck Berry on it, you know 314 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 1: what I mean. So I again, I only know Chuck 315 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: Berry and Backyard Boys and all that, Like I only 316 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 1: know that because my cousins would bring the tapes back here. 317 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 1: But but for me, it was like none of that 318 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: made sense, none of it until you until I saw it, 319 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: until we were older. I was sixty. I never forget. 320 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: I was sixteen years old. Another cousin by the time, 321 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: you know, I'm rapper, battle rapper whatever, right, So they 322 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: it was like, okay, you old enough to get in now, 323 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 1: Like we're gonna get you in. So we went down 324 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: to U Street, you know what I'm saying, and he 325 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: took me into a little spot and he was like, 326 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 1: there's an open mic, and I'm like, okay, there's eighteen 327 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 1: drummers like I've never seen there are eighteen dudes on 328 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 1: drums right now in those drums or buckets, and I 329 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 1: don't know how you're rapping over this. Like so it 330 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: was like an open mic, but it was like a uh, 331 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 1: but it. 332 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 2: Was like a either way. 333 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: I was like, I get it now, like you know 334 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:16,399 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like I I did, And and for 335 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: me it was like once you see it, you can't 336 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 1: unsee it. Another one of my favorite favorite rappers is Odyssey. 337 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: Odyssey is from the district, you know, like so I 338 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 1: just it was a thing that bringing it back home, 339 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: I still couldn't explain, you know, like I still couldn't 340 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 1: I I until a Marie and uh, this one thing 341 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:49,679 Speaker 1: has got me. Yeah until that. 342 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. 343 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: And crazy in love. You know what I'm saying, Beyonce 344 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: is crazy love. Where I was like, that's go go, 345 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: Like I was trying to like, no, that's that's that's it, 346 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: Like that's you know, when you could connect the dots 347 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 1: to be like there's a culture there. And I again 348 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: growing up where I grew up, my mom grew my 349 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: mom grew up. That was Wakanda. That was a black world. 350 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 1: I didn't grow up in that same thing I happened 351 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 1: in Memphis. I was like, I didn't grow up in 352 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: a black world. I grew up in a black and 353 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: Latino world, but the black you know out there. I 354 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: didn't grow up in Chocolate City, you know. And I 355 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: think that like I became an adult when I finally 356 00:20:30,560 --> 00:21:11,400 Speaker 1: appreciated like, there's a culture here, you know, that. 357 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 3: Is such a beautiful and special thing. It's funny that 358 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,199 Speaker 3: you say this. I for a time lived in Northern California, 359 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 3: and you know, I went to Northern California very briefly, 360 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 3: and at the time DC was like my home, right, yeah, 361 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 3: And when I got there, I was so deeply homesick 362 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 3: for DC. And I remember telling my co workers about 363 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 3: go go music and I was trying to describe a 364 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 3: bet and I said, oh, it's percussion heavy. Ye you've 365 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 3: heard you know Chuck Brown busted blues like and favre like? 366 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,439 Speaker 3: Is it reagae like the way that I was like, 367 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 3: I can't really explain it, but you have to hear it. 368 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: Oh, Chuck Brown, I called him, Chuck buried his old 369 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 1: tell Yeah, Chuck Brown fault. 370 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I mean, he's we have a street samed 371 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 3: after him. 372 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 2: He's like, you know. 373 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 3: But the thing I love so much about the music 374 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 3: you mentioned the covers, there is a my probably my 375 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 3: favorite go go song is the iconic group The Rare 376 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 3: Essence their cover of Ashley Simpson's Pieces of Me. If 377 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,920 Speaker 3: you've not heard that, go the Go Go, like the 378 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 3: go Go version of that, I know you're thinking Ashley Simpson, no, 379 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 3: no what, But the go Go version of that is 380 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 3: like a DC anthem. And I truly believe if Ashley 381 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,159 Speaker 3: Simpson came to d C, she would get like a 382 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 3: Hero's Welcome because. 383 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 2: It's such a big song here. But that's what I mean. 384 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 3: I mean, I think that DC has its own special sound, 385 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 3: and you know, not every city has their own form 386 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 3: of musical expression. That it's also you know, it's not 387 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 3: just a type of music, it's also an activity going 388 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,160 Speaker 3: to the go go like that is part of our city. 389 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 3: And I am grateful that it's something that you have 390 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 3: connected with because I think that outside of the mid 391 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 3: Atlantic region, it's not like people don't know it, and 392 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 3: there are a handful of songs that sort of like 393 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 3: use the sound and get popular, but it's ours. It's 394 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 3: like a special little thing that it's it's just it's 395 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. And 396 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 3: the times that I have gone to in person go 397 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 3: go like like concerts, there is an energy that I 398 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,640 Speaker 3: have never experienced anywhere else anywhere, and it's just it's 399 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 3: just very special. And even even the the political and 400 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 3: social implications of it, Like there was a time where 401 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 3: go go music in DC was was unfairly associated with 402 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 3: crime and so it was essentially illegal. You couldn't you 403 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 3: couldn't do that, right, and so you know, imagine the 404 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 3: sound of your city that was a distinctive music type 405 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 3: being literally outlawed, you can't you can't meet up and 406 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 3: experience as kind of music in your city. So it's 407 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 3: it's it's it's like hard fought and hard won, and 408 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 3: it's just so special and so beautiful. But this is 409 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 3: what I love about DC, Like it's just a unique, 410 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 3: special thing that is often overlooked. But weirdly, I almost 411 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 3: feel like it being overlooked kind of makes it more 412 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 3: special to me. Like people who are from here really 413 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 3: care about being from DC, right, Like we really rep 414 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 3: our city very hard, I think, because it is so 415 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 3: often overlooked. 416 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 1: Yes, you nailed something that you're right that is singular 417 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: about d C, which is like we all know the 418 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: southern sound, like we know it because we know it's 419 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: from the south, but it's everywhere. You know, we all 420 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: know gfunk, West Coast, we all know, we all know 421 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 1: East Coast. For some reason, I only only in DC 422 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: something that has somehow and I don't know. Usually you 423 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: say that as negative, like all this sounds regional, like 424 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: it's never left, and I'm like, usually that's a negative thing. 425 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: But I'm like for DC for so some reason, it's 426 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: y'all's powered. Like that's the secret sauce that I'm like, 427 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,440 Speaker 1: you have to you can I and I honestly think 428 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: this is honestly my in my heart of hearts of 429 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: anything else. Specifically, it's because you have to go to it, 430 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: you have to see it. It truly only works in context. 431 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 1: Like I and I can't think of as a hip 432 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,959 Speaker 1: hop artists. Somebody's been around world like and does music. 433 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: I'm like, specifically, it's so great to be if you 434 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,880 Speaker 1: get to go see like somebody you know in Houston, 435 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: you know, with tans folks poking out. Of course that 436 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: adds to the experience. You know what I'm saying. You 437 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: see somebody actually tipping on faux fos. You know what 438 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 1: I'm saying. You come out in the West Coast, you 439 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: hear that g funk, You hear that. You know what 440 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 1: I'm saying. You're you feel the air, you feel the temperature, 441 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: you can smell the weed. Like there is something very 442 00:25:53,320 --> 00:26:00,040 Speaker 1: specific about being in Cali that heightens the experience, but 443 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 1: you can still understand it from the outside. I feel 444 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: like DC, it just you. It does not translate like 445 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 1: you have to see it. You won't get it until 446 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: you experience it. You won't get it into your experience it. 447 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 1: And I am saying that from absolute a trillion percent 448 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:26,479 Speaker 1: experience because I was confused. I was like, what are 449 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,680 Speaker 1: y'all talking about? And they couldn't explain it, like you're 450 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 1: like no, you like they was trying to tell me, 451 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 1: like you don't like this, and I'm like, this is 452 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 1: recorded ter No. 453 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 3: Yes, it's it's always recorded in a way like it 454 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 3: doesn't it doesn't translate, It doesn't translate, it doesn't translate. 455 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, And and then like I'm saying that even as 456 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: a metaphor because like that Chesapeake Bay blue crab going, 457 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: you know, putting your putting five dollars together with the 458 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: homies to buy yourself a dozen or a bushel, like 459 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,680 Speaker 1: it just you can only do it there, like it 460 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 1: just it don't work. In Cali, we used to, like listen, 461 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 1: we used to have my uncle Jeff used to freeze 462 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: dry a box and mail it to us so that 463 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: we can have it at home. And it just don't work. 464 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. There's little I don't know 465 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: if they still sell half smokes. They look like, oh god, yeah. 466 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,399 Speaker 3: That's our if I had to say there was a 467 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 3: food item that is maybe the DC food item, it 468 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:23,120 Speaker 3: will be the half smoke. 469 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,239 Speaker 1: It's a half smoke. They're not here. And I used 470 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 1: to try to explain that. I'm like, and my dad's 471 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: from Texas, like a hot link, and I'm like, no, 472 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 1: it's not a hot link, Like it's not a hot dog, 473 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 1: it's not it's it's a half smoke. I'm I just 474 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: tongue tied, like I could not. But now now we 475 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: would definitely get those shipped, you know, because you could 476 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:42,640 Speaker 1: freeze those and send them. 477 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,640 Speaker 2: So so I do love a hot link. 478 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 1: I do love a hot link. But yeah, these very 479 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: specific experiences, yeah, like you have to see it. The one. 480 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: The last one I think of is like, because there's 481 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: such an age gap between you know, all of like 482 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 1: my relatives, it's very rare. And you know, some dudes 483 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: were in jail, some just you know what I'm saying. 484 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: It was very rare that we could all be together. 485 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 1: But when we were, we Jeff on Dorothy on step 486 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 1: they ordered a bunch of crabs for all of their 487 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: nieces and nephews whatever, right, So we were all sitting 488 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 1: down my Helen's house and you know you grab your 489 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 1: grab your crab, flip it over. You know. My dot's 490 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: kind of teaching me how to like, you know, break 491 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 1: it open, get get you know, get the meat out right. 492 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there and I remember two of my 493 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: oldest cousins, uh, Aaron and Kurt. They sat on two 494 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 1: sides of me. They was like, we're gonna sit by Jason, 495 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: you know. So they sat right next to me. I'm 496 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: working on my crab and they not grabbing they own. 497 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 1: So then he go, you done with that one? I 498 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: was like, yeah, he goes okay, he just takes it 499 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: and gets way more meat out that day. He's like 500 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: you going with that? And I was like, yeah, he 501 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: just takes it and I'm just watching him. I was like, man, 502 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: you couldn't have shown me that, Like I wasn't doing 503 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 1: this right. He was like, nah, you know you're gonna 504 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: learn now. Look you see all this, you see all 505 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: you left all that in there. 506 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 2: He's just eating it. 507 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: And I'm like, dog, like you couldn't you know, say 508 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: it is just that's just no other place. That's not 509 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: happening any other place. 510 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 2: Oh man, you just brought me back. 511 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 3: This is my My mom passed away pretty recently, and 512 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 3: a memory that I have of her is that, uh, 513 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 3: you know, she my poor mother. We would do crabs 514 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 3: and she would basically she was the best one of 515 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 3: getting every single piece of meat out of the crab. 516 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 3: So she, this poor woman, never just got to sit 517 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 3: and eat her own crabs. She was always expected to 518 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 3: hand me and my brother little piles of meat. Everybody 519 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 3: would be eating, having good time, and she's just working 520 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 3: being like here here, here, here, for getting none for herself. 521 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I remember. 522 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 3: I mean that was something we grew up doing, putting 523 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 3: newspaper down on the table, and this happened, Pratt. I 524 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 3: remember being real little and accidentally making the worst error 525 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 3: you can make, rubbing my eye when I had on 526 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 3: my finger. 527 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 2: I will never make that mistake again. 528 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: I'll tell you that much again. Oh Lord, all right. 529 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: I don't know where matt ended this, but hopefully at 530 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 1: like around a half hour mark. That is the end 531 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: of part one, and next week you will hear part two. 532 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: I think I have a Cyber Monday sale going on 533 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: on the website still profitpop dot com. Go buy some merch. 534 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: I know it's been saying sold out forever. It's not 535 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: sold out. Apparently nobody's just updated anyway. Good Politics. All right, now, 536 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: don't you hit stop on this pod. You better listen 537 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: to these credits. I need you to finish this thing 538 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 1: so I can get the download numbers. 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