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Speaker 1: Yo, West West. Everybody my name is propaganda or prop

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Speaker 1: for short. I mean, I'll answer to any of it.

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Speaker 1: I'ma give y'all some game real quick. I want to

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Speaker 1: put you on to my podcast called Hood Politics, and

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Speaker 1: black people always want to do something real quick. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you where I'm coming from. I firmly

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Speaker 1: believe that if you understand hood life, gang life, you

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Speaker 1: understand geopolitics, because politics is gangbanging in night suits. Let

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Speaker 1: me tell you what I mean. Dig this. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: cover all kinds of hot topics that are in our

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Speaker 1: news and in our daily zeitgeist, and even concepts that

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Speaker 1: maybe take a little more to understand, kind of like

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Speaker 1: how the January sixth insurrection could be understood as like

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Speaker 1: the hood boss given a green light that was clearly

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Speaker 1: a green light. Kind of like how Vladimir Putin's foreign

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Speaker 1: policy is basically Tupac stance, which is, I ain't a killer,

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Speaker 1: but don't push me. You know what I'm saying. How

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Speaker 1: the GOP had to make a calculus when Trump was

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Speaker 1: leaving office to be like, am I gonna ride with

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Speaker 1: the boss or ride with this? Because bosses come and go,

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Speaker 1: but the Hood lasts forever. It's all politics, it's just

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Speaker 1: hood life, it's gangbanging. You understand it, and if you don't,

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Speaker 1: I'll show you how our politicians tend to talk to

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Speaker 1: us like this, like alien language, and it make you

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Speaker 1: feel like you supposed to just trust what they're saying.

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Speaker 1: But I think inside all of us we're kind of

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Speaker 1: saying to ourselves, I don't know, man, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I trust y'all because what I'm experiencing is quite

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Speaker 1: different then what you saying. I'm experiencing, what you're doing

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Speaker 1: is so much different than what you saying you doing

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Speaker 1: somehow or another deep down inside of us were like, no, what,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I understand this, But this kind

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Speaker 1: of looks familiar to me. I want to lean into

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Speaker 1: that feeling of familiarity. Okay, little background on me. I'm

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Speaker 1: from south central Los Angeles. I moved all over the

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Speaker 1: LA surrounding areas, and before I did music full time,

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Speaker 1: I used to teach high school and when I was

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Speaker 1: in the process of getting my teaching credential in history

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Speaker 1: and social science, I kept stumbling over the last part

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Speaker 1: of the test, which is the economic part, and it

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Speaker 1: wasn't that I didn't know what I was talking about

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Speaker 1: because economics, in my mind are real simple because I'm

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Speaker 1: from the hood, scared money, don't make money, right, don't

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Speaker 1: spend money you don't have right, But I didn't understand

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Speaker 1: their terms. I am of the belief that most of

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Speaker 1: us are like that, where we know what we're talking about,

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Speaker 1: we just don't know the way you want us to

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Speaker 1: talk about what we're talking about. But again, if you

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Speaker 1: understand hood life, you actually understand all this stuff. Can

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Speaker 1: I give you some more examples? Well, I'm going to anyway.

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Speaker 1: How about this. If a person wants to expand their

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Speaker 1: business to a neighborhood next to them, you gotta pay

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Speaker 1: for that. You have to pay that block to be

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Speaker 1: able to sell there. But if you feel like you're

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Speaker 1: being charged way too much, and that neighborhood wants to

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Speaker 1: sell a product on your block, you're gonna charge them

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Speaker 1: a high price. You're gonna sell on my block, It's

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Speaker 1: gonna cost you. So what does that mean for the consumer? Well,

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Speaker 1: it means that it costs the seller way more than

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Speaker 1: it normally would. So what they gonna do? You think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna keep the price to say? No, they raised

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Speaker 1: the price all of a sudden what you used to

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Speaker 1: be able to buy, but ten dollars now cost twenty dollars.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, who's being punished here? Turns out that's

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Speaker 1: called a tariff. And what I just explained was a

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Speaker 1: trade war. You're looking around like, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: the cost of illuminum foiled and tripled. Why is because

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Speaker 1: we got beef with China. We had a trade war

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Speaker 1: with China. The government done raised the tariffs on aluminum.

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Speaker 1: Everybody in the city already understood it. You just didn't

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Speaker 1: know that's what it was called. HIC go on another one.

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Speaker 1: You know, Vietnam War, Korean War, Those are called proxy wars.

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Speaker 1: Turns out a proxy wars, real simple. It's just two

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Speaker 1: dads that kind of don't like each other and their

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Speaker 1: sons are on rival. Pop Warner teams. Turns out mixed.

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Speaker 1: McConnell's moves are actually real simple. He needed, as judges,

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Speaker 1: Trump was just the lick. Are we really ever confused

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Speaker 1: as to why, despite this not being in your own

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Speaker 1: best interest, you always vote along party lines? Well, because

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Speaker 1: the hood comes first, as the great profit of our time,

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Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar said, democrypts, rebludikins. It's all the same. Ride

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Speaker 1: or die, loyal to your soil. I could go on

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Speaker 1: for hours, and I'm going to fill the busters, cease fires, workers, unions,

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Speaker 1: It's all there. You actually already understand this stuff here.

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Speaker 1: I can't stress this enough. You don't have to be

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Speaker 1: just from the hood to understand this. If you navigate

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Speaker 1: an eighth grade, if you ever had to figure out

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Speaker 1: which of the lunch table you can sit at during lunch,

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Speaker 1: you understand geopolitics. So join me every week. This is

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. We're gonna go through the news,

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Speaker 1: maybe go through a concept that's going on in the news,

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Speaker 1: maybe something that takes a little more background to understand.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you how you could use what you

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Speaker 1: already know to understand what you think you don't. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna laugh, We're gonna have fun. I don't take myself

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Speaker 1: too seriously, but I do want you to feel empowered.

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Speaker 1: These people ain't smarter than you. They just use a

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Speaker 1: different language. Yo. If you're feel in real froggy, go

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Speaker 1: ahead and check out. Like some of the old episodes,

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Speaker 1: they still in the feed. I'm saying kind of get

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Speaker 1: yourself a primer as to what's going on in here.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell y'all something. Dig this because politics

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Speaker 1: is just gang banging in nice suits. So tap in

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