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Speaker 1: Cao Zone Media.

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Speaker 2: By thinking so much differently, Hey, supporting me while I

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Speaker 2: burst into flames. Can you guess what this episode is about?

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Speaker 2: The Block is Literally Hot? Part two, because we did

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Speaker 2: a Block is Literally Hot episode about the privatization of

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Speaker 2: your water, the causes of climate change and all of those.

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Speaker 1: Various things. This was back early when I just.

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Speaker 2: Joined the Cool Zone media team the iHeartRadio podcast network,

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Speaker 2: like basically when I went from the indies to the

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Speaker 2: majors with podcasting. The Block is Literally Hot. I will

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Speaker 2: probably link that in the show notes somewhere, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: I said that. Why would I started that way? Welcome

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Speaker 2: to hood politics with prop What I was going to

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Speaker 2: talk about today was a memoriam. Memoriam is that the word? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: an honoring episode on the passing of Nikki Giovanni and

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Speaker 2: the way for which he changed my life. But that's

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Speaker 2: gonna have to go sit into the evergreen section. And

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Speaker 2: that was mainly because it was very difficult for us

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Speaker 2: to get like a jump start back into the year

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Speaker 2: as the year started again because of the quadd demic

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Speaker 2: noravias virus, the RSV virus. I got dumb sick over

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Speaker 2: the holidays, like not even funny, like dumb sick. I

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Speaker 2: got all the sicknesses, maybe not the COVID one, but

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Speaker 2: like it was like I felt like somebody took they

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Speaker 1: I think I talk about.

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Speaker 2: That on one of the episodes that we recorded before

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Speaker 2: La Caught on Fire, which was about immigration, which at

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Speaker 2: some point is gonna have to drop probably next week,

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Speaker 2: but this week is this one man it and nobody

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Speaker 2: was like ready to really get back to work, and

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Speaker 2: then basically this episode called for a but look, it's

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Speaker 2: like this all wrapped in one in the sense that, yeah,

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five came out all gas, no breaks,

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Speaker 2: Like it was absurd, and it was crazy because I

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Speaker 2: didn't see nobody put out those you know, the meme

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Speaker 2: of the Lady. I think I talked about this too

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Speaker 2: on an episode you gonna hear later, the meme of

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Speaker 2: the Lady, the Black Lady, you know, with the backpack

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Speaker 2: of the good things for twenty twenty stepping over last

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Speaker 2: year into you this year, didn't nobody post that At

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Speaker 2: the end of twenty twenty four, everybody was nervous coming

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Speaker 2: into this year.

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Speaker 1: Nobody said twenty twenty five was my year.

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Speaker 2: Nobody did. Apparently we collectively knew someone was about to happen. Now,

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Speaker 2: let me acknowledge to y'all who might be listening on

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Speaker 2: we're not dinosaurs now, which means this episode is on

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Speaker 2: YouTube now. If you are on my Patreon, you already

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Speaker 2: got this episode.

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Speaker 1: But if you not, we've pivoted. We're on.

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Speaker 2: We're on YouTube now. We're doing the video pod because

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Speaker 2: that's the thing. So that means that I could show

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Speaker 2: y'all my terrorform call brew Mug. I could show y'all

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Speaker 2: my stan Lee who mere terrorformed the city mug what

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, and you could see my pretty little face,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. You can see the pores,

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Speaker 2: and you know what I'm saying. Eventually I'm gonna get

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Speaker 2: doing this anyway. So today, obviously we have to talk

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Speaker 2: about La on Fire. We are going to go through

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Speaker 2: water I told you about that already. Why not the

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Speaker 2: ocean a lot of people talking about why aren't y'all

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Speaker 1: Why aren't y'all using the ocean?

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Speaker 2: And there is a stupid, absurd amount of misinformation going

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Speaker 2: on swirling through these streets, and we need to address

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Speaker 2: that and stop the cap because the cap is helping nobody.

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Speaker 2: And then we're gonna talk about the culture out here,

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Speaker 2: the ways that you can help from where you are,

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Speaker 2: and really just and the history of Altadena, which is

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Speaker 2: a a very very important thing that is really near, dear,

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Speaker 2: dear to me because your boys from the six to six,

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Speaker 2: So of course it's gonna be special. Got ready to ride. Okay,

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Speaker 2: let's do this. The block is literally hot Part two.

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Speaker 2: Hood politics, Hood politics, y'all. Okay, So look it's like this,

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Speaker 2: let's go ahead with that. Bull look is like this.

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Speaker 1: Bull look is like this, Yeah, unconditional discharge. You know

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Speaker 2: That means the felon in chief President Trump is not

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Speaker 2: gonna face any consequences of repercussions, even though he's still

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Speaker 2: getting what's called an unconditional discharge, which basically means this,

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Speaker 2: Sarah kiss Off, a formal federal prosecutor. She pointed out

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Speaker 2: that though an unconditional discharge carries some consequences depending on

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Speaker 2: Florida following his conviction. So he did vote for himself

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Speaker 2: and his presidential election. So basically like, okay, so you guilty, No,

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Speaker 2: jail time, mainly because well, he gonna be the president

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Speaker 2: I don't, I mean, what what.

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Speaker 1: Can we do? Like there's no time for you to

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Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is like, what the hell you want

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Speaker 2: Like, there's you done already, put us in place to

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Speaker 1: So just it's in. You're gonna be the president two days.

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Speaker 1: There's no reason for us to talk about it.

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Speaker 2: So they kicked it back down and he's getting an

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Speaker 2: unconditional discharge, to which I have to say, like I

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Speaker 2: the plan was to wait the clock out.

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Speaker 1: He said, that was the plan.

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Speaker 2: And I don't understand, like I told y'all before, I

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Speaker 1: This man is making us look a lame, to which

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Speaker 2: To just be like, salute yo, Kung Fu is greater

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Speaker 2: I don't like. I don't know what you beat the charges.

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Speaker 2: He fought the law and won. Now the law didn't win.

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Speaker 2: can see him being like, oh, I'm an run a

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Speaker 2: man doing that. In other news, there were two terrorist attacks.

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Speaker 2: One switch seemed very prophetic, which was the Tesla truck

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Speaker 2: being caught on fire inside of a Trump lobby, which

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Speaker 2: apparently was Arson. What's up with y'all and Arson?

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Speaker 1: This year?

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Speaker 2: Now, I did drop a song called burn it Down,

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Speaker 2: but I met metaphorically, I ain't me literally because anyway,

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Speaker 2: mean that car belonged to somebody that's not even like

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Speaker 2: that's all this year? Like, how this has been? This

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Speaker 2: year has been the longest week, This week has been

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Speaker 2: the longest year?

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Speaker 1: What like? How is it only? How is it only

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Speaker 2: What the There's a term called hypernormalization, which I'll probably

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Speaker 2: like we're experiencing that. Yeah, that's another conversation. Next, Zuckerberg

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Speaker 2: basically was like slop slop gobble gobble Trump, which I

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Speaker 2: never really talked that crude, but that's really just what happened.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what else to tell y'all.

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Speaker 2: So he basically like, now, now, y'all may or may

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Speaker 2: not remember, but there was a time that Mark was

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Speaker 1: But you know, when you come to the cool.

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Speaker 2: The problem with like Zucker was like, well, frat boys

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Speaker 2: So he was like, I'll show all y'all and I'll

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Speaker 1: And he did. So he was like, look, this is

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Speaker 1: gonna stop fact checking. We gonna do community notes.

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Speaker 2: He was like, uh, we're gonna put top Republican what's

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Speaker 2: the boy's name, Joel Kaplan. He gonna put him in

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Speaker 2: charge of public policy at Meta. He unappointed Dana White,

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Speaker 2: And then he gonna move the content moderators, all the

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Speaker 2: mods they leaving LA and they going to Texas because,

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Speaker 2: according to him, California has too much of a political bias,

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Speaker 2: all the political gaslighting and rhetoric happening on the platform.

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Speaker 1: So now this is we're gonna do. We're gonna allow

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Speaker 1: the political guests at rhetoric without fact checking. Bruh, what

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Speaker 2: He basically removed any possibility of the rights, saying that

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Speaker 2: your y'all, there's no way you can say that now.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, Amazon Bezos in them because you know billionaire's

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Speaker 2: gonna billionate Amazon and them. They don't already cut the

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Speaker 2: check to Milania for her to be able to make

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Speaker 2: her her own biodoc series. Yeah, they like while she'd

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Speaker 2: this family. But like she like currently is the first lady.

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Speaker 2: I just be feeling like, maybe maybe you post to

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Speaker 2: wait till after well, I mean, maybe it might be

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Speaker 2: an interesting show, but what do I know?

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Speaker 1: Anyway, La on fire, let's talk about it all right

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Speaker 2: So, I'm sure your news outlets or social media's has

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Speaker 2: like all them people got who you think cleaning them houses?

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Speaker 1: They all predicted this.

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Speaker 2: So the Palisades, I don't need to tell y'all, I'm thinking,

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Speaker 2: around school integration, neighborhoods carved apart by new freeways, redevelopments,

433
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 2: and conflicts in Pasadenas. All of these causes, along with

434
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 2: the thickening layer of small pillowing against the mountains prompted

435
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:22,679
Speaker 2: half of Altadena's population to leave in a flurry of

436
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 2: white flight, and the new residents were mainly people of color.

437
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 2: So because of that area and white flight, we got

438
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 2: us a neighborhood. Now most of the people, a lot

439
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 2: of people I grew up with a lot of black people.

440
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 2: I grew upup their Gramdma on Nim just like so

441
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 2: a lot of our grandma on Ms was in Crenshaw.

442
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: But the gang stuff like really made that impossible. A

443
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: lot of are our elders, a lot of our parents.

444
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 2: Their homes are up there, right, and they're really historic homes.

445
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 2: So the Altadena one like hit us really deeply. A

446
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 2: lot of old jazz musicians. Mad Lib the producer, he

447
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 2: lost his crib, DJ Severe, his parents.

448
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: DJ Severe is the DJ for the La Dodgers.

449
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 2: His parents lost ay crib, his grandparents lost they crib.

450
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 2: The house he grew up in gone.

451
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: It sucked a lot of times.

452
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 2: We were able to buy houses because of the GI

453
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 2: benefits after World War two, right because remember most of

454
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,479
Speaker 2: the people that was drafted were people of color, so

455
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 2: you'd get these like housing grants after and because of

456
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 2: redlining and zoning laws, there were only specific areas black

457
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 2: people were allowed to buy in. It's same at California

458
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 2: wasn't no, you know, Utopia. So losing Altadena is a

459
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 2: really big blow to not only LA but the black

460
00:27:58,200 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 2: community period.

461
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: Okay, now let's talk about some science next. Okay.

462
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 2: One of the things people kept asking I saw on

463
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 2: the internet was like, why y'all not just using the ocean.

464
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 2: How y'all talk about there's not enough water in the

465
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,239
Speaker 2: fire hydrogens when you next to the ocean. I don't understand. Well,

466
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 2: let me help you understand.

467
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: Okay.

468
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 2: First of all, the ocean is saltwater, and the salt

469
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 2: water you may or may not know, is corrosive. Right,

470
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 2: So if you spray the whole town with salt water,

471
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 2: this is gonna make clean up damn near impossible because

472
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 2: of what was of what is left standing, some of

473
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 2: the metal or the brick or stuff like that. The

474
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 2: chemical reactions, it's only gonna cause problems. So it makes

475
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 2: clean up after the fire is out almost impossible.

476
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,479
Speaker 1: Secondly, believe it or not, it's heavier.

477
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 2: I know that's weird to say, but ocean water is

478
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 2: heavier than fresh water.

479
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: It is what it is, right.

480
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 2: And then Another reason, which is probably again one of

481
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 2: the one of the stronger ones, is like it's gonna

482
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 2: kill the vegetation. So because the vegetation on the land,

483
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 2: it comes from rain and fresh water. That's not ocean water.

484
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 2: That's feeding your plants. If you ever have any hope

485
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 2: for the ground to restore itself and grow, you doubts

486
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: it with salt water, like you like you're killing it,

487
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 2: Like you're killing the ground. So on first thought, you

488
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: would think that just use the ocean. It's really not

489
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: a good idea because it just it makes clean up impossible.

490
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 2: It's corrosive, and it's gonna kill the vegetation. Okay, next,

491
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 2: well why did it take so long for them to

492
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,719
Speaker 2: get it contained? It was the wind now, like I said,

493
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 2: normally the Santa Anna winds, which is something that we've

494
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 2: all lived with, usually doesn't coincide with fire season, right,

495
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 2: So the winds is just something that like I mean,

496
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 2: I got for all my Cali folks, you know, like

497
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 2: I said, like since I grew up in the SGV,

498
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 2: I still went to high school in the Inland Empire

499
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 2: and out there, like I mean, they would shut down

500
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 2: school because it was just it would knock down trees

501
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 2: like the wind. The Santa Ana's is not a game

502
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 2: in the Inland Empire. Even in my mom's house that

503
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 2: there's a tree behind the retaining wall in her backyard

504
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 2: that knocked over. It broke the retaining wall. It didn't

505
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 2: break her window until the city came in to cut

506
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 2: the rest of the tree down, and then that broke

507
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 2: the window.

508
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: But uh, it's absurd.

509
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 2: But the wind, this is something that, like, we know

510
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 2: that's gonna be a problem. So it's just the combination

511
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 2: of them both happening at the same time is awful.

512
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 2: The next thing I want to talk about is a

513
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 2: combination of misinformation and what really went on with the government. Okay, now,

514
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 2: far be it from me to get on this camera

515
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 2: and defend Karen Bastard or Gavin Newsome. I don't trust

516
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 2: nobody slick their hair back to wait it Gavin Newsom, dude.

517
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 2: That being said, if you're gonna be mad at him,

518
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 2: be mad at him for the right reasons.

519
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: Okay, because some of this is just it's just incorrect.

520
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: You know.

521
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 2: I hate in a situation where you make me defend

522
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 2: somebody I don't really mess with, Like when Elon Musk

523
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 2: and Mark Zuckerberg was gonna have a UFC match when

524
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 2: they was gonna like grapple, I was like, how dare you?

525
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 2: How dare you? Because who would I rather see get

526
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 2: that ass kicked? I mean, how It's a tough question

527
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 2: because at first it would have been like, oh, I

528
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 2: want to see I want to see Elon get mopped?

529
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 2: But how dare you make me cheer for Mark Zuckerbert?

530
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 2: You know, I think I may still feel like that.

531
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: I don't know.

532
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 2: I don't know anyway, So how dare you make me

533
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 2: defend Karen Basque and Gavit Deuce because the reality is

534
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 2: we've been taking care of ourselves. But we'll talk about

535
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,959
Speaker 2: that in the culture section. The first question is about

536
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 2: where was Karen Bass when it started?

537
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: And what's wrong with the fire hydrants.

538
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 2: First of all, that little video of her getting off

539
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 2: the plane after she was coming back from Ghana. Apparently

540
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 2: Pole lady was on her honeymoon, so she coming back

541
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 2: from Ghana and she ain't got nothing to say while

542
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 2: poor lady waiting on her back. They was like, yo,

543
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 2: why you ain't cut the thing? Okay, So again far

544
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 2: being for me to defend this woman. But I will

545
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 2: say this sometimes. I mean she and' it take a

546
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 2: long time to get home, like it take a long

547
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 2: time to get home. And you think if you put

548
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 2: people in charge that they could handle the situation. Ain't

549
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 2: nobody know all this was gonna come together the way

550
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 2: that it came together. And secondly, what's she supposed to say,

551
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 2: because I know what I would say is my nigga,

552
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 2: can you get here, have a glass of hord chot

553
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 2: to fuck up? Get out my way. I got shit

554
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 2: to take care of right now. We're clearly in a crisis.

555
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 2: We could talk about how much I failed a little

556
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 2: later right now, out to dinner, Pal says, on fire,

557
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 2: let me go, give them a feet up under me,

558
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 2: figure out what the hell happened, and I'll get back

559
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 2: to you.

560
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: Nigga, I just landed you right. I'm sorry. I ain't

561
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: no God damn it, I didn't know like I suppose.

562
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 2: I ain't got no crystal ball cuz I'm on my way. Shit,

563
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 2: there's a fire chief, why you ain't hit them up?

564
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 2: You know?

565
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: So there's that.

566
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 2: But far being from me to put words at her mouth.

567
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 2: The fire hydrants. So here's the thing about the fire hydrants. Oh,

568
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 2: let me throw this one real quick. The la the

569
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 2: Hollywood sign was not on fire, y'all. Sometimes, listen, fact

570
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 2: checking is much more easier than you think, if you

571
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 2: would just stop for a second. Cause misinformation is attempting.

572
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: To probably create a scam.

573
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 2: Right, They trying to hit a lick here, so they're

574
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 2: gonna give you something that's sensational that ain't necessarily what's

575
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 2: going on because they hitting a lick. So you have

576
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 2: to remember, like if somebody hitting a lick, they not

577
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 2: gonna necessarily tell you the whole truth.

578
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: Right.

579
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 2: Sometimes misinformation is just it's chaos happening. You just have

580
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 2: and to get it wrong. Especially about the looting thing. Now,

581
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 2: to me, that was malicious, that that was dissip That

582
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 2: was the problem of missings misinformation. There was this video

583
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 2: of these young men, these black men, carrying this stuff

584
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 2: out of these houses in Altadena. Somebody was like, I

585
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 2: think it was like a whole ass. Nazi was like, look,

586
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 2: the looting has already started. They interviewed the lady. The

587
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 2: lady was like, uh, that's my brother and his friends

588
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 2: from work. I asked him to come get the rest

589
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 2: of my stuff out the house. So you're talking about

590
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 2: this looting is like smells racist because it is racist.

591
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 2: So there's that and some stuff like I said, like

592
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 2: if you take a second, just go back through before

593
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 2: you post it and know that you're invoking an emotion

594
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 2: and slow down for a second. Another thing you could

595
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 2: do is just put something through a Google search. If

596
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 2: you just put it through a Google search, you could

597
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 2: see if an image was altered in any way. Right,

598
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 2: is anyone else posting these things? You know what I'm saying, Like,

599
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 2: there's so many other things you could look at. A

600
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 2: big thing about the fire hydrants. Did we run out

601
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,399
Speaker 2: of water? The answer is.

602
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: No.

603
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 2: Okay, let me get some let me get some details

604
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 2: for you. So one reservoir in the Santa Nez Reservoir

605
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:21,280
Speaker 2: was closed for repairs. The sansee Inez Reservoir holds seventeen million,

606
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventeen million gallons of water and is

607
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,280
Speaker 2: located at the heart of the paliss But the reservoir

608
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 2: closure is not the main reason why the hydrants at

609
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 2: higher higher elevations ran dry.

610
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: Right. A lot of it.

611
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,919
Speaker 2: Has to be has to do with water pressure, right,

612
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 2: and the amount the intensity of the fire. Nobody, again,

613
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 2: nobody was prepared for that, so it didn't have enough

614
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 2: pressure to put the water through because again we weren't

615
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 2: prepared for this perfect storm that made the fire as big.

616
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: As it was.

617
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 2: Even if the reservoir, the leader of the DWP said,

618
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 2: you know, even if the reservoir was full, we still

619
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 2: would have had the pressure issue because of the intensity

620
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 2: of the fire.

621
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 1: So this again, how dare.

622
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 2: You make me defend the government but at least be

623
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 2: mad at them for the right reasons. So did the

624
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 2: budget get cut by seventeen million? And the answer is

625
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 2: a little tricky. Now the La Times and the BBC

626
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 2: have reported this. It's not as simple as y'all was

627
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 2: understaffed and you ain't had no money. Now, we had

628
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 2: a surplus of equipment and at the time, since nobody

629
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 2: got a crystal ball, a lot of that surplus, the

630
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:50,240
Speaker 2: extra that we have was sent off to Ukraine. Why

631
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 2: because it was extra.

632
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: You following me, So we sent it.

633
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 2: But it was like, well it was the extra, Like

634
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 2: I ain't know who's gonna need the extra. Sometimes I

635
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 2: like y'all think the government really do be telling the future,

636
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 2: and sometimes they don't, like you be prepared, but you

637
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 2: have like numbers based on your best guess. Now again,

638
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 2: don't have me defending the government. I'm just saying sometimes

639
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 2: it's like that.

640
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: So here we go.

641
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 2: Although southern California is currently follow me experiencing a drought,

642
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 2: this is about whether we had enough water. The data

643
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:28,760
Speaker 2: shows that the reservoirs are almost all currently above historic

644
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 2: average at this time of year, and none were set

645
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 2: significant low levels.

646
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 1: Now let me fact check the fact check.

647
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 2: What they say is we didn't set a record this time,

648
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 2: like every year we be setting a record on lows.

649
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,919
Speaker 2: But if you remember at the beginning of twenty twenty

650
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Speaker 2: four and the beginning of twenty twenty three, yo, it rained.

651
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 2: I had to redo the freaking ground in my backyard

652
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 2: like it got it was bad. So our levels are

653
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 2: on average more than they have been. Now, don't get

654
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 2: me wrong, we're still in a drought. It's just not

655
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 2: as bad as it was. I mean, there was a

656
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 2: time when you had to, like if you went to

657
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 2: a restaurant, they didn't just give you water, like you

658
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 2: had to ask for a glass of water because they

659
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 2: was like, we just ain't we just ain't got it.

660
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 2: So our levels have been did come up a little

661
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 2: bit on average, so it wasn't necessarily that Oh Gavin.

662
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: Newsom released the water for the fishies.

663
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 2: Now if he had have released it, now, yeah, I mean,

664
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 2: I don't understand why you think that him saving that

665
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 2: water would have saved us from this problem. It wouldn't have.

666
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 2: And would it have helped. I mean, I guess, but

667
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 2: like not the way you think it would have helped. Right,

668
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 2: So that's being that.

669
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: Now.

670
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 2: As far as the budget, the seventeen million, okay, so

671
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 2: for the last financial year the LA Fire Department was

672
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 2: department budget was cut by seventeen million, right, seventeen point

673
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 2: six million. Now, the LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley told

674
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 2: CNN that the budget had cut cut had severely affected

675
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 2: the department's ability to respond to the disaster, right, so

676
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 2: that's real. She said the department was already understaffed in

677
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 2: the elimination of civilian positions like mechanics had meant one

678
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 2: hundred fire apparatuses were out of service now. So Mayor

679
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 2: Bass responded to this criticism. She was saying that there

680
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,919
Speaker 2: were no reductions that were made that would have impacted

681
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 2: the situation that we were dealing with over the last.

682
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: Couple of days.

683
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 2: So she was like look dog like, it wouldn't have

684
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 2: made no difference. Now that smells a little bit like

685
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 2: an excuse, because of course it would have made a difference.

686
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 2: But that's not the part I want to talk about.

687
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 2: I don't know why she ain't say this stuff. So

688
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 2: check this out. So, according to the La Times, after

689
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four twenty twenty five budget was passed,

690
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,320
Speaker 2: the city council approved, so watch this, fifty three million

691
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:50,800
Speaker 2: dollars in pay.

692
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: Raises for the firefighters.

693
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 2: And fifty eight million in new kits such as fire trucks.

694
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 2: So once the funding on was take it into the account,

695
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 2: the department's operation budget actually grew, you follow me. So

696
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 2: we did this budget cut as far as like a

697
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 2: line item that lost these things, but then brought this

698
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 2: money over here on this side, right, And the LA

699
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 2: Fire Department had overall budget approaching almost one billion.

700
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 1: Right.

701
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,439
Speaker 2: And also, isn't the only department responding to the fires, right,

702
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 2: So the forest fire protections all that good stuff. So

703
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 2: there's other people that normally take care of the forest.

704
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 2: Is a department different than the LA Fire Department, right,

705
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 2: you're following me. So, so yeah, there was a budget cut,

706
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 2: but there was also a budget raise. It just came

707
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 2: in other ways. Now that being said, I don't know

708
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 2: how they spend the money. I don't know how that

709
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 2: stuff break down. Sometimes I don't understand the way they

710
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 2: do these budgets. It don't make sense to me either.

711
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 2: But it's not as simple as well. If you wouldn't

712
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 2: have cut they budget, this wouldn't have happened. It's not

713
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 2: that simple. Now, did we sell the water rights to corporations? Absolutely?

714
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 2: Water rights being sold right. People that make these statios,

715
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:14,720
Speaker 2: they own a big percentage of LA's natural water is privatized. Again,

716
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 2: you can refer to the block as hot the original one.

717
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: Even some of your utility bills, believe it or not,

718
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 2: those are private companies. But y'all love capitalism right now.

719
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 2: Another one we want to talk about is the incarcerated firefighters.

720
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: Now, this is a big deal. This is true.

721
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 2: Thirty percent of the people fighting these fires are incarcerated.

722
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 2: They do, in fact make five dollars and eighty cents

723
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 2: or up to ten twenty four cents a day. I'm

724
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 2: gonna say that again, that's what they make a day,

725
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 2: not five dollars an hour, five hours a day. Now,

726
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 2: you can earn an additional one dollar per hour responding

727
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 2: in emergencies. Right now, there's a great thread on threads

728
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 2: from a former incarcerated firefighter who was incarcerated in California

729
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 2: in two thousand and nine to twenty twelve. Now again,

730
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 2: you can't believe the internet. I'm gonna give you some

731
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 2: pointers as to how you shouldn't believe the internet a

732
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 2: little later.

733
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 1: But like, yo, check this out. So it's voluntary.

734
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 2: First of all, you get to volunteer to be able

735
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 2: to be a part of the incarcerated Firefighters program. Now again,

736
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 2: you making pennies. Now, why that's okay, I believe it

737
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 2: or not. As the thirteenth Amendment, which is the indentured

738
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 2: servitude clause inside of the thirteenth Amendment that freed the slaves,

739
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 2: they said, but we could also make you work. If

740
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 2: you're incarcerated as a part of your punishment, we can

741
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 2: make you and that's why they only pay you pennies. Now,

742
00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:00,760
Speaker 2: y'all may or may not remember, but there was a

743
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 2: a bill on the California ballot that literally said slavery.

744
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 2: I can't make this stuff up, and we voted, and

745
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 2: we voted for it. Now there are in this program,

746
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,919
Speaker 2: you obviously have to be well not obviously, there are

747
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 2: a few stipulations you have to be. You know, in

748
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 2: a nonviolent right you have to be a minimum security

749
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 2: minimum security status. You have to have no active warrants,

750
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 2: no physical medical psychiatric conditions, right. You have to have

751
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 2: a recent clear of disciplinary history less than eight and

752
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,280
Speaker 2: you have to have eight less than eight years remaining

753
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 2: on your sentence. And you have to have no convictions

754
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 2: of serious violence, sex, arson, or escape attempts.

755
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 1: Right.

756
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 2: So there's a very particular group of people that are

757
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 2: allowed to do this again because it's involuntary or because

758
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 2: is voluntary, and you get to be off site, so

759
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 2: you stay on a campsite. They're twenty four hour shifts,

760
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 2: they give you food, right, and pending on.

761
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: Your particular.

762
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 2: Prison location, oftentimes your experience can be much different like anything.

763
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, there's a human thing, right,

764
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 2: and the people that they choose. Obviously, you're still being

765
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 2: selected because it's involuntary or because it's voluntary, and they

766
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 2: have to approve like, Okay, you meet all these requirements,

767
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 2: but who do we really want to be out for

768
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 2: two weeks with? So hopefully the person that's working at

769
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,280
Speaker 2: the prison is like cool, you know what I'm saying.

770
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 2: And of course they want it to be a good

771
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 2: hang like anything else. So of course we're working hard.

772
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 2: Of course this is voluntary. Of course it's grueling, and

773
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 2: of course you making pennies. But you know, I'm gonna

774
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 2: read this again just for y'all start just thinking. Everybody

775
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 2: in jail is the same again. You have to have

776
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 2: a minimum security at status, no active warrants, no physical,

777
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 2: medical or psychiatric condition. You have to have recent clear,

778
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 2: recently clear disciplinary history, less than eight years remaining on

779
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 2: your sentence, and no convictions of serious violent sex are

780
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 2: sined or escape attempts that like. Of course, like these

781
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 2: are like you doing what you're supposed to do.

782
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:16,919
Speaker 1: You serve your time.

783
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 2: You made a mistake at one point, you get your

784
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 2: acts together, right, and you get out there.

785
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: They said they feed you. Well.

786
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,879
Speaker 2: You stay on these things and you get to have

787
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 2: time knocked off of your sentence, right, you get to

788
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 2: have time knocked off of your parole. Now if everything

789
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 2: works out, yes, when you get out, you are allowed

790
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 2: to apply for certain fire departments, maybe not the lap

791
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 2: D LAFD.

792
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: So while you're on the site.

793
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 2: While you're on site, you get like calfired CalFire the

794
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 2: people that does the training, you get like physical fitness training,

795
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 2: You get firefighter training. And it's really because again because

796
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 2: these civilian firefighters, people that like actually like work for

797
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 2: the virus, like you putting as right, like I'm putting

798
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 2: my life.

799
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 1: In your hands. I need to make sure you know

800
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 1: what you're doing.

801
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 2: The state saves like billions of dollars by paying them pennies,

802
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 2: which obviously is trash, but that's what happens. But you

803
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 2: get trained on like chainsaws and all the things you

804
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,800
Speaker 2: would need right how to work like basic hand tools.

805
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 2: Now you're not trained on used to how on how

806
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 2: to use the fire hose or run an engine right,

807
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 2: And you're not trained as the type of firefighter that

808
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 2: requires to go into buildings and rescuing peoples and stuff

809
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 2: like that. Their task is to cut a fire break

810
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:39,359
Speaker 2: between what is burning and what is yet to burn, right,

811
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 2: which is a very important thing that I remember my

812
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 2: mama used to talk about. Right when you get out,

813
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 2: you are eligible, right, you are eligible to apply for

814
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 2: firefighting jobs at how fire right, which has to do

815
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 2: more with like the woodland sort of stuff like that. Right,

816
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 2: So it's not so much that you don't get on

817
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 2: the job training that you can't use, like you still

818
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 2: get training that you could use later. Now granted again

819
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 2: this is not a defense of that. But also I

820
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 2: am not incarcerated. I imagine in an incarcerated sense situation

821
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 2: where this person chose to do this, they're what they're

822
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 2: Most of them are saying like, yo, of all these situations,

823
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 2: I know it's hard, but this is like the dopest

824
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 2: thing you can do.

825
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:21,840
Speaker 1: And a lot of them people were saying like yo,

826
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: like I'm from here too, Like I see the same

827
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: news you do.

828
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 2: I want to help you feel me, Like I don't

829
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 2: know why people in their brain think once a person

830
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 2: goes to jail they stop being a person, like they

831
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 2: still a person?

832
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: You feel me?

833
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 2: So know that, Like these are the facts and all

834
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 2: that good stuff. And lastly, I want to talk about

835
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 2: the culture.

836
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 1: Now.

837
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 2: I need you to remember that like everybody in la

838
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 2: ain't rich. Some of these people have had houses passed down.

839
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 2: Some of these people have worked two and three jobs

840
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,919
Speaker 2: their whole life. I know Jenney Aiko said she lost

841
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 2: her house. Everybody dissing or like bye another one. It's

842
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 2: like Nigga, she's from the land, like she fought or

843
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 2: worked her whole life to get this. Listen, I'm a

844
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:12,399
Speaker 2: homeowner right now, but like y'all, I would be done,

845
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 2: like if I don't know what I would be. What's

846
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 2: the plan be? Like you start over, bro? Like have

847
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 2: you ever worked on something for fifteen twenty years? You

848
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 2: just want somebody to be like, start over, bro, Like, No,

849
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 2: that's not how the land works. Also, as someone who's

850
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 2: been on the ground codinating with mutual aid programs and

851
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 2: even with government programs, my district council member, she's from

852
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 2: the city. She used her powers of government. She opened

853
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 2: the city Hall right here in Boyle Heights and set

854
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 2: up a donation center. But before she could do that,

855
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 2: or while she was doing that, the city was already

856
00:49:54,520 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 2: in action, people already coordinating people already. The the level

857
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 2: of generosity that has been going across this city. Now,

858
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 2: if you from an area like Ashville or any other

859
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 2: areas that are subjected to natural disasters, you know exactly

860
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. Government can't get to you in time,

861
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 2: The fire sometimes fire department can't get you in time.

862
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,320
Speaker 2: Who'll get to you first? Is your neighbors. And this

863
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 2: is what we're seeing out here is neighbors being neighbors, artists, rappers, businesses.

864
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 2: PAC's son being like, look, dm us, we'll send you

865
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 2: some clothes. You know what I'm saying. Airbnb being like, yo,

866
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Speaker 2: it's free, go ahead, it's all good. My wife, doctor

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Speaker 2: Ahma refer to her by her prefix, has set up

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Speaker 2: meal trains. She has within one Google doc just of

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Speaker 2: our neighborhood and the school that my daughter goes to.

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Speaker 2: Figuring out, Okay, who lost their houses, who gonna donate ventilators?

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Speaker 1: Who won't do this?

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Speaker 2: Is? I mean, I'm even having friends who've lost everything,

873
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 2: still figuring out how to help. We at Club real Ones,

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00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 2: we did one yesterday. We did a drive yesterday to

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00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 2: taking food cards and stuff like that, like like you

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Speaker 2: figure it out out?

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Speaker 1: How are we finding each other? Hell? We just are right.

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00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 2: I remember I was at Boyle Heiste. We took some

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Speaker 2: stuff to Egle Rock, Egle Rock, and then there was

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Speaker 2: another church over there by the uh off off off

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Speaker 2: Cyser Chavez and State. I'm talking to you like you

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Speaker 2: from here White Memorial right, So there's a church over

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Speaker 2: there too. I met the pastor passing Manny, he like,

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00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 2: how do I tap in with the city. I'm like

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Speaker 2: the city right over there. Matter of fact, we're doing

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Speaker 2: some on Sunday, y'all, Caul, bring some of this stuff

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00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 2: y'all got, We gonna take it there.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take it.

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Speaker 2: Up to the h By the time that the city

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Speaker 2: set up the rose Bowl, like I said before, we

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00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 2: already had the stuff.

892
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: We already had it set up.

893
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 2: We already knew everything, like it was already labeled in

894
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 2: English Spanish tigallog like toiletries. You feel me, uh you know,

895
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 2: ROPAs de damas, like you know what I'm saying. Like

896
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 2: it was already set up. We already had it. Why

897
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 2: because we're from the land. It was already set up.

898
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 2: There was water like we today. We took pallettes of

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Speaker 2: water to the fire station because.

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Speaker 1: That's what they asked for. You know what they also

901
00:51:56,640 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: they asked for, just like food, gift cards. Sure here,

902
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: we just did it. We figured it out.

903
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 2: We connected across communities, across towns, and when the government

904
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Speaker 2: caught up and was ready to get themselves situated, because yeah,

905
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Speaker 2: they moved slower than us.

906
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,760
Speaker 1: It's too many things happening right now. That's fine.

907
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 2: But what you experienced if you had, if you if

908
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 2: somebody handed you without you having to ask, a pack

909
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:27,280
Speaker 2: of tampons, toilet paper, and some toothbrushes, why we already

910
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 2: had that and why you just had it?

911
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: Is anarchy? That's what that is.

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00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 2: You know why the fire department showed up? Could you

913
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Speaker 2: show ain't paid for it? You say, yessue, did you

914
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 2: paid for it by your taxes? Yes? Niggas Socialism, that's

915
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:48,879
Speaker 2: what that is. You know who canceling your insurance? Capitalism,

916
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 2: that's what that This is why we say the stuff

917
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 2: we say. But that's the culture here, and you know

918
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:57,360
Speaker 2: what we're doing while they're doing that. I got DMed

919
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:01,919
Speaker 2: so many times people of psychologists, therapists that are like, look,

920
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 2: let me know. If people are going through some trauming

921
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 2: and experience right now, I'm ready to.

922
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Speaker 1: Sit with them.

923
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 2: We meet people that's like, listen, let me teach you

924
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 2: how to read your policy. If it's we're figuring it out,

925
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 2: don't sign nothing. People helping people, it's just happening. You

926
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 2: would say, well, it's just people being good neighbors and

927
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 2: taking care of themselves. I would say, ah ah correct.

928
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Speaker 2: This is what we mean at cuzone. This, This is

929
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 2: what we mean by leftists. It's like you just you

930
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 2: just do the shit because it's the right shit to do.

931
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 2: I don't you don't wait, fam, And that's what's happening

932
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 2: on the ground now. Ways you can help, let me

933
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 2: tell you something. We need airperer fires, we need gift cards.

934
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 2: We got everything else, like and that stuff you can

935
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 2: see through the mail now us. We'll put in the

936
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Speaker 2: show notes all kinds of links and waits for which

937
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 2: you can help. But your best bet is if you're

938
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:12,400
Speaker 2: gonna seeing stuff, uh, send.

939
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Speaker 1: The gift cards.

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Speaker 2: I love this city, man, We'll be all right to

941
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Speaker 2: live and die in l A. And I think I'm

942
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Speaker 2: gonna sum it up with something I saw on social media,

943
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Speaker 2: Like with all the like trash talking we're hearing around

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Speaker 2: l A.

945
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Speaker 1: About l A is is.

946
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 2: You know the city's literally on fire. It's because it's

947
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 2: because of the drug. You know, for whatever reason city's

948
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 2: on fire. Sometimes the wind can blow you over, Sometimes

949
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 2: the prices are astronomical and really unsustainable, and sometimes the

950
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 2: very ground shakes up under us and knocks down buildings

951
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 2: with earthquakes. But even with all that I still don't

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Speaker 2: want to live where you live La Online of Politics.

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Speaker 1: Y'all.

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Speaker 2: All right, now, don't you hit stop on this pod.

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Speaker 2: You better listen to these credits. I need you to

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Speaker 2: finish this thing so I can get the download numbers. Okay,

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Speaker 2: killing the Beat Softly, So listen, don't let nobody lie

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Speaker 2: to you. If you understand urban living, you understand politics.

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Speaker 2: These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all

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Speaker 2: next week. S