Speaker 1: Cao Zone Media.
Speaker 2: By thinking so much differently, Hey, supporting me while I
Speaker 2: burst into flames. Can you guess what this episode is about?
Speaker 2: The Block is Literally Hot? Part two, because we did
Speaker 2: a Block is Literally Hot episode about the privatization of
Speaker 2: your water, the causes of climate change and all of those.
Speaker 1: Various things. This was back early when I just.
Speaker 2: Joined the Cool Zone media team the iHeartRadio podcast network,
Speaker 2: like basically when I went from the indies to the
Speaker 2: majors with podcasting. The Block is Literally Hot. I will
Speaker 2: probably link that in the show notes somewhere, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I said that. Why would I started that way? Welcome
Speaker 2: to hood politics with prop What I was going to
Speaker 2: talk about today was a memoriam. Memoriam is that the word? Yeah,
Speaker 2: an honoring episode on the passing of Nikki Giovanni and
Speaker 2: the way for which he changed my life. But that's
Speaker 2: gonna have to go sit into the evergreen section. And
Speaker 2: that was mainly because it was very difficult for us
Speaker 2: to get like a jump start back into the year
Speaker 2: as the year started again because of the quadd demic
Speaker 2: noravias virus, the RSV virus. I got dumb sick over
Speaker 2: the holidays, like not even funny, like dumb sick. I
Speaker 2: got all the sicknesses, maybe not the COVID one, but
Speaker 2: I got the the sinus one where the sinuses felt spicy,
Speaker 2: like it was like I felt like somebody took they
Speaker 2: two knuckles and punched me in the face just like this.
Speaker 1: I think I talk about.
Speaker 2: That on one of the episodes that we recorded before
Speaker 2: La Caught on Fire, which was about immigration, which at
Speaker 2: some point is gonna have to drop probably next week,
Speaker 2: but this week is this one man it and nobody
Speaker 2: was like ready to really get back to work, and
Speaker 2: then basically this episode called for a but look, it's
Speaker 2: like this all wrapped in one in the sense that, yeah,
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five came out all gas, no breaks,
Speaker 2: Like it was absurd, and it was crazy because I
Speaker 2: didn't see nobody put out those you know, the meme
Speaker 2: of the Lady. I think I talked about this too
Speaker 2: on an episode you gonna hear later, the meme of
Speaker 2: the Lady, the Black Lady, you know, with the backpack
Speaker 2: of the good things for twenty twenty stepping over last
Speaker 2: year into you this year, didn't nobody post that At
Speaker 2: the end of twenty twenty four, everybody was nervous coming
Speaker 2: into this year.
Speaker 1: Nobody said twenty twenty five was my year.
Speaker 2: Nobody did. Apparently we collectively knew someone was about to happen. Now,
Speaker 2: let me acknowledge to y'all who might be listening on
Speaker 2: the podcast app. We have also pivoted the video because
Speaker 2: we're not dinosaurs now, which means this episode is on
Speaker 2: YouTube now. If you are on my Patreon, you already
Speaker 2: got this episode.
Speaker 1: But if you not, we've pivoted. We're on.
Speaker 2: We're on YouTube now. We're doing the video pod because
Speaker 2: that's the thing. So that means that I could show
Speaker 2: y'all my terrorform call brew Mug. I could show y'all
Speaker 2: my stan Lee who mere terrorformed the city mug what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, and you could see my pretty little face,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. You can see the pores,
Speaker 2: and you know what I'm saying. Eventually I'm gonna get
Speaker 2: a better camera, but you know, we just we're just
Speaker 2: doing this anyway. So today, obviously we have to talk
Speaker 2: about La on Fire. We are going to go through
Speaker 2: some of the problems, some of the causes. Selling the
Speaker 2: water I told you about that already. Why not the
Speaker 2: ocean a lot of people talking about why aren't y'all
Speaker 2: using salt water?
Speaker 1: Why aren't y'all using the ocean?
Speaker 2: And there is a stupid, absurd amount of misinformation going
Speaker 2: on swirling through these streets, and we need to address
Speaker 2: that and stop the cap because the cap is helping nobody.
Speaker 2: And then we're gonna talk about the culture out here,
Speaker 2: the ways that you can help from where you are,
Speaker 2: and really just and the history of Altadena, which is
Speaker 2: a a very very important thing that is really near, dear,
Speaker 2: dear to me because your boys from the six to six,
Speaker 2: So of course it's gonna be special. Got ready to ride. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's do this. The block is literally hot Part two.
Speaker 2: Hood politics, Hood politics, y'all. Okay, So look it's like this,
Speaker 2: let's go ahead with that. Bull look is like this.
Speaker 1: Bull look is like this, Yeah, unconditional discharge. You know
Speaker 1: what that means.
Speaker 2: That means the felon in chief President Trump is not
Speaker 2: gonna face any consequences of repercussions, even though he's still
Speaker 2: gonna be called a felon. Now, the sentencing we talk
Speaker 2: about is the New York case about falsifying documents, payment
Speaker 2: of Stormy Daniels the only one that we thought was
Speaker 2: actually going to land a conviction, and turns out, yes,
Speaker 2: we were right, landed a conviction thirty four counts. He's
Speaker 2: getting what's called an unconditional discharge, which basically means this,
Speaker 2: I'm going to quote it, okay. It essentially is a
Speaker 2: resolution that allows for the conviction to stand and preserves
Speaker 2: the sanctity of the jury's verdict, but ensures that there
Speaker 2: are very limited consequences stemming from the conviction. This is
Speaker 2: Sarah kiss Off, a formal federal prosecutor. She pointed out
Speaker 2: that though an unconditional discharge carries some consequences depending on
Speaker 2: the state. For example, a felon is not able to
Speaker 2: vote or own a firearm. Trump is barred from being
Speaker 2: able to purchase a firearm in either New York or
Speaker 2: Florida following his conviction. So he did vote for himself
Speaker 2: and his presidential election. So basically like, okay, so you guilty, No,
Speaker 2: you did it, but that's it. So he don't have
Speaker 2: to pay no fine, he don't have to do no
Speaker 2: community service, and he for showing, got to do no
Speaker 2: jail time, mainly because well, he gonna be the president
Speaker 2: in two days. So I mean, what you go like,
Speaker 2: I don't, I mean, what what.
Speaker 1: Can we do? Like there's no time for you to
Speaker 1: actually do the thing.
Speaker 2: He was even gonna try to last stitch effort, kick
Speaker 2: it up to the to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is like, what the hell you want
Speaker 1: me to say?
Speaker 2: Like, there's you done already, put us in place to
Speaker 2: make sure that you're completely immune from anything anyway.
Speaker 1: So just it's in. You're gonna be the president two days.
Speaker 1: There's no reason for us to talk about it.
Speaker 2: So they kicked it back down and he's getting an
Speaker 2: unconditional discharge, to which I have to say, like I
Speaker 2: said earlier this year, if if Big Homie beat these charges,
Speaker 2: the plan was to wait the clock out.
Speaker 1: He said, that was the plan.
Speaker 2: And I don't understand, like I told y'all before, I
Speaker 2: don't understand why every court didn't talk to each other
Speaker 2: and say, you know, he's just trying to stall us
Speaker 2: out right.
Speaker 1: This man is making us look a lame, to which
Speaker 1: we have.
Speaker 2: To just be like, salute yo, Kung Fu is greater
Speaker 2: than America's. I like, you can't like you at some point,
Speaker 2: you gotta respect the hustle and at this point, I like, okay,
Speaker 2: I don't like. I don't know what you beat the charges.
Speaker 2: He fought the law and won. Now the law didn't win.
Speaker 2: He fought the law and he won. And like we
Speaker 2: were saying before, which is a real possibility that at
Speaker 2: this type of winning streak this man is on, I
Speaker 2: could see him figuring out how to be able to
Speaker 2: run a third term. If the man stay alive, I
Speaker 2: can see him being like, oh, I'm an run a
Speaker 2: third term. And y'all only decided because of Roosevelt to
Speaker 2: only do two terms. We made that law up, so
Speaker 2: we can change that law. I could totally see this
Speaker 2: man doing that. In other news, there were two terrorist attacks.
Speaker 2: One switch seemed very prophetic, which was the Tesla truck
Speaker 2: being caught on fire inside of a Trump lobby, which
Speaker 2: apparently was Arson. What's up with y'all and Arson?
Speaker 1: This year?
Speaker 2: Now, I did drop a song called burn it Down,
Speaker 2: but I met metaphorically, I ain't me literally because anyway,
Speaker 2: then we had somebody who was born and raised in
Speaker 2: the good old us of A in the heartland of
Speaker 2: Texas rent a car from Touro no less, so that
Speaker 2: mean that car belonged to somebody that's not even like
Speaker 2: a rental player, that's somebody's car and drove that mug
Speaker 2: into the French quarters, just running over people, and somehow
Speaker 2: that's all this year? Like, how this has been? This
Speaker 2: year has been the longest week, This week has been
Speaker 2: the longest year?
Speaker 1: What like? How is it only? How is it only
Speaker 1: the fifteenth?
Speaker 2: What the There's a term called hypernormalization, which I'll probably
Speaker 2: do an episode on a little later, but I feel
Speaker 2: like we're experiencing that. Yeah, that's another conversation. Next, Zuckerberg
Speaker 2: basically was like slop slop gobble gobble Trump, which I
Speaker 2: never really talked that crude, but that's really just what happened.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to tell y'all.
Speaker 2: So he basically like, now, now, y'all may or may
Speaker 2: not remember, but there was a time that Mark was
Speaker 2: thinking about running for president and he tried to make
Speaker 2: the Democrat play.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you come to the cool.
Speaker 2: Kids table, in the same way, Drake tried to come
Speaker 2: back to the bungalows and we was like, Nigga, you're
Speaker 2: a weirdo, you don't belong here. Go back, go back
Speaker 2: to the frat boys, like go just go over there.
Speaker 2: The problem with like Zucker was like, well, frat boys
Speaker 2: don't like you either. You a weirdo that made a
Speaker 2: website to rate chicks Like I don't you a weirdough.
Speaker 2: So he was like, I'll show all y'all and I'll
Speaker 2: get rich.
Speaker 1: And he did. So he was like, look, this is
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. We're gonna be like X, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stop fact checking. We gonna do community notes.
Speaker 2: What you mean, You're gonna trust other Facebook users to
Speaker 2: tell Facebook Facebook wrong?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: He was like, uh, we're gonna put top Republican what's
Speaker 2: the boy's name, Joel Kaplan. He gonna put him in
Speaker 2: charge of public policy at Meta. He unappointed Dana White,
Speaker 2: you know, the UFC boy he dodn'nappointed him.
Speaker 1: To be on the board.
Speaker 2: And then he gonna move the content moderators, all the
Speaker 2: mods they leaving LA and they going to Texas because,
Speaker 2: according to him, California has too much of a political bias,
Speaker 2: because Texas don't. My man literally was like, you know,
Speaker 2: after the twenty sixteen election, people really got tired of
Speaker 2: all the political gaslighting and rhetoric happening on the platform.
Speaker 1: So now this is we're gonna do. We're gonna allow
Speaker 1: the political guests at rhetoric without fact checking. Bruh, what
Speaker 1: did you say?
Speaker 2: He basically removed any possibility of the rights, saying that
Speaker 2: social media and tech companies have a left leaning like
Speaker 2: your y'all, there's no way you can say that now.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Amazon Bezos in them because you know billionaire's
Speaker 2: gonna billionate Amazon and them. They don't already cut the
Speaker 2: check to Milania for her to be able to make
Speaker 2: her her own biodoc series. Yeah, they like while she'd
Speaker 2: have I thought you wouldn't suposed to be well, ain't no.
Speaker 2: I thought you wasn't supposed to when it comes to
Speaker 2: this family. But like she like currently is the first lady.
Speaker 2: I just be feeling like, maybe maybe you post to
Speaker 2: wait till after well, I mean, maybe it might be
Speaker 2: an interesting show, but what do I know?
Speaker 1: Anyway, La on fire, let's talk about it all right
Speaker 1: here go.
Speaker 2: So, I'm sure your news outlets or social media's has
Speaker 2: told you a space the size of Manhattan and then
Speaker 2: another space the size of Chicago and then sprinkled with
Speaker 2: a couple other states.
Speaker 1: Is gone.
Speaker 2: There's part of me that felt like it was hard
Speaker 2: to make Americans have a perspective as to what Gaza
Speaker 2: must be like. Obviously, the difference is the Gaza thing
Speaker 2: was on purpose, Like these are bombs and the death
Speaker 2: toll is absurd, So don't let me. Don't take my
Speaker 2: metaphor too far. But what I'm trying to say is
Speaker 2: there was a neighborhood here and now there's not, and
Speaker 2: the smoke and the smell of just that. I was
Speaker 2: out here vacuuming like air vack, like big old like shot,
Speaker 2: vacuing my driveway and porch from all the ash. Once
Speaker 2: like the air kind of cleared up because look, checking
Speaker 2: in as you can as you can see, I am
Speaker 2: not did as you can see, like my home is
Speaker 2: still standing. Who like who would have had on their
Speaker 2: BINGO card that East Lost Boyle Heights would be a
Speaker 2: safe area. But as I was vacuuming up the stuff,
Speaker 2: it was hitting me that, like, man, it's somebody house.
Speaker 2: I'm vacuuming somebody's dreams. Somebody worked their whole life to
Speaker 2: get to this. Because I'll talk about this later because
Speaker 2: contrary to what your dumb ass auntie says, everybody in
Speaker 2: La ain't rich even everybody in the Palisades ain't rich.
Speaker 2: Some of these people working four and five jobs, worked
Speaker 2: their whole life. So many people just inherited the house
Speaker 2: because the Palisades existed before there was the Palastades, before
Speaker 2: the millionaires moved in. That might be their grandma house
Speaker 2: got it in the forties.
Speaker 1: You don't know that.
Speaker 2: So I'm vacuuming up somebody's dreams. You gotta remember too,
Speaker 2: like all them people got who you think cleaning them houses?
Speaker 1: Who you think mowing them lawns? You think they got jobs? Now? No?
Speaker 2: And where do they live? They live in my side
Speaker 2: of town. So you know, it ain't just We're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about this later. Like I said, it ain't just.
Speaker 2: It ain't just like, oh they rich, they got insurance.
Speaker 2: Like hold on, Jake, you ain't from here. You still
Speaker 2: use terms like Angelino. Nobody from La says Angelino. You
Speaker 2: still calling you call it if you call something. Look,
Speaker 2: let me know how Let me again. It's supposed to
Speaker 2: be in the culture part. But you know how, I
Speaker 2: know you telling all yourself that you ain't from here.
Speaker 1: If you call it.
Speaker 2: South La, none of us call it that, bitch. I'm
Speaker 2: from the land. How you hate LA if you ain't
Speaker 2: been below the ten. Look, I know Kendrick just said that,
Speaker 2: but you have to understand, like we all say that
Speaker 2: you ain't been south of the ten. I'm gonna add
Speaker 2: east of the river, because some people north of the ten,
Speaker 2: like Lincoln Heights. There's some like some real Likeasa, like Vathos,
Speaker 2: who've been here for a long time. You from the Avenues.
Speaker 2: You ain't been to the Avenues. You've only been on
Speaker 2: York in Highland Park. Like, Bro, you can't hate LA.
Speaker 2: You ain't been there. You ain't been to LA. That's
Speaker 2: one of my biggest arguments. I'm like, you've been to Crenshaw,
Speaker 2: you ain't been in LA like you have not. I
Speaker 2: don't care. You've been to Hollywood, big dog. That's where
Speaker 2: you've been. So here's the problem. Wildfires is normal. We
Speaker 2: have four seasons in LA. I've made this joke before.
Speaker 2: We got hot rain, fire wind, not in that order.
Speaker 2: It's usually hot, fire, rain wind, right, those are our seasons.
Speaker 2: Right now in January's normally rainy season. We're usually experiencing
Speaker 2: mud slides right now because the fires happened in November.
Speaker 2: You follow me, But the dude on the Joe Rogan podcast.
Speaker 2: I know this clip was going around like he was
Speaker 2: talking about a firefighter.
Speaker 1: Nigga. Every firefighter knew this.
Speaker 2: One of my big homies, Dax Reynosa from My Rap
Speaker 2: Crew Tunnel Rats. His brother in law shout out Shae,
Speaker 2: my homegirl, Shay. She's like my breatha. Shay's so cute.
Speaker 2: Her husband, Chris. Chris is in charge of the Lejabra
Speaker 2: fire Station. He literally fighting fires right now. My mom
Speaker 2: worked at the West Covina Fire Department, retired from there,
Speaker 2: which is La County. She was she really she worked
Speaker 2: in the fire science and on the account and admin
Speaker 2: side thirty years. Retired from there. They even try to
Speaker 2: recruit her for the fire Academy in Maryland, so like,
Speaker 2: I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: They all predicted this.
Speaker 2: They said, one day the wind and the fire are
Speaker 2: gonna happen at the same time. And when it happens,
Speaker 2: and only shit we can do. They've been saying this
Speaker 2: my whole life, that like we've just been getting lucky.
Speaker 2: And when it's urban it's too dense, there'll be no there.
Speaker 2: It's just it's we don't make our roads for this,
Speaker 2: which you know yay capitalism. Why do I say that,
Speaker 2: because you could have made roads wider, You could have
Speaker 2: set it up to where just in case. Because when
Speaker 2: you go to places that know they're gonna flood, when
Speaker 2: you go to places that know they get hurricanes, they
Speaker 2: build different, you know what I'm saying. So we just
Speaker 2: we we didn't do it right. Los Angeles ever since
Speaker 2: it became urban, has been dry. It just it's a
Speaker 2: dry area. We don't have natural We don't have a
Speaker 2: lot of natural fresh water. We did the La River
Speaker 2: used to not be paved. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: there is a movement now to like unpaved. You know,
Speaker 2: that would really help with a lot of our climate issues.
Speaker 2: You didn't have to pave it once it came down here.
Speaker 1: But our water won.
Speaker 2: The San Georro Valley river that comes from the mountains
Speaker 2: was the is the La River. So that was our
Speaker 2: natural water. But you couldn't build a city the size
Speaker 2: that it is unless except for Mahulland so the thing
Speaker 2: way up in the northern in the which is the
Speaker 2: beginning of our aqueduct. We took the water from there,
Speaker 2: La which is It's a sad thing.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: Through line on NPR did a whole episode on where
Speaker 2: the aqueduct started and how we just kind of like
Speaker 2: even maulhulland that created the Mahulland Pass and the Maholland Road,
Speaker 2: like I mean, he stole it, but they would say
Speaker 2: he stole it the way that America stole native land.
Speaker 2: Like listen, it is what it is, So we don't
Speaker 2: have natural water. It was already gonna be a issue,
Speaker 2: is correct, but just for weird reasons in the sense that, yeah,
Speaker 2: we don't take care of nobody's listening to the natives.
Speaker 2: Nobody's listening to the folks that told y'all how to
Speaker 2: take care of his land. And some of that is, yeah,
Speaker 2: you have controlled burns, right, so that the stuff won't
Speaker 2: be intense now copied car. You know, obviously our carbon
Speaker 2: emisions are off the charts now. The smog that used
Speaker 2: to cover our city is not the way it used
Speaker 2: to be, the way that I used when I remember
Speaker 2: growing up in which was like I mean sometimes they
Speaker 2: would cancel school, like they're like, the air is orange.
Speaker 1: It's just a big, small layer.
Speaker 2: And I remember flying into the city and always seeing
Speaker 2: it and it was a part of like knowing I
Speaker 2: was home because the sky had like an orange layer
Speaker 2: over it. And the governator, believe it or not, he's
Speaker 2: part of why we don't got that small problem like
Speaker 2: we used to.
Speaker 1: That has to do with stuff that.
Speaker 2: This is where like y'all huge capitalists is what y'all
Speaker 2: don't get. It's like he started making rules about emissions.
Speaker 2: He started talking about our cars while we gotta get
Speaker 2: small checks. Like I mean, they're annoying, But I tell
Speaker 2: you what. You could breathe the air and it's really helped,
Speaker 2: you know, but our carbon footprint is so high. We're
Speaker 2: trapping too much thing. The air is dry, we don't
Speaker 2: get a lot of rain. We naturally don't get a
Speaker 2: lot of rain. On top of that climate change.
Speaker 1: It was like this was the perfect storm. It was
Speaker 1: bound to happen.
Speaker 2: So the Palisades, I don't need to tell y'all, I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: I don't need to tell y'all. So the Palisades is
Speaker 2: up by Malibu. It's a incredibly wealthy area where you know, a.
Speaker 1: Lot of celebrities live.
Speaker 2: But like I said, I'm gonna talk about the culture later,
Speaker 2: Like not everybody out there is a celebrity. Some of them
Speaker 2: people are just really hard working dentists. Some of them
Speaker 2: people got that house from their grandma. Some of them
Speaker 2: people you understand what I'm saying, Like it's not just
Speaker 2: like you can't just be.
Speaker 1: Heartless about the stuff. Like people work hard out here. Now.
Speaker 2: The other part that's really big is the eating fire,
Speaker 2: and that is where the city of Altadena is now.
Speaker 1: I have a trillion times talk about how I'm from.
Speaker 2: The six to six two six is an area code
Speaker 2: in an area called the San Gabriel Valley's twenty minutes
Speaker 2: east to South Central. That's West Kobe. If you know
Speaker 2: my raps, you know all these these things that I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. Now, the northern tip of that is Pasadena
Speaker 2: in Altadena. I've always known those areas as black. Now
Speaker 2: this is where Jackie Robinson's from. Now, the thought never
Speaker 2: crossed my mind as to why it was black, because
Speaker 2: you know, when you were a child, like before I
Speaker 2: moved to the six to six, you know we I
Speaker 2: was the east side of South Central. My family like,
Speaker 2: we're black as hell. So I lived in a really
Speaker 2: a black world. My neighbors were Latino. Like I said,
Speaker 2: I lived on the borderlands between the Mexican and Latino
Speaker 2: neighborhoods or Mexican black neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: But like I lived in a black world.
Speaker 2: My father was a black panther like, so I just
Speaker 2: was like, I don't know, like you do, like little
Speaker 2: city you were in, like city, you know, sports things.
Speaker 2: I remember the RCO Jesse Owen's game. Now if you
Speaker 2: really from the city, you remember this, Like this was
Speaker 2: like a youth track thing and Pasadena rubbing Pasadena running rebels.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Like, so that was the little youth like sports you
Speaker 2: know program out there. That was their little track team.
Speaker 2: They was all black. So Pasadena at Altadena although for
Speaker 2: us we were like these houses are bigger than ours,
Speaker 2: Like they're really nice, they're a lot older.
Speaker 1: But it's a black negor I've always known it as
Speaker 1: a black neighborhood.
Speaker 2: It was also bloods up there, big hit as in
Speaker 2: hit Boy his daddy like they're.
Speaker 1: From Pasadena, you know, he moved to the Ie.
Speaker 2: But like I've always known that area as black. Now
Speaker 2: too much into it it. This really had to do
Speaker 2: with the Civil Rights movement. You know, this area is
Speaker 2: very woody. It's right at the foothills of the Angelus
Speaker 2: Mountains and because of the Civil Rights movement, integration redlining laws.
Speaker 1: Because historic historic Los.
Speaker 2: Angeles was down on the east side of South Central,
Speaker 2: east of the one ten right, which is all Latino now.
Speaker 2: But that was very working class organizing forty fourth and Central,
Speaker 2: like I said, where the Black Panthers thing was, where
Speaker 2: my family was at.
Speaker 1: That was very working class.
Speaker 2: But once there was the possibility for black people to
Speaker 2: enter the middle class where you can get a little
Speaker 2: bigger homes, that was up in Altadena. And some of
Speaker 2: that had to do with well, I'm going to read
Speaker 2: this Altadena Heritage article here or the end of it. It
Speaker 2: says Altadena's present day diversity came from came into being
Speaker 2: largely during the tumult of the social age change in
Speaker 2: the sixth nineteen sixties, and seventies. The civil rights movement,
Speaker 2: protests against Vietnam, and the rising youth culture and other
Speaker 2: assets of this present day played out locally in lawsuits
Speaker 2: around school integration, neighborhoods carved apart by new freeways, redevelopments,
Speaker 2: and conflicts in Pasadenas. All of these causes, along with
Speaker 2: the thickening layer of small pillowing against the mountains prompted
Speaker 2: half of Altadena's population to leave in a flurry of
Speaker 2: white flight, and the new residents were mainly people of color.
Speaker 2: So because of that area and white flight, we got
Speaker 2: us a neighborhood. Now most of the people, a lot
Speaker 2: of people I grew up with a lot of black people.
Speaker 2: I grew upup their Gramdma on Nim just like so
Speaker 2: a lot of our grandma on Ms was in Crenshaw.
Speaker 1: But the gang stuff like really made that impossible. A
Speaker 1: lot of are our elders, a lot of our parents.
Speaker 2: Their homes are up there, right, and they're really historic homes.
Speaker 2: So the Altadena one like hit us really deeply. A
Speaker 2: lot of old jazz musicians. Mad Lib the producer, he
Speaker 2: lost his crib, DJ Severe, his parents.
Speaker 1: DJ Severe is the DJ for the La Dodgers.
Speaker 2: His parents lost ay crib, his grandparents lost they crib.
Speaker 2: The house he grew up in gone.
Speaker 1: It sucked a lot of times.
Speaker 2: We were able to buy houses because of the GI
Speaker 2: benefits after World War two, right because remember most of
Speaker 2: the people that was drafted were people of color, so
Speaker 2: you'd get these like housing grants after and because of
Speaker 2: redlining and zoning laws, there were only specific areas black
Speaker 2: people were allowed to buy in. It's same at California
Speaker 2: wasn't no, you know, Utopia. So losing Altadena is a
Speaker 2: really big blow to not only LA but the black
Speaker 2: community period.
Speaker 1: Okay, now let's talk about some science next. Okay.
Speaker 2: One of the things people kept asking I saw on
Speaker 2: the internet was like, why y'all not just using the ocean.
Speaker 2: How y'all talk about there's not enough water in the
Speaker 2: fire hydrogens when you next to the ocean. I don't understand. Well,
Speaker 2: let me help you understand.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: First of all, the ocean is saltwater, and the salt
Speaker 2: water you may or may not know, is corrosive. Right,
Speaker 2: So if you spray the whole town with salt water,
Speaker 2: this is gonna make clean up damn near impossible because
Speaker 2: of what was of what is left standing, some of
Speaker 2: the metal or the brick or stuff like that. The
Speaker 2: chemical reactions, it's only gonna cause problems. So it makes
Speaker 2: clean up after the fire is out almost impossible.
Speaker 1: Secondly, believe it or not, it's heavier.
Speaker 2: I know that's weird to say, but ocean water is
Speaker 2: heavier than fresh water.
Speaker 1: It is what it is, right.
Speaker 2: And then Another reason, which is probably again one of
Speaker 2: the one of the stronger ones, is like it's gonna
Speaker 2: kill the vegetation. So because the vegetation on the land,
Speaker 2: it comes from rain and fresh water. That's not ocean water.
Speaker 2: That's feeding your plants. If you ever have any hope
Speaker 2: for the ground to restore itself and grow, you doubts
Speaker 2: it with salt water, like you like you're killing it,
Speaker 2: Like you're killing the ground. So on first thought, you
Speaker 2: would think that just use the ocean. It's really not
Speaker 2: a good idea because it just it makes clean up impossible.
Speaker 2: It's corrosive, and it's gonna kill the vegetation. Okay, next,
Speaker 2: well why did it take so long for them to
Speaker 2: get it contained? It was the wind now, like I said,
Speaker 2: normally the Santa Anna winds, which is something that we've
Speaker 2: all lived with, usually doesn't coincide with fire season, right,
Speaker 2: So the winds is just something that like I mean,
Speaker 2: I got for all my Cali folks, you know, like
Speaker 2: I said, like since I grew up in the SGV,
Speaker 2: I still went to high school in the Inland Empire
Speaker 2: and out there, like I mean, they would shut down
Speaker 2: school because it was just it would knock down trees
Speaker 2: like the wind. The Santa Ana's is not a game
Speaker 2: in the Inland Empire. Even in my mom's house that
Speaker 2: there's a tree behind the retaining wall in her backyard
Speaker 2: that knocked over. It broke the retaining wall. It didn't
Speaker 2: break her window until the city came in to cut
Speaker 2: the rest of the tree down, and then that broke
Speaker 2: the window.
Speaker 1: But uh, it's absurd.
Speaker 2: But the wind, this is something that, like, we know
Speaker 2: that's gonna be a problem. So it's just the combination
Speaker 2: of them both happening at the same time is awful.
Speaker 2: The next thing I want to talk about is a
Speaker 2: combination of misinformation and what really went on with the government. Okay, now,
Speaker 2: far be it from me to get on this camera
Speaker 2: and defend Karen Bastard or Gavin Newsome. I don't trust
Speaker 2: nobody slick their hair back to wait it Gavin Newsom, dude.
Speaker 2: That being said, if you're gonna be mad at him,
Speaker 2: be mad at him for the right reasons.
Speaker 1: Okay, because some of this is just it's just incorrect.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I hate in a situation where you make me defend
Speaker 2: somebody I don't really mess with, Like when Elon Musk
Speaker 2: and Mark Zuckerberg was gonna have a UFC match when
Speaker 2: they was gonna like grapple, I was like, how dare you?
Speaker 2: How dare you? Because who would I rather see get
Speaker 2: that ass kicked? I mean, how It's a tough question
Speaker 2: because at first it would have been like, oh, I
Speaker 2: want to see I want to see Elon get mopped?
Speaker 2: But how dare you make me cheer for Mark Zuckerbert?
Speaker 2: You know, I think I may still feel like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know anyway, So how dare you make me
Speaker 2: defend Karen Basque and Gavit Deuce because the reality is
Speaker 2: we've been taking care of ourselves. But we'll talk about
Speaker 2: that in the culture section. The first question is about
Speaker 2: where was Karen Bass when it started?
Speaker 1: And what's wrong with the fire hydrants.
Speaker 2: First of all, that little video of her getting off
Speaker 2: the plane after she was coming back from Ghana. Apparently
Speaker 2: Pole lady was on her honeymoon, so she coming back
Speaker 2: from Ghana and she ain't got nothing to say while
Speaker 2: poor lady waiting on her back. They was like, yo,
Speaker 2: why you ain't cut the thing? Okay, So again far
Speaker 2: being for me to defend this woman. But I will
Speaker 2: say this sometimes. I mean she and' it take a
Speaker 2: long time to get home, like it take a long
Speaker 2: time to get home. And you think if you put
Speaker 2: people in charge that they could handle the situation. Ain't
Speaker 2: nobody know all this was gonna come together the way
Speaker 2: that it came together. And secondly, what's she supposed to say,
Speaker 2: because I know what I would say is my nigga,
Speaker 2: can you get here, have a glass of hord chot
Speaker 2: to fuck up? Get out my way. I got shit
Speaker 2: to take care of right now. We're clearly in a crisis.
Speaker 2: We could talk about how much I failed a little
Speaker 2: later right now, out to dinner, Pal says, on fire,
Speaker 2: let me go, give them a feet up under me,
Speaker 2: figure out what the hell happened, and I'll get back
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 1: Nigga, I just landed you right. I'm sorry. I ain't
Speaker 1: no God damn it, I didn't know like I suppose.
Speaker 2: I ain't got no crystal ball cuz I'm on my way. Shit,
Speaker 2: there's a fire chief, why you ain't hit them up?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: So there's that.
Speaker 2: But far being from me to put words at her mouth.
Speaker 2: The fire hydrants. So here's the thing about the fire hydrants. Oh,
Speaker 2: let me throw this one real quick. The la the
Speaker 2: Hollywood sign was not on fire, y'all. Sometimes, listen, fact
Speaker 2: checking is much more easier than you think, if you
Speaker 2: would just stop for a second. Cause misinformation is attempting.
Speaker 1: To probably create a scam.
Speaker 2: Right, They trying to hit a lick here, so they're
Speaker 2: gonna give you something that's sensational that ain't necessarily what's
Speaker 2: going on because they hitting a lick. So you have
Speaker 2: to remember, like if somebody hitting a lick, they not
Speaker 2: gonna necessarily tell you the whole truth.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Sometimes misinformation is just it's chaos happening. You just have
Speaker 2: and to get it wrong. Especially about the looting thing. Now,
Speaker 2: to me, that was malicious, that that was dissip That
Speaker 2: was the problem of missings misinformation. There was this video
Speaker 2: of these young men, these black men, carrying this stuff
Speaker 2: out of these houses in Altadena. Somebody was like, I
Speaker 2: think it was like a whole ass. Nazi was like, look,
Speaker 2: the looting has already started. They interviewed the lady. The
Speaker 2: lady was like, uh, that's my brother and his friends
Speaker 2: from work. I asked him to come get the rest
Speaker 2: of my stuff out the house. So you're talking about
Speaker 2: this looting is like smells racist because it is racist.
Speaker 2: So there's that and some stuff like I said, like
Speaker 2: if you take a second, just go back through before
Speaker 2: you post it and know that you're invoking an emotion
Speaker 2: and slow down for a second. Another thing you could
Speaker 2: do is just put something through a Google search. If
Speaker 2: you just put it through a Google search, you could
Speaker 2: see if an image was altered in any way. Right,
Speaker 2: is anyone else posting these things? You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 2: there's so many other things you could look at. A
Speaker 2: big thing about the fire hydrants. Did we run out
Speaker 2: of water? The answer is.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me get some let me get some details
Speaker 2: for you. So one reservoir in the Santa Nez Reservoir
Speaker 2: was closed for repairs. The sansee Inez Reservoir holds seventeen million,
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventeen million gallons of water and is
Speaker 2: located at the heart of the paliss But the reservoir
Speaker 2: closure is not the main reason why the hydrants at
Speaker 2: higher higher elevations ran dry.
Speaker 1: Right. A lot of it.
Speaker 2: Has to be has to do with water pressure, right,
Speaker 2: and the amount the intensity of the fire. Nobody, again,
Speaker 2: nobody was prepared for that, so it didn't have enough
Speaker 2: pressure to put the water through because again we weren't
Speaker 2: prepared for this perfect storm that made the fire as big.
Speaker 1: As it was.
Speaker 2: Even if the reservoir, the leader of the DWP said,
Speaker 2: you know, even if the reservoir was full, we still
Speaker 2: would have had the pressure issue because of the intensity
Speaker 2: of the fire.
Speaker 1: So this again, how dare.
Speaker 2: You make me defend the government but at least be
Speaker 2: mad at them for the right reasons. So did the
Speaker 2: budget get cut by seventeen million? And the answer is
Speaker 2: a little tricky. Now the La Times and the BBC
Speaker 2: have reported this. It's not as simple as y'all was
Speaker 2: understaffed and you ain't had no money. Now, we had
Speaker 2: a surplus of equipment and at the time, since nobody
Speaker 2: got a crystal ball, a lot of that surplus, the
Speaker 2: extra that we have was sent off to Ukraine. Why
Speaker 2: because it was extra.
Speaker 1: You following me, So we sent it.
Speaker 2: But it was like, well it was the extra, Like
Speaker 2: I ain't know who's gonna need the extra. Sometimes I
Speaker 2: like y'all think the government really do be telling the future,
Speaker 2: and sometimes they don't, like you be prepared, but you
Speaker 2: have like numbers based on your best guess. Now again,
Speaker 2: don't have me defending the government. I'm just saying sometimes
Speaker 2: it's like that.
Speaker 1: So here we go.
Speaker 2: Although southern California is currently follow me experiencing a drought,
Speaker 2: this is about whether we had enough water. The data
Speaker 2: shows that the reservoirs are almost all currently above historic
Speaker 2: average at this time of year, and none were set
Speaker 2: significant low levels.
Speaker 1: Now let me fact check the fact check.
Speaker 2: What they say is we didn't set a record this time,
Speaker 2: like every year we be setting a record on lows.
Speaker 2: But if you remember at the beginning of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four and the beginning of twenty twenty three, yo, it rained.
Speaker 2: I had to redo the freaking ground in my backyard
Speaker 2: like it got it was bad. So our levels are
Speaker 2: on average more than they have been. Now, don't get
Speaker 2: me wrong, we're still in a drought. It's just not
Speaker 2: as bad as it was. I mean, there was a
Speaker 2: time when you had to, like if you went to
Speaker 2: a restaurant, they didn't just give you water, like you
Speaker 2: had to ask for a glass of water because they
Speaker 2: was like, we just ain't we just ain't got it.
Speaker 2: So our levels have been did come up a little
Speaker 2: bit on average, so it wasn't necessarily that Oh Gavin.
Speaker 1: Newsom released the water for the fishies.
Speaker 2: Now if he had have released it, now, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't understand why you think that him saving that
Speaker 2: water would have saved us from this problem. It wouldn't have.
Speaker 2: And would it have helped. I mean, I guess, but
Speaker 2: like not the way you think it would have helped. Right,
Speaker 2: So that's being that.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: As far as the budget, the seventeen million, okay, so
Speaker 2: for the last financial year the LA Fire Department was
Speaker 2: department budget was cut by seventeen million, right, seventeen point
Speaker 2: six million. Now, the LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley told
Speaker 2: CNN that the budget had cut cut had severely affected
Speaker 2: the department's ability to respond to the disaster, right, so
Speaker 2: that's real. She said the department was already understaffed in
Speaker 2: the elimination of civilian positions like mechanics had meant one
Speaker 2: hundred fire apparatuses were out of service now. So Mayor
Speaker 2: Bass responded to this criticism. She was saying that there
Speaker 2: were no reductions that were made that would have impacted
Speaker 2: the situation that we were dealing with over the last.
Speaker 1: Couple of days.
Speaker 2: So she was like look dog like, it wouldn't have
Speaker 2: made no difference. Now that smells a little bit like
Speaker 2: an excuse, because of course it would have made a difference.
Speaker 2: But that's not the part I want to talk about.
Speaker 2: I don't know why she ain't say this stuff. So
Speaker 2: check this out. So, according to the La Times, after
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four twenty twenty five budget was passed,
Speaker 2: the city council approved, so watch this, fifty three million
Speaker 2: dollars in pay.
Speaker 1: Raises for the firefighters.
Speaker 2: And fifty eight million in new kits such as fire trucks.
Speaker 2: So once the funding on was take it into the account,
Speaker 2: the department's operation budget actually grew, you follow me. So
Speaker 2: we did this budget cut as far as like a
Speaker 2: line item that lost these things, but then brought this
Speaker 2: money over here on this side, right, And the LA
Speaker 2: Fire Department had overall budget approaching almost one billion.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: And also, isn't the only department responding to the fires, right,
Speaker 2: So the forest fire protections all that good stuff. So
Speaker 2: there's other people that normally take care of the forest.
Speaker 2: Is a department different than the LA Fire Department, right,
Speaker 2: you're following me. So, so yeah, there was a budget cut,
Speaker 2: but there was also a budget raise. It just came
Speaker 2: in other ways. Now that being said, I don't know
Speaker 2: how they spend the money. I don't know how that
Speaker 2: stuff break down. Sometimes I don't understand the way they
Speaker 2: do these budgets. It don't make sense to me either.
Speaker 2: But it's not as simple as well. If you wouldn't
Speaker 2: have cut they budget, this wouldn't have happened. It's not
Speaker 2: that simple. Now, did we sell the water rights to corporations? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Water rights being sold right. People that make these statios,
Speaker 2: they own a big percentage of LA's natural water is privatized. Again,
Speaker 2: you can refer to the block as hot the original one.
Speaker 2: Even some of your utility bills, believe it or not,
Speaker 2: those are private companies. But y'all love capitalism right now.
Speaker 2: Another one we want to talk about is the incarcerated firefighters.
Speaker 1: Now, this is a big deal. This is true.
Speaker 2: Thirty percent of the people fighting these fires are incarcerated.
Speaker 2: They do, in fact make five dollars and eighty cents
Speaker 2: or up to ten twenty four cents a day. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say that again, that's what they make a day,
Speaker 2: not five dollars an hour, five hours a day. Now,
Speaker 2: you can earn an additional one dollar per hour responding
Speaker 2: in emergencies. Right now, there's a great thread on threads
Speaker 2: from a former incarcerated firefighter who was incarcerated in California
Speaker 2: in two thousand and nine to twenty twelve. Now again,
Speaker 2: you can't believe the internet. I'm gonna give you some
Speaker 2: pointers as to how you shouldn't believe the internet a
Speaker 2: little later.
Speaker 1: But like, yo, check this out. So it's voluntary.
Speaker 2: First of all, you get to volunteer to be able
Speaker 2: to be a part of the incarcerated Firefighters program. Now again,
Speaker 2: you making pennies. Now, why that's okay, I believe it
Speaker 2: or not. As the thirteenth Amendment, which is the indentured
Speaker 2: servitude clause inside of the thirteenth Amendment that freed the slaves,
Speaker 2: they said, but we could also make you work. If
Speaker 2: you're incarcerated as a part of your punishment, we can
Speaker 2: make you and that's why they only pay you pennies. Now,
Speaker 2: y'all may or may not remember, but there was a
Speaker 2: a bill on the California ballot that literally said slavery.
Speaker 2: I can't make this stuff up, and we voted, and
Speaker 2: we voted for it. Now there are in this program,
Speaker 2: you obviously have to be well not obviously, there are
Speaker 2: a few stipulations you have to be. You know, in
Speaker 2: a nonviolent right you have to be a minimum security
Speaker 2: minimum security status. You have to have no active warrants,
Speaker 2: no physical medical psychiatric conditions, right. You have to have
Speaker 2: a recent clear of disciplinary history less than eight and
Speaker 2: you have to have eight less than eight years remaining
Speaker 2: on your sentence. And you have to have no convictions
Speaker 2: of serious violence, sex, arson, or escape attempts.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So there's a very particular group of people that are
Speaker 2: allowed to do this again because it's involuntary or because
Speaker 2: is voluntary, and you get to be off site, so
Speaker 2: you stay on a campsite. They're twenty four hour shifts,
Speaker 2: they give you food, right, and pending on.
Speaker 1: Your particular.
Speaker 2: Prison location, oftentimes your experience can be much different like anything.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, there's a human thing, right,
Speaker 2: and the people that they choose. Obviously, you're still being
Speaker 2: selected because it's involuntary or because it's voluntary, and they
Speaker 2: have to approve like, Okay, you meet all these requirements,
Speaker 2: but who do we really want to be out for
Speaker 2: two weeks with? So hopefully the person that's working at
Speaker 2: the prison is like cool, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And of course they want it to be a good
Speaker 2: hang like anything else. So of course we're working hard.
Speaker 2: Of course this is voluntary. Of course it's grueling, and
Speaker 2: of course you making pennies. But you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: read this again just for y'all start just thinking. Everybody
Speaker 2: in jail is the same again. You have to have
Speaker 2: a minimum security at status, no active warrants, no physical,
Speaker 2: medical or psychiatric condition. You have to have recent clear,
Speaker 2: recently clear disciplinary history, less than eight years remaining on
Speaker 2: your sentence, and no convictions of serious violent sex are
Speaker 2: sined or escape attempts that like. Of course, like these
Speaker 2: are like you doing what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: You serve your time.
Speaker 2: You made a mistake at one point, you get your
Speaker 2: acts together, right, and you get out there.
Speaker 1: They said they feed you. Well.
Speaker 2: You stay on these things and you get to have
Speaker 2: time knocked off of your sentence, right, you get to
Speaker 2: have time knocked off of your parole. Now if everything
Speaker 2: works out, yes, when you get out, you are allowed
Speaker 2: to apply for certain fire departments, maybe not the lap
Speaker 2: D LAFD.
Speaker 1: So while you're on the site.
Speaker 2: While you're on site, you get like calfired CalFire the
Speaker 2: people that does the training, you get like physical fitness training,
Speaker 2: You get firefighter training. And it's really because again because
Speaker 2: these civilian firefighters, people that like actually like work for
Speaker 2: the virus, like you putting as right, like I'm putting
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 1: In your hands. I need to make sure you know
Speaker 1: what you're doing.
Speaker 2: The state saves like billions of dollars by paying them pennies,
Speaker 2: which obviously is trash, but that's what happens. But you
Speaker 2: get trained on like chainsaws and all the things you
Speaker 2: would need right how to work like basic hand tools.
Speaker 2: Now you're not trained on used to how on how
Speaker 2: to use the fire hose or run an engine right,
Speaker 2: And you're not trained as the type of firefighter that
Speaker 2: requires to go into buildings and rescuing peoples and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. Their task is to cut a fire break
Speaker 2: between what is burning and what is yet to burn, right,
Speaker 2: which is a very important thing that I remember my
Speaker 2: mama used to talk about. Right when you get out,
Speaker 2: you are eligible, right, you are eligible to apply for
Speaker 2: firefighting jobs at how fire right, which has to do
Speaker 2: more with like the woodland sort of stuff like that. Right,
Speaker 2: So it's not so much that you don't get on
Speaker 2: the job training that you can't use, like you still
Speaker 2: get training that you could use later. Now granted again
Speaker 2: this is not a defense of that. But also I
Speaker 2: am not incarcerated. I imagine in an incarcerated sense situation
Speaker 2: where this person chose to do this, they're what they're
Speaker 2: Most of them are saying like, yo, of all these situations,
Speaker 2: I know it's hard, but this is like the dopest
Speaker 2: thing you can do.
Speaker 1: And a lot of them people were saying like yo,
Speaker 1: like I'm from here too, Like I see the same
Speaker 1: news you do.
Speaker 2: I want to help you feel me, Like I don't
Speaker 2: know why people in their brain think once a person
Speaker 2: goes to jail they stop being a person, like they
Speaker 2: still a person?
Speaker 1: You feel me?
Speaker 2: So know that, Like these are the facts and all
Speaker 2: that good stuff. And lastly, I want to talk about
Speaker 2: the culture.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I need you to remember that like everybody in la
Speaker 2: ain't rich. Some of these people have had houses passed down.
Speaker 2: Some of these people have worked two and three jobs
Speaker 2: their whole life. I know Jenney Aiko said she lost
Speaker 2: her house. Everybody dissing or like bye another one. It's
Speaker 2: like Nigga, she's from the land, like she fought or
Speaker 2: worked her whole life to get this. Listen, I'm a
Speaker 2: homeowner right now, but like y'all, I would be done,
Speaker 2: like if I don't know what I would be. What's
Speaker 2: the plan be? Like you start over, bro? Like have
Speaker 2: you ever worked on something for fifteen twenty years? You
Speaker 2: just want somebody to be like, start over, bro, Like, No,
Speaker 2: that's not how the land works. Also, as someone who's
Speaker 2: been on the ground codinating with mutual aid programs and
Speaker 2: even with government programs, my district council member, she's from
Speaker 2: the city. She used her powers of government. She opened
Speaker 2: the city Hall right here in Boyle Heights and set
Speaker 2: up a donation center. But before she could do that,
Speaker 2: or while she was doing that, the city was already
Speaker 2: in action, people already coordinating people already. The the level
Speaker 2: of generosity that has been going across this city. Now,
Speaker 2: if you from an area like Ashville or any other
Speaker 2: areas that are subjected to natural disasters, you know exactly
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. Government can't get to you in time,
Speaker 2: The fire sometimes fire department can't get you in time.
Speaker 2: Who'll get to you first? Is your neighbors. And this
Speaker 2: is what we're seeing out here is neighbors being neighbors, artists, rappers, businesses.
Speaker 2: PAC's son being like, look, dm us, we'll send you
Speaker 2: some clothes. You know what I'm saying. Airbnb being like, yo,
Speaker 2: it's free, go ahead, it's all good. My wife, doctor
Speaker 2: Ahma refer to her by her prefix, has set up
Speaker 2: meal trains. She has within one Google doc just of
Speaker 2: our neighborhood and the school that my daughter goes to.
Speaker 2: Figuring out, Okay, who lost their houses, who gonna donate ventilators?
Speaker 1: Who won't do this?
Speaker 2: Is? I mean, I'm even having friends who've lost everything,
Speaker 2: still figuring out how to help. We at Club real Ones,
Speaker 2: we did one yesterday. We did a drive yesterday to
Speaker 2: taking food cards and stuff like that, like like you
Speaker 2: figure it out out?
Speaker 1: How are we finding each other? Hell? We just are right.
Speaker 2: I remember I was at Boyle Heiste. We took some
Speaker 2: stuff to Egle Rock, Egle Rock, and then there was
Speaker 2: another church over there by the uh off off off
Speaker 2: Cyser Chavez and State. I'm talking to you like you
Speaker 2: from here White Memorial right, So there's a church over
Speaker 2: there too. I met the pastor passing Manny, he like,
Speaker 2: how do I tap in with the city. I'm like
Speaker 2: the city right over there. Matter of fact, we're doing
Speaker 2: some on Sunday, y'all, Caul, bring some of this stuff
Speaker 2: y'all got, We gonna take it there.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take it.
Speaker 2: Up to the h By the time that the city
Speaker 2: set up the rose Bowl, like I said before, we
Speaker 2: already had the stuff.
Speaker 1: We already had it set up.
Speaker 2: We already knew everything, like it was already labeled in
Speaker 2: English Spanish tigallog like toiletries. You feel me, uh you know,
Speaker 2: ROPAs de damas, like you know what I'm saying. Like
Speaker 2: it was already set up. We already had it. Why
Speaker 2: because we're from the land. It was already set up.
Speaker 2: There was water like we today. We took pallettes of
Speaker 2: water to the fire station because.
Speaker 1: That's what they asked for. You know what they also
Speaker 1: they asked for, just like food, gift cards. Sure here,
Speaker 1: we just did it. We figured it out.
Speaker 2: We connected across communities, across towns, and when the government
Speaker 2: caught up and was ready to get themselves situated, because yeah,
Speaker 2: they moved slower than us.
Speaker 1: It's too many things happening right now. That's fine.
Speaker 2: But what you experienced if you had, if you if
Speaker 2: somebody handed you without you having to ask, a pack
Speaker 2: of tampons, toilet paper, and some toothbrushes, why we already
Speaker 2: had that and why you just had it?
Speaker 1: Is anarchy? That's what that is.
Speaker 2: You know why the fire department showed up? Could you
Speaker 2: show ain't paid for it? You say, yessue, did you
Speaker 2: paid for it by your taxes? Yes? Niggas Socialism, that's
Speaker 2: what that is. You know who canceling your insurance? Capitalism,
Speaker 2: that's what that This is why we say the stuff
Speaker 2: we say. But that's the culture here, and you know
Speaker 2: what we're doing while they're doing that. I got DMed
Speaker 2: so many times people of psychologists, therapists that are like, look,
Speaker 2: let me know. If people are going through some trauming
Speaker 2: and experience right now, I'm ready to.
Speaker 1: Sit with them.
Speaker 2: We meet people that's like, listen, let me teach you
Speaker 2: how to read your policy. If it's we're figuring it out,
Speaker 2: don't sign nothing. People helping people, it's just happening. You
Speaker 2: would say, well, it's just people being good neighbors and
Speaker 2: taking care of themselves. I would say, ah ah correct.
Speaker 2: This is what we mean at cuzone. This, This is
Speaker 2: what we mean by leftists. It's like you just you
Speaker 2: just do the shit because it's the right shit to do.
Speaker 2: I don't you don't wait, fam, And that's what's happening
Speaker 2: on the ground now. Ways you can help, let me
Speaker 2: tell you something. We need airperer fires, we need gift cards.
Speaker 2: We got everything else, like and that stuff you can
Speaker 2: see through the mail now us. We'll put in the
Speaker 2: show notes all kinds of links and waits for which
Speaker 2: you can help. But your best bet is if you're
Speaker 2: gonna seeing stuff, uh, send.
Speaker 1: The gift cards.
Speaker 2: I love this city, man, We'll be all right to
Speaker 2: live and die in l A. And I think I'm
Speaker 2: gonna sum it up with something I saw on social media,
Speaker 2: Like with all the like trash talking we're hearing around
Speaker 2: l A.
Speaker 1: About l A is is.
Speaker 2: You know the city's literally on fire. It's because it's
Speaker 2: because of the drug. You know, for whatever reason city's
Speaker 2: on fire. Sometimes the wind can blow you over, Sometimes
Speaker 2: the prices are astronomical and really unsustainable, and sometimes the
Speaker 2: very ground shakes up under us and knocks down buildings
Speaker 2: with earthquakes. But even with all that I still don't
Speaker 2: want to live where you live La Online of Politics.
Speaker 1: Y'all.
Speaker 2: All right, now, don't you hit stop on this pod.
Speaker 2: You better listen to these credits. I need you to
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Speaker 2: to you. If you understand urban living, you understand politics.
Speaker 2: These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all
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