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Speaker 1: Nobody mixed any of that up. But you know, we

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Speaker 1: His story made him like a figurehead of the new

427
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 1: progressive prosecutor movement, which I have opinions about. Um. We

428
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,360
Speaker 1: did a whole episode on him back and in in May,

429
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 1: I believe, And since then, Philly has had the most

430
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 1: violent year on record with spike was one of the highest,

431
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:43,880
Speaker 1: you know, homicide rates on record for the city. Um.

432
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: You know, many large cities have seen spikes in homicides though, um,

433
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:53,400
Speaker 1: violent crime in general is down, but people were killed

434
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 1: in Philly alone this year. But as Meek Mill put it,

435
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 1: in defensive d A. Krasner and a tweet in April.

436
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: I believe, you know, a lot of people want to

437
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 1: blame Krasner for the crime, given his compassionate, compassionate approach prosecution.

438
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,120
Speaker 1: But Meek Mills said, Larry Krasner did not put three

439
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,639
Speaker 1: thousand ghost guns, and Billy is not the blame for

440
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,160
Speaker 1: the rising morder rate. We don't do three D printing

441
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 1: in the hoods. So something happened. So I love the

442
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,120
Speaker 1: I love the veiled implication that like something like somebody's

443
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 1: putting guns in the hood ship. I mean, you know what,

444
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,680
Speaker 1: this can also kind of be added in because the

445
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: thing is, like I guess the rising rising murder rate

446
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: this year, Um yeah, I think you know. I don't.

447
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how specifically I guess the conspiracy goes.

448
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: But I can see what mean be all the same?

449
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, um, like I don't. I'm not gonna get

450
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 1: to I'm not gonna foment conspiracy. Are you here? But

451
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 1: what I will say is from a policy perspective, like

452
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 1: I think it's so important to understand why things happen,

453
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: and in general, there's a confluence of factors in society

454
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: right now. Pandemic stress, you know, due to a number

455
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: of things from unemployment to food and security, housing and security, etcetera.

456
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: But like, I really wish that we I don't know

457
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:24,719
Speaker 1: if this exists in other places, but at least we

458
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 1: had some sort of tracking mechanism in place where we

459
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: sat people down and they got get brought into the jail,

460
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: and we do a profile on them, uh, just the

461
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,880
Speaker 1: interview to understand why they did what they did, and

462
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,160
Speaker 1: to extrapolate patterns from those interviews to like look at

463
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 1: like why homicides are happening at anything, like you know,

464
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 1: an increase rate and then invest in the prevention. Like

465
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,239
Speaker 1: all right, all these cats killed somebody else because there

466
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: was a moment of stress and they did the wrong thing.

467
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 1: All right, how do we how do we like implement

468
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 1: programs in the community to help people do the conflict

469
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: resolution and stress better, they killed each other, etcetera. Like

470
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: I we we will never really know, and various people

471
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 1: will argue for different reasons why is the homicide rate

472
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: is spiking? But until we actually ask these questions of

473
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: the people doing these times, we're never we're not ever

474
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:16,360
Speaker 1: going to actually make a dent in it. It's literally

475
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: outrageous that that's not already done. Perhaps it is somewhere.

476
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't done. If it is done somewhere,

477
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: that's not enough. That doesn't that feels like it. That

478
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: feels like that's just a given, you know what I mean? Yeah,

479
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: it feels like such a common sense, like like approach

480
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,880
Speaker 1: to do in this ship that it's like, man, are

481
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: you are you really saying that nobody's looking in, because

482
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 1: then all we have to rely upon is anecdotal evidence,

483
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: either from the convicted individuals or people in their life

484
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 1: or you know, guards were going to jail who talked

485
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: to them day in and day out. But we need

486
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: like a comprehensive like data bank, data base, scientific approach

487
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: to do, scientific approach to understanding this. Yeah, yeah, so

488
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 1: I mean you can science scientific stuff. So um. In June,

489
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: the federal government admitted to knowing about UFOs and they

490
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: said they would not rule out alien activity. I can't

491
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 1: believe aren't talking about this still, Like it was the

492
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 1: craziest thing in the world to me when it came out.

493
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: And then like just like the you know, natural truck

494
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: bombing of last Christmas, just memory hold completely, memory hold.

495
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: I've been rewatching my x files too, and it's like,

496
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: what are y'all like, people aren't tripping over that ship?

497
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: Let's get into As part of the nine page report

498
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: released by U. S Intelligence, there was no formal way

499
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: within the government to record UFO sightings until the Navy

500
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: started one two thousand nineteen, and the Air Force didn't

501
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: follow suit until roughly a year ago, which shows how

502
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 1: resistant the government had been to acknowledging UFOs and implies

503
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 1: we have a lot less sightings on record than have

504
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: actually happened. As well, the number of reported UFOs may

505
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: have been kept artificially low because of the stigma lung

506
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: attached to reporting these sort of things. Now again, you

507
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: want to talk about ship, that like sounds like it's

508
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: common sense. I have no direct knowledge of any of

509
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 1: this ship, but I've seen enough of those goddamn shows

510
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: and read enough ship with people who really been in

511
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: the ship. And on top of that, like just you know,

512
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: come from military family, don't put anybody in blast. I

513
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: talk to people and ship like that that it just,

514
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: you know, the absolute skepticism of the ship is just

515
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: always been ridiculous to me. So you know, I guess

516
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: like even though it's it's a little late, because we're

517
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: not really like UFOs don't have as much of a

518
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: UFO sightings and UFO culture and UFO believers and stuff.

519
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,959
Speaker 1: It's not like as it's not as popular as like

520
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: a you know, as it was back in the nineties

521
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: and ship when I was a kid. So even though

522
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: it's late that the government's acknowledging, at least they are

523
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: acknowledging at the very LEAs said, hey, they're ship. That

524
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: happens that with all the trillions of dollars that we

525
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: spend that we can't explain what it is. All I

526
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: want somebody to say, thank you. Come on, don't act

527
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: like you know ship for real. Well, Jim was also

528
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: a fairing months over here because now as we passed

529
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: the historic budget, raised the minimum ways for city employees

530
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: picking dollars an hour, including part time seasonal employees, made

531
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: we will public transit. It's been fair free the whole pandemic,

532
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: and we just made it free for life. UM implemented

533
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: a new kind of crisis response team that is non police.

534
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: As you know, if you're having mental health crisis, substance

535
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: abuse issue, you didn't need a wellness check. They send

536
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: in like a social worker in an empty to like

537
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: treat the situation from like a public health perspective, um,

538
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 1: and a ton of other good ship, and it really

539
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: felt like I was finally hit my stride as a politician.

540
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,959
Speaker 1: Was very proud personally, so like, how do you get

541
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,959
Speaker 1: an award for that? How do you get an awards

542
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: for that? Like I feel like you should well but

543
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: only Yeah, I rewarded myself by like I sent out

544
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: a newsletter at the end of the year, and all

545
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: my haters no, I mean, it's funny. There's a lot

546
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: of people that hate follow me, like to like catch

547
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: me slipping and like, and they stay real silent when

548
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: I send out like here's like twenty one amazing things

549
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: I did this year. It includes like all of the

550
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: ship like peep, no, not a not a it's not

551
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: a pat So my reward is just living in peace

552
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: and quiet. I don't want no accolades. I ain't trying

553
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: to get no trophies, no special ribbons. I don't want

554
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: people to leave me alone. Well, this next next topic

555
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: is definitely not peace and quiet. So also going down

556
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: and um June is double XCEL released. There one freshman class.

557
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: Now for those of you who don't know what that

558
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: is like Double Excel is a hip hop publication. I

559
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: would say at this point it's the most popular one

560
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: that's still in print. Do they still print Double looks Out?

561
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: I don't even know any kind of magazine. I just don't.

562
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, I'll put it this way. I haven't

563
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: seen Double Exel in like stores and stuff where I

564
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: normally would see it back in the past. I don't

565
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: know if Double Exel is still print or if it's online.

566
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: But anyway, I digress. Long story short. Every year they

567
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: put out a list of the new Ish rappers who

568
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: they think are destined to become the next top cats

569
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: in the game and ship and they put out their

570
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: list and we're only mentioning it because it's something that happens,

571
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,719
Speaker 1: and it happened this year. I cannot say that I

572
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: am aware of any of the names on it. It's

573
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: probably because I'm sixty five years old. But we've got

574
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: forty two. Doug Moray to see Bick bixed Ian Door,

575
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: I've heard Coil before heard, I've heard I've heard her,

576
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: um Folly of course, um Ruby Rose. I'm not sure

577
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: who that is. Shysty, Yeah, I know who that is.

578
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: D d G. And I don't know how to say

579
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: that last one. Okay, have you heard have you heard

580
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: any of those sides for Flow Million? No? Actually, um,

581
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: I mean posh. I see, like a lot of these

582
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: names I'm familiar with, but as is generally the case

583
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: with me, though I am like deeply you know, indebted

584
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: to and fascinated by hip hop, I'm a bit slow

585
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: on the come up sometimes, like even artists that I

586
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: funk with, Like recently I discovered this Mick Jenkins album

587
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: from thousand eighteen that I've been super obsessed with us

588
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: Like why did I take? Why did it take me?

589
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: This song? I love Mick Jenkins, I don't understand, I

590
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: don't send. And so in fact, in previous years, I

591
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: think sometimes recently actually, I went back and looked at

592
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: all the Double XCEL honorees over the last like ten years,

593
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,479
Speaker 1: and it was like really nostalgic of like maybe not

594
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,239
Speaker 1: in that moment did I see the you know, like

595
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: the grandeur of the artistry of people like Chance the Rapper, uh,

596
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: you know, instead of like big names that have basically

597
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: list previously. But I mean they're they're influence fans out

598
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: in the culture, particularly like Amplified by making it on

599
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: a list like this, So I think we we will

600
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: definitely see these people keep moving. Move to all of them.

601
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: Some of the sing the old folks fault fell off,

602
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: like after that year they were on the cover and

603
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: we've never heard of again. But you know, I'm like,

604
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: I'm a nerd about these certain things. I've always been

605
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: a nerd about these certain things. I wish this is

606
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: one of the moments where I wish I was like

607
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: a bigger media figure because just in my personal life

608
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: I have called like most of who is going to

609
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: be around for the Double Xcel list, you know what

610
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: I mean? After they come up, like once I do

611
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: get to like listen to everybody. It's like I have

612
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: a pretty good track record of like you know what

613
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: this Kendrick of mar Kid Yeah and back Miller, Yeah,

614
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna do you know what I mean? And like

615
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 1: I so, I don't know, I gotta list to know

616
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: some more of these cats. I do. Got to give

617
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: them their due diligence, but um check them out though

618
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: if if you haven't, because you know, even if the

619
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: batting average is low, there usually is always a diamond

620
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: in the Double Excel. Let's so somebody usually blows up.

621
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: It becomes that next person for like the next five years.

622
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 1: So and then I must say Mac and I made

623
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: some moves this year musically, quite exciting. I finished up

624
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: an album in July that uh, I can't wait some

625
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: one else, but I'm not. I can't say nothing yet.

626
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: But you can't tell us what the name is yet. Na,

627
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna not just in case I'm not trying to

628
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: get in trouble. All right, we'll tell us. Tell us

629
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: about its production. I don't know. So it was pretty

630
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: much executive produced by my friend Reindeer Games, who's my

631
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: like you know DJ when I perform. Longtime friends, very random,

632
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: how we matt each other, that's like, but remain friends

633
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: ever since. So he, you know, produced the album for

634
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: the most part. Mac is on the album um on

635
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: Um one of the songs. And then we got a

636
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 1: lot of dope features from folks like Kishi Bashi, Jeff

637
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: Rosenstock and Davis Is on their Western Rulers on there

638
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: my buddy, you know, a long time collaborator um from

639
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: I forgetting Oh, Kevin Barnes from Montreal. So it's gonna

640
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: really cool. But I became a lipt sealed about it

641
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: until we formally announced it next month. Well, in that

642
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: same month, I was moving into my studio, and that's

643
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: you know, I took me like that whole month to

644
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,399
Speaker 1: get everything moved in and and all that stuff. But

645
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: once I did get moved in, I promptly started working

646
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: on the albums that I have coming up. I I'm

647
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: doing the two albums in one year thing. But it's

648
00:35:55,800 --> 00:36:00,040
Speaker 1: like two different labels that drastically different sounds. One of

649
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: them is me wrapping over a lot of a lot

650
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: of trap tiki taki, you know, modern beats that I

651
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,240
Speaker 1: don't usually wrap wrap over. And then the second project

652
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: is more like an industrial rock rap sort of vibe

653
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: to it. So I'm really excited about both of those

654
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: about this web. Only one of them is done and

655
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 1: the other one, i'd say is like in the stages

656
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: right now. Um It's that that one's like a a

657
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 1: pretty big task from a production standpoint because I'm you know,

658
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: working with a bunch of different musicians and stuff like that.

659
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get it to sound as much

660
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: of like a nine inch Nails album as I can.

661
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm very excited for it, and then in August,

662
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: you finished recording that album, right, Yeah, yeah, in August

663
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: I finished recording the first one. I guess I could

664
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: save the name for that one. That one's going to

665
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: be the one that's like the more traditional hip hop one.

666
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: It's called the Dope one. And yeah, that's probably looking

667
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: at maybe uh may for a drop for that. Yeah.

668
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: Well I've been, I've been, you know, And like for

669
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: anybody who does, you know, follow us on the music

670
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: tips and you should if you're listening to this podcast.

671
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: But if you do, you know, I put out like

672
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 1: a new song every month. If not a new song,

673
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: I always have something that I'm putting out. So it's like,

674
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not just gonna make you wait years

675
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 1: for me to drop an album. Yeah. Um, I honestly

676
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: don't feel like talking about Kanye's. I'm talking about Kanye

677
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: s has gotten I mean even not talking about him.

678
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,720
Speaker 1: We're kind of talking about it right now. But Kanye

679
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: dropped Donda and then they could camp out in the

680
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz studio like a weirdo. Honestly, I just want

681
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 1: to keep moving that Donny until you know. In August,

682
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: Corey Bush also won an extension of the eviction moratorium

683
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: after camping out of the steps of the Capitol when

684
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 1: Congress went on recess to the end of July. I mean,

685
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 1: unfortunately it was ultimately struck down again in late August.

686
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: But I think it's a really inspiring example of the

687
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: way that UM politicians can wield their influence as activists

688
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: UM even though they are elected, like oh, people like, oh,

689
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: why are you camping out? Or why are you doing

690
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: this or that? Or why are you tweeting? Like why

691
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: can't you just go in there and vote? But this

692
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: is the power of like she called people like yo,

693
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: come down to the capital camp out with me. They

694
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: put pressure on him and public pressure on him, not

695
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: like behind closed doors of like you know, lobby and

696
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: trying to get votes, but they put pressure enough to

697
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: get it to happen, and yeah, didn't. Then they have.

698
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: Then some people try to dismiss it as being like theatrics,

699
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,399
Speaker 1: theatrics performative, like yeah, protests this theater, like I don't

700
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,800
Speaker 1: know what what y'all want me to say, Like you

701
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: how als we're supposed to give people's attention in order

702
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 1: to make any sort of change that And really, I

703
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: think that argument is in bad faith because they just

704
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 1: really don't want to see people fight. They want so

705
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: badly for the government to lose that they're like, don't

706
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,240
Speaker 1: don't go over and above to make something positive happen.

707
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: I would you know that this wrounts my narrative, So

708
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I think uh immortal technique

709
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: once he had a line that kind of like described

710
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: what you were just talking about. But it's like, just

711
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 1: because you and about ship, don't project that everybody else

712
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: is that way too right, you know what I mean.

713
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: It's like, don't don't be cynical just because you know

714
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: you're not, like you ain't about that life right, just

715
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: because you're sitting in your gass on the couch not

716
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: doing it, it it doesn't mean you can like clap back

717
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: at Cory Bush when she's out there actually trying to

718
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,760
Speaker 1: help people exactly, speaking of people who are fighting and helping.

719
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: Uh Nina Turner that same loves Her bid for the

720
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: Democratic nominee Congress in Ohio, running to replace Mercia Fudge,

721
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: who was appointed head as the Housing and Urban Development Secretary,

722
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: became a proxy fight between the leftmost wing of the

723
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 1: party and the establishment democrats see, and people always want

724
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: to use things like this, um, you know, inclusive of

725
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: like just's a variety of progressive losses, even like the

726
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: loss of Bernie Sanders in this point to my presidential election,

727
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 1: as indicators that like progressivism isn't popular and that like

728
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 1: progressive wins are impossible. But everyone always wants to use

729
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: an anecdotal example as like definitive evidence of whatever they

730
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: already believe. Um, Like we like have had numerous victories

731
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: as well, like we were just talking about da Krass,

732
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 1: they are getting reelected. Um, the fact that we have

733
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: the quote unquote squad Now, UM, I think that it's

734
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: a lot more complicated than that than um. Even even

735
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: on the left word side of things that like progressions

736
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: want to say like, oh, the establishment is stacked against

737
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: us and we can't win because they cheat, And it's

738
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: like that narrative isn't helpful either. All of usus have

739
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 1: to understand that, Um, the dynamics and each race are

740
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: different and are complicated, and there's no foregone conclusion to

741
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: the you know, um, the sturdy andness and durability of

742
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: the establishment, or the inability for progressives to get elected,

743
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: or the sure fired, Uh, sure fired, like assurance that

744
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: progress as well get elected. Like whatever you think is possible,

745
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: whatever you think is inevitable, is wrong. Like so you know,

746
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: we seem like, right, it seemed inevitable that Lena would

747
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 1: win because she was pulling really highly early on in

748
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: the race. But like you know, like national Pundance didn't

749
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: know acually happened in the ground. We were out there

750
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 1: in Cleveland walking around talking to people, and so it's

751
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: just more complicated than like one side is pure and

752
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: right and will always win. Like it's just it's just

753
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: you know, complex confluence of factors in each in every

754
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: single race. Son and did not win, No, she didn't, unfortunately,

755
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 1: but she has her fighting though. Yeah, I'm sure she'll

756
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: run for something again. But I think now one of

757
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: the things I normally see her doing is she uh

758
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: co ho guest host on a t y T every

759
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: now and then. Oh that's nice. Yeah, well, I don't

760
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 1: even want to say every now and then. It kind

761
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,320
Speaker 1: of seems like she's doing her regularly now, so she's

762
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: like like actually like on the show like that, Um,

763
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a little break right there, and then

764
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna come back and recap the next of these

765
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: uh the rest of these uh happenings over the course

766
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: of the year. But um, we will be right back

767
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: after the jump. All right, we are back, and we

768
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:54,720
Speaker 1: are in the month of September. Now, So September saw

769
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: rapper Little Sims drop her album. Sometimes I might be introvert.

770
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: The British Nigerian rappers fourth album seamlessly incorporates grime, hip hop, soul,

771
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: and old school R and B. Did you really does?

772
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: It really does blend the different genres together very seamlessly,

773
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,760
Speaker 1: in a way that I think a lot of albums

774
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: could end up sounding like like a like a mission,

775
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: like an awkward missmatch from people try to incorporate too

776
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: many different concept styles together. But really it feels like

777
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: it was flowing down the river and you like pass

778
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: you know you you know, pass the banks of grime,

779
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: you pass the shores of hip off and soul. Um like,

780
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: it really weaves it all together really well. So she's

781
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: worth checking out if you haven't heard her new album.

782
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: It might have been one of my favorites from this year. Honestly, Yeah,

783
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: it's definitely one of my favorites from the show. I'm

784
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: glad that she's getting like the recognition that she's getting

785
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 1: now because she's been around for a minute. Like you

786
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,919
Speaker 1: you know, I just said it was her fourth album.

787
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: And sometimes I feel like when artists have this sort

788
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: of blow up that, um, I don't know, people have

789
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: a tendency to think, you know, not only that it's overnight,

790
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: but to think that there are a new artist, you

791
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So hopefully her blowing up off

792
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: of this ship is going to put some shine onto

793
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: like her second album. Yeah, yeah, exactly the same way

794
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: that I was talking about earlier, where like, uh, you

795
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: get stuck on like a like a singular facet of

796
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,240
Speaker 1: someone's tystography, and it's like, oh, I love this album,

797
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: and you fail to go at the times and like

798
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: go back and see what other work people have created.

799
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: I do also hope that people will given some of

800
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: the acclaim this album has gotten, you know, go back

801
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: and check out somewhere early stuck because we dove too.

802
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:38,280
Speaker 1: What else we've gotten. Oh this is just a little

803
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: side thing, but I feel like it's a little relevant now. Um.

804
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: Also in September, Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court he

805
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: uh he issued a statement saying amongst other things, promising

806
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: that the Supreme Court was not a dangerous cabal of

807
00:44:55,680 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 1: partisan political hecks. Now what prompted him to just right?

808
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: It's like when you when you say, like, don't think

809
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: of an elephant. Immediately the first thing thing of a

810
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,879
Speaker 1: jinas like, oh, we're not a dangerous couple. They wait,

811
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: why would you say, why would you even say that?

812
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: What's happening in the Supreme Court? We'll given that like

813
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: a month later, so they would be weighing in on

814
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: the rovy way. That kind of seemed like an ominous foreshadowing,

815
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: which is why a lot of people were expecting that

816
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 1: to to just completely get stricken down in the first place. Yeah, like,

817
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: please ignore our dangerous cabal like us behind the scenes,

818
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: I promise we are not a dangerous cabal. Uh, nicely done, simboltels.

819
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: It's like when it's like when you catch somebody and

820
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: they're like, I didn't do nothing. It's like, yo, I

821
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:50,439
Speaker 1: didn't even accuse you anything with the Yeah October, oh man,

822
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: so my my hands sound. Favorite album of the year,

823
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: well maybe not actually, okay, number two favorite album the

824
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: year Maxi Creams The Weight of the World. I loved it.

825
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 1: So much Houston rapper. He's been dominating the scene down

826
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: there for like a decade now. It's been wrapped with

827
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: like a rarely seen emotional clarity in his music. He

828
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: just like openly reckons with the demons in his life.

829
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: And also it's like his cadence, like the way he

830
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: switches up its flow, it makes it sound it's like

831
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: very unassuming and like disarming in the way it's like,

832
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: oh wow, that was really creative, but like you don't

833
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: sound like you're trying hard, Like it's not like those

834
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: like not to hate on, like lyrical miracle rappers like myself,

835
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: where it's like it sounds like they're like sweat and

836
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: bullets to try to like compile like people like sucking

837
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: what's his name logic, Like he sounds like squeeze a

838
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: lot of stuff in there to make it really impressed Matt.

839
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: So it's just like sitting back like with his feed

840
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: up blow in your mind, like without even trying. It

841
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: sounds like in the way he in his delivery. And

842
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: so the way to the World I think album, I

843
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: think it all comes down to style though, you know,

844
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 1: or even I just think that like the byproduct of

845
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 1: that is what makes your style, you know, Like I think, uh,

846
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: Maxe Cream he's got He's got like a flow that

847
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: sounds laid back. But I think that's just how we

848
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,439
Speaker 1: interpret his delivery of his style, you know what I'm saying,

849
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 1: because it's meant to be like that. But I think

850
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 1: he probably does sweat bullets to like to like, you

851
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: know what I mean, to execute that, you know, which

852
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: is why it sounds impressive when he does. It is

853
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: because he's so good, Whereas like somebody could just be

854
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,800
Speaker 1: like I mean, I don't even need to say somebody.

855
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,439
Speaker 1: Lots of other fucker's are like, yo, I just gotta

856
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: laid back style, and then you hear it. It's like,

857
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 1: man probably wrapped like you care because this back fire,

858
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: it can backfire. But no, I really appreciate the way

859
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: he sounds so easy going in his wraps. This, though,

860
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 1: does make me think of my actual favorite rap album

861
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: from this year that I hey, that did not mentioned

862
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: for Jude because in Jude gold Link dropped haram Oh,

863
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: I haven't heard that. Oh my god. It's like, Okay,

864
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 1: so y'all were talking on my about how I really

865
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 1: love radio Heads. It's like if radio Head made an

866
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: R and B rap album. She was just like so

867
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: almost in outer space, like hovering just above the atmosphere,

868
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: riding around and like real stealth spaceships. Just smooth as

869
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: hell dark, but like like warm dark, like when you're

870
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: sitting in your bed with the covers off your face. Um.

871
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: Really yeah, it's it's so I mean, it's wrapping, it's

872
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: it feels. Its got an R and B feel to

873
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: it and some of like the vocal like vocals, hooks

874
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: and things like that. Um, but yeah, it's just really

875
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: dark and creamy adventure. I got it. What's what's it

876
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 1: called again, It's called and they are a M I

877
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: am on it, I am on it. Yeah. This was

878
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: the whole like end of our year to avoid the

879
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: bad stories, which just it's like a music review. But

880
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: in November Mac Commie drop what I would say is

881
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: album of the Year Pray for Haiti and Grizona. It

882
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 1: was number two on Rolling Stones Top ten Top t

883
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: hip Hop Records of the Year. It's bonkers. It's like

884
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I'll tell you this is what I

885
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: thought about Pray for Haiti. You know how I'm always

886
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: complaining about like hip hop I feel and this is

887
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 1: all could be in my head. But I feel that

888
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 1: hip hop doesn't get like the artistic praise until it

889
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: incorporates a bunch of ships that's not hip hop into it,

890
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 1: which there's nothing wrong with at all. That's like a thing.

891
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: But it's like, if it's very rare that just a

892
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:49,800
Speaker 1: dude or a woman or whoever, just a person wrapping

893
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: over beats full stop is like you know that people

894
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: really looking as like, oh man, this is mind blowing,

895
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: this is crazy, this is amazing, this is like, let's

896
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: take to me places I've never been blah blah blah.

897
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 1: And and I want to say, the last time I

898
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: saw people get like a rap act to get props

899
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 1: like this for doing that was probably when Run the

900
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 1: Jewels first came out. And and it's really dope to

901
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: see that happening for mac Commy right now, because this

902
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 1: is like as stripped down in bare bones as you

903
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 1: can get. It's just it's sample based beats, sample based

904
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: boom bat beats, and just a really really dope lyrical

905
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: rapper going in and it it cast asides every trope

906
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: that we think we need in modern hip hop, of like, hey,

907
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 1: you don't need to have catchy hooks on every song.

908
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 1: You know, the songs don't even necessarily have to have

909
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: like a like a hard topic or concept or anything

910
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: like that. And it's just it's beautiful. It's just a

911
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: beautiful piece of music and a beautiful piece of rap

912
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: music through and to cross over a little bit into politics,

913
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: into directions and facts. It was out from Griselda Records,

914
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,919
Speaker 1: just based in Buffalo, New York, where Democrats socialist India

915
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: Walton earlier this year won the Democratic primary for mayor,

916
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: but in November was ultimately trounced by a write in candidate,

917
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: the incumbent Byron Brown, who was backed by you know,

918
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: establishment Democrats as well as Republicans who were really scared

919
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: of a Democratic socialist becoming the mayor of Buffalo um

920
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: as well, you know, to speaking speaking of prayers for Haiti,

921
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: um in May, we had on Eugene per year of

922
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: Breakthrough News to discuss his trip to Haiti and document

923
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: that spring uprisings there. And at the time we had

924
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: no idea that just two months later President Jovina Moyes

925
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: Pubnel moys Um would be assassinated. Should hit the fans

926
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: just when he saw things were really topsy turvy down there. Um,

927
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: I mean it made a bad situation worse. Like it

928
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: did make a bad situation worse. I mean it was

929
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 1: like he was already not great, um, you know, having

930
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 1: said things like um, you know, having done things like

931
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: dismantling Haiti's leg just ad of bodies and at one

932
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: point saying, after God, there is only me. Well, I

933
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: mean definitely, because we definitely covered his fascist tendencies and stuff. Yeah. Yeah,

934
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,280
Speaker 1: hiring like gangs to like do the government's violent bidding

935
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 1: and then without a president, the gangs just turned on

936
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 1: the community just willy nilly, and they're just out there

937
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: causing terror. Shouldn't definitely make a bad situation a lot worse.

938
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's the situation right now. Yeah, so you know,

939
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: pray for Haiti and ed Man for real. November had

940
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: some other positive tidings, you know. Um, India Walton may

941
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: have lost, but Robin Ones and Wallah Blah, who we

942
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: interviewed um in August, won her election to the Minneapolis

943
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 1: City Council. Um and yeah, just oh you know that's

944
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: openly socialisty fund the police lady among many actually uh

945
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:52,919
Speaker 1: women and women in color with you know, strong left

946
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:57,359
Speaker 1: politics that won the city council. Uh. There even though

947
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 1: at the same time, interestingly, the measure to effectively abolished

948
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 1: the police department failed And so I've seen that held

949
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 1: up as like indication that, like the fund of the

950
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: police movement had like failed. But like, how can you

951
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: say that when at the same time multiple people got

952
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: elected to the City Council of Minneapolis on that very platform,

953
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,879
Speaker 1: And like how and and indeed how shocking it is

954
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: that in a major American city of voters would opt

955
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: to replace their police department with something entirely different Like

956
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,319
Speaker 1: that is unprecedented, even if to some it may look

957
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,320
Speaker 1: like a failure. Do you think, you know, glad tings

958
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 1: all around on that is it? Do you think of

959
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:43,280
Speaker 1: the particular city might come into play on a notion

960
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: like that, Because wasn't Minneapolis having issues with the Minneapolis

961
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: PD for years leading up to George Floydiapolis with the

962
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 1: ground zero of of of everything that happened last summer,

963
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: and for years have been having issues with mpd uh

964
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: And so I do think again, the specific context in

965
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,800
Speaker 1: which has happened is very important. People overlook the fact

966
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: that UM earlier this year as well, UM under Mayor

967
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: Sponte Mirrack up in Ithaca, New York, they passed a

968
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: plan to get rid of their police department and replace

969
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: it like very very I mean not quietly, like it

970
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 1: was reported in the news, but it wasn't such a

971
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: marquee moment because Minneapolis was the epicenter of the uprising

972
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 1: last summer, and so all eyes were on it. I'm sure,

973
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 1: like countless resources reporting on both sides to try to,

974
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:32,240
Speaker 1: you know, influence the outcome of his ballot measure, whereas

975
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: very you know, relatively sneakily the city, the Common Council

976
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 1: of Ithaca, which is like, yeah, we're doing this, what's up?

977
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: So I don't know, um, just about back in the

978
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: present moment, December Body James Alchemist dropped super Techmobo, which

979
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: I think is an excellent album as well that sounds

980
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,320
Speaker 1: range from like spooky, get a little early two thousands

981
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 1: radio wrapping. There you get something like booming, bludgeoning, thunderous basse,

982
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: and then you got Boldi James telling dead pan like

983
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: pretty much horror stories about telling drugs. I mean that's

984
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 1: not let's not beat around the bush. Boldi James and

985
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: Alchemists have like successfully carved out like a whole new

986
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: sub genre of hip hop that is thriving, you know

987
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like they are doing their thing, and

988
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:26,839
Speaker 1: I mean it's not really like it's not quite gangster rap.

989
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 1: It's coke rap. I mean it's it's I mean when

990
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: just about every word on every song is about like

991
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:39,800
Speaker 1: the day to day nuts and bolts of like the

992
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 1: drug trade. It's just this is a different experience to

993
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: listen to and like the abstract way they go about

994
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: doing it. It's it's fresh man, I dig it again.

995
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 1: This is all the sort of things where it's like

996
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: all the dusty niggas out there who are always complaining

997
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: about hip hop this and the young worersvers and the

998
00:55:56,280 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: jeans are too tight, blah blah blah. Calm down, Calm down.

999
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: There's plenty of good ship out there. There's plenty of

1000
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: different stuff out there. You just gotta look for it,

1001
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: and like, you know, don't don't get mad because the

1002
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: stuff that you want to listen to isn't like on

1003
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 1: TikTok and Ship, you know what I mean, It's not

1004
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: supposed to be like going band camp and go download

1005
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 1: that Boldy James Alcholists supported Nick is doing the ship

1006
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: that you like, God damns rather than riding off the

1007
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 1: entire genre and culture. Is hereable Lord of mercy. So yeah,

1008
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: Boldi James and Alcolm has has always been one of

1009
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:37,959
Speaker 1: my favorite producers, just saying what yeah, um, I hate

1010
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:39,800
Speaker 1: we We've got to make sure not to end on

1011
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:41,399
Speaker 1: a bummer note. So we're gonna go through this last

1012
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 1: two things and then let's talk maybe about some stuff

1013
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: looking forward to two because I hate to announce that.

1014
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:49,799
Speaker 1: In December, Elon Musk was named Person of the Year

1015
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: by Time magazine. Oh my God, like essential workers, Hello, anyone,

1016
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 1: the labor movement, strike Shelberg anything, No, you're gonna give

1017
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: it to like the billionaire who inherited his plans from

1018
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 1: a blood Emerald diamond South you know mine in South Africa,

1019
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,879
Speaker 1: Like go fund yourself. Okay, Look, so we we might

1020
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 1: we might have to check this out or reapproach this

1021
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 1: on another date or something, or dive deeper into this.

1022
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: But part of his you know tour, like press tour

1023
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 1: for the I won the Time magazine, he did a

1024
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: interview with what was it called bumble b or some

1025
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,959
Speaker 1: ship like that bumble something. It's like some right wing

1026
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: Twitter media comedy thing of the jig. He did an

1027
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: interview with them, and in this interview he made some

1028
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:44,600
Speaker 1: news because not only was he going after Elizabeth Warren

1029
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: and talking about birth rates and space and all sorts

1030
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: of ship, but he also stated that wokeness is the

1031
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: biggest threat to modern civilization and that at its heart

1032
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 1: will go nos is divisive and hateful. YadA, YadA YadA.

1033
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: Some think something critical race theory. Look, I think that

1034
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 1: that's not good. Like I think that that's like something

1035
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: that needs to be addressed. And I don't I don't

1036
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 1: know how to like, I don't know why I think

1037
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 1: so as hard as maybe, like I said, we'll deal

1038
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: with it, we'll talk about this later. But I feel

1039
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 1: like that's a bigger deal then it then the press

1040
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: that it got because like for better or worse, and

1041
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: it's most likely for worse. But Elon Musk, there's a

1042
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 1: lot of fucking stupid people out there who like, thank

1043
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is literally Tony Starks from iron Manship, like

1044
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: for real, for real, and like they think everything he says,

1045
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: he's like a genius and everything is like right and

1046
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. So for me, it's just like, man,

1047
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: you got this like super rich, kazillionaire dude who's got

1048
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: like a fucking almost like fanatical following out there, and

1049
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 1: there's nothing, there's nothing that Elon Musk can think about

1050
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: that happened in the last five years. That's like a

1051
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 1: threat to society other than effectively, because when you really

1052
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 1: go into the context of what he was talking about

1053
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: in the interview, the biggest threat to society is that

1054
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: some people wrote mean comments about de Chappelle's comedy special yea,

1055
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: essentially what he's talking about. Excuse me again, it's not

1056
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 1: the it's not the it's not the topic that I

1057
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 1: care about. The guy has nothing to do with it.

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00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 1: It's just the people who are saying these things because

1059
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: like they're allegedly supposed to be real smart leaders and

1060
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: gatekeepers of society and ship, right, So why would someone

1061
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 1: like even you know, why would he say something so

1062
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 1: stupid unless there was like an insidious like intent behind it.

1063
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: It's like it's like the idea of so plastic terrorism,

1064
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 1: where like someone says something inflammatory that then inspires acts

1065
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 1: of violence. They themselves didn't drop, you know, order a

1066
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 1: drone strike on someone, but then you get the l

1067
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: passa shooter spraying up of spraying up a Walmart because

1068
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 1: they Latino people because of Donald Trump and so like,

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01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: I don't think it's quite that insidious with Elon Musk

1070
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: and that like he does, Like it's not like he's

1071
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: going out like you know, kill trans people or anything.

1072
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 1: But there's there's all there's a couple of steps between

1073
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: wokeness is wokeness is sucked up. And I don't like

1074
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: the don binary people to like someone taking that and

1075
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 1: running with it, like well, like you know, I killed

1076
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: everyone at the Trans Day of Remembrance visual because I

1077
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: go biomission though, you know what I'm saying, Like what's

1078
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 1: happened in the last five six years? That okay? Like Elon, Like,

1079
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 1: how come Elon Musk didn't come out and say, hey man,

1080
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 1: whatever Dylan Ruth believed in that ships like a threat

1081
01:00:56,160 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: to modern civilization? Like what how we didn't come out

1082
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 1: after the Apostle shooter. Hey, you know what, whatever the

1083
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 1: funk that dudes into that ship's a real threat to

1084
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 1: modern civilization. I think at its core, it's really hateful

1085
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 1: and divisive and we gotta do something to stuff. You

1086
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, so he's like, it's like for me,

1087
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 1: the omission is is is the thing that's like a

1088
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 1: red flag to me. And then also, like you just mentioned,

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01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 1: it's really not shocking that like a fucking descendant of

1090
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 1: apartheid is talking about wokenness is the biggest thread right,

1091
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:32,080
Speaker 1: and so unlike unlike other major figures, like let's think,

1092
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: for example, politicians who feel beholden to comment on you know,

1093
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 1: current events, like you know, in the aftermath of like

1094
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: the Charleston you know church shooting or the All Passo shooting,

1095
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 1: you know, issuing statements of condemnation or recently talking about

1096
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 1: a mod are very He's not accountable to anyone, so

1097
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: he can just chime in when it like feeds his

1098
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 1: ego and just stay out when like I shouldn't have

1099
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,600
Speaker 1: an opinion on that, because I don't because I'm not

1100
01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 1: a good person. Um, just the contrast there's really interesting

1101
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 1: to me. I just feel that it's the whole My

1102
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 1: last bit I'll say in it, it's just the whole,

1103
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 1: like anti woke debate, regardless of how you fall personally

1104
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: on it. It is like right wing game, like you

1105
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 1: gotta you know what I'm saying, like at the end

1106
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:18,960
Speaker 1: of the day, that's what it is. So for me,

1107
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: like people who are on that ship, you're either susceptible

1108
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:28,720
Speaker 1: to like right wing propaganda or you're like in on it,

1109
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 1: either one of those things. I can't fuck it, you

1110
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 1: know what I mean? So I don't funk with us

1111
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:39,360
Speaker 1: that no, um. And then before we move on to

1112
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 1: our hopes injurienso me, I gotta stop and address where

1113
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:46,160
Speaker 1: we're at with a macron right now, man. I mean,

1114
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: like I said earlier in the show, numbers case numbers

1115
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:54,600
Speaker 1: are I have shattered you know, previous records, including for

1116
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 1: earlier this year when we thought we were at the

1117
01:02:56,480 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: height of like a winter surge. Danny wins, she's gotta

1118
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: she's got covid right to get the sons like I can't.

1119
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: I can't like open my phone without getting a new

1120
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: text message from someone that has gotten covid. Um and

1121
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 1: show for New Year's Eve this year. Yeah, I'm probably

1122
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 1: chilling hard um. And this comes just as uh, the

1123
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Speaker 1: CDC has revised his recommendations with regards to quarantine. Now

1124
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:27,640
Speaker 1: it's somewhat complicated and tiered based on whether you're symptomatic

1125
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: or not. But effectively shortening the recommended quarantine in time

1126
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 1: from ten to five days, and it has become very

1127
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 1: explicit in interviews with senior officials involved in these conversations.

1128
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 1: UM information that has come to light about lobbying UM

1129
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 1: by the CEO of Delta with regards to shortening the

1130
01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:48,360
Speaker 1: quarantine time that this is not a public health based decision.

1131
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 1: This is based on I mean, by their own word,

1132
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,120
Speaker 1: in their own words and their words of CDC director

1133
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 1: I think her name is Winsley, Robin Winsley or something

1134
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:58,840
Speaker 1: or I don't remember. UM that like they are about

1135
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:02,320
Speaker 1: they're trying to balance public health, the interests of public

1136
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: health and the interests of not impacting society. Now if

1137
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 1: they really wanted, if they were, I mean, because on

1138
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:09,920
Speaker 1: its face, I can sound like, oh, we don't want

1139
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 1: grocery stores to close because they're understaffed. We don't want

1140
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 1: the buses to stop running because the bus drivers are sick.

1141
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 1: It's like, well, y'all could implement mitigation like strategies to

1142
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 1: make that not a thing. Like in Vietnam, Like they

1143
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,560
Speaker 1: are just like the National Guard or whatever equivalent in Vietnam.

1144
01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 1: It's just delivering food to people's houses. So they ain't

1145
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: even gotta go the grocery store. Like, if we were

1146
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:37,720
Speaker 1: really serious about protecting public health, we could. We could.

1147
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 1: We can mandate testing and every work site that's in

1148
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 1: person um, all sorts of We can implement another shutdown,

1149
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: surrogate breakers, shot down three weeks or whatever, give everybody

1150
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 1: a two dollar check waited out. They literally are just

1151
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 1: like I mean, the fact that they could and aren't

1152
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:55,920
Speaker 1: doing that is what shows you that this is more

1153
01:04:55,960 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 1: about appeasing uh corporate um gangsters over like actually protecting

1154
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 1: the same in lives. I mean the ship I'm worried about,

1155
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,600
Speaker 1: and maybe I'm just I'm not supposed to be worried

1156
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 1: about it because maybe the chances are too low. But

1157
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: it's like, what happens if this ship mutates into something worse?

1158
01:05:17,360 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 1: I think we're on a trajectory for them, but like,

1159
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 1: what will the what will the anti vactors say that

1160
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:29,520
Speaker 1: wells never got it when it when it turns into

1161
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:35,720
Speaker 1: something that like is more deadly, you know, or when

1162
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:37,680
Speaker 1: the day comes. The last thing I'll say, I don't

1163
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:39,000
Speaker 1: want to be a dum or when the day comes,

1164
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 1: because like I've heard interviews with like I don't know

1165
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 1: if they're virologists, so they study like you know, you

1166
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:49,480
Speaker 1: know essentially I've heard I've listened to interviews with scientists

1167
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:53,720
Speaker 1: talking about the role of deforestation in driving you know,

1168
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:57,080
Speaker 1: animal to human transmitted pandemics like these that the more

1169
01:05:57,160 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 1: that we disturb these ecosystems and things like that are

1170
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 1: driven into urban centers where then they take a ship

1171
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:04,640
Speaker 1: on the you know, sushi that you buy from the

1172
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:07,200
Speaker 1: market or whatever. Then suddenly we have a pandemic on

1173
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: our hands. What we're really looking in addition to this

1174
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 1: continuing to mutate is um is parallel pandemics of like

1175
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 1: COVID not going away, and then the news ship shows them. Yeah,

1176
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:22,800
Speaker 1: like I'm sorry, but that is like they won't be

1177
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:26,360
Speaker 1: increasingly likely as like ecosystems get thrown into chaos both

1178
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Speaker 1: by climate change and by man made disruptions in terms

1179
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 1: of like development of cities, etcetera. I mean, you know,

1180
01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 1: they should just they should harp on that aspect of

1181
01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: the like push to get people to get vaccinated. That

1182
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 1: it's like, well, there's the there's the protecting your fellow

1183
01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 1: man ship and all that stuff that you should just

1184
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:49,240
Speaker 1: like want to do anyway, But like they should really

1185
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:52,480
Speaker 1: like harp on even if I don't care what percentage,

1186
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:54,960
Speaker 1: if it's point one one percent, I don't know what

1187
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:58,440
Speaker 1: the chances, but they should harp like Yo, the more

1188
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: unvaccinated people they're out there, the like war room that

1189
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 1: this ship has to turn into something worse. Now. I

1190
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 1: don't even know if that would help with the way

1191
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:08,520
Speaker 1: people are active. I don't know all we can do,

1192
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 1: all we can do to be you know, to transition

1193
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:14,400
Speaker 1: warmly into the end of the show's it look after

1194
01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 1: each other. You know, ultimately we do have a lot

1195
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 1: of collective power, um to help keep each other afloat,

1196
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 1: you know, mutual aid networks and things like that. It

1197
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:27,200
Speaker 1: just really stresses the importance of knowing your neighbors, looking

1198
01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 1: out for each other where you can, and strengthening our

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Speaker 1: neighborhoods just through just community outreach, just like knowing who

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01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:35,640
Speaker 1: lives around you and supporting them and leaning on them

1201
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:38,760
Speaker 1: for support when you need it. And um, increasingly it

1202
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:40,320
Speaker 1: looks like the main way ever gonna get out of this.

1203
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 1: In addition to you know, like we're looking forward you

1204
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:46,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm excided from album come out, Um, I'm

1205
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:49,680
Speaker 1: excited hopefully finish my inssertation and be dumb a fucking school.

1206
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:52,720
Speaker 1: I hate it. It's so terrible. Um, why am I

1207
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 1: geting this degree? Um? So all that, and you know,

1208
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:01,160
Speaker 1: political projects of mine that have seated, you know, bearing fruit,

1209
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 1: getting this community garden off the ground, hopefully getting a

1210
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 1: cure violence esque program implemented Athens. I've talked about a

1211
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: couple of times in the show, but you know, public

1212
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:13,840
Speaker 1: safety something night. It's a very passionate issue of mine.

1213
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 1: So addressing some of that through some of the things

1214
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 1: that I've been working on for the last couple of months.

1215
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:20,640
Speaker 1: So it's could be a tough year, give me a

1216
01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 1: exciting and rewarding year, though, I think so I feel

1217
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:26,680
Speaker 1: like someone optimistic, if not a little bit daunted. But

1218
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 1: what about you? What's you looking forward to? Um? Oh um,

1219
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 1: obviously looking forward to putting out the new album. Um

1220
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:40,679
Speaker 1: if covid, If COVID keep backing up, you know, hopefully

1221
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:43,040
Speaker 1: it can calm down, because I'm definitely looking forward to

1222
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:46,200
Speaker 1: touring more. You know, didn't tour, didn't tour the whole

1223
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 1: even though other people were. But you know, hopefully that

1224
01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:53,920
Speaker 1: can that can be a possibility next year. And um,

1225
01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:59,599
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to doing more work with my local

1226
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:06,000
Speaker 1: anti fascist groups and movements around. Um, that's probably it's

1227
01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 1: probably like the topic of like most concerned to me

1228
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 1: right now at this point in my life. So yeah,

1229
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:16,320
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to getting more involved in that. So,

1230
01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:19,680
Speaker 1: you know, anti fascism and rap music sounds like a

1231
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:23,160
Speaker 1: good way. It sounds like some good goals for two

1232
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:26,599
Speaker 1: for me, So that's what I'm about speaking of Next week,

1233
01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:30,160
Speaker 1: we are after you guys come back from celebrating New

1234
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:34,080
Speaker 1: Year's and everything, we are going to be recapping the

1235
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 1: events on the anniversary of January six, and we're gonna

1236
01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:43,880
Speaker 1: be talking with known anti fascist Christopher Goldsmith about some

1237
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:46,879
Speaker 1: of the things that he does to prevent our veterans

1238
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 1: from being seduced into right wing extremist groups. But yeah,

1239
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 1: thanks so much for listening this year. We'll see you

1240
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 1: in the next one. And with that, yall want to

1241
01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:57,720
Speaker 1: want you want to wrap a limit? Yeah, this is

1242
01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:01,000
Speaker 1: gonna be our last raps one for the show. So

1243
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 1: we gotta kick it off right, all right, I gotta

1244
01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:09,800
Speaker 1: listen to Vocal Cards, get everything loose. You ready, Let's

1245
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:17,880
Speaker 1: hit it all right, Joe, Let's do it. Oh uh

1246
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:24,840
Speaker 1: huh uh huh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, picture perfect. I'm

1247
01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 1: paint the perfect picture. These niggas thrown the capitol. They

1248
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: probably work with hit. Let's spell my name with double

1249
01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 1: capitals to put it on a scripture. I need you

1250
01:10:31,479 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: will to go and spare point like I'm the witch

1251
01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:36,080
Speaker 1: of the pandemic hit and everyone's grandpap the shelter, and

1252
01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:37,840
Speaker 1: then we thought it was over, and then we ran

1253
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 1: the delta record, heat wave, ice caps im and melt you.

1254
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:43,519
Speaker 1: The social contracts a bad hand that you dealta us,

1255
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:46,080
Speaker 1: the whole system fun. You really need of a failsafe.

1256
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:49,120
Speaker 1: Democrats suck. These niggas can't even fail straight. I see

1257
01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 1: the world through some bloodshot eyes. And you might call

1258
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 1: him Antifa, but that's just my guys, real ship. Take

1259
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:56,560
Speaker 1: a load office for the new year, Go up to

1260
01:10:56,640 --> 01:10:58,800
Speaker 1: a party and maybe get you a few beers. Pull

1261
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 1: some liking out for your home. Uson she had a

1262
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 1: few tears Lingua franca h two whol you know my

1263
01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: cup's here, I'm dope knife. We are waiting on reparations

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Speaker 1: the year. Happy New Year. Everybody listen to Waiting on

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts,