WEBVTT - The End of the World As We Know It 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:07.200 You were now listening waiting on reparation production. I heart rate. 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.440 Hey hey hey, hey, hey, hey hey, it's the dope 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:17.360 one open knife. It's the frank one f r A 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.759 th q u A. I even spell my own name wrong, man, 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.439 I definitely don't know what I spelled that. I forgot 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.320 what I spelled in between the time I sent it. 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.319 As we prepared to record, I reflected on the fact 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.360 that this week and a half I had off work. 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.360 I haven't day drink once, and that's a cry and shame. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:36.720 But then I caught on here and couldn't even spell 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:45.240 my own name myself. Perhaps libations are not necessary drink today? No, no, no, sir. Yeah, 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.480 not that there's anything wrong with that, but no, I'm 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.800 just learning my words off the sheer, just the sheer 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.200 strength of being a dumbass. Okay, well I just saw that. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:55.800 Nobody mixed any of that up. But you know, we 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:57.800 might have some new people listening. They might not know 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.040 I am Dope Knife coming with right, and we are 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:05.960 waiting on reparations. Maybe two is the year. Maybe it's 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:07.920 the year. Yeah, it is the year. You know what, 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.959 like speaking of the year, like this episode, we're going 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.600 to be recapping the year that we all just had, 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.000 just you know, going going over some of you know, 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.399 the personal things, some of the things that happened in 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.319 politics and news and hip hop, you know, and just 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.880 particularly a lot of accomplishments both you know, glad tidings 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.840 in the political sphere as well as dope ship that 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.080 we did in our own lives. Because a lot of 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:32.880 time when we talked about the news, it's pretty bleak, 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:34.920 it's pretty dark out here sometimes. But a lot of 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:36.559 good stuff happened this year, and we're gonna talk about 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.440 that as well. And I mean, the year just went 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.240 by so fast. I mean, bro, I can't believe when, 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.360 oh man, I've been so I've in this time I've 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.840 had off. I've been sitting down every day to write 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.520 about extensively about a month that happened. And like I 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.320 had pages and pages and pages on just January alone, 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.440 Like I haven't even I'm like on March. Like it's 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.840 taken me so long because how much happens in a 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:02.960 single month, And it's so hard for me to believe 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:07.600 the January, for example, was only eleven months ago. Yeah, 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.440 I mean, none of the stuff seems like it was 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.239 a terribly long time ago. I it feels like I 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:19.079 was just living in Athens and you know, like whatever 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:23.200 news story we're gonna talk about right now, it feels 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.120 like it was just like when you think about like 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:33.200 how long ago July was, like bro, you know, like anyway, 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.079 December itself I s felt long as hell. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.720 it definitely has um. I would have to say the 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.880 longest month for me was probably I don't know why. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:47.400 November felt like it lasted forever. Well, honestly, as much 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.440 as we're talking about twenty one right now, I think 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:54.680 the longest month on record with April. Oh yeah, everybody 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:59.240 had lockdown, started to go start crazy and loosen, loosten 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.000 a little bit. A lot of people started to drink 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:05.000 a lot because they're unemployed. And you know what, would 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.280 you say it was April or would you say because 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.600 the pen the penny like fully the penny fully like No, 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.000 May it was the fastest month of all time. You 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:19.200 think it's actually, no, that's inaccurate because the uprising started 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.680 like May twenty five. For me, it was like in 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:26.200 between the uprising and like after the first month of COVID, 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:27.920 because I still kind of feel like at least for 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.120 me my personal I still kind of feel everyone was 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.520 expecting the ship to be over monthly, right, Yeah, the 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.720 first month was over and it was like, oh no, 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.440 this is years. Yeah, April everyone was like, you know, 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.480 we were a little spoked. We're like, oh, six weeks, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.080 we'll be out of this. It's cool. And then May 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.040 rolled around. I was like, I can't think it was 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.720 still bad. Yeah, and then and then clearly it took 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.200 it such a tall and people that probably collectively snapped 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:55.400 and dude just completely lost in dually dually. So but 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.760 like most people who got in the qua, I got 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:03.280 into it around this is some bad stuff. But I mean, 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.520 we're definitely not in this year, so we're not going 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.240 to talk about like a bunch of like downer stuff. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.040 So now let's send them off into with some fond 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.840 remembrances that we have had in some lessons as well. Well, 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:26.160 we'll be back with that after the jump. Alrighty, alrighty, 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.359 we are back, and as you guys are hearing this, 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:34.360 it is going to be New Year's even Day and 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.080 stuff over the weekend, right, so you know, it's only 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.240 right that we recapped the year that we had. So 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.279 what do. We got first. So yeah, I mean we 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.599 started off with a bang in January, Uh got us 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:50.520 off and Warnock elected to the Senate um to you know, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:56.159 supposedly secure a democratic majority or democratic control of all 0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:00.080 three branches of government. We had some hands on on 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:05.600 sort of relation to that. Oh yeah, Nikolas was out 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.000 here like the people we assemble, we being like myself, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.320 the mayor of Athens, couple of my fellow commissioners, Tate 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.120 House Representatives, Center for I put together a team mac 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.400 concluded that went out and knocked on thirties over thirty 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.520 thousand doors in our city alone, which was roughly the 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:26.800 amount of votes that they these two senators got, you know, 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.760 to win them out of Athens, to win them the election. Um. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:32.960 And so that she was wild and so for a 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:37.040 brief glimmer it looked very hopeful, like, oh, yes, democratic 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:41.040 control all three house government. We're gonna in COVID, We're 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.800 gonna I don't know, in child poverty, whatever. At least 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.920 we're gonna beat back fascism for a time. UM do 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.960 anything like that in oh my god, like at least 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.200 like fifteen years, like the like the last time that 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.800 I had done any sort of oh, I'm going out 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.719 knocking on doors for like a political campaign. Before we 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.880 did this stuff for we'reknocking us off was probably like 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.040 the John Carey days and ship it has been. It's 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.200 been so long that it's like in my head, I 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.920 always try to like recollect, like damn, like what what 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:18.080 was it that made me like not be like involved 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.560 with like you know what I'm saying, like boots on 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.880 the ground like activists, Like what was it that killed 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.120 my spirit and ship? You know? I mean I know, yeah, 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.680 you know, carry ended up losing and that, but was 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.279 it really that? And then you know, we did this 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.080 and we go into this year and well the influx 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.880 of cashion to Georgia on these elections and then that 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.680 the democratic control of the legislature was on the line, 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.960 Like is that a new precedent for elections that you 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.120 gotta pay people and go do this, Like it's not 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:46.920 enough to just do it on faith alone. Like sure, 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.520 when Bernie Sanders running, I drove to South Carolina like 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.600 four times knock on Doe brom because I was just 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:56.359 in insane person. But but yeah, but like not like 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.680 not everybody can be a believer. We got dame jobs 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.880 we got like kids and it you know, we got 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.000 like we're just depressed because the world is terrible. Um 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:05.320 And even if you want the world to be better, 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:06.920 it's like hard to get up and go knock on 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.520 those doors unless you pay people. If you pay people, 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.280 they'll find that spark of like that enjoyment of fighting 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.840 for a cause that they believe in because materially they 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.560 are supported in doing so. Um. So that was like 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.600 a shift in at least Georgia politics that came out 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.480 from around that election. But around the same time, low 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.760 Wayne and Kodak Black were both pardoned by President Donald 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.080 Trump on his last full day in office. Lo Wane 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.680 had admitted to a weapon's charge back in December of 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.400 twenty was facing up to ten years in jail before 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.240 Trump gave him the pardon, and then Kodak was in 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.760 federal prison after pleading guilty to a firearms possession charge 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.280 after being detained at the Canada detained at the Canadian 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.560 American border back in March of and both of them 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.240 scott free least for those charges, and you know, gave 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.760 their thanks to the then president for um, you know, 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.480 getting their neck out the noose. I mean, I think 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.240 we've you know, I think all of our thoughts on 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:07.840 this have been clearly aired out, you know. But I'm 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.600 just I'm just happy, you know, any happy when anybody 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.800 gets out of jail, right, only good for nobody, And 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.240 it's wild how like, you know, I tend to take 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.560 really bold stances on prisons and policing, but when I 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.160 get out and talk to average every day folks, like 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:23.960 a lot of people know that president is not a 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:28.080 good place for anyone. Um, you know, like shorty, Oh, 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.440 we gotta put we gotta put the most heinous criminals 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.679 off us in lock them up for life. That's not 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.160 the majority of people that are in jail, though, like, 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.479 like not at all, like not even by like a percentage, 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.920 you know, I mean most people in jailer and jail 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.480 for not doing heinous violent things. And even if I 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.440 mean even folks that you know have been convicted of 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.559 serious crimes. They get in jail, they like brush shoulders 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.800 with the worst people, you know, like, oh, fellow criminals. 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:56.240 So they learned, oh this is act. This is how 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.960 you could avoid getting pop for that burglary. Oh this 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:03.960 is how you like installed silencer on your gun next time. Um, 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.520 they get their hatred and social alienation, retrench because all 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.719 of their connections with society are cut off. Um, But 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.840 it just doesn't That doesn't make a place that's gonna 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.160 make you a better person. Yeah, exactly. You know, you 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.680 know there's you're when you go to jail and they 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.079 come out, it's like you're already working on like the 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.760 most most up of up hills to like come out 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.240 of that ship as a better person, because everything about 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.079 from the from the systemic way the prisoners run to 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.720 just the way it's organized in that, you know, like 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.720 the recidivism and you know how many people keep coming 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.800 back and who you're rubbing shoulders with. Like you said, 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.640 it's like everything stacked against you of coming out of 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:50.839 jail of more experienced criminals as opposed to like somebody 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.040 who's ready to turn their life around, and normal people 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:54.839 know that. I just talked to this cat yesterday that 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.560 I collaborate with on a lot of organizing projects, and 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.320 he was on his way to like juvenile or to 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.280 try to convince the court to not take this kid 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.360 away from his parents because I don't know, it's been 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.720 constealing or the able trash bassing or some ship and 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.880 like you don't even gotta be explicitly like a prison 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.760 abolitionist or anything to know, like having the kids taken 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.600 away from their parents, it's not gonna it's not gonna 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.960 make your life better. It's not gonna like their lives better. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:23.280 But anyway, a little February, I'm sorry, Oh yeah, let's 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.959 move on the February. So um, Prince Marquis D of 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:31.280 the Fat Boys die very sadly. Yeah, what's your experience 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:35.200 with the Fat Boys? Zero? None? So wait you've never have? 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.280 Have you ever like at least heard a song? No? Absolutely, 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.120 As I was like looking into them, I like it. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:42.959 It was like definitely familiar. It's one of those cakes 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.679 where you're familiar with someone's work without like really attributing 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.400 it to them, like oh that was Fat Boys. Okay, yeah, 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:54.319 they were like kind of I'm gonna like give explained 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.400 one dated reference with another dated reference. But it's like 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.079 the Fat Boys were doing kind of what Fresh this 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.800 was doing before, you know what I mean, like a 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.679 few years before a fresh Prince is doing. It was 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.040 like I don't want to say like family friendly, but 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:11.800 it was it was like the record industries, you know, 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.120 really figuring out like how to market, how to like 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.679 mass market some like this hip hop thing that's going on, 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.440 it's like you know what I'm saying, It's like something 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.160 that's preventable, presentable. It's funny, it's catchy. It was like 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.200 all of all of those things that are like tropes 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.880 about hip hop. At this point, it was like Fat 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.080 Boys embodied it. It was like the perfect It's like 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:34.520 the perfect like pop rap type ship. Um yeah, you 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.319 know that. That's sad. Yeah. I didn't even remember him 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.960 passing away until like I was looking up the end 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:45.080 of the year stuff. But when I was doing think 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.760 it was bis markis this year we did it is 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.680 an understate. We'll just go off before we go further, 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:56.360 and saying r I p to all the rappers who 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.480 passed away this year, because there were many, and then 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.440 also like a special like you know, keep your head 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.040 up to like all the motherfucker's who got arrested, because yo, 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:11.520 motherfucker's got arrested this year. It wasted, but some people 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.840 got out. Bobby Schmarda was released after serving almost seven 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:20.480 years in prison. Oh yeah, that's dope. Um yeah, I 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.520 can't really say I'm a fan of Bobby murder. But 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.160 you know, I'm glad that he's out of jail. What 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:26.800 do you think that we're doing well? He seems like 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.880 he was doing a good like, you know, looking after 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:34.360 his health, you know, rejecting society's poisons upon release. So 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.240 that I was I was like, I was like, you know, Bobby, 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.839 I appreciate you. Every time that I've seen every piece 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:41.679 of footage I've seen of him since he's been out, 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.760 he's got a smile on his face. So yeah, I'm 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:48.040 always happy about that. Um. What else happened in Yeah 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:49.800 and Deer is a big one for me because after 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.400 two years of working with the descendants what we call 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.640 the descendants of first descendants of Lendtown, so at least 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.520 for kids that grew up in a black community here 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.920 in Athens that saw that community pretty much burned to 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.280 the ground. Um, it's part of urban federal Urban Renewal 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.800 project to turn it into student high rise dorms. We 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.840 actually passed the resolution that was the you know, the 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.200 first after reparations in the state of Georgia to like 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.640 apologize for what happened to them and commit to a 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.560 number of measures of redress. Like I've been collaborating with 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.120 them ever since I'm trying to get a Black History 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.760 center funded and you know, off the ground space for that, 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:29.720 et cetera. So that was a big deal that you 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.120 know in Black History months actually like not just like 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.120 lift up, oh we love be you know, m ok 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.280 and let's you know, to turn the truth or whatever, 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.280 but like, yo, honoring the people that were harmed in 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.400 our own community because off of times, like civil rights 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.439 struggles are like pasted as something that happens in other places, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.120 like oh, you know the Edmund Pettis Bridge or the 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.400 March on Washington, but like every single community had a 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.319 civil rights struggle of some kind, and so I think 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.720 it was an important act to do in the month 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.800 of February to bring new context to black history, Like 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:03.160 black history is also something that happened here. How long 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.040 did it take you to get that, just that whole 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:09.880 proposal two years to two years? Yeah, and we're so fighting, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.000 like it's not over just because we agreed we would 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:13.520 do these things. Now we actually got to do them 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.120 because the government so oftentimes promises stuff that doesn't actually materialize. 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:21.600 So do you mean it's not over when they just 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.720 just because when they promise you things. No, no, it 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:29.520 was not um but yeah, alright, so moving on to 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:35.360 uh March, March April is okay, so this seem like 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.120 I'm sorry, sir. So yeah, March to April started to 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.320 seem like everybody was gonna get vaccinated and the pandemic 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.400 was gonna be over. Its gonna be like the return 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:49.960 of hour al summer, only we could just retain that sweet, 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:55.480 sweet naivete to day. Yeah. That's certainly not in the 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.760 air around like April where it felt like, oh ship, 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:02.760 this is over, hooray go down on like yeah, no, 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:08.760 Like definitely around around of April March, I was starting 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.600 to be like, yeah, let's go take trips, you know 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.720 what I mean. I was. I started visiting Savannah more 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.560 and stuff like that, and it definitely did have Like 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.160 I do remember having conversations with people back then and 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.800 I would be saying, oh, man, you know back during COVID, 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.920 and like were looking at me, like what are you 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.400 talking about back during COVID? Do you not know what's coming? 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.360 You know? It's like we transitioned from like yeah, during 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.680 the pandemic, like it's over now, and then that like 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.720 that like phrasing has not gone away, and in those 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.560 cases are now higher than they were of January of 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:48.040 this year. Um, I it's blowing my mind. But yeah, 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.080 we thought, like, yeah, I think that's one of the 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.920 reasons that we're still in The ship is just like 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.480 and I don't know precisely how it is overseas, but 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:03.760 it's like we never really locked down lockdown. I know, 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.240 everybody's got it in their head, especially like the people 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.720 who are like anti vacs, anti COVID regulations, stuff like that, 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.360 they've got it in their head that that the country 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:18.240 has been you know, in some strict quarantine. Ship. We 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.800 were only like super duper lockdown for like two weeks 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.680 real talk to it was two weeks where everyone was 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.320 rinsing off their their their fruit with bleach and ship 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.640 and like you know what I mean, motherfucker's were really 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.640 scared about the ship. But other than that, a large 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.680 chunk of people went back to life as normal, you 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.520 know what I'm saying, very shortly into the pandemic. So 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.000 I don't think any of that ship helped us. A 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.440 year and a half later, two years, whatever it is, 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.680 be in any sort of condition where it's we're gonna 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.480 be out of it and where we're Scott Clean, I 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.600 don't think that's I don't think that's in the cards 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:57.960 first with Yeah, well, we'll talk more about that towards 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.320 the end as we struggle back around to this Scember. 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.320 But this is when March and Aprils, when a little 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:10.280 nos X started kind of like trolling the America real hard. Yeah, 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.280 he started doing the press rollout and stuff like that 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.440 for his album Montenero, and that's when he did like video, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:21.919 what's it Montero? And um, he came out is that 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.919 when the video dropped. I think that's about round the 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.919 time the video dropped, and then he announced his Satan 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.080 shoes that he got sued by Nike over because it 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.359 copied their design. Remember you know, uh they had like 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.280 a drop of his own blood in the in the 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:42.520 tongue or something like a vial or something. Um. And 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.760 the music is the video itself was highly controversial because 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.399 he's like given Satan a lap dance and all this ship. 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.000 But like it just won the internet for that period. 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:51.800 Everyone was everyone was talking about it, whether you loved 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.159 it or hated. I personally thought I was hilarious. Um 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.639 And in general, I've really enjoyed Little nos x is 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.960 um social media presence this year. He's been quite entertaining, 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.560 very hilarious, and the album Yourself was pretty good. At myself, 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.200 if I do say something myself, I'd like a couple 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.560 of tracks. You know, there's um, there's a few joints 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.520 that they're always playing on the radio that I can't 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:15.479 help it here, but it's just catchy. It's like, you know, 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.040 the thing about Little not Sex is like I think 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.840 everything about Little nos X is dope. I'm just not 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:26.879 particularly into popular. Yeah, you can recognize someone's artistry, but 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.840 like also recognize that it's not for you. Yeah, exactly, 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.240 And yeah, this is a very well crafted piece of 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.480 art that I don't personally like because it's not just 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.480 it's just not my thing. Yeah, yeah, that part, I'm all. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.280 I'm all about that, like the kids a Teacher on 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:45.240 his album from Elton John, like you can't like like 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:51.760 you know, yeah, do you do you remember when I 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.439 think that stuff like that's important and even you know, 0:18:54.520 --> 0:19:00.000 even just like his whole um public persona, I think 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.360 all of that ship is important too, and like shifting 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.320 attitudes culturally and stuff like that, even if it's incrementally, 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:10.080 I think it matters. And even if it's you know, um, 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.399 here's a question about the video. Do you think that 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.399 I don't even know what qualifies as an uproar in 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:22.280 one because it's like, you know, motherfucker's like tweet about 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.040 some ship for a day and then if no one 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.359 cares the next day, So I don't even know if 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.119 it's qualifies as that. But do you think that his 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:36.560 video would have gotten like the same sort of feverish 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:40.120 response to it, whether it be negative or positive, if 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:44.639 it was just him just giving dudes a lap dance 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.840 and it wasn't the same sataness angle if he hadn't 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.159 he had at all, If he had that at all 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.920 expressed his sexuality anyway in any kind of music video, 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.359 it would have received back last so we might as well. 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.560 And he did just go all links y'all gonna like 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:02.879 me anyway. I think I am who I am at 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.640 all for you. I think the satan part was like 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.040 the icing on the king for that, because he has 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.360 another video that's got like Jack Harlow and all those 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.840 dudes and they're in prison, then they're wearing pink and 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.240 it's like hella gay and like you know what I mean, people, 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.280 but yeah, but I mean people didn't like it, but 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.919 it wasn't like you don't really hear about that, you 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.280 know what I mean, Like unless like that wasn't as 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:29.159 big of like a cross worked the outrage about the 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:32.520 Montera music video. But if it hadn't been, if it 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.760 had been a standalone video, the collaborl Jack Harlow, that 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:40.919 would have itself garnered Hue Eyer from conservatives. You know, 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:49.560 has anybody um, has anybody like notable? Like then like 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:57.040 a super prude about it? Benja. Yeah, within the black community, Yeah, 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.360 tons of people that have been, um, I've never got 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.440 my kids, let's do your music again. That's ongoing thing 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:06.120 with Little Boozy. Yeah, he's like talking his homophobic ship. 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:09.640 But may It was also a good year for music. 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:11.560 J Cole came out with the new album in the 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:14.560 off season, which was a more relaxed UM project that 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.760 you know, kind of let Cole's talent shine, and then 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:22.159 also featured some Collapse, which is new for UM. For him, 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.560 a part of his like I don't know sheen or 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.840 you know, like his stature has been that he liked 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.439 typically never featured anyone on any of his albums as 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:34.120 a way of just showing that he can put out 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:37.560 an album or a series, a whole discography without the 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:41.359 support of anyone else. What's the meme like platinum no 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:44.879 feature or like double platinum. Yeah, yeah, yeah, um. I 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.480 thought that he leveled up significantly, Like on the lyrical 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:51.760 m on this album. I was really feeling like I 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:55.159 just just from a technical aspect, I think, you know, 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:59.440 whatever it is that that that our individual rapper needs 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:03.400 to do to like start being a lot more intricate 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:05.960 and interesting with their word playing stuff. Jacole did that 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:09.560 ship for this project. I think I'm kind of torn 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:13.879 whether I feel this one or Ko d More that 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:16.200 was the last one. I feel like this is often 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.600 the case with me music, where like, even if a 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:24.800 new piece of art is like aesthetically a higher sets, 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:29.480 a higher bar, nothing can compete with a piece of art, 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:31.639 an earlier piece of art that like just it is 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:37.480 deeply nostalgic to you now, and so like Ko d Well, 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:39.399 like It's all will always be like a really special 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:42.760 album to me, even if lyrically Dicle kind of popped 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:44.680 off on the off season, you know, you know what 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:46.480 I mean, Like he definitely stepped his game up, but 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:49.720 like it doesn't hold a special place in my heart. Yeah, 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:53.560 like KOT and definitely from I think from a content standpoint, 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:55.760 I think I was working with ko D a lot more. 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:58.159 You know what, if he was rapping on ko D 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:01.800 like he's wrapped it on the on the niche who 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:03.520 would have been over would have been over. I would 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:09.280 have quit the rap game. That's some God conversations right there, right. Yeah. 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:12.720 May it was also a good month for politics. Larry 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:16.119 Krasner got re elected as District Attorney of Philadelphia was 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:21.040 pretty lit um when he first ran in two seventeen. 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:23.440 His story made him like a figurehead of the new 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:29.240 progressive prosecutor movement, which I have opinions about. Um. We 0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:33.360 did a whole episode on him back and in in May, 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:36.200 I believe, And since then, Philly has had the most 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:39.160 violent year on record with spike was one of the highest, 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:43.880 you know, homicide rates on record for the city. Um. 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:49.080 You know, many large cities have seen spikes in homicides though, um, 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:53.400 violent crime in general is down, but people were killed 0:23:53.440 --> 0:23:57.639 in Philly alone this year. But as Meek Mill put it, 0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:00.600 in defensive d A. Krasner and a tweet in April. 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:03.280 I believe, you know, a lot of people want to 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:09.520 blame Krasner for the crime, given his compassionate, compassionate approach prosecution. 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:13.120 But Meek Mills said, Larry Krasner did not put three 0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:15.639 thousand ghost guns, and Billy is not the blame for 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:18.160 the rising morder rate. We don't do three D printing 0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:22.920 in the hoods. So something happened. So I love the 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:26.120 I love the veiled implication that like something like somebody's 0:24:26.160 --> 0:24:29.720 putting guns in the hood ship. I mean, you know what, 0:24:29.760 --> 0:24:31.680 this can also kind of be added in because the 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:35.760 thing is, like I guess the rising rising murder rate 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:43.280 this year, Um yeah, I think you know. I don't. 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:49.600 I don't know how specifically I guess the conspiracy goes. 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:52.800 But I can see what mean be all the same? 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:57.760 Yeah yeah, um, like I don't. I'm not gonna get 0:24:57.800 --> 0:25:00.600 to I'm not gonna foment conspiracy. Are you here? But 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:03.879 what I will say is from a policy perspective, like 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:06.879 I think it's so important to understand why things happen, 0:25:07.320 --> 0:25:10.480 and in general, there's a confluence of factors in society 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:14.840 right now. Pandemic stress, you know, due to a number 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:19.440 of things from unemployment to food and security, housing and security, etcetera. 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:22.840 But like, I really wish that we I don't know 0:25:22.880 --> 0:25:24.719 if this exists in other places, but at least we 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:28.240 had some sort of tracking mechanism in place where we 0:25:28.280 --> 0:25:31.080 sat people down and they got get brought into the jail, 0:25:31.600 --> 0:25:34.520 and we do a profile on them, uh, just the 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:37.880 interview to understand why they did what they did, and 0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:42.160 to extrapolate patterns from those interviews to like look at 0:25:42.200 --> 0:25:45.359 like why homicides are happening at anything, like you know, 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:47.920 an increase rate and then invest in the prevention. Like 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:51.239 all right, all these cats killed somebody else because there 0:25:51.280 --> 0:25:53.080 was a moment of stress and they did the wrong thing. 0:25:53.160 --> 0:25:55.440 All right, how do we how do we like implement 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:58.680 programs in the community to help people do the conflict 0:25:58.680 --> 0:26:02.040 resolution and stress better, they killed each other, etcetera. Like 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:05.000 I we we will never really know, and various people 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:07.399 will argue for different reasons why is the homicide rate 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:09.600 is spiking? But until we actually ask these questions of 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:12.320 the people doing these times, we're never we're not ever 0:26:12.320 --> 0:26:16.360 going to actually make a dent in it. It's literally 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:20.760 outrageous that that's not already done. Perhaps it is somewhere. 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:23.320 I don't know, I haven't done. If it is done somewhere, 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:25.960 that's not enough. That doesn't that feels like it. That 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:29.760 feels like that's just a given, you know what I mean? Yeah, 0:26:29.840 --> 0:26:32.800 it feels like such a common sense, like like approach 0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:34.880 to do in this ship that it's like, man, are 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:39.480 you are you really saying that nobody's looking in, because 0:26:39.520 --> 0:26:42.120 then all we have to rely upon is anecdotal evidence, 0:26:42.160 --> 0:26:45.760 either from the convicted individuals or people in their life 0:26:45.960 --> 0:26:47.920 or you know, guards were going to jail who talked 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:49.560 to them day in and day out. But we need 0:26:49.560 --> 0:26:54.840 like a comprehensive like data bank, data base, scientific approach 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:59.240 to do, scientific approach to understanding this. Yeah, yeah, so 0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:04.440 I mean you can science scientific stuff. So um. In June, 0:27:04.880 --> 0:27:08.320 the federal government admitted to knowing about UFOs and they 0:27:08.359 --> 0:27:11.800 said they would not rule out alien activity. I can't 0:27:11.800 --> 0:27:15.400 believe aren't talking about this still, Like it was the 0:27:15.440 --> 0:27:17.879 craziest thing in the world to me when it came out. 0:27:18.520 --> 0:27:21.440 And then like just like the you know, natural truck 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:25.560 bombing of last Christmas, just memory hold completely, memory hold. 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:28.840 I've been rewatching my x files too, and it's like, 0:27:29.200 --> 0:27:32.720 what are y'all like, people aren't tripping over that ship? 0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:36.280 Let's get into As part of the nine page report 0:27:36.359 --> 0:27:39.480 released by U. S Intelligence, there was no formal way 0:27:39.520 --> 0:27:42.760 within the government to record UFO sightings until the Navy 0:27:42.800 --> 0:27:46.040 started one two thousand nineteen, and the Air Force didn't 0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:48.840 follow suit until roughly a year ago, which shows how 0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:52.560 resistant the government had been to acknowledging UFOs and implies 0:27:52.640 --> 0:27:55.199 we have a lot less sightings on record than have 0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:59.200 actually happened. As well, the number of reported UFOs may 0:27:59.240 --> 0:28:02.200 have been kept artificially low because of the stigma lung 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:05.000 attached to reporting these sort of things. Now again, you 0:28:05.400 --> 0:28:07.080 want to talk about ship, that like sounds like it's 0:28:07.119 --> 0:28:10.080 common sense. I have no direct knowledge of any of 0:28:10.119 --> 0:28:13.640 this ship, but I've seen enough of those goddamn shows 0:28:13.800 --> 0:28:16.359 and read enough ship with people who really been in 0:28:16.359 --> 0:28:19.000 the ship. And on top of that, like just you know, 0:28:20.160 --> 0:28:23.240 come from military family, don't put anybody in blast. I 0:28:23.240 --> 0:28:25.359 talk to people and ship like that that it just, 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:32.280 you know, the absolute skepticism of the ship is just 0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:36.119 always been ridiculous to me. So you know, I guess 0:28:36.200 --> 0:28:39.120 like even though it's it's a little late, because we're 0:28:39.120 --> 0:28:42.280 not really like UFOs don't have as much of a 0:28:42.840 --> 0:28:46.360 UFO sightings and UFO culture and UFO believers and stuff. 0:28:46.360 --> 0:28:50.959 It's not like as it's not as popular as like 0:28:51.000 --> 0:28:53.280 a you know, as it was back in the nineties 0:28:53.520 --> 0:28:55.560 and ship when I was a kid. So even though 0:28:55.600 --> 0:28:58.560 it's late that the government's acknowledging, at least they are 0:28:58.600 --> 0:29:01.680 acknowledging at the very LEAs said, hey, they're ship. That 0:29:01.760 --> 0:29:04.200 happens that with all the trillions of dollars that we 0:29:04.280 --> 0:29:08.560 spend that we can't explain what it is. All I 0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:11.120 want somebody to say, thank you. Come on, don't act 0:29:11.120 --> 0:29:14.320 like you know ship for real. Well, Jim was also 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:17.160 a fairing months over here because now as we passed 0:29:17.160 --> 0:29:20.160 the historic budget, raised the minimum ways for city employees 0:29:20.720 --> 0:29:24.400 picking dollars an hour, including part time seasonal employees, made 0:29:24.600 --> 0:29:28.120 we will public transit. It's been fair free the whole pandemic, 0:29:28.120 --> 0:29:31.920 and we just made it free for life. UM implemented 0:29:31.960 --> 0:29:36.080 a new kind of crisis response team that is non police. 0:29:36.120 --> 0:29:38.680 As you know, if you're having mental health crisis, substance 0:29:38.720 --> 0:29:41.320 abuse issue, you didn't need a wellness check. They send 0:29:41.320 --> 0:29:43.360 in like a social worker in an empty to like 0:29:43.560 --> 0:29:47.520 treat the situation from like a public health perspective, um, 0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:49.000 and a ton of other good ship, and it really 0:29:49.000 --> 0:29:51.080 felt like I was finally hit my stride as a politician. 0:29:51.200 --> 0:29:55.959 Was very proud personally, so like, how do you get 0:29:56.040 --> 0:29:58.959 an award for that? How do you get an awards 0:29:58.960 --> 0:30:02.880 for that? Like I feel like you should well but 0:30:02.960 --> 0:30:05.760 only Yeah, I rewarded myself by like I sent out 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:07.080 a newsletter at the end of the year, and all 0:30:07.120 --> 0:30:10.800 my haters no, I mean, it's funny. There's a lot 0:30:10.840 --> 0:30:13.760 of people that hate follow me, like to like catch 0:30:13.800 --> 0:30:17.040 me slipping and like, and they stay real silent when 0:30:17.040 --> 0:30:19.840 I send out like here's like twenty one amazing things 0:30:19.880 --> 0:30:21.920 I did this year. It includes like all of the 0:30:21.960 --> 0:30:25.560 ship like peep, no, not a not a it's not 0:30:25.600 --> 0:30:28.920 a pat So my reward is just living in peace 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:31.480 and quiet. I don't want no accolades. I ain't trying 0:30:31.480 --> 0:30:33.840 to get no trophies, no special ribbons. I don't want 0:30:33.840 --> 0:30:37.960 people to leave me alone. Well, this next next topic 0:30:38.160 --> 0:30:42.760 is definitely not peace and quiet. So also going down 0:30:42.960 --> 0:30:49.280 and um June is double XCEL released. There one freshman class. 0:30:49.520 --> 0:30:50.760 Now for those of you who don't know what that 0:30:50.880 --> 0:30:54.560 is like Double Excel is a hip hop publication. I 0:30:54.640 --> 0:30:57.560 would say at this point it's the most popular one 0:30:57.600 --> 0:30:59.920 that's still in print. Do they still print Double looks Out? 0:31:00.000 --> 0:31:05.720 I don't even know any kind of magazine. I just don't. 0:31:05.800 --> 0:31:07.720 I mean, okay, I'll put it this way. I haven't 0:31:07.800 --> 0:31:12.200 seen Double Exel in like stores and stuff where I 0:31:12.320 --> 0:31:14.520 normally would see it back in the past. I don't 0:31:14.520 --> 0:31:16.880 know if Double Exel is still print or if it's online. 0:31:17.080 --> 0:31:20.400 But anyway, I digress. Long story short. Every year they 0:31:20.440 --> 0:31:25.400 put out a list of the new Ish rappers who 0:31:25.400 --> 0:31:29.560 they think are destined to become the next top cats 0:31:29.600 --> 0:31:31.400 in the game and ship and they put out their 0:31:31.480 --> 0:31:35.120 list and we're only mentioning it because it's something that happens, 0:31:35.160 --> 0:31:38.719 and it happened this year. I cannot say that I 0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:40.760 am aware of any of the names on it. It's 0:31:40.800 --> 0:31:45.720 probably because I'm sixty five years old. But we've got 0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:56.600 forty two. Doug Moray to see Bick bixed Ian Door, 0:31:58.400 --> 0:32:01.480 I've heard Coil before heard, I've heard I've heard her, 0:32:02.080 --> 0:32:07.720 um Folly of course, um Ruby Rose. I'm not sure 0:32:07.760 --> 0:32:11.280 who that is. Shysty, Yeah, I know who that is. 0:32:11.840 --> 0:32:13.840 D d G. And I don't know how to say 0:32:13.840 --> 0:32:17.040 that last one. Okay, have you heard have you heard 0:32:17.040 --> 0:32:22.440 any of those sides for Flow Million? No? Actually, um, 0:32:22.480 --> 0:32:24.240 I mean posh. I see, like a lot of these 0:32:24.280 --> 0:32:27.200 names I'm familiar with, but as is generally the case 0:32:27.280 --> 0:32:31.040 with me, though I am like deeply you know, indebted 0:32:31.080 --> 0:32:34.360 to and fascinated by hip hop, I'm a bit slow 0:32:34.400 --> 0:32:36.840 on the come up sometimes, like even artists that I 0:32:36.880 --> 0:32:39.520 funk with, Like recently I discovered this Mick Jenkins album 0:32:39.560 --> 0:32:42.240 from thousand eighteen that I've been super obsessed with us 0:32:42.240 --> 0:32:43.600 Like why did I take? Why did it take me? 0:32:43.600 --> 0:32:45.640 This song? I love Mick Jenkins, I don't understand, I 0:32:45.640 --> 0:32:48.680 don't send. And so in fact, in previous years, I 0:32:48.680 --> 0:32:50.840 think sometimes recently actually, I went back and looked at 0:32:51.280 --> 0:32:54.960 all the Double XCEL honorees over the last like ten years, 0:32:55.280 --> 0:32:57.479 and it was like really nostalgic of like maybe not 0:32:57.560 --> 0:33:00.239 in that moment did I see the you know, like 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:04.920 the grandeur of the artistry of people like Chance the Rapper, uh, 0:33:05.120 --> 0:33:07.440 you know, instead of like big names that have basically 0:33:07.520 --> 0:33:10.600 list previously. But I mean they're they're influence fans out 0:33:10.600 --> 0:33:14.680 in the culture, particularly like Amplified by making it on 0:33:14.720 --> 0:33:16.520 a list like this, So I think we we will 0:33:16.560 --> 0:33:18.880 definitely see these people keep moving. Move to all of them. 0:33:18.920 --> 0:33:20.720 Some of the sing the old folks fault fell off, 0:33:20.760 --> 0:33:22.520 like after that year they were on the cover and 0:33:22.640 --> 0:33:25.320 we've never heard of again. But you know, I'm like, 0:33:25.960 --> 0:33:28.080 I'm a nerd about these certain things. I've always been 0:33:28.120 --> 0:33:30.120 a nerd about these certain things. I wish this is 0:33:30.120 --> 0:33:31.560 one of the moments where I wish I was like 0:33:31.600 --> 0:33:36.720 a bigger media figure because just in my personal life 0:33:36.800 --> 0:33:40.680 I have called like most of who is going to 0:33:40.760 --> 0:33:43.600 be around for the Double Xcel list, you know what 0:33:43.640 --> 0:33:45.800 I mean? After they come up, like once I do 0:33:45.880 --> 0:33:47.640 get to like listen to everybody. It's like I have 0:33:47.720 --> 0:33:50.520 a pretty good track record of like you know what 0:33:51.840 --> 0:33:55.840 this Kendrick of mar Kid Yeah and back Miller, Yeah, 0:33:55.880 --> 0:33:57.160 he's gonna do you know what I mean? And like 0:33:57.240 --> 0:34:00.120 I so, I don't know, I gotta list to know 0:34:00.280 --> 0:34:02.040 some more of these cats. I do. Got to give 0:34:02.080 --> 0:34:05.040 them their due diligence, but um check them out though 0:34:05.080 --> 0:34:08.640 if if you haven't, because you know, even if the 0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:12.640 batting average is low, there usually is always a diamond 0:34:13.680 --> 0:34:17.319 in the Double Excel. Let's so somebody usually blows up. 0:34:17.320 --> 0:34:19.640 It becomes that next person for like the next five years. 0:34:19.640 --> 0:34:22.919 So and then I must say Mac and I made 0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:28.600 some moves this year musically, quite exciting. I finished up 0:34:28.600 --> 0:34:32.440 an album in July that uh, I can't wait some 0:34:32.440 --> 0:34:35.080 one else, but I'm not. I can't say nothing yet. 0:34:35.160 --> 0:34:38.279 But you can't tell us what the name is yet. Na, 0:34:38.960 --> 0:34:40.840 I'm gonna not just in case I'm not trying to 0:34:40.840 --> 0:34:45.600 get in trouble. All right, we'll tell us. Tell us 0:34:45.600 --> 0:34:52.040 about its production. I don't know. So it was pretty 0:34:52.120 --> 0:34:55.680 much executive produced by my friend Reindeer Games, who's my 0:34:55.840 --> 0:34:59.480 like you know DJ when I perform. Longtime friends, very random, 0:34:59.480 --> 0:35:03.200 how we matt each other, that's like, but remain friends 0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:05.799 ever since. So he, you know, produced the album for 0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:09.080 the most part. Mac is on the album um on 0:35:09.400 --> 0:35:10.920 Um one of the songs. And then we got a 0:35:10.960 --> 0:35:14.760 lot of dope features from folks like Kishi Bashi, Jeff 0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:19.480 Rosenstock and Davis Is on their Western Rulers on there 0:35:19.680 --> 0:35:23.040 my buddy, you know, a long time collaborator um from 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:26.600 I forgetting Oh, Kevin Barnes from Montreal. So it's gonna 0:35:26.640 --> 0:35:28.920 really cool. But I became a lipt sealed about it 0:35:29.000 --> 0:35:33.120 until we formally announced it next month. Well, in that 0:35:33.440 --> 0:35:39.040 same month, I was moving into my studio, and that's 0:35:39.120 --> 0:35:41.200 you know, I took me like that whole month to 0:35:41.200 --> 0:35:44.399 get everything moved in and and all that stuff. But 0:35:44.520 --> 0:35:47.880 once I did get moved in, I promptly started working 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:51.719 on the albums that I have coming up. I I'm 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:55.759 doing the two albums in one year thing. But it's 0:35:55.800 --> 0:36:00.040 like two different labels that drastically different sounds. One of 0:36:00.080 --> 0:36:03.880 them is me wrapping over a lot of a lot 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:07.440 of trap tiki taki, you know, modern beats that I 0:36:07.440 --> 0:36:11.240 don't usually wrap wrap over. And then the second project 0:36:11.800 --> 0:36:16.640 is more like an industrial rock rap sort of vibe 0:36:16.680 --> 0:36:19.680 to it. So I'm really excited about both of those 0:36:20.560 --> 0:36:24.160 about this web. Only one of them is done and 0:36:25.480 --> 0:36:29.880 the other one, i'd say is like in the stages 0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:33.719 right now. Um It's that that one's like a a 0:36:33.719 --> 0:36:37.800 pretty big task from a production standpoint because I'm you know, 0:36:38.719 --> 0:36:41.120 working with a bunch of different musicians and stuff like that. 0:36:41.200 --> 0:36:44.239 I'm just trying to get it to sound as much 0:36:44.280 --> 0:36:46.200 of like a nine inch Nails album as I can. 0:36:48.320 --> 0:36:51.320 I'm excited. I'm very excited for it, and then in August, 0:36:51.400 --> 0:36:56.960 you finished recording that album, right, Yeah, yeah, in August 0:36:57.000 --> 0:36:59.120 I finished recording the first one. I guess I could 0:36:59.120 --> 0:37:00.480 save the name for that one. That one's going to 0:37:00.520 --> 0:37:03.680 be the one that's like the more traditional hip hop one. 0:37:03.719 --> 0:37:08.200 It's called the Dope one. And yeah, that's probably looking 0:37:08.239 --> 0:37:14.799 at maybe uh may for a drop for that. Yeah. 0:37:16.200 --> 0:37:17.880 Well I've been, I've been, you know, And like for 0:37:17.920 --> 0:37:21.520 anybody who does, you know, follow us on the music 0:37:21.640 --> 0:37:24.560 tips and you should if you're listening to this podcast. 0:37:24.719 --> 0:37:27.440 But if you do, you know, I put out like 0:37:27.480 --> 0:37:29.879 a new song every month. If not a new song, 0:37:30.280 --> 0:37:33.319 I always have something that I'm putting out. So it's like, 0:37:33.680 --> 0:37:36.360 you know, I'm not just gonna make you wait years 0:37:36.440 --> 0:37:41.800 for me to drop an album. Yeah. Um, I honestly 0:37:41.840 --> 0:37:46.120 don't feel like talking about Kanye's. I'm talking about Kanye 0:37:46.280 --> 0:37:49.839 s has gotten I mean even not talking about him. 0:37:49.840 --> 0:37:51.720 We're kind of talking about it right now. But Kanye 0:37:51.800 --> 0:37:54.840 dropped Donda and then they could camp out in the 0:37:54.920 --> 0:37:58.960 Mercedes Benz studio like a weirdo. Honestly, I just want 0:37:58.960 --> 0:38:03.240 to keep moving that Donny until you know. In August, 0:38:03.520 --> 0:38:07.000 Corey Bush also won an extension of the eviction moratorium 0:38:07.040 --> 0:38:09.279 after camping out of the steps of the Capitol when 0:38:09.320 --> 0:38:11.839 Congress went on recess to the end of July. I mean, 0:38:11.920 --> 0:38:14.840 unfortunately it was ultimately struck down again in late August. 0:38:15.360 --> 0:38:17.759 But I think it's a really inspiring example of the 0:38:17.800 --> 0:38:22.440 way that UM politicians can wield their influence as activists 0:38:22.680 --> 0:38:25.680 UM even though they are elected, like oh, people like, oh, 0:38:25.719 --> 0:38:27.399 why are you camping out? Or why are you doing 0:38:27.400 --> 0:38:29.239 this or that? Or why are you tweeting? Like why 0:38:29.239 --> 0:38:31.279 can't you just go in there and vote? But this 0:38:31.360 --> 0:38:33.080 is the power of like she called people like yo, 0:38:33.160 --> 0:38:35.279 come down to the capital camp out with me. They 0:38:35.280 --> 0:38:37.759 put pressure on him and public pressure on him, not 0:38:37.840 --> 0:38:40.319 like behind closed doors of like you know, lobby and 0:38:40.320 --> 0:38:42.600 trying to get votes, but they put pressure enough to 0:38:42.880 --> 0:38:47.080 get it to happen, and yeah, didn't. Then they have. 0:38:47.160 --> 0:38:50.799 Then some people try to dismiss it as being like theatrics, 0:38:51.280 --> 0:38:54.399 theatrics performative, like yeah, protests this theater, like I don't 0:38:54.440 --> 0:38:56.800 know what what y'all want me to say, Like you 0:38:56.880 --> 0:38:58.879 how als we're supposed to give people's attention in order 0:38:58.920 --> 0:39:00.880 to make any sort of change that And really, I 0:39:00.920 --> 0:39:02.880 think that argument is in bad faith because they just 0:39:02.920 --> 0:39:06.400 really don't want to see people fight. They want so 0:39:06.480 --> 0:39:09.600 badly for the government to lose that they're like, don't 0:39:09.680 --> 0:39:13.240 don't go over and above to make something positive happen. 0:39:13.400 --> 0:39:15.880 I would you know that this wrounts my narrative, So 0:39:15.920 --> 0:39:19.000 I don't know, you know, I think uh immortal technique 0:39:19.040 --> 0:39:22.160 once he had a line that kind of like described 0:39:22.200 --> 0:39:25.799 what you were just talking about. But it's like, just 0:39:25.880 --> 0:39:29.399 because you and about ship, don't project that everybody else 0:39:30.000 --> 0:39:33.279 is that way too right, you know what I mean. 0:39:33.400 --> 0:39:37.319 It's like, don't don't be cynical just because you know 0:39:37.440 --> 0:39:41.120 you're not, like you ain't about that life right, just 0:39:41.120 --> 0:39:43.000 because you're sitting in your gass on the couch not 0:39:43.080 --> 0:39:44.960 doing it, it it doesn't mean you can like clap back 0:39:45.000 --> 0:39:46.640 at Cory Bush when she's out there actually trying to 0:39:46.680 --> 0:39:49.760 help people exactly, speaking of people who are fighting and helping. 0:39:49.840 --> 0:39:54.080 Uh Nina Turner that same loves Her bid for the 0:39:54.120 --> 0:39:58.960 Democratic nominee Congress in Ohio, running to replace Mercia Fudge, 0:39:58.960 --> 0:40:03.200 who was appointed head as the Housing and Urban Development Secretary, 0:40:03.400 --> 0:40:06.640 became a proxy fight between the leftmost wing of the 0:40:06.680 --> 0:40:10.759 party and the establishment democrats see, and people always want 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:15.000 to use things like this, um, you know, inclusive of 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:19.400 like just's a variety of progressive losses, even like the 0:40:19.440 --> 0:40:21.920 loss of Bernie Sanders in this point to my presidential election, 0:40:22.320 --> 0:40:25.719 as indicators that like progressivism isn't popular and that like 0:40:25.760 --> 0:40:29.879 progressive wins are impossible. But everyone always wants to use 0:40:30.000 --> 0:40:33.640 an anecdotal example as like definitive evidence of whatever they 0:40:33.719 --> 0:40:39.000 already believe. Um, Like we like have had numerous victories 0:40:39.000 --> 0:40:41.080 as well, like we were just talking about da Krass, 0:40:41.080 --> 0:40:44.319 they are getting reelected. Um, the fact that we have 0:40:44.600 --> 0:40:48.040 the quote unquote squad Now, UM, I think that it's 0:40:48.080 --> 0:40:52.520 a lot more complicated than that than um. Even even 0:40:52.560 --> 0:40:54.640 on the left word side of things that like progressions 0:40:54.680 --> 0:40:56.640 want to say like, oh, the establishment is stacked against 0:40:56.800 --> 0:40:59.000 us and we can't win because they cheat, And it's 0:40:59.040 --> 0:41:02.560 like that narrative isn't helpful either. All of usus have 0:41:02.640 --> 0:41:05.879 to understand that, Um, the dynamics and each race are 0:41:05.920 --> 0:41:11.000 different and are complicated, and there's no foregone conclusion to 0:41:11.239 --> 0:41:16.360 the you know, um, the sturdy andness and durability of 0:41:16.400 --> 0:41:20.000 the establishment, or the inability for progressives to get elected, 0:41:20.280 --> 0:41:24.799 or the sure fired, Uh, sure fired, like assurance that 0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:27.799 progress as well get elected. Like whatever you think is possible, 0:41:28.040 --> 0:41:32.640 whatever you think is inevitable, is wrong. Like so you know, 0:41:32.760 --> 0:41:37.120 we seem like, right, it seemed inevitable that Lena would 0:41:37.120 --> 0:41:38.800 win because she was pulling really highly early on in 0:41:38.880 --> 0:41:42.560 the race. But like you know, like national Pundance didn't 0:41:42.560 --> 0:41:44.239 know acually happened in the ground. We were out there 0:41:44.239 --> 0:41:48.279 in Cleveland walking around talking to people, and so it's 0:41:48.320 --> 0:41:51.480 just more complicated than like one side is pure and 0:41:51.600 --> 0:41:54.799 right and will always win. Like it's just it's just 0:41:54.960 --> 0:41:58.279 you know, complex confluence of factors in each in every 0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:03.080 single race. Son and did not win, No, she didn't, unfortunately, 0:42:03.719 --> 0:42:07.320 but she has her fighting though. Yeah, I'm sure she'll 0:42:07.520 --> 0:42:10.360 run for something again. But I think now one of 0:42:10.360 --> 0:42:12.600 the things I normally see her doing is she uh 0:42:13.360 --> 0:42:15.560 co ho guest host on a t y T every 0:42:15.560 --> 0:42:18.640 now and then. Oh that's nice. Yeah, well, I don't 0:42:18.640 --> 0:42:19.839 even want to say every now and then. It kind 0:42:19.840 --> 0:42:22.320 of seems like she's doing her regularly now, so she's 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:25.640 like like actually like on the show like that, Um, 0:42:25.680 --> 0:42:27.839 we're gonna take a little break right there, and then 0:42:27.840 --> 0:42:30.280 we're gonna come back and recap the next of these 0:42:30.400 --> 0:42:34.239 uh the rest of these uh happenings over the course 0:42:34.280 --> 0:42:36.560 of the year. But um, we will be right back 0:42:36.600 --> 0:42:50.000 after the jump. All right, we are back, and we 0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:54.720 are in the month of September. Now, So September saw 0:42:55.200 --> 0:42:59.440 rapper Little Sims drop her album. Sometimes I might be introvert. 0:43:00.239 --> 0:43:05.680 The British Nigerian rappers fourth album seamlessly incorporates grime, hip hop, soul, 0:43:05.880 --> 0:43:08.200 and old school R and B. Did you really does? 0:43:08.320 --> 0:43:11.480 It really does blend the different genres together very seamlessly, 0:43:11.520 --> 0:43:13.760 in a way that I think a lot of albums 0:43:13.760 --> 0:43:17.160 could end up sounding like like a like a mission, 0:43:17.239 --> 0:43:19.960 like an awkward missmatch from people try to incorporate too 0:43:20.000 --> 0:43:22.920 many different concept styles together. But really it feels like 0:43:22.920 --> 0:43:24.640 it was flowing down the river and you like pass 0:43:24.880 --> 0:43:27.400 you know you you know, pass the banks of grime, 0:43:27.920 --> 0:43:31.520 you pass the shores of hip off and soul. Um like, 0:43:31.640 --> 0:43:33.680 it really weaves it all together really well. So she's 0:43:33.680 --> 0:43:37.000 worth checking out if you haven't heard her new album. 0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:39.640 It might have been one of my favorites from this year. Honestly, Yeah, 0:43:39.680 --> 0:43:41.279 it's definitely one of my favorites from the show. I'm 0:43:41.280 --> 0:43:44.560 glad that she's getting like the recognition that she's getting 0:43:44.560 --> 0:43:46.320 now because she's been around for a minute. Like you 0:43:46.440 --> 0:43:48.919 you know, I just said it was her fourth album. 0:43:49.000 --> 0:43:52.560 And sometimes I feel like when artists have this sort 0:43:52.560 --> 0:43:56.600 of blow up that, um, I don't know, people have 0:43:56.600 --> 0:43:59.640 a tendency to think, you know, not only that it's overnight, 0:43:59.719 --> 0:44:02.120 but to think that there are a new artist, you 0:44:02.160 --> 0:44:04.359 know what I'm saying. So hopefully her blowing up off 0:44:04.400 --> 0:44:06.880 of this ship is going to put some shine onto 0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:10.520 like her second album. Yeah, yeah, exactly the same way 0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:13.480 that I was talking about earlier, where like, uh, you 0:44:13.520 --> 0:44:16.640 get stuck on like a like a singular facet of 0:44:16.640 --> 0:44:19.240 someone's tystography, and it's like, oh, I love this album, 0:44:19.280 --> 0:44:21.719 and you fail to go at the times and like 0:44:21.800 --> 0:44:24.640 go back and see what other work people have created. 0:44:25.040 --> 0:44:28.120 I do also hope that people will given some of 0:44:28.120 --> 0:44:30.719 the acclaim this album has gotten, you know, go back 0:44:30.760 --> 0:44:32.680 and check out somewhere early stuck because we dove too. 0:44:34.120 --> 0:44:38.280 What else we've gotten. Oh this is just a little 0:44:38.320 --> 0:44:42.000 side thing, but I feel like it's a little relevant now. Um. 0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:46.239 Also in September, Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court he 0:44:46.560 --> 0:44:51.759 uh he issued a statement saying amongst other things, promising 0:44:51.800 --> 0:44:55.480 that the Supreme Court was not a dangerous cabal of 0:44:55.680 --> 0:45:01.839 partisan political hecks. Now what prompted him to just right? 0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:04.719 It's like when you when you say, like, don't think 0:45:04.719 --> 0:45:07.080 of an elephant. Immediately the first thing thing of a 0:45:07.200 --> 0:45:09.879 jinas like, oh, we're not a dangerous couple. They wait, 0:45:10.239 --> 0:45:12.120 why would you say, why would you even say that? 0:45:12.280 --> 0:45:15.400 What's happening in the Supreme Court? We'll given that like 0:45:15.440 --> 0:45:17.560 a month later, so they would be weighing in on 0:45:17.600 --> 0:45:21.000 the rovy way. That kind of seemed like an ominous foreshadowing, 0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:23.279 which is why a lot of people were expecting that 0:45:23.320 --> 0:45:27.360 to to just completely get stricken down in the first place. Yeah, like, 0:45:27.440 --> 0:45:31.920 please ignore our dangerous cabal like us behind the scenes, 0:45:31.960 --> 0:45:38.040 I promise we are not a dangerous cabal. Uh, nicely done, simboltels. 0:45:39.160 --> 0:45:42.279 It's like when it's like when you catch somebody and 0:45:42.320 --> 0:45:44.279 they're like, I didn't do nothing. It's like, yo, I 0:45:44.280 --> 0:45:50.439 didn't even accuse you anything with the Yeah October, oh man, 0:45:50.560 --> 0:45:52.759 so my my hands sound. Favorite album of the year, 0:45:53.440 --> 0:45:55.759 well maybe not actually, okay, number two favorite album the 0:45:55.840 --> 0:45:59.759 year Maxi Creams The Weight of the World. I loved it. 0:45:59.840 --> 0:46:02.359 So much Houston rapper. He's been dominating the scene down 0:46:02.360 --> 0:46:05.000 there for like a decade now. It's been wrapped with 0:46:05.080 --> 0:46:10.600 like a rarely seen emotional clarity in his music. He 0:46:10.719 --> 0:46:13.480 just like openly reckons with the demons in his life. 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:16.719 And also it's like his cadence, like the way he 0:46:16.800 --> 0:46:19.640 switches up its flow, it makes it sound it's like 0:46:19.800 --> 0:46:22.160 very unassuming and like disarming in the way it's like, 0:46:22.160 --> 0:46:24.200 oh wow, that was really creative, but like you don't 0:46:24.239 --> 0:46:27.040 sound like you're trying hard, Like it's not like those 0:46:27.120 --> 0:46:30.600 like not to hate on, like lyrical miracle rappers like myself, 0:46:30.719 --> 0:46:32.640 where it's like it sounds like they're like sweat and 0:46:32.640 --> 0:46:35.440 bullets to try to like compile like people like sucking 0:46:35.520 --> 0:46:38.360 what's his name logic, Like he sounds like squeeze a 0:46:38.360 --> 0:46:41.160 lot of stuff in there to make it really impressed Matt. 0:46:41.239 --> 0:46:43.680 So it's just like sitting back like with his feed 0:46:43.760 --> 0:46:46.200 up blow in your mind, like without even trying. It 0:46:46.280 --> 0:46:48.840 sounds like in the way he in his delivery. And 0:46:48.880 --> 0:46:52.040 so the way to the World I think album, I 0:46:52.080 --> 0:46:54.719 think it all comes down to style though, you know, 0:46:54.880 --> 0:46:57.840 or even I just think that like the byproduct of 0:46:57.880 --> 0:47:01.239 that is what makes your style, you know, Like I think, uh, 0:47:02.239 --> 0:47:04.960 Maxe Cream he's got He's got like a flow that 0:47:05.120 --> 0:47:10.279 sounds laid back. But I think that's just how we 0:47:10.440 --> 0:47:13.439 interpret his delivery of his style, you know what I'm saying, 0:47:13.440 --> 0:47:15.319 because it's meant to be like that. But I think 0:47:15.719 --> 0:47:20.719 he probably does sweat bullets to like to like, you 0:47:20.760 --> 0:47:23.840 know what I mean, to execute that, you know, which 0:47:23.920 --> 0:47:26.480 is why it sounds impressive when he does. It is 0:47:26.520 --> 0:47:29.520 because he's so good, Whereas like somebody could just be 0:47:29.600 --> 0:47:31.800 like I mean, I don't even need to say somebody. 0:47:31.800 --> 0:47:34.439 Lots of other fucker's are like, yo, I just gotta 0:47:34.520 --> 0:47:36.520 laid back style, and then you hear it. It's like, 0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:41.879 man probably wrapped like you care because this back fire, 0:47:42.000 --> 0:47:44.640 it can backfire. But no, I really appreciate the way 0:47:44.640 --> 0:47:47.560 he sounds so easy going in his wraps. This, though, 0:47:47.680 --> 0:47:50.359 does make me think of my actual favorite rap album 0:47:50.400 --> 0:47:52.560 from this year that I hey, that did not mentioned 0:47:52.560 --> 0:47:56.960 for Jude because in Jude gold Link dropped haram Oh, 0:47:57.000 --> 0:47:59.400 I haven't heard that. Oh my god. It's like, Okay, 0:47:59.400 --> 0:48:01.879 so y'all were talking on my about how I really 0:48:01.920 --> 0:48:04.080 love radio Heads. It's like if radio Head made an 0:48:04.160 --> 0:48:08.319 R and B rap album. She was just like so 0:48:09.160 --> 0:48:12.279 almost in outer space, like hovering just above the atmosphere, 0:48:12.920 --> 0:48:16.759 riding around and like real stealth spaceships. Just smooth as 0:48:16.800 --> 0:48:21.120 hell dark, but like like warm dark, like when you're 0:48:21.160 --> 0:48:24.560 sitting in your bed with the covers off your face. Um. 0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:29.279 Really yeah, it's it's so I mean, it's wrapping, it's 0:48:29.320 --> 0:48:30.759 it feels. Its got an R and B feel to 0:48:30.840 --> 0:48:35.000 it and some of like the vocal like vocals, hooks 0:48:35.000 --> 0:48:38.040 and things like that. Um, but yeah, it's just really 0:48:38.280 --> 0:48:41.239 dark and creamy adventure. I got it. What's what's it 0:48:41.280 --> 0:48:46.239 called again, It's called and they are a M I 0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:50.120 am on it, I am on it. Yeah. This was 0:48:50.160 --> 0:48:53.600 the whole like end of our year to avoid the 0:48:53.640 --> 0:48:56.279 bad stories, which just it's like a music review. But 0:48:56.760 --> 0:49:01.319 in November Mac Commie drop what I would say is 0:49:01.400 --> 0:49:04.640 album of the Year Pray for Haiti and Grizona. It 0:49:04.760 --> 0:49:08.840 was number two on Rolling Stones Top ten Top t 0:49:09.440 --> 0:49:12.600 hip Hop Records of the Year. It's bonkers. It's like 0:49:13.960 --> 0:49:15.200 I'll tell you, I'll tell you this is what I 0:49:15.200 --> 0:49:20.200 thought about Pray for Haiti. You know how I'm always 0:49:20.239 --> 0:49:23.279 complaining about like hip hop I feel and this is 0:49:23.280 --> 0:49:25.799 all could be in my head. But I feel that 0:49:25.920 --> 0:49:33.680 hip hop doesn't get like the artistic praise until it 0:49:33.800 --> 0:49:37.680 incorporates a bunch of ships that's not hip hop into it, 0:49:37.800 --> 0:49:40.359 which there's nothing wrong with at all. That's like a thing. 0:49:40.440 --> 0:49:44.960 But it's like, if it's very rare that just a 0:49:45.120 --> 0:49:49.800 dude or a woman or whoever, just a person wrapping 0:49:50.000 --> 0:49:55.080 over beats full stop is like you know that people 0:49:55.160 --> 0:49:57.480 really looking as like, oh man, this is mind blowing, 0:49:57.520 --> 0:49:59.719 this is crazy, this is amazing, this is like, let's 0:49:59.719 --> 0:50:01.840 take to me places I've never been blah blah blah. 0:50:01.880 --> 0:50:05.360 And and I want to say, the last time I 0:50:05.360 --> 0:50:08.080 saw people get like a rap act to get props 0:50:08.160 --> 0:50:10.200 like this for doing that was probably when Run the 0:50:10.239 --> 0:50:14.319 Jewels first came out. And and it's really dope to 0:50:14.320 --> 0:50:16.560 see that happening for mac Commy right now, because this 0:50:17.040 --> 0:50:19.360 is like as stripped down in bare bones as you 0:50:19.400 --> 0:50:23.360 can get. It's just it's sample based beats, sample based 0:50:23.360 --> 0:50:27.920 boom bat beats, and just a really really dope lyrical 0:50:28.040 --> 0:50:32.960 rapper going in and it it cast asides every trope 0:50:33.000 --> 0:50:36.120 that we think we need in modern hip hop, of like, hey, 0:50:36.239 --> 0:50:39.160 you don't need to have catchy hooks on every song. 0:50:39.760 --> 0:50:42.319 You know, the songs don't even necessarily have to have 0:50:42.480 --> 0:50:46.000 like a like a hard topic or concept or anything 0:50:46.040 --> 0:50:48.200 like that. And it's just it's beautiful. It's just a 0:50:48.200 --> 0:50:52.160 beautiful piece of music and a beautiful piece of rap 0:50:52.280 --> 0:50:57.000 music through and to cross over a little bit into politics, 0:50:57.600 --> 0:51:01.680 into directions and facts. It was out from Griselda Records, 0:51:01.680 --> 0:51:04.919 just based in Buffalo, New York, where Democrats socialist India 0:51:04.920 --> 0:51:07.960 Walton earlier this year won the Democratic primary for mayor, 0:51:08.120 --> 0:51:11.520 but in November was ultimately trounced by a write in candidate, 0:51:11.560 --> 0:51:14.160 the incumbent Byron Brown, who was backed by you know, 0:51:14.239 --> 0:51:17.440 establishment Democrats as well as Republicans who were really scared 0:51:17.760 --> 0:51:21.239 of a Democratic socialist becoming the mayor of Buffalo um 0:51:21.280 --> 0:51:24.600 as well, you know, to speaking speaking of prayers for Haiti, 0:51:25.440 --> 0:51:27.920 um in May, we had on Eugene per year of 0:51:28.000 --> 0:51:30.640 Breakthrough News to discuss his trip to Haiti and document 0:51:30.680 --> 0:51:32.960 that spring uprisings there. And at the time we had 0:51:33.000 --> 0:51:36.120 no idea that just two months later President Jovina Moyes 0:51:36.280 --> 0:51:43.239 Pubnel moys Um would be assassinated. Should hit the fans 0:51:43.320 --> 0:51:46.960 just when he saw things were really topsy turvy down there. Um, 0:51:47.000 --> 0:51:49.680 I mean it made a bad situation worse. Like it 0:51:49.760 --> 0:51:51.680 did make a bad situation worse. I mean it was 0:51:51.880 --> 0:51:55.120 like he was already not great, um, you know, having 0:51:55.160 --> 0:51:58.719 said things like um, you know, having done things like 0:51:58.719 --> 0:52:01.040 dismantling Haiti's leg just ad of bodies and at one 0:52:01.040 --> 0:52:04.080 point saying, after God, there is only me. Well, I 0:52:04.120 --> 0:52:10.680 mean definitely, because we definitely covered his fascist tendencies and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, 0:52:11.440 --> 0:52:15.280 hiring like gangs to like do the government's violent bidding 0:52:15.360 --> 0:52:17.880 and then without a president, the gangs just turned on 0:52:17.920 --> 0:52:20.759 the community just willy nilly, and they're just out there 0:52:20.800 --> 0:52:24.200 causing terror. Shouldn't definitely make a bad situation a lot worse. 0:52:24.360 --> 0:52:27.880 Oh yeah, that's the situation right now. Yeah, so you know, 0:52:27.920 --> 0:52:32.040 pray for Haiti and ed Man for real. November had 0:52:32.080 --> 0:52:35.520 some other positive tidings, you know. Um, India Walton may 0:52:35.560 --> 0:52:38.120 have lost, but Robin Ones and Wallah Blah, who we 0:52:38.160 --> 0:52:41.960 interviewed um in August, won her election to the Minneapolis 0:52:42.000 --> 0:52:46.279 City Council. Um and yeah, just oh you know that's 0:52:46.320 --> 0:52:50.120 openly socialisty fund the police lady among many actually uh 0:52:50.280 --> 0:52:52.919 women and women in color with you know, strong left 0:52:52.960 --> 0:52:57.359 politics that won the city council. Uh. There even though 0:52:57.719 --> 0:53:02.360 at the same time, interestingly, the measure to effectively abolished 0:53:02.360 --> 0:53:05.799 the police department failed And so I've seen that held 0:53:05.880 --> 0:53:09.480 up as like indication that, like the fund of the 0:53:09.480 --> 0:53:11.520 police movement had like failed. But like, how can you 0:53:11.560 --> 0:53:14.040 say that when at the same time multiple people got 0:53:14.040 --> 0:53:18.719 elected to the City Council of Minneapolis on that very platform, 0:53:18.760 --> 0:53:21.879 And like how and and indeed how shocking it is 0:53:22.160 --> 0:53:26.680 that in a major American city of voters would opt 0:53:27.080 --> 0:53:30.359 to replace their police department with something entirely different Like 0:53:30.480 --> 0:53:33.319 that is unprecedented, even if to some it may look 0:53:33.320 --> 0:53:36.320 like a failure. Do you think, you know, glad tings 0:53:36.320 --> 0:53:38.360 all around on that is it? Do you think of 0:53:38.719 --> 0:53:43.280 the particular city might come into play on a notion 0:53:43.320 --> 0:53:47.120 like that, Because wasn't Minneapolis having issues with the Minneapolis 0:53:47.160 --> 0:53:50.560 PD for years leading up to George Floydiapolis with the 0:53:50.560 --> 0:53:53.160 ground zero of of of everything that happened last summer, 0:53:53.200 --> 0:53:56.080 and for years have been having issues with mpd uh 0:53:56.120 --> 0:53:58.480 And so I do think again, the specific context in 0:53:58.520 --> 0:54:01.800 which has happened is very important. People overlook the fact 0:54:01.880 --> 0:54:06.560 that UM earlier this year as well, UM under Mayor 0:54:06.640 --> 0:54:10.080 Sponte Mirrack up in Ithaca, New York, they passed a 0:54:10.120 --> 0:54:12.520 plan to get rid of their police department and replace 0:54:12.560 --> 0:54:14.920 it like very very I mean not quietly, like it 0:54:15.000 --> 0:54:17.239 was reported in the news, but it wasn't such a 0:54:17.480 --> 0:54:21.680 marquee moment because Minneapolis was the epicenter of the uprising 0:54:21.760 --> 0:54:24.040 last summer, and so all eyes were on it. I'm sure, 0:54:24.239 --> 0:54:28.520 like countless resources reporting on both sides to try to, 0:54:29.080 --> 0:54:32.240 you know, influence the outcome of his ballot measure, whereas 0:54:32.800 --> 0:54:36.520 very you know, relatively sneakily the city, the Common Council 0:54:36.520 --> 0:54:38.960 of Ithaca, which is like, yeah, we're doing this, what's up? 0:54:39.640 --> 0:54:44.200 So I don't know, um, just about back in the 0:54:44.200 --> 0:54:49.520 present moment, December Body James Alchemist dropped super Techmobo, which 0:54:49.600 --> 0:54:52.120 I think is an excellent album as well that sounds 0:54:52.200 --> 0:54:55.320 range from like spooky, get a little early two thousands 0:54:55.440 --> 0:54:59.800 radio wrapping. There you get something like booming, bludgeoning, thunderous basse, 0:55:00.280 --> 0:55:03.200 and then you got Boldi James telling dead pan like 0:55:03.440 --> 0:55:07.239 pretty much horror stories about telling drugs. I mean that's 0:55:07.280 --> 0:55:10.880 not let's not beat around the bush. Boldi James and 0:55:10.920 --> 0:55:16.000 Alchemists have like successfully carved out like a whole new 0:55:16.239 --> 0:55:19.920 sub genre of hip hop that is thriving, you know 0:55:19.960 --> 0:55:22.440 what I'm saying, Like they are doing their thing, and 0:55:22.520 --> 0:55:26.839 I mean it's not really like it's not quite gangster rap. 0:55:27.960 --> 0:55:32.080 It's coke rap. I mean it's it's I mean when 0:55:32.200 --> 0:55:36.200 just about every word on every song is about like 0:55:36.880 --> 0:55:39.800 the day to day nuts and bolts of like the 0:55:39.920 --> 0:55:42.960 drug trade. It's just this is a different experience to 0:55:43.040 --> 0:55:46.480 listen to and like the abstract way they go about 0:55:46.520 --> 0:55:49.080 doing it. It's it's fresh man, I dig it again. 0:55:49.120 --> 0:55:50.759 This is all the sort of things where it's like 0:55:50.800 --> 0:55:53.160 all the dusty niggas out there who are always complaining 0:55:53.200 --> 0:55:56.200 about hip hop this and the young worersvers and the 0:55:56.280 --> 0:56:01.080 jeans are too tight, blah blah blah. Calm down, Calm down. 0:56:01.560 --> 0:56:04.719 There's plenty of good ship out there. There's plenty of 0:56:04.760 --> 0:56:07.520 different stuff out there. You just gotta look for it, 0:56:07.920 --> 0:56:12.080 and like, you know, don't don't get mad because the 0:56:12.680 --> 0:56:15.560 stuff that you want to listen to isn't like on 0:56:15.600 --> 0:56:17.239 TikTok and Ship, you know what I mean, It's not 0:56:17.239 --> 0:56:20.440 supposed to be like going band camp and go download 0:56:20.480 --> 0:56:24.080 that Boldy James Alcholists supported Nick is doing the ship 0:56:24.160 --> 0:56:26.400 that you like, God damns rather than riding off the 0:56:26.560 --> 0:56:31.279 entire genre and culture. Is hereable Lord of mercy. So yeah, 0:56:31.320 --> 0:56:33.040 Boldi James and Alcolm has has always been one of 0:56:33.040 --> 0:56:37.959 my favorite producers, just saying what yeah, um, I hate 0:56:38.200 --> 0:56:39.800 we We've got to make sure not to end on 0:56:39.880 --> 0:56:41.399 a bummer note. So we're gonna go through this last 0:56:41.400 --> 0:56:43.120 two things and then let's talk maybe about some stuff 0:56:43.239 --> 0:56:46.160 looking forward to two because I hate to announce that. 0:56:46.760 --> 0:56:49.799 In December, Elon Musk was named Person of the Year 0:56:49.840 --> 0:56:55.920 by Time magazine. Oh my God, like essential workers, Hello, anyone, 0:56:56.080 --> 0:56:59.400 the labor movement, strike Shelberg anything, No, you're gonna give 0:56:59.440 --> 0:57:02.799 it to like the billionaire who inherited his plans from 0:57:02.840 --> 0:57:06.360 a blood Emerald diamond South you know mine in South Africa, 0:57:06.520 --> 0:57:09.879 Like go fund yourself. Okay, Look, so we we might 0:57:10.280 --> 0:57:13.880 we might have to check this out or reapproach this 0:57:14.200 --> 0:57:16.680 on another date or something, or dive deeper into this. 0:57:16.840 --> 0:57:20.720 But part of his you know tour, like press tour 0:57:20.920 --> 0:57:24.000 for the I won the Time magazine, he did a 0:57:25.080 --> 0:57:28.760 interview with what was it called bumble b or some 0:57:28.920 --> 0:57:31.959 ship like that bumble something. It's like some right wing 0:57:32.960 --> 0:57:37.720 Twitter media comedy thing of the jig. He did an 0:57:37.840 --> 0:57:41.400 interview with them, and in this interview he made some 0:57:41.600 --> 0:57:44.600 news because not only was he going after Elizabeth Warren 0:57:45.000 --> 0:57:48.000 and talking about birth rates and space and all sorts 0:57:48.040 --> 0:57:53.600 of ship, but he also stated that wokeness is the 0:57:53.760 --> 0:57:59.560 biggest threat to modern civilization and that at its heart 0:57:59.680 --> 0:58:04.320 will go nos is divisive and hateful. YadA, YadA YadA. 0:58:04.440 --> 0:58:10.040 Some think something critical race theory. Look, I think that 0:58:10.280 --> 0:58:13.760 that's not good. Like I think that that's like something 0:58:13.880 --> 0:58:18.360 that needs to be addressed. And I don't I don't 0:58:18.480 --> 0:58:22.160 know how to like, I don't know why I think 0:58:22.200 --> 0:58:24.120 so as hard as maybe, like I said, we'll deal 0:58:24.160 --> 0:58:26.000 with it, we'll talk about this later. But I feel 0:58:26.080 --> 0:58:30.360 like that's a bigger deal then it then the press 0:58:30.440 --> 0:58:34.560 that it got because like for better or worse, and 0:58:34.640 --> 0:58:37.480 it's most likely for worse. But Elon Musk, there's a 0:58:37.560 --> 0:58:40.000 lot of fucking stupid people out there who like, thank 0:58:40.040 --> 0:58:44.760 Elon Musk is literally Tony Starks from iron Manship, like 0:58:44.920 --> 0:58:47.520 for real, for real, and like they think everything he says, 0:58:47.680 --> 0:58:50.280 he's like a genius and everything is like right and 0:58:50.320 --> 0:58:53.000 blah blah blah. So for me, it's just like, man, 0:58:53.680 --> 0:58:57.600 you got this like super rich, kazillionaire dude who's got 0:58:57.720 --> 0:59:03.320 like a fucking almost like fanatical following out there, and 0:59:03.480 --> 0:59:06.720 there's nothing, there's nothing that Elon Musk can think about 0:59:06.880 --> 0:59:10.040 that happened in the last five years. That's like a 0:59:10.120 --> 0:59:14.600 threat to society other than effectively, because when you really 0:59:14.640 --> 0:59:16.680 go into the context of what he was talking about 0:59:16.720 --> 0:59:19.760 in the interview, the biggest threat to society is that 0:59:20.960 --> 0:59:25.960 some people wrote mean comments about de Chappelle's comedy special yea, 0:59:27.080 --> 0:59:33.040 essentially what he's talking about. Excuse me again, it's not 0:59:33.160 --> 0:59:35.520 the it's not the it's not the topic that I 0:59:35.600 --> 0:59:37.320 care about. The guy has nothing to do with it. 0:59:37.480 --> 0:59:40.440 It's just the people who are saying these things because 0:59:41.160 --> 0:59:45.120 like they're allegedly supposed to be real smart leaders and 0:59:45.200 --> 0:59:48.640 gatekeepers of society and ship, right, So why would someone 0:59:49.680 --> 0:59:51.360 like even you know, why would he say something so 0:59:51.440 --> 0:59:57.000 stupid unless there was like an insidious like intent behind it. 0:59:58.280 --> 1:00:00.920 It's like it's like the idea of so plastic terrorism, 1:00:01.680 --> 1:00:05.640 where like someone says something inflammatory that then inspires acts 1:00:05.680 --> 1:00:08.280 of violence. They themselves didn't drop, you know, order a 1:00:08.360 --> 1:00:10.200 drone strike on someone, but then you get the l 1:00:10.240 --> 1:00:15.520 passa shooter spraying up of spraying up a Walmart because 1:00:15.600 --> 1:00:18.920 they Latino people because of Donald Trump and so like, 1:00:19.640 --> 1:00:22.160 I don't think it's quite that insidious with Elon Musk 1:00:22.280 --> 1:00:24.280 and that like he does, Like it's not like he's 1:00:24.440 --> 1:00:26.760 going out like you know, kill trans people or anything. 1:00:27.360 --> 1:00:29.840 But there's there's all there's a couple of steps between 1:00:30.320 --> 1:00:32.440 wokeness is wokeness is sucked up. And I don't like 1:00:32.520 --> 1:00:35.280 the don binary people to like someone taking that and 1:00:35.400 --> 1:00:37.120 running with it, like well, like you know, I killed 1:00:37.120 --> 1:00:43.080 everyone at the Trans Day of Remembrance visual because I 1:00:43.160 --> 1:00:46.360 go biomission though, you know what I'm saying, Like what's 1:00:46.400 --> 1:00:49.800 happened in the last five six years? That okay? Like Elon, Like, 1:00:50.120 --> 1:00:52.680 how come Elon Musk didn't come out and say, hey man, 1:00:52.800 --> 1:00:56.080 whatever Dylan Ruth believed in that ships like a threat 1:00:56.160 --> 1:01:00.600 to modern civilization? Like what how we didn't come out 1:01:00.600 --> 1:01:03.680 after the Apostle shooter. Hey, you know what, whatever the 1:01:03.720 --> 1:01:06.360 funk that dudes into that ship's a real threat to 1:01:06.440 --> 1:01:09.360 modern civilization. I think at its core, it's really hateful 1:01:09.400 --> 1:01:11.280 and divisive and we gotta do something to stuff. You 1:01:11.320 --> 1:01:13.920 know what I'm saying, so he's like, it's like for me, 1:01:14.080 --> 1:01:18.320 the omission is is is the thing that's like a 1:01:18.400 --> 1:01:20.920 red flag to me. And then also, like you just mentioned, 1:01:21.320 --> 1:01:24.200 it's really not shocking that like a fucking descendant of 1:01:24.240 --> 1:01:28.080 apartheid is talking about wokenness is the biggest thread right, 1:01:28.200 --> 1:01:32.080 and so unlike unlike other major figures, like let's think, 1:01:32.160 --> 1:01:37.240 for example, politicians who feel beholden to comment on you know, 1:01:37.520 --> 1:01:40.000 current events, like you know, in the aftermath of like 1:01:40.200 --> 1:01:44.120 the Charleston you know church shooting or the All Passo shooting, 1:01:44.200 --> 1:01:47.480 you know, issuing statements of condemnation or recently talking about 1:01:47.480 --> 1:01:50.200 a mod are very He's not accountable to anyone, so 1:01:50.320 --> 1:01:52.160 he can just chime in when it like feeds his 1:01:52.240 --> 1:01:56.000 ego and just stay out when like I shouldn't have 1:01:56.000 --> 1:01:58.600 an opinion on that, because I don't because I'm not 1:01:58.680 --> 1:02:02.280 a good person. Um, just the contrast there's really interesting 1:02:02.360 --> 1:02:04.600 to me. I just feel that it's the whole My 1:02:04.680 --> 1:02:06.240 last bit I'll say in it, it's just the whole, 1:02:06.360 --> 1:02:13.160 like anti woke debate, regardless of how you fall personally 1:02:13.240 --> 1:02:16.080 on it. It is like right wing game, like you 1:02:16.160 --> 1:02:17.560 gotta you know what I'm saying, like at the end 1:02:17.560 --> 1:02:18.960 of the day, that's what it is. So for me, 1:02:19.480 --> 1:02:23.040 like people who are on that ship, you're either susceptible 1:02:24.280 --> 1:02:28.720 to like right wing propaganda or you're like in on it, 1:02:29.320 --> 1:02:31.680 either one of those things. I can't fuck it, you 1:02:31.720 --> 1:02:34.040 know what I mean? So I don't funk with us 1:02:34.480 --> 1:02:39.360 that no, um. And then before we move on to 1:02:39.480 --> 1:02:44.160 our hopes injurienso me, I gotta stop and address where 1:02:44.160 --> 1:02:46.160 we're at with a macron right now, man. I mean, 1:02:46.560 --> 1:02:49.800 like I said earlier in the show, numbers case numbers 1:02:49.920 --> 1:02:54.600 are I have shattered you know, previous records, including for 1:02:54.680 --> 1:02:56.440 earlier this year when we thought we were at the 1:02:56.480 --> 1:03:00.800 height of like a winter surge. Danny wins, she's gotta 1:03:01.320 --> 1:03:04.600 she's got covid right to get the sons like I can't. 1:03:04.680 --> 1:03:07.240 I can't like open my phone without getting a new 1:03:07.280 --> 1:03:11.400 text message from someone that has gotten covid. Um and 1:03:12.000 --> 1:03:14.680 show for New Year's Eve this year. Yeah, I'm probably 1:03:14.760 --> 1:03:19.560 chilling hard um. And this comes just as uh, the 1:03:20.080 --> 1:03:24.480 CDC has revised his recommendations with regards to quarantine. Now 1:03:24.880 --> 1:03:27.640 it's somewhat complicated and tiered based on whether you're symptomatic 1:03:27.760 --> 1:03:31.560 or not. But effectively shortening the recommended quarantine in time 1:03:31.600 --> 1:03:34.400 from ten to five days, and it has become very 1:03:34.440 --> 1:03:38.800 explicit in interviews with senior officials involved in these conversations. 1:03:39.280 --> 1:03:42.600 UM information that has come to light about lobbying UM 1:03:42.960 --> 1:03:45.600 by the CEO of Delta with regards to shortening the 1:03:45.680 --> 1:03:48.360 quarantine time that this is not a public health based decision. 1:03:48.480 --> 1:03:50.800 This is based on I mean, by their own word, 1:03:50.840 --> 1:03:53.120 in their own words and their words of CDC director 1:03:53.800 --> 1:03:55.720 I think her name is Winsley, Robin Winsley or something 1:03:55.840 --> 1:03:58.840 or I don't remember. UM that like they are about 1:03:58.880 --> 1:04:02.320 they're trying to balance public health, the interests of public 1:04:02.360 --> 1:04:06.360 health and the interests of not impacting society. Now if 1:04:06.400 --> 1:04:08.240 they really wanted, if they were, I mean, because on 1:04:08.320 --> 1:04:09.920 its face, I can sound like, oh, we don't want 1:04:09.960 --> 1:04:13.160 grocery stores to close because they're understaffed. We don't want 1:04:13.200 --> 1:04:15.640 the buses to stop running because the bus drivers are sick. 1:04:16.560 --> 1:04:23.200 It's like, well, y'all could implement mitigation like strategies to 1:04:23.760 --> 1:04:26.440 make that not a thing. Like in Vietnam, Like they 1:04:26.480 --> 1:04:29.560 are just like the National Guard or whatever equivalent in Vietnam. 1:04:29.960 --> 1:04:32.760 It's just delivering food to people's houses. So they ain't 1:04:32.760 --> 1:04:34.840 even gotta go the grocery store. Like, if we were 1:04:34.880 --> 1:04:37.720 really serious about protecting public health, we could. We could. 1:04:37.800 --> 1:04:40.480 We can mandate testing and every work site that's in 1:04:40.560 --> 1:04:44.080 person um, all sorts of We can implement another shutdown, 1:04:44.280 --> 1:04:48.360 surrogate breakers, shot down three weeks or whatever, give everybody 1:04:48.400 --> 1:04:51.440 a two dollar check waited out. They literally are just 1:04:51.600 --> 1:04:54.000 like I mean, the fact that they could and aren't 1:04:54.040 --> 1:04:55.920 doing that is what shows you that this is more 1:04:55.960 --> 1:05:03.360 about appeasing uh corporate um gangsters over like actually protecting 1:05:03.360 --> 1:05:05.640 the same in lives. I mean the ship I'm worried about, 1:05:05.680 --> 1:05:08.600 and maybe I'm just I'm not supposed to be worried 1:05:08.600 --> 1:05:10.840 about it because maybe the chances are too low. But 1:05:10.960 --> 1:05:15.400 it's like, what happens if this ship mutates into something worse? 1:05:17.360 --> 1:05:21.120 I think we're on a trajectory for them, but like, 1:05:21.280 --> 1:05:24.000 what will the what will the anti vactors say that 1:05:25.040 --> 1:05:29.520 wells never got it when it when it turns into 1:05:29.600 --> 1:05:35.720 something that like is more deadly, you know, or when 1:05:35.760 --> 1:05:37.680 the day comes. The last thing I'll say, I don't 1:05:37.680 --> 1:05:39.000 want to be a dum or when the day comes, 1:05:39.000 --> 1:05:42.720 because like I've heard interviews with like I don't know 1:05:42.760 --> 1:05:45.880 if they're virologists, so they study like you know, you 1:05:45.960 --> 1:05:49.480 know essentially I've heard I've listened to interviews with scientists 1:05:49.520 --> 1:05:53.720 talking about the role of deforestation in driving you know, 1:05:53.880 --> 1:05:57.080 animal to human transmitted pandemics like these that the more 1:05:57.160 --> 1:06:00.280 that we disturb these ecosystems and things like that are 1:06:00.360 --> 1:06:02.600 driven into urban centers where then they take a ship 1:06:02.720 --> 1:06:04.640 on the you know, sushi that you buy from the 1:06:04.720 --> 1:06:07.200 market or whatever. Then suddenly we have a pandemic on 1:06:07.240 --> 1:06:09.200 our hands. What we're really looking in addition to this 1:06:09.320 --> 1:06:15.400 continuing to mutate is um is parallel pandemics of like 1:06:15.520 --> 1:06:18.160 COVID not going away, and then the news ship shows them. Yeah, 1:06:18.800 --> 1:06:22.800 like I'm sorry, but that is like they won't be 1:06:22.840 --> 1:06:26.360 increasingly likely as like ecosystems get thrown into chaos both 1:06:26.400 --> 1:06:28.800 by climate change and by man made disruptions in terms 1:06:28.840 --> 1:06:32.240 of like development of cities, etcetera. I mean, you know, 1:06:33.160 --> 1:06:35.960 they should just they should harp on that aspect of 1:06:36.080 --> 1:06:39.400 the like push to get people to get vaccinated. That 1:06:39.480 --> 1:06:43.080 it's like, well, there's the there's the protecting your fellow 1:06:43.160 --> 1:06:46.480 man ship and all that stuff that you should just 1:06:46.600 --> 1:06:49.240 like want to do anyway, But like they should really 1:06:49.400 --> 1:06:52.480 like harp on even if I don't care what percentage, 1:06:52.520 --> 1:06:54.960 if it's point one one percent, I don't know what 1:06:55.080 --> 1:06:58.440 the chances, but they should harp like Yo, the more 1:06:58.600 --> 1:07:01.800 unvaccinated people they're out there, the like war room that 1:07:01.920 --> 1:07:04.440 this ship has to turn into something worse. Now. I 1:07:04.480 --> 1:07:06.040 don't even know if that would help with the way 1:07:06.080 --> 1:07:08.520 people are active. I don't know all we can do, 1:07:08.680 --> 1:07:11.800 all we can do to be you know, to transition 1:07:11.880 --> 1:07:14.400 warmly into the end of the show's it look after 1:07:14.520 --> 1:07:16.280 each other. You know, ultimately we do have a lot 1:07:16.320 --> 1:07:21.320 of collective power, um to help keep each other afloat, 1:07:21.400 --> 1:07:24.600 you know, mutual aid networks and things like that. It 1:07:24.720 --> 1:07:27.200 just really stresses the importance of knowing your neighbors, looking 1:07:27.240 --> 1:07:29.800 out for each other where you can, and strengthening our 1:07:29.920 --> 1:07:33.280 neighborhoods just through just community outreach, just like knowing who 1:07:33.320 --> 1:07:35.640 lives around you and supporting them and leaning on them 1:07:35.680 --> 1:07:38.760 for support when you need it. And um, increasingly it 1:07:38.880 --> 1:07:40.320 looks like the main way ever gonna get out of this. 1:07:40.880 --> 1:07:43.800 In addition to you know, like we're looking forward you 1:07:43.880 --> 1:07:46.760 I mean, I'm excided from album come out, Um, I'm 1:07:46.800 --> 1:07:49.680 excited hopefully finish my inssertation and be dumb a fucking school. 1:07:49.960 --> 1:07:52.720 I hate it. It's so terrible. Um, why am I 1:07:52.720 --> 1:07:57.160 geting this degree? Um? So all that, and you know, 1:07:57.400 --> 1:08:01.160 political projects of mine that have seated, you know, bearing fruit, 1:08:01.600 --> 1:08:04.120 getting this community garden off the ground, hopefully getting a 1:08:04.240 --> 1:08:08.560 cure violence esque program implemented Athens. I've talked about a 1:08:08.600 --> 1:08:10.520 couple of times in the show, but you know, public 1:08:10.560 --> 1:08:13.840 safety something night. It's a very passionate issue of mine. 1:08:13.920 --> 1:08:16.479 So addressing some of that through some of the things 1:08:16.560 --> 1:08:18.080 that I've been working on for the last couple of months. 1:08:18.160 --> 1:08:20.640 So it's could be a tough year, give me a 1:08:21.080 --> 1:08:24.160 exciting and rewarding year, though, I think so I feel 1:08:24.160 --> 1:08:26.680 like someone optimistic, if not a little bit daunted. But 1:08:26.960 --> 1:08:29.960 what about you? What's you looking forward to? Um? Oh um, 1:08:30.040 --> 1:08:33.720 obviously looking forward to putting out the new album. Um 1:08:36.080 --> 1:08:40.679 if covid, If COVID keep backing up, you know, hopefully 1:08:40.680 --> 1:08:43.040 it can calm down, because I'm definitely looking forward to 1:08:43.120 --> 1:08:46.200 touring more. You know, didn't tour, didn't tour the whole 1:08:47.120 --> 1:08:50.080 even though other people were. But you know, hopefully that 1:08:50.200 --> 1:08:53.920 can that can be a possibility next year. And um, 1:08:54.280 --> 1:08:59.599 I'm looking forward to doing more work with my local 1:09:00.000 --> 1:09:06.000 anti fascist groups and movements around. Um, that's probably it's 1:09:06.080 --> 1:09:10.240 probably like the topic of like most concerned to me 1:09:10.520 --> 1:09:13.439 right now at this point in my life. So yeah, 1:09:13.560 --> 1:09:16.320 I'm looking forward to getting more involved in that. So, 1:09:16.640 --> 1:09:19.680 you know, anti fascism and rap music sounds like a 1:09:19.760 --> 1:09:23.160 good way. It sounds like some good goals for two 1:09:23.280 --> 1:09:26.599 for me, So that's what I'm about speaking of Next week, 1:09:26.960 --> 1:09:30.160 we are after you guys come back from celebrating New 1:09:30.240 --> 1:09:34.080 Year's and everything, we are going to be recapping the 1:09:35.000 --> 1:09:39.040 events on the anniversary of January six, and we're gonna 1:09:39.040 --> 1:09:43.880 be talking with known anti fascist Christopher Goldsmith about some 1:09:44.040 --> 1:09:46.879 of the things that he does to prevent our veterans 1:09:47.000 --> 1:09:51.400 from being seduced into right wing extremist groups. But yeah, 1:09:51.600 --> 1:09:53.360 thanks so much for listening this year. We'll see you 1:09:53.360 --> 1:09:55.840 in the next one. And with that, yall want to 1:09:56.040 --> 1:09:57.720 want you want to wrap a limit? Yeah, this is 1:09:57.760 --> 1:10:01.000 gonna be our last raps one for the show. So 1:10:01.800 --> 1:10:04.519 we gotta kick it off right, all right, I gotta 1:10:05.160 --> 1:10:09.800 listen to Vocal Cards, get everything loose. You ready, Let's 1:10:09.840 --> 1:10:17.880 hit it all right, Joe, Let's do it. Oh uh 1:10:17.960 --> 1:10:24.840 huh uh huh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, picture perfect. I'm 1:10:24.880 --> 1:10:27.320 paint the perfect picture. These niggas thrown the capitol. They 1:10:27.400 --> 1:10:29.240 probably work with hit. Let's spell my name with double 1:10:29.320 --> 1:10:31.400 capitals to put it on a scripture. I need you 1:10:31.479 --> 1:10:33.280 will to go and spare point like I'm the witch 1:10:33.320 --> 1:10:36.080 of the pandemic hit and everyone's grandpap the shelter, and 1:10:36.160 --> 1:10:37.840 then we thought it was over, and then we ran 1:10:37.920 --> 1:10:40.840 the delta record, heat wave, ice caps im and melt you. 1:10:41.040 --> 1:10:43.519 The social contracts a bad hand that you dealta us, 1:10:43.600 --> 1:10:46.080 the whole system fun. You really need of a failsafe. 1:10:46.200 --> 1:10:49.120 Democrats suck. These niggas can't even fail straight. I see 1:10:49.160 --> 1:10:51.360 the world through some bloodshot eyes. And you might call 1:10:51.439 --> 1:10:54.439 him Antifa, but that's just my guys, real ship. Take 1:10:54.479 --> 1:10:56.560 a load office for the new year, Go up to 1:10:56.640 --> 1:10:58.800 a party and maybe get you a few beers. Pull 1:10:58.880 --> 1:11:00.519 some liking out for your home. Uson she had a 1:11:00.560 --> 1:11:02.920 few tears Lingua franca h two whol you know my 1:11:03.040 --> 1:11:14.040 cup's here, I'm dope knife. We are waiting on reparations 1:11:15.880 --> 1:11:19.280 the year. Happy New Year. Everybody listen to Waiting on 1:11:19.400 --> 1:11:22.800 Reparations on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or 1:11:22.840 --> 1:11:24.160 wherever you get your podcasts,