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Speaker 1: As media. All right, y'all, Hood politics with prop So

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Speaker 1: I'm starting a series here that's not gonna be like

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Speaker 1: and one of which is I just want to walk y'all.

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Speaker 2: Through the American health scapes.

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Speaker 1: You know, all these cities that our president is telling

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Speaker 1: us are just unlivable, just horrible places for people to

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Speaker 1: hearing stuff like that is like, I mean, have y'all,

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Speaker 1: like if y'all been to the cities that he's talking about,

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Speaker 1: Like do you know anyone that lives there? Like why

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Speaker 1: would you just believe that? I feel like it's such

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Speaker 1: a fixable problem, you know. But it's also if you,

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Speaker 1: like I said, like how this show works, Like if

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Speaker 1: you understand the hood, you grew up in the inner cities,

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Speaker 1: you understand politics. People have been saying this about us,

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Speaker 1: whether you're black, you Latino, or you're from the inner city.

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Speaker 1: This is these are the things that we've lived with forever.

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Speaker 1: Where it's just like you have this narrative about it.

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Speaker 1: Just pull up, like, just come through, act like you

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Speaker 1: got some home training, you know, and you will be

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Speaker 1: treated well.

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Speaker 2: Right you know.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, so to kick this off, I wanted to

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Speaker 1: start in Memphis.

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Speaker 2: How you am I saying it right?

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Speaker 3: Are you close?

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Speaker 2: I'm close? It's too much. I got too much, lam me.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: One of my favorite things is when Prop gets into

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, because my grass, my granny, because you know,

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Speaker 1: our granny Ranny for the feeling.

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Speaker 4: Every time, I was like, oh yeah, Grandma, Yeah it's

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Speaker 2: I love it. Bro.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody, everybody la they granty from the South, Like

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, Uh, my man Bartholomew Jones, uh, coffee Black.

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Speaker 1: We've had him on here before when we were doing

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Speaker 1: the terraform and stuff about making coffee black again and

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Speaker 1: trying to like uplift you know, uh, bring the blackness

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Speaker 1: and just what he's doing as a business owner that's

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Speaker 1: you know, not just about business, but about the community

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Speaker 1: and being like, you know, rooted in a place that

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Speaker 1: you exist in and working and it's given so much

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Speaker 1: to you and you just want to give back. So

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Speaker 1: this one is not so much about the coffee, although

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Speaker 1: this is more about what it.

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Speaker 2: Means, like I just want him.

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Speaker 1: I just want him to come in here and just

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Speaker 1: gush about Memphis, like like imagine, imagine, you know, I

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Speaker 1: pop in and I'm like, Okay, I got five days,

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Speaker 1: I got five days in the city. You know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, make me fall in love with Memphis.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's really what's happening here. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go ahead and start with your personal narrative. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: coffee black generational member of Memphis, give me, give me

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Speaker 1: some history.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, man, So I've grown up my whole life in Memphis.

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Speaker 2: My father grew up his whole life in Memphis.

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Speaker 4: His father moved to Memphis from Arkansas after his father,

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Speaker 4: you know, lost the land they had about ninety acres

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Speaker 3: He was actually not a sharecropper.

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Speaker 4: And that's a big part of my dad and my

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Speaker 4: granddad was said out of time, we are not sharecroppers,

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Speaker 2: And it was big, it.

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Speaker 4: Was big thing for us bro They were not able

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Speaker 3: That's just been a part of history.

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Speaker 3: So we you know South specifically, So if you know.

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Speaker 1: About that, you know about that and no no pause pause, Okay,

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Speaker 1: if you know about that, assume we don't what are

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Speaker 3: Right if you think about young Dolph Okay, right, historically.

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Speaker 4: Very love beloved artists like that's that's South Memphis right there.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, So pl e that South Memphis.

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Speaker 4: A lot of those artists that are coming out from there.

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Speaker 4: And when you think about the South I remember was

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Speaker 4: Of course there's a history in North Memphis too, but

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Speaker 4: like she had a lot of her initial work was

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. South Memphis has like had

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Speaker 4: So even with People's Grocery, that particular store black owned.

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Speaker 4: You had like some of the first black millionaires in

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Speaker 4: course that wasn't beloved by some of the folks outside

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Speaker 4: into this black owned grocery store. The story goes that

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Speaker 4: that's disrespectful. This is our store, of course, Now your

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Speaker 2: There's well, right, So like, yeah, there.

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Speaker 4: Was wealth there, and you know, when we get into it,

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Speaker 3: But that history.

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Speaker 4: Now we think about South Memphis, we think about drugs

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Speaker 3: The antithesism desert is, yes.

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Speaker 4: And because of that jealousy towards that, or envy towards that,

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Speaker 4: because I mean there were still tons of Jim Crow happening.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: White people were not actively being oppressed. They were just

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Speaker 3: Right, I love.

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Speaker 2: I love that point. I love I.

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Speaker 1: I wish I could like this is where I wish

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Speaker 1: I could be like a Cornell West level history teacher,

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Speaker 1: but they were They're like listen, uh f no states

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Speaker 1: meaning like ending you know, keeping us segregated is actually good.

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Speaker 1: And they're like, well, look man, like Japan's flourishing because

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Speaker 2: They're like look you're you're They're like.

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Speaker 1: Look, man, you look at Finland and Scandinavia, like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: They just don't allow diversity, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So they were so then they look at what you

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Mister Kirk, you know, was like I think civil rights

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to segregation. And it's like, no, no,

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Speaker 3: And I think part of.

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Speaker 4: The piece that's missing there too is I don't think

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, But there was the desire

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Speaker 4: to go to Bill Street. Yeah, but I want to

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Speaker 4: be be king. Yeah but yeah I want to hear W. C.

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Speaker 4: Handy like, yes, there is a desire for so for

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Speaker 4: and you even see that now, like so much of

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Speaker 2: Grizzlies, it's mafia.

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Speaker 4: Yeah people, you know what I'm saying, Gotti like or

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Speaker 4: it like these these the cultural export, the barbecue, the

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Speaker 4: seeds that for some reason I saw the spot and

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Speaker 4: it's like yo, you you you even in your spirit,

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Speaker 4: you know that this is not how God intended us

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Speaker 4: to live, because you ain't living like yeah, exactly. Segregation

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Speaker 4: was what people really wanted. There wouldn't be all these

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Speaker 2: Come on, now, you know what I'm saying, Come on

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Speaker 2: now here.

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Speaker 4: Cuisine, you know what I'm saying, German cooking styles if

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Speaker 4: how you get schnittle style chicken on a plan. You

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Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, no, yeah, I'm with it.

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Speaker 4: People the desires like mag of cheese, you know what

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Speaker 4: I'm saying. Like here's a black man enslave getting sent

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Speaker 4: I'm saying, one of these that's so beautiful. My brother

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Speaker 3: So they just moved.

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Speaker 4: He's from Georgia, Augusta and they lived in Jersey's a

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Speaker 4: coffee rollser Now they just moved their whole family to Memphis,

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Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. And one of the things

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Speaker 4: or deserve like uh, like a chewi which has a

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: Where it's like black folks, where Steve, would you want

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Speaker 1: So them you're here, you're here, all right, Steve, come

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Speaker 5: What's going on with you?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: What's up? Boy? Wait?

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Speaker 2: Okay, now I.

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Speaker 3: See who he is? Yeah, yeah, man, just real quick.

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Speaker 5: And this I don't want to I don't want to

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Speaker 5: say this. This history is the the gospel.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what was told to me.

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Speaker 5: And I got the recipe from my one of my aunties.

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Speaker 5: Units gave me this recipe of chewis your auntie?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 2: Now? Say it again? My name was Lee Eunice. I

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Speaker 5: Okay, go on, yeah, man, my auntie she she gave

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Speaker 5: we always had them when we was kids and were

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Speaker 2: So you just want to three.

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Speaker 5: You want to keep the recipes from our parents, you know, grandparents, aunties.

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Speaker 5: And I just asked her one day, Auntie Lee, can

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Speaker 5: for the chewies. And the history goes from what I

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Speaker 5: looks like a brownie, eats like a brownie, the inside

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Speaker 3: So that's kent.

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Speaker 2: It's called that. Yeah, But we couldn't.

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Speaker 5: and you melt it. It's like the straight though method. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And that's that's the true delicacy.

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Speaker 5: It's a delicacy. And people been doing that for their

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Speaker 2: At thanks for that, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love you.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, they like it's like it's

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Speaker 4: almost like, oh, you have pecan pie, like the feeling

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: But think what people are reacting to is they're seeing

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Speaker 4: they've been making them everything, Like.

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Speaker 2: The chewies in here.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, they gone.

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Speaker 4: I think that's such an example of like this this

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Speaker 1: I think that there's, uh, there's something to that in

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Like they was all they was all black, you know

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Speaker 2: Of course I was black panther. It was plain black people.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't like that my my third grade teacher, Miss Spears,

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Speaker 2: But for her, you know, this is a black woman.

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Speaker 1: That she taught it a Latino neighborhood school, you know

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Speaker 1: but that was just but for us, that's la to

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Speaker 1: everyone's talented, we're all howded together. The streets are dangerous,

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Speaker 1: but just act like you got sense it is what

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Speaker 1: think it's also important with music, you know, whether it's

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Speaker 2: The players were from Memphis, like the people that.

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Speaker 3: Actually we got to talk about Soulsville in South Memphis.

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm trying to say, the actual musicians, you

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Speaker 4: We're talking about records, Yeah, we're talking about Isaac Hayes.

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Speaker 4: We're talking about the songs song like Green Onions, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I say, soul music was created in Memphis.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: It was exported and polished in Detroit. You know what

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Speaker 2: They really commercialized the sound.

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Speaker 4: But when you talk about that gritty so much, so

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Speaker 4: many hip hop samples came from Stax Music Records for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, it's just gotta swing. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. This is a huge part

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Speaker 4: And so when you think about these things, of course,

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Speaker 2: It is the things that.

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Speaker 4: Were here prior to it that many times were the

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: I love that you got plundered. You got plundered. So

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Speaker 1: unfortunately for you and I, like we are, we were

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Speaker 2: Uh, the graffiti culture. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of the things that you know are

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Speaker 2: Uh and are you know yeah, yeah yeah and mimicked. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I think you know, whether it's you know, trap

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Speaker 1: tell me about the darkness, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: And I think that this is a thing that is important.

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Speaker 4: Like we live here too, So if anyone knows that

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Speaker 4: it is dangerous, if you want to find the people

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Speaker 4: somebody who lived there whose business has to go through, Yes,

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Speaker 4: vandalism and the burglaries and and we call them call heads,

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Speaker 4: you know, what I'm saying, but like the con heads

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Speaker 3: We lived here, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I stayed in in.

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Speaker 4: I remember seeing dead bodies in and sitting on the

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Speaker 4: it just got murder. They was looking for a body

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like they're like, oh, y'all got a pool, so

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Speaker 4: what I'm saying, we gotta go. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 4: it's to go. Yeah, it's a wrap like they hitting

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Speaker 4: the pool, we might as well. And the mythics they

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Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all just do it like this and then they

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a whole thing, right, bro, you know

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So was it dark?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Bro?

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Speaker 3: Do I want to see more crime happening?

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Speaker 2: Want to see more babies being hurt?

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Speaker 4: Like we can even talk about like the occupation here

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Speaker 3: I haven't heard no gunshots in the money, you know

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Speaker 4: Like people be like my kids can go outside and

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Speaker 4: you can't take away. Somebody has desired to feel safe

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Speaker 4: and for their for their family. Like that's a real

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Speaker 4: is good. Like it's like the city is experience complexity.

440
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:12,840
Speaker 4: I was a teacher for ten years. You have to

441
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,159
Speaker 4: shout out to people who were teaching the rappers and

442
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 4: then into coffee young all of us.

443
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:18,760
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

444
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,280
Speaker 4: But like those are real things where like the school

445
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:25,119
Speaker 4: systems need to be improved, like they need funding, Like

446
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,680
Speaker 4: our arm do not have a lot of high paying jobs,

447
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:30,680
Speaker 4: a lot of factory jobs. You know what I'm saying

448
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,720
Speaker 4: where people will feel like it's mindless, soulless work. There's

449
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,639
Speaker 4: a lot of foolishness, you know what I'm saying, Like

450
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,440
Speaker 4: live in neighborhood. We do discipleship here, we do mentorship here.

451
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 4: Like I talked mid to school for ten years. I

452
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,560
Speaker 4: remember talking to a young man and he like, I'm

453
00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:45,960
Speaker 4: about to go kill these folks. Brouh.

454
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

455
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,800
Speaker 3: This is just like third year and see's great, big dude.

456
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, fourteen years old. Yeah, homie, Like what's

457
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 2: going on?

458
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 4: And I taught his sister and he was like, you know,

459
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 4: I ran the hip hop clubs, so all the kids

460
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,160
Speaker 4: would come, you know those, So I got a mix

461
00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,600
Speaker 4: of like honor students and like kids who was heading

462
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,359
Speaker 4: to the house after they left. But him, like getting

463
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 4: to the bottom of it, he was like, bro, I'm hurt.

464
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 4: Like this man embarrassed me because he was a big

465
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,639
Speaker 4: guy and his cousin have been talking down on his

466
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 4: weight and he was like disrespected and it's hurt my

467
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 4: At the end of the day.

468
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:15,639
Speaker 2: His feelings were hurt.

469
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,440
Speaker 4: He hurt feelings, Yeah, And like we don't have language

470
00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 4: to talk through what to do as a man, specific

471
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 4: as a black man, when your feelings are hurt, you

472
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,919
Speaker 4: have actual feelings and they can be easily hurt. And

473
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 4: now you've got to figure out what do you do

474
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,840
Speaker 4: when that happens, you know what I'm saying, Like we

475
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,879
Speaker 4: even have a dearth of black men to be in

476
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:33,680
Speaker 4: a place to have a conversation with a young black

477
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 4: man when he in that process and don't know what

478
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,119
Speaker 4: to do. So there's several kinds of poverty, right, not

479
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,480
Speaker 4: just the financial poverty, not just the poverty of opportunities

480
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 4: to get jobs, but even the financial like the poverty

481
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,920
Speaker 4: of people right to be able to get more information

482
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,359
Speaker 4: that you don't have access to or like have an

483
00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:52,760
Speaker 4: opportunity to get taught something or brought something that you

484
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,120
Speaker 4: needed to put the dark place.

485
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 3: So it's real, like you got to listen.

486
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Speaker 4: Listen, listen three six, listen to listen to flip, listen

487
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:03,880
Speaker 4: to say listen to music that's coming out of the olymphus.

488
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 3: You can hear, yeah, you can hear. You know what

489
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 3: I'm saying.

490
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,119
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go. But there's a you know what

491
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 2: I'm saying that there's a.

492
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Speaker 1: There's a number of things that you brought up in here,

493
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 1: there is the the the the civil rights are like

494
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: the black leadership of the eighties that were like they

495
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 1: were the the the like I said, they were the

496
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,880
Speaker 1: leadership when I was a child, that were actually very

497
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,640
Speaker 1: much for this police state, you know what I'm saying,

498
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,679
Speaker 1: Like they had this, and then that's a that's a

499
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: critique of like a lot of like our our parents

500
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: and grandparents to be like y'all kind of wanted this because,

501
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 1: like you just pointed out, in the short run and

502
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: the and the the data proves it. In the short run,

503
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:56,240
Speaker 1: in the temporary highly militarized zones do give a moment

504
00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 1: of peace and calm, right, it is just not sustainable

505
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 1: because in the same way that like you're a parent,

506
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: like if you go in there to your boys and

507
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 1: you like stop jumping around, go to bed, or I'm

508
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: whooping y'all, and you know what I'm saying, the next

509
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 1: I'm coming, I'm whooping y'all.

510
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, they gonna shut up. They're gonna shut up.

511
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,679
Speaker 3: You know see what I'm saying.

512
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly when the actually happened.

513
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's quiet, it's gonna be quiet.

514
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be quiet for a little bit, right,

515
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 2: And it's.

516
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Speaker 1: Like yes, exactly, And and what that tells them as

517
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 1: you as a father, is like you you subconsciously know

518
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 1: that okay, you can't self regulate, you don't know your emotions,

519
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,400
Speaker 1: and you don't actually care about us.

520
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 2: You just want your own comfort.

521
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: So the second you look away or the second I

522
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 1: realize you're getting older and you actually ain't as strong

523
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: as I remember you to be, then me gonna fight

524
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: because that's what you taught me.

525
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 2: You feel me. There is no respect there.

526
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 1: It's only fear and a fear, and fear is always

527
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: looking for a way to rebel against it. So so

528
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: so yeah, for that short term, it's like yeah, granted,

529
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 1: and them right like, man, I mean, I mean we

530
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: really ain't heard no gun shots, you know what I'm saying.

531
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: But it's almost like that's the same lesson you should

532
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: teach to the streets.

533
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 2: It's like, bro, this is this is short term.

534
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: You think if you do to day bus we bus,

535
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, You're gonna get calm out

536
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: here and you just gonna be able to run your

537
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 1: you know, your your pharmaceutical activities. Because it's like, well, no, bro,

538
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 1: Like this doesn't mean this don't really make peace?

539
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 3: You feel me.

540
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,360
Speaker 4: The craziest thing when I realize like, oh, like our

541
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 4: city is really in the militarized zone.

542
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 2: Brouh.

543
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 3: The con heads, like the crack heads, Bro, was lying

544
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 3: and the little bikes up next to the door.

545
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 2: They was parking them judging.

546
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,679
Speaker 4: Wait you know nah, like normally it's like you know

547
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,120
Speaker 4: bikes like the kid. Yeah, somebody poors, just a grown

548
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 4: man on that joint and like no, they all over

549
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 4: the yard, but they like clean the yard up.

550
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:02,719
Speaker 3: They don't get the up.

551
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 4: They don't neatly put them next to the door by

552
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 4: making it look like there's really some.

553
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 3: Order in the home. And I remember driving by, like yo,

554
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 3: I ain't never seen that before. That really crazy.

555
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 4: I put money out like a stolen espresso machine in

556
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 4: the house somewhere.

557
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

558
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's the other thing. You grow up.

559
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 1: You see the niggas right riding your bike like you

560
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: like that is absolutely my bike, bro.

561
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 3: And it's like that's the crazy part. Bro. It's like, okay,

562
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 3: was it dark? Yes?

563
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 2: Yes?

564
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 4: And does this kind of forced military presence seem like

565
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 4: it offers a solution to that? Does it solve some problems. Yeah,

566
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 4: and I'm seeing a lot of like, yo, I'm glad

567
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 4: about this. The complex piece is and this is what

568
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 4: I felt like, man, God put it on my heart

569
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 4: to say, is like, I think the Republicans were right

570
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 4: in a lot of ways, and the sense that so

571
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 4: much of Trump's campaign was critiquing Democrats in the nineties, right,

572
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 4: and they were critiquing the crime build.

573
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:00,360
Speaker 3: Right.

574
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 4: I'm saying the reason why y'all are locked up and

575
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 4: criminalized in a lot of ways is because of Democrats,

576
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 4: many of whom were running against, who were pushing for

577
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 4: these super harsh punishments for black folks that now we've

578
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 4: had to say, hello, holda hold up. Three to one

579
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 4: for crack cocaine. Actually ain't that great? Yeah, yeah, Pools

580
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 4: is actually not that great. And so it's been a

581
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 4: talking point for a lot of Republicans and for a

582
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 4: lot of our community who has wanted to to kind

583
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 4: of pursue conservatism. They're like, hey, like this actually wasn't great, right,

584
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 4: we kind of got screwed over in this deal. What

585
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 4: they talk about is that a lot of black leadership,

586
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 4: to your point, was pro that as well. It wasn't

587
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 4: just like people from outside our community saying. We was

588
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 4: like I live next to this dude.

589
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 3: Lock him up.

590
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 2: Yah, yeah, get this nigga hat.

591
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 3: Crug bro We got we got.

592
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 4: I remember when we like wanted like one robbery at

593
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 4: the shop. We finally were able to get a dude

594
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 4: on camera talk to the police.

595
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 3: Bruh, get locked up, brouh.

596
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 4: Two weeks later, I hit you know Mario, oh hit

597
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 4: meant from the shop who been working with me since

598
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 4: he was ten, hit me like, brother dude in the shop, damn,

599
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 4: Like I just talked to the Like I just talked

600
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 4: to what you mean in the shop.

601
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,400
Speaker 3: They like brou out, Like you know what I'm saying,

602
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 3: Like you.

603
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 4: Look at the just out Facebook page man picture of

604
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 4: man out on rn R. You know what I'm saying,

605
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 4: what Conaisance, I'm like, live it, bro, you know what

606
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 4: I'm saying. And you like you start going through to

607
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 4: like why would this happen? It feels like a setup

608
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 4: for me to have to go do some things that

609
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 4: I spent my whole life not doing. You know what

610
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like, this is not the life if I

611
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 4: want to live.

612
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: There were moments in the UH that we knew that

613
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: like you know, I think, uh, I remember on drink

614
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: Champs h Quick and and it was an interview with

615
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: Quick and Problem and they brought up something that I

616
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: remember vividly is like the police, you know, during the

617
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: gang sweep you know, the little street sweepers era, you know,

618
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: basically if it was two black people, y'all in a

619
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: gang so like so yeah, so if they would swoop

620
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: you up, and then the police asked you a couple

621
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: of questions, try to get you to station on somebody,

622
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: and then you.

623
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 2: Know, oh man, what is this crack in your pocket?

624
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: You know, all you got to get in the car, right,

625
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: And what they would do is rather than drive you

626
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: to the to the to the station and they would

627
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: just drive you to the other side of town, they

628
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: would just drop you off in a rival hood, you

629
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And then would tell them like, hey,

630
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: it's niggas from over there, you know, they and your block,

631
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: you know, to try to like make sure that we

632
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,040
Speaker 1: like you said, the circular like yeah, so that you

633
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: would eradicate ourselves. Eventually we figured it out, like you know,

634
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: we as in Los Angeles streets, like you know, I

635
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: was a little too young for some of this stuff,

636
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: but like they they would figure it out and be

637
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: like because no one would good sense, would just walk

638
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like you wouldn't just wander

639
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: into you would know the borders.

640
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

641
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: You wouldn't just wander into a rival neighborhood by yourself

642
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: with no burner, you know what I'm saying, Like, you

643
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. Like, so, so Nigga started just being like,

644
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: cause you know, we see each other in the holding tank,

645
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, I know that is

646
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 1: we all went to junior high together, you know what

647
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So, like dudes would just aboud to be like,

648
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: oh you good, hommy. You know what I'm saying, Like, hey,

649
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: d you know what I'm saying, Like, because we knew that,

650
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: like there was a a force that was not whether

651
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,719
Speaker 1: they was Democrat or Republican, that was not interested in

652
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: our flourishing, right, So yeah, they were interested in our containment,

653
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: you feel me.

654
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, That's That's where I was saying, is like when

655
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 4: I say I think the Republicans got it right and

656
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 4: that there was a valid critique, a valid concern in

657
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 4: the past there's a present valan critique of a past

658
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 4: valid concern in our community, and they're saying, Hey, these

659
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 4: Democrat leaders, they set y'all up right, that was not

660
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 4: my concern. Is a lot of the flos in our

661
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 4: community who have levied that and who kind of echoed

662
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 4: that during our current president's campaign are now willing to

663
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 4: make that same kind of fostering in exchange.

664
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're doing the same thing.

665
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, now that you're you're essentially promoting the role on

666
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 4: drugs part two in these cities that are being militarized,

667
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 4: you're promoting.

668
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 3: The crime Bill Part two or part three.

669
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 4: But this time, instead of it being Hillary cleaning, you're like, well,

670
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 4: I'm cool with it if Trump does it, cool if

671
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 4: my governor does it. And I'm like, yo, if it

672
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 4: is a really actual valid critique that what happened in

673
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 4: the nineties, we can all look back and say, yo,

674
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 4: I get it, but that wasn't a way to roll

675
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 4: with it, then it's definitely not the way to roll

676
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 4: with it.

677
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 2: The way.

678
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 4: Yes, that's what we're seeing, Like out of the people

679
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 4: making these critiques are saying, well, yeah, that's happening, But

680
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 4: it's kind of like collateral damage in order for us

681
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 4: to get like safety my own children. So I'm just

682
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 4: gonna turn a blind eye and what's happening to my

683
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 4: immigrant neighbors, because it's not going to affect me.

684
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 3: Until it starts affecting you.

685
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,479
Speaker 4: And you with Joe expired tags that you haven't had

686
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 4: time to go downtown and sit off day to get refixed,

687
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 4: or your boss hasn't taken the time because they profit

688
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 4: super slim and they haven't fixed the tags on the

689
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 4: company vehicle. Now you over and getting harassed by fifteen

690
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 4: officers from seventeen different Yeah.

691
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 2: Which you know what I'm saying, But you know that

692
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 2: you asked for it. Yeah.

693
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 4: I didn't know it's going to hit me too, right,

694
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 4: I didn't know. I'm just life skinned. Yeah, I just

695
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 4: like you look Dominican, sir. You know what I'm saying.

696
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: And even if I was like, damn this, the company,

697
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: let me do this, Let me do this before we close,

698
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: because I me and you we're gonna talk forever. But

699
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: what I want to do is this, Let's just say

700
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: we have I have twenty four.

701
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 2: Hours, yeah in Memphis.

702
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: I land in the morning, and I want you to

703
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: curate this day money is no object, right, just think that, like,

704
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: don't worry about traffic, just like you can just make

705
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: this work. Where we're going, Where were getting coffee? Where

706
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: we're going to breakfast? What are we gonna do? What museum?

707
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: What are we gonna visit? Who we're gonna go see?

708
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: It is the end at a Grizzlies game.

709
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 2: I don't know.

710
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 4: You tell me, yeah, bro say lests. Okay, So you're

711
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 4: gonna start the sun up. You've got to go to

712
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 4: the coffee club. Coffee black. Of course, we're gonna pull

713
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 4: you a double shot of a natural anaerobic Ethiopian Guji

714
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 4: from the tomo out there in the tree Waji and

715
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 4: Guji's on. We'll hit you with a blessing. May the

716
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 4: piece of God be on your house, in this cup

717
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 4: and on you.

718
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

719
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 4: Well, then slide over to hit a kitchen laurel for

720
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 4: breakfast sushi.

721
00:33:58,080 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

722
00:33:58,800 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 2: So breakfast sushi.

723
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna hit the breakfast more.

724
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 2: So this is you know what I'm saying.

725
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 4: I go, uh, I go breakfast sushi plus the black

726
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 4: black pepper syrup.

727
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

728
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 2: What is a breakfast sushi, okay?

729
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 4: And then I go and then I go soy sauce,

730
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying on top of it, so

731
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 4: you get the umami sweet and sour sweet and salty.

732
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 3: So yeah.

733
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,280
Speaker 4: But my man breakfast kitchen laurel over there in Midtown.

734
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,720
Speaker 4: They're like ten minutes from the shop. They're going crazy

735
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 4: right now, bro, So the is it?

736
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 2: Wait? What is a breakfast sushi?

737
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 4: Like?

738
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that is?

739
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 3: They do they take?

740
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 4: They take breakfast sausage, okay. I believe it's some souvi eggs,

741
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 4: like the Japanese style eggs.

742
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:35,359
Speaker 2: They chop them up.

743
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 3: I don't know what else goes in there. I think

744
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 3: it's cream cheese.

745
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 4: Then they roll it in the sushi rice but it's

746
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 4: a roll, and then they dip it in pancake batter.

747
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 2: Shut up, okay.

748
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 4: Then they dip it in pancake batter, deep fry it,

749
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 4: and then they give you the black pepper. It almost

750
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 4: says like cardival, but he swears just black pepper, the

751
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 4: breakfast syrup. Okay, also on top with pickled okrah on

752
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 4: the side. You feel me tapping it right down? Crazy, okay, bro?

753
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 3: As in the side because I know we can talk

754
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 3: about that, but like this.

755
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 4: Whole uh James Beard arm the table, regional cuisine where

756
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 4: people are this is really emulating and celebrating black innovation

757
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 4: because once you get down to it, regional cuisine in.

758
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,240
Speaker 3: The South and a lot of how different black people

759
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:29,959
Speaker 3: made they.

760
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm like, this is your farm. The table is

761
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 2: just gentrified.

762
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: I'm just like, you mean being poor, you mean eating

763
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: what you got is that on the.

764
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 3: Outside and my grandma making me go hold the peace.

765
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 2: Get go, get that.

766
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 1: Had calla greens in South Central guard get them Cala Greens.

767
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 2: Yep, exactly.

768
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 4: This whole thing, bro is like, if you're looking for

769
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 4: culinary innovation, you gotta look at poor people, you know

770
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. And you gotta look at cities like

771
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 4: Mephis where so much of this innovation has come on.

772
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,720
Speaker 3: It's beautiful. Like, yeah, my man get.

773
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 2: To get the swag. He's putting this thing together.

774
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 4: He's like, Oh, we're gonna take the because it's a

775
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 4: black Memphis, Tennessee thing to eat rice for breakfast.

776
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 2: Okay. See, a lot of folks.

777
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 4: Don't know that, but like that's one of the things

778
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 4: we want to want to do with the menu once

779
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 4: we get everything fully popping in the New HQ, like

780
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 4: rice bowls for breakfast, but it's like we've been eating

781
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 4: sweet rice and savory rice for breakfast. So breakfast sushi

782
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,439
Speaker 4: roll is really just Okay, I'm gonna have some sweet bread,

783
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 4: We're gonna have rice, it's gonna be a little salty,

784
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a little sweet.

785
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 3: Some sausage and eggs.

786
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 4: That was a plate growing up, and my man was like, oh,

787
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 4: this is basically sushi.

788
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Brilliant.

789
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 4: So we're gonna hit that joint for the breakfast first, Okay,

790
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 4: I'm saying, then we're gonna slide over the Hard Times Deli.

791
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,280
Speaker 4: So these are some of the homies who is also

792
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 4: I think he on that James Beers, Jecktory, but these

793
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 4: are on white homies. You know, I'm saying, they're gonna

794
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 4: praz They doing this amazing, like just bruh. They're doing

795
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 4: the chop cheese, they doing the bro this joint. The

796
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 4: more to Della sandwich, I think they call it s money,

797
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 4: but it's basically a fried baloney sandwich.

798
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 2: But there's real bushes for lunch.

799
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Yeah, We're gonna hit that joint for lunch,

800
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 4: then for post lunch.

801
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Why are we just eating?

802
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 2: Like, what else are we gonna do?

803
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 3: You said money was no object.

804
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that's a lot of food. I just ate, like,

805
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 2: are we gonna go visit?

806
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 1: Kay?

807
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I got you, I got you.

808
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 4: But post lunch okay ghost lu Yeah our house cafe

809
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 4: next to the real Yeah that John bro crazy if

810
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,240
Speaker 4: you get a day where they're doing the smoke wings

811
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 4: and the macazees and the broccoli and cheese corn bread

812
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 4: like okay, okay, So while we're in South Memphis at

813
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 4: that point, we're definitely gonna hit up the Stax Museum.

814
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

815
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 4: We go into the deep history and I'm partially going

816
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 4: my daddy from South Memphers, you know what I'm saying,

817
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 4: But like into the history of soul music, and so

818
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 4: much of the stuff that we love is coming from

819
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 4: cities like Memphis, bro, and in places we're moving here

820
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,760
Speaker 4: and so like, check out the music, check out the culture.

821
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 4: Then we'll start over. The Unapologetic Records do an amazing work.

822
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 4: If you and me were going to the studio. You

823
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying.

824
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 2: Okay, of course, yeah, hit a.

825
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 4: Quick site for real quick drob. Some bars tapping with

826
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,760
Speaker 4: the homies are doing there. I think historically it's important

827
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 4: to hit the Lorraine, you know what I'm saying, not

828
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 4: just you gotta process that pain because as I said,

829
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 4: like these things really did happen, you know what I'm saying,

830
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 4: and so like for listeners.

831
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: For listeners, the Lorraine Hotel has been turned into an

832
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: art exhibit museum. It's where doctor King was assassinated in you.

833
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: I remember the first time I pulled up there, the

834
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: way that the parking lot is when you turn the corner,

835
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: it's like it's the exact like sort of framing of

836
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: the famous picture when they're all pointing off the balcony,

837
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,280
Speaker 1: and I remember my heart.

838
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 2: Skipped a beat.

839
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 1: I was just like it was like a movie scene

840
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: where like the like the the the spike lee like

841
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 1: moving sidewalk when you just have like a moment that's

842
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: like pulling in and zooming out like whoa. When I

843
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: saw that moment, I was like, oh my god, it's

844
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 1: a real place because for me, again on my West,

845
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 1: I've never seen it in person. So seeing it in person,

846
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: I was like, shook it anyway. Yeah, so you got

847
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: to go there and process that, yeah, bro, And it's

848
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 1: it's a real thing.

849
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 3: Man.

850
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 2: I think like even when we.

851
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 4: Had the Briefs Exchange program taking folks there for them

852
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 4: to see this history, it was such a visceral thing

853
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 4: because so much of what's happened in Memphis has touched

854
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 4: the world, whether it's.

855
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 2: Bill Street, which I think after the Bill Street, Yeah,

856
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 2: Bill Street.

857
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 4: Grab some food there, hit the FedEx Form to see

858
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 4: the Grizzlies do they thing.

859
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

860
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 4: John Moran shot the right for the Creek and then

861
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 4: leaving their bride. But I want to make sure we

862
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 4: grab some barbecue, you know what I mean. So like

863
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 4: I would definitely hit in the city, Like Cozy Corner

864
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 4: is the spot bang barbecue. They more Texas style, but

865
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 4: they spot Q Guard is doing some crazy things in

866
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 4: the city.

867
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 3: And like at that.

868
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 4: Time, Bro, I think like what people just say, like

869
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,919
Speaker 4: it's like, yo, the food is so good, Like there's

870
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,919
Speaker 4: so much love here. I would I was still here,

871
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 4: you know, I would take you by our house, you

872
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Yeah, sit down and she could.

873
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 3: Talk with you, pray with you.

874
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:10,879
Speaker 2: That's doube.

875
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: We had a show once when I was on tour

876
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: Andy that we just popped up on one of the

877
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: days that the there was like a bill Street just

878
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: so it seemed like it was like a street fair. First,

879
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: they had a car show and it was just a

880
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 1: gang of aunties and uncles up there, you know what

881
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: I mean, Like, and I was it was just so

882
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: gloriously black that I was like, this is the I

883
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: don't want to perform it, I just want to be here, right.

884
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: So I spent most of the day there, and then

885
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: after that we did our show and the venue, I

886
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: forget what the name of it is, but the back exit,

887
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: like if you exit from backstage, it just goes right

888
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 1: onto Beal Street.

889
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 2: And it was like we just walked into a carnival. Homie.

890
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,919
Speaker 1: I was like, and it was And I remember because

891
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: it was Andy's birthday and I kind of got him drunk.

892
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 2: A little bit. Also, like it's also a lightweight like Andy.

893
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: That's why he doesn't really drink a lot because he

894
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,439
Speaker 1: just he just doesn't have a tolerance for it, right.

895
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 2: But I was like, bro, you gotta get I was like, bro,

896
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 2: get you like a slushy Man.

897
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 4: I'm just like, it's no Bros.

898
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:15,919
Speaker 2: Dangerous Bro.

899
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: I know because it's yes, because you think it's a Slushynah.

900
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 2: Bro, that's dangerous bro.

901
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 4: Anyway, yeah, Bro, But I think that's just a beautiful

902
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 4: way if we want to go more culinary and our

903
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 4: stoma sit endless.

904
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 2: I would also say hit the Million Jeans.

905
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 3: Okay, they're super elevated food, really great people.

906
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 4: They carry the coffee too, but they do this like

907
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 4: on the weekends they do this burger that's made from

908
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 4: like the steak shavings. Yeah, and that is insane, bro.

909
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 4: But there's so many things you can hit in Memphis, Bro.

910
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 4: Like it's it's it's like there's there. And I think

911
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 4: that's the surprising part. Like we had the folks from

912
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 4: PBS out here for they mentioned YouTube you know what I'm.

913
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,760
Speaker 2: Saying, Yeah, I'm in the I'm in the opening credits.

914
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 4: Where yeah yeah, and they were like, Yo, Mphis is amazing,

915
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 4: Like this is not what we expected. And we came

916
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 4: willingly and we wanted to feature you guys, but they

917
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 4: were like, we're low key more concerned to be in

918
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 4: la than we already be out here with y'all, like

919
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 4: everybody's been so inviting. So again, it's not that you know,

920
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,760
Speaker 4: there isn't any crime here, but I think that we're

921
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 4: choosing to address the crime in a way that that

922
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 4: erases our beauty and our humanity, you know what I'm saying.

923
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 4: And like nobody's saying, don't address the crime. But we're

924
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 4: like bro and dressed like you killing the notes, my g.

925
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 2: Like it's different.

926
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 4: Profile anymore, Like are like we're enhancing what's beautiful here

927
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 4: versus like erasing the folks who wanted the crime.

928
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, most my when I when I was teaching out

929
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: in with this like to your point. When I was teaching,

930
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: there was this, uh, this kid I've said the story

931
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: on the show before with this kid that used to

932
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: show up like about team minutes late every time. He's

933
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,439
Speaker 1: a little chrollo dude, right, but on his bike. He'd

934
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: walk in and he'd be like, what did I miss?

935
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, you missed the first fifteen minutes

936
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 1: class every day, like you know. And then finally I

937
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,919
Speaker 1: asked him, you know at that point, you tardy three

938
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: times you taught. That's a truancy, you know what I'm

939
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: saying three truancies. I got to call it the truancy officer.

940
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: Now you're getting excited, So now you have a record, right,

941
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: So rather than doing that, I just asked him, like,

942
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: why are you late every day? He's like, well, I

943
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: have to drop my little brother off at school first.

944
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 2: So he's a freshman.

945
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: So but his dad was like kind of like a drinker,

946
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 1: so he learned how to drive, so he would drive

947
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: his brother to school, drive the car back home, and

948
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: then take the bike to school, take the bike to

949
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: school for him. And I'm like because he had to

950
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 1: leave the car for his mom. So I'm like, okay,

951
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: So here's how I make you not a criminal for

952
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,959
Speaker 1: doing the right thing? Is I just I just don't

953
00:43:59,000 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: mark you as absent?

954
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:00,760
Speaker 2: Yeah?

955
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: So I was like, so this is what I'll do

956
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 1: for you, because I'm here and I understand what you're saying.

957
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: Also for you, I'm like, as long as you come

958
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: in here every day with your work done, I'm never

959
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: gonna market you know what I'm saying. And guess what,

960
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: you know that boy came in here every day with

961
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: his work done. You know what I'm saying, because he's

962
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: clearly a responsible adult.

963
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

964
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: You just explain to me, Just explain to me you're

965
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: not a criminal, that you're a responsible adult. So rather

966
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: than treating you as such because eight point fifteen is arbitrary,

967
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: you are here taking care of it.

968
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,280
Speaker 2: No, No, you know what I'm saying.

969
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: You gotta do it outside selling them, you know, selling

970
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: bootlegs like okay.

971
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 2: Is he trespassing?

972
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 3: Yes?

973
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:44,720
Speaker 1: But hey, homie, how much you need to make today?

974
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,439
Speaker 1: I gotta make three hundred dollars. Then you get hold

975
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: on real quick. Let me just go here, three hundred dollars,

976
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: give me the movies.

977
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Like that done? Yeah, you're

978
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,399
Speaker 2: sitting on saying skin Why it's because I'm from here,

979
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Anyway, thank you so much.

980
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 2: Coffee Black.

981
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,760
Speaker 1: Please tell them where they can find and order coffee

982
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 1: and support what you're doing.

983
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, ce X F F E E Black. No, oh,

984
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 4: it's an X like Malcolm. You know what I'm saying.

985
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 4: Dot com and we'd love to get you hooked up.

986
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 4: We're actually about to drop like our first course ebook scenario.

987
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 4: So if you're into like how to make your coffee

988
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 4: not booble. You know what I'm saying, you got you

989
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 4: will sat you up and yeah, man, just continue to

990
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 4: support these beautiful things.

991
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 2: Bro.

992
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 4: So what I love about coffee is like every community

993
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 4: in every farm and every seed has just like it's

994
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:34,280
Speaker 4: like an adventure, you know what I'm saying, Like you

995
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 4: get a chance if you do the work on your

996
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 4: side to dial in right, Like there's this really dope

997
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 4: experience and they are different.

998
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,439
Speaker 3: So that's what I love about coffee. Check us out.

999
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 4: But I think, like, man, just check your community out.

1000
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:46,479
Speaker 4: Like I think there's a lot of things where people

1001
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 4: are like, y'all, I didn't know this was here because

1002
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 4: just moving what we the narratives we receive, and I

1003
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 4: think that's beautiful.

1004
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 2: For us on the other side of this.

1005
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 1: So, okay, give me give me a gimme one Memphis

1006
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: phrase right now that like I would have no idea

1007
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: what you were saying unless from there, Dad.

1008
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 3: Okay, my wife is right here. Show you got a

1009
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,399
Speaker 3: very mephis phrase out. I feel you might have it.

1010
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 2: I know a lot of music, so I might know, but.

1011
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, yeah you say greening them up.

1012
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:14,479
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

1013
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 3: There you go and then flodging. Yeah that ma fliging bro.

1014
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 2: Man fliging greening the yeah, the.

1015
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: Greening them up flaging me like you don't tell us,

1016
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: don't tell us. I'm gonna make them look it up.

1017
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:30,800
Speaker 1: All right, there it is. It's respect prospect, yeah, respect,

1018
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: All right, Now, don't you hit stop on this pod.

1019
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: You better listen to these credits. I need you to

1020
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: finish this thing so I can get.

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Speaker 1: Stuff like that on there, so gonna check out The

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Speaker 1: heat Politics is a member of Cool Zone Media. Executive

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Speaker 1: produced by Sophie Lichterman, part of the iHeartMedia podcast network.

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Speaker 1: Your theme music and scoring is also by the one

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Speaker 1: and Overly Mattowsowski.

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Speaker 2: Still killing the beat softly, so listen. Don't let nobody

1040
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 2: lie to you.

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00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: If you understand urban living, you understand politics.

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00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 2: These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all

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Speaker 2: next week

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