1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: Cool media. Okay, so today's episode might be a little 2 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: short but very powerful, Like my grandma, I want to 3 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: preempt some arguments you're gonna have. I mean, and it's 4 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: a good thing that like a lot of us are 5 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: jumping out of X. You know, I'm gonna go ahead 6 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: and call it X cuz hey listen, like a good 7 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: progressive if somebody changes their pronoun and I'm an hon 8 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: or Day pronoun. So look, if Twitter is now X, 9 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: it is now X, I'm a respect its name sing. 10 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: That's tweeting now sing anyway, But whether you're talking to 11 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: a bot or a blue check bro or some sort 12 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:07,199 Speaker 1: of elon sexual or just the like pseudo intellectual that's 13 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: gonna try to like school you with the well, actually, 14 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: maybe you got a cousin or uncle who just got 15 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: out of prison. He been reading books. He been reading 16 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: books without any guidance. You know, they just get out 17 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: of prison. They doing nothing but reading that they know everything. 18 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 1: You don't want to discourage them because they make it 19 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: a change of they life. You gotta learn how to 20 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: build with them. Anyway. So if you even if you're 21 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 1: talking to your ex con family member and you just 22 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: talking right about you talking about the death of democracy 23 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 1: and are voting because of course it's going to be 24 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: just chaos for our next election. So before somebody actually 25 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: wearing up, I'm like, we're a democratic repub Black. I'm 26 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: not sure and they know what they talk about, and 27 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: I want to make sure you know what you're talking about. 28 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: So let's go back to elementary school and let's plan 29 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: and a school wide pizza party, ice cream, social hood politics, y'all. 30 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 1: All right, for some of y'all, it's back to school season. 31 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: For some of y'all who got kids, you know where 32 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: your children are now out your house. You are not 33 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,679 Speaker 1: responsible for figuring out things for them to do all day, 34 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: so you could possibly get stuff done and go have 35 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: lunch during the day, not that your kids is gone. 36 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,399 Speaker 1: I think we all thought summer was the best time 37 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: of the year, but that's because we were in school 38 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: then and summer was our break. Now we understand that, 39 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: especially as parents, summer's probably the hardest time. It's the 40 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: most expensive. I gotta find camps. I can't get anything 41 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 1: done five minutes. Can I have a snack? Oh my god? 42 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: It is so much more work in the summer when 43 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: you get anyway, So this is the most wonderful time 44 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: of the year for parents. But I want to take 45 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: you back to when you were an elementary school. Now, 46 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: I don't know the specifics of your elementary school. This 47 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: is definitely any Hood USA scenario here. You know, at 48 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: the end of the year, like if you guys did good, 49 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: you'd get like a you know, pizza party or something, 50 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: you know, ice cream. If let's get all perfect attendance, 51 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: if no one gets in trouble, if nobody gets sent 52 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: to the prisons, everybody, if we finished our test, you 53 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: get your little pizza party, little ice cream party. I 54 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: remember my elementary school if I can't remember what the 55 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: carrot was that they dangled in front of us, But 56 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: if we did something by the end of the year, 57 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: maybe it was fundraising, I don't remember exactly what it was. 58 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: We would get like a school wide like last day 59 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: of school party, balloons, pizza, ice cream, all the stuff 60 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: that once you cross thirty you can't eat no more. 61 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: Whatever it was, dust was the type of thing. And 62 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: I know my demographic don't like like you could still 63 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: eat cheese and ice cream and not it killed your belly. 64 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: So let's go back to elementary school. End of the 65 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: year celebration. You guys made it. I don't know, perfect attendance, 66 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: whatever it is, whatever it was, this is your time. 67 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: You get your pizza and ice cream, social, your water balloons, 68 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: everything school wide. Right, But now you got to decide 69 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 1: what kind of pizza, which kind of ice cream, what 70 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 1: movie we're gonna watch. I mean, we want this thing 71 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: to go up, right, So you got I mean, look 72 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: y'all worked hard for this. You gotta get this right. 73 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: And which games we're gonna play? All right, I'm going 74 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: to explain to you what a republic it means with this, 75 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: because this is what we do at Hood politics. Yes, 76 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: bring the track in madness, all right, So here we go. 77 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: You got, I don't know what, let's paint the picture. 78 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: Here's what's our demographic, Like, Okay, if if we're on 79 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: my side of town, we're predominantly Latino, sprinkled with equal 80 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:54,359 Speaker 1: parts Filipino and African American with a little pieces of salt, 81 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: like a couple couple of white people in there that like, 82 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: and so many white people actually are just Spaniards or 83 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: they're Latinos that are very light skin, whatever the case 84 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: may be. This our part of town, right, that's for that. 85 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: Maybe your school is not. Maybe your school is super 86 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: major versus just just as white as mayonnaise. I don't know, Pitt. 87 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: Your elementary school, you know what you got, You got 88 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 1: your there was I remember the early two thousands of 89 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: a cartoon called Recess, which was spot on elementary school. 90 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: Like y'all remember that cartoon. It was Disney Cartoons perfect. 91 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: You had your av kid, which y'all don't really know 92 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,559 Speaker 1: nothing about nomore because uh, you don't need an audio 93 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: visual kid. It's you have laptops. But you had your 94 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: av kid. You had your hall monitor. You had your 95 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,679 Speaker 1: upside down girl. You're the monkey bar girl. You had 96 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 1: you know, your bully. You had the girl that was 97 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: always on the swings. You know, Yet every possible trope, 98 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: the card collector, the one that just wants to play, 99 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: whether it's Yu gi oh or or or Pokemon or 100 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 1: just the collector, every possible elementary school trope, you can 101 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: think of, the principal, the lady that had the lunch late, 102 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: the janitor, the person that helped out at the recess. 103 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, like all of all possible tropes. 104 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: Please go look up that cartoon that cartoon was wonderful. Anyway, TJ. Dettwiler, 105 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: he's the leader, the leader. They they they little crew. Anyway, 106 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: elementary school, now you got your kindergartens, you know what 107 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: I'm saying, which are usually like fenced off in a 108 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: whole other part like your preschool. In kindergartens, to make 109 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: sure that you know, they have their own they have 110 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: their own playground, and make sure y'all don't to hurt them. 111 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: Then you got you know, I don't know I went 112 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: to it since I'm from the inner city. We had 113 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: a ginormous elementary school. So we had staggered lunches and 114 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: recesses where the first through third graders were at one 115 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: time and then the fourth through sixth graders were at 116 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: the other time. Our lunches were similar. You had a 117 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: staggered lunch, you know what I'm saying. Because of that, right, 118 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: and we all remember lunch recess was the dopest, right. 119 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: But as we're getting towards the end of the school year, 120 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: like we are, right, you know, you had your little 121 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: ASB group stuff like that. Now you've made friends, you 122 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: got been in the same class. You know, in elementary school, 123 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: you don't change a lot of you don't change classes. 124 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: It's not like middle school where you got your seven 125 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: different teachers, you know, spoken out like, which becomes more 126 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: like high school. It's not like that. We're still in 127 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: elementary school. And when you do your little as B stuff, 128 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: we all know it's just a popularity contest. It's not like, 129 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: you know, really the thing. You know what I'm saying. 130 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: They're not like really qualified. They're just the cool kid, 131 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: right or the kid that was willing to do the 132 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: work now not so hot. Take I ain't gonna hold 133 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: you that boy. Vivek reminds me of a kid just 134 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: running for AsSb in elementary school and he's just trying 135 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 1: to listen to whatever the cool kids say, and he's 136 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: just trying to do that like the kid that's promising 137 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: I'm would put kool aid into water fountain. You know, 138 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: I'm outlawing homework. Yay. It's like bruh, shut up, man, 139 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,079 Speaker 1: Like everybody love him because he's like he's gonna outlaw homework. 140 00:08:53,160 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 1: Like come on, vam, this is not real anyway. We 141 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: need to choose what kind of pizza we have and 142 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 1: what kind of ice cream we're gonna serve. Games we're 143 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: gonna play what movie we're gonna watch? Okay, who gets 144 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: to choose that? What if they just go, well, the 145 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,479 Speaker 1: sixth graders are about to graduate, we're kind of celebrating 146 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: them and everybody there, so we'll just let them choose, right, 147 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: and then so they decide among themselves in whatever ways 148 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: that they decide, and then they let the school the 149 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: rest of the kids know. Now, unless you know, unless 150 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: you're related to a sixth grader, unless you know any 151 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 1: of them, you're not really gonna know like how they 152 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 1: came to that conclusion. You're just like, if you're a 153 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: third grader and you don't know any sixth graders, all 154 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: you're doing is just open that they pick stuff you like. 155 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: But y'all know access to them. They're six graders, you know, 156 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,439 Speaker 1: like some of them. Dudes got facial hair, a couple 157 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: of the couple of girls have started, you know, they 158 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: got they got boobs. Now, like they're a few of them, 159 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: You're like, these are you're all you're practically adults. You know, 160 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: when you're a third grader. The sixth graders might as 161 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: well be able to drive, So you know, access to 162 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: them unless you have a sibling that's a sixth grader. 163 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: And then maybe you'll overhear them talking about a little 164 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: bit of the cheesemaya as to how they came up 165 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: with that. Maybe they're mad. Maybe you got a sixth 166 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: grader brother or sister or they that is just extra nerdy, 167 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: not involved. You got a D and D kid, you know. 168 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: So when you say, hey, hey, hey, what are you 169 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:41,599 Speaker 1: guys gonna pick? You're the third grader, what are you 170 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: guys gonna pick for the school? And they go, I 171 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: don't know. He was like, damn where they go, I 172 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 1: don't care. It's lame. You're like, well, okay, well I 173 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: care because you're still a little third grader. You care. 174 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: So in that scenario, the sixth graders, you could see 175 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: that as an aristocracy, right. They are the noass the 176 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: elite who wine and dine and wheel their power and authority. 177 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: It's I don't know. For some reason, we are somehow, 178 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 1: as descendants of Britain, obsessed with like Turn of the 179 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: century style monarchy, European monarchies where you go to court 180 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: and you're watching all the wheelings and dealings, like the 181 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: Game of Thrones of it all. You know of people 182 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,599 Speaker 1: trying to like wheel and deal and get power and 183 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 1: stuff like that. The people that get to go to court. 184 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: That's your aristocracy, plutocracy, if you will, you use your 185 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: elementary school is ran by a select few and powerful people. 186 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: That would be one way they'd run it, and you know, 187 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: hopefully what they come up with is super dope. Now, 188 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: let's just say the principle still allows the sixth graders 189 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: to choose everything, right, But the principle has a sixth 190 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:05,599 Speaker 1: grade child, and ultimately the principle is going to decide 191 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna let y'all work this out, but the principal 192 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: going to decide who has the final say what they 193 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: child wants. So when ay child comes up and says, hey, 194 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: the sixth graders they all want Hawaiian pizza, we want 195 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 1: to watch the Barbie movie, and we're gonna play Capture 196 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: the Flag, the principal may or may not double check 197 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: that information. Right. That's installing a puppet dictator, okay, which 198 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: a lot of countries run off. Is it's a puppet dictator. 199 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 1: Like the principle really is really making the decision, and 200 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: you're just I just put you in there because I 201 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 1: don't want it to be perceived as though I made 202 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: the choice for you and using this metaphor, sometimes the 203 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 1: principle in this story is a whole other country, you know. 204 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: Sometimes the principle is Russia, or as we know, often 205 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: if you know anything about history, the principal is the 206 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: United States of America. You don't say it's your choice. 207 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: And the puppet leader is supposed to make it seem 208 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: like this was discussed and everybody had power. That's what 209 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: it made it seem like. Or that puppet dictator is 210 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,199 Speaker 1: supposed to take all the heat and just be considered 211 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: the jerk that just made the choice. So everybody mad 212 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:36,079 Speaker 1: at the dictator and really don't understand why the dictator 213 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: got so much power. But we know. But alas, our 214 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: elementary school is a part of an experiment that is different. 215 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: We are not a monarchy elementary school. We are not 216 00:13:52,480 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: an aristocracy elementary school. We are a democratic elementary school. Yeah, 217 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: you'd say, hey, prop how would we be a democratic 218 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: republic elementary school? Well, before I answer that, let me 219 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: answer what a democratic elementary school would be. So this 220 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 1: is what it would be. It would be like this 221 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: principal would say, hey, you guys earned it. End of 222 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: the year school party. These are the things we want 223 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: to choose. You guys go vote, and everybody gets to 224 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: say you guys, tell me what you like, and majority wins. 225 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 1: Whoever whichever gets the most votes wins. Right, So every 226 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: kid goes back to their home, to their room. They 227 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: start thinking like, Okay, what kind of pizza do I like? Okay, 228 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: I think we should do this. My vote would be pepperoni, 229 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: This one, maam would be cheese, you know, and then 230 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: everybody comes in. You tally all the votes, and whoever 231 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: has the most, whichever things have the most, that's what 232 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: we do. Now. In that scenario, there's a lot of 233 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: variables that could come about. Right. You can have the 234 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: kid that's lactose in tolerant, right. You can have the 235 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: kid that doesn't really care. You can have the kid 236 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: that didn't read the ballance, didn't do the questions, don't 237 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: know where we going, what we're talking about, not really 238 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: paying attention. And then you have the kid that just 239 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: likes to sow chaos. That's just you know, the kid 240 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: that just like farts. You know when you can't. When 241 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: y'all are ready to go to recess and the teacher 242 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: says not until everybody's quiet, and then the one kid 243 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: who just thinks it's so funny, just so funny, and 244 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: then your teacher goes, now, congratulations, Brad, you've ruined it 245 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: for the rest of them. I don't know why his 246 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: name's Brad, but he's Brad. You know what I'm saying. 247 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: He's just ruined it for the rest of them. Right, 248 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: So now we all got to stay in the extra 249 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: five minutes before recess because Brad thought it was funny 250 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: to make a fart noise. Don't raise your hand, but 251 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's a good amount of y'all that 252 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: are brad head asses listening to this thing. I can't 253 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: stand you there, kids that just so chaos. You have 254 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: kids that aren't even gonna eat anyway, They're just gonna 255 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: run straight to the monkey bars. You have kids who 256 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: have peanut allergies and probably can't come anyway. You got 257 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: a kid that's not gonna be there that day. You 258 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: have all these things happening. But everybody, I don't know 259 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: if you're informed. It's a nightmare. Some of y'all don't 260 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: know how to spell. I can't even read what you're saying. 261 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 1: None of this it's just so much. But you had 262 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 1: a chance to make your voices heard. And if you 263 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: didn't do it, if you didn't let your voice be heard, 264 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: if you didn't if you weren't informed, if you didn't 265 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,239 Speaker 1: do what you were supposed to do, if you accidentally 266 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: clicked the wrong thing, and then look that's on you. 267 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: Everybody got a shot. Now you counting, Now, your little 268 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: asb president has a lot of room for error because 269 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: now this person got to count six hundred, seven hundred votes. 270 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: Make sure that Tali's are good. Probably gotta count it again. 271 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: Make sure and then throw out the ones that you 272 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: don't know are serious. Because if some dudes like you know, 273 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: peanut butter and anchovies, like, oh, that's a joke, Like 274 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: what if it's not a joke? Now they mad because 275 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,399 Speaker 1: that wasn't a joke. I said what i'mant, that's what 276 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: I want it. You just disenfranchised me. And then and 277 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: then again, if the choices are what kind of pizza 278 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: and which ice cream? And somebody put fried chicken on 279 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:17,919 Speaker 1: the ballot, it's like, nigga, did you read the question? 280 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: You or you just want fried that's not one of 281 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,959 Speaker 1: the options. That can't like why is this is a 282 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 1: disaster everybody maybe, and I don't even know if everybody's 283 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: turned they thing and it's just so much. But if 284 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:35,919 Speaker 1: you go to this school, you get a chance to 285 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: say it is your inalienable rights, and no one gets 286 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 1: to take it from you by virtue of your enrollment. 287 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: Ain't no test on it. If you smart enough, if 288 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: you know order, it don't matter. If you go here, 289 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 1: you get a vote. That, my friend, would be a 290 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 1: direct democracy. But we don't have that. We have things 291 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: called districts representatives. Congressman, So let me help you understand 292 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 1: what that means in Usin so, rather than every kid 293 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: turning in these stupid little pieces of papers, some of 294 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: them got snot on them, you know what I'm saying, 295 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: some of them filled out all wrong. Don't he can't 296 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: even read half of them because you don't know how 297 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: to speale pizza, you know, you know what I'm saying. 298 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a joke, right whatever. Like, 299 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: instead of that, what if every class says, you know what, dude, 300 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna read this. What if you looked at 301 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: the who in your class and your you know, twenty 302 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 1: five thirty kids in your class that you know likes research, 303 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:41,120 Speaker 1: that's gonna read, that's gonna be informed, because you look, 304 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: you are too busy, you're too busy keeping up with 305 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 1: you are too busy watching your blue shows. I don't 306 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 1: have time. And the kindergarteners, they don't even know what 307 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,959 Speaker 1: you're talking about anyway, except for one him kindergarteners who 308 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 1: might be rather advanced. Maybe one of them kindergarteners has 309 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 1: a second grade brother, or a second grade sister, or 310 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,640 Speaker 1: a second grade non binary, whatever the case may be, 311 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: that one little kindergartener is very informed. And what if 312 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 1: as a class you said, hey, this kid, can you 313 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: do us a favor? Do the work for us? Be informed? 314 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: Find out with Okay, so if we say, if we 315 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,679 Speaker 1: say we want pepperoni, what shop they gonna go to? 316 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 1: Are they gonna go to that shop because I prefer 317 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 1: this pizza spot. If but if it's gonna be pineapple, 318 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 1: then can we find out if it's that way, if 319 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:37,880 Speaker 1: it's gonna be sausage, if it's gonna be if it's 320 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 1: gonna be I'm saying, so can you go do the 321 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:42,879 Speaker 1: homework to be like? Okay? So if I choose pizza, 322 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: was and then if we say, okay, what kind of 323 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 1: ice cream? Are there gonna be gluten free options? Are 324 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: there gonna be dairy free options? Are there? Are there 325 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: gonna be Srbert like, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna 326 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: do that work. I want somebody class Let's choose what 327 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,639 Speaker 1: of us, someone we trust that's gonna get all the 328 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: information we need, tell us so that we are informed 329 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: and tell us the truth. And then we tell them 330 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: as a collective, all right, as a class, as you 331 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 1: know Miss Duncan's fourth grade class, we choose pepperonium mushroom. 332 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: Maybe everybody didn't want it in our class right, but collectively, 333 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: because we were informed, we have now sent a representative 334 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: to represent our classroom at the senate of other classroom. Now, 335 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: how y'all came to that choice inside your classroom. That's 336 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 1: completely up to your classroom. Okay, every classroom may come 337 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 1: today conclusions, may figure out how they tally they votes. 338 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: That's something most of the time inside of the classroom, 339 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: it is a direct democracy. We all choose, or maybe 340 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: you break it up into caucuses or small groups inside 341 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 1: of your classroom to decide what your classroom wants. That's 342 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: up to you. We sent them to the republic of 343 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: our elementary school. And if every class does that, guess what, 344 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: you have a republic. It's not that we all didn't 345 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: get to say. We all got to say, but our 346 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: say was roped around into one thing. Right. So if 347 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:28,640 Speaker 1: in my classroom, Miss Duncan's third grade class, we had 348 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: forty of us wanted cheese, five percent of us wanted Hawaiian, 349 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: and forty five percent of us wanted pepperoni. Okay, now 350 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 1: nobody's reached a super majority, but what got the most 351 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: votes out of everybody was what did I just say? 352 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: I say pepperoni. Wait, let me pause this to scroll back. 353 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: See what I just said. Yes, I said pepperoni. So 354 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: forty five percent of Miss Duncan's room voted pepperoni. So 355 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: if this were the electoral college, and our classroom was 356 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: the state of California, and since we have a very 357 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 1: large class, our bunch of thirty class, thirty kids in 358 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: this class are sending a vote of pepperoni, but our 359 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: vote counts as three ticks towards the pepperoni. That's the 360 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 1: electoral college. Because of how many people are in our class. 361 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: Now you have a class let's say you're in miss 362 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: Rodriguez's second grade class. Your class just happens to be smaller. Okay, 363 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: you just have a smaller class. Y'all picked. Y'all picked 364 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: a little girl, Jessica Gonzalez. You know, she's just a 365 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,239 Speaker 1: smart kid. She's well spoken. She told us everything that 366 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: she thought about it. She's willing to say her choice 367 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: is this, but she'll she'll do whatever y'all ask. She'll 368 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: tell them what your class says. And your class decides 369 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: on cheese. Right, Well, there's only fifteen people in your class. 370 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: But if ten of them said cheese, five of them 371 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: didn't know what pizza meant. The choice was cheese. Right. 372 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: So now those are two tick marks that you send 373 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,159 Speaker 1: to the Republic, that you say. Second graders want cheese. 374 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: Third graders want pepperoni. Fourth graders do the same thing. 375 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,879 Speaker 1: They picked a kid, They said what they needed to say, 376 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 1: figured it out. Fourth Graders wanted pineapple, wanted Hawaiian right. 377 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 1: Fifth graders they were cool at whatever, but they had 378 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: to vote. And if they had to vote, even though 379 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 1: everybody was just like, now, we're good, but if we 380 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: have to choose, I guess Peperoni's cool. Cool. Okay, that's 381 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,880 Speaker 1: two for Pepperoni, right, because remember it has to be pizza. 382 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: You could write in chicken wings, but it's not gonna matter. 383 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:27,719 Speaker 1: You could have a third party, doesn't matter. We are now, 384 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: rather than counting five hundred votes, we have someone that 385 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 1: represents us, who informed us of our choices, went to 386 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,199 Speaker 1: us and said what we asked them to say to 387 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: this council, this republic, this congress of elementary school kids 388 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 1: that have chosen I have the authority to say, I, 389 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: as the representative of mister Tokeishi's fourth grade class, I 390 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,400 Speaker 1: have the power to say, we desire Pepperoni pizza and 391 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 1: we hope to play red Rover. That's our vote. And 392 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: I can say that because I have been entrusted with 393 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: the authority by the rest of the fourth graders, because 394 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: they chose me as their representative in this thing to 395 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 1: tell the school what we want to have. That, my friends, 396 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: is how a representative based democracy is supposed to work 397 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: in theory. Now, how does it work? Well, how it 398 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: works is the representative we just sent said what they 399 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 1: wanted to say. And it's because some of the other 400 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,959 Speaker 1: kids paid them to say that, and they walked in 401 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 1: it was just like, yeah, you told me to say this. Okay, cool. 402 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: How did you even get chosen to be our representative 403 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: in the first place? I know I didn't choose you. Oh, 404 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 1: I selected myself because my big brother is also a representative. 405 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: So I get to be one. Wait, nigga, you get 406 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 1: to be why well? Because I kind of tore down 407 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: my signs to be the other representative in the class 408 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: room was cooler than yours. I just happened to have 409 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: more money. You ain't had no markers to be able 410 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: to make your posters. I had all the markers. So 411 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 1: that's why my poster is good. And I will vote 412 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: for whichever one of y'all pay me. So you got 413 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: pizza companies, You got Domino's Pizza down the street running 414 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,400 Speaker 1: up on this little fourth grader, Jessica. No no, no, no, no. 415 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,200 Speaker 1: Jessica was the second gred. Okay, So the fourth grader, 416 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: let's call it. Let's call it the fourth grader. What 417 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,120 Speaker 1: we go call a fourth grader? Give me a name. 418 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: I can't hear you. Give me a name. I can't 419 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: hear you. Derek. We gonna call him Derek. So the 420 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: fourth grader, Derek, Derek, Derek got a text from Johnny's mama, 421 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: who actually runs a pieza shop down the street, who 422 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: offered him free sodas and candies for the next year 423 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: if you vote for his pizza shop and his particular 424 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: dough that he's trying to get the rest of the 425 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: city to start using. Or how about this, I'm the 426 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: representative because my big used to be a representative and 427 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: his brother and my mama went to this school and 428 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: she was a representative, So I get to be one. 429 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 1: I hel I know the secretary. You want me to 430 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 1: jump this metaphor even crazier, you want to jump in 431 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: even crazier. What if the fifth grade class looked at 432 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 1: the map of the school, peeked their head into some 433 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 1: of the fourth grade classes, some of the second grade 434 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:32,159 Speaker 1: classes looked in there, and listen to the way that 435 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: they was choosing. And what if that fifth grade class said, 436 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,360 Speaker 1: you know, some of the fourth graders are technically fifth graders, 437 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 1: so we think part of that fourth grade class should 438 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: be a part of the fifth grade vote. So I 439 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,719 Speaker 1: think you need to draw these lines a little different 440 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: and say, actually, we really need to think about the 441 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: way that we're organizing these grades, because what if this 442 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,959 Speaker 1: kid got held back. What if this We're like, no, 443 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: this kid's actually our age. So we think the way 444 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: that you're drawing these classrooms are not necessarily correct. We 445 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 1: think that like, actually a part of that fourth grade 446 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: class are actually fifth gradest. That's called Jered Mandy, y'all, 447 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: it's Jerryman. That's when you redraw the district lines to 448 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: make sure that your district is stronger than the other district. Right, 449 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: you're just siphoning off votes for pizza. That's kind of 450 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 1: what has become of our democracy, I mean our elementary school. 451 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: You got fifth grader stealing fourth graders to make them 452 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:35,359 Speaker 1: fifth graders just for this, right. You got freaking Jessica 453 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: in second grade being paid off by Byron's dad's ice 454 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: cream parlor to make sure that he votes, make sure 455 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: that Jessica votes for his ice cream only. And then 456 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: we have this pizza party. We have this after school, 457 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 1: last day of school party, and no one got what 458 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: they wanted. Yuh, nobody won. Or let's just say what 459 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 1: happens is, somehow, against all odds, Hawaiian pizza one but 460 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: Pepperoni swore it was stolen from them, and that y'all 461 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: counted these wrongs and the seventh graders cheated, for which 462 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: we would say, there are no seventh graders at this school. 463 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: How to hell could the seventh grader see no, no, no, no, no, 464 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: no no. We saw you bring your brothers. Y'all added 465 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 1: votes that kid don't go to this school. No more. No, 466 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: this is not fair. It's like nigga, No, okay, don't 467 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: you think we would spot a seventh grader. Don't you 468 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: think that would be don't you think we could tell 469 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: who the seventh grader is? Nope, it's not what happened. No, 470 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: there was no seventh grad yes, there were all right, man, 471 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: well we're in shambles. Eventually, the first graders are going 472 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: to be like, you know what, this system don't work. 473 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: I'm not We're not even next year when they do 474 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: this when we're second graders. Let's just not. Let's just not. 475 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: How about we just don't go. How about we just 476 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: ask our mom to let us stay home because voting 477 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: and being a part of this system continues to fail us. Well, 478 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,960 Speaker 1: that's our country, I mean, that's our elementary school. That's 479 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 1: the republic. Y'all didn't get to choose. You chose a 480 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: representative to represent your grade for which pizza we wanted 481 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 1: and what games we wanted to play. We all voted, 482 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: but our vote went as a block of votes to 483 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 1: the legislature for which the choice was made. I may 484 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: have confused you even more. Now take y'all. 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This thing was mixed, edited, mastered, 495 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: and scored by the one and the only Matt Awsowski. 496 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: Y'all check out this fool's music. I mean it's incredible. 497 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: Executive produced by Sophie Lichterman for Cool Zone Media. Man, 498 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: and thank you for everybody who continue to tap in 499 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: with us. Make sure you leaving reviews and five star 500 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 1: ratings and sharing it with the homies so we could 501 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 1: get this thing pushed up in the algorithm and listen. 502 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: I just want to remind you these people is not 503 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,200 Speaker 1: smarter than you. If you understand city living, you understand politics, 504 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 1: We'll see you next week.