Speaker 1: Rat dun bait my sister. Now with Whitey on the moon,
Speaker 1: her face and arms begin to swell, and white He's
Speaker 1: on the moon. I can't pay no doctor bill, but
Speaker 1: white he's on the moon. Ten years from now I'll
Speaker 1: be paying still while white he's on the moon. The
Speaker 1: man just up my rent last night because white he's
Speaker 1: on the moon. No hot water, no toilets, no lights,
Speaker 1: but white He's on the moon. I wonder why he
Speaker 1: uped me, because white he's on the moon. I was
Speaker 1: already paying fifty a week with Whitey on the move,
Speaker 1: Taxes taking my whole damn check, junkies making me a
Speaker 1: nervous wreck, price of food going up. And as if
Speaker 1: that ship wasn't enough, rat doune bit my sister nail
Speaker 1: with Whitey on the moon, her face and arms begin
Speaker 1: to swell. White He's on the moon. Was all the
Speaker 1: money I made last year for Whitey on the moon?
Speaker 1: How come there ain't no money he Whitey's on the moon.
Speaker 1: Y'all know, I just about had my field. Whitey on
Speaker 1: the Moon. I think I'll see in these doctor bills
Speaker 1: airmail special Whitey on the Moon. Whitey on the Moon.
Speaker 1: Gil Scott Herring nineteen sixty something. Hoo, politics y'all how
Speaker 1: you so hood right now? Politics y'all so hood? So
Speaker 1: if you ain't figured out this episode's about this new
Speaker 1: space race, uh Whitey on the Moon. I think back now,
Speaker 1: after hitting and thinking about just most of the teens,
Speaker 1: um well the hat second half of it up to now,
Speaker 1: it really made me appreciate, just honestly, how tumultuous the
Speaker 1: sixties were. Like I think even as somebody who's our
Speaker 1: parents where my parents were live in the sixties, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, And my dad was a panther,
Speaker 1: I say, at all the time, just all that was
Speaker 1: happening at that time. I think I'll ever really connected
Speaker 1: the dots, you know what I'm saying, The summer Love,
Speaker 1: what was happening in San Francisco, the monery, the birth
Speaker 1: of the freaking music festival, the space race, mad wars,
Speaker 1: Like how much was happening at the same time. I mean,
Speaker 1: dot someone shot the president, like the president was assassinated,
Speaker 1: Like so much happened. I don't think I really appreciated
Speaker 1: it until now, what it must have really felt like
Speaker 1: to live in such a time, because all this was
Speaker 1: happening on top of each other. So now I'm like,
Speaker 1: damn that must you know. That's why I said it
Speaker 1: on Crooked You know, twenty teens looking like the sixties
Speaker 1: is crazy because of how much upheaval and tumultuous. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever connected the dots of like
Speaker 1: until my pops put this record on Whitey on the Moon.
Speaker 1: I still have it. I had my dad's records. It's
Speaker 1: like one of my prize possessions. When he caught back
Speaker 1: from Vietnam, he was just buying records with I don't
Speaker 1: think I ever really appreciated, like, yo, when we were,
Speaker 1: you know, spending billions of dollars to try to beat
Speaker 1: Russia to space. It was the same time as a
Speaker 1: civil rights movement. You forget that it's all happening at
Speaker 1: the same time. So if you was there and you like,
Speaker 1: we're living in this extreme poverty, I'm launching, you know,
Speaker 1: releasing wild dogs on us just because like, you know,
Speaker 1: we're trying to sit at a diner. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you got money for space, money again, like you're going
Speaker 1: to the damn moon. You know, I just never I never, like,
Speaker 1: that's what's so dope about artists like putting all that together.
Speaker 1: Early on in my career, uh, I had a chance
Speaker 1: to kind of do this for that white evangelical world
Speaker 1: with the precious Puritan song. I remember somehow another I
Speaker 1: landed myself at this conference um where they were just
Speaker 1: extalling all of the amazing things that the Puritans have given,
Speaker 1: you know, the world, and I'm looking around like, n
Speaker 1: that's during chattel slavery. Do y'all notice is happening at
Speaker 1: the same time, Like why y'all talking about these people?
Speaker 1: The hell is happening right now? And I just was like,
Speaker 1: y'all do you not know, like the hell a y'all
Speaker 1: talking about? You know? So I put out this bone
Speaker 1: called press Spuritans, you know, and that really kind of
Speaker 1: put me on the map. It's crazy, well the map
Speaker 1: with white people anyway. Now, having said all that, you know,
Speaker 1: we got billionaires going to space this amazing space race um.
Speaker 1: And before I get into the specifics of it and
Speaker 1: all the hood comparison of like the point I'm trying
Speaker 1: to make, let me just off the top say it's
Speaker 1: fucking awesome, guet, Like it's still dope. The idea that
Speaker 1: like Damn we've finished. They going to build a creable
Speaker 1: on space in on the mood. We're trying to get
Speaker 1: to Mars. Mo me like we really go Actually, we're
Speaker 1: really going to go to Mars. It's crazy, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, so let me just let me
Speaker 1: first acknowledge the or just the preteen kid just anybody
Speaker 1: would imagination that's like, Yo, this is it's dope, you
Speaker 1: feel me. Secondly, my book publisher, my Terraform book, my
Speaker 1: poetry book. Uh, they've always been kind of like asking
Speaker 1: for ways that I could promote the book on the
Speaker 1: pot and I kind of was just like, it's kind
Speaker 1: of two different worlds, Like I just don't know how
Speaker 1: it would work. This is finally a way to bring
Speaker 1: in some of my other work, my poetry and literature
Speaker 1: and music into this show because this is topic like
Speaker 1: is dabbled in my book. Okay, so here we go.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it. So I'll be talking to some
Speaker 1: of the homies who have like moved in here, uh
Speaker 1: here is in Los Angeles from other parts of the
Speaker 1: world country, um, you know, from Hood's other places or
Speaker 1: just just other cities period. And the one thing that
Speaker 1: they say about uh. Los Angeles is like you don't
Speaker 1: ever know. It's hard to tell when you in an
Speaker 1: active community, Like what is like is this do they
Speaker 1: shoot over here? Is it gangs over here? Because this
Speaker 1: this looks like a nice neighborhood. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of it's a lot of spots like that where like, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's very active. It's just I think the Inland
Speaker 1: Empire is a perfect example of that. The Inland Empire
Speaker 1: is like it's an hour east of Los Angeles, proper
Speaker 1: for those who aren't from here. So it's these this
Speaker 1: it's a sprawling suburb, but it don't feel like a
Speaker 1: suburb if they look like nice. Its parts of it
Speaker 1: that are amazing, but then there's other parts. Did you
Speaker 1: get in certain parts of the I E. And it's like,
Speaker 1: especially it's funny when you moved out there and you're
Speaker 1: still trying to navigate all these all this gang life,
Speaker 1: and you're like, man, I could have stayed in l
Speaker 1: A for all this. If I still gotta I still
Speaker 1: gotta figure out what's set this neighborhood from and this
Speaker 1: nice two story house. You know, you just like, dog,
Speaker 1: what's happening? You know? The Crenshaw District. Like, there's part
Speaker 1: of the Crenshaw District that are these are very nice houses,
Speaker 1: you know, but don't let them nice houses to fool you.
Speaker 1: You you could die in these streets. My homeboy, uh
Speaker 1: DJ Effecto, rest in peace. My my best friend he
Speaker 1: passed away, uh a couple of years back. He lived
Speaker 1: in the west side of Long Beach and in his neighborhood. Like, listen,
Speaker 1: I think it's a nice these are like nice houses,
Speaker 1: but you're in you're in a hood, You're in a
Speaker 1: turf like, so you can't just be you have just
Speaker 1: be sitting on the porch. You know. The question is
Speaker 1: like why, And I think we talked about this once
Speaker 1: before where families get the same idea anybody else does that, Yo,
Speaker 1: we're gonna move out to this nicer neighborhood. And but
Speaker 1: their kids is like part of the set. So they
Speaker 1: just go out there and set up shop and start recruiting.
Speaker 1: You know this this it's an untapped neighborhood. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's the wild wild West. It's the Great Frontier.
Speaker 1: There's so much money to be made, there's so many
Speaker 1: licks to hit because ain't nobody out here, and and
Speaker 1: and since it belongs to nobody in terms of like
Speaker 1: street stuff, since it belongs to nobody, since I'm here first,
Speaker 1: it now belongs to me. But if you step back
Speaker 1: and you go, man, people already live here, it's like
Speaker 1: it's rather colonial. You get out there and you you
Speaker 1: plant your flag. I mean that's the idea to show
Speaker 1: that that Jill Politics gang bang. And you just go
Speaker 1: plant your flag and now it's yours. You subdue it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. If there are people there there,
Speaker 1: you conquer like uh yeah, you just I mean, you
Speaker 1: conquered who's there, and you claim it for yourself, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like I would say that's right
Speaker 1: or wrong. I'm just saying, we understand it. But the
Speaker 1: best place to conquer is a place that ain't nobody
Speaker 1: at you know, you get to build it from scratch.
Speaker 1: Now you're not I mean, you ain't hurt nobody, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, ain't nobody here, there's just you
Speaker 1: get to just the whole thing's yours. Now we say
Speaker 1: that about neighbors. There's nowhere on earth like that where
Speaker 1: there's literally nobody there unless you're talking about the middle
Speaker 1: of the ocean. But then it's but who owns the ocean?
Speaker 1: Ain't that a crazy question? Why do we even think
Speaker 1: in those terms? Is who own owns the ocean? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it was here before. How do you own How
Speaker 1: are you gonna own the ocean? There's parts of the ocean.
Speaker 1: There's only one part of the ocean. It's off it's
Speaker 1: in between New Zealand and Antarctica that all of the
Speaker 1: nations got together and agreed, okay, let's not touch this.
Speaker 1: There's there's a documentary on it called the Last Ocean,
Speaker 1: and it's this spot that actually Chilean sea baths come
Speaker 1: from um which is why they cost so much. But
Speaker 1: they're not really Chileans. They're called toothfish really, And so
Speaker 1: if you want to as an active protest, never ordered
Speaker 1: that because it's coming from this part of the ocean
Speaker 1: that we all agreed we wouldn't fish in. I mean again,
Speaker 1: go go see it, Go see the docks called the
Speaker 1: Last Ocean. Anyway, do you ever step back and think, like,
Speaker 1: how do you own the ocean? Like how do you
Speaker 1: stay clean to it? And for what why you want
Speaker 1: to own the ocean? What the resources we can't drink
Speaker 1: the water, but you eat the fish and up under
Speaker 1: that might be oil. I mean, did we not see
Speaker 1: the Gulf of Mexico catch on fire. It's it's resources,
Speaker 1: you know, you you you control the product you if
Speaker 1: it's yours. Now apply that logic to space. Who owns space?
Speaker 1: You should be saying, what the hell kind of question?
Speaker 1: Is that? What you mean? Own space? But is it
Speaker 1: that crazy of a question? Uh? Somebody owned the electricity,
Speaker 1: somebody on the water, somebody on the air, somebody owned
Speaker 1: the heat. Somebody own the vegetables, somebody own our food,
Speaker 1: somebody own the trees. Who owns the moon? You should
Speaker 1: be going, how can you own the moon? Well, it's
Speaker 1: I guess whoever gets there first, whoever puts their flag
Speaker 1: in first, owns it. Is that I mean? Is that
Speaker 1: what we're doing? What about Mars? It's a dead planet?
Speaker 1: Is it a dead planet? Do you think this is
Speaker 1: really altruistic? That we're really just like, for the sake
Speaker 1: of mankind, trying to be interplanetary? Is that? I mean?
Speaker 1: Is that really? What is? Ah? We're just looking for
Speaker 1: It's just like I always moved to suburbs because looking
Speaker 1: for a nicer house, like or is there some money
Speaker 1: to be made use your antenna's? I think you know
Speaker 1: the answer. I mean, what brought these European explorers to
Speaker 1: Africa and then chipped us off to the Caribbeans? Like
Speaker 1: just why why do all these African countries speak speak
Speaker 1: French and Portuguese? Because they just came there and planted
Speaker 1: a flag. You know what I'm saying, Like this, this
Speaker 1: is how we treat our planet. I don't know what
Speaker 1: made us think we would treat any other planet any different.
Speaker 1: Now here comes a plug because I thought about this
Speaker 1: and I wrote a poem about it. So this is
Speaker 1: the first time in my I heart media history that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mix these two worlds, my music and poetry
Speaker 1: world in my podcasting world. This poem is called if
Speaker 1: We're not careful to next cert from my book terror
Speaker 1: Form Want Did you hear the pages turned? Because I
Speaker 1: am reading out of you know, if we're not careful,
Speaker 1: Mars will be just another gold rush, another pre Columbian America, scraping, raping, scratching, gouging,
Speaker 1: making up lines, then screaming mind into newly made oxygen,
Speaker 1: tapping planetary veins in search of arrogance. In the form
Speaker 1: of rocks imaginary wealth. You know, the real millionaires of
Speaker 1: the gold Rush were the shovel salesman. I think we're
Speaker 1: going about this all wrong. Mars. It's gonna be another
Speaker 1: East India trading code spilling Mars spice across the most
Speaker 1: pristine of space gates till somebody start a war over
Speaker 1: stuff to just come out the ground because someone used
Speaker 1: what come out the ground to buy the ground. You know,
Speaker 1: the real things that funded the Renaissance was the forests
Speaker 1: the Atlantic Ocean. You wrong, mom, Money does grow on trees.
Speaker 1: Trees are money. We just ain't getting them because you're
Speaker 1: killed them to build the KaDee. Jules gentrified our saviors
Speaker 1: before me and you could get out the nigger cords. Listen,
Speaker 1: I ain't salty hell salt for sale to a refritive
Speaker 1: act like standing rock protesters weren't absolutely correct. Lakota water
Speaker 1: sources stained in earth blood history got bars rhyming like
Speaker 1: a mug. You know, if we're not careful, our next
Speaker 1: friendships will be just another goal Rush. People are soul, food, utility, transactional, possessive.
Speaker 1: You know, if we're not careful, our marriages just another
Speaker 1: goal rush people for pleasure, lust, identity. It's been my
Speaker 1: finding we've seen to respond better at crisis than we
Speaker 1: do warning. And I'm starting to wonder about that first part.
Speaker 1: But if the visa ever got first, it with body
Speaker 1: that beat. If we're not careful, our own health will
Speaker 1: be just another goal rush YouTube, busy taking advantage of you,
Speaker 1: to even enjoy you, to realize your quote unquote bucks
Speaker 1: to give are a fossil fuel, a non renewable resource. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's enough of you to go around, but where is
Speaker 1: your code? Everything ain't for everybody. When's the last time
Speaker 1: you told someone no? Even when the fag was oh
Speaker 1: so yes? Why are there chunks of you floating around
Speaker 1: the farmers and stock market? You couldn't bring your full
Speaker 1: self to a moment even if you tried. But I
Speaker 1: tell you what I know. The dirt always wins Trees
Speaker 1: when they're ready, split sidewalks, expanding their shoulder blades. Earth
Speaker 1: as Mars long after us. We'll be fine, but you
Speaker 1: need a break. We need each other, and although you
Speaker 1: don't owe us anything, we're just lucky to be in
Speaker 1: your orbit. If we're not careful, Mars will be just
Speaker 1: like the dead Earth we just left. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: thank you as if y'all learn in person. But for
Speaker 1: the sake of the book, I was using the metaphor
Speaker 1: of what's happening outside of us to bring it into
Speaker 1: what's happening inside of us, to not just see not
Speaker 1: only the planets just a source of of resources just
Speaker 1: for us to take, but to also see ourselves that
Speaker 1: way and did not see each other that way. That
Speaker 1: like even your own energy and your your gifts, your
Speaker 1: talents are just like man, you know sometimes you need
Speaker 1: to break like, don't treat yourself like that, like be
Speaker 1: climate friendly and carbon neutral to your own heart. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm saying that was kind of the extended
Speaker 1: metaphor for that. But the point I was trying to
Speaker 1: make was like, now that private companies are shooting off
Speaker 1: into space, like what would motivate rather than dude, that's
Speaker 1: rad a Bezos Branson a musk to do this stuff.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, when you get it's a gold rush,
Speaker 1: you gotta get there and get yours. But even more
Speaker 1: than just digging the resources out of the ground, here's
Speaker 1: what y'all are seeing. These people ain't looking for gold
Speaker 1: only they're also shovel salesman. If I could build the
Speaker 1: boat to get you to the moon, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: much more wealthy than whatever you can get out of
Speaker 1: the moon because it ain't but so much in there. Okay,
Speaker 1: the modern space race, uh so Al Jazeer has a
Speaker 1: pod called to Take and they did a really good
Speaker 1: recent um sort of breakdown of some of the specifics
Speaker 1: of what we're looking at. Now for our case, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go through some of the specifics, but I want
Speaker 1: to talk about, like one, using your antennas to understand
Speaker 1: like why they're doing this, and then to how this
Speaker 1: affects us here on Earth, like what difference does it
Speaker 1: make for us? And and you know what I mean
Speaker 1: when I say us, I'm talking about you know the
Speaker 1: last side you feel me ow to wise. Now, let's
Speaker 1: let's drill down. So we're not talking about exploring space
Speaker 1: per se. We're talking about how we are exploring space.
Speaker 1: And remember we've been there before. When we talked about
Speaker 1: the pissing contest of the space race in the nineteen sixties,
Speaker 1: it was all around the Cold War. It was really
Speaker 1: just just trying to flex and show like the flex
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily about the fact that we can get to space.
Speaker 1: But it's like an if we could do this, what
Speaker 1: you think we could do if we threw a bomb
Speaker 1: at your hood? You know what I'm saying. So there
Speaker 1: was that going on, this new space race coming out
Speaker 1: of a lot of ways, Silicon Valley, so this is
Speaker 1: more colonial wild wild West, Nigga is there's too much
Speaker 1: of a lick here, like let's go. But once we
Speaker 1: got to space for the first time, the thought crossed
Speaker 1: everybody's mind, like, yo, we should probably make some rules
Speaker 1: about up here, you know what I'm saying. So there
Speaker 1: was this thing in nineteen sixty seven. It was called
Speaker 1: the Outer Space Treaty. Believe it or not, we talked
Speaker 1: about space law. It like it's a brave new world.
Speaker 1: This nineteen sixty seven. It was a treaty, the Outer
Speaker 1: Space Treaty. It was thirty one nation signed on. Now,
Speaker 1: granted these are nations. It's crazy all of and stuff
Speaker 1: I've been trying to tell y'all as far as like
Speaker 1: the Global South, as far as or the global Hood,
Speaker 1: as far as like corner boys and and connects and
Speaker 1: what the lick read. All this stuff is gonna all
Speaker 1: fold in on itself and you're using all of your
Speaker 1: your antennas, everything, all of it is applied to this
Speaker 1: moment right now. So thirty one nations signed on. They
Speaker 1: were saying that outer space is for the benefit of
Speaker 1: all countries, despite their resources, and for the growth of
Speaker 1: all mankind. You say mankind because it was I mean
Speaker 1: it was a sixty And this rule that like you
Speaker 1: can't put no bomb in space. No one can own
Speaker 1: a celestial body. To a question before, like who owned
Speaker 1: the moon? They we made a law back in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty seven. And because it's funny, because it's like we're
Speaker 1: just one species on one random planet and we're making
Speaker 1: laws about the universe. Man, like you ever, dog, you
Speaker 1: ever think so highly of yourself that you can create
Speaker 1: laws around That's like the ants, that's the roaches in
Speaker 1: in the ground arguing over who owned the kitchen, like
Speaker 1: it's not yours. But you don't get to argue over
Speaker 1: none of this. But that's what we was doing. Some
Speaker 1: would argue, if it's enough roaches is like, dog, you
Speaker 1: can have it. That's nasty. We're just gonna move anyway.
Speaker 1: Uh So, no one gets to own a celestial body.
Speaker 1: The only person that can own a celestial body is
Speaker 1: my wife. She owned my celestial body, my body heavily.
Speaker 1: This is corny as hell. I'm sorry, but this was
Speaker 1: a game of nations, right because the GDP to be
Speaker 1: able to afford to go to space took the entire
Speaker 1: budget of a nation to try to pull off. Now
Speaker 1: we got four five people that got more individual money
Speaker 1: than in time than fifty sixty nations. Base Host Brandson
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and then their personal wealth is more than
Speaker 1: entire countries. So that's a game changer. Now, as a
Speaker 1: fun fact, China actually has more billionaires per capita uh
Speaker 1: than any other nation. But well we'll talk about that
Speaker 1: a little later. Now. Dr Lucy uh Walkowitch, she's a
Speaker 1: space ethicist, uh researcher, works for NASA. Just brilliant, brilliant lady,
Speaker 1: she's uh, she helped us kind of navigate some of
Speaker 1: this stuff. So where we at right now. NASA has
Speaker 1: this thing called the Artemis. We're gonna build this thing
Speaker 1: called the Artemis, which is supposed to be like a
Speaker 1: base camp on the moon. Around doesn't matter, it's just
Speaker 1: we want to get there first. And then why build
Speaker 1: a moon base? Well, you build a moon base, because
Speaker 1: there's this thing on the Moon that they think is
Speaker 1: they're called helium three. Helium three. If we get to it,
Speaker 1: it's enough on the Moon, if it's actually there, to
Speaker 1: power the entire Earth for two centuries. Like this, we
Speaker 1: talked about stuff. This stuff is like a billion dollars
Speaker 1: a ton, because there is some on Earth, but it's
Speaker 1: so hard to get to. They say the moon full
Speaker 1: of it. We don't know, and we don't know what
Speaker 1: happens if we take it out the moon. But it's
Speaker 1: way too much money to be made up there. There's
Speaker 1: numerous ways to serve funds. There's a lick up there,
Speaker 1: and we need to go hit it. We need to
Speaker 1: hit it now. So Artemis, now again, who get there
Speaker 1: first get to make the rules. So we put together
Speaker 1: this thing called the Artemis Accords, and it's these mining
Speaker 1: laws and most of the G twenty has signed up
Speaker 1: to be like, all right, once we get down there,
Speaker 1: we're going to acknowledge the nineteen sixty seven outer space things.
Speaker 1: Nobody gets to own it, but whatever I get out
Speaker 1: the ground get to be mine. Ain't that crazy? I
Speaker 1: don't own the moon, but what I get out the
Speaker 1: moon I mean I did the work to get it
Speaker 1: out there. I came all the way to this place
Speaker 1: to get it. Like it gets to be mine, so
Speaker 1: I get to claim sources resources that I get from
Speaker 1: the celestial body. Now most of the you know, United States,
Speaker 1: South Korea, Germany, UK, everybody signed onto a Guess who
Speaker 1: ain't signed on China and Russia, China, Rus I'll tell
Speaker 1: you this gangship they like, Nick, fuck your artemis. I
Speaker 1: don't care you think you'll be there first. They building
Speaker 1: their own research facility. They said they want to be
Speaker 1: there by though, We're gonna get up there and set
Speaker 1: up our own shop. Do what the hell we want
Speaker 1: to do? Now what does that have to do with
Speaker 1: these private companies? Well, right now, how most of these
Speaker 1: companies work is you get these big contracts, so basically
Speaker 1: you just become the plug. SpaceX has been the plug
Speaker 1: for a long time. Basos. They just trying to sell
Speaker 1: the creation of the ships to NASA for NASA to
Speaker 1: go and you just played it a low. It's like
Speaker 1: it's almost like the old school, um where to the
Speaker 1: my thing where the g's move in silence, like I
Speaker 1: don't need to be out here being off flashy I
Speaker 1: just need to secure the bag, so y'all use my
Speaker 1: rocket to get to space. I say the rocket, But
Speaker 1: I don't need to like everybody don't need to know
Speaker 1: it comes from me. I just need to be able
Speaker 1: to floss high posts to be like I just earned
Speaker 1: this billion dollar contract and that's my thing up there.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't care if y'all know, as long
Speaker 1: as the streets know. And NASA actually chose SpaceX because
Speaker 1: the ship that they're using to get up to get
Speaker 1: up to the moon, they said, bace X cut the costs,
Speaker 1: n so you didn't make it cheaper, so they didn't
Speaker 1: earn this thing. But now it's like like anybody else,
Speaker 1: it's like, what's the point of having all this money?
Speaker 1: If I can't stunt, if I can't floss, if I
Speaker 1: can't flex, I ain't got no grill. I gotta keep
Speaker 1: it all quiet. No, no, homie, that's us going to
Speaker 1: the moon. No no, no, my name is Eli Musk.
Speaker 1: That's my plane. Now you know what, and we could
Speaker 1: do it ourselves. We don't even need NASA. Uh, you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't. Look, what's the point that, what's the point
Speaker 1: of being rich? Can't show nobody. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. That's the cornerboys and plugs there. You feelious
Speaker 1: like you could lay low, But I mean, but if
Speaker 1: I lay it's the point of doing this work. I
Speaker 1: gotta lay low. But if you don't lay low, you
Speaker 1: become a target. So that mean what's happening here is
Speaker 1: the game of Thrones out this mug. So now you
Speaker 1: got all these like plugs kind of fighting over like, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, do we really got to go through NASA?
Speaker 1: You feel me like maybe we could go I selves,
Speaker 1: hit this, lick ourselves. If we're building the rocket to
Speaker 1: get there, what the hell I need not so for
Speaker 1: you're telling me it's something that could power the planet
Speaker 1: for two d years up there, Well, then what the
Speaker 1: hell are we're waiting for. Some of our families looked
Speaker 1: at the suburbs and went, oh, them is nice houses.
Speaker 1: Other people looked at it and was like, oh, there
Speaker 1: is money to be made out here, and we just
Speaker 1: gotta lock it down. Now, when you lock a spot down, uh,
Speaker 1: you also got to hold it down because trust me,
Speaker 1: the op is on the way. How you lock it down,
Speaker 1: how you enforced space law, how you get everybody gret
Speaker 1: especially if you got Russia going to funk your laws
Speaker 1: and they get you on own this ship it's the moon. Well,
Speaker 1: the question is what what happens in our hoods violence?
Speaker 1: That's what happens in our hoods. Hell, That's what happens
Speaker 1: in any colonial situation. Somebody come over and say, I
Speaker 1: claim this in the name of so and so. You like,
Speaker 1: who the hell is so and so? I don't acknowledge
Speaker 1: your king? Well, how you're gonna make me acknowledge your king?
Speaker 1: When they got like to see you try cut? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what happens here. Buck your hood borders and then
Speaker 1: we repping our section Like that's kind of ain't that
Speaker 1: the lane? So you, as a civilian like me, you
Speaker 1: woke up in the turf war like all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. If if you can't hold
Speaker 1: down the block, somebody now holding out that block, you
Speaker 1: just find out my nigg Like you didn't walk into
Speaker 1: a war zone. You know, you better learn the rules again.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of like what's happened. That's that's us,
Speaker 1: just regular ass Americans that are like, wait this, y'all
Speaker 1: gonna fight over the moon. Damn Nick. When my family
Speaker 1: got a tax return and we moved out to uh,
Speaker 1: the Inland Empire. It was obviously for you know, a
Speaker 1: better life, but it was like, you know, our son
Speaker 1: is of age, like we're trying to get him out
Speaker 1: of that life. Little did we know when we got
Speaker 1: there the life was about a couple of years out
Speaker 1: of being there too. So why wouldn't it happen in space? Hell,
Speaker 1: it's already happening. Every step that gets to that is
Speaker 1: already happening. But we promised the nineteen seven we wouldn't
Speaker 1: put no weapons up there. Come on, y'all, use your hair, Antennis,
Speaker 1: you're telling me everything out there. Do you remember what
Speaker 1: happened in the first Goal Rush? You remember squatters rights,
Speaker 1: you know, and um and then abandoned like gold mines
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. You don't think violence follows this
Speaker 1: type of pursuit, fam Of course it does. And what's
Speaker 1: crazy is we don't know what the hell happens if
Speaker 1: you take something out the moon. They get like, are
Speaker 1: you gonna change the tides? Because I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: I'm not being scared or nothing. I'm just saying, have
Speaker 1: y'all thought this through? Like you get just be taking
Speaker 1: stuff out of something that regulates the tides. My nigge, Like,
Speaker 1: I hope y'all thinking this through for you start taking
Speaker 1: stuff out of this thing. But ultimately, remember we're talking
Speaker 1: about countries that can actually afford to do this. So
Speaker 1: maybe this further divides the wealth gap between the global
Speaker 1: North and the global south. What does this mean for us? Here? Nick,
Speaker 1: and you got access to moon energy? Like it's about
Speaker 1: to turn into a movie out this mug where like
Speaker 1: the wealth between the rich and the Poe fam. Well,
Speaker 1: you have to ask yourself what did the Cold War
Speaker 1: mean for us? Then? Did I gain any rights? Was
Speaker 1: my lot of life any better? Did watch money go
Speaker 1: out of our communities into space? Did our daddies and
Speaker 1: granddaddis get sent off to a ward they couldn't possibly win?
Speaker 1: But was there gains from what we got from space?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: technology from military and and NASA has came down to
Speaker 1: our everyday life. I'm not This isn't the the pod
Speaker 1: to talk about what those things were, but it is
Speaker 1: the pod to say it is. I wonder what conflict
Speaker 1: our kids are going to sign up for now? Trump
Speaker 1: talking about Space Force ain't as funny. It was funny
Speaker 1: at first. Now it's like in the same way that
Speaker 1: no one could possibly consider gangs in the suburbs. Oh man,
Speaker 1: they don't shoot out there. Yet they do, at least
Speaker 1: in California. They shoot out there. You know Anaheim in
Speaker 1: Orange County where where where Disneyland is. It's there's some
Speaker 1: vatos down there, and they don't Anaheim nicknames anti crime
Speaker 1: like they it's real out there. Don't think because it's
Speaker 1: nice and pristine that they can't go down. It's space,
Speaker 1: but it could go down. But the question you have
Speaker 1: to ask yourself is what effect do these titans, these
Speaker 1: men who can move entire countries out of their own pocket.
Speaker 1: Should they decide that infrastructure programs, you know, community developments
Speaker 1: that are targeted towards Should they decide that the U
Speaker 1: s a i D The money that we're sending to
Speaker 1: to the global South, just like what you know Bill
Speaker 1: Gates did with the Gates Foundation. Which I'm not saying
Speaker 1: this isn't a type recorder dragging it, but it is
Speaker 1: a point to make that he just decided that Africa's
Speaker 1: AIDS problem was his to fix, and he just went
Speaker 1: out there and started to circum sizing African men, but
Speaker 1: then didn't tell them about condoms. They thought the circumcision
Speaker 1: would like end the spread of aids. You just decided
Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna do. In his In his defense,
Speaker 1: there as a lot of people that didn't die from
Speaker 1: malaria from his work. But why this one man get
Speaker 1: to decide because he just thinks it's cool what this
Speaker 1: entire country do where these resources are allocated. You're like, well,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. It's in a democracy. Nick, Do
Speaker 1: you know how much money we talked about right now?
Speaker 1: Do you understand if someone can get you on Mars
Speaker 1: for yo block? Because somebody can put on for yo
Speaker 1: block like that, You let them do what they want.
Speaker 1: Because what if these these bezos is these these these
Speaker 1: bill Gates and them these what if they lived in Russia?
Speaker 1: Do you know how salty we would be as a nation.
Speaker 1: China and Russia got these dudes out there, and you
Speaker 1: can't flex no more, You can't talk about your economy
Speaker 1: no more because these billionaires is serving your billionaires. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: our nation has no incentive to stop this from happening
Speaker 1: because it's too much of a flex and for them,
Speaker 1: everybody wins because if we use the goal rush model,
Speaker 1: you're telling me, I get to sell you to shovel
Speaker 1: and keep the gold. This is a win win. You know,
Speaker 1: the Levi Strauss company, Levi's, the Denham, the Jeans, they
Speaker 1: got their starting to goal rush making. Dinnam millionaire made
Speaker 1: more money than anybody else up there. Digging became the plug.
Speaker 1: There's no point in paying attention to anything else. If
Speaker 1: you could hit a lick that hard, What the hell
Speaker 1: you care about? What the global South doing? What the
Speaker 1: hell you care about police reform or infrastructure or reparations
Speaker 1: or any of that. What the hell you care about that?
Speaker 1: I'm on moon. I just built a house on Mars.
Speaker 1: Buck your life. They could get like me, sound to
Speaker 1: me like that's our future. Maybe Gil Scott was on something.
Speaker 1: Rat dun bit my sister. Why he's on the moon now.
Speaker 1: As a parting thought, let's get meta here. I think
Speaker 1: if we think about, like how the modern world has
Speaker 1: been terraformed, another plug, how we shape the culture into
Speaker 1: the way we see it now, it's got us really
Speaker 1: thinking the modern nation state, capitalistic sort of Keynesian economics,
Speaker 1: colonial imperialism is the way to approach outer space. And
Speaker 1: if the premise of this show is like all the
Speaker 1: geopolitics are just like growing up in the hood, then
Speaker 1: my question for anybody who's been crushed by a colonial empire,
Speaker 1: or anyone who was either active in gang life and
Speaker 1: survived it, or someone who was affiliated or just lived
Speaker 1: out there looking back, there's a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: we appreciate it. I love that. I'm like, Yo, it's
Speaker 1: our culture, That's what it is. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm proud of it. We are proud of who we are.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of where I came from. But is that
Speaker 1: like that's really how we want to move through the future.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm personally a product of gang intervention, of
Speaker 1: O G S who came out of jail. And y'all
Speaker 1: know who Big You is. I man invoke him. I
Speaker 1: don't know him personally, but programs like what he put together.
Speaker 1: He put together like an inner city football program. But
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, man, you don't have to do what
Speaker 1: I did. You know what I'm saying, like, rep your block,
Speaker 1: It's all good. I love you'all, get it. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, but you ain't gotta you ain't gotta
Speaker 1: go my route, Like there's other ways to do it.
Speaker 1: I'm a product of that of like O G is
Speaker 1: coming back. Hey, my Sunday school teacher, My eighth grade
Speaker 1: Sunday school teacher, like tells you, I grew up with
Speaker 1: about those You know what I'm saying, Like they foods
Speaker 1: was out there, and what they was trying to say
Speaker 1: is like maybe this ain't really I mean, we get
Speaker 1: it saying now how elier than now, But I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 1: maybe this ain't the best way to approach this life.
Speaker 1: So I'm saying, I mean, yeah, the amount of money
Speaker 1: that sort of free market capitalism has generated for those
Speaker 1: who have succeeded in it is incredibly astronomical. Don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong. I like the fact that I live in
Speaker 1: a country with running water is pretty much something I
Speaker 1: don't even think about. But something I do think about
Speaker 1: it is like how we got there? Whose backs was
Speaker 1: this built on? And it's this really the cultural theory
Speaker 1: that I would imagine for us. Later, I saw a
Speaker 1: New York Times article about adults choosing to not have
Speaker 1: kids and that like the birth rate has dropped so much,
Speaker 1: and it's almost like, well, I guess if you put
Speaker 1: people under crushing debt that there's no way to ever
Speaker 1: get out of debt. While the housing market it's triple
Speaker 1: what it what it was when we was kids. After
Speaker 1: seeing two economic failures, you think maybe somebody would make
Speaker 1: the calculation that, like I just can't afford to have to.
Speaker 1: What I'm trying to say is maybe this ain't the
Speaker 1: way we should approach space if it ain't really helping
Speaker 1: us on Earth. The niggas is still getting shot in
Speaker 1: the street. You know what I'm saying. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: don't explore space. That's amazing. I'm just saying, maybe this
Speaker 1: ain't the mindset we should have about doing it, because look,
Speaker 1: if it's just the ain't bust, we bust going there
Speaker 1: and drop your flags, set up shot and hit this lick.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you that leave a lot of
Speaker 1: dead bodies. Listen. I'm not saying a rocket to Mars
Speaker 1: is not awesome, just saying you don't get to just
Speaker 1: make up lines and scream mind on. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be this way. Okay, post PostScript for real, we've
Speaker 1: done this time. Last statement I promised Bezos. Rocket was it?
Speaker 1: There was a giant penis? Right, y'all all saw that
Speaker 1: that was it was a big old penis. That rocket
Speaker 1: he took a rocket. It didn't there was a pene.
Speaker 1: It looked like a penis. Like, I'm not bugging right,
Speaker 1: like y'all all saw that? Was that not the most
Speaker 1: freudian thing I've ever seen? And then to push the
Speaker 1: joke even further, he ain't finished the job. The man
Speaker 1: ain't actually make it into space on his giants space penis.
Speaker 1: And I can only come up with two conclusions with this.
Speaker 1: Either A he knew exactly what he was doing and
Speaker 1: approved it the whole time, or B he didn't see
Speaker 1: it and nobody on his staff loves him enough to
Speaker 1: tell him that that looked like a penis, or they
Speaker 1: scared of him, or they just honestly don't like that man.
Speaker 1: And it was like you don't pay me enough, NICKI
Speaker 1: look go ahead and embarrass yourself. Yeah, right in the
Speaker 1: space on a big old dick. That was a penis.
Speaker 1: I just thought that was the like, this is so freudy,
Speaker 1: and this is like we're in a simulation dog like
Speaker 1: you The jokes right themselves all right, really we're done
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