WEBVTT - BIG DAWG with  Soul 

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<v Speaker 1>M oh yeah. Here's the thing, guys, I got a

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<v Speaker 1>bunch of new co workers in the studio now who

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<v Speaker 1>apparently really loves broccoli. Right now, I would love to

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<v Speaker 1>record another episode of politics. But here the thing, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna keep it real with y'all due to my new coworkers. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>I just never got around asking someone to be a

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<v Speaker 1>part of the show this time. Yeah, can give you

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<v Speaker 1>all a lesson in parenting as to how to learn

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<v Speaker 1>how to tune that stuff out right now since we're

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<v Speaker 1>all working from home. But I do have an episode prepared. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>I just forgot to ask anyone to be a part

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<v Speaker 1>of it. Uh. This is very strange and peril times. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>but if you're all ready to get into it, it'll

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<v Speaker 1>just be this time. Um you guys, okay with that?

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<v Speaker 1>Me and my other coworker, the politics, y'all. Right, now, politics, y'all.

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<v Speaker 1>So this episode is called big Out picked Out. Who

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<v Speaker 1>do I mean by the big dog? Well, at this point,

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<v Speaker 1>in a normal episode, what I mean, what is normal?

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<v Speaker 1>I would have asked my guests what the big dog

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<v Speaker 1>is and how all that stuff work. Here, I'll drop

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<v Speaker 1>it in with you in a lot of gang life. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe not inside of gangs in general, because remember, your

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<v Speaker 1>host has just lived in a lot of place is

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<v Speaker 1>and lived around this culture for a long time. But

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I never gang bang the day in my life,

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<v Speaker 1>just from a lot of areas that have had I

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<v Speaker 1>don't need to readjudicate this, but here's the thing. A

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<v Speaker 1>lot of gang stuff is really just in relation to

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<v Speaker 1>the other gangs. A lot of times it's it's a

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<v Speaker 1>pissing contest. Let me just I don't know how else

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<v Speaker 1>to say this. And the people that are what you know,

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<v Speaker 1>actual gang members will call civilians, were kind of inconsequential.

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<v Speaker 1>It's really more like the beef. We're not even the beef,

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<v Speaker 1>but just the war on perception of who got bigger guns,

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<v Speaker 1>who can run the hoods better, who can run the

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<v Speaker 1>streets better. It's a desire to sort of win the

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<v Speaker 1>allegiance or the hearts of the civilians. That's really just

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<v Speaker 1>a transactional relationship anyway, because they kind of really don't care.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just more about their own bravado and authoritarian rule.

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<v Speaker 1>So they do a lot of things to make sure

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<v Speaker 1>that their perception of strength and benevolence are widely known

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<v Speaker 1>by us. Civilians ultimately, so they can run their illegal

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<v Speaker 1>economy in relative peace and to secure a whole a

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<v Speaker 1>neighborhood full of watchful eyes to protect their assets. One

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<v Speaker 1>of those ways they do that is by leaving bodies

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<v Speaker 1>on the streets in the mornings. Right now, granted, this

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<v Speaker 1>is not the nineties, like this, this is a very

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<v Speaker 1>stylized version of a very nineties version of what gang

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<v Speaker 1>activity is. Nowadays, it's much the most of that stuff

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<v Speaker 1>is happening online now. I don't want to like sort

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<v Speaker 1>of minimize parts of our countries that are still living

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<v Speaker 1>in active hot areas, but you know, it's just it's

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<v Speaker 1>just not the way it was when I grew up. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>you would leave bodies on the streets, and they were signals,

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<v Speaker 1>not even to the neighborhood, there were signals to the

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<v Speaker 1>other gangs just about this is how we handle things.

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<v Speaker 1>But then they would also doing things like and I

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<v Speaker 1>experienced this personally when I was living in the Sink

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<v Speaker 1>Valley in La Pointe or specifically Valinda. Anybody from Cali

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<v Speaker 1>would know that the ice cream truck would pull up

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<v Speaker 1>and one of the big dogs you know, or or

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<v Speaker 1>your neighborhood like O g would come out and just

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<v Speaker 1>basically buy the whole truck out for everybody, so all

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<v Speaker 1>the kids would be able to have ice cream. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>we would look at this guy like, dang, that's amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>He got all this money, he could buy us all things.

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<v Speaker 1>But he was in a lot of ways that again,

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<v Speaker 1>it was a war on perception. You were presenting yourself

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<v Speaker 1>as this benevolent ruler, this protector that I get to say,

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<v Speaker 1>no matter what happens, when the police comes, when when

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<v Speaker 1>this happens, when this happens, when somebody asked for this,

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<v Speaker 1>when somebody comes around this block looking for him and

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<v Speaker 1>they're shooting, and all this stuff, Like I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>remember how well he took care of me, or this

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<v Speaker 1>hood took care of me when my bike got stolen,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, by the dudes a couple of blocks over.

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<v Speaker 1>You know my laot Valinda guys came and take care

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<v Speaker 1>of me. You know what I'm saying, it's a war

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<v Speaker 1>on perception. This is no different than politics. We are

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<v Speaker 1>in the middle of a global pandemic, but we are

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<v Speaker 1>in the middle of a war on perception. M M M.

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<v Speaker 1>War on perception. Now, if you guys would allow me

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<v Speaker 1>to take off the propaganda hat and put on the Mr.

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<v Speaker 1>Petty hat again. Those who have been following my career

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<v Speaker 1>for a while, you know that I taught history. I

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<v Speaker 1>taught ninth grade social science and history for a long time,

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<v Speaker 1>which is kind of where the whole concept of hood

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<v Speaker 1>politics came from. How do I make um geopolitics makes

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<v Speaker 1>sense to people that have no in roads to it? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>you find an in road anyway. A war on perception

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<v Speaker 1>is not a new thing. Governments have been doing pissing

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<v Speaker 1>contests for a long time. And the truth is you've

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<v Speaker 1>experienced them multiple times. Now, pending on your age, you

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<v Speaker 1>may have experienced like fox five of them. Let me

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<v Speaker 1>let me drop in on two of them for you.

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<v Speaker 1>The first one I would like to say is something

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<v Speaker 1>that maybe you haven't experienced. If you're an American, you

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<v Speaker 1>probably haven't seen this, maybe not on your own soil,

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<v Speaker 1>but you've seen them on the news. It's a it's

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<v Speaker 1>a military parade. You know a lot of times when

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<v Speaker 1>the when when the news flashes to like North Korea

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<v Speaker 1>and they show the guys like marching with these big

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<v Speaker 1>tanks and then Kim Jong uh either whichever Kim Jong

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<v Speaker 1>you want because it's been Three of them are standing

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<v Speaker 1>on some sort of balcony above this parade of people screaming,

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<v Speaker 1>and the guys are marching in lockstep, and then it's

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<v Speaker 1>like tanks and stuff like that just parading down this

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<v Speaker 1>this downtown area. And it was a funny thing because

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<v Speaker 1>Trump said he wanted to do one of these pre rona.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, RNA's a watershed issue where our life will

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<v Speaker 1>be if you haven't figured that out yet, pre Corona

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<v Speaker 1>and post corona. But some are arguing that there may

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<v Speaker 1>not be a such thing as a post Corona, and

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<v Speaker 1>just like there's no such thing as post HIV anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>that would mean it's an endemic. But that's a whole

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<v Speaker 1>other story. Let me stay on topic here. So the

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<v Speaker 1>military parade actually serves no real purpose. I mean, what

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<v Speaker 1>what are we celebrating? What are you signaling to the community?

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<v Speaker 1>What do you I mean, what what is the point

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<v Speaker 1>of this? I mean, and who are you actually talking to?

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<v Speaker 1>Is this really for the general public to celebrate the

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<v Speaker 1>nine trillion dollars you spent on tanks? I mean, who

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<v Speaker 1>is this? Who is this for? Well, if you're following

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<v Speaker 1>the story, it's not for North Korea does a military parade.

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<v Speaker 1>It ain't for North Korea. It's for the rest of us.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a flex You're just you're flexing, and it's historically

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<v Speaker 1>has been rather effective. The Nazi regimes did it all

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<v Speaker 1>the time. You know those those images, you know, the

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<v Speaker 1>black and white images of like dudes goose stepping and

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<v Speaker 1>again the same it's the same motif with like Hitler

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<v Speaker 1>standing aloft some sort of balcony looking over of all

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<v Speaker 1>of this military power and process. It's just you're just

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<v Speaker 1>it's a flex. It's it's it was it's geopolitical instagram.

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<v Speaker 1>Before there was such thing as Instagram. You did a

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<v Speaker 1>military parade, your your it's your trash talk, and you

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<v Speaker 1>sell it as though you're talking to your own people,

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<v Speaker 1>but you're not talking to the rest of us, Which

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<v Speaker 1>was why it was so interesting and why there was

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<v Speaker 1>there was such a visceral effect as to why President

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<v Speaker 1>Trump wanted to do this, because it harkened back to

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<v Speaker 1>this sort of authoritarian kind of way of showing might. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>some of you might check my history and you say,

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<v Speaker 1>probably we've done parades. Yeah, but we do parades when

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<v Speaker 1>we come back from wars. Right, So the famous photo

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<v Speaker 1>of the guy that grabbed a lady and leaned her

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<v Speaker 1>over and kissed him. After World War Two, I believe

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<v Speaker 1>you know the tinker tape parades of our boys coming

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<v Speaker 1>back home. Um, the famous shot of President Bush Jr.

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<v Speaker 1>On the aircraft carrier with all of the military, or

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<v Speaker 1>not all of it, but a lot of the military,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, flanked around him as he proclaimed the end

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<v Speaker 1>of the war in the Middle East, which now seems

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<v Speaker 1>rather comical that moment. It's not really for us, it's

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<v Speaker 1>for everyone else, the pissing contest. It's just the war

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<v Speaker 1>on perception. Now there's another war on perception that you

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<v Speaker 1>may not even know really was actually just that in

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<v Speaker 1>the nineteen sixties we were in a hurry, an absolute hurry,

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<v Speaker 1>to get to the moon. We know it as the

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<v Speaker 1>space race, right, there was other things happening during the

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<v Speaker 1>space race. It was the Cold War. And if you

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<v Speaker 1>don't know what the Cold War is, it was a

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<v Speaker 1>time where the idea of a Western liberal democracy and

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<v Speaker 1>an authoritarian communist regime ultimately was having this idea war

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<v Speaker 1>as to who could who should be running the Nation's

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<v Speaker 1>what concept, what ideal should win? In the hearts and

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<v Speaker 1>minds of the people, and what will history say is

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<v Speaker 1>the best way to run a country. It was a

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<v Speaker 1>race to be a superpower. And the superpowers, if I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna make them as full as possible, was the West

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<v Speaker 1>or the United States and Russia. All of these different things,

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<v Speaker 1>The Korean War, the Vietnam War, all these different things

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<v Speaker 1>were really just ultimately, at the end of the day,

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<v Speaker 1>pissing contest, who's got the juice, Which one of these

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<v Speaker 1>people got the juice, which one of these ideas can

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<v Speaker 1>show that they can run the nation's better. And the

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<v Speaker 1>space race, ultimately, if we're honest, was not about science.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think it really cared what's on the moon,

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<v Speaker 1>what's in space. All we wanted to do was to

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<v Speaker 1>be able to say we were there first. So when

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<v Speaker 1>Sputnik got into space, everybody was worried. You were saying,

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<v Speaker 1>we want to continue idea of the American exceptionalist, which

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<v Speaker 1>is true. It would be rat It's a that's a

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<v Speaker 1>mighty strong flex to say we was first to the moon,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's what we sold everybody. So we drained all

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<v Speaker 1>of our Money's black people just got their right to vote.

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<v Speaker 1>We they'll think about figuring out what we're gonna do

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<v Speaker 1>with Vietnam. But in the middle of all that, we're

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<v Speaker 1>trying to put somebody on the move. Gil Scott here

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<v Speaker 1>and dropped a song, why do you own the Moon?

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<v Speaker 1>Was it about science? No? Was it about beating the Russians? Yes?

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<v Speaker 1>Was it ultimately about beating the Russians? No? It was

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<v Speaker 1>ultimately about liberal democracy. It was about the Western way

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<v Speaker 1>of life and proving that this way of life, Western

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<v Speaker 1>small government, capitalistic liberal democracy is the best way to

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<v Speaker 1>rule the Nation's that's what's the point of getting somebody

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<v Speaker 1>on the moon first. Now, every historian has a different

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<v Speaker 1>take on this, but I'm trying to explain to you

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<v Speaker 1>the idea of a war on perception. The argument is

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<v Speaker 1>which one of us can run the world better. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>having said all that, anyone who's ever been on a

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<v Speaker 1>playground at any point in elementary school, which now some

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<v Speaker 1>of our children will have a big gap on that experience.

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<v Speaker 1>But we all know when you're We all know when

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<v Speaker 1>we're witnessing a pissing contest. Um any I hate to

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<v Speaker 1>say it because of how toxic masculinity works, but any

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<v Speaker 1>young lady who has found themselves the object of affection

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<v Speaker 1>of two male steeds often find themselves in the middle

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<v Speaker 1>of witnessing a pissing contest. And at some point, ladies,

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<v Speaker 1>you understand and you know you know what it is

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<v Speaker 1>when you see it, when this contest, this this world

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<v Speaker 1>for your affection stops being about you and just starts

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<v Speaker 1>being more about them two dudes proving their prowess. Any

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<v Speaker 1>parent has children, um understands that their children often get

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<v Speaker 1>in just what we would call pissing contests, meaning the

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<v Speaker 1>argument between the two kids is really more about them

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<v Speaker 1>being able to stand their ground. I found that my

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<v Speaker 1>own children oftentimes battle for our affection and I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what I've done to them, what my wife has

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<v Speaker 1>done to them to make them think they need to

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<v Speaker 1>do that. But it's something in us that needs to

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<v Speaker 1>prove that we are the big dog. So you know

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<v Speaker 1>what it is when you see it. Now. It gets

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<v Speaker 1>real tricky when we apply it to what's going on

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<v Speaker 1>in our news. Now we are hopefully all of you

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<v Speaker 1>sheltering in place, maybe considering when do we get to start,

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<v Speaker 1>as the government say, open our economy back. When can

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<v Speaker 1>I start going outside again? I know I would love

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<v Speaker 1>to have my coworkers go back to their own office.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's the my coworkers, all my children, and that's that's

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<v Speaker 1>the joke I'm trying to make. But I would love

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<v Speaker 1>to see them go back to other places so that

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<v Speaker 1>I could record politics in peace. But we're all kind

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<v Speaker 1>of asking that question. You know, where's our masks, where's

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<v Speaker 1>our ventilators, where's our leaders that are helping us lead

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<v Speaker 1>the way in flattening the curve? And as a side

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<v Speaker 1>note on my um instagram, I tried to give it

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<v Speaker 1>a little explanation of how exponents work and what we

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<v Speaker 1>mean when we say flattening the curve. You could go

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<v Speaker 1>to my instagram for that anyway. That's a side note.

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<v Speaker 1>But we're all trying to figure out how do we

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<v Speaker 1>do this. And what's interesting about a virus, which some

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<v Speaker 1>of you already know, is that, uh, borders are made up,

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<v Speaker 1>so your virus really don't care. It makes no distinction

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<v Speaker 1>between California and Nevada. The lines made up. It's imaginary.

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<v Speaker 1>It makes no distinction between France in Germany. So whatever

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<v Speaker 1>a government says they're doing for their people, it's important

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<v Speaker 1>to couple that with an understanding of how viruses work.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not like the ron us all came to the

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<v Speaker 1>border and tried to show its passport so it can

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<v Speaker 1>go to the next place. It just that don't. But

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<v Speaker 1>we're all in a race to see if we could

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<v Speaker 1>cure this thing and how to sort of protect the

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<v Speaker 1>people that if you're a nation or a governor that

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<v Speaker 1>you are put in charge of and responsible for keeping safe.

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<v Speaker 1>And every nation has responded different as to how to

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<v Speaker 1>get the messaging out as to a number of things, Um,

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<v Speaker 1>what we're doing for it, how we're gonna fix it,

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<v Speaker 1>and whose fault is it in the first place. And

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<v Speaker 1>if you've been following the American news, it's simple, we

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<v Speaker 1>blame in China, easy, right. And now China also, if

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<v Speaker 1>you're following the news, are now having a second wave

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<v Speaker 1>of coronavirus and they're blaming um tourists. It was like, look,

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<v Speaker 1>we had it under control, and now y'all coming back

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<v Speaker 1>and bringing it back for us. And we're all trying

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<v Speaker 1>to figure out how we're gonna make sure our messaging

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<v Speaker 1>comes out clear and that our people understand that their

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<v Speaker 1>leaders are doing the best they can for them. But

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<v Speaker 1>what I would like to submit to you is what

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<v Speaker 1>we're witnessing is a whole bunch of big dogs trying

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<v Speaker 1>to prove that they more gangster than the other ones.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like I know what I'm looking at, because

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<v Speaker 1>ultimately the argument is who got the better system of government,

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<v Speaker 1>who can fix this quicker, who can show they got

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<v Speaker 1>more power, more authority over an unforeseen virus than the

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<v Speaker 1>other person. And it's interest same way that they're that

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<v Speaker 1>that that countries are responding as to how to control

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<v Speaker 1>their media. If you're watching Trump, you understand he just

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<v Speaker 1>tried to bully everybody through and just say only talk

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<v Speaker 1>about the things I've done. Well, right, I mean, that's

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<v Speaker 1>not new Russia, however, says listen, you get five years

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<v Speaker 1>in prison if you spread false info about the Rona.

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<v Speaker 1>They locking fools up. It's Bekistan. You get a ten

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<v Speaker 1>thousand dollar fine. Zimbabwe you get twenty years for spreading

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<v Speaker 1>any fake news. Didn't you hear me? You get twenty

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<v Speaker 1>years if you spread some fake news about about the Rona. Turkmenistan. Listen,

0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:45.040
<v Speaker 1>they banned the word of Corona from the media. Turkey.

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<v Speaker 1>You know what they did. They gave their president absolute power.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen to me, absolute power. India said they wanted all

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<v Speaker 1>reports are add that for the media to always report everything.

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<v Speaker 1>They're gonna say, you gotta run it through the government first.

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<v Speaker 1>Not a Supreme court shut that down. It was like,

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<v Speaker 1>now you listen, you're going to you're doing too much.

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<v Speaker 1>That's that's you can't be doing all that. Ultimately, at

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<v Speaker 1>the end of the day, we're trying they're trying to

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<v Speaker 1>control the narrative. That's not necessarily wrong, but control the

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<v Speaker 1>narrative for who. And none of these laws define what

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<v Speaker 1>they mean by fake or false news or media about

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<v Speaker 1>the RONA ain't no definition for it. Are we really

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<v Speaker 1>going to ride in the streets now? Do you think

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<v Speaker 1>the people don't actually understand that they presidents, they prime

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<v Speaker 1>ministers can't control of virus. You think I don't know that,

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<v Speaker 1>You think we all don't know that. No, the race

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<v Speaker 1>to get this thing covered and get that curve flattened

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<v Speaker 1>faster than everyone else ain't really about the people, suppissant contest.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to prove to you that our way of

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<v Speaker 1>life is better authoritarian governments. What they're doing, they're acting

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<v Speaker 1>authoritatively by saying everybody, shut up, you're not allowed to

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<v Speaker 1>do this. If you talk, you're going to jail. This

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<v Speaker 1>is what we're doing. Everybody stay home, and I'm approved

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<v Speaker 1>to these Western liberal democracies that we can do this

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<v Speaker 1>better than you. Why is China not telling everybody what's

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<v Speaker 1>happening right now? I'm trying to prove to y'all that

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<v Speaker 1>I'm the big dog. It's not about the RONA. It's

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<v Speaker 1>about my way of life the president of the United States,

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<v Speaker 1>and about the RONA. It's about my leadership. Aren't you

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<v Speaker 1>watching the briefs. It ain't about the RONA. It ain't

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<v Speaker 1>about us, It's about his leadership. I'm trying to prove

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<v Speaker 1>to y'all and to the world that I'm your guy,

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<v Speaker 1>big dog. You've got governments refusing to receive aid from

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<v Speaker 1>other countries. Boris Johnson rejects Trump's offered to help with

0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:04.840
<v Speaker 1>the coronavirus stuff. He's like, now, I don't need your money.

0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.880
<v Speaker 1>Your money got strings attached number one and number two,

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<v Speaker 1>I got stuff to prove. You got the President talking

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<v Speaker 1>about day he cutting funds from the World Health Organization

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<v Speaker 1>because they're not doing this correctly. It's a pissing contest, y'all.

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<v Speaker 1>They're just trying to prove they the bullies on the block.

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<v Speaker 1>Why would anyone not help anyone. One would think that

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<v Speaker 1>when the RONA came that all bets were off. But

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<v Speaker 1>it don't matter because they understand the RONA gonna leave

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<v Speaker 1>at some point and I need to prove to the

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<v Speaker 1>rest of the world that I can get to the

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<v Speaker 1>moon first. Gang bang. Now, we already talked before about

0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:54.320
<v Speaker 1>gathering the money, securing the bag, and why it was

0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:58.439
<v Speaker 1>so interesting to see Donald Trump being so serious about

0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:04.200
<v Speaker 1>this uh malaria medicine and you know, I mean, he's

0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:08.200
<v Speaker 1>got stake in it. We talked about countries being doing

0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:12.080
<v Speaker 1>their best to get to cure, but then at some

0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:15.680
<v Speaker 1>point somebody got a patent that cure. We talked about

0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:19.400
<v Speaker 1>these things, and of course there's back seccurance, but there's

0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:24.080
<v Speaker 1>also flex rights. Everybody wanta flex because at some point

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<v Speaker 1>the ron is gonna be done and I need to

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<v Speaker 1>prove to the world, big dog, this is my block.

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<v Speaker 1>I do what I won't. I got powers and authority

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<v Speaker 1>over viruses. Now, I don't want to move into conspiracy

0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:45.639
<v Speaker 1>theory thoughts, because that's not really what this pots about.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not about those things. It's about understanding what we're

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<v Speaker 1>looking at. However, it's not like biochemical warfare is not

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<v Speaker 1>a thing. And if I'm a government, I need to

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<v Speaker 1>prove that my guns are better than yours. I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>here to say no body COVID nineteen was creating a

0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:06.359
<v Speaker 1>lab or nothing like that. Again, this pot is not

0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:11.000
<v Speaker 1>about that space. This pot is about looking at governments

0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:14.000
<v Speaker 1>and going, oh, y'all just gang banging. So if I'm

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<v Speaker 1>a hood and I know that country got guns that

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<v Speaker 1>look like this, and I can prove that your guns

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<v Speaker 1>ain't effective on me, I feel like I've just proven

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<v Speaker 1>to you I'm the bully on the block and maybe

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<v Speaker 1>you shouldn't bring this over here. And everybody in this neighborhood,

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<v Speaker 1>whether civilians or gang banging, all understand that I got

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<v Speaker 1>the best interests in mind. Because I was able to

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<v Speaker 1>prove I got mind control and virus control over y'all,

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<v Speaker 1>I am the big dog. Well, that's our hood. Take

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of my information has come from obviously, you're

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<v Speaker 1>always welcome to check my sources. The main source of

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<v Speaker 1>this episode came from Al Jazeera News. Uh, there's a

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<v Speaker 1>number of stories about authoritarian versus liberal democracy. Just scroll

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<v Speaker 1>through their app or website and just it's a ton

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<v Speaker 1>of stories. I again highly suggest that during this time

0:24:30.320 --> 0:24:35.600
<v Speaker 1>you take take the opportunity to look at news sources

0:24:35.720 --> 0:24:38.159
<v Speaker 1>outside of our country. It just it just gives you.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just like you know, if you're going to counseling,

0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:47.240
<v Speaker 1>especially like relationship or couples therapy, it's good to have

0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:51.600
<v Speaker 1>someone not in the marriage, not in the relationship, to

0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:54.560
<v Speaker 1>talk about the relationship. They just got a different vantage point.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not right or wrong, it's just a different vantage points.

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<v Speaker 1>So you can have someone show you yourself. So that's

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<v Speaker 1>my suggestion. Pull up on the BBC, pull up on

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<v Speaker 1>Al Jazeira, and it may help you see the point

0:25:11.200 --> 0:25:14.520
<v Speaker 1>of this whole podcast, which is politics is just gang

0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:18.000
<v Speaker 1>banging in nice suits. We'll see you next week and

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<v Speaker 1>hopefully I will uh have a better plan. This podcast

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<v Speaker 1>was recorded in my bedroom while my child was having

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<v Speaker 1>a great time. Um. It was mixed and mastered by

0:25:36.040 --> 0:25:39.040
<v Speaker 1>our man Matt. I was our sky. I should take

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<v Speaker 1>this break to learn his last name. The theme music

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<v Speaker 1>I can't even focus right now. The theme music is

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<v Speaker 1>for not even for it. The theme music was created

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<v Speaker 1>by our boy, DJ Shaun p. I'll see you next

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<v Speaker 1>week with a better prepared pod. Oh yeah, believe that

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<v Speaker 1>you all oh, yeah, thank you,