WEBVTT - From Lagos to DC 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:11.840 One Cosby on the beat, Twitter wraps, the Twitter wraps 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:18.079 to that reparations. You're listening waiting on reparations herending on Twitter. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.840 All right, Funck Bryant Kim and all the voters suppression. 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.520 Motherfucker witness told the November election, I don't like to 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.680 see him, not in my reflection, and said, I want 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.560 to give him a fucking lesson. Show him what's your 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.040 leadership really look like? If you're trying to get right, 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.160 get that hook right, that hook right, because we don't 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:40.839 play funk all that crooked ship in the d o 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.479 j all. This ship seems word you nigga seems scared. 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.120 I'm looking at that hashtag and peach Ford because the 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.800 motherfucker's stealing it, and I think Trump's in the background 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.400 just feeling and dealing. He'd be staying on that same team. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.720 I'm like jy'all Smith, I'll be high smoking dank green 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.520 speaking to jy'all. I really need to stop it. I 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:05.120 messing that game is the Lakers versus the Rockets. Uh, 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:09.080 Michael Sparko wildfire or maybe go put on some flager. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.040 A tiger like my name was ice Cube yelling at 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:16.880 people and getting politicians to make we legal no fudget. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.080 I hope they have some firefighters in the California budgets 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.880 because right now they fucking running because it's an exodus. No, 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.360 it's not the best of this. It's the climate change 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.640 disaster coming to the master bedroom of your house in 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.840 the middle of the valley. And I'm saying, the police 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:40.839 kissing the white girl. Let a Trump rally, dope knife 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.759 linger Franco waiting on reparations. You know who we are. 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:48.440 You know what it is? Back again another week? How 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.440 you doing? How how's the teaching? How's how the class 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.680 is gone? Is it all online? It's been split in 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.480 person online? So my the class, the main class that 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.160 I teach, it's there's twenty students in it because of 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.920 social distancing. However, only twelve of them can fit in 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.240 the classroom at any given time. So I have to 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.800 teach one class to folks that want to come, and 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.400 then a second version of the same lecture on zoom 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.560 every Tuesday. So it's twice the work for the exact 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.920 same amount of money. And I definitely love that a 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:25.600 great deal. Um, But I've been drinking, so I started 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.120 drinking like two gallons of water every day, any particular 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:34.600 reason why, No, just because I'm depressed, and that's for solutions. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.079 Be careful about that. I remember d legend back from 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.760 when I was a little kid about some lady who 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.120 kept drinking too much water and then like she perished. 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.680 I don't know if that ship is true. It sounded true, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:53.400 it doesn't sound true right now because he used the 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:57.160 verb perish and then she perished. It sounds like the 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:03.080 scary story You're like, like, being great on water does? 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.240 Like I started off saying that because I've been drinking 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.079 two gallons of water every day and I've just had 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.160 limitless energy. Today I worked on grading for like four 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:19.080 hours straight and recorded this bomb mass like video lecture 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:20.919 and was just really on top of my ship and 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:25.600 felt actually hopeful about teaching in this god forsaken pandemic 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:31.240 with this god forsaken school open. So would you say 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.720 that other teachers like in Georgia have it worse, considering 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.080 you know how they're kind of forcing everything to be 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.640 open and should I mean, yeah, schools, there's a lot 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.680 of school systems that school districts that are open for 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.800 in person class and the public schools. Um I mean, 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:51.080 I think among public higher education institutions, Georgia is just 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.960 doing one of the worst jobs imaginable. Zero transparency with 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.440 regards to their COVID numbers. Story came out a couple 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.760 of days ago saying they trained bunch of contract contact 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.880 tracers over the summer and then didn't hire them to 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.120 do contact tracing and sell straight upline about you. That 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.840 is straight up just misleading everyone. Speaking of misleading, have 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.800 you been hearing about the deep fake videos coming out? 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.520 I mean, you know, at this point, I kind of 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.640 even feel that it would be irresponsible for me to 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.320 even repeat the video that I'm talking about, because I 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.240 wouldn't want to drive people to like go look for 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:33.000 it and ship. But I've started seeing um fake videos 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:37.240 of Joe Biden and other Democratic political figures popping up 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.279 in my feet and stuff like that, and people that like, 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:43.640 you know, sharing it like like it's the gospel truth, 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.440 and it's like you have to kind of pull them aside, like, 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:50.920 hey man, uh, probably not wise to share the first 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.400 thing you see when you log on. You know what 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.200 I'm saying, you might want to that. It's just just 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.240 one of those things in the background that I've been 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.279 noticing that's just kind of getting a little alarming. But 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.480 this day would come. I knew this day would come. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.400 Oh yeah, yeah for so today, So we're gonna take 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:09.480 a little break from our usual historic deep dives into 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.120 the inter link juice between hip hop and public policy 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.080 and kind of look at what's going on with real 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.520 time with the singles and music videos that have dropped 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.560 in the past week in their relationships to current events 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:30.120 and public policy. So I want to start out by 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.720 wishing a happy birthday too Easy, who would have been 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.520 fifty six years old on Monday. He was fondly remembered 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.719 by fellow indow w a remember nice que on social media, 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:44.760 and he died of AIDS induced pneumonia on March Goddamn 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:49.080 n fucking crazy. You know, I remember when that ship happened. 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.520 I was a huge N Wave fan, and I was 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.400 a fan of all that gangster rap shot when I 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.600 was a little kid, ship that I probably shouldn't have 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.919 been listening to, but Easy, he was definitely one of 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.440 my favorites back in the day. Yo. Imagine going to 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.520 the doctor for a cough and finding out you have 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.120 fucking AIDS. Wrap it up, Wrap that shut up. Be Yeah, 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.760 and June of the year of his death, the fter day, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.000 I approved the first proteins inhibitor, beginning a new era 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:17.160 of highly active anti retroviral treatments or HEART for AIDS. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:21.400 Treatment for AIDS um ones incorporated into clinical practice. Heart 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.360 brought an immediate decline of between six and rates of 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:29.839 AIDS related deaths and hospitalizations and countries that could afford it. Damn. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.760 So if you lived just a few more months, he 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.520 would have been alive to or able to get the 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.000 treatment for the treatment. Yeah, you know, and I mean 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.880 you never know what happens. You know very well could 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.920 still be alive. Yeah, So what what do you think 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.000 Easy would be like if he had lived to be 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.560 in middle aged man like ice Cube is now? It's 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.960 those are hard questions to answer because it's like it's 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.919 like the last memory that you have of someone like 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.159 Easy is when he was in his late twenties, you 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.560 know what I mean. So it's it's like that we 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.560 will never know what he would have been like if 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.680 he had grown older, you would have done like are 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.680 we there yet experienced exactly? If you experienced the world 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.240 as we all experienced, it been a point where he's like, man, 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.280 I need to, I need to Where's where's the scripts? 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.640 Where's are we there yet? Where's you know? Where's bad boys? 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.760 I could totally imagine Easy is one of the cops 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.600 and bad boys. Like I mean, I'm not saying that 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.840 he should replace Martin, but if it was Easy and 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:33.520 Will Smith, wouldn't that have been Hi Easy ear and 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.200 Will Smith in the Buddy Cop movie, that would be dope. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:40.320 Make a deep fake, make it happen. Yeah, I'll come, y'a. 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.560 Don't make deep fakes a positive ship like that. Um, 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.080 it's always like Joe Biden's face and the WAT music 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.760 video or something terrible, something to hout your your dreams 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.360 and your nightmares and Ben Shapiro as Shakira or something 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.640 to fucking hot my night marethew I thank you so 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.400 speaking of Easy in this protege ice Cube, like you're saying. 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.160 Ice Cube sat out the primary in terms of supporting 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.080 a candidate, but he recently took to Twitter to support 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.320 the Black of Agenda, and he urged his followers to 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.280 be skeptical of anyone telling you to vote but discouraging 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.920 you from asking anything. And so it's interesting to me 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:16.160 because he's sort of like being like scoffed at by 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.120 the left for like, where were you when we had 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.760 the choice of multiple candidates who are like trying to 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.080 offer us something or like inviting us to ask them 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.360 for stuff as a part of gaining our support, whereas 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:32.640 now the center left the liberals are like, shut up 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.800 and vote because we have an existential threat of fascism 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.480 in the White House right now. And so he's kind 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.280 of getting shipped on by everybody. I mean, he didn't 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.560 he did he not have like a thing where somebody 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.280 thought or did he posted something that was like anti 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.079 semitic too or something like that. I remember his name 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:51.960 being brought up around the time of the Nick Cannon 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:56.360 thing too. I think it's weird that anyone that's like 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:01.520 part of any sort of political establishment is um looking 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.680 too ice Cube to like co sign what they're doing. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.120 I mean, trust me, you listen to ice cubes music, 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.840 and you know he definitely he has an understanding of 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.040 the issues, but ice Cube doesn't funk with them. Like 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.480 what in the world would make them think that ice 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.800 Cube would just be on board because the team Democrat. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.400 I don't know, that's weird. Ship that must be like 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.880 being on Twitter and having too much access to people 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.520 and thinking it's like, oh, yes, let me tell ice 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.520 Cube who to vote for, how to vote, or what 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.480 I think about his vote. Yeah. I mean it's also 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.640 interesting to think along the same lines. You're just talking 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.320 about what easy ease political development would have been had 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.680 he lived to this day, Kevin that they you know, 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:49.200 had a very critical stance of the police and you know, 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.160 armed agents of the state in this current period, what 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.120 side he would have fallen on. Because a lot of 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.600 folks grow up and they and they mature and they 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.760 grow more conservative, I personally don't understand mat I've gotten 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.960 more and more left wing. Is older I get, the 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.160 more I learned about how funked up everything is, the 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.160 more I'm like, yes, it might be clear all the 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:12.760 major industries. Uh. I don't know if this affects any 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.120 of that. But I think another ingredient of the whole 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.719 growing older thing is having a kid. Yeah, I think 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:21.840 that can be part of it too, So because I 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:23.800 feel the same way. It's like the older that I'm 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:28.480 getting and this is like truth, the older that I've gotten, 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:33.320 the more left I my, my, my, you know, the 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.600 thought patterns have been but the friends of mine who 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.000 I have noticed have become more conservatives older, they've gotten 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.920 the one common ingredient to that is like a kid 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.600 or two. Interesting, I can't relate. I'm looking at my 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.480 only child and he is uh, laying on my hoodie 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:57.160 and orange and flapping his tail around because he is 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.760 a cat, and he probably will be my only child ever, 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.080 because I don't think I'll ever be able to afford 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:11.160 to have children in this economy and in this climate literal, physical, geological, astronomical. 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.680 Somebody asked me that question just a few days ago. Um, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.200 I had caught up with an old just through the 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.360 power of Facebook. I had caught up with a old 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.640 friend from like fifth grade or some ship, and she 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.880 was like, do you have any kids? I was like nah. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.000 Then she says, are you planning on having kids? If 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.040 you would ask me this like eight months ago? I 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:40.440 might have said, but asking me right now, asking me 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:45.760 in August, I don't really know that. But let's get 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.800 back to what we were talking about with the FDA. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.120 So the groundbreaking AIDS treatment that came too late for 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.040 easy was expedited for clinical use through the FDA's accelerated 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.559 approve of regulation which allows drugs for serious conditions that 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.400 fill an unmet medical to be approved based on a 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.720 surrogate endpoint or sign used in place of another sign 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.160 to tell if the treatment works and give health providers 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.200 the wiggle room to use approaches during a public health 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:13.280 emergency that have a likely benefit. An FDA Commissioner, Stephen 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.679 Hahn Hassett, he's open to pursue of this avenue with 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.080 the coronavirus vaccine, Trump claimed on Monday that a vaccine 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.880 could be available by October through with operational warp speed 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.360 public private partner. That's a stupid name. I just I 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.360 you know. I'm sorry, sorry to cut you off, but 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.920 that's a stupid fucking name. Sorry anyway. The New York 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.880 Times obtained documents sent to the state and city officials 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:40.320 in August to indicate the CDC is already instructing hospitals 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:44.360 to begin preparing personnel, freezers and distribution sites to administer 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.880 a vaccine as soon as late October. So we got 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.079 all this rushing, we got Trump rushing. We've got the 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.400 CDC sending the ship out to state and city officials, 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.439 trying to prep hospitals for distributing a vaccine. But on 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.800 the flip side, nine companies leading the charge to develop 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.520 a COVID nineteen vaccine released a pled on Tuesday, stick 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.640 to the science and the development and licensing of the 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.480 vaccine and not given to political pressures speed up the 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.880 process for convenience. So here we are the coronavirus cases 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.520 in the United States topping six point three million and 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.400 the confirmed death toll at over one eighty nine thousand, 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.880 as well with the knowledge that expedited FDA propl for 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.760 an eighth treatment came too late to save easy ease life. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.760 And I, you know, I'm wondering who the next e 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:28.000 could be without fast action from the pharmaceutical companies. So 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.520 how do we feel about a vaccine? I don't know. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.120 This is the sort of things that ship away of 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:40.160 people's trust in these bureaucracies and things like that. And 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.120 if you have half of the country that doesn't trust 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.360 the word that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth, and 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.560 I don't want it. I don't want any rushed ship. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.600 I don't want any rush ship in my events dead. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.840 As a matter of fact, I'm not entirely sure how 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.120 the science works, but I think that could potentially make 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:02.440 the whole entire thing worse right, Like, so, I don't 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.559 see any reason to risk it. What I do know 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.840 is that I've seen video of it raining and Donald 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.040 Trump say that it's not raining. You feel me? Yeah, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.640 so funk that I'm not. I'm not taking it. I'm not. 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.400 I'm sorry. Like, yeah, I never thought I would be 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.400 pushed at this point where like, I'm so mistrustful of 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:27.680 a government that a life saving medical treatment. You have 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:31.440 to like think twice about it from you now, if 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.720 it's like something we're in, you know, who are the 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.520 trusted sources and who aren't You know that at this 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.760 point it's it sucks to fucking say. But at this point, 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.000 every you know, everyone's got their bubble of who they trust. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.640 I'm more so looking for what most doctors and scientists 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.760 are saying, you know. So if they should co sign 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.720 it and be like, hey, no, you know, this is 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.360 what's up, then I guess that would kind of put 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.720 my mind at ease. But does it make you feel 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.080 any better that these companies have signed under this pledge 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:04.920 saying They're not going to about a political pressure and 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:06.760 I'm going to stick to the science and the development 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.000 of the vaccine. Yeah, it does. But then that makes 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.880 because I never thought I would trust fucking pharmaceutical capitalists 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.000 who make all this money off of like human pain 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:22.080 and suffering. Do they have something to gain by like 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.720 duping people in this in this sense with coronavirus, I guess, 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.680 and not in this specific sense. I mean they do 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.320 profit off of people staying sick. If someone needs to 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.880 buy more and more of their medicine every month, it's 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.080 more profitable for them to make that medicine then to 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.320 make pure I wonder what the numbers would be in 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.560 terms of how many people are who don't have serious 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:45.080 cases of coronavirus are getting treatment. I mean, for real, 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.720 like it would probably be this is totally just pulling 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.480 out the ask, but I would imagine that most motherfucker's, 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.440 especially in this economy, most people that end up feeling 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.280 some symptoms that aren't serious that it's just like yeah, 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.040 it's like, hey, I'm just gonna write it out. So, 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:03.640 as one of the artists says in a song, We're 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:07.240 gonna look at a little bit later. Uh, finding off 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.680 a virus with hot water and lemon peel is what 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.240 a lot of people are resorting to. I'm pretty sure 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.160 I can speak from Oria, and she says, we're not 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.920 like condoning any anti vaxx ship. I want everyone to 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.640 like use their best judgment to read, stay up on, 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.280 you know, whether or not they're doing their due diligence 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.880 with these clinical trials, you know, keep tabs on what's 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.480 happening with the CDC, is happening with the FDA, and 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.560 try to, like dicern you know, what what's best for you. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:41.240 I'm not at all endorsing everyone, uh but boycotting the 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.680 vaccine or anything like that. I'm just stating personally how 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.840 I feel right now. But I mean, I just maybe 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.600 it's probably because I have a news overload too, but again, 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.560 it's just I'm looking at the people who are in charge. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.840 That's who I'm taking my cue from. And the people 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:59.240 who are in charge have given me no reason to 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.600 believe that like my safety or well being is a concern. 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:05.200 That's the way that I look at it. You know 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.960 what I'm saying. Now, it's like a feeling that you 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.120 you normally have no matter who the people in charge are, 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:15.439 but now it's like really like, oh, Ship, these motherfucker's, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.960 these other bugs really were just cool and just like 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:23.040 let a whole pandemic, like funk up the whole country, 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:28.080 you know. So I I don't I can't be the 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.800 only person that feels that way. That Like, let's say 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.760 Trump wins and then they get the vaccine. He's like, here, 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.680 you go take it. Take I I just I think 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:38.560 there's gonna be a lot of people that are gonna 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.560 not want to. And that'sm not saying that's a good thing, 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:43.760 you know, I'm just saying I think a lot of 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.359 people are gonna feel that way. A lot of people 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:50.400 don't trust him or his administration that they would feel 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.960 comfortable with taking some rushed vaccine. And it's a moment 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.919 of expanded empathy, you know, Like I've never really empathized 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.880 with the anti vax position in general. I haven't read 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:01.720 what those folks have read, so I'm not really sure 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.040 where they're coming from in terms of what perceived science 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.760 is behind that position with regards to vaccine is causing 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.800 office and things like that. But it's like, I get 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:14.160 it now, it's mistrust of the government. Like, oh man, 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.360 I think that's get it. I think that's what most 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.280 of it is. It's just the mistrust of the government. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.359 It just depends on which government, what part of the 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:25.159 government or aspect of the government you don't trust, You 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:39.879 know what I'm saying. All Right, I'm next. We're going 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.160 to talk about the new single from my Gian Canadian 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.399 rapper Toby featuring Jewels, entitled Dollars and Cents. Let's give 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.840 it a spin. Making examp taking at the game the 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:52.200 minute I was making a plan? Where did it gives 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:57.480 me a j I D vibe? I get a strong 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.840 Anderson pack vibe and in the in the vocal style wars, 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.760 it's got this like this that's almost whiny edge to it, 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.199 but like it's kind of like allerting. You said, he's 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.960 Nigerian Canadian. Yeah, so I really dig the video. That's 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.000 a really original take on doing a video for the 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:19.960 Corona virus era. So pretty much in the video he's 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:24.760 having a FaceTime chat in different scenes with a significant 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:28.200 other while she's like dancing around the apartment. She's over 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.320 in Lagos, Nigeria and he's in Toronto, Canada. Yeah. Toby 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.479 told Okay Africa that he was supposed to go back 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.119 to Nigerian in March, but the pandemic scuttled those plans, 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.000 so he made a music video to capture connecting with 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.760 its homeland from a distance via FaceTime call. I thought 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.159 the music video was tight, very stylish. I mean, you know, 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:50.520 I love lady with the big dancing around and this 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:54.600 like modernast lead home cooking up something I don't know, 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:57.879 chopping up garlic and ship like it was. Yeah, I mean, 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:01.119 the simplicity of it is what's out to me. And 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.399 I guess the thing about it that I like is like, Okay, 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:09.040 my mom watches a lot of Nigerian movies, right, Like 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.240 that's her that's like her ship, that's her hobbies. Like 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.160 she just has a whole fucking collection of like vhs 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:16.840 is at that too, you know what I mean, Like 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:22.080 Nigerian films, Nigerian sinema, and it's like watching it, I 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:27.720 just dig how it's like it doesn't matter what setting 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.480 it is. You can tell that it's a Nigeria, you 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:32.040 can tell it's African, you know what I mean. It 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.560 has like it just it can be like a completely 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:42.720 uh standard stereotypical like I mean, but just the people 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.960 interacting in the scene, it's like, oh yeah, this is African, 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:49.280 you know, Like specifically, I love that. I love that 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:51.520 vibe from the video, like from the minute it starts, 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:54.240 I could pick that up now. The outbreak of the 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:58.800 coronavirus has reached every nation in Africa, and Nigeria is 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.240 one of the worst effect to come trees on the continent, 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.040 with thousand cases and a little more than a thousand 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:06.880 deaths at the time of this recording. Nigeria in fact, 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:09.920 just ended its second lockdown for the coronavirus last week. 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.840 Nigeria had three hundred and fifty ventilators and three hundred 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.520 and fifty ICU beds for its entire population before the outbreak, 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:23.439 and many officials feared its healthcare capacity would quickly become overwhelmed. Surprisingly, however, 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.000 infection and death rates in many African countries have turned 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.080 out to be much lower than initially feared. It seems 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.240 that our struggles are pre conditions might be working in 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:35.080 favor of African countries in our population, said said Professor 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:38.320 shaub A Mahdi, South Africa's top virologists and an important 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:41.400 figure in the hunt for a vaccine for COVID nineteen. 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:44.399 This is what he told the PC For while now, 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.840 experts have cited a youthful population is the best explanation 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:51.760 for Africa's relatively low infection rates. After all, the average 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.199 age and the continent is roughly half that in Europe. 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:56.680 The scientists continue to look for a reason as to 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:59.880 why the cases and death counts have remained relatively low 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:03.720 to that of Europe and the America's. So the CNN 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.720 article about the scientists trying to figure out why African 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:10.679 nations haven't been as impacted by the coronavirus has initially 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:16.560 expected was harshly received by the Internet. A lot of 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:19.680 folks landbassing at first Team in that Africa Africans can't 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:25.000 handle their ship, which like I get, but it's not 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:27.359 like these are just random white people that are like 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.679 why is wired Africans dying? These a literal virologists who 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:36.240 understand the way virus is spread, the conditions that foster 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:46.000 their transmission, because like for real, like you you obviously know, 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:49.560 I hate saying ship like this, but as an African dude, 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:52.000 you know, like when when the ships was popping off 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:54.639