Speaker 1: Watch up and welcome back to another episode of No
Speaker 1: Sealer's Podcast with your hosts now fuck that with your
Speaker 1: loaw glasses Malone. The awkward thing is when you don't
Speaker 1: really have much to start the show with, yes, or
Speaker 1: you walk into the show and like, you don't have
Speaker 1: a preconceived idea, like I watch a lot of podcasts,
Speaker 1: why don't I'm telling a lie.
Speaker 2: Let me start with that. I do not watch a
Speaker 2: lot of podcasts.
Speaker 1: I rarely ever watch podcasts, like I may watch clips,
Speaker 1: but I don't watch the whole podcasts. But it seems
Speaker 1: like more people put vested interest in what's happening on
Speaker 1: a week to talk about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's easy, that's cheap and easy cheap, but it's easy,
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 1: Think that's what we do with the stream. I think
Speaker 1: that's what we do with the stream. The stream is Monday, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and Friday, you know, the lunch hour.
Speaker 3: It's like a periodical.
Speaker 1: Yes, But what I try to do with the podcast
Speaker 1: is make something where it's deeper into the cave.
Speaker 2: It's not at the front door of the cave. It's
Speaker 2: not at the opening.
Speaker 1: Sure, so it's odd to start a pod and you
Speaker 1: have no idea what you want to talk.
Speaker 2: About or what's deep in the cave. I don't know.
Speaker 3: We'll just have to like walk and talk like an
Speaker 3: awkward first date until we get deep enough in the
Speaker 3: cave to find something.
Speaker 2: Oh man, how something happens?
Speaker 1: No sellings podcast gl I got my brother Peter Boss.
Speaker 2: We brought Joey west Side. I gotta keep Joey Westside
Speaker 2: on his toes.
Speaker 1: Joey is getting better at discussing and talking a lot
Speaker 1: more and more. Joey be so frustrated with all of
Speaker 1: the content that's online, especially when it comes to Los
Speaker 1: Angeles street urban culture. I mean curious, and it's funny
Speaker 1: because he goes down this rabbit hole of LA street
Speaker 1: urban culture. But the bullshit part of it, it don't
Speaker 1: even be cultural cause it don't be like nobody that
Speaker 1: contribute to no level of art. You know, hip hop
Speaker 1: is street urban culture, you know, initially based out of
Speaker 1: New York. So it's that's why they say the elements
Speaker 1: is MC and DJing, dancing, graffiti. Even the knowledge is
Speaker 1: those are like artistic things. And then there's people right
Speaker 1: now that's creating content. Everything they do is just.
Speaker 2: Street. There's no culture.
Speaker 1: It's like eating a spoonful of salt. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: like I would like to think of hip hop as
Speaker 1: soul food, right, like like macaroni and cheese, like greens,
Speaker 1: like yams. You know, it's seasoned to the heavens, but
Speaker 1: it's still some level of nourishment under all of that seasoning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these niggas is like just taking a spoonful of salt,
Speaker 1: just eating it, and that's what they sell them.
Speaker 3: And most candies. When you were a kid, it was
Speaker 3: like a white piece of sugar and you dipped it
Speaker 3: in more flavored sugar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how it is.
Speaker 3: They just said, throw the stick out.
Speaker 2: In my rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: For some reason, on ig has been just sellouts like sellouts.
Speaker 1: Sellouts is like people who their whole content pieces talking shit.
Speaker 2: About black people. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: Like, and don't get me wrong, Pete, I get it.
Speaker 1: A lot of people that are not black, like black people,
Speaker 1: have taken advantage of the circumstances or at least of
Speaker 1: the trauma that they've been through, which is ridiculous, right
Speaker 1: because really, you supposed to get balanced and treated correct,
Speaker 1: like I always tell you, supposed to get reparations. You're
Speaker 1: supposed to repair that that setback and me and you
Speaker 1: could move forward, amig. But its people like the newest
Speaker 1: thing is the Carnival Cruise ship, right and you, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know what this is even about. But cruises. I
Speaker 3: got in trouble Cauz like six months ago. I just
Speaker 3: put on an Instagram story cruises are ghetto and people.
Speaker 3: I was on a cruise last month and I'm like, mm.
Speaker 4: It's it's about It's about them niggas. And then bluetooth speakers.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's definitely about the niggas. Bro they tied
Speaker 4: to niggas. Uh partier sleep they got bluetooth speakers at
Speaker 4: the jacuzzis while everybody's sleeping.
Speaker 3: It's just like like just a lot of common content
Speaker 3: on social media about it. Or was there like a
Speaker 3: thing where like Carnival like stopped at an island and
Speaker 3: like I said, you guys have to get off the
Speaker 3: fucking boat.
Speaker 5: So no, I don't think it was that extreme.
Speaker 1: So Carnival Cruise, they didn't put it out, but it
Speaker 1: came out from them. Carnival Cruise hasn't really said much
Speaker 1: about it. They've kind of watered They've kind of like,
Speaker 1: look y'all doing a lot.
Speaker 2: We didn't say all that.
Speaker 1: We're trying to keep a level of whatever on our ship.
Speaker 1: But they said some of the cruises won't be playing
Speaker 1: hip hop. They said some of the cruises, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't bring fans on and do the steps,
Speaker 1: you know, the boots on the ground. They talked about
Speaker 1: kids under eighteen not being able to run loose at
Speaker 1: one or two, and I didn't think that was that bag.
Speaker 1: They said they were back up on little hip hop,
Speaker 1: and I'm not mad. I don't know if it should
Speaker 1: be all hip hop on the damn cruise, Like if
Speaker 1: it was a cruise that had all hip hop, it
Speaker 1: should be a hip hop cruise.
Speaker 2: I would like a.
Speaker 3: Cruises, you know, just find it there. Seems like every
Speaker 3: other damn ship's a thematic cruise. Just find the cruise
Speaker 3: themed for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But the point is, so people started talking shit and
Speaker 1: then they started over selling exactly what's happening right, like, oh,
Speaker 1: these cruises are so cramming, like bro y'all so dramatic,
Speaker 1: like you'll see one and you know what, this is
Speaker 1: kind of what fuck Instagram up? What fucks humans up
Speaker 1: with Instagram? Instagram will have you believe in what you
Speaker 1: see is real life all the time, Yes, sir, Yes, right,
Speaker 1: and it's getting worse and worse. Like I was in
Speaker 1: the group chat, so everybody know, I got this group
Speaker 1: chat with pun ad problem in the Homie Ace Boy Manny.
Speaker 1: They were showing a video today of some asshole that
Speaker 1: ran their card.
Speaker 2: Through a bunch of people, fucking people up, maybe even
Speaker 2: some people died.
Speaker 6: Was that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they snatched the dude out and whooped to his
Speaker 1: ass and shotting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's something that's not funny, but that's funny, but
Speaker 4: that's that's extreme, like because they felt they automatically assumed
Speaker 4: he drink, drinking and drive.
Speaker 3: The way it was described on the thing that I saw,
Speaker 3: it was like somebody It made it seem almost kind
Speaker 3: of like it was a hit or something.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. Maybe it's two different things, but the
Speaker 2: one I saw one.
Speaker 3: There's no way it happened twice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, it happens, for sure. It happens more than
Speaker 2: twice every day in the same night, every day, every day.
Speaker 2: It's America. America got four hundred people yet as much
Speaker 2: as in East Hollywood. Yes, yes, I believe that people
Speaker 2: crash into plow for some funs.
Speaker 1: I believe that's happening way more. But but that's not
Speaker 1: the point. I don't want to get caught there. That
Speaker 1: wasn't the point that okay, and they snatched the person out,
Speaker 1: whooped his ass whatever, shotting whatever.
Speaker 2: Pun is saying.
Speaker 1: Man, you know, it's way worse now than we ever
Speaker 1: went out. And I was thinking about the ship we
Speaker 1: used to do. We used to go out, and I
Speaker 1: noticed when you get old, all you start doing is
Speaker 1: being cynical of shit, you know.
Speaker 2: And it's like for him to say that, and I'm thinking, like, nigga,
Speaker 2: all the bullshit that used to happen, and really, it
Speaker 2: wasn't that much shit happening. What is it about getting
Speaker 2: old and cynical? Especially with this damn phone. This phone
Speaker 2: will have you thinking you see some shit. You'll be
Speaker 2: looking at your phone. You yeah.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: The cruises, man, the nigga's on their They just danced
Speaker 1: on Nigga. That ain't on all the damn cruise. That
Speaker 1: song is very select few of them cruise.
Speaker 5: I went on a carnival cruise, bro, and it ain't
Speaker 5: that bad.
Speaker 2: We have their boots on the ground.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that song was out at the
Speaker 4: time when I went. But uh, it probably had one
Speaker 4: of them moments.
Speaker 3: But where did what city? Did your cruise leave out?
Speaker 5: Him? Long Beach to Ensinnata, the Long Beach to Sonato?
Speaker 3: Now look this port, Huh, you gotta leave out of
Speaker 3: this port because you hicked people up from both ports
Speaker 3: doing uber shit. Yeah, this port, that's a whole different party.
Speaker 4: Right, But if your algorithm, right, is all these type
Speaker 4: of things, then that becomes your.
Speaker 3: World for sure. They prioritize that.
Speaker 5: So if you, if you're watching you, I would.
Speaker 3: Think women were in shape. If it's if I, if
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 5: The time, you go, now you go, now you go.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So if that's your argue and that's your life and
Speaker 4: you seeing all these it's like watching the news, like
Speaker 4: the news always got something just something trying, you know,
Speaker 4: just it's tragedy. So yo, if your algorithm is all
Speaker 4: these things, they look like, man, this is what the
Speaker 4: world is. The world is messed up, and it's like, bro,
Speaker 4: there's a you can switch your algorithm and you don't
Speaker 4: see none of that.
Speaker 5: Like my wife don't see a lot of shit.
Speaker 4: Sure she I didn't see that I didn't know that
Speaker 4: because she on the whole nother side of the world.
Speaker 2: All these different rabbit.
Speaker 4: Holes, and then you go down a rabbit hole and
Speaker 4: it becomes like, oh man, it's just all bad.
Speaker 5: It's like bro now.
Speaker 1: And that's my point, Like I don't think I'm getting
Speaker 1: old like the Homies is because I don't look and
Speaker 1: think nothing is really different, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't be like, oh man, it's different now the
Speaker 1: way and I'm like, no, it's not like that.
Speaker 2: People spend so much time trying to convince me things
Speaker 2: are different.
Speaker 1: I remember ten years ago people was telling me about
Speaker 1: hip hopping was you know, still was telling me, oh man,
Speaker 1: you know you're getting older.
Speaker 2: I'm like, check this out.
Speaker 1: You either got it that you don't got it, like
Speaker 1: the Clips album, right, and Malice said the same thing.
Speaker 1: You either got it that you don't got it. Age
Speaker 1: was never a hindrance. That was something people made up
Speaker 1: in their mind and they started to tell.
Speaker 2: Other people that.
Speaker 5: There you go, people.
Speaker 1: Let that become the truth. And it's just like with
Speaker 1: these carnival cruises. Don't get me wrong. If you go
Speaker 1: on the cruise that's a weekend, you probably gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot of people scared of being on a cruise,
Speaker 1: and those people may be more festive and more partying,
Speaker 1: because if you're on a cruise for seven eight days,
Speaker 1: you not even hanging out doing all that all the time.
Speaker 1: Like that's a lot of work. Lord knows, a fourteen
Speaker 1: day cruise if your goal was to get away from
Speaker 1: let's say, for lack of terms, black people, just go
Speaker 1: on the cruise.
Speaker 2: That's fourteen days.
Speaker 1: One thing you could bet niggas ain't doing is being
Speaker 1: on no crew for no fourteen fucking days.
Speaker 5: Anyone else they're not doing. They're not going during the week.
Speaker 4: So I went during the week, and I think my
Speaker 4: last day may have been like a Friday, right or Saturday,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: But people are going to cruises like on the week,
Speaker 5: the weekend off. Yeah, Like I'm figuring we got a
Speaker 5: couple of days are.
Speaker 3: We going on a cruise's finish grabbing them girls and
Speaker 3: wanna take this little girl on the boat and knocker down.
Speaker 4: For yeah, and honestly, man vacation in his tiring Yeah,
Speaker 4: I hate it, Like it ain't like when I went
Speaker 4: to Mexico for like seven days. I'm like Wednesday hit.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I want to go home.
Speaker 5: You feel me. I'm over it.
Speaker 3: That's the number one issue. Like every girl in the
Speaker 3: world wants to ask me, where do you want to
Speaker 3: travel to?
Speaker 5: Don't know?
Speaker 3: I want to go nowhere? Never like aside from the
Speaker 3: fact it's the biggest pain in the ass of all
Speaker 3: time for what it's worth it cost him. If I
Speaker 3: wouldn't want to go for fucking free, you want me
Speaker 3: to pay thousands dollars. No, not happening.
Speaker 5: You're gonna eat and sleep.
Speaker 3: Oh, sip my pool off cocktails.
Speaker 2: Oh that's really I was.
Speaker 4: I was drinking liquor at six am in the pool.
Speaker 4: I love swimming pool, so I'm fit to go. It's
Speaker 4: six am, I'm in the pool like that. Fuck you
Speaker 4: know what I mean?
Speaker 1: That's it right, But I just don't get what is
Speaker 1: it about growing up that makes people more cynical.
Speaker 3: I think when you're older you could there are two
Speaker 3: things you start to see, what like the mistakes you know,
Speaker 3: and the ramifications, because when you're doing it, there's no
Speaker 3: ramification recons have afterwards. And also it's like you start
Speaker 3: to look at it as this, you know, this is shit.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to in kind pay for some way
Speaker 3: or another.
Speaker 5: You know, like.
Speaker 3: Guys go out party and get drunk and plow through
Speaker 3: three cars and kill three people, and all State has
Speaker 3: to write a ten million dollar check. Fuck my car
Speaker 3: insurance is going to go up now because this fucking
Speaker 3: idiot or whatever the hell it is.
Speaker 1: You know, even when I talk to homies about gang
Speaker 1: banging Pete, it'd be like, man, you know, back in
Speaker 1: the day, you know, and usual to be snitching a snitch,
Speaker 1: would you know there'd be consequences.
Speaker 2: That's not true.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, people would snitch and they would
Speaker 1: move off to Apple Valley, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That would be like the last honorable thing they would do.
Speaker 1: Nobody had to kick their ass. They knew not to
Speaker 1: show their face. It's not like today. It's not like
Speaker 1: today is different. Like Gunna is not hanging out in nobodyhood.
Speaker 1: He not hanging out with friends and shit. He is
Speaker 1: a businessman. So it's not like it would be different.
Speaker 1: Time is not changing the way people think it is,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I think this whole the
Speaker 1: way things used to be is a bit overstated.
Speaker 2: It's actually kind.
Speaker 4: Of It's really easy to say. And then you got
Speaker 4: people studying niggas who hate the streets. They getting all
Speaker 4: the information from people who hate the streets, so they
Speaker 4: telling them what the streets is. The dudes who don't
Speaker 4: even be in the streets, and they're getting money off
Speaker 4: hating the streets on the Internet, and they get all
Speaker 4: the information from them. People just be peak shit so
Speaker 4: they can add something to say too. That's another thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And there's the controversy sales component. If you're inflammatory,
Speaker 3: people are gonna repost you or comment on your shit.
Speaker 3: Ten million ten million fuck you's is worth more than
Speaker 3: zero fuck yous or one I love you?
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: And in the digital world, what's the biggest fear for you? Peak?
Speaker 2: Getting older?
Speaker 3: Getting older, having to do this shit for another fifty
Speaker 3: fucking years, not the podcast by Daily.
Speaker 5: Life, Living Living.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, forty more years of this Christ.
Speaker 2: What's the biggest what's the biggest feeling for you getting older?
Speaker 4: West Side and honestly, man, losing people you love that
Speaker 4: shit Sometimes I think about that. That shit be scary.
Speaker 2: Do you have a goal out live niggas? Like my
Speaker 2: goal is to outlive niggas.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I ever looked at it as
Speaker 4: a goal, but I definitely find myself at the age
Speaker 4: and that like I'm convinced like I'm getting old, Like
Speaker 4: I'm getting older. You feel me. I feel it. I
Speaker 4: see it like you say, people around you, you know,
Speaker 4: people getting sick. Shit, I get sick. You know when
Speaker 4: I that car accident that I was just in, That
Speaker 4: shit kind of tricked me out.
Speaker 5: You feel me because it was like I had no control.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, like, damn man, like shit real.
Speaker 5: You feel me.
Speaker 4: And I find myself sometimes trying to move in a
Speaker 4: way where at all, at all, at all costs, I'm straight.
Speaker 1: I was telling Spade Spade from and Holmie Boy from
Speaker 1: Tray Tray and Denver. Like we at that age to
Speaker 1: where now getting shot is not the only way to die,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like in your twenties where
Speaker 1: we come from, Pete, that's how you die.
Speaker 2: You get shot. Yeah, rarely, you might get in the
Speaker 2: crash and then you usually live through that. But we
Speaker 2: at the age.
Speaker 1: Now where they could just have hot blood plus and
Speaker 1: have a heart attack. You just getting to that age
Speaker 1: where multiple shit feel like it take you out.
Speaker 4: Think about shit like that too, you know what I
Speaker 4: mean immediately you'd be like, damn nigga, way hold up,
Speaker 4: you feel me?
Speaker 1: But I ain't gonna lie to you the fear that
Speaker 1: I have about getting older. I'm more excited about the
Speaker 1: challenges of it all. Like I'm more excited about mastering me.
Speaker 1: Like I find myself being like my dad a lot
Speaker 1: of times where I don't got time now to kiss
Speaker 1: your ass. I'm gonna tell you what I think, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not finna if we're not friends behind it, that's
Speaker 1: cool too, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: But huh, I admire that about elders.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just to that place now where I'm like, look, man,
Speaker 1: this is what it is. This is why I'm at
Speaker 1: with it. This is why I'm at with it. But
Speaker 1: I just noticed that that was happening, and like so
Speaker 1: just like when I fall down those rabbit holes, like
Speaker 1: I could walk up and be like, man, niggas is
Speaker 1: selling out every day. I still understand that this is
Speaker 1: this small, niche group of weird ass content creators that's
Speaker 1: trying to get the the the likes from people who
Speaker 1: really just don't like black people, like and I'm talking
Speaker 1: about it's bad.
Speaker 2: I saw a little black girl.
Speaker 1: And she was like, you know something something black culture,
Speaker 1: And I kept being like, I've been asking for a while, Pete,
Speaker 1: what the fuck is black culture? Like, asshole? Some asshole
Speaker 1: came and said, you know a street shootings. I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I component it was shooting motherfuckers in the streets in
Speaker 1: the seventeen nineteen, seventeen, nineteen twenty in La, the white
Speaker 1: fences and the maut of Vias was shooting each other
Speaker 1: in the thirties and forties. That was before Brothers even
Speaker 1: had a cripple a blood game. So I just can't
Speaker 1: identify as black culture. Like I get the thought of it.
Speaker 1: I think what we call soul food is more American
Speaker 1: slave culture. But it is a lot of black people
Speaker 1: that did not grow up eating soul food. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily And the more I think about it,
Speaker 1: even down these rabbit holes. And here's another thing about
Speaker 1: growing up again, the same thing. Why I'm just telling
Speaker 1: people what I think it's like. If you are, are
Speaker 1: you a proud American?
Speaker 2: Peak?
Speaker 3: I guess in the way you're asking, sure, I mean enough,
Speaker 3: I've never individual.
Speaker 1: I never in my life heard you call yourself a
Speaker 1: proud white American, Like, I'm watching brothers get to a
Speaker 1: place where I think they're trying to adjust their mind
Speaker 1: and they're trying to come to times with circumstances in
Speaker 1: this country and they're trying to find some level of
Speaker 1: pride and a connection to it, which is weird to
Speaker 1: me because I do not connect to the country. I
Speaker 1: connect to people, right, I connect to Peter. I am
Speaker 1: not connecting to the idea.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: So even is the word we, everyone's they to me,
Speaker 3: like like white people are they?
Speaker 6: There's me and there's everyone else in facts, right, But
Speaker 6: I've said people say that to me, they'd be like, oh, Glass,
Speaker 6: you know, They'll say, like, I'm a proud black American.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, if you're a proud black American, why
Speaker 1: put black in it? That's what I don't get.
Speaker 3: I think I would be more interested in inquiring why
Speaker 3: put American in it? In a lot of the census
Speaker 3: only only in the sense that it's like the American
Speaker 3: experience of a person who is black, But it's I
Speaker 3: would think if you were if you were like legitimately
Speaker 3: we're saying that to somebody of a certain worldview, or
Speaker 3: why are you you know, cars of a black American
Speaker 3: or whatever. It's probably more the black part than the
Speaker 3: American part, in which that they take pride, at least
Speaker 3: in a lot of the contexts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but those two are conflating ideas being black an American,
Speaker 1: right because historically how America has been towards black people.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't say I'm a black American unless
Speaker 1: I'm speaking legally in another country, and then I'll just
Speaker 1: say I'm American. I wouldn't tell they could obviously see
Speaker 1: my black ass, so I don't need to say I'm
Speaker 1: black American. So even when I'm in a country, it
Speaker 1: really wouldn't make no sense to me to reference yourself
Speaker 1: as a proud black American. To even call yourself a
Speaker 1: black American and then have an American flag kind of
Speaker 1: don't make no sense. Why not just be American?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't think people be doing. They not as
Speaker 5: studied as you.
Speaker 4: Even if what you're saying, that concept right is pretty
Speaker 4: much simple and obvious, right, Well, most people ain't really
Speaker 4: looking at it that deep.
Speaker 5: Basal, like I'm black and I'm Americans, so I'm proud black.
Speaker 4: Then then it turned into semantics, and then it'll just
Speaker 4: be one of them conversations where you'd be like, why
Speaker 4: the fuck am I even talking to this person at
Speaker 4: this point?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I think if you're going to go
Speaker 2: go you know what I'm saying, Like, what's this half go?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: If you really going to get to that place right,
Speaker 1: if you're going to get to that place right where
Speaker 1: you're like, I'm taking on the identity of this country.
Speaker 1: I'm not tripping about what happened to my ancestors. I'm
Speaker 1: not tripping off what this country has systemically did to
Speaker 1: people that look like me for years. I'm gonna find pride.
Speaker 1: The first thing you should shed is the concept of
Speaker 1: being black to me, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 1: being black is more of a question mark. It's more
Speaker 1: of an x like you're not quite sure of what
Speaker 1: you are. Because you'll never hear a Nigerian person have
Speaker 1: to reference themselves as black. They are Nigerian, they whatever,
Speaker 1: try them.
Speaker 2: One thing they don't got to do is tell you
Speaker 2: that they are black.
Speaker 1: They are certainly you know this, so even the concept
Speaker 1: of it doesn't make sense. And and that's what I'm
Speaker 1: starting to get as I get older, bro. Whereas like
Speaker 1: I don't got time Joey for silly shit. All the
Speaker 1: silly shit, bro is driving me crazy because it'd be like,
Speaker 1: shut the fuck up the fuck.
Speaker 4: Call you mean and start saying like, man, you always
Speaker 4: got a mean and you always got.
Speaker 2: White about that ship.
Speaker 1: I'm like, God, if you are a native American, stop
Speaker 1: saying you're black.
Speaker 2: Man, Why can't be black?
Speaker 1: You can't be at all, brother, You can't if you
Speaker 1: are if you're convincing, if you're trying to vinced me
Speaker 1: that your family did not come from no slave ship,
Speaker 1: which is possible because there were people here that looked
Speaker 1: like us Joey way.
Speaker 2: Before the slaveship.
Speaker 1: Yes, they came over before cool and then the Great
Speaker 1: Migration seventy thousand years ago people that migrated away over
Speaker 1: here even though they look different because they didne came
Speaker 1: a long way walking and generation on top of generation
Speaker 1: they were here. But what are you holding on to
Speaker 1: by being black? Like, why are you trying to connect
Speaker 1: with motherfucker? It's weird because they try to connect with
Speaker 1: motherfuckers that they ain't trying to connect with. And this
Speaker 1: is the problem with getting older. The problem with getting
Speaker 1: older is you just have less patience for this, for
Speaker 1: the just silly.
Speaker 5: Shit no, you do you do?
Speaker 1: God, I don't have no patience for it. And most
Speaker 1: of the time I just don't say shit.
Speaker 4: It's better, that's the that's the easiest thing to do, man,
Speaker 4: because saying something sometimes is come, yeah, come with a
Speaker 4: lot of other shit. That's like, damn, man, I why
Speaker 4: why did I even say anything? The person ain't pretty
Speaker 4: roight each that damn words out. It's rare when someone
Speaker 4: trying to have a genuine conversation about something about those things,
Speaker 4: when y'all really trained information.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. I found myself.
Speaker 4: Most of the time people try to prove that they
Speaker 4: know something that they may not have ever read about.
Speaker 5: They just regurgitating some shit.
Speaker 4: They they regurgitating hearsay, even saying it with confidence.
Speaker 1: Even then they don't think about it. Even then they
Speaker 1: don't think about what they heard. My problem is it
Speaker 1: becomes they hear something, write or down, that's it. They
Speaker 1: don't even like when Pete tell me something like, I'll
Speaker 1: think about it for time. I think about it, like Pete,
Speaker 1: me and Pete was talking about Like Pete is more
Speaker 1: to me of a historian than me, where he understands
Speaker 1: how human beings did things like we've talked about how
Speaker 1: humans migrated no different than birds flying different places were
Speaker 1: food at or buffalo's went to certain places where ward
Speaker 1: elephants migrate the water during times of years, like humans
Speaker 1: kind of try to notch theyselfs into the ground all
Speaker 1: the time, right, your goal is to kind of notch
Speaker 1: yourself into the ground, like right into this house.
Speaker 2: You want to live right here for the rest of
Speaker 2: your life.
Speaker 1: When everything about nature says most things move they move for,
Speaker 1: you know, opportunity, whether it's opportunity to eat, opportunity to
Speaker 1: drink water, opportunity to hunt. Whatever other mammals and birds
Speaker 1: and shit move for. They move for opportunity. But we
Speaker 1: don't humans, especially black folk, you know. And I get
Speaker 1: we've been through a lot, so I ain't want to
Speaker 1: pick on it. I'm just saying I was telling Pete
Speaker 1: this same thing about Detroit, and I noticed I told
Speaker 1: a lot of people.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, we could.
Speaker 1: Really we'd have to be visionaries about what's happening could
Speaker 1: happen in Detroit, but we want to be there first.
Speaker 1: We should really be trying to get in there, because
Speaker 1: that's how like people favorite buzzwords generational wealth, you need
Speaker 1: to be ahead of a curve for that to kind
Speaker 1: of happen nine times out of teen.
Speaker 2: Is that fair peak to say, yeah, I got it?
Speaker 3: A whole lot you know of thoughts on that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I I'm not so sure historically that and it's
Speaker 3: not that long of a history if you were to
Speaker 3: talk like post emancipation. But Black people move around a lot.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's like our generation of people decided
Speaker 3: we're too good to move around. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: other previous generations were more than willing to move around
Speaker 3: and around it. Yeah, if you want to move around,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say no. However, people are stat every
Speaker 3: Black America say are stagnant.
Speaker 2: They're not.
Speaker 3: They're dynamic. They're They're probably less so than you know,
Speaker 3: maybe other groups. But the twentieth century they probably moved
Speaker 3: the most. They probably moved the most in the twentieth
Speaker 3: century of all groups.
Speaker 2: Sure, So.
Speaker 5: I don't know fly in other places that. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean you look at the t Show.
Speaker 3: Those people weren't all in Detroit in eighteen ninety at.
Speaker 2: All, and they show got the fuck up out of
Speaker 2: there too.
Speaker 3: They got in and they got out.
Speaker 1: To me, to me, I want to be wherever white
Speaker 1: people l ain't at first no more, because when white
Speaker 1: people come, their money comes. That's that's starting to become
Speaker 1: my thing. I don't really care about money enough outside
Speaker 1: of the tool to handle my business, but I really
Speaker 1: feel like the goal is to be like I noticed,
Speaker 1: that's been the.
Speaker 2: Story of my life.
Speaker 1: My mom right when she first bought her house when
Speaker 1: I was five four years old, she bought her house
Speaker 1: in Compton in the Riskling farms.
Speaker 2: Right. My dad and my mom broke up when I
Speaker 2: was about seven six or seven. My dad bought his.
Speaker 1: House and watch you could buy property in those neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: My mom house was probably one hundred and ten thousand
Speaker 1: back then, which was really expensive. My dad house was
Speaker 1: about eighty thousand. But even growing up in the nineties
Speaker 1: and the late nineties, you can get a property one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventeenth Street and watch for like seventy eighty thousand.
Speaker 1: Still that same property is four hundred and some thousand,
Speaker 1: fine some thousand dollars. And I'm like everywhere I've been
Speaker 1: when other people come in, like nothing happened in Compton
Speaker 1: to me that I saw that many people decide to
Speaker 1: come in but when they.
Speaker 2: Came in, everything went up. It could be the fact
Speaker 2: that I've been saying for a while. I think, honestly,
Speaker 2: the people migrating here from Mexico. You know, whether it's
Speaker 2: you know, against.
Speaker 1: The rules or with the rules, is what's driving house
Speaker 1: properties up in California. I do think it's more money.
Speaker 1: People come in for more money coming into California from
Speaker 1: around the world, and money's around.
Speaker 3: The way California. Huh, the money's leaving California. There's more
Speaker 3: money leaving California than come in.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then what's driving the property Pete? And why
Speaker 1: is Joey trying to buy house and he's competing with
Speaker 1: seven fucking people to buy a house.
Speaker 3: A few things happened. There's virtually no building happening in California,
Speaker 3: so as so that's pretty true. It just gets worse
Speaker 3: and worse and worse. But also interest rates moved up,
Speaker 3: so now you can't sell. So like, if you had
Speaker 3: a five hundred thousand dollars house out of two point eight,
Speaker 3: you're not going to sell that house and then go
Speaker 3: move somewhere else and carry a note at a six
Speaker 3: point eight. You know you're affordability gets crushed. So inventories
Speaker 3: are very very low. So it's reflective of a much
Speaker 3: smaller manipulated marketplace and opposed to like the totality of
Speaker 3: the marketplace.
Speaker 2: So it's not as many houses for sales.
Speaker 3: It looks like absolutely and like they're like yeah, and
Speaker 3: prices are coming down some, but it's a very constrained inventory.
Speaker 5: Mm hm.
Speaker 3: So you get these weird bidding wars.
Speaker 2: So why are you leaving?
Speaker 3: Why are I mean.
Speaker 6: Cost people say it's cheap everywhere else.
Speaker 3: So I mean Elon Musk pulled multiple companies out of California.
Speaker 3: He could afford it, just the regulatory environment, the taxes.
Speaker 3: All the rest of people are like, screw it, I'm out.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I hear people saying I retired here, I'm gonna retire
Speaker 4: somewhere else. When I retire, I'm going.
Speaker 5: To the South. I'm going you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that there's like if you step back
Speaker 3: and look at the broader mark, you can kind of
Speaker 3: determine usually like if you were to get like say,
Speaker 3: beat white money to the punch at a certain spot,
Speaker 3: I narrowly missed getting into places just ahead of big
Speaker 3: pops like twenty twenty one Memphis really prices that's up
Speaker 3: a lot. Now, Saint Louis up a lot, now has
Speaker 3: moved a lot. And you can see it in like
Speaker 3: the cap rate of listings for like say multifamilies. If
Speaker 3: you see shit, it's like fourteen fifteen percent cap rate,
Speaker 3: that's really high. That means that the price of the
Speaker 3: property is really really low. So you find an area
Speaker 3: where you see a lot of double digital cap rates
Speaker 3: in one general couple zip codes or one city or
Speaker 3: one metro. You get in there unless it's a really
Speaker 3: like weird scenario or a very like rural environment. But
Speaker 3: you get to a big chunk of population where those
Speaker 3: numbers start to skew and you can go, Okay, equilibrium's here.
Speaker 3: It should be at eight percent. This is at twelve percent.
Speaker 3: I means the price is below equilibrium. People will go
Speaker 3: in and buy that opportunity or just to pull it
Speaker 3: back up to zero because it's in the negatives.
Speaker 1: So if the inventory is lowland Catalifornia and it's uber competitive,
Speaker 1: then how does California fall apart?
Speaker 3: Because like fall apart? In what sense I was.
Speaker 1: To project it? What's to project it from?
Speaker 2: From? From things you've been studying what happens to California.
Speaker 3: Moving forward. There there's budgetary problems now that shows up.
Speaker 3: It's really badly run.
Speaker 5: So even like a.
Speaker 3: Dollar in California, California schools, like California's public schools are
Speaker 3: really bad. There's some districts that do really, really, really
Speaker 3: really well, but.
Speaker 2: They're usually white people in the money yet sure, yeah.
Speaker 3: But by and large it's like in the bottom five
Speaker 3: of states, which is absurd. So they just they pump
Speaker 3: more money into stuff and they just steal the money.
Speaker 3: I'm perfectly blunt. They don't put it to work. I mean,
Speaker 3: the biggest scam in California is we need to give
Speaker 3: more money to the schools for the kids. They're just
Speaker 3: giving it to the administrators and the pensions.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: They just take the money.
Speaker 1: So what happens to California Then if it's a bad
Speaker 1: business idea, what happens to this business?
Speaker 3: If it continues in the trajectory there's on, then you
Speaker 3: start to see real issues with state municipal bonds like
Speaker 3: Chicago had that happened. Chicago's bad that runs the city.
Speaker 3: They had a bond crisis, so you have a harder
Speaker 3: time raising money, so you start just having to make
Speaker 3: cuts and concessions, so your public services get reduced. You
Speaker 3: don't have the tax revenue, so you can't just rely
Speaker 3: on that, so you have to go raise bond measures.
Speaker 3: Your bond ratings go down, so it becomes harder to
Speaker 3: do that, so you start running out of money, and
Speaker 3: I don't know how that manifests. In a state like California.
Speaker 3: You can start to see parts of Los Angeles annex
Speaker 3: themselves out of Los Angeles. Like if Pacific Palisades, for example,
Speaker 3: didn't burn down and LA's shit issues starting getting worse
Speaker 3: and worse and no horses, you coun see a place
Speaker 3: like Pacific Palsies and annex itself right out of the city,
Speaker 3: become its own city. You see like areas in the
Speaker 3: l and Empire that are like have removed themselves from
Speaker 3: the city of Riverside, like like Rubideaux or something like that,
Speaker 3: or East Vale, like those styles places.
Speaker 2: They go from being neighborhoods into cities with mayors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it could manifest in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: You just start to see businesses leaving jobs leave. One
Speaker 3: interesting stat I saw since the pandemic, seventy percent of
Speaker 3: jobs created in the state of California are below national
Speaker 3: median income, not state median income. State median income historically
Speaker 3: in California is way higher than national median income. Competing
Speaker 3: against the Arkansas and Oklahoma's of the world, it's below that.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if people's personal money is leaving as
Speaker 1: much people business money is leaving.
Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like people, it's both residences here, but they take corporation
Speaker 1: somewhere else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's what it's starting to feel like that happens,
Speaker 3: But they also take their residence. They're legal residents somewhere else.
Speaker 3: You can be like my parents, and I'm going to
Speaker 3: spend seven months out of state in five months in state,
Speaker 3: and I'm not gonna pay California state income tax at
Speaker 3: thirteen eight point six percent or whatever it is. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna pay Idaho state income taxes six point five and
Speaker 3: California gets zero. They don't even get six point five.
Speaker 3: It just get zero.
Speaker 2: Because you stay somewhere else for seven months. And how
Speaker 2: it works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a famous picture. I thought, not that famous. I
Speaker 3: liked the picture you that Portnoy guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean he's arguing with Kanye.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he moves to Florida from New York. And you
Speaker 3: know the old picture with Wilt Chamberlain of the number
Speaker 3: one hundred, you know, black and white. He took a
Speaker 3: similar picture holding up the number one hundred and eighty three.
Speaker 3: That's one day more than fifty percent of your time
Speaker 3: in the state of Florida. He didn't have New York taxes.
Speaker 3: That's the magic number?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 2: Wow? So that's what white people do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like it's a dude I work with man
Speaker 4: like he do a lot is business or like registered cars, oh,
Speaker 4: like in Arizona and shit like here, he don't do
Speaker 4: nothing in California.
Speaker 3: I think U Haul's entire fleets got Arizona license places.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like this is information they be having. They know
Speaker 4: these things and they take advantage of it and they
Speaker 4: do it. Most people don't know know this stuff. I
Speaker 4: for show what you know where and they.
Speaker 5: Just do it. Where's that? Where can I go? Do that?
Speaker 5: Act down the street? Like okay, I'm on my way,
Speaker 5: so place right?
Speaker 2: So what's the Michigan state taxis pete?
Speaker 3: Oh, Michigan's not that tax friendly. It's not bad like California,
Speaker 3: but I don't think it's that great. And I'm some
Speaker 3: states have like like Washington has a little bit of
Speaker 3: income tax, they don't have sales tax, I believe, or
Speaker 3: Organ's like maybe one of the two. Oregon might have
Speaker 3: no sales tax at Vegas has no state income tax
Speaker 3: state Nevada, so it depends. I mean, like you'll see
Speaker 3: people who something that is like a really expensive car
Speaker 3: with a really random license plate. Somebody deliberately bought that
Speaker 3: car in that state to avoid sales tax on the car.
Speaker 1: Right, Michigan has a flat individual income tax rate of
Speaker 1: four point two five percent.
Speaker 3: That's pretty low.
Speaker 1: This rate applies to all residents, regardless of income level
Speaker 1: or filing status. Michigan also has a flat corporate income
Speaker 1: tax rate of six percent, So that means I can
Speaker 1: go live in Michigan for one hundred and eighty three
Speaker 1: days and then spend the rest of my time in
Speaker 1: California and don't have to pay California.
Speaker 2: Is it's kind of expensive, too real expensive? Yeah, California
Speaker 2: state to hold on.
Speaker 3: I think it's like it's tiered, but the top tier
Speaker 3: I want to say it's thirteen six ish yep, something
Speaker 3: around there in California, Florid, Florida. Y, I'm in Florida.
Speaker 3: We got zero tax here.
Speaker 1: Oh it's it's Oh, there's an additional one percent mental
Speaker 1: health services tax on taxable income over one million, making
Speaker 1: the top marginal rate effectively thirteen point three percent.
Speaker 3: More three Okay, there's that in California has high sales
Speaker 3: tax too, And.
Speaker 2: I know it's like in all the rest, like where
Speaker 2: I'm at, it is like eleven percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's high. That's fucking high.
Speaker 2: So there's not at all a giver day, is it?
Speaker 2: Is it really to deal with the population?
Speaker 3: What they They just take the fucking money?
Speaker 5: Me do all? They won't.
Speaker 3: Their employees get paid a bunch. They're pensioned out the ass.
Speaker 3: They can't even afford that. They can't even keep those
Speaker 3: books clean. They just take the fucking money. They hire
Speaker 3: tons of people. The unions get a percentage of all
Speaker 3: the amount of money that that's the California circle drink.
Speaker 3: You have government employees, they're part of a union. The
Speaker 3: union gobbles up a percentage of all their money. They
Speaker 3: store the money. The more employees they get, the more
Speaker 3: money they get. They take some of that money and
Speaker 3: they go buy state senators, you know, like like we
Speaker 3: buy French fries to make sure that and they pay
Speaker 3: for commercial but a new proposition comes up or whatever
Speaker 3: the hell to raise more money, to hire more people,
Speaker 3: to raise more salaries, to raise more retirement benefits or
Speaker 3: Christ knows what. And they get a percentage of all
Speaker 3: of that money and they just spend it on influence
Speaker 3: to get more money, to spend more money, to cost
Speaker 3: more money, to take more money to get more It's
Speaker 3: this a circle.
Speaker 5: So he's got so got the own ecosystem and a ball.
Speaker 1: So then why aren't we selling shit to the state
Speaker 1: of California? If they got the money to pay.
Speaker 3: Get a contract, don't go get a road cones contract.
Speaker 3: You ever noticed, like on a freeway when they're fixing
Speaker 3: a pothole, there's seventeen hundred cones for five miles. I
Speaker 3: found out from a congressman who was talking to me.
Speaker 3: The thing that I went to in uh Vegas last year,
Speaker 3: I was the one before in Memphis. It goes different
Speaker 3: cities each year. The special this is not this isn't bullshit.
Speaker 3: A former congressman was at a at a cigar thing.
Speaker 3: I'm sitting there talking to him. He called it the
Speaker 3: highway industrial complex, like the military industrial complex. You get
Speaker 3: guys they donate to campaigns, they own a warehouse full
Speaker 3: of cones. They get a contract to go set up
Speaker 3: cones and they charge per cone. So the more cones
Speaker 3: they set up, the more money they get.
Speaker 5: And for daily rates and got a cone their house.
Speaker 3: They say, what we're doing one lane for fifty yards
Speaker 3: on the sixty East on Tuesday night from midnight to
Speaker 3: four am. Okay, Well you have to rent the cones
Speaker 3: for the whole day for eight months when you work
Speaker 3: for ninety minutes a week and jerk off all the time,
Speaker 3: and the Caltrans will get their money. The cone guy
Speaker 3: gets his money because he's blocked off that lane from
Speaker 3: Pomona all the goddamn way to Marino Valley to work
Speaker 3: on a pothole. And he made seventeen million dollars that
Speaker 3: year renting out goddamn cones. Welcome to California.
Speaker 2: Oh man, how do you think about that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: AVP, you gotta tell me, because listen, one thing I
Speaker 1: know how to do is hustle. Like I just it
Speaker 1: just hit me today, right, I had to replace the
Speaker 1: battery in Mi Camaro right, told you.
Speaker 3: To get the authority energy grants for the electric cars.
Speaker 2: You know, we need to get on Squizy, we need
Speaker 2: to get on Squeze. We need that those are on.
Speaker 3: The money's gone now, oh yeah, but there will be
Speaker 3: new ones.
Speaker 1: So then so at this point, then the business in
Speaker 1: California is not the people.
Speaker 2: The people.
Speaker 1: The business in California is California to state the Los
Speaker 1: Angeless city.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, California is like one of those
Speaker 3: eurotrash cities that is like a pseudo economy. Now there's
Speaker 3: a handful. Like you take Silicon Valley out of California,
Speaker 3: it collapses in the Cuba in a week.
Speaker 5: You have, like.
Speaker 3: That's the heart where most of the money comes from.
Speaker 3: Like you, California's got like a four trillion dollar GDP.
Speaker 3: I mean fuck half of that's like it's six addresses.
Speaker 2: So so Hollywood, So Hollywood is gone there.
Speaker 3: That's always been pinions of money. Hollywood as an industry
Speaker 3: doesn't do like what Google does. Let alone, like Google
Speaker 3: in video, Apple, all these companies are all up there.
Speaker 3: So they pay for everything essentially, and you know, vaguely
Speaker 3: exaggerating obviously, but like the normal man's economy in California
Speaker 3: has worked for the government.
Speaker 1: Wow, so what all these people the goal is still
Speaker 1: to work for the government.
Speaker 3: They're not paying your money unless you're you know who's
Speaker 3: specialized surgeon, lawyer, tech whatever, real estate agent in the
Speaker 3: right place to work for the government because they are
Speaker 3: overpaying everybody, and they're over hiring and all the rest
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 1: So okay, So in a state like this, that's the goal, right, Well,
Speaker 1: what's the goal in a place like Michigan, like Detroit?
Speaker 1: You got the people? Do you do at that point?
Speaker 1: Is it the people you kind of doing business with,
Speaker 1: because they obviously they Detroit, the city or Michigan don't
Speaker 1: have the money that the state of California does. So
Speaker 1: in Michigan, it would have to be the opposite, right,
Speaker 1: it would have to be the people.
Speaker 3: They're in a tough spot because they kind of have
Speaker 3: a little bit of neither. So they get federal backing stuff,
Speaker 3: they do pull some money together. They've created some initiatives
Speaker 3: to get some growth, and Detroit's done decently well, like
Speaker 3: they've regenerated, see from where they started it, from where
Speaker 3: they when it was at the very bottom. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: you can find some of that I don't know if
Speaker 3: their economy can stand on its own two feet right
Speaker 3: now though, So that you kind of just have to
Speaker 3: be precise out there.
Speaker 2: You know, can't go out there and just flop your arms.
Speaker 2: Not someone. Why are you going set your target and
Speaker 2: then just lock in?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what type of people should move to Michigan?
Speaker 3: Probably landlords if you have some money and you can buy,
Speaker 3: you know, assets down there that are way below value.
Speaker 3: Like if you were like a con tractor yourself, Like
Speaker 3: if you could go get a crew together and redo
Speaker 3: a small building or a for plex or something like
Speaker 3: that in Detroit, you could buy something for nothing, have
Speaker 3: your team redo it, either sell it or rent it
Speaker 3: out or whatever you know, and make a killing.
Speaker 2: M versus California. Okay, how about this? What about Texas?
Speaker 1: Texas is in the middle, right because Texas the state
Speaker 1: don't have as much money as the state of California,
Speaker 1: even though they have the land mass without the same population.
Speaker 1: The population of Texas is less than the population in California,
Speaker 1: but it's more land masks. But it's probably in the
Speaker 1: middle of what Michigan is and what California is.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: So a little bit about Michigan is like in the
Speaker 3: middle of California. And you know, I'm sorry, Texas is
Speaker 3: in the middle of California and Michigan. No, sorry, damn it.
Speaker 3: Michigan's in the middle California.
Speaker 2: Texas is all people. Then, yeah, it's all private help
Speaker 2: is in human in the people.
Speaker 3: Because even even Texas, like they have no state income tax,
Speaker 3: they run a pretty tight ship. Like Florida has a various.
Speaker 1: Limited people is keeping their money. So the people have
Speaker 1: their money. They're not paying a ton of money for
Speaker 1: the property they you know, they're not spending a bunch
Speaker 1: of money with taxes. So Texas and state is doing decent,
Speaker 1: but the people are doing well versus California. The state
Speaker 1: of California is doing well, but the people are doing regular.
Speaker 1: And then a place like Michigan is in the middle.
Speaker 3: Where huh, no one's quite so much doing well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody's just making do Yeah. So a place like
Speaker 1: Texas is the type of place you go to open
Speaker 1: up a business for people. Yeah, in California, the type
Speaker 1: of place where you create a business to sell to
Speaker 1: the state, all because the state taking all everybody money exactly,
Speaker 1: So you got.
Speaker 3: To you gotta figure out a way to.
Speaker 2: You know, California, Los Angeles need you for something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you got it's it's it's about relationships, quote unquote.
Speaker 3: So you've got to find a way to get those
Speaker 3: grants to get and get those bids, you know, like
Speaker 3: a non compete bid is like the dream, you know,
Speaker 3: like Caltrans is a is a private company. They have
Speaker 3: a virtual monopoly on roadwork. I thought they were a
Speaker 3: government agency. I didn't know they were a company until
Speaker 3: five six years ago.
Speaker 2: See, this type of stuff is interesting. Now we get
Speaker 2: in somewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go go find some sort of initiative to I
Speaker 3: mean there's a lot of beat to ship rows in
Speaker 3: the city of Compton. Be like, hey, look, you're causing
Speaker 3: the people of Compton. You know, on average like six
Speaker 3: hundred dollars per year more per driver on suspension and
Speaker 3: tires or whatever else.
Speaker 1: So what we're saying is we could start a business,
Speaker 1: a black owned business and that because I know California
Speaker 1: loves to pay on ship like black people, you know,
Speaker 1: ship that makes them look good. Sure, and create a
Speaker 1: company that's that specializes in the ghetto of fixing the road.
Speaker 1: And then you charge the city and the state for
Speaker 1: fixing the roads because they never get to it. They
Speaker 1: have the money, Compton even has the money.
Speaker 3: LA, the city of fucking Los Angeles, which has more
Speaker 3: money than they can count, and that's what you pay
Speaker 3: your car registration for. LA had to pass a prop
Speaker 3: and it's an issue, a sales tax add on it
Speaker 3: to fix potholes, even though that's like in their.
Speaker 2: Budget already.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's already supposed to be done and it's still
Speaker 3: not fixed.
Speaker 5: No, they don't get shipped.
Speaker 1: Oh how do we guilt them into funding our business
Speaker 1: to fix it?
Speaker 3: Just create some popular demand and say I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna demand there. Everybody shit fucked up, but.
Speaker 3: People need to they need to hear it.
Speaker 1: They've all been talking about they've all been talking about
Speaker 1: how fucked up it is.
Speaker 2: How do we get in front?
Speaker 5: Okay, that's how community on Facebook.
Speaker 3: Don't organize an event at you know, by the Compton
Speaker 3: Courthouse in the city Hall, there's that big courtyardy kind
Speaker 3: of area thing. Go organize a big event saying we
Speaker 3: want to give glasses, asphalt LLC grants or you don't
Speaker 3: even do that to say we want to fix. Have
Speaker 3: all them out there saying we fix our roads, fix
Speaker 3: our roads. What do we want to fix now? What
Speaker 3: do you want to fix our roads? And have them
Speaker 3: out there? And then you just go in and say, boy,
Speaker 3: you saw all those people yesterday. You know it's funny.
Speaker 3: I gotta aligne for an asphalt distributor. Why don't you
Speaker 3: guys give me a grapt for next year of those potholes.
Speaker 3: You don't have to worry all those people anymore.
Speaker 2: So that's how you do that.
Speaker 4: You can't just complain about it. You gotta really go
Speaker 4: out there as a connective.
Speaker 1: I canze I can organize five hundred to one thousand
Speaker 1: people coming out there for that.
Speaker 2: Like people is mad about they fucking like.
Speaker 1: I was there last month and I'm like, bro, I
Speaker 1: couldn't drive my lowrider down Wilmington.
Speaker 5: Now, yeah, it's disrespectful. How bad she is.
Speaker 3: There's a place, God bless them. This is how bad.
Speaker 3: Like I've been there twenty times from all my driving
Speaker 3: all those shitty rental cars Normandy and Fountain twenty four
Speaker 3: hour tip place in East Hollywood. I was there weekly
Speaker 3: getting tires replaced, to the point where they do so
Speaker 3: much midnight business. A taco guy shows up at three
Speaker 3: am on Frids and Saturdays.
Speaker 1: There used to be twenty four hours, a couple of
Speaker 1: those type places like that. So California is the type
Speaker 1: of place you build a business to charge a system.
Speaker 1: Texas is the place you build a business to charge
Speaker 1: the people in Detroit.
Speaker 2: You just got to have your vision before you get there.
Speaker 3: You gotta figure Yeah, you gotta figure out which one
Speaker 3: you can do. But you just got to like aim
Speaker 3: small and this small kind of thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta study it. Scene and they execute for sure.
Speaker 1: So Florida falls closer to Texas very much. So, so
Speaker 1: you just need a business for people and you'll to
Speaker 1: make out fine.
Speaker 2: California is closer to New York.
Speaker 1: Very Yeah, where if you could solve the systems problems,
Speaker 1: which is crazy because they genuinely just don't want to
Speaker 1: solve their problems.
Speaker 2: So then you have those out of business.
Speaker 3: Huh, put the cells out of business.
Speaker 1: So how do we trigger? Okay, I launched glasses as
Speaker 1: fault just to fix the potholes and compton.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just starting all those small to seven to
Speaker 3: ten quarter If you try to throw your way around
Speaker 3: La City Hall, it's too big, too big, too dispersed.
Speaker 3: Hit your compton, your Lynnwood's your cut of Heez or
Speaker 3: South Gates, all that kind of shit, those little towns, Bell,
Speaker 3: Bell Gardens.
Speaker 1: But how do we force them to give me the
Speaker 1: money beside making a backdoor deal. Yeah, well, because it's
Speaker 1: a reason they not fixing the damn potholes.
Speaker 3: Sure they don't a lot of those seas they don't
Speaker 3: have any freaking money. So, like, what you would have
Speaker 3: to do is you have to play both sides of it.
Speaker 3: The next time that there's a lot cool election or
Speaker 3: something where people are voting, you have to start a proposition,
Speaker 3: get people to sign the proposition, get enough signatures to
Speaker 3: get the prop on the ballot for the city. Would
Speaker 3: be it a bond measure or however that works, funding
Speaker 3: for whatever, how the different missions positive rules, say we
Speaker 3: want a million dollars over the next two years to
Speaker 3: potholes because the roads are destroyed and you won't fix them.
Speaker 3: And I got all these things, and people will vote
Speaker 3: for him. They vote yes for it. Since you put
Speaker 3: the prop together, you're you know you need to be
Speaker 3: as you're doing that, dealing with the city council people
Speaker 3: saying you aren't doing this. I'm doing it and I
Speaker 3: and we're going to have another prop another, or another
Speaker 3: or another until we have a prop that says you
Speaker 3: guys are getting impeached from the city council, like some
Speaker 3: Newport Beach has a weird city council thing with the
Speaker 3: like it's like always the same people to just keep
Speaker 3: rotating positions throughout the city council. Somebody got in charge
Speaker 3: of the mayor job, like however many years ago and
Speaker 3: just blew the budget wide open. Well, that didn't sit
Speaker 3: well with the people who weren't don't like that shit.
Speaker 3: They nixed like the whole fucking city council. They did
Speaker 3: like a special election thing and they just ran them
Speaker 3: all right the fuck out. So if you create push,
Speaker 3: you know, at the end of the day is people
Speaker 3: just want votes. So you can either the common thing,
Speaker 3: particularly for California politics, say you're gonna get you don't
Speaker 3: have to do it, just say you're gonna give people
Speaker 3: free stuff, or you're in the process of giving them
Speaker 3: free shit and buy their votes, or you can grassroots
Speaker 3: it and threaten to take their votes from them unless
Speaker 3: blank happens.
Speaker 1: Okay, but before I get that far, how do I
Speaker 1: do something as simple as go fix make the city
Speaker 1: of Compton because they have to have the money.
Speaker 2: They touched the ship out of the people. I don't know.
Speaker 3: They take it off. I don't know what what Compton's
Speaker 3: budget looks like.
Speaker 2: See if I can pull this up, how do we
Speaker 2: make one t in?
Speaker 5: They just it's a some in consider it so were
Speaker 5: it ain't my problem. I don't live in.
Speaker 2: I don't want to believe.
Speaker 1: Look, I know that's the coinsistential thought of white people,
Speaker 1: but I do not want to believe.
Speaker 2: The system is that raggedy. It could be true.
Speaker 4: Obviously it is, yeah, because I'm saying like it's it's
Speaker 4: like it should be a simple fix.
Speaker 2: But that's why we should one ten. That's how we
Speaker 2: could launch the album A Man.
Speaker 5: See and get these piles fixed. We want to drive
Speaker 5: on them.
Speaker 4: We want to drive on the streets, and we pay
Speaker 4: a lot, and then the cars we try to drive
Speaker 4: cost money.
Speaker 3: Here's a hard from twenty nineteen. City of Compton's still
Speaker 3: facing drastic budget shortfall. City of Compton for the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty fiscal years thirty four million dollars short of their budget.
Speaker 2: Can we can we? Okay?
Speaker 5: Could that be true?
Speaker 3: And I know that they have to have problems with
Speaker 3: their budget. That's why there's no City of Compton PD ultimately,
Speaker 3: and why they have County Fire Department all the other
Speaker 3: shit because they it's cheaper for them to intermingle the
Speaker 3: money and get built.
Speaker 1: City like Compton be that broke. Is it just a
Speaker 1: mismanagement of funds because they taxing the shit out of people?
Speaker 3: It is a lot.
Speaker 2: Let me wrong. I've seen them make moves.
Speaker 1: They took the factories away, right, they made that Rancho
Speaker 1: Dominguez right, They drew certain lines purposely bad.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: That doesn't help. And I'll guarantee you the city didn't
Speaker 3: kick the factories out. The factories, sure they might. They
Speaker 3: took they ball and went on, Yeah, we're gonna make
Speaker 3: this money. Why needna let you niggas get this money?
Speaker 3: We gonna put it over here to where nobody could
Speaker 3: use it. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: See that's what I'm saying. How do we make this
Speaker 1: the damn thing? How do I This is why I'm
Speaker 1: asking because this is the type of marketing. This is
Speaker 1: the type of marketing my my rap group one ten
Speaker 1: needs like, right, we got this whole custom culture stuff
Speaker 1: about cars. Imagine if we fix the potholes and Compton.
Speaker 2: Yeah that I said, fuck it up.
Speaker 5: And go there. We go city to city ship.
Speaker 3: Or you could do the opposite and buy a bunch
Speaker 3: of cheap land somewhere and incorporate it into your own
Speaker 3: city and do like Vernon and Irwindale and have a
Speaker 3: tiny population with a city that's all industrial and give
Speaker 3: them like no headaches at all. Just say, just do
Speaker 3: businesses the ever want to do. The city permitting system
Speaker 3: is gonna be the easiest thing you've ever seen in
Speaker 3: your life.
Speaker 5: I ain't never seen a house in Erwindale now that
Speaker 5: I think about it, I ain't even see the.
Speaker 2: House and Vernony houses, but it is really small.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you know what I mean, like commerce, Like
Speaker 4: they got one one area, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: And these are the houses that everything else is just.
Speaker 5: Shit tires, shops faster.
Speaker 1: I just got to figure out how do we this
Speaker 1: is See, this is why you need a white man
Speaker 1: on your team, bro, because he will tell us how
Speaker 1: white people do the ship.
Speaker 2: Because right now here's a great problem.
Speaker 1: There's a rap group that focuses on custom culture like cars.
Speaker 1: And then Compton, the place that I grew up in
Speaker 1: that that were all close to it we hold near
Speaker 1: and deer in hip hop. There's potholes in the road
Speaker 1: where people can't even cruise their ca like even regular people.
Speaker 2: It's just horrible.
Speaker 4: Imagine you're on hydraulics the roads and can't afford to
Speaker 4: fix the cars over and over again, like I ain't got.
Speaker 1: But imagine if we, if one ten can solve the
Speaker 1: problem of Compton, that probably could be a lot bigger.
Speaker 3: I don't disagree, but how.
Speaker 2: The fuck do we make them pay us to fix
Speaker 2: the fucking roads.
Speaker 3: That is going to be tough. You would literally have
Speaker 3: to You're gonna have to get your own proposition or
Speaker 3: bond measure for sure, because they're not gonna put that
Speaker 3: into their budget. If they're still tens of million dollars
Speaker 3: of tens of millions of dollars short on budget, they're
Speaker 3: not gonna like throw out a few million. Because I'll
Speaker 3: also think about something like potholes. There's no incentive for
Speaker 3: them to fix potholes. It pulls money out of other
Speaker 3: shit in their budget that they want for themselves. And
Speaker 3: if you're getting tires and shocks and all the rest
Speaker 3: of it done, you're probably getting it done in Compton.
Speaker 3: That's more tax revenue for them.
Speaker 2: The people need to roll fix.
Speaker 3: The people need to be engaged.
Speaker 5: People gotta be apart. People are man come on, people
Speaker 5: tied of poles bro regular every day. I don't like
Speaker 5: I'm getting mad thinking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's ship.
Speaker 5: You ever hit a pothole and just think your own
Speaker 5: card broke?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've hit potholes and gotten out of the
Speaker 3: car to see I.
Speaker 5: Ain't no way.
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