November 15, 2023 • 43 mins
I think I speak for all of America in saying HOW IS MIKE JOHNSON?! And why?!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All media. Okay, Look, you might think the answer would
be so obvious and uncomplicated. I have been a professional
artist for most of my adult life, and in a
hypothetical situation, if somebody were to say, Beyonce is looking
for an opener, you want to go open for Beyonce?
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You would think the answer would be, Oh, are you
kidding me? She's the biggest artist in world. Let's make
it a little more closer to my genre, Drake TD
top Dog Entertainment. Do you want to go open Top
Dogs during a tour and it's the last one Kendrick's
going to be on? Do you want to go on
this tour? You would think no, brainer, right, And I
mean I would most likely say yes, But you might
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be wondering what my hesitation might be. Well, because well,
number one, if you're introduction to that many people, is
that situation. You will forever be Hey, that's all brut
open for top Dog? Right? You will always be that dude.
You ain't gonna be your own name. You're gonna be Oh,
that's that, Hey, that's that's because that open, that's blood
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that open for? Yeah, I use cool? What's his name again?
You gonna always be that. If you've been to arena
concert a stadium concert, no one cares about the openers. Now,
if it's a festival that one of these acts are headlining,
that's a different story. You go to festivals oftentimes to
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discover new music. You have a better chance of earning
some actual traction at a festival like this, But an
arena tour of that one artist, you might get five
or six people that would say, Hey, that dude was cool.
Who was that? Which is five or six more people,
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And if it's an arena, maybe five or six becomes
five or six hundred that dude was dope? Who was that?
That's about it. Listen, no one's gonna take their phone
out and follow you. It's too big. They're gonna go
get their drinks. This is their sign that like, we
better go get your background music. You are a playlist
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in an arena and you better hurry up. And let
me give you a little bit of insider tip on this.
When you're an opener on an arena like that or
on a show like that with a that big of
a headliner, even the volume of your sound it's like
twenty or thirty DB's lower than the headliner. You don't
get the same lights. Sometimes the lights be on in
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the in the arena, so you're performing while the lights
are up. You're performing when people walk in. You get
ten minutes, sometimes you get five minutes. Sometimes you get
a song and maybe the headliner will bring you out. Now, Now,
if in that situation I have to happen to have
a new song with Beyonce and she's like, I'm gonna
take you on to it, that's a different story. But
if nobody in this arena knows me, generally the stance
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is yo, who bruh? And when is he done? And
that's if they even notice you performing. NI bring it
like I paid five thousand dollars to see Bay. We
hear this, like, yo, who is this? You might be
turning people off. Now, I consider myself a professional. I
usually I have been in situations where maybe not I've
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been I've played it. I played arenas before. Now granted
they were like festivals or things where I was set
up well where it was like and that's the situation too,
Like if it was like, hey, I wrote a poetry
piece for this tour and I get to open her set,
I get to open their set, that's kind of setting
the tone. Then I'm making a lot of money. I
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get to say my name is in the credits. If
I'm a part of the main set, then that means
I got merch upstairs. And if that's the case, you
got good video footage. There's you know, you get you
get to use the crane camera part of the you
part of the tour recap. And then when they stream
the live tour experience on like Amazon or NETFLI, now
you part of the video. That's okay. Now that's a
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move because you and you getting tiktoks out the yang.
You know what I'm saying. You get in content from that.
But if you just gonna throw me out front to
be like, hey, come open up, or let me let me,
let me make this scenario be even more specific. Hey,
for tonight, when you get to California, you got Crypto Arena.
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It's Drake only Drake Scott laryngitis. He can't perform. Do
you want to take his slot? Nigga? No, No, they
are gonna throw beer at me. I'm not taking this.
Are you kidding me? No? You would think, well, ain't
you hungry? Nigga? Yes, I'm hung but not like that,
cuz you're setting me up for failure. I have played
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a show and I don't know if Game, oh ever
year it is. But there was an event where me
and my friends were the two opening acts for a
concert with Game, and Game didn't come and they made
us go out and perform more songs I like and what,
And according to the promoter, Game was like you, I mean,
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it's not enough people there. I'm not performing for an
empty room. And I get it. For the level he
was at at the time, that's not his fault. At
that time, it's like, it's not his fault. You didn't
sell no tickets. You should have promoted this better. I'm
not lowering my brand because you didn't do your job,
was his position. Apparently from what I know, Game cat
checking in like, yo, is a full yet? Is a
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full yet? And then finally he was like, man, you
know I'm not coming. It's just not enough people there.
And his contract is like, well, you're still gonna pay him, bruh.
I've never been more terrified. They're not dead for me,
I'm they dead for him. You want me to go? Okay,
So they're like, yo, you want to extra thirty minutes nigga.
No I don't cuz no I do not wote both time.
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They gonna be like, nigga, get this nigga off the stage. Bro,
who is this? Who is it? Who is this nigga?
Is he? I mean yeah, I guess the song cool?
I mean cool? I guess In any other scenario, In
any other scenario, if Game walked on the stage and
was like, Yo, this my man's propaganda. He gonna do
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a few songs for you, that set up totally different.
I got twenty minutes before a game, come on, I'm
a murder it. Then I get Then at that point,
I got a merch table. I get to introduce myself.
I get to talk a little more. It's a little
more intimate. This ain't a damn arena Cuz, like you,
you're setting yourself up. You do you think you want
that job. You think you want a substitute for Drake,
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You think you do nigging. Nobody in the room knows you.
You know how silent that arena is gonna be. No
one knows your songs. It's no one knows your songs.
You're introducing yourself to twenty thousand people who came to
sing along to start it from the bottom to sing
hits ya you think you want that job? You don't.
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They gonna look at you and be like, who is
this now? Don't get me wrong again. I am a
great performer and I love challenges. I don't know if
you've ever seen me rap or keynote or do poetry.
Your boy can burn down the stage, So you know,
challenge accepted this setup though, you really piling on the
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rocks and your backpack on this setup. Y'all? Who the
hell is Mike Johnson and why is he the Speaker
of the House politics? Y'all? Good morning man, listen. Well,
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first of all, I say good morning because that's when
I these pods. I try to record every Monday more
than this to have a little diligence continuation to just
to manage my workload, which boy does a lot. But
I don't know. I usually crush podcasts in the morning too.
After I get a workout, you know, do what I
gotta do, have my coffee, I start listening to listen
to my pod. Anyway, I'm here to talk about the
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freaking new guy. Why I give that comparison is because
I mean, it's entire articles whole, full, whole articles saying wait,
who bro who is this about this new speaker? By
now though scene or listen to a few pods or
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news stories pieces about who Mike Johnson is. A couple
considerations as to why the GOP would choose him, and
I'm gonna give y'all my take, my little hood take
as to like why they ran with him and why
this might not be that bad of a setup for it.
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Although my initial response is what you is, what you
heard in the opening is sometimes you can't you can't
skip steps. You know when people say, you know, you
can't fit in my shoes and shoes is too big
to fill. Usually it's when, like, you know, somebody pass
away or whatever. It's like, it's not like Speaker McCarthy
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with some giant of a figure that he has too
big of a shoes. It's the position he's stepping into.
I don't know if I've stuttered, because I need you
to understand the weight of the situation this man is
stepping into. And how miserable of a job if you
haven't been I mean, I don't know how long this
brother been in the in the in the house, in
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the Congress, But you know that's a it's a job
you really don't want. You think you won't it, but
you don't want it. But the thing is, he's third
in line of secession if there die and then the
vice president die, the Speaker of the House, like you
third in line? Is you really you really think you
ready for this? Cause like you like you your weight,
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you got your weight up that much that you're ready
for this position. I just don't. I don't know if
you're ready for this big dog. And maybe he got
the history of governing which we might go through. Maybe
you know he got he got the history of governing.
But listen, you ain't never let me when you start,
when your stars starts, starts shooting up a little bit.
As an artist or as an entertainer, you have to
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do what's called media training. I don't know if any
of y'all ever heard of this, but you have to
know how to talk on camera, which sounds ridiculous because
it's just talking. But there's a way to breathe. Because
if you noticed, when you're watching the news, when you're
watching interviews, you can't really tell a person's breathing, like
you don't know you can don't you don't hear him cough,
you don't hear them breaths. You know they're taking breaths
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because of course, but you have to that's a training.
You have to learn how to answer questions. You have
to learn how to divert questions. You have to learn
how to say something that might need an entire minute,
two minute, five minutes, ten minutes, a half hour of context.
You have to figure out how to say in eight seconds.
My one of my favorite, like Zone Out podcast, is
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Colin O'Brien's I think he's hilarious, but yeah, Colin O'Brien
needs a friend. On his show, he kept talking about
why he enjoys this format more because when you're on
his late night show, it's eight minutes. So if you're megastar,
you had eight minutes to like show your personality, say
something funny, say something wise, and promote whatever project you're
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about to promote. You can't just you can't just jump
from obscurity into that. You have to know how to
talk on camera. NBA players they get the same thing.
If you notice when NBA players are being interviewed, you
you don't especially at the end of again, you don't
see their personality like it's just uh yeah, no, you know,
we got back on d we you know, we just
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really had to focus and keep the intensity up, you know,
and it was it was tough towards the end, but
we started hitting the rebounds and I think we came
out on top. Like this, you have to be trained
to talk like that now, unless you like Marshawn Lynch
or you know, Russell Westbrook who are like they just funny,
you know, or Kyrie Irving, like they just funny. You
see them later, you see their personality, right, but they're
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they do what they want. I know a handful of
professional athletes life flex and I mean these some of
these brothers just like hilarious dude, some of them very quiet,
some of them they have their full whole ass humans,
you know. But that end of the game, well, you know,
we got back on dys because it's like we just
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you represent a very large company and a lot of money,
so don't be mouthed off that simple. So there are
steps that happen off camera, off mic that aren't just
about your skills your ability to do the job. There's
things like that. There's like you have to be made
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aware of your unconscious ticks. You may have a habit
of scratching your chin and you don't know you do.
You may have a habit of twisting your eye a
certain way. It all shows up on camp, all of it.
You may have a way of being sarcastic. And if
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you understand what happens when you're setting up a joke
and you're building up the sarcasm, the clip only gonna
be thirty seconds, and that's gonna go across the world.
You don't just go from zero to one hundred you
think you do. Nobody is really that type of a
success story. No, there's training that happens in between to
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get to that position. I'm just saying, like you think
you want it, you think you want it, There's a
lot that goes on in between. Now you might be asking,
or maybe not asking because you don't really care, but
you might. But I think if you listen to this podcast,
you kind you'd be like, WHOA, what's what exactly is
the job description? The speaker at a house? You just
I mean it sounds like, you know, like hall monitor,
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like it's just like a not a real job, you know,
And when you look ato the Constitution, all the Constitution says,
is there should be a speaker like it don't really
tell you. It ain't really much there as to like
what the speaker at the house actually does. Now as
decorum had went on, what the speaker at the house does?
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Wait before I get to that, y'all understood the hall
monitor reference, dude? Or is this just the sign of
my age? Like y'all ain't watch no eighties movies. Hall
monitor It's like basically it's the kid that gets a
little badge from like the school security mom or whatever
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that is helping out the teachers and the staff to
make sure that you go to class, that when you
go or the bathroom, that you have a hall pass,
you know, and that you you have an excuse when
you're wondering, hey, where class are you supposed to be?
And you can't be in class out you can't be
out here right now, you're monitoring the halls. It's like
you absolute nerd, Like are you serious which a little
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pretend badge talk about I'm helping you know to Simpson's reference,
Like just you're like, this is not this is not
a real you don't have real power. It's not a
real job anyway. So the Speaker of the House just
says he just gets the gavel. It seems like I
just get to gosh. Right. But as decorum has gone on,
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what the Speaker of the House does is essentially yes,
he calls the order to hear she because you know,
Nancy Pelosi is arguably one of the best ones we've
ever had. Right as far as effectiveness, you got AKR
which was hell of effective. Right. So they the person
calls to order the meetings, the person approves the agenda
for what we to talk about. Right, It's your job
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to make sure that as bills get presented that you
got enough riz if you will, to keep your own
party in check, to make sure that everybody happy in
your own party, which is very hard and especially in
the season we en now make sure everybody happy, everybody
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get what they want. You got to meet with your
whole squad at like your whole party. You got to
be able to convince people in the other party that
it would benefit them if they make some concessions and
we make some concessions. Essentially, you are the back end
sort of viscosity, the oil of the machine that is
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running the government. It's actually a very difficult position, and
you got to have a silver tongue. You got to
be so respected among the masses right that because you
gotta be you can't get pumped. And what happened with
what you just saw is speaking McCarthy ain't got the juice.
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You just you got. Even your way of getting to
the position was just proof that you ain't got the
juice Cuz you and and and it's what we told
you we as in me and the last time we
talked about speaking macarthy and getting this position was that. Listen,
you don't have the juice, bro, like you like fools
don't respect your game, they don't respect your name. Gonna
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listen to you. You you came in like a punk.
You can't get the position in a fraudulent way and
expect these killers to respect you. It's just you can't.
Like who is you going back to taking Drake slot
like Yo, Prop's a dope rapper? But bro, who who
are you? Like? Bro? Who is this? I saw Corey?
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Ain't he said, but my homeboy sound good as him?
Like what he doing? Why he get this position? You understand,
you gotta have weight. There needs to be some like
grap a toss before you could just step it, just
it and it's not popularity like understand what I'm saying,
Like it don't matter what the people with the public think.
Although that helps, that helps with your gravitas, of course
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it helps. But it's more like you gotta be like
favorite rappers, favorite rapper type beat. It's it's you could
be hove Hove. That's one rap. That's that's presidency, Speaker
of the House. People like like that position, or like
a Mitch McConnell, like a like a Senate majority Senate
minority leader. That's more like black thought. That's Pharaoh manch
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that's Andre three thousand. Where you ask all of your
favorite rappers who the best rappers in the world are,
they gonna say them, it's your favorite rappers, favorite rapper.
It's the person that walks into the room. It's bust
the rhymes. It's like where maybe your gen z nephew
has never heard of these rappers, but the rappers that
he heard of all point back to this dude. Right, you know,
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there ain't no a lot of the little little only
exists because of Wayne. Right, So it's that it's your
favorite rapper's favorite rapper type energy. So for this position,
you got to be your favorite politician's favorite politician. Who
the hell is Mike Johnson? Now who was running for
the position. Let's go back to that as to how
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you got to him in the first place. A podcast
I listened to called a Political gab Fest, which I
highly suggest y'all check out. These white folks really get
it in man, Like I really, I really appreciate the show.
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But on that one of the hosts did this thing
where he was like, all right, y'all, I mean, these
people are like Harvard law professor. On's a CBS or
CBS CBS. I'm such a gangst that's a tagging career
here in La. Not the drug store. CBS's attacked anyway.
One of them is a newscaster on CBS. Like, these
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people are brilliant. And one of the dudes was like,
all right, wait now I think about it, CBS is
attagging career out here. Anyway. Let me run off the
names of people who were actual candidates for the next
speaker and which ones I just made up. Listen, they
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this is their career. And he was like, which one
of these names actually ran and which one of y'all
has just made up? Jim Jordan, Mark Green, Michelle Caller,
Charles Fleshman, Scott Austin, Roger Williams, Dexter Manley, Gary Palmer.
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Which one of them foods actually were running and which
one is totally made up? Well, Jim Jordan was running,
Mark Green was running, Michael Caller Nope, Scott Austin then
he said was his roommate in college, Roger Williams, yes,
Dexter Manley nope. And Gary Palmer, Yeah, he was running.
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What I'm trying to say is twelve nobody's you ever
been to You have been to a concert where the
show where it was like you wanted to see one
of your one of your bands, you really like, up
and coming band whatever. When I listen to rock, when
I listened to Robert Evans talk, or or even Cody
over there on on even More News, they be naming
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bands and I'd be like, you made that ship up.
That's not a band, right, I had never heard none
of you niggas. Right now, I feel the same way.
Don't get me wrong. I can start naming off rappers
that y'all would be like, man, who Nope, nope, prop
you made that up. We should do that among the
homies too. We would just make up rappers and be like, yo, yo,
you heard you heard a little du dad man he's spitting.
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Oh yeah, no, I got his first record. Nigga, you
ain't never I made that name up. But you go
to a concert with a bunch of nobodies and then
there's one guy and you're like, when is this dude
gonna be done? When are all these dudes gonna be done?
So I can see the one name I know anyway,
that was essentially Jim Jordan on this. It's like, who
are y'all? Right? So you got Steve Scalise. I'm gonna
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read off some stuff here from I believe this is
from Politico, no associated press. So he announced his bid
through a letter, right and since he's the House Majority leader,
his position will become vacant if he's elected. So McCarthy's
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allies were critical of him, saying that he ain't really
helped me during the leadership challenge, right So, and Scalise
is battling cancer right now, so he's got these questions about,
you know, his physical ability to do the job. According
to one Republican lawmaker who choose to remain anonymous, he
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was asked if he was physically fit for the job,
and apparently Scaliic is like, y'all feel great. You got
Kevin hearn bro Who is this? He told reporters it's
several lawmakers who approached him to consider running that he
suggested he'd be open to it. He's the dude. Pete this.
He's the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a study
group for conservative Republicans. Patrick Henry he is on the
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chair of the Finance Services Committee and as a temporary
House Speaker, he became the temporary one. If you didn't know,
he could possibly use this to his advantage to keep
this post. However, it's really not clear if he wants
the job because you know, he a little substitute teacher.
Niggas don't respect substitute teachers. You got Tim Emner or
Emmer He's a House Republican whip, which will do a
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show on one day what the hell that means? And
headed the House Republicans campaign arm during the twenty twenty
two midterm elections when Republicans recaptured the House majority from
Joe Biden's Democrat You got Byron Donalds. He's representative from
Florida nineteenth Congressional district and is gaining popularity in the
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Republican Party. In one round of speaker election in January,
he received like twenty votes, so that you know, yeah,
a little joos right, Tom Cole Right, He's a Republican
veteran who holds a powerful position as a chair of
the House Rules Committee. Although he has not said he's
interested in the job, he could gather support from Republicans
who are speaking on an alternative to a conservative speaker
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because they looking for somebody, you know what I'm saying,
Like everybody don't wanted the Maca thing going down. Then
you got the haymaker, Hakim Jeffries. So he is the
Democrat that had the Democrats held majority in the House,
Nancy would have handed it to him. He's a Democratic
leader who gained more poets voice. And here's what's crazy.
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He gained more votes than McCarthy during the eleven rounds
of voting for speaker in January. While the Democrats are
solidly behind Jeffrey, the Republican majority will most likely block
a Democrat from taking the role. And then finally you
got Jim Jordan. He'd got firecracker that was vehemently defending
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Trump during all the impeachment things. He's the dude acting
real loud over Biden's impeachment right now. Right, he gets
a lot of TV. That's what I mean by like
media trained, so you would think, okay, loudmouth Trump surrogate,
media trained. Of course he's gonna go for the job. Right.
So he's from Ohio and he was the first Republican
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to announce his candidacy for speaker, and he's again vocal
supporter of Trump. He led the vest he leads to
the investigation against Joe Biden's administration, and he formed an
alliance with McCarthy, which earned some skepticism with hard minor
with hardliners and moderates see him as way too conservative.
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I ain't gonna held you a weirdo and also, surprise, surprise,
a lot of people this party don't like him neither.
And I'm saying this as objectively as possible. That man
a weirdo. Let me tell you why he a weirdo,
because the nigga was sending threats to his own party
about if they put him through the shit that they
put McCarthy through, Like nigga, if y'all you front on
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me like this, nigga, I'm coming for your kids cause
you better vote for me or else. And anybody with
the two brain cells would say, you know, after you
get the job, you know you gotta work with these people, right,
and you done threaten their kids? Y'all not really gangs.
This ain't an actual set. These are your colleagues. You
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gotta go to work, Kobe. Then't you see what they
did to the last dude. You can't be serious, bro,
Like you need the sharpest tool and the shed out
this mug. You out here, you and the shed looking
like a spoon, nigga, Like that's just that's that's not
as that's not the move. Brother. Now these are the people.
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And then finally you got Mike Johnson. I'm gonna talk
about Mike Johnson in the second. But I heard this
quote also from the show Political gap Fest, and it's
a quote from Lauren Michaels. That's a dude who runs
Saturday Night Live, right, and he say, we don't go
on because we're ready. We go on because it's eleven thirty.
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We don't go on because we're ready, go on because
it's eleven thirty. Now, what he's saying is with Saturday
Night Live, it's like we start because it's time to start,
or not here we go. So the question would be,
fam if y'all not ready, like you got all these
no names, you feel me? If Drake is sick, nigga,
if Beyonce can't come, you don't just pick a Rando
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out the crowd, cuz you gotta you need somebody like
if listen, if Beyonce can't come, you better have Mariah
carry or Whitney Houston in the back. Don't bring Tata.
That's a whole other crowd. I mean, we love Tata,
but not in front of the Bayhive. Nigga, you understand
what I'm saying. You need to pull. You better have
Michelle Obama back there somewhere, Nigga, you have better have
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Michelle Obama, Oprah, Mariah Carey, like, you need somebody that
could actually fill these shoes. But if you ain't got nobody, like,
you can't just throw Randos out there. That's kind of
what happened. You just threw some Randos out right now.
I'm saying Rando's being funny because all these people are
elected officials. People we have voted for them. They have
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actual positions in actual power. So I mean, I'm being
funny about it, but I mean he's like these dudes
like that. I mean, they got a little weight. But
the question is are you are you favorite rappers favorite rapper?
Ask the question and if you not, this may not
be the job for you. Now. Who is Mike Johnson? Well,
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Mike Johnson was a huge, huge, huge proponent of all
the dominion machine election fraud. He big on that. You
remember all that about Hugo Chavez being a part of
the dominion machines. He the reason why the death don't work. Yeah,
that's Mike Johnson. He down with all that, he with
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all that full whole last creationist as in the earth
was made in seven days, you know, and it's six
thousand years old, and I know whole seminary deans that
are like that is not at all what the Bible says,
nigga like so so that is a very particular view
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of scripture. Right. But anyway, led the fight to stop
the twenty two in the election, was super big on
the stop to steal. So basically, you know, he, I mean,
he all in Trump's arm pit, which if you know
anything about the direction of the Republican Party. Is that
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that's really all that matters. Right. Trump can't elect, but
he can destroy. I think that's a very interesting position,
is that he can't put nobody on, but he can
definitely stop people from being put on. He could be like,
not that fool, not that fool, not that fool. I
like that fool, right if and he could get that
fool on. Basically he could remove. He can't implant, right,
(30:44):
So but in this particular situation, this really works for Trump,
because that's why I'm saying, like, maybe a rando I
said earlier, maybe a rando might be the move if
it's the right rando, because gets what this was the
man that wasn't going to confirm the twenty twenty election,
(31:06):
Speaker of the House wasn't going to confirm the election.
So if you're fin a run again, who the hell
you think you would want in charge of the next election,
somebody that's willing to ride for you despite all evidence otherwise.
Kind of like his position about Israel. The man said,
(31:26):
full stop, I support Israel and all things so despite
any evidence otherwise, despite all evidence of ethnic cleansing, apartheid,
that they're doing right now, I ride for Israel, So like, okay,
blanket blanket support. Of course that's to do if you trump.
Of course that's the dude you want in position. And
(31:46):
of course you want somebody with know U searchable history, right,
you can't like, I mean, what receipt you got on
the dude, like, don't nobody know who he is? So
you can't call him on some hit because don't nobody
know who he is except for the little bit that
we do know. Now, that's what's good about being unknown,
(32:08):
is like, well, don't nobody don't nobody know? There was
a press conference which I thought was so hilarious, which
speaks to the just wet behind the ear situation that
I was talking about before. This man has no media
training and it's this job gonna eat him alive. Is
in this press conference it is super hilarious because they
asked him about blocking the twenty twenty certification. Right, it
(32:29):
was like, what, I mean, what's up with that? And
then you saw Steve Scalise like the og behind him,
going like, hey man, just listen, man, just move on.
Let's talk about policy. And the guy was like, you know,
let's talk about policy. And then the interviewer was like okay, words.
So then he asked him about like funding Israel, like
so are you super down the fundriels like you're you're
(32:49):
you're all in on that. And then this boy goes,
what I want to talk about policy right now? Like
I just like, nigga, you just said you okay, fam
you it you lighten the booty, g like you're not ready,
You're really not ready for this job. Hm. But lastly,
(33:39):
I think I want to make this point. That's so
that's what I mean by like the hood stuff of
like there there is a benefit of being a nobody
is that I can your ALGs can now train you
as to how to talk while you on the position one,
your ogs can do everything they want to do. They
can make you do what they want because you don't
know because you don't know what you're doing anyway. And
(33:59):
then there's no history, like there's no there's there's you
have no hard drives to hide because there's there's no
videos to pull up, like it's no there's there's nothing there. Right,
you can't get canceled because no one knows who you are.
(34:19):
So it's like, bro, who is this? So there's a
benefit to being a nobody. Now. Lastly, I think there's
an important point to be made which I think dovetails
into this episode. I keep teasing, I keep teasing because
I just ain't recorded yet. But the reality is this
the the Mitt Romney, even the Reagan, Oliver North, the
(34:46):
George Bush, Dick Cheney, Cole and Powell version of the
Republicans that people would call, you know, they even freaking
Paul Ryan if you will, as as recent as that, hell,
the Mitch McConnell's listen, the Republican Party as we know
(35:10):
it is dead. It's gone. It's not it's it just
doesn't There is no it doesn't exist anymore. And this
moment is proof because I mean Mike Johnson is I
mean he full magnet like. So this idea of these
old heads thinking that there are still true school, true
(35:33):
Conservatives in the party and it's worth saving and we
need to stand up and keep be the keepers of
the flame. I mean, you know they are. You're basically
the dudes in their mom's basement talking about real rock
and roll, Like you're the Leonard skinnerd fans, You're the
(35:55):
you're the ACDC motorhead fans that are just like, this
is real rock guys, it's gone. Okay, it's gone. You
it's it's not. This is not where we are. Listen.
I'm guilty of it. I've had to embrace where hip
(36:16):
hop is has gone, because y'all, it's it's different now.
You just you have to look at the charts and
you just have to tell the truth hip hop as
you remember it. Everybody that's like these nineties heads, you
know what I'm saying, golden age of hip hop. Okay, listen,
that's all nostalgic. Okay, it's not. These ain't where the
(36:36):
charts are now. Listen. We could still love our music.
We still make our music. I still go look it.
Wu Tang and Nas just just just had a show
and it was I didn't get to go. But I
tell you what, boy, I was looking at everybody's tick
to everybody's videos about that because I was like, damn,
that would have been amazing. Dog. If hieroglyphics was coming
into LA. So's a mischief in them. I know you
(36:58):
like bro who, but if they were coming, I'm I'm
gonna look at my wife sitting at the desk right
here and be like baby, can I leave on Tuesday?
I gotta go see Hiro Common, the actor. When I
tell you was my favorite rapper, you would be like,
I'm sorry, what exactly?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, the dude and never have I ever Yeah him,
Chicago legend rapper. Yeah, the dude that does the the
AI and voiceovers for those commercials.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
That dude. Times have changed. It's and I really think
at this point it's just listen, Republicans, Yo, the streets
is dead. What you thought the Republican is, Republican Party
is is gone. Here's your evidence that man, Donald J.
(37:48):
Trump has stolen your part. Nigga. He runs your streets
and even after he gone, the remnants. But it's gonna
take a while because you not you not who you
think you are, you who we all know you are.
You are what we've been trying to tell y'all. Y'all
y'all are gonna become. And you know how I know this,
And I say this because I feel like in my
(38:10):
life I have similar regrets. I've learned similar lessons in
my own life about things, but in reverse, like what
I mean by in reverses. There were things that I
should have apologized for immediately. There were things that I
wish I would have got checked on the second they happened.
But sometimes when you let stuff slide. Now this I'm
getting hood on you really like when you let stuff slide,
(38:33):
it grows into where we are. Now. What I'm trying
to say is this, the Conservative Party should have slapped
the shit out of Maga like the second y'all saw it.
Y'all's be like, nah dead that because at this point
it's too late. The fact that that man got through
two impeachments like January sixth, I'm telling you it wouldn't
(38:54):
have happened. Remember when I told you listen, the first
episode I did on iHeartMedia after I did the introdution
of myself was shut the fuck up, you ain't gonna
do shit, And the premise of it was this, if
y'all don't do shit, it's gonna keep happening. So I
said that about January sixth. If nobody really take no
(39:16):
ail from this, if nobody really loses, oh it's over, homie,
It's gonna keep coming. You learn that when you little light,
lightweight little kid like I did, A lightweight little kid,
you know this, a little black kid in his Mexican
hood you know what I'm saying, that big oldcholo boy,
if I let him take my lunch today, even if
I lose, I can't let this man take my lunch today.
(39:38):
I can't let him chase me home today. If he
chased me home today, I'm running home for the rest
of the year. And I don't want to run home
for the rest of the year. You need to know
immediately that like, I'm not the one find somebody else.
And even again, even if he beats the brakes off me,
that man knows we dealt with this now. So when
you have something like that that's like just earth shattering
(40:04):
as to what you think your party is, you gotta
you gotta shut that shit down because because now it's
too late. It's too late now the cement has settled.
And the fact that y'all elected old Mike Johnson, your
last hope was McCarthy. I hate to say this, that
was your last Oh but look y'all punked him to oblivion.
(40:28):
And who punked him to the oblivion? Them same folks
that you should have shut down a long time ago.
And I mean, I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure ten
years we goad to say five years two years we
had the same conversation about the Democrats, Like, y'all should
have shut that down a long time ago. You ain't
shut it down. That's where you are now. I'm a parent.
I'm gonna keep the metaphor. I'm a parent. There's some stuff, yo.
(40:50):
You we gotta stop this now. It gonna be a
problem later boy. Either way, Welcome to the worst job
ever in government, mister Johnson. I hope you're working on
your ris the politics. Hey, quick correction, I was reading
(41:27):
from Al Jazeera, not from Associated Press, My bad. Just
want to make sure I was quoted quoting the right folks. Okay, bye.
You know, I don't know why I ain't thought of
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can't believe. I ain't think it is still right now, yo, y'all.
(42:21):
This thing right here was recorded by me Propaganda and
East Lows boil Heights, Los Angeles, California. This thing was mixed, edited, mastered,
and scored by the one and the only Matt Awsowski.
Y'all check out this fool's music. I mean it's incredible.
Executive produced by Sophie Lichterman for Cool Zone Media. Man,
(42:42):
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We'll see you next week. PU
All media. Okay, Look, you might think the answer would
be so obvious and uncomplicated. I have been a professional
artist for most of my adult life, and in a
hypothetical situation, if somebody were to say, Beyonce is looking
for an opener, you want to go open for Beyonce?
(00:24):
You would think the answer would be, Oh, are you
kidding me? She's the biggest artist in world. Let's make
it a little more closer to my genre, Drake TD
top Dog Entertainment. Do you want to go open Top
Dogs during a tour and it's the last one Kendrick's
going to be on? Do you want to go on
this tour? You would think no, brainer, right, And I
mean I would most likely say yes, But you might
(00:47):
be wondering what my hesitation might be. Well, because well,
number one, if you're introduction to that many people, is
that situation. You will forever be Hey, that's all brut
open for top Dog? Right? You will always be that dude.
You ain't gonna be your own name. You're gonna be Oh,
that's that, Hey, that's that's because that open, that's blood
(01:09):
that open for? Yeah, I use cool? What's his name again?
You gonna always be that. If you've been to arena
concert a stadium concert, no one cares about the openers. Now,
if it's a festival that one of these acts are headlining,
that's a different story. You go to festivals oftentimes to
(01:31):
discover new music. You have a better chance of earning
some actual traction at a festival like this, But an
arena tour of that one artist, you might get five
or six people that would say, Hey, that dude was cool.
Who was that? Which is five or six more people,
(01:52):
And if it's an arena, maybe five or six becomes
five or six hundred that dude was dope? Who was that?
That's about it. Listen, no one's gonna take their phone
out and follow you. It's too big. They're gonna go
get their drinks. This is their sign that like, we
better go get your background music. You are a playlist
(02:12):
in an arena and you better hurry up. And let
me give you a little bit of insider tip on this.
When you're an opener on an arena like that or
on a show like that with a that big of
a headliner, even the volume of your sound it's like
twenty or thirty DB's lower than the headliner. You don't
get the same lights. Sometimes the lights be on in
(02:35):
the in the arena, so you're performing while the lights
are up. You're performing when people walk in. You get
ten minutes, sometimes you get five minutes. Sometimes you get
a song and maybe the headliner will bring you out. Now, Now,
if in that situation I have to happen to have
a new song with Beyonce and she's like, I'm gonna
take you on to it, that's a different story. But
if nobody in this arena knows me, generally the stance
(02:58):
is yo, who bruh? And when is he done? And
that's if they even notice you performing. NI bring it
like I paid five thousand dollars to see Bay. We
hear this, like, yo, who is this? You might be
turning people off. Now, I consider myself a professional. I
usually I have been in situations where maybe not I've
(03:19):
been I've played it. I played arenas before. Now granted
they were like festivals or things where I was set
up well where it was like and that's the situation too,
Like if it was like, hey, I wrote a poetry
piece for this tour and I get to open her set,
I get to open their set, that's kind of setting
the tone. Then I'm making a lot of money. I
(03:42):
get to say my name is in the credits. If
I'm a part of the main set, then that means
I got merch upstairs. And if that's the case, you
got good video footage. There's you know, you get you
get to use the crane camera part of the you
part of the tour recap. And then when they stream
the live tour experience on like Amazon or NETFLI, now
you part of the video. That's okay. Now that's a
(04:03):
move because you and you getting tiktoks out the yang.
You know what I'm saying. You get in content from that.
But if you just gonna throw me out front to
be like, hey, come open up, or let me let me,
let me make this scenario be even more specific. Hey,
for tonight, when you get to California, you got Crypto Arena.
(04:23):
It's Drake only Drake Scott laryngitis. He can't perform. Do
you want to take his slot? Nigga? No, No, they
are gonna throw beer at me. I'm not taking this.
Are you kidding me? No? You would think, well, ain't
you hungry? Nigga? Yes, I'm hung but not like that,
cuz you're setting me up for failure. I have played
(04:45):
a show and I don't know if Game, oh ever
year it is. But there was an event where me
and my friends were the two opening acts for a
concert with Game, and Game didn't come and they made
us go out and perform more songs I like and what,
And according to the promoter, Game was like you, I mean,
(05:07):
it's not enough people there. I'm not performing for an
empty room. And I get it. For the level he
was at at the time, that's not his fault. At
that time, it's like, it's not his fault. You didn't
sell no tickets. You should have promoted this better. I'm
not lowering my brand because you didn't do your job,
was his position. Apparently from what I know, Game cat
checking in like, yo, is a full yet? Is a
(05:27):
full yet? And then finally he was like, man, you
know I'm not coming. It's just not enough people there.
And his contract is like, well, you're still gonna pay him, bruh.
I've never been more terrified. They're not dead for me,
I'm they dead for him. You want me to go? Okay,
So they're like, yo, you want to extra thirty minutes nigga.
No I don't cuz no I do not wote both time.
(05:54):
They gonna be like, nigga, get this nigga off the stage. Bro,
who is this? Who is it? Who is this nigga?
Is he? I mean yeah, I guess the song cool?
I mean cool? I guess In any other scenario, In
any other scenario, if Game walked on the stage and
was like, Yo, this my man's propaganda. He gonna do
(06:15):
a few songs for you, that set up totally different.
I got twenty minutes before a game, come on, I'm
a murder it. Then I get Then at that point,
I got a merch table. I get to introduce myself.
I get to talk a little more. It's a little
more intimate. This ain't a damn arena Cuz, like you,
you're setting yourself up. You do you think you want
that job. You think you want a substitute for Drake,
(06:38):
You think you do nigging. Nobody in the room knows you.
You know how silent that arena is gonna be. No
one knows your songs. It's no one knows your songs.
You're introducing yourself to twenty thousand people who came to
sing along to start it from the bottom to sing
hits ya you think you want that job? You don't.
(07:02):
They gonna look at you and be like, who is
this now? Don't get me wrong again. I am a
great performer and I love challenges. I don't know if
you've ever seen me rap or keynote or do poetry.
Your boy can burn down the stage, So you know,
challenge accepted this setup though, you really piling on the
(07:28):
rocks and your backpack on this setup. Y'all? Who the
hell is Mike Johnson and why is he the Speaker
of the House politics? Y'all? Good morning man, listen. Well,
(07:58):
first of all, I say good morning because that's when
I these pods. I try to record every Monday more
than this to have a little diligence continuation to just
to manage my workload, which boy does a lot. But
I don't know. I usually crush podcasts in the morning too.
After I get a workout, you know, do what I
gotta do, have my coffee, I start listening to listen
to my pod. Anyway, I'm here to talk about the
(08:19):
freaking new guy. Why I give that comparison is because
I mean, it's entire articles whole, full, whole articles saying wait,
who bro who is this about this new speaker? By
now though scene or listen to a few pods or
(08:45):
news stories pieces about who Mike Johnson is. A couple
considerations as to why the GOP would choose him, and
I'm gonna give y'all my take, my little hood take
as to like why they ran with him and why
this might not be that bad of a setup for it.
(09:06):
Although my initial response is what you is, what you
heard in the opening is sometimes you can't you can't
skip steps. You know when people say, you know, you
can't fit in my shoes and shoes is too big
to fill. Usually it's when, like, you know, somebody pass
away or whatever. It's like, it's not like Speaker McCarthy
(09:28):
with some giant of a figure that he has too
big of a shoes. It's the position he's stepping into.
I don't know if I've stuttered, because I need you
to understand the weight of the situation this man is
stepping into. And how miserable of a job if you
haven't been I mean, I don't know how long this
brother been in the in the in the house, in
(09:50):
the Congress, But you know that's a it's a job
you really don't want. You think you won't it, but
you don't want it. But the thing is, he's third
in line of secession if there die and then the
vice president die, the Speaker of the House, like you
third in line? Is you really you really think you
ready for this? Cause like you like you your weight,
(10:10):
you got your weight up that much that you're ready
for this position. I just don't. I don't know if
you're ready for this big dog. And maybe he got
the history of governing which we might go through. Maybe
you know he got he got the history of governing.
But listen, you ain't never let me when you start,
when your stars starts, starts shooting up a little bit.
As an artist or as an entertainer, you have to
(10:32):
do what's called media training. I don't know if any
of y'all ever heard of this, but you have to
know how to talk on camera, which sounds ridiculous because
it's just talking. But there's a way to breathe. Because
if you noticed, when you're watching the news, when you're
watching interviews, you can't really tell a person's breathing, like
you don't know you can don't you don't hear him cough,
you don't hear them breaths. You know they're taking breaths
(10:54):
because of course, but you have to that's a training.
You have to learn how to answer questions. You have
to learn how to divert questions. You have to learn
how to say something that might need an entire minute,
two minute, five minutes, ten minutes, a half hour of context.
You have to figure out how to say in eight seconds.
My one of my favorite, like Zone Out podcast, is
(11:16):
Colin O'Brien's I think he's hilarious, but yeah, Colin O'Brien
needs a friend. On his show, he kept talking about
why he enjoys this format more because when you're on
his late night show, it's eight minutes. So if you're megastar,
you had eight minutes to like show your personality, say
something funny, say something wise, and promote whatever project you're
(11:36):
about to promote. You can't just you can't just jump
from obscurity into that. You have to know how to
talk on camera. NBA players they get the same thing.
If you notice when NBA players are being interviewed, you
you don't especially at the end of again, you don't
see their personality like it's just uh yeah, no, you know,
we got back on d we you know, we just
(11:56):
really had to focus and keep the intensity up, you know,
and it was it was tough towards the end, but
we started hitting the rebounds and I think we came
out on top. Like this, you have to be trained
to talk like that now, unless you like Marshawn Lynch
or you know, Russell Westbrook who are like they just funny,
you know, or Kyrie Irving, like they just funny. You
see them later, you see their personality, right, but they're
(12:21):
they do what they want. I know a handful of
professional athletes life flex and I mean these some of
these brothers just like hilarious dude, some of them very quiet,
some of them they have their full whole ass humans,
you know. But that end of the game, well, you know,
we got back on dys because it's like we just
(12:43):
you represent a very large company and a lot of money,
so don't be mouthed off that simple. So there are
steps that happen off camera, off mic that aren't just
about your skills your ability to do the job. There's
things like that. There's like you have to be made
(13:05):
aware of your unconscious ticks. You may have a habit
of scratching your chin and you don't know you do.
You may have a habit of twisting your eye a
certain way. It all shows up on camp, all of it.
You may have a way of being sarcastic. And if
(13:27):
you understand what happens when you're setting up a joke
and you're building up the sarcasm, the clip only gonna
be thirty seconds, and that's gonna go across the world.
You don't just go from zero to one hundred you
think you do. Nobody is really that type of a
success story. No, there's training that happens in between to
(13:48):
get to that position. I'm just saying, like you think
you want it, you think you want it, There's a
lot that goes on in between. Now you might be asking,
or maybe not asking because you don't really care, but
you might. But I think if you listen to this podcast,
you kind you'd be like, WHOA, what's what exactly is
the job description? The speaker at a house? You just
I mean it sounds like, you know, like hall monitor,
(14:10):
like it's just like a not a real job, you know,
And when you look ato the Constitution, all the Constitution says,
is there should be a speaker like it don't really
tell you. It ain't really much there as to like
what the speaker at the house actually does. Now as
decorum had went on, what the speaker at the house does?
(14:30):
Wait before I get to that, y'all understood the hall
monitor reference, dude? Or is this just the sign of
my age? Like y'all ain't watch no eighties movies. Hall
monitor It's like basically it's the kid that gets a
little badge from like the school security mom or whatever
(14:52):
that is helping out the teachers and the staff to
make sure that you go to class, that when you
go or the bathroom, that you have a hall pass,
you know, and that you you have an excuse when
you're wondering, hey, where class are you supposed to be?
And you can't be in class out you can't be
out here right now, you're monitoring the halls. It's like
you absolute nerd, Like are you serious which a little
(15:18):
pretend badge talk about I'm helping you know to Simpson's reference,
Like just you're like, this is not this is not
a real you don't have real power. It's not a
real job anyway. So the Speaker of the House just
says he just gets the gavel. It seems like I
just get to gosh. Right. But as decorum has gone on,
(15:39):
what the Speaker of the House does is essentially yes,
he calls the order to hear she because you know,
Nancy Pelosi is arguably one of the best ones we've
ever had. Right as far as effectiveness, you got AKR
which was hell of effective. Right. So they the person
calls to order the meetings, the person approves the agenda
for what we to talk about. Right, It's your job
(16:03):
to make sure that as bills get presented that you
got enough riz if you will, to keep your own
party in check, to make sure that everybody happy in
your own party, which is very hard and especially in
the season we en now make sure everybody happy, everybody
(16:24):
get what they want. You got to meet with your
whole squad at like your whole party. You got to
be able to convince people in the other party that
it would benefit them if they make some concessions and
we make some concessions. Essentially, you are the back end
sort of viscosity, the oil of the machine that is
(16:48):
running the government. It's actually a very difficult position, and
you got to have a silver tongue. You got to
be so respected among the masses right that because you
gotta be you can't get pumped. And what happened with
what you just saw is speaking McCarthy ain't got the juice.
(17:08):
You just you got. Even your way of getting to
the position was just proof that you ain't got the
juice Cuz you and and and it's what we told
you we as in me and the last time we
talked about speaking macarthy and getting this position was that. Listen,
you don't have the juice, bro, like you like fools
don't respect your game, they don't respect your name. Gonna
(17:29):
listen to you. You you came in like a punk.
You can't get the position in a fraudulent way and
expect these killers to respect you. It's just you can't.
Like who is you going back to taking Drake slot
like Yo, Prop's a dope rapper? But bro, who who
are you? Like? Bro? Who is this? I saw Corey?
(17:51):
Ain't he said, but my homeboy sound good as him?
Like what he doing? Why he get this position? You understand,
you gotta have weight. There needs to be some like
grap a toss before you could just step it, just
it and it's not popularity like understand what I'm saying,
Like it don't matter what the people with the public think.
Although that helps, that helps with your gravitas, of course
(18:12):
it helps. But it's more like you gotta be like
favorite rappers, favorite rapper type beat. It's it's you could
be hove Hove. That's one rap. That's that's presidency, Speaker
of the House. People like like that position, or like
a Mitch McConnell, like a like a Senate majority Senate
minority leader. That's more like black thought. That's Pharaoh manch
(18:33):
that's Andre three thousand. Where you ask all of your
favorite rappers who the best rappers in the world are,
they gonna say them, it's your favorite rappers, favorite rapper.
It's the person that walks into the room. It's bust
the rhymes. It's like where maybe your gen z nephew
has never heard of these rappers, but the rappers that
he heard of all point back to this dude. Right, you know,
(18:57):
there ain't no a lot of the little little only
exists because of Wayne. Right, So it's that it's your
favorite rapper's favorite rapper type energy. So for this position,
you got to be your favorite politician's favorite politician. Who
the hell is Mike Johnson? Now who was running for
the position. Let's go back to that as to how
(19:18):
you got to him in the first place. A podcast
I listened to called a Political gab Fest, which I
highly suggest y'all check out. These white folks really get
it in man, Like I really, I really appreciate the show.
(19:39):
But on that one of the hosts did this thing
where he was like, all right, y'all, I mean, these
people are like Harvard law professor. On's a CBS or
CBS CBS. I'm such a gangst that's a tagging career
here in La. Not the drug store. CBS's attacked anyway.
One of them is a newscaster on CBS. Like, these
(20:00):
people are brilliant. And one of the dudes was like,
all right, wait now I think about it, CBS is
attagging career out here. Anyway. Let me run off the
names of people who were actual candidates for the next
speaker and which ones I just made up. Listen, they
(20:25):
this is their career. And he was like, which one
of these names actually ran and which one of y'all
has just made up? Jim Jordan, Mark Green, Michelle Caller,
Charles Fleshman, Scott Austin, Roger Williams, Dexter Manley, Gary Palmer.
(20:48):
Which one of them foods actually were running and which
one is totally made up? Well, Jim Jordan was running,
Mark Green was running, Michael Caller Nope, Scott Austin then
he said was his roommate in college, Roger Williams, yes,
Dexter Manley nope. And Gary Palmer, Yeah, he was running.
(21:12):
What I'm trying to say is twelve nobody's you ever
been to You have been to a concert where the
show where it was like you wanted to see one
of your one of your bands, you really like, up
and coming band whatever. When I listen to rock, when
I listened to Robert Evans talk, or or even Cody
over there on on even More News, they be naming
(21:35):
bands and I'd be like, you made that ship up.
That's not a band, right, I had never heard none
of you niggas. Right now, I feel the same way.
Don't get me wrong. I can start naming off rappers
that y'all would be like, man, who Nope, nope, prop
you made that up. We should do that among the
homies too. We would just make up rappers and be like, yo, yo,
you heard you heard a little du dad man he's spitting.
(21:56):
Oh yeah, no, I got his first record. Nigga, you
ain't never I made that name up. But you go
to a concert with a bunch of nobodies and then
there's one guy and you're like, when is this dude
gonna be done? When are all these dudes gonna be done?
So I can see the one name I know anyway,
that was essentially Jim Jordan on this. It's like, who
are y'all? Right? So you got Steve Scalise. I'm gonna
(22:18):
read off some stuff here from I believe this is
from Politico, no associated press. So he announced his bid
through a letter, right and since he's the House Majority leader,
his position will become vacant if he's elected. So McCarthy's
(22:38):
allies were critical of him, saying that he ain't really
helped me during the leadership challenge, right So, and Scalise
is battling cancer right now, so he's got these questions about,
you know, his physical ability to do the job. According
to one Republican lawmaker who choose to remain anonymous, he
(23:01):
was asked if he was physically fit for the job,
and apparently Scaliic is like, y'all feel great. You got
Kevin hearn bro Who is this? He told reporters it's
several lawmakers who approached him to consider running that he
suggested he'd be open to it. He's the dude. Pete this.
He's the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a study
group for conservative Republicans. Patrick Henry he is on the
(23:24):
chair of the Finance Services Committee and as a temporary
House Speaker, he became the temporary one. If you didn't know,
he could possibly use this to his advantage to keep
this post. However, it's really not clear if he wants
the job because you know, he a little substitute teacher.
Niggas don't respect substitute teachers. You got Tim Emner or
Emmer He's a House Republican whip, which will do a
(23:46):
show on one day what the hell that means? And
headed the House Republicans campaign arm during the twenty twenty
two midterm elections when Republicans recaptured the House majority from
Joe Biden's Democrat You got Byron Donalds. He's representative from
Florida nineteenth Congressional district and is gaining popularity in the
(24:10):
Republican Party. In one round of speaker election in January,
he received like twenty votes, so that you know, yeah,
a little joos right, Tom Cole Right, He's a Republican
veteran who holds a powerful position as a chair of
the House Rules Committee. Although he has not said he's
interested in the job, he could gather support from Republicans
who are speaking on an alternative to a conservative speaker
(24:34):
because they looking for somebody, you know what I'm saying,
Like everybody don't wanted the Maca thing going down. Then
you got the haymaker, Hakim Jeffries. So he is the
Democrat that had the Democrats held majority in the House,
Nancy would have handed it to him. He's a Democratic
leader who gained more poets voice. And here's what's crazy.
(24:54):
He gained more votes than McCarthy during the eleven rounds
of voting for speaker in January. While the Democrats are
solidly behind Jeffrey, the Republican majority will most likely block
a Democrat from taking the role. And then finally you
got Jim Jordan. He'd got firecracker that was vehemently defending
(25:15):
Trump during all the impeachment things. He's the dude acting
real loud over Biden's impeachment right now. Right, he gets
a lot of TV. That's what I mean by like
media trained, so you would think, okay, loudmouth Trump surrogate,
media trained. Of course he's gonna go for the job. Right.
So he's from Ohio and he was the first Republican
(25:37):
to announce his candidacy for speaker, and he's again vocal
supporter of Trump. He led the vest he leads to
the investigation against Joe Biden's administration, and he formed an
alliance with McCarthy, which earned some skepticism with hard minor
with hardliners and moderates see him as way too conservative.
(25:58):
I ain't gonna held you a weirdo and also, surprise, surprise,
a lot of people this party don't like him neither.
And I'm saying this as objectively as possible. That man
a weirdo. Let me tell you why he a weirdo,
because the nigga was sending threats to his own party
about if they put him through the shit that they
put McCarthy through, Like nigga, if y'all you front on
(26:21):
me like this, nigga, I'm coming for your kids cause
you better vote for me or else. And anybody with
the two brain cells would say, you know, after you
get the job, you know you gotta work with these people, right,
and you done threaten their kids? Y'all not really gangs.
This ain't an actual set. These are your colleagues. You
(26:42):
gotta go to work, Kobe. Then't you see what they
did to the last dude. You can't be serious, bro,
Like you need the sharpest tool and the shed out
this mug. You out here, you and the shed looking
like a spoon, nigga, Like that's just that's that's not
as that's not the move. Brother. Now these are the people.
(27:28):
And then finally you got Mike Johnson. I'm gonna talk
about Mike Johnson in the second. But I heard this
quote also from the show Political gap Fest, and it's
a quote from Lauren Michaels. That's a dude who runs
Saturday Night Live, right, and he say, we don't go
on because we're ready. We go on because it's eleven thirty.
(27:50):
We don't go on because we're ready, go on because
it's eleven thirty. Now, what he's saying is with Saturday
Night Live, it's like we start because it's time to start,
or not here we go. So the question would be,
fam if y'all not ready, like you got all these
no names, you feel me? If Drake is sick, nigga,
if Beyonce can't come, you don't just pick a Rando
(28:11):
out the crowd, cuz you gotta you need somebody like
if listen, if Beyonce can't come, you better have Mariah
carry or Whitney Houston in the back. Don't bring Tata.
That's a whole other crowd. I mean, we love Tata,
but not in front of the Bayhive. Nigga, you understand
what I'm saying. You need to pull. You better have
Michelle Obama back there somewhere, Nigga, you have better have
(28:33):
Michelle Obama, Oprah, Mariah Carey, like, you need somebody that
could actually fill these shoes. But if you ain't got nobody, like,
you can't just throw Randos out there. That's kind of
what happened. You just threw some Randos out right now.
I'm saying Rando's being funny because all these people are
elected officials. People we have voted for them. They have
(28:54):
actual positions in actual power. So I mean, I'm being
funny about it, but I mean he's like these dudes
like that. I mean, they got a little weight. But
the question is are you are you favorite rappers favorite rapper?
Ask the question and if you not, this may not
be the job for you. Now. Who is Mike Johnson? Well,
(29:18):
Mike Johnson was a huge, huge, huge proponent of all
the dominion machine election fraud. He big on that. You
remember all that about Hugo Chavez being a part of
the dominion machines. He the reason why the death don't work. Yeah,
that's Mike Johnson. He down with all that, he with
(29:41):
all that full whole last creationist as in the earth
was made in seven days, you know, and it's six
thousand years old, and I know whole seminary deans that
are like that is not at all what the Bible says,
nigga like so so that is a very particular view
(30:03):
of scripture. Right. But anyway, led the fight to stop
the twenty two in the election, was super big on
the stop to steal. So basically, you know, he, I mean,
he all in Trump's arm pit, which if you know
anything about the direction of the Republican Party. Is that
(30:23):
that's really all that matters. Right. Trump can't elect, but
he can destroy. I think that's a very interesting position,
is that he can't put nobody on, but he can
definitely stop people from being put on. He could be like,
not that fool, not that fool, not that fool. I
like that fool, right if and he could get that
fool on. Basically he could remove. He can't implant, right,
(30:44):
So but in this particular situation, this really works for Trump,
because that's why I'm saying, like, maybe a rando I
said earlier, maybe a rando might be the move if
it's the right rando, because gets what this was the
man that wasn't going to confirm the twenty twenty election,
(31:06):
Speaker of the House wasn't going to confirm the election.
So if you're fin a run again, who the hell
you think you would want in charge of the next election,
somebody that's willing to ride for you despite all evidence otherwise.
Kind of like his position about Israel. The man said,
(31:26):
full stop, I support Israel and all things so despite
any evidence otherwise, despite all evidence of ethnic cleansing, apartheid,
that they're doing right now, I ride for Israel, So like, okay,
blanket blanket support. Of course that's to do if you trump.
Of course that's the dude you want in position. And
(31:46):
of course you want somebody with know U searchable history, right,
you can't like, I mean, what receipt you got on
the dude, like, don't nobody know who he is? So
you can't call him on some hit because don't nobody
know who he is except for the little bit that
we do know. Now, that's what's good about being unknown,
(32:08):
is like, well, don't nobody don't nobody know? There was
a press conference which I thought was so hilarious, which
speaks to the just wet behind the ear situation that
I was talking about before. This man has no media
training and it's this job gonna eat him alive. Is
in this press conference it is super hilarious because they
asked him about blocking the twenty twenty certification. Right, it
(32:29):
was like, what, I mean, what's up with that? And
then you saw Steve Scalise like the og behind him,
going like, hey man, just listen, man, just move on.
Let's talk about policy. And the guy was like, you know,
let's talk about policy. And then the interviewer was like okay, words.
So then he asked him about like funding Israel, like
so are you super down the fundriels like you're you're
(32:49):
you're all in on that. And then this boy goes,
what I want to talk about policy right now? Like
I just like, nigga, you just said you okay, fam
you it you lighten the booty, g like you're not ready,
You're really not ready for this job. Hm. But lastly,
(33:39):
I think I want to make this point. That's so
that's what I mean by like the hood stuff of
like there there is a benefit of being a nobody
is that I can your ALGs can now train you
as to how to talk while you on the position one,
your ogs can do everything they want to do. They
can make you do what they want because you don't
know because you don't know what you're doing anyway. And
(33:59):
then there's no history, like there's no there's there's you
have no hard drives to hide because there's there's no
videos to pull up, like it's no there's there's nothing there. Right,
you can't get canceled because no one knows who you are.
(34:19):
So it's like, bro, who is this? So there's a
benefit to being a nobody. Now. Lastly, I think there's
an important point to be made which I think dovetails
into this episode. I keep teasing, I keep teasing because
I just ain't recorded yet. But the reality is this
the the Mitt Romney, even the Reagan, Oliver North, the
(34:46):
George Bush, Dick Cheney, Cole and Powell version of the
Republicans that people would call, you know, they even freaking
Paul Ryan if you will, as as recent as that, hell,
the Mitch McConnell's listen, the Republican Party as we know
(35:10):
it is dead. It's gone. It's not it's it just
doesn't There is no it doesn't exist anymore. And this
moment is proof because I mean Mike Johnson is I
mean he full magnet like. So this idea of these
old heads thinking that there are still true school, true
(35:33):
Conservatives in the party and it's worth saving and we
need to stand up and keep be the keepers of
the flame. I mean, you know they are. You're basically
the dudes in their mom's basement talking about real rock
and roll, Like you're the Leonard skinnerd fans, You're the
(35:55):
you're the ACDC motorhead fans that are just like, this
is real rock guys, it's gone. Okay, it's gone. You
it's it's not. This is not where we are. Listen.
I'm guilty of it. I've had to embrace where hip
(36:16):
hop is has gone, because y'all, it's it's different now.
You just you have to look at the charts and
you just have to tell the truth hip hop as
you remember it. Everybody that's like these nineties heads, you
know what I'm saying, golden age of hip hop. Okay, listen,
that's all nostalgic. Okay, it's not. These ain't where the
(36:36):
charts are now. Listen. We could still love our music.
We still make our music. I still go look it.
Wu Tang and Nas just just just had a show
and it was I didn't get to go. But I
tell you what, boy, I was looking at everybody's tick
to everybody's videos about that because I was like, damn,
that would have been amazing. Dog. If hieroglyphics was coming
into LA. So's a mischief in them. I know you
(36:58):
like bro who, but if they were coming, I'm I'm
gonna look at my wife sitting at the desk right
here and be like baby, can I leave on Tuesday?
I gotta go see Hiro Common, the actor. When I
tell you was my favorite rapper, you would be like,
I'm sorry, what exactly?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, the dude and never have I ever Yeah him,
Chicago legend rapper. Yeah, the dude that does the the
AI and voiceovers for those commercials.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
That dude. Times have changed. It's and I really think
at this point it's just listen, Republicans, Yo, the streets
is dead. What you thought the Republican is, Republican Party
is is gone. Here's your evidence that man, Donald J.
(37:48):
Trump has stolen your part. Nigga. He runs your streets
and even after he gone, the remnants. But it's gonna
take a while because you not you not who you
think you are, you who we all know you are.
You are what we've been trying to tell y'all. Y'all
y'all are gonna become. And you know how I know this,
And I say this because I feel like in my
(38:10):
life I have similar regrets. I've learned similar lessons in
my own life about things, but in reverse, like what
I mean by in reverses. There were things that I
should have apologized for immediately. There were things that I
wish I would have got checked on the second they happened.
But sometimes when you let stuff slide. Now this I'm
getting hood on you really like when you let stuff slide,
(38:33):
it grows into where we are. Now. What I'm trying
to say is this, the Conservative Party should have slapped
the shit out of Maga like the second y'all saw it.
Y'all's be like, nah dead that because at this point
it's too late. The fact that that man got through
two impeachments like January sixth, I'm telling you it wouldn't
(38:54):
have happened. Remember when I told you listen, the first
episode I did on iHeartMedia after I did the introdution
of myself was shut the fuck up, you ain't gonna
do shit, And the premise of it was this, if
y'all don't do shit, it's gonna keep happening. So I
said that about January sixth. If nobody really take no
(39:16):
ail from this, if nobody really loses, oh it's over, homie,
It's gonna keep coming. You learn that when you little light,
lightweight little kid like I did, A lightweight little kid,
you know this, a little black kid in his Mexican
hood you know what I'm saying, that big oldcholo boy,
if I let him take my lunch today, even if
I lose, I can't let this man take my lunch today.
(39:38):
I can't let him chase me home today. If he
chased me home today, I'm running home for the rest
of the year. And I don't want to run home
for the rest of the year. You need to know
immediately that like, I'm not the one find somebody else.
And even again, even if he beats the brakes off me,
that man knows we dealt with this now. So when
you have something like that that's like just earth shattering
(40:04):
as to what you think your party is, you gotta
you gotta shut that shit down because because now it's
too late. It's too late now the cement has settled.
And the fact that y'all elected old Mike Johnson, your
last hope was McCarthy. I hate to say this, that
was your last Oh but look y'all punked him to oblivion.
(40:28):
And who punked him to the oblivion? Them same folks
that you should have shut down a long time ago.
And I mean, I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure ten
years we goad to say five years two years we
had the same conversation about the Democrats, Like, y'all should
have shut that down a long time ago. You ain't
shut it down. That's where you are now. I'm a parent.
I'm gonna keep the metaphor. I'm a parent. There's some stuff, yo.
(40:50):
You we gotta stop this now. It gonna be a
problem later boy. Either way, Welcome to the worst job
ever in government, mister Johnson. I hope you're working on
your ris the politics. Hey, quick correction, I was reading
(41:27):
from Al Jazeera, not from Associated Press, My bad. Just
want to make sure I was quoted quoting the right folks. Okay, bye.
You know, I don't know why I ain't thought of
this before, but you know you could use promo code
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(41:53):
Like I forgot I own that company and this is
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hood if you in the cold group, gets you some
cold group, gonna get you some coffee. Yeah, Like, I
can't believe. I ain't think it is still right now, yo, y'all.
(42:21):
This thing right here was recorded by me Propaganda and
East Lows boil Heights, Los Angeles, California. This thing was mixed, edited, mastered,
and scored by the one and the only Matt Awsowski.
Y'all check out this fool's music. I mean it's incredible.
Executive produced by Sophie Lichterman for Cool Zone Media. Man,
(42:42):
and thank you for everybody who continue to tap in
with us. Make sure you leaving reviews and five star
ratings and sharing it with the homies so we could
get this thing pushed up in the algorithm and listen.
I just want to remind you these people is not
smarter than you. If you understand city living, you understand politics.
We'll see you next week. PU
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