August 20, 2025 • 55 mins
Taken by themselves, some actions are problematic, but may or may not be deal breakers. But when you add all of them together, they become a bright red flag. Today we talk about Trump's takeover of media, education, law and culture.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All the media. What's up with it? How y'all doing?
Oh me tired, boy, I'm tired. We just finished the recording.
I usually try to do one show a week to
keep my workload at a manageable level. But this week's
gonna be two shows that I'm recording because next week's
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gonna be incredible. We got Jamel Hill. I can't believe
we pulled this off, Like we pulled up from the
logo and she pulled up. It's gonna be dope anyway.
So I got another episode I wanted to do today.
That is like almost like yo, y'all homegirls sending you
down and say say, baby, you honey, you know this
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is done? Then flags ain't getting no redder. Okay, if
they any more redder, we'd be in Inglewood right now, sweetie.
He he ain't gonna ever share his location with you.
He don't never take you around the Homi's baby, He don't.
You don't know none of them past words. You ain't
never seen his inside of his phone. He don't never
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post you on his socials. Y'all. Don't ever go out
to places in your city. Baby. It's because I think
you understand now, you take all those things individually, and
I mean, okay, so so you don't share his location.
I mean, I mean it's no big deal. Like it's
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not like if he was lying to you, it'd be
one thing. But like, yo, you know, just you take
those things individually and they're not that serious. They're a problem.
There's something y'all should discuss. But depending on what you're
willing to tolerate, because everybody got problems. But depending on
what you're willing to tolerate. I mean, I guess you
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had them things together, though, I think you gotta ain't shit. Nick.
We got to talk about our situation here in the
US of A. Because the flags ain't getting no redder. Y'all. Politics, y'all, Okay,
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what do I mean by red flags? I think you
know what that means. Uh, everybody's scared to talk about
the fascism word, the F word. But here's the thing, guys,
like I'm gonna do an old people reference, you know,
the wily coyote, you know, chasing a road runner when
he run up off the cliff and then don't realize
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he just be dangling in the air until he looks
and sees it and then falls. Look you could do
your googles. Do you do your little utubo to see
what I'm talking about? Young lings? Yeah, we we there, guys,
And I'm gonna give you four four categories as to
why let's be sober minded let's not do be rage
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baby like a for real homie. Like it's again this
your homegirl intervention where you like, sweetie, listen, use a baddie.
I mean, look, I don't know. I'm not in your business.
I just think that's not baby, Okay. I made a
promise to my child, my oldest child, and sometimes it
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means she don't be wanting to talk to me. But
it's because I told her I will always I will
cut it clean for always, I will keep it a buck,
which means you could always trust me. Like when I
tell you like you can come out, you say, how
do I look today? Does this outfit look good? Because
I tell you when it don't look good, I'm like,
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I don't know, it's a little weird. I wouldn't wear it,
but I think it's weird. You know. There was a
little little boy she was messing around with, and I
kept it a buck with her. I was like, listen,
I'm not gonna tell you what to do, but I
can tell you this. You're a side chick. You know.
I didn't say it like that, but I'll keep it
real with her. But like again, I'm not gonna tell
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you what to do. I'm just saying the math is mathing.
And you know she spent her her fuck around town
time and then she found out and now you know
that boy is a distant memory and her little booth
thing right now, they're doing alright. Now. I know I'm
a father and it's hard for me to say this,
but they doing all right. Anyway. We've talked off in
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here too about like the whole canary and the coal
mine thing, and at this point, this is why I
feel like I gotta do this episode. At this point,
if you still sending canaries into that cold mind, I
think you just hate canaries because they keep dying. Every
canary you done sent in there is dead. You know
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what I'm saying, Like, let me try one more time.
I had a mentor used to tell me, like, hey, listen,
it's one thing to walk into a brick wall. Maybe
you didn't see it. Now if you walk into that
same brick wall twice, what the hell wrong with you?
Right so America. I mean, it's literally the name of
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one of our shows. It could happen here, because what
I'm trying to tell you is it did. Now our
Pikachu ain't no right you yet, but we here fams now.
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So we give you four categories as to why I
think we're here. But I want to sober that conversation
with the reality of historically speaking were not special. This
isn't the first time a democracy has gone into peril
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or even a cultural regression a collapse. This ain't the
first time this has happened. And not that I'm gonna
play historical oppression Olympics, but like you know, we not well,
we kind of are, but we're not actually putting people
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into arenas to get eight by animals for fun. I mean,
we're doing it digitally, but we're not like actually doing that.
I also try to remember what the feeling of the
coming of the apocalypse that must have been slave capturers,
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like what it really means to uproot your life, like
in that sense, the terror that those Africans must have felt.
The only equivalent I can think of is ice, which
is part of why outside of the sheer humanity of
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it all. Part of why it frustrates me so much
because I feel like this must be the terror. Maybe
not the same, but I'm like, I feel like that's
my closest understanding of it. Now. Don't nothing compare to
chattel slavery. Don't get me wrong, don't start sending the
emails like but for you to compare, like, that's not
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what I'm saying. What I'm trying to say is like,
this is world ending. You know, it's world ending again.
I want to temper this conversation with the fact that
like societies collapse, nation states fall, Right, there is no
guarantee that a nation will be here forever. Hell, there
is no nation that has been here forever on our planet.
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They all develop and at some point morph into something else.
This is just what it is, right, But sometimes you
got to take a sober and look and just and
just like, look yourself in the mirror, have your homies
look you in the mirror, hould your little chin up
and be like, baby, if he don't treat you the
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way he should, then let him go. What if it
all falls, man, you just gotta let it go. Let's
see what grows from it, which is again the whole
stance of cool zone media. Let's see if we can
sow the right seeds into what we can become. Now,
enough of that flowery shit. I think what I learned
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entering into my forties is the wisdom of knowing the
difference between what can be worked out and what can't
be I do have non negotiables, which is part of
why I don't be getting into like the jubilee thing
when you get the twenty nine people sitting around you, right,
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and you posted to debate them and kind of stand
your ground and like educate those people, because I feel
like this isn't worth my breath because you you just
trying to get your bars off. I am not going
on anybody's sort of you know, extreme right wing podcast,
so I could just be, you know, the punching bag
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for your content. We don't we don't exist on the
same plan. Nothing that there's nothing really talk about. Like
if you don't see the humanity in another human being,
you don't see us. You already don't see us as equals,
so you don't value what I'm about to bring anyway.
I'm I'm I am a prop no pun intended, but
just like I'm not gonna be I'm not just gonna
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be a piece of furniture for your You know what
I'm saying, I'm saying you don't value what I'm saying.
So there's no what are we talking about if all
you're just trying to do is dunk on me, like
we're not really we're not really talking, especially when it
comes to issues of like like Gaza, like that, if
you can't see the humanity or the lack thereof of
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what is happening inside of Gaza, I just don't understand
what we could talk about. Now it's a different story
if you're making an argument about Israel as a concept,
you're making an argument about what it means to be
anti Semitic and Zionist, and that's a different conversation. But
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if you're gonna have that conversation while not acknowledging the
absolute atrocities, the war crimes, the starvation, that that is wrong.
Like if you can't, then I'm like, I don't know
what we got to talk about. You don't value human life,
So like I just what there's all ideas are not
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equal GD Like that's like there's nothing to talk about, right,
we already off the cliff. So even in me making
this episode as to what I think these red flags are,
how the flags can't get no more redder than they are,
I am saying this in hopes of us understanding what
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is salvageable what is not salvageable, And I don't know
the answers to those things, Like I'm gonna be absolutely,
absolutely a trillion percent real with y'all. I have not
existed in this timeline before, neither of y'all. I don't
know what to do right. Everything ain't always a one
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to one. I'm just saying, can we just be real
with each other and start talking? Stop talking about like
if the nigga we hear flags ain't getting more red er? Baby?
Do us do it? So there's four areas that I
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want to cover that I think we've talked about these individually,
but again when you put them all together, what I'm
saying is like you have to face we have to
face reality and stop saying like the if. Now, when
I invoke the term fascism, I know it's a lot
of preamble, but it's very important. Fascism has a definition.
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Now that definition is morphous. That definition is also connected
to time and culture. I'm not getting into specifically into that,
but what I'm just trying to say is, uh, this
gumbo that we're looking at, whether you want to call
it gumbo or not, it got all the ingredients of it,
is what I'm getting at. Okay, all the ingredients for
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your gumbo. I have picked so many metaphors for this show.
Let me just get to the content before I talk
myself crazy. I want to talk about media, education, law,
and culture. And I think that these issues. I put
them in this particular order for a very particular reason.
And it's not because of because when you when you
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look at like how nations fall into autocracies, there is
an order like in a way that and the way
that that is order is understood, it's it's there's a
lot of studies around what happened in Turkey or Ertawan
and the way for which he was able to you know,
consolidate power. It went in a particular order, that's them.
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The reason I put this in this order is because
I want to talk about not so much the academic
way that historically nations fall into autocracies. I'm talking about
the way the culture feel, the way that we notice
it you understand what I'm saying. Like a lot of
times we're experiencing something different than or not necessarily in
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the same order for which it was presented to us.
Does that make sense, Like we're perceiving it in a
different order. You feel me You've ever been in a
conversation you ain't realize you wasn't listening until the second
until the second paragraph, and then when the second paragraph
you kind of finally figured out what they was talking about.
Does that make sense? Then you got to go back
and be like, oh, damn, that's what you've been saying
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the whole time. Oh you were setting me up for this,
but you ain't realize it, you know what I'm saying
till step three, So you experienced it in different orders.
I'm trying to say with this one, it don't make
sense once I start getting it talking. Here we go.
I want to start with the media. Now. I usually
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hate the term the media because there I dot of
feel like there isn't one the media, right, there are
a number of conflicting, you know, interests depending on the
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multi conglomerate corporation, your understanding of the press, your understanding
of the relationship that the government has to the press.
Everybody feel different about it. You feel me so, I
hate the idea of there being a term to describe
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all of it. But what else we gonna do? Right, Like,
you knew what I meant? You feel so again, how
are you experiencing it versus what the actual definition is?
Oftentimes are are to not sow the same things. The
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reason why I bring up the media outside of you know,
creating something like a ruper Murdoch or the Fox News
networks and stuff like that that tend to uh will
not tend to that are obviously shelling for whatever. Right
wing having themselves turned all into a pretzel over Gavin Newsom,
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which is the funniest thing ever. Like it really reminds
me of when you talk to your kids, the way
that they talk to you, and they're like, oh, you
sound lame. Why you sound like that? It's all disrespectful?
You like, is it? Is it disrespectful? Do you know
what I'm saying? Like, like, will you try to show
the absurdity of something? And it's frustrating because they you know,
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they don't you know, they see it, but they don't
want to admit that they see it. They're like, man,
Gavin sounds it's even gravel in my mouth for me
to like defend Gavin Newsom, But they like Gavin sounds unpresidential,
Like really, I think he sounds like the current president. Anyway,
we're gonna talk about that later. Uh. Media, There's been
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a lot of hoopla made about CBS settling. Now there
was a reason why I didn't cover it. I didn't
cover it one because I was like, niggas are getting
snatched out the streets. I don't give a fuck about
Paramount you know what I'm saying, And the independence of journalism,
especially at that level, that's been out the window. Come on,
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cuz it's too much money involved there. So to me,
I was like, I just don't see anything special for this. Now.
That would be if it was the only thing, But
if you pull back and you see it in context
of everything else that's going crazy. Now if you don't know,
there was this lawsuit that was egregious that anybody that
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understands the law looked at this lawsuit that the Trump
administration had against CBS, which is a subsidiary of Paramount Right,
and the lawsuit was the way for which they edited
a commercial and a clip of an interview with presidential
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hopeful Kamala Harris where she was speaking on a particular topic.
Their argument is the clips were edited differently as to
deceive the public as to what she was actually trying
to say, thus influencing the election. That those cuts unfairly
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skewed the perception of the public to who Kamala Harris is. Now,
like I said, everybody in the law was like, this
is ridiculous, what is you talking about. So the lawsuit
was over this interview that was edited and it was
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a stupid lawsuit that was nonsense. But they were But
the reason why CBS had to take this serious is
because they were trying to push together a merger a buyout. Right,
they were trying to sell their company to a company
called sky Dance. Now, the onliest people that can approve
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that is the executive branch. So you got this person
who has an absolutely egregious, untruthful, what the hell are
you talking about lawsuit happening right now. What's crazy to
me is like Paramount has a bunch of different French subsidiaries.
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They got all these different sets. There's like I there's
like Wikipedia, there's like seventy nine companies under this umbrella. Right,
CBS is just one of them. So you could be like, Nigga,
ain't paying you shit, Like what are you talking about? Hell,
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I'll fold CBS. I don't even care that much. It's
not that serious. Or you could be like, I don't
need this, I don't need this skydance deal to go
through that bad We didn't do anything wrong. What you're
talking about is crazy. Or you do what the white
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people do, which is just settle it. The juice ain't
worth the squeeze. Let's figure out a way to make
this go away, and let's just be done with it.
But with Trump, it's not about the money. It's about
the narrative. But we know that, right, So Paramount agrees
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to pay sixteen million dollars to Trump, but not directly
to Trump, but his future library or other causes, not him.
But they still made no apology. Now when you paid
the dude, whether you say you're not making an apology
or not, it feel like you're making an apology. It
feel like you're admitting you wrong because you just paying them,
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but they paying them to let it go. Now, in
a world where gravity still works, it's like, you know
what it is what it is. He childish, He being childish,
and I know if I don't agree with you, you're
not gonna let this business thing go through. So we
get it. The only problem is this is about an election,
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and the dumbest shit about it is it's an election.
You won. What the what are you talking about? You
know what he's talking about. He's saying, it's the principal
palatis of it. Messing with my name is like messing
with my emotions. And what are you trying to do
is to say you say, what the fuck? I'll let
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you say. Now, if you was out on a date
with the significant other and you was trying to tell
a story, right, and you got a partner that as
you're telling the story keeps interrupting you. He said, I
think we was hanging out on Tuesday. Now it was
a Wednesday. It's like, oh my bad, it was a Wednesday,
and I believe we was gonna play spades. No, no, no,
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we weren't gonna play spades. You don't remember it, right, Like, okay, no,
we weren't playing spades. We're playing Domino's and I won
the game, and you like pre sure of spades. But
it does it kind of doesn't make a difference whether
it's Tuesday or Wednesday. It's not even the point of
the story whether you won the game or not. And
as a matter of fact, you didn't win the game,
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but you like anyway. And then you try to continue
to tell your story, but every five minutes this person
keep cutting you off and saying and then you get
in the car, then that person says, hey, don't be
telling stories like that. Don't talk, don't you don't like whatever?
You can talk to me first before you gonna say something.
Do you keep dating that person? Maybe they was embarrassed,
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Maybe you mature enough to say, tell me about your
last relationship. Do you feel like you was the butt
of every joke? Do you feel like every time your
partner would talk that every story seemed like it made
them the hero and you the villain and the story.
If that person says yes, and you go, oh, you
was just triggered. Okay, I don't like the way you
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talk to me like that. I feel very disrespected in
front of all these people that you was willing to,
like shut me down in the middle of a conversation.
I'm gonna need you to not do that. But I
understand what you're trying to say. What you're trying to
say is you don't ever want to feel like you're
being made less of. I understand that. What I'm not
gonna do is run every story by you. Now, that
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would be the mature way to handle that. But if
you live with this person and they pay your phone
bill and they pay your card note, you might be
tempted to just shut up. But at the end of
the day, what this is is you letting that one
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thing slide. You let that moment slide. And when you
let that moment slide, what that mean is that person
always knows right that And this is this is this
is the hood politics part. There's some stuff that, like
you got some some people you just can't let stuff
slide with because if you let that one thing slide,
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there's seven other things that are coming. Right. So what
what journalism was saying is like listen, him doing this
is poking his finger in your chest and telling you
watch your fucking mouth right now. Me, I'm a grown man.
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I'm like, You're not finna talk to me that way, right,
But if your whole livelihood is only is built around that,
what you're gonna do. Man, just like, just tell him,
just tell him, okay, And now everybody else is like
so now, so that's basically it. It's like, man, just okay
whatever like and it's like, Nigga, you doing that only
because you need this check and cut. But what you're
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doing is you undermining us all man. Stephen Colbert stand up.
Stephen Colbert like, hey, Homy, you not Fela, like, you're
not finna bully me and I am disappointed with my ogs.
I cannot believe y'all let this happen. And I'm not
Finna like, I'm not finna play. I'm not gonna play
like that like you not finna do me that way?
Them Nigga's canceled. They show so Stephen Colbert gets canceled, right,
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and he talking about the fact that like, yo, you
saying CBS paramount, you saying you settled this off the
strength of just being like I just wanted to go
away with We didn't made no apology, but just here
it is, give him a sixteen million. We good. But
Trump is also claiming that he's getting twenty million dollars
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worth of advertising and programming. This will happen when you
let you slide, give an inch, they take a mile,
especially when they are a man like him, and you
know what that leads to if you follow me again,
you let somebody talk to you crazy like that, rather
than standing on your ten toes and being willing to
walk away. You gonna hear this this episode. You gonna
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hear another episode next week to where we make a
comparison to that into the South Park dudes who got
the fuck you money? They win, got they bag, They
played the game, they got they bag. It's frustrating when
somebody got that got that fuck off money, got that
fuck you money, and don't say fuck you. That's what
Jamila is gonna say next week. It's an incredible talk.
I'm so excited about it. I'm still talking about it
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because it just happened in real time right now. But like,
that's what they did. They got their brand. Now you
could say they compromised, you could say they still took
the check. Let me get as close as I can
to this camera. Now. I know this is for most
of y'all. This is an audio, but I'm a move
to mike with me so we can you can listen
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you telling me you wouldn't take that check, especially if
you worked out all of the things you needed for
that check to mean that you can make whatever the
hell you want to make, because you done already proven
that your show makes money. You taking that check anyway,
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all that stuff it makes way for somebody like a
Greg Guttfeld, who truly has the worst name on the planet.
Like Gutfeld, I don't understand why your name's so bad
and why you ain't check ain't anyway. Let me leave
that man alone. That might mean something in another country.
Let me, okay, I apologize. Maybe Gutfeld is a name
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from another culture that I am being insensitive about you,
right he asshole, though I don't know what else to
tell you. Him talking about Nazi, this Nazi that like
cracking jokes. I think maybe we should learn from the Blacks. Now,
let me pause right there. Uh. If ever I hear
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anybody talking to me or around me and they use
the phrase the Blacks, I'm gonna be like, I'm gonna
stop you right there, chief, I'm gonna go ahead and
stop you right there. Let's go ahead, stop this conversation right now,
because everything after that in that sentence is gonna make
me want a throat punch you because you refer you
referring to us as the Blacks. I know the next
shit you're gonna say is racist. I already know it's
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gonna be some dumb the blacks. Yeah, bro, I'm good.
Don't finish that sentence. I'm telling you, I'm old enough
to know now some things are not salvageable. Everything after
that is gonna be some bullshit, which is what happened.
He said, Uh, maybe we should start learning from the Blacks,
like how they do it the n word like we
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own it, Like, what's up, my Nazi? What's up? Like
He's like, they took the power, They took the power,
they took the sting out of the in word, and
they just claimed it as their own as a term
of endearment. You're trying to take the sting out of Nazi.
This what happens. This what happens when you need that
bread so much that you let that man shut you
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up at dinner. Now I'm saying that while on iHeartMedia.
I totally understand. I don't want this to happen, but
because I really need this, But I am not paramount.
You understand what I'm saying. Where I'm like, look, okay,
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if it don't work, it don't work, paramount and willing
to walk away. You got to be willing to be like,
you can have all this shit y'all said anyway, that
by itself would be unsettling already, But it's also happening
in education next. Now, in education again, the government is
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sueing Harvard. Now here we go. Let me be real
with y'all, because people have positions and preferences. Of course,
our institutions will our colleges left leaning? They not as
left as I am, But are they left leaning? Sure?
Is there a type of indoctrination? I feel like all
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education is is impossible to not indoctrinate. Don't let them
right way. Your people fool you. You're acculturating. You think
education is neutral. It never's been. It is about being
able to function in our societies. Our societies is a culturation.
It is in doctrination. That's exactly what it is. There's
nothing like. That's not a bad word. The question is
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to what end you understand what I'm saying. Is this
a desire for power? Is this a desire to subjugate?
Is this a rature of history? Whatever the case may
be of course there's there so as someone who may
lean right, sure you can argue that colleges are incredibly
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liberal and maybe you feel like your voices are not
being heard partially because your voices be trashed. But let
me let me not say that. But over you know,
Columbia University and Harvard have ended up settling in the
same way that you know CBS ended up settling, and
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they're paying the president this money. Now, at some point
we have to discuss, which we're gonna talk about later,
why it's okay for this man to get all his
money from these settlements, but while he's the president. But
we'll put that aside for a second. Now, if you
don't know how that case went during the protests last
year where against the war on the citizens of Gaza, right,
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all of the teachings, the sit ins, whatever. Right, the
claim is that, I think we talked about this before,
when you weaponize somebody else's suffer. So they borrowed this
anti semitism. Now, don't get me wrong, it's not like,
you know, movements are pure in motives and people. There
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were probably a number of people there that were anti Semitic, right,
There was probably a number of people there that it's
at least whether that person meant to or not felt
what it felt like as a black person, I know
that experience. Well maybe this person that's talking to me
don't know. It's their intention. Their knowledge base was not
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to be anti black. Their actions were whether they meant
or at least it felt anti black. I'll give you that. Okay,
maybe that was there, but also this was not the
tone of the movement. The tone of the movement was
something very different, something that we have obviously here on
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cool Zone Media rock with a trillion percent, just like
Black Lives Matter and all those things. Of course, these
are not perfect institutions, but it is what it is.
And what the government came in and said was like,
you did not crack down on the anti semitism and
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if you don't do anything about that, and as a
matter of fact, what's up with artist DEI you doing?
Why I need you to start? Dim Nigga said, well, oh, actually,
actually this is the what it turns into, so I'll
get to this, dim Nigga said at the end. But
the attitude was I don't like your recruiting. You're not
following the laws around anti discrimination. You are not giving
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everyone a fair chance. And if you want to keep
getting these big endowments for all the other shit you're doing,
if you won't that I need to see these anti
Semitic things. I need to see these particular things happening.
If not, I'm seeing you. So what they were saying
is they was pulling funding right from their science research. Now,
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as anybody who has any understanding of how we're seen
on the globe, Nigga, we suck at everything except for
incarcerating our own people in mass shooting. That's the only
thing we number one in except for medical research. Because
our country spends so much money in dowing the sciences.
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We have been leading the world for a while. And
this man is so full of himself that he gonna
shoot his own self in the foot the one thing
we do better than everybody else. He gonna remove the funding. Now,
these institutions, they're not helping themselves by being some of
(35:51):
the most wealthy and elite institutions on the planet, right,
They're not helping themselves for being like that. But what
they're saying is, I don't understand how the medical research
got anything to do with us cracking down our anti Semitism.
Help me understand what those two things have to do
with each other. And you know what, our children they
have rights, my nigga, if they want a protest, they
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could protest. They have rights. I don't understand, and I
don't understand why none of you talking about none of
the anti Arab, none of the Islamophobic stuff. You only
worried about the anti Simons and both the shit was happening,
we was trying to handle it all. What that got
to do with our science research? Shit? So Harvard clapped back.
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But the problem is, Harvard ain't the US damn government.
At some point, you're gonna run out of money. So
in a lot of ways where I'm like Harvard, you
came back down. You can't let that man put his
finger in your face the way that he did to
the media. You can't let him do it. But the
problem is, as rich as Harvard is, they ain't got
government money. We at some point have to start running
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the school. And listen, if we just say fuck you
take the money, then we don't need it. Guess what happens.
That's less people that get enrolled, that's less scholarships we
could get out. That's less people we can invite. That's less.
We're like and I listen, far be it for me
to defend the IVY League. But they trying their best
in some ways to recruit in the hood, to get
people from other coades, to bring people from the country
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to try to diversify. They try it. Maybe they're not
doing that good of a job at it, but they
try it. You saying they can't do it. So at
the end of the day they had to be like,
Okay with this bullshit, he doing it. It's either that
or not enroll these people or raise their tuition. They
tuition and lo hard loud enough you would say fuck
(37:42):
you get one of the rich guys to like kick in.
You still don't have you fighting a US treasury. You
have money, but not that much money. So they settled.
What fuck was they gonna do again? You in the
(38:02):
car now, he yelling at you, saying, don't be telling
stories about me when I'm talking, Like, first of all,
you weren't talking, and number two, you remembered it wrong.
But he ain't trying to hear that right now. He
in the car looking at you, saying I don't like
the way you didn't defend me. When that person made
that joke and you like that joke. Ain't had nothing
(38:23):
to do with you. That was a general joke. No,
it did. It offended me. It's like, I don't understand
how that offended you. I ain't had nothing to do
with you. But if you live with him, but if
he pay your bills, but if he could fuck up
everything else around you. He can go to your job
and train and change and just mess up stuff at school.
And now all this good you trying to do in
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the world get messed up just because he didn't hurt
his feelings. The baby get out that car. I'll just
give it to him, you know what I'm saying. Okay,
I guess you just give it to him. But then
the next thing, Trumps and the administration say, I need
to see the demographic information of everybody you try to recruit, age, race, socioeconomic, gender.
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I need to see it all just so I can
see if you're doing any of that woke shit. So
what you're saying is we can't. We can only recruit
like here's here's what again. The footshoot is the footshoot
in your foot shoot? Killing shoot yourself in the foot shit?
(39:34):
You act like white people don't come poor also, But
what you're telling me is we not allowed they not
allowed to recruit in certain areas just in case the
demographic don't look the way you want it to look.
What you're saying is these places is too brown. I
need to make sure you not doing brown shit. What
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the hell is that your business? Who re recruit? Right?
He made it his business. Now by itself, that would suck.
But put it all together, that flag don't get no redder.
(40:18):
Here's more on the education now. You you cancel NPRS,
you cancel PBSS. That's one thing. You cut its funding
because again you believe some sort of lie about how
when somebody tell you what actually happened in history, it
means they leftist, which is funny to me. Oh that's
liberal talk. No, it's kind of just what happened anyway,
(40:39):
So you believe that. Hey, it's only a percentage. Now,
we got to listen to the npr people asking us
for more money, I get it right. But the people
trying to get themselves in position to replace PBS is
Prager University. You may have heard of Dennis Prager. I
(41:02):
know if you listen to any of our other shows
or even to even more news. They did a whole
thing called Prager University. How this nigga be making shit up?
The big one that's going around on social media now
is this clip where they're trying to explain to children
slavery that it really wasn't that bad, right and that
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slave is being taken as a slave better than being killed. No,
So before you judge, ask yourself, what did the culture
and the society of the time treat as no big deal?
You understand that? Do you understand what you're trying to do? Right?
Like that's just one. You go through the different pieces
(41:52):
of these stories about American past, which here's what's even
more frustrating is if you're a person the color, you
already feel like the origin stories of the country that
we learn in elementary school is already wrong. Thank God
for PBS, because I know them books wasn't telling us.
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I Lucky for me, I had a black panther father,
so there was a lot of stuff that I could
listen to the teacher and go wrong, you know what
I'm saying. But this, however, it's like it's almost it's
almost laughable, where it's like you surely you can't be Surely,
surely you're not trying to suggest that maybe slavery wasn't
(42:35):
that bad, which I think is what they're trying to access.
You know what that leads to, That leads to that
lady on CNN last week talking about, you know, only
two percent of white people own slaves. Okay, let's just
say that that stat was accurate and not misleading. Saying
(42:59):
that makes said okay, is this is this you trying
to say that racism don't exist, and that it didn't
exist back then, and that the majority of white people
were not for this sort of race. Is that I'm
not even gonna get into how you completely skewing those
those numbers or the fact that white people still benefited
(43:22):
from slavery. I'm not even gonna get into that. Uh,
I'm saying, is the point you're trying to make that
racism wasn't that bad, It's not as bad as we
say it was. Is that your point? Because if that's
your point, our conversation is over. Because some things are
(43:46):
not salvageable. That flag is so red, which is what's
so agreevous about this attack on education is because it
come at it from every angle. Either. No, that's not
how it went or okay, that's how it went, but
it wasn't that bad, right You know what? That is
(44:10):
Nazi shit now the law as there are federal agents
(44:47):
inside of Washington, DC right now, and ICE agents all
over southern California, Federal as National Guard comes into our
streets as them foods tried to bring the Marines. It
would be e to consider this like a Gustafo, but
the reality is it's not as Gustafo as nothing, as
(45:08):
much as it is secret police. Let me uh, let
me talk to you, Okay again, History is never a
one for one right now, but not for nothing. Before
the Nazis went full gas chamber, the Department of Jewish Affairs,
that was the thing used to send letters to quote
unquote immigrants for them to report to immigration offices to
(45:32):
check their visas. And when they got there, they would
just arrest them and deport them or put them in
holding sales. But sure ICE is nothing like that. Here's
the thing, numb nuts. Okay, I'm not talking about I
shouldn't call you that, but that's the worst I would
call the person if it were about lazy, not on
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working criminals. Why are you going to job locations to
capture people. If it was about the fact that immigrants
don't pay taxes, why are you going to the irs
to get information that don't? Then you don't like that,
(46:22):
don't If it was about the fact that they don't
follow the law and they're here illegal taking advantage of
the system, why would you capture them at the courthouse.
You just went to get working, tax paying people trying
to follow the rules. I know that because that's where
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you're capturing them. So what the what did you talking about?
You playing with me in my face? Right now, I'm
going to read from Lee Morgan Bresser. He's an associate
professor of School of Government in International Relationships in Relation
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at Griffith University. Right, so, the politicians or public figures
are looking for better historical comparisons law enforcement agencies that
use the severe tactics. There is unfortunately no shortage of options.
You got the Soviet Union secret police agencies, the NKVD
and the KGB, it's Iran's former secret police, the Intelligent
(47:32):
Agency SAVOOC, which is SAVAC, which is sa v AK
or East Germany's STAS, right, to name a few. They're
a lot more like secret police. Now, since I is
technically still bound by constitutional limits, its operations has bared
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most of the hallmarks of secret police. Now check this out.
As an expert authoritarian regimes, I've studied many contemporary secret
police forces and extensively in Africa, Asia and Europe. And
these are the five types of criteria. Now stay with me. Now,
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there are police force targeting potential opponents of dissonance. They
are not controlled by other security agencies and answer only
directly to the dictator. They identify the identity of the members,
and their operations are secret. They specialize in political intelligence
(48:40):
and surveillance operations, and they carry out arbitrary searches, arrests, interrogations,
in definite detentions, disappearances, and torture. Now, like I said,
history is rarely one to one. But boy, I tell
you in DC day up there talking about we cleaning
(49:01):
up crime. Now, a problem with the crime and especially
crime rates first of all, is down thirty percent, like
we talked about. And even in that and even the
whatever the crime rate. And remember I always talked about
like crime rates a lot of times is your felt experience,
Maybe DC as a whole has crime that dropped thirty percent.
But you might be out there in southeast, south southeast,
(49:22):
it might be going down in southeast, right, but you
go up to northeast. You know what I'm saying, You
up on U Street is fine, right, It's so it
might be concentrated in a particular area. But for you
to say that you need to take over all of it,
but either way, for you to take say you need
to take over all of it is already ridiculous. But
either way, even if you're not taking over the whole thing,
(49:44):
there's nothing about these numbers that say that that the
police ain't gotta cover anyway. They told them, homeless folk, here,
here's the thing. Check this out. We're gonna build some
housing for you, which, of course, obviously, look at me,
don't trust them niggas. Of course they're not going to
do that for you. So there's that. Right. Then they said,
(50:05):
if not, you can go into a rehab center, and
if not, we might take it in jail. So what
you're saying is it's just the The crime is being poor.
So the crime is not having a place to go.
So the crime is just being you, Like that's the crime.
The crime is you because no one has yet to
(50:28):
tell me. Now, houseless people may lead to crime happening.
But like my man Bamboo says, if you see someone
stealing food, no you didn't. And finally, culture, Now this guy,
(50:52):
this man is not exactly the not exactly an icon
of fashion. We could say that, but so I'm not
saying culture is in the culture. What I'm saying culture
is in the idea of the idea of wanting to
rename the Kennedy Center. I still believe this man stuck
in the eighties. But I know this by him not
(51:14):
only hosting the Kennedy Center Awards, but choosing who wins
Georgia Strait, Michael Crawford, Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, who's known
for I Will Survive. He overhauled the Kennedy's leadership by
dismissing all the board and in the Trump's Big Beautiful
(51:38):
Bill offers two hundred fifty seven million dollars to the
Kennedy Center, which is six times what it normally gets
from Congress annually. Now, I don't give two shits who
wins a Kennedy Center award, which means also why should
he by itself? No big deal, doesn't matter but why
(52:03):
do you get to choose? It's control. So that same
man that won't let you talk and tell stories, that's
mad at you when you don't defend him in front
of everybody, is also choosing what shows y'all, watch what
streamers y'all use. He don't like you looking at No
House of Dragon because it got black dragons in it.
(52:25):
You know what I'm saying. Because the Valerians Viceius in
them is black with white dreadlocks. They don't like the
New Little Mermaid because it got a black Mermaid by itself.
It's no big deal, a little weird, maybe, no big deal.
(52:49):
But it seems like you're trying to control the media,
the police, the schools, and the culture. Sounds like fascist.
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These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all
next week.
All the media. What's up with it? How y'all doing?
Oh me tired, boy, I'm tired. We just finished the recording.
I usually try to do one show a week to
keep my workload at a manageable level. But this week's
gonna be two shows that I'm recording because next week's
(00:26):
gonna be incredible. We got Jamel Hill. I can't believe
we pulled this off, Like we pulled up from the
logo and she pulled up. It's gonna be dope anyway.
So I got another episode I wanted to do today.
That is like almost like yo, y'all homegirls sending you
down and say say, baby, you honey, you know this
(00:51):
is done? Then flags ain't getting no redder. Okay, if
they any more redder, we'd be in Inglewood right now, sweetie.
He he ain't gonna ever share his location with you.
He don't never take you around the Homi's baby, He don't.
You don't know none of them past words. You ain't
never seen his inside of his phone. He don't never
(01:13):
post you on his socials. Y'all. Don't ever go out
to places in your city. Baby. It's because I think
you understand now, you take all those things individually, and
I mean, okay, so so you don't share his location.
I mean, I mean it's no big deal. Like it's
(01:35):
not like if he was lying to you, it'd be
one thing. But like, yo, you know, just you take
those things individually and they're not that serious. They're a problem.
There's something y'all should discuss. But depending on what you're
willing to tolerate, because everybody got problems. But depending on
what you're willing to tolerate. I mean, I guess you
(01:57):
had them things together, though, I think you gotta ain't shit. Nick.
We got to talk about our situation here in the
US of A. Because the flags ain't getting no redder. Y'all. Politics, y'all, Okay,
(02:31):
what do I mean by red flags? I think you
know what that means. Uh, everybody's scared to talk about
the fascism word, the F word. But here's the thing, guys,
like I'm gonna do an old people reference, you know,
the wily coyote, you know, chasing a road runner when
he run up off the cliff and then don't realize
(02:52):
he just be dangling in the air until he looks
and sees it and then falls. Look you could do
your googles. Do you do your little utubo to see
what I'm talking about? Young lings? Yeah, we we there, guys,
And I'm gonna give you four four categories as to
why let's be sober minded let's not do be rage
(03:16):
baby like a for real homie. Like it's again this
your homegirl intervention where you like, sweetie, listen, use a baddie.
I mean, look, I don't know. I'm not in your business.
I just think that's not baby, Okay. I made a
promise to my child, my oldest child, and sometimes it
(03:38):
means she don't be wanting to talk to me. But
it's because I told her I will always I will
cut it clean for always, I will keep it a buck,
which means you could always trust me. Like when I
tell you like you can come out, you say, how
do I look today? Does this outfit look good? Because
I tell you when it don't look good, I'm like,
(03:58):
I don't know, it's a little weird. I wouldn't wear it,
but I think it's weird. You know. There was a
little little boy she was messing around with, and I
kept it a buck with her. I was like, listen,
I'm not gonna tell you what to do, but I
can tell you this. You're a side chick. You know.
I didn't say it like that, but I'll keep it
real with her. But like again, I'm not gonna tell
(04:19):
you what to do. I'm just saying the math is mathing.
And you know she spent her her fuck around town
time and then she found out and now you know
that boy is a distant memory and her little booth
thing right now, they're doing alright. Now. I know I'm
a father and it's hard for me to say this,
but they doing all right. Anyway. We've talked off in
(04:44):
here too about like the whole canary and the coal
mine thing, and at this point, this is why I
feel like I gotta do this episode. At this point,
if you still sending canaries into that cold mind, I
think you just hate canaries because they keep dying. Every
canary you done sent in there is dead. You know
(05:08):
what I'm saying, Like, let me try one more time.
I had a mentor used to tell me, like, hey, listen,
it's one thing to walk into a brick wall. Maybe
you didn't see it. Now if you walk into that
same brick wall twice, what the hell wrong with you?
Right so America. I mean, it's literally the name of
(05:31):
one of our shows. It could happen here, because what
I'm trying to tell you is it did. Now our
Pikachu ain't no right you yet, but we here fams now.
(05:51):
So we give you four categories as to why I
think we're here. But I want to sober that conversation
with the reality of historically speaking were not special. This
isn't the first time a democracy has gone into peril
(06:15):
or even a cultural regression a collapse. This ain't the
first time this has happened. And not that I'm gonna
play historical oppression Olympics, but like you know, we not well,
we kind of are, but we're not actually putting people
(06:35):
into arenas to get eight by animals for fun. I mean,
we're doing it digitally, but we're not like actually doing that.
I also try to remember what the feeling of the
coming of the apocalypse that must have been slave capturers,
(06:56):
like what it really means to uproot your life, like
in that sense, the terror that those Africans must have felt.
The only equivalent I can think of is ice, which
is part of why outside of the sheer humanity of
(07:16):
it all. Part of why it frustrates me so much
because I feel like this must be the terror. Maybe
not the same, but I'm like, I feel like that's
my closest understanding of it. Now. Don't nothing compare to
chattel slavery. Don't get me wrong, don't start sending the
emails like but for you to compare, like, that's not
(07:38):
what I'm saying. What I'm trying to say is like,
this is world ending. You know, it's world ending again.
I want to temper this conversation with the fact that
like societies collapse, nation states fall, Right, there is no
guarantee that a nation will be here forever. Hell, there
is no nation that has been here forever on our planet.
(08:02):
They all develop and at some point morph into something else.
This is just what it is, right, But sometimes you
got to take a sober and look and just and
just like, look yourself in the mirror, have your homies
look you in the mirror, hould your little chin up
and be like, baby, if he don't treat you the
(08:25):
way he should, then let him go. What if it
all falls, man, you just gotta let it go. Let's
see what grows from it, which is again the whole
stance of cool zone media. Let's see if we can
sow the right seeds into what we can become. Now,
enough of that flowery shit. I think what I learned
(08:48):
entering into my forties is the wisdom of knowing the
difference between what can be worked out and what can't
be I do have non negotiables, which is part of
why I don't be getting into like the jubilee thing
when you get the twenty nine people sitting around you, right,
(09:11):
and you posted to debate them and kind of stand
your ground and like educate those people, because I feel
like this isn't worth my breath because you you just
trying to get your bars off. I am not going
on anybody's sort of you know, extreme right wing podcast,
so I could just be, you know, the punching bag
(09:33):
for your content. We don't we don't exist on the
same plan. Nothing that there's nothing really talk about. Like
if you don't see the humanity in another human being,
you don't see us. You already don't see us as equals,
so you don't value what I'm about to bring anyway.
I'm I'm I am a prop no pun intended, but
just like I'm not gonna be I'm not just gonna
(09:53):
be a piece of furniture for your You know what
I'm saying, I'm saying you don't value what I'm saying.
So there's no what are we talking about if all
you're just trying to do is dunk on me, like
we're not really we're not really talking, especially when it
comes to issues of like like Gaza, like that, if
you can't see the humanity or the lack thereof of
(10:15):
what is happening inside of Gaza, I just don't understand
what we could talk about. Now it's a different story
if you're making an argument about Israel as a concept,
you're making an argument about what it means to be
anti Semitic and Zionist, and that's a different conversation. But
(10:37):
if you're gonna have that conversation while not acknowledging the
absolute atrocities, the war crimes, the starvation, that that is wrong.
Like if you can't, then I'm like, I don't know
what we got to talk about. You don't value human life,
So like I just what there's all ideas are not
(11:02):
equal GD Like that's like there's nothing to talk about, right,
we already off the cliff. So even in me making
this episode as to what I think these red flags are,
how the flags can't get no more redder than they are,
I am saying this in hopes of us understanding what
(11:24):
is salvageable what is not salvageable, And I don't know
the answers to those things, Like I'm gonna be absolutely,
absolutely a trillion percent real with y'all. I have not
existed in this timeline before, neither of y'all. I don't
know what to do right. Everything ain't always a one
(11:47):
to one. I'm just saying, can we just be real
with each other and start talking? Stop talking about like
if the nigga we hear flags ain't getting more red er? Baby?
Do us do it? So there's four areas that I
(12:30):
want to cover that I think we've talked about these individually,
but again when you put them all together, what I'm
saying is like you have to face we have to
face reality and stop saying like the if. Now, when
I invoke the term fascism, I know it's a lot
of preamble, but it's very important. Fascism has a definition.
(12:52):
Now that definition is morphous. That definition is also connected
to time and culture. I'm not getting into specifically into that,
but what I'm just trying to say is, uh, this
gumbo that we're looking at, whether you want to call
it gumbo or not, it got all the ingredients of it,
is what I'm getting at. Okay, all the ingredients for
(13:14):
your gumbo. I have picked so many metaphors for this show.
Let me just get to the content before I talk
myself crazy. I want to talk about media, education, law,
and culture. And I think that these issues. I put
them in this particular order for a very particular reason.
And it's not because of because when you when you
(13:36):
look at like how nations fall into autocracies, there is
an order like in a way that and the way
that that is order is understood, it's it's there's a
lot of studies around what happened in Turkey or Ertawan
and the way for which he was able to you know,
consolidate power. It went in a particular order, that's them.
(14:00):
The reason I put this in this order is because
I want to talk about not so much the academic
way that historically nations fall into autocracies. I'm talking about
the way the culture feel, the way that we notice
it you understand what I'm saying. Like a lot of
times we're experiencing something different than or not necessarily in
(14:27):
the same order for which it was presented to us.
Does that make sense, Like we're perceiving it in a
different order. You feel me You've ever been in a
conversation you ain't realize you wasn't listening until the second
until the second paragraph, and then when the second paragraph
you kind of finally figured out what they was talking about.
Does that make sense? Then you got to go back
and be like, oh, damn, that's what you've been saying
(14:48):
the whole time. Oh you were setting me up for this,
but you ain't realize it, you know what I'm saying
till step three, So you experienced it in different orders.
I'm trying to say with this one, it don't make
sense once I start getting it talking. Here we go.
I want to start with the media. Now. I usually
(15:10):
hate the term the media because there I dot of
feel like there isn't one the media, right, there are
a number of conflicting, you know, interests depending on the
(15:31):
multi conglomerate corporation, your understanding of the press, your understanding
of the relationship that the government has to the press.
Everybody feel different about it. You feel me so, I
hate the idea of there being a term to describe
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all of it. But what else we gonna do? Right, Like,
you knew what I meant? You feel so again, how
are you experiencing it versus what the actual definition is?
Oftentimes are are to not sow the same things. The
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reason why I bring up the media outside of you know,
creating something like a ruper Murdoch or the Fox News
networks and stuff like that that tend to uh will
not tend to that are obviously shelling for whatever. Right
wing having themselves turned all into a pretzel over Gavin Newsom,
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which is the funniest thing ever. Like it really reminds
me of when you talk to your kids, the way
that they talk to you, and they're like, oh, you
sound lame. Why you sound like that? It's all disrespectful?
You like, is it? Is it disrespectful? Do you know
what I'm saying? Like, like, will you try to show
the absurdity of something? And it's frustrating because they you know,
(16:57):
they don't you know, they see it, but they don't
want to admit that they see it. They're like, man,
Gavin sounds it's even gravel in my mouth for me
to like defend Gavin Newsom, But they like Gavin sounds unpresidential,
Like really, I think he sounds like the current president. Anyway,
we're gonna talk about that later. Uh. Media, There's been
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a lot of hoopla made about CBS settling. Now there
was a reason why I didn't cover it. I didn't
cover it one because I was like, niggas are getting
snatched out the streets. I don't give a fuck about
Paramount you know what I'm saying, And the independence of journalism,
especially at that level, that's been out the window. Come on,
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cuz it's too much money involved there. So to me,
I was like, I just don't see anything special for this. Now.
That would be if it was the only thing, But
if you pull back and you see it in context
of everything else that's going crazy. Now if you don't know,
there was this lawsuit that was egregious that anybody that
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understands the law looked at this lawsuit that the Trump
administration had against CBS, which is a subsidiary of Paramount Right,
and the lawsuit was the way for which they edited
a commercial and a clip of an interview with presidential
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hopeful Kamala Harris where she was speaking on a particular topic.
Their argument is the clips were edited differently as to
deceive the public as to what she was actually trying
to say, thus influencing the election. That those cuts unfairly
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skewed the perception of the public to who Kamala Harris is. Now,
like I said, everybody in the law was like, this
is ridiculous, what is you talking about. So the lawsuit
was over this interview that was edited and it was
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a stupid lawsuit that was nonsense. But they were But
the reason why CBS had to take this serious is
because they were trying to push together a merger a buyout. Right,
they were trying to sell their company to a company
called sky Dance. Now, the onliest people that can approve
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that is the executive branch. So you got this person
who has an absolutely egregious, untruthful, what the hell are
you talking about lawsuit happening right now. What's crazy to
me is like Paramount has a bunch of different French subsidiaries.
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They got all these different sets. There's like I there's
like Wikipedia, there's like seventy nine companies under this umbrella. Right,
CBS is just one of them. So you could be like, Nigga,
ain't paying you shit, Like what are you talking about? Hell,
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I'll fold CBS. I don't even care that much. It's
not that serious. Or you could be like, I don't
need this, I don't need this skydance deal to go
through that bad We didn't do anything wrong. What you're
talking about is crazy. Or you do what the white
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people do, which is just settle it. The juice ain't
worth the squeeze. Let's figure out a way to make
this go away, and let's just be done with it.
But with Trump, it's not about the money. It's about
the narrative. But we know that, right, So Paramount agrees
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to pay sixteen million dollars to Trump, but not directly
to Trump, but his future library or other causes, not him.
But they still made no apology. Now when you paid
the dude, whether you say you're not making an apology
or not, it feel like you're making an apology. It
feel like you're admitting you wrong because you just paying them,
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but they paying them to let it go. Now, in
a world where gravity still works, it's like, you know
what it is what it is. He childish, He being childish,
and I know if I don't agree with you, you're
not gonna let this business thing go through. So we
get it. The only problem is this is about an election,
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and the dumbest shit about it is it's an election.
You won. What the what are you talking about? You
know what he's talking about. He's saying, it's the principal
palatis of it. Messing with my name is like messing
with my emotions. And what are you trying to do
is to say you say, what the fuck? I'll let
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you say. Now, if you was out on a date
with the significant other and you was trying to tell
a story, right, and you got a partner that as
you're telling the story keeps interrupting you. He said, I
think we was hanging out on Tuesday. Now it was
a Wednesday. It's like, oh my bad, it was a Wednesday,
and I believe we was gonna play spades. No, no, no,
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we weren't gonna play spades. You don't remember it, right, Like, okay, no,
we weren't playing spades. We're playing Domino's and I won
the game, and you like pre sure of spades. But
it does it kind of doesn't make a difference whether
it's Tuesday or Wednesday. It's not even the point of
the story whether you won the game or not. And
as a matter of fact, you didn't win the game,
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but you like anyway. And then you try to continue
to tell your story, but every five minutes this person
keep cutting you off and saying and then you get
in the car, then that person says, hey, don't be
telling stories like that. Don't talk, don't you don't like whatever?
You can talk to me first before you gonna say something.
Do you keep dating that person? Maybe they was embarrassed,
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Maybe you mature enough to say, tell me about your
last relationship. Do you feel like you was the butt
of every joke? Do you feel like every time your
partner would talk that every story seemed like it made
them the hero and you the villain and the story.
If that person says yes, and you go, oh, you
was just triggered. Okay, I don't like the way you
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talk to me like that. I feel very disrespected in
front of all these people that you was willing to,
like shut me down in the middle of a conversation.
I'm gonna need you to not do that. But I
understand what you're trying to say. What you're trying to
say is you don't ever want to feel like you're
being made less of. I understand that. What I'm not
gonna do is run every story by you. Now, that
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would be the mature way to handle that. But if
you live with this person and they pay your phone
bill and they pay your card note, you might be
tempted to just shut up. But at the end of
the day, what this is is you letting that one
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thing slide. You let that moment slide. And when you
let that moment slide, what that mean is that person
always knows right that And this is this is this
is the hood politics part. There's some stuff that, like
you got some some people you just can't let stuff
slide with because if you let that one thing slide,
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there's seven other things that are coming. Right. So what
what journalism was saying is like listen, him doing this
is poking his finger in your chest and telling you
watch your fucking mouth right now. Me, I'm a grown man.
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I'm like, You're not finna talk to me that way, right,
But if your whole livelihood is only is built around that,
what you're gonna do. Man, just like, just tell him,
just tell him, okay, And now everybody else is like
so now, so that's basically it. It's like, man, just okay
whatever like and it's like, Nigga, you doing that only
because you need this check and cut. But what you're
(25:28):
doing is you undermining us all man. Stephen Colbert stand up.
Stephen Colbert like, hey, Homy, you not Fela, like, you're
not finna bully me and I am disappointed with my ogs.
I cannot believe y'all let this happen. And I'm not
Finna like, I'm not finna play. I'm not gonna play
like that like you not finna do me that way?
Them Nigga's canceled. They show so Stephen Colbert gets canceled, right,
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and he talking about the fact that like, yo, you
saying CBS paramount, you saying you settled this off the
strength of just being like I just wanted to go
away with We didn't made no apology, but just here
it is, give him a sixteen million. We good. But
Trump is also claiming that he's getting twenty million dollars
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worth of advertising and programming. This will happen when you
let you slide, give an inch, they take a mile,
especially when they are a man like him, and you
know what that leads to if you follow me again,
you let somebody talk to you crazy like that, rather
than standing on your ten toes and being willing to
walk away. You gonna hear this this episode. You gonna
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hear another episode next week to where we make a
comparison to that into the South Park dudes who got
the fuck you money? They win, got they bag, They
played the game, they got they bag. It's frustrating when
somebody got that got that fuck off money, got that
fuck you money, and don't say fuck you. That's what
Jamila is gonna say next week. It's an incredible talk.
I'm so excited about it. I'm still talking about it
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because it just happened in real time right now. But like,
that's what they did. They got their brand. Now you
could say they compromised, you could say they still took
the check. Let me get as close as I can
to this camera. Now. I know this is for most
of y'all. This is an audio, but I'm a move
to mike with me so we can you can listen
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you telling me you wouldn't take that check, especially if
you worked out all of the things you needed for
that check to mean that you can make whatever the
hell you want to make, because you done already proven
that your show makes money. You taking that check anyway,
(27:45):
all that stuff it makes way for somebody like a
Greg Guttfeld, who truly has the worst name on the planet.
Like Gutfeld, I don't understand why your name's so bad
and why you ain't check ain't anyway. Let me leave
that man alone. That might mean something in another country.
Let me, okay, I apologize. Maybe Gutfeld is a name
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from another culture that I am being insensitive about you,
right he asshole, though I don't know what else to
tell you. Him talking about Nazi, this Nazi that like
cracking jokes. I think maybe we should learn from the Blacks. Now,
let me pause right there. Uh. If ever I hear
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anybody talking to me or around me and they use
the phrase the Blacks, I'm gonna be like, I'm gonna
stop you right there, chief, I'm gonna go ahead and
stop you right there. Let's go ahead, stop this conversation right now,
because everything after that in that sentence is gonna make
me want a throat punch you because you refer you
referring to us as the Blacks. I know the next
shit you're gonna say is racist. I already know it's
(28:50):
gonna be some dumb the blacks. Yeah, bro, I'm good.
Don't finish that sentence. I'm telling you, I'm old enough
to know now some things are not salvageable. Everything after
that is gonna be some bullshit, which is what happened.
He said, Uh, maybe we should start learning from the Blacks,
like how they do it the n word like we
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own it, Like, what's up, my Nazi? What's up? Like
He's like, they took the power, They took the power,
they took the sting out of the in word, and
they just claimed it as their own as a term
of endearment. You're trying to take the sting out of Nazi.
This what happens. This what happens when you need that
bread so much that you let that man shut you
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up at dinner. Now I'm saying that while on iHeartMedia.
I totally understand. I don't want this to happen, but
because I really need this, But I am not paramount.
You understand what I'm saying. Where I'm like, look, okay,
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if it don't work, it don't work, paramount and willing
to walk away. You got to be willing to be like,
you can have all this shit y'all said anyway, that
by itself would be unsettling already, But it's also happening
in education next. Now, in education again, the government is
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sueing Harvard. Now here we go. Let me be real
with y'all, because people have positions and preferences. Of course,
our institutions will our colleges left leaning? They not as
left as I am, But are they left leaning? Sure?
Is there a type of indoctrination? I feel like all
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education is is impossible to not indoctrinate. Don't let them
right way. Your people fool you. You're acculturating. You think
education is neutral. It never's been. It is about being
able to function in our societies. Our societies is a culturation.
It is in doctrination. That's exactly what it is. There's
nothing like. That's not a bad word. The question is
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to what end you understand what I'm saying. Is this
a desire for power? Is this a desire to subjugate?
Is this a rature of history? Whatever the case may
be of course there's there so as someone who may
lean right, sure you can argue that colleges are incredibly
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liberal and maybe you feel like your voices are not
being heard partially because your voices be trashed. But let
me let me not say that. But over you know,
Columbia University and Harvard have ended up settling in the
same way that you know CBS ended up settling, and
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they're paying the president this money. Now, at some point
we have to discuss, which we're gonna talk about later,
why it's okay for this man to get all his
money from these settlements, but while he's the president. But
we'll put that aside for a second. Now, if you
don't know how that case went during the protests last
year where against the war on the citizens of Gaza, right,
(32:50):
all of the teachings, the sit ins, whatever. Right, the
claim is that, I think we talked about this before,
when you weaponize somebody else's suffer. So they borrowed this
anti semitism. Now, don't get me wrong, it's not like,
you know, movements are pure in motives and people. There
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were probably a number of people there that were anti Semitic, right,
There was probably a number of people there that it's
at least whether that person meant to or not felt
what it felt like as a black person, I know
that experience. Well maybe this person that's talking to me
don't know. It's their intention. Their knowledge base was not
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to be anti black. Their actions were whether they meant
or at least it felt anti black. I'll give you that. Okay,
maybe that was there, but also this was not the
tone of the movement. The tone of the movement was
something very different, something that we have obviously here on
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cool Zone Media rock with a trillion percent, just like
Black Lives Matter and all those things. Of course, these
are not perfect institutions, but it is what it is.
And what the government came in and said was like,
you did not crack down on the anti semitism and
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if you don't do anything about that, and as a
matter of fact, what's up with artist DEI you doing?
Why I need you to start? Dim Nigga said, well, oh, actually,
actually this is the what it turns into, so I'll
get to this, dim Nigga said at the end. But
the attitude was I don't like your recruiting. You're not
following the laws around anti discrimination. You are not giving
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everyone a fair chance. And if you want to keep
getting these big endowments for all the other shit you're doing,
if you won't that I need to see these anti
Semitic things. I need to see these particular things happening.
If not, I'm seeing you. So what they were saying
is they was pulling funding right from their science research. Now,
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as anybody who has any understanding of how we're seen
on the globe, Nigga, we suck at everything except for
incarcerating our own people in mass shooting. That's the only
thing we number one in except for medical research. Because
our country spends so much money in dowing the sciences.
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We have been leading the world for a while. And
this man is so full of himself that he gonna
shoot his own self in the foot the one thing
we do better than everybody else. He gonna remove the funding. Now,
these institutions, they're not helping themselves by being some of
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the most wealthy and elite institutions on the planet, right,
They're not helping themselves for being like that. But what
they're saying is, I don't understand how the medical research
got anything to do with us cracking down our anti Semitism.
Help me understand what those two things have to do
with each other. And you know what, our children they
have rights, my nigga, if they want a protest, they
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could protest. They have rights. I don't understand, and I
don't understand why none of you talking about none of
the anti Arab, none of the Islamophobic stuff. You only
worried about the anti Simons and both the shit was happening,
we was trying to handle it all. What that got
to do with our science research? Shit? So Harvard clapped back.
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But the problem is, Harvard ain't the US damn government.
At some point, you're gonna run out of money. So
in a lot of ways where I'm like Harvard, you
came back down. You can't let that man put his
finger in your face the way that he did to
the media. You can't let him do it. But the
problem is, as rich as Harvard is, they ain't got
government money. We at some point have to start running
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the school. And listen, if we just say fuck you
take the money, then we don't need it. Guess what happens.
That's less people that get enrolled, that's less scholarships we
could get out. That's less people we can invite. That's less.
We're like and I listen, far be it for me
to defend the IVY League. But they trying their best
in some ways to recruit in the hood, to get
people from other coades, to bring people from the country
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to try to diversify. They try it. Maybe they're not
doing that good of a job at it, but they
try it. You saying they can't do it. So at
the end of the day they had to be like,
Okay with this bullshit, he doing it. It's either that
or not enroll these people or raise their tuition. They
tuition and lo hard loud enough you would say fuck
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you get one of the rich guys to like kick in.
You still don't have you fighting a US treasury. You
have money, but not that much money. So they settled.
What fuck was they gonna do again? You in the
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car now, he yelling at you, saying, don't be telling
stories about me when I'm talking, Like, first of all,
you weren't talking, and number two, you remembered it wrong.
But he ain't trying to hear that right now. He
in the car looking at you, saying I don't like
the way you didn't defend me. When that person made
that joke and you like that joke. Ain't had nothing
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to do with you. That was a general joke. No,
it did. It offended me. It's like, I don't understand
how that offended you. I ain't had nothing to do
with you. But if you live with him, but if
he pay your bills, but if he could fuck up
everything else around you. He can go to your job
and train and change and just mess up stuff at school.
And now all this good you trying to do in
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the world get messed up just because he didn't hurt
his feelings. The baby get out that car. I'll just
give it to him, you know what I'm saying. Okay,
I guess you just give it to him. But then
the next thing, Trumps and the administration say, I need
to see the demographic information of everybody you try to recruit, age, race, socioeconomic, gender.
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I need to see it all just so I can
see if you're doing any of that woke shit. So
what you're saying is we can't. We can only recruit
like here's here's what again. The footshoot is the footshoot
in your foot shoot? Killing shoot yourself in the foot shit?
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You act like white people don't come poor also, But
what you're telling me is we not allowed they not
allowed to recruit in certain areas just in case the
demographic don't look the way you want it to look.
What you're saying is these places is too brown. I
need to make sure you not doing brown shit. What
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the hell is that your business? Who re recruit? Right?
He made it his business. Now by itself, that would suck.
But put it all together, that flag don't get no redder.
(40:18):
Here's more on the education now. You you cancel NPRS,
you cancel PBSS. That's one thing. You cut its funding
because again you believe some sort of lie about how
when somebody tell you what actually happened in history, it
means they leftist, which is funny to me. Oh that's
liberal talk. No, it's kind of just what happened anyway,
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So you believe that. Hey, it's only a percentage. Now,
we got to listen to the npr people asking us
for more money, I get it right. But the people
trying to get themselves in position to replace PBS is
Prager University. You may have heard of Dennis Prager. I
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know if you listen to any of our other shows
or even to even more news. They did a whole
thing called Prager University. How this nigga be making shit up?
The big one that's going around on social media now
is this clip where they're trying to explain to children
slavery that it really wasn't that bad, right and that
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slave is being taken as a slave better than being killed. No,
So before you judge, ask yourself, what did the culture
and the society of the time treat as no big deal?
You understand that? Do you understand what you're trying to do? Right?
Like that's just one. You go through the different pieces
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of these stories about American past, which here's what's even
more frustrating is if you're a person the color, you
already feel like the origin stories of the country that
we learn in elementary school is already wrong. Thank God
for PBS, because I know them books wasn't telling us.
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I Lucky for me, I had a black panther father,
so there was a lot of stuff that I could
listen to the teacher and go wrong, you know what
I'm saying. But this, however, it's like it's almost it's
almost laughable, where it's like you surely you can't be Surely,
surely you're not trying to suggest that maybe slavery wasn't
(42:35):
that bad, which I think is what they're trying to access.
You know what that leads to, That leads to that
lady on CNN last week talking about, you know, only
two percent of white people own slaves. Okay, let's just
say that that stat was accurate and not misleading. Saying
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that makes said okay, is this is this you trying
to say that racism don't exist, and that it didn't
exist back then, and that the majority of white people
were not for this sort of race. Is that I'm
not even gonna get into how you completely skewing those
those numbers or the fact that white people still benefited
(43:22):
from slavery. I'm not even gonna get into that. Uh,
I'm saying, is the point you're trying to make that
racism wasn't that bad, It's not as bad as we
say it was. Is that your point? Because if that's
your point, our conversation is over. Because some things are
(43:46):
not salvageable. That flag is so red, which is what's
so agreevous about this attack on education is because it
come at it from every angle. Either. No, that's not
how it went or okay, that's how it went, but
it wasn't that bad, right You know what? That is
(44:10):
Nazi shit now the law as there are federal agents
(44:47):
inside of Washington, DC right now, and ICE agents all
over southern California, Federal as National Guard comes into our
streets as them foods tried to bring the Marines. It
would be e to consider this like a Gustafo, but
the reality is it's not as Gustafo as nothing, as
(45:08):
much as it is secret police. Let me uh, let
me talk to you, Okay again, History is never a
one for one right now, but not for nothing. Before
the Nazis went full gas chamber, the Department of Jewish Affairs,
that was the thing used to send letters to quote
unquote immigrants for them to report to immigration offices to
(45:32):
check their visas. And when they got there, they would
just arrest them and deport them or put them in
holding sales. But sure ICE is nothing like that. Here's
the thing, numb nuts. Okay, I'm not talking about I
shouldn't call you that, but that's the worst I would
call the person if it were about lazy, not on
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working criminals. Why are you going to job locations to
capture people. If it was about the fact that immigrants
don't pay taxes, why are you going to the irs
to get information that don't? Then you don't like that,
(46:22):
don't If it was about the fact that they don't
follow the law and they're here illegal taking advantage of
the system, why would you capture them at the courthouse.
You just went to get working, tax paying people trying
to follow the rules. I know that because that's where
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you're capturing them. So what the what did you talking about?
You playing with me in my face? Right now, I'm
going to read from Lee Morgan Bresser. He's an associate
professor of School of Government in International Relationships in Relation
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at Griffith University. Right, so, the politicians or public figures
are looking for better historical comparisons law enforcement agencies that
use the severe tactics. There is unfortunately no shortage of options.
You got the Soviet Union secret police agencies, the NKVD
and the KGB, it's Iran's former secret police, the Intelligent
(47:32):
Agency SAVOOC, which is SAVAC, which is sa v AK
or East Germany's STAS, right, to name a few. They're
a lot more like secret police. Now, since I is
technically still bound by constitutional limits, its operations has bared
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most of the hallmarks of secret police. Now check this out.
As an expert authoritarian regimes, I've studied many contemporary secret
police forces and extensively in Africa, Asia and Europe. And
these are the five types of criteria. Now stay with me. Now,
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there are police force targeting potential opponents of dissonance. They
are not controlled by other security agencies and answer only
directly to the dictator. They identify the identity of the members,
and their operations are secret. They specialize in political intelligence
(48:40):
and surveillance operations, and they carry out arbitrary searches, arrests, interrogations,
in definite detentions, disappearances, and torture. Now, like I said,
history is rarely one to one. But boy, I tell
you in DC day up there talking about we cleaning
(49:01):
up crime. Now, a problem with the crime and especially
crime rates first of all, is down thirty percent, like
we talked about. And even in that and even the
whatever the crime rate. And remember I always talked about
like crime rates a lot of times is your felt experience,
Maybe DC as a whole has crime that dropped thirty percent.
But you might be out there in southeast, south southeast,
(49:22):
it might be going down in southeast, right, but you
go up to northeast. You know what I'm saying, You
up on U Street is fine, right, It's so it
might be concentrated in a particular area. But for you
to say that you need to take over all of it,
but either way, for you to take say you need
to take over all of it is already ridiculous. But
either way, even if you're not taking over the whole thing,
(49:44):
there's nothing about these numbers that say that that the
police ain't gotta cover anyway. They told them, homeless folk, here,
here's the thing. Check this out. We're gonna build some
housing for you, which, of course, obviously, look at me,
don't trust them niggas. Of course they're not going to
do that for you. So there's that. Right. Then they said,
(50:05):
if not, you can go into a rehab center, and
if not, we might take it in jail. So what
you're saying is it's just the The crime is being poor.
So the crime is not having a place to go.
So the crime is just being you, Like that's the crime.
The crime is you because no one has yet to
(50:28):
tell me. Now, houseless people may lead to crime happening.
But like my man Bamboo says, if you see someone
stealing food, no you didn't. And finally, culture, Now this guy,
(50:52):
this man is not exactly the not exactly an icon
of fashion. We could say that, but so I'm not
saying culture is in the culture. What I'm saying culture
is in the idea of the idea of wanting to
rename the Kennedy Center. I still believe this man stuck
in the eighties. But I know this by him not
(51:14):
only hosting the Kennedy Center Awards, but choosing who wins
Georgia Strait, Michael Crawford, Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, who's known
for I Will Survive. He overhauled the Kennedy's leadership by
dismissing all the board and in the Trump's Big Beautiful
(51:38):
Bill offers two hundred fifty seven million dollars to the
Kennedy Center, which is six times what it normally gets
from Congress annually. Now, I don't give two shits who
wins a Kennedy Center award, which means also why should
he by itself? No big deal, doesn't matter but why
(52:03):
do you get to choose? It's control. So that same
man that won't let you talk and tell stories, that's
mad at you when you don't defend him in front
of everybody, is also choosing what shows y'all, watch what
streamers y'all use. He don't like you looking at No
House of Dragon because it got black dragons in it.
(52:25):
You know what I'm saying. Because the Valerians Viceius in
them is black with white dreadlocks. They don't like the
New Little Mermaid because it got a black Mermaid by itself.
It's no big deal, a little weird, maybe, no big deal.
(52:49):
But it seems like you're trying to control the media,
the police, the schools, and the culture. Sounds like fascist.
(53:09):
Baby them flags, them flags, is Sue whooping? All right, now,
don't you hit stop on this pod. You better listen
to these credits. I need you to finish this thing
(53:31):
so I can get the download numbers. Okay, so don't
stop it yet, but listen. This was recorded in East
Lost Boyle Heights by your Boy Propaganda. Tap in with
me at prop hip hop dot com. If you're in
the Coldbrew Coffee, we got terraform Coldbrew you can go
there dot com and use promo code hood get twenty
(53:53):
percent off get yourself some coffee. This was mixed, edited,
and mastered by your boy Matt out south Ski Killing
the Beat Softly. Check out his website Matdowsowski dot com.
I'm a speller for you because I know m A
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Matdowsowski dot com. He got more music and stuff like
(54:16):
that on there, so gonna check out The heat Politics
is a member of cool Zone Media, Executive produced by
Sophie Lichterman, part of the iHeartMedia podcast network. Your theme
music and scoring is also by the one and nobly Mattawsowski.
Still killing the beat softly, So listen, don't let nobody
lie to you. If you understand urban living, you understand politics.
(54:39):
These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all
next week.
Host
Prop
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