Latest / The Bootleg Kev Podcast / #508 - Andrew Callaghan
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Yo, what's up, guys.
- 0:00Speaker 2: This is Andrew Callahan from Channel five News. Check me
- 0:03Speaker 2: out on the Bootleg keV podcast.
- 0:05Speaker 3: Bootleg cav Podcast. Man, we got a special guest in here.
- 0:08Speaker 3: This guy just dropped a new movie, an amazing documentary.
- 0:12Speaker 3: He's got one of my favorite YouTube channels. He's one
- 0:14Speaker 3: of my favorite journalists in the world. My guy Andrew
- 0:17Speaker 3: from Channel five has officially touchdown.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Man, thank you for having me on bro. I really
- 0:20Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'm a big fans the coolest seeing you
- 0:22Speaker 1: grow your platform in the past couple of years. So
- 0:24Speaker 1: shout out to Bootleg keV. Shot out to Phoenix too.
- 0:26Speaker 3: Yes, sir, it's crazy because I think I want to
- 0:29Speaker 3: say I first kind of found you. It was probably
- 0:34Speaker 3: like twenty nineteen. It was when you were you interviewed
- 0:37Speaker 3: the Joker Guy in Florida.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Yeah, it made my first videos, like in the winter
- 0:41Speaker 2: of twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen was like the beginning
- 0:43Speaker 2: of all gas no breaks. I think my first Joker
- 0:46Speaker 2: Gang interview was in the September of twenty nineteen and.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Golden in Florida.
- 0:49Speaker 3: Yeah, because I used to live in Tampa, right, So
- 0:51Speaker 3: I actually lived in Saint Pete. So I remember seeing
- 0:53Speaker 3: that guy go viral when I was living there, and
- 0:55Speaker 3: like it was funny to kind of like see the
- 0:57Speaker 3: Florida man. Yeah, we'll talk, no crazy.
- 1:00Speaker 2: So I went to Miami to find him, Like, I
- 1:02Speaker 2: went to Miami first, and I was like, yo, I
- 1:04Speaker 2: happened to be in Miami because I didn't want to
- 1:05Speaker 2: freak him out and be like I'm coming to find it, right,
- 1:08Speaker 2: So I went to Miami. I was like, Yo, what up,
- 1:09Speaker 2: Joker three zero five ross Chico alive, I'm in this
- 1:11Speaker 2: bitch And he was like, bro, I'm in Saint Pete.
- 1:13Speaker 1: And I was like, what, How'd that happen? So I
- 1:15Speaker 1: drove through the Everglades in like the middle of the night.
- 1:18Speaker 1: For sure.
- 1:18Speaker 3: People don't know that's a wild.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Drive alligator alley.
- 1:21Speaker 3: Yes.
- 1:21Speaker 2: So I get to say, Pete, I go to the
- 1:22Speaker 2: south side of town. I'm like, yo, I'm actually here too,
- 1:25Speaker 2: you know, it just happened to be here, And he
- 1:26Speaker 2: was like for real, met him at the liquor store,
- 1:28Speaker 2: busted the interview at.
- 1:29Speaker 3: The South side of Saint Pete's serious yeah, serious area
- 1:32Speaker 3: for sure. Yeah no, So I mean, obviously you've been
- 1:35Speaker 3: leveling up for a long time. Man. I want to
- 1:37Speaker 3: talk about the movie real quick, because it was an
- 1:39Speaker 3: emotional watch. It was kind of crazy because we like,
- 1:42Speaker 3: you know, I think you did such a good job,
- 1:44Speaker 3: and you do such a good job of like whatever
- 1:47Speaker 3: side of politics you might be on, like humanizing everybody. Yeah,
- 1:53Speaker 3: you know, whether it's protesters, whether it's people who are
- 1:55Speaker 3: coming over. I mean, you know, I'm i'd subscribe to
- 1:58Speaker 3: your Is it a Patreon, Yeah, yeah, because I know
- 2:01Speaker 3: there's Patreon and locals. Yeah, I subscribe to the pedophile
- 2:04Speaker 3: beaters on the locals, the guys who beat up those
- 2:07Speaker 3: guys don't play. They don't play. But no, So I like,
- 2:10Speaker 3: you know, I watched your entire episodes at the Border.
- 2:17Speaker 3: But you're so good at like just providing context and
- 2:20Speaker 3: nuance to all these divisive issues. Yeah, which if you
- 2:23Speaker 3: just consume like surface level media, that doesn't happen. Yeah,
- 2:29Speaker 3: you know. And so with this Kelly guy, for people
- 2:32Speaker 3: who don't know you were filming this guy for over
- 2:34Speaker 3: four years. Without giving away too much of the movie,
- 2:38Speaker 3: you kind of dive into this guy named Kelly who
- 2:42Speaker 3: was a successful lawyer. Yeah, had a family, ended up
- 2:47Speaker 3: losing his house. Blames it on a guy.
- 2:49Speaker 1: Yeah, he blames it on a lender named Bill Joyner.
- 2:53Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh Bill and his whole entire like life
- 2:57Speaker 3: just spirals into this like weird like like Maga sphere. Yeah,
- 3:02Speaker 3: like the craziest of the crazy, like hanging out outside
- 3:05Speaker 3: of abortion clinics. That's how the movie's going hard, you know,
- 3:08Speaker 3: and then you know it kind of fo you end
- 3:10Speaker 3: up getting close with his kids, very close. Yeah, it's
- 3:12Speaker 3: pretty crazy, like for you, man, like, at what point
- 3:15Speaker 3: in time when you were filmed, because you also put
- 3:18Speaker 3: out the HBO documentary, but at what point in time
- 3:20Speaker 3: when you were kind of following Kelly, did you decide like, Okay,
- 3:24Speaker 3: there we gotta we actually got to put all this
- 3:25Speaker 3: together and do like a real movie and tell his story.
- 3:27Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's just like there was over
- 3:30Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty hours of footage. So the first
- 3:32Speaker 2: time that I met him was at the White Lives
- 3:33Speaker 2: Matter rally in Huntington Beach in twenty twenty one, and
- 3:36Speaker 2: the last shoot was with Uncle Pill at a skate
- 3:38Speaker 2: park in Oceanside, California, three and a half weeks ago. Right,
- 3:41Speaker 2: So we had a cumulative like three hundred and fifty
- 3:44Speaker 2: hours of total footage, and I just looked at it
- 3:46Speaker 2: all in total, and I was like, bro, we gotta
- 3:47Speaker 2: do something with this.
- 3:48Speaker 3: And so when when Kelly was at that like that
- 3:52Speaker 3: that was the America Festival that just happened in Phoenix.
- 3:55Speaker 1: It happens every like Christmas in Phoenix.
- 3:57Speaker 3: But that was the one that just happened. No, no, no, no,
- 3:59Speaker 3: that was.
- 3:59Speaker 1: Filmed at the America Fest one year before.
- 4:01Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah was it? Because I wasn't sure how
- 4:03Speaker 3: soon how close it was, because I was like, I
- 4:05Speaker 3: thought that thing just happened.
- 4:06Speaker 1: No, no, no, it was twenty twenty three, I think.
- 4:08Speaker 3: Yeah, So that all those years, you end up wrapping
- 4:11Speaker 3: it up three three and a half weeks ago, and
- 4:14Speaker 3: you know, I know you had kind of articulated like
- 4:16Speaker 3: you wanted to kind of dive into the why. Yeah,
- 4:20Speaker 3: because we have seen so many people who we deem
- 4:22Speaker 3: to be like normal, be radicalized on both sides of
- 4:24Speaker 3: the aisle, definitely, and there's a why, yeah, you know,
- 4:27Speaker 3: and for you, like, what were some of the correlations
- 4:30Speaker 3: that you kind of realized were consistent.
- 4:32Speaker 2: With well, like I noticed that even back in the day,
- 4:35Speaker 2: like the first I guess conspiracy adjacent rallies I go to,
- 4:38Speaker 2: like the flat Earth conference in Dallas, Like I would
- 4:40Speaker 2: post somebody like a flat Earth are talking about, you know,
- 4:43Speaker 2: Hitler having a secret city in an Antarctica and hiding
- 4:46Speaker 2: the flat Earth truth that type of thing, and the
- 4:48Speaker 2: comments will be like, Yo, this was my science teacher
- 4:50Speaker 2: he got fired for like you know, flashing students or.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Some shit like that.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Yeah, or like this is my cousin, Like he got
- 4:55Speaker 2: laid off after he got hurt at work and he's
- 4:58Speaker 2: never been the same. And so I noticed this like
- 5:00Speaker 2: com in thread of people having a full blown collapse
- 5:02Speaker 2: of their core needs like security, significant unection, all collapsing,
- 5:06Speaker 2: and then they developed this like super negative worldview that's
- 5:09Speaker 2: very binary as far as like I'm good, I'm a
- 5:12Speaker 2: good person, and there's this like nebulous evil force that's
- 5:15Speaker 2: out there, like this dark cloud that's above every hard working,
- 5:18Speaker 2: red blooded American patriot. It is just trying to sap
- 5:21Speaker 2: all the life force out of us. And a political
- 5:23Speaker 2: movement comes around kind of picks up on that angst
- 5:26Speaker 2: and gives them a way to channel their personal situation
- 5:28Speaker 2: into a greater spiritual war in the country.
- 5:30Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty crazy too, because it really makes sense
- 5:33Speaker 3: if you because it gives you you know, it's so
- 5:35Speaker 3: easy to not have accountability. Yeah, And I think what
- 5:38Speaker 3: was dope about the movie is by you know, by
- 5:40Speaker 3: the end of the movie, it seems like this guy
- 5:41Speaker 3: ended up taking some accountability.
- 5:43Speaker 2: A little bit, Yeah, a little bit at a little
- 5:45Speaker 2: bit without spoiling the whole shit. Like a lot of
- 5:46Speaker 2: people watch the movie and they see the ending and
- 5:48Speaker 2: they're disappointed. But I'm like, dude, if you look at
- 5:50Speaker 2: the very beginning to the end of the movie, that's
- 5:52Speaker 2: a different guy for sure. He's probably not doing like
- 5:54Speaker 2: the TLC intervention ninety days later thing where they're like,
- 5:57Speaker 2: oh my god, I'm healed, but he's significantly less angry.
- 6:01Speaker 2: He's let aside some personal resentments. But yeah, you're right, bro,
- 6:04Speaker 2: Like it's way easier to live in your own self
- 6:07Speaker 2: mythology and have a heroic narrative about your own life
- 6:11Speaker 2: as opposed to acknowledging like different shortcomings and saying, you
- 6:14Speaker 2: know what, I'm gonna do this better in the future
- 6:16Speaker 2: and keep pushing.
- 6:16Speaker 3: And like the other thing too, is like, you know,
- 6:22Speaker 3: if there is like a thread of like validity to
- 6:25Speaker 3: an issue, and not even necessarily a threat because I
- 6:27Speaker 3: think with the immigration issue, obviously the border was out
- 6:31Speaker 3: of control. Yeah, you know, this is a question, This
- 6:33Speaker 3: is a fact. But it also gives a lot of
- 6:37Speaker 3: people who are in situations in their lives to point
- 6:41Speaker 3: the finger at somebody like I have the villain in
- 6:44Speaker 3: my story as to why I might not be doing better.
- 6:47Speaker 3: Is it because of immigrants? It is because of you
- 6:49Speaker 3: know xyz And this is on both sides, you know,
- 6:52Speaker 3: but it's like very very you know. To me, what
- 6:55Speaker 3: I've realized is a lot of these folks who are
- 6:57Speaker 3: like radicalize there, they're really radicalized because they need a villain, yeah,
- 7:03Speaker 3: and they need a purpose. Like look, it's kind of
- 7:04Speaker 3: like being a crip for a blood.
- 7:07Speaker 2: And what's crazy about it is like when you look
- 7:09Speaker 2: at these conservative events, especially like in the magosphere, you
- 7:12Speaker 2: can have like a bitcoin libertarian who drinks ayahuasca and
- 7:16Speaker 2: smokes weed five times a day sitting next to somebody
- 7:19Speaker 2: who is a non psycho or a pro life evangelical
- 7:22Speaker 2: Christian who like actually believes that marijuana was created by
- 7:25Speaker 2: the devil to make white women have interracial children.
- 7:27Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the then diagram with people that go is insane.
- 7:30Speaker 2: And they're like, all we both fuck with Trump, it's
- 7:32Speaker 2: all good, Whereas on the other side, the liberal side,
- 7:34Speaker 2: you can't even have a group of five without them
- 7:36Speaker 2: tearing each other down for dumb shit.
- 7:38Speaker 3: Yeah, and like, you know, I'm an old school liberal,
- 7:40Speaker 3: like I voted for Bernie. I'm I'm you know, I
- 7:43Speaker 3: guess I would be. As you know, I'm pretty aligned
- 7:45Speaker 3: with Bernie Sanders on mostly everything.
- 7:47Speaker 1: I same here.
- 7:48Speaker 3: I think he got fucked over. I mean I don't
- 7:50Speaker 3: think I know, and.
- 7:51Speaker 1: We're paying for that now.
- 7:52Speaker 3: It's crazy. But but like you said, you know, it's
- 7:56Speaker 3: it's frustrating because I think over the last I would
- 7:59Speaker 3: say some COVID right, like you're really not allowed to
- 8:03Speaker 3: step out of line as a liberal on any issue whatsoever.
- 8:06Speaker 3: Like I'm super pro trans rights, super pro trans rights.
- 8:09Speaker 3: I think it's fucked up that Trump just spanned them
- 8:11Speaker 3: from the military. I also think it's like a serious
- 8:14Speaker 3: conversation to say, like, hey, when it comes to sports,
- 8:17Speaker 3: like that's a conversation like combat sports, Yeah, we should
- 8:20Speaker 3: have Like it doesn't make sense not to say that.
- 8:22Speaker 3: It's like like maybe there's a trans fighting league.
- 8:25Speaker 1: I don't know, that'd be the best league.
- 8:27Speaker 3: I'll be like, it's like if you just step out
- 8:30Speaker 3: a little bit, it's like you get fucking thrown. Like
- 8:33Speaker 3: I mean, dude, I remember during the pandemic. I mean
- 8:37Speaker 3: I was spooked, man. I was masked up the whole time.
- 8:40Speaker 3: Uh for like the first four or five months. Okay,
- 8:44Speaker 3: maybe even the first three months, but I was wearing
- 8:46Speaker 3: gloves and ship at the gas. But I remember, like
- 8:51Speaker 3: I remember Joe Rogan had this doctor name not not
- 8:57Speaker 3: not not the guy who looks like Kenny Rogers Andrew something,
- 9:02Speaker 3: but he was like one of the guys who he
- 9:04Speaker 3: was like like the most published cardiac cardiovascular doctor in
- 9:08Speaker 3: agg of all time. And they were just talking about
- 9:10Speaker 3: like you know, the vaccine and like all these alternative things,
- 9:14Speaker 3: and I remember just bringing up like not even like
- 9:16Speaker 3: knowing for sure, I just remember bringing some shit up
- 9:18Speaker 3: in front of my cousin and he was like, are
- 9:20Speaker 3: you fucking Magan now?
- 9:21Speaker 1: Bro? Oh shit?
- 9:22Speaker 3: And I was like what, of course not, what are
- 9:26Speaker 3: we talking about? And it was like this thing where
- 9:28Speaker 3: like you couldn't even like question what was going on
- 9:31Speaker 3: with like some of the like alternative like treatments that
- 9:35Speaker 3: were available for COVID or even just like the lab
- 9:38Speaker 3: leak theory, and it just I feel like COVID, like
- 9:41Speaker 3: we were already super divided from like twenty sixteen oneh
- 9:46Speaker 3: Q none was cracking, like all this crazy shit was happening.
- 9:49Speaker 3: But I feel like between like COVID and you know,
- 9:53Speaker 3: the BLM, you know, George Floyd riots like it just
- 9:57Speaker 3: I feel like we all just got thrown into a blender.
- 9:59Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:00Speaker 2: I feel like also the social policing that COVID created,
- 10:03Speaker 2: especially in more liberal spaces, made it so conservatives became
- 10:06Speaker 2: the new counterculture. Like I remember before George Floyd popped
- 10:09Speaker 2: off in May, there was those two months where the
- 10:11Speaker 2: only thing that I was covering was freedom rallies. So
- 10:14Speaker 2: like I remember watching you go to Sturgis. Yeah, Sturgis
- 10:18Speaker 2: was sick. I went to a Sacramento capital they had.
- 10:20Speaker 2: This is before the vaccine, so it was just called
- 10:22Speaker 2: a freedom rally. It was like an anti lockdown protest.
- 10:24Speaker 2: And dude, like conservative reuniting is like we're going against
- 10:27Speaker 2: the government, like we're not gonna take it. And before
- 10:30Speaker 2: then the conservatives were like all about the government narrative.
- 10:32Speaker 3: And it's funny because when you I mean, obviously I
- 10:34Speaker 3: don't hold you are, but it's like I feel like,
- 10:36Speaker 3: prior to COVID, like liberals were supposed to be like yeah, anti.
- 10:40Speaker 1: Government, yeah, and now they're an anti war and they
- 10:43Speaker 1: were supporting the censorship of like everybody on social media.
- 10:46Speaker 2: And now you see what that did. It just pushed
- 10:47Speaker 2: everybody into tighter echo chambers. And now looks at Trump's
- 10:50Speaker 2: in office, and.
- 10:51Speaker 3: Then it pushed everybody because, like you said, if the
- 10:54Speaker 3: counterculture to something that makes no sense is just the right. Yeah.
- 10:59Speaker 3: And because I've noticed so many people who I know
- 11:02Speaker 3: who supported Bernie Sanders, I mean people who donate money
- 11:05Speaker 3: to Bernie Sanders vote for Trump. Yeah, Like there's like
- 11:07Speaker 3: this weird like who would have thought like that would
- 11:10Speaker 3: ever be a thing. But it's like, well if the
- 11:13Speaker 3: other if the option is you know, people kind of
- 11:15Speaker 3: pick their poison. Yeah, have you noticed that?
- 11:18Speaker 2: Like definitely, I mean, especially if you think about it now.
- 11:20Speaker 2: It's crazy to me that Trump ran on this platform
- 11:23Speaker 2: of like eliminating the deep state bureaucracy, so like the
- 11:25Speaker 2: DNC and CNN and the media, but now he has
- 11:28Speaker 2: like a private army of tech oligarchs as his advisor.
- 11:31Speaker 1: So it's so crazy.
- 11:32Speaker 2: But going back to a point that I wanted to
- 11:33Speaker 2: make too, A lot of people watch Dear Kelly and
- 11:36Speaker 2: they say, Yo, why don't you make a movie.
- 11:37Speaker 1: About the liberal equivalent of Kelly? And I just want
- 11:40Speaker 1: to say that does exist.
- 11:42Speaker 2: But I don't think that, like radical hardcore liberalism is
- 11:45Speaker 2: created by need collapse. I think it's actually created by
- 11:48Speaker 2: an oversaturation of court needs. Like people who have everything
- 11:52Speaker 2: that they need and they're doing so well, they feel bad,
- 11:55Speaker 2: especially if they participate in gentrification and they're pushing people
- 11:58Speaker 2: out of neighborhoods like Brooklyn.
- 11:59Speaker 3: Like I go back, white guilt is.
- 12:02Speaker 1: It's just it's just paralyzing for them.
- 12:04Speaker 2: And so I think most like extreme libs that I've seen,
- 12:07Speaker 2: they come from more conservative families. They come from the suburbs,
- 12:10Speaker 2: they moved to this city. I grew up in this city,
- 12:12Speaker 2: so I didn't grow up around any like hard core liberals.
- 12:14Speaker 1: But there's a correlation.
- 12:15Speaker 2: The most gentrified neighborhoods in America is where you see
- 12:18Speaker 2: the most hardcore liberals.
- 12:20Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. It's funny too, because you know, I
- 12:23Speaker 3: do a radio show. My co host is James Jefferson,
- 12:25Speaker 3: who's a big TikTok personality, black guy. But he always
- 12:28Speaker 3: says he's like yo man. Like most of the time
- 12:31Speaker 3: there's like a someone like super pissed off or like
- 12:35Speaker 3: triggered by something in the news that isn't that big
- 12:38Speaker 3: of a deal. It's always like a white one.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Always, it's always a white lady.
- 12:42Speaker 2: During during COVID, during the protest movement, I came into group.
- 12:45Speaker 2: I came into contact with a group in Portland, Oregon
- 12:47Speaker 2: called the White Body Shields. And what they would do
- 12:50Speaker 2: is they would go and all in bulletproof armor to
- 12:53Speaker 2: black neighborhoods and they would approach older black women usually
- 12:56Speaker 2: and say, hey, do you need me to walk you
- 12:57Speaker 2: to the bus stop? Do you need me to walk
- 12:59Speaker 2: you to the girl store? Just in case a policeman
- 13:02Speaker 2: tries to kill you, I want to make sure that
- 13:03Speaker 2: I can be a physical barrier and take those bullets
- 13:06Speaker 2: for you. And people will be like, no, what the fuck,
- 13:08Speaker 2: get away from me. But they'd be like, you don't understand.
- 13:11Speaker 2: This is a divisive time and you're being hunted down
- 13:13Speaker 2: in the streets.
- 13:14Speaker 3: You know. It's funny too because I saw this video
- 13:16Speaker 3: and obviously it was on Twitter, but it was a
- 13:20Speaker 3: it was like, uh, you know, there's this this this
- 13:22Speaker 3: overall discussion about like voter ID, and it seems like
- 13:26Speaker 3: most of the people who are against voter ID are
- 13:28Speaker 3: like liberal white people and they go through the hood
- 13:31Speaker 3: and they ask people like, hey, do you got an ID?
- 13:33Speaker 3: And they're like yeah, what the fuck? Like they're like
- 13:38Speaker 3: are you sure? Are you sure? And it's because it's
- 13:40Speaker 3: like the argument is like, well, you know, there's certain
- 13:43Speaker 3: minority communities where it's almost impossible for them to have
- 13:46Speaker 3: an ID. And it's like it's like it's almost like
- 13:48Speaker 3: that Democratic lady who said something about the kids in
- 13:51Speaker 3: the Bronx like they've never seen a computer BeO.
- 13:54Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they don't even know what computers are.
- 13:56Speaker 3: It's like, lady, these kids could there they have an iPhone. Yeah,
- 14:00Speaker 3: they're better at computers than we're seventeen. Yeah, like they
- 14:03Speaker 3: know how to fucking make They know cap cut better
- 14:04Speaker 3: than all of us.
- 14:06Speaker 1: The kids of today are crazy. Bro.
- 14:07Speaker 2: I had a cousin, My little cousin. He wakes up
- 14:09Speaker 2: on Christmas morning before opening his own presence to watch
- 14:12Speaker 2: his favorite streamer unbox their gifts, and he's more stoked
- 14:16Speaker 2: about like what they're gonna get He's like in the
- 14:17Speaker 2: chat being like L gift, W gift.
- 14:19Speaker 1: So by the time his parents.
- 14:20Speaker 2: Are like Santa came, He's like, I don't give a
- 14:24Speaker 2: I got fuck your socks, mom.
- 14:26Speaker 3: Yeah, that sh it's funny.
- 14:27Speaker 2: So the point is the kids from the Bronx to
- 14:29Speaker 2: the Hamptons, they know about the phone and the computer.
- 14:31Speaker 3: They know computers. Yeah. No, it's interesting too, man, because
- 14:35Speaker 3: I think with the movie, like, you know, for me,
- 14:37Speaker 3: it was just like showing like how his daughter because
- 14:40Speaker 3: he has a lesbian daughter, right, Kelly has a lesbian daughter,
- 14:42Speaker 3: and just showing how like, by the way, his kid's badass.
- 14:46Speaker 1: His son is outside, Kyle's outside, Yeah, he's fucking fucking
- 14:49Speaker 1: you're talking about his party? Yeah, Like it was a
- 14:52Speaker 1: tight party.
- 14:54Speaker 3: But it was just dope to kind of see the
- 14:56Speaker 3: perspective of like how how you know kids are affected
- 15:00Speaker 3: and the fact like his he showed up to a
- 15:02Speaker 3: protest with his dad, I thought was like the nicest thing. Yeah,
- 15:06Speaker 3: you know, like, hey dude, this is what he's into.
- 15:08Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna show up like I'm I don't know,
- 15:11Speaker 3: you know, like, yeah.
- 15:12Speaker 2: That scene definitely was emotionally impactful for me because I'm like, Wow,
- 15:15Speaker 2: the links that he'll go to connect with his pops.
- 15:17Speaker 2: I think a lot of people can relate to that
- 15:19Speaker 2: for sure.
- 15:20Speaker 3: For sure, man Bill Joyner is suing you. Yeah, for
- 15:25Speaker 3: people like he's the boogeyman of this film allegedly, allegedly,
- 15:29Speaker 3: allegedly he's the And I'm like, to be fair, you
- 15:32Speaker 3: did not paint him as the boogeyman.
- 15:33Speaker 2: That's what I think. And I try and tell him that,
- 15:35Speaker 2: I try to tell him.
- 15:36Speaker 3: You you kind of showed the world that hey, this
- 15:39Speaker 3: guy's this guy didn't really any doing wrong.
- 15:42Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the lawsuit was filed before the film even
- 15:44Speaker 1: came out.
- 15:45Speaker 3: You're kind of hoping he's seen the movie maybe eases
- 15:48Speaker 3: up a little.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Well.
- 15:49Speaker 2: I think that him and his lawyer, from what I
- 15:50Speaker 2: can see by the court filings, they think that we
- 15:53Speaker 2: are like, you know, big, that we're on Kelly's exact team,
- 15:56Speaker 2: and then we're corroborating his narrative about the home foreclosure,
- 15:59Speaker 2: right but in reality, which is not the case.
- 16:01Speaker 1: No.
- 16:01Speaker 2: So the actual lawsuit says violation of the Federal Wiretap Act,
- 16:06Speaker 2: like he thought we were tapping his phone lines. It
- 16:08Speaker 2: says stalking, emotional distress, like we weren't stalking him or anything, right,
- 16:12Speaker 2: or I mean emotional distress.
- 16:13Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't think.
- 16:14Speaker 3: So yeah, no, no, no. So are you worried about
- 16:17Speaker 3: the lawsuit at all?
- 16:17Speaker 1: Of course?
- 16:18Speaker 3: Yeah, but I.
- 16:20Speaker 2: Mean thankfully, like we filed an anti slap motion. It's
- 16:22Speaker 2: like something basically where if someone sues you for defamation
- 16:25Speaker 2: or whatever, you can do a slap An anti slap motion,
- 16:28Speaker 2: which is like slapp basically means like it's within my
- 16:31Speaker 2: rights as a documentary filmmaker to share someone's perspective even
- 16:34Speaker 2: if you disagree with it.
- 16:35Speaker 3: And you knew that this lawsuit was already kind of
- 16:38Speaker 3: in motion and still decided to release the movie.
- 16:40Speaker 2: Yeah, because the judge dismissed what's called oral argument. So
- 16:42Speaker 2: that's like when they expect both attorneys to show up
- 16:44Speaker 2: and make their case and is deliberating for like one
- 16:47Speaker 2: hundred and eighty day period or something, right, So what
- 16:48Speaker 2: that tells me is that the judge has kind of
- 16:50Speaker 2: made up her mind to the point that she didn't
- 16:52Speaker 2: even want to hear from my.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Lawyer or Bill's lawyer. It makes sense, So.
- 16:55Speaker 2: I won't know if she's team Bill or Team Channel
- 16:58Speaker 2: five for like at least ninety day.
- 17:00Speaker 3: Damn, dude, that's crazy. Yeah, well, good luck. Thanks.
- 17:04Speaker 1: I mean it's gonna be fine.
- 17:05Speaker 3: Like I think, I think too, like I think this
- 17:09Speaker 3: movie like because I know you had opened the movie
- 17:11Speaker 3: kind of explaineding like hey, you know, because I thought
- 17:13Speaker 3: the HBO documentary was amazing, thank you, But it was
- 17:18Speaker 3: crazy to see like like even like then, like you
- 17:20Speaker 3: had to kind of like you know, you're playing by
- 17:22Speaker 3: the rules a bit when you're doing something with a
- 17:24Speaker 3: big partner like that, and so this was like straight
- 17:26Speaker 3: to straight to the.
- 17:28Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I finished the movie, Dear Kelly, one
- 17:31Speaker 2: day before it came out, Like I did a final
- 17:33Speaker 2: color and sound pass and put the right songs on
- 17:36Speaker 2: like literally the day before it came out.
- 17:37Speaker 3: So crazy.
- 17:38Speaker 2: In comparison, the HBO film was picture locked, so finished
- 17:41Speaker 2: without color and audio nine months before the release date.
- 17:44Speaker 3: Damn, do you feel like this is kind of the
- 17:47Speaker 3: new way? Because I mean you're doing well, right. It
- 17:50Speaker 3: sold a lot, you know, I saw some I think,
- 17:53Speaker 3: you know, it broke some records.
- 17:54Speaker 1: I think we got one hundred thousand in sales in
- 17:56Speaker 1: the first weekend.
- 17:57Speaker 3: Which is amazing.
- 17:58Speaker 2: Which is like a record since Connie twenty twelve for
- 18:00Speaker 2: a direct to streamer direct to consumer streaming video.
- 18:03Speaker 3: Do you feel like that because because at the end
- 18:06Speaker 3: of the day, you put so much work into like
- 18:08Speaker 3: some of some of these videos you do, which is
- 18:10Speaker 3: why I think it's important to support the Patreon. Yeah, thanks,
- 18:12Speaker 3: because you put a ton of work. Bro, Like this
- 18:14Speaker 3: is like real journalism, Like we like people will see
- 18:18Speaker 3: shit on the news, you're actually like going to wherever
- 18:21Speaker 3: it's happening and yeah and finding out what is going on.
- 18:24Speaker 1: In the field. And we really have no bosses.
- 18:26Speaker 2: A lot of people they masquerade is being independent, you
- 18:29Speaker 2: know what I mean because you see him on the
- 18:30Speaker 2: street with the you know, but they did I'm with
- 18:32Speaker 2: Vice I journey right, but you know what I mean,
- 18:35Speaker 2: Like we're actually like not beholden to anybody, which is
- 18:37Speaker 2: why they don't like us.
- 18:38Speaker 3: Think, by the way, thank you for not like doing
- 18:40Speaker 3: like cringey weird shit like Vice used to do, Like
- 18:42Speaker 3: I did Heroin for thirty days straight. This is what happened.
- 18:45Speaker 1: You know what's crazy though, bro, is that Vice.
- 18:46Speaker 2: When I was a youngster, I'm twenty, well back in
- 18:49Speaker 2: the day, it was amazing so sick. So I always
- 18:51Speaker 2: say when people talk shit about Vice, I'm like, yes,
- 18:53Speaker 2: WECE makes some pretty ass shit nowadays.
- 18:55Speaker 1: However, it used to be the ship back when they
- 18:57Speaker 1: would go to the Congo.
- 18:58Speaker 2: Dude General Button, remember that, or even the David Show
- 19:02Speaker 2: series Thumbs Up America. Like, without that series, I probably
- 19:04Speaker 2: wouldn't hitchhiked across the US, I probably wouldn't have made
- 19:07Speaker 2: a videos.
- 19:07Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't have been here.
- 19:08Speaker 3: That shit's crazy.
- 19:09Speaker 2: They made journalism cool again before Advice, I don't think
- 19:12Speaker 2: there was anybody actually pushing the envelope except for like
- 19:14Speaker 2: Louis Thorreau in the UK with BBC. But like, journalism
- 19:18Speaker 2: wasn't like badass until Vice. Do you care about like
- 19:22Speaker 2: being accepted? Like, you know, there's so many people who
- 19:25Speaker 2: a quote unquote journalists that are mainstream. Do you care
- 19:28Speaker 2: about their acceptance or like being seen as like a
- 19:31Speaker 2: peer of them?
- 19:31Speaker 1: No, No, I don't like journalists like that. Yeah, I
- 19:34Speaker 1: just don't think I don't want to be accepted by
- 19:36Speaker 1: journalism or you know, they already don't fuck with me, right,
- 19:39Speaker 1: they never fucked with me, right, They're never going to.
- 19:41Speaker 1: So even if I wanted to say.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I would love to, you know, have a bunch
- 19:44Speaker 2: of friends at the Associated Press and sit down with
- 19:47Speaker 2: some MSNBC fund It's like, you.
- 19:48Speaker 1: Think they would fuck with me. No, but that's because
- 19:51Speaker 1: we're outsiders.
- 19:52Speaker 3: Trump's press secretary this morning, we just saw it before
- 19:54Speaker 3: you walked in, actually said that the White House press
- 19:59Speaker 3: credentials are o been to anyone who has a YouTube channel,
- 20:03Speaker 3: TikTok account, a Twitter account that has a following and
- 20:07Speaker 3: it does news based content.
- 20:08Speaker 1: Wow, I should apply.
- 20:10Speaker 3: No, they just posted the website today.
- 20:11Speaker 1: Oh shit, Yeah, we should apply.
- 20:12Speaker 3: So I think you should apply because I think you
- 20:14Speaker 3: could ask some questions in there.
- 20:15Speaker 2: Yeah, it's actually good questions. And I also feel like,
- 20:18Speaker 2: at the same time, though, that could be bad if
- 20:19Speaker 2: they reject people based upon like the pressure, if they
- 20:22Speaker 2: packed the room with just right wing influencers, right, if
- 20:25Speaker 2: it's just like fucking Charlie Kirk and you know, yeah, whoever,
- 20:28Speaker 2: they're just glazers, just glazers.
- 20:30Speaker 3: Jesus. It is crazy too, though, because it's almost like
- 20:35Speaker 3: the extreme left getting soaked wild has kind of like
- 20:38Speaker 3: commercialized so many of these guys on the right. Yeah,
- 20:42Speaker 3: to the point where it's like, you know, if you
- 20:44Speaker 3: think about like Charlie Kirk or or you know, like
- 20:49Speaker 3: my kids, Like my son's a mixed kid. He's fucking
- 20:52Speaker 3: eleven years old and he's seen the kids that dos tiktoks.
- 20:55Speaker 3: Yeah you know what I mean, Like it's it's it's
- 20:57Speaker 3: almost like do you feel like because of because you know,
- 21:04Speaker 3: I had this conversation with a friend of mine and
- 21:06Speaker 3: I was like, there's always like a pendulum like swinging right.
- 21:11Speaker 3: It was like, yo, there wasn't anything Trump could have
- 21:14Speaker 3: done in twenty twenty to win, Like they could have
- 21:16Speaker 3: ran a fucking they could have ran anybody against him
- 21:18Speaker 3: and he would have lost.
- 21:19Speaker 1: Oh totally.
- 21:19Speaker 3: And I feel the same way about like I don't
- 21:23Speaker 3: think there was probably now again there's the Bernie card,
- 21:27Speaker 3: but they would never play that Bernie card because it
- 21:28Speaker 3: isn't you know, but or like someone in that same
- 21:31Speaker 3: vein that speaks to working class Americans Like honestly, but
- 21:35Speaker 3: I feel like this Trump thing, it was just like
- 21:38Speaker 3: a very predictable, like you could feel the pendulum swinging yeah,
- 21:42Speaker 3: like in real I was like, yo, like I just
- 21:44Speaker 3: don't see.
- 21:44Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 21:45Speaker 2: I think it's because so many young dudes like shifted
- 21:47Speaker 2: right because of these like progressive new standards, especially on
- 21:50Speaker 2: college campuses, with like this hardcore identity politics banging where
- 21:54Speaker 2: like that's more important than class, like those issues, like
- 21:57Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what your idea is if as long
- 21:59Speaker 2: as you are like a certain position on the privilege hierarchy,
- 22:02Speaker 2: you shouldn't be.
- 22:02Speaker 1: Able to say anything. And I get the point.
- 22:04Speaker 2: What they're trying to do is like give people who
- 22:06Speaker 2: are marginalized like a chance to speak. But what that
- 22:09Speaker 2: does to somebody who might feel like a young white
- 22:10Speaker 2: dude with a good idea is he's like, you know what,
- 22:13Speaker 2: I'm well intentioned, and I'm being basically exiled for speaking
- 22:16Speaker 2: my mind because of how I look. I'm going to
- 22:18Speaker 2: go to Turning Point, USA, where they're gonna give me
- 22:20Speaker 2: exactly exactly what I want, you know. And so unfortunately
- 22:23Speaker 2: a lot of the progressive new standards have alienated a
- 22:26Speaker 2: ton of young people, especially dudes.
- 22:28Speaker 3: Yeah, I've noticed that. It's like a lot of like
- 22:30Speaker 3: young dudes, man are just like, you know, they they
- 22:33Speaker 3: fucking they and Trump went to all their platforms.
- 22:36Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, you know.
- 22:37Speaker 3: And like to me, like if Kamala would have just
- 22:39Speaker 3: like that. The one thing about Kamala that I just
- 22:41Speaker 3: could not I just could not wrap my head around
- 22:43Speaker 3: is whoever was running her campaign they just refused to
- 22:47Speaker 3: put her in uncomfortable situations where she had to talk
- 22:49Speaker 3: off the script. Yeah, and it would be like, man,
- 22:51Speaker 3: if I could have just seen like this was a
- 22:53Speaker 3: human being for like an hour, like a human. Hey.
- 22:56Speaker 1: The one thing that she did that did have some
- 22:58Speaker 1: good impact is you know the front Horachi's and Phoenix. Yeah,
- 23:01Speaker 1: so Mahomie Renee is the chef there. She went three
- 23:04Speaker 1: days before election day to Phoenix and had like a
- 23:06Speaker 1: Sonora and Sarne. I remember some type of food like that.
- 23:09Speaker 3: Yeah. I just I just like I was just waiting
- 23:11Speaker 3: for her to, like, you know, when she did like
- 23:13Speaker 3: club Shaysha, I was like, oh, like even if she
- 23:15Speaker 3: would have did like you know, even the breakfast club thing,
- 23:19Speaker 3: like I wish you would did it a one on
- 23:20Speaker 3: one with Charlemagne and not like a you know.
- 23:22Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why they didn't do that. They're
- 23:24Speaker 1: just so tapped out.
- 23:25Speaker 2: But I'm like, I'm saying it's karmaic retribution for them,
- 23:27Speaker 2: kind of like kicking Bernie Sanders out the picture, because
- 23:30Speaker 2: Bernie would have talked to the youth. Bernie would have
- 23:32Speaker 2: gone on every he actually did. He went on Theovon,
- 23:34Speaker 2: he went on like Joe Rogan back in the day,
- 23:36Speaker 2: all these platforms where Trump was able to speak directly
- 23:39Speaker 2: to the youth and stuff, or not even just the youth,
- 23:40Speaker 2: but just like ages, you know, eighteen to forty.
- 23:43Speaker 3: And the other thing too, is like I think if
- 23:45Speaker 3: you're a Democrat and you're watching the last week of
- 23:48Speaker 3: Trump in office, however you feel about whatever he's doing,
- 23:53Speaker 3: it like shows you how ineffective our politicians are so bad, dude, Like, yo,
- 23:59Speaker 3: if this guy can come in and make a fucking
- 24:03Speaker 3: spectacle out of signing these executive orders, whether or not
- 24:06Speaker 3: they stick or not, like you know, the birthright ship,
- 24:09Speaker 3: like that's a Supreme Court issue. Yeah, but it's like
- 24:11Speaker 3: performative for his base. Yeah. Like, dude, if you're fucking
- 24:14Speaker 3: Joe Biden, on day one, you signed the executive order
- 24:17Speaker 3: for for you know, the George Foyd Police Act. You
- 24:20Speaker 3: sign an executive order to try to like you just
- 24:22Speaker 3: you just do some shit to make us feel a
- 24:25Speaker 3: little better.
- 24:25Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
- 24:26Speaker 3: It's like it's like everything is so hard with a Democrat.
- 24:31Speaker 3: But it's like this motherfucker's up here turning ship up
- 24:33Speaker 3: and bro.
- 24:34Speaker 2: Honestly, like, if you think about it, I see why
- 24:36Speaker 2: people view Trump as like an underdog counterculture icon. For sure,
- 24:40Speaker 2: deployed every single thing they could in the media to
- 24:42Speaker 2: take him down for years, and the law and the
- 24:44Speaker 2: and the law system, dude, the law system. Every late
- 24:47Speaker 2: night TV show became like a Trump mockery platform. Jimmy Cammel,
- 24:51Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert, they literally threw their entire integrity out the
- 24:54Speaker 2: window and became DNC mouthpieces.
- 24:56Speaker 3: I can't even for fucking years, I can't even watch it, dude.
- 24:59Speaker 3: I I fully because I grew up a Democrat. My
- 25:02Speaker 3: parents are Democrat, my grandma's Democrat, and fucking I am
- 25:05Speaker 3: a fucking When I registered in California because I moved
- 25:09Speaker 3: from Azy to Cali, Yeah, registered as an independent. I
- 25:12Speaker 3: don't want no side by both sides.
- 25:14Speaker 2: Bro, Like the crazy gas lighting is like if you
- 25:16Speaker 2: don't vote for Kammell or you're voting for Trump, It's like,
- 25:18Speaker 2: oh whatever, Bro.
- 25:19Speaker 3: This is what I told everybody because I was an
- 25:21Speaker 3: RFK guy during because I liked a lot of his
- 25:25Speaker 3: ideas about UH food and censorship, and you know, I
- 25:29Speaker 3: hated his stance with the Israel stance, but I was like, yo,
- 25:35Speaker 3: when I'm talking, while I was talking to my friends,
- 25:36Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, they're like no, but it's a
- 25:38Speaker 3: it's a wasted vote, And I'm like, dude, this is
- 25:40Speaker 3: the brainwashing over hundreds of years that has been programmed
- 25:45Speaker 3: into us that will never allow us to have another alternative. Yeah,
- 25:48Speaker 3: because you know that there's a third party candidate that
- 25:53Speaker 3: is much better than either being offered. But because you're
- 25:57Speaker 3: you think you're throwing it's your vote.
- 25:59Speaker 1: You owe your vote definitely, Like vote with your conscious.
- 26:02Speaker 3: That's like to me, like I knew, Like like I'm like, yo,
- 26:06Speaker 3: like if you feel any type of way about Palestine,
- 26:09Speaker 3: like vote for Jill Stein and know you voted with
- 26:12Speaker 3: your heart and your conscious and neither side deserved your vote.
- 26:16Speaker 1: Dude.
- 26:17Speaker 2: Honestly, if Kamala Harris would have said, like I'm pro
- 26:19Speaker 2: Palestine or at least I supported two state solutions, she
- 26:21Speaker 2: would have won the election.
- 26:23Speaker 3: Fucking rolled Bill Clinton out in Michigan to chastise fucking
- 26:28Speaker 3: Muslim Americans to their fucking face. Yeah, it was the.
- 26:31Speaker 2: Craziest shit, and a campaigned with Liz Cheney I'm like,
- 26:36Speaker 2: it's exactly.
- 26:37Speaker 1: Can you imagine being on the.
- 26:38Speaker 2: Fence and being like, oh shit, well Dick Cheney's wife
- 26:40Speaker 2: fucks with Kamala Harris.
- 26:42Speaker 3: And to me, that's where they just lost me due
- 26:44Speaker 3: the last couple of years. And I'm just like, so
- 26:47Speaker 3: we're like, legit the War Party now. Yeah.
- 26:49Speaker 2: But honestly, dude, if you think about it, this in
- 26:51Speaker 2: the long run, twenty twenty eight is going to be
- 26:53Speaker 2: a great year because we're gonna have fresh primaries on
- 26:57Speaker 2: both sides. The Democratic Party is totally done.
- 26:59Speaker 1: They're never going to rematerialize.
- 27:01Speaker 2: You're gonna have new progression maybe new Conservative candidate, right, oh,
- 27:05Speaker 2: they're done.
- 27:05Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't. I think that they're so
- 27:07Speaker 3: ignorant on the left. I mean, I don't know.
- 27:10Speaker 1: At least we're going to get new people.
- 27:12Speaker 3: I hope.
- 27:12Speaker 1: So we are gonna get new people.
- 27:13Speaker 3: I hope that they find whoever that is.
- 27:16Speaker 2: We're gonna get new Conservatives and new progressives, Like twenty
- 27:19Speaker 2: twenty eight is going to be that year.
- 27:20Speaker 3: I think it's gonna up being Jade Vance and Vivic.
- 27:24Speaker 2: I think that'll be the Yeah, we need new dynasties
- 27:27Speaker 2: like Bro Biden was Obama's vice president. Does nobody think
- 27:30Speaker 2: that's fucking weird? That's insane? Hillary Clinton is Bill Clinton's wife.
- 27:36Speaker 3: It's just Donald Trump.
- 27:37Speaker 2: It was on the Apprentice, like all these fools are
- 27:39Speaker 2: already entrench, Like when can we get a Bernie Sanders
- 27:42Speaker 2: Vermont will rise again?
- 27:43Speaker 3: Oh? Man, Yeah, no, I don't even know who the
- 27:46Speaker 3: new Bernie is. Honestly, that has like actual power, you know,
- 27:48Speaker 3: Like I mean, I guess AOC, but she kind of
- 27:50Speaker 3: sold out a lot of her you know, a lot
- 27:53Speaker 3: of her free will. For I would say AOC was
- 27:56Speaker 3: the most disappointing the last couple of years because she
- 27:58Speaker 3: kind of like chowse up with a couple of times
- 28:00Speaker 3: and I was like, who, anyway, you have done so
- 28:05Speaker 3: many crazy like you've literally been in the shits whatever.
- 28:12Speaker 3: Uh you know issue that's arisen in pop culture, in
- 28:15Speaker 3: the news, your front lines on is there a situation
- 28:21Speaker 3: in which you were the most scared for your safety?
- 28:24Speaker 2: That's the thing, bro, I don't think so it's weird,
- 28:28Speaker 2: Like I get scared when I watched the footage after
- 28:30Speaker 2: Like when I was at the stash house in Philadelphia
- 28:33Speaker 2: with the dudes who are manufacturing fucking insane.
- 28:36Speaker 3: That was also when I insane.
- 28:38Speaker 1: In the moment. I'm not scared because I'm so like
- 28:40Speaker 1: focused on getting the video.
- 28:42Speaker 3: And like those guys were manufacturing trank.
- 28:43Speaker 2: Trank which is a combination of xylazine which is horse tranquilizer,
- 28:47Speaker 2: and fentanyl. So basically it makes it so like trank
- 28:50Speaker 2: is really cheap and also makes a it's a tranquilizer,
- 28:52Speaker 2: so you can have a bag of fentanyl that's like
- 28:54Speaker 2: one quarter fent one quarter three quarters trank, and it's
- 28:57Speaker 2: gonna hit basically the same, just have a little bit
- 28:59Speaker 2: more of like tranquilizing effect so that you can make
- 29:02Speaker 2: a bunch of money. And xylazine is maybe one hundred
- 29:04Speaker 2: times cheaper than fentanyl, and you can buy it legally
- 29:06Speaker 2: from Chinese manufacturers, like in powder form on WhatsApp. Anyway,
- 29:10Speaker 2: I don't want to give too much game. Don't manufacture
- 29:13Speaker 2: a trank if you're watching this. But anyways, I watched
- 29:15Speaker 2: the footage back and I was like, bro, what the
- 29:17Speaker 2: fuck was I doing? You're hopping the border. I'm not
- 29:20Speaker 2: scared in the moment, but then I'm looking back at
- 29:22Speaker 2: the footage and I think, damn, like I should have
- 29:24Speaker 2: been scared, you know. But it's moments like that where
- 29:27Speaker 2: I need to realize that I am relatively fearless. But
- 29:31Speaker 2: that doesn't mean that I shouldn't do dumb shit, right.
- 29:33Speaker 3: Ye know, that was a wild episode. It's funny because actually,
- 29:36Speaker 3: you know that hit close to home recently, my son's
- 29:38Speaker 3: mom passed away in Philadelphia from an overdose.
- 29:41Speaker 1: Damn rest in peace man.
- 29:42Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, but I mean it was fentanyl for sure.
- 29:45Speaker 3: But that trank shit, it hasn't hit LA yet.
- 29:49Speaker 2: No, No, it's pretty crazy that it hasn't because it's
- 29:51Speaker 2: hit Baltimore, has a HITD Atlanta, it's Baltimore, DC.
- 29:55Speaker 1: In Boston.
- 29:55Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a people's like limbs get swollen up
- 29:58Speaker 2: and yeah, so if you miss a van with the
- 30:00Speaker 2: trank like this condition can happen called necrotizing fasciitis, which
- 30:03Speaker 2: is a flesh eating bacterial disease or something like that.
- 30:06Speaker 2: So it literally consumes your limbs and if you don't
- 30:08Speaker 2: treat it within the first four to five days, amputation
- 30:11Speaker 2: is the only option, or it can spread to your
- 30:13Speaker 2: heart and you get sepsis and you really can't survive that.
- 30:15Speaker 2: So there's this this this problem that many groups in
- 30:18Speaker 2: Philadelphia have the harm reduction communities where they're like, yo,
- 30:21Speaker 2: how do we get these people off the streets into
- 30:24Speaker 2: the hospital immediately?
- 30:25Speaker 1: And they're withdrawing from dope.
- 30:27Speaker 2: So like it's just really difficult because you don't have
- 30:29Speaker 2: to you can't kidnap people. You have to ask them
- 30:31Speaker 2: to go to treatment.
- 30:32Speaker 3: Yeah, that Kensington area is so.
- 30:34Speaker 2: But it's tough because if you go to somebody whose
- 30:36Speaker 2: arm is falling off and you say, like, bro, you
- 30:37Speaker 2: have to go to the hospital, and they say no,
- 30:39Speaker 2: they're they're adult.
- 30:40Speaker 1: Free human beings. Can't make somebody do something, right, Yeah.
- 30:43Speaker 3: It's crazy you h You went into the Chaz area too, right, Yeah,
- 30:50Speaker 3: so I'm from Capitol Hill, Seattle. I would say that
- 30:52Speaker 3: that's where you're from.
- 30:53Speaker 1: Okay, So I grew up in Philly in Fair Mountain,
- 30:55Speaker 1: North Philly. So I was ten.
- 30:57Speaker 2: My dad was a big grunge fan and he worked
- 30:59Speaker 2: in the tech end streets. So we moved out to Yeah,
- 31:02Speaker 2: we moved to Capitol Hill and that's like where Chaz was.
- 31:05Speaker 2: So that that like that corner Tenth and Pike call
- 31:08Speaker 2: Anderson Park.
- 31:09Speaker 1: I grew up like in that neighborhood.
- 31:11Speaker 3: That's your area.
- 31:11Speaker 2: So I'm in I'm in Minneapolis right where the actual
- 31:14Speaker 2: riots popped off, like by Lake Street on the south side.
- 31:17Speaker 2: And I get a call and someone says, Yo, the
- 31:19Speaker 2: cops just ran out of the precinct. They abandoned the
- 31:21Speaker 2: precinct in Capitol Hill. You know, the cops just gave
- 31:23Speaker 2: it to the protesters.
- 31:24Speaker 1: I was like what. And so there was a four block.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Radius initially called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone and then
- 31:30Speaker 2: became Capitol Hill Organized Protest. And I was actually there
- 31:33Speaker 2: basically the entire time, living in a tent. However, the
- 31:36Speaker 2: footage was never released. M why not, because bro, he's
- 31:40Speaker 2: embarrassing on some home, on some hometown ship.
- 31:43Speaker 3: It was.
- 31:44Speaker 1: It was bad, okay. So there was three phases. Phase
- 31:47Speaker 1: one was like spirit of the Revolution, like Fidel Castro,
- 31:49Speaker 1: like the people will rise up. Phase two was like
- 31:52Speaker 1: burning man.
- 31:53Speaker 2: You have fools coming in on Greyhound buses from northern California,
- 31:57Speaker 2: Eugene I called the Republic of Islam. That's southern Oregon,
- 32:00Speaker 2: northern California. Are still slapping Max Dre like they just
- 32:04Speaker 2: found out about it. And so people are pulling up
- 32:07Speaker 2: like ooh, so folds are pulling up like you have
- 32:09Speaker 2: drum circles. People are setting up stages, they're doing dubstep sets,
- 32:13Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
- 32:13Speaker 1: And then the initials Viva a Revolution. Young crowd is like,
- 32:17Speaker 1: what the fuck fuck these books.
- 32:19Speaker 2: They start beefing it, and then so they start kind
- 32:21Speaker 2: of canceling each other for different shit.
- 32:23Speaker 3: Meanwhile, people are living there like they have their apartment
- 32:25Speaker 3: right there.
- 32:26Speaker 2: And then week three, the you know, the trappers, the
- 32:29Speaker 2: hoods in Seattle, like in the South End and Tacoma,
- 32:31Speaker 2: start figuring out that the cops aren't coming there, so
- 32:34Speaker 2: they have all their their their fiends go from downtown
- 32:36Speaker 2: in different areas to Capitol Hill. And then different gangs
- 32:40Speaker 2: start taking control of different parts of the park.
- 32:42Speaker 1: So it was Revolution week, what week? And then Gang week.
- 32:45Speaker 2: I'm there the whole time, my tank keeps getting stolen,
- 32:47Speaker 2: and then so that so literally you had, bro, I've
- 32:50Speaker 2: never seen something like this in Seattle by the basketball courts.
- 32:53Speaker 2: Kids fifteen year old kids with shisties and guns fucking
- 32:56Speaker 2: bigger than their entire bodies. And this is a safe
- 32:59Speaker 2: urban park in a gateighborhood. So I'm like, bro, this
- 33:01Speaker 2: is insane, and so what happened?
- 33:03Speaker 1: I really.
- 33:03Speaker 2: Remember there was a fatal shooting on the fourth of July.
- 33:06Speaker 2: I was like, right next to it. I thought it
- 33:07Speaker 2: was fireworks because it was fourth July. Someone got killed
- 33:10Speaker 2: right there. And this antiphametic chic, you know, like in
- 33:13Speaker 2: full costume, comes running up and she goes, there's a
- 33:15Speaker 2: gang war happening at the park and I'm like, I
- 33:18Speaker 2: literally look at I go, what gangs are fighting?
- 33:20Speaker 1: Just say the name of one of the gangs. Since
- 33:22Speaker 1: you're from Seattle, what are the gangs called?
- 33:23Speaker 3: And she's like, I don't know.
- 33:25Speaker 2: And so the moment after the fatal shooting happened. The
- 33:27Speaker 2: next morning, all of the medics and all of the
- 33:30Speaker 2: organizers and all the wooks and all the revolutionaries they
- 33:33Speaker 2: leave and the park just becomes like Hamsterdam and the
- 33:35Speaker 2: wire and then the cops at that point come in
- 33:38Speaker 2: and shut it down.
- 33:38Speaker 3: Wow.
- 33:39Speaker 1: So I filmed the whole thing. I still have the footage.
- 33:41Speaker 1: I'm thinking about putting it out.
- 33:42Speaker 3: Dude. Honestly, that's that's pretty sick.
- 33:45Speaker 2: Yeah, it was crazy, but I was like, you know,
- 33:48Speaker 2: it was just real, Like God, Seattle took the l
- 33:50Speaker 2: on that one.
- 33:50Speaker 1: You know.
- 33:51Speaker 3: What's so crazy is I feel like on like like
- 33:54Speaker 3: when we think about like I think people who are
- 33:58Speaker 3: extreme left and Antifa and and all these people and
- 34:03Speaker 3: on the other side, the QA non folks. I feel
- 34:06Speaker 3: like everyone has pretty they feel like they're doing the
- 34:11Speaker 3: right thing, like they have everybody there, they have like
- 34:13Speaker 3: good intention in their heart right, and I feel like
- 34:17Speaker 3: there just has to be like, you know, I don't
- 34:21Speaker 3: know what it is. I think, you know, there just
- 34:25Speaker 3: has to be like there's if everyone feels like they're
- 34:27Speaker 3: doing the right thing right, Like you know, the the
- 34:30Speaker 3: White Lives Matter rally that opens up your film. It
- 34:34Speaker 3: didn't feel like much of a rally, but you know,
- 34:36Speaker 3: your boy was out there with his flags and then
- 34:38Speaker 3: they're not playing. They ended up fucking them up. Yeah,
- 34:42Speaker 3: he ends up getting the rest. Do you feel like
- 34:45Speaker 3: there's like just the option for like uh, I guess
- 34:50Speaker 3: like positive discourse where people can just agree to disagree.
- 34:54Speaker 3: Do you just think that shit's out the window? Man?
- 34:56Speaker 3: You know.
- 34:56Speaker 2: The thing is though, is like these groups, these vocal minorities,
- 34:59Speaker 2: get a lot of his ability because they make noise.
- 35:01Speaker 2: But I think that a good like seventy percent of
- 35:04Speaker 2: the country is on the same page as you and I.
- 35:06Speaker 2: You know, they see the shit from Afar. They might
- 35:07Speaker 2: react to a certain thing a certain way or slant,
- 35:10Speaker 2: but most people are not Antifa or QAnon. The difference is,
- 35:14Speaker 2: I feel like QAnon ideology has bled its way into
- 35:17Speaker 2: the mainstream conservative right, whereas Antifa and these groups are
- 35:21Speaker 2: still like a very marginalized left, and liberals reject their.
- 35:25Speaker 1: Ideas for sure. So I just think that like the
- 35:27Speaker 1: actual left.
- 35:27Speaker 2: That Trump always talks about has no actual power over
- 35:30Speaker 2: the liberals.
- 35:31Speaker 1: Liberals don't give a fuck about unions, you.
- 35:33Speaker 2: Know, They're more concerned with like calling Trump supporters Nazis
- 35:37Speaker 2: and white supremacists and throwing labels on people. So there
- 35:39Speaker 2: is going to be a point where we can have discourse.
- 35:42Speaker 2: But like I said, twenty twenty eight's that year.
- 35:44Speaker 3: You know, there's just this, Like you said, it's on
- 35:48Speaker 3: the left, dude, Because on the I feel like I
- 35:50Speaker 3: have conversations with like my cousin, like this is another
- 35:53Speaker 3: thing I stopped talking about. I was a part of this,
- 35:56Speaker 3: like the left that stopped talking to people over Trump
- 35:59Speaker 3: in twenty sixteen.
- 36:00Speaker 1: That was a real thing.
- 36:01Speaker 3: My cousin James, who's like my closest cousin in my life,
- 36:05Speaker 3: voted for Trump was vocal about it on Facebook, and
- 36:07Speaker 3: I just stopped talking to him for like two years.
- 36:09Speaker 1: You guys are good now, yeah, see America is healing.
- 36:11Speaker 3: No. But I felt terrible about it, and I realized, like, dude,
- 36:13Speaker 3: I was fucking tripping, bro. Yeah yeah, bro like I
- 36:18Speaker 3: was bro. I was one of the guys shaming people
- 36:20Speaker 3: for not getting I shamed this motherfucker for not getting vaccinated.
- 36:22Speaker 3: Every fucking time we'd go, I'd be like, you're a
- 36:24Speaker 3: fucking b That was me. And I just realized, like dog, like,
- 36:30Speaker 3: I'm I'm a part of the side that's the most judgmental, Yeah,
- 36:34Speaker 3: which is crazy because the other side's supposed to be Nazis.
- 36:37Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 36:37Speaker 2: I remember back in the day when COVID first popped
- 36:40Speaker 2: off in Seattle. You could be getting a you could
- 36:42Speaker 2: be having a picnic in a park.
- 36:44Speaker 1: Just you and two people.
- 36:45Speaker 2: If you spread a blanket out and somebody took their
- 36:47Speaker 2: mask off for a second, you'd have somebody in the
- 36:49Speaker 2: cut with an N ninety five on like this. They'd
- 36:51Speaker 2: take a picture of you, They'll put it online. Find
- 36:53Speaker 2: you're at that, Like, what's this person's at? Super spreader,
- 36:55Speaker 2: super spreader, complicit in the genocide of those who were
- 36:58Speaker 2: disabled and complicit in the genocide of the immune compromise,
- 37:02Speaker 2: and they would they would lose their job, they would
- 37:05Speaker 2: lose everything.
- 37:05Speaker 1: I saw this shit happening in real time. Uh so sad, dude,
- 37:09Speaker 1: bro I was. I remember when COVID popped off.
- 37:11Speaker 2: So I was in Seattle and I was like, I
- 37:12Speaker 2: gotta go somewhere more, you know, more hippied out because
- 37:14Speaker 2: I'm like, I gotta see somebody. So I went down
- 37:16Speaker 2: to Eureka, California, and I stayed with my homegirl and
- 37:19Speaker 2: she told me, she was like, listen, I don't care
- 37:21Speaker 2: about this COVID shit, or I do care about if
- 37:24Speaker 2: if if I see you in public with somebody and
- 37:27Speaker 2: they take a picture of you or they see you
- 37:29Speaker 2: with somebody else, I'm gonna get in trouble.
- 37:31Speaker 1: Okay, what do you mean trouble? She was like, I
- 37:32Speaker 1: could lose my job.
- 37:33Speaker 3: It was the same thing that was I mean in Australia,
- 37:35Speaker 3: it was crazy. Yeah, like people were like going to jail.
- 37:38Speaker 3: And that's my thing is like, you know, uh, I
- 37:41Speaker 3: just feel like we get so I just feel like
- 37:44Speaker 3: we stopped questioning shit for a while there where it
- 37:46Speaker 3: was like, hey, like, isn't a little weird that there's
- 37:49Speaker 3: a ticker on the screen on CNN with the death
- 37:52Speaker 3: total going up like it's a fucking basketball game.
- 37:55Speaker 1: Yeah, like what is like?
- 37:57Speaker 3: And everybody like the fuck? And I'm over here buying
- 38:00Speaker 3: gloves and shit and fucking I got so much sanitizer
- 38:03Speaker 3: left over from COVID.
- 38:04Speaker 1: It's crazy abouteah garage. Yeah, I was. I mean I
- 38:08Speaker 1: I was sort of tweaked out too.
- 38:09Speaker 3: You know.
- 38:10Speaker 2: It was just a crazy time and I feel like
- 38:12Speaker 2: we're still kind of living in the shadow of twenty twenty.
- 38:14Speaker 3: For sure, And then now you look back and you're like, Okay, well,
- 38:17Speaker 3: you know, I know I dealt with this because I
- 38:19Speaker 3: had two sons, who you know, my kid was fourteen
- 38:23Speaker 3: and was like dealing with depression because he was just
- 38:26Speaker 3: stuck at home. And the people who lost their businesses,
- 38:30Speaker 3: especially here in California. You know, there's like restaurants that
- 38:33Speaker 3: were losing their businesses while there was like catering on
- 38:36Speaker 3: movie sets. Yeah shit, And it was like like make
- 38:40Speaker 3: it make sense, you know, like.
- 38:41Speaker 2: Yeah, and Walmart was open though you know what I
- 38:43Speaker 2: mean exactly, dispensaries were open.
- 38:45Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know that.
- 38:46Speaker 3: Yeah, no dispensaries were open. They never closed down dispensaries here,
- 38:50Speaker 3: which was interesting. But yeah, I don't know, man, I
- 38:53Speaker 3: just feel like, you know, like you said, man, like
- 38:55Speaker 3: this is what we get. We get Trump again. Yeah, definitely,
- 38:58Speaker 3: like all that crazy shit, this is this.
- 39:01Speaker 1: Is what you get. We earned this shit, We earned it.
- 39:04Speaker 3: We fucking earned it. Man. Do you feel like there
- 39:08Speaker 3: was a point in time for you where you know,
- 39:13Speaker 3: you as a as a young journalist, like, was it
- 39:15Speaker 3: always kind of the idea to kind of tell both
- 39:17Speaker 3: sides because obviously, like you said, you're more of a
- 39:20Speaker 3: burnie guy, so you yeah, but you know you have
- 39:22Speaker 3: like your your set of values. But to be able
- 39:25Speaker 3: to kind of cover like people who you harshly disagree with, yeah,
- 39:28Speaker 3: and show them give them like a fair shake. Was
- 39:31Speaker 3: that difficult for you?
- 39:32Speaker 2: No, I've always been like that because you know, I
- 39:33Speaker 2: grew up, like I said, in the city, always run
- 39:35Speaker 2: different kinds of people, exposed to different personalities. I also
- 39:37Speaker 2: went to school in the Deep South in New Orleans,
- 39:39Speaker 2: so it was like I got I got.
- 39:40Speaker 1: Exposed to a ton of Southern stuff.
- 39:42Speaker 2: So by the time I started my career, I was like,
- 39:44Speaker 2: I want to show people on the West Coast what
- 39:46Speaker 2: it's like in the South. I want to show people
- 39:47Speaker 2: in the South what it's like where I'm from in Seattle.
- 39:49Speaker 2: So I already felt like I had two different upbringings,
- 39:52Speaker 2: but as far as like the unbiased thing, like I'm
- 39:54Speaker 2: not unbiased.
- 39:55Speaker 1: No human being is unbiased.
- 39:57Speaker 3: No, for sure, but you, I feel like you do
- 39:58Speaker 3: a really good job of of trying to like tell
- 40:01Speaker 3: both I tell tell the story as much down the
- 40:04Speaker 3: middle as you can, And definitely, I just feel like
- 40:06Speaker 3: that's something that that is very like, Yeah.
- 40:08Speaker 1: I definitely appreciate it.
- 40:09Speaker 2: I just wanted to make that point because there's so
- 40:11Speaker 2: many journalists claiming to be unbiased, but I'm like everybody
- 40:14Speaker 2: has biases based upon how they.
- 40:16Speaker 3: Grew on the planet, has a personal bias exactly.
- 40:18Speaker 2: Like shit, I use the example the other day, like
- 40:20Speaker 2: whenever the George Floyd thing happened, like I had lost
- 40:22Speaker 2: a couple friends growing up to police brutality, So as
- 40:25Speaker 2: soon as that happened, I was sort of on board
- 40:26Speaker 2: with like whatever had whatever had to happen. I saw
- 40:29Speaker 2: buildings going up in flames, and I was like, hell, yeah,
- 40:31Speaker 2: me too. But if I grew up in you know, Iowa,
- 40:33Speaker 2: and my dad was the police chief and a town
- 40:34Speaker 2: of five hundred people, and he was rescuing cats from
- 40:37Speaker 2: trees and helping people. You know, I might be like,
- 40:39Speaker 2: come on, man, that's just one bad egg, but I
- 40:41Speaker 2: didn't see it that way because of how I grew up.
- 40:43Speaker 3: You know, how are you? How's your what is your
- 40:45Speaker 3: perspective on those protesting riots? You know, what would it
- 40:50Speaker 3: be five years later? Now, like almost five years four
- 40:52Speaker 3: and a half years later. I feel like, you know,
- 40:55Speaker 3: black Lives Matter as a statement is obviously a factual statement.
- 40:59Speaker 3: I feel like that the and the intent of that
- 41:00Speaker 3: movement was was pure and had great intentions, but somehow
- 41:06Speaker 3: it got twisted and used against well.
- 41:09Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at every social movement that
- 41:12Speaker 2: begins organically, there is people out there, grifters and profiteers
- 41:15Speaker 2: who will figure out a way to make an industry
- 41:17Speaker 2: out of it. And the same thing happens with every
- 41:19Speaker 2: social movement in America. It takes about two years, maybe
- 41:22Speaker 2: three years, for you know, Black Lives Matter LLC to
- 41:25Speaker 2: become a donation farm to where people were just like
- 41:28Speaker 2: embezzling in mansions.
- 41:30Speaker 1: That's what happens yeah, you know what I mean.
- 41:31Speaker 2: And so it's more like I feel like shame on
- 41:34Speaker 2: somebody for not realizing that, like why are you giving
- 41:36Speaker 2: money to the Black Lives Matter? Two and a half
- 41:38Speaker 2: years later, I thought the protests were great. I think
- 41:41Speaker 2: that they began very straightforward and organic, like this is
- 41:43Speaker 2: about police brutalizing black people in the streets, period, and
- 41:47Speaker 2: then it took only about a month later it kind
- 41:50Speaker 2: of became about everybody.
- 41:51Speaker 1: You know, they added the black stripe to the Pride
- 41:53Speaker 1: flag and you're seeing people out there and I'm like,
- 41:54Speaker 1: wait a second, you know, shout out to all the
- 41:57Speaker 1: LGBT people out there. But I thought this was about
- 42:00Speaker 1: police brutality against Black Americans, and so you just sort
- 42:03Speaker 1: of see this forced intersectionality obscure the message, and before
- 42:07Speaker 1: you know it, it's not what it was supposed to be.
- 42:09Speaker 1: It's not.
- 42:09Speaker 2: And that's just what happens because white guilt is so
- 42:12Speaker 2: powerful that you have white people who have any type
- 42:14Speaker 2: of disadvantage, whether it be gender, income level, but mostly
- 42:18Speaker 2: it's gender and orientation, and they say, you know what,
- 42:20Speaker 2: I don't want to be the scarecrow that people were
- 42:22Speaker 2: throwing eggs at right now.
- 42:24Speaker 1: I don't want to be the.
- 42:24Speaker 2: Bad part of the bad white out group during this
- 42:27Speaker 2: protest movement. Let me figure out how it can join
- 42:29Speaker 2: the side of the oppressor by giving myself something to
- 42:31Speaker 2: stand on. So they're almost chasing down oppression to almost
- 42:34Speaker 2: put on their back, as opposed to the actual purpose
- 42:36Speaker 2: of liberation, which is to get away from it. So
- 42:39Speaker 2: it's very sad you saw that, especially in Portland, where
- 42:42Speaker 2: you know, you had groups actually obviously taking advantage.
- 42:45Speaker 3: Of the neighborhood. They ruined Portland downtown.
- 42:48Speaker 2: For Yeah, okay, that's one argument, But then if you
- 42:51Speaker 2: look at why did downtown Portland, Downtown SF, and downtown
- 42:55Speaker 2: Seattle grow the way they did before COVID, it's because
- 42:58Speaker 2: all these tech companies were getting taxed, so they moved
- 43:01Speaker 2: their offices there.
- 43:01Speaker 3: And then they left it. They they once COVID happened,
- 43:04Speaker 3: everyone left and they figured out they start out resources out,
- 43:07Speaker 3: They figured out.
- 43:07Speaker 2: They can make more money having people work on Zoom
- 43:10Speaker 2: from home, and they didn't have to pay HR, they
- 43:12Speaker 2: didn't have to maintain these office buildings. So you have
- 43:14Speaker 2: office buildings like in San Francisco there are thirty six
- 43:17Speaker 2: stories where only two of the floors are being used,
- 43:19Speaker 2: the rest are vacant, and landlords don't want to go
- 43:22Speaker 2: down on price for these tech apartments they built for
- 43:24Speaker 2: the workers that are now living in Idaho or wherever
- 43:25Speaker 2: they came where they came. So now you got homeless people,
- 43:28Speaker 2: homeless people on the streets everywhere in Portland and everywhere else.
- 43:31Speaker 2: And then you have these fucking assholes coming out and
- 43:33Speaker 2: being like, wow, look at the Democrat policy and it's like.
- 43:36Speaker 1: This is corporate elite fucking bullshit.
- 43:40Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's I think I think this. I
- 43:42Speaker 3: think that's like a perfect example of both though it's
- 43:44Speaker 3: like it's a it's two things can be true at
- 43:46Speaker 3: the same time. It's like, yes, these tech cities where
- 43:51Speaker 3: all of this massive income and all these people just
- 43:53Speaker 3: decided to just be like deuces. Yeah, that's that's one thing.
- 43:57Speaker 3: And then the other side, like in the Bay you know,
- 43:59Speaker 3: it's like the Bay's crazy. I go to the Bay lot,
- 44:03Speaker 3: you know, it's like, yeah, the basis great chances of
- 44:06Speaker 3: you're getting bipped out there and or like just like
- 44:10Speaker 3: you can't like I mean we were we started going
- 44:12Speaker 3: a lot in like twenty twenty one. Yeah, because I
- 44:14Speaker 3: was shooting a lot of content out there, and even
- 44:16Speaker 3: like all the way up until maybe like late last year,
- 44:18Speaker 3: it's like damn, like the Walgreens are gone.
- 44:20Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the bipping is out of control. Bro.
- 44:22Speaker 2: I was by Lake Merritt in the RV like a
- 44:24Speaker 2: year and a half ago. I'm chilling by Lake Marriott.
- 44:26Speaker 1: Bro.
- 44:27Speaker 2: It's a beautiful day, probably two pm, you know, Lake
- 44:29Speaker 2: Marrion downtown Oaklyan. So I'm chilling right there in the
- 44:31Speaker 2: RV and this valet guy comes up to me and
- 44:33Speaker 2: he goes, don't don't park your car here.
- 44:35Speaker 3: I go. Why.
- 44:35Speaker 2: He goes, it's gonna get bipped. I go no, Like,
- 44:37Speaker 2: I'm gonna stay in the car. It's gonna be fine.
- 44:39Speaker 2: He's like, nah, don't even stay in the car. So
- 44:41Speaker 2: I'm chilling in the car. I swear to God, I
- 44:43Speaker 2: opened the door to like, you know, just get some air.
- 44:45Speaker 2: Walk out for a second. A mini van pulls up
- 44:48Speaker 2: like a soccer mom van. Three kids in full shisties
- 44:51Speaker 2: jump out of the car with bip tools and hands
- 44:53Speaker 2: like it like a ninja army and start throwing like
- 44:57Speaker 2: bit like spark plugs on fucking wire and ring into
- 45:00Speaker 2: the car like it was seriously like a like a.
- 45:02Speaker 3: Ninja wild Like my boy Samson, he was pumping gas
- 45:07Speaker 3: about to return his rental outside of the Oakland Airport.
- 45:11Speaker 3: So he's at the car, he's on the phone, pumping gas,
- 45:15Speaker 3: and before he knows it, his backpack in his back
- 45:19Speaker 3: seat is gone. Yeah, and he's running after a car
- 45:21Speaker 3: that within seconds they got him. Like the bay is
- 45:23Speaker 3: fucking crazy.
- 45:24Speaker 2: Yeah, And so there's certain shit like that where you
- 45:27Speaker 2: that's not just income inequality.
- 45:28Speaker 1: That is the cops and well that's not doing their
- 45:30Speaker 1: job right.
- 45:31Speaker 3: And that's just like at the end of the day,
- 45:33Speaker 3: if there are loopholes that allow you to hit licks, yeah,
- 45:37Speaker 3: you're gonna take advantage of those loopholes. Yeah, Like it
- 45:39Speaker 3: is what it is.
- 45:40Speaker 2: And one thing that liberals don't understand is this, some
- 45:42Speaker 2: fools just like hitting licks.
- 45:44Speaker 3: You know what I mean, Like, no matter what happens.
- 45:46Speaker 1: It's not like everyone hitting a lick is like I
- 45:49Speaker 1: can't afford food.
- 45:50Speaker 2: Some fools love hitting licks. I grew up with people
- 45:53Speaker 2: who are rich, middle class, impoor. They listen to Chief
- 45:56Speaker 2: Keep all day they're trying to hit a lick. It's
- 45:58Speaker 2: not like they woke up with not being able to
- 46:00Speaker 2: put cornflakes in the bowl.
- 46:01Speaker 3: Facts.
- 46:02Speaker 2: And I'm just saying that's something that you can't explain
- 46:04Speaker 2: to people because you're like, what do you mean they
- 46:05Speaker 2: like it? You think there's something about them genetically that
- 46:08Speaker 2: made them Like, No, I didn't fucking say that. I
- 46:10Speaker 2: just said fools be hitting licks, yes and I and
- 46:13Speaker 2: they don't get it, you know what I mean.
- 46:14Speaker 1: But we're not going to explain it to them. But
- 46:16Speaker 1: if they live in this city for long enough and
- 46:18Speaker 1: somebody hits it, hits a lick on your ship, You're
- 46:20Speaker 1: not gonna be like, wow, you know what, even though
- 46:22Speaker 1: they stole my car, I hope they can feed their family. Like,
- 46:25Speaker 1: where do you think we're in? Fucking Darfur? The this
- 46:27Speaker 1: is you know.
- 46:28Speaker 4: I'm just saying, would you would you say based on
- 46:31Speaker 4: your your you know, obviously your experience being up up
- 46:34Speaker 4: in the northwest and covering Portland and covering the Bay
- 46:38Speaker 4: and I go back to your reference of Hamsterdam from
- 46:41Speaker 4: the wire, based on like just your experience and your perspective,
- 46:46Speaker 4: because perspective matters.
- 46:47Speaker 3: Uh, would you say the Hamsterdam model is one that
- 46:52Speaker 3: is sustainable? No?
- 46:53Speaker 2: And here's why specifically it might be sustainable if it
- 46:56Speaker 2: was like a nationwide policy. But you got to think
- 46:59Speaker 2: in all the ordering states to Washington and Oregon, Idaho, Montana,
- 47:04Speaker 2: even Utah and states like that.
- 47:06Speaker 3: Yeah, I lived in Boise.
- 47:07Speaker 2: It's illegal to be homeless in a lot of these states.
- 47:09Speaker 2: They will put you in jail for your third vagrancy
- 47:13Speaker 2: ticket for ninety days. They'll prosecute, they'll they'll burn your shit.
- 47:16Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
- 47:16Speaker 2: A lot of people get harassed and they get and
- 47:19Speaker 2: not only that, but I was in Austin, Texas one time,
- 47:21Speaker 2: one time, and I watched the city book two hundred
- 47:24Speaker 2: and fifty greyhound bus tickets and sending homeless people from
- 47:27Speaker 2: Seventh Street in downtown to Portland.
- 47:30Speaker 3: So what year was that?
- 47:31Speaker 1: That was before all this chaos? Twenty fourteen?
- 47:34Speaker 3: Oh, you know what I mean.
- 47:34Speaker 1: So this has been happening.
- 47:35Speaker 2: So what happens is if Seattle says, you know what,
- 47:38Speaker 2: We're gonna enact harm reduction policies and open up a
- 47:41Speaker 2: needle exchange or something like that for people to not
- 47:43Speaker 2: get HIV and have se right here, all of a sudden,
- 47:45Speaker 2: these other counties, not even just different states, are like, okay, perfect,
- 47:49Speaker 2: Now I know where to send one hundred thousand drug addicts,
- 47:52Speaker 2: and so it's impossible to maintain the Hamsterdam model when
- 47:55Speaker 2: these different states have such different policies.
- 47:57Speaker 3: I wonder what is your perspective on and you know,
- 48:01Speaker 3: because I think what happened in the last twelve months
- 48:05Speaker 3: or so was you noticed a lot of minority communities
- 48:12Speaker 3: feeling a certain way about like the same places like Chicago,
- 48:15Speaker 3: New York City, Like immigration hitting I mean obviously Governor
- 48:22Speaker 3: Abbott putting people on buses setting it into New York City,
- 48:24Speaker 3: send it into Chicago. But then kind of seeing like
- 48:27Speaker 3: the preferential treatment that someone who came in here illegally
- 48:31Speaker 3: might get, whether it's a visa card loaded with fourteen
- 48:33Speaker 3: hundred dollars at an hotel room and all this stuff, did
- 48:37Speaker 3: you kind of like there's it felt like there was
- 48:40Speaker 3: like kind of a divide. Well, it's between two communities
- 48:43Speaker 3: that usually would be I guess aligned, if that would
- 48:47Speaker 3: make sense for me.
- 48:47Speaker 2: It's hard to see what's real and true about that,
- 48:50Speaker 2: because that particular narrative is perfect for the conservative established right,
- 48:54Speaker 2: like Wese see these poor people, working class people don't
- 48:57Speaker 2: like migrantcsy either. I don't know how real that actually is,
- 49:00Speaker 2: Like if you look at New York City right most
- 49:02Speaker 2: of the migrants are being held in shelters in Long
- 49:05Speaker 2: Island or by the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown. It's not
- 49:08Speaker 2: like they are going to, you know, minority communities in
- 49:11Speaker 2: the Bronx and in Queens or in the Lower East
- 49:13Speaker 2: Side and just opening up these gorgeous migrant skyscrapers where
- 49:18Speaker 2: they're giving people for dope ass phones.
- 49:20Speaker 3: They're like, yo, you got you gotta fucking you gotta
- 49:22Speaker 3: fucking loft in New York.
- 49:23Speaker 2: So I feel like a lot of a lot of
- 49:25Speaker 2: it is like Jesse Waters going to the hood in
- 49:27Speaker 2: the Bronx and being like, I don't know if you saw,
- 49:29Speaker 2: young man, but they just got a free phone down there.
- 49:31Speaker 3: And then I was as like, what the fuck a
- 49:33Speaker 3: fuck that? I don't know if if it's actually accurate.
- 49:36Speaker 1: It is Also it's possible for poor and working class
- 49:39Speaker 1: people to also be syopped by hypnototic media. Hypnotic media,
- 49:44Speaker 1: you know what I mean, without.
- 49:45Speaker 2: Knowing, because they're if you're poor and you see somebody
- 49:47Speaker 2: getting free shit, that's how they turn the white working
- 49:49Speaker 2: class against the black communities. In the eighties, during a
- 49:51Speaker 2: primitive extre so it's it's a little mini version of that.
- 49:55Speaker 2: If you go to a poor, poor person anywhere and
- 49:57Speaker 2: you show them a video of someone getting free shit,
- 50:00Speaker 2: they are probably gonna be BacT.
- 50:01Speaker 3: There and then you're able to take that footage put
- 50:04Speaker 3: it on TikTok and then it spreads like a while.
- 50:06Speaker 2: It's like showing a rich person a video of somebody
- 50:08Speaker 2: breaking into a mansion.
- 50:10Speaker 3: Yeah, I think to the thing I just saw recently
- 50:12Speaker 3: that was going viral on TikTok was like this like
- 50:15Speaker 3: idea that like you could get a reward for turning in,
- 50:18Speaker 3: and I think they came out and said it's not real.
- 50:20Speaker 3: But it was like, like you mentioned the word sip.
- 50:22Speaker 3: It felt like it was like this fake thing that
- 50:24Speaker 3: got thrown out there. And then you would see like
- 50:26Speaker 3: these tiktoks like like like there was when I saw
- 50:29Speaker 3: this black girl being like the thousand dollars a person,
- 50:32Speaker 3: they're seven who live next door to me, Like that's
- 50:34Speaker 3: my address type shit, and it's like it's like the again,
- 50:37Speaker 3: it's like at the end of the day, man, It's
- 50:39Speaker 3: like I think with the immigration issue, it's there's a
- 50:43Speaker 3: lot of things that can be true at the same
- 50:45Speaker 3: time yeah, I think, like obviously, man, like there was
- 50:48Speaker 3: a lot of people coming over. I was area which
- 50:51Speaker 3: was like not sustainable, you know, it's not sustainable for
- 50:54Speaker 3: anybody to take.
- 50:55Speaker 2: Any and most importantly it's not good for them. Like
- 50:58Speaker 2: I have a friend from Senegal or a friend now,
- 51:00Speaker 2: and I met him at the border. He had just hopped, right,
- 51:02Speaker 2: So he gets he goes to border in Arizona.
- 51:04Speaker 1: Too, in Arizona right by Lukeville crossing Gringo Pass. Yeah,
- 51:07Speaker 1: so he's telling.
- 51:08Speaker 3: A Rockey point. I go by there.
- 51:09Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm talking to him, and he's excited. He's like,
- 51:10Speaker 2: I can't wait to get to America and work, you know.
- 51:12Speaker 2: Abbot bustes him to New York and he just got
- 51:15Speaker 2: his asylum appointment date and it's for twenty twenty nine,
- 51:18Speaker 2: so he can't get and he.
- 51:19Speaker 1: Can't get his work papers, and he can't get anything.
- 51:22Speaker 1: He can't even receive a green card. He can't even
- 51:24Speaker 1: be heard by a judge.
- 51:25Speaker 2: Because now you're just in limbo for on limbo for
- 51:28Speaker 2: years for him, and the shelter says, we can't have
- 51:31Speaker 2: space for you. We have more migrants coming in. So
- 51:33Speaker 2: he's living on the streets right now trying to see
- 51:36Speaker 2: who will hire him for under the table work and
- 51:38Speaker 2: paying him in cash. He's getting paid four bucks an
- 51:40Speaker 2: hour because you got you know, deli owners and shit
- 51:42Speaker 2: trying to save money asking him to mop the floor.
- 51:44Speaker 2: That's not a life he wanted in the US either.
- 51:46Speaker 3: And how man and that times, however many hundred thousand
- 51:50Speaker 3: is happening.
- 51:50Speaker 2: Yeah, there should be there should be a clear path
- 51:52Speaker 2: to citizenship, which makes his whole situation avoidable for sure.
- 51:55Speaker 3: And then and then that's the thing is like, if
- 51:57Speaker 3: there is like an I think that it just kind
- 52:01Speaker 3: of all got mixed up to where it's like, okay, well,
- 52:03Speaker 3: if it's a free for all at the border, then
- 52:06Speaker 3: whatever bullshit systems in place for people, Like you said,
- 52:08Speaker 3: the asylum system, I know, the asylum courts is a
- 52:11Speaker 3: fucking jokey. It's just not sustainable, dude. Yeah.
- 52:15Speaker 2: Also, asylum policies were a conservative thing. I think the
- 52:18Speaker 2: first asylum policy was during Reagan. It was called wet foot, dryfoot,
- 52:21Speaker 2: and that was to inspire Cubans to flee the island
- 52:24Speaker 2: during communism. And they said, if you can get in
- 52:25Speaker 2: a boat to Miami, the moment you touch sand or soil.
- 52:28Speaker 2: You're an American citizen. So it was supposed to incentivize
- 52:31Speaker 2: people to defect from communist regimes or enemies of the US.
- 52:34Speaker 2: So Venezuela, that's exactly who we want. Because that's good
- 52:38Speaker 2: for Trump.
- 52:38Speaker 1: They're leaving communism, they're coming here for a better capitalist life.
- 52:41Speaker 1: I think that's good for old school Republicans exactly. I
- 52:45Speaker 1: feel like the new shit is different.
- 52:47Speaker 2: And people are exploiting the asylum system. Wherever you stand
- 52:50Speaker 2: left to right, that system is being exploited. Being poor
- 52:53Speaker 2: is not an asylum.
- 52:54Speaker 1: Claim, so if you get here. When I was interviewing
- 52:57Speaker 1: Mexicans at the border, these are poor people saying I'm
- 53:00Speaker 1: being targeted by the cartel. They're gonna kill me. Every
- 53:03Speaker 1: single one of them said that.
- 53:04Speaker 3: I also heard like, if you are if you say
- 53:07Speaker 3: you're lgbt Q, if you're coming from like an area
- 53:11Speaker 3: that frowns upon it, they grant you asylum too.
- 53:14Speaker 1: I'm sure I mean that.
- 53:15Speaker 3: Homy and TJ was telling me that. He's like, yeah,
- 53:17Speaker 3: he's like, if you just say you, if you just
- 53:19Speaker 3: say you're gay at the border, like me, try it.
- 53:22Speaker 3: I don't know. No. He comes back and forth like
- 53:24Speaker 3: he lives in TJ and works in the U.
- 53:26Speaker 1: Tell him hop the border act as gay as possible,
- 53:29Speaker 1: like yo.
- 53:29Speaker 3: Come with a boyfriend. You know.
- 53:31Speaker 2: No, by the way, speaking to the border, we were
- 53:33Speaker 2: just to know Paso ware is a couple a couple
- 53:34Speaker 2: of days ago, wild place wars is crazy.
- 53:36Speaker 1: We're just there.
- 53:37Speaker 2: And so you know that video of like Trump's first
- 53:40Speaker 2: wave of deportations where you see like a bunch of
- 53:42Speaker 2: young dudes walking across the border back in New Mexico.
- 53:45Speaker 2: So speaking to sy Offs, those people had been held
- 53:47Speaker 2: there for like three months and we're just being processed,
- 53:50Speaker 2: and Trump said, don't process him, send him back right
- 53:53Speaker 2: now so we can get the good optics.
- 53:54Speaker 1: So they had a camera crew.
- 53:55Speaker 2: Set up in Warez from Breitbart, from these conservative outlets,
- 53:59Speaker 2: being like, the deportations are happening, but those people got apprehended,
- 54:03Speaker 2: apprehended under Biden criminal right.
- 54:05Speaker 3: It's just content manipulation, man, It's what it is. Everyone's
- 54:08Speaker 3: fucking playing the TikTok game the fund It's that's fucking wild.
- 54:11Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Jesus.
- 54:13Speaker 3: You you you based on like your interactions with everybody
- 54:17Speaker 3: who were coming over the border, because do you know
- 54:19Speaker 3: there's this narrative that there's all there's this massive spike
- 54:22Speaker 3: and single Chinese men coming over of military age and.
- 54:28Speaker 2: You know, single Chinese men of military age. Imagine being
- 54:32Speaker 2: described that way. No, exactly what I'm saying.
- 54:35Speaker 3: And then you know, we're kind of like in this
- 54:38Speaker 3: like cold war with China, and they're sending, they're sending,
- 54:41Speaker 3: they're sending, uh, you know, all these cells.
- 54:43Speaker 1: Over every Chinese person works for the Chinese.
- 54:46Speaker 3: Government apparently, right right, yeah, exactly. There's no poor people
- 54:49Speaker 3: in China exactly. Yeah, because for people who don't know
- 54:52Speaker 3: the extreme poverty in Chinese. Yeah, yeah, but it was
- 54:54Speaker 3: just funny. It's just funny because, like you said, like
- 54:56Speaker 3: you could kind of like, you know, whatever, whatever side
- 55:00Speaker 3: of the road you want to be on politically, like
- 55:01Speaker 3: you can kind of find like an echo chamber within
- 55:04Speaker 3: that one immigration issue to be like yeah, I mean,
- 55:07Speaker 3: but at the same time, you know, it's obviously like
- 55:10Speaker 3: there is an issue, you know, with with with that
- 55:13Speaker 3: influx of people. Would you say there was like a
- 55:16Speaker 3: concerted because the other thing is is people say by
- 55:19Speaker 3: people I mean the right, yeah, that that the border
- 55:24Speaker 3: was opened up on purpose to try to import more
- 55:26Speaker 3: democratic votes. That's my favorite, which is fucking an insane Well,
- 55:30Speaker 3: if that's.
- 55:31Speaker 2: The case, it didn't work right. Also, dude, migrants can't vote.
- 55:34Speaker 2: They're not citizens, right, They literally can't vote. They can't
- 55:39Speaker 2: even But I don't even need to get into that.
- 55:40Speaker 2: The point is the reason you see somebody single men
- 55:42Speaker 2: at the border hopping the borders because their entire families
- 55:45Speaker 2: are back home.
- 55:46Speaker 3: So it's like they come and work and they send
- 55:47Speaker 3: money back. I mean, this is a very normal thing.
- 55:49Speaker 1: How would they take their family?
- 55:50Speaker 3: Their family?
- 55:51Speaker 1: You want your little kids and your wife to work,
- 55:52Speaker 1: she has to take care of the kids.
- 55:53Speaker 3: Yeah, you want your fucking kids walking across the desert
- 55:55Speaker 3: in Arizona in the summertime.
- 55:56Speaker 1: Yeah, you can die shot. That's a human borders giving
- 55:58Speaker 1: water to those people.
- 55:59Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it's fucking crazy.
- 56:01Speaker 2: But yeah, bro, like, of course it's going to be
- 56:02Speaker 2: single man, but like it's it's a it's been it's
- 56:04Speaker 2: been strange.
- 56:05Speaker 1: But yeah, the border being wide open was a huge problem.
- 56:08Speaker 3: What do you went to Colorado right during the yeah
- 56:11Speaker 3: gang for trendy Aragua.
- 56:12Speaker 1: Yes, td t d A just taken over the apartments,
- 56:16Speaker 1: taxing everybody.
- 56:17Speaker 3: I mean again, there was a crazy video that went
- 56:20Speaker 3: viral now I know. It was like it was like
- 56:23Speaker 3: red meat.
- 56:24Speaker 2: Yeah, like I have some really bad news. There's a
- 56:27Speaker 2: gang at an apartment building in the hood, and one's like,
- 56:29Speaker 2: what the fuck is happening?
- 56:31Speaker 1: There's a gang in every apartment building.
- 56:33Speaker 3: Right, so what did you say? Like going there? What
- 56:36Speaker 3: did you did you? What did you?
- 56:37Speaker 2: Okay, here's the verdict on on Colorado. There was a
- 56:40Speaker 2: gang in the apartment building period, which caused the landlord
- 56:43Speaker 2: to be like, you know what, bro, there's a gang here.
- 56:45Speaker 1: He was a slumlord name that from Florida.
- 56:47Speaker 2: He owned like six different super badly maintained properties, right,
- 56:50Speaker 2: so he was like, you.
- 56:51Speaker 1: Know what, bro, there's gangs over running the ship.
- 56:53Speaker 2: I don't even want to take care of it. I'm
- 56:55Speaker 2: abandoning the property. So there was no more, no more
- 56:58Speaker 2: landlord services happening, no more plumbing, no more electricity, just
- 57:01Speaker 2: the services were being under maintained. He was getting sued
- 57:04Speaker 2: by the city of Aurora, Colorado, so he hired a
- 57:07Speaker 2: crisis PR firm called Red Bandon Communications to basically plant
- 57:11Speaker 2: that story about the gang takeover, to be like, they
- 57:13Speaker 2: beat me up and forced me out of the property.
- 57:15Speaker 1: So two things were true. At one time. It was
- 57:18Speaker 1: a gang of illegally of undocumented viagrants from Venezuela who
- 57:24Speaker 1: were gang banging, and you had a shitty landlord. I
- 57:27Speaker 1: don't understand how people can't see those two things seem
- 57:29Speaker 1: to go hand in hand. I actually think.
- 57:31Speaker 2: There's that That's almost always the case. Everywhere you see
- 57:34Speaker 2: gangs in the projects, the property is poorly maintained. Have
- 57:38Speaker 2: you ever seen a nice apartment building with a gang
- 57:40Speaker 2: in it?
- 57:40Speaker 1: It's possible.
- 57:41Speaker 3: No, that's funny. Yeah, Like you said, two things can
- 57:43Speaker 3: be true at the same time.
- 57:43Speaker 2: And also gang see a shitty maintained spot and they're like,
- 57:46Speaker 2: I'm gonna go gang.
- 57:47Speaker 3: Did you see the story that came out a couple
- 57:48Speaker 3: of nights ago. They were like, Yo, in Colorado there
- 57:52Speaker 3: was a Venezuelan gang house party and we rated it
- 57:56Speaker 3: got forty gang members off. I'm like, first of all,
- 57:59Speaker 3: shout out to those guys were being like brave enough
- 58:01Speaker 3: to throw a house party. Yeah, in the same week
- 58:03Speaker 3: Trump gets elected for sure, obviously not the smartest place.
- 58:06Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 58:06Speaker 2: Also, dude, what about the one hundred thousand gang members
- 58:09Speaker 2: here in Los Angeles?
- 58:10Speaker 3: Right?
- 58:11Speaker 1: What what are we talking about? Right, it's so crazy.
- 58:13Speaker 2: But conservatives have never met a gang member, so they're like,
- 58:16Speaker 2: oh my god, the gang members have arrived. It's like
- 58:18Speaker 2: the gang members are here, started here, Yes, all the
- 58:22Speaker 2: MS thirteens started in Koreatown.
- 58:24Speaker 3: People don't realize that MS thirteen is a California gang
- 58:27Speaker 3: that obviously exported Del Salvador.
- 58:29Speaker 2: Yeah, and our prison system, Harvest is an incubator for
- 58:32Speaker 2: the most powerful gangs in the world.
- 58:34Speaker 1: So it's really crazy.
- 58:35Speaker 2: When you get people being like, bro, the border's open
- 58:37Speaker 2: and now people are gang bang. But if you show
- 58:40Speaker 2: that clip on Fox News and you're in Little Rock, Arkansas,
- 58:42Speaker 2: actually lit Rocks pretty good. Let me use a different example.
- 58:44Speaker 2: If you're in Omaha, it's actually pretty good too.
- 58:47Speaker 3: Okay.
- 58:47Speaker 2: If you're in Boise, Idaho and the rural outskirts and
- 58:50Speaker 2: you see a video of the border and then people
- 58:52Speaker 2: gang banging right after, you're like, here we go.
- 58:55Speaker 3: Yeah crazy. Have you ever covered Mormons at all? And
- 58:58Speaker 3: you're no, I haven't.
- 58:59Speaker 2: But you know, when I first got to Salt Lake City,
- 59:01Speaker 2: I went to Temple Square and they were in plain
- 59:04Speaker 2: clothes and they're like, hey, what's up man? I thought
- 59:05Speaker 2: they were fans.
- 59:06Speaker 3: Like, oh, yeah, good to meet you. Bro.
- 59:07Speaker 1: I was like, you want a picture, and they were
- 59:09Speaker 1: like a picture.
- 59:10Speaker 3: Have you read the word? Like ah?
- 59:12Speaker 1: Man.
- 59:13Speaker 3: So I grew up in Mesa, which is outside of Phoenix,
- 59:18Speaker 3: like yeah, twenty minutes and it's a big Mormon population.
- 59:22Speaker 3: So I'm very very intrigued. And then I moved to Boise.
- 59:25Speaker 3: I did radio and bois for a year, which is
- 59:26Speaker 3: the third largest Mormon population. It's just such a very
- 59:30Speaker 3: very interesting culture of people.
- 59:32Speaker 1: They're really nice.
- 59:33Speaker 3: There's the nicest people ever. Their religion is pretty wild. Yeah,
- 59:37Speaker 3: it is pretty crazy. Like there's I would love to
- 59:39Speaker 3: see you. Is there some more if some more in
- 59:41Speaker 3: the Mormon shiit pops up? Yeah, I would love to
- 59:43Speaker 3: see you.
- 59:43Speaker 1: I mean I love Salt Lake City.
- 59:44Speaker 2: Like there's this bar that they're called Twilight Lounge that
- 59:47Speaker 2: I like a lot, you know what I mean. So,
- 59:48Speaker 2: and most of the kids who get drunk there every
- 59:50Speaker 2: day are from Mormon families and they just drink and
- 59:52Speaker 2: they just like sit there and be.
- 59:53Speaker 3: Like oh yeah. Like when I was a kid, like
- 59:55Speaker 3: the kids in high school who were like doing like
- 59:57Speaker 3: real drugs or all Mormons because they were like revolting.
- 59:59Speaker 1: Yeah, that's people don't know.
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: But Salt Lake City is like a many New Orleans
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: when it comes to alcohol consumption because these kids who
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: defect or they kind of break off from the church,
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: they drink like amish people on Rum's from Man.
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: You know, I went to Salt Lake once. We went
- 1:00:12Speaker 3: for the day. We went to interview a young boy
- 1:00:14Speaker 3: at his house.
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: Such a good video, bro, Yeah, shout out to him, man,
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: that's one of my favorite interviews.
- 1:00:19Speaker 3: Shout out to young boy. Free that man, Free him.
- 1:00:22Speaker 3: I know.
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: All he had to do was not do that.
- 1:00:24Speaker 3: All he had to do was just just not like
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: fake prescriptions. So you have everything like like like what
- 1:00:31Speaker 3: that young boy story came out? I was like, really, bro, wait, is.
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: It correct that he went to the Walgreens and said
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: I'm a doctor?
- 1:00:37Speaker 3: He called I think it was over the phone. I
- 1:00:40Speaker 3: think he called in over the phone as a fake. Again,
- 1:00:44Speaker 3: this is all.
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: Can you imagine young boy trying to sound like not
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: young boy because somebody's.
- 1:00:48Speaker 3: Just hanging out with him like super nice guy. You know.
- 1:00:51Speaker 3: But yeah, you spent some time here in LA with
- 1:00:54Speaker 3: crit Mac, who obviously is incarcerated. Shout out to krypt Mac.
- 1:00:59Speaker 3: Do you keep in any contact with him at all.
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit.
- 1:01:02Speaker 3: Do you know what's going on with his case?
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: Is there any I mean, he's just gonna do his time.
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: He'll be out next Christmas.
- 1:01:06Speaker 3: So he'll be out next Christmas.
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: Nice Christmas.
- 1:01:08Speaker 3: Yeah, shot. What is your thoughts on like that? I
- 1:01:13Speaker 3: guess because I feel like krit Mac was kind of
- 1:01:15Speaker 3: like the beginning of the commercial commercialization in the podcast
- 1:01:21Speaker 3: space of like gang banging it's bad. It's like it's
- 1:01:24Speaker 3: becoming like a you know, whether it's cam capone you know,
- 1:01:29Speaker 3: obviously no jumper at him, you know, you go on.
- 1:01:32Speaker 3: I mean there's it's kind of crazy, like like gang
- 1:01:35Speaker 3: politics have now become like real just YouTube content, like it's.
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: A serious content farm. What I've noticed though, is like
- 1:01:42Speaker 2: once the lore is kind of oversaturated and figured out,
- 1:01:45Speaker 2: people kind of move on. For example, like the Hyracology
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: way of like all the gdbd O block cutard ship
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: that had like four years of people figuring out everything,
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: and now you hear you've heard every story like every
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: FBG BUTTA interview.
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: I'm like, I know that already.
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: I'm not sure how I know that, But like you
- 1:02:02Speaker 2: got dudes like traploor Ross who are breaking down the
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: scientific moment by moment progression of these beefs and then
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: they figure it out and it's kind of just like,
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: all right, we understand Chicago.
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: Because he did like a four hour King von like
- 1:02:14Speaker 3: documentary that was fucking I couldn't get through it.
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: He might be the greatest drill documentarian.
- 1:02:18Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you, what are your thoughts on
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: a guy like because he obviously fancies himself a journalist.
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: Yeah, he's definitely a journalist.
- 1:02:23Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on Trapel?
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: I think he's dope. I mean I think that.
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: You know, last time I went on to Jumper, I
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: was pretty critical about like just the gangbang in space
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: being commercialized and.
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: The way that has been.
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: But at the same time, now that I look back,
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: I think the real person to blame is the record labels.
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: I mean, the people pushing this shit in the first place.
- 1:02:42Speaker 2: You can't blame journalists and podcasters for responding to that demand.
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: It wasn't like they pulled these people out of a hat.
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: I'm curious about King von No, Atlantic and all these
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: record labels they decide, Okay, we're going to commercialize gang music.
- 1:02:55Speaker 3: Yeah, I think too, Like you know, it's interesting because
- 1:02:58Speaker 3: a lot of these guys always say this because I'm
- 1:03:01Speaker 3: not a big Drill fan, Like it's just never was
- 1:03:03Speaker 3: like my shit, you know. But I feel like nowadays
- 1:03:07Speaker 3: the kids aren't into like you'll see it all the
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: time with like let's say like pull a name out
- 1:03:12Speaker 3: of Kwanda Rondo. Yeah, like he's known, but like he
- 1:03:16Speaker 3: doesn't really have much big music. No, his interviews are
- 1:03:18Speaker 3: still good there, like most of these guys are known
- 1:03:21Speaker 3: more like people care about the It's almost like they're
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: like like the audience is just watching this real life
- 1:03:28Speaker 3: like crime series play out and they have like only
- 1:03:32Speaker 3: invested in like the Julio Fulio, Young and Ace is
- 1:03:35Speaker 3: the perfect example. Yeah right, it was like people really
- 1:03:37Speaker 3: I mean, like not to say they didn't have some
- 1:03:39Speaker 3: dope like like Fulio had some dope records, you know,
- 1:03:41Speaker 3: but people were more invested in like how's this going
- 1:03:45Speaker 3: to end? As opposed to like, yo, let me go
- 1:03:49Speaker 3: support this guy's album that came out.
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: I know when Fulio died, like the next day that
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: Young and A song right five in the morning, got
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: a call who is this? One hundred thousand comments? I'm like,
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: just even the comment like just so some.
- 1:04:01Speaker 3: Of the comments are just so like people like don't
- 1:04:03Speaker 3: have a heart.
- 1:04:04Speaker 2: Well, it's it's even beyond that, they don't see them
- 1:04:07Speaker 2: as human beings like superheroes and the drill. They don't
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: exactly lives as valuable. I mean, it's it's depressing, but
- 1:04:14Speaker 2: like it's not gonna end.
- 1:04:15Speaker 3: It's not gonna end.
- 1:04:16Speaker 2: So it's like I'm a big proponent and like, don't
- 1:04:19Speaker 2: critique things too heavily that you can't stop for sure,
- 1:04:22Speaker 2: you know, And like the youth is hypnotized by violent
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: and violent violence and violent music.
- 1:04:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know. You know you mentioned going
- 1:04:28Speaker 3: on to a jumper, Like I think you know. I
- 1:04:30Speaker 3: think Adam is to me, Like I always tell people
- 1:04:32Speaker 3: when they you know, because I'm tight with Adam. He's
- 1:04:33Speaker 3: the home and I always say, like, hey man, Adam's
- 1:04:37Speaker 3: reinvented that fucking platform over and over and over. He's
- 1:04:40Speaker 3: also responsible for some of like the greatest hip hop
- 1:04:42Speaker 3: interviews of all time, if you go back to X
- 1:04:44Speaker 3: and the first Juice World interview and and all that
- 1:04:47Speaker 3: shit for better or worse, from like twenty sixteen to
- 1:04:51Speaker 3: seventeen to now, Like there was this shift in the
- 1:04:54Speaker 3: SoundCloud era and like that that platform was very, very
- 1:04:57Speaker 3: instrumentaleh in the that wave and like you said, there's
- 1:05:02Speaker 3: a demand for that content. So if it's not, and
- 1:05:05Speaker 3: I think Adam does a pretty decent job of like
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: if you watch the more long form shit, like yeah,
- 1:05:10Speaker 3: having some nuance in context to a lot of those
- 1:05:12Speaker 3: beefs and stuff. But no matter who, like there's gonna
- 1:05:15Speaker 3: be a cam capone, there's gonna be what's the homies name?
- 1:05:19Speaker 3: Who does the hood documentaries? That never shows his face.
- 1:05:22Speaker 3: I've DMed with him before, fu.
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: DJ small eyes.
- 1:05:25Speaker 3: Nah, he does like a glugs No does. He does
- 1:05:29Speaker 3: a lot of like Northern Cali shit.
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: I haven't seen it before, but Northern California is way
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: more active than here.
- 1:05:34Speaker 3: Oh like Stockin's crazy, Yeah yeah, Stockings fucking.
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: The cool thing about how Adam has been able to
- 1:05:39Speaker 2: develop his platform is like the SoundCloud era was huge, right,
- 1:05:43Speaker 2: and it took place in La obviously like Melrose and Fairfax.
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: But it wasn't an LA scene.
- 1:05:48Speaker 3: It was like a Florida thing.
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: But but I mean, like this was this the hub
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: of like media for it for sure, and a lot
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: of like the rappers lived here and like once it
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: fizzled out, like you still he figured it out because
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: he was like, all right, we gotta make something out
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: of just like l a Native rap and there's some
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: sick rappers from La X four RS three. I still
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: listen to Draco every days.
- 1:06:08Speaker 3: Amazing the truth. Yeah, long live Draco for you man?
- 1:06:13Speaker 3: What is what is like when you put a movie
- 1:06:15Speaker 3: out like Dear Kelly and and you know you're getting
- 1:06:17Speaker 3: a lot of love for it. It's an amazing documentary.
- 1:06:19Speaker 3: I thought, I don't know what is your team? Like?
- 1:06:21Speaker 3: Is it how many of you are there?
- 1:06:23Speaker 2: So there's me, Susan who's like the senior producer, uh,
- 1:06:27Speaker 2: Timmy and Liam who work in the office. And now
- 1:06:29Speaker 2: I have four editors Gabe, Wiggy, Ethan, Charlie and then
- 1:06:35Speaker 2: my homie Drew edit from Texas. So I don't know
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: how many people that is in total, but it's a
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: it's a nine person team. And then I got correspondence
- 1:06:43Speaker 2: like Hosue in Mexico City.
- 1:06:44Speaker 3: I watched, Yeah, I watched his TJ episode.
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: Yeah, the oh that's that's the Homi.
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: Beanie from La Okaysuay did the Mexico City gentrification.
- 1:06:51Speaker 3: He just did. I just saw that one I saw.
- 1:06:53Speaker 3: I saw the Mexico City one.
- 1:06:54Speaker 2: I saw it, and he's doing a cock fighting episode
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: right now, which is gonna be sick, which is like
- 1:06:57Speaker 2: a deep in the country of Mexico. And then we
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: have like correspondent in Israel won in New Zealand, and
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: then yeah, but in general, I would say, like, oh,
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: then JP, the homey from New York is the social
- 1:07:05Speaker 2: media clips.
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: So I don't know how big your team is. Is
- 1:07:07Speaker 1: it more or less than ten?
- 1:07:09Speaker 3: Two?
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: Oh shit, there's got to be a third. There's that
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: my boy Erica Rock helps Okay, so my team is
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: probably like around your size, like under twenty more than three.
- 1:07:19Speaker 3: Damn yeah, it's it's crazy. Uh. And the other thing
- 1:07:22Speaker 3: you started to do was dub over your videos in
- 1:07:26Speaker 3: different languages, which I think mister Beast was Like, was
- 1:07:29Speaker 3: it mister Beast who started doing that? Ship?
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: I mean, he's the one who made me want to
- 1:07:32Speaker 2: do it, now that I watched mister Beasts religiously, but
- 1:07:34Speaker 2: I've seen mister Beat, so I just know, like he
- 1:07:37Speaker 2: has a town in North Carolina. It's like a YouTube town,
- 1:07:40Speaker 2: right where he has a whole studio there with like
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: different overdubbed team for Different.
- 1:07:45Speaker 3: Prime show is really good. Oh really Beast Games. It's
- 1:07:48Speaker 3: like real life squid games. You have kids, right, yeah,
- 1:07:50Speaker 3: that's why you're watching of course, okay, of course. Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:07:53Speaker 3: It's like there's no way you get off work and
- 1:07:54Speaker 3: you're like here we go. No, there was like it's
- 1:07:57Speaker 3: good though, it's yeah.
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:07:59Speaker 3: So I was gonna ask you because you did you
- 1:08:01Speaker 3: you talked about your correspondence. You did a really dope
- 1:08:04Speaker 3: video about it was it took place, and there was
- 1:08:08Speaker 3: you kind of showed both perspectives in terms of what
- 1:08:11Speaker 3: was going on in Lebanon. Yeah, and I think you
- 1:08:14Speaker 3: said the video would did get demonetized.
- 1:08:16Speaker 2: I mean that video has been like a nightmare. Like
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: every correspondent who is in that video is now mad
- 1:08:21Speaker 2: at me for some reason. Wow, you know, because I
- 1:08:23Speaker 2: had someone in Israel and someone eleven.
- 1:08:25Speaker 3: Because you had someone on the Israeli side talk and
- 1:08:27Speaker 3: someone on the Lebed East side talk, and.
- 1:08:29Speaker 2: Some British guys interviewed this hes blow dude, and they're
- 1:08:31Speaker 2: mad because I didn't put him in the credits because
- 1:08:32Speaker 2: I forgot to, And like it's just that that that
- 1:08:34Speaker 2: piece was a trilateral nightmare. Damn.
- 1:08:38Speaker 3: But it was good man. Thank you. I'm glad you
- 1:08:40Speaker 3: liked it, bro, because I feel like it's important because
- 1:08:42Speaker 3: I feel like, again, there's just these there's there's especially
- 1:08:46Speaker 3: with that situation. It's like, you know, it just sucks
- 1:08:50Speaker 3: because I'm sure we probably aligned pretty closely in terms
- 1:08:53Speaker 3: of how we feel about that. The war that's been
- 1:08:55Speaker 3: happening for over a year. Definitely this bullshit ceasefire that
- 1:09:00Speaker 3: is probably going to result in. I mean, Trump just
- 1:09:03Speaker 3: said they want he wants to fucking displace the entire country.
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: Yeah, which is crazy.
- 1:09:07Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, for you, like interviewing a Hesbela
- 1:09:12Speaker 3: member on camera, that's a risk for you. Yeah. I
- 1:09:16Speaker 3: didn't do it though, no I know, but just it's
- 1:09:18Speaker 3: your platform. So like telling the side of the Hesbela.
- 1:09:21Speaker 2: Dude, I thought, soldier, I thought that covering MAGA and
- 1:09:24Speaker 2: Antifa shit opened me up to criticism.
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: Brother. You should have seen when I dropped the Hesbela interview.
- 1:09:29Speaker 3: Dude.
- 1:09:29Speaker 2: People were calling me like a pro terrorism platform, like
- 1:09:32Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I had comments in Hebrew
- 1:09:34Speaker 2: like wishing death upon me and shit.
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: I was like, this is they don't play about them at.
- 1:09:38Speaker 3: Least would you, because I think the other story that
- 1:09:41Speaker 3: I really would like to see somebody really trying to
- 1:09:43Speaker 3: tackle in like as is like what's going on in
- 1:09:46Speaker 3: the West Bank. Yeah, yeah when the settlers and like
- 1:09:50Speaker 3: there's like a it's pretty fucked.
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: Yeah, those settlers are on some shit. You seen videos
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: of them? Oh my god, what's wrong with them?
- 1:09:56Speaker 3: What is wrong?
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: Seriously?
- 1:09:57Speaker 3: They're like maniac like yeah, like what nightmares are made of.
- 1:10:02Speaker 3: Like there's this lady who's just so mean and evil.
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like homeless people with ars.
- 1:10:07Speaker 3: They're like homeless people with ars. Bingo. But like you said, dude,
- 1:10:13Speaker 3: like this shit, it's like almost like there's like this
- 1:10:16Speaker 3: like you just can't talk about it.
- 1:10:17Speaker 1: No, well, I mean you can, but it's just like
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: you're opening yourself up so much, like dude.
- 1:10:21Speaker 3: Because again with the labels you're anti Semitic or it's
- 1:10:26Speaker 3: the same thing with like if you disagree with anything
- 1:10:28Speaker 3: on the left, Yeah, you're a trumper, you're a Nazi.
- 1:10:29Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's even worse when you're talking about Israel
- 1:10:32Speaker 2: Palestine though, because you get your channel really taken down.
- 1:10:35Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting too because it's like to see kind
- 1:10:38Speaker 3: of like the MAGA correlation with like Israel. Yeah, and
- 1:10:44Speaker 3: then you know, but then there's like the outliers on
- 1:10:47Speaker 3: the right who are like so far like anti Israel, like, uh,
- 1:10:53Speaker 3: what's the guy's name with the beer, the fucking Dan Basaria, And.
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: Yeah, that shit's so funny.
- 1:10:56Speaker 2: It's also just been so funny to see like MAGA
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: aligned with is because like for two years they.
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: Were like the Jewish Cabal of deep state apac elites or.
- 1:11:05Speaker 3: The Q fuck.
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: Yeah, these Q fucks yeah yeah, and then and then
- 1:11:10Speaker 2: now they're lying, they're like funk terrorism.
- 1:11:12Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy.
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: You know, it's hell of funny. But yeah, man, I'm
- 1:11:16Speaker 2: definitely not done covering the Middle East, but I'm taking
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: a little breather and trying to figure it out. Next
- 1:11:19Speaker 2: time I'm gonna go out there, be careful, Yeah, I'll
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: be Yeah.
- 1:11:24Speaker 3: Belly has a line he did in a freestyle where
- 1:11:26Speaker 3: he said hero villain, it's all perspective, and it's like, yeah, yeah,
- 1:11:30Speaker 3: it's crazy, it's crazy. What are your thoughts on, because
- 1:11:35Speaker 3: you know, it's been an interesting first week and a
- 1:11:38Speaker 3: half of President Trump's What are your thoughts on the
- 1:11:42Speaker 3: first week and a half?
- 1:11:43Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this man, if Trump does some good
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: things for the country and the quality of life improves
- 1:11:48Speaker 2: for average American, I'm not gonna go above and beyond
- 1:11:51Speaker 2: to try and make him look bad. I'm not this
- 1:11:53Speaker 2: like weird guy who's just like operating on some anti
- 1:11:55Speaker 2: Trump spighte. If things get good, I'll cover that too.
- 1:11:58Speaker 2: So I look at it as like we have no
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: choice but to just hope for the best. So, I mean,
- 1:12:03Speaker 2: I try to look past the sort of like anti
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: trans shit, and I just just really think, like, Okay,
- 1:12:08Speaker 2: is he going to eliminate the extreme poverty and inequality
- 1:12:11Speaker 2: that we have.
- 1:12:11Speaker 3: Which is always like I mean, that's what the craziest
- 1:12:14Speaker 3: thing is is the you know, the extreme poverty is growing,
- 1:12:18Speaker 3: and then just the wealth gap is just getting It's
- 1:12:21Speaker 3: almost like, you know, the shit that's happening with trying.
- 1:12:25Speaker 2: To buy homes in America and American dream is over,
- 1:12:28Speaker 2: and the gap of regional understanding is crazy. Like, for example,
- 1:12:31Speaker 2: California is being overtaken by tech transplants and rich people
- 1:12:35Speaker 2: from other places, causing working class Californians to flee to
- 1:12:38Speaker 2: Arizona and Texas. And then they say, don't California, my
- 1:12:41Speaker 2: Texas and they look at them as the problem when
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: their problem is low key.
- 1:12:45Speaker 3: Them fucking with Black California.
- 1:12:47Speaker 2: It's just like this cycle and black Rock owns everything
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: and everything's all bad. But like I said Brad twenty
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: twenty eighth that year.
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: Yeah I hope, so man, I sure hope. So yeah, yeah,
- 1:12:57Speaker 3: I think it's it's just it's just it's disheartening because
- 1:12:59Speaker 3: it's like, damn, dude, like I can I don't imagine,
- 1:13:01Speaker 3: Like if I was like twenty two to twenty three
- 1:13:02Speaker 3: right now, I wouldn't even even like the thought of
- 1:13:05Speaker 3: like buying an entry level condo couldn't even cross my mind.
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't own anything.
- 1:13:09Speaker 3: Yeah you know what I mean.
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: Yeah, that's yeah, except by in my two thousand and
- 1:13:13Speaker 2: seven Tacoma the car. But I mean, aside from that,
- 1:13:16Speaker 2: I don't even want to buy a house. If I
- 1:13:17Speaker 2: do buy a house, it's gonna be in the cut
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: in the country. Like young boy, So you were in
- 1:13:21Speaker 2: Phoenix for a while, I lived in Phoenix.
- 1:13:23Speaker 1: For an entire year.
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: I'm gonna blow the lid off that no one knows
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: that I was on forty fourth and camel Back, living
- 1:13:29Speaker 2: behind the village it's an athletic club. Great area, holding
- 1:13:32Speaker 2: it down, Indian School, Chopper John's.
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: Siparadia, Yeah, Arcadia, Arcadia, Scottsdale, CUSP.
- 1:13:40Speaker 3: Yeah, great area. Yeah, so you enjoyed it? Did you
- 1:13:42Speaker 3: enjoy your year?
- 1:13:43Speaker 1: I love Phoenix, bro, I'm not gonna lie.
- 1:13:45Speaker 2: I was a major Tucson flag staff guy and I
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: moved to Phoenix and I said, you know what, I'm
- 1:13:49Speaker 2: a figure out. Had to make this place as fun
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: as possible, and I figured out my spots.
- 1:13:53Speaker 1: And I got a lot of love for Phoenix.
- 1:13:55Speaker 3: Now.
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: Yeah, and Phoenix, I always thought it was like the
- 1:13:57Speaker 1: Dallas of the West. It's like a gross, infinite sprawl
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: of nothingness and identical suburban cul de sacs. But Phoenix
- 1:14:03Speaker 1: is tight.
- 1:14:04Speaker 3: No, it is tight for sure. Yeah. I mean you
- 1:14:05Speaker 3: were in a good area too. Great food around there.
- 1:14:07Speaker 1: Good food, good vegan food, you know. I mean.
- 1:14:10Speaker 2: The only part I don't like Phoenix really, and I
- 1:14:14Speaker 2: hate to be negative, is like the downtown Scottsdale area.
- 1:14:17Speaker 3: Oh yeah, old town.
- 1:14:18Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just not my thing.
- 1:14:20Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I could see why not. It's very
- 1:14:22Speaker 3: I mean, I know you own a club, a club
- 1:14:24Speaker 3: in old Town Scott's.
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: Which is a good business play.
- 1:14:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and it's also the only black club
- 1:14:28Speaker 3: in Scottsdale, so you know it's a hip hop club.
- 1:14:31Speaker 3: We're booking like fucking whoever you could think of it.
- 1:14:33Speaker 3: We just had Boston Richie Friday.
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: Oh really sick. That's tight. I like Tempi though.
- 1:14:37Speaker 3: Yeah. The Tempe's a vibe. Downtown Phoenix is a vibe.
- 1:14:41Speaker 1: You see. They had a candlelight vigil last night in
- 1:14:43Speaker 1: Tempe for the goon for naughticham alone, Oh my god,
- 1:14:46Speaker 1: goon in Heaven. Goon too soon?
- 1:14:49Speaker 3: Dude, that this whole fucking guy becoming like the mascot
- 1:14:55Speaker 3: for gooning on Twitter.
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: It's horrible, bro.
- 1:14:57Speaker 3: It's so funny. My kids were like, my my son
- 1:15:01Speaker 3: is like, yo, dad, you see they had a they
- 1:15:03Speaker 3: had a they had a fucking they had a gooner role.
- 1:15:06Speaker 3: I'm like, man, what.
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: The full text to me? The dude organize. He's like,
- 1:15:10Speaker 1: you gotta pull up and I was already here and
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, oh that would have been
- 1:15:14Speaker 1: fired all right.
- 1:15:15Speaker 3: So yeah, no, there was like for people who don't know,
- 1:15:17Speaker 3: there's like this guy's fucking forever on internet. Brain what
- 1:15:20Speaker 3: brought Hall of fame. This guy who caught my friend
- 1:15:23Speaker 3: owns that.
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: Place, Bikini Breast Bikini Beans.
- 1:15:26Speaker 3: Yeah, my friend Ben owns that place. Oh shit, so
- 1:15:28Speaker 3: he posts. It's funny because he posted the video. He
- 1:15:32Speaker 3: was the first guy that posted, and I just reposted
- 1:15:34Speaker 3: it on my story within seconds. I was like, yo,
- 1:15:36Speaker 3: track this creeped out.
- 1:15:37Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, and then like, I don't know.
- 1:15:40Speaker 3: Two days later it was like the guy killed himself
- 1:15:42Speaker 3: and I felt kind of bad, yeah, because I was like, fuck,
- 1:15:44Speaker 3: I shared that video.
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: Fuck was it two full days?
- 1:15:47Speaker 3: I don't even know.
- 1:15:48Speaker 1: I thought he went straight to a parking lot in
- 1:15:50Speaker 1: Goodyear and just did the deed that.
- 1:15:52Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know all the deats. I
- 1:15:54Speaker 3: just know this guy is now, you know, fucking I
- 1:15:57Speaker 3: didn't even know what dooning he was before two weeks ago.
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: You know about the Gilbert Goons, though, right, of course
- 1:16:02Speaker 1: have you them?
- 1:16:03Speaker 3: Have you? Have you done anything? No Gilbert Good? No,
- 1:16:06Speaker 3: I didn't.
- 1:16:07Speaker 2: I was focused on the border and I was like,
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: I don't want to hear about this ship. But now,
- 1:16:10Speaker 2: looking back, I wish I had an exclusive.
- 1:16:11Speaker 3: Yeah, the Gilbert Goons. For people who don't know, it's
- 1:16:13Speaker 3: like this Gilbert is like the nicest area you could
- 1:16:15Speaker 3: possibly live in. It's like one of them is pretty
- 1:16:17Speaker 3: big Mormon area too. But just these fucking they get it.
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: They killed somebody, right, Rich kid gangs, rich kid Gary's
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: you know, but like, dude, real ones, No, rich high
- 1:16:27Speaker 1: school kid gangs are terrifying.
- 1:16:29Speaker 2: They catch bodies. There was one in Laurel Canyon, the
- 1:16:31Speaker 2: Wonderland Gang. Yeah, the three eleven Boys in Las Vegas
- 1:16:34Speaker 2: and Seattle. You had a gang called Spruce Mob that
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: would hit licks at every house party. They never caught
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: a body. But these kids got none to lose, no money.
- 1:16:41Speaker 3: Their parents are by.
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: Lawyers charged as juveniles.
- 1:16:44Speaker 3: Their daddy didn't love them enough, wasn't around enough. And
- 1:16:46Speaker 3: what are they listening to? Fucking Chief Keef and fucking
- 1:16:49Speaker 3: NBA young boy.
- 1:16:50Speaker 1: And so we're not gonna blame no Jumper for that, yo.
- 1:16:55Speaker 3: It's so oh my god, that's funny. Dude. You're obviously
- 1:16:58Speaker 3: a big hip hop fan. Who were your like like like, like,
- 1:17:02Speaker 3: who would you say he is like your favorite hip
- 1:17:03Speaker 3: hop artists of all time?
- 1:17:04Speaker 2: I mean I grew up in like the litl Be
- 1:17:06Speaker 2: Chief Key Cooks and Space Ghost Purp generation, you know,
- 1:17:10Speaker 2: in between odd Future and trippy red if that makes.
- 1:17:13Speaker 3: Sense, that makes sense. Yeah, I mean this is good
- 1:17:15Speaker 3: hip hop in there.
- 1:17:15Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was kind of my era. I mean now,
- 1:17:18Speaker 2: like I listened to a lot of Lah. I listened
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: to a lot of sped up Florida music. Like I
- 1:17:22Speaker 2: listened to a lot of jack Boy obviously Kodak, but
- 1:17:24Speaker 2: you ever heard a nine to five to four fast
- 1:17:26Speaker 2: pitch before DJ Frisco, DJ Fetti Fee.
- 1:17:29Speaker 1: I listened to a lot of.
- 1:17:30Speaker 3: Shit like that. The crazy shit is I had, you know,
- 1:17:33Speaker 3: me and Denzel career homies and where I was like, yo, man,
- 1:17:36Speaker 3: like first of all, Space Ghost Perp. He don't get
- 1:17:38Speaker 3: enough fucking love for the influence he had. But like
- 1:17:40Speaker 3: if Raider Clan and Asap Mob never beefed, yeah, Like,
- 1:17:47Speaker 3: there was just so many possibilities that could have played out, dude.
- 1:17:51Speaker 2: And you know, we remember a public school breakfast when
- 1:17:54Speaker 2: you going to give you the apple wrapped in plastic
- 1:17:56Speaker 2: and a couple of eggs. So when I was in
- 1:17:58Speaker 2: sixth grade, I used to go to public school breakfas
- 1:18:00Speaker 2: and there was this dude that would sit at the
- 1:18:02Speaker 2: table across from me. His name was Keishawn. He ended
- 1:18:05Speaker 2: up joining Raider Clan and he was the only Seattle member.
- 1:18:08Speaker 2: He's a rapper named key Niata. So we got to
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: meet some of like the og Raider Clan people at
- 1:18:14Speaker 2: one of his first concerts in Capitol Hills. So I
- 1:18:16Speaker 2: had met like space Cohos, Purp and Denzel Curry and
- 1:18:19Speaker 2: young Sammy when I was like fourteen, And I thought
- 1:18:21Speaker 2: about that too, like if the asap Purp thing never happened,
- 1:18:24Speaker 2: which was all about the vocabulary and the Vale replacement
- 1:18:28Speaker 2: with the excess and V's being taken, if that didn't happen,
- 1:18:31Speaker 2: I don't know what would have happened. But Purp is legend,
- 1:18:33Speaker 2: little Bee also legend.
- 1:18:35Speaker 1: I'm trying to think. I wish I had more for you,
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: but just the whole.
- 1:18:37Speaker 3: When you're a kid in Seattle, do you just like
- 1:18:39Speaker 3: fucking Maclamore.
- 1:18:41Speaker 2: Let's go, well, the thing about Malcilmore and this is
- 1:18:43Speaker 2: why Seattle guy, by the way, I fucked with Macklimore.
- 1:18:46Speaker 2: This is why Seattle is such a hater city. Bro
- 1:18:49Speaker 2: is because Malcilmore was the most respected underground legend.
- 1:18:52Speaker 3: For yeah No for a few years, Like he was
- 1:18:55Speaker 3: like an underground rapper bro.
- 1:18:56Speaker 2: He went to Garfield High School. He's not a suburban cat.
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: Malcolm was a certified, respected battle rapper, freestyle rapper from
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: the inner city of Seattle who had the most respect.
- 1:19:06Speaker 2: The moment Thrift Shop comes out, it hits a billion views,
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: all of a sudden, he's the people in Seattle are like, haha, Mackelmore,
- 1:19:12Speaker 2: this and that instantaneously hometown hate and jealousy.
- 1:19:16Speaker 3: Which is crazy because it's like, dude, this guy's such.
- 1:19:18Speaker 1: A good guy, such a good that's a band man.
- 1:19:21Speaker 1: He's from the same neighborhood as me.
- 1:19:23Speaker 3: Oh wow, Yeah, he's such a good guy, dude, and
- 1:19:25Speaker 3: he's like, you know, I think it's been just dope
- 1:19:29Speaker 3: to see him like unapologetically take a stand for a
- 1:19:32Speaker 3: fucking what's going on in Palestine.
- 1:19:34Speaker 1: He goes MLK on him, he does, he said some
- 1:19:37Speaker 1: I forget what he said. No, he talks like MLK
- 1:19:40Speaker 1: on him. You ever hear him fucking Malcolm wore being
- 1:19:42Speaker 1: like I'm taking a stand, you know, it's of Yeah,
- 1:19:45Speaker 1: he does it once every five years, and when he
- 1:19:47Speaker 1: does it, he's not fucking playing.
- 1:19:48Speaker 3: I remember when he jumped on the fuck Donald Trump remix.
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: Oh shit, damn that song.
- 1:19:53Speaker 3: I forgot about He's on the Fuck Donald Trump remix?
- 1:19:55Speaker 3: It was I think it was him and G Easy.
- 1:19:58Speaker 3: I think it was why Yeah, it was y G.
- 1:20:02Speaker 3: G Easy in Maclamore.
- 1:20:04Speaker 2: G Easy went to the small Catholic Catholic college that
- 1:20:07Speaker 2: I went to in New Orleans. But check it out
- 1:20:09Speaker 2: when that when I hear that instrumental from Fuck Donald Trump,
- 1:20:12Speaker 2: it gives me goosebumps because that was it was being
- 1:20:14Speaker 2: played during all the riots in Minneapolis. I can smell,
- 1:20:17Speaker 2: I can feel the flames from the precinct burning on
- 1:20:19Speaker 2: my face when I hear that instrumental.
- 1:20:21Speaker 3: Holy shit, you know what I mean?
- 1:20:22Speaker 2: That one and the beginning of the Fuck the Police
- 1:20:24Speaker 2: instrumental before Boosey starts rapping with those two songs.
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: You'll never experience life until you're around a burning cop
- 1:20:30Speaker 1: car with the song's playing.
- 1:20:32Speaker 3: What's what's next?
- 1:20:33Speaker 1: Man?
- 1:20:33Speaker 3: I'm this obviously. I know you you're gonna keep the
- 1:20:36Speaker 3: channel growing and doing big ship, but like, you know,
- 1:20:39Speaker 3: are you going to continue to do documentaries?
- 1:20:41Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 1:20:41Speaker 3: Do you think that with the success of this is
- 1:20:44Speaker 3: the goal that I get to deal with Netflix, maybe
- 1:20:46Speaker 3: be able to sell the next one to one of
- 1:20:47Speaker 3: these bigger platforms.
- 1:20:48Speaker 1: No, I don't want to work with them really.
- 1:20:49Speaker 2: I mean, actually, you know what, I just don't want
- 1:20:52Speaker 2: to be put in a position again to where my
- 1:20:54Speaker 2: future is in the hands of somebody and some people
- 1:20:56Speaker 2: I don't know. So I would definitely work with NETFLI
- 1:21:01Speaker 2: in a licensing capacity, but I want every movie that
- 1:21:04Speaker 2: I drop, I want to drop by myself first on
- 1:21:06Speaker 2: my own websites, and I'm gonna go to them with
- 1:21:08Speaker 2: the numbers and say, hey, if you like this, would
- 1:21:12Speaker 2: you like to license it for a year. I won't
- 1:21:14Speaker 2: post it on my platform. You guys can make as
- 1:21:16Speaker 2: much money off you want off of it as you want,
- 1:21:18Speaker 2: like masterp that style. Because whenever you're a documentary filmmaker
- 1:21:23Speaker 2: and you go to a streaming platform HBO and Netflix,
- 1:21:26Speaker 2: Prime to be whatever, they're going to calculate how much
- 1:21:28Speaker 2: money that they're going to give you based upon a
- 1:21:30Speaker 2: minimum guarantee, which is calculated by your engagement. So if
- 1:21:33Speaker 2: you're in obscurity, if you're in nobody with a dope documentary,
- 1:21:36Speaker 2: they're going to be incentivized to give you a small number.
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: But if you're somebody who can say, hey, dear Kelly
- 1:21:41Speaker 2: did fifty thousand streams in the first month.
- 1:21:43Speaker 1: Here's how much money we made. Here's the reaction.
- 1:21:46Speaker 2: How would you like to go into business together? You
- 1:21:49Speaker 2: license it, do as much as you want with it,
- 1:21:51Speaker 2: then give it back one day so I can die
- 1:21:52Speaker 2: with the ip.
- 1:21:53Speaker 1: That is the best situation. They tell you you can't
- 1:21:56Speaker 1: do that.
- 1:21:57Speaker 3: Has anyone done it before? No?
- 1:21:59Speaker 2: No, because because what the platform say is, I know
- 1:22:02Speaker 2: it's not that much money, and I know that we're
- 1:22:03Speaker 2: going to own it. It's not going to be years,
- 1:22:05Speaker 2: but you're going to be famous, and then that exposure
- 1:22:08Speaker 2: is going to be your gateway into owning your content
- 1:22:10Speaker 2: in the future one day. This is a model that
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: I thought of, and once I explained it to my agent,
- 1:22:15Speaker 2: he said, yeah, that's possible, and I was like, oh shit, really.
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: He's like yeah yeah.
- 1:22:20Speaker 3: I mean if you show why wouldn't they want Because
- 1:22:22Speaker 3: at the end of the day, you have such a
- 1:22:24Speaker 3: niche audience, and if it's something that you've already shown
- 1:22:28Speaker 3: the proof of concept for like hey, no, it worked,
- 1:22:30Speaker 3: we have this is then this is what we did.
- 1:22:33Speaker 3: This is the buzz behind the movie. I mean, why
- 1:22:36Speaker 3: wouldn't they license it?
- 1:22:38Speaker 1: Not a few reasons, but I mean, you know, in general.
- 1:22:42Speaker 2: Obviously I've had some controversy in the past that makes
- 1:22:44Speaker 2: it difficult for them, and secondly marketing budget.
- 1:22:47Speaker 3: The controversy that you had, I thought it was. I mean,
- 1:22:52Speaker 3: you don't have to speak on it, but I think
- 1:22:53Speaker 3: just from a perspective of somebody who follows you and
- 1:22:56Speaker 3: I think I gather what transpired. Yeah, I just thought
- 1:23:00Speaker 3: it was It was very very uh Aziz an Zari
- 1:23:06Speaker 3: type situation. In my opinion, it was like, yeah, are
- 1:23:09Speaker 3: we really trying to cancel this guy?
- 1:23:11Speaker 1: And what happened behind the scenes is more unbelievable.
- 1:23:13Speaker 3: Yet to speak on it, but the point is is
- 1:23:15Speaker 3: that I just felt like, you know, I felt like
- 1:23:18Speaker 3: your situation and DISEASA situation was like the personification of
- 1:23:23Speaker 3: cancel culture getting a little fucking out of hand. Yeah,
- 1:23:25Speaker 3: like what are we doing here? But that's just me,
- 1:23:27Speaker 3: I know, you know, like you said, you haven't spoke
- 1:23:29Speaker 3: about behind the scenes, I'm sure.
- 1:23:30Speaker 2: I mean, it was basically, without giving too much information
- 1:23:33Speaker 2: out because it's going to all come at at one time. Yeah,
- 1:23:36Speaker 2: it was a lawyer and a group of people who
- 1:23:39Speaker 2: most of whom I didn't know, trying to bait me
- 1:23:41Speaker 2: into a civil settlement to give them a portion of
- 1:23:44Speaker 2: the HBO movie payout. But I didn't play ball with
- 1:23:47Speaker 2: these people. They sent out press releases to the media
- 1:23:50Speaker 2: outlets who basically ran these pieces as a pressure tactic.
- 1:23:52Speaker 2: So I had to the only way out of that
- 1:23:54Speaker 2: situation really was to kind of like just bite the
- 1:23:57Speaker 2: bullet and move on.
- 1:23:58Speaker 3: Wow. So they really try to, yeah, bully you into
- 1:24:01Speaker 3: a payday.
- 1:24:01Speaker 1: Yeah, but I didn't do it. But I had to
- 1:24:03Speaker 1: deal with you know, I had to really make a choice.
- 1:24:06Speaker 3: You had to face it.
- 1:24:07Speaker 2: Yeah, because if I were to pay the money to
- 1:24:10Speaker 2: these people, then there'd be an NDA and nobody would
- 1:24:13Speaker 2: learn about it. That's what most of the celebrities in
- 1:24:15Speaker 2: the industry do. I was actually advised to do that
- 1:24:18Speaker 2: by some of the people I was working with. They said,
- 1:24:20Speaker 2: you know what, this is a part of becoming famous.
- 1:24:22Speaker 2: You're going to have people who try to get money
- 1:24:24Speaker 2: out of you. The best thing to do is take
- 1:24:25Speaker 2: the L financially and hold on to your career. And
- 1:24:28Speaker 2: I said, you know what, I'm actually not going to
- 1:24:30Speaker 2: take the L financially because if I pay somebody out
- 1:24:32Speaker 2: for something I didn't do, then what's going to happen?
- 1:24:34Speaker 2: Five years down the line, if I continue to have
- 1:24:36Speaker 2: success and they have that on me, it's going to.
- 1:24:38Speaker 1: Go up and up and up. I just I didn't
- 1:24:41Speaker 1: want to be on that hook.
- 1:24:43Speaker 2: But the point is because I haven't really spoke too
- 1:24:45Speaker 2: much about that situation with receipts, yet I still have
- 1:24:48Speaker 2: this issue to where like even today, People Magazine was
- 1:24:52Speaker 2: supposed to run a feature on me. They had the
- 1:24:54Speaker 2: whole thing written, and then ten minutes before it's supposed
- 1:24:57Speaker 2: to come out, up the editor in chief, because of
- 1:24:59Speaker 2: the controversy, decided to nix the story.
- 1:25:02Speaker 3: These guys are pussies, but.
- 1:25:04Speaker 2: That's the world they live in. It's so crazy, So
- 1:25:07Speaker 2: I'd be crazy to pretend like that's not a road
- 1:25:10Speaker 2: block to getting my shit on Netflix, you know what
- 1:25:12Speaker 2: I mean?
- 1:25:12Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think if there's anything that hopefully,
- 1:25:16Speaker 3: you know, we think about the positives that could happen
- 1:25:17Speaker 3: with fucking old fucking orange face being president again, is
- 1:25:20Speaker 3: like a lot of that shit gets eased up and
- 1:25:21Speaker 3: and and you know it sucks too because you also
- 1:25:24Speaker 3: see like a lot of these fools just bend in
- 1:25:26Speaker 3: the kneed to trump and like getting rid of, like,
- 1:25:28Speaker 3: you know, shit just to bend the need of Trump. Yeah,
- 1:25:30Speaker 3: but it's like, yo, man, like we got to stop
- 1:25:32Speaker 3: fucking like just getting people out of here for no reason.
- 1:25:36Speaker 3: And it's become like, you know, there's a real economy
- 1:25:39Speaker 3: behind it, Like there's an economy behind, there's commerce behind
- 1:25:45Speaker 3: making us hate each other. Yeah, and there isn't it.
- 1:25:48Speaker 3: There's this there's a whole black market, you know, economy
- 1:25:52Speaker 3: behind trying to cancel people or blackmail im legally and
- 1:25:55Speaker 3: cold legally blackmail people.
- 1:25:56Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:25:57Speaker 2: And you asked about, you know, the BLM movement too,
- 1:25:59Speaker 2: and I think it's the same thing with the me
- 1:26:01Speaker 2: too movement. A lot of things start off with a
- 1:26:03Speaker 2: genuine purpose, but then the tail end becomes an industry.
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: It's based upon generating capital.
- 1:26:07Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the me too thing got pretty out
- 1:26:08Speaker 3: of hand quick. It was like, yeah, fucking Harvey Weinstein's
- 1:26:11Speaker 3: a fucking steaming pile of dog shit. And this is
- 1:26:14Speaker 3: something that obviously happens and it should be addressed. But
- 1:26:17Speaker 3: if someone hits on you, that doesn't mean that they
- 1:26:20Speaker 3: sexually like, it's just like it shit, Like I think
- 1:26:25Speaker 3: I think I don't remember all the details of his
- 1:26:27Speaker 3: ease thing, but I think he flirted with someone and
- 1:26:29Speaker 3: it didn't go well, and like he I think he
- 1:26:32Speaker 3: lost his show on Netflix definitely. I mean he's yet
- 1:26:34Speaker 3: to return, you know, which is crazy because he's like
- 1:26:37Speaker 3: one of the guys.
- 1:26:38Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean to if you really want to have
- 1:26:40Speaker 2: a mind fuck, the person who leads the Creating Evidence Lab,
- 1:26:44Speaker 2: which is an online workshop that teaches you how to
- 1:26:47Speaker 2: basically extract a confession from somebody, is Harvey Weinstein's defense attorney.
- 1:26:52Speaker 3: What.
- 1:26:53Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's like it's it's like a black Mirror episode,
- 1:26:57Speaker 2: Like this shit is really this shit's really full circle.
- 1:27:00Speaker 3: What is your opinion on a guy like Joe Rogan?
- 1:27:05Speaker 2: I like him, Yeah, I mean, obviously I disagree with
- 1:27:08Speaker 2: some of the things he said, but I think that
- 1:27:11Speaker 2: as a podcaster, what he's been able to achieve in
- 1:27:13Speaker 2: some of the conversations that I've I've seen him have before,
- 1:27:17Speaker 2: I think he does a great job. I mean, especially
- 1:27:19Speaker 2: if you think about, like the fact that when he
- 1:27:22Speaker 2: came onto the scene, you know, podcasting wasn't what it
- 1:27:25Speaker 2: was today, and so I almost feel like he kind
- 1:27:28Speaker 2: of paved the way for podcasts to be taken more seriously. Yeah,
- 1:27:31Speaker 2: you know, I know, he's like an easy person to target,
- 1:27:35Speaker 2: and you know, I did meet him one time and
- 1:27:37Speaker 2: he wasn't the nicest to me.
- 1:27:38Speaker 3: You know what I mean. But you know, I feel
- 1:27:41Speaker 3: like you're gonna end up on that show.
- 1:27:42Speaker 1: I hope so, bro.
- 1:27:43Speaker 3: But at the same time, like, but then when you
- 1:27:46Speaker 3: go on there, when you go on there, they're gonna
- 1:27:48Speaker 3: be like because now you know, obviously Joe Rogan's a Nazi,
- 1:27:51Speaker 3: you know, so.
- 1:27:52Speaker 1: Yeah, they're gonna be you know.
- 1:27:54Speaker 3: And I think with Rogan is like I always just
- 1:27:57Speaker 3: appreciate the fact that like he just I've learned about
- 1:28:02Speaker 3: like archaeology on his podcast and I never would have
- 1:28:05Speaker 3: or fucking self sustained farming or just like the most
- 1:28:08Speaker 3: random shit, it's tight. And when it comes to like
- 1:28:10Speaker 3: political shit, like he'll have like I remember there was
- 1:28:14Speaker 3: like two a couple of years ago. He had like
- 1:28:15Speaker 3: one guy who was uh, pro climate change and then
- 1:28:20Speaker 3: another guy who was anti climate change, and he interviewed
- 1:28:22Speaker 3: them and back to back days and then got them
- 1:28:24Speaker 3: together to have like a discussion, and I'm like, well
- 1:28:26Speaker 3: that and it was like four hours long. Yeah, I mean,
- 1:28:28Speaker 3: you're not getting that.
- 1:28:29Speaker 1: You're not going to see shit like that elsewhere.
- 1:28:31Speaker 2: And I think it also speaks to like people's attention
- 1:28:33Speaker 2: attention span, even though the social media algorithm would tell
- 1:28:37Speaker 2: you that people have like a short attention span. People
- 1:28:39Speaker 2: are still watching three and a half hour podcast for sure.
- 1:28:41Speaker 2: Foples are still going to watch this whole podcast and
- 1:28:43Speaker 2: they're gonna like it.
- 1:28:44Speaker 3: You know, what are your thoughts on? Uh, you were
- 1:28:47Speaker 3: on the ground for January sixth. I was nearby nearby.
- 1:28:53Speaker 3: Oh you weren't there, Okay, okay, okay, yeah, okay, so
- 1:28:55Speaker 3: you weren't there, that's right.
- 1:28:56Speaker 2: I was there for like three different pump fakes where
- 1:28:59Speaker 2: they said like we're gonna take the Capitol and they
- 1:29:01Speaker 2: would get close and be like not today.
- 1:29:04Speaker 3: So I want to know your thoughts because I thought
- 1:29:06Speaker 3: it was I thought that with the j sixers, I
- 1:29:09Speaker 3: guess I think that there was probably some people who
- 1:29:13Speaker 3: probably should have been pardoned who walked into a building,
- 1:29:16Speaker 3: and then I think there were people who deservingly attacked
- 1:29:19Speaker 3: Capitol police officers. Yeah, there was like this blanket party
- 1:29:22Speaker 3: where I was like, I don't know if you should
- 1:29:24Speaker 3: have partnered all of them, like maybe half like, because
- 1:29:25Speaker 3: I do think that there was genuinely people. I mean,
- 1:29:28Speaker 3: there was a dude who got arrested who shot his
- 1:29:30Speaker 3: mixtape cover in the Capitol that day, whoa like some
- 1:29:34Speaker 3: rapper just because he was there, and like they that's hard. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:29:39Speaker 3: but I feel like there were people there who just
- 1:29:41Speaker 3: like genuinely like walked in with their phones, like, oh,
- 1:29:43Speaker 3: this is crazy, we're in the Capitol.
- 1:29:45Speaker 1: I hate to be that guy, but like, dude, the
- 1:29:46Speaker 1: people who should be in jail for January sixth is
- 1:29:49Speaker 1: like Trump, if you really want to start locking people
- 1:29:51Speaker 1: up for that, it's the people who told these these
- 1:29:54Speaker 1: masses that the election was stolen and that they had
- 1:29:57Speaker 1: to take their country back. Yeah.
- 1:29:59Speaker 3: I think too, is they. I think that that Trump
- 1:30:01Speaker 3: knew it wasn't stolen. That's the problem. If Trump truly
- 1:30:03Speaker 3: believed the election was stolen, then okay, But I don't
- 1:30:07Speaker 3: think he truly believed the election was stolen. I think
- 1:30:09Speaker 3: it's just like Rudy Giuliotti, by the way, he's a
- 1:30:11Speaker 3: piece of shit, God Jesus, the most cringiest. I feel like, yeah,
- 1:30:16Speaker 3: out of everybody from the last eight years, I should
- 1:30:19Speaker 3: just love to see him fucking just eat shit.
- 1:30:22Speaker 1: Fuck Rudy Giuliani. Yeah, especially because he was like a
- 1:30:24Speaker 1: nine to eleven hero and he had.
- 1:30:26Speaker 3: To fucked around and do this such a piece of shit, dude.
- 1:30:29Speaker 1: Yeah, but honestly, like if you look at some of
- 1:30:31Speaker 1: their prison sentences, some of them were just.
- 1:30:33Speaker 3: Outrageous, outrageous and like some people like I think we're
- 1:30:37Speaker 3: just being held without a court date all this time,
- 1:30:39Speaker 3: and it's like, well, if this teacher like stumbled into
- 1:30:42Speaker 3: the as long there were people who showed up with
- 1:30:45Speaker 3: zip ties like attacked officers, that guy should be in
- 1:30:48Speaker 3: jail for sure. He should never you know, one hundred percent.
- 1:30:52Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on because you you have covered
- 1:30:55Speaker 3: the Proud Boys. I know, the Proud Boys leader in
- 1:30:58Speaker 3: Rique what's his last Enrique Tarrio, he just got pardoned.
- 1:31:01Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm close with a lot of people
- 1:31:02Speaker 2: who got pardoned. Yeah, I mean they probably don't like
- 1:31:05Speaker 2: me now because of the HBO documentary. Unfortunately, the way
- 1:31:08Speaker 2: I was made to posture in that film burned a
- 1:31:11Speaker 2: lot of bridges with the conservatives.
- 1:31:13Speaker 3: Really yeah, yeah.
- 1:31:15Speaker 1: They basically made me.
- 1:31:16Speaker 2: They tried to like posture me into this like misinformation Watchdog,
- 1:31:20Speaker 2: who was like super blue pillar that just existed to like,
- 1:31:23Speaker 2: you know, just a Trump and exposed expose white nationalism.
- 1:31:27Speaker 2: I'm obviously like, I will do that if that's what's
- 1:31:30Speaker 2: happening with the They made me editorialize it so much
- 1:31:33Speaker 2: to where like I'm saying shit at the end on
- 1:31:35Speaker 2: this director's chair monologue that I didn't have a choice
- 1:31:38Speaker 2: a choice in where I'm saying like Enrique Tario couldn't even.
- 1:31:41Speaker 1: Stomach the fire that he'd fueled, just like pussy as
- 1:31:45Speaker 1: shit like that.
- 1:31:46Speaker 3: I wonder because from when I get I one time
- 1:31:49Speaker 3: we were in Vegas, me and my boys, and we
- 1:31:51Speaker 3: just happened to be there the night Trump had a
- 1:31:54Speaker 3: he had a fucking rally, And I think we're staying
- 1:31:57Speaker 3: at Treasure Island or some Sure, we're staying some and
- 1:32:00Speaker 3: we happen to be staying where the Proud Boys are staying. Yeah,
- 1:32:04Speaker 3: So I'm playing Roulette and these and I'm like, real,
- 1:32:07Speaker 3: like my boy he's like hey, He's like, I think
- 1:32:10Speaker 3: we're surrounded by Proud boys.
- 1:32:12Speaker 1: Where they were in Fred Perry's, they were wearing like.
- 1:32:15Speaker 3: Polo shirts yeah, golden yellow gold yeah right yeah, And
- 1:32:19Speaker 3: I was like, oh shit, but like what, like I
- 1:32:23Speaker 3: want to say, only one of the dudes at the
- 1:32:25Speaker 3: roulette table with us was actually white.
- 1:32:27Speaker 1: Yeah, and if.
- 1:32:30Speaker 3: Would you consider the Proud Boys. I'm not saying that
- 1:32:33Speaker 3: I agree with anything they do because I think they're
- 1:32:35Speaker 3: like more of like a pro masculinity group. But would
- 1:32:37Speaker 3: you consider them a white supremacist group, because that is
- 1:32:40Speaker 3: the Yeah, No, not at all.
- 1:32:42Speaker 2: They're like a nationalist group, like a nationalist drinking club.
- 1:32:46Speaker 2: They're kind of like soccer hooligans, you know what I mean,
- 1:32:49Speaker 2: they just get fucked up together and like they yell
- 1:32:51Speaker 2: about sports and also politics.
- 1:32:53Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, because I remember because one of the guys
- 1:32:56Speaker 3: who started the Proud Boys is one of the founders
- 1:32:58Speaker 3: of Vice.
- 1:32:58Speaker 2: Yeah, Gavin mckinnis. I think that he has some white
- 1:33:00Speaker 2: supremacist tendencies.
- 1:33:02Speaker 3: Yeah, he because he would dress like fucking you just
- 1:33:05Speaker 3: see that motherfucker. Oh, he definitely he's leaning into that shit.
- 1:33:08Speaker 2: He definitely fucks with Hitler. But I mean a lot
- 1:33:10Speaker 2: of them, I feel like they support nationalist governments. But
- 1:33:13Speaker 2: there's also been nationalist governments like Pinochette Pinochet and Chile.
- 1:33:18Speaker 2: He wasn't white, right, you know, but he was still
- 1:33:20Speaker 2: a dictator. There's been plenty of brown fascists.
- 1:33:23Speaker 3: Yeah, I think what people you know, there's this like
- 1:33:26Speaker 3: when we talked a little bit earlier about like kind
- 1:33:28Speaker 3: of like the intersection of like Biden or not Biden,
- 1:33:30Speaker 3: of Bernie and Trump. Yeah, and like I guess the
- 1:33:34Speaker 3: quote unquote like America first approach. Yeah, and it's like
- 1:33:38Speaker 3: it's it's it's not necessary. It's just it's not uh,
- 1:33:44Speaker 3: it's not if it's if Bernie says it is not
- 1:33:47Speaker 3: white supremacy. Yeah, but they align even if it's on
- 1:33:51Speaker 3: like twenty percent of that.
- 1:33:52Speaker 2: I mean, some of the Proud Boys are like urbanized,
- 1:33:55Speaker 2: like trendy people. I remember in twenty seventeen, I was
- 1:33:58Speaker 2: at a bar in New York City called Mehnada, which
- 1:34:00Speaker 2: was like this gay bar, and all the gay Proud
- 1:34:02Speaker 2: Boys had their annual meeting there.
- 1:34:04Speaker 1: So I walk up in there.
- 1:34:05Speaker 2: It'saw all these like trendy gay dudes with like earrings
- 1:34:07Speaker 2: and shit, and they're wearing the Fred Perry yellow and
- 1:34:09Speaker 2: black polos and Maga hats, talking about you know, these
- 1:34:12Speaker 2: gay dudes talking about how you know Trump's gonna help
- 1:34:15Speaker 2: the gaze out because they're like gay people who don't
- 1:34:17Speaker 2: like trans people, so they're just like raging about trans people.
- 1:34:20Speaker 2: So I'm in there right, I'm kicking it. Was an accident, right,
- 1:34:22Speaker 2: I'm just getting to drink. Like, they don't recognize me.
- 1:34:24Speaker 2: So I'm just chilling and I go outside and there's
- 1:34:27Speaker 2: like this black dude chilling out there.
- 1:34:28Speaker 1: I look at him. I'm like, are you a gay
- 1:34:30Speaker 1: proud boy? And he was like, what the fuck? I'm
- 1:34:32Speaker 1: not one of those motherfuckers. And I was like, oh,
- 1:34:34Speaker 1: my bad dog. Yeah, I was joking around. He's like,
- 1:34:37Speaker 1: you think I'm part of that.
- 1:34:37Speaker 2: White supremacist shit. You think I'm gay too. I was like, no,
- 1:34:40Speaker 2: I'm just joking. He was like, fuck you hoe me
- 1:34:42Speaker 2: my back inside, and that she was. So I still
- 1:34:45Speaker 2: think about that all the time.
- 1:34:46Speaker 3: Is there anything you're are you? Are you plotting on
- 1:34:48Speaker 3: trying to maybe cover like any of these part and
- 1:34:50Speaker 3: folks to just see what you know. I'm so over
- 1:34:53Speaker 3: I know you've said that in the documentary.
- 1:34:54Speaker 1: You're over this shit, dude. It's not that interesting.
- 1:34:56Speaker 2: That's the thing is, Like I'm on this platform talking
- 1:34:59Speaker 2: about or Kelly because I worked on it for so
- 1:35:01Speaker 2: long and I think it has some level of like relevance,
- 1:35:04Speaker 2: and so does January sixth. But I've been like in
- 1:35:06Speaker 2: the January sixth media realm for like four years. I
- 1:35:08Speaker 2: want to move on to like actually cool shit, Like
- 1:35:10Speaker 2: I got this project coming out soon about like different
- 1:35:13Speaker 2: sovereignty movements in the US and also like endangered languages
- 1:35:17Speaker 2: in the US, like Cajun, French, Golageechee, Navajo language, some
- 1:35:21Speaker 2: like Alaskan dude, all types.
- 1:35:22Speaker 3: I don't know if you've done it yet because you've
- 1:35:24Speaker 3: done so much, but I think the I think there
- 1:35:27Speaker 3: has to be the story of like the reservations across
- 1:35:31Speaker 3: the country.
- 1:35:31Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've done a little bit.
- 1:35:33Speaker 2: But like when I was that was the best thing
- 1:35:35Speaker 2: about living in Arizona Navajo. I got super tapped in
- 1:35:39Speaker 2: with the natives. Yeah, shout out talking about Homie Kenneth.
- 1:35:41Speaker 3: Yeah, shouts of the natives. Man, And like it's kind
- 1:35:43Speaker 3: of crazy, Like, you know, there's like a real fucking
- 1:35:48Speaker 3: like if you drive through the res houses are they're
- 1:35:51Speaker 3: fucking living on, Like it's kind of crazy how a
- 1:35:55Speaker 3: lot of these houses are constructed. Yeah, trailer parks. There's
- 1:35:57Speaker 3: a lot of drug use, there's a lot of alcoholism,
- 1:35:59Speaker 3: and it's like I just feel like, you know, that's
- 1:36:02Speaker 3: a very interesting story that needs to be told.
- 1:36:05Speaker 2: Also, the difference is between the different reservations in Arizona.
- 1:36:08Speaker 2: Like if you go to Cells, which is in the
- 1:36:09Speaker 2: Tahona Odom Nation west of Tucson, that place looks like
- 1:36:12Speaker 2: it's in the Third World country. I mean, it is
- 1:36:14Speaker 2: broken down. You go somewhere like window Rock, which is
- 1:36:17Speaker 2: in the Four Corners area in the Navajo Reservation, and
- 1:36:20Speaker 2: you're like, damn, they got their shit together right for sure.
- 1:36:22Speaker 2: And it shows how the Bureau of Indian Affairs kind
- 1:36:24Speaker 2: of picks and shoeses where where it gets investment. And
- 1:36:26Speaker 2: so that was the coolest shit about Arizona living there
- 1:36:29Speaker 2: is learning about the different reservations, the cultural differences. And
- 1:36:32Speaker 2: I'm actually producing my first ever like fictional TV show
- 1:36:36Speaker 2: with an all native cast from Arizona.
- 1:36:37Speaker 3: Most Oh.
- 1:36:38Speaker 2: It's called Borders. We're still like getting the pilot done,
- 1:36:40Speaker 2: but I play a journalist in it.
- 1:36:42Speaker 1: And it's sick.
- 1:36:43Speaker 2: It's about it's sort of about the tahonah Odem Reservation
- 1:36:45Speaker 2: on the border. So it has to do with the
- 1:36:47Speaker 2: idea of like multiple borders in one state. There's cartel characters.
- 1:36:51Speaker 2: We got Danny Trejo's son Gilbert on that bitch. We
- 1:36:54Speaker 2: got hell of different shit. I'm excited and so you're
- 1:36:56Speaker 2: producing that to pitch it essentially, Yeah, yeah, I think
- 1:36:59Speaker 2: for a TV show, I'd rather pitch it as opposed
- 1:37:01Speaker 2: to drop it or independently. Of course, if nobody wants
- 1:37:03Speaker 2: to take it, I'll post it on Channel five and
- 1:37:06Speaker 2: the whole cast will be there at the end in
- 1:37:08Speaker 2: a dark room being like.
- 1:37:09Speaker 1: Please pick this up.
- 1:37:11Speaker 3: It's not a bad idea. Man. Is there anything that
- 1:37:16Speaker 3: you have besides the Chatz thing that, because of safety
- 1:37:20Speaker 3: or because you just think it wasn't in good taste,
- 1:37:22Speaker 3: ended up being something you decided not to release. Yeah.
- 1:37:24Speaker 2: After the George Floyd riots, I went back to the
- 1:37:26Speaker 2: Target and the kmart that got looted the next morning
- 1:37:29Speaker 2: and did like a consumer research study about all the
- 1:37:32Speaker 2: items that didn't get looted, you know. So it was like,
- 1:37:35Speaker 2: this is a message to Target corporate, like there are
- 1:37:37Speaker 2: certain items that you have that are so undesirable that
- 1:37:39Speaker 2: even when it's open season, that's going to be left
- 1:37:41Speaker 2: on the racks. And it was like Honica sweaters, and
- 1:37:44Speaker 2: like certain game systems that like fools just would not steal.
- 1:37:48Speaker 3: What game systems would they stay?
- 1:37:49Speaker 2: I don't know that well, they wanted the PlayStations in
- 1:37:51Speaker 2: the Xbox, but it was like some of the off
- 1:37:53Speaker 2: brand VR headsets were just left right, We're just gonna
- 1:37:55Speaker 2: leave those. Yeah, and even like beats by Dre they
- 1:37:58Speaker 2: had some left right there, and I was like, damn.
- 1:38:00Speaker 2: So I feel like it was important market research. And
- 1:38:02Speaker 2: so it was called what they Didn't Loot and it
- 1:38:04Speaker 2: was just like a you know, an item by item analysis.
- 1:38:07Speaker 2: But then I sent it to my boss and he's like,
- 1:38:09Speaker 2: this is a trespassing charge and I was.
- 1:38:10Speaker 3: Like, you still keep in contact with with Kelly?
- 1:38:15Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 1:38:15Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean because you you got pretty emotional. Well,
- 1:38:18Speaker 3: I would say you got emotional in the movie at
- 1:38:20Speaker 3: a certain point. I don't want to spoil the movie,
- 1:38:21Speaker 3: but obviously, being you know, around somebody for so long,
- 1:38:26Speaker 3: you guys become friends, you know, yeah, how often you
- 1:38:30Speaker 3: guys talk? And what does he think about the movie?
- 1:38:32Speaker 1: He loves the movie, Yeah, which is relatively surprising.
- 1:38:36Speaker 3: Yeah, because he's not. I mean, I think you end
- 1:38:38Speaker 3: up kind of I watched that movie and I ended
- 1:38:41Speaker 3: up like like feeling for the guy.
- 1:38:44Speaker 2: The movie is not anti Kelly, it's not. It's also
- 1:38:47Speaker 2: not about converting someone to becoming a liberal. No, it's
- 1:38:50Speaker 2: just a study of family and the intersection of politics
- 1:38:53Speaker 2: between generations with an American family that's sort of splintered
- 1:38:56Speaker 2: by it.
- 1:38:58Speaker 3: Yeah, he likes it.
- 1:39:00Speaker 2: Only like I was hoping and I'm still hoping that
- 1:39:03Speaker 2: there's kind of a breakthrough that happens after he sees it.
- 1:39:06Speaker 3: You know.
- 1:39:06Speaker 2: I like to think that the movie maybe is the
- 1:39:08Speaker 2: missing piece and all of this. But he's seen it
- 1:39:10Speaker 2: several times. He came to two different tour dates on
- 1:39:13Speaker 2: the Channel five tour last summer, and then he also
- 1:39:16Speaker 2: came to the premiere in Huntington Beach two and a
- 1:39:17Speaker 2: half weeks ago, and each.
- 1:39:19Speaker 1: Time he was kind of like hell yeah, like sick.
- 1:39:23Speaker 1: So it's a bit confusing.
- 1:39:24Speaker 3: I thought what I actually loved about was that he
- 1:39:27Speaker 3: left you a voicemail when you were going through your shit. Yeah,
- 1:39:29Speaker 3: and you play that voicemail and it was like, damn,
- 1:39:31Speaker 3: Like this dude, he's a good dude. Yeah, Like he's
- 1:39:34Speaker 3: not a bad guy.
- 1:39:35Speaker 1: Like, and he's capable of giving really good advice when
- 1:39:37Speaker 1: it matters.
- 1:39:38Speaker 3: Yeah, And like he's obviously he's obviously a smart guy,
- 1:39:41Speaker 3: because you don't become a lawyer and not be it.
- 1:39:43Speaker 3: And I mean, I would say they aren't fucking idiots
- 1:39:45Speaker 3: or lawyers. But it's like this guy had like a
- 1:39:47Speaker 3: like when you were showing some of his like family
- 1:39:50Speaker 3: footage with like all the animals they owned, and shit,
- 1:39:52Speaker 3: I was like, damn, this dude really had the American dream,
- 1:39:55Speaker 3: like fucking figure it out for real.
- 1:39:56Speaker 2: And that's kind of one of the subtexts of the
- 1:39:58Speaker 2: film too, is like he did achieve the American dream,
- 1:40:00Speaker 2: and what the American dream is on paper is literally
- 1:40:03Speaker 2: shifting classes, being able to go from a working class.
- 1:40:06Speaker 3: Because he grew up in like I said, trailer trailer park.
- 1:40:09Speaker 2: And boom, dude, imagine that twenty years later, after hard
- 1:40:11Speaker 2: work and dedication, you go to Pepperdine for law and
- 1:40:13Speaker 2: you're in Laguna Hills living like Zoe one oh one,
- 1:40:16Speaker 2: and then boom, all of a sudden, it goes away
- 1:40:19Speaker 2: and the American Dream breaks in front of your eyes.
- 1:40:21Speaker 2: And especially if you're conditioned by the Reagan era with
- 1:40:23Speaker 2: that like hyper positivity Bootstrafts mentality, that is like it
- 1:40:27Speaker 2: might as well be the fabric of space time warping
- 1:40:29Speaker 2: when that happens.
- 1:40:30Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's crazy, man. It's such a good movie, dude, people,
- 1:40:33Speaker 3: and you know you can ran.
- 1:40:34Speaker 1: It for five bucks, five dollars and fifty five cents.
- 1:40:38Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I think I think everyone should check it out.
- 1:40:41Speaker 3: I feel like, especially if you're like a fucking hardcore lefty.
- 1:40:45Speaker 2: Yeah, because the thing is like a lot of a
- 1:40:47Speaker 2: lot of hardcore a lot of hardcore lefties.
- 1:40:50Speaker 1: They want to pretend like these people don't exist.
- 1:40:52Speaker 3: Or they're not like people, like they're not like hey,
- 1:40:54Speaker 3: like just be like, yes, they're crazy. They're holding the
- 1:40:57Speaker 3: signs and they're on the they're screaming at you outside.
- 1:40:59Speaker 3: But what is like that's a person at the end
- 1:41:01Speaker 3: of the day in a backstory.
- 1:41:03Speaker 2: A huge backstory, And in a way, this movie is
- 1:41:05Speaker 2: kind of for them to say, Hey, if you do
- 1:41:07Speaker 2: want a revolution, if you want a progressive future, you
- 1:41:10Speaker 2: have to figure out how to incorporate the millions and
- 1:41:12Speaker 2: millions of people like Kelly who have valid economic grievances,
- 1:41:16Speaker 2: who were hypnotized by political media and are now working
- 1:41:19Speaker 2: for the enemy as they see it. Right, you can't
- 1:41:21Speaker 2: just have a utopian future without figuring out a path
- 1:41:23Speaker 2: to stability and mental mental strength and solitude for these people.
- 1:41:27Speaker 2: Not solitude mental like whatever the word is, like a
- 1:41:31Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like for sure, mental health services,
- 1:41:33Speaker 2: but you know, not every Trump supporters.
- 1:41:35Speaker 1: It's like a head case. I'm just saying no for sure.
- 1:41:37Speaker 3: No, no, I think And then I think that's the
- 1:41:38Speaker 3: other thing too, man is I just think like what
- 1:41:40Speaker 3: you do is you have context and nuanced to just
- 1:41:42Speaker 3: so many divisive issues. And I feel like, you know,
- 1:41:46Speaker 3: if somebody watched, like you know, any of your coverage
- 1:41:49Speaker 3: that you've had over the years, Bro, it's like it's like, Yo,
- 1:41:52Speaker 3: there's not it's not. We're all in the gray area
- 1:41:55Speaker 3: and we act like it's black or white.
- 1:41:56Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's more people in that zone than
- 1:41:59Speaker 1: you like to think.
- 1:42:00Speaker 3: So would you do a podcast?
- 1:42:02Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it, bro, I'm thinking about it. But
- 1:42:04Speaker 1: the thing that scares me about.
- 1:42:05Speaker 2: A podcast is like you look at dudes like Stevo
- 1:42:09Speaker 2: who have had crazy lives, but they've done a million podcasts.
- 1:42:12Speaker 2: At some point you've told every story and the lore
- 1:42:15Speaker 2: kind of goes away, at least for somebody like me
- 1:42:18Speaker 2: that has a sort of like in field mystique to myself.
- 1:42:21Speaker 3: Now that's fair, Yeah, no, that's fair. I think I
- 1:42:22Speaker 3: think you're not overexposed personally, right.
- 1:42:24Speaker 2: I don't want to tell people and I'm also like,
- 1:42:26Speaker 2: I'm kind of smart, but I'm more of a listener
- 1:42:28Speaker 2: than a talker, Like you've been in the radio, like
- 1:42:31Speaker 2: you know what you're doing. Not saying I'm a bad podcaster,
- 1:42:34Speaker 2: but I don't know if I have a take for everything.
- 1:42:36Speaker 3: Yeah, and I do feel like what you do is
- 1:42:37Speaker 3: like a version of I mean, it's all content, right, podcasts,
- 1:42:40Speaker 3: the content of v logs, content, a mini documentaries, content Like,
- 1:42:44Speaker 3: So I think what you do, man, is I think
- 1:42:47Speaker 3: unless you think you're doing a podcast will add to
- 1:42:50Speaker 3: like the overall like mission of journalism. Yeah, then you know,
- 1:42:58Speaker 3: just double down on the ship you're doing.
- 1:43:00Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:43:00Speaker 2: One thing that I would do is like a hybrid
- 1:43:02Speaker 2: between I guess Channel five and software Underbelly. I want
- 1:43:05Speaker 2: to get an ambulance, buy an ambulance and kind of
- 1:43:08Speaker 2: gut the back and turn it into a mobile studio
- 1:43:11Speaker 2: where I can talk to just like random people, not
- 1:43:13Speaker 2: just like.
- 1:43:14Speaker 3: I'm gonna pull up the Yeah, I'm gonna pull up
- 1:43:16Speaker 3: wherever sweet yeah right, kid row. It could be fucking yeah,
- 1:43:19Speaker 3: the White Lives Matter in Huntington Beach. It could be anything.
- 1:43:21Speaker 2: So I would do a podcast with like random people
- 1:43:24Speaker 2: and sometimes famous people. But not just famous people, right,
- 1:43:28Speaker 2: you know because famous.
- 1:43:28Speaker 3: Well, you're the only person I think that's interviewed to Yeat.
- 1:43:31Speaker 2: Actually Complex got him, which was very unfortunate, but they
- 1:43:34Speaker 2: didn't do it.
- 1:43:35Speaker 3: Like yeah, but I felt like, did you have like
- 1:43:37Speaker 3: the first interview with Yeat?
- 1:43:38Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 1:43:39Speaker 3: Well actually our Generation Music got him before, but I
- 1:43:42Speaker 3: had early. They were pretty early.
- 1:43:44Speaker 1: Yeah, I had the first post blow up interview.
- 1:43:47Speaker 3: Yeah. Year, He's I I can't wait for hip because
- 1:43:50Speaker 3: I feel like he EA's a pretty interesting guy. Heard
- 1:43:52Speaker 3: he owns a ton of guns. He's from Portland.
- 1:43:54Speaker 1: Yeah, Heat's awesome, Like he's like, uh yeah, I just
- 1:43:57Speaker 1: I want to know more about him.
- 1:43:59Speaker 3: But he's so fucking was there.
- 1:44:00Speaker 2: Like yeah right, and so like I want to be
- 1:44:02Speaker 2: somewhere in between that and Steve O and Steve O'shit's cool.
- 1:44:06Speaker 1: It's I'm not hating on Steve.
- 1:44:07Speaker 3: Yeah, it's cool.
- 1:44:08Speaker 1: Just saying everyone knows every story now almost for she's
- 1:44:12Speaker 1: done a thousand podcasts.
- 1:44:14Speaker 3: Is there anything man for you that you just want
- 1:44:16Speaker 3: to kind of like like, Okay, let's say you had
- 1:44:20Speaker 3: to kind of you know, twenty years from now, man,
- 1:44:24Speaker 3: what do you do you what would you say you
- 1:44:25Speaker 3: would want your legacy to be man, hey, man, just
- 1:44:28Speaker 3: never fold.
- 1:44:30Speaker 1: Yeah, just yeah, it's basically it never fold. Just hope
- 1:44:33Speaker 1: the war. I hope we're still fighting.
- 1:44:36Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, not the war in God's obviously no no no,
- 1:44:39Speaker 3: but just the.
- 1:44:40Speaker 2: War message to myself in twenty years. I hope that
- 1:44:43Speaker 2: we're still on top, we're still doing our shit. I
- 1:44:45Speaker 2: hope we never compromise. I hope we never sell out.
- 1:44:48Speaker 2: I hope we never let somebody control us. I hope
- 1:44:50Speaker 2: we never let a bureaucratic, corporate media establishment own a
- 1:44:55Speaker 2: single percent in Channel five.
- 1:44:56Speaker 1: And I hope that the media establishment is dead and gone.
- 1:45:00Speaker 3: I think it's happening.
- 1:45:01Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it.
- 1:45:02Speaker 3: I think slowly but surely, and you know, I think
- 1:45:07Speaker 3: it has to. Man. I just feel like, you know,
- 1:45:10Speaker 3: CNN and all these fucks, they're all full of shit.
- 1:45:13Speaker 1: Bro, they're full of shit.
- 1:45:14Speaker 2: But the problem is, you know's maybe more full of
- 1:45:16Speaker 2: shit clickbait reactionary podcasters.
- 1:45:19Speaker 3: Oh you know what I mean.
- 1:45:20Speaker 1: So that's the thing is you're taking one swamp and
- 1:45:23Speaker 1: you're kind of starting a new.
- 1:45:25Speaker 3: And it's a bigger swamp that the entry level was zero,
- 1:45:28Speaker 3: and you can let anybody can turn a camera on. No,
- 1:45:31Speaker 3: for sure, it's it's fucking crazy. It's crazy.
- 1:45:33Speaker 1: CNN has to get caught in a lie, you know
- 1:45:35Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
- 1:45:36Speaker 3: I think they've been caught in a few. I don't
- 1:45:39Speaker 3: understand why Rogan never sued them for the They made
- 1:45:42Speaker 3: his skin yellow, and that whole ivermectin thing was just crazy.
- 1:45:46Speaker 1: They made his skin yellow when they put him on TV.
- 1:45:49Speaker 3: Yes, they live in Mexico. They made him look like
- 1:45:52Speaker 3: he was sick when he did his It was fucking crazy.
- 1:45:54Speaker 1: Damn bro, that's whack.
- 1:45:56Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I just they did that for real.
- 1:45:58Speaker 1: Yes, that's unbelievable.
- 1:45:59Speaker 3: But it's in saying and I'm like he always said,
- 1:46:02Speaker 3: he was like, you know, I could sue him, but
- 1:46:03Speaker 3: I just this is not worth it. I'm like, yeah,
- 1:46:04Speaker 3: you could sue, sue somebody for putting a tent on
- 1:46:07Speaker 3: you because they were trying to make it that. I
- 1:46:10Speaker 3: think the whole angle of the.
- 1:46:11Speaker 2: Story was he was sick. He's getting jaundice from ivermactin. Yeah,
- 1:46:15Speaker 2: like that's the vibe, right, Like his skin is turning yellow,
- 1:46:17Speaker 2: like he's going in septic shop.
- 1:46:18Speaker 3: I guess so, man, But yeah, I think I think, man,
- 1:46:20Speaker 3: you're doing good work, bro keep it up, and you know,
- 1:46:24Speaker 3: I look forward to seeing you guys expand with the
- 1:46:25Speaker 3: different correspondence you have all over the world. Any any
- 1:46:29Speaker 3: areas you're looking, I would love to see, like somebody
- 1:46:31Speaker 3: maybe in Africa like.
- 1:46:33Speaker 1: There, I had a homegirl in the UH in the
- 1:46:35Speaker 1: Democratic Republic of Congo that I.
- 1:46:37Speaker 3: Would say Congo specifically.
- 1:46:38Speaker 1: But our policy is if you're going to cover something,
- 1:46:40Speaker 1: you have to be from that area.
- 1:46:42Speaker 3: At least you know what I'm saying. I mean, that's
- 1:46:44Speaker 3: the thing. Though it's also dangerous, like covering those fucking
- 1:46:47Speaker 3: minds in Congo are crazy. Yeah.
- 1:46:48Speaker 2: Well, if you're an African person who wants to work
- 1:46:51Speaker 2: for Channel five, tap it and you're not scared by
- 1:46:54Speaker 2: emails Andrew at Channel five dot news.
- 1:46:56Speaker 3: There it is, my guy. I appreciate you coming through.
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- 1:47:10Speaker 2: Shout to pop Eye, Shout out to pop Eye Man
- 1:47:12Speaker 2: you know, you know loves this tie Kelly Lefty gunplay
- 1:47:15Speaker 2: interview coming soon.
- 1:47:16Speaker 3: Oh you interviewed Lefty? Yeah? How how off the shits
- 1:47:20Speaker 3: was he at the time he was doing He's a
- 1:47:21Speaker 3: good friend of mine.
- 1:47:22Speaker 1: He was doing good.
- 1:47:23Speaker 3: Yeah, I know he's doing Oh he's the best. Yeah,
- 1:47:26Speaker 3: he might be the most. I mean since listen. I
- 1:47:29Speaker 3: don't want to compare him to krypt Mac because he
- 1:47:31Speaker 3: would hate that, But since Krip Mac, I'm not sure
- 1:47:33Speaker 3: we've had a more entertaining personality hit. These internets agreed.
- 1:47:36Speaker 2: Shout out to Lefty, shout out to Bootleg keV, shout
- 1:47:39Speaker 2: out to Phoenix, shout out to Kelly, shout out to
- 1:47:41Speaker 2: Bill Joyner.
- 1:47:42Speaker 3: I hope you dropped Bill Joying to drop the fuck
- 1:47:43Speaker 3: it soap bro boom my guy appreciate you rather Yeah,