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Speaker 1: But Jen hass Well, Miles, We are thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined in our third seat by a brilliant and talented
Speaker 1: writer and reporter who's currently exposing the shockingly blatant and
Speaker 1: out in the open gangs of the l A Sheriff's
Speaker 1: Department for not l A her in depth fifteen part
Speaker 1: report A Tradition of Violence is basically mandatory reading for
Speaker 1: anyone who cares about justice and civics and sociology in
Speaker 1: America anywhere. Really. Welcome back to the show series, Cassa.
Speaker 1: What's up? Thanks for ding me back? Hey, thanks for
Speaker 1: coming back back. How are you thinking? What's new? What's
Speaker 1: what's the how's how's the weather? How are you? What's
Speaker 1: What's a good question to ask people these days? That
Speaker 1: isn't how are you doing? The weather is hot? The
Speaker 1: sheriff's are busy abusing people, and I am busy on
Speaker 1: their tails. Yeah, okay, so things are things are moving
Speaker 1: as they should be at the moment. It sounds like
Speaker 1: pretty much. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we definitely ask you a
Speaker 1: little bit more about what's going on since the piece
Speaker 1: that you dropped with knock l A came out, because
Speaker 1: I from my standpoint, I feel like it's a lot
Speaker 1: has been happening um ever since, with especially with like
Speaker 1: the increased awareness around the gangs in the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department. And I love that hashtag too, or whenever
Speaker 1: weople saying google l A s D Gangs, that's just
Speaker 1: the thing we want to say to everybody listening to
Speaker 1: the show, Google that L A s D gangs when
Speaker 1: you have a second, which should be right now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: go read the piece. Go read the piece. All right, Well, series,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to know you a little bit better,
Speaker 1: catch up on all that in a little bit. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're
Speaker 1: talking about. In addition to the L A s D Gangs,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the revelation from the Pentagon that
Speaker 1: some of the Haitian president's assassins were trained by US military.
Speaker 1: They said a small number of the assassins, which was
Speaker 1: still probably too many. So we're gonna talk about that
Speaker 1: and talk about just the general atmosphere of mercenaries like
Speaker 1: a world run by mercenaries that we're kind of looking
Speaker 1: looking at in the future. Will talk about drones for
Speaker 1: the home, another way that you can buy your way
Speaker 1: into like military supremacy. Uh, hey, did you want to
Speaker 1: crowdfund surveillance. Yeah, And we'll talk about hines trying to
Speaker 1: even things up, to bring some some sanity to this
Speaker 1: world by making it so that hot dog buns and
Speaker 1: hot dogs come in the same number container or packaging. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: that's always something I think about. There's a few places
Speaker 1: that the number of buns matches the number of francs
Speaker 1: that you get, and when they do, it's always eight
Speaker 1: francs to match the eight buns. It's never ten buns
Speaker 1: to match the ten hot dogs. Five packs that eight
Speaker 1: to get to forty and then you have a number
Speaker 1: divisible by ten, and then you see and that's how
Speaker 1: they get you. That's how they get you. And see
Speaker 1: the matrix already all of that plenty more. But first series,
Speaker 1: we like to ask our guests, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history. The last thing that I searched for
Speaker 1: was l A County election filing. Very exciting l A
Speaker 1: County Election FI. What is this in relation to specifically
Speaker 1: what what races. Well, we do have the race for
Speaker 1: sheriff coming up in June of two. We just had
Speaker 1: a candidate announced last week by the name of Cecil Rambo.
Speaker 1: Mr Rambo is alleged to be an associate of at
Speaker 1: least three different deputy gangs. So I was checking in
Speaker 1: to see what other gang affiliates of throwing their hat
Speaker 1: into the race, right, Is it just Alex Llanueva? Is
Speaker 1: it this Cecil Rambo not just a clever name? I
Speaker 1: guess god given name? Yes, that really his name because
Speaker 1: that is his name? Wow? Hell yeah? Is Villaneueva up?
Speaker 1: Like is he not running? He is running? Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: running for reelection. Cecil Rambo is like that dudes to
Speaker 1: left wing let me get out here and uh really
Speaker 1: reped the gangs. Cecil Rambo actually and his announcement video,
Speaker 1: he said that he is one of the only people
Speaker 1: that has stood up to deputy gangs, which is a
Speaker 1: common refrain of people that are actually alleged to be
Speaker 1: a part of the gangs themselves. How do they square
Speaker 1: that when they're like, when you're like, um, it looks
Speaker 1: like there's documentation to indicate you're involved. In the gang,
Speaker 1: but you stood up to be like the one day
Speaker 1: You're like, hey, let's not do too much gang stuff today.
Speaker 1: So like, I don't what what what? What is sort
Speaker 1: of the logic that they apply to be able to
Speaker 1: sort of say something like that a lot, or it's
Speaker 1: just merely an empty talking point. Um, It's something that
Speaker 1: I want to dive more into. I'm planning to speak
Speaker 1: with c. Soul in the coming days, so I'm really
Speaker 1: interested to see, you know, how he sort of squares
Speaker 1: the allegations that have flown around him for the past
Speaker 1: ten plus years, as well as various lawsuits that have
Speaker 1: been filed um with him being named as an associate.
Speaker 1: It's a question that I have than I'm looking for
Speaker 1: the answer to. M M yeah, yeah, good luck. I
Speaker 1: wish you lucky in trying to get a clear answer
Speaker 1: from someone who kind only mags to be very evasive
Speaker 1: when asking answering a direct question like that, are there
Speaker 1: any are there any like reform candidates at all possibly running?
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you run for sheriff and even
Speaker 1: make it far enough when your your platforms like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to actually make this better and not as
Speaker 1: oppressive as possible. To my knowledge, at least five of
Speaker 1: the candidates are from within the Sheriff's department themselves. Of
Speaker 1: those five, three are associated with deputy gangs, and there
Speaker 1: is one candidate that is outside the department. She is
Speaker 1: a former Long Beach Police, school resources officer and parole employee.
Speaker 1: She also ran for Board of Supervisors inteen for District one.
Speaker 1: And the other guy, um, the sixth candidate. I really
Speaker 1: can't find anything out about him, so I don't really
Speaker 1: have too much to say on him. And if she
Speaker 1: is anybody like going strong on the reform, like taking
Speaker 1: your reporting seriously. So how do they even differentiate at
Speaker 1: this point, like in terms of what their appeal would
Speaker 1: be to an electorate? Potentially, It's like when when I'm
Speaker 1: reading their platforms online, to be honest with you, it's
Speaker 1: it's they're really not that different from each other. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of political buzzwords, but as far as like
Speaker 1: policies go, uh, there's not really a lot. You know,
Speaker 1: Someone's like, I'm the one for more money for drones,
Speaker 1: and someone's like I'm the one for more money for
Speaker 1: armored vehicles, and that that's where we differ in how
Speaker 1: we want to spend our increased budgets. And it looks
Speaker 1: like mustaches might be another thing that maybe differentiating. I'm
Speaker 1: the one with a mustache. Well, yes, I well Vienuev
Speaker 1: is the only one without a mustache. So little controversial
Speaker 1: are you? Even as sheriff Sir? You don't have a
Speaker 1: pushbrew mustache like our boys, Cecil rambow here or even
Speaker 1: Eli Vera. What is something you think is overrated? Gosh?
Speaker 1: I think the Loki show is overrated. The whole Marvel
Speaker 1: universe I think is overrated. I have not seen it.
Speaker 1: I've I will. I don't know. I mean, were you
Speaker 1: a big Marvel Universe fan and then you watched it? No? No,
Speaker 1: I I got into the Marvel Universe and Lockdown, we
Speaker 1: got Disney Plus and we've been watching Loki and people
Speaker 1: are always talking about and I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: don't get it, Like I'm not insuited at all. People
Speaker 1: are so into these movies and this television show, and
Speaker 1: I just I really don't get it. You know, I
Speaker 1: started it, didn't finish it the same reason. I just
Speaker 1: didn't get the appeal. It's just not something that I
Speaker 1: just don't understand. Do you like it? I know. I
Speaker 1: I famously have not watched any of them because I'm
Speaker 1: like a just like a completionist. And and I've said
Speaker 1: this before the show, like the tick at which these
Speaker 1: films came out was too much for me to keep
Speaker 1: up with, and so I was just like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not I can't do this. This is too many films
Speaker 1: to like understand the other films. So a lot of
Speaker 1: listeners have been like, just watch these six in this
Speaker 1: order and it'll make sense. And I'm like, it's just
Speaker 1: a huge time investment and it's too mud. It's it's
Speaker 1: a little bit hard for me, but yeah, I get
Speaker 1: it people. You know they're they're really caught up in them,
Speaker 1: see you. I feel like they'd just be baking them
Speaker 1: up as they go along. It's like, y'all, y'll have
Speaker 1: twelve movies like two TV shows I gotta watch to
Speaker 1: make it all makes sense, Like, oh man, wait to
Speaker 1: the new shows Sandal, Oh my god, what do you
Speaker 1: see the storylines about that? Just his foot where it's like,
Speaker 1: are we we got all kinds of threads that we're
Speaker 1: going down. But yeah, I like Spider Man into the
Speaker 1: Spider Verse. I thought that was cool. Have you seen that, right,
Speaker 1: I like that I haven't seen that, So that one,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm hearing a lot from the low
Speaker 1: key reactions about like the multiverse and the idea that
Speaker 1: like all the Marvel different movies are part of like
Speaker 1: some multiverse that's going to intersect and like that that
Speaker 1: movie interacts with that in an interesting way. I'm starting
Speaker 1: to get excited about the Marvel cinematic universe just from four,
Speaker 1: my three year old, because he's like now real into
Speaker 1: like all these characters even though he's like never all
Speaker 1: he's seen is like pictures of them, and so I'm
Speaker 1: just like imagining when he can like finally watch the movies,
Speaker 1: like how how much it's going to make his brain
Speaker 1: melt and leak out of his years? Yeah, Or he's
Speaker 1: gonna be jumping off ship. Yeah he's a super because yeah,
Speaker 1: me watching like a few superhero things, I had a
Speaker 1: bad habit of jumping off of ship thinking I wouldn't
Speaker 1: get hurt, like when I was four, but I would
Speaker 1: try and put enough couch cushions below me to not
Speaker 1: shatter my ankles completely, like the you know the versions
Speaker 1: that we had like when I was a kid and
Speaker 1: into superheroes were like a Hulk TV show and uh
Speaker 1: and Batman the sixties TV show, and like I was
Speaker 1: just I was into it. That was good enough for me.
Speaker 1: The greatest American hero, which was like a joke, but
Speaker 1: I I took it seriously. What is uh something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated? Seriously? Police violence, man, police violence is
Speaker 1: hella underrated. Just now, while I'm talking to you, Um,
Speaker 1: I see that the Los Angeles Police Department has potentially
Speaker 1: killed some one. They have just shot someone down the
Speaker 1: street from my house. And I'm watching the police cars
Speaker 1: go and the helicopters overhead filming this, and yeah, really
Speaker 1: harsh in my vibe. But yeah, police violence is really underrated,
Speaker 1: Like this is horrible. Someone like I can't believe that
Speaker 1: just happened just now, jeez, just outside your window. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's okay. Uh, like that all just
Speaker 1: transpired in like the last couple of minutes. Yeah, while
Speaker 1: we were asking about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Uh huh okay,
Speaker 1: well that's that would be properly underrated, uh, considering the
Speaker 1: harsh reality that's out there, you know, as you navigate
Speaker 1: this whole sort of ecosystem of you know, police gangs
Speaker 1: and like sort of the mechanisms that are set up
Speaker 1: to like obscure their involvement or activity. What do you think,
Speaker 1: you know, what's the perspective. I'm sure like when you
Speaker 1: go to these sort of junk its or press conferences,
Speaker 1: when you're like next to maybe like people from like
Speaker 1: Fox eleven or like kt l A or the local news,
Speaker 1: do they do you think they have a semblance or
Speaker 1: understanding of what's at stake or do you think sometimes
Speaker 1: they're sort of as part of the media apparatus, willing
Speaker 1: to turn a blind eye to sort of keep the
Speaker 1: relationships going for the sake of like their reporting. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that's what they're doing. You know, in my experience,
Speaker 1: the average you know, television reporter doesn't have a clue
Speaker 1: about what's going on in the city and the realities
Speaker 1: that people are facing. And yeah, I mean that is
Speaker 1: the thing. There are a lot of stories that most
Speaker 1: mainstream outlets won't do because they don't want to damage
Speaker 1: their access to different agencies, whether that be law enforcement,
Speaker 1: a city council member, the mayor. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of questions that they just won't to ask your stories
Speaker 1: that they won't do because it's going to rock the boat.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, one of the reasons that I
Speaker 1: published my series at Knock because this this wasn't a
Speaker 1: story that a lot of with more name recognition, Um,
Speaker 1: they just weren't interested in doing something like this, yeah,
Speaker 1: and like this sort of I guess the way that
Speaker 1: the relationship there works is what that they'll the police
Speaker 1: will give them sort of tidbits of information that they
Speaker 1: can then run with stories or um. The police don't
Speaker 1: really they don't really give they give the information that
Speaker 1: they want to give. It's just about will you be
Speaker 1: will you be invited to the press conference? Will you
Speaker 1: be called on in question and answers? Are you going
Speaker 1: to get a call back on your story? Are they
Speaker 1: going to do the bare minimum right? And then for
Speaker 1: the in exchange, they'll just be like, and we'll obscure
Speaker 1: your crimes and act up to us about everything. So
Speaker 1: it's not even really it's not even like an understandable transaction,
Speaker 1: like well then they did scoop on they got a
Speaker 1: scoop on this thing. It's just are like, we won't
Speaker 1: call on you, and that's it. And that's enough for
Speaker 1: them to Because I mean, when you're at these things,
Speaker 1: are you, as someone who has completely gone against the
Speaker 1: grain in terms of how more mainstream reporting about this
Speaker 1: stuff has been. Are you finding it that you'll never
Speaker 1: get called on, that you have to sort of aggressively
Speaker 1: find your opportunities to to ask a question, or how
Speaker 1: does that work for you in terms of navigating this environment. Well,
Speaker 1: the last press conference that I had tended in person,
Speaker 1: I was almost arrested. I was detained for fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: by a group of three shareff's deputies who refused to
Speaker 1: let me back into the press conference until another member
Speaker 1: of the scrum who I had been standing with, a
Speaker 1: white guy, vouched for me, and then they were willing
Speaker 1: to listen to what I was saying. So I I
Speaker 1: don't attend in person anymore. When I do have to
Speaker 1: go into the field to work, I have to bring
Speaker 1: a bodyguard now, which it's really weird because I'm a reporter. Jesus,
Speaker 1: I don't I think I should have a bodyguard. But
Speaker 1: that's just sort of the reality of it. It's not
Speaker 1: that I'm not allowed to ask questions, It's that I'm
Speaker 1: physically prevented and potentially even you know, facing criminal prosecution
Speaker 1: for trying to do my job, and what would they
Speaker 1: allege you're doing that's criminal? Essentially. The person that was
Speaker 1: also detained and later arrested was told he was trespassing.
Speaker 1: But again, this is a press conference in a public
Speaker 1: building where I had RSVPD and was in contact the organizers,
Speaker 1: So it it doesn't make these allegation to then sort
Speaker 1: of justify entertainment, but then later won't be an arrest
Speaker 1: because that's just sort of foul. They'll not go fully
Speaker 1: a foul of the law or whatever the law is, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean and they Yeah, it just seems like I
Speaker 1: don't even when we're talking about the local local news,
Speaker 1: like just just having to interact with them on a
Speaker 1: regular basis, you know, because they're like any time they
Speaker 1: show up to a crime scene, they're gonna interact with
Speaker 1: probably the same like handful of police like every once
Speaker 1: in a while, and those are people who are legally
Speaker 1: allowed to shoot you like this. They like that based
Speaker 1: on your reporting, like that's all they need is the
Speaker 1: flimsiest like explanation for for what went down, And like
Speaker 1: it's just it's a very terrifying situation to be in
Speaker 1: to like try and talk about the police openly in
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, are really in any community with the
Speaker 1: militarized and like very you know, emboldened police police force. Yeah, Ship, Well,
Speaker 1: amazing what you're doing and the bravery it takes and
Speaker 1: couldn't be more thankful for what you do it for
Speaker 1: this community and I think just the country in general,
Speaker 1: because this is not just l A obviously. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about l A s D
Speaker 1: gangs and we're back. So, the last time you were
Speaker 1: on we kind of you. I think it was the
Speaker 1: day that your series of reports published a traditional violence.
Speaker 1: But you know, we we were talking right before we
Speaker 1: started recording about this most recent sort of use of
Speaker 1: double speak where aut Villaineueva is now saying that there
Speaker 1: there are clicks but not gangs, Like what is that
Speaker 1: a concerted effort? Like how how they're talking about this?
Speaker 1: Like how how are they like just dealing with the
Speaker 1: fact that there behavior has been so overt and out
Speaker 1: in the open and now somebody's just kind of laying
Speaker 1: it out for people to see. Well, they don't really
Speaker 1: acknowledge my reporting by name, but what they do say
Speaker 1: is that people are selling the notion of gangs to
Speaker 1: make a name for themselves or push an agenda. Vienueva
Speaker 1: has said both that he is the first person to
Speaker 1: do anything about deputy gangs, and yet deputy gangs don't exist,
Speaker 1: and yet they exist in every police department, and that
Speaker 1: they're nothing to fear, so, in short, a bunch of
Speaker 1: uh nonsense, right, And is that like in for some
Speaker 1: way to sort of acknowledge like, Okay, we can't we
Speaker 1: can't say no that it's all nonsense, because it is.
Speaker 1: There's real reporting about it. So the way they sort
Speaker 1: of navigate that is just to try and redefine or
Speaker 1: recontiret extualized, like what even a gang is Like they're
Speaker 1: just friends at the station that have a hand symbol
Speaker 1: and iconography like a gang. But it's just the loose
Speaker 1: cohort of organized armed men who like I saw like
Speaker 1: a picture that you posted about a patch that was
Speaker 1: being sold that said like our gang is bigger than
Speaker 1: yours or something like that. And I've also seen in
Speaker 1: like some of the and and a lot of your
Speaker 1: posts on social media and things like where you've you've
Speaker 1: interacted with somebody who's clearly wearing like a pin that
Speaker 1: is showing that they're affiliated and that in those symbol
Speaker 1: and like in those instances, is that with Vienueva was
Speaker 1: trying to say, It's like, yeah, that's just like a clique, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just the symbol. It's just a fun thing for
Speaker 1: our deputies, nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1: Has has that like forced has that created more activity
Speaker 1: like with these clicks or do you think on some
Speaker 1: way of the sort of spotlight that is being put
Speaker 1: on them through the History of Violence series is like
Speaker 1: maybe are they being less over more covert or it's no,
Speaker 1: just no offense. They don't give a can I say,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry tradition of violence not history of on? Sorry?
Speaker 1: They yeah, I mean they truly don't give a funk
Speaker 1: what I report on. They're gonna keep doing what they're doing,
Speaker 1: and I mean they're I believe their belief is that
Speaker 1: no one is going to stop them. I mean, Vinueva
Speaker 1: has defied subpoena after subpoena, He's gone after the county CEO,
Speaker 1: he's gone after the Board of Supervisors twice. Now saying
Speaker 1: that they need to be beaten. He said, very explicitly,
Speaker 1: the board of supervisors needs to be taken to a
Speaker 1: shed and beaten until they do their job as he
Speaker 1: sees fit. He's gone after me, He's gone after journalist
Speaker 1: by name at the Los Angeles Times. And he does
Speaker 1: all of this. He he invaded the Venice boardwalk, which
Speaker 1: is not his jurisdiction. He does all of this and
Speaker 1: no one stops him. There is no one that is
Speaker 1: saying you cannot do this, and here are the consequences.
Speaker 1: That hasn't happened yet. So he's been able to transform
Speaker 1: himself into probably the most powerful political person in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles County just by the virtue of the fact that
Speaker 1: the powers that do exist to check him have not
Speaker 1: taken any action. Hm. Right, And the board of supervisors
Speaker 1: are all women, right, correct, really tough guy attitude. So
Speaker 1: he's saying a group of five women need to be
Speaker 1: taken behind the shed and beaten until they do their job.
Speaker 1: And that's the sheriff and he and I'll just say,
Speaker 1: all the people that he's gone after in these press
Speaker 1: conferences are our women. The reporters at the l A
Speaker 1: Times that he's talking about, there are women. I am
Speaker 1: a woman, the board of supervisors or women like he's
Speaker 1: advocated for violence against women again and and again and again.
Speaker 1: The county, the county ceo a woman, and you know,
Speaker 1: no one there are no consequences to that. And I
Speaker 1: know recently to like the county Democrats were calling for
Speaker 1: him to resign, I mean outside of them, just sort
Speaker 1: of saying like that's what we wish. Is there anything
Speaker 1: sort of beyond that that could have any sort of
Speaker 1: material or fact or It's just sort of more of
Speaker 1: a show of sort of where they how they view
Speaker 1: how he's handling his position. It's it's largely a gesture,
Speaker 1: but it also implies that they will not be giving
Speaker 1: him the endorsement. In twenties two, it's believed that Vienueva
Speaker 1: was able to be victorious in the prior election because
Speaker 1: he did have the co sign of the Democrats of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles County as well as a number of local
Speaker 1: Democratic clubs. He did a lot of campaigning with them,
Speaker 1: spoke at a lot of their meetings, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people have said that it was that action that
Speaker 1: convinced them to vote for him. And I think without
Speaker 1: um that wind in his sales. Let's go around his
Speaker 1: numbers and the polls are going to be significantly down.
Speaker 1: How many people vote in like it? I guess two
Speaker 1: is not necessarily an off year election? But is it?
Speaker 1: Like how popular an election is that? Is that one
Speaker 1: where like just by getting a handful of like you know,
Speaker 1: his supporters out he can win? Or do you are
Speaker 1: you thinking that this is actually gonna I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess the first question, which we already talked about, is
Speaker 1: like what are the alternatives? But you know, having somebody,
Speaker 1: I guess with entrenched power is probably not a good thing.
Speaker 1: How important do you think it is to like have
Speaker 1: him defeated and out of office? Well, I think that
Speaker 1: he has shown time and time again that he is
Speaker 1: not willing to comply with the law. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I personally speaking, I mean I won't be voting
Speaker 1: for Viennueva. Yeah is there? I mean, And I know
Speaker 1: how you said, like the for the people who have
Speaker 1: the ability to sort of check his power, that they're not.
Speaker 1: I mean what you know obviously based on your understanding
Speaker 1: of the situation and the dynamics that play, like what
Speaker 1: should be happening if, for example, like just to give
Speaker 1: the people of l a County, the imagination on what
Speaker 1: what could be done or should be done? Um, what
Speaker 1: would you say? Those things are well, I mean, the
Speaker 1: Board of Supervisors has an incredible amount of power here
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles County. Their nickname is actually the Five Queens,
Speaker 1: because you know, it's really the county functions because of
Speaker 1: them and the work that they do. They hold an incredible,
Speaker 1: incredible amount of power in this county. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, it would be very easy to open an
Speaker 1: investigation into just the just the cases that are on
Speaker 1: a list that the Board of Supervisors itself actually keeps.
Speaker 1: That was the foundation of my series. You know, they
Speaker 1: keep that list. You know, it would be very easy
Speaker 1: to open an investigation into the deputies that are on
Speaker 1: that list and to and into the gangs. That would
Speaker 1: be a great first stuff. I think that hasn't been
Speaker 1: done yet. And and like sort of the thing that
Speaker 1: prevents that is I'd imagine some level of fear or
Speaker 1: intimidation that is coming from law enforcement or that the
Speaker 1: feeling that they wouldn't be protected or or you know,
Speaker 1: I mean like what is sort of for them the
Speaker 1: what makes that a situation they don't want to enter.
Speaker 1: Aside from obviously rocking the boat, because I think most
Speaker 1: people don't would rather just keep the status quo, at
Speaker 1: least for people who are holding very high office these
Speaker 1: days in this country. But is that sort of the
Speaker 1: main force that's keep preventing those kinds of investigations is happening?
Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't tell you. I think that that
Speaker 1: could be part of it. Several several members of the
Speaker 1: Board of Supervisors have sat on the board for a
Speaker 1: number of years before this and none of this stuff
Speaker 1: was done. So yeah, I mean, I think it could
Speaker 1: be complacency to a certain extent. And you know, gosh,
Speaker 1: I think government just moves like incredibly slowly like most
Speaker 1: of the time, right, which is which is unfortunate because
Speaker 1: it doesn't really have to right right. Yeah, So then yeah,
Speaker 1: we need to be looking at people who are willing
Speaker 1: to actually challenge the status quo and do that in
Speaker 1: a way that is like in pursuit of was actually justice,
Speaker 1: rather than maintaining office for as many years as possible. Right.
Speaker 1: It feels like it's the same pattern at every level
Speaker 1: when it comes to how like a lot of legislators
Speaker 1: think for people who haven't read the series or didn't
Speaker 1: listen to our first episod where we kind of covered
Speaker 1: just sort of a summary of what the gangs are like.
Speaker 1: So just you know, Vienueva called them clicks. So you
Speaker 1: know how like you and your pals in high school
Speaker 1: or like the mean girls in your high school all
Speaker 1: got matching skeleton tattoos with Nazi helmets. When you know
Speaker 1: you remember that, like how it because you earned them
Speaker 1: after killing a civilian. Yeah, when you when you got
Speaker 1: your three dots on your hand and your spider Web album. Right,
Speaker 1: So that's that's the sort of clicks that we're talking
Speaker 1: about here, that where they reward people with better hours
Speaker 1: for killing as civilian. Yeah, series is anything else is
Speaker 1: sort of updating or anything else you want to sort
Speaker 1: of put on everyone's radar off things just to be
Speaker 1: aware over to to be mindful of. I would just
Speaker 1: say that everyone, you know, whether or not you live
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles County, the Sheriff's department race is you know,
Speaker 1: incredibly relevant. Los Angeles County is the largest sheriff's department
Speaker 1: in the United States, and um, like other things we
Speaker 1: do here in Los Angeles are our policies that come
Speaker 1: down largely UM inform and dictate policies that could be
Speaker 1: popping up in your backyard if you don't live here.
Speaker 1: So I encourage everyone to, you know, UM, keep up
Speaker 1: with the race on what's going on. UM, educate yourself
Speaker 1: about the candidates. I myself and working on stories about
Speaker 1: all of the candidates and gathering information on them for people.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just stay tuned, and please stay informed and
Speaker 1: get out and vote when it's time. Just go go
Speaker 1: follow surist at Cerise castle c E r I s
Speaker 1: E c I s t l E on Twitter and
Speaker 1: follow all her reporting. It's important. It's fucking fascinating and
Speaker 1: horrifying all at the same time. All right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Haiti. So the panic has revealed that some of
Speaker 1: the murder squad I think the quote was a small
Speaker 1: number of the assassins that killed the Haitian president and
Speaker 1: attempted to kill his wife in their home were previously
Speaker 1: trained rather US military. And this is not surprising. It
Speaker 1: doesn't mean the US was involved in like planning this
Speaker 1: particular assassination, but it does this particular assassination exactly. It
Speaker 1: does reveal the people that do it. Maybe it's we
Speaker 1: took a long game for d thing yeah, exactly, it does. Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a consequence of US policy that
Speaker 1: the mainstream media doesn't like to acknowledge that. You know,
Speaker 1: for decades, the US has been training killers in South
Speaker 1: and Central America and around the world who they think
Speaker 1: will help them destabilize a country where they need regime
Speaker 1: chain or might need regime change, and yeah, just generally
Speaker 1: like contributing chaos and violence and you know, danger into
Speaker 1: the world. Well, it a great way to fight the
Speaker 1: Cold War when communism was gaining any kind of traction
Speaker 1: and central South America. It's like, okay, when then we
Speaker 1: need to create a a place to show people the
Speaker 1: skills of torture, interrogation, assassination, and we'll call it the
Speaker 1: School of the America's doesn't that that sound nice? And
Speaker 1: everyone can come to this school and we'll show you
Speaker 1: how to do all the nasty things that we've been
Speaker 1: perfecting over the last couple of decades. And then again
Speaker 1: we talked about it previously in another episode, but they
Speaker 1: eventually had to change their name to the Western Hemisphere
Speaker 1: Institute of Security Cooperation because they need a bit of
Speaker 1: a rebrand because everyone's like, isn't that the place where
Speaker 1: y'all train assassins and like hit squads. And you know
Speaker 1: when we talk, we talk aked about this and how
Speaker 1: it relates to you know, immigration and then the flow
Speaker 1: of people from places like Belize or Umnduras or Guatemalel Salvador,
Speaker 1: and you can draw lines to people who went alumni
Speaker 1: of the School of the Americas and the destabilization that
Speaker 1: that's caused in the region and why people have to
Speaker 1: flee these countries. But now it's just the Institute for
Speaker 1: Security Cooperation, So nothing to see. Yeah, And I mean
Speaker 1: this is most of the major wars of the past
Speaker 1: twenty years have been at least partially fought on both
Speaker 1: sides by like privately trained and organized groups who kill
Speaker 1: people for a living. Like and the fact that that's
Speaker 1: out there, these like private armies that are just available
Speaker 1: to work for the highest bidder, it just creates, you know,
Speaker 1: it suggests a future where the rich not only are
Speaker 1: able to decide if they want to leave the plan it,
Speaker 1: but also you know, can create their own political realities
Speaker 1: just based on how much money they have and if
Speaker 1: they're willing to hire the best chechens to knock over
Speaker 1: whatever political system that they want to knock over, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it just feels like it's a
Speaker 1: a very bleak future. Where like the the article about
Speaker 1: the specifically says like and there's nothing illegal about it.
Speaker 1: So it's like, well maybe maybe there should be guys,
Speaker 1: maybe we love that refrain in this kind. Well it's
Speaker 1: not illegal, show me the law. It's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was set up so you could say this, you
Speaker 1: fucking creep. That's why we need to address it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not dodging my taxes. Is the way
Speaker 1: the taxes are, so I'm not doing anything Like yeah, right,
Speaker 1: we get that, but objectively this is fucked and we
Speaker 1: have to change it. Wait, so like it's not what
Speaker 1: is the law that they're not breaking exactly? Like you
Speaker 1: can't hire a bunch of organized armed people to have
Speaker 1: a Yeah, you know, the most important thing is corporations
Speaker 1: and the rights of corporations. Uh, and so you know,
Speaker 1: a corporation has to be able to hire you know,
Speaker 1: retired Colombian commandos who and retirement ages like forty there,
Speaker 1: So there you know, able to just create corporations where
Speaker 1: the explicit function or at least implicit function, is to
Speaker 1: have trained killers who can do your will, right right, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're talking about yeah, just creating a mercenary company, mercenary LLC.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, great, great, great, Yeah, that's fine. Just don't
Speaker 1: have matching tattoos. Live below the poverty line. That's when
Speaker 1: it ventures into illegal territory. If you're making under a
Speaker 1: certain amount of money, that's when it becomes illegal. Quick, quick,
Speaker 1: rorschach test. What do you see here? Do you see
Speaker 1: an impoverished worker being exploited by a capitalist class or
Speaker 1: do you see uh, fun guys in army suits doing
Speaker 1: cool stuff against our enemies. It's like if if you're
Speaker 1: fighting for the corporation, then it's okay. But again, it
Speaker 1: seems like with this one, especially like in this instance,
Speaker 1: this there was like there's a lot of connection to
Speaker 1: people in the United States, aren't there, Like, wasn't there
Speaker 1: someone who was bankrolling that, who was coming from the
Speaker 1: the US? Yeah? Doctor from who? Yeah, doctor in Florida.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's always the Florida connection, always a Florida doctor.
Speaker 1: But they think that he maybe may have been the
Speaker 1: sort of providing the plan and the impetus in the
Speaker 1: first place, Like his plan was he was going to
Speaker 1: insert himself as the president of Haiti, if if his
Speaker 1: plan had succeeded and now he's currently in custody. But
Speaker 1: I just like going back to just the broader implications
Speaker 1: of this sort of thing, Like we just had the
Speaker 1: January six insurrection that was you know, based on like
Speaker 1: who decided to organize in a Facebook group based on
Speaker 1: like sort of you know, half hearted like wink nudge
Speaker 1: commands from the president who was still like being monitored.
Speaker 1: But like imagine like if he had hired trained like
Speaker 1: Chechens and Colombian mercenaries to do that, like what like
Speaker 1: we would be in a whole lot of trouble um
Speaker 1: And then instead it was just law enforcement and active
Speaker 1: military who were undercover there right to come again. I
Speaker 1: wonder if that was like a bad look for them,
Speaker 1: and like a mercenary groups like and you see what
Speaker 1: happens when you hire local, see what happens. That's why
Speaker 1: you want to go with us. We don't give a fuck.
Speaker 1: We don't give a funk. Honestly, these people there, they
Speaker 1: were all do you see, and they were all they
Speaker 1: thought they were on a field trip when they got
Speaker 1: in there. We get right down to it. You want
Speaker 1: to you want to overturn election. That's one of our
Speaker 1: you know, that's the first bullet point in our in
Speaker 1: our deck here. I mean there's a new quote like
Speaker 1: what in the you know, steady stream of people who
Speaker 1: were around Trump during the insurrection, like the trickle of
Speaker 1: reporting that's coming out where he was like talking about
Speaker 1: which military leaders like he thinks would be good at
Speaker 1: a coup and which wouldn't be good at a coup.
Speaker 1: Like that's yeah, that we were. We were very close,
Speaker 1: like just a small amount of shamelessness and competence away
Speaker 1: from that being an ongoing crisis. When you say which
Speaker 1: military like within our military, yes, would you get So
Speaker 1: it's like some weird like fascist slumber party game. If
Speaker 1: I was going to do a coupe, this is a
Speaker 1: direct quote. I was going to do a coupe. One
Speaker 1: of the last people I would want to do it with,
Speaker 1: General Mark Millie. Yeah. He added that the Chairman of
Speaker 1: the Joint Chiefs had no cur your skills certainly not
Speaker 1: the type of person I would be talking que with, right,
Speaker 1: And that's that's the same Mark Millie, who are now
Speaker 1: hearing he was saying, like, Yeah, I'm telling everyone, this
Speaker 1: guy's acting like Hitler. It was very like out there.
Speaker 1: It seems like this is also part of him trying
Speaker 1: to just sort of get the narrative back about him too,
Speaker 1: because he was serving for Trump. He's like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I called him Hitler, and I and
Speaker 1: I knew the coup could have happened, and I was
Speaker 1: gonna fucking stop that. So we can we can we
Speaker 1: be nice? Can I get a book? Deal? Now? All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back. And the privatization of like kind of
Speaker 1: security forces on a on a very small scale is
Speaker 1: being delivered to Americans via a new Ring product. M yeah, baby,
Speaker 1: yeah they I don't know why this would make anyone
Speaker 1: feel fucking good about anything, but like, you know, Ring
Speaker 1: and the entire home security industry like is built on
Speaker 1: like scaring the funk out of people and getting them
Speaker 1: to buy into their version of reality where like every
Speaker 1: neighborhood in America is filled with dangerous people, and like
Speaker 1: the only way to protect yourself is to like have
Speaker 1: constant surveillance and apps where people can like talk about
Speaker 1: their neighbors and and you know, and and get off
Speaker 1: some of the most racist takes you've ever seen. And
Speaker 1: you know, like we talked about how like when Ring
Speaker 1: was bought by Amazon, then they were putting out ads
Speaker 1: for like looking for crime reporters to help like create
Speaker 1: content for their ads again to keep this sort of
Speaker 1: cruel and unusual world narrative going for all their users.
Speaker 1: And as if having a ton of hackable cameras wasn't
Speaker 1: enough to make you feel safe, Ring has announced this
Speaker 1: new product which is the Ring Always Home Cam. It's
Speaker 1: a fucking drone that will fly around your house so
Speaker 1: you can check all the nooks and crannies when you're
Speaker 1: out of the house. So I'll just read it like
Speaker 1: it looks so like it like looks like Wally's Friend.
Speaker 1: It's made to look so non aggressive, but it's a
Speaker 1: miniature quad copter with a camera on it. And they say,
Speaker 1: the Ring Always Home Camp is a drone camera that
Speaker 1: you can program to follow preset flight paths throughout your home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll get the most out of it when paired with
Speaker 1: a Ring Alarm subscription, since the drone is automatically triggered
Speaker 1: to lift from its base to fly preset paths. In
Speaker 1: the ad for it, it was basically some person leaving
Speaker 1: their house and like setting their alarm, but then a
Speaker 1: guy with a ski mask decided to open a window
Speaker 1: and the alarm went off, and then the drones like
Speaker 1: like to check, and this guy's checking his phone and
Speaker 1: it looks like this like steady cam shot going through
Speaker 1: your house and it arrives to the point of entry
Speaker 1: where this guy with the sche mask is in and
Speaker 1: the I sees and he's like, oh no, I didn't
Speaker 1: know it was a little quad copter. I'm gonna go,
Speaker 1: you know what, crime over and like leaves and it
Speaker 1: follows him home and he decided to change his life
Speaker 1: and go to college become an engineer for ring r UM,
Speaker 1: And I it's weird that, like again, as if there
Speaker 1: we don't have enough ways for you to put cameras
Speaker 1: in your own home, Like I guess they're trying to
Speaker 1: be like stationary cameras are for victims, but like for
Speaker 1: those of us that embrace the surveillance state, you can
Speaker 1: now invite it directly into your home, and the potential
Speaker 1: for bad ship with this just seems infinite, Like the
Speaker 1: idea that now you're gonna deploy security drones within your
Speaker 1: home it's just like such a nightmare, such a situation
Speaker 1: for me. But I just won't also point out that,
Speaker 1: you know, Amazon and the police are using ring cameras
Speaker 1: to basically privately crowdfund their own surveillance networks. And it's
Speaker 1: a little think. Not many people were of this all
Speaker 1: but two states, Montana and Wyoming. This is from the
Speaker 1: Verge quote now have police or fire departments participating in
Speaker 1: Amazon's Ring network, which lets law enforcement ask users for
Speaker 1: footage from their ring security cameras to assist with investigations.
Speaker 1: And they say now, figures from Rings show more than
Speaker 1: nine departments joined the program in for a total of
Speaker 1: over two thousand. And they're saying that even if you're
Speaker 1: a person who if the police say, hey, we'd like
Speaker 1: to obtain some of the footage from your ring camera,
Speaker 1: some people who own the cameras don't even have the
Speaker 1: ability to say no. They're just like Amazon will just
Speaker 1: go around them and be like, yeah, okay, here it is.
Speaker 1: So this is just a very there's like so many
Speaker 1: layers to this that it just like there gets spooky
Speaker 1: and spookier and spookier when you look at it. What
Speaker 1: are the cops doing or not doing, rather that they
Speaker 1: need like entire cities to be on ring camera, right
Speaker 1: Like this really, I mean this is this is all
Speaker 1: the ads that the defund the police movement really needs, right,
Speaker 1: Like people still need to depend on like fucking cameras
Speaker 1: flying around every inch of their home and that still
Speaker 1: maybe doesn't even prevent the crime. Like what the hell
Speaker 1: do we have the cops for? And then then we
Speaker 1: go step for like and then the rain camera gets
Speaker 1: super wolke. It's like, but what is crime is? It
Speaker 1: is a sectrum of a of a society where there's
Speaker 1: no social safety net and people are driven to such
Speaker 1: desperation that their only financial recourse or to commit property crimes. Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Bezos and blah blah. But it's like like
Speaker 1: I don't know where they Yeah, I feel like the
Speaker 1: simple question is, wait, what what about police? If I
Speaker 1: need super drone to shoot away a suspected burglary a
Speaker 1: burglar from my home? Right, where are the cops watching
Speaker 1: my ring footage? I guess? But the cool stuff when
Speaker 1: it's aimed at someone's backyard and they got a pool,
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, that's not You're not enforcing anything. Have
Speaker 1: you have you seen any of like the YouTube videos
Speaker 1: of people putting guns on quad copters, because that's happening.
Speaker 1: I saw. I mean, I I saw a terminator to judgment. Basically,
Speaker 1: I have an idea of what that's like. But you're
Speaker 1: saying people are now I mean just like home homespun
Speaker 1: homespun killer drums. Yeah yeah, okay, well yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that that that goes along with that, like lego glocks
Speaker 1: that that just came out. People like they're like just
Speaker 1: just just a cool gun that they glued legos on
Speaker 1: to like make the gun more children. Yeah, that's cool,
Speaker 1: but can end to life. And because that's because we're
Speaker 1: talking aesthetics. But I mean, when you think about, like
Speaker 1: one of the big arguments for gun ownership in America
Speaker 1: is like the fantasy of like that that iconic figure
Speaker 1: of guy in ski mask breaking into house and getting
Speaker 1: to shoot someone with impunity, and like I can just imagine,
Speaker 1: like it doesn't feel like it's much of a much
Speaker 1: of a leap to a world where this thing rises
Speaker 1: out of the ground with a fucking handgun and attached
Speaker 1: to it right and again, inherently like anything on that
Speaker 1: Internet connected could be hackable. So who knows what other
Speaker 1: eventual applications they have. I don't know if anyone. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't know who this is for, but this seems
Speaker 1: like a very specific person who's consumed a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, Facebook posts and like neighbor app posts to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, yeah, I need this, I need this.
Speaker 1: The only way to feel safe is drone. Just yeah.
Speaker 1: They make it look they make this ship look cute
Speaker 1: as hell, and the commercial like it's not some it's
Speaker 1: not you know, indicating what our bleak future looks like.
Speaker 1: It really was meant to look like a fun thing
Speaker 1: that would make someone re consider committing a crime because
Speaker 1: it saw you. Let's talk about some good news in
Speaker 1: this crazy mixed up world. A corporation bringing two groups
Speaker 1: together after at long last. You know, this has been
Speaker 1: years of these groups butting heads, and Hines is here
Speaker 1: to bring the hot dog people and the hot dog
Speaker 1: bun people together. It's a I think it's a Seinfeld
Speaker 1: joke maybe about like how you know hot dogs come
Speaker 1: in ten packs, hot dog buttons coming eight, what's the
Speaker 1: deal with that? Yeah, and that that Hines is trying
Speaker 1: to broker a piece here, broker an accord between the two.
Speaker 1: But don't they own the fucking aren't they all owned
Speaker 1: by the same like three companies anyway, General Food, Ors
Speaker 1: Craft or whatever. They fucking owned the bread and the
Speaker 1: hot dog people. Is it really reaching across the aisle
Speaker 1: or I guess in this romantic version it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the I'm pretty sure they are all owned by like
Speaker 1: one of two companies. So the reason that they're said
Speaker 1: that they have different counts is hot dogs used to
Speaker 1: be a thing that was sold by butchers, and butchers
Speaker 1: tend to go with like the ten pack for all
Speaker 1: things because that's just like what makes sense, like what's
Speaker 1: the easiest count, And but then bakers go with eight
Speaker 1: because bakers, I don't know, they don't they don't play
Speaker 1: by Yeah. Yeah, so I mean but that but that's
Speaker 1: not an even ten. Like bakers are loose cannons when
Speaker 1: it comes to numbers. They'll just they'll throw thirteen roles
Speaker 1: at you. They don't give a fuck, you know, like,
Speaker 1: is different than your dozen? Fuck the meat bread balance,
Speaker 1: here's another loaf? Go But is it because maybe because
Speaker 1: eight because it's divisible by four and twelve is their god.
Speaker 1: The dozen is the god of the of the baker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's basically I think the reason the dozen is
Speaker 1: the god of the baker is the reason that they
Speaker 1: have the eight, which is that they have trays, like
Speaker 1: baking trays that are like built in fours, so you
Speaker 1: always have like like multiples of four for all baking products.
Speaker 1: Who's making the tens exactly? So that's what out further,
Speaker 1: that's what HINS needs to be thinking about right here.
Speaker 1: So are they going to Is this like a real thing?
Speaker 1: Is this like a marketing thing? They're just trying to
Speaker 1: They had a bad damnit, Jack, I was hoping for
Speaker 1: substantive change. They had a bad because they and they
Speaker 1: were like embroidered in accounting scandal that I know we
Speaker 1: all followed closely. Their CEO had to resign in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Profits were already falling before the catch up shortage during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, so they're like, uh, we're back. It's not
Speaker 1: really like a growth product. It's not like people are
Speaker 1: still finding out about catch up. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: You're like, did you hear what they did? That's the
Speaker 1: Oh they make the red stuff. Oh so it's the
Speaker 1: So they're acting as so the condiment maker is acting
Speaker 1: as the intermediary, neutral third party to create this accord.
Speaker 1: I see, I see, I see, I see. That's why
Speaker 1: I buy Nathan's. They come in eight and the buns
Speaker 1: come in eight, right, but they match up? Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I have a terrible I have a terrible I hate
Speaker 1: when you got extra, but I just can't handle this ship.
Speaker 1: It really bugs me again, along with me being a
Speaker 1: completionist and not watching a lot of the m c
Speaker 1: U films. I don't like getting a ten pack of
Speaker 1: buns when I only have eight francs. Just did you
Speaker 1: watch all the low Keys? Yeah? Any anything? Well? That
Speaker 1: that I think towards the end is when they like
Speaker 1: revealed the large m c U like crossover possibility. I
Speaker 1: only know about this because Toby McGuire was trending and
Speaker 1: my Google alert that tells me every time Toby what
Speaker 1: McGuire's trending? Uh, hit me up and wait, not Toby McGuire.
Speaker 1: What Who did Toby McGuire played Spider Man? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: people are like, finally Toby McGuire is gonna like enter
Speaker 1: into the m c U. Our dreams are answered. I
Speaker 1: don't know. People, people are weird stands Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the McGuire us McGuire stands and uh, yeah, that that's so.
Speaker 1: His name was trending, which always intrigued me, and that
Speaker 1: that was the reason because like they opened the possibility
Speaker 1: of like all the different Marvel movies being connected and
Speaker 1: like some great crossover event, which I think excites. It's
Speaker 1: really just a scheme to remake the remakes and remake
Speaker 1: those That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I think you mispronounced art.
Speaker 1: It's art. It's just like so funny that like and
Speaker 1: do what they even need? That is it really going
Speaker 1: to be like Elevator everything? And then it all crossed
Speaker 1: the verse, like they covered the idea of a multiverse
Speaker 1: and like everything that's interesting about that, and like the
Speaker 1: idea that all the different comics and like drawn in
Speaker 1: different styles are just like coming from different parts of
Speaker 1: the multiverse like this. The only thing this adds is
Speaker 1: like being like, whoa, it's the actor from that one? True?
Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting to me? Well, if if you if
Speaker 1: you like a bunch of loose associated and affiliated acts
Speaker 1: coming together, you're gonna love the Wu Tang discography because
Speaker 1: they got everything freak And if you want to go outside,
Speaker 1: you can get to Brooklyn Zoo to kill the bees. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you don't, but Donna sons a man. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many ways the Wu Tang cinematic universe. Are
Speaker 1: there any Cappadonna stands? Are there any people out there
Speaker 1: who are like more Cappa Donna? Please? I don't know
Speaker 1: if there are, let us know because you're a very
Speaker 1: very unique consumer of hip hop. Well series, it's been
Speaker 1: such a pleasure having you on t d Z again.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you and follow you one more time? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You can find me online at Ceris Castle, And if
Speaker 1: you're so able, I'd love if you could head over
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Speaker 1: much consider this my job and my purpose, I don't
Speaker 1: get paid for it, Oh my god, sad um. And
Speaker 1: I also have to pay for all the public records
Speaker 1: requests that I make myself. So if you can help
Speaker 1: me foot that bill for justice, I'd appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 1: Is there a link to that on your socials? There is? Yes, Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: and we'll make sure we will link to that in
Speaker 1: the footnotes notes. Uh, is there a tweet or some
Speaker 1: of the work of social media you've been enjoying four fos.
Speaker 1: I'm gripping, Oh man, what's that? How do people look at?
Speaker 1: What serious is referencing is a video where someone is
Speaker 1: asking somebody just a very simple question, how do you
Speaker 1: get out the hood? And it's two black people talking,
Speaker 1: and then these people start arguing over Mike and like this,
Speaker 1: like seven foot white guy in a polo shirt enters
Speaker 1: the frame and the question is posed to him, in
Speaker 1: which case he rightfully admits I wouldn't know how to
Speaker 1: answer the question because I did not grow up in
Speaker 1: the hood, but I'm down to go there, and then
Speaker 1: starts spitting still tipping by Mike Jones with so much
Speaker 1: gusto and energy it's it made me believe again. Miles,
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Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
Speaker 1: of Gray. Also the other show four twenty Day Fiancee,
Speaker 1: we were talking about Hainty Day Fiancee, you know, just
Speaker 1: to keep it light. A couple of tweets that I like.
Speaker 1: First one is uh, someone named as Slicky William said
Speaker 1: snow Allegra is our shot day, and then at m
Speaker 1: by Venus Quotute and that said shot day is our
Speaker 1: shot day and the nailed on facts. Don't bring other
Speaker 1: people into this. There's only one shot day and we
Speaker 1: we salute her. Another one is Eric Blank at Underscore.
Speaker 1: Eric Blank just has a picture of this sign that's
Speaker 1: posted outside of a restaurant in New York. It says, quote,
Speaker 1: it's like just like one of those just printed things
Speaker 1: on a window in a restaurant says we need chef,
Speaker 1: dish washer, bus boy come inside and only asked for
Speaker 1: Chris always after two. I have never insulted anyone. You
Speaker 1: should know me. Just please notice who is talking bad
Speaker 1: about me? And Eric Blank tweets perhaps not the most
Speaker 1: effective help wanted sign, oh so deep into that conversation
Speaker 1: in his own head, I have never insulted anyone you
Speaker 1: should know me. Just please notice who was talking bad
Speaker 1: about Okay, Chris Chris Chris Chris uh tweet I've been
Speaker 1: enjoying Brodie Gupta tweeted, don't call me honey and expect
Speaker 1: it to soften the fact that you shrunk the kids.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O Brian.
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Speaker 1: today's episode, as well as a song we think you
Speaker 1: might enjoy. Miles. What song are we suggesting people go
Speaker 1: check out? We have the just wonderful honor of having
Speaker 1: many talented people on this show. Past guest ailings Worth
Speaker 1: from Detroit, Michigan, really talented musician and producer co produced
Speaker 1: this track that just came out with I d K
Speaker 1: featuring m F Doom, West Side Gun and Jay electro Anica.
Speaker 1: The track is called Red and it's fantastic. It's it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Even if you don't like hip hop, I implore you
Speaker 1: to check it out because the sampling on it is
Speaker 1: really cool and the beat is very very forward thinking,
Speaker 1: not not just your usual boom bap type of hip hop.
Speaker 1: Um and it's a really dope track. And congrats sailings
Speaker 1: work contributing to our sonic landscape with some really fire material.
Speaker 1: So this is I d K with m F Doom,
Speaker 1: West Side Gun, j Electronica, and it's called Red. Overduced
Speaker 1: by Eiling's work. Alright, we'll go check that out. The
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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for us this morning. We are
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