Caught Slippin

of shows kind of lined up right now. Plus with the Christmas break where you know, we had a we had a week off, it's probably gonna be a while before you hear this, And they have probably heard some of the most wild and outlandish takes uh from both corners of our silos about this particular situation. But I honestly think really it's because Hollywood has cooked our brains movies, television, and I think it's some ways the news have led you all to believe that you actually experts about stuff

you really don't know what you're talking about. And why I feel like us from the inner cities, us from the coasts, you know, from the rougher sides of town, who have spent enough time in the rougher sides of town, are much better suited to articulate and are much more equipped and the tools it takes to understand what might really be going zone one of those tools is to get meta here, is to know when to shut up because you don't know what you're talking about, because somebody

has slapped the taste out your mouth when you if you're talking out the side of your neck, you know, and I mean talking outside as a very black phrase. Anybody else say that. I mean it's phrase we got from my MoMA. Talking out the side of your neck basically means you're just you're just talking and you don't know what you're talking about. You are ill equipped, you're misinformed. You just don't know what you're talking about, but you absolutely think you do. So there's one thing that we know.

It's just yo, we don't know what you're talking about. You know what you're talking about. So that's the meta version. But for this particular situation, we understand that these people, these three dudes, these hoods, and by extension, these governments, these politics, they live by a code that me and you don't live by. The rules are different. They live by a set of rules that you consumer maybe watching, may think, well that's not fair. Well, fam, when was

fair ever on the table? That's not how any of this works. Is power, homie, is it's respect it's honor. They live by honor code and will do dishonorable things to make sure you maintain that honor. The op don't mean nothing to me, that like this is the code, Like y'all don't mean nothing. I don't care. We went to the same headstar. I don't care. I don't care. You shot you know maybe yo yo, boys shot like five of my friends, But that's because my friends shot

five of your friends. They take one, we take five. If you just it's it don't matter. Fair is not on the table. That's not ship works. But movies will. Have you twisted movies? Or have you thinking you really understand the c I A. You really think there's a born ideas of Jason Borne out there breaking into countries? I mean, yeah, there's spies, you know what I'm saying that. But the Rambos that like Nick, no, do we torture people? Yeah so do they of course. But dog, this ain't

no movie. You not an expert. And the way you think this is working is not how this's gonna work. How it worked is how it works. Sometimes you just get caught slipping and you just gotta do what you gotta do. Talk about Britney grinder politics, y'all. So look, uh, this has been again a story that's been hashed out. Um as far as the details of this particular story probably over, I don't I wonder if I don't know

again this is past me talking to future you. I wonder if we will still be talking about this in the New Year's Uh. I think so. And I think it's because whenever civilians and then celebrities no less you know, get involved into geo political espionage, if you will, how you get caught in the middle of that. Like it's it captures us because, like I'm saying before, it feels it's like a movie unless you're actually a person get unless you Brittany, then it don't feel like a movie

at all. It feels like a nightmare, and it's one that you can't wake up from, you know, when your your life is put in a situation, uh, a situation that you ain't sign up for. And I think again, this is the part that makes it so hood to me. It's like so many of us have been in situations who just come from these cities where it's like, man, I ain't sign up for this. How you find yourself in the middle of violent turf negotiations where you like,

I'm not even a part of none of this. But now you in you but you know what, but you live over there, so you're a part of it. Right Listen. If you from look, if you're from these cities, you understand what I'm talking about. You find yourself in the middle of stuff. You ain't sign up for me, and it was never about you because you ain't really do nothing wrong except for being the wrong place at the wrong time. That's what I mean by hood past. I'm talking around the story. So let me just go into

the story real quick. So in February of Brittany Grinder was on her way to Russia to play. She's a w NBA basketball player. She was on their way to go play in the Russian League, and she had in her backpack just these like CBD sort of thhc uh cartridges that were just pain relievers that were medicinal and they were signed, you know, assigned by a doctor. They were just in her back She says, she forgot right

legal in the States for her pain. She's a pro ball player, and she was I mean captured, Ain't no other way to say it. She was arrested, but she was captured and held in a Russian prison, uh, for the possession of this substance. Right, and hopefully you know and you if you following this story, how absurd this is that you're really like holding this lady for this?

But why why her? Why now? Why this? Well, the Russia just attacked Ukraine and the whole world is looking at how ridiculous Russia is, right, and America, although we're not helping, we are leading the charge towards you know, sanctions and you know, trying to and call in Russia own this bullet, this bs that they're doing against Ukraine. Right, and most of the world is eyes are on what Russia is doing. So if you Russia, it's like, oh man, you you just it's like you just this just fell

in our laps. Wha, Well, you guys are smuggling drugs in here. Right. You already looked dumb according to your own people. Right, Russia already looked dumb according to their own people for even doing this Ukrainian thing. Like what is y'all doing, Like y'all look like you look lame, like you look like idiots? Right, and we was taking our same shots like man, even your own people think you look stupid, like what is y'all doing? Like, why

are you doing this? So she comes in, they put her on trial, and of course they're not gonna let her go, so she has her appeals and it becomes, you know, a big thing in America, like look what Russia's doing. Look what Russia's doing. Now. If you're watching this and you're Russia, you like, oh, I think we I think we got something here. We have a way to make Biden in the US look bad in front

of the people. Oh you want Brittany? Okay. So so so while all this pressure is happening in America, if you if you Russia, you like, oh, this is more incentive to I let her go? Oh I could keep doing we just hit a lick like this, just I can't believe it's just as filling our laps. We could let's go. So then when the White House gets involved and they hit a Russia like, yo, the hell y'all doing? Like she not even she not even a part of that. It is she out there to play like what is

y'all like? You know, this is ridiculous. Russia gets to be like, oh, I don't mean she broke our laws on me? Would you, I mean, what you want us to do when Russians coming to your country and break and break your laws. You don't see us coming in here telling you how to run your country. Take care of y'all and stuff. You got your own problems, don't worry about us. And then if you American, like what

what the what are y'all talking about? Right? This goes on for like nine months right all the way up to December, all these negotiations about like okay, well what do we what do we do? Well, what do you want? How do how can we get you to like do this? This is what I mean by like, okay, this ain't no movie. You know what I'm saying, Because if it was a movie, you would think that we would send in some spies, right uh, to go to go get

to go get her. Yeah, I would say, to break her out of some sort of Russian prison and can fly her home, Like niggas, ain't no movie. We're not gonna do that because like I mean, seriously, we're not gonna do that. But you know, you know, America's like, you know, Twitter verse was like I don't understand why just go get her. Just what are you talking about? President?

Go do something, do something, Go get her. It's like, okay, they don't work like that, Like he can't just you can't just go over there and get her like it just that. Of course it ain't fair y'all, But you can't just go over there and get her. When you just get caught slipping in this is just what happens. This is what I mean by like, you know, if you're from the city, you kind of noticed there's certain like neighborhoods you just should not walk through. I don't

care if you are active or not. You you could be the squarest of the square. There's just some things that like even if you gotta pass because like, look, she was invited, she was invited out there to play ball. Maybe you got a cousin live on this street, you know what I'm saying. But like sometimes you just get caught slipping and you can't. Sometimes you can be like, y'all, good over here, I'm here to see you know, I know Pooky and them, they invited me over there, like they.

I don't care care who you know over here. You just if you just get caught slipping, that's just it's just it. And I think in this scenario it's just one of them unfortunate things because again they don't play fact like I can't. That's just enough. Governments don't play fair like no, it's not like I don't understand, like why you would think that there's this system of justice about this like just war like no, like nickas don't play fair. We got like they got a leg up.

You just got an advantage. She became Brittany, not about Brittany. And and I mean, like I feel like everybody knows that that it wasn't at all about her at all. You know what I'm saying. It's about making your enemy look lame and and it worked. So now I'm gonna after this break tell you a story uh that my homeboy, um Noah James brought up shout out to I E, I love Noah James, which is like essentially like what happened and how Brittany came home and you know, thank

the Lord she home. But the story is not over all right after the break, Can get caught slippering, and Car don't get caught slipping. Card don't get caught slippering, and Carr I'm gonna get caught slippering. Corn don't get caught slip, slipper and card don't get caught slipping. So look, I was hanging with my homeboy Noah and he I think we may have brought this, brought this up before, and we talked about a situation similarly where he's at

out and out of the eye and Samarndino. So Noah through these like super dope, like uh hip hop kind of community events called common Ground. He had him and his his his lovely lady, uh Lisa, have this this thing called Brick to your Face. Uh you go look it up. Man. It's like it's a super dope like

really like grassroots community like music. It's dope anyway, but it's a It was in a part of town that was not the safest part of town, and at some point, if that block got a little too hot, if there was an active situations happening, if there was green lights going on, if there was cars being broken into, which is his scenario, that's what was happening. It was cars being broken into. People gonna stop coming to the event right now. The cars, the people coming to the event

was minding their own business. They got nothing to do. With whatever was happening inside them streets. Nothing to do with that. Why was they breaking into them cars? Will because we all know you can make a lot of money off of Honda parts, you know what I'm saying, Like, so this is just one of the lips. So if you're on the block, you're like, look, man, uh you I mean you're bringing the work to me. There's I mean, why why would we not? Noah like, dang, man, Like

what I need to do? Do we do we get security? Like well no, because if you get security, you're turning the heat up? Do you get your own goods? Like no, you're turning the heat up. Everybody? Every car that got broken into was innocent. Day had nothing to do with none of the stuff that was going on. Noah, I had to go find the O G in that city who had called this lick and be like, Yo, what

do you need? What can we do? And the one thing know I had to do is like for his event, he had to be like, look, you got the young homies that want to get put on right because at

the time, like when this what's going on? This this event out there, like even the TV guys like you know, Absules and schoolboy cues and all that, Like they were pulling up to this event because it was the open mic of the time, you know what I'm saying, um, and so he was getting like really big names was coming out to these events and you got you know this O G. That's like I put my little nigga, my little nigga, Young Shooter do Log on your show? Now?

Is young Shooter do Log a dope rapper? Absolutely not not made that name up. But is that gonna drop the quality of Noah's event? Yes? Is it gonna bring a clientele? He don't. Won't. Absolutely, It's go like this, this is not advantageous for anybody, But you do what you gotta do you because here here's the thing. The negotiation is not a negotiation. I think this is what I'm trying to get at too. But the point of this episode, it's not a negotiation. Really, it's not even

it's not fair. This is not these ain't Pokemon cards, you feel me. The stakes is no one's in a situation that in that situation is a nowhere. I have to stay like, I have to keep this event. I really don't have a bargaining chip because I'm not gonna start a war with you. You feel me, And at the end of the day, you could shut down this party the like and you shut down this party by just doing what you're doing. There's no skin off your back, I really have. I don't have anything to offer except

for this. You feel me, and it's like, what was the man supposed to do? That's how you But then when you're dealing with killers, when you're dealing with people like you have to meet them where they are because it's not really a negotiation unless you're ready to shoot. If you're not ready to shoot, then it's not a negotiation, especially when the other side sees how bad you actually need this. Now, back to the Brittany situation, RUSSA saw

how bad we needed this. We can't like, there's no way we could leave her there in the United States. You can't leave her now. If we were talking like spy games, like you know, you captured one of our spies. That stuff don't make it to the news. I'm listen. This don't make it right, But this is kind of what happens. Marines get captured, spies get captured, you know, special ops get captured. That happens all the time we capture them, they capture us. That stuff don't make the news.

So when you add public pressure, it's now it's a poker game. Oh man, how bad you won't it? So Russia? You think Russia didn't see that? They said, oh you, oh, y'all really need this, and maybe you know what happens next. But we'll talk about what happens next after this. All right, we're back. So Russia saw what we needed. They saw. Now you again, you probably already know this stuff, but like again, I'm just trying to explain it to you as to like why it went down the way it

went down. Okay, Russia says, hey, look, how bad do y'all need this? How much you want to pay for it? And America like, y'all will give you anything because this is like she's innocent, like and Loki, like here's the reality again, it ain't fair? Is she didn't do anything wrong? Like like what do you mean give you anything? Like we're she's completely innocent? Like what she are? Fine? Give her a fine? Like what is y'all talking about? You? You know she ain'tupposed to be in prison? Back to

the Noah James thing. Fool like y'all know what we're doing here, Like we're not We're not doing anything wrong, Like y'all don't have to y'all don't have to do this. Can you just not breaking into these cars? It's like, how how important is this event to you? How important is Brittany to you? We got a guy y'all captured in the nineties named Victor Boot now Interfect Bood. This nick's name is the Merchant of Death. He is this is absurd. This is where it is kind of like movies.

He is a known arms dealer, like demand sales weapons, like literal criminal, an actual literal arms dealer. And they was like, you could bring our boy Victor home. And if you're America, you're like this is are you serious? But look the man had already served twenty five years, so you're like, oh okay, what what what options do you have? That's the one they did. Now we got two people out there. We got another marine that's that's still out there, and they're like, yo, can you send

our folks home. We'll give you Victor and they like, um, we'll give you Brittany for Victor. Well, bro, like, vic, listen, this is why I need you to understand it. The negotiates is not a negotiation. Will give you her? And what do you? What are we? What are we supposed to? What is what are we supposed to do? And this

is where America just can't be happy. We can't have nice things because it now became I don't know if it is still it became like a political silo issue like that Biden fumbled the ball by bringing home Brittany but leaving one of the Marines, like, how dare you disrespect this guy's legacy? And then you have the other other side saying, yes, Brittany was any center, I'm glad she got home. It's just like, listen, dude, Like, y'all don't know how this Do you understand how this ship works?

The negotiations not a negotiation unless you're willing to shoot. So what happened? Well, the Kremlin ended up, you know, drop into charges for Brittany. We ended up pardoning uh Victor. I keep giggling because it's awful, this war criminal. And they met up in the United Arab Emirates right, did the like where it is kind of like a movie. Did the exchange right? And Britney was able to come home, and then the Twitter sphere started acting like experts get

called slipping, get caught slippering cat. But here's three takeaways I want you to take from this particular episode. Again, please understand that this is not a defense in any way or a justification of however this stuff went down. Like I just remember again, this is not a Biden stand podcast. Uh, it's definitely not an American Stand podcast, right um, But more just like, hey, like, okay, this

is what happened. You know what I'm saying, Like, let me help you understand what had happened was and the pieces that made what had happened was happened. First of all, understand that, like which you should have known already, this was never about Britney Griner ever, right, So that's number one. I mean that maybe that maybe even be like pre number one, like and should have been the most obvious.

This was never about her, And it just sucks that she ended up being the piece that got caught in the cog because we just got caught slipping and it's not her fault, not her fault at all. That's will make the story so interesting. It's like, man, she ain't got nothing to do with none of it is, you know, and it's in people catch strays all the time where we're from. But number one is that foreign policy is not easy. It's really like, here's a good way to

think about foreign policy. It's war without bullets. It is not fair, it is not easy, it is not balanced. It's none of that. It's these is not pokemon cards. Well your chars ares got the power of the now. It's like it's not the same. This is like how much is this worth for you? How bad you how bad you want to get reelected? How many civilian lives you want to lose? How how low your gross national products gonna be? Your GDP? How bad you want your GDP to be? Like what what? What's it? What's it

to you? Ho me and and and the what's it to you? While you're talking peacefully at the table, you have to remember it's like being you talking peacefully at the table that's surrounded by UH tanks because if something go wrong, especially if you're sitting next to somebody that's so willing to pop off right, Like, it's not easy, it's really really hard. And when too many people listen, when too many people are involved, when there's two many

eyes on it. That's number two. If there's too many eyes and too many opinions in the room, it gets exponentially harder. Now again, I'm not a fan of the government, but I understand why they keep their mouth shut. I understand why why there's some stuff that you like, we just can't have cameras in here. Y'all just can't know what's going on because it's only gonna make it harder. You don't know what you're talking about, and your opinion

is actually gonna give them leverage. You can't. Like, it's just when too many people know what's going on, the balance of power changes, sometimes for the good, sometimes for the worst. Because there was a moment where America used the balance of power for good, like we was like, yo, we offered them a trade. They're not gonna do it. Everybody goes to like look man, and you see how dumb they're being with their own own ward like these

people or crazy like y'all don't. There's just so there's times they could work for your signs of work against you, but like it's it's not you can't when when stuff go public, when it comes to like these these like foreign policy stuff, it gets, it comes up stuff, you gotta shut the door and like you know, do all this stuff behind closed doors. And I'm not saying it's some sort of conspiracy theory sort of like round table of Like again, it's not a movie. It's not like that.

It's more like we are down to spend the block and if you not, if you don't want us to come spend this block, then you're just gonna pay up. You're happy, I'm happy. And number three is the the continual negotiation of hosta hostages. It just it's gonna continue. They it never It doesn't like just because it made it to the news. Now like y'all ain't know who Victor Boo was. Y'all don't know who none of these

people were like this. But this is the part. This is the running of government that just because it ain't in the news no more, don't mean it's not going down. I honestly believe negotiations are going to continue for our leftover marine that's still out there now. The problem is the the question that Russia is going to continue to ask, like what's in it for us? What you're gonna give

me for it? How bad do you want it? Do you want it bad enough you feel you want it bad enough to feel froggy to come and break him out? Do you feel bad enough you want him bad enough to uh give us? Oh, I don't know, release all the sanctions you put against us? You feel bad enough to not let Ukraine join NATO? Like how bad you want it? And maybe maybe we got some other spies in in in a in a holding tank somewhere. I don't know, but I do know this because it happens

all the time. Listen, Sometimes you get caught slipping. And this America got cast slipping with Brittany. And it's not even her fault. That's why I keep saying, America got caught slipping, not her. We did and and and and fell right into their hands to where this negotiation again was not a negotiation. We had to get her back. There was no other she well, she had to come home, like there's what else? There was nothing else we could

do except for pay to ransom. I don't know. I can't think of any other way this could have played out short of causing another war. You know what I'm saying. But I do know this. Right now, everybody gets to like look like heroes, you know, at least for a particular ular side of Twitter. You know, everybody gets to, you know, take home a W right now, which is what you want with with foreign policy. You want everybody to feel like they took home a W. But I

do know this, everybody gets caught slipping. So Russia, okay, you uh, you got your boy back. Um, we got what we needed. But uh, don't get caught slipping, because then the tables may become techniques real soon, turntables technique her politics, y'all, yo yo. This thing right here was recorded by Me Propaganda and East Low Spoiled Heights, Los Angeles, California. This thing was mixed, edited, mastered, and scored by the one and the only Matt Olsowski. Y'all check out this

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