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of them are nonetheless self evident. If you want to build trust, you have to be trustworthy, even if it's gonna cost you, just keep it a buck. If you gonna lead, it don't mean you have to know everything. It means you should know how to go get what you're looking for. You should know how to inspire others who are around you to do their best. Listen, it's pride. If you're sitting around the table, you feel like you got to be the smartest, strongest, fastest, you know at

the table. Then your little job like that's just an ego, like you just built a whole table or ego, and your little business, your little movement ain't going nowhere. You can't be the best at every job. That's ridiculous. You should bring people around that are better than you at the task that you're asking them to do. I mean, it's just like, why would they follow me? Will they

follow you because you're a good leader? Like I don't understand, Like that's easy, right, It's counterintuitive for some of y'all counterintuitive where your pride is set up, But it's simple, like you, I'm not supposed to be if I'm leading something, I shouldn't be the best in the room at every job in there. I need to find people better than me and stuff, because why would I pay them to do something if already know I could do it better.

It's ridiculous. Is it for time? So I'm just offloading stuff for time only for me to have to do it later. Like listen, I'm getting on attention. I'm just saying it's ridiculous. But there's one thing I think we all know that is required for good leadership, and it's trust. And how do you build trust? You just have to be truthful, listen, just keep it a buck and like if you know, you know, If you don't know, you

don't know. But when you don't know, just keep it a buck and you could talk like the chall lies and be like see battle no hoof politics. Y'all yo, yo yo, welcome to the block. Thank you for always tapping in with us at her politics as we proceed and continue to rock the mic. Yeah, saying yo, Department Energy out here sounded like cholies. I'm trying to highlight y'all about this Department of Energy report about where the coronavirus came from. They was like, we think so pedal

maybe not? They like see pedal No listen man. One of my favorite phrases, like, y'all, I say all the time. You know, I grow up with the Vatos. Right, then, when you grow up with the Votos, you overhear a lot of their like colloquialisms, they're slang, they're sayings, and you start picking up on what they also find funny.

Does that make sense? Because when you were part of the culture, right or if you're not, you know, indigenous to the culture, you may not catch some of the stuff that they find funny because you don't have that long history with them. Does that make sense? So even me living on that side of the town, there was still some stuff that you just have to be around long enough and know a longer history to understand why that's funny, right, And other stuff is just funny just

because it sounds funny, because this stuff just don't make sense. Yeah, I'd saying there's a few things that don't make sense, like in Spanish if you grew up with cholos, but like not in Mexico, like yama patras is like a slang that just means means call me back, but it's literally translates like call me backwards. Like it just it's not a it's an English phrase translated to Spanish, so it don't it don't make sense. Yeah, y'all following me.

So if you say that to like a first gin like an immigrant, like oh yas, they're like what, But you who speak English and Spanish you know what I mean? Like call me back? You know what I'm saying this? Yeah, anyway, too far into this, but the cho lies like who I ended up marrying one y'all know? She? Uh what? The part of a slang, you know, like the sad girl and sad you know, shy girl and sad ice and lot happy. You know what I'm saying. Part of

a slang. It's kind of like when we say like lightweight. You know, low key used to be lightweight, but lightweight is I think is a little more accurate where it's like maybe yeah I say, which just means yes, but no right now there's now, which is very different than like callie slang, which like just callie slang is like if you ask me something and I'm like, nah, yeah,

that answer is yes. But if I'm like yeah, nah, then that answer is no, and it's not always the last word you feel me Like sometimes it's like yeah, nah man. What that means is like that means yes. It's all about the context, so so c pedal no isn't necessarily that they like yeah nah man. What that usually means is like, let me see if I can

help you understand that. That means yes in the sense that I understand what you're saying and the answer is no. But if you like nah, yeah man, what I'm saying is the nas like a school like again, oh it's okay, everything's okay, don't worry about it. The answers yes, you feel me. But if I was like yeah man, which is basically saying my answer is yes, and it's all good. You ain't got a sweat. You just I don't understand. Tell you that's just well, I do understand. Tell you.

That's just how we talk now. See that old No, it's kind of like we it's kind of it's like yes and no. You've answered things like that before, where it's like yes, yes and no, like maybe like a little bit. That's why I said low key. Now Loki has evolved, and you know what I'm saying a lot of times, Loki actually just means yes, I'm just not being loud about it. But like on the low, like low key, I'm kind of feeling like I'm kind of

like feeling it like that. That usually means like I do kind of like it, you know, but I have you ready with me? Low confidence see bat ol, No, see that answer. Listen, that answer is keeping it a buck like because you're telling me like the actual It's like it's not like yes, I'm standing on my square like I'm one hundred percent on this. It's not ten toes like I'm not sure you feel me. Because if I was sure, I would tell you the answer was no,

I would tell you. But if but if the answer is like Joe, don't say like, look, man, I don't know. I'm not sure. Man, see battle no, like I don't know. And you know what that does. It saves you from cap because as when you could tell when somebody capping, like like capping so bad that they don't know what they're talking about. It just now it's even worse because it's like, man, just shut up, just hey, just give

it a buck. That brings trust because I know you're not gonna cat when I really need you to keep it abuck because I like, if listen, if you don't know, it's cool, just tell us and maybe we could find out together. If you're not sure, just tell us. Don't run around here talking like you sure when you know you're not really sure. Like that that don't build because I'm gonna start moving as if what you said was law, or I'm gonna never believe anything you say. See that,

o't know. I feel like it's the same with government. Now. I can't think of any politician who will ever actually do this. I think the most recent example would be Gary Johnson. Y'all remember Gary Johnson exactly. He was a Libertarian candidate back in twenty sixteen and was actually gaining something like, I mean, granted, you know, when these billionaires jumped in the thing, they could you know, they just

had the money to run whatever campaign they wanted. But anyway, he was running as a libertarian and it was actually going good for old boy until y'all remember this, until this man did the CS or the MSNBC interview and they asked him about Aleppo. Homie froths up. He kept about though. There was like, so what would you do about Aleppo? He was like, what's Aleppo? They were like, wait,

are you kidding? And he goes, no, I appreciated it, but yeah, it's like, oh yeah, niggin, Like you can't ever run office now, so I get why foods don't now after after you finished that conpo when he goes when the guy was like to city in Syria, like the episode of the refugee crisis, Oh Syria, And then he continued to talk about, you know, bigger things that he actually understood. But my god, that was one of them, like you didn't really do your homework type situations because fam,

you should know the cap you should know Aleppos in Syria. Now, granted, I mean, what do you do? It's lose, lose, you won't do your homework. What do you what do you do if you in that situation? Do you continue to start a like you know what what Trump did? Just wax philosophical about shit. We know he don't know what he's talking about about, right your clip? Your clip goes around the world. You feel me about you not knowing what you're talking about? You cap or do you keep

it a buck like Alepo? Or you know you outgunned and out man now you or you look at your team like big dog and then and then the team looking at you like I don't understand how you wouldn't know that you. I mean, nigga, you are running for president. You feel me? So we are disincentivized in this sense to to just admit when you don't know what you're talking about. So I get it. I get why nobody would. However, I Loki respected it there. He was like Aleppo, but

it absolutely cost him the election. I mean, I don't know how much of a shot he ad, but that absolutely costs an election. You a to old she was talking about. But I wonder what's worse, though, is to get up there and pretend like you do or to do what he did to be like as a point of clarity and then continue on and be like, oh, yeah, you're talking about Syria, Like now, his idea was awful. He said we should partner with Russia to try to

create peace in the region. Granted this twenty twenty three, so he how could he have known what was going to happen then? But either way, the point is he did. He did know, and just admitted when he ain't know the city was called Aleppo. But they could do your whole work because I look, so I get why people don't. But when it comes to the stuff that we buy to talk about right now, I think that there's a

lot of hurdles you gotta jump. I think the first hurdle is the fact that I don't think Americans as a whole understand what science means or how it works. I also don't think we understand doctors either, as seen by what we just experienced in our last pandemic. So let me give you some context of what we're talking about. There was a report that just came out from the Department of Energy, which some people would ask, like, why

the hell are they doing reports? Well, you gotta remember, like the intelligence community is a bunch of different departments, right, So, FBI, CIA, all these different things, Department of Energy, Homeland Security, all of those are all these different departments and they all have play a role in the in the intel community, and they all submit reports based on the evidence that

they was able to gather. Right, So, the Department of Energy submitted this classified report to the White House about where they think the coronavirus came from. Now, why I call this c pedaled knoll is because they said they're doing it with low confidence, like we lightweight, like we kind of low key think. Maybe now I appreciate that. Let me tell you why I appreciate it, and I'll get into mortists. But like, it's because this is how science works. And that's what I mean by like people

don't really understand science. I'm gonna get into that a little more after this break, all right, y'all, so listen. It was explained to me in a way that really made sense to me that doctors are detectives. They're they're hunting and they're making their best guess based on the evidence they see. That's why they tell yo, go get a second opinion. That's how you can have one doctor tell you like, yo, this is oh you got the flu, and another doctors like nigga, no you don't. This is

a code. Like well damn, I'm like they're well, they're getting it's hunting, you know when you come, you're coming to the doctors and they and you like, my stomach hurt, like uh okay, where does it hurt? Okay? How does it hurt? When did it start hurting? Did you eat something? Uh? Okay, so you didn't eat. Well, let's take some tests because they're hunting. And then they're using the research from science to try to understand what they're looking at. But doctors

they guess it. Now. They're they're educated guesses because a lot of the stuff they've seen before, but some stuff they ain't seen before. And when they don't know what they're looking at, what do they do? They send it to a lab and guess what a lab is doing looking. Y'all gotta remember, these people ain't omniscient. They are not the Lord God Almighty. The people ain't yah way nigga yo. I'm saying they're not a lie because these people ain't

create the planet. You understand what I'm saying. They're not the non personified universe. You understand what I mean to be able to know exactly how this stuff work. Now you look at what you look at Neil Tyson Degrassi my nigga, like it is still just saying this is what we think right now based on what we knew before you're looking. Science is supposed to continually evolve because you're continually learning stuff. They experts because they know what

they're looking at. Right That's why it was so funny, man, when foods were like I would to do my own research. But about the coronavirus, it's like fami they map the geno. Well, I don't know, man, you gotta take it like okay, if I showed you a genome, you would have no idea what you was looking at. You want to look at the evidence. You want to do your own research, yo, c plus head ass. You no principles on a roll head ass Nikka, not even an ap classes head ass.

You ain't gonna know what you're looking at anyway. You sat in the back of science trying to hill at your Linda Gonzalez nigga like you don't know what you're looking at. You ain't spend your Friday and study groups because you was at the ball, he was at the game. You was at the football game, nigga holler, and at the girls from the other school. You don't know what the hell you're talking about. I'm gonna show me the evidence.

You're gonna look at this scholarly journal. You're gonna read this genome buddy again and scroll down to the footnotes, and you're gonna read all of the cited sources, and then you gonna look at the dissenting voices to understand the counterpoints to be like, wow, I am now. You don't know what you're talking about because you don't understand how science works. So when they get on the stage and they say listen, you don't say them The CDC say, yo,

we think we think these masks could work. Mask don't work. Show me the evidence. If I showed you the evidence, you wouldn't know what you was looking at because that's not how science works. Dumbass niggas don't know how science works. Talk about it's science scientifically, You ain't. You don't even know. Just keep it a buck man. And this is what these scientists is trying to do. This is what these people is trying to do this where we think it

happened kind of see bat don't know. So look, there's an article came out in the I think it was New York Times about this body of research around if masks actually worked, and people ran with it, Well, mask don't work. Look this is what it says. And I was like, well, okay, so y'all don't know how to read because what it said was we don't have any fully credible experiments or bodies of research that showed that mask work. What they're saying is we need more data.

We don't have the data to prove it yet because we haven't done the right amount of tests. You see how that's different they're saying. They're keeping it a buck. They're saying, well, I can't I can't tell you masks work because we haven't done the proper tests yet. But we think it do based on what we know about this other stuff. But I can't tell you. For Joe, well, I told you masks don't work. That's not what the hell that man said. You don't understand how science works.

I didn't say it don't work. I said I can't tell you it does. That's how science works. Y'all, I can't make the statement until I could prove it. But that don't mean that it's not true. It just means I can't prove it yet. Like y'all, y'all, I mean, what don't you What don't you understand because it masks ain't work. Why the hell doctor's been wearing them for so many centuries, Nigga, they do something. What I'm trying to tell you is I don't have We don't have

the bodies of research yet. So shame on the article for not keeping it a buck like that. But even the people that were doing the research said, no, no, that's not listen, that's not what we said. What we said was we need to do better testing to be able to know. You gotta understand how science works. Now, some of y'all mad at me because you was like, I did science projects. I understand the science, scientific method, question, hypothesis, results, conclusion. Well,

you're the government. You're supposed to tell us what to do. You're not supposed to tell us to do because you know what you're talking about. So when so when the Fauci's of the world stand on the stage and they say, hey, listen, this is what we think we should do. Right now, you're like, you don't fucking know what you're talking about. You know why because you said something different yesterday. Do

you understand how science works? Let the man keep it a buck, because if he'd have told you one hundred percent this is what you need to do and then it don't work, you would have been capped. That's not how it worked. We're trying to figure it out because nigga, nigga, that's what a lab is. So that lab in Wuhan, of course they had coronavirus in there because they was trying to understand coronavirus. Now, even in this class now

I'm back to the classified thing. Even in this classified report from the Department of Energy, there's nothing in that report that that suggests that this was like a biochemical It suggests that maybe it leaked on accident. But they're like, we lightweight maybe think now the FBI also lightweight, kind of low key, thinks this is what happens. But I can't You want me to tell you that's what it is. No,

I can't tell you that's what it is. Now, y'all gonna run and act like I did just say so you had all the right wingers be like, see, I told you it ain't from no, it ain't from no no, no, no, no, no, no no. What is that thing called the the wet market. That's what it's called at the Wuhan Sea food market. Right, some of them saying it happened over there. I told you ain't happened over there? Now does some of them who I'm talking about are virologists? The virologist is then

maybe you should shut your ass up. You don't know the virologists is No. A virologist is a person who studies viruses, people who've been doing that their whole life. Now here's the thing. This is what they say. They say, the evidence looks like this. Listen to my words. That evidence looks like this. Is that what happened? Look see it better? They say, Look, we went over there and we went into that market. Right. We know the bat that's out here carry the virus. We don't seeing the

virus own the table. It's on the table right there. These are two papers. I'm getting this from two papers last year published in the Journal of Science. They said, here, go to pictures. Listen, there's this cage over here. I'm telling you like, look, there's this cage over here. In the cage has these animals that are absolutely known for carrying coronavirus. Right, there was like, inside of this cage,

there's stars covie two. Right, there's some on this platter, there's some on this knife, there's some in this drain, right, And these animals are known for spreading it when they're infected, Like, they're known for doing it, right, And nigga, here go the photos. It's on the knives because and it's this this, this this table they have that's known for deferring. Right. They was like, look, we see stars, we see COVID,

we see all this shit's right here on the table. Now, why are they not saying therefore that's how it got here, nigga, because that's not how science words. It could also be these same animals were inside of this lab that these people were trying to understand and to know what to do, because remember SARS broke out in China before, and they trying to figure out, like, how the hell do we do this? We know these animals carry it all the time,

and some of y'all like to eat these animals. We need to figure out how to make sure that these two things don't mix. So they was studying the thing. I don't wasn't leaked on purpose? Nobody thinks so. And why would you did one of the doctors who was there or one of the scientists who was there go to the wet thing? Was it the other way around? That? Somebody a bat burger, you know what I'm saying, headed into work right and brought it with him. Nobody knows,

or at least they not telling us. Could be all of it. Could be a scientist went out there, was trying to gather, trying to gather specimens, left it in his pocket. Could be a million things. But what they're doing is keeping it a buck. As far as I'm concerned, that's what makes me trust you, because if you'd have walked out and said this will happened, I would have been like, how to hell? You know? Now? Granted I wouldn't be like, show me the evidence, nigga, because I

wouldn't know what I was looking at. But what I'm trying to say is what they did is how you generate trust. Just keep it a buck. Listen, some of y'all may have kids out there. Some of y'all might have kids later, some of y'all are like, oh, hell no, absolutely not. I'm cool with these nieces and nephews because they go home. Some of y'all maybe that, But listen, I'm gonna give y'all a little bit of little bit

of advice. If you don't know an answer for your children, just tell them you don't know, if you made a mistake, go back and tell them. I'm trying to save y'all from being the totality of the cause for your kids to have therapy when they grow up, they're gonna have to get therapy anywhere. Everybody got everybody got trauma from their parents. Yo. I'm saying. The question is, can you, uh, you know, minimize the amount the amount of your actions

being the topics of day therapy. And I tell you one way you do that is just you just keep it a buck. When you don't know, you don't know. We're gonna find out together. This what I think. This is my theory. This is my theory. Now it's now it's based on evidence. It's based on the fact that I've lived considerably longer than you. Right. One thing, we're telling what our daughter right now, it's like, Okay, why should I go to college, get a good job, and I don't know, you may not get a good job.

After plenty of times, plenty of people got great jobs, ain't go to college. Plenty of people got mad college dead and can't get it. You've seen this economy out this mug. I can't guarantee you that. Why should I finish school so you could? Could you need an education for what? I don't know? Now? I'm not letting her drop out. Obviously you know what I'm saying. But I can't make up. I'm not gonna make a promise. I can't like, I don't know, but based on the evidence

I got, here's my best guess. My best guess is if you could gather up these skills, you'll probably be all right. Hey, main no promises. It's like I can promise you this. You get to places on time, you turn in quality work, You be reliable, You be the person you say you're gonna be. You be trustworthy. If you don't know something, you learn how to find where to get what you need. You'd be self motivated. You

understand I'm saying, you'd probably be all right. I know that much, and be a good hang You feel me? On talk behind people back. You understand what I'm saying. You treat people the way you know they with dignity and respect. You know, you keep your distance, You be smart with your money. You feel me. And if you need to learn a new skill, continue to learn and fall in love with learning. You'll probably be all right,

pretty much guarantee you that, right. Dog. Do you remember the day you realize your parents can't actually make you do anything? You remember that day. If you're willing to just suffer the consequences that comes with whatever decision you make, then you just cool with it. The day to light bulb turned on for my daughter that I was like, I can't can't make you wash dishes, can't make you do the chores. I could just make consequences for it. And if you're okay with the consequences, what the hell

can I do now? She didn't realize it. I told her, yeah, I kept it a buck. Of course. I can't make you, can't make you do chores. But remember I pay your phone bill and I bought your phone. What I can do is open up my little app and turn your phone off, stop paying for it. I can also change the Wi Fi code because you're not doing your choice. But I can't make you do the choice. If you're cool with that, I mean nothing I could do. I don't want to be here, or I can't make you stay.

I'll be like, I'm just gonna keep it a buck with you. I can't this. This is your life. I can't make you. You know what I'm saying. What happens if I do ABNC? I don't know. Here's what I think though, based on what I've seen before, this what I think might go down now if things change. I'm gonna let you know. I just think yo. Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. If you want somebody to trust you, you just gotta keep it a buck. And if you don't know, don't

know and say you don't. So I am saying all that to say this. I appreciate the Department of Energy saying this was low confidence, meaning it kind of looked like it we got a reason to kind of like a light way. It could damn it could have. But listen, they talk in the same way, the same way the Supreme Court talking shit. I can't call it. We'll be back after that. I don't want don't no, I don't want now here a hood politics. I'm gonna ask you

some critical thinking questions here. Yeah, y'all gonna learn today. You're gonna learn today. It's teach your prop out this mug. And these are super open ended questions. I just need you to consider this. Here's the question, why do we need to know how it happened? I just need you to think about this for a second. If it happened in China, and it ain't like China gonna keep it real with it, ain't like China gonna really open a door.

China embarrassed. If you China, you like, I'm not telling y'all none of this shit because I don't know how you're gonna what if it was on purpose. I can't have y'all want y'all to get I can't have y'all know I'm not gonna just let you look around my house.

So there's part of us as America that's like, we may not we ain't gonna ever actually have the keys to the kingdom to be able to fully research what's going and we may not ever be able to really know why are we even trying in the first place, and what power do we have even if we find out it did come out of a league. What you're gonna do with a wuhan? You're gonna go into somebody else's house and tell them how to do it. We can't. We don't control the government of China. Like, how the

hell you gonna tell them how to run? Nathan? Why are we even doing this? I mean, it's here now. We didn't got a vaccine. We don't gout of medicine. Nigga, how did flu get here? I don't know it's what it is? What do you want want to say? What do we Why do we need to know how it happened? Because what can we do about it once we do know that. Let's just say it is from this wet market. What are you gonna tell You're gonna tell the Chinese

to stop eating that? What are you gonna tell them to like shut down this city because you live too close to wildlife that carried the coronavirus. Well, I mean, what you're gonna do with the knowledge. Let's say it was a lab league, Like I said, you're gonna cause Jijingping right now, You're gonna tell him to change his laws. You're gonna go well or maybe okay, let's let's say

about it like this. Maybe it's our own labs. Now that we know what happened, we go back to our own labs and we say, hey, make sure we don't do this. This and this nigga got it. You think we know she was an accident. Probably you know what I'm saying. If you spill a glass of milk, somebody say, hey, dog, don't spill a glass of milk. Thanks. Hey, what what I'm gonna do with the knowledge? Okay, so we know it was this animal. Okay, don't eat that animal, Nigga.

We don't eat that animal like that's not we eat other animals. We get the mad cow disease. You know I'm talking about, We're gonna go into the wild and slaughter every animal. Squirrels carry coronavirus. Look it up. What I mean? Why? Because it's a global We know it's a global pandemic. Nigga. What we're gonna do now? Because the ship we did know that was obvious, which is, hey, if you get a vaccine, you less likely to suffer the consequences. We got a whole movement called the anti

VAXX movement. So even if we find the answer even when you know, when I can prove to you what's right, you wouldn't even know know what you're looking at with the proof anyway. I so like, why is we even trying? What if it was a biochemical weapon? You think they're gonna tell the public if it was. I mean, especially if we already about we already beef it with China. Is we looking for a reason? Maybe it's that Maybe we're just looking for a reason. We've been trying to

scrap with them forever. But if you're doing that, don't you think you should shut up your own supply chain before you start fighting with these niggas. I mean, maybe that's what. Maybe that's what they're working on. Maybe they're working on their own supply chain so we ain't got to worry about Chinese labor. I don't why is we even looking at it? Like my man justin say, I don't have an answer to these questions. I'm just saying,

just keep it a buck with me, baby. If you don't know, you don't know, So I shape you Department of Energy sounding like sad eyes see that old old hood politics, y'all. You know, I don't know why I ain't thought of this before, but you know you could use promo code hood Forward fifteen percent off on terraform coldbrew dot com. Like I forgot I owned that company and this is my pod. Y'all, go ahead and punch it. Promo cold Hood if you're in the cold Brew, get

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