The End of the World As We Know It

my own name myself. Perhaps libations are not necessary drink today? No, no, no, sir. Yeah, not that there's anything wrong with that, but no, I'm just learning my words off the sheer, just the sheer strength of being a dumbass. Okay, well I just saw that. Nobody mixed any of that up. But you know, we might have some new people listening. They might not know I am Dope Knife coming with right, and we are waiting on reparations. Maybe two is the year. Maybe it's

the year. Yeah, it is the year. You know what, like speaking of the year, like this episode, we're going to be recapping the year that we all just had, just you know, going going over some of you know, the personal things, some of the things that happened in politics and news and hip hop, you know, and just particularly a lot of accomplishments both you know, glad tidings in the political sphere as well as dope ship that

we did in our own lives. Because a lot of time when we talked about the news, it's pretty bleak, it's pretty dark out here sometimes. But a lot of good stuff happened this year, and we're gonna talk about that as well. And I mean, the year just went by so fast. I mean, bro, I can't believe when, oh man, I've been so I've in this time I've had off. I've been sitting down every day to write

about extensively about a month that happened. And like I had pages and pages and pages on just January alone, Like I haven't even I'm like on March. Like it's taken me so long because how much happens in a single month, And it's so hard for me to believe the January, for example, was only eleven months ago. Yeah, I mean, none of the stuff seems like it was

a terribly long time ago. I it feels like I was just living in Athens and you know, like whatever news story we're gonna talk about right now, it feels like it was just like when you think about like how long ago July was, like bro, you know, like anyway, December itself I s felt long as hell. Yeah, yeah, it definitely has um. I would have to say the longest month for me was probably I don't know why.

November felt like it lasted forever. Well, honestly, as much as we're talking about twenty one right now, I think the longest month on record with April. Oh yeah, everybody had lockdown, started to go start crazy and loosen, loosten a little bit. A lot of people started to drink a lot because they're unemployed. And you know what, would you say it was April or would you say because the pen the penny like fully the penny fully like No,

May it was the fastest month of all time. You think it's actually, no, that's inaccurate because the uprising started like May twenty five. For me, it was like in between the uprising and like after the first month of COVID, because I still kind of feel like at least for me my personal I still kind of feel everyone was expecting the ship to be over monthly, right, Yeah, the first month was over and it was like, oh no, this is years. Yeah, April everyone was like, you know,

we were a little spoked. We're like, oh, six weeks, we'll be out of this. It's cool. And then May rolled around. I was like, I can't think it was still bad. Yeah, and then and then clearly it took it such a tall and people that probably collectively snapped and dude just completely lost in dually dually. So but like most people who got in the qua, I got

into it around this is some bad stuff. But I mean, we're definitely not in this year, so we're not going to talk about like a bunch of like downer stuff. So now let's send them off into with some fond remembrances that we have had in some lessons as well. Well, we'll be back with that after the jump. Alrighty, alrighty, we are back, and as you guys are hearing this, it is going to be New Year's even Day and stuff over the weekend, right, so you know, it's only

right that we recapped the year that we had. So what do. We got first. So yeah, I mean we started off with a bang in January, Uh got us off and Warnock elected to the Senate um to you know, supposedly secure a democratic majority or democratic control of all three branches of government. We had some hands on on

sort of relation to that. Oh yeah, Nikolas was out here like the people we assemble, we being like myself, the mayor of Athens, couple of my fellow commissioners, Tate House Representatives, Center for I put together a team mac concluded that went out and knocked on thirties over thirty thousand doors in our city alone, which was roughly the amount of votes that they these two senators got, you know,

to win them out of Athens, to win them the election. Um. And so that she was wild and so for a brief glimmer it looked very hopeful, like, oh, yes, democratic control all three house government. We're gonna in COVID, We're gonna I don't know, in child poverty, whatever. At least we're gonna beat back fascism for a time. UM do anything like that in oh my god, like at least like fifteen years, like the like the last time that I had done any sort of oh, I'm going out

knocking on doors for like a political campaign. Before we did this stuff for we'reknocking us off was probably like the John Carey days and ship it has been. It's been so long that it's like in my head, I always try to like recollect, like damn, like what what was it that made me like not be like involved with like you know what I'm saying, like boots on the ground like activists, Like what was it that killed

my spirit and ship? You know? I mean I know, yeah, you know, carry ended up losing and that, but was it really that? And then you know, we did this and we go into this year and well the influx of cashion to Georgia on these elections and then that the democratic control of the legislature was on the line, Like is that a new precedent for elections that you gotta pay people and go do this, Like it's not

enough to just do it on faith alone. Like sure, when Bernie Sanders running, I drove to South Carolina like four times knock on Doe brom because I was just in insane person. But but yeah, but like not like not everybody can be a believer. We got dame jobs we got like kids and it you know, we got like we're just depressed because the world is terrible. Um And even if you want the world to be better, it's like hard to get up and go knock on

those doors unless you pay people. If you pay people, they'll find that spark of like that enjoyment of fighting for a cause that they believe in because materially they are supported in doing so. Um. So that was like a shift in at least Georgia politics that came out from around that election. But around the same time, low Wayne and Kodak Black were both pardoned by President Donald

Trump on his last full day in office. Lo Wane had admitted to a weapon's charge back in December of twenty was facing up to ten years in jail before Trump gave him the pardon, and then Kodak was in federal prison after pleading guilty to a firearms possession charge after being detained at the Canada detained at the Canadian American border back in March of and both of them scott free least for those charges, and you know, gave their thanks to the then president for um, you know,

getting their neck out the noose. I mean, I think we've you know, I think all of our thoughts on this have been clearly aired out, you know. But I'm just I'm just happy, you know, any happy when anybody gets out of jail, right, only good for nobody, And it's wild how like, you know, I tend to take really bold stances on prisons and policing, but when I get out and talk to average every day folks, like a lot of people know that president is not a

good place for anyone. Um, you know, like shorty, Oh, we gotta put we gotta put the most heinous criminals off us in lock them up for life. That's not the majority of people that are in jail, though, like, like not at all, like not even by like a percentage, you know, I mean most people in jailer and jail for not doing heinous violent things. And even if I mean even folks that you know have been convicted of

serious crimes. They get in jail, they like brush shoulders with the worst people, you know, like, oh, fellow criminals. So they learned, oh this is act. This is how you could avoid getting pop for that burglary. Oh this is how you like installed silencer on your gun next time. Um, they get their hatred and social alienation, retrench because all of their connections with society are cut off. Um, But it just doesn't That doesn't make a place that's gonna

make you a better person. Yeah, exactly. You know, you know there's you're when you go to jail and they come out, it's like you're already working on like the most most up of up hills to like come out of that ship as a better person, because everything about from the from the systemic way the prisoners run to just the way it's organized in that, you know, like the recidivism and you know how many people keep coming

back and who you're rubbing shoulders with. Like you said, it's like everything stacked against you of coming out of jail of more experienced criminals as opposed to like somebody who's ready to turn their life around, and normal people

know that. I just talked to this cat yesterday that I collaborate with on a lot of organizing projects, and he was on his way to like juvenile or to try to convince the court to not take this kid away from his parents because I don't know, it's been constealing or the able trash bassing or some ship and like you don't even gotta be explicitly like a prison abolitionist or anything to know, like having the kids taken away from their parents, it's not gonna it's not gonna

make your life better. It's not gonna like their lives better. But anyway, a little February, I'm sorry, Oh yeah, let's move on the February. So um, Prince Marquis D of the Fat Boys die very sadly. Yeah, what's your experience with the Fat Boys? Zero? None? So wait you've never have? Have you ever like at least heard a song? No? Absolutely, As I was like looking into them, I like it.

It was like definitely familiar. It's one of those cakes where you're familiar with someone's work without like really attributing it to them, like oh that was Fat Boys. Okay, yeah, they were like kind of I'm gonna like give explained one dated reference with another dated reference. But it's like the Fat Boys were doing kind of what Fresh this was doing before, you know what I mean, like a

few years before a fresh Prince is doing. It was like I don't want to say like family friendly, but it was it was like the record industries, you know, really figuring out like how to market, how to like mass market some like this hip hop thing that's going on, it's like you know what I'm saying, It's like something that's preventable, presentable. It's funny, it's catchy. It was like all of all of those things that are like tropes about hip hop. At this point, it was like Fat

Boys embodied it. It was like the perfect It's like the perfect like pop rap type ship. Um yeah, you know that. That's sad. Yeah. I didn't even remember him passing away until like I was looking up the end of the year stuff. But when I was doing think it was bis markis this year we did it is

an understate. We'll just go off before we go further, and saying r I p to all the rappers who passed away this year, because there were many, and then also like a special like you know, keep your head up to like all the motherfucker's who got arrested, because yo, motherfucker's got arrested this year. It wasted, but some people got out. Bobby Schmarda was released after serving almost seven years in prison. Oh yeah, that's dope. Um yeah, I can't really say I'm a fan of Bobby murder. But

you know, I'm glad that he's out of jail. What do you think that we're doing well? He seems like he was doing a good like, you know, looking after his health, you know, rejecting society's poisons upon release. So that I was I was like, I was like, you know, Bobby, I appreciate you. Every time that I've seen every piece of footage I've seen of him since he's been out, he's got a smile on his face. So yeah, I'm

always happy about that. Um. What else happened in Yeah and Deer is a big one for me because after two years of working with the descendants what we call the descendants of first descendants of Lendtown, so at least for kids that grew up in a black community here in Athens that saw that community pretty much burned to the ground. Um, it's part of urban federal Urban Renewal

project to turn it into student high rise dorms. We actually passed the resolution that was the you know, the first after reparations in the state of Georgia to like apologize for what happened to them and commit to a number of measures of redress. Like I've been collaborating with them ever since I'm trying to get a Black History center funded and you know, off the ground space for that,

et cetera. So that was a big deal that you know in Black History months actually like not just like lift up, oh we love be you know, m ok and let's you know, to turn the truth or whatever, but like, yo, honoring the people that were harmed in our own community because off of times, like civil rights struggles are like pasted as something that happens in other places, like oh, you know the Edmund Pettis Bridge or the March on Washington, but like every single community had a

civil rights struggle of some kind, and so I think it was an important act to do in the month of February to bring new context to black history, Like black history is also something that happened here. How long did it take you to get that, just that whole proposal two years to two years? Yeah, and we're so fighting, like it's not over just because we agreed we would

do these things. Now we actually got to do them because the government so oftentimes promises stuff that doesn't actually materialize. So do you mean it's not over when they just just because when they promise you things. No, no, it was not um but yeah, alright, so moving on to uh March, March April is okay, so this seem like I'm sorry, sir. So yeah, March to April started to seem like everybody was gonna get vaccinated and the pandemic

was gonna be over. Its gonna be like the return of hour al summer, only we could just retain that sweet, sweet naivete to day. Yeah. That's certainly not in the air around like April where it felt like, oh ship, this is over, hooray go down on like yeah, no, Like definitely around around of April March, I was starting to be like, yeah, let's go take trips, you know

what I mean. I was. I started visiting Savannah more and stuff like that, and it definitely did have Like I do remember having conversations with people back then and I would be saying, oh, man, you know back during COVID, and like were looking at me, like what are you talking about back during COVID? Do you not know what's coming?

You know? It's like we transitioned from like yeah, during the pandemic, like it's over now, and then that like that like phrasing has not gone away, and in those cases are now higher than they were of January of this year. Um, I it's blowing my mind. But yeah, we thought, like, yeah, I think that's one of the reasons that we're still in The ship is just like and I don't know precisely how it is overseas, but

it's like we never really locked down lockdown. I know, everybody's got it in their head, especially like the people who are like anti vacs, anti COVID regulations, stuff like that, they've got it in their head that that the country

has been you know, in some strict quarantine. Ship. We were only like super duper lockdown for like two weeks real talk to it was two weeks where everyone was rinsing off their their their fruit with bleach and ship and like you know what I mean, motherfucker's were really scared about the ship. But other than that, a large chunk of people went back to life as normal, you know what I'm saying, very shortly into the pandemic. So

I don't think any of that ship helped us. A year and a half later, two years, whatever it is, be in any sort of condition where it's we're gonna be out of it and where we're Scott Clean, I don't think that's I don't think that's in the cards first with Yeah, well, we'll talk more about that towards the end as we struggle back around to this Scember. But this is when March and Aprils, when a little

nos X started kind of like trolling the America real hard. Yeah, he started doing the press rollout and stuff like that for his album Montenero, and that's when he did like video, what's it Montero? And um, he came out is that when the video dropped. I think that's about round the time the video dropped, and then he announced his Satan shoes that he got sued by Nike over because it copied their design. Remember you know, uh they had like a drop of his own blood in the in the

tongue or something like a vial or something. Um. And the music is the video itself was highly controversial because he's like given Satan a lap dance and all this ship. But like it just won the internet for that period. Everyone was everyone was talking about it, whether you loved it or hated. I personally thought I was hilarious. Um And in general, I've really enjoyed Little nos x is um social media presence this year. He's been quite entertaining,

very hilarious, and the album Yourself was pretty good. At myself, if I do say something myself, I'd like a couple of tracks. You know, there's um, there's a few joints that they're always playing on the radio that I can't help it here, but it's just catchy. It's like, you know, the thing about Little not Sex is like I think everything about Little nos X is dope. I'm just not particularly into popular. Yeah, you can recognize someone's artistry, but

like also recognize that it's not for you. Yeah, exactly, And yeah, this is a very well crafted piece of art that I don't personally like because it's not just it's just not my thing. Yeah, yeah, that part, I'm all.

I'm all about that, like the kids a Teacher on his album from Elton John, like you can't like like you know, yeah, do you do you remember when I think that stuff like that's important and even you know, even just like his whole um public persona, I think all of that ship is important too, and like shifting attitudes culturally and stuff like that, even if it's incrementally, I think it matters. And even if it's you know, um,

here's a question about the video. Do you think that I don't even know what qualifies as an uproar in one because it's like, you know, motherfucker's like tweet about some ship for a day and then if no one cares the next day, So I don't even know if

it's qualifies as that. But do you think that his video would have gotten like the same sort of feverish response to it, whether it be negative or positive, if it was just him just giving dudes a lap dance and it wasn't the same sataness angle if he hadn't he had at all, If he had that at all expressed his sexuality anyway in any kind of music video, it would have received back last so we might as well. And he did just go all links y'all gonna like me anyway. I think I am who I am at

all for you. I think the satan part was like the icing on the king for that, because he has another video that's got like Jack Harlow and all those dudes and they're in prison, then they're wearing pink and it's like hella gay and like you know what I mean, people, but yeah, but I mean people didn't like it, but it wasn't like you don't really hear about that, you know what I mean, Like unless like that wasn't as big of like a cross worked the outrage about the

Montera music video. But if it hadn't been, if it had been a standalone video, the collaborl Jack Harlow, that would have itself garnered Hue Eyer from conservatives. You know, has anybody um, has anybody like notable? Like then like a super prude about it? Benja. Yeah, within the black community, Yeah, tons of people that have been, um, I've never got my kids, let's do your music again. That's ongoing thing with Little Boozy. Yeah, he's like talking his homophobic ship.

But may It was also a good year for music. J Cole came out with the new album in the off season, which was a more relaxed UM project that you know, kind of let Cole's talent shine, and then also featured some Collapse, which is new for UM. For him, a part of his like I don't know sheen or you know, like his stature has been that he liked typically never featured anyone on any of his albums as a way of just showing that he can put out an album or a series, a whole discography without the

support of anyone else. What's the meme like platinum no feature or like double platinum. Yeah, yeah, yeah, um. I thought that he leveled up significantly, Like on the lyrical m on this album. I was really feeling like I just just from a technical aspect, I think, you know, whatever it is that that that our individual rapper needs to do to like start being a lot more intricate and interesting with their word playing stuff. Jacole did that

ship for this project. I think I'm kind of torn whether I feel this one or Ko d More that

was the last one. I feel like this is often the case with me music, where like, even if a new piece of art is like aesthetically a higher sets, a higher bar, nothing can compete with a piece of art, an earlier piece of art that like just it is deeply nostalgic to you now, and so like Ko d Well, like It's all will always be like a really special album to me, even if lyrically Dicle kind of popped off on the off season, you know, you know what I mean, Like he definitely stepped his game up, but

like it doesn't hold a special place in my heart. Yeah, like KOT and definitely from I think from a content standpoint, I think I was working with ko D a lot more. You know what, if he was rapping on ko D like he's wrapped it on the on the niche who would have been over would have been over. I would have quit the rap game. That's some God conversations right there, right. Yeah.

May it was also a good month for politics. Larry Krasner got re elected as District Attorney of Philadelphia was pretty lit um when he first ran in two seventeen. His story made him like a figurehead of the new progressive prosecutor movement, which I have opinions about. Um. We did a whole episode on him back and in in May, I believe, And since then, Philly has had the most violent year on record with spike was one of the highest,

you know, homicide rates on record for the city. Um. You know, many large cities have seen spikes in homicides though, um, violent crime in general is down, but people were killed in Philly alone this year. But as Meek Mill put it, in defensive d A. Krasner and a tweet in April. I believe, you know, a lot of people want to blame Krasner for the crime, given his compassionate, compassionate approach prosecution.

But Meek Mills said, Larry Krasner did not put three thousand ghost guns, and Billy is not the blame for the rising morder rate. We don't do three D printing in the hoods. So something happened. So I love the I love the veiled implication that like something like somebody's putting guns in the hood ship. I mean, you know what, this can also kind of be added in because the thing is, like I guess the rising rising murder rate this year, Um yeah, I think you know. I don't.

I don't know how specifically I guess the conspiracy goes. But I can see what mean be all the same? Yeah yeah, um, like I don't. I'm not gonna get to I'm not gonna foment conspiracy. Are you here? But what I will say is from a policy perspective, like I think it's so important to understand why things happen, and in general, there's a confluence of factors in society

right now. Pandemic stress, you know, due to a number of things from unemployment to food and security, housing and security, etcetera.

But like, I really wish that we I don't know if this exists in other places, but at least we had some sort of tracking mechanism in place where we sat people down and they got get brought into the jail, and we do a profile on them, uh, just the interview to understand why they did what they did, and to extrapolate patterns from those interviews to like look at like why homicides are happening at anything, like you know,

an increase rate and then invest in the prevention. Like all right, all these cats killed somebody else because there was a moment of stress and they did the wrong thing. All right, how do we how do we like implement programs in the community to help people do the conflict resolution and stress better, they killed each other, etcetera. Like I we we will never really know, and various people will argue for different reasons why is the homicide rate

is spiking? But until we actually ask these questions of the people doing these times, we're never we're not ever going to actually make a dent in it. It's literally outrageous that that's not already done. Perhaps it is somewhere. I don't know, I haven't done. If it is done somewhere, that's not enough. That doesn't that feels like it. That

feels like that's just a given, you know what I mean? Yeah, it feels like such a common sense, like like approach to do in this ship that it's like, man, are you are you really saying that nobody's looking in, because then all we have to rely upon is anecdotal evidence, either from the convicted individuals or people in their life or you know, guards were going to jail who talked to them day in and day out. But we need like a comprehensive like data bank, data base, scientific approach

to do, scientific approach to understanding this. Yeah, yeah, so I mean you can science scientific stuff. So um. In June, the federal government admitted to knowing about UFOs and they said they would not rule out alien activity. I can't believe aren't talking about this still, Like it was the craziest thing in the world to me when it came out. And then like just like the you know, natural truck bombing of last Christmas, just memory hold completely, memory hold.

I've been rewatching my x files too, and it's like, what are y'all like, people aren't tripping over that ship?

Let's get into As part of the nine page report released by U. S Intelligence, there was no formal way within the government to record UFO sightings until the Navy started one two thousand nineteen, and the Air Force didn't follow suit until roughly a year ago, which shows how resistant the government had been to acknowledging UFOs and implies we have a lot less sightings on record than have

actually happened. As well, the number of reported UFOs may have been kept artificially low because of the stigma lung attached to reporting these sort of things. Now again, you want to talk about ship, that like sounds like it's common sense. I have no direct knowledge of any of this ship, but I've seen enough of those goddamn shows and read enough ship with people who really been in the ship. And on top of that, like just you know,

come from military family, don't put anybody in blast. I talk to people and ship like that that it just, you know, the absolute skepticism of the ship is just always been ridiculous to me. So you know, I guess like even though it's it's a little late, because we're not really like UFOs don't have as much of a UFO sightings and UFO culture and UFO believers and stuff. It's not like as it's not as popular as like a you know, as it was back in the nineties

and ship when I was a kid. So even though it's late that the government's acknowledging, at least they are acknowledging at the very LEAs said, hey, they're ship. That happens that with all the trillions of dollars that we spend that we can't explain what it is. All I want somebody to say, thank you. Come on, don't act

like you know ship for real. Well, Jim was also a fairing months over here because now as we passed the historic budget, raised the minimum ways for city employees picking dollars an hour, including part time seasonal employees, made we will public transit. It's been fair free the whole pandemic, and we just made it free for life. UM implemented a new kind of crisis response team that is non police. As you know, if you're having mental health crisis, substance

abuse issue, you didn't need a wellness check. They send in like a social worker in an empty to like treat the situation from like a public health perspective, um, and a ton of other good ship, and it really felt like I was finally hit my stride as a politician. Was very proud personally, so like, how do you get an award for that? How do you get an awards for that? Like I feel like you should well but only Yeah, I rewarded myself by like I sent out a newsletter at the end of the year, and all

my haters no, I mean, it's funny. There's a lot of people that hate follow me, like to like catch me slipping and like, and they stay real silent when I send out like here's like twenty one amazing things I did this year. It includes like all of the ship like peep, no, not a not a it's not a pat So my reward is just living in peace and quiet. I don't want no accolades. I ain't trying to get no trophies, no special ribbons. I don't want people to leave me alone. Well, this next next topic

is definitely not peace and quiet. So also going down and um June is double XCEL released. There one freshman class. Now for those of you who don't know what that is like Double Excel is a hip hop publication. I would say at this point it's the most popular one that's still in print. Do they still print Double looks Out? I don't even know any kind of magazine. I just don't. I mean, okay, I'll put it this way. I haven't seen Double Exel in like stores and stuff where I

normally would see it back in the past. I don't know if Double Exel is still print or if it's online. But anyway, I digress. Long story short. Every year they put out a list of the new Ish rappers who they think are destined to become the next top cats in the game and ship and they put out their list and we're only mentioning it because it's something that happens, and it happened this year. I cannot say that I am aware of any of the names on it. It's

probably because I'm sixty five years old. But we've got forty two. Doug Moray to see Bick bixed Ian Door, I've heard Coil before heard, I've heard I've heard her, um Folly of course, um Ruby Rose. I'm not sure who that is. Shysty, Yeah, I know who that is. D d G. And I don't know how to say that last one. Okay, have you heard have you heard any of those sides for Flow Million? No? Actually, um,

I mean posh. I see, like a lot of these names I'm familiar with, but as is generally the case with me, though I am like deeply you know, indebted to and fascinated by hip hop, I'm a bit slow on the come up sometimes, like even artists that I funk with, Like recently I discovered this Mick Jenkins album from thousand eighteen that I've been super obsessed with us Like why did I take? Why did it take me? This song? I love Mick Jenkins, I don't understand, I

don't send. And so in fact, in previous years, I think sometimes recently actually, I went back and looked at all the Double XCEL honorees over the last like ten years, and it was like really nostalgic of like maybe not in that moment did I see the you know, like the grandeur of the artistry of people like Chance the Rapper, uh, you know, instead of like big names that have basically

list previously. But I mean they're they're influence fans out in the culture, particularly like Amplified by making it on a list like this, So I think we we will definitely see these people keep moving. Move to all of them. Some of the sing the old folks fault fell off, like after that year they were on the cover and we've never heard of again. But you know, I'm like, I'm a nerd about these certain things. I've always been

a nerd about these certain things. I wish this is one of the moments where I wish I was like a bigger media figure because just in my personal life I have called like most of who is going to be around for the Double Xcel list, you know what I mean? After they come up, like once I do get to like listen to everybody. It's like I have a pretty good track record of like you know what this Kendrick of mar Kid Yeah and back Miller, Yeah,

he's gonna do you know what I mean? And like I so, I don't know, I gotta list to know some more of these cats. I do. Got to give them their due diligence, but um check them out though if if you haven't, because you know, even if the batting average is low, there usually is always a diamond in the Double Excel. Let's so somebody usually blows up. It becomes that next person for like the next five years. So and then I must say Mac and I made

some moves this year musically, quite exciting. I finished up an album in July that uh, I can't wait some one else, but I'm not. I can't say nothing yet. But you can't tell us what the name is yet. Na, I'm gonna not just in case I'm not trying to get in trouble. All right, we'll tell us. Tell us about its production. I don't know. So it was pretty much executive produced by my friend Reindeer Games, who's my

like you know DJ when I perform. Longtime friends, very random, how we matt each other, that's like, but remain friends ever since. So he, you know, produced the album for the most part. Mac is on the album um on Um one of the songs. And then we got a lot of dope features from folks like Kishi Bashi, Jeff Rosenstock and Davis Is on their Western Rulers on there my buddy, you know, a long time collaborator um from I forgetting Oh, Kevin Barnes from Montreal. So it's gonna

really cool. But I became a lipt sealed about it until we formally announced it next month. Well, in that same month, I was moving into my studio, and that's you know, I took me like that whole month to get everything moved in and and all that stuff. But once I did get moved in, I promptly started working on the albums that I have coming up. I I'm doing the two albums in one year thing. But it's

like two different labels that drastically different sounds. One of them is me wrapping over a lot of a lot of trap tiki taki, you know, modern beats that I don't usually wrap wrap over. And then the second project is more like an industrial rock rap sort of vibe to it. So I'm really excited about both of those about this web. Only one of them is done and the other one, i'd say is like in the stages

right now. Um It's that that one's like a a pretty big task from a production standpoint because I'm you know, working with a bunch of different musicians and stuff like that. I'm just trying to get it to sound as much of like a nine inch Nails album as I can. I'm excited. I'm very excited for it, and then in August, you finished recording that album, right, Yeah, yeah, in August I finished recording the first one. I guess I could

save the name for that one. That one's going to be the one that's like the more traditional hip hop one. It's called the Dope one. And yeah, that's probably looking at maybe uh may for a drop for that. Yeah. Well I've been, I've been, you know, And like for anybody who does, you know, follow us on the music tips and you should if you're listening to this podcast. But if you do, you know, I put out like a new song every month. If not a new song,

I always have something that I'm putting out. So it's like, you know, I'm not just gonna make you wait years for me to drop an album. Yeah. Um, I honestly don't feel like talking about Kanye's. I'm talking about Kanye s has gotten I mean even not talking about him. We're kind of talking about it right now. But Kanye dropped Donda and then they could camp out in the Mercedes Benz studio like a weirdo. Honestly, I just want

to keep moving that Donny until you know. In August, Corey Bush also won an extension of the eviction moratorium after camping out of the steps of the Capitol when Congress went on recess to the end of July. I mean, unfortunately it was ultimately struck down again in late August. But I think it's a really inspiring example of the way that UM politicians can wield their influence as activists UM even though they are elected, like oh, people like, oh, why are you camping out? Or why are you doing

this or that? Or why are you tweeting? Like why can't you just go in there and vote? But this is the power of like she called people like yo, come down to the capital camp out with me. They put pressure on him and public pressure on him, not like behind closed doors of like you know, lobby and trying to get votes, but they put pressure enough to get it to happen, and yeah, didn't. Then they have.

Then some people try to dismiss it as being like theatrics, theatrics performative, like yeah, protests this theater, like I don't know what what y'all want me to say, Like you how als we're supposed to give people's attention in order to make any sort of change that And really, I think that argument is in bad faith because they just

really don't want to see people fight. They want so badly for the government to lose that they're like, don't don't go over and above to make something positive happen. I would you know that this wrounts my narrative, So I don't know, you know, I think uh immortal technique once he had a line that kind of like described what you were just talking about. But it's like, just because you and about ship, don't project that everybody else is that way too right, you know what I mean.

It's like, don't don't be cynical just because you know you're not, like you ain't about that life right, just because you're sitting in your gass on the couch not doing it, it it doesn't mean you can like clap back at Cory Bush when she's out there actually trying to help people exactly, speaking of people who are fighting and helping.

Uh Nina Turner that same loves Her bid for the Democratic nominee Congress in Ohio, running to replace Mercia Fudge, who was appointed head as the Housing and Urban Development Secretary, became a proxy fight between the leftmost wing of the party and the establishment democrats see, and people always want to use things like this, um, you know, inclusive of like just's a variety of progressive losses, even like the loss of Bernie Sanders in this point to my presidential election,

as indicators that like progressivism isn't popular and that like progressive wins are impossible. But everyone always wants to use an anecdotal example as like definitive evidence of whatever they already believe. Um, Like we like have had numerous victories as well, like we were just talking about da Krass, they are getting reelected. Um, the fact that we have the quote unquote squad Now, UM, I think that it's

a lot more complicated than that than um. Even even on the left word side of things that like progressions want to say like, oh, the establishment is stacked against us and we can't win because they cheat, And it's

like that narrative isn't helpful either. All of usus have to understand that, Um, the dynamics and each race are different and are complicated, and there's no foregone conclusion to the you know, um, the sturdy andness and durability of the establishment, or the inability for progressives to get elected, or the sure fired, Uh, sure fired, like assurance that progress as well get elected. Like whatever you think is possible,

whatever you think is inevitable, is wrong. Like so you know, we seem like, right, it seemed inevitable that Lena would win because she was pulling really highly early on in the race. But like you know, like national Pundance didn't know acually happened in the ground. We were out there in Cleveland walking around talking to people, and so it's just more complicated than like one side is pure and

right and will always win. Like it's just it's just you know, complex confluence of factors in each in every single race. Son and did not win, No, she didn't, unfortunately, but she has her fighting though. Yeah, I'm sure she'll run for something again. But I think now one of the things I normally see her doing is she uh co ho guest host on a t y T every now and then. Oh that's nice. Yeah, well, I don't

even want to say every now and then. It kind of seems like she's doing her regularly now, so she's like like actually like on the show like that, Um, we're gonna take a little break right there, and then we're gonna come back and recap the next of these uh the rest of these uh happenings over the course of the year. But um, we will be right back after the jump. All right, we are back, and we are in the month of September. Now, So September saw

rapper Little Sims drop her album. Sometimes I might be introvert. The British Nigerian rappers fourth album seamlessly incorporates grime, hip hop, soul, and old school R and B. Did you really does? It really does blend the different genres together very seamlessly, in a way that I think a lot of albums could end up sounding like like a like a mission, like an awkward missmatch from people try to incorporate too

many different concept styles together. But really it feels like it was flowing down the river and you like pass you know you you know, pass the banks of grime, you pass the shores of hip off and soul. Um like, it really weaves it all together really well. So she's worth checking out if you haven't heard her new album. It might have been one of my favorites from this year. Honestly, Yeah,

it's definitely one of my favorites from the show. I'm glad that she's getting like the recognition that she's getting now because she's been around for a minute. Like you you know, I just said it was her fourth album. And sometimes I feel like when artists have this sort of blow up that, um, I don't know, people have a tendency to think, you know, not only that it's overnight, but to think that there are a new artist, you

know what I'm saying. So hopefully her blowing up off of this ship is going to put some shine onto like her second album. Yeah, yeah, exactly the same way that I was talking about earlier, where like, uh, you get stuck on like a like a singular facet of someone's tystography, and it's like, oh, I love this album, and you fail to go at the times and like go back and see what other work people have created.

I do also hope that people will given some of the acclaim this album has gotten, you know, go back and check out somewhere early stuck because we dove too. What else we've gotten. Oh this is just a little side thing, but I feel like it's a little relevant now. Um. Also in September, Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court he uh he issued a statement saying amongst other things, promising that the Supreme Court was not a dangerous cabal of

partisan political hecks. Now what prompted him to just right? It's like when you when you say, like, don't think of an elephant. Immediately the first thing thing of a jinas like, oh, we're not a dangerous couple. They wait, why would you say, why would you even say that? What's happening in the Supreme Court? We'll given that like a month later, so they would be weighing in on the rovy way. That kind of seemed like an ominous foreshadowing, which is why a lot of people were expecting that

to to just completely get stricken down in the first place. Yeah, like, please ignore our dangerous cabal like us behind the scenes, I promise we are not a dangerous cabal. Uh, nicely done, simboltels. It's like when it's like when you catch somebody and they're like, I didn't do nothing. It's like, yo, I didn't even accuse you anything with the Yeah October, oh man, so my my hands sound. Favorite album of the year, well maybe not actually, okay, number two favorite album the

year Maxi Creams The Weight of the World. I loved it. So much Houston rapper. He's been dominating the scene down there for like a decade now. It's been wrapped with like a rarely seen emotional clarity in his music. He just like openly reckons with the demons in his life.

And also it's like his cadence, like the way he switches up its flow, it makes it sound it's like very unassuming and like disarming in the way it's like, oh wow, that was really creative, but like you don't sound like you're trying hard, Like it's not like those like not to hate on, like lyrical miracle rappers like myself, where it's like it sounds like they're like sweat and bullets to try to like compile like people like sucking what's his name logic, Like he sounds like squeeze a

lot of stuff in there to make it really impressed Matt. So it's just like sitting back like with his feed up blow in your mind, like without even trying. It sounds like in the way he in his delivery. And so the way to the World I think album, I think it all comes down to style though, you know, or even I just think that like the byproduct of that is what makes your style, you know, Like I think, uh, Maxe Cream he's got He's got like a flow that

sounds laid back. But I think that's just how we interpret his delivery of his style, you know what I'm saying, because it's meant to be like that. But I think he probably does sweat bullets to like to like, you know what I mean, to execute that, you know, which is why it sounds impressive when he does. It is because he's so good, Whereas like somebody could just be like I mean, I don't even need to say somebody. Lots of other fucker's are like, yo, I just gotta

laid back style, and then you hear it. It's like, man probably wrapped like you care because this back fire, it can backfire. But no, I really appreciate the way he sounds so easy going in his wraps. This, though, does make me think of my actual favorite rap album from this year that I hey, that did not mentioned for Jude because in Jude gold Link dropped haram Oh, I haven't heard that. Oh my god. It's like, Okay, so y'all were talking on my about how I really

love radio Heads. It's like if radio Head made an R and B rap album. She was just like so almost in outer space, like hovering just above the atmosphere, riding around and like real stealth spaceships. Just smooth as hell dark, but like like warm dark, like when you're sitting in your bed with the covers off your face. Um. Really yeah, it's it's so I mean, it's wrapping, it's it feels. Its got an R and B feel to it and some of like the vocal like vocals, hooks

and things like that. Um, but yeah, it's just really dark and creamy adventure. I got it. What's what's it called again, It's called and they are a M I am on it, I am on it. Yeah. This was the whole like end of our year to avoid the bad stories, which just it's like a music review. But in November Mac Commie drop what I would say is album of the Year Pray for Haiti and Grizona. It was number two on Rolling Stones Top ten Top t

hip Hop Records of the Year. It's bonkers. It's like I'll tell you, I'll tell you this is what I thought about Pray for Haiti. You know how I'm always complaining about like hip hop I feel and this is all could be in my head. But I feel that hip hop doesn't get like the artistic praise until it incorporates a bunch of ships that's not hip hop into it, which there's nothing wrong with at all. That's like a thing.

But it's like, if it's very rare that just a dude or a woman or whoever, just a person wrapping over beats full stop is like you know that people really looking as like, oh man, this is mind blowing, this is crazy, this is amazing, this is like, let's take to me places I've never been blah blah blah. And and I want to say, the last time I saw people get like a rap act to get props like this for doing that was probably when Run the

Jewels first came out. And and it's really dope to see that happening for mac Commy right now, because this is like as stripped down in bare bones as you can get. It's just it's sample based beats, sample based boom bat beats, and just a really really dope lyrical rapper going in and it it cast asides every trope that we think we need in modern hip hop, of like, hey, you don't need to have catchy hooks on every song.

You know, the songs don't even necessarily have to have like a like a hard topic or concept or anything like that. And it's just it's beautiful. It's just a beautiful piece of music and a beautiful piece of rap music through and to cross over a little bit into politics,

into directions and facts. It was out from Griselda Records, just based in Buffalo, New York, where Democrats socialist India Walton earlier this year won the Democratic primary for mayor, but in November was ultimately trounced by a write in candidate, the incumbent Byron Brown, who was backed by you know, establishment Democrats as well as Republicans who were really scared of a Democratic socialist becoming the mayor of Buffalo um as well, you know, to speaking speaking of prayers for Haiti,

um in May, we had on Eugene per year of Breakthrough News to discuss his trip to Haiti and document that spring uprisings there. And at the time we had no idea that just two months later President Jovina Moyes Pubnel moys Um would be assassinated. Should hit the fans just when he saw things were really topsy turvy down there. Um, I mean it made a bad situation worse. Like it

did make a bad situation worse. I mean it was like he was already not great, um, you know, having said things like um, you know, having done things like dismantling Haiti's leg just ad of bodies and at one point saying, after God, there is only me. Well, I

mean definitely, because we definitely covered his fascist tendencies and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, hiring like gangs to like do the government's violent bidding and then without a president, the gangs just turned on the community just willy nilly, and they're just out there causing terror. Shouldn't definitely make a bad situation a lot worse. Oh yeah, that's the situation right now. Yeah, so you know, pray for Haiti and ed Man for real. November had

some other positive tidings, you know. Um, India Walton may have lost, but Robin Ones and Wallah Blah, who we interviewed um in August, won her election to the Minneapolis City Council. Um and yeah, just oh you know that's openly socialisty fund the police lady among many actually uh women and women in color with you know, strong left

politics that won the city council. Uh. There even though at the same time, interestingly, the measure to effectively abolished the police department failed And so I've seen that held up as like indication that, like the fund of the

police movement had like failed. But like, how can you say that when at the same time multiple people got elected to the City Council of Minneapolis on that very platform, And like how and and indeed how shocking it is that in a major American city of voters would opt to replace their police department with something entirely different Like that is unprecedented, even if to some it may look like a failure. Do you think, you know, glad tings

all around on that is it? Do you think of the particular city might come into play on a notion like that, Because wasn't Minneapolis having issues with the Minneapolis PD for years leading up to George Floydiapolis with the ground zero of of of everything that happened last summer, and for years have been having issues with mpd uh And so I do think again, the specific context in

which has happened is very important. People overlook the fact that UM earlier this year as well, UM under Mayor Sponte Mirrack up in Ithaca, New York, they passed a plan to get rid of their police department and replace it like very very I mean not quietly, like it was reported in the news, but it wasn't such a marquee moment because Minneapolis was the epicenter of the uprising

last summer, and so all eyes were on it. I'm sure, like countless resources reporting on both sides to try to, you know, influence the outcome of his ballot measure, whereas very you know, relatively sneakily the city, the Common Council of Ithaca, which is like, yeah, we're doing this, what's up?

So I don't know, um, just about back in the present moment, December Body James Alchemist dropped super Techmobo, which I think is an excellent album as well that sounds range from like spooky, get a little early two thousands radio wrapping. There you get something like booming, bludgeoning, thunderous basse, and then you got Boldi James telling dead pan like pretty much horror stories about telling drugs. I mean that's

not let's not beat around the bush. Boldi James and Alchemists have like successfully carved out like a whole new sub genre of hip hop that is thriving, you know what I'm saying, Like they are doing their thing, and I mean it's not really like it's not quite gangster rap. It's coke rap. I mean it's it's I mean when just about every word on every song is about like the day to day nuts and bolts of like the

drug trade. It's just this is a different experience to listen to and like the abstract way they go about doing it. It's it's fresh man, I dig it again. This is all the sort of things where it's like all the dusty niggas out there who are always complaining about hip hop this and the young worersvers and the jeans are too tight, blah blah blah. Calm down, Calm down. There's plenty of good ship out there. There's plenty of

different stuff out there. You just gotta look for it, and like, you know, don't don't get mad because the stuff that you want to listen to isn't like on TikTok and Ship, you know what I mean, It's not supposed to be like going band camp and go download that Boldy James Alcholists supported Nick is doing the ship that you like, God damns rather than riding off the

entire genre and culture. Is hereable Lord of mercy. So yeah, Boldi James and Alcolm has has always been one of my favorite producers, just saying what yeah, um, I hate we We've got to make sure not to end on a bummer note. So we're gonna go through this last two things and then let's talk maybe about some stuff looking forward to two because I hate to announce that. In December, Elon Musk was named Person of the Year

by Time magazine. Oh my God, like essential workers, Hello, anyone, the labor movement, strike Shelberg anything, No, you're gonna give it to like the billionaire who inherited his plans from a blood Emerald diamond South you know mine in South Africa, Like go fund yourself. Okay, Look, so we we might we might have to check this out or reapproach this on another date or something, or dive deeper into this.

But part of his you know tour, like press tour for the I won the Time magazine, he did a interview with what was it called bumble b or some ship like that bumble something. It's like some right wing

Twitter media comedy thing of the jig. He did an interview with them, and in this interview he made some news because not only was he going after Elizabeth Warren and talking about birth rates and space and all sorts of ship, but he also stated that wokeness is the biggest threat to modern civilization and that at its heart will go nos is divisive and hateful. YadA, YadA YadA. Some think something critical race theory. Look, I think that that's not good. Like I think that that's like something

that needs to be addressed. And I don't I don't know how to like, I don't know why I think so as hard as maybe, like I said, we'll deal with it, we'll talk about this later. But I feel like that's a bigger deal then it then the press that it got because like for better or worse, and

it's most likely for worse. But Elon Musk, there's a lot of fucking stupid people out there who like, thank Elon Musk is literally Tony Starks from iron Manship, like for real, for real, and like they think everything he says, he's like a genius and everything is like right and

blah blah blah. So for me, it's just like, man, you got this like super rich, kazillionaire dude who's got like a fucking almost like fanatical following out there, and there's nothing, there's nothing that Elon Musk can think about

that happened in the last five years. That's like a threat to society other than effectively, because when you really go into the context of what he was talking about in the interview, the biggest threat to society is that some people wrote mean comments about de Chappelle's comedy special yea, essentially what he's talking about. Excuse me again, it's not the it's not the it's not the topic that I care about. The guy has nothing to do with it.

It's just the people who are saying these things because like they're allegedly supposed to be real smart leaders and gatekeepers of society and ship, right, So why would someone like even you know, why would he say something so stupid unless there was like an insidious like intent behind it. It's like it's like the idea of so plastic terrorism, where like someone says something inflammatory that then inspires acts

of violence. They themselves didn't drop, you know, order a drone strike on someone, but then you get the l passa shooter spraying up of spraying up a Walmart because they Latino people because of Donald Trump and so like, I don't think it's quite that insidious with Elon Musk and that like he does, Like it's not like he's going out like you know, kill trans people or anything. But there's there's all there's a couple of steps between

wokeness is wokeness is sucked up. And I don't like the don binary people to like someone taking that and running with it, like well, like you know, I killed everyone at the Trans Day of Remembrance visual because I go biomission though, you know what I'm saying, Like what's happened in the last five six years? That okay? Like Elon, Like, how come Elon Musk didn't come out and say, hey man, whatever Dylan Ruth believed in that ships like a threat

to modern civilization? Like what how we didn't come out after the Apostle shooter. Hey, you know what, whatever the funk that dudes into that ship's a real threat to modern civilization. I think at its core, it's really hateful and divisive and we gotta do something to stuff. You know what I'm saying, so he's like, it's like for me, the omission is is is the thing that's like a

red flag to me. And then also, like you just mentioned, it's really not shocking that like a fucking descendant of apartheid is talking about wokenness is the biggest thread right, and so unlike unlike other major figures, like let's think, for example, politicians who feel beholden to comment on you know, current events, like you know, in the aftermath of like the Charleston you know church shooting or the All Passo shooting,

you know, issuing statements of condemnation or recently talking about a mod are very He's not accountable to anyone, so he can just chime in when it like feeds his ego and just stay out when like I shouldn't have an opinion on that, because I don't because I'm not a good person. Um, just the contrast there's really interesting to me. I just feel that it's the whole My last bit I'll say in it, it's just the whole, like anti woke debate, regardless of how you fall personally

on it. It is like right wing game, like you gotta you know what I'm saying, like at the end of the day, that's what it is. So for me, like people who are on that ship, you're either susceptible to like right wing propaganda or you're like in on it, either one of those things. I can't fuck it, you know what I mean? So I don't funk with us that no, um. And then before we move on to our hopes injurienso me, I gotta stop and address where

we're at with a macron right now, man. I mean, like I said earlier in the show, numbers case numbers are I have shattered you know, previous records, including for earlier this year when we thought we were at the height of like a winter surge. Danny wins, she's gotta she's got covid right to get the sons like I can't. I can't like open my phone without getting a new text message from someone that has gotten covid. Um and show for New Year's Eve this year. Yeah, I'm probably

chilling hard um. And this comes just as uh, the CDC has revised his recommendations with regards to quarantine. Now it's somewhat complicated and tiered based on whether you're symptomatic or not. But effectively shortening the recommended quarantine in time from ten to five days, and it has become very explicit in interviews with senior officials involved in these conversations.

UM information that has come to light about lobbying UM by the CEO of Delta with regards to shortening the quarantine time that this is not a public health based decision. This is based on I mean, by their own word, in their own words and their words of CDC director I think her name is Winsley, Robin Winsley or something or I don't remember. UM that like they are about they're trying to balance public health, the interests of public

health and the interests of not impacting society. Now if they really wanted, if they were, I mean, because on its face, I can sound like, oh, we don't want grocery stores to close because they're understaffed. We don't want the buses to stop running because the bus drivers are sick. It's like, well, y'all could implement mitigation like strategies to make that not a thing. Like in Vietnam, Like they are just like the National Guard or whatever equivalent in Vietnam.

It's just delivering food to people's houses. So they ain't even gotta go the grocery store. Like, if we were really serious about protecting public health, we could. We could. We can mandate testing and every work site that's in person um, all sorts of We can implement another shutdown, surrogate breakers, shot down three weeks or whatever, give everybody

a two dollar check waited out. They literally are just like I mean, the fact that they could and aren't doing that is what shows you that this is more about appeasing uh corporate um gangsters over like actually protecting the same in lives. I mean the ship I'm worried about, and maybe I'm just I'm not supposed to be worried about it because maybe the chances are too low. But it's like, what happens if this ship mutates into something worse?

I think we're on a trajectory for them, but like, what will the what will the anti vactors say that wells never got it when it when it turns into something that like is more deadly, you know, or when

the day comes. The last thing I'll say, I don't want to be a dum or when the day comes, because like I've heard interviews with like I don't know if they're virologists, so they study like you know, you know essentially I've heard I've listened to interviews with scientists talking about the role of deforestation in driving you know, animal to human transmitted pandemics like these that the more that we disturb these ecosystems and things like that are

driven into urban centers where then they take a ship on the you know, sushi that you buy from the market or whatever. Then suddenly we have a pandemic on our hands. What we're really looking in addition to this continuing to mutate is um is parallel pandemics of like COVID not going away, and then the news ship shows them. Yeah, like I'm sorry, but that is like they won't be increasingly likely as like ecosystems get thrown into chaos both by climate change and by man made disruptions in terms

of like development of cities, etcetera. I mean, you know, they should just they should harp on that aspect of

the like push to get people to get vaccinated. That it's like, well, there's the there's the protecting your fellow man ship and all that stuff that you should just like want to do anyway, But like they should really like harp on even if I don't care what percentage, if it's point one one percent, I don't know what the chances, but they should harp like Yo, the more unvaccinated people they're out there, the like war room that

this ship has to turn into something worse. Now. I don't even know if that would help with the way people are active. I don't know all we can do, all we can do to be you know, to transition warmly into the end of the show's it look after each other. You know, ultimately we do have a lot of collective power, um to help keep each other afloat,

you know, mutual aid networks and things like that. It just really stresses the importance of knowing your neighbors, looking out for each other where you can, and strengthening our neighborhoods just through just community outreach, just like knowing who lives around you and supporting them and leaning on them for support when you need it. And um, increasingly it looks like the main way ever gonna get out of this.

In addition to you know, like we're looking forward you I mean, I'm excided from album come out, Um, I'm excited hopefully finish my inssertation and be dumb a fucking school. I hate it. It's so terrible. Um, why am I geting this degree? Um? So all that, and you know, political projects of mine that have seated, you know, bearing fruit, getting this community garden off the ground, hopefully getting a

cure violence esque program implemented Athens. I've talked about a couple of times in the show, but you know, public safety something night. It's a very passionate issue of mine. So addressing some of that through some of the things that I've been working on for the last couple of months. So it's could be a tough year, give me a exciting and rewarding year, though, I think so I feel like someone optimistic, if not a little bit daunted. But

what about you? What's you looking forward to? Um? Oh um, obviously looking forward to putting out the new album. Um if covid, If COVID keep backing up, you know, hopefully it can calm down, because I'm definitely looking forward to touring more. You know, didn't tour, didn't tour the whole even though other people were. But you know, hopefully that can that can be a possibility next year. And um, I'm looking forward to doing more work with my local

anti fascist groups and movements around. Um, that's probably it's probably like the topic of like most concerned to me right now at this point in my life. So yeah, I'm looking forward to getting more involved in that. So, you know, anti fascism and rap music sounds like a

good way. It sounds like some good goals for two for me, So that's what I'm about speaking of Next week, we are after you guys come back from celebrating New Year's and everything, we are going to be recapping the events on the anniversary of January six, and we're gonna be talking with known anti fascist Christopher Goldsmith about some of the things that he does to prevent our veterans from being seduced into right wing extremist groups. But yeah,

thanks so much for listening this year. We'll see you in the next one. And with that, yall want to want you want to wrap a limit? Yeah, this is gonna be our last raps one for the show. So we gotta kick it off right, all right, I gotta listen to Vocal Cards, get everything loose. You ready, Let's hit it all right, Joe, Let's do it. Oh uh huh uh huh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, picture perfect. I'm paint the perfect picture. These niggas thrown the capitol. They

probably work with hit. Let's spell my name with double capitals to put it on a scripture. I need you will to go and spare point like I'm the witch of the pandemic hit and everyone's grandpap the shelter, and then we thought it was over, and then we ran the delta record, heat wave, ice caps im and melt you. The social contracts a bad hand that you dealta us, the whole system fun. You really need of a failsafe. Democrats suck. These niggas can't even fail straight. I see

the world through some bloodshot eyes. And you might call him Antifa, but that's just my guys, real ship. Take a load office for the new year, Go up to a party and maybe get you a few beers. Pull some liking out for your home. Uson she had a few tears Lingua franca h two whol you know my cup's here, I'm dope knife. We are waiting on reparations the year. Happy New Year. Everybody listen to Waiting on Reparations on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts,