Conspiracy! The Show The FBI and Black Musicians (Conspiracy! The Show Legacy Collection)

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Hey everybody, this is Adam host
of the podcast, you’re about to

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listen to just a heads up.
This is another episode from the

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conspiracy, the show archives.
We originally recorded this in

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March, 2018 way before, David
Spade murdered Connor, this

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episode is about the FBI and
they’re notoriously Shady

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treatment of black musicians.
I decided to release it this

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week for a couple of reasons.
One, we talked a little bit in

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this episode about the book
drugs As Weapons against us.

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The CIA war on leftist
musicians, by John potash, we’ve

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talked about that book.
A bunch on this podcast,

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actually.
And next week, John will be a

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guest on the podcast, so be on
the lookout for that.

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Also, we kick off this episode
talking about Meek Mill.

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He’s a rapper FYI.
And there’s a documentary about

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the very thing.
We mention about him on this

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show, coming out later this
week, it’s called free me.

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And you should for sure, watch
it.

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But until all that happens
travel back in time to March

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2018, and listen to Connor.
And I talked about the FBI and

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black musicians.
Such fun times.

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Thanks everybody.
We love you.

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Let’s get to the show.
Welcome to conspiracy the show

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with your host, Adam Todd Brown
and Connor mcspadden.

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So all right, I guess we’ll
start over.

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Hey everybody, welcome.
The conspiracy the show.

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I’m Adam Todd Brown.
I’m Connor mcspadden, we

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definitely didn’t just do that
already.

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Yeah, we’re the renovations here
at the unpop studio.

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Have have thrown a little monkey
wrench into the opening, but

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here we are, they are wreaking
some Havoc but we’re power and

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through.
How’s it going, man?

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Going all right.
Yeah, tired, which is the best

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way to discuss conspiracy
theories I think is after a long

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night.
Oh yeah, for sure.

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I think by the time this goes up
you are Are on the road I think

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so.
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I’ll probably yeah, I’ll
probably will be very close to

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it.
So it’ll go up when I’m sleeping

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on a Greyhound bus with Keith
carry us just do the eating like

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gas station protein bars.
I stole in the in the middle of

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nowhere.
I’ll touring is fun.

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It’s a good time man.
Yeah, I had to take a nine hour

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bus ride somehow from
Minneapolis to Chicago, it took

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nine hours.
Oh overnight after I had a show

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in Minneapolis and man, I
smelled so Add.

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Oh yeah.
About halfway through that bus

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trip.
I was, I felt like a real

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disservice to the people around
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Yeah, I’ve taken some pretty
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A Greyhounds, the the worst on
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One I took was 24 hours to
Portland both ways.

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Wow.
I fucking eye on the way back

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this dude gets on and he’s
wearing like just like he just

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looks like a pharaoh human being
and he’s got a box of hammers

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like a cardboard box, full of
liquor and Hammers and he just

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starts shooting placing the
Hammers around his.

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Area like one of the window.
He’s got one in the cup holders,

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got one of the seeds, you know,
and he just like gets off and

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doesn’t get back on.
And it was like, does anyone

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know where he went?
And I was like, I went that way

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but I’m not going to tell him
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I don’t exactly this dude and he
goes in his boxers like yeah,

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this guy had like a little like
plastic jug of, you know, the

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Knob Creek, whiskey or whatever.
And he just like takes this box

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of hammers and fucking lose and
just throws it out.

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And really, all right to toot on
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I did another one the best one
ever is when this guy he’s kind

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of like he’s kind of slow.
S like he wasn’t like he was

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just kind of like his like a
dumb guy and he like, he’s like

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getting off and he’s got like 20
bucks for food and like we got

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off at this like little travel
plaza and there’s like a

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McDonald’s in a Subway and I
Taco Bell, you know, and a

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Checkers or whatever.
And he’s looking at, he’s like

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overwhelmed by the embarrassment
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He’s like, do I fucking do?
I, what do I do?

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And he can’t decide where to
eat, and he’s like, thinking

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about it and talking out loud to
himself about it for like 10

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minutes.
While everyone’s like getting

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off and going and we’ll all get
food, get back in the bus, he’s

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sitting near me and again, he’s
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Anyway, I wasn’t we know where
he went and I feel kind of bad.

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I was like, yeah, I don’t know
he’s getting food or whatever

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they like, we gotta go.
I mean, we have to leave.

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So we pull out into the street
and then he comes running up

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with two hot dogs and then he’s
running and, as he’s right, he’s

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running in front of the bus in
traffic, trying to stop it, and

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get back on.
And as he’s running, and banging

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on the bus with his hot dogs,
his pants fall down, he’s just

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like pants lives with to, he
drops like one of the hot dogs,

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you know.
He’s, he’s just like God the way

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they fuckin open the door,
they’re like, dude, you can’t be

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doing that.
And you look a little He’s

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trying to get his eyes.
I can check it was fucking is

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sad man.
I was I was on one and in

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Oklahoma that had fucking
straight up neo-nazis on the

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bus.
It was like a very mixed bus

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just like, you know, like the
culturally and I like there’s a

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little bit of everybody.
But there was a, a contingent of

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straight-up Nazis on the bus and
Ice.

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Yeah.
They were, they were pretty

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close to me and they just yeah,
yeah, touring is always tense,

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but at least we’re not black.
Positions tour and in the 40s

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and 50s Connor.
Also, that’s what this episode

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is about, what a fucking great
segue.

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That was that was, that is that,
as you really put in your 10,000

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hours of podcast, I didn’t even
write that down.

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You didn’t fucking just rip that
shit.

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Yeah, that just came to wine.
We usually prescript the entire

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show and then I’d yeah.
And I just write three words of

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Alex Jones and then you know,
asterisk Trails off

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half-heartedly asterisk.
You know.

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Yeah.
I don’t know if people realize

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that but it’s true.
Yeah, this is it’s not only the

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Research.
But the rehearsal process takes

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weeks.
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Yeah.
It’s like an episode of SNL but

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harder.
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I can’t believe it’s only five
dollars a month.

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I mean, I’m really, really
killing myself doing this.

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Yeah.
It’s, it’s a lot of fucking work

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and we should stop probably the
let’s power on through this

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episode of me.
Nothing else.

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You’ll get to know what’s going
on with Meek Mill.

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I’m all right.
Exactly segue.

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That shit right back in.
And by the way, welcome to music

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month, yeah, it’s was going to
be Courtney Love month, but

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yeah, we check it out.
But we do have to Courtney Love

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related episodes.
Coming soon.

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We got Courtney.
Courtney.

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Love Fortnight.
Yes with special guest.

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Travis Clark from the heart
shaped pod.

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Yeah, baby cast.
So let’s talk about the FBI in

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black musicians.
Yeah, let’s do some more light

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fun.
This as you reference not too

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long ago, you mentioned Meek
Mill.

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This was going to be an episode
just about freeing Meek Mill.

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Yeah.
Because there it’s not.

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The problem is, it’s not even a
conspiracy.

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What’s happening to him?
Oh no.

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It’s just one person who has the
judge in his case, who’s a

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woman?
I forget her name but she is

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really making his life.
Hell yeah, the he’s in prison

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right now.
I think he’s gotta judge Drake.

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I think he’s got like four years
and she sentenced him to four

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years in prison.
Even though the prosecution and

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his probation officer both
recommended no jail time and And

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there’s all these allegations
that she’s been pressuring him

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to sign with a local
Philadelphia Music.

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Manager named Charlie Mac and
leave Roc-A-Fella Records.

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And she also at one point
suggested, he do a cover of on

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bended knee by Boys to Men and
give her a shout out at the end.

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This is so this is like fucking
like that movie where she

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kidnaps the writer.
The Stephen King book kind of

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yeah, like that.
The rapper where they’re just

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like, oh I got you under my
thumb, here.

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I really want to hear you do
this work with this record label

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and somehow she’s been getting
away with it for years.

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Like I said, book called misery
misery.

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Yeah.
Yeah, misery.

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Yes, on the plus side.
It’s been a while since we had a

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good rap album recorded over the
phone.

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That’s true.
Not since the No Limit days.

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Yeah.
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We had a really quality album.
Yeah, those are just from the

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jailhouse.
That’s always fucking great

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Jack.
I think that’s what they call

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the phone in prison.
Oh, the Jack, I think so.

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Okay, something like that.
I’ve never been to prison, but

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I’ve listened to my rap songs.
Hey, Adam, you wife’s under Jack

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playing checkers that how prison
phones work people call you?

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I think so.
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I think it’s like being at a bar
in the 80s where it’s just like,

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hey, hey Peter, you fucking your
daughter is on the line.

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Hey, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

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I just left.
So.

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Yeah, we were we were going to
talk about Meek Mill but I don’t

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think there’s enough there for
an entire Episode.

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But people should definitely
look into that case because it

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is kind of a travesty of Justice
Ivory, Philip.

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Yeah, never heard of Meek Mill
song and all I know of him is

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the Drake thing.
And Drake, just dominating him

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via Twitter and diss tracks, but
it it’s a crazy case and he

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probably should not be in
prison.

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No, no, I like some Meek Mill
tune.

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So I mean there is one that
they’ll used to play at Old Navy

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when we were stocking sure
morning, and Another funnier

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than just like a bunch of Old
Navy employees, at five in the

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morning.
Getting turnt up to like dreams

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in handcuffs or whatever.
That’s called that I’m picked.

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Yeah, that should be an Old Navy
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Yeah.
I was like, why don’t we play

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this in the store during
business hours?

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I think this would be a better
Vibe because it’s just like soft

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rock.
It’s just how you move khakis.

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It’s like the mathematically,
least noticeable, music that

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they’ve got cooked up for Old
Navy radio, you know.

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Yeah, and the the way, One
really clear indication that

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what’s happening to Meek Mill is
a travesty of justice is the FBI

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launched.
An investigation on his behalf.

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Wow, which we’re getting close
of turned.

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That is, we are going to get
into the history of the FBI and

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black musicians and it is rarely
them intervening on behalf of

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someone else.
Yeah, it’s usually them going.

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Uh-oh, that black guy selling
records.

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Let’s start following him.
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So let’s get into some of the
more famous example and but also

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there is the one other really
notable instance that we talked

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about previously which was the
FBI investigating Tupac and

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Eazy-E for possibly having been
the target of extortion plots by

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the Jewish Defense League, which
I think we talked about that on

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an episode of this show.
If not, we definitely should.

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I mean that sounds like
something that we would have

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time.
I know we talked about again.

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How they got tangled up with the
Jewish Defense League?

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I mean, was that like a feather
manager?

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The FBI Files make it seem like
Suge Knight was working with the

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Jewish Defense League man.
Just like the Suge Knight, like

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I want to, I just wish I could
be a fly on the wall and like

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one of the Suge Knight Legion of
Doom meetings, where he’s just

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like, all right, I’ve got the
Jewish defense league and and

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like, you know the lauds yeah
the Bloods we’ve got waste

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management for greater Anto.
And yeah, we’re going to take

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down, you know, I don’t know
what’s up, dude.

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I can’t think of it.
I’m trying to who’s the blow.

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The whistle guy too short, but
it’s too short.

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Yeah, there we go.
I got it.

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I think I saw recently that like
Ace like sexual misconduct

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allegations came out against too
short and it’s like, no really.

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Have you ever every song he’s
ever released?

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Do you know what is actually
working?

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There it is.
Because his trademark is just

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Drawing out the word bitch.
Yeah, he did it.

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He hopped on the my buddy Jamal
Johnson is a rapper and he did a

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song with a guy and then he they
cut him off and they put two

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short on the remix and I was
like well that’s cool.

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I mean if you’re going to be

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replaced by anyone, yeah
replaced by a legend who can

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barely wrap.
I just like the degrees of

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separation between myself and
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until then the the biggest Kashi
I had was opening for Afroman

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one time in Corona.
Well, now, what that also means

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is, I’m sure the FBI has looked
into Too Short, which means

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they’ve probably by the, the two
or three hop method, the

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surveillance communities use,
they probably looked into you

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and me, oh, I had it.
I had a thing.

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Come up.
We’re still like, so there’s a,

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there’s like some kind of
writing get like, you know, no

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Trump did the Gridiron dinner.
And a buddy of mine was working

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for another guy that was going
to write jokes form for the

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Gridiron dinner and he was like,
would you want to do it?

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You know, they’re going.
Have to do a full background,

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check on you and if the end if
you pass, they’ll hang up and

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you can just send in some jokes
you might use something.

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You get whatever x amount of
dollars and I was like, yeah,

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sure.
Because I would love to just

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send in the worst possible
jokes.

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Oh yeah, yeah.
And just try to set them up the

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bomb, hey buddy, but I got no
email.

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So I assume I did, I guess I
didn’t pass the background

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check, but there’s a few days
where it’s like, it’s funny

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knowing that the FBI is like,
literally looking at my tweets

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right now or maybe they didn’t
even go that far.

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I have no idea.
But yeah, I was I was contacted

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about this and I was like Like
oh, of course.

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And if I get to meet, oh yeah.
Yeah, kiwi.

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And me and Keith.
The talking about this is like,

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oh, we got to meet him out for
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Like like, do like nut nut, nut
scrape, do you know with the the

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handshake and then just give him
like a big ball.

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Sweat handshake.
Yeah, you have to.

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You have to.
Yeah.

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Hypothetically, that was all a
joke.

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I’m not trying to contaminate
the president with my nuts.

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So let’s talk about what I love
about the list of musicians were

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going to go through that.
The FBI has opened files on in

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the Past.
There’s some of the most

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innocuousness names you can
imagine.

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Oh, yeah.
Starting with Nat King Cole.

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Oh, the the evil Nat King Cole,
and I mean, he had one kind of

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sexually.
Suggestive number about it being

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cold outside and other than that
seems to be pretty upstanding

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citizen.
And it’s worth noting that most

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of these investigations happened
as part of the cointelpro

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program, which is a really
infamous FBI program where they

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just kind of monitored everybody
who seem like they might ever

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get into any kind of leftist
related shit.

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Yeah.
In this country.

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It kind of sounds like a company
that would make Mega Bloks go

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and tell myself.
Yeah, yeah kinda.

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We could do probably four
episodes on cointelpro.

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It’s basically the MKUltra of
surveillance.

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Yeah, it was a massive blow,
your photographs near a donkey.

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That means you’re a communist,
all right, and they would follow

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people for Like the FBI must
have just had unlimited

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resources back in the day.
So it’s one of those certain

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things where you just have a
blank check like yeah.

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If it’s like for under the guise
of National Security.

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They’re just like well yeah I
mean I don’t know if you play

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This Record backwards, he’s
telling you to like re people.

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So we got to go.
We got to spend a trillion

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dollars and get a bunch of dudes
with like square-headed fucking

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haircuts.
To be lugging looks like he’s

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having an affair or whatever the
fuck it is.

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Yeah so yeah, Nat King Cole was
Was one of the people go.

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And one thing I left about
cointelpro in 1964, they mailed

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Martin Luther.
King jr.

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A letter and suggested, he
commit suicide.

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So that’s what kind of
government program were dealing

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with.
This is not a group that

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intervenes to make sure Suge
Knight’s not jabbing, black

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musicians with AIDS needles.
Yeah, they are.

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They’re there to watch and try
to bring people down.

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If they can.
So Nat King Cole, there’s a 1957

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I file that includes a memo
written directly to J Edgar

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Hoover.
And interestingly enough, it’s

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written by Mark felt who was
deep throat.

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Yeah.
In the the Watergate scandal,

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which we found out years and
years later and he sends this

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memo to J Edgar Hoover
basically.

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Saying, I met with one of my top
informants and he told me, quote

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his most pressing problem.
At the moment is Nat King Cole

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who is presently.
The Featured attraction at the

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Sands Hotel roof and now that’s
what I mean by unlimited

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resources.
Like we have so many people in

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our pocket in the surveillance
community that they’re just like

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watching Nat King Cole like
yeah, I bet they’ll be fine.

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If I dedicate some time to this,
if you’re paranoid enough, you

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can look at anybody and decide
that they’re a part of some

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conspiracy.
Yeah, I mean, if this is your

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job to just find something after
a, while of not finding

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something, you’re just going to
make something right?

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You’re just gonna be like, I
don’t know, I don’t trust him.

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Like what’s, it’s like people
say if you follow, if a cop

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follows a car long enough,
they’ll find a reason to pull it

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over.
Yeah.

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Like any minor thing and but we
find out from the FBI files that

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what they were concerned about
when it came to Matt King Cole.

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Was that the hotel?
He was performing at in Vegas.

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Had recently started letting
black musicians, stay in the

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same Suites as white musicians.
It’s so they had become

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desegregated and this is why the
FBI like for them was up in arms

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because at the time, segregation
was the way America worked.

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Yeah.
It’s like Eeyore.

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It’s so stupid.
Like you’re the headliner of

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this residency in Vegas and
you’re like, but you gotta, you

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gotta stay in the the East wing
of.

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Yeah I imagine that it like it
had to have been like that for

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years and years and years before
that.

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Yeah, that’s an it’s not like
Nat King.

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Cole was the first really Miss
Black musician.

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So, think of all the names that
probably had to sleep in a

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fucking Boiler Room.
Yeah, they’re like thinking that

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everybody going back to a
cotton. 80 someone throws a bag

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over their head and carries them
back down to the basement.

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All some fat prop comic is just
like up in a penthouse doing

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blow and he’s just like is the
life.

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Fuck the 50s man.
Yeah.

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What a horrible time and so
yeah.

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That was it seems like the FBI
is just kind of an Agent of not

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change.
Yeah, like, their main role in

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society is to make sure America
stays exactly as it is.

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Sometimes they win, and
sometimes they lose, and they

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adapt, but that always seems to
be their main goal is making

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sure everything stays as it is.
Yeah, kind of, I mean, it might

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be different now.
I mean it’s I’m sure these are

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way different times for the FBI.
Yeah, have The president being

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in such an adversarial position,
I mean, I imagine is a position.

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It’s a situation where they’re
like, let’s hold on to the level

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of Independence and power we
have and then we see an opening.

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Let’s try to you know, Slide the
Patriot Act under the door and

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right.
Hmm.

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Come on yeah.
Because they hadn’t have let you

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hold onto that, you know, and
wait for another opportunity.

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Yeah.
Yeah, it’s it’s it’s creepy.

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But it also makes me kind of
want to work for the FBI.

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Yeah.
Yeah, like there’s never been a

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news.
Okay, they wanted the FBI.

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You got everybody’s emails who’s
your?

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Who’s your guilty pleasure?
Like, who are you just like, I

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want to see what share is like
Googling, you know.

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Like who do you look for?
Oh, I mean Trump obviously, but,

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I don’t know.
I’d like to see what Wilmer

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valderramas up to like.
Yeah.

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Just he just fucks everyone in
Hollywood those here.

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And I want to know why.
Oh yeah.

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You just want to read it.
What body you want to read his

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text messages and see what sure
do what his game is.

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Like, I want to see what he’s
saying to these women to bridge

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the gap between That 70s Show
and now when he’s done

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absolutely nothing.
But I mean, I guess you kind of

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hasn’t really had that big
thing.

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Yeah, I mean he’s a handsome,
dude, he’s looking guy.

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I hope denying that for me, I
think it’s like I want to read

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all of Glenn Danzig, so Yelp
reviews, I want to find out what

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he’s up to on PornHub.
Okay?

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I wanna see.
I wanna see you like Groupons.

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He’s purchasing, yeah.
I I’d be down to see anyone’s

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porn history.
Oh yeah, that would be fine with

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me.
And I’m down with anyone seeing

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my internet porn history because
I don’t really fuck with

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internet porn.
I know, I was shocked to find

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this out.
I’m pretty open about my, my

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probably too open about my the
porn that I watch on mean, boys.

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And yeah, I’ll get tweets.
Sometimes we like, how the fuck

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did you oh?
That’s right.

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Yeah, our people will try to
make fun of me and I was like, I

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told you like when it’s yeah,
this is nice.

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I didn’t discover a secret here.
That’s why I was when I was

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writing for Cracked.
I was so open about writing

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about really awful things.
I’ve done like smoking crack.

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Oh yeah.
I’m not gonna have someone

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fucking find that out and reveal
it. 10 years later and try to

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embarrass me fuck that.
Oh yeah that’s how it goes.

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Just have no no no siree.
Fuck it.

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Yeah yeah.
So let’s talk about another

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really dangerous threatening
legendarily, menacing musician.

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That the FBI followed.
And that’s Louis Armstrong.

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Oh yeah, man, the guy who sang,
What a A wonderful world.

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What’s he hiding in those
cheeks?

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Probably refugees.
He for most of his career was

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completely.
Apolitical didn’t dabble in

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politics didn’t speak out about
it, but when the Brown versus

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Board of Education thing
happened, which was the big

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lawsuit about desegregation and
eventually like the military

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gets called in it was a whole
thing.

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Yeah he said this to a reporter
in the midst of that it’s

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getting almost so bad a colored
man.

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Hasn’t got any country and then
he also criticized Eisenhower

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for being two-faced and having
no guts harsh words, very harsh.

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We faced no guts.
Yeah, I’ve said worst things

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about people that have done
nothing exactly.

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But that was enough to get the
FBI on his tail.

433
00:22:15,500 –> 00:22:19,400
He had also at this point agreed
to tour, the Soviet Union, as a

434
00:22:19,400 –> 00:22:21,800
cultural Ambassador for the
United States.

435
00:22:21,800 –> 00:22:23,900
Yeah.
And Backed out of that.

436
00:22:23,900 –> 00:22:26,500
This is another quote, the way.
They’re treating, my people in

437
00:22:26,500 –> 00:22:29,800
the South, the government can go
to hell.

438
00:22:29,900 –> 00:22:30,800
Oh man.
You did.

439
00:22:30,900 –> 00:22:34,000
I’ll tell you what the the
president can kick rocks.

440
00:22:34,000 –> 00:22:36,700
Whoa.
Uh, agent of the st.

441
00:22:37,400 –> 00:22:41,700
Louie, Louie look tone it down
after eating my people in the

442
00:22:41,700 –> 00:22:45,700
South as he dreams of greed.
That’s why they never get there,

443
00:22:45,700 –> 00:22:47,200
but it’s still fun to do, you
know?

444
00:22:47,200 –> 00:22:49,400
Yeah, super fun, and I hate a
lot.

445
00:22:49,500 –> 00:22:53,400
I’ve mentioned on this show
before that I can only Listen to

446
00:22:53,400 –> 00:22:55,700
that song.
If it’s accompanied by scenes of

447
00:22:55,700 –> 00:22:57,700
utter Devastation and
destruction.

448
00:22:57,700 –> 00:23:00,200
Oh yeah.
Like anytime I see it over

449
00:23:00,200 –> 00:23:02,800
sentimental shit I’m like fuck
you, fuck up.

450
00:23:02,800 –> 00:23:05,500
What a lazy choice but want to
see like Fukushima?

451
00:23:05,500 –> 00:23:08,400
Like yeah and shit like that.
Every time there’s famine under

452
00:23:08,400 –> 00:23:10,400
that I’m like, yep, that’s the
good choice.

453
00:23:10,400 –> 00:23:12,800
See I could like I like the Joey
Ramone version is kid.

454
00:23:13,800 –> 00:23:15,800
Yeah, yeah.
That’s an interesting cover.

455
00:23:15,800 –> 00:23:16,800
So fun one.
That’s a good.

456
00:23:16,800 –> 00:23:21,100
That’s a good song for a movie.
Yeah so the the FBI

457
00:23:21,100 –> 00:23:25,000
interestingly enough didn’t I
even have to investigate Louis

458
00:23:25,000 –> 00:23:28,700
Armstrong for doing this because
according to their files, as

459
00:23:28,700 –> 00:23:30,800
soon as it happened, he was
speaking to a local news

460
00:23:30,800 –> 00:23:34,500
reporter and this is the 40s or
50s or I think it was 50s.

461
00:23:34,700 –> 00:23:36,800
Yeah.
And he was speaking to a local

462
00:23:36,800 –> 00:23:40,200
news reporter and this was way
pre-internet obviously.

463
00:23:40,500 –> 00:23:45,200
So as soon as this news story
hits the local press people

464
00:23:45,200 –> 00:23:48,800
start clipping, clipping it out
of the newspaper and just

465
00:23:48,800 –> 00:23:52,100
mailing it to the FBI where
these nerds.

466
00:23:52,100 –> 00:23:55,100
I fucking hate you.
Nerds that just like like oh

467
00:23:55,100 –> 00:23:59,200
like I’m gonna find FCC
violations and say yeah, men

468
00:23:59,200 –> 00:24:02,500
like oh they said they said
jackass but it wasn’t clearly

469
00:24:02,500 –> 00:24:04,900
referring to a donkey.
So you better find K right like

470
00:24:05,000 –> 00:24:07,900
you fucking nerds with nothing
better to do than just but like

471
00:24:07,900 –> 00:24:10,300
do the government’s job for them
the thing that you’re supposed

472
00:24:10,300 –> 00:24:12,500
to be paying them to do or what
did this to you think they

473
00:24:12,500 –> 00:24:16,000
shouldn’t even be doing and you
just clipping newspapers to get

474
00:24:16,000 –> 00:24:18,300
with these?
It’s like you get a break on

475
00:24:18,300 –> 00:24:20,700
your taxes.
Every time you out a black

476
00:24:20,700 –> 00:24:24,100
musician for having an opinion,
you don’t get Like a voucher or

477
00:24:24,100 –> 00:24:26,800
rebate, you don’t know that the
troops are going to protect your

478
00:24:26,800 –> 00:24:29,300
house extra hard.
It’s not stupid.

479
00:24:29,400 –> 00:24:33,200
Yeah, it’s crazy stupid.
But that was the fucking climate

480
00:24:33,200 –> 00:24:36,900
back, then they said, even some
of the letters went so far as to

481
00:24:36,900 –> 00:24:40,100
say, hey, this guy might be a
communist, just because he was

482
00:24:40,100 –> 00:24:43,200
upset that the government didn’t
want to let black kids into the

483
00:24:43,200 –> 00:24:44,800
same school.
As white kids, singing about a

484
00:24:44,808 –> 00:24:46,300
better world.
You gotta be a couple.

485
00:24:46,300 –> 00:24:50,000
Yeah, exactly.
So what’s really interesting

486
00:24:50,000 –> 00:24:53,500
about this is we mentioned that
Louis Armstrong was Mostly.

487
00:24:53,700 –> 00:24:57,200
Just not political for the
entirety of his career.

488
00:24:57,300 –> 00:25:00,100
Yeah.
But at the time this incident

489
00:25:00,100 –> 00:25:05,300
happened, the FBI had already
been following him for 10 years.

490
00:25:05,400 –> 00:25:07,200
What?
They’ve been keeping tabs on

491
00:25:07,200 –> 00:25:09,400
him.
They had a huge file built up.

492
00:25:09,500 –> 00:25:12,800
Just basically on the grounds
that he was a popular black

493
00:25:12,800 –> 00:25:17,200
musician and in a position that
he could possibly at some point

494
00:25:17,200 –> 00:25:22,000
start influencing people for the
better or something like that.

495
00:25:22,100 –> 00:25:23,600
Yeah.
And Were like, oh, he’s got a

496
00:25:23,600 –> 00:25:26,500
platform.
Yeah, they’re like, keep an eye

497
00:25:26,500 –> 00:25:29,100
on this one.
Yeah, it’s so fucking weird.

498
00:25:29,300 –> 00:25:32,100
I mean, it’s not weird.
Like I wonder what it was.

499
00:25:32,900 –> 00:25:36,400
Who knows.
Duke Ellington, another.

500
00:25:36,600 –> 00:25:40,100
I’ve never a musician.
I’ve never associated with

501
00:25:40,400 –> 00:25:43,000
government is imagining
debauchery Reserve.

502
00:25:43,600 –> 00:25:49,600
Yeah, there’s what’s interesting
about this and this is from an

503
00:25:49,600 –> 00:25:52,500
article on.
It’s a really a fascinating

504
00:25:52,500 –> 00:25:55,400
article.
On the Jazz times, yeah, called

505
00:25:55,400 –> 00:26:00,300
the FBI’s disturbing history of
surveilling black musicians or

506
00:26:00,300 –> 00:26:01,800
something like that.
Everyone should go read it

507
00:26:01,800 –> 00:26:07,100
because it’s it covers a lot of
ground as far as the FBI tailing

508
00:26:07,200 –> 00:26:12,100
Jazz musicians in the 40s and
50s and they point out that the

509
00:26:12,100 –> 00:26:17,900
Duke Ellington FBI file is like
a Beat by beat alternate history

510
00:26:17,900 –> 00:26:21,800
of his life because it’s starts
in 1938.

511
00:26:21,800 –> 00:26:26,600
Which that Year, he met fellow
musician, Billy strayhorn, which

512
00:26:26,600 –> 00:26:31,200
is a historic moment in his
progression as a musician and

513
00:26:31,200 –> 00:26:33,900
that’s what most historians
would note about.

514
00:26:33,900 –> 00:26:37,700
That year, the FBI file only
notes that that year.

515
00:26:37,900 –> 00:26:42,000
He performed for the all Harlem
youth conference a progressive

516
00:26:42,000 –> 00:26:45,400
Gathering that was also attended
by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt

517
00:26:46,100 –> 00:26:52,100
in night Troublemaker exactly in
1943 that I would told him

518
00:26:52,100 –> 00:26:53,900
speaking of first.
Ever told a story about my

519
00:26:53,900 –> 00:26:55,900
magician friend and Michelle
Obama.

520
00:26:56,000 –> 00:26:59,000
No, please do.
I’ve of a magician buddy.

521
00:26:59,000 –> 00:27:03,700
I won’t name him, but he so, you
know, it’s a good story.

522
00:27:03,700 –> 00:27:07,700
Shameful thing being a magician.
Yeah, you know, I mean, maybe I

523
00:27:07,708 –> 00:27:09,100
should, I don’t have a shot, I
don’t know you.

524
00:27:09,100 –> 00:27:10,700
I don’t know how public he is
with his story.

525
00:27:10,700 –> 00:27:14,600
He told me and he’s like, okay,
in the morning of this one day.

526
00:27:14,600 –> 00:27:15,800
This one day, we’re in the
morning.

527
00:27:15,800 –> 00:27:19,700
He performed for this Gathering
of like adult babies, like, like

528
00:27:19,700 –> 00:27:22,100
grown-ups that, like, just like
dress, like in diapers, and

529
00:27:22,100 –> 00:27:24,900
yeah, Like fucking like, you
know, they wanted to watch a

530
00:27:24,900 –> 00:27:27,300
magic show and they’re
pretending to react like kids

531
00:27:27,300 –> 00:27:29,400
and then they like, fuck and
stuff, right?

532
00:27:29,400 –> 00:27:32,500
Very creepy, he tells me that
the guy who paid him literally

533
00:27:32,500 –> 00:27:36,000
shit his pants while he was
paying him for the gig, all

534
00:27:36,000 –> 00:27:38,300
right?
And then later that evening, he

535
00:27:38,300 –> 00:27:41,300
performs at a benefit in the
Hollywood Hills attended by

536
00:27:41,300 –> 00:27:44,600
Michelle Obama and the same
24-hour period.

537
00:27:44,600 –> 00:27:49,700
The same day the same Sunrise.
He fucking a man who shit

538
00:27:49,700 –> 00:27:52,200
himself while handing him the
check and the first lady of the

539
00:27:52,200 –> 00:27:55,800
United States.
That is insane and that’s that’s

540
00:27:55,800 –> 00:27:57,500
that’s Showbiz.
Folks I want to meet that guy

541
00:27:57,500 –> 00:28:02,700
now, he’s a great dude.
So also in 1943, going back to

542
00:28:02,700 –> 00:28:05,900
Duke, Ellington’s alternate
timeline, this is the year, he

543
00:28:05,900 –> 00:28:10,400
forms one of the most famous
iterations of his band and it’s

544
00:28:10,400 –> 00:28:14,400
a really historic year for him.
And the only thing in his FBI

545
00:28:14,400 –> 00:28:18,500
file for that year, he appeared
at a tribute to negro servicemen

546
00:28:18,500 –> 00:28:22,400
concert how dare you?
Yeah, we’re going to try to get

547
00:28:22,400 –> 00:28:25,300
the tusks.
The Airmen, some Tylenol, you

548
00:28:25,300 –> 00:28:31,500
know, and then like the next
year, which was the year, one of

549
00:28:31,500 –> 00:28:34,900
his most famous albums was
released the FBI file notes.

550
00:28:34,900 –> 00:28:39,200
That he performed at a benefit
to ban poll taxes, which I want

551
00:28:39,200 –> 00:28:41,300
to look into these more.
They were actually your dick if

552
00:28:41,300 –> 00:28:44,600
it’s above 70, right?
Come on.

553
00:28:45,500 –> 00:28:50,000
Hey, poll taxes were apparently
a surcharge that local

554
00:28:50,000 –> 00:28:52,800
communities would use to keep
black people.

555
00:28:52,900 –> 00:28:56,000
So from voting doesn’t sound
like something that Amir yeah.

556
00:28:56,100 –> 00:28:59,500
That sounds like present
conspiracy theory nonsense to

557
00:28:59,500 –> 00:29:00,300
me.
Yeah.

558
00:29:00,700 –> 00:29:06,900
And so he performs at a benefit
to ban those and the FBI doesn’t

559
00:29:06,900 –> 00:29:14,200
like that and at 11 point in
Duke, Ellington’s career, he’s

560
00:29:14,200 –> 00:29:19,300
asked by an interviewer why he
never did anything in the name

561
00:29:19,300 –> 00:29:21,600
of civil rights or social
justice.

562
00:29:21,900 –> 00:29:25,100
And he got really angry, In
walked out of the room and then

563
00:29:25,100 –> 00:29:27,600
came back and was like, I’ve
done all of these things.

564
00:29:27,600 –> 00:29:32,300
I do all these benefit concerts
I’ve done so much and it’s, I

565
00:29:32,300 –> 00:29:35,200
guess not ironic.
It’s fitting that the only

566
00:29:35,200 –> 00:29:37,700
people paying attention were the
FBI.

567
00:29:37,800 –> 00:29:39,400
Yeah.
Like they have a detailed

568
00:29:39,400 –> 00:29:43,700
history of all his activism and
at the end of his career, black

569
00:29:43,700 –> 00:29:46,900
people are like, why didn’t you
do anything and he’s like, what

570
00:29:46,900 –> 00:29:48,300
the fuck happened?
White people.

571
00:29:48,300 –> 00:29:51,800
That hate me noticed.
Yeah, I fucking I would love to

572
00:29:51,800 –> 00:29:54,700
see this for anything.
Famous person or anything like,

573
00:29:54,700 –> 00:29:58,400
you know, of the in 2008, you
know, 2006.

574
00:29:58,400 –> 00:30:01,400
I’m ty Brown started working for
cracked and after he’d smoked

575
00:30:01,400 –> 00:30:04,500
crack, you know, just like every
everything that like, you know,

576
00:30:04,600 –> 00:30:07,700
every like no like, you know,
laughter, you know, do it with

577
00:30:07,700 –> 00:30:09,900
the Kemal nanjiani.
It was was nominated for

578
00:30:09,900 –> 00:30:13,300
another, the same year that he,
you know, but to kill the can’t

579
00:30:13,300 –> 00:30:17,800
like just never like, yeah.
I wonder what have been funnier

580
00:30:17,800 –> 00:30:20,500
with examples but, you know, I
wonder how many people we know

581
00:30:20,500 –> 00:30:24,300
that have FBI Files.
No man and on them.

582
00:30:24,400 –> 00:30:28,600
I wonder I still wonder Jeff.
Ross has played golf with Trump

583
00:30:28,600 –> 00:30:30,700
so someone’s definitely like
Googled him.

584
00:30:30,800 –> 00:30:35,500
Yeah and he’ll remember my name
like 85% of the time so I don’t

585
00:30:35,500 –> 00:30:37,500
know if I could say I know him
right.

586
00:30:37,500 –> 00:30:40,700
Who may be some of the fucking
cracked guys.

587
00:30:41,000 –> 00:30:44,800
Yeah I could definitely see them
being like they’re trying to Red

588
00:30:44,800 –> 00:30:46,600
Pill.
These kids into being communists

589
00:30:46,600 –> 00:30:48,800
with yeah picture-based
listicles.

590
00:30:48,800 –> 00:30:50,600
Maybe me, I don’t know, that
would be cool.

591
00:30:50,600 –> 00:30:53,800
I want to see it.
Yeah dude. 10 Ten years on FBI,

592
00:30:55,300 –> 00:30:57,200
the official sponsor of
conspiracy the show.

593
00:30:57,200 –> 00:30:58,900
Ya, how long do I have to wait
before?

594
00:30:58,900 –> 00:31:01,400
I can just file a Freedom of
Information Act and request

595
00:31:01,400 –> 00:31:02,300
that?
I don’t know.

596
00:31:02,300 –> 00:31:04,600
I almost feel like that would be
kind of like, it’s like Googling

597
00:31:04,600 –> 00:31:06,500
yourself.
You know what kind of hurtful

598
00:31:06,500 –> 00:31:08,500
like?
Yeah, I don’t know if I want to

599
00:31:08,500 –> 00:31:11,600
see it.
That it would be the thing.

600
00:31:11,600 –> 00:31:13,500
You wouldn’t you would have
totally forgot that you did

601
00:31:13,500 –> 00:31:14,300
that.
It would have taken.

602
00:31:14,400 –> 00:31:15,800
Oh, yeah, for sure, it wouldn’t
be something.

603
00:31:15,800 –> 00:31:19,400
You’d be proud of shoplifted.
Gummy bears from a super axe, in

604
00:31:19,400 –> 00:31:25,400
1993, I did and again, and
That’s you 94 95 and again in

605
00:31:25,400 –> 00:31:28,800
2017.
So let’s talk about Jimi

606
00:31:28,800 –> 00:31:30,400
Hendrix.
There there’s also some stuff

607
00:31:30,400 –> 00:31:33,400
about Max Roach but that was
just he was a really famous

608
00:31:33,400 –> 00:31:36,300
bebop drummer.
Yeah and composer looking great

609
00:31:36,300 –> 00:31:37,200
name.
Yeah.

610
00:31:37,200 –> 00:31:39,000
Max Roach that’s a fantastic
name.

611
00:31:39,300 –> 00:31:42,000
And what’s interesting when you
get act you could that is a

612
00:31:42,000 –> 00:31:44,700
versatile name.
What’s interesting about his

613
00:31:44,700 –> 00:31:48,100
file is at one point someone
suggested, he might be a member

614
00:31:48,100 –> 00:31:51,700
of the Black Panther Party and
the file clearly says that they

615
00:31:51,700 –> 00:31:55,800
immediately Considered that to
be not true, but they still sent

616
00:31:55,800 –> 00:31:58,800
to agents to his house in the
middle of the night to interview

617
00:31:58,800 –> 00:32:02,100
him, they like followed his
acquaintances, interviewed them

618
00:32:02,200 –> 00:32:04,300
and kept a file on him for 10
years.

619
00:32:04,500 –> 00:32:06,600
Nothing worse than being
interviewed by the government

620
00:32:06,600 –> 00:32:08,900
and the middle of the night.
Yeah.

621
00:32:08,900 –> 00:32:11,200
Anyway, I am answering but like
I don’t know man.

622
00:32:11,200 –> 00:32:13,700
Fucking I guess maybe I did
that, you know.

623
00:32:13,900 –> 00:32:16,900
Yeah.
And I figure they do it that way

624
00:32:16,900 –> 00:32:19,400
on purpose to, you know, catch
you off your toes.

625
00:32:19,400 –> 00:32:20,800
And yeah.
Who knows.

626
00:32:21,100 –> 00:32:23,400
They also followed Jimi.
Drinks.

627
00:32:23,800 –> 00:32:26,700
Which was really interesting
because and I didn’t know this

628
00:32:26,700 –> 00:32:29,700
about him.
He actually spoke out in favor

629
00:32:29,700 –> 00:32:32,400
of the Vietnam War.
Pretty frequently.

630
00:32:32,400 –> 00:32:35,400
Yeah.
And was very critical of the

631
00:32:35,400 –> 00:32:39,300
Black Power movement.
So with Jimi, Hendrix, it was

632
00:32:39,300 –> 00:32:41,900
just kind of.
Yeah, someone could change his

633
00:32:41,900 –> 00:32:44,300
mind at some point.
We’d better keep tabs on even

634
00:32:44,300 –> 00:32:45,500
still.
He was trying to use trying to

635
00:32:45,508 –> 00:32:48,100
play their game.
Yeah, he was in the Army for a

636
00:32:48,108 –> 00:32:49,300
little bit.
Yeah.

637
00:32:49,300 –> 00:32:52,700
He water trooper and in The
Isley Brothers for a while.

638
00:32:52,800 –> 00:32:54,700
While yeah, it’s storing tour
with the Isley Brothers.

639
00:32:54,700 –> 00:32:59,000
Yeah, so that’s kind of the the
older musicians.

640
00:32:59,700 –> 00:33:02,800
The FBI is famous for keeping
tabs on.

641
00:33:02,800 –> 00:33:05,600
There’s also the fuck the police
letter.

642
00:33:05,800 –> 00:33:08,600
You remember that you probably
weren’t even born at that time.

643
00:33:09,000 –> 00:33:11,400
When was this 93?
At any was 89?

644
00:33:11,600 –> 00:33:15,900
No, you know, I wasn’t around,
it’s famously depicted in the

645
00:33:15,900 –> 00:33:19,200
NWA movie Straight Outta
Compton.

646
00:33:19,300 –> 00:33:22,300
There’s the scene where they get
the letter and I remember this,

647
00:33:22,300 –> 00:33:25,200
like I said, NWA in concert with
Ice Cube.

648
00:33:25,200 –> 00:33:28,700
Yeah, I was 12 years old.
So I’m old as shit, but that

649
00:33:28,700 –> 00:33:31,300
means I could, I got to see NWA
in concert.

650
00:33:31,300 –> 00:33:34,700
Absolutely, and I remember this
fbi-led the original non

651
00:33:34,700 –> 00:33:39,000
holographic members.
I remember this FBI letter

652
00:33:39,000 –> 00:33:43,200
happening, so fucking vividly
because there had never been

653
00:33:43,200 –> 00:33:49,800
anything like NWA in music and
that point and it was such a big

654
00:33:49,800 –> 00:33:52,500
deal, like everyone listen to
NWA.

655
00:33:52,500 –> 00:33:55,700
It was Like Rappers Delight and
then right in, wa yeah.

656
00:33:56,200 –> 00:34:00,700
And at the back end I think it
was 18 either 89 or 90, but I

657
00:34:00,708 –> 00:34:03,100
believe it was 89 because it was
when Ice Cube was still.

658
00:34:03,100 –> 00:34:05,500
In the group.
They get a fucking letter from

659
00:34:05,500 –> 00:34:11,900
the FBI and it the letter was
addressed to guy manga, manga

660
00:34:11,900 –> 00:34:14,199
yellow.
I’m sure that’s wrong.

661
00:34:14,300 –> 00:34:20,000
When Johnny yellow mozzarella,
he was the national promotions

662
00:34:20,000 –> 00:34:23,300
director for priority records.
He gets this letter From that

663
00:34:23,300 –> 00:34:27,900
goddamn FBI a song recorded by
the rap group, NWA on their

664
00:34:27,900 –> 00:34:31,500
album entitled, Straight Out of
Compton, encourages violence

665
00:34:31,600 –> 00:34:36,500
against and disrespect for the
law enforcement officer and has

666
00:34:36,500 –> 00:34:40,000
been brought to my attention.
I understand your company

667
00:34:40,000 –> 00:34:43,300
recorded and distributed this
album and I am writing to share

668
00:34:43,300 –> 00:34:45,100
my thoughts and concerns with
you.

669
00:34:45,100 –> 00:34:47,699
This is nothing better than when
someone writes very formally

670
00:34:47,699 –> 00:34:50,800
about something that is not
that, you know, right?

671
00:34:50,900 –> 00:34:54,000
It is piece, you know?
Ain’t no joke, mr.

672
00:34:54,000 –> 00:34:57,400
Rick Payne says, he ain’t no
Jenny the house.

673
00:34:57,400 –> 00:34:59,100
This microphone smoking.
I don’t understand.

674
00:35:00,600 –> 00:35:03,900
This is the second paragraph,
advocating violence and assault

675
00:35:03,900 –> 00:35:06,900
is wrong and we in the law
enforcement Community.

676
00:35:06,900 –> 00:35:11,100
Take exception to such action
violent crime, a major problem

677
00:35:11,100 –> 00:35:15,100
in our country reached an
unprecedented high in 1988,

678
00:35:15,100 –> 00:35:17,400
they’re leaving out that that’s
when the CIA started pumping

679
00:35:17,400 –> 00:35:22,300
crack into La 78 law enforcement
officers were feloniously slain

680
00:35:22,300 –> 00:35:25,300
in the line of duty during 1990
1988 though.

681
00:35:25,300 –> 00:35:27,300
They also monitored feloniously
slain.

682
00:35:27,300 –> 00:35:31,800
He was a he was a basis.
That would be such a great

683
00:35:31,800 –> 00:35:36,600
fucking Jazz name, Polonius
Lease Lane for more than in

684
00:35:36,600 –> 00:35:38,800
1987.
That okay.

685
00:35:38,900 –> 00:35:43,000
That’s not a huge life for yeah.
Yeah, I doubt that was rap.

686
00:35:43,000 –> 00:35:44,200
Music.
Yeah.

687
00:35:44,200 –> 00:35:46,900
Law Enforcement Officers,
dedicate their lives to the

688
00:35:46,900 –> 00:35:49,300
protection of our citizens and
recording.

689
00:35:49,300 –> 00:35:53,000
Such as the one from n.w.a. are
both, discouraging and degrading

690
00:35:53,000 –> 00:35:56,400
to these Brave.
Dedicated officers music plays a

691
00:35:56,400 –> 00:35:59,700
significant role in society, and
I wanted you to be aware of

692
00:35:59,900 –> 00:36:03,800
FBI’s position relative to this
song and its message.

693
00:36:03,900 –> 00:36:07,400
I believe my views reflect the
opinion of the entire law

694
00:36:07,400 –> 00:36:10,600
enforcement Community.
It’s not Christopher Dorner.

695
00:36:13,600 –> 00:36:19,100
This is signed by Milt are
Alaric the assistant director

696
00:36:19,500 –> 00:36:21,900
office of public affairs of the
FBI, dude.

697
00:36:21,900 –> 00:36:24,700
If I ever get a letter like that
I’m getting it blown up and

698
00:36:24,700 –> 00:36:27,800
turned into wallpaper.
Yeah, one of my favorite things

699
00:36:27,800 –> 00:36:29,700
is when people get
cease-and-desist letters and

700
00:36:29,800 –> 00:36:31,200
Just like post them on their
website.

701
00:36:31,200 –> 00:36:32,700
Like, fuck.
You sue me.

702
00:36:32,700 –> 00:36:35,300
Yeah, that’s always fun.
Dude, that makes my dick so

703
00:36:35,300 –> 00:36:36,500
hard.
It’s fucking awesome.

704
00:36:36,600 –> 00:36:40,500
And NWA kind of did that after
they got this letter, there’s,

705
00:36:40,600 –> 00:36:42,000
you’ve seen Straight Out of
Compton, right?

706
00:36:42,000 –> 00:36:44,800
Yeah.
There’s that scene, which really

707
00:36:44,800 –> 00:36:47,000
happened where they had a show
in Detroit.

708
00:36:47,200 –> 00:36:50,300
And the police told them
beforehand, that they were not

709
00:36:50,300 –> 00:36:52,700
to perform Straight Out of
Compton or they would all be

710
00:36:52,700 –> 00:36:56,100
arrested and they perform
Straight Out of Compton in the

711
00:36:56,100 –> 00:36:59,400
police, fucking storm, the stage
and arrested him and like a

712
00:36:59,400 –> 00:37:02,300
riot.
Broke out, but good for them.

713
00:37:02,400 –> 00:37:04,900
Yeah, still fucking doing it.
I mean that’s the way to go.

714
00:37:04,900 –> 00:37:07,700
I mean what what are you going
to not do the big song, you

715
00:37:07,700 –> 00:37:10,800
know.
Yeah, and everyone hate you and

716
00:37:10,800 –> 00:37:13,800
then the police like you after
you already said fuck them on a

717
00:37:13,800 –> 00:37:16,500
record.
Like and this was really an

718
00:37:16,500 –> 00:37:21,200
example of the FBI kind of
overstepping their bounds.

719
00:37:21,200 –> 00:37:23,900
Yeah I mean you you’re not
you’re just sending a letter to

720
00:37:23,900 –> 00:37:26,500
say like hey we don’t like this,
you know, it’s like really good.

721
00:37:26,500 –> 00:37:28,500
We rank like, what are you
implying here?

722
00:37:28,800 –> 00:37:32,700
Yeah.
Because Any it’s almost scarier

723
00:37:32,700 –> 00:37:36,700
than just getting a visit from
the FBI.

724
00:37:36,700 –> 00:37:41,100
Yeah, like a letter that just
kind of implies that the entire

725
00:37:41,100 –> 00:37:45,400
FBI has signed off on this as
opposed to Just One agent.

726
00:37:45,400 –> 00:37:48,400
Taking an interest in it and
coming to ask some questions.

727
00:37:48,400 –> 00:37:50,400
Yeah, and like, oh, he got the
okay from his Department.

728
00:37:50,400 –> 00:37:51,800
Like this was passed through,
you know?

729
00:37:51,800 –> 00:37:55,500
So I’m right for this and all
that, it’s like the official

730
00:37:55,500 –> 00:37:59,100
government position is we don’t
like this song and we’re

731
00:37:59,100 –> 00:38:01,200
watching you.
Now, and that’s cool.

732
00:38:01,400 –> 00:38:03,900
It is pretty, pretty fucking
cool.

733
00:38:04,200 –> 00:38:09,600
And on the other hand, though,
things turned out with the

734
00:38:09,600 –> 00:38:13,000
exception of Eazy-E and probably
MC Ren.

735
00:38:13,000 –> 00:38:16,600
And DJ yella things turned out
pretty well for NWA.

736
00:38:16,700 –> 00:38:19,500
Yeah, this certainly did not
derail Ice Cube or dr.

737
00:38:19,500 –> 00:38:21,100
Dre’s career.
Yeah, I’m see.

738
00:38:21,100 –> 00:38:22,400
Run.
You know, he’s not doing well

739
00:38:22,400 –> 00:38:24,800
because he follows me on
Twitter, he does.

740
00:38:24,900 –> 00:38:27,200
Yeah, he follows a gazillion
people, but I remember like

741
00:38:27,200 –> 00:38:29,600
right after I started my Twitter
is like, huh, I’m see red.

742
00:38:29,900 –> 00:38:32,200
Probably my biggest Twitter
claim to fame is that phife

743
00:38:32,200 –> 00:38:34,200
dawg?
Tweeted at me one time?

744
00:38:34,400 –> 00:38:35,300
That’s pretty cool.
Yeah.

745
00:38:35,300 –> 00:38:38,900
Before he died.
So yeah, the, I remember the NWA

746
00:38:38,900 –> 00:38:42,800
letter really vividly the it was
around the same time there.

747
00:38:42,800 –> 00:38:45,300
No, it was a few years later
that the cop killer thing

748
00:38:45,300 –> 00:38:50,100
happened with Ice-T.
That was, I remember the, the

749
00:38:50,100 –> 00:38:52,000
maybe the maybe this works
better than we thought because

750
00:38:52,000 –> 00:38:55,400
an ice cube was doing kids
movies and yeah, iced tea is

751
00:38:55,400 –> 00:38:57,600
literally a cop now just on
television.

752
00:38:57,600 –> 00:39:01,500
Yeah, so yeah, maybe they Scared
him straight, dude.

753
00:39:01,500 –> 00:39:05,900
I mean his fucking his defining
performance to me is as a

754
00:39:05,900 –> 00:39:07,700
kangaroo man in the movie tank
girl.

755
00:39:07,800 –> 00:39:10,700
That is good shit.
You have night.

756
00:39:10,700 –> 00:39:13,300
I have not seen that yet.
That is a straight-up kangaroo.

757
00:39:14,200 –> 00:39:16,300
That’s pretty great.
Yeah, I’ve never seen Tank Girl

758
00:39:16,300 –> 00:39:20,100
and I’ve until right now never
heard anything that made me want

759
00:39:20,100 –> 00:39:23,600
to see tank girl but I do want
to see iced tea as a kangaroo.

760
00:39:23,700 –> 00:39:26,600
I think I just saw because I was
a gorilla’s fan as a kid and I

761
00:39:26,600 –> 00:39:28,300
was like, oh what else is Jamie
Hewlett, done?

762
00:39:28,300 –> 00:39:31,200
And I was like, wait, is this
like is this The cop guy from TV

763
00:39:31,200 –> 00:39:32,700
was a kangaroo.
And then I was like, it’s guy,

764
00:39:32,700 –> 00:39:37,800
had a guy hates these videos as
a rapper, what big day for 12

765
00:39:37,800 –> 00:39:42,000
year old me.
So, the last one, this is really

766
00:39:42,000 –> 00:39:45,500
interesting.
The Wu-Tang Clan according to

767
00:39:45,500 –> 00:39:48,700
FBI Files obtained through.
A Freedom of Information Act

768
00:39:48,700 –> 00:39:53,900
request in 2012.
The Wu-Tang Clan has a 28 1, F

769
00:39:53,900 –> 00:39:57,500
classification.
Meaning the FBI sees it as a

770
00:39:57,500 –> 00:40:01,900
quote, major Criminal Zation.
Well, they’re not called honey

771
00:40:01,900 –> 00:40:04,100
bees.
They’re called killer bees and

772
00:40:04,700 –> 00:40:07,700
that’s a good point.
That’s, that’s interesting to

773
00:40:07,700 –> 00:40:10,400
me.
I’ve heard kind of rumors of

774
00:40:10,400 –> 00:40:15,200
this before, like investigations
into the Wu-Tang Clan, but now I

775
00:40:15,200 –> 00:40:19,100
really want to know.
I want to know more, although I

776
00:40:19,100 –> 00:40:23,100
will add the Juggalos also have
a 28 1f classification.

777
00:40:23,100 –> 00:40:25,700
That’s what their March was for.
Yeah, some of them have like

778
00:40:25,700 –> 00:40:28,600
custody Issues.
New like I’m a good guy, custody

779
00:40:28,600 –> 00:40:30,300
issues job.
Shoes.

780
00:40:30,500 –> 00:40:36,200
Yeah, everybody genus shoes
diabetes.

781
00:40:36,500 –> 00:40:40,900
So in acne, you’re going to
sleep with face paint on them.

782
00:40:42,200 –> 00:40:46,100
In 1999.
I love this in FBI agent

783
00:40:46,100 –> 00:40:50,500
requested permission to travel
to a field office in Allentown.

784
00:40:50,500 –> 00:40:55,600
Pennsylvania to learn about what
else do you go to Allentown to

785
00:40:55,600 –> 00:40:57,800
learn about the blood street
gang?

786
00:40:57,900 –> 00:41:01,400
Of course, in order to compare,
Their operations with those of

787
00:41:01,400 –> 00:41:04,700
the Wu-Tang that’s a going to
Allentown Pennsylvania to

788
00:41:04,700 –> 00:41:09,800
monitor Mexican food because it
cannot be a worst.

789
00:41:10,500 –> 00:41:14,100
Yeah, that’s so I mean he had to
have a reason for what met like,

790
00:41:14,100 –> 00:41:17,500
maybe the FBI just has a big
Bloods training center in

791
00:41:17,500 –> 00:41:21,700
Allentown but baby, that’s the
this the study study mob in from

792
00:41:22,200 –> 00:41:25,200
death certificate.
I think or it might be a Marik

793
00:41:25,200 –> 00:41:27,500
has Most Wanted Steady.
Mobbin is on death certificate.

794
00:41:27,600 –> 00:41:29,600
Okay, but just like moving gangs
out.

795
00:41:29,700 –> 00:41:32,400
The Midwest.
Oh yeah that’s good.

796
00:41:32,400 –> 00:41:35,100
A song that song is called my
summer vacation.

797
00:41:35,300 –> 00:41:38,700
Oh okay yeah yeah that’s a
really cool song.

798
00:41:38,900 –> 00:41:42,200
It’s an interesting song and
it’s just it’s one of the he

799
00:41:42,200 –> 00:41:44,100
almost like some of the songs in
the zones are kind of like

800
00:41:44,100 –> 00:41:47,100
sketches almost, you know it’s
just like yours the promise, ya

801
00:41:47,100 –> 00:41:50,500
death certificates, one of my
favorite rap albums the way that

802
00:41:50,500 –> 00:41:56,100
album unfolds and the things
like he really predicted a lot

803
00:41:56,200 –> 00:42:00,200
of what was going to happen in
LA and that fucking Because he

804
00:42:00,200 –> 00:42:02,700
asked me I pulled him aside and
was like, hey, here’s what we

805
00:42:02,707 –> 00:42:05,800
need to have going on in l.a.
over the next few years.

806
00:42:05,800 –> 00:42:07,800
So we don’t want anyone to say,
they didn’t warn them.

807
00:42:07,800 –> 00:42:10,300
So if you play your cards right
you could do.

808
00:42:10,300 –> 00:42:12,500
Are we there yet on TBS and 10
years?

809
00:42:12,500 –> 00:42:16,100
Exactly.
I sometimes wonder about that

810
00:42:16,100 –> 00:42:19,600
because there is that big
conspiracy which I’ve never been

811
00:42:19,600 –> 00:42:21,600
able to.
There’s it’s all based on one

812
00:42:21,600 –> 00:42:24,600
website post.
So I’ve never been able to build

813
00:42:24,600 –> 00:42:28,700
an episode around it, but there
is a conspiracy theory that says

814
00:42:28,700 –> 00:42:31,900
in the early. 90s.
There was a big meeting among

815
00:42:31,900 –> 00:42:37,200
record label Executives and that
there were investors and record

816
00:42:37,200 –> 00:42:41,700
labels who had money in private
prisons and that in order to

817
00:42:41,900 –> 00:42:45,000
make those Investments pay off
for those people, the music

818
00:42:45,000 –> 00:42:48,900
industry had agreed to start
pushing gangster rap, who that

819
00:42:48,900 –> 00:42:53,600
rules as a means, to fill
private prisons and I and love

820
00:42:53,600 –> 00:42:57,000
that conspiracy so much as in
the corner, wearing a mask like

821
00:42:57,000 –> 00:42:58,700
dr.
Doom really?

822
00:42:58,700 –> 00:43:01,000
What it sounds like every The
Fantastic Four is a growing

823
00:43:01,100 –> 00:43:03,400
local actresses back.
We got to team up with doom.

824
00:43:03,400 –> 00:43:06,100
It’s in the it’s in our mutual
interest and he’s just like, all

825
00:43:06,100 –> 00:43:08,600
right, all right.
Yeah it’s so you’re good with

826
00:43:08,600 –> 00:43:10,200
when I run over a guy to parking
lot.

827
00:43:10,200 –> 00:43:12,100
You going to give me a special
treatment right now.

828
00:43:12,100 –> 00:43:13,600
Yeah, of course.
Of course.

829
00:43:13,600 –> 00:43:16,200
We will have mr.
Knight do you mind my roommate.

830
00:43:16,200 –> 00:43:18,100
Ramsey had this thing where
every day, he was just

831
00:43:18,100 –> 00:43:21,400
retweeting It All Shook night,
tweet and one of them was like

832
00:43:21,400 –> 00:43:24,400
from 2012 and it just says,
here’s to The Nightlife.

833
00:43:25,900 –> 00:43:28,200
I was like hell, yeah, that’s
pretty great.

834
00:43:28,200 –> 00:43:30,000
Vanessa, griten met him once?
Once.

835
00:43:30,000 –> 00:43:32,300
Oh yeah you’re tellin.
Ya and took a picture with him

836
00:43:32,300 –> 00:43:35,600
and then texted me the picture
and was like is I think she said

837
00:43:35,600 –> 00:43:38,200
is this Royce the 59 that she
was?

838
00:43:38,200 –> 00:43:40,800
She fucking with you and I’m
like that guy is clearly like

839
00:43:40,800 –> 00:43:41,900
64.
Yeah.

840
00:43:41,900 –> 00:43:45,000
Royce is kind of a little guy.
Yeah, he’s 59.

841
00:43:45,100 –> 00:43:46,700
Oh my God.
It’s right there in the name.

842
00:43:46,700 –> 00:43:48,900
I forgot.
How the fuck could I and I was

843
00:43:48,900 –> 00:43:51,200
like, no, that Suge Knight.
Are you okay?

844
00:43:51,500 –> 00:43:54,400
Like, have you been hurt?
You didn’t touch him, did you?

845
00:43:55,700 –> 00:43:57,500
Yeah.
It was fucking crazy.

846
00:43:58,700 –> 00:44:03,000
So, yeah, also the Thing about
the Wu-Tang, the FBI file.

847
00:44:03,000 –> 00:44:05,600
Also known as like a cigarette
case, full of eight, needles,

848
00:44:05,600 –> 00:44:08,400
just in case he runs into
anybody just in his pocket.

849
00:44:08,400 –> 00:44:11,700
Like, I heard carrying pans,
like to cigarillos and people

850
00:44:11,700 –> 00:44:17,100
like biological weapons.
The FBI file also notes that the

851
00:44:17,100 –> 00:44:22,300
FBI was contacted by the NYPD
requesting that the FBI pursue

852
00:44:22,300 –> 00:44:26,500
Federal conspiracy prosecution
against the Wu-Tang Organization

853
00:44:26,800 –> 00:44:29,400
for drug trafficking and
execution.

854
00:44:29,700 –> 00:44:34,700
And that’s how its worded in
this article, which is from PS

855
00:44:34,700 –> 00:44:39,500
mag and it’s also about the
FBI’s history of following black

856
00:44:39,500 –> 00:44:41,100
musicians.
So people should go read that.

857
00:44:41,300 –> 00:44:43,100
Yeah.
But that’s how they word it and

858
00:44:43,100 –> 00:44:47,500
I can’t tell if they mean drug
trafficking and executing people

859
00:44:47,700 –> 00:44:53,400
or if execution is just a
another drug term that I’m not

860
00:44:53,400 –> 00:44:56,500
familiar with.
I mean maybe I mean what what

861
00:44:56,500 –> 00:44:59,900
I’ve seen the Wu-Tang Clan doing
the last ten years is like Made

862
00:44:59,900 –> 00:45:03,000
a bad movie and started a
subscription-based chess

863
00:45:03,000 –> 00:45:06,300
Community.
Like these are the yeah drug

864
00:45:06,300 –> 00:45:10,000
trafficking.
Yeah, it seems like a leap, but

865
00:45:10,300 –> 00:45:12,000
who knows?
They’re a big group.

866
00:45:12,600 –> 00:45:14,700
I mean, I’m sure well, I’m sure
there’s like, when you get down

867
00:45:14,700 –> 00:45:17,500
to the like Buddha, monk level.
By the way, if you ever want to

868
00:45:17,508 –> 00:45:20,300
watch fucking, but I love like
finding, like, obscured people

869
00:45:20,300 –> 00:45:22,100
that are like tant, like famous
only because of their

870
00:45:22,100 –> 00:45:24,900
association with somebody else,
and just seeing what they’re up

871
00:45:24,900 –> 00:45:28,000
to monk is like a producer.
He worked with ODB is good

872
00:45:28,000 –> 00:45:29,500
producer.
And then he’s, he tried to lie.

873
00:45:29,600 –> 00:45:31,500
Like start rapping and do his
own shit.

874
00:45:31,500 –> 00:45:34,800
He’s got a, he’s got a fucking
music video in Brooklyn and it’s

875
00:45:34,800 –> 00:45:37,700
just the worst shit about the
head, just like, very clearly

876
00:45:37,700 –> 00:45:40,900
using the external mic on the
HDTV, you know, killick.

877
00:45:41,300 –> 00:45:43,000
Oh nice.
You know, and this little kid

878
00:45:43,000 –> 00:45:46,100
comes up and he’s like, hey
Buddha monk, you’re my hero.

879
00:45:46,100 –> 00:45:49,400
He’s like you got that 16 ready
and he’s like maybe I’ll the

880
00:45:49,400 –> 00:45:51,600
next album.
He’s like yeah, they’re just

881
00:45:51,600 –> 00:45:53,100
walking around.
Eating hot dogs.

882
00:45:53,100 –> 00:45:56,300
I got Coney Island while he just
wraps poorly wearing like an OD,

883
00:45:56,500 –> 00:45:59,500
he’s wearing an OD B t-shirt
that he clearly got bootlegged.

884
00:45:59,700 –> 00:46:02,300
As a friend of all dirty
bastard.

885
00:46:02,600 –> 00:46:05,300
And I found his Facebook and he
just shows like this like meme

886
00:46:05,300 –> 00:46:08,300
recipe videos night and we say I
was up late one night.

887
00:46:08,300 –> 00:46:10,500
I ended up going to the grocery
store to make these like fucking

888
00:46:10,500 –> 00:46:13,000
breakfast sandwiches that I saw
Buddha monk, share of video.

889
00:46:14,400 –> 00:46:15,700
I forget that shit.
So great.

890
00:46:15,700 –> 00:46:17,100
Yeah, there’s so he’s doing good
work.

891
00:46:17,100 –> 00:46:18,000
He’s doing all right.
Yeah.

892
00:46:18,300 –> 00:46:21,300
But there’s like there’s like
800 killaby’s and most of them

893
00:46:21,300 –> 00:46:23,700
like they’re just like yeah, he
was a he actually touched

894
00:46:23,700 –> 00:46:27,800
Method, Man, one time.
Yeah, he bought him a water,

895
00:46:28,100 –> 00:46:29,400
it’s evident.
Yeah, I was busy.

896
00:46:29,400 –> 00:46:30,800
So.
Oh, he’s a killer bee now.

897
00:46:30,800 –> 00:46:34,200
Yeah, there are some loose,
affiliations that Organization

898
00:46:34,200 –> 00:46:38,400
for sure but I mean either way,
no charges were ever filed.

899
00:46:38,400 –> 00:46:40,800
So new Wu-Tang album coming out
soon.

900
00:46:40,800 –> 00:46:42,600
I’m sure.
Oh yeah, because got the feds

901
00:46:42,600 –> 00:46:43,900
have it.
The feds have the screw.

902
00:46:43,900 –> 00:46:47,200
Yeah, they have in it’s in the
judge.

903
00:46:47,300 –> 00:46:51,700
I noticed who ordered shkreli to
Forfeit that album was Asian and

904
00:46:51,700 –> 00:46:56,400
if you remember the Chappelle
show, the Wu-Tang was drafted by

905
00:46:56,400 –> 00:46:59,100
the Asian Community, they were
racial draft.

906
00:46:59,100 –> 00:47:02,300
So You really got UPS like that.
Finally, worked out.

907
00:47:02,300 –> 00:47:04,000
You got it.
You got to be praying that the

908
00:47:04,000 –> 00:47:07,100
judge has a couple of Big Al
tapes, you know, the car where

909
00:47:07,100 –> 00:47:09,300
he’s like, all right, I mean,
this is like there’s no

910
00:47:09,300 –> 00:47:13,100
precedent for this, but if I use
this ruling, I could probably

911
00:47:13,100 –> 00:47:16,300
get this album to the streets
where he needs to be right now.

912
00:47:16,400 –> 00:47:19,300
Exactly doing God’s work again.
You got to read that article

913
00:47:19,300 –> 00:47:21,600
about this guy who went to a
listening party where he had 15

914
00:47:21,600 –> 00:47:24,400
minutes of it and I think there
were two Celine Dion songs on

915
00:47:24,400 –> 00:47:25,300
it.
That’s amazing.

916
00:47:25,300 –> 00:47:28,400
And yeah, I need to find that.
I hope that is true.

917
00:47:28,400 –> 00:47:31,000
L meaty, I mean it.
It seemed legit to me, I mean,

918
00:47:31,000 –> 00:47:34,300
there’s like a small listening
party, you know, God damn it.

919
00:47:34,400 –> 00:47:39,100
So, so that’s our episode about
the FBI and black musicians

920
00:47:39,400 –> 00:47:43,600
music month continues next week.
We’re still talking about the

921
00:47:43,600 –> 00:47:48,100
FBI, but more importantly, we’re
talking about the death of Elvis

922
00:47:48,100 –> 00:47:52,500
Presley.
The death, alleged death of

923
00:47:52,500 –> 00:47:57,400
Elvis Presley, which where we
sound like we’re mocking right

924
00:47:57,400 –> 00:47:58,600
now.
Yeah.

925
00:47:58,600 –> 00:48:01,600
But after looking into, To it.
I’m kind of an Elvis truth or

926
00:48:01,600 –> 00:48:02,700
not.
We are leaving.

927
00:48:02,700 –> 00:48:04,900
We’ve been read.
We’ve been fucking.

928
00:48:05,100 –> 00:48:06,500
I don’t know.
Glitter pill Twitter.

929
00:48:06,500 –> 00:48:13,000
Yeah, so come back for that next
week and in the meantime, this

930
00:48:13,000 –> 00:48:16,900
is a subscription only episode
so you don’t need to subscribe

931
00:48:16,900 –> 00:48:19,100
on patreon.
You already do baby.

932
00:48:19,900 –> 00:48:22,100
Let me be go out and give us a
good rating and review on

933
00:48:22,100 –> 00:48:26,300
iTunes, even if you don’t listen
on iTunes, we still you just pop

934
00:48:26,300 –> 00:48:28,900
over there.
Fucking yeah won’t kill ya.

935
00:48:29,000 –> 00:48:30,500
It takes a Second.
Yeah.

936
00:48:30,700 –> 00:48:34,700
And also I don’t know what we
have going oh call our voicemail

937
00:48:34,700 –> 00:48:38,100
line 505 386, 7677, leave us
voicemail.

938
00:48:38,100 –> 00:48:42,300
Tell us what show you’re calling
about and go to one pops.com for

939
00:48:42,300 –> 00:48:44,800
notes.
From all of our episodes,

940
00:48:44,800 –> 00:48:46,800
Connor, what do you got the
plug?

941
00:48:47,000 –> 00:48:48,800
Boot order?
It’s coming up going to

942
00:48:48,800 –> 00:48:53,300
Wisconsin, Chicago Fort, Wayne
Indiana motherfucking Pittsburgh

943
00:48:53,300 –> 00:48:58,000
Philly, DC, Cleveland and New
York City on the month of April.

944
00:48:58,000 –> 00:49:00,600
Those tickets are all live now
and me both, Like az.com, go.

945
00:49:00,600 –> 00:49:01,900
Grab him come.
Hang out all.

946
00:49:02,100 –> 00:49:05,300
Yeah, I’ll talk to you about.
I don’t know whatever, nice guy

947
00:49:05,500 –> 00:49:07,400
person.
Nice.

948
00:49:08,700 –> 00:49:10,500
All right, let’s get the fuck
out of here.

949
00:49:10,500 –> 00:49:12,500
Connor say goodbye.
Bye everybody.

950
00:49:12,500 –> 00:49:13,600
Goodbye everybody.
We love you.

951
00:49:19,000 –> 00:49:19,300
People.