James McCann

Yeah.

Are you fucking crazy?

You got to be careful out there.

And most of the time, it's not going to happen to you.

The 99.99% of people will never experience anything awful.

But to not have any idea that it could ever happen to you is bad.

I think the real problem, and this is the one that just doesn't get addressed with any politicians ever, is something massive has to be done to stop this lineage of people that are coming from these crime-ridden places and no one changes anything about it at all.

We had a cop on once from Baltimore.

And he was telling us that while he was on duty, he found this crime sheet, a doc sheet of all the things that happened in like 76 or something like that.

And he was reading all the areas and all the crimes and it dawned on him, it was like, oh my God, this is the same crimes in the same area decades later and nothing has changed.

They need to do something huge.

Treat that as if it's an untapped resource of human potential, because that's what it is.

All those people in that community, if they had been born and raised with different families in a different place, completely different outcome.

A giant percentage of who you are is dumb luck, and if the people that got the worst luck

to be born in a crack house or be born in a place where there's gang violence on the street every day and you go to school and you have to pick a gang.

If you don't pick a gang, they'll fucking kill you.

What are you gonna do?

You're not gonna do anything but what everybody else is doing.

That's what most people are gonna do.

The few that are gonna break out, maybe they're musicians or an athlete or something like that, they break out.