Propaganda
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390 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Propaganda’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What's up, y'all? It's your favorite cousin. I just came over. You feel me? Y'all don't have no cousins that just kind of pop up? Just be at the house like a 90s sitcom where you don't knock on the door, you just be walking in? That wasn't my life. Mainly because most of the cousins on my mother's side lived on the other side of the country.
And then my cousins on my father's side, since we lived in gang-infested areas, you didn't just pop up. That was just not the safest... Thing to do. But I'm doing that at your house. And, you know, it happens when you have cousins come over. Well, now a small percentage of y'all are black, but a lot of percentages y'all grew up for, which means that you got whoopings just like we did.
So, you know, usually when your cousin comes over, somebody's getting we all somebody getting in trouble. And it's usually you because you supposed to know better. I never got more spankings. Then when my cousins came over because we would just get into stuff. And then since I'm the one that lived there and I was cutting up in front of company, I ended up getting into most trouble.
Anyway, this isn't where I'm working out trauma, although it is called It Can Happen Here podcast. So I feel like we are collectively working out trauma of being Americans. And lastly, on the rambling preamble, I got a dog now. Well, my daughter got a dog. And to all the parents that listen, you know when your child gets a pet whose pet that actually is.
So I find myself doing a lot more chores than I signed up for. But it's a pug. And it keeps trying to eat the cat's food. Therefore, it's got liquid doo-doo. And I'm not a fan of that. And since I get to work in my pajamas because I'm just recording podcasts and rap music back here. Seems to fall on me to scoop up this liquid doo-doo. But that's only when she eats the cat's food. Stupid dog.
Eat your own food. Anyway, I'm here to talk about something that you can do nothing about. All right, y'all ready? Here we go. A brother like me who bleeds Los Angeles, you cut me open and Pacific Ocean salt water comes out. You poke my lungs and smog pours out of me. I could work for... the tourist department of Los Angeles. I love this city at an unhealthy level.
There are things about this place that is absolute trash. Don't get me wrong. There is a lot wrong with this city. with this place. The ground shakes up under us. We've been such a horrible steward as to how to take care of this land. I'm going to include myself, even though I am not the invasive colonizer.
But there are really only nine native trees to California, two of which are not the palm tree or the eucalyptus. The plants that are here naturally are drought resistant and fire resistant. They don't burn that easy. The ones that burn up real quick are the sycamores and the palm trees. And if you may have noticed, Los Angeles hit a bit of a dry spell recently and had quite the disaster.
Now, I'm slowly backing that thing up into what we're going to talk about right now, which you should probably know if you have already read the show title when you clicked play. But I'm going to back that thing up into it. California catches fire every year in some location. Now, my mother, you know, mama, mama prop, She worked 30 years for the L.A.
County Fire Department, you know, in the city of West Covina, because I'm a 626er. And I have vivid memories of the different firemen, fire chiefs. I think I talked about this in the L.A. on Fire episode. Black is literally hot on the hood politics episode. Show, which hopefully you guys are supporting and listening to also.
But even my boy Chris, who's, you know, firefighter, you know, been fighting the fires out here. Everybody knew that one day this day would come. And that, let's just say, all of the... Bureaucratic failures had not happened. If the water was as full as possible, the fire hydrants were fine. If everything was done perfectly, this was going to happen. This day was going to come.
that it's a perfect storm. We had a specific type of drought, lack of rain, the Santa Ana winds, and then a fire sparking, and that fire sparking in a densely populated urban area. It was... Every fireman I knew was like, yeah, one day it's going to happen. And like I said in the last episode, yeah, like, you know, we could find ourselves a time machine and practice the indigenous practices.
Oh, actually, as a small little beacon of light, there's an area out to Dina that was actually given back to the Tongva tribe many years back. There was a first like actual land back there. given back to the tribe and they started taking care of the land the way that their elders and ancestors did. And guess what? That area didn't burn.
Anyway, in the midst of this disaster that we were having a desperate, desperate man who I completely understand his desperation.
On Tuesday night, on January 7th, while the fires were just rumbling through the Palisades, a man named Keith Wasserman, who's the co-founder of a real estate investment firm, desperately took to Twitter and said, does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home? Need to act fast here. All neighbors' houses burning. We'll pay any amount.
there was another click of Rick Caruso who almost in a multiverse situation is our mayor, a billionaire developer who owns the Grove and on the West side, just that if you ever watch TMZ, whenever somebody is walking out of a place, it's probably at the Grove and was a, you know, real estate magnate.
Anyway, there were videos of him driving through an area that he had with his like private security and private firefighters where there's smoke billowing all around the place, but his situation was fine. Why? Because he had private firefighters. They shaved his shopping center, but he tried to unsuccessfully save nearby homes as well.
Which reminded everybody about the time that Kanye and Kim tweeted about their house being saved by firefighters. And which made people be like, wait a minute. You can buy a fire department?
We over here arguing over fire hydrants and tanks running low and somebody just paid where they get the water from. How the hell you can just. Oh, my God. What the hell water you using? Nigga, that's not your water. And what you going to do? Are you going to help out the neighbors? Okay, so if I buy a fire department, fire department show up at my house, but the neighbor's house is burning.
You just going to leave the neighbor's house? You going to tell them to call the city's fire department? What the hell is happening? How does this shit work? Is there any other way rich people can be evil? What is happening right now? Which is basically what happened and how most of the regulars felt.
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