Name: LA Riots 2k20 | Ep 16 | Bad Friends with Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee
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LA Riots 2k20  | Ep 16 | Bad Friends with Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee

I didn't want to come and I don't want to be here. I'm the son of an Atlanta
City police officer.
My cousin is an Atlanta City police officer and my other cousin East Point
police officer.
And I got a lot of love and respect for police officers down to the original
eight police officers in Atlanta
that even after becoming police had to dress in a YMCA because white officers
didn't want to get dressed with niggers.
And here we are 80 years later. I watched a white officer assassinate a black
man.
And I know that tore your heart out and I know it's crippling and I have
nothing positive to say in this moment.
Because I don't want to be here.
But I'm responsible to be here because it wasn't just Dr. King and people
dressed nicely who marched and protested to progress this city and so many
other cities.
It was people like my grandmother, people like my aunts and uncles who were
members of SCLC and NAACP.
And in particular, Reverend James Orange, Mrs. Alice Johnson and Reverend Love,
who we just lost last year.
So I'm duty bound to be here to simply say that it is your duty not to burn
your own house down for anger with an enemy.
It is your duty to fortify your own house so that you may be a house of refuge
in times of organization.
And now is the time to plot, plan, strategize, organize, and mobilize.
It is time to beat up prosecutors you don't like at the voting booth.
It's a beautiful fucking speech.
It's an eight-minute speech.
It's gorgeous.
I know.
But he's getting certain amounts of criticism because people are like, you know,
when people go,
you go, stealing isn't the answer and looting and...
I mean, it's like if you fill a balloon up with water, right, eventually it's
going to pop.
Yeah.
It's just an action-reaction.
It's science.
Yeah.
Right?
And that's where we're at in this country.
Yeah, the balloon popped.
The balloon popped.
So it's like if the system did the right thing, we would not be here.
It's as simple as that.
Yeah, but that's fucking...
You're talking about a long, long time.
It's very...
But it's a simple thing.
You charge, as soon as that happens, Derek Chauvin with first-degree murder.
Yeah.
Right?
You prosecute those four officers, Rodney King.
That's why the riot started.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
It's that simple.
Yeah.
If you just did the right thing...
Right away.
Right away.
Yeah.
No riot.
Yeah, no riot.
But here's the problem with the riots is like...
That's what he's saying as well is like, I'm in support of people fucking just
getting out
their anger because of the voice for the voiceless.
But what Mike is trying to say is like, don't burn our neighborhoods.
We need to get together.
And by the way, both sides are right.
Like, I agree why Mike is saying like, please, let's like protect ourselves
because let's
not hurt our community more.
But anytime somebody burns something, I'm also like, yeah, let it burn.
Fuck it.
I don't know.
That's how they're getting out their fucking frustration.
What are you going to say?
Go to a shooting range.
Go break something outside.
Like, what's the right way for them to fucking be mad?
So that's why I agree with both people.
I agree with Killer Mike and I agree with people going to light Target on fire.
Fuck it.
Whatever.
What do you guys...
I too see both points of view.
Yeah.
And I'm not...
I don't even necessarily...
I'm supportive of rioting.
I hate it.
No, no one likes it.
I don't want the city to be on fire.
I don't want...
I mean, I saw footage of this older African-American gentleman during...
I watched that.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
The original...
Telling kids.
Yeah.
And he's pleading with them like, I worked so hard.
You know what I mean?
I came from the streets too.
Stop burning my shit.
It's heartbreaking.
I read in your face the sadness.
Even when you're like...
When I'm talking...
Okay, I'll tell you why.
When I'm talking...
Because I'm really bummed out about this stuff.
I know.
When I'm talking, you have this little smirk, but your eyes are sad.
Yeah, I'm really empty.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I'm sad right now.
Yeah, yeah.
And they're dark and they're sad.
Like a little clown.
You know also why?
Yeah, why?
Because I feel like I should say something about what's going on outside of our
show, like
on social media.
And other than Twitter, I haven't put anything on Instagram or anything.
And I feel like I'm supposed to, but I don't know what to say.
And it just comes to a point where we all...
Whatever your ideology is, we're all on the same page.
Who else am I trying to convince?
Because the other side, whoever that other side is in the issue, we're not
going to convince
them of anything.
Yeah.
So you're just touting to people that are on your side.
Echo chambers.
Yeah.
So it doesn't...
Who cares?
Why would you...
For me, it's a given that George Floyd, him getting murdered, is an atrocity
and it
needs to be stopped.
But what am I...
Who am I trying to convince?
No, people would argue that you need to say something so people...
So more power is brought to people by voice of saying like, I'm also against
this.
It just...
It helps.
I think it helps in the grand scheme of things.
It's like when somebody says voting doesn't matter.
That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard in my fucking life.
My vote doesn't even count.
No, your vote does count.
It does count.
And you should keep voting just because it's a good example to set for the next
generation.
Because as soon as people stop voting, then we're fucked.
We have to get rid of the electoral college.
Of course.
For that to be true.
Of course.
For that to be true.
Of course.
In the meantime...
For that to be true.
You still need to vote.
Because you're setting an example for someone like her who won't vote.
She can't vote.
Her age range.
Right.
When they start voting, they'll start going, fucking who cares?
My argument toward that, though, is we're a product of our environment, right?
And the people that are going to vote one way are always going to vote that way.
You're not going to sway gun-toting, Confederate flag-waving right-wing people.
Let me play devil's advocate.
Go ahead.
If 99 of those people who are staunchly against your belief system out of 100,
and one person
is on a weird fence, and they grew up that way, but they may not agree with
everyone around
them, and they see your post and they're a fan of the show, maybe, maybe you
change their
opinion.
Maybe make an argument on that.
Okay.
So I'm playing, back to Warzone, but I play with a kid from Georgia.
He lives in a small town.
He doesn't live near Atlanta.
And his family, everyone around him, are staunch Trump supporters.
They're staunch right-wing people.
And he, because I play with him all the time, he's going to move out here.
In fact, Tiger Bell, we might hire him.
We love this kid.
What's his name?
Ramey.
Ramey.
And he goes, I don't know, Bob.
I was just born in this environment, and I have always been into anime and into
ethnic
causes and liberalism, and everyone, my dad, my mom, everyone, my sisters,
everyone around
me are huge Trump-touting, you know what I mean?
They, you know, and he goes, I was just, I don't know what it is.
I was just born this way, right?
So what you're saying to me isn't true.
I just think that there's some people that are just born, even no matter what
environment,
but it's like, you know, you know, my parents were very, Koreans are very
racist.
Yeah.
And they would say very racist things.
And I just remember being at dinner going, I don't know why I'm that way.
I don't know why they didn't influence me.
But I, as a kid, just looked at the world around me and went, this seems like
the right thing
to do.
And this set of things is the wrong thing to do.
And I don't care what people are saying.
I think you're just born that way.
No, I, you're, no, you contradicted yourself by saying you are a product of
your environment.
You are a product of your environment.
I did contradict myself.
But I tried to, I tried to, I tried to double down.
The point is, I tried to double down.
You can change people.
You can?
People, people who are on the fence about how they really feel, maybe they grew
up a certain
way, whether or not they grew up a righty or a lefty around people around them,
the only
way for them to gather more information to make a, their, their choice on what
they like
is through stuff like that, through social media to being like, hey man, check
out shit
like this.
This is a way to inform you about how, how I think the world works.
And then you decide, I agree with this.
I disagree with that.
But if you go, I'm not even going to try to reach out to those people.
Well, what the, well, what the, what do you mean?
That's that, that it's, it's worth it.
It's worth it.
I don't think so.
I think it's worth it to, I think shaking, I think putting your hand across the
aisle
is very important.
I think, cause if you just go, I'm this way, you're that way, fuck you, then we
don't
get anywhere.
But if we do the thing where we go, hey, let's have a conversation.
But that's not what you're saying.
That is what I'm saying.
No, because when you, when you, when you, when you tweet your point of view on
there.
Not everyone that listens to me.
Is not reaching your hand out.
That's not true.
Not everyone that listens to me is a fuck it.
You think all of my fans are all liberals?
That's impossible.
Of course I have fans that are Republican.
Yeah.
We have fans that are both people.
Yeah.
That's an insane idea to think that all I'm yelling at is one side.
No, but I need all my fans to know how I feel about issues.
Whether or not they agree with me, I'm still going to voice my fucking opinion.
I'm going to say this is right to me.
This is wrong to me.
And it's not a fuck.
This isn't about Trump.
This is about me saying, here's how I feel about this fucking guy getting
killed.
This.
I feel about this this way.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, the bigger issues like like Trump or like fucking your party.
That's a whole nother thing.
But about this, we should be saying something about it.
Yeah.
It's important.
I have to learn as an entertainer to express my opinions and not take comments
personally.
Yeah.
Why?
I don't know why I'm tied to comments.
When I look at someone like Tommy Lauren.
What's that her name?
Tommy Lauren?
Tammy, the girl.
Ralph Lauren?
No, the girl that's right wing blonde girl.
Oh, oh, oh.
Tommy.
Yeah.
Lauren.
Whatever that fucking, I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tommy, Tommy.
Tommy Lauren.
She expresses, she says crazy shit.
Yeah.
And then I read all the thousands of comments of her.
You cunt and all that stuff, right?
I know, I know, I know.
And I think to myself, there's no way she reads this.
She does.
She does.
But how does she.
She loves it.
She does.
She probably.
I want to get to the point where I love negative things.
No.
Because.
Because then if I, if I wasn't attached to people's criticism or people's point
of view,
if I wasn't attached to that, then I would be able to say whatever I want to
say.
Like, do what Michael Rappaport does and just go on these tangents.
I want to do that.
But that's not who you are.
But I'm so afraid.
What?
You're not going to do what rap does.
That's a very rap thing to do.
You do the way that Bobby does it.
Right.
You're just not like them.
And you don't need that negativity because it's where people that eat negative
stuff that
it fuels them.
Yeah.
That's sad.
Yeah.
I don't want that shit around.
Get the fuck out of here with that shit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You want to be negative?
Take a fucking walk.
Don't, don't, then don't, don't be around me.
I don't need your bullshit.
Yeah.
You look good, by the way.
What do you mean?
I like the color pop.
This orange and this, um, and the trim on there and this yellow hat.
You two are bad friends.
Who are these two idiots?
A white dude and an Asian dude.
You two are disgusting.
You two are something.
We're bad friends.
You look real, it looks good.
You know why?
Huh?
Everybody going to the party hav