1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:08,839 Speaker 1: Understand the thinking atheist. It's not a person, it's a symbol, 2 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:10,000 an idea. 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,439 Speaker 2: The population of atheists this country is going through. 4 00:00:13,359 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: The rule, rejecting faith, pursuing knowledge, challenging the sacred. If 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,120 I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth, 6 00:00:22,519 --> 00:00:23,160 not because. 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,679 Speaker 3: I put my hand on a book and made a wish. 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,839 Speaker 1: And working together for a more rational world. 9 00:00:29,079 --> 00:00:32,039 Speaker 3: Take the risk of thinking, feel so much more happiness. 10 00:00:32,079 --> 00:00:34,679 Speaker 2: Truth Usian wisdom will come to you that way. 11 00:00:35,679 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 1: Assume nothing, question everything, and start thinking. This is the 12 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:52,759 Thinking Atheist podcast hosted by Seth Andrews. 13 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 2: When you're preparing. 14 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,079 Speaker 3: Material to do in front of a life audience, you 15 00:01:01,159 --> 00:01:03,799 always think, well, I kind of know how this should play, 16 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,280 but how is it going to really play? In other words, 17 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,920 you anticipate a good response, but will people take the ride? 18 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:16,159 So I was putting this particular speech together and I 19 00:01:16,239 --> 00:01:18,680 had those thoughts. You know, the audience is going to 20 00:01:18,719 --> 00:01:21,719 totally take the journey, and I'm going to resonate with 21 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,599 them and we're going to all be on the same 22 00:01:23,719 --> 00:01:26,280 page and it's going to be amazing, or they're going 23 00:01:26,359 --> 00:01:29,120 to circle the building with torches and which is it 24 00:01:29,159 --> 00:01:33,599 going to be? Well? Fortunately, I gave this speech in Nashville, Tennessee. 25 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,159 I gave it in Sarnia, Ontario, several cities in Texas. 26 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,560 Now I am playing the audio of it for you here, 27 00:01:40,719 --> 00:01:43,519 and the response was overwhelmingly good. 28 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 2: People. I don't know, they seem to need. 29 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,159 Speaker 3: What was being said, like it spoke to them in 30 00:01:50,319 --> 00:01:54,840 this cultural moment, which is what I had always desired 31 00:01:54,959 --> 00:01:58,040 for this thing. I really wanted it to serve a purpose. 32 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,959 And I don't know. I'll just qualifying it. But the 33 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,400 YouTube version has all the slides, like one hundred plus visuals. 34 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,639 The audio plays just fine without it, you may miss 35 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,719 a couple of things. But if you want to watch it, 36 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,479 that link is in the description box. This is the 37 00:02:15,599 --> 00:02:18,199 version that I gave. Well, I mean it's the same speech, 38 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:22,960 but this is the recording from the Nashville Nuns Conference 39 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,520 anys not Nuns Catholic Nuns as in no Religion, the 40 00:02:27,599 --> 00:02:32,439 Nashville Nuns Conference, which was the third weekend in July 41 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:36,479 in Nashville, Tennessee. The speech is called how do we 42 00:02:36,639 --> 00:03:00,240 explain this when the aliens arrived? Oh my god, this 43 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,120 Thank you so much for allowing me to be a 44 00:03:02,199 --> 00:03:08,599 part of Nanocan today, those of you who know me, No, 45 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,599 my reputation is a pretty easy going god, not quick 46 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,080 to anger. I mean, we all have our moments, right, 47 00:03:15,159 --> 00:03:18,400 even tho most chill people have their breaking points. 48 00:03:19,039 --> 00:03:21,199 Speaker 2: But I have been called and I'll take it. 49 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:27,479 Speaker 3: I've been called the mister Rogers of secular activism. 50 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:37,719 Speaker 4: So hello, neighbor. Fred Rogers. He was a humanist first. 51 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 3: He was the man who famously said, as human beings, 52 00:03:42,039 --> 00:03:44,919 our job in life is to help people realize how 53 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,240 rare and valuable each one of us really is. 54 00:03:48,879 --> 00:03:52,639 Speaker 2: His calling card was kindness. 55 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:58,439 Speaker 3: Yet even the nicest people have their limits, and today, 56 00:03:58,599 --> 00:04:02,520 in many ways, I don't feel nice. 57 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,919 Speaker 2: I'm two people at war, the. 58 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,479 Speaker 3: Hopeful and the hopeless, the optimist and the pessimists, the 59 00:04:10,599 --> 00:04:16,399 light versus the dark. I'm reminded of that classic George 60 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:19,720 Carlin quote. He said, when you scratch a cynic, you 61 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,759 find underneath a disappointed idealist. 62 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:28,439 Speaker 5: Today, both men stand before you. 63 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 3: My two halves will take turns speaking to you. 64 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 2: With those segments separated by. 65 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 5: This and this, all right, we are all likely navigating 66 00:04:48,319 --> 00:04:52,639 conflicting ideas and emotions as we are just fire hosed 67 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,399 in the freaking face with the headlines of the day. 68 00:04:55,439 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 2: Do you feel that you know it's important we weather 69 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:03,000 the ranging. 70 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,399 Speaker 3: Storm with clear eyes and focus and. 71 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,959 Speaker 2: Sincere compassion, Compassion. 72 00:05:09,959 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 3: For the millions upon millions of people who have been 73 00:05:12,639 --> 00:05:18,639 brainwashed into alternate realities, realities of fear, distrust, conspiracy theories, 74 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:20,839 even hate. 75 00:05:21,079 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 2: Approaching our interlocutters. 76 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:27,079 Speaker 3: With awareness and self control and good listening skills and 77 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,759 seeking opportunities to see ourselves and others embrace better ideas. 78 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 2: I know it's controversial. 79 00:05:35,399 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 3: I was a conservative evangelical who was a good person, 80 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:40,439 and I want. 81 00:05:40,199 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 2: To think, I need to think that. 82 00:05:43,399 --> 00:05:48,319 Speaker 3: Maga right wingers might also be reachable and teachable. 83 00:05:48,439 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 2: And what the fuck is wrong with those people? 84 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:05,519 Speaker 3: Jesus Ah Broh, You and I are watching in real 85 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:10,079 time the brainworming of the entire United States. 86 00:06:12,879 --> 00:06:14,199 Speaker 2: People I used to think. 87 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 3: Were somewhat reasonable and centered and focused have brought us 88 00:06:17,519 --> 00:06:22,000 to this moment, a cultural moment of mind blowing, jaw dropping. 89 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,639 What the fuckery that has made satire nearly impossible? 90 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 2: Look? Really, really, this surreal house. 91 00:06:37,639 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 3: This is owned by a woman named Leslie Rossi in Youngstown, Pennsylvania, 92 00:06:41,879 --> 00:06:43,120 made a Trump house. 93 00:06:44,319 --> 00:06:46,439 Speaker 2: How do we explain this shit? 94 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 3: When the aliens land right, So here's the scenario. Extra 95 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,759 terrestrials land outside the door tomorrow and they say, hello, 96 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,920 creatures of the Earth, we come in peace. Tell us 97 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:11,399 about your species, What knowledge do you possess, What advances 98 00:07:11,439 --> 00:07:15,800 have you made? What is your system of government? We're like, 99 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:22,439 wait a bit, you mean now you would like me 100 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:28,639 to de strong the current political, religious, and environmental conditions 101 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,519 of this country and the world. Oh have a sea, 102 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:36,600 but be super quiet about it, because just landing here 103 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:40,839 puts your non white skin at risk of being chucked 104 00:07:40,839 --> 00:07:44,319 into the back of an ice van. Because right now 105 00:07:44,319 --> 00:07:47,519 there's a huge percentage of human beings who are bigoted 106 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:52,759 and stupid and irrational and terrified and ridiculous and destructive work. 107 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,439 Speaker 2: But also capable of wonderful things. 108 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:04,199 Speaker 3: Our history and our headlines are filled with the stories 109 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:12,879 are worthy aspiration, innovation, hard work, and historic achievement. We 110 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:17,199 revolve primates, you know, once a species of grunting and 111 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:22,560 stone tools. We've developed to fill our world with complex languages. 112 00:08:22,639 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 2: We've been dreamers and. 113 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:31,079 Speaker 3: Inventors, explorers, problem solvers, heroes and icons to emulate and admire. 114 00:08:31,199 --> 00:08:38,360 We've constructed technology, complex technology, wonderful technology upon this world 115 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:39,720 of earth and water. 116 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 2: We are the. 117 00:08:42,279 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 3: Species that produce the writings of Homer, the sculptings of Michelangelo, 118 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:54,440 the philosophies of Aristotle, and the calculations of Einstein. We've 119 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:59,360 invented vessels that can withstand crushing ocean pressure. Humans have 120 00:08:59,399 --> 00:09:03,360 walked on the Moon. We've sent vessels of ingenuity and 121 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:09,279 discovery over fourteen billion miles away and counting. I can 122 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,879 show you an invention, a device that allows us to 123 00:09:11,919 --> 00:09:14,799 see and talk in real time to somebody with a 124 00:09:14,879 --> 00:09:20,320 similar device on the other side of the planet. I 125 00:09:20,399 --> 00:09:23,960 might play for you our greatest music from Beethoven Symphony 126 00:09:24,039 --> 00:09:28,080 number nine to the Beatles. Well, my guitar gently weeps. 127 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:33,080 We can fit an entire library of books on a 128 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:39,919 single card the size of a fingertip. My species has 129 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:47,559 decoded the genome. We've countered deadly viruses by inventing microscopic miracles. 130 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,559 We weren't born with wings, so we built our own, 131 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:55,080 and we fly. We've also pierced disguise with awesome structures 132 00:09:55,399 --> 00:10:00,200 once considered impossible by our ancestors. Thanks to something we 133 00:10:00,279 --> 00:10:05,159 called the Internet, our species has immediate access to a 134 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:12,159 near complete database of knowledge, which is why millions of 135 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,039 people believe you just landed on a disc. 136 00:10:20,879 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. 137 00:10:23,519 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 6: Millions of my species, people who have access to absolute 138 00:10:30,039 --> 00:10:33,879 proof for a spherical planet, remain convinced in the year 139 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:35,039 twenty twenty. 140 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 2: Five that it's all a big cover up. 141 00:10:38,399 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 3: Planetary scientist, meteorologist, the entire airline industry, every space agency, 142 00:10:44,639 --> 00:10:48,440 all world governments owe they're all in on the cover up. 143 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 2: They're all in on the hoax. 144 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,279 Speaker 3: And you know the International Space Station astronauts that you 145 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,840 passed while flying your ship on the way here. Millions 146 00:10:56,879 --> 00:11:00,799 of my fellow Homo sapiens are convinced that the space station, 147 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,480 the Shuttle orbits, the Moon landing, the satellite images, they're 148 00:11:04,519 --> 00:11:08,360 all nothing but a bunch of greenstreamed bakery funded by 149 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:09,840 deep state. 150 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 2: Billionaire sphear mongers who. 151 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 3: Really don't want all the rest of us to wake 152 00:11:15,799 --> 00:11:19,000 up someday and realize that the Earth is shaped like a. 153 00:11:18,919 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 2: Thin crust pizza. 154 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 5: Right. 155 00:11:23,519 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. You documented your arrival when you. 156 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 3: Flew in, so you can prove the spherical planet with facts, 157 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,440 you can demonstrate that you did not in fact travel 158 00:11:36,519 --> 00:11:49,279 through the atmosflat. Well, my alien friend, allow me to 159 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,600 show you what you are up against if you are 160 00:11:51,639 --> 00:11:52,799 selling reality. 161 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 2: These days, vaccines. 162 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:03,399 Speaker 3: Prevent diseases and save lives, so people refuse to get them. 163 00:12:04,039 --> 00:12:08,919 Fluoride strengthens tooth enamel, reduces cavities, and prevents tooth decay, 164 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:14,600 so we are banning it. The metric system is more 165 00:12:14,639 --> 00:12:18,120 efficient and makes more sense because it's decimal based. 166 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 2: It has no fractions. 167 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 3: Every conversion is done by some power of ten, so 168 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:30,720 of course most Americans refuse to use it. UV radiation 169 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,879 is a major cause of skin cancer, so of course 170 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,519 we sunbathe when we. 171 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:37,399 Speaker 2: Do get cancer. 172 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 3: We've got the resource of highly educated, highly trained, highly 173 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:48,159 experienced oncologists providing science based treatments, but we reject the 174 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:52,879 non thing called Western medicine, and instead we entrust our 175 00:12:53,039 --> 00:12:59,159 care to untrained and often wildly expensive nobody. Natural paths 176 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,080 to vibrate our energy, Meridians tell us to eat more 177 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:13,759 kale and shove coffee up our asses. Louisiana's House of 178 00:13:13,879 --> 00:13:22,240 Representatives recently banned the non thing called keem trails, which 179 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:27,799 are harmless condensation trails behind aircraft, which many believe are 180 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,919 mind control chemicals dropped by the deep state. 181 00:13:32,039 --> 00:13:33,679 Speaker 2: Oh, what's the deep state. 182 00:13:34,879 --> 00:13:38,919 Speaker 3: This is a largely undefined shadow network which is engaged 183 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:45,320 in everything from witchcraft to human sacrifice. Many whistleblowers about 184 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,320 this deep state got their information from QAnon. 185 00:13:49,399 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 2: What's q andon. 186 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 3: Qwanon is a series of nutbar conspiracy theories which originated 187 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,879 with some anonymous shit poster on four chant So of 188 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,399 course it all has to be true. Genetic and archaeological 189 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:11,840 evidence overwhelmingly proves that Homo sapiens descended from earlier primates 190 00:14:12,039 --> 00:14:17,039 migrating out of Africa, so of course we have white supremacists. 191 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,879 By the way, even though our genetic code confirms that 192 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:28,639 human beings evolved were proven products of evolution, one third 193 00:14:28,759 --> 00:14:31,879 more than one third of Americans believe the unsourced myth 194 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:36,240 that our ancestors were a pair of cosmically conjured garden 195 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:43,759 nudists who chatted with talking snakes. That same true book 196 00:14:43,879 --> 00:14:52,279 contains slavery, sea monsters, blood, rain, giants, magic, mud, ghost sex, fire, chariots, 197 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,159 and the story of a guy named Jonah who lived 198 00:14:55,200 --> 00:15:02,799 for three days in the belly of a submerged prison fish. 199 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,639 How many Earthlings embrace at least a version of this book, 200 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:13,120 Pew Research says only two point three billion. Now, whether 201 00:15:13,159 --> 00:15:16,200 they're Bible literalists or they think it's metaphorical truth or 202 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,039 a pretty good book or whatever, that's almost a third 203 00:15:19,039 --> 00:15:23,399 of the entire species. A ton of Americans won a 204 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,399 government based on that book. Yet they can't tell you 205 00:15:27,519 --> 00:15:30,200 what's in the damn thing or who wrote it. Most 206 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,039 Americans can't even recite half of. 207 00:15:33,039 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 2: The Ten Commandments. 208 00:15:34,679 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 3: Oh, but for them, the Bible is the preferred US Constitution. 209 00:15:41,759 --> 00:15:50,799 Speaking of government, my alien friends, there is a state 210 00:15:50,919 --> 00:15:59,080 within the United States called Georgia. Georgia District fourteen elected 211 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:06,360 this woman, and twice had your spaceship landed in her backyard, 212 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:07,039 she might. 213 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:10,879 Speaker 2: Have suspected that you were the Gaspacho. 214 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:16,399 Speaker 3: Police, you were grown by Bill Gates in a peach 215 00:16:16,639 --> 00:16:21,879 tree dish, or maybe you're part of a cabal of 216 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:26,879 astro Jews using space lasers to set fire to the 217 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:32,919 state at California. This is the same woman who joined 218 00:16:32,919 --> 00:16:38,120 the banchshit conspiracy wagon claiming that the Deep State is 219 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:45,039 purposefully cloud seating climate catastrophes for the woke lib agenda. 220 00:16:45,519 --> 00:16:48,320 And if you think she's alone in my home state, 221 00:16:48,399 --> 00:16:52,200 we recently saw Oklahoma News nine have its weather radar 222 00:16:52,559 --> 00:16:59,120 vandalized because some guys thought meteorology tools were surveillance and control. 223 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:00,919 Speaker 2: Devices being used by the deep state. 224 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,559 Speaker 3: But one Internet commenter at a great refutation to these 225 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:08,839 conspiracy theories. 226 00:17:09,759 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 2: They said, the. 227 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,839 Speaker 3: Fact that Marjorie Taylor Green is not frequently struck by 228 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,839 lighting is proof democrats do not control the weather. 229 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 2: Intelligence and goodness have long. 230 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 3: Chased Marjorie Taylor Green, and yet she has always been faster. 231 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:39,759 Speaker 2: Her canoe has no. 232 00:17:39,839 --> 00:17:47,519 Speaker 3: Oars, the wheel is spinning, the hamster is dead. She 233 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:57,720 is so dense that light bends around her. By the way, 234 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:03,079 a company with a sense of humor called Concord Industries 235 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,480 makes a product for sale that I bought and it 236 00:18:06,559 --> 00:18:09,359 sits on a shelf in my office at home. It 237 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:19,440 is an actual Jewish space laser. This is a functional 238 00:18:19,559 --> 00:18:22,960 light and fan switch. You can take your light switch 239 00:18:23,039 --> 00:18:25,359 out of the wall, and why are you can turn 240 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:26,880 your lights and fan on with the. 241 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,519 Speaker 2: Jewish space laser. It's awesome. 242 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:36,039 Speaker 3: It's false, But Georgia's District fourteen is responsible for the 243 00:18:36,079 --> 00:18:40,160 fact that we are even dealing with the Jewish space 244 00:18:40,279 --> 00:18:53,480 laser conspiracy theory. However, Georgia also saw the election of 245 00:18:53,519 --> 00:18:58,279 state Representative Stacy Abrams, an attorney, a human rights activist, 246 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:03,480 a crusader again voter suppression, and unlike Marjorie Taylor Green, 247 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:09,920 can actually read and ranked. Abrams has written New York 248 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,160 Times best selling books. She is a crusader for equality 249 00:19:13,279 --> 00:19:18,400 and humanity. She's the best of us. If I could, 250 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:23,319 I would introduce my alien friends to Maryland's Representative Jamie Raskin, 251 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:28,599 former constitutional law professor, co chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, 252 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:31,039 and a fearless defender. 253 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 2: Of democracy and equality. 254 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 3: He was diagnosed with cancer twice in twelve years, and 255 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,680 he's still out there on the front lines fighting for 256 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:46,960 what's right. This person is known by her initials Alexandria 257 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:51,400 Oconsio Cortes. Today represents New York's fourteenth district. She attended 258 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:56,359 Boston University, double majoring in international relations and economics, and 259 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,200 she graduated with honors. 260 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,759 Speaker 2: In twenty eighteen, AOC defeated a. 261 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,279 Speaker 3: Ten term incumbent in the primaries and she became the 262 00:20:05,319 --> 00:20:11,720 youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She wants medicare for everybody. 263 00:20:11,759 --> 00:20:16,039 She wants tuition free college, the abolition of ice, science 264 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:21,559 based climate initiatives, and greater economic equality across the board. 265 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:26,319 From what I've seen, she seems pretty fearless person of conviction, 266 00:20:26,799 --> 00:20:28,319 and I think she would be a. 267 00:20:28,319 --> 00:20:33,039 Speaker 2: Smart, fair and kind representative for our species to meet yours. 268 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,599 Speaker 3: By the way, have you heard the one about AOC 269 00:20:38,079 --> 00:20:44,160 and Marjorie Taylor Green at the ballgame? Okay, so there's 270 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:48,799 a Major League baseball game which hasn't started yet. Everybody's 271 00:20:48,839 --> 00:20:51,799 warming up on the field, and just by chance, Marjorie 272 00:20:51,799 --> 00:20:55,039 Taylor Green and AOC end up with seats right next 273 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,799 to each other, and all of a sudden. 274 00:20:57,599 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 7: Pregate AOC stands up, reaches over and grabs Marjorie Taylor Green, 275 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,799 hoists her up over her head and chucks her out 276 00:21:07,839 --> 00:21:09,960 onto the field. 277 00:21:10,799 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 3: And the umpire stands up and looks up, and he says, no, no, no, no. 278 00:21:14,839 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 2: I said, throw out the first pitch. 279 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,559 Speaker 3: Whether or not people agree or disagree with her politics, 280 00:21:33,799 --> 00:21:37,440 Americans have fully admired the hard work and accomplishments of 281 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:45,599 a strong, successful, self made woman. No, millions of Americans 282 00:21:45,759 --> 00:21:49,599 like this guy, dismiss her as a moron. 283 00:21:50,279 --> 00:21:51,160 Speaker 2: The creatness. 284 00:21:51,319 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson leads with the word bartender when he describes her, which, 285 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,400 by the way is an insult to the entire American 286 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,160 working class. And of course AOC is a woman of 287 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,200 Puerto Rican descend so that makes her a DEI higher. 288 00:22:08,519 --> 00:22:11,559 Speaker 2: Oh what's DEI will? 289 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 3: Diversity? Equity inclusion. It is a lovely idea. It's a 290 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:24,640 worthy goal to set a framework that promotes spare treatment 291 00:22:24,759 --> 00:22:28,880 and equal access to all people, particularly those who have 292 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:34,920 been poorly represented or who face discrimination for race or gender, disability, 293 00:22:35,039 --> 00:22:35,680 something else. 294 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:42,279 Speaker 2: It's equal opportunity for qualified people of color and gender 295 00:22:42,319 --> 00:22:43,079 in the workplace. 296 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:48,519 Speaker 3: It's about erasing ethnic barriers, allowing fair access to opportunity, 297 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:57,119 guaranteeing pay equality. It's about parental leave, protections against workplace harassment, 298 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,440 modifying our spaces to accommodate those with special needs. 299 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,079 Speaker 2: It's about affordable. 300 00:23:03,519 --> 00:23:10,279 Speaker 3: Housing, bigotry, free laws and policies, mutual respect, and open doors. 301 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,440 Yet tens of millions of people say DEI is a 302 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:21,039 Liberal plot to give preparential treatment to unqualified minorities. And 303 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:26,759 somehow AOC gets shoehorned into this insult. Even when she 304 00:23:27,039 --> 00:23:30,759 arrives at the party with a double major and honors 305 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:38,559 from Boston University. She's elected democratically in a process that 306 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,519 is supposed to be the American way. Oh what's the 307 00:23:42,559 --> 00:23:46,480 American way? You ask, well, at the time of your 308 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:51,039 arrival my extraterrestrial buddies. The markers for being a good 309 00:23:51,079 --> 00:23:58,480 American are apparently giant highway crosses, fossil fuels, and Jesus. 310 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 2: Fish bumper stickers. 311 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,559 Speaker 3: Also, if you want to demonstrate the American way publicly, 312 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,359 you must dress yourself like. 313 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:06,559 Speaker 2: The Roman candle. 314 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 3: To punctuate your americanisticness, wave around to sixty round a 315 00:24:16,559 --> 00:24:21,000 minute AR fifteen, which fires lethal projectiles at a velocity 316 00:24:21,039 --> 00:24:24,319 of thirty two hundred feet per second and is frequently 317 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:30,839 sold to mass shooting psychopaths. My country has forty four 318 00:24:31,079 --> 00:24:35,839 million of these things floating around. While licenses here are 319 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:41,759 required to drive a car, use a trademark, sell alcohol, 320 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,839 even go fishing. In some states, it's harder to buy 321 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:51,720 allergy medication than it is to buy the Great American 322 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:53,039 Death Stick. 323 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:56,839 Speaker 2: America. 324 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 3: The United States has more firearms than citizens. Gun murder 325 00:25:02,559 --> 00:25:07,519 happens hourly, so, of course, our society has committed time, energy, money, 326 00:25:07,519 --> 00:25:14,960 and resources to wage war against windmills, brown people, vaccines, 327 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:22,440 national parks, history books, and rainbow flags. The forty six 328 00:25:22,519 --> 00:25:25,920 thousand people who die by gun violence every year. There 329 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,880 is small price to pay in the service of democracy. 330 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,559 Speaker 2: Oh what's democracy. 331 00:25:32,839 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 3: Well, democracy is a system of government by and for 332 00:25:38,759 --> 00:25:39,759 everyday people. 333 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,079 Speaker 2: The power resides in the people. 334 00:25:45,759 --> 00:25:50,599 Speaker 3: Leaders are appointed and elected in free and fair elections. 335 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:55,079 Americans have a constitutional right to be or not be religious, 336 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:59,240 to speak, to assemble. We have courts of law, we 337 00:25:59,279 --> 00:26:03,599 have voting rights, we have minority protections, and a representative 338 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,839 government serving everybody. 339 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 2: The American experiment was unprecedented in the late eighteenth century. 340 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:18,279 Speaker 3: While our founders were far from perfect, their declaration of 341 00:26:18,519 --> 00:26:25,240 independence and that constitution bucked the political order, established a 342 00:26:25,279 --> 00:26:32,839 representative republic, encouraged a diversity of ideas, installed checks and balances. 343 00:26:32,279 --> 00:26:35,400 Speaker 2: Against the types of power they had just escaped. 344 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:40,119 Speaker 3: And founded a nation without tyrants and despots, dictators, or 345 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:53,799 a king and shit. Allow me to introduce you to 346 00:26:53,799 --> 00:27:08,160 today's founding Fondler, the commander in thief, Genghis Dawn Tangerine 347 00:27:08,279 --> 00:27:23,920 Palpatine ejected from the womb with a silver spoon already 348 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,279 in his mouth. Donald Trump is convinced tens of millions 349 00:27:27,279 --> 00:27:33,200 of swooning cult members that an entitled trust fund baby grifter, bankrupt, 350 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:39,960 pussy grabber, warmonger, and tantrum throwing mango man. Somehow he 351 00:27:40,039 --> 00:27:43,279 has convinced people he's the chosen one, and millions of 352 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:51,519 people agree. Like this guy, two saviors on one banner. 353 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,240 People love putting Trump and Jesus on the same message board. 354 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 2: And check this out. 355 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:03,640 Speaker 3: There's an actual organization called Women for Trump. 356 00:28:05,759 --> 00:28:07,319 Speaker 2: Given his history. 357 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,799 Speaker 3: Given his words and behaviors, given the judgments of our courts, 358 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,240 the Epstein connection everything, women. 359 00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 2: For Trump is the equivalent of chickens for Tyson. 360 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:30,799 Speaker 3: Yet an entire generation believes that he is the chosen 361 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:36,599 One his own words. Perhaps it's understandable, as he apparently 362 00:28:36,759 --> 00:28:42,039 possesses god like omnissions. Nobody knows more about taxes than 363 00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:43,599 I do, and income than I do. 364 00:28:43,759 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 2: Nobody knows more about construction than I do. 365 00:28:45,839 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 3: Nobody knows more about campaign finance than I do. 366 00:28:49,119 --> 00:28:52,359 Speaker 2: Nobody knows consultants better than I. Know more about drones 367 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,039 than anybody. Nobody knows much more about technology. 368 00:28:55,319 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 3: Nobody in the history of this country has ever known 369 00:28:58,759 --> 00:29:00,000 so much about infrastructre. 370 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,799 Speaker 2: Donald talk, I know more about ices than the generals do. Believe. 371 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,720 Nobody knows more about environmental effect statements. 372 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:09,839 Speaker 3: And I think I know more about the environment than 373 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:10,440 most people. 374 00:29:10,559 --> 00:29:12,599 Speaker 2: I know a lot about wind. I know a lot 375 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,279 about wind. Yeah, I know, winning knows very much. I've 376 00:29:15,319 --> 00:29:18,359 studied it better than anybody. I understand the power of Facebook, 377 00:29:19,079 --> 00:29:22,559 maybe better than almost anybody. I know more about renewables 378 00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:25,200 than any human being. Nobody who knows more about poles 379 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,319 than me. I know more about ports than any human 380 00:29:27,319 --> 00:29:30,119 being on Earth. Nobody knows more about bankers than I do. 381 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,640 Nobody knows more about trade than me. Well, obviously he 382 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,359 doesn't know about nuclear weapons. I know more about nuclear weapons, 383 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,039 and he'll ever know. 384 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 6: I understand the tax lawyers better than almost anyone who. 385 00:29:39,559 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 2: Knows more about lawsuits than I do. I'm the King. 386 00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:43,720 I know a lot. I know more than I'm ever 387 00:29:43,759 --> 00:29:48,599 going to tell you. Who would fall for this? 388 00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 3: This untethered claim by Captain covefe that somehow, somehow he 389 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:07,160 more than the world's most credentialed scientists, historians, philosophers, logicians, 390 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:12,599 specialist scholars, and Nobel laureates on everything from finance to 391 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:18,240 the Middle East to nuclear weapons. This is the same 392 00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:22,279 guy who boasted about passing that basic cognition test where he. 393 00:30:22,279 --> 00:30:25,079 Speaker 2: Had to remember five words in order. 394 00:30:25,359 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 3: He's still boasting about it today, and yet apparently this 395 00:30:31,359 --> 00:30:35,119 qualifies him to be not just king, but maybe a 396 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,519 supreme being, and his minions seem to agree. 397 00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 2: They build idols in his honor. 398 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 3: This is an actual idol that was brought to the 399 00:30:44,759 --> 00:30:49,759 twenty twenty one Conservative Political Action Committee Conference and people 400 00:30:49,839 --> 00:30:56,359 were posing with this golden calf. Sculptor Alan Catrill of 401 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:03,079 Ohio built himself a fifteen foot Paul Braune. Donald Trump 402 00:31:04,559 --> 00:31:07,640 he wants to have his own face put on Mount Rushmore. 403 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,000 Check out this bizarre AI image, which was posted on 404 00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:16,720 the official White House social media account. This shit is 405 00:31:16,799 --> 00:31:20,119 so straight up North Korea that I actually went and 406 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:24,000 photoshopped him here next to the statue of North Korea's 407 00:31:24,079 --> 00:31:28,559 Kim Jong ill for comparison. She had some serious Dear 408 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,680 Leader bullshit right there. 409 00:31:30,799 --> 00:31:34,839 Speaker 2: Right. 410 00:31:35,519 --> 00:31:39,119 Speaker 3: But you ask my alien friend, you ask me why 411 00:31:39,119 --> 00:31:41,960 would Americans who escaped a monarchy. 412 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 2: Want a king? Because tens of millions of registered voters 413 00:31:48,839 --> 00:31:54,160 in this country are as sharp as soup. That's why. 414 00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 3: They won't understand today, because they don't understand yesterday. They 415 00:32:02,039 --> 00:32:07,920 love savior figures and they're easy meat for charismatic con men. 416 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,359 Speaker 2: But but. 417 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 3: Tens of millions of others are also writing up to resist. 418 00:32:28,079 --> 00:32:32,880 They do understand are present in relation to our past, 419 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:35,440 and they're fighting. 420 00:32:35,079 --> 00:32:36,559 Speaker 2: Hard for our future. 421 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 3: They're protesting, They're pushing back, always with conviction, and often 422 00:32:41,519 --> 00:32:44,680 with great humor. Can I show you some examples of 423 00:32:44,759 --> 00:32:48,240 humorous messaging from some of the No King's protests. 424 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,039 Speaker 2: I enjoyed this one. Hey, Maga, go fact yourself. 425 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:06,559 Speaker 3: Ikea has better cabinets, honk if you. 426 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,519 Speaker 2: Never texted secret war. 427 00:33:08,359 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 3: Plans, imagine this car filled with bees clean up on 428 00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:29,039 Aisle forty seven? Does this ass make my country look small? 429 00:33:33,359 --> 00:33:37,240 Here's the sign I just made for the next protest. 430 00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:39,119 I haven't taken it out in public yet, but I've 431 00:33:39,119 --> 00:33:42,400 got it in the queue. It says, the Republican Congress 432 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:56,480 prepares to convene. Oh, my extra terrestrial friends, humanity has 433 00:33:56,559 --> 00:34:01,119 its moments, standing up for the best the worst of times. 434 00:34:02,839 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 2: Could you see from space? 435 00:34:04,279 --> 00:34:06,759 Speaker 3: Could you look down and see on your monitors some 436 00:34:06,799 --> 00:34:09,800 of the recent protests from across my nation under threat? 437 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:15,039 Speaker 2: It'll warm your heart. This happened in Chicago, Illinois, recently. 438 00:34:17,079 --> 00:34:27,800 Speaker 3: New York City, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Check out this amazing aerial 439 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,519 photo from San Francisco on June fourteenth. People didn't just 440 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:36,719 hold the signs, they became the sign They sent a 441 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:41,320 message that they are not royal subjects, they're free citizens. 442 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,199 They believe that the power of the people is stronger 443 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:50,440 than the people in power. At least that's the nation 444 00:34:50,599 --> 00:34:53,199 they want to live in. That's the country they're fighting for. 445 00:34:56,079 --> 00:34:59,159 In that sense, my extra terrestrial friend, if we were 446 00:34:59,199 --> 00:35:02,519 to divide here humans into their nature, maybe we could do. 447 00:35:02,519 --> 00:35:05,360 Speaker 2: So in a way that relates specifically to you, the alien. 448 00:35:06,519 --> 00:35:09,039 Speaker 3: In our recent history, we used to speculate a lot 449 00:35:09,079 --> 00:35:12,840 about the aliens, and our opinions, and our media reflected 450 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,360 much of what we feared and what we hoped for 451 00:35:15,519 --> 00:35:18,599 and who we were. The Red Scare and fears of 452 00:35:18,679 --> 00:35:24,760 nuclear holocaust prompted an entire genre of nineteen fifties alien films. 453 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 2: That reflected a terrified culture. 454 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,199 Speaker 3: They're coming to get us, They're going to steal everything, 455 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,320 and they're going to abduct us, and they're going to 456 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:36,760 destroy the world alien fiction, which also exposed American xenophobia. 457 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,480 In the minds of many, the outsider were a danger 458 00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:43,880 coming to take everything we have, and people like that 459 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:45,159 exists today. 460 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,039 Speaker 2: The late sixties. 461 00:35:49,119 --> 00:35:52,559 Speaker 3: Began a kind of turning point where humankind became slightly 462 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:57,559 less afraid a little more optimistic about other places and 463 00:35:57,639 --> 00:36:02,119 other intelligences. We saw a lot of films in the 464 00:36:02,159 --> 00:36:06,360 eighties and nineties that looked with wonder at the possibilities 465 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:12,559 of making contact, discovery, connection, a kind of cosmic kinship 466 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,880 with other sentient beings. And many of those optimists, dreamers, 467 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:23,400 and ambassadors exist on our planet today. So here you are, 468 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:30,519 You come in peace. Yet tragically, many of my fellow 469 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:31,840 citizens do not. 470 00:36:34,199 --> 00:36:37,000 Speaker 2: Humanity. You know, we've proven. 471 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:42,320 Speaker 3: Both profoundly sensible and wildly senseless when it comes to 472 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,559 almost everything in our lives, where a species at war 473 00:36:46,639 --> 00:36:50,760 with itself constantly, and I guess it's always been that way. 474 00:36:51,119 --> 00:36:53,559 Only one hundred and sixty years ago in this country 475 00:36:53,599 --> 00:36:56,880 it was another incarnation of that same human battle, one 476 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,559 side wanting to cage people, the other. 477 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,559 Speaker 2: Side to liberate them. 478 00:37:02,519 --> 00:37:08,840 Speaker 3: One of the darkest periods in American history, resulting in 479 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:13,400 one of its brightest moments, the Thirteenth Amendment and the 480 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:18,960 abolition of slavery. Not that long ago, a culture of 481 00:37:19,039 --> 00:37:23,280 sexist told women to shut up. Many of them stood 482 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,159 on the Bible when they tried to silence women. But 483 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:31,119 another culture of liberators stood up for gender equality, resulting 484 00:37:31,119 --> 00:37:35,159 in the nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution in August 485 00:37:35,199 --> 00:37:36,599 of nineteen twenty. 486 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,480 Speaker 2: The right of citizens of the United States to. 487 00:37:39,519 --> 00:37:43,079 Speaker 3: Vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United 488 00:37:43,079 --> 00:37:48,679 States or any State on account of sex. And we 489 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:53,239 know misogyny hasn't gone away, but the suffrage movement knocked 490 00:37:53,320 --> 00:38:01,199 down sexist barriers to the ballot box. Fifties and sixties, 491 00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:05,239 the dividers shouted America first, that sound familiar. 492 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:07,679 Speaker 2: White America first. 493 00:38:10,159 --> 00:38:14,519 Speaker 3: The uniters among us said no, we are all the 494 00:38:14,639 --> 00:38:20,119 human condition. Nineteen fifty four Supreme Court decision in Brown 495 00:38:20,199 --> 00:38:25,199 versus Board of Education smashed school segregation. The Civil Rights 496 00:38:25,199 --> 00:38:30,760 Act of nineteen sixty four outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, 497 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:36,320 and national origin. Legal blocks to terracial marriage would be struck. 498 00:38:36,079 --> 00:38:41,559 Speaker 2: Down three years later. Invoking God. 499 00:38:41,679 --> 00:38:45,880 Speaker 3: Famous religious bigot Jerry Folwell and people like him famously 500 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:50,320 said that gay people were dangerous reprobates seeking a modern 501 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,079 day Sodom and Gomorrah. 502 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,360 Speaker 2: They blamed homosexuals. 503 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,400 Speaker 3: For everything from pedophilia, to the AIDS virus, to the 504 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:04,440 attacks of nine to eleven, the fearful and the hateful, 505 00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,880 and the small claim that society had no obligation to 506 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:13,280 serve non heterosexuals. You want healthcare, you want a job, 507 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,559 you want to get married. Would you like us to 508 00:39:15,679 --> 00:39:20,079 bake you a cake? Sorry, you don't have that right. 509 00:39:22,679 --> 00:39:27,159 Speaker 2: And yet millions of other people formed a resistance. They 510 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,000 stood up, and they continue to stand up. 511 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:34,800 Speaker 3: For LGBT equality, gender equality, racial equality. 512 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,360 Speaker 2: The struggle continues. 513 00:39:36,599 --> 00:39:40,559 Speaker 3: Sometimes it feels like half of humans are in human 514 00:39:40,639 --> 00:39:48,480 Does anyone else feel that way? Christian nationalists are desperately 515 00:39:48,519 --> 00:39:51,360 trying to build one nation in their image and make 516 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:56,119 the rest of us second class citizens or worse. And 517 00:39:56,199 --> 00:40:02,280 yet many good people, including many Christians, are battling daily 518 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,559 for equality across the board. People like my friend Amanda 519 00:40:06,679 --> 00:40:10,719 Tyler of the Baptist Joint Committee. She's founder of Christians 520 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:15,880 Against Christian Nationalism. We may disagree on theology, but we 521 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,239 share values, and she stands shoulder to shoulder with humanists 522 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,039 across the board to fight for what's right. 523 00:40:26,199 --> 00:40:27,840 Speaker 2: My friend Rachel Lazar. 524 00:40:27,639 --> 00:40:32,039 Speaker 3: Practicing Jew, is president of Americans United for the Separation 525 00:40:32,119 --> 00:40:37,119 of Church and State, an organization on the ideological and 526 00:40:37,159 --> 00:40:40,760 the legal front lines to defend our constitution. There are 527 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,960 so many other good people across the religious and non 528 00:40:44,039 --> 00:40:47,119 religious spectrum who are on the right side of these 529 00:40:47,119 --> 00:40:52,599 issues and on the right side of history of humanity. 530 00:40:53,679 --> 00:40:56,280 I can't explain to you why members of my species 531 00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:00,559 would make a concentration camp the opportunity for a GOP. 532 00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:01,719 Speaker 2: I can't explain it. 533 00:41:01,599 --> 00:41:05,679 Speaker 3: To you, but I can tell you there are other 534 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,679 good people who are out there protesting and being outraged 535 00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:10,079 about it because it is. 536 00:41:10,079 --> 00:41:14,280 Speaker 2: Wrong and immoral and horrible and inhuman. The cancerre a 537 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:15,679 microcosm of the world. 538 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,559 Speaker 3: I'm trying to describe my species just it has the 539 00:41:18,599 --> 00:41:21,800 worst and the best, the kidnappers and the liberators, the 540 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,960 killers and the healers, the builders, the burners. You have 541 00:41:26,119 --> 00:41:30,800 landed in a place that's broken and unsafe, the divided 542 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:36,119 States of America. Given what's happening, my friends, I don't 543 00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:38,280 think you should stay. 544 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:40,280 Speaker 2: I think you're in danger. 545 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:45,480 Speaker 3: If you stay, many will always fear and hate what 546 00:41:45,519 --> 00:41:49,559 they don't or what they won't understand. But before you go, 547 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,440 I want to give you a reason to maybe return 548 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:59,880 someday as far as I go, I'm a work in progress. 549 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,159 I'm going to try to keep myself from just becoming 550 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,800 scar tissue. I'm going to try to keep from losing 551 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,239 the better parts of myself. I'm going to try to 552 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:13,960 keep from surrendering to despair and depression and exasperation. I'm 553 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,400 gonna make sure while I'm cursing the darkness, I'm also spreading. 554 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,039 Speaker 2: And even enjoying some light. 555 00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:26,079 Speaker 3: And when we hopefully meet again, I hope the future 556 00:42:26,159 --> 00:42:26,639 me is. 557 00:42:26,559 --> 00:42:32,480 Speaker 2: A better man than he is today. Good people will 558 00:42:32,519 --> 00:42:33,039 still be. 559 00:42:33,119 --> 00:42:41,639 Speaker 3: Here when you return, dreaming, battling, building, rebuilding. I've met 560 00:42:41,639 --> 00:42:45,239 a lot of these people, many are in this room, and. 561 00:42:45,199 --> 00:42:48,320 Speaker 2: I can assure you they will never stop. They'll never 562 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,559 stop fighting for what they believe in, for what is right. 563 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,639 Speaker 3: They are the best of this And on your next visit, 564 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:57,880 on your next visit, I hope those people are the 565 00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:58,960 first people you meet. 566 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,840 Speaker 2: I hope it's somebody like April of Joy. I hope 567 00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,840 it's April. She would be my ambassador. 568 00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,519 Speaker 3: I hope it's Gaale. 569 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:21,440 Speaker 2: I hope it's Cold or David Canvas Stacy. 570 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:27,840 Speaker 3: So this whole room, you're my pick, You're my ambassadors 571 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,599 because we are seeing visitors land here in our eyeline 572 00:43:35,639 --> 00:43:40,639 every day, not necessarily from up there, but from right 573 00:43:40,679 --> 00:43:44,639 here where we live. You would be humanity's ambassadors, and 574 00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:49,400 I would proudly stand with you. You represent the goodness 575 00:43:49,639 --> 00:43:53,800 capable of You are a reason my species might be 576 00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:59,039 worth meeting again if and when that day arrives. My friends, 577 00:43:59,199 --> 00:44:01,760 it is our deep his goal to be as humanity 578 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,039 worth visiting, worth knowing. At the very least, we're hoping 579 00:44:05,119 --> 00:44:07,920 that there is a greater good and lesser evils. 580 00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:12,800 Speaker 2: Oppressors will fall to the liberators. 581 00:44:13,119 --> 00:44:21,920 Speaker 3: Kindness will conquer cruelty, Humanity will overwhelm in humanity. When 582 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,840 we look up and we see you arriving from the skies, 583 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:28,239 we're not going to respond with fear and hate. We're 584 00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,360 going to roll out the welcome man. We're going to 585 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,800 greet you with big smiles, and we're going to teach 586 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,360 you how we hug and high five, will tell you 587 00:44:36,679 --> 00:44:40,440 our story, will show you our world, and after our 588 00:44:40,519 --> 00:44:44,400 great struggle, this world will indeed be a better world. 589 00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,119 Speaker 2: That's the goal, that's the dream. 590 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:55,360 Speaker 3: Perhaps perhaps on that future day, as a species, we'll 591 00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,039 be able to walk up to you and say, sincerely, 592 00:44:58,079 --> 00:45:02,960 from the bottom of our hearts, we come in peace. 593 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:07,400 Speaker 2: Thank you. 594 00:45:21,639 --> 00:45:25,159 Speaker 1: Follow the Thinking Atheist on Facebook and Twitter for a 595 00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,840 complete archive of podcasts and videos, products like mugs and 596 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,559 t shirts featuring the Thinking Atheist logo, links to atheist 597 00:45:32,599 --> 00:45:36,280 pages and resources, and details on upcoming free thought events 598 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:43,480 and conventions. 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