WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:17.320 Topical a dependent. 2 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:20.640 On this and. 3 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:52.439 Can you hear me? Can you hear me now? You 4 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:55.000 probably couldn't hear me before, but can you hear me now? 5 00:00:57.679 --> 00:00:59.640 Good morning? Good morning? Good morning, good morning, good morning. 6 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:04.519 Can you hear me? Now? All right, we're back in business. 7 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.760 Oh man, how's everybody doing? It is the day before 8 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:18.359 Christmas here in the United States. It's a big deal. 9 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:29.000 People get very excited. But we're not doing that over here. 10 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:31.359 This is what we're doing this year over and not 11 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:35.760 about Christmas? But are you so over and not about Christmas? 12 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.840 But also know that on that day you don't want 13 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:41.799 to be by yourself, not a problem. For just five dollars, 14 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:43.719 you can join us over at the Seal Squad for 15 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:48.959 our non Christmas Christmas. We'll ease into the day starting 16 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:50.959 at noon blending a cleans. I found this nice little 17 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:53.879 recipe that is multi beneficial. So we're going to talk 18 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:55.959 about all the things and all the ways in which 19 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.120 we can be beneficial to ourselves in the upcoming year. 20 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:02.319 At four o'clock, when everyone's sitting down for dinner, we're 21 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:05.280 gonna be sitting down to watch Sinners, and I'm gonna 22 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:07.680 do a pause and play of giving my commentary for 23 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:09.919 this classic film that was really the best part of 24 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:12.439 twenty twenty five. And then we're gonna close out our 25 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:14.520 night with a color and vibe. Now this is where 26 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:16.360 I open the zoom and everybody can join and get 27 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:18.319 their crafts on and chit chat or not chat, but 28 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:21.840 basically just be in community. That's right, y'all. On de 29 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:24.039 Summer twenty fifth, we have a whole day of events 30 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:26.879 at my Patreon that have nothing to do with Chris. 31 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:29.120 You can come and hang out with us over at Patreon. 32 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:37.080 The Seal Squad is your community baby, all right. So 33 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:43.879 this is something I came up with, like, all right, well, 34 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:46.719 I ain't doing nothing no on Christmas. I guess I'll 35 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:50.879 do something no on Christmas. So that's what we're gonna do. 36 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:54.400 Welcome if you're just joining us. This is used for 37 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.080 amandolaying our news and truths by any joke necessary. Thank 38 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:01.199 you for waking up on the right side of the history. 39 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:06.759 You know, this is an interesting show because I really 40 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:10.439 didn't do a lot of prep. You know, we are 41 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:14.080 very fortunate today to have the Africa tappen, so that's 42 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:17.199 gonna go down. We've also got like our sixty second headlines, 43 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:21.159 but they're gonna be pretty pretty quick because what I 44 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:24.560 really want to talk to you all about is how 45 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:27.840 the US is no friend to the Caribbean. And you know, 46 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:32.280 you got Nicki Minaj over here hanging out with this 47 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:38.319 man's wife, this deceased man's wife, and you've got the 48 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:42.560 President of Trinidad, the Prime Minister of Trinidad, just just 49 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:45.039 selling out her country in the same way that Machada 50 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:48.520 is selling out Venezuela. So I want to just give 51 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:50.719 some more framework because I know I've said in the 52 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:54.120 past that Africa, I mean that the Caribbean is the unit, 53 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.479 is the Africa of the Western Hemisphere, and I want 54 00:03:57.520 --> 00:03:59.719 to just give some more framing to that. I think 55 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:03.919 they've done an incredible job of really calling the Caribbean 56 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:06.919 just the Caribbean. It's paradise, it's beautiful, it's gorgeous, without 57 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:11.719 acknowledging the immense ways that the United States has been 58 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:18.240 incredibly destructive to the Caribbean. Okay, like super duper duper destructive. 59 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:21.199 So we are going to talk about that. But I 60 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:27.519 also want to make sure that we discuss the flooding 61 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:32.879 going on in Washington State, because it don't seem like 62 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:38.560 it's getting the burn that it deserves. Okay, I have poporn. 63 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:49.319 I also want to talk about hold one second. I 64 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:53.759 also want to talk about the uh, the burying of 65 00:04:53.800 --> 00:05:02.199 these of the the sixty minutes segment. Okay, that Barry 66 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:10.120 weisburied over at CBS doing her job, boy, doing her job, 67 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:13.199 which is exactly why she was put in that position. 68 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:21.240 And I want to make sure that we also I 69 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:23.120 just feel like we need to give a little bit 70 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:33.560 more framing to the epstein of it all. So I'm 71 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.079 going to sorry, I'm just like typing crazy, uh, but 72 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:40.839 we're going to do all of that. And a couple 73 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.360 just quick headlines that I want to bring to your attention. 74 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:50.879 Belgium has entered has entered the ICJ case against Israel, 75 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:54.319 So I think that's really interesting and I need to 76 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:59.600 do more writing, I mean reading about that. But yeah, 77 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:04.000 Belgia has entered the case against Israel that South Africa 78 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:10.959 started in the in the International Court, so we're going 79 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:14.040 to be looking into that. You know that the International 80 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:19.959 Court has been sanctioned by I believe the UK for 81 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:26.279 saying that it will arrest that it will arrest Yahoo. 82 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.800 By the way, why is the International Court able to 83 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:33.120 be sanctioned? That should tell you everything. How is a 84 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:38.079 court of law able to be sanctioned by those who 85 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:42.160 it is supposed to be holding the law against. I'll 86 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:46.639 tell you why, because the International Court was not supposed 87 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:48.639 to be holding against the law was not supposed to 88 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:54.360 be upholding international law against colonizers. The colonizers literally created 89 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:56.920 it so that they could use it to continue to 90 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:00.560 suppress the nations that it was no law younger able 91 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:08.319 to outright colonize. But as for the person here in 92 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:11.199 the chat saying you need more proof about the unredacting 93 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:14.079 of the files, I mean it's literally all over the internet, 94 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:17.480 people doing it in real time. So I'm not sure 95 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:20.759 you know if you haven't seen that yet, but it 96 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.040 the proof is is the pud in is there. It's 97 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:30.600 it's all over the place, and the for what it's worth, 98 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:38.959 I mean, the redactions end up being really damning, you know, 99 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:43.720 really damning. So I also wanted to shout out some 100 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:49.279 good news for the brothers of Bob Villain. They are 101 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:53.519 not being charged for their chance death death deft to 102 00:07:53.519 --> 00:08:01.439 the audi IF and shout out to the lead singer 103 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:08.639 Pascal on the left who could get it five days 104 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:16.079 from Fridays just obsessed. I say that as I don't, like, 105 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:22.040 I don't have contact with this person, like I'm literally 106 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:24.480 able to communicate with this person, like we literally chat, 107 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:33.480 but separate issue. Fine, so shout out. I mean, the 108 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:37.480 brands are really doing it. We've got we've got Mufassa, 109 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:42.759 then we've got a man here, Pascal, and then we've 110 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:51.039 got Anthony Joshua who beat the breaks the breaks off 111 00:08:51.080 --> 00:09:00.679 of your man's white Boy Jake. So really, just I'm 112 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:02.879 not sure why is this person here saying I hope 113 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:08.879 it's true. It is true. It's about the redactions. It 114 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:22.080 is true, Like it's everywhere. It is true. Someone asked, 115 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:24.639 did I speak about Nicki Minaj speaking at Turning Point? 116 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:28.759 I actually did an entire talk about this on my 117 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.440 Patreon and you can go over to Patreon and check 118 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:42.120 it out and you can see my thoughts, my expounded thoughts. 119 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:50.799 All right, my expounded thoughts. So yeah, check that out. 120 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:54.200 I'm actually going to be talking a little bit about 121 00:09:55.720 --> 00:10:01.039 not necessarily that specific topic, but how that t I mean, 122 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:06.440 how that connects. We'll get into that as well. Now 123 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:12.399 before we drum roll to our word of the day. 124 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:22.080 I need to tell you the Smart Funny and Black 125 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:29.120 Teas and Hoodies have returned. It has been two years 126 00:10:29.159 --> 00:10:32.600 since I have had the Smart Funny and Black Teas 127 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:41.240 and Hoodies on sale because I couldn't find the way, 128 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:47.679 I couldn't find a distributor, I couldn't find a fulfillment 129 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:53.799 that I trusted. However, I have finally, I believe I 130 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:59.480 have finally cracked the T shirt code. I know y'all 131 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:03.879 are all asking me for T shirts, and I know 132 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:08.320 y'all are always wanting somewhere that you can, some way 133 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:11.480 that you can be a walking billboard. And I've got you. 134 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:16.840 So this is the return, the return of the Smartphnny 135 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:19.679 and Black Tea and Hoodie. Go to Amanda Siel Sorry, 136 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:24.240 go to a Mandolin Exports dot com. These are very coveted, y'all. 137 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.000 As you can see, it is right here in the flesh. 138 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:32.240 Smartphnny in Black is the name of my production company, 139 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:36.080 but it was originally the name of a show that 140 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:41.159 I did for years where I would bring two folks 141 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:43.559 on stage and they would compete in games that would 142 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:48.960 test their knowledge of black culture, black history, and the 143 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:52.159 black experience. Thank you, and I'm so glad you just 144 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:53.919 did a quick search. I'm like, why are you actually 145 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:58.440 like this is just made up? Anyway. The sfb TN 146 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.879 hoodie is from a era that many of you all 147 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:04.080 may not have known me in, but that was so 148 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:10.279 illustrious aka the Illustrious League, and this image represents the 149 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:13.919 multi pronged approach to resistance. On the green, you've got 150 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:17.279 the rebel fam. On the yellow, you've got the woke fam, 151 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:19.559 on the black, you've got the culture fam. And on 152 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:23.200 the red you've got the fly fam. We we fight, 153 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:29.279 we read, we we fight, we read, we vibe and 154 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:34.960 we rep And I really should have shown you all 155 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.559 the clip. I should have shown you all like what 156 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:40.679 Smartphony in Black was so that you all could really 157 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:46.960 really understand, because it really, it really was a time. 158 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:50.879 And now we have definitely transitioned into a new era 159 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:53.279 with Smartphony in Black as the name of my production 160 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:57.279 company to be a home for edutainment. So go get 161 00:12:57.320 --> 00:13:01.720 your SFBT and hoodie. You will be supported your girl 162 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:04.639 and the work that I do. And it's time for 163 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:10.039 us to get into the views from Amanda land Row. 164 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:19.159 Come come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, 165 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:24.360 it's that day before Christmas. 166 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:29.879 Let's go. Amanda Landers here to learn, Drop in and 167 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:32.720 tell me where you're watching from. We've already got Christmas 168 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:40.320 Day and from Amanda Landers here to learn. Drop in 169 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:41.879 and tell me where you're watching from? 170 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:42.039 Where? 171 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:46.200 Hold on, how is it Christmas Day in France? It's 172 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:52.080 only ten twenty? How can it be Christmas Day? That 173 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:57.360 don't make no sense? Friends, only six hours academy. Come on, 174 00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:00.679 come on, we gotta get back into it. Let's go, 175 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:05.720 let's go, let's go. We got Mesthlahem, Pennsylvania, Holliday, Grubby 176 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:10.519 and Patterson, New Jersey, Alexandria, Bay Brooklyn running Errands fellow 177 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:17.799 needs to do SFB honey, I agree, Oakland, California, Cleveland, Ohio, Flagstaff, Arizona, Houston, Dye, 178 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:22.360 Salt Lake City, Utah, k Why it's on Christmas? Sing 179 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:29.960 in Toronto, Middle Georgia. I roar on Colorado and is 180 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:35.279 in the psych one representing man He's a soup got 181 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:38.120 no North Carolina can wait? This is the second person 182 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:40.360 that said a man that you sound sick. I'm not sick. 183 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:42.000 Let me tell you what the problem is. The problem is. 184 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:45.720 I've been oding on Derry. Okay, that's the problem. I've 185 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:48.559 been oding on dairy and what happens is that then 186 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:53.960 I get heartburn, and the heartburn gives me uh it 187 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:59.240 makes my vocal cords inflamed. So you're hearing me sound nasal, 188 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:02.159 But what it actually is is that my vocal cords 189 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:04.000 are inflame as we're having to do a lot more 190 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:10.840 work to get sound out. Shitto Wartworth, Tahas like South 191 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:15.480 Texas and Carmen Milwaukee, miss toombson now in California, eight 192 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:21.320 time rain in La O. Let me tell y'all something 193 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:25.720 it used to rein in la and my house would 194 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:28.480 leak and I'd be like, how I got this multimillion 195 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:31.919 dollar house would leaks? And that's when you really understand capitalism. 196 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:36.799 You're like, this is the most but dumb bs ever. 197 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:39.440 I paid all this money for this house and this 198 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:42.519 shit leaked like a shack. That'll make no sense. That'll 199 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:50.480 make no damn sense. Okay, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, leave my bad. 200 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:55.320 That's what I said. The National California, Oxford County, Ontario 201 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:02.080 on that What's side of Chicago? D true boy Netland, 202 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:10.200 South Carolina unseated tongue but territory shout out to Atlantic City, Nashville, Orland, 203 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:17.200 lock Down Town. What's pm E Jerry's Brookland, Mataville, California, 204 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:22.080 kid Down South Africa. We got Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, Newark, 205 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:29.200 brook City and Burningham, Alabama and Canada winter fell head Farkers. 206 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:38.840 All right, Amanda Landers here, thank you for telling me 207 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:54.480 where you're watching run Indonesia. No really though, because you 208 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:56.559 know in La, like that's the thing, like, oh you 209 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:59.000 you you make money, you buy a big house, Like 210 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:02.799 that's like the way it We're I cannot explain to 211 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:07.200 y'all how ridiculous it was that I lived in this 212 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:16.920 house and then I had home depot buckets. Make it 213 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:23.759 makes sense, Make it makes sense. And at one point 214 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:38.720 the ceiling in the garage fell in behind my jeep, 215 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:43.440 and so I just didn't drive my jeep for like 216 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:47.559 two months. I just was like, And I remember, I 217 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:58.279 remember my they built you a Hollywood set is diabolical. 218 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:03.000 And I remember my neighbor came in to help me 219 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.440 with something and he looked over. He was like, oh. 220 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:11.640 I was like, we're not acknowledging that right now. I 221 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:15.640 didn't witness the fall in, but he was like you 222 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:17.279 see it. I was like, we're just not and he 223 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:23.359 was like, I completely understand that. Anybody who owns their 224 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:26.680 own home, you know that. I'm sure parents deal with 225 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:28.680 the same thing. You're just like, I'm not acknowledging. I'm 226 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:30.960 not dealing with that right now. I'll get to that. 227 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:35.359 I can't. I'm not dealing with that right now. So 228 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:40.920 I didn't drive my jeep for two months. And then 229 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:43.119 when I did get back in my jeep and I 230 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:50.559 tried to start it, it wouldn't start because mice had 231 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:53.960 set up shop and chewed up all the wires in 232 00:18:54.000 --> 00:19:13.440 my jeep. Do you understand mice had chewed up all 233 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:16.680 the wires in my jeep and my house was on 234 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:20.920 like my driveway was like steep, so we could not 235 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:26.559 get the car. We couldn't get the tow truck up, 236 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:31.599 so we had to get the car down the hill. 237 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:35.480 When I tell you this man, I underestimated him because 238 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:37.519 it was this real, this older man who was just 239 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:39.720 he just seemed like kind of all over the place. 240 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:44.200 But baby, the way that man dropped that john in 241 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:48.279 the neutral and got it down, that that that heel 242 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:57.640 who I was very impressed, and I I just yeah, 243 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:04.400 so a whole scam exactly right, A whole damn scam. 244 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:04.720 Nia. 245 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:10.480 Nonetheless, here we are have used for Amandoland and it's 246 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:12.079 time to get into our word of the day. So 247 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:14.960 everybody take out your abuse for a mandalin Word of 248 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.079 the day log books. You can also get these at 249 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:23.400 Amandoland Exports, along with your views for a Mandoland notebooks 250 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:28.880 and sticker sheets. So let's get into our word of 251 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:37.680 the day. The word of the day is hold on. 252 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:41.000 I feel like we've already done this one. Have we 253 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:54.519 done dilatory? Dilatory? Not on time? Not on time, dilatory 254 00:20:54.720 --> 00:21:00.319 d I l A we've done dilatory? Oh sorry, okay, 255 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:04.039 hold on, hold on, hold on? Have we done abate? 256 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:10.759 Have we done a bait? I should probably get a 257 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:17.599 better system for whether we've done these words or not. 258 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:24.759 We've done abait too, all right? How about okay, we 259 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:33.839 haven't done a bait? Yes we did? Okay, some people 260 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:36.799 think we did debate? How about irresolute? I don't think 261 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:42.599 we did a resolute irresolute is an adjective meaning unable 262 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:49.759 to make up one's mind, unable to make up one's mind, 263 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:57.240 irresolute I R R E s O l U t E. 264 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:00.680 Shout out to everybody listening on the podcast, and big 265 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:04.400 up to all of our folks on the replay crew. 266 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:07.519 This is when we need you all to be engaging 267 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:10.200 in the chat. Y'all. They have been shadow banning the 268 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:13.000 show like crazy. The only thing that pushes the show 269 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:17.240 through the algorithm is you, guys, commenting and subscribing. So 270 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:19.759 hopefully you will do all three. You will like you 271 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:22.240 will comment and subscribe the minute the show is done, 272 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:25.960 before you come over to the after show, go in 273 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:31.960 the comments and say something, okay, all right. Irresolute, ir 274 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:34.680 r ees O l U t E. It's an adjective 275 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:38.160 meaning unable to make up one's mind. Let's see, does 276 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:41.799 anybody have a sentence I can say that. Now that 277 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:44.799 I'm done with my book, I find myself irresolute on 278 00:22:45.319 --> 00:22:48.240 what priority I should put in place because I have 279 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:51.319 so many ideas of stuff I want to do. Irresolute, 280 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:56.759 a right re said. In the recent finale of Apple 281 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:00.799 TV Show's Apple TV Plus show Pluribus, the protagonist Carol 282 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:04.880 was qrite, irresolute in her emotion, in her motivations. I 283 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:08.640 can't watch that show. Everyone said it took too long, 284 00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:10.759 and I was like, hold on, ain't the season done? 285 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:14.599 Had the season done? And it's taken too long. As 286 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:17.400 an artist who hands in her hands, As an artist 287 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:21.200 who has her hands and everything, DJ Bless says, I 288 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:23.720 tend to have an irresolute urge to procrastinate on my 289 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:30.880 next project. I respect it, okay, the official soft spoken. 290 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:32.640 I am irresolute on if I want to be in 291 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:34.960 a relationship, well baby, just let it. Let it come 292 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:39.039 your way. Let it come your way, all right, Kimberly says. 293 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:44.599 When I'm nervous and stressed, I get irresolute. I agree, 294 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:47.279 I agree with you. All right, Let's get one more, 295 00:23:47.720 --> 00:23:54.279 one more, and says I am irresolute in how to 296 00:23:54.440 --> 00:23:58.319 address authority figures that literally are making life or death 297 00:23:58.359 --> 00:24:06.200 decisions around my care. That's real, that's real. And last 298 00:24:06.200 --> 00:24:08.960 but not least, Okay, Deborah says, I find myself a 299 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:10.960 resolute about living here and watch it say because this 300 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:15.519 wild out here. Listen. We will be talking about what's 301 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.000 going on in Washington State a little later on in 302 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:22.200 the show. But I'm gonna write down my words of 303 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:26.640 the day, irresolute in my log, and this is how 304 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:30.160 we will keep track. So well, there's not gonna be anymore. 305 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:32.359 Did we do that word or not? Because I should 306 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:34.279 be writing the words down in my Word of the 307 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:43.079 Day log book. Duh. So here we go, irresolute adjective 308 00:24:44.359 --> 00:25:01.519 and the definition is unable to make up one's mind. Boom, 309 00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:07.359 there we go. Okay, I think you meant to say irresolute, 310 00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:10.160 but you said I'm resolute and if I want to 311 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:13.359 block my sister, and I feel like that was a 312 00:25:13.400 --> 00:25:16.400 freudiant slip, meaning that you actually want to block your sister, 313 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:33.799 not Rolando telling you to do it. So there it is. 314 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:38.119 It's in the log book, y'all. Irresolute. So now we 315 00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:40.759 don't ever have to be like, oh my gosh, did 316 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:44.559 we do that word? I put it in the log book. 317 00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:46.720 By the way, if you haven't gotten here, what would 318 00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:49.279 the ancestors say, book? Get it, get it, get it. 319 00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:52.400 This is how I support myself. All right. Now, we 320 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:54.839 have a guest today who's going to be joining us 321 00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:57.799 for the Africa to happen, but they're not here yet. 322 00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:01.759 So in the meantime, in between time, let's talk about 323 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:06.119 what our question of the week is. How about we 324 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:22.880 do that a question phone questions a question? Now I 325 00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:29.920 asked a similar question about Thanksgiving, thanks taking, I should say, 326 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:34.319 but now I want to ask how and when did 327 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:42.119 your feelings change about Christmas, because you know, I think 328 00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:45.480 that's even more of a tougher one to kind of 329 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:49.759 like move away from, just because it is so embroiled 330 00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:54.039 baked into literally everything here in this nation. So I'm 331 00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:58.920 like wondering about that. For people, when did your relationship 332 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:03.799 to Chriss change? I can tell you that mine changed 333 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:08.799 in the last two years, more so because of Palestine. 334 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:14.599 I would say that Philistine uh really just made the entire, 335 00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:21.039 the entire farce of the existence that we're in very loud. 336 00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:25.240 And so once I saw that, it was like I 337 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:28.319 couldn't like unsee it, you know what I'm saying, Like 338 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:32.519 it was just what it is. And so that's kind 339 00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:36.200 of where it started. And then I also just decided 340 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:38.759 I just didn't want to do the whole presence thing. 341 00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:41.920 You know, It's like just me and my mom and 342 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:45.319 I'm like, what are we doing? She still sent me 343 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:47.799 stuff calling it saying this for Quansa. So then other 344 00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:49.640 people were asking me, well, what about Kwanza? What are 345 00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:51.480 you gonna do about Quanza? And I thought I was 346 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:55.799 going to celebrate Quansa, but maybe I can't do eight days. 347 00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:04.480 I can't do eight days. Next year, I'm gonna dance 348 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:08.079 around a tree for the solstice. You know, I can't 349 00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:12.000 do eight days for Kwanza. It's just it's not realistic. 350 00:28:13.960 --> 00:28:20.039 I respect it, I respect it, but God lee them 351 00:28:20.039 --> 00:28:24.079 eight days. That's a long that's more than a week. 352 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:31.519 I do like saying kudi jagalia though. I do like 353 00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:35.640 saying cutie jagaliya. You know, do REMI says they're off 354 00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:38.279 anything but birthdays. You know. What I'm trying to do 355 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:43.039 is just change what celebrating and how we are engaging 356 00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:48.000 in these days of reference is done right, Like I'm 357 00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:50.920 trying to shift kind of just my way of even 358 00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:55.640 acknowledging days of people's passing and like what is actually done. So, 359 00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:57.799 for instance, like when I do a joke on stage 360 00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:00.440 and in my book, what would the ancestors say about 361 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.119 how white people should have to build altars for Juneteenth? 362 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:09.440 That's sixty percent true. I believe that white people should 363 00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:11.799 have to build altars for Juneteenth. You should have to 364 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:17.799 give offering to those who came before on Juneteenth. I 365 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:23.519 think that actually makes perfect sense. You know, it's a 366 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:28.240 version of an afrenda, and it's a version of Day 367 00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:31.480 of the Dead. And I just don't feel like we 368 00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:36.279 are we are so trapped in the mind state of 369 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.759 really celebrating with showing with money. That's like our only 370 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:44.400 way of acknowledging celebration is with money, and so I've 371 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:46.720 been really trying to figure out other ways that we 372 00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:51.799 can do that. Carmen says that her change for Christmas 373 00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:54.039 started around nineteen ninety eight when she was teaching at 374 00:29:54.039 --> 00:29:58.680 a law socioeconomic school, and then twenty twenty three really shifted. Well, 375 00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:01.839 what happened in twenty twenty three, oh okay for the esteem. 376 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:05.720 Angela Rochelle said, twenty fifteen, I was in the middle 377 00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:08.599 of a divorce. Holy my mom died the month of 378 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:10.519 form So sorry to hear that. That time period made 379 00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:15.680 me question everything about the world. I hear you d musical, 380 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:18.039 Daisy said. Growing up, I was like, we really don't 381 00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:20.640 get Christmas here in Miami. We don't have chimney at Chimney. 382 00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:22.599 So you was basically the child that just said it 383 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:25.920 don't make sense. It just it just it don't make sense. 384 00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:30.160 Nigel said, my feelings changed when I recognize that I 385 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:34.640 don't like forcing myself to celebrate things. That is very interesting. Yes, 386 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:36.400 I mean, I think there's something to be said for 387 00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:39.279 what's been celebrated and how the celebrating is happening. But 388 00:30:39.400 --> 00:30:41.480 once you know it's something you don't want to do, 389 00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:46.079 don't do it. Okay, now, just to clarify, says, it's 390 00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:48.680 all solstice and winter season honoring for me this time 391 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:51.440 of year, and that's really what I'm leaning into, really 392 00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:56.240 leaning into the changing of the seasons, the quieting down 393 00:30:56.319 --> 00:30:59.480 of things, the trying to let allow myself to get 394 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:03.119 into a hyphe nation mode. It's not really working, but 395 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:07.880 I'm still trying. I'm still trying. Eighty six demo At 396 00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:10.119 said it changed fifteen years ago when I had my 397 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:12.519 daughter and I decided I did not want her to 398 00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:16.759 revere capitalism. We do family vacas and limit presence to 399 00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:21.599 small stocking suffers. I respect it. I respect it. Miss 400 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:24.400 Zuli says, I am always up for New Year's Celebration 401 00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:27.839