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Speaker 1: we can be beneficial to ourselves in the upcoming year.
Speaker 1: At four o'clock, when everyone's sitting down for dinner, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be sitting down to watch Sinners, and I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: The Seal Squad is your community baby, all right. So
Speaker 1: this is something I came up with, like, all right, well,
Speaker 1: I ain't doing nothing no on Christmas. I guess I'll
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Speaker 1: Welcome if you're just joining us. This is used for
Speaker 1: amandolaying our news and truths by any joke necessary. Thank
Speaker 1: you for waking up on the right side of the history.
Speaker 1: You know, this is an interesting show because I really
Speaker 1: didn't do a lot of prep. You know, we are
Speaker 1: very fortunate today to have the Africa tappen, so that's
Speaker 1: gonna go down. We've also got like our sixty second headlines,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna be pretty pretty quick because what I
Speaker 1: really want to talk to you all about is how
Speaker 1: the US is no friend to the Caribbean. And you know,
Speaker 1: you got Nicki Minaj over here hanging out with this
Speaker 1: man's wife, this deceased man's wife, and you've got the
Speaker 1: President of Trinidad, the Prime Minister of Trinidad, just just
Speaker 1: selling out her country in the same way that Machada
Speaker 1: is selling out Venezuela. So I want to just give
Speaker 1: some more framework because I know I've said in the
Speaker 1: past that Africa, I mean that the Caribbean is the unit,
Speaker 1: is the Africa of the Western Hemisphere, and I want
Speaker 1: to just give some more framing to that. I think
Speaker 1: they've done an incredible job of really calling the Caribbean
Speaker 1: just the Caribbean. It's paradise, it's beautiful, it's gorgeous, without
Speaker 1: acknowledging the immense ways that the United States has been
Speaker 1: incredibly destructive to the Caribbean. Okay, like super duper duper destructive.
Speaker 1: So we are going to talk about that. But I
Speaker 1: also want to make sure that we discuss the flooding
Speaker 1: going on in Washington State, because it don't seem like
Speaker 1: it's getting the burn that it deserves. Okay, I have poporn.
Speaker 1: I also want to talk about hold one second. I
Speaker 1: also want to talk about the uh, the burying of
Speaker 1: these of the the sixty minutes segment. Okay, that Barry
Speaker 1: weisburied over at CBS doing her job, boy, doing her job,
Speaker 1: which is exactly why she was put in that position.
Speaker 1: And I want to make sure that we also I
Speaker 1: just feel like we need to give a little bit
Speaker 1: more framing to the epstein of it all. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to sorry, I'm just like typing crazy, uh, but
Speaker 1: we're going to do all of that. And a couple
Speaker 1: just quick headlines that I want to bring to your attention.
Speaker 1: Belgium has entered has entered the ICJ case against Israel,
Speaker 1: So I think that's really interesting and I need to
Speaker 1: do more writing, I mean reading about that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Belgia has entered the case against Israel that South Africa
Speaker 1: started in the in the International Court, so we're going
Speaker 1: to be looking into that. You know that the International
Speaker 1: Court has been sanctioned by I believe the UK for
Speaker 1: saying that it will arrest that it will arrest Yahoo.
Speaker 1: By the way, why is the International Court able to
Speaker 1: be sanctioned? That should tell you everything. How is a
Speaker 1: court of law able to be sanctioned by those who
Speaker 1: it is supposed to be holding the law against. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why, because the International Court was not supposed
Speaker 1: to be holding against the law was not supposed to
Speaker 1: be upholding international law against colonizers. The colonizers literally created
Speaker 1: it so that they could use it to continue to
Speaker 1: suppress the nations that it was no law younger able
Speaker 1: to outright colonize. But as for the person here in
Speaker 1: the chat saying you need more proof about the unredacting
Speaker 1: of the files, I mean it's literally all over the internet,
Speaker 1: people doing it in real time. So I'm not sure
Speaker 1: you know if you haven't seen that yet, but it
Speaker 1: the proof is is the pud in is there. It's
Speaker 1: it's all over the place, and the for what it's worth,
Speaker 1: I mean, the redactions end up being really damning, you know,
Speaker 1: really damning. So I also wanted to shout out some
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Speaker 1: I don't have contact with this person, like I'm literally
Speaker 1: able to communicate with this person, like we literally chat,
Speaker 1: but separate issue. Fine, so shout out. I mean, the
Speaker 1: brands are really doing it. We've got we've got Mufassa,
Speaker 1: then we've got a man here, Pascal, and then we've
Speaker 1: got Anthony Joshua who beat the breaks the breaks off
Speaker 1: of your man's white Boy Jake. So really, just I'm
Speaker 1: not sure why is this person here saying I hope
Speaker 1: it's true. It is true. It's about the redactions. It
Speaker 1: is true, Like it's everywhere. It is true. Someone asked,
Speaker 1: did I speak about Nicki Minaj speaking at Turning Point?
Speaker 1: I actually did an entire talk about this on my
Speaker 1: Patreon and you can go over to Patreon and check
Speaker 1: it out and you can see my thoughts, my expounded thoughts.
Speaker 1: All right, my expounded thoughts. So yeah, check that out.
Speaker 1: I'm actually going to be talking a little bit about
Speaker 1: not necessarily that specific topic, but how that t I mean,
Speaker 1: how that connects. We'll get into that as well. Now
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Speaker 1: where you're watching run Indonesia. No really though, because you
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Speaker 1: you you make money, you buy a big house, Like
Speaker 1: that's like the way it We're I cannot explain to
Speaker 1: y'all how ridiculous it was that I lived in this
Speaker 1: house and then I had home depot buckets. Make it
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Speaker 1: the ceiling in the garage fell in behind my jeep,
Speaker 1: and so I just didn't drive my jeep for like
Speaker 1: two months. I just was like, And I remember, I
Speaker 1: remember my they built you a Hollywood set is diabolical.
Speaker 1: And I remember my neighbor came in to help me
Speaker 1: with something and he looked over. He was like, oh.
Speaker 1: I was like, we're not acknowledging that right now. I
Speaker 1: didn't witness the fall in, but he was like you
Speaker 1: see it. I was like, we're just not and he
Speaker 1: was like, I completely understand that. Anybody who owns their
Speaker 1: own home, you know that. I'm sure parents deal with
Speaker 1: the same thing. You're just like, I'm not acknowledging. I'm
Speaker 1: not dealing with that right now. I'll get to that.
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm not dealing with that right now. So
Speaker 1: I didn't drive my jeep for two months. And then
Speaker 1: when I did get back in my jeep and I
Speaker 1: tried to start it, it wouldn't start because mice had
Speaker 1: set up shop and chewed up all the wires in
Speaker 1: my jeep. Do you understand mice had chewed up all
Speaker 1: the wires in my jeep and my house was on
Speaker 1: like my driveway was like steep, so we could not
Speaker 1: get the car. We couldn't get the tow truck up,
Speaker 1: so we had to get the car down the hill.
Speaker 1: When I tell you this man, I underestimated him because
Speaker 1: it was this real, this older man who was just
Speaker 1: he just seemed like kind of all over the place.
Speaker 1: But baby, the way that man dropped that john in
Speaker 1: the neutral and got it down, that that that heel
Speaker 1: who I was very impressed, and I I just yeah,
Speaker 1: so a whole scam exactly right, A whole damn scam.
Speaker 3: Nia.
Speaker 1: Nonetheless, here we are have used for Amandoland and it's
Speaker 1: time to get into our word of the day. So
Speaker 1: everybody take out your abuse for a mandalin Word of
Speaker 1: the day log books. You can also get these at
Speaker 1: Amandoland Exports, along with your views for a Mandoland notebooks
Speaker 1: and sticker sheets. So let's get into our word of
Speaker 1: the day. The word of the day is hold on.
Speaker 1: I feel like we've already done this one. Have we
Speaker 1: done dilatory? Dilatory? Not on time? Not on time, dilatory
Speaker 1: d I l A we've done dilatory? Oh sorry, okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on? Have we done abate?
Speaker 1: Have we done a bait? I should probably get a
Speaker 1: better system for whether we've done these words or not.
Speaker 1: We've done abait too, all right? How about okay, we
Speaker 1: haven't done a bait? Yes we did? Okay, some people
Speaker 1: think we did debate? How about irresolute? I don't think
Speaker 1: we did a resolute irresolute is an adjective meaning unable
Speaker 1: to make up one's mind, unable to make up one's mind,
Speaker 1: irresolute I R R E s O l U t E.
Speaker 1: Shout out to everybody listening on the podcast, and big
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Speaker 1: before you come over to the after show, go in
Speaker 1: the comments and say something, okay, all right. Irresolute, ir
Speaker 1: r ees O l U t E. It's an adjective
Speaker 1: meaning unable to make up one's mind. Let's see, does
Speaker 1: anybody have a sentence I can say that. Now that
Speaker 1: I'm done with my book, I find myself irresolute on
Speaker 1: what priority I should put in place because I have
Speaker 1: so many ideas of stuff I want to do. Irresolute,
Speaker 1: a right re said. In the recent finale of Apple
Speaker 1: TV Show's Apple TV Plus show Pluribus, the protagonist Carol
Speaker 1: was qrite, irresolute in her emotion, in her motivations. I
Speaker 1: can't watch that show. Everyone said it took too long,
Speaker 1: and I was like, hold on, ain't the season done?
Speaker 1: Had the season done? And it's taken too long. As
Speaker 1: an artist who hands in her hands, As an artist
Speaker 1: who has her hands and everything, DJ Bless says, I
Speaker 1: tend to have an irresolute urge to procrastinate on my
Speaker 1: next project. I respect it, okay, the official soft spoken.
Speaker 1: I am irresolute on if I want to be in
Speaker 1: a relationship, well baby, just let it. Let it come
Speaker 1: your way. Let it come your way, all right, Kimberly says.
Speaker 1: When I'm nervous and stressed, I get irresolute. I agree,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. All right, Let's get one more,
Speaker 1: one more, and says I am irresolute in how to
Speaker 1: address authority figures that literally are making life or death
Speaker 1: decisions around my care. That's real, that's real. And last
Speaker 1: but not least, Okay, Deborah says, I find myself a
Speaker 1: resolute about living here and watch it say because this
Speaker 1: wild out here. Listen. We will be talking about what's
Speaker 1: going on in Washington State a little later on in
Speaker 1: the show. But I'm gonna write down my words of
Speaker 1: the day, irresolute in my log, and this is how
Speaker 1: we will keep track. So well, there's not gonna be anymore.
Speaker 1: Did we do that word or not? Because I should
Speaker 1: be writing the words down in my Word of the
Speaker 1: Day log book. Duh. So here we go, irresolute adjective
Speaker 1: and the definition is unable to make up one's mind. Boom,
Speaker 1: there we go. Okay, I think you meant to say irresolute,
Speaker 1: but you said I'm resolute and if I want to
Speaker 1: block my sister, and I feel like that was a
Speaker 1: freudiant slip, meaning that you actually want to block your sister,
Speaker 1: not Rolando telling you to do it. So there it is.
Speaker 1: It's in the log book, y'all. Irresolute. So now we
Speaker 1: don't ever have to be like, oh my gosh, did
Speaker 1: we do that word? I put it in the log book.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you haven't gotten here, what would
Speaker 1: the ancestors say, book? Get it, get it, get it.
Speaker 1: This is how I support myself. All right. Now, we
Speaker 1: have a guest today who's going to be joining us
Speaker 1: for the Africa to happen, but they're not here yet.
Speaker 1: So in the meantime, in between time, let's talk about
Speaker 1: what our question of the week is. How about we
Speaker 1: do that a question phone questions a question? Now I
Speaker 1: asked a similar question about Thanksgiving, thanks taking, I should say,
Speaker 1: but now I want to ask how and when did
Speaker 1: your feelings change about Christmas, because you know, I think
Speaker 1: that's even more of a tougher one to kind of
Speaker 1: like move away from, just because it is so embroiled
Speaker 1: baked into literally everything here in this nation. So I'm
Speaker 1: like wondering about that. For people, when did your relationship
Speaker 1: to Chriss change? I can tell you that mine changed
Speaker 1: in the last two years, more so because of Palestine.
Speaker 1: I would say that Philistine uh really just made the entire,
Speaker 1: the entire farce of the existence that we're in very loud.
Speaker 1: And so once I saw that, it was like I
Speaker 1: couldn't like unsee it, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: it was just what it is. And so that's kind
Speaker 1: of where it started. And then I also just decided
Speaker 1: I just didn't want to do the whole presence thing.
Speaker 1: You know, It's like just me and my mom and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are we doing? She still sent me
Speaker 1: stuff calling it saying this for Quansa. So then other
Speaker 1: people were asking me, well, what about Kwanza? What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do about Quanza? And I thought I was
Speaker 1: going to celebrate Quansa, but maybe I can't do eight days.
Speaker 1: I can't do eight days. Next year, I'm gonna dance
Speaker 1: around a tree for the solstice. You know, I can't
Speaker 1: do eight days for Kwanza. It's just it's not realistic.
Speaker 1: I respect it, I respect it, but God lee them
Speaker 1: eight days. That's a long that's more than a week.
Speaker 1: I do like saying kudi jagalia though. I do like
Speaker 1: saying cutie jagaliya. You know, do REMI says they're off
Speaker 1: anything but birthdays. You know. What I'm trying to do
Speaker 1: is just change what celebrating and how we are engaging
Speaker 1: in these days of reference is done right, Like I'm
Speaker 1: trying to shift kind of just my way of even
Speaker 1: acknowledging days of people's passing and like what is actually done. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, like when I do a joke on stage
Speaker 1: and in my book, what would the ancestors say about
Speaker 1: how white people should have to build altars for Juneteenth?
Speaker 1: That's sixty percent true. I believe that white people should
Speaker 1: have to build altars for Juneteenth. You should have to
Speaker 1: give offering to those who came before on Juneteenth. I
Speaker 1: think that actually makes perfect sense. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: version of an afrenda, and it's a version of Day
Speaker 1: of the Dead. And I just don't feel like we
Speaker 1: are we are so trapped in the mind state of
Speaker 1: really celebrating with showing with money. That's like our only
Speaker 1: way of acknowledging celebration is with money, and so I've
Speaker 1: been really trying to figure out other ways that we
Speaker 1: can do that. Carmen says that her change for Christmas
Speaker 1: started around nineteen ninety eight when she was teaching at
Speaker 1: a law socioeconomic school, and then twenty twenty three really shifted. Well,
Speaker 1: what happened in twenty twenty three, oh okay for the esteem.
Speaker 1: Angela Rochelle said, twenty fifteen, I was in the middle
Speaker 1: of a divorce. Holy my mom died the month of
Speaker 1: form So sorry to hear that. That time period made
Speaker 1: me question everything about the world. I hear you d musical,
Speaker 1: Daisy said. Growing up, I was like, we really don't
Speaker 1: get Christmas here in Miami. We don't have chimney at Chimney.
Speaker 1: So you was basically the child that just said it
Speaker 1: don't make sense. It just it just it don't make sense.
Speaker 1: Nigel said, my feelings changed when I recognize that I
Speaker 1: don't like forcing myself to celebrate things. That is very interesting. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's something to be said for
Speaker 1: what's been celebrated and how the celebrating is happening. But
Speaker 1: once you know it's something you don't want to do,
Speaker 1: don't do it. Okay, now, just to clarify, says, it's
Speaker 1: all solstice and winter season honoring for me this time
Speaker 1: of year, and that's really what I'm leaning into, really
Speaker 1: leaning into the changing of the seasons, the quieting down
Speaker 1: of things, the trying to let allow myself to get
Speaker 1: into a hyphe nation mode. It's not really working, but
Speaker 1: I'm still trying. I'm still trying. Eighty six demo At
Speaker 1: said it changed fifteen years ago when I had my
Speaker 1: daughter and I decided I did not want her to
Speaker 1: revere capitalism. We do family vacas and limit presence to
Speaker 1: small stocking suffers. I respect it. I respect it. Miss
Speaker 1: Zuli says, I am always up for New Year's Celebration
Speaker 1: and birthdays. You know, there's the thing. New Year's Celebration
Speaker 1: is like I don't look at it as like like
Speaker 1: NYE as much as I look at it like oh,
Speaker 1: like I'm going into a new year. You know, in Grenada,
Speaker 1: they don't even call it new years. They call it
Speaker 1: old years. Oh yeahs, because you're basically like moving past
Speaker 1: the year. And let's see if there's anyone else. Danielle
Speaker 1: says they stopped celebrating during college days. Then confirmed after
Speaker 1: reading the Age of Faith, all right, the Age of Faith,
Speaker 1: and then the official soft spoken said, I went to
Speaker 1: an African centered private school, and they always told us
Speaker 1: the truth about life while we mostly studied the history
Speaker 1: of Africa, and we do celebrate Kwanza all right. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I know some of the days umoja ajammy
Speaker 1: again kuji jagaliyah, right, gotta do that. I have a
Speaker 1: feeling that my guest may have gotten the times wrong
Speaker 1: because remember they're coming from the continent. So we're just
Speaker 1: gonna keep on pushing and shout out to the bonus
Speaker 1: question again. If you are watching on the replay, stop
Speaker 1: right now, go into comments and answer the bonus question.
Speaker 1: We gotta get this show moving and grooving, y'all, all right,
Speaker 1: because the way that I'm being shadow band is nuts.
Speaker 1: And let me just say something else. So people asking
Speaker 1: me to come on their shows to talk about politics
Speaker 1: and share my knowledge, and I get it and I
Speaker 1: respect it. However, these folks be making back on their shows,
Speaker 1: bank on their shows, all right, and then they'll ask
Speaker 1: me to come on and share my knowledge. But it's like,
Speaker 1: but you making money when I ask people to come
Speaker 1: on this show. I ain't making no money on this
Speaker 1: gut bang show. The money I make on this show
Speaker 1: basically pays for the booker, like it pays for the booker.
Speaker 1: That's why you never see clips because I can't. I
Speaker 1: don't even have time and I need to be better
Speaker 1: at saving right now, and so it's hard for me
Speaker 1: to like do the show and then edit clips and
Speaker 1: like all the things. So you know, it's like, dang,
Speaker 1: this show I feel like would be so much, would
Speaker 1: be so helpful to so many people if they just
Speaker 1: knew it existed, right, if they just knew it existed,
Speaker 1: Because oh, my one folk, Chris minical education to be
Speaker 1: something you prioritize, Okay, that's what I would like. Political
Speaker 1: education to be something you prioritize. So someone said, I
Speaker 1: need a cash app. Excuse me, I need a cash app, baby.
Speaker 1: I have a cash app, dollar sign a seals. That's
Speaker 1: my cash app right here, right here cash at show
Speaker 1: talk a little something that opera right there, y'all.
Speaker 4: Hey, the show something.
Speaker 1: And I thought I had a guess, but it seems like, hey,
Speaker 1: I send me up. I love. Everything is alright? Me
Speaker 1: and them drop show me some love. Love in that
Speaker 1: dash appen love. I wish there was some mother way
Speaker 1: to do this. That's you for money and dicap of
Speaker 1: the sad money and the people. Wish we could barner
Speaker 1: with the people. Yeah, I do. I do wish we
Speaker 1: could bard it with the people. I really, I just
Speaker 1: I have so many ideas, yes in the mind, just
Speaker 1: got to figure out how to do them all. Okay,
Speaker 1: I had a little mini autism burn out right there.
Speaker 1: Shall we just get into some sixty second headlines? I
Speaker 1: didn't even print out my show. Let me do that.
Speaker 1: Let me print out the show. All right, We're gonna
Speaker 1: get into some sixty second headlines because that's how we do.
Speaker 1: We just flow. We just flow sixty.
Speaker 3: News. Right.
Speaker 1: So I'm really trying to make it my business to
Speaker 1: do at least one story that revolves around climate change
Speaker 1: every week. And this week that story is about the
Speaker 1: flooding in Washington State. Now what I see folks constantly
Speaker 1: saying whenever they're reporting around how they're being affected by
Speaker 1: climate change in the United States, is that mainstream media
Speaker 1: is not showing them any attention. And so I want
Speaker 1: to just have a little critical thinking moment to ask
Speaker 1: you guys, why do you think that is? Why do
Speaker 1: you think that mainstream media is not showing attention to
Speaker 1: these climate change repercussions happening literally in the United States?
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts? So let's see, we got have
Speaker 1: a go on, Kimberly, what are your thoughts? Okay, so
Speaker 1: Emma says, it's state run media distract and manipulate. Is
Speaker 1: someone said Erica by doing Amanda Siels sharing the stage?
Speaker 1: You know, the last time I saw Erica she was cool,
Speaker 1: but many many times in the past she was not cool.
Speaker 1: So I also she did my homegirl dirty. And actually,
Speaker 1: right now, the last time I saw Erica got me
Speaker 1: fired from a job. What am I saying? Erica got
Speaker 1: me fired from a job? Erica Abadu got me fired
Speaker 1: from a writing gig? Yes, her, And I know this
Speaker 1: is going to make it onto the internets. Her Man
Speaker 1: was the head writer of the show that I was
Speaker 1: writing on. Her Man was a writer, and we were
Speaker 1: talking one evening about a myriad of things, and he
Speaker 1: was saying, how you know her agents had a difficult
Speaker 1: time understanding her, and I said, well, she crazy, and
Speaker 1: he was like, well, what's that supposed to me? I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: she's crazy. I mean, like these agents don't understand crazy.
Speaker 1: They don't understand that, like we're not your regular degulars,
Speaker 1: so why wouldn't they understand her? And he, I guess
Speaker 1: took that as like me disrespecting her. Meanwhile, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of it as I'm talking about myself, and so
Speaker 1: he told her and I guess, and then out the blue,
Speaker 1: out the blue, I got a text from her saying, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know you were a writer. I didn't know
Speaker 1: you were a comedy writer. But I was like surprise, surprise, surprise,
Speaker 1: and literally and like we had this like weird conversation
Speaker 1: where she was kind of just like letting me know
Speaker 1: that she knew that I was working on the show
Speaker 1: with her man, which, like I I've never wanted any
Speaker 1: of rika badus men. That was how we actually met.
Speaker 1: We met because her and Jay Electronica. We met because
Speaker 1: j Electronica and I were talking on Twitter and she
Speaker 1: d M me and was like, you know, J Electronica
Speaker 1: is my man, and I was just like, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I just so that was all. I just think
Speaker 1: back and I was so young. I was still wearing kangoles.
Speaker 1: But she never had anything to worry about. She had
Speaker 1: you know that, that's not that's not that's not my vibe.
Speaker 1: Now have I unintentionally been with somebody man and not
Speaker 1: known that they hadn't they had a girl? Yes, that
Speaker 1: has actually happened. That has absolutely happened. But no, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a respectful gal. I'm a respectful goal. So I
Speaker 1: really do I remember that though, because then and then
Speaker 1: like literally like and let me also add, let me
Speaker 1: also add that I can't even say that it was
Speaker 1: all Erica that got me fired on that show because
Speaker 1: the head writer, not the head writer, but like the
Speaker 1: EP of the show, I think that was his title. No,
Speaker 1: the showrunner of the show was such a prick. I
Speaker 1: can't even remember his name. But he brought me into
Speaker 1: his office. He literally brought me into his office just
Speaker 1: like on my second day and was like, so I
Speaker 1: just want you to know that I'm the boss here.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, and I was like, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: happening right now. He was like, I just want to
Speaker 1: make it clear to you that I'm the boss. I
Speaker 1: run this show. And I was like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what we're talking about right now, because I know that
Speaker 1: you're the showrunner. So this was for a show on
Speaker 1: Comedy Central. What was the name of the show. It
Speaker 1: was like these two it's like the they were like
Speaker 1: like basketball players. What was the what was the show called?
Speaker 1: I can't even remember the name of the show now.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like I was employed there for
Speaker 1: a long enough time, but I remember like being in
Speaker 1: this writer room writer's room and really trying my best,
Speaker 1: like really really trying hard to to like fit in.
Speaker 1: And I just remember there were so many men, and
Speaker 1: they would be the conversations were just so ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: I remember like sitting there while they had an entire
Speaker 1: conversation about like when they would jack their dicks when
Speaker 1: they were when they were young or whatever, and I
Speaker 1: just remember being like, what know, if I should be here?
Speaker 1: So you know, this is the other thing. Remember, rejection
Speaker 1: is man's protection And ever since I really understood that
Speaker 1: because and it only worked but let me, here's the caveat.
Speaker 1: And I know we're gonna get back to the climate change,
Speaker 1: but here's the caveat. Okay. Side note, the reason why
Speaker 1: they were talking about that was because the show was
Speaker 1: like like like like kind of like masculine humor, and
Speaker 1: it was like they were teenagers, I guess, And so
Speaker 1: that's why they were talking about it. Nonetheless, why do
Speaker 1: you why are you naming shows that I would know
Speaker 1: the name of. No, this is a cartoon. This is
Speaker 1: a cartoon. You're like broad City Like, No, this is
Speaker 1: a cartoon. Oh, hold on, Literria, why are you saying
Speaker 1: dumb shit like this? Why Materia over here? Talking about
Speaker 1: climate change is a scam. The earth will be fine.
Speaker 1: We are the ones who will die. What do you
Speaker 1: think climate change is about? What? Wait, what do y'all
Speaker 1: think climate change is about? Because climate change is about
Speaker 1: us pushing the earth so far that it responds in
Speaker 1: manners in which we die. That's what climate change is
Speaker 1: actually about. Yes, the earth will recover, However in the meantime,
Speaker 1: in between time, it's gonna murk us all. That's what
Speaker 1: climate change is, thank you eighty six de monet. Climate
Speaker 1: change is the Earth reacting to our bs. Okay, and
Speaker 1: I love this. You framed it right up April Monkey
Speaker 1: King Inhospitable Environment. Inhospitable in Brandon said, I literally had
Speaker 1: a similar combo with an uber driver on the wrong spectrum.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we got to frame that. We got to
Speaker 1: get the framing of that correct. It's not a scam,
Speaker 1: That's that would be nonsense. You know. The concept that
Speaker 1: it's a scam suggests that there is profit or there
Speaker 1: is that it's serving folks out of a out of
Speaker 1: a nefarious means. That would make that's what makes something
Speaker 1: a scam, that there is a mistruth being presented in
Speaker 1: order to benefit others. There is no one benefiting from
Speaker 1: climate change being a scam. The benefiting is from folks
Speaker 1: saying that climate change is a scam. That's saying that
Speaker 1: the Earth is not messed up. That's the scam. The
Speaker 1: scam is saying that climate change is not happening. However,
Speaker 1: there are floods all over the world right now, like
Speaker 1: all over the actual world. We've got the Pacific flooding,
Speaker 1: there's Asian flooding. Do I even have that in here?
Speaker 1: I had a whole thing with Asian flooding. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's take a look at the Pacific Pacific.
Speaker 5: Northl Leavian Pacific has broken. You need to go now.
Speaker 5: This is a level three go. There are hundreds of
Speaker 5: people in their pajamas now going there, trying to get
Speaker 5: butzes together. For those of you who have already lost
Speaker 5: your cars, this is not like Daquilla. This is a
Speaker 5: big one. There are now well over a thousand residents
Speaker 5: here behind me who are emptying out. There's a helicopter
Speaker 5: overhead giving orders. If you get this and you are
Speaker 5: anywhere around White River, this is the one that's fed
Speaker 5: by Mud Mountain, you need to go now. It is
Speaker 5: a large area. You can go to KC Emergencies. I
Speaker 5: don't know if they have it on there. I'm going
Speaker 5: to the King County Emergency Alerts map. You can see
Speaker 5: it there. But if you've received a text, go now.
Speaker 5: The water is rising fast.
Speaker 1: So I hear someone say, we don't belong here. Not
Speaker 1: one environment thrives because we exist in it. And this
Speaker 1: is actually an extremely reductionist and imperialist and privileged mindset.
Speaker 1: It assumes that the only environments that exist are ones
Speaker 1: with white people and capitalists in it, and that simply
Speaker 1: is just not true. There are environments all over the
Speaker 1: world that are thriving under the stewardship of indigenous knowledge,
Speaker 1: and that is happening on every continent. So we need
Speaker 1: to remember that it's not simply enough to say we
Speaker 1: don't belong here. What doesn't belong here is capitalism. What
Speaker 1: doesn't belong here is feudalism. What doesn't belong here is anthropomorphism.
Speaker 1: That's not the right word, but the idea that it
Speaker 1: is the human existence that needs to be preserved, not
Speaker 1: the earth existence that needs to be preserved. Because once
Speaker 1: we understand the difference, we realize that if we preserve
Speaker 1: the earth, then we preserve us, and that is the
Speaker 1: real one too. When you think about the chicken and
Speaker 1: the egg baby in this situation, the earth came first
Speaker 1: then us. So we have to change our thinking and
Speaker 1: understand that that is absolutely furthest from the truth. We
Speaker 1: know how to be in partner ship with this planet.
Speaker 1: We did it for centuries millennia. We were in partnership
Speaker 1: with this planet. And there are still folks now that
Speaker 1: have that knowledge, that have preserved that knowledge, and they
Speaker 1: are constantly ignored because their knowledge pushes up against the
Speaker 1: taking of resources without limitation. Now, then we can take
Speaker 1: it a step further, and many would say that not
Speaker 1: only are we actually of that made for the planet,
Speaker 1: we are of this planet. I mean, if you look
Speaker 1: at our biology, it is mirrored all over nature and environment.
Speaker 1: You see our blood vessels in leaves, you see our
Speaker 1: fingerprints in tree stumps. You see the synapse that the
Speaker 1: synapse that happens when our brains create new connections in
Speaker 1: the in the celestial well, you know, there's real, real
Speaker 1: representation of how we exist in the actual nature ecology
Speaker 1: of the world. We are natural, you know, like the
Speaker 1: Earth is like ninety percent water. You know who else
Speaker 1: is ninety percent water? Us? Yeah? Yeah, So let's reframe
Speaker 1: and remember that we are as humans not the problem.
Speaker 1: The problem is the way in which humans have chosen
Speaker 1: to live on the earth versus living with the Earth. Now,
Speaker 1: the flooding in Washington State has not been covered by
Speaker 1: mainstream media, largely in part because again it would then
Speaker 1: reveal the reality around climate change. Let's see another story
Speaker 1: about what's going on in Washington State.
Speaker 6: Were overflowing levees are breaking, We're seeing roads in some
Speaker 6: areas just completely crumbling away. I was half asleep when
Speaker 6: I got a public safe dealer on my phone telling
Speaker 6: me that everybody near this one intersection by my house
Speaker 6: I to evacuate immediately. People's vehicles were halfway underwater. They
Speaker 6: were walking out like wading through water in their pajamas
Speaker 6: with trash bags full of their belongings. This helicopter comes
Speaker 6: in overhead and starts lasting on the loudspeaker, saying go now.
Speaker 6: The most communication I've seen has been from the city's
Speaker 6: Facebook page and whatever they reposted from the police department.
Speaker 3: That's about it.
Speaker 6: Our barriers simply weren't prepared for that much water. The
Speaker 6: HESCO barriers that were put in place, they were put
Speaker 6: up right after the two thousand and nine floods. To
Speaker 6: my knowledge, they haven't been replaced since. Flooding like this
Speaker 6: is just it's supposed to be a once in a
Speaker 6: lifetime kind of event. The least our government could do
Speaker 6: to prevent these kinds of disasters from happening is to
Speaker 6: invest money into better infrastructure to protect us. But we
Speaker 6: don't we need something like that, especially if climate change
Speaker 6: is going to continue to get worse and the government
Speaker 6: is allowing that to happen.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a real thing. Climate change is
Speaker 1: getting worse. The government is absolutely allowing it to happen,
Speaker 1: and they're not really acknowledging that there's actual ways in
Speaker 1: which this could be challenged. Now, the young lady who
Speaker 1: was earlier on saying that climate change is a scam,
Speaker 1: you know, what I want to point out is that
Speaker 1: there's a lot of simplicity that has arisen around what
Speaker 1: is actually happening. And I think what really actually puts
Speaker 1: a lot of us in kind of a what the
Speaker 1: hell are they talking about? Mind state is when it's
Speaker 1: made like it's this thing that we can't grasp. But
Speaker 1: here's the very basic bottom line about climate change. When
Speaker 1: fossil fuels are used, they give off emissions. So we
Speaker 1: know that, right, so we all give off emissions. To
Speaker 1: be quite honest, BO is an emission. I mean because
Speaker 1: BO is your body releasing you know, the results of combustion, sweat,
Speaker 1: et cetera. So everything gives off emissions. Whenever you burn anything,
Speaker 1: whenever you use anything to create energy, it gives something off.
Speaker 1: And that's why you'll hear people talk about clean emissions.
Speaker 1: Clean emissions is the goal of creating some type of
Speaker 1: energy creation that doesn't give off emissions that are harmful.
Speaker 1: So that's why we use like wind power, solar power,
Speaker 1: hydro power. These are renewable energies that don't give off emissions.
Speaker 1: So when we use energy that does give off emissions,
Speaker 1: like burning coal, like burning uranium, like burning fossil fuels
Speaker 1: and oil, et cetera, we give off emissions that cause heat.
Speaker 1: That heat gets trapped. So remember, here's the earth surface.
Speaker 1: Here is the uh here is what's it called the atmosphere.
Speaker 1: The atmosphere. Think of it like a plastic bag around
Speaker 1: the Earth, all right, So the earth surface is here,
Speaker 1: the plastic bag is here. So whenever you are creating
Speaker 1: things that give off emissions, it gets trapped in this
Speaker 1: space between the Earth and the atmosphere. That space gets
Speaker 1: warmer and warmer and warmer. This is the ozone layer. Okay,
Speaker 1: that space gets warmer and warmer and warmer. As that
Speaker 1: space gets warmer, the Earth responds, just like your body
Speaker 1: responds when there's a temperature change. The earth responds. Your
Speaker 1: body does things to mitigate for when it receives a
Speaker 1: temperature change. That's why it sweats so that it doesn't overheat.
Speaker 1: That's why you start to actually get red because your
Speaker 1: blood vessels are trying to hold oxygen when you are cold.
Speaker 1: The Earth does the same thing. However, we are emitting
Speaker 1: so many emissions in so many ways at so many
Speaker 1: times that the Earth is trying to do what it
Speaker 1: can to manage the overheating, and one of those things
Speaker 1: is it is melting smelting, and that overheating is also
Speaker 1: affecting the factors that have existed within the Earth's ecology
Speaker 1: that have come to expect a certain level of heat,
Speaker 1: that have expected a certain type of environment. So you
Speaker 1: have polar bears that are used to hunting for a
Speaker 1: certain amount of time during the year, that are used
Speaker 1: to existing a certain way, but now their glaciers are
Speaker 1: melting and they can't even traverse the way that they
Speaker 1: normally would. You have bees that are dying all over.
Speaker 1: You have bugs. We've lost something crazy in terms of
Speaker 1: our bug ecology. And all of this is because of
Speaker 1: human decisions in major economic centers. Even though there are
Speaker 1: countries that are working on lowering their emissions, it's still
Speaker 1: not enough. And the countries that end up feeling the
Speaker 1: brunt of this are the ones that are most susceptible
Speaker 1: to the Sun's heat. Those in the global South, which
Speaker 1: is along the equator right here, right, they're the most
Speaker 1: exposed to the sun's heat. Well, thanks Meg. And so
Speaker 1: when we talk about climate change, what we're saying is
Speaker 1: there needs to be a genuine shift from the emission
Speaker 1: that is created with fossil fuels, with plastics, with cleaners,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And the reason why these changes are not
Speaker 1: being made is because there are entire industries that have
Speaker 1: aligned themselves to doing this type of work to get
Speaker 1: money BP, Exxon, Johnson, and Johnson to name a few.
Speaker 1: And we also ask that why is the money so important?
Speaker 1: And to be quite honest, I don't know. This is
Speaker 1: a much better way to understand climate change. It has
Speaker 1: always been a little bit above my head.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's why we do this show.
Speaker 1: That's why I do this show. Yes, I saw this, Deborah.
Speaker 1: They're now about to kill and hunt wolves in Alaska.
Speaker 1: So they had to in order to be able to
Speaker 1: drill in Alaska on land that they've never drilled on before,
Speaker 1: they had to first remove the protections over the wolves
Speaker 1: so that they could actually go in there and drill
Speaker 1: and not care and not have the environmental protections in
Speaker 1: the way question can we sue the government for not
Speaker 1: allowing us to pursue happiness? Because I've only been able
Speaker 1: to pursue health insurance. I'm not sure if you're being facetious,
Speaker 1: but something I do want to bring to the forour
Speaker 1: is that I see a lot of people's response to
Speaker 1: things is can we sue or we need to sue
Speaker 1: the government or sue the police? And whenever I see
Speaker 1: that under posts where there's been police brutality, etc. I
Speaker 1: wonder what. I wonder how we got to such a
Speaker 1: place where our only idea of justice isn't getting money.
Speaker 1: That's our concept of justice, and that is not justice,
Speaker 1: you know, don't get me wrong. Reparations are needed. Reparations
Speaker 1: does not, I repeat, does not excuse the realities of
Speaker 1: the efforts that have been put forth to diminish, to degradate,
Speaker 1: to denigrate, and to completely and consistently oppress. So you know,
Speaker 1: we have to constantly keep that consciousness right by the way,
Speaker 1: look at my sweater, isn't it cool? So I just
Speaker 1: feel like people also don't know, like how much it
Speaker 1: takes to sue. You see the flooding in Washington state.
Speaker 1: You hear this woman talking about her experience, and it becomes, well,
Speaker 1: what is she gonna do? You know, like, what where?
Speaker 1: Where can she fight back? And this is why I
Speaker 1: am really trying to consistently get us to understand the
Speaker 1: concept of community. And I need us to understand it
Speaker 1: on an intrinsic level. I need us to be teaching
Speaker 1: our children it because we're gonna need our children to
Speaker 1: teach us it because we are many of we're too
Speaker 1: indoctrinated to truly truly understand it. So we're gonna need
Speaker 1: to be teaching our children because they don't have the
Speaker 1: same indoctrination to push through. And then we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to be receiving the knowledge that they're actually telling us,
Speaker 1: because the reality is that the way that we fight
Speaker 1: back will actually end up being to not engage with
Speaker 1: what they're doing. That's going to be one of the
Speaker 1: most effective ways to fight back. Will there be violence, absolutely,
Speaker 1: because every time you do that, they come at you.
Speaker 1: Ask all of the black communities that have done that,
Speaker 1: Ask the Indigenous communities that have done that. So it's
Speaker 1: not to say that one is not going to be
Speaker 1: get the other. It will. However, we just need to
Speaker 1: continue doing that. And I know some people will say, well,
Speaker 1: what's the point. You know what, I had to realize
Speaker 1: as long as they've been here, there's been people to fight.
Speaker 1: Like I don't really know what the homebo sapiums, I
Speaker 1: don't really know what the Homo sapiens is on. But
Speaker 1: ever since the agrarian age, folks been like, listen, we
Speaker 1: can't let them rock. We can't let them rock. So
Speaker 1: there's just has to be fighters who just won't let
Speaker 1: it happen. Like that's literally what green on the Smartphonny
Speaker 1: and black shirt is about. It's the rebel fan. We
Speaker 1: thought like there there there has to be and mind you,
Speaker 1: mind you. All of these represent elements of fighting. But
Speaker 1: I just feel like some people feel, you know, like
Speaker 1: there's this no use and I just really I feel
Speaker 1: like there's no use in not fighting, all right. So
Speaker 1: I hope that little lesson on climate change was helpful.
Speaker 1: At least one person said it was, So you know
Speaker 1: what mission accomplished. My cat lammba is literally just like
Speaker 1: lying at my feet. I love you so much. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I can't even deale. So let's talk about
Speaker 1: how Barry weisby Burnying. So I don't know if you
Speaker 1: all know who Barry Weiss is, but Barry Weiss is
Speaker 1: the new head of CBS News. She is a plant.
Speaker 1: She is a Zionist.
Speaker 7: She is completely unfit for the position in actual terms,
Speaker 7: but because of the needs of the position, which is
Speaker 7: somebody who will do the will of Zionists and the
Speaker 7: United States government, she fits like a tea.
Speaker 1: She just did a really weird interview with CK's ex
Speaker 1: wife or Riddo, I should say, and yeah, it was
Speaker 1: trippy and I'm not gonna play it because I don't
Speaker 1: like them people. However, the big story right now is
Speaker 1: that there was a sis. There was a sixty minutes package.
Speaker 1: There was a sixty minutes news package on the Seacot
Speaker 1: Prisons that she had removed. Literally it had gone through
Speaker 1: standard in practice, it went through all the checks, and
Speaker 1: then right before it's supposed to go on the air,
Speaker 1: like a segment that Lauren Michaels decided wasn't gonna float
Speaker 1: his boat, it was pulled. So I'm gonna show you
Speaker 1: the actual trailer. The segment itself is like twenty three
Speaker 1: minutes long, and I'll put that on Patreon. It began.
Speaker 8: As soon as the planes landed. The deporties thought they
Speaker 8: were headed from the US back to Venezuela, but instead
Speaker 8: they were shackled, paraded in front of cameras, and delivered
Speaker 8: to Seacott, the notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador,
Speaker 8: where they told sixty Minutes they endured four months of hell.
Speaker 3: Did you think you were going to die there?
Speaker 9: We thought we were already the living's deads.
Speaker 1: Honestly, So this is an extension of the original reporting
Speaker 1: that they were doing, and now they've actually been able
Speaker 1: to interview people who went to Seacott to talk about
Speaker 1: what's going on. Now this is crystal ball of breaking points,
Speaker 1: who says Barry Weis's Verry CBS pulled their Secott report,
Speaker 1: which included interviews with immigrants who were tortured, the trumperzine
Speaker 1: does not want you to know what was done to
Speaker 1: these people. Begin It's very obvious why, however, I wanted
Speaker 1: to just give us a little element of encouragement that
Speaker 1: this had to happen, because sixty Minutes said, we're making
Speaker 1: it happen, and it couldn't happen in the dark, and
Speaker 1: that is incredibly important. Many of our boomers still watch
Speaker 1: sixty minutes. The fact that this didn't happen in the
Speaker 1: dark is super duper important. It is incredible to see
Speaker 1: how information in this age is shifting the ways in
Speaker 1: which people are responding to repression, or they're going to
Speaker 1: respond to repression. You know, if you're like me and
Speaker 1: you're in your forties, you know that there simply just
Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of outwardly, out loud examples of repression
Speaker 1: for the mainstream audience. People who were very tapped in
Speaker 1: may have understood what was going on with it af
Speaker 1: But if you didn't then, and if you weren't like
Speaker 1: you may not have picked up on it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I knew growing up in my house, like my mom
Speaker 1: was never like that against Iraq. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: to say that she was for it, but there was
Speaker 1: no like dialogue happening around it, ac around my consciousness
Speaker 1: at that time, right whereas now we can see that
Speaker 1: it's very common that we are seeing more dialogue around
Speaker 1: all of these things that are going on. It's hard
Speaker 1: to ignore. And their truth is Trump has brought this
Speaker 1: into the zeitgeist in a way that is really kind
Speaker 1: of trippy. Nova media did an interview the other day
Speaker 1: with this wrestler or who talked about how Trump is
Speaker 1: doing like this, like well, basically, this administration is doing
Speaker 1: something that they do in wrestling called like a cad
Speaker 1: fee or something. I don't know. Hold on one second,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna find it for you, because I was definitely
Speaker 1: like at first, at first, I just didn't want to
Speaker 1: listen to it because I was just like, whatever, wrestling schmessling,
Speaker 1: this is silly. And then I was like, Amanda, Amanda,
Speaker 1: just listen, Okay, just listen, like you're being ridiculous. It's
Speaker 1: called kfab There you go, k fabe. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: share this video with you guys, And in the meantime
Speaker 1: in between time, I also want to point out that
Speaker 1: I saw that actually I don't know if you know this,
Speaker 1: but Finance Anthony Joshua he had actually said I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go in there and mash up Jake's face and also
Speaker 1: do it for the Mexicans. Did you all know that? Yes,
Speaker 1: he said, I'm also going to do it for the
Speaker 1: Mexicans because he's been disrespecting to y'all culture and we
Speaker 1: can't have that. So this, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: they keep saying this man is a misogynist, and trust me,
Speaker 1: you can be one thousand percent non racist and misogynists.
Speaker 1: That is very possible. But I just wanted to share
Speaker 1: that with y'all because you know, we love a fine
Speaker 1: conscious brother with.
Speaker 3: Ireland and Palestine. If we didn't just pick Palestine. It's
Speaker 3: very very deep on both sides. Like you can go
Speaker 3: to West Cork in nineteen twenty and my granddad was
Speaker 3: actually involved in this. My granddad was in the IRA
Speaker 3: and so my two granduncles and they were in Tom
Speaker 3: Barry's Flying Calume it was called, so they're a unit
Speaker 3: of the IRA and they ambushed these soldiers that were
Speaker 3: called auxiliaries. So in Ireland in the nineteen twenties at
Speaker 3: the time as well, learn under British occupation, Winston Churchill
Speaker 3: created these paramilitary units. They were called police, but they
Speaker 3: weren't police. So you had one unit was called the
Speaker 3: Black and Tans, which is no famously when the song
Speaker 3: come out your Black and Tans. So there's the Black
Speaker 3: and Tans, and then you also had the grand yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: founded the Black and Tans. Now, the Ausies were different
Speaker 3: to the Black and Tans. They were the officer class.
Speaker 3: So they were very posh. They came from money, they
Speaker 3: were coming to Ireland and their job, the Churchill gave them.
Speaker 3: They were there as a police force. Their job was
Speaker 3: to terrorize the civilian population. It wasn't to keep the peace.
Speaker 3: Their job was if the IRA do something, then shoot
Speaker 3: some civilians. With Ireland and Palestine be terrorists, but terrorized
Speaker 3: the local population if we didn't just pick Palestine.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was interesting. That's not what I
Speaker 1: was actually trying to show, y'all, but I do think
Speaker 1: that's interesting because you know, it just really goes to
Speaker 1: show how we see the repeat of scenarios, particularly when
Speaker 1: we look at the way the IDF deal with the Palestinians,
Speaker 1: right they go they go in there literally just a
Speaker 1: harassed Palacinians, not for any other reason, and they absolutely
Speaker 1: have this mindset of we're going to just disrupt your mind.
Speaker 1: You're never gonna feel at peace, you're never gonna feel calm,
Speaker 1: you're never gonna feel safe. And if you don't think
Speaker 1: that that's the same thing that the police do here
Speaker 1: in the United States to black people, you are bugging.
Speaker 1: That is absolutely the same mindset of policing here in
Speaker 1: the United States, keep black communities scared, keep them on
Speaker 1: their toes, keep them never feeling like they are actually
Speaker 1: running their own communities. Now here's the thing about the
Speaker 1: kfab that I wanted to show you.
Speaker 3: It's a very interesting thing within wrestling, and it's unique
Speaker 3: to rest in the profession wrestling. It's called k faith, which.
Speaker 10: Is like fake, but it's doesn't quite. It's like the
Speaker 10: storytelling of the world, right, like make believe in well.
Speaker 3: To make believe right. But what makes it interesting in
Speaker 3: terms of theater is there's no fourth wall. Usually with
Speaker 3: theater their spectator, and then there's the show going on
Speaker 3: on stage, but in order for because professional wrestling is theater.
Speaker 3: It's theater. It's brilliant athletes, and it's storytelling and it's theater.
Speaker 3: But we know that it's fake, and we know that
Speaker 3: this guy's gonna win, that guy's gonna lose. They don't
Speaker 3: really hate each other, they could be best buddies backstage.
Speaker 3: We know all that. But the collective sense of suspended
Speaker 3: disbelief that we all have to engage in to enjoy it,
Speaker 3: that's unique to wrestling, and that's called k fab. And
Speaker 3: Trump brings a lot of that to politics. An example
Speaker 3: of what I consider would be like the use of humor.
Speaker 3: Like when you think of fascism, most of us we
Speaker 3: have a clear idea of what fascism is, and what
Speaker 3: pops up is Hitler Frank of Mussolini, right, and it's
Speaker 3: quite humorless. It's very straightforward and humorless.
Speaker 10: And that's why the Charlie Chaplain Great Dictator was such
Speaker 10: a puncturing.
Speaker 3: Exactly because the humorlessness of not just fashions fascism. You
Speaker 3: actually find it also in the art world. You find
Speaker 3: that in monarchy, in the military. It's solemnity, and solemnity
Speaker 3: is it's not being serious, it's the performance of seriousness.
Speaker 3: And anytime you introduce humor into a solemn space, solemnity
Speaker 3: falls a part and it reveals absurdity. Do you get me?
Speaker 3: The Trump administration, they're not using solemnity. So they're like
Speaker 3: deporting people to Venezuela, right, which is possibly illegal, and
Speaker 3: they're doing that which is clearly fascist. But then the
Speaker 3: official White House account is posting comedy videos of these
Speaker 3: people being deported, but with the sound of their change,
Speaker 3: and it's ASMR. The official account labels at ASMR so
Speaker 3: that's asking us to engage in a k FAP, and
Speaker 3: the k fape we're engaging with is this is all
Speaker 3: a joke, you know what I mean, it's being presented
Speaker 3: as this is all a joke. They're not really bad,
Speaker 3: that's just like a heel, like a wrestler, but like, no,
Speaker 3: they are really bad because they're doing something really bad.
Speaker 3: So you can't do any Charlie Chappan on that because
Speaker 3: they're making the joke first. And the thing is they
Speaker 3: use memes and humor quite effectively as a way to
Speaker 3: laugh at anyone who criticizes it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's basically reality TV, right, Like that's what
Speaker 1: he's saying. It's reality to you. Hear how my cat
Speaker 1: is wheezing? Hold on, okay, now you can't hear the whize,
Speaker 1: but he was wheezing before. AnyWho. So someone said, what's
Speaker 1: the reality? Well, the reality is that he like he said,
Speaker 1: it is bad. You still want to come up here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well come on, I didn't know that you still wanted
Speaker 1: to be up here. He doesn't have chest connection, jess.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have checks chest condestion. He actually has asthma.
Speaker 1: And I'm like really frustrated, that I can't just get
Speaker 1: this inhaler for this cat. It's a whole of a story.
Speaker 1: I talked about it on my Instagram last night. But
Speaker 1: that's the reality, you know that the kfab is. That's
Speaker 1: what reality TV is. Reality TV has y'all thinking, and
Speaker 1: I say, y'all mean like viewers thinking that you're watching
Speaker 1: something Reality TV tricks has you thinking that you're watching
Speaker 1: something fake that's real, that's fake. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: it's too much, too much, And I hate when people,
Speaker 1: I agree when people make Trump memes. I'm like, y'all
Speaker 1: are really acting like this thing is a game. Y'all
Speaker 1: are really acting like this thing is just really casual
Speaker 1: and funny, and it's not at all. It's not at all.
Speaker 1: So I just found out officially that my guest today canceled.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what the reason was.
Speaker 1: I hope it was legit. I doubt it. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about redacteth on twenty twenty five. So when it
Speaker 1: comes to the Epstein files and then putting out this
Speaker 1: completely redacted file, first of all, that's just a blatant
Speaker 1: breaking of the law. And I know that I don't
Speaker 1: like to hear people talk about the breaking of the
Speaker 1: law because it's like, clearly there's lawlessness. But that was like,
Speaker 1: that's just like O D. Because you know, the executive
Speaker 1: branch is who's supposed to enforce the law. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: how that gonna work. So now you got these folks
Speaker 1: who were supposed to put out the files. They literally
Speaker 1: put out zero point five percent of the files.
Speaker 11: You know how much point five said is something?
Speaker 1: Is nothing? Nothing? They did all of this redaction, action
Speaker 1: and on, and then they end up having this concept
Speaker 1: of well, we don't have to put anything out now.
Speaker 1: My question is what are the Democrats doing because there's
Speaker 1: so many Democrats now who have like really hung their
Speaker 1: hat on, like we're gonna do this like Rocana. So
Speaker 1: they really have to make this happen. Now. In the
Speaker 1: files that were put out and the ones that were
Speaker 1: unredacted by the people, you know, you're getting to see
Speaker 1: just the reality around how deep Donald Trump's relationship was
Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein, how deep Bill Clinton was. This I
Speaker 1: haven't made the video yet because I'm still processing it,
Speaker 1: but seeing Jeffrey Epstein write a letter to Larry Nasser,
Speaker 1: the Larry Nasser is the physician for US a gymnastics
Speaker 1: that assaulted hundreds of young girls, and he wrote a
Speaker 1: letter to him where he references Donald Trump basically saying
Speaker 1: we're gonna be okay because the president, like us, has
Speaker 1: an affinity for newbile young women just want to also
Speaker 1: bring this though I don't want us to get I
Speaker 1: do how do I put this? This is not simply
Speaker 1: a case of oh, these are some shitty men. You
Speaker 1: always have to figure out why, why are they doing
Speaker 1: this and why are they allowed to? And the undergirding
Speaker 1: of this ends up being power however, also Zionism. You know,
Speaker 1: the way that this ends up being able to be
Speaker 1: carried out is because there is an entire system of
Speaker 1: folks who have agreed to it. And simultaneously, while all
Speaker 1: of this horrifying news is being corroborated because it's not
Speaker 1: new one hundred, there have been many, many women and
Speaker 1: victims who have spoken about this. This is not some
Speaker 1: new revelation. It's just that we don't believe women, and
Speaker 1: so now it's like, oh, so all of them were lying,
Speaker 1: but now they're not lying because it's here that in
Speaker 1: itself is horrifying. However, we must continue to understand that
Speaker 1: this is attached to something bigger than Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Epstein's attached to something bigger than him. Gilay Maxwell is
Speaker 1: attached to something bigger than Jeffrey Epstein. And that unwillingness
Speaker 1: to see that is what's allowing for this to actually continue,
Speaker 1: because then you're saying, we don't care about Zionism. We
Speaker 1: care about our communities, and you don't. You don't care
Speaker 1: about your communities if you don't care about Zionism. I'm
Speaker 1: seeing people in Texas say they don't care about Jasmine
Speaker 1: Crockett taking money, They don't care about James Talerico taking money. Well,
Speaker 1: they're taking money from the same people that support a
Speaker 1: man who sectionally assaulted some own biles. A black woman
Speaker 1: from Texas. You don't care about that. What is it
Speaker 1: gonna take? And she's one of many, many, many, many many.
Speaker 1: I have a friend who was assaulted by Larry Nasser.
Speaker 1: We are in a real fight for our brains. The
Speaker 1: only way that we are going to be able to
Speaker 1: even set up our children to fight for their existence
Speaker 1: is if we train our brains to keep asking why
Speaker 1: and keep going further. We have to keep pushing further.
Speaker 1: It cannot stop at the kfab. The reality of Epstein
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump is nothing new. So for those who
Speaker 1: want to act like, oh my god, now, it's like,
Speaker 1: what are we even talking about? What are we even
Speaker 1: talking about? Someone in the here said, do you believe
Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett knows the facts? I think it is incredibly
Speaker 1: disingenuous to continuously simultaneously empower black women in positions of
Speaker 1: government while also stating that they are simply unable to
Speaker 1: learn the same facts that you and I are, That
Speaker 1: they are unwilling or un or don't have access to
Speaker 1: the same information that you and I have. What you're
Speaker 1: essentially stating is that they're either ignorant, wilfully ignorant, or incapable.
Speaker 1: And so why are we empowering somebody who is ignorant,
Speaker 1: willfully ignorant, or incapable to be a representative for us
Speaker 1: just because they're a black person. None of that makes sense.
Speaker 1: It's like the whole idea of saying that Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: is the first black woman vice president, while simultaneous is saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: but she has no power, So what are we doing?
Speaker 1: What is the value of her in that position. If
Speaker 1: you are then going to excuse her from any responsibilities
Speaker 1: attached to that position by stating that she has no power,
Speaker 1: why was it valuable to get her in that position?
Speaker 1: Then it's the hypocrisy, it's the contradictions, because none of
Speaker 1: this has been a little the surface anymore. All of
Speaker 1: this is above the surface. Plasquete of the Virgin Islands
Speaker 1: was in conversation with Jeffrey Epstein. Now, unless she says,
Speaker 1: these people held a gun to my head and they
Speaker 1: were gonna take me out, then what are we doing?
Speaker 1: Cause I'm gonna tell you. Now, if the people come
Speaker 1: for me, I'm gonna tell you, and if they take
Speaker 1: me out, they take me out. But I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you that people come with me. I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 1: So when we talk about these files, we then ask, well,
Speaker 1: now what, But again we must remember Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: not a unique case. Donald Trump is not some special
Speaker 1: edition type of president. These people are terrible people. Abraham
Speaker 1: and carried out the greatest massacre against Native Americans this
Speaker 1: history this country ever known. He was also against the banks. Yes,
Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy was accused of all types of graping.
Speaker 1: He's been very much implicated as part of the reason
Speaker 1: that Marilyn Monroe lost her life. Yes he was against banking.
Speaker 1: Yes he was against is he? However, we must acknowledge
Speaker 1: that these people are on extreme spectrums of nonsense. And
Speaker 1: people say, well, Amanda Nolan's perfect, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: are they? Noam Chomsky is on the plane with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1: He better have a book in drafty right now, explaining
Speaker 1: that there better be some assistant putting that join and
Speaker 1: in design right now. We gotta get it out. We
Speaker 1: gotta get it out. It doesn't change the efficacy of
Speaker 1: what he was saying. I mean, if anything, it actually
Speaker 1: furthers it because you were in the depths of it. However,
Speaker 1: it was a blow. It was a blow. So these
Speaker 1: files came out. I told you they would come out
Speaker 1: on a Friday, and they did, because that's how they
Speaker 1: release things, because we are in a show. They treat
Speaker 1: us like we're in a TV show, and I don't
Speaker 1: want us to get distracted from all that is involved here.
Speaker 1: This is an entire criminal syndicate. We've always known that.
Speaker 1: But the entire criminal syndicate are also pedestrians. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. No, the Africa's happened is not happening
Speaker 1: today because my guest's canceled this morning. So just keep
Speaker 1: challenging yourself to keep your mind asking those questions because
Speaker 1: this is not gonna stop. It's always been going on.
Speaker 1: But I like to think that we are further along
Speaker 1: in the fight. Thus we are further along in the process.
Speaker 1: So with that being said, let's let's get into how
Speaker 1: black do we feel today, which is brought to you
Speaker 1: by Brother Malcolm.
Speaker 12: I think you'll find, sir, that there will come time
Speaker 12: when black people wake up and become intellectually independent enough
Speaker 12: to think for themselves. There's other humans are intellectually independent
Speaker 12: enough to think for themselves. Then the black man will
Speaker 12: think like a black man, and he will feel for
Speaker 12: other black people. And this new thinking and feeling will
Speaker 12: cause black people to stick together.
Speaker 10: People sold each other as slaves first out of Europeans
Speaker 10: has came and exploited.
Speaker 13: That is any truth to that y there is, but
Speaker 13: it spawned six hundred years ago. You would have seen
Speaker 13: yourself as belonging to your country. I would have seen
Speaker 13: myself as belonging to my country. And battles take place
Speaker 13: like battles would take place in Europe, and whoever gets
Speaker 13: captured going to end up prison as a war, that's
Speaker 13: not unusual, but the way it's presented is deny that
Speaker 13: you even had a country, Deny that I had a country.
Speaker 13: So with now all one group of people called black people.
Speaker 13: So if we're now battling, but why are you black
Speaker 13: people even fighting? You're supposed to be one people. The
Speaker 13: evolution of slavery, it begins in fourteen forty one Inapping,
Speaker 13: is how it began. It was the Portuguese that they
Speaker 13: realized that they could build slave dungeons. The local ruler
Speaker 13: on the Ghanaian ko Kwame answer, he was told this
Speaker 13: was going to be a traded center for goods.
Speaker 3: He opposed it.
Speaker 13: The Portuguese burned his village down. So that's how they
Speaker 13: were able to build slave dungeons. And then once you
Speaker 13: now have that, you can now pour even more people
Speaker 13: out by encouraging battle. One group of Europeans arms your side,
Speaker 13: another group arms your side, and whoever gets captured is
Speaker 13: going to end up prisoners a war. And it's only
Speaker 13: now when some of your people and your people all
Speaker 13: the same slave ship.
Speaker 1: But you realize that's what they're doing right.
Speaker 13: And that's why black people that ended up on slave
Speaker 13: ships and ended up being sent to North America's South America,
Speaker 13: Central America to carry beeps, those were the first to
Speaker 13: realize you've all been that's whee. These were the first
Speaker 13: people to become Pan Africanists.
Speaker 1: This is why when I see the FBA Foundational Black
Speaker 1: Americans and all that nonsense, I'm like, get out of here,
Speaker 1: because that labeling is created as division. Now, I am
Speaker 1: not saying that there aren't actual black people that built
Speaker 1: this nation, yes, and that they should not and I'm
Speaker 1: absolutely not saying that they shouldn't absolutely be getting reparations,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And that is a fact. However, it was
Speaker 1: created that title was created in the context of division,
Speaker 1: of saying, oh, we're not them, We're not Caribbean, we're
Speaker 1: not South American, We're us. And there is something very
Speaker 1: beautiful in acknowledging the indigenuity that was created when black
Speaker 1: people came and were came. We're stolen in trafficked to
Speaker 1: this continent. However, there is something also very necessary to
Speaker 1: acknowledge in that we have a shared history, we have
Speaker 1: a shared connectivity, and that should not be disavowed and
Speaker 1: that's something I want to talk about for our black
Speaker 1: heroed News segment today, Black heret News today is going
Speaker 1: to be about the fact that the US is no
Speaker 1: friend end to the Caribbean or maybe you know what, No,
Speaker 1: I'm going to make this our critical thinking exercise. What
Speaker 1: do I want to do? Guys? Do I want to
Speaker 1: make it blackyirate news or critical thinking exercise? It's really
Speaker 1: it's about which intro I want to play. So you
Speaker 1: know which I'm going to play?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 1: Actually, both of them are so good. You know what.
Speaker 1: It's a blacker news critical thinking exercise, That's what it is. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's both. So we are watching the United States make
Speaker 1: a grand effort at starting a war with Venezuela to
Speaker 1: steal their resources. We know this, We're watching it. This
Speaker 1: is the facts. They are getting support, however, from a
Speaker 1: number of places, including Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago
Speaker 1: is an island that is the last island of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1: It is right down here and it is very close
Speaker 1: to Venezuela. They share waters. There has been some accusations
Speaker 1: that Venezuela has tried to steal oil from Trinidad, and
Speaker 1: this has been used as legitimizing of why Trinidad would
Speaker 1: be in cahoots with the United States. However, I will
Speaker 1: state conclusively here and now that the truth of the
Speaker 1: matter is that the United States colonized the Caribbean. That
Speaker 1: is not some like weird assertion that I'm making. It
Speaker 1: is a basic, bottom line fact. And unfortunately, in that colonizing,
Speaker 1: they will of course have folks who are going along
Speaker 1: with their ride. And I want to break down for
Speaker 1: you guys the myriad ways that has happened. But first
Speaker 1: let's show the President, sorry, the Prime Minister of Trinidad
Speaker 1: and Tobago and her latest commentary that she voiced in
Speaker 1: response to island opposition of Trinidad and Tobago being used
Speaker 1: as a military outpost in aggressions against Venezuela.
Speaker 14: You worry about raid On, you worry about Venezuela, don't worry.
Speaker 14: And I'll tell you something.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 14: I think it's the height of hypocrisy and unkindness that
Speaker 14: your people in our country will want to fight the
Speaker 14: Americans Tonight. I say it again, I stand in bilateral
Speaker 14: relationships with the United States of America. They are amongst
Speaker 14: our oldest trading partners.
Speaker 6: One.
Speaker 14: They are the largest trading partner in terms of millions
Speaker 14: of dollars trade between US with Venezuela via point zero
Speaker 14: zero zero Tree with the United States Minnesota trade. Are
Speaker 14: you yell Canada?
Speaker 1: You man a.
Speaker 14: Billions of dollars in trade.
Speaker 1: Let's really take a look. When she says that the
Speaker 1: United States are friends, Let's take a look at how
Speaker 1: the United States has colonized the Caribbean. I said recently
Speaker 1: that the United States is basically I'm sorry, I said
Speaker 1: recently that the Caribbean is the Africa of the Western
Speaker 1: hemisphere and that it has been systematically destabilized and its
Speaker 1: resources stolen. Now, when this woman says, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we have trade with the United States and we don't
Speaker 1: have trade with Venezuela, this is not because of some
Speaker 1: genuine reasoning for why the United States is trading the
Speaker 1: Trinidad and not Venezuela. It is solely because keeping Trinidad
Speaker 1: inextricably linked in economy to the United States keeps them
Speaker 1: in their back pocket. This is an example of soft power.
Speaker 1: It also allows for them to continue to control, sorry,
Speaker 1: it allows them to continue to control Trinidad and thus
Speaker 1: they are not operating as a sovereign nation. This is
Speaker 1: another example of colonialism. We know that the term colonizer
Speaker 1: went out of fashion after World War Two. However the
Speaker 1: action did not go out of fashion. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take you through a series of ways in which the
Speaker 1: United States has colonized the Caribbean. Now, someone asked, is
Speaker 1: she scared of the US? No, and I think that
Speaker 1: it's very I want you guys to really stop trying
Speaker 1: to apply your version of humanism to these individuals in power,
Speaker 1: because it's not practical. They haven't demonstrated anything to give
Speaker 1: us reason to give them that type of benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt. So let's start and I will come back
Speaker 1: to this woman. I will come back to her, because
Speaker 1: it all connects. First, in nineteen thirties, Puerto Rico experienced
Speaker 1: sterilization on such a mass level that one in three
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican women were sterilized. This is because the United
Speaker 1: States decided that Puerto Rico was overpopulated. They literally, unbeknounced
Speaker 1: to the population of Puerto Rico, prevented women from being
Speaker 1: able to give birth because they had colonized the country
Speaker 1: and decided that they wanted there to be less people
Speaker 1: on the island. This is an example of hard power,
Speaker 1: and this doesn't get talked enough, talked about enough, largely
Speaker 1: in part because it is violence against women. Now. Whenever
Speaker 1: it's violence against men and armies, etc. We hold that
Speaker 1: at a very different standard. However, violence against women and
Speaker 1: the usurping of the rights to their bodies is also warfare,
Speaker 1: and it is also hard power. We are literally seeing
Speaker 1: it right now in the Sudan and Congo and in
Speaker 1: the immense amounts of sexual assault cases. This is done
Speaker 1: to continuously keep the population in a state of fear.
Speaker 1: We see this in how these men go go to
Speaker 1: different countries under the American flag and they commit assault
Speaker 1: against members of those countries. We see that in the
Speaker 1: Comfort Women, We see that in Japan, in Okinawa. We
Speaker 1: see this all over, and we know that it is
Speaker 1: not just a matter of boys will be boys, or
Speaker 1: of literally just men being bad men. It is allowed,
Speaker 1: it is absolutely supported, and it is projected because it
Speaker 1: is an act of colonialism, and it continues to not
Speaker 1: only put the women in fear, but their husbands, their fathers,
Speaker 1: their brothers. It puts them in fear. Next, the nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty three Grenada invasion. In nineteen eighty one, you had
Speaker 1: Maurice Bishop, who was a young man in Grenada, and
Speaker 1: he said, you know, I'm actually going to do a
Speaker 1: coup and overthrow Gary and I'm going to bring socialism
Speaker 1: into Grenada. So he actually leads a revolution in Grenada
Speaker 1: called the New Jewel Movement, and the goal is to
Speaker 1: bring socialism and possibly communism to Grenada. In doing so,
Speaker 1: he becomes really tight with Fidel Castro in Cuba. Now,
Speaker 1: even though the even though the what's it called the
Speaker 1: Cold War really was at its height in the sixties,
Speaker 1: we know that it also got it didn't get fully
Speaker 1: disseminated or fully dissolved until the eighties. And the truth
Speaker 1: of the matter is that Fidel Castro presented as an
Speaker 1: example of a winner because he did successfully overthrow the government.
Speaker 1: And whether or not you feel his rule was authoritarian,
Speaker 1: et cetera, it doesn't change the fact that he successfully
Speaker 1: over through the government, and in doing so, he was
Speaker 1: able to show that there could be another type of
Speaker 1: government in the region. This other type of government in
Speaker 1: the region was really important and it was very necessary
Speaker 1: that people understood that there could be socialism, and people
Speaker 1: did not want to believe this. They I mean sorry,
Speaker 1: the United States did not want people to believe this.
Speaker 1: So it was a big deal and it happened, and
Speaker 1: the United States was very against this. And the United
Speaker 1: States was also very fearful of Maurice Bishop because Grenada,
Speaker 1: unlike Cuba, was an English speaking was an English speech
Speaker 1: speaking country. So they were very concerned that Grenada, in
Speaker 1: achieving this alliance with Castro, would be strengthened in it
Speaker 1: socialism and thus would bring socialism to the United States
Speaker 1: and also of course to other parts of the region.
Speaker 1: We have to acknowledge this because that has always been
Speaker 1: the effort suppress, suppress, suppress. Here's Maurice Bishop talking about
Speaker 1: why the FBI was so concerned about Grenada, and he's
Speaker 1: doing this in the United States at a talk.
Speaker 15: The reason for all of this hostility is because some
Speaker 15: perceive that what is happening in.
Speaker 16: Grenada can lead a new socioeconomic.
Speaker 15: And political parts of development.
Speaker 16: They give all kinds of reasons and excuses, some of them.
Speaker 3: Credible, some utter rubbish.
Speaker 16: The interesting one that we saw very recently in a
Speaker 16: secret report of the State Department.
Speaker 15: I want to tell you about that one so you
Speaker 15: can reflect on that.
Speaker 16: One that secret report near this point that Grenada is
Speaker 16: different to Cuba and Nicaragua, and the Grenader revolution is
Speaker 16: in one sense even worse using their language than the
Speaker 16: Cuban and Nicaragua revolutions, because the people of Grenada and
Speaker 16: the leadership of Grenada speaks English and therefore can communicate directly.
Speaker 3: To the people of a the United States.
Speaker 15: I can see from an applause system.
Speaker 16: Of brothers that you agree with the report.
Speaker 15: But I want to tell you what that same report
Speaker 15: also said and said that also made us very dangerous,
Speaker 15: and that is that.
Speaker 16: The people of Grenada and the leadership of Grenada are
Speaker 16: predominantly black.
Speaker 15: They said that ninety five percent of our population is black,
Speaker 15: and they had a correct statistic.
Speaker 1: So we must also acknowledge again that blackness has been
Speaker 1: at a center position in the colonializing, in the colonizing
Speaker 1: of this region and suppression. When people try and make
Speaker 1: it like race doesn't matter, it's about economy, you're ignoring
Speaker 1: the fact that race has been an integral tool to
Speaker 1: upholding economy and to suppressing Okay, that's not by accident.
Speaker 1: That's also because the fact is that when people were
Speaker 1: stolen and trafficked across these waters and brought to these nations.
Speaker 1: They didn't do so quietly. There is a DNA within
Speaker 1: us that still says we need to get ours. And
Speaker 1: many of the people in the Caribbean and in South
Speaker 1: America were not about that life. And they actually were
Speaker 1: my rooins, and they fought and they escaped, and they
Speaker 1: started their own organizations, their own company. Sorry, well they
Speaker 1: did start their own companies, their own tribes, etc. So
Speaker 1: we cannot discount that they know that that racial unity
Speaker 1: is absolutely an aspect that they need to continue to suppress,
Speaker 1: and so in doing so, they came into Grenada in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three. They actually got in between Maurice Bishop
Speaker 1: and his partner, Bernard Cord. Bernard Cord flipped. Next thing
Speaker 1: you know, Maurice Bishop was killed in front of a
Speaker 1: firing squad. We don't even know where his body is
Speaker 1: to this day. They also put his pregnant girlfriend in
Speaker 1: front of a fireing squad. And we also know that
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty three they invaded using a soft power technique.
Speaker 1: Grenada does not have a military base. However, in Fidel
Speaker 1: Castro building our airport, they tried to say that that
Speaker 1: was a military base being built by Cuba. Grenada does
Speaker 1: not have a US military base, but it does have
Speaker 1: a medical school, and the medical school in Grenada is
Speaker 1: very strongly founded by Americans and attended by Americans. Thus,
Speaker 1: they used the presence of Americans at the medical school
Speaker 1: as a manufactured consent to then invade Grenada and decide, well,
Speaker 1: we have to come in here because we have Americans
Speaker 1: here and you guys are a spreading communism and we
Speaker 1: can't have that. This is an example of soft power
Speaker 1: leading to hard power. The nineteen ninety four NAFTA deal,
Speaker 1: so the North American Free Trade Agreement was essentially an
Speaker 1: agreement made between Mexico, Canada, and the United States that
Speaker 1: cut off trade with everyone else in the Caribbean and
Speaker 1: made it so that these countries were just trading between
Speaker 1: each other, which again made it white on white on white.
Speaker 1: And if you think Mexico doesn't have white people, yeah,
Speaker 1: bug in Okay. Mexico absolutely has its own elite, and
Speaker 1: those capitalists elite really are not with it. They do
Speaker 1: not like any of this nonsense. So those folks all
Speaker 1: aligned with each other and got together and it created
Speaker 1: a huge economic shift in the region. The Caribbean was
Speaker 1: no longer able to sustain as a part of trade.
Speaker 1: Grenada had been the number two trader for spices, but
Speaker 1: after India, that's why we have a literal nutmeg on
Speaker 1: our flag. And after NAFTA, that was a rap so
Speaker 1: that limited the ability to trade from agriculture. It limited
Speaker 1: the ability for them to control their prices, and it
Speaker 1: made it so that they now controlled what the prices
Speaker 1: were for these items across the world. When we talk
Speaker 1: about the Banana Republic, that is them deciding that bananas
Speaker 1: should only cost a certain amount. And if these countries
Speaker 1: in Central America were going to change the prices, then
Speaker 1: they were going to change the actual power structure in
Speaker 1: those countries. You think sometimes that this is only about oil.
Speaker 1: They want to control everything, and if you look at
Speaker 1: the colonization of Africa, you understand it's not simply just
Speaker 1: about controlling oil and uranium. They wanted to control the rubber,
Speaker 1: they want to control the white beans. They want to
Speaker 1: control everything, tobacco, sugar cane. Everything is able to be
Speaker 1: financialized everything. When we talk about the Caribbean and the
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four NAFTA deal, it was a huge blow
Speaker 1: that has forever shifted the ability of the Caribbean to
Speaker 1: be sovereign, and thus it has to be intrinsically again,
Speaker 1: intrinsically attached to the United States. This is also when
Speaker 1: we see tourism take a huge boom. But tourism is
Speaker 1: nothing other than just traveling colonization because the people on
Speaker 1: the islands can't even afford to go to the other
Speaker 1: islands like that. Now, yes, there is the Cara Coom,
Speaker 1: which is supposed to be the union of all the
Speaker 1: islands coming together. However, the Cara com gets disrupted when
Speaker 1: you have individuals like Kamala and Trinidad and other nations
Speaker 1: having to do trade agreements with the US or feeling
Speaker 1: like they should do trade agreements with the US that
Speaker 1: end up shutting out other nations in the Caribbean instead
Speaker 1: of actually working within the Caribbean to strengthen their unity
Speaker 1: and operate with unity to the US. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the destabilizing of Haiti. The United States has been committed
Speaker 1: from even the Lincoln era to keeping the Caribbean and
Speaker 1: specifically Haiti, from ever thinking for a second that it
Speaker 1: can rise back up. Let me just take a moment
Speaker 1: when people say statements like this Caribbean is not going
Speaker 1: to achieve solidarity, correct leadership and proximity to the US
Speaker 1: are immutable obstacles. I have a real I have a
Speaker 1: real frustration with people like you because you haven't lived forever,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to live forever. You're speaking in
Speaker 1: forevers that you have no real ability to stand on,
Speaker 1: and you are infusing your own defeatism while heralding the
Speaker 1: United States as some insurmountable enemy, which is just simply
Speaker 1: not the case. And anytime you bring that energy into
Speaker 1: the conversation, I am going to call you out because
Speaker 1: that is the same energy of Harriet Tubman's husband who
Speaker 1: told her don't run away. It's better that you stay
Speaker 1: with your master who knows you, than going and getting
Speaker 1: in trouble. Now you've got someone else here who says
Speaker 1: but he ain't wrong. And I have no idea why
Speaker 1: you all are so committed to thinking you are right
Speaker 1: and I consider you to be ops. So Rolando, please
Speaker 1: remove them, Remove people in here who do not believe
Speaker 1: that we can make any change, because I don't want
Speaker 1: that energy in this space. I am not saying the
Speaker 1: change will happen today. I'm not saying it can happen tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But I will never for a second give the United
Speaker 1: States and colonialism the power of believing that it is
Speaker 1: impervious to harm. Never again. Even having an inkling of
Speaker 1: that is a cancer that spreads. Get that mindset out
Speaker 1: of here. The destabilizing of Haiti is largely put and
Speaker 1: grounded in the fact that, of course it t was
Speaker 1: the first to achieve independence from its colonizer. Unfortunately, it
Speaker 1: has never been able to achieve true independence because they
Speaker 1: have consistently kept it destabilized. They have consistently invaded its shores,
Speaker 1: both in physical form and in other deleterious methods. In
Speaker 1: for instance, Israel has provided Haiti with Haitian militias and
Speaker 1: Haitian gangs with actual weapons to keep them destabilized. We
Speaker 1: have the CIA, which has consistently gone in and taken
Speaker 1: out whoever they feel like is trying to bring Haiti
Speaker 1: to sovereignty. We had former economics advisor Jeffrey Sachs on
Speaker 1: the show who said straight up that Moissee, who is
Speaker 1: pictured here, told him They're coming to get me, and
Speaker 1: he was like, no, the CIA is not coming to
Speaker 1: get you. And then he got murked. And now you
Speaker 1: see Jeffrey all over the world trying to tell people
Speaker 1: these folks is a problem. Don't trust them, don't trust them.
Speaker 1: France has been stealing from Haiti since Haiti got its independence.
Speaker 1: We also have to acknowledge the ways in which there
Speaker 1: have been direct infringement upon their food sovereignty. And I
Speaker 1: want to keep coming back to food sovereignty. A people
Speaker 1: who cannot feed themselves are slaves. It may not be
Speaker 1: to the extent to which we were an enslaved people
Speaker 1: working in the cane fields, but we are still in
Speaker 1: the same way, run by a higher hand that determines
Speaker 1: whether or not we can care for ourselves and how
Speaker 1: we can care for ourselves. Bill Clinton, in his imperialist mindset, decided,
Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna do with you all, Haiti,
Speaker 1: the Haitians who were at the top, and again there
Speaker 1: are always going to be people at the top who
Speaker 1: will sell out their people. The people at the top said,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna rock with you, and we're going
Speaker 1: to actually become an import business. And so they made
Speaker 1: deals with the United States and NAFTA to be an
Speaker 1: import only business. Even though he had a large agrarian
Speaker 1: business of rice. So now you had Haitians who, instead
Speaker 1: of eating their own rice, were importing rice from Arkansas
Speaker 1: and from Thailand. You'll see here that these bags say
Speaker 1: product of Thailand. But you'll notice that the imagery on
Speaker 1: them and the writing on them makes it seem as
Speaker 1: though they are actually from Haiti. That is not by accident.
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton eventually came and actually apologized. Now, I will
Speaker 1: not front. I have not been able to get deep
Speaker 1: in the weeds for what the real reason why he
Speaker 1: apologized is. But here he is saying, my bad Haiti.
Speaker 1: Rich countries that produce a lot of foods should sell
Speaker 1: it to.
Speaker 2: Poor countries and relieve them of the burden.
Speaker 1: Of producing their own foods.
Speaker 4: So thank goodness, they can lead directly.
Speaker 12: Into the industrial era.
Speaker 5: It has not worked.
Speaker 2: It's maybe been good.
Speaker 6: For some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has
Speaker 6: not worked.
Speaker 1: It was a mistake.
Speaker 13: It was a mistake that I was a party two.
Speaker 9: I am not wanting to figure at.
Speaker 12: Anybody I did that.
Speaker 5: I had to live every day with the consequences of
Speaker 5: the lost capacity.
Speaker 1: The unmitigated caucacity of stating that you completely disrupting and
Speaker 1: destabilizing an entire countries ability to feed itself is about
Speaker 1: you having to live with the repercussions of that. They
Speaker 1: never cease to amaze me.
Speaker 13: I see to produce the rice crop and Haiti to
Speaker 13: feed those people because of what I did, nobody else.
Speaker 1: Now shout out to folks like doctor Bertrude Albert, who
Speaker 1: was peach Pitcher, who was pictured in the video. There
Speaker 1: is efforts to restore the ability for Haitians to actually
Speaker 1: grow their own rice. She has been working for years
Speaker 1: to build a canal that allows for water to be
Speaker 1: redistributed back out to the field to restore the Haitian
Speaker 1: rice fields, which will also give them the opportunity to
Speaker 1: create their own sovereignty. Now. She was on Views from
Speaker 1: She was on my podcast Small Doses, Rest in Peace,
Speaker 1: Small Doses podcast. She was Osmaldos's pod Small Doses podcast
Speaker 1: two years ago.
Speaker 9: Let's listen big fear of Haiti. Even today, someone might say, like, well,
Speaker 9: slavery's abolished, why would the United States fear Haiti? A
Speaker 9: lot of people don't know. In two thousand and four,
Speaker 9: Haitian president I Seed, the first democratically elected president. I
Speaker 9: Leased Seed. He was overthrown. And the two players that
Speaker 9: orchestrated this cohu Deta was the United States in France.
Speaker 9: But why did they do that. It's because Ali Steed,
Speaker 9: he stood before the un he stood before the world
Speaker 9: and said Haiti had to pay an indemnity. We paid
Speaker 9: the equivalent of twenty one billion dollars for our freedom.
Speaker 9: France forced us to pay this money. And now the
Speaker 9: calculations are it's between twenty one billion to thirty billion
Speaker 9: dollars France must pay Haiti back.
Speaker 1: And so there's this big fear.
Speaker 9: Now, if France pays Haiti back, what about the other
Speaker 9: former class?
Speaker 1: What about black people.
Speaker 9: In the United States and the reparation that they're owed
Speaker 9: for slavery. And so if you destabilize Haiti, if you
Speaker 9: take Ali Steed out of power, that discussion ends, and
Speaker 9: essentially it did end.
Speaker 1: So that's doctor Bertrude Albert, and she's brilliant and has
Speaker 1: been so sadfast at helping to bring Haiti back into
Speaker 1: the ability to support itself. Even in the midst of
Speaker 1: all the news that we hear about destabilizing of Haiti,
Speaker 1: we have to understand that there are folks who are
Speaker 1: on the ground doing the work, and I am a
Speaker 1: large believer and I will stand on this that Haiti
Speaker 1: is the key to the Western hemisphere being freed, the
Speaker 1: same way that Philistine is the key to the East
Speaker 1: being freed. One thousand percent. Now, part of the destabilizing
Speaker 1: of Haiti was also carried out because of the ability
Speaker 1: for the La de Parlago Dominicana, which was next door
Speaker 1: to it, to keep watch for the United States while
Speaker 1: continuously repressing Haitians. Rafael Trujido was put in place in
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty and he was wait, I'm messing up. Rafael
Speaker 1: Trujigo was put in place, and he was actually in
Speaker 1: power till nineteen sixty one, I think when he was assassinated.
Speaker 1: Now through Hidyo was a very light skinned man who
Speaker 1: came up through the ranks of the military. When the
Speaker 1: US was occupying there were Dominican republic and he came
Speaker 1: up through the ranks very quickly and was put into power.
Speaker 1: He led in October nineteen thirty seven from late septem
Speaker 1: sorry from September through October nineteen thirty seven, he led
Speaker 1: one of the most heinous genocides ever, with fifteen thousand
Speaker 1: Haitian men and children systemically systematically murdered on the orders
Speaker 1: of his on his own orders. Now, this happened along
Speaker 1: the borders of the Haiti, the Haiti of Haiti and
Speaker 1: the demicant Dominican Republic. Now, this man wanted to be
Speaker 1: white so bad that he would powder his face, and
Speaker 1: he was deeply committed to carrying out the suppression and
Speaker 1: repression of black folks in Haiti and in the region. Now,
Speaker 1: the women that you see there are damn it their
Speaker 1: names hold on. The women you see there are sisters
Speaker 1: who the menabout sisters who are Their story is put
Speaker 1: in historical fiction in the time of the butterflies. But
Speaker 1: he basically was, why can't I talk all of a
Speaker 1: sudden the meana about sisters? Were three women who were
Speaker 1: a part of the resistance. Okay, they were a part
Speaker 1: of the resistance against Tuhido, and they were They were
Speaker 1: three of many who were consistently fighting Thuhidyo. Now Selene
Speaker 1: talks about the cult of personality. He was so about
Speaker 1: himself that yes, he named the capital Siula Ruhido, like
Speaker 1: he changed it from Sango Domino to Truxillo City. And
Speaker 1: this was going on for such a long time because
Speaker 1: the United States knew that as long as he was there,
Speaker 1: and he was capitulating to their wants and needs, and
Speaker 1: he was being friendly to what they were trying to do.
Speaker 1: And in World War Two he also you know, declared
Speaker 1: war against the Allies, you know, with the Allies, et cetera,
Speaker 1: that they could have him in their back pocket. Because
Speaker 1: I have to remind you that the Caribbean is in
Speaker 1: the Western Hemisphere. The Caribbean is in the back pocket
Speaker 1: of the United States, and so many people do not
Speaker 1: think about this because they just think of it as
Speaker 1: a tourist destination. It is filled with resources filled This
Speaker 1: brings us to Cuba, it's sanctions and Guantanamo. Now, the
Speaker 1: Cuban sanctions have been going on because again, like Maurice
Speaker 1: Bishop mentioned earlier, there has been a fear that socialism
Speaker 1: would spread in the region and that this would undermine
Speaker 1: not only capitalist intentions, but the ability for the United
Speaker 1: States to have power over all of these other countries.
Speaker 1: It is capitalism that allows them to be able to
Speaker 1: have that power because they are able to continue to
Speaker 1: use and wield the interests of the society's most degradated,
Speaker 1: most degraded people, which are the That's not how I
Speaker 1: want to put it. They are able to appeal to
Speaker 1: the interests of society's greedy, and as long as they
Speaker 1: can psychologically control the greed addicted members of those societies,
Speaker 1: then they can control the societies at law. Charge. Socialism
Speaker 1: actively undermines the ability to actually gain capitalistically because the
Speaker 1: system itself does not strengthen, does not gain strength from
Speaker 1: that mindset. The sinstem itself is strengthened by actual cooperative working.
Speaker 1: So there is no reason for in a socialist environment
Speaker 1: that is truly socialist. For there's no ability in the
Speaker 1: same way for someone like the United States to be
Speaker 1: able to hold power. So there has been sanctions placed
Speaker 1: on Cuba for decades now that are continuing to diminish
Speaker 1: the ability for Cubans to live, to live freely, and
Speaker 1: for actual socialism to exist and thrive. So when people say, well,
Speaker 1: socialism hasn't really worked, that is not the case. Socialism
Speaker 1: has been met with sanctions, it has been met with
Speaker 1: impediments and been met with violence. And this is why
Speaker 1: we have to make sure that we go and read
Speaker 1: about the things that the US has said was bad.
Speaker 1: In addition, because I had someone say to me the
Speaker 1: other day. Well, unlike Venezuela, the United States has never
Speaker 1: encroached upon Caribbean land, which is an absolute nonsense statement.
Speaker 1: Guantanamo Bay, you know the prison. Yeah, that's Cuba, y'all.
Speaker 1: Guantanamo Bay is Cuba. The reason why the United States
Speaker 1: still owns Guantanamo Bay goes all the way back to
Speaker 1: the Spanish American War. US forces joined up and they
Speaker 1: took Guantanamo from Spain during this war, and then after
Speaker 1: the war, when they occupied Cuba, they wrote a new
Speaker 1: constitution and inserted an amendment in that constitution that forced
Speaker 1: Cuba to sell or lease land to the US in
Speaker 1: order to maintain their independence. Now, I want to remind
Speaker 1: you that folks always talk about how we can't change
Speaker 1: our constitution, etc. The United States rewrites constitutions like folks
Speaker 1: is having like folks is rewriting their relationships with puff Daddy.
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch the puff Daddy documentary because
Speaker 1: I know it's going to be a bunch of liars.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's just gonna literally be a bunch
Speaker 1: of people sitting in there pretending like they weren't there
Speaker 1: the entire time that all this was going on. And
Speaker 1: turning the other cheek. I don't got time for that.
Speaker 1: The United States has rewritten Japan's constitution, They've rewritten Cuba's constitution.
Speaker 1: They be rewriting constitutions like the Bible has been rewritten,
Speaker 1: in whatever way it serves them. The Platt Amendment then
Speaker 1: got reupt in nineteen thirty four when there was a
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four treaty that again said that the US
Speaker 1: has to be able to lease this land from Cuba
Speaker 1: or else they will not be able to exist sovereign.
Speaker 1: So basically like if you don't give us this land,
Speaker 1: We're going to invade you. This brings us to our beginning. Now,
Speaker 1: this is the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobagle. Her
Speaker 1: name is Kamala Posad Business BISSESSR. And she is a
Speaker 1: member of the United National Congress. Now there are two
Speaker 1: main parties in Trinidad, the United National Congress which is
Speaker 1: mostly Indian, and the People's National Movement which is mostly
Speaker 1: Afro Caribbean aka Black. I just want to replay what
Speaker 1: she said in the beginning to refresh your memory about
Speaker 1: where I'm about to go with this.
Speaker 14: You worry about raid On, you worry about Venezuela. Don't worry,
Speaker 14: and I'll tell you something.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 14: I think it's the height of hypocrisy and unkindness that
Speaker 14: your people in our country will want to fight the
Speaker 14: American tonight. I say it again, I stand in bilateral
Speaker 14: relationships with the United States of America. They are amongst
Speaker 14: our oldest trading partners.
Speaker 1: One Kamala Persad business R became the first woman Prime
Speaker 1: Minister of Trinidad in twenty ten. She got to this
Speaker 1: position with the help of Cambridge Analytica. Camege Analytica is
Speaker 1: a now quote unquote defunct firm that uses user data
Speaker 1: that it got from social media sites to help advance
Speaker 1: the interests of various companies and individuals. Among its founders
Speaker 1: and board members with Steve Bannon. As you know, Steve
Speaker 1: Bannon is a long time confidante and member of Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's inner circle. He was not the sole owner, but
Speaker 1: it was also largely owned by Republican megadonner Robert Mercer
Speaker 1: and family. Cambridge Analytica went in to Trinidad and put
Speaker 1: forth a campaign that would encourage apathy amongst the young voters.
Speaker 1: That apathy would be carried out culturally because Ultimately, the
Speaker 1: Afro Trinidadians and the Indian Trinidadians were living differently in
Speaker 1: terms of their cultural makeup. I go about this in
Speaker 1: extensiveness in my smarty rants on Patreon that I did
Speaker 1: about Nicki Minaj and how she is connected to Republicans. However,
Speaker 1: the bite size, travel size version I'll give you right
Speaker 1: here is that this woman used duplicitus means via Cambridge
Speaker 1: Analytica to target the voting block of Trinidad and sway
Speaker 1: folks into apathy. Thus her voting block, the Indian folks,
Speaker 1: would show up in greater numbers and get her the position.
Speaker 1: It is no coincidence that Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer
Speaker 1: are part of the company that was employed to do this.
Speaker 1: She is now the Prime Minister of Trinidad. She is
Speaker 1: in support of the invasion of Venezuela. She has said
Speaker 1: to you right there that she is friends with the
Speaker 1: United States, which brings me back to my original thesis,
Speaker 1: which is that the United States colonized the Caribbean. They
Speaker 1: are not the friends of the Caribbean. And any members
Speaker 1: of Caribbean governments who are capitulating, who are supporting, and
Speaker 1: who are allied with the United States are not in
Speaker 1: allyship with the people of the Caribbean. And so when
Speaker 1: we see people like this Prime Minister, when we see
Speaker 1: folks like there was with Trujuidio, we know that that
Speaker 1: is a member of a ruling class who is being
Speaker 1: fed by the capitalist dollars, dripped in blood. And the
Speaker 1: only thing that will change that is political education around
Speaker 1: the Caribbean and the surrounding nations that reminds folks who
Speaker 1: they were before these people came and colonized them. Welcome
Speaker 1: to our store, Thank you.
Speaker 11: I am someone who loves their neighbors.
Speaker 1: So I know some people might think, well, why are
Speaker 1: you so against Christmas? And it's not that I'm so
Speaker 1: against Christmas. What I am against, though, is continuing to
Speaker 1: behave the same way that we have, knowing that this
Speaker 1: is not the same world that I thought I was in.
Speaker 1: I have always understood that along with Newton's law, the
Speaker 1: second law, I think it's a second law that says
Speaker 1: to every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: That nothing changes if you don't change. And unfortunately, not
Speaker 1: enough of us really understand this dynamic, and so we
Speaker 1: are waiting for things to shift. Even though we are
Speaker 1: not shifting. Something that may seem small can be a
Speaker 1: massive shift when everyone's doing it. So I don't want
Speaker 1: to continue to celebrate Christmas. It doesn't mean anything to me.
Speaker 1: It used to really just be about my mom and
Speaker 1: I and what we would do in celebrate in celebration. However,
Speaker 1: our relationship has changed, and also my relationship to this country,
Speaker 1: to capitalism, to nonsensical holidays, all of that has changed,
Speaker 1: and thus I cannot continue to behave in the same fashion.
Speaker 1: So I encourage all of us to look at the
Speaker 1: ways in which we are continuing to carry forth the
Speaker 1: same behaviors while still continuing to want things to change.
Speaker 1: And that doesn't just have to be on a geopolitical
Speaker 1: or on a political or on a governmental situation. That
Speaker 1: can also be in your relationship. That can be in
Speaker 1: your romantic relationship, that can be in your relationship to
Speaker 1: your friends, your relationship to your kids, your family, That
Speaker 1: can be in your relationship to yourself. The other reality
Speaker 1: is that you have to understand that when things change,
Speaker 1: you're not always going to be sure of how they're
Speaker 1: going to change. You can't really control that. What you
Speaker 1: control those is your actions pushing and your actions responding.
Speaker 1: And unless we are challenging ourselves to demonstrate to ourselves
Speaker 1: that we can create change, that we can shift, that
Speaker 1: we can actually be the ones that are making decisions
Speaker 1: and choices, that we have agency. Unless we can define
Speaker 1: that by our actions, we will never have the confidence
Speaker 1: to demand it of other people. We will never have
Speaker 1: the confidence to demand it of ourselves, to demand of
Speaker 1: our politics, of our government, of our world. So tomorrow
Speaker 1: feel free to join us and the Seales Squad for
Speaker 1: our non Christmas Christmas. It'll be a day of programming
Speaker 1: that gets you out of the holidays but into community,
Speaker 1: and we hope to see you there. Are you so
Speaker 1: over and not about Christmas, but also know that on
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Speaker 1: the upcoming year. At four o'clock when everyone's sitting down
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Speaker 1: so sorry to hear that you lost your mom. I'm
Speaker 1: also so glad that she loved I'd be knowing, uh
Speaker 1: be knowing, someone said to me. Someone said on my
Speaker 1: Instagram the other day like, yo, you low key a
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Speaker 1: gotta leave y'all with actually wait wait, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna see you until next year. You guys.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the next two weeks off from usform Mandoland,
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Speaker 1: the best, the best, the best. Knowing that the world
Speaker 1: is at its worst, so you know we can only
Speaker 1: go out from here. Let me shut up, let me not,
Speaker 1: let me not say that, because these people have a
Speaker 1: knack on figuring out how to make things even worse
Speaker 1: than we ever could have imagined. Y'all, Let's get into
Speaker 1: our thirty seconds of stillness peace, thirty seconds, say nic
Speaker 1: a man again. Amid Anil Amain Mail am Amin a
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