WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.399 --> 00:00:08.880 I mean talking, I'm building, You're independent. 2 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:12.000 On this and. 3 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:22.920 Walking to our store. 4 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:26.960 Thank you for what. 5 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:32.520 I am someone who loves their neighbor. 6 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:36.079 Why not I did? 7 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:52.159 Whoa good morning everybody? 8 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:52.640 No? 9 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:20.000 Yeah, okay, okay. 10 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:37.599 Good morning everybody? All right, all right, welcome to views 11 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:39.799 for mandling your news and truth by any joke necessary. 12 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:41.400 Thank you for waking up on the right side of 13 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:53.239 his So. Yes, we are back home. As you can see. 14 00:01:54.400 --> 00:02:02.239 Isn't this nice? We are back home in our place. 15 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:09.919 Notice that this is says October. So I'm going to 16 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:11.240 change that to December. 17 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:28.520 My what. 18 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:37.360 I think I'm am? I live on Instagram right now. 19 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:39.960 I'm trying to I tried to do like the simulcast, 20 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:45.520 and I don't think I did it. 21 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:51.039 Correctly, but I tried. I tried to do it. 22 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:56.439 Because it I think it's actually quite interesting that you 23 00:02:56.479 --> 00:03:00.840 can do it. And uh, okay, so how to stream? 24 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:03.840 So let go live once you're streaming. So okay, well 25 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:08.479 I did that. Okay, this is the stream key. Let's 26 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:10.479 see if I can get it right. Let's see. Let's let'sten, 27 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:14.240 let's just see. Let's just see, y'all, Let's just see. Okay, 28 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:20.319 it says you are live. It says I'm live on Instagram. 29 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:28.199 Am I live on Instagram? Can anyone confirm or deny this? 30 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:37.360 I'm not live on Instagram? 31 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:39.479 Right Okay? 32 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:51.439 I was like, no, I'm not. Okay, remove, but now 33 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:58.719 I'm gonna add it back, all right, save, and then 34 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:00.439 I go over to Instagram. 35 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.040 Just you see how you see how hard. 36 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:21.879 I'm working right now because I'm really trying to One 37 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:24.759 of the things that I really want to do in 38 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:31.439 twenty twenty five is really step up used for Amandoland. 39 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:33.959 Twenty twenty six is really step up use for Amandoland. 40 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:40.279 And that's only going to happen if it is able 41 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:50.160 to I did connect the streaming software. Oh it's live now, 42 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:53.600 all right, I did it. I did it, y'all. So 43 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:56.720 shout out to everybody. Good morning. Thank you everybody who 44 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:58.680 was out there in the world with us for the 45 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:01.839 views from I mean, for the uh what would the 46 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:05.399 ancestors say, mission driven tour. We are starting a little 47 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:09.000 late this morning, so let's just dive right in and 48 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:16.120 find out who's here. Hey, hey, hey, let's get it. 49 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:18.560 Let's get it. Let's do be dooby doo doo doo. 50 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:21.839 Come on, come on, come, on. If you run Instagram, 51 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:24.639 come on over to YouTube. I'm in the Landers, here 52 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:28.199 to learn, drop in and tell me where you're watching from. 53 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:29.839 It's selling to get it cracking. 54 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:31.160 We talk at the house. 55 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:32.439 Let's talk of that. 56 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:37.160 I'm in the Landers, here to learn, drop in and 57 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:41.160 tell me where you're watching from. No tre Dame, Brooklyn. 58 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:45.040 What the break up? I am Miami. Oh, I'm in 59 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:52.680 the building, Charleston, South Carolina, Sacandago, Aurora, Colorado, Las N 60 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.759 I said, by not roll, I go Brandon's in Houston. 61 00:05:56.439 --> 00:06:01.040 We got Denmark, Copenhagen, the area, leave my bed home 62 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:07.560 at seth Day, Rachels and Durham, North Carolina. We got 63 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:13.199 the DMV representing Boston, Massachusetts. The d in the classroom, 64 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:21.000 Salt Lake City, Utah, Cleveland, Ohio, Spring Hill, Tennessee, National City, California, Kansas. 65 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:25.000 The Man the Landers here to alarm, dropping at Timmy 66 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:32.800 Way and rotting from Cala, scream Hill, Tennessee, Waterford, Michigan. 67 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:39.319 Somebody gonna be booking Oakland, Yeah, University Place, Washington, New Jersey, 68 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:45.519 Saint Petersburg, Florida, lebaniese in Berlin, Germany, New Orleans with 69 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:50.720 Olesia's from Spring Valley, California, Back, Holiday County. I'm waving 70 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:57.360 get you Sarah San Diago, Bartman, Friday, Lighting Fish Forman 71 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:02.680 up South Carolina foot Worth, ro says Patterson, New Jersey, 72 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.560 Clack of miss Oregon. That's a new one. Brooklyn, New York, Newark, 73 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:13.439 New Jersey, Dallas, Fort Work, Austin, Texas, Denver, Waenos Saints. 74 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:17.879 What's Buenos Sadays. 75 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:25.240 Raises in London, Hollywood, Florida, The LBC, Denver, Mombley, Oh 76 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:27.639 Sing louis up in here? 77 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:28.160 What's up? 78 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:33.720 I need Sacramento, Welcome Incong the Territory in Muskoka, Ontario, 79 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:40.199 Call Panada, Helloa, Sakas, Mexico. 80 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:41.120 That's a new one. 81 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:42.800 I'm Dublin r Line. 82 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:49.000 Shout out to everybody joining US INTERNATIONALE. If you're listening 83 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:51.480 on the podcast, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. If you're watching on 84 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:54.199 the replay, we love you. And if you are watching 85 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:57.639 on Instagram, come on over to YouTube and subscribe. Because 86 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.879 you know, Zuckerberg and all of them are against me, 87 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:05.240 so we gotta get them everywhere. Okay, we gotta literally 88 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:07.839 be in all the places that we're harder to get, 89 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:09.839 huddled to get. We got a lot to talk about 90 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.199 today we will be talking about speaking of harder to get. 91 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:17.879 We're gonna talk about there now cracking down on anti fascists. 92 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:21.639 I mean, it's wild, how wild it is, but this 93 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:24.720 is happening in California. We also have great guests. We 94 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:29.199 have Rishia Gee at Hiley Vibe on the internets and 95 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:31.639 she'll be joining us for sixty second headlines, as well 96 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:35.480 as Josephine Gilbo, who will be who will be doting. 97 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:37.360 Us for level us up. 98 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:41.720 If you don't know Josephine's work, this will give you 99 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:43.159 a little little taste. 100 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:48.399 And is Josephine Gilbo. I'm a seventeen year Army veteran. 101 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:51.399 I recently got out of the military last year. 102 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:55.679 For one year I have watched andreel barn children alive. 103 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:58.799 You don't care about veterans, you don't. 104 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:03.039 Care about American You are destroying this company, this country. 105 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.600 Let me tell y'all something. I constantly accidentally say company 106 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:09.679 instead of country when I refer to the United States. 107 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:12.080 And we all know that is not a Fordian slip. 108 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:17.840 That is a factual slap. All right, all right, So yes, 109 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:21.279 we got Josephine joining us. Also, we're gonna be talking 110 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:24.679 about uprisings. We got uprisings happening all over the world, 111 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:26.840 And again the United States acts like it doesn't know 112 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:31.200 how to uprise, because I guess it doesn't. But yeah, 113 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:38.919 what we gonna do, y'all? In the words of Drew Hill, 114 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:45.519 what are we gonna do? Where are we gonna go? 115 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:55.159 What are we the same? When they find out? Yeah, 116 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:57.759 I don't know. Let's get into our word of the day. 117 00:09:57.799 --> 00:09:59.679 How about it. Let's just let's just get into our 118 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:04.279 word day because we have got our sixty second headlines 119 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:12.679 guests already prepared. Our word of the day is devon air. 120 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:15.159 No do we do wnair? I feel like you've done debonair? 121 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:20.360 Torpid torpid t r p I D. It's an adjective 122 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:29.080 that means sluggish and dull. Okay, sluggish and dull alrighty. 123 00:10:29.159 --> 00:10:31.279 The navvy said her coffee is still brewing, so that 124 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:34.799 means she might still just be torpid right now until 125 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:37.600 she gets that coffee in her system, using in a sentence. 126 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:38.720 Y'all torpid. 127 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:42.720 Let me tell you the way that jet lag be 128 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.960 hitting me. I be feeling real torpid. 129 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:47.559 Okay. 130 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:57.200 Watching people consistently stand for genocide politicians makes them look 131 00:10:57.279 --> 00:11:04.200 real torpid. Ah and why that said over in Jersey 132 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:06.519 it's quite a torpid and gloomy day. 133 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:08.399 It is over here in Nyak as well. 134 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:11.840 DJ Blessed said, after getting my wisdom teeth moved yesterday, 135 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:13.480 I'm feeling very torpid right now. 136 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:15.759 I respect it. I know what that's like. I know 137 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:16.440 what that's like. 138 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:20.120 Ooh, Florida girl, said Berry Manopun's got me feeling torpid. 139 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:25.200 I know about it. Brandon said, I'm feeling real torpid 140 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:26.879 this morning because of this Texas weather. 141 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:29.440 But clicked on this live like without has a tas. 142 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:34.919 We love it. 143 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.039 You know what looks real torpid? Them pictures of the 144 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:53.639 White House staff in Vanity Fair. They look they look 145 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:57.120 a mess. Actually, I feel like I want to try 146 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:01.080 and show you this video. Yes when she actually summed 147 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:04.519 it all up like there's nothing for me to add. 148 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:06.879 So actually, let me just let this lady tell y'all 149 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:10.200 because I didn't even know that there was such a 150 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:12.399 thing going on. I didn't know that there was a 151 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:15.200 Mandy Fair thing happening. But while I'm pulling this up, 152 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.720 want to remind you to go to amandasiels dot com 153 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:21.440 get your copy of what would the ancestors say, and 154 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:23.799 also just know that I have a lot of dope 155 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:26.320 stuff coming for Kwansa. So I hope that you guys 156 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.720 have some have some some some bread or some people 157 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:33.200 that you care about that you just want to get 158 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.120 things to give things to? What else do I want 159 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:44.679 to remind you all of you can gift people a 160 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:48.919 subscription to Patreon for the holidays, by the way, that's 161 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:53.279 and its it's it's five dollars. It's five dollars. It's 162 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:55.879 so funny when I see people really being like Amanda 163 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:59.200 is a grifter, because I'm like, what's the what's the grift? 164 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:00.440 Like? 165 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:05.919 Where where am I gaining? Like, because a grifter is 166 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:08.720 someone who's conning people in order to get something from them. 167 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:13.840 And I'm just like, what's the con? That's what I mean, 168 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:20.519 trying to figure out what's the con? I don't I 169 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:22.159 don't get it. But I want you to watch this 170 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:23.480 because we're petty. 171 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:30.799 Photograph is a masterclass in composition. And if you never 172 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.000 took our history, watch this and you will understand how 173 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:34.240 to read any image. 174 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:37.360 First and foremost, everything is a choice. 175 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.240 Do not think the photograph was something that accidentally happened 176 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:45.200 photographers either choose to literally frame the composition or choose 177 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:46.120 to print the one. 178 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:48.000 That worked the best. Often they do both. 179 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:49.440 Next, when you're. 180 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:51.279 Looking at any image, this is not just a photograph, 181 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:54.679 any image, try to figure out what is the focus. 182 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:57.679 When it's a portrait, it should be the person. 183 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:00.840 However, then you try to figure out if the actually 184 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:03.440 a focus. So she is almost completely in the center 185 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:05.559 of this image, but slightly off center. 186 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:08.279 That is already like a little bit of a tell. 187 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:11.759 Next, look at all of the line right, because your 188 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:15.600 eye follows lines to look at the composition, to move 189 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:18.639 around it, and all the lines are pointing in different directions. 190 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:21.559 It's like arrows pointing at all kinds of things, most 191 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:23.639 of them not at her and definitely not at her face. 192 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.279 Next, light is a tool, and it's. 193 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:30.759 Supposed to move your eye into focusing on things, except 194 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:33.200 for we have a random spotlight and an empty chair, 195 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:35.679 and this which what pikes it look like. 196 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:40.399 This is the pool of light is on nothing, emptiness. 197 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:43.879 And then back here, the brightest part is probably this hallway, 198 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:47.600 which then leads your eye away from her to this 199 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:51.399 with a shadowy person in the shadows. When you put 200 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:56.679 all together, this composition feels like the focus is not 201 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:00.279 her but the lack of focus, and it it makes 202 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:03.399 you draw the conclusion she is not the center, but 203 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:05.279 there's some sort of force behind it. 204 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:06.840 Now, am I reading too much into it? 205 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:07.200 No? 206 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:10.720 These are all purposeful choices to make us make that 207 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:13.399 reading exactly. You could do this with any well composed 208 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:15.559 image do the same sort of stuff. But I would 209 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:18.159 invite you to try to look at one where the 210 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:20.720 person seems powerful and compare it to them, because you 211 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:22.480 will see that the light will be on their face, 212 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:24.720 they will be in the middle, and all the lines 213 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:25.720 will be pointing to them. 214 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:28.600 Okay, that wasn't the video I wanted to show you, 215 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:30.759 but I still think it was great because you learned 216 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:31.759 something about composition. 217 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:38.519 Now this is art underscore less on the instagrams. 218 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:39.039 And you know. 219 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:42.360 So I love when people are actually like using things 220 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:44.159 that are in front of us to teach us about 221 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:48.080 other things, right, things that actually are interesting to us. 222 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:51.960 Because these people are the worse, the worst in the world, 223 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:56.919 and so we don't really want to know about them, 224 00:15:56.960 --> 00:15:58.799 but we have to know about them because they are 225 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:01.519 the worst in the world. But this is actually the 226 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:04.919 video that I wanted you all to watch because it's 227 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:06.720 actually funny and interesting. 228 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:10.960 Does this picture prove that Stephen Miller is a vampire? 229 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.399 So before we get to that pressing question, one of 230 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.759 the things that really struck me about these visual compositions 231 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:21.919 is how awkward they are. Remember, photographs are choices. They're 232 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:25.080 picking what to frame in and what to frame out. 233 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:27.200 This would be a very different image if there was 234 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.360 nothing on this side. Also, it would be a very 235 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.120 different image if the light switch wasn't there in this 236 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:38.600 whole spread. Light switches and random stuff play major characters 237 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:42.279 in the photographs. What it does is it won reminds 238 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:45.080 us how big these people are, right, It gives us 239 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.320 scale because all of us sit and chair, many of 240 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:51.200 us have light switches. I mean, this one is truly 241 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:55.279 a brilliant photograph, partly because of the weight of it. 242 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.919 There was a lot of empty space here that dwarfs 243 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:03.399 Marco Rube who himself looks like a dwarf. But then 244 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:06.160 also it's the fact that there is so much not 245 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:08.240 Marco Rubio in this photograph. 246 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:09.519 It could be cropped to. 247 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:12.640 Show him more close up, but instead it's like a 248 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.279 giant space with a little Marco Rubio it's hard to 249 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:19.880 come off as manly State Department man. 250 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:23.920 When you are being framed. Is less consequential than the door. 251 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:28.960 And even this red suit, purportedly the color of power, 252 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:33.480 looks ill fitting and somehow only adds to the old 253 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:36.200 lady vibe that the rest of this room has. 254 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:39.640 And again it is framed with half a chair. 255 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:42.400 In every instance there's a little bit of like a 256 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:45.960 topsy turviness to it, which takes me back to this one. 257 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:47.599 I am sorry to report. 258 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:52.319 One his hand does have a reflection, and two he 259 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:55.200 does not have the rest of the reflection in the 260 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:58.279 table because it's at an angle. But let's admit it, 261 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:00.920 vampires are meant to be hot. And then there are 262 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:04.079 these people. All in all, I think that the images 263 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:07.039 together show a group of people who are shorter than 264 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:09.480 you thought, but as awkward as you imagined. 265 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:17.279 The summation. 266 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:22.839 The final summation, and they are shorter than you thought, 267 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:27.079 but as awkward as you imagined, and incredible, y'all. 268 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:30.200 Let's get into our sixty second. 269 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:32.119 Headline. 270 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:35.440 Sixty second head. 271 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:38.599 One has a news right. 272 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:49.880 Sound hello, helloud, helloud? 273 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:52.839 Can you hear me? You cannot hear me? You can't 274 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.960 hear me. Oh okay, very loud, amazing, Oh okay down 275 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:01.240 am I good little bit and we can hear you. 276 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:01.559 Sis. 277 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:03.640 Hello, how are you welcome? 278 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:04.240 Welcome? 279 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:06.880 Thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy 280 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:08.799 to be here to talk to you about these headlines. 281 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:11.680 So happy to have you as well. Now let's give 282 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:14.480 the people some context. Where are you joining us from? 283 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:18.759 How did you become so on point? Because you are 284 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:20.720 one of these people that I just came across on 285 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:24.680 the internets who never misses. You've always landed on the 286 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:30.440 right side of right, and I'm always like, yes, exactly, yes, exactly. 287 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:33.000 So can you please tell people a little bit about yourself? 288 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:37.480 I appreciate that. So I am joining you from Minneapolis, Minnesota. 289 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:40.519 I am a law professor. I teach constitutional law at 290 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:43.960 the University of Minnesota. I focus on the First Amendment, 291 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:48.400 speech and press through a critical race theory lens. And 292 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:50.440 that means I spend a lot of time with the ancestors. 293 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:53.279 And as long as you spend time with the ancestors, 294 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:54.680 you go end up on the right side of history. 295 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:57.519 If you spend time with them, you heat they lessons right. 296 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:00.960 You treat them as whole human beings, full of nuanced 297 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:03.119 and complexity, you're gonna be on the right side. So 298 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:04.160 you know, I think that's part of. 299 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:06.200 When you got Octavia right over your shows, I do. 300 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:11.279 I got Octavia back there. Look, I got Marden up there. Folks, 301 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:14.480 we keep them all together. Let's see you, I see you. 302 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:16.640 Yeah. 303 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:19.279 So a lot of what I do is trying to 304 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:22.680 think about the way in which democracy is experienced in 305 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:25.279 a racialized state, and right now we're at an inflection 306 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:28.440 point of that. So I think, you know, I didn't 307 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:31.920 know it before, but I was being prepared for this moment. 308 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:34.839 I have, uh something meaningful to say, so I try 309 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:36.319 to use that as best I can. 310 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:39.400 Here's just a random question I'm throwing out to you 311 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:41.720 because I was thinking about it this morning. When I 312 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:43.880 was on the road this week, someone asked me, well, 313 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:47.039 what is gonna be the difference? Because I keep telling 314 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:50.039 people like Israel is about to colonize the United States, 315 00:20:50.200 --> 00:20:52.799 and even if they don't say it that way, that's 316 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:54.519 what's actually happening. I don't know if y'all know this, 317 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:56.200 but they were flying the Israel flag on the White 318 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:00.559 House yesterday. Yes. And also I saw video the other 319 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:02.440 day of somebody I can't remember who it was, but 320 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:04.799 they were hugging Donald Trump, saying he's the first Jewish president, 321 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:07.440 so like this is a real thing happened at either 322 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:10.400 And so I told them, I said, well, we're going 323 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:13.680 to experience apartheid, but in a much more outward fashion, 324 00:21:13.960 --> 00:21:15.640 like they're already talking about we're going to have to 325 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:18.200 start carrying our passports because IDs are not going to 326 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:22.960 be enough. And I said, we are already experiencing a 327 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:25.400 certain level of apartheid, first with white people in this 328 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:28.240 nation and the way the Justice Department deals with them differently, 329 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:31.240 but also in the way that we see zionis being 330 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:34.599 dealt with differently, right, because the First Amendment rights that 331 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:37.279 are given to Zionists are not given to people who 332 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:41.759 are pro Polecinian. So have you started to kind of 333 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:49.160 expand at all your lens under of looking through the 334 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:52.000 racialized vent lens to include Zionism. 335 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:55.319 Met So what I tell people is that the United 336 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:59.799 States has never not been a racialized apartheid. It's just 337 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:05.880 typically been confined to the darkest folks and the folks 338 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:09.920 who and by the darkest folks, I mean black folks, right. 339 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:13.799 And so what we're seeing I want people to stop 340 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:17.200 treating what we're seeing as an aberration. The problem is 341 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:20.279 just that we don't know this nation's history, and that's 342 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:24.200 also on purpose, and so we think how Zionism is 343 00:22:24.279 --> 00:22:28.519 being treated is somehow an aberration, or the Antifa attacks 344 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:32.039 are an aberration. We have never allowed people who were 345 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:35.279 pro humanity, who were pro civil rights, who were pro 346 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:38.480 human rights to speak freely in this country. It is 347 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:41.400 part of the foundational structure. It is part of this 348 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:44.240 country's architecture. There's a great line by W. E. B. 349 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:46.960 Du Bois where he's testifying in front of Congress and 350 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:49.960 he talks about how the United States creates which words 351 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:53.039 to stop people from speaking freely, and he says, at 352 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:56.279 first the rich word, the witch word, was abolitionists, and 353 00:22:56.400 --> 00:22:59.279 then it was socialist and communists. And I would argue, 354 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:02.200 and that's the the climate, the context in which he's 355 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:04.359 speaking at that moment. But I would argue that now 356 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:07.079 that word is terrorist, oh absolutely, And so we levy 357 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:11.400 it of course at pro Palestine protesters. Because we have 358 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:14.400 this architecture in place, we've just now repurposed it for 359 00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:17.799 the moment, right, even all of the things that Project 360 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:19.880 twenty five and I know you're going to get to 361 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:22.880 Project twenty twenty six or the revamp of it. Are 362 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:27.920 doing are actually a continuation of the history of this 363 00:23:28.200 --> 00:23:31.240 kind of architecture. It's just that they fought so hard 364 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:34.200 and been so effective at keeping this history out of school, 365 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:37.000 at keeping it out of the mainstream media, at keeping 366 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:39.400 it inaccessible, that people don't have it to frame what's 367 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:41.519 happening in this moment. So it's not actually like we're 368 00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:44.039 moving in a new direction. It's just that what's been 369 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:46.319 confined to the mark and to black folks and to 370 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:49.640 pro human folks is now reaching the mainstream, is now 371 00:23:49.799 --> 00:23:52.880 migrating to the rest of society, and they're trying to 372 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:56.599 establish it as the paradigm explicitly in a way that 373 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:00.839 it's historically kind of been laundered under the patriot under 374 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:03.440 the security banner. They're still trying it. It's just not 375 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:06.240 as effective, and if it's not effective, they'll use brute force. 376 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:08.720 I think that's the I think that's the difference of anything, 377 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:11.440 is that we're entering up we will brute force everyone. 378 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:12.359 We used to just do it to. 379 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:15.279 Black folks and socialists and communists. Now we will make 380 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:17.680 you into the person we need to do it too. 381 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:22.400 Yeah, but isn't that isn't the new part what they're 382 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:25.759 contextualizing it into. I mean, I feel like I never 383 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:28.359 heard of anti zion I never heard of anti Semitism 384 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:32.960 or uh, I never heard of anti Semitism as a 385 00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:38.240 brute force effort, as a brute force tool until the 386 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:40.160 last two years. I think that's right. 387 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:42.359 I think that's right. I think that certainly this is 388 00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:45.880 the latest iteration of it. But I think it's important why. 389 00:24:46.839 --> 00:24:48.000 That's what I'm trying to get at. 390 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:50.279 I keep I feel like people are really not riding 391 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:52.799 with me on this, and I'm I'm right, and I 392 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:57.160 need y'all to understand this because the people in these 393 00:24:57.240 --> 00:25:00.279 positions are Zionists. Like at one point it's time. It 394 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:03.039 used to be all everybody's white in these positions, and 395 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:06.559 now it's that everybody is a Zionist in these positions. 396 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:10.240 Like the legal field in the United States is very 397 00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:16.640 much run by Zionists, right, like the actual Supreme Court. 398 00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:19.559 I mean they may not be Jewish, but they're Zionists. 399 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:25.000 Yeah, I think I think Zionism right now, the political 400 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:26.880 Zionism that you're talking about. 401 00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:34.000 Is the nucleus only Zionism there is sure, sure won't disagree. 402 00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:36.240 I mean in terms of Israel, like right right, right, right, 403 00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:38.160 right right right right right now they lie and say 404 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:39.519 it's religious, but that's what I mean. 405 00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:42.880 Right Like, if we think about what Israel represents right 406 00:25:43.039 --> 00:25:47.440 on the global geopolitical stage, it is the culmination of 407 00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:49.880 what all of these earlier iterations have represented. 408 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:51.079 Absolutely, right, it is. 409 00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:52.839 It is so so there are three. 410 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:56.880 Things I argue will always provoke the most violent response 411 00:25:56.920 --> 00:25:58.920 from the United States. And why you didn't see the 412 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:01.880 kind of violent response no King's protests, right, it is 413 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:07.000 anti white supremacy, anti militarism, and anti capitalism. If you 414 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:09.720 attack any of these three things, and especially if you 415 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:14.200 attack them all, you will provoke the most violent response 416 00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:19.240 from the state. Right, on many levels, Israel functions as 417 00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:22.720 a proxy for the United States for those efforts, for 418 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:28.279 those pursuits. It is when you talk about building what 419 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:30.359 do they call it, the Riviera or whatever they're talking 420 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:32.720 about building in the Gaza strip, When you talk about 421 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:36.119 the defense contracts and the amount of money that's flowing 422 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:40.400 over there, When you talk about the history of colonialism, 423 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:44.160 when you talk about colonization and the eradication of indigenous people. 424 00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:46.519 You are speaking to the heart of white supremacy. You 425 00:26:46.559 --> 00:26:49.319 are speaking to the heart of the military industrial complex, 426 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:52.079 you are speaking to the heart of capitalism. And so 427 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:57.319 those elements of our society are the foundational building blocks 428 00:26:57.400 --> 00:27:00.640 of this country and have always been. Any time you 429 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:04.200 are trying to make inroads into reallocating the power that 430 00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:07.200 has a mass within that structure, you are going to 431 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:12.720 provoke the most violent response. The Palestine Israel conflict is 432 00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:15.359 the latest front of that in our society, and one 433 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:18.119 that we're all intimately connected to in a way that 434 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:20.640 we haven't seen in those past iterations because of how 435 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:22.880 social media is functioning, because of the way that the 436 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:24.960 Internet has allowed us to connect to one another. But 437 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:27.039 you had a I mean, a lot of the things 438 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:32.480 that we're seeing deporting people, vilifying people, attacking universities, we 439 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:35.920 saw in the early nineteen hundreds and early twentieth century 440 00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:38.720 with communists and socialist movements. You saw with civil rights 441 00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:42.559 activists during the sixties, from the forties to the sixties. 442 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:46.440 You saw during the Antebellum period with abolitionists. It's just 443 00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:48.759 that we all weren't watching it unfold on our phones. 444 00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:51.599 And we didn't have those real on the ground accounts 445 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:56.480 to compare it to the propagandized media machine, political machine 446 00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:58.960 that was fast at work in a way that now 447 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:01.680 we kind of have to mitigate, which I think is 448 00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:05.720 making us more engaged, which is why this one feels 449 00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:10.640 so visceral. This one feels so poignant because we're experiencing 450 00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:13.079 it in a way that we haven't experienced these earlier iterations. 451 00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:15.039 But this is the United States, United States. 452 00:28:20.039 --> 00:28:24.839 It is I just I think that we are shortsighted 453 00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:27.720 in thinking that this is about the United States, And 454 00:28:27.799 --> 00:28:30.559 I'm just gonna say that I agree. I think what 455 00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:34.000 we I think that that's the thing that I'm trying 456 00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:38.160 to get us intellectuals to kind of expound upon, is 457 00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:43.160 because we're literally seeing Zionists steal property in the United 458 00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:46.400 States the same way they're doing in Palestine. I just 459 00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:51.039 saw a man who is serving time right now for 460 00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:54.519 stealing twenty homes. He sold twenty people's homes in New 461 00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:59.960 York grand larceny, and the judge for his next case said, 462 00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:02.599 you know what, We're going to give you time served 463 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:05.640 and so for this for these new twenty homes that 464 00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:07.799 he's because he already was serving time for something else. 465 00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:11.079 So now he's serving time. Now he was on trial 466 00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:15.519 for twenty homes that he stole in Brooklyn, to my understanding, 467 00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:18.960 and the judge gave him time served, and he's not 468 00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:20.079 going to serve a day longer. 469 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:22.880 But this also mirrors Donalds and. 470 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:27.839 He's a he's a he's doing He's a Zionist, is 471 00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:28.559 a ju a Hionist. 472 00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:33.720 This also mirrors though Donald Trump partning the home healthcare 473 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:36.279 guy who stole the millions of dollars, and then him 474 00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:41.640 partning the drug trafficker guy from Honduras. And what I'm 475 00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:43.119 just trying to say, so I would say two things 476 00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:46.039 back to what you said about about I would say 477 00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:48.839 one thing in response to the this is not about 478 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:50.599 the United States. And in one of the ways I 479 00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:53.519 think that that is really evident. I saw some one 480 00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:56.319 on Democracy Now summarize this really well, and they were 481 00:29:56.359 --> 00:30:05.160 explaining that they were saying that this group of people, 482 00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:08.279 the cabal of folks who exist for example, around Epstein, 483 00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:12.359 are not tethered to a nation in the way that 484 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:15.880 they're tethered to each other. They use the globe as 485 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:19.799 their as their terrain right. It is not a United States. 486 00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:23.079 So I think thinking framing it in terms of it's 487 00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:25.519 not about the United States, and that the United States 488 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:28.839 is not the pinnacle of the pursuit. It's just one 489 00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:32.079 more hub that these people use to operate from, right, 490 00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:35.759 and it has the kind of military infrastructure that allows 491 00:30:35.799 --> 00:30:37.359 them to wield global power. 492 00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:37.759 Right. 493 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:40.799 And so I think it's important for us to think 494 00:30:40.839 --> 00:30:43.359 about this in terms of there's no allegiance to the 495 00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:47.079 United States surviving right. I think that that is probably 496 00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:50.480 the biggest misconception, is that people believe that there's some 497 00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:53.880 loyalty or prioritization of the United States making it. There 498 00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:57.240 is not no right. There is a priority for these 499 00:30:57.359 --> 00:30:59.680 people to make it, and to the extent that they 500 00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:01.839 can use the United States to advance that they are 501 00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:05.400 inplying to do so. Right on the flip side, though, 502 00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:08.920 the other reason I want to I think you're right 503 00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:11.680 about the way Zionism is being used. But I think 504 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.960 Zionism is being used not for the purposes of Zionism itself, 505 00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:20.680 but because Zionism is such it's so conducive to these 506 00:31:20.759 --> 00:31:24.200 other priorities. That's why you get the Hondura's president, That's 507 00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:26.920 why you get the pardons in these other ways. That's 508 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.039 why the things that villains this is about some fundamental 509 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:34.599 priorities for these people in charge, and whatever tools they 510 00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:38.720 can use to advance that agenda, they will, right. 511 00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:42.039 And the their agenda is to be one on the tools, right, 512 00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:45.920 Like the their agenda is is to take Like it 513 00:31:46.039 --> 00:31:48.079 sounds very pinky in the brain, but their agenda is 514 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:49.640 to take over the world. 515 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:55.000 You're run by marble villains. I mean, it's absolutely marble 516 00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:56.160 villains who are in charge. 517 00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:01.920 So I just find that as I'm watching these things happen, 518 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:05.160 Like even the conversations around Jasmine Crockett, people are like, well, 519 00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:08.519 why does it matter? Then I see James Talerico, you know, 520 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:10.680 on an interview today and it's like, well, I have 521 00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:14.519 some really good bad news for y'all. Both of them 522 00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:15.240 are trash. 523 00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:23.039 Yeah, I would go even further. I think our focus 524 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:26.160 on individuals is the problem. This is why I try 525 00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:29.440 to insist, right that this is the architecture. These are 526 00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:32.319 the leaders it's going to produce. You want different leaders, 527 00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:34.880 you want different leadership, you want a different leadership paradigm, 528 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:38.920 you need a different architecture. You don't. I mean, that's 529 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:42.039 why I keep saying. Right, you know, one of the 530 00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:44.720 things that happened, I think about six weeks ago is 531 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:47.680 Donald Trump administration. The Trump administration sent out letters to 532 00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:51.440 a bunch of universities. Brown was one of Vanderbilt was 533 00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:56.319 another one, and essentially they asked for these universities to 534 00:32:56.440 --> 00:33:01.440 alleviate any commitment to DEI, deificantly scale back the number 535 00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:05.519 of international students that they're allowing in, and to alleviate 536 00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:08.920 things that make people hostile to conservative ideology. 537 00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:10.000 Right. 538 00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:14.160 And in exchange for doing this and to agree to 539 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:18.599 tuition freeze, which which most people agree with. But in 540 00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:23.440 exchange for doing these things, they will get priority for university, 541 00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:27.240 for a federal funding for grants or research dollars or 542 00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:28.680 two loan dollars. 543 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:30.240 Everything is quick pro quo. 544 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:33.200 It's unbelievable, how corrupted all this is. 545 00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:37.720 It's true, it's true. But what this is essentially saying, 546 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:42.759 and what this directly contravenes, is this idea in American 547 00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:46.240 society that we have a marketplace of ideas, that every 548 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:50.599 idea gets to compete equally, and whichever idea is best 549 00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:55.559 will prevail. What we actually have and have always had, 550 00:33:56.400 --> 00:34:01.240 is a very carefully curated set of ideas that we 551 00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:05.519 are allowed to access, and they are ideas that can 552 00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:09.360 have no robust competition lest they be eliminated. Right, this 553 00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:11.159 is why you don't This is why they don't teach 554 00:34:11.159 --> 00:34:14.039 about socialism and communism in schools. This is why they're 555 00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:16.639 the fight over how much racism you can talk about, 556 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:19.639 whose perspective you can talk about it from. Which this 557 00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:23.320 is all because in order for white supremacy, capitalism, and 558 00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:25.719 the militarism that we have to survive. It's why King 559 00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:29.559 shut out to you. Is why King said that they 560 00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:32.119 were the three evils, because in order for them to survive, 561 00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:36.199 you have to alleviate competing ideas. So what this administration 562 00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:39.679 is doing is reluctant as people are to engage with. 563 00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:42.719 This fact is they're not an aberration or a deviation 564 00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:45.760 from our trajectory. They are a continuation of it. When 565 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:48.159 they say they're trying to reclaim traditions, when they say 566 00:34:48.159 --> 00:34:51.000 they're trying to bring us back to these American founding ideas, 567 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:54.039 they are they're consistent. They're not wrong. And a big 568 00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:58.199 part of that is inhibiting a free dialogue, is inhibiting 569 00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:01.039 the free flow in exchange of ideas. 570 00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:06.599 Right, which actually is a great segue into Project twenty 571 00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:10.400 twenty six. Yes, yes, yes, right, because I feel like 572 00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:13.840 people thought it was just like twenty twenty five all 573 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:16.639 the way live, and it's like no, no, no, no, 574 00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:20.480 they had they had more coming for us. Yeah, they 575 00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:22.480 have more coming for us. And I definitely thought I 576 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.679 had transferred it into my computer. So I didn't solve 577 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:27.719 That's a problem that I'm about to do it right now, 578 00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:32.400 So tell me this, what did you When did you 579 00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:34.239 find out about Project twenty twenty five. 580 00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:38.360 I think around the same time everybody else found out 581 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:43.679 about it, I mean a twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three. 582 00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:46.719 Maybe that's not when everybody else found out about it. 583 00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:49.840 Oh well, I mean Kamala didn't start talking about Project 584 00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:51.320 twenty twenty five till twenty twenty four. 585 00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:57.039 Well, let me be clear. I don't think when our 586 00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:00.639 politicians decide to address something publicly is a good metric 587 00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:03.320 for when it actually became publicly known. 588 00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:04.360 Right. 589 00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:07.519 Again, these are people who are ambassadors for a system 590 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:08.679 that thrives on deception. 591 00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:12.920 Right, But there are many people who did not hear 592 00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:15.719 about it until they heard about it from her, Because 593 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:18.920 they look at them as the source. 594 00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:22.480 Yeah, we got that. You gotta stop that. 595 00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:27.719 Yeah, So here we are, y'all. Heritage Foundations said don't sleep, 596 00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:33.960 we got more for you, and they have released new 597 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:38.880 fascistic policy. Thank you to So Informed for putting this together. 598 00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:43.880 Some points of note in their blueprint for twenty twenty 599 00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:50.239 six are the American family, the dignity of work, and 600 00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:52.840 the future of free enterprise, which you were just speaking 601 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:56.519 about national security, which we need to always put in 602 00:36:56.639 --> 00:36:58.920 quotes because we need to put the security in quotes 603 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:02.320 within the quotes, because it's not actually securing the nation. 604 00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:05.800 It's the same ethos as Israel, where it's we're going 605 00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:09.480 to cause friction with everybody else and call it securing 606 00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:13.199 ourselves when really what we're doing is creating a reason 607 00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:18.280 to make weapons and the American heritage and citizenship. They 608 00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:22.639 want to eliminate ranked choice voting all together. Do you 609 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.039 know do you know about ranked choice voting? 610 00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:28.199 Yeah, I mean I know a lot of people are 611 00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:31.320 supporting it as a way to mitigate the kind of 612 00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:34.519 corruption that we're seeing, Yeah, and rampant in our political poweries. 613 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:37.639 So ranked choice voting, y'all, and correct me if I'm wrong, 614 00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:40.199 because I'm still sometimes a little shaky on this ranked 615 00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:44.639 choice voting. To my understanding is when basically they put 616 00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:48.599 a number of folks that are up for election, and 617 00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:53.800 you can vote by ranking, so you don't just choose one. 618 00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:58.000 You can rank who you want in preference, and then 619 00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:02.000 that is narrowed down how many people ranked a certain 620 00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:04.840 person by one, how many people ranked a certain person 621 00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:07.320 by two. So that is why when mom Donnie was 622 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.239 in the primary, everyone was like, rank him as one, 623 00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:13.360 rank him as one, because that would push him through. 624 00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:17.199 That allows for there to also be more opportunities for 625 00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:22.559 different kinds of candidates versus you only getting these two 626 00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:25.880 options and maybe a possible third. If there is a 627 00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:28.920 green part of your independent option that actually has elevated 628 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:32.519 itself in that district or state, is that correct? People 629 00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:35.360 are saying that's correct, So okay, they want to roll 630 00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:39.079 back environmental and energy regulations. This is the part that 631 00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:42.559 I just I'm I know this about money, I know, 632 00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:48.280 but I'm just like, do these people know something I 633 00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:58.000 don't know about cloning living forever? 634 00:38:59.079 --> 00:38:59.320 You know? 635 00:38:59.599 --> 00:38:59.639 Like? 636 00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:02.400 Yeah, So, so I will say I will say two 637 00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:05.000 things about that. One, I think it's important for folks 638 00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:10.360 to keep in mind that for capitalism, every everything is 639 00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:13.360 a resource. The planet and the people are We're. 640 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:14.639 Going to talk about that later for the for the 641 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:18.119 for the critical Thinking segment, because I don't know if 642 00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:21.519 you saw that CNN has has partnered with Kalshi, which 643 00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:24.159 is a betting app so that you can now bet 644 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:26.840 on actual world events. So we're gonna talk about that 645 00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:29.920 little later because the owner literally says in an interview 646 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:33.679 that anything can be made into a commodity. That is, 647 00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:34.960 please keep. 648 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.920 Going a fundamental part of the US. And also though 649 00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:42.239 you know, one of the things that the wealthy kind 650 00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:44.719 of Rola garc that we talk about. I saw someone 651 00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:47.159 call them the five Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 652 00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:51.840 Yes, Peter Alex. They're on the cover of Time. 653 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:55.639 You know these AI folks too, it's just and they're 654 00:39:55.679 --> 00:39:56.239 praising them. 655 00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.239 They have dumped a lot of money into eugenic They've 656 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:02.679 dumped a lot of money into living forever. They've dumped 657 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:05.840 a lot of money into immortality, into stopping aging, into 658 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:09.639 reversing aging. You know, you've heard these people talk about 659 00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:14.519 merging their consciousness with UH robots and so forth and 660 00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:19.360 so on. So there certainly is a push you know, 661 00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:21.800 I think that there's an acknowledgment that the resources are 662 00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:25.760 finite and and and that means that people can't survive 663 00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:30.800 in our current modality into perpetuity. And so on some level, 664 00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:33.159 these people have accepted that and are attempting to accelerate 665 00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:37.920 it and prepare themselves forward with bunkers, with technology that 666 00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:41.679 allows them to extend their life with all kinds of so. 667 00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:44.800 So there absolutely is uh and they still look for 668 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:49.880 up Listen, imagine being such I'm just gonna say this 669 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:53.840 one thing about that, about that advanity fair uh uh photograph. 670 00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:57.519 Imagine being such a self loathing white supermacist that you 671 00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:00.880 uh LUs stuff the black wom lips because if y'all 672 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.280 don't see them needo injection marks. 673 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:03.239 It is wild. 674 00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:09.280 It is wild, It looks nuts. 675 00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:13.000 It's such a you know, I had a student from 676 00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:14.800 Norway come talk to me, and it was just such 677 00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:18.599 a refreshing reminder of how untethered this place is from reality, 678 00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:21.480 That there is no factual basis for the United States, 679 00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:26.159 that it thrives on its hostility and its antagonistic relationship 680 00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:30.079 with reality. That is, it's so all of these things 681 00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:31.840 the way that it it, you know, the way, it's 682 00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:34.079 trying to convince us that blowing up babies a self defense. 683 00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:39.159 The hostility to talking about the reality of this country's 684 00:41:39.239 --> 00:41:42.800 racial history, the you know, unwillingness to deal with the 685 00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:47.719 failings of capitalism are all emblematic of our hostile relationship 686 00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:50.880 with reality. We refuse to engage reality, and we punish 687 00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:53.119 people who try to force us to do it. That 688 00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:55.320 is kind of the ethos, and that's part of why 689 00:41:55.840 --> 00:41:58.440 we're in decline because when when you add with reality, 690 00:41:58.480 --> 00:41:59.760 reality is gonna win every time. 691 00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:05.039 Facts. 692 00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:11.360 They want to reclaim institutions, which we were just talking about, 693 00:42:11.480 --> 00:42:15.760 of higher education from the radical left. By the way, 694 00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:19.960 you all none of these institutions are the radical left. Oh, 695 00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:23.719 anybody who has been in an institution, you currently work 696 00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:27.519 in an institution, you know that it is far from 697 00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:34.559 the radical left. The idea that learning literally just learning 698 00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:40.679 is considered radical. Learning about anything outside of the United States, 699 00:42:41.360 --> 00:42:46.239 learning about anything beyond the context of capitalism, beyond the 700 00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:49.960 context of white supremacy, is considered radical. 701 00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:55.159 There is a war on reality. It never occurs to 702 00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:58.320 these people that whatever left leaning bias they think exists 703 00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:00.360 in these institutions. And I would agree with you they're 704 00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:03.480 the furthest thing from radical in my experience that we 705 00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:06.920 can get, but any left leaning bias. They don't contend 706 00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:09.039 with the fact that maybe these are just the facts. 707 00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:12.039 Maybe you got a bunch of smart people together. They 708 00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:14.039 all looked at the history and the data and they 709 00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:18.559 were like, well, damn, there's only one. They refuse to 710 00:43:18.719 --> 00:43:21.000 engage with. And that's why they have to send these 711 00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:24.440 letters out to say you please eliminate these things from 712 00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:28.559 your curriculum because our ideas cannot compete with them. The 713 00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:32.519 reality is so clear, it's so anchored in the truth 714 00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:35.760 that we can't compete unless they're eradicated in It's the same. 715 00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:38.320 Way these people like Hillary Clinton and Sarah Hurwitz are like, 716 00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:41.480 you guys need to stop showing videos of reality because 717 00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:44.320 it's getting in the way of our indoctrination and lies. 718 00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:47.039 That's right, that's right, that's exactly right. 719 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:49.840 To cut it out, you guys, that's right. 720 00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:52.159 And it shows how dependent we've been as a society, 721 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:55.840 or the power structure has been on propaganda. Right now, 722 00:43:57.880 --> 00:43:59.880 I mean, I feel like growing up, I mean, I know, 723 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:02.719 oh the word propaganda, but only recently was I able 724 00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:04.800 to really point out just how pervasive. 725 00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:08.800 It is, it is and completely regular. So let's run 726 00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:11.199 through these other ones real quick. We got advancing policies 727 00:44:11.239 --> 00:44:13.280 at the state and federal level to restore the nuclear 728 00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:15.840 family to the center of American life. So I was 729 00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:18.480 reading something the other day that was really just basically 730 00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:23.239 saying that the nuclear family is actually problematic to America, 731 00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:27.199 to human life because this idea that you would only 732 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:31.239 have you in a house with you alone is just 733 00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:32.480 so they can control you more. 734 00:44:32.679 --> 00:44:34.800 And I had really thought of it that way. 735 00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:38.480 Absolutely, the nuclear family is an institution to police women 736 00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:40.920 and queer folks, and it is to make sure that 737 00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:45.000 capitalism is a survival mechanism for capitalism because it requires 738 00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:46.400 you to be tired all the time. You got to 739 00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:50.239 think if you have people families, and familial models should 740 00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:53.480 depend on the village model. These people in our community 741 00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:56.480 who don't have kids as somebody with kids, I need 742 00:44:56.800 --> 00:44:58.880 my kidless Auntie used to be like, look, I'm gonna 743 00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:01.719 come take them a an afternoon for Saturday afternoon, so 744 00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:03.599 you can have a moment yourself that allows me to 745 00:45:03.639 --> 00:45:06.239 recharge and restore and do some critical thinking and do 746 00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:09.559 some reflection. There's no and if they don't want you 747 00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:11.559 thinking in the universities. If they're gonna take it out 748 00:45:11.599 --> 00:45:13.280 of the universities, they don't want you to have time 749 00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:15.400 on your own to do that study neither. And if 750 00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:18.760 you are in a nuclear family where you are working, 751 00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:21.079 even when you are at home, where home is a job, 752 00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:24.159 right to stay in the household, where it's a miniature 753 00:45:24.239 --> 00:45:26.239 society like they want to play, then you don't have 754 00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:27.679 that time. That's by design. 755 00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:30.639 And you know you have Adrien here saying you become 756 00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:32.480 dependent on the government, and not in a good way. 757 00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:34.800 And by the way, they force you to be dependent 758 00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:36.599 on the government and then shame you for being dependent 759 00:45:36.599 --> 00:45:40.440 on the government. It's just a cycle of nonsense. The 760 00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:44.760 last one is reducing both the demand and supply for 761 00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:51.199 abortion at all stages of human development. The demand, the 762 00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:56.440 everything you listened before. This increases the reality that folks 763 00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:59.920 will not feel safe having a baby, they won't feel supported, 764 00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:02.320 they won't feel healthy, all the above. 765 00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:05.880 Don't they sound like slave owners? Ain't that what a 766 00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:08.679 slave owner would say? They don't they want you? 767 00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:12.519 I mean, this is what a slave owner would say. 768 00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:15.480 Damn, this is a reenactment. And this is what I 769 00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:16.599 keep trying to get people to. 770 00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:19.000 Understand, like you don't say what I'm saying, say the 771 00:46:19.079 --> 00:46:20.440 plantation and the slave. 772 00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:24.280 This is part of the societal architecture. It's never gone away. 773 00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:28.159 This is just a revival of how our society to 774 00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:29.800 make America great again. 775 00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:32.480 Yeah, it's a yeah, absolutely nostalgia for the past. And 776 00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:35.000 it's a and if you look back at the trajectory 777 00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:37.960 of the institution of slavery, even after slavery, they were 778 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:40.039 nostalgic for it. You had slave in a box, you 779 00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:45.119 had things being marketed as and for convenience. As it 780 00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:47.880 is true if you've never looked up you should google. 781 00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:51.800 You should look you should definitely google it. But yeah, 782 00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:54.679 so so so even our obsession with AI and and 783 00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:57.599 like robots, it's it's like you can have a slave, 784 00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:00.159 but it'll be a robots, so it'll be okay. We 785 00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:05.880 are we have never reckoned with the material implications how 786 00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:10.880 slavery shaped our expectations, our identity, what we believe luxury 787 00:47:11.039 --> 00:47:14.440 and success looks like, yes, our quest for leadure, et cetera. 788 00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:18.079 So this is I mean, the social fabric and social 789 00:47:18.159 --> 00:47:21.639 mores changed to some extent. But if you recognize that 790 00:47:21.719 --> 00:47:24.840 the ultra wealthy are are are in a lot of 791 00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:27.960 ways removed from that social fabric. Right, if you think 792 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.679 about I mean, and we encounter it on a regular basis. 793 00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:33.119 Think about when jay Z says, I don't land at 794 00:47:33.159 --> 00:47:33.679 the airport. 795 00:47:33.719 --> 00:47:35.280 I call it the clear airport. 796 00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:38.760 Right, He's saying, I'm somewhere you can't get to. Right, 797 00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:42.400 I'm removed, I'm far away. I'm somewhere you can't, you 798 00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:46.639 can't exactly. That's the point. That's the point. So the 799 00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:50.079 people who and jay Z just a little billionaire, if 800 00:47:50.119 --> 00:48:03.719 you compare him to Larry Ellison, Billy calm down, if 801 00:48:03.760 --> 00:48:07.559 you'll compare him to somebody like Larry Ellison or Elon Musk, 802 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:12.239 these people are several layers removed from society. 803 00:48:11.960 --> 00:48:13.800 And there's several generations. 804 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:14.679 Yeah. 805 00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:19.480 Absolutely, absolutely so, whatever our social morays and sensibilities are 806 00:48:19.519 --> 00:48:22.960 around slavery are not ones they have been socialized within. 807 00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:28.000 They exist within a kind of corporate architecture that we've privileged, 808 00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:31.239 that's privileged in the constitution. This is why people not 809 00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:35.519 understanding the history of slavery is so detrimental to us collectively. 810 00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:37.719 Because if you think about people, think about the three 811 00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:39.920 fifths compromise, and the slave trade clause, and they think 812 00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:42.360 about it as just a racialized provision. No, these are 813 00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:46.960 corporate provisions. These are provisions that say the Congress, which 814 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:49.360 is supposed to be the most representative body because it's 815 00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:53.000 the body for the people. Come on, lawyers, cannot regulate 816 00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:56.639 or cannot stop the importation of slaves. Who is that for? 817 00:48:56.920 --> 00:48:59.840 Who's importing slaves? Big business some of the only people 818 00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:02.599 who can afford the ships, to staff them, to pay 819 00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:06.559 to kidnap these folks, to get people to risk alive 820 00:49:06.639 --> 00:49:09.280 for the likelihood of mutiny when slaves would revolt on 821 00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:11.960 these ships. You're talking about a car about four big 822 00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:16.639 business that's constitutionalized as part of our federal architecture, right, 823 00:49:16.679 --> 00:49:20.119 and so we've always privileged corporations and corporate power. And 824 00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:22.719 then we connected it to the Three Fifths Compromise, which 825 00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:25.320 said that cargo, that's how we think about people in 826 00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:27.800 this country as cargo. So when they treat us like 827 00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:32.119 inputs and labor and humans as a resource, that's part 828 00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:34.880 of our foundation, that's part of our architecture. Because they 829 00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:37.960 called people cargo in the Constitution, and then they said 830 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:40.800 that cargo could translate directly into political power. With the 831 00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:43.039 three fifths compromise. The more slaves you bring in, the 832 00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:45.639 more representation you have the possibility to get in Congress, 833 00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:47.800 right in the House of Representatives. And so there's a 834 00:49:47.920 --> 00:49:51.800 direct link. There's a direct relationship here between the power 835 00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:54.800 that we see being wielded and the results and the 836 00:49:55.039 --> 00:49:58.559 lack of care about humans. This is part of our ethos. 837 00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:01.679 So when they talk about restoring enterprise, when they talk 838 00:50:01.760 --> 00:50:05.440 about they are talking about even making corporations a person, 839 00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:07.559 right when they say, I mean people think it started 840 00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:11.719 with Citizens United. Citizens United is just a modern manifestation 841 00:50:12.360 --> 00:50:18.039 of that constitutionalized principle, which says that corporate, huge businesses, 842 00:50:18.159 --> 00:50:22.119 corporations wielding political power is part of our ethos. It's 843 00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:25.559 good for us. We've always had that. But because we 844 00:50:25.639 --> 00:50:28.960 don't study those provisions like that within that context, because 845 00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:30.840 we kind of say, oh, my goodness, those were slave 846 00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:32.960 clauses and they were about you know, racism, and we 847 00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:36.119 don't do that anymore. Right, they're inoperable now, we don't 848 00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:38.760 need to spend time with them, we don't recognize their 849 00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:40.880 implications for our modern but. 850 00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:43.320 They also very casually these days be going back to 851 00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:43.960 those laws. 852 00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:45.960 Right, laws from. 853 00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:49.679 Eighteen, So whatever ninety eight, he's doing it right now. 854 00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:52.400 When the alien the Alien in Sedition Acts, he's using 855 00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:54.840 some of those acts to deport, which is really just 856 00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:58.000 to exile people without due process. But he was relying 857 00:50:58.039 --> 00:50:59.960 on the seventeen ninety eight Alien in Sedition Acts. We 858 00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:01.280 absolutely use those laws. 859 00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:06.519 Well, speaking of immigration, I'm gonna talk later in the 860 00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:10.119 show about uprisings that are happening in Portugal and Bulgaria. 861 00:51:10.199 --> 00:51:15.760 But I'm going to do a uh quick pivot because 862 00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:20.199 you I did not know that you was from Minnesota. 863 00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:23.880 I'm not, but I'm not that you live in Minnesota. 864 00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:25.880 Live in Minnesota, and so I do want to shout 865 00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:28.840 out Minnesota because they have been and of course I'm 866 00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:31.880 saying it just like Bobby's mother would on Bobby's World. Bobby, 867 00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:35.400 We're going to Minnesota, and I just want to shout 868 00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:37.960 out Minnesota and the work they're doing against ice. 869 00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:53.280 Yeah yeah, wait, wait, wait, that doesn't make any sense. 870 00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:56.280 First of all, if he committed a crime in the 871 00:51:56.320 --> 00:51:57.760 state of Minnesota. 872 00:51:57.280 --> 00:52:00.119 As an adult, that's a that's a public offense. So 873 00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:01.239 you walk in the phone. 874 00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:02.719 So what is the warrants? 875 00:52:33.880 --> 00:52:36.960 I said, They have one person named one that they 876 00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:40.199 have to detain, and that person is in side central mix. 877 00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:45.280 Don Henry has the right to say no to anyone twenty. 878 00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:47.280 So Don Henry is the owner of the market that 879 00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:49.199 they are guarding his business. 880 00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:52.840 So if he went inside to talk to his wife, 881 00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:55.840 make sure his staff are in the know what's going 882 00:52:55.880 --> 00:52:56.400 on out here. 883 00:52:56.920 --> 00:52:59.960 They have not produced a warrant. They asked Don Henny 884 00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:02.199 if he was a citizen. 885 00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:06.400 They asked him to identify himself, Don Henry shortman's passport. 886 00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:08.599 They didn't ask me for my passport. 887 00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:09.239 It doesn't pay. 888 00:53:09.239 --> 00:53:13.079 It's called discribination. So we're gonna see here, you guys. 889 00:53:13.079 --> 00:53:13.880 We're gonna just see what. 890 00:53:14.119 --> 00:53:18.000 We're gonna make sure that Don Henry needs space and 891 00:53:18.119 --> 00:53:20.880 type to think about what's best for him, his family 892 00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:21.679 and his business. 893 00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:23.480 And we're gonna follow Don Henry's leave. 894 00:53:23.639 --> 00:53:25.280 We made our way to the center of the crowd 895 00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:28.199 and found a woman being held face down on the ground. 896 00:53:28.679 --> 00:53:31.559 People were screaming to let her go. We kept yelling, 897 00:53:31.639 --> 00:53:34.840 she's pregnant, she's pregnant, she's pregnant. They put their knees 898 00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:37.519 in her and we kept telling them she can't breathe 899 00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:39.760 let her up. Let her up in the chaos, the 900 00:53:39.840 --> 00:53:43.159 woman who was tantruffed was suddenly being dragged by one 901 00:53:43.360 --> 00:53:46.960 arm as the angry crowd through snowballs and screamed at the. 902 00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:49.880 Federal age, do you have a heart? 903 00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:53.440 By the way, throwing snowballs at them is probably the 904 00:53:53.519 --> 00:53:57.119 most Minnesota thing I've ever heard of, because one thing 905 00:53:57.159 --> 00:54:00.079 about Minnesota is y'all really know about some snow to 906 00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:04.039 look like a nice guy. You haven't heard now, I 907 00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:08.719 don't know about your this. You gotta have different folks, 908 00:54:09.119 --> 00:54:11.519 that's right. That's why you gotta have different folks in 909 00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:16.119 the organization, because this couldn't be me talking. Agreed, don't 910 00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:17.199 do no shooting around me. 911 00:54:17.880 --> 00:54:18.239 I can't. 912 00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:24.760 Don't got no shooting. Let's be family. Let's treat each 913 00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:28.480 other good. Let's show the media that we care for 914 00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:29.079 one another. 915 00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:35.280 Thank you, guys, Thank you for standing down. 916 00:54:36.039 --> 00:54:40.440 Don't father love you child. 917 00:54:42.519 --> 00:54:43.000 For y'all. 918 00:54:43.599 --> 00:54:44.519 We'll pray for you. 919 00:54:46.440 --> 00:54:50.280 I adopt a snuffy car my perspective. You gotta have 920 00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:52.519 a conscience for you to reason with them and appeal 921 00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:54.519 to their conscience. And I just can't believe if you're 922 00:54:54.519 --> 00:54:57.599 out here dragging folks out of the car. Line from schools, 923 00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:00.519 knee and on pregnant women. You gotta ancience for me 924 00:55:00.599 --> 00:55:01.440 to speak to friends. 925 00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:04.840 But you know what, but they left, I mean and 926 00:55:05.239 --> 00:55:08.239 but it was a combination of all. It was a 927 00:55:08.360 --> 00:55:12.880 multi pronged approach, right, because folks was not playing with them. 928 00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:16.159 Folks stood stood up, they linked arms. 929 00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:16.840 You know. 930 00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:20.639 Then you had the person who was the communicator, like 931 00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:23.960 I would tell Claudia de la Cruz, like, don't expect. 932 00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:25.400 Don't send me to talk to no cops. 933 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:27.559 It ain't gonna go. 934 00:55:27.639 --> 00:55:28.320 Well, it's not. 935 00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:32.800 I'm gonna ruin the whole operation. Y'll never let me 936 00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:36.360 talk to cops. I will ruin the whole operation. Everybody's 937 00:55:36.360 --> 00:55:39.639 gonna get arrested. We all did against shot, don't. 938 00:55:40.199 --> 00:55:43.079 That's not your ministry, that's not my No. 939 00:55:43.639 --> 00:55:47.000 You send me to talk to the thugs, right, send 940 00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:48.320 me to talk to the yns. 941 00:55:48.480 --> 00:55:53.719 I'm good with them. But the cops, no, no, y'all 942 00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:55.400 got them. Put a bail fund together for me, right, 943 00:55:57.480 --> 00:55:58.159 I mean, we. 944 00:55:58.239 --> 00:56:01.239 Are operating in an extra legal terrain. That's the other thing. 945 00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:04.800 Folks are not recktling with people like that. Whatever this is, 946 00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:13.360 thank you, like so yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean yeah again, 947 00:56:13.519 --> 00:56:16.519 we don't know history. If we knew history, we would 948 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:21.039 know how like unreliable you just it's like. 949 00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:21.719 A hit or miss. 950 00:56:21.840 --> 00:56:24.719 You might as well, I mean, play the lottery. If 951 00:56:24.760 --> 00:56:27.559 you're feeling unlucky, you know, you should play the lottery. 952 00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:30.760 It's just these all of this, and this is really, 953 00:56:30.840 --> 00:56:33.760 I think the most powerful point. It is both terrifying 954 00:56:34.039 --> 00:56:37.280 and powerful. All of this was created. We created it. 955 00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:40.639 We created it. Yeah, that means we can uncreate it. 956 00:56:40.960 --> 00:56:44.039 Say it right, bring it back, bring it back. 957 00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:46.079 We can uncreate it. 958 00:56:46.119 --> 00:56:49.400 We can make new stuff. And here's the thing. I 959 00:56:49.599 --> 00:56:53.119 trust us to make new stuff more than I trust 960 00:56:53.159 --> 00:56:57.000 the Brola garchs, certainly to us. I trust the people. 961 00:56:57.360 --> 00:57:00.360 I trust humans. I trust us and and this has 962 00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:03.239 been proven over and over again. It's why they don't 963 00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:04.920 leave us to our own devices. 964 00:57:05.159 --> 00:57:05.559 That's why. 965 00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:08.519 It's why they have to manipulate what we learn and 966 00:57:08.599 --> 00:57:10.599 what we see and what we hear, and how we 967 00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:14.159 speak to one another. And you know, the lines we 968 00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:17.599 draw connect ourselves and separate ourselves, because if we were 969 00:57:17.679 --> 00:57:20.159 this is why they went after TikTok, because they thought 970 00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:22.079 it was just an apple. Folks was over there dancing. 971 00:57:22.679 --> 00:57:25.519 They found our folks was over there having conversations, and 972 00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:27.960 they was like, oh, we have to shut this shit down. 973 00:57:28.840 --> 00:57:29.880 Let the kids talk. 974 00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:32.960 Yeah, you don't talk. Then they tricked them and started 975 00:57:33.079 --> 00:57:37.760 dancing and teaching, Hey, Zionism gonna take us down. Hey, hey, 976 00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:40.079 project twenty five, learn about it. 977 00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:42.320 And then Lady Ellison was like, I'm a buy it. 978 00:57:43.360 --> 00:57:45.639 I'm a buy it because we can't have this, and 979 00:57:45.719 --> 00:57:49.800 I'll buy whatever other mediums I need to. Right, like, 980 00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:55.119 It's yo, it's an active it's an active desperation. We 981 00:57:55.159 --> 00:57:57.719 should absolutely see it as an active desperation and it 982 00:57:57.760 --> 00:58:00.960 should also terrify us. And I'm I'm hoping we I 983 00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:01.760 don't know what it's going. 984 00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:05.039 Desperate desperate measures. You know, when people get into that phase, 985 00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:10.599 they lose any semblance of humanity that they did, and 986 00:58:10.679 --> 00:58:11.599 that's a human thing. 987 00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:13.840 Right, This is why we had this is violent crime 988 00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:16.480 when people are. The more desperate people are, the more 989 00:58:16.559 --> 00:58:17.679 desperate they're willing. 990 00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:21.559 To be, which is also why they are creating scenarioation 991 00:58:21.960 --> 00:58:25.360 for you know, when people were talking about Snap, I 992 00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:27.480 saw someone say, oh, well, they're just trying to make 993 00:58:27.519 --> 00:58:29.679 people feel bad. I'm like, no, they're trying to make 994 00:58:29.840 --> 00:58:32.880 those on snap Snap that's right. That's right, that's right, 995 00:58:33.760 --> 00:58:36.440 because they're always, of course trying to feed a free 996 00:58:36.480 --> 00:58:37.079 labor force. 997 00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:41.079 Right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right. 998 00:58:41.199 --> 00:58:45.159 So tell me this. We were going to talk about 999 00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:46.519 a bunch of things. Then we ended up talking about 1000 00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:50.840 a bunch of things. You are a First Amendment right specialist, 1001 00:58:51.119 --> 00:58:55.280 and so we got to talk about what's going on 1002 00:58:55.480 --> 00:58:57.880 in Cali with this Antifa indictment. 1003 00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:02.599 Well, did you say Benny Thompson's exchange with the FBI 1004 00:59:02.760 --> 00:59:04.800 director about Antifa? Did you? 1005 00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:06.440 I'm about to play it for me. I'm about to 1006 00:59:06.480 --> 00:59:09.519 play it for you right now. Let's let's let's let's start. 1007 00:59:09.360 --> 00:59:09.599 With that. 1008 00:59:11.599 --> 00:59:18.840 As an Antifa headquarters. What we're doing right now with 1009 00:59:18.920 --> 00:59:22.199 your where in the United States? 1010 00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:23.000 Does it? 1011 00:59:23.800 --> 00:59:25.519 That's somebody, Grandpa, that's somebody. 1012 00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:28.440 Grandpa just asked you, did you ate the cookie? 1013 00:59:28.519 --> 00:59:30.440 And then you start being like, well, what I said. 1014 00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:31.679 No, no, no, no, no, no no no no. 1015 00:59:32.119 --> 00:59:37.000 I asked you one question, did you eat the cooky? 1016 00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:37.800 That's it? 1017 00:59:38.239 --> 00:59:46.280 No, no, no, Antifa exist. If it's a terrorist organization 1018 00:59:46.760 --> 00:59:49.199 and you've identified it as number one. 1019 00:59:49.679 --> 00:59:51.519 We are building out an infrastructure right now. 1020 00:59:53.079 --> 00:59:57.800 So what does that mean. I'm just we're trying to 1021 00:59:57.800 --> 01:00:01.679 get the information. You said Antifa is a terrorist organization. 1022 01:00:03.360 --> 01:00:06.079 Tell us as a committee, how did you come to that? 1023 01:00:07.320 --> 01:00:08.159 What do it exists? 1024 01:00:08.199 --> 01:00:11.159 How many members do they have in the United States 1025 01:00:11.440 --> 01:00:12.239 as of right now? 1026 01:00:13.639 --> 01:00:14.519 Well, that's very fluid. 1027 01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:17.480 It's ongoing for us to understand that the same no 1028 01:00:17.559 --> 01:00:18.760 different than alkadan isis. 1029 01:00:19.519 --> 01:00:22.679 I don't want you I'll ask one person, sir, I 1030 01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:25.400 just want you to tell us if you said Antifa 1031 01:00:26.039 --> 01:00:30.360 is the number one domestic terrorist organization operating in the 1032 01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:33.760 United States. I just need to know where they are. 1033 01:00:33.920 --> 01:00:36.880 How many people. I don't want a name, I don't 1034 01:00:36.920 --> 01:00:39.559 want anything like that. Just how many people have you 1035 01:00:39.679 --> 01:00:44.000 identified with the FBI that Antifa. 1036 01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:44.400 Is made of. 1037 01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:49.559 Well, the investigations you're active. 1038 01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:54.599 Sir, you wouldn't come to this committee and say something 1039 01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:58.079 you can't prove by note I knew you wouldn't do that. 1040 01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:01.320 What you do. 1041 01:01:04.119 --> 01:01:05.920 And would be funny if it wasn't real. 1042 01:01:07.400 --> 01:01:12.360 This is it was such a glaring example of how 1043 01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:15.480 disconnected we are from reality and we don't have to be. 1044 01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:17.639 I mean, that's the scarier part is that we don't 1045 01:01:17.719 --> 01:01:20.320 have to be connected to reality and I would also 1046 01:01:20.480 --> 01:01:24.079 argue this is true to the FBI's tradition. This is 1047 01:01:24.119 --> 01:01:25.639 the type of stuff Jaeger whoever used to do. 1048 01:01:27.199 --> 01:01:31.239 They were able to do it under the shroud of 1049 01:01:31.360 --> 01:01:33.679 secrecy in a way that they're really not able to 1050 01:01:33.760 --> 01:01:37.440 do at this level. Yeah, agreed. So let me just 1051 01:01:37.519 --> 01:01:39.800 give you all some background around what's going on. So, 1052 01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:44.840 federal prosecutors in California have indicted four people on charges 1053 01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:50.320 they plotted to bomb multiple targets in California beginning on 1054 01:01:50.440 --> 01:01:54.559 New Year's Eve. The Justice Department describes the individuals as 1055 01:01:54.639 --> 01:02:00.599 being part of the Turtle Island Liberation Front okay, and 1056 01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:07.639 that they're absolutely pro Palestine, far left, anti government, and 1057 01:02:07.760 --> 01:02:12.800 anti capitalist. The four people arrested, Audrey Ellen, Audrey Eileen Carol, 1058 01:02:12.840 --> 01:02:18.480 Dante Garfield, Zachary Aaron Page, and Tina Lai have what 1059 01:02:18.599 --> 01:02:22.199 the Justice Department and FBI have deemed an anti government ideology. 1060 01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:28.519 And this was apparently initiated due to the September twenty 1061 01:02:28.679 --> 01:02:33.679 twenty five executive order signed by President Trump to root 1062 01:02:33.760 --> 01:02:41.599 out left wing domestic terrort organization is in our country. Now, 1063 01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:46.159 I just want to add this very important caveat that 1064 01:02:46.320 --> 01:02:54.480 the indictment relies heavily on a paid FBI informant. Yeah this, 1065 01:02:54.639 --> 01:02:58.480 I mean this sounds like yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, yeah. 1066 01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:02.119 This is both right. Has mccartyism popped off because of 1067 01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:07.480 a really like zealous senator being like, I'm trying to 1068 01:03:07.519 --> 01:03:09.880 pop off, like he couldn't care less if people were communists, 1069 01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:11.159 but he was like, oh, I can get a name 1070 01:03:11.280 --> 01:03:11.559 doing this. 1071 01:03:12.280 --> 01:03:12.480 Yeah. 1072 01:03:13.239 --> 01:03:16.079 And then you had Hoover who was like, yeah, I'm 1073 01:03:16.119 --> 01:03:17.719 also trying to get people to not know that I'm 1074 01:03:17.719 --> 01:03:20.119 gay and black, so let me just then get busiedo. 1075 01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:25.000 Hoover was also raised under if you will like his 1076 01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:28.400 political tutelage, he was originally so he's hired in the 1077 01:03:28.480 --> 01:03:31.360 nineteen teens. A lot of people don't realize Hoover is 1078 01:03:31.480 --> 01:03:34.440 hired by the federal government in the nineteen teens and 1079 01:03:34.599 --> 01:03:38.000 he leaves the FBI until nineteen seventy two, So he 1080 01:03:38.119 --> 01:03:41.440 has a career spanning more than fifty decades with the 1081 01:03:41.480 --> 01:03:45.119 federal government. And when he starts out, mutiple wars out 1082 01:03:45.199 --> 01:03:50.079 absolutely under Woodrow Wilson and Woodrow Wilson introduces the Espionage 1083 01:03:50.199 --> 01:03:52.599 Acts that says you can't say anything bad about the 1084 01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:57.159 government he uses a muck rackers, which are propagandists, to 1085 01:03:57.559 --> 01:04:00.559 drum up support for the war. He labels anybody who's 1086 01:04:00.599 --> 01:04:04.880 anti war, anybody who's anti government, anybody who's anti white supremacy, 1087 01:04:05.800 --> 01:04:08.159 as a threat to the national security. So this is 1088 01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:14.920 the climate, the rearing, the tutelage under which j. Rgar 1089 01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:18.519 Hoover is introduced to the federal government. And so if 1090 01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:21.400 you just look at the lineage, I mean we're talking 1091 01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:22.840 about apples falling from trees. 1092 01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:25.320 This is I mean, this is this is the fruit 1093 01:04:25.440 --> 01:04:25.840 the tree. 1094 01:04:26.199 --> 01:04:27.239 Yeah, this is the fruit. 1095 01:04:27.559 --> 01:04:29.320 This is the fruit of that. And because we've never 1096 01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:32.000 been willing to grapple with it and tackle it and 1097 01:04:32.239 --> 01:04:34.199 unpacked and dissect and break down. 1098 01:04:34.559 --> 01:04:34.800 Yah. 1099 01:04:36.440 --> 01:04:40.280 Is these markers, these as markers on white paper, signs 1100 01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:42.239 that they drew. Is this the evidence? 1101 01:04:42.559 --> 01:04:49.440 This is the evidence, This is the evidence. We also 1102 01:04:49.559 --> 01:04:52.679 have to understand that quote unquote evidence always has to 1103 01:04:52.719 --> 01:04:56.400 be in quotes, right, because even as we're talking about Luigi, 1104 01:04:57.079 --> 01:05:01.760 we understand that there's just simply is all is sideways 1105 01:05:02.039 --> 01:05:05.400 stuff going on, and they are not able to track 1106 01:05:05.519 --> 01:05:11.000 possession of evidence. You constantly have Forget Luigi, Let's go 1107 01:05:11.079 --> 01:05:12.159 back to Oh jy. 1108 01:05:16.119 --> 01:05:19.960 Like this, where are you? 1109 01:05:20.519 --> 01:05:25.519 It's not like these cops are in any way above board. 1110 01:05:26.400 --> 01:05:30.400 I mean, this is the other evidence here. 1111 01:05:30.480 --> 01:05:37.239 It is hold on, so PBC pipes. 1112 01:05:37.199 --> 01:05:39.159 These were just these were just out in the open 1113 01:05:39.199 --> 01:05:41.360 and somebody front yard. They just took a picture. I mean, 1114 01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:44.679 none of this stuff makes sense, Like at this what 1115 01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:49.719 oh who writing them signed? You got a whole internet, 1116 01:05:49.840 --> 01:05:53.719 you can speak to who writing with Prayola markers on 1117 01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:59.000 eighty five printer paper. They're I like even the way 1118 01:05:59.360 --> 01:06:01.559 that they're And this is another thing though, This is 1119 01:06:01.599 --> 01:06:04.159 why they attack education the way that they do, because 1120 01:06:04.159 --> 01:06:08.159 they don't count on us being smart enough hootically about 1121 01:06:08.159 --> 01:06:09.320 what they put in front of us. 1122 01:06:09.559 --> 01:06:12.159 And then look at the bullets and the whole gun 1123 01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:15.960 situation after c K right and how it was like, 1124 01:06:16.159 --> 01:06:17.840 oh there was nothing there, all of a sudden, there's 1125 01:06:17.880 --> 01:06:20.440 something there, and then on the bullets it just looked 1126 01:06:20.519 --> 01:06:25.639 like chicken scratch, and so like we I don't like 1127 01:06:25.800 --> 01:06:27.840 black people, you know what I mean? Like stuff like that, 1128 01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:31.920 it's just nonsense. Let me also add that the indictment, 1129 01:06:32.920 --> 01:06:37.320 I'm sorry that the UH attorney what's his name, the 1130 01:06:37.400 --> 01:06:40.880 federal the federal prosecutor Bill Asiley, and I'm actually I 1131 01:06:40.920 --> 01:06:42.199 want to I want to show you all a picture 1132 01:06:42.199 --> 01:06:43.480 of him so you can just see what a prick 1133 01:06:43.559 --> 01:06:48.440 looks like, because I think it's also like sometimes you 1134 01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:50.360 just see certain pitts of people you like. You you 1135 01:06:50.440 --> 01:06:53.519 could tell that this is somebody who wasn't getting none, 1136 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:57.159 and this is his way to try and get some. Vagine, 1137 01:06:57.760 --> 01:06:59.840 this is first assistant. Look at them, Look at him, 1138 01:07:01.079 --> 01:07:03.599 Look at him. You can tell he's just corny. He's 1139 01:07:03.599 --> 01:07:04.320 a corny guy. 1140 01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:06.559 This is Bill A. 1141 01:07:06.639 --> 01:07:15.440 Saley, who says the group was targeting US companies with 1142 01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:19.360 their bombs. He did not elaborate on the companies. The 1143 01:07:19.480 --> 01:07:23.679 complaint also alleges that the four involved in the plot 1144 01:07:23.880 --> 01:07:28.000 were not attempting to kill people, and if they saw 1145 01:07:28.199 --> 01:07:31.280 anyone in the area of their bombs, they would try 1146 01:07:31.400 --> 01:07:35.119 to warn them. They're going to make their initial appearance 1147 01:07:35.159 --> 01:07:37.280 in federal court Monday afternoon in Los Angeles. I bet 1148 01:07:37.320 --> 01:07:38.840 you there was a lot of pressure to find an 1149 01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:42.800 indictment after that very embarrassing exchange with Benny Thompson. I 1150 01:07:42.920 --> 01:07:45.599 bet you there was all of a sudden and urgent 1151 01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:51.679 pressure to produce something or someone, even if it doesn't stick. 1152 01:07:51.920 --> 01:07:54.239 That's the other thing. All of this is about the 1153 01:07:54.440 --> 01:07:58.880 orc of the theater of it. So much political theater 1154 01:07:59.400 --> 01:08:03.199 happening that I think is meant to distract us from 1155 01:08:03.239 --> 01:08:07.960 the real actual maneuvering that's happening. And they use Crayola 1156 01:08:08.079 --> 01:08:12.559 markers and eight and a half by eleven printer paper 1157 01:08:12.920 --> 01:08:15.039 to do it because they believe that we don't have 1158 01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:19.159 the literacy, the media literacy, the critical thinking skills, the 1159 01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:22.600 historical contexts to situate their efforts, and didn't I think 1160 01:08:22.640 --> 01:08:25.840 there was a judge too who ruled that that person 1161 01:08:26.000 --> 01:08:27.960 was not supposed to be in charge of that office, 1162 01:08:28.760 --> 01:08:31.239 and then they just kind of changed. Yeah, I'm pretty 1163 01:08:31.239 --> 01:08:34.239 sure there's a court ruling from a judge that that 1164 01:08:35.199 --> 01:08:38.079 what did you say? It is, SI, he's not supposed 1165 01:08:38.159 --> 01:08:42.520 to be leading that office, so they changed his title, 1166 01:08:43.359 --> 01:08:44.880 but he's still doing the same thing. 1167 01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:45.159 Yeah. 1168 01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:47.479 Right, Again, we're in an extra legal Well. 1169 01:08:47.520 --> 01:08:52.319 The other of nonsense that is happening is that they 1170 01:08:52.399 --> 01:08:55.399 also know that mainstream media is not going to dig further. 1171 01:08:55.640 --> 01:08:56.199 That's right, right. 1172 01:08:56.600 --> 01:08:58.760 They also know that mainstream media is not going to 1173 01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:03.800 correct with the same effort that they promote, So mainstream 1174 01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:07.119 media might put this story out there. But let's say, 1175 01:09:07.199 --> 01:09:11.880 like you said, the theatrics then dissolve into this was nonsense, 1176 01:09:11.920 --> 01:09:13.159 and we're gonna throw this out of court and you 1177 01:09:13.199 --> 01:09:15.199 all can go your merry way. We're not gonna see 1178 01:09:15.199 --> 01:09:15.720 that story. 1179 01:09:15.960 --> 01:09:18.279 That's right. Well, I mean, the media is invested in 1180 01:09:19.159 --> 01:09:22.439 invested is as much as the political apparatus in those 1181 01:09:22.560 --> 01:09:25.079 fundamental building blocks, so they're not I mean, this is 1182 01:09:25.119 --> 01:09:28.399 why you don't see media that's critical up shout out 1183 01:09:28.439 --> 01:09:31.119 to African stream. They get to African streaming, right, This 1184 01:09:31.199 --> 01:09:32.239 is why you don't see media. 1185 01:09:32.399 --> 01:09:35.880 Well off Mets started something new called Sovereign Media. 1186 01:09:36.199 --> 01:09:38.439 Oh I didn't know that, Thank you for sharing. Yeah, 1187 01:09:38.520 --> 01:09:38.920 I'm fine. 1188 01:09:40.359 --> 01:09:43.600 And so it's called Sovereign Media and he's working on it, 1189 01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:46.640 and we actually have journalists that join once a month 1190 01:09:46.840 --> 01:09:49.600 from African from the previous African stream, but now sobern 1191 01:09:49.640 --> 01:09:52.960 Media to do what we call the Africa Tappen and 1192 01:09:53.159 --> 01:09:55.680 they give us the one two on what's going on 1193 01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:56.279 in the continent. 1194 01:09:56.520 --> 01:09:58.479 I love that, and I love you for making space 1195 01:09:58.560 --> 01:10:01.840 for that, because that that kind of elimination is also 1196 01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:04.800 why we're here. Because you don't see media that's critical 1197 01:10:04.840 --> 01:10:06.680 of the United States. You don't see media from the 1198 01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:09.800 marginalized perspective, and mainstream media will not do it. They will, 1199 01:10:10.000 --> 01:10:14.039 they will create the campaigns for these awful things to happen, 1200 01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:18.640 and then years later apologize for the lynching campaign, apologize 1201 01:10:18.680 --> 01:10:21.359 for Iraq, and I imagine we will see in a 1202 01:10:21.399 --> 01:10:23.159 decade or so apologize for Palestine. 1203 01:10:23.680 --> 01:10:25.359 Well, speaking of Iraq, you know, we're going to talk 1204 01:10:25.399 --> 01:10:27.880 about Rob Reiner later in the show. And Rob Reinner 1205 01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:31.000 did the film Shock and Awe, which is about the 1206 01:10:31.119 --> 01:10:33.880 ways in which the New York Times and mainstream media 1207 01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:40.680 helped to support the lies of the administration at the time. 1208 01:10:41.479 --> 01:10:44.439 You know, Rumsfelds and these folks in carrying out the 1209 01:10:44.640 --> 01:10:48.479 manufactured consent for the war. How can people follow you? 1210 01:10:48.600 --> 01:10:52.239 Where can they get more Russia ghe in their lives? 1211 01:10:53.359 --> 01:10:55.680 So I love you dearly, and I'm going to correct you, Rashia. 1212 01:10:56.399 --> 01:10:57.760 Why have you let me talk to you. 1213 01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:01.720 The time I was waiting? 1214 01:11:01.800 --> 01:11:02.399 I just did it. 1215 01:11:04.760 --> 01:11:07.159 So there it is. You can follow me. I'm on 1216 01:11:07.479 --> 01:11:12.600 Instagram as highly viby, but there's underscore, isn't there yet? 1217 01:11:12.800 --> 01:11:20.479 Maybe in the middle highly underscore viby okay, and yes 1218 01:11:21.159 --> 01:11:25.239 like that, And I'm working on other stuff that I 1219 01:11:25.359 --> 01:11:27.800 will put on. I'm working on doing podcast stuff. I 1220 01:11:27.840 --> 01:11:31.880 don't have the scheduling. I don't have the time right 1221 01:11:31.920 --> 01:11:33.319 now to add it into all the other stuff that 1222 01:11:33.359 --> 01:11:35.720 I'm doing, but I am working on it. So my 1223 01:11:35.840 --> 01:11:37.800 hope is to talk more about the ways in which race, 1224 01:11:37.920 --> 01:11:41.479 law and politics are engendering the American decline. And you 1225 01:11:41.560 --> 01:11:44.239 know a lot of folks are talking about leaving or 1226 01:11:44.279 --> 01:11:46.520 talking about what they can do. You know, I want 1227 01:11:46.560 --> 01:11:49.079 Black folks to realize that our home is with each other. 1228 01:11:50.359 --> 01:11:53.520 I would be hesitant to call this place or any 1229 01:11:53.560 --> 01:11:55.199 other place, our home. A home is a place that 1230 01:11:55.279 --> 01:11:57.479 nourishes you. A home is a place that nurtures you, 1231 01:11:57.600 --> 01:12:00.760 that welcomes you, that's happy to see you up where 1232 01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:02.960 you find refuge. I don't know if any of those 1233 01:12:03.039 --> 01:12:08.399 characterizations would fit our experience anywhere, especially here. So I 1234 01:12:08.479 --> 01:12:10.359 want us to start thinking about each other as our 1235 01:12:10.439 --> 01:12:11.399 home and whatever we do. 1236 01:12:11.520 --> 01:12:14.199 I hope we began to think of ourselves collectively with that, 1237 01:12:14.960 --> 01:12:19.920 and that connects to my concept of we are the soil. Yeah, 1238 01:12:20.479 --> 01:12:22.720 we we did not get to connect to the land 1239 01:12:22.760 --> 01:12:24.600 that we had to become experts at, so we have 1240 01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:25.760 had to be the land. 1241 01:12:25.960 --> 01:12:28.800 Yeah, I hope, I hope we take that in internalize. 1242 01:12:28.800 --> 01:12:32.079 So I think our attempts to save this without engaging 1243 01:12:32.159 --> 01:12:34.399 with what that means for the globe, for our speed, 1244 01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:34.960 for the. 1245 01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:36.520 Planet, what are we saving. 1246 01:12:36.720 --> 01:12:39.039 Yeah, you're talking about saving American democracy, and if you. 1247 01:12:39.079 --> 01:12:42.239 Were never an American, it was never a democracy. 1248 01:12:42.680 --> 01:12:44.640 And it's gonna kill the planet. It's gonna kill us all. 1249 01:12:44.680 --> 01:12:46.560 Whatever you think you're trying to say. You want prop 1250 01:12:46.640 --> 01:12:48.800 up Jasmine crocket while they sending tax dollars over there 1251 01:12:48.840 --> 01:12:51.920 to bomb babies. I need us to, I need us to. 1252 01:12:52.319 --> 01:12:54.159 I just I want us all to be well. I 1253 01:12:54.239 --> 01:12:56.239 want us all to be well with each other, and 1254 01:12:56.640 --> 01:12:58.399 I want us to understand that. You know, ain't nothing 1255 01:12:58.439 --> 01:13:01.039 particularly wrong with Jasmine or Ama except that they exist 1256 01:13:01.079 --> 01:13:03.079 in the system that demands this of them. This is 1257 01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:03.600 the price. 1258 01:13:04.319 --> 01:13:08.119 No wrong with that. Why are you even giving them 1259 01:13:08.199 --> 01:13:10.600 that out? Like they made a choice going there, Like 1260 01:13:10.680 --> 01:13:12.199 no one held a gun to theay head and said 1261 01:13:12.239 --> 01:13:13.520 you got to go in here and do this, And 1262 01:13:13.640 --> 01:13:15.560 other people have gone in there and not done that, 1263 01:13:16.079 --> 01:13:18.359 so they actually did not have to be that. Corey 1264 01:13:18.439 --> 01:13:19.920 Bush went in there and didn't do that, or she 1265 01:13:20.039 --> 01:13:21.439 was like he went in there and didn't do that. 1266 01:13:21.560 --> 01:13:23.199 Summer Lee went in there. 1267 01:13:23.119 --> 01:13:26.439 And their fairness, they got Corey Bush and Jamal Bowman's 1268 01:13:26.479 --> 01:13:27.199 ass out of there. 1269 01:13:27.520 --> 01:13:29.680 And this is not out of there if the Democrats 1270 01:13:29.760 --> 01:13:30.560 actually had their back. 1271 01:13:30.720 --> 01:13:32.800 But that was my other point, more so about the 1272 01:13:32.880 --> 01:13:37.680 democratic apparatus of which Dasmin Crockett and Kamala they support, 1273 01:13:37.760 --> 01:13:40.000 that they didn't say nothing. You talked about you for 1274 01:13:40.119 --> 01:13:42.720 the people. They just snatched your people who for the 1275 01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:44.840 people out of here and everybody was quiet. 1276 01:13:44.880 --> 01:13:47.520 I don't like that Kamala married a Zionists. Do you 1277 01:13:47.520 --> 01:13:49.520 know how much it takes to marry somebody, y'all? Do 1278 01:13:49.600 --> 01:13:51.960 you understand in this country what it means to marry somebody. 1279 01:13:52.119 --> 01:13:56.479 She married them their family, their family, and married him. 1280 01:13:56.560 --> 01:13:59.960 As black folks who experience, who know that we are 1281 01:14:00.119 --> 01:14:03.000 ways on the bottom of any calibration about human worth. 1282 01:14:03.119 --> 01:14:05.239 I just don't know how you can endorse any position 1283 01:14:05.479 --> 01:14:08.000 where you calibrating human worth and putting people on the bottom. 1284 01:14:08.159 --> 01:14:09.439 And don't think your ass is next. 1285 01:14:10.000 --> 01:14:11.760 And Dan, you'll say to yourself, well, this is for 1286 01:14:11.840 --> 01:14:16.359 the preservation of America, which Jasmine Crockett has said. So again, 1287 01:14:16.840 --> 01:14:20.520 like you said, we are caught up in this preservation 1288 01:14:20.800 --> 01:14:22.920 of a place that has never preserved. 1289 01:14:22.560 --> 01:14:26.640 Us and can't. And the preservation at what costs? You 1290 01:14:26.760 --> 01:14:28.119 willing to burn the whole planet? 1291 01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:28.880 Yeah? 1292 01:14:29.079 --> 01:14:31.800 And what you think gonna happen when the whole planet burned? 1293 01:14:31.800 --> 01:14:35.399 Who you think next? Will you think they feed into 1294 01:14:35.479 --> 01:14:36.399 the fire next? 1295 01:14:37.640 --> 01:14:40.680 I just the logic just seems so obvious to me. 1296 01:14:41.079 --> 01:14:43.000 And that's why I can't give them a pass. These 1297 01:14:43.039 --> 01:14:45.199 are not young people. These are not people who are 1298 01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:48.520 somehow you know, misled. These are not people who are 1299 01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:52.600 struggling financially. These are not people with children. These are 1300 01:14:52.680 --> 01:14:55.960 not people who have any excuse other than a desire 1301 01:14:56.439 --> 01:14:57.079 for attention. 1302 01:14:57.399 --> 01:14:57.720 Power. 1303 01:14:58.600 --> 01:15:01.600 Yeah, I mean I think a lot of it is 1304 01:15:01.640 --> 01:15:04.119 getting a fuck, especially for black folks. We have not healed. 1305 01:15:04.479 --> 01:15:07.399 So we understand our wholeness as proximity to white power, 1306 01:15:08.520 --> 01:15:10.600 and so we believe that that can restore art of 1307 01:15:10.640 --> 01:15:13.119 our humanity. That's well, no, because I spend time with 1308 01:15:13.159 --> 01:15:19.039 the ancestors, So I mean, I know my worth and 1309 01:15:19.119 --> 01:15:21.640 my value. I just spent time this woman present. You 1310 01:15:21.880 --> 01:15:24.039 just want to forget them what were going through twenty 1311 01:15:24.159 --> 01:15:25.159 years ago, twenty nine. 1312 01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:28.960 I also want us to change how we refer to 1313 01:15:29.119 --> 01:15:31.840 black people because I know so many black people that 1314 01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:35.680 actually don't right, that actually don't operate like that, that 1315 01:15:35.840 --> 01:15:37.680 do spend their time with the ancestors. They come on 1316 01:15:37.760 --> 01:15:40.279 this show all the good day time, they come to 1317 01:15:40.359 --> 01:15:44.039 my book tours. So like this whole we enable at 1318 01:15:44.039 --> 01:15:46.279 a certain point when we're just like I get it. 1319 01:15:46.680 --> 01:15:50.239 It's like, come on, but everybody ain't healed to the 1320 01:15:50.319 --> 01:15:54.279 same extent. No they're not, But and everybody ain't had 1321 01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:55.279 the same opportunities. 1322 01:15:55.319 --> 01:15:58.079 Some people don't even know that healing is available. 1323 01:15:57.960 --> 01:16:02.960 Correct, I'm just saying that we apply that to people 1324 01:16:03.000 --> 01:16:06.720 who do have that access. We apply that to people 1325 01:16:06.760 --> 01:16:11.560 who are actually available, who do have the availability financially, 1326 01:16:12.239 --> 01:16:16.359 time wise, et cetera to do that. And we do 1327 01:16:16.560 --> 01:16:22.239 that because we have an ingrained love and grace that 1328 01:16:22.359 --> 01:16:25.239 I believe is actually a part of our just being humanity, 1329 01:16:25.359 --> 01:16:26.920 Like yeah, yeah, I need. 1330 01:16:26.880 --> 01:16:29.439 To see I mean, my ability to recognize the humanity 1331 01:16:29.520 --> 01:16:32.760 and every other person is part of my own humanity, right, 1332 01:16:32.920 --> 01:16:36.319 My humanity survives because I can see humanity and everybody else. 1333 01:16:36.359 --> 01:16:38.119 I don't think it's an excuse. I think it's just 1334 01:16:38.199 --> 01:16:40.960 an acknowledgment of where we are and how much work 1335 01:16:41.039 --> 01:16:42.680 needs to be done. If we just say these people 1336 01:16:42.720 --> 01:16:45.039 are bad and write them off, it doesn't give us 1337 01:16:45.119 --> 01:16:48.840 a pathway for the healing that will need to take place. Collectively, 1338 01:16:48.880 --> 01:16:51.439 I think there are more unhealed people than there are 1339 01:16:51.560 --> 01:16:55.159 healed people, and I think just the majority of unkilled 1340 01:16:55.159 --> 01:16:57.720 people don't have power. I think that's why we don't 1341 01:16:57.720 --> 01:16:59.600 see it manifesting in this way. I think there's a 1342 01:16:59.640 --> 01:17:01.600 lot of healing that needs to happen, and we're gonna 1343 01:17:01.640 --> 01:17:04.039 have to make space for that and create an architecture 1344 01:17:04.079 --> 01:17:06.119 and talk about what healing looks like and what it 1345 01:17:06.199 --> 01:17:07.840 doesn't look like. In one of the ways it doesn't 1346 01:17:07.840 --> 01:17:10.079 look like is turning towards white power as a form 1347 01:17:10.119 --> 01:17:12.600 of validation, as a form of redemption. 1348 01:17:14.920 --> 01:17:16.720 So do we. 1349 01:17:19.119 --> 01:17:21.159 Continue to platform unhealed people? 1350 01:17:21.399 --> 01:17:25.199 Oh no, No, we should not be platforming these people. 1351 01:17:25.239 --> 01:17:27.399 I think I think that's the difference, right. We don't 1352 01:17:27.439 --> 01:17:31.000 throw people away because people aren't disposable, we don't platform them. 1353 01:17:31.119 --> 01:17:33.680 Efair, Okay, yes, we're on the same page. 1354 01:17:33.920 --> 01:17:35.399 I was like, yeah, on the same page. 1355 01:17:35.399 --> 01:17:37.880 We're gonna get there because the page is the same. 1356 01:17:38.439 --> 01:17:42.000 Because I think that's the thing is that that nuance 1357 01:17:42.279 --> 01:17:44.880 is what so many people are missing. Like when you 1358 01:17:45.079 --> 01:17:48.159 critique a black politician and they say you're tearing her down, 1359 01:17:48.640 --> 01:17:51.399 It's like, well, this is actually a constructive criticism based 1360 01:17:51.439 --> 01:17:56.399 on facts that actually addresses them as a politician even 1361 01:17:56.479 --> 01:17:58.840 more than them as a character as an individual. Right 1362 01:17:59.199 --> 01:18:01.840 at least the book reading I did, in the book 1363 01:18:01.880 --> 01:18:04.000 talk I did in Dallas, someone was like, well, you know, 1364 01:18:04.079 --> 01:18:06.239 I want to support Jasmine Crockett just as a person, 1365 01:18:06.359 --> 01:18:07.880 I said, then send her a birthday card. 1366 01:18:09.199 --> 01:18:11.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, like she's not. 1367 01:18:11.680 --> 01:18:15.760 Running as your sister. She's not running she's running as 1368 01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:18.800 a representative for office. And you know, there just really 1369 01:18:19.119 --> 01:18:21.920 is a very reality, a very real reality, that there's 1370 01:18:21.960 --> 01:18:24.479 a system in place that is bigger than the individual. 1371 01:18:24.640 --> 01:18:24.800 Yes. 1372 01:18:25.439 --> 01:18:26.000 Absolutely. 1373 01:18:26.680 --> 01:18:29.199 And some might say, well, then why are we expecting 1374 01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:31.920 an individual to change the system. And what I'm saying 1375 01:18:32.079 --> 01:18:34.279 is I don't expect an individual to change the system. 1376 01:18:34.399 --> 01:18:36.880 I do expect that if an individual goes into that 1377 01:18:37.000 --> 01:18:40.520 system and they are telling you about change, that they 1378 01:18:40.600 --> 01:18:44.640 need to be acting differently than other individuals in that system. 1379 01:18:45.039 --> 01:18:46.600 And I mean, I think we have to come to 1380 01:18:46.680 --> 01:18:48.720 groups with the system. It's not receptive to change. You 1381 01:18:48.840 --> 01:18:51.000 have to be an arrogant ass motherfucker to believe that 1382 01:18:51.119 --> 01:18:53.680 all these people who came before you, all the brilliance 1383 01:18:53.760 --> 01:18:55.720 that you draw from, all these other people just couldn't 1384 01:18:55.720 --> 01:18:56.800 figure out you got the answer. 1385 01:18:57.199 --> 01:18:59.800 Or you're telling me, like you need to run for office. 1386 01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:02.560 You and some people say Amanda, you need to rum office. 1387 01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:05.199 Either side of that spectrum means that you think that 1388 01:19:05.520 --> 01:19:05.760 just me. 1389 01:19:06.319 --> 01:19:08.479 That's not to flip this whole crit That's right, that's right, 1390 01:19:08.560 --> 01:19:10.520 that's right, that's right. It's the system. I mean, it's 1391 01:19:10.600 --> 01:19:15.720 it's like anything else. You not changing, it's changing you. 1392 01:19:16.279 --> 01:19:18.319 You got to respond to it. You have to respond 1393 01:19:18.399 --> 01:19:24.239 to its incentives, right what it incentivizes, the behavior and incentivizes, 1394 01:19:24.279 --> 01:19:25.239 and the behavior. 1395 01:19:24.880 --> 01:19:32.840 And desiless unless your goal is not to stay there, Yes, 1396 01:19:33.119 --> 01:19:33.840 which we shouldn't. 1397 01:19:33.880 --> 01:19:35.199 We need to if we're going to do anything. We 1398 01:19:35.239 --> 01:19:37.199 talk about the system we need to build. We need 1399 01:19:37.239 --> 01:19:39.000 to build a system where people do not make careers, 1400 01:19:39.079 --> 01:19:41.880 lifelong careers out of these positions, so that so that 1401 01:19:42.000 --> 01:19:44.880 way that they are not trying to please interests that 1402 01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:47.640 are not the ones that they promised to address when 1403 01:19:47.680 --> 01:19:49.439 they got in there. I absolutely think that that's true, 1404 01:19:49.560 --> 01:19:52.640 but I think that that also means that governance needs 1405 01:19:52.680 --> 01:19:54.680 to be more collectively shared. A big part of this 1406 01:19:54.800 --> 01:19:57.239 is that million opting out. They don't want to do 1407 01:19:57.359 --> 01:19:59.079 the work. They want to show up every four years, 1408 01:19:59.359 --> 01:20:01.640 cast a back. It be like I did my job, 1409 01:20:02.119 --> 01:20:05.000 and it's not that it's a weekly, daily kind of 1410 01:20:05.119 --> 01:20:07.199 burden that requires us all to participate. 1411 01:20:08.600 --> 01:20:13.600 But that also not even really genuinely possible and correct absolutely, 1412 01:20:13.680 --> 01:20:16.720 So that's why you have we also know that they're cheating. 1413 01:20:17.880 --> 01:20:21.039 So I think that also leaves people like this, Uh, 1414 01:20:21.199 --> 01:20:22.039 what's the word I'm looking for. 1415 01:20:22.239 --> 01:20:22.840 It's in chanted. 1416 01:20:23.079 --> 01:20:24.119 You mean this is cheating? 1417 01:20:24.359 --> 01:20:24.960 Who's cheating? 1418 01:20:25.000 --> 01:20:26.479 All these elections are cheating? 1419 01:20:28.199 --> 01:20:29.640 How can you cheat a rid system? 1420 01:20:31.239 --> 01:20:33.199 Well, that's what I'm saying. It's raal, that's right. 1421 01:20:33.279 --> 01:20:34.039 So that's what I mean. 1422 01:20:34.159 --> 01:20:37.000 Like, there are those fundamental building blocks, and this is 1423 01:20:37.079 --> 01:20:42.279 why anti capitalism, anti white supremacy, and anti militarism will 1424 01:20:42.319 --> 01:20:44.680 always provoke the violence of the state, because in order 1425 01:20:44.760 --> 01:20:46.560 to get any of those other pieces, in order to 1426 01:20:46.600 --> 01:20:49.319 get collective governance, in order to get an educated polity, 1427 01:20:49.560 --> 01:20:52.920 in order to get you need to attack those concentrations 1428 01:20:52.960 --> 01:20:55.479 of power. And so those are the heart of the thing. 1429 01:20:56.479 --> 01:20:58.159 Those are the heart of the thing. When you attack, 1430 01:20:58.239 --> 01:20:59.880 when you attack the amount of money we send in 1431 01:21:00.079 --> 01:21:04.560 over the Israel, when you attack how corporations can amass 1432 01:21:04.760 --> 01:21:07.840 the wealth that they amassed. When you attack the way 1433 01:21:08.119 --> 01:21:11.079 that a race is taught in history, when you get 1434 01:21:11.199 --> 01:21:14.840 to the heart of the thing, when you attack colonialism, 1435 01:21:14.880 --> 01:21:16.800 how colonialism is taught in school. When you get to 1436 01:21:16.840 --> 01:21:18.359 the heart of the thing, that's when you begin to 1437 01:21:18.439 --> 01:21:21.439 break down those power structures. As someone who's taught this 1438 01:21:21.680 --> 01:21:24.039 for years, I would get people in my class who 1439 01:21:24.079 --> 01:21:27.520 would be like really hostile at the outset, and then 1440 01:21:27.560 --> 01:21:28.840 by the end of the class they'd be like, oh 1441 01:21:28.880 --> 01:21:31.239 my god, I didn't know, I had no idea, I 1442 01:21:31.319 --> 01:21:33.800 hadn't been taught blah blah, blah blah blah. That's why 1443 01:21:33.920 --> 01:21:37.319 schools are as contested as any election in any court case, 1444 01:21:37.640 --> 01:21:40.199 because the moment you can get to the students, that's 1445 01:21:40.199 --> 01:21:43.159 why they're opening a turning point chapter on every high 1446 01:21:43.199 --> 01:21:48.880 school campus in Texas, right while simultaneously outlining honest discussion 1447 01:21:48.960 --> 01:21:52.520 of history, outline critiques of the United States. Because if 1448 01:21:52.560 --> 01:21:54.720 you can get to the minds of people, if you 1449 01:21:54.760 --> 01:21:58.520 can orient and socialize and socialize them into a particular 1450 01:21:58.640 --> 01:22:01.079 kind of critical thought. These all of the rest of 1451 01:22:01.119 --> 01:22:05.840 this becomes newt right, they will adjust accordingly. And so 1452 01:22:06.520 --> 01:22:09.560 uh yeah, I think if we start, we need to 1453 01:22:09.560 --> 01:22:11.960 start there, not fucking Jasmincrockett. 1454 01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:13.720 And there you got it. 1455 01:22:13.880 --> 01:22:16.000 Thank you so much, God Lee, I'm so glad we 1456 01:22:16.079 --> 01:22:16.359 got you. 1457 01:22:17.720 --> 01:22:18.439 I appreciate it. 1458 01:22:19.279 --> 01:22:20.079 I appreciate you. 1459 01:22:21.119 --> 01:22:21.880 Y'all know what to do. 1460 01:22:22.239 --> 01:22:28.159 Follow Rashaya ye at highly highly underscore vivy on IG's 1461 01:22:28.199 --> 01:22:30.039 and get the knowledge and thank you for teaching the 1462 01:22:30.119 --> 01:22:31.039 babies and the. 1463 01:22:32.800 --> 01:22:33.039 Y'all. 1464 01:22:33.520 --> 01:22:34.079 We are here. 1465 01:22:34.199 --> 01:22:34.760 We are here. 1466 01:22:34.960 --> 01:22:41.720 Our second guest has not come on screen yet, So 1467 01:22:41.800 --> 01:22:44.279 in the meantime, in between time, I'm going to talk 1468 01:22:44.279 --> 01:22:46.800 to you about what's been going on with these uprisings, 1469 01:22:47.279 --> 01:22:51.600 because it really is worth noting that other countries are 1470 01:22:51.760 --> 01:22:56.560 holding their government's feats to the fires, right, they are 1471 01:22:56.640 --> 01:23:00.439 holding their feets to the fires. So let me show 1472 01:23:00.439 --> 01:23:03.720 you all what's going on in uh Bulgaria right now. 1473 01:23:03.880 --> 01:23:06.520 So some of y'all may be like, what is a Bulgaria? 1474 01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:06.800 Though? 1475 01:23:07.199 --> 01:23:10.560 What is a Bulgaria? But you need to know. And 1476 01:23:10.640 --> 01:23:15.640 then there's also what's going on in Portugal. H So, 1477 01:23:15.840 --> 01:23:24.279 first of all Bulgaria. Bulgaria is a European country that 1478 01:23:24.880 --> 01:23:28.399 is basically going through what a number of other European 1479 01:23:28.439 --> 01:23:35.880 countries are, which is their their parliament keeps getting removed 1480 01:23:36.600 --> 01:23:45.039 and having to be like re established because there is 1481 01:23:45.119 --> 01:23:48.600 a vote of no confidence. A vote of no confidence 1482 01:23:49.079 --> 01:23:54.319 is similar to remember when Kevin McCarthy uh the Republican 1483 01:23:55.640 --> 01:24:02.920 he was put in the sea with the caveat f 1484 01:24:03.039 --> 01:24:05.159 Speaker of the House, he was put in the seat 1485 01:24:05.199 --> 01:24:09.479 with the kavia was sorry with the caveat that he 1486 01:24:09.680 --> 01:24:12.960 would be able to be removed, okay, because we have 1487 01:24:13.039 --> 01:24:15.119 different rules because we don't have a parliament. So he 1488 01:24:15.239 --> 01:24:17.880 was put in with that kaviat. And then when Matt 1489 01:24:18.000 --> 01:24:20.920 gets you know, decided that he wasn't happy with something, 1490 01:24:21.199 --> 01:24:23.000 he was able to get him removed. 1491 01:24:23.079 --> 01:24:25.800 There was like a new vote that got him removed, and. 1492 01:24:26.319 --> 01:24:31.760 That was very effective because they were able to basically 1493 01:24:31.840 --> 01:24:38.520 flip the script. So Bulgaria. All right, So Bulgaria, they 1494 01:24:38.640 --> 01:24:43.119 have literally gotten a new government because the Prime Minister 1495 01:24:44.039 --> 01:24:49.119 rosen Jelyyaskov announced his resignation on December eleventh. 1496 01:24:49.199 --> 01:24:52.319 But I want you to hear what he said. 1497 01:24:52.880 --> 01:24:55.079 So basically they were about to do another vote of 1498 01:24:55.159 --> 01:24:57.960 no confidence, and there were six votes of no confidence 1499 01:24:57.960 --> 01:24:59.439 over the past few years. There was about to be 1500 01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:02.119 another one, and there was all these protests that were 1501 01:25:02.199 --> 01:25:05.079 happening because they was like, yo, we know that we 1502 01:25:05.199 --> 01:25:08.680 are about to actually become a part of the European Union. 1503 01:25:08.760 --> 01:25:11.399 We're afraid for inflation, and we know that y'all playing around, 1504 01:25:11.800 --> 01:25:15.199 and we also know that y'all got corruption going on 1505 01:25:15.319 --> 01:25:17.800 and we're not here for that. And we also know 1506 01:25:18.239 --> 01:25:20.800 that y'all don't be listening to anything we're saying. So 1507 01:25:21.920 --> 01:25:24.800 they were like, you know, we are absolutely upset about this, 1508 01:25:24.880 --> 01:25:27.079 and they keep calling these protests gen z protests, but 1509 01:25:27.199 --> 01:25:29.279 really it's just people who are like, we're not here 1510 01:25:29.359 --> 01:25:32.119 for this, okay. So it wasn't just the economic grievance, 1511 01:25:32.159 --> 01:25:34.079 but they don't like the government in general. But this 1512 01:25:34.199 --> 01:25:37.800 is what I thought was interesting. Their Prime Minister Rosen's 1513 01:25:37.880 --> 01:25:43.600 jel jell zely Yazov, jely Yezkov, that's what it is, 1514 01:25:43.760 --> 01:25:44.920 Rosen Jeyevskov. 1515 01:25:45.479 --> 01:25:50.520 He said, we have no doubt that in. 1516 01:25:50.560 --> 01:25:54.800 The upcoming vote of no confidence the government will receive reports, 1517 01:25:54.920 --> 01:25:58.920 will receive support. So basically he's saying that in Parliament. 1518 01:25:59.039 --> 01:26:02.000 They had no doubt that even in the next no 1519 01:26:02.159 --> 01:26:04.840 confidence vote that was brought to the table, they would 1520 01:26:04.880 --> 01:26:10.520 still get voted as y'all good within the government, he 1521 01:26:10.680 --> 01:26:14.800 goes on to say, But for us, the decisions of 1522 01:26:14.880 --> 01:26:19.439 the National Assembly have meaning only when they express the 1523 01:26:19.680 --> 01:26:25.479 will of the sovereign. Young and old people from different 1524 01:26:25.560 --> 01:26:30.359 ethnic groups have spoken out for the resignation. We support 1525 01:26:30.720 --> 01:26:39.119 this civic energy and encourage it. I don't know nothing 1526 01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:42.239 about Zelyazkov. I don't know what his dealings is. I 1527 01:26:42.279 --> 01:26:44.640 don't know if he's full of it. But those are 1528 01:26:45.319 --> 01:26:47.920 really strong words. 1529 01:26:48.000 --> 01:26:48.359 All right. 1530 01:26:48.720 --> 01:26:54.800 Now, Portugal is also in these streets right now. You've 1531 01:26:54.800 --> 01:26:57.319 got a million workers on general strike in Portugal. Now, 1532 01:26:57.359 --> 01:27:00.520 folks often refer to the necessity for a general strike 1533 01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:03.039 here in the United States to really bring capitalism to 1534 01:27:03.159 --> 01:27:06.920 a grinding halt. If we are trying to actually stop 1535 01:27:07.239 --> 01:27:10.880 the administration that's in power from continuing to do their nonsense. 1536 01:27:11.239 --> 01:27:13.239 So let's talk about what they've got going on over 1537 01:27:13.279 --> 01:27:16.319 there before we bring up our next guest. So Portugal 1538 01:27:16.600 --> 01:27:21.279 is a really interesting place because Portugal has had a 1539 01:27:21.399 --> 01:27:25.199 revolution of its own that was a people's revolution, and 1540 01:27:25.600 --> 01:27:28.920 you know, in Europe folks really only talk about the revolution, 1541 01:27:29.079 --> 01:27:32.199 the French Revolution, but Portugal had its own revolution, they 1542 01:27:32.359 --> 01:27:35.800 call it the Carnation Revolution in nineteen seventy four, So 1543 01:27:36.520 --> 01:27:42.439 there was a revolution that actually happened long before that. 1544 01:27:42.800 --> 01:27:45.479 Hold on, let me get my notes. That started in 1545 01:27:46.359 --> 01:27:47.479 nineteen twenty six. 1546 01:27:47.600 --> 01:27:50.039 Okay. There was a coup that happened in nineteen twenty six, 1547 01:27:50.319 --> 01:27:55.439 and it brought in Catholicism, integralism, and this regime. 1548 01:27:55.680 --> 01:27:57.560 Okay, called the Estado Novo. 1549 01:27:57.720 --> 01:28:03.119 The New State had Antonio de Oliveira Salasar as prime 1550 01:28:03.199 --> 01:28:08.880 minister till nineteen sixty eight. Are y'all here on what 1551 01:28:08.960 --> 01:28:12.560 I'm saying. This man was up in their running things 1552 01:28:13.680 --> 01:28:17.079 till nineteen sixty eight, and of course during this time 1553 01:28:17.119 --> 01:28:20.880 we have a lot of colonialism going on. So the 1554 01:28:21.079 --> 01:28:24.479 cool that happened that shifted all of this went down 1555 01:28:25.079 --> 01:28:28.800 in nineteen seventy four, and it's called the Carnation Revolution, 1556 01:28:29.079 --> 01:28:34.159 the Trabajo twenty one, and basically that is the package 1557 01:28:34.199 --> 01:28:38.720 that was presented by the government as a profound reform 1558 01:28:39.199 --> 01:28:45.319 that would revise more than one hundred articles that were 1559 01:28:45.439 --> 01:28:49.760 already passed and put in place during the nineteen seventy 1560 01:28:49.840 --> 01:28:56.000 four Revolution, which was really about workers and bringing the 1561 01:28:56.079 --> 01:29:00.079 authoritarianism out that was in place for so long, and 1562 01:29:00.159 --> 01:29:02.880 it was an actual military coup, but then the people 1563 01:29:03.079 --> 01:29:05.000 was also on board with it, so they was like, oh, 1564 01:29:05.039 --> 01:29:06.119 I guess we all cooling. 1565 01:29:06.239 --> 01:29:07.039 Let's cool it up. 1566 01:29:07.920 --> 01:29:11.359 And it got its name because barely any shots were fired, 1567 01:29:12.079 --> 01:29:18.199 and the restaurant worker Celeste Guyetro, offered carnations to soldiers 1568 01:29:18.239 --> 01:29:20.159 when the population took to the streets, and then you've 1569 01:29:20.199 --> 01:29:23.239 seen the images of the carnations in the rifles, et cetera, 1570 01:29:23.279 --> 01:29:26.880 et cetera. So every year they celebrate this with holding 1571 01:29:26.960 --> 01:29:29.520 up carnations. Now what's going on right now, though, is 1572 01:29:29.560 --> 01:29:33.640 that the current government is trying to reverse the efforts 1573 01:29:33.680 --> 01:29:39.279 that were put forth during that revolution, and they're trying 1574 01:29:39.319 --> 01:29:42.960 to make for easier dismissals, expanded employer control. They are 1575 01:29:43.039 --> 01:29:47.159 removing the socialist gains that happened during that time, and 1576 01:29:47.279 --> 01:29:49.880 the people are not having it. And I'm loving to 1577 01:29:49.920 --> 01:29:51.640 see it. I love to see it. The people are 1578 01:29:51.680 --> 01:29:53.600 not having it that people are like, wait, we didn't 1579 01:29:53.600 --> 01:29:54.439 say we don't like it. 1580 01:29:55.119 --> 01:29:56.439 We said we about this life. 1581 01:29:56.960 --> 01:29:58.399 Why are y'all actually doing this? 1582 01:29:59.520 --> 01:30:01.920 No, this is not cool. 1583 01:30:02.479 --> 01:30:05.199 And this is the Democratic Alliance that's actually trying to 1584 01:30:05.279 --> 01:30:07.159 do this, and they are right wing and trying to 1585 01:30:07.760 --> 01:30:11.000 move the goalposts. And this is a part of an 1586 01:30:11.159 --> 01:30:15.600 international effort. Okay, this is not just an American thing. 1587 01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:18.000 This is an international effort. I don't know if you know. 1588 01:30:18.199 --> 01:30:20.439 But the person who just got elected as I can 1589 01:30:20.520 --> 01:30:22.800 never remember if they're president or Prime minister, but of Japan, 1590 01:30:23.239 --> 01:30:25.960 she's on this wave as well. We all know that 1591 01:30:26.039 --> 01:30:29.640 Italy been on this wave. Okay, So this is a 1592 01:30:29.840 --> 01:30:35.079 really powerful fascist movement that is happening all over the globe. 1593 01:30:35.600 --> 01:30:39.119 And I don't want to discount the efforts of the 1594 01:30:39.279 --> 01:30:43.800 people to push back against this, because I also want 1595 01:30:43.840 --> 01:30:47.399 to remind us as Ussians that we can also do 1596 01:30:47.800 --> 01:30:53.079 the same. Now, speaking of pushing back, we have Captain Josephine. Wait, 1597 01:30:53.119 --> 01:30:55.279 I want to make sure I pronounce your last name correctly. 1598 01:30:55.520 --> 01:30:58.560 We have Josephine Gilbo with us, and I'm going to 1599 01:30:58.600 --> 01:31:01.319 show y'all a little bit about Josephine, because I don't 1600 01:31:01.319 --> 01:31:02.720 think y'all understand. 1601 01:31:04.359 --> 01:31:06.119 We're dealing with a real wine. 1602 01:31:07.239 --> 01:31:11.680 We're dealing with a real wine. Okay, So let me 1603 01:31:11.800 --> 01:31:14.920 just show y'all how Josephine moves. 1604 01:31:16.039 --> 01:31:20.560 Missus Josephine Gilbo. I'm a seventeen year Army veteran. I 1605 01:31:20.760 --> 01:31:23.319 recently got out of the military last year. 1606 01:31:23.680 --> 01:31:27.600 For one year, I have watched Israel bar children alive. 1607 01:31:28.079 --> 01:31:32.159 You don't care about veterans, you don't care about American values. 1608 01:31:32.439 --> 01:31:34.119 You are destroying this company. 1609 01:31:34.319 --> 01:31:35.319 This country. 1610 01:31:38.119 --> 01:31:41.279 May not give you the moral courage to do the 1611 01:31:41.479 --> 01:31:41.960 right day. 1612 01:31:42.239 --> 01:31:46.319 Having that background as an intelligence officer and understanding what 1613 01:31:46.600 --> 01:31:49.439 defense actually is, I can see clearly that this. 1614 01:31:49.600 --> 01:31:50.760 Is not self defense. 1615 01:31:51.239 --> 01:31:51.920 Shay about you. 1616 01:31:52.560 --> 01:31:55.840 So we just approached Brian Matt and I asked him, 1617 01:31:56.039 --> 01:32:01.600 are you spine for Israel? We need veterans from California 1618 01:32:01.800 --> 01:32:04.600 all the way to New York to stand against what 1619 01:32:04.760 --> 01:32:06.159 we are witnessing right now. 1620 01:32:06.479 --> 01:32:08.199 All right, guys, breaking news. 1621 01:32:08.720 --> 01:32:13.359 Congress has just passed FY twenty twenty six National Defense 1622 01:32:13.479 --> 01:32:18.399 Authorization Act, which authorizes nearly nine hundred billion dollars of 1623 01:32:18.479 --> 01:32:24.680 American taxpayer dollars to defense but spending right up, right up. 1624 01:32:24.680 --> 01:32:28.720 America, right up. It is time to take back this 1625 01:32:29.000 --> 01:32:31.840 country from the corrupt politicians. 1626 01:32:33.279 --> 01:32:33.680 Amen. 1627 01:32:42.800 --> 01:32:52.000 Good we are, we are, Hello Joseph, Hello Amanda, it 1628 01:32:52.159 --> 01:32:53.039 is good to see you. 1629 01:32:54.760 --> 01:32:59.039 Oh my gosh, what a question that is. So I 1630 01:32:59.399 --> 01:33:01.720 am low about half. 1631 01:33:01.600 --> 01:33:06.079 A mile from Roosevelt Roads Base in Puerto Rico. It 1632 01:33:06.239 --> 01:33:08.520 is a base that was closed down in two thousand 1633 01:33:08.560 --> 01:33:12.520 and four and the United States military has recently opened 1634 01:33:12.600 --> 01:33:17.560 it back up in order to orchestrate this it's imperialism 1635 01:33:17.720 --> 01:33:21.560 on Venezuela. And so I am actually here joined investigative 1636 01:33:21.640 --> 01:33:24.800 journalism to see exactly what is going on here and 1637 01:33:24.960 --> 01:33:28.199 to also show solidarity with the people in Puerto Rico 1638 01:33:28.319 --> 01:33:28.800 that they have. 1639 01:33:28.920 --> 01:33:31.239 A right to resist this. This is their island. 1640 01:33:31.680 --> 01:33:35.840 The United States does not have the authority to use 1641 01:33:35.880 --> 01:33:39.640 their island as a forward operating base to fight this 1642 01:33:40.920 --> 01:33:44.079 war as they like to call it, with Venezuela. So 1643 01:33:44.159 --> 01:33:48.239 I'm here just getting some grassroots actions off the ground. 1644 01:33:48.399 --> 01:33:51.800 And yeah, wow, I mean I had no idea that 1645 01:33:51.960 --> 01:33:54.319 was going on. And that is why investigative reporting is 1646 01:33:54.399 --> 01:33:57.199 so necessary, because the goal is to keep it quiet, 1647 01:33:57.520 --> 01:33:59.439 and you are putting it on blasts. Thank you so 1648 01:33:59.640 --> 01:34:03.520 much for your service in that regard as well as 1649 01:34:03.920 --> 01:34:06.439 in the military. What even brought you to the military. 1650 01:34:08.079 --> 01:34:10.600 Actually, you know, I grew up really poor in America. 1651 01:34:10.800 --> 01:34:13.880 My father was a disabled veteran and you know, if 1652 01:34:13.920 --> 01:34:17.279 anyone in your audience doesn't understand how they collect a check, 1653 01:34:18.239 --> 01:34:21.319 like it's based off of, you know what percentage you're disabled. 1654 01:34:21.439 --> 01:34:23.319 And you know, I watched him fight. 1655 01:34:23.199 --> 01:34:26.960 With the VA my entire childhood to collect like liveable 1656 01:34:27.600 --> 01:34:30.800 wage money because he was in severe pain all the 1657 01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:33.119 time from an injury from the military. So we were 1658 01:34:33.159 --> 01:34:36.319 really really poor living off of that. And when I 1659 01:34:36.479 --> 01:34:39.880 turned eighteen, I wanted to go to college. Both of 1660 01:34:39.960 --> 01:34:42.319 my parents had not graduated high school, so this was 1661 01:34:42.439 --> 01:34:45.520 like a huge goal and like, you know, something I 1662 01:34:45.600 --> 01:34:48.319 wanted to do, and the only path that I really 1663 01:34:48.399 --> 01:34:51.119 saw that could be possible was to join the military 1664 01:34:51.239 --> 01:34:54.399 because at the time they had started introducing the free 1665 01:34:54.520 --> 01:34:57.680 college incentives, so I was basically a part of the 1666 01:34:57.760 --> 01:35:01.880 economic draft into the military, you know, seeking the ability 1667 01:35:01.960 --> 01:35:02.720 to go to college. 1668 01:35:04.720 --> 01:35:06.520 When did the flip happen for you? 1669 01:35:08.800 --> 01:35:11.520 I think, like in all honestly, it wasn't like a 1670 01:35:11.680 --> 01:35:15.199 one time situation. I think that like over time, things 1671 01:35:15.319 --> 01:35:19.000 were started happening in my life, like seeds maybe getting planted, 1672 01:35:19.119 --> 01:35:21.640 and then like something else would happen and it would 1673 01:35:21.680 --> 01:35:24.079 go back and like kind of water, that idea that 1674 01:35:24.199 --> 01:35:27.439 had come in my head before, and I think really 1675 01:35:27.560 --> 01:35:30.239 like the biggest impact as far as it comes to 1676 01:35:30.399 --> 01:35:35.119 understanding what's going on, but with the genocide and Gaza specifically, 1677 01:35:35.199 --> 01:35:37.399 which is really what pushed me to the edge of 1678 01:35:37.720 --> 01:35:39.039 like saying. 1679 01:35:39.000 --> 01:35:43.600 Enough is enough. Yeah, was in twenty seventeen. I was doing. 1680 01:35:44.039 --> 01:35:47.840 I was an intelligence analyst for DA Defense Intelligence Agency 1681 01:35:48.880 --> 01:35:52.560 working on a Habeas Corpus contract, which is focused on 1682 01:35:53.600 --> 01:35:58.479 like legal processes for the detainees in Guantanamo Bay. There 1683 01:35:58.680 --> 01:36:02.039 is a like a a due process I guess and 1684 01:36:02.119 --> 01:36:04.880 I quote because it's not really due process, but called 1685 01:36:04.920 --> 01:36:08.039 Habeas Corpus that if you're being detained without charge, you 1686 01:36:08.159 --> 01:36:12.560 can file through Habeas Corpus to for your legal right 1687 01:36:12.720 --> 01:36:15.960 to be freed. And many of the detainees and Guantanamo 1688 01:36:16.039 --> 01:36:20.079 Bay are still there almost two decades now without any charges. 1689 01:36:20.600 --> 01:36:23.800 So I was a part of that team, and some 1690 01:36:23.960 --> 01:36:26.800 of the information that I was reading was really kind 1691 01:36:26.840 --> 01:36:30.039 of shocking my consciousness, Like some information all the way 1692 01:36:30.079 --> 01:36:33.119 back that now has gone public about torture camps and 1693 01:36:33.239 --> 01:36:36.159 black sites and you know, Abu graves, like all of 1694 01:36:36.239 --> 01:36:39.720 those things I was kind of reading about from the inside, 1695 01:36:39.920 --> 01:36:42.800 and it kind of shook me a little bit. And 1696 01:36:43.000 --> 01:36:46.039 so I mean I didn't really, it didn't shake me 1697 01:36:46.159 --> 01:36:47.680 too much, but enough that I was like, I'm going 1698 01:36:47.760 --> 01:36:51.039 to start following international media outlets. I want to start 1699 01:36:51.159 --> 01:36:54.800 hearing what are people saying in these other countries that 1700 01:36:54.960 --> 01:36:58.239 this is happening to or other powerful global leaders. What 1701 01:36:58.359 --> 01:37:02.159 are they all sort of saying this. This is twenty seventeen, 1702 01:37:03.119 --> 01:37:07.680 fast forward to October seventh. I'm following these media outlets 1703 01:37:07.800 --> 01:37:12.319 and literally on my phone is video after video after 1704 01:37:12.520 --> 01:37:17.920 video of mass slaughter of children. I mean what I 1705 01:37:18.199 --> 01:37:24.159 was witnessing children's body parts everywhere, Like I was just 1706 01:37:24.319 --> 01:37:27.800 like in shock and in a matter of two weeks 1707 01:37:28.119 --> 01:37:35.000 witnessing this, and then also witnessing my government, my leaders, western. 1708 01:37:34.680 --> 01:37:39.039 Media outlets lying literally what my eyes could see. So 1709 01:37:39.119 --> 01:37:42.359 you're telling me my eyes are lying. This was not 1710 01:37:42.560 --> 01:37:43.279 self defense. 1711 01:37:44.560 --> 01:37:47.920 I've seen some really crazy things in the US military, 1712 01:37:47.960 --> 01:37:50.640 but I had never seen anything to this scale of 1713 01:37:50.800 --> 01:37:55.159 devastation of death and destruction. And form our leaders to 1714 01:37:55.319 --> 01:37:59.199 say that this was justified as self defense, that we 1715 01:37:59.279 --> 01:38:03.079 were gonna not normalize this. I was like, hell, no, 1716 01:38:03.880 --> 01:38:07.119 not under my name. I have four children. We are 1717 01:38:07.279 --> 01:38:10.840 not going to normalize this. Like what we do there 1718 01:38:11.000 --> 01:38:12.600 will always come back here. 1719 01:38:13.520 --> 01:38:13.880 Hell no. 1720 01:38:14.239 --> 01:38:17.640 So this is like what pushed me out to start 1721 01:38:17.720 --> 01:38:20.840 speaking and saying you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna 1722 01:38:20.880 --> 01:38:24.640 say something like publicly it's and I'm going to use 1723 01:38:24.720 --> 01:38:28.199 my credentials to say, look, I was a part of it. 1724 01:38:28.760 --> 01:38:29.199 I get it. 1725 01:38:30.760 --> 01:38:32.960 So you know, people love to use their kids as 1726 01:38:33.039 --> 01:38:35.920 a reason for why they won't do that. People love 1727 01:38:36.000 --> 01:38:37.880 to say, well, I have kids, so I just I 1728 01:38:38.039 --> 01:38:39.760 can't speak out. 1729 01:38:40.159 --> 01:38:41.079 How does that work for you. 1730 01:38:42.560 --> 01:38:47.079 I'm doing this in part for not only my kids, 1731 01:38:47.199 --> 01:38:50.399 because I have an instinctual feeling that all children are 1732 01:38:50.479 --> 01:38:53.560 my children. I'm doing this for the future of our children, 1733 01:38:54.000 --> 01:38:57.119 for the future of our species, for the future of humanity. 1734 01:38:57.600 --> 01:39:01.760 If we don't do this the like this is, you know, 1735 01:39:02.079 --> 01:39:02.640 things are going. 1736 01:39:02.640 --> 01:39:03.119 To get worse. 1737 01:39:03.680 --> 01:39:05.319 I mean, I'm not trying to be like a doomer, 1738 01:39:06.039 --> 01:39:09.680 but things aren't going but things are going to get worse. 1739 01:39:09.760 --> 01:39:12.359 Like I came here to Puerto Rico to study the 1740 01:39:12.479 --> 01:39:16.640 military escalation only to find out a whole nother shlew 1741 01:39:16.720 --> 01:39:19.960 of things that are happening on this island to these people, 1742 01:39:20.439 --> 01:39:26.359 by US government, by the elite, by corporations like this 1743 01:39:26.640 --> 01:39:29.600 is you were talking about it right before I came on. 1744 01:39:30.359 --> 01:39:34.880 This is happening internationally on a global scale. The leaders 1745 01:39:34.920 --> 01:39:38.479 in Japan have been brainwashed and corrupted. The leaders in 1746 01:39:38.520 --> 01:39:42.119 Puerto Rico have been brainwashed and corrupted. There are literally 1747 01:39:42.319 --> 01:39:47.039 coups happening across the planet in order for empire to 1748 01:39:47.239 --> 01:39:48.319 keep itself going. 1749 01:39:49.800 --> 01:39:55.079 So when we see that, where do we pivot to? 1750 01:39:55.319 --> 01:39:58.239 Because I'm curious, actually, did you know that you were 1751 01:39:58.279 --> 01:39:59.960 going to Was it a plan to pivot to journal? 1752 01:40:01.760 --> 01:40:01.800 No? 1753 01:40:02.600 --> 01:40:07.319 I was a cybersecurity engineer working for a centure, like 1754 01:40:07.560 --> 01:40:10.359 making over two hundred thousand dollars a year. 1755 01:40:10.520 --> 01:40:11.560 I quit everything. 1756 01:40:11.880 --> 01:40:14.520 And you know the reason I quitted a centre I 1757 01:40:14.640 --> 01:40:17.720 was trying to do both was because I emailed them 1758 01:40:17.760 --> 01:40:21.600 and I asked for full transparency if they employed IDF soldiers, 1759 01:40:21.640 --> 01:40:25.520 because we have a cyber lab in Israel? What company 1760 01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:30.079 does And I was like, Uh, I'm not comfortable working 1761 01:40:30.119 --> 01:40:32.960 for a company where I may be in the presence 1762 01:40:33.119 --> 01:40:36.479 of these war criminals, these murders of children. So I 1763 01:40:36.680 --> 01:40:41.359 asked HR for transparency if they employed current IDF or 1764 01:40:41.439 --> 01:40:45.840 former IDF soldiers from Israel that could potentially be complicit 1765 01:40:46.000 --> 01:40:48.119 in war crimes and that if they couldn't provide me 1766 01:40:48.199 --> 01:40:50.800 that transparency, that I was going to resign, and they said, 1767 01:40:51.119 --> 01:40:53.199 your resignation is effective immediately. 1768 01:40:55.680 --> 01:40:56.560 So I pivoted. 1769 01:40:56.640 --> 01:40:58.760 I was like, okay, bye, and then I was like, 1770 01:40:58.800 --> 01:41:01.000 what am I going to do? So you know, I 1771 01:41:01.760 --> 01:41:04.279 knew I wanted to do something that I could use 1772 01:41:04.359 --> 01:41:04.920 my voice. 1773 01:41:05.439 --> 01:41:08.279 I can inspire other people to use their voice to 1774 01:41:08.439 --> 01:41:12.039 like get out of the sheep mentality, to become like, 1775 01:41:12.319 --> 01:41:15.680 you know, leaders and people who are guiding everyone into 1776 01:41:15.720 --> 01:41:16.399 the right direction. 1777 01:41:16.960 --> 01:41:17.800 I knew I wanted to. 1778 01:41:17.840 --> 01:41:18.720 Do that in some way. 1779 01:41:18.960 --> 01:41:20.439 And how do you not go? 1780 01:41:21.359 --> 01:41:24.000 Because here's the art, Josephine, Like, I could talk to 1781 01:41:24.039 --> 01:41:26.680 you about like the politics of it all, but what 1782 01:41:26.880 --> 01:41:30.199 really is fascinating to me about you is you right? 1783 01:41:30.399 --> 01:41:33.840 Like watching the passion that you speak with and watching 1784 01:41:34.159 --> 01:41:39.279 the conviction that you have committed to is the thing 1785 01:41:39.359 --> 01:41:41.479 that I'm trying to get people to find in themselves. 1786 01:41:41.600 --> 01:41:44.279 Right, And so tell me this before we. 1787 01:41:44.319 --> 01:41:48.560 Even talk about that. Once they said okay, it's a wrap, 1788 01:41:48.720 --> 01:41:53.920 you're resigned. What was the space between that and then okay, 1789 01:41:54.880 --> 01:41:58.359 I'm going to do journalism? Like were you panicked? Did 1790 01:41:58.439 --> 01:42:01.880 you get from your family? From anyone? 1791 01:42:01.920 --> 01:42:06.840 Who is Well, I mean, what is journalism? Speaking truth 1792 01:42:07.479 --> 01:42:09.520 is what I'm doing? Journalism? I guess I call it 1793 01:42:09.640 --> 01:42:13.039 that now it's the easiest word to use. I think 1794 01:42:13.119 --> 01:42:15.359 that like a use word. 1795 01:42:15.399 --> 01:42:18.239 We using this language that describes I guess what we're doing. 1796 01:42:18.600 --> 01:42:20.920 But I really just feel like I'm just speaking truth 1797 01:42:20.960 --> 01:42:21.439 to power. 1798 01:42:21.560 --> 01:42:24.279 That like, if that's journalism, then that's journalism. 1799 01:42:24.399 --> 01:42:26.840 But you say, I'm here. 1800 01:42:28.359 --> 01:42:29.199 Because I feel like. 1801 01:42:29.279 --> 01:42:33.239 Your audience would understand, you know, like I'm here to. 1802 01:42:33.279 --> 01:42:34.920 Find out the truth and then I'm gonna tell y'all 1803 01:42:34.920 --> 01:42:36.079 about it. That's what I'm here to do. 1804 01:42:36.680 --> 01:42:38.359 Where are you from? Where are you from? Where are 1805 01:42:38.359 --> 01:42:38.640 you from? 1806 01:42:38.760 --> 01:42:39.800 I'm from Louisiana. 1807 01:42:40.119 --> 01:42:42.720 Okay, we saw it just now. I'm here to find 1808 01:42:42.760 --> 01:42:43.800 the hands. 1809 01:42:43.920 --> 01:42:45.079 I'm here to find out. 1810 01:42:46.960 --> 01:42:49.359 And then I'm gonna tell y'all and now we're gonna 1811 01:42:49.359 --> 01:42:52.319 go from there. Like, you know, if that's journalism, put 1812 01:42:52.359 --> 01:42:53.079 it in my title. 1813 01:42:53.279 --> 01:42:56.880 Okay, how did I get here? 1814 01:42:56.960 --> 01:43:00.680 Because I cannot sit back. I cannot in that. 1815 01:43:01.039 --> 01:43:03.199 Like, you have four kids? Did the people that are 1816 01:43:03.279 --> 01:43:04.479 I mean, I don't know if you have a partner 1817 01:43:04.600 --> 01:43:06.479 or not, but like, did your family did they support 1818 01:43:06.520 --> 01:43:06.840 you in this? 1819 01:43:07.199 --> 01:43:07.359 Oh? 1820 01:43:07.479 --> 01:43:11.760 No, my family actually stopped talking to me November of 1821 01:43:11.840 --> 01:43:15.000 twenty twenty three because of my advocacy for Palestine. 1822 01:43:15.279 --> 01:43:18.880 Like my family are devo Catholics, they are all they 1823 01:43:18.960 --> 01:43:20.279 all have been programmed to be. 1824 01:43:20.359 --> 01:43:23.960 Christian Zionists and didn't even know it, did not even 1825 01:43:24.159 --> 01:43:25.600 understand that they were. 1826 01:43:25.640 --> 01:43:27.800 Underneath those layers. 1827 01:43:28.479 --> 01:43:33.239 But over two years of very very much patience, I 1828 01:43:33.359 --> 01:43:37.800 have finally peeled those layers back and they support me now. 1829 01:43:38.159 --> 01:43:40.600 And after two years of them cutting me off, we 1830 01:43:40.640 --> 01:43:41.920 spent things giving together. 1831 01:43:43.920 --> 01:43:45.399 They're ready for our revolution. 1832 01:43:46.079 --> 01:43:49.119 Look tell them this shit neither wait till you. 1833 01:43:49.880 --> 01:43:52.880 Oh we talked about it. Oh believe me. I was 1834 01:43:52.920 --> 01:43:55.439 at the table talking about it for sure. 1835 01:43:55.640 --> 01:43:57.760 I was opening up the Bible show and my aunts 1836 01:43:57.840 --> 01:43:59.359 and uncles out signed. 1837 01:44:03.199 --> 01:44:05.279 I was that one at the table. 1838 01:44:06.119 --> 01:44:09.800 Of course, that makes perfect sense, That makes perfect sense. 1839 01:44:09.840 --> 01:44:13.479 I'm so happy that you've been able to bring them around. 1840 01:44:13.520 --> 01:44:16.600 That's tough, you know, that's tough. It's like you're already 1841 01:44:16.680 --> 01:44:19.119 fighting the world and then you're having to fight your world, 1842 01:44:19.279 --> 01:44:22.520 and it's like it just feels oftentimes very isolating. But 1843 01:44:22.560 --> 01:44:26.119 I'm really happy that you've been able to break through 1844 01:44:26.760 --> 01:44:32.359 and now you you are finding your path in this way. 1845 01:44:32.800 --> 01:44:35.159 How has that been, Like, what's been do you feel 1846 01:44:35.279 --> 01:44:39.479 like you're I don't want to say struggles because I 1847 01:44:39.479 --> 01:44:41.600 don't want to, but what's been your process in this 1848 01:44:41.840 --> 01:44:43.199 new trajectory of life? 1849 01:44:44.720 --> 01:44:48.960 I mean, you know, I had been so hyper focused 1850 01:44:49.119 --> 01:44:53.279 on what was going on in Gaza and this genocide 1851 01:44:53.960 --> 01:44:59.720 that there were these like macro and even micro situations 1852 01:45:00.159 --> 01:45:04.520 I wasn't aware of that really was the puppet masters 1853 01:45:04.560 --> 01:45:08.760 of everything going on. And I think that as Americans, 1854 01:45:09.039 --> 01:45:12.479 we have for the past two years really come to 1855 01:45:12.600 --> 01:45:15.520 this awareness of what's going on across party lines. 1856 01:45:15.680 --> 01:45:18.600 There's really an opportunity right now for people that. 1857 01:45:18.680 --> 01:45:22.920 Are decolonizing, that are deconstructing these narratives that we've been told. 1858 01:45:23.359 --> 01:45:24.479 And there's a vacuum. 1859 01:45:24.960 --> 01:45:27.880 And I really do feel like we as people who 1860 01:45:27.920 --> 01:45:32.880 are fighting for humanity, no matter you know what, party line, color, race, religion, 1861 01:45:33.239 --> 01:45:36.760 no matter what, we have to fill that vacuum with truth, 1862 01:45:37.239 --> 01:45:40.079 and we have to fill that vacuum with love and 1863 01:45:40.319 --> 01:45:43.920 like this understanding that another there could be another vision 1864 01:45:44.039 --> 01:45:46.520 for this planet. And so I really do feel like 1865 01:45:46.680 --> 01:45:50.800 bringing Truth to Power continues that awareness while also in 1866 01:45:51.000 --> 01:45:54.640 practice as myself trying to be a person filled with love, 1867 01:45:54.760 --> 01:45:57.760 trying not to spread hate on any you know, person 1868 01:45:58.239 --> 01:46:02.439 understanding their own invinvironment, their own construction. You know, we 1869 01:46:02.560 --> 01:46:05.520 talk about my family two years it took to deconstruct 1870 01:46:05.800 --> 01:46:09.680 their colonized minds and that wasn't easy, but doing it 1871 01:46:09.760 --> 01:46:12.119 with love. We didn't call each other names, we didn't 1872 01:46:12.319 --> 01:46:15.079 argue with each other. We took a distance and then 1873 01:46:15.239 --> 01:46:17.760 when when I could, I would meet them where they were, 1874 01:46:18.159 --> 01:46:20.359 try and pull them a little bit more. Because what 1875 01:46:20.880 --> 01:46:25.039 you hear that that's the military, that's some of the 1876 01:46:25.640 --> 01:46:27.199 military from Roosevelt Roads. 1877 01:46:28.800 --> 01:46:31.279 We have to meet people where they are, we really do. 1878 01:46:31.479 --> 01:46:33.760 That's that's the work. That's the hard work. You know, 1879 01:46:33.840 --> 01:46:36.079 you can't preach to the choir. That's not going to work. 1880 01:46:37.000 --> 01:46:39.199 You know, if you're talking to someone that already agrees 1881 01:46:39.239 --> 01:46:40.159 with you, then what kind of. 1882 01:46:40.159 --> 01:46:40.920 Work are you doing. 1883 01:46:41.319 --> 01:46:43.520 You have to talk to people that disagree with you, 1884 01:46:44.000 --> 01:46:46.520 meet them where they are, don't scream at them, don't 1885 01:46:46.600 --> 01:46:50.680 call them names, just say, like, just present a better vision, 1886 01:46:50.840 --> 01:46:53.439 a better option for the world, because this is going 1887 01:46:53.520 --> 01:46:58.079 to take generations to change, because we are deep, deep, 1888 01:46:58.359 --> 01:47:00.720 deep in the horrors of our species. 1889 01:47:01.279 --> 01:47:03.880 Just mean, I feel like you're yelling at me because. 1890 01:47:05.039 --> 01:47:06.239 Why do you call people names? 1891 01:47:06.960 --> 01:47:07.920 Sometimes they can't help it. 1892 01:47:10.239 --> 01:47:14.119 Yet that grace and mercy, we have to have grace 1893 01:47:14.199 --> 01:47:16.000 and mercy. Those are like. 1894 01:47:18.319 --> 01:47:20.880 Defense first. 1895 01:47:21.319 --> 01:47:24.239 Hey, grace and mercy, that's what I say. 1896 01:47:25.479 --> 01:47:32.000 And and that's doors for me, like learning about Jesus, 1897 01:47:32.159 --> 01:47:35.560 learning about the teachings of Jesus. After all these layers 1898 01:47:35.640 --> 01:47:38.560 deconstructed out of my mind of all this bs I've 1899 01:47:38.640 --> 01:47:43.800 been taught, raised, raised as a Republican super white supremacist environment, 1900 01:47:44.560 --> 01:47:48.600 like with you know, patriotism is almost like a sacrifice, 1901 01:47:48.640 --> 01:47:51.880 like a sacrifice, like a ritual to patriots, to the country. 1902 01:47:52.119 --> 01:47:55.960 It's its own like spiritual sacrifice that they've programmed us 1903 01:47:56.039 --> 01:47:56.239 to do. 1904 01:47:56.840 --> 01:47:59.039 And after I like colonize a. 1905 01:47:59.000 --> 01:48:02.039 Lot of those things, what left was the teachings of Jesus, 1906 01:48:02.159 --> 01:48:05.399 almost like a manuscript like, oh, you know, if we 1907 01:48:05.600 --> 01:48:08.239 do some of these things he was talking about, y, 1908 01:48:08.479 --> 01:48:11.119 it really makes sense that we could bring heaven on earth. 1909 01:48:11.199 --> 01:48:13.079 We could get rid of these you know. 1910 01:48:13.439 --> 01:48:17.239 This, these ways of thinking that our elite are trying 1911 01:48:17.279 --> 01:48:19.399 to pressure all of us and in. 1912 01:48:19.560 --> 01:48:22.439 Doing that or getting rid of the indigenous communities. 1913 01:48:23.079 --> 01:48:29.039 And that's the part because their brains are decolonized, So 1914 01:48:29.439 --> 01:48:31.119 who do they want to get rid of the most, 1915 01:48:31.600 --> 01:48:33.960 the ones who still who are not in the matrix. 1916 01:48:34.359 --> 01:48:38.000 They are targeting these communities on purpose, knowing that they're 1917 01:48:38.079 --> 01:48:40.640 the ones that still exist that are decolonized. 1918 01:48:42.239 --> 01:48:42.399 You know. 1919 01:48:42.520 --> 01:48:46.319 It's so I feel like I had no real understanding 1920 01:48:46.479 --> 01:48:52.359 of what indigenous communities were until the context of Palestine 1921 01:48:52.399 --> 01:48:54.920 as an indigenous community. It's like I felt like I 1922 01:48:55.159 --> 01:48:59.439 was just understanding that, you know, there are folks whose 1923 01:48:59.520 --> 01:49:02.439 land was stolen, and you know that, But I didn't 1924 01:49:02.560 --> 01:49:05.800 understand the knowledge and the uniqueness of what it means 1925 01:49:05.880 --> 01:49:08.000 to be an indigenous community. Where did you get that 1926 01:49:08.159 --> 01:49:09.640 insight from and that knowledge? 1927 01:49:10.399 --> 01:49:14.399 Yeah, I think understanding the plight of Palestinians really made 1928 01:49:14.439 --> 01:49:16.840 me understand that too, because, if I'm being honest in 1929 01:49:16.960 --> 01:49:19.720 my mind, I thought indigenous communities were just people that 1930 01:49:19.880 --> 01:49:23.520 still lived like you know, in like African villages like 1931 01:49:23.680 --> 01:49:27.920 in the rainown untouched in Jungles. I always kind of 1932 01:49:28.039 --> 01:49:31.520 just like assume that's an indigenous community. But no, Indigenous 1933 01:49:31.560 --> 01:49:34.359 communities are people that still live in harmony with the earth, 1934 01:49:34.800 --> 01:49:38.680 that still see humanity as a priority, that still believed 1935 01:49:38.720 --> 01:49:39.000 that we. 1936 01:49:39.119 --> 01:49:39.760 Are all one. 1937 01:49:39.960 --> 01:49:40.880 We are all one. 1938 01:49:40.840 --> 01:49:44.279 Family, and that karma goes around, and that energies go around, 1939 01:49:44.359 --> 01:49:46.920 and what we do here can affect there. And like 1940 01:49:47.239 --> 01:49:50.560 they truly, most indigenous people, I mean don't believe in 1941 01:49:50.680 --> 01:49:51.800 killing our own offspring. 1942 01:49:52.199 --> 01:49:53.319 This is a human being. 1943 01:49:53.560 --> 01:49:58.079 Like human beings, human species literally kill their own offspring. 1944 01:49:58.720 --> 01:50:01.520 What other mammal does that besides a lion when it 1945 01:50:01.640 --> 01:50:04.920 kills the male cubs. You don't find it often where 1946 01:50:04.960 --> 01:50:08.960 there's mammals that mass slaughter their own offspring. 1947 01:50:09.520 --> 01:50:10.239 They reject. 1948 01:50:11.079 --> 01:50:13.840 They may not slaughter, but they reject. They may I'm 1949 01:50:13.840 --> 01:50:14.720 not really knocking with you. 1950 01:50:14.880 --> 01:50:18.439 Go if we're supposed to be the most advanced species, 1951 01:50:18.560 --> 01:50:21.359 the most conscious species, and we're doing this kind of thing, 1952 01:50:21.560 --> 01:50:23.680 you know, we have to ask ourselves are we really 1953 01:50:23.800 --> 01:50:28.159 evolved as a species. And the indigenous people really teach 1954 01:50:28.239 --> 01:50:31.560 you to have that harmony back with Earth and you know, creation, 1955 01:50:31.800 --> 01:50:34.840 God's creation of who you are and what you're really 1956 01:50:34.880 --> 01:50:37.359 meant to do here, and I think we're really erasing 1957 01:50:37.439 --> 01:50:39.159 that sacred knowledge. 1958 01:50:39.920 --> 01:50:41.279 How do you connect this to your kids? 1959 01:50:42.880 --> 01:50:43.039 Oh? 1960 01:50:44.359 --> 01:50:44.880 Number one? 1961 01:50:45.760 --> 01:50:52.399 Number one, it's because it's not easy to decolonize while 1962 01:50:52.479 --> 01:50:56.640 also trying to raise children to not be colonized it's 1963 01:50:56.720 --> 01:50:57.279 not easy. 1964 01:50:57.439 --> 01:50:59.680 You know, I have four children and my oldest is 1965 01:50:59.720 --> 01:51:01.039 six scene so to a. 1966 01:51:01.119 --> 01:51:03.760 Degree, I'm starting a little bit later with her, and 1967 01:51:03.880 --> 01:51:05.960 I do get a lot of hesitation because I think 1968 01:51:06.279 --> 01:51:10.640 capitalism and like material things and like Lululemon tights, like 1969 01:51:10.920 --> 01:51:13.800 for her that she was Homecoming Queen this year. 1970 01:51:13.920 --> 01:51:18.840 She's still in this like oh yeah, yeah. 1971 01:51:19.119 --> 01:51:21.720 So it's a little bit harder with her, but for 1972 01:51:21.840 --> 01:51:24.880 sure she's for free Palestine one hundred percent. 1973 01:51:25.159 --> 01:51:25.319 Ok. 1974 01:51:25.520 --> 01:51:27.640 We love home Queen who is pro Palestinian. 1975 01:51:27.680 --> 01:51:30.800 We have it exactly, and you know she has. She 1976 01:51:31.319 --> 01:51:34.159 her and her friends boycott Starbucks. They don't go to 1977 01:51:34.239 --> 01:51:35.479 Starbucks for coffee anymore. 1978 01:51:35.520 --> 01:51:39.159 All the cheerily giving your credit like that's big, because. 1979 01:51:38.920 --> 01:51:39.600 That's I've done. 1980 01:51:39.640 --> 01:51:44.439 So I think, so, hey steps, baby steps. Now I 1981 01:51:44.560 --> 01:51:46.760 have a two, four and five year old. 1982 01:51:46.840 --> 01:51:50.319 So this is really some crucial times for us as 1983 01:51:50.439 --> 01:51:54.000 mothers with young children, where we are imprinting on them 1984 01:51:54.520 --> 01:51:57.680 like forever, and so I am very careful in what 1985 01:51:57.840 --> 01:52:00.840 we're teaching them, what we're saying, what they're watching. 1986 01:52:01.560 --> 01:52:03.560 It's so important, especially. 1987 01:52:03.279 --> 01:52:06.520 When you got YouTube running for three hours with whatever 1988 01:52:06.680 --> 01:52:10.239 it wants to put in your algorithm, like everything like 1989 01:52:10.359 --> 01:52:13.600 in their environment. I'm hyper focused on because I want 1990 01:52:13.640 --> 01:52:17.000 to make sure that they become just like I am 1991 01:52:17.159 --> 01:52:21.319 right now speaking out for people, especially as white blondies 1992 01:52:21.600 --> 01:52:24.359 like and and two of them are boys. 1993 01:52:24.399 --> 01:52:27.960 So like white blonde boys speaking out for oppressed people, 1994 01:52:28.239 --> 01:52:28.880 I'm gonna need that. 1995 01:52:30.119 --> 01:52:33.359 I mean, because Josephine we here at Views from Mandolin 1996 01:52:33.520 --> 01:52:39.680 do consider you a hmm hih quad letty white and 1997 01:52:39.920 --> 01:52:46.920 that is a very that's a big deal. Okay, So 1998 01:52:47.399 --> 01:52:49.319 I mean I'm at some point I'm gonna do a 1999 01:52:49.359 --> 01:52:50.640 book of high quality whites and. 2000 01:52:50.680 --> 01:52:54.159 You're in it. Yeah, my first proh. 2001 01:52:56.319 --> 01:52:58.399 Yeah, no one needs to know about peace prize gets 2002 01:52:58.399 --> 01:52:59.720 you a high quality white prize. 2003 01:53:00.920 --> 01:53:01.119 Yeah. 2004 01:53:02.479 --> 01:53:04.279 I do want to have my four kids like that 2005 01:53:04.520 --> 01:53:07.319 because that is where I can make the first difference, 2006 01:53:07.399 --> 01:53:10.159 The number one difference I can make for the future 2007 01:53:10.880 --> 01:53:14.119 of this world is my kids, Like I have direct 2008 01:53:14.199 --> 01:53:16.640 access and control over what goes in and out of 2009 01:53:16.640 --> 01:53:19.920 their little brains and their hearts, and so number one for. 2010 01:53:20.039 --> 01:53:21.800 Me is a mother. That is a priority. 2011 01:53:22.079 --> 01:53:24.840 Like I am hyper focused on making sure that I'm 2012 01:53:24.880 --> 01:53:28.079 talking about things with them, even about food, healthy food, 2013 01:53:28.560 --> 01:53:30.960 unhealthy food, happy food versus healthy food. 2014 01:53:31.000 --> 01:53:34.399 That's what we call it. And like I'm deconstructing all 2015 01:53:34.479 --> 01:53:35.000 of these. 2016 01:53:34.840 --> 01:53:39.720 Things because I want them to carry on this knowledge 2017 01:53:39.800 --> 01:53:42.800 and these ideas. And I hope other mothers like if 2018 01:53:42.800 --> 01:53:44.800 they feel like, oh, I can't go to protests or 2019 01:53:44.840 --> 01:53:46.920 I can't you know, do any of these things. The 2020 01:53:47.079 --> 01:53:50.520 one thing you can do in your home is decolonize 2021 01:53:50.560 --> 01:53:51.079 your children. 2022 01:53:52.720 --> 01:53:56.079 Y'all heard that that's the one thing you can do 2023 01:53:56.239 --> 01:53:59.640 in your home. Can you give people any tips on 2024 01:54:00.079 --> 01:54:04.039 and beginning that process? I know one you said, it's 2025 01:54:04.600 --> 01:54:07.239 also about what they're it's about what they're watching. 2026 01:54:07.880 --> 01:54:12.720 Yes, watching cultural things like putting things on TV that 2027 01:54:13.119 --> 01:54:16.520 talks about another culture, or like a cartoon that is 2028 01:54:16.720 --> 01:54:20.520 placed in like another culture. I really love Bluie And 2029 01:54:21.199 --> 01:54:23.319 you know, if you have like a two three year old, 2030 01:54:23.399 --> 01:54:26.439 it's the perfect one. Bluey is so I mean, they're 2031 01:54:26.560 --> 01:54:29.159 they're from Australia and they have, you know, the little 2032 01:54:29.199 --> 01:54:31.960 funny accent. It's gonna probably be your kid's first time 2033 01:54:32.039 --> 01:54:35.000 hearing a different accent. But they're such a nice family 2034 01:54:35.079 --> 01:54:37.359 and they love each other. It's like a great way 2035 01:54:37.479 --> 01:54:40.560 to introduce your kids to another that speaks English that 2036 01:54:40.640 --> 01:54:44.159 they can understand, but also introducing them to like little 2037 01:54:44.319 --> 01:54:49.119 mini animated documentaries about Palestine or about Sudan, or about 2038 01:54:49.399 --> 01:54:52.319 I mean, like anywhere China just fill in the blank, right, 2039 01:54:53.399 --> 01:54:56.279 So I think like as far as like television goes, 2040 01:54:56.439 --> 01:54:58.920 just making sure things are cultural books. 2041 01:54:59.760 --> 01:55:01.920 What books are you reading to your kids that night? 2042 01:55:02.279 --> 01:55:03.800 What do the characters look like? 2043 01:55:04.600 --> 01:55:06.920 Are you picking books with all white as a white 2044 01:55:06.960 --> 01:55:08.479 weather of all white children? 2045 01:55:08.680 --> 01:55:10.880 Or am I picking books where the people look. 2046 01:55:10.760 --> 01:55:15.640 Different and dress different and maybe speak differently. That's important too, 2047 01:55:15.680 --> 01:55:18.960 because that's imprinting in their mind. We read books every night, 2048 01:55:19.319 --> 01:55:22.000 So my books are about I get books about Ramadan. 2049 01:55:22.479 --> 01:55:25.479 I get books about Palestine, you know, to like why 2050 01:55:25.600 --> 01:55:27.479 is mommy saving the children? Well, let me tell you 2051 01:55:27.560 --> 01:55:30.960 about the still children mommy's trying to save, and like 2052 01:55:31.159 --> 01:55:34.359 introducing them to that and also taking them to events 2053 01:55:35.399 --> 01:55:38.640 like story times that are in a community of people 2054 01:55:38.720 --> 01:55:41.560 that you might not normally go there. So like, if 2055 01:55:41.600 --> 01:55:45.079 you want to introduce your children to have Muslim friends, 2056 01:55:45.520 --> 01:55:47.560 go to the community where the Muslim people are, go 2057 01:55:47.720 --> 01:55:50.159 to the park, go to their library, go to their 2058 01:55:50.279 --> 01:55:52.840 story time, go to events that they put on, like 2059 01:55:52.920 --> 01:55:55.960 their you know markets, what do you call the markets 2060 01:55:56.000 --> 01:55:58.319 on the weekends, not fresh markets. 2061 01:55:58.479 --> 01:56:02.439 Like farmer farmers markets, the farmer's markets. 2062 01:56:02.119 --> 01:56:05.720 Like go into these different communities and introduce your kids 2063 01:56:05.760 --> 01:56:07.920 to them, because I'm telling you, the minute that your 2064 01:56:08.039 --> 01:56:11.439 child grows up, for example, with a Muslim friend, any 2065 01:56:11.560 --> 01:56:13.279 propaganda about Muslim. 2066 01:56:12.960 --> 01:56:17.520 They're gonna be like, what are they talking about? Like 2067 01:56:17.680 --> 01:56:20.760 I got a Muslim friend, right, that's not right. 2068 01:56:23.560 --> 01:56:26.640 And the other one that you named is decolonizing their palate, 2069 01:56:27.680 --> 01:56:31.760 right because this the food that they're eating, right, welcoming them, 2070 01:56:31.920 --> 01:56:36.039 introducing them to different foods. And you know, my first 2071 01:56:36.079 --> 01:56:37.800 grade teacher, I'm still in touch with her, and she 2072 01:56:37.960 --> 01:56:41.239 said that she ended up leaving education when she stopped 2073 01:56:41.239 --> 01:56:43.800 being able to be creative with how she was bringing 2074 01:56:43.840 --> 01:56:46.279 that to kids. And they used to do a unit 2075 01:56:46.399 --> 01:56:50.000 where they would have on every Friday they would bring 2076 01:56:50.119 --> 01:56:54.479 in like a dish from somebody's parents culture, and they 2077 01:56:54.520 --> 01:57:00.359 said it wasn't allowed to do that anymore, right, Jack. 2078 01:57:00.359 --> 01:57:03.279 Rie to hear that, I'm honestly not surprised to hear that, 2079 01:57:03.479 --> 01:57:08.640 because in America are like like the Department of Education, 2080 01:57:08.880 --> 01:57:11.680 and the curriculum that they pushed down our throats is 2081 01:57:12.039 --> 01:57:16.359 very much to colonize us, very much, to put these 2082 01:57:16.479 --> 01:57:19.840 walls between us and these other ideas about people, or 2083 01:57:20.039 --> 01:57:23.039 to extend love to other people. They definitely from a 2084 01:57:23.119 --> 01:57:28.119 young age in our public schools start that brainwashing. 2085 01:57:28.680 --> 01:57:31.760 Absolutely. I mean I feel very fortunate to have been 2086 01:57:31.840 --> 01:57:34.439 to public school in the early eighties before things got 2087 01:57:34.520 --> 01:57:38.159 really really crazy. Like I remember us learning how to 2088 01:57:38.239 --> 01:57:41.640 make guacamole because there was mad Mexicans in the class. Yeah, 2089 01:57:42.439 --> 01:57:44.680 so we had to learn how to make guacamole. And 2090 01:57:44.800 --> 01:57:47.520 at the time, my palette was not developed yet. Josephine 2091 01:57:47.560 --> 01:57:49.279 and I was like, this is nasty, and now you 2092 01:57:49.399 --> 01:57:52.319 cannot keep me away from guacamole. 2093 01:57:53.319 --> 01:57:54.319 I just had some here. 2094 01:57:54.439 --> 01:57:56.960 I went to the restaurant and I said, uh, do 2095 01:57:57.079 --> 01:58:00.800 you have guacamole not from the bag because I don't 2096 01:58:00.880 --> 01:58:02.159 use gluac emu only from a bag. 2097 01:58:02.319 --> 01:58:04.000 Like if you didn't make that guacam. 2098 01:58:03.680 --> 01:58:06.600 Only from avocado like two hours ago, I can't touch it. 2099 01:58:08.199 --> 01:58:11.760 So where do you find yourself? I mean, I don't 2100 01:58:11.800 --> 01:58:13.880 like asking people what's next, because you're already in the 2101 01:58:13.960 --> 01:58:16.560 midst of what's next, right, Like you're literally in Puerto 2102 01:58:16.720 --> 01:58:19.319 Rico and you are working with the people. I guess 2103 01:58:19.359 --> 01:58:24.479 the question I have for you is what is an 2104 01:58:24.600 --> 01:58:27.800 interest that has that has come into your horizon that 2105 01:58:28.920 --> 01:58:31.359 you feel like Americans don't know about but need to. 2106 01:58:36.039 --> 01:58:37.399 I think running for office. 2107 01:58:38.640 --> 01:58:44.000 I think people need to understand how impactful it is 2108 01:58:44.359 --> 01:58:48.520 to run for school board, to run for local city council, 2109 01:58:49.000 --> 01:58:53.560 to run for Congress, to run for mayor, and don't 2110 01:58:53.680 --> 01:58:57.840 under like not to underestimate themselves. I have met so 2111 01:58:57.960 --> 01:59:02.000 many people right now that are running for positions in Congress, 2112 01:59:02.279 --> 01:59:05.760 and like, if we back them, and these are people 2113 01:59:05.840 --> 01:59:08.239 with like humanity principled in their heart? 2114 01:59:08.319 --> 01:59:10.039 Do I agree with them about everything? 2115 01:59:10.479 --> 01:59:10.520 No? 2116 01:59:10.720 --> 01:59:13.880 But do I see that at least principled in their 2117 01:59:14.760 --> 01:59:18.920 you know, its souls is humanity. If we get around 2118 01:59:19.119 --> 01:59:23.520 and like primaries are coming up, March primaries, if we 2119 01:59:23.720 --> 01:59:27.479 can get five to ten candidates that we can all 2120 01:59:28.119 --> 01:59:31.960 grassroots throw our efforts behind to promote, we could start 2121 01:59:32.079 --> 01:59:36.199 showing these politicians that have been corrupted. 2122 01:59:35.800 --> 01:59:37.079 That we do hold the power. 2123 01:59:37.640 --> 01:59:39.520 And I think that's one of the biggest things is 2124 01:59:39.640 --> 01:59:43.239 people need to understand we hold the power. We do. 2125 01:59:44.199 --> 01:59:47.119 They've tried brainwashing us to believe that we don't, but 2126 01:59:47.239 --> 01:59:49.399 we really do do. I think we can vote our 2127 01:59:49.439 --> 01:59:51.479 way out of this no, not as. 2128 01:59:54.199 --> 01:59:55.439 No, no, no. 2129 01:59:55.640 --> 01:59:57.760 But if we're not going to have if we're not 2130 01:59:57.920 --> 02:00:01.000 out a seventeen seventy six revolution, then we need to 2131 02:00:01.199 --> 02:00:04.039 use the tools that we do have right now to 2132 02:00:04.199 --> 02:00:08.520 at least slow down what is coming like down the pipeline, 2133 02:00:08.640 --> 02:00:12.039 the death and destruction that is increasing across the planet, 2134 02:00:12.399 --> 02:00:16.079 both here at home with immigrants getting separated, mothers and 2135 02:00:16.199 --> 02:00:19.439 children getting separated, and then this, you know, nation is 2136 02:00:19.520 --> 02:00:23.359 claiming Christianity. It's all being done under the name of Christianity. 2137 02:00:23.760 --> 02:00:26.600 Do you like I talk to people who support the 2138 02:00:26.880 --> 02:00:30.079 ice and immigration, I'm like you, as a Christian, are 2139 02:00:30.199 --> 02:00:36.279 supporting like these police to separate Christian families. Most of 2140 02:00:36.359 --> 02:00:39.399 these immigrants, by the way, are are Christians brothers and 2141 02:00:39.560 --> 02:00:40.720 Christian brothers and sisters. 2142 02:00:40.800 --> 02:00:44.279 So how is that christian? It's Christian? They're not Christian. 2143 02:00:44.840 --> 02:00:49.640 They're abusing the religion of Christianity, just like Benjamin Netanyah, 2144 02:00:49.640 --> 02:00:50.800 who has abused the. 2145 02:00:50.840 --> 02:00:53.760 Religion of Judaism to perpetrate an agenda. 2146 02:00:54.039 --> 02:00:55.680 And of course I'm not going to leave out the 2147 02:00:55.760 --> 02:00:59.920 fact that there are Muslims that abuse is to perpetrate agenda. 2148 02:01:00.279 --> 02:01:03.840 It happens across the board and recognizing that and calling 2149 02:01:03.920 --> 02:01:06.199 that that out is so important. So if we're not 2150 02:01:06.319 --> 02:01:09.000 going to have a seventeen seventy six revolution, we got 2151 02:01:09.119 --> 02:01:10.600 to start voting for people until. 2152 02:01:10.439 --> 02:01:11.000 We could get there. 2153 02:01:11.920 --> 02:01:15.760 Well, we appreciate you and thank you so much for 2154 02:01:15.920 --> 02:01:18.319 all of your efforts and for always being willing to 2155 02:01:18.479 --> 02:01:21.920 raise your voice, put your body on the line, get arrested, 2156 02:01:22.159 --> 02:01:27.920 and also for actually taking a very direct and proactive 2157 02:01:28.039 --> 02:01:32.399 effort as a parent to raising people right because people 2158 02:01:32.439 --> 02:01:35.039 think about kids. No, you're raising adults that are carrying 2159 02:01:35.239 --> 02:01:39.039 forth and need to understand that the world they're coming 2160 02:01:39.079 --> 02:01:41.119 into is going to require them to actually be the 2161 02:01:41.199 --> 02:01:43.680 ones that shift it. So that is not lost on me. 2162 02:01:43.840 --> 02:01:47.920 So thank you so much, Josephine. We are definitely lifting 2163 02:01:47.960 --> 02:01:50.119 you up in a high vibration over there in Puerto Rico. 2164 02:01:50.359 --> 02:01:51.439 And stay safe. 2165 02:01:51.720 --> 02:01:53.640 And I say say safe, but you're not going to 2166 02:01:53.680 --> 02:01:55.159 stay safe, So just be. 2167 02:01:55.319 --> 02:01:58.880 Protected, everybody. 2168 02:01:59.479 --> 02:02:00.920 I'm here. 2169 02:02:01.199 --> 02:02:03.439 I met up with a friend in Puerto Rico who's 2170 02:02:03.479 --> 02:02:06.000 been on this journey with me, and I literally left 2171 02:02:06.039 --> 02:02:07.600 her house and told her mom and Anne. 2172 02:02:07.600 --> 02:02:09.319 I said, all right, we're going to get in trouble now. 2173 02:02:09.640 --> 02:02:13.039 Yeah. They say, it's a silly way to send you off, 2174 02:02:13.159 --> 02:02:16.960 So be protected and just know that we're all here 2175 02:02:17.039 --> 02:02:17.560 rooting for you. 2176 02:02:18.199 --> 02:02:19.479 Thank you so much for having me. 2177 02:02:19.560 --> 02:02:23.399 I appreciate it. Free Puerto Rico, free Palestine, free Turtle. 2178 02:02:23.159 --> 02:02:24.840 Island, all the above. 2179 02:02:25.000 --> 02:02:26.399 Thank you so much, Josephine. 2180 02:02:28.039 --> 02:02:31.760 We're so lucky, y'all. We are so lucky here at 2181 02:02:31.800 --> 02:02:34.119 this show that we get to have such great folks 2182 02:02:34.239 --> 02:02:36.600 come on and talk to us and share with us 2183 02:02:36.640 --> 02:02:38.560 their journey. You know, when people will say to me, 2184 02:02:38.720 --> 02:02:41.560 like Amanda, what are you doing? You're not doing anything. 2185 02:02:41.920 --> 02:02:45.279 I'm like, yo, on a very basic level, what I'm 2186 02:02:45.319 --> 02:02:50.880 doing is creating a place for people who are doing 2187 02:02:51.079 --> 02:02:54.840 the things. They aren't gonna get mainstream coverage, or even 2188 02:02:54.880 --> 02:02:58.359 if they do, they are gonna have to be speaking 2189 02:02:59.159 --> 02:03:05.640 in defense of their work, versus speaking in exalting and 2190 02:03:05.880 --> 02:03:09.479 also in pushing other folks to share and join with them. Right. 2191 02:03:09.520 --> 02:03:11.279 I feel like so often when I see folks like 2192 02:03:11.359 --> 02:03:17.239 Josephine on mainstream media, they're being expected to defend the 2193 02:03:17.359 --> 02:03:19.159 work that they do, as if the work that they 2194 02:03:19.239 --> 02:03:21.399 do isn't what everybody should be doing. 2195 02:03:21.640 --> 02:03:23.720 It just drives me nuts. That's why I stop going 2196 02:03:23.760 --> 02:03:24.439 on mainstream media. 2197 02:03:24.479 --> 02:03:27.079 Actually, because I feel like they are always, you know, 2198 02:03:27.439 --> 02:03:29.479 asking me dumb ass questions. I'm just like, I'm not 2199 02:03:29.520 --> 02:03:30.960 coming out here for free, so you ask me some 2200 02:03:31.039 --> 02:03:35.279 dumb ass questions. Y'all need to keep it. So thank 2201 02:03:35.359 --> 02:03:38.520 you again to Josephine for joining us and for Arshaia. 2202 02:03:38.720 --> 02:03:41.880 We are so lucky and I'm just gonna pat myself 2203 02:03:41.920 --> 02:03:47.279 on the back because people don't come on this show 2204 02:03:48.079 --> 02:03:51.039 and are sharing for no reason. Right, It's not like 2205 02:03:51.159 --> 02:03:54.239 I have some million followers, etc. They come on this 2206 02:03:54.319 --> 02:04:02.319 show because we are continuously creating a network of people 2207 02:04:02.720 --> 02:04:06.159 that understand that we are all connected, Like we are 2208 02:04:06.319 --> 02:04:10.399 demonstrating the mysoleum. Like that's what we're demonstrating, right. So 2209 02:04:10.560 --> 02:04:13.159 like when I see folks that come in my comments 2210 02:04:13.239 --> 02:04:16.960 and they say things like, oh, you know, what are 2211 02:04:17.000 --> 02:04:19.439 you even doing, I'm like, you must not be a 2212 02:04:19.520 --> 02:04:21.960 part of the Mysoleum, baby, or else you would know 2213 02:04:22.039 --> 02:04:22.840 what we was doing. 2214 02:04:23.880 --> 02:04:25.920 So let me just tell you how black I feel today. 2215 02:04:36.760 --> 02:04:41.640 So I just came back from the first run like 2216 02:04:41.760 --> 02:04:44.159 all together run of the what would the Ancestors Say 2217 02:04:45.600 --> 02:04:50.079 Mission vision Book Tour, and I went to DC, Baltimore, 2218 02:04:50.680 --> 02:04:58.840 La San Diego, Chicago, Seattle, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston. 2219 02:04:58.800 --> 02:04:59.760 And New Orleans. 2220 02:05:00.359 --> 02:05:03.079 And it was really interesting going to all of these 2221 02:05:03.119 --> 02:05:05.840 different places and just really getting to be in all 2222 02:05:05.920 --> 02:05:08.960 of these different venues. Because they also allowed me to 2223 02:05:09.039 --> 02:05:10.760 keep one hundred percent of my book sales, which I 2224 02:05:10.840 --> 02:05:14.239 truly appreciate because I don't think people really understand that 2225 02:05:14.600 --> 02:05:17.199 this is what pays for me to be able to 2226 02:05:17.239 --> 02:05:19.800 come and be in existence in this way. 2227 02:05:19.880 --> 02:05:22.159 When you guys subscribe to my Patreon, which is. 2228 02:05:22.199 --> 02:05:25.680 Five dollars, when you guys buy pins and buy books, 2229 02:05:26.199 --> 02:05:28.359 this is what allows me to be out here. There's 2230 02:05:28.479 --> 02:05:33.159 no sponsorship, y'all, Like I'm paying for the travel by 2231 02:05:33.239 --> 02:05:38.119 the books that I'm selling. There's no publishing company that 2232 02:05:38.279 --> 02:05:40.720 has a budget set aside to send me out on 2233 02:05:40.800 --> 02:05:43.199 the road. The work that's happening on the road is 2234 02:05:43.239 --> 02:05:45.359 the work of decolonizing, but it's also the work that 2235 02:05:45.479 --> 02:05:48.520 you guys are doing when you guys create community in 2236 02:05:48.720 --> 02:05:51.119 line or while you're waiting to start. And it was 2237 02:05:51.199 --> 02:05:54.560 so dope seeing folks actually leaving the space talking to 2238 02:05:54.680 --> 02:05:56.920 each other that didn't know each other when they got there. 2239 02:05:57.680 --> 02:06:00.359 So I wanted to show you all that it's aw 2240 02:06:00.479 --> 02:06:03.840 reeal that I put together from all of the cities 2241 02:06:04.000 --> 02:06:06.039 and some of the highlights of things that were said. 2242 02:06:06.359 --> 02:06:09.960 But really it's about you guys showing that this is 2243 02:06:10.079 --> 02:06:14.439 a necessary space that continues and needs that continuously needs 2244 02:06:14.439 --> 02:06:16.359 to be built. And I feel so honored to be 2245 02:06:16.479 --> 02:06:17.880 a part of building that space. 2246 02:06:25.359 --> 02:06:26.039 Name is shows. 2247 02:06:37.520 --> 02:06:39.800 So I'm here in San Diego for the first stop 2248 02:06:40.119 --> 02:06:42.840 on the what would the ancestors say, Mission driven book tour, 2249 02:06:44.359 --> 02:06:49.319 and I'm being treated really lovely and it feels beautiful 2250 02:06:49.880 --> 02:06:52.479 and folks are shown up. 2251 02:07:00.359 --> 02:07:04.000 Man, when we heard about that Lincoln about to bring 2252 02:07:04.119 --> 02:07:05.359 that mess of pain problem. 2253 02:07:05.479 --> 02:07:16.239 Main it's the fact that someone over here went stupid. 2254 02:07:22.239 --> 02:07:23.119 Cause you're correct. 2255 02:07:23.319 --> 02:07:26.760 For those of us who want to insire courage in others, 2256 02:07:27.239 --> 02:07:28.239 what advice do you have. 2257 02:07:29.600 --> 02:07:30.359 Do you. 2258 02:07:32.399 --> 02:07:33.439 Demonstrate courage? 2259 02:07:34.039 --> 02:07:38.439 We know that folks are not on it, so you're like, come. 2260 02:07:38.840 --> 02:07:43.000 Let's do courage, guys, and they're like, bit Like you 2261 02:07:43.119 --> 02:07:43.600 know it's. 2262 02:07:45.199 --> 02:07:47.039 Folks are like, I'm busy, you know, I have a 2263 02:07:47.079 --> 02:07:53.520 hair appoint then I can't do courage today. I don't 2264 02:07:53.520 --> 02:07:55.119 even know the next time she's gonna be breathe Like. 2265 02:07:55.119 --> 02:07:58.479 I just I can't. Who's gonna be there that courage. 2266 02:08:00.680 --> 02:08:05.640 We have now become the tools of capitalism in a 2267 02:08:06.039 --> 02:08:11.000 mental form. And I'm not saying anything that hasn't already 2268 02:08:11.119 --> 02:08:14.399 been set like this is not like oh my gods, 2269 02:08:14.600 --> 02:08:21.319 she cracked a cold jawl. It ain't bad. However, the 2270 02:08:21.479 --> 02:08:26.800 code continues to require cracking. They keep coming up with 2271 02:08:26.960 --> 02:08:32.840 new codes, and because so many of us do not 2272 02:08:33.159 --> 02:08:37.079 see that, we don't prevent it. But tell us how 2273 02:08:37.119 --> 02:08:39.239 we can really utilize how you've put in a book 2274 02:08:39.760 --> 02:08:41.479 as a resource. 2275 02:08:41.039 --> 02:08:54.159 And tool in reference side right is Zalie. 2276 02:08:55.000 --> 02:08:56.239 But we don't have to day here. 2277 02:08:56.319 --> 02:08:57.800 We know somebody else. 2278 02:08:59.079 --> 02:08:59.840 We all. 2279 02:09:02.199 --> 02:09:03.479 Imagination? 2280 02:09:05.199 --> 02:09:06.000 Did you use. 2281 02:09:18.239 --> 02:09:23.279 I just an We had our gods, we had our land, 2282 02:09:23.720 --> 02:09:26.000 and we were strict from that, and we were forced 2283 02:09:26.039 --> 02:09:29.159 to establish something brand. 2284 02:09:29.000 --> 02:09:34.239 New here in spite of the constant threat of. 2285 02:09:34.279 --> 02:09:41.279 Death, degradation and terrorism, and somehow we managed to form blackness. 2286 02:09:49.880 --> 02:09:53.359 Say books won't change the world. Tell that to every 2287 02:09:53.479 --> 02:09:56.960 colonizer that burns them. Look at this, they have a 2288 02:09:57.119 --> 02:10:02.880 free uh bookshelf here at burst into books. You having 2289 02:10:02.960 --> 02:10:07.960 a face like this in this neighborhood with a bookshelf 2290 02:10:08.239 --> 02:10:11.239 for free book from outside. 2291 02:10:12.000 --> 02:10:13.199 Handing out a condition. 2292 02:10:14.840 --> 02:10:15.880 So the people. 2293 02:10:23.840 --> 02:10:25.159 Not y'all hav enough actual. 2294 02:10:27.279 --> 02:10:29.239 Many black folks who have served in the Civil War 2295 02:10:29.359 --> 02:10:30.880 have said it the first time that they felt like 2296 02:10:30.920 --> 02:10:32.439 they were seen by white hopes because they. 2297 02:10:32.359 --> 02:10:32.960 Had enough name. 2298 02:10:34.560 --> 02:10:37.239 They were seen as a friend, but they were also 2299 02:10:37.319 --> 02:11:07.920 seen as capable do it. The first thing that all 2300 02:11:08.000 --> 02:11:12.159 of these fascists do is burn books. And I read 2301 02:11:12.239 --> 02:11:15.520 somewhere that it's not that they're burning books because they 2302 02:11:15.600 --> 02:11:19.000 want to destroy art. It's not that they're burning books 2303 02:11:19.000 --> 02:11:21.439 because they want to disrupt history. They're burning books because 2304 02:11:21.439 --> 02:11:25.439 they want to destroy memory. They want to destroy the 2305 02:11:25.640 --> 02:11:29.159 memory of what was there before they got there so 2306 02:11:29.319 --> 02:11:32.079 that folks will not fight to get it back. I 2307 02:11:32.399 --> 02:11:34.520 start with the fact that it's not about being black, 2308 02:11:35.520 --> 02:11:36.520 it's about being people. 2309 02:11:38.560 --> 02:11:40.680 And you know, Malcolm went all the. 2310 02:11:40.720 --> 02:11:45.439 Way Semetha to figure that out, and so that was 2311 02:11:45.479 --> 02:11:46.199 a journey he did. 2312 02:11:46.279 --> 02:11:47.720 So I don't got to go to back up figure. 2313 02:11:47.920 --> 02:11:51.800 We have media companies that claim to be black, media 2314 02:11:52.800 --> 02:12:35.479 peddling a concept that questioning is problematic. Sometimes a mission 2315 02:12:35.720 --> 02:12:39.039 is literally the thing you're doing to get to the 2316 02:12:39.119 --> 02:12:43.479 thing you're doing. And I ask myself, but what can 2317 02:12:43.560 --> 02:12:44.520 we take control of? 2318 02:12:45.840 --> 02:12:45.960 Right? 2319 02:12:46.039 --> 02:12:47.840 So if I feel like I don't have control of that, 2320 02:12:48.600 --> 02:12:50.920 then I start mapping a chord. I'm also an artist, 2321 02:12:51.239 --> 02:12:54.760 so I'm like imaginative in what. 2322 02:12:54.880 --> 02:12:55.359 That can be. 2323 02:12:55.560 --> 02:12:57.159 And I know that for a lot of us we 2324 02:12:57.279 --> 02:13:02.000 are stuck to a grid of only what we have 2325 02:13:02.239 --> 02:13:05.279 seen is possible. I have a master's degree in African 2326 02:13:05.279 --> 02:13:08.960 American studies, but I don't realize the proximity with which 2327 02:13:09.000 --> 02:13:10.319 things happen in the sixties. 2328 02:13:11.680 --> 02:13:13.239 In my mind they exist. 2329 02:13:13.039 --> 02:13:16.880 As these separate, siloed events, when in actuality they have 2330 02:13:17.039 --> 02:13:21.279 been in rapid succession. I have a master's degree in 2331 02:13:21.279 --> 02:13:24.520 African American studies, but I cannot tell you the contents 2332 02:13:24.760 --> 02:13:27.840 of the nineteen sixty five Voting Rights Act. I can't 2333 02:13:27.880 --> 02:13:30.279 tell you the contents of the nineteen sixty four Civil 2334 02:13:30.359 --> 02:13:32.800 Rights Act, and I can't tell you how it was gutted, 2335 02:13:33.000 --> 02:13:35.760 no matter how tapped in I thought I was. I 2336 02:13:36.039 --> 02:13:40.439 was left out, and I had to check myself and 2337 02:13:40.560 --> 02:13:42.680 get over myself and step in. 2338 02:13:52.560 --> 02:13:56.479 My final question, you've shared recently that witnessing the faith 2339 02:13:56.560 --> 02:13:59.960 and spirituality of Palestinians has shifted. 2340 02:13:59.600 --> 02:14:01.880 Your own views of a higher power. 2341 02:14:03.039 --> 02:14:06.640 Could you talk more about how that experience influenced you all. 2342 02:14:06.720 --> 02:14:11.279 At the same time, I was ostracized from Black Hollywood. 2343 02:14:12.159 --> 02:14:18.359 I was realizing I'm autistic. I was deeply vested in 2344 02:14:18.439 --> 02:14:21.800 the Palestine movement. Okay, So my friend Laura Changa is 2345 02:14:21.800 --> 02:14:26.239 an astrologer, and she always talks about how like astrology 2346 02:14:26.319 --> 02:14:29.039 just came to her, like it wasn't something she had 2347 02:14:29.079 --> 02:14:29.960 to really like study. 2348 02:14:30.119 --> 02:14:31.880 She's like, even when she started learning the words, it was. 2349 02:14:31.880 --> 02:14:35.239 Like, yeah, of course, that's how spirit came to me. 2350 02:14:36.279 --> 02:14:39.520 It was like one day it was like I didn't 2351 02:14:39.520 --> 02:14:43.880 get it, and I just got it. And I think 2352 02:14:44.000 --> 02:14:46.800 the reason why it happened is because when I was 2353 02:14:46.960 --> 02:14:51.760 ousted from Hollywood, I was disconnected and I gained a 2354 02:14:51.840 --> 02:14:55.920 new consciousness around manufactured consent and the lives of our government. 2355 02:14:56.399 --> 02:15:02.439 I became available to being able to te in the 2356 02:15:02.560 --> 02:15:07.159 indigenous knowledge of how we really are connected in the soil. 2357 02:15:08.000 --> 02:15:10.279 And there was a block that we prevented that before, 2358 02:15:10.319 --> 02:15:11.239 and it was capitalism. 2359 02:15:11.520 --> 02:15:15.199 Does that make sense? People have the power and you know. 2360 02:15:15.359 --> 02:15:18.119 H Hrap Brown, make you rest in peace and I 2361 02:15:18.159 --> 02:15:21.199 don't save us some power rest in peace because you 2362 02:15:21.439 --> 02:15:23.399 was here going through it and they was not giving 2363 02:15:23.439 --> 02:15:25.119 you the care you deserve when you were locked up 2364 02:15:25.119 --> 02:15:28.840 as a prisoner of war in the United States, and 2365 02:15:30.000 --> 02:15:32.359 I really want our ancestors to rest in peace. 2366 02:15:32.439 --> 02:15:34.239 Like when I start in the book, I talked about 2367 02:15:34.239 --> 02:15:36.920 Harriet Huban saying like, every time y'all be on some bullshit, you. 2368 02:15:36.960 --> 02:15:37.840 Are disrupting us. 2369 02:15:38.039 --> 02:15:40.319 We are literally rolling on our graves and Rosa Parks 2370 02:15:40.359 --> 02:15:41.159 broke her glasses. 2371 02:15:41.520 --> 02:15:45.319 So y'all need to get it together. 2372 02:15:49.239 --> 02:15:51.079 Can you just give people a good word? 2373 02:15:51.800 --> 02:15:52.079 Listen? 2374 02:15:52.319 --> 02:15:55.319 The good word was just seeing Amanda was overing you 2375 02:15:55.399 --> 02:15:57.800 to give the preaching to the people, telling us to 2376 02:15:57.840 --> 02:16:00.439 make sure that we use our minds and our radical 2377 02:16:00.520 --> 02:16:02.439 imagination to transform the world. 2378 02:16:02.479 --> 02:16:05.319 I have two of the smartest people on the body. 2379 02:16:33.959 --> 02:16:40.319 Some people think I'm trying to scare people, and I'm like, yes, yes, 2380 02:16:40.520 --> 02:16:41.799 They're like, you're being alarmist. 2381 02:16:42.479 --> 02:16:45.040 Yes, alarm. 2382 02:16:46.440 --> 02:16:51.479 Because there's just a history of folk being reactionary, and 2383 02:16:51.760 --> 02:16:54.200 there's always people who are like, you know, it's about 2384 02:16:54.239 --> 02:16:56.799 to go down, and everyone's like, no, it's. 2385 02:17:00.120 --> 02:17:01.799 Brother a Mere said it look like you about to 2386 02:17:01.799 --> 02:17:03.479 give a lecture on the top and then go to 2387 02:17:03.559 --> 02:17:08.399 a protest on the box. So you all. 2388 02:17:10.840 --> 02:17:12.879 So they talk about all of those things to get 2389 02:17:12.959 --> 02:17:14.840 this piece. I told you to do so through different 2390 02:17:14.920 --> 02:17:19.399 methods because I am somebody who needs variation, right, Like 2391 02:17:19.559 --> 02:17:23.840 I love a nonfiction book for the first chapter, it's 2392 02:17:23.879 --> 02:17:24.559 a lot going on. 2393 02:17:25.840 --> 02:17:28.200 God loves it all, we love him. The ones that 2394 02:17:28.280 --> 02:17:30.319 you're the one mainertain you all gonna work out. But 2395 02:17:30.399 --> 02:17:32.319 them that that ain't right, they gonna get they do 2396 02:17:32.639 --> 02:17:35.520 and they deserve it because they's wrong. And stop playing 2397 02:17:35.719 --> 02:17:36.520 and love everybody. 2398 02:17:36.639 --> 02:17:39.840 Keep playing, y'all do it and keep loving him. 2399 02:17:45.760 --> 02:17:45.959 Well. 2400 02:17:46.440 --> 02:17:48.200 They want you to say I think instead of I know, 2401 02:17:49.760 --> 02:17:51.600 And so you get trained in that, even with your 2402 02:17:51.680 --> 02:17:55.639 own internal voice, and you start doubting your internal voice. 2403 02:17:56.360 --> 02:17:58.239 And now you've also been trained to be in fear 2404 02:17:58.319 --> 02:18:00.680 all the goddamn time, so you can't even tell the 2405 02:18:00.719 --> 02:18:05.200 difference between intuition and to t White people. 2406 02:18:07.799 --> 02:18:09.079 Were all lot, there's a coming a little. 2407 02:18:11.239 --> 02:18:12.680 Y'all have to shut up. 2408 02:18:14.520 --> 02:18:16.799 That that is what I believe should have to happen. 2409 02:18:17.120 --> 02:18:19.440 I'm junet. She just shut up because there is so 2410 02:18:19.799 --> 02:18:23.360 much reflection that happens in silence. And I'm not talking 2411 02:18:23.399 --> 02:18:27.399 about twerking, and I'm not talking about having a good time. 2412 02:18:27.479 --> 02:18:29.760 That's all I'm talking about. I'm talking about the literal 2413 02:18:29.879 --> 02:18:36.360 decision to be arrogantly ignorant, which is a very American trait, 2414 02:18:37.399 --> 02:18:42.200 because in order to perpetuate white supremacy, you have to 2415 02:18:42.280 --> 02:18:46.000 believe the lie that white is supreme. That's a that's 2416 02:18:46.040 --> 02:18:50.799 a goddamn lie. There's nothing that about this nothing Look 2417 02:18:50.799 --> 02:18:51.920 at basketball. 2418 02:18:53.760 --> 02:19:01.760 I did, y'all. 2419 02:19:02.399 --> 02:19:05.600 This is one of the real ones, one of the 2420 02:19:05.760 --> 02:19:10.760 last ones, one of the next ones, missus Mary Hooks, 2421 02:19:10.959 --> 02:19:14.440 and I just want to thank you on camera for 2422 02:19:14.959 --> 02:19:21.360 the continued, unrelenting effort and pressure on these motherfucker's next period. 2423 02:19:21.799 --> 02:19:24.319 Thank you, We appreciate you, We appreciate you. 2424 02:19:27.040 --> 02:19:29.000 Oh my god, I'm so proud of you. 2425 02:19:29.399 --> 02:19:31.079 Thank you, and I'm so glad I could be a 2426 02:19:31.159 --> 02:19:34.239 part of your journey to helping yourself. 2427 02:19:35.799 --> 02:19:37.360 And thank you for receiving my assistance. 2428 02:19:37.520 --> 02:19:56.639 Yes, I love that she uses her voice like she 2429 02:19:56.760 --> 02:19:59.600 doesn't hold back from speaking the truth and really just 2430 02:20:00.399 --> 02:20:03.200 magnifying what needs to be spoken about and then really 2431 02:20:03.319 --> 02:20:06.000 creating a forum for people to articulate themselves. 2432 02:20:06.319 --> 02:20:08.760 Would also like to point out that coalition has been 2433 02:20:08.799 --> 02:20:12.639 a thing, you know, and the folks that I see 2434 02:20:12.920 --> 02:20:20.000 say really generalized statements never can tell me where their 2435 02:20:20.040 --> 02:20:24.280 sources are from. And I will ask them, where have 2436 02:20:24.440 --> 02:20:29.360 you learned majority of your information, and they will tell 2437 02:20:29.479 --> 02:20:35.719 me from school, from mainstream media, and I'm just like, 2438 02:20:37.760 --> 02:20:43.239 neither of these places are created to tell you the truth, 2439 02:20:45.639 --> 02:20:48.680 particularly as it relates to black people. I like what 2440 02:20:48.840 --> 02:20:49.559 she's young spot. 2441 02:20:50.159 --> 02:20:50.639 I'm like how. 2442 02:20:52.600 --> 02:20:54.280 She encourages us to something. 2443 02:20:54.840 --> 02:20:55.600 Outside of the book. 2444 02:20:55.840 --> 02:20:59.799 There's an awakening happening because folks are starting to ask questions, 2445 02:21:01.000 --> 02:21:04.079 and more folks are starting to say yeah when folks 2446 02:21:04.159 --> 02:21:07.639 ask questions, And I think that's a really beautiful thing. 2447 02:21:08.840 --> 02:21:10.719 And I encourage all of you all to do the 2448 02:21:10.799 --> 02:21:14.120 same to you know, get in the habit of saying 2449 02:21:14.200 --> 02:21:17.200 why and not just about like out external stuff, but 2450 02:21:17.319 --> 02:21:18.040 internal stuff. 2451 02:21:18.520 --> 02:21:21.639 Why am I reacting like that? I'm really excited today. 2452 02:21:22.159 --> 02:21:26.319 I'm just excited to be surrounded by Amanda and over. 2453 02:21:26.280 --> 02:21:29.520 Knowledge to me any adult who gets it. 2454 02:21:30.040 --> 02:21:31.079 We should be in service. 2455 02:21:32.159 --> 02:21:33.879 We should be trying to figure out how do we 2456 02:21:33.959 --> 02:21:38.879 get young people around us like in tune. Thank y'all 2457 02:21:38.920 --> 02:21:45.239 for having me all right till why are you being 2458 02:21:45.319 --> 02:21:48.399 so serious over till twenty twenty six? 2459 02:21:49.040 --> 02:21:49.479 We did it. 2460 02:21:50.239 --> 02:22:07.159 We'll see then, all right. I hope y'all enjoyed that 2461 02:22:07.360 --> 02:22:12.000 little recap there. I purposely did not plut Isabelle in 2462 02:22:12.159 --> 02:22:14.840 the recap because I know she'd be trying to be Incognegro. 2463 02:22:15.040 --> 02:22:17.399 And then you said it right here in the chat, 2464 02:22:17.440 --> 02:22:30.840 and I was like, so fabulous getting to meet so 2465 02:22:31.000 --> 02:22:35.319 many seal squatters out here in the world. And I 2466 02:22:35.479 --> 02:22:39.799 really am just so appreciative of the attentiveness and the 2467 02:22:40.040 --> 02:22:43.040 willingness of folks to also volunteer and be a part 2468 02:22:43.200 --> 02:22:49.959 of helping me with selling merch etc. It is no 2469 02:22:50.200 --> 02:22:54.879 small effort being independent, and it requires a village, and 2470 02:22:55.639 --> 02:22:57.399 you guys are that village. So thank you to the 2471 02:22:57.440 --> 02:23:01.840 Amanda Landers and the Seal Squad. So you know, guys, 2472 02:23:01.959 --> 02:23:05.559 it's time for us to get into our critical thinking exercise. 2473 02:23:06.840 --> 02:23:07.520 Love wee. 2474 02:23:08.760 --> 02:23:12.399 So actually, before we do that, I. 2475 02:23:12.479 --> 02:23:12.799 Want to. 2476 02:23:14.520 --> 02:23:28.280 Talk about Rob Reiner. So unless you've been like basically 2477 02:23:28.440 --> 02:23:32.639 living under a rock in the United States, you may 2478 02:23:32.760 --> 02:23:36.520 not have heard that director Rob Reiner, actor, director Rob 2479 02:23:36.600 --> 02:23:41.399 Reiner was very brutally murdered in his home this weekend 2480 02:23:41.520 --> 02:23:48.920 with his wife and now his son is actually under 2481 02:23:49.159 --> 02:23:52.639 to my knowledge, indicted at the very least under arrest 2482 02:23:52.879 --> 02:23:58.079 for the murder. And you know, I think it's a 2483 02:23:58.239 --> 02:24:03.239 really difficult thing to be not I think I know 2484 02:24:03.399 --> 02:24:06.559 that it is a difficult thing to be in Hollywood 2485 02:24:06.840 --> 02:24:10.360 and be non white and standing for stuff, But it 2486 02:24:10.479 --> 02:24:12.920 also is difficult to be in Hollywood and be white 2487 02:24:12.959 --> 02:24:16.120 and actually stand for stuff. He was also Jewish and 2488 02:24:16.239 --> 02:24:20.760 to stand for stuff because there is an assumed idea 2489 02:24:20.879 --> 02:24:24.200 that you're just gonna go along with whatever is the 2490 02:24:24.280 --> 02:24:29.520 get along. And Rob Reiner is somebody who really was 2491 02:24:29.559 --> 02:24:32.520 not about that. And I appreciate that not only in 2492 02:24:33.440 --> 02:24:38.440 just his work, but also in his life. You can 2493 02:24:38.479 --> 02:24:40.159 see from early on when he was on All in 2494 02:24:40.239 --> 02:24:42.159 the Family, like, this is the type of dialogue that 2495 02:24:42.200 --> 02:24:44.440 he was dialogue that he was bringing to the United States. 2496 02:24:45.280 --> 02:24:47.040 We got a break down in law and order in 2497 02:24:47.079 --> 02:24:51.040 this country, Archie, because we got poverty, real poverty. And 2498 02:24:51.079 --> 02:24:53.040 you know why we got that because guys like you 2499 02:24:53.120 --> 02:24:54.920 are I'm willing to give the black man, the Mexican 2500 02:24:54.959 --> 02:24:57.559 American and only other minorities that just in rightful heart 2501 02:24:57.680 --> 02:24:59.159 and charity American dream. 2502 02:25:04.479 --> 02:25:09.399 Like in the seventies, that was not a small thing 2503 02:25:09.920 --> 02:25:14.680 to be on national television talking about. But I don't 2504 02:25:14.719 --> 02:25:17.959 think a lot of you all know that Rob Rainer 2505 02:25:18.040 --> 02:25:23.440 also directed some of the greatest films of all time. Okay, 2506 02:25:24.959 --> 02:25:30.799 you can't handle the truth, all right, A few good men. 2507 02:25:32.440 --> 02:25:32.920 Misery. 2508 02:25:33.879 --> 02:25:36.159 We all remember misery when she put that piece of 2509 02:25:36.200 --> 02:25:39.920 wood between that man legs. Pop pot ooh, and that's 2510 02:25:40.000 --> 02:25:47.559 not a Harriet tubman Pop pop. The Princess Bride, y'all. 2511 02:25:48.360 --> 02:25:49.600 My name is Nigo Montoya. 2512 02:25:49.959 --> 02:25:50.879 Did you kill my father? 2513 02:25:51.440 --> 02:25:52.239 Pretty? Beare to lie? 2514 02:25:52.719 --> 02:25:54.799 I mean, if I sit here and run down every 2515 02:25:54.959 --> 02:26:05.040 line from The Princess Bride, will be here all day? Ah, inconceivable. 2516 02:26:05.079 --> 02:26:06.799 I don't know think that. What means? What you thinking means? 2517 02:26:07.200 --> 02:26:07.479 Okay? 2518 02:26:07.760 --> 02:26:13.399 I mean a classic Shock and Awe was his latest film. 2519 02:26:13.760 --> 02:26:14.920 I don't know if it was his latest film, but 2520 02:26:14.959 --> 02:26:17.719 it was a very recent film that I hope everybody 2521 02:26:17.799 --> 02:26:21.799 will watch, and it is about the manufactured consent of 2522 02:26:21.879 --> 02:26:25.280 the Iraq War. This is a very big deal to 2523 02:26:25.360 --> 02:26:28.559 make this film because he's making it within the context 2524 02:26:28.600 --> 02:26:31.319 of consciousness and we are seeing the same thing happen 2525 02:26:31.440 --> 02:26:35.719 right now with Venezuela, and he actually calls folks by name. 2526 02:26:36.159 --> 02:26:40.120 The New York Times is talked about very deliberately in 2527 02:26:40.719 --> 02:26:46.239 this film in how they actualized the manufactured consent of 2528 02:26:46.760 --> 02:26:50.680 the Adoq War and how it was an independent newspaper, 2529 02:26:51.040 --> 02:26:54.040 a small newspaper that was actually the ones that had 2530 02:26:54.079 --> 02:26:54.479 it right. 2531 02:26:55.879 --> 02:26:58.799 He also did stand by me when. 2532 02:26:58.760 --> 02:26:59.520 The ninth. 2533 02:27:00.799 --> 02:27:05.280 Is done. Yeah, and the day wait, what is it? 2534 02:27:05.360 --> 02:27:06.239 When the day is on the day? 2535 02:27:06.319 --> 02:27:07.959 Is that just saying? 2536 02:27:08.719 --> 02:27:15.319 Sambai? And last, but not least, one of the greatest 2537 02:27:15.399 --> 02:27:21.760 films ever made in the history of filmmaking, What Harry Not? 2538 02:27:27.600 --> 02:27:31.319 Written by one of the greatest, Nora Ephron. 2539 02:27:33.760 --> 02:27:34.120 Geez. 2540 02:27:36.840 --> 02:27:37.760 Film is. 2541 02:27:39.280 --> 02:27:46.200 Such an incredible art form. Film is something that really 2542 02:27:46.760 --> 02:27:51.520 in its invention, which stamps human existence in a really 2543 02:27:51.719 --> 02:27:53.920 unique ways. 2544 02:27:53.920 --> 02:27:55.239 So, Rachel, who is it there? 2545 02:27:55.280 --> 02:28:00.479 Here am gonzo? All of what she's having, Everything has 2546 02:28:00.520 --> 02:28:02.959 to be so urgent with you, Yes, Because when you 2547 02:28:02.959 --> 02:28:04.239 figure out you want to spend the rest of your 2548 02:28:04.280 --> 02:28:05.799 life with somebody you want the rest of his life, 2549 02:28:05.840 --> 02:28:13.479 you start as soon as possible. I'm just saying, and 2550 02:28:13.600 --> 02:28:16.200 someone here said, not a sappy movie guy. When Harry 2551 02:28:16.239 --> 02:28:19.760 met Sally is not sappy. When Harry Met Sally is 2552 02:28:20.239 --> 02:28:24.159 one of the best written films ever. It has no 2553 02:28:24.479 --> 02:28:29.920 extra lines. There are no extra lines. Same with Coming 2554 02:28:29.959 --> 02:28:33.159 to America, by the way, there are no extra lines. 2555 02:28:33.319 --> 02:28:37.239 Every single line either moves the story forward or moves 2556 02:28:37.319 --> 02:28:41.840 the character depth, makes the character analysis deeper every single 2557 02:28:42.239 --> 02:28:49.559 line that type of writing. Come on, and then it 2558 02:28:49.680 --> 02:28:58.280 is filmed comedically without forfeiting cinematography. He gives you New York. 2559 02:28:59.040 --> 02:28:59.760 You see it. 2560 02:29:00.440 --> 02:29:03.000 Look at this cover right here and right was playing 2561 02:29:03.040 --> 02:29:05.479 at that point is autumn in New York. And by 2562 02:29:05.559 --> 02:29:08.520 the way, randomly, in addition to this, you got an 2563 02:29:08.680 --> 02:29:10.639 entire Harry conneg junior soundtrack. 2564 02:29:12.600 --> 02:29:16.680 It's had to be you Boom boom. 2565 02:29:16.959 --> 02:29:17.559 It had to be. 2566 02:29:19.920 --> 02:29:26.559 I wandered around and finally found that somebody who could 2567 02:29:26.680 --> 02:29:26.959 make me. 2568 02:29:27.040 --> 02:29:33.879 Feel true, could make me feel blue or even be glad, 2569 02:29:34.399 --> 02:29:38.200 just to be sad thinking of you scoom. 2570 02:29:37.920 --> 02:29:38.639 And oom boom. 2571 02:29:38.719 --> 02:29:39.040 Come on. 2572 02:29:39.920 --> 02:29:51.200 Now, it's just so unfortunately he met such a violent 2573 02:29:51.360 --> 02:29:54.079 end at the hands of his own child, you know. 2574 02:29:55.680 --> 02:29:57.879 But what I also want to point out is that 2575 02:29:58.000 --> 02:30:02.520 I absolutely googled was he Asignianist? Okay, because these days 2576 02:30:03.040 --> 02:30:08.000 you ab solutely need to look. 2577 02:30:09.600 --> 02:30:10.920 And I. 2578 02:30:12.399 --> 02:30:19.959 Was very happy about what I came across. And what 2579 02:30:20.079 --> 02:30:21.159 I came across. 2580 02:30:22.600 --> 02:30:28.840 Is hold on, I have it right here. Some others 2581 02:30:29.000 --> 02:30:29.920 I've seen. 2582 02:30:31.600 --> 02:30:37.680 Might never be made. In the week of Shock and 2583 02:30:37.760 --> 02:30:42.840 Oz release in twenty seventeen, Reiner joined several Arab filmmakers 2584 02:30:42.920 --> 02:30:48.319 to criticize Trump, who, during his first term unilaterally recognized. 2585 02:30:47.840 --> 02:30:51.200 Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a move. 2586 02:30:51.040 --> 02:30:56.159 That was criticized by Palestinian officials and other Arab nations. Reiner, 2587 02:30:56.520 --> 02:31:01.159 who was Jewish, signed a petition led by Palestinian director 2588 02:31:01.319 --> 02:31:07.719 and Marie Jasser, slamming the decision. We stand in solidarity 2589 02:31:07.760 --> 02:31:11.479 with the Palestinians in Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine and 2590 02:31:11.600 --> 02:31:16.000 an open, sacred city that belongs to all Muslims, Christians 2591 02:31:16.159 --> 02:31:19.799 and Jews. The petition read, in your decision, mister President, 2592 02:31:19.920 --> 02:31:23.959 you have created more animosity, less faith, and profound sorrow 2593 02:31:24.040 --> 02:31:26.280 in the hearts and minds of all justice lovers in 2594 02:31:26.399 --> 02:31:40.840 the world. I was really relieved to see that, and 2595 02:31:41.559 --> 02:31:45.559 to also see in the film Chakanaw how conscious he 2596 02:31:45.879 --> 02:31:52.399 was about the Islamophobia being attached to the manufactured consent. 2597 02:31:54.520 --> 02:31:56.520 So I saw someone here in the chat say that 2598 02:31:56.559 --> 02:32:00.440 apparently his son was upset about a film that he 2599 02:32:00.479 --> 02:32:03.879 had put out, called Being Charlie. I read his son 2600 02:32:04.000 --> 02:32:06.360 was apprehensive about the making of Being Charlie for fear 2601 02:32:06.360 --> 02:32:09.479 of it triggering unwonted thoughts while he was newly newly clean. 2602 02:32:09.799 --> 02:32:12.440 He had drug demons and when he gets clean, he 2603 02:32:12.920 --> 02:32:15.280 will I'm not sure what the what the end of 2604 02:32:15.360 --> 02:32:18.760 that was still still not a reason to to to 2605 02:32:18.840 --> 02:32:25.479 stab folks, though still not a reason. So rest in 2606 02:32:25.559 --> 02:32:31.799 peace to Rob Reiner and his wife, and you know, 2607 02:32:32.040 --> 02:32:39.360 may we continue to feel the joy of his films, 2608 02:32:40.040 --> 02:32:42.360 you know, to carry us through the terror that we 2609 02:32:42.479 --> 02:32:44.000 are in the midst of. 2610 02:32:46.399 --> 02:32:46.799 A man. 2611 02:33:07.879 --> 02:33:09.920 So, I don't know if you all heard about this, 2612 02:33:10.399 --> 02:33:15.559 but CNN has partnered with a company called Calshi that 2613 02:33:15.719 --> 02:33:20.159 is a cash Calshi that is a betting service, and 2614 02:33:20.920 --> 02:33:22.840 I want to tell you more about it. I made 2615 02:33:22.840 --> 02:33:24.760 a video about it for the Internet, so I want 2616 02:33:24.799 --> 02:33:25.600 to just catch you up to. 2617 02:33:25.559 --> 02:33:26.559 Speed with it real quick. 2618 02:33:29.079 --> 02:33:32.600 So like every day I wake up and I'm like, nah, 2619 02:33:33.079 --> 02:33:37.479 it can't get wilder, and then it does. CNN has 2620 02:33:37.600 --> 02:33:42.520 partnered with a gambling app that lets you wager on 2621 02:33:44.440 --> 02:33:55.159 current events and world events. Basically, they are literally making 2622 02:33:56.120 --> 02:34:05.760 betting around war, around starvation, around natural disasters which at 2623 02:34:05.799 --> 02:34:15.120 this point are unnatural disasters, etc. You're literally betting on demise. 2624 02:34:16.959 --> 02:34:24.040 Remembering Gladiator, how people would make bets on which Gladiator 2625 02:34:24.159 --> 02:34:28.159 would beat the beast. Now the people making the bets 2626 02:34:29.239 --> 02:34:33.879 are the ones making the beasts. We're the gladiators in 2627 02:34:34.040 --> 02:34:45.200 the ring. How quick before people are literally betting on 2628 02:34:45.360 --> 02:34:50.000 whether or not they'll survive a situation, hoping that if 2629 02:34:50.040 --> 02:34:55.159 they do, they'll get a payout. We're in the squid games. 2630 02:34:58.200 --> 02:34:58.840 That's where we are. 2631 02:35:00.319 --> 02:35:02.879 That that that that. 2632 02:35:04.440 --> 02:35:04.719 I think. 2633 02:35:05.319 --> 02:35:08.840 I think that's the most dystopious I've ever seen. I 2634 02:35:08.920 --> 02:35:09.440 think it is. 2635 02:35:11.200 --> 02:35:12.760 I I think we've done it. 2636 02:35:13.799 --> 02:35:17.959 I think we've met the final boss of capitalism, betting 2637 02:35:18.079 --> 02:35:30.760 on our demise. So I wanted to understand more about 2638 02:35:30.799 --> 02:35:34.840 how this even happens. Right, Like, this company Klshi has 2639 02:35:34.959 --> 02:35:41.879 definitely been getting money by creating these betting uh universes. Right, 2640 02:35:42.040 --> 02:35:44.520 So people told me that this has actually been going 2641 02:35:44.600 --> 02:35:47.879 on in a number of other like spaces and places 2642 02:35:47.920 --> 02:35:51.479 beyond sports. But now it's expanded and now it's become, 2643 02:35:51.680 --> 02:35:54.719 of course so commonplace that they can actually make it 2644 02:35:54.799 --> 02:35:55.440 an industry. 2645 02:35:56.479 --> 02:35:58.879 However, you have to have a certain kind of mind 2646 02:35:59.319 --> 02:36:00.239 to think this way. 2647 02:36:00.479 --> 02:36:02.760 And so I want to show you a video that 2648 02:36:03.040 --> 02:36:05.680 is the actual owner of Kyushi and he's gonna look 2649 02:36:05.719 --> 02:36:08.959 different than I think you may expect, and him talking 2650 02:36:09.079 --> 02:36:15.760 about what this is really connected to in a broader sense. 2651 02:36:17.280 --> 02:36:20.000 Point tier is that it's not about yes no question 2652 02:36:20.200 --> 02:36:22.559 Like over time we're going to produce different structures and 2653 02:36:22.600 --> 02:36:24.600 there's going to be questions that are not yes nos. 2654 02:36:25.760 --> 02:36:28.600 But it's about underlyings that are non traditional, like could 2655 02:36:28.639 --> 02:36:32.840 could you financialize in anything that people care about? And 2656 02:36:33.159 --> 02:36:35.479 you know, calshi is everything in Arabic. The long term 2657 02:36:35.600 --> 02:36:39.559 vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset 2658 02:36:39.559 --> 02:36:40.840 out of any difference in opinion. 2659 02:36:42.520 --> 02:36:47.200 So that is Tadek Mansour who is the co founder 2660 02:36:47.360 --> 02:36:51.239 and CEO along with Luana Lopez Lara. They are married, 2661 02:36:51.879 --> 02:37:00.440 and I am just I'm just like, how does one 2662 02:37:01.920 --> 02:37:05.719 get this way? But then I think about how many 2663 02:37:06.040 --> 02:37:10.399 Arab countries have completely disregarded for the theme, for the 2664 02:37:10.520 --> 02:37:18.200 goal of capitalism, for the goal of money. Because if 2665 02:37:19.680 --> 02:37:25.000 I'm assuming if his name is Tadek Mansour, I mean 2666 02:37:25.079 --> 02:37:27.920 he's at a big but I don't know if he's Muslim, 2667 02:37:29.600 --> 02:37:32.440 and I don't know where his like family is from. 2668 02:37:32.520 --> 02:37:35.680 It sounds a little bit Pakistani, but I could be wrong. 2669 02:37:35.840 --> 02:37:41.280 But they did meet at MIT, and some of y'all 2670 02:37:41.319 --> 02:37:42.879 may be like, well, why are we even talking about 2671 02:37:42.920 --> 02:37:45.719 his personal life? Because the way that these people are 2672 02:37:45.879 --> 02:37:49.760 raised and the way that they are, you know, kind 2673 02:37:49.799 --> 02:37:52.040 of conditioned in the world is what they end up 2674 02:37:52.120 --> 02:37:56.559 actually giving to the world. Right, that is nine times 2675 02:37:56.600 --> 02:37:58.680 out of ten how it happens. Now you look at 2676 02:37:58.719 --> 02:38:02.319 a unique person like Josephine Gilbo, where you look at 2677 02:38:02.360 --> 02:38:06.120 a unique person like Mark Wayne, who were actually raised 2678 02:38:06.120 --> 02:38:08.280 a certain way, but then they were put and thrust 2679 02:38:08.360 --> 02:38:13.319 into a certain scenario that allowed them to expand these 2680 02:38:13.440 --> 02:38:16.600 folks were put into like see y'all in the chat mit, 2681 02:38:17.200 --> 02:38:20.559 where are these places where we are seeing technocracies grow 2682 02:38:21.159 --> 02:38:26.440 in such a despared, in such a disparaging fashion. We're 2683 02:38:26.559 --> 02:38:31.159 seeing these technocracies in a way that is beyond any 2684 02:38:31.319 --> 02:38:34.799 consideration for human life. So I wanted to hear from 2685 02:38:34.840 --> 02:38:41.040 you guys. How do you feel about the consistent encroaching 2686 02:38:41.719 --> 02:38:50.520 of making everything financialized, every single aspect of your life 2687 02:38:51.280 --> 02:38:56.600 being financialized. How do you feel that that can be challenged? 2688 02:38:57.040 --> 02:39:00.600 What are ways in which you feel like there is 2689 02:39:02.680 --> 02:39:11.799 effort to push back against this. I'll play some hold music. No, 2690 02:39:11.920 --> 02:39:23.239 I don't want to play that. So we got people 2691 02:39:23.319 --> 02:39:30.120 saying it's offensive. This is the bad place actively addicted. 2692 02:39:30.879 --> 02:39:34.280 These tech bros are not human I'm disgusted by it. 2693 02:39:34.639 --> 02:39:42.760 Paywalls everywhere is just gross mutual aid and co ops 2694 02:39:43.040 --> 02:39:43.719 learning to live. 2695 02:39:43.879 --> 02:39:44.879 That's their suggestion. 2696 02:39:45.440 --> 02:39:48.680 Eve's story says, if we financialize everything, then our lives 2697 02:39:49.079 --> 02:39:51.760 will hold no true value. I want to just also 2698 02:39:51.879 --> 02:39:57.079 point out that money is made up, because that's the 2699 02:39:57.159 --> 02:39:59.319 other part of this. It's like we're living in a 2700 02:39:59.479 --> 02:40:01.600 literal one pep be like we're living in the Truman Show. 2701 02:40:01.959 --> 02:40:04.319 I know that some people think and like laugh that off, 2702 02:40:04.559 --> 02:40:07.239 like oh ha haha, No, it's actually real. But to 2703 02:40:07.360 --> 02:40:09.799 be quite honest, we in a way are living in 2704 02:40:09.879 --> 02:40:13.520 the Truman Show because they've literally made up the system 2705 02:40:13.760 --> 02:40:16.719 of our existence, like money is a made up system. 2706 02:40:18.600 --> 02:40:23.120 These banks are literally the ones who run the show. 2707 02:40:23.280 --> 02:40:24.959 I saw a scroll the other day, and I haven't 2708 02:40:24.959 --> 02:40:26.760 gotten the fact check yet, but it was essentially saying 2709 02:40:26.840 --> 02:40:32.040 that several presidents who were outwardly against an oppositional to 2710 02:40:32.120 --> 02:40:35.319 the banks were either assassinated or attempted to be assassinated. 2711 02:40:36.360 --> 02:40:39.920 And so when we see this actualizing of this on 2712 02:40:40.040 --> 02:40:43.200 a whole other level, that is so dystopian. And now 2713 02:40:43.360 --> 02:40:46.520 this is a partnership with CNN, So I have been 2714 02:40:46.559 --> 02:40:50.719 talking about CNN being a absolute source of dystopia for 2715 02:40:50.799 --> 02:40:53.399 quite some time now. But this I should, this should 2716 02:40:53.440 --> 02:40:56.440 give you everything you need to know. So any news 2717 02:40:56.879 --> 02:41:01.440 that you're getting via CNN is now now attached to 2718 02:41:01.600 --> 02:41:05.399 a financial gain, and that financial gain will come in 2719 02:41:05.559 --> 02:41:10.520 how they report it, right, because how they conceptualize it, 2720 02:41:10.600 --> 02:41:13.360 how they contextualize it, all the above that's going to 2721 02:41:13.399 --> 02:41:17.719 be about how it relates to the parlay. So when 2722 02:41:17.799 --> 02:41:20.319 I see this, I'm like, this is deeper than I 2723 02:41:20.360 --> 02:41:27.040 think people could really imagined. Happiness, the brand said, emphasizing 2724 02:41:27.120 --> 02:41:29.600 that the end game of life is not simply wealth, 2725 02:41:29.879 --> 02:41:33.000 but the quality of life you lived, redefining the purpose 2726 02:41:33.040 --> 02:41:34.959 of life. I mean, happiness is the brand is the 2727 02:41:35.000 --> 02:41:36.600 great name. If this is how you're talking, because I 2728 02:41:36.719 --> 02:41:39.959 completely agree. I feel like I was sold from a 2729 02:41:40.120 --> 02:41:42.879 very early age, and not even by my mother, but 2730 02:41:43.000 --> 02:41:45.200 more so just by that which was around me, this 2731 02:41:45.360 --> 02:41:49.040 idea that material wealth was actually the example of success 2732 02:41:49.440 --> 02:41:52.360 and that I really could not be considered successful unless 2733 02:41:52.440 --> 02:41:56.879 I had material gains. And there was a time where 2734 02:41:57.200 --> 02:41:59.719 my mom was literally like, you don't care enough about money, 2735 02:42:00.639 --> 02:42:02.440 and I know she was saying that more from the 2736 02:42:02.520 --> 02:42:05.280 mindset of like you really need to be able to 2737 02:42:05.680 --> 02:42:08.360 take care of yourself, but there was still also within 2738 02:42:08.479 --> 02:42:12.440 that this idea that you are not going to be 2739 02:42:12.680 --> 02:42:18.719 considered of status if you don't have money. And to 2740 02:42:18.799 --> 02:42:22.120 be quite honest, now that I've been able to become 2741 02:42:22.280 --> 02:42:26.040 financially secure in that way, I think that there's a 2742 02:42:26.159 --> 02:42:29.600 version of life that if you can if you're able 2743 02:42:29.680 --> 02:42:32.000 to just be able to not think about and not 2744 02:42:32.120 --> 02:42:35.520 worry about money, that is the goal, and that can 2745 02:42:35.600 --> 02:42:39.760 be addressed in socialism. That can be addressed in the 2746 02:42:39.840 --> 02:42:42.200 way that our societies support each other, and that could 2747 02:42:42.200 --> 02:42:44.639 be addressed also in how you choose to live your life, 2748 02:42:44.920 --> 02:42:47.920 Like I changed the way I lived my life right, 2749 02:42:49.280 --> 02:42:52.440 Vito says, I actually feel we need to be going 2750 02:42:53.000 --> 02:42:56.479 to opposite direction, indigenous ways of engaging communal systems where 2751 02:42:56.520 --> 02:42:59.520 we can exist in reciprocity. I one hundred percent agree. 2752 02:43:00.000 --> 02:43:02.600 Problem is that I don't have the knowledge yet on 2753 02:43:02.719 --> 02:43:06.000 how to do that right. And then it's like, okay, Amanda, 2754 02:43:06.040 --> 02:43:07.760 but listen to the things that you always tell us. 2755 02:43:08.239 --> 02:43:10.600 If you're trying to do something, there's already somebody that's 2756 02:43:10.600 --> 02:43:11.360 already trying to do it. 2757 02:43:11.520 --> 02:43:13.559 So it's like I got to figure out where those 2758 02:43:13.600 --> 02:43:14.600 people are you. 2759 02:43:14.680 --> 02:43:16.719 Feel me, I got to figure out where they are 2760 02:43:17.040 --> 02:43:18.520 so that I can bring them on the show, so 2761 02:43:18.600 --> 02:43:20.840 I can get involved with them, et cetera. And I 2762 02:43:20.920 --> 02:43:27.360 feel like it's also a reflection of us really being 2763 02:43:27.479 --> 02:43:32.319 at the behest of all of these media like inputs 2764 02:43:32.440 --> 02:43:37.440 selling us this lie, right, selling us this lie. And 2765 02:43:38.760 --> 02:43:41.559 someone said, even in socialism, somebody is still going to 2766 02:43:41.680 --> 02:43:43.879 need the run the hospitals and sewer systems. 2767 02:43:44.360 --> 02:43:44.600 Fair. 2768 02:43:45.399 --> 02:43:50.159 Yes, however, the checks and balances are far greater, and 2769 02:43:50.280 --> 02:43:53.639 there is a reality that is expected, which is that 2770 02:43:53.760 --> 02:43:58.399 those systems run efficiently and effectively by because they are 2771 02:43:58.479 --> 02:44:02.840 being because the people's money is funding it. So people 2772 02:44:03.319 --> 02:44:07.680 can actually be far more demanding on how things are 2773 02:44:07.719 --> 02:44:11.079 operating because we are the ones that are making it operate. 2774 02:44:11.360 --> 02:44:14.920 Whereas right now, if you privatize everything, we don't get 2775 02:44:15.000 --> 02:44:16.920 to be that, we don't get to have a say 2776 02:44:17.000 --> 02:44:20.360 in nothing. You know, they basically are like, no, we're private, 2777 02:44:20.440 --> 02:44:24.719 so we can do whatever we want. That is incredibly 2778 02:44:24.840 --> 02:44:28.239 problematic and it is not a democracy. And now they 2779 02:44:28.319 --> 02:44:33.360 have privatized how you are getting the news within the 2780 02:44:33.559 --> 02:44:47.879 context of gambling. It's deeply disturbing, and the tech bros 2781 02:44:48.520 --> 02:44:52.760 are going to just levels that I don't think any 2782 02:44:52.840 --> 02:44:56.559 of us can even truly grasp. I want to play 2783 02:44:56.639 --> 02:45:01.559 for you this TED talk by journalists? 2784 02:45:03.799 --> 02:45:04.319 Is it here? 2785 02:45:05.600 --> 02:45:12.879 Hold on? I want to play for you this Ted 2786 02:45:12.959 --> 02:45:15.159 talk because I really want you guys. It's not a 2787 02:45:15.200 --> 02:45:17.440 long type talk at all. It's just a clip. But 2788 02:45:17.639 --> 02:45:20.159 I want you all to hear what this woman is 2789 02:45:20.239 --> 02:45:27.559 saying about the technocracies and how they are financializing everything 2790 02:45:27.760 --> 02:45:32.840 about us and even how we live and where we live. 2791 02:45:33.520 --> 02:45:34.920 And I saw a. 2792 02:45:35.000 --> 02:45:39.799 Woman in Detroit who the community or the government gave 2793 02:45:39.879 --> 02:45:42.639 her a house or gave her basically an apartment to 2794 02:45:42.719 --> 02:45:47.120 live in, and they had this happy music and they 2795 02:45:47.200 --> 02:45:49.440 made it a feel good story. Do you know why 2796 02:45:49.479 --> 02:45:51.120 they gave her the house or why they gave her 2797 02:45:51.159 --> 02:45:53.920 the apartment to live in? She has five kids. Two 2798 02:45:53.959 --> 02:45:56.319 of them died of hypothermia because they were sleeping in 2799 02:45:56.399 --> 02:46:04.520 the car. That is a comple completely avoidable situation. No 2800 02:46:04.600 --> 02:46:06.159 one had to be kicked out of that apartment for 2801 02:46:06.200 --> 02:46:12.920 her to live in. It completely avoidable. It is deeply 2802 02:46:13.280 --> 02:46:18.920 disturbing that this is how we are like literally making 2803 02:46:19.040 --> 02:46:23.680 feel good. We are doing the thing in the aftermath 2804 02:46:23.840 --> 02:46:28.280 of tragedy that was avoidable and we're doing it because 2805 02:46:28.399 --> 02:46:33.719 everything has been financialized, and so all the housing that 2806 02:46:33.920 --> 02:46:38.840 could be provided to people ends up sitting empty unless 2807 02:46:39.000 --> 02:46:39.920 tragedy strikes. 2808 02:46:41.520 --> 02:46:45.479 Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words, 2809 02:46:46.079 --> 02:46:49.600 They are telling the same lies. We are watching the 2810 02:46:49.719 --> 02:46:54.000 collapse of the international order in real time, and this 2811 02:46:54.600 --> 02:46:58.680 is just the start. Kaus are like concrete when they 2812 02:46:58.760 --> 02:47:02.600 stop moving. They yet it is already later. 2813 02:47:02.680 --> 02:47:05.680 Than we think. This image. Some of you in this 2814 02:47:05.840 --> 02:47:08.680 room might know these people. I call it tech bros. 2815 02:47:08.719 --> 02:47:13.120 In hostage situations. It's a message to you. This is 2816 02:47:13.239 --> 02:47:17.479 Putin's playbook. He allows a business elite to make untold 2817 02:47:17.600 --> 02:47:22.319 riches in exchange for absolute loyalty. Some people are calling 2818 02:47:22.360 --> 02:47:26.559 this oligarchy, but it's actually bigger than that. These are 2819 02:47:26.680 --> 02:47:27.959 global platforms. 2820 02:47:28.760 --> 02:47:29.879 It's proligarchy. 2821 02:47:33.239 --> 02:47:38.479 There is an alignment of interests that runs from through 2822 02:47:38.840 --> 02:47:44.840 Silicon Valley to what is now a coming autocracy. It's 2823 02:47:44.879 --> 02:47:49.600 a type of power that the world has never seen before. Correct, 2824 02:47:49.680 --> 02:47:50.760 it's always the data. 2825 02:47:51.559 --> 02:47:53.920 It's the crack cocaine of Silicon Valley. 2826 02:47:54.280 --> 02:47:56.399 You know the first thing that Elon Musk did was 2827 02:47:56.479 --> 02:47:59.239 to send his cyber troops into the US Treasury. 2828 02:47:59.440 --> 02:48:02.360 To get as to the data. That is not a coincidence. 2829 02:48:02.559 --> 02:48:03.120 It's a hack. 2830 02:48:03.719 --> 02:48:07.000 That data is now feeding ais that are choosing who 2831 02:48:07.159 --> 02:48:10.719 to resack and who to replace. Sorry, eliminate fraudam waste. 2832 02:48:13.040 --> 02:48:16.559 When we broke the Cambridge Analyticas story about the harvesting 2833 02:48:16.680 --> 02:48:21.760 eighty seven million people's Facebook data, people freaked out rightly. 2834 02:48:22.520 --> 02:48:26.559 This is chicken feed compared to that. But it is 2835 02:48:26.680 --> 02:48:31.040 the blueprint. It's always the data, which is why it's. 2836 02:48:30.879 --> 02:48:33.360 So important that you start thinking about. 2837 02:48:33.159 --> 02:48:36.680 Your private life. The bronigarchy doesn't want you to have one. 2838 02:48:37.159 --> 02:48:41.639 This is the old headquarters of the East German Secret Police. 2839 02:48:42.239 --> 02:48:46.000 They kept detailed files and almost one in three of 2840 02:48:46.079 --> 02:48:51.159 their citizens. That is nothing compared to what Google has 2841 02:48:51.239 --> 02:48:55.360 on every single one of us and hundreds of other companies. 2842 02:48:56.040 --> 02:49:00.879 The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance. It 2843 02:49:01.040 --> 02:49:04.799 harvests our data in order to sell us stuff. We 2844 02:49:04.920 --> 02:49:14.120 are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism. It may 2845 02:49:14.520 --> 02:49:18.680 not have been deliberate, but we now have to start 2846 02:49:18.760 --> 02:49:20.959 acting as if we live in East. 2847 02:49:20.719 --> 02:49:23.760 Germany and Instagram is the Stazi. 2848 02:49:29.360 --> 02:49:29.879 So this. 2849 02:49:31.479 --> 02:49:37.799 Also references the financializing of our data. So the overarching 2850 02:49:37.920 --> 02:49:43.000 conversation here today is around financializing, and financializing is the 2851 02:49:43.719 --> 02:49:50.959 commodifying basically creating a financial value around everything in your 2852 02:49:51.079 --> 02:49:55.639 life that can be capitalized on. And so now to 2853 02:49:55.799 --> 02:50:00.159 see that CNN has partnered with a betting app to 2854 02:50:01.479 --> 02:50:10.360 actualize the financializing of our very experiences, we can of 2855 02:50:10.559 --> 02:50:18.559 course say that it can only go down from there. So, 2856 02:50:19.000 --> 02:50:21.799 you know, oftentimes when I do these critical thinking exercises, 2857 02:50:22.280 --> 02:50:23.840 I have a path. 2858 02:50:23.680 --> 02:50:26.879 That I'm going to take us through that lands in you. 2859 02:50:26.920 --> 02:50:31.280 Know, solution based ideas and you know, really just trying 2860 02:50:31.360 --> 02:50:36.879 to identify how to challenge and whatnot. And it always 2861 02:50:37.040 --> 02:50:38.959 ends up coming back to the same stuff when it 2862 02:50:39.040 --> 02:50:41.360 has to do with capitalism, and that really ends up 2863 02:50:41.399 --> 02:50:48.319 being that we have to slow the system. And Adrian said, 2864 02:50:48.319 --> 02:50:54.040 you know, we need to stop buying stuff, and that's 2865 02:50:54.639 --> 02:51:01.360 the thing. It's like, I try to minimize eyes the 2866 02:51:01.479 --> 02:51:06.239 way in which people are engaging with a system in 2867 02:51:06.399 --> 02:51:08.760 order to support my stuff. But then at the end 2868 02:51:08.799 --> 02:51:11.760 of the day, here we are and we're on YouTube 2869 02:51:12.280 --> 02:51:17.319 and we're on ig right, Like, eventually I want to 2870 02:51:17.360 --> 02:51:19.760 be able to have a place where I do my 2871 02:51:19.840 --> 02:51:23.280 show and you all come and watch my show and 2872 02:51:24.159 --> 02:51:29.399 hopefully people who agree with us will create spaces that 2873 02:51:29.600 --> 02:51:35.239 do the work that's done here outside of these frameworks. 2874 02:51:36.799 --> 02:51:39.639 And I know that it's a long shot, but I'm 2875 02:51:39.760 --> 02:51:42.319 hoping that we will get there. I started seeing people 2876 02:51:42.840 --> 02:51:46.360 creating There's someone who used to work for Twitter. I 2877 02:51:46.440 --> 02:51:50.719 think it is created an app that doesn't require created 2878 02:51:50.840 --> 02:51:54.719 like a texting app. I think like a Twitter kind 2879 02:51:54.760 --> 02:51:56.440 of app that doesn't require. 2880 02:51:57.959 --> 02:51:58.399 Wi Fi. 2881 02:51:59.399 --> 02:52:02.280 And then I saw somewhere that they created that there's 2882 02:52:02.360 --> 02:52:04.639 like a phone that you can get now that doesn't 2883 02:52:05.239 --> 02:52:12.079 require you to put in your name. I believe. So 2884 02:52:12.639 --> 02:52:16.079 you know, all of these things, the surveillance, et cetera. 2885 02:52:16.399 --> 02:52:19.799 When we ask ourselves, how does it connect? It's all 2886 02:52:19.959 --> 02:52:23.680 about making all of our lives able to make money 2887 02:52:23.760 --> 02:52:28.040 from and they will surveil and use that surveillance in 2888 02:52:28.239 --> 02:52:33.360 order to do that. And they're just psychotic, greedy people. 2889 02:52:33.559 --> 02:52:36.920 Like it's not like it's anything even deeper than that. 2890 02:52:37.120 --> 02:52:41.159 These people are psychotic sociopaths who have been able to 2891 02:52:41.280 --> 02:52:44.639 amass wealth and hang out with each other and be pedophiles. 2892 02:52:47.920 --> 02:52:53.360 That's what we're dealing with. So you know, it's it's 2893 02:52:53.399 --> 02:52:58.399 a doozy, it really is. And I am hoping I'm 2894 02:52:58.479 --> 02:53:01.520 hoping to God that more of us continue to wake 2895 02:53:01.639 --> 02:53:07.360 up and challenge what is coming at us in more 2896 02:53:07.440 --> 02:53:09.879 innovative ways, because I got to tell you, sometimes I'm like, 2897 02:53:10.000 --> 02:53:14.399 I got nothing. I got nothing, But there's always somebody 2898 02:53:14.520 --> 02:53:15.559 out there who's like, well. 2899 02:53:15.479 --> 02:53:17.920 Now wait a minute, A man. 2900 02:53:23.079 --> 02:53:24.120 She as. 2901 02:53:31.840 --> 02:53:37.440 One of the things that keeps me saying, because that's 2902 02:53:37.479 --> 02:53:41.040 a question that I got in every stop on the black, 2903 02:53:41.120 --> 02:53:44.120 I mean, on the what the ancestors say to her 2904 02:53:44.440 --> 02:53:46.840 was people asking me what keeps you saying? 2905 02:53:46.920 --> 02:53:49.719 What keeps you saying? And I started really thinking. 2906 02:53:49.479 --> 02:53:51.799 About it, and I think once upon a time I 2907 02:53:51.840 --> 02:53:55.360 would have had so much more elaborate answers. And at 2908 02:53:55.399 --> 02:53:59.319 this point, what keeps me sane is literally going to 2909 02:53:59.479 --> 02:54:03.959 sleep and going outside. And also, and this is the 2910 02:54:04.040 --> 02:54:10.719 most important one, not expecting myself to be sane. Okay, 2911 02:54:12.000 --> 02:54:18.280 not expecting myself to be sane. Why would I be 2912 02:54:19.879 --> 02:54:30.680 like composed, like, why would I feel myself? Why would 2913 02:54:30.840 --> 02:54:38.479 I be like regular? No, this concept of sanity in 2914 02:54:38.639 --> 02:54:48.040 this United States, sanity is your ability to manage a 2915 02:54:48.200 --> 02:54:52.680 semblance of non reaction to whatever comes at you. That's 2916 02:54:52.680 --> 02:54:55.840 why people end up on xanax and all of these 2917 02:54:56.120 --> 02:54:59.399 in depressants that essentially, if you take a sho Hi 2918 02:54:59.440 --> 02:55:03.360 have adosin just give you no reaction to nothing. There 2919 02:55:03.520 --> 02:55:09.319 has to be there has to be a very real 2920 02:55:09.920 --> 02:55:13.399 connection to reality in order to actually have a true 2921 02:55:13.479 --> 02:55:18.120 human experience. And I find myself having let go of 2922 02:55:18.239 --> 02:55:22.520 this idea that I am insane for seeing things for 2923 02:55:22.639 --> 02:55:26.959 what they are, for having strong feelings, and for sometimes 2924 02:55:27.040 --> 02:55:34.479 being worn out, and so instead I have tools, and 2925 02:55:34.600 --> 02:55:39.440 my tools are sleep and nature, and nature involves my 2926 02:55:39.559 --> 02:55:42.239 animals because sometimes it's just too cold to go outside. 2927 02:55:43.159 --> 02:55:45.920 But that's really what it is, I mean. And we've 2928 02:55:45.959 --> 02:55:49.840 even seen the drugs affect our music, you know, Like 2929 02:55:49.959 --> 02:55:52.319 our driver to the airport the other day was playing 2930 02:55:52.680 --> 02:55:55.239 nineties R and B. And I think about now R 2931 02:55:55.280 --> 02:56:00.319 and B and it's like completely different. There's not even 2932 02:56:00.479 --> 02:56:06.280 any like dynamics to it. It's always so just the 2933 02:56:06.399 --> 02:56:11.600 same four notes. It sounds like xanax, same with rap. 2934 02:56:13.399 --> 02:56:16.280 I can't wait for music to. 2935 02:56:16.360 --> 02:56:17.639 Get sober again. 2936 02:56:19.319 --> 02:56:25.239 And to start being a reflection again of actual feelings. 2937 02:56:26.920 --> 02:56:28.319 Of the human existence. 2938 02:56:30.360 --> 02:56:36.600 And I want to see the digitization era not necessarily 2939 02:56:36.719 --> 02:56:39.959 have to continue. It doesn't have to necessarily be completely depleted, 2940 02:56:40.040 --> 02:56:43.680 but to be combined with the analog of our reality. 2941 02:56:46.040 --> 02:56:48.000 And I know that some people are like Amanda, you're 2942 02:56:48.000 --> 02:56:52.760 being picketty persnicity, and I'm really not, because music is 2943 02:56:52.840 --> 02:56:58.319 a genuine aspect of our like in tune with a 2944 02:56:58.440 --> 02:57:01.600 being in tune, you know, like the term in tune, 2945 02:57:03.440 --> 02:57:07.360 being in tune. You know, we have a heartbeat, and 2946 02:57:07.440 --> 02:57:10.000 when it's when it's not in rhythm, that's a problem. 2947 02:57:11.760 --> 02:57:14.600 That should let you know how powerful music is. The 2948 02:57:14.799 --> 02:57:19.520 earth has a heartbeat, like it has a literal heartbeat. 2949 02:57:21.159 --> 02:57:30.040 So if you don't acknowledge this reality, sorry, I had 2950 02:57:30.040 --> 02:57:31.879 to acknowledge this reality. 2951 02:57:39.680 --> 02:57:41.799 Oh my gosh, did you hear me? 2952 02:57:41.920 --> 02:57:47.760 The Mumba Park. If we don't acknowledge that reality, then 2953 02:57:48.280 --> 02:57:53.600 we are just completely disregarding how valuable this piece of 2954 02:57:53.719 --> 02:57:54.159 thing is. 2955 02:57:55.079 --> 02:57:57.120 So I. 2956 02:57:58.920 --> 02:58:05.639 Listen to music, I go outside, I engage with nature, 2957 02:58:06.440 --> 02:58:10.760 and I go to sleep. And out of all of 2958 02:58:10.840 --> 02:58:15.399 those things, the biggest thing is that I have a 2959 02:58:15.840 --> 02:58:22.920 very free concept of what I consider to be sanity. 2960 02:58:25.040 --> 02:58:26.600 And that's what keeps me saying. 2961 02:58:36.840 --> 02:58:42.200 Hey, come on now, we gonna close it out. 2962 02:59:05.159 --> 02:59:14.120 Shout out everyone hanging out. It's big, big, argues. 2963 02:59:17.040 --> 02:59:24.079 Joseph, a little worried when she said for office as 2964 02:59:24.159 --> 02:59:29.120 a solution, but when she said we can't vote our 2965 02:59:29.159 --> 02:59:29.799 way out of. 2966 02:59:29.920 --> 02:59:34.920 This, I came that dude and Bliss I said, show you. 2967 02:59:35.000 --> 02:59:40.360 Up, showing your up, showing you up, show you. 2968 02:59:41.840 --> 02:59:43.079 Show you up. 2969 02:59:47.239 --> 02:59:48.719 Yeah, yeah yeah. 2970 02:59:50.520 --> 02:59:54.639 Now I will be recording the audio book for what 2971 02:59:54.680 --> 02:59:58.639 would the Ancestors say tomorrow, looking for it to come 2972 02:59:58.680 --> 03:00:05.479 out in February. For all of my Patreon subscribers, run 2973 03:00:05.559 --> 03:00:09.840 and remind everybody that on Patreon you can if you sorry, 2974 03:00:09.840 --> 03:00:12.959 if you are a Patreon subscriber, then you can join 2975 03:00:13.079 --> 03:00:16.239 us for the after show kickback that goes down every Wednesday. 2976 03:00:16.319 --> 03:00:18.719 After the show, everyone gets up in the chat and 2977 03:00:18.799 --> 03:00:23.079 hangs out. Along with that, you also get access to 2978 03:00:23.280 --> 03:00:26.200 my content. You also get to be a part of 2979 03:00:26.280 --> 03:00:30.479 the Patreon book Club. You also get the opportunity to 2980 03:00:31.000 --> 03:00:34.680 be a part of unique, well basically exclusive lives that 2981 03:00:34.840 --> 03:00:37.639 I do. And I showed you the video earlier of 2982 03:00:37.680 --> 03:00:40.879 the book tour. All of the full length videos of 2983 03:00:40.959 --> 03:00:45.440 the book Tour are available on my Patreon all right. 2984 03:00:46.000 --> 03:00:49.559 The other thing that I am looking for is I 2985 03:00:49.719 --> 03:00:53.000 am looking to hire somebody who watches views for Amandoland, 2986 03:00:53.200 --> 03:00:57.239 but who can also edit clips for views for Amandoland 2987 03:00:57.319 --> 03:01:02.280 that can go on the interns and if you are 2988 03:01:02.399 --> 03:01:06.520 somebody who finds who thinks that that is something that 2989 03:01:06.719 --> 03:01:13.719 you are capable of doing, you should respond. I'm going 2990 03:01:13.799 --> 03:01:15.440 to put up a posting at some point, but just 2991 03:01:15.559 --> 03:01:17.360 know that I'm putting that out there in the world. Okay, 2992 03:01:17.399 --> 03:01:19.680 I'm putting that out there in the world. People in 2993 03:01:19.719 --> 03:01:21.680 the chat are talking about all the different things that 2994 03:01:21.760 --> 03:01:29.399 we actually do on the sorry in the Seal Squad 2995 03:01:29.760 --> 03:01:33.440 like share pictures of our pets, So hit. 2996 03:01:33.360 --> 03:01:34.079 The like button. 2997 03:01:34.680 --> 03:01:37.200 And for those of you all who are coming over 2998 03:01:37.479 --> 03:01:40.399 to the after show, I'm about to be over there shortly. 2999 03:01:40.840 --> 03:01:45.159 I want to send you all a happy December. It 3000 03:01:45.520 --> 03:01:48.360 is a crazy time in the world right now, and 3001 03:01:49.040 --> 03:01:52.200 I am not going to be doing Christmas this year, 3002 03:01:52.600 --> 03:01:55.479 but I wanted to know, Seal Squad, would you be 3003 03:01:55.680 --> 03:02:04.319 interested in having a in watching Sinners together on Christmas? 3004 03:02:06.559 --> 03:02:08.840 Would that be something that you're interested in, Seal Squad 3005 03:02:09.479 --> 03:02:14.559 in watching Sinners together on Christmas? Because that's something I'm 3006 03:02:14.799 --> 03:02:16.520 thinking of doing, and. 3007 03:02:20.000 --> 03:02:22.280 You know, we I've always said I was gonna do 3008 03:02:22.479 --> 03:02:23.799 a watch a watch. 3009 03:02:23.600 --> 03:02:28.319 With y'all, but I never did it about Sinners, and 3010 03:02:28.440 --> 03:02:30.479 so I feel like that's something. Okay, so y'all are 3011 03:02:30.520 --> 03:02:32.200 saying yes, you know, once I get my three yeses, 3012 03:02:32.200 --> 03:02:36.799 I'm gonna do it, So Brandon, basically, the way that 3013 03:02:36.920 --> 03:02:42.959 we would do it is I'm watching and pausing and 3014 03:02:43.159 --> 03:02:48.959 commenting and pausing and commenting. You can watch along and 3015 03:02:49.120 --> 03:02:51.719 pause and colm and pause and whatever if you want to. 3016 03:02:51.879 --> 03:02:55.520 But it really ends up being more like alive that 3017 03:02:55.719 --> 03:02:59.799 you are attending as I watch Sinners and give you commentary. 3018 03:03:00.319 --> 03:03:03.959 That's more kind of that's more the context of what it. 3019 03:03:04.079 --> 03:03:05.479 Is, all right, So. 3020 03:03:08.719 --> 03:03:11.600 That's gonna happen, all right, I'll do that on Christmas. 3021 03:03:12.520 --> 03:03:15.719 You guys, thank you for your support of what the 3022 03:03:15.799 --> 03:03:18.360 ancestor say. If you're enjoying the book. If you enjoyed 3023 03:03:18.399 --> 03:03:23.600 the book, please let me know and share with your 3024 03:03:23.639 --> 03:03:27.600 peoples and all the good things. Have a great rest 3025 03:03:27.680 --> 03:03:31.799 of your day, and I will see you all over 3026 03:03:32.600 --> 03:03:48.520 in the after show. Kick back, Shine you Shine, Let's 3027 03:03:48.520 --> 03:03:53.280 go to the beach. I would a second same name. 3028 03:04:31.520 --> 03:04:51.600 Amount amas amass anil amass anil am amins A Mail 3029 03:04:53.920 --> 03:04:53.959 B