WEBVTT - Yvette Nicole Brown 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.040 The Craig Ferguson Fancy Rascals Stand Up Tour continues throughout 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:07.320 twenty twenty four. For a full list of dates and tickets, 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.560 go to the Craig Ferguson show dot com slash tour. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.680 See you out there, the Greig Ferguson show dot com 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:19.040 slash Tour. My name is Craig Ferguson. The name of 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:23.800 this podcast is Joy. I talk to interest in people 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:31.240 about what brings them happiness. Vetnico Brown is pure class. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.200 She's been my friend for a long time. She's a 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.519 very good actress. She's a very serious person, and she's 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.360 also a very funny person. It's a very interesting combination, 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:41.080 is she is? 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:50.800 I miss our time? 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:52.960 Well, you know what, We're going to take care of 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.320 that right now. Somebody's gonna bring coffee though, So you're 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:56.120 gonna bring coffee? 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.440 Oh yes, please, I'll take one too, now that you 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:00.880 talk about it. Yes, I got a lot to do today, right. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.680 But we can start. But we can start before the 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:07.679 coffee gets sure, that's fine. Do you know what? Why 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:09.720 are you wearing a mask? Because Vet was wearing a mask, 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.080 worn a mask in two days? 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:12.480 Now? Are you wearing a nice. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:15.520 You want me to wear a mask? 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:17.039 How, No, you can't do all we're on the radio. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.000 See how kind it was of him to just want 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:20.720 to do that for me. 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.680 They're nice guys. I'm just I just didn't know if 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.440 there was a reason that he thought it's. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.640 A nice podcast situation in here too? You know, is 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:29.440 this your studio? 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:34.600 I own this whole buildings laughing because I just told 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.440 you it's believable. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.000 Yeah, but he would be shipped poker, and I. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.039 Wish it was. Yeah, he giggled. He giggled. Why too fast? 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:42.680 He giggled. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:44.760 He was like, because I do you think that I 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.560 could own a whole building in Hollywood? 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:47.640 Absolutely? Do you know what? 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.160 I would call it the vent? Yeah? 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.000 And you know why because I would want it to 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.920 be like the auditorium in your old high school, which 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:01.320 I have to say, congratulations. I can't believe you had 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.559 the auditorium in your own high school named after because 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.360 Cenio hallway to your high school. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.079 And he did. And I think if it's a Cenial Hall, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.239 you know what you have just made me feel like 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.760 I need to rescind the offer. I'm going next week 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.600 to get the honor and graduation thank you. No, it's 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.960 really it's honestly, I joke about it, but it is 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.280 like an oscar to me because I love my hometown 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.360 and Warnswell Heights High School by the way, and our 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.760 Sidney and I both graduated from there. He's got a 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.080 few years on me, a couple of years on me, 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.160 and he was in the Hall of Fame of my 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:31.519 high school when I was a kid, and so I 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.400 would walk by and see our city hall and dream 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.840 of one day making it to where he was. And 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.919 now I'm friends with him, and now the auditorium is 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.720 going to be named for He's one of the best 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:41.720 human beings I know. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.480 I did some gigs with him and Jaylan during the summer. 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.000 We did some casino gigs together, and he's just great. 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.280 He's just decent, you know how when you meet people. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.200 That's the word that I would use for him. He 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.000 actually he doesn't get credit for this. He also has 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.520 a hand in me finally meeting Jana Jackson. So I've 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.400 been trying to meet Jana Jackson for so long, and 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.560 finally I was like, who do I know that Gudner 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.079 And I'm like, Enione knows everybody. So I reached out 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:05.919 to him, and he said, I'm going to reach out 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.359 to Johnny. It became like a what do you call it? 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.120 A game of telephone? Evet Our Senior called Johnny, Johnny 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.200 called Janet and it all kind of came together where 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:13.960 they helped me. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:15.799 So now you and jen and Jackson hang out. 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:17.800 I believe we're friends. Now you have to ask Janet 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:18.480 if it's true. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.360 I would ask her, but I can't get to get 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.600 in touch with our stdeo and he's going to Yeah. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:25.600 It works, it's a it's a good way. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.400 But listen, the school you went to. You you're from Cleveland, right, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:29.840 That's why I think of you as from Cleveland. 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.560 I am from born in East Cleveland, graduated from Warrenswell Heights, 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.720 which is like a suburb of East Cleveland or suburb. 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:35.680 Of clic Is it near Akron? 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:37.880 Akron is about thirty or forty minutes away, which is 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:38.640 where I went to college. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.280 Because I knew there was a connection with you with Akron, 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.920 because you know that Alcoholics Anonymous started in that. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.680 I did not know that. Yeah, I know Akron for 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.680 my college. Yeah Zippers, which they are known for rubber. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.480 Yeah, rubber tho all the tire factories used to be right, 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.440 that's right, and Lebron James and Lebron James. 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:58.440 He's not in your high. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:03:59.880 School, you know, he's I wish I was his a 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:01.800 I've got him by good twelve years, I think. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.360 Now let me ask you this. In the Hall of 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.240 Fame at your high school, yes, you obviously, or senior 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.760 hall who's not got the hall named after him, which 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:14.000 I still think is a serious man problem. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:16.120 But who else is in the Hall of fame? Is 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.039 there anything else? I would know? 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.760 Brad Cellars okay, I'm not familiar with basketball. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:21.040 Player, okay. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.800 And also I think he's currently our mayor. I think 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.320 Brad is currently still our mayor of Warrensville. And then 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.160 a lot of like city dignitaries and pastors and you know, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.520 people like that, people that have made their name for themselves. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.480 It was like a very kind of good school. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:34.400 It is a good school. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:35.719 Was it a good experience growing up? 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.440 It was? You know, I'm a nerd though, like I 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.919 love I love school, So my school experience I was 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.200 like front row center nerd, that kind of thing. I 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.919 did all the extra curriculars. I was drama and the 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.320 band and quiet you know, so that school was great 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.719 for me. East Cleveland is a great place to be 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.080 from because it's the hood. Yeah, and it teaches you, 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.960 you know, how to survive in life. I think that 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.599 I'm able to make it in la and in this 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.440 industry because I was born bred and East Cleveland it's swamish. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.239 What does that look like in terms of the hood? 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.000 It is like was there a drug crime? 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:09.400 Was there? Is that what it was? 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:09.560 At? 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:15.120 Your drugs? Violence? You know a little bit of lawlessness. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.640 You know, listen, people people have free time and not 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.520 enough opportunities. And when you when you when that's the situation, 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.159 sometimes you you don't make the best decisions. And also, 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.240 you know, we can talk about systemic racism and all 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.359 the other things that cause something to be considered a 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.520 hood and why people can't get out or why they 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.400 can't make make it better for themselves. I never blame 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.560 the people because it's their circumstances that put us in 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:38.560 the communities brand. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.560 Every person is a different stories. Absolutely. I think that 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:43.040 one of the things. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.960 That I have a kind of I got annoyed about 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.480 and as I get older, there's a lot of them. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.760 Most of them are people on my loan but on 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.640 my hip. But one of the things I get annoyed 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.599 about is when is when you take a group of people, 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.360 no matter who they are, and you just say this 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.760 is what these people are, Like, I see. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.440 That's not it. That's not gonna help. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:04.039 It's not it. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:08.120 And I mean I come from a lively area in 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:12.080 Scotland and Scotland and it wasn't race because you know, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.479 everyone was. There were people of other races, but it 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.320 was like ninety eight percent. Wow, something like that, you know, 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.680 and so violence if you were from a different race. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:24.760 I can't speak to that experience because I didn't grow 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.200 up with that. But but mostly what I encountered was 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.719 sectarian violence based on religion. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:32.680 Wow. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.520 So it was Catholics and Protestants absolutely absolutely, and it 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.240 was it. It feels to me that sometimes humans, when 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.880 they've got nothing else to do, they pick a side. 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.919 It's always a free time issue, right yeah, Because I 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.720 think about the you know, the term Karens, like all 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.320 the all the white women that are apparently deputized to 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.000 stop black people from living. They don't have any real problems, 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:56.800 they don't have any real problems, they don't have any 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.599 real issues. And that's why they're looking out their window, 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.400 going why is that person standing on the street. If 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.200 you are trying to pay your bills and raise your 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.640 kids and not die by police violence as a black person, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:08.360 you don't have time to look out and see what 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.680 somebody on the street is doing. You're just literally trying 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:11.320 to survive. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:15.080 You are as a person clearly right now, and I 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.960 know this about you anyway. You are concerned with civic Absolutely. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.480 Do you think there is a world in which you 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:23.640 run for office? 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.640 Oh, Craig, you know it's funny. Before twenty sixteen, I 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.480 would have said absolutely not, because I thought you had 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:36.920 to be smarter, better, all of those things. I mean Now, 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.200 after Donald Trump alone, after Donald Trump and all the 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.360 nonsense going on in Congress right now, and McCarthy and 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.960 Matt Gates, I'm seeing so many people that are making 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.440 decisions for all of us that are not decent human beings. 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.480 And the idea that people that only care about people 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.560 that look like them, or love like them or think 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.960 like them are deciding what happens to the rest of 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.760 us that are not like them scares me. So now 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.640 I'm saying, I don't know, like there might be. 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.160 Should I think you should. Now here's here's why I 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.720 think you should. Here's why because I sense your reluctance. Yes, 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:16.760 and that to me is a qualifying mark for a politician. 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.920 If you're reluctant to run for office, right yeah, and 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.720 you probably and also you care, I do you know? 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.280 And if you care, but you're reluctant to get in 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.400 the fight. But you can't see anyway again, Now, the 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:34.480 fact that's the hero's journey right there, that's like you know, 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.040 that's that's Joseph Campbell right there. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:38.559 That's why you've been the call to. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:39.400 Action to action. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.880 Yeah, I'm and I'm here right now to say I'm 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.240 one of the gatekeepers. I'm one of the I'm one 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.640 of the you know, the information givers. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.079 Yes, and I'm saying I think it might be time. 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.080 It might be I you know, I'm at a crossroads 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.320 in my life. I just just I'm in my fifties now. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.880 And first of all, I don't believe that I am 0:08:57.920 --> 0:08:59.960 fifty two years old, just fifty moisturized. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:04.400 I believe in hydration, I guess, thank you any but yeah, 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.720 so I'm at the age where you're starting to go, okay, well, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:08.760 I'll probably have more runway behind me than in front 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.280 of me, and so you start to look at what's 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:12.840 the right So what do I want to do? Like, 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.880 what is what's my legacy? Because I I'm not married yet, 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.679 I have a sweetie and I'm hoping it's going that way, 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.319 but I didn't have kids, so I don't have the 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.599 the family legacy to say these are the this is 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.520 the flag I'm putting down because these humans I helped 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.520 put in the world. So now it becomes what how 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.520 do I leave a legacy in another way? I believe 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.280 I hope one of the ways is kindness. I hope 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.480 that my calling card is kindness and when people are 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.199 around me or leave my presence there better. I do 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.520 believe that that that is one of the things I 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.120 hope that I'll be known for when I leave here. 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.560 But aside from that, you know, what did I do 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.840 that changed the trajectory of this world in a good way? 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.360 Because a lot of people want want to make a 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.640 what's that saying? It says somebody people want to make 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.320 a name for themselves, make a mark so bad they 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.760 don't care if it's a stain that is. I don't 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:01.480 know who said that quote, but that has always stuck 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.520 with me. And I think in this industry in particular, 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:08.200 people are so determined to be somebody, they don't care 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:09.200 what they're. 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:10.559 Somebody, but then somebody is. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.440 They don't care if they're hurting people, they don't care 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.480 if they're lying to people. And we noticed that in 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.760 what happened, you know, recently with the Congress. You know, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.520 McCarthy wanted to get in because he wanted to be speaker. 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:23.679 He didn't want to be speaker because he wanted to 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.440 do good. He didn't want to be speaker so that 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.679 he could change people's lives to the better. He wanted 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.720 to be speaker because of the clout and the power 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:31.839 that would come from him being second in the line 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:32.439 of succession. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.400 Do you think that he wanted those things when he 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:36.720 started as a young and. 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:42.160 You know, I would like to hold but. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.239 He has fallen so far from what I think decency 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.200 is that I have to believe that he didn't, that 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.800 he was never on the path to be a decent person, 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.360 because in my mind, even if you start, if you 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.959 started out decent and he had fallen on the wayside, 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:58.960 as soon as you get that gavel and you realize 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.559 the weight of it. If the President and vice president 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.640 pass away, I'm in charge of this entire country, and 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.640 I can show how I will govern based on how 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.839 I handle these four hundred people that I'm the leader 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.600 of here. And if you have that responsibility in your 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.760 hand and you squander it and you lie and you 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.400 stab people in the back, and you make promises that 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.520 you don't keep, that tells me you could not have 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:23.520 started it from a decent space. 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.040 Look, just to play Devil's advocate, because we're not talking 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:27.920 about an individual, Yes, I have a lot of time 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.720 for but let me be the other site to do 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:36.800 it and say that, isn't everyone in that world a liar? 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.640 Isn't everyone in that world super ambitious? 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:40.440 Everyone? 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.280 I mean, it seems to me a lot of people 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.280 have made promises that they didn't keep on both sides. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:46.320 Of the hut. 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:46.600 Yeah. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.319 I got to say this though, And to be fair, 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.040 politics is difficult and there are a lot of things 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.240 that you run on that you want to do right. 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.520 Like people are upset with Joe Biden because he had 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.000 all these things he wanted to do that he couldn't 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.600 get through. They're forgetting that how civics were the Congress 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:03.640 has the power of the purse, which means they get 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.800 to decide what becomes a bill, and then the Senate 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.440 House decides becomes a bill. The Senate decides whether it 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.440 goes to the president, and then the president gets just 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.360 the bill. Yes, the school house walk, everybody listened to it. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.200 If you need to know how civics worked. So President 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:18.960 Biden can say I want to do this, this, and this, 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:20.800 but if he does not have the votes, because in 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.960 this situation there were two Democrats that kept voting with 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.400 the Republicans, which means he did not have the first 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.480 part of his administration, he didn't have the numbers. So 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.560 you have to understand that, yes he promised it, and 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.720 yes he didn't deliver it, but you got to ask yourself, 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.920 did he lie or was he thwarted? 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:37.160 Well, here's what. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:38.679 I would say to you, and then I'm going to 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.040 move you gently away from from politics. 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:42.360 You got us here. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.679 No, no, I know, and I genuinely want to hear 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:49.560 about it. But if you promise something that you know 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.920 that you cant one hundred percent deliver, should you fast 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.640 to that while you make the promise? 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.960 Absolutely, But I don't know that the ones that aren't delivering. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:12:59.920 I don't believe I guess I don't believe that the 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.000 statement that all of them are duplicitous. I don't believe 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.120 that they're going in going What can I say? 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.640 You're right? I think you're right. Yeah, I think. 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.520 Things happen, and I think sometimes you have to make 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.600 good with one person to try to get further down 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.720 the road on something else that matters. So I think 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.120 there's a lot of that going on to it. I 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:17.559 don't think it's black and white, but I think there's 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.720 a difference between choosing to be a horrible person, choosing 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.120 power over people, and then having to make decisions to 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.560 make greater change later. 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:29.440 I like the idea of you can be a good 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:33.200 person or a horrible person, but I think it seems 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:37.240 to me as I observe, you know, inaccurately. I'm sure 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.520 a lot of the time the human race that very 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.240 few people will admit to be in the villain of 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.120 their own story. So if someone is a horrible person, 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.559 like you'll always find someone that. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.480 Will back you up. Like Hitler had a girlfriend, he did, 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:52.800 you know. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:58.160 I mean, it's like it's not not that's you know, 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.680 there's always someone that will say now you're right, or 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.120 do you lose sight of things like if if somebody, 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.200 if you find yourself in an ethical dilemma. 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.559 Let let's say it's it's twenty thirty. 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.880 Four, Benicle Brown and Speaker of the House, the president 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.240 and the Vice president sadly get a terrible dose of 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:19.440 the Trots off and now you're president of the United States. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.120 He died from the trucks truts. Yeah it's the Trotsky Trust. 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.600 Yeah they got they got very very bad pooperia. They 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:28.640 go pooperia. 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:29.320 Uh. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.800 And I think I think there may be an old 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.360 law that you're not allowed to talk about the president, you. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:36.040 Know, dying. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.080 Is it really Are we in trouble right now? 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:38.640 Well? 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.680 No, because it's a hypothetical president in the future. We 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.080 said pooperia of the Trots. We did, so it's not 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:48.280 like we're that's right, right. But anyway, anyway, I don't think. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:49.960 We're in trouble. But what I'm saying, I'm not you 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:56.480 said someone saying you right. 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.680 So now you're the president of the United States. Now 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:03.360 you can do some things and you can't do other things. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.840 And the country is a similar state. That's what do 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:08.840 you choose? What is your first option. What do you 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:10.400 think this is the first thing we've got to get 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:11.240 done right now. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:12.880 First thing we would have to get done is vot 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:14.040 voting rights. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:15.000 Yeah, and. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.560 Probably the second thing, no matter how I got in office, 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.640 I would get rid of the electoral college. I think 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.960 one vote. Everybody should get one vote, and your vote 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.320 should the person who gets the most votes should be president, period. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.760 And then that takes away all the shenanigans you Then 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.120 you have to campaign in every state. You can't just 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.160 pick the three or four of that. And I think 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.080 everyone should get to meet you and kick the tires 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:37.600 and find out what you're really about. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:38.400 So those are two things. 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.360 I don't think that there's any really I mean, I 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.360 think that's a rational thing, right, But let's let's look 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.240 at democracy a little bit, because it's brutal. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:47.760 Let's do it. 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.920 Democracy is a very brutal system. 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.560 It is, you know, if it is the majority want 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:57.400 a thing, and if that thing is hateful and the 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.400 majority want it, then democracy wants a hateful thing. Is 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.720 not inherently there's no inherent goodness to it. I mean, 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.920 it's better than anything else we have light a run, 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.280 but it's not feel proof. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.680 Well, Listen, There's been a few times in my life 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.520 as a voter that the person I wanted to win 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.720 did not win. It sucks, but I accepted it. So 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.920 it's not so much that you have to get everything 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.000 you want every time. You just want a shot at 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.840 getting what you want. That's what democracy is. I'm going 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:28.040 to go out and I'm going to vote, and I 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.720 hope that enough people think like me and this person 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.080 or this this thing can get in right and then 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:38.520 if it doesn't, most people, barring the orange thing, accept 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.080 it and they say I lost and it sucks, but 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.320 I'm going to now get behind the person that one 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.000 or the issue that one, and I'm going to support it. 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.080 So I think we're broken right now because now we 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.000 say yeah, we say that, yeah, and it's angry, but yeah. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:55.720 But the thing is, if we get back to I 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.120 am my brother and sister's keeper, I think we lost that. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.960 If we get back to thinking like that. I say 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:02.360 this all the time when I talk about politics, and 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.080 then we can't move on after this. I don't have 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.600 any kids, right, but if there's a school board issue 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.080 on the on the ballot, I vote for it because 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.520 I want other people's kids to have what they need. 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.879 There are future You're not a month. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:15.680 Absolutely no. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.320 But there's some people that are like, if I don't 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.080 have kids, why am I voting for a better schools? 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:20.800