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Speaker 3: So let's get into the headlines. Let's kick things off
Speaker 3: with the crime kingpin of America, Donald J.
Speaker 1: Trump.
Speaker 3: This guy, this guy man, he's got so many court
Speaker 3: cases going right now. His charge with stolen documents, election interference,
Speaker 3: porn star hush money, and of course kidnapping. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: here in New York. The charge is that he lied
Speaker 3: about his real estate business so he could get better
Speaker 3: bank deals and tax breaks. And because this is the
Speaker 3: Trump family business, the kids are also getting dragged in.
Speaker 4: The court tonight, the first of Donald Trump's children taking
Speaker 4: the stand as a witness in the civil fraud trial
Speaker 4: that could tear the family real estate business apart. Donald
Speaker 4: Trump Junior and his brother Eric, took control of the
Speaker 4: Trump organization when their father became president. Trump Junior described
Speaker 4: himself as just a real estate broker, and when asked
Speaker 4: if he was familiar with basic accounting practices or was
Speaker 4: a member of an accounting organization, he answered, sounds exciting,
Speaker 4: but no. Judge Arthur and Goren has already determined financial
Speaker 4: documents signed by Trump Junior fraudulently inflated what his father's
Speaker 4: net worth by as much as two billion dollars. Today,
Speaker 4: Trump Junior testified he wasn't really aware of what he
Speaker 4: was signing, saying, I leave it to my CPAs.
Speaker 3: Y'all think he's full of shit, right, Yeah, but that's
Speaker 3: because y'all are Trump hats, all right. I believe this man,
Speaker 3: I really do. Don Junior's defense is that he has
Speaker 3: no idea what's going on in his own company and
Speaker 3: doesn't even really understand business at all.
Speaker 5: Which seems right to me.
Speaker 3: Does anyone think this man is a criminal mastermind? The
Speaker 3: only fraud he's capable of is pretending a beard is
Speaker 3: a jawline, all right? And I know you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: so you think the Trump's just signed all these things
Speaker 3: without knowing what they said. Yeah, that's what everybody does.
Speaker 3: Every website you've ever been on has asked you to
Speaker 3: sign something and.
Speaker 5: You did it without reading it.
Speaker 3: Mark Zuckerberg might own all of our kidneys. All right, well,
Speaker 3: let's move on because for a long time now America
Speaker 3: has been struggling to overcome its racist past. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: the good news is we're just about done with all
Speaker 3: the big issues. Okay, all the big issues have been solved.
Speaker 3: All that's left is birds.
Speaker 6: The New York Times says birds in the Americas will
Speaker 6: no longer be named after people. The group responsible for
Speaker 6: standardizing English bird names says it will rename all species
Speaker 6: honoring people. It's being done to no longer pay tribute
Speaker 6: to those with racist pass such as John James Audubon,
Speaker 6: the famous bird illustrator, was a slave owner who opposed
Speaker 6: abolishing slavery.
Speaker 5: Yeah, racist, sit up for everybody. Again.
Speaker 3: We found out that some birds are named after slave owners.
Speaker 3: So now every bird's got to go down to the
Speaker 3: DMV and get a new ID. But you know what, Fine,
Speaker 3: let's get rid of the human bird names. And while
Speaker 3: we're at it, let's get rid of all the mean
Speaker 3: ones too. Everyone keeps reminding that ego that is bald.
Speaker 3: If Chris Rock can't say that to Jada, why do
Speaker 3: we say.
Speaker 5: It about our national bird?
Speaker 3: Cheat my eagle's name out of your freeing mouth. Finally,
Speaker 3: let's move on to George Santos, New York Congressman and
Speaker 3: faith to him.
Speaker 5: Chris Christy.
Speaker 3: Santos has been accused of lying and cheating everyone he's
Speaker 3: ever own out of money, and last night, Republicans in
Speaker 3: Congress finally had enough and held a vote to expel him.
Speaker 5: But the outcome was what you'd expect.
Speaker 7: Overnight, Congressman George Santos surviving a rare vote to oust
Speaker 7: him from Congress. Twenty four Republicans joining most Democrats to
Speaker 7: expel Santos, but the resolution falling far short of the
Speaker 7: two thirds majority.
Speaker 5: Needed to pass.
Speaker 7: Santos defiant I feel like you process is still alive.
Speaker 7: The push to expel Santos was put forward by his
Speaker 7: fellow New York Republicans, pointing to his lines about his background,
Speaker 7: from his education and work experience to his religion and
Speaker 7: family history. He even falsely claimed his mother was in
Speaker 7: the nine to eleven attacks. But even lawmakers who find
Speaker 7: all that concerning weren't expelling Santo's before his trial ends
Speaker 7: would set a dangerous precedent. Is there a scenario in
Speaker 7: which you would.
Speaker 5: Step down and resign?
Speaker 3: Look, man, we all know George Santos is full of shit, right,
Speaker 3: he'd be the first person in history to make a
Speaker 3: polygraph test.
Speaker 5: Go what though?
Speaker 3: But this is another example of how Republicans just don't care.
Speaker 3: Anybody else would flee in shame if they were caught
Speaker 3: doing half the stuff he did. But this dude is like,
Speaker 3: I ain't resigning. Prove my mama didn't personally jump out
Speaker 3: of the twin towers and land on Osama bin Laden's.
Speaker 5: Hey. For more on the vote that expelled.
Speaker 3: George Santos, we go Live to the Capitol.
Speaker 5: With Grace Couland Schmidt.
Speaker 3: Grace, Now, Grace, you gotta tell me how did George
Speaker 3: Santos survived?
Speaker 5: His vote?
Speaker 1: So inspirational?
Speaker 8: Right, He's overcome so much his crimes, his lies, his
Speaker 8: lies about his crimes, his crimes that involve lying.
Speaker 1: He's a savvah, his homes up.
Speaker 8: You get it.
Speaker 3: But Grace, the evidence is so clear, how did the
Speaker 3: House not both to expel him?
Speaker 1: Because it sets about precedent?
Speaker 8: Then they'd have to expel every congress person who commits
Speaker 8: a crime, and George Santos is hardly the only criminal
Speaker 8: in Congress. The only difference is that most other congress
Speaker 8: people are a little bit more discreet with their crimes
Speaker 8: and a lot more discreet with their homosexuality.
Speaker 5: Oh what, Grace.
Speaker 3: There's got to be a standard of behavior for our
Speaker 3: elected officials, right yeah.
Speaker 8: But at the same time, Santos makes everyone in Congress
Speaker 8: look better. Now, Lauren Bobert can say, hey, he's stile
Speaker 8: a veteran's dog's cancer money. Who cares if I dry
Speaker 8: cranked the guy at a musical Charlemagne. It's just good
Speaker 8: management to keep your dumbest employee around to make everyone
Speaker 8: else look better. That's what my manager at the GAP
Speaker 8: told me. I was basically unfireable. They had to keep
Speaker 8: me no matter how many mannequins I dry crank.
Speaker 3: Grace, Come on, please please stop saying dry crank. I'm
Speaker 3: just saying that we need to be able to take
Speaker 3: our representatives seriously.
Speaker 8: Oh hard disagree. We've got four hundred and thirty five
Speaker 8: congress people. That leaves room for at least one like
Speaker 8: joke congress person. You know, like how En Sync had
Speaker 8: Joey Fotone, a fat Italian guy and a boy band.
Speaker 8: Pretty funny, and think.
Speaker 5: I like Joey Fotone.
Speaker 3: But what happens if Santos is convicted of these alleged crimes?
Speaker 5: Don't have to expel him the right.
Speaker 8: Maybe, or maybe we should just let him cook and
Speaker 8: see what kind of new crimes he comes up with.
Speaker 8: I mean, he could steal his Amboni and demolish the
Speaker 8: cast of Disney on ice or launch an orphanage into space.
Speaker 8: Either way, everybody's having a good time except for the orphans.
Speaker 5: So are you saying we should take pleasure in this mess?
Speaker 8: Grace exactly comfortable, but let's try to enjoy it like
Speaker 8: getting drinkers.
Speaker 3: All right, that's enough, Grace coolss mean everybody, When we
Speaker 3: come back, we'll talk about how Joe Biden can stop
Speaker 3: dry cranking America.
Speaker 5: So don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3: Hi, welcome back to the Daily Show. I want you
Speaker 3: to imagine the future. The year is twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift is head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Mitch McConnell has been frozen for four hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: seven consecutive days, and Joe Biden is up for reelection
Speaker 3: against a twice impeached, convicted felon And even though the
Speaker 3: polls show a dead heat right now, Vice President Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris is feeling pretty confident.
Speaker 1: The Biden Harris ticket is running next. Connect with Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: Why are you not thirty points ahead.
Speaker 9: When the American people are able to take a close
Speaker 9: look at election time on their options. I think the
Speaker 9: choice is gonna be clear. Bill, We're gonna win. Let
Speaker 9: me just tell you that we're gonna win.
Speaker 5: Will you, Kamalo? Will you?
Speaker 3: Because I just took a poll of that man's face
Speaker 3: and it's not looking good. Regardless of what Kamala says.
Speaker 3: Democrats are clearly nervous about this election, and they should
Speaker 3: be because, Yeah, Biden has accomplished a lot historic investments
Speaker 3: in green energy, record breaking job growth, and he even
Speaker 3: got a black woman on the Supreme Court. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean with a six or three conservative majority, she's powerless there,
Speaker 3: but she at least got a free rope. But despite
Speaker 3: Biden's record as president, it's still close, which is a
Speaker 3: hell of a thing. You running against someone who has
Speaker 3: ninety one felony charges against them who you already meet,
Speaker 3: would be a pretty easy victory. So the question is
Speaker 3: how the actual is Joe Biden losing to Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: I have a theory and it's something I want to
Speaker 3: discuss more in to Night's long story short.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: When Joe Biden first ran for president in twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: it was a lot simpler.
Speaker 5: Campaigning is easy. Just make a bunch of promises.
Speaker 3: It's like when you're about to move into a new
Speaker 3: building and the landlord is all nice, promise and he'll
Speaker 3: fix this, paint that. But then you move in and
Speaker 3: he goes missing, like black news anchors on CNN.
Speaker 5: Now, I mean they're basically gone.
Speaker 3: But the point is, once you get the job, you
Speaker 3: actually have to follow through on those promises and whatever
Speaker 3: the reasons. Out of the ninety nine biggest promises Biden
Speaker 3: made the people, he's only following through on about thirty
Speaker 3: percent of them. That's a seventy percent rate of letting
Speaker 3: you down. You can't spit any game with those numbers.
Speaker 3: Hey girl, you want to come over, I promise that
Speaker 3: only seven times out of ten you'll leave unsatisfied. But
Speaker 3: the other three who is on There's some ladies that
Speaker 3: would take that deal right now.
Speaker 5: But yeah, Biden has let people down.
Speaker 3: He promised not to drill for oil in Alaska, now
Speaker 3: he's doing it. He said he would never build more
Speaker 3: border wall, but that's exactly what he's doing. And again,
Speaker 3: all presidents break promises.
Speaker 5: George H. W. Bush said no new taxes.
Speaker 3: Obama said he closed one time of mo after y'all
Speaker 3: said he'd take a stand for the working man, but
Speaker 3: he was in a wheelchair the whole time. America can
Speaker 3: forgive all that, but one thing America doesn't forgive is weakness.
Speaker 3: They want to see you fighting for your goals, and
Speaker 3: on some key issues, Biden seems to be waving the
Speaker 3: white flag.
Speaker 7: President Biden today is explaining why he thinks he had
Speaker 7: no choice but to approve new oil drilling in Alaska.
Speaker 10: My strong inclination was to disapprove of it across the board,
Speaker 10: but the advice I got from counsel was that if
Speaker 10: that were the case, may very well lose that case
Speaker 10: in court to the oil company. I have gone before
Speaker 10: extending my executive authority to do on my own anything
Speaker 10: about guns, and what do you do? So I can't
Speaker 10: do anything except plead with the Congress to act reasonably.
Speaker 9: President, specific about what you did to try to reappropriate
Speaker 9: those border funds, especially when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress.
Speaker 10: The wall thing, what you're talking about, Yeah, they passed. Well,
Speaker 10: I was told that I had no choice.
Speaker 3: I was told I have no choice. I was told
Speaker 3: I have no choice by who aren't you the president?
Speaker 3: If someone tells you no, just showed them a picture
Speaker 3: of a drone in the conversation. Well, see, that's why
Speaker 3: I think Biden loses so many people.
Speaker 5: He just looks weak. And I'm not talking about physically.
Speaker 3: People want to see that president going to the mat
Speaker 3: to get what he wants. And it doesn't help that
Speaker 3: anytime Biden does take a strong stand on something, his
Speaker 3: staff comes out to say he didn't mean it.
Speaker 1: The White House was back in cleanup mode over another
Speaker 1: round of confusing coins made by the President. Is the
Speaker 1: pandemic over? The pandemic is over?
Speaker 4: The White House rushed out to walk it back, saying
Speaker 4: the president's comments do not mark a change in policy
Speaker 4: toward the administration's handling of the virus.
Speaker 3: President Biden delivered a fiery speech in Warsaw, perhaps carried
Speaker 3: away by the moment Biden seemed to call for an
Speaker 3: end to Vladimir Putin's rule.
Speaker 10: For God's sake, this man cannot remain power.
Speaker 4: Secretary State Anthony blink and quickly walked back Biden's words.
Speaker 1: We do not have.
Speaker 2: A strategy of regime change in Russia or anywhere.
Speaker 1: Else for that matter.
Speaker 11: President Biden starting controversy over comments that he made about
Speaker 11: defending Taiwan.
Speaker 4: To be clear, Sir, US forces, US men and women
Speaker 4: would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.
Speaker 10: Yes, the White House that back almost immediately, saying our
Speaker 10: policy hasn't changed on Taiwan.
Speaker 3: God damn, It's amazing how often Joe Biden has to
Speaker 3: walk things back, considering he can barely walk forwards. So voters,
Speaker 3: especially progressive voters, have seen Biden give up or get
Speaker 3: over rude.
Speaker 5: To be fair of Biden, not on everything.
Speaker 3: Though, like student loan relief, the Supreme Court said he
Speaker 3: couldn't do it. But Biden's been finding ways because that's
Speaker 3: how much he cares about driving young people to vote
Speaker 3: for him. But on too many issues he's rolling over. Now,
Speaker 3: say what you will about Trump. You might not agree
Speaker 3: with any of his policies, but you've probably noticed.
Speaker 5: He fights for them.
Speaker 3: He even fights for the ones that are stupid as hell.
Speaker 11: Seeks toilets and showers.
Speaker 1: You don't get any water. I call my people, environmental people.
Speaker 1: Why are we doing this?
Speaker 5: Because when you wash your hands it takes you five
Speaker 5: times longer get to the.
Speaker 1: Water's I come, You got soap? You can't get it off.
Speaker 5: You go into this shower, right, you turn in the water, drip, drip.
Speaker 3: People are flushing toilets ten times, fifteen times.
Speaker 4: Ten times, right, ten times, bomb Bob, not me, of course,
Speaker 4: not me, but you yim.
Speaker 5: He's so dangerous but so entertaining.
Speaker 3: Trump's the only president to get his daily intelligence briefing
Speaker 3: from everyone.
Speaker 5: Poops.
Speaker 3: Okay, The point is that's why many people like Trump.
Speaker 5: He fights.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna let something like congressional red tape or
Speaker 3: judicial rulings or even the Constitution itself stop.
Speaker 5: Him from getting what he wants.
Speaker 3: The man fought to stay in power after he lost
Speaker 3: the election.
Speaker 1: Who does that? Gainst us?
Speaker 3: And America's got a thing for that, gainst the shit. Now,
Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, I don't want the president to
Speaker 3: break the law or stage a coup to get what
Speaker 3: he wants, but voters.
Speaker 5: Are attracted to strength.
Speaker 3: So long story short, if Biden and the Democrats want
Speaker 3: to retain power in the next election, stop telling us
Speaker 3: how much you are not like Trump, and maybe in
Speaker 3: this one way, just one way, start acting like gangsters,
Speaker 3: fight like hell on the things you care about instead
Speaker 3: of rolling over and throwing up your hands. America wants
Speaker 3: the president to fight for them the same way the
Speaker 3: Alabama Riverboat crew fights for each other. And if you
Speaker 3: don't understand that, the quote President Biden, you ain't black
Speaker 3: all right. When we come back, author Dug Melville will
Speaker 3: be joining me on the show Can Don't Go Anywhere.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: My guest tonight is an author whose new book is
Speaker 3: called Invisible Generals, rediscovering family legacy and a quest of
Speaker 3: honor America's first black generals. Please welcome Doug melvilleging.
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 9: And how you doing?
Speaker 5: Doug, my guy?
Speaker 1: How are we doing tonight? How's everything?
Speaker 5: Man? Blessed Black and Holly Favorite? How you feel right?
Speaker 1: I'm feeling just the same now.
Speaker 5: Invisible Generals.
Speaker 3: This book was partially inspired by You Going to See
Speaker 3: Redtails and you hated it.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 11: When I went to go see a screening for Redtails,
Speaker 11: the main character in the movie, who was played by
Speaker 11: Terrence Howard, is actually like the patriarch and center of
Speaker 11: our family. So when he came out and his name
Speaker 11: was changed, I got really upset about it. I went
Speaker 11: home and I talked to my dad about it, and
Speaker 11: he said, Doug, if you think changing the name in
Speaker 11: a movie is bad, let me tell you the family
Speaker 11: story to let you know how I lived, and then
Speaker 11: maybe you could see why that doesn't mean as much
Speaker 11: to me as it means to you. And he shared
Speaker 11: with me the family story of the Invisible Generals, and
Speaker 11: that's what was the impetus for me to write my book.
Speaker 5: Us tell Us Who the Invisible Generals Are.
Speaker 11: So the Invisible Generals are America's first two black generals,
Speaker 11: a father and a son, General Benjamin O'Davis Senior and
Speaker 11: General Benjamin O'Davis Junior, And these two men, at the
Speaker 11: start of World War Two, were the only two black
Speaker 11: officers in the whole United States military out of three
Speaker 11: hundred and thirty five thousand people, and they work together
Speaker 11: to help desegregate the military, create the Tusky Airmen and
Speaker 11: so many more things. But their story had never been told,
Speaker 11: and it was my passion to go out and write it.
Speaker 5: That's right, going back to Redtails.
Speaker 3: Plus second, why do you think a lot of military
Speaker 3: moves struggle with getting history right?
Speaker 11: I think the challenge with Red Tales is that when
Speaker 11: people look at it, they feel that it's true American history,
Speaker 11: but it's actually just the facade of that. It actually
Speaker 11: is an amalgamation of the stories. And not paying the
Speaker 11: families and using different fictional names allows you to have
Speaker 11: a little bit more with the storytelling, But then the
Speaker 11: families feel a certain way because this is how people
Speaker 11: recognize the story. Yet the families aren't compensated, and the
Speaker 11: stories that are actually happening are never really told.
Speaker 5: So just a way to not pay y'all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a way to not pay us.
Speaker 3: Did George Lucas or the writer interview you other family
Speaker 3: members when crafting the story.
Speaker 11: No, some other Tuskegee Airmen were contacted, but my family
Speaker 11: in particular was not contact, which I thought, you know,
Speaker 11: as the commander and the creators of the Tuskegee Airmen,
Speaker 11: I thought that there would be a little bit more,
Speaker 11: you know, effort to go reach out to the family,
Speaker 11: but that wasn't the case in this movie.
Speaker 3: Why do you think Hollywood likes to gloss over the
Speaker 3: real stories of African Americans in the military. Like, don't
Speaker 3: get me wrong, I love movies like Major Pain, but
Speaker 3: I'm sure it was like I'm sure it's like a
Speaker 3: real black major story.
Speaker 5: That was ignored.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think the biggest challenge with this is I
Speaker 11: think the people that are the decision makers have a
Speaker 11: certain narrative or a certain formula that.
Speaker 1: Works really well for them.
Speaker 11: But if you ask me, the story of the Tuskegee
Speaker 11: Airmen and particularly the Invisible Generals, is one of the
Speaker 11: greatest American stories ever told. And I think we have
Speaker 11: to encourage people to go out and actually get their
Speaker 11: own family stories and talk to the individuals on the
Speaker 11: couch and say, tell me what happened, and then also
Speaker 11: take the effort to write the narrative.
Speaker 1: Because whoever writes.
Speaker 11: The narrative or photographs the narrative owns the copyright. So
Speaker 11: if it's not the family learning And this is what
Speaker 11: I want to tell all veterans and all family of veterans,
Speaker 11: your story is in the public domain. You don't actually
Speaker 11: control it or own it. If a journalist tells it
Speaker 11: what writes it, they take control of the narrative. So
Speaker 11: it was important for me as a family member to say,
Speaker 11: I am going to take control of this narrative and
Speaker 11: I am going to write it so the actual words
Speaker 11: in history that happened can be told in an accurate way.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: A lot of people, a lot of people think movies
Speaker 3: and books like this glorify war, But how do the
Speaker 3: stories of veterans do the opposite.
Speaker 11: Actually, the stories of veterans are really stories of leadership
Speaker 11: and stories of the United States of America. I think
Speaker 11: we need to look more as what defines an American,
Speaker 11: not always chop it up into different subsets, but actually
Speaker 11: look at these as American stories, and then I think
Speaker 11: when we have that set, then we can look at
Speaker 11: these stories as a way to unify. I think leadership
Speaker 11: is an important quality that all veterans have, and many
Speaker 11: veterans go on to work in the private sector, but
Speaker 11: we don't talk about their military service. You know, Coach
Speaker 11: k graduated from West Point, but you think of him
Speaker 11: as the coach of Duke basketball.
Speaker 1: You don't look at him as a veteran and.
Speaker 3: Why he learned how to be such a disciplinarian.
Speaker 11: Exactly, and that's why his leadership was taken from what
Speaker 11: he learned at the academy. So it's important to realize
Speaker 11: a lot of veterans aren't, you know, walking around and fatigues.
Speaker 11: They're actually everyday people, CEOs, people that spent time supporting
Speaker 11: their country and now is their opportunity to do it
Speaker 11: in the private sector.
Speaker 3: In the book, you tell the story of getting west
Speaker 3: Point the name in New Barracks after your great uncle Ben,
Speaker 3: and that happened around the same time people started tearing
Speaker 3: down Confederate statues. Do you think that movement had an
Speaker 3: impact on getting the military to honor it.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 11: I actually think that was a very unique moment in
Speaker 11: time where there was a lot of statues coming down,
Speaker 11: particularly of Lee. So that was the person who was
Speaker 11: kind of the center point of it, Robert E.
Speaker 1: Lee.
Speaker 5: And they knew you weren't talking about Lee Daniels.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Robertie Lee, Yeah.
Speaker 11: Lee Daniels, Yeah, of course, but Roberty Lee had the
Speaker 11: statues and this was a unique opportunity because West Point
Speaker 11: at that time and had nothing named after a black graduate.
Speaker 11: So this was a chance for them to They were
Speaker 11: building their biggest largest barrack. There was three names up
Speaker 11: for consideration, and when I went and told them the
Speaker 11: story of the Invisible Generals as I had researched it,
Speaker 11: they named the building after him. And it's the largest
Speaker 11: barracks on the middle center of the West Point Cowege.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 5: Now this is interesting.
Speaker 3: After your grandfather serves, he worked for the Department of
Speaker 3: Transportation and.
Speaker 5: He basically created the speed limit.
Speaker 11: Yeah so yeah, yeah, so actually this is a great story.
Speaker 11: So after he left the military in nineteen seventy, he
Speaker 11: worked for the Department of Transportation and in that role
Speaker 11: he created the TSA what became the TSA Airport security.
Speaker 11: He created the United States Air Marshall Program to keep
Speaker 11: the sky safe, and he was so successful that they
Speaker 11: asked him to do it for transportation, not aviation, and
Speaker 11: that's where he led the creation of the fifty five
Speaker 11: mile an hour speed limit. So these were all created
Speaker 11: by one guy, and we don't even know who he is.
Speaker 11: Is impossible for me to comprehend.
Speaker 3: The speed limit and the TSA. Yeah, well, what is
Speaker 3: now known as the TSA, what is it? All back then,
Speaker 3: did they have.
Speaker 5: A name for it?
Speaker 1: Security?
Speaker 3: Should they be more outreach the servicemen and women of
Speaker 3: color now they encourage them to write and tell their
Speaker 3: own stories to make sure their stories are at lost.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think every single veteran, and even if you're
Speaker 11: not a veteran, if there's a veteran in your family,
Speaker 11: or even if you have someone in your couch who
Speaker 11: wasn't serving but lived a really different life, we should
Speaker 11: go and ask our ancestors and our relatives. You know,
Speaker 11: what did you go through and what are their stories?
Speaker 11: Legacy is so important. We are driven by the generational
Speaker 11: collateral that our families laid out before us, but we
Speaker 11: don't even know what that is. The greatest stories in
Speaker 11: America are sitting on our couches. The greatest stories in
Speaker 11: America could be from families the veterans I didn't serve.
Speaker 11: But it's so important that we take this time because
Speaker 11: we only have so much time, and we take the
Speaker 11: stories from our family. We own the stories from our family,
Speaker 11: and we put them down on paper so our legacy
Speaker 11: can be preserved in an accurate way.
Speaker 5: What you're saying is so true, man, and you make
Speaker 5: me think like.
Speaker 3: You make me think that, sadly, a lot of our
Speaker 3: great stories are you know, homeless, you know, sitting on
Speaker 3: the corner of our stories asking us for change while
Speaker 3: they're holding up a sign telling us that they fought
Speaker 3: in the war, which pisses me off.
Speaker 5: I hate out his country treats his veterans man.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and we could do a lot more for the veterans.
Speaker 11: And it's everyday things, you know, going to read to veterans,
Speaker 11: donating time, but also money grants. There's so many things
Speaker 11: we could do, but it starts with first knowing your
Speaker 11: legacy and knowing the stories of the people in your
Speaker 11: living room, and then going ahead and saying, how can
Speaker 11: I now take my generational collateral and add to the
Speaker 11: narrative and help others like they helped us.
Speaker 5: Oh, let's expound on that. Just a little Veterans Day
Speaker 5: is coming up.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 11: Veterans Day comes to eleven eleven, yep, eleven eleven, at
Speaker 11: one to eleven.
Speaker 3: How do you think we could best memorialize and celebrate
Speaker 3: these heroes?
Speaker 11: I think the best thing we can do for Veterans
Speaker 11: Day to start off, visit a museum, Go support a VA,
Speaker 11: go to a VFW, which is a veteran a foreign
Speaker 11: war or out post. Do something that you can do
Speaker 11: to lend a helping hand. If you don't have the money,
Speaker 11: dedicate your time. If you don't have the time, let
Speaker 11: your staff off so they can spend their time.
Speaker 1: But there's always something more.
Speaker 11: We can do, and it's the least we can do
Speaker 11: for people who fought for the United States of America.
Speaker 1: That's right, Man.
Speaker 5: Man Invisible Generals. Full disclosure.
Speaker 3: I have a book in print called Black Privileged Publishing
Speaker 3: with Simon and Schusta, and I'm happy to help Doug
Speaker 3: Melville tell this story. So it comes out November seventh,
Speaker 3: and it's available to pre order now.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna take a strict break. O's right back
Speaker 5: after this.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Gos.
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