1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Calls media. 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 2: Briah, dang homie. This is a lot. 3 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: I can't take credit for this because I heard it 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 1: on the Slate Political gab Fest, which is a podcast 5 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: I highly recommend and is oftentimes resource for me as 6 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: I process all of these things. But they have this 7 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: show every year called The Conundrum Show where it's people 8 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: kind of call in. I mean, it is remarkably white, 9 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: but my white card is strong. I can I know 10 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: who Jeff Tweety is anyway. It's one that I've used 11 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,639 Speaker 1: oftentimes as like my favorite sort of like icebreaker or 12 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: just yeah, just like a silly question to ask one 13 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: of it is and it's a two parter. It's what's 14 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: the worst thing you love? And then what's the best 15 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: thing you hate? And I love it like it's it's 16 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: such a great little like starter and hearing the different 17 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: answers some people say, like the worst thing they love 18 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 1: is like Kanye West, like his music where you're just 19 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: like I he is the worst, but dangn when he's on, 20 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: he's on. For me, it's harsh, like chemical cleaning products, 21 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: like I feel like you need to feel dizzy when 22 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: you clean the bathroom, like you should have accidentally made 23 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: nerve gas, like mix autumn chemicals together. I'd like, that 24 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: is the worst thing I love. Like, I love really 25 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: harsh cleaning products, all the microplastic chemicals, like a one 26 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: eighth delusion of chlorox got clean this mug. 27 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 2: Nothing should survive. 28 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: And then the best thing I hate is generally like 29 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: when people have good boundaries, like around their phone, like 30 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: if I text you, text me back, like if I 31 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 1: call you, like answer my call. 32 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 2: It's just it'd be doing something to me. 33 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: When people have good boundaries around listen, I'll respond when 34 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: I'm ready to respond, I'd be like, but but I'm important. 35 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: That's the best thing I hate, because I know it's 36 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: the best thing to have boundaries. But one thing my homeboy, 37 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: Jay Gibbons said, which really is the reason why I 38 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: bring this up, is Jay Gibbons. I just call him 39 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: the Designated Shooter, an incredible rapper. He works for reach LA, 40 00:02:54,320 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: which is a LGBTQ and queer advocacy a nonprofit in 41 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I am a part of Jay's coming out story, 42 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: like that's one of my closest friends. 43 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 2: But one thing he said, he. 44 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: Said, the the worst thing he loves is male privilege. 45 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: He was like, I know, this is terrible, and he's 46 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: saying this as a gay man. So he's just like, no, 47 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: I'm still I'm sis, I'm cisgendered, you know what I'm saying. 48 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: I'm just I just happen to be I just happen 49 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: to be homosexual. 50 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 2: But like. 51 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: The privilege I have, He's like, I'm a black man. No, 52 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: I get it, but the but the there are things 53 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: that just come to me that I know are because 54 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: of patriarchy. This is the worst thing, but it's I 55 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: hate to admit it, but like sometimes it's good. 56 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 2: Like and you can say this. 57 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: As a black man too, in in in senses that 58 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: we gotta find somewhere where we gotta where we gotta 59 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: live up. And he is a black gay man, so 60 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: like the intersections of suffering and oppression this my brother 61 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: experiences is very real. So he's like, yeah, dude, it's 62 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: it's male privilege. That's that's probably the worst thing. I love, 63 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: which brings me to the privilege that I am going 64 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: to ask some of you to exercise tap in with 65 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: so out here in LA during these ice raids and 66 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 1: just this, you know, modern Gustafo, like there's just no 67 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: I don't know how else. 68 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 2: There is no other way to explain this. 69 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: Like you, you don't have the jurisdiction to arrest citizens, 70 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: yet you're arresting citizens, Like you don't have to show 71 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: your face. I'd like, there's you just just what it is. 72 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: The government has given you the power to do this 73 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: on American soil. Anyway. 74 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 2: The privilege I have in this. 75 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: Situation is a birth certificate and a passport, and I 76 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 1: have used that privilege to walk with less fear. And 77 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 1: another privilege is I'm clearly not Latino. Now I say 78 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: that in a very ignorant way, because there's black people everywhere. 79 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: There are black Latinos. But yo, ignorant ass yo is 80 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: in these ice agents. Don't think that You not thinking 81 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: like that? You looking for brown skin? Do you understand 82 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: what I'm saying? So because of that, I'm clearly black 83 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: as hell as soon as I open my mouth on 84 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: black as hell. 85 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 2: That's a privilege. 86 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 1: So I am a lot less nervous around these people 87 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 1: than anyone else should be. 88 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 2: That's a privilege. 89 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna use that to stand in the way, 90 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: to stand in the gap, and to be more bold 91 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: and more outside than some other people should be. I 92 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: have no problem going to the grocery store, driving and 93 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: delivering your groceries. I have no problem getting on the 94 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: phone and helping somebody get a job and be like, Yo, 95 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: the shop is right down the street. You can walk down. 96 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: You want me to go walk with you, I'll walk 97 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,159 Speaker 1: with you. Like I have no problem with that. I 98 00:06:55,279 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 1: have no problem putting out these go fundmes, which again 99 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 1: I can't thank y'all enough for supporting. I ain't no 100 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: problem with that because I'm not scared of I have 101 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: a privilege. My privilege is I was born at the 102 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: Fox Hilles Hospital. 103 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 2: In Inglewood, California. 104 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: So like you ain't like you're not finna say nothing 105 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: to me. But there's another privilege I have. As our 106 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: nervous system continues to get riled up, we mister President 107 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: of Peace, mister no more wars, as the homie on 108 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: the Internet said, like, I'm not an expert in endings, 109 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: but this looked a lot like a beginning the amount 110 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: of things we need to be concerned about, Hell, Sudan, Congo, 111 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: like it's still going on in Ukraine right now, mister, 112 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna end this shit in two hours, Like what 113 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: the We still ain't talked about the Big Beautiful Bill Act. 114 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 2: Which still annoys me that it's called that. 115 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: Y'all still losing your reproductive rights, Social Security fin a runout, 116 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: Medicaid FINNA cost too much. Like there's so much that's 117 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: not even considering. Here's enough thought. Let's just say, in 118 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: a weird world, we were really justified for bombing a 119 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: nuclear site where you think that radiation gonna go. There 120 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 1: is so much to be concerned about. It is very possible, 121 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: and I just like, if you don't think it's possible, 122 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: I don't understand what you're not seeing. Listen, these kids 123 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: who went through junior high and high school in a 124 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 1: pandemic might have a chance to die in the Middle East, 125 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: just like we did, and just like our big homies 126 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: did in desert storm. Like, do you understand, like this 127 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: is three to four generations fighting wars that ain't have 128 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: shit to do with us. I'm stressed this is all happening. Listen, 129 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: do you know that the water in Malibu in Santa 130 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: Monica is unswimmable? 131 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 2: Why? 132 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: Because La was on fire. It's so much going on. 133 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: But you know what, though, if you can, it is 134 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 1: a privilege to unplug. I'm going to encourage you, especially 135 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 1: if you believe you want to stay in this fight 136 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:27,679 Speaker 1: with us. 137 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 2: You want to stay in a justice fight. You gotta 138 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 2: take breaks. Listen. 139 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: It's hard for me to say this because again, it 140 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 1: is a privilege. But since your city ain't being actively bombed, 141 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: since you may or may not be afraid that ice 142 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: might knock down your door, you have a chance to 143 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: calm your nervous system down. 144 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 2: It's a privilege. 145 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: Since you don't live in Iran, you have a chance 146 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: to unplug for a second. You have a chance to 147 00:09:54,880 --> 00:10:00,559 Speaker 1: slow drip your information in. We can't all be lizard 148 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: bring we can't all be in fight or flight. Listen, 149 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: this is a lot and I know, like I'll give 150 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: you a sports reality. You know, when the team down 151 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: by down by thirty, you like, give me the rock. 152 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: I don't want to take a break. I want to 153 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 1: play the whole game. Bro, you can't play the whole game. 154 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: You just can't. Can't play all forty eight minutes. Talk 155 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: to them, Sophie. You have to take a break. You 156 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: have to sit, You have to trust the team. You 157 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: have to rest your knees. You're gonna turn into the 158 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: gingerbread man like Anthony Davis, like you have to, you 159 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: have to rest your knees. I am saying that while 160 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: acknowledging that that is in fact a privilege. It is 161 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: a privilege for me to sit down and record podcasts. 162 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,559 Speaker 1: It is a privilege for me to stand in the 163 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: gap and take on all of your dumb ass comments 164 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: on my social media. 165 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:52,559 Speaker 2: That's a privilege. 166 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: It's a privilege for me to even talk and advocate 167 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: for veterans who are also in my comment sections that 168 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: are saying no is right. 169 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 2: I served my country and it destroyed me. 170 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,079 Speaker 1: Like clearly, y'all, I ain't never had to talk somebody 171 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: down who had a gun. 172 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 2: To their head. 173 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 1: You heard my voice crack, because it's real. You don't 174 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: know the PTSD when these brothers come home. These were 175 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: our friends. Our friends are still somewhere in the desert 176 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. Oh, I'm looking at them right now. The 177 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: hummy ain't been the same since, still getting night terrorists. 178 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,439 Speaker 1: Let me tell you something right now, I'm about to 179 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: be real personally. My father was a Vietnam war vet. 180 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: Do you know that? For at least twenty to thirty 181 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: years after that, he wouldn't eat rice, and it was 182 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: because of seeing bodies in rice fields. This shit is 183 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: nothing to be excited about. So inas much as you 184 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: can unplugged, man, take a break. Rest your knees. Please, 185 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 1: I'm begging you, don't do them scroll. This is too 186 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 1: serious right now and we need to be healthy and 187 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,839 Speaker 1: okay for those who don't have the privilege of taking 188 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: a break. So when this tap in, I'm asking you 189 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 1: to tap out. 190 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 2: We got it.