Speaker 1: Calls media.
Speaker 2: Briah, dang homie. This is a lot.
Speaker 1: I can't take credit for this because I heard it
Speaker 1: on the Slate Political gab Fest, which is a podcast
Speaker 1: I highly recommend and is oftentimes resource for me as
Speaker 1: I process all of these things. But they have this
Speaker 1: show every year called The Conundrum Show where it's people
Speaker 1: kind of call in. I mean, it is remarkably white,
Speaker 1: but my white card is strong. I can I know
Speaker 1: who Jeff Tweety is anyway. It's one that I've used
Speaker 1: oftentimes as like my favorite sort of like icebreaker or
Speaker 1: just yeah, just like a silly question to ask one
Speaker 1: of it is and it's a two parter. It's what's
Speaker 1: the worst thing you love? And then what's the best
Speaker 1: thing you hate? And I love it like it's it's
Speaker 1: such a great little like starter and hearing the different
Speaker 1: answers some people say, like the worst thing they love
Speaker 1: is like Kanye West, like his music where you're just
Speaker 1: like I he is the worst, but dangn when he's on,
Speaker 1: he's on. For me, it's harsh, like chemical cleaning products,
Speaker 1: like I feel like you need to feel dizzy when
Speaker 1: you clean the bathroom, like you should have accidentally made
Speaker 1: nerve gas, like mix autumn chemicals together. I'd like, that
Speaker 1: is the worst thing I love. Like, I love really
Speaker 1: harsh cleaning products, all the microplastic chemicals, like a one
Speaker 1: eighth delusion of chlorox got clean this mug.
Speaker 2: Nothing should survive.
Speaker 1: And then the best thing I hate is generally like
Speaker 1: when people have good boundaries, like around their phone, like
Speaker 1: if I text you, text me back, like if I
Speaker 1: call you, like answer my call.
Speaker 2: It's just it'd be doing something to me.
Speaker 1: When people have good boundaries around listen, I'll respond when
Speaker 1: I'm ready to respond, I'd be like, but but I'm important.
Speaker 1: That's the best thing I hate, because I know it's
Speaker 1: the best thing to have boundaries. But one thing my homeboy,
Speaker 1: Jay Gibbons said, which really is the reason why I
Speaker 1: bring this up, is Jay Gibbons. I just call him
Speaker 1: the Designated Shooter, an incredible rapper. He works for reach LA,
Speaker 1: which is a LGBTQ and queer advocacy a nonprofit in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I am a part of Jay's coming out story,
Speaker 1: like that's one of my closest friends.
Speaker 2: But one thing he said, he.
Speaker 1: Said, the the worst thing he loves is male privilege.
Speaker 1: He was like, I know, this is terrible, and he's
Speaker 1: saying this as a gay man. So he's just like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm still I'm sis, I'm cisgendered, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm just I just happen to be I just happen
Speaker 1: to be homosexual.
Speaker 2: But like.
Speaker 1: The privilege I have, He's like, I'm a black man. No,
Speaker 1: I get it, but the but the there are things
Speaker 1: that just come to me that I know are because
Speaker 1: of patriarchy. This is the worst thing, but it's I
Speaker 1: hate to admit it, but like sometimes it's good.
Speaker 2: Like and you can say this.
Speaker 1: As a black man too, in in in senses that
Speaker 1: we gotta find somewhere where we gotta where we gotta
Speaker 1: live up. And he is a black gay man, so
Speaker 1: like the intersections of suffering and oppression this my brother
Speaker 1: experiences is very real. So he's like, yeah, dude, it's
Speaker 1: it's male privilege. That's that's probably the worst thing. I love,
Speaker 1: which brings me to the privilege that I am going
Speaker 1: to ask some of you to exercise tap in with
Speaker 1: so out here in LA during these ice raids and
Speaker 1: just this, you know, modern Gustafo, like there's just no
Speaker 1: I don't know how else.
Speaker 2: There is no other way to explain this.
Speaker 1: Like you, you don't have the jurisdiction to arrest citizens,
Speaker 1: yet you're arresting citizens, Like you don't have to show
Speaker 1: your face. I'd like, there's you just just what it is.
Speaker 1: The government has given you the power to do this
Speaker 1: on American soil. Anyway.
Speaker 2: The privilege I have in this.
Speaker 1: Situation is a birth certificate and a passport, and I
Speaker 1: have used that privilege to walk with less fear. And
Speaker 1: another privilege is I'm clearly not Latino. Now I say
Speaker 1: that in a very ignorant way, because there's black people everywhere.
Speaker 1: There are black Latinos. But yo, ignorant ass yo is
Speaker 1: in these ice agents. Don't think that You not thinking
Speaker 1: like that? You looking for brown skin? Do you understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? So because of that, I'm clearly black
Speaker 1: as hell as soon as I open my mouth on
Speaker 1: black as hell.
Speaker 2: That's a privilege.
Speaker 1: So I am a lot less nervous around these people
Speaker 1: than anyone else should be.
Speaker 2: That's a privilege.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna use that to stand in the way,
Speaker 1: to stand in the gap, and to be more bold
Speaker 1: and more outside than some other people should be. I
Speaker 1: have no problem going to the grocery store, driving and
Speaker 1: delivering your groceries. I have no problem getting on the
Speaker 1: phone and helping somebody get a job and be like, Yo,
Speaker 1: the shop is right down the street. You can walk down.
Speaker 1: You want me to go walk with you, I'll walk
Speaker 1: with you. Like I have no problem with that. I
Speaker 1: have no problem putting out these go fundmes, which again
Speaker 1: I can't thank y'all enough for supporting. I ain't no
Speaker 1: problem with that because I'm not scared of I have
Speaker 1: a privilege. My privilege is I was born at the
Speaker 1: Fox Hilles Hospital.
Speaker 2: In Inglewood, California.
Speaker 1: So like you ain't like you're not finna say nothing
Speaker 1: to me. But there's another privilege I have. As our
Speaker 1: nervous system continues to get riled up, we mister President
Speaker 1: of Peace, mister no more wars, as the homie on
Speaker 1: the Internet said, like, I'm not an expert in endings,
Speaker 1: but this looked a lot like a beginning the amount
Speaker 1: of things we need to be concerned about, Hell, Sudan, Congo,
Speaker 1: like it's still going on in Ukraine right now, mister,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna end this shit in two hours, Like what
Speaker 1: the We still ain't talked about the Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Speaker 2: Which still annoys me that it's called that.
Speaker 1: Y'all still losing your reproductive rights, Social Security fin a runout,
Speaker 1: Medicaid FINNA cost too much. Like there's so much that's
Speaker 1: not even considering. Here's enough thought. Let's just say, in
Speaker 1: a weird world, we were really justified for bombing a
Speaker 1: nuclear site where you think that radiation gonna go. There
Speaker 1: is so much to be concerned about. It is very possible,
Speaker 1: and I just like, if you don't think it's possible,
Speaker 1: I don't understand what you're not seeing. Listen, these kids
Speaker 1: who went through junior high and high school in a
Speaker 1: pandemic might have a chance to die in the Middle East,
Speaker 1: just like we did, and just like our big homies
Speaker 1: did in desert storm. Like, do you understand, like this
Speaker 1: is three to four generations fighting wars that ain't have
Speaker 1: shit to do with us. I'm stressed this is all happening. Listen,
Speaker 1: do you know that the water in Malibu in Santa
Speaker 1: Monica is unswimmable?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Because La was on fire. It's so much going on.
Speaker 1: But you know what, though, if you can, it is
Speaker 1: a privilege to unplug. I'm going to encourage you, especially
Speaker 1: if you believe you want to stay in this fight
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 2: You want to stay in a justice fight. You gotta
Speaker 2: take breaks. Listen.
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to say this because again, it
Speaker 1: is a privilege. But since your city ain't being actively bombed,
Speaker 1: since you may or may not be afraid that ice
Speaker 1: might knock down your door, you have a chance to
Speaker 1: calm your nervous system down.
Speaker 2: It's a privilege.
Speaker 1: Since you don't live in Iran, you have a chance
Speaker 1: to unplug for a second. You have a chance to
Speaker 1: slow drip your information in. We can't all be lizard
Speaker 1: bring we can't all be in fight or flight. Listen,
Speaker 1: this is a lot and I know, like I'll give
Speaker 1: you a sports reality. You know, when the team down
Speaker 1: by down by thirty, you like, give me the rock.
Speaker 1: I don't want to take a break. I want to
Speaker 1: play the whole game. Bro, you can't play the whole game.
Speaker 1: You just can't. Can't play all forty eight minutes. Talk
Speaker 1: to them, Sophie. You have to take a break. You
Speaker 1: have to sit, You have to trust the team. You
Speaker 1: have to rest your knees. You're gonna turn into the
Speaker 1: gingerbread man like Anthony Davis, like you have to, you
Speaker 1: have to rest your knees. I am saying that while
Speaker 1: acknowledging that that is in fact a privilege. It is
Speaker 1: a privilege for me to sit down and record podcasts.
Speaker 1: It is a privilege for me to stand in the
Speaker 1: gap and take on all of your dumb ass comments
Speaker 1: on my social media.
Speaker 2: That's a privilege.
Speaker 1: It's a privilege for me to even talk and advocate
Speaker 1: for veterans who are also in my comment sections that
Speaker 1: are saying no is right.
Speaker 2: I served my country and it destroyed me.
Speaker 1: Like clearly, y'all, I ain't never had to talk somebody
Speaker 1: down who had a gun.
Speaker 2: To their head.
Speaker 1: You heard my voice crack, because it's real. You don't
Speaker 1: know the PTSD when these brothers come home. These were
Speaker 1: our friends. Our friends are still somewhere in the desert
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. Oh, I'm looking at them right now. The
Speaker 1: hummy ain't been the same since, still getting night terrorists.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something right now, I'm about to
Speaker 1: be real personally. My father was a Vietnam war vet.
Speaker 1: Do you know that? For at least twenty to thirty
Speaker 1: years after that, he wouldn't eat rice, and it was
Speaker 1: because of seeing bodies in rice fields. This shit is
Speaker 1: nothing to be excited about. So inas much as you
Speaker 1: can unplugged, man, take a break. Rest your knees. Please,
Speaker 1: I'm begging you, don't do them scroll. This is too
Speaker 1: serious right now and we need to be healthy and
Speaker 1: okay for those who don't have the privilege of taking
Speaker 1: a break. So when this tap in, I'm asking you
Speaker 1: to tap out.
Speaker 2: We got it.