WEBVTT - Ep 242 - Black Magic Everywhere 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.400 Mandra, Do you know what I need? I need to 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.120 walk in these streets in my BA swag. You know 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.160 what I'm really looking forward to? First of all, be 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:12.200 your own Brown Boost. What an awesome phrase. I cannot 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.360 wait to wear that on my chest like Superman. And 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.840 what I'm really excited for, though, is I am a 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.720 sweatshirt and like hoodie girl. So the classic Brown Ambition 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.520 logo sweatshirt has my name all over it. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:25.480 But where can I go? Where can I find it? 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.240 I was hoping you would ask Young Tiffany. Tiffany, get 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:33.480 your Brown Ambition swag at Brown Ambitionstore dot com. 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Yes, Happy new Year, Tiffany. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:04.120 I know, happy return Democracy, Mandra Hey, Hey, hey, so 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:05.640 that y'all know it is really us. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:06.680 Oh my gosh. 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:09.960 You know what, in five years of doing this show, 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.680 tiff I've never once been nervous until today. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.160 Why am I nervous to talk to you. I don't 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:15.640 know why. 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.079 It's not like we you know we do. I love 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.960 our audience and our listeners, and I feel the pressure because, 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:23.840 like Tiffany and I were kind of talking a little 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.400 bit before, I was like, save it, save it for 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.040 the show. The comments though, like, can't wait to hear 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.000 you guys. I can't wait to do. So what you 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:31.800 guys have to say? 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.800 And I'm like, what how about you tell me? Let's 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:36.720 do the let's do the Where were you when? 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:37.240 Yes? 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.679 Okay, although I think a lot of people know where 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.600 in the damn street like crazy listen, I think I 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.120 blacked out. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.519 That was That was the most brown joy filled video 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.160 you literally see Mannyboddy here. Well, I was like, she's 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.800 catching the holy ghost in front of our house while 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:58.720 walking with poor Molly. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:02:58.920 I know. 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.680 Molly is like I'm not or what's happening? The dog 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.480 was like all caught on the nest, crazy of the nest. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:05.920 Yes. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:07.800 My husband was like, you should probably check the nest. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.560 I so where was I? Sure? I'll go first? Thanks 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.280 for thanks for asking. This was a really like the 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.440 settim circum the fact that I was sitting on my 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.760 couch watching CNN when the news actually happened. That never happens, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.639 Like who gets their news watching TV anymore? 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:22.880 You know? 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.560 But anyway, I had done a really difficult like because 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.760 I had so much nervous energy all week and I 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.240 was keeping it together from my team at work and 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.360 I was like staying positive, positive, positive. Everyone around me 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.880 was so down. People were texting me like, what happened 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.440 to Georgia? Where's Georgia? I thought Georgia was gonna flip. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.360 And I'm like, keep the faith, keep the faith. Thank 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.760 God for my little brother who actually is in Georgia. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.600 And he was following some local reporters and he was like, listen, 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.160 George's turning blue. You've gotta believe. And I was like, okay, 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.200 I'm gonna you're my hail Mary, Alex, keep it, you know, 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.840 keep me, keep me afloat. And I had all my 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.080 nervous energy. I just kept working out. I mean, this 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.280 was maybe a way to handle it, but I just 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.520 kept peloton and I was like, oh god, I can't sleep. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.760 I'm gonna peloton. So I had peloton. I came upstairs, showered, 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:08.680 put baby down for a nap, sat down on the couch, 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.600 and like a minute later they called it. And I'm 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.560 still you know how you like you after a workout, 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.640 you still sweat for like two hours later if you're 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.920 you know, out of shape like I am. And I 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.919 just and it wasn't because at that point we pretty 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.719 much knew right that it was gonna like very likely 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.160 he was Biden was gonna win. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:27.480 Yeah, but I just didn't. 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.640 It's so crazy that we were all tiptoeing around the 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.200 preschool head, preschooler in charge. Yeah, because it was like 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.960 all of the statistics, all of the all the pull 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:41.840 everything showed that, okay, he not only won this day, 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.919 but this day, but there's just almost no way to 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:45.960 come back, and no one wanted to call it because 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.200 they were all tiptoeing around the feelings of this three 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.279 year old that's in the White House, like weel, I. 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.480 Don't, no, you know, I don't. He's gonna say it's 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.080 not real. And it was called by some rando. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:01.000 Sorry, I forget the name of the outlet, like called No, 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:02.440 it wasn't you Google. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.160 It's like help desk something. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.240 Okay, nobody wanted to be the first one. It's like 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:09.640 someone's uncle calling it. 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:10.760 For real exactly. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.039 I actually was like I had just taken like a 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.640 really long walk and I was feeling tired, so I 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.160 laid down on the couch. I had been avoiding social 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:19.760 because my heart couldn't take it. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.359 I voted on Tuesday. I told myself I wasn't. I 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.320 was pretty sure they were going to find a result. 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.440 You know, Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, So I wasn't surprised 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.120 when nothing came out, but I didn't I figured someone 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.040 would tell me. I didn't want to watch blow by 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.359 blow it was too much. So when Wednesday nothing happened, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.320 I was like fine. Thursday I was like, yea fine whatever. 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.159 Then by the time I was laying down after my walk, 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.520 I woke up from a nap and I guess by 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:43.920 then they had already called and me and be like 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:45.839 I don't know, I want to say, like an hour 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:46.440 by then. 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.000 And I woke up and I was like, is this real? 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.520 So you're waking up I'm coming in the house from 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.360 my my my block party. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.880 Yes, And I just was like so I had to 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:57.760 I had to check all that. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.120 I was like, you know what, let me be your 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:00.599 phone told you got a text alert? 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:01.840 No, no, no no. 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.960 I just happened to like cause I would take a 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:05.880 peek on I G every once in a while just 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:07.440 to see like it's the world over. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:08.120 So I picked on. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.039 IG and I was like, with one eye open, like 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.200 we what. And then I was like, let me go 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.520 see what Fox fox'es IG says. Because you know, if 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.600 the if the of the head hater in charge of 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:20.599 media Fox. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.159 I did the same thing. I was like, turn on 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.560 box just to see what they were gonna say. You know. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.040 Oh, and when I tell you the the trumpets and 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.320 the Fox Foxes comments were living. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.400 Oh my goodness. They're like, oh you the new cn that. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.559 I'm like, oh my god. Yeah. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.560 I mean they've been mad all week. They've been mad. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.599 Oh we he's in charge over there. But they're like, 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:46.760 m let's just uh, let's just follow the truth this week, guys. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:48.960 Let's yeah, could you imagine so weird? 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:49.320 Yeah? 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.560 Yeah, their people have been mad all week. I mean, 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:53.080 I'm not gonna lie. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.200 I've taken great delight in going to I've never ever 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.400 ever visited the head preschooler in charges on Twitter before 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.160 ever ever. I've seen tweets obviously, like screenshotted, but I've 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.120 never visited. So I visited just to see the trolls 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.080 and the comments, and I'm not gonna lie. Y'all did 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.400 not disappoint. I spent two days there. And that said, Tiffany, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:10.440 I think this is unhealthy. 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:16.000 But the giggles because people are so witty. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:20.360 The Internet is too witty, it's too like, it's too fun. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.080 I couldn't keep up and you know, the same day 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:30.040 with that the Four Seasons landscaping. Oh, I almost wish 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.560 that that had had enough time to breathe and get 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.960 its full you know, do in social media and the 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.960 internet's all the memes. Oh my goodness, it's just like bam, 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.440 bam bam. Like one minute, I'm laughing about that, or 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.760 actually I learned about that. After that, I learned about Biden. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.720 But it was just that was just so what did 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.400 you do when you find out? Like what was your 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.239 physical reaction? I was shocked by my own but yeah, 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.960 I just I just sat up and I said what what? 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.560 I just couldn't believe it. And then instantly I was like, 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.880 I started seeing you about to lose jo job. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.520 To get this dance. 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:09.600 I was so joyful because I don't, you know, what's 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.400 so crazy? So someone you know, there are a few 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.720 haters in the comments on my comments, which I promptly blocked, 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.960 but they were like, oh, this. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.600 Is not gonna change much of anything. I said. I 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:18.880 don't think you guys understand. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.400 I think people think that we are holding Joe Biden 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.960 up as a deity, the way folks many folks who 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:26.960 love Trump hold them up. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.160 I'm like girl, what part of I'm not. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.240 Celebrating Joe Biden necessarily, I'm celebrating the fact that your 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.520 dude ain't gonna be here. I don't think people understand that, 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.680 Like this was for me, this was cutting out of 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.480 cancer that had spread and was looking to kill the body. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:43.760 That's what this was for me. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.959 It was like, now, maybe this body has a chance 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.480 to live a healthy, normal life. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:50.040 Maybe. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:51.559 So yeah, I'm like, I think a lot of the 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.880 joy people don't realize is not so much that we're 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.400 like yeah, yeah, yeay Joe Biden, and more so yeah 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:56.920 yeay yay. 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.520 Not Trump. Okay, it could have been ahead of Lettuce 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:00.720 I would have the head. 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.880 Well, I you know, right before I know we were 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.600 so you know last when we did the last week's episode, 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.440 we were like, oh god, you know, we're recording on Monday. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:09.920 What's the world going to be like? And the one 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.040 hope I had was that the election would go off 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.559 smoothly and that America could prove something that I think 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.800 we've taken for granted, which is our fundamental right to 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:20.920 cast a vote in a peaceful manner. I mean, this 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:22.840 just doesn't happen in a lot of countries. And that 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.120 is one of the cornerstones of our democracy. And I 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.559 was like, listen, if we can't do this, I'm terrified 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:33.560 for our future. And we did, like no evidence of fraud, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.240 you know, no evidence of real I mean, of course, 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.720 there's all kinds of uh, you know, things to the 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.440 work of amazing people like Stacy Abrams. We know all 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.840 about voter suppression live and in color in twenty twenty, 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:49.080 but by large, by and large, record numbers of Americans 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.640 voted and oh my god. And at first I was like, 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.120 you know, because because the mail in ballots were the 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.439 ones that really came in, and I'm sure you saw 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.040 the Avengers and Game meme, which like a favorite, my 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.960 favor of it. I even went, I've never really looked 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.600 for the source of a meme, but I made sure 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.000 I gave that guy credit. John John PERETTI. I was like, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.280 he needs an oscar, but truly, truly, truly, and the 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.240 real poetry of the mail in ballads coming in is 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:22.920 that motherfucker thought he won I want real happy Tuesday night, 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.480 and he woke up like what first of all, woke 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.880 up because you told your people don't to you so 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.040 male in ballanty me bruh, you literally. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.560 Lost by your own hand. You literally took a knife. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:35.360 It's your own fait. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.640 Yeah. I mean I just when I tell you the 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.240 poetic justice the giggles, Like I said, I I literally 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.000 was like, humm, who are all these main Republicans that 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.280 talk Matt Smack on Twitter? I just I just want 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.040 to see the comments. I just want to see the 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.480 shambles of the comments. And like I said, folks did 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.040 not disappoint. And I love the meme of a sister 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:55.439 act two. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.240 Oh yes, that wasn't oh happy? 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.840 That was another a great one. If you haven't giggled 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.000 that one, so you can get your delight. 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:04.760 Yeah. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.600 And who I know that that young woman, that prophetic 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:10.360 young woman, you're about to lose your job. 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.280 She did not know that she was going. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:18.680 To be a pivotal, a pivotal poetrys in this time 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:19.280 of needs. 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.120 I mean, everybody fired. 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.280 Oh and the and it was like so yes, I 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.959 was so. I was so overjoyed and relieved. And you're right, 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:29.920 it wasn't just about it was bigger than Biden. And 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.760 you know what's great about Biden is that he knew 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.400 it was bigger than him. He let Kamala Harris go 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.240 out first. He went out of his way to put 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.000 a woman of color in that position. Of course, she 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.760 earned her you know, she fought and she earned and 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.439 she worked for that position. But at the end of 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.880 the day, unfortunately he was another white man with a 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.400 decision to make, and he could have gone a different way, 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:50.440 and he chose not to. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.760 I was shocked when I'm not gonna like when I 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.640 heard him say, you know, when they were like, we 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:55.640 want a black woman. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.240 As vice president, I was like, yeah, girls, like that's 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.320 not going to happen. And when he sh when he 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.920 chose Kamala, Kamala. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.720 Kamala, Kamala, right when he told her, I was like, wait, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:07.280 is this real? 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:08.200 Yeah? 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.880 And you know, I was really really shocked. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:15.040 And I just love how it came down to the 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.880 very people that you try to disenfranchise. Hey, Philly, okay black, 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.319 Hey Detroit okay black, Hey Atlanta blackly black black. It 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.560 came down to some of the blackest cities in this 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.040 country that pushed you out of office. Don't let anyone 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.400 tell you that your vote doesn't count. I mean some 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.440 places it was down to just a few thousand. 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.520 He's only ten thousand in Georgia, and I need so 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:45.959 there is still too close to call, but George Georgia, Georgia. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.640 I mean like, honestly, I was ready to accept whatever 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.920 happened once I saw that Georgia had turned blue and 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:53.800 let's not call it blue, let's call it purple because 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.720 it is a razor thin margin. But every vote that 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.240 in put Biden in the lead, I was like, I 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.320 feel like, I know these people, like these are the 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.559 people I try, like my family, my friends, the people 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.199 that I know in Atlanta who haven't voted, who feel 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.520 who have felt so who put their cynicism aside, because 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.640 I think at our core, the past, especially the past 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.360 year and four years for me, has been about putting 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.440 aside the cynicism that I know I could feel, and 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.640 choosing hope and trying to convince other people they're not convinced. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.400 I'm not like I had the power to convince anybody, 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:30.359 but I am so proud that people put aside their cynicism. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.280 And maybe they went to the polls thinking it might 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.480 not matter, but it must feel for anyone who voted, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.920 who wasn't going to vote, and you went anyway, or 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.440 you mailed in your ballot. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.200 It made a difference. And if you hadn't, we might 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.840 not be sitting here. So y'all are the real MVPs 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.679 and it's not over. I am like my aunt, my 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.960 cousins were all like, yeah, many, we did it. I'm like, 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.640 what y'all doing on January fifth? Okay, deadline to registers? 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.319 Because you already it's been too quiet. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.320 A toddler in the other room, that's quiet, yeah, I 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:06.079 mean they have scissors inside the the for real. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.000 When a timeless too quiet, I'm like, the timeless too quiet? 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:14.520 Yeah there, So I until until like it is done done. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:19.040 I just expect Sanny because he's not gonna take this quietly. Well, 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.920 what president doesn't concede That's literally never happened in the 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:26.680 history of our country. He is putting our democracy at 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.720 risk around the world for his own personal gain. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.600 I didn't win, so I haven't though that matters, like 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.640 his legal challenges, they really don't. I mean, maybe if 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.920 we hadn't gotten Pennsylvania by such a clear, you know margin, 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.720 maybe you know, we've been more nervous if it was 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.640 down to like a recount here and a recount there, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.200 or a legal challenge there about ballots. But even if 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.720 he won any frivolous lawsuit in Pennsylvania. I listened this morning. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:52.720 This was a New York Times that said, you know, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.640 or an expert on the New York Times or commentator 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.160 or whatever. Someone said, someone real, real smart from New 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.840 York Times, which I choose to believe in, said that 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.360 even if he wins this legal challenge a number of votes, 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.600 because he's trying to say that what they're trying to 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.960 what they're trying to challenge is these votes that were 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:13.000 mailed in but arrived three days after election day, which 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.400 some a federal or a state court or federal court 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.280 had ruled recently that they could accept those ballots, where 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.640 in the past they wouldn't have accepted those ballots. So 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.320 Trump and his cronies were trying to say, we must 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.640 discount these votes because they came in a few days late. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.640 But anyway, there's not enough votes there to make up 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.880 the difference. So but the thing is, like, you're right, 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.600 it does not end here. I mean, I am listen. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.840 My next thing is what I think, you know, Trump 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.920 is probably like the seventy million people voted for this guy, 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:45.520 that should terrify everybody into staying vigilant. I feel like 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.440 the you know, I feel like there's going to be 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.920 we already have you know four chan or qwan on, 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.200 Like we have these channels where I mean, this isn't 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.320 even conservative, this is like very disturbing, you know. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.520 Right wing. I didn't know right waitnessy. 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.120 They find their own place to communicate, and they're gonna 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:05.760 do that. There's going to be like a new because 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.680 you saw Twitter. One of my the favorite things for 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.840 me was how Twitter started to actually block yes, like 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.120 say no, this isn't true, that we're not even going 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.280 to show you this tweet because we don't think it's true. 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.240 And I think that they're going to go and start 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.080 their own thing and you know, make it easier for 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.840 folks to not see the facts. You got to stay engaged. 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:24.800 And when I said, you know what are y'all doing? 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.880 January fifth, If you know anybody in Georgia, this is 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:32.920 what really really matters. There's two Senate runoffs, John Osoff 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.800 and ah my brain is no, no, no, I got it. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.520 I got notes, you guys. This is how nervous I was. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.800 I put my notes down. Rafael Warnock, Reverend Rafael Warnock. Yes, 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.200 so they're both facing runoff elections January fifth, and why 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.640 are they? Someone at work was like, maybe can you 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.840 explain the runoff situation in Georgia. So essentially, there were 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.560 more candidates. There were enough candidates that if no one 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.680 secured a majority of the vote, it goes to a runoff. 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.600 So they take the top two vote getters and they say, okay, 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.880 you're gonna into a runoff, or not the top two, 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.679 but the top vote getters. So these are the two Democrats, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.280 Reverend Rafael Warnock and John Osoff. They're going up against 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.760 Kelly Loffler. We heard of ke Do you know any 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:12.600 about Kelly Loffler? 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:13.440 No? 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.159 She a nasty woman. When they say nasty women, this 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.760 is what they really mean. So she's like a she's 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.600 married to the well chairman of the of the Stock Exchange. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.720 She owns the dub the this is and talk about 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:29.760 like Hipocrisiana. She owns the w NBA team, the Dream 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.760 in Atlanta. Okay, so she owns a sports team made 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.600 up of black woman And she was appointed to this seat. 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.240 She didn't earn it. She was appointed because the former 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.520 person who held the seat, Johnny Isaac Sen. He was. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.879 He stepped down for health care health reasons. I think, 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.120 so she was appointed didn't have to run. But now 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.199 she's on the ballot. And I mean, it was so 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.919 bad this summer and I was reading about this the 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:58.240 dream the team players wn W NBA players literally showed 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.320 up at a game with Shirr said vote Warnock and 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.840 against their own owner. Because that is how I mean. 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:07.719 You should just I mean, I don't waste your time 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.360 because I'll just make you mad. But you know, her 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.400 her campaign messages is like, you know, of course she's 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.720 trying to vote against abortion rights for gun rights. She 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.639 did the whole campaign ad wearing the vest and the 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.640 rifle over her shoulder, and you know she's a gajillionaire 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.240 and all that stuff like this is who we're voting. 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:26.760 You know, this is who could represent Georgia. And that 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.679 is I'm sorry, that is not for me what George 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.280 is about. So if you agree, if you agree, and 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:36.080 you don't want someone like that for representing you in Congress, 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.119 you've got to vote and tell anyone you know in Georgia. Okay, 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.560