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Speaker 1: let let me out. I ain't do nothing. My crop

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Speaker 1: it is. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another phenomenal episode

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Speaker 1: of My Mama Told Me, the podcast where we dive deep,

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Speaker 1: deep into the pockets of black conspiracy theories and we

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Speaker 1: finally work to prove that Kanye is just wearing them

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Speaker 1: rain boots everywhere because he is a recent inductee to

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Speaker 1: the billionaire class and he's preparing for the impending apocalyptic

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Speaker 1: flood which will doom us all that is. That's a fact.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty solid fact. This nigga is

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Speaker 1: rainboot Noah Ark prepared for what's coming our way. You

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Speaker 1: know who else is prepared? You know who else I

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Speaker 1: don't know that she wears rainboots everywhere she goes, but

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Speaker 1: she is prepared for all that faces us. She she's

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Speaker 1: she's my guest. Today's so funny, it's very talented. You

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Speaker 1: know her from from her HBO special call I've you know,

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Speaker 1: amazing comedian, amazing actress. Please give it up from my guest,

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Speaker 1: miss a Man to see what a doubt you know.

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Speaker 1: I just realized we didn't mention, like we even say

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Speaker 1: why we know each other? Oh yeah, well how did we?

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Speaker 1: We met? Years ago? In stand up? I met you,

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Speaker 1: I believe, and correct me if you feel like this

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Speaker 1: stand Up NBC competition the the I think, did you

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Speaker 1: And yeah, that's that's when I first met you. Yes, really,

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Speaker 1: I don't. It's not just that first of all, that

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Speaker 1: I gotta look at my journals. Yes, I mean for

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Speaker 1: for the people that are unaware of what Stand Up

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Speaker 1: So it was because then it got changed to diversity

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Speaker 1: and gay. That's fine, right, Oh, y'all can sit in

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Speaker 1: and that's fucked up because it's it's like when someone

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Speaker 1: that's that's right. Yeah, And then at some point there

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00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,919
Speaker 1: was a shift where we some people were like, no,

427
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: shut the funk up. And then there was an additional shoot.

428
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: And that's the additional shift where it was like your brainwashed,

429
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,679
Speaker 1: and we all were debating whether or not vaccinations were effective,

430
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 1: whether or not they made a difference in the way

431
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: that we survived this thing. And and to some extent,

432
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: they are more complicated than they were originally presented, but

433
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 1: they're not nearly as dangerous as a bunch of people

434
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,959
Speaker 1: want us to believe. But because those people still pay

435
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: for these these lights to stay on, they're going to

436
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: entertain both sides of the argument at all times. So

437
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: what you're saying is that by nature of the argument

438
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: taking place, that the argument is what helps keep the

439
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: lights on. I'm saying that advertisers don't know the difference

440
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: between an anti vaxer and a pro vaxer, and so

441
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: in that way, they still get paid and they're not

442
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: kicking people off simply because they don't like their language.

443
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's funny because you have said

444
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 1: earlier about like how it's like if you want to

445
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: move to Montana and and you know, build fires, and

446
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: that's a round that you can go, and that's how

447
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,640
Speaker 1: it feels like I have to deal with the Internet

448
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: at this point. I feel like Patreon is me trying

449
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: to move to Mantana, Montana, and like, y'all give me

450
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,959
Speaker 1: five dollars so I can build this fire, you know.

451
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: Like I had actually started an app. I had created

452
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 1: an app during the pandemic called SFB Society for the

453
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 1: purpose of like let's have a space where there are

454
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: no trolls, let's have a space where people can actually

455
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: have discourse, you know, And and then there was like

456
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: a fight on the app one day when this woman

457
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: was like I will put you ahead to the curb

458
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: and and we were like, yeah, that's against our guidelines. Yeah,

459
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: I don't know, we can we can do that, baby girl.

460
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: But what we realized I ended up having to close

461
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: down the app because we couldn't. Managing a community is

462
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: way harder than in actuality than I think most people

463
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: really really understand. Like, yes, I think that's a hundred

464
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: percent true. Into that in this I want to segue

465
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: us into some of this research, the the everything I've

466
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: read up to this point, and you take it all

467
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: with a grain of salt. It maybe real, maybe not real.

468
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: Is that they're not listening to everything that we're doing.

469
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: Everything I've read, they're not watching everything we're doing. Yes,

470
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: I don't tell you know, Ay'm gonna tell you know

471
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: like that they're gonna say day and listen that that's

472
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: how they get you, because maybe they're not just they're

473
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: just not gonna tell us. Maybe this is this is

474
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: them just being like, no, we wouldn't do that to you, mama,

475
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: Why would you even say that? Listen. I had to

476
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: an interview earlier to day as someone was like, you know,

477
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: do you feel like there are black factions that are

478
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: working to like change, Hollywood, etcetera, etcetera, And if so,

479
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: like who are they? And I was like, can tell

480
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: y'all right? And really I should have just said, no,

481
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: there aren't, there are none. Everything is back, you know, like,

482
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: but it's like I don't feel like they would tell

483
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: on themselves. Yeah. So so they they claim that they

484
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: are not watching, they are not listening. Yes, your phone

485
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: is a eyeball. Yes your speakers are ears, but that

486
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: does not necessarily mean that they're listening to everything. And

487
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: part of what they say as justification for that not

488
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: being true is that the the amount of data that

489
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: it would require for them to actually be able to

490
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: listen to everything that you're saying is so insanely large

491
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: that they we don't have the resources to compute. Moreover,

492
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: they say that the computers themselves can't actually make sense

493
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: of the way that human beings speak enough to be

494
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: able to, like, you know, discern when they need to

495
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: turn on and when they But you see what you said,

496
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: the computers haven't been able to yet. Yeah, yeah, I

497
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: think that is a key word in all of that.

498
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: They say that because of our our addiction, because of

499
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: our slang, because of all the different ways that that

500
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: human speeches overpacked with innu window and sarcasm. The computers

501
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: have no way of knowing what all of this means.

502
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 1: But part of the reason that they know that is

503
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: because they keep trying to feed our language two computers

504
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: and be like, figure this ship out, nigga, I want

505
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: I want you to know how to talk the way

506
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: I talk, and the computer sounds like the white girl

507
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: that I encountered in two thousand and five at at

508
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: a job I was working at where I was like, yeah,

509
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: I'm by the skate because they said they're gonna bounce

510
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 1: in a minute. And she was like, why do you

511
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: talk like that? I was like, what do you mean?

512
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: She was like, do you have to talk hip hop

513
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: talk all the time? Can't you speak English? Bitch? You

514
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: know what? Though to that point though, I knew a

515
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: drug dealer who said that, like the amount of slang

516
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: in Detroit was so immense because they were always creating

517
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: language that wouldn't be identified in the tap phone situation

518
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: that you know, Like, so they were they were constantly

519
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: creating just new ways of speaking about elicit activities to

520
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: throw folks off the trail. And that was them just

521
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: trying to throw other human beings off the trail. If

522
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: you create new lingo every single day, the computers aren't

523
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: going to be able to like do the math to

524
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: be able to feed. That's what they're saying. I still

525
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: don't even understand what pushing P means, so I don't

526
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: know how to computer gonna figure that out. It was

527
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,959
Speaker 1: that was an urban dictionary look up for me, And

528
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,239
Speaker 1: I'm not proud to say that out loud. You know,

529
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: you want to be you want to be youthful enough

530
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: that you just like you he You're gonna say it,

531
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: and you're like, yep, and then you go on with

532
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: your day. But I was like, gonna, I don't know

533
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: what you're saying most of the time. I definitely don't

534
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: know what your Twitter is saying. So I'm gonna, I'm

535
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: gonna look this one up. Someone had left it as

536
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: a comment and I was like, is this a compliment?

537
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: Like I'm like, because I'm really into blocking negative comments

538
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: right now, and they were like, that ain't pushing P.

539
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't know, this is in support.

540
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if I gotta kill you or I mean,

541
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: I just you know, Captain took me forever you know.

542
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: I'm glad it's still a part of the lexicon because

543
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: I finally have a grasp. But that's when I knew

544
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: I was old, when I was like, Captain, why isn't

545
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: that rolling off my tusk? It don't feel good. It

546
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: don't feel good as a thirty plus, I'm in the club, bro.

547
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I was trying to be generous. I'm

548
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: sorry for your loss. Made the force be with you.

549
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: So here's the other thing that I thought was useful.

550
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: And this goes back to our Facebook conversation, and it

551
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 1: really goes back to the grander conversation at hand, right

552
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 1: is yes, they pent say, or at least this is

553
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: what they claim, is that they're not listening. But there

554
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: is a history to your point about the social dilemma

555
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: of them doing funk shit with these applications. For example,

556
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 1: Facebook has a history of hiring outside contractors to transcribe

557
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:35,760
Speaker 1: clips of audio from users on their services. There's another

558
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: thing where they store messages that users wrote out but

559
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 1: did not post, like some ship that you like kind

560
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: of thought, you might say, and then you backtrack on it.

561
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,959
Speaker 1: Facebook saved it and they just have it available. And

562
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: there's a history of ship like this. So when you

563
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: tell me that you're not listening all the time, I

564
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: don't believe you, because you keep doing evil ship in

565
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,240
Speaker 1: other directions. That the part that you just said about

566
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 1: them keeping drafts, that's trippy. No, no, and let's be clear,

567
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: not even drafts, because drafts you are saving for future use.

568
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: They're saying they saved when you talk type something out,

569
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 1: so it's an auto save. It's like and you were like, no, no, no,

570
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: I'm better than this. You're not. And Facebook has evidence

571
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: of it forever. Mhm, you know, I think. So we're

572
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: at a time where I feel like people have really

573
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: tapped into their darkness and are like, you know what,

574
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna choose. I'm gonna choose darkness. Like that feels

575
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: a lot more prevalent than ever in than ever in

576
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: my lived experience, Like I feel like we all have darkness,

577
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: but for most of my life it feels like the

578
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,919
Speaker 1: consensus was, yeah, but that ain't cool, so don't go there, right,

579
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 1: But now it feels like they're like folks like fucking

580
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: I'm out here, I'm trash, I'm trying, you know, and

581
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 1: like are just like tapping into that, and it fox

582
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: with my perfectionism because it makes me feel like my

583
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: only counter to that is to try to be like

584
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 1: a flawless human, which is not possible game to be playing.

585
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,439
Speaker 1: And so when you hear about something like that, you're

586
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: just like, damn, so so they've tracked even what I

587
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: caught myself and did better. But we also know for

588
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: a fact that we are in this crazy scenario of

589
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: a We are in a giant gladiator ring on a

590
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: regular basis where folks are waiting to see like, I

591
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: know you wasn't ship. I knew it. And it's just

592
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: wild to hear that they have like weaponry like that

593
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: against anyone who's used their app. They're app and and

594
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: theoretically maybe they do nothing with this, right, maybe it

595
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: truly is just them like trying to teach a computer speech,

596
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 1: or maybe it's some thing that even if they didn't

597
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: plan on doing something with, someone might be able to

598
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: hack access I expose you forward your choices, even if

599
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: that wasn't Facebook's plan necessarily, it's all scary ship. It's like,

600
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: you know, when is something When are they going to

601
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: handle your rest all of us and be like here's

602
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: some ship that you did and yeah, Yeah, what's that

603
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: minority report? We ain't that far from whatever that energy is.

604
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: The last thing I'll tell you before we go to

605
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: break is that I I additionally wanted to sort of

606
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 1: look into that tendency or that thing that happens where

607
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 1: you talk about something in a room and then suddenly

608
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 1: your phone is showing you ads for the thing and

609
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: you're like, what the funk? My phone clearly had to

610
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: be listening to me, And they claim that that is

611
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: not the case. That is absolutely the case. There's no

612
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: other there's no world where that's not the case. I'm

613
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what. I'm gonna tell you what the

614
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: Internet told me, and you you, you tell me where

615
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: you land in all of this. They actually say that

616
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: because of the way that these ads work and because

617
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: of the way that everything works, it's more a issue

618
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:15,240
Speaker 1: of probability than it is an issue of them listening,

619
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: that the likelihood of you seeing the thing that you

620
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: were just talking about is one in a million. But

621
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: because they show you so many things all the time,

622
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: and because human beings have a tendency to notice patterns,

623
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 1: they we create connections that may not necessarily be as

624
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: immediate as we think they are you're already shaking your

625
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: head now because that's light aluminatim So I have my

626
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 1: body like secret society trying to keep on me like

627
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 1: that is a complete gaslight, because I like, I could

628
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: see that if it was generic, but it's not like

629
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: there are so for instance, a perfect example is that

630
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 1: I am now a homeowner. There are so many conversations

631
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: that I'm having for the first time all the time, right,

632
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: like they're not a part of my regular lexicon. Like

633
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: I never said h vat before August onest, two thousand

634
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: and twenty two, two thousand one. So there's no trend

635
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: for the technology to be pulling from to randomly show

636
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: me this conversation around pool solar panels. Sure, however, me

637
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: and my man just had a conversation twenty minutes ago

638
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: about pool solar panels and all of a sudden, so

639
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 1: it's a gaslight, you know, I mean there, listen, I

640
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: do know, Like you know, you learn a new word

641
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you're you hear it and

642
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: you're like, oh my god, coincidence. It's like that word

643
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: may have been being said all the time, but you

644
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: just hadn't you didn't have a consciousness for it, right,

645
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 1: That's what they're trying to tell you is happening. No niggas,

646
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: y'all are listening to my conversations around pool solar heaters,

647
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: and I don't fucking like it. Well, what they also

648
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: are saying, and I don't disagree with you, it does

649
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: make me feel like, get the funk out of here.

650
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: But what they're also saying is you notice the pool

651
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: solar panels in your ads or whatever. The pool solar

652
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,439
Speaker 1: panels wasn't there before. Also, then that looks like, all right,

653
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you what the white man told me.

654
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: That's how to get you a Hey, I'm just reporting

655
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: back with the white man told me about the Internet

656
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 1: and the safety of it. If there's one thing the

657
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: white Man good at, it's telling you some ship and

658
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: making it folks be like, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

659
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: The next thing you know, it's it's it's two and

660
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,760
Speaker 1: we got a whole bunch of folks talking about critical

661
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: race theory. That and the ship is a complete farce

662
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: and a lie. Also to that point, I want to

663
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: promote on Showtime Everything's Gonna Be All White. It's a

664
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: docuseries that I'm a part of that basically, over the

665
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: course of several episodes, breaks down conspiracy theories that have

666
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:24,800
Speaker 1: been create rooted in white supremacy and on my territory.

667
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: I don't get that at all. Hey cut that cut

668
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: that it doesn't make the final cut cutting. But I'm

669
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: really proud to be a part of it because it

670
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: really is making white people is just so upset just

671
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: the trailer. The trailer is making them just so upset.

672
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: They're like the last and that means we've done it right.

673
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: We're doing a lot right, and I'm excited. We're gonna

674
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,879
Speaker 1: take one more break, but I'm excited to come back

675
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 1: because I have some more information that I'm curious to

676
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: see how this bumps against your your defiance that that

677
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 1: they are gas lighting us. I'm truly excited. We're gonna

678
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: take another break. We'll be back with more, Amanda Seals

679
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: and more. My mama told me, and we are Kenny

680
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: Lenda Nigga a pencil. Yeah, we're back here with more.

681
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: My mama told me more, Amanda Steals. We're still talking

682
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: about the possibility that your technology is constantly listening to you.

683
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: And I'm very excited, Amanda, because you before we went

684
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: to break, you said, it's complete gas lighting that that

685
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: they're saying they don't need to listen to us. And

686
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 1: the final piece of research that I thought was really

687
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: essential in this entire conversation and and really sort of

688
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: hammered home. The thing that scares me the most in

689
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 1: all of this is that the art a few of

690
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: the articles I read said, our tech absolutely is not

691
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: listening to you. It's not recording anything because they don't

692
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: have to. They already have all the information that they

693
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:15,720
Speaker 1: need about you before you've said anything on any phone

694
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 1: or text any message. It truly, it haunted the funk

695
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: out of me. Basically, they said they know everything about you.

696
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: They know your age, they know your interests, they know

697
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 1: your locations, they know where your families and friends live.

698
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:33,760
Speaker 1: They have everything that they can gather, and so subsequently

699
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: they don't have to listen to your recent conversations because

700
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: they're constantly sort of doing marketing strategy course corrections analysis

701
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: to to assume that you, a new homeowner moving into

702
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: this place, probably has enough money and enough resources or

703
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: or functionality to be able to think about solar panels

704
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: for your pool. So we will introduce you to solar

705
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 1: panel adds even if that isn't your ship yet. Well,

706
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: I think there's also the Google of it all, right,

707
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: Like the all it takes is you googling pinky toes

708
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 1: and now you getting sent a bunch of information about

709
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: foot fetishes. Correct, And he's like, I was not googling

710
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: for that purpose. What they like, why not here's an

711
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: option if you're here and maybe you see that and

712
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: you go, no, I don't like foot and they'll be like,

713
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: all right, I got your big dog, I got how

714
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: about this? How about it? About this? You know, I

715
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: think to be clear, it's like, even if it's not

716
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: the microphone on the phone, even if it's not the

717
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:56,280
Speaker 1: camera on the phone, I'm still disturbed by the Google

718
00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: of it all, the traceability of that. You know, Like

719
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: people are like, man, do you should run for office

720
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: one day? And I'm like, I can't run for office

721
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: one day because I utilize porn hub. And porn hub

722
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: will send you a video that says team so and

723
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 1: so da da da da, And you're like, nah, it's

724
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: already there, and porn up has saved that to your

725
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: favorite's already there. And even though these are eighteen year

726
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: old or nineteen year old whatever, it still looks fucking creepy.

727
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: And I personally am just like whenever you put teen

728
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: in front of it, that's clearly somebody who wants to

729
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: see some ship that is sketchy. But it's like like

730
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: it's a very It's like we are in a fake

731
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: free space. In this Internet. It seems like it's a

732
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: world wide web. It's available, everything is available to you.

733
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: You can be here and you know, find out your

734
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: information is more available to you than it ever has been, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

735
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: But in that they're clocking your every move, yes, and

736
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: they're capitalizing on your every move. And I I've had

737
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: to train myself that even when them cookies come up

738
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 1: and they're like do you want this track? This apter track?

739
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: At first I was just like I don't want to

740
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: be bothered, like whatever track. Now I'm like no, yeah,

741
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: that first up, and and it's so scary. This this

742
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: will really hammer home exactly what you're saying. Ten years ago,

743
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: and this was ten years ago when our technology was

744
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: fucking iPhone threes. Facebook was mining over five hundred terabytes

745
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 1: of data a day, a single day, five hundred terabytes

746
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: of data. I am not a technology person, but that

747
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: is like ship tons of people's data every single day,

748
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: and so that means that if you looked up some

749
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: ship ten years ago, they're still holding onto it and

750
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:01,760
Speaker 1: figuring out who you are and who you were based

751
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: on the information they used to have, So they don't

752
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: need to listen to you. Every search you've ever searched

753
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: is being accumulated and strategized against you, and even worse,

754
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: what they The scariest part of all of this is

755
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 1: these companies have the ability to buy and sell your

756
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 1: information to each other. So it means that even if

757
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,760
Speaker 1: Facebook is the one that knew that you like feet,

758
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,840
Speaker 1: that also then makes that these other companies now know

759
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: that you like feet, which is why your feet ship

760
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: is coming up from you know, an arbitrary thing that

761
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,479
Speaker 1: you may have liked or or said on a different app.

762
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 1: Do they have straight flights to Montana? Hey? If you

763
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: lick it up and you start getting it's it's a

764
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: it's a crazy game where basically like your phones don't

765
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: need to listen to to you because they've already got

766
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: a twenty plus year game of telephone going. You know

767
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:08,439
Speaker 1: what I mean, They're just whispering all your secrets back

768
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: and forth. Oh that don't even say, why do you

769
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: put it like that? That just felt real, like I

770
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: was able to see that, And in my mind it's like,

771
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: it's what's his name? Hold on because there's a particular

772
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:26,919
Speaker 1: person who whispers the Yang twins. They had a whole

773
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: song about it. I feel like there's um I like,

774
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: in my mind, I see, looky Stanfield like doing the

775
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: whispering got him. That's that's the person that got in

776
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: my head when I when you said that, him being like, yeah,

777
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 1: so she google corn on the car. Now what was

778
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 1: she trying to do with the corn? Look was she

779
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: trying to cook? It? Was trying to make a new

780
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: kind of Molotov cock them? What was she trying to

781
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: do with that? I don't know. Sounds kind of fun

782
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: to me. Yep, let's say that. Let's let's let's all

783
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 1: go onto that one. I just don't you know, when

784
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: we look at the espionage that was weaponized against our

785
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: civil rights leaders m h and you know, the homegrown

786
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: terrorism that our government enacted upon them, that that is

787
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: where my head goes with all of this stuff. You

788
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: know that, Okay? You know, so it's being used for

789
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: capitalist purposes. That's shitty. But I just feel like we

790
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:32,399
Speaker 1: are in what seems to me to be a very

791
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: impendingly treacherous and violent era in this country. I feel

792
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: I feel like we are on the brink of a

793
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 1: another type of McCarthy ism that's going to be around

794
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: race and the speaking. And you know what, let me

795
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: not even say that, it's gonna be around truth, right,

796
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: because that's essentially what they're silencing. It's the truth about

797
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: what this country has been and what white people have

798
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: managed to accomplish by oppressing others. And so it's it's

799
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: only it's only a matter of time to me that this,

800
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: this things that we're discussing become weaponized in a way

801
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: that's I mean, I'm sure it is already, but in

802
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 1: an even more sinister way that we find ourselves Party two,

803
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: and I'm sure in other countries it already has. Yeah,

804
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I think and even in its simplest form,

805
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 1: we we are going to be met with accountability that

806
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: that we didn't earn, right that like if I said

807
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: some ship ten years ago that has now been deemed

808
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: challenging or problematic. Who and when they're they're deciding that

809
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 1: it is correct or incorrect, is going to be the game,

810
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 1: right that, Like, Yo, he said this, and maybe it

811
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: is problematic for our day and time, or maybe I'm

812
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 1: saying something that continues to be accurate, but you've decided,

813
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: based on the sort of like the mass public, that

814
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: it's unacceptable and I'm being punished for it, either by

815
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: being you know, outcasted, or judged or shamed or just

816
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: called a funky ass bitch on the internet. It's truly why, well,

817
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: there's a version. I mean, if if we continue to

818
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: see this trend right where I might even call them

819
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,399
Speaker 1: right wing, where these like white supremacist extremists like are

820
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: getting a real stronghold on all facets right, whether it's

821
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: not just it's not just politically but media as well.

822
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: And if we continue to see that grow, then the

823
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: ship that we're talking about that you know, in this

824
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:33,280
Speaker 1: current climate for a lot of people feels real correct

825
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 1: and right. You know, it's the people who are in

826
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: power who get to determine what is considered what is

827
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: considered a crime, was considered problematic, what is because you know,

828
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:46,359
Speaker 1: so my whole existence would be considered problematic. Oh yeah,

829
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:50,399
Speaker 1: you're going to jail and uh, I won't be able

830
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: to stand up with you because all of this is

831
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: gonna be Why listen, it's it's just the same way

832
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: that we look at the fact that lie Nigga is

833
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: really imprisoned for weed right now, while Ashley h and

834
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: Ashley Ce have billboards for their new weed dispensary, and

835
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 1: it's like they was they picked the right time. The

836
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 1: ship just swayed, it just changed, it changes, and we

837
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: are not nearly as in charge of the changes as

838
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: we think we are, and subsequently we are much more

839
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: victim than than we care to admit that we we

840
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: might be. This is such a fun conversation. Would you

841
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 1: believe this was meant to be the closer? This is

842
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: gonna be the end of the combot outside and just

843
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: taking nature? Yeah, well, Amanda, this was I had a

844
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,359
Speaker 1: good time. I had a great time. I'm a real

845
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: sick funck though, so I you know, I'll take it

846
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: as I can. This was great. Can you tell the

847
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:53,720
Speaker 1: people where they can find you and what cool ship

848
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: you have going on? First? I want to say, though,

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