1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, peep Sen. Welcome to WIKA F Daily with 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording pre recording from the Homebunker. Folks. 3 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: I am really excited, you know that once a month 4 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 1: I have the great fortune of sitting down with my good, 5 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: good friend, the Reverend Mark Thompson, who is the host 6 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: of Make It Plain. You know, I enjoy these monthly 7 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: conversations with Mark because we get to dive in to 8 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: the there there right, to the nitty gritty, to the 9 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: real talk that you don't get on cable news, the 10 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: nuance and the complexities and the layers of situations around 11 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: race and politics, and the fight for our freedom and 12 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: our rights, the ways in which we are being manipulated 13 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: as a people to keep quiet, to keep comfortable, and 14 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: to not be activated into action. And the conversation that 15 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: Mark and I have today is a robust one, and 16 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: I'm so grateful for it because, you know, we talk 17 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 1: about one the alarm that The New York Times set 18 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: off with their article with regard to pronouncing to the 19 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: world that talks of a civil war on far right 20 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: social media platforms is up three thousand percent. Yes, you 21 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: heard me right, three thousand percent. Now, I want you 22 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: to understand that during the twenty twenty racial uprisings across 23 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: this country, in the midst of a pandemic, we watched 24 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: a man take his last breath at the hand of 25 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: a white police officer that couldn't even be bothered to 26 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: take his fucking hands out of his pocket as he 27 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: was suffocating a man to death with a lie audience. 28 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:14,119 Speaker 1: The FBI, the CIA law enforcement arrested were following investigating 29 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: members of Black Lives Matter, members of other advocacy, social 30 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: justice and civil rights organizations, picking up protesters on the 31 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: street that were exercising their right to assemble and their 32 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: right to fight for justice as citizens of a fucking democracy. However, 33 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: when there was chatter in broad fucking daylight, out in 34 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: the open about the insurrection and what was being planned 35 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: and where the feelings were, oh that was let go. 36 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: Oh somehow it'd slipped through the cracks, somehow, they just 37 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: didn't have their finger on that pulse, did they. So 38 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: now here comes to New York Times, damn near two 39 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: years after the insurrection, the dress rehearsal to what they 40 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 1: really fucking want, which is a civil war, telling us 41 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: once again, hey, hey, hey, anybody home paying attention to 42 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: the fact that these motherfuckers are organizing an arsenal and 43 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: organizing themselves once again and broad daylight. And ain't nobody 44 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: getting arrested, nobody being investigated or picked up, these terrorist 45 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: cells being broken up. No. So I'm wondering, as Mark 46 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: and I delve into this conversation, how our lack of 47 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: self reflection as a nation has played a part in 48 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: where we find ourselves at this present moment. So coming 49 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: up next my wonderful deep dive conversation with my good 50 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: friend the Reverend Mark Thompson, host of Naked Play. Hey, 51 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: I'm David, Plots of Slaves Political Gabfest. As another election 52 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: season accelerates, it can be tricky to sort through all 53 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: the noise and the news. Each week on the gap Fest, 54 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: John Dickerson, Emily Bathlona and I decipher the headlines, break 55 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: down the races, and tell you what issues really matter. 56 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 1: We do not always agree, We definitely do not always agree, 57 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: but we always deliver thoughtful debate and we always have 58 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: a good time. So subscribe to Slates Political Gapfest new 59 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: episodes every Thursday. Folks. You know that anytime that the 60 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: month comes around, I'm always excited about getting into conversation 61 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: with my good, good friend, the Reverend Mark Thompson, host 62 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,799 Speaker 1: of Make It Plain every month. Mark, I look forward 63 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: to our conversations because I think that we get into 64 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: the real reel, the things that aren't being really delved 65 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 1: into and addressed in mainstream media and news. And one 66 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: of the things that has been on my mind, Mark 67 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: and I have been I'm not gonna mens words, I've 68 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: been scared as hell, and things that are keeping me 69 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: up at night is the fact that, you know, the 70 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: New York Times had reported that calls for a civil war, 71 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: civil war on these far right websites, chat rooms, social platforms, 72 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: across social platforms is up three thousand percent, not three percent, 73 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,479 Speaker 1: not three hundred percent, three thousand percent. I had a 74 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:36,679 Speaker 1: follower of mine. She lives out east on Long Island, 75 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: where I grew up. She said, Danielle, I've been noticing 76 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: as I'm driving by seeing these flags on people's lawns 77 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: with these stars in a circle. She's like, I kept 78 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: seeing it and so I had to Google it to 79 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: figure out what it was. She goes, you know what 80 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: it is, She said, It's a sign of the civil war. 81 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 1: I'm seeing that out east on Long Island, people putting 82 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: them putting it in their front yard. So Mark, I 83 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: wanted to get your initial thoughts on what is now 84 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: percolating up in the mainstream. But again, I don't think 85 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: it's still receiving the alarm, this sense of urgency that 86 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: it should be well. Always good to be with you 87 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: as well, Danielle, and I also look forward to our 88 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: wonderful and our lively discussions. First of all, I agree 89 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 1: it's not getting the attention it deserves because in this 90 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: country people still think fat meat ain't greasy, and even 91 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: though we saw what happened January six people are still like, 92 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: you know, they can't believe it. And it really goes 93 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: back now, we go back before Trump. It goes back 94 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 1: to the Bush doctrine of shock and awe, and when 95 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: you have shock and awe, people just they aren't prepared 96 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: for it. I don't know yet what it's gonna take now. 97 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: I think obviously more people get it because of January sixth, 98 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: but that is really a very surface kind of a thing. 99 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: Those of us who are involved in politics full time, 100 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: particularly involved in civil rights, we saw January sixth for 101 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: what it was and what what was it? It really 102 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: started out as sort of a rebellion or civil war cosplay, 103 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: and then folks got swept up in it. Don't take 104 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: but a handful of the mob to take it to 105 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: the next level, and that's what they did. Okay, So 106 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: I think people do need to take this more seriously. 107 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: But there's a problem with American history and culture, like 108 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: we don't want to teach we don't want people to 109 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: learn black history anymore. We're using CRT to wipe out 110 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: conscious curriculum throughout the country. What America has been teaching 111 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: for years is decades is a sanitized version of the 112 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: Confederacy that has been part of the struggle along in 113 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: my early days in radio, when I was even still 114 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: on AM radio, that was a constant debate I was 115 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: having about what there was and Clarence Thomas was involved 116 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 1: in a one time. Was a civil war really about slavery? 117 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 1: You still don't want to deal with that question? It was, 118 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: Oh no, it wasn't. It was just that was it 119 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: was about the economy. What the economy was slavery? Okay, 120 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: So that's it. And because we have not really dealt 121 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: with that, and let's be frank that now this history 122 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 1: is tried and true. There was not all this romanticism 123 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: of the Confederacy immediately after Confederacy. It wasn't until the 124 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 1: segregationist movement really picked up in the forties and late forties, 125 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: mid to late forties leading into the fifties that the 126 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 1: strong thermons of the world began to say, wait, way, 127 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: we can work this, we can market this. That's just 128 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: like the Second Amendment. Prior to the sixties. In the 129 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,319 Speaker 1: history of law review articles going back to the eighteen hundreds, 130 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: there was never a single law review article in the 131 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,839 Speaker 1: history of this country that said the Second Amendment was 132 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: about individual rights, keeping bare arms, so they're able to 133 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: manipulate things. So then they start away, We're gonna pay 134 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 1: some people in the sixties in law schools to manufacture 135 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 1: law review articles to change this same thing with the 136 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: Civil War and Confederacy. We're gonna sanitaze, We're gonna start 137 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: building the statues. We're gonna sanitaze this, and we're gonna 138 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,839 Speaker 1: use this to say we want our South back. We're 139 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: going to use this to prevent desegregation in the South. 140 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: So this is the importance of history. This is why 141 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:03,079 Speaker 1: not teaching history, not understanding history. So I'm one of 142 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,719 Speaker 1: the last thing announced stop. I want anybody under the 143 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: sound of our voices who's listening to this show, just 144 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: send us a message. Whatever. Name another country in the 145 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:16,359 Speaker 1: world that has had civil war and they still celebrating, 146 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: they romanticize it. It's I think, if I'm not mistaken, 147 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: it's against the dog We got first of them here 148 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: in Germany. It's against law to run around here and 149 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: act like a Nazi and reminisce that they will lock 150 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: you up. The queen just that. Did you see anybody 151 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: from a British Civil war history out then costume or 152 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 1: trying to talk about doing something or the gunpowder plot 153 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: into those things. No, because people live in the reality 154 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: of today. Most people don't go back to that. If 155 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 1: you want to do something new, do something new, be 156 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: original at least, But who goes back to recreate their 157 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: own countries civil wars. So you have that cosplay plus 158 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,599 Speaker 1: the illness that exists in this country that was exacerbated 159 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: obviously about the drum presidency. You know what, I what 160 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: I think right, and you touch on so many things, 161 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: which is the sickness of this country really is our 162 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: denial of our history and the true history of it. 163 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 1: That's really where the sickness comes from. We always want 164 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: to refer to slavery as the original sin. Well, I 165 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 1: don't know, to your point, who goes around then cost 166 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: play and sin right in a way that you see 167 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: the white lover is still of the Confederacy and of 168 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: white supremacy doing on a regular basis. I mean, you know, 169 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: not only do we celebrate we're still in the twenty 170 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: first century taking down statues that were erected to treason 171 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: because that's what it was. And that's the thing that 172 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: I don't you don't need to be a student of 173 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: history to understand that you had a divide in this 174 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 1: country of people who wanted to overthrow right legitimate government 175 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: in order to continue the practice of enslaving other human 176 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: beings because they couldn't figure out or understand how to 177 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: advance an economy without free, enslaved, tortured, brutalized labor. Right, 178 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: So when you decide then that that is not an 179 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:25,439 Speaker 1: actual stain, because if it was truly seen as America's 180 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: original sin, that we wouldn't celebrate it in the way 181 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: that we do, right, that it would be frowned upon, 182 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 1: and it would be taught in such a way that, 183 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: to your point, Germany reconciled with its own learnings around 184 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: how the hell you were in a country that was 185 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:50,319 Speaker 1: that exterminated, that killed, that brutalized, that snuffed out six 186 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: million human beings? How did you all get on board 187 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: with that? Right? So I think that we see now, 188 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: Mark this to return to book banning, this, return to 189 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: segregating our curriculum, because that's what we're doing. Because you will, 190 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: in private schools and in some independent schools, they'll continue 191 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: to learn right, they'll continue to understand critical thought and 192 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: be prepared for the world around them. But it's why 193 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: the question is never asked of these right wing Republicans, 194 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: why don't you want Americans to know the truth? Why 195 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:38,439 Speaker 1: are you so afraid of white Americans understanding the entirety 196 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: of this country's history? And so, you know, Mark, do 197 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 1: you even see because I want to really tap into 198 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: this call for a civil war, but I feel like 199 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: folks are calling for a civil war because they don't 200 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: They honestly don't even understand most people that are that 201 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: are doing this the brutality of war, right, Or maybe 202 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 1: they do and they don't care, But do you like 203 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 1: talk to me about how this denial of history is 204 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: part of our continued trauma and cycle of what we're 205 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: dealing with in this country right now. It's not only 206 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: the denial of history, it's a denial of the ongoing 207 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: reality that exists in this country, and we find trying 208 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: to rear its ugly head more and more around the world. Look, 209 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: we just had in Italy. Now we know they just 210 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: selected the woman Mussolini again, folks, broken record. We need 211 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: to go back and listen to God arrest her soul, 212 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:46,119 Speaker 1: doctor Francis Chris Welson. And while she was a clinician, 213 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: I mean she said some very clear political and socio 214 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: cultural things. We exist within a global system of racism 215 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: and white supremacy. That is the bedrock of what is 216 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: going on here. Now. People don't want to talk about that. 217 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: They're uncomfortable with that. Yeah, we don always want to 218 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: talk about race, Margios, don't talk about race. But when 219 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: you wake up, when we wake up in the morning 220 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: to start our day, the global system of racism and 221 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: white supremacy has already been at work all night and 222 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: it is institutionalized. And the sooner we accept that and 223 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: confront that. So that system exists, These civil war flare ups, 224 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: these conversations Q and nine, all this stuff is a 225 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: result of that. And until we call it out and 226 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: snuff it out, it's going to continue to be a 227 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: problem for us. And look, this goes all the way 228 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: around some of us a black food. We don't want 229 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 1: to talk about that, you know, because it's easier sometimes 230 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: keep our head in the stands and just in saying 231 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: and go here with our daily function. You know, we 232 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: don't want to take it on, but we have to. 233 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: We don't have a choice. Um. I find in my life, 234 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: my life is healthier when I confront the real enemies, y'all. 235 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: When we don't confront the real enemies, then we tend 236 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 1: to take things out on one another. That's my that's 237 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: my clinical advice. You know, if we are confronting the 238 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: real problem. How many of us have problems at work 239 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: and then come this is this is deal with that 240 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: local matter, just in your immediate local situation, local life, 241 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: immediate life problems in the workplace. We bring that home 242 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: and take it out on our loved ones. That's what 243 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: that's that's that's human nature. Um. But it takes a 244 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: level of discipline and understanding. And this comes through education, 245 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 1: This comes through enlightenment, This comes from information being power. 246 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: So wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, my loved ones 247 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: aren't there. I mean, I don't need to be hard 248 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: on them, but I don't need to mistreat them. I 249 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: don't need to nail them to the cross because I'm 250 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: being nailed to the cross at work. I'm being niled 251 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: to the cross in the large society. I need to 252 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 1: combat these problems where they exist. You know, I have 253 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: people call me all the time. Man, I'm having a 254 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 1: problem to work. Okay, well let's let's take a hit on. 255 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: But I don't know if I really should say anything. 256 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: Why are you calling me? You know, you know if 257 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,439 Speaker 1: we don't, because otherwise you're going to internalize it. And 258 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,439 Speaker 1: I think too many of us do that. I get it. 259 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: It's hard the day to day. Folks are struggling trying 260 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: to make ends meet. There are no living wages, so 261 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: that's part of it. Two, it's hard to mobilize people 262 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 1: when folks are just struggling to get bad in here. 263 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: I come here, come that Mark Thompson, that Daniel Moody. 264 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:40,679 Speaker 1: Trying to get us mobilized. Do something. We got to 265 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 1: go to work. We ain't got time for none of this. 266 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,400 Speaker 1: So this is what's important. So the minimum you can do, 267 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: broken record again, is vote and take seriously every election, 268 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,719 Speaker 1: including where if you live in a community where they 269 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: still have an elected school board urgent. So we got lazy. 270 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: We elect first black president, and we figured that's that's 271 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: all the vote we need to do. Vote for the president, 272 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: don't vote for nothing else, and that the risk don't matter. 273 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: Big mistake. School board, local elections, mayor city account If 274 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 1: the mayor controls the school system, you like that mayor up, 275 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 1: you hold that mayor accountable. That's the very least we 276 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: can do. Besides, I was on a zoom just the 277 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: other night with some folks dealing in education and fighting 278 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: this backlash year against CRT. I remember when we were 279 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: in the fight, Danielle back in the early nineties for 280 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 1: African centered curriculum, and in that battle it got to 281 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: water down to multicultural curricular You probably remember some of 282 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: those terms, y'all, and then we end up with nothing. 283 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 1: But the difference then was that people were mobilized, People 284 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 1: were showing up the school board meetings, people were engaged. 285 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: We must get back to that, because it starts fundamentally 286 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 1: there at the education level, it continues in the voting booth, 287 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: and then even in the seasons we aren't voting, we 288 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: need to continue to mobilize, organize, be in the streets, 289 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: call out the corporate powers, the businesses that are supporting 290 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 1: racism and white supremacy. Stop and I'm gonna say this, 291 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 1: and I'm talking too much. This is important for us 292 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: as African Americans, as you know, really as Africans around 293 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:24,119 Speaker 1: the world, as black people. Disinformation is targeting us more 294 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 1: than any other group of people. What Danielle is telling 295 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: us today, what the New York Times is telling us, 296 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: is that they are using their social media to mobilize 297 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,400 Speaker 1: the civil war. Yes, but social media is being used 298 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 1: to divide us, Yes, to turn us and gets one another. 299 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,879 Speaker 1: Boycott the woman king. Don't vote for Stacey Abrams because 300 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: she don't do nothing for black men. That's not real, 301 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: that's not organic, that's not a natural thing coming out 302 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: of our community. These are hired hitt accounts, if not bots, 303 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: that have infiltrated our community. Y'all. Remember when I nobody 304 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: gonna notice. Rememberhen everybody's a clubhouse, all we own Clubhouse. 305 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: Every night on Clubhouse, say has several rooms where they 306 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: were debating Africans versus African Americans. Why why was that 307 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: going on? Who was instigating that that was purposely to 308 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 1: divide us? Why should we boycott the woman king? Why 309 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: should we not support reparations? Why are people telling black 310 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 1: men not to vote? Stay sabers sharing another thing for 311 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: black men? What's Brian Kempt doing for black men? Come on, see, 312 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: I'm supped to show you the opposite of what social 313 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: media is doing to our community. It's dividing us and 314 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: keeping us confused while it's being helped and the social 315 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 1: media executives, the owners of it are promoting it. They're 316 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 1: using it to mobilize to have this dog on civil war. 317 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 1: It's no secret that the news is horsepill hard to swallow. 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You know that it 325 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: marked my goodness because I have not been thinking about 326 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: the ways in which you know, so I think I'm 327 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: thinking about this now. I'm thinking about the fact that 328 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:34,119 Speaker 1: when BLM, when we were protesting in the summer of 329 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:38,400 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, you got the FBI and the CIA scouring 330 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: through our chat room, scouring through our social media sites. Right, 331 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 1: flag here, flag there, they rounded up like over a 332 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: thousand people across this country that we're protesting the murder 333 00:21:55,840 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: in broad frigging daylight of George Floyd. Three thousand percent 334 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: is up where the FBI and the CIA, Where where 335 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 1: they pull in, where they pull in these people out 336 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: from their computer, out from behind their computers and putting 337 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: up flags and saying that this is terrorists organism, Like 338 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: this is terrorists organizing, This is this, that and the 339 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,120 Speaker 1: other thing. Where are the bustins on this? And this 340 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: is where I say that this is how people begin 341 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: to lose faith and hope because when you start to 342 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 1: see the ways in which our community, the black community, 343 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: is continually broken down, discombobulated, misinformed on purpose so that 344 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: we can't organize for the sake of our power, our 345 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: collective power to seek justice. But then these mfers over 346 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: here are organizing to overthrow a government, to kill members 347 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 1: of the FBI, members of their own goddamn part. And 348 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: it's just like, oh, it's just a locker room talk 349 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 1: that's happening right now. We don't use January sixth and 350 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: saying that that was the dress rehearsal, which is what 351 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: every black person said on that day, that this is 352 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: just the dress rehearsal. So Mark, like, if the city, like, 353 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 1: we tell people, and because this is what I want 354 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: to get to, we tell people, and I tell people, 355 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: you gotta vote, You got to show up and vote. 356 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 1: You not voting is essentially voting for the opposition. You're 357 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:36,400 Speaker 1: not voting is essentially voting for your own oppression. However, 358 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: I also recognize that we are operating inside of systems 359 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,200 Speaker 1: that we're not built for us. That we're operating. We're 360 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 1: talking about right now, where is where are our city 361 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: our national security agencies in terms of protecting us from 362 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: domestic terrorism that is on the rise that they see. 363 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: So how do you tell people to go ahead and 364 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: vote and and vote into a system that we just 365 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 1: have said, by virtue of the few examples that we've given, 366 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: ain't about us. Yeah, that's a good point, and it 367 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: is difficult. It is it is hard to motivate. But 368 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:23,360 Speaker 1: this is going to take some level of attrition. The 369 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: more we vote for progressive candidates up and coming, eventually 370 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: this generation that we're up against is going to die out. 371 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: And that includes even the safe Democrats, even the Merrick 372 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: Garlands who clearly can't walk and choo gun at the 373 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: same time. You know, he found written. Now, let's be honest, 374 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: we can take credit for what we can take credit for. 375 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 1: There was the public outcry for him to do something, 376 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 1: and it got to the point where the law would 377 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 1: not allow him to continue to ignore Donald Trump's crimes. 378 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: But are we only going to focus on an insurrection 379 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: January sixth, or we're gonna focus on an ongoing insurrection 380 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 1: when we have the evidence that it exists. New York 381 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: Times has it? Then Mary Garland ought to have even 382 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,679 Speaker 1: more information, and I get it. Uh, well, you know, 383 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: we don't want to do anything to affect the election. Well, 384 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,679 Speaker 1: what day is election? What day is election? They November? 385 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:24,439 Speaker 1: What whatever it is? The next morning and nine am, 386 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,919 Speaker 1: their need to their needs to be some type of 387 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: accountability for those who are instigating an ongoing insurrection and 388 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: ongoing civil war. Who they're gonna wage the warm Do 389 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: we think that they're gonna take on the US military. No, 390 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: they're gonna come for us back. The man came in 391 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 1: the Buffalo grocery store looking for black Yep, they're gonna 392 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 1: take it out on brown people. All people of color 393 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,360 Speaker 1: are gonna take it out on women because women are 394 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: standing up for their bodily autonomy. So, folks, I know 395 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 1: it seems bleak. We keep saying vote, but it's not. 396 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: It's not just voting, it's voting consistently, and it's voting 397 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,639 Speaker 1: down ballot. And we've just not done that. We've not 398 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,239 Speaker 1: been good at that. We've never even tried it. So 399 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: we can't say it's not gonna work because we haven't 400 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: really done it. It has to become second nature voting, 401 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: protecting the right to vote, it has to become second 402 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,679 Speaker 1: nature to us. And then also being involved, frankly, in 403 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: some level of political activities, some level of civil rights, 404 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 1: some level of activism outside of voting. They need to 405 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 1: know at a moment's notice, we're prepared to go to 406 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 1: the streets. They need to know at a moment's notice 407 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:51,199 Speaker 1: that we're prepared to be involved in economic accountability. Consumer campaigns, 408 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 1: which we learn from Color of Change, are more powerful 409 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: than Boycott's today. You know, people I want to do boykot, 410 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 1: no're gonna do boycott. See, because these brands, these these 411 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: companies can't afford damage to their brand, and so you 412 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,479 Speaker 1: give a brand a bad name, they're done. We have 413 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 1: the power to you. That's why Fox doesn't have the advertise. 414 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,959 Speaker 1: That's a victory. Fox News does not have any advertisers 415 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,159 Speaker 1: other than pillow guy yep whose cell phone was confiscated. 416 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 1: That's a victory. We did that, The movement did that. 417 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: You did that, those those who are listening to us today. 418 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 1: So there are victories that can be won. We just 419 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: we just have to understand, as Frederd Douglas said, eternal vigilants. 420 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: The last thing is they are if people are still 421 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: trying to reminisce about civil war, that's what called eternal 422 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: visions civil wars or eighteen sixty five. What is the 423 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two people still romantis asking that's called E 424 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 1: two on the vigilants, they ain't given up, but we 425 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 1: just are we free? We free? Remark no, we're not. 426 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 1: And and this this country keeps we take two steps 427 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 1: forward to take one step back. That is the nature. 428 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 1: Until we eradicate America and the world of the scourge 429 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: of fascism and racism and sexism and white supremacy and 430 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: all the other isms islamophobia, xenophobia, homophobia. Until we eradicate, 431 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: then this is a battle we're got. So you know, basically, folks, 432 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 1: you got side to side now then you're going to 433 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: be in this fight. Is not a time for comfort. 434 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: I don't know you want more here. I want to 435 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: be comfortable, and I know we all want to be comfortable, 436 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: but our enemies are at the gate. You know it's 437 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: so true, Mark, because the thing too here is that 438 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: I don't think that people are ready to disrupt their comfort. 439 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: I take a look at what is happening to our 440 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 1: sisters in Iran, to what they are standing up against, 441 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 1: to what they are doing with the burning of their 442 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: he jobs, the cutting of their hair in public. Young 443 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: women are being murdered in the street. The Internet has 444 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: been blacked out, so we don't know what's going on. 445 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 1: Do you think that Americans recognize that the enemy is 446 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: really at the gate, that this isn't just hyperbolic Twitter 447 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: talk and chatter. That like what we are seeing take 448 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: place in Iran and what happened to Iran over forty years, right, 449 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: is it can and is happening in the United States. 450 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: So what do you say, how do we move people 451 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: mark out of their comfort Well, again, I think that 452 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: it requires us two. First of all, remind people that 453 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 1: they're being purposely and deliberately comforted and distracted. So when 454 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: we when we get lost on Netflix and TikTok and 455 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: everything else, our enemies over here they're not going They're 456 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: still working. Three thousand percent increase in civil war talk, 457 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: But how many people noticed that? Nobody did because we're 458 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: we're dealing with another type of opioid, and that is 459 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: the escapism. Everything on tis about that we're sharing TikTok videos, 460 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: we're just funny, laughing ha, and our enemies are organizing 461 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 1: and mobilized in the midst of all of that. And again, 462 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: what's interesting, See, we gotta talk about this. The algorithms 463 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 1: know who we are. They know who we are, they 464 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: know they know our likes, they know our interests, so 465 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 1: they market this opiate to us. But for those on 466 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: the other side, they're getting all information to mobilize themselves 467 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: and strike back, and ultimately it becomes for the media, 468 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 1: it really becomes in their interest because the more drama 469 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: there is in this era of reality television, so to speak, 470 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: the more drama it is, the more they stay relevant 471 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 1: with the coverage, with the information. So that's just like 472 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 1: Trump was put in office because people wanted that drama. 473 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 1: That drama sold. We couldn't turn away from it. It 474 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 1: was rubbernecking twenty four seven. It was the accident on 475 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,719 Speaker 1: the freeway. You couldn't turn your head away from non stop. 476 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: And then here we are again with this thing. So folks, 477 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: we you know, hey have fun, enjoy I look at TikTok, 478 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: I do all those things. I like to laugh. I'm funny. 479 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: I think I have a sense of human but charming, 480 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: whatever you wanna call it. I think I don't know 481 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: some people saying album thank you, you are too thank you. 482 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: Even see even Danielle and I can be entertained, but 483 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: it's still in a sense of consciousness And where do 484 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 1: we get differrom did Gregory account of set the tone 485 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 1: He was the first comedian. He was TikTok. Before TikTok, 486 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: he was the first comedian to bring a level of 487 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: wokeness and consciousness and awareness into them, into them into 488 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 1: the comedy. And that's what we have to do in 489 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: our daily lives. We have got to get engaged. Example, yeah, folks, 490 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 1: everybody run around him said about Dobb's decision and row. 491 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: But where were you we were saying that was gonna happen. 492 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: The woman herself said it when she ran for president. 493 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:47,160 Speaker 1: Believe that she just wanted to be the president. It's gone. 494 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: How many warnings do we need? There's like the people 495 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,000 Speaker 1: down in Florida didn't want to leave home. What say's 496 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: gonna be a hurricane that talks to other people? I'm 497 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 1: moving to Florida. You see what just happened. There are 498 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 1: hurricanes in Florida and getting worse. Why are you trying 499 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: to move to Florida. There's something that there's some cognitive 500 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: yea going on in terms and it might just be 501 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 1: this American thing because the other country around the world 502 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 1: looking us and say, you know, Americans are a trip. Uh. 503 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 1: We When they had the queen's funeral, people out protesting 504 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: in the street because they close down food banks. Economy 505 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 1: is doing bad. People don't have nothing to eat. But 506 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: you heard that. People spoke up and they say, you 507 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: can't close these fool You can't do this to us 508 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: because the queen is dead while we as taxpayers are 509 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: paying for because you know so in America, as Americans, 510 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 1: we we we've got to wake up and get involved. 511 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: Join an organization, join a movement. If you are a 512 00:33:55,120 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 1: member of a house of worship, seats to that your 513 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: house of worship is involved, not just you know, you're 514 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:08,239 Speaker 1: worship leader, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, whatever, you are just up 515 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:13,360 Speaker 1: there seeing platitudes, you know, oh, doing bad. The Lord's 516 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 1: going to help the Lord to make away somehow. No, 517 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 1: that's insufficient. The Lord would want us to be engaged, 518 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,360 Speaker 1: to be in a fight, to stand up for justice. 519 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,600 Speaker 1: Pull out those scriptures, get out of the routine. They 520 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:32,440 Speaker 1: are assembling. They are coming for you and for me. 521 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,319 Speaker 1: And if they take in the words of James bald 522 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: if they take one of us in the morning, they 523 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: will come for the rest of us in the night. 524 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:46,839 Speaker 1: Good sir, good sir. This is why you talk too much. 525 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:51,319 Speaker 1: That's why you hunt radio. And we used to you 526 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: and I used to have more dialogue. I'm ask you 527 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 1: something before we go, can I do let's say answer. 528 00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,080 Speaker 1: I know he's on a time limit, um the to 529 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 1: put his own tame herschel Walker. Oh good god. I 530 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,400 Speaker 1: want to get your reaction to that whole thing and 531 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: that hypocrisy and then his son. See, let me get 532 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,080 Speaker 1: your reaction in because this, you know, first of all, 533 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: because I've said this, and I haven't spent a lot 534 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,439 Speaker 1: of time on herschel Walker on this show, because he's 535 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:28,920 Speaker 1: a buffoon, and he is the perfect, the perfect outside 536 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:33,399 Speaker 1: of Kanye West, the perfect puppet for white supremacy. He 537 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:38,400 Speaker 1: is exactly he embodies exactly what white people think about 538 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 1: black people. Not that Bright got the right melanin, he 539 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: knew how to throw a football. They'll get behind him 540 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: and we can fill his mouth and fill his mind 541 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,839 Speaker 1: with whatever we want, because all he wants is to be, 542 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 1: you know, special. All he wants is a pat on 543 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:59,320 Speaker 1: the head from white folks. Right and when I see 544 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:04,359 Speaker 1: them right now, not even they're not even pretending. They 545 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:09,040 Speaker 1: don't give a damn about him paying for an abortion 546 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,799 Speaker 1: for his girlfriend. And frankly, I don't care what I 547 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,960 Speaker 1: care about is hypocrisy. I care about the fact that 548 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,680 Speaker 1: you want to go out there and talk about being 549 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,480 Speaker 1: pro life, and literally, the Daily Beast showed the fucking 550 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,840 Speaker 1: receipts of the fact that, like, you aren't pro life, 551 00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: right because you got yourself into a situation that you 552 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:32,359 Speaker 1: got your girlfriend pregnant, and you're a cheater, you're a philanderer, 553 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,400 Speaker 1: you're all of these things. And so you wanted to 554 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,800 Speaker 1: you want it and exit out right, so it's okay 555 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 1: for you. And so you see these folks getting up there. 556 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,440 Speaker 1: You had New Gingrich talking about he's a good Christian. 557 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,160 Speaker 1: He's running against a man that is an actual goddamn reverend. 558 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,640 Speaker 1: Don't talk to me about Christianity. Talk to me about 559 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,520 Speaker 1: fucking performance, right, because that's what this is. You all 560 00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:01,920 Speaker 1: perform religiosity. You don't embody Christ. Give me a break. 561 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,480 Speaker 1: So I see these people and I'm just like, but 562 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:09,360 Speaker 1: I realize Mark this, and I said this on Twitter recently, 563 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,800 Speaker 1: I said media needs to stop trying to shame the devil. 564 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,880 Speaker 1: The devil don't get shamed, right, like we keep trying 565 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,680 Speaker 1: to show Republicans, look at your hypocrisy, look at this, 566 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,759 Speaker 1: look at that, thinking that they are going to turn 567 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,600 Speaker 1: away and be like, oh, I'm sorry, Oh blah blah 568 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 1: blah blah blah. No, they actually came out and said, 569 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,080 Speaker 1: what it is. We don't give a damn what herschel 570 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,640 Speaker 1: Walker does. We want power. So here's the media's job. 571 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,279 Speaker 1: Listen to what they are saying instead of what you 572 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,760 Speaker 1: would like to hear. They are telling you they don't 573 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,920 Speaker 1: give a damn, which means that they don't give a 574 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,760 Speaker 1: damn about you. They don't give a damn about your family, 575 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:48,879 Speaker 1: they don't give a damn about your vote. They don't 576 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,120 Speaker 1: give a damn about anything but power. So what you 577 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,920 Speaker 1: think they're gonna do once you give it to them 578 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,400 Speaker 1: by virtue of your neglect to vote? What do you 579 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,600 Speaker 1: think is going to happen? So for me, herschel Walker, 580 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,000 Speaker 1: ain't nothing, but ain't nothing but another set of red 581 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,440 Speaker 1: flags in a sea of red flags that we've been 582 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,600 Speaker 1: seeing since Donald Trump came down that escalator. Yeah, you're right, 583 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,919 Speaker 1: you're right, and we need to see that two people 584 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,960 Speaker 1: they're telling they want power. So now, if your enemy 585 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,600 Speaker 1: wants power and all you want is TikTok, something wrong 586 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,000 Speaker 1: with that? Your enemy is saying to your face, we 587 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,400 Speaker 1: don't care how many abortions he paid for. They literally 588 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,560 Speaker 1: look it up. It's on the record. Yep, we want 589 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,799 Speaker 1: the Senate. It says something else too, about the depravity. 590 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,920 Speaker 1: This goes back to Clarence Thomas, you know. And this 591 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,919 Speaker 1: is before me too. And sexual harassment is bad enough. 592 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,279 Speaker 1: There's a whole lot of ways do sexual harassment. But 593 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,320 Speaker 1: I don't know how many people have sexually harassed people. 594 00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 1: And they say to a young woman, these are my 595 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,400 Speaker 1: pubic hairs on top of a coke can. That's a 596 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:56,480 Speaker 1: whole other level of illness, and that they seek. They 597 00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,120 Speaker 1: seek the ill so that they can be manipulated. Now, 598 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,359 Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring this to a point if you really 599 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,799 Speaker 1: look at the Herschel Walker's story. Though hersche's black man 600 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,200 Speaker 1: like me, this is a black family like yours. You 601 00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:15,279 Speaker 1: look at his son, Christian as as confused as he is. 602 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:21,560 Speaker 1: I saw a lot of pain in that video. That's 603 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:26,600 Speaker 1: you're exploiting people who are in pain and who need 604 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,200 Speaker 1: help and who need healing. Her show has been diagnosed 605 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,600 Speaker 1: with multiple personalities order on top of the CTE injury. 606 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:42,120 Speaker 1: So you can't really, Christian, We're gonna do all these 607 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:48,200 Speaker 1: things at what point do we not exploit people? At 608 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 1: what point do we say do we need power more 609 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:55,560 Speaker 1: than doing harm to people who need help? And I 610 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,960 Speaker 1: hate to see it if the news comes out today 611 00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,680 Speaker 1: tomorrow that the Dick Gregor, you say this all the time, 612 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,040 Speaker 1: we gotta be fam of this. The woman who had debortion, 613 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:12,240 Speaker 1: she's hurt. The son Christian, he's hurt, and his mother hurt. 614 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,399 Speaker 1: Herschel is damaged. I mean, so if the news come 615 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:22,560 Speaker 1: out tomorrow that we got quadruple suicide, what we're gonna say, 616 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:27,160 Speaker 1: who's responsible for that? Yet? What they always say now 617 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,400 Speaker 1: is not the time for that conversation. But this is 618 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,319 Speaker 1: a family, a whole family sis when the reality TV 619 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:38,400 Speaker 1: stuff comes real this this is a whole entire family, 620 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,720 Speaker 1: two families. Because it's two at least two women involved, 621 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,560 Speaker 1: we don't know about all the other people that are 622 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:50,279 Speaker 1: being exploited. So Trump and Mitch McConnell can have the Senate. Now, 623 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,359 Speaker 1: something's wrong with that. A matter of fact. You know, 624 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,800 Speaker 1: we've all had families who family members who need to 625 00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,560 Speaker 1: help and intervention. Okay, so if you can't buy Herschel, 626 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:01,279 Speaker 1: let's do it. Intervention. You don't need to be in 627 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,160 Speaker 1: the Senate, bro, you need to work on that healing. 628 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,359 Speaker 1: You to get yourself together, get your family together, and 629 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,640 Speaker 1: know when you're being explored in the way that you are, 630 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,920 Speaker 1: do an intervention. If you love Herschel, oh, I love 631 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,000 Speaker 1: Hershe's greatest running back. Herschel's help running back, no question 632 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,200 Speaker 1: about it. We all love Herschel when he played football, 633 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,360 Speaker 1: when he played football, but he ain't running for football. 634 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,880 Speaker 1: He's not running the football. Nope. This is for something 635 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,280 Speaker 1: else and there needs to be a level of healing. 636 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,960 Speaker 1: I'm a reverend one octets two. Good thing. I don't 637 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,279 Speaker 1: run against Herschel's. That'd be my whole platform that if 638 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,799 Speaker 1: you if you support Herschel Walker, don't vote for him. 639 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,920 Speaker 1: Help him, Yeah, help him save himself and his family 640 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,839 Speaker 1: before somebody, because this is terrible and permanent damage to 641 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,600 Speaker 1: be imagine your whole family thing was played out on 642 00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,560 Speaker 1: social media. Y'all, all your business, everything that's going on. 643 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:54,040 Speaker 1: Come on, this is not this is this is not 644 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,040 Speaker 1: the way, and that that in of itself is politics aside, 645 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,360 Speaker 1: that is wrong. It is inhuman and hers. Then they 646 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:04,040 Speaker 1: have us saying it because he's under control and being exploited. Yeah, 647 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:08,600 Speaker 1: so you you you tie yourself to your oppressor in 648 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,600 Speaker 1: some type of way and think that they ain't going 649 00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,080 Speaker 1: to hang you out to dry for their own for 650 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,160 Speaker 1: their own needs and for their own power. And so 651 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:19,000 Speaker 1: you know, folks, I will close with saying this today 652 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:25,359 Speaker 1: that you know they don't want to God, they don't 653 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,879 Speaker 1: make no sing, but need to talk to each other. 654 00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,319 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. They don't make any secret about what they're 655 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,279 Speaker 1: doing and what their plans are. So we need to 656 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:38,439 Speaker 1: stop acting shocked. We need to stop acting like, oh 657 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,680 Speaker 1: my goodness, I never saw this coming. They are literally 658 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:49,719 Speaker 1: planning orchestrating, strategizing in broad daylight without any intervention. Right, So, folks, like, 659 00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:51,759 Speaker 1: if you think that this is a joke, let me 660 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,560 Speaker 1: tell you something. The joke is gonna be on you. 661 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,480 Speaker 1: The joke is gonna be on all of us. Because 662 00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:00,640 Speaker 1: when these people get power, they are not ever ever 663 00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,640 Speaker 1: going to give it up. The laws will change because 664 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:06,640 Speaker 1: they will have the power to change the laws. And 665 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,400 Speaker 1: if you think that people are just going to casually 666 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,239 Speaker 1: go along with laws that are going to continue to 667 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,839 Speaker 1: oppress and push them back in closets and push them 668 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,080 Speaker 1: back into slavery, and this, that and the other thing, 669 00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,759 Speaker 1: it's not going to happen. So Mark Thompson, my good 670 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,680 Speaker 1: good friend, May's tail ain't fiction. Now I think I 671 00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:29,640 Speaker 1: just something hand. May's tail ain fiction, y'all, It's not. 672 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:35,480 Speaker 1: It is not. Mark as always. Please you know we 673 00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,600 Speaker 1: appreciate your voice so much. You stay safe and you 674 00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,080 Speaker 1: come back and see us again next month, which is 675 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:45,640 Speaker 1: going to be the month of midterm, so good Lord 676 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,200 Speaker 1: knows what we'll be talking about then, but let's pray 677 00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:58,560 Speaker 1: about it. Appreciate, appreciate wok That is it for me today, 678 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:02,440 Speaker 1: dear friends on okay, app as always, Power to the 679 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,799 Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and 680 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,399 Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.