WEBVTT - Pumpkin Spice and Nothing Nice 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:22.040 Hey, hey, hey, somebody actually tweeted me and said, I 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.479 could totally see you doing jazz hands and fingers, like, 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.440 you know, with your hands getting successively higher higher above 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.840 your head and then ending with your fingers wiggling in 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.040 the air. So that was for you, Donna. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:33.920 That's a lot. Is that like more than one hundred 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:34.840 and forty characters? 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.199 Well, you know, Twitter is trying to go higher, They're 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:39.320 trying to do more characters. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:40.720 Now, that's the thing I saw that. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:42.680 I don't know. 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:47.880 I don't know what I feel about jinks jinks. I 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.520 don't know. I feel like I wonder what. I wonder 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.199 what I was doing when I had all the time 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:54.680 in the world to tweet before. I haven't been on 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.319 Twitter in such a long time except for like when 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.200 something happens and I need to get on two or 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.200 just take it the quick the quick take on what 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:03.720 has occurred. 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.720 So I'm a lazy tweeter and that, like I typically 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.839 if I do something on Instagram, I'm like, go ahead 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.000 and post it on Twitter too. Boo. That's how our 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.000 tower tweeted. Someone was like, when someone hits me on 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.440 Twitter and they say something like oh, good grats or whatever, 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:24.280 I'm like, for what, oh that lazy tweet via Instagram. Oh, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.760 I will say Superman. The other day he got bad service. So, 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.399 you know we talked about like, I don't know, a 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.160 year or so ago, you know how he had the annurism surgeries, right, 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:35.959 and so like at once a year, you know, he 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.160 goes to go get a check up. So they sent 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.640 him to some MRIs place where so his doctor can 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.119 get the results or whatever. So I guess they had 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.400 him waiting for an hour and he was like why. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:47.240 They're like, oh, the. 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.080 Other MRIs are a little bit easier, so they're taking 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:51.880 them first. He was like, the why not just put 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:53.600 me at ten o'clock instead of having me come at 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.640 nine and wait for an hour. So they were giving 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.760 him all this back and forth, and so he finally 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.200 was like, you know, I'm just gonna leave, and they 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.040 were like no, no, no, get you now, because of course 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.880 you know they want and the money from the insurance. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.000 So he was like, you know, that's crazy. You shouldn't 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.920 have someone come in like that, set an appointment and 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.760 make them wait just because other people have easier exams. 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:12.600 And they were just complaining. He's like, you know what 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.359 at first, they were you know, they were rude at first, 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.200 and he said, you know what, I'm just gonna get 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.680 my wife to tweet about it. And I was like, 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.079 cause I told him once that like somebody had done 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:23.320 something to me. I was like, you know, I'm gonna 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.519 tweet about it and so and then they gave me 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.239 a refund or whatever. So he was like, I'm just 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.000 gonna get my wife' to tweet about it. And they 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.760 were like no. I'm like, some man, do we even 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.720 know how Twitter works? He doesn't, but he was like, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.079 I don't know, but I see the fear of people's 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.519 eyes when you say it. So I used it. He's like, tifanty. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.320 They were so apologetic, like no, sir was so sorry. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.960 He said, you don't worry about it. I'm gonna tweet 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:44.480 and I'm like that. He was like, wait, how do 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.000 how does Twitter work? I like, go sit down in 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:52.080 the corner somewhere. Oh, Twitter saving people's lives every day. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.000 I used to think that like waiting forty five minutes 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.080 to an hour the doctor was like a normal experience. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.880 But then I realized you can just a different doctor, 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.840 and some doctors are just really like some offices are 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.359 just really dysfunctional, and they just get backed up and 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.000 trying to get an appointment in New York City. Like 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.079 I it's it's if you need to go see a 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.760 specialist and you're nothing is broken and you're not bleeding, 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:15.880 like you're gonna be waiting at least a month to 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:22.840 go see New York It's ridiculous, rediculous. And I was 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.800 gonna say, MRIs are one of those things where it 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.359 really matters. I mean not just like where you get 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.200 the best service, but like those are one of those 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.120 health services that if you go down the block, it 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.120 can be five hundred bucks, if you go next door, 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.160 it can be two thousand dollars. I don't and there's 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.200 like these these like these these types of services in 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.400 the healthcare industry that there's just no rhyme or reason 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:44.920 and they just charge whatever the hell they want for 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:45.520 the same thing. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.400 Yep. And so thankfully he's got really great insurance. So 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.240 he that's why they were like, no, don't be mad, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.920 don't leave, don't not come back, because they know that 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:56.240 his insurance is going to pay. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:57.560 You know. 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.080 He was just like, I just want to get checked 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.840 just to make sure everything is But yeah, it's but 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.120 you're right about waiting for the doctor because I wanted 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.440 to go see like a fertility specialis because you know, 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.920 Superman and I try to have this baby. And they 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:10.320 were like, yeah, we'll see you in a month. I'm like, 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.920 wait what and I'm like they get girl, you tried 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.000 it going to the next one. They were like, oh, yeah, 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:16.440 we'll see you in a month and a half. And 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.520 I was like, okay, never mind, I'll be back a month. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.159 You know, it's the norm. And so now that I've 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.039 got that good insurance, I mean, I guess I have 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.400 to wait, and you know, so I'll give you. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.080 All just My trick is always just to call and 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:37.280 ask for cancelations, and they usually I have luck that way. Okay, 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.960 oh that's a good I always cancel. You know. People 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.640 get a little too ambitious with their health planning. Yeah, 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:45.479 and then don't show up. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.400 I never thought about that. Well, let's up. It's coming 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:49.920 up in like a week or so, my first one, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.520 so I said, we'll see. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.400 Hey, it's not too rarely to remind people about open enrollment. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.560 Most people like at their jobs. Open enrollment starts in 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.839 the fall, I think, and usually have until like mid November. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.880 Or late November to finish your elections. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.880 Yeah, no, you're right, it is about opening Roman time. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.240 This is the time. This is when I get to 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.280 make up for that mistake we made after we got married, 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.560 where we missed the window to add me to my husband. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.280 That's right, healthcare plan. I think what was thirty day 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:22.320 window or sixty day window? Anyway, we totally missed it. Whoops. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.240 So we had to wait for open enrollment to make 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:24.880 any changes. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.880 But uh, that's right, that's the one thing we did. Right. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.240 Was like because honestly, I kept I was sweating it. 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.680 I was like, so what about that help pan make 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.000 that call? Make that call fun? 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.400 Yeah, because you're a pay for Obamacare before that, right what? 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.560 And then I it lapsed because I thought that you 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.520 got signed up right away. So I was like, yay, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.080 cancel everything. So I canceled and they were like, oh, yeah, 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.240 you'll have insurance, but it's going to take thirty days 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.159 to kick in. I was like, oh fake. So of 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.039 course during that lapse, I had to go to the 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.719 doctor like I was. I had like this wicked stomach ache, 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:00.640 and so I ended up going to the emergency room, 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.120 which I did not want to go but I was like, 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.160 I'll be fine. My mom's a nurse, and she was like, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:06.919 are you rasy? So you just rather die? I'm like, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.040 I have another week before restaurants kick said. She's like, oh, 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.279 so you'll just die here. So I went and it 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.080 just turned out. Honestly, I don't know what it is. 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.839 They thought maybe I had like a kidney like stone 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.479 or something like that, but it ended up not being 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.160 anything crazy. I likely ate something. They couldn't really find anything, 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.960 and like, after giving me something to soothe my stomach 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.560 the next day, I was okay, but I'd been suffering 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.120 with it for like the weekend, and I was like, yo, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.440 I feel like I'm dying on the inside. And so 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.960 it ended up being my imagine this. My bill ended 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.680 up being with all of the tests that they ran, 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.440 ten thousand dollars and then they like whittled it down, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.760 like with me actually owing about two thousand. But I 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:43.719 was like, are you kidding me? 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.680 Oh my god, my heart, I know he said ten dollars. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:49.480 Yes. I saw the bill and I was like, wait 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.040 a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, and they 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.640 were like, but you go ahead, I want to pay 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:54.240 two thousand. 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.760 That's crazy. Well, I wanted to say one quick thing 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.400 because when you earlier, when you were like, well, you know, 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.800 he has that good insurance and it'll cover whatever the 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.159 MRI is, no matter what the cost is. I think 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.000 you don't realize how important it is for these healthcare 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.920 services to get their costs in line until you don't 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:11.800 have insurance and you have to pay the sticker price. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.440 Because I think so many of us who are fortunate 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.720 enough to have that, you know, insurance that'll cover anything, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.600 like I never thought I never used to think about 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.280 how much anything cost. And I think a lot of 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.560 us were in that who have insurance or like in 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.800 that little like naive headspace or whatever. But the crazy 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.360 way that health care services are raising in prices, and 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.679 these these pharmaceutical companies and these healthcare these insurance companies 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:40.360 can charge these crazy rate rates is not good for anybody. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.720 It just drives all sorts of healthcare, drives insurance prices higher, 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.800 you know, for on our premiums. It makes health care 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.560 more affordable unaffordable if you don't have insurance. It's just 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:50.120 a mess. 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.680 There's like, and it's scary because honestly, there was tests 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.880 that they wanted to run that. I was like, yeah, 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.480 I'm good. And my mom was with me at the 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.520 hospital and she was like, you know, the nurse at 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.640 her was like, no, run it. I'm looking at her like, ma'am, 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.440 do you have money? Do you have running money? I 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.520 felt like the adult like do you have McDonald's money? 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:08.960 You know, like when you want McDonald's as a kid, 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.240 And your mom was like, go to home. I was like, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.920 oh that money, I know. So they're running all these tests, 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.720 I'm telling you I felt I felt worse only because 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.480 like it was like I swear that, like I'm gonna 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.480 have a heart attack in here, because every time they 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.840 had me run something, I was like, oh my gosh, 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.280 Oh my gosh, I'm not gonna be able to afford 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.840 this bill. Oh my gosh. So they like ran every 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.640 little thing and they're like, oh so basically thought it, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.599 you're fine. Did you eat something? I was like, I 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.800 think I'm gonna throw up. So when I got that, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.440 I know, basically, oh the pep those fifty dollars by 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.280 the way, and so yeah, so no, I totally understand 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.439 what it feels like to like not want to actually 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:50.760 even go get service because you're just like I literally 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.000 can't afford to be well. 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:57.080 Oh yeah, my dad has. My poor dad, it's a miracle. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.600 He's like all in one piece. But because he never 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.880 had any insurance, he didn't have insurance until Obamacare, and 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.800 he would his teeth were falling. I'm not trying to 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.040 put his business out there, but he was like falling apart. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.960 And so as soon as he got Obamacare, he went 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.360 and got you know, he Well, this is part of 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.520 the reason why people are saying Obamacare plans are expensive, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.160 because a lot of people like my father, who went 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.520 from having no insurance to having all the insurance, were 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.000 like walking into doctors like it was supermarket sweeps and 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:24.960 was like give me that, give me that, give me that, 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.880 I'll take it. A gastric bypass surgery, I mean, which 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:32.560 cured his diabetes and like all these great services, but unfortunately, 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.880 not as many healthy people were signing up for insurance, 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.560 and like that's sort of what's skewing, Like what sort 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.520 of had in a lot of places has led to 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:47.440 sort of the you know, quote unquote expensive like Obamacare plans, 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.079 because when enough young, healthy people don't sign up, that's 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:55.520 that's what happens. I didn't know that yeah, blame my daddy. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.160 Blame it on my daddy. So speaking of putting to 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.520 blame on someone, let's talk about forty five. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:07.040 Can okay, fine, you know, just a. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.200 Just in the context of Puerto Ricano. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:15.720 Put Ricoh, yeah, thank God for thank God for well 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.360 Miranda who I loved him so much. I have such 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:24.480 an intellectual crush on him, it's not even funny. But uh, yeah, 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.000 you brought it up, so you get to you get 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:27.360 this is your moment, shine. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:32.400 No, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna say, Puerto rican people, One, 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:35.680 I know that you are part of the United States 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.600 of America. Even though I think what it was, it 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.320 wasn't there a pole, Like forty seven percent of folks 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.080 did not know that Puerto Rico was part of the 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:42.840 United States. 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.920 That almost seems low to me. But yeah, definitely, like 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.640 a lot of people don't understand where Puerto Ricans in 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:49.839 America makes sense. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.480 So One, that's the thing, Puerto Rico is part of 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:57.640 the United States, they're citizens. Two like for the President 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:02.040 to attack them air of San Juan, Like, I don't 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.920 think I don't even know that she was overly critical. 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.080 Other than hey, we really like some more aiden help. 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:08.280 I mean like, I don't know how you ask for 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.600 that without saying, hey, we like some more aid and help. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.760 And then when he came and he was like how 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.240 many people died? Oh, not that many people died. I'm like, 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.200 are you at thing kidding me? And then when he 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.360 threw the paper towel into the crowd, I was like, 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:24.520 is this real life right now? 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.160 But he threw a paper towel into the crowd. I 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.839 haven't watched any video of his visit today. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.800 So honestly, it is sickening. So one, he basically compares 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.480 Puerto Rico to Katrina and says, basically, you guys didn't 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.640 suffer as much as they did. So there's a crowd 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:42.280 of like, you know, Puerto Ricans like watching the press 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:46.720 conference or whatever, and he throws a paper towel into 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.520 the crowd, like I'm not certain like what that was 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.080 supposed to do was that here's your aid? I don't 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.679 he lobs it into the crowd like aw here, y'all go, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.560 almost like Beyonce like throwing like her you know, I 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.400 don't know, a T shirt into the crowd for them 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.920 to like go which crazy. I don't. I'm uncertain on 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.200 the reasoning. But I don't know if reasoning and forty 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.319 five have anything to do with each other. No, it 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.520 was crazy, and I just I'm just gonna leave it 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.280 in a real light because I feel like, oh, I 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.360 just can't, Like whenever I listen to him talk, honestly, 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.280 I really feel my I get anxious, and I'm just like, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.200 let's not do this. Let's not do this, Let's not 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:22.440 do this. I can't do it. 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.120 Oh well, let's do a little bit. Let's do a 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.480 little bit. Because here's what got me in up and 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.480 up in arms. And this is the same comment that 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.280 Lin Men mel Miranda landed himself on the cover of 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.480 the New York Daily News with his response. But Trump tweeted, 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:41.800 in all his buffoonery, that Puerto Ricans want everyone to 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.800 do everything for them, like like they're complaining that they 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.880 aren't getting enough aid and they just want people to 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:52.000 do everything for them. And my immediate reaction is like 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.880 like when Lin Manuel, his his reaction was basically like, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.880 you know, you're going straight to hell. It was like 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.600 he just unleash on him. But it is just it's 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.360 so in furiating. His response for like multiple reasons because 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:04.920 I think one of the biggest for me is the 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:11.760 history of old white politicians, Republican politicians, for the most part, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.560 characterizing people in need, Brown people who are in need 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:21.720 as taking advantage of federal services as if they don't 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.760 deserve them as much as like other Americans. And that's 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:29.240 what pissed me off is just that's he's so good 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.560 at pandering to his base. He knows what to say. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.319 He's like, Oh, I'm going to excuse myself because I'm 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.840 just going to characterize them as these other brown people 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.000 on this island over here, you know, for all his 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.280 base knows they're probably just you know, Mexicans who can 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.120 swim and made it across, you know, like or live 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.720 on some island. Like that's what they think. They're so ignorant. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.840 And I just know that by him saying that, he's 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.400 just feeding more fuel to that fire, to that prejudice, 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.640 and that that for me was like, that was my 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.640 get at That was my like shut down on Trump 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.719 moment for the weekend. When he said that. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.280 Yeah, no, but you're right, it was very much like, 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.360 oh boy, here goes these these begging browns again, you 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.360 know what I mean, Like that's not how this works. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.559 Like people can be in need of help and and 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.160 it's I mean, I don't understand. It's a it's a hurricane, 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.080 it's a storm, the island is is in desperate need 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.400 of help. How does that? How does that turn into 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:27.000 like y'all always beg it for something? It's just honestly, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.120 I'm just like, what is happening? You want to just 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.480 think about that? You wake up and you're like, wait, 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.440 where am I in America? Wait? What is happening? Is 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.680 this a real thing? Is a real person? 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.000 I did yesterday? I did that thing where I woke 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.440 up late, I took a shower and I was like 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.560 running around and I looked. I just happened to glance 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.960 at the TV because has baby is watching? And it 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.120 had the Las Vegas shooting, and I like, I had 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.800 a moment where I was like, what this isn't a 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.560 real story or like watching Homeland or some like TV 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.800 show for it, For like five seconds, I didn't think 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.880 that what I was seeing was real and it. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:58.480 It was real? Right? 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:03.680 Mm hmm, I can't. That's something about the Vegas shooting. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.560 I mean, Jesus Christ, you know, of course, you know, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.680 ever since Sandy hook. I think a lot of people 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.160 have felt, Okay, well, if twenty six dead children couldn't 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.880 change anything, you know, nothing's going to happen. I was 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.680 in that camp for a while. But something about yesterday 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.400 with Vegas, I don't know, I got so many I 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.800 got several texts from friends who were just really shaken 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.960 up about it, and and I don't know what it is. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:28.640 I think for me, you know, there and things that 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.760 have happened in New York recently because I live here, 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.040 I feel like you put up a tough front in 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.600 New York. You're like, you know, of course we're a 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.240 you know, major target, and anything can happen at any moment, 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.280 and you just got to like live your life anyway. 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.320 But with this the shooting, with all the like the 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:50.080 cars running people over in Europe and other countries, and 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.440 we had that maniac and Times Square he ran over 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.560 a bunch of people. We had that Chelsea bombing that 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.240 was less than a year ago. That was like free 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.920 Blockstrom where I work. And I feel like the tent, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.640 like the rising level of awareness that at any moment 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.640 some lunatics it's just so hard to prevent. I mean, 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.560 gun control is one thing but one crazy person with 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.320 a bad intention. I mean, like it's like needle in 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.880 a haystack. And I think that that feeling of like 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.880 not being any control and just that like anxiety is 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.520 creeping up on a people, and something about this attack 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.320 just felt like, I don't know, apart from it being 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:30.320 one of the most brutal in our country's history, felt 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:31.800 it felt especially bad. 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:36.640 I think, you know what. I what really twisted the 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:38.640 knife of the attack for me is like the way 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.880 that they are discussing the terrorists, because let's say that 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.120 what it is, because it's just it's so crazy. Oh, 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.560 he's a lone wolf. Oh you know, he wasn't acting 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.480 if this had been imagined if he had been Muslim, Oh, 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.800 my goodness, or brown? Like what how they would have 0:16:55.800 --> 0:17:00.120 described When I saw that the Washington Post that there 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.880 their title or one of their articles. The headline for 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:08.760 their article was Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock enjoyed gambling, 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:13.800 country music, lived a quiet life before massacre. What does 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.640 that mean? Oh? I'm sorry? How nice for him? How 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.800 nice for him that his trivial pastimes are remembered after murdering, 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.280 murdering fifty nine people and injuring hundreds of others. How 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.240 nice that we get to know that he loved country 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.200 music and lived a quiet life. Are you kidding? Trayvon 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.320 Martin was a kid and he was a thug, like 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.240 Eric Garner was selling Lucy's and he was a thug. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.720 Like we knew all these We didn't. I didn't know 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.520 about their their past times and what they'd like to 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.800 do when they were hanging out. Why is it that 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:51.320 this clear murderer and terrorist is given that space of 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:56.600 normalizing him, you know, like they you when it's anyone else, 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.000 when a brown person is literally criminalized for being murdered. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.160 Sandra Bland, you're digging up. Oh, you know one time 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.120 in second grade, san Jo Blaine. You know, she hit 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.440 her friend, so you already knew this was gonna happen. 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.280 So the fact that she got murdered is really kind 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:13.399 of her fault. But this clear murderer, this terrorist is 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.720 given that, you know, like the way he's being described 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.480 when they're interviewing his brother, did he have mental illness? 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.760 You didn't ask that of anyone else that was killed 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.320 and murdered, And I'm just like, wow, Honestly, sometimes I'm 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:28.600 sick of this country, Like this is why that, this 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:34.000 is why things continue. It's that the I mean, and 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:35.919 I'm not even trying to be polarizing. It just is 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.360 what it is. Is that if he had been anything 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.520 other than a white man, the truth of matter is 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.600 the way that they're discussing him, they would not be 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.320 discussing him in this way. They would not they would 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.280 not be giving him all the space and room to 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.679 be human, to be Oh you know, he was just 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.400 he was a troubled man. Oh you think he killed 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:57.960 fifty people. I just like just reading headlines like that 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:03.159