WEBVTT - NLP Town Hall 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.840 Native Lamb Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:04.080 with Reisent Choice Media. 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.400 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:12.600 Welcome, Welcome home, everybody. This is another mini pod. Andrew's 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:14.960 gotta beat going. I can't here, but that's all right 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.279 cause I am still real clear. Hey anyway, I ain't 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:19.960 gonna give you all my clothes, you know, to be 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:20.680 trying to throw me out. 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.720 I love it, I love it, But today. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.640 Is it is a special episode because we're going to 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.320 do a little NLP town hall. We got some questions 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:32.960 that y'all have asked and we want to make sure 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:34.599 that we get to answer them, so we gotta kick 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:35.920 it off with this. 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.760 Lego high Native Lamb Pod. Thank you so much for 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.959 all that you do, Andrew, Tiffany, and Angela. I've been 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.920 following you since day one, and you've just done an 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.080 excellent job and you continue to do so. I so 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:53.199 appreciate you. I have two questions and also two resources, 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.440 but I've got to make the ninety second deadline, so 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.560 I'm gonna go with my questions first. I'm concerned about this. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.759 You won't have to vote again. Comment that was made 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:09.280 to a group by the current president elect, and I 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.679 want to know how we can fight that and if 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.000 it's even legal, But he gets out of stuff that's 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.920 legal anyway. That's number one. Number two, the privatization of 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.480 the weather, which with climate change and extreme weather events, 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:27.080 is concerning, particularly because it would mean that people could 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.920 not protect themselves by knowing what's going on and what 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.399 they need to do. Those are my two action things. 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.480 Okay, first of all, did y'all feel the weight of 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:38.920 her having to say president? 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:39.560 Yes. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:47.120 I'll be honest, I don't think there is anything we 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:51.080 can do about the like not voting again right now. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.560 I just to remind people they don't officially take power 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:59.240 until after inauguration January twenty. They have people call me over, thanks, 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:00.920 my damn mess with you. Yet I'm like, you know, 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:02.960 they're not in the White House yet, so that happens 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.400 after inauguration. So we have to see what policies they 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.799 put forth. But they've been eroding our democratic core principles 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.720 for a long time. I mean we've already seen this 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.560 with restrictive voting laws that took place across the country 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.840 post Shelby be Holder, which was of course the Supreme 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.640 Court decision that rolled back voting rights. So I don't 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.200 know how to attack an attack that we have not 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.440 seen from this administration yet. I think we have to 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.720 brace ourselves, wait for them to take power, and be 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:32.519 ready to fight when it's time. But for the month 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.600 of December, we're on strike, black women, you have a 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:35.240 right to rest. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.680 I would also add Tiffany, we should also take them 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.800 at their words. Yeah, So the good nurse is that 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.400 they've pretty much told us what they want to do, 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.880 who they want to go after, how they want to dismantle, 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.400 and who they want to do the dismantling. And I 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.280 just think we've got institutions. Yes, we have organizations out there. Yes, 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.560 there'll be some folks who will buck the system. I 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.000 think obviously the fact that the final I think Congression 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:04.240 seat has been decided it went to the Democrat, it 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.400 lessens the divibe in the House. I think they're now 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.880 at five maybe three three three to five vote margin. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.200 So so so I think more than anything, y'all, we're 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.880 gonna have to be ready mentally, mentally ready, But then 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.079 also our individuals, organizations, institutions, community organizations, and groups, we're 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.320 gonna have to be prepared to activate when it comes 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.960 to fighting for our selves. Now, if beyond that you've 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.760 got energy, fight for everybody else. But I also believe 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:37.000 by fighting for ourselves, we will undoubtedly ensure to everybody 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.120 else's safety as we always have. They benefit off of 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.920 our labor. And the other thing I would simply say 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.640 is to please, please please take care of our mental 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.520 because we can't do this every day, three sixty five 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.000 times foe, it's gonna be too much. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.920 And then just real quick, the House majority is two 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.200 or three. They're still not player, so it's a two 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.960 or three seat majority for this. I'm going to say 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.040 that I think a lot of that hangs in the 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:07.480 balance with the courts and the Supreme Court, which is 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:12.160 also still very scary. We've watched them piecemeal destroy the 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.839 Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five, something that used 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.120 to be supported and reauthorized every year on a bipartisan level. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.680 So I'm not sure the privatization of whether we might 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.320 get to at another time, because we want to stay on 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.800 this broader theme about democracy hanging in the balance, and 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:27.080 with that will go to our next question. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.080 Good evening, Angela, Tiffany and my man Andrew. This is 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.600 Mante from Maryland, and I had a question for you. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.200 Just like you, I've mourned, I've asked numerous questions, I've 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.920 avoided watching the news, and you know, now I'm at 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.600 the point of acceptance and now I'm wondering, based on 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.560 something that you mentioned in your mini pod about how 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.960 we as Democrats failed at the ground roots level of 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:58.039 reaching out to everybody and organizing at that place, what 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.920 should we do right now? We got four years of 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.039 BS that we know we're going to have to deal with, 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.400 But what should we be doing right now to prepare 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.920 for those midterm elections and especially for that presidential election 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.800 in four years. Yeah, we don't have a rough road 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.039 to hole, but it is what it is now. But 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.080 what can we be doing right now? What do we 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.800 do at the groundroops level? How do we organize at 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.320 this point? What can someone like me who does not 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.039 live in a swing state do to affect the overall 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.359 for the country. I just want us to have a 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:34.040 goal and something in mind and motivate us for these 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.520 next few years as we deal with what we're going 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.360 to deal with. But any ideas you guys have will 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.760 be most appreciated. Thank you for all you do and 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:42.479 welcome home. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.440 Awesome y'all. I know I answered a part of this 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.479 through sort of a political lens in one of our 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.880 main episodes. I wonder if y'all had other ideas outside 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:56.160 of the whole preparing, running, training, you know, and paying 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.400 attention to local offices. Are there other things that may 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.760 be non electoral you'd recommend, Well. 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.520 He lives in Maryland, but that doesn't mean that you 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:09.000 can't impact other people. Angela worked on Andrew's campaign. Andrew 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.080 was in Florida. You can give five dollars a five 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:17.359 hundred dollars to candidates. Pay attention to state races. The 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.040 state houses a lot are Republican controlled, and that's where 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.840 a lot of this shitty policy comes from. That bubbles 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.120 up to the federal government. So make sure you pay 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.880 attention to that. If you have children, show up at 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.320 those school board elections, because a lot of people use 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.560 school boards as a launching pad to launch their careers, 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.320 and lately it's been a conservative launching pad to be 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.000 a crusader against these made up cultural wars. There's also 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.320 GOTV efforts. There are no such thing. There is no 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.600 such thing as off election years. Every year there are 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.920 elections at the state, federal, and local level, so yeah, 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:50.440 that's not You can work on a campaign, you can 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.680 door knock, there are issue campaigns, so a ton of 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:54.880 things to do. 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:57.919 As you see it, you know. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:02.120 I have to tell you guys something that's really that 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.160 was on my heart while I was hearing him talk, 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.440 and that is I think that there's way too much 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:12.880 attention being placed on GOTV, on getting out the vote 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:14.520 for those of you who don't know what that is, 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.480 way too much attention on how we get ready for 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:22.520 the next election. I think the biggest challenge with black 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.920 political power is that we rev up and ramp up 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.440 to fall back, and we rev up and ramp up 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:29.239 to fall back. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.240 If there is no off. 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.160 Season, as Andrew said, he said, black women, you all 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.560 get to go on strike. There's no days off. What 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.720 does that mean. It means that our organizing isn't just 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.200 about protecting our voting rights or exercise exercising our franchise 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.480 at the ballot box. It is holding people accountable to 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.560 an agenda that we want to see happen on the 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.720 policy level, I mean and in policy on every single 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:53.600 level of government. 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.880 I think the other thing that we have to be. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.560 Mindful of is how we talk about people. There's a 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:04.520 lot of conversation about swing states, but not as much 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:09.080 about swing voters. There's a lot of conversation about what 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.040 people needed to hear in this election, and not about 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.480 what people need to hear period. You cannot forget the 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.000 humanity of a person and only consider them when there's 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.920 time for a transaction. I don't like to be engaged 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.160 by transactional people. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:23.720 I hate it. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.680 I have a point of privilege because I'm engaged all 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.520 the time in the electoral system, because I'm a strategist. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.080 This is the work that I've been doing all of 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.720 my adult life. There are many other people who are 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:43.440 gravitated to and tossed aside every four years. That is 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.439 not sustainable. It's not okay. And we got to deal 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.040 with the elephant in the room. And the elephant is 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:54.679 getting bigger because you know, pun intended, because the GOP 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.839 is making pro by talking to the forgotten amongst us, 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.200 because we've decided that their low propensity, or they don't 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.520 turn out, or they're low information, so they don't deserve 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:09.280 a conversation. They don't deserve to be asked what they 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.319 need to hear or see or feel from their politicians. 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.800 That's not a good strategy going forward for us as 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.640 black people, or frankly for elected officials. You know, we 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.400 avoid those conversations because we don't want to argue, but 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:28.640 those not having those arguments means these people just be like, 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.240 forget it. I don't think that's a good strategy. That's 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:32.880 the one thing I hate about DC the most is 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.720 the transaction. Imagine when you don't deal with politics at 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:36.760 all and they treating you like. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.800 Did you vote? Tip told us that when we were 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:39.400 knocking doors. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.720 Andrew, remember, Tipp was like, did we not start the 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:43.640 conversation with these people like did you vote? 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.160 Tip was like, let me talk to this lady about 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:45.600 her dog? 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:51.000 Was they weren't having us talk about the election folks? 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:52.880 When that went went by. The other piece that I 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.200 loved about where you were saying there is that we're 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.280 also always doing the talking, but not a lot of 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.040 the listening. And when we sat and listened, everything she 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:04.880 disavowed about politics she validated about politics and about herself, 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.000 her engagement and her interests. All we had to do 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.800 is listening, listen, and then give it right back to her. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.079 We're like girl, you said you don't like people. You 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.440 love people, and they love you. It's clear, so I 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.439 love you, know the listening part and the other piece 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.920 you said about, you know, avoiding the hard conversations and 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.360 then them hearing from the other side. The avoidance of 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.920 the hard conversations have led people to believe we're not 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:31.640 talking to them period. Yes, so it has the reverse effect. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.720 You don't want to get in the conflict, and they're saying, 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.160 you're not coming up my street at all. You want 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.480 have a thing to say about my lived experience because 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.839 everything I do hear you talk about and got nothing 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.559 to do with me, and I don't see myself reflected 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.640 in it. So true that power has to change for sure. 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.839 What's up, Native Lampard. My name is Harriet and I'm 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.400 calling in from the great state of Georgia. First, please 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.400 stop hanging your heads down low. I'm proud of you all. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.040 You all had an amazing run and you did an 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.520 invaluable service to our people. You survived what I consider 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.080 to be public lynchings, and you upset the system by 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.360 providing a voice for the voiceless at a time when 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:25.480 we lost a lot of our political commentators like Trevor Noah. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.360 You all stepped in and filled a gap that was 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:33.000 so necessary. So thank you all for what you've done, 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:37.400 and thank you for not abandoning us. And I would 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.480 love to see you all pivot. You know, I would 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:46.760 love to see more of an offensive posture, not so 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.680 much commentary on what the Trump administration is doing, but 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.720 what is the resistance moving doing? And to that end, 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.840 I want to call it to light a call to 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:01.480 action from the Working Families Party because I recently had 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.959 a Come to Jesus movement attending a mass call in 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:11.720 which everyday Americans have been invited to meet in small 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.360 groups three to seven people, large group no more than fifty. 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.760 You can assemble in libraries and community spaces and homes 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:23.320 and restaurants with the intention of holding space for one another, 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:28.040 taking a look at where we've come from, where we are, 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:29.559 and where we're going. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:30.439 Nice. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:31.920 I love it. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.160 Tiff, you were quiet on the last one. Why don't 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.080 what you think about the small groups idea getting together? 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:39.360 Yeah? 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.559 I mean I think that is And you know, I 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.679 want to clarify something because when we say grassroots, I 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.959 sometimes think people don't fully grasp the concept of what 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:53.160 that means. Grass roots is your community. 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:54.600 You know, even if you're. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.920 Upper crust, wealthy white woman, you know you can get 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.960 they're in your community. In fact, I would encourage all 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.840 to gather in your communities and have some necessary conversations 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:11.280 about rights and sharing in the responsibility of preserving democracy. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:16.439 So yeah, any any place that people gather to do work, somebody. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.280 People always have to tell me, don't try to eat 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.560 the elephant, you know, chew off a little piece and 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.720 do what you can do. And if everybody does a little, 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.360 nobody has to do a lot. So I like that. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.760 I gotta say, though I'm about to be I think 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:30.400 y'all won't get on you'all nerves the last half of 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:36.960 this podcast. I don't know how I feel about taking emojis. 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.679 I'm gonna tell you what my challenge, That's what I 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.800 wasn't there a real name and it was an emoji. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:48.160 And I just think with the rapidly advancing generative AI, 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.440 the point of our videos is we want to make 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.800 sure you are a real authentic person. I believe she's 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.960 a real authentic So this ain't none against you. Tell me, Harry, 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:59.800 we believe you, says that we know, yes, but I do. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.360 I'm like, I want to see people's actual faces to 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.679 know because every time you see people on Twitter or 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.880 you know, any of these social media well mainly Twitter, 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:09.800 and it's like, you don't think we know y'all pretending 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.720 to be black, like we know how black people talk. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:17.160 Sometimes they posted, but also she was like a victim 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.680 or something. I get all that it wasn't about her. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.880 I want to be really clear, I'm not saying anything 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.120 negative about her. I believe her to, you know, to 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:26.720 be real off. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.760 In the text messages he get talking about he agree 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.040 with you, Okay, yeah, I. 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.840 Think you know, when it comes to to AI and 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.360 authenticity and you know, hearing from our viewers, I just. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:37.320 Podcast. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:38.800 I just I think there has to be some clear 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.600 guidelines on who we're platforming and how we're platforming people, 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.000 because we don't want to be caught out there with 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:49.960 some Project Veritas video coming in here. So anyway, well, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.960 just to add credibility to her video, to her emoji video, 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.200 our producer Lauren said she was on the same call, 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:58.760 so at least we can validate that. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:14:59.800 I know Tip likes us. 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.480 To again, I just want to be clear. I wasn't 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.000 talking about her. I'm saying in general, when it comes 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:05.560 to people. 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.000 Submitting emoji videos. 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.240 Emoji videos, yeah, for many reasons. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.520 Can they do like black screen. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.440 Then it's not a video. I don't think she's gonna 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.120 want that profile look saying how I feel it's a 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:22.040 democracy If y'all don't, don't mind it. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.760 But I think fair and I think it's something we're 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.600 gonna have to be increasingly concerned about giving the direction 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.760 of this administration, this next administration to technology. 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.560 So I just I'm gonna be ai in the next podcast. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.800 Well we know you so, but you don't. 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.560 You ain't gonna know, like I'm never gonna know my 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:41.720 eyebrows stay over here. 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.360 I want to know your gestures. 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.160 I want to get this last time because I know 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.400 this last video. I think I disagree with this too. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:48.120 But let's roll it. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.720 Not you not you tipping off that way? Welcome home? 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.080 Once all told me, but let. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:54.440 Me hear it. 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.120 Okay, let's see maybe you did. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:56.760 You'll agree. 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.520 H Hey Native lampod, my name is Rica. I am 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:04.240 from Seattle. Hey, Angela. So I believe that we lost 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:08.160 this election on education and when you're not educated about 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.400 how this country is run and civics, you will vote, 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.239 vote against your best interests. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:13.760 So here's what I propose. 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.280 Trump is going to elect fifteen people to his cabinet, 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.240 maybe sixteen with Elon Musk, and then there's the president 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:24.400 and vice president. What does the attorney general do? What 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.840 does the Vice president do? What does the Secretary of 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.680 State do? What is Vivek and Elon Musk going to 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:30.080 be doing? 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:30.400 Right? 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.480 So that's what like fifteen eighteen twenty people that we 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.640 should be watching. What if we divvied up gave homework 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.920 to fifteen twenty people in the Native Lampod universe. So 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.080 for example, say Matt Gates, say he's appointed, Say I 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.680 rica am assigned to follow all things Matt Gates and 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.160 what he is doing as the Attorney general and what 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.200 the Attorney General of the United States does and can 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:54.920 do has. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:55.800 Done in the past. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:57.920 What if we divvied all of that up, somebody else 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.200 had secretary of State and so on and so forth, 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.640 and then we report it back to the Native Lampod 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.879 to let each other know what is happening, right, because 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:07.800 we're all so busy, there's so much going on, We're 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.399 just trying to survive. That all of us don't have 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.359 time to do all of that homework. So what if 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:16.680 we collectively did the homework together and educated each other 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.280 on civics in this country. 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.560 That's what I propose. So yeah, I love this question. 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.840 I do want to clarify to my homegirl in Seattle 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.160 that we don't know how many people Trump is gonna 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.399 make cabinet level. It is gonna be more than twelve. 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.760 So I just want to make sure that we're twenty 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.520 six disappointments that need Senate confirmation, yes, but they're not 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.479 all cabinet level even when they're sinning confirmed. But I 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.640 do know they're greater than twelve. So I just want 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.439 to make sure that we that we that we doubled 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.040 down on that really quick. And then Tiff, I know, 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.240 had a thought about being reporters, and then I have 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:52.600 a thought about that too. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:53.520 And I have a question. 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:59.480 We don't have time to get into it on this Okay, okay, 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.320 we don't have time to get into it on this podcast. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:05.200 But I have a question about if, like what then 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.080 what is the cabinet, because like the US Trade Rep 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.439 is part of the cabinet that Senate confirmed. And I 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.440 remember this because I had an argument in the newsroom 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.439 like fifteen years ago, and I was like, yeah, but 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:16.359 that's not cabinet level, and they're like, no, Trade Rep 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.560 is cabinet. So anyway, at a later time we can 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.120 talk about what constitutes a member of the cabinet. 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:25.679 But on tip this is a good point. I just 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.480 let me just tell you just one thing. A president 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.000 also has discretion on who they decide its cabinet level 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.920 beyond those departments as well. The Trade Rep is generally 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.560 cabinet level, but I think that that is no, no, no, 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.760 it is cabinet level regardless. But there are other appointments 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:43.719 that the president can make and decide that they're going 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:44.600 to be cabinet level. 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:48.399 The president can also decide what agencies are housed in DC. 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.359 So Donald Trump, through executive action can say, oh, I 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.439 you know, I now I want the Department of Defense 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.560 house that out of mar A Lago or next door 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.080 to mar Lago. Like of course he went over eighty 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.200 five percent of federal government workers don't work in DC, 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.320 but the agencies or house here. So anyway, speaking the civics, 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.800 you can see that even even we need a check 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.320 in on civics sometimes, so to be continued the conversation 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.520 on what constitutes the cabinet. But yeah, this is my 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.600 challenge with this, you guys. Honestly, I think citizen journalism 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.080 is amazing, and I've seen people do amazing things there. 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.359 But to armed people who aren't vetted, who we don't 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:26.280 know and say yes, go back and report one. To 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.400 even get access to information, sometimes it is behind it's 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.480 not behind a paywall, but what I would call a 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.359 journalism wall, you know, like everything is not on Google, 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.240 you know. And I think that's part of my challenge 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.320 with people who go on air and they ask them 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.840 assistant to pull pull me the top five facts about 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:43.680 this five minutes before they go on air, and it's 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.640 like care enough to become a subject matter expert, go 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.480 down that rabbit hole. Read when I go after things, 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.480 when I study things. But I wanted to talk about prisons. 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:53.639 I didn't do that five minutes before the show. I 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.720