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Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome home, everybody. This is another mini pod. Andrew's
Speaker 3: gotta beat going. I can't here, but that's all right
Speaker 3: cause I am still real clear. Hey anyway, I ain't
Speaker 3: gonna give you all my clothes, you know, to be
Speaker 3: trying to throw me out.
Speaker 4: I love it, I love it, But today.
Speaker 3: Is it is a special episode because we're going to
Speaker 3: do a little NLP town hall. We got some questions
Speaker 3: that y'all have asked and we want to make sure
Speaker 3: that we get to answer them, so we gotta kick
Speaker 3: it off with this.
Speaker 5: Lego high Native Lamb Pod. Thank you so much for
Speaker 5: all that you do, Andrew, Tiffany, and Angela. I've been
Speaker 5: following you since day one, and you've just done an
Speaker 5: excellent job and you continue to do so. I so
Speaker 5: appreciate you. I have two questions and also two resources,
Speaker 5: but I've got to make the ninety second deadline, so
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with my questions first. I'm concerned about this.
Speaker 5: You won't have to vote again. Comment that was made
Speaker 5: to a group by the current president elect, and I
Speaker 5: want to know how we can fight that and if
Speaker 5: it's even legal, But he gets out of stuff that's
Speaker 5: legal anyway. That's number one. Number two, the privatization of
Speaker 5: the weather, which with climate change and extreme weather events,
Speaker 5: is concerning, particularly because it would mean that people could
Speaker 5: not protect themselves by knowing what's going on and what
Speaker 5: they need to do. Those are my two action things.
Speaker 4: Okay, first of all, did y'all feel the weight of
Speaker 4: her having to say president?
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I don't think there is anything we
Speaker 1: can do about the like not voting again right now.
Speaker 1: I just to remind people they don't officially take power
Speaker 1: until after inauguration January twenty. They have people call me over, thanks,
Speaker 1: my damn mess with you. Yet I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not in the White House yet, so that happens
Speaker 1: after inauguration. So we have to see what policies they
Speaker 1: put forth. But they've been eroding our democratic core principles
Speaker 1: for a long time. I mean we've already seen this
Speaker 1: with restrictive voting laws that took place across the country
Speaker 1: post Shelby be Holder, which was of course the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court decision that rolled back voting rights. So I don't
Speaker 1: know how to attack an attack that we have not
Speaker 1: seen from this administration yet. I think we have to
Speaker 1: brace ourselves, wait for them to take power, and be
Speaker 1: ready to fight when it's time. But for the month
Speaker 1: of December, we're on strike, black women, you have a
Speaker 1: right to rest.
Speaker 4: I would also add Tiffany, we should also take them
Speaker 4: at their words. Yeah, So the good nurse is that
Speaker 4: they've pretty much told us what they want to do,
Speaker 4: who they want to go after, how they want to dismantle,
Speaker 4: and who they want to do the dismantling. And I
Speaker 4: just think we've got institutions. Yes, we have organizations out there. Yes,
Speaker 4: there'll be some folks who will buck the system. I
Speaker 4: think obviously the fact that the final I think Congression
Speaker 4: seat has been decided it went to the Democrat, it
Speaker 4: lessens the divibe in the House. I think they're now
Speaker 4: at five maybe three three three to five vote margin.
Speaker 4: So so so I think more than anything, y'all, we're
Speaker 4: gonna have to be ready mentally, mentally ready, But then
Speaker 4: also our individuals, organizations, institutions, community organizations, and groups, we're
Speaker 4: gonna have to be prepared to activate when it comes
Speaker 4: to fighting for our selves. Now, if beyond that you've
Speaker 4: got energy, fight for everybody else. But I also believe
Speaker 4: by fighting for ourselves, we will undoubtedly ensure to everybody
Speaker 4: else's safety as we always have. They benefit off of
Speaker 4: our labor. And the other thing I would simply say
Speaker 4: is to please, please please take care of our mental
Speaker 4: because we can't do this every day, three sixty five
Speaker 4: times foe, it's gonna be too much.
Speaker 3: And then just real quick, the House majority is two
Speaker 3: or three. They're still not player, so it's a two
Speaker 3: or three seat majority for this. I'm going to say
Speaker 3: that I think a lot of that hangs in the
Speaker 3: balance with the courts and the Supreme Court, which is
Speaker 3: also still very scary. We've watched them piecemeal destroy the
Speaker 3: Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five, something that used
Speaker 3: to be supported and reauthorized every year on a bipartisan level.
Speaker 3: So I'm not sure the privatization of whether we might
Speaker 3: get to at another time, because we want to stay on
Speaker 3: this broader theme about democracy hanging in the balance, and
Speaker 3: with that will go to our next question.
Speaker 2: Good evening, Angela, Tiffany and my man Andrew. This is
Speaker 2: Mante from Maryland, and I had a question for you.
Speaker 2: Just like you, I've mourned, I've asked numerous questions, I've
Speaker 2: avoided watching the news, and you know, now I'm at
Speaker 2: the point of acceptance and now I'm wondering, based on
Speaker 2: something that you mentioned in your mini pod about how
Speaker 2: we as Democrats failed at the ground roots level of
Speaker 2: reaching out to everybody and organizing at that place, what
Speaker 2: should we do right now? We got four years of
Speaker 2: BS that we know we're going to have to deal with,
Speaker 2: But what should we be doing right now to prepare
Speaker 2: for those midterm elections and especially for that presidential election
Speaker 2: in four years. Yeah, we don't have a rough road
Speaker 2: to hole, but it is what it is now. But
Speaker 2: what can we be doing right now? What do we
Speaker 2: do at the groundroops level? How do we organize at
Speaker 2: this point? What can someone like me who does not
Speaker 2: live in a swing state do to affect the overall
Speaker 2: for the country. I just want us to have a
Speaker 2: goal and something in mind and motivate us for these
Speaker 2: next few years as we deal with what we're going
Speaker 2: to deal with. But any ideas you guys have will
Speaker 2: be most appreciated. Thank you for all you do and
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 4: Awesome y'all. I know I answered a part of this
Speaker 4: through sort of a political lens in one of our
Speaker 4: main episodes. I wonder if y'all had other ideas outside
Speaker 4: of the whole preparing, running, training, you know, and paying
Speaker 4: attention to local offices. Are there other things that may
Speaker 4: be non electoral you'd recommend, Well.
Speaker 1: He lives in Maryland, but that doesn't mean that you
Speaker 1: can't impact other people. Angela worked on Andrew's campaign. Andrew
Speaker 1: was in Florida. You can give five dollars a five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars to candidates. Pay attention to state races. The
Speaker 1: state houses a lot are Republican controlled, and that's where
Speaker 1: a lot of this shitty policy comes from. That bubbles
Speaker 1: up to the federal government. So make sure you pay
Speaker 1: attention to that. If you have children, show up at
Speaker 1: those school board elections, because a lot of people use
Speaker 1: school boards as a launching pad to launch their careers,
Speaker 1: and lately it's been a conservative launching pad to be
Speaker 1: a crusader against these made up cultural wars. There's also
Speaker 1: GOTV efforts. There are no such thing. There is no
Speaker 1: such thing as off election years. Every year there are
Speaker 1: elections at the state, federal, and local level, so yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not You can work on a campaign, you can
Speaker 1: door knock, there are issue campaigns, so a ton of
Speaker 1: things to do.
Speaker 6: As you see it, you know.
Speaker 3: I have to tell you guys something that's really that
Speaker 3: was on my heart while I was hearing him talk,
Speaker 3: and that is I think that there's way too much
Speaker 3: attention being placed on GOTV, on getting out the vote
Speaker 3: for those of you who don't know what that is,
Speaker 3: way too much attention on how we get ready for
Speaker 3: the next election. I think the biggest challenge with black
Speaker 3: political power is that we rev up and ramp up
Speaker 3: to fall back, and we rev up and ramp up
Speaker 3: to fall back.
Speaker 6: If there is no off.
Speaker 3: Season, as Andrew said, he said, black women, you all
Speaker 3: get to go on strike. There's no days off. What
Speaker 3: does that mean. It means that our organizing isn't just
Speaker 3: about protecting our voting rights or exercise exercising our franchise
Speaker 3: at the ballot box. It is holding people accountable to
Speaker 3: an agenda that we want to see happen on the
Speaker 3: policy level, I mean and in policy on every single
Speaker 3: level of government.
Speaker 6: I think the other thing that we have to be.
Speaker 3: Mindful of is how we talk about people. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of conversation about swing states, but not as much
Speaker 3: about swing voters. There's a lot of conversation about what
Speaker 3: people needed to hear in this election, and not about
Speaker 3: what people need to hear period. You cannot forget the
Speaker 3: humanity of a person and only consider them when there's
Speaker 3: time for a transaction. I don't like to be engaged
Speaker 3: by transactional people.
Speaker 6: I hate it.
Speaker 3: I have a point of privilege because I'm engaged all
Speaker 3: the time in the electoral system, because I'm a strategist.
Speaker 3: This is the work that I've been doing all of
Speaker 3: my adult life. There are many other people who are
Speaker 3: gravitated to and tossed aside every four years. That is
Speaker 3: not sustainable. It's not okay. And we got to deal
Speaker 3: with the elephant in the room. And the elephant is
Speaker 3: getting bigger because you know, pun intended, because the GOP
Speaker 3: is making pro by talking to the forgotten amongst us,
Speaker 3: because we've decided that their low propensity, or they don't
Speaker 3: turn out, or they're low information, so they don't deserve
Speaker 3: a conversation. They don't deserve to be asked what they
Speaker 3: need to hear or see or feel from their politicians.
Speaker 3: That's not a good strategy going forward for us as
Speaker 3: black people, or frankly for elected officials. You know, we
Speaker 3: avoid those conversations because we don't want to argue, but
Speaker 3: those not having those arguments means these people just be like,
Speaker 3: forget it. I don't think that's a good strategy. That's
Speaker 3: the one thing I hate about DC the most is
Speaker 3: the transaction. Imagine when you don't deal with politics at
Speaker 3: all and they treating you like.
Speaker 6: Did you vote? Tip told us that when we were
Speaker 6: knocking doors.
Speaker 3: Andrew, remember, Tipp was like, did we not start the
Speaker 3: conversation with these people like did you vote?
Speaker 6: Tip was like, let me talk to this lady about
Speaker 6: her dog?
Speaker 4: Was they weren't having us talk about the election folks?
Speaker 4: When that went went by. The other piece that I
Speaker 4: loved about where you were saying there is that we're
Speaker 4: also always doing the talking, but not a lot of
Speaker 4: the listening. And when we sat and listened, everything she
Speaker 4: disavowed about politics she validated about politics and about herself,
Speaker 4: her engagement and her interests. All we had to do
Speaker 4: is listening, listen, and then give it right back to her.
Speaker 4: We're like girl, you said you don't like people. You
Speaker 4: love people, and they love you. It's clear, so I
Speaker 4: love you, know the listening part and the other piece
Speaker 4: you said about, you know, avoiding the hard conversations and
Speaker 4: then them hearing from the other side. The avoidance of
Speaker 4: the hard conversations have led people to believe we're not
Speaker 4: talking to them period. Yes, so it has the reverse effect.
Speaker 4: You don't want to get in the conflict, and they're saying,
Speaker 4: you're not coming up my street at all. You want
Speaker 4: have a thing to say about my lived experience because
Speaker 4: everything I do hear you talk about and got nothing
Speaker 4: to do with me, and I don't see myself reflected
Speaker 4: in it. So true that power has to change for sure.
Speaker 7: What's up, Native Lampard. My name is Harriet and I'm
Speaker 7: calling in from the great state of Georgia. First, please
Speaker 7: stop hanging your heads down low. I'm proud of you all.
Speaker 7: You all had an amazing run and you did an
Speaker 7: invaluable service to our people. You survived what I consider
Speaker 7: to be public lynchings, and you upset the system by
Speaker 7: providing a voice for the voiceless at a time when
Speaker 7: we lost a lot of our political commentators like Trevor Noah.
Speaker 7: You all stepped in and filled a gap that was
Speaker 7: so necessary. So thank you all for what you've done,
Speaker 7: and thank you for not abandoning us. And I would
Speaker 7: love to see you all pivot. You know, I would
Speaker 7: love to see more of an offensive posture, not so
Speaker 7: much commentary on what the Trump administration is doing, but
Speaker 7: what is the resistance moving doing? And to that end,
Speaker 7: I want to call it to light a call to
Speaker 7: action from the Working Families Party because I recently had
Speaker 7: a Come to Jesus movement attending a mass call in
Speaker 7: which everyday Americans have been invited to meet in small
Speaker 7: groups three to seven people, large group no more than fifty.
Speaker 7: You can assemble in libraries and community spaces and homes
Speaker 7: and restaurants with the intention of holding space for one another,
Speaker 7: taking a look at where we've come from, where we are,
Speaker 7: and where we're going.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 3: Tiff, you were quiet on the last one. Why don't
Speaker 3: what you think about the small groups idea getting together?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I think that is And you know, I
Speaker 1: want to clarify something because when we say grassroots, I
Speaker 1: sometimes think people don't fully grasp the concept of what
Speaker 1: that means. Grass roots is your community.
Speaker 6: You know, even if you're.
Speaker 1: Upper crust, wealthy white woman, you know you can get
Speaker 1: they're in your community. In fact, I would encourage all
Speaker 1: to gather in your communities and have some necessary conversations
Speaker 1: about rights and sharing in the responsibility of preserving democracy.
Speaker 1: So yeah, any any place that people gather to do work, somebody.
Speaker 1: People always have to tell me, don't try to eat
Speaker 1: the elephant, you know, chew off a little piece and
Speaker 1: do what you can do. And if everybody does a little,
Speaker 1: nobody has to do a lot. So I like that.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, though I'm about to be I think
Speaker 1: y'all won't get on you'all nerves the last half of
Speaker 1: this podcast. I don't know how I feel about taking emojis.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what my challenge, That's what I
Speaker 1: wasn't there a real name and it was an emoji.
Speaker 1: And I just think with the rapidly advancing generative AI,
Speaker 1: the point of our videos is we want to make
Speaker 1: sure you are a real authentic person. I believe she's
Speaker 1: a real authentic So this ain't none against you. Tell me, Harry,
Speaker 1: we believe you, says that we know, yes, but I do.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to see people's actual faces to
Speaker 1: know because every time you see people on Twitter or
Speaker 1: you know, any of these social media well mainly Twitter,
Speaker 1: and it's like, you don't think we know y'all pretending
Speaker 1: to be black, like we know how black people talk.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they posted, but also she was like a victim
Speaker 1: or something. I get all that it wasn't about her.
Speaker 1: I want to be really clear, I'm not saying anything
Speaker 1: negative about her. I believe her to, you know, to
Speaker 1: be real off.
Speaker 3: In the text messages he get talking about he agree
Speaker 3: with you, Okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Think you know, when it comes to to AI and
Speaker 1: authenticity and you know, hearing from our viewers, I just.
Speaker 6: Podcast.
Speaker 1: I just I think there has to be some clear
Speaker 1: guidelines on who we're platforming and how we're platforming people,
Speaker 1: because we don't want to be caught out there with
Speaker 1: some Project Veritas video coming in here. So anyway, well,
Speaker 1: just to add credibility to her video, to her emoji video,
Speaker 1: our producer Lauren said she was on the same call,
Speaker 1: so at least we can validate that.
Speaker 6: I know Tip likes us.
Speaker 1: To again, I just want to be clear. I wasn't
Speaker 1: talking about her. I'm saying in general, when it comes
Speaker 1: to people.
Speaker 6: Submitting emoji videos.
Speaker 1: Emoji videos, yeah, for many reasons.
Speaker 4: Can they do like black screen.
Speaker 1: Then it's not a video. I don't think she's gonna
Speaker 1: want that profile look saying how I feel it's a
Speaker 1: democracy If y'all don't, don't mind it.
Speaker 4: But I think fair and I think it's something we're
Speaker 4: gonna have to be increasingly concerned about giving the direction
Speaker 4: of this administration, this next administration to technology.
Speaker 6: So I just I'm gonna be ai in the next podcast.
Speaker 6: Well we know you so, but you don't.
Speaker 3: You ain't gonna know, like I'm never gonna know my
Speaker 3: eyebrows stay over here.
Speaker 4: I want to know your gestures.
Speaker 1: I want to get this last time because I know
Speaker 1: this last video. I think I disagree with this too.
Speaker 1: But let's roll it.
Speaker 6: Not you not you tipping off that way? Welcome home?
Speaker 1: Once all told me, but let.
Speaker 4: Me hear it.
Speaker 6: Okay, let's see maybe you did.
Speaker 3: You'll agree.
Speaker 8: H Hey Native lampod, my name is Rica. I am
Speaker 8: from Seattle. Hey, Angela. So I believe that we lost
Speaker 8: this election on education and when you're not educated about
Speaker 8: how this country is run and civics, you will vote,
Speaker 8: vote against your best interests.
Speaker 4: So here's what I propose.
Speaker 8: Trump is going to elect fifteen people to his cabinet,
Speaker 8: maybe sixteen with Elon Musk, and then there's the president
Speaker 8: and vice president. What does the attorney general do? What
Speaker 8: does the Vice president do? What does the Secretary of
Speaker 8: State do? What is Vivek and Elon Musk going to
Speaker 8: be doing?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 8: So that's what like fifteen eighteen twenty people that we
Speaker 8: should be watching. What if we divvied up gave homework
Speaker 8: to fifteen twenty people in the Native Lampod universe. So
Speaker 8: for example, say Matt Gates, say he's appointed, Say I
Speaker 8: rica am assigned to follow all things Matt Gates and
Speaker 8: what he is doing as the Attorney general and what
Speaker 8: the Attorney General of the United States does and can
Speaker 8: do has.
Speaker 6: Done in the past.
Speaker 8: What if we divvied all of that up, somebody else
Speaker 8: had secretary of State and so on and so forth,
Speaker 8: and then we report it back to the Native Lampod
Speaker 8: to let each other know what is happening, right, because
Speaker 8: we're all so busy, there's so much going on, We're
Speaker 8: just trying to survive. That all of us don't have
Speaker 8: time to do all of that homework. So what if
Speaker 8: we collectively did the homework together and educated each other
Speaker 8: on civics in this country.
Speaker 6: That's what I propose. So yeah, I love this question.
Speaker 3: I do want to clarify to my homegirl in Seattle
Speaker 3: that we don't know how many people Trump is gonna
Speaker 3: make cabinet level. It is gonna be more than twelve.
Speaker 3: So I just want to make sure that we're twenty
Speaker 3: six disappointments that need Senate confirmation, yes, but they're not
Speaker 3: all cabinet level even when they're sinning confirmed. But I
Speaker 3: do know they're greater than twelve. So I just want
Speaker 3: to make sure that we that we that we doubled
Speaker 3: down on that really quick. And then Tiff, I know,
Speaker 3: had a thought about being reporters, and then I have
Speaker 3: a thought about that too.
Speaker 6: And I have a question.
Speaker 1: We don't have time to get into it on this Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: we don't have time to get into it on this podcast.
Speaker 1: But I have a question about if, like what then
Speaker 1: what is the cabinet, because like the US Trade Rep
Speaker 1: is part of the cabinet that Senate confirmed. And I
Speaker 1: remember this because I had an argument in the newsroom
Speaker 1: like fifteen years ago, and I was like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's not cabinet level, and they're like, no, Trade Rep
Speaker 1: is cabinet. So anyway, at a later time we can
Speaker 1: talk about what constitutes a member of the cabinet.
Speaker 3: But on tip this is a good point. I just
Speaker 3: let me just tell you just one thing. A president
Speaker 3: also has discretion on who they decide its cabinet level
Speaker 3: beyond those departments as well. The Trade Rep is generally
Speaker 3: cabinet level, but I think that that is no, no, no,
Speaker 3: it is cabinet level regardless. But there are other appointments
Speaker 3: that the president can make and decide that they're going
Speaker 3: to be cabinet level.
Speaker 1: The president can also decide what agencies are housed in DC.
Speaker 1: So Donald Trump, through executive action can say, oh, I
Speaker 1: you know, I now I want the Department of Defense
Speaker 1: house that out of mar A Lago or next door
Speaker 1: to mar Lago. Like of course he went over eighty
Speaker 1: five percent of federal government workers don't work in DC,
Speaker 1: but the agencies or house here. So anyway, speaking the civics,
Speaker 1: you can see that even even we need a check
Speaker 1: in on civics sometimes, so to be continued the conversation
Speaker 1: on what constitutes the cabinet. But yeah, this is my
Speaker 1: challenge with this, you guys. Honestly, I think citizen journalism
Speaker 1: is amazing, and I've seen people do amazing things there.
Speaker 1: But to armed people who aren't vetted, who we don't
Speaker 1: know and say yes, go back and report one. To
Speaker 1: even get access to information, sometimes it is behind it's
Speaker 1: not behind a paywall, but what I would call a
Speaker 1: journalism wall, you know, like everything is not on Google,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think that's part of my challenge
Speaker 1: with people who go on air and they ask them
Speaker 1: assistant to pull pull me the top five facts about
Speaker 1: this five minutes before they go on air, and it's
Speaker 1: like care enough to become a subject matter expert, go
Speaker 1: down that rabbit hole. Read when I go after things,
Speaker 1: when I study things. But I wanted to talk about prisons.
Speaker 1: I didn't do that five minutes before the show. I
Speaker 1: spent three days, you know, looking looking at prisons, pulling
Speaker 1: up old segments.
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 1: And that that does requ require a commitment, It does
Speaker 1: acquire a skill set. It does require having access a
Speaker 1: press pass, a phone call, knowing how to navigate these systems.
Speaker 1: To get information to make sure. So if we're arming
Speaker 1: people to do that, it's still going to require a
Speaker 1: level of fact checking. Misinformation and disinformation is a huge deal.
Speaker 1: And even in our comments in videos we've seen, I've
Speaker 1: seen so many people get things wrong, quote something, misstate something.
Speaker 1: So I think people come here to make sure that
Speaker 1: they're getting vetted information as factual at least that's what
Speaker 1: I take that very very seriously, as you guys know,
Speaker 1: and I try my best to do that here. So
Speaker 1: I just wonder logistically how that will work. If we're saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: go out there and cover it. I like the commitment
Speaker 1: of saying yeah, we want to be a part of
Speaker 1: it too, But on the back end, having the fact
Speaker 1: check that and vet that, I think is probably some
Speaker 1: staffing issues that we couldn't support, to be honest, But
Speaker 1: I love the idea since that I'm not putting like
Speaker 1: I love that you said it, and my co host
Speaker 1: probably love the idea. But I'm just thinking from a
Speaker 1: journalistic standard, a newsroom standard, of how to make sure
Speaker 1: they were always saying factual things that we took actual time,
Speaker 1: that we didn't google in five minutes, because that is
Speaker 1: a journalists will tell you that is not research, and
Speaker 1: that's not how you get there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I first of all completely respect for your position
Speaker 4: here and you as a journalist. I wouldn't expect anything
Speaker 4: else from U, Tiffany, And certainly if you heard the
Speaker 4: word reporting, I think what I heard was her saying,
Speaker 4: and report back to the native land, you know, sort
Speaker 4: of community, what you are following, looking at so on
Speaker 4: and so forth. And quite frankly, some of the same
Speaker 4: concerns you raised there may still you know, it may
Speaker 4: still occur. I do love the idea of diving up
Speaker 4: the work. And what I heard from that is like
Speaker 4: we all share in this commitment to hold this government accountable.
Speaker 4: Let's hold the cabinet members accountable, which, by the way,
Speaker 4: the cabinet of course existed. The cabinet is an advisory
Speaker 4: group to the president. But what makes you a cabinet
Speaker 4: member Through the Constitution of the United States those fifteen
Speaker 4: and to add a cabinet member it must be approved
Speaker 4: by the Congress. Of course, are those who fall in
Speaker 4: the line of secession, those who can become president should
Speaker 4: the president be incapacitated going down the line of secession
Speaker 4: from the Vice president, Speaker or the House President of
Speaker 4: the Senate pro Tem. It then goes to the members
Speaker 4: of the Cabinet, the fifteen members of the Cabinet, which
Speaker 4: the order of who would then come next is based
Speaker 4: off of the age in which that department was created,
Speaker 4: so starting with Secretary of State onward and forward. But
Speaker 4: nonetheless that help the whole idea of the civics lesson.
Speaker 4: I think it's really powerful, more than what's happening with
Speaker 4: one agency over another from time to time. Somebody who
Speaker 4: is finding these really nuanced questions about the government that
Speaker 4: may seem insignificant but actually show up more often in
Speaker 4: our lives than we know, and educating, schooling us on
Speaker 4: those kinds of things. I think that is something that
Speaker 4: would be good for the show. And either through our
Speaker 4: own research and knowledge of a certain area or through
Speaker 4: research system, we can of course do the fact checking piece,
Speaker 4: but love the idea of citizen reporting on basically what
Speaker 4: makes a democracy and what are the civics components of
Speaker 4: this government that we all have an obligation I think
Speaker 4: to have access.
Speaker 3: To just really quick. I like what you just said
Speaker 3: to ag Tip. I agree with you on the fact
Speaker 3: check and piece. I think that that's too much for
Speaker 3: us to carry. But if we use our website, which
Speaker 3: is native lampod dot com, as a place for people
Speaker 3: to kind of do a group assignment, I'll tell you all,
Speaker 3: I'm a collaborative learner. I loved group assignments growing up.
Speaker 3: Even when we do our pre production calls in the morning,
Speaker 3: I so love those because I'm like, oh, I didn't
Speaker 3: think about this this way or whatever. So I like
Speaker 3: the idea of one folks feeling not isolated in this
Speaker 3: administration that is coming up. Two, yeah, do a cabinet watch.
Speaker 3: We can even call it NLP Cabinet Watch or NLPFAM
Speaker 3: Cabinet Watch. And people are just like, hey, did you
Speaker 3: hear this thing?
Speaker 6: Is this true? Is this real?
Speaker 3: And they can even be kind of a fact check
Speaker 3: source for each other, and maybe each week we can
Speaker 3: look in there and see if there's something that we
Speaker 3: want to share with the broader community outside of that
Speaker 3: which in some ways this would function like a Reddit,
Speaker 3: but specifically you know, on our site. If we have
Speaker 3: that functionality that could be built in LOLO, that would
Speaker 3: be great. But I really like the idea of a
Speaker 3: group of signment where people do not feel isolated in
Speaker 3: this upcoming administration, and Lolo said that she will have
Speaker 3: details on how we could do something like that next week.
Speaker 6: Today said that Tiff also.
Speaker 3: Agrees that this might be a group of assignment that's
Speaker 3: worth continuing and considering.
Speaker 1: So can I love over time, But I want to
Speaker 1: say something really quickly. Group assignments maybe does another minipod
Speaker 1: I like group of signments. But I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: I'm not a collaborative learner when I say group of assignment.
Speaker 1: Like if the three of us don't do a group assignment,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, I'm gonna go off and do my thing, Andrew,
Speaker 1: you go do your part, Angel will do your part,
Speaker 1: and then let's come back together, right and see if
Speaker 1: these I don't like being in a room because spitball
Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, no, no, I have a clear
Speaker 1: like other people are a distraction sometimes when I'm like
Speaker 1: clear minded and focused. So I don't know, I think
Speaker 1: that's a work style. I'd be curious how maybe yeah,
Speaker 1: and maybe.
Speaker 4: I like you could always end up with the work.
Speaker 3: I agree with that too. There's definitely times where that happens.
Speaker 3: But I do think that there's a space for brainstorming
Speaker 3: there's a space to go back and do your work
Speaker 3: and come back. And I think, no matter what, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be some of that. Because we're talking about a
Speaker 3: virtual group of sign We're not telling people get on Zoom.
Speaker 3: We're just saying you can share what you're learning on
Speaker 3: kind of like a Reddit type of a board or
Speaker 3: something on our site, which we don't have yet. And
Speaker 3: Lolo is telling me to wait to talk about that
Speaker 3: any further next week. But our great ideas, I love it,
Speaker 3: I love these questions, answer it.
Speaker 6: We just want y'all involve.
Speaker 3: Like our highest hope for this podcast is not that
Speaker 3: you listen to us every week. It's that you feel
Speaker 3: inspired to go and do some of this work yourself,
Speaker 3: whether it's running for office, whether it's volunteering in your
Speaker 3: community or overseas like Lolo did, or it is donating
Speaker 3: to campaigns or keeping us all in check about what's
Speaker 3: really going on and accountable.
Speaker 6: So yes, exactly.
Speaker 3: Well anyway, welcome home, y'all, listen and talk.
Speaker 6: We can talk to y'all next time.
Speaker 3: We wait over time, Bye bye, Welcome.
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