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Speaker 1: Reason Choice Medium to make Andrew smile. We also have
Speaker 1: astronaut VICI lover sharing some profound words.
Speaker 2: As artimist the best part.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Andrew smile.
Speaker 3: You know I don't have anything prepared. I'm glad you
Speaker 3: brought that up, though. I think these observances are important,
Speaker 3: and as we are so far from Earth and looking
Speaker 3: back at you know, the beauty of creation. I think
Speaker 3: the for me, one of the really important personal perspectives
Speaker 3: that I have up here is I can really see
Speaker 3: Earth as one thing. And you know, when I read
Speaker 3: the Bible and I look at all of the amazing
Speaker 3: things that were done for us who were created, it's you.
Speaker 3: You have this amazing place, this spaceship. You guys are
Speaker 3: talking to us because we're in a spaceship really far
Speaker 3: from Earth, but you're on a spaceship called Earth that
Speaker 3: was created to give us a place to live in
Speaker 3: the universe and the cosmos. Maybe the distance we are
Speaker 3: from you makes you think what we're doing is special,
Speaker 3: But we're the same distance from you, and I'm trying
Speaker 3: to tell you, just trust me, you are special in
Speaker 3: all of this emptiness. This is a whole bunch of nothing.
Speaker 3: This thing we call the universe, you have this oasis,
Speaker 3: this beautiful place that we get to exist together. I
Speaker 3: think as we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about you know,
Speaker 3: all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrated
Speaker 3: or not, whether you believe in God or not, this
Speaker 3: is an opportunity for us to remember where we are,
Speaker 3: who we are, and that we are the same thing,
Speaker 3: and that we got to get through this together.
Speaker 1: I just want to I want people to show. I
Speaker 1: want people to know the type of symmetry we have
Speaker 1: on this show, which is native land. Because you've had
Speaker 1: the poetry and the great poets we just talked about
Speaker 1: offset Gucci Man, and now this poetry that we just heard,
Speaker 1: I mean Victor Glover, I mean that that is I
Speaker 1: mean poetry to my ears.
Speaker 2: I was saying that Gucci Man is the next person
Speaker 2: set to go into space and travel around the moon.
Speaker 2: Think I heard that someone. Now, what we try not
Speaker 2: to do on this show is frick information. Like he's
Speaker 2: been to the before. Maybe he just saw some space
Speaker 2: bank cap. I don't know, but I do I do
Speaker 2: want to say though, like that was beautiful. Obviously what
Speaker 2: possibility looks like. Representation matters. But I'm looking at this
Speaker 2: black man, first woman to travel around the moon. We
Speaker 2: can do this, we can do Can we solve racism?
Speaker 2: Can we can we address systemic inequality? And like what's
Speaker 2: going on on earth? Very amazed at what is happening
Speaker 2: in space, but like that really is a reminder of
Speaker 2: what we do when we put our mind to something,
Speaker 2: what we're able to accomplish.
Speaker 1: But let me also tell you, let me tell you
Speaker 1: my theory about this, uh miss Aaron, is that it's
Speaker 1: not on black people. We got a lot of burden.
Speaker 2: It's not that's not on him or on uh on,
Speaker 2: on Christina Cox, the first woman who is who is
Speaker 2: also on this artemist mission, Like it is, what can
Speaker 2: the rest of us? What can the rest of y'all?
Speaker 2: I guess I should say be doing to address the
Speaker 2: challenges that we have here on earth.
Speaker 4: To steal me, you know, I think that's fair point, Aaron.
Speaker 4: And I think part of what he was there to do,
Speaker 4: aside from captain the ship, I think he I think
Speaker 4: he's he was the captain of the ship. Is that right?
Speaker 1: Or do we know you might have just made that up.
Speaker 1: But that's okay, No, I think he is.
Speaker 2: But anyway, listen, he is a black man, in which
Speaker 2: means he did a lot to get there, the.
Speaker 4: First black man to travel that far from the Earth.
Speaker 4: So I will say this, I think in part he
Speaker 4: oh Lord, ankle, bracelets back to Miami. He is a captain.
Speaker 4: He is the captain. Okay, I got it right. But
Speaker 4: the point I wanted to make is that I think sometimes.
Speaker 2: The navy.
Speaker 4: Okay, sorry, I think he's the captain. Whatever he is,
Speaker 4: he's either Captain such and such or he is the captain.
Speaker 4: But either way, it's a privileged and honor. But but
Speaker 4: what I think part, as we all know, all four
Speaker 4: of us know this, the burden around this healing often
Speaker 4: falls to us in the form of acceptability politics. This
Speaker 4: adjacency to success and adjacency to power, adjacency to rare
Speaker 4: experiences that are of honor, of positions of honor and dignity.
Speaker 4: And when you get there, you're oftentimes rolled out there
Speaker 4: as the person who then the white listenership or white
Speaker 4: viewership where the racism problem in this country resides, and
Speaker 4: not exclusively there, but predominantly there. They then get to
Speaker 4: see you and say, oh, they're all not the same. Oh,
Speaker 4: there is difference, and there is diversity, because where I live,
Speaker 4: the people who look like that all do such and
Speaker 4: such and such. I think it's dis I think it's
Speaker 4: deplorable that people can be that simple minded, can be that.
Speaker 4: As my daddy used to say, don't be simple, signed
Speaker 4: don't be simple, which is, by my standard, the worst
Speaker 4: insult you could get from your daddy, because that was
Speaker 4: just basically, don't be dumb. But so often we find
Speaker 4: ourselves having to carry that burden, even though we didn't
Speaker 4: create the problem and we're not the ones who are
Speaker 4: the cure to the problem, but we're oftentimes treated not
Speaker 4: only like the people who who who made the mess,
Speaker 4: and also the maids who have to come behind to
Speaker 4: clean the mess up. And I just I'm proud for
Speaker 4: that brother, because I hope he feels pride and what
Speaker 4: he's doing in this moment of relief he's given us
Speaker 4: here on earth where it feels like hell. But I
Speaker 4: also hope that he has relieved himself, given this status
Speaker 4: and what he's achieved from the burden of having to
Speaker 4: be the acceptable one for receptional one.
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