WEBVTT - Why is the Government Shutdown? 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.000 Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:04.720 with Recent Choice Media. 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.480 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:08.280 Welcome, Welcome home. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.879 Y'all, I got ninety nine problems in this show. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:11.440 Ain't one. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.760 That's because it is our ninety ninth episode, and I 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:16.840 expect a little more reaction from my co host when 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.040 I drop a clever punk. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.040 Okay, I had a muzzle on any. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.800 We've played a clip where Andrew was that guy? Why 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:27.720 didn't we bring that? 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:28.880 You know? 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:38.760 Anyway, it's our ninety ninth episode. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:43.680 Ninety nine problems and Hamilton, Amen to that, Amen to that. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:45.639 Okay. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.479 So I'm really excited to get into the show today. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.600 Before we get to our rundown, I do want to 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.720 let you know if you're going to be in New 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:56.040 York this weekend, come holler at Native Lamp Pod. We'll 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.000 be on the main stage at Culture con Is Brooklyn 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.840 in the house. Yes, is Native Land in the House? Yes, 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:03.800 we hope you'll be in the house if you're there. 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.160 If you're not there, though, you can catch the show. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.880 We will post it on our YouTube page and you 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.600 can catch it where you get your podcast at iHeart. 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:17.280 On Monday, so do please tune into that. But it's 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:18.840 a lot going on right now. So what are we 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:19.559 talking about today? 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:20.440 Angela? What you got? 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:23.720 I got a lot of stuff, But I think what 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.840 we are going to lean into a little bit is 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.559 why Megan Kelly is on Serena's head. That's one question 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.120 I have. That's one question I have. I'm gonna let 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:34.520 y'all get into the other ones because I don't know 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:35.360 which ones y'all. 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.720 Want to start. Well, you'll come back. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.360 Megan Kellys there she got after our girl Jamel, and 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:46.400 Jamel dragged her clear and cross America the last time, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.720 so she hasn't learned her lesson yet to keep black 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:49.840 women's name out. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:51.280 Andrew, what you got? 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.920 What's easy to do when you're tweeting in the basement 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:58.160 in your drawers, fair point, and you. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.200 Not catch outside topic? 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:02.279 We r Andrew. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.160 I want to talk about the new threat facing not 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.760 just democracy, but the new threat that could be coming. 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:09.919 Really straight up our block. 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:16.960 What Trump and his new executive memo suggest about where 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:18.280 this democracy is going. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:23.480 Yeah, you know, and you mentioned that earlier on the call, Andrew, 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.679 and I'm really looking forward to your breakdown on that 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.880 because I have some questions for you and definitely some thoughts. 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.560 And when we're talking about where democracy is going, I 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.840 think right now we are at a complete standstill literally 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.080 and figuratively. And that is, of course because the government 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.240 shut down this week, and that is going to have 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.920 a devastating impact for a lot of people. So I 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.080 definitely want to talk about that, and I do, if 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.840 there's time, want to get into this bad Bunny super 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.520 Bowl performance which has taken the group chats, the newscasts, 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.800 and the internets by storm. So I'm curious your thoughts. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.519 I don't know if we all agree about what this means, 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.840 but I definitely want to get into that discussion. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:58.160 With you guys. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:02:59.880 So and of course questions. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.720 And yes, thank you Andrew, we will get into your 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.040 viewer questions and thank you guys so much for sending 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:06.840 those in. And remember, if at any point in the 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.200 show you hear something that you like that resonates with you, 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.440 drop it in your group chat, send us in a 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.480 question the comment if you agree, disagree, but spread the 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.960 news about Native Land Pod because this is our table 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.560 as well as it's yours. So welcome home, y'all. Let's 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:25.560 get into the show. Okay, before we get into the 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.760 government shutdown. Can I just say really quickly, I want 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.440 to pass the mic to Angela on this one actually, 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:30.960 but I just want to say before I pass the 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.800 mic about our show that we did live from the 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:38.080 Congressional Black Caucus Foundations Annual Legislative Conference, I have to 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.000 say thank you all so much for tuning in. I 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.680 know there were some audio problems, and so we have 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.080 reposted the show without those audio problems, so please definitely 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:48.960 check that out. But a lot of you all just 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.240 suffer through and listen to the show with the audio problems, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:53.920 so we did repost it for you. If you haven't 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.720 checked that out, definitely please do. Great guests, we sat 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.640 down with Governor Wes Moore and his wife. But this 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.640 is what and I didn't say this on a call 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.840 this morning intentionally because I wanted to say it on 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.640 the show. You know, I our friendship stretches decades at 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.560 this point. You know, I've known you guys for a while, 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.240 and I feel like you can take friendship for granted 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.880 when you know people for a while, Like I can 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.960 call angel it too in the morning if I want to, 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:18.719 you know, Andrew, I can be like I'm coming to 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.080 Tallahas he let's kick it. And when Angela you gave 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:26.559 your acceptance speech, I was so moved. And your father 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:27.920 was seated next to me. And I don't know if 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.640 the viewers will get to hear this, Please please please 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:35.440 watch it on the CBCF Annual Legislative Conference show. But 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.960 when you closed out the speech, your father was saying 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.039 the words with you, because of course you you know, 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.320 close it out, the black power anthem. And he didn't 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.440 even say it like like he wanted to erupt an applause, 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.160 like he said it like casually and was just looking 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.839 at Angela. I was like bursting inside, like I was. 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.599 We were all trying not to choke up. It was 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.200 the end of the show. I wanted to stand up 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.600 and applaud, but Papa Rye was just sitting there like, yeah, 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.760 like what else she supposed? That's why I raised, Yeah, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.919 that's what it is, right. It was such a beautiful moment. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.520 I sent that speech to everybody. I've been telling everybody 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.400 to watch it. I was on Doctor Carr Show this 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.680 week on Serious XM. I talked about it on that show, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.560 so I just wanted to say, like it was one 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.440 of those moments where I was like, I take for 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.680 granted that I get to be friends with people I'm 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.400 fans of. I get to be friends with people who 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.520 I admire, and I'm not gonna lie. I was a 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.000 little mad when she was reading that speech. It's like 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:30.960 I feel when I asked Michael Harry, like he's like 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.840 up writing all day and then he comes and sends 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.039 me what he wrote, and I'm like, you wrote that today, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.960 just in one tribe, that's what you did. Well, she was, 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.440 I'm like, please tell me it took you six months 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.120 to write that, because it was it would take me 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.600 six months to write that. So I just am thrilled, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:48.920 and I had to say that. I didn't want to 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:50.080 say it on the call. I wanted to say it 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.200 to you in front of our audience. So super dope, 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:52.800 super dope. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.360 Soon soon, I think I said to you that night 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.120 like twice or three times, like I was really pierced. Yeah, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.400 I felt that. I felt that. 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.840 And when you're used to and you are used to 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.239 giving and certainly being on the receiving end of speeches, 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.880 you can become numbs sometimes to the words that come 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.240 out of people's mouths. But for you, Angela It's different 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:16.599 because we know you. You don't traffic it insignificance. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.520 If you stay in a bar. It's a thing, and 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.839 it had resonance. It really did that night. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:27.520 You and. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.800 A few others have particularly impact, but your standouts to me, 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:38.760 and there's no more deserving person of that distinguished honor 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:39.800 from Saturday. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.040 My only regret is that that whole room didn't get 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:43.880 to hear what we got to hear. But they can 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.240 hear it now if they go to Natives. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.760 They subscribe just if I can for a moment. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.320 And I know we're probably gonna get into the government shutdown, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.279 given the fact that now the government is in fact 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.840 shut down, but I just wanted to shout this out 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.960 to you guys. I ended up having an all star 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:03.520 studied cast yesterday for our first on Tuesday for the. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:06.000 Solo Pod. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.120 Congressman Maxine Waters, where I worked for my first political 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.160 job was with her, was on talking about the shutdown. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:16.520 Jasmine Crockett joined us as well to talk about the shutdown, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.000 but also talking about the fear she experiences right now 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.480 and in real vulnerability in ways that really just touched 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.280 me because I feel like our sister always has to 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.600 show up in strength. So I'm so grateful that we 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.800 were able to cultivate a safe space for her to 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.040 really share how she feels in this moment. But also 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.960 there was another woman who we love dearly on this 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.840 show who joined us on the live show Saturday but 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.800 had to leave. Otherwise we certainly would have given her 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.360 the opportunity to also share the remarks she prepared. And 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.400 that's jo Taka Edie, who received the alc CO Chairs 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:48.280 Phoenix Award. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:50.680 She shared a beautiful speech. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:55.080 I know that it will drop on socials Wednesday if 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.640 you are listening to this later, it will drop Wednesday. 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.040 But I want to show her out too, because her 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:06.000 speech is remarkable. So I want to thank y'all because 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.760 none of the work that I'm doing would be possible 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.000 without your grace, without understanding, without leaning in with us. 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.400 And so y'all are my Phoenix Award winners every day. 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:18.360 So thank you so much. But let me tell you 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:19.760 who is not the Phoenix Awards winner. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.160 Y'all's president, because why the government shut down and why 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.600 they trying to blame it on Democrats, on hood websites 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.040 everywhere else, tip get into it. 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.360 What we do. Let's get going on Well, you brought 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.560 up that you got to talk to Congressman Jazmin Crockett 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.040 this week on your solo pods, so I definitely, if 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:35.760 you don't mind, I want to hear a piece of 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.840 what she said. If people want to hear that whole conversation, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.080 of course, they can check it out on our YouTube page. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.120 I have not listened to the whole thing yet, so 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.000 I would love to hear what Congresswoman Crockett had to say. 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:47.960 But I just want to set the frame a little 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.559 bit and forgive me if this is redundant, because I'm 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.200 sure you guys got into it a bit this week. 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.599 But I wanted to make the point that this is 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.839 not a normal shutdown, and I want to draw the 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.160 distinction of what would have happened had Democrats access the 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:04.440 Congressional resolution. It would have essentially given a green light 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:10.040 to Donald Trump to continue his cuts to PBS. It 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.720 would cut to cuts to foreign aid programs. It would 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.800 be a green light to his big beautiful Bill that 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:21.280 they call it, which essentially gives the richest Americans tax cuts, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.960 which would don't for a minute doubt it. It would 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.480 be financed by cuts to Medicaid Medicare. I have members 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.520 of my family on both food stamps. I have members 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.839 in my immediate family on food stamps, clean energy resolutions. 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.040 This bill would also make it harder for Americans to 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.679 afford healthcare. And so the Democrats were calling, and you 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.160 guys know, I am not a spokesperson for the Democratic Party. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.520 I happen to be a voter who votes Democrat. But 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.440 this is not in any way and owe to the party. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:57.000 I'm just giving information. It's it's difficult to excuse a 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.360 shut down ever, because I get the frustration and it's 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.439 going to hit peop. But I think it was important 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.160 that Democrats held the line here. They don't control the 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.280 House or the Senate. And so when you hear the 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.800 GOP talking points that this is the Schumer shut down 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.280 or this is the Democrats shut down, impossible. When they 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.760 first passed the bill, the Big Beautiful Bill first passed 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.520 the Senate last July, it only required fifty one Republican votes. 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.480 Now they need it more so, Democrats all of a 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:27.199 sudden became really important to pass this legislation. Now what 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.800 it means now that the government has shut down, In 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.679 my opinion, it's essentially been shut down for almost nine 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.679 months now, the government hasn't been functional. They've consolidated power 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.760 to the executive branch, so we really haven't seen a 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.600 functional government. But now the shit is hit the van. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.520 So the shutdown is expected to put at least forty 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.440 percent of the federal workforce, about seven hundred and fifty 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:53.200 thousand people on unpaid leave. But don't get it twisted, 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.600 they would not be the only people impacted. The GOP 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.760 claims to be the party that supports the Military Will 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.760 Act of Duty. Military service members will not receive a 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.360 paycheck during the government shutdown. The White House has also 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.880 threatened mass layoffs. This is a reduction in workforce and 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.760 federal toises after they've already laid off so many people 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.160 given furlough notices in the case of a shutdown. Well, 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.440 some people argue this is illegal, and this has been 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.440 basically a threat from the Office of Management Budget Director 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.679 Russ Vaught, who is a problem. His whole career was 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.360 based on combating CRT critical race theory, so that should 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.079 let you know what he is. Food assistance programs will 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:40.040 also be impacted, snap the supplemental nutritional program. Again, I 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.800 have members in my family who are on this with 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.400 the program for Women, infants, and Children. Both of these 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:51.000 programs are expected to rapidly run out of funds. Social Security, 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.360 social Security, to VA and other benefits will continue, However, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.320 there will still be some delays in services such as 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:02.199 processing applications, air traffic control, and TSA. They're considered essential, 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.840 so they will continue to go to work, but they 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.439 will not be paid. And I don't know if you 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.080 guys remember when this happened in twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:13.400 Increasingly air traffic controllers began to call in sick, which 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:18.040 had a ripple effects on travel across the country. FEMA 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.559 will keep functioning, but funds are also running low. So 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.480 when you consider what this means at the state level, 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.360 I'll take Louisiana for example, huge black population there. They 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.079 have a program, the National Flood Insurance Program. It was 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.920 managed by FEMA. It's been temporarily extended by Congress more 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.839 than thirty times since twenty seventeen. It was created to 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.560 provide insurance for those who don't have a private option. Well, 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:46.920 it's funding expired at twelve one am midnight on Wednesday 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.960 of this week. So these are going to be real problems. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:51.800 Let me tell you who will still continue to get paid. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.880 Members of Congress and the President himself will continue to 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.280 collect paychecks. More than two hundred thousand members of law 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.120 enforcement will continue to work. That's according to Homeland Security 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.920 Director and the puppy killer Christy nome Ice, will continue 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.720 their work as usual. Unfortunately, so we're looking at really 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.360 dangerous times, you guys. And I, for myself, just to 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.400 be transparent, I'm worried about my own funding because for 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.920 the people in my family who receive these benefits, if 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.520 they go away, then that means I will have to 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.319 supplement what they spend and so on. Snap benefits. You 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.960 already can't buy things like cleaning products, paper products, hot food, 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.600 things like that. But that's okay because I can supplement 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.280 those things from my family when it's needed. But when 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.480 their entire benefits go away, then I will have to 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:44.240 supplement their entire needs, from deodorant toothsbors. Think about everything 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.040 you use on a daily basis to the foods you 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.640 eat three meals a day. And I'm not going to 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.920 make my family, you know, eat less or suffer through this. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.920 It will cost me more money. And I imagine that 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:57.959 a lot of people. Who are we talked about this 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.679 last week, Andrew, who are the people who made it? 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.840 So to speak, this will cast a dark shadow across 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.079 a lot of people's finances. And I just don't know 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.120 where we go from here. So I just wanted to 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.719 put that in context for our viewers and open it 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:18.400 up to you guys to see that's real. Yeah, like WTA. 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.520 To build off your example with the catastrophe fund, the 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.720 supplemental sort of, I would like to call it the 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.680 insurer of last resort, meaning if no other insurance is 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.360 available to you, the government's the insurer of last resort 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:35.080 for Louisiana. You think about hurrican Hurricane season is not over. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.120 I'm in Florida, so I stay pretty apparent and aware 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.320 of it and say a storm word to come through 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.480 during this period of time. Any losses, any losses to 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.840 real estate, anything that was previously insured is now uninsured. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.160 The real cost for any of that passes directly to 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.280 the individual owner themselves. Right, So you lose a house, 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.240 you out of house. If you want one back, you 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.400 got to pay for it full sale yourself. On the 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.640 health insurance piece of this, we've already seen across the 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:12.080 country people's premiums healthcare premiums, a piece that you have 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.080 to pay before insurance kicks in, has gone up forty 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.200 percent in some case, in some cases even more drastically. 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.680 That's where the Democrats have laid down the steak in 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:25.400 the sand. They've said, basically, please, please, please reauthorize the 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.640 incentives that existed during. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.720 Well, frankly up to this point. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:36.400 And so Obamacare's adoption, the American Affordable Healthcare Acts adoption, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.480 all those went away. And so they said, look for 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.160 our cooperation, for our votes to get to the sixty 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:47.040 vote threshold you need in the Senate to plass culture. 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:51.400 We will give you those votes if you put back 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:58.600 those incentives so that health insurance can remain somewhat affordable 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.720 for those who are already on the American Affordable Care Act. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:07.120 And of course the Republicans have resisted, the president resist. 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:13.360 They are insisting on moving a trillion dollars from working people, 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:18.280 working class Americans. They have shifted one trillion dollars, the 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:22.120 largest wealth transfer in American history, from all of us 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.600 to the top one percent, who aren't begging for it 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.680 and don't need it, and absolutely don't deserve it. So 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.800 they've chosen their side here. They're not choosing keep government 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.640 open versus closed. That's not it, Tiffany. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:34.600 You laid it out perfectly. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:38.000 It's been closed. They've been shuttering the government. Russell Bott's 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.800 threat to the Democrats, you vote with us or we 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.920 will fire more people, that ain't real. And I'm glad 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.480 the Democrats knew that that threat was not real. Why 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.040 because they've already shown us they're committed to laying off 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.320 the federal workforce. They're committed to destruction of the government 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.760 as we know it. And whether Democrats were to acquiesce 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.400 accept that challenge and then give them their vote or not, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:05.440 Russell vote, Donald Trump and their minions are intent on 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.120 bringing the government down. And by the way, it will 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.240 have huge impacts for our economy. Why because the federal 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:15.560 government is the largest fricking employer in the land. Nothing bigger, 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.000 nothing greater, nothing larger, nothing, employing more people than the 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.000 federal government and its subcontractors. 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.760 Oh won't get paid by the way, the contractor and 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.200 they will not get back paid when the government functions again. 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.040 And that's their defense. Yeah no, But except for defense. 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.840 I wanted to just flag I actually don't have as 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:39.280 much to say on government shut down today. On Tuesday, 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.440 we did a many I mean a solo pod on 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.560 the government shut down. I fell a buster for thirty minutes. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.080 So I feel like I said all that I need 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.440 to say there. Y'all please run that thing back. And 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.480 speaking of running that thing back, let's go ahead and 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.880 hear what Jasmin Crockett has to say well. 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.600 As it relates to the shutdown. Listen, the last time 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.840 we had a shut down, it was Trump. The longest 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.560 shutdown we've ever had, it was under Trump. So don't 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.800 get caught up in this nonsense. That is the Democrat's fault. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:06.240 You know. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.920 The bad part is that people don't understand civics or 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:14.240 they listen to people that are gaslighting them. And the 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.480 facts are the facts. The Republicans control everything. 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:17.919 Now. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.040 There are people that want to talk about the filibuster. 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:22.040 We can talk about the philibuster if you want to 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.240 talk about the philibuster. But the reality is that y'all 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:29.480 control everything. You control every single lever right now. So 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.520 when you're in control, that means that it is up 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.880 to you to figure out how it gets done. 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:35.720 Wow. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.399 Yeah, So yes, I think I feel complete on the. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.440 Not just say, for Jasmine Crockett, who is a hero 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:48.440 in a state in her corner, She's not perfect. She 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.639 is perfectly imperfect, and that's what makes her accessible in 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.800 somebody that people want to replicate and be inspired by. 0:18:56.280 --> 0:19:04.160 But her point around, Lord, I just lost my threats. 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.359 Well you know why, because we should probably move on 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:07.399 to the next topic. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:10.760 Well, well, because I said, Andrew said no, yeah, because 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:12.680 I remember you wanted to get to this true, and 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:14.720 and people are the only reason I'm saying that, Angela's 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.600 because people are going to be devastated by this. And 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.240 I know that you had topics on how Jasmine Crockett 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.800 and her humanity have been coming up. And just in 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.199 case you are having the reason why Angela san move 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.920 on is because her solo pod was an hour and 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:29.800 a half Angela, is that right. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.920 With Yeah, my solo pod was out, Yes, Maxine Waters. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:35.720 Then I filibuster for a bit. 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:41.119 Jazzmine's teams had a little bit of some technical difficulties. 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:41.920 But it was so worth the way. 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.560 And Andrew, you know, one of the things that I 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.840 think is significant here as we navigate through this show, 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.880 through this shut down, through this administration, is the ways 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:55.560 in which folks who are in elected office and our 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.560 public service, what you have to do to put your lives, 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.720 your physical body, your emotional health on the line. And 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.360 I think we were talking about, you know, just being 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.320 concerned about our dear sister Jazzmine and making sure that 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:11.439 we're covering her, especially when you know, the Laura Lumers 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:12.440 of the world are saying all. 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.720 Kind of crazy stuff, questioning intellect. 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:18.840 Degrading them, calling them out their name for doing nothing 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.600 but protecting black folks, you know, and what's in the 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:23.880 best interests of the whole of the American people, whether 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.440 or not the whole of the American people receive it 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:26.760 or not. 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.000 So, you know, I think to that end, we have 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:31.280 to find multiple. 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:37.080 Places to share, to be advocates in whatever our lanes 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:41.160 are to be, to utilize our platforms and our talents 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.040 to facilitate change in this country. We have to use 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:48.120 every tool at our disposal, not just one solitary tool. 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:50.000 I don't know if that reminded you, but if. 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.320 Not, listen, Angela. 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.840 You know I should have left a dead thing alone 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.680 because it was a technical point and I completely lost 0:20:58.680 --> 0:20:59.159 the threads. 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.600 So guess what, all, right? 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:06.200 That what you said using the talents is bad, Bunny. 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.320 Yes, and we have a viewer question who brought that up? So, 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:12.359 but to close out, I just want to say. 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:14.480 For those of you, I love y'all. I love y'all 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:17.440 for y'all's pivoting and the cover is really humorous. 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:20.360 Well, you guys cover me too. 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:24.240 We all cover each other. But I just want to 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:25.920 say before we move on, for all of you who 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.879 are impacted by this government shutdown, who are now worried 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:30.600 about how you're going to pay your mortgage, how you're 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:32.239 going to feed your children, how you're going to take 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:36.000 a care of family near and far, I too, am 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:39.720 in that same situation with you. I understand, and we 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.160 will be continuing to talk about it here on Native 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.560 Lamb Pod. If you do want a deeper dive, though, 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:48.000 please do revisit Angela's solo pod. It was an hour 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:51.240 and a half just on the government checkout. So we're 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:53.760 not breezing past this. It's just that it has not 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:56.119 been talked about a lot, so thank. 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:56.399 You for that. 0:21:56.680 --> 0:21:58.640 Keep we keep going from crisis to crisis. 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:02.800 Yes, we keep like this is a manufacturer crisis that 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:05.920 they do at our expense, over and over again, and 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:07.440 that should not be lost on you. 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:10.400 And just in time Andrew's point got it back then, 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:10.840 you got it. 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:12.840 You got it. So this was the point. 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:15.959 It was Usually when there's a president and a Congress, 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:17.840 they do everything that they can to avert a shutdown. 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:20.680 Why because they know of the drastic harm that it 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:26.840 causes people. This administration, the incentives are perverse. They're not 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:31.600 incentivized to reduce harm. They're not incentivized to keep government 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:33.240 open and accessible to the people. 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:36.159 This president has determined that he. 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:40.119 Is he is really loyal only to him at this point, 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:42.480 as far as he's concerned, either there will be no 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:46.040 more elections or he won't stand for another election for president, 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:49.120 and therefore his poll numbers don't matter. And I wanted 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:51.040 to bring in the point around these poll numbers that 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:54.359 came out this week would show that pretty much, although 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:59.760 underwater and unpopular, the president's support amongst Republicans remains not 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.200 out of ten Republicans in this country still approve of 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:06.359 his job. And so we've all been talking about and 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:09.040 waiting for the reasonable ones to show up? Where are 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:10.680 the ones who are the middle world? Where are the 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.560 folks who are are reasonable in this moment and can 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:16.560 see the harm that's being caused. I guess the illumination 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:19.080 I had and I knew it all along, but confirmed 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:22.119 reading these numbers this week is that there isn't that 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:25.280 their wholesale signed up to the full scale agenda. So 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:28.160 the tactics that they may find unpleasant along the way 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:32.040 might just be just that unpleasant, but as it relates 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:37.119 to the goal, their wholesale fully committed to the destruction 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:41.720 that Donald Trump is sowing throughout this country, throughout the world, 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:45.120 certainly throughout this government. So I just wanted to disavow 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:47.600 us of the fact that this is in any way 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:51.520 a real normal moment. We've got perverse incentives of a 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:54.960 guy who actually gets the pleasure off of people doing bad, 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:58.960 of people suffering in so many ways, you know, that 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:01.000 is the point of what they're doing. And to the 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:04.040 extent that there are reasonable people, I can't see it, 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:05.720 and these poles confirm it. 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:06.679 They don't exist. 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:10.040 And sometimes people can be so bad it's good. 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:12.920 Well, I think Angela's talking about I just want to 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:15.000 point out, though factually you're talking, I'm pretty sure you're 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:20.080 referring to the Reuter's pole there. Andrew and yes, yes, 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:24.240 the pole. But yes, let's move on because I. 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:25.720 Think it's so bad it's good. 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:27.520 Angela really wants. 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:28.119 To move on to this. 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:30.399 Buddy. 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:45.760 But m so we have a question. 0:24:46.200 --> 0:24:49.720 Let's hear from a from a viewer? Uh to shift 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:50.840 us into the next subject. 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:56.040 Hey, Native Lampard, this is Megan from Cleveland, Ohio. My 0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:58.560 question has to do about you know, was recently announced 0:24:58.600 --> 0:25:00.480 that Bad Bunny would be performed, I mean at the 0:25:00.520 --> 0:25:04.920 super Bowl, and I just want to know. You know, 0:25:05.000 --> 0:25:09.280 first of all, does anyone even remember Kendrick's performance? You know, 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:13.679 with everything happening, everything that has happened, what really did 0:25:13.760 --> 0:25:14.480 that performance? 0:25:14.720 --> 0:25:15.280 Do you know? 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:17.600 I don't know that we have more black ownership in 0:25:17.680 --> 0:25:19.920 the NFL. I don't know that we have more black 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:23.600 head coaches on the field in the NFL. So we 0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:26.879 have these moments and it just seems like we're the 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:31.959 only ones celebrating them. You know, they just seem performative. 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:36.120 I don't know that they really do anything. I don't 0:25:36.160 --> 0:25:39.159 know what movement it actually makes for our community. So 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:46.480 now with Bad Bunny performing, do we care what? 0:25:47.000 --> 0:25:47.520 What you know? 0:25:47.840 --> 0:25:50.520 Are we do we have an opinion on it at all? 0:25:52.000 --> 0:25:54.560 Are we excited. I don't know that I'm excited. 0:25:55.680 --> 0:25:58.080 They're letting us get up there in tap dance form, 0:25:58.200 --> 0:26:00.320 but we've always got up there in tap dance form. 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:02.000 So just wanted to know you. 0:26:02.040 --> 0:26:05.960 Guys thoughts on it. Love Native Land, been a fans 0:26:06.000 --> 0:26:07.840 in Stay One, Take care of you guys. 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:10.879 Thank you Megan for that question. 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:15.480 We have gotten your feedback that we don't specifically answer 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:18.119 your questions all the time, so I know, Angela, you 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:20.240 have a lot of thoughts on this subject. 0:26:21.920 --> 0:26:23.800 Well, first, let me just say this because I think 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:28.639 that people will relate, say, Jake, we remember Kidrick's performance, Like, 0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:31.200 not only do we remember Kidrick's performance, it is still 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:33.639 firal right now. You could walk up to somebody and 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:35.920 say da Da Da da and they know what it means. 0:26:36.040 --> 0:26:38.080 Like it wasn't just the song, it was the way 0:26:38.680 --> 0:26:44.520 that he uh challenged the fabric of America in his performance. 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:46.040 And I think that. 0:26:48.960 --> 0:26:51.399 I'm gonna I'm gonna say something that may be controversial 0:26:51.480 --> 0:26:52.960 to some of y'all. I think that one of the 0:26:53.040 --> 0:26:55.960 best things that could have happened to the super Bowl 0:26:56.040 --> 0:26:58.960 halftime show is that Rock Nation took it on and 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:03.960 they have the ability to challenge the viewer, the typical 0:27:04.480 --> 0:27:08.160 NFL viewer, the folks who are in those stands. Overwhelmingly 0:27:08.280 --> 0:27:11.840 we cannot afford those tickets. Some parts of us can't 0:27:11.840 --> 0:27:14.879 afford those tickets. But those shows are for the viewing 0:27:14.960 --> 0:27:19.440 audience at home to challenge, for some to uplift, and 0:27:19.560 --> 0:27:21.439 for some to be able to have a man corner. 0:27:21.960 --> 0:27:23.639 While there has been, I. 0:27:23.640 --> 0:27:27.720 Think, particularly this year, a growing or over the last 0:27:27.880 --> 0:27:30.480 three hundred and sixty five, a growing divide even more 0:27:30.560 --> 0:27:33.639 so than normal between the black and brown communities, I 0:27:33.720 --> 0:27:37.120 think that it is very powerful that Bad Bunny has 0:27:37.240 --> 0:27:40.520 the opportunity, in the midst of what is happening to 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:45.800 LATINX folks to have that stage. I really do, and 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:47.560 I look forward to what he does there. 0:27:47.880 --> 0:27:49.000 I don't believe. 0:27:50.400 --> 0:27:53.520 That movements are built absent arts, whether they are the 0:27:53.600 --> 0:27:56.239 fine arts or performing arts. I think that they are 0:27:56.880 --> 0:28:00.000 built and inspired and carried through the arts. 0:28:01.240 --> 0:28:03.240 You know, to the point where I would. 0:28:03.200 --> 0:28:06.720 Ask for some artists to come together to do a 0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:09.600 song around state of the People, and that they would 0:28:09.600 --> 0:28:10.960 agree to do something like that. 0:28:11.160 --> 0:28:12.679 It is, I mean, there's a reason. 0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:15.080 Why we are the world had the impact it had, 0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:18.720 you know, even if you look back to Jason's lyric 0:28:18.800 --> 0:28:21.480 and there was a black male chorus, you will know, 0:28:21.760 --> 0:28:24.800 like there are moments self destruction, there are always moments 0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:28.560 where the arts carry the movement, carry the demands. 0:28:28.160 --> 0:28:31.159 Of the people. And I think that this isn't any different. 0:28:31.240 --> 0:28:32.439 And if it can be on a. 0:28:32.480 --> 0:28:37.520 Stage that is so well funded, so well choreographed, it's 0:28:37.560 --> 0:28:42.160 so overwhelmingly seen, I think that's exactly where the arts belong. 0:28:43.160 --> 0:28:44.080 That's real appreciate. 0:28:44.320 --> 0:28:46.760 Can I just say this to our dear sister from Cleveland. 0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:49.360 I know that it's not answering your question, but I 0:28:49.400 --> 0:28:52.120 do want to acknowledge your skin is poppinsis. 0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:54.320 Glowing. 0:28:55.840 --> 0:28:57.480 I love it. Shout out Began. 0:28:58.200 --> 0:29:02.520 I will say to answer very directly, halftime performances are 0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:06.280 performative by definition, they are really intended. 0:29:06.360 --> 0:29:08.120 No, I mean this by the sensitive. 0:29:08.240 --> 0:29:11.160 I think of late, we've gotten very high minded about 0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:15.320 our expectations for these kinds of performances. But largely, you know, 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:19.680 it's to entertain. And it's only of late and at 0:29:19.880 --> 0:29:23.440 very selective moments in American history have we seen them 0:29:24.000 --> 0:29:27.560 catapult to something more, to be statement pieces, to be 0:29:27.760 --> 0:29:30.800 thought pieces, to be queries of the mind and of 0:29:30.840 --> 0:29:34.280 people who are watching to be moments of protests, but 0:29:34.400 --> 0:29:42.360 also moments of unity on occasion they are also, you know, 0:29:42.520 --> 0:29:49.360 in my opinion, representation matters. It matters to see yourself 0:29:49.440 --> 0:29:54.080 your experience reflected, and it matters especially on an occasion 0:29:54.120 --> 0:29:57.320 where there are more eyes on the television screen on 0:29:57.640 --> 0:30:01.840 one single set of programming, which hasn't frankly happened in 0:30:01.920 --> 0:30:04.680 this country for thirty forty years. You know, back in 0:30:04.720 --> 0:30:07.520 the day when there were only four networks, everybody forty 0:30:07.560 --> 0:30:09.880 million people were watching the same show at the same time. 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:13.040 There was a common American experience that doesn't exist anymore 0:30:13.720 --> 0:30:16.320 in our country. By and large, this is probably one 0:30:16.320 --> 0:30:18.840 of those very few occasions where all eyes or as 0:30:19.040 --> 0:30:21.760 many eyes as you can imagine, are on one set 0:30:21.760 --> 0:30:26.800 of programming. And I like the fact that my white colleagues, 0:30:26.920 --> 0:30:29.200 my black colleagues, brown sisters and brothers out there, so 0:30:29.280 --> 0:30:32.360 on and so forth, are by and large experiencing this 0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:35.280 very same moment at the same time, and oddly enough, 0:30:35.720 --> 0:30:38.840 many of them still walking away with very different impressions 0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:42.720 and piercings and evaluations of what that thing meant to them. 0:30:43.160 --> 0:30:46.480 Usually the haters say that was boring that didn't need 0:30:46.560 --> 0:30:47.720 to happen. Da da da da dada. 0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:50.160 When did we become so political? And then those who 0:30:50.280 --> 0:30:54.200 are affirming of the performances and what they signify by 0:30:54.440 --> 0:30:56.440 virtual meaning are championing it. 0:30:56.600 --> 0:30:58.520 Man, that was high, that was wild? Did you see 0:30:58.600 --> 0:31:01.360 Do you understand the meaning of that? Wholesale? Incoment? 0:31:01.480 --> 0:31:04.959 Newspapers are writing thought pieces on what was intended by 0:31:05.040 --> 0:31:08.720 each piece of art and choreography, you know, as it unfolded. 0:31:08.800 --> 0:31:11.240 I just think that's powerful. There are very few moments 0:31:11.280 --> 0:31:15.600 anymore in this country where we have shared experience, even 0:31:15.640 --> 0:31:20.160 if our interpretations of that experience are different, and representation matters. 0:31:21.280 --> 0:31:24.080 You know, I take a completely different view than both 0:31:24.120 --> 0:31:26.960 of you. I acknowledge your points, and I definitely think they're. 0:31:28.440 --> 0:31:28.480 Like. 0:31:28.560 --> 0:31:30.840 I don't disagree with them. I just have a different view. 0:31:30.960 --> 0:31:33.920 I kind of agree with the viewer my sister from Cleveland, 0:31:34.080 --> 0:31:36.400 because I don't think she was saying that people don't 0:31:36.520 --> 0:31:39.920 remember Kendrick's performance in the sense that we've forgotten about it. 0:31:40.360 --> 0:31:44.040 I understood her to be saying, what did it change? 0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:47.840 You know, what policies did it change? And I certainly 0:31:47.920 --> 0:31:51.560 understand her point. In Okay, so they get the benefit 0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:55.440 of our eyes. These billionaire NFL owners who largely support 0:31:55.760 --> 0:31:59.280 Donald Trump and this administration and his policies, who have 0:31:59.360 --> 0:32:02.960 contributed to him, they get the benefit of black and 0:32:03.040 --> 0:32:08.840 brown talent at their halftime show. We increase their viewership 0:32:09.400 --> 0:32:11.080 when we watch the games and when we watched the 0:32:11.160 --> 0:32:15.160 halftime show. Even if he is there making a political 0:32:15.480 --> 0:32:18.960 statement and a political point, the question I'm asking is 0:32:19.080 --> 0:32:22.480 who's really winning and who's really losing. Just for backgrounds 0:32:22.520 --> 0:32:24.960 for people who may not be familiar with the whole 0:32:25.400 --> 0:32:28.600 Bad Bunny saga, he did a thirty one day residency 0:32:29.040 --> 0:32:32.760 in San Juan. He bypassed coming to the mainland is 0:32:32.840 --> 0:32:35.120 driving me crazy, because in the newscast you'll hear him say, well, 0:32:35.120 --> 0:32:37.640 he bypassed coming to the US. Well, Puerto Rico is 0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:40.200 a part of the United States. He bypassed coming to 0:32:40.480 --> 0:32:44.320 the mainland because of the mass ice deportations, which are 0:32:44.400 --> 0:32:48.160 of course unconstitutional, which are of course authoritarian, And he 0:32:48.360 --> 0:32:51.040 in an interview with ID magazine said I'm not doing 0:32:51.120 --> 0:32:54.479 my concerts. Their ice could literally be outside of my concert. 0:32:54.560 --> 0:32:57.840 So I applaud him for taking that stance. He left 0:32:57.840 --> 0:32:59.920 a lot of money on the table he was printed 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:04.000 about it, and I really appreciate that. I too question 0:33:04.560 --> 0:33:08.320 what have we really gained since Rock Nation took over 0:33:08.400 --> 0:33:11.440 the halftime show other than some super dope halftime shows. 0:33:11.600 --> 0:33:14.200 Where I struggle, I think is what you guys are saying, 0:33:14.520 --> 0:33:17.240 and what I think you guys are saying is messaging matters. 0:33:17.480 --> 0:33:20.040 You know, imagery matters at this time, and I think 0:33:20.080 --> 0:33:23.800 that's so true. That is definitely essential. This is a 0:33:23.920 --> 0:33:28.760 large audience, So given that, I hope he goes super hard, 0:33:29.000 --> 0:33:32.040 you know, I hope he is disrespectful at the halftime 0:33:32.120 --> 0:33:35.680 show because I think that's what it would take. I 0:33:35.760 --> 0:33:38.480 remember there were people saying they didn't get Kendrick Lamar. 0:33:38.560 --> 0:33:40.280 What was he saying they didn't get the performance? If 0:33:40.320 --> 0:33:42.560 you ain't get it, it wasn't for you. I've seen 0:33:42.600 --> 0:33:45.800 a lot of videos in my feed of people sitting there, 0:33:46.000 --> 0:33:48.280 like trying to learn Spanish, and they're like me, trying 0:33:48.280 --> 0:33:50.280 to learn Spanish, so I can understand everything. For the 0:33:50.360 --> 0:33:53.520 halftime show, people are definitely excited about it, but I 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:56.320 do I think her point stands like, we haven't seen 0:33:56.400 --> 0:33:59.800 this increase in black coaches. We haven't seen any NFL 0:34:00.000 --> 0:34:04.080 policy change, nor have we seen these halftime performances push 0:34:04.160 --> 0:34:07.080 any policy outside of the NFL even So I think 0:34:07.120 --> 0:34:10.280 it's a fair criticism, and I think we should. 0:34:10.400 --> 0:34:11.680 It is our job. 0:34:11.960 --> 0:34:18.200 It is our responsibility as consumers of Rock Nations music 0:34:18.320 --> 0:34:20.839 and as consumers of the NFL to continue to push 0:34:20.920 --> 0:34:24.959 them to give us more tangible change. Because I would 0:34:25.000 --> 0:34:27.440 even say, even if there were more black NFL coaches, 0:34:27.520 --> 0:34:29.520 like Okay, it was kind of like around the protest 0:34:29.560 --> 0:34:31.680 around Colin Kaepernick, I'm like, that's all we ask them 0:34:31.719 --> 0:34:33.359 for is but it's one black man to get a job, 0:34:33.800 --> 0:34:35.600 Like we need institutional change. 0:34:35.640 --> 0:34:38.440 Go ahead, Andrew, I want to ask you when did 0:34:38.640 --> 0:34:42.000 when did halftime performances and the entertainers who entertain us 0:34:42.080 --> 0:34:46.320 during that time like get tasked with the responsibility of 0:34:47.040 --> 0:34:48.760 creating public policy change. 0:34:51.800 --> 0:34:56.200 So I don't think it's their responsibility to create policy change. 0:34:56.280 --> 0:34:58.560 I think at the time that Rock Nation took over 0:34:58.760 --> 0:35:01.799 the halftime show, that is what centered because that's why 0:35:01.920 --> 0:35:04.880 it happened, because people were critical of the NFL. It 0:35:05.000 --> 0:35:08.719 was on the heels of them completely disrespecting and sidelining 0:35:08.800 --> 0:35:12.000 and robbing Colin Kaepernick of employment and opportunity. And so 0:35:12.320 --> 0:35:14.640 when it was beneficial for them to turn something over 0:35:14.680 --> 0:35:16.640 to a black man. That's when they did it. And 0:35:16.800 --> 0:35:19.640 so the pushback from the black community was like, oh, 0:35:19.760 --> 0:35:22.239 hold up, what's going on. I mean, Colin Kaepernick wasn't 0:35:22.239 --> 0:35:24.120 supportive of the move so people were saying, what are 0:35:24.200 --> 0:35:26.759 we getting out of this? And so that was and 0:35:26.880 --> 0:35:28.640 Angel correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that 0:35:28.840 --> 0:35:31.200 was their response, like, no, we're gonna, you know, make 0:35:31.320 --> 0:35:34.440 this a moment, make this a movement. These halftime shows 0:35:34.480 --> 0:35:37.200 will be a movement. I think that's when the halftime 0:35:37.280 --> 0:35:42.279 show became political. For the expectation of it was to 0:35:42.360 --> 0:35:46.520 be political and give pushback. But I'm open to if 0:35:46.520 --> 0:35:47.160 I have that wrong. 0:35:47.480 --> 0:35:50.800 No, but to that extent, I would say the shows 0:35:50.840 --> 0:35:53.680 of late actually have been more political, and they have 0:35:54.200 --> 0:35:59.720 provoked an awoken, real conversation and debate within the American 0:35:59.719 --> 0:36:02.960 peace and I actually think like that's the change that 0:36:03.120 --> 0:36:05.480 has even if it draws us to our corners, at 0:36:05.600 --> 0:36:08.960 least we start to hear people articulate what's driving them 0:36:09.040 --> 0:36:13.120 to one corner or another. We are so beref of 0:36:13.600 --> 0:36:18.759 honest dialogue anymore as a country. I mean, like I 0:36:18.920 --> 0:36:23.680 used to think that Republicans had a set of values around. 0:36:23.760 --> 0:36:25.520 For instance, they used to be the party of don't 0:36:25.560 --> 0:36:29.520 tread on Me, and now there anything but that anymore. Right, 0:36:29.640 --> 0:36:32.840 Yet there's still claiming and you know, shrouding themselves in 0:36:32.840 --> 0:36:35.440 the American flag, And I'm like, how dishonest can you be? 0:36:36.360 --> 0:36:38.680 Either you line to you, because I know you've been 0:36:38.760 --> 0:36:40.880 lying to me. I didn't expect the truth from you, 0:36:41.400 --> 0:36:45.799 but to themselves, And so I appreciate what dialogue can 0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:49.560 be sparked there, because in truth, public policy change around 0:36:49.960 --> 0:36:53.200 diversity and inclusion doesn't change people's hearts and minds. It's 0:36:53.680 --> 0:36:57.320 culture that changes hearts and minds. It's culture that largely 0:36:57.520 --> 0:37:00.200 causes you to think differently about a thing, to be 0:37:00.280 --> 0:37:03.239 pricked in a way that is not totally offensive, and 0:37:03.320 --> 0:37:05.600 therefore you might be open to what the critique is. 0:37:06.040 --> 0:37:08.040 I think that's kind of what art helps to I 0:37:08.080 --> 0:37:09.440 don't think we're in a mad society. 0:37:09.560 --> 0:37:12.520 I don't think we're dealing with those we're dealing with extremists, 0:37:12.520 --> 0:37:13.319 We're dealing with culton. 0:37:13.360 --> 0:37:15.920 I agree with that by and large. For those of 0:37:16.000 --> 0:37:18.360 us who are political, I agree with that by and large. 0:37:18.600 --> 0:37:22.000 But again, you know, half the country ain't voting and 0:37:22.480 --> 0:37:24.719 the majority of support that we need to be having 0:37:24.760 --> 0:37:27.160 out there is amongst each other, is with community. And 0:37:27.280 --> 0:37:30.319 so to the extent that this sced conversation that wasn't 0:37:30.320 --> 0:37:30.879 happening before. 0:37:30.920 --> 0:37:32.040 I mean really before we were. 0:37:32.000 --> 0:37:35.479 Talking about somebody titty being out right and Timberlay getting 0:37:35.480 --> 0:37:38.560 off while somebody else is carrying the load. And now 0:37:38.600 --> 0:37:41.000 people are talking about what is the symbolism and the 0:37:41.120 --> 0:37:45.640 meaning behind this that part while taking ownership of the flag, 0:37:45.719 --> 0:37:47.840 but in a different way. Now I feel more connected 0:37:48.040 --> 0:37:49.480 to my country and to my community. 0:37:49.719 --> 0:37:50.520 I just think that's I. 0:37:50.520 --> 0:37:51.160 Think our side. 0:37:51.200 --> 0:37:52.480 I was about to value that. 0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:55.239 I think we've always been talking about that though, Like 0:37:55.320 --> 0:37:58.919 I just I agree with the caller or the viewer's point. 0:37:59.680 --> 0:38:02.960 What exactly is this changing? What institutional changes has the 0:38:03.080 --> 0:38:06.680 NFL made, and what changes do we think these performances 0:38:06.760 --> 0:38:09.880 make other than enriching the pockets of billionaires who support 0:38:09.920 --> 0:38:13.400 this administration and their policies. What I would like the 0:38:13.520 --> 0:38:17.240 audience to know because of bad Bunny bypassing the United 0:38:17.239 --> 0:38:20.600 States and why he is is right now, immigrants with 0:38:20.719 --> 0:38:24.919 no criminal record zero criminal record are the largest group 0:38:25.120 --> 0:38:28.640 in US immigration detention centers. That's according to data released 0:38:28.640 --> 0:38:31.719 by our own United States government. So when we're looking 0:38:31.800 --> 0:38:34.719 at that, I can understand why people are saying, I 0:38:34.840 --> 0:38:37.440 don't know, if you know, I'm excited about this bad 0:38:37.520 --> 0:38:41.200 Bunny performance more than I am outraged about what's actually 0:38:41.280 --> 0:38:42.920 happening in the country. But I don't want to be 0:38:43.000 --> 0:38:47.640 hypcrit I will be watching the halftime show and go ahead, Angela, yeah, go. 0:38:47.640 --> 0:38:48.000 Ahead, No. 0:38:48.239 --> 0:38:50.160 And I think this is the thing, right, It's like, 0:38:51.640 --> 0:38:54.400 you know, we have somebody or an entity that is 0:38:54.480 --> 0:38:58.160 willing to push the buck with these folks because they 0:38:58.280 --> 0:39:02.240 have some influence. They've been able to shift. Folks would 0:39:02.239 --> 0:39:04.800 be mad as hell if it was Kid Rock, you 0:39:04.880 --> 0:39:07.640 know what I mean. So now it's like, oh, well, 0:39:08.360 --> 0:39:12.680 these racist NFL owners, of which there are many, right, 0:39:12.840 --> 0:39:16.120 So you still have the NFL running this show, but 0:39:16.239 --> 0:39:20.480 the owners still have outside influence. Many of them think 0:39:20.560 --> 0:39:23.600 they are right, we don't say many. Too many of 0:39:23.680 --> 0:39:27.360 them think they are running plantations. And so when you 0:39:27.560 --> 0:39:30.680 have that ideology and you have somebody willing to push 0:39:30.800 --> 0:39:33.759 back on this, yes it is just the halftime performance, 0:39:34.040 --> 0:39:36.400 And yes it is the halftime performance. That is the 0:39:36.640 --> 0:39:39.239 very thing that if it were not these artists that 0:39:39.360 --> 0:39:42.400 we actually do support politically or we do feel like 0:39:42.520 --> 0:39:46.160 we're aligned with them on social issues or social justice causes. 0:39:46.400 --> 0:39:48.880 We would be mad if it was somebody else, like 0:39:48.960 --> 0:39:55.960 the many of the artists. No, Taylor, Taylor is more 0:39:56.000 --> 0:39:58.640 aligned with us politically and on social issues than some others. 0:39:58.960 --> 0:40:01.960 But I do think bad Bunny makes a different statement 0:40:02.320 --> 0:40:06.320 than Taylor does. And so yeah, like I just I 0:40:06.480 --> 0:40:09.239 think that it's interesting that it's like you damned if 0:40:09.280 --> 0:40:11.600 you do, damned if you don't hear. The other thing 0:40:11.680 --> 0:40:14.919 that I'll say without saying too much, is I really 0:40:15.000 --> 0:40:19.239 wish people knew the backstory of what happened and how 0:40:19.280 --> 0:40:22.000 they got to doing the halftime shows to begin with, 0:40:22.480 --> 0:40:26.040 of what their actual intention was. There wasn't a real 0:40:26.160 --> 0:40:28.719 different end goal than what the rest of the community was, 0:40:28.760 --> 0:40:30.799 and that was for Cap to get on a team. 0:40:31.239 --> 0:40:34.440 But I wonder for us if Cap getting on the 0:40:34.560 --> 0:40:37.359 team would have been sufficient. If Cap got on a team, 0:40:37.680 --> 0:40:40.360 would we still have the issues around the lack of 0:40:40.480 --> 0:40:43.080 black head coaches in the NFL when we still have 0:40:43.239 --> 0:40:46.120 an issue with the fact that only seventeen percent or 0:40:46.200 --> 0:40:50.400 eighteen percent of coaches look like us. The fact despite 0:40:50.440 --> 0:40:52.759 the fact that seventy five percent of the players look 0:40:52.920 --> 0:40:55.480 like us, so I really want us to also challenge 0:40:55.480 --> 0:40:58.040 our own hypocrisy here. And I'm saying us black folks, 0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:03.719 because it is far deeper than that. But I recognize 0:41:03.719 --> 0:41:07.600 and understand the symbolism. We have to decide if the 0:41:07.719 --> 0:41:10.760 symbols are the substance or if we're going to continue 0:41:10.800 --> 0:41:13.000 to push for substance even when we get some of 0:41:13.080 --> 0:41:15.560 the symbols. And I think that it is not either or. 0:41:15.640 --> 0:41:17.759 It is probably a both and approach. But we got 0:41:17.880 --> 0:41:19.759 to figure out, you know, what is the symbol that 0:41:19.840 --> 0:41:22.320 we care the most about and when we're going to 0:41:22.480 --> 0:41:25.680 challenge them for upholding the symbol but dissing us on 0:41:25.760 --> 0:41:28.080 everything else, or should we be doing both? And I 0:41:28.120 --> 0:41:30.480 think this is probably one of those things where we 0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:32.799 should do both. We've got to win on the halftime show. 0:41:33.160 --> 0:41:35.319 It is not sufficient, and I think the Rock Nation 0:41:35.480 --> 0:41:39.320 family understands that, and certainly everybody on this podcast understands this. 0:41:40.000 --> 0:41:42.839 There is another viewer question here, and since you brought 0:41:42.920 --> 0:41:45.359 up Ice Tiff, maybe we should tap in there. 0:41:45.400 --> 0:41:47.320 But I heard Andrew take a breasth case he wants no. 0:41:47.480 --> 0:41:50.560 I just I think we shouldn't overload people with doing 0:41:50.719 --> 0:41:54.160 everything we all have our jobs. We all have our 0:41:54.320 --> 0:41:57.279 roles to play. Policymakers have a job to do here, 0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:02.640 the board of these multilateral corporations who are sponsors to 0:42:03.960 --> 0:42:08.000 the commercials that play that largely line the pockets of 0:42:08.080 --> 0:42:12.000 the networks, and these owners, they have a role to play. Also, 0:42:12.480 --> 0:42:16.920 entertainers who are really invited to just entertain have a 0:42:17.040 --> 0:42:20.880 responsibility in a role to play given their platforms. And 0:42:20.960 --> 0:42:23.279 I don't want to overload any one side of this 0:42:23.800 --> 0:42:28.239 with more than what they're reasonable and righteous responsibility ought 0:42:28.280 --> 0:42:28.959 to be in the moment. 0:42:29.239 --> 0:42:31.000 Well, I mean, I would push back on that a 0:42:31.080 --> 0:42:36.239 little bit. I think rock Nation became the you know, 0:42:37.440 --> 0:42:41.040 jay Z and rock Nation became billionaires off of us 0:42:41.120 --> 0:42:46.040 supporting his music his projects early on. So I think 0:42:46.719 --> 0:42:54.520 black people are always righteously entitled to challenging what he's 0:42:54.640 --> 0:42:56.600 done with that level of responsibility. 0:42:57.360 --> 0:43:00.440 I would never that's not entirely true though, Like he 0:43:00.520 --> 0:43:03.400 did not become a billionaire just off of streams. He 0:43:03.520 --> 0:43:06.400 became a billionaire after several other business deals. 0:43:06.920 --> 0:43:08.400 But he became a billionaire. 0:43:09.520 --> 0:43:11.600 I'm not saying he does, but he did. I'm not 0:43:11.680 --> 0:43:14.080 saying every billion he got was from us, but I'm 0:43:14.120 --> 0:43:16.920 saying from the support that black people gave him that 0:43:17.080 --> 0:43:19.080 put him in a position to flip that money a 0:43:19.160 --> 0:43:19.680 few times. 0:43:22.880 --> 0:43:26.920 But that was the finesse of a smart businessman investing 0:43:26.920 --> 0:43:28.040 in I'm not taking. 0:43:27.880 --> 0:43:29.520 That away from him, but he wouldn't have been able 0:43:29.560 --> 0:43:31.360 to do that much if he didn't have to support 0:43:31.400 --> 0:43:34.040 of black people. So that then say, we can't challenge 0:43:34.120 --> 0:43:35.200 him and what he's doing. 0:43:35.480 --> 0:43:37.960 That challenge it, but I think you should listen to 0:43:38.040 --> 0:43:40.759 the facts of their responses though too. I think that's true. 0:43:40.840 --> 0:43:43.520 I think unfortunately, well I shouldn't say unfortunately or not, 0:43:43.680 --> 0:43:47.440 but Colin Kaepernick was you know, vocal about his thoughts 0:43:47.560 --> 0:43:49.640 on the partnership, and that's what we heard. And I 0:43:49.719 --> 0:43:53.520 think the imagery that we've seen, you know, from them 0:43:53.800 --> 0:43:57.960 dining with uh, you know, the the Trump kids and 0:43:58.480 --> 0:43:59.560 people right after. 0:43:59.440 --> 0:44:01.800 That announced and bad Bunny would be the halftime performer. 0:44:02.200 --> 0:44:02.880 That doesn't But that. 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:05.959 Doesn't not a lot of people. That does not wait 0:44:06.000 --> 0:44:07.640 for a lot of people. I think people have a 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:11.040 right to be outraised and angry about those things. They 0:44:11.080 --> 0:44:12.800 can be, but I want them to be outraged and 0:44:12.840 --> 0:44:15.480 angry with facts. So then even the comment just now 0:44:15.520 --> 0:44:18.400 about they were dining with the Trump kids. Let's just 0:44:18.560 --> 0:44:19.640 put some clarity around this. 0:44:19.800 --> 0:44:22.080 So they are. They are. 0:44:23.480 --> 0:44:26.080 Some of the founding members of the Reform Alliance, which 0:44:26.200 --> 0:44:31.120 was a bipartisan effort to help get people, reduce people's sentences, 0:44:31.320 --> 0:44:34.080 make sure that justice reform actually happened in this country. 0:44:34.360 --> 0:44:36.680 Even the Koch Brothers were a part of these efforts 0:44:36.719 --> 0:44:39.000 with Hikim Jeffries just a few years ago. 0:44:39.120 --> 0:44:40.520 Now it feels like five hundred. 0:44:40.960 --> 0:44:45.480 But the Reform Alliance is holds a gala, a casino 0:44:45.600 --> 0:44:48.920 event every year where people on every side of the 0:44:49.239 --> 0:44:53.200 on all parts of the political spectrum, participate in that event. 0:44:53.960 --> 0:45:00.000 So the Trump's Jared Kushner, whose father was also incarcerated 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:04.920 and therefore he leaned very heavily into justice reform efforts 0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:08.600 in the last Trump administration, is now involved in the 0:45:08.680 --> 0:45:11.520 Reform Alliance, and they participated in the most recent event. 0:45:11.600 --> 0:45:13.600 It was Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. 0:45:13.760 --> 0:45:17.800 And the reason his father was exactly the reason that 0:45:18.640 --> 0:45:21.400 father was parsrated is a whole other thing. But thank you, 0:45:21.440 --> 0:45:24.520 because I think that that the facts do matter around that. 0:45:24.880 --> 0:45:27.640 But if we're saying imagery matters in the halftime show, 0:45:27.719 --> 0:45:30.520 then imagery definitely equally matters when you are seated at 0:45:30.560 --> 0:45:32.920 the table with Jarrek Kushner at a time such as this, 0:45:33.040 --> 0:45:35.440 when things are going on, I think it is perfectly 0:45:35.560 --> 0:45:38.440 fine for people to question, wait a second, this doesn't 0:45:38.440 --> 0:45:40.560 feel right to me, or wait a second, what more 0:45:40.640 --> 0:45:42.800 are you doing? What more can we should we be 0:45:42.920 --> 0:45:45.360 expecting of you? It's not this to anybody, But I 0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:46.839 was talking to one of our luner. I don't think 0:45:46.840 --> 0:45:48.120 he would want me to say his name, but I 0:45:48.200 --> 0:45:50.080 was talking to one of our luminaries of the time, 0:45:50.719 --> 0:45:52.680 asking his thoughts, and he said, listen, at the end 0:45:52.680 --> 0:45:55.560 of the day, a billionaire is a billionaire is a billionaire, 0:45:55.920 --> 0:45:58.800 And so I think sometimes I do question that. You know, 0:45:58.960 --> 0:46:01.480 I look at the peopleeople who in our community who 0:46:01.920 --> 0:46:06.400 maneuver at that level, and there does sometimes feel like 0:46:06.560 --> 0:46:09.239 a disconnect. But I also think it's fair what you 0:46:09.320 --> 0:46:13.520 guys are saying about imagery mattering, and about what we 0:46:13.640 --> 0:46:16.160 should what's realistic, what we can expect, and should we 0:46:16.239 --> 0:46:18.480 be celebrating the things that they are doing. I think 0:46:18.719 --> 0:46:21.040 everything on the table I think is fair. I just 0:46:21.160 --> 0:46:23.919 identify more with what the viewer, what she was raising. 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:25.279 I think it's a fair question to ask. 0:46:26.200 --> 0:46:27.400 The only thing I know we got to go on 0:46:27.600 --> 0:46:30.520 is simply say we could. We could disrupt the lives 0:46:30.560 --> 0:46:33.200 of these billionaire, racist owners, many of too, many of 0:46:33.280 --> 0:46:35.960 which right now owned teams and think they run in plantations. 0:46:36.040 --> 0:46:39.239 For sure, if we decided to take our eyes off 0:46:39.280 --> 0:46:42.080 the screen every Sunday, very fought if we were to 0:46:42.200 --> 0:46:44.719 remove ours, because the accountability has to. 0:46:44.719 --> 0:46:45.239 Flow all way. 0:46:45.320 --> 0:46:45.919 Yes, that's true. 0:46:45.960 --> 0:46:48.239 It isn't just Jaz, It ain't just the you know, 0:46:48.840 --> 0:46:51.800 the owners. It is the fact that they wouldn't have 0:46:52.040 --> 0:46:55.880 what they have. The NFL would not be the expanding, 0:46:56.280 --> 0:46:59.839 profound industry, you know, disruptive industry that it is from 0:46:59.840 --> 0:47:03.080 me and so much else if our eyeballs were not 0:47:03.320 --> 0:47:05.560 on it, if we were not watching, if we weren't 0:47:05.560 --> 0:47:08.520 attending games and buying tickets. And the truth is is 0:47:09.120 --> 0:47:12.800 if we the regular folk, were to remove our support 0:47:13.440 --> 0:47:16.560 visa VI, putting our eyes on it, therefore driving money 0:47:16.640 --> 0:47:19.120 toward it, then that wouldn't be the thing. 0:47:19.520 --> 0:47:24.319 Ross wouldn't be a thing. Right, So accountability is right. 0:47:24.600 --> 0:47:28.000 I was only simply arguing not just what's possible or 0:47:28.080 --> 0:47:31.279 what's reasonable, but to say that I do have expectations 0:47:31.320 --> 0:47:35.840 for everybody along this along this pipeline, and it doesn't. 0:47:35.960 --> 0:47:38.400 I was simply saying, it doesn't sit with Bad Bunny 0:47:38.520 --> 0:47:42.360 himself to accomplish all those missions by through his performance. 0:47:42.440 --> 0:47:45.040 It doesn't sit with jay Z by himself. It doesn't 0:47:45.120 --> 0:47:46.640 sit with any one of those. 0:47:46.520 --> 0:47:50.799 Constituencies by themselves, but the most impactful constituency of those 0:47:50.840 --> 0:47:51.640 of us who are watching. 0:47:52.000 --> 0:47:52.520 I love that. 0:47:52.960 --> 0:47:55.080 Can I just say I really love this conversation. I 0:47:55.120 --> 0:47:57.560 didn't expect this conversation to go all these different dress 0:47:57.640 --> 0:47:59.759 I knew there was daylight, but it really is a 0:47:59.840 --> 0:48:02.120 New Wants conversation. I don't think we would have gotten 0:48:02.160 --> 0:48:05.000 this conversation anywhere else on the cable news. It would 0:48:05.000 --> 0:48:07.520 have been a five minute thing. So I really love 0:48:07.600 --> 0:48:09.839 the nuanced perspective that we all bring and would love 0:48:09.880 --> 0:48:11.640 to hear from our viewers. Please weigh in with what 0:48:11.760 --> 0:48:14.160 you all think. I love what you said, Andrew, And 0:48:14.200 --> 0:48:16.440 I'm not dismissing people who love football, because when this 0:48:16.600 --> 0:48:18.759 was happening, I remember, y'all know I'm a big huge 0:48:18.800 --> 0:48:21.200 Game of Thrones head, and I was trying to think, like, damn, 0:48:21.239 --> 0:48:23.640 what if it was called a boycott? Not watching Game 0:48:23.719 --> 0:48:27.000 of Thrones? How get So would I be like, am 0:48:27.000 --> 0:48:28.600 I gonna miss that Game of Thrones finale? 0:48:28.800 --> 0:48:29.239 I don't know. 0:48:29.760 --> 0:48:34.080 So I get that perspective, but I like the exactly 0:48:35.080 --> 0:48:37.839 But I appreciate the perspective that you're like, responsibility doesn't 0:48:37.880 --> 0:48:39.640 sit with any one of us, for everybody who's out 0:48:39.640 --> 0:48:42.560 there watching the football game but criticizing the halftime show, 0:48:42.880 --> 0:48:46.000 like what are you doing in your role of responsibility? 0:48:46.000 --> 0:48:48.600 So I love that. But but a lot of the 0:48:48.680 --> 0:48:52.719 stems from bad Bunny not bringing his tour to the 0:48:52.800 --> 0:48:56.080 mainland because he said, you know, ICE could be right 0:48:56.120 --> 0:48:58.080 outside his concerts, and I know we have a viewer 0:48:58.480 --> 0:48:59.480 who has a question about that. 0:49:10.920 --> 0:49:14.680 What's up? Native Land is Larry once again in Dallas, 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:17.919 soon to be in Canada once I move next month. 0:49:18.880 --> 0:49:20.400 But I want to talk to you guys about the 0:49:20.480 --> 0:49:23.960 bad Body Built bill that Trump just signed into law. 0:49:24.960 --> 0:49:28.240 This is going to give ICE an astounding amount of funding. 0:49:28.600 --> 0:49:31.560 Not only would dollar for dollar make it the largest 0:49:31.640 --> 0:49:36.920 governmental agency, but also I believe I read the sixteenth 0:49:37.080 --> 0:49:39.240 largest military power on the planet. 0:49:40.360 --> 0:49:44.400 That's terrible. I see this going horribly not only for immigrants, 0:49:44.520 --> 0:49:49.840 but for everybody that dissents against this fascist agenda. I 0:49:49.960 --> 0:49:52.160 wanted to know from you guys, what are some steps 0:49:52.239 --> 0:49:55.560 of disruption or mutual aid that people can do to 0:49:55.640 --> 0:50:01.080 combat ICE and or the undoubtedly problemat of consequences that 0:50:01.200 --> 0:50:04.560 this new Gestapo force is going to have on average citizens. 0:50:06.239 --> 0:50:09.520 Looking forward to hearing your perspectives. I love y'all, and 0:50:09.680 --> 0:50:10.239 welcome home. 0:50:11.320 --> 0:50:13.360 Welcome home, he said, he moving to Canada. 0:50:14.400 --> 0:50:17.759 He said, yeah, you got a question, though, don't get side. 0:50:18.520 --> 0:50:23.120 We don't answer that question. I know, well, my thought 0:50:23.280 --> 0:50:27.480 is to be disobedient. What I've seen from and this 0:50:27.640 --> 0:50:31.680 is just like videos that unfortunately you don't find on 0:50:31.840 --> 0:50:36.200 legacy media, but you've seen videos from different outlets that 0:50:36.320 --> 0:50:39.200 find their way to social media and on different news 0:50:39.280 --> 0:50:45.239 sites where communities overwhelmingly show up and stop ICE from 0:50:45.320 --> 0:50:49.480 taking somebody. They make them and welcome to the point 0:50:49.480 --> 0:50:52.760 where ICE literally backs out. They outnumber them in droves. 0:50:53.160 --> 0:50:56.319 They videotape them. Ice is now attacking people who are 0:50:56.400 --> 0:51:00.680 videotaping them. This week, they just attacked a journalist. This 0:51:00.960 --> 0:51:03.800 is not a normal thing. I mean, we are literally 0:51:03.880 --> 0:51:08.200 normalizing mass men uh taking people off the streets and 0:51:08.600 --> 0:51:13.960 disappearing them. Reporting from CNN sites that authorities in at 0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:20.360 least three states have arrested individuals allegedly impersonating ICE officers 0:51:20.880 --> 0:51:23.440 at a time when real ICE agents have, you know, 0:51:23.719 --> 0:51:27.520 ramped up their disappearing acts, and it's adding to an 0:51:27.560 --> 0:51:31.120 existing fear of law enforcement. I said earlier in the 0:51:31.160 --> 0:51:35.120 show that more people who have committed no crimes whatsoever, 0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:39.960 they now outnumber these allegedly violent criminals. There have also 0:51:40.120 --> 0:51:44.759 been thousands of people since these deportations happened. More than 0:51:44.800 --> 0:51:47.319 a thousand people have disappeared. We just don't know where 0:51:47.360 --> 0:51:51.279 they are. They've disappeared from the daily body count. So 0:51:51.400 --> 0:51:55.080 imagine people can't find, you know, their loved ones. The 0:51:55.360 --> 0:51:59.120 superintendent of schools in Iowa, for all the people who 0:51:59.200 --> 0:52:01.200 said this an r when we mind in our business, 0:52:01.280 --> 0:52:04.000 this black man who was born in Guyana, a pillar 0:52:04.040 --> 0:52:08.120 of the community, was disappeared by ice. And so this 0:52:08.320 --> 0:52:11.600 is a dangerous, scary time and the only thing that's 0:52:11.640 --> 0:52:14.960 gonna stop and authoritarian regime is disobedience. I had a 0:52:15.080 --> 0:52:17.560 chance to talk with Congressman Ayana Pressley about this during 0:52:17.600 --> 0:52:21.040 the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, and she gave really good 0:52:21.440 --> 0:52:25.239 advice on this about protecting ourselves and our community. So 0:52:25.280 --> 0:52:27.000 I'm not telling people to go out there and get 0:52:27.080 --> 0:52:30.680 shot and you know, confront ice officers with violence. But 0:52:30.800 --> 0:52:32.800 I do think when we do this in DROs and 0:52:32.880 --> 0:52:36.960 in numbers and demand you know, accountability and respect for 0:52:37.040 --> 0:52:39.160 our communities and show up for one another. If there's 0:52:39.280 --> 0:52:42.719 eighteen agents going after one person and it's thirty people 0:52:42.760 --> 0:52:45.480 in the neighborhood, then yes, protect that one person. If 0:52:45.520 --> 0:52:47.799 you see somebody getting taken, get out your phone, ask 0:52:47.840 --> 0:52:50.640 their name. Who can you call, you know, to let 0:52:50.719 --> 0:52:53.719 them know that you were taken. It's getting to the point, 0:52:54.239 --> 0:52:56.360 well I feel like I want to AirTag on me somewhere, 0:52:56.520 --> 0:52:59.279 just so somebody can constantly be aware I'm aware of 0:52:59.320 --> 0:53:01.360 where I am. Because they're not citizens, then none of 0:53:01.440 --> 0:53:03.480 us are citizens if they came and got injury. Right 0:53:03.520 --> 0:53:05.600 now that you're not a citizen, bo, But wait, yes 0:53:05.680 --> 0:53:07.920 I am. I have a passport, I can show you. Well, 0:53:07.920 --> 0:53:10.400 you don't get due processed, so now you're just disappeared. 0:53:10.680 --> 0:53:14.320 So we have to consider it's not they, it's we. 0:53:15.000 --> 0:53:18.520 It's not them, it's us. Eventually this problem is going 0:53:18.600 --> 0:53:20.200 to come to our front door. So that's my thoughts. 0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:21.440 So good, so good. 0:53:21.600 --> 0:53:24.800 It already is I appreciate that SYS. I mean in 0:53:24.920 --> 0:53:31.400 places like Florida, where you have huge Haitian Haitian communities 0:53:31.440 --> 0:53:34.040 that have been displaced from hat because of the political 0:53:34.120 --> 0:53:38.440 discord there and have been granted asylum under previous administrations 0:53:38.480 --> 0:53:41.080 and have now had it revoked from this administration. 0:53:41.520 --> 0:53:43.000 They are racially profiling. 0:53:43.160 --> 0:53:45.200 They are deciding whether or not you look like you 0:53:45.360 --> 0:53:48.400 belong here, by the way, a principle that used to 0:53:48.400 --> 0:53:51.480 be illegal in the United States thanks up until the 0:53:51.960 --> 0:53:55.640 US Supreme Court majority determined that, oh, racial profiling to 0:53:55.719 --> 0:53:57.920 determine whether or not a person is a citizen. 0:53:57.960 --> 0:54:00.440 It's just fine with with them. 0:54:00.680 --> 0:54:02.040 The only other thing I would add, and I think 0:54:02.040 --> 0:54:03.759 you did so well with their Tiffany, is to say 0:54:04.080 --> 0:54:06.360 at your local levels. So the entire state of California 0:54:06.400 --> 0:54:09.720 has now banned federal agents coming in without with masks, 0:54:10.360 --> 0:54:14.799 mass individuals disappearing to use your language, sipetany folks out 0:54:14.840 --> 0:54:18.279 of communities. You can push for local ordinances where you live. 0:54:18.840 --> 0:54:21.600 You got to go local government that is sensitive to 0:54:21.680 --> 0:54:26.440 these human rights concerns. I am totally not shocked that 0:54:26.520 --> 0:54:28.880 there are now criminal elements who are deciding, oh, we 0:54:28.960 --> 0:54:31.359 could just throw on some masks and go and get 0:54:31.440 --> 0:54:33.640 our enemies as well and lift them off the street. 0:54:33.719 --> 0:54:36.360 There's a reason why people got badges and badge numbers. 0:54:36.600 --> 0:54:38.640 There's a reason why they wear those things on their 0:54:38.719 --> 0:54:41.200 uniforms and display them for the public. It's a form 0:54:41.200 --> 0:54:44.560 of accountability in a democracy, and now we ought to 0:54:44.600 --> 0:54:47.759 be pushing for that same accountability even for this agency. 0:54:48.200 --> 0:54:51.840 He is also completely right on the DHS on the 0:54:51.920 --> 0:54:55.960 Homeland Security. The President frankly building his own army, domestic 0:54:56.080 --> 0:54:59.000 army to carry out his wishes. While the military he 0:54:59.040 --> 0:55:01.680 may have been frozen and didn't applaud for him, which 0:55:01.760 --> 0:55:05.080 is in practice the right thing. That the military is 0:55:05.400 --> 0:55:08.960 to be non political, to respect the office of the presidency, 0:55:09.000 --> 0:55:10.239 but not to be partisans. 0:55:11.960 --> 0:55:13.839 So the president, that wasn't good enough for him. 0:55:14.160 --> 0:55:18.520 He wanted obeisance, applause, rowdiness and supporting him. 0:55:18.800 --> 0:55:18.960 Well. 0:55:19.040 --> 0:55:25.320 Now through his pin up Gnome and the force that 0:55:25.440 --> 0:55:28.840 she is building under the Department of Homeland Security, he 0:55:29.000 --> 0:55:33.120 is absolutely building his own domestic army, willing and prepared 0:55:33.719 --> 0:55:36.239 to do his bidding. And I think that's just a 0:55:36.280 --> 0:55:38.120 cautionary note that we all have to be aware of. 0:55:38.239 --> 0:55:39.920 But there are things I think we should be advocating 0:55:39.960 --> 0:55:43.120 for at our local levels, and that should be no masks. 0:55:43.320 --> 0:55:46.120 If you're an arresting official agency of the government, you 0:55:46.200 --> 0:55:48.800 ought to be able to have your name and displayed 0:55:49.000 --> 0:55:49.840 and no masks. 0:55:49.960 --> 0:55:50.160 You know. 0:55:50.440 --> 0:55:52.520 On that Andrew again. 0:55:52.840 --> 0:55:55.560 Jasmine Crockett was on with this earlier this week and 0:55:55.880 --> 0:56:00.480 she has a bill, the clear Id Act, to prohibit 0:56:01.280 --> 0:56:04.920 people from being in law enforcement and wearing masks approaching 0:56:05.760 --> 0:56:08.960 citizens or any human being on the street without having 0:56:09.040 --> 0:56:10.600 to properly identify yourself. 0:56:13.640 --> 0:56:16.040 Okay, why do we have another viewer question? This one 0:56:16.120 --> 0:56:18.279 is actually specific to Angela's. I want to shift this 0:56:18.960 --> 0:56:20.359 so Angela can answer his question. 0:56:20.480 --> 0:56:20.920 Let's roll it. 0:56:21.600 --> 0:56:24.840 My question, Angela is does it serve a purpose? The 0:56:24.960 --> 0:56:28.960 only call out people from the right that call our 0:56:29.239 --> 0:56:32.640 justice Brown Jackson, who I think is genius in VP 0:56:32.840 --> 0:56:37.040 Harris the EI picks when it was actually Canada Biden 0:56:37.360 --> 0:56:42.480 and the Democratic Party that originally called them the EI picks. 0:56:43.560 --> 0:56:44.680 Correct me if I'm wrong, But. 0:56:45.120 --> 0:56:48.759 Wasn't it day Kenneda Biden, in this attempt to get 0:56:48.840 --> 0:56:52.080 the black vote say that he will pick a black 0:56:52.160 --> 0:56:55.200 woman justice before even naming her name. And then it 0:56:55.320 --> 0:56:57.960 was a Democratic Party that turned around and urged. 0:56:59.560 --> 0:57:01.880 Canada Biden to de pick a black. 0:57:01.719 --> 0:57:02.439 Women for VP. 0:57:03.080 --> 0:57:03.560 So would you. 0:57:03.640 --> 0:57:05.840 Agree that that was a mistake on the part of 0:57:05.920 --> 0:57:10.000 the Dems actually naming a I guess the sense and 0:57:10.120 --> 0:57:12.520 the race before I actually name it the name. 0:57:13.080 --> 0:57:14.840 Thank you, Okay. 0:57:15.200 --> 0:57:18.000 So here's the thing that I just want to do here, 0:57:18.040 --> 0:57:21.200 I think is so important. As Andrew said, we do 0:57:21.360 --> 0:57:25.160 not traffic in insignificance here, and we absolutely want to 0:57:25.200 --> 0:57:27.760 make sure that we traffic in fact checking. So it 0:57:28.000 --> 0:57:32.880 was not Joe Biden who began the DEI rhetoric. I 0:57:32.960 --> 0:57:36.760 don't know of any Democratic candidate even there are Democratic 0:57:36.840 --> 0:57:39.800 Party strategies now who are saying that we spend too 0:57:39.840 --> 0:57:40.840 much time in DEI. 0:57:41.080 --> 0:57:43.480 And for those of you who missed it, spending. 0:57:43.200 --> 0:57:45.760 Too much time in DEI means spending too much time 0:57:45.840 --> 0:57:50.880 targeting the Blacks. So we actually believe, and I won't 0:57:50.880 --> 0:57:54.120 say for y'all, but I believe in a moniker that 0:57:54.200 --> 0:57:57.760 the Congressional Black Caucus has long used no permanent friends, 0:57:58.200 --> 0:58:02.280 no permanent enemies, just permanent interest. To that end, when 0:58:02.400 --> 0:58:06.160 Joe Biden became the nominee of the Democratic Party nominee 0:58:06.280 --> 0:58:08.520 in twenty twenty, he was actually pushed to do some things. 0:58:08.760 --> 0:58:11.720 There were some key voices that urged him to not 0:58:11.840 --> 0:58:15.480 only pick a black woman vice president, to also pick 0:58:15.520 --> 0:58:18.360 a black women as a Supreme Court justice, and to 0:58:18.480 --> 0:58:21.840 have a black agenda that's not too pander. That's not 0:58:22.080 --> 0:58:27.080 because black people should only be janitors and car salesmen. 0:58:27.320 --> 0:58:29.400 It's actually because, I believe it or not, there's some 0:58:29.480 --> 0:58:33.320 pretty bad ass black women that want these things, demanded 0:58:33.360 --> 0:58:35.120 these things, And I'm a rolling a little clip for 0:58:35.200 --> 0:58:38.040 y'all from twenty twenty from some badass black women who 0:58:38.080 --> 0:58:38.880 made these demands. 0:58:39.560 --> 0:58:43.480 Vice President Biden, you need us, you owe us. 0:58:45.280 --> 0:58:47.480 Black women are miracle workers. 0:58:48.000 --> 0:58:52.160 We have been saving the Democratic Party since nineteen sixty five. 0:58:52.720 --> 0:58:54.440 Twenty twenty is no different. 0:58:54.960 --> 0:58:57.960 Your only path to victory is through Black women. 0:58:58.040 --> 0:59:00.200 The voters that need to turn out. We know how 0:59:00.240 --> 0:59:03.360 to mobilize them. Our votes must not be taken for granted. 0:59:06.320 --> 0:59:09.640 The following commitments will begin to show black voters that 0:59:09.760 --> 0:59:11.520 you are serious about US. 0:59:11.960 --> 0:59:16.840 America needs a black woman vice president. Candidates like Amy 0:59:16.880 --> 0:59:22.120 Klobuchar will not energize US. America needs a. 0:59:24.480 --> 0:59:24.760 Justice. 0:59:25.080 --> 0:59:26.000 Remember Anita Hill. 0:59:26.600 --> 0:59:31.440 We do America needs more in a comprehensive black agenda. 0:59:31.960 --> 0:59:34.720 The rules are rigged against our communities. 0:59:35.880 --> 0:59:38.320 Whether we are talking about a black person who died 0:59:38.360 --> 0:59:41.440 of COVID nineteen because of the lack of access to 0:59:41.520 --> 0:59:45.160 health care, or Ahmad Arbury being killed by vigilantes, or 0:59:45.600 --> 0:59:49.200 Brianna Taylor, an e and t killed by police while 0:59:49.280 --> 0:59:50.320 laying in her bed. 0:59:50.680 --> 0:59:56.920 We deserve solutions that address systemic racism, economic injustice, and 0:59:57.400 --> 0:59:58.560 domestic terrorism. 0:59:59.000 --> 1:00:04.200 Joe Biden, you enacted drug and crime laws that harmed 1:00:04.360 --> 1:00:06.320 the black community for generations. 1:00:07.160 --> 1:00:09.120 Joe Biden, this must be addressed. 1:00:09.480 --> 1:00:14.160 You must address our oppression and most importantly, embrace our 1:00:14.320 --> 1:00:16.160 power to win the White House. 1:00:17.200 --> 1:00:18.720 Well, I mean the only thing I would add. I 1:00:18.760 --> 1:00:23.040 think I see your receipts, Frian, and we appreciate. 1:00:22.720 --> 1:00:24.440 I know that receipts. 1:00:25.400 --> 1:00:27.160 I see that I got a sweater. 1:00:28.240 --> 1:00:28.480 Thank you. 1:00:28.560 --> 1:00:30.280 There she's talking about the show. 1:00:30.320 --> 1:00:31.880 I know, I know, I like the shirt, but I 1:00:32.040 --> 1:00:35.520 like her nails. Press on, I'm gonna get some love it. 1:00:35.800 --> 1:00:40.000 So on this topic, it's just so blackfeof all the time. 1:00:40.080 --> 1:00:42.680 We ask what are we getting for our support? What 1:00:42.760 --> 1:00:46.320 do we get We're the most loyal committed demographic to 1:00:46.880 --> 1:00:49.240 the Democratic Party, and what do we have to show 1:00:49.360 --> 1:00:52.360 for it. Just to go a little bit further back, 1:00:52.440 --> 1:00:55.640 we also made demands on Obama that he make that appointment, 1:00:55.720 --> 1:00:57.600 that final appointment that he had to the Supreme Court 1:00:57.760 --> 1:01:00.760 a black woman. He of course made a different choice. 1:01:01.640 --> 1:01:04.320 I hope we can see how regrettable that whole thing 1:01:04.480 --> 1:01:09.080 was anyway, But to the point of us finally demanding 1:01:09.200 --> 1:01:15.160 something for the incredible, inconsistent, reliable support that black folks, 1:01:15.280 --> 1:01:18.000 men and women, but led first by women give to 1:01:18.080 --> 1:01:20.040 the Democratic Party, it is. 1:01:20.280 --> 1:01:20.520 It is. 1:01:20.760 --> 1:01:24.000 It was a very obvious observation to have made, to say, 1:01:24.760 --> 1:01:26.680 all the way up to this point, there is still 1:01:26.880 --> 1:01:29.600 not the perspective of a black woman on the highest 1:01:29.680 --> 1:01:34.040 court in the land. Why And that's a reasonable question 1:01:34.120 --> 1:01:35.760 to be asked, and, by the way, the same question 1:01:35.880 --> 1:01:38.120 that people in other communities ask all the time when 1:01:38.160 --> 1:01:40.960 it comes to representation. And so the fact that he 1:01:41.200 --> 1:01:45.960 chose a black women, a woman or a diversity inclusion 1:01:46.080 --> 1:01:49.560 higher still doesn't believe the fact that she's the baddest, 1:01:49.640 --> 1:01:54.200 most qualified, most outstanding justice I have ever seen on 1:01:54.280 --> 1:01:56.840 the United States Supreme Court. I'm a little biased because 1:01:57.000 --> 1:02:00.400 she's from Florida and Miami, but more than anything, she's. 1:02:00.320 --> 1:02:01.680 Also highly qualified. 1:02:01.720 --> 1:02:05.400 I would just caution our community not to accept this 1:02:05.720 --> 1:02:11.160 narrative that diversity, equity, inclusion means didn't deserve it, didn't 1:02:11.240 --> 1:02:14.919 earn it, or isn't qualified. That's what the other side 1:02:15.000 --> 1:02:17.120 wants us to believe about what it means. When you say, 1:02:17.480 --> 1:02:20.640 God damn it, a community is not represented, their voice 1:02:20.720 --> 1:02:23.880 is not at the table. That doesn't mean get the 1:02:23.920 --> 1:02:27.320 most unqualified person, person without the proper credentials. 1:02:27.680 --> 1:02:28.920 No, that's what Trump does. 1:02:29.200 --> 1:02:31.200 That's why they've had to raise rave waive so many 1:02:31.320 --> 1:02:33.800 rules to get his people appointed who are not qualified. 1:02:34.080 --> 1:02:36.760 We're simply saying we want to be represented. And by 1:02:36.800 --> 1:02:41.160 the way, the best of us exists, and droves choose 1:02:41.280 --> 1:02:43.960 one of us to represent at this particular level. So 1:02:44.200 --> 1:02:47.840 my only caution is, let's not accept their frame about 1:02:47.880 --> 1:02:52.520 what it means to have diverse workplaces, diverse leadership, diverse ownership, 1:02:52.720 --> 1:02:57.320 diverse anything. Diversity does not equal unqualified. Diversity means I 1:02:57.480 --> 1:02:59.680 need to see myself reflected, and you need to diversity 1:02:59.840 --> 1:03:03.600 of perspectives in order to see the whole picture more clearly. 1:03:03.880 --> 1:03:07.200 That's what we get through diversity of qualified people. 1:03:07.320 --> 1:03:10.240 And I have a question, Andrew, because one I echo 1:03:10.320 --> 1:03:13.760 everything you just said. And I'm thrilled always to see 1:03:13.800 --> 1:03:17.560 the machetes make their appearance on Native Land pod. That 1:03:17.720 --> 1:03:19.880 was from an OpEd that we did for the Washington 1:03:19.880 --> 1:03:21.480 Post in twenty twenty, and they asked us to do 1:03:21.520 --> 1:03:26.480 a video component. So thrilling to see the women most 1:03:26.640 --> 1:03:29.240 mostly those women are machetes anyway, So shout out to 1:03:29.360 --> 1:03:33.640 my sisters. But Andrew, when you're talking about like coming 1:03:33.720 --> 1:03:37.280 after US diversity, equity and inclusion, you were talking about 1:03:37.360 --> 1:03:42.400 on the call that there's this new piece of legs, 1:03:42.600 --> 1:03:45.680 like essentially the Trump administration is coming after us and 1:03:46.040 --> 1:03:51.680 basically trying to requalify who's the domestic terrorist is so 1:03:51.880 --> 1:03:53.800 much trying to keep up with the news every time 1:03:53.840 --> 1:03:56.280 it's a Trump administration. I always say, it's like trying 1:03:56.280 --> 1:03:58.560 to catch comfetti. I cannot keep up. So I had 1:03:58.600 --> 1:04:01.520 no idea what you were talking about, but you seem 1:04:01.600 --> 1:04:04.240 passionate about it, and you seem like this is something 1:04:04.280 --> 1:04:05.840 that has not gotten a lot of coverage. 1:04:07.160 --> 1:04:07.600 It's true. 1:04:07.720 --> 1:04:09.800 Yeah, So I'm a little The way you explained it 1:04:09.880 --> 1:04:11.240 made me nervous, So I want to hear more. 1:04:11.720 --> 1:04:14.400 Well, I'll just say and and and I don't want 1:04:14.440 --> 1:04:15.960 to take up too much of our time. But I 1:04:16.080 --> 1:04:19.280 just want our audience to really be aware that with 1:04:19.520 --> 1:04:22.120 all the stuff going on, and there's plenty of it 1:04:22.240 --> 1:04:25.240 for us to stop up, we don't need to miss 1:04:25.400 --> 1:04:30.320 the fact that Donald Trump just this past week UH 1:04:30.560 --> 1:04:34.960 issued a presidential memorandum. It's known as the National Security 1:04:35.000 --> 1:04:40.840 Presidential Memorandum, which shorthand is the n s p M seven, 1:04:41.400 --> 1:04:47.320 the National Security Presidential Memorandum seven that came from Donald Trump. 1:04:47.400 --> 1:04:51.520 Now what that memorandum do, To put it in shorthand, 1:04:51.880 --> 1:04:57.720 it declares war on progressive or liberal infrastructure in this country. 1:04:57.880 --> 1:05:04.240 It's donors, it's organization and institutions. It's individuals and staff 1:05:04.600 --> 1:05:09.600 who lead these organizations, say, for instance, the NAACP, save 1:05:09.680 --> 1:05:13.960 for instance, Color of Change, save for instance, insert any 1:05:14.080 --> 1:05:17.360 nonprofit that you can name, either locally or nationally that 1:05:17.560 --> 1:05:22.200 is doing work in service consistent with our values as 1:05:22.240 --> 1:05:25.600 a democracy, but more importantly, our issues and our values 1:05:25.640 --> 1:05:30.600 as people think. Dream defenders think, I don't know the 1:05:30.960 --> 1:05:35.200 tax status of Angela of the State of the people, 1:05:35.480 --> 1:05:38.360 but if it were its own entity, Okay, so if 1:05:38.360 --> 1:05:40.520 there were a secretly and it was its own entity, 1:05:40.920 --> 1:05:43.240 it also is something that you can bring to mind. 1:05:43.600 --> 1:05:47.160 What the President is doing through this executive order is 1:05:48.160 --> 1:05:53.480 one declaring war by basically deciding that these liberal quote 1:05:53.560 --> 1:05:59.600 liberal organizations, extremist organizations as he would categorize them, exists 1:05:59.720 --> 1:06:05.680 to foe met violence against the right. That's simply their framing. 1:06:05.800 --> 1:06:09.080 They are targeting the left or liberal groups that they 1:06:09.240 --> 1:06:14.360 describe as liberal extremists and just determining these groups to 1:06:14.480 --> 1:06:21.120 be domestic terrorist organizations domestic terrorist organizations. What does it 1:06:21.200 --> 1:06:24.680 do to declare them domestic terrorist organizations? It opens up 1:06:24.760 --> 1:06:28.640 a panoply of resources at the federal level that can 1:06:28.720 --> 1:06:31.720 then be used to go after those groups. Who are 1:06:31.760 --> 1:06:35.000 those what are those entities that it opens up? So, 1:06:35.320 --> 1:06:38.720 first of all, let me just define the expanded definition 1:06:38.800 --> 1:06:44.360 that it's giving to extremism and domestic terrorism. It now 1:06:44.480 --> 1:06:54.000 includes anti Americanism, anti capitalism, anti Christian support, yes, support 1:06:54.120 --> 1:06:58.760 for the overthrow of the United States government, extremism on migration, 1:06:59.720 --> 1:07:07.240 ray engender, and hostility towards those who hold traditional American 1:07:07.400 --> 1:07:10.040 views on family, religion. 1:07:09.920 --> 1:07:12.200 And morality. Oh my god, Now, how much of that 1:07:12.360 --> 1:07:13.440 is subjective? First of all? 1:07:14.880 --> 1:07:19.360 And every bit of every bit of it protected speech, 1:07:19.800 --> 1:07:23.400 every bit of it, part of protected speech of which 1:07:23.440 --> 1:07:25.520 any of us can have an opinion on creating an 1:07:25.600 --> 1:07:29.440 organization and advocacy agenda around all of that. 1:07:29.680 --> 1:07:31.800 So this is the new definition that they are now 1:07:32.000 --> 1:07:37.520 including when they are defining these extremist radical left groups 1:07:37.720 --> 1:07:41.440 who are now being targeted by the federal government. Stephen 1:07:41.520 --> 1:07:44.560 Miller at the White House, we all know him as 1:07:44.600 --> 1:07:46.280 a Deputy chief as Dad, but he's kind of the 1:07:46.360 --> 1:07:49.960 man over everything is going to play point on introducing 1:07:51.120 --> 1:07:57.400 this new domestic era campaign that the administration is undertaking. 1:07:58.040 --> 1:08:01.560 But Stephen Miller is also the same person who is 1:08:01.640 --> 1:08:06.160 quoted as saying that it is a violent political speech 1:08:06.760 --> 1:08:12.080 to call Donald Trump wait for it, an authoritarian. So 1:08:12.480 --> 1:08:17.200 by virtue of calling him an authoritarian now qualifies as 1:08:17.320 --> 1:08:19.720 again this is why we said this is all subjective, 1:08:20.000 --> 1:08:26.800 qualifies as violent rhetoric. But I have another suggestion. This 1:08:27.080 --> 1:08:33.559 is Stephen Miller giving his eulogy or comments at Charlie 1:08:33.640 --> 1:08:38.080 Kirk's large memorial service, and I actually would submit that 1:08:38.439 --> 1:08:43.240 this is violent political rhetoric. Take a listen and let 1:08:43.280 --> 1:08:44.000 me know what you think. 1:08:45.400 --> 1:08:49.519 We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. 1:08:50.520 --> 1:08:55.480 They cannot imagine what they have awakened. They cannot conceive 1:08:56.040 --> 1:08:59.479 of the army that they have arisen in all of us, 1:09:01.280 --> 1:09:04.720 because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous, 1:09:04.960 --> 1:09:08.439 what is noble. And to those trying to incite violence 1:09:08.520 --> 1:09:12.760 against us, those trying to foment hatred against us, what 1:09:12.960 --> 1:09:13.439 do you have? 1:09:15.000 --> 1:09:17.479 You have nothing? You are nothing. 1:09:18.280 --> 1:09:21.720 You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are envy, you 1:09:21.840 --> 1:09:22.599 are hatred. 1:09:23.600 --> 1:09:24.439 You are nothing. 1:09:24.840 --> 1:09:28.960 You can build nothing, you can produce nothing, you can 1:09:29.120 --> 1:09:33.519 create nothing. We are the ones who build. We are 1:09:33.600 --> 1:09:37.040 the ones who create. We are the ones who lift 1:09:37.200 --> 1:09:43.479 up humanity. You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk, You 1:09:43.680 --> 1:09:47.840 have made him am mortal. You have immortalized Charlie Kirk, 1:09:48.439 --> 1:09:53.600 and now millions will carry on his legacy, and we 1:09:53.720 --> 1:09:59.960 will devote the rest of our lives to finishing the cause, 1:10:00.000 --> 1:10:03.240 this for which Charlie gave his last measure of devotion. 1:10:05.080 --> 1:10:07.920 You cannot defeat us. You cannot slow us, you cannot 1:10:08.000 --> 1:10:12.080 stop us, you cannot deter us. We will carry Charlie 1:10:12.120 --> 1:10:15.880 and Erica in our heart every single day and fight 1:10:16.040 --> 1:10:19.400 that much harder because of what you did to us. 1:10:20.560 --> 1:10:24.439 You have no idea the dragon you have awakened. You 1:10:24.600 --> 1:10:28.800 have no idea how determined we will be to save 1:10:28.880 --> 1:10:33.800 this civilization, to save the West, to save this republic. 1:10:35.720 --> 1:10:39.839 Because our children are strong, and our grandchildren will be strong, 1:10:40.360 --> 1:10:43.680 and our children's children's children will be strong. And what 1:10:43.840 --> 1:10:44.880 will you leave behind? 1:10:45.760 --> 1:10:46.120 Nothing? 1:10:46.800 --> 1:10:50.240 Nothing to our enemies. You have nothing to give, you 1:10:50.360 --> 1:10:52.240 have nothing to offer, You have nothing. 1:10:52.120 --> 1:10:53.760 To share but bitterness. 1:10:54.479 --> 1:10:57.720 We have beauty, we have light, we have goodness, we 1:10:57.840 --> 1:11:02.280 have determination, we have vision, we have strength. We built 1:11:02.360 --> 1:11:07.080 the world that we inhabit now, generation by generation, and 1:11:07.240 --> 1:11:10.400 we will defend this world. We will defend goodness, we 1:11:10.479 --> 1:11:14.760 will defend light, we will defend virtue. You cannot terrify us, 1:11:15.479 --> 1:11:19.400 you cannot frighten us, you cannot threaten us because we 1:11:19.960 --> 1:11:21.799 are on the side of goodness. 1:11:21.920 --> 1:11:23.160 We are on the side of God. 1:11:24.240 --> 1:11:28.280 So they are enlisting to as part of their assemblage 1:11:28.360 --> 1:11:31.360 of resources to go after these folks. They are assembling 1:11:32.000 --> 1:11:36.759 the United States Attorney Attorney General who will play point 1:11:36.960 --> 1:11:43.439 on this, Homeland Security, the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS 1:11:44.200 --> 1:11:50.160 here of the government, and they are operationalizing what is 1:11:50.320 --> 1:11:56.280 known as the locally well actually across the country, is 1:11:56.360 --> 1:12:01.519 known as basically the terrorism Coordinating Body that can include 1:12:01.680 --> 1:12:05.240 certain state officials and state offices. That includes over twenty 1:12:05.280 --> 1:12:09.360 two hundred employees of the Department of Justice anti terrorism units. 1:12:10.200 --> 1:12:13.720 It evokes at the state and the national level, all 1:12:13.760 --> 1:12:17.519 of the coordinating groups on anti terrorism, and they are 1:12:17.640 --> 1:12:21.400 now all being charged to turn their energy not to 1:12:21.600 --> 1:12:25.720 real threats of terrorism in the United States. They are 1:12:25.760 --> 1:12:28.800 all now being directed to turn their attention to these 1:12:28.960 --> 1:12:36.120 leftist groups, extremist groups who foment violence against the rights. 1:12:36.240 --> 1:12:39.120 Oh my god, they can start so unclear you're saying, 1:12:39.160 --> 1:12:43.200 they can start arresting people, they can start apps. Okay, 1:12:43.360 --> 1:12:45.639 I'm when you were talking about this in the car earlier, 1:12:45.720 --> 1:12:48.040 I don't think I fully understood the scope of what 1:12:48.160 --> 1:12:51.200 you were saying. This is actually don't why this is 1:12:51.280 --> 1:12:56.280 not a breaking news banner across every news station and 1:12:56.320 --> 1:12:58.840 why this is not a one above the fold in 1:12:59.120 --> 1:13:02.160 every news paper right now. I'm embarrassed and ashamed I 1:13:02.240 --> 1:13:05.760 did not know about n SPS seven. This is a 1:13:05.880 --> 1:13:10.560 declaration of war on all bakun SA NLP is you 1:13:10.640 --> 1:13:13.000 know marketing. I mean, this is this goal lead to 1:13:13.120 --> 1:13:16.080 mass This is cointel pro this is McCarthyism. 1:13:16.280 --> 1:13:20.200 Mcarthy absolutely, And for those of us who don't believe 1:13:20.240 --> 1:13:22.960 that it can happen. It has already happened in this 1:13:23.080 --> 1:13:25.479 country before we didn't they didn't have the moniker. The 1:13:25.600 --> 1:13:28.400 difference is is that the power of being able to 1:13:28.479 --> 1:13:34.320 declare these groups domestic terrorists unleashes a set of policies 1:13:34.360 --> 1:13:37.720 that were approved Posts nine to eleven that were used 1:13:37.720 --> 1:13:41.519 by the Bush administration, the warrantless wire tapping, some of 1:13:41.560 --> 1:13:46.880 the other subterranean investigative tools that the government can use. 1:13:47.360 --> 1:13:51.200 It turns all of that operation on and now directs 1:13:51.280 --> 1:13:53.840 it to these quote, enemies of the state that the 1:13:53.880 --> 1:13:57.680 Trump administration identifies. And I'll say one other thing, and 1:13:58.000 --> 1:14:01.800 I'll bring it to clothes, which is this entrust and 1:14:01.920 --> 1:14:06.639 basically now obligate. The fbis over forty thousand Joint Terrorism 1:14:06.760 --> 1:14:12.679 Task Force units to now become operational in the United States. 1:14:13.760 --> 1:14:20.960 It admonishes the Department of Justice to begin conducting interviews, investigations, 1:14:21.040 --> 1:14:27.640 and interrogations against employees, leaders, executive directors, presidents of these organizations, 1:14:28.040 --> 1:14:29.640 funders of these organizations. 1:14:29.680 --> 1:14:30.760 And by the way, some of. 1:14:30.760 --> 1:14:32.800 These funders are big money donors, but some of these 1:14:32.840 --> 1:14:34.720 funders are regular people like you and me who are 1:14:34.720 --> 1:14:39.000 giving twenty dollars and twenty cents every month. They now 1:14:39.160 --> 1:14:43.360 get to interrogate these individuals under this auspice to root 1:14:43.439 --> 1:14:49.240 out whether or not there is propaganda or speech within 1:14:49.320 --> 1:14:53.160 these organizations that has the ability to foment violence. The 1:14:53.320 --> 1:14:55.120 other thing that this thing is doing is it is 1:14:55.240 --> 1:14:57.599 not just solving a crime after a crime has happened. 1:14:57.960 --> 1:15:02.040 It is saying that their major goal to prevent prevent 1:15:02.800 --> 1:15:05.200 these violent actions from ever taking place. 1:15:05.280 --> 1:15:05.960 Now what does that do? 1:15:06.520 --> 1:15:10.200 That means it becomes highly subjective, highly theorized by the 1:15:10.240 --> 1:15:13.240 government what they think your intention is, and then they 1:15:13.320 --> 1:15:15.240 get to them basically do the work to drive you 1:15:15.360 --> 1:15:18.960 toward that conclusion. Oh well, we just averted a potential 1:15:19.040 --> 1:15:22.400 terrorist event domester terroists event by keeping the state of 1:15:22.520 --> 1:15:26.720 the people from protesting against the death of citizen X 1:15:26.880 --> 1:15:27.280 Y and Z. 1:15:27.960 --> 1:15:29.880 So y'all, I don't want you to think. 1:15:29.800 --> 1:15:32.160 That this is just going to impact people who are 1:15:32.200 --> 1:15:34.680 the big known names, who are the faces in which 1:15:34.720 --> 1:15:38.080 we recognize every day and are out. The truth is 1:15:38.240 --> 1:15:41.200 is that Ahmad Aubrey or Breonna Taylor, they were just 1:15:41.280 --> 1:15:47.200 regular people before they weren't. These are folks who are 1:15:47.520 --> 1:15:50.519 just living until they get on the wrong side of 1:15:50.560 --> 1:15:53.960 the opinion of the leader. So if you don't think 1:15:54.040 --> 1:15:56.800 autocracy has already taken hold in this country, if you 1:15:56.920 --> 1:15:59.920 don't think that the instruments of government are already being 1:16:00.200 --> 1:16:04.240 organized and leveraged against us, and through this memorandum with 1:16:04.479 --> 1:16:06.920 nobody to stop him or to hold him to account, 1:16:07.160 --> 1:16:11.439 and a Supreme Court who is complicit this expedient move 1:16:11.960 --> 1:16:15.280 toward authority terianism, we are about to be at this 1:16:15.439 --> 1:16:18.439 game by ourselves, y'all. So I want you all to 1:16:18.479 --> 1:16:21.240 look it up, research it, learn more. I don't have 1:16:21.320 --> 1:16:22.960 the whole show to go through all of it, but 1:16:23.160 --> 1:16:26.600 just know that this thing is real, and it is 1:16:26.720 --> 1:16:30.559 believed by the reporting entities that work has already begun, 1:16:30.640 --> 1:16:33.920 that they have already begun on their targets to drive them. 1:16:33.920 --> 1:16:36.519 They have, they have, And I just I wanted to 1:16:36.640 --> 1:16:37.720 just flag one other thing. 1:16:37.880 --> 1:16:42.360 There was a an executive memo with an accompanying executive order, 1:16:42.760 --> 1:16:45.439 and I want to be clear that the accompany executive 1:16:45.560 --> 1:16:50.519 order is designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. And 1:16:50.600 --> 1:16:54.240 Antifa has always been an umbrella for anything. They don't 1:16:54.400 --> 1:16:57.240 like anything other, so absolutely, I just I just wanted 1:16:57.280 --> 1:16:59.759 to flag that that this was on the other side 1:16:59.800 --> 1:17:04.080 of Charlie Kirk's murder. They now are trying to pin 1:17:04.200 --> 1:17:06.880 this on all things left, and we know left is 1:17:06.920 --> 1:17:09.840 a spectrum and all of that now is being deemed 1:17:09.920 --> 1:17:10.680 violent to them. 1:17:11.800 --> 1:17:14.720 Yeah, Angela, you're one thousand percent right. I mentioned I 1:17:14.760 --> 1:17:17.360 failed to mentioned the Antifa piece of this. They declare 1:17:17.439 --> 1:17:20.720 Antifa terrorist organization, y'all, you can google it right now. 1:17:21.160 --> 1:17:27.200 There is no Antifa board, the Antifa president. It's is 1:17:27.439 --> 1:17:30.800 a theory, it is a it's a theorem, it is 1:17:30.840 --> 1:17:34.679 a belief system. It is ideological. And that's the beauty 1:17:34.800 --> 1:17:38.520 of them identifying Antifa as the instrument because. 1:17:38.240 --> 1:17:41.439 They can go, just like they did during the Red Scare. 1:17:41.960 --> 1:17:45.080 They can go and determine any one of us is Antifa, 1:17:46.080 --> 1:17:48.760 any one of us even though there doesn't even exist 1:17:48.800 --> 1:17:49.960 an organizations such that. 1:17:50.080 --> 1:17:52.560 Is so nice the thing that is the thing. So 1:17:52.880 --> 1:17:54.720 I wanted to make sure that we just are very 1:17:54.800 --> 1:17:58.120 clear about this, and please know, for those at home 1:17:58.280 --> 1:18:02.360 who are concerned about this memo guiding them through this 1:18:02.520 --> 1:18:06.120 type of policy, all of this is to keep us 1:18:06.280 --> 1:18:12.120 from focusing on the Ebstein files. I just want to 1:18:12.160 --> 1:18:15.519 be very clear. He is doing everything he is throwing 1:18:15.920 --> 1:18:20.080 the sink, the cold kitchen sink at everybody and anything 1:18:20.520 --> 1:18:23.760 to keep us focused on not focused on the Ebstein files. 1:18:23.840 --> 1:18:26.559 He's willing to defund the government, keep people out of work, 1:18:26.640 --> 1:18:30.080 prevent contractors from being paid, provincial health care, make his 1:18:30.240 --> 1:18:34.120 friends richer, all if it keeps us away from what 1:18:34.320 --> 1:18:36.600 we know is that the heartbeat of this administration. And 1:18:36.640 --> 1:18:38.759 I'm sure there are, of course, there are other pieces, 1:18:39.120 --> 1:18:42.200 you know that he's a puppeteer for, you know, Project 1:18:42.240 --> 1:18:44.479 twenty twenty five and all of that, But some of 1:18:44.600 --> 1:18:47.679 these pieces even go beyond what is in Project twenty 1:18:47.720 --> 1:18:50.880 twenty five. They do, and it's a blueprint, but it's 1:18:50.960 --> 1:18:52.600 not the whole print. And I think we got to 1:18:52.640 --> 1:18:55.559 be clear about what it is, the reason, the pace 1:18:56.160 --> 1:18:58.479 and what and how inflammatory they're being right now. 1:18:58.600 --> 1:19:01.519 Even the piece around the military the other day, you know, 1:19:02.000 --> 1:19:02.519 like all. 1:19:02.439 --> 1:19:07.080 Of that, I think what you're referencing, Angela, is this 1:19:07.640 --> 1:19:10.560 quote unquote pep rally, this g I Joe nonsense that 1:19:10.960 --> 1:19:15.200 the Secretary of War formerly Secretary of Defense Pete Hexseth 1:19:15.720 --> 1:19:17.960 hosted this week, Always a bad idea to gather our 1:19:18.080 --> 1:19:19.920 generals from all across the country and put them in 1:19:19.960 --> 1:19:22.800 one place. But that happened this week so much ridiculousness. 1:19:22.800 --> 1:19:25.439 We didn't have time to get to it. But I 1:19:26.160 --> 1:19:28.800 have to say I think Epstein files are not all 1:19:28.880 --> 1:19:31.320 these things would have still been happening. I think it 1:19:31.400 --> 1:19:33.679 was always a play just love the zone with chaos 1:19:34.320 --> 1:19:37.680 and institute this authoritarian regime. And how frightening. I just 1:19:37.720 --> 1:19:41.000 want to say thank you Andrew for raising this. I 1:19:41.080 --> 1:19:44.560 would like to revisit this discussion if we can in 1:19:44.680 --> 1:19:47.080 the coming months, because I'm sure we'll start to see 1:19:47.520 --> 1:19:52.280 the victims of this incredibly draconian policy. And if this 1:19:52.360 --> 1:19:54.479 were happening in any other country, the way we will 1:19:54.520 --> 1:19:56.960 be covering it would be very different. So the fact 1:19:57.000 --> 1:19:59.400 that this is happening in America, I can't stress enough. 1:19:59.680 --> 1:20:01.160 Please get the f. 1:20:01.360 --> 1:20:06.760 Off your phones, stop scrolling, stop doing nothing like the 1:20:07.000 --> 1:20:10.160 red line has been crossed. It is a fire right now. 1:20:10.439 --> 1:20:12.439 I can't tell you all what to do, but I 1:20:12.520 --> 1:20:15.120 at least want you to be aware. Closing your eyes 1:20:15.200 --> 1:20:17.639 and checking out doesn't mean that these things aren't happening. 1:20:17.840 --> 1:20:18.639 So this is frightening. 1:20:19.600 --> 1:20:21.519 Tiff to your point, your last point there, and I 1:20:21.600 --> 1:20:24.200 know we're moving on. It is that we all think 1:20:24.240 --> 1:20:26.320 that there's one day, like you turn on a light switch, 1:20:26.439 --> 1:20:30.000 it's dark, and then it's light. That's how it's supposed 1:20:30.000 --> 1:20:33.320 to feel when we become what Trump is making us 1:20:33.400 --> 1:20:37.439 to be. The truth is is that it's already here. 1:20:37.800 --> 1:20:38.320 The people in. 1:20:38.360 --> 1:20:41.439 China, they go to restaurants, they go to movies, they 1:20:41.520 --> 1:20:44.280 get on their phones, and they get to commune with 1:20:44.360 --> 1:20:48.000 each other. But the truth is is that that we 1:20:48.240 --> 1:20:51.479 can still do all those things, except what about when 1:20:51.479 --> 1:20:54.320 you decide that you disagree with the with the government. 1:20:54.560 --> 1:20:56.400 What happens when you decide that you want to know 1:20:56.720 --> 1:20:59.360 why you're being arrested. What happens when you decide to 1:20:59.400 --> 1:21:01.799 speak up against them coming for you and your country? 1:21:02.120 --> 1:21:05.320 Then you start to see the consequences of living in 1:21:05.360 --> 1:21:11.080 an authoritarian regime. I know the topics were heavy and 1:21:11.200 --> 1:21:14.120 somewhat light at different points in the show. But on 1:21:14.200 --> 1:21:16.400 the other side of this break, you stay tuned, you 1:21:16.479 --> 1:21:18.000 hear our CTA's. 1:21:26.880 --> 1:21:29.719 All right, we are way over time, so let's quickly 1:21:29.800 --> 1:21:31.120 get to our CTAs. 1:21:32.960 --> 1:21:33.360 Angela. 1:21:33.400 --> 1:21:38.080 You want to go first, okay? So for CTAs TIF, 1:21:38.200 --> 1:21:40.040 I need a second. I don't know, I'll think it's 1:21:40.040 --> 1:21:40.400 something quick. 1:21:41.200 --> 1:21:44.160 Over time we way over times. I'm gonna be really quick, 1:21:44.479 --> 1:21:49.040 I'll go. My CTA is there's an incredible organization called 1:21:49.400 --> 1:21:53.320 Prison Journalism, and it is a program that teaches the 1:21:53.439 --> 1:21:57.439 incarcerated how to be journalists, and so they write really 1:21:57.680 --> 1:22:02.439 amazing stories about their experience being imprisoned. Some of the 1:22:02.479 --> 1:22:05.760 stories are things like to avoid deportation, people want to 1:22:05.760 --> 1:22:09.120 stay longer at my prison. Another one is air conditioning 1:22:09.240 --> 1:22:12.839 is coming to Texas prisons, but not fast enough. Another 1:22:13.040 --> 1:22:15.840 is what my mornings are like in prison. I read 1:22:15.960 --> 1:22:20.799 this content because I can't take the influx of atrocities happening, 1:22:20.880 --> 1:22:23.439 and so I just want the men and women who 1:22:23.560 --> 1:22:26.160 are incarcerated to know you are not forgotten about. I 1:22:26.280 --> 1:22:29.519 read your stories. I encourage other people. You can go 1:22:29.600 --> 1:22:31.679 to prison Journalism dot com, I think is the website. 1:22:31.760 --> 1:22:33.719 They also have an Instagram handle. I have some friends 1:22:33.720 --> 1:22:35.800 who are on the board and I was reading stories 1:22:35.840 --> 1:22:37.200 this week and thought, oh, I should talk about this 1:22:37.320 --> 1:22:40.400 on Native Land. So that's my CTA. If you have 1:22:40.520 --> 1:22:43.000 family in prison, if you know anybody, please let them 1:22:43.040 --> 1:22:45.320 know that I said it. And if you happen to 1:22:45.400 --> 1:22:48.519 have access to our YouTube and watch NLP, just know 1:22:48.600 --> 1:22:50.680 that you are not forgotten about. I think about our 1:22:50.720 --> 1:22:54.519 brethren and sisters behind bars every day, especially since Angela 1:22:54.600 --> 1:22:58.519 recommended that I read Asada, which I'm still obsessed with. 1:22:59.160 --> 1:22:59.960 So think about that for you. 1:23:01.400 --> 1:23:04.679 Andrew, absolutely, rest in peace is a good one. 1:23:04.760 --> 1:23:10.560 And power I will I will simply ask and admonish you. 1:23:11.240 --> 1:23:16.160 Please please please go and read or google just in 1:23:16.520 --> 1:23:24.120 as a Nathan s p M seven n sp M seven, 1:23:24.600 --> 1:23:28.519 look it up. We cannot be caught unawares. We need 1:23:28.640 --> 1:23:32.200 to know what's coming down, and especially because we are 1:23:32.200 --> 1:23:34.320 at the center of its its target, and its impact, 1:23:34.840 --> 1:23:36.280 we gotta know Google it. 1:23:37.320 --> 1:23:38.760 Okay, I guess it's my turn. 1:23:40.760 --> 1:23:45.080 I think the only thing that I would challenge our 1:23:45.360 --> 1:23:50.080 audience within this moment is during our live show, I 1:23:50.240 --> 1:23:53.519 ask folks to really contemplate why they are made for 1:23:53.600 --> 1:23:55.559 this moment. And I think it's something that we need 1:23:55.640 --> 1:23:58.800 to be asking ourselves every day. To Andrew's point, being 1:23:58.880 --> 1:24:01.200 caught unaware, to tips point feeling like you're trying to 1:24:01.240 --> 1:24:05.360 catch confetti, you have to constantly ask yourself what gifts, 1:24:05.479 --> 1:24:08.400 what talents, what tools do you have? What time do 1:24:08.520 --> 1:24:10.519 you have to really try to meet this moment that 1:24:10.640 --> 1:24:13.200 we're in it's just not one for us to rest 1:24:13.280 --> 1:24:15.360 on our laurels, and it doesn't mean that folks can't 1:24:15.360 --> 1:24:17.400 take a break. But I do think that this is 1:24:17.479 --> 1:24:20.000 a moment for mass action and I'm hoping that everybody 1:24:20.040 --> 1:24:22.559 will join us in that, And you can start by 1:24:22.680 --> 1:24:27.120 joining us this upcoming weekend at Culture Con where we 1:24:27.200 --> 1:24:30.800 will be live, and also, as Tip said earlier in 1:24:30.880 --> 1:24:32.200 the show, you will also. 1:24:32.000 --> 1:24:33.519 Be able to catch it Monday if you can't get 1:24:33.560 --> 1:24:34.719 to New York on Saturday. 1:24:35.040 --> 1:24:37.920 I'm looking forward to seeing y'all the most in New York, 1:24:38.400 --> 1:24:40.760 but hopefully looking forward to seeing our audience as well. 1:24:41.120 --> 1:24:43.200 As always, you want to remind everyone to please do 1:24:43.439 --> 1:24:46.240 leave us a review and subscribe to Native Land Pod. 1:24:46.280 --> 1:24:48.800 If you want to send in a video, question, comment, whatever, 1:24:49.360 --> 1:24:52.559 you can DM it to us and our Instagram handle 1:24:52.640 --> 1:24:56.240 at Native Lamb Pod. 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