WEBVTT - Native Land Pod Takes CultureCon 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.880 Native lamp Pod is the production of iHeartRadio and partnership 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:06.600 with Recent Choice Media. 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.320 So I want you guys to make a very very 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.399 warm welcome as we introduced to the stage our three panelists. 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:13.800 For that discussion. 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.440 We have the co host of Native Lampod. First up, 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.160 Andrew Gillotty. 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:21.400 Betty, y'all do better than that. 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:26.079 Talk about berry God because of my hip hop month. Wait, 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.400 it's domastating. Damn you're going gun. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.760 Next to the stage, we have the lovely Tiffany Cross 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:33.080 lose me you. 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.120 Know that to tell his mom, tell your Mika issue. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:40.040 And last but certainly not Lise my girl Angela. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:45.760 Ry Okay, we no st up gun and Nama Shine 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:47.280 some up bed. 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.559 I know they have real fun. 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.320 May not get it for Mama. Don bemn out yet. 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:59.520 Bam y' welcome, hey, y'all, Welcome home, y'all see, and 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.520 that's how we we know y'all listen to podcasts we 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:03.440 say welcome home, y'all. You got to say it back, 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.760 Welcome home, y'all, Welcome home. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:06.759 That's better. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:08.200 We know you've had a full day. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.080 We are so excited to be here with you all. 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.040 This evening in New York Andrew Gillim and Tivity Cross. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.600 Hey y'all doing, Welcome home, y'all. Thank y'all for coming 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:19.400 out to hear us. 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:20.800 We so night. Thank you. 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.640 Yes, how many Native Lampard listeners out there? 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:24.560 All right? 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.240 All right, now, have y'all enjoyed the day so far? 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.080 Been pretty good? Well, we're gonna we're gonna try not 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:36.640 to overload you with politics. But if anybody's paying attention, 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.720 if you're aware, if you're breathing, you realize that politics 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.399 isn't just something over there that is affecting us every 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.680 single day. Every decision that's being made in Washington and 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.040 in state capitals and city halls around the country way 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.600 on our quality of life and how we get to 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.080 live our lives. So we hope to share with you 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.080 today some of our thoughts on how we may be 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.040 able to live our lives to the fullest so that 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.600 we're not just finding ourselves in a state of survival, 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.120 but rather in a state of thriving. 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.280 Is that all right, yes, sir, it is. 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.280 We'll be your call and response so on that. One 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.960 of the questions that we got back from this audience. 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.080 We got questions submitted earlier today. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:20.200 Thank you all so much. 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.120 We hate we didn't get your names and where you're from. 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.040 But if you recognize the question, just wave at us 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.800 so we know it came from y'all. The first question 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:30.760 we got that we thought would be a great starting 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:35.160 off point for us today is one more minute, just 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:36.360 so y'all can follow along. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.640 We do read as you go, so these questions. 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.280 The first question is there's been a lot of conversation 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.760 lately about who gets to tell our stories? How do 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:51.280 you all navigate that tension when you see outsiders profiting 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.400 from or misusing black narratives. Story is old as time, 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.120 Tiffany Cross, yep, I got you for all of us. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.120 Why go on a lot of legacy media. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.760 I don't think a lot of us are tuning in anymore. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.000 A lot of people are getting their information off social 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.840 media of outlets like TikTok. 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:11.799 And there's some danger to that. 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.079 And so when we see people who have an intentional 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.799 effort to lead us with misinformation and disinformation, we have 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.639 a responsibility on Native lamppod to talk about things that 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.720 are happening that are getting overlooked. Just this week, the 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:31.320 federal government went into a neighborhood under the guise of 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.600 looking for undocumented immigrants that has less than two percent 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.960 of a Latino population in the. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:43.840 Chicago and disappeared black people. They were bursting in their homes. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.600 Zip tying children. You didn't see one story about that 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.600 on Legacy Media. Those are the types of stories that 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.160 we talk about on Native lamp Pod. It can be 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.840 overwhelming when you don't hear about these stories and so 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.680 you just check out. But that is what they're depending 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.720 on for us to get to flood the zone with 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:04.520 ca ch until chaos feels normal, until quiet feels uncomfortable 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:05.120 and eerie. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.680 But a Native Lampid we break it down for you. 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.840 We make it accessible, We make it digestible, to not 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.160 only tell you what's going on, but to charge you 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.600 with all call to action where you can combat us 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.400 being at war and then make it black folks the 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.120 face of the enemy by our own federal government. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:24.320 So, first of all, y'all just heard the voice of 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.520 Tiffany Cross, who I know some of us are remember 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.600 from MSNBC when she had her show there. But her 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.440 example there, similar to what we saw with Joy Reed, 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.600 is that corporate America at any point in time can 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.640 decide when they want to silence us. And this is 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.719 what's so important about you all being here as creatives 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.400 in this space. A lot of times it's difficult for 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.320 politicians to change culture. It's difficult for politicians. And I 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.240 say this to somebody who ran for the governor of 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.520 Florida and came within point three percent of winning that 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.720 race out of eight million, twelve million vost casts in 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.600 the state of Florida, that as much truth as I 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.000 was speaking in as much as of an agenda I 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.520 wanted to have for all of our community, but particularly 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.840 for the black community, because when we thrive, everybody else thrives. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.400 When we get when America gets a cold, y'all already know, 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:21.359 we get COVID loan COVID right, And so creatives, people 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.960 like you all, who get to tell stories and intriguing 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.600 ways and in ways that people can relate to. You 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.960 approach things that my brain cannot really process because I'm 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:36.480 so technical in so many ways, except your expanded boundaries 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.880 allow you to get at things in a much more 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:43.320 compelling way. So the stories that we tell and that 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.880 I believe are important, we need your help and repurposing 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:51.560 those stories, giving it more body, more contours. So that 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.480 the person who thinks that they don't want to hear 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.240 a thing about politics doesn't realize at the end of 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.120 the day that they're hearing politics because you've put your 0:05:59.160 --> 0:05:59.680 spin on it. 0:05:59.800 --> 0:05:59.880 Right. 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.480 If we don't start to transform more people into caring 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.560 about these things, y'all will never ever ever win this race. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.160 And we've got to win this race because the ancestors 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.240 did too much, laid down too much, sacrifice too much 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.480 for a future that they knew they would never inherit. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.520 We're their wildest dreams. You know. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:24.279 I want to double down here. 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.440 First, I want to shout out and Moni from Culture 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.360 Con if y'all can give it up for Amani, she's 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:30.120 done amazing. 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:30.520 Word. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.320 And I'm saying that because as I sit here looking 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.440 at my sister, my brother, Tiffany, and Andrew, there's a 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.480 sign on the wall right here that says, we are culture. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.400 And because we are culture, we have always defined culture. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.280 We've given birth to this culture. We created the mad 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.760 the science that they use to this day, fashion, the. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.279 Arts, hip hop. We are hip hop. We are culture. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.440 So of course they want to try to steal it. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.400 Of course they want to try to silence it. Of 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.799 course they want to have our little flare and pizzazz. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.960 Of course they want to have Can we still say sweat? 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:06.640 Can we still say sweat? 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.880 Okay, a little swag? Right, so like, of course that 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:10.840 is what they want to do. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:16.720 But this, this convening, this gathering of black folks, is 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.280 an act of resilience. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.280 It is an act of defiance. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.720 It is an act of resistance, It is an act 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.840 of rebellion to say, we are culture, We've been culture, 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.200 we will always be culture. So that's what I think 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.880 we need to lean into right now. So we have 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.760 some questions, Tiffany, I'm gonna come to you first. The 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:43.239 one question from the audience is sometimes people say representation matters, 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:49.080 but not all representation is powerful or for us, how 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.720 do you decide which stories or perspectives are worth platforming 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:54.800 on Native land? 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.480 Pod I like that. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.760 Well, luckily, we all have different perspectives on what should 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.400 and should not be platform Our key importance, though, is 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.200 what people want to know as well as what people 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.240 need to know. And there are a lot of outlets, 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.480 a lot of outlets, and some of y'all might follow 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.880 that present as being black outlets, but sometimes they're parroting 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:22.320 conservative talking points. Sometimes these Instagram and TikTok outlets that 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.760 are entertainment news, a lot of the things they posts 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.040 are coming directly from the GOP, directly from right wing 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.040 MAGA extremists, and I see a lot of people sharing them. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.280 We have to share responsibly, So we want to platform 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.920 voices and stories that get overlooked. Like Angela said, and 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.640 what I know is we are fourteen percent of the 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:46.240 US population, and where we go, the entire world follows. 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.440 So what we have to put forth is uniquely important. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.400 And I hope that for the people who don't listen 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.440 to Native Lampod that you start because we lived in. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:55.199 Service to you. 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.280 We live in service to black liberation, because when black 0:08:58.320 --> 0:08:59.960 people win, everybody wins. 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.920 So you can catch episodes of Natal Lampod. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.439 On iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts and on 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.079 YouTube every Thursday, because every week we show up to 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.600 inform you, give you context, and give. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:12.200 You a call to action. 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.920 If that was an excellent answer, Andrew, I'm gonna go 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:20.319 to your question. Andrew cannot see everybody say find your glasses, Andrew. 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:22.080 He's trying to get him discreetly. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.920 Right now, I can say, everybody can see him going 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.600 like this, Andrew, we know you can't. Oh look, bless 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.200 your heart, lo Lo shout out our. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.679 Producer, Lolo, everybody, poor Lolo. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:34.000 Oh. 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.079 This question is for me, Andrew. You want to ask me? 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.520 No, okay, I'm gonna ask my, I'm gonna ask you. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:39.319 I'm gonna ask you. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:40.839 This question is for you. 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:47.240 What does solidarity within the black creative and political community look. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:48.079 Like to you right now? 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.839 What kind of collaboration do we need more of? 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:52.880 Andrew Gillim. 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:57.520 I mean when I think of collaboration, I think about 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.840 I think about us w look together to tell stories 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.760 that get resonance based off of Frankly, who is the 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.000 person telling the stories. So I know, I'm very clear 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.000 about the fact that I'm not everybody's cup of tea, 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.679 that Tiffany may not be everybody's cup of tea, that 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.079 Angela may not be everybody's cup of tea. We together 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.200 may communicate a compelling story, but it doesn't break through 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.959 to the masses and the way that we need it to. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.920 So one of the challenges I think I would make 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.679 to this audience it would be that if we can 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.760 get you all, and I'm going to assume that most 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.839 of you stay pretty aware. But if we can get 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.360 you all to frankly lean on some of the trusted voices, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.360 some of the topics that we might platform, maybe you 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:47.040 take those and you repurpose them in your own voice 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:48.920 and get them out there so that we can get 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:53.800 greater buy in, greater spread, greater information sharing. When I 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.959 ran for governor of Florida, the entire press cord, which 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.000 are the people who write about or talk about on television, 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.640 the race, the people who largely shape the questions that 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.440 are asked and decide what matters and what it doesn't matter, 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.360 and the entire state of Florida, the third largest state 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.079 in all of America. There was not one single black 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:18.040 political journalist in Florida. So because I got brothers who 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:23.559 went to jail, who served time for selling drugs, accused 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:30.120 of selling drugs, reporters would ask me questions and hold 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.880 me responsible for every single step of the actions that 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.000 they may have taken, decisions that they may have made. 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:43.040 You had white politicians whose fathers were benefiting from state contracting, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.480 who were making money hand over fists off of votes 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.679 that their brothers, sisters, daughters, sons had taken. In one 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.760 legislature or another, and then they were benefiting from it financially, 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.640 but those issues were never coming up. It seemed to 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.640 me that their actions, no matter how illegal or inappropriate 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.439 or unethical, I thought they were white people who for 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:09.719 some reason were given grace. White was right, and if 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.240 they were doing these actions, it must be okay. But 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:16.600 if we were doing it, something the farious, illegal, under 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.360 the table untour took place, and for me would have 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.160 just been so much better to be able to look 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.800 out at an audience of black journalists or journalists of color, 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.960 or journalists with diversified experiences who knows what it means 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.520 to grow up in a poor neighborhood and have relatives 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.079 who went to jail, but also some who went to 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:40.160 college and graduated, and those who gave back, maybe not 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.719 in money directly to the institution, but by paying the 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.679 tuition for their nephews and nieces as a way of 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.560 giving back to the institution. So I would just say, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:54.280 it's helpful to have voices in this space with diverse experience. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:59.320 I like the term representation matters, but more than representation matters, 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:04.520 diverse find experiences matter because you, oftentimes and they oftentimes 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:09.000 experience the world through their lens, and oftentimes that lens 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.640 bears no resemblance to our experiences, and so we need 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.640 more of us in more of those spaces. The collaboration 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.599 that I think needs to take places, we've got to 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.160 show up in those environments so that when our people 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.679 are on the line and there are the targets, that 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.600 we've got people who can rationalize, reason and explain those 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.920 narratives in ways that our people can understand. 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.599 Okay, Angela, a question for you. 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.439 Culture con brings together a lot of creative people who 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.920 care about impact but may not see themselves as political. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.640 Some mean y'all may not see yourselves as political. What 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.559 would you say to folks who may be in this 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.240 room who thinks politics isn't really their lane, or they 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.520 don't do politics, or maybe some of y'all do politics, but. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:51.199 You're just tired. 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.200 So I love this question because this gives me an 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.840 opportunity to focus group the audience. 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.240 That's the way for us to pull you. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.080 How many of you all think that we all deserve 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.360 a safe place to lay our head at night, somewhere 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:11.559 to live? Okay, how many of you all believe that 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.760 we all deserve to eat, to make sure that our 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.840 family members can eat, and we can eat good food. 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:18.680 That is healthy for us. 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:23.360 Raise your hands. Okay. How many of you all believe that. 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:28.040 We should have access to relatively easily clean drinking water. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:28.960 Raise your hands. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.400 How many of you all believe that we should be 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.040 able to see a doctor, have access to healthcare, be 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.320 able to go to an emergency room, get taken care 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.440 of proactively, to ensure we can live. 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:43.200 Raise your hands. 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.160 How many of you all believe that black people deserve reparations? 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:48.960 Raise your hands? 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.800 Okay, all of. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:53.720 That is political. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.720 There is not a single one of us in this 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:01.080 room that can afford to have our basic needs met 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:02.520 in this country and. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.880 Not be political. Your very existence is political. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:06.720 There is a. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.560 Constitution that would have declared you three fifths of a 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:13.360 human being if you didn't reclaim your full humanity. 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.560 Our existence is political. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.640 We don't have any choice but to be involved in 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:20.840 the political process. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:22.240 Why because if. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.920 You opt to sit out, you see what these fools 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:26.880 is doing. I know this ain't partisan, but I am. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.440 They will shut down the government on your ass. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.240 They will send your people home. 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.040 Who said the only way for me to thrive, for 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.280 me to reach the middle class. For me to take 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.360 care of my kids so they can go to college 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.560 is for me to get this what this good government job? 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:49.720 They're sending our people home from those good government jobs. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:51.960 Our existence is political. 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:53.120 I know y'all are tired. 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.600 You know, I know I'm tired, But I don't have 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:57.240 a choice. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.440 I know that if we want to preserve a future 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:05.360 for upcoming generations, for future generations, this fight is ours. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:07.920 It's not because we chose this fight. Some of us 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.920 voted in twenty twenty four in the right way. Oh okay, 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.960 that's my clothes, and I ain't got we're political, get involved. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:32.960 So I think my question is to you Tiffany right. Yeah, 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.400 So this question came from an audience member who said, 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.280 I've been following Native Lampod for a. 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:45.680 Bit, but I love to know what sparked it. That's 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.760 the right question. Yeah, okay, what sparked it? So what 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:54.320 made you all decide to start this show in the 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.600 first place, and why do we think it's necessary. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.080 So one of the beautiful things I love about being 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:05.880 a co host of Native Lampod is our friendship authentically 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:11.560 and organically stretches two decades. Okay, when I say two decades, 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.520 I all was supposed to, Well, what two decades? You 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.600 guys were alive two decades ago? I thought you were 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:20.680 like twenty something. AnyWho we owed y'all real, We've known 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.520 each other organically for more than twenty years, and so 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.680 the conversations that you hear are the conversations you would 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.480 hear whether there were a camera's roland or not, whether 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.560 there was an audience before us or not. These are 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.840 the conversations we have over dinner. And so when Angela 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.159 called and said, hey, I want to do this podcast 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.680 and I want you and Andrew to do it with me, 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.760 it was an immediate yes. The call came months after 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.840 my own show on MSNBC was canceled, and at the 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.680 time it was sure, I'll do it. But looking back, 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:56.560 I cannot imagine during the grave dangers that we are. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.920 Facing right now not having this platform. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.320 This is where we get to cry, where we get 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.639 to express our righteous anger right now, where we get 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.320 to look to each other to be inspired. I'll take 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.440 a brief, shameless promo and just say we covered the 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.200 Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference. 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.040 Thank you. I don't know if you guys. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.119 Remember Angela gave an amazing acceptance speech. 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.240 She got the Chairman's Award. I really encourage you. 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.520 Please go back and watch that speech, and you will 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.639 see that we get goosebumps from each other. I learned 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.200 from Andrew. I learned from Angela. We fight if y'all listen, 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.560 y'all have heard us fight before. We yell, we scream, 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.919 We fight like siblings. And so it really came together 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.080 to answer the call for a time such as this. 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.040 But I want y'all to hear from my co host 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.280 as well, because each of us had a calling and 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.399 each of us brought something different to the platform. For me, 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.720 my intention is always to inform, to break down things. 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.720 When you hear things like the DLJ or the CBO, 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.439 not everybody knows what those things mean, and you can 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:04.159 feel like an outsider listening to political conversations. Listen to 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.600 a white run media landscape talk about politics in a 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.520 way that seems so far removed, and I remember watching thinking, 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.119 you're not talking to me for me or about me. 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:14.480 We are intentional. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.800 We say welcome home because we want you all to 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:18.840 feel like you're at home, and a part of this 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.919 conversation you send in a video. You can disagree with us, 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.560 we play your video. If you have a question, we'll 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.320 answer it. So it was really beautiful to be a 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:29.600 part of building a home. But Andrew, I want to 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.280 know for you what was it for you that you 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.840 feel like you bring and also who's your favorite co host? 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:38.320 Well, okay, and. 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.760 Before you get to lining to her, since she had 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.720 the mic, Glass, I want you to fold that answer 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:45.680 into this because I'm going to take a page from 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:47.879 TIFF's book, which is to get to as many audience 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.080 questions as possible. So your last audience question also was 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.959 if someone in the audience wants to use their platform, 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.800 whether it's our business or content, to make change, what's 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.080 one piece of advice you'd give them to start? 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.320 I would say whatever, the talent is the gift that 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.680 you've been given. And sometimes we have that voice in 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.639 our heads that tells us we're not enough, that we 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.560 don't have as much experience or as background to do something. 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.720 I would say, one, do your very best to silence 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.800 that voice, or rather hear it and then ask it 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:30.359 to take a seat. Because now oftentimes we'll continue to 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:34.000 persist in our lives no matter how how we achieve 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:36.880 how many audiences we've spoken in front of, how many 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.160 positions or titles we've had. That voice is always present. 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.119 It's present with me right now. If my colleagues were 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:44.920 to be honest, I'm sure they would tell you that 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.840 those voices are present with them. And I would just 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.399 tell you to again acknowledge that voice, tell it to 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.320 have a seat, and you keep going. But the truth 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:55.479 is is God has granted all of us with gifts. 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.520 He's given us a thing. He's given you a thing 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:03.840