1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: Media, all right, so check it out. 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 2: Sophie and Ian thought it would be a good idea 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 2: this year for me to record and interview some candidates. 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: Now I have been. 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 2: Very hesitant on that one because I just feel like 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 2: that's not it's not really my lane, Like I really 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: kind of don't know what I'm doing. So the following 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 2: episode you finished is really the second time I interviewed 9 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 2: a candidate. The first time we interviewed is the Homegirl 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 2: Ray Hwang, But this one was a little more time 11 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 2: sensitive because y'all finn to. 12 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:41,599 Speaker 1: Vote next week. So we interview. 13 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 2: A candidate out of Chicago, out of District nine that 14 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 2: I'm I'm pretty excited about y'all hearing this. The thing is, 15 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 2: like I said, like I don't know, I've never done this, 16 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 2: like you know, gotcha like journalism type thing. 17 00:00:58,040 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: I usually just interviewed the homies. 18 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 2: So what I'm gonna do this week is I'm gonna 19 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 2: run this interview and then on Friday on the tap in, 20 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 2: I'm gonna evaluate and kind of like do some like 21 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 2: postgame analysis as to like how would I do what 22 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 2: could I have done better? So if you are a 23 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 2: little salty at me during this thing. 24 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:21,559 Speaker 1: Like, why didn't you ask? 25 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 2: Well, I've kind of never done this before, and I'm 26 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,320 Speaker 2: being a little vulnerable with y'all. 27 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 1: But we'll see at the end. 28 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 2: All right, check out the sea interview with Katy. All Right, 29 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 2: Obviously this isn't like saying I gotcha type. I was 30 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 2: telling you, boy, like, this isn't like a gotcha type like, 31 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 2: so I gotcha? You know, it's not like that. Yes, 32 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 2: we could just dive in. All right, y'all love politics. Uh, 33 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 2: here's the thing. This is the second person running for 34 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 2: office I've ever interviewed. And the thing is I tried 35 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 2: to avoid it for a while. You know what I'm saying, 36 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 2: Like I want because it's like I don't. It's just 37 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 2: it's just not my lane. Like I'm more of a 38 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 2: like like I want to do analysis, I want to 39 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 2: do history, I want to do study, I want to 40 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 2: do deep dives and stuff, you know what I'm saying. 41 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 2: And I'm like, I think in a lot of ways 42 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 2: I kind of ran from the reality of like sort 43 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 2: of they influence that we was developing over here. Like 44 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 2: you know, I'm like, hey, no, no, no, no, don't listen 45 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 2: to me. You know what I'm saying. Like, don't, don't, 46 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 2: don't let me tell you what to do, you know, 47 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 2: but Selfie was like, we need to lean into this 48 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 2: so in that we have apparently a mutual friend, uh 49 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 2: the homegirl Kat Eye boo. 50 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you know what. Go ahead and introduce yourself. 51 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 3: I'm I'm running for Congress in the ninth District of Illinois, 52 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 3: which goes from up town Chicago up to Evanston, Westuskoche 53 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 3: and then all the way to Algonquin and Crystal Lake. 54 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 3: If you haven't seen the district, by the way, you 55 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 3: should look it up. It's the most jerrymandered thing I've 56 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 3: ever seen in my life. 57 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 2: Pretty funny because that doesn't make any sense at all. 58 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 2: It looks like it's been to Chicago a lot. 59 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 3: I was like, what, yeah, it looks like Maryland on Ozembic. 60 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 3: Before this, though, I was a researcher and journalist that 61 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 3: covered the far right, which is how Robert and I 62 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 3: originally knew each other because we all cover the same Nazis. 63 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 2: There it is and what a what a fun time 64 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 2: that must have been? So uh, all I hold you 65 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 2: too long? And here there's a there's there's a the 66 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 2: way I'm gonna do. This was a little different because honestly, 67 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,839 Speaker 2: as far as like the policies you know from your website, 68 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 2: like no notes, you know, like uh yeah, uh, you 69 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like so uh, your positions are 70 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 2: pretty much like someone who just cares about the lives 71 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 2: of Homo sapiens. Like, I mean, yeah, these are pretty 72 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 2: obvious positions. I think what I'm interested in is the 73 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 2: the sort of the intangibles here the hood passes, if 74 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 2: you will. So as a as a touring artist and 75 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 2: like an activist myself, like you know, you get around 76 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 2: to a lot of city, you start, you start building friends. 77 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 2: So for this one, as somebody who's not from Chicago 78 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,479 Speaker 2: but loved Chicago, I started reaching out to my like 79 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 2: Chicago friends. And the Chicago I know is not like 80 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 2: I don't know like Pulaski, you know, like Chica Die Bears, 81 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 2: I don't know that Chicago. You know, I'm saying, I know, Shyraq, 82 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 2: you feel me, like I know, like Latin Kings almost 83 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 2: died in Chicago. It's a great story for y'all who 84 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 2: know my music. 85 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 4: Like. 86 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 2: It was a conference called the Legacy Conference that they 87 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 2: held at Moody Bible, believe it or not. I had 88 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 2: just got back from Africa and souping me on a safari, 89 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 2: got out the car because I wanted to see and 90 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 2: then I got a Tickpike. 91 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 5: So the did you get lime disease? 92 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 2: I got ricketsia, which is similar to the lines of disease, 93 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 2: but it but it was from the tick bike. 94 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 5: You can fuck you up. 95 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 4: Girl. 96 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. 97 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 2: When I tell you I was we were at because 98 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 2: the homie I was with was that it's from Cappini Greens, 99 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 2: but he's from like not so gentrified Coppini Greens. Like yeah, 100 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 2: it was like a mobster, you know what I'm saying. So, 101 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 2: like we was we were gonna do some shows over there, 102 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 2: and I passed out in the Starbucks. So I got 103 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 2: taken to in Garfield Park. It was right before the 104 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 2: Puerto Rican Day parade, so I got taken to the 105 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:44,679 Speaker 2: part to the hospital Garfield Park. I saw the parade 106 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 2: from the window, and yeah, I was. I was there 107 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 2: for like a week. I was completely deydraated. I almost 108 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 2: died in Chicago. So Chicago always, I will always have 109 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 2: love for. 110 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: Glad. You made it out, Glad I made it out. 111 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: So all that's remble. 112 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 2: So what I did was so all that to say, 113 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 2: like through music, through activism, I reached out to a 114 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 2: few people. Now, so kind of what I would do 115 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 2: today is present to you. The questions they asked, awesome, 116 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 2: and will kind of work from there now? 117 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, can I do a little preamble here? 118 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: You could do a long preamble. 119 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 5: Yeah. 120 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 3: So a little bit about my background. I did not 121 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 3: plan to run for Congress. Like I said, I'm a 122 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 3: researcher and journalist. I was actually shopping at a show 123 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 3: around in January of last year about like essentially translating 124 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 3: everything that goes on right wing media to why your 125 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 3: crazy uncle like refuses to board a flight if the 126 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:37,919 Speaker 3: pilot is a black woman. 127 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: Yeah. 128 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 3: And then I just was like, well, someone's going to 129 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 3: do something when Trump got inaugurated again. 130 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 5: And then they didn't. 131 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 3: And it shouldn't have been a surprise because my colleagues 132 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 3: and I had for years been warning them about this 133 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 3: moment and they didn't listen. Then, so I said, screw it, 134 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 3: I'll do it myself. And so the two big things are, 135 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 3: first off, anti authoritarianism, which is my specialty. I don't 136 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 3: want to be in Congress forever. I just want to 137 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 3: get some fascists out, help others, and then go back 138 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,039 Speaker 3: home to hang out with my cat. But the other 139 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 3: thing that I'm really proud of is that we're doing 140 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 3: politics differently. Everyone says that they want to, but we 141 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 3: actually are. So we have incorporated mutual aid into every 142 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 3: aspect of our campaign that we can. 143 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 5: Our Office Doubles is a mutual Aid hub. 144 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 3: It's in Rogers Park if you're listening, seventy sixteen North 145 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 3: Clark Street. If you have especially right now, we're low 146 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 3: on men's clothes, men's underwear, toiletries, dental kits, shampoo, conditioner, 147 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 3: and baby formula, but we have fat and clothed thousands 148 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 3: of people that way, and it's also gotten a ton 149 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 3: of volunteers involved. But I also I recognize that I 150 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 3: am not originally from Chicago. I grew up in Dallas. 151 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 3: I've lived all over. This is where my family immigrated. 152 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 3: Though I can get in to a funny story of 153 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 3: finding out that my grandfather was run out of town 154 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 3: by the Chicago machine in the late sixties after the 155 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 3: naskbout later, but it's like this is just I am 156 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 3: so proud of what we've done, but I also encourage skepticism. 157 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 3: I think that one of the most toxic things in 158 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 3: the Democratic Party is how we have said like vote 159 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 3: blue no matter who, or that competitive primaries are bad. 160 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 3: I was the only one to launch before the incumbent 161 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 3: anounce to retirement, and so yeah, bring it on, let's 162 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 3: hear it. 163 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: I love it, dude. Yeah, I think. 164 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, Chicago, like it in a weird way, has this 165 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 2: like magnet in it of like I feel like in 166 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 2: a similar way that La does to where you're just like, 167 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 2: in a lot of ways, this is really hard living 168 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 2: like in Chicago as far as like the weather, the grime, 169 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, the and the the ways 170 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 2: for which the city protects itself from like in a 171 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 2: lot of ways, Like when I say the city, obviously 172 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 2: I'm talking about like the people you talking about, Like 173 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 2: we're talking about community, Like community, Yeah, really protects itself 174 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 2: in the sense that like it's very hard to trust 175 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 2: people want from their own governments. And then secondly, just 176 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 2: you know, there's a there's a reality there's a lot 177 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 2: of money you made in Chicago. If you want to 178 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 2: be you know, a not so upright standing city, you 179 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. 180 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 3: But it's also like the most overtly anti fascist city 181 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 3: I've ever lived in. Like, I'm under federal indictment for 182 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 3: protesting ICE, and lots of people in Chicago have also 183 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 3: had similar indictment. Yeah, and we've gotten the ship beaten 184 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 3: out of us time and time and time again. And 185 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 3: I will say, like a broad view, especially one thing 186 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 3: that I've never seen in like even diceier protests, I've 187 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 3: seen a lot of like white Chicagoans be like, oh 188 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 3: so this person will get like another person's going to 189 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 3: get dragged into the facility. They probably won't do that 190 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 3: to me, and then just absolutely like trying to use 191 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:33,719 Speaker 3: their privilege in. 192 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 5: That way, which has been cool. 193 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 3: But it's like everyone standing up against Ice here, everyone's 194 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 3: telling them to fuck off. 195 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 2: That's yeah, And that's that's where I would start. So 196 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 2: I have a friend out there, mirror List, Santa Rock. 197 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,679 Speaker 2: He's in Pilsen. He's done a lot of very involved 198 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 2: you know Pilsen obviously the you know, the sort of 199 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 2: the Mexican like space, and obviously like that was the 200 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 2: the you know, some of the direct like sort of 201 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 2: like front lines of like Ice. 202 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 4: Right. 203 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,079 Speaker 2: Yeah, So I guess, I guess his first question. So 204 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 2: so from him, the first questions would be like around 205 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:19,959 Speaker 2: like uh, like proactive initiatives, like like long term you 206 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, come up and stand 207 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 2: up there, and I'm glad you brought up like the uh, 208 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:28,319 Speaker 2: the the whiteness because like the reality is like your 209 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 2: last name isn't brandished on your forehead, You're exact like 210 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 2: so so like just keep it real. You just look 211 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 2: like a white girl, you know what I'm saying. So 212 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 2: so I guess. So so that was the other thing 213 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,079 Speaker 2: about like, well, we'll get to that question. We'll get 214 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 2: to that question later. But I think the first question 215 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 2: was about like, you know, communities combining ICE and then 216 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 2: developing like uh, you know, neighborhood initiatives as far as 217 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 2: like like long term, proactive like practices to defend itself. 218 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:56,719 Speaker 1: You have any ideas around. 219 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 3: That, Yeah, I mean especially up here in Rogers Park, 220 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:00,959 Speaker 3: Like this district is one of the most diverse in 221 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 3: the country, and like the block that we were on, 222 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 3: I think every single business on our block is immigrant owned. 223 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 3: So like when ICE was here, we had we were 224 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 3: We've given out thousands of whistles at this point, but 225 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 3: we also organized on discord, so we mobilized our volunteers 226 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 3: for neighborhood watch shifts all around the district. We actually 227 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 3: had a lot of people donate after I got thrown 228 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 3: by ice and it felt shitty, and so we actively 229 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 3: wanted to invest a lot of that money into the 230 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 3: groups that have been doing the work, so Iceer Sanctuary, 231 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 3: Evanston Sanctuary, Niles, the National Lawyer's Guild, and so tried 232 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 3: to appropriate, like I think we did fifteen thousand, ten thousand, 233 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 3: fifteen thousand into those, but like, long term, we're just 234 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 3: trying to use the people, like the bodies that we have, 235 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 3: whether it's protesting, whether it's neighborhood watches. We've done a 236 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 3: lot of grocery delivery stuff. And then also, like you 237 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 3: mentioned about the whiteness aspects, like yeah, I'm Palestinian, but 238 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 3: I look like the whitest girl you've ever seen. 239 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 5: My brother doesn't look to say, but. 240 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 3: I've had to explain to so many people on the 241 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,439 Speaker 3: campaign trail, I'm like, yes, Arabs can have blue eyes, 242 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 3: but like there's also that aspect of like I am 243 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 3: much less likely to get dragged into the Broadview Detention 244 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 3: Center and then shipped off to Louisiana or disappeared than 245 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 3: like my friend AK And it's why people were so. 246 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 5: It pissed me off. 247 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 3: Wh people were so angry about that video of me 248 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 3: being thrown, which is like the third time they've done that. 249 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 3: But it's not because it's anything new that Ice is done. 250 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 3: It's because the state's not supposed to use violence against 251 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 3: people that look like her. And meanwhile, we're literally in 252 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 3: front of a concentration camp, so actively trying to steer 253 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 3: those conversations back to that, like it's all just so 254 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 3: shitty out here, but just being like, look, that's what 255 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 3: they're willing to do on camera. What are they doing 256 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 3: behind the plywood covered windows? And how can we steer 257 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 3: the conversation back. 258 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 4: To that. 259 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 2: Beautiful Next question is around some of the like block parties, 260 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 2: festivals are programming that I know I've always enjoyed about Chicago, 261 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 2: Like I've showed up, I've been on tour during some 262 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 2: of the stuff down at the South Side. The friends 263 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 2: that I have, my closest friends are in Garfield Park 264 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 2: and Logan Square, gotcha, And they work heavily like these 265 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 2: people born and raised you know, they work a lot 266 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 2: of times, like with the Latin Kings and you know 267 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 2: the Puerto Rican community there. But either way, that being said, 268 00:13:54,679 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 2: some of the dopest dopest city wide festival. Absolutely I've 269 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 2: been in Chicago. So the next question, again because the 270 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 2: sense of mirror list, is like, do you have any 271 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 2: any plans or ideas as far as like festivals, block 272 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 2: parties and art programming and stuff. 273 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we would love to, especially if we 274 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 3: win this, we're going to have so many resources to 275 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 3: do whatever we want. We just really want to upload 276 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 3: the community because this is such a progressive district on 277 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 3: the North Side, so like if you win the primary, 278 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 3: you're probably going to win the general and so we 279 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 3: can use that to eleft other progressives. But like throughout 280 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 3: the campaign, we've just tried to support the existing infrastructure, 281 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 3: Like the glen Wood Have Arts fest we made sure 282 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 3: to get a booth and ensure that we could help 283 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 3: pay for some programming there. There was a similar one 284 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 3: out in Evanstone. But god, it's those things are so 285 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 3: much fun. Like parades are fun, but like the block 286 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 3: parties and the festivals are so much better. And if 287 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 3: we can use our resources to especially like uplift existing 288 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 3: ones rather than being like, let's just start our whole thing, 289 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 3: that's what we want to do. We also love working 290 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 3: with like local businesses, especially for catering. There's this tamale 291 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 3: place that's right next to the office, and he can 292 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 3: get so many Tamalai's for so cheap, and so we 293 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 3: try to get catering from them or Rockies whenever we can. 294 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: Love it. 295 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 2: So another thing that I think is super interesting about 296 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 2: Chicago is the I feel like I haven't seen this 297 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 2: in many other cities except for La how active the 298 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 2: church in faith spaces in activism, Like like yes, Callie, 299 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 2: really don't got that unless you in Orange County, Like 300 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 2: we really ain't got that, like white evangelical like now, 301 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 2: yeah we be outside. 302 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,239 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, Chicago is the same. 303 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 2: Like the a lot of like the black churches, the 304 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 2: Brown churches, like they're really involved in activism. So one 305 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 2: question would be like okay, so like like, so have 306 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 2: you found yourself partnering with any any other faith based 307 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 2: spaces and if so, what are some of the things 308 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 2: you've kind of learned from there? 309 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: Yeah? 310 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 5: So I have. 311 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 3: I just like this hour long explainer on white Christian 312 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 3: nationalism and its ties to Project twenty twenty five with 313 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 3: People for the American Way last year, and in there 314 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 3: I mentioned that I went to a Catholic school, which 315 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 3: is weird considering my mom was raised Protestant and my 316 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 3: dad was raised like in a you know, like kind 317 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 3: of secular Muslim household growing up. And they were like, 318 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 3: we're just putting her into Catholic school for some reason, 319 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 3: and we Actually I had a very good experience with faith, 320 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 3: Like I don't identify with any particular faith, but it 321 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 3: always it sucks that so many of these institutions have 322 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 3: hurt others, because you can find a lot of comfort 323 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 3: in it and a lot of activism too. I remember Hannah, 324 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 3: I was a pastor up here in Rogers Park. She 325 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 3: was out there at Broadview with me and she got 326 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 3: arrested and she was like praying for the police arresting her, 327 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 3: and she was like, God help them. They don't know 328 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 3: what they're doing, like please, and they literally told her, 329 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 3: they were like, stop making me arrest you while you're praying. 330 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 3: But so we really tried to be involved with all faiths. 331 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 3: We have been, you know, going to mosques, on Fridays. 332 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 3: There are a lot of like very progressive churches, especially 333 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 3: on the side that are especially involved in immigrant rights 334 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 3: and in uh like pro Palestine advocacy. Same with a 335 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,719 Speaker 3: lot of our Jewish brothers and sisters were endorsed by 336 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 3: if not now. I think that one of the things 337 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 3: that you're absolutely right that like I haven't seen since 338 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 3: living in the South as a kid is like being 339 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 3: in college on the East Coast, you just don't really 340 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 3: see as much of that faith based activism. I think 341 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 3: that being able to embrace both of those is really 342 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 3: important while also staying true to your own values. So 343 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 3: I had someone that I've been criticized both for like 344 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 3: if I'm in a mosque, I usually wear like my 345 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 3: creative director got me this awesome bandana from United farm 346 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 3: Workers that I usually used to cover my hair, but 347 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 3: I've been criticized for like not wearing like a fool 348 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 3: hy jab, and I've also been criticized for covering my 349 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 3: hair that way. Yeah yeah, And I'm like, I'm like, 350 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 3: there's there's no winning here, and I also don't want 351 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 3: to misrepresent myself. But I think the biggest thing is 352 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 3: like asking people what they need. Also, one of the 353 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 3: best parts of organizing with churches and organizations that are 354 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 3: rooted in faith, as we've been able to do a 355 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 3: lot of mutual aid work on that front, even just 356 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 3: like asking what people in the community need. We did 357 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 3: this big backpack drive in the fifth ward of Evanson 358 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:10,360 Speaker 3: the day before school started. 359 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 5: We had five hundred backpacks. 360 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 3: We partnered with Hecke's Barbecue shout out to Hacke's and 361 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 3: Clara's Corner for food, and a barbershop opened up on 362 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,439 Speaker 3: the Sunday to give free haircuts, and a lot of 363 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:22,439 Speaker 3: that was like we got the word out through churches 364 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 3: and they were able to like let us know who 365 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 3: needed the backpacks most, and like what school supplies kids 366 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 3: were lacking, and so like when you're looking for groups 367 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 3: that are in tune with what a community needs. I 368 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 3: think this is something we lose a lot, especially on 369 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 3: the left and in like the online left, of recognizing 370 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 3: that like churches and faith centers are really essential for 371 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 3: finding those needs. 372 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: They've been there, yeah. 373 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I it's interesting even like you know, 374 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 2: jumping on with the uh sort of the Bastards team, Like, 375 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 2: I think I had a very similar situation in the 376 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 2: sense They're like, I didn't have a really add church experience. 377 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like it wasn't. I mean, 378 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: it had its issues. 379 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, you know what I'm saying, But 380 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 2: like I don't have a lot of the hurts, and 381 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 2: I think it's because I come from a church like 382 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 2: you talked about Chicago was like we were outside, you 383 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, so I don't. 384 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't resonate with a. 385 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,880 Speaker 2: Lot of the the especially like the Jesus and John 386 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 2: Wayne of it all. 387 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 3: Like yes, like the ultra mass cowboy Jesus, masculine. 388 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: Jesus weirdest hail to me, it's. 389 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 3: So fucking weird. Actually, shout out Father Hewck if you're 390 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 3: listening to this. He was the priest at the Episcopalian 391 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 3: middle school I went to, and he uh, he was 392 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 3: fantastic and would say like, look, I'm part of this 393 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 3: denomination because I feel like he gives me the freedom 394 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 3: to like preach well also living to my values and 395 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 3: absolutely no judgment towards others, like just a super dope guy. 396 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: Mm hm cool. 397 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 2: Now, okay, so overall that was like the biggest thing 398 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 2: like what the from the four people I asked, they're 399 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,400 Speaker 2: the biggest thing was like what communities of color. 400 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: Have vouched for her? Like who who. 401 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,400 Speaker 2: Is she tapped in with? And is she bringing them 402 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 2: with her if she wins? You know, so so like 403 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,359 Speaker 2: I don't I don't know if you need a name drop, 404 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 2: Like I don't know if this is the space for it, 405 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. But that's what Day was asking, 406 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 2: like who are you talking to? Like who are these people? 407 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 5: What churches? 408 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:25,920 Speaker 1: Who are you know? I mean, what's what's the Latino space? 409 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 2: Like who do you who are you trying to bring 410 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 2: with you that will continue to influence an end Like 411 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 2: like you say it kind of fill in those holes 412 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 2: as far as like your knowledge base as to what 413 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 2: we're going where we're going with Chicago. 414 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say, because like one of the weirdest 415 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 3: things about being like an insurgent candidate that's not like 416 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 3: a political like already elected official is a lot of 417 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 3: people A are not touching this race with a ten 418 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 3: foot pull or b are Like I love what you're doing, 419 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 3: but like I don't want to jeopardize my relationship or 420 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,719 Speaker 3: have retaliation from this other candidate or I don't want 421 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 3: to make it messy, and so I try not to, 422 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,360 Speaker 3: like because I've had people literally be like, please don't 423 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 3: tell anyone I'm at this event, but like I'm really 424 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 3: glad to be here. I will say in terms of 425 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,880 Speaker 3: the Latino community, we're really I mean like I live 426 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 3: ten minute walk from the campaign office, which is in 427 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,679 Speaker 3: Rogers Park, which is a very big Latino community. We 428 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 3: are mostly involved, like we have, you know, endorsements from 429 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 3: everyone from like Jamal Bowman to Adel Nasa Rashid, but 430 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 3: we have found our strongest supports in organizations that are 431 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 3: like doing the work on the ground, like rapid response networks, 432 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 3: places that we can partner with, and we always say like, look, 433 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 3: we don't need like an endorsement, you don't even have 434 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 3: to say you're like publicly working with us or anything, 435 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,360 Speaker 3: but like how can we help? So like Sanctuary Evanston 436 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 3: and Niles, which has done rapid response in when ICE 437 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 3: is in the area, has been fantastic. We've worked with 438 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 3: like the Niles Township food pantry too. Additionally, like we're 439 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 3: really just trying to reach everyone, even like not likely 440 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 3: primary voters. I would say some of our biggest centers 441 00:21:55,280 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 3: are also in like the Muslim Desi, Palestinian community, Arab 442 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 3: communities and also Christian Arabs as well, and you know 443 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 3: there are a lot of like that backpack drive in 444 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 3: the fifth ward of Evanston. That's a Evanston was the 445 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 3: first city in the country to issue reparations. And it's 446 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 3: not because they're super woke, it's because it's egregiously redlined 447 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,199 Speaker 3: and like we literally see where it goes from like 448 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 3: the one of the richest areas in the country to 449 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 3: like places that are like very very neglected by the city, 450 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 3: Like it's really a shame, and just trying to and 451 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 3: like surprise, surprise, it's often black people have lived there 452 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,919 Speaker 3: for generations that have had to suffer under that and 453 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,439 Speaker 3: are probably going to be priced out of their area 454 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,719 Speaker 3: within the next few years, and so just trying to 455 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,159 Speaker 3: provide on the ground assistance there. But one of my 456 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 3: favorite parts of the Mutual Aid Hub is like the 457 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 3: other day we had ten different people in the office 458 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 3: speaking ten different languages. But like on our website, we 459 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 3: got some endorsements on there. We're tuned in with the 460 00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 3: Jewish community through if not now we have. The main 461 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,160 Speaker 3: thing though, is just We're trying to help everyone from 462 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 3: community bridges to rapid response to We had one woman 463 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,120 Speaker 3: who was like eighty who didn't have anyone to help 464 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 3: her move, and so we were like, let's try this 465 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 3: in the discord, does anyone want to help? And she 466 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 3: had like six like twenty year old guys show up 467 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 3: the next day, which, by the way, if Democrats are 468 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 3: wondering how to get young men involved discord, yeah, yep, 469 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 3: But I also don't want to put anyone on the spots. 470 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 3: I know this entire campaign is a powder k Yeah. 471 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:32,199 Speaker 2: Respect, Okay, last question, last serious question, and then the 472 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 2: next one's like not so serious. The last serious question 473 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 2: is like, Okay, while I am deeply defensive about all 474 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 2: that is Los Angeles like Donna, y'all been, and I 475 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 2: say no, yeah, like keep our name out your mouth, 476 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Like, while I'm very defensive 477 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 2: about it, I'm also not delusional, like this is there 478 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 2: is still violence here, like you know, we still be shooting, 479 00:23:58,440 --> 00:23:58,639 Speaker 2: you know. 480 00:23:58,840 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 1: Yeah. 481 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,160 Speaker 2: So I think Chicago is very similar where it's like, no, 482 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 2: it's still still drill capital, like these boys are still 483 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 2: out here drilling. So I guess the question would be around. 484 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,920 Speaker 2: How does one like you said running in insurgents campaign, 485 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 2: you're already part of mutual aid. That being said, you 486 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 2: know miss Johnson over there, when she see them little 487 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 2: boys on the stoop, she gonna call the police. And 488 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 2: it's because she's like, I don't care, I don't care 489 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 2: about progress. Whatever, he gonna break in my house, you 490 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, So what are your thoughts around crime? 491 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 2: And then secondly, like how you gonna tell how are 492 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 2: you going to convince miss Johnson that all your little 493 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,199 Speaker 2: hippity dippity stuff I'm quoting, I'm saying it like that 494 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 2: because that's the way the old folks talk to us, 495 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 2: little hippie dippity. You know, you let the white people 496 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,679 Speaker 2: got you thinking that you don't need no police. That's 497 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,160 Speaker 2: what the old people talk, you know what I'm saying. 498 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 2: So like, how are you gonna help her understand? 499 00:24:59,240 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 4: Yo? 500 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 2: This is this is the way I think we can 501 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,439 Speaker 2: move forward. That's not going to just lock up your baby? 502 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:05,360 Speaker 3: Yeah? 503 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: Good, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I mean, yeah, 504 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure he don't break it your house, 505 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: you know. 506 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 4: I Mean. 507 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,880 Speaker 3: The first thing is, I don't think we have talked 508 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 3: about this without mentioning that one of the candidates in 509 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 3: my race, Mike Simmons, who is a black man, had 510 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 3: the cops called on him while he was door knocking. 511 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 3: And like, he's a he's a state senator and the 512 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:32,120 Speaker 3: fact that that happened at all is ridiculous. And I mean, 513 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 3: I don't have anything to do to fix that right now, 514 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 3: but it's like literally door knocking in a community that 515 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 3: he represents and still had the cops called on him 516 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 3: just for being black. Like it's disgusting. I will say 517 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 3: something that a lot of politicians want. We don't need 518 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 3: any more federal funding for police. The answer is not 519 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 3: pouring more money into police departments. I am a firm 520 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,479 Speaker 3: I am firm opposition against the department of this ten 521 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 3: thirty three program, which essentially puts weapons of war in 522 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 3: the hands of police officers from our military into our cities. 523 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,160 Speaker 3: You don't need to be dressed for a war zone 524 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 3: in our communities. And as well as we need to 525 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 3: qualified immunity on the federal level. Unfortunately, like the answer, 526 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 3: there's everyone wants like a magic bullet or a magic pill, 527 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 3: and there's just that doesn't exist. We need to be 528 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,959 Speaker 3: investing in material needs, and the best way if you 529 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 3: actually care about public safety, if you actually care about crime, 530 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 3: you would be putting that money that keeps growing year, 531 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 3: like we've never defunded the police, that keeps growing year 532 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 3: after year into universal daycare, into a universal basic income 533 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 3: for stay at home parents. I think this is the 534 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 3: best place to start UBI, and it would be overwhelmingly popular. 535 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 3: It would put more money in families pockets, would ensure 536 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 3: that people don't have to stay in abusive relationships because 537 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 3: they're dependent on their partner for income. It would give 538 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 3: people their own social security pot while also being able 539 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 3: to have their kid in preschool, which gives better outcomes, 540 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 3: including lowering crime in literally aspect of your life, Like 541 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 3: there is nothing better that can happen for a child 542 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 3: than going to preschool. Additionally, like what we are trying 543 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 3: to do, Like all this mutual aid stuff is great, 544 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,920 Speaker 3: but it's a stop gap. Like we should just live 545 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 3: in a country where you're able to afford food, to 546 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,880 Speaker 3: be able to get a winter code. 547 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 5: So like trying to meet those material needs right now. 548 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 3: Every time I want a podcast that I know democratic 549 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 3: consultants listen to, I'm like, look, if you can't do 550 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 3: this because it's the right thing to do, do it 551 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 3: because you're showing action over words, and do it because 552 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 3: you're like you bring in volunteers. So we're trying to 553 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 3: at least help in like, you know, our area in 554 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 3: that front. But like the real answer is, we need 555 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 3: a whole government approach that is like a Marshall plan, 556 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 3: a new new deal that just invests in people. Doesn't 557 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 3: increase defense spending and or sorry, war spending. And no, 558 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 3: we don't need any more money for federal from federal 559 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 3: the federal government to police. 560 00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, like love that. 561 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 2: Okay, not so serious question, which actually, in some ways 562 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 2: it's probably the most serious questions we're about to ask 563 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 2: you right now. You got because I'm judging your dedication 564 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 2: to Chicago by your all Right, So you got a 565 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 2: friend flying in from Dallas, got a fourteen hour layover. 566 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 3: I don't have any friends in Dallas. I haven't left 567 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 3: there for ten years. 568 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 2: Okay, never mind, you got a friend flying in from 569 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 2: Where's where's a friend flying York? Friend flying in from 570 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 2: New York? It's never been to Chicago, true New Yorker, 571 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 2: never been to Chicago. 572 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: I think Chicago is. 573 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 2: Like the JV version of New York and thinks your 574 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:12,959 Speaker 2: pizzas trash whatever? 575 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: Right, whatever? 576 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 2: It is fourteen hour layover because they're on the way 577 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 2: to Australia. 578 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:17,719 Speaker 1: I don't know. 579 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 2: They hit you up, kat, I got an open day. Okay, 580 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 2: so what are we doing now? You get to pick 581 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 2: the day, You get to pick the itinerary, and even 582 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 2: saying that, based on your convenience, you get to pick 583 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 2: which airport they flew into in Chicago. Okay, okay, tell 584 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 2: me now now, now make schedule my day Chicago girl. 585 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: I've been in Chicago. I know that place. So I'm 586 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: judging you right now. 587 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 3: We are going to be doing it in our district 588 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 3: because I think that's appropriate considering that's where I'm running. 589 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 3: So I pick you up from O'Hare because I'm not 590 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 3: making a fly. It's basically equidistant from where we are 591 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 3: over here, so you're flying into o'hairic at least you 592 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 3: can get some good snacks on the way out if 593 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 3: you need it. So it's a longer drive, but it's fine. 594 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 5: I'll get it. 595 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 3: I'll have I'll come with my staff member to come 596 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 3: pick you up. And I think first off, on the 597 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 3: way back we're going. I mean, we should drop your 598 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 3: bags off first, because that's a pain in the ass. Obviously. Sorry, 599 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 3: we'll have to bring them up several flights of stairs. 600 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 3: But it's okay. If it's a nice day, let's go 601 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 3: to the beach. A little block from the beach. It's lovely. 602 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 3: We can I like throwing rocks into the ocean when 603 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 3: I get mad, or till it looks like the ocean 604 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 3: the lake when I get mad. So we'll do that 605 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 3: as we figure out what we're going to do. I 606 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 3: think the main thing, like my big thing here is 607 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 3: we need to go to sun while barbecue, and we 608 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 3: need to get the picking duck dinner. Okay, I'm planning 609 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 3: like a night here because like during the day for 610 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 3: the last year, I've just been doing campaign stuff, so 611 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 3: I have like no day activities besides like knocking doors 612 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 3: and going to events. We're going to picking duck dinner, 613 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 3: and that is it is seventy dollars and you get 614 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,719 Speaker 3: they carve the duck in front of you, and then 615 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 3: you get they give you like little bow buns that 616 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 3: you can construct with their own housemaid hoists and sauce, 617 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 3: and then they take the bones of the duck and 618 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,719 Speaker 3: they give you a duck broth, and then they also 619 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 3: give you duck fried rice, so you get the whole duck. 620 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 5: It's like seventy dollars. 621 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 3: And for their beers, you can either get an extra 622 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 3: large beer or also their tiny beers, so that's really nice. 623 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 3: We'll go to the Green Mill for jazz afterward. Okay, Greenmeil, 624 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 3: Green Mil is awesome, love Green mil They just we 625 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 3: just had a candidate for there and it was so messy, 626 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 3: but it was so much fun. What else do we 627 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 3: want to do? I mean, we called like go see 628 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 3: a movie or something, but honestly, what I'd rather do 629 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 3: is No, I'm on a federal and diape and I 630 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 3: can't say that. Okay, We'll let you stop by the 631 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 3: cannabis store on the corner of our office. I can't 632 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 3: because I'm on federal bond. But if you want to 633 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 3: slow down, yeah, if you want that, that's fine. I 634 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 3: will not be partaking. Yeah, and then we can go 635 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 3: to Rocky Tacos, which is the cornerstone of my life 636 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 3: every day. Chips and red sauce. We get the kid Sabria. 637 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 3: We're doing two dinners here because I think it's necessary 638 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 3: for two dinners if you're just visiting the Rogers Park area. 639 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 3: We could also walk down Andersonville if you really want 640 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,719 Speaker 3: to get into like some weird like gay stores, if 641 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 3: we want to do that, Like earlier, like it's like 642 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 3: one of these places where my best friend was listening 643 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 3: to me and she's like, is this like performatively woke 644 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 3: or is it cringe? And I was like, no, they're 645 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 3: just like that, Like it's like it's just them. Like 646 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 3: you just see a bunch of girl Scouts selling cookies 647 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 3: in front of like the gay bookstore that is literally 648 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 3: what the one in Portlandia that's like, oh, like women 649 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 3: and Women First, Yeah, based off I have a bookstore 650 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 3: in Andersonville called Women and Children First, So we can 651 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 3: do that before we go get the duck dinner. 652 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 5: But I think it'd just be like a cute little day, 653 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 5: you know. 654 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: I like that. 655 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,600 Speaker 2: I like that you went with a nightlife because like 656 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,720 Speaker 2: most of the time when I ask people, they'll usually 657 00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 2: start with like the morning and do the whole thing. 658 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 2: But yeah, I like the realness of being like, look, dog, 659 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 2: I'll be working all day, so we're going at night. 660 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 3: I love it there so many people that are like, 661 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 3: you know, like we'll come in the afternoon, we'll go 662 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 3: to Andersonville, we'll walk around, maybe we'll grab like a 663 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 3: little glass of wine for this happy hour at Little 664 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 3: Madrid because they had a great happy hour, and then 665 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 3: we'll go do soon Law jazz and then later on 666 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 3: we can get some late night kid Sebria. 667 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 1: Word, I love it. 668 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 3: And you're on You're on your own to get back 669 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 3: to the airport. Man, No, for real, Okay, I'm probably 670 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 3: I will call you. 671 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 5: A nuber, but like that's I'm not driving you all 672 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 5: the way there. 673 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 1: I don't have a car. 674 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 3: I'm not making my staff wake up early. 675 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: Okay. 676 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 5: God's fun in Australia. 677 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 2: Though, Yeah, thank you, thank you very much that I 678 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 2: was gonna be like, because that's the thing. 679 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: That's the thing with like. 680 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 2: La where it's like, first of all, like you give 681 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 2: me this scenario. I'm not picking you up, like I'm 682 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 2: telling you that right now. 683 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not. I don't. I don't love you 684 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: that much. I'm not picking you up at LA. 685 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 3: Last time I was in LA, I was there for 686 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 3: the out one hundred party and I got picked up 687 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:58,720 Speaker 3: by it and I give myself like an extra hour. So 688 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,320 Speaker 3: speaking on the National mall the next time, so I 689 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 3: was like, this is the last flight to Lax, like, 690 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 3: I gotta make sure I'm on time, leave an extra 691 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 3: hour for myself to get there. 692 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:05,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 693 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,800 Speaker 3: Was picked up by a dazzled tesla. It was dazzled 694 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 3: inside and outside. It was awesome. We get like a 695 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 3: mile away from Lax, still that plenty of time, and 696 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,319 Speaker 3: it's just bumpered to bumper traffic. We don't move for 697 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 3: twenty minutes, and I start worrying. 698 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 1: I'm like, God, just walked, yeah. 699 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:22,839 Speaker 5: So I just walked, yeah. 700 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 3: And then I get through like that tunnel and then 701 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 3: it's La so there's like not a sidewalk to get 702 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,120 Speaker 3: past there. I can literally see the airport and there's 703 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 3: like the highway that's merging in and there's bumper to 704 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 3: bumper traffic that still hasn't moved. I tried the hitchhike 705 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,640 Speaker 3: for ten minutes and no one and I'm dressed nice. 706 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,759 Speaker 5: I was just at like a big party. No one 707 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:41,319 Speaker 5: picks me up. 708 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 3: A tesla like comes by me, lowers its window, laughs 709 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,280 Speaker 3: at me, and goes on. And then there's like Eastern 710 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,920 Speaker 3: European dude with a son that looked like a sixteen 711 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 3: year old version of the Rizzler takes me like the 712 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 3: five hundred feet to the airport that I realized I 713 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:55,920 Speaker 3: met terminal one, I'd be in terminal seven. 714 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 5: I just collapse. 715 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta go on under yep, this very nice. 716 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,799 Speaker 3: Dad drives me over there. I'm have we're boarding, We're 717 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 3: almost done with boarding. I'm panicking, like I'm almost hyperventilating. 718 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,160 Speaker 3: I get through to you to say like they just 719 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 3: kind of let me go through because I look like 720 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 3: a mess. And then the guy sees the stickers on 721 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,200 Speaker 3: my laptop and he goes, wait, and I was like 722 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 3: what And he was like, do you know what m 723 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 3: L means? I was like no. He goes Marxist Leninists, 724 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 3: and I just went okay, thank you Cobrad and just 725 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 3: ran to the to the. 726 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,239 Speaker 5: Out there with literally one minute left. 727 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 3: Then I collapsed in the seat, had diaper ventelate into 728 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,320 Speaker 3: a bag next to these poor people sitting next to me. Anyways, 729 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,800 Speaker 3: walking to Lax was hell, and I do not blame 730 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,440 Speaker 3: you for not wanting to pick me up from you. 731 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, first of all, you walked, you've already you've already, 732 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 2: You've already got a a a girl scout badge that 733 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 2: I don't have. Walking, Like, there are times that I've 734 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 2: wanted to now I've walked. Now I've parked at like 735 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,760 Speaker 2: one of the like off site parking lots and didn't 736 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,279 Speaker 2: wait for the shuttle and walked in because I was like, bro, this. 737 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: Shutt ain't going let me just walk. 738 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,759 Speaker 2: And that is and you know, if you're gonna do 739 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 2: like the lax flyaway like that, because I live right 740 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,200 Speaker 2: next to Union Station, so like, if you're gonna do that, 741 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 2: we're not right now. I'm not gonna docks myself, but 742 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,440 Speaker 2: I don't live right by the Union States. But that's 743 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:18,480 Speaker 2: like the closest one in my crib. Yeah, the little bus, 744 00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 2: That's what I would do for the friend. 745 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,080 Speaker 1: I'm like, it's twelve dollars. 746 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, you just get out and you just take the 747 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 2: little shuttle bus to there. But by the time it 748 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,360 Speaker 2: gets to terminal five or six, it's full, so you 749 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,319 Speaker 2: gotta like go through the parking lot through the middle 750 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 2: to terminal one and wait over there to get on 751 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 2: the bus. 752 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,560 Speaker 1: But yeah, nah, you already you already got a merit 753 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 1: badge that. 754 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,640 Speaker 5: I don't have I don't recommend it. I don't want 755 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:43,440 Speaker 5: that badge. 756 00:36:43,960 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 4: You can have it back right. 757 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:15,360 Speaker 1: All right? 758 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,279 Speaker 2: Well, Kat, thank you so much for doing this. I 759 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,200 Speaker 2: know you've got a gang of work to do. Can 760 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:23,279 Speaker 2: you drop all that at mentions and the website so 761 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:27,759 Speaker 2: that people can come and see for themselves really what 762 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:28,240 Speaker 2: you're cooking? 763 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,800 Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely so. My website's Kat for Illinois dot com. 764 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,400 Speaker 3: That's Kat with the K of the three viable candidates 765 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 3: in this race, just I'm the only one that hasn't 766 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,439 Speaker 3: met with or sent a position paper to APAC, which 767 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 3: they also dropped an attack at against us today. That's 768 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:48,879 Speaker 3: really stupid, but lots of AI in it, and yeah, 769 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:50,920 Speaker 3: they're scared, so we're trying to win the thing. You 770 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,440 Speaker 3: can volunteer for us at Discord dot gg, slash cat 771 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,720 Speaker 3: for Illinois or cat for Illinois dot com slash events. 772 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,080 Speaker 3: Election day is March seventeenth. If you have friends in Chicago, 773 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,480 Speaker 3: let them know about us. And if you are in 774 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,799 Speaker 3: Chicago or you were from Chicago, consider signing up for 775 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,680 Speaker 3: one of our trainings with Reach, which is an app 776 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,319 Speaker 3: that app that essentially cross references your contacts UH with 777 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,000 Speaker 3: your with the voter database. So you can know wh 778 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:14,520 Speaker 3: if your friends live in the district. 779 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,720 Speaker 2: Okay, March seventeenth, totally ian. We better dropped this earlier, 780 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,680 Speaker 2: sooner than later. All right, word, well, thank you so 781 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,040 Speaker 2: much for this, Kat and uh yeah, man, good luck 782 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:24,960 Speaker 2: on all the things. 783 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,440 Speaker 5: And real quick, can you give a shout out to 784 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:28,080 Speaker 5: my friend Brady? 785 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,080 Speaker 1: Shout out Brady? What does Brady do? 786 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,719 Speaker 3: Brady works on the campaign, He's been helping us with 787 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 3: a lot of union stuff. He's fantastic. 788 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,880 Speaker 1: And yeah, word, shout out Brady. Appreciate you, hommy. You 789 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,080 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. That's quite a name. 790 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,240 Speaker 2: Brady. Does Brady look like a Brady? 791 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,360 Speaker 5: Uh No, Brady does not look like a Brady. 792 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,520 Speaker 2: Okay, good, okay, because then I'd have to make fun 793 00:38:48,560 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 2: of Brady. All right, Appreciate you Brady. All right, now, 794 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,319 Speaker 2: don't you hit stop on this pod. You better listen 795 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,480 Speaker 2: to these credits. I need you to finish this thing 796 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,680 Speaker 2: so I can get the download numbers. Okay, so don't 797 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:17,239 Speaker 2: stop it yet, but listen. 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