1 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to It could happen here. I'm Garrison Davis. Recently, 2 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: I just wrapped up a whole five episodes about the 3 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 1: previous week of action to stop cop City in Atlanta, Georgia. 4 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: In a somewhat unsuccessful attempt to shorten the running time 5 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: of those episodes, I had to cut out many of 6 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:36,959 Speaker 1: the funny bits, jokes, gaffs, goofs, bloopers, and related tomfoolery. 7 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 1: But as demonstrated by the police's massive mobilization to shut 8 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: down a canceled comedy event in the woods on March seventh, 9 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: the Willani Forest and surrounding area of Atlanta are often 10 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: home to manifestations of absurdist humor. There's been a lot 11 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: of not great news recently. Well, there's kind of always 12 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,279 Speaker 1: a lot of not great news now that we live 13 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: in an ever expanding hyperreality oversaturated with information. But I digress. 14 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: I think it's just as important to not overlook the comedic, 15 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: lighthearted side of things as it is to keep up 16 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 1: with all of the doom and gloom that we usually 17 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: platform on our show. So, without further ado, I present 18 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: to you jokes from the Atlanta Forest. Side note, I 19 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: am now invoking Jester's privilege. Legally, everything we say in 20 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: this episode is a joke as a little heads up. Okay, 21 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: this episode will probably make more sense if you listened 22 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: to the four part Week of Action series or the 23 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: retrospective episode. But also I will do my best to 24 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: pop in via this narration to help fill in any 25 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: gaps so that listeners will not be completely lost if 26 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: you've not listened to those other episodes. Anyway, we shall 27 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: start by tuning back into my conversation with Matt from 28 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: the Atlanta Community the Press Collective as we discuss the 29 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: March fifth police raid of the South River Music Festival. Welcome, 30 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: it could happen here. Cast I'm Garrison Davis. 31 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 2: In World of Warcraft. You can shield bash. 32 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: So that there's been this effort from police and media 33 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: to frame these arrests as like these were arrests that 34 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: happened at a crime scene, like these these arrests were 35 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: people who were who were torching equipment, who were involved 36 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: in all these actions, who are doing domestic terrorism. But 37 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: all the rest that happened were at a music festival, 38 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: like they were in a completely different section of the forest, like. 39 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 2: At a music festival at the parking lot even away 40 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 2: from the music festival. And you know, police surveillance may 41 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 2: be good and they may have been able to pick 42 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 2: out an individual or two, but for the most part, 43 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 2: like you had something like two hundred people partake in 44 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 2: this direct action and then disappear into the woods, there's 45 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 2: really no way too And of course most of them 46 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 2: were wearing block of some form that there's really no way. 47 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 1: Much of that block, which has now been burnt and 48 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: it's no longer existing in the physical material realm, so 49 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: there's no way to like really tell who was there, 50 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,519 Speaker 1: and other than allegedly having mud on your clothes, you 51 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: want to talk about what the warrants were in the 52 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 1: oddity of how the warrants were formatted. 53 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 2: Once you started to listen to them, you noticed this 54 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 2: very repetitive nature of them. And so about halfway through 55 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 2: we get to a lawyer who straight up calls out 56 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 2: the fact that these warrants seem like they were just copy. 57 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: Pasted, like every single person all the way downline. And 58 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: one of the such claims the mud mud. 59 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 2: So I don't know, I don't know how many festivals 60 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 2: you've attended in your life, but I've been to a few, 61 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 2: and they are never clean affairs. 62 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: So it it rained like one day before the night 63 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: before the festival started, there was a tornado warning in Atlanta. 64 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:16,799 Speaker 1: I've forgotten about that, and there was rain, which makes 65 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: I don't know if the prosecutors know this, but when 66 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: rain mixes with dirt, it creates something called that we 67 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: that we refer to as mud. My dock martins are 68 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: still caked in mud. Future me cutting back in here 69 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: for a sec So for the record, I have since 70 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: cleaned my dock Martins, but the mud was still on 71 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: there for well over a month until I was forced 72 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: to wash my shoes after I stepped in much much 73 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: more mud while in the Telemac forest as I was 74 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: failing to shoot a Keltech, which yeah, that is that 75 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: was That was probably my bad. These charges don't make 76 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: any sense. There's no evidence these people committed any actual crimes, 77 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: so they're just being charged with terrorism. This is like 78 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: a nebul this concept. The judge said that the legal 79 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: basis of these claims will have to be decided on 80 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: another day. Similarly, they said that in regards to like 81 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: actual evidence that these people charged did any crimes, she 82 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: said that she had none of this none of the 83 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: She said that she had none of this evidence in 84 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: front of her, and that evidence is for another day. 85 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 2: So it's absolutely I think bonkers it is an appropriate word. 86 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: One of those one of those kangaroo court moments. 87 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 2: It really my faith in the legal system was really 88 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,679 Speaker 2: solidified this day. There was also the threat of arrest 89 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 2: for the New York Times reporter that happened. I forgot 90 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 2: to mention that. So yeah, we'll leave that commentary by itself. 91 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: They should have they should have charged Sean Keenan with 92 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: domestic terrorism. Sorry for making fun of noted trans ally 93 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: the New York Times. I promise it won't happen again. Wait. Wait, no, 94 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 1: that's that's a lie. There's at least two more New 95 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: York Times jokes in this script. Fuck, I guess let's 96 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: talk about Monday. Monday Monday, So, uh, don't. 97 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 2: It is the editor? No, Daniel, Daniel, I'm sorry, I'm 98 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 2: so sorry. 99 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:21,720 Speaker 1: He's not going to hear any of this shit. Oh 100 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: im because the way these work, as I transcribe them 101 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 1: and then I copy and paste sections, so they only 102 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: move the section over. 103 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 2: So when I say ask Garrison about okay, So it 104 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 2: turns out that was a lie. 105 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: Daniel did need to hear that, So sorry, Daniel, full transparency. 106 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 1: Most of those bleeps were me making horrible, horrible, slurping 107 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: noises into the microphone, as Daniel can probably attest. So 108 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: really all of you should be thanking Daniel for suffering 109 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: through those to bleep them out. Daniel died for your sins. 110 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: I mean content truly, truly braver than the troops insert joke. Anyway, 111 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: back to me from the past. So let's talk about 112 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: Let's talk about Monday. I want to talk about the 113 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,039 Speaker 1: clergy event that happened in from a city hall, so 114 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: City council meeting. You work for the Atlantic Community Press Collective. 115 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: You've you've covered a lot of city council meetings in 116 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: Atlanta before. This was my first time covering an Atlanta 117 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: City Council meeting. Due to your you know, wisdom in 118 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: this in this field, I would like for you to 119 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: to to discuss what happened at the city council meeting 120 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: and in relation to your to your to your years 121 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: of experience in covering these these uh these meetings. 122 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 2: So I City Council meets every other week on Mondays. 123 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 2: I cover several other committees but uh, you know, the 124 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 2: big one is always the City Council meeting, and over 125 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 2: over the course of time, there there's like a cast 126 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 2: of characters that that you just begin to understand are 127 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 2: going to appear either every week or or from time 128 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,239 Speaker 2: to time. And you you had the pleasure of actually 129 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 2: getting to see a few of these and I was like, 130 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 2: there were were there were a few of us media 131 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 2: folks there, and I was actually really happy that like 132 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 2: people got to experience this with me, because I usually 133 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 2: have to do it by myself. So you got to 134 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 2: meet three of the characters. You got to meet Brother Hakim, 135 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 2: you got to meet Rachel, and you got to be 136 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 2: your favorite chef doctor. 137 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: So this is just somebody who everyone refers to as 138 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: chef doctor. He is dressed up as what you can 139 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: only describe as a chef doctor. I wondering half of 140 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: a chef's outfit, half of a doctor's outfit. He had 141 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: a Freemason pin on his shirt, because of course he did. 142 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: And I just like watched him for a while because 143 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: like initially in the City Council meeting, they were just 144 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: like handing out awards to like the proclamation ceremony, the 145 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: proclamations and awards to like various people, including like former 146 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: city council members like whatever. And then eventually public comments 147 00:08:55,240 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: started and I guess, let's let's talk about doctor so well, no, 148 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: so for the entirety of the city council meeting during 149 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: the proclamations in the back in the back of the 150 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: back of City Council, there was this large red like 151 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: like heart just sitting sitting in the back. 152 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 2: But it looked like Bob the tomato from Vegetatis. 153 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: Look it looked that was exactly what I thought. I 154 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: like this heart, Like, why is there this Bob the 155 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: tomato ass heart mascot just sitting in the back of 156 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: city Council. No one was inside the costume. It was 157 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: just like the heart sitting there next to like another 158 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: massive heart made up of like flowers. I saw. I 159 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 1: was kind of confused for why that was there. There 160 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: was like a pediatric surgeon that got like one of 161 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,959 Speaker 1: the awards, and like, oh, maybe the heart's there because 162 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 1: of like because of like heart surgery or something. I 163 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 1: don't know. 164 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 2: No, no, that would make sense. And you have to 165 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 2: you have to get out of that mindset for public comment. 166 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: For the most part, so then chef doctor gets ten 167 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: minutes of public comments. 168 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 2: So we should explain that mechanism. Everyone who signs up 169 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 2: for public comment gets two minutes. You can award your 170 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 2: time or give over your time to somebody else. So 171 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 2: there were four other people who gave their time over 172 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 2: to Chef Doctor to give him ten minutes, and he 173 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 2: used all ten minutes. 174 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: So what was chef doctor trying to get out of 175 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: the city? Why was he giving public heart? So a 176 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: shout out to chef doctor. 177 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 2: Okay, like is Chef Doctor wants to create a soul 178 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 2: food museum in the West side of Atlanta, and she's 179 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 2: shown up a few times to kind of ask city 180 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 2: council for money, and as far as I know, that 181 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 2: has gone nowhere. But that was what he is ostensibly 182 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 2: there for today. However, beyond just the heart, the dancing, 183 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 2: we haven't got there yet. However, beyond just the big 184 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 2: red heart, and like the paper mache flower heart, he 185 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 2: he brought a floutest. 186 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: A floutest. So a floutest is someone who plays the flute. 187 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: If you are like an uncultured person, who's who's who's 188 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: listening to this? And he walked up to the microphone, 189 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: and then for five minutes, he got a floutist to 190 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: play a flute cover of Amazing Grace. 191 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 2: Yes, but but he had backing music from a laptop 192 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 2: that just kind of appeared up of nowhere, and so 193 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 2: he played into the microphone. 194 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: They played this funeral song as as this now Heart 195 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: that's been brought to life. It starts dancing, starts dancing. 196 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 1: So this person wearing like heart pajama pants changed into 197 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 1: this hard question at some point. I didn't see them 198 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: change into this. I don't know how this happened. I 199 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: must have missed it. 200 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:50,679 Speaker 2: It's City Council magic. 201 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 3: Nice will be Chef, doctor Kenneth Wolhoyt. 202 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 2: You'll have ten minutes due to yielded time. 203 00:11:57,760 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 3: Chef, let's go ahead and get started. 204 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:00,839 Speaker 4: My name is. 205 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 5: A chef, doctor Kenneth Wildhord. I'm the president of the 206 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 5: Soul Food Museum and the Soul Food University. We are 207 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 5: celebrating our twentieth anniversary and we are asking for the 208 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 5: City Council and an honorable Mayor to get behind us 209 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 5: and support us with donating a museum space, building and 210 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 5: land with parking in the city of Atlanta for our 211 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 5: tourists that come here to have a place to come 212 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 5: and experience our hospitality, agriculture service of Atlanta. I'm gonna 213 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 5: sell quick prayer because I'm spirit lead. 214 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 2: I do things by spirit. 215 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 5: I'm at that age you know it's not about me, 216 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 5: it's about the spirit. Now we'll have a song that 217 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 5: was selected by the spirit of the ancestors, not by me, 218 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 5: but by the spirit of dancers. I asked God to say, Hey, God, 219 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 5: what song should we introduce today? This is the one 220 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 5: that was. 221 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: But this, this guy in the hard costume walks up 222 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: and he starts like kind of dancing to this float 223 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: music for five minutes. Talk about the dancing. 224 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 2: I don't think it was so much dancing as a 225 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 2: swaying with a little bit of hand motion along with 226 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 2: the swang. But like I, I wasn't expecting it. 227 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,719 Speaker 1: I thought someone like dosed me with hallucinogens. 228 00:13:55,800 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 2: I did. Actually, there were some stress ballad I put 229 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 2: them in your water bottle when you were looking. 230 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: This explained so much about what happened on Monday. 231 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 2: No, it would make much more sense if that's what happened. Unfortunately, 232 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 2: Atlanta is a cartoon town and that's not what happened. 233 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 2: This was real life. 234 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: So this, this this flood cover of amazing Grace played 235 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: for five minutes along with the dancing Heart, and then 236 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: we finally got to public comment for the reason for 237 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: the reason we were for the reason for why we 238 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: were there. Not only were we blessed with that stunning 239 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: rendition of amazing grace, the floutist himself was was briefly 240 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: able to address the city Council before President Dave Shipman rudely, 241 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: very very rudely called time amazing grace. It's such a 242 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: sort that made so much to the world. 243 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 5: So that's it. 244 00:14:52,400 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: Thank you, okay, and we are back. And just as 245 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: a note, I have forgot to put this in the script, 246 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: so I'm gonna say it now. It turns out that 247 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: that heart costume that was quote unquote dancing to the music, 248 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: that's actually rentable. You can rent that in Atlanta. So 249 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: I have some really good ideas for the next for 250 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: the next week of action, since we can rent more 251 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: bouncy castles and also that heart costume, I think there's 252 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: a lot of potential, extremely funny things that could happen. Anyway, 253 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: back to my conversation with Matt from the Atlantic Community 254 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: Press Collective. 255 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 2: There are a couple like things to note about how 256 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 2: city council public comment works. City council doesn't tend to 257 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 2: pay attention to them. Osensibly the only one who pays 258 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 2: attention is City Council President Doug Shipman, because it is 259 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 2: his job to call time and to call up the 260 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 2: next person. But you know, city councilors will like step 261 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 2: in and out of the room, get something to eat 262 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 2: during the seventeen hours of public comment for cop city 263 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 2: like one of them held a press conference like it is. 264 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: It is weird, Heathery like legally allowed to not pay 265 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: attention like that is that is bizarre? 266 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 2: You would you would you would think that if you 267 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 2: allegedly work for the people, like you. 268 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: Would, you have to actually listen to them. 269 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 2: So amongst the city Council, there are two in particular 270 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 2: that I'm glad you got to see there. There's Mary Norwood, 271 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 2: who represents Buckhead, and then there's Dustin Hillis, who is 272 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 2: the the committee chair for the Public Safety Legal Administration Committee, 273 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 2: So he's basically in charge of police here. 274 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 6: Throwing molotov cocktails at officers and damaging millions of dollars 275 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 6: of equipment. 276 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: And he gives off that vibe, and neither one of 277 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: them will pay attention. They were they were on their 278 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: phone from almost the entire time I was there. The 279 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 1: the the Buckhead woman gave off ontologically evil vibe. Like 280 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: I I did not know like who she was when 281 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: I went to the city council, but once I saw her, 282 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, this person is like obviously evil, right, 283 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: And I asked people about it afterwards, like oh, yes, 284 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: that is a person that represents Bucket. I'm like, okay, yes, 285 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:23,400 Speaker 1: of course, of course. 286 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 2: Bucket of course being the like primarily white neighborhood in 287 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 2: North Atlanta, that part of it wants to secede from 288 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 2: the city. And that's that's a whole. Yes, that is 289 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 2: a whole another issue. But to kind of give context 290 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 2: of what Buckhead is redlining. 291 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 4: That's not a question, that's just a observation. 292 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,119 Speaker 2: And so sitting directly next to her is Dustin Hillis, 293 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,160 Speaker 2: who is known for not paying attention ever. 294 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: Except except they did both pay attention after public comment 295 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: when police gave their testimony on what happened to the night, 296 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: and then these two people were very engaged. We will 297 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: hear more from Mary Norwood ontologically evil in a bit, 298 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: but first I have to saw Jesus Christ fucking fuck Jesus. 299 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: My cats are just running amuck. All right, We will 300 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 1: hear more from Mary Norwood ontologically evil in a bit, 301 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: but first I have to include some of councilmen Antonio 302 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: Lewis's response after Police Chief Darren Cherbaum gave his little 303 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: presentation at City Council. Because I don't think I've ever 304 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: heard January sixth, the Atlanta Way, and six Flags all 305 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: get mentioned in the same sentence before it. 306 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 6: Looked like January sixth. I ain't never seen police run 307 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 6: from a group of people, and so the only thing 308 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 6: I could think about when I saw that video. I 309 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,719 Speaker 6: saw it on Ato Scoop, the videos all out there. 310 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:00,120 Speaker 6: I've been seeing it all over And when I saw 311 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 6: the police officers run, I mean I was a little nervous. 312 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 6: When I saw the heat map, I saw one hundred 313 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 6: people I saw, I saw it. I mean, like that 314 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 6: ain't the Atlanta Wait. I mean, I ain't never seen 315 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:14,880 Speaker 6: I'm just thinking about the At the same time, at 316 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 6: six Flags, we had some young men that were fighting, 317 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 6: some of our teenagers fighting at six Flags. They didn't 318 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 6: run up on the police. They didn't run up on 319 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 6: the police with molotail malory tail cocktails throwing to burn 320 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:28,919 Speaker 6: up stuff. What I will say, I thank you so 321 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 6: much for last night for working. I want to really 322 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 6: commend the officers because y'all were under some immense pressure 323 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,959 Speaker 6: and to not see a gun fire back because when 324 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 6: I see the firecrackers, I'm from Cleveland Avenue. If they 325 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 6: throw firecrackers at me, I don't know those firecrackers. I've 326 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 6: never seen that. So I appreciate APD for doing that. 327 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: Truly, truly a stunning admission, just perfect. So I had 328 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: to listen to Atlanta Police Chief Darren Sheerbaum's testimony a 329 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,879 Speaker 1: few times for the five episodes that were released earlier 330 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: this month, so I didn't really feel like fully listening 331 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: through again to find any funny bits to put in 332 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: this episode, so I just kind of like skimmed through 333 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: while multitasking, and weirdly enough, I noticed that the chief 334 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 1: said some pretty shocking things that I somehow just must 335 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 1: have missed in my previous viewings. So I will play 336 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: those for you now, and I will warn you it is. 337 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: It is pretty disturbing, Like all the subjects we put 338 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,439 Speaker 1: on air. Their statements do not reflect our opinions or 339 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: the official position held by whatever current company owns this podcast. 340 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: So yeah, like I said, warning, these are shocking, but 341 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:43,920 Speaker 1: I will let the chief speak for himself. 342 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 7: Take aggressive action against these officers. Move to the front gate, 343 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 7: more accelerant, inflict vitily harm upon them, launch illegal and 344 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 7: criminal attacks to attack members of law enforcement, bring harm 345 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,159 Speaker 7: to our officers. 346 00:20:58,800 --> 00:20:59,640 Speaker 8: These attacks are. 347 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: Going to you pretty pretty shocking stuff coming from a 348 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: police chief to Jesus, but that is only the tip 349 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 1: of the iceberg. Because to my surprise, after public COVID 350 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 1: was over and all the news cameras that left after 351 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 1: I left, and you know, everyone everyone left the building. 352 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 1: It turns out Darren Sheerbaum gave a second testimony at 353 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 1: the very end of the city council meeting that I 354 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: just completely missed until now. So I will warn you 355 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 1: it is kind of leude in nature. So if you 356 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: want to skip past lewd police conduct, just fast forward 357 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: like a minute or two. But anyway, without without further ado, 358 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: here is the secret recently unearthed second testimony presented by 359 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: Atlanta Police Chief Darren Sheerbamb. 360 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 7: Person ship, the members of the Council would like to 361 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 7: brief you on evincent transpired yesterday. I'm going to let 362 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 7: the video play here. Why I walked through each of 363 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 7: the situations. What you see here is of our partners 364 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 7: at the Decap County Police Department, the Share for Fulton 365 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 7: County as well as the Georgia State Patrol. We're seeing 366 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,880 Speaker 7: changing out of the clothes that they were wearing. They're 367 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 7: going to position themselves when it appears to be an 368 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 7: attempt to keep pursuing the officers. As the officers see 369 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 7: these we had a rapid response from our partners as 370 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 7: well as to change their clothing. Different groups were performing 371 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 7: acts within the manner of their training and their discipline. 372 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 7: At this time. Our officers repositioning themselves inside of our partners. 373 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 7: These officers had been stationary to ensure that they are 374 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 7: being restrained. The officers are on city property and are 375 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 7: positioning themselves and reposition themselves to be prepared to go 376 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 7: back in. Our officers are showing great restraint. They remained 377 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 7: in a position. It's what you see here is a 378 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 7: lieutenant that is discharging. We're very fortunate that that was 379 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 7: the outcome, and I want to commend every man and 380 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 7: woman on duty yesterday as they stood in the gap 381 00:22:55,840 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 7: to do their job, those officers entered our partners, and 382 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 7: what you see here, ladies and gentlemen, is as some 383 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 7: of the individuals that had just previously had entered into 384 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 7: those officers, they start changing back into the clothes that 385 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 7: they were just wearing moments before. Just last night, officers 386 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 7: of this department, as well as the Cab County to 387 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 7: the Georgia State Patrol and the Sheriff's Department moved in. 388 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 7: And I want to think of the men and women 389 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,439 Speaker 7: again of the Atlanta Police Department, the Georgia State Patrol, 390 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 7: the Sheriff's Department, as well as the Cap County Police 391 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 7: Department for the professionalism that they demonstrated throughout the night 392 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,360 Speaker 7: and to the early hours of this morning while many 393 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 7: of us were asleep, they continue to work through the night. 394 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 6: I've never seen that, so I appreciate APD for doing that. 395 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 4: I would have loved for every one of those very 396 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 4: hysterical people that we've been sitting listening to for two 397 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 4: or three hours to have seen an actual video of 398 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 4: what really did happen. And there may be great reasons 399 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 4: if the administration chose to do it this way, but 400 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 4: our media is gone and all the people that needed 401 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 4: to see this are gone. I'm glad that nobody was 402 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 4: hurt and none of our none of our employees were hurt. 403 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 3: Yesterday. 404 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 1: Oh boy whoa oh well that was That was certainly 405 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: something I did not did not want to know that 406 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 1: much about what the the APD and their partners get 407 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: up to after hours. Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled comedic, 408 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: James I Know a sheer bomb was was addressed with 409 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: some questions by Unicorn Riot when he was trying to exit, 410 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: which he then did not He hea have a very 411 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 1: frustrated face and then denied answering and promptly left the 412 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: building well. 413 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 2: In the company of the New York Times journalist. 414 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 1: Oh with with with a friend of the show, Sean Keenan. 415 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,400 Speaker 1: So that was that was? Uh? That was most of Monday. Yeah, 416 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 1: that is everything that happened on Monday. 417 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 2: So what uh Monday evening I went home to start 418 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 2: working on article. 419 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 1: What did you do? 420 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 2: Guys? 421 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,640 Speaker 1: I went to the perm in the Woods. I got 422 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: to share my my memory of the Veggietail's esther story 423 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: starring the Tickle monsters. I got to bond with a 424 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 1: few expangelicals about that, so that was fine. Then there 425 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,919 Speaker 1: was an experimental noise show in the forest. 426 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 2: And then you had a tragic neck injury on Monday night. 427 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 2: So Tuesday, the group that we followed left out of 428 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,640 Speaker 2: the church and went to Norfolk Southern, which is one 429 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 2: of the funders of APF and Friend of the Environment 430 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 2: in Ohio. When they finished reading the letter, like, all 431 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,120 Speaker 2: they asked was that the letter go to the CEO. Yep, 432 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 2: And they denied that and all they had to do 433 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 2: was accept it and and move on. 434 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: But they, while people were inside the security called ns Police. 435 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: And if you're wondering, you're like, you know, ns Plice, 436 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: a city that isn't the city in Atlanta, What could 437 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 1: that be? That is the Norfolk Southern Police who are 438 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 1: legally allowed to arrest people. 439 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 2: And we we thankfully we avoided going to Norfolk Southern Police. 440 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: Jail, going to Norfolk Southern Court. 441 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 2: Which certainly would have been a very legitimate court. 442 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaker 1: So I mean, it would have been almost as legitimate 443 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 1: as the real court that that the bail hearings happened 444 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: at that same day. After successfully evading Norfolk Southern jail. 445 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 1: Matt and I headed downtown for a march that was 446 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: accompanied by a cadre of over one hundred officers. Pinning 447 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,880 Speaker 1: this crowd onto the sidewalk, got a whole police court 448 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: blocking the sidewalk like a Doorida State University canine unit. 449 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 1: This blocking off the entire sidewalk next to a Fulton 450 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: County Sheriff's vehicle. I like the copturist, also commanding the 451 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 1: corporate media on where they can stand and the whatever 452 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,680 Speaker 1: like boomer journalist is with whatever like mainstream news. Helle 453 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: and was very peeered off at this cop for telling 454 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: you to get on the sidewalk. The next day, a 455 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: smaller crowd met up at the same spot and broke 456 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: off into little subgroups to walk around downtown Atlanta and 457 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: hand out defend the forest to leaflets. So all the 458 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: little subgroups kind of meet up on Andrew Jung and Peachtree, 459 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:21,880 Speaker 1: right next to the Hooters and the Hard Rock Cafe. 460 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 2: To classic examples of Atlanted food. 461 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: There was an Atlanta swat vehicle parked outside of the Hooters, 462 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,639 Speaker 1: fucking the fucking outside of fucking Hard Rock Cafe. So 463 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 1: I can't I keep picking up this copyrighted music. But 464 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: there's a big Atlanta Police swat vehicle parked on the 465 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: block by the Atlanta Police Foundation headquarters. All right, there's 466 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: actually a pretty decent number of people gathered here for 467 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 1: the flowering event today. They're at the Peachtree and Young 468 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 1: International Boulevard intersection, right across from the Hooters and the 469 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,880 Speaker 1: Hard Rock Cafe. There's a swat vehicle parked right behind us. 470 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,200 Speaker 1: There is about, I don't know, twenty to thirty officersation 471 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 1: a little bit to our north, you know, normal police 472 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 1: responds to people handing out flyers, just fifty officers in 473 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,959 Speaker 1: a swat team. Lieutenant Neil Welch approaches the crowd and 474 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: gives them a dispersal order. They cross the street walk 475 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 1: like a black north, past some of the cops that 476 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: are guarding the Wells Fargo building. At this point, people 477 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: chanted the cops to quit your jobs, quit your job, 478 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: and one of the cops guarding the Wells Fargo says, 479 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: that's actually a good idea, you can always quit your job. 480 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 4: That's actually a sound of box. 481 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 6: Yeah. 482 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 2: I already tried, And he's like, I tried to and 483 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 2: they wouldn't let me. But like I don't like laughing, 484 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 2: but that one got me. That one got me. 485 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 1: The cop responded like, not in like a glib tone 486 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 1: like he was it was actually actually he wanted serious, 487 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 1: like yeah, that's actually yeah, that's actually a good idea, 488 00:28:58,680 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: extremely funny moment. 489 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,800 Speaker 2: While this is happening, there's another group who comes in 490 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 2: to the side of Peatree Center Mall and enters the 491 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 2: mall to find Mayor Andre Dickens. 492 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: Andre Dickens is like the head of some kind of 493 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: like board or something. 494 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, there are a couple of boards in Atlanta that 495 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 2: stipulate the mayor is like the head of the board, 496 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 2: and this is one of them. And it meets in 497 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 2: Peatree Center Mall as one does. So the mayor is 498 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 2: having a meeting in the mall. It his office space is, 499 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 2: you know, sort of above the mall. And so three 500 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 2: Indigenous An activists along with Kamal Franklin arrive and they 501 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 2: find the mayor. They enter the board meeting and they 502 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 2: begin to read this letter from the Muscogie Nation aloud. 503 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 2: Mayor Dickens, in true mayor fashion, bolts away from this, 504 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 2: running through an exit door which is then like blocked 505 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 2: by a guard which I think that has its own 506 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 2: like set of legal issues, essentially just ignoring them over 507 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 2: his shoulder. He calls out, I've got a copy of 508 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 2: the letter and hides just completely trying to escape what 509 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 2: is not a good look for him. 510 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 1: This is what we call a Ted Wheeler moment. So 511 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 1: as this happens, I think like Apex Swat is deployed. 512 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 2: So Apex and Swat had had been elsewhere and they 513 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 2: were called back to their vehicles like right before this, 514 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 2: and then the activist exit and almost like in this 515 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 2: very comical moment, after they get out and away, squads 516 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 2: of these special units start rushing into the building, of course, 517 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 2: finding no one. 518 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 1: Charlie Chapman asks shit, truly okay, even a more future 519 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: version of Garrison here. Apparently I've been told by Daniel 520 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 1: that his name is Charlie Chaplin. I don't know he's 521 00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 1: a pedophile, so whatever, Charlie not Dan, oh boy, And 522 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: I do want to say I did try multiple times 523 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: to take Matt to the hard Rock Cafe or the Hooters, 524 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: either one, and he refused my offer multiple times, very 525 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: very rudely. So at some point when I'm back in Atlanta, 526 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 1: I will have to gather a troop of fanboys and 527 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: head over to the Hooters anyway. Next was the Community 528 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: Movement Builder's rally on the evening of Thursday, March ninth, 529 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 1: which had fewer jokes that night. But there are a 530 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: few embarrassing recording bloopers at the expense of my own ego. 531 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 1: So I will play those for your amusement, you absolute 532 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: seck Fox. Yeah, we'll start thirteen years. It is kind 533 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: of raining. We'll see how many people show up and 534 00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: how large the police response will be in comparison. So 535 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: what what what could happen here? 536 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 2: Well, it could happen here? A podcast by Robert Evans. 537 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 2: We are at the site of the Martin Luther King Memorial. 538 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: Did you see the two Sandy Springs police buses? 539 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 2: I did see the Sandy I lived in Sandy Springs 540 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,840 Speaker 2: for a year and that brought back some memories. But yes, 541 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 2: to Sandy Springs police buses. Sandy Springs, of course, being 542 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 2: mostly outside of the perimeter. A good A good drive 543 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 2: from here. That was good, That was good? All right, 544 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 2: Hauger's absolutely Paugers. 545 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 1: The police police has has been stating, well, I'll never mind, 546 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: I cut that. What am I saying? Big puddle on 547 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 1: the street, demonstrating the city's commitment to infrastructure. That was 548 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,479 Speaker 1: that was a joke because the dragon was plumped. I 549 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: accidentally turned off my recording. But tripping on flo stairs. 550 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: They're so they're so close together, we're they're just sandwiched in. 551 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 1: Got a New York Times reporter standing in the middle 552 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: of the street. Of course, the only person allowed to 553 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: stand in the street the one, the one New York 554 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 1: Times reporter. I would estimate almost about a kilometer, but 555 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: I'm Canadian, so that's not very helpful to you. 556 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 2: To you us listeners, the real outside agitators is Sandy Springs. Please. Yeah, 557 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 2: the police were ready to mass arrest the entire time. 558 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 2: I don't know if you mentioned this. So in between 559 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 2: the police line in front of the APF building and 560 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 2: the protesters was essentially like a mixture of cop Watch 561 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 2: and National Lawyers Guild and a CLU, because of course 562 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 2: you had to have like both both legal observer factions 563 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 2: just to make sure everybody's watching each other. 564 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 1: A still you can watch energy get the West rested? 565 00:33:58,360 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: Who can watch a still you get arrested. 566 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 2: It's turtles all the way down in Bigel Observers all 567 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 2: the way down. 568 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:23,279 Speaker 1: Hello, and we are back. That's great, all right. One 569 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,640 Speaker 1: of the stops on the tour of the Blonnie Forest 570 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 1: that Joe Perry was doing throughout the week was the 571 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 1: area of the landswap between the former owner of Black 572 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,479 Speaker 1: Hall Studios, Ryan Millsap, and the Cabot County's Entrenchment Creek Park. 573 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 1: So on one side there's this beautiful forested park that 574 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,439 Speaker 1: Ryan Millsap wants to trade for. Then on the other 575 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,720 Speaker 1: side is this massive mound of dirt that he currently owns, 576 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 1: which is right next to Bouldercrest Road. 577 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,080 Speaker 3: That's a huge, huge dirt field that you see. And 578 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:59,080 Speaker 3: what happened is while that swap was being orchestrated, Blackhall 579 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,680 Speaker 3: was bringing thousands and thousands and thousands of dump truckloads 580 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,279 Speaker 3: of dirt and just filling it up, filling it up, 581 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 3: filling it up. And somebody else is gonna have to 582 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 3: do the math. But I don't know if you say, 583 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 3: like fifteen acres of dirt that is twenty feet plus high, 584 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:17,400 Speaker 3: how much dirt that is. 585 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 2: That's a lot. 586 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,240 Speaker 3: It's not natural. It's not something that's helping this flood 587 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 3: prone area. All that's gonna run into here, no matter 588 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,520 Speaker 3: how many silk fences you put up. So that's what 589 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:37,400 Speaker 3: they're calling Michelle Obama Park. That's exactly exactly right. If 590 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,799 Speaker 3: somebody needs to talk to Michelle and say, nah, you 591 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,200 Speaker 3: need to take your name off of that one. I 592 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 3: don't know who who got away with that, but that's 593 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:44,439 Speaker 3: not it. 594 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,839 Speaker 4: By the way, you're seeing the most picturesque side of that. 595 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:49,359 Speaker 6: Piece of land. 596 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, you get to get to the top, it's worse. 597 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,920 Speaker 7: It's just it's just it's garbage. 598 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 3: Well the thing, and it is literally garbage because a 599 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 3: lot of this stuff, this dirt keep you know, Ryan 600 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:05,479 Speaker 3: millsp has he is. He's not a movie mogul. He's 601 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 3: he's a land baron. He's he's in real estate, and 602 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,799 Speaker 3: he's made billions of dollars in real estate. And so 603 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,480 Speaker 3: that dirt comes from other properties. He's he's digging up 604 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,759 Speaker 3: a place on you know, on Boulevard to put some 605 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 3: apartments in. He's pulling dirt out of there. That's what's 606 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 3: coming in here. That's dirt coming from all these other 607 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:27,080 Speaker 3: construction sites you have that is not top soil. You 608 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:28,920 Speaker 3: can and I believe me, I'm not saying I'm not 609 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,839 Speaker 3: making that up. I've been over there and I've walked 610 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,280 Speaker 3: and I've seen what's in there. I've seen water heaters 611 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,320 Speaker 3: in there. I've seen gutters in there, I've seen pipes, 612 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 3: I've seen all kinds of crap. 613 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 1: It's trash. 614 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 3: It's a big trash mountain. That's what they want to 615 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:47,400 Speaker 3: have be Michelle Obama Park and hanging a hathen So, yeah, 616 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 3: that's I just wanted you to kind of lay your 617 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,520 Speaker 3: eyes on what the county thought was a good idea, 618 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:55,879 Speaker 3: in what black Haw thought. Of course, you know, Ryan 619 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 3: mill is a great idea for Ryan Millsepp because the 620 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,239 Speaker 3: land that he acquired is were way more millions more. 621 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,840 Speaker 3: It's now worth millions more than when he made the swap. 622 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 3: So he has made a lot of money on this swap, 623 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,080 Speaker 3: and that's why he's angry that he can't get his 624 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,360 Speaker 3: hands on it. Yet nobody knows what he's gonna do 625 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,759 Speaker 3: with it, because the original agreement between him and the 626 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,760 Speaker 3: county was he was gonna build movie studios on that land. 627 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,239 Speaker 3: Well he can't now because he sold his rights to 628 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,319 Speaker 3: the movie studios to accompany. It's now called Shadowbox. They're 629 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:31,120 Speaker 3: the ones that owns his previous studios, so he can't 630 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,759 Speaker 3: have a rival company right across the street from them. 631 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 3: So he hasn't said and nobody knows exactly what he's 632 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 3: going to do with the property. If he wins this 633 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:44,480 Speaker 3: court case and gets those forty acres, who knows. It's 634 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 3: a mystery. So that's that's where that stands right now. 635 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:52,239 Speaker 3: Hopefully we win the lawsuit. If we do, he will 636 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,560 Speaker 3: be he will have to put the bill for repaving 637 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,040 Speaker 3: the path and redoing the parking lot and putting a 638 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,359 Speaker 3: new gazebo in. That's what the judge decree. That's why 639 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 3: they said we don't need a restraining order. All that 640 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,279 Speaker 3: is replaceable. So except for the trees that he tore down, 641 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,920 Speaker 3: you know those are going to take another seventy five years, 642 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:11,440 Speaker 3: but who's counting. 643 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,640 Speaker 1: The fate of Michelle Obama Park is still up in 644 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:20,200 Speaker 1: the air as of time of recording. So yeah, excited 645 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:25,160 Speaker 1: to visit that. If the landswap gets passed, almost done, 646 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,799 Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna briefly, briefly tap back into my 647 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,759 Speaker 1: conversation with Matt from the Atlantic Community Press Collective, and 648 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 1: then unfortunately, our jokes must come to an end. 649 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:36,719 Speaker 2: I think one thing that's been lost in all of 650 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,239 Speaker 2: this too is all of the lighthearted events that have 651 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,080 Speaker 2: continued to go on through the week. And you know, 652 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,080 Speaker 2: we have this this, this youth rally or there's the 653 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:48,120 Speaker 2: youth rally that's happening on Saturday, of course recording this beforehand, 654 00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:53,440 Speaker 2: and like the joy of the movement that was represented 655 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:59,319 Speaker 2: in the bouncy castle rip which was first pointed at 656 00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,160 Speaker 2: a Ford was pointing it. 657 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,840 Speaker 1: And we haven't talked about the gun, talking about the 658 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,160 Speaker 1: guns and the bouncy castle. 659 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 2: So so one thing I think that that. 660 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:12,200 Speaker 1: We didn't mention. 661 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,160 Speaker 2: How can you forget about the guns and the bouncy castle. 662 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:21,319 Speaker 2: So when when the police came running up onto the 663 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 2: tarmac at RCA Field where the bouncy castle was, of 664 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,800 Speaker 2: course they had to point a rifle at the bouncy castle. 665 00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,080 Speaker 2: And if that doesn't show that police are not here 666 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,400 Speaker 2: to have fun and have joy, I don't know what 667 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,960 Speaker 2: what is I I don't know if anyone was in 668 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,319 Speaker 2: it at the time, I don't think so. I think 669 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,600 Speaker 2: they were literally just pointing a gun at an empty 670 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:46,040 Speaker 2: bouncy castle which they have they destroyed, and and I 671 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,880 Speaker 2: think we have to take a moment to mourn that. 672 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:50,400 Speaker 1: Did they destroyed or like defleate it? 673 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,040 Speaker 2: I think they destroyed It. 674 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,040 Speaker 1: Wasn't like a rental or something. 675 00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:59,400 Speaker 2: Yes, so r I P. Bouncy house. You will be 676 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:03,640 Speaker 2: missed and all the joy that you represented. My girlfriend's 677 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:05,400 Speaker 2: texting me cringe. 678 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,839 Speaker 1: Let me let me check my my note, my notes. 679 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,080 Speaker 2: In case Garrison doesn't cut this. Ask about Garrison's neck? 680 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,319 Speaker 1: What hmm? What what did you say? 681 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,840 Speaker 2: Ask about what Garrison did Friday. 682 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:36,040 Speaker 1: Fire, burn tower Saturday, Gresham Park Sunday, Monday noon Tuesday. 683 00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,239 Speaker 1: All right, all right, okay, I'm gonna just gonna look 684 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,279 Speaker 1: through my other notes app because I keep my notes 685 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:43,880 Speaker 1: in three different notes apps because I'm normal. 686 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,719 Speaker 2: So one thing that's been notable, especially in how the 687 00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,520 Speaker 2: police talk about the forest, is they've begun using like 688 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:56,520 Speaker 2: these these militarized terms, like the denial of operating area 689 00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:02,759 Speaker 2: that we saw when Ryan mill SAP was important to 690 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:07,040 Speaker 2: Cab County. He said the GBI told him to clear 691 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:12,759 Speaker 2: the area to deny operating space, and you know, the 692 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,920 Speaker 2: use of terrorism, like there's there's some eerie parallels between 693 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:22,160 Speaker 2: the language that was used to describe insurgencies in countries 694 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,480 Speaker 2: that America is invading or the United States is invading, 695 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,960 Speaker 2: and a lot of that language, like the military equipment 696 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,040 Speaker 2: that was used there has come home and is now 697 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 2: being used against Americans engaged in like these liberation struggles. 698 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,960 Speaker 1: I wonder where we've talked about that before. I don't 699 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:45,160 Speaker 1: know it could happen where speaking of it is still happening. 700 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,279 Speaker 1: The last week, approximately five hundred people came out to 701 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,120 Speaker 1: City Hall as the city Council is now in the 702 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,719 Speaker 1: process of voting to approve public funds for the Cop 703 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,720 Speaker 1: City project. Nearly three hundred people signed up for public comment, 704 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,880 Speaker 1: with hundreds more waiting in line. A public comment lasted 705 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:07,560 Speaker 1: seven hours, and during so not a single person voiced 706 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:11,759 Speaker 1: support of using taxpayer money to fund the police training facility. 707 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:16,600 Speaker 1: The Atlanta Community Press Collective have recently reported that the 708 00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:21,000 Speaker 1: proposed city funds toward the Cop City project have ballooned 709 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:25,160 Speaker 1: to a minimum of fifty one million dollars, with the 710 00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,400 Speaker 1: thirty million dollar package awaiting final vote in City Council, 711 00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,480 Speaker 1: plus another at least twenty million dollar chunk to be 712 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:35,160 Speaker 1: given to the Atlanta Police Foundation via a quote unquote loan, 713 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,960 Speaker 1: which indicates that the Atlanta Police Foundation's private fundraising has 714 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,560 Speaker 1: not gone as well as they initially had hoped. For 715 00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,120 Speaker 1: more on that, I'd recommend checking out The Press Collective's 716 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,440 Speaker 1: recent article from May twenty fourth, and you can also 717 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,160 Speaker 1: donate to them to support their continued reporting of the 718 00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:54,800 Speaker 1: happenings in Atlanta. 719 00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,640 Speaker 2: You can find us on Twitter at Atlanta Underscore Press. 720 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:02,600 Speaker 2: Our website is atl Press Collective dot com, and you 721 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:07,160 Speaker 2: can find our Instagram at at l Press Collective. We 722 00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,239 Speaker 2: have partnered with Open Collective. We are fiscally sponsored now 723 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:14,080 Speaker 2: by Open the Open Collective Foundation in a way to 724 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:19,520 Speaker 2: transparently fundraise in order to sustain our reporting everything up 725 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,440 Speaker 2: until actually the Week of Action, we have everything that 726 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,560 Speaker 2: we have done up until the Week of Action was 727 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:30,160 Speaker 2: all unpaid. And it is our desire to to continue 728 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,759 Speaker 2: to grow with the movement. And uh so we were 729 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,720 Speaker 2: excited to find a partner in the Open Collective Foundation 730 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:43,160 Speaker 2: that can uh continue that sort of horizontal open organizing 731 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,120 Speaker 2: that that we have done internally. 732 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,600 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I think, I think, I think we're good. 733 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:49,680 Speaker 2: I think we have a good job team. 734 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,120 Speaker 1: Oh shit, I wasn't required. 735 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,280 Speaker 8: It could happen here as a production of Cool Zone Media. 736 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,160 Speaker 8: For more podcasts from cool Zone Media. 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