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Speaker 4: Host Jordan Cleford.
Speaker 5: George, we got so much to talk about. Trump's transition continues,
Speaker 5: Fox News invades the Pentagon, and Joe Biden passes the
Speaker 5: baton to a same generation of leadership. So let's get
Speaker 5: into another installment of Trump two point zero coming for
Speaker 5: the White House.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna comedy.
Speaker 5: The peaceful transfer of power is one of the most
Speaker 5: cherished features of America and democracy, a hollo tradition that
Speaker 5: extends all the way from seventeen ninety six to twenty
Speaker 5: sixteen YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 2: And continues to this day and today.
Speaker 5: The current president and the future president agreed to set
Speaker 5: aside differences and make nice for the cameras.
Speaker 1: With the President elect in the former president, thank you
Speaker 1: be wrong for the regulation.
Speaker 3: Thank you, and I'm looking forward to having, like we said,
Speaker 3: a smooth transition to everything.
Speaker 1: We can make sure you're accommodated what you need. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get a chance to talk well some out today.
Speaker 1: It's a good welcome.
Speaker 6: We Jady, thank you very much. And politics is tough,
Speaker 6: and it's in many cases not a very nice world.
Speaker 6: But it is a nice world today and I appreciate
Speaker 6: it very much. A transition that's so smooth, it'll be
Speaker 6: as smooth as it can get.
Speaker 5: Well, that's a man who appreciates a smooth transition of power,
Speaker 5: as long as it says transitioning towards him. If it's
Speaker 5: transitioning away from him, there's gonna be some January sixth in.
Speaker 5: But if it's towards him, smooth, I mean, they did
Speaker 5: both try to hang Mike Pence just out of tradition,
Speaker 5: but other than that, it was very cordial. Perhaps too cordial,
Speaker 5: Joe Biden, you spent the whole campaign calling him a
Speaker 5: fascist threat to democracy. It's a little weird to now
Speaker 5: be like, well, give us a golf you need any help,
Speaker 5: mister Hitler tutelou Hey, you know, maybe this respectful meeting
Speaker 5: at the White House is a sign that Donald Trump
Speaker 5: is maturing. I really think we should give him, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: I really think we should. We should give him a
Speaker 5: chance to make some responsible decisions from this point forward.
Speaker 7: Breaking news, President elect Trump has named former Congresswoman Tulci
Speaker 7: Gabbard is his pick for a Director of National Intelligence.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's terrifying, but we're warming up here. How about
Speaker 5: from this point forward, Responsible.
Speaker 7: Donald Trump has nominated his pick for attorney General, and
Speaker 7: that is Florida Congressman Matt Gates. This is definitely a
Speaker 7: pick that will raise some eyebrows on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's gonna raise some eyebrows. We should
Speaker 5: have seen it coming. Matt Gates as Attorney general. This
Speaker 5: is a new low. I mean, not as low as
Speaker 5: our age of consent laws are about to be, but
Speaker 5: pretty low.
Speaker 2: Quick question, the Department of Justice?
Speaker 5: Is it within one hundred feet of a school?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 5: It almost feels at this point like Donald Trump is
Speaker 5: trolling us. I mean, these picks can't get any more ridiculous, right.
Speaker 5: Fox News personality Pete Hegsath tapped for Defense Secretary. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: Why do I keep telling you this?
Speaker 2: Stop it?
Speaker 5: Stop it, Pete hegseith the Fox and Friends Weekend Understudy.
Speaker 5: I mean, the Department of Defense is one of the
Speaker 5: most complex bureaucracies in human history, and the President is
Speaker 5: choosing its leader the same way I chose breakfast cereals
Speaker 5: as a kid. Hey, I saw that too, can on TV.
Speaker 5: He must know how to make cereal. Now, if you're
Speaker 5: fortunate enough not to spend your life watching Fox News,
Speaker 5: and you're wondering if Pete Haikseth is one of the
Speaker 5: few responsible journalists on there, He's.
Speaker 8: Not Black Lives Matter trying to destroy Christmas as we
Speaker 8: know it?
Speaker 2: Can the Black Panther be played by a white guy?
Speaker 9: Wuhan virus, Chinese virus, maybe even the kung flu.
Speaker 8: Look, I got a plate full of burgers, and I
Speaker 8: got a buddy over here eating a big Mac for breakfast.
Speaker 2: I put a flag inside my jacket.
Speaker 8: Okay, what game are we playing here while I get
Speaker 8: this on?
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna do sudden death soccer show? You
Speaker 2: want it on this, I don't. I don't think I've
Speaker 2: washed my hands for ten years.
Speaker 5: That's secretary. I don't wash my hands to you now.
Speaker 5: To be clear, Heiseth isn't just a Fox News anchor.
Speaker 5: He's a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Speaker 5: Although the combat he's most famous for did occur on
Speaker 5: a live Fox broadcast. They're testing their skills with the
Speaker 5: axe Who's gonna win this battle in the long cat.
Speaker 2: I'm putting the money on Clayton check Suce.
Speaker 5: I love how conservatives are like New York is a
Speaker 5: violent warzone. Well time to fleeming finging axe on the
Speaker 5: Fifth Avenue. Yes, Pete, Heisett threw an axe at a
Speaker 5: group of drummers, which is pretty unbelievable. I mean, I'd
Speaker 5: understand it if it was bass players, but drummers. Then again,
Speaker 5: launching a weapon that accidentally hit a civilian, I mean,
Speaker 5: why is everyone saying this guy isn't qualified to run
Speaker 5: the Pentagon? You might see this and wonder what does
Speaker 5: Haigseth offer the US military. I'll tell you what great
Speaker 5: deals you see.
Speaker 9: One man army loves the country and makes damn good soap.
Speaker 9: I've used them all, and I love these new brands
Speaker 9: like gun smoke smells like American firepower, or Girka refined
Speaker 9: bourbon and tobacco leaf, or how about Patriot and the
Speaker 9: Pine tar Bar. There's more of them too. You can
Speaker 9: get him in a variety pack, each of them shaped
Speaker 9: like a grenade soap on a rope. The well groomed
Speaker 9: Militia This fourth of July, join it at Grenade soap
Speaker 9: dot Com.
Speaker 5: Look, I no history buff, but I have to think
Speaker 5: this is America's first defense secretary who has previously served
Speaker 5: as a soap influencer. Not just any soap, of course,
Speaker 5: grenade shape so for the kind of man who's too
Speaker 5: insecure to wash his body. You know, isn't gayt to
Speaker 5: soap up my own But I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 5: what are these sense? By the way, gunpowder, bourbon, tobacco.
Speaker 5: I love getting out of the shower smelling like I
Speaker 5: need a shower.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised this ad.
Speaker 5: Was it like, do you want to smell like a
Speaker 5: man at his lowest, then try grenade soap and smell
Speaker 5: like divorce. Well, look, peach Tenure, isn't just going to
Speaker 5: be about smelling like bourbon while evading axe murder charges. No,
Speaker 5: a secretary of defense, he has plans to protect us
Speaker 5: from its greatest enemy.
Speaker 9: We only have one military, and if the military goes woke,
Speaker 9: then it is less equipped to fight the words that
Speaker 9: needs to fight social justice, politically correct, environmental, LGBT, CRTDI
Speaker 9: nonsense that divides the force makes it weaker. I'm straight
Speaker 9: up just saying we should not have women combat roles.
Speaker 5: That's right, that's right, No women in combat roles. And
Speaker 5: Trump's America. If women really want to risk their lives,
Speaker 5: they're going to have to get pregnant. Now, cup ass,
Speaker 5: talk to the man. Now. You might wonder why Pete
Speaker 5: is so down on the idea of women working in
Speaker 5: the military. It's tough to say, but when you consider that,
Speaker 5: reportedly his first marriage ended because he had an affair
Speaker 5: with a female co worker, and then his second marriage
Speaker 5: ended because he had another affair with a female co worker,
Speaker 5: then you begin to understand why he's so worried about
Speaker 5: working with women. Of course, Pete Hegseth has written many
Speaker 5: books espousing his social conservative principles, and if you're wondering
Speaker 5: how he squared those principles with all his affairs, it
Speaker 5: was it's actually easier than you think.
Speaker 8: In his twenty sixteen book In the Arena, Pete Hegseeth
Speaker 8: called for policies preventing divorce of parents with kids. A
Speaker 8: year later, after his affair ended his marriage, he published
Speaker 8: a revised version, changing his demands to policies preventing wanton divorce.
Speaker 5: Damn fellas you ever have sex so good it changes
Speaker 5: your opinion on divorce laws. Our next Secretary of Defense
Speaker 5: has for more on the appointment of Pete hag Seth.
Speaker 5: We go live to the White House with Troy Iwata, Troy, Troy, Troy,
Speaker 5: what's the what's the latest?
Speaker 7: Well, Jordan, Pete Hagseth's appointment is leaving many concerned.
Speaker 2: Back to you, Bye.
Speaker 5: T try White No, Troy, come back, Come back, Troy, Troy,
Speaker 5: come back.
Speaker 2: Cut Troy? What do you what are you doing?
Speaker 5: Why are you dressed like Colombo?
Speaker 2: I don't want to be on air right now.
Speaker 7: Okay, the longer I'm on TV, the more of a
Speaker 7: chance Trump sees me and appoints me to his cabinet.
Speaker 2: I just then I'll have to work alongside.
Speaker 7: Pete Hansas and listen to him explain his soaps all day.
Speaker 2: Oh dirt and blood scented, that's manly.
Speaker 5: Okay, come on, Troy, take that. This guy's off. Take
Speaker 5: it off, Take it off. Donald Trump is not gonna
Speaker 5: pick you, and I doubt he even watches Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Fine, Fine, is this better?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: Yes, thank you Troy, as you were saying.
Speaker 2: As I was saying it. Damn it. It's a letter
Speaker 2: from Donald Trump. Dear Troy.
Speaker 7: I saw you on TV, so you are now the
Speaker 7: new Secretary of the Interior. See you around my house,
Speaker 7: parentheses the White House.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Jordan.
Speaker 5: Seriously, he just made you secretary of the Interior.
Speaker 6: You're nut.
Speaker 5: You're not qualified to run the interior.
Speaker 2: I'm gay, Jordan.
Speaker 7: He obviously thinks the head of interior is a decorating job.
Speaker 1: There's there's.
Speaker 2: No pay for facts in here.
Speaker 5: Okay, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna put nautical themed wallpaper in the Lincoln bedroom.
Speaker 5: That's stupid. I mean no, what about the job. How
Speaker 5: did you get hired so fast? I've been on TV
Speaker 5: for ten years.
Speaker 2: Well, you know it's not just being on TV. You
Speaker 2: have to have charisma.
Speaker 7: Have you tried having charisma?
Speaker 5: I have charisma. I've got the Riz. Daddy's got the Riz.
Speaker 2: Stop that you're embarrassing yourself.
Speaker 7: Another letter, Jesus, Dear Troy, I love how you read
Speaker 7: my first letter.
Speaker 2: So good.
Speaker 7: Okay, he's made me the secretary of education. Now, plus
Speaker 7: you were a bow tie, which means you are professor.
Speaker 2: Please go wild on the doe for me. Damn it, Jordan,
Speaker 2: you see what you're doing? Ok Sorry?
Speaker 5: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 7: I guess I'm gonna run the Department of Education. Now,
Speaker 7: why isn't he Why doesn't he get a qualified TV
Speaker 7: personality like Miss Frizzle or someone?
Speaker 2: Where's my rids? Look?
Speaker 5: What do you keep getting all these appointments? I have charisma? Two,
Speaker 5: mister President elect? Check this out right?
Speaker 2: Look at me? Oh my god, God, stop stop on?
Speaker 5: Oh hold on a second.
Speaker 2: What do we have here? Well?
Speaker 5: Well, Troy, looks like someone's noticed my riz. Dear Jordan,
Speaker 5: this is President Trump. Please ask Education Secretary Troy? Why
Speaker 5: do I see moon in sky during day? Damn it?
Speaker 2: Go tell him?
Speaker 1: Troy?
Speaker 2: What do you think I know that?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 2: Even if I did, I wouldn't tell him. He's just
Speaker 2: gonna put me in charge of NASA. Troy? What everybody?
Speaker 2: We come back?
Speaker 5: We remember America, don't go away all the fact of
Speaker 5: the Dallas Show. A lot of people are wondering what
Speaker 5: Donald Trump's election means for America and the answer is simple,
Speaker 5: It means the end.
Speaker 2: But who will remember.
Speaker 5: Us as a country? Don't say Sloan took up the task.
Speaker 2: Well, looks like Donald Trump gets.
Speaker 4: To be president again, and judging by how it went last.
Speaker 7: Time a half million Americans died unnecessarily of COVID nineteen,
Speaker 7: demonstrations over the death of George Floyd spread across six continents.
Speaker 4: I think we could be sure that America hang with
Speaker 4: a surviving of the term. So before it all goes down,
Speaker 4: I want to document what life would like in America
Speaker 4: before our dumbasses collapse. Society to join me here in
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Speaker 4: On these fields, corporate employees would play four innings of
Speaker 4: softball once a year to distract from the solist tyranny
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Speaker 4: Who still got it?
Speaker 2: Schools are also.
Speaker 4: Where we hope kids grow up by teaching them valuable
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Speaker 2: I don't know what a you Kida lady's been there.
Speaker 4: You have it the cornerstones of American society before we
Speaker 4: allowed hate and anger to poison our hearts.
Speaker 5: I get the out of my shot well a fan.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Hopefully the society that comes next will learn
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Speaker 5: We come back rappering half sus time.
Speaker 2: We're going to make on the show. We're going.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to the I guess tonight is a Grammy
Speaker 5: Award winding musician turned politician whose story is told in
Speaker 5: the new documentary The Honorable Shine. Please welcome Moses Shine Barrow.
Speaker 2: I got to come here more often you they love you.
Speaker 1: I got to come here more from my goodness, this
Speaker 1: is come on back.
Speaker 3: This is like Madison Square Garden or Nison Call assume
Speaker 3: when I used to be a performer.
Speaker 5: This is quite well, that's how I got to know
Speaker 5: you as a performer. I mean, your story is Can
Speaker 5: I say bunkers is? Bunkers may be the most appropriate
Speaker 5: way to frame this.
Speaker 1: Extraordinary Okay, I think resilient.
Speaker 3: I think it's like the human spirit, which is indefatigable
Speaker 3: and indomitable.
Speaker 5: It's it's incredible a lot of people, I think all
Speaker 5: of us have that we have that and that's why
Speaker 5: those people are so excited to see me, because I
Speaker 5: represent them. That is very kind of you speak to
Speaker 5: a resilience that I wish I could say I had,
Speaker 5: but I've been having foot problems for the last seven years.
Speaker 5: I have a lot of health issues. I'm ailing in
Speaker 5: that way. This isn't about me. But if you know
Speaker 5: anyway to make me a stronger person, both physically and emotionally,
Speaker 5: I'll take it.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you're resilient in other ways because I you know,
Speaker 3: I don't get.
Speaker 1: Involved in US politics.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I just you know, listen to your monologue
Speaker 3: and you're still going strong.
Speaker 5: All right, Yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Continue to fight, right to continue, got to continue your fight.
Speaker 1: I'm fighting in believe.
Speaker 3: I don't want to get involved in American politics.
Speaker 5: Anybody can be involved in American politics.
Speaker 1: What we've learned today.
Speaker 5: If you show up on TV, you could be in
Speaker 5: the cabinet by dog.
Speaker 1: And believes might say the same thing about me.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, how do you find what
Speaker 5: is easier to navigate the rap world or the world
Speaker 5: of politics?
Speaker 3: Man, Politics is vicious, but you know it's quite similar
Speaker 3: in music. I was making music to be the voice
Speaker 3: of the voiceless. My art represented so much more than
Speaker 3: just the beat and being famous and being an entertainer.
Speaker 3: It was really, you know, poetry. It was really you
Speaker 3: know dissertations that were life or death, and being in
Speaker 3: the House of Representatives is the same thing. There are
Speaker 3: people that are dealing with high crime rates, high poverty rates, people.
Speaker 1: Dealing with inflation, people.
Speaker 3: Dealing with poverty, and when I go into the House
Speaker 3: of Representatives, I'm speaking on behalf of those people. So
Speaker 3: I don't care what my political critics have to say.
Speaker 3: I don't care what you know, the the paid media,
Speaker 3: or any of my detractors have to say, because I'm
Speaker 3: fighting for people. So I was doing the same thing
Speaker 3: as a musician. This is even greater for me because
Speaker 3: you're creating a society. Your policies are going to impact
Speaker 3: society at large, or not just impacting the creative sector,
Speaker 3: the agro sector, you know, the business sector, the laborers.
Speaker 3: So similarly as a musician, because everyone listens to your music,
Speaker 3: so it really is a seamless transition for me.
Speaker 5: You found connections so early as a musician, and if
Speaker 5: people are unfamiliar with your story a Grammy Award winning
Speaker 5: musician and then there's a shooting incident in a club
Speaker 5: with pop Daddy.
Speaker 1: Then you've got the Grammy after the incident.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: The album came out after the incident.
Speaker 3: Well, I got Grammy nominations and credit for Usher's album.
Speaker 3: I performed on that album Lil Wayne and Faith Evans
Speaker 3: and Carl Thomas. So this all happened while I was
Speaker 3: in cars rated unfortunately for taking the fall and being
Speaker 3: the sacrificial lamb for Diddy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, oof is right. Well, and Diddy is a
Speaker 5: big part of your early story indeed, but also Diddy
Speaker 5: has re emerged as a part of sort of this
Speaker 5: new American story. Is you see what has happened to
Speaker 5: him and that story and reflect on that. It feels
Speaker 5: like your story of taking the fall for did he
Speaker 5: didn't didn't get much attention way back when. Now do
Speaker 5: people see that in a new light or how do
Speaker 5: you see what is happening.
Speaker 3: It's interesting because his celebrity, his power was so loud
Speaker 3: that when myself and my mom and my supporters were screaming, hey,
Speaker 3: this guy destroyed my life. This guy said witnesses to
Speaker 3: testify against me, and I was just trying to defend him.
Speaker 3: And you know, he's ruined my life, take away my freedom,
Speaker 3: took away my career. Nobody was listening, nobody heard me.
Speaker 3: And I've been saying it for so long. Then I
Speaker 3: got to a point where I said, you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to keep exerting energy on blaming anyone.
Speaker 3: I'm going to take responsibility for my life. I'm going
Speaker 3: to curate my present and my future, and I'm going
Speaker 3: to let go of this baggage. And that's what I did,
Speaker 3: and FOK, And that's how I got involved in politics
Speaker 3: and really just focused on fixing my life and not
Speaker 3: waiting for anyone to fix it and not lamenting on
Speaker 3: who broke it. And you know, I found the right
Speaker 3: partner in Disney Andscape to do the documentary, and here
Speaker 3: we are. All of the events that you see happening
Speaker 3: just happened to be happening. We have nothing to do
Speaker 3: with that. And so the story is not necessarily focused
Speaker 3: on the demise of Ditty. It's focused on the celebration
Speaker 3: of my resilience, which is your resilience. Anyone that's listening
Speaker 3: right now that that is going through a difficult time,
Speaker 3: Anyone that's listening right now that things the world is
Speaker 3: unfair and they've been screwed over and they've been done wrong.
Speaker 3: I represent that hope that things work out well.
Speaker 5: Said I truly find it remarkable to hear your story,
Speaker 5: to watch your story, your ability to let go of
Speaker 5: perhaps your preconceived notions of who you were and to
Speaker 5: find something new. I think in something that was surprising
Speaker 5: to me is after you are you're deported to beliefs
Speaker 5: where you were born, but then you find orthodox Judaism
Speaker 5: and you find real meaning in that and use that
Speaker 5: sort of also as a path to find meaning in
Speaker 5: your life, but also as a way to also find
Speaker 5: what you got out of politics. Correct. I guess I'm
Speaker 5: I guess what part of what is remarkable to me
Speaker 5: about that is. I think so much of who we
Speaker 5: are is about cementing an idea of who we are.
Speaker 5: And as somebody finds such great success as a rapper
Speaker 5: so early in life, to be able to let elements
Speaker 5: of that go and to to discover new parts of
Speaker 5: yourself just find really difficult for people to do, to
Speaker 5: let go of who they think they are.
Speaker 3: But I think hip hop. I gotta give credit to
Speaker 3: hip hop. You know, we celebrated fifty years last year.
Speaker 3: Hip Hop has always been such a multi dimensional diverse,
Speaker 3: you know, cultural joggernaut, and it's transformed today where it
Speaker 3: emerged in the inner cities, and.
Speaker 1: Now it's it's global, and now it's you know, every ethnicity,
Speaker 1: every culture all in one.
Speaker 3: So I realized a long time ago getting into the
Speaker 3: music business with different people that you know, they started
Speaker 3: off as rappers, they ended up being actors, they ended
Speaker 3: up being entrepreneurs. They ended up you know, owning clothing lines,
Speaker 3: you name it. They diversified their portfolio. Even Kanye, he
Speaker 3: ran to be president.
Speaker 5: Didn't quite Yeah, that's not the first thing that comes
Speaker 5: to when Kanye has gone on to do, but that's
Speaker 5: one of the things.
Speaker 1: Didn't quite work out.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 3: So I learned early on in my career to be
Speaker 3: diverse and to wear different hats, and certainly Judaism has
Speaker 3: guided me every step of the way. And there was
Speaker 3: a time where I was extremely religious, but I got
Speaker 3: into praying and faith as a means of survival. Brooklyn
Speaker 3: was extremely dangerous.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: I come from Belize.
Speaker 3: I was born and Belieze came to Brooklyn when I
Speaker 3: was eight years old, and I grew up where bullets
Speaker 3: were whistling past my ear.
Speaker 1: I grew up where my friend would get killed.
Speaker 3: We'd be sitting here talking heaven forbid, and someone get
Speaker 3: their brains blown out, and I realized that I couldn't
Speaker 3: survive without God. I couldn't survive without divine intervention. There
Speaker 3: was no way that I was going to beat the
Speaker 3: statistical odds of being a young African Caribbean American that
Speaker 3: was destined to go to jail or an early grave.
Speaker 3: And that's how I started praying and that led me
Speaker 3: to my success in the music business, however short lived
Speaker 3: it was until I got incarcerated. So when I got incarcerated,
Speaker 3: you know, there's a saying during Passover, when you celebrate
Speaker 3: the exodus the Israelites, they say Danu. They say, you know,
Speaker 3: if I don't get anything more, it's enough what you
Speaker 3: did for me.
Speaker 1: You know, you led me out of Egypt.
Speaker 3: And that's how having faith and having Judaism as the
Speaker 3: center of my world helped me to survive. And now
Speaker 3: I'm not religious. I'm spiritual, so I still fast on
Speaker 3: yam kipor still wrap my to fill in. But I'm
Speaker 3: not a zealous you know, I don't believe that I
Speaker 3: believe in a two state solution.
Speaker 1: I don't believe in I I don't believe in extremism.
Speaker 3: I don't believe in extreme extremists, Israeli hawks, and I
Speaker 3: don't believe in extreme terrorists, uh, but so. But living
Speaker 3: in Israel after I got deported, I was traveling around
Speaker 3: the world, but living in Israel allowed me to come
Speaker 3: to my truth, which is that I'm a connector. I
Speaker 3: bring people together, and I don't want to be an extremist.
Speaker 3: Dj Cal is one of my great friends, and he's
Speaker 3: a Palestinian Muslim and you know, we're brothers. And that's
Speaker 3: what I believe. Humanity is bringing people together. And sometimes
Speaker 3: when you get into religion, you separate humanity, push people away,
Speaker 3: and people killed over religion.
Speaker 1: So that's that's what that's what Uh. You know, being
Speaker 1: involved in Judaism meant for me, so.
Speaker 5: You come back to America and then that took me
Speaker 5: to back to believe.
Speaker 3: So I lived in Israel, I studied, I was ultra
Speaker 3: Orthodox Jew PAOs and everything, and then I realized the
Speaker 3: truth of my purpose was not to be in garments.
Speaker 3: It's about substance and content, and my content is about
Speaker 3: human beings, not about Jews, not about Muslims, not about
Speaker 3: you know, Hamas, not about you know, the right wing extremists,
Speaker 3: not about Republicans.
Speaker 1: Not about democrats.
Speaker 3: I'm about people, and so the people that need me
Speaker 3: the most are the people in Belize. So instead of
Speaker 3: spending my time praying, I need to spend my time
Speaker 3: doing I continue to pray, but actions are worth so
Speaker 3: much more than.
Speaker 1: Prayer, because I thank you.
Speaker 3: If you're just telling God a bunch of things and
Speaker 3: you're not doing anything as to that communication, then you're
Speaker 3: not It's really if you're not going.
Speaker 5: On, well, I guess you can hear from the response
Speaker 5: there We're we're talking at a pretty fraught time for
Speaker 5: a lot of people. A country does feel divided. You're here,
Speaker 5: You've seen political structures outside of America, but coming back, like, what,
Speaker 5: what lessons have you learned through your through your journey
Speaker 5: that perhaps we could we could take for it in
Speaker 5: this this this fraught time where it does feel like
Speaker 5: we are pulled apart and politics is not a unifying
Speaker 5: force but a divisive one.
Speaker 3: Nothing in life is given, so whatever policies you believe in,
Speaker 3: you have to fight for it, and sometimes you might
Speaker 3: have a temporary loss. I had a loss of ten
Speaker 3: years incarceration for something that I didn't do. I was
Speaker 3: defending a friend and a friend turned around and said, hey,
Speaker 3: it was him, and it wasn't me. It was carntone witnesses.
Speaker 3: One witness said, did.
Speaker 1: He shot him?
Speaker 3: I never said it, because you know, I was busy
Speaker 3: defending myself and defending him. But the point I'm trying
Speaker 3: to make is I could have felt sorry for myself
Speaker 3: for ten years, but I didn't. I was present every
Speaker 3: day of those ten years. Then I got deported and
Speaker 3: I was present every day for the thirteen years of
Speaker 3: deportation before I was allowed to come back here as
Speaker 3: the future Prime Minister of Belie.
Speaker 1: So I kept fighting for twenty three years. You guys
Speaker 1: only dot.
Speaker 3: I'm not taking any sides, but I'm just saying, whoever's
Speaker 3: not happy with the outcome, you only got four years
Speaker 3: to fight.
Speaker 1: Theoretically, yeah, right, so get to fighting.
Speaker 2: Get to fighting.
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