1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: Hide ship. Hello, I what I was just gonna say, 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: another day, another shooting. I know, Well, I literally just 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: told you before we got on. He started laughing because 4 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: I was like, I just need to breathe for a second. Um, 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: Like she said it out loud, like taking the breath, 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: just breathe for a second. I do, and I did. 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 1: I sat here for five minutes because my body is 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: just really tense, you know, like this is the part 9 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: of being an impath that really is tough. And I'm 10 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: starting to figure out, like I'm starting to understand a 11 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: little bit, like we I, UM was reading a lot 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: today about the gun laws and gun violence and all 13 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: this stuff, and I've completely absorbed all the feelings of 14 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: all the people, and um, I feel like I'm going 15 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:49,599 Speaker 1: to have a panic attack, honestly. So so anyway, I 16 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: just needed to breathe for a second because the reason 17 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: that um, I really I also really wanted to do 18 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: that is because like I have my opinion, and you 19 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: have your opinions. All these people in the world have 20 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: their opinions, UM, and I really just want to try 21 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: to to be as unbiased and just very clear and 22 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: get our egos out of the way and say what 23 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: we're supposed to say, Like, we have this platform and 24 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: I don't know what good it is unless we're going 25 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: to use it to help people. And um, right now, 26 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: it feels like there are so many issues in our 27 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: culture that it gets really overwhelming. We said that a 28 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 1: little bit last week, like where do we start? What 29 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: do we do? And today I decided, you know what, 30 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: this is the thing. I love it learning my programs. 31 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: This is what I've been taught in therapy, and you 32 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: just have to start somewhere and you have to take 33 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: the next right step. And it's like one step at 34 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: a time, one day at a time, one topic at 35 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: a time. And so we have really decided that it 36 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: is really difficult to talk about anything in pop culture 37 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: that matters other than focusing on one of the things 38 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: that we really need to change in our country. And 39 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: the thing that we've decided to really focus on right 40 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: now is the gun laws. And um, this isn't a 41 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 1: political podcast. It is not a political topic in my opinion, 42 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 1: and we're not trying to impose any sort of political 43 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: views on anyone. This is simply about safety and about 44 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 1: people in our country continuing to die, Like we should 45 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: all be on the same side on that. That's how 46 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: I feel at least, well, yeah, I mean I you 47 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: said it beautifully, and you know it's not that we 48 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: we did this morning. We started talking about like, what 49 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: are some of the things in pop culture that we 50 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,519 Speaker 1: can talk about? And it's just I noticed a reaction 51 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: that I had yesterday when a friend of mine, who 52 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: has been obsessed with this Johnny Depp amber heard case like, 53 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: started texting me about it, and I just wrote her 54 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:55,519 Speaker 1: back and I said, honestly, I don't give a ship 55 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: because there's much more important things happening in our country 56 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: right now that we need to be focused on. And 57 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: I felt like a dick saying it, but I'm also 58 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: just like that's how I feel, like how none of 59 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 1: it matters when kids are dying, when when doctors are dying, Like, 60 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,559 Speaker 1: you know, every human life is important in our country, 61 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: every human life and people are senselessly dying, and there 62 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: is a lot that can be done by our people 63 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: in power who are refusing to do anything right now. 64 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: And I think we all, regardless of where we stand 65 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: on a political spectrum, need to stand up and recognize 66 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: that these deaths are senseless and something has to be done. Yeah, 67 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: And just to go back to the reference of Johnny's 68 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: deppan Aighber heard, actually, like I think what you don't think, 69 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: like that you're not concerned about is celebrity culture. Like 70 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: none of that ship matters right now. I can see 71 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: in the argument of that relationship in general, like we 72 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: have some really big mental health is who's in our country? 73 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: I really do believe, and that that is a perfect 74 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: example of an extremely addictive relationship. And it's awful to watch. 75 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: To me, I find it extremely triggering. I couldn't watch 76 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: any of it. And the fact that our culture has 77 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: made that into like a popcorn sitting moment is really 78 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: sad actually, But that's a whole another topic. And like 79 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,239 Speaker 1: we said, we can only do one thing at a time, 80 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: and there are so many different things, um and so 81 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 1: many different topics to broach right now, because you know, 82 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: it's not like even this school shooting was the only 83 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: shooting that's happened. There was the grocery store where it 84 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: was like a white supremacist, and there's all of these issues. 85 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: There's racism, there's gender inequality, there's gay rights, like there's 86 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: all of these abortion like we could that's endless, but 87 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: we have to start somewhere, and uh, if we're dead, 88 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: we can't do anything. So like maybe we should look 89 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 1: at the gun issue because unless you are just completely 90 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: selfish and self centered, like, look at the situation and 91 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: what if it was your kid? Like how could anyone 92 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: not put themselves in that situation and just think about like, 93 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: holy sh it, what if Like if you're sending your 94 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: kids to school, how are you not scared? Right now? Well, 95 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,159 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like if you have children, it 96 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: does affect your Like they may not have been at 97 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: the school that this occurred in, but there's a ripple 98 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: effect that is happening in every school right now. You know, 99 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: they're ramping up these you know, shooting drills, Like it 100 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: is affecting your children, right and it's affecting the teach, 101 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: Like I would be fucking terrified to be a teacher. 102 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: Like I think if there's going to be a domino 103 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: effect here that in in ten years, we're gonna have 104 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,359 Speaker 1: a teacher shortage because no one's probably in four years, 105 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: you know, like we're going to have people not want 106 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: to go into this profession. Like, you know, we these 107 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: poor people, we don't think that they have the capa 108 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 1: se to decide what it's okay for our children to read. 109 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: But we think it's okay for them to be like 110 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: untrained arms carriers that are supposed to fight off the 111 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: bad guy when they come storming into the school to 112 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:14,840 Speaker 1: shoot your kids. Like, are you fucking kidding? It's crazy? Well, 113 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: first of all, teachers don't make enough money, and I 114 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: mean I actually thought after COVID, um that might shift, 115 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: but it hasn't. And I think the actual like a 116 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: lot of teachers actually were retired after our quit after 117 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: COVID said so the employer. Yeah, it's already an issue. Um, 118 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: so this is only exacerbating that. I'm sure, just like 119 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 1: you said, but even if you don't have kids, or 120 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: if you're not a teacher, like my mom was a 121 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: teacher for years and then a school principle, so that 122 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: in the day that this you vowed, how do you say, 123 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,559 Speaker 1: is it you VOUDI? I honestly, because I don't watch 124 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: the news and I only read stuff I don't know. Wow. Um, well, 125 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: you guys, I think know what we're talking about. But 126 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: will say Texas, this school shooting that happened, Yes in Texas. 127 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: My mom is a retired school principle, and she had 128 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: gone back to her school that day because there was 129 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: some graduation stuff happening with a lot of the kids 130 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: that she had started the school with. And I thought 131 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,559 Speaker 1: to myself, like, if my mom had died that day 132 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: and been shot, I would be losing my mind, like 133 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: losing it, because it would be such a senseless act. 134 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: And she was going back to help. And I think 135 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: that way about all teachers, Like their job is such 136 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: a giving, like selfish, selfless, I'm sorry, um, helping career 137 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: in general, and so the fact that they're in danger 138 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: like this is just crazy. But let's take that all 139 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: out of it. If you don't have kids, you don't 140 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: have a teacher in your life and some capacity. UM. 141 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: I was reading an article in the Washington Post that 142 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: said since this shooting, there have been twelve mass shootings 143 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: in America that have not made the news, that have 144 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: not been discussed. This is a lot of them happened 145 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: over a Memorial Day weekend, and it's just insane that 146 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: like we aren't we're not doing anything, and we're not 147 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: talking about this. So a lot of people don't know, 148 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: Like I would have never known that had I not 149 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: said today we have to keep talking about this, like 150 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: and so I was researching, researching and reading, but like 151 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: there was all these these shootings that happened in parties 152 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: where people got shot and killed or they were injured 153 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: and had to go to the hospital. Um anything over 154 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: like four people getting shot, but like, can we talk 155 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: about that? Why are four people getting shot at a party? 156 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: Like you? There was a graduation shooting. There was one 157 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: here in Tennessee. There was six teenagers. Yeah, there was 158 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 1: another one in Florida, I believe a couple of days ago. I. Um, 159 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: I did some research too, and I found that there's 160 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: a site gun violence archive dot org that I actually 161 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: saw that Yeah, charts out everything, and the numbers are astounding. Um, 162 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: this year a loan, there's been two hundred thirty three 163 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: mass shootings. Um. Which a mass shooting is it's it's 164 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 1: like reported and verified. These are numbers, and um, there 165 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: there have been um twelve mass murders. UM. So I 166 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 1: think shootings fall into um where you know people have 167 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 1: been shot but not killed, and then the mass murders 168 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: are when there's actual death. The number of children who 169 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: have been killed this year are hundred and fifty two 170 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: by gunfire. Three hundred and fifteen have been injured. The 171 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: number of teens and that's from zero to eleven. The 172 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: number of teens twelve to seventeen killed this year five 173 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: hundred and forty and injured and one you know, it's 174 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: it's it's like it just shouldn't happen, period six d 175 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,319 Speaker 1: uninten a'll shoot into this year. Um there, I mean 176 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: a total combining suicide with homicide, murder, unintentional um. Eighteen 177 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: thousand people have died from gun violence this year. It's 178 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: a ton of people, and I don't really understand why 179 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 1: any of them need to happen. I know that we 180 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: can't probably eliminate all of it, but it's like we 181 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: have to start somewhere, and it's it's scary, like this 182 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: is what I'm feeling, and I don't know if you're 183 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: feeling this. I get really scared these days to talk 184 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: about hard topics like this, because one, it's like, do 185 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: I know every single piece of information in the world. No, 186 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 1: I don't. I'm a human. I'm just a normal person. 187 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,559 Speaker 1: I'm not This is not a news podcast, like this 188 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: is not um that, this is not our career of 189 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: like We're not newspeople. We're not trying to deliver news 190 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: like that you know, UM to report in. So do 191 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,839 Speaker 1: I have all the all the facts available? I don't, 192 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: But I sat here and we, like you said, we 193 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: were trying to think of different topics for pop culture 194 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: and they all seem so irrelevant in the in the 195 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: realm of like this is still happening. And the thing 196 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 1: that I really bumped up against, and the reason I 197 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: was like, we have to do this ship, we have 198 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: to keep talking about it, is because if we don't, 199 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: I think that we're just continuing to contribute to the 200 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: problem in America. Where some major tragedy happens, we all 201 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: post about it on social media for a week. We 202 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 1: get so worked up, we get so fired up, and 203 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: then it goes out of our minds and we go 204 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: back to living. We go back to posting stupid ship, 205 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 1: we go back to talking about celebrity gossip on our 206 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 1: pop Culture UM podcast, and nothing fucking changes. Nothing changes, 207 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: and then we all forget about it until the other 208 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: big newsworthy thing happens and children are killed. Are like 209 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 1: nineteen more people are since the killed in the middle 210 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: of the day, and then we're all like, oh my god, 211 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: oh my god, shocked or whatever it is, and it's like, 212 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:11,319 Speaker 1: why are we shocked? Right? Even shocked? Of course nothing changed, 213 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: Like the definition of insanity is doing the same thing 214 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: over and over and expecting different results. So what the 215 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: funk are we actually doing? That's I can't I cannot 216 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: think of any other question to ask than that. Yeah, 217 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: I mean even even myself. And I'll take responsibility for this, 218 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,320 Speaker 1: Like I just I don't feel like I've done anything 219 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: other than kind of become numb to it. So, you know, 220 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: as much as I would love to be talking about 221 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: something salacious or weird today, like I feel like this 222 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: is at least a place for me to start, and 223 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: I am having to sit here in my discomfort not 224 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: be feeling, you know, fully educated. I'm just angry, you know, 225 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: Like I'm just sad that there is anyone that isn't 226 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: a po dsition to change something, like I feel like 227 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: all I have is my voice. I don't own a gun, 228 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 1: you know, I've I grew up in a in a 229 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: home that owned guns, and my father has always been 230 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: a safe gun owner, um and a responsible gun owner. 231 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: And they're locked in, you know, like no one can 232 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: no one can get to them, like he showed me 233 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: the last time I was home, Like you know, if 234 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: I die, like this key goes to this lical safe 235 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: that has a combination in it, and then like it 236 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:30,719 Speaker 1: is like I don't even think my mother could get 237 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: to a gun if she needed to. I don't know 238 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: that we share that information with her. So I've grown 239 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 1: up around responsible gun owners. We we and you know, 240 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: we had um. We had someone respond to us last week, 241 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: a listener that um uh that mentioned that she's I 242 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: believe she was a nurse advantage and she actually said 243 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: that Nashville does have a metro. Nashville does have a 244 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: gun buy back program. They're just not very loud about it. Today. 245 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 1: I tried for thirty minutes to try and find information 246 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: on it and could like that's how that's how quiet 247 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: they are. I did find that there are some churches 248 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: that you can turn your guns into if you don't 249 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: want them anymore, but there wasn't anything about buying it back. Um. 250 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 1: But um, apparently you know, the house is the house. 251 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: Legislators are meeting today to our set of time to 252 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 1: meet today. You know some of this is above my 253 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: pay grade, but um, you know, there there was a 254 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: shooting yesterday until so Oklahoma, And this morning I'm going 255 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: to text chain with some friends and they brought it up, 256 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: and I'm just like, I just felt not like I 257 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: wasn't shocked and like I wasn't sad. I just kind 258 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: of felt nothing. And I'm like, fuck, recognizing that feeling 259 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: and myself means it's time to do something. Because if 260 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: I'm feeling that way, um, I would imagine that there's 261 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: millions of people in our country that are feeling the 262 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: same way. And it's like, I don't want to get 263 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: to a point where I just don't give a funk anymore. 264 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: I just like, glad it's not me that got shot, 265 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: you know, Like I don't, I don't know, it's it's 266 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: it's really painful, and I think it's time for some 267 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: like really difficult conversations with people. It's like, you know, 268 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: I have friends and owned guns that have kids that 269 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: like don't lock their guns up. You know, after reading 270 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: some of those stats, like could you imagine coming home 271 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: and find me out one of your children is an 272 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: accidental death death death by gun statistic? Now, how do 273 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: you how do you continue? Like because that's your fault. 274 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: Anybody who's listening that has guns that are not locked 275 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: up in their house, it is your fault if your 276 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: child dies by that gun. Yeah, and these are this 277 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: is where it gets really tricky because see this is 278 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: even now even going into a bigger like, well, there's 279 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: all these different ways you could go with gun gun 280 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: laws or gun safety, you know, and all of these conversations. 281 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: And I think you brought up a really good point 282 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: about that your dad was really safe, like you grew 283 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: up in a house with safe guns. I have grown 284 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: up in the South obviously, and there are most men 285 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: in the South are hunters. I mean that's a generalization, 286 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: but it's also pretty true. Every man that I know 287 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: that as a hunter um is very safe. Like they 288 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: are extremely safe. They follow all the rules, the regulations, 289 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: the protocols. There's a lot of education going on when 290 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 1: guns are out when they're hunting, Like if there's a 291 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: teenager involved in any con you know, or like even 292 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: a grown man if you've never hunted before, like I 293 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: have had respect for how they've handled it. And I 294 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: want to say this very clearly, you're not the ones 295 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: we're talking to. Like, nobody is trying to take your 296 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: guns away, if you are a responsible gun owner. That 297 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: is not what this is about to me, and I 298 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: think that that needs to be made very clear because 299 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: I hear a lot of people not supporting certain bills 300 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: being passed or laws being passed because they're scared of 301 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: their guns being taken away. And so it's they're sent 302 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: into this like fee your place, and they're signing on 303 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: the like not changing these laws. That's not what this 304 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: is about. Like the law, the HR eight law that 305 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: has been supposedly in conversation, I mean, since I think 306 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 1: Sandy Hook I want to say, which was almost a 307 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: decade ago, if I'm getting that right, I think it 308 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: was like a year or two ago. It passed the House, 309 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: and it's just sitting, well, it's just sitting. And that 310 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: is simply about being required to get a background check 311 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: to buy an assault rifle. The guy who killed a doctor, 312 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,400 Speaker 1: two doctors, and two other people in a hospital yesterday 313 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: un Tulsa, Oklahoma bought the A R fifteen yesterday. That's 314 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: exactly what happened at Valdi. Like the he literally turned eighteen, 315 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: walked in the next day, bought an assault rifle with 316 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 1: a thousand bullets or some ridiculous amount of ammunition and 317 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: blocked out. Why would that be possible? Like that is 318 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 1: simply insane. Like if you did any research on this kid, 319 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: you would have seen that he had been bullied. You 320 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: would have seen he showed up to school with boxing gloves, 321 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: like all the stuff that we're hearing about now, But like, 322 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 1: why should any eighteen year old be able to walk 323 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:20,919 Speaker 1: in some gun shop and do that without any sort 324 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 1: of requirements that are like anything, We don't know any information. 325 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 1: I don't really understand why assault rifles even exist for 326 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: like public consumption. That's a that's a weapon of war 327 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: to me. So I'm like, are we wanting to wage 328 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,919 Speaker 1: war in our country on each other? It feels like 329 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 1: that a little bit. But that is like we really 330 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 1: have to ask ourselves these questions. Like I think it's 331 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,719 Speaker 1: just really it's time to be done with this like 332 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 1: self centered, selfish thinking of oh my god, well I'm 333 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: a hunter or I want to have guns in the house, Okay, 334 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 1: do but there needs to be I don't think I 335 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: don't think it's leg I don't think it's legal the 336 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 1: hunt with assault rifles. Why you would you would annihilate 337 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: the deer? Whatever, you don't. I don't think it's legal, 338 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 1: So I mean they're I mean it's for sport, really, 339 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 1: you know, Like I could be wrong, but I'm almost 340 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 1: certain that it's you. You're not gonna You're not permitted 341 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 1: to use those sorts of things in hunting. It's an 342 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 1: unfair advantage if you're a hunter that you know, like 343 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,879 Speaker 1: what is the word? Um? Stephen Knicks actually did a 344 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: really amazing post about it. I'm going to read it 345 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: in a second, but you would the deer would like 346 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 1: or whatever, you're hunting a turkey, a deer, the animal, 347 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,360 Speaker 1: it would explode. Like if you're honest hunter and you're 348 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: doing it like in a admirable way, you use the 349 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: meat in some capacity, like that's the circle of life 350 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 1: kind of deal. But like if you are just doing 351 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 1: it for the ships and giggles to kill an animal, 352 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: then I mean that's another thing too. But like again, 353 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,439 Speaker 1: that's what an assault level would do. It will make 354 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: them explode. This is what Stephen Knicks had to say, 355 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: and I just love this post. Um. This was on 356 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: her Instagram. She said, my hope for this country is 357 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: that the lawmakers just find a way to make buying 358 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: an assault rifle more difficult. There's just no reason to 359 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: have a gun that would disintegrate a deer or a 360 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 1: small animal if you are indeed an honorable hunter. That's 361 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 1: the word I was looking for, honorable. When those guns 362 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: go into the hands of obviously disturbed people, it gives 363 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: them a sense of unbelievable power that they have never 364 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: felt before. Power. Power used in a bad way is 365 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: the opposite of quote unquote power used in a good way. 366 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: Once people have felt the power of those guns, they 367 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,360 Speaker 1: are never the same. They are addicted, and then there 368 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: is no turning back. So don't give them that power. 369 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 1: Make it really hard for them to get that gun. 370 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: No one is trying to take guns away from people 371 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: who get them for good reason. Guns are not toys. 372 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 1: Background checks are not that hard. And closing, I am 373 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: dying inside for the loss of these children in Texas 374 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 1: and their parents. Five of my most happy years were 375 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: spent in El Paso, Texas. I loved it there. So 376 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,919 Speaker 1: I ask you, do you want to go down in 377 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: the history books as being reasonable I'm sorry, responsible for 378 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 1: these school shootings that will inevitably continue, or do you 379 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 1: want to be remembered as the people who finally gathered 380 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,400 Speaker 1: together in unity and empathy as the people who stopped it. 381 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,199 Speaker 1: My father's favorite saying to me was sometimes the hardest 382 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: thing to do is the right thing to do, and 383 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: sometimes the right thing to do is the hardest thing 384 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: to do. And then he would say, be brave, Stevie, 385 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: Always do the right thing, Never compromise your beliefs, never 386 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: give up. I just love It's it's nail on head, 387 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: you know. She also ended with saying, PS, I had 388 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: gone to school. When if I had gone to school 389 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: one day when I was ten and been shot ten, 390 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: I just I want to reiterate that so we all 391 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 1: can just take a second. If I had gone to 392 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: school when I was ten years old, Like, do you 393 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 1: remember being in school and you're a tenship because I do. 394 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: I can't imagine even knowing about this as a threat. 395 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 1: But if I had gone to school when I was 396 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 1: ten and ben shot, my little body destroyed, I think 397 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: my father would have done the same thing that that 398 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: lovely teacher's husband did, gone home, sat down in a chair, 399 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: and died of a broken heart. I'm just so sad. Yeah, 400 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it's like the only thing that's changed 401 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: since sandy hook, which is just completely unacceptable in my opinion, 402 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:21,159 Speaker 1: is that our kids at school have learned new um 403 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 1: they go through drills for this stuff. Nothing else has changed. Yeah, 404 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: I mean that's the only um tangible thing that I 405 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: can think of. You know, they may have put some guards, 406 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,959 Speaker 1: some more guards at school. I mean it's like this 407 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: talk of like make it one door or heavier doors 408 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: for the classrooms with like special lock. Mean, why is 409 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 1: that what we're focusing on. That's such a waste of energy, 410 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: Like we're missing the point. You've got to go to 411 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,360 Speaker 1: the route. Why are people able to buy assault rifles 412 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: when they walk into a gun shot up without any 413 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: sort of background check. Well, I mean because people are 414 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: holding up these words that are written back when when 415 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: a gun was a musket that you could shoot two 416 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: to three bullets in a minute, you know. I think 417 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: you know, to me, one of the easier things to legislate, 418 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: because it's not necessarily protected by the Constitution, is the ammunition. 419 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 1: Like there is no reason why anyone should be able 420 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: to walk into a store and by a thousand rounds 421 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: of ammunition. There's just like it's you know, and there 422 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 1: could be a registry that like tracks, how much you 423 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,919 Speaker 1: use and how much you've bought. Um. And you know, 424 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 1: it's like if if if we are truly um, you know, 425 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: meant to be protecting our families and our homes and 426 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: our cars and our property or whatever it is, if 427 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: you can't do that with six bullets, then you probably 428 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 1: shouldn't have a gun. You know. It's like, I just 429 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 1: I don't understand why we need to stockpile and like 430 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: for anyone who wants to argue that like this, that 431 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: was written into the Constitution so that we could have 432 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: you know, the militia's made of citizens to protect ourselves 433 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 1: from the tyranny of our government. Even if you all 434 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: have fucking A R fifteen, our government have weapons that 435 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 1: can shoot you from the comfort of their office. You know, 436 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: they will just blow your ass up anyway. So you know, 437 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 1: it's it's a it's kind of a dumb argument. You know. 438 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 1: It's we're you going to storm the Capitol again and 439 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,360 Speaker 1: start shooting everybody with your A R fifteens and think 440 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 1: that you have a right to do that because you're 441 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 1: upset about our government. No, that's that's a very thin 442 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: argument in my in my opinion, Um, you know, and 443 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: right and and right now. The problem the real problem 444 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: is is that like innocent people are dying. It's not 445 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: that our government is doing tira tira, what is it. 446 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 1: It's not it's not that our our government is like 447 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,199 Speaker 1: there's so much tyranny in our government that we need 448 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:08,360 Speaker 1: to protect ourselves from them, Like that's insanity. Um and yeah, 449 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: so I think one of the easiest things that we 450 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: can do is to regulate ammunition make it so much 451 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: harder to get limited. But what do I know, Yeah, well, 452 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: that's one thought I think we have to work with. Also, 453 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,680 Speaker 1: what's already being out put out there, and the h 454 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,479 Speaker 1: R eight bill is something that you can actually go 455 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,679 Speaker 1: vote and you can write a letter to your senate 456 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: and UM or your senator and it's really easy on 457 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: every town dot Org. I mentioned them last week. They 458 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 1: have the form already there. All you have to do 459 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 1: is go in, you fill it out and send and 460 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: it's like done. So it's like, really, there's no reason 461 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 1: that every single person listening to this podcast can't do it. 462 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: I know you have five minutes. I know you sill 463 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: on the toilet once a day at least, would so 464 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 1: do it while you're doing that, like, it's really simple, 465 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: and I think that it's you know, it's really scary 466 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 1: to me. I I think you're right that this is 467 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: about innocent people dying. I think also we have to 468 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: really look in the mirror and say, at any point, 469 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 1: it could be you, it could be someone you know. 470 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: We personally have felt that because of um rooting any one, 471 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: like routing any one. The music festival that happened in Vegas. 472 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 1: We had multiple friends there and we've seen since then 473 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: their recovery process and it was so traumatic. Thank god, 474 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 1: we didn't know anyone who died, but they watched people 475 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 1: that they knew die and there's been an intense recovery 476 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,679 Speaker 1: process after that. It was so traumatic, like it's you 477 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: never you never fully recover from that. So all those 478 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: kids at that school that are still alive, they're traumatized 479 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: for the rest of their lives. All the families. I mean, 480 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: it's one thing to lose people, it's awful, and then 481 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: there's a whole another layer that we just keep missing. 482 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 1: And I've read the statistics for people who have known 483 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 1: people affective by this. It's almost six now, and it 484 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 1: just keeps it's going to keep going up. So I 485 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: think we have to really really try to have some 486 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: empathy here. And also the thing that's really concerning to 487 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 1: me is I think that we're like standing behind these 488 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: senators who won't vote on this stuff, and and the 489 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: argument is like, this is a democracy, you can't take 490 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: away my guns. You're missing the point again. This is 491 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 1: not about taking away anyone's guns. This is simply about 492 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: not putting really dangerous guns in dangerous people's hands. And 493 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: the people who you are trusting in that scenario are 494 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 1: all doing They're not voting for self serving reasons. It's 495 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 1: about money. It's greedy, and they're literally using this like 496 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: fearmongering thing to funk with your brain. Like it's so 497 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 1: scary to me because we actually are losing our democracy 498 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: with that mentality. And I think that's a lot of 499 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,639 Speaker 1: what's happening in a lot of other issues too, is 500 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 1: we're literally giving away our rights by trusting people who 501 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,439 Speaker 1: are abusing power. And I don't know, I don't want 502 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 1: to make this political, but I really think we just 503 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: have to really focus on the fact that this is 504 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 1: about people dying, and you or someone you love could 505 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 1: be next at this rate if we don't make actual changes. 506 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: So that's our ramp for today, whatever Friday. Nothing to 507 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,120 Speaker 1: casual about that. There's nothing casual, but that's unfortunately where 508 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,639 Speaker 1: we are in our culture right now. And if we 509 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: wanted to stay casual, and if we want to go 510 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: back to casual, we have to first find safety and 511 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: security and we don't have it right now. And we 512 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: can't pretend like we do and we can't turn the 513 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: other way and turn the other cheek in after a 514 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: week of posting about ship on Instagram, just so that 515 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,959 Speaker 1: we don't get canceled, uh, not do anything. It's just 516 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,719 Speaker 1: we cannot keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. 517 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: We just can't do it and I can't do it myself. 518 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: And so it's going to start here. And if you 519 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: guys really want us to go back to normal, you 520 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: know podcasting topics as we want to to help us here, 521 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: help like go do your part whatever that Maybe every 522 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: Town is a really great place. You can go on 523 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: their Instagram, you can go on their website. Um, they 524 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: have so much information if you want to donate to them, 525 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 1: if you want to fill out the letter that I 526 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: talked about, there's the one that's um it's the moms 527 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 1: against Violet. I think it's like Mom's Demand action on Instagram. 528 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: They're also a really informative UM site. They there's that 529 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 1: great podcast with glennon that one of the I think 530 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: the founder of the Mom's Demand was on there UM 531 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: two weeks ago. That one's really great. UM you can 532 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: google what what was the website you referenced earlier, Chip 533 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: the one? It was the gun Violence Archive. It's gun 534 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 1: violence if you want to do your own research and 535 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,719 Speaker 1: just get some number, is to maybe just gain some awareness. 536 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 1: Like that's what we're doing now. Like we said, we 537 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: really felt scared start talking about this because it's like, 538 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm not informed. I'm not an expert, 539 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: and so we are going to have some people on 540 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 1: that can help us with the more expert opinion of this. 541 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: But from to this is just two Americans sitting here 542 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: being like, I don't want to live this way. I 543 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 1: don't want to be scared to go to the grocery store. Well, 544 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 1: I think you said a keyword to there. It's like, 545 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure there's some people that listen in 546 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: foreign countries. It's like this problem is a holy American problem. 547 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: There are plenty of examples out there where in other 548 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 1: countries there have been mass shootings and legislative action has 549 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: happened and the results are staggering, you know, like how 550 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 1: much things have changed. And if you go to gun 551 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: violence archive dot org, like there's also they've got the 552 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: seven year graph um that shows you the growth you're 553 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: over year of suicide by guns, injuries, children, teens, mass shootings, 554 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: like it just goes up every year. Mass shootings in 555 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen there were two hundred and sixty nine. 556 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: There were six and eleven. I mean, and it's only 557 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: going to get worse, Like we can't pretend like it's 558 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:24,239 Speaker 1: going to get better unless something changes. I think that 559 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 1: you are bringing up a great point because this is 560 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: even happening in Canada with some drug stuff that I 561 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 1: was really I think I sent you that article on 562 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,959 Speaker 1: Vice and it's like the Canadians are I can't remember 563 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:36,880 Speaker 1: which maybe it's like M D M A and some 564 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: moother jobs and cocaine and so arrest are now like 565 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: instead of going to jail for life, you go to 566 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 1: rehab or something like to learn about this and actually change. 567 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 1: And it's like, oh my god, what an amazing concept, 568 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: Like they're actually looking at doing something differently from something 569 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: that's not working or changing in their country, and they're 570 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: going to shift and try something. And it's like, why 571 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 1: can't we do at I can't something isn't working here. 572 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 1: We've we've seen, like you said, we've observed other countries 573 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: have positive results from changing this one piece of their law, 574 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: like this background check piece, and it's completely shifted everything, 575 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: And why can't we just try it and see what happens? 576 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: Like what do we have to lose at this point? 577 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: Because if we don't do anything, what we have to 578 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: lose is our lives, our children's lives or loved ones lives, 579 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: Like it is only going to get worse. Yes, anyway, again, 580 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 1: I don't think this matters where you stand politically. I 581 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 1: don't think that it matters where you even stand on guns. 582 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: I just think this is about not letting unstable humans 583 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: have such easy access to assault rifles. Like period. It's 584 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 1: kind of just that that simple. So I mean, I 585 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 1: think I've even said it on here before, like I'm 586 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: I'm not not pro gun, Like I think that responsible 587 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 1: people should be able to in them, you know, Like, 588 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 1: so anyone who wants to make this political like that 589 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 1: is not That's not where I stand, you know, Like 590 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,440 Speaker 1: I just think it has to be harder, Like but 591 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 1: these two the most recent examples, like people just walking 592 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 1: in and then committing a crime with them that way. 593 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: And granted they're all like, there are more guns in 594 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 1: this country now than there are people. So this problem 595 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 1: is long from over because even with gun lessulation, people 596 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 1: that that really wanted are going to find ways to 597 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: get guns because they're there. But we have to start somewhere, 598 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,640 Speaker 1: you know, like we're not We're not going to fix 599 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: this problem overnight. So you know, all of us who 600 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: are exhausted and tired, like we have to sort of 601 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: smack ourselves in the face and wake up and do something. 602 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 1: And to those people who are like, well, you know, 603 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: changing these laws isn't gonna do anything. It's multi steps. 604 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,800 Speaker 1: We will get there if we start doing things in 605 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: the right direction. But I can tell you if history 606 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 1: proves anything trying to keep things the way they were, 607 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,800 Speaker 1: it's only going to make this horse. I agree, I 608 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 1: want to go ahead. And in this podcast, I thought 609 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 1: Steve Kerr had such an amazing and he was kind 610 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 1: of having a breakdown in a press conference and it's 611 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 1: basketball playoffs. His team is probably gonna win the whole thing, 612 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors, that he's the coach, if you 613 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:23,400 Speaker 1: guys don't know. And um, he was going into the 614 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,600 Speaker 1: press conference to talk about the team, and he made 615 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,479 Speaker 1: such a valid point, none of this ship matters, none 616 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: of it because it's a game. These are this is 617 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: it's entertainment. And at that point, I think it was 618 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 1: like he says fourteen maybe he said nineteen kids, but 619 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,840 Speaker 1: I can't remember. It was the shooting had just happened, 620 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,720 Speaker 1: and he was like, four hours ago, this school shooting happened, 621 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,320 Speaker 1: and that's all that we need to be talking about, period. 622 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: I mean, his dad was shot and killed you a 623 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,760 Speaker 1: long time ago, but I think he has a personal 624 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,040 Speaker 1: experience with it, so it sticks with him. But he 625 00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,839 Speaker 1: verbalized it so eloquently, and I really think that it's 626 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,759 Speaker 1: just something for us also consider. So since we left shoot, 627 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,400 Speaker 1: around fourteen children were killed four miles from here, and 628 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: a and a teacher. And in the last ten days, 629 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:15,000 Speaker 1: we've had elderly black people killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, 630 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,719 Speaker 1: We've had Asian churchgoers killed in southern California, and now 631 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,680 Speaker 1: we have children murdered at school. When are we gonna 632 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,040 Speaker 1: do something? I'm tired, I'm I'm so tired of getting 633 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 1: up here and offering condolences to to the devastated families 634 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,239 Speaker 1: that are out there. I'm so tired of the excuse me, 635 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,320 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm tired of the moments of silence. Enough. 636 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,480 Speaker 1: There's fifty senators right now who refused to vote on 637 00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 1: HR eight, which is a background check rule that the 638 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 1: House passed a couple of years ago. It's been sitting 639 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,560 Speaker 1: there for two years, and there's a reason they won't 640 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,560 Speaker 1: vote on it, to hold onto power. So I ask you, 641 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell asked all of you senators who refused to 642 00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 1: do anything about the violence and school shootings and supermarket shootings. 643 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 1: I ask you, are you going to put your own 644 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,760 Speaker 1: desire for power ahead of the lives of our children 645 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: and our elderly and our church goers, because that's what 646 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,319 Speaker 1: it looks like. It was amazing, And it was like 647 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: when you when you reminded me of that video before 648 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,319 Speaker 1: we started recording, Like I was like, oh, I mean 649 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,000 Speaker 1: it's exactly sort of I mean, he says, it's so 650 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,440 Speaker 1: much more emotionally and like beautifully and poignantly than I 651 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 1: could have, but obviously it was very fresh at that moment. 652 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,080 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's the same exact point we're trying to 653 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,200 Speaker 1: make today. Like now, it's not the time for to 654 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 1: talk about fluff, no more bullshit. Al Right. Well, as 655 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 1: you guys go into your weekend, I hope you visit 656 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: the description of this podcast and click on one of 657 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,680 Speaker 1: the links and go fill out a form, Go donate, 658 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 1: Go do whatever you can do to help change the 659 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:57,319 Speaker 1: laws here. Um, and actually this is not about acting, guest, don't. 660 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,400 Speaker 1: I hope that you do the opposite of acting casual 661 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 1: this weekend. I love you, guys, We love you.