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Speaker 3: All right, So on this mini pod, I will tell you, guys,
Speaker 3: we were having conversations off camera about engaging you guys,
Speaker 3: and one of the things that we've been wrestling with
Speaker 3: is having guests. We hear from you guys, and a
Speaker 3: lot of the people on our team say we wanted
Speaker 3: to hear you guys in conversation with more guests. Now,
Speaker 3: the question at issue is will we have guests. We
Speaker 3: don't want to be an echo chamber. We should have
Speaker 3: guests that we disagree with, sometimes opposing points of view.
Speaker 3: Now I have an issue with quote unquote platforming, because
Speaker 3: there could be an issue with the word platforming. I
Speaker 3: would say I have an issue with platforming Trump people platforming.
Speaker 1: What I would call nonsense.
Speaker 3: So if there's somebody out there who is like a
Speaker 3: black maga.
Speaker 1: Person to me, I hate what people say, Oh, I would.
Speaker 3: Love to see you debate fill in the blank, any
Speaker 3: half wainted idiot out there, And I'm offended by it
Speaker 3: because why would I ever reduce myself to sit across
Speaker 3: from some of these people who I don't deem an
Speaker 3: equal to me, and I consider them a disgrace to
Speaker 3: society but most definitely to the ancestors. Should we be
Speaker 3: platforming those kind of people? Should we be in conversation
Speaker 3: with people, you know, who may feel differently than we do,
Speaker 3: but also different in a bad way. I love an
Speaker 3: intellectual and change of ideas and ideology and disagreement.
Speaker 1: I don't shy away from that, But I just have.
Speaker 3: An issue with, you know, I actually with when I
Speaker 3: was when Angela first started doing television, which I think
Speaker 3: is so funny.
Speaker 1: Y'all sometimes will be out and girls will be like,
Speaker 1: I grew up.
Speaker 3: Watching you as you grew up. But I remember when
Speaker 3: I would see Angela and they would have Angela on
Speaker 3: who is an attorney, former executive director of Caucus Business
Speaker 3: owner organizer, sit across from somebody who ain't nothing but
Speaker 3: a maga idiot, Like that's it. And you're presenting these
Speaker 3: two voices as though they're on equal footing. And I
Speaker 3: would be looking at this highly offended, and Angela was
Speaker 3: offended too, as she's saying under her breast for some reason,
Speaker 3: even though she's sitting around Handa wants us to see
Speaker 3: this clip, so that's what she's over there doing. But anyway,
Speaker 3: that is the discussion. That's the discussion that we want
Speaker 3: to have today, like what kind of guests should we
Speaker 3: be platforming here? Do you guys want to see I'll
Speaker 3: tell you I'm not going to sit across from a trumper,
Speaker 3: But do y'all want to see Angela drag a trumper.
Speaker 4: On this show?
Speaker 1: I want to go.
Speaker 3: Across do you I want to see her confront these
Speaker 3: people and question them and you know, make a fool
Speaker 3: of them because they're not going to be able to
Speaker 3: to you know, be a heavyweight with her. Andrew, what
Speaker 3: what do you think? What are your thought? Do you
Speaker 3: want to have those kind of people on the show?
Speaker 3: Would you want to interview a person like that?
Speaker 2: So? No, I mean the the sure answers, No, I
Speaker 2: mean I probably. I don't mind dissent, I don't mind
Speaker 2: difference of opinion. I don't mind a good, well informed debate.
Speaker 2: But just because somebody went viral by their stupidity doesn't
Speaker 2: mean that we would have a good conversation and good
Speaker 2: by way of not agree or disagree with each other,
Speaker 2: but mostly have it be.
Speaker 5: Informed, and I personally, I hope you have done some ship,
Speaker 5: but there's some credential.
Speaker 1: You're not just this, Yeah, I got it, but I.
Speaker 2: Guess yeah, And if you are random to me that
Speaker 2: somewhere what's been happening is is relevant. What you've been
Speaker 2: doing is relevant and not just trying to be I
Speaker 2: don't know, a bomb throw or a flamethrower or somebody
Speaker 2: who's just trying to get attention, like time out for that.
Speaker 2: But but if we disagree on something legit or you
Speaker 2: have a per perspective that I think is curious. Tiffany,
Speaker 2: I think I was talking to you one day and
Speaker 2: I was saying, Nope, it was you, Angela.
Speaker 5: I was talking to you about someone in the Trump.
Speaker 2: Administration who previously was a Democrat, had previously supported Democrats,
Speaker 2: lived in California, and made his conversion over to Trump on.
Speaker 5: Frankly monetary policy at the international level.
Speaker 2: And I was like, man, this so this you know,
Speaker 2: it's worth hearing this guy and what it is is
Speaker 2: to say. And by the end of the conversation, I
Speaker 2: actually was informed and I could hear him differently because
Speaker 2: I didn't put him in the category of just being
Speaker 2: a Trumper, But it took a little bit of convincing
Speaker 2: for me to be like, Okay, that I'll take an
Speaker 2: hour and listen to what this guy's got to say.
Speaker 5: But the sensational I'm good on that.
Speaker 6: Can I ask you all beyond the sensational, Let's say
Speaker 6: there are people who I actually have two questions, but
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go this first.
Speaker 4: There are people like Gavin Newsom right now, right who.
Speaker 6: Is utilizing his platform, is bringing people onto his platform,
Speaker 6: like Ben Shapiro or Charlie Kirk or Steve Bannon. And
Speaker 6: it feels like to me, to be fair, I have
Speaker 6: not watched this thing, but I haven't seen clips.
Speaker 1: That's all I see.
Speaker 6: It feels like to me from the limited experience I've
Speaker 6: had with the clips, and I hate when people do this.
Speaker 6: So I am acknowledging that I'm being a hypocritic because
Speaker 6: I hate when people deserves but I'm absolutely doing I
Speaker 6: had no desire to watch this shit. So it looks
Speaker 6: to me like he's trying to Arnold Swarzenegger himself for
Speaker 6: a potential presidential run, to become more neutral, to become
Speaker 6: more lukewarm, to be in the middle, or kind of
Speaker 6: even shifting conservative Allah Ronald Reagan, Allah Arnold Schwarzenegger so
Speaker 6: he can be more palatable for a broader electorate. And
Speaker 6: I feel like it's it's you know, it's it's not authentic,
Speaker 6: but it's like I'm going to try to whitewash myself,
Speaker 6: despite my very whiteness, to become this instead of politicking
Speaker 6: with Markshawn Lynch and the other guy. And it feels
Speaker 6: like a mess, Like I'm not talking about that, Like
Speaker 6: I'm not talking about like, well, now that you said
Speaker 6: it that way, I kind of could see I could
Speaker 6: vote for Trump.
Speaker 4: Not like that.
Speaker 6: But it's more like, let me understand your story, like
Speaker 6: how did you get here? You know, what led you
Speaker 6: down this road? Was there a tipping point for you?
Speaker 6: Like we have, we're in a tipping point right now.
Speaker 6: We're like, I don't think in twenty twenty two we
Speaker 6: would be talking about trying to get Chuck Schumer out
Speaker 6: of leadership, you know, as agitating as it might be,
Speaker 6: as some of us might prefer Cory Book or Elizabeth Warrener,
Speaker 6: I don't think that we would Necessarily'm loud it's making you.
Speaker 4: I don't know that any.
Speaker 6: Of us would have pushed for that, but there's a
Speaker 6: tipping point where you're just like, I've had enough.
Speaker 4: Now my tipping point ain't like I had enough. But
Speaker 4: that's not my tipping point. That's not where I swing.
Speaker 6: But I understand why there are some people who strategy
Speaker 6: might think if I shocked the conscience in this way,
Speaker 6: maybe the folks will do a one eighty I guess,
Speaker 6: but I would want to hear from them why and how,
Speaker 6: And then given your experience with these folks and how
Speaker 6: it's negatively and adversely impacting your people, how do you
Speaker 6: stay there?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 6: I don't understand how you do the math of addition
Speaker 6: or multiplication for the next election without understanding some of that.
Speaker 6: I get it if you're like, it's just not my ministry.
Speaker 6: We've had that conversation before. But then I also don't
Speaker 6: understand the difference. Pardon my ignorance, but how it's it's
Speaker 6: then okay to get I don't want to call them
Speaker 6: a random person, but maybe someone who's less known, who
Speaker 6: who we don't have experience with, who's been adversely impacted
Speaker 6: by this administration by a federal worker, but we platform them.
Speaker 6: So one took an action that leads to whatever the
Speaker 6: consequences are, but it's still information. Another one has is
Speaker 6: just on the receiving end of whatever actions the American
Speaker 6: people took, but now they're suffering the consequences.
Speaker 4: It's still a story, no less.
Speaker 6: I just understand how I want to understand how we
Speaker 6: collectively here on this podcast thread that needle to get
Speaker 6: to the heart of the why, whether they voted for
Speaker 6: it or they're just impacted by those who voted for it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I hear you.
Speaker 3: I just think there've been so many books written about this,
Speaker 3: so many articles that come out all the time. I
Speaker 3: don't like that question has been asked and answered a
Speaker 3: thousand times.
Speaker 1: There have been like.
Speaker 3: Leading black folks, you know who's written about the popular
Speaker 3: vote last time.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about this time.
Speaker 3: But even this time, I think, you know, Michael Harriet,
Speaker 3: a friend of ours, you know, has written about this.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: We would choose this platform to extend to people who
Speaker 3: I think are mostly provocateurs who would salivate at the
Speaker 3: chance to come on the show and have some sort
Speaker 3: of exchange with you.
Speaker 1: I would not be part of it.
Speaker 3: They'd have an exchange with you where you have this
Speaker 3: huge platform and they have none, and so now the
Speaker 3: only thing you've done is made them a superstar. There
Speaker 3: are people out there who I'm not even gonna give
Speaker 3: them the privilege of name checking them on this show.
Speaker 3: But there are black self hating black women out there.
Speaker 3: One we saw the DNC. Anyway, you'll go back and
Speaker 3: listen to that episode if.
Speaker 4: You want to know who I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3: Well, wellni willnee Andrew checking us for naming somebody right there.
Speaker 6: Case you confused, Andrew is checking you right now with
Speaker 6: his eyes.
Speaker 3: In case you're confused, I'm not very I'm very appreciative
Speaker 3: of your any who. There are black women, self hating
Speaker 3: black women out there, self hating black men out there
Speaker 3: who are only superstars because people platform them.
Speaker 1: Because we talked about them.
Speaker 3: We shared their clip, not we as individuals, but we
Speaker 3: in our community.
Speaker 1: We shared their clips.
Speaker 3: We extended our outrage, We went back and forth with
Speaker 3: them on Twitter, we made comments on Instagram. Then there
Speaker 3: were black people who said, come on my show. There
Speaker 3: are black events that said come sit in my platform,
Speaker 3: come sit on this stage. All they did was elevate
Speaker 3: a fool. They made superstars out of ignorant people. I
Speaker 3: don't want us to do that here. I think if
Speaker 3: there's some intellectual curiosity about that, there are other ways
Speaker 3: to do it. If there's an individual curiosity about that,
Speaker 3: there are ways to satisfy it. I think putting them
Speaker 3: across from you, I just I don't like it.
Speaker 6: I grew up in the school opportunity on TV No, Andrew,
Speaker 6: I'll be done real quick.
Speaker 4: I grew up in the school of I want to
Speaker 4: hear what this means. I'm about to tell you.
Speaker 6: So on Washington Watch before Row had uh was it news.
Speaker 1: News before news one?
Speaker 6: Now he had uh Washington Watched, And every Friday I
Speaker 6: would be on with Armstrong Williams or Parents, Denard or
Speaker 6: Sure my Goal or whomever.
Speaker 4: I forgot this other dude's name that really drove me nuts.
Speaker 1: These are all black Republicans.
Speaker 6: Republicans and so and it was an Elroy Sailor. It
Speaker 6: was at a time where they were far more palatable
Speaker 6: and reasonable. But some of them have gone with the
Speaker 6: wind with Trump, right, and I think are are gone.
Speaker 4: Went to win with Trump. Other like where is Paris?
Speaker 4: Where is Paris?
Speaker 3: I ain't nobody seeing nobody parents since he got into
Speaker 3: it with Phil Nobody looking for him either with Phil
Speaker 3: on CNN he made an accusation against him, and who was,
Speaker 3: you know, a national intelligence person?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: And then we never heard from Paris.
Speaker 4: Lord Well, I hope they didn't often.
Speaker 6: But the only point on parents Factory Wink, if you
Speaker 6: alive here, Andrew gonna kill me because I'm so down
Speaker 6: fifteen different tangents.
Speaker 4: My point is just this.
Speaker 6: I appreciated those conversations because even if I didn't agree
Speaker 6: with them, I heard another perspective I didn't. I was
Speaker 6: irritated with I did Breakfast Club and Byron Donalds came on,
Speaker 6: and I was very irritated by the lies and the
Speaker 6: fact that he whipped out this paper from allegedly from
Speaker 6: Larry Summers and I couldn't see the paper, and I'm like,
Speaker 6: I'm in on a zoom. I can't even see what
Speaker 6: you just pulled out to refute, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: But I still think that those conversations are important because
Speaker 6: what ends up happening tip is they go into echo chambers.
Speaker 6: People would argue that maybe ours is the echo chamber
Speaker 6: in part because we don't have diverse voices on.
Speaker 4: Or contradicting voices on.
Speaker 6: But they go into those spaces unchallenged, and they're lying
Speaker 6: the entire time.
Speaker 4: Nobody fact checking them anyway, Andrew, I can keep going.
Speaker 1: All those spaces need to stop having them.
Speaker 3: Then Byron Donald shouldn't have had that literally have their
Speaker 3: own platform.
Speaker 1: Now what was his ass in Selma? He ain't had
Speaker 1: no business being.
Speaker 6: In Seloma saying and Selma that he doesn't support preclearance,
Speaker 6: coming back into the little guy making politics institute because
Speaker 6: of course they're bipartisans.
Speaker 4: Anyway, go ahead, you.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't conversation with Baron Donald's. Byron Donald's about
Speaker 2: the about his history, what he believes, how he shaped
Speaker 2: his belief systems, and so for and by the way,
Speaker 2: nobody should be coming after us for what they think
Speaker 2: are not a diverse enough arrayre of voices, because we
Speaker 2: need to get our house in order.
Speaker 5: First.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of us who largely vote the
Speaker 2: same way, who can give a real justification for.
Speaker 5: The positioning around it.
Speaker 2: And then those who, by the way, choose not to vote,
Speaker 2: who can't give a real, cogent and coherent reason why
Speaker 2: it is that they made the choice not to other
Speaker 2: than laziness or I don't believe in a system and
Speaker 2: yet you've not interrogated that system. So and I do
Speaker 2: treat differently, Angela. You're common around the person who has
Speaker 2: experienced the effects of the administration. I don't think that
Speaker 2: I would be curious about that. I would even be
Speaker 2: curious about the person who made the choice to vote
Speaker 2: for them, except just know if we're being treated equally
Speaker 2: on this platform, and we both got time, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to be generous with my I'm going to ask
Speaker 2: you questions that I think as a voter, I would
Speaker 2: want to know before I went into a ballot box
Speaker 2: and chose an individual who chose you exactly who they were,
Speaker 2: not just demonstrated as a candidate, but as a former
Speaker 2: president of the United States for four years. Yeah. So,
Speaker 2: so just know if we went down that road, we're
Speaker 2: going to go all the way down that road, exactly.
Speaker 2: I just am not interested in the sensational because you
Speaker 2: did a TikTok that was you know, fancy and went
Speaker 2: around and even though the shit is ignorant as hell
Speaker 2: that now you're on everybody's platform, that to me would
Speaker 2: not be an interesting exchanged because I wouldn't know how
Speaker 2: to truly engage authentically with with with that kind of chakunery.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: The one thing, the one thing I want to ask
Speaker 6: is Lolo told us we were going to be doing
Speaker 6: these once a month live town halls.
Speaker 4: I just made a face hit her. We haven't. We
Speaker 4: haven't done them yet.
Speaker 6: And I think that maybe even having some type of
Speaker 6: convenient like that, where we're democratizing access to the platform
Speaker 6: without regard to how people are registered to vote, without
Speaker 6: regard to how they voted, I think that those are
Speaker 6: the kinds of things that we're missing. Tip every week
Speaker 6: is on our heads about not getting all the voter
Speaker 6: I mean voter questions newer questions, is what I'm trying
Speaker 6: to say. And I think that she's right. We do
Speaker 6: want to hear from you all. We want to continue
Speaker 6: to hear from you all. So it'd be great to
Speaker 6: know if you all would want to be in a
Speaker 6: town hall like that, like what led you to the
Speaker 6: ballot box or not? You know who drove you to
Speaker 6: the ballot box or not?
Speaker 1: What do you care about?
Speaker 4: What do you care about?
Speaker 5: And how can we do you care enough about to
Speaker 5: do something?
Speaker 6: Yes, how can we collectively work together on those things?
Speaker 6: I would love to have those conversations once a month
Speaker 6: on this podcast. I think when I consider what it
Speaker 6: means to be in the ethos of Native Lampod and
Speaker 6: what it means when we said welcome home, it is
Speaker 6: just that.
Speaker 4: So I hope that we even since the members of Congress.
Speaker 6: The Republicans won't have a town hall, you are well here,
Speaker 6: we will have a town.
Speaker 4: We don't have.
Speaker 1: All they getting dragted these sounds.
Speaker 6: You saw this one where he was like, only Republicans
Speaker 6: come in and they checking their voter registractions.
Speaker 3: Which but it's Republican voters who are mad too, which
Speaker 3: is so ridiculously. But I want to say this about
Speaker 3: distining voices because I don't want people to misunderstand me
Speaker 3: that I'm saying no, we should not have dissenting voices.
Speaker 1: I think dissenting voices can be healthy.
Speaker 3: And like I said, I appreciate a healthy exchange of ideas.
Speaker 3: I appreciate a healthy exchange of ideology. The only person
Speaker 3: in the Trump administration who I would be really curious
Speaker 3: and interested to talk to is Kevin Hassett, who is
Speaker 3: his economic advisor. I think he is number one a
Speaker 3: great communicator.
Speaker 1: Brother. I agree with him or not, but.
Speaker 3: I think and he's at least sensible, and he is
Speaker 3: laser focused on economic policy. I believe economic policy that
Speaker 3: crushes us and harms us. But I think he could
Speaker 3: at least come on and have an intellectual exchange.
Speaker 4: Get your invitation.
Speaker 3: If he would come on, Absolutely absolutely, I would definitely
Speaker 3: sit across from him, because I think that is where
Speaker 3: you get to hear ideas and not a shouting match.
Speaker 3: We're not trying to go viral. If it happens to
Speaker 3: go viral, that's fine. I'm not elevating a clown, you know, Like,
Speaker 3: this is somebody who actually has deep conviction in his
Speaker 3: thoughts around economic policy, and I don't think he's had
Speaker 3: the opportunity to hear from a lot of people like us.
Speaker 3: So I would welcome that conversation. These random internet comments
Speaker 3: jackasses who you know, try to tag us and try
Speaker 3: to get our attention because they want to come on
Speaker 3: and want our attention. I tried to find this clip
Speaker 3: Angel was talking about you. I couldn't find it, but
Speaker 3: this clipping, it's a.
Speaker 4: Sign that God told me no, I guess.
Speaker 3: But but people like that, like it's another chick who
Speaker 3: I think she was a her Her husband owns a
Speaker 3: strip club or something, you know whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I only want to.
Speaker 3: Say her name, But this chick used to try to
Speaker 3: cheat me all the time and get my attention.
Speaker 1: Like people like that, I'm like, no, you, why would
Speaker 1: I sit around?
Speaker 4: What have you done?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 4: Are not talking about from personalities.
Speaker 6: I'm talking about the folks who voted or in or
Speaker 6: mobilized voters in their communities.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like what got you to that? No?
Speaker 3: That, but that's not a voice of descent. I'm talking
Speaker 3: specifically about voices of descent. You all want to hear,
Speaker 3: you know, ideological differences. I'm completely open to that. I
Speaker 3: just am not interested in talking to people who are
Speaker 3: willfully ignorant because it's not going to be a fair
Speaker 3: fight if you come on here and you can't defend
Speaker 3: your ideas and you can't send.
Speaker 1: We can show clips, I suppose, but if.
Speaker 3: You can't handle the intellectual weight of the table, then
Speaker 3: you really don't have any business here. And I do
Speaker 3: respectfully think Kevin Hassett could, even though his policies I
Speaker 3: think are harmful. He could so that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: I like, but we wouldn't learn right. We had to
Speaker 3: at least agree on some basic facts. But I want
Speaker 3: to hear from the viewers and the listeners if you
Speaker 3: guys like want to see that type of exchange, and
Speaker 3: just tell us what kind of guests you'd like to
Speaker 3: hear from. Uh do y'all want to see some of
Speaker 3: these you know, Trump people, Republican members on the show.
Speaker 3: Who are some people we may be overlooking who you'd
Speaker 3: like to hear from? Because I would be curious to
Speaker 3: hear from you guys. And as a reminder before we
Speaker 3: wrap this up, you all have an open invitation to
Speaker 3: have your voices heard on this show, so please continue
Speaker 3: to send in videos. Please keep them less than sixty seconds,
Speaker 3: but please continue to send in your videos. If they're questions,
Speaker 3: if their comments, if you agree or disagree with one
Speaker 3: of us, We welcome you home here here. You do
Speaker 3: have a voice, and we appreciate you all for tuning in.
Speaker 3: And tell a friend to tune in. Thank you guys
Speaker 3: for tuning in this time. This is an ongoing conversation.
Speaker 3: It will certainly be revisiting. Remember that these mini pods
Speaker 3: drop every Friday. You can catch our main pod that
Speaker 3: drops every Thursday. You can catch solo pods that drop
Speaker 3: every Monday and Tuesday. So We are giving you as
Speaker 3: much content as we can and stay tuned for the
Speaker 3: guests that we will have on the show in the
Speaker 3: very near future, and we look forward to hearing from you.
Speaker 1: We will see you back here next week.
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